Stupid kids

Okay, I have a large bone to pick. I don't know if I posted on this topic before, but this is seriously getting out of hand. To the point in which I'm so disgusted that I want to slap these children. Once again I'm talking in circles, so let me start at the beginning.

Today I went out to buy some groceries and I saw some kid on her iPhone texting away. She looked like she was around middle school age or so (maybe a tiny high schooler; who knows, Freshmen are small). The moment I saw this I became disgusted. What on Earth is a middle schooler doing with an iPhone? Is that really necessary? Don't get me wrong, it's not the iPhone that's the problem here. I love my phone. It has saved my life a countless number of times. Finals room numbers, course registration, etc. I never have to bring my laptop to cafes when I study anymore because I can look up processes or questions from my phone. I can also deposit checks at 3:00am at night, so that I won't get jumped while trying to do that at the bank. It's great! But, when was the last time a middle schooler had to pay bills? When was the last time you saw a middle schooler studying at a cafe? I'm nearly 95% certain that that child was texting her friend about some useless crush. Do you really need an iPhone for that? If it were up to me kids would be banned from smartphones until they're in college. What a waste of life (and a $30/month data plan).

Children these days are so spoiled. The most ridiculous thing is that they don't even know when they're spoiled. They keep wanting more and more and more. Why their parents keep giving is beyond me. Call me old fashioned, but I've worked for every bleeping thing I have. I'm not rich. Money doesn't fall from the sky. Very rarely do things get handed to me (unless it's garbage -_-) and it upsets me to know that there are people who have never worked a day in their lives and are still unappreciative. I'm not saying that we need to round up all of the kids and throw them into sweatshops (...though that would teach them a lesson or two), but I am saying that parents should guide their children and show them the fundamental principals of work and reward. Having everything handed to them on a silver platter isn't helping anyone. Really, I worry for our future. Maybe I should retire in another country.

I apologize for the rant, but it had to be done. This is seriously getting out of hand. I'm so disgusted. Next time I see a minor with a smartphone I'm going to pull out a bazooka.

While we're on iPhones, I saw a really cute case the other day. Let me try to find it... AHA. It's so cute!! Too bad I don't have a boyfriend with an iPhone or I would make him use the guy one... though it might be too "gay"... I don't think any guy I know would use that case. Also, I don't think I would date a guy with an iPhone to begin with. Break free of the monopoly! Go HTC! (I'm such a hypocrite lol)

Oops

Reproduction and a bottle of wine. That's how we do it. I'm kidding, it's not wine it's mineral water. I love S. Pelligrino.

I'm at Starbucks due to unnecessary ambience i.e. crappy flute playing by some dumb kids. Nothing interesting happened today, but I'm pretty sure I made my barista feel uncomfortable. He was trying to make conversation by talking about Harry Potter. I gave him confused looks and blank stares, so he changed the topic to star trek and comic-con which was more awkward. He then gave up and charged my card in silence. I'm sorry I'm so uneducated when it comes to these things...

Crisp

Headache~ Man, I know that I can finally sleep, but I don't want to. You know how it is... you value sleep when you can't have any, but when you can finally sleep you would rather stay up having fun and whatnot. "Fun" being studying for DAT/MCAT. We've all been there. Ah, lazy days.

Did you know this? I read this and was thinking; what the heck? I wonder what would happen if I went around eating celery all the time. Well, I do eat a lot of cucumbers. Does that count? I mean both vegetables have essentially no taste/flavor. Does any one else gag when they eat too much celery? It tastes alright at first, but after the fifth stalk I feel like I'm consuming pesticide. Maybe it's just me.

Well, 5:00am. I'm going to go shower so that I can go to sleep at 6. Good night/good morning world!

The undead

I am officially done with organic chemistry for life. Well, minus the stuff that's going to be on the tests for graduate school. But those pale in comparison to the actual course. I'm so happy.

After I finished the test I zoomed home because I haven't slept in two days and I've had half of a cucumber each day for the past three days. Starving and tired I reached into the refrigerator, but I didn't know what I should eat. Rather, I wasn't sure what had expired and what could be eaten, so I gave up and ate a jar of ginger (you know the ones that they put next to sushi) and here I am lying on my bed with a stomachache and a burning throat. Oh, well... At least I'm not hungry anymore.

I guess I'll go to sleep and when I wake up I'll study for DAT/MCATs. I wish I could sleep forever~

台灣加油！

Did you guys know there's a Tokyo Institute of Technology? Yes, that does mean that their acronym is tit. This is not a laughing matter! Just kidding, I laughed for a good 5 minutes.

Taiwan economy is doing really well. I'm so happy. First of all, HTC revenue is amazing and ASUS is working things out too. With Apple shifting their production parts to Taiwanese suppliers it boosts job opportunities and helps out the stock market. For the first time I'm going to say GO APPLE, though you guys know I'm against them. To tell you the truth... I'm almost being converted to the dark side. This whole Taiwan thing is encouraging it. :) Anyway, I bring up Taiwan because I've made a decision. I have 5 top graduate schools that I want to get into (they're mostly private fml). I don't know if I'll get into them or not because the admission percentages are really low which isn't all that surprising because they're top tier. I kept saying that undergraduate schools don't matter because it's true. It doesn't matter where you're going to go for college because each B.A. or B.S. degree is exactly the same, so why pay more for the same thing (this holds true unless there's a specific major offered at a particular school that isn't offered elsewhere, or if that school is well known for a particular major)? However, graduate school matters. The training you can receive at each school differs based on their facilities i.e. you can go to a school that has the most up-to-date technology or you can go to a school that does abortions with clothes hangers. Obviously I would rather go to a school that uses something like this instead of butter knives. Anyway, you guys get my point.

So, this is what I've decided. If I don't get into any of the five that I feel would prepare me the best, then I'm going to go to Taiwan for medical school and I'm going to stay there for... who knows how long and get fat and eat delicious food. This isn't all that spontaneous. I've actually been thinking about it for a while. That's the plan, for now at least.

Have you guys realized that Junior year is always the most dreadful? High school: SAT's and classes were most difficult. College: applying for graduate schools + DAT/MCAT/GRE's + upper division classes (well, more of them). At least there's only one more Junior year left... that is, Junior year of graduate school. Unless you guys are in business and can get your MBA in two years or are going into a one year masters program then you can avoid the dreaded year. As for the rest of us... 加油! 파이팅! がんばれ! ...how do you say this in English? Go? Do it? Good luck? ...hmm English lacks a valid translation.

Really?

Let's try to spot what's wrong with this picture... Nasty.

Hellogoodbye

It really bothers me when people don't say bye to me on the phone. This is problematic because most Eastern culture doesn't call for a farewell for phone conversations.

Korean: 네 네 네 네~ -> yes yes yes yeeeeesssss (the last one is long) *click

Mandarin: 好好好好好好 -> okay okay okay okay okay okay *click

Japanese: はい. -> okay *click

After this happens I kind of stare at the phone wondering if I should call them back or not to ask them to say goodbye. My aunt in Taiwan does this to me all the time, so I have to call her back and tell her to say bye to me. Yes, I will call back internationally just to get my farewell. I am indeed a crazy person.

I only bring this up because my supervisor just hung up on me and I spent five minutes staring at my phone wondering if I should call him back or not. I realized that today is going to be my first day so, I probably shouldn't portray myself as a psycho and get fired this soon. I'm excited! I'll tell you guys how it goes. :)

Lol

Was this necessary? -_-;

Sigh

Sooo lazy today. I didn't even feel like eating anything, but I forced myself. I stopped studying for 5 minutes and made 오이무침 which is cucumber salad I think? I was too lazy to use a cutting board so I cut my cucumber in midair... Which resulted in me cutting my finger. Oh well, I mean the salad is red colored right? I kid, I kid. There was no blood involved (thankfully). I can't wait until Thursday is over~

Going down

I just had to take a picture to show you guys that it's definitely finals week. I am NOT taking a mirror picture. I am NOT one of those useless camera whore people. As you can see, I didn't throw a bunch of makeup on my face, so that's proof. Also I'm wearing Hyde shorts... Nothing says attractive like middle school PE shorts. Anyway, the focus of this picture is the ten million reactions that I have to remember... And the ones on the mirror are only from the first two weeks. Yay. Also, you can tell it's finals week because the HAIR has gone up. I call this study hair. Attractive? I think yes. Even more than my granny hair.

Stay cool! Literally...

Aw shucks

Disappointments in life:

Opening a bag of chips - you expect the bag to be full, but in reality it's only 20% full

Packages - you wait forever for it to arrive and when it arrives it's not even that great

Weather - you look outside the window and see a bright, sunny day only to walk out and freeze your butt off wishing you put on that extra jacket

Radio - you turn it on hoping for a good song, but the only thing that plays is crap rap or some song that's overplayed

Laundry - you walk to the laundry room with your basket thinking that your clothes are dry, only to find out that they're still wet and you need to spend another dollar

Teachers - you hope for a great teacher and you walk into the room and sit down... your teacher starts speaking in a thick accent that you can't understand

Cereal box prizes - the advertisement on the box makes the toy/prize look so cool, but when you actually take it out of the box it ends up being a cheap piece of plastic (this applies to 乖乖 too... I don't know if anyone else ate that, but their prizes were always disappointing. Especially if they got lazy and just threw in a tattoo of that ugly pirate or whatever he is)

I guess those are just a few off the top of my head. Feel free to contribute and I'll edit this post.

Man, it smells like our house is burning down again. I wonder who's "cooking" -_-;

Woah

Has anyone's ice cubes ever froze like this before? I placed them in without throwing them or anything and the fridge has gone undisturbed. Besides, even if I did throw the tray in, it wouldn't be possible for water molecules to freeze on the spot. I mean, we're not on some crazy television show up in here. If anyone knows why this happens, let me know. I'm really curious and I can't come up with any reasonable solutions unless alien ice cube abduction is reasonable...

白癡

有些人反應有夠遲鈍. No offense, but some people are seriously so stupid. I just don't understand how you can lack so much common sense. What I don't understand the most is why anyone would open the window after they turn on the air conditioning. Why would you do that? Diffusion: cool air will move towards hot air and vice versa until equilibrium is reached. If you turn on the air conditioning it will be cooler in the house and hotter outside the house, but if you open the window then the hot air and cool air will circulate until they reach equilibrium. However, that's inefficient because there is a larger quantity of hot air than there is cold. SO, unless you're trying to cool the whole planet down (pragmatically impossible) THEN CLOSE THE WINDOW.

I'm just-- I just don't understand how people can be so... BAH. 煩死人了...

我大概要謹慎一點，避免被莫人發現。 8)

Juicy

Juicy juice--the adult version comes in a can ;) my aunt calls this juicy juicy.

Corruption

My friend sends me a picture...

X: Hey look at this picture!

J: Huh? Oh, yeah it's non-aromatic.

X: Wtf are you talking about...

J: Well, because there's steric hindrance so the hydrogens in the middle prevent anything from adding onto the molecule even though it's conjugated.

X: Oh.... my..... I just sent you a picture of a redesigned stop sign because I thought it looked cool and this is what happens.

J: *blink blink* oh..

-_- I'm so lame. Wow.

Newz

So they want me to speak at the “求醫檢師全聯會控名嘴，開記者會澄清” event. When I got the email I thought it must have been a mistake because 1. what the heck do I know about that and 2. I'm not even in Taiwan. Anyway, that was ridiculous.

I think I failed. Oh, I'll tell you guys something that made me laugh though.

This morning I was going to the exam room and I saw someone on the way. I told her I thought I was going to fail and she said this:

X: Oh my gosh, you're not going to fail, you always say that and then set the curve or something. It's not fair you have everything, brains, looks, and money.

I kind of stood there confused for a moment because I didn't know if she was still talking about me. Joanna and looks are never found in the same sentence unless it's commentary about the extent of my ugliness. So I responded with this...

J: CLEARLY you need to get your eyes checked. I don't know what you're seeing, but I don't see it for sure. As for money, I don't have any. I literally have 66 dollars in my account right now because I haven't gotten paid yet (I haven't gotten paid from research OR school... I'm SO broke). And the only reason why I get paid is for my brain, which isn't even that great, which is why I'm going to fail.

That was funny though. She was probably kidding, anyways. I've realized that I've never had any of my friend-friends say stuff like that about me, you know, the whole "oh my gosh, you're so gorgeous, over compliment etc. etc." thing. Why? Hm... I don't know probably because usually when people talk like that they're being fake and there's never a need to do that between my friends and I. I really prefer it be this way. What's the point in people telling you you're attractive if you look like an ugly potato. It's funny because when those people are called beautiful, some actually start believing they are and they get arrogant. Ugly potatoes need to know their place and hide their faces in a potato sack. I'm just kidding. But if you're going to be ugly or fat you have you be nice. If you're ugly AND fat then you have to be nice AND funny. It's simple. Compensate for what you lack. I'M ONLY KIDDING! Don't have a cow!

By the way, I GOT ANOTHER RESEARCH POSITION. YEAH BRO! He explained it as such: Tissue synthesis and muscular dystrophy. It starts with tissue synthesis from samples of human mutants then of course the usual PCR amplification pipette + gels + petri dishes blah blah... BUT THEN it goes on to testing which isn't only limited to mice, but primates?! Ahh! So cool. Just sayin... as usual.

I like this. :)

Doomed

I REALLY need to study.

But before I do... I had to share this with you guys.

New song!

他一點也不帥，但是歌聲真的很特別...有一種浪漫的美感... <3

I'm so cheesy.

Here's a link.

Okay, hope you guys are having a good day because I'm not. I'll probably update with something random again later. Don't know. Peace out for now!

아퍼

Ahh. Seriously, it hurts. My heart is broken into pieces because I was rejected by my one true love :(

Yeah, you wish my life were that juicy. But yeah... It hurts because I was in a rush trying to get my credit card out of my wallet and I slammed my finger shut in the glove compartment. I was GOING to buy coffee from Starbucks, but apparently they're renovating, so Starbucks was the only thing in the plaza that wasn't open. -_- what a failure.

Continuum

alsdkfja;slfjalsdk. I'm going to fail tomorrow. But, if I do fail (i.e. A- and under) it will be my own fault for fooling around so much this past weekend when I should have been studying. If anything at least it'll be justified... HOWEVER that doesn't mean that I don't still want an A because I DO. and I WILL get it (hopefully...). As long as everyone fails everything will be okay. Oh, I didn't tell you guys about the last test. I was SO sure I failed. I was really depressed for a whole weekend because he didn't tell us the averages. I got an 82/120. Embarrassing right? I'm only reporting this on here because it's so horrible. Anyway, I was sure that I failed. Then on Tuesday he said, "Okay, the average was a 46/120." When he said that I almost burst out laughing. Highest score in the class ended up being 89 I think (if I remember correctly). Thank God for curves and dumb people that bring the curve down :) BUT STILL. Just because that happened for the first test doesn't mean it's going to happen for the second test. THEREFORE, I am still worried. BLAH.

Also, if I don't get this research position then I'm going to stop trying and just be thankful for what I have. Stupid people. (I had another interview yesterday)

Stick

Yes... Plants use "chlorophil" and sunlight to get energy to make glucose. This is just evidence that chemistry professors shouldn't dabble in biology. Chlorophyll.

The end

Sorry about the lack of an update for the past while. The internet at the hotel was being retarded. Anyways, I'm back. I got back in 5:30 hours... no, of course I wasn't speeding.. When I got back I checked the mail and I saw that my iPhone case FINALLY arrived. I was so happy. It looks really clean. I ordered it around May, but there were so many problems with the shipping and blah blah that it ended up like this. I was just going to tell them to forget about it because it got to the point where it was getting ridiculous. Okay, ready? Major update time!

This. Was. So. Freaking. Delicious. Well, the ice cream was freaking delicious, the waffles were just pretty good. Belgian waffle berry trio with a scoop of raspberry-blackberry jasmine ice cream. I have never tasted such good ice cream before in my life. I thought I was going to die from deliciousness. Usually I won't eat desserts because they're too sweet, but this was perfect. Though the waitress must have thought I was really strange because I spent 15 minutes scraping off all of the whipped cream. :)

Staples Center. Apparently they're getting ready for X-games. I was wondering what they were doing because it looked pretty odd, but they were building a ramp.

FIDM! Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. So exciting. You know what happens here? Project Runway! Yeah, buddy. I was standing closer to the entrance and taking a better picture when a policeman came up to me, "Um... you can't be taking a picture of the entrance like that." What the heck, why... Fine then, I walked across the street and took a picture.

Really, REALLY good tea. I walked in just hoping for something quick because I was super thirsty. The safe choice for everything is green tea, so I ordered that. I read the side description and it said GREEN: Japanese Cherry Blossom. I didn't think much of it until I drank the tea. You could actually taste the subtle hint of Cherry and Jasmine and you could sense a sweet aroma even though there was no sugar added. Should I drop out of school and become a tea connoisseur?

Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Though, I didn't go in. I really should have went in to go to the bathroom or something (that's what my rich aunt would have done). Their toilets are probably made out of gold.

And finally, I finished the day with the best salad I've ever had from Simply Salad. I love how they chop it all into small bite sized pieces. Also, it's the only salad place I've ever been to that gives you solely lemon juice as a dressing. I went to Pluto's yesterday and ordered a salad and when I asked him if they had lemon juice he put two lemons in the box. -_-

Give up?

Sorry for the lack of an interesting post. This one will be pretty juicy though.

After the meeting (no pictures, but there were only boring old people talking about medical stuff anyway) I went to MOCA. Museum of Contemporary Art. It was pretty cool. I especially liked this one for some reason. Not sure why. Maybe because it looked so depressing. I felt so sophisticated standing in front front of a painting and gazing at it for a few minutes. Yes, yes, indeed.

Chirashi with a spicy tuna roll. I'm depressed. Nothing can cheer me up like sashimi. The spicy tuna roll was really good, but it cost $5.50. Who's going broke? I am!!

Obon Festival. I happened to stop by the plaza, so I made a wish while I was there. Of course, I put mine on a less congested tree. I kind of glanced at some of them and it seems like everyone wants world peace. HA- that's a good one. Well, I am a pessimist.

I was too busy wallowing in my own sorrow. The only cure for sadness is dessert--and in large quantities. From front to back--confectionary sweets from a Japanese sweet shop, they were for the most part filled with either chestnuts or redbeans (just meh), strawberry roll cake, tiramisu, and in the back... I had to get macarons again. $11 for six. Sigh. But OH so good. Todays flavors--top to bottom, pistachio, vanilla bean (still my favorite), raspberry, wedding, coconut, violet. Yeah yeah, leave me alone. Like I said, I'm depressed. It's allowed.

Puke

Bahh this picture depicts my life pretty darn well. What on earth man... I'm standing here in line and it's not even 9:00am yet. I'm going to puke for real. Augh. Nervous.

Stories

I CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW. I'm so disgusted and angry that I could scream.

A guy was walking his dog on the sidewalk and the dog stopped to pee (as it should...), and the owner stooped down and yelled at the dog, "YOU ARE NOT DOING THIS RIGHT NOW. GET UP YOU F*#&$(@ B&#^$!!" and then he started tugging at the dog who was trying to resist, but ended up getting dragged anyways. And when I say dragged I mean literally. First I heard its paws scrape across the pavement for a while and when I turned the corner to sneak a peek at what he was doing the dog was on its side getting dragged. WHAT THE HECK, MAN. If you don't want to take care of a dog then give it to someone who will. That was so wrong. I was so mad. I would have said something, but the guy looked like he would have drew out a gun and shot me. -_- Not exactly the safest place around...

Story #2. I was walking along the sidewalk minding my own business, like usual and some guy walks up to me and says "HEY" and raises his hand. At first I thought, "Oh gosh, I'm already going to get mobbed?!" but then he stands there with his hand raised like he wants a high five or something. I don't know about you guys, but I go around calculating the amount of bacteria on things in my mind just like I count calories automatically. I took one look at his hand and didn't want to return the gesture. I just smiled, waved, and kept walking. He then screamed at me "HEY FINE, F YOU TOO THEN!!" My gosh... people here are crazy.

Macaron-i

If you know where this is then you probably think I'm crazy. Which like I said before, I am. Paulette! I think all of those Harry Potter people are crazy for real though. They go around saying "My life is now complete now that the series is over." How ridiculous... how can you define your life by a childish movie. Oh, please. MY life is now complete now that I have successfully eaten macarons from Paulette. I don't think you understand... These things melt in your mouth. Extremely smooth. Green=Earl Grey Tea. Orange=Passionfruit. Beige=French Vanilla. Beige with stripe=Cappuccino. I think I can die happy now. Umm... after I try the other flavors too... that is, if I don't go broke first. One macaron=1.70. My total was nearly 7 dollars because of this crazy tax business that goes on. And those things are PUNY. Though you know what they say, small things are more fun to eat.

Oh and there's my kuri-pan hanging out in the corner trying to get into the shot as well. That stuff was really good too! For those of you that don't know what kuri-pan is, it's a type of Japanese pastry filled with sweet chestnuts. What most foreigners know is an-pan which is short for anko-pan meaning red bean bread (this is also sweet).

For dinner/lunch/breakfast (I guess) I went to a vegetarian restaurant. You know, I feel like I might as well be vegetarian. All I eat is vegetables anyways. It's weird because I actually crave for them. I'm such an awkward child. I would be the one that's like "Yeah, my favorite vegetable is eggplant" as everyone stares at me with a "...wth..." expression. Eh. Eggplant is alright. Oh anyways, that wasn't my point. My point was I had an avocado edamame salad, miso soup, and dessert--which was better than both the miso soup and the salad, but cost just as much as the salad. Duo of mango pudding and green tea pudding (with red beans). Yum. I think I'm super satisfied. I can hardly feel my back hurting because I'm so happy.

Oh, by the way, those are pronounced mac-uh-roh-n. Or like macaroni with out the "ee" sound. People get them confused with macaroons which are little coconut pastries. Yes, now you have learned something. Good, good.

Crajee

I cannot believe... I'm doing this. I must be out of my mind.

I might post pictures, I don't know. But when you guys see them... you're going to think I'm crazy. I don't disagree.

...regardless... wish me luck... T___T 화이팅!

Gross

Oh my freaking goodness. I'm sitting in my chem lecture an dying. From boredom? No. You would think that would be the case, but what we're learning today is actually useful. Then what am I dying from, you ask? The guy two rows behind me is eating an EGG sandwich or something and it's stinking up the WHOLE building. It smells like rotting flesh. I think I'm going to throw up. Belch.

ALSO what the heck man, my guys aren't even here today. Stupid Eric and Jonathan. How the heck am I supposed to survive these two million hours?! Ahh! Someone save me.

Foxy

I don't know what's wrong with me because I keep thinking that every photo of any celebrity I see is Megan Fox. Maybe it's because she's on the news so much lately due to the whole Facebook photo scandal or whatever it is. Quite frankly I don't really care. I think celebrities can get boob jobs, nose jobs, whatever they want, since they can afford it. Regular people get it too, it's just that they're not scrutinized for it because no one knows they exist. I mean, if you want to look like a sagging bag of plastic when you're an old lady that's really up to you.

I burned my hand twice on my toaster oven because I thought I could pull out my toast without pulling out the rack. Smart move Joanna, smart move. The fact that I also cut my finger opening yogurt will remain unmentioned...

How we roll

HAPPY BIRTHDAY M! Yeah, today is M's birthday, so I decided to make her favorite: tarts! Though I'll admit that tarts are probably my least favorite thing to make just because they're so time consuming and take around two days if you add prep time, but for my friends I will. Good thing I don't have many friends or else I would just be baking all the time~ I should decrease my amount of friends even more! Just kidding, just kidding. If you're special I'll bake for you. That's how it works. I feel like the best present is time since it's so scarce. If someone is willing to take time to do something for me I'll be extremely ecstatic and grateful. Anyway, I finally bought a fluted tart pan. I haven't been wanting to because they're so freaking expensive and I rarely make tarts, but whatever... I suppose that just means that I should make more tarts now that I bought one.

I can't wait until I can retire and open my own bakery. Goodness gracious. I'm talking about retiring, but I haven't even finished college yet. Sigh.

70% certain I will go...

3:30am laundry time y'all. Care to join?

Fiyah

AUGHHH. I remember! But first let me ramble on about my life.

My new book came! I'm so happy. I already went through 50 pages. Though I guess that's not saying much because the first few pages are all hangul practice and other redundant stuff like "hello" and whatnot. Anyway, I think I've come to realize that Chinese is the hardest language to learn. Next is probably Japanese, followed by Korean-- and that is why I'm choosing to focus more on Korean. I must take the easy way out! You know even though I say that, Korean is still freaking hard. Mostly because of the word order/sentence structure is completely backwards according to American standards. Either way, I'm really grateful that I started with Chinese because it would be 1000x harder to try to learn that at this stage in my life. I swear, I grew up with Chinese, spent 12 years at Chinese school and yet I still think my Chinese sucks. There are still things in the newspaper that I read and don't fully understand. Though you know, people have said that you could spend your whole life studying Chinese and still not know every word or phrase. Ridiculous right?

Okay what I was going to tell you guys earlier was this: I am obsessed with Dev. She is so freaking cool. Fireball and In the Dark. Just the fact that she used a saxophone made me happy. I first became obsessed with Like a G6 because she has an awesome rapping voice--makes you want to dance~ whatchu lookin at trickkk?

Today

I didn't get it. Sigh. Maybe I should just give up on life and be grateful for what I have. However, I guess I can relish in the fact that I was runner up. They said this, "You were a very strong candidate, but we decided to go with someone with more experience in the field; should anything go wrong with our selection we will be calling you to see if you are still available." Well, I guess that's true... I've never had experience working with crap minus unclogging the toilet and carrying stool samples at my internship. The thing is, no one wants to know that they're second best, so in event something does go wrong with their "selection" and they do indeed call me, I would just tell them that I'm already employed. It would be awkward if I did otherwise.

I got whistled at today. No, I am not just flattering myself, believe me I was as confused as you were. Some guy whistled at me and I looked around to see if there was some hot girl somewhere, but only saw trees and parked cars around me. Then I made eye contact with the guy who subsequently waved at me. Being the friendly person I am, I lowered my head and walked faster. Either he's blind or he's a creep.

너무 피곤해. For real, I'm so tired. Lab today lasted quite some time. We ended up being the last ones in lab. I've never been the last one in lab before. So depressing. We would have been done first except our TA gave us the wrong information so we had to redo one of the labs. The worst part was the fact that it required reflux, so of course we were there waiting for the stupid thing to react for what seemed like centuries. Whatever, at least our Benzoin was pretty. You know what's strange though is the fact that I don't mind going to lab. It's actually pretty fun.

I still don't remember what I was going to say before... man, this is bad. My brain cells must be degenerating. Hopefully I'll remember soon.

Move along

Yesterday's interview went pretty well. Though I seem to be saying this a lot lately and people never call me back. Maybe it's because I'm greedy and want more research positions/internships when I already have three. Heh. In any event, she didn't seem to notice the fact that my hair was absolutely horrendous or maybe she just felt sorry for me and decided not to mention it. Either way... it's all good.

HAHAHA! Funny stuff right there.

I think I had something else to say, but I forgot, so I'll probably be back later when my grandma mind can finally remember what it was I was trying to say.

The uncertain

There are so many things that I want, but can't have. I'm not even talking about materialistic things right now and I already think that these wants are infinite. If you add in the material desires, well... let's not start with that. Grumble, grumble... Cough, guitar, cough.

WHAT was I thinking?! I have an interview today and yet thirty minutes ago I decided to cut my bangs... THIS is a disaster. Oh my goodness. I look like a Japanese school girl that happened to get her fobby bangs sliced even shorter due to tripping while running with scissors. This is horrible. I'm so sad. WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?! Augh. AND NO I will not be posting any pictures of this horrendous-ness. PLEASE hair, GROW FASTER!

Watch... I'll walk into the interview, Dr. Boele will take one look at me and say... "Oh... umm actually the position is already filled, thank you for your time." You know what's wrong with finding jobs here though? It's the fact that if you don't get the job/research position they never bother to contact you again. I just think that's unprofessional.

Chance of a lifetime? To go or not to go? If I go I'll probably end up checking out the pre-medical/dental/pharmaceutical etc. workshop while I'm there. Does that increase the reasons for going? I don't know... where do I stay? When should I go? Ahh 몰라!

Whatcha see

I can't believe people are traveling around and having such a good time this summer. If I go on Facebook I see pictures of New York, Cambridge, Taiwan, Canada, etc. I always like looking through pictures of different places because it's so cool. Recently, I've realized something that everyone has in common when they travel. They always take pictures of everything--even minor details that one wouldn't pay attention to under normal circumstance because everything is always fascinating while in a different place. I just think that it's funny sifting through peoples' albums and seeing fire hydrants in New York or vending machines in Taiwan. I'm sure when residents see the whole picture taking thing they're probably thinking "What a dweeb." But I think these random pictures encourages one to stop, notice, and appreciate the self-proclaimed insignificant details in ones life.

Anyway, I hope people keep traveling. I'm trying to live vicariously off of pictures. Sad right?

Work?

As promised... And no one needs to see my face. This is pretty simple so yeah... If you guys are just starting guitar and you want to get out of loser chord territory I recommend Michael Buble or John Mayer. Then you can move on to Zeppelin when you're better. :) hopefully this video works... If it doesn't... Too bad for you ;)

Safeway part 이

I've gotten addicted to mineral water again. Darn. They're kind of expensive too and the fact that I only want to drink S. Pelligrino doesn't help the situation. What can I say, I have expensive Italian taste buds. :) I used to be fine with Perrier, but I don't like it that much anymore unless it's the lemon hinted one. I'm pretty sure that one's French. Anyway, I made another trip to Safeway because I wanted to get some. I bought two glass bottles and two plastic bottles because I couldn't decide whether I wanted glass or plastic. When I went to checkout the cashier asked me why I got both plastic and glass. He made a mountain out of a molehill. That was extremely embarrassing and M was with me too. -_-

When is the last time anyone has used a cassette tape? Though I remember I used to and thought that I was super cool.

Okay, last one I promise. I just had to because Gingy is my favorite. Also, what could be funnier than a gingerbread man riding on an animal cookie? :)

Ha ha

Though if it really were my prince charming should have arrived a long time ago.

Continued

...and so were YO kids ;)

Wow

Guess what was at Safeway?! YO mama. No, but seriously YO baby was there...

I swear

I feel like sometimes I'm the only one that finds these things funny. Maybe my sense of humor is distorted.

I've been playing guitar a lot lately... Probably because I'm trying to justify buying a new one. I shall resist! Hopefully... Oh! I got a song request! The solo in Michael Buble's Home. Should I film it? Would you guys like a video? Hmm. We'll see~

Dork

Yeah, yeah, I know I'm lame. I just thought this was funny. Anyways, this is what I did today...

8:15 - take midterm (TAs were late and I thought I was going to have a "panic attack")

9:45 - get gag reflex and leave without triple checking answers

10:00 - arrive at apartment and throw up stomach acid (I realized that I didn't eat and didn't sleep... Bad combination)

10:15 - somehow I ended up falling asleep on the ground, got up at 1 or so and started studying...

10:00pm - blogging 8)

Shower

I don't know why 나 한상 혼자이다. 친구 있어 하지만... sigh... 몰라. Does that make me pathetic or does that just make me desperate? I'm not too sure myself. 생활이 너무 힘들어. But whatever, this is when I shrug it off and just dive into my books as usual.

Midterm! In exactly 4 hours and 40 minutes. I think I'm just not going to sleep. There's no point in sleeping at this time anyways. Time to get naked.

Idiot

So this is the third time the 白人 downstairs has parked onto the curb. You've got to admit though, this takes some serious skill. The curb is only so wide. I think I might try this next time! Not. You would think she would feel herself driving up the curb, but I guess she's too clueless to notice. What's ridiculous is the fact that she just leaves it like that. I mean, you're bound to see it when you walk out of the car... Maybe she's proud of herself, I don't know. All I have to say is just wow.

Lazy much?

Oh my freaking goodness. Seriously? -_- I'm going to get one of these for my bathtub haha!

Blimey

Midterm mode once again, as you can tell. I know it looks messy, but trust me I actually do have a systematic approach to studying and although it may not seem like it, the papers on the ground are in order. Umm... the bags on the left side... we'll just pretend we don't see them. -_-; what shopping?

Hot summer

It's so hot... I'm melting! Actually, it's not that bad. 102 isn't that bad right? -_- Well, I guess the only good part of this situation is the fact that if it's super hot then there's actually a reason for the air conditioning to be on. I have a feeling our PG&E bill is going to be extremely expensive. Extremely expensive.

July 4th. I refused to leave the house today because I was sure that everyone would be barbecque-ing and I didn't want to smell like a waft of black smoke. In addition, I also did not want to smell the deliciousness and die from hunger.

It's about time I lint rolled my floor.

Ochem is killing me. I'm quite scared for this midterm.

Nice

I agree! I totally agree! Next time I drive anyone anywhere and I get lost this is what I'm going to do. But, with the invention of the GPS I guess it's pretty rare that anyone would get lost nowadays right?

Oy vey

I have a piece of mint wedged between my throat folds and I can't get it out. Also, I think I'm dying because random parts of my body hurt out of nowhere. That is all for now. I'll be back eventually.

Wow

Can you believe this is wholefoods? Why haven't I discovered this before?? I'm so full I could die.

Laugh

I want this sign :)