X-Men Origins: Wolverine Trailer [True HD]

YEEEEEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAHOOOOOO!!!! My computer is back, and running again in my hands!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to the Geek Squad @ BestBuy. Even with the language barrier, they managed to fix it. YEY!!!
So, I will be able to post on my blog again! That's all I wanted to say for today. Once my camera is charged, I will post some pics of our new house.
For today, here is my sister with a big pine cone she found. She picks up random things she finds. Just like me, she is easily amused...LOL

Hope y'all are having a good week so far!!

a sad notice.

Greetings, everyone.

First, I will apologize for not updating my blog for a while, yet again...

FYI, I officially finished the fall semester of my 2nd year of college, and have been in Phoenix with my family since this passed Tuesday. While many things have been new around here, family and food seem familiar. Except my brother is taller than me... LOL It is great to see them well.

BTW, I got some news about my laptop. This passed weekend, my laptop stopped connecting to the internet. So, after I got to Phoenix, we took it to the Geek Squad at BestBuy, and had to leave it there. It has been about 3 days, and we haven't heard anything. They are not sure what the problem is, and might not be able to fix it. Honestly, I wanted to scream, "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" Because I really need and want my computer to last till I graduate. AND Mark just fixed my "0% space on C-drive" problem.

But, after all, it is just a laptop. I will survive. So, the "sad notice" is not about the fact that my laptop may never come back, but the fact that I don't know when I will be able to update my blog again after this post. I will try and update it whenever I can, though.

Well, that's all. Oh, yeah. Super K showed me a video on Youtube, and I remember I couldn't help but make faces as I watched this video. It's made by the same person who made "white & nerdy" video. Check it out when you have a chance by typing in "Virus Alert" in YouTube...

Happy Holidays!!!!!!

hugs,

Naomi

I know it has been about 2 months since Early Transition Program went to Apple Ridge Farm for 3 days for a retreat, but I thought I could still share some pics and a video with everyone.

FYI, ETP is a program that invites some incoming freshmen to come to Hollins a couple days earlier than the actual Orientation date to provide opportunity for them to meet some upper class students, learn more about Hollins, meet staffs & faculties, and hear about Hollins life and what you can do here from actual students. I'm one of the ETP mentors this year.

Among many different Activities we did at the retreat, we did some hiking/ walking around, and how the branches stretched in the mountain was very beautiful. I love tree tunnels!!! lol The pic on the right is during one of the bonding/sharing activities.

The view from our cabin.

We had spaghetti for one of our meals. In this pic, I think I groused out by the conversation we were having during dinner, and I froze in the middle of eating my spaghetti... This is, "Really? I mean, really? I'm tryin' to eat here!!!" face. And the pic on the right is from later on that evening. After doing our Accounting homework, Symphoni introduced me to a very meditating game called Mankala. This is officially my favorite game.

Finally, below is one of the late-night goofiness that was filmed during the retreat. Work it girls...lol

p.s. 2 more weeks left of this semester!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thenksgiving break in Winston-Salem

For Thanksgiving break, I got to stay at my host parents' house with TJ, Gail, and the kitties. It had been 5 months since I saw them last, and I was really happy that I got to spend some time with them again!!!! kana, a Japanese exchange student at Hollins, needed a place to stay for a day before her ride to Ohio came and picked her up, so she ended up spending the night at TJ&Gail's, too. That night, we had a big, fat, white-man fire in the back, and had some S'mores with hot beverages. It was very nice.

The next day, I can't remember which one, but TJ, Gail, and I went hiking to a state park after church. I had forgotten how amazing it feels to simply spend time outside.
I like these two pictures that Gail took. I think the one on the left looks like a family portrait. And Gail said that I look like a gargoyle in the right picture. lol

On Thanksgiving day, the Hill's/Wiles' thanksgiving tradition of eating Chinese food didn't quite work out, so we ended up cooking/baking at home. We had Japanese curry chicken, brown & white rice, avocado, broccoli, cauliflowers, peas, cheese, deviled eggs, croissants, and olives on the side. For desert, we had key lime cupcakes, and crust-less pumpkin pie. It was good, fun, and very very satisfying!!!!!!!!!

I hope I will get to visit Winston-Salem again soon... :o)

lookin' back to parties @ Hollins...

This year, I was introduced to college parties. I avoided them last year, but I decided to give 'em a try. Let's just say, "I can't do this every weekend..." It still wears me out. lol

just keepin' it real... right?

I am starting to realize I have a pretty goofy side in me.

When I said this, my friends looked at me and said, "Really? I never noticed..." LOL

Path of the wind - Joe Hisaishi

One of my favorite song composed by my favorite Japanese composer. He is the one playing the piano.5

Midnight Showing

Last Thursday at midnight, which is Thursday night/Friday morning, Hollins Repertory Dance Company and Hollins Student Artists held the 3rd midnight showing at Hollins University. We started this last year, and it's a space and opportunity for Hollins Student Artists to share our work/work-in-progress. One of the unique characteristics of this showing is the fact that it actually starts at midnight. Unfortunately, it makes it harder for professors to come, but many students look forward to this showing ever since we started. Exciting, isn't it?

Below are some pics from that night. The 1st 2 are from when we were cleaning up after the showing. There was a dance piece that used a lot of balloons, and we were putting them in black garbage bags to put them up. That's when my little brain went, "aha! A bunch of balloons in one big bag = one big balloon!!" So, this is me having a blast with the "big balloon." lol

Below is a picture from one of the pieces I was in.

And the last two are, again, from when we were cleaning up. The dance department has inner-tubes that we use to sit on the floor. I found it very entertaining to put all of them on my body and roll around. I look like Michelin Man... The one on the right is, I think, what ballerinas would look like if they danced with inner-tubes around their bodies. :o) lol

More to come.

my recent food art! lol

Mash potato & Gravy.

Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) New Video OFFICIAL VIDEO 2008

I am not good at keeping up with songs and stuff in general, but I really like this music video. The reason for that is endless, but I love how simple it is, the style of the dance, and also the song itself.
Enjoy!

Take back the night @ Hollins University

Tonight, an awareness event called "Take Back The Night" was held at Hollins University. It's an event to bring awareness to sexual abuse and assault, and to break the silence in order to bring an end to sexual abuse and assault. To go from "talking" about these issues to actually "doing something" about them. We had a slow walk, a guest speaker, and then some people from the crowd went up to share their or their friends' stories. I participated in the slow walk. For those who might not know what a slow walk is, it's where a group of people walk very slowly in silence to gather people and bring awareness to whatever we are doing the slow walk for. Hollins Repertory Dance Company (a student-run dance organization at Hollins) is knows for the slow walks we do for different events and causes.

"Take Back The Night" is a nation-wide event, and it has been held since 1976. I wasn't able to stay to the end tonight, but I really appreciated what I saw and heard there, and I do hope from my heart that, someday, we will see an end to sexual abuse and assault.

Stay warm.

p.s. For those who might want to know more about Take Back The Night, visit: www.takebackthenight.org.

hugs,

Naomi

Naomi Blue in Roanoke, VA

Today's sky was so naomi-blue, and I almost got sucked in...lol Gifts like this is what really really makes my day. ;o)

Revo-龍-tioN PV / WADAIKO龍鼓会

This is a music video of a group called Ryukokai. My best friend and them introduced me to this group when we went to see them perform the summer I went home. They 2 or 3 years older than me. They are trying to take the traditional Japanese insturments to the next level. Traditional insturments have so much history behind it, and I believe that you have to be very careful when you explore with the playing style of those insturments. Personally, I think they are doing it very well, and I LOVE the sounds this group creates!!

last day of fall break

So, at a blink of an eye, fall break passed, and, here I am, wondering why I am so tired. I'm not complaining, though. I enjoyed my fall break. I got to hang out with people while I also had some time to myself, which doesn't happen much for me these days. There were couple days where I was hanging out late at night with my friends, and, the next thing I know, it's the next morning, and I realized I fell a sleep in their rooms... Fun stuff. I will go in detail about the things I did with the pictures another day.

It suddenly got really really cold today here in Roanoke, VA. I don't have any long pants because I have to do my laundry bad... I have been walking around with a blanket around my waste because it is way too cold to be walking around in shorts right now. lol

Stay warm.

Things people do to their babies these days...

Perfect for parties...?


no comment...


Yeah, let's cook the baby...


That's his/her favorite food...



Sports kids!!


together forever...


Wow...

last day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, y'all!! It's Wednesday at 3pm. That means, Except of having to have to work this evening, I technically have started my fall break already. Over all, I think I can say, "Good Job" and give myself a pat on the back. I made a list of things I want to get done during fall break. It's a lot, but I am going to go one at a time, and get as much stuff don as possible, so that I can start the next 6 weeks of school on a good note. :o)

I hope you all are doing well. Take care, and have a good rest of the week.

p.s. Dear TJ and Gail, I hope you enjoy your trip to the state park.

hugs,

Naomi

One more day...

Hello, all the lovely people in this world!

Though I know there are things which others will call "more important than blogging" that I could be doing right now, I cannot help myself thinking about it, so I am doing it anyways. It has been a crazy week as usual...actually crazier, I think. Last night, I ended up sleeping in Symphoni's room because I didn't even have the energy left in me to walk back to my room after doing our homework. There is one more day left till Fall Break, and, BELIEVE ME, I am soooo looking forward to it. :o)

I hope this post finds many people well. Stay warm, and take care.

hugs...

One more week...

Hi, everyone. How is the weather over there? It has been cold this passed week, but it warmed up a little bit today. Though I am quite exhausted, I am very very excited because a week later from now, I will be in my soft, comfy bed...:o) Fall break starts next Thursday. I am looking forward to it, to say the least. lol

I got to talk with my best friend in Japan on the phone the other day, using a calling card. It has been over an year since we have gotten in contact with each other, and it was really really nice. I hate how it made me miss Japan even more, and made me homesick a little...lol Oh, well. There's nothing wrong with shedding some tears, right?

Pieces of my life at Hollins Dance

At one of our rehearsals. No matter how tired we are, there is something very addicting and motivating about late-night rehearsals. lol

Being an RA, Symphoni has a double room all to herself. Since we often find the need to have late-nights study jams, we get ourselves situated on her big bed, and try to get as much work done as possible until we fall a sleep... It's nice to have someone to work with.

This is a picture from our performance last semester. I really like this picture for some reason, and I thought I would share this with y'all.

Stay warm...

i thought i would share

It's 2am right now, and I am hungry, tired, have homework left... Not very good combination. lol No matter how bad the combinations are, the next day comes, so I guess I just have to suck it up and keep going.

Stay warm.

another week...

This week has been a rough week for Symphoni and I...
We had 3 exams, a project due, and over 30 pages of Spanish workbook due... I actually fell a sleep in the cafeteria, waiting for Symphoni to finish her breakfast. lol The weekend is so close... We keep telling ourselves...

Stay warm, everyone. :o)

One Semester of Spanish Love Song (Subtitled / Subtitulado)

Our Spanish teacher showed this to us in our 1st Spanish class. At the end of this semester, I will be able to sing this and understand it without looking at the translation. lol I watch this around 3am when I am way too exhausted to do anything becaus it makes me laugh... Laugh A LOT...lol

Lifehouse's Everything Skit

If you haven't seen this before, I hope you will take the time to watch this. It takes less than 6 minutes, Kathryn and I thought this was really beautiful...

nice group pic

Do you see all the peace signs in the pic? That's how you can tell who's from Japan...lol Ayaka (the one on the very right) and I are also from Japan, but we have been in the US longer. We learned to control those peace signs a while ago. ;o)

hyper!!!!...lol

At a party we (Black Student Alliance) hosted a couple weeks ago. Believe me, above was the only way I was going to stay awake... lol

Tyler Perry's the Family that preys Trailer [HQ]

video

So, this is what I did on my Birthday/weekend! :o)

Hello, everyone. I know it has been over a week, but I finally have the pics, so I would like to share how my birthday/weekend was like!!

First of all, I didn't really plan anything for my birthday. I thought of getting a massage, but my schedule didn't work out.

[Friday night, Sept 12th]

So... For some reason, Symphoni (pic 1) talked me into getting my nails done. My friend had painted my nails once in my life, which was this passed summer, but I have never gotten them done professionally. I decided to get my toenails done, and Symphoni got her fingernails done. My favorite parts of the whole thing were the warm water and the foot massage, and my not-so-favorite part was when she was filing my nails. Filing nails give me chill, for some reason. Also being ticklish didn't help. lol However, honestly, I have never seen my feet so smooth and pretty!!!!! :o)) (pic 2)

After we got our nails done, Symphoni told me that she had to pick up some food for a club social that was going on at school, so we stopped by at Red Lobster's. Of course, I didn't question a thing...

We walked in, and there were a group of friends (pic 3) waiting for us. It was a surprise dinner!! My friends remembered that I had always wanted to try Red Lobster's, but I still haven't had the chance to go. And I just have to say, IT WAS AWESOME!!!! Their biscuits are amazing, too (pic 4)!! I ordered some shrimp pasta (pic 5), and also shared each other's food. They were really good!! I was really really happy!!!!

But the surprise wasn't over. After we finished our meal, a cheese cake with strawberries on it was brought in front of me. For those who might not know yet, I absolutely LOVE cheese cakes. It was SOOO good, I thought I was going to cry...lol

After we left Red Lobster's, we had to go to a movie theatre to meet up with some people because we had to figure out some details about an club event that was happening the next day. ...Or at least that's what they told me, and, of course, I didn't question anything.

We got there, they got me a movie ticket, and watched "The family that prays" with a whole bunch of friends!!! It was a great movie, y'all. I really recommend it. I posted the trailer after this post. Please check it out, if you would like!!

After the movie, I thought we were going back to school. Well, apparently, "that's not how college birthday celebration works," so we (pic 6) went to one of our friends apartment to hang out a little more. They had handmade ginger cupcakes (pic 7) there, and we just chatted till around 3am. It was really nice. Everything was a great surprise because I seriously had no idea about anything. I also can't believe Symphoni planned most of this whole thing, because we are together almost all the time. However, I just had to laugh when she later told me, "except 'happy birthday,' everything I told you today (Sep. 12th) was a lie. :-b" Well, those lies were pretty darn good because I didn't question a thing. lol In the pic 6, from the front left, it's Jasmine, KB, me, Dani, Symphoni, and Megan. Then from them back left, it's Ju-Ju, Tony, Boo-chi, Kir-Kir, Shalynda, and Larielle. Thanks, everyone!!!!


[Saturday night, Sept 13th]

My Asian friends (it just ended up this way for some reason...lol) at school invited me to go out for dinner at a really nice Indian restaurant called, Swab. I strongly recommend that you will stop by this place whenever you are in Roanoke. Their food is very very good. I ordered a type of curry that had lamb in it (pic 8), and, again, tried my friends' food, too. Ayaka, one of the Japanese students here, bought me a drink (pic 9) as a birthday gift. It was a yogurt-based mango drink. It was very thick, and I liked it a lot!!

After our meal, they brought out a desert with a candle on it (pic 10). I actually don't know what it was, but it was really good, and that's all that really mattered to me! ;o))

After we ate, we went to this placed called "202," which is this bar/restaurant that has a dance floor upstairs. It's one of the few places that allows legal drinkers to bring under-age friends with them. Everyone except Angel and I can legally drink. This place also have this huge screen that shows videos of different animals and landscapes in the world, and I was truly fascinated by it while I enjoyed my drink. FYI, my "orange juice" was really good. Below are my friends I was with. From the left, Kaori, Ayaka, Christine, Miho, Angel, and Kana.

After this, we went to Christina's room, and hanged out until around 4am... I was sooooo tired, and I don't quite remember much of it, but I enjoyed the not-very-important conversations we had. lol Again, thank you everyone!!!

I still might try and get a massage, but I'm still pondering on it. We'll see. Lots and lots of thanks from my heart to those who wished me happy birthday by e-mails, facebook, gifts, and phone calls. I am blessed to be surrounded by so many great people!!!

Chao!