softcups

so it has been a while since i last updated. just been swamped by papers and finals all week but i'm done with classes for the semester! on to finals...here is a picture of xuemin and what i'm going to update about today. read more to find out what it is!

anywho, the other day when i was walking to class, a lady wearing a pink shirt with a huge basket stopped me in front of campus and offered me a sample. "did you get your sample yet?" i looked up at her and saw the package she was handing me. free sample? why not. it was neatly packed like a tampon sample or something. so i excited it took it. then when i looked it closely, the pick on the sample looked like a female condom. my excitement soon turned into awkwardness mixed in with embarrassment. i quickly shoved it into my background and possibly toss it later during the day.

when i saw my friend after class, we somehow happened to get into the conversation about the free sample. i expressed my disgust to her. she then showed me the pink plastic wristband around her arm. i soon recognized what where it was from. i stared at her with disgust. she apparently kept the plastic band and cut off the rest of it. as much as i found disgusting, i also found it hilarious and somewhat creative. i generously offered my sample to her and continued to make another 3 more.

well anways, apparently it aint a condom, its an alternative to a pad and a tampon, which is kind of gross to think of at times.

ok this post was pretty awkward.

later,
j

life

"I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life.” I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I ha...ve pains, I don’t have to be one. I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Maya Angelou

royal wedding

sorry, i haven't updated in while because school is winding down and its been kind of crazy.
but..this weekend...or on april 29th its the royal wedding! being a british citizen, i feel that i should be excited about this. which i am so i decided to what the lifetime movie of william and kate. its free on lifetime. here yes i know its tacky and many visible flaws but its still a pretty cute chick flick.

until next time,
j

so here are some of the random things that i did when i was younger... (though i do continue to do random things)

i had a craving for kellogg's rice krispies. i had three boxes of 16 in on week. i then told my friend to buy me more and she bought me a big box of 54 from costco. i ate less than 10 of it and then decided to called it quits.

during my sophomore year of high school, i had another food craving. i ate marchuan beef ramen everyday for dinner. after about 1.5 weeks, i grew tired of it. now, i cannot eat another bowl/ bag of maruchan ramen.

in high school, the tuck shop (which is commonly known as a snack bar...yes...we're fancy. i know) had wings o' fire which were really just spicy chicken stripes. my friends and i would always go there after classes before sports to eat them.

on my 18th birthday, i made one of my friends, shoshi, walk to the theatre to watch my first r-rated movie: stop-loss. though it was really r rated, channing tatum, ryan philippe and joseph gordon-levitt. when i decided to drag my friend to watch it, i didn't realize there was supposed to be a deeper meaning to the movie. i actually wanted to go watch it because of who are in it. and now i know...

when i was a young pea, i liked to collect trash. more like paper balls that my mom tossed on the floor to entertain me. i found a real kick for it, actually.

i was obsessed with stickers when i was younger. i had a ton of sticker boxes and i collected them. i also stuck a bunch on my face. my dad also helped me with my collection by bringing some home from work. i now appreciate how supportive my father was for my hobbies and passion for life. no, i'm totally kidding about my father part.

i used to be a cry baby and i cried at overnight camps at school and insisted that i call my parents at night even though the teacher literally told me to shut up and stop crying.

i find extreme amusement hanging at my bff, sneha's house. even though she mostly entertains me by watching movies or tv shows and eating indian maggi ramen and pasta with tomato sauce, i still find myself going there on a frequent basis.

i find extreme pleasure when vacationing on boats. i love sailing on a small private yacht/boat. i find speed boat rides extremely thrilling and fun. that is probably why i've always kind of invited myself to my friend, sarah's place for july 4 recently. one day when i grow older, i want to have a speedboat or gulet of my own. you can tell that i'm kind of spoilt. lol

i don't like to talk at all. you can say that i'm shy. fine...i guess i am but i really don't like to talk to people unless i'm completely comfortable and trust you. so mostly, i like to write.

i'm really like victoria floral patterns as well as other really nice organized and interesting patterns. as you can tell from the background of my blog....

i really like garlic veges with rice. yes, i don't look like someone who would eat veges but i really do. but the problem is, i don't know how to make it the way i like it so i don't cook it myself. thus, i don't eat at home a lot.

wow, i think that tuned into things about me...thats all i can think of so far.

toodles for now,

new layout

so i decided to spiff up my blog...its a working progress. i'm still trying to figure how to tweak a couple of other things.

more to come soon...

random thoughts of happiness

i'm quite happy because...

• i wrote a rough draft for my american studies paper due next week
  
• i revised that draft and wrote a second version read for don to read it
• i had a delicious meal at gypsy's tonight; i go the chicken and broccoli dish and salad with itailan dressing
• i went to section though i contemplated for a long time of not doing
• one tree hill, 90210 and miobi are back on so i get to catch up on tv shows.
• i'm excited for whats to come over the summer :)
  

"awkward" reunion

at the boston common with steph, liying and sneha.

i'm finally back from my adventure to the east coast...a lot went down. some good some bad. this is how it all began...

i decided that i was going to make use of time and skip class on thursday to head to nyc. because of the time difference, i didn't get into nyc till 7pm when i left for the airport at 6am that morning. as usual, i stayed with sneha, who at the time of my arrival was about to head to an chinese talent show. made it just in time to return for the talent show.

surprising, her elementary chinese class sang a jay chou song which i couldn't even read the lyrics to. props to them. some of the acts at the talent show was slight awkward and confusing. at one point, the opera that one student was singing literally caused audiences to cover the ears. im not even kidding.

we then headed out to eat with her chinese class who were really nice kids. we went to chinatown to some place called hop kee. it is zagat rated but to be completely honest, the food isn't that great. its simply american chinese food with lots of soy sauce and oil it in. though i have to say, the steamed pork dumplings were not too bad.

when we got back to her room, i got to hang out and chill with her suitemates, evelina and celina. we talked for about 3 hours. what we talked about cannot be elaborated here. before we knew it, it was 3am.

woke up in the morning, had a little mishap because sneha's ID went missing. just bummed around her room for the entire morning before heading out to union square. went to the strand to get a tote that i owe my friend, Hang, for almost 6 months now. also got one for myself since i gave my one away. I also managed to buy myself a book. i literally judged the book by its cover. that is why i got the book. haha haven't started reading it yet though.

after sneha ended class, we went to get some boba at a some tea place called Kung Fu on 10th and 2nd. it was more expensive than what i pay for here at berkeley. i tried their jasmine milk tea. it was really sweet! though i didn't make use of their option to control the sweetness. i didn't realize i had the option to do that at boba stores until i walked into this one. after that, i grabbed a bento box at teryaki boy across the street. it was not bad at all. it was a chicken with california roll bento. it was pretty generic and average. later, i was told that teriyaki express around union square is the best. it just opened recently too.

went back to her room, tried to look for her id again. still no luck. packed for boston. we headed to the bus stop at chinatown. we took a bus called the lucky star bus. which is literally like the feng wah bus. we were told that someone has gotten lice from taking the bus before which freaked both of us out. but ive been fine since so i'm good :) we forgot to buy dinner so we bought outselves 2 dollar sandwiches from a little asian convenience store next door. to be honest, though it was simple, it was pretty good.

the bus ride to boston was just filled with chatterboxes. we sat at seats with a table. there were 3 indian men that got on and sat across from us. sneha soon figured out that the 3 indian men spoke the same dilect from as her and pretty much from the same area in India. throughout the ride, sneha and i were marathoning the OC. yes, its cheesy but i still love. meanwhile, the indian men across from us were talking about sneha thinking that we had no idea what they were talking about. fine, i didn't know, but sneha knew.

what made this even more awkward is that sneha decided to go up to the 3 indian men and tell them that she knew what they were talking about all along. the look on their faces was just full of awe and confusion. we walked away before they had even time to respond. how embarrassing for the 3 of them. i wish i could have filmed this moment...it was so awkward but also extremely hilarious at the same time.

we got into harvard at around 130am. we hoped onto a "party bus" which really is the harvard shuttle with loud jams pumping and a strobe light flashing. i've to say, it was pretty cool. slept over at stephs for the night.

we got to sleep in a little the next morning. we went to harvard's earth day fair where they were giving out these nice big nalgene bottles. all we had to do was go around the booths and get answers to 12 of 18 questions on this sheet of paper. got to bring home a cool nalgene bottle with me :)at the boston marathon expo...steph put her arm around the skeleton. haha

we tend headed into boston so that steph could pick up her number for the boston marathon. yes, she owned the 26.2 miles by the way :) we got to walk by the famous charles river. we walked around collecting free and healthy samples. i didn't realize how big the boston marathon was until getting there and finding out that my friends who go to bc have the day off on monday because the marathon crosses through their campus. i wish the oakland marathon crosses the berkeley campus so we get the day off. yeah, i wish.

went to an asian american talent show called kollaboration. it is "empowerment through entertainment." it is actually the first time i've heard of it though they already had shows in san francisco for a while now. most of the acts were performed by students from colleges around the boston area like bc, harvard, bu and berklee (school of music)

then headed to bc to sleepover at my friend liying's place. we got in pretty late but we still got something to eat. the rest of that night was just not too interesting.

next morning, we had lunch with liying and steph in boston. we tried to go to 2 of the top rated brunch places. paramount and mike and pattys. we didn't realize that mike and pattys was so small that there was barely a table to sit and eat. it was a really cute place but we decided to head over to paramount where there was supposedly more setting so we could all catch up. we walked by the boston common on the way. its interesting to see how much i forgot about boston since the last time i went there (about 5 years ago). the wait at paramount when we got there was too long so we went into an italian cafe next door which served really good lemonade. i ordered a half soup and half sandwich combo.

after lunch, we got to try j.p lick at cambridge (where harvard is). i got to try the coffee oreo and it was BOMB. it reminded me of the ice cream i used to buy during break at choate from pralines. damn i miss those times...

hoped back onto the lucky star bus later that afternoon to go back to nyc. we got in around 8pm so we decided to try this chinese cafe place close by. i got myself a bowl of rice noodle soup and a cup of hong kong style milk tea.

that pretty sums it up...:)