isn't it weird how sometimes when we look back on certain moments in our lives we remember all the good times, yet when we look back at other times we only remember the bad? i was just thinking about Thailand & Cambodia and how that keeps happening with the memories. i feel like my last entry about cambodia and the girls i was with was so bitter, and i kind of regret posting it. i mean, at the time i was very passionate about what i was feeling, lol, but there were definitely more good times than bad. and it's to be expected that you'll have disagreements with people you're constantly around for 5 months, and then living with for 2 months straight in really tiny quarters. but it was a lot of fun. now i'm kind of stressing out (not that much though actually lol) about finding 2 good pictures to enter in photo contests for my university and for the education abroad network, the company i went through to go to southeast asia. that's gonna be a bit difficult. i have to go through 5 months of pictures to find the perfect 2, and i realized a few weeks ago when i was looking through my external hard drive for my pictures that a bunch of pictures magically got erased from it =/. oh well. i probably have them on facebook haha. thank god i'm always so cautious with my pictures and save them in at least 2 places. i'm a bit anal about that.
and now i'm babbling again. blaahhhh.
i meant to upload some of my pictures from Camp Bisco, but i haven't done it yet. blahh. maybe i'll do it now. it's a really lazy day, but not really. i think i'm just in a really fickle mood. i need to stop babbling. trains of thought are quite amusing, if you stop to think about it.
ha okay. blahh.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
It's a rainy day & I'm feeling like a homebody...
...so I took the liberty to practice my "photography" (I don't call it actual photography, since i haven't taken a class yet, so i'm still just a newborn.) but, yeah. i really want to try doing some really funky photoshoots with my friends, but i've never done posed shoots before (except a little for molli's blog, http://alamerri.blogspot.com/ , but that's different). So this is me just testing the waters, see what kind of eye I have and all that jazz. blahhh. so i guess let me know what you think?
color?
or b&w?
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
I don't know what this title should be
This past week of being "home" has been so....blahhh. I forgot how boring this town is. It's so odd. It was nice at first, being able to see my family and friends, but now it's just really boring. I almost forgot why I left this town in the first place- the first time to go to school in NYC; the second to study abroad in SEA.
Before, it used to get me down and I'd feel like I was stuck here. Now, however, it motivates me. I'm hoping to get at least 2 jobs this summer so I can work hard and make a lot of money, which I'll save up towards getting the heck out of here haha. During the school year I'll be renting a house with one of my best friends, Anna. I'm hoping to be able to keep one or 2 jobs while I study and just work my butt off at school to increase my GPA.
Being in Cambodia inspired me a lot to work harder in school. The students there have so much determination to succeed and do well, it made me feel lazy. These people go to 2 or 3 universities in order to major in multiple things, not to mention many of them work 1 or 2 jobs aside from that to help their families with money. And they are always so friendly and eager to help and do things. It's understandable why they're like that, considering the Khmer Rouge killed off all of the educated in the 70's, and it's great that this new generation is working toward something so special- to make Cambodia a wonderful place in the eyes of international countries, not just an ailing, grief-stricken, impoverished nation. I love that about them, and I miss my friends there so much.
It's raining right now. Ah, so peaceful. It was thundering on and off all day. Apparently it rained earlier, too, but I missed that. I don't know why, but for some reason I've been so tired the past couple of days. Not in a depressed kind of way, by any means, just tired. It could be because I never gave myself a chance to recover from jet lag. I thought I had manipulated my body's sleep cycle on the way back to this side of the world by trying to sync it with the time here, but maybe I didn't afterall. I've been taking naps, which is abnormal. I blame it on Southeast Asia. I never was a frequent napper before going there, but the heat gets the best of you and sometimes all you really need is a nice snooze midday. My problem right now is that i take them around 4 or 5 and don't wake up until around 7 or 8 hahaha. Oh, man. I think things will change once I get a job (hopefully that will be soon) so I can have a routine to my life.
Blahh blah blahhhhh.
Nothing else to ramble about. I'm gonna go try to watch the 'Virgin Suicides' online. Hopefully it's done loading. I really need to get Netflix. Which means I really need a job ;) lol
anywho.
byeee.
Mallory
Before, it used to get me down and I'd feel like I was stuck here. Now, however, it motivates me. I'm hoping to get at least 2 jobs this summer so I can work hard and make a lot of money, which I'll save up towards getting the heck out of here haha. During the school year I'll be renting a house with one of my best friends, Anna. I'm hoping to be able to keep one or 2 jobs while I study and just work my butt off at school to increase my GPA.
Being in Cambodia inspired me a lot to work harder in school. The students there have so much determination to succeed and do well, it made me feel lazy. These people go to 2 or 3 universities in order to major in multiple things, not to mention many of them work 1 or 2 jobs aside from that to help their families with money. And they are always so friendly and eager to help and do things. It's understandable why they're like that, considering the Khmer Rouge killed off all of the educated in the 70's, and it's great that this new generation is working toward something so special- to make Cambodia a wonderful place in the eyes of international countries, not just an ailing, grief-stricken, impoverished nation. I love that about them, and I miss my friends there so much.
It's raining right now. Ah, so peaceful. It was thundering on and off all day. Apparently it rained earlier, too, but I missed that. I don't know why, but for some reason I've been so tired the past couple of days. Not in a depressed kind of way, by any means, just tired. It could be because I never gave myself a chance to recover from jet lag. I thought I had manipulated my body's sleep cycle on the way back to this side of the world by trying to sync it with the time here, but maybe I didn't afterall. I've been taking naps, which is abnormal. I blame it on Southeast Asia. I never was a frequent napper before going there, but the heat gets the best of you and sometimes all you really need is a nice snooze midday. My problem right now is that i take them around 4 or 5 and don't wake up until around 7 or 8 hahaha. Oh, man. I think things will change once I get a job (hopefully that will be soon) so I can have a routine to my life.
Blahh blah blahhhhh.
Nothing else to ramble about. I'm gonna go try to watch the 'Virgin Suicides' online. Hopefully it's done loading. I really need to get Netflix. Which means I really need a job ;) lol
anywho.
byeee.
Mallory
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Hoopin' with my Homies haha
AnnChan!<3 in the Silver Nugget
Mel's wicked good- she's on the UVM Hoop Team
the source of the tunes
love my best friends:)
Monday, May 23, 2011
This is weird!
Just got back to Boston last night. My flight from Heathrow to Logan was delayed about 6 hours due to engine malfunctioning. Just as the plane was about to lift off from the ground, there was a loud bang and a big blow of fire shot out really fast from the round thing hangin' from the wing (i saw it because I was sitting at a window seat really close to the wing). They kept telling us that the plane was going to go under maintenance, then they said we had to switch planes. Which ended up taking hours, even though they said it would be "very soon". I know they were trying their hardest to fix the issue, I just wish they could have let us know how long it would be. They had to transport all the cargo & all the food and the crew and everything. I was able to watch an episode of Blue Bloods, all of Due Date (which was hilarious!) and an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Plus have some time to sit around, do nothing, and listen to my ipod.
We finally reached Boston, and everyone was ecstatic, giving the crew a round of applause. We all went through the passport business, and then went to baggage claim. To my exhausted (yet somewhat expectant) surprise, my both pieces of my luggage were not there. Apparently they had never even been loaded onto the plane. I had a bad feeling about my luggage because there was some issue with it while I was transferring flights in Mumbai, but (and I feel bad saying this) I couldn't understand what the guys who were taking care of it were saying. I was waiting to get my boarding pass for 2 hours, and a bunch of guys were running around all over the place with my passport and flight info, and saying they were transporting my bags from my Thai Airways plane to the Jet Airways plane. I have no idea what was happening, but I'm wondering if Thai Airways never even shipped my luggage? So now I have to wait to get it sent to my dad's house in RI. ahh, well. I'm not too upset about it now because it happened when I was going to Thailand, too, so I know I'll at least be getting it. I did cry a little, however, because I was so worn out, at the time a little upset about the luggage thing, and no one was there to meet me at the airport because my flight was delayed (my brother had gone at 1 only to find out the flight wasn't coming until 6:45, and then he had to go move into his new place for the summer at the time I was supposed to be picked up). So yeahhhh. But everything's fine now. I'm getting a train back to RI in about an hour and a half & it'll feel so good to take a shower and put on clothes that I haven't been wearing for the past 3 days! hahah
But it feels so strange being back here. On the one hand it feels like I never left, but on the other....it feels different. In a good way. I feel like a stronger person, as silly as that sounds. I like this weird feeling haha.
We finally reached Boston, and everyone was ecstatic, giving the crew a round of applause. We all went through the passport business, and then went to baggage claim. To my exhausted (yet somewhat expectant) surprise, my both pieces of my luggage were not there. Apparently they had never even been loaded onto the plane. I had a bad feeling about my luggage because there was some issue with it while I was transferring flights in Mumbai, but (and I feel bad saying this) I couldn't understand what the guys who were taking care of it were saying. I was waiting to get my boarding pass for 2 hours, and a bunch of guys were running around all over the place with my passport and flight info, and saying they were transporting my bags from my Thai Airways plane to the Jet Airways plane. I have no idea what was happening, but I'm wondering if Thai Airways never even shipped my luggage? So now I have to wait to get it sent to my dad's house in RI. ahh, well. I'm not too upset about it now because it happened when I was going to Thailand, too, so I know I'll at least be getting it. I did cry a little, however, because I was so worn out, at the time a little upset about the luggage thing, and no one was there to meet me at the airport because my flight was delayed (my brother had gone at 1 only to find out the flight wasn't coming until 6:45, and then he had to go move into his new place for the summer at the time I was supposed to be picked up). So yeahhhh. But everything's fine now. I'm getting a train back to RI in about an hour and a half & it'll feel so good to take a shower and put on clothes that I haven't been wearing for the past 3 days! hahah
But it feels so strange being back here. On the one hand it feels like I never left, but on the other....it feels different. In a good way. I feel like a stronger person, as silly as that sounds. I like this weird feeling haha.
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