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this entry will be long. uber-long. longer than longest. immensely, hugely, vastly, mind-bogglingly long. so don't say i didn't warn you.

one of the many reasons, for there are more than one, finite but uncountable, hence the use of the word "many," why this entry will be long is the fact that this week has been a busy week, but many of the many reasons are because there are a lot of pictures that will be posted in this entry.

mathematical physics have been squeezing the last brain juice out of me every weekend, and this is only the end of second week, but it already feels like years have passed by. now i know what time dilation feels like, and my hair doesn't even bother turning grey, they just fall out like tree leaves in autumn.

all the stress accumulated from 201 was finally let out when i went down to mission valley last week and bought stuff. lots of stuff. from one piece:

















to bleach:





kon plush is uber-cute. that was the dress that yuzu dressed him up with when kon ran away from home because he thought ichigo and rukia weren't treating him nicely, but then found out that everyone else were treating him even worse, and then was found by yuzu when he collapsed on the front porch.

this is kon running back to ichigo, full of regret:



been talking to ocean a lot about random things, and one of the most random one was a conversation about pingu. this lead to some link exchange on pingu, and ended up with me buying a pingu plushie, for the sole purpose of teasing ocean.



but then i felt bad, so i bought one more pingu AND a pinga, just for ocean. consider this a thank-you gift for giving me hosting for images, since i've used up three photobucket accounts and all 50mb of my UCSD webspace.



more on plunder, i found an edward elric figure today, sold for half price, so i bought it. but apparently the head was broken and glued, so the lady who sold it cut-off another half of the price, and now i own this beautiful banpresto figure for $4. you can't even tell that the neck has been glued. it's particularly surprising that banpresto actually made something of quality; so far, with the exception of this one, all of banpresto stuff has been shit.



the name e1n that i have been using for about a year and a half now was originally given by jim. the origin of the name was unknown until i was made aware of the fact that there was a smart dog named ein in cowboy bebop. combine that with the fact that jim was, and still is, and avid bebop fan, one does not need a physics PhD to be able to guess that the name was originally meant for mockery. but whatever its original purpose was, the name is cool, for it is: 1. short, 2. easy to remember, 3. hard to pronounce, and 4. short. so after a long wait, i finally spent $15 on this cool plushie, who is now keeping me companied on my study desk.



the $25 shelf i got from ikea is filled up now. i should really get another shelf.



sleep deprivation has been a somewhat constant feature of my life, even on weekends. add stress and the fact that your ego is being crushed, stomped on, and burned to ashes on a daily basis to that and anyone in their right mind would stop for couple tens of seconds or more and think "where did my life go wrong?" "why am i doing this?" "what am i doing with my life?" "how am i going to survive this?" and finally, when all of those stages have been pondered, "is there any food left in the fridge?"

my desk has been a mess for an entire week. never in my life have i needed to refer to three textbooks while doing ONE homework.



oh, and i know what i want for birthday: AN IMMENSELY HUGE WHITEBOARD. because otherwise the window and mirror will always fall victim to my green sharpie.



someone recently asked me a question: "do you eat healthy?"

and i pondered to myself, "what the hell kind of a question is that? do i look like i eat healthy?" if anything, the healthiest thing is that my addiction for coffee will kill off the cancer that i will get in the future, only to replace it with diabetes and high blood pressure. but think about it: we all have to die somehow. if school doesn't kill us first, then it has got to be something more fierce, like diseases. it's only natural that people die. if no one ever dies, we will have become some hi-bred mix of indians and chinese by now.

speaking of chinese, sam lost his manhood on sunday (or was it monday?). he basically got castrated, and then invaginated. or at least, david and i think that was how it felt like. what actually happened was that he cross-dressed. jen lent her bra, too, and he stuffed it up with rolled up socks. there will be a strip based on this. just you wait.



















I WILL USE THESE TO BLACKMAIL YOU ONE DAY, SAM. that's what friends are for: they blackmail each other when they have the chance.

that should be it for now. there are other things that i still have not talked about here, such as SPS pizza party, astrophysics club icecream party, that one cute japanese girl, in-ear headphone for my ipod, dank as my badminton sparing partner, douglas adam's the long dark tea-time of the soul, and many other things that will kill blogger's bandwidth if i were to write them all out.