Happy New Year/Valentine's Day/President's Day/whatever else >.>!!

I LOVE CHINESE NEW YEARS, if only because I get to see my dearest family members from all over the San Gabriel area and so on and so forth. We all hang out and have fun and eat veggies at a temple. The fact that I also get money is just a trivial matter.

So today started with my family and I waking up pretty early (at 7) and then getting ready and driving down to this temple place to pray for our ancestors. Its actually really hard to do. For one, I never know what to say to them. Secondly, I feel like I should be speaking (thinking) in ancient Chinese just because they're so old. So I don't pray. Not really. I just go around bowing and trying my hardest to emit good feelings and reverence so that if there was any slight chance that my ancestors could hear my thoughts, they'd know I wasn't trying to be disrespectful.

Temples are silly places. At the temple we went to, a monk congo line formed; except it wasn't a congo line and more of a religious march thing going around in a small square. I thought to myself, 'It'd be hilarious if someone were to join all these monks because itd be so random!'; and then I see my mom and several other people have joined the line. That was such a "...." moment.

After that, we all went back to my grandparent's house (grandparents and several aunts/uncles/cousins were with us at the temple) and chilled and ate. The only other interesting thing I did was play WWF Smackdown on the PS1. Man, that game is so ridiculously awesome. It brought back a bunch of memories. Wrestling is so overly dramatic -_-.

SO MY GROUP 3D WIRE PROJECT IS FINISHED!

The guidelines were pretty much

1. Make something "nature" based out of chicken wire.

2. Use a single colored paper to paper mache it.

Just like it sounds, we had a lot of liberty with this.

We almost instantly thought 'tornado' and since no one had any better ideas, we stuck with it.

The day we started working on the project, two of our members were gone -_-

So it was up to me and another guy to start it. In the end, we really didn't need them because we were so awesome we finished up the chicken wire part in 1 day even though we had 3 days to work with it :D

Its kind of hard to see. Oh well.

After the 1st day, the two other members came back but since we were required to work on the wiring for another 2 days, we were freakin idle.

The result:

BALLS

COW

BIRD

We each made a couple of random animals/things and messed around until we could actually paper mache. Not shown: tree, car, a Poseiden-like figure, the Poseiden-like figure's beard, the Poseiden-like figure's crown and trident, mermaid tail.

It helped pass the time.

AND THEN, on the fourth day of class, we started paper mache-ing.

When we first started, it was nasty and the paper wouldn't stick to anything =_=. It got better though. Actually, its more like we all got used the glue flying everywhere as we stopped trying to neatly place the paper and slathered it on instead. That made it a lot more fun haha :]

And then we finished.

Or at least, thats the most finished picture I have of it.

And it barely looks anything like a tornado now but I still like it :]

...dchan...