Do it yourself

I'm sorry for not updating. People are getting mad at me.

T: "Don't you know that you're part of my morning routine?! I wake up, pee, brush my teeth, read your blog, put on clothes, and go to class."
J: "So..."
T: "SO UPDATE!! You're messing up my life!"

I'm sorry I have ruined your life. -_- (though... I'm flattered that you have integrated me into your routine) I have midterms too, you know. I don't tell anyone unless they ask me directly because I don't see the point in complaining about something that everyone encounters in life. I often find myself standing there saying, "Ohh man, that sucks" and "Oh, wow that's a tough one" as people moan about one midterm when I have three on the same day because it makes them feel like an baboon if they (in rare cases) have the decency to ask, "So, do you have any midterms this week?" Ha. Ha. Ha. It's the little things in life that keep me going ;)

I was in line at Safeway to buy some gum and I noticed that the lady in front of me happened to be reading People magazine. She was catching up on Heidi Klum and Seal's split. If I end up like that... If in the future I end up being a middle aged lady wearing a large, unattractive, brown, trench coat, and reading an adolescent gossip magazine then please shoot me and feed my body to those loud cicadas in the summer. I only say this because she was very rude and shoved the magazine at me, so that I would put it back for her after she was done reading it.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm going to remain single for the rest of my life by choice. In part because I am too picky (I should live in a nose...get it? HAH! Okay, I'm not funny. I'll stop), but most importantly because I have decided that I would never be able to compromise my career/career goals for a guy. I'm not going to go to a professional school for 8 years and spend so much $$$$$ to end up being a stay at home mom, not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's not how I envision my future and anything other than fulfilling my definition of success is a failure. However, for a MAN I may reconsider.

Comatose

Quotes of the week

In lecture
Girl: "I would feel more relaxed if the midterm were on Friday"
Other girl: "If you want a to relax get a freaking massage!!"
Professor: "...Okay, we're getting hostile here..."

Yahoo Answers
Girl: "How many calories are in a cup of uncooked rice?"
Guy: "Who the **** eats uncooked rice? Common sense."

I learned something new. HMU. I didn't know what it meant and looked it up on Urban Dictionary. The second definition makes a lot more sense than the first one.

Living off of tic tacs, coffee, gum, and water. Hopefully I won't end up like the 17 year old chicken nugget girl. If you don't know what I'm talking about go Google that.

Baby bump

I feel like such a noob. I got crystal violet on my finger and then I got it on my iPhone case. Stupid bacteria. -_-

Why is everyone pregnant lately? Maybe it's because we're getting around that age where people can't control themselves anymore. Then again I suppose mid-twenties is when you're at your "prime." I mean, if you want to receive minimum wage for life that's up to you. No judgment. Fine then, people can be pregnant, but PLEASE stop taking naked pictures of your belly. I know that the "American" thing to do is to expose and embrace the coming of the child, but does the husband need to be naked as well? Does everyone have to be naked? You're just a big naked happy family aren't you?!

Sorry. This is getting out of control, so I'll just end it there.

It's Friday, Friday.

Ceviche

I think my supervisor has noticed that something fishy is going on. He keeps telling me to smile. I guess that's what I get for smiling too much on a daily basis.

I have a lot of fun in lab and I learn a lot of random things as well. Like rust + aluminum + other chemicals = burn through nearly everything because the temperature reaches 8000 degrees Celsius. I'm definitely going to become a bank robber at this rate. That's how I'll get through graduate school, of course.

J: "So I mean, you know how I talk a lot right?"
M: immediate response "Yep. Definitely"
J: "What?! How can you respond to that so quickly?! Is that what you think too?!"
V: silence "Ahh.. Umm.. Haha.."
J: -_______-

Blah blah. They know it's more fun when I'm there. Quiet guys turn out to be the funniest ones.

Isn't this pretty? Please ignore the fact that I am on the freeway. 

Hey sexy

If I can look like Vera Wang when I'm 62 I think my goal in life will have been accomplished. Wait, scratch that. If I can look like Vera Wang NOW my goal in life will have been accomplished. How can you be 62 and have a supermodel body?! Unfair. Genetics is against me. Though you know... I love her wedding dresses. I don't particularly want to get married (i.e. I don't think I will ever find the right guy because I'm too picky), so I'll just buy one and wear it while I'm eating ice cream at home or something like that. Don't judge.

People are so... Okay. All problems originate with people and all problems end with people, but the sad part is the fact that some problems have no end; thus, problems will continue with people. Do you guys understand what I'm saying here? I know I can be convoluted at times, but I think this one makes sense. I just think that these games... these GAMES. People are so stupid. If they would just stop playing these games all the time then maybe they could actually be able to sustain real relationships (wow, what a concept), but no. It is a constant game of power-struggle/see who responds first/who "likes" a comment first/who gives in and texts first and it goes on and on. What's the point? Who cares. Just do it. Why do you think children can easily make friends? They don't think. I wish we could go back to a time where we could just go around asking, "Hi, can I be your friend" and for it to be perfectly normal. Unfortunately, society expects us to play the game *high pitched* "Oh, hi! How are you? What's your major?" Forget it. I refuse to play the game. I refuse. Instead I will, *creeper voice* "So... I watched you in the shower last night..." I'm only joking, that's taking it a little too far, but you know what I'm talking about, so do something about it. BAH.

Group projects are the precursors of aneurysms and myocardial infarctions.

Roasted/toasted

I can't believe Americans are only realizing this now... They're so infatuated with seaweed and it's health benefits. They're going seaweed crazy. There is seaweed everywhere, from Trader Joe's to Costco. It's kind of ridiculous because I see all of this seaweed and I'm just standing there smiling to myself because they're so intrigued. "Ooh you can eat that? It's so green! o_o" Bro, the majority of us have been eating this stuff since we were born. I can't even look at it in terms of a superfood. It's more like a "I don't know what to eat tonight, so I'll just eat seaweed with rice" type of thing. Though, to be fair, when they think of seaweed their first image is probably giant mounds of green kelp that float around in the ocean. I suppose I can't imagine myself munching on that either.

Augh. I kind of just want finals to come. I feel like I've been here forever.

Wrinkly

Today was an old day. I spent the day with old people. I went to Stanford to visit my friend's grandma. Ah, nostalgia. It felt like I was going to go to volunteer again. Then I face-timed with my grandma for an hour or so. I know right? We're so hip and happenin' (or however they spell that). In conclusion, I got nothing done today and thus, I must study like a mad woman tonight to make up for it.

I'm so full... Happy Chinese new year.

Hay

I overheard a few guys talking the other day...

Guy to Guy Scenario

X: Hey wow I hardly even recognized you, you gained a lot of weight!

Y: Haha, thanks man. Yeah, I've been working out.

Now imagine the same thing, but with a girl on the receiving end.

Guy to Girl Scenario

X: Hey wow I hardly even recognized you, you gained a lot of weight!

Z: w.t.h....................*SLAP

I just thought that was funny :)

Okay, so there has been something that I've been wondering about for quite some time now... Why do people take pictures on Facebook with one of their arms sticking out? And by people I mean girls. Why do they have to stick out an arm to take pictures? Is it because they're trying to show off their arm muscle? Are they trying to stick their boobs out? I'm so confused. The weird thing is, it's not only one or two people. EVERYONE does it. I need to Google this. 

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I got a freaking parking ticket. Eff. I hate this city. Before you guys go around thinking that I'm a bad driver let me explain myself. I was downtown and I parallel parked in a twenty minute parking spot because I only needed to stop briefly. When I was going to go back to my car I saw this stupid little golf cart police car--not even a REAL police officer, mind you--next to my car with the lights flashing. OH heck no. I knew I couldn't have been there for over 10 minutes, so I rushed to my car to see what was wrong.

Me: "STOP! STOPPPPPPP!!!"
Police: "Is this your car?"
Me: (no duh..) "Yeah... Wait, I wasn't gone for that long"
Police: "That's not the problem, you have to be parked within 18 inches of the curb"
Me: (gee sorry let me bust out my ruler after I park) "I'm in the box though...?"
Police: "No, you're on the line"
Me: (...you have got to be kidding me) "Wait, so you can't touch the line?"
Police: "No, you cannot touch the line. You should know this already it is very important, it is a safety hazard you're blocking the bike lane--$43"

I'M BLOODY SURE AN INCH IS A SAFETY HAZARD YOU JERK... AND YOU'RE FAT >:(. Freak. I hate police. The fact that he had a mustache made me dislike him even more. Just because the city doesn't have funding doesn't mean that you have to take it out on poor students. Police are only good for the donut industry.

Multi-tasking

Really really tired vs. really really hungry. What would you pick?

Have you ever had those days where you get home and you're so exhausted that you kind of just want to pass out on the ground, but can't decide if you should eat or not because you haven't eaten all day? All day everyday. What I want to know is what would you guys pick? Would you pick going to sleep or would you pick eating something? I would pick sleep. I figure eating can happen any time of the day (though somehow food just doesn't seem to enter my mouth) whereas you can't just sleep in class... well... you could, but you know what I mean. I think ideally we would all develop the ability to eat while sleeping in order to optimize the time we spend while awake. Though given that that's not exactly possible (unless you're my housemate that eats Twix bars in her sleep and leaves wrappers next to her bed and doesn't remember anything the next day) I guess looking at pictures of food will suffice.

Orenchi Ramen... I want to go this weekend.

Hike!

Do you guys know who John Elway is? The famous football player? Actually, I'm not even going to pretend like I understand football because I don't. Even after being forced to watch all of the games in band I still can't tell the difference between the yellow flag and the red flag--or is that soccer? Whatever. The only reason why I know John Elway exists is because I had to do a report on him in third grade. I wanted Michael Jordan... and so did the other 30 people in the class. Anyway, apparently he's the president of his old football team. It's completely irrelevant to anyone's life, but I just wanted to comment that he looks old. He went from this to this.

Moving on with our lives. I keep blogging when I'm supposed to be working, but it's not like I can do anything until the Fedex man comes with my chemicals, so it's relatively justified. Blah.

Chewy

If I were a candy I think I would either be a marshmallow peep or a gummi bear. I'm really soft and it's easy to make me melt or rip me in half. I go around acting like a jolly rancher or a caramel apple pop, but in reality I'm a squishy person. Not many people know that I'm squishy. I try to hide the fact that I am, but sometimes (somedays) it's difficult to be a jolly rancher. And if you happen to encounter me on one of those days and you stab me thinking that it's okay because I'm a jolly rancher you'll find out that I am indeed very squishy. Today is one of those days. Please don't stab me.

I only like the red and clear ones, by the way.

The ring

When you can't find something and you look everywhere, but still can't find it? What do you do?

1. Someone stole it!
2. It'll show up later...
3. I'll keep frantically searching

For me it's 3 and then 1 and then 2. It's always easier to blame someone else than to admit that you're an idiot and left your ring next to the sink when you went to wash your face.

I'm getting old.

Code dead

I like undergraduate course labs, but I also hate them. Sometimes people can be so... ugh. It makes me appreciate the fact that I work with old people. Old people being people that actually know what they're doing.

My recent freakout session: "OH MY GOSH I'm growing another mole on my face!!! NO!! What am I going to do?!?!" *scratch scratch... Oh... I marked myself with my pen.

I need to quit something. Even for me this is too much. If I continue like this something bad is going to happen. The question is what should I quit?

This is a my large mango.

Some people...

FINALLY. I can't believe it took people this long to come up with a semi-solution to this problem. And yes--I do think this is a problem.

People are on their phones 24/7 even when they go out to eat with friends (which should be enjoyable, by the way). I don't know if I've posted about this yet, but I just need to reinstate my irritation. If you are out with me and you're constantly checking your phone why would I even bother hanging out with you when I could probably talk to you more by texting you from my house. If you're going to be present then you should be present. I don't know why this is so difficult. It drives me i n s a n e. It takes every ounce of willpower I have to not grab the phone, throw it across the parking lot, and drive over it many, many times. I wonder if people realize that if they're on their phones when they're out with me I tend to want to hang out with them less and less and will find excuses to avoid having to do so. I'm sorry... it's just one of those things.

I am on my phone 24/7. I'm not even going to deny that fact, but the difference is if I am hanging out with someone I won't check my phone. It could be vibrating like a (insert inappropriate object), but I will resist the urge to check it. I am a busy person. People in general are busy. If someone is willing to set aside time to hang out with me then by all means, I will show them that I am grateful and that I respect them enough as a fellow busy person to have a decent conversation without the OCD phone checking. This should be common sense.

Good and evil

I went to get a blood test yesterday (my arm is so sore) and the lady was surprisingly nice. We were joking around and secretly laughing at the person sitting across from me that was having a freak out session as she was getting her blood drawn from another nurse. She thanked me for being unusually calm.

I had to renew my certification, so I went to the registration office. The administrator there was not only rude, but irascible as well. Every time I asked a question she scoffed at me as if I should know the answer. Lady, it's your JOB to know the answer. Is it my fault that you are working behind a desk dealing with paper work as a job? No. Did I talk to you in a condescending manner? No. I did nothing to insinuate this behavior, yet this is what I get. Don't you hate it when people talk to you like you're an idiot? Someone needs to fire her and put someone less grumpy in that position. Forget about stick up her butt--it was more like the whole coniferous forrest.

Regardless, I felt accomplished yesterday. I went through the hospital in order to get to patient care to get our blood samples (limited funding=I have to be a lab rat) and some nurse stops me and asks, "Hey, which wing are you in charge of? Are you working night shift?" What? I look like a nurse? Awesome. Nurses work so hard, I have so much respect for them. Then I continued walking and some lady stops me, "Are you the new resident? They're waiting for you inside." Do I look like a resident? I'm glad that she would think so. I'm happy. I guess I don't look like I'm 16 years old anymore. Hooray!

Imperfection

I wish there would be more meaning in my life. I know, I keep saying this. But that's because I still feel like nothing is progressing. I just want to publish more papers.. is that too much to ask for?! 

I just watched this video of some kid dancing to Rack City with this grandma. The song is already ridiculous to begin with, but then you throw in a white boy lip syncing... I think I lost a few brain cells. But I've got to say, that is one awesome grandma.. though no grandma could be better than mine. Just saying.

E: "Yeah, I know you like skinny guys"

J: "LOL! What the heck?!"

E: "I mean you're only attracted to skinny guys"

J: "I guess... is that weird?"

E: "Yes."

J: -_-

E: "But it's even weirder that you like underbites and lisps"

J: -____-

You're supposed to lie and say that it's okay. What a friend. 

Just thinking

I really..

When you see someone everyday and all the time you find things about them that bother you. You nitpick and get irritated easily because they're there and available. However, when you are apart these feelings dissipate because you're grateful that you're able to see them and you forget about all of those things that used to bother you and rather focus on how awesome they are and how much you love them instead. In fact, you might even start to find that the very things that used to drive you insane now have the ability to make you smile.

But, if you are apart from someone and you don't like them you probably won't like them if you're near them either. People tend to have more patience with people that they don't often interact with. It's human nature I suppose. The way I see it: there's no point in spending time with someone unless you find yourself happier than when you're alone. Think about it, it makes sense.

Useless cold. If it's going to be 34 degrees it should at least snow so that there's a legitimate reason for all of us freezing to death. I'm really lazy and I pour warm water on my car every morning. I'm hoping that my window won't crack anytime soon. I hear that you're supposed to scrape it, but I refuse to stand outside freezing while scraping my car like a doofus. Maybe I should be grateful my car doesn't look like this. Too bad I'm not hot enough or else all of the ice would melt as I walk towards my car~ HAh Haaa.... okay I'll stop. Work time :P

Extravagance

So sleepy... zzz. When I got back last night I fell asleep in my car. I know, old lady status.

The shopping car Christmas tree in Emeryville is still up! I'm not too sure if you guys can see this very well, but it's a bunch of shopping carts with ornaments hanging from it. Anyway, I had fun yesterday even though we didn't do much because we were too busy dying from so much food. I don't think I need to eat for the next two weeks. People in malls are profligate and it really bothers me, but I can't do anything about it because I don't want to get shot. Oh man, school starts tomorrow? Wonderful.

Sab--this is for you... haha you better watch out for these kinds of people...

Yellow

Oh man. This is the most ridiculous news I've seen in a while.

People these days. You've got to admit it's pretty funny though. If I had the guts to pee on everything I didn't like I would probably be a happier person. Unfortunately, I would also probably get arrested and everyone would see my vajayjay which is not only unattractive, but disturbing as well.

I found out I'm a boring person. -_- Oh well, just accept me for who I am.

Suddenly

I thought I was going to have a heart attack yesterday.

I was driving to my GI lab (which requires going on the freeway) and I was driving in the inner most lane. I was only driving around 70. Out of nowhere a police car comes behind me, turns on his lights, and his siren. Oh crap. I moved to the right lane and thought about a million things such as, "I'm going to be late, I need to get out my driver's license, I don't remember what my insurance paper looks like..." but after I moved towards the right he zoomed off in front of me and left.

I hate police. They arrest unnecessarily and don't put first priority on the interest of the general pubic, instead they focus on donuts. I'm kidding, but it takes a policeman longer to arrive at a scene than it does a pizza guy, so that should tell you something already.

Point blank

Do you guys know about the bag tax? I went to Safeway and they made me pay 10 cents for a brown bag. I was so confused at first, but the lady told me that it was supposed to be happening throughout California though now I'm not too sure because when I went to Safeway and Target here they still handed out plastic bags as usual. I'm kind of happy. I was prepared to carry my ghetto strawberry to go grocery shopping. My ghetto strawberry is a hot pink reusable bag that collapses into a strawberry. I'll take a picture of it one of these days. The point is... it's embarrassing.

My car stopped yesterday. I really wanted to cry. I would have freaked out more if I wasn't at my apartment and if M wasn't there with me. The lady from triple A probably thought I was retarded because for some reason I had trouble formulating my words. Our conversation went something like this:

L: "Hi this is triple A how may I help you today?"
J: "...it won't go..."
L: "I'm sorry ma'am you're going to have to be a little more specific"

I finally got my point across when I told her that my car wouldn't start and that I thought it was the battery. Freak my life. I was supposed to save money this month because of all the money I spent last month, but it's only January 4th and I've already spent a small fortune. Anyway, the battery guy came and he told me that my battery had 50% or something like that. He said that it was okay if I left it and that it was up to me. Uh... who would be dumb enough to leave it? Why would you do something like that? And that is definitely not okay. So of course I had him just give me a new battery and thus, I am even more broke than I was initially. Does this happen to people often? I love my car, but at this point I feel like it looks like this. It's never had any problems before... I'm sad.

We ended up watching Bridesmaids yesterday. I didn't think it was going to be funny, but I almost died laughing. Everyone in that movie was a total psycho. :)

커피 or 코피

S: "Hi I was wondering which coffee had the design?"
W: "Huh? What do you mean?"
S: "You know the coffees with the pictures of hearts and stuff?!"
W: "...Ohh... We do that with all of our lattes..."

Oh my gosh... You're embarrassing. -_- I'm going to pretend I don't know you next time lol. We're old ladies, always at cafes talking and laughing. What I realized is that the ladies sitting around us were all over 40 years old. Woohoo! Getting a head start on becoming old and wrinkly. But, there are no other people I would rather be old and wrinkly with. <3

It's easy to remember numbers when you can find something that will trigger the memory. For instance... Avogadro's number 6.02x10^23 the only reason why I can remember that is because S's birthday is on 10/23 which is 123 with a zero in the middle. I think that's funny because my birthday is 4321 without the 3. Get it? And my phone number 8x9=72. I'm obviously not going to write out my number on here, but if you know my number then you'll understand what I'm talking about.

Augh. You're irritating me, but you probably don't know that you're irritating me and you choose to act this way, why? I'm so sad. 以前我總是認為你和藹又體貼，害我差一點喜歡上你，但是現在...你變了... and it makes me sad because I thought that 你會永遠在我身邊當我的 “安全棉被,” 但事實卻不是這樣. Though maybe I'm partly at fault and maybe it makes me kind of selfish for thinking that you would never change. Sigh. :( This last paragraph is so language bipolar -_- my bad, I must clear my head of this garbage. All done~! :)

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J: "Okay I'm done, do you need anything else?"
M: "Are you kidding me?"
J: "What?"
M: "You only have coffee and a watermelon"
J: "...and?"
M: "You don't like eating meat, you don't eat eggs... where does your protein come from then?!"
J: "...I munch on children at night"
M: "You're so stupid. You have a disease."
J: "Probably"

I was forced into watching the second part of the last Harry Potter. When did Dobby die again? It started with his grave or something and I was really confused because I don't remember him dying. Then again, I've never really been a Harry Potter fan, so whatever, but I will never ever watch those Twilight things and I still haven't listened to any songs by Justin Beiber. Yes, that is quite an accomplishment. Anyway, if you're into that stuff please explain. I haven't finished watching it yet... my attention span for those kinds of movies is around 10% at best--not to mention there aren't even any good looking guys in that movie. Really? Noseless guy? Which makes me wonder how the film industry seduces adolescents to watch this film.

Look at this! Old school. Such fat cartridges. I love Nintendo. 

Loser

So much for updating regularly... I got into an intense 3 hour chess game with my computer last night and before I knew it it was 6:00am (I lost by the way...). I feel like break is pretty much over. So sad. I only managed to do something fun on Saturday and now it's back to my chemicals and cancer cells. By the way, don't drink so much alcohol. Liver cells of alcoholics are so nasty... why do I have to look at this shizz.

There's a watermelon sitting in my trunk. I wonder if it'll freeze after tonight. I ended up driving back pretty late... there was so much fog. If I could find someone that I could stand listening to for 2 hours then I wouldn't have to drive at such times and I could exploit them for the carpool lane. Hehe.

Why so cold? :(

Is it sad that I have more friends in Taiwan than in America? I feel like such a fob. 8)