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Monday, March 30, 2009

hello all!

it is finally spring quarter. kind of a new slate, academic wise. haha, i duno about you guys but my winter quarter grades are not that great =\ kinda scared about this quarter cuase i'm taking upper-div econ classes, and i keep hearing that they're pretty difficult. but i guess it's not too scary since technically nothing's happened yet..yano? the beginning's always the best. i mean the difficultly is still there but theres so much you can do about it. so much potential to be something good.. like you haven't messed up but you haven't excelled yet so there's just a good feeling about it..if you know waht i mean. haha but its gonna take a lotta work so i'm pretty psyched about it, but according to last quarter that fire burned out real quick. :[ hopefully i can hang in there this time.

how's everybody?
we just got off of spring break and it felt good. i got plenty of sleep over break, didn't realy hang out with that many people, it was mostly with family. which is good too.

april 4th, admit day! for ucsd at least. i'm kind of excited to see all the new excited freshers coming into ucsd! our lion dance troupe is going to be putting on a show for them and this is my first real time drumming for us so hopefuly i don't mess up. i'm pretty nervous though but. yeah. hahaha

what else, oh books. man text books are expensive.

i have 8 am mwf! which sucks, becuase its an important class. but hopefully my sleeping schedule is a lot better so i wont arrive so sleepy all the time. and i think its easier to wake up since its not as cold as winter quarter xD

hmm, can't really think of much to type yet, i'm just getting pretty nervous yet excited for spring quarter. :] i can't believe its our last quarter too! time went by really fast and i hear that it only goes by faster. =\ noo! i wish there was a pause button for life.

anyways i realize i always think about 'what if' instead of thinking about 'what is' and that probably could be my downfall.. if you know waht i mean. hahah time to focus! rahh haha

okok. that's it for now, i love you all <3

-kat

Labels: Katherine, spring quarter, UCSD

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tonight, i ate something beautiful. two somethings beautiful, actually.

it came from a truck, but wow. kogi. please, find the kogi truck. order their korean short rib taco and korean spicy chicken taco. TACO. KOREAN. SO GOOD.

i could eat that stuff forever.


short ribs taco









spicy chicken taco







oh my. just the smell alone was good. but WOW SO GOOOOOOD. i was so happy.

but now IM SAD BECAUSE I HAVE A HISTORY MIDTERM TOMORROW AT 8AM! time to study.

KOGIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Labels: Timothy

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Queen!

Later that day...

Hey! I'm not that tired. Slept 3 hours? Closest I've been to an all-nighter so far. I can't believe I procrastinated that much (I had about 3 weeks including spring break to finish) and I am rather disappointed with my inability to change myself.

So, anyways. There hasn't been been much going on in my life. Apparently, the roommate I shot still has the bullet in him. He's getting surgery to remove it, but he'll be okay.

The outing I'm planning is to go to a national park where you can mine for diamonds. We're going to try to go in costume, i.e. overalls, etc. It's gonna be cool.

Labels: Outings, Richard, roommates

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by metronomy

it's getting harder and harder to make time to write here! unorganized things floating around in my head go here.
eiichiro and mirim aren't together anymore. that was fast.
i modded my wii.
i got a videocamera.
jp and joel visited pepp and we went to the beach! my first time at a malibu beach, and it was a good beach day so it wasnt that bad. ( i dont like the beach in general)

ugh. i'm not feeling so fantastic. i've been extremely moody lately. i have exposed my claws (ie my hot tempered side) to people who have never seen them before. that must be scary for them... i haven't really had a super-overwhelming amount of work to do, but theres always STUFF to do, you know? like administrative attend this finish that stuff. and its very strange. the past couple days, around 8 or 9 pm, i shut down. i get emotionally scattered, i want to do work but i cant bring myself to, and i get frustrated with myself. this lasts a couple of hours and usually ends up in a nap to make it all go away. then i can be productive again - but i stay up till 3. hopefully this is just a very short phase.
i hope usc had a good break, and that uc's are having a good one :D
i have to figure out what i'm going to do this summer. cerritos or cypress? job or no job? plus all the little things in between (family vacation... vbs... etc) i like to have things all figured out ahead of time, that's who i am. but it's causing me all sorts of anxiety because theres a lot of things i just can't decide on so early... but i still worry about it. i worry about summer and i worry about being in china... i worry about what i'm going to do for my birthday (riiight before finals - stay at school or go home?)
money worries:

despite a 10% budget cut for all departments and cancellation of the thailand international program, tuition rates will rise 2.95% to $37,730 for the year. Room and board charges will increase by 3.95% to $9,900 for the year with a basic meal plan.

i lost $100,000 in stocks last year. (i THINK thats what it was…)

(counting my blessings: 75% renewable scholarship on tuition! a big part of why i picked peppy. but i cant believe that most of us are paying full price!)

and to end on a happier note: (talking about my tokidoki wallet i got off ebay)
K: it smells
C: why?
K: cigarette
C: you should demand that you get money back
+ and slap them
+ and post on their profile
+ that smoking causes Mphaseema

and... whats a "bracket"?

Labels: Kristen

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Another Vampire Weekend.

Hey guys, I haven't exactly been weekly with my updates like I thought I would. Right now I writing a 5 page essay analyzing a scene from Do the Right Thing, and I having an incredibly tough time. It's too artsy for me, and I just can not phrase anything in a good manner. This was happening when I was not lacking of sleep, so that isn't it.

Anyway, it's a rough week. I've got to deal with housing, planning an outing on the weekend, an as-of-the-moment depressed friend, tax forms, my school specific Odyssey paperwork (I'll tell you more if you ask, but it's not supposed to be everywhere.), and this essay I'm failing horribly at. I can barely hit 4 pages, and I need 5.

I want sleep, but this is my fault anyway.

Labels: Drama, friends, Outings, Richard

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aaah i feel so bad i totally forgot to post here for the last two months! but i tried to comment on posts so people check your posts~! i love the new layout btw bernard eheheh ^o^

so you guys probably dont want to hear me ramble on and on about my life so i'll try to keep it short...

1. things have been super crazy as per usual since september. im finally getting a breather cos im on spring break now! my grades aren't too great...some courses here are ridiculously hard even when you put TONS of effort into the class. The best grade ive gotten here is an A- in my film class ehehe d(^_^)b

2. next quarter i am going to be taking tennis. yoga, and pilates courses to work on my new years resolution of exercising more~

3. im not wearing nail polish anymore

4. someone pointed out to me how different i look compared to high school and i realize its true. i think my priorities are a lot different now too, just like my interests.

5. Kgotboda namja is sooo good! watch it. even if you're a guy. you will like it!! pic of kim sang bum, the cutest man ever, is above.

6. current videogame: okami

7. current japanese drama: one pound gospel

i miss you guys a lot! ive met TONS of new people, made friends with a lot of people, and become close to a few. does anyone ever feel like some of your relationships are so superficial? like you talk to them, but there doesn't seem to be a true connection between you two and you dont seek out time to spend together. i dont really know how to explain it well, but it makes me really sad. i would say ive only made about 5-6 new friends that i feel really close to, like i could tell them about myself and we could share with each other...

i have wisdom tooth surgery in 10 hours! wish me luck~!

v(^.^)v

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and i am filled with grief. WHY! WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!! we were not supposed to make it, but we did! and we werent supposed to win in the first round, but we did! i was filled with such hope! and we were so close! and then in the end, we lost.

all i can say is, gooooooooooooo pittsburgh! bernard, i'm rooting for your school!

Labels: Timothy

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I like the new layout. Just thought you ought to know. The tree is cute.

Have you ever wondered why you cry? When you cry? How you cry? Who you cry for? These are all obviously rhetorical questions, but sometimes we all need a cry. I don't know about you gentlemen and how often you shed any tears, but personally it feels good to cry sometimes. There are those days where everything just builds up and overwhelms you and swallows you up and crying just pours it all out of you. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's just my lack of sleep that's messing with my system. Maybe it's all the work and my procrastination and just the stress that i realize could easily be avoided. Who knows. Who knows...

Life is going well, for the most part. It's been a while since I wrote in here but nothing has changed much. The family is gone to New Zealand to visit my family, also for vacation, and they've left me here in Delaware to take care of the house. It's not like they didn't want to bring me, it's just that Kallen has spring break now and I don't... so what are they supposed to do? I spent the weekend with Scott at my house. After we drove my parents up to the airport and dropped them off, we just hung around and slept and cooked and watched movies. It was wonderful to laze around and not have to worry about anything. It's those times that make these stressful times so much more stressful in comparison, and these stressful times that make those relaxing times so much more satisfying.

Would you prefer to be happy or content?
To me, there's a certain level of happiness to contentment, so I'd rather be content. Content, to me, means that there's nothing more you could want in life. That life is perfect the way it is at that moment. That's when happiness isn't all about laughing or giggling, but it's that warm feeling in your stomach that glows and just makes you smile gently. Maybe i'm taking it the wrong way, but that's what it means to me.

This weekend is Distinguished Scholars weekend. It's the weekend i came to Delaware a year ago to compete for the duPont scholarship. So we're getting next year's potential freshmen and hoping that these cream-of-the-crop can strut their stuff. I'm very excited, because this weekend was such an important pat of my decision making process and it's such a memorable part of everyone's experiences. All the Dischos I know remember this weekend, so it gives us something to connect with and talk about. I hope i can make it memorable for my people too. We've got a couple girls staying the night, so hopefully Kelly and I make a good impression.

I love technology and it's ability to let you communicate with people over long distances.
Like you guys.
Love you guys. :)

Gealina

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woot woot.
new layout...hope you guys enjoy it. i also don't know why the "older posts" link at the bottom of the page is gone, but i'll see if i can fix it within the next couple of days.

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So, here I am in O'Hare International Airport, with my flight to Pittsburgh delayed for an hour, in a random hallway with disgusting elevator music interspersed with announcements and advertisements very much like the ones at 99 Ranch:
"The TSA Security Level today is: ORANGE. Keep your baggage safe by..."
"Calling Kenneth and Gweneth Page to Gate F2 for boarding and lost item..."
"Chicago is proud to be a candidate city for the 2016 Olympic Games..."

Clearly, not life-changing excitement.

The entire plane ride from John Wayne to O'Hare, I was sitting next to this older Chinese guy who just kept mouthing words to himself and shaking his head and writing invisible words with his hand. I just tried sleeping for most of the three hour flight and hoped that nobody would think that he was my father.

I want to upload pictures, but unfortunately I left my camera cable at Pitt.
It was a fun week for spring break. It was nice seeing you guys (and not nice not seeing some of you *ahem*Andrew and David and Ashton*ahem*).

I suppose that even though I don't want to get back to work, I do want to go back to Pittsburgh. Spring break needs to be longer though. I just can't wait for the end of this year. Barcelona, Munich, and Augsburg are waiting for me.

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Hi

I completely forgot about posting and stuff.
I don't have much to say, since I've been trying to give up complaining for lent. 
Well umm yeah... so school has been pretty whatever, I haven't gone to physics class since the first midterm (I actually ended up doing better on the second midterm), haven't opened any textbook, and I've been sleeping late for no reason.  This probably standard college stuff hehe. I'm changing my major from mechanical engineering to computer engineering, see if I like that any better.  Before signing up for my classes I went and met up with my faculty advisor (department makes us do this) and we did alll the routine stuff where he asked me (and some other mexican kid who was fulfilling his requirement too) if I was failing any classes, and at the end he was like "any questions?" (in his horrible accent) and I was like "yeah, why did YOU choose to be a mechanical engineer?" and he laughed and said "I don't know, well... I think the question *mumble* *mumble* why you choose engineering?" and I was like " because out of everything offered here i hated engineering the least, but why mechanical?" and again he mumbles and turns to the kid next to me an asks "why did you choose M.E.?" and the kid was like "uhhh... i like engines....." 

Labels: Estevan

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I AM SO SORRIEEEEE I DID NOT POST IN SOOOOO LONGGGGG!!! wait i have to go check and see what i wrote last time {saves draft}
alright, whats happened since jan 27...
I interviewed for Student Media Coordinator in Shanghai and I got the job :) (amanda shen got the RA position!)
I made lots of Valentines and bought lots of stamps to send them!
I applied to/did all the paperwork for Cerritos College this summer (um... its really ghetto. for some reason i wasnt expecting that. AND theyre not offering chinese! but... calvin is really happy when i'm there...)
I went to Kollaboration!!! YAY it was totally weird and totally cool - i had jihan lynn and charles sitting on my left... and i had timothy and ashton sitting on my right! it was a good time. <3 BoA! and jane lui! and all the acts were pretty good ^-^ saw a lot of whitney people too. why are the 09'ers such party animals huh? when we were seniors we didnt hang out in LA and shop at marc jacobs. i want to tell them to enjoy being a kid for as long as possible! they'll get plenty of chances to act grown up later. i dunno i guess it just made me kinda sad to see that. i'm glad that we, in all our immaturity, lived out our minor-hood to the fullest! hehehe
My dad was on TV! it was funny, he sounded like he was on Home Shopping Network hehehe
Eiichiro and Mirim are together now, and Lynn and Charles are ... friends with benefits. so its kinda awkward being aroud them. oh well.
I've been doing really well academically, but thats because I'm a hermit ^0^ But last week was midterms and it was BASICALLY hell. i had a midterm on weds, a midterm on thurs, and a paper due friday (this is right after the weekend of kollaboration + jakes bday...) my midterm on weds was pretty easy, because i studied hard. (i was on self induced lockdown all week but i took a break to play rock band in the caf. the only reason i got up in front of people to play was because i wanted to win the ipod touch. i got 95% on expert :D but i dont think i won the sweepstakes) my test on thursday was ridiculous. Example questions: The two main components of public relations are ___________ of ______ and ______ ___ ________ and ___________. (yeah. what???) orrrr True or False: There are 3000 Ad agencies and 700 PR agencies in the world. Okay there were 25 of these types of questions, worth 200 pts total towards the 1000 pts for the semester. we alllll died. literally F-. Well, i did get the extra credit question, which was: "what is chris browns excuse for allegedly assaulting rihanna?" freaking retarded. i wrote my prof a respectful letter on the back of my test.
then i stayed up till 4:30 am writing my great books paper about hell. (dantes inferno) i love the book but it was bad timing. sigh. its the latest ive ever stayed up. (its impossible for me to pull allnighters...)

ANYWAY now im on spring break, and its great!!! i get to see calvinnnn! (we had a rough patch in early feb, but we pulled through. i love him very much. sorry maybe i'm tmi-ing, but i couldnt help saying it...) its kinda hard though. the week isnt long enough. all my grandparents are here for my sister's baptism this sunday, so i have to balance conflicting interests. I want to.... 1. spend as much time with my boyfriend as possible.... 2. spend as much time with my grandparents as possible... 3. catch up with people i usually dont get to see. I think i have been balancing it all pretty well up till now, but its still a major stress-area. my schedule is so unpredictable and i dont like that. So far i've been hanging with calvin, eating lots with my family (tofu house sooo gooood), and visiting mommies with babies (my former tutor and my youth pastors wife). ooh, also, david estevan and timo visited my house post-talent show. (i wasnt interested in paying $13 to see a lot of people i dont know - the people i was interested in seeing were the people ATTENDING.) the rest of the week looks like it will be... hanging out with calvin, visiting UCSD on friday, and eating lots more. i am going to be so fat.

recent interests:
- boys before flowers. ashton gets me hooked on all sorts of korean things. :( but its so cheesily delicious. cute asian boys ftw. except my sis tells me that the kp's at whs are obsessed with it too, and that makes it wayy less appealing to me. ah well, i'll just ignore that fact. (cognitive dissonance theory, look it up)
- jia jyun myun. i dunno if thats how you spell it. i really want to try this korean noodle. i'm going with calvin tomorrow!! SO EXCITEDDD
- hoodies with ears - kekekeke i am turning into a fob! i ordered one (hope it will fit..) on....
- ebay! - i bid on stuff in class. x.x so cheap... but i've been really good so far. i've only had buyers regret ONCE.
- threadless thursdays - i am kind of obsessed with these hourly giveaways on the fb threadless fan page. and yeah, i finally won $25 gc. if you see fb updates that are me commenting on videos, pls ignore.
- FML! ahhhhhh so obsessed. its added to mymomisafob and mydadisafob on the list of "must read everyday and check like a maniac" links. fmylife.com (only go if you dont have much homework, i'm warning you.)

okay that concludes mysuperlong post. please dont give up on this blog! i check it regularly even if i suck at updating.


AND. OMG. VISIT ME. ON YOUR SPRING BREAK. OKAY? I HAVE VISITED MOST OF THE SO CAL PPL ALREADY. TIME TO RETURN THE FAVOR NOW, KIDS. (i have too many meal points........... T-T)

BYE GUYS I LOVE YOUUU

Labels: Calvin, Kristen

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Vampire Weekend, good stuff!

So my past few weeks have dragged on, but lots of fun moments here and there.

Two weekends back, I believe, something horrible happened to one of my roommates. He was shot. By a pellet gun. By me, not knowing the gun was loaded. The bullet hit his shoulder. Luckily, it was not that deep, and he should be fine.

I made a Lucha Libre wrestling mask out of a t-shirt. I sewed it together.

Labels: lucha, Richard, roommates

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