20090922

PUT ON SOME PANTS, SLOOOT

yar today was loong :( tuesdays always are D:
but biblestudy was fun, we did a scavenger hunt and i think we won! the only one we didn't get was the one that wanted us to record a DPS officer singing the theme song to cops. apparently they're not allowed to :( anyway yah.
now i'm doing homework that is due on thursday so i'm feeling rather accomplished and productive.

SEE YOU AT THE POLE TOMORROW :) or rather, see you at tommy trojan :) i remember doing this for the first time in freshman year? or something? good times. our group diminished by the time senior year rolled around and only one junior was at that one, i believe. mayhaps she will continue on tomorrow :D
even teachers came :P i miss high school D:

kay. IM EXCITED FOR THE GAME, we're going like four freaking hours early, why is ben such a nut D: and it's at night so i won't burn :)

friday...possibly little tokyo and ktown korean bbq :D <3
and BREAKFAST from wolfgang puck i'm REALLY excited about that, it's only 4 dollars.

20090921

WHY IS IT THAT

i never remember what i do anymore? my memory is going :(
quick update:
1. i'm getting fat
2. stanley doesn't love us anymo :( BUT HE JUST VISITED YESS
3. i can't log in to soompi my life is over
4. i'm not failing school yet
5. matt barkley sat in my row again today <3

kayso
wednesday i went to a dodger's game which was SUPER FUN and i got burnt again, SO EXCELLENT omg. and then we went to BCD which is an awesome ktofu place and THEN SCOOPS best ice cream in LA.
thursday, we went on a prayer walk
last friday ALBERT PRACTICALLY STOOD US UP so mai and i sat in rowlands apartment for almost three hours watching Tool Academy which is the greatest show ever with rowland and freddy. then we went to KTOWN and went to this kinda lame korean festival with super expensive food and all i got was a sirry big bang poster. which is right thar on my wall :) all around us, these korean people were yelling at us and we were scared bcus NONE OF US WERE KOREAN and this woman is like yelling at my face and she called me unnie and force fed me and now i am sad. BCUS SHE WAS LIKE THIRTY FREAKING YEARS OLD
I
LOOK
OLD
?!?!?!
and i was force fed by a stranger. so. scarred.
sigh.
then we went to the galleria which wasn't really that interesting. LITTLE TOKYO BETTER BE MO EXCITING, bcus i really need a cellphone charm.

saturday...WAS THE GAME sigh :( went to steve's house and ate two baconwrapped hotdogs YES FOR HEARTATTACKS IN A BUN
sigh we lost :( OH VELL!
GO TROJANS GO

sunday: CHURCH, first sunday when we DIDN'T get pho which was an awesome idea steff-o, thanks. so we went to this really cute hong kong style cafe and it was SO GOOD aofidkjlg the pancakes were awesome and i still have dericious fried rice in mah fridge woooo

today: class went by quickly. the realization that my first college exam is next monday woke me up so i payed attention O_O matt barkley sat in mah row heh.
then i went to baja fresh with mai which was only moderately satisfying and then had red mango which was very satisfying.
my appetite is not cooperating with me anymore.
then i watched dramas since i did all mah homework already
i WIN.

METEOR SHOWER is <3 theosifdj wei chen hehehehiaedsjkf
kaybye.

20090919

It's sad to realize

that our school is hated for petty reasons.
But then again, I'm Christian, Chinese, and I went to Harker High, so I should be used to being hated for no reason.

Fight on USC! :)

20090913

oh hay

mmmm the rest of the week was relatively uneventful except i went to see one of my lit teachers to discuss my paper and it finally felt like i was doing something contributing to my grade haha -_- in college i'm never sure what counts and what doesn't D:

friday: we did a lot of homework and hung around and then helena and i departed from prb3203 for IGNITE '09 :)) which was basically an intervarsity conference down in irvine so we drove through some heavy traffic and arrived a little before 6PM
we had session 1 and some campus time and lots and lots of worship :) inside this BEAUTIFUL sanctuary with a massive stained glass window. photos on fb :)
then we challenged UCLA to an eating contest which should have theoretically been super easy for them seeing as they brought around 40 people and we had like
...15
but they chickened out D: PSH sirry bruins -_-
anyway they wanted to reschedule and we were like oh hay no. bcus we had a football game to go home too so we drove to where we would be sleeping and dropped our stuff out and went to guppies which is AMAZING
we had this MASSIVE shaved ice in which the bowl was like 5 times the size of my head and some brick toast which has to be the most amazing thing invented. so we fellowshipped and talked and ate until like 1AM and finished that massive bowl. the other tables didn't do as pro as we did but :) so content and happy and needing to urinate :D

then we got back and brushed our teeth and got into bed which was on a floor :( the guys got couches!!!

saturday: woke up sooo early D: and sore haha
also woke up to ben lui's fb update of "GAMEDAY BEAT THE BUCKEYES" so that was nice. got to the main church kind of late so we had to wait for breakfast
session 2 was really really useful for me, i think.
by the time the seminars came around, jeff and i were totally sleeping -_- heh.
so tired!! so we chugged the coffee before our last campus time and session 3.
worship :)
and thenn
RACING HOME TO THE BLUE HOUSE FOR SOME FOOTBALL :D

haha we listened to it on the radio. we had scored a touchdown by worship time and were tied when we left the church. then we all had to pee and ben got angry bcus he was missing the game -_- so we listened to it on the radio and i fell asleep so when we got back to the blue house after ridiculous highway 5 traffic, it was 10-10 and the blue house was very nervous O_O
but bacon hotdogs helped with that, i had three
........

anyway, MOST INTENSE GAME EVER i was about to cry from nerves hahaha but we won yeee trojans <3 teehee :)

then we walked home and did homework.

sunday: church!! the message was shooper interesting today and JUSTIS KAO led worship YES he's like famous!! he's on itunes, check ittt
anyway, i'm glad they talked about this today, it was something i was thinking about after the workshop i attended on saturday (post-modern apologetics) so yahh
then we had pho.
sigh -_- third sunday of pho in a ROW for me blehh

i think i gained 1/3 of the freshman 15 this week D:

meeting alex for dinner soon :))

tata.

20090909

Gentlemen Don't

1. on monday, i promised helena i would go with her to rite aid to get her meds so that was quite an adventure. actually, not really but i did take LA public transport all by mahself :) and i am quite proud of myself :P we ended up not being able to get the medicine because her insurance office was closed and the price was 300 dollars anyway O_O for such a minor treatment so we bought some facewash, hairties, and slippers instead.
ever since college started, not that i'm hard on money or anything, but i find myself questioning "do i really need this?" 
and i feel guilty spending money. unless it's my dining dollars bcus i have entirely too many of those T_T
meh stayed up finishing my paper :(

2. tuesday was my hard classes day but it went by relatively quickly. jour190 was not very pleasant but whatever, 12 more classes, fight on! i can dooo it.
bible study was fun :) it was application week so me and matt and john went to see matt's RA jana. i dunno why matt lives on the jewish muslim floor but whatever! she was very cool and i learned a lot about california history and jewish culture so :P

3. today was excellent just bcus i slept in until 11. we went to bed relatively late and talked really late but my first class was at 12 :) it went by entirely too slowly and i was totally zoning out but i did well on the surprise reaction paper which was on today's lecture so :P after that...did some homework and ate a lot of junk food. 
ben came to visit so we talked for a long while and then mai came home so we went to dinner. now she's at her audition and i'm supposed to be doing my hw.

that text made my day :) teehee

i'm wearing really fobby earrings today. :D D:

I WANT TO GO HOMEEE

and go to the mixer :(

20090907

Camels and Midgets!

these past like 6 days have been crazy!!
thursday:
SPLASHDOWN :) was a success, i think :) i met a ton of people and had a lot of fun sliding down two huge slip n' slides that we set up on mccarthy quad and a lot of people came which made me proud :) bcus i told them about it!
andd i love my suitemates :) heh.
i woke up the next day SUPER sore and with bruised knees but SO worth it.
than mai's cousin took us to diddy reise in westwood :) and we had some sushi. hahaah wow UCLA's area is so much nicer O_O but there's something endearing about the ghetto around USC and i say that in the most serious way. i think it's because of all the signs and posters and spray ons of the fight on symbol and "welcome back Trojans" all the laundromats and bike stores and rundown shops put up. it makes me feel loved! :)

friday:
woke up sorta late and mai's cousin took us to boiling crab!! heh that was really fun/REALLY TASTYY then later than night we went to poker night with TCF and helena got stung by a bee O_O wtf. yah but it was a lot of fun playing taboo but we had to leave bcus we were meeting rowland to hang outtt
which ended up being super disappointing since we couldn't get our guy friends in without paying a very handsome sum O_O oh well. the night was young. mai and i ended up going home around 1 and eating foods whilst talking and everyone else came home around 3 and we all stayed up to chat.

saturday:
GAME DAYYYYY woke up SOO early to meet with TCF at Tommy trojan and begin our long wait in the sun. at this point it's like 10AM and we're in the stadium by like 1045 and it is HOT. REALLY HOT. we had amazing seats though and the game was SUPER fun ofaedsjfofijfodi trojans <3 the halftime performance was sick too :D
so yes. the game ended around 3 something so that was a good 6-7 hours in the sun and i was VERY VERY burnt :(( sadface
it hurt to scrunch my nose or wink my right eye but so worth staying the whole game
yeee the mighty trojans defeat the spartans 56-3 :D

then i stayed in and tried to do hw before going out for some victory parties :D yeaah we were preparing to go to a dance party when these guys told us to come by the ATO house and check out the monkeys and waterslide and we were like YEE MONKEYS so they told us to follow the spotlight and we did but the party DIDN'T HAVE MONKEYS :( but they DID have a freaking CAMEL and MIDGETS O_O one wore a pimp suit with dollar signs all over it. anyway there was no dancing :(
yet it was still fun but we left when some people needed to go home and the camel started stanking D:

sunday:
church! and pho afterward :) made some new friends :P then came home and did homework. i feel like i'm suffering memory loss, i can hardly remember what i did last night hahaha

anyway. must write paper tonight D:
on this ridiculous book.
NO PLAYING UNTIL THURSDAY NIGHT, PROMISINGGGG

bleh.
i love college!

20090902

HOTHOT

so when i last left you readers,
i was waiting for my clothes to dry
so mai and i went to the elevator and it's around 1AM right now and the elevator slides open and in comes ____'s crush heh and he was like "OH HARRO" (he's from china) and we were like "oh heyyy" and then it was really awkward so i decided to introduce myself since it was like 3 floors to go and so we got to talking and he like told us he had no more underwear to wear so that's why he's doing laundry at 1AM -____-
laaawl.
so yah then mai and i went to take out our clothes and the dryers are like 50000 degrees hotter here, i SWEAR. i think my clothes all shrunk -_- i flung my towel at mai and she shrieked in pain. just kidding. kind of.
anyway we watched some informercials whilst we waited for our last things to be done.

yesterday's bible study was fun :) and i'm suuper looking forward to splash down tomorrow :))
andd i think i solved my hc dilemma almost :D yeee
FIRST FBALL GAME OF THE SEASON ON FRIIIIDAY
FIGHT ON :)

20090901

"Show You"

HAI GUYS :) it's been a while!!

1. so i went to the testing bureau after the last post i posted and i found out i placed out of a foreign language requirement for chinese!!! who woulda known ;) anyway, that was exciting EXCEPT that i did not expect to place so high and therefore none of the chinese 4 or higher classes could fit my schedule so i'm not taking chinese this semester :(

2. then i went to the annenberg county fair with rachael and didn't score as many free things as i would have liked but i did get a super cute annenberg t shirt for free :)) anyway, they also had amazing little donuts there blehh MMM fried doughy goodness.

3. the welcome back dance was also friday night and it was a "foam party" and ridiculous to say the least. no to getting wet and seeing swimsuit-clad foamy people grinding up on each other but breana mai and i basically started the partaaay so it was fun :) then we went back and played chill ice breakers with our RA ;) and some other people on our floor.

4. geez it's been too long to remember what we did but we went to this welcome back carnival and i got super lucky and won two prizes, one from skullcandy :) and we had some pinky's? hotdogs which are apparently a big deal in LA/Socal so yahh and had a little harker reunion over early dinner :D
the concert was afterwards and mai stanley and i watched down down down, as tall as lions, and stayed for one cold war kids song. then we went home bcus we were tireedddd

5. SUNDAY! i got to go to church and meet tons of cool people like ben through emily. he took us to evergreen baptist church and i was like yeaaaahhh for getting off campus :B hahaha
the service was interesting and VERY different so i was like mehhh (this weeks was way better) and we had some shaved ice before we headed back for the christian fair where i picked up some info on some on-campus fellowships.

6. then i met with mai and deej and julia at tommy trojan to take part in a scavanger hunt. we literally ran around for like an hour searching buildings that fulfilled our ten riddles and took cute polaroid photos in front of them and we came in...8th place T_T but it was super fun :)

7. CLASSES STARTED!! the first day was awesome bcus i had a total of 45 minutes of class for 4 hours of lectures so yah :) and then we just chilled the rest of the day and had fun :) but then tuesday is like my killer 6.5 hour day but i did get my schedule straightened out FINALLYYY so this is how it looks:
Mondays: Comm from 12-120
Tuesdays: Dream of the Red Chamber, East Asian Humanities, and Asian American Lit from 930-2, Jour190 from 4-6
Wednesdays: East Asian Humanities from 9-950, Comm from 12-120
Thuresdays: Dream of the Red Chamber, East Asian Humanities, and Asian American Lit from 930-2
Friday: NOOOONE :))))

8. i really enjoy most of my classes and i so didn't know my comm class would be literally 50% sorority girls but that's aite...i had fun this week :) tuesday, i went to IV/TCF parkside fellowship led by cauchy and ben!! and played fun ice breakers and met a lot of cool people :) but i was exhausted afterward. then i went to overflow with TCF on thursday and met more people! i really like intervarsity but i feel biased since i know some people in it....yet i felt like i connected with them the most so i think i'm sticking with them :D
everyone should come out for splash down on thursday!!

9. most of the time i'm not at class i've been chilling with people and hanging out :) we watched koizora last night in our room until like 1AM and breana and stanley laughed at it all the way till the end -___- HAHA desecrating my fav japanese movie D:!

10. friday, we met rowland and his cool sophomore friends (which included isaaac!) and we took the bus to ktown where we bought some food and returned to his apartment. he made us really good dinner and we hung out there for like 5 hours and walked back home at 1130. then we stayed up till 3 talking and eating spicy korean food which resulted in 3 bad dreams that night :( saaadface! never again....no spicay food fo me :(

11. sunday was really fun :D heh. we went to church and then to pho afterward and the service was great :) the music was AMAZING, the singer had a great voice and killed at the piano and i didn't get to meet him although he was like 5 feet away. then i found out he's on itunes and won some award in 2003 for best male singer/songwriter of LA O_O
listen to "show you" by justis kao. and yes that's his real name :) sooo amazing!
he apparently doesn't usually sing his own songs but i'm glad he made this exception this sunday :D
the pho was real good and i really got to know a lot of fellow freshmen in TCF so i had a lot of fun. then we just hung out in my room not doing much/hw until like 6 and we ate dinner.

not much serious partying yet or serious studying :P so it's been pretty chill in college so far

i'm doing my first laundry EVER and overcoming my paranoia of people stealing my underwear by NOT babysitting the dryer right now. also bcus it's 1AM and most people don't get up to steal underwear at 1AM.
:) i'm so happy teeeheee

but i miss home :( sigh @ harker for having the same HC as USC D:

and i finally know what it's like to be a "poor college kid" ssssigh

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIE <3 :)