Thursday, February 02, 2006
who's afraid of the big, bad... bunny?

It was another fun Thursday at the elementary school today, working with my 2nd grade students. I found a small bag of sweets & a "Happy Chinese New Year" note on my desk when I came in... on Monday while I was gone, one of the Chinese families in the class brought in treats and hong bao for the whole class. They saved some for me, yay!

I guess the class also discussed that 2006 is the "Year of the Dog" and talked about the Chinese Zodiac animals. One of the boys seemed particularly fascinated by this cultural aspect, so he drew a picture for me during his free time of his two favorite zodiac animals, the rabbit and the dog and gave it to me as a present for Chinese New Year (since I'm Chinese, haha).

My student's drawing:



Apparently, rabbits these days are pretty vicious, feral animals. Check out the fangs on Mr. Hop-Hop Bunny.


.:.


music stats

Cool cousin Megan had this music thingie on her Xanga, so I thought I'd continue my little study break and do it for fun (yeah, I'm procrastinating on my grad school HW). I added/modified some of the categories...

music survey!

Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrasing it is.


How many songs: 4077
Artists: 806
Albums: 593
Genres: 48
Total Time: 11days, 5hours, 9minutes, 9 seconds

Sort by song name
First Song: 'Til You Come Home (by Kavin Hoo)
Last Song: ?? [kazeuta] (by Moriyama Naotarou)

Sort by Time
Shortest Song: 2s (Kill Bill Soundtrack - "Flip Sting SFX" [hidden])
Longest Song: 48:00 (DJ Akito - "fly by night")
Next longest song: 47:47 (Jeffery Jue - "A Home of One's Own" [sermon])

Sort by artist
First Artist: 2Pac
Last Artist: ?????? (Utada Hikaru)

Sort by album:
First Album: ...Clones (Neptunes)
Last Album: Your New Favorite Band (The Hives)

Top Ten Most Played Songs:
01. "Leaving the Past" by Immortal Technique
02. "Astronomy" by Black Star
03. "Conquistadors" by Binary Star
04. "December 4th" (Kno Remix) by Jay-Z
05. "One Love" by Nas
06. "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" by The Temptations
07. "2nd Childhood" (9th Wonder mix) by Nas
08. "Survival of the Fittest" by Mobb Deep
09. "Neva Forget" by Cali Agents
10. "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" by Sowelu

Ten Most Recently Played Songs (on shuffle ALL):
01. "Dreamland" by BENNIE K
02. "Reality Check" by Binary Star
03. "Ya Playin Yaself" by Jeru the Damaja
04. "ONE DAY" (Yozora Remix) by Kato Miliya & m-flo
05. "In My Soul" by Misia
06. "All I Want" by Toad the Wet Sprocket
07. "C.R.E.A.M." by Wu-Tang Clan
08. "Obstacle 1" by Interpol
09. "My Everything" by King's Fools
10. "Stand By Me" by Otis Redding

Search songs for....
"death", :34 (24 from Biggie's "Life After Death" LP)
"love", :263
"you", :291
"soul", :169
"R&B", :284
"classical", :65
"jazz", :85
"soundtrack", :254
"rock", :412
"hip hop", :1774

What Languages besides English?
Japanese songs...535
Mandarin songs...28
Korean songs...26
Cantonese songs...15
Spanish...17
Portugese...14
Italian...4
Latin...4
Hindi...1
Swahili...1 ("Baba Yetu" [Our Father])
Fremen...1 (heh, "Inama Nushif", from CHILDREN OF DUNE miniseries)

OK... back to work.

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Comments:
yay! your students are culturally aware! :)
 
You're an Immortal Tech fan too?

Have you heard his unreleased album with "Caught in a Hustle" on it?

I played it for my students a couple of times. It really gets at the reality of an urban PoC in our society.
 
"this is how i represent i rock the mic 110 percent
it's intimate i keeps the party moving like an immigrant"

dope list

-akito
 
steph- hell yeah!

xian- yeppppp. Tech is great.

akito- nice quote from Binary. when you fixing your blog, eh? ;)
 
man i been busy. ill probably throw it back up when i go to argentina in a few months..

btw, mixi is pretty interesting. i gotta send my homies some invites...

saw a few kawaii jyosei's on there while browsing too haha

-akito
 
akito- hahaha, nice. time to bust your mack on...
 
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