Song on Repeat: Ping Pung - 殺她死 (saat ta sei - kill her)

I've been listening to Ping Pung's album "Love & Hate" and Kary Ng's album "With a Boy Like U", however I don't think I'll be picking up any of Cookies albums and playing them any time soon. Oh yeah, FYI: Kary Ng was a member of the girl group Cookies and then the lead vocalist for the rock band Ping Pung. Cookies, Ping Pung, and Kary as a soloist all have such different sounds of music; pop, rock, r&b/pop.

Everyone keeps telling me I'm becoming so Asian and God, I am. Bryan says I speak English like an Asian person now, whatever the fuck that means. Do I speak English like a FOB or do Asian-Americans speak English differently? Bryan you fucker. Speaking of Bryan he's taking Mandarin now, if he somehow manages to have better Mandarin then me, I will kill him.

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I was going over travel plans and I realized that mid-terms are two weeks away. Didn't the second semester just start? Second semester classes end beginning/middle of April and then semester is over the second week of May. I guess it's not going by as slow as I thought. Only about two more months of school.

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Anyway .. TRAVEL plans.
- I'm almost positive I'm going to Seoul at the end of this month, February 23rd maybe. We'll see.
- I need to book a ticket home March/April. I have two/three weeks to really come up with when I want to go home. When in August, beginning or mid? Or I could just go back a week before classes start at UMASS. But, do I want to go home?
- Do I really want to travel Japan, this summer, for a month? Well, not really a month .. there's only Tokyo, Hokkaido, and Kyoto, right? So maybe at max two weeks is more reasonable. Yes.
- Anywhere else I should go before I go back to the states? I've pretty much left Southeast Asia untouched, besides Singapore. Maybe it'd be best for another time. Either way I should save my money for October.

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My bed time for the past week has been 7AM, for various reasons. There has been an all night karoke session (from which my voice is still recovering from .. 8 HOURS of karoke!!), a night where I laid awake thinking about not wanting to grow up aka I don't want to face the real world any time soon, a night on the phone, and a night where I planned the rest of my college career.

Here's how I plan on graduating on time:

(U) = class taken @ UMASS
(CU) = class taken @ CUHK

Political Science Major
*Requires 11 (3-credit) classes + 1 (1-credit) POLISCI writing class
*5 classes MUST be taken at UMASS (3 so far abroad, 2 left)
01. POLISCI 121 (U)
02. POLISCI 111 (U)
-- (100-level classes .. at least two, at max three)
03.
04.
05.
06.
-- (four 200+ level classes, one in each discipline (political theory, american, comparative, and international politics)
07. GPA2135 (CU)
08. GPA2385 (CU)
09. GPA2395 (CU)
10.
11.
-- (four/five 200+ level POLISCI classes)
12.
-- (one POLISCI junior year writing class)

History Major
*Requires 12 (3-credit) classes & 2 years of a foreign language
*4-upper level classes must be taken at UMASS (2 upper left for abroad)
01. HIS114 (U)
02.
03.
-- (two to five 100-level classes, fifth must be on a 3rd world country)
04. HIS3501B (CU)
05. HIS5511A (CU)
06.
07.
08.
09.
10.
11.
-- (200+ upper level classes)
12.
-- (History seminar)

#I STILL NEED:
- 60 credits to graduate (I will have 60 at the end of this semester, 120 credits needed to graduate)
- 6 more POLISCI classes (3-credit)
- 1 POLISCI writinc alsses (1-credit)
- 9 History classes (3-credit)
- 1 more year of a foreign language (Chinese Mandarin)
- 2 university GEN-EDs (literature/art)
**(Requirements left will take 64 credits)**

(#) = classes left for major requirements

#FALL 2006 SEMESTER PLAN:
-Mandarin class (6-credits) [326 Intensive Intermediate Chinese I]
-Polisci class (3-credits) - (5) [American Politics Class]
-Polisci class (3-credits) - (4) [Comparative Politics Class]
-History class (3-credits) - (8)
-GEN-ED LIT/ART (3-credits) - (1)
-Polisci writing class (1-credit)
**(19 credits)**

#SPRING 2007 SEMESTER PLAN:
-Mandarin class (6-credits) [327 Intensive Intermediate Chinese II]
-Polisci class (3-credits) - (3) [International Politics Class]
-Polisci class (3-credits) - (2) [Political Theory Class]
-History class (3-credits) - (7)
-History class (3-credits) - (6)
**(18 credits)**

#FALL 2007 SEMESTER PLAN:
-Mandarin class
-Polisci class - (1)
-Polisci class - (POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR ALL DONE)
-History class (5)
-History class (4)
**Whether I go to study abroad in Singapore or not, I will follow this**
**Not sure how many credits because NUS (National University of Singapore), I believe gives 4-credits per a module (an one semester class), I am not sure)**

#SPRING 2008 SEMESTER PLAN:
-History class (3-credits) - (3)
-History class (3-credits) - (2)
-History class (3-credits) - (1)
-History class (3-credits) - (HISTORY MAJOR ALL DONE)
-GEN-ED LIT/ART (3-credits) - (UNIVERSITY GENERAL EDUCATION ALL DONE)
**(15 credits)**

~I will graduate with:
>> A degree in political science and history
>> A certificate in international relations
>> MAYBE a minor in Chinese

YAH! My life is planned! At least for the next two years.

Sorry for typing that all out, I just needed to for my own sanity.