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Time to get in shape.10
chris lin posted in Fitness, Personal on March 31st, 2005

Let's get in shape. I have a stomach I want to be toned and it wouldn't hurt to have more stamina.

I'll start off with
- 200 situps a day (100 in morning, 100 in evening). Will increase 50-100 every week until I hit 1000 per day. And yes, I know people who can do this. OH I AM GOING TO DIE.
- 4 miles every week (spread out whenever I have time, if no time, I guess I'll be running 4 miles on Sunday
- Weight lifting at least twice a week, hopefully three (really busy to fit into schedule).

For me, this is realistic. I'll build up to what I really want. 1000 situps a day, running 7-10 miles every week and going to gym 4 times a week. And hopefully if I eat right and actually stick to this, I can achieve everything I want by summer time so I can run nude around my nieghborhood. Plus, I figured it's better to put this in words than saying it so I have something to look at and to keep track of.

New theme: Imhotep23
chris lin posted in Themes, Wordpress on March 28th, 2005

First of, let's define who Imhotep was:

Imhotep was chief architect to the Third Dynasty King Djoser (2687-2668 BC). He is the first master architect we know by name, and was in charge of building the original step pyramid at Saqqara. This pyramid also set a precedent by including a collection of temples, pavilions, corridors, chapels and halls within the enclosure walls.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/imhotep.shtml

I'll let you figure out why I decided to name my theme Imhotep

Demo: click here
Download: click here (1.01)
Instructions: Unzip and drop imhotep folder into wp-content/themes then activate

Notes: None, just a stock theme. Please check the demo url for the stock version of the theme. The one being shown on ATN is my personal modified version

Also, the blog header image was made with a camera set to 10 second exposure, then I took a flashlight and wrote the word blog in the air

The Boogie…where you boogie.3
chris lin posted in Personal on March 27th, 2005

On Saturday night, I lost my virginity.

No, not that, I went to the club called The Boogie for the first time ever with Nathalie, Gaurika, Kassim and Lulu. Initially, I don't know why I said yes since usually I am not the club person but it's not like I had a bad time or anything. In fact, I actually enjoyed it. I always liked the noisy atmosphere and it was with friends so it was fun. Since I didn't know how to dance, everyone wanted me to go so they could get a good laugh at me. Me, I don't mind. I enjoy making people laugh at since I had nothing special to do that night, I figured I could be the side entertainment for the night (the club being the main). Kassim and Gaurika could both move on the floor. Kassim did some weird shit that just made me laugh but hey, you are suppose to have fun in there. Who cares what other people think of you. It's the lonely guys who go to clubs to dance with other females that made me laugh the most though. Kassim and I saw so many guys shrugged off by the girls and we both had to laugh after each time.

After that, we were all thirsty as hell so we decided to stop by Denny's and get some food also. I was so tired and drank so much water from them. The waiter was cool as hell too, considering what time it was. All in all, it was a fun night and enjoyed dancing with my friends. Hell, all of them can dance. I was just running around doing the twist or something to just embarrass myself

Hopefully, the weather is good tomorrow so I can go to the beach and finally relax.

Spring break starts now!1
chris lin posted in Personal on March 25th, 2005

Or rather, tomorrow. After Saturday class in the morning I have no school for a week! I'll be going to the beach, the club and backpacking throughout the week.

First event, clubbing.

Life is busy, and I love it.2
chris lin posted in Personal, School on March 19th, 2005

I am so tired when I don't need to be. School, clubs, social, work. I could just do nothing but I push myself to do more. Why? Don't know, I seem to get bored easily and I constantly need to be fidgeting with something. I want to buy a Rubiks Cube and try to get it so I can solve it under 3 minutes like some people I have talked to. They told me it's all strategy and plus it should keep my brain active for a while.

Leaders Across Campus, is this program I belong to at my college. It's a mentoring program where people who need academic mentoring sign up and are paired with someone according to their personality. This semester I decided to help out on the board and be a team leader. What I do is I am given a group of mentors and they report to me weekly on what's going on with their mentees. It's all fun and rewarding but sometimes, it just literally kills me. I can go home after an event held and literally fall asleep which is saying something since that's rare of me.

But that's just me. I enjoy it. I may get teased at for all the moaning and bitching I do, but in the end, I finish the job and I don't care what people say.

[sidenote]Hey, I know you are reading this and this is just my way to release my thoughts. I won't include your name of course [/sidenote]

We are always thanked by our advisors but sometimes it just seems fake. What kind of world do we live in where they can always be happy 24/7. What they ask of the board (president, VP and team leaders) is sometimes just too much. We aren't trained for this but we are doing our best. While we try our best, sometimes they still imply that we are not doing enough. We all live hectic lives and we try to put this program up top but sometimes I think the advisors need to CHILL THE FUCK OUT.

I know they want us to help the mentees but sometimes some just don't know how to say no. Maybe it's the nine weeks of not returning any sort of phone calls, emails or pigeon carriers that we send them that is a clue. Some are shy, I may do that if I didn't want a mentor. Some of our members may have problems in their own lives that they need to handle first. What's the point of mentoring someone if you can't handle your own life first?

Sometimes, I wish I could quit. Just stop the program. Just stop. But what will happen? The board gets screwed over with one less team leader like it already happened twice. We got the president picking up a team leader position and another team leader picking up the other. It's just not fair. Think about what you are doing before committing to it, it's not cool to the team when you just up and leave and say "sorry." If you were sorry, you wouldn't have done that. And that's what stopping me from quitting. I know the whole board personally and see them outside of the program enough to know that dropping that will literally put more stress and slowly kill them mentally. Most of us don't have time to add anymore more. Out of the whole board, I am probably the only one that can take one more position and I don't even want to.

I need to speak. I can't stand it anymore. Most of the board meetings I usually zone out so I don't need to listen to the generic bullshit everyone throws at each other. I know what they are going to say, just stop it.

I'll speak next time. No more zoning out. I don't care who hates me, I need to stand up for myself.

[offtopic: Holy crap, this post looks like an elementary kid wrote it. Thank goodness that I am a math major.]

New shades!10
chris lin posted in Personal on March 13th, 2005

I went to downtown LA to this sunglass store where my mom had hookups to get new shades. Why? I accidently broke my old Ray Bans by sitting on them Ya, I am clumsy, I know. I love my new Ray Bans though, it's similiar to the old ones cept it's more rectangular and it's frame color is gunmetal rather than the usual jet black.

Me sporting them

Don't know why I never smile when I take pictures of myself, it just seems kind of weird. Now I just need some cool brown shoes and a blazer to complete my wardrobe