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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.
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Saturday, August 31, 2002
my mom doesn't like lleyton hewitt. but he's winning right now.. as we speak. and i can hear my mom exclaiming in the kitchen as she watches...
hey steph, i knew what you were talking about! you're ambiguity wasn't too too ambiguous... Friday, August 30, 2002
shaolin soccer is an awesome movie. it has these really funny matrixish special effects involving soccer balls. its kinda crude and outrageous, but its really funny to watch until the protagonists start getting beaten to a pulp.
i hope james blake kicks lleyton hewitt's butt. that would be craziness. der-lei, i want to see your hair!!
by 'that thing' i was referring to school. i guess nobody really got that. there goes my attempt to be amusingly ambiguous. hmm..
i wanted to say something before but now i forget what it was. i am really losing my mind. i finished my calc homework. i am so proud of myself. and i'm on my way to finishing my english homework. man, i am on a crazy nerd-roll. craziness. Thursday, August 29, 2002
what thing. anyway, i was about to blog when i decided to change the blog title and i never got around to writing an actual blog after that. the blog title: i got off the plane in detroit and after wandering through the luggage area and customs, i was really surprised by all the "waiguoren" in the airport. even though i was back in the united states and it was too be expected. everyone speaking english and english magazines and english books and wow, americans are really fat. and i got really out of shape in taiwan, but it's surprising how people say that i'm skinnier. mmm.
almost every single person that is online right now has an away message on. fascinating..
i, too, haven't much to say. ah well, i figured i'd write some nonsense on here just to take up space and such. i am so bored/scared. bored, because i don't have anything interesting to do, and scared because something very bad is going to begin next wednesday. and i have not finished the things i need to do for.. that thing. you know what i'm talking about. aiyah. =P
hi, i don't have much to say. but i want to know the inspiration behind derk's decision to call this blog "so many white person here." well, besides the obvious irony. also, derk's hair is amazing. hehe...
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
i saw rich's accord today. in his garage. when i went to drop off his tennis raquet that my dad restrung.. right. it's niceee... still with the non-liscence plates that all new cars have... niceeee. derk i want to see your haircut!
woooooah. an accord? that's COOL. my cousin has an accord. it's "champagne" and it's souped up. hahahaha.. actually, he toned it down a little recently, but it's definitely still rice-rocket material. he had it in a car show a few years back.. i found that very, very amusing.
summer camp was fun! the speaker was great.. we had chinese food (!!).. and lots of other stuff! hehe. OH.. and we found out what derek did to his hair. and it made us laugh.. quite a lot. tee hee hee.. =) Monday, August 26, 2002
welcome home der-lei!!
ahh my left arm is sore from a tetanus shot. somebody pinch me. really really really hard. cause there's this accord sitting in the garage, and it's new, and it's really nice. and my parent's say it's mine (and my grandma's, but she doesn't drive all that often). gosh i'm so freaking lucky to have my parents. aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
i don't know.. i find the fanta song kind of catchy =) haha, just kidding.. it makes me want to strangle something.
welcome home, derk! and everyone on the church retreat.. have lots and lots of fun! Sunday, August 25, 2002
welcome home derek! even though you won't see this until probably tuesday.
i think that fanta commercial/song could quite possibly be the most irritating thing in the whole world. everytime i see it i just want to shoot myself. or change the channel. Friday, August 23, 2002
cindie got this song stuck in my head today:
want a fanta, dontcha want a want a fanta? fanta is awesome stuff. and i also have that goo goo dolls song "what a scene" stuck.
oh my. i never imagined chinese school camp to be so.. intense. hm. :o/
guess what song i have stuck in my head?!!?! i'll give you a few lines.. ahem. "he was a boy, she was a girl, can i make it anymore obvious?..." that's right. sk8ter boi. it's an interesting song. i'm not understanding why a lot of singers and stuff have been spelling their song titles so oddly lately. like.. slave 4 u. and there are lots of others that i can't remember. but it's kind of irritating. grrrrr.. ;) Thursday, August 22, 2002
so all of a sudden things turned serious today when one of our camper kids blew up at us. he was flinging spitballs at people so i confiscated his spoon, and when he started attacking me, i had to wrestle him into his seat. then i left to take a kid to get his water bottle in the gym. when i came back desks were on the floor and he'd apparently attacked another TA. if i was there, he probably would have attacked me again. then a few other kids got scared when they heard him mention a gun. i think he was referring to a "pop" gun that he brought in last year and put a hole in the roof of the high school with. i wasn't joking when i said "juvenile correctional facility."
derek's mom is so cute! haha. :o) i can almost imagine this conversation in my head..
yeah, so after practice today, we (allison, christine, and i) went all sweaty and skanky (yumm) to michelle tai's house. and after a few hours of hyper and delirious behavior, including eating big subs, running into various people, and having a conversationg about twizzlers and chocolate with an office max cashier, we managed to produce, quite possibly, the best nametags ever. EVER. =) hehehe. i hope people like them. :) coldplay did a live set for mtv2 and i was watching it before. coldplay is so cool. in my place!!!! :o) Wednesday, August 21, 2002
hah hah i just talked to derek's mom for about 10 minutes on the phone. she called asking about the senior pictures because derk won't be back until sunday.. so i gave her the number to call and the company and all that important stuff. and then she started asking me what derek should wear. or what people in general were supposed to wear. i should have told her that derek had to wear a tuxedo.. hmmm. oh well. and then she started asking me what i was going to wear and all that.. and then how my summer was going and what i was doing.. and then about gymnastics and my knee.. and then about colleges (of course). she was telling me about how derek was in taiwan learning chinese and all that and how he was going to church camp straight from the airport. yes, it was just a funny asian sort of conversation. i actually remember how to speak chinese, how odd.
haha, what is this strange thing? i am quite curious. and i heard about that fake volunteering experience. man, i missed out on chinese school camp. never attended, never helped out. aww.. i feel out of the loop. never got one of those cool cool tshirts, either. aww.. =)
wow, i'm hungry. time for lunch.
hm, i remember doing chinese school camp that one year -- painting teacher's assistant. that really mean old woman painting teacher. but actually, she wasn't mean at all to me (only to the kids) and i had almost every class session free to go do whatever i wanted after i set up some of the painting supplies on the table. some kids tried to molest me too: there was this boy named nelson who tried to punch me in the crotch, and then cullen's sister elisa and her gang of little girls chased me and tried to hurt me, and then there were some others that i can't recall at this point.
some more things i have to do before i leave: get more copies of this one wallet picture of this japanese girl (it's only in this one bookstore near where emily's aunt and uncle took us to dinner one time after we came back from chiayi), buy some cds and vcds but i'm not sure which ones i'd like some faye wong songs, and hm. three-quarter length pants. my aunt took me to get a haircut yesterday and something really really strange happened and you'll all see when i get home. good night. Tuesday, August 20, 2002
so working as a TA at Chinese Camp in the 4th grade class has been more like working at some juvenile correctional facility. some of my kids might actually end up there someday. i think i'd quit if there weren't other TA's helping. "TA" should probably also mean Toilet Assistant instead of teaching assistant, b/c delinquents have to be shuttled back and forth from the bathroom every 10 minutes. a group of 4 or 5 has been trying to molest me every chance they get, and one other one hurled spitballs at me all day and when i confronted him he called me a "stupid f*ck". i made him say it 4 times over before i could understand, you know how my hearing is. yea. i am the shepherd, and they are my wolves.
but they were all really funny when they were trying to play basketball. i was on a team of maybe 15 short little midgets who couldn't do anything for defense except scream at the top of their lungs and hope the resonating sound waves forced the ball away from the basket. hmm this might make an interesting college essay topic. Monday, August 19, 2002
haha.. feminine product. that made me think of pads and tampons. :o)
anyways. i'm really bored at the moment. i could be doing stuff like writing english papers and whatnot but i don't really feel like it.. so i'm bored. sigh. maybe i'll go out later and buy food. it's kind of sad that i have a car, yet i still do not go anywhere. i should be more active. which reminds me .. i should go running today. i have a lot of things i should do. :oP
wow derek. now i'm dying to know what feminine product you got. tell me tell me! because i won't be here for you to show me=(
less than a week left. i have to do all these things that i've been planning to do .. i got kind of three-quarter length khakis (they actually said "guy capris" on the label) but they're not the ones i wanted, so i might go back and return them. or wait, you can't return things in taiwan, so i might try to exchange. but the better ones are like 690nt and that's expensive. the taro panda is nowhere to be found. the original store where it was says that they'll have a new shipment next week maybe -- too late too late. so i'll have to go looking for it elsewhere. i don't know where to find the piyu piyu either. i bought a few vcds, including "the matrix" for 199nt (around six bucks). it comes in a fairly large box. and so. oh, i got a black fanny pack bag like guys in taiwan wear across their shoulder. it's a bit fobby. i can't find any funny guy shirts with incomprehensible english .. girls have all the fun. hm, i bought something very feminine today. i'll show you guys when i come home.
Sunday, August 18, 2002
i just got really confused. i check the blogs in alphabetical order, and for some reason i assumed this was connie's blog and she changed the name because i hadn't gotten to "square root" yet. and i was like, wait, no one's talking about the main topics on connie's blog and why is derek blogging so much on connie's blog?
i had a dream about dead bodies the other night too ellen! in mine my whole school was inside a horror movie, and there was a serial killer on the prowl. so our principals announced that everyone should go to the auditorium, so everyone's walking down the hallway and someone in the crowd gets killed and everyone just steps over his body! it was weird...and then our school is inside this huge old theater-like auditorium, with balconies and stuff. and while we should be concerned that there's a murderer out to get us, everyone is chatting away with their friends, like we're at an assembly. and then the principals shut off all the lights so it was really dark inside the auditorium, which was stupid since that gives the killer opportunities...and i'm like, "hey this is bad! they shouldn't do that. this is stupid!" and then i go look for a seat next to a friend. that scared me.
i feel ultra-tough and unstoppable because i got a cell phone today. it actually took a while to get...my mom and i went to the hong kong supermarket on rt 18 to their hong kong wireless place, and asked them about the deal in their ad. The guy told us that we didn't apply, since we live south of east brunswick, and the deal is only for people north. Since i don't like spending a lot of money, i created a plan to get the deal anyway. I just had my aunt who lives in edison sign up for me at another branch, which was conveniently closer to their house. And now i'm celled up :-)
blah, a huge surge of guilt just hit me. i think my coach is annoyed with us seniors because a lot of us are missing some practice. and now she's adding an extra one. okie dokie then. i hate making people annoyed.
so. i went to a coworkers' meeting today for fellowship and we watched kate & leopold. i still don't think it makes any sense.. but i still like it anyway. :) i think all girls should be allowed to have a gentleman. just a random guy who'll stand up when you leave the table and pull out chairs for you to sit in whenever you feel like it. yep. :o) my lonliness is killing me nooooooooooow.. don't you know i still believe?
did derek just say "natalie portman is pretty" ?? i don't think i've ever heard him say anyone is pretty. or maybe i have, and i just don't remember. and did he title his blog after a britney spears song? wowow, what has taiwan done to him?? COME BACK BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!
=) Saturday, August 17, 2002
i got a piyu piyu doll (like 18 inch diameter, wow) downstairs in the zhongshan station underground mall. wahaha, it was half off .. but then it was the one sitting on the shelf all the time and someone said it was a bit dirty after i brought it back and showed a few people. anyway, i haven't seen piyu piyu around anywhere else (i assume when you say "piyo" that's what you mean, the big round yellow bird with a little flat beak and two dot eyes) and my luggage is getting full too. i guess i could get you a little one. where did you see it?
i saw that mtv commercial. you guys made it sound so good! it's okay, a little short, but i don't know why everyone likes it so much. natalie portman is pretty! okay i'm going to get some food.
good morning. the blog title changed. =(
in addition to your "european style" pants and fob shirts, you should also get me a piyo stuffed animal!! i wanted to get one but my mom said that it would take up too much space in the suitcase. which is totally unreasonable because the piyo was small and i could have carried it and in its place various dried foods were put in the suitcase. so i tried conning eugene to get me one but that failed...derek you are my last hope. umm so last night i had a series of bad dreams. and they all involved college. and suicide, for some reason. ...probably because so many people have been talking about the suicide rates @ cornell and yale and etc. anyway, one of the last ones took place in one of columbia's buildings (uh..the one with glass? and the theatre? is it the student center? i totally forget.). well i was taking a tour of the campus with a bunch of random people. all of a sudden this computerized voice (over the speaker) goes, "suicide watch." and i hear a huge slam of doors. all the sunlight is blocked out, and everyone is running to the sides of the room. then i look up and see this girl throw herself off the side of the top floor...and i hear a huge slap when the body hit the floor. and then a guy followed, screaming something before he fell, and then another girl. after that, the sun came out again and everyone just went on with their day, walking around the bodies. ahhh i still remember what it sounded like when the bodies hit the floor. needless to say, i couldn't sleep anymore after this dream. which is why i've been up since six. *shudder* really late last night (um..or really early this morning) at 1ish or so, tbs started showing "the breakfast club!" i love that movie. lots of eighties references and the dancing scene...good times. do they have this movie on dvd? they should. and i should get it. to all the people seeing the goo goo dolls and etc., have fun!
ah, derek, you missed the best fellowship ever. i only call it that because all the college people were asking me if it was the best fellowship ever. no, actually, it probably was. i laughed so hard it hurt. :) yeah, so they basically just did christian spoofs of all the big summer movies. so funny. even funnier than fobby tshirts. :o)
i've got a strange pain in my chest. owies.. it started yesterday and i thought i was dying. but now i'm thinking it's from the time that i got hit in the chest with the ball during our last game at camp. it didn't even hit me that hard, though. boo.. i hope i'm not dying. anyway. i think i'm coming down with something. :P
saturday afternoon and i'm here in a computer lab wasting my time. when i could be out somewhere in taipei or actually doing some work on my college things (scholarship essay that's long overdue, resume of activities and service that would be really helpful to have done) or some summer homework (like reading my last one of four books and writing all four of four responses, and my calc book is at home so i can't do that) i'm instead here talking to allison online. not that talking to allison online is bad, except she's the only one i'm talking to and she's not responding very quickly. and the people i usually go around with aren't available. so i think later i might go shopping my myself and a few certain items that i wanted: 1. a pair or two of three-quarter length pants like guy capris, so many people wear them here and it seems to be a european style and okay fine i'm gay, 2. fobby shirts with incomprehensible english, except girls get all the funny shirts while guys shirts here are all big and stupid with skater or hip-hop brands, 3. some stuffed animals (i've already gotten quite a few) especially the taro panda which was gone from that store where i saw it a few days ago (!!!) and i have some others in mind, 4. cds and vcds. i bought a lot of fake cds. if i like them, i'll buy the real ones. maybe. i'll go looking later. anyway, i should go now and maybe i'll go shopping. good morning.
.. so much to say. okay, not really, but i'm sure i would if i was thinking clearly, which i am not after four hours of class on a saturday morning after a late friday night doing random things (not bad things, okay) and coming back from a three-day trip all over taiwan. let's see, we visited an amusement park (the one owned by roger chen's extended family) and then stayed at a crappy "resort" place and then walked up a mountain and then went to another "resort" place and went to a children's folk art museum and a decrepit dilapidated old (all those seem to be synonyms hm, or i could be wrong because i am regress in the english now) candy factory which had a mini horror house basement. what fun. i have pictures that i can show you guys when i come back. if you want to see. oh, and i now have a pet bee. that was part of a huge honey-making business outside the candy factory. he has no stinger and is very cute. actually, i don't know if it's a "he".
people are saying i'm missing the best friday fellowships ever. ellie makes me jealous every time she talks about it. i hope there are nice pictures (or even video, videotape them! or wait, too late now). bleh. i like bubble tea. i should drink more of it, but then someone told me that it's really fatty (the tapioca balls, i think). i'm getting fat with all this food. the night market by the university has crepes that are so good .. ahhh. and also these dumplings and lots of fruit ice stands and wow. this is my last week here -- i'm going to go on a shopping spree for stationery and stuffed animals (the taro panda i wanted was gone! wah) and some fobby clothes. especially three-quarter length pants, haha. i am fob. okay good night. no one's blogging. Friday, August 16, 2002
oh... thanks richard.
who in their right minds would go to sports camps? you pay to go to a camp where you get tortured! well.. i guess it COULD be fun.. speaking of which, grace is going to running camp tomorrow. concert tomorrow night! oo i'm excited... =)
so i was cleaning up the computer today and i came upon this little piece:
Princess Jessss (9:16:55 PM): hahaha kerri strug is obnoxious RockinRichbert (9:17:00 PM): she's fat now Princess Jessss (9:17:03 PM): yea Princess Jessss (9:17:05 PM): all of them are Princess Jessss (9:17:09 PM): i hope i don't get fat like that Princess Jessss (9:17:11 PM): that'd be depressing too late, fatty. :--)
spanish guys who play field hockey are really hot. hahaha. i just got back from camp yesterday. it was so great. the place was disgusting and gross (six girls in a tiny room, no air conditioning at all, nastiest showers inexistence) but the camp itself was so fun. our coach's name was bruno and he's nineteen and he's played field hockey since he was four and he's from barcelona and his grasp of the english language is minimal. he was super-cute. aw yeah. i'll tell you more about him sometime. :o)
wah, i have no idea what's happening with american music. the only english songs i hear in taiwan lately are "a thousand miles" and kylie minogue songs and red hot chili peppers were on mtv for a while. i think i want to change the title of this blog. anyway, we came back this afternoon from a three-day trip to random places in taiwan and i'm a bit tired so that's why i'm staying here on a friday night. i think i might write my long-overdue scholarship essay. also, i've been feeling a bit of a depressing feeling lately. not sure why.
so i watched this birthday party special for one of the channel v vjs, and he's an abc and speaks chinese pretty well and my non-practical career goal is to become a vj for a chinese music channel. which will probably never happen. but that's incentive to learn chinese well. wow, i only have about a week left here, and then i'll see everyone at summer camp. i should go out and buy some especially fobby clothes. mm. okay, i'm not in a blogging mood. Wednesday, August 14, 2002
i like that weezer song "keep fishin'". I just saw the video on MTV and it has the muppets in it. Kermit is sooo cute! The Weezer people are cool too...
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
first time in 7 1/2 weeks that i've gotten up before 9! i would be proud if i weren't so darn tired. one more final and i'm done! until of course i go home to start summer reading. oy vey.
Saturday, August 10, 2002
i just left a message on everyone's screen name who has an away message up on my buddy list. but, the plot thickens! each message is simply "noun in away message!" for example, allison's is ramblings about bug spray and field hockey camp, so her personalized message is "bug spray!"
ellen is pretty! your taiwanese fobby pictures are amazing! i bet taiwanese people come over to america and take j.c. penney portrait pictures and then bring them back to show all their friends. norman said that in taiwan "fobby pictures" are simply "pictures." =)
ellen is funny! your essay topics remind me of some of mine. one of my essays was about sombreros. i really liked it, but cornell wasn't amused, apparently. ellen is sporty! i couldn't think of any other adjectives. Friday, August 09, 2002
oh yea, go get this cd by tara maclean "passenger" it's good.or download "if i fall" and "settling" (or don't if you dont lie mellow songs by girls w/ sweet voices) oh yea...another thing...i lost my key but needed to get bac to my room at like 4 in the morning but my room was locked so i had to knock really loud to wake up my roommates and one of them woke up and was really pissed (the weird roommate) i guess i don't blame her...
someone show me the commercial! and guess who i saw today!!! like stood literally 1-2 feet from! ETHAN HAWKE!!!! *drool* he came to promote his book and he's all really funny and stuff..and i got four pictures of him, 2 close ups - yay. today was a good day. doens't julia stiles go to columbia? or is she transferring to harvard or something. tatyani ali also goes here and one of my friends who lives in the area saw her (tatyani) w/ her friends piss drunk. oh yea and some of my friends went ot a party which got busted by the cops and they were like hiding behind cars but the police found them and told them to get out which is kinda lucky that they didn't as any questions...and two of the ppl were sooooo wasted they puked all over someone's car and garden. so yes. those two are sleeping in a friend's room and when you walk in the room reeks of like....alcohol and...ass. so that's my story for the day.
Thursday, August 08, 2002
the jimmy fallon/natalie portman commercial and bubble tea are both cool. that's my cheap blog for the day.
ahhh i want my mtv! someone show me the jimmy fallon natalie portman commercial. or tape it. wow i sound like derek. john mayer dated vanessa carlton, and then i read that he broke up with her over the phone while on a flight to nyc to see jennifer love hewitt. and i also read that "your body is a wonderland" is about jennifer love hewitt. but then in the same article (ok i was reading magazines while waiting for eugene @ the airport) it also said "former flame jennifer love hewitt" so that made me happy. a sort of empty, shallow, teeny bopper kind of happiness.
i couldn't fall asleep last night because i realized that summer is almost over. also, that tennis starts in like a week, and i haven't played since last season (oops) and something like we lost our third singles because she moved and we don't have a second doubles and something like we'll still beat holmdel anyway. just kidding. or not really. my friend said that i'm supposed to fill in for third singles, but i don't think the coach realizes that i stopped all forms of lessons/playing/anything active. my attempts at concentrating on schoolwork has resulted in gained weight, tennis suckiness, inactiveness, and my grades still stayed the same. nice! when i did fall asleep, i had a dream that i was writing a college essay about shorts. like, the clothing. what a nightmare. i think i might write an essay about shorts, now that i think about it. but it really won't be about shorts. or something. my essays are always really random. i.e. nhs essay was about cough syrup and another essay i wrote was about ducks. but they really weren't about cough syrup or ducks. methaphors annoy me sometimes. i just noticed that metaphor rhymes with whore. i wonder if any rapper has ever used that rhyme. then again they would probably rhyme something with "ho." if someone were to ask me what this blog was about, i don't think i could tell them. oh, in taiwan, during one of the vbs programs, this lady made super good food. like mango ice and really good sushi. one day she made bubble tea -- but the bubbles were almost like super bubbles. they were huge. they could barely fit through the straw. so in trying to get the bubbles up the straw (they were stuck), those little devils would rocket up. and choke us. and i think after i drank bubble tea that day was when i got food poisoning/heat stroke. HMMM. anyway, last year my mom wanted to open up a bubble tea place and be all trendy. and then my dad shot her down. not...literally...just...her idea. i remember i got really excited and told steph really excitedly about the possible bubble tea place and i think i might have promised her a job or something. anywaaaay this is by far the most random blog i've ever written (and that even includes faux blogs in my xanga!).
I don't think vanessa carlton's all that pretty, for some reason. I think phil agreed with me but I forget. but she is a very good pianist/singer/whatever. oh speaking of which, this song came into my head last night, which was nice.
I *love* the jimmy fallon/natalie portman commercial, and I *hate* the bubbles in bubble tea. yep, I can relate to the issues on this blog! yay!
well dave, you go to columbia, you can stalk vanessa carlton and julia stiles! i think they're gonna be there during the fall semester or so i was told
...yeah i tried looking for the commercial too. Man, i wish i got into harvard so i can stalk natalie portman....er, i mean so i can get a first rate education.
Wednesday, August 07, 2002
that was interesting....i just sat still at my computer while my brother stood 15 feet away with a deck of cards tried to throw cards far enough to hit me... I think he finally did on card 50. I just thought I'd share.
Bubble tea stinks because it has tapioca in it and I detest those little balls because of my evil evil brother. When I was about 7, my mom made tapioca and as I was eating it, I asked my brother what the balls were made of. He told me that they were fish eggs...I was grossed out so i ran to my mom and asked her if the balls were really fish eggs and she nodded and said uh huh... and now even though I know that they're not fish eggs, I still can't eat them because I was thorougly grossed out.
yay jimmy fallon! there's also those commercials of him pretending to be "american idol" contestants. funny shtick.
i saw b2k yesterday, in the city. they were on trl and we stood across the street and saw the back of their heads. bubble tea is one of the most disgusting things i've ever consumed. i had it in flushing (korean town) (last year or two years ago i forget) with my friend cuz she loves that stuff and told me to try it. i swear, it was a very long 10 minutes as i choked it down. but of course we had to take the obligatory bubble tea-in-hand picture. minus the two-fingered peace sign, though. ok, i won't exaggerate too much, the liquid wasn't bad, it was just the bubbles that got me.
i want to see the commercial! i just tried looking for it and i couldn't find it .. someone else try. or tape it. or something, i don't know. okay, it's not that important to me. i still haven't found that disk with the scholarship essay on it (seven hundred fifty words!) and so i've accepted the fact that i'm going to have to redo it totally. which i will this week, probably today. since i have time now. i think i'll take a quick nap first (even though i know i probably won't wake up for hours).
Tuesday, August 06, 2002
i'm all bubble-tea-ed out. i've been devouring it all summer because it's so expensive in new york.. and the ones at the hong kong supermarket are icky. my aunt is obsessed with the idea of opening a bubble tea restaurant and making lots of money. ;) hahaha. i had almond-flavored bubble tea the other day and it was yummy. mmmm.
i bet almost every guy is jealous of jimmy fallon for making out with natalie portman in that commercial. harharhar. it was pretty darn funny, though.
i saw bill clinton when he was running for president and came to freehold to make a speech and win votes. my mom pulled me out of my 7th grade science class. and there were lots of other kids who got pulled from class. but i saw more secret service agents than i saw of bill clinton. actually, i just saw bill clinton's head. because he's tall. and i am too.
i saw that commercial on mtv with natalie portman and jimmy fallon and it was SO FUNNY. haha. he tries to make out with her and she won't until the tv theyr'e watching says he's hosting some award show and she's like, REALLY...? and then they start making out all over the couch. yeap, it was funny. i saw brian sze yesterday at the chiropractors.
so richard, you're having an email correspondence with some songwriter from california? interesting. i wouldn't know bruce springsteen if i saw him when i go weekly to my gymnastics club. it's midnight and i can't think clearly. we have some kind of trip tomorrow to a mountain national park and well. my camp shirt is dirty so i think i'm going to be rebellious and wear something else. i saw a shirt last night at the night market that said "just do me." and i think i'm liking bubble milk tea more and more. i'll have to keep getting it while i can. okay tired, going to sleep.
Monday, August 05, 2002
hmm i've had an encounter with a celebrity, if that Beach Boys writer i met in california counts. his name is stephen kalinich, and his song California Feelin is on Brian Wilson's new cd. and through him i've got 2 degrees of separation from tom cruise and brian wilson and carl wilson and a bunch of other famous actors and singers. and now we're emailing each other. pretty cool eh?
lets see...i've also met christie whitman, rush holt, and our little new jersey group was supposed to meet corzine and toricelli but they were too busy with their senate stuff, like usual. bruce springsteen has been in my tennis club. tennis and gymnastics. wow.
sasha cohen = ice skater. jackie chan! eric would be thrilled. bon jovi and bruce springstein have been in my gym, does that count? never talked to them, but they were there. many times actually, hrm. okay i'm off to be a nerd and to summer reading.. maybe.
hm, major brain fart. who is sasha cohen again? the name sounds so familiar but i can't quite pinpoint who it is.. it's on the tip of my brain. aaaah. i hate it when this happens.
i saw signs, too. i went to this theater that was HUGE (like, twice the size of the ones at multiplex) and it was sold out. craziness. there's so much hype around that movie. anyway, it was all right. surprisingly funny. but the mood was totally ruined because there were various crying babies around the theater (i do not understand why a parent would bring a baby into a movie like that and not bring it out of the theater when it started crying). anyways. i've never had a brush with celebrity. unless, of course, you count those two times i happened to see jackie chan next door to my school in hong kong. his office was there and he gave a personal tour to one of the classes from my school. not mine, though. booooo. :o) it's okay to feel nerdy, serena. i get those attacks, too, every once in a while. :)
brian sze's seen natalie portman at harvard before. and he's never said anything to her (like gone up and asked for her autograph, etc.). phil and dan are very upset that they've never gotten to see her and brian has.
Sunday, August 04, 2002
Haha Mr. Bird... Oh dear. Helen was there too. Hm I got the feeling that Mr. Bird didn't remember who I was, but that's okay. And when we got out of the Movie it was storming like crazy... pouring!! So when Rich's uncle came to pick him up, he drove me, Jon (my brother), and Helen to my car across the parking lot... Yes it was interesting. Driving home was crazy. Sasha Cohen is cool! Hey Mickel, have you seen Natalie Portman? Someone was saying he/she saw her there, I don't remember if it was you though.. hrm. So my mom went to Price Club this morning to get stuff. And she bought this thing called "Move Free" and she had a $5 coupon for it. But she had the coupon in her pocket and forgot to use it.. So now I have to go and get those 5 dollars from the Price Club people. My parents are driving my brother to violin camp, that poor boy. The house is going to be quiet for the next week.. okay maybe not. Signs was scary! Not bad though. I went to UPenn yesterday, but Gracee was in NY. Figures. Oh wells... it was fun anyway. Oh so I finally saw "Ten Things I Hate About You" last night.. it was such a cute movie! That guy that played Sir Orwick in "A Knight's Tale" was Julia Stiles' boyfriend.. he's cute. I don't remember his name though. Um okay, I gotta go to Price CLub, bye byes.
you saw mr bird?!! And you talked to him?!! what the hey?! Was he spitting? Were his children running away from hiM??? oh my... i am thankful to be out of his class... very very thankful. Woa, shelly belly, you saw sasha cohen? She's realy short? She was probably visiting checking out colleges... she is our age. Mrs. Boueil would have loved to meet her because she has that 'inner fire'. Ok... no one will know what I'm talking about cept for Steffy.. STEFFY COME HELP! I feel nerdy! ahhhhhhhhhh.
Saturday, August 03, 2002
so jay chow's new cd has been playing here ever since it came out. and i had my first experience with buying pirated cds the other day .. they have the real ones on the rack, then you take the cd and show it to the saleslady and tell her you want this one, and she takes out a cell phone and calls someone and tells some secret someone the names of the cds .. and then about five minutes later someone comes and hands you the goods in a little black plastic bag. like, they hold it close and then put it in your hand and say "thank you" and then i leave. i've been feeling a bit depressed as of yesterday. more later if i feel like talking about it. and we were going to watch "signs" from a bootleg vcd but the sound was bad. i didn't want to watch it anyway. hm, i've seen the "amelie" vcd around but i never knew what it was -- should i get it? anyway, connie's blog seems a lot more fun right now. so i'll go there.
you body is a wonderland has been playing since the beginning of the summer over here. and guess what, sasha cohen was here yesterday until this afternoon and some of my friends hung out with her last nite and i saw her back as she was leaving the campus. my brush with fame :) ok well, i'll talk more later.
jess, jon, and i saw 'signs' yesterday. that movie was really scary and crazy, but it was also really funny. and jessica kept covering her eyes. joaquin phoenix is cool. then after the movie we saw mr. bird with his family, and we had a little chat. it was fun.
i wonder if the olsen twins have any friends. i think they must live the most deprived childhood with all the work with marketing their 5000 products and making their 500 pointless films. they were cute in full house, but now they're scary. yea, that's right. scary. i wonder if they've ever gone bowling. Friday, August 02, 2002
connie i know exactly who you're talking about. we still need to watch 'winning london' together. my morbid curiousity has sucked me into the world of mary kate and ashley olsen twins. i already saw "getting there," where the twins got a vintage mustang for their sixteenth birthday and went on a road trip to the olympics with all of their friends. that's the beginning. after that, the plot gets all craaazy. i saw a mary kate and ashley olsen twins cd and the first track was "noyz for boys." cute, huh?
i've never ever ever been in a midwestern state (haha, i almost typed "country" then backspaced and almost typed "nation") before. this minnesota hip-hop-pop phenomenon sounds so interesting.
i think the olsen twins are popular because they're so self-important they make it seem like they're the only twins on earth. plus they've built that empire of games and videos and stuff (i see the ads in nickelodeon magazine). plus their movies and shows are so bad that you can't help but watch, simply out of a morbid curiosity. [maybe that's why you watch american idol steph] and most of all, they always have a kickin' dance party at the end of their movies! you gotta <3 that. but everytime my mom sees them on tv she comments on how they look like two "ku gwa" [sorry i'm bad with chinese in english writing] i guess literally translated "bitter melons."
i heard "your body is a wonderland" on the radio last week. i forgot what station though. that reminds me of something i observed in minnesota. those crazy minnesotanese kids sure love their hip-hop! it's really funny, because, well, it's minnesota! however, the hip-hop i heard blasting from their cars were not currently big. in other words, no "hot in herre" or "gangsta lovin" or "i need a girl part 2." heck, they're not even on part 1 yet! but it's not cool old school hip-hop either. they're still listening to z100 overplayed kind of hip-hop like early 2002 j.lo and jay-z and ja rule and such. i thought it was funny. i guess you had to be there...in minnesota.
your body is a wonderland is already out here (in california). and oddly enough, the radio station i listen to (that plays the song so much i'm almost sick of it, but not quite) happens to be where ryan seacrest works. weeeeiird. he is sort of hot. only a little though. that show (american idol) is quite possibly one of the most annoying shows in existence. and i don't understand why i kept watching it the other night. i hate how they're like, "one of you will go.. one of you will stay. we'll find out...... (long long pause)..... right after the break." and then people start to scream and whine and i change the channel. yep. :)
the olsen twins are like the strangest phenomenon ever. I will never understand quite why they are *so* popular.
one of the olsen twins says "release the hounds" in Winning London. you know, with that incredibly hot british guy. just though i'd share.
Thursday, August 01, 2002
agh, i got all these cool pictures back from price club that i wanted to scan and put up on my xanga, but everytime I try to scan my pics a window pops up telling me that i should make sure that there is a valid source for my scanner... oooooooh, i got it to work! If in doubt, unplug, kick, and it shall work again =) john mayer rocks!I heard that he released 'your body is a wonderland' next and that he was inspired to release that song because of jennifer love hewitt... ick. but he still rocks!
you don't <3 john mayer so i don't <3 you. just kidding. ...i think. hehe. but i do agree with richard on the fact that bruce springsteen rocks!! i can't wait to get his new cd. once it gets cheaper. heh. anyway what's all this college stuff that everyone is doing? i thought applications weren't released yet. (release the hounds!) my blog is a total waste of space, and for that i am terribly sorry.
i don't <3 john mayer. he's way too mellow for me. his songs make me want to tear out my hair, or lack there of, b/c he lacks emotion, which is probably b/c he's not old and grungy yet like bono and bon jovi and bruce springsteen. but that's my opinion. speaking of bruce springsteen i just downloaded some of his stuff and i can finally see why he's getting all this national publicity. he rocks. and bon jovi's coming out with a new cd, Bounce. wheee i can't wait!
so my days back in little holmdel have been mostly consumed by playing tennis and college stuff, and its been all good. i wish i could already say, "does someone want to visit me at [big ivy leagueish university here]?"
hey derek, they have those cameras at urban outfitters that takes four pictures at the same time...the thing you were looking for back during christmas. basically, there are a buncha different experiments that pay from 5-10 bucks and i usually look at a computer screen and perform different tasks or watch a buncha pictures and words and then do stuff with it - supposedly one of them had quic flashes of certain pictures that subliminally/subconsciously made you think a certain way about certain situations. i dunno. i just do it and get the money :) did you know, women's armpits are smellier than men's cuz we don't have as many sweat glands on our chest/back - so it makes you think about all those deodorant commercials where they go something like "strong enough for a man but made for a woman" something along those lines.
hehe zi you're funny. =D show me the pictures of your folders. speaking of pictures, i just got my pictures from taiwan back. i'm really upset because somehow a lot of pictures mysteriously were not developed. like all the pictures i took with eugene (not my brother, just the kid derek named after my brother). i'm also really upset because all the funny pictures i took came out back. like the one of my cousin's cell phone screen -- oddly enough, she has someone listed in her phonebook as "cocaine." ah those cursed disposable cameras.
i had something of substance to say but i forgot. and now i have to go to piano lessons. oh i'll have a smashing time.
i saw part of that last night...and then i thought "only geeks watch this" and turned it off. ;) jk steph...um, yeah i thought it was interesting.
today, after finishing throwing out all this old college junk, i took out the two accordian folders i have of the schools i actually applied to. each has a separate labeled section in the folder. i took them out and put everything that had to do with my personal application process in a huge shoebox: photocopies of filled out applications, copies of SAT score reports, essays with revisions on them, letters (acceptance and uh, otherwise), etc. it sure was a nostalgic trip. since the folders are still good i don't want to waste them, so i have to take out the labeled tabs out when i use the folders. so in order to remember those folders and the dominating role they played in my life this year, i took 2 pictures of them with my i-zone camera. and i'm going to stick the photos onto the shoebox. I TOOK PICTURES OF FOLDERS TODAY. i have to go.
hey, it's august already. i can't believe it's august already!!! ah!!!! this is very weird. it means fall is coming and that means school is starting. did you guys hear about how our principal quit and how the superintendent was fired? yeah, that happened at the beginning of the summer but i didn't remember to mention it until now. interesting stuff. holmdel is going down the toilet. lovely stuff. :o)
i'm coming back in .. seven days! one week exactly. it'll be nice to be home. when are you getting back, michelle? come back from harvard! :o) by the way, what kind of experiments did they perform on you? it sounds kind of funny that you got thirty bucks to be a lab rat. hehe :) speaking of experiments, i was watching this thing on tv last night about the differences between males and females. it was called "what's sex got to do with it?" really interesting. so apparently, our brains are wired up differently and that causes guys to often be better at spatial relationships and girls to be better at verbal things. and then guys tend to use one specific area of the brain at a time so they're able to concentrate really hard on one task, while girls utilize more areas of the brain at once so they end up being better at multitasking. something like that. okay, it was more interesting when i was watching it. :P
there's fellowship this friday! that is, tomorrow. the summer recess is over!
ok if you are a girl, why don't you blog here and tell me if you've seen this message and/or are out of town. because I'm supposed to call all the girls in h.s. fellowship to remind them that fellowship is back on for tomorrow and if you've seen it on a blog then I don't have to call you! yay! ok I will come back and blog for real later.
Does anyone want to visit me at harvard? i feel so sad and lonely...well harvard has all these psychology experiments going on and you can get paid to do them so over the past few days i made 30 bucks and decided to spend it on the new Goo Goo Dolls CD which is pretty good except i don't like Robby Talzec.something's voice, they should make the songs exclusively sung by the lead singer, hence the name lead singer. but anyways, the store had cases and cases full of used cd's selling for 2.99 and under so i got some old-school All 4 One and then some Tara Mclean for 5 bucks total. not too shabby, huh? oh, and i gained 5 pounds since i've been here so that's not exactly very good. i have a midterm i should probably be studying for...
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