i wonder if it's common practice for other blogs to randomly change their blog names once in a short while. because i did it first and then connie did it and we both do it now to a ridiculous degree. so i'll just go rename my blog now again.

i got the new bruce springsteen cd last night. it's really good!

posted: Zi Shen, 7:04:10 PM [*]

men and women shower differently.  okay, i just finished some more college-looking and it's becoming really depressing now and i will be more depressed when i apply and find out that i'm missing a lot of things.  so i'm going to sleep now and maybe blog later about the practically nothing that has been going on in my life.  good night!

posted: derek derek, 11:24:22 AM [*]

i'm moving to pennsylvania...which is not quite as exciting as california. it kind of sucks, because i won't be going to school there or anything, so i won't have friends to hang out with on breaks and stuff. but it's ok, because i'll just study a lot! :]

i just read an email sent by my cousin, a mature college senior majoring in broadcast journalism, about how men and women shower differently. thanks to her, my innocence has been stolen from me. bah!

posted: Zi Shen, 4:33:53 PM [*]

wah, why is everyone moving????? i think if they could, my parents would move to california, too. sigh. it's nice here, but the perpetually beautiful weather can get a bit monotonous. and i would never be able to survive these freeways. aand.. i totally agree with everything that ellen said.. three days ago. i've formed a comfort zone that is entirely too comfortable for my own good. SIGH.

wow, i can't believe that john mayer is going out with jennifer love hewitt. that's .. not right. just because i said so. and because we <3 john.

i should really start looking into scholarships and stuff. man. college sucks major butt. sorry. that was rather graphic. :o)

happy belated birthday, connie!! (durr, i am horrible with birthdays.)

posted: stephanie, 2:25:19 PM [*]

wow, I had no idea she was so short!!!  what the heck!!!!  I take back everything I said.

posted: ellie cheung, 11:45:56 AM [*]

i just love the topics on this blog.  and that picture looks really strange.  anyway, so today i finished my "career goals" essay for this chinese engineers scholarship thing and i have to write up my resume later (it'll come in handy when i do college apps too) and this whole applications thing is getting closer and closer.  i read some of the items on the yale application and i think there are a lot of things i have to do between now and december.  eh.  anyway, someone wants the computer so i think i'll be nice and get offline.

posted: derek derek, 10:08:07 AM [*]

ok, in that pictures, she does NOT look anythign like jennifer love hewitt...weird!! and second, she's like 2 feet shorter than him! weird! :)

posted: Connie Yung, 12:08:57 AM [*]

we <3 john mayer!! this is by far the best blog title i've seen since derk started this thing. anyway, just to prove that jennifer love hewitt looks like a little child compared to john, here's a picture (click for whole pic; from people magazine; thanks to michelle t. for scanning; john mayer looks like a gorilla, but still cute nonetheless. =)):



ellie, we should definitely stay together. that would be *so* much fun!! (hehe i inserted the ellie-esque thing in there) as for where i'm going be in cali, i have no idea! i'm not getting worried or asking any questions until my house actually goes on sale. i find it extremely ridiculous that my mom wants to go there so she can "have a garden." that's not a reason!! we live in the garden state!! hehe, anyway.

i'm not at camp. ok the coldplay song "in my place" is forever in my head. yes that's a good thing. =D


posted: ellen mellen, 11:52:44 PM [*]

jennifer love hewitt is 5'2'', is that considered tall? John Mayer looks 5'10'' ish maybe? I don't really know on account of me never seeing him in person. why is everyone moving? Moving is bad.

posted: Serena Ng, 5:40:34 PM [*]

I bet jennifer love hewitt's taller than john mayer.  she always looks really tall.  but she's a lot hotter than he is.  ... in my opinion.  ... I'm a girl.

anyway ellen you know what?  I'm coming back to nj after I move to california (if we ever do, which I think we will) to visit "many many times" as well.  so we can stay together!!!!!!!  I'm serious.  and we can bring will!!!!  maybe.  but yeah seriously we could stay together over here if times coincided.  ... maybe.  ... you know what, we both need to move first.  what part of california might you move to?

zi, where are you moving to?

move move move move.

posted: ellie cheung, 12:04:56 PM [*]

haha... we<3 john mayer! Absolutely! Connie just told me that John Mayer is going out with Jennifer Love Hewitt?! What the heck is that! She's... she's tooo uh short for him! Right! How tall is John Mayer anyway? Zi, I'm so jealous! Take the blog with you! oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY CONNIE!!!!!

posted: Serena Ng, 1:12:51 PM [*]

i just came back.  i'm sleepy.  more later.

posted: derek derek, 11:31:42 AM [*]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CONNIE!!!!!!!!!

john mayer!!! ahhh!!! zi!! you're so lucky!!! i wanna see him too!! he's mine ellen!! WE will make beautiful music together! hehe that sounded even sketchier. and i also think we should force him to play DDR with connie all day in ellen's trailer. =)

posted: Norman So, 10:24:21 PM [*]

thank you!!!! =D

hey, i know, we can all crash the party at gw and stalk john mayer and kidnap him and lock him in ellen's rented trailer and make him sing for us!!

and what is with everyone moving?? zi's moving too, poooo >=O

posted: Connie Yung, 9:09:54 PM [*]

zi!!!! zi!!!!!! zi!!!!!!!!! i'm so jealous i could cry. or just say "zi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" a lot. =D seriously, ok, when is the end of your welcome week? and can i go see him or is it like a "george washington u class of 2006" deal? john oh my john. i want him to be my husband. we would make beautiful music together. that sounds extremely sketchy. i'm sorry. how come guster isn't playing as well? also, how come i haven't seen you (yes, that's you zi) in a super long time? i <3 john mayer. can we rename this blog to "we <3 john mayer"? we could start posting pictures of john and blog about him all the time. 24/7. that would be so super cool.

something that made me go "woah" during dinner: my parents want to move to california after graduation! now this wouldn't be so shocking except for the fact that...i really like the east coast and cold weather and my jcrew wool jacket and snow in the winter and new york city and broadway and bruce springsteen and bon jovi and WASP-y middletown and sub-par beaches and boardwalks and seaside and living fifteen seconds away from dave and living five seconds away from my super good friend and living thirty seconds away from steph and living two minutes away from church and church and red rank (bank) and late nights in lincroft/miscellaneous parks and that little spot by the river at thompson and my cozy (tiny) room and all my friends. oh well. it looks like i'll have company in cali anyway. that is, if we go. i asked if i could visit nj "many many times" and my dad said ok. he said he would rent me a trailer in a trailer park. ...i don't know if he was being sarcastic or not (he's usually never sarcastic)...hmm

TYPHOON!
...ok i'm sure that didn't have the same effect as derek's improv ending.

also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY CONNIE!! or at least, for tomorrow. =)


posted: ellen mellen, 6:17:14 PM [*]

zi- where are you going where john mayer's playing? i'm envious!

posted: Mich Yam, 4:47:30 PM [*]

*gasp*

zi, that is so cool. wooooooaaaahh. i love john mayer. :)

posted: stephanie, 3:08:50 PM [*]

ellen: guess who's playing at my school at the end of "welcome week"? =) i'll give you a clue- you know how john mayer and guster are touring together? well it isn't guster.

derek is funny!



posted: Zi Shen, 1:06:19 PM [*]

i don't want to tell you.  but if you know how to say "gay" in chinese, and you can pick apart those three words, then you'd probably know how to say it.  i have a ten minute break between class periods and i should go back soon.  we just did a skit about night markets and i ran off to get something to drink for five minutes and came back and said "oh, i got lost!" and then proceeded to make a complete fool of myself in front of the class.  random comments during skits are amusing.  i couldn't think of anything to say at one point, so to end the awkward pause i just exclaimed "typhoon!" and then our skit was over.  okay, back to class.

posted: derek derek, 11:08:37 PM [*]

well yes, it means bastard but "wom bah den" literally means "turtle egg." cuz a wom bah is some kind of turtle and you all know that den is egg. but for some reason i keep thinking it's actually wong not wom, like wang. oh well, a bit of chinese trivia. how do you say sex in chinese? =P

posted: Connie Yung, 5:22:41 PM [*]

ooh, i love "in my place." great song. i've been on a coldplay kick recently. "yellow" is probably one of my favorite songs ever. ever ever ever. :)

aah, derek, you are becoming so corrupt. in chinese, even. tsk tsk.

i'm seeing goldmember on saturday!! wahoo.

this blog has been extremely random and pointless. oh well. =)

posted: stephanie, 1:20:09 PM [*]

don't drive in taiwan, derek. It's dangerous.

posted: dave wei, 11:46:33 AM [*]

it means bastard.  wahaha, i know how to say "sex" in chinese.  and "sexy" and "slut" and some other things that i don't remember at the moment.  hm, i missed bed check at ten again because of emily (it was definitely all her fault) and so now i have fourteen points, probably.  we start out with fifteen, they take away points when you do bad things, and if you get below seven points you're expelled.  which makes me wonder why don't they just start at eight points and go to zero.  anyway, i have this homework to do.  i want to go somewhere tomorrow -- it's saturday!  and hey, i haven't really driven yet after my lessons.  my mom says she wants to give me a little driving examination of her own before she lets me drive with her in the car.  coming back in september (well, end of august but i have summer camp to go to) and that'll give me approximately a month to drive with my mom.  some french kids are chasing this canadian kid and it's really loud.  i think french people are strange.

posted: derek derek, 10:58:06 AM [*]

hey, what does "wom-ba-dan" mean? i think this kid in my old church used to call other kids that. by other kids i probably mean me. i just realized that whatever limited grasp i have on the chinese language is very...innocent? i don't know how to say any bad words or curses. i don't even know if i could playfully tease someone in chinese...dang i don't even know how to say "sex" in chinese.

anyway, when i got home last night, i turned on the tv to watch...austin powers (like steph)! then my mom came downstairs. the movie was at the part where austin drowns the lucky charms guy in the toilet. my mom was like, "AH so violent!! people will watch this and get bad ideas. so violent!" and went on a tangent about violent television and how its going to turn me into a psychopathic serial killer. anyway, i say something along the lines of, "this movie is supposed to be funny," and my mom flips out. now she thinks i will soon become a psychopathic serial killer. so, i really want to see goldmember.

if ther'es ever a time where honking the horn is necessary (cutting off, being stupid, etc.etc.) while driving, i never think of using the horn. i always do my spazzing out thing and point and yell at them with a "gahhh!!" kind of deal. i'm sure if you have been around me (or eugene, i think) for more than twenty minutes you would know what i'm talking about. i just realized while reading zi's blog that by doing this, chances are the driver probably won't notice a thing. ahhhh i can't use the horn.

i'm listening to coldplay again. their new single "in my place" is so good. hey, i think i'll go download it!




posted: ellen mellen, 10:16:22 PM [*]

hehe, when we were in china one summer, my sister (who was like 9) said "tamahde" and she didn't really know it was a curse, she just picked it up, and she got yelled at so bad.

today i honked at a truck in front of me because it was at a stop sign and there were no cars but it wasn't turning. so it then it turned right. and i turned right after it, and then the truck pulled over to the side of the road, and i thought the driver was mad and wanted to kill me! so i sped away, narrowly escaping death. it was only the second time ever i honked at someone. the first time was at virginia, on the way to church. =) the light was green for left turns, but she wasn't turning. and then later she told me i honked at her. this is getting really boring, bye.

posted: Zi Shen, 5:03:16 PM [*]

topher grace is so cool. i think he was in traffic, which is a movie i did not see, but i heard he was in it. you guys should all watch scrubs. it's such a good show.. it's on tuesdays at ninethirty on nbc. and i've been watching gilmore girls a lot lately, too. mostly for that guy jess, who is really cute. harhar. yeah, tv has been my life recently. i need a real one. :o)

so i'm really excited for austin powers in goldmember. the spy who shagged me wasn't so good, but i still want to see goldmember. "i lahhve gooohld." i watched part of austin powers international man of mystery last night and it was still hilarious. but then again, i *am* slightly easy to amuse...

my grandfather can be really crazy. yeah, so he writes out this check to costco (or somewhere) for fortyone-something dollars but the bank pays them fortyfour-something. so he calls them.. and they're like, you have to go to them yourself and get the money back.. and he gets mad. really mad. like, screaming into the telephone at the top of his lungs and cussing like there's no tomorrow mad. it was kind of scary and amusing at the same time. scary because he was yelling like crazy and i thought he'd have an aneurism or a heart attack at any minute and amusing because he was cursing so much. heehee. it was my cousin who revealed to me the extent of his cursing in chinese last summer. he and my brother started saying that stuff all the time. it was so funny. like, ta-mah-de and wom-ba-dan. well, i guess you had to be there. haha. :o)

posted: stephanie, 3:07:22 PM [*]

fobulous.  i just wanted to mention that in addition to all of those wb stars, there was also topher grace from "that 70s show" and .. someone else, i think.  i don't remember.  i'm in taiwan.  i'm learning chinese.  i want to be fobulous.  too bad i'm not a good dancer and i don't date anyone and i can't rock the opposite sex of any race.  oh, and i've never tried to create an asianavenue or whatever apt107 is page.  okay, it's almost midnight and i have this huge test tomorrow (it's on five lessons, the teacher is seriously crazy) and i think i should sleep now.  too bad my roommate is a pimp and has girls in the room all the time, forcing me to stay out as late as i can.  i think this chinese studying is more than anything i've ever done for any subject in school.  like i was just in my friend's room studying for the past three hours or so, grr.  wah, i got a little mashimaro today.  it's wearing a robe and slippers.  everyone should blog more -- sigh.  good night (morning).

posted: derek derek, 11:46:49 AM [*]

i duno guys... i'm not too sure i'd want to be a tab. First of all, I'm over 105 lbs and I don't enjoy platform shoes. Bebe is crazy expensive and black is too dark for summer. And I never appear flawless and I smile tons... I don't think I'm any one of those catagories, maybe I'm just too special =)



posted: Serena Ng, 11:11:08 PM [*]

oh MAN i wish a were a tab too! (notice the grammar.. i think that's right) too bad i'm not under 105 lbs and have not been for some time.. no fat jokes please. ocean's eleven has got to be the best movie every created. or one of the best. i have never seen the thomas crown affair, so i cannot compare.. hahaha that rhymed, wow i crack myself up. brad pitt brad pitt.. ::sigh:: he is just so dreamy! ::strike a fainting pose:: hahaha but yes, that poker scene was very amusing. and all the stars were retarded poker players! oh that made me laugh... life is beautiful is such a sad movie.. great for a good cry =) oh yes, back to ocean's eleven. did you know that there is a really really old version? like.. really old movie.. my mom came home from the library one day awhile back and was like, i rented ocean's eleven! and i was like, i didn't know the library got videos that soon after they come out.. and it turns out that it's the old school ocean's eleven. it's actually pretty entertaining, though not as action-packed as the new one. but the basic story line is almost the same, though i believe they only rob one casino. but yea, it was kind of amusing. but i must say, i'm still a sucker for high-tech special effects. too much talking in the old one, in my opinion. one last thought for this blog... norman is SO MANLY!

posted: Jess Tai, 8:56:36 PM [*]

i'll blog and add some manliness to it *deep voice* =)

posted: Norman So, 6:38:58 PM [*]

oh, how i wish i were a tab. =(

posted: Zi Shen, 6:36:01 PM [*]

har har, this is turning into such a girl's blog. it needs derek's presence to add some manliness to it!


mich- i don't know you or anything, but don't get discouraged...and it doesn't sound cheesy that there are ways to have fun without drinking! =) i personally like to be "high on life and drunk on fun." =P that sounds stupid, but it works for me. anyway, i just want to encourage you to keep being the nonstereotypical teenager you are!


guess what i did today? my friend neena and i were at the mall and we went to banana, and the salespeople were snooty as usual- as in ignoring the customers. but they went too far today because they were standing around chatting and trying on leather jackets! you're not supposed to try on things in your store while you're working! and neena works at the limited and said one of those people had come into her store once and neena was greeting, so she said hi and started telling her about the sales and stuff, and that lady was all snotty and was like "i know, i work at banana republic!" in a really obnoxious voice and showed her her badge. so we took action! from my retail experience, the one thing that is hated by all is when customers mess up displays and racks and stuff. so we acted like we were browsing and looking at things, and on purposed messed up some of the piles of nicely folded shirts and pants on the tables. we started to do the on-sale table, but realized they probably don't care too much about the cheaper things, and plus the sales section in the back is kind of messy anyway. so we moved on to the regular price nice tables. we flipped through different shirts in the piles, searching for the "right size" but not putting them back in nice order. and we looked at shirts on hangers and left them hanging out of the row, instead of putting them back. and unclipped sides of underwear on the underwear hangers, so they were dangling there all crooked. and i pulled a pair of pants from the bottom of its pile on the shelf, it was all nicely folded and creased, but alas, i left it draped on the table with different pants. i had so much fun, we were laughing with delight. i was filled with consumer rage at such horrid salespeople, so that's why we did it. we did cause quite a mess, but we didn't go and throw things on the floor which would be pretty bad. but if they make me mad enough in the future, i just might! i hope those weenies have to clean up after us, more than usual. that was basically the highlight of my afternoon.

posted: Zi Shen, 6:28:37 PM [*]

mickel, there's nothing wrong with being a mom. people call me that all the time and i'm as cool as anyone will ever be. :o) okay, maybe not. but i'm glad that you're sticking to your principals. go mickel! :) you rock.

oh, random point. in ocean's eleven, they use their real names on purpose. cuz brad pitt's character has resorted to teaching celebrities how to play poker. so they're playing themselves.. it's kind of funny. hahaha.

wow, that what asian are you thing turned out to be really really long. :)

posted: stephanie, 6:26:21 PM [*]

okay, so here's an email that some of you have probably gotten already, but it's funny so i'll post it anyway. :)

"What Kind of Asian Are You?

young asians in america come in many forms. most asians fit into multiple groups. for example, rice-boys can also be fobs and many tabs are fobulous. the only groups that are never part of another group are the twinkies and the asian-americans. claim your fobbiness! when you see your asian friend, greet them with "wassup fob!" and if your asian friend says something ridiculous, say "fob please!" of course, when a non-asian calls you a fob, that is grounds for a fight. ahahaha... the categories below are to be taken lightheartedly. read, recognize and laugh.

twinkie
besides your nationality, there is little to distinguish you from white people. your significant other is not asian and never has been. you have few asian friends, if any. you are embarrasses at family events because you cannot speak your language and everyone has to switch to english to communicate with you. you have no idea that the other types of asians on this list even exist. you think hello kitty is dumb and do not know what sanrio is. you are the only asian on this list that does not know what bubble tea is. you drive a ford or some other domestic car and if you drive a honda, it is stock.

asian-american
you claim yourself as asian, but real asians think you are whitewashed and non-asians see you as a foreigner. you fit in nowhere. you have heard of bubble tea but have never actually had any. you are confused about your cultural identity and express this frustration through spoken word performances at your college. you read A. magazine and think it is great. you do not know who leon, arron, sammi, hikki, or kangta are. you are only vaguely aware of the other asians below.

fob (fresh off tha boat)
you were not born in america. you know who leon, aaron, sammi, hikki, and kangta are. in fact, you have seen them at atlantic city or las vegas recently. you speak your native language fluently and do so with all your friends. you do not have any non-asian friends. your parents do not speak any english. when you speak english, you like to make everything plural. you get extremely good grades at school. you cannot dance. your fashion sense comes from whatever country you're from and you incorporate nothing from american fashion into your wardrobe.

super fob
your command of the english language is minimal and you don't care. you like dim sum chicken feet. you do not own a single cd, vcd, video game, or dvd that is not bootlegged. your only hangout is chinatown. all the lights in your house are fluorescent. you dry your clothes outside your window. you need a haircut.

fobabee
you are an asian-american or twinkie who has recently "awoken." you have a newly found fetish of asian girls/boys. you have taken the asian studies course at college. you are trying to learn as much as possible about your culture to make up for your lifetime of trying to be white (twinke; banana) or black (chigger; thousand year old egg). if you are lucky, you will grow up to become fobulous.

gangsta fob
you have shot another asian. your favorite hangout is a pool hall. when you talk, you sound like a cross between a fob and an urban black kid. your hair looks silly, but no one will tell you because you will shoot them. you have a serious gambling problem. you are a rice-boy, but your mods are cheap and are never painted to match the rest of your car. no one tells you your ride looks cheap because you will shoot them. you have a tab girlfriend, but can only get hootchie tabs.

tab (trendy asian b*tch)
you shop at a/x, bebe, banana republic and club monaco. you only wear black and will occasionally wear white to "mix it up." you do not weigh more than 105 pounds. you have never paid for dinner at a restaurant in your life. platform heels are your favorite. you are a makeup expert, in fact, you appear completely flawless. you do not smile in public. you are the object of desire of all asian men and you know it. you smoke. your cell phone is completely customized. on the inside flip of your cell phone is a sticker pic of you and your man. somewhere in your purse is a sanrio item. you only date asian and will only date a boy with a nice car. you are often seen with rice-boys. you never travel alone. you are either in the company of other tabs or your rice-boy boyfriend.

hootchie tab
you are an import car model. your boobs are not real. there are naked pictures of you floating around on the internet somewhere. stiletto heels are your favorite. your role models are francine dee and kaila yu. your boyfriend is a gangsta fob. you cheat on your boyfriend. unlike most asians, you do not do well in school.

rice-boy
your drive an asian import. usually a honda or acura. your souped up car (known as a rice-ride or rice-rocket) is unrecognizable from it's original stock form. your exhaust pipe is big enough for your head to fit in. the spoiler on your car looks like it was made by boeing. the interior of your car also looks like it was designed by boeing. you always drive like you are racing someone. you are not afraid of dying in a crash, but you are afraid of speed bumps and parking lot on-ramps. the only other person besides yourself who can sit in your car is your 105-pound tab girlfriend. if anyone else sits in your car, the entire bottom of it will be touching the ground. even though your car is a honda, it goes fast and is worth more than a lotus esprit. if you drive a civic, you dream car is a supra. if you drive a supre, your dream car is a skyline (which you can never have). Poor rice-boy.

Fobulous
you speak perfect english and you are fluent in your native language. you have asian friends as well as non-asian friends. you listen to asian pop as well as american music. you are equally aware of both popular american culture and asian pop culture. you are a good dancer. you date asian by choice even though you could rock the opposite sex of any other race. you are a good designer and have superior html skills. you have an apt107 page AND an aa page and the guest books in both are packed. for you, FOB stands for Fabulous Oriental Being. you have lots of asian pride."

fun, no?

posted: stephanie, 6:17:37 PM [*]

ooh gosh i forgot to say that there have been commercials on tnt for a few weeks that they are showing the thomas crown affair on friday, saturday, and sunday night on tnt! everyone go see it! It's awesome! Don't miss the beginning. The music is pretty hip too =). Casey Affleck is Ben's younger brother. He was one of the arguing guys...the one who resembles Ben actually. gee, who would have thought?

posted: Serena Ng, 5:15:44 PM [*]

hey, i noticed that too! i think casey affleck is ben affleck's brother...one of the driving guys maybe, but not positive.

posted: Mich Yam, 2:22:59 PM [*]

hmm, that was a nice graphic blog... =P

anyway, i've seen the beginning of life is beautiful and the end of it. they played it one year during red eye nite and i fell asleep and missed the whole middle. but i'm sure i would have liked it if i watched it!

serena, the bowler hat part is SO AWESOME!! oh man, it was sooo cool. so soo cool! and ocean's eleven - there are some HOT people in it! i especially like brad pitt (given) and george clooney. ooh. =) who's casey affleck? is that a guy or a girl, and is (s)he related to ben affleck? mm, i love that movie. oh yeah, i don't know if i ever mentioned it on this blog, or maybe my blog or maybe i just told random people on IM, but you know in teh beginning of ocean's eleven, when they're all sitting around the table playing poker, the whole WB prime time cast is there! ok, maybe not everyone, but three of them! all sitting next to each other! did anyone find that weird?? it was barry watson (matt camden from 7th heaven), holly marie combs (piper halliwell from charmed), and joshua jackson (pacey from dawson's creek). !! isn't that weird?? and you know what's funnier? they used their real names as their names in the movie. like, joshua jackson's name in the movie was josh, and piper's name was holly. yes, i picked that up. hmm, okay, just thought i'd put it out there for you to marvel over=) holly marie combs is pretty. and brad pitt is really hotttt.

posted: Connie Yung, 11:45:19 AM [*]

i heard road to perdition was horrible...but hmmm if you guys haven't seen Life is Beautiful, you HAVE to, i think that's my newest favorite movie. oceans 11 was good, matt damon's hot - so a buncha ppl in the dorm are planning a trip to montreal for the weekend which would be cool except for the fact that they're all planning to go and basically get wasted every nite which pretty much excludes me from the picture of going. i despise drinking, i despise drunk people making complete assholes of themselves - and i feel like in an indirect way i'm being excluded from the group just cuz i don't drink or smoke, and this sounds very...parent-antidrug-advertisement-like but there are ways to have fun without drinking! and the other day i went to a house party with some friends and it just felt so weird...getting there to a small house w/ all guys and a shit load of beer, ppl drinking and smoking, low-key but all the same i felt like i was a different person, but not in a good way. i think we should all stick together and go to the same college and form our innocent group and not have to worry about alcohol and drugs and sluts and players. that would be good, and a lot less stressful...there's this girl here who's a slut and a hypocrite and i don't think she has any real friends but i can't help being nice to her because i think i feel bad for or something...we all went to her house the other nite and ppl got drunk and she and two guys go into her hot tub which is right outside her parents bedroom and before she got drunk she was all upset that ppl were pushing her to use the hot tub but after a few drinks she was all like...oh its so hot, i just wnna take off my clothes...so i had to go out and check up on them every so often to make sure she didn't take off her bikini or soething equally stupid cuz she was so wasted and the guys sure as hell would\n't have stopped her. and then one of the kids called me a mom, isn't that dandy, so now i'm a prude party pooper. and then at the house party she met this guy and invited him the next day to her room to "watch a movie" and was all like "really, i'm not that kinda girl that lets a guy kiss her and do stuff to her, we're not gonna do anything!" and after that was all over it turns out they made out, felt each other up, and she got fingered. what a hoe. UGH. these people make me mad. well, that's enough ranting for now, i hope i don't oversleep and miss class again...

posted: Mich Yam, 2:00:41 AM [*]

connie i love 'cunning' movies too! I love the thomas crown affair! I took the dvd from my uncles house a few months ago and I haven't given it back. I love watching pierce brosnan at the end with his bowler hat, awesome stuff. I also love oceans 11! Heist movies rock! Wow thats a lot of exclamation points! =) The whole plot of oceans 11 [the heist part] is aweeeeeeeessssssome. the plot plus brat pitt, george clooney, matt damon, don cheadle sp?, andy garcia, julia roberts, casey affleck, and anyone else i forgot makes this movie ... well awesome. I keep watching it on ppv when im over at my uncles house. They show it on 4 different channels continuously. watching the end of that movie is addictive....

posted: Serena Ng, 12:08:10 AM [*]

i don't understand why people would pay money to watch crocodile hunter. no offense to anyone, especially since ellen already did!! my mom loved enemy at the gates. we own it she told me very seriously that "you are not allowed to take this tape to school. you can take your moulin rouge and whatever else, but you're leaving this one here." or something to that effect. i've had it for several several months now and i still havent' watched it. but i will! i'm just not in the mood for serious movies this summer! and i don't especially like war movies. but it just might suck me in like it did ellie=) and i finally watched ocean's eleven a few nights ago. man, that movie was good! i liked it a lot. so...cunning. i like cunning movies like that. like the thomas crown affair. that was quite cunning. cunning cunning. so clever. ooh! my cd's done burning. must go back to the other comp sigh. as you can see i've given up on paragraphs. one month of no school and all my writing skills have deteriorated.

posted: Connie Yung, 10:20:31 PM [*]

i finally watched minority report yesterday with ellen h. it was kind of eerie and you can really see kubrick's influence on spielberg. anyway it was a great movie. i'd want to see it again if it wasn't for men in black, austin powers, road to perdition, k-19, and crocodile hunter.

posted: richard li, 6:51:20 PM [*]

yes, we can't allow derek to be sad about a lack of bloggage.
I really like enemy at the gates.  although I wasn't in the mood for a serious movie when I watched it, it still sucked me in.

speaking of getting sucked in, I'm rereading lord of the rings so it will be fresh in my mind for ... december.  okay I don't think I'd ever get around to it if I attempted to read it at school so I'm just reading it now at work when I have the time.  I'll probably try and reread it next year :-) I am just too cool for words.

so ellen, rottentomates.com didn't like croc hunter ... but the more important question is, did *you*??

posted: ellie cheung, 3:59:59 PM [*]

aah, i totally forgot it was christina's birthday. doh.. sorry. but happy (belated) birthday, christina! congrats on the license!!! :) i knew you'd do fine. because i am psychic. i bet you all didn't know that. mwahaha.

hahahahaha.. ellen, you watched the crocodile hunter!!!? that is so great. and the olsen-esque movie is even better. heehee. you know, movies are so expensive here. the matinee is $6.50!! matinee!!! man. i was enraged. enraged. but anyways.. i watched gosford park last last night and enemy at the gates last night. derek, clive owen was in gosford park and he was really cool. like in those bmw commercials.. i watched those again, too. my aunt says there's a rumor going around that he might be the next james bond. cool!!!!! i want to learn how to drive like him. that will never happen though. i can barely manage with an automatic.

i'm going back to my grandparent's place tonight. aw, no more living the swinging life of the childless couple. haha. they eat out almost every night.. and it's GOOD food, too. i've had shanghainese, mediterranean, mexican, japanese.. and some other stuff. i feel fat. :o) they took me to ucla yesterday (it's pretty nice) and to santa monica after that. santa monica is so cool. all these funky stores and street performers. very chic. :)

hm, i think i'm going to go burn some cds.


posted: stephanie, 2:53:01 PM [*]

hey kids. i'm here giving derk's blog some action. i know he's sad in taiwan from the lack of bloggage. haha...

um, richard li accomplished more in 2.5 weeks than i had this whole year. john stamos toured with the beach boys. rock on uncle jesse.

anyway, so since i've been back in new jersey i have done nothing productive. i played piano a lot. i "studied" and "read" my summer crap. i watched the crocodile hunter movie (rottentomatoes.com says: it "is a truly, truly, bad movie." and "crikey, what a croc o' sh*t"). i made chocolate mousse (oh. my. gosh. so. good.). i watched an olsen twins movie w/ my friend (ok this was mostly my doing). they are the funniest things alive. especially the ones where the olsen twins are the typical "crazy adolescents." wait that's all of them. anyway, my friend and i decided that we would film an olsen-esque movie. he would be the standard "hottie w/ a body" while i will be the one minority (because the movies always only have one minority). um yes and our other friends are in this too. we. are. so. cool. i can't even take it anymore. well. i'm really upset because all my friends have front row tickets to weezer (and dashboard! mm chris.)!!!! my friend was like, "hey i kept IMing you asking if you wanted a ticket but you were away all the time." to which i said, "i was in a coma for the past three days and i can't interpret from *insert toothy AIM smiley face* that you have front row tickets to weezer!!!!" needless to say i beat her up. i'm lying of course.

happy birthday to christina and all the other holmdelians who have birthdays this weekend!!!!! woohoo beedays!!

posted: ellen mellen, 7:15:13 PM [*]

andyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!! nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! i've missed it again!!! I just got home... I'm sooooooo fulll! I went out with Christina to go to price club and then kmart and then pathmark and then she drove us to the mall! She can drive! I'm so excited for her! And she's a good driver too! Too bad she caught every single yellow light coming home... and I mean every single one! oh Andy... thanks anyway steffy =)

posted: Serena Ng, 10:13:52 PM [*]

dude, i was watching tv last night and i think andy roddick is going to be on sabrina the teenage witch tonight. i dunno if it's the same programming here as in new jersey though. just thought you [ie serena] would like to know. :o)

posted: stephanie, 2:48:58 PM [*]

everyone suddenly blogs in one day - we had italian nite at the cafeteria and i ate sooo much food yum. and then we went on a 7-11 "credit card" run and ate even more - and after feelong guilty we did a few crunches which didn't at all make up for the food. oh well, it was yummy. la la hmmm lotsa sketchy ppl on the streets. and mice. that's all for now!

posted: Mich Yam, 1:40:33 AM [*]

so the past 2.5 weeks have been pretty boring. all i did was see stanford, uc berkeley, visit an old friend, see yosemite, meet a dude who used to write for the Beach Boys, watch a few california sunsets, fly to DC by myself, meet Rush Holt with Will (Kim), watch the Senate in action, watch a lot of HBO, eat a lot of pizza and steak sandwiches, visit everything in DC all over again, ride the batman and superman rides at six flags, watch brian mcbride and the Columbus Crew kick eddie pope and DC United's ass, meet people from every state in the union, pick up a little southern accent, learn some new vocabulary, beat down on some made-up amendments to bills, and a whole lot more frosty stuff. and i'm tired. i hope ya'll had a nice time. bye.

posted: richard li, 8:28:35 PM [*]

hey, ice cream. my uncle has an ice cream maker. yummy.

this is my second blog for the day. oooh.

i miss you guys. *sniff* sometimes i wish i could be bored in new jersey instead of bored in california. at least you guys would be around. :( but that's okay. i guess i rarely see my family. hm. i want to hang out. with people my age.. or around my age. oh well. i'll be home in approximately two and a half weeks. august eighth. i know, i know.. you all are anticipating my return with uncontrollable excitement and joy. go and mark it down on your calendars. i know you want to. :)

heh, anyway. college has become the undeniable winner of number one conversational topic of the summer. and it is driving me slightly insane. not insane with rage. more like insane with.. insanity. maybe you know what i mean. i just .. argh. i'm so indecisive. and people keep telling me i need to be decisive. well, you can't just BECOME decisive overnight. believe me, i've tried. but i guess they mean well. sigh. i just hate being told what i don't want to hear. haha.

posted: stephanie, 8:25:35 PM [*]

I would just like to say that Jess' description of me as a fat mickey mouse is completely inaccurate; however, the pacman depiction of Jess is completely ACCURATE. Beware, she WILL eat you.

posted: Serena Ng, 7:25:49 PM [*]

yea christina u will be absolutely fineee... as long as u dont press the gas instead of the brake by accident, as some ppl tend to do.. =) and beware of the man woman!!

so i went out with serena yesterday. for... 7 hours i guess it was. well we weren't out the whole time.. we were together for 7 hours. that sounds slightly strange, somehow. anyway.. serena, thanks for the pants! you are my hero. so after being at serena's house for about an hour while she decided what she wanted to wear... we went to the grove. and serena got almost nothing!! it was such a rare experience. and i got only bottoms.. no tops. interesting. so then we went to friendly's, and i guess they screwed up serena's favorite sandwich. it was very sad. but serena ate more than i did. a whole plateful of fries more than i did. it was so embarassing.. getting beaten by serena!! i was so ashamed =(. but yea, we had fun drawing pictures on napkins in crayon while we were waiting. i drew a picture of serena.. and i tried to make it as accurate as possible. u know, with a very round body and stubby fat arms and legs. and then serena said it looked like a fat mickey mouse, so i gave her ears too. and serena drew me as a pacman.. which was interesting. anyway, after we waddled out of our booth, we went to get black raspberry friendly's ice cream. so we went to their little ice cream thing where all the boxes of ice cream were so nicely stacked in rows.. and we could not find black raspberry! so we were rummaging through the piles.. chucking boxes of ice cream left and right.. while getting frostbite on our hands.. and so we FINALLY found a carton, and of course it was all the way in the back corner, about 3 layers down.. so our hands were too cold by then so we just left all the boxes lying around in a mess.. *oops*. so then we went and rented shawshank redemption and crashed back at serena's house.. it was really really good!!! if u haven't seen it yet, you should go get it. now. NOW. andy is my new hero, he is so so so cool. so yes, that was the highlight of my week, so far. i love you serena!

so what else.. i have yet to go to one of those basketball games. so i was talking to norman, and it turns out i cant go the next 2 saturdays and all of the tuesdays. so the only time i can go is aug 3, which is supposedly the last day. hmm.. so as norman said, i will just have to make it my first priority, unless there's a funeral. which is too morbid for me.

so, my dad mom and brother are all tennis freaks. tennis junkies. ahh! and my father has decided that he wants me to become a crazy tennis player as well. so i am sad. he drags me out to play every monday and wednesday.. and some weekends too. and yesterday it was 95 degrees out, and i almost passed out. but did my dad show any mercy? noooo.. he says that i'm his best student, but i think he's just trying to butter me up so that i won't be as dead set against playing. sorry daddy, not going to work.. they should just stick to tennis and i'll stick to gymnastics. i swear, if my dad had his way... i'd not do high school gymnastics this coming fall and i'd try out for girls' tennis instead. well, maybe not that extreme. but close to it!

speaking of gymnastics, my coach is away somewhere, i don't really care where.. so no practice this entire week. and i've been even more bored than usual. i think i'm going to drive myself insane, insane, insane. this week is going too too slowly.. and i was complaining to my mom, well maybe not complaining.. discussing with my mom my predicament. and she was all like, "why don't you go do your summer reading, or your summer calc homework, or your college apps?" she doesn't understand that being bored is just being bored, but those are child torture! =) so yes, the month of august will suck slightly, because of the things mentioned before..

i should stop complaining, it's summer, like christina audrey chen said. i should go.. do something. anyways, hope everyone is having a great summer! derek in taiwan, steph in cali, i don't know who else is where and i don't feel like thinking. but wherever you are, have fun fun fun! hope to see you all soon, if you're around. and that is my post for the month... goodbye =)

posted: Jess Tai, 5:05:44 PM [*]

i think you'll be fine, christina. the test is actually a lot easier than it's made out to be. just make sure you don't get shim. hahaha. :)

i'm at my (other) aunt's office right now. it's pretty cool here. one of the people that work here has this dog named bear and it's so cute. it's really really furry and a little overweight. haha. i've been watching so many movies lately. they have, like, a hundred dvds at their house. the other night i watched someone like you. it could have been better, but hugh jackman was super-hot. he should make more movies. :o)

counterstrike. hm, that sounds awfully familiar. i think my cousin was addicted to it last summer. it's that online mercenary game, right? where you run around and kill people? good, wholesome fun. hey, it's my uncle's birthday on monday and the guy that owns the dog (john) just gave him a collector's addition warcraft. yeah, he's turning thirtysomething. hahahaha.... they are such nerds.

maybe i should go. i'm feeling unproductive.

posted: stephanie, 3:47:02 PM [*]

hi all. do you guys clog everyday? LOL i meant Blog everyday...yes, i clog everyday. how about you guys? anyway.. i think i only blog like ..once a month..or less. so..im taking my drivers test on friday..and for the first time, i sincerely think i will not pass...i tried to parallel park yesterday..and i cant do it and i got so frustrated and mad and i almost started crying and so i went out running and i was in such a bad mood i ran the fastest i've ever run all summer and didnt even realize it...running's a good vent..i never realized before. but yea...so..i dont think im going to pass on friday..i mean, i know i can still fail one section and pass, but..still...i bet im going ot hit all the cones when i have to go around them, and i cant drive backwards, and..yea. pooopyy...and im just really frustrated with everything because i have alll this work for ranney to do and its so mcuha nd i cant take it and im always tired but i never feel like sleeping and i've basically ben getting two- three hours of sleep everynight and i dunno whats wrong with me. its summer..im sorry, this blog is supposed to be happy and stuff cuz its summer and people like beinghappy in the summer..um..ill think of something happy...um..okay i cant think of anything..im sorry...
on another note..norman!! mint chocolate chip cookies!! wahoo!! minority report was an okay movie..it was a lil too scary for me..not scary like scream movie type scary..just...eerie. there's the word. eerie. wow..that work is 5 letters long and it has 3 e's in it..weird..
oh yea my bio calss at ranney is so much fun. actually, both of my classes at ranney are fun.cuz im the oldest in all of my classes, and since its my second time take bio and chem (well, sorta) evertything comes more easily to me and you know..all these little freshmen and sophmores are...REALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY immaturea nd ijust sit there and laught at them..its amusing..anyway..i should go now..loads of work to do..okay bye!
love, me

posted: Christina Audrey, 4:22:35 PM [*]

i've never seen "jerry maguire", but i have to say that tom cruise is hot.  after seeing "minority report" twice.  and "mission impossible two" was on hbo a few nights ago.  and i don't remember what other tom cruise movies i've seen recently -- i saw "top gun" a while ago.  i would've blogged today but i didn't have time and i'm learning how to play counterstrike.  and maybe i'll say more tomorrow.  no one's blogging anyway ..


posted: derek derek, 11:05:03 AM [*]

so i just finished watching jerry maguire for the first time ever...it was an okay movie, i expected more of a football movie than a love movie "you complete me"...yeah...but i noticed Renee Zellweger is really really pretty and the little kid is soooo cute, oh yeah, and Tom Cruise doesn't look bad either. i still didn't watch minority report yet. maybe i should soon since i have so much free time on my hands. oh and serena, i don't think you need to bring so many sun repellents except maybe the lawn chair cause its at 7:30 at night and it might be a little cold but you can if you want to

posted: Norman So, 10:56:45 PM [*]

hi connie! it was very cool meeting you too! I'll probably come to all the games so that I can officially be 'stat girl' cuz that's my goal in life, so I'll be there to cheer you on. =)

posted: Serena Ng, 4:48:08 PM [*]

it's 11:15 on a sunday morning and i missed breakfast and i'm wondering if i'll go anywhere today i have no friends hi.  so i think i'll go soon and find out where everyone else is.  and if i can't find anyone, maybe i'll go and .. read my books.

posted: derek derek, 11:17:43 PM [*]

hi serena! nice meeting you today=)

posted: Connie Yung, 10:27:01 PM [*]

I hate tripod popups.  maybe I'll come to the mcccba on tuesday ... I would've come this morning but ... I didn't.

posted: ellie cheung, 5:41:19 PM [*]

I went to go watch the MCCCBA tournament at Philips park today, and even though Jess didn't come to keep me company, I had fun! I got to be a Stat girl and even though it was terribly hot it was fun. I have a list of what I should bring on Tuesday. 1. lawn chair 2. sun screen [I was wearing pants and I took off my shoes because it was hard to sit on the ground with my shoes on and I was also wearing my jeans with a hole... the hole got bigger! Gosh... maybe I shouldn't be wearing those jeans around people I don't know very well. They might think I'm odd} 3. A hat 4. Sunglasses 5. Frozen water 6. Food 7. Beach Umbrella 8. Tent with air conditioning. I think that might be good. Doing the stat thing is pretty good for me because I'm learning everyone's names. Lots of people are really good at bball. I think everyone here who is still around should come and watch. The fan base wasn't very large...

posted: Serena Ng, 4:20:10 PM [*]

stupid blogger wasn't working yesterday.  i lost my blog.  sigh.

i'll come back later and say something.

posted: derek derek, 12:20:25 AM [*]

haha, that whole "i want my house to be like pottery barn" thing reminds me of that "friends" episode, with the apocethary table and such. "ooh, you got the wooden bird cage. large!" anyhow, are you having fun in california steph? saturday i'm going to MINNESOTA!!! vacation capital of the world!

i bet drek's "something good" = "a special someone" ;) ...or lots of free food! booyah. "just playin." well anyhow, "ttyl"! woah lots of quotation marks in this here blog.

posted: Zi Shen, 7:05:05 PM [*]

there's a deposition going on right now. it's been kind of amusing.. the other lawyer is kind of sketchy. mostly because the first time the deposition was scheduled, he forgot about it and called the morning of to say he forgot. it was on july first and he thought it was on the eleventh. haha. and then he forgot to bring some documents for the other lawyer (the one my aunt works with) today and blah blah blah.. okay, maybe it's not that amusing. but it's pretty interesting.. boring, but interesting. there's a court reporter and everything! :)

i'm going to stay with my other aunt for a week. coolness.. she lives near la. she has the awesomest house.. it's really modern, but not in the sterile, museum-like sense. when i grow up, i want my house to be like pottery barn and crate & barrel and stores like that. and ikea. i've been in a really strange decorating mood lately. i want to redo my room, but the enormous effort required is just not .. yeah. i'm lazy. heehee :)

duuude, fobby pics! hehe. that's nifty. and i'm glad you're feeling better, ellen. :o)

hey, derek, what's that 'something good'?

posted: stephanie, 4:32:48 PM [*]

hey, i think i know preethi. i've definitely met her cuz i know that i know that name. i think i knew her from track...i ran with her when i used to be in track. hey grace, maybe you can ask her if she remembers me -- super incredibly tall chinese girl named connie...ask her "can you close your eyes?" for me-- cuz i think that was our joke...if it's the right girl=) it's been a few years... =)

posted: Connie Yung, 11:57:19 PM [*]

okay..this is what i blogged at about 7:30PM....except blogger wouldn't let me publish, so here it is at 9:30PM... =). :

hey everybody!
here i am, sitting at my desk in my dorm at nerd camp.

nerd camp has been a LOT of fun and a hell of a lot of work. i'm taking the microeconomics course under the wharton school at upenn....and it's mindboggling! hehe, no, it's not too bad...except you enter the class with all of these fears from the rumors that you hear...like how only 50% of the classes passes, and how the class is impossible...ick ick.

caroline chu's here too, and so are jon lee (soph) and randall li and evelyn wu. i also saw greta fleishner and another holmdel girl here for nike field hockey camp. this place is littered with holmdel kids, and even MORE littered with jersey kids. everyone you ask is from new jersey...scary.

it's been lots of fun, they give us a curfew for weekdays (10:30) and weekends (midnight), and you can basically go wherever you want until that time....so if i wanted to take a cab to new jersey and then go back in the same day before curfew, then all is good. =) it's pretty cool.

michelle, i know what you mean by bad roommates. the one that lives with me is actually really nice (a spanish - gorgeous - girl named meliza (melly/meli for short) from long branch, yes, new jersey), but FOUR of us live a suite style....meaning there's two singles and one double (the one i live in) and we all share a bathroom, living room, and cooking area...it's really nice. except the girl name katherine that lives next door is this single-child-spoiled-brat-everything-should-be-centered-around-her kind of girl. and the annoying thing is that she speaks in this very condescending tone to EVERYONE. at our nightly floor meetings, she asks about 12 questions in a row to our resident counselor (RC) and shoots down everything that our RC answers back to her.


so i found her after i came back from class this afternoon fiddling with my computer, ripping out cords behind the computer, and going in my desk. apparently she wanted to TRY my ethernet cable on our OTHER roommate's (named piyali) imac computer...and was also looking for scissors. she didn't ask if she could go through my stuff, didn't apologize for not doing so, and threw my scissors back at me. what a BRAT. and she talks about how she can ONLY buy things from armani exchange and and others. and she spends her time ordering new things from expensive magazines and tells ME how stores like gap, abercrombie, and et cetera were "stores gone bad"....and she looks at me with this sick look of pity when she sees what i wear in the morning. sigh.

but the other two roommies are good. in fact they're a lot of fun....which is bad, b/c we don't get to bed until about 2 or 3 in the morning.
anyhow, i'm late....gotta go out running. 5 miles on the schedule today =) should be fun - running with a girl named preethi from freehold (yes, AGAIN from nj...but she goes to allied health)...byebye everybody!

christine - keep your head up hun - i miss you tons and wish you lots of good luck - by the way, they're probably all bs-ing - you are as good, if not better than them!! go get em!


posted: gracee sea-ying, 9:28:45 PM [*]

i forgot about the fourth of july. i am a bad american. i visited eugene the other day in the mountains (that's where he is now..) and he was like, "happy independence day!! ....it was two days ago." oh well. weird? i saw sam yu. he's on the same missions trip as eugene. i was like, "hey! woah."

taiwan has been fun. missions was super ...cool. interesting. challenging? i got sick. doctor said a mixture of heat stroke but mostly food poisoning. throw up everthing (including water) and other gross things associated with food poisoning. those squatter toilets are not my friend. i peed on my leg. twice. i got my first ever IV! given many many pills. by far the best diet i've ever been on. effects are totally gone as i have stuffed myself with food since i've gotten better.

at aunt/uncle's house. they have slow computer.

one of my aunts is totally gone. gone as in blank face-glass doll gone. she has a mental disorder, apparently. i don't know what yet.

shopping = cheap and good. got cheesy glamour shots. in one of them i'm a whimsical school girl. in another i'm a traditional chinese girl (sound the gongs).

derek is very far away from me. so is paige. and emily.

christine i am your friend! i hear public issues has the hottest guys. i don't know where i hear these things.

its been raining for seriously this whole week. second typhoon, so far. ok i am typing in brief sentences. i think i've been on the computer too long. i discovoured (hm..i don't know whats up w/ the "ou") while writing emails that my typing skills have deteriorated. bye kids, i'll be back this weekend.

posted: ellen mellen, 10:13:59 AM [*]

i still don't get ellie's thing about google searching her name.  and i haven't met emily in person yet.  and i have class later and i had class this morning and it was okay.  something good has happened to me too.

posted: derek derek, 1:37:47 AM [*]

aahh, bad roommate situations!! that's terrifying. i feel bad when they have those news programs like dateline about obesity and they film obese people but don't show their faces, just their midsections. do they tell the people they're filming them? you actually have uneaten food in your room for your roommate to find?! go eat it!! food = true love.

in other news, the new bruce song "rocks!", as the kids say. my friends and i had a campout in one of their backyards on sunday night. we set up the tent and everything. first we watched the marlboro fireworks on the library lawn (in lawn chairs) then bought s'mores stuff and junk food <3 and then camped out. summer is great....the boss is back, camping out is fun. where's derek?

posted: Zi Shen, 5:53:53 PM [*]

wow, michelle, that really really stinks. this girl sounds pretty psycho.. ick. i say you booby trap your food and makeup with one of those paint bombs like in speed and then you'll know who it is. haha. i guess that's a little farfetched. hm. still an idea though.

i'm posting from irvine, california. it's always sunny here and there is too much shopping around for my own good. :o)

my dad sent my this article about how some doctors are thinking that low-fat diets might actually be bad for you. i've only read the first quarter of it, but so far it's something like the low-fat diets will make people want to eat more carbs to compensate for the fat and that causes obesity, diabetes and whatnot. or something like that. i should probably go finish that article.

posted: stephanie, 1:37:27 PM [*]

... where is everybody posting from?

aw christine it'll get better :-)

er michelle I don't know what street toscanini's is on ... I know there was one near harvard though ... I think maybe on the same street as au bon pain which might be across from harvard yard but you know what I'm just making this up so don't go on that.

posted: ellie cheung, 11:39:53 AM [*]

christine, which progrqam are you at? don't worry, it's only like the first day or two right? just stick it ou a few more days, i promise you things will get better!! my roommate who steals all my food and junk IMed me pretending to be eric and when i found out i was like "ericm gues what/?! there's this bitch on your sn right now who thinks she's so smart but she;s realoly not, and she eats all my food and leaves it all over the floor and the same with my make up" and then i grabbed my bag and ran out of the room. and when i came back later with my other roomy she's all like, i swear it wasn't me, i've had stuff stolen too, and all this shit she was like oh its the cleaning lady - soi we went to talk to the proctor and my proctor's like no,,,cleaning ppl don't go into the dorm rooms - she (brigette the bad roommate) is totally lying thru her teeth, it's liike what person who goes thru the trouble to break into someone's room every single day just to eat food and play with make up and not even bother stealing my money which i hide in the most obvious place? right...so all three of us roommates are gonna go talk to my proctor again over breakfast tomorrow, i'll have to try to find time to take my proctor aside and tell her my suspicions. i will update you all since i know you're dying to know what's gonna happen. i gotta figure out where this toscanini's is, do you know what street its on ellie? or like whaqt stores it's around?

posted: Mich Yam, 12:37:49 AM [*]

aw, christine. i'll be your friend! hm, i guess that doesn't really work since i'm kind of on the other side of the country. darn. but don't worry. your effervescent personality will be sure to draw lots of friends. :)

anyways. i stopped running. i'm so mad.. i'm feeling the fat creep around my body. you know how when you're surrounded by relatives .. the only thing you do is eat? yeah. hazardous.. especially when there are quite a few chinese/asian restaurants around, all within fifteen minutes of your house. unless they're feeling crazy.. then they decide to drive us all fortyfive minutes to monterey park. *sigh* so back to why i'm haven't been running. i caught a cold last week. a COLD. in CALIFORNIA. i was so pissed. but i swear that it is because of the running. see, it gets really cold in the morning here.. and i've been running in the morning. so i stopped.. just to recover, of course. haha :)

i saw men in black two with will the other day. we had ice cream at this place called coldstone something something where they mix your topping of choice into the ice cream on this cold stone counter. haha, get it? cold stone? right. the guy who mixed the ice cream was really cute. haha.. i've got to keep myself amused, all right? we basically just walked around the place with the movie theater for a while.. looked for cell phone antennae.. band t-shirts.. pop unknown cds. well, he was looking for them. i just happened to be there. haha. but it was fun. :)

i really wish my grandparents had a computer at their house. phoooo.

posted: stephanie, 8:38:29 PM [*]

i've made it through the first 24 hours of being with a bunch of really smart people who all seem to know what they're doing and what they're talking about, while i just try to uh..follow along. i'm out of my bubble and i suddenly feel so naked, like a turtle without its shell and i miss my family and my home (most of all my bathroom, nice and clean with bathroom mats) and i miss good home-cooked food and i wonder if i'll ever fit in with these people who all seem to get along while i just diminish into the background. and yesterday, i couldn't fall asleep and i began to think about life after death and what it would be like and i started crying and i couldn't really stop and i didn't really sleep much, and then i went running today at 6:30 with a xc runner from montclair who is really in shape and i'm very not in shape and so..yeah. i know this is all very depressing, i guess i'm homesick. i need a friend.

posted: Christine Lin, 1:44:24 PM [*]

hi!  dude michelle I was in boston this past weekend.  I forgot you were there.  ... also, I don't know you that well so ...  :-)  (are you taking classes at harvard?)  er anyway, I might've been in the same shopping area as you, because there were ... um ... a lot of shops where I was ... but there's a lot of shopping in boston ... boston is very big ... anyway my older brother (joe) is living in cambridge right now and we went to go visit him.  we went to fanueil hall (also called like ... "the marketplace" or something) but they had too many people (this was on saturday) so we went to eat at this other place near it.  okay ... yeah.

oh and back in the day ellen said something about toscanini's and I said I didn't think it was that great ... well I lied.  actually okay, there's a toscanini's right next to where my brother lives (it's such a ghetto apartment btw) and I went in just to grab something really quickly, but the line was really long, so I was going to leave and then this lady behind the counter's like, "does anyone want free ice cream?  I made this free sample but nobody wants it" and I was like, er, okay!  so I went up and got free ice cream, and it was really good.  of course, I might just be thinking that because it was free, so ...  but yeah toscanini's is good.

yeah I saw two girls who were wearing harvard apparel ... one was like a ten-year-old asian girl.  the other was a ten-year-old white girl.  ah, parents.

anyway ... hi american derek ... how was the missions trip?

posted: ellie cheung, 10:05:27 AM [*]

oh, and ellie, i didn't understand this excerpt from your blog at all: "if you google search my name, that blog will come up. which was kinda freaky ... oh, that and ... you know what ... nothing comes up if you google search my name" .. aren't those completely contradictory things you said?  let me try google searching my name.

posted: derek derek, 6:40:35 AM [*]

ellie, jerk.  plug your own blog and remove the link to mine.  and you wouldn't let me join your clique.  oh, and i'm back -- missions trip is over, i have some pictures to develop, i have scars from having kids all over me (especially one particular psycho girl, i'll show you pictures when i'm home), i got a bit sick and stayed home (or at the home church) sleeping instead of going to a few things, i slept on a table the first three nights.  and now i'm in taipei and i registered today for this program and there's so many rules and i can't go out unless this and that and with this signature and how many people in a group, and i might not get to have my random taipei excursion.  anyway, that's right, happy fourth of july.  i am an american citizen.  i am not a fob.  i will have to keeping repeat to myself that.

posted: derek derek, 6:38:29 AM [*]

i heard MIBII sucked. but oh well. i saw minority report and that was really really good - and last night we all decided to plat soccer out in the yard at 2 in the morning girls against guys and you would just see like a guy w/ the ballm, a girl run up, the guy crumples to the ground, and then the girl runs off with the ball - it was good stuff - and today i met up with my family to go shopping at this place and it was like all these shops, a 3 floor abercrombie building, express, gap, banana, american eagle (!), etc etc - i love shopping, it is my friend. the page lkooks white to me, not blue...one of my roomates is a biotch she like goes thru all my stuff and eats all my food its disgusting - i got home the other night and like my cereal is always out and opened, there's trix all over my side of the room, my lip gloss is opened and used and not screwed back on and then in my bedroom my roommate's clothes are on my bed, and underneath my bed there's a spoon and ice cream on the floor - and the thing is this is my ice cream which she has no right to be eating in the first place, let alone in my room and for gods sake, if your gonna do all that crap at least clean up after yourself. and she left the empty ice cream container in the freezer so i had to thrw it out for her. and she went thru my drawers and used my make up. and today i was downstairs and saw her come in to go to the room upstairs, and so i came in literally 10 seconds after she did and she had already taken some of the food i had been eating and shoved it into her FAT UGLY face. ugh. bad roommates should be forced to live with each other so they can piss each other off and get what they deserve. i bet she's going through my stuff this very minute. stupid girl. gr.

posted: Mich Yam, 11:10:25 PM [*]

i saw the fireworks at the freehold raceway from my driveway. well, i saw them better from the end of the street through a tiny little hole where there wen't any trees. they (the fireworks) just happened to be right there for me to see. and i saw the sky on the other light up and flash and stuff from the colts neck firecrackers. actually, it wasn't all the that exciting. not at all. anyway, i'm pretty bored. i don't think i did anything really worth talking about. except for maybe the fact that i went to go see bourne identity...pretty good. matt damon's good looking. minority report was better. and um. i think that's it. i've been working. not too exciting. i'd rather be where you guys are. on vacation or missions trip or learning something somewhere (taiwan mass penn cali wherever you guys are scattered.) ok, bye!

posted: Connie Yung, 7:19:10 PM [*]

happy fourth of july everybody! =)

posted: Jess Tai, 9:03:05 PM [*]

it is bluish norm...

I saw MIB II this morning, I went for the 10:30 show, but the cashier guy told us that there was a very loud summercamp in the theatre and that everyone was returning their tickets, so we went to see the 11:00 show. So I saw the preview for Lord of the Rings:Two Towers, which looks really really really scary. All that evil taking over the world stuff really scares me, but I want to see it cuz it looks really cool. I should finish the book by december... The previews lasted for half an hour... unbearably long, and the movie itself was really short, I think less than an hour and a half, but it was really really really good. I think ya'll should see it.

So the air conditioner doesn't work in the study, where my computer is, so my brother and I have set up a fan network. When you sit at the computer desk, fans blow at you from all angles, its pretty cool, but my arm is still sticking to the glass on top of the table as I'm typing. Ick. My mom says that we should move the computer to the completely useless room thats in the air conditioned part of the house...maybe we should.

posted: Serena Ng, 8:27:11 PM [*]

is it just me, or does this page have a blueish tint to it...or has it been like that for a while and i just haven't noticed it until now...wow i thought i was meticulous too, i guess i'm not

posted: Norman So, 2:07:19 PM [*]

yo wassup.  :-D  haven't been here in a while ... I just got struck by blogging mood.  (you know ... blogging mood ... the common disease ... er yeah.)  so yeah I redid the college kids' blog, actually someone told me not to link it, but who cares because you know what if you google search my name, that blog will come up.  which was kinda freaky ... oh, that and ... you know what ... nothing comes up if you google search my name ... absolutely nothing ... :-P

yeah but nothing that interesting, seriously.

anyway, so I stole that blogger template from blogskins, I love blogskins!  (ok this blog is mainly for derek since nobody else cares about blogger templates or blogskins.)  the other one I was considering (again for derek's sake) was "vernal" but it doesn't look good with the ad up top (the one I put on was "earthy boxes on a hillside").  er, okay, I'm going to shut up now.

oh, fine, I'll just plug my website and then shut up.  (hey, I plugged basically everything else ...)  go sign my guestbook!

posted: ellie cheung, 10:38:08 AM [*]

wow, my last blog was really long. sorry, guys. i know my life is not that interesting. :)

hm. i have about two and half hours to kill. yay! at least i have a computer. otherwise i might have to "read." that wouldn't be any fun. but i have to confess. my nerdiness has taken over. i finished my report of cry, the beloved country. *sigh* i was supposed to procrastinate until the very very last minute! haha. actually, it feels kind of nice to have it done. one down, three more to go.



OOH. men in black II comes out tomorrow. nod ya head. haha. :)

posted: stephanie, 5:35:12 PM [*]

i noticed that serena!...i think i noticed that over the weekend and wondered if there was something wrong with my computer... but i asked michelle(yam) and she said she couldn't see the names either... so its not my computer(thats good). well i'm here rotting away my life having nothing to do...oh my goodness you have no idea how incredibly bored i am. i'm BLOGGING for petes sake, that shows you my sanity is deteriorating. i thought i was gonna get a job but thats still up in the air. hopefully i'll get one soon, i applied to a few places but they never called me back. wow. the good thing is that my cousin went down to cape may for a week and he let me borrow his dvd collection along with his ps2. GTA3!! in case some of you entertainment deprived beings don't know what that is, its a very violent game where you steal cars and stuff...yeah...hehe, j/k speaking about summer reading, i have to get cracking on that soon. i have not done a thing (academically speaking) yet, which is why i'm going to die during senior year... but thats okay...maybe i should go to some Ivy league summer school program thingy. well thats all for now children...i think this has been one of the longest blogs i've blogged in a very very long time...well bye!

posted: Norman So, 3:39:38 PM [*]

hey... does anyone else notice that when you check the webpage form of the blog, the person's name who posted isn't there? I just thought that was odd...

posted: Serena Ng, 8:18:56 PM [*]

I need to find something to do with my time...I think I'm going to venture to the supermarket tomorrow and buy random food items that are not usually found in an azn household... like lasagna layering... I'm having a craving for lasagna, so I think I'll make some tomorrow. Oh and last night on the food network on Emeril live, Emeril's theme for the show was icecreams and sorbets... oh my GOSH... he made this ice cream cake that was layered with ice cream and cookie and chocolate sauce annnnnd ooooh I had to eat ice cream after watching that. That network is pure torture. I think there is some dessert special on tonight, I think I'll watch. So my brother has been trying to teach me how to shoot a basketball not like a girl, you know the bendy knee use your whole arm release thing? Yea... I can only remember how I used to/still shoot and cringe... it looks so girly. My bro signed up for the MCCCBA tournament thing along with some of my cousins so I think I'll go to the park with him and watch some people that I know.

I agree with steph... derek, you should definitely change the name of your blog because I didn't get an 800. Actually I thought I did pretty well until I told my dad my score and he said you didn't get an 800? yea... change that name. I got my summer reading books over the weekend...why can't the print be bigger? Gosh... in grade school summer reading was so fun! You read any book you like and it was short and sweet. Now we read these books with issues and we discuss the issues to the ground in school. By the way, does anyone want to have a one page online conversation with me discussing one of the AP books after I finish reading something? I'm really looking forward to that!

posted: Serena Ng, 8:07:35 PM [*]

derek, i think you should change the name of your blog. the anger/jealousy/etc etc is starting to get to me. :) but good job, anyway. hehe

i wish i could write better, too. i start thinking that every time i read a book written in a cool, sophisticated, witty blah blah blah style. BLAH. i feel so uncouth. hahahaha. something like that. ironically, my graphic designer aunt recruited me to write for her. they're trying to advertise themselves better and my job is to write something that will convince people that graphic design is important. hm. i hope that they aren't putting too much into my abilities. they showed me the stuff this professional copywriter did and it was soooo corny. like, "we do it with gusto!" corny. she said she almost fainted when she read that. hahaha. but yeah. hopefully they're just being nice and humoring me a bit.

so i'm here at the office again. alone. but this time for three days. haha. i don't know why my aunt is having me come in here. she's away this week. went whale watching at santa barbara. but for some odd reason, i'm here. aah, i really hope i don't screw anything up too badly.

oooh, you're working at cafe vittoria, christina? that is SO cool. i heard being a waitress is tiring though. i did it once for one meal at that keswick thing and i thought i was going to pass out afterwards. hahaha. but then again, i don't have much physical stamina.

you know what's annoying (kind of)? when people tell you that you look about twelve years old. grr. i know it's a harmless comment but still. and you know what else is annoying? the fact that my TEN YEAR OLD cousin has bigger feet than me. *sigh* my issues with being short are beginning to resurface..

mm, speaking of summer reading. cry, the beloved country is really good. i cried some.. *sniff. apparently it was made into a movie. my uncle told me i should have just watched that. haha. i've got some bad influences here, kids. tsk tsk. anyways. oh, i randomly bought the norah jones cd. it's good. and i saw lilo and stitch. that was good, too.

blah. i guess that's all there is to say. OH WAIT. i ran into connie the other day. it was kind of funny.. we were both shopping at south coast plaza (this huge huge mall). i saw her twice but i wasn't really sure and then she came up to me in bath and body works. hehe. apparently, will lives in her neighborhood, too. so.. yeah. we're gonna chill sometime. :)

posted: stephanie, 3:19:42 PM [*]