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.

Monday, September 30, 2002
so i'm blogging again. but i'm really excited because after scouring the internet for a week or so, i finally found it!! you know, that song that plays during the "tuck everlasting" trailer. for some reason i couldn't find out what the song was from the movie site... but anyway, its dana glover and i think i could grow to like her. ...i really like her voice. anyway its been bothering me that i didn't know the song, so now i'm not bothered anymore.

so the same stupid thing happened to me again today. I was driving along and there's this stupid commercial on 106.3 for some television show, and all of a sudden the sirens start going off again. so naturally I'm thinking "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" again. but of course i again realize that I am under the speed limit and its just a stupid *expletive* commercial.
a police car did follow me most of the way down crawfords corner road though. no sirens.
go holmdel tennis!! back to back boys and girls state champions!! yeeeeaaaa!!

ellen you probably did see me there! i was the other asian from south. um, anyway i played ellen today in a scrub match. SHE has some nice tennis skills there. =D not like my tennis club dropout self. hehe. btw, we lost to holmdel today for shore conference. what an upset! ok i bet no one really cares...

i have this project for euro thats due tomorrow...it was assigned today! now i have to figure out a costume (i'm the medici family. uh, yes the whole family) and make some craptastic visuals. but its all good because i am seriously in love with my teacher. *swoon* he could be MY knight anyday. am i grossing you out?

ever since i saw 'sweet home alabama' on saturday, i've been slipping into a southern accent every so often. for example, i was reading my euro textbook last night (yes i read out loud to myself...it prevents me from falling asleep!) and all of a sudden i realized i was giving the renaissance a southern twang. also on saturday i went to a formal thing. it was...fun. ? i sat at the "kids" table, which ironically also included twenty and thirty somethings. derek came up for a brief moment (we were talking about holmdel's anal retentiveness/general unhealthy obsession with college and sat scores) and it was concluded that he is "every fob girl's dreamboat." and then everyone got red faced from the "very very open bar."

as you can tell, my life is pretty much at a halt and is v. boring. in the past week and a half, the best thing to have happened to me is jack johnson. everyone go buy his album because its great. oh i sound so pathetic. you can read more about patheticism @ my xanga.

Sunday, September 29, 2002
wow hi guys, i havent blogged in goodness knows how long. haha that song scared my mom while she was driving too, she looked around wildly until i told her it was part of the song. ooooo ellen, i think i saw you at the monmouth county tourney this weekend... if it was you, you have some tennis skills there! =) i want more sleep

that song "lifestyles of the rich and famous" scared the *expletive* out of me today. it had this stupid police siren going off in the background, and i was driving with no cars around me, and I was like "AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" and then i looked at the speedometer and realized I was under the speed limit. stupid song.

ahhhhhhh i wanna see sweet home alabama!!!!!!!!!! not fair not fair not fair not fair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nice lord of the rings reference, derek

Saturday, September 28, 2002
sorry i haven't blogged.  hi connie -- come back soon and bring a piece of illinois.  what have i been doing lately, hm.  a lot of nothing, a bit of something, not everything.  i started some college apps, or actually just one, specifically the harvard common app, and i did some resume-writing and essay-thinking.  i have three different inventories of my activities and achievements now.  don't ask why or how that happened, it just did after everyone wanting them in a different format.  but i still have to finish the master resume tomorrow.  one resume to control all resumes.  steph didn't get that the other day, and i wonder if anyone else will.  eh, so i tried to start my national merit scholarship essay today with the sentence "i'm a very off-center person, and i mean that in the best way possible."  and then i stopped and went back to writing things for my guidance counselor.  i have pretty much everything in mind for that essay -- i'll talk about math and science, art and music.  i saw the show "off-centre" for the first time this week, and it struck me as really funny.  especially with the chinese guy wearing a cowboy hat and saying inane things.  okay anyway, that's what i've been doing lately (a bit of it) and i might come and blog later and stop this blog drought.  actually, it's the opposite, because i feel like i'm drowning in other work.  okay, not really, because i'm still a lot less busy-stressed than other people.

give me the best romantic comedies you've ever seen.

awww.. we miss you too, connie! how's life as a college student? hehe. i think i ask that to every college freshman i talk to. i really need to think of a new conversation starter. :o)

so i was planning to do a ton of stuff tonight. okay, maybe not a ton of stuff. a substantial amount of stuff. and yes. here i am.. blogging. sigh. i really have no desire at all to do the things i intended to do. man. i want to watch romantic comedies. mostly because i watched sweet home alabama today. cute movie.. but probably only if you're in the mood for a silly romantic comedy. hehe. so now i want to watch some really good ones.

i miss you guys!
i miss you guys a lot

Thursday, September 26, 2002
wow, another blog drought.

anyways. i'm having a little party in my head... because we have no school tomorrow! okay, that sounded a little psychotic. but there is no one around to celebrate with, so i'm just being happy by myself. right. i really need to get some sleep this weekend. :o)

Monday, September 23, 2002
i blogged at my site today.  but it feels different, kind of like i have to adhere to some higher standard of writing.  see, i just used a word like "adhere".  i'm so glad i have this blog to write stupid things.  except i'm doing calc homework so.

Sunday, September 22, 2002
i don't have her password. i could never leave comments on people's posts because i don't have an account. But now that my sister has one, she just signed in for me so i could leave one =).

dave... I'm curious as to why you have your 8 year old sister's xanga password.

Saturday, September 21, 2002
why does everyone have a xanga? sigh. i mean, it's not a bad thing. but it makes me stay online so much longer than i should... i go through phases where i don't read any and then all of a sudden i read all of them. it's terrible. stop xanga-ing! i need to work! =)

speaking of work.. no, actually, i think i'll go shower. that's much more fun than working.

so i find out now that my eight year old sister has a xanga...

Friday, September 20, 2002
blog drought....

Wednesday, September 18, 2002
The Cutting Edge ROCKS!

agh our english project is incredible. it's awesome. but i think it's cursed, for now. we had to spend maybe 30 hours on it over the weekend b/c my computer was incompetent and we had to fix all these little glitches. and flash movies just happen to run at different speeds on different computers, so we spent some hours trying to compensate for that. but then the cd-rom in the computer in maltese's room broke, so eric and kevin couldn't present it in 8th period. ahhhhh!! why'd we have to go and make things so complicated? i see the way the sound and pics are out of sync, gets us frustrated. but it should work tomorrow.

Tuesday, September 17, 2002
that reminds me of fancy footwork in the movie "the cutting edge" which is one of the best movies ever. doug and kate, and the russian coach, and their fancy footwork.

wahh i am so tired. today was my first day in my new tennis class, and it was a blast. when we were doing drills for 40 minutes, we had to keep our feet moving the whole time, or else do 20 kangaroo jumps and get an earful from the instructors. i guess it's still less tiring than cross country was, but i think i need new tennis shoes now. ahh my feet.
and this stupid english project is taking a hell of a lot longer than we thought....we're still not done. ::sigh::
MATH TIME!!

Monday, September 16, 2002
university of south carolina is the most annoying school i've ever encountered in the mail.  seriously, it's like spam through paper mail with the number of envelopes big and small and little cards that i just found as i went through all the paperwork in my tray.  i'm going to write them a letter when i have time and tell them something mean.  like "go away please" or something.  yes, i know that's not mean, i couldn't think of anything at the moment -- it's meaner without the "please".  so yes, i've started some personal work on college apps and scholarships and everything and anything college-related.  okay good-bye i have to do something.

that is so true.. and i think i've mentioned coldplay in the vast majority of my previous blogs. mm.. i need to find a new band to listen to constantly.

anyways. it's monday. and i'm not at school. yay! but i still have to do work. but i don't want to. sigh. so here i am.. wasting my time away. i want to go and watch a movie. i'm only steps away from my tv. aaaghhh. this blog is very choppy. and i am bored. :P

hooray for coldplay. i think they broke up. they are awesome. the verve's "urban hymns" is probably my favorite cd ever. i think every once in a while this blog becomes a series of someone says "this band is cool" and everyone else says "yeah, and so is this band" and then derek says "i'm going to buy lots of cds on bmg." i saw the president's helicopter yesterday!! it was cool!!


Sunday, September 15, 2002
parachutes is an awesome cd. and their new one (a rush of blood to the head) is also awesome. i like coldplay. and i'm don't think they broke up. my brother must have been lying. =P

i was going to say some stuff, but now i won't because i need to go to bed. okay, good night. :o)


ellen, you should've kept your rant about christian music.  then we would have something to talk about.  i think naming a band after a name is kind of weird .. like "graham colton" or "veruca salt".  except calling yourself something other than your name when you're an artist by yourself (like dashboard confessional) is even more strange.  maybe he just doesn't have a cool enough name.  i wish my name were duncan sheik.  i'm going to order four free cds from bmg sometime soon -- i just ordered bbmak's "[i forget the title]" cd from half.com for $1.50! -- and i think two of them are natalie imbruglia's "white lilies island" and coldplay's "parachutes" .. and then i can't decide what else.  any suggestions?

i just realized i've had a different principal for every year of high school.

yep...this band from texas, graham colton, opened for john mayer at the concert here at my school...they're pretty good. yesterday my friends and i sat outside an "+18 adult paraphenilia store" in georgetown to see who went in and came out of it. good times. i bought bananas at the farmer's market. there's a really gross taste in my mouth right now because i just smelled my milk carton before i threw it out...and i inhaled deeply...and it was quite sour...i shouldn't have done that because i knew it expired last monday.

the second paragraph of ellen's blog reminds me of summer camp. why you ask? because frances and i shared a bed and on the last night we were talking and i started talking about christianity and hypocrisy and it turned into a lecture about race relations in america...and she fell asleep in the middle of my rant/soliloquoy. anyway, bye.

steph, that is so true. "audiophiles" is a funny word. so yes, i actually do remember when derek found out about nina gordon. and i might have said something like, "nananana i saw her video on vh1 and nananana." she's from canada, no? or maybe thats heather nova. or both of them. they seem very similar. oh i miss cable. actually, i just miss food tv. that is a great channel.

i was looking through old issues of seventeen that i have, and there was a fashion feature on racheal lampa -- they labeled her the "christian pop princess." ...yeah. i also just wrote a whole huge rant about christian music. (actually more like a huge rant about the label "christian music" and why i don't like it.) but i erased it.

if you guys are into heavy rock that's really emo, then check out blindside. they're pretty good. i think they have a video for "pitiful" out on mtv2...but maybe someone w/ cable can confirm that. also, their cd is selling at best buy for $6.99 (man that's so cheap). i couldnt find it today though. (but i did buy jack johnson) along the same lines as heavy emo rock, celebrity is also a good band. also, their cd is being produced by mark nash, who of course, is leigh nash (of sixpence ntr fame)'s husband. ...i don't know why i'm into stuff like "heavy rock that's really emo" now. i used to listen to such mellow music...

oh, and also -- i went to the taiwanfest tonight, aka the orchestra/choir concert @ lincoln center. everyone there was taiwanese. the people performing were taiwanese. they had taiwanese translations for the english...!! man. it was pretty good though. whenever i watch orchestras i get weird flashbacks of when i was young. i wanted to play a string instrument (namely...cello. and violin) because i wanted to play in an orchestra. then my mom made me start piano... i also remember her not letting me play tennis when i was younger because she thought it would make my arms look masculine. and i also remember her making me quit swimming because she thought it would give me damaged hair for the rest of my life. man my mom was paranoid. oh, well anyway. there was a really young married couple sitting in front of me, and they were so cute together!! they were doing these cutesy little things. aww. i kept looking at them and smiling. haha. it made me wonder what my future husband is going to be like. ...it is so weird that i was thinking that during taiwanfest. but yes. tonight i totally fell in love with the city again. or maybe its because i watched the "sex and the city" episode i dled. one of the plot lines was nyc being sarah jessica parker's (or, at least her character's) great love/boyfriend. hm...yeah, its probably because i watched sex and the city. speaking of sarah jessica parker, i heard that my principal had dinner with her, matthew broderick, mike meyers, and nathan lane. that's just crazy. anyway, i'm going to go read now.

Saturday, September 14, 2002
i love how everyone always wants to be the first person to hear an artist. it's like an odd sort of competition among audiophiles everywhere. i just wait for people to tell me who to listen to. =)

aha, i remember when i "discovered" nina gordon.  i think ellen might remember.  i always say "hey, ever heard of _______?" and she always says "um, yeah" -- except for in a few cases.  like that howie day song "she says", except now it's annoying when i listen to it.  sheila might remember when i told her natalie imbruglia -- "who?" -- and bbmak were going to be huge chart-toppers.  i want to be a chart-topper.  okay, i should go.

oh and btw, i liked all those jokes...and yes, if i haven't already told you, go download Rachael Lampa and Mark Schultz - Think of Me - its really good, trust me!

yea, our field hockey team this year is so kick ass!! and we're all bonded and snuggly warm and fuzzy...so i've "discovered" two new artists that I like...nina gordan and anika moa...oops i gotta go but so far...go download nina gordan - tonight and the rest of my life

sorry, i guess that was a bad joke. it was rather late when i read it at first and i found it highly amusing. then again, it doesn't take much to amuse me to begin with. :oP

we won we won we won we won!!!!! today was our first game and we won 2-0. it was exciting. i scored a fake goal (a girl from the other team accidentally tapped it in and i was right there, so they just reported that i scored it. nice.) and fell randomly a few times (i kind of rolled around on the floor the second time i fell. hahaha..). winning is fun. you guys should come and watch our night game on tuesday. it's at seven, i think, and we're playing freehold boro. we're gonna kick butt! hehe. i'm excited for this season. yay!

i should do some homework..

i don't know what "shek" means in manderin, but i woke up early today (wow) so i watched "shrek." it was dave's dvd, too. i wonder when we're going to give them back...;)

in other news, my dad called while i was watching shrek and said, "btw, we're going to lincoln center tonight to watch a TAIWANESE orchestra." or something. that's so funny. my dad has so much taiwan pride! we have taiwan flags in our house.

anyway, i don't have any bad jokes for you guys. so sad. =(

Friday, September 13, 2002
what's "shek" in mandarin then?

have we resorted to telling bad jokes on the blog?

i went to the chiang kai shek memorial the summer before sophomore year, one super hot sunny day in august!
here's a joke:

An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer -- you're in the wrong place."
So, the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After awhile, they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.
One day, God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?"
Satan replies, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next."
God replies, "What??? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake -- he should never have gotten down there; send him up here."
Satan says, "No way." I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him."
God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue."
Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"

i guess it's both an engineer and a lawyer joke


it might because in chinese his name is zhong1 zheng4, which was the name they gave him (or he gave himself, i don't know) after he became leader of taiwan -- it's like one of those honorary things.  i think his real name is chang kai-shek.  whatever his name is, he has a huge memorial in taipei.  your joke wasn't funny either, norman.  now stop posting jokes.

ok maybe not when you read it a second time

i thought this was pretty amusing...

"A kid called up his mom from his college and asked her for some money, because he ran out of it.
Mom said, 'Sure, sweetie. I'll send you some money. You also left your calculus book here when you visited 2 weeks ago. Do you want me to send that up too?'
'Uh, oh yeah, OK,' responded the kid.
So Mom wrapped the book along with the checks up in a package, kissed Dad goodbye, and went to the post office to mail the money and the book.
When she gets back, Dad asked, 'Well how much did you give the boy this time?
Mom said, 'Oh, I wrote 2 checks, one for $20, and the other for $1000'
'That's $1020!!!' yelled Dad, 'Are you crazy???'
'Don't worry hon,' Mom said, as she kissed Dad on the on top of his bald head, 'I taped the $20 check to the cover of his book, but I put the $1000 one somewhere between the pages in Chapter 19!'


what a stupid joke. i went to the chiang kai-shek memorial in taipei one sunny day in july too. his chinese name doesn't sound anything like his english name. It's either really bad pinyin or some cantonese translation

Thursday, September 12, 2002
ah, that's not funny.  i'm going to delete it.  .. okay, no i'm not.  oh, i went to the chiang kai-shek memorial in taipei one sunny day in july!  that seems grammatically strange with those last five words, but anyway, it's just a huge propoganda temple to some founding father dead man.  you can see a wax figure of him, see his documents, see paintings of him, see his cars (all cadillacs), see pictures of antarctica and the moon dedicated to him -- it's a lot of chiang kai-shek stuff.  and i think he wasn't even that good of a person.  something about having taiwan under military rule for forever and being a dictator-type president man.  it was really hot and sunny that day, so we left really soon afterwards .. it's not fun standing in a huge white square surrounded by temple-like buildings.  the glare is really bright.  and climbing a million stairs to the top of the main memorial place wasn't fun either.  that joke wasn't funny.  oh, and i'd heard a different version of it before already.

here's a funny joke:

In the hospital the relatives gathered in the waiting room, where their family member lay gravely ill. Finally, the doctor came in looking tired and somber. "I'm afraid I'm the bearer of bad news," he said as he surveyed the worried faces. "The only hope left for your loved one at this time is a brain transplant. It's an experimental procedure, very risky but it is the only hope. "Insurance will cover the procedure, but you will have to pay for the brain yourselves." The family members sat silent as they absorbed the news. After a greatlength of time, someone asked, "Well, how much does a brain cost?" The doctor quickly responded, "$5,000 for a male brain, and $200 for a female brain." The moment turned awkward. Men in the room tried not to smile,avoiding eye contact with the women, but some actually smirked. A man,unable to control his curiosity, blurted out the question every! one wanted to ask, "Why is the male brain so much more?" The doctor smiled at the childish innocence and explained to the entire group, "It's just standard pricing procedure. We have to mark down the price of the female brains, because they've actually been used."

teeheehee =)

Wednesday, September 11, 2002
hmm so i got my senior pictures too. my parents say i look like chang kai shek in some of them. how nice. he was a pretty cool dude.
ahh my wrist hurts. i must have juvenile arthritis.
i really do think it is comforting when the water comes out like bullets from a machine gun. it's like a free massage, and it's especially nice for my senile back towing 20 pounds of books a day. ahh my back.

Tuesday, September 10, 2002
wait steph, where did you get senior picture proofs? are they all in...?

i don't know anything about showering because i don't shower.  and i was going to write a long blog just now, but i think i'd rather go to sleep instead.  my mouth is bothering me and it's so annoying when i notice it more and more.  i wish i had dentures.  .. no i don't.

what an exciting showering experience. :) i love when there is absolutely no water pressure.. and it's even better when the water comes out like a bullets from a machine gun. it's very comforting..

okay, not really.

hehe. i got my senior picture proofs back today. hahahahaha.. i think i look very silly in mostly all of them. and the packages are so expensive!!!! the most expensive one is almost three hundred dollars. eew. i'm not paying three hundred dollars to look at weird pictures of myself. haha. i can't get over my cap (piece of cardboard with tassle) and gown (gigantic white tent) pose. ahahaha.. i look like a huchback with a tiny head. =)

so i step into the shower this afternoon and turn on the water....all of a sudden, water just starts blasting out, and i was like "ahhhh," sort of like kramer in that one episode of seinfeld. my shower head was pretty weak before, so the huge amount of pressure greatly surprised me. it had to have been one of those black market shower heads that stores can't legally sell...yes =). Anyway, i got used to the pressure and it turned out to be a very refreshing and relaxing bathing experience. And yes, you all wanted to know that.

Monday, September 09, 2002
my mouth hurts.  okay, so this blogging thing has kind of dropped off for me .. i think i need to pick it up again.  senior year's been annoying so far.  so many classes with so many assignments that keep me up so many hours.  i slept past midnight so many times last week (it's only the first week, please) and i stayed up last night until one-thirty or so writing some stupid essay.  and i didn't even finish all my work -- i had to borrow steph's bio outline to copy today at lunch.  and honors advanced research is becoming really annoying.  we never had this much work last year .. okay, the teacher's really enthusiastic, but she's also really demanding, which i don't think is that good for me.  i want sleep now.  everyone blog more.

i haven't felt like blogging lately. how odd.

anyway. my eyeballs are so dry. they feel like they're going to crust over and fall out of my head at any moment. yummy. :o) actually, it kind of hurts. and on a totally random note.. today was as hot as.. as hot as.. something really hot. uuuuuughhh. i wanted to pass out at our scrimmage. and i think sweated (?) about three gallons of water. and i got hit in the foot and that kind of hurt. blargh. today was not very cool. in more ways than one. ho ho ho... oh boy. i am so tired. :oP

Sunday, September 08, 2002
nice. i won a dollar from my aunt over a bet on the agassi vs. hewitt match yesterday. and sampras rules! yea, that was quite an intense match, though sampras was starting to look at little sketchy with his serves.

Friday, September 06, 2002
i miss you derek! i haven't met anyone as clever and cool as you here. heck, i haven't even met anyone named derek yet. heck, i haven't even met a single chinese person...just korean people. anyway, enjoy senior year.

i used to follow tennis.  now i don't follow tennis anymore because i realized that following tennis is not that much fun, so i do fun things instead of follow tennis.  like spend hours writing and revising summer reading responses for the next day, like trying to do pages in ap spanish workbooks and not understanding anything, like wondering if i should finish my calc assignment or not.  i don't think i will.  we'll see what happens.  i'm definitely going to sleep now.

Thursday, September 05, 2002
so andy roddick basically blew himself away in that match there. 6-3, 6-3, 6-4. ouch. go pete! i hope he wins it all now. he probably will.

i have not yet once studied on my bed=)
...partly because i'm on the bottom bunk and it's dark under there. and i wouldn't if i were on the top because it's a hassle to get up there. that's why you should keep your beds bunked. so you can study at your desk:)

Wednesday, September 04, 2002
studying on your bed is not an efficient way to get good grades or become educated.

hey! greetings from college! andy roddick is cute. i saw when kelly won..somehow it is not as magical when you've only seen 1 episode a couple weeks ago.

wooooooo!!!!! GO KELLY! She's so awesome! Ah! I was crying when Kelly was singing the last song cuz I'm stupid... and the lines were like :
"Oh I can't believe it's happening to me/ Some people wait a lifetime for moment like this" THATS SOOOOOOOOO PERFECT. Gosh. Oh, my parents made it back from canada so no more lonely days =) Tomorrow night on USA, 62, for those local comcast users like steffy... Andy Roddick vs. Pete Sampras in the US Opne Quarterfinals. It should be an AWESOME match. Old vs. New. American Idol (thats what they call andy) vs. Legend (aka Pete). The womens match should start around 7:00 and the guys match is after. I think you should all watch it!!!!!!! That was a really random paragraph. WOOOOOOOO GO KELLY!

wow...i just realized that I didn't see neil all day. ahhh what the heck.

Tuesday, September 03, 2002
nooo i'll be at s***** in less than 8 hours....sigh
and...i realized i am very ill prepared...so i'll do my math and english by friday and hopefully I can read my psych books over the weekend... whew, i sure know how to procrastinate!

Sunday, September 01, 2002
hey steph! i got that school thing! cuz i was thinking school.