Final Thoughts on the Time Based Project

Final Thoughts:

Earlier this semester, we were assigned a time-based project, to witness certain events over a certain period of time, but daily. 

I chose to do a documentation of what I eat everyday. Food is always a fun topic to talk about, and it is something that I eat on a daily basis so that portion covers the time-based part. Actually, through this project, I learned a lot about the concept of "time-base" and about food as well. Rather than just recording boring dining hall food, I tried to experiment with the food to create something more interesting. In addition, all the foods that I ate, I associate it with a story or an event that occurred everyday for the past two months. 

It has got me documenting everything, and to be more detailed. 

I enjoyed doing this project, and enjoyed all the projects in ART 140!

-Vivian Yi 

April 28th-Day 36

4:56 PM


Dining Hall-Rice, Orange Chicken, Chicken Wonton, Minestrone soup


This is my last journal documentary of my food!
Today was just a very relaxing day. I had a lot of work coming up so I just ate with my friends, Emily and Winfield. We missed a dance clinic so we can do work. It was probably one of the slowest days out of the whole week.

Their chicken wonton was surprisingly really delicious! :) 

April 27th-Day 35

12:30 PM


Chicken, Fries, Margarita Pizza


My friend, Dan Wang was the second friend I made in AAA. I met him at late night when he was sitting by himself and on that day, we talked for 3 hours. He has the nickname, Panda and I have the nickname, Squirrel. Ever since then, every time we hang out together just him and I, we call it PST time, panda/squirrel time, its silly! It was nice catching up with him for lunch, because we usually don't eat together just him and I. It was a very simple lunch because I had to leave immediately for class afterwards. 



7:17 PM

Tonight was the AAA Formal. It was so hectic. I got out of class at 5, but I had to be at the Urbana Civic Center by 6. I was really late, 6:40. While all the girls got a head start at getting ready, I was the last one to get ready since I only had an hour to get ready. Ultimately, we made it just in time for the beginning of formal. It was buffet style, they had fruit parfait, chicken, fettucini alfredo, cheesy potato, corn, salad, and bread. The chicken was so good, haven't had moist chicken in a while since the dining hall chicken is usually dry. However, the best dish out of the whole thing was definitely the cheesy potato. Overall, it was a great night, and got some great photos. It was a nice way to end the year with a big event! 

April 26th-Day 34

5:23 PM 


Dining Hall-Fettucini, Chicken Pot Pie, Mashed Potato, Chicken Tenders, Chicken Noodle Soup 


A while back, my friend, Kim Mok and I had a meal that only consisted of chicken. We thought it was a coincidence that the dining hall just happened to have EVERYTHING chicken. We laughed about it afterwards, and this happened maybe 4 months ago. After eating this meal, we realized the same thing, that most of the meal consisted of chicken :P 
Chicken Noodle Soup is my favorite from the ISR dining halls

April 25th-Day 33

10:40 PM 


Late Night at PAR-Stir Fry and Wontons

Today was my first event for the Big Sib Lil Sib program. I hosted a water volleyball tournament between the families. Considering how short notice it was, a good amount came. It was fun, but most of the time we stayed in the hot tub and just talked. Some rode the water slide, I was so jealous that I couldn't ride the water slide, it looked like so much fun!! 
Afterwards, I was so hungry, we all made a trip to PAR late night where I got stir fry and wontons! In the stir fry, I put a lot of sauce, I don't even remember which ones, but I just experimented with the sauces and put a bunch inside, something tangy, and sour at the same time as well. And got a side of wontons! It was a good meal after playing in water for about 2 hours! 

April 24th-Day 32

11:13 AM


Cheeseburger


Today, I got out of class super early. I usually have class till about 12:30 but I got out an hour early. I had about an hour and a half before work started so I just ate a light meal. Bought some muffins for my co-workers because they get hungry during their shift. 
























5:23 PM 


Homemade Pasta @ Vince's 


My foot started hurting again while I was working. My friend, Vince picked me up from work and made me dinner at his house! I call him "grandpa" because he is technically my "grandfather" within the Triple A families. It's just a funny nickname we call each other. 
Today was Shadow Team B's event, which was a Pixar movie night at 7 o'clock, we watched the Incredible's, my favorite Pixar movie, it was a great event!! 


11:44 PM




Kimbab from Spoonhouse, and Pizza 

My friend, Sean works at Cocomero, good friend of mine. And every now and then, he visits me at ISR. Since he closes on Tuesday's he decided to visit me and brought me kimbab! Kimbab is kind of like Korean version of sushi, it has seaweed, rice, spam, radish, and spinach, it's delicious! He visited me for a little and we just chatted and ate, it was nice having a break from doing work and to eat! 

April 23rd-Day 31

5:29 PM


Dining Hall-Mashed Potatoes, cornbread, fried chicken, rice, beef noodles, ice cream, and raspberry crumble 


Today is my third physics exam. Physics is one of the hardest subjects I have ever taken...EVER!! I don't know, physics and I just don't match very well :(
My exam was at 7 so I decided to eat before I take my exam, get some good brain food. I've been dreading this exam for a while! 

On a different note, today was my first time going to ETC. Coffeeshop. It's near Wesley United church. They have self-serve coffee, and the cafe is really quiet so it was nice to study in :) 

April 22nd-Day 30

1:31 PM


Jimmy John's-Bacon & Turkey 


Today was Family Olympiad, which I mentioned on my previous post. All the families got together to compete, and it was intense! I was a little late because I had to find a ride since the buses were't running, luckily my friend, Victor gave me a ride to the South Quad. Whichever family won the Olympiad would get free cocomero gift cards!
Since I didn't get a chance to eat, my "big" his name is Hiep Du, ran over to Jimmy John's and bought me a sandwich! He's the best big :) I was so hungry throughout the Olympiad so thank goodness I got something to eat!
After the Olympiad, i went with the winning team to Cocomero and ate Bing Su which is shaved ice, and some yogurt as well! It was a nice day, too bad it was too windy!! :( 


11:27 PM

Late Night-Spicy Chicken, Fries, and Fuze Drink



Since I had a late lunch/dinner, I decided to eat late. I was too lazy to go anywhere to get food so I went downstairs to late night. My favorite late night entree is spicy chicken! 

April 21st-Day 29

1:26 AM

Star Karaoke-Sweet Potato Pizza, Sweet & Mild Chicken (16 pieces) 


After a long day at work, finally got out at around 12:50 AM. Usually, I close with my manager Xavier, but my friend Eun stayed with us so it was us three. In the end, we got really hungry and went to Star Karaoke near Savoy Theater-it is a karaoke bar and a Korean restaurant (known for having awesome chicken). Our manager treated us out for dinner and it was really good! I got to bond with my co-worker and my manager more and we stayed there for about 2 hours, it was a good time!!





6:16 PM 


Lai Lai Wok-Mapo Tofu, Crispy Tofu, Kung Pao Chicken, Eggplant, Ho-fun, and String beans


My friend, Marcus graduated last semester and I haven't seen him since then. He decided to come down this weekend, and I was really excited! Marcus is the kind of guy that is everybody's friend, and he is so much fun to be around, one of the nicest guys I know. We went to Lai Lai Wok all together and ate. It was great being able to see him and catch up with him since I don't see him as often! 

April 20th-Day 28

5:17 PM


ISR Dorm, La Cosina-Corn, Rice, Shredded Pork Quesidilla

This was my first time in a long time eating at the ISR dorms on Friday. I used to have Friday night dance practice and never had time to eat because I got out at 5 and practice was at 6pm. It gave me only an hour to eat and since I had class so late, I usually took a nap before practice and went straight to work. This time, I just had a light meal and headed back to work at 8PM.

April 19th-Day 27

5:47 PM

Hawaiian Night at ISR-Hawaiian Rolls, Steak, Tofu, Fried Pineapple, and Chicken Kabob

Tonight was a special night at ISR, it was Hawaiian night. They served Hawaiian food and drinks and had a theme. It was cool because we usually don't have theme nights. Tonight I ate dinner with my friend, Venus. We usually never get to eat together just us two so it was nice eating and talking with her. She was the third person I met within AAA and ever since, we have been really good friends. What's funny is that sometimes, when we experiment with our food between the clashes of sweet and sour, we get really excited and share it with each other. One time at Crepe Delicious, at the Union, we mixed a pesto crepe and cajun fries together and was one of the best creations that we have ever came up with. 

During this meal, we tried experimenting with our food as well. We opened up the Hawaiian roll, sliced up the pineapples and diced some of the chicken from the cabob and made a little sandwich, it was SOOOO GOOOD!!! By far a great dorm creation :) 

April 18th-Day 26

5:57 PM 


Dorm Food-Salad, Pad Thai, Chicken, and Rice

I had an exam coming up so I knew I would be pulling a light meal. I had to get to work right after so I ate really quickly and left.






















11:32 PM


Insomnia Cookies, Cheeseburger, Fries, and Fuze Drink 


Today was my first time having Insomnia cookies. I always heard how good they were, but never had the chance to eat one. My friends Marz and Venus (isn't that awesome, that I have friends name Marz and Venus??) went to Insomnia cookies and bought about a dozen. It was definitely as good as everyone said. My favorite kind of cookie is white chocolate chip, yuuum melt in your mouth! I was also feeling really hungry and had cheeseburger and fries along with it. 

April 16th-Day 25

6:02 PM


Dorm Food-baked potato, garlic bread, ravioli 

Today was the big day! Before the clinic, we had a quick meal so that way we can prepare for the proposal. My friend Robin and Marz was having a dance clinic at 8 pm, which is where Krystn and I are going to ask Kenny and Justin.
So the plan was is that, after every dance, we break up into groups and perform them. My friend Marz purposely put me, Krystn, Kenny, and Justin in a group (group 2) so that when we perform, he could just play the song and we would perform. Sneaky huh? :) 
It was so funny, Kenny had no idea what was going on. We placed it so that I was in front of Kenny and Krystn was in front of Justin so they were confused, but part of the choreography consists of us switching places so it all made sense at the end. 
It was a fun experience and all of our friends were there to see it.

April 15th-Day 24

5:13 PM

Dining Hall Food-Mac & Cheese, Country Fried Steak, String Beans, Mashed Potatoes 

It was the day before my friend, Krystn and I are gonna ask our dates to Formal. We pretty much spent the night practicing and showing our friends. We stocked up on food, it was definitely a soul food kind of night tonight, and it was awesome! After eating a delicious meal, we headed back up to wardall and made our poster. Funny thing was, Kenny was in the other room while we were making our poster, so we were a little paranoid that he would come in and see us making the poster. Luckily, we had some guards watching to make sure he wouldn't come in ;) 

April 14th-Day 23

11:43 PM 


My friend, Marz is in a group at U of I called Dance2xs, It's a really great dance group, and they are really good! Every semester, all of the groups from Midwest schools come and perform at Canopy Club, called Urbanite. Today was Urbanite, and I went to support Marz. Despite the fact that he wouldn't sell me a ticket for 2 weeks because he didn't think I could make it, I went anyways and I was even his special guest, so I got in for free. He did a great job dancing, I'm just bummed I didn't get to cheer him on at the front like I did last semester. I was on the second floor with some other friends who were nice enough to stay with me throughout the whole show so I wouldn't get lonely! 
After Urbanite, we headed over to Armory where Relay for Life was taking place. As I mentioned earlier I am in the shadow program for AAA, Big Sib Lil Sib. Pretty much, we are in charge of making "families" within our club and have fun competitions. Our big event was coming up, Family Olympiad where we compete and play in active games. Furthermore, my own event was also coming up, Family Water Volleyball Tournament. At Relay for Life, we got together and planned our event and walked around the track, well in my case, crutched around the track. My friends went to Green Street and bought me One World pizza-Korean gogi pizza. I heard that it was really good from many people so my friends bought me some. Was it as good as I imagined? YES!! It was delicious! :) nothing better than eating pizza and planning out events with fun people! 

April 13-Day 22

5:02 PM

Cravings-Jakarta Fried Rice

This my second Friday of not working. My good friend, Sean (he also works at Cocomero) was nice enough to stop by and bring me dinner from Cravings-Jakarta Indonesian Fried Rice is the best from there! We chatted for a really long time, about 3 hours and I was late to my friend's Dance Clinic. I usually attend these dance clinic's to support my friends. 

10:58 PM 

Fat Sandwich-Chicken Donut 

A while back, the weather in Champaign was really cold. We were experiencing weather that was in the 40s and 50s. One day, my friend Marz and I made a bet. We both have smartphones which comes with the weather. My phone said that it would be 62 degrees and Marz' phone said something much lower. He thought that in this weather, there would be no way that it would shoot up to 62 degrees. We decided to place a bet, and whoever loses, would owe the other person Fat Sandwich. Fat Sandwich is known for having really large sandwiches with everything stuffed inside that you can possibly think of. It ranges from fries, to chicken tenders, strips of bacon, meatballs, etc. LITERALLY fat sandwich. 

Anyways, on that day, turned out to be a beautiful 64 degrees and Marz owed me a sandwich :)

It was a little late, but he finally bought it for me today! He bought me a chicken donut. Literally, a piece of chicken patty, inside of 2 glazed donuts, it was SO GOOD! Thanks Marz! :) 

Afterwards, we watched Taken, with Liam Neeson, and it was a suspenseful and great movie!! We also played some Balderdash, a game where you have to describe the funkiest things, and people got creative. A lot of good memories and laughters were made that night! 

April 11th-Day 21

6:42 PM


Asian Night-Crispy Tofu, Beef, String Beans, Dumplings, Fried Rice 


Nothing too significant happend, but my friend Krystn and I decided to ask our guy friends to AAA Formal. AAA Formal is an event that everybody gets dressed up for and they eat, and take pictures. The catch behind it was that, whoever asks their date out in a really cute way will win free tickets. Krystn wanted to ask our friend, Kenny and I decided to ask Justin. Since I couldn't dance because of my foot, I choreographed while sitting down. We spent hours choosing a song, and trying out new things, and it was difficult because I couldn't move my feet. But after struggling and finally finishing, it turned out great, and finished about 45 seconds of choreo after a couple hours. Hopefully they like it! 

April 10th-Day 20

9:38 PM 


Late Night at PAR-Grilled Cheese, Pizza, Fries, Breadsticks, Salad 

Today I had so much work to do, I didn't get a chance to eat dinner. I was contemplating whether I should go to PAR because first I was on crutches, and it was too far, and I was feeling kind of lazy. But, I decided to go anyways cause it was with my friends, Hannah and Eunie. I told Hannah that she could just get me whatever she wanted, and decided to put fries inside my salad. That was a first..healthy salad, mmm yum yum hahah. 

April 8th-Day 19

12:52 PM


Panera-Bread Bowl, Chicken Wild Rice 

Happy Easter! So, today, Mass (St. John's Newman Center)  starts at 10:30 AM; however, my friend Vince and I wanted to get there early to get good seats. For Ash Wednesday mass, we were literally outside sitting on the stairs and couldn't even get inside the church, that's how crowded it was. This time, we came a little TOO early, we got there at 9:45 AM and we were the first ones there. We laughed a little bit, but it was nice to get good seating. After mass, we went to Panera. He said that back when he was at home for Easter, it was a tradition for him and his family to eat at Panera because that would be the only place open for lunch. I thought it was nice that he wanted to share that tradition with me. I ordered Chicken wild rice in a bread bowl. Good thing I didn't get two, I was really closed to though. Turned out that one bread bowl was definitely enough for me. 

11:13 PM 


Honest Tea, Burger, and Tostitos


I practically spent my whole Easter Sunday with my friend Vince. We usually watch this show called Walking Dead together (which i blogged earlier, it's about zombies). We bought a bag of chips, a burger, and some iced tea and just chilled, watched Walking Dead. I don't know why I keep doing this to myself, eating and watching zombies. It's so nasty! But I can't help but eat and watch things at the same time

April 7th-Day 18

12:22 AM

Frosted Flakes Cereal

I usually work late til 1 in the morning on Friday's and by the time I come back to my dorm, I'm usually beat and sleep right after. However, I took the next two weeks off so I don't work on Friday's. It's kind of weird not working on Friday's, I didn't realize that there was so much time. I was feeling in a rather "sweeter" mood so I decided to just get some cereal, plop myself in the Wardall Lounge, and watch a movie. Ended up watching 27 Dresses and ate Frosted Flakes cereal. It was great having some downtime. 

11:21 PM 

Chili's-Quesidilla Plate 

Today, my friend Jeff and Robin had a performance at Foellinger Auditorium. They are in a group called Selektiv Syndication, and they performed for KSA (Korean Student Association) because they were having a variety show. First place winners at the V-Show wins $400, and Selektiv won first place, it was awesome! After watching the variety show, we went to Chili's to go out to eat. I ordered a quesidilla plate with a side of loaded mashed potato (so delicioussss, especially the mashed potato). Afterwards, me and my friend Krystn wanted to throw a surprise party for our friend, Hannah (my roommate next year). We ordered her gift 2 months prior to this date, yet it came in today -.- we were angry it came in so late. Anyways, we surprised her downstairs at the ISR MPR room saying that we were doing "easter egg decorating" little did she know it was suppose to be a surprise. We made her a fortune cookie card because fortune cookies are her favorite. Afterwards, we watched Howl's Moving Castle, a movie by Miyazaki, it's one of my favorite movies. But I had to leave early because I had to wake up early for Easter Mass. 

April 5th-Day 17

8:09 PM


Triple AAA Casino RoyAAAle -Mocktails & Nutella Sandwiches, and Jimmy Johns

In Triple A, we have officers, and for anyone who wants to be an officer for next year potentially does a program called the Shadow Program. The shadow program gives freshmen or any other person the opportunity to shadow an officer. I was placed in shadow team A with 3 other group members and this was the first event we hosted together as a team. We wanted to make it big and better, and really show the executive board that we worked hard. The turn out was great, everybody dressed up really nice. Our theme was Casino Royale, so we made it very Vegas style and we were influenced by an episode of the "Office" a show on NBC. We had a mini bar, but served mocktail drinks, with no alcohol, and made nutella & peanut butter sandwiches. I didn't get a chance to eat, so my friend, Hiep, bought me some Jimmy Johns that I could snack on during the event. 

April 3rd-Day 16

12:44 PM 


Dorm Food-Lunch

This is my first day off  of work. I usually work from 1-5 PM on Tuesdays but I decided to take the week off because I'm on crutches. I used to eat with my friend, Dan. Actually, Dan is the first person that I met in my club, AAA. I met him on the second day, and ever since, we became great friends. It's funny because he reminds me of a panda, and I remind him of a squirrel so whenever we hang out, we call it Panda/Squirrel time. It's silly, we call it PST time. We haven't had PST time since I started working so it was nice to eat with him again. Although, I felt terrible because he had to go and get my food for me. We had country fried steak, made it into a sandwich, and had mac & cheese. It was nice catching up with him! 

April 2nd-Day 15

5:02 PM

Basil Thai-Chicken

Today I went to McKinley to get better crutches because the ones at CRCE were uneven and I had a hard time crutching around. My friend, Jeff was nice enough to drive me to McKinley. My appointment was at 2:25, and didn't leave there till about 4:30, it was a long process. Turns out I didn't break anything which is good, but the healing process will take a long time. After my appointment, we went to Basil Thai and got a to-go because I had a physics exam at 7PM, so I went back to Loomis Lab, ate there, and took my exam. After my exam, my friends, Venus and Henry came to Loomis to help me walk back to ISR. I have awesome friends! 

April 1st-Day 14

11:23 PM 


Late Night-Fuze & Burger 

While I was at MAASU, little did I know one of the most traumatizing events occurred. I sprained my ankle and had to get crutches. At this point, I was not in the mood to eat anything. Throughout the whole day, all my friends have been really supportive and got me food. I usually study late at night at Wardall with all my friends so I just went down to Late Night and got a burger. Actually, I didn't even go down, my friends went down for me. I felt so bad because they did everything for me, but I was so grateful and thankful for my friends.