Keep bombing me why don’t ya?

Posted: January 10, 2012 | Author: Baoii | Filed under: BSillyBob's Posts | Tags: curiosity, dilemma, elective course | 2 Comments

I feel so lost lately.
First of all I didn’t get much sleep last night because my sleep pattern has really been eff’ed up since the holiday started. And since the first lecture started early today I barely slept 2 hours or so. So I was seating on the train on the way to school when I met one of my friends, and she was really happy to see me. I really didn’t see the sign then so I went over to her smiling all happily trying to catch up. A few minutes later she dropped a huge bomb on me by saying “So, you’re taking Business Modeling as the elective course with me this year!”
Being the sleep-deprived me I still didn’t see the bad signs, so I basically told her no. This was when she dropped the second bomb: “So why are you going to school now?”
“Uh, because we have a lecture at 9:15?” I replied. Thus came the third bomb, “Nooo, I have Business Modeling now at 9:15 and our mandatory lecture is at 12:15”.

By this time I’ve already started panicking so I tried my best to prove her wrong, “What? I have an elective course at 12:15 and our mandatory lecture is now!”
I didn’t succeed though because she probably looked at our timetable before she left home, and well I kind of looked at a few days before? Anyways, I ended up being so annoyed at myself. Because, seriously sleep is like the Ken to my Barbie or something. I did spend my time wisely though ‘cuz I ended up going to Business Modeling to satisfy my curiosity. And now I’m facing another dilemma… I liked the course so much that I almost chose it too, but fact is I can’t right now because I’m already taking another extra elective course plus the one elective course we are required to take this year. And I can only juggle that much before the quality of my studying starts to fray. I really want to take it though 😦 , and I ❤ spreadsheets (sometimes)… That might have to wait for next spring blaaah.

I felt like ranting… sorry 😛

Oh, here’s my new found love:

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believin’ it was always something that I’d done
But I don’t wanna’ live that way,
reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go,
and I wouldn’t catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know

Misunderstanding …

Posted: January 10, 2012 | Author: Lina N | Filed under: Lina's Posts | 3 Comments

Another long post, sorry ….

A new semester means a looong line of people in front of the cashier at the bookstore. After 6 hours with lectures, I went to the bookshop in hope of buying my books for the new courses. I want them early, as we already have assignment that we have to hand in by the end of the week TT_TT. I walked around, listening to music while searching for the titles. It was crowded, and I just wanted to get my books, line up at the long line and pay for them. Suddenly some guy pulled my backpack. Turns out, he’s in my class, and wanted to know if I had a list over the books we needed. I told him I just had the list for one of the subject. As for the others I somehow know how they look, so I just planned to look for them. In the end, I doublechecked with my phone just to be on the safe side. This guy, I’ll call him A just to make it short later on, decided to tag along with me since he did not know what kind of books we needed.

After collecting all the books, we lined up at the freaking long line. It took almost 30 minutes until I reached the cashier. None of us said something. I normally don’t talk with people I barely know without a reason, but it was so awkward just standing there, especially knowing that this guy is in my class. So I forced myself to ask some questions in order to make it less awkward. It was just normal questions like: what do you think of the new semester? Did you apply for a studass job this semester? Do you have plan on exchanging later?etc, you know, normal school related questions. After paying for my books, I did know how to get myself out of the current situation. I though it would be rude to just leave without saying anything. I was kind of stupid, but I ended up asking: where are you going now? My purpose of asking this question was, I know he won’t be going the same way as I do, so I can just say after his answer, Oh I’m going home byebye. That’s what I ended up doing, and I thought it was normal. Didn’t think much of it either.

Well, today, after my last lecture, we had to choose whether we wanted to start 8.15 or 8.45 on friday. I wanted to start 8.15 and was standing around trying to convince some people I know to choose the same. After a while A shows up. I just said hi and we were all discussing the time thing. Anyway, I planned to print out my assignments for this week and decided to go, I already voted so I did not want to stand there any longer. I took my leave, and A went after me. I just though he decided to go too. Then, he said something, I did not hear it entirely because it was very noisy outside of the lecture room. But first he asked if I was a shy person. I thought he was talking about personality wise, like I don’t talk much to people and am pretty much unsocial. Though I am completely different with people I know well. So I answered, kinda or something. Afterwards, I heard A say something about yesterday, you asked ….*did not hear* going ….Then I heard, I thought you wanted to hang together? I was like, wth is this guy talking about??? Really, I thought he was talking about the exchang thing so I just said, no it was awkward so I was just trying to make a conversation. Then he said I thought you wanted to hang out together, but we can hang out together. You know, this was too much for my brain to handle. I mean, I coudn’t get the connection between asking if you plan on exchanging and hang out together? By the time I realized that he might be talking about the last thing I asked him, I reached my destination and just said I needed to go. Thank god he did not follow. However, I think he thought I was interested in him or something? lol, I don’t even know this guy, except for the fact that I’ve seen him in my class before. Either way I just can’t understand how on earth he reached a conclusion that I wanted to hang out with him? my gawd ….

Man, I should just have kept my mouth shut the entire time yesterday, and left afterwards. Bao, you’re my oracle, you gave me some good sentences regarding the shampoo thing (although I did not have the chance to use them). Give me some sentences to say this time too XD

Hereford Steakhouse

Posted: January 6, 2012 | Author: Lina N | Filed under: Review | 3 Comments

This is one long post.

I finally managed to eat the beef that I’ve been craving for a while. The destination was Hereford Steakhouse, the one located next to Østbanehallen. I had some expectations for this place. The restaurant is dedicated to steaks and it’s quite pricy, so I pretty much expected it to taste good. I can’t say I have eaten a lot of beef outside, and I am certainly not an expert at it. However this place totally failed to meet my expectations. It was totally not worth it.

At the website most of the menues included side dishes such as mushrooms, broccoli, corn on the cob and bearnaise sauce. The menu we got at the restaurant was a little different, or it just stood about the different beef types you could order. On the table, there was a piece of paper where we were supposed to write down what kind of beef we wanted. We were also supposed to choose how we wanted it to be prepeared, what kind of potatoes (baked, french fries gratinated etc …) we wanted and lastly a sauce/butter. I ended up with baked potatoes and garlic butter, while Siv (my friend) choosed gratinated potatoes and also garlic butter. We both choosed beef tenderloin, medium cooked.

When our food came, we got a small piece of broccoli, mushrooms, some vegetables (consisted of mainly carrots and red onion), bearnais sauce and the things we wrote down on the piece of paper. There was no corn, which left me a little bit disappointed. I like corn. However, that was not the reason why I was so disappointed. The beef itself was alright, might be a little dry on the edges, but it wasn’t that bad, though it was not that great either, just fine and normal?. The side dishes on the other side, including the sauce was just too normal and didn’t even taste that good. The worst thing about the side dishes is the fact that it was either lukewarm or cold. Honestly, I am not sure how side dishes are supposed to be served with steak, but isn’t it supposed to be varm? I mean, I put some garlic butter on my baked potato and it didn’t even melt! Normally the baked potato is warm, wrapped with aluminium foil, and the butter would melt right away. The sauce was also cold. Again, I don’t know if it’s supposed to be served warm or cold, but I expected it to be varm. My friends gratinated potatoes was the only thing that you can consider warm among all the things. So what is the price for this plain and cold meal? 297 kr, approximately 48 dollars.

You would expect a delicous meal and good service for that amount of money right? So, was I impressed with their service? Not at all. To be honest, I did not think it was thaat bad when we were there, mainly because I was busy concentrating on our conversations, but thinking back it was bad, really bad.It was good and just the way you expect things to be, especially at a fancy place like this. That is to begin with. When we first came there was not many people there, only two or three couples in addition to us. A waiter took our order, brought out the food, and went by to ask how it tasted, just like every other places. Everything was fine. However, by the time we finished our meal, it was pretty much crowded there. From here, things was no longer good. A quick look at how the waiters and waitresses treated the other customers, our service was too plain compared to them. I did not mind too much until …Well, after we finished our meal. we sat there talking for a short while. We do this all the time and it’s pretty normal to do so. During this time, some of the main waiters (they wore more fancy clothes) were always looking at us with the look *you kids are finished with your meal, why are you still sitting there? leave already!* We didn’t even sit for that long, and when we asked for the bill, apparently our waiter was waaay to busy serving the couple sitting behind us that he totally forgot to bring the bill. Meanwhile the ugly glances from other waiters continued. We waited quite a while, and I just had enough. We already asked for the bill, it’s not our fault that your waiter forgot it! I was beginning to get annoyed, so when a waitress came by I told her that we asked for the bill already, but we have not received it yet, so could you please give us the bill?????During the time we received the bill this waiter (one of those that gave us the look get lost earlier) stood by smiling and was already ready to give our place to a couple, telling them that they would get the place in 5 minutes while there was still some empty places around. I found it rude, mainly because of the stares we received earlier. Anyway, in order to complete our payment, we had to get the waitress attention one more time to say that we want to pay with cards. Normally the waiter/waitress would come by to ask if we want to pay with a card, especially after seeing you holding a card. The waitress went by us a couple of times just staring. We were both holding our cards up, how difficult can it be to ask if we wanted to pay with a card, or just freaking bring the machine out already. I felt that everybody really took us lightly because we were young compared to those around us. They were probably all thinking, who cares about those kids, we don’t need to give them service. I though it was very rude of them. It does not matter whether we are kids or not, they should give us equal service, otherwise at least don’t be that rude to us.

Overall, my experience with this place is just bad. It was pricy, the food wasn’t great and they made me feel unwelcome. For a place as fancy as this place, I would expect much more.

Would I return? what do you think?

Edit: Sorry for the long wait … ^^ pics added

Hair hair hair …

Posted: January 2, 2012 | Author: Lina N | Filed under: Lina's Posts | 3 Comments

So why am I blogging about this? Simply because Baoi sent me a youtube video with a hairstyle tutorial (see below for the video). After utubing a bunch of hair tutorials afterwards, I ended up here.

99 percent of the time, I just have my hair down. It’s not that I don’t want to do anything with it. It takes time, which I would rather spend on sleeping or eating, even if it’s just 5 or 10 minutes. If I try to do a hairstyle quickly, I won’t be satisfied, and in the end, I just leave it down. Besides, I don’t know how to do many hairstyles either. Although I want to learn, almost every pretty or cute hairstyles I see on youtube or japanese magazines, requires your hair to be curly/wavy. In order to try them out, I first have to curl my hair. That itself takes a lot of time. And since I seldom curl my hair, I keep thinking: “why not leave it curly instead of doing anything more with it”.

Sometimes I wonder if I should cut my hair short for a change. It’s quite tempting. One of the reason why I haven’t done so earlier, is because I wanted to get rid of my layered hair. I also want to get a perm, like wavy loose curls. Since I plan on traveling some place in Asia this summer. I want to take the opportunity to get a perm. If I do it here in Norway, I won’t be satisfied for sure. Afterwards, I can cut it shorter. Also, it would solve my dilemma of having to curl my hair before learning hairstyles.

This post is actually a reminder to myself that I have to try this thing out soon. And while I’m at it, I plan on learning the waterfall braid at the same time. I also have to learn some basic techniques. My “rolemodel” is binosusume. Judging from her videoes, she seems to have thick and a lot of hair. However, she manages to make many different hairstyles. Most importantly, her hair doesn’t fall apart when she uses bobby pins to fasten her hair. Everything falls out of place if i try a bobby pin =.= I guess I’m not using it correctly …

Anyway this is from Baoi:

binosusume:

Beginning of a new year …

Posted: January 1, 2012 | Author: Lina N | Filed under: Lina's Posts | 3 Comments

What’s better than starting the new year with a cold? Well, at least I can comfort myself with the fact that it’s better to get a cold here, because my mom is here. That means that I don’t have to cook, and can just lie around the whole day.I practically do that all the time when I’m home anyway, but yea … you get it.

Because of my cold, I felt like drinking tea today. Unfortunately, we didn’t have a tea strainer at home. We had two before, but my sister took one, and I brought the second one with me to Trondheim. At first, I was a little depressed, but Baoi saved the day. I remembered that she gave me a cup and tea for Christmas. So I went to my bag that contained all the gift I’ve received for Christmas and Birthday and started to dig up Baoi’s gift. The tea was delicious, and I drank it while eating macaroons that I received from Chris 😀 I feel much better now. I even took a picture. I’m kinda proud of myself today. I’m posting again, and I even included a picture … I wonder how long I’ll be able to keep this up …

New Year Resolutions

Posted: December 31, 2011 | Author: Lina N | Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments

I’m quite amazed by the fact that I haven’t written anything here for the past two years. Sometimes I feel like posting, but in the end I never do. I’m bad at expressing myself, and I feel that my english pretty much sucks. That’s why I always hesitate about posting. However, I’ll try my best to write as much as possible from now on. Hopefully I’ll improve, even if it’s just a little bit.

I wonder why I don’t have any special feelings this year. I mean, I usually get excited on New Year’s Eve, and always have a christmas feeling during christmas. This year, I don’t have any feelings at all. Today is just a regular day like any other day. Perhaps it’s because there’s no snow this year? I don’t know ….

Anyway, since we’ll soon begin a new year, I would like to make some New Year’s Resolutions. I know I won’t be able to fulfill them all, but I’ll be satisfied if I can manage to accomplish one or two, or maybe three.

1. Memorize things. Nowadays I can’t seem to memorize stuff, It’s been a long time since I last did, so I have to train my brain.I used to be good at it too TT_TT

2. Use my camera more. Most of the time it just lies in a corner collecting dust.

3. Become better at Japanese, mainly memorize more kanji and words.

4. Be more confident.

5. Improve my english.

6. Improve my grades.

Overall work harder than last year.

Wish you all a Happy New Year 🙂

Awkward? Naaah, not at all…

Posted: December 27, 2011 | Author: Baoii | Filed under: BSillyBob's Posts | Leave a comment

I’m pretty sure everyone have had their awkward moments, and time where they say something and it turns out that it is pretty stupid in a way that will make them remember it for life.

One of those moments might be that time when I was working on a group project and we took a break and bought some grilled chicken to eat together. And since I didn’t want any, one of the exchange students in our group proceeded to ask me if I was a vegetarian since I didn’t eat with them. I said “no, haha, I have my own food… I’m just not eating it now” and well he was like “ah, ok” turned to the other exchange student and said “You know, Maria is a vegetarian” and the other guy was like “Oh?”. Everyone who knows me should know that I sometimes have these trails of thoughts that surprise me even to this day. Okay, so what went through my mind was “How the heck does he know? Wow, I need to ask” so the words that left my mouth was “You mean like, Virgin Maria?”

I should have realized then that it was pretty stupid but I didn’t and what happened next was that they turned their head towards me with contemplating looks while probably thinking “What the heck did she just say?” when one of them started to respond to my oblivious face. “Swedish Maria?” he asked still not sure if we talked about the same person or not. That was then I realized my grave mistake and all that went through my head was how to explain this and not make it sound like I’m some stupid bitch who just butted in into their conversation. I didn’t, of course, so I just told them and crossed my fingers for not sounding stupid. “Oh, I thought you meant Virgin Maria, hehehe” (that was a somewhat nervous laughter in case you didn’t notice). Their confused face remained and I added “Like Virgin Maria, up there?” while pointing upwards, and they burst out laughing, shook their head while they looked at me with amused incredulous looks and then went back to eating their delicious grilled chicken. And me? Well I just turned back to the computer screen embarrassed and thought “FML, I can’t believe I’m that stupid. Why did I have to butt in and ask them that. UGH!”. Three hours later when I arrived home safely was when I realized that she’s actually called Virgin Mary in English…

I just realized how random this is

Posted: November 20, 2011 | Author: Baoii | Filed under: BSillyBob's Posts, Random | Leave a comment

It’s 11 pm and I just finished baking a batch of mango cupcakes… And I swear they are calling out to me “Eat us! Eat us!”. The fact that I’m a wee bit hungry doesn’t help the matter… I tried one of them out earlier and they were deliciously illegal! And the smell! OMG! I want more but eating cake at night is never good for my metabolism, my stomach and my health. I’ll probably get too hyper to sleep if I do and I want to eat them all up, trust me, I do. Hell, I don’t even want to share them to anybody! Mine! Mine! Mine! Aaaall mine!
Oooh, my preciousss! HAHAHAH!

False alarm!

Posted: June 5, 2011 | Author: Baoii | Filed under: BSillyBob's Posts | 1 Comment

Trust me to do something stupid like triggering the emergency alarm at work… Oh well, curiosity did killed the cat as they say.

So I was in the freezer room trying to find boxes of ice-cream when I had this brilliant idea to turn of the freezer fans, because, you know, if the kitchen guy could do it last time then so could I! Now you should know why I wanted to turn them off in the first place, mostly because the freezer fans are huge-ass fans that are so nicely located in a place where they could blow freezing-cold wind directly at me in my t-shirt. And because I knew that it would take me forever to find those boxes of the ice-cream flavor we needed in the shop.

So there I was thinking if the kitchen guy could turn it off without me knowing the last time then that on/off switch must be located inside the freezer somewhere, and since there was only this huge red button there by the door I thought “Oh hey! Here it is!” and pushed it. Then came the so-called nightmare… The fans just went on spinning like nothing ever happened but in addition to that I heard a shrilling sound. The kind of sound that is oh-so-familiar. The kind of sound that our apartment complex would recognize as the fire-alarm. And I panicked. What did I do? I pushed the button again but the button could not be pushed and then I pulled it and the sound stopped!

I was so relieved but then came the fear that someone might have noticed it. I went back to my search for the ice-cream boxes all the while worrying that the people upstairs would come running down and ask me what happened (I was the only one downstairs at the time). What was I supposed to tell them then? That I uhm, fell on it? Like seriously who would believe that stupid lie? I mean, that button was located a little bit over my head so how could I possibly have fallen on that thing? And I couldn’t say that I was leaning on it either…
So there I was worrying and freezing my ass off while thinking of a stupid excuse in case someone might suspect me to be the culprit. And then I realized why there was a red button there in the first place! Obviously in case somebody got locked inside and have to push it. The warning bell in my head should have gone off when I saw the color red on that button… How stupid can one be, really?

When I finally found the boxes of ice-cream and went upstairs, it seemed like nobody noticed anything, either that or they didn’t care… Either way, what if someone really were locked inside that room, pushed the button and died when no one came to their rescue? What if? What if? Oh well… at least ignorance was bliss this time…

I say R.E.S.P.E.C.T!

Posted: May 25, 2011 | Author: Baoii | Filed under: BSillyBob's Posts, Random | 6 Comments

This is probably very random but it’s not like I’m not random on a regular basis, right?

Okay, so I got bowed to by a Japanese guy in a suit today. It is a little bit cool, right? ‘Cause you know, I have always been the one bowing to the elder and not the opposite, and this guy was probably just a few years older than me and I was like “wow, did he just do what I thought he did?” I’m just left with this impression that the Japanese are really polite people, ‘cuz I’m sure a Chinese guy wouldn’t even think about bowing to a girl younger than themselves. Which brings me to this question: “Why was there so many Japanese and Chinese men in suit at Aker Brygge today?” There was probably Korean too but I can’t just listen in on other people’s conversations, right? (Not that it hasn’t stopped me before hahahah)

So yeah… I’ll go to sleep tonight wondering about what these people did in Norway on a Wednesday night and thinking about that awesome bow!

Perfectly Corrupted