when you see everything
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birds are flying and you can see things
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yeah its fantastic and full of reserrach
glad to see you on dia de los muertos even tough it was a little bit. Im doing a research paper on singapore's economy and the influx of transportation. presentation due on 11-19-09. time goes by soo very fast maria. I hope you are doing well with the little kids.
you may be tired yet you r making the difference by being there. <3


angels 3 - yankees 4
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Mi Tierra
 
 
 De mi tierra bella, de mi tierra santa
Oigo ese grito de los tambores
Y los timbales al cumbanchar
Y ese pregón que canta un hermano
Que de su tierra vive lejano
Y que el recuerdo le hace llorar
Una canción que vive entonando
De su dolor de su propio llanto
Y se le escucha penar
La tierra te duele, la tierra te da
En medio del alma, cuando tú no estás
La tierra te empuja de raíz y cal
La tierra suspira si no te ve más
(pregón) la tierra donde nacistes no
La puedes olvidar, porque tiene tus raices
Y lo que dejas atrás

Siguen los pregones, la melancolía
Y cada noche junto a la luna
Sigue el güajiro entonando el son
Y cada calle que va a mi pueblo
Tiene un quejido, tiene un lamento
Tiene nostalgia como su voz
Y esa canción que sigue entonando
Corre en la sangre y sigue llegando
Con más fuerza al corazón
Tiene un quejido...mi tierra
Tiene un lamento...mi tierra
Nunca la olvido...mi tierra
La llevo en mi sentimiento, si señor
Oigo ese grito...mi tierra
Vive el recuerdo...mi tierra
Corre en mi sangre...mi tierra
La llevo por dentro como no
Canto de mi tierra bella y santa
Sufro ese dolor que hay en su alma
Aunque estoy lejos yo la siento
Y un día regreso yo lo sé


 
 
 

dodgers 0 - phillies 1
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Even though the Dodgers lost tonight, I strongly believe we will make the World Series this year
thus here is the  WE LOVE L.A. theme song

Hate New York City
It's cold and it's damp
And all the people dressed like monkeys
Let's leave Chicago to the Eskimos
That town's a little bit too rugged
For you and me you bad girl

Rollin' down the Imperial Highway
With a big nasty redhead at my side
Santa Ana winds blowin' hot from the north
And we as born to ride

Roll down the window put down the top
Crank up the Beach Boys baby
Don't let the music stop
We're gonna ride it till we just can't ride it no more

From the South Bay to the Valley
From the West Side to the East Side
Everybody's very happy
'Cause the sun is shining all the time
Looks like another perfect day

I love L.A. (We love it)
I love L.A. (We love it)

Look at that mountain
Look at those trees
Look at that bum over there, man
He's down on his knees
Look at these women
There ain't nothin' like 'em nowhere

Century Boulevard (We love it)
Victory Boulevard (We love it)
Santa Monica Boulevard (We love it)
Sixth Street (We love it, we love it)

I love L.A.
I love L.A.
(We love it)

solutions
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It has been determined, we will be moving to Costa Mesa.

My mind has been wandering off to Jose

Yesterday I went to Pink Berry with Daniela and engineering friends
I was hoping to see Jose and only saw him for a little bit

his light and presence amazes me

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Believe
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Don't Stop Believing!!

my soul
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today I felt like I was all over the place, its horrible news of moving out from my home suck I detest it
I want to see jose but cannot, he is someplace else and I am here infront of this screen

In the beginning of the week me senti pesimo, I failed two exams, On Monday I found that I bombed the Econ Test.
I received a 46% pesimo, I know and on wednesday I received back the Stats test I got a 64% pesimo once again

para acabarla de amolar mi calculadora no esta funcionando apropiadamente
its not working properly and efficiently

something is terribly wrong with me
I haven't gotten much sleep and have been procrastinaning on stupid projects browsing the internet with stupidity

Maybe I am to hard on myself but come on I have to be prepared and work better for achievement.
My head hurts, my heart is pounding to see Jose once again and feel better, to feel empowered and inspired

I need and yearn to have the Ganas in this life of mine. In recent days I have also been worrying about the Sandiegostate
APCG conference, due to my absoluteness as astudent I fear the bring me back to land de los aztecas encounter.
This is some crazy bullshit I can forget about the whole trip and call it off instead of worrying in the first place

Who is going to save my soul my heart? ME
I have to wake up and smell the sunshine, I am a strong person

today I have come with terms of how having many acquaintances in school do not matter if you do not know the people that
well. What does it matter when you cannot confide in them your biggest problems when it is safe you have not established a concrete
and beautiful relationship
I'm getting up no worries
I'm not going to give in, not now, not now
there has to be a rainbow in the inmense tunnel of darkness
there has to be hope in this crazyness of life
there is love that cures it all
and there is adventure waiting for me and u

love your beautiful womyn of color and brightness dalia

everytime
[info]hermalinda
today was a long day, everytime I go to Golden west College I feel as a young and defenseless child
I received my exam today at 11am and received a horrible score.

I feel bad and are behind in my classes, in Economics I did pesimo as well, I must read more and be consistent with homework
assignments, In Statistics I must read the textbook.

Long Beach State makes it all better with my mind and heart, it nurtures and teaches me to keep going, to keep moving
and keep my head up

get back!
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School and work have been keeping me busy (the way I enjoy)

Updates of this weekend:

Everyone has their up times and down times.

This Weekend I felt up when I saw and spoke to the boy, we spoke over the telephone when he was ongoing doing his physics homework. I was doing statistics studying among some other intricate things. Victory over statistics is on the verge, I did my share of studying this weekend. Studying statistics for the second time taking the course. Standard deviation is a sucker, while I am more comfortable with the mean, median and sample random among other things

This weekend was full of birthdays: Ceci's Cumple, Cousin Dante's 20th, and Theresa from csulb get together at Bucca.
The cake from ceci's birthday was delicious, packed with napolitan flan as dessert and combined with chocolate in the middle.
Theresa's birthday dinner at Bucca was pleasant and full of guests. Dante's birthday was yesterday and I called him today, thinking it was the 26th of september. ahh on sundays!!

That was my weekend. mostly I kept thinking of statistics calculations and the boy. seeing him once in the library and speaking to him
over the phone created all these euphoric feelings in anatomic and nervous systems.
beutiful, yes BEAUTIFUL feelings

"You say Goodbye and I say Hello, Hello Hello"

"I say hi, you say why, and I saw hi"

"ohh"

opportunity cost
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Lesson of Opportunity Cost:
instead of doing my studying for my econ test tomorrow, I halfly completed the statistics homework for the third time
seriously that lady leaves so much homework. I have class at 830 am and a test at 1130am. Ahhhh its only the first month and I'm over statistics.   lets just say its doom

As for economics I actually enjoy that class more than the later. tomorrow I will be tested on opportunity cost for example tonight I gave up studying for a critical test and did homework for another class, BAD Choice.
Anyways. As for other critical points we have also learn the definitions to these words



Law of supply:   claim that other things equal, quantity supplied of good rises as the price of good rises

Market:                  group of buyers and sellers of a particular good or service

Equilibrium:        When SUPPLY and DEMAND are in balance

Law of comparative advantage: Something that gives person an edge over another

Property rights:             common ownership, when people do not own something directly they may have little incentive to care for it. The stronger and clearer property rights are, the more morel likey is that trade will occur and prices will be efficient in the market

Production:    changing or creating goods or services for someone’s utility.

Specialization:   one producer is more competent at producing one specific good over another producer

Absolute advantage:      lower opportunity cost of a good than somebody else

I'm hungry and sleepy

dont care for statistics
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statistics is so tedious, I detest calculating standard deviation. Today I spent all day doing homework, Im not done

Over the weekend I went to two bonfires. I kept making lists of what I will do and the busy life I have. finally bought an agenda. I want to see Jose, I really miss him

At church I kept dozing off in the middle of the sermon, pathetic I analyze every word that comes out of the pastor's mouth. Septemberfest is next weekend. My system needs coffee. I want to make plans and itineraries for winter break.

My friends and I want to visit and be one with nature. Yosemite we will visit you some day for now I must deal with statistics. blah

Music calms me done and keeps me resilient among difficulties in life. We are young folks in a crazy life

"it doesn't matter what we do
where we are going too
we can stick around and see this night through"
peter, bjorn and john
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corona del mar
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today we celebrated Marbella's birthday at Corona Del Mar (after Newport Beach).

This morning I attended the TELACU graduate seminar in LA, my parents took me to the Tamayo Restaurant.

Other than that the day was chill and full of burning fire from the wood in the beach pit. I'm very sleepy.
the colors of the burning fire are wonderful
I've noticed that everytime I write update my journal I'm half awake and half asleep. I'll attempt to update the craziness of my life soon
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stars & calls
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this morning I was terribly late into catching the 72 bus but thankfully my dad took me to catch the 25. I'm very thankful of having being able to take the longer route and living in huntington beach, ca. I arrived at csulb around 9:30am and headed to the library. My delay was horrible because I was a bit late to my health appointment in the health center

my left ankle is not feeling well, now for some reason or another it keeps falling asleep very quickly & painfully.
horrible! eek this pain needs to go away as soon as possible.

My geography courses today were ordinary as it can be and had many akward moments with the professors. in geog 313i we watched a film about cyclones in india, bangladesh and southeast asia countries. in human geography we reviewed racialization processess, how race is defined by sociologists, the immigration patterns of new zealand.
for some reason or another we deeply discussed how  the Christchurch city and/or town in new zealand treats asian students. We drew many conclusions out of the District 9 movie. Some of the topics included immigration, politics and race marginalization with 
who knew you could discuss soo much from blockbuster films?
My last class was okay mostly I was half awake and half asleep through the lecture.

Throughout the day I kept dozing off and daydreaming of Jose, I really want to see him but have been unable to do so. I called him last night and the night before but he sends me straight to voicemail. I also emailed him continous times last week and there has been no response as of today. I'm saddened to know and realize that It is I, who is more interested in him than he in me.
sad i know.

Anywho it does not hurt to keep insisting and knowing something more than friendship can exist in the near  future . . .

Last night for it feel eerie being in the Student Union and finding myself thinking of him below the stars. I wanted to focus on reading the textbook infront of me (finding george orwell in burma) but I just couldn't. It may only be infatuation and nonsense in my colorful rainbow.
I know there are endless butterflies and jitters everytime we meet, I don't want to stop fighting for something I feel strongly and beautiful. nope I will not give up. something more beneath the stars and moonlight may exist and I will find what it is . . .. . .

good knight my sweet heart


resident learning
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Last night I slept at the Resident Learning Center Dorms, personally it was really pleasant and welcoming.
Maribel and Maria live there and have an organized dorm, I felt welcomed and warm in their room
Last night we also saw bits and pieces of star trek, inside the beach auditorium. it made me forget about everything
really relaxiing and adventurous


I studied for my south east asia quiz and statistics course. the statistics course problems are tedious and meticously written. I have
to place close attention to decimals and other points.
As for South East Asia the course deals with history and physical representations of Malaysia, Viet, Brunei, Borneo, Laos, Thailand and
other countries. today we saw a video on the 2004 Tsunami which devasted many of the southeast asia countries taking many many
casualties.

Im sleepy, good night


 


moods
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My impatient moods have returned. I do not know what triggers the restlessness and shabby hours of the day and my reckless moments
but something in my body is off shift.

This  morning I felt lonely, then in the afternoon I was melancholy and nauseous. impatience triggered when I did the laundry with my family.  I wanted to finish business as quickly as possible and go see debbie's festival in anaheim.

she told me she would wear a white reginal yucateca skirt with flores bordadas a mano  in the bottom

I imagine the festival was full of color and delicious food, its sad that I didn't see my lovely friends today. Not to worry I will see
them soon, very soon

good night.

Coffe Splurgesport
why is she frighten? took this from izic
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Today I felt high on life and horrible on my academic and personal performance. The morning did not begin so hot for me. I prepared coffees and toasted bagels in a not so sweet place. I was burned for a couple of times and ended being humiliated in front of my current boss. She is very nice but demanding. My training shift began at 7am and ended at 10am. For the first couple of minutes I washed dishes and clean the condiment section.

I’m very sleepy. Ahrrgh. Anywho so the first mistake I made was wearing inappropriate attire to training, another was putting in the .25 ounces of grained coffee on the left side of the coffee maker instead of the right side where more coffee can be stored. At the end of the training session I felt like such a looser. Maybe I’m not a great coffee maker. I cant remember all the ingredients, pumps and scoops each Americano, latte or cappuccino contain.

This is bad real bad. To top it off I was running on five hours of sleep from the previous night. Enough with the complaining.

Off to other stuff:

I turned in all the paperwork for the sustainability internship with the City of Long Beach which includes:    my resume, unofficial transcript, 2 letter of recommendation, and a writing sample Done yay!!

I also turned in a very important email to Dr elenamacias concerning number and absolute confidentiality,

On CSULB notes

Tonight was Smorgasport which is a social event at cal state long beach with free games, free henna tattoos, free food and much more. I socialized and saw many individuals I’m acquainted with for the past two years. For some reason or another I had not seen so many csulb students at a social function other than week of welcome and regular school hours

I had airbrush heart tattoo made on my left arm, it is bound to last 9 days. While it was being made I couldn’t stop thinking about the guy in my mind and his whereabouts. Strange how I think of him in the most eerie places, I hoped he would be with engineering buddies but to my displeasure he was not. Jose light up my day and today I yearned to see him. Lets say I was desperate to hug him but I didn’t, its sad and foolish but I miss him. I don’t know why but I know I miss you so much.

We’ll see what happens. Until then the Smorgasport was the highlight of my day.

Good night JH

p.s. this afternoon I saw the most beautiful sunset, almost like a painting, a beautiful canvas in the sky

coffe ingredients
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This morning I learned all about Coffee brewing, history and preparation processess.

These are the one I must learn and memorize by Saturday morning!

History: 

It is believed that  Ethiopians, were the first to have discovered and recognized the energizing effect of the coffee bean plant.
Coffee has played an important role in many societies throughout history. In Africa and Yemen, it was used in religious ceremonies
The first successful European coffee house opened in Italy in 1646
  • first exports of Indonesian Coffe Took place from Java to the Netherlands in 1711
  • The Santos coffee of Brazil and the  Oaxaca  coffee of Mexico are the subject of that Bourbon tree.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Brazil was the biggest producer of coffee

Coffe Beverage List

  • Espresso: made under Pressure.
  • Americano coffee is made with espresso (normally several shots), topped with hot water to give a similar strength (but different flavor) to drip-brewed coffee.
  • Long blackis similar to Americano, but prepared in different order (a double shot of espresso is added to water instead of v verse) 
  • Caffè latte  (Italian  for "milk") espresso with steamed milk, traditionally topped with froth created from steaming the milk. comprised one-third espresso and nearly two-thirds steamed milk.
  • Vanilla Latte  it is a latte with flavored vanilla
  • Caramel Latte     latte with Caramel
  • Mocha  is a latte (milk) with chocolate addition

Also I must not forget significant differences
for example:  powder of chai and spices        VS     pumps of flavor

Shots of Espresso for cups (always put the cupholder first)

1 -Small       2-Medium       3-Large

Pumps of Flovor by Cup

4 -Small       5-Medium       6-Large

Chai's

hot   1/2 scoop -Small
cold   1 scoop -medium and large (small cold doesnt exist)

Coffe Grinding

.34 lbs   - - -left side
.24 lbs  - -- -- right side




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09-09-09
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Today was the cool day with the symbolism of the unknown

I half way sleep through Economics class. Statistics was okay we formulated tables and were taught how to divide classes in order to conduct studies

Last night I had a nightmare that included Gizela kissing Jose. I was devastated. I really need to show Jose how much I like him
I'm nervous though. very nervous. These dreams of swimming in a pool or the ocean keep coming to me at night

strange yeah strange
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jump in!
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Today I desperately wanted to jump in the ocean
the ocean calms me down and relieves the stress carried by my body on school days or missed buses.
My eyes are dreamy and my back aches.

Today I worked on the City of Long Beach internship with sustainability commision.

This weekend felt very summery and full of flowers and marshmellows in a pit of fire

Today I went to La Raza Student Association Bonfire at the Bolsa chica State Beach. For reasons unknown the people there do not feel like my real friends. I mean I do trust them and everything but they do not make me feel as comfortable as they use too. It may be the distance and summer time we have not seen each other. They also keep teasing me on how I am single and how I do not possess a cell phone. I just think that friends wouldnt do that and it is why I have also distanced myself from them.

Nevertheless, for some reason or another I turn to them for advice and aid in proofreading papers or college advice.
I guess I do value them and love them very much, I just dont know if they value me as much as i Do. ahh this is all nonsense talk. 

La Raza Student Association de Long Beach will host Celebrando Nuestra Independencia on Septiembre 15 2009



On other notes:

Today's weather was rather pleasant and reminded me of early spring

I received an email from Sweet Elle's Cafe :)

I keep thinking and imagining myself living in Long Beach with Dante, Thalia, Edith and friends

I half way finished the statistics homework

Ate three pancakes at iHOP :)

thought about Jean Parlou de la France


I'm very sleepy, ZzZzzzzzzz.. the end :)
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impatient
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Events in the last week:

1. I have been very impatient

2. My obsession with pixar/disney movies continues
    
3. Us by Regina Spektor is a lovely song

4. Going back to as a part-time student CSULB feels strange, unrealistic and the bus ride is time consuming

5. Attending goldenwest college as a part - time student makes me feel lethargic

6. Statistics is a drag. a the probabilities and random sampling are very confusing. there are simple random sampling, systematic, stratified, cluster, convenience. Ah stupid, I wish the subject could be more clear to me; some folks in class actively participate while I sit and write notes conspicously while they understand more.

7. I went to the Sweet Cafe interview, it went quite well (we'll see if they call or email) crooss ur fingers.

8. My mind wanders of into the thoughts of summer

9. Its finally cooling off in southern California

10. Happy Labor Day!

9. I uploaded more summer adventure pictures to photobucket!

10. On friday night, I went to the Dodger Game with my parents, shame they lost against the Padres. It was a very exciting game towards the 7th inning and my dad had a great time singing the "take me out to the ball  . .   .  game"

11.  Im impatient

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