ok i think it's time to end my firstborn blog. i'm so much more used to goingn to xanga and lj and just clicking sites i read.. sorry folks! i'm gonna close down my first born Pittsburgh Blues. It's been a good year and a half. We almost had a two year relationship which makes it one of the longer relationships i've had =P

anywayz been hanging out with M&M group a lot lately, it's so fun.. i wish we could do this all semester.. last night we had a potluck dinner and i baked two cheesecakes and we ate good food with great company at M's place. then we played taboo and imaginiff... fun games, fun times... shows us how geeky we all are, we can get all the computer related words in a flash... and then of course there's S's lil taboo for rumours.." Girls like to spread" and of course all our minds were in the gutter by then LOL

i saw the last samurai on wed night and also timeline on fri night...the last samurai was a good movie.. it was done very very tastefully and i liked it a lot.. the idea of honor is very moving... we lack so much of it in today's world.

timeline was an okay movie.. of course the book was much much better.. but i think it was better than the bashing that D and M gave it.

anywayz i'm almost home for the holidays! excited peeps?

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wow i haven't stayed out this late in a while... sat night was fun... E and I were REALLY bored at home and coudln't stand being in anymore so we decided to go to the DS party even tho it's not really our scene and also a bloody long walk away... so C,E and I trekked half an hour in the snow to go to this party lol... it was fun tho.. we started running in the middle of the road and that was just relaxing, letting it all go and running =P

once we got to the party it was ok... just chilling and dancing... met some new people... after the party E and I headed to G's place with a bunch of peeps whom i believe are all lamdas but not too sure =P just chilled out there and watched some tv, had drinks and talked...

ohh highlight of the night, finally found out who puking boy was a couple weeks ago, lol E and I both got a kick out of it when one of the boys admitted it was him... we were like dudddde that's you? finally made it back on campus at 5:30 in the morning when H was like let's go watch family guy... by then i was real tired seeing that i didn't sleep much the past couple nights and so i declined and E went ahead... came home and crashed.. wow it was a late night or morning =P --------

so i'm all done with classes.. now just have projects and presentations to do... i've been feeling very bummy... eating a lot. lol i think it's teh snow =P been watching a lot of detective investigation files.. we started it in vancouver and i finished it yesterday... well DIF II anywayz... i remember when i first saw that ending i was so upset and i called J and J and C immediately talking about it.. wow that seems so long ago.. it's been almost 8 years i think.... time really does fly... --------

so i'm at D's place alone, she's off in wean coding lol and i'm here watching tv coz i'm so tv-deprived.. so i'm watching the travel channel where they are doing a list of the top ten bathrooms that one must see in the world and now they're down to number 1.. guess what? apparently it's in hong kong lol.. it's a bathroom made completely of gold... everything is coated with gold and the ceiling is embedded with rubies, saphires and emeralds. and the toilet is made completely of gold... it's worth 3million US dollars.... random what you see on tv isn't it? --------

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i had a good weekend. on friday we had our monthly beer and pizza gathering sponsered by the english dept =P had fun chilling with the MAPWs then went to Lawrenceville and hit a pool hall for a couple hours, then went bowling for a couple hours and then headed to C's place for some wine and a movie.. ended up spending like 12 hours with them. wow the longest i've spend with the MAPWs =P
today i woke up pretty late and did some work and then headed to M's party. wow i haven't been to a house party with so many people before... it was a pre-thanksgiving party and it was a lot of fun. i had turkey! keke i think this is like only the second time i've had turkey at thanksgiving or around nov =P
anywayz life is busy as usual.. as i told my friend the other day. tis' taht time of the year when u want to jump off a building and say good bye cruel world, i'm not going anymore homework! =P --------

It's now 3:05 in the morning and our room is dark with only one dim light on and a candle burning away... the scent of pina colada floats my way while the soft musical cacophony of jazz enters my ears... outside in my bathroom there is a strange boy puking his guts out brought into my house by a former tenant.. definitely a blog worthy moment. --------

it's that time of year where i get really stressed out and overworked as usual.. so don't mind me if i'm in a crummy mood or suddenly burst into tears =P i've had a good weekend. on thursday i saw love actually which is a good movie. at the beginning i was like umm id unno how good this would be but by the end i was like awwwww... i think it's worth the money! on friday went to J's talent show and the had a sex and the city season six marathon with D. we ordered in wings and just enjoyed six episodes which was mad fun! on saturday I went to the Mayur show and the afterparty at club laga which again was lots of fun! of course then today was my usual meeting and i think i'm just stressed beyond belief coz everything is due but teh good news is one week till thanksgiving! yay! i get to see hamha soon! i'm very excited about that! --------

there are times when you just want to say fuck it and give up and just lie down in bed and slowly deteriorate away into nothingness.. this is one of those times.. after havin spent the past month working ardiously on my calligraphy final project i arrive to class today to erase my lines only to find that all my writing smudged and hours of work gone.. then i'm like ok it's all good i'll rewrite it and spend another four hours rewriting the pages that went wrong.. what should happen but on my way home it suddenly downpours... of course being the idiot i am, i walk normally enjoying the rain because it was so magnificent with the lightning and everything, thinking that my final project will be fine because a) it's in a plastic bag, b) the plastic bag is inside my other bag... alas the power that be decided it's more fun to watch Virginia break down uttery and cry because when i get home my entire project is once again soaked through the plastic and now is ruined. ironically enough my final project is writing verses from teh gospel of John, i think God is trying to tell me something. Sigh just let me lie down and slowly cease to exist. --------

Misery by Soul Asylum
they say misery loves company
we could start a company and make misery
frustrated incorporated
well i know just what you need
i might just have the thing
i know what you'd pay to see
put me out of my misery
i'd do it for you, would you do it for me
we will always be busy
making misery
we could build a factory and make misery
we'll create the cure , we made the disease
frustrated incorporated
frustrated incorporated
well i know just what you need
i might just have the thing
i know what you'd pay to feel
put me out of my misery
all you suicide kings and you drama queens
forever after happily making misery
did you satisfy your greed ,
get what you need
was it only envy , so empty
frustrated incorporated
frustrated incorporated
frustrated incorporated (put me out of my misery )
frustrated incorporated (i'd do it for you, would you do it for me)
frustrated incorporated (forever after happily )
frustrated incorporated (making misery )
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so there's been an influx of ladybirds (ladybugs for those who are american and keep correcting me =P) flowing into pittsburgh. apparently they do this every fall when the weather turns cold and they try to find a warm place to stay for the winter. i haven't noticed them at all in previous years but this year there's been sooo many of them. i guess it doesnt' help that the weather here's been really wacky, going from 0 to 22 in the span of like a week. we have a high of 21 today and by friday a low of -3. no wonder i'm starting to get sick. and yes after 6 years in the states i still think in celcius =P
but anywayz back to the ladybirds. yesterday i found a colony of them in my bathroom. i counted 27 of them. now THAT freaked me out. now i'm scared of going downstairs to that bathroom. and i've noticed them in my kitchen AND the upstairs bathroom. if they can come up, what's to stop them from coming to my room? i know i shouldn't flip out over this coz they are lil ladybirds and not like cockroaches or anything but when u see a whole mass of them it's REALLY scary! --------

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i had a pretty good weekend. C and R came back to visit and all of us hung out and it felt like old times again wheee.. on thursday went to bar louie and saw the deviled egg heh.. friday was spent bumming around. C came over to my place and we had a nice talk... then a whole bunch of us headed ovre to my thai to harass T who worked there. had a yummy dinner and thenm spent 3 hours bumming around the UC waiting for 12:30 to roll along. we were watching the late show of pirates of the caribbean coz r didn't come to pitt until 10:30.

sat was spent shopping at the mall and hanging out. had japanese food for dinner and then went to mt washington to look at the view. after that had a drink at bar louie and had great dessert. their chocolate cake is awesome!

sunday woke up at 8 to go to pamelas... the earliest i've woken up all semester. heh.. the things i do for my friends.. then went to T's apartment to hang out, chatted for a while and then had to head back to meet up with my group. all in all a great weekend

hamko, sorry i was so out of it when u called.. i barely slept this weekend so was completely zonked out.. lol did you sing merry christmas to me? or was i dreaming? =P i totally don't remember now. hehehehe --------

hmm what is it with boys and relationships lately? in the past two three days i've had two different boys come up to me and ask me about relationships and how to ask girls out and what are the signs that a girl likes you... the strange thing is, both boys i haven't talked to in at least a good couple months.. lol
so what does that tell me about myself? am i the type of girls that guys sees as buddies and can consult in? or just that these guys think i date around a lot and would know? kekeke
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once again i'm sitting in the cave... i'm in a pretty crummy mood.. i dunno...wore a skirt and my stiletto heels today in an attempt to cheer up. funny how dressing myself up makes me feel a tad better about myself.. lol... it's rather sad if you think about it. oh wells.. i should be working on my project right now but instead i spent like half an hour reading the flame wars on misc.market which amused me greatly. i forget what a time waster that was.. but yeahs i am just feeling bored and just posting arbitrarily with no significant purpose to my post. --------

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it's been a pretty good weekend. D came back to visit again =P yay! hung out with her for a while.
on friday i had a client lunch at lake arthur and after working we went out sailing in my client's boat. that was really fun. i had never gone sailing before and i actually got to maneuver the sails and the tiller. it was really cold tho but still very fun and the lake was gorgeous with the different colors shouting out at us.
yesterday met up with D in the morning. had breakfast at schatz which i haven't done since freshman year. that was an experience.. last i recall it was all self serve but when i tried to get food the lady ran up to me and was like noo i will serve you lol... service definitely improved there lol.. i wonder if it's coz it's homecoming weekend so they were trying to make it all nice and stuff.. i dunno
then i had to go to a reveiw session and after that went to the waterfront with D. we saw the runaway jury which was pretty good.. but then again i'm biased seeing that it's my favourite john grisham book and i just love it so much that i've read it like 30 times.. but D thought it was good too so i would feel safe recommending it =P i don't like how they changed the topic from tobacco to guns tho but then again i guess people feel that gun control is a bigger topic but as usual the book does a better job with the story. then we headed off to pf changs for some yummy food and dessert. all in all it was a great day
i was woken up at 5am by a phone call.. i had gone to bed at like 4.30 and was kinda out of it.. after the phone call however i looked at my cell phone and it said 4am and that confused the hell out of me. i thought that my watch went bonkers or my cell phone is going weird so i checked my clock on the wall and saw that it was 5am and that freaked me out since i was sure that my cell phone was --------

u gotta love friends! thanks so much M! hehe
gakked from my comments section
This October, Virginia will . . .Kill Slacker Group Members!*

Slacker Group Member: 'Well, obviously what you've done is not very helpful, considering the real goal is to-'
[SAMURAI VIRGINIA takes out her SAMURAI SWORD with a loud CLICK.]
Slacker Group Member: 'Wait, what are you? Wha- Nooooo!'
[SAMURAI VIRGINIA introduces SLACKER GROUP MEMBER to the business end of her sword. SLACKER GROUP MEMBER is finally quiet.]
Samurai Virginia: 'Any more objections, f*ckers?'
[CLOSE UP on the SLACKERS, who are AFRAID.]
Samurai Virginia: 'That's what I thought.'
THE END
*A Benkin Production. Coming Soon to an overactive imagination near you! --------

so i'm in the cave again... i just need to vent... i'm in three group projects this semester.. now that alone is a logistical nightmare because i have to coordinate my time to meet up with everyone but one of those teams just drives me crazy. i HATE, let me repeat i HATe them. i just want to pull out a samurai sword and pull a kill bill on them. they drive me CRAZY! it's bad enough when you have one slacker in a team but when you have EVERYONE be a slacker except for me and my friend.. that absolutely blows!
it doesn't help that they think they are all superior and stuff.. ugh! i am soooooo annoyed! i hate them hate them hate them! i mean come on! pull your weight, don't belittle what i do and actually try to contribute to something! ahhhhhhhhhhhh
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it's been a good weekend.. although it was midsemester break and a lot of people left town, i managed to have a great time wtih those who stayed behind =P.
thursday was spent celebrating J's bday. we had cake at her house and then went to bar louie for drinks. it was a pretty mellow night.. the only down point of that night was that the zipper for my suede skirt broke so now i need to find a tailor to fix it. ugh.. on a plus side i rediscovered all my makeup and realised that since i spent a ton of money on it i should start using it so dont' be surprise if i start sporting some makeup on again..
friday was spent bumming around having time to myself.. that night went to super oriental buffet with M, M and H.. then went back to my place where M proceeded to sift through my assortment of videos and took some away from me =P then we went to blockbuster and rented the guru.. it was an entertaining movie... oh and during the movie they played the 'gai lam' song so i managed to find the english version of it so i was happy since it had been bugging me and it WASN'T by pink as i was told by hamha but instead by the sugarbabes. grr.. no wonder i wasn't having any luck finding it..
today i went SHOPPING.. aww yeah.. hung out with M, M and D and i bought a lot of stuff.. i think my thing this season are boots and skirts.. i bought two pairs of shoes, (one boots with stiletto heels, one just cute leather sneaker type of shoes.. hard to describe) and three skirts, and a haltertop dress.. all in all good stuff!! M paid for my boots which was incredibly nice of her... it was buy one get the second half off and my boots came to like really cheap so she was like oh forget it. don't pay me back! yay! this is one friend worth knowing esp when she's rich and famous working for some huge corporation.. heh.. =P but yes thanks again M! after shopping at the mall M and I headed over to the waterfront to meet D and S and some of S's friends.. had dinner and came home.. now i'm doing facials and making myself look pretty =P --------

Police Nab Vicious Crow by Getting It Drunk

BERLIN (Reuters) - German police apprehended a vicious crow which was attacking passers-by by getting it drunk on bait laced with alcohol, authorities said Monday.



The bird eluded its captors after attacking a woman and a young girl at the weekend until cat food soaked in high-alcohol fruit schnapps proved too tempting to resist.


"The crow was completely smashed," said a spokesman for police in the western city of Dortmund.


Police said the crow was sleeping off its hangover in a local animal home.
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so last week was a pretty crummy week with a ton of work and users backing out on me.. but i got an extension so it was a bit better..
my interview on friday went well i think. it was rather funny how my recruiter asked me about my hair. he was like ok this is my last question for you and it's a huge one so brace yourself. " what's the deal with your hair. it's really cool and ii like how it's all multicolored and all" i just started laughing...
this weekend was dessert weekend:
friday night went to gullifty's for some killer kookie... a perfect antidote to the week's crumminess and then on saturday i had the temple of heaven which was absolutely delicious! a flourless chocolate espresso cake! mmmmm
so that cheered me up =P
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i fell in love today.
she was the cutest pair of black leather boots with pointed tips and stiletto heels... i think hamko is infecting me.. i'm running around four shoe stores trying on all the stiletto heel boots i can find...
i ended up buying a pair of denim boots that looks pretty nice but weren't the babies i fell in love with... sigh... now i know how hamko feels all the time.. --------

so i've been really busy with work.. it's so stressful.. soemtimes i wonder why the heck i'm back in school doing my masters degree.. it seems like i'm just a sucker for pain.. id unno maybe the fact that i have three group projects doesn't help.. it's a freakin logistical nightmare to set up meetings.. and i'm having issues with my user testing... why don't people want to talk to me. it gets so frustrating and just as i think that i got it all set up my users back out on me.., sigh.. i dunno it's just gonna be a realy busy weekend and i really won't have time to chill until next thursday i don't think... i have meetings all weekend and i dunno if i will have time for anything else...oh wells at least i had a good weekend last week... sigh...
the job search process is annoying me too.. i have an interview tomorrow but i don't really want the job and i dunno i want to find jobs in hk but it's hard to find jobs in hk when i'm in the US. also school's been sucking up so much of my time that i really haven't had time to deal with job searching. argh --------

it's been a pretty decent weekend...

Friday was spent drinking for a LONG time... i think this is the longest time i've ever spent drinking.. it started at 4 where the people in my program got money from the english dept to host a beer and pizza gathering because we wanted to get to know each other..keke then drank until 8 where we headed over to my place to keep drinking... and then we went to doherty, met some people and drank some more.. then headed to rock jungle and danced and partied and of course drank... so all in all it was about 10 hours of drinking.. of maintaining a pleasant buzz and waking up today with no hangover whatsoever...

today was spent with M and D at the waterfront. did a lot of shopping. THen M came over and we watched u shoot i shoot. funny movie.. haven't seen it in a while so enjoyed that.. also did my laundry =P and got M to fold my fitted sheets since i always fail miserably at that...

today at B&N i bought mitch albom's new book. the five people you meet in heaven.. it's been a while since i've found a book where i jsut read and read and come to the end and realise that wow it's 3am. it's a very quick read, only took me about an hour.. like tuesdays with morrie i found it a very touching book. i know a lot of people found that book hokey and that it was jsut being all wise and stuff but i liked it.. and i dunno i like the idea that our lives are all interconnected and that when i die, in my journey to heaven i'll find out why i was meant to be here and that even in the things i think i failed at, there really is a reason behind it all and that there are people who i will meet that have changed my life in some inexplicable way that only God knows about.

i dunno... i think back to events i've regretted, to the people who have hurt me and whom i've hurt, to the decisions i've had to make and the choices given to me, in the serenity of my room, surrounded by burgandy candles infusing the scent of mulberry around myself, i realise that if anything, this book has made me think, made me muse over events burried behind my facade of normalcy and reflect on how i feel towards myself.
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the most random thing happened to me today... my ex bf's brother IMed me asking how my ex was doing.. of course i had broken up with this boy four years ago and only very occasionally talk to him so i was all kinds of confused.. turns out his bro thought that my screenname was his current gf's of three years. heh... how is that for random? --------

wow has it been that long since i updated? heh what happened to me? i use to blog all the time! i guess it's just that life is so busy nowadays... i'm having tons of meetings and i swear i see my team members more often than i do my roommate.

i've been watching a lot of files of justice.. good stuff... it amuses me that they find the same actors and actresses to act out different parts in a role.. heh or they find dif actresses to act the same part =P

i had fun last weekend. D came back to visit and we hung out all friday.. i bought pretty pants but i haven't had a chance to wear em yet.. also hung out with the tartan peeps.. it's funny how i hang out so much more with them this semester.. it's cool tho.. they are fun people to hang out with...

i've been feeling burnt out lately... i dunno i feel that i'm always feeling exhausted and i'm always whining to my friends which make me feel uncomfortable being with them... i dunno i think it's just the combination of too much to deal with... maybe taking so many classes wasn't such a good idea what with the job search and everything...

on a good note, i got a decent grade for my OM exam so that was one thing off my back.. i dunno.. life is confusing as usual... full of ponderance...job search is so confusing.. sigh... do i want to go back to HK or stay in the US? can i even find a job? ugh... as one of my friends say... the solution is ice cream and boys =P now who's volunteering?
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sometimes u find a song that says all you feel.. here's another one of em..
Dido- Life for Rent

I haven't really ever found a place that I call home
I never stick around quite long enough to make it
I apologize that once again I'm not in love
But it's not as if I mind
that your heart ain't exactly breaking

It's just a thought, only a thought

But if my life is for rent and I don't lean to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

I've always thought
that I would love to live by the sea
To travel the world alone
and live my life more simply
I have no idea what's happened to that dream
Cos there's really nothing left here to stop me

It's just a thought, only a thought

But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

While my heart is a shield and I won't let it down
While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try
Well how can I say I'm alive

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it's right before my OM exam.. been studying a lot.. masters is so much more work... maybe it's coz i'm overloading like crazy but stil...
anywayz my weekend was pretty tame.. friday had a client meeting and they provided dinner which was awesome of them... felt bad that we made them stay until 8 at the office heh... then i met up with the tartan gang to go clubbing but unfortunately by the time we're done eating, no one felt like dancing cept for me so we all ended up not going and headed to my place, played some cards, drank some alchy and called it a night.
sat was spent doing almost nothing.. i tried to get my calligraphy done but to no avail..i was just very very restless.. taht night watched finding nemo which was cool as usual.. heh i've seen it way too many times..
sunday was spent studying for my exam and having meetings with my team members.. and so concludes my weekend...
i reallly need to get over this work complex and find a job and screw getting good grades.. heh.. think i'll be able to? =P
anywayz this is going to be another busy week.. just tomorrow is insane, 9:30 meetings, classes from noon to 6:30, more meetings at night.. bah... oh wells.. i also have to prepare for my presentation tomorrow.. we have to give a half hour lecture on functional specifications.. isn't that just dandy?
anywayz hamko/hamlo have you guys moved yet? or found an apt? how's the hamily doing? hamgong? hamli? i haven't talked to you guys in ages.. drop me comments! --------

what are poems but musings gathered from our lives around us? inspiration as fodder for our words? --------

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interesting no? i think i';m going to start typing liek that =P --------

LONG ENTRY AHEAD

So I’m in OM class right now and she’s going on and on and I hate how she doesn’t give out notes but simply lectures. Last class I ended up with 7 pages of notes. Today I’m on the 3rd page single spaced.. I have an exam next weekend and for some reason the folks in the class don’t have a social life and wanted to have a review session on Saturday 9am. I’m just like dudddddde stop that! In the end we are having the review session on Saturday at 1pm. Grr there goes my Saturday.



So my weekend was pretty good. Thursday night I went out with J and her friends to Bar Louie and had karaoke night.. that was fun.



Friday night was spent watching bend it like beckham with D, P and E. as D and P both said, I’m so glad I’ve seen this movie before coz the people surrounding us were freaking annoying. We had the hyena who was laughing so loudly and providing a stupid laugh track to the movie and also those ignorant people who kept making comments throughout the movie. I hate that. After the movie we went to Mad Mex and had our bigazz margaritas as usual. Afterwards E came over and we watched identity. That was one scary movie. I liked the concept but not too sure I liked the ending and what the message is conveying to the viewer. I ended up going to bed a bit later than usual but had to wake up early =P



So Saturday arrives and I got up bright and early and packed. We load our stuff into the car and drove off to west Virginia. The trip took us a little longer than expected, we were trying to get to the discovery center. As we got to the discovery center M saw apple butter and decided to buy it.. now I wanna taste it =P so we picked up a map and started driving to the trails.. that was very exciting, we almost ran over bambi. We were talking about how I had never seen a deer before and some suddenly ran in front of us and we were like ohhh deer. So D decided to drive a lil slower and all of a sudden bambi is in front of us. Apparently it was trying to out run us but then decided at the last minute to turn left since it couldn’t outrun us.. of course we were trying to slow down and we came within 6 inches of running down his legs. M almost rear ended us seeing that we stopped so suddenly. Phew that was the intense highlight of the weekend =P.



So it turns out we went a lil too far on Jordan Run and we turned back to find the trail. The road was very rocky and so it was slow going up the mountain. We eventually found a place to park and decide to hike to our camp site. D was told that all the trails have camp sites and so we could just pick any trail we want. It was 5:30 but then so we were all pretty tired and wanted to get there quickly. It was also raining a bit so we just want to get everything set up. We walk and walk and come across a sign that says Northern Loop. So we’re like ohhh a trail, let’s go. Turns out it was exactly what it claimed to be. A stupid loop with no camp sites. Heh. We came across a bog tho =P so at the end of the trail we see the road come up towards us and we were like damnit! So very sadly we walk and hiked some more. Finally we found something that looked like a trail and M decided to go check it out. He came back telling us that it was good and we went ahead there.



We got to the first fire ring and it was full of bottles and beer cans so we decided to go further into the woods and use the second one. First thing we did was to set up our tents.. this is when we found out that M&M had the 5 star tent while H and I had the 0.25 star tent. Heh.. we were all convinced that M&M had the superior tent with the air mattress until later when it started raining, then we realized that D&S’s tent had the appearance of a 4 star tent but was really a 6 star tent. =P



We start building the fire, however, it was raining so we had to use my umbrella to help jumpstart the fire heh.. after some work a lot later we finally managed to get the coals hot enough to cook. Props goes to M&M for buying the food, marinating the food and preparing it! We had lots of yummy food and then decided to start a real fire. D being the eagle scout led the way.. again due to the rain it took a lot of work.. it was then M had the ingenious idea of using the air pump to pump oxygen to the fire.. we build a pretty decent fire and cooked marshmallows, that was fun… after a while it rained too hard for us to keep the fire and we retreated to D&S tent to play Uno and card games. After some games we all turned in for the night… our tent was a lil ghetto but hey it did the trick. Heh the amusing thing was that H kept thinking there were spiders which woke me up when he turned on the flashlight to search for them =P.



We awoke on Sunday to find it still drizzling and being very cold… after a lot of discussion we decided to start the fire and possibly cook sausages until we discovered that we had nothing to cook the sausage in.. I then took up to putting the sausage in a skewer and just sticking it near the fire. Heh it worked tho and we had yummy sausages… we then packed up and cleaned up and left.



It was a fun trip overall! I had a ton of fun, enjoyed the company and props goes to D for researching the trip, M&M for the food and everyone else for the great company!

So ends my long ass entry!
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so i was walking home from calligraphy last night and noticed that the moon was REALLY bright and round and i remember thinking that maybe werewolves were coming about tonight and wondering why the moon was so damn bright.. of couse it wasn't until later when i was talking to hamha that i realise it was the moon festival =P doh.. so THAT's why the moon was bright.. heh.. yeah i'm a dork...

i jsut read back some of my entries from a year ago.. i dunno.. it seems that i was less serious, more friendly and less guarded about what i write.. is it because i was in a bubble then and thought no one would read what i write? or that i didn't realise the internet isn't a safe place and writing specifics will only end up hurting people? or is it simply that with time, i've gotten jaded and i've grown up... faced more and realised that no matter what i do, someone is going to judge and hence sometimes i jsut don't wanna do it anymore? i dunno...

what are your relationship with your parents like? i talked to mine last night and my roommate commented on how i was more like talking to my friends than my parents.. isn't that how it's spose to be though? my parents are my best friends. just like everyone else, they have their own prejudices and aren't perfect but they also care and love me so much that all they do is to protect me. i know my parents won't betray me, they only want what's good for me. isn't that more than most friends? no matter how good a friend they are, they will always have themselves at the number one position to protect. i know i'm extremely lucky to have this kind of relationship with my parents.. most people wont' understand it.

It's been two years, two years since I was worried mad coz my parents were on the plane about to fly back to HK on Sept 11th. they were literally on the plane when they were told to deplane because the first tower crumbled. it's odd to think that two days before that i was in NY and my godmother was driving my family around and point out the WTC. and of course there was the mad worry over my godfather since he worked near there. and also the crazy 8 hour wait to donate blood. time goes by so quickly that i often dont' realise it.


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i'm in the cave right now.. for those who don't know the cave is what my cluster is called... random huh? but yeah MAPWs get their own cluster which is pretty cool but the fact that all of us are in the cave kinda amuses me..

but anyways Hamko abd Hamgong, go to www.gunbound.net and download the program, install it and then start playing... keke.. it's mad addicting... lemme know when u guys play keke maybe we can play together...

i'm starting the job search very soon seeing that TOC and BOC is next week... i worry about whether or not i can find a job. i know that i am qualified for a job but i don't know if i am qualified enough for a job. does that make any sense?

random musings on my mind....when you read a book, do you tend to read the ending first? i find that before i used to be very opposed to reading the ending and insisted on enjoying the book from beginning to end.. but now i'm finding that as the years go by, i prefer to read the ending halfway through so i know what happens. at first i thought that this was because i have too much stuff going on and time is of importance and so i dont' want to spend all my time reading the book in one go jus to find out the ending but more and more i'm starting to realise that how i read books can be viewed as how i want to live.. a lot of times now i'm scared to take risks. i'd prefer to know the ending before i am willing to take a risk which of course isn't going to happen. in the past i had been willing to take a risk and wait it out, but only to be disappointed in the end... i sometimes wish i can go back to the way i was before, before all the betrayal and hurt but i guess it's not possble.. i grew up and now i'm finding that it's affected me in ways i had never thought of before such as how i read a book. i think in lots of ways this is why i like rereading books so much because reading through a second/ third/ fourth/ tenth time the ending doesn't change and still gives me the wonderful sense of familiarity...i don't want to live life that way.. i want to take risks and stop being afraid of consequences but alas it seems like it's not destined to be for the present moment. --------

so i had a pretty peaceful weekend full of gunbound as usual.. i'm embracing my school's culture of gaming and becoming a geek it seems heh.. on friday went to fuel and fuddle with D and M. had some drinks, food and jsut talked.. then we headed back to M's place and eventually drifted back to my place.. that was fun. i like just hanging out with my friends and jsut having a good time... oh and i gunbounded =P
saturday i just slept a lot. i'm getting back to my cmu schedule of wanting to sleep at all times but not being able to heh..i woke up at like 10, coudln't resist the lure of gunbound and started playing.. then got very tired and went back to sleep. met up with everyone that night to celebrate J's bday and ate out.. then went to M&M's place and had lotsa fun playing (no not gunbound, even tho they had four computers so that would make a team keke) but pictionary. that was mad fun.. i still dunno how we came up with all the answers based on our drawings keke.. M was amazed at my skill in knowing disney movies keke.. i guess i'm just a kid at heart =P
sunday was spent bumming, doing some homework, making spaghetti sauce, watching my dramas and of course gunbound.. i really gotta stop this... who's fault is this? it's all M's fault! he got all of us hooked onto crackbound as he calls it and now all of us can't stop playing.. i must say it's an ingenious idea, such a simple game but shooting people to earn money to buy clothes and accessories for your avatar.. has a certain appeal to girls keke..
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a brief update of my weekend,
fri night went to mad mex and had hella lot of fun with D. i love our mad mex nights with those bigazz margaritas!
sat, went caving at laurel caverns and then had din with the toronto bunch and saw chicago
sun say SY and J and had yummy crepes
mon went shopping at the waterfront.. since when did they have a best buy and kaufmanns there? seriously why do i need to go to the mall?
yesterday was hell day again for me... i got through it okay tho...
newest obsession: gunbound! this is all the fault of the toronto gang.. now i can't stop playing coz it's so adorably cute! gosh!
oh i also started and finished reading the da vinci code.. it's SUCH a good book, of course i'm a lil rusty with my New Testament but seriously a great read and i would recommend it to everyone... props to E and T for telling me about it and lending it to me! now i bought me my own copy... i have so much faith in this book that i actually paid more than the regular book price to buy a first edition on ebay.. yeah call me crazy but i like having first editions simply coz it's worth more heh... i was trying to explain this concept to 219 but it was all lost...
i'm still trying to acquire my tvb shows... i wish that J4G would have come connections.. heh it's soo freaking expensive! oh wells i already get all my movies from him so i shouldn't complain keke --------

so i went caving yesterday.. it was a lot of fun but also very tiring.. it was all in the dark and we had helmets and flashlights and we had to crawl and climb all these rocks and stuff... it was very muddy heh but also very fun... we saw underground streams and waterfalls. it was about 45 stories deep and then when we got to the lowest point we had to climb back up again.. now my muscles are all sore and tired....
i saw J and SY today.. that was fun.. i hadn't seen J in a year! we had yummy crepes and walked around shadyside for a bit.. now i'm just chilling in D's room waiting for her to finish talking to her mommy then we're going to watch LXG. tomorrow hopefully we'll be able to go shopping at the mall and then tuesday is going to be hell day again. grr.. --------

so i just came from class... if only all classes were like this one.. we were divided up into groups and told to use lego to design a measuring device.. so the entire class was spent playing with lego.. now if that's all my classes i'm set! we'll all get A's and just build stuff with lego! yay! alas life is not that simple nor kind.. heh --------

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so here's a little rant of mine... i'm majoring in
business and technical writing aka professional writing.. so why is it that i have no writing this semester? i'm taking product design which is a graduate engineering levels course where we have to 'design a product' i'm taking online information design where it's full of IS students because we have to develop websites and client based servers and i'm also taking organisational management, a business course on the history of management and how to do it better... the only slightly english related course i'mm doing is editing and publish in which i have to go and design book covers and format manuscripts.. however notice how there is no writing involved whatsoever? and yes all four of these classes count towards my degree... grrr --------

so i didn't go to class at all today.. heh... i was all set on going to calligraphy when D managed to talk me out of it. bad influence that girl! but tis cool.. i'd rather spend time hanging with her anyway.. so i started work again.. got to go in tomorrow... it's good to be back at the office... the hecticness brings me a sense of normalcy to life.. heh..
lately my addiction to ebay has wandered off somewhere since i couldn't find anything i really wanted to buy but yesterday with the help of 219, i managed to revive my addiction! now i want to buy tvb dramas! wahhhh this is so bad~!
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so i'm in online information design lab right now and it's boring as hell.. he' teaching us html and what http stands for and what url stands for etc..plus the guy can't teach... this is my fourth hour of class straight today and i'm starting to get tired.. i have 6.5 hours of class straight today.. now i'm back in the i don't wnat to study anymore mode.. i'm starting to wonder why the hell i'm back at grad school.. i got my bachelors already so why do i need a masters?
oh wells.. i dunno...my organisational management class were full of adults yesterday as in they have at least 5 years of managing experience.. apparently it's a given that we all have worked for five years.. hmm oh wells..
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saw D again for the first time in several months.. had a lot of fun just hanging out... ordering take out.. helping unpack and lug boxes all across campus.. putting on sparkley tattoos on each other...keke.. tomorrow's first day of school.. gosh i'm not ready for classes to start.. tuesdays are my hell days.. 6 and a half hours straight of classes.. grrr... anywayz i'm still a tad jetlagged so haven't been hitting any of the parties even ones that are in the same house as me but on the other side... keke.. i finally put away my suitcases and decorated my room.. now it looks pretty decent i think... gotta still rearrange some other stuff.. hopefully will settle in soon --------

been having orientation for the past two days.. pretty interesting... in a school where it's mostly guys and like half asian, my incoming class for MAPW has only ONE asian (i.e. me) and TWO guys... this defies EVERY CMU stereotype that I know. keke. and in the ENTIRE incoming Graduate class for the English dept there are a total of TWO asians, me and this indian guy who is getting his pHD...this is SO weird... esp since i'm used to being in a program where there are like two white peeps in the course and like two girls.. heh.. oh wells..

i'm finding that graduate school is all about drinking so far... we had an opening reception last night at Jo MaMa's and proceeded to eat very little and drink a lot.. then on Sunday we have happy hour where once again we get to drink for free.. then on Monday night there's another party at this pHD's student's house for yet more drinks... and there is talk of getting together once a week to drink and eat pizza and stuff.. wow.. i guess it's not all work and no fun keke...

that's about all i have to update.. i finally finished watching files of justice IV and now going to start watching detective investigations files which is pretty cool.. i miss watching HK tv.. too bad they're so mad expensive else i would have bought more back =P
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tis my last night in HK. this summer went by soo quickly.. it's been a great summer esp since my hamily was always here to chill with me and be there for me.. i didn't see hamko/hamlo as much as i like but i think i got a bit closer with hamgong which is a great thing! yay! more MJ in dec keke and of course it's wonderful that hamha came back.. it really made my summer awesome! so i'm done teaching, i'm done playing, i'm done shopping, i'm done eating, i'm done playing MJ. now i have to look forward to meeting new friends and having new courses and dealing with new housemates.. to tell you the truth i'm really nervous.. one thing i'm determined to do before i come back this dec is to get chopsticks to teach me how to drive a car! i really need to get a license keke.. thanks again for all my great friends and family! --------

so xanga is back on but i'm finding that it's still slower than usual... so much has happened... i'm a bit down right now but hopefully i'll bounce up again.. i hate this... i';m leaving for the US on tuesday.. i'm a bit nervous.. most of my friends have graduated and although my best friend there is still going to be at CMU, we're not living together anymore so i wonder if things will be the same... i dunno... i'm wondering if i should just start posting exclusively at one blog instead of all three.. but then again.. i kinda like having multiple blogs so i can talk about other stuff.. i dunno.. one feature i really like about LJ is that you can choose who can read your entries.. that's pretty nifty.. anywayz i'm just rambling.. gotta go to church... --------

OH MY GOSH! i just saw a cockcroach in my room.. i twas soooooooooo scary.. i was all terrified... it ran across my room and when i saw it i decided to throw all my kaplan books at it... then when i tried to lift up the dozens of books i threw IT STILL MOVED! wtf? then i kept throwing more and more books and it kept moving and so i was all stiff and didn't know what to do.. eventually i jumped on it a gazillion times shrieking DIE DIE DIE! and i think it died.. then i didn't know how to dispose it... so in the end i put my candle holder over it. then used a carnegie mellon magazine to scoop under it ( i knew that mag had SOME use) and flushed it down the toilet.. unfortunately now i'm too scared to sleep and i keep thinking i see dark shapes scurrying in my room.. HELP! --------

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had a pretty good couple of days... played MJ again last night.. to my amazement i won again yay! got a piece of garlic bread as my winnings keke...

had an interesting night tonight.. met up with some old friends.. mixed feelings as usual... especially when i know that the old crowd has been gossiping about me... i dunno...

here's a random article to finish my entry

Armani Crafts Special Ensemble for Barbie
NEW YORK - Giorgio Armani has a new muse: Barbie.
Armani has created a strapless, silk chiffon top and crepe skirt embellished with dark beads and covered with sparkle tulle for the 11 1/2-inch doll. Both pieces are taupe. An evening purse, also in taupe crepe and dripping with beads, a matching necklace and earrings complete the outfit.


But couture fashion doesn't come cheap. The price of the limited-edition Armani Barbie, due in stores in September: $134.99.


The Milan, Italy-based designer is donating his royalties to YouthAIDS, a global initiative to educate and protect at-risk youth from HIV (news - web sites) infection, and Room to Grow, which works to improve the lives of babies born into poverty.


The ensemble was inspired by a gown that's part of an exhibit, curated by New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which is touring Europe.


Barbie debuted in 1959 as a teenage fashion model. More than 50 designers, including Bill Blass, Calvin Klein and Vera Wang, have designed items for the Mattel doll.



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my chatterbox is so lonely. no one's chattered with me for the past couple weeks.. keke at least peeps are still leaving me comments. that's one good thing...

i saw good times bed times today.. didn't realise the whole movie was about sex.. for some reason i thought the plot was about something completely different.. like a typical sammi romantic comedy...

i got my hair dyed.. it was orginally gonna be neon pink.. but for some reason, the neon pink didn't stay on my hair... the dye worked on the back of my head but not the front. grrr.. so now i settled for something that's just kinda ordinary. oh wells...

tomorrow's my last class for successful writing. can't believe i've taught for a month already. dang! where did time go by? hamha is going to be leaving soon.. and then i'm leaving four days later.. boohoo!!
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oh i finally learnt how to play mahjong! i played for the first time last night and won! yay! keke total beginner's luck.. oh wells it was nice to win tho =P

mcdonald's have finding nemo toys for sale with happy meals.. i got nemo last week and got pearl this week... pearl is sooooooo cute =P she lights up! keke now i just want to get bloat and squirt.. i think htere's another one i wanna get but i forget what it is.. oh yeah it's bruce! i want the fish friendly great white =P

okie i'm tired.. gonna sleep.. got to go to jordan tomorrow to tutor a kid...
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been chillin and sleeping early for the past two nights... actually managed to do a mask before i went to bed last night.. first time since hamha came back keke.. i was just reading the news and turns out nemo has made 303 million so far in 8 weeks.. dang... i'm off to teach again today.. dun really wanna =P i am always sooo exhausted when i am done teaching.. i never know why though... even when i'm doing internships that is from 8 to 7 it's not that bad.. but for some reason just teaching two hours to those kids drains me all out... --------

so i'm pretty busy these days as most of you know... been going out a lot... went to mong kok today...i went in search of cell phones... my mom ended up getting a 6100... she paid 2130 for it and we were like ok it's the cheapest but then later on tonight, smartone called me and was like oh we randomly selected you as a winner in our new program and if you keep your plan for the next 12 months (which i do anyway) you can get a 6100 for 1488!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh 600 bucks difference! oh wells

i'm so excited! i'm going to watch finding nemo this weekend! hamgong: when is hamli coming back? are we watching it together?

been having lunch with hamlam a lot these days... we're always in central to have lunch right before we go to mong kok =P

ran into stvt today. wow i haven't seen him in two weeks and he's lost so much weight! gosh.. and here i am going out eating out every day and gaining weight.. haiiiiiiiiiii zhee bei!

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I FOUND NEMO! heh or rather nemo found me. keke i came home today and came across a mysterious package that D had sent me for my bday.. turns out it was Nemo! hmm i wonder if i need to watch the movie now seeing that i found nemo =P

i'm exhausted as usual... the kids in my class are pretty fun... wanted me to go watch a movie with them after class... heh... all the kids seriously doesn't take me as a teacher but more as a friend.. i guess it's a good thing =P it prolly doesn't help that some of them are like 18... oh wells... my biggest complaint about my kids are that they don't talk in class... sigh.. i simply can't get them to answer me and interact... out of the classroom, they talk to me nonstop but in the classroom they just suddenly get cursed with this dumbness and mute themselves.. grr... i'm going to try group work next time and see if that will get them to participate...
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i'm bored.. i want to go out but then on the other hand i wanna save some $$ for next week when tis my bday keke.. oh wells i've been feeling kinda despondent lately... not really knowing where i'm going with my life nor feeling that i have the abilities to make it out there in the real world.

i have been going through my bookshelf reading like mad.. in a way it's a form of escapism for me. i used to love reading nancy drew and it's kinda funny how much of the plots i've retained.. i have finished about 35 of them so far and most of the time i can guess who the killer/ blackmailer/ smuggler/ etc is. i just realised that i have more than 200 copies of nancy drew books heh.. oh well it'll last me a couple weeks... i guess my reading speed has picked up a lot.. when i first started reading nancy drew i was in sixth grade.. it used to take me like two hours to read one book but now it takes me all of 20 to 30 min.

other books i've just reread: rachel's holiday, memoirs of a geisha, the nanny diaries, dinner for two, HP 1 to HP 5, and a bunch of other books... i really need to head over to the library and get more books.. but then again i guess i have enough at home to last me for the summer heh... i have over 10 bookshelves full! no wonder i'm such a nerd... anywayz i just found anne of green gables.. i've never read that before.. anyone know if it's any good?
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I just came back from China a couple hours ago. Yesterday was the day of the protest against Article 23. I must say that I was amazed that half a million people came out to protest against our government. Who says HK people aren't concerned about politics?

i find a strange parallel with article 23 to the USA PATRIOT Act. I read news articles about how the US is opposed to this legislation

"The United States, which has firmly opposed the legislation, said the rally clearly demonstrated the importance that Hong Kong people attach to freedom of speech and strong civil liberties.

"A large turnout underscores how important it is for the Hong Kong Government not to rush (the) legislation to enactment before the Legislative Council can discuss concerns raised by Hong Kong citizenry through the most transparent means possible," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. " see for full article

and yet the USA PATRIOT Act also undermines one's freedom. For example, the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) was amended during the passing of this act and now affects Americans in this way.

In the past, the government needed a subpoena to obtain files and information. Now, the government can immediately seize records by executing a search warrant that is based on a lower standard of the search and seizure laws. Traditionally, a search warrant is obtained in an open court where an FBI agent was required to provide specific evidence to show “probable cause” in justifying why a search warrant was needed for a criminal investigation. Now the search warrant is issued in a secret court before a federal judge and an agent must only explain why he or she believes that the records might be related to an ongoing terrorism or intelligence investigation before being allowed to get a search warrant. This new Act essentially allows the FBI to act on a hunch and get search warrants for information.

This violates the fourth Amendment where it states that one must have probable cause before a warrant is issued.

Under Article 23, people can be jailed for life if convicted of subversion or treason or advocating secession from China. It gives police sweeping search powers without court orders.

Is it me or is there a similarity to these laws? Anywayz more to come later. I gotta run.
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so tis monday morning again... i had a really chill sunday which was great! i found my old nancy drew books again so i've been rereading them.. hehe... they use to take me so long to read and now it takes me about half an hour to read a book.. gosh!

the diosas are planning on having a congregation in DC this july.. sigh without ME!! i'm so sad... seems like all the diosas can make it even riko who is in japan right now! grrr

anywayz this is really random but i was on ebay and i suddenly decided that i want a mini rc car... hmm i wouldn't even know what i would do with it but it seems kinda cool. oh wells maybe i'll get one when i go back to the states =P
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went out with the hamily again last night.. sang for the first time i've been back.. i think my chinese is deteriorating.. not a good sign... anywayz today i was spose to go play golf with my coach cept he sprained his ankle poor guy... oh wells i get a day off then.. i think i might stay home tonight... can't go out everynight.. my money is slowly but surely dwindling (sp?) oh wells... i know i shouldn't count my chickens before they hatch but i guess i'll have to start spending the money i'm going to earn in july? heh... so badddddddddd --------

haven't updated in a while it feels like but in reality it hasn't been that long... i'd been working on a new background for my blogs but the html is pissing me off.. anyone know how to set an .swf file as a background for a webpage and still have text on top of it?

haven't done too much lately... let's see on tuesday i went to a benefit that had a show performed by disabled people from china.. it was good.. those kids are soo amazing.. saw J again.. haven't seen her in a while.. got a graduation/bday present from her... yay! hopefully i can put use to it tonight... after the benefit i went to Lost and met up with the hamily... they brought a new friend along.. freud... he's pretty cool... after that we headed over to chapter three and drank some more.. more folks joined us.. then headed back to club syp... i have some pics from that night but too lazy to put it up.. maybe i will later.. if not venture over to hamko's xanga.. i'm sure she'll put them up...

on wed i went out for lunch and saw A for the first time in a year.. then headed over to kaplan where they were being a bitch and wanted me to type up a workbook for them.. it's freaking 82 pages.. after that i met up with W and J and then talked for a bit.. then met up with the hamily again at the foot and had snacks.. headed home for dinner afterwards... i didn't get to have my spicy pork chops since we didn't have breadcrumbs at home.. bah..

today i went out and had brunch with J and then we went to get a facial.. wow i've seen J three times in three days.. that's gotta be a record.. we haven't done that since sophomore year in high school i think. heh.. oh well once she starts work next week i know i'm not going to see her anymore... but yeah so i called the guy who hired me at kaplan and asked him about the workbook and now i don't have to do it afterall! yay! anywayz that's enough update for me.. i'm rereading harry potter again.. yes i'm a dork.. i'm haflway thru... yay! for some reason tho my copy only has 760 pages.. i wonder if i'm missing some pages. heh
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i am absolutely drained... it didn't take me that long to finish the book.. only about five hours.. but i must say i'm exhausted now.. on the whole it was a pretty good book, made me laugh and definitely made me cry.. while i knew who died when it actually happened i couldn't believe it...

SPOILER

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IT CAME!!

now i shall be in hibernation until i'm done with the book. yippeeeee
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did a bunch of stuff lately. on friday went out with H, had dinner, movie and drinks with him.. then saw some folks from citibank and then met up with the hamily... on satruday played golf, had lunch with grandparents, church, then din din at home.. today went to my cousin's wedding and tonight to his wedding banquet... i'm waiting anxiously for my copy of HP to arrive.. for those who will be posting anything about it please DON"T! or at least make sure you disclaim it beforehand. .my dad and mom knows who dies and are already trying to tell me which makes me have to cover my ears and scream everytime so i won't hear them..grrr. when is my copy arriving? been thinking of a lot of things today.. i hate family politics... sigh... --------

so i stayed home tonight and had a lil time to myself.. my parents were out so it was nice just watching movies and eating alone and having the chance to bum around... i watched the italian job.. i liked it a lot... but then in general i like all heist movies and now i really really wanna drive a mini cooper now and do what they do in the movie.. heh.. i always thought the cars were pretty ugly but now i think it's not bad =O keke how easily influenced am i? --------

so i'm back from thailand! it was a blast... as i told samsara.. i needed to go shopping and eat thai food keke.. i bought sooooo much stuff.. it was completely a trip to go shopping.. we went every single day yay! we start off with room service everyday and then go off to have fun. keke

day 1: arrived at the pennisula..had yummy food... then ran into goretti's mom... how random is that? went shopping at silom at the central department store.. hence begins my marathon of shopping...

day 2: go to the weekend market.. it was REALLY REALLY hot... then afterwards go to MBK marketplace... saw some really funny t-shirts that i want to buy for my bro but unfortunately i thought he might not like it and in the end didn't get it... went back yesterday to see if i could find any but mysteriously they all disappeared..after shopping we went to get a three hour massage... now that's quality shopping! that night went to angelini's...

day 3: went to the bigger central dept store.. shopped all day again and then went off to get a massage... afterwards went to eat shark's fin.. it was sooooooooooo good.. the abalone rice was awesome too... man i could get used to living like this

day 4: went to emporium.. again mad shopping... afterwards we go and walk around what used to be the old sogo... there is virtually nothing there anymore... then went to seafood market to have din din...

day 5: my last day in bangkok! what should i do? of course go shopping for the last time.. keke.. we head over to siam square.. then siam center and back to mbk... i bought the cutest lamp at siam center... oh my gosh.. there was the funniest lamp there.. it was in the shape of a naked man.. and the lamp was the head..and the switch was the penis... when it's up. it's turned on.. when it's down it's turned off.. seriously gives a different meaning to being turned on keke... after mad shopping we head back to the hotel and pack up... and so ends my trip!

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do you like watching musicals? one of my favourite things to do is to go to broadway and catch a musical whenever i'm in nyc... i'm listening to songs from musicals right now and i found a really old song that i truly love a lot.. i loved it the first time i heard it and still love it now years late.. it's this song from starlight express.. i saw this musical when i was in london the summer of 8th grade... for some reason i can't get it out of my head and it's jsut one of those songs that i get chills when i listen to it.. i guess for me, it's not the quality of the song or how well it was written even tho it's great but more the memory it represents to me.. eighth grade summer was the first summer i truly left home... i went to germany by myself with some friends and it was the first time i was able to leave home, go to another country and survive in a different culture... my roommate there was from greece and our common language was german.. to a 14 year old kid, that was pretty heady.. i remember pantomining everything and i couldn't figure out how to explain jet lag to her! my german was mediocre at best but i had a blast and made so many friends... afterwards i felt that i was able to do anything if i could leave home... wow i can hardly believe that it was eight years ago.. even though i only went for three short weeks, i felt it was a lifetime.. i felt so grownup meeting my parents in frankfurt to go to paris and london afterwards... that was the summer i really got to know J... and we've been good friends ever since... i still remember J insisting on going to the wax museum in paris... i can't believe how fast time flies... oh well i'm just feeling a tad nostalgic right now i guess... --------

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so i just finished watching 2 fast 2 furious.. it was an okay movie... the 'hot' eurasian chick ain't too hot at all.. in fact she looked kinda ugly oh wells dif peeps dif tastes... i hadn't seen the first one so i had nothing to compare it with.. the race car scenes were pretty neat..i didn't know that jin was in the movie... that was kinda amusing. i was like oh it's the little guy! heh.now i'm waiting for italian job to finish so i can watch that too....
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i haven't been home for dinner pretty much the entire time i've been back.. no wonder i'm getting chubby! aiya deem suen? good thing tonight i'm going to stay home and eat.. i'm leaving for thailand tomorrow which should be fun.. the not so fun part is that i seem to have caught a cold from standing out in the rain the other night... what else did i do? umm oh last night we had japanese food for din din.. it's nice to have a family that cares.. they are all asking me what to do on july 7th and where they are taking me out for dinner.. keke.. my family's the best! after din din i went shopping with W. got myself a new shirt.. i really should stop spending money seeing that i have no income right now and i jsut bought my daddy a pretty expensive present but oh wells... it was ON SALE! =P yeah me and shopping.. my weakness.. afterwards went to soho to grab a drink and just chilled with W talking about stuff... kinda amazing to think that we've known each other for five years now.. time goes by so quickly... anywayz i just got a great copy of 2 fast 2 furious so now i'm going to watch it.. i'm holding myself back from getting finding nemo tho.. i REALLY wanna watch it big screen.. anyone know when it's coming out in hk?
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lessee, so what have i been doing? been watching some movies at home.. catching up on the movies i've wanted to watch but never got around to doing... last night went out to stanley for dinner.. had yummy spanish food.... then headed over to club syp and chilled for a while... after that we headed to fitness first... most of the hamily was there.. well most in the sense that hamko, hamlo, hamgong and me.. we were missing hamli and hamha.. got the hamily to promise to come out the night of the 6th to countdown to my bday.. yay! after stvt signed up we went over to chapter three.. it was pretty nice.. just us at the bar so it felt very chill.. i like it when there isn't too many ppl at the place... me and hamgong got to talk a bit... then i talked more with carmen and got to know the bartender... hamko was tired so she left early.. then after the bar closed at 2am stvt, cherry and i headed over to first edge.. but apparently it wasn't to stvt's liking so then we headed over to insomia.. just chilled some more and left after a while... it was pouring as usual.... got to stand out in the rain for a lil while.. i forget how relaxing it was... of course couldn't stand too long since i would catch a cold... at the rate this rain is going i feel really tempted to go out in my baggy clothes and just get soaked... i have this weird affinity for walking about in the thunderstorms.... whenever there is one in pitt which isn't very often i love to head out and think and get soaked... anywyaz that's my night... i'm headed to thailand on saturday.. won't be back until wednesday... but no worries i'm sure i'll update again before i leave keke --------

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it really annoys me that whenever i update on blogger and refresh my browser i see old entries and not the new ones i make.. i wonder why.. pisses me off so much.. i'm thinking of changing the layout of this blog again.. getting bored of it.. hmm what do peeps think? it's been pouring these past couple days.. i feel like a fish swimming through the buildings... went out again today to kaplan and grabbed some textbooks.. been looking over and planning my lessons.. i feel odd to be in the teacher position as opposed to the student role... anywayz found more xangas of peeps i know.. i guess a lot of peeps DO have xangas... hmm... anywayz what else did i do? talked to my brother a lot... he kills me sometimes.. he's such a fun guy... last night i started watching zheung tai sushi... haven't seen that jap drama in a while... the bad side of it is that whenever i watch, it makes me crave sushi.. so bad! i've lost a couple pounds since i came back.. hoping to lose more.. so hamGong is back from thailand.. she sounds a bit peeved that all of us are going to thailand now, right after she's back.. oops... bad planning i guess. sorry gal! it's ok we'll chilli in hk =P
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haven't done much these days.. my cuz's came over last night and tis mad fun.. i love hanging out with V. she's so adorable.. i guess the 16 year dif between us helps keke.. i have so much fun with her.. had yumy food as usual.. ate lunch with some aunties and uncles today and then had dinner at home.. got to eat fois gras so i was all happy... then just chilled at home watching japanese dramas with my parents... i noticed that my chinese has deteriorated a lot.. i still know enough to understand what's going on but a lot of the characters i really dunno... what else? got some really good trance albums from J4g.. tis very nice of him to leave his computer on even when he's in spore.. i was gonna go out last night but when i changed to go out my mom gave me an evil look and then goes you're going out NOW? admittedly it was approaching 12:30 but still... oh wells maybe i'll get to go out later this week.. W is trying to get me to go out so i should meet up sometime this week.. i might head to bangkok so it all depends... not too sure when i'm going yet.. apparently hamlo and hamko will be going to bangkok too.. would be rather amusing if we were on the same flight.. anywwayz tis enough for now. i'm getting sleepy...
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i find it kinda amusing that i got a call today asking to teach two of kaplan's courses.. apparently i have free reign and can do wahtever i want.. it's just gonna be some grammar and style exercises i guess.. i'm teaching a course called successful writing and also i'm going to teach the college application workshop. gosh reminds me of the horror of applying to colleges and wondering what the heck to write for my essay. keke.. anywayz i saw the softest silk elephant today.. it was soo cute! too bad it costs $1850.. that's a little under USD $300.. woah!! it was by ferragamo.. heh i guess that's why =P it was sooo soft tho... i want! --------

i'm feeling freakin tired... so now i think i'm working for Kaplan except i dunno if i really am.. he said he'll call me if he has anything for me so i guess we'll see... anywayz i jsut got back from ING. so many people... i dunno maybe it's coz i'm going out with a bunch of new peeps that i dunno really well.. i don't feel that comfortable.. i dunno... am i getting introverted? got a facial today after my interview with kaplan.. umm what else? i turned down the princeton review job... had mad good food these days.. had italian at the ritz carlton on tuesday night.. had four bottles of really nice wine.. mmm quality life... then had great sushi tonight at the ritz again... man i love going home.. the food makes it all worth while... i saw my relatives again last night.. had tea with my aunt and cousins and their new dog... she's so cute. i really like her.. my dad and I are now conspiring to get a dog when i come home... keke... hopefully next year this time there will be a post saying i got a dog...keke.. sorry D i know you'll be disappointed that we didn't get the kitty.. but it's ok u know you're goin to get it later.. and remember to name it evil keke.. anywayz i'm going to crash soon.. my allergies are really killing me.. grr
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Haven’t updated in a while. Said I wouldn’t update until a certain someone will so a long wait has begun… keke unfortunately it doesn’t look like that person will update so I give up… I’m going to post a long update on what I’ve done in the past couple days…….on wed saw a couple of my dad's friends... had korean bbq with them.. as usual it was all fun and laughter.. they are like kids keke... on Thursday I had an interview with the people at Princeton Review to teach SAT. I figured might as well make a lil money.. and seriously it’s LITTLE… the pay isn’t that great and no guaranteed work.. I emailed her back with a counter offer today so hopefully she will accept it.. if not oh wells.. hopefully she’ll take it tho.. it’ll be nice to have a lil cash this summer… my other internship pays in US dollars so I can’t cash in my checks here in HK without a fee that is pretty hefty… anywayz we’ll see la… so the weekend was pretty cool.. on Friday I had yummy italian food for lunch and then had din din with my grandma.. then went to hamko’s place to chill for a while and then met some new peeps.. had drinks and went to a hookah bar..sat I had to play golf… went to the driving range to have my lesson with the coach.. ate a rogue sausage bun that made me sick all day… umm sat night had din din with my relatives.. saw V again.. she was so happy to see me it was adorable. Her face lit up and she came to sit next to me.. she’s grown so much! now I feel old keke.. I guess the 16 years dif in our age does show =P umm what else? Sunday I bummed around… didn’t go to China… went over to Hamko’s place and ate bread pudding… today I met up with H… haven’t seen him in a while.. he treated me din din.. so nice! We had little dragon buns keke… oh I also bought a new shirt today! Yay! Was going to go out and have drinks since HamGong is leaving for Thailand tomorrow but then my phone died and I was carrying 9 sticky rices, 100 cdrs, and three other shopping bags full of stuff so I decided I’d better head home rather than lug stuff around… ohh I saw bruce almighty over the weekend too.. it was mad funny.. I liked the message behind it a lot…of course the prayer system was great.. now makes me wonder if I’m spamming God by praying every night.. oh wells He must be used to it by now… speaking of God, I’ve only worn a mask out once since I’ve been back… and that’s to go to church.. for some reason the church we go to insists we wear masks even tho the other church we go to don’t.. but yeah...i REALLY want to watch Finding Nemo.. argh why won't it come out in HK? anywayz so this is my long ass entry.. --------

i just figured out my schedule for next semester.. it's so bizzare... i have every wed, fri and sun off... but have to go to class all the other days.. but mondays i don't start clas suntil 5:30 and then on sat i have one hour and a half class.. i didn't even know i had sat class.. grrr this sucks... oh wells i guess stupid masters students have work to go to or something... but yeah so my parents each decided to come into my room and turn on the lights respectively every hour or so at three or four in the morning.. i'm a really light sleeper so all that ended up doing is giving me two hours of sleep last night and me not going to get over jetlagged... oh btw D if you're reading this, my dad keeps bugging me to find you to ask you to send the graduation tape.. if you can please please send it asap so i can get him off my back since he is asking EVERY MINUTE why you are not online.. grrr... and yes he's only been back for 12 hours.. sigh.. --------

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diu i'm so fucking pissed off.... i buy a brand new pretty graduation dress, wear it for three or four hours and then fucking leave it in my apt and forget it pack it. wtf? i'm such an idiot.. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it was so expensive too.. sigh... i'm sooooooooo stupid... --------

i'm up and about.. crashed pretty early last night... so tired... jet lag does hit me bad... but yeah so i got up at 9am and now dunno what to do with myself... i'm definitely going to get a haircut today though.. my hair is driving me crazy.. it's seriously getting too long... i'm tempted to grow it out and have long hair but i don't think i look good with long hair... i dunno at least thin out my hair a bit and relayer it.. i want to get it redyed too.. what colors should i do this time? i'm very tempted to get pink highlights or maybe purple... i've always wanted purple but then the one time i was going to do it my MOM got it done before me.. grrr... yes i have to fight over what colors to dye my hair with my mom.. i guess that's why everyone thinks my mom looks so young =P oh wells..i 'm getting sick of red, copper, blond and black... multicolored hair is getting a bit tiring seeing that i've had it for two years now... i'll see... i should prolly consult my mom before dying it pink tho... i dunno i'll see.. knowing me i'll prolly chicken out and just get my usual red highlights or multicolored blond streaks again.. we'll see... my parents are coming back tonight... boohoo... no more driver and maid exclusively for me... oh wells not like i've been utilizing them anyway... i haven't gone out at all.. keke... and when i went out on sunday my driver was on holiday. oh wells... okie i think this is enough for now... --------

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so apparently D thinks that my background is not design friendly.. he thinks that the top pic should be in monotone like the other pic but when i tried it out i thought it didn't look as nice. keke oh wells.. met up with some members of the hamily yesterday... just walked around CB.. i was very quiet towards the end.. sorry guys.. i was severely jet lagged..now you guys know why i don't venture out to meet people until at least a week until i get back.. i tend to zone out and be so out of it that i'm no fun at all keke... so i talked to hamGong today.. i want to have drinks with her tomolo but she's so hardcore exercising.. must be so fit by now.. gosh everyone is so fit and slim now.. herbalife is really taking over our hamily... hamko looks so much thinner! ten pounds in a month.. maybe i should go on it too.. but i love food so much. hmm dunno what to do. keke... maybe i should work on losing ten pounds by my bday.. hmm i'll think about it... --------

i'm back in hk la... waiting for hamko, hamlam and hamlo to get ready then i'm going to go out and meet them. ,my flight back was pretty uneventful.. met a girl who goes to harvard and knows ingrid hammond... weird huh? such a small world.. she's from hkis and knows some of my peeps there too... random... one embarassing thing happened when the security people had to search through my luggage... the very 'nice' present that D had given me for xmas two years ago resurfaced and the guy searching it had this look on his face... *blushes* i was sooooooo embarassed.. thanks a lot D =P i'm a lil jet lagged... but hopefully i'll get pass it in two days or so. that's my target this year. i always take like weeks to get over it.. i'm going to go out to CB with the hamily and then have dinner with my family so hopefully i'll last until at least 10 or so. of course it's only 1pm and i'm already feeling sleepy so we'll see how that goes.. --------

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so the weirdest thing just happened and i want to jot it down before i forget about it because i have a feeling a short story will come out of this. so anna charley and i went to the kentacohut down in oakland to grab some food and as we walked back to our car we were approached by this homeless lady who was about to cry. she was saying hwo she has this idea and she needed help to bring it to fruition and so we all assumed she was asking for money so we all gave her some money and expected to go on our merry way but even after we gave her money she kept asking for help, saying that she was homeless, didn't have an education and wanted to get this card published. it is a-z in ways related to God. she kept looking at charley and in the end we figured out she wanted him to write down her thoughts so we got some paper and he wrote it down for her. then she proceeded to ask for our names and wanted our addresses.... when i told her that i'm leaving and going back to China, she was immediately aware of SARS and told me not to go back.. she kept asking us where she could get help and if we could give her our names and addresses... it was very weird... she could sense that anna wasn't too pleased and actually said so.. she ended up giving us multiple hugs and after we wouldn't give her our addresses we were finally able to leave... now the thing taht we were musing about is why would she go on telling us her list? if she were just asking for money, she got it right away... thing is... she's also very smart and perceptive and i think the word i want to use is aware of her surroundings... she seemed to be crying and very helpless and lost but on the other hand she seemed very bright... i dunno maybe it's the cynical part of me coming out but still.. i dunno,... i'm going to muse about it and i'm sure a short story will come out of it somehow... --------

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so graduation went by way too quickly. it's all pretty mucha blur. i had my Senior Honors Convocation in the morning.. it was a little chilly but we got up early and took the cab to my apt. my parents met D for the first time... they liked you a lot! keke.. but yeah so what happened was that my parent, D and I headed over to the convocation and listened to speeched made then H&SS had their own lil 'ceremony' where i picked up my medal. after that D had to go back and pack so my parents and I headed to the UC to take my graduation photo.. i must say i think i look like a mushroom with my cap on.. i'm a lil chinese mushroom.. haha a doong goo... =P but we ran into J and i took some pics with her. then it ook my parents to Union Grill for lunch and after lunch i dropped them off at McCodemy (you would think i've learnt to spell it by now keke) and i headed to the third floor of the UC to line up for my departmental ceremony. after finally receiving my diploma we went to teh reception where i introduced my parents to some profs and also C. they were so happy to meet my pittsbrugh mommy keke.. then we headed back to the hotel where my parents crashed and slept..s ee! i knew i got my nap taking habits from SOMEONE. keke so yeah then we had dinner with C.Y at 1902 Tavern. the food was expensive and wasn't that great so i wouldn't recommend it to anyone. next day was the general commencement. sat next to another C whom to my surprise was part of H&SS. i thought A.I was like a CS thing or something but no apparently it's under philosophy. my school is weird. finally commencement was over and everyone scattered about. i had to leave early and couldn't find half the ppl i wanted to see and take pics with. sigh. we headed to kiku at station square then walked back from station square to the hilton. my parents have an amazing memory. my dad went to a business course at u pitt 20 years ago and still remembers the way.. btu yeah then we went to the grand concourse for dinner. they had the best dessert.. anyways gotta run. more later --------

My Senior Will

so i'm pretty much done packing and now that deep dark melancholy feeling is coming over me. big shoutout to john and marcus for helping me move my boxes on wed! so on wed D and I went to the waterfront. we went to PF Changs coz we were craving the lettuce wraps. to our surprise there was no wait and so we sat down ordered and the wrap came pretty quickly. while we were eating the fire alarm went off and we were all confused.. turns out that there was a 'slight' flare up in the kitchen and they had to close for the night. so i asked the manager if we could jsut get the check for the wraps and leave but he was like oh it's on the house and feel free to finish up etc.. it's only a small fire in the kitchen.. heh so we finished the food and left. yay free food. afterwards we went shopping for a couple hours.. YES after packing for days swearing i will never buy anything again i manage once again to buy something. but it's a neccessity i need it for graduation so i guess it doesn't count. then went to B&N and read a little. i found D the buffy and philosophy book. that was kinda amusing and then i read the finding nemo character guide. it's so cute! i really want to see that movie now. so then we went to watch the matrix: reloaded.. gosh it was a pretty good movie, loved the effects the freshness of the special effects are kinda gone though.. the only thing is i didn't like the abrupt ending! gosh what's the deal? it's now a 6 month intermission before i get to see the ending! grrr

today we went to Bravos for dinner, there was Jon, Crystal, Deepa, Jen, Diana, Ryan and Desik. it was fun... we had to eat early coz some of the folks wanted to go to clippership.. D and I didn't go... we opt to stay home and clean... and trust me while anti social we really needed to do that.. anywayz ryan thought some waitress was cute and do desik went around holding jon's digicam and asked to take waitress' photos. kinda amusing... then it was one big cleaning fest for D and I. threw out four big bags of trash... and then J came over and we chatted and when she left i felt so sad! she and i were both crying! i can't believe it's been four years.. i wrote out my senior will today and i was all sad because of it...

on a sidenote. it was teh Friends season finale and the only thing i can say was i was very upset over the ending. rnj shouldn't be together IMO but i dunno i mean i agree rnr has gone through too much to really start over but i like the rachel in rnr better than rnj. i dunno it was all very predictable and a lil disappointing... the only great thing is that Mike's back! and he's soo good to pheobe.. i totally cracked up when he turned competitive on monica... but yeah anywayz that's my recap with thoughts... more to come... --------

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I scored a 69% on the "How Hong Kong Are You?" Quizie! What about you?

so i scored 1% higher than hamko. heh... i found it weird that hamgong was only 57% tho.. too much to talk about and not enough time to type. maybe when i'm less stressed and less exhausted i shall recap.

brief recap with no thoughts: finished most of my packing, moved some stuff, found out my grades, got my cap and gown, extended my housing lease, saw the matrix... --------

ok so i'm looking under my bed for boxes to pack up my stuff and guess what i found? MY BOX OF WINTER CLOTHES which is NOT unpacked yet from LAST YEAR! i thought i was missing some clothes... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr oh wells at least one box packed
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so here we go, as we all know i'm headed back to hong kong in a week and my friends and i were talking about masks......
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You have a mysterious kiss. Your partner never
knows what you're going to come up with next;
this creates great excitement and arousal never
knowing what to expect. And it's sure to end
in a kiss as great as your mystery.


What kind of kiss are you?
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just heard an old old song and realised how long it's been.. i loved this song...

In My Life - The Beatles

There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more
In my life I love you more

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Friends: TOW the sperm donor

my thoughts on this eppy,
i hate jealous rachel.. i'm a big r&r shipper so it's no surprise but i miss the rachel who had a character and wasn't petty and would let charlie think that pheobe was the one being jealous..
ross' storyline was pretty boring..the only good part is when he fell into the prof's lap...
enough with the joey sex jokes... at this point it's becoming rather incestuous!
i'm glad they mentioned ben and emma.. YES they are still alive!
also glad that they did the whole ross saying not going to give C&M ben coz i'm also SICK of the joey making inappropiate ross and monica jokes
the two things i really liked about this eppy is how monica and chandler interact, i'm glad they decided not to go through with the sperm donor and also pheobe has a storyline again! FINALLY! she's always so neglected i feel.. i dunno how i feel between david and mike though, both have their good points... anywayz my 2 cents

on a sidenote, i just made mashed potatoes with a really nice sirloin steak.. mmmmn
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You are Wolverine!

A loner by nature, you feel uncomfortable when
around those you don't know and even those you
do. You are awkward when it comes to
relationships, but fiercely loyal to those you
love.


Which X-Men character are you most like?
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funny.. when i took another quiz about a year ago i was jean grey.. does that mean i've mutated to something else? keke --------

movies i've seen since classes ended:
jerry mcguire
xmen
kindergarten cops
daredevil
bend it like beckham
two weeks notice
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classes ended six days ago.. all these movies on top of shopping, drinking, my usual dose of tv, yes i suddenly found a lot more time on my hands. keke

so yeah what was i going to say? i forget.. oh hamko random sidenote.. the only reason i learnt how to inhale was because the hookah smelt so much nicer than normal cigs.. heh.. as i told you before apparently there are flavored cigs that you can buy in hk that are like apple, lemon etc.. interesting no?

so my mom can come to my graduation! yay! it's still play by ear for my daddy but at least my mom's coming and i'll have one person here for me =P

oh i didn't get the graduation speaker thing which was a good thing.. i actually nominated for the other girl.. after a lot of thinking i decided that if i were to give a speech i would be so nervous throughout the whole ceremony that i won't enjoy myself and remember anything so i'm really glad i didn't get it. just being nominated was good enough for me! hehehe

btw hamlo i heard what happened. i'm sorry to hear that.. if you ever wanna talk i'm here la! u know how to find me. of course i doubt u'll need to seeing that you have such a great hamko and wonderful hamha =P but yeah anywayz my dear hamily i'll be back may 24.. let's go out, drink and have fun! --------

The phantom Tollbooth-
this book just gets better as i grow up. there are so many subtle points that i've missed as a kid when i read it. i'm tired and my final is in 2.5 hours..i dunno if i should study anymore... seriously it's to the point where it hink i won't know anymore and i think i might have to settle for a B in this class.. grrrr and i'm sleepy! i better not fall asleep during the final... --------

saw daredevil again last night. prolly because lower expectations i didn't dislike it as much. hmm. anywayz so grammar final tomorrow. i need a 91 on the final to pull off an A and a 51 to pull off a B so should i bother? keke.. i know i'll prolly aim for the A coz i'm an overachiever but on the other hand it's my last final as an undergraduate, i thought i was going to get a B anyways and i'm feeling lazy! what should i do? heh i think i'll prolly study as much as i can and then do my best and hope for the A i guess.. i dunno...

so yeah i need to get up at 9 tomorrow morning to mail stuff off.. really need to get it done asap..

on the other hand, i bought an electric eraser.. how random is that? i fell in love using it when i used myrna's on wed =P

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well the adamson party was fun last night.. got to talk to a lot of the peeps.... one bad thing happened tho but yeah other than that i had fun.. now the final is coming up and i'm screwed. i dun wanna study! i still have a big paper to write.
ok list of stuff to do:
paper to write
final to study for
final project to do
a ton of stuff to pack
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so i'm watching the better luck tomorrow movie special on tv right now... and i guess what they're saying is really true. i know why there is such a big buzz about this seeing that it's all about asian americans and they have 3d roles and how they've grown up being chinese thug #1 or paramedic #1 in movies... i'm still not sure about the ending tho heh.. i mean i like the idea of the movie but the ending still disturbed me but i must admit that they are good actors! --------

wow.. this just hit me all of a sudden... two more classes and i'm done with my undergraduate degree.. no more classes working towards my BA. i'm done. i still have two papers, one final project and one final to go to but classes-wise i'm done. tonight's class we are going to a gallery to look at paintings.. tomorrow's class we are going to PHI bar to drink and listen to presentations. Wow. the enormity of this really is hitting me right now... --------

wow i feel proud of myself. i jsut made a shephards pie from scratch... INCLUDING the gravy! so i boiled the potatoes, mashed them, made the filling and also the gravy all from fresh vegetables and meat and got it all done in an hour. it's now baking in the oven! heh i hope it tastes okay! but i've never done the whole thing from scratch before.. i didn't even know how to make gravy but now i do! wheeeeeeeeee
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yeah tis time to procrastinate.. came acrossed an amusing quiz =P


fucked.


what fucked version of hello kittie are you?
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so tis been a pretty good weekend... lessee... on friday we went out to celebrate D's bday... took the UV loop to Station Square where we had dinner at Philthy McNasty's... heh good stuff.. the name alone made it worth it =P nd then afterwards we headed to Rock Jungle to dance... D and I tried out the oxygen bar they had there... nice stuff... hehe... heck it's a lot better than weed anyway.. 'natural high' keke... i had four flavours, strawberry fields, chillin, fuzzy navel and some other flavour.. dun remember.. then we were dancing a lot.. at first we wanted to go to the Matrix but unfortunately it's 21 and over only and we have a young un upon us =P so we went to Rock Jungle instead where i got hit on by an 18 year old. it was rather amusing.. he asked for my number and i was like how old are you? he started saying eight... then cut off and was like wait how old are you? of course then i was like patting on the head saying i'm too old for you little one =P but i found that rather amusing... the club was pretty crowded yet there was very few ppl at the bar coz no one was of age.. how sad =O oh wells more liquor for me =P teehee but yeah we had fun and i hope D enjoyed her bday!

today we went out to celebrate A's bday. went to Bar Louie for dinner which wasn't bad... S insisted on treating everyone so i gotta find time to take him out drinkin some time.. keke no hard liquor! i promise =P then we bummed around for a while at B&N then went to watch the movie Better Luck Tomorrow. I dunno how i feel about it. i mean i get the 'point' if there was any in getting and i thought it wasn't a bad movie but afterwards i couldn't decide if i like it or not.. upon further reflection i guess i do kinda like it but it's one of those films that get u thinking for a bit.. here's a brief description of the movie i found on imdb.."A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities."

the good thing i liked about this movie is that it shows that it's not only those who are alienated from their parents who get bad grades that feel the pressure to do something bad..appearances can be deceiving as i've learnt the hard hard way... you can present one image and be something completely different. but yeah that's my weekend.. pretty good overall =P now i gotta go do work boohoo --------

ok after talking to my peeps i've decided to hang in there and keep this journal! it helps to know that there are people out there who root for you and try to cheer you up! i am feeling much better. i was just a tad down but i think i'm going to be better...

on an up side. because i'm moving off campuse next year, i jsut checked out my new house and i think i'm pretty pysched! we might even get us a puppy! i'm so excited!!
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i find myself developing alternate personalities... i feel cautious as to what i write here now that i know so many people read this blog.. is it time to move on, close this blog and find a new one? maybe i should do what D did and just switch to LJ.. or maybe i should just start a completely new one.. i'm giving so much of myself out here and it's not worth it.. it really isn't... maybe i should just close this blog down... --------

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i find that i wanna start most of my entries start with so. i dunno why hehe... but yeah my advisor came to class yesterday.. i'm guessing it's coz she's gotten so many complaints about this guy. i hope she sees how much help this guy needs... it's so bad... i mean he's a nice guy jsut that he doesn't have our respect...so i've written like 40 pages in the past two days.. now i'm off to take my take home quiz.. =/

oh well at least we'll have some fun this weekend. tis D's bday and we're going to go to Philthy McNasty's for dinner and then head over to a club.. then on sat we're going to celebrate A's bday too! and of course last weekend we went over to Green Forest and ate so much food hehe tis going to be food food food all weekend =P --------

i'm so stupid. i've been seriously stressed out over corporate communications and marketing this semester... the professor is an awful teacher and really doesn't know how to teach or lecture. so now i'm down to my last two weeks of class and i realise that i've been stressing over this class for nothing.. i just realised that i don't need it for my BA nor do I need it for my MA. so i'm basically taking this class as a free elective and getting a B in the process... now that i'm almost done with the semester i'm seriously contemplating dropping this course and getting a W on my transcript instead. is it pyschotic of me to want to get a withdraw on my transcript rather than a B? it's bringing down my GPA....i'm such an idiot. i should have realised that this course while is a graduate level course doesn't count towards my accelerated degree pogram because i can only count four courses for that. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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i'm tired.. really sleepy but it doesn't seem like i'm getting much done. at least i have 111 words right? out of a 1500 essay i have something! =P i know i should be working on this but i'm sooo sleepy.. grrrrrrrr

so M basically saved my life! he is the coolest! i can't believe this turn of luck. well it still sucks but the fact that i have friends in high places or at least connections with high people makes me proud! =P i'm a dork. yeah wells at least i got some stuff cleared up since i was so confused about the whole TiVo and DirecTV link =P yay! i'm so happy.. of course now i have to write write write! oh btw HAPPY BDAY L!!!! --------

i'm sitting home on a saturday evening trying to write my stupid white paper which as my teacher says when asked, ' i don't really know how to explain what a white paper is and there really isn't such a thing' and as to the format 'i'd rather not say and let you devise your own paper' wtf? how useless can he be? grrr... so now i'm researching on Tivo and trying to find a market niche in which i can promote a five year marketing strategy. grrr but i came across a funny article which i shall share a quote from

"Mr. Iwanyk, 32 years old, first suspected that his TiVo thought he was gay, since it inexplicably kept recording programs with gay themes. A film studio executive in Los Angeles and the self-described "straightest guy on earth," he tried to tame TiVo's gay fixation by recording war movies and other "guy stuff."

"The problem was, I overcompensated," he says. "It started giving me documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich.""

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so i caved in and got a LJ due to D's insistence that it's so much cooler than blogger and how it's a great thing. oh wells just coz i have another journal doesn't mean i'm going to abandon my baby =P i guess i'll just have two journals. hehe yes i am THAT bored... i find myself having a lot of fun tinkering with the page and making a new and completely different background. i've been wanting to change backgrounds for a while but since Hamha likes this one so much i figured i'll keep it =P i changed one feature on this page tho.. i wonder if peeps will notice... so yeah i just finished going to LOTR:TTT it was ok.. i'm confused about the elves tho.. if they are immortal and don't age why does some look older than others? are they born just old then? they don't grow? or do they grow to a certain point and then stop aging? if that's the case what decides who gets to be old and wrinkly and others young and beautiful? maybe they jsut age at a very very very slow rate? that's my theory, what people think of as immortality is really just others being in another time plane and that plane happens to be a lot slower than ours so we think they don't die but in reality after a couple thousand years they do, it's just that we aren't around to see it. i think tis kinda sad actually to be immortal. if i were to be immortal i think i would like to be in a world where everything is on the same time plane... i would hate to see all my friends die and keep dying because they are 'mortal' and i am not. it would suck so much. i dunno... random musings at 2am after a long movie and feeling sleepy =P --------

just finished watching Summer Holiday. Such a cute movie. why can't real life be a musical and when people declare their love for each other to sing it out loud in joy? =P Cliff Richard looks really cute! too bad it was a 1962 British Musical and it's like 40 odd years later and he's old and wrinkly and he's 60+ =P tis good though. i haven't seen this movie in a good ten years or so i think. hehe... old british musicals... good stuff... i still have two more to watch yay! --------

because hamha sent me this and hamko made me watch it incessantly over christmas break one day i figured i'll post it up for everyone to see....



cheer up la HamHa! the guy who stole your order is a big jerk.. it's ok! u'll steal his big account next time! not only an order, full account!
vent all you want now la.. but after you fat sit yuen just let it go. there will be other orders... i know it's very frustrating and i really wish there's something i can do to help you but i dunno what =( --------

so i've been asked to update my blog. there really isn't much to say except that i feel really crappy and can barely make myself to class and it sucks that it's such beautiful weather outside for once and i'm missing it by sleeping the hours away from my life. i'm bored as all hell because i wanna watch tv or stay in front of computer but my head feels like it's 30 pounds heavier and my neck won't support my head. ugh. i don't like this at all.. grrrr... on the other hand just read HamGong's xanga... don't worry about your nightmare la. as I emailed u, it's perfectly natural to have nightmares.. ur juju won't cheat on you! long distance is always hard but hey at least u get to see ur juju once a week! right? that's something to be cheerful about! smile girl! cheer up la!
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ugh I seem to have developed a sore throat and a cough so the parental units are very worried and are making me get it checked out at the health center for fear that i have contracted SARS and am going to kill myself along with the whole CMU campus. grrrrrrrrr --------

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so tis a lazy sunday afternoon where i am tired and dun wanna do any work esp since it's for that stupid middle man who doesn't know how to teach but thinks he has to be a hard grader in order to be a good teacher....

anywayz so i turn on the tv and the cartoon network was having a hamtoro mini marathon! =P so of course i had to sit and watch that seeing that I might spot members of the hamily there! teehee.. just thought i'll give a shoutout to HamKo since she's the big mama of the hamily =P --------

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so yeah carnival weekend- a weekend of fun and joy and traumas.. this always happens. every fucking year... so let's see this year two of my friends ended up at the ER, another friend got really upset, two of my friends suffered from the same cause. one of my other friends want to kill that cause so yeah a very uneventful weekend. grrr...

so another 'friend' came back this weekend to visit and i was thinking how i didn't even want to see that person. it's rather sad when u think about how u felt u know a person, taht you understand a person and believed in the good of that person adn then realise that it's all a joke, that it doestn' matter because fundamentally, deep down, that person is not who u think they were and that all they have said in the past was pure crap.

so let's recap what else i did this weekend, saw laputa with D and R. that was kinda nice except D fell asleep. was going to go see booths with D but she decided to go to the waterfront instead. seriously i shoudl jsut stick to hanging out with her. she keeps me sane... went to grove city and shopped with M and R, went to dinner at the OC with a bunch of peeps and then headed to Club Joy for karaoke and proceeded to have my weekend screwed. whatevers... carnival weekend, it's a prereq, every year some shit has to happen before it's over...

i'm cynical, what can i say? i've been hurt too much and been screwed over too much.

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so tis carnival. last night went to the main event and saw jin. wasn't too impressed but oh wells it was all good fun. heh when he walked by me i was surprised to see how little he was and i exclaimed wow he's so little and M got rather offended since he's the same height heh.. but i guess after seeing him up on stage he seemed taller than i thought he would be hahaha

so i saw a cute boy, he had blonde hair and blue eyes, was short and unfortunately haven't learnt how to speak yet. =P he's all of six months old and he is soo adorable! i dunno how i managed to find a baby in the party but i did. heh. his parents claimed that it's usually very quiet and that they just stopped by to have a drink and stumbled onto this party. heh.. yeah right.. ah wells i had fun playing with him though =P random no?

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so i have to study for a grammar quiz and naturally i fall back into blogging because altho my quiz is in an hour, i woke up early to study i am procrastinating =P so let's see... well i ventured over to HamKo to find another top ten list... so now she has one for her