Dan’s Posterous.

hey world.

I haven't posted in like forever. Frankly, I don't really care anymore. I was quite fond of this blogging thing for a long while, and now I'm just okay writing a few things down in my sketchbook that are my thoughts and ideas during that time of day. This post is primarily here to cover up my most recent posts. I wasn't aware that if you loaded my blog, those were the two posts that showed up at the top, but they are, so I need to change it. Anyways, hope things are going good with you internet people. My Spring semester just started, things are going reasonably well, but I need to spend more time on my Architecture and design projects, so that I don't slack off too much. Today, was an alright night, and although I intended on working this entire time, I ended up screwing around and reading blogs and other miscellaneous junk; it's unfortunate. Anyways, here's to tomorrow morning. I have to be up at 7. Good night!

Helloooooooooo lovely.

Posting this one for someone special, yeah, you probably already guessed it.  Brenda Felix <3.  Anyways, I hope she likes it, I worked really hard on this one.  Those transitions took me hours to get to work properly.  It was quite an achievement, I'll have you know.  Hope you have fun tonight darling, it's already getting late here... it's dark outside!!  Video is almost uploaded, I'm surprised that it told me it would take 10 minutes, it's only a 70MB file...but whatever, that's how things are I guess.  Hopefully I have something funny to tell you tomorrow, but chances are you've already heard it because we text back and forth so much lol.  Anywayssssss, ttyl, hope you liked the vid!! <3 you.

hi! more vloggish than bloggish, yeah?

So I decided to post a short lil vid tonight just because my lovey wanted me too since she hadn't seen me in awhile.  I thought that was sweet of her to ask, and I couldn't really turn it down :).  Enjoy!  

so i know i haven't posted....w/e

not much going on this week.  Last week was full of xmas and shopping mayhem.  This week is a lot more chill.  Let's see, what do I have going on.  Uhmmm, well not much on my agenda as of now.  I'm still trying to figure out ways to burn through gift cards and cash.  I want a Flip Video... I think I'm gonna wait for a price drop on that first though until I get anywhere near one.  My brother has an HD video camera, that shoots 1080 and all that jazz, but I want something smaller, that I can take everywhere.  Right now I'm figuring out if Wendy, Gabby, and a few other ppl are going snowboarding next Monday, because I might actually be better next week, so I can go :).  I asked Gabby today, and she said they went today and it was great, but she forgot sunscreen....hahaha fail much?  She said she's all red, if I go next week I will def have to take some.  Oh, and then she's trying to figure out what we should design over the break.  She's apparently really competitive, so I let her pick some topic/theme, and we're gonna design something around that subject.  I don't care what she picks, honestly, I'll kick her ass in like..... anything when it comes to design haha.  And I don't even care that she's reading this, she knows she's gonna lose haha.  Anyways, so that's that.  I was looking through my work from arch 105 today and thought i'd post a little video on it.  There's a bit of shaky cam in it and stuff, but it's just a progress update.  [The video is below]  

Wow, just realized I haven't posted since Dec. 11th yikes.

So yeah posting this just because I haven't said much to the internet in awhile. I've been very busy, having finals this week and such. Today's Thursday, have my last Final tomorrow. Well technically 2 since I have my Revit project due tomorrow at 5, but yeah. Big Physics final tomorrow, that I'm studying for right now. I don't really have time to even post this, but I'm just taking a break from the work for a bit to keep my sanity. Jamming and cramming information into my head about Carnot's heat engine and various other topics, gases, heat, oscillations, waves, and making sure it sticks for the final tomorrow. I'm having a blast, this stuff is interesting! Can't you tell....? Anyways, that's that, and then I'm gonna finish my Revit project tomorrow in class and ask my professor and see if we have every correct on the model. I've spent a ridiculous amount of time on that final project, so hopefully I'm done with everything lol. Anyways, just thought you'd like to know. Bye for now!

posted for my love :)

Hello world,

I know I haven't posted a blog update in quite some time. So I felt that now would be an adequate time to do so. This week has been such a bitch. I mean, don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the second week of December. With Christmas a couple of weeks away, and myself, still unemployed, there's no doubt in my mind that this year's holiday is gonna suck. I'm sure there are millions of people around the world feeling the same way as I do. It's just a real shame. 2009 will undoubtably go down as one of the worst years in quite some time. Anyways, sorry for the down note, that's what I'm thinking right now. Next week is finals, and I've been studying my ass off, primarily for my physics course. I'm hoping to just get out of it with a B and finish up my Architecture courses next semester at OCC. That's what I have on my life agenda, my mental planner. So I'll pretty much be studying all weekend and next week...fun? Anyways, this has been a lengthy status update for you all. Thanks for reading!

Finished my paper around 4:30ish. It's Monday morning.

So I have to get up in a few hours, but I haven't even gotten to get a wink of sleep yet. Just posting this for someone who cares. I don't have much to say, I think I used up every ounce of brainpower I have on my project, which took an absurd amount of time, and I was honestly wondering if I would ever finish it at times. Now I'm done. Have no one to talk to, and I'm a bit sad. It's time to sleep though, more like a nap if you ask me. Today (Sunday/Monday) was not fun at all. Probably one of the worst days I've had in awhile, and I just want it to go away and vanish from my memory bank. I've decided to publish my paper publicly via Google Docs. Hope you enjoy it! --
Daniel Nguyen
Info: http://www.google.com/profiles/dan325013
Email: dan325013@gmail.com
Phone: 657.464.3690

Not much going on today.

Honestly didn't get that much done today. Learned a few good things in my Physics lab today while we were using a generator to vibrate a string and measure resonance. It was kinda fun playing with the generator and seeing how many waves we could create in the taut string. Other than that, I didn't have any other class, just worked a bit on my outsourcing project that's due next Monday. Today when I was driving home they played "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd on the radio, and I missed my baby. I was like, hm, I do wish she was here, right here beside me haha. Anyways, so that was fun. And I sang along and smacked my hand on the dashboard a bit to the song every now and then. It was good. Got home, read my mail and replied to them, checked my Google Reader and Facebook. Saw the Audi E-Tron ( http://j.mp/4vfakE ) earlier today, so that was nice. And that was more or less my day. I had Chinese (or Mongolian BBQ I mean, is that Chinese?) for Dinner, and watched a TED video on these ancient water collecting devices in history, which I found to be a funnier presentation than interesting. Time to shut down my Macbook and my brain for the night. Good night world. Oh wow, it's 12:31AM in Huntington Beach, CA. I guess good morning is more appropriate? Good night/morning!

PMS + TED + Life = my day.

I learned so much about PMS tonight.  It's probably common sense to most, but I was just like wow, being a dude is pretty fucking cool.  I mean the random hard-ons can be a little much at times, but yeah.  Anyways, it's nothing compared to what chicks have to deal with.  Like I knew it was bad in general for chicks, but tonight I got the like in depth from personal experiences from a friend, and it was actually...interesting.  I dunno, most people would just say awww, that's gross, but I dunno, I found some interest in it.  The human body is pretty phenomenal achievement after all, so I might as well find out from someone else.  More importantly, I now understand if I ever get any shit from a girl that I can just say in my head "oh PMS", and be totally okay with it.  I don't even have to like fight back, I can just be like "ah, that's okay", and move on with my life.  So that's that.  Oh, this morning was interesting, my brother and I were like getting up in the morning to go to school, and like we started singing some song... I can't remember what it was for the life of me, I was eating cereal and I started singing too with him... that was funny.  And Physics was interesting because we talked about oscillations and waves a bit more.  Then I had Health Education, my teacher Professor Hanlon (she teaches at Cal State Longbeach too, I think that's pretty cool) talked about what evidence shows whether or not we can be harmed by the radiation from our cellphones.  And then like she said most evidence proves that we cannot be harmed from the waves if we talk on it a lot.  She said that there are no ties to brain cancer; however, to avoid being harmed she said like keep it away form your body as much as possible.  I started freaking out because like I have my phone always in my pants pocket, like all the time when I'm out.  I'm worried now, I don't wanna become like infertile or something because of my cellphone.  And then she was telling us like you should keep the phone keyboard closer to you and the antenna side away from your body, or like on the outside.  It seemed like a bit of hocus pocus, but I seriously asked myself at one point, "Is she for real?"  Then I sort of just got over it and went on with my day.  I wrote down a few names and references and wanted to look them up after, but I still haven't gotten a chance to get around to doing that.  I also watched an interesting TED video with Andrea Ghez, where she spoke about finding a supermassive black hole.  I enjoyed that very much.  I even took notes on it, my first ever TEDTalk that I took notes on.  I was pretty proud of myself.  I wrote them in a Google Doc and everything.  I'm actually gonna share that as a public Google Doc (haha).  That way you can see how terrible my note-taking skills are if you want.  Wow, longer post than I had hoped for.  Tata!

Quick post.

I've been watching a ton of TED lately, and loving it.  The one I'm watching in the photo above is a lecture that Barry Schwartz gave, I enjoyed it a lot.  He gave many words of wisdom, and gave his analysis on a bunch of things in life.  I soaked it all in and truly appreciated it.  I decided to subscribe to the TED podcast again, and to be honest, I have no idea why I stopped subscribing. To be fair, I haven't watched/ listened to a podcast in weeks. I've spent more time in my Google Reader, so I just get the same thing I would get from a podcast, just not as personable. I've been trying to listen to a few NPR podcasts as well, so I can stay pretty well informed because I tend to fall behind on the news. Anyways, my Thanksgiving was great It was so nice seeing family again because I feel like I don't see them that often. We checked up on each other, told stories, shared memories, and ate delicious food. I colored with my 3 year old cousin Samantha (aka "Sammy") and tried to teach her how to play her Nintendo DS her parents got her. She's so smart, she seemed like she knew exactly what she was doing even thought she wanted me to show her haha. She was adorable. It's a shame I don't have any photos of that. Today was Black Friday, sadly I did not buy anything. I'm poor. My brother got Left 4 Dead 2 for half off at Best Buy, which is not a bad deal if you ask me. So that's that, just wanted to do a quick update post on my life. I'm done here, woot!