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.

watch third eye blind at princeton...oh wait...that was last night! wheeeeeeeee. yesterday was fun. met up with denis, wandered around the campus, wandered around the engineering quad, got a free water bottle which was very slick. then i wandered around the campus by myself, in the dark, for a couple hours, and then went to watch third eye blind, which was awesome because i was only 10 feet away from stephen jenkins. i don't know the guitarist's name, but he was funny and reminded me of Mouse from the matrix. everyone there was drunk, and i think i got intoxicated just from all the beer breath. oh i also ran into jon kwong and his sister during the concert. yea...so princeton is good stuff...real good stuff. good food too.

on a side note...julius and i won our quarterfinal match tonight at the county tournament. took longer than it should of, but for some odd reason, i'm glad it did. thanks for the moral support derek. you really got me psyched when you told us, "win quickly, or if you lose, lose quickly...just hurry up." no i really mean it. you did.

i saw bend it like beckham at the twins' house last week too. the pseudo-lesbianish scenes were amusing...i love the white mom. ah i saw beckham playing on tv...i think it was channel 55. he's got long hair now. in one play, he went up for a header, and bam!..he

posted: richard li, 11:26:33 PM [*]

vitamins. i used to take flintstones vitamins, but i didn't like them. okay, that was random.

mm, anyway. my brother recently pointed out to me that every other entry here is mine and that i should probably get my own blog or a xanga or something. BUT i think it would be against my own interests. in terms of time wasting anyway. i already do enough here. plus, i'm kinda sorta lazy. =)

i saw 'bend it like beckham' today. it was a gooooood movie. it made me feel happy. :) it also made me want to play soccer and be insanely good at footwork and such. there was also a good looking irish guy in it. (check out jonathan rhys meyers under 'about the film') well, he kind of ran like a girl in one scene and danced really goofily in another, but i still think he's cool. go see it if you have the chance. it's fun stuff. :)

a'ight kiddies. i'm out to

posted: stephanie, 9:03:59 PM [*]

love. or a big love. so lately i've been watching some music videos by s.h.e and they pretty. i'm going to buy their cd when i go back to taiwan. sars, sars, go away, come again another day. oh i should get my license upgraded too. do you get to have a frontal photograph of your face? i have the same birthday as gary oldman and rosie o'donnell and matthew broderick and renoir and mussorgsky and bach. anyway. i should blog more about what goes on in my life. or write it in a journal. i'll stick with the blog for now.

i went with grace to the grove and monmouth mall yesterday. i bought an extremely gay shirt at ae, white with light and dark blue stripes and "ae" in flowery lettering on the pocket. that and some other random things, and grace wouldn't let me see the underwear she purchased. i did walk with her into victoria's secret -- and then i felt a bit strange when some people (women) were looking at me so i had to leave. what else. we had burger king. i've had too much junk food and fast food lately. erp.

retreat last week, hm. it was cold. i honestly thought the speaker could've been much better, but hey, at least we had a speaker who was willing to be with us for easter weekend (maybe that was why). everything was quite disorganized as usual, which i haven't exactly been happy with lately. but it was fun, i got a lot of sand into my clothes, and i had several meals with steph-allison-ellen-sheila where they helped me with my food. i like oranges. my mom is buying another crate.

i watched "a walk to remember" and "three kings" yesterday and today, and both were very good. i don't really know what to say about the two movies, except that i like mandy moore. and marky mark. what did he sing again? anyway, spike jonze played the fourth guy, and i thought that was interesting. i have to find out what music videos he directed. i remember trying to watch "being john malkovich" and someone's parents getting angry.

i'm being incoherent. i should try taking

posted: derek derek, 5:29:27 PM [*]

keri russell and chaka khan. i have the same birthday as george harrison and sean astin. cool, eh?

on another note. this morning was not so cool. i went to the dmv to get my full license. that in itself was absolutely torturous, but what awaited me when i finished was even worse: a lovely parking ticket. yum. apparently, i had parked in a fire lane. i thought that fire lanes were marked off with yellow lines (i definitely was not in one) but i was obviously wrong. sigh. i guess that's what you get for being impatient. a word to the wise, kids. park in regular spaces. even if lots of other people (who didn't seem to get ticketed) are not. yeah, i'm bitter. ><

i think i'm going to go eat away my sorrows. i'm in the mood for a little

posted: stephanie, 1:36:29 PM [*]

problem. or at least i do. hm, lately i've lost the will to blog -- i mean, i come and look around, read things that people post, but it's just not like before. not like two years ago when i would crazily blog everyday (check the archives) (they don't appear to the left but you can type in the dates manually) and write much more than i do now. mm what happened. anyway, i don't know whether this is a group thing or whether it's really seen as "my" blog and maybe we should just make another group blog somewhere else that doesn't say my name on it. or we could keep this and i'll lay low for a while, so to speak.

by the way, i caught up on a lot of christmas presents today. and birthday presents. i have the same birthday as

posted: derek derek, 9:50:07 PM [*]

deodorant, which i also forgot. ellen, you'd be an awesome roomie! semi-mooning people and imitating strongbad/teen-girl-squad with you was lots o fun, in addition to the perks of having a waffle maker and chocolate chips. heehee :)

yo man, i looked up "fecklessly":
1 Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2 Careless and irresponsible.
that's almost kinda sorta the same thing as "recklessly"!! wow. we should all apply the if-they-rhyme-they-must-mean-the-same-thing rule more often with unfamiliar words.

i saw 'spirited away' tonight. it was good stuff. the animation was amazing, and the story was crazily imaginitive. i also finally saw 'say anything' on thursday, which was also good stuff. it wasn't what i expected (ie corny, cheesy romance) but it was good anyway. it was.. deeper. a real kind of romance, i guess. i am now in love with john cusack. ;)

we have a

posted: stephanie, 12:31:28 AM [*]

watching the 'pirates of the caribbean' trailer over and over again. because orlando bloom looks very nice and ravishing. wow, i never used the word 'ravishing' to describe a guy. so then he must look reaaaally good.

i don't really have a lot to say...

it would be so cool if i could live with steph! we'd be cool roomies. (thats what i discovered at this weekend's retreat) also, if you saw the word "fecklessly," wouldn't you think it had the same meaning as "recklessly" because they rhyme? i did. this weekend, i forgot to pack a lot of things. important things, like

posted: ellen mellen, 10:27:39 PM [*]

a richard wannabe. what am i saying, everyone wants to be richard. that didn't really narrow it down. ;)

YO MAN. i just saw the trailer for pirates of the caribbean (the real one, not that silly one with only computer graphics) and it looks SO SO SO COOL. orlando bloom is.. sigh. i swoon. :)

right, back to

posted: stephanie, 10:08:31 PM [*]

go study latin. i mean....what?!! nvm.
this really funny thing happened on saturday. i think i'll just post the transcript of my retelling of the story here.

RockinRichbert: we saw this panhandler on our train and he was singing some made up song and shaking his cup of coins like a maraca like they usually do
RockinRichbert: then all of a sudden
RockinRichbert: he breaks out into "it's gettin hot in here! so take off all your clothes...."
RockinRichbert: so everyone just stared at him and smiled

btw if you see any xangas claiming to be mine. it's not. it's really the work of

posted: richard li, 10:19:14 PM [*]

friend like derek. =) you don't need to hide your feelings.. everyone is allowed an emotional outburst once in a while. unless, of course, you would rather not let anyone know what it is you feel. ah well. if it's any consolation, i think you're awesome and that you'll be successful where ever you go. :o)

it's so nice outside. i think i might just

posted: stephanie, 6:53:20 PM [*]

find out what's going on in my life. there's this entire depressing situation and i'm not about to let people know how much it bothers me because i'm just like that -- i hide my feelings. smile, be happy, okay. i think this post will be deleted in the near future. anyway, so i quickly made this handbook cover for our youth retreat next week. even though wendy supposedly said not to do it, i don't remember her telling me and it only took me ten-fifteen minutes anyway. someone's mom came up to me and said "i don't get it. why is he upside down?" and then the other adults kind of made gestures of puzzled affirmation. it reminds me of the spanish honor society shirt: "i don't get it. why is it an elephant?"

they gave me a free rutgers umbrella today. they also had a lot of free food. banquets are always nice. i hope penn provides free things next week too because i've always wanted to have a

posted: derek derek, 12:31:14 AM [*]

going to some lacrosse games. home ones that is. when i have time that is. but it just doesn't seem like i have much of that these days..

congrats guys! i so proud ! =)

i think i might start reading bio again. what am i doing... okay maybe i won't. will? won't? yes? no? someone help me to

posted: Jess Tai, 9:44:36 PM [*]

YOU! har har har...

guess what guys? we won today. (!!!!!) amazed? yeah, i thought so. we were amazed, too. ;) and you know what else is cool? i scored a goal! mwahaha. adrenaline rushes are awesome. we should win more often. one win every two years just isn't enough.

mm, i should really start

posted: stephanie, 9:15:44 PM [*]

the laziest sport in our school. and also the winningest. how ironic. and i actually did go to pathmark today to pick up bread and stuff for the international dinner, and also some orange juice, b/c orange juice is the juice of life.

and orange is the color of life because the ORANGEMEN are perfect cool!!! goooooooo 'CUSE!!
princeton is orange, also. and these links down here, "view web page" and "enter safe mode" are also orange b/c blogger.com is orange. hence orange is the color of life.

the little AIM icon looks orange, but i think it's really supposed to be yellow like

posted: richard li, 5:59:16 PM [*]

uh, do something. i don't know what. i'm tired. richard is like the underdog who comes from behind and then -- goes to princeton i suppose. i'm not very creative right now, as you might see. richard, you can still surf! because new jersey is a coastal state. you can also wear hawaiian shirts because they are ugly. i did my math homework in half an hour!

so i think i will start randomly putting words in boldface like some people do with their xanga entries. there has to be a system for this. is it just key objects, like "i went to pathmark today" or do you do it to stress something that's emotional like "i am very exciiiiiited about fried chicken" ... maybe i'll just do it randomly. okay.

it's a very small world, apparently. i didn't get the chance to meet the girl for very long, but apparently she's very very good friends with one of my friends from the taiwan program. and she knew people from holmdel because of key club and other programs. and yes, sadly enough, this was not the stalker girl --- who according to my mom, has also been accepted to dmd at upenn. uh oh.

it snowed. um, it's april already. at least we won't have tennis for a few days, hahaha, because everyone knows that tennis is

posted: derek derek, 11:39:58 PM [*]

not doing math homework. DIE MATH!!!!! ahhh, i want to kill this homework. seriously. i've been moaning over it for over an hour and now i want it to die. if only it were that simple..

anyway. congratulations, richard, you princeton freak! mwahaha. you'll be burninating the new jersey countryside now. i think that's just as cool (or better) than becoming a flaming liberal. ;)

i'm glad you had fun at illinois, ellen. =)

and.. yes. it's time to

posted: stephanie, 6:39:53 PM [*]

like derek. speaking of derek, i met a girl here (at illinois...) who met you at carnegie mellon. sadly enough, she was not the girl who you were fortunate enough to stay with in the hotel. that would be funny if it were her. in any case, i think her father drove you and your mom to the hotel. anyway. so far, uiuc is pretty nice. most of the nj kids who came to visit are pretty set on coming here next year. me, on the other hand, i'm still skeptical. in any case, its been fun. i've been hanging out with the senior nj kids (michelle, who is sitting next to me, george, sheila, matt, and sean from colts neck), and we met a couple more who are also from nj. we're all connected. seriously. so far we haven't followed the school's schedule at all. but i like it like that, i think.

i hear its going to snow monday. !!!!!!!!!!! ok, school ends on the june 30. if we have another snow day...it would be ugly. people would kill if our spring break was cut.

well, i hope everyone home is doing well. i'm doing my homework now. but i really wish i was

posted: ellen mellen, 10:34:54 PM [*]

finish my econ hw for me.
well there go all my plans to learn how to surf, become a flaming liberal, and only come home once every year. and i guess i don't have to follow mrs. boueil's formula anymore for getting a hawaiian shirt and washing it 20 times every day. oh well. it's all good.

This piece of wrapped candy next to the keyboard looks particularly

posted: richard li, 9:02:25 PM [*]

waste more time.

i love the picture where carly blatantly hits a girl with her stick, and then in the following picture she puts her hand to her mouth like oops! man, that game was sad. coach was really pissed, and walked over to the photographer and was like "don't bother taking any pictures" because the game was so ugly. anyhoo. derek, i think you should go to upenn. that is, if you want to go into design. plus upenn can provide you with on-campus jobs and you can make a couple thousandoff of that...

baby turn around and let me see that sexy body go

posted: Mich Yam, 11:53:21 AM [*]

mm. i didn't go to that concert. to avoid becoming slightly (or very) jealous, i will quickly change the subject. :)

these are the best pictures ever. just click on the arrows for more. too bad i'm not in any of them. ;)

oh noooo.. we lose an hour tonight. drateth. i better go

posted: stephanie, 9:30:55 PM [*]

jars. and caedmon's call.

posted: derek derek, 1:38:17 PM [*]

digital camera. i would take a picture of it, but i can't get it to take a picture of itself -- oh wait, i could just hold it up to a mirror. anyway, so i'm going to list my college options here and ask you guys what you think i should do. because my dad's really gravitating towards rutgers (it's very cost-effective, he says) (duy, anything free is pretty cost-effective) and i have dmd at penn as my top choice at this moment. um. whatever, here's a list of yeses and nos and maybes and some numbers:

rutgers: yes, $15000 a year
michigan: yes, no scholarship that i know of
illinois: yes, $8000 a year
carnegie mellon: yes for compsci and business, waitlist for design, no award letter yet (possibly half-tuition)
mit: waitlist, and no money
harvard: no
princeton: no
yale: uh no
columbia: yes, and they'll loan me $40000 a year
upenn: yes, and i doubt i have anything free there either

anyway, and i have $1000 + $2500 = $3500 so far from outside scholarships for next year, and hopefully with the at&t award ($6500) and one or two $1000 scholarships, i can hit my $15000 goal. but it would go to waste if i go to rutgers. i have less than one month to decide. so all i can say now is pretty much

posted: derek derek, 10:21:32 PM [*]

filled with sunshine and cherries!

man, steph, you're so optimistic!! yu're my hero :) right i can spell....yoo arr me hirooo!!!! i personally take the cathartic, blow-up technique. but i know what you mean, i've gon thru the whole schpiel of "what ifs" and "if onlies" "if only we were in a different year" "if only we went to a different school" "if only there weren't so many strong applicants from one school that we ended up beating each other as well as ourselves out" but, you know...everything happens for a good reason.

i think derek has the most beautiful


posted: Mich Yam, 7:44:40 PM [*]

the end of the world. as we know it.

so today was a grey day. after coming back from the worst lacrosse game we've ever played, i found to my delight several lovely rejection letters in the mail. not that i didn't know they were coming. i... argh. i promised myself that i wouldn't be bothered. i promised myself..

i hate being emotional. i hate crying. why i am so upset. why why why.

anyway. as i was going to say. actually, i won't say it anymore. it'll only make it worse. we're just as good as everyone else. who cares that soandso or whatshisname got into whatever college and we didn't. it has no bearing on our abilities. or the meaningfulness of our effort. it's nothing. absolutely nothing. that stupid insecure voice in the back of our minds means nothing. god is good, and he will provide.

okay. i feel better now. thanks for listening. :) tomorrow will be

posted: stephanie, 6:11:51 PM [*]