Just a couple of quotes....

A hundred thousand words are flowers in the sky
a single mind and body is moonlight on the water
once the cunning ends and information stops
at that moment there is no place for thought.
~Han-shan Te-ch’ing

In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

When we attain reality, it is seen to be neither personal nor impersonal.
~The Song of Enlightment

The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same.

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

Old River Mountain a slab of rock
that blue heaven’s swept to paint on
and written there an ancient poem
green letters worked in moss.

And ’tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.

I don't really like pink but that's ok

See what Care Bear you are.

Winter!!

So I got out my winter jacket and my snowflake hat and my scarf today because it was only 2 degrees (Celsius that is...) outside. I officially declared winter today. Yeah, I love winter. I just want some snow. Anyways, back to chillin, eating a dozen Krispy Kremes and watching TV.

Freezerburn is not doing any better :/ I hope he doesn't just die on me. I'm kinda really attached to him. Anyways, I hate immature people that call in the middle of the night screaming "Aaauuuudrey" on the answering machine and then try to apologize by adding a "Sorry Anika" at the end. Just for your info Steven, Audrey never wakes up but I do and I hate you. So anyway, nothing really interesting is going on except homework and tests of course. I can't wait to go home for Thanksgiving. My mom just received tons of boxes of old toys we still had in storage in Germany. (This kinda means we are most definitely staying here) I'm sooo excited to go through my old toys and see what I can find, like pink carebears. Plus I finally get to sleep in our new house, which I helped to renovated over the summer but I left for Tech before we moved in. But most importantly I get to see my family. I really do miss them a whole lot. My lil crazy skater bro, who wears a beanie to an UIL Orchestra competition. My preppie sis, who spends 2 hours in the bathroom each morning getting ready. My mom, who throws welfare parties and sends me German chocolate. And of course my dad, who is just another crazy German Engineer like I am. : ( I really wanna go home now. But I guess I gotta go to physics lab first.

Just a couple of cool quotes.....

When Governor Lu was about to return to his office, he came to say goodbye to Nan-ch’uan. The Master asked him: “Governor, you are going back to the capital. How will you govern the people?”
The Governor replied: “I will govern them through wisdom.”
The Master remarked: “If this is true, the people will suffer
for it.”

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

There is no solution, for there is no problem.

Once a monk asked Master Yun-men, “When not one thought arises, is there any error?”
Yun-men said: “Mount Sumeru!”

So Freezerburn finally seems to be getting healthy again. Yeah, I love my fish. I hate Audrey Answering Machine though. Listening to people is fun and interesting, unless people call at 4 o'clock at night wanting to go to Krispy Kream!!!!! Denis! Steven! I hate y'all, and none of y'all apologies are accepted. Anyways, I gotta go to class, I get to listen to a survivor of the Holocaust tell her story. It's probably gonna get to me again, but I feel it's really important that I learn as much about the Holocaust as I possibly can.

I go;
thou stayest:
two autumns

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Profile too small....grr

So since my profile is too small to put my quotes on there, I'll just put them here...

Study the Way and never grow old
distrust emotions; truth will emerge
sweep away your worries
set even your body aside

autumn drives off the yellow leaves
yet spring renews every green bud
quietly contemplate the pattern of things
nothing here to make us sad

Germany won the World Cup!!!

Just in case I haven't told you yet....Germany beat Sweden 2:1 and won the World Cup. Needless to say I was excited. Audrey probably still thinks I'm crazy for jumping up and down in the room when we won. : ) Anyway, the game was awesome and I gotta give the Swedish a lot of credit. They almost beat us. But you know when you play high class soccer and you get like 25 cornerkicks the ball gotta go in eventually. Germany just has an awesome offense. I mean a total of 25 goals and most of them were not off cornerkicks or freekicks. That's just awesome. I decided that I'm gonna declare Maren Meinert my hero. She is just sooo cool. Oh well, I gotta go and go to yet another meeting. Pretty insane when you have barely been in your room at all for like 2 days straight. But it's fun, I enjoy college life so much. I enjoy life in general. Oh btw Freezerburn turned into a pirana.

Yes!

It's finally over. And it wasn't too bad either. I really like my physics class, but I dreaded taking that test. Why do tests exit in the first place? Anyways, Freezerburn is digging his head in the ground, which is made up of rocks. It's official, he is nuts. I think his tumor his getting into his head. That reminds me....let me find a cup so I can put him in the microwave. :) JK. He might not be that crazy afterall, cause he is happily blowing bubble nests. Oh well, I think I'm gonna go climb. Last time I almost did most of the traverse. I was soooo proud of myself. Go Me! Oh and I did the Alien head too. I still haven't done the cliffhanger thing though. Anyway, Germany beat the United States 3-0 in the semifinals this weekend. Once again our goalkeeper was awesome. But the US was good too, it was 1-0 til like the 90th minute and then our awesome Maren Meinert and Birgit Prinz scored 2 extra goals. I felt really bad for the US team though, they played a good game, good game........ *sadly shaking head* So naturally Germany is gonna dismantle Sweden this Sunday. *grinning from ear to ear* And I'm gonna be one happy camper. Ok, study time for my German class.

Germany rocks!!!

Russia 1
Germany 7

Do I have to say anymore?? I mean Germany just plain dominated Russia. 20 goals so far. That's an average of 5 goals a game. And people say German soccer is too defensive. Who wants a piece of this team. The girls just absolutely rock. Birgit Prinz has a total of 6 goals. Isn't that great. :) We are so gonna dominate the USA on Sunday at 6:30 on ESPN2. And if not then there is gonna be a lot of dead people on Monday. Just Kidding, cause we are gonna win. Soccer is just so awesome and especially German soccer. Only on of those goals was a corner shot and the remaining six were all scored differently. So who is talking about German soccer being to defensive, that offense is just plain awesome. We dismantled the Russians. Mia Hamm better watches out. I mean we have Maren Meinert, Renate Lingor, Bettina Wiegmann and Birgit Prinz. I think that is all I have to say.

Freezerburn is lopsided!

So Freezerburn's tumor has been growing and now he is kind lopsided. Everytime he stops swimming, he will tilt to one side. It is really sad. But on the positive side - his tailrot is gone. Anyways, I'm gonna be the first out of our physics class to win the Nobel prize in physics. My teleporter is gonna be awesome. Freezerburn has to lean against his tankwall now so he doesn't fall over. :( My poor fishy........ I hope he doesn't die. So that's it for today, I gotta take my eco test tomorrow about equivalent uniform annual worth and capital recovery and such.

Life.....

Life is beautiful! You just gotta believe it. : )

FIFA Women's World Cup

So I was watching TV the other day and discovered that the Women's Soccer World Cup is going on right now. So of course I'm gonna be watching it. Germany already made it to the Quarterfinals, and the game I'm watching right now, Russia against China, is gonna determine who we play in the Quarters. And then it is on to the Semifinal against the United States, if the don't get eliminated by Norway. :) I'm so excited. I didn't realize how much I missed watching Soccer. I still suck at playing it, but soccer is still the best sport. Anyways, weekend was awesome, I didn't do a thing. Isn't that great?! Anyways, gotta go second half just started. Oh yeah, Freezerburn still has tailrot. I think he is getting old.

Exhausted!!!

Exhausted and burned out. That's all I have to say. I'm ready for a weekend of doing nothing. Oh yeah, Freezerburn still has not recovered from his tail rot. Stupid Fish. AAM also has not provide me we any good data lately. Except that people still state the time. Anyways, I went climbing yesterday and I managed to get a bleeding toenail. Now that's what I call true rock climber feet. I was rather proud of myself. : ) And yes I know I'm crazy. But they don't call me crazy German for nothing. Ok, study time for cal 3. I'm beginning to get this feeling that I'm gonna hate that class more than cal 2. Oh well.........Life is hard and then you die.

Freezerburn and his sicknesses!

So after discovering that Freezerburn has cancer, I also discovered that he had tail and fin rot. I went and got him some medication and he seemed to recover from it. Now that guy has a swimbladder problem. I honestly wonder what the next thing is gonna be. Well, maybe he is getting old. I only had him for half a year, but I don't now how old he was when I got him. So I hope he recovers, cause I really do like him, although I'm not a big animal person. He has really grown on me, heck I even talk to that fish. Lol, AAM went off again, and of course the time of the call was stated again just in Denver time. People never learn. On the other hand that person probably doesn't read my blog. I'll sent him a copy of my thesis about the AAM when I'm done. So this weekend was rather disappointing concerning the AAM, almost nobody called. :( So y'all better call Audrey when she is not there and leave an interesting message for my enjoyment. :) So that was Freezerburn, the AAM and oh yeah me. Nothing really interesting about my life. Cause remember I'm an engineer and I have no life and I can prove that mathematically. But anyways, climbing was fun yesterday, I managed to climb a 5.10+ which was pretty awesome. And after that I think I hit my first low for the semester. Hmw, Swe, Hmw, Swe, Tests, more hmw and more swe. That's all I have to say. BTW Eric, I like your AAM messages. They are rather creative. Anyways, gotta do some more SWE Stuff.

Freezerburn has cancer, Aaaahhhhh!

So Freezerburn has been growing a bluish bump on his left side right behind his fin. I'm highly suspecting that he has cancer. Maybe I should give him a radiation therapy by putting him in the mircowave. So after a seven hour marathon of physics in the library yesterday, today was nice and relaxing. Our prof actually joked for the first time in our circuits class. Maybe it is not going to be too boring. In cal we talked about the fourth dimension. Awesome. And physics was a blast as always. Einstein is still my hero for predicting black holes. : ) And I collected some relevant data for my answering machine thesis. People still state the time when they are calling. Audrey's answering machine already announces the time!!! Just get that in your head people. Other people (aka Denis) strangely surprised me today by being a little more creative when leaving a message. I should probably start a contest about who can leave the most creative message. The other contest would be: "Who calls Audrey the most". Some people (aka Denis) already got a major headstart on that. I was also thinking I could start something like Marzipan's answering machine, just with Audrey's. I'm also still contemplating about using Audrey's answering machine, referred to as AAM or machine hereafter (I'm just tired of typing it) as my master thesis. I could collect some major data over this entire year. Anyways, Freezerburn wants new H2O. And I'm also gonna give him the radiation therapy.

The Cal 3 Face

Freezerburn is pathetic. His bubble nest contains like 10 bubbles, that's it. So I had circuits this morning (booooooring) and then I went to my cal 3 class. Everything Dr. Lee wrote on the board looked like a bunch of letters to me. I mean this is a math class we are talking about, so why in the world are we just using stinking variables? And we are not even using my oh so favorite y and x, oh no we are using t, n, r, s and so on. What kind of crap is that. So I feel like I didn't absorb any of that stuff into my brain. Nothing, Nada! So when I walked out of class I must have made this weird face, which Jason called the "Cal 3 Face". I think that is all you have to say. And I thought cal 3 was gonna be easier than cal 2. Oh well, we shall see. At least my physics 3 class is fun. Yes I know I'm insane. But it is just so interesting. I mean relativity is just so cool. : ) There goes Audrey's phone again. Maybe I should start keeping a count on how many people actually call during one day. I bet ya it is like 20 or so. And I get the pleasure of listening to people leaving messages. : ) I came to the important conclusion that people just keep on rambeling and never actually get to the point. They also always point out the obvious like "Since you are not answering your phone, I guess this means you are not there" Duh.... The funniest thing is the beginning. People always start with "Hey Audrey! It's me (insert name)..... People always seem to state when they are calling. Todays answering machines already do that for ya, so that you don't have to say it. Just now Audrey got 3 calls on the dorm phone and like 6 on her cell. Geez people, she is taking a shower. So stop calling or at least leave interesting and funny messages without doing anything of the above. ;) Ok, I'm done analyzing Audrey's phone messages, so let's go eat.

I sometimes wish I could be a fish

On the contrary to Freezerburn, who is swimming around his tank totally relaxed, I haven't been in my room almost all day but running around campus like crazy. Between going to classes, going to 3 hour long labs in the attic of the physics building, going to study groups and writing 6 page long lab reports, I'm also organizing a bunch of Swe stuff. But at the same time it is kinda fun. So if you barely see me around or the blog isn't updated for a while that would be the reason why. Anyway, I'm off to the library for my study group to talk about the Schroedinger cat experiment. :)

Awesome Weekend

So Freezerburn is happily swimming around in his cleaned tank. Although he protested as always when I tried to catch him. : ) As for me, I had a blast this weekend. Friday night we went to Barn Dance and it was fun, except for the country songs they played. I just can't get used to country. It just drives me insane. I'd rather dance Samba, Waltzer or Tango than two step. In my personal opinion, two step is just so boooooring. Anyways, it was fun seeing a lot of people there I haven't seen all summer and meeting a couple of new ones. Afterwards we went to eat at Arby's, which was a first for me. And then we went there again after the game Saturday. I haven't been to Arby's in the 4 years I have been living in the United States and then I go twice within on weekend. Kinda funny. Oh well, then Audrey, Steven, Denis, Eric and me made a video for Lib (with her camera we stole from her). We learned one important lesson, (or more like Steven learned it). Cacti hurt a whole lot. Oh well, I'm going climbing. I gotta get buff again since my tan already went away.

Boring Day

So Freezerburn is still trying to break the record for the biggest bubble nest and I had a soso day. My two classes today were completely boring. Then I ate lunch with Carolyn and the girls and then I worked on a little bit of homework and organized some more stuff. : ) If I continue to organize my room, then there won't be anything left to organize. So after I stared at my computer screen for a while I came to the conclusion that I have no life and that I could probably prove that mathematically. Just Kidding. I might be an engineer, but my life is awesome. Granted I'm not as social as Audrey (but I mean who could beat that?), but I'm not one of those people that sit in front of their computer the entire day. Anyways, I'm really excited about the game tomorrow. (Since I missed the last one because of the stupid bunkbed/future bonfire). So that's it for today.
Oh yeah, I got a new goal for this year: To get an on-campus speeding ticket on my bike. (And run over a couple of pedestrians, of course)

Freezerburn is still on a diet

So that was the update on Freezerburn, my crazy betta fish, who almost got killed twice. He doesn't seem to have any post-traumatic problems from those experiences since he is happly swimming around in his tank blowing bubble nests. As for me... after all the stress for like the last month or so, I'm finally bored. I'm sitting here in my room and have nothing better to do than to write in this blog. Why do they call it a blog anyways? My summer was pretty awesome. I relaxed for like a month and got a nice tan (which you can't notice anymore ... dang it), then I when to Germany for a couple of weeks, which was pretty awesome, except that I got food poisoning the first day. Then I went to Tech and took my physics 2 class and had a blast with Amy as my suitemate. Then I went home and since my lil sis and lil bro had to go to school, it was left to me and my mom to renovate our new house in Lake Jackson. We painted every single room in the entire house, which was fun, but extremely tiring. So I was already kinda exhausted when Audrey and I finally arrive in Lubbock friday night. And we still had to move in.....but it was all worth it. Our room is probably the coolest room on campus. : ) And then classes started .... and except for eco ( =boooooring) and circuits (= even more booooooring) my classes are pretty awesome. My German class is just fun. Physics 3 is as awesome and interesting as it possibly could be ( I really hope we do Schroedinger's cat experiment)... yeah and cal 3 is just cool cause it isn't cal 2. Anyways, I'm gonna go eat, cause I skipped lunch today.