Picking Up the Phone

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What the, how do that happen? Okay, I admit, I have started to prefer writing in a journal rather than typing in a journal a while ago. However, that was mainly due to the reason that I could lay on my bed late at night and write until I fall asleep. Regardless, I will begin to update this journal a lot more regularly from this point forward (yes, that's what I always say). Nobody really reads this anyway, but I still find it a lot more amusing to type in.

So a lot has happened since my last post such as me quitting my job at OfficeMax in July. I will also be staying in Seattle at the community college for one more year. I have switched my major from Architecture to Engineering. However, once I transfer, I may take up a double major in Engineering and Architecture and possibly even a minor in Photography and graduate in 2013. That would be the ideal plan. But as always, my plans fail.

I have taken up a renewed interest in photography. Unfortunately, photography is so expensive now. I should update my websites on the left side of this blog to include the site where I upload my photos. I should send in my photos for the Clark County Fair competition...they seem pretty easy to win at least something. The photos I saw there weren't that impressive. I guess another option I have that would help me update this blog a lot more often is to make it a photography blog as well, that would be cool.

But anyhow, on to a new topic. For the past three years, I have been trying to contact Jessica Lin. Jessica is a former schoolmate of mine when I was in Shanghai and probably one of my favorite friends due to her bubbly nature. However, she has fallen off of the radar of everything three years ago and I have never been able to get in touch with her again. I've always been calling her cell phone and home phone, but nobody would ever pick up. Then, one random night three years after we've last had any sort of contact, she picks up. It was rather exciting getting to hear her voice and just spend time talking. It didn't really matter what we were talking about, but just the fact that we were finally talking again was enough to make me happier.

Hearing her voice brought back a flood of Shanghai memories. I worked hard to supress those memories not because they were bad, but mainly because everyone else has already seemed to move on. Nobody else seems to remember the good times spent together as misplaced expatriots in a large city--at least nobody else seems to care. I know it isn't true though and I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people out there still that feels the same way, but oh well.

Anyhow, over the course of the next week, I will slowly transition this blog more and more into a photo blog--at least I will try to. Post some pictures up, talk about them, yadda yadda yadda. I guess I'm excited about photography for this year just taking pictures and such. I will need to invest some more into different kinds of lenses, though. Other things I'm kind of excited about this year would be classes for this quarter. So far, after about 4 weeks, classes have been pretty good. I think I will do really well this quarter, which will help me when I'm applying to other schools for transfer. Last but not least, I'm excited for the Portland Trail Blazers, whoohoo.

What the, how did Zhongnan get another post up before I even got this one up?! Okay, it did take me over a month just to type up this post.