on a freeway that i usually bone about 80 on, (the 55 and 5), i had to snail by between 50 and 60 because of the rain and wind. freaking-A! i forgot how crazy it gets around here when it actually does rain.
i've taken an informal survey, and apparently, many people agree that In-n-Out is one word. *sigh*
everywhere i turn, there's a guy playing war craft. *shakes head*
vegas tomorrow! *cowdance*
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
mokroopal christmas
it's quite scary to know how well your friends know you. today i was at the mall shopping for post xmas gifts, and while at american eagle, i came across the cutest shirt which said: Love, It's Overrated. i immediately wanted to purchase it, yet, i knew that i could not purchase anything for myself at that time. so, i sadly walked away from the shirt even though i was quite drawn to it. later, at our christmas party, i was pleasantly suprised to find that KRESSLER had given the shirt to me as a gift!!!!! she knows my bitter heart too well. THANKS MAN!
in addition to the great xmas exchange, LISA got me the latest Bright Eyes CD. i was uber-happy to see it, not to mention a cow ornament that "moo"s when you push it's head. and oh yes, to squeeze extra joy out of me, she gave to burned OAR cds. RAH! thanks Lisa-san!!
oooo, and speaking of gifts, i went to visit my old co-workers, and Selma gave me a shot glass from Seattle. ehehe... :)
alright, enough with the gifts. you'd think i was a spoiled brat. (ps, mom gave me a lv bag, yay mom!)
apparently, when i got drunk the other night, i drunk called a few of the girls. i vaguely remember calling lil' linda, but i don't remember what i said. she told me later that i had said that i was no longer a reject. lol, if i go by my own rule that drunk rambles = truth rambles, then i guess i'm no longer a reject and my self-esteem is fully intact once again. w00t. ^_-
vegas is two days away and i'm doing my laundry right now so that i can have clean clothes for the trip. freaking, i feel like all i've been doing during my break is pack and unpack!! i just got back from mammoth a few day ago and already i'm shovelling clothes and my toothbrush into my suitcase again. ah well, like i said, good times. ;)
i will try to scrapbook whilst waiting for my clothes... i'm sure i will unsucceed.
in addition to the great xmas exchange, LISA got me the latest Bright Eyes CD. i was uber-happy to see it, not to mention a cow ornament that "moo"s when you push it's head. and oh yes, to squeeze extra joy out of me, she gave to burned OAR cds. RAH! thanks Lisa-san!!
oooo, and speaking of gifts, i went to visit my old co-workers, and Selma gave me a shot glass from Seattle. ehehe... :)
alright, enough with the gifts. you'd think i was a spoiled brat. (ps, mom gave me a lv bag, yay mom!)
apparently, when i got drunk the other night, i drunk called a few of the girls. i vaguely remember calling lil' linda, but i don't remember what i said. she told me later that i had said that i was no longer a reject. lol, if i go by my own rule that drunk rambles = truth rambles, then i guess i'm no longer a reject and my self-esteem is fully intact once again. w00t. ^_-
vegas is two days away and i'm doing my laundry right now so that i can have clean clothes for the trip. freaking, i feel like all i've been doing during my break is pack and unpack!! i just got back from mammoth a few day ago and already i'm shovelling clothes and my toothbrush into my suitcase again. ah well, like i said, good times. ;)
i will try to scrapbook whilst waiting for my clothes... i'm sure i will unsucceed.
Monday, December 27, 2004
Poker
Placed 5th out of 10th. Goddammit!
Mokroopal Xmas party tonight. Must go grocery shopping. I'll never cook at my apt, but I'll cook for my pals.
Must do laundry before Vegas, otherwise I'll be naked on the strip. ;)
Mokroopal Xmas party tonight. Must go grocery shopping. I'll never cook at my apt, but I'll cook for my pals.
Must do laundry before Vegas, otherwise I'll be naked on the strip. ;)
Saturday, December 25, 2004
Happy Christmas...
to everyone in the world! Peace and joy be with you on this day, and all the days of your lives. =)
Friday, December 24, 2004
Snow and Mammoth
So no sooner than I arrived back home and unpacked from Boston, I had to repack for Mammoth. And pretty soon, I'll have to be repacking again for Boston (sadness, but I digress).
The snowboarding trip was superfantasticuberawesome. There was plenty o' snowboarding madness and druken debauchery. Oh yes, and delicious food! We freaking ate like kings every night. At first, none of the girls wanted to cook, but after two nights of cleaning after the messiest boys on Earth, we finally gave it a go one night. Cooking is fun, but I think I'll just hire a maid and a chef when I grow up. (It was recommended to me that I should just find a a house-husband who will stay at home and cook and clean, to which I just laughed, and stuck with my former proposition of a maid and a chef.) I must say though, those guys know how to cook! Steak, pasta, hamburgers, breakfast... it was the best I'd eaten in months (with the exception of when my wifie came to see me in boston ;). I thought it was funny how the guys were ready and willing to cook, whereas the girls wanted know part of it (not to mention that some of them didn't even know how to cook... ehehe). It got me thinking that maybe asian mothers in America, in order to overcompensate on the hardships they've had to endure from overbearing husbands and male egos, go easy on their daughters while they work their sons to the bone. Interesting, ne?
Snowboarding was a success! When we orignally planned the trip, my only intention was to hang out with the snow, drink gallons of liquor, and sleep by the fire. Well, then I found out I had to go to Boston, so the snow interest wasn't as grand anymore, and then Lynda Le couldn't go on the trip anymore so she loaned me her snowboard, THUS, I snowboarded. It was much more fun this go around, especially since I didn't have to tumble down the mountain like last time. I can brake now! Sadly, everytime I tried to carve, I just ate it in the face. Alas, I shall keep on working on it, though I don't know when the next time I'll be snowboarding is. I've got about a million bruises all over me, including an incredibly dark one on the middle of my ass. You may not be able to hurt your tailbone, but you can totally hurt where the tail bone hits the flesh when you land on your bum. Each day after snowboarding, everybody was sore. Every inch of muscle that I had ached, including my neck, fingers, toes, and to my surpise, even my abs!!
While we snowboarding one day, I happened to run into a cute guy--literally. I was boarding down the mountain and I saw that I saw going to hit this guy, so I tried to stop buy I fell on my ass. He was able to stop successfully. He smiled at me and asked if I was okay. I smiled back and said yes. Then he started going down the mountain, but the whole way he kept glancing back at me. When he was a few feet away, he stopped, then got on his knees and looked up at me again. I think he was waiting for me to come down too, because then he tried to be non-chalant and cool by playing with the snow a little while he was chilling there. I wanted to go over, but everyone in my party was yelling to go over to the left, whereas he was at the right. So alas, I let him go, but hey, it made my day. ;)
Considering the amounts of alcohol that we consumed, you'd think that we were all alcoholics (and not just me ^_-). Let's see here:
4 (bottles) Grey Goose Vodkas
2 Parrot Bay Coconut Rum
1 Amaretto
1 Jagermeister
1 Baileys
1 Champagne
1 Bacardi 151
2 Jose Cuervo Strawberry Margarita Mix
3 six-pack cases Smirnoff
1 12-case NuCastle
1 12-case Corona
and for mixing, 1 Sweet 'n' Sour and 10 Red Bulls
With the exception of the beer and Bacardi, we finished EVERYTHING. We finished the first bottle of vodka in one day, and had to go back 3 different times to get the 3 other bottles. The Rums, Margarita Mixes and Coronas were also subsequent purchases... I was actually quite suprised that we finished off the hard stuff. It was mostly due to the last evening in which we played some drinking games. Chris's birthday was on the 22nd, so he pretty much consumed the most liquor. He was also the one who killed whatever small amounts remained in the last vodka, jager, baileys, sweet 'n' sour, and red bulls. The only liquor we had to take home with us was half of the beers. (Yuck on beer, BTW). On the first night that we got super wasted--and to clarify how wasted, i twice participated in this stop-light crap that Andrew came up with, which consisted of a shot of vodka, a shot of 151, and another shot of vodka all back to back, one right after another--I decided that I wanted to build a snowman by the window so that when everyone woke up, they would have a nice suprise. Chris went with me so that I wasn't alone, and he also brought a flashlight! The snowman was a failure because the snow was too powdery to pack, so then I attempted to just pile a large mountain together. That was a bust too, because we were only able to pull a hill together, and then we were reprimanded by our neighbors for being too loud, afterwhich, Chris was like... "Dude, the stars are sooooooo bright." That night was probably the only night that I took the time to look at the stars. They were VERRA pretty and bright and we could see tons of them.
Some of the girls had brought their swimsuits in anticipation of chilling in the jacuzzi, but once we got to the spa area, we saw that the jacuzzi was nasty looking as hell. It didn't help that there were two little boys hanging out there and were a bit creepy.
On one of the non-snowboarding days. We spent the day playing and rolling around in the snow. I forgot how much work building a snowman was. We were successful in creating one that was only slightly shorter than the girls, but man did it make us tired! The middle piece itself was so heavy that both Simona and Andrew had to sweat together to get it in place. The guys got together and built mini-forts for a snowball fight, then they banded their efforts to make a sledding path. Sledding on the thing plastic sheets was frightening, but freaking fantastic! It was a great rush and I think it might've been my favorite part of the whole trip (or maybe Ninja, I can't be sure ^_^). Towards the end of the sledding, we turned it into the gauntlet, wherein as somebody sledded down, they were pelted with snowballs. The girls also trekked up to the top (or mid top) and we were treated with an awesome view. It made me feel verra small, but it was verra nice.
The games we played were HILARIOUS! Viking ship, ninja, boom shika boom... Throughout the week we also played Cranium, Life, Hula and Naked Taboo. Naked Taboo was tons of fun, although, we almost killed each other playing it because everyone got super picky and anal about the technicalities and the rules. If we fought anymore, we would've had to take it outside and throw down in the snow. But hey, competition is healthy, si? Once we got to the charades part of it, everybody was just laughing and all hostilities were forgotten. I do think that we shouldn't play Naked Taboo for awhile, just so we can simmer down a bit. All the games were played Boys vs. Girls, and of course, the girls KICKED ASS.
BTW, who thinks In-and-Out is one word??
The last night was so much fun. It was verra sad to have everything end, and yet, it's probably a good thing because you shouldn't have too much of a good thing. And plus, now we get to look forward to next year!
Awww... look at all the smiling people. =)
All in all, it was grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat. We ate, we snowboarded, we drank, we bonded... GOOD TIMES.
The snowboarding trip was superfantasticuberawesome. There was plenty o' snowboarding madness and druken debauchery. Oh yes, and delicious food! We freaking ate like kings every night. At first, none of the girls wanted to cook, but after two nights of cleaning after the messiest boys on Earth, we finally gave it a go one night. Cooking is fun, but I think I'll just hire a maid and a chef when I grow up. (It was recommended to me that I should just find a a house-husband who will stay at home and cook and clean, to which I just laughed, and stuck with my former proposition of a maid and a chef.) I must say though, those guys know how to cook! Steak, pasta, hamburgers, breakfast... it was the best I'd eaten in months (with the exception of when my wifie came to see me in boston ;). I thought it was funny how the guys were ready and willing to cook, whereas the girls wanted know part of it (not to mention that some of them didn't even know how to cook... ehehe). It got me thinking that maybe asian mothers in America, in order to overcompensate on the hardships they've had to endure from overbearing husbands and male egos, go easy on their daughters while they work their sons to the bone. Interesting, ne?
Snowboarding was a success! When we orignally planned the trip, my only intention was to hang out with the snow, drink gallons of liquor, and sleep by the fire. Well, then I found out I had to go to Boston, so the snow interest wasn't as grand anymore, and then Lynda Le couldn't go on the trip anymore so she loaned me her snowboard, THUS, I snowboarded. It was much more fun this go around, especially since I didn't have to tumble down the mountain like last time. I can brake now! Sadly, everytime I tried to carve, I just ate it in the face. Alas, I shall keep on working on it, though I don't know when the next time I'll be snowboarding is. I've got about a million bruises all over me, including an incredibly dark one on the middle of my ass. You may not be able to hurt your tailbone, but you can totally hurt where the tail bone hits the flesh when you land on your bum. Each day after snowboarding, everybody was sore. Every inch of muscle that I had ached, including my neck, fingers, toes, and to my surpise, even my abs!!
While we snowboarding one day, I happened to run into a cute guy--literally. I was boarding down the mountain and I saw that I saw going to hit this guy, so I tried to stop buy I fell on my ass. He was able to stop successfully. He smiled at me and asked if I was okay. I smiled back and said yes. Then he started going down the mountain, but the whole way he kept glancing back at me. When he was a few feet away, he stopped, then got on his knees and looked up at me again. I think he was waiting for me to come down too, because then he tried to be non-chalant and cool by playing with the snow a little while he was chilling there. I wanted to go over, but everyone in my party was yelling to go over to the left, whereas he was at the right. So alas, I let him go, but hey, it made my day. ;)
Considering the amounts of alcohol that we consumed, you'd think that we were all alcoholics (and not just me ^_-). Let's see here:
4 (bottles) Grey Goose Vodkas
2 Parrot Bay Coconut Rum
1 Amaretto
1 Jagermeister
1 Baileys
1 Champagne
1 Bacardi 151
2 Jose Cuervo Strawberry Margarita Mix
3 six-pack cases Smirnoff
1 12-case NuCastle
1 12-case Corona
and for mixing, 1 Sweet 'n' Sour and 10 Red Bulls
With the exception of the beer and Bacardi, we finished EVERYTHING. We finished the first bottle of vodka in one day, and had to go back 3 different times to get the 3 other bottles. The Rums, Margarita Mixes and Coronas were also subsequent purchases... I was actually quite suprised that we finished off the hard stuff. It was mostly due to the last evening in which we played some drinking games. Chris's birthday was on the 22nd, so he pretty much consumed the most liquor. He was also the one who killed whatever small amounts remained in the last vodka, jager, baileys, sweet 'n' sour, and red bulls. The only liquor we had to take home with us was half of the beers. (Yuck on beer, BTW). On the first night that we got super wasted--and to clarify how wasted, i twice participated in this stop-light crap that Andrew came up with, which consisted of a shot of vodka, a shot of 151, and another shot of vodka all back to back, one right after another--I decided that I wanted to build a snowman by the window so that when everyone woke up, they would have a nice suprise. Chris went with me so that I wasn't alone, and he also brought a flashlight! The snowman was a failure because the snow was too powdery to pack, so then I attempted to just pile a large mountain together. That was a bust too, because we were only able to pull a hill together, and then we were reprimanded by our neighbors for being too loud, afterwhich, Chris was like... "Dude, the stars are sooooooo bright." That night was probably the only night that I took the time to look at the stars. They were VERRA pretty and bright and we could see tons of them.
Some of the girls had brought their swimsuits in anticipation of chilling in the jacuzzi, but once we got to the spa area, we saw that the jacuzzi was nasty looking as hell. It didn't help that there were two little boys hanging out there and were a bit creepy.
On one of the non-snowboarding days. We spent the day playing and rolling around in the snow. I forgot how much work building a snowman was. We were successful in creating one that was only slightly shorter than the girls, but man did it make us tired! The middle piece itself was so heavy that both Simona and Andrew had to sweat together to get it in place. The guys got together and built mini-forts for a snowball fight, then they banded their efforts to make a sledding path. Sledding on the thing plastic sheets was frightening, but freaking fantastic! It was a great rush and I think it might've been my favorite part of the whole trip (or maybe Ninja, I can't be sure ^_^). Towards the end of the sledding, we turned it into the gauntlet, wherein as somebody sledded down, they were pelted with snowballs. The girls also trekked up to the top (or mid top) and we were treated with an awesome view. It made me feel verra small, but it was verra nice.
The games we played were HILARIOUS! Viking ship, ninja, boom shika boom... Throughout the week we also played Cranium, Life, Hula and Naked Taboo. Naked Taboo was tons of fun, although, we almost killed each other playing it because everyone got super picky and anal about the technicalities and the rules. If we fought anymore, we would've had to take it outside and throw down in the snow. But hey, competition is healthy, si? Once we got to the charades part of it, everybody was just laughing and all hostilities were forgotten. I do think that we shouldn't play Naked Taboo for awhile, just so we can simmer down a bit. All the games were played Boys vs. Girls, and of course, the girls KICKED ASS.
BTW, who thinks In-and-Out is one word??
The last night was so much fun. It was verra sad to have everything end, and yet, it's probably a good thing because you shouldn't have too much of a good thing. And plus, now we get to look forward to next year!
Awww... look at all the smiling people. =)
All in all, it was grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat. We ate, we snowboarded, we drank, we bonded... GOOD TIMES.
Thursday, December 16, 2004
one more night
wow, one more night to go and its home time! can't wait, am verra excited.
i've got one more final tomorrow monring at 8:30am. i've only mildly studied for it, but as usual, i find that that's okay and i am not over concerned. it's only microbiology and i'll probably give my notes another once over before i go to sleep, but otherwise, it's not a big deal. ever since i got back from the library, i've been cleaning and putting things together that i want to pack. my goal is to fit all my necessary needs into one medium size suitcase... i think it shall be feasible, but i will have to be clever. the only problem is that i shall be travelling many times during my xmas break, to mammoth and to vegas, and i don't want to lug around the medium size suitcase... well, i'll figure it out tomorrow. aren't my problems just fascinating?? =)
i was hoping to blog something meaningful and profound on this, my last night in Boston for the year, but alas, i'm too tired and no thoughtful thoughts have entered my mind today. i suppose that that shall have to wait for another time. ^_^
i've got one more final tomorrow monring at 8:30am. i've only mildly studied for it, but as usual, i find that that's okay and i am not over concerned. it's only microbiology and i'll probably give my notes another once over before i go to sleep, but otherwise, it's not a big deal. ever since i got back from the library, i've been cleaning and putting things together that i want to pack. my goal is to fit all my necessary needs into one medium size suitcase... i think it shall be feasible, but i will have to be clever. the only problem is that i shall be travelling many times during my xmas break, to mammoth and to vegas, and i don't want to lug around the medium size suitcase... well, i'll figure it out tomorrow. aren't my problems just fascinating?? =)
i was hoping to blog something meaningful and profound on this, my last night in Boston for the year, but alas, i'm too tired and no thoughtful thoughts have entered my mind today. i suppose that that shall have to wait for another time. ^_^
Monday, December 13, 2004
time for the gift crunch
Ok, so I've got two finals left to study for... which all in itself is not a big thing to worry over, but combined with the fact that I want to clean my apartment before I leave on Thursday, not to mention pack, as well as doing my Xmas shopping, I feel like my head is going to fall off. I KNEW i shouldn't have spent all of Sunday lounging!! To top it all of, I don't know where I'm supposed to get the money for all of these gifts, not to mention I don't even have a clue as to what to get people!! Actually, I have some ideas, I just need a little extra time to execute it. This whole not having a job thing is really painful. Definitely better find something next semester... starbucks is looking better and better everyday.
Economics final is tomorrow. I must say, the only thing I understand about economics is spending money. Boo-urns! Who the freak cares what aggregate demand and supply is!!! How the freak do people major in this?!?
3 days, baby, 3 days!
Economics final is tomorrow. I must say, the only thing I understand about economics is spending money. Boo-urns! Who the freak cares what aggregate demand and supply is!!! How the freak do people major in this?!?
3 days, baby, 3 days!
doing laundry
LOL, i was doing laundry and i found 50 cents and 20 bucks in the pockets of one of my jeans. always good times!
Sunday, December 12, 2004
Lazy Bum
I've many things to do today but I've decided that I just want to be a lazy bum. Yes, even though I've got Christmas shopping to do, not to mention errands to run, I plan to just lollygaggle about in my PJs. Who knows, I might even do some studying today. O_o
I saw Ocean's 12 last night and I thought it was verra good. I had low expectations for it, since it was a sequel and oft times, sequels sucks, but this one wasn't all that bad. For sure the originial was better, but this one had its moments as well. (Brad Pitt is SO hot.)
We went to this Malaysian place for dinner last and it was delicious! I'm so glad we went there, now I have a place to get really good chow fun. Speaking of food, I'll probably have to leave the house eventually because I'm starting to get hungry, and amazingly enough, I don't have any food left in the fridge. :)
PS, the futon is weirdly uncomfortable. I much prefer my air matress.
I saw Ocean's 12 last night and I thought it was verra good. I had low expectations for it, since it was a sequel and oft times, sequels sucks, but this one wasn't all that bad. For sure the originial was better, but this one had its moments as well. (Brad Pitt is SO hot.)
We went to this Malaysian place for dinner last and it was delicious! I'm so glad we went there, now I have a place to get really good chow fun. Speaking of food, I'll probably have to leave the house eventually because I'm starting to get hungry, and amazingly enough, I don't have any food left in the fridge. :)
PS, the futon is weirdly uncomfortable. I much prefer my air matress.
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Hello nurse!
saw cute guy today. had a few words. always a totally nice guy. too bad he's got a gf, i'd seriously consider coming out of retirement for him. ;)
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
mondo headache
Oh finals... a time of rejoicing and joy.
BOOOOOOOOOOO!
this headache of mine could not get anymore ginormous.
BOOOOOOOOOOO!
this headache of mine could not get anymore ginormous.
Sunday, December 05, 2004
Drunk stories
After last night, I've added to my list of drunk stories another doozy. I shan't go into details, suffice to say that trying to take a care of a drunk friend while you yourself are drunk is verra difficult, but can lead to verra interesting hijinx. =)
Janice gave me a pink umbrella from coach for my bday/xmas. I thought it was a purse at first because the box was so big, but when I saw that it was umbrella, I cried with joy because it was the perfect gift!! Just the other day, my cheapie umbrella had been blown inside out by the strong boston wind, afterwhich I resolved to get an expensive umbrella just so that it wouldn't blow inside out again. THANKS JANICE!
The pains and 'reject' cries are lessening. Isn't retarded how one could be the most superawesomecoolconfidenttogether chick in the world, and one miniscule event can screw it all up?? I'm tellin' ya, the universe is playing a cruel joke on me. But hey, it's always good to have my semi-annual reminder and renewal of my everwrought resolution. ;)
I've only made a mini-dent in my work load, and so, I am attempting my best to do some tonight, but sadly, the procrastination is settling deep within me. Today is the 5th, which means 11 days left until I get to return home!!!
Janice gave me a pink umbrella from coach for my bday/xmas. I thought it was a purse at first because the box was so big, but when I saw that it was umbrella, I cried with joy because it was the perfect gift!! Just the other day, my cheapie umbrella had been blown inside out by the strong boston wind, afterwhich I resolved to get an expensive umbrella just so that it wouldn't blow inside out again. THANKS JANICE!
The pains and 'reject' cries are lessening. Isn't retarded how one could be the most superawesomecoolconfidenttogether chick in the world, and one miniscule event can screw it all up?? I'm tellin' ya, the universe is playing a cruel joke on me. But hey, it's always good to have my semi-annual reminder and renewal of my everwrought resolution. ;)
I've only made a mini-dent in my work load, and so, I am attempting my best to do some tonight, but sadly, the procrastination is settling deep within me. Today is the 5th, which means 11 days left until I get to return home!!!
Saturday, December 04, 2004
Friday, December 03, 2004
moments in time
the factory in la
level 3 in hollywood... i love love love this pic... even though i look retarded, everybody is laughing and having a good time... perfect capture of a moment in time.
interestingly enough, i have a drink in my hand in BOTH random pictures. O_o
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Craaazy Weather
First, it was colder in California than it was in Boston, then today, it was dark as night with thick rain clouds for the first half of the day... and 10 minutes later, it's bright sunshine and blue skies!!
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