TTDICWUB and Boys

#5) recreate beethoven (my sheep) out of dove wrappers and duct tape and stick it on the wall.
#6) tape remaining dove wrappers on wall as an attempt to be creative and decorate an oh so boring looking room


Boys will be boys...

Elton: what would you do if you woke up one day and found out your penis dissappeared?
Max: oh no...what would you do if you woke up and discovered you had a vagina??
Rahul: FINGER MYSELF!

i know i shouldnt, but i laughed my butt off. Boys are so gross...seriously.

The Truth About Me

Besides looming finals, this is the best time of the year. There's nothing like walkng down (enter location here) decked out in Christmas. Once again, the best kind of anticipation is upon us: the anticipation for Christmas.

Who agrees with me that the new and improved widescreen youtube is totally... AWESOME?

one of my all-time favorite Coca cola commercials: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1NnyE6DDnQ

so even though that commercial doesnt relate to Christmas, I've always associated Coca Cola with Christmas. Is it because Coca Cola has done so well in commercializing Christmas? And that I've been simply deluded like all of Coca Cola's other customers?

I know Christmas is all about the day Christ was born and all the love thats spread on this day. Don't get me wrong, im not belittling that at all. In fact im totally greatful. What a wonderful cause for celebration. But i have to admit im guilty of being one of those peopel who allow myself to be sucked in by all the holiday's extras. I secretly love all the materialistic aspects of Christmas too. Pretty malls, and shopping sprees, and Christmas lights and decorations, and food.....they all make me spazz spazz SPAZZ! I love it all...

I know. Im materialistic and i suck. What makes me so different than all those people who trampled over that poor man on black friday? When i heard about that, i thought "of course i would have stopped and saved him from the hordes of oncoming feet!" "im not THAT obsessed with ...STUFF" But the more i think about it....I dont think I'm so different from them afterall.

So sad. I guess we all have our weaknesses....and im working on mine.

Study! Work! Play!

Friday Monica came and slept over in my (and Juns) room. I hadnt seen her since week two and it made me sad so i told her to come over and play. We stayed up until 6:30am catching up on all sorts of things. It was such a nice change from hanging out with smelly boys all the time (figuratively speaking). Not saying theyre not cool and such, but its nice being able to say "its hot!" without someone replying "becuase I'm here."

Then some fellow san diegan friends visited on saturday and i must say, its nice seeing some familiar faces. Dierdre's and Diella's visit got me thinking about all the people i miss back home including my werido girls (plus Stan). Of course all this missing leads me to wondering how they are, which makes me totally psyched about seeing them (hopefully) friday. I can't WAIT to go home to San Diego and spending some quality time with the people I love....along with some turkey and holiday shopping (aka BLACK FRIDAY!) of course "turkey" translates to asain food in my house.

THen again a small part of the source of my excitement could have stemmed from the pileup of studying and work i have/am going to have to do. Schoolwork is such a pain right now. I cant get the holiday spirit and lazyness out of my system and i guess im paying for that now.

gahhh....study study study, work work work, play play play!!!

Now and Later

Things are looking busy for next quarter.

So I've planned out my schedule for next quarter after a suprisingly cordial visit to my counsler. I'll be taking math, writing, physics and woman studies. yes, woman studies. Nothing couldve prepared me to believe that I'd be taking that class, but i am. Jinwan persuaded me because not only does it fufill more than one category's requirements, but also because i'd have someone whos smart and friendly to help me in case i fail. (Not intentionally trying to boost jinwans ego in case he reads this...)

I hear writing is going to be a pain though. Not just from snippets of snide remarks about that class, but even my counsler warned me about it. So i have slim hopes that next quarters writing class will be as fun as my writing class now.

blah.

TTDICWUB

#4) spy on people who live in Valimar (dorm accross from ours) through the window....

its not as bad as it sounds....really

V for Vicky

Its been complete chaos since uci.

Its the time for midterms which is pretty crazy. I feel like i've lived in uci my whole life. San Diego where?

Now that im officially 18 i can do 18-year old stuff like vote and buy lottery tickets. woohoo! i have a say in how our country should be run.

Since election time is drawing near, ive been hearing a lot of "so who are YOU voting for?" and "this is why i want this person to be president" and...a whole lot of political arguing everywhere i go. It just so happens that my writing class's theme is focused on advertisement and politics, which usually leads to presidential campaigns and what excactly our candidates are doing right/wrong.

As a few people may know, V for Vendetta is one of my all time favorite movies. So imagine how ridiculously excited i became when i found out that my group in my writing class, would be doing our "final huge project" on THAT movie. So how this final project works is that our class is split up into groups. Throughout the quarter, we discuss and write about several different contexts expressed in different mediums (like book, movie, article, documentry...etc.) Each group is assigned to one and it just so happened that my group was assigned to V for Vendetta. It's really just my luck that i was placed into this class. One of the other possibilities was the South Park episode "Im a little bit country." Those who know me, know that im a complete and utter South Park freak and have watched every episode and the movie (note: new episodes just came out for this season! holy crap!).

But coming back to V for Vendetta, i just did a research on Alan Moore and his graphic novel and all the ways the V for Vendetta failed (for him at least). Im not unnerved at all and still love the movie. Anyways....Watchmen the movie will come out sometime next year and i cant wait. I LOVE plots where its set in a dystopic alternate universe.

So writing might not be my forte, but the class is intersting enough. Besides V for Vendetta and South park, i just learned from reading an article, that the symbol of the bitten apple for apple Mac, is actually a reference to eve and the tree of knowledge. yup...apparantly it links to the notion of clean technology free from polluting and robbing this planets resources. AND its like making the tree of knowledge "within everyone's grasp."

oooo.

U, UC, UCIIIIIII !

I love college sooo much. I love going to the arc, going to bonfires, eating out. A few friends and i went on an adventure and we ate shaved ice at Guppy's. The awesome thing about Guppy's is that even I like their shaved ice, and i normally dont like shaved ice.

Today Darius came and i went out with him and his family to eat dim sum. mmm MMM. Afterwards we hung around in the hotel he and his family were staying at. (:

When i came back, i slept until it was night time and woke up to do shower. I think today was the first day i was able to relax. Although doing laundry in a more than half empy hall sounds a little depressing, it's actually not really.

Never Before!

Amazing

Never in my life had i ever been so focused on school...For the first time in EVER, I can totally do hw/study for hours at a time without being distracted. I think it might be the whole "you can do whatever the heez you want in college" thing thats motivating me all the way. For one thing, i can succeed, or i can fail. And fail is not something i want to do. For another, if i fail now or do badly, it would be MY fault. What a horrible concept.

Classes are quite the place to make new friends; that and living in a dorm. I feel like I'm meeting new people everywhere i go! Not only that, I'm totally discovering new things in old people. A few examples:

1.) the other day jun and i were talking about going to the gym:

me: hmm....i actually only want to get rid of my butt. you know, make it concave.
jun: really?? i want to be firm! holy shit!

2.) jinwan is a total girl. (: in a good way of course!

(our group walking to the gym. Upon seeing a branch on the ground...)
jinwan: AHHH!!!! (like a girl) oh i thought it was a rat. phew!

3.) Elton and i had a totally normal conversation, all by ourselves. No weridness. After 7 years of mutual "hate", i say that's quite an acheivement. Maybe we can be friends afterall!

(I noticed all my "examples" ended in exclamation marks...har har har)

Anyways, college is quite awesome. Except for physics. Thankfully i have my awesome Darius dawg to help me with my stupidity for things unlearned. (:

TTDICWUB

#2) do laundry
#3) buy chocolate

The Arc

I think college is starting to sink in. I can already tell its going to be loads of fun+work+lots more.

So half an hour ago i came back to my room from the arc (gym). Lets see....its 12:41, and when we left, the gym was quite busy. I guess I'm not the only one who doesnt want to gain that freshman 15. Goal number one is on its way to being accomplished. YEAAAYUH. im soo good. har dee har har. (:

Things to do in collge when youre bored (TTDICWUB)

#1) Pierce ear

Home Away from Home

Today is my third day in Irvine. Departing from San Diego was bittersweet, more bitter than sweet. I realized all the things i was going to leave behind and i was a sad sad child. I think the moment leading up to college was more fun than actually going there. Move- day went smoothly. My parents took my roomate and I to buy food and then we all celebrated my mum's birthday that night by eating at a Korean place kind of like Tofu House. It was delicious! My paretns and i said our goodbyes and there was a fleeting moment when i wanted to go back home with them. But dont worry...it was fleeting. Anyways, yesterday was pretty uneventful because there were still people moving in. Jun and i visited Monica in Arroya Vista and then we met up with a whole bunch of wv peoples later to go to Cha (boba place). Seriously, wv ppl dominate uci's campus. So sad....oh well! Then at night we played icebreaking games in our dorm.



Today everyone woke up early and slept through the Dean's welcoming thing. There was a HUGE thing afterwards where all the clubs tried to recruit people; basically, club rush on steroids. Sororities shoved postercards into our hands and we were hailed by crazy dragon boaters and japanese archers....it was quite epic. Later more hanging out with westview kids and cracking dirty jokes...*sigh, we're so immature (:

blehhh im butt tired.

September 11th

It's september 11th yet again: My ss#1's birthday and the day america got b slapped in the face. I was reading my earliest journal; the one that contains, maybe not all but most of the horrors of my middle school years. It made me laugh at how ridiculous i use to be (or maybe still am). It must suck for Helen, that her day is linked to America's day of tragedy. As for me, 9/11 still seems surreal, in fact more so now than 7 years ago. I still remember sitting in the kitchen watchin the twin towers collapse beforemy eyes that day. Here's what my 10 year old self had to say about it:

9/11 was a sad day for everyone, except for the bitches who planned it i bet.

o.o jeez! i was an angry child. Well, i spent the day in honor of 9/11, trying and failing to do a proper handstand. I nearly broke my neck and the glass table in the living room too. Then i ripped open the new october issue of Lucky magazine and lusted over shoes for about an hour. And of course, when i got too depressed staring at "this falls hottest trends", i broke out those old journals and laughed out loud to how incredibly moronic i was/am.

*sigh...God bless America

Lesson Learned

i went to the dentist YET AGAIN today. I think he bruised the inside of my mouth. Can that even happen? Anyways, he was fixing the other side of my mouth that he didnt fix last week today. The entire time he kept saying "oh...this is a big one (drill drill), this one's really big (drill) hmmm, nope, this is bigggg (DRILL)." Yup imagine how i felt sitting there, utterly helpless. But for whatever messed up reason, even when i was horrified and tense, i also had the mad desire to laugh. Good thing i contained myself. So first he numbed the top of my mouth and said "hopefully we wont have to numb the bottom." But he did, 30 seconds into drilling one of my bottom teeth, i felt a HUGE undesirable pain. It turns out that due to whatever reason, numbing the bottom of a mouth causes MORE numbness than numbing the top. It was werid and did not easily allow me to perform normal mouth funtions like swollowing/spitting/licking/biting. Needless to say, i was drooling everywhere and i left the office with a drooping face.

I'm never eating candy again.

Nostalgia

Tonight was welcome freshman night at cbc. I totally dont recall what my freshman welcome night was like or even if i had one. But it was fun...I felt sad that when the time came to pass around the list that determined which group everyone was in; my name wasnt on it. I feel slightly uneasy leaving all this behind. But hopefully when im actually in the midst of "actual" college, the excitement will outweigh my apprehension. But tonight was fun, a little nostalgic but d-dawwwg was there. (:

So i have confirmed with my mini me that tomarrow, sdys kicks off this year musically.

Amanda: itll come out with moles that fell outta his butt.

hahahahaha....so only a few will actually get who/what we were talking about. But what it made ME remember, was how much I'm going to miss sdys. Call me a freak but, sdys was SO much fun. And now, after 6 years (i think?) of continual participation, I'm not so sure i know what im going to do with myself.

Again, i hope college will wipe my mind blank of all this things i'll be missing out on.

Bad Teeth

Jun's my roomie! middle earth, evenstar baby!

I cannot WAIT till college. All this anticipation is killing me and the worst part is, i feel like im just getting my hopes up.

So lately, i've been reading lots of harry potter and playing lots of freecell, solitaire and minesweeper on my computer. On saturday, i went to the dentist and found out that i had 4 cavities and 2 places where my gum was worn down too much. Actually, 2 of the "cavities" are actually, "almost cavities." But still...This sucks. I guess after a long time of having no cavities, i should have seen this coming. I thought "i guess i was bound to have loads of cavities all at once". Or does it not work that way? Anyways...the worn down gums mean i brush my teeth too hard. This is something my dentist and parents kept warning me about but i never really thought much of it. Im sadly paying for it now. The exact words my doc used were "we have to get that fixed before you go to college." I really don't want to know what THAT means. But yea...after countless praises for my teeth from everyone including my dentist, 4 cavities and 2 sensitive gums bite me in the butt and tell me "you suck at taking care of your teeth." oh, and i need to floss more often.

anywyas...im going to go back to waiting for college and reading my harry potter.

On Some Ppl I Heart But Dont Often Let Them Know It

So my little bitty brother Andy read my blog and informed me that he wasn't mentioned at all. And that got me thinking of all the people i take for granted. So I've decided to dedicate this post to the significant people in my life that may not seem so at first glance, but really make my life complete and who i am today. Now this doesnt include people like my parents or my bff of my bf...this is for those who play a dicrete but important role in my life.



Amanda panda my mini me: my little sis. I've always wanted a little sis. We have had so many amazing times and have been through everything from kicking harold in the balls to pouring our craziest secrets to each other. There's no doubt about it that we were definantly seperated at birth. I call her my mini me but shes actually better than me in so many ways: crazier, deeper, and prettier ;). She's the coolest little sis i could ever have and i wouldnt trade her for anyone not even a real "blood" sister.

Sarita the santa clause: Sara wang is seriously the coolest person ever mostly becuase she can put up with me for hours and hours and hours. She and i go way back to middle school and she might not remember but....we were actually super tight in 8th grade. Then in 10th grade, sara wang put up with me for 3 periods (out of 4). We have THE weridest inside jokes that even I, queen of weird, would have to say are seriosuly....WEIIRRRD. Sara if you ever read this, then all i have to say is now that i've supplied you with dry pants, dont accept any from strangers and dont EVER, spread your legs to anyone...but me ;)

Fay Paw Anthony: my biznatch. This is THE funniest person anyone will ever meet. His face makes me laugh....not in a bad way. But what makes me laugh most, is the way he talks. Anthony talks like a freaking girl. :D I hope he never reads this. He'll also eat just about everything with me. I'm ready to bet that together we could eat this world into starvation. I dont know if he knows this but I've always considered him my best guy friend just from the fact that theres never a boring moment when i hang out with him.

Andy my two winged mousie: Andy is my adorrrable soul brother from another mother. This post is actually dedicated to Andy because he deserves more credit than i give him. :D So! Things about Andy: hes evil, steals things, and makes fun of me. Butttt....what brother doesnt? The coolest thing about him, is that he's actually really cool when it comes to serious stuff. But most of the time he entertains me. I love his silly stories that im not even sure i can believe....alhtough they're probable. We've definantly been trhough a lot and yet he STILL wont tell me who he likes. It's ok though cuz we're still on awesome terms. Although i consider Anthony my best guy friend, Andy is who i can talk to about more serious things. Thats why hes my true brother, who moos a lot and likes to virtually pet me :P


There's actually LOT's more ppl who deserve to be and/or should be written about. I'll write about them (or you ;)) as i remember them.

Summer Magic

Wow. i feel as if i havnt written in ages. Not just blogging too, i havnt been writing period. My journal has sat untouched since (glancing at my latest entry) June 19, 2008. I think the real reason behind this is because life is just going so darn well.

A few things that are happening/ have happened this summer before my entrance into the exciting world of college.

~bridge came and went. During her stay i attended summer school at miramar college. At first i was only taking stats 119, a class not by any means a requirement for me in order to pass anything. No, stats 119 was my moms idea of what would make me "not a complete failure" in college. Allow me to clarify. Since i am majoring in math, my mom felt it necessary that i take statistics to get a taste of it becuase i only took calculus throughout my high school career. So my first initial schock of the summer was that i found myself sitting in my statistic class, not quite believeing that my mom had yet again, forced me to do something against my own will. I SUPPOSE it's good for me. Perhaps i could thank her later. Another unfriendly surprise came when i discovered that i didnt pass my english placement exam. The things running through my head in the following order were: "NO FREAKING WAY" and "doesnt this mean I'm a retard cuz i didnt pass this test???" and "there must be some kind of mistake" and finally upon realizing the truth, "i'm soooo lame." So i crashed an english class as soon as possible. Anyways, the first half of my summer was spent at summer school. Surprisingly enough, summer school was pretty fun. My classes were butt easy and the nature of the classes themselves were pretty interactive. SOOO... first half of summer was quite eventful. Plus, i had Bridge to entertain me with her poop stories and our adventures like "fun at costco" or "fun at the $0.99 store."

~Also during Bridge's stay, i went to Six Flags, THE most magical mountain ever. It was fun. I introduced Bridge to strawberry shortcake ice cream on a stick and she entertained me with all sorts of (poop) stories, while we stood in the ridiculously loooooong lines. I think i experienced my very first heat stroke. I actually almost passed out from the heat. ALMOST. I was super close tho. Right before we climbed on to "The X" i couldnt breathe properly and i was seeing stars and things were starting to black out. I felt bad becuase we had already waited so long and we were in the front of the line! so, i went on it, and when i got off, surprisingly enough i felt much much MUCH better. But i made sure i was properly hydrated for the rest of the day.

~One place i visited over 10 times this summer was the UTC mall. Bridge and i actually went there, on average, 4-5 times a week. At first our main focus was to shop till we dropped dead on the floor. But Bridge soon became obsessed with getting a job at Hollister. We heart that store btw. Well, she got it....which meant several more visits to UTC. Good thing i didnt mind TOOO much :D

~The wonderful beach was like my home this summer. The fact taht i dont look quite that yellow anymore is proof. I WAS SAFE THOUGH! lots of sunscreen+hiding under my towel=lots of brown skin but no bright red pain, unlike some unfortunate people. I think by far, the best beach trip this summer was the reunion one with my lovely ladies + Stan from the Circle. THEY ARE BOMB! i say we have another one...but getting everyone together will be difficult now. ):

~I was able to spend time with Helen the H-bomb and Darius the D dog. (I dont think he knows that i call him that behind his back he he he). But yes i feel way too lucky have such an awesome soul sis numero uno and such an aweome soul significant other. They remind me count my blessings :D

So now that some of the exitement has died down with Bridge back in China and school starting up soon for some, im spending lots of free time catching up with just stuff. I went to a 2 day camp at my grandparents house. OK...not REALLY a camp. But i usually associate camp to staying overnight somewhere thats not my house. I went with my grandma to her yoga and tai chi classes. I didnt like tai chi as much, but yoga was super nice. I cant wait to do it again! Then my grandpa stuffed me with food from a buffet at night and dim sum the following afternoon. It was nice spending time with them. I was also able to brush up a little on my horrendous cantonese. Right before i left to go home and to go to fnf that night, my grandma took me to buy earrings. Kinda pricey, buttt :D soooo pretty! The way to a girls heart=pretty stuff. hahhahha. jk jk. And then yesterday night, i drove by myself to fnf for the first time!!!!! (which reminds me, another thing about this summer: i got my liscense!! finally!) It was QUITE exhilirating. :D

WELLLLL!!!! theres still about a month left of summer before taking the giant step into college for me. What to do?

college goals

chicken...mmmm

so here are a few of my college goals:

1.) not get fat

Funnily enough, one of the myths (or realities?) i fear is the dreadful "freshman fifteen." Its funny because ive never really thought twice about staying in shape really (my nonexistent excersize schedule and irratic consumption of fatty foods is proof of that). Some call it the freshman fifty or the freshman fivehundred or really anything beginning with a fff. I keep telling people im definantly not going to fall in that category when i get shipped off to college. But i keep hearing things like: "har dee har har, you can try but, theres no doubt that you'll gain at LEAST that freshman fifteen" or "you really think you wont gain that freshman fifteen? thats funny!" well i must say, i dont care how many times a day i will have to go to the gym or resist those exquisite curly fries from J in the Box, NO FOLKS, i will NOT gain that freshman fffff. binge eating is not on my list of things to do in college. mark my words.

2.) Not drink

i know...har dee har har. BUT i guess what i really mean is not drink to excess. Last year during a holiday party with the relatives my dad let me try some alcohol under his careful supervision.

scale of 1-5 five being (: 1 being ):

champange: rating: 4.5 champange didnt taste far off from soda. it had a nice fizz and barely any alcohol. Over all not a bad experience

taiwan beer: rating: 4 i guess due to the low percentage of alcohol in general in beer, taiwan beer wasnt too bad. It was almost nice. But i wouldnt drink it just to drink it. root beer please!

jagar: rating: -2 i dont even know if thats how you spell it. But basically this was the nastiest shiz ive ever tasted. Why would people drink this? Why would they impose this punishment unto themselves? jager tasted like a cross between acid and something poisonous. Not that i actully know what acid and something poisonous tastes like...but basically i felt like i knocked off at least a few months of my life after sipping that sick drink

brandy: rating: 2 the taste wasnt horrendous. nothing like jagar. But one teaspoon of it made me glow like the setting sun. My head felt like exploding and it was a really strange feeling.

After doing my psychology project on binge drinking, there's no way im going to put myself in that situation of drinking too much, falling over, and waking up the next day naked, with someone else wearing my clothes. I know thats extreme, but hey...why take the chance?

3.) find some kind of direction in life

Everywhere i go, people are asking "so what are you majoring in?" math. I am majoring in math. And everyone says the basically the same thing: "oooo....O.O....what are you going to do with that?" well here's my answer: i have no freaking clue (: i figure if i start with math at least i can slowly decide what to do later. Anywyas, math is generic, useful. supposedly everything needs math. If i decide to be a cancer cure discoverer, or an ambitious lawyer, or a famous superstar, or a doctor saving millions, or a renowned artist, im sure math would be a requirement somehow.

4.) keep in touch with all my fellow buddies from high school

This will most likely be the hardest goal to accomplish. Unfortunatly, people will fade away. I've always had trouble staying in contact with people. My only hope is through blogging and the increasing popular use of facebook, we'll some how stay connected till reunion. and we MUST have a reunion. (:

anyways. Lets see where college is going to lead us.