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howdy folks! marvin here. yes, please don't let this die people. if you're reading this, i think it's about time you posted ehahahha

kso, school is winding down and not a moment too soon. well actually, maybe a moment or so too soon. ok that was just confusing. what i mean is, i want more time to raise my grades! i am hardcore focus study workhard concentrate after i finish this post! OKAY. only one more month until i come home! :) ACTUALLY even less, i'm coming home at the beginning of may for a dragonboat race at long beach! i'll be here on jeff's bday, but i don't think i can see anybody, sorry :/ you guys are welcome to watch though! though granted it may be a tad boring hahaha

so err..ohh i feel like i'm spending meal points like a mad voracious thing that spends a lot of meal points! i'm supposed to have $400 right now and i think i have $200something. HA! actually, there are times when i care, like now, but most of the time, i.e, when i'm in the store itself, i just spend spend spend! today: grilled chees $1.99 (ripoff), yogurt parfait $2.99 (also ripoff), vanilla soymilk $2.99 (HUGE ripoff, that thing's microscopic), dinner $7.99 (this is actually worth it. we had mac&cheese and garlic bread today. oh geeez. you cannot touch that. and they had golden grahams and did NOT run out of soymilk!:D). seriously though all the food is good, its just mega overpriced! it's like my mind just thinks, whenever i pass by the market: YOU CAN GET FREE FOOD MARVIN. GO GET IT. IT'S CALLING YOU. and answer it i do! hopefully i don't starve haha.

OH and by the by i got my first article published! well to be published that is! it's an article about "pharming" or rather, using livestock like goats, cows, etc for usage as pharmaceutical vessels. it's really interesting quite frankly, this company has developed a therapeutic drug from goat's milk! they insert a gene for the certain protein, which is normally found in humans, into a goat which then passes that that gene down to its offspring, and humans can thereby drink that goat's milk to compensate for their lack of that protein. it provides a really economically viable route to helping people with inherent blood clotting disorders, BUT, like any branch of biotech and genetic engineering it traipses on this delicate ethical no-no line. and, hm, i guess that's all i can say about that haha.

last week i applied for this internship/scholarship thingerbobber called Destination: College. it's a program that i think sounds awesome - you get to work as a mentor for a high school in the bay area and provide counseling, support, and resources to underpriveleged students and help them get into college. not only that, you get paid AND get a $5000 scholarship. sounds suhweet huh! well i'm not doing it =___= anticlimax, sorry haha. even though i really want to, i KNOW i will not have time next semester, and it sounds like a job that could really be really stressful and i guess, what's the word, involving? and plus i don't think i'm quite mature enough for it anyways, in spite of what a great exp. it could be! well anyways, the real story is, i wasn't sure if i was doing it or not still, but it was really close to the interview so i didnt want to be rude so i went to the interview anyways, and bygolly i got it! :) but then, ooff, because it was a group interview, other people didn't get it and were mad -______- so then i went back and told the guy that i didn't think i was going to do it after all, and mad did he blow a gasket. and now those other people who didn't get it, still don't want to do it, so now, seems like NOBODY wants to do it, so i might just do it. can i get a major ironic =______________________________=. yeah. i need to learn a lesson from that. i'm not quite sure what it is though. opinions welcome.

oo o o o i thought of something else to updatecha on! we're looking for apartments right now, aisha it is so hard to find a good one. something's always too expensive, too far, too janky, too shady, or we're too late or SOMETHING. but, i know we'll find a place. we have to, right?! right. we're going to find a place that's too perfect. living in an apartment sounds tantalizing to me. doesn't it?! first time EVER living on your own, well aloneish, but paying for rent and cooking for yourself and other things that are kind of scary but oh so exciting. can't wait to have my own space! i want to be clean in the apartment, and i want to fix my bed everyday, and keep my bathroom supplies tidy, and use windex to clean the windows! but i doubt i'll do any of those things when it comes down to it ha ha ha ha and i want plants! fyi, my third cactus, sailor venus, died the other day he fell down the side of the table and into the crack and i didn't even notice!! :( i am a bad plant caretaker. but no longer! i want a freaking greenhouse in that apartment, wherever it may be, and i will take good care of them! hahaha AND i think we're getting a tv, aw crap, the very essence of distraction. i could go on but you get the gist apartment = new, fascinating, hard to find! you got that?!

OHYAH AND this summmer im taking classes at mt. sac, not berkeley thank gewdness. masumi and i wanna take a class together and you, yes you should join! unless this is masumi reading this, then i suppose you shouldn't join because uh you're already included in that reference. well i guess you could but then that's just confusing cus then it would be me, masumi, and you, but you = masumi so that's just uh marvin + 2masumi? and where would this other masumi come from..kay shuddup now marvin! idk what i want to take, but there aren't that many classes. i just want to take something fun! like a language or art or computer class or someshing. nothing too intense thank you very much. and also, this summer i'm going back to alaska for that same conservation program i did last year! this time i'm going to be a conservation mentor for other high school students! :) should be a blast as usual, this time i want to go ziplining forshore!

OKAY, i think that's everything that's been going on with me, WHEW that took a good chunk outta my studying time! i hope midterms are going alright with you guys? or whatever things you got going on in your life! hope to talk to you soon. and MAN i've been craving me some amusement park lately, can WE PLEASE GO OVER SUMMER?!?!?!?!?

also, if you like altcountry, listen to old crow medicine show.! checkeeeeeet it if you wish!

Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show

I certainly hope not :)

Hey guys! Nothing's been up with me so I havent been posting ahha.
Hope you guys had a fun Easter! I kinda forgot so I stayed at UCI instead of going home... and missed those park activities ;_; and candy... oh gosh, candy must be so cheap today...
Let's see, what to say...
Oh this week I'm going to a weird lecture thingy about how I'm going to build my credit! hahahh, last week was learning how to do my taxes but all the pro terms went way over my head so now I still don't know. It's supposedly Financial Awareness Month, and last week was National Public Health Week, and this week is Pride Week for LGBT. Lotsa stuff that I could potentially care about, depends on if I remember HAHA.
For Pride Week there's this social thing on I think friday night that I kinda want to go to, but I'm afraid my gay Cyber Anthro teacher will be there and he'll confront me about my ttly bullshitted final essay...
And then there's hot pot on wednesday with my Hong Kong ppl club... dunno if i should go I got sick last quarter from it. And I was telling my friend about it. Apparently it's really weird to talk to your polite acquaintances about diarrhea, THAT'S NEWS TO ME.
I'm sad that this saturday I have a dentist appointment, cuz its Celebrate UCI day. I went last year and it was sorta this fun festival thingy. Very different from the usual UCI... I was taking an fb quiz on which UC i should have attended and one question was like "Do you like the campus to be deserted after 4PM?" and I was like HMMM I WONDER WHICH UC THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.
I'm thinking about getting contacts. Cuz my mom's still pushing the laser eye surgery thing and I dunno, i'm kinda scared. but the last time I tried to put a contact in, I poked my eye pretty bad and now i'm left-eye dominant...
ok, bye!
-Guroria.
ps, something funny from yesterday:
"Seasalt ice cream gets more screen time than Kairi does" -Andrew
I lol-ed O_O

this will NOT die!

I've got this fear going on that this is gonna die! So in strict rebellion to this idea I'm POSTING A BLOG!!!! :) Sorry it's been a while. BUT where are your posts, fellow women? :O hehe just kidding, but I wanna know what's up on your liiives, even though I talk to you guys without the blog, but whatever!

HMMM, updates updates... I went to a club on Friday with Grace and Jeen last Thursday, but you guys already know that -____-. We went to Level 3, and it was pretty good! Good DJs, nice setting. Next time, lets all go! I lost my cell phone and chapstick though. Thank goodness for Andrew giving me his old one a few weeks beforehand! Then Friday was probably the funnest Friday I've had all year! mm I hung out with Jaz, Jeff, Marvin, and Victor, and watched the most thrilling and disappointing movie EVER, haha!!! UGH I do NOT like KNOWING. DON'T WATCH IT. We did other fun stuff afterward that I don't need to type cuz most of the users here are you guys... haha.
Yeah this weeks sucks, but I knew it would just cuz last week was so fun haha! I miss you guys dang it. Come back already! umm what else is new... nothin! I'm lookin forward to this Saturday, LA = RATATAT :) Btw, thanks Marvin somehow introducin em to me, i love themmmm.

yeah it's time i stop talkin about nothing.
Post post post :) <3

BY THE WAY! If any of you know any place hirin near Chino Hills, lemme know ASAP, lovers and friends!!! :)

-Masumi

Hey

Aloha!
I felt a little hawaiian for a sec ahha
Nothing anything new with me right now
Other than the stuff i mentioned on the last post
Been working at a bakery
Its really fun actually
Just talking to Grace(thats the old chinese ladys name)
Well shes not old or anything
I think shes like the same age as my mom
Shes so nice too
Trying not to fuck up on stuff
But even if i do shes cool with it
You can tell that shes a teacher
Did i forget to mention shes teaching classes at a local community college
Dont know which one but she is
Shes teaching like baking and stuff
So i guess they have a culinary program there
But yea
Its like im at school
And she gives me little goodies to snack on through the day

So ive been thinking more about my externship
And im still trying to get an externship at Playboy Mansion
But i did some research and i found some backups just in case
Heres my list from the one i want most to the least
1. Playboy Mansion
2. Royale on Wilshire
3. Blue Velvet
4. The Hungry Cat
5. Nobu
6. Eat. On Sunset
7. Tap Fish
8. Four Season Hotel
9. Sakura Ichi Japanese Cuisine
10.Cocoa Bakery
I would have made Sakura Ichi a lot higher on the list but they only need someone on friday and saturday and thats just not gonna work for me
And cocoa bakery is pretty much a fallback just in case i suck that badly
Now i just have to go and contact each one of them and try and get my externship there
Now the only problem is motivating myself to do it hahah
Such a hassle @-@
Im gonna do it this month though fsure
Not that i have to but i want to
Just to have a heads up on things
And not feel too pressured later
You should go and google each place and give me suggestions on which place you like the most =)
I should make a poll for this haha
We'll see

Oh and i saw the post that we have up and obviously we have some people voting more than once here
I guess its not a problem but its gonna be skewed ahha
Unless theres more people that are acutally looking at this that i dont know about

I cant wait for spring break
Mines at the end of this month
Iono when everyone elses are
But im gonna be so happy when it is spring break
Relax
Sleep in
Thats the life

-jeff l
i keep forgetting to put my name at the end so i always have to edit it again bleh

WASABI

Hey guys, long time no post. :O
Nothing's really new with me as always. I still don't like Sac much, but hey transferring the goal! It's not terrible tho. I wish I took at least 1 fun class man, most of my classes for Monday and Wednesday are killer boring, and I keep fallin asleep in my philosophy uahhh!! I probably like my institute class most probably, since it's like gospel learning. Yeeee :) Hm, I'm lookin forward to you guys comin back from your spring break! I won't be on break but we are go hang out, KAY!!! :) I miss yall too much! >< Hmmm my new job's pretty chill, and everyone's nice nd stuff so I like it, but man I want another job cuz it's not makin enough cash, ya know?

Yesterday I watched a movie called WASABI with Jeff. He's off to Iraq for a while and it was his last week back. Hope he'll be safe! The movie was in french but it was pretty interesting so if you guys are ever bored, watch it! :)
I have an interview for the intern tomorrow and on Thursday. I wish I had more interesting things to say, but THERE AREN'T ANAYY. heeeheee
I want to go see Weezer in concert but they don't have any comin up so far! BUMMER!!

kk see you guys soon :) miss yall

<4 Masumi

not really a post

listen
Birthdays tomorrow!
gloria

hai goys

hi foreverfriendsuntiltheendoftime! how are you all. i'm giving up non-school related internet for lent so i'm not going to be using this for about 40 days, so contacting me via facebook or here would not be the most efficient way, capiche! :)

so i have not been as busy as jeff, you crazy all-over-the-placer-long-poster you! but things of course are starting to get a little hectic. work is a lot of...work! seriously here. tiring stuff, but fun stuff. i'm designing this website right now, and my dreamweaver's purdy rudimentary but hey i'm learning as i go!

i'm going to a ra ra riot concert on the 27th. i'm stoked. and i went to andrew bird concert last week, man, that was, well, amazing. he's probably.. hmm i'd say 10 million times better live. wow. and the best part!: he left his water bottle on stage, and my friend and i got to take it! the stage manager just stared at us blankly when we asked, probably thinking we were maniacal fans with weird fetishes, which is partially true. anywhosers yes, i got to drink his water! hooray! the thing is though he's been sick for 5 weeks according to his blog...so yep. oh well, at least if i get sick i'll be sick from andrew bird germs. tomorrow afro cuban all stars are performing at berkeley auditorium, i would've seriously gone if i knew! but i just found out today and now the ticket's $44. i'm thinking that's a definite IMpossibility. haha

that's about all now. maybe i'll have more scintillating updates after easter. until then, bye!


what does a gangster say when you take his picture?! grilled cheese! :)

Lets jiggy

so ive been busy with life
work, school, other stuff
ive been working on my portfolio recently
like nonstop
i need to finish it soon
preferably at the end of the month
i have to like cook some stuff and take some good pictures to put into my portfolio
i have a feeling its gonna be really good
and ive been working on a 5-course menu idea thing
not really because i want to haha
well its fun i guess cuz i learn more about things
but because i have to for the externship for playboy mansion
i think i have a good shot at it too
i was talking with the lady and she said that not a lot of people try for it
maybe like 3 or 4 because of lots of things
people dont know about it or they have other places in mind
we're competing with other schools too though
but she said that playboy likes our school the best
thats what i like to hear
i need to find a backup externship place though
i was thinking of trying for disneyworld
i have to commit for 6 months though
same with disneyland
but room and board arent free
i found another place thats in ALASKA
its gonna be so fuckin cold @-@
but its free EVERYTHING
its even a paid externship
but i cant do it
cuz i have to attend this meeting and timewise it just doesnt work
poop
hmmmm i think thats it for school
oh we got two new kids in our class
well theyre from a later schedule in the day but they switched to the morning
cuz they have jobs i guess so they had too to keep them
i kinda feel bad for them though
noone talks to them
and they only talk to each other
mainly cuz theyre both from the same class
they look so lonely too =/
i would go and talk with them but thats not really the kind of guy i am
i dont initiate things haha
like if a conversation started going
then itd be easy cuz im the kind of person to just roll into a conversation
not start one
so id feel weird just going up to them and talking to them
and id just like freeze and try and think up of stuff to say to them
and thatd be sad cuz then its like im trying to muster something up
and i hate that
but yea
hopefully ill get to know them better soon

im gonna be working at Cocoa bakery in city of industry
its owned by some asian lady named grace and she makes like specialty cakes
wedding cakes, birthdays, babys....yup
i dont get paid though
but its a good learning opportunity
i start march 6
i wonder what itll be like
i imagine just making like buttercream all day
i doubt shed let me just head straight into the actual cake stuff
but hopefully she'll trust me enough eventually to let me do things

im heading to san fran next week
FUCK YEA
lets hang out JUSTINE and MARVIN
if you can that is ahha
its for work so i probably wont be able to hang out till like evening time
unless you guys want to come by the convention
i can get you in for free so yupyup
i have the hookup ;)
but yea
i leave thursday morning so we have friday and saturday to hang out
and then i leave on sunday night

so my boss hired someone to take over my job
yes
its a sad thing
this is like round 2
scratch that
round 3
first it was this guy that we knew named chris
wow. just wow
he didnt work out
and then it was andy chiu
yes andy from ayala andy
but he switched over to take over victors job instead
and now its this fobby dude whos apparently really good at fighting games ahha
so im training him now
hes ok
cant really say much right now
its still the beginning so i cant really complain about speed or whatevers
the only difference from this time to the others is that im actually really planning on leaving toylet collectibles
yes
a whole era will be over
larrys gonna miss me so much
he even said so
of course he said he was gonna miss me because he didnt know who was gonna pack for him lol
what an ass
he didnt say that he was gonna miss me because of all the memories and good time or anything like that =_=

i wanna play street fighter 4! yup
and i wanna play resident evil 5! omg
i wanna kill some zombies

wow this is a long ass entry
have fun reading this shit
oh and btw
im gonna get pretty busy soon
so i probably wont have time for any of you guys
i know its sad right
not like we can really hang out anyways with all of you all over the place ahah
but yea just fyi
if youre wondering what im doing and you want to hang out with me
rethink your choice in calling me!
wonder if im busy or not to hang out
and then just fucking call me anyways cuz i hate people who do that
stop trying to be so considerate about other people
if i wondered if you were busy or not
id call you anyways cuz im an ass
and i woudlnt care if you were in the middle of class or not
whys your fucking phone on in class anyways
so yup haha

-jeff l

black licorice?!?!? -___-

that is so gross guys...really?? black licorice ONLY for the REST of your life?! ?!?! well i guess relatively, its not that bad but still hahah

anywhosers, hi again, its thursday! thursday = the new friday, so obviously i am happy and stoked! classes are going swell, and a lot of them really interest me now! i especially dig journalism, and environmental health. we're learning all these ways you can contract foodborne illnesses and such, and it is wicked. apparently over 25% of Asian-Americans have a tapeworm in their digestive system, and there was this one tapeworm that grew so long that it couldn't fit in all 20 feet of this guy's GI tract that it started growing out of his mouth and just slithered out one day and ended up living in his bathtub, and him keeping it as a pet! i have no idea why there would be just standing water in that bath tub but hey it makes for a good story! BUT anyways, it feels good to wake up and plan out your day with classes and studying and clubs and all the shebang, ain't it? well aside from all the evil stress that is, its nice hahah.

nothing really new of note, whenever someone asks me, what's up? i never know what to say except, "oh, you know, school" i wish i were more interesting. oh speaking of interesting, well i guess this is more embarrassing than anything, is the fact that i keep hurting people but then somehow end up becoming friends with them! like this morning, i was racing downstairs because i was late for chem and i pretty much body slammed this guy going upstairs. that was not fun but hey he was nice about it and anybody whose nice enough after an incident like that is someone i want to meet! so i talked to him and his name's raphael, which is what i want to name my 5th son if i ever get one! is that a co-wink-ee-dink or WHAT?! and then there's the girl i met first week who i spilled smoothie all over, and now we always get smoothies on wednesdays. funny how things work out sometimes, you never know how you're going to get to meet people!

on that note, though, i'm getting kind of annoyed introducing myself to people. of course it's nice to get to know them but sometimes i try and i just totally get an arctic shoulder! like for example, yesterday, i said, "hi my name's marvin" and this guy said, in a petulant voice i might add "uhh what?". and i said "hi my name's marvin, what's yours?" and he said "oh okay." hm. maybe he didn't hear me, but that's not the first time something like that has occurred. well i'm still going to try, because, well what's that saying? you've got to pick all the fruits, even if some of them are rotten! that's not a saying, because i just made that up. well not to say that he's rotten, just that, hm, maybe he's one of those fruits that you don't like at first, but he eventually becomes an acquired taste! like avocado! yes! he's an avocado! eventually i hope to make tasty guacamole out of him and dip nachos of friendship in it! :) here's hoping!

peace in! marvin

p.s.

ryan adams is just way too talented. it blows my mind!

Orange Chicken

So here's a story of orange chicken.
I went to eat lunch today with Mike, Karn, Matt and Andrew at Thai Corner (their soup is so delicious!), and I ordered yum-stuff orange chicken! It was fun with lots laughs and stuff :) I couldn't finish the big load of chicken so I took the rest in a to-go box. Class goes by, and hooray hooray no sociology again! So I happen to see that there's a blood drive going on today! I've always wanted to give blood, so I went back to my car and grabbed my leftover orange chicken and ate every ounce left in that to-go box, desperate to reach 110 pounds, the minimum weight to give blood. The nice lady let me weigh myself in the nurse's office, and I scored a 109.5! Round that up to 110 man!! : ) So feelin confident, I go into the Blood drive room, take little tests, get my middle finger stabbed (which didn't really hurt, yess), and then start the blood-giving jigmajig! It took a little longer than I assumed, but it eventually finished. After it was all done, I was thinking yeahh no fainting or whatnot. But a few seconds later, my stomach starts feeling gross, and then before you know it the phlebotomist has a trashcan next to my face. -____-. And there went all the orange chicken that I shoved down my throat before the blooddrive, into the trashcan. What a waste of money, huh? haha! But it feels like that orange chicken was there to help me give the blood though! An hour later I got super drowsy and tired haha. It still felt really cool being able to give blood, but yeah that won't be happening for a while! On top of that I can now find out what my blood type is! What's all you guys' blood types? :)
So I should'a just waited to blog today instead of yesterday huh? Anywho, I can't think of anything else exciting today. I hope everyone's doing well :) Sorry if that was sort of a gross story : / but that was my event for prob the whole week haha!

byeee :) Masumi

MAGIC

see, i am posting as myself. using my own account :]

-JUSTINE I FOUND YOU MOTHERTRUCKERS.
just kidding marvin told me.

anyway, this whole thing seems pretty confusing. there is a way to have multiple authors to one blog, so that we can all post from our own accounts and thus cutting out much clutter and confusion! so if you guys want to do that, we can all log in with our own emails and passwords because i now have all of marvin's google information [since google owns blogger] and i can change the password and email and everything. THIS IS DANGEROUS STUFF!

haha

i just realized how hyper my last post sounds like compared to all the other posts.

haha

wow how cragee!

hehehehehe!
i love this blog idea! :)
i feel much more.. reconnected with everyone should i say?
awww.... GLORIA LOVES ME ENOUGH TO THINK ABOUT ACTUALLY COMING DOWN TO SD!
you guys should totally come visit! :D i dont know what we would do here..
but.. IT SHALL BE FUN.
yes. VERY VERY FUN!

man.. this crazy weather has left me with some crazy cold!
I NO LONGER HAVE A VOICE TO TALK WITH.
AND MY NOSE IS RUNNY.................................................................
sigh...

man. i miss everyone!
i miss hanging out and doing absolutely nothing and wasting our time trying to figure out what to do!
AT LEAST WE WERE TOGETHERRRR
humhummm..... so how's everyone doing? :)
anything new? exciting? fun? depressing? special? amazing? wonderful?
well i really gotta go finish up my essay!
goodnight everyone!

ashley

WOWZERS

3 posts in one day?!
Crazzay~
anywhos
ive been listening to Lily Allens new cd
SOOOO GOOD
MY FUCK
pretty funny songs too
i just listen to them in my car and i start cracking up
people probably think im a loon o-o...

ive been reading everynight
putting my extra time to good use
im not yet motivated enough to do the reading for hw ahha
just something about school and assigned reading that makes me not want to do it
ive been reading The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
its pretty funny and interesting
but i dont think its anything compared to A Dirty Job
but im only halfway through so we'll see if its the shizz or not

i read janes away message on aim
that sucks
i hope nothing important or expensive was in her car
and i hope they didnt like break anything too bad in there
i would probably cry if i found out someone broke into my car
and then id drive through all the hall buildings and run over everyone
it woudlnt matter if i killed a bunch of innocents
as long as i got revenge on the ones who did it
ahha =P

ooo i have a field trip on thursday for school
get to wake up late....r ahha
but not as late as i thought
traffics gonna be bad since its in hollywood
so i still have to leave early
ughh
but its to this cheese house
where they like import cheeses from everywhere
and we get to try out all the differnt kinds and stuff
and afterwards me and a few friends are planning to go to the playboy mansion to apply there haha
i wonder how thatll go
i dont even know if they allow people to just walk in for interviews
but i guess well find out

i noticed i cuss a lot now
i wonder why....
wellz fuck

oh i might go to san fran at the end of this month
for work that is
cuz i guess theres a convention up there
dont know what its called but who cares
but not fsure yet
cuz it depends when he leaves and comes back
i dont want to miss class
well im willing to miss one day of class
cuz itll be academics by that time
and who gives a shit about that really
well i do
but i need some ME days too yaknow

i imagined living in a dorm
and i had that whole whiteboard on the door
and id probably write, "having some me time. bbl" on it ahhah

well thats it
i think theres something else
when i reemmber ill post it
adios
-jeff l

Valentine's Day

HEY! Is it totally out of character that I wanna plan something for once? ahahhaha
Well I texted most of you guys a little while ago, but imma mention it here again!
So, since Jane and Ashley (probably) have plans for Vday, let's do something the day after! I kind of have this party thing with my hall mates saturday, but I'll still be coming home cuz I'll be darned if I'm spending my monday off at school! :p So yap, I was thinking we could all fudge out at someone's (my) house eating ice cream and chocolate! Hot chocolate! and probably romantic comedies, tis the season and all. But then Ashley says she's prolly not coming back this weekend. :(
So I was thinking of going down to UCSD and KIDNAPPING HER cuz, well, turns out my family doesn't only have 1 car left. We have two. news to me O-o SO YAH I can afford to crash one? hahah bad way of thinking about things, im knocking on wood as I type, but the basic idea is that I LOVE ASHLEY THAAAAAT MUCH. And Jazmine totally challenged me to it too. She says I can't do it. but I believe in ME! hurhur. But I dont know if i love Ashley enough to drive her back to UCSD afterwards >_< SO HOW BOUT THIS: if the weather isn't too bad on sunday, let's all take a road trip down to UCSD! hahah its just an idea right now, so let's discuss rides later <__<;; Cuz I realized I've never visited people at school, 'cept ashleigh.... hurk. yah so text me about it! Pig out for Valentine's day! you know you wanna!

BTW watch this! its mesmerizingggg.

and this is for Marvin! cuz I don't think I'll be seeing you this weekend :[

I dunno how, but it ended up being a tentacle hug. It seemed less creepy in my head... dahahah ;u;
k, laters!

same old

Hi. There hasn't really been anything new going on recently, so there's nothing really to post about. Despite that I'm still blogging. This week is the last week for intersession, so that's sorta exciting! History of Jazz was really interesting at first, but it gradually became more and more boring. -___- bummer. Thank goodness there's a video that buys time during class! Sociology was interesting from the moment the class started, and it still is! Even the vids are swt. Thank goodness. So if anyone wants to take an elective, I say sociology>history of jazz. :) Does anybody see how boring my life is? Talking about my classes. -____-. It's sadly taking up a huge amount of my time though. Denngit aha.
There's something about me and japanese dramas. I always get hooked on them! They're just so touching, funny, and inspiring!! This one I'm watching is called CODE BLUE. About these 4 doctors who are tryin to be helicopter doctors. mm so cool! Hmm, besides this awesome drama, I've just been taking piano lessons, trying to work out with my mom's weights, and... not too much more. Maybe the next blog will be more exciting. I can't wait to get going with my life. When something rad happens I'll let you all know :) Man I wish there was something good to say today, haha!!

It's been raining, and man it feels so great seeing the blue sky after the clouds clear up!

Dear Gloria, it's your turn to post a blog!

two weeks in!

Hello, that cat picture just cracks me up!
But anyways, hi errrone sorry it's been so long! But i've been kind of cut off from the internet (well the "non academic" stuff at least) due to a bet i have with my friend - if we don't wake up each morning and run, then we can't use the internet for 3days. And yeah i guess you could say we've overslept more than once -__- but here i am! Okay, recap on recent stuff you ask?

Ummmmmmmm i don't know,oh, i'm seriously contemplating summer school because well it just seems like the wise decision right? I feel if I don't do it, I'll be at home being not-as-productive-as-I-would-like-to-be, which is how breaks usually work out for me. And summer school lasts for around June to August, so technically I would have about a month of break, which is quite satisfactory imo! But we'll see because, well, the whole money thing. And the fact that I won't be able to see y'all for quite a while once again! What a Dilemma! You notice how dilemma is capital right?! Capital D!

Jonathan Lin's birthday was the other day! Let me tell you about that, because, that's pretty much as interesting as it goes for me. But it was quite fun, we surprised him, and it was pretty fn hard to keep it a secret. We decided to surprise him on the night of his birthday, kind of to throw him off from the whole midnight surprise shebang, so, of course, people were wishing him Happy Birthday the whole day, and we would just be "..." and he must've been thinking "WHAT KIND OF FRIEND ARE YOU!?!" But it still turned out alright! Josephine, Jonathan, Ben, and our friend Brandon from Diamond Bar hiked up to the Big C that day, which is a Big C (surprise surprise right) on top of the Berkeley Hills, with a killer sweet view of all of Berkeley, San Francisco, pretty much the whole Bay Area. I remember when I first went to the Big C this summer during Senior Weekend, and when I saw that glowing bay, I was essentially sold. And the view was just as good this time, this time even better because I felt like I owned that view, that that view was part of me now, I knew what all the buildings were now, I knew that this was my new home! Does that make sense?! Hahah afterwards we went back to the dorms and surprised Jon in Josephine's room, then we went to Andrew Lee's house and used EVERY SINGLE word on taboo, so, i'm pretty much OVER taboo. FUNNY EXAMPLE:
B: Okay, a male body part
M: Umm penis!
B: err no, a male body part and superman's real name!
M: uhh clark kent?
B: Yeah, with a male body part!
M: Umm Penis Kent..? Penisman?
B: No, uhhhm what you use to pee out of
M: Oh! Urethra! Urethra Kent!
B: NONO a crude word for what you use to pee out of and superman's first real name!
M: uhhhhhhhh huh?! Peepee Kent?
B: -______-
M: !!!!!!! DICK CLARK!!!
B: :)
that, btw, was the simplified version. hohooo it was fun while it lasted. after, we played with Ben's camera and some lights! i'm the yellow light, the one that sucks haha. And that was Jon's birthday in a nuthshell! Yee oh and my floormate's birthday was the day after. Okay hmm this is kind of interesting, so maybe I'll write about that too! Maybe I will! Okay maybe I'm starting it in a new paragraph because this one's getting lengthy!

Ruvani (my floormate) was turning 19 sooooo we
went to this vegetarian restaurant called Herbivore. I officially love that place, it is too good too be veggie! I had: soy chicken fried rice! Does that not sound good? Plump, steaming brown rice mixed with marinated eggplant, caramelized carrots, sprigs of green vegetables that I don't remember, and succulent [soy] chicken! Yes, you want some, I can see it in your eyes! Afterwards they went back to my friend Rachel's dorm room to "pre-game" which I did not know what that meant, but I now do know what that means hahahaha. To be honest it was kind of scary, the goody too shoes in me was thinking maybe I should leave...but I decided to stay! They drank sex on the beaches and whiskey sours and got drunk while I drank Odwalla Mango Tango (THE best) and people thought I was drunk! Alright! I was really afraid one of the RA's would come in and bust us but it was all gewd, we wanted to go Karaoke at this Japanese place but it would be 10 dollars per person! Can you believe that shizang. But it's free if you eat there, so next time, we're just gonna eat there, because, uhh a plate would cost 10 bones anyways! Makes sense!

So that was my excessively detailed account of the past few days! School's not so interesting, so I'll just say this sentence to summarize how school is!

School is alright.

ALTHOUGH sorry I lied again, I'm taking this Upper Division Public Health class on Environmental Health Science and the Germ Theory of Disease, which is actually quite fascinating! I'm taking so few units this semester, the bare minimum, and I feel bad, but I want to just see how this works out as opposed to that murderous coursework (and weaksausage GPA to match...)! And I'm applying for the Daily Cal, the newspaper at Berkeley, so hopefully that works out to give me some much desired units! And how bout you guyssss how are your classes going? Tell me tell me now tell me as soon as you finish reading this.!

Man I really surely do miss you guys right about now and always. I miss your guys' voices more than anything else. We should all record ourselves with Audacity or something and post it here! That would be nice and creepy. I guess that's all I got for now, I'm not going to write my name and you'll have to guess who this aHA sucker! Alright take care amigos! :):)

A new opportunity

Nothing really big happened to me since my last post
Well a friend that i know through work got me the hookup with his aunt
Who apparently went to the Cordon Bleu in France
And she owns this bakery somewhere near my work
So i might be training from her for awhile
I dont get paid for it but its all good
I still need to figure out my externship but at least this is a good starting point
Yupyup

You guys need to post more
Like once a week or something

BEEN SICK

It's Masumi! :)
Oh man, so for the past 4 days I've been sick! noooo. I haven't been sick for over a day in years! Man, one thing I noticed from being sick was that I got bad dreams every night while I was sick! So guys, be careful! In one dream, the owner of zpizza was like this fraud who wasn't who he was portraying himself to be (he was trying to be the owner), like I could see his MASK peeling on his neck! eeeewwww. And on another, I was playing tennis in some store (yeah it was a full-on court in the store) and I couldn't SERVE!! So I kept sucking at serving, and my doubles parter kept losing cuz of me! I lost like probably a whole game's' worth! I can't remember the other ones, thankfully. I had to ask my coworker Camie to cover for me on my last day of work. Now that's not good either, guys. haha. So yeah, NOW I'm officially done with zpizza. Time to find a new jobbbb danggit.
I've once again fallen into the routine of going on the computer too often again. MANN. I'm gonna again try to cut myself from going online when I could be doing other stuff during leisure time, but it's hard to live without it now. I wish the internet wasn't so multi-purposeful as it is! Like finding music, contacting people easier, and doing schoolwork. :( I still plan to make a better effort to keep my face away from this screen.
I'm sitting in the library of the institute building by mt. sac. It's my 2nd time here and my comp somehow malfunctioned both times and had to have my friend's boyfriend fix it both times. -___-. Thank goodness for nice people!

Hmm nothing else is new here. I hope everyone's doing well! Immana go work on my presentation on cults, byee!

OH NO actually I woke up earlier today and exercised!! I tried running at first, but my body ached ALOOOT so I resorted to just walking around. Maybe it's cuz I lifted weights last night. But that's also another thing I want to work on! fitnessss!

-Masumi

HelloHello :D

HI GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol bloody long password MARVIN Dx messed up typing it a couple times hahah
This is so cool :D why didn't we make this earlier?
I dunno, i started using facebook more but its still hard to KIT without feeling stalkerish. Like sometimes I'll want to comment about something that shows up on the news feed but I don't because I think that person will think I'm creepy ahah
Uhhm k so recent stuff that's been going on with me:
Yesterday (?) Ryan Lee came to visit UCI with Eriksson. I saw them briefly because I had an essay to write. So jealous, they have so much free time.
There was a meeting for Hong Kong Student Union today but I didn't go. I wanted to, I really did. Need to meet people. But Hong Kong people are intimidating by nature and I'm not very fluent in Canto... (excuses!)
Ok, today I did some stupid things. I told my teacher that the reason I chose to analyze passage A instead of passage B was because I couldn't find passage B in the book. Note to self: do not try to sabotage the image your teachers have of you. If they think you're an airhead they will treat you thusly :[
The second stupid thing I did today was when I was in line at lunch. There was some kind of Asian beef dish that I wanted and I was busy looking at all the ingredients they laid out. [btw its not really buffet style here at UCI because its not really do-it-yourself. They put everything on a plate and hand it to you.] So the guy asks me if I wanted orange sauce or pepper and I gave him the dumbest look. My mind didn't process the question at all TT__TT The two woks of meat were the same color and looked no different so... I dunno, I think with my eyes :( so yah, i felt super stupid and it took a while for me to spit out an answer.
This happens quite a lot, I'm sorry to say...
The third stupid thing was REALLY SAD. The floors here in the dorms are FSCKING GROSS. So, I was gathering my stuff to go shower, and when I turned around my towel got hooked on the doorknob and fell on the ground where I throw my socks and shoes. Then when I was taking my shower, I heard something like a heavy cloth fall down. I didn't really look because I just thought that the person in the other shower was throwing their clothes on the ledge. I realized later that it was my bathrobe that fell and i almost cried. It had all this hair stuck to it in clumps and its so nasty I didn't want to pick it up D:
uhhm ok that's it. my life is very boring, but I hope you guys enjoy reading about my failures and mishaps :D bye!
-Gloria

Its my turn bitches!

So i guess im joining this brigade
Interesting idea and always fun to find out how you guys are doing
So lets do this

Mmmm
I made japanese food today at school
We made miso soup, naganegi no soba and sake no miso
Dont know if you know what they are masumi haha but itd be cool if you knew
Thatd mean that i wasnt spending time making like random obscure stuff that noone eats
Pretty easy day
Tomorrows a China buffet
I get the pleasure to make har yeun which are shrimp balls
Marvin calls em har gao
Potato potato
Those word pronunciations dont really work in text format lol

I dont really dig my chefs all that much
I get the feeling that they dont even like each other
One is like some white washed japanese dude who mispronounces everything
And the other is some french black dude who walks pretentiously
And i think i have them again soon for our next food class
Lame =/

Ive been listening to Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson's - Winter Song nonstop
So good
Go listen to it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUO0gd7cr9o
Oh and heres a live performance that they did on jay leno
EVEN BETTER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jConS5LmSY

Theres a few albums coming out soon that im waiting for
Heres a list just fyi haha
-Meg and Dia 1/27
-Annie 4/27
-Imogen Heap 3/10
-Lily Allen 2/9
-September 3/2
There some other ones im waiting for but too lazy to remember them

I feel really lazy recently
Cuz ive been just sitting at home on my free days
Doing nothing
Feel like i should be working
I dont have a job yet
Waiting for responses
Man when is Shabu Shabu supposed to call us?
I could work for catering and make some cash
But im not motivated to do that anymore
And im tired of driving around applying to places
Bleh
Everyones looking and noones hiring
Stupid economy
Obama...you better do your job right

-Jeff L

greetinz

Hey everyone whose reading this! Which is i don't know who! But anyways we just wanted to make this blog as sort of an avenue to keep in touch with each other and in a more intimate, fun, exchangeable non-facebook way here! So here you have it!

Today I just arrived back at Berkeley. Garrett Calbert was on my same flight so that was cool! It's so freaking weird to be back but it's nice to see all your floormates and such again youknowwhatimean! I seriously brought way too much crap and my closet's bursting! I've got to start getting my clothes dirty so I can transfer some clothes from my closet to my hamper ha. And it's totally not cold here at all. It needs to become cold so I can utilize my thick jacket that took up half my bag!

Ah and school starts tomorrow. Oh crap. I have NO books whatsoever but hopefully it works out alright! I'm really scared for Spanish, like really really scared. But oh well we'll see how that works out. This entry is kind of pointless because I really don't have much to update about anything hahaha so I'll just leave it at that! I'm kind of excited to get back into the rhythm of things, get some quality production hustling and bustling! I hope everyone's school is going well too, if it's not, let us know so we can send you encouraging words and the like!

I've been reading all these articles about animal rights and Confined Animal Feeding Operations and yeah. It's really disheartening! It made me want to become vegetarian because of nearly all the chain restaurants we consume food at in some way supports inorganic animal husbandry or animal cruelty. ESPECIALLY KFC AND MCDONALD'S. Why oh why such delicious places?! But it's ridiculous really, the food supplier they use, Keystone foods, if i told you what they did to these chickens you'd cry! So, I really don't know what to think about that, school has good local and organic choices so I'm not really worried about that but it makes me really consider the source when eating out, right? I found a really good read to be Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. It's about this family that tries to live a completely organic and home-grown lifestyle, meaning, complete subsistence and everything they eat grown in their own backyard. It's not really this preachy hardcore book advocating extreme veganism or anything, but it really puts things in perspective. I've been thinking about it for a while and I'm trying it out, and so I guess I've been vegetarian for 3 days now. Hopefully it sticks hhahaha allrighty well I think this is quite enough already, talk to y'all later! Or i guess here! Post something you, you reader! Now! :D


-Marvin So

FIRST BLOG

First blog, yay!
Omgosh, look at all these awesome functions like adding pictures and links and stuff! Like this! Totoro, mmm so cute! Okay this is exciting! I hope this blog'll keep goin and goin. If not I'll just kill Marvin. JUST KIDDING. Well today, I became so excited about something!! Sorry it's not about this blog... I'm super excited because I'm starting piano lessons again!! Oh the joy!
So I thought my last day at zpizza was Saturday but my manager gave me another week. So I guess I put in a 3-week notice instead of 2. Unless I incorrectly calculated my 2 weeks! nooooo! Well, brings in more cash on the bright side.
I have nothing interesting and fun to inform right now... I've got a history of jazz quiz and a sociology exam tomorrow so I gotta study for that! Bummerrrr.
Ok I don't wanna bore you any further so Marvin, you're the only one that is also doing this blog so far, so it's your turn!!

OH MY GOODNESS listen to these amazing musicians!
I keep replaying this vid because it's AMAZING.

-Masumi