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Tue Feb 7 23:12:00 PST 2006
This blog is now gonna get some of that rare lovin'. Mostly because
sometimes I just want to put stuff down but not necessarily think
anybody's gonna be interested or want to read it. Thus, for my faithful
followers here, you have a special treat. Some of this has not and will
never be published elsewhere. It is (I predict) going to be culmination of
thoughts and observations from the past month (mostly concentrated on the
last few days).
I think the best way to improve your shot is to lift right before shooting. Yes, it seems kinda stupid to tire out your muscles first, but I've found that if I lift first then go shoot, my shot is much more consistent, my stroke is a lot smoother, and there's a lot less of that "oh boy that was waaaaaaaay off." Of course, this is after my body has gotten used to the soreness in the arms and legs. Today I went to the gym, did 8 minutes of the bike to get warm, and then about half hour of arms. Then I went to the gym across the street to get loosened up for our IM game. Stupidly, somehow in this short trip between the weight room and the bball courts I managed to lose my ID card, so despite having a great shooting day, I didn't get to play at all. Stupid beauracracy. My wrist is a little stiff, but I'm not worried. I think I should do this more often. Lift and then shoot. If I lift legs and then go shoot it takes a little longer to get in the groove. I think because lifting legs makes me tired, not just sore.
I had an absolutely wonderful weekend in Houston, where I was attending my junior high classmate Lingo's wedding. This is just the season for weddings and babies it seems. If I stayed in closer touch with said to-be-marrieds and to-be-mommies/daddies, I think I would be a lot poorer now. But being the terrible friend I am, most of these news I heard from various blogs or through other friends. It's a wonderful and joyous time, to be sharing in these celebrations. It's crazy though, since I am at that age when people around me are getting married, and yet I cannot see myself there. Thankfully. I sure amn't prepared for something like that.
What also comes with growing up and the 20s is deaths. Our parents are getting to that age where they aren't so young anymore, and many of our grandparents, if still around, are likely on their last legs. It's sad, but it's part of life. I embrace it wholeheartedly while holding onto every hope that my sole remaining grandmother will live to see me marry and have children. That's right, my grandma with congestive heart failure is going to live 5-10 years while I attempt to venture into the realms past singleness.
Recommended listening: David Crowder Band -- A Collision
Thu Dec 15 08:12:16 PST 2005
This blog has suffered from MAJOR neglect. Sorry Kyle (and anybody else
who reads this)! I have been sucked into the xanga empire, and before I
figure out how to code my own blog (complete with comments), I will remain
on the dark
side. I guess every once in a while I'll come here and say something,
though... for example my observations of my fantasy teams, which none
of my xanga readers really care about. Funny thing is, I check my webpage,
expecting something to have
changed since I last saw it. I guess that's the appeal of xanga. Anywho,
breakfast time. mmmmm being home is yummy.
Sat Aug 20 00:16:42 EDT 2005
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Thu Apr 21 23:34:13 PDT
2005
This website has been suffering from major neglect. In short: I'm still in
Taiwan, don't know when I'll be heading back to the states, loving it
here, playing a lot of basketball, cooking all sorts of strange
Jen-inventions (still edible, really), considering coming back to Taiwan
after finishing whatever needs finishing in the States. Mom is doing well,
we'll know on Monday what the plan is for the rest of her chemo. Thank you
all for your love and support.
Thu Feb 10 08:06:21 PST 2005
Happy New Year!
Sun Jan 30 05:04:16 PST 2005
Wow it's been a long time since i've posted anything here. surely i am
lazy and stupid. see my xanga (link on main page) for more frequent
updates. really, it's more cuz i read other people's xanga through mine,
and therefore am more likely to update that. anywho, i'm in taiwan now,
gonna be here for a while. doing my best to be a good daughter and support
my family. for those of you who believe in the power of prayer, please
put in a note for my mommy, as she'll be in chemotherapy for at least
the next five months. i've been doing a lot of cooking and sitting around
and tv lately; very chill and a great change of pace from school. i really
should get back to that stuff though, a conference coming up in march that
i'm still planning on attending. and a paper that should be in the works.
should. ah. i love that word. being in taiwan has allowed me to watch
a whole lot more tv that i could in ithaca. we have a bunch of channels
but i spend most my time on the three sports channels, which have been
playing an eclectic mix of ncaa basketball, nba, football, australian open
tennis, taiwan basketball, baseball, golf, soccer, and pool. thank
goodness taiwan viewers aren't much for poker. i've played basketball
once since i've been back, and today i bought a 99NT(~$3 US) rubber
basketball. well, if i'm
going to be playing on cement it's not gonna matter.
Sun Nov 21 12:34:20 PST 2004
Oh how I miss playing basketball. was out in NJ watching the Caltech
women's team play two games this weekend. It's interesting, going back
and seeing a team that has changed so much... and gone through so much.
They certainly looked good this year. I don't think we've ever seen this
much fresh talent. And these were only the first two games of the season.
The possibilities are endless. In other news, I'm out of shape and since
the weather is holding up, I have no excuses. Dang. time for some
exercise.
Sun Nov 14 15:43:42 PST 2004
i'm running linux. my brother says that makes me a nerd. well, at least
not a dork. but now i realize why the whole world uses windows... cuz
the whole world uses windows. stupid.
Tue Oct 26 22:52:50 PDT 2004
Will we get to see lost pets in heaven?
Tue Oct 12 19:42:52 PDT 2004
This is great. I'm only going to spend two days in Ithaca this week.
Boo-yah. I just spent the weekend (and first two days of this week) in
NYC, hanging out with my good friend from Taiwan, meeting up with people
I haven't seen in 4+ years. Good times. Good food too. Thumbs up to
Monte's in Greenwich Village (very friendly service, good Italian food,
a egg-spinach soup that tastes almost Chinese), Patsy's at
60-something on the East side (pizza
automatically comes with basil!), Saigon Grill at 90th and Amsterdam
(good Vietnamese, big portions, CHEAP!), and the lamb kabobs in Flushing.
Mmm Flushing. Finally got to go to Flushing. Jean and I got a kick out of
the Chinese bookstore, reading their stupid joke books, and testing each
other on poems we memorized back in elementary school. Two thumbs up to
Cookin', an off-Broadway Korean percussion show. Fall is here. On the
drive back all we saw were orange and yellow leaves (well there was some
green and some gray too). It's getting cold. Man oh man I'm not looking
forward to winter.
Thu Sep 30 11:37:15 PDT 2004
So my old SURF advisor was at Cornell today, giving a talk (coupled with
free pizza). I went, and get this, I didn't fall asleep. Woah! It's weird,
how I find my old advisor's work more fascinating than my current
advisor's. Perhaps it's the whole mystique thing.... I'm only drawn to
things I can't understand. Woah, that's deep. I sound like Keanu Reeves.
Now I want to go back to California. No wait, I always want to go back to
California.
Mon Sep 27 19:17:40 PDT 2004
Wow. I've been bad about updating this page. If you want to see what my
dreams have been about lately, check out my xanga. Though I
did not get to post the weird dream I had about flying. It was like that
one piece in Fantasia 2000 with the whales. I was flying through air,
then I was flying through water. And I could breathe underwater... I think I
been sleeping too much perhaps.
Fri Sep 17 07:44:49 PDT 2004
It's been a while since my last post.... Well, not much going on. I'm
sleepy. OFC deadline has come and gone, now I'm doing some new stuff.
Come to think of it, no it's not new. Not at all. Same old, same old.
Maybe that's why I never feel like working. And the one class I'm taking
is a pain in the butt. Stupid lab classes. This one's even more backwards
than Aph 77. Anywho, in the past month I've played softball, soccer, and
football, but not basketball. For shame.
Sat Aug 28 08:08:06 PDT 2004
Hallelujah! We have internet! And it only took 1.5 months! Wowzers!
Anywho, all is well. Haven't had class yet. S'all good.
Mon Aug 23 13:45:40 PDT 2004
3 weeks until OFC deadline. Time to work! Well, that and having spent the
last 4 days in NYC playing and waiting in line. In the words of Stephanie,
"It was SO MUCH fun!" But seriously, it was great. I think I needed the
break. And opportunity to spend money. Too much money, really. I don't
usually find this many reasons to spend my hard earned grad stipend. Heh
heh hard earned.... We saw Chicago, which was good but not as good as
Producers, on Thursday. We saw Lion King, which was awesome, more awesome
than I had imagined, on Friday. We also went to the Empire State Building
and Statue of Liberty. That's one big green statue! I was hoping they'd
have little statue keychains like those Eiffel Tower keychains, but no,
just little statue erasers. I have learned the following things from my
super-long weekend in NYC:
1. Never pay full price for Broadway tickets.
2. Better wish you're tall because sometimes standing room requires you
to be over 5'6", and they don't allow stepstools. Booo
3. Go to Carmine's at 4PM if you want to eat there.
4. If Carmine's doesn't work, John's is just down the street and has good
pizza and no wait.
5. There is no need to carry sweatshirts in the summer in NYC. It's not
Ithaca, it's not cold. But water is good.
6. Not working is great.
7. Ithaca has lousy cold weather. NYC is only a 4 hour drive away, but
is also 10 degrees warmer.
8. Beware of chinese restaurants in Chinatown. They are not ALL good.
9. A/C is immensely useful in humid weather. Hrm. I knew that already.
Wed Aug 18 05:51:44 PDT 2004
I'm tired. And for the first time this summer (well, come to think of it,
this past year), I'm stressed about work. Well, I should probably set this
up a little better. Last Thursday we had a housewarming party. That, along
with softball games and Bible study meant I had short workdays all week.
Last weekend Sam and Emy and Teddy came up to visit, so I didn't work
all weekend. Chad would be proud. Normally this lack of work wouldn't
bother me at all, but my advisor's been dropping by every day, sometimes
twice a day, to check up on me. He wants results. Grrrr. stupid results.
And so I've been working really hard this week (all 2 days of it so far),
but I'm leaving on Thursday for NYC, which means it all has to be done
today! Today, gentlemen, today! Done means nice plots in a nice readable
form, and being able to explain them. To compound the problem, I'm still
waiting on data. *gasp* Never thought I'd be one to be waiting for a 2
hour simulation to run... So I'm a little bit stressed. Which means I'm
a little edgy too. Wow. that's not good. Granted, the housewarming party
was fun (tho a LOT of work), and the past weekend was the most fun weekend
I've had since I was home in July, so this compaction of work isn't
exactly without perks. ALrighties, back to watching the 'Busy' on the
bottom of the Matlab window.
Sat Aug 7 10:30:11 PDT 2004
Oh boy it's August already. And guess what, today is a dreary 60 degree
day. What in the world is wrong with the weather here? Man it rains like
all the time and the mercury struggles to get past 75. I really don't
see how people can stand living here. Not to mention the winters. Well,
that's my rant about the weather for the week. We played softball in
the pouring rain on Wednesday. It was WET! and COLD! why oh why..... Sam
and Teddy are coming to visit in 6 days, which is mondo exciting. And
the weekend after that we're going to visit Stephie in NYC. And then
the week after that school starts. What happened to my summer?!?! We
should all be on quarters and not start school until October. Sweet
sweet quarters. But then again, that'd make it possible to have snow
on the first day of school, which would really suck. We're pretty well
settled in now. The outlets have all been changed, wasn't too much
trouble except the electrician managed to lock the deadbolt, which we
couldn't get our key to turn in.... but it all worked out. Just found out
yesterday the Chinese market is open until
9:30. I also found out Ithaca is a small small town, cuz you run into
people you know EVERYWHERE. One of these days we're going to get
internet at home. Earthlink customer service is super incompetent. sigh.
Thu Jul 29 13:05:05 PDT 2004
So I didn't think two-prong outlets were legal in this country, but that
might be because I've never lived in a house that was more than 20 years
old. Well, or had any sort of electrical work done on it in the last 20
years. So I was quite surprised that our new apartment (new not
pertaining to the age of the building) only had 3 outlets that had
grounds. And none of them were in the kitchen. To think, how did the
previous tenants manage? I called up the rental office and they sent
an electrician over. Hopefully this isn't gonna cost us. I mean,
I would have done it myself if they were going to charge for it. I
certainly would have been safer than the electrician, who must have
been at least 60 and insisted on working on the outlets live. Turns
out old outlets have metal boxes so you ground to the box. Hrm. I hope
that box is grounded. Or else it'd be kinda stupid, not to mention
dangerous. Well, we'll see
Fri Jul 23 06:23:47 PDT 2004
We've relocated! Moving went well, except for the hour of pouring rain
we got caught in while picking up some furniture. Wet! It was fun though,
and it feels good to be almost all settled in. All that's left in our
old apartment is some food. I'm glad I haven't had to move much in my
life. It's tiring work. Not to mention packing and unpacking are about
the most unpleasant things to do. I get pooped quicker packing/unpacking
than moving boxes. Go fig. Pictures of the new apartment will be up
after we've cleaned up and I've convinced Hannah to take them for me. My
camera's still got problems :(
Tue Jul 20 12:29:52 PDT 2004
I'm sleepy. It's 3:30 in the afternoon and I'm sitting at work, and I'm
sleepy. Not good. Research is slow. I could be working harder. blah.
Weather is very indecisive here. Today's a nice day, which is rare. Most
days are gloomy or rainy. Even Taiwan had better summers. Well, except for
the sweltering heat part. Thursday is moving day. I'm excited. I'd be
even more excited if Thursday were go-home day.
Mon Jul 12 10:26:16 PDT 2004
Back in Ithaca. I want to go home again.
Mon Jul 5 00:28:28 PDT 2004
Home is good. Lots of sunshine, lots of TV, lots of family.
Wed Jun 16 09:12:43 PDT 2004
Yesterday I turned 22. In honor of this, I wore my basketball shirt
yesterday and my cool silver shorts today. I still have one pair of shorts
and a pair of socks that have this awesome number on it. This was my first
birthday away from family, which made it tough. I miss home and family and
friends lots and lots. It was great to get so many phone calls and IMs and
e-cards and real cards. I feel so loved. I love you all too. =)
Didn't do anything all that exciting: went to work, went to shop class, got treated to lunch, ate cake, tried to work, fed hannah's fish, went to Bible study, ate more cake, watched the Lakers fall apart. sigh. that sucked. but many thanks to my friends here at school that made being away from home a little easier to bear. Looking at going home either end of this month or beginning of August. Come on cheap tickets.....
Wed Jun 2 13:43:03 PDT 2004
It's funny how in academia, everybody thinks they're so special. I hope
I'm not like that.
Mon May 31 11:03:04 PDT 2004
Today as I was walking up to school (because grad students don't know
about these things called holidays), I saw all these cars parked by
the undergraduate dorms, and parents and grandparents packing cars.
Reminds me of when I moved out last year. When will it be my turn again?
Sigh. not in a long while. It's Memorial day, and once again I'm by
myself in the office (as I was most of last week). blah. boring. I keep
finding problems with my program, before I can find answers to the old
problems I was having. Hm. maybe it's high time I went to see my advisor.
Just watch. He won't be in today either. Then maybe it's high time I went
home.
Mon May 24 08:55:23 PDT 2004
Wow. Awesome weekend. Visited Jean and Florence and their mom in NJ, got
to eat lots of good food, go shopping, watch Shrek 2, have breakfast
with Grace and Dan, tour Princeton campus, see Canadian geese (with little
geese too), marvel at suburbia, and much more good stuff. It's nice that
it can feel like home even when I'm visiting a friend thousands of miles
from my home. Something about familiar people... Such good food. I always
eat too much on vacation. Well, when else could I do it? Yesterday night
there were some crazy thunderstorms. Very bright and very loud. The
Chinese call it tian-da-lei-pi. Haven't heard such an impressive storm
since moving to the US. Wacky weather. Well, it's monday, and I ought
to be working.
Thu May 20 08:12:44 PDT 2004
Today IS THE DAY. I wish I could be there. One year removed and can't
remember how in the world we got it all together. But congrats seniors,
in less than 9 hours you will be one of the elite, the "once-was." Now
all I need is a teleporter. Then my life would be complete.
Fri May 14 05:17:21 PDT 2004
Final's eating me alive. Well, after I brushed it off for 5 hours
yesterday helping move in the new fiber test loop and going out
to dinner. We'll see if this goofing-off and sleeping's gonna affect
my grade at all.... Not like I care, but maybe I should. Been particularly
apathetic these days. I think it's cuz the semester system is dumb and
my attention ran out maybe 8 or 9 weeks ago. Getting new equipment is
like Christmas, but not as much like Christmas as basketball banquets. I
miss home. Ditch day's tomorrow, go to bed frosh. I'm incoherent because
it's 8 am and I need to work. gag.
Sun May 9 10:49:35 PDT 2004
No more classes! woot. One homework and two finals away from summer
vacation! wait. I have to work during summer vacation. Well, it's still
better than taking classes. I guess I survived my first year in grad
school, almost. I still don't like it much here, but my mom was right:
I felt much better once I found a lab. Something about keeping busy...
I got to solder on Friday, that was fun. It's been a long time since prac
phys (and our failed attempt to solder a SPAM can for a fake), so it took
a while for me to find my bearings, but there's nothing like looking at
a finished product (who cares if it was just a connector. it was 4 pins
REALLY close together. it took me two tries cuz I had some parts on
backwards =P). Can't wait to move into our new place. Just
two more months in this dump. Hm that makes it sound bad. It isn't bad,
the new place is just better. Can't wait. Warm up. Summer, bring it on.
I'm ready. Happy Mother's Day. I miss my mommy.
Thu Apr 29 13:12:41 PDT 2004
Man, and I thought I was ahead this week. So much for thinking things
would work. Grrrrrrr.
Tue Apr 27 19:13:56 PDT 2004
You know, I like having a computer at work. I can do things, like check
email and update my webpage and do my homework without having to wander
into the undergrad-infested computer lab. To think, I musta been just as
annoying as every last one of them just a year ago. Well, I really doubt
that. I certainly wasn't driven enough to be caught on campus past my
last class. Anyways, now down in lab, in an office, with my own desk, my
own computer (sweet flat panel display, super fast processor, and a copy
of matlab), and a really really nice chair. Working on some homework,
after coming back from a Ten Shekel Shirt concert. I have to say, they're
quite a bit louder than I remember them being. Well, I guess "Ocean" and
"Meet With Me" and "Unashamed Love" aren't quite their "signatures"
anymore. But even with that surprise, I thought it was a great concert
(I think loud is good too), a very noble cause, and awesome music. Woke
me up real good, so I can' do some hardcore matlab programming. Whoo wee.
Questions of the day: Where does "ten shekel shirt" come from? Why are lead singers of bands always rhythm guitarists (or don't play an instrument)? Is it cuz the other instruments take too much concentration to play? How come bassists all seem to be the quiet broody type?
Sat Apr 24 20:11:21 PDT 2004
Oh well, so much for making it a "productive" saturday. Well, I did cook
breakfast and go to the grocery store and go to a piano recital by a
physics prof (David Mermin of Ashcroft and Mermin. oooh) and look at my
hw (but not do it) and cook dinner and go to the coffeehouse (read talent
show) put on by the grad christian fellowship. So I've done a lot, just
not quite work related. Oh and I had this really weird dream involving
cruise ships, falling mountains, waterfalls, capsizing, Gandalf, instant
replay, and tv-style play-by-play analysis. It was weird. So after this
excitement packed day (which also involved buying two chinese cookbooks
online on my new
fave food site and browsing the cornell.marketplace for secondhand
mattresse, floor lamps, and cars) I have decided that 1) I should start
playing piano again, 2) I should start swimming again, 3) Sometimes church
games are inappropriate, and 4) There is no such thing as working on a
Saturday (I wait to be proven wrong).
Sun Apr 18 11:20:51 PDT 2004
I think it might finally be spring. It was sunny and 70 yesterday, and
today it's thunderstorming but still warm. Ah, the sound of thunder.
Friday Hannah and I went to see Return of the King at Cornell. $4 for a
3.5 hour movie. I'd say we got our money's worth. Well, the skipping
was a little annoying, but hey, it was only a shade over a dollar an hour.
This is turning out to be a pretty relaxing weekend. It looks like my
TA is winding down: second week without hw, and I have nothing to teach in
section, since I have no idea what the prof's talking about. 20 hr/week
job. Boo-yah.
Thu Apr 15 01:49:29 PDT 2004
dude it's late here. so I got a xanga, oh shame
on me. I have betrayed my primitive updates-page roots. Anyways, I notice
I've picked up a uniquely (or I believe so) Southern California habit of
saying "seriously." Aw man, I want to go home.
Sat Apr 10 19:33:06 PDT 2004
Today just sucked. Actually, this whole weekend (starting Friday night)
all sucked. I think it's cuz I've been working. Thus my conclusion: if
you don't want your weekends to suck, don't work. Especially don't work
on an engineering assignment. Stupid engineers. Why must they rely on
Matlab so much and use so little intuition? I'm gonna give up soon. This
is a waste of my time. Seriously. Now to come up with some clever
pseudocode.
Sun Apr 4 20:42:40 PDT 2004
I took a 6 hour nap after church today, and I had this really weird dream.
So I dreamt that I didn't finish grading
my fluids hw's, but I had a basketball game. And somehow this game was
played in an arena-style gym, you know with the
bleachers all the way around and the court in the middle with the
score-cube thing hanging above the court. And it also must have been part
of a tournament cuz the other team was walking off as I got to the floor.
I was late, and the team was having their little pre-game talk in the
bleachers and I still had to get suited up and everything. I had a really
hard time getting into my uniform and especially my shoes. Somehow I
thought I had to wear these rubber glove-like socks and so I could barely
squish my feet into my shoes (senior year team shoes), and I had these
lab gloves on my hands that had too much air in them so I couldn't really
tie my shoelaces. And all along I'm apologizing profusely for being
late and mumbling about how I didn't finish my work, blah blah blah. All
while the coach is talking to the team (and not a coach I'd played for
either). I also got
confused because I was wearing our home uniforms, but I thought we were
supposed to be wearing our away jerseys (which were red??) but turns out
when they got up to line up to run in to do the pregame warmup the whole
team was in blue/black warmups, and I was the only one there in a white
shooting shirt (which hails back to my sophomore year). What else was
strange was that Julia was on the team (she quit junior year) and so were
a couple of the new freshmen from this year (what the?). And then
something possessed me to get up, thank goodness, I was getting really
confused. Anyways, my conclusion is I need to do my work, I miss
playing on a team, and I got this
hidden desire to play in the tourney for some big D-I school who wears
blue/black, but I can't cuz I'm a klutz who can barely tie her
shoes. Haha. I'll blame it on daylight savings.
It's snowing again. dang it.
Thu Apr 1 21:18:53 PST 2004
Wow. Two in one day. Boy am I bored. In reference to Jean's xanga, which i read
way too often, I think I'm going to be an asian american mom. I mean, yes
I identify with a lot of those, but I bet so will my kids .Go read the
list on the April 1 post. In reference to Randie's xanga, march
30th, dude why couldn't we have Conan come to our commencement?
Thu Apr 1 01:55:13 PST 2004
booo i'm back in NY. I need more vacation time. Rather, I need more time
to spend at home. I almost missed my flight going out of Oakland. I woke
up late, about an hour and 10 minutes before my flight was scheduled to
leave. That's the kind of urgency required to get me out of bed fast.
I've been sleeping a lot since I came back. I blame it on the plane, the
bus, the stupid EST, the weather. Getting back in the swing of things.
Fluids still sucks, and tho I did surprisingly well on the Opto midterm,
the sets still suck. Oh, and I was reminded of why I haven't played
softball in nearly 10 years. It's cuz I SUCK! haha. yeah. I admit it.
Some things just require more eye-hand coordination than I have. Yeah.
Back in Ithaca, where it's "warmer" and "spring"-like, cuz bulb-type
plants are sprouting all over. But the weather forecast says it might snow
on Sunday. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Fri Mar 26 22:43:12 PST 2004
I love California. It's so familiar and warm and comfortable and laid
back. My English sucks. So I've been eating a lot these days. I figure,
out in NY I won't get this kind of good food, I can afford to eat more
now. Tuesday for lunch I decided I wanted some Mexican so I
dragged Teddy, Chad, Carrie, and Stephanie down to this rather
shady Mexican place on Lake (700 N. Lake, very good carnitas).
Tuesday night was Ba-Tiao-Long (on San Gabriel right past the car
dealerships), because Chad wanted Chinese. Wednesday I had
Japanese and Lollicup with Ada for lunch and I actually went home
(!!) for dinner. Oh SOOOOOOOO good. Home cooking is the best. Thursday I
went with Alex and a couple of his college friends
to the food court next to 99 ranch in Arcadia and had some pork chop rice
and taiwanese shaved ice (after badminton, tennis, and boba). Oh, soooooo
good. This was uber-go-outside-and-play day. We played a little
2-on-2 in the backyard and Alex took me to school. He's quicker,
more athletic, more skilled, and got at least 6 inches more vert
than I do. So ashamed..... But it was fun. He doesn't patronize,
and I really appreciate it (or I hope he wasn't, cuz then dude, I
really suck). Even though Hannah didn't come home for spring break
Hannah's parents still wanted to take me out for some Korean food.
Man, so much meat. Koreans really like beef. And also cluttered
dinner tables. It's Friday now, and I'm in Fremont now, hanging out with
my brother (currently asleep on the couch). We had food from a taco truck
for lunch and lots of seafood (no meat because of some Catholic thing) for
dinner. Ahhhhhhhhh good food. But hey, I've been exercising too, kind of.
Going outside, enjoying the warm weather and sunshine, playing frisbee
and football in the grass. This is what I call spring. It's still winter
in Ithaca. Don't give me no "it's 40, it's warm." Cherishing these last
days. Spring break is way too short.
Mon Mar 22 23:28:30 PST 2004
It is SO nice to be back in California. It's warm and sunny, there's an
abundance of asian food, and it's great seeing friends and family. I saw
three people from Victory Church (Hsinchu) on Sunday, it was really nice
and refreshing to hear what has been happening in their lives and at
church in Taiwan. It has been so long. And today I met up with Stephie
and we went to the beach. Went also to Todai with Teddy, Chad, and
Stephie. Good times. Sat around in Ruddock a bit, hanging out, talking
to people. It feels good to be back.
Wed Mar 17 16:16:54 PST 2004
We got somewhere between 6 and 12 inches of snow last night. I was so
done with this snow thing. It is NOT pretty. It's cold, bright, white,
wet, and unless you're on a ski slope really serves no purpose at all.
Well, good thing I'm running away to California for spring break.
Hopefully by the time I return spring will decide to arrive. So I hear
it really doesn't get warm until August. Gah. Anyways, 1.5 hw's and
a midterm before I am free. Free indeed. Well, from the cold for a week,
at the very least.
Tue Mar 9 21:21:06 PST 2004
So I'm still a little grrrrrrr about last night's loss. But I know I need
to get past it, so I'm working on it. Had to proctor the fluids midterm
today. Boy is that some boring business. We had a really smushy banana
so I made some pancakes. Pancakes are my new hobby. They're easy and
fast, and don't have half a stick of butter in them like cookies do, but
they sure can taste like cookies. I realize I could probably never go on
them low-carb diets. I like rice and flour-based foods too much. Actually,
I don't think I have the self-control to go on a diet. I like food too
much.
Mon Mar 8 20:38:09 PST 2004
okay i'm gonna vent, cuz i want to. Many thanks to Randie for listening,
and my mom for saying uh-oh every other sentence when I was whining to
her. So it went something like this "we lost today in basketball" "uh oh"
"we only had four girls and then one girl fouled out" "uh oh" I love my
mom. So yeah, we lost. Boy do I hate losing. Randie says it's cuz I've
tasted winning. It just really sucks to have worked so hard when the odds
are against you, and have come so close but to fall just short of your
goal. I took it pretty hard considering I've lost a lot of bball games
in my life and I know disappointment. Perhaps it's just cuz I knew this
was the closest I'd ever come to winning something big and I really wanted
to win. I really wanted to keep playing. Man I sound selfish. So to set
the scene: last Wednesday we played our last regular-season game, 4-on-5,
and we won... by a lot. So we thought we were invincible.... perhaps.
Today we played our first playoff game, against a team that wasn't all
that great, once again 4-on-5. We had a 5+ lead at halftime, but dude it's
hard playing defense one short. We blew the lead, and scrambled to make up
the difference so we could force overtime. With two players in major foul
trouble, we knew we had to be careful. So the refs sucked. They missed a
major call on the offensive end and called a stupid one on us. We were
down to three. The last minute's kinda blurry, but we were down one, we
made a bucket, they passed the ball up the floor, found a girl wide open
under the basket (hey, what were we supposed to do, 3 scrambling to cover
the floor), they scored, they were up one, we pushed it up, missed the
shot, it was over. We fumed. It sucked. I can blame the refs, I can blame
the girls that didn't show up, but more so I can blame myself. Even though
this is probably the most pumped I've been for a game since the first one
I played in the girls league, and I seriously gave it all I had, I didn't
play that well. With a team of 4, you NEED everyone to be scoring. I
didn't score, I don't think. I wasn't aggressive enough, I had lapses
in rebounding, I had stupid fouls. I didn't always bust my ass getting
down the floor, I didn't always cut off the passing lane, I didn't always
call for the ball when I had my girl posted up. So maybe I didn't give
it all I had. Losing makes you think, makes you come up with scenarios,
what-ifs.Come to think of it, we probably wouldn't have made it all the
way if we tried to play 4 every time. But man, I was fuming
for a long time. Mad? yes. Disappointed? definitely. Looking ahead? heck
no. I went to the other gym to do some shooting cuz I was so peeved
(at myself, mostly). I needed some sort of redemption. So I considering
hitting free throws redemption. shoot me now. Agh. 3 hours after the fact,
I still don't want to believe it. I think I like wallowing in self-pity.
Fri Mar 5 19:09:15 PST 2004
Pictures from my little excursion last week into the big city are now up.
Check it out.
And now..... cuz it makes my profile too long:
should I, or should I not, join BMG.....
moved here
now I shall shut up. thank you for listening.... I mean, reading. Oh yeah we found an apartment for next year. It's cheaper than what we're paying now and it's going to be split three ways instead of 2. I also rolled my ankle on Wednesday playing bball, where we smoked the other team playing 4 against 5. oh yeah baby.
Sun Feb 29 17:45:46 PST 2004
New York City is always muchos exciting-os. This time, I left Ithaca at
4 am Friday morning cuz I wanted to get to the city early. I went down
to St. James theater at 2 pm to ask about standing room tickets, the "line
guy" told me to go away and come back in an hour and a half. Nobody waits
that early, I guess. So I went to the Empire State Building and paid my 11
bucks to go way up to the 86th floor, since I didn't last time I went. I
guess it's supposed to be more spectacular at night, but it was a sunny
day, and just a little hazy so I could see pretty well. By the time I made
my way back to St. James it was 3:30, and still no one in line. I told the
guy I wanted to wait, so he gave me a strange look and sat me by the wall
outside the theater. Tickets didn't go on sale until 6, so I guess I was
a bit loony to want to wait 2.5 hours when it was 40 (warm!) outside. I
had a good talk with my brother while I waited, and Jean showed up a
little after 4. By 4:30 the 18 standing room tickets had all been claimed.
And I was first in line! Hey, I had nothing better to do. Tickets were
$26, standing behind the orchetra section. Pretty sweet, if you ask me.
Though if you count the bus fare, I paid almost 80 to see the show.
Anyways, the Producers was great, funny, at times perhaps inappropriate,
but I enjoyed it. My first musical, my first Broadway show, first NYC
performing arts event. I did pretty well I'd say. Saturday Jean and I
went to Chinatown in search of shao-bing-yo-tiao, but no luck. Next time,
Flushing. We did have some good food though. Also went by Gramercy to see
the Flatiron building. Very interesting. We saw three blue guys (maybe
they were blue men, it's anybody's guess) walking on the streets.
Afterwards, we went up to 5th avenue to check out all the ritzy department
stores and Rockefeller Center. I got a kick out of the NBA store. Their
revolving doors were so cool. Late Saturday night we went to Veniero's for
dessert, had some real New York Cheesecake. Yum. Today we went to Emmanuel
for church, Columbia dining for brunch, and bus to come back to Ithaca.
Man, now I got to work. Suckers. Pictures will be posted soon.
Wed Feb 25 21:32:33 PST 2004
tired, sleepy, it's cold, i think I might have a cold, going to NYC on
Friday to visit Jean and see The Producers.
Wed Feb 11 22:40:58 PST 2004
IM bball's pretty great. I got to play on the women's league today, and
my team kicked butt. Redemption for losing so bad on Monday. Anyways,
bball's great and all, but school sucks. TA sucks, and now I'm up for
the first time this semester, doing work. blah. But hey, gaim's pretty
great. check it out
Sun Feb 1 21:23:18 PST 2004
Scratch the thing about the pictures. I'm lazy. Happy Chinese New Year,
happy Superbowl (stupid patriots). Need to go learn some fluid mechanics
now. Stupid TA assignment. Why do I get the hard one that nobody wants?
Why do I get told about it 5 days into the term, 3 days before
section? Grrrrrrr
Thu Jan 29 20:05:11 PST 2004
friggin cold here. big icicle pictures to come.
Wed Jan 21 10:03:08 PST 2004
Man I saw the dentist 8 times when I was at home. Well, it's better than
having to see one here. Stupid Ithaca. Anyways, Thursday we went to a
Korean tofu place for my brother's birthday dinner. It was really good.
Friday cuz my brother took the day off we went to Sacramento. Didn't
get to see Arnold tho, too bad. Word of the now-wiser: don't eat the
oranges. Saturday we took Alex out to dinner, and went to 99 ranch to get
the all-important Chinese junk food. Sunday after church, we went up to
Lake Tahoe. Nope, didn't ski or snowboard, but my brother and I made some
money in the casino and we went snowshoeing. Lake Tahoe's really pretty.
Yeah, so after some frantic clothes washing and suitcase packing, I said
my goodbyes to my family and California, got on a plane (and then two
more) to go back to Ithaca. Well, here I am now. It's cold, but at least
I got my luggage (don't fly US airways if you like seeing your luggage
when you arrive at your destination). Still looking for a reason to stay.
As the wise people (namely my dad and seniors at tech) say, "it's never
too late to transfer!"
Thu Jan 15 00:36:50 PST 2004
Happy 24th birthday to my brother. I know he doesn't read this. Heck, I
don't think anyone does. But whatever. So now I'm back in Fremont. Yeah,
so three days is really short, even if all you do is go to school and
"huen" (effectively, do nothing). It was really nice to have lunch with
Stephie and sit in on Ruddock small group and ball in the courtyard and go
to bball practice and watch a bball game and catch up with people. I think
this puts it best: I am at home in the company of dorks. That says nothing
about me being a dork, though Chad certainly would say I am. Well, now I
am back home, got less than a week left in California. gah.
Mon Jan 12 15:03:50 PST 2004
I love California. I went to the beach today. Went on the Ruddock ski trip
over the weekend, had a blast. Yeah, so snow isn't so bad when it's 45 or
50 out. And snowboarding is really fun. It's been a great past couple
weeks, being home and now visiting in Southern Califoria. It's so nice
to see old friends. It's so nice to drive on big highways. This place
is so familiar. Man, why did I ever leave?
