In comparison with last year\’s summer memories:
Working as a residential computing consultant, marketing (sort of) , technical coordinator and lead technical coordinator all in a period of 3 months
Taking the introduction to digital video class for $120 which was probably not worth it…to make the very-artlike video on the Mike Fernando story
Eating at Spenger\’s with Karen and Anderson – was this a relief or a regret since I didn\’t like the food at all
Watching Vienna Teng play piano and sing. Live. In San Jose where I paid too much for parking and also splurged too much on Denny\’s.
MEETING PINK TACO, \’nuff said
Eating at Bette\’s Diner with Kyle and how we were able to drive there, wait for a table, order, eat, drive back all in one hour
Eating at Cactus in Rockridge – HI I GET LOST – and at Barney\’s with Becky
Pimpin\’ the CAs at CKC :)
Shopping with Angie, why did we have a $25 lunch?
Almost running over a middle aged man while making a right turn onto College
Setting off the storage alarm with Sean and having myself \”carded\” by a campus police officer who radioed my stats into her radio
Saying goodbye to Angie, not once, not twice, but thrice
Actually having ONE sip of an alcoholic drink aka apple martini – that\’s the most alcohol I have ever had
Losing (or misplacing) my car keys twice, both times at Clark Kerr – first time, I had dropped them in front of building 8 then the second time I dropped them in the computing center…
NOT having Shinelun come back to the bay area and carpooling with me
Driving up to Irvine Spectrum to see Vanessa and being supremely disappointed by what a typical socal mall is like
Being stuck in traffic on the 405
Seeing Kill Bill vol. 1 four times and Kill Bill Vol. 2 twice
Getting the pick up line from a resident who wanted to hit on me – \”You\’re leaving in 10 days? But I need 11 days to change your life!\”
Having a party where guys outnumbered the girls. Seven to one!
I now know a total of 5 Chris\’s
Watching Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and actually treking to In \’N Out right after
My LOTR fascination that last for approximately a month when I watched FOTR and TTT more than 15 times each, re-reading the entire triology,
Lele getting a cell phone!!!!
Parking in a space that I got tricked into renting – $200 for the entire summer, two blocks from the Rescomp office, a dirt driveway, have the space that is marked \”no parking\”
The parents buying a new cactus green colored 2004 Toyota Corolla – my dad very reluctant to let me drive it, only letting me drive the 1988 Acura Legend
Spontaneously visiting San Francisco on a Wednesday with Karen, et al…in the Legend, fortunately it made it up all the hills
Meeting two idiot 24 year old guys formerly from USC who thought I was interesting just because I was mean to them
Being a coward and never returning an e-mail to my philosophy GSI to ask why I failed the final…*cough*…
Being asked \”how does it feel to have graduated\” one too many TIMES
SEEING THE MAN WITH A MONITOR ON HIS BACK!!!! (thank you so much for making my summer worth it)
Having a 100 degree fever while I did a fmri study. whoops.
Yahoo following gmail\’s steps of offering more space. Well only a little more space…
Me offering to give out gmail invites if someone commented on an entry, AND NOBODY RESPONDED
Buying an oversize expensive ADIDAS backpack from SportsMart!!!
Watching the director\’s cut of Blade Runner with Lam and Chris…apparently the original version had a voiceover by Harrison Ford and is much more easier to understand rather than being pumped with bad 80s \”futuristic\” synthesizer music
Meeting a Marine Corps guy on the flight to Pittsburgh who kept talking and talking about his experience abroad…and him giving me his e-mail address which I promptly lost
People giving me one too many tours of Carnegie Mellon in July
Seeing a $700 apartment in Pittsburgh that looks exactly like a $1200 one in Berkeley
Peggy rejecting me. Again.
Hosting one of the best parties ever because the right people came…then also ditching my own party for a non-related event
Making two really good friends in less than a month and also learning more about someone that I should not have…
AND MOST OF ALL…THE BEST MEMORY I HAVE OF THE SUMMER…
my mother calling me at 11:30 pm on my penultimate day in Berkeley, telling me to come home and then threatening, \”NO CAR, NO KEYS IF YOU AREN\’T HOME IN 30 MINUTES. *click*\”
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CELLPHONE… and.. PINK TACO! The best summer of your life!
well at least you mentioned me and i\’m happy… but why as Pink Taco?
sorry I couldn\’t help it Chris. :)
rar!