In honor of my sister\’s b-day yesterday, I decided to take an unofficial day off! :D
In reality, I was becoming jaded about my internship and didn\’t feel like I was doing much there. And I stood outside my house for about 10 minutes and my carpool didn\’t show. I didn\’t feel like wasting a third of my gas tank to drive two hours roundtrip to the internship. LAZY.
HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY TO MY SISSY!!!!!!! YO OLD LADY (on thursday the 24th)!!! two decades old! :D
My sister told me a heart-warming story of our sister bond. Probably when I was 8 or so and my sister was 7. Our mom was in the kitchen pattering and pittering. I got distracted by something and while my head was turned away, my sister dumped salt in my bowl of rice. I turned back and started eating my rice again. I pushed it away and refused to eat it. Then my mom came over. She refused to let me skip a bowl of rice. I didn\’t know why the rice tasted so horrible. And thus, she force-fed me it. Later, I puked with my sister watching (and probably laughing very loudly).
And I don\’t remember that incident at all.
And then this story written by my sister when she was 11. It is based on semi-true events.
An excerpt (RJ = me, Andrea = my sister, Jess = a \”friend\”):
Dear Diary,
Near the beginning of the school year, I became friends with RJ, who is in my grade, and Andrea, RJ\’s younger sister. I was really better friends with RJ, but RJ told me that Andrea is rich! She has over $500!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU LADY!!!!!
now you people who are not my sister, go wish a happy b-day (at her blogee). yes YOU!
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some idiot is having fun warning me in aim. immaturity. It\’s almost the same as watching someone kill my mailbox with a bat as S/HE rides by in a car. BANG. Does that person look cool? I don\’t think so.
From aimbastard.com:
Everyone you have ever talked to who still has you on their list, whether they have talked to you within 3 years or not, will im you the second you have a warning. They will bombard you with stupid questions asking how you got the warning. And chances are some of these people will warn you too. And then the vicious cycle continues with ever more im\’s. And this is by far the worst part ot the warning system. It is a bullshit, arbitrarily designed algorithm that brings out the ignorance of people.
It is very interesting how that is true.
If you can\’t say anything nice, then don\’t say anything at all.
Did I ever agree to that? Funny that some people like to call me the…N-word.
HELLO EVERYONE. MY SISTER\’s 20TH B-DAY IS IN THREE DAYS!!!!!! sniff, sobby…my wittle sister is turning two decades OLD!
Here is her wish list.
And I was so thorougly amused by her atheist post. Especially the collection of quotations on Atheists.
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I\’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn\’t have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don\’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn\’t exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn\’t that I don\’t want to waste my time. – Issac Asimov
Doreen\’s response was simply I\’m done wasting my time too Issac!
I went and got a complimentary car wash today for my very dirty Integra. I had moved out all the junk in the car so that they could clean more easily. However, they neglected to clean the trunk. I still had remnants of dry leaves in there and other assorted goodies.
But it felt good to have a clean windshield. When I drive the car to Santa Clara, I am sure it will get all covered with idiotic insects again.
And I also wish car washes had better signs. All they had was \”DID YOU REMEMBER TO LEAVE YOUR KEYS?\” Nobody ever told me that I was supposed to drive into the car wash first…then pay after they started vacuuming. I had gone into the cashier first before I drove my car in. Nobody told me either that I had to hold onto my reciept. Blah, but this car wash is the most highly rated in the East Bay for its touchless wash…and the latino labor they provide. I wonder if they like it, because as I was walking past the back…I thought I heard a whistle.
I really didn\’t want to go to Lulu\’s dinner, but I had felt obligated. When she had first sent out the invite, I was geared up to go. I never let anybody down. I didn\’t want to be the someone who just didn\’t make it to things with futile excuses. The same people who never made it to my parties. And yet, with the feelings of…discomfort with certain people that may go, the fact that the restaurant was far away…all compounded into me not desiring to go. Yet when I called Lulu the day of, she convinced me that I had no good reason not to go. And it was true. I really did want to be there, yet I didn\’t want to go there. And I was in a dilemma.
Yet as I was leaving, my dad said something that put me in a very sour mood. I didn\’t get directions to the restaurant. Just all self-destruction. And I moped all the way to San Francisco. I got off at Civic Center and as a result of my sour mood, I wandered the blocks around the area trying to see I had intuition of finding the place. And of course the instinct that…females in a skirt shouldn\’t be walking around alone on streets of San Francisco where bums sit omg nude bars…hit me. I eventually called 411 and got hold of the restaurant. Turns out it was on the other side of town. I wandered all the way down Market and stopped to look at a map. A strange asian guy went up to me and asked if I needed help. I asked him where Columbus was, hoping seceretly he wouldn\’t ask me any more questions. He showed me on the map and I went on. I kept walking near other people just so to ease my fear of getting mugged. I don\’t know why I was so jumpy because I never am when I walk in Berkeley late at night. Eventually, I got to Montgomery and walked through the financial district. Completely deserted. Past Transamerica. Then finally I got to Columbus where I saw the distant Chinatown. Finally.
I decided that I\’ll skip dinner and drank water. I gave Lulu a present…hope she liked it! It was an interesting experience today. I got a ride back with Lulu\’s friend…who turned out to be the daughter of a computer science teacher in high school. This was also the teacher that was in my Java class two summers ago. Exciting.
Happy birthday Lulu (whenever the real birthday is since nobody tells me) and have a great year in Japan!
HOLY BUCKETS!!!!!!
For Lele\’s b-day present and because I wanted to do something good for once…
Instead of participating in the blogathon this year, I decided to sponsor! And because i am such a (wannabe) fag hag, I sponsored oldcameltoe.com whose charity is the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Support support!
Let\’s ride on this rollercoaster called Life, sir. Yes let\’s ride.
I had yet another ancestors meeting for the blah republic. Fortunately, it didn\’t drag on as our first few meetings did. And we ate at this nice crepe place CrepeVine in Rockridge. I drank ice cream out of a straw again. :D
OH AND YES SETH. I don\’t think there\’s much more to say about that. Besides that life is a rollercoaster. Which we must finish riding. I am sure he can finish the speech better.
I believe I can be a liar. I believe.
And now for something that will make me pale. Recently, it was annouced that the fees for UC schools will be going up by 25%. Poor me who doesn\’t qualify for financial aid. :(
Tuition At Top 20 Public Universities
Rankings by U.S. News & World Report; tuition figures from Universities\’ web sites.
2003-2004 Tuition used except where noted
| Rank | University | In-state | Out-of-state |
| 1. | University of California-Berkeley | $5,502 | $18,510 |
| 2. | University of Virginia | $5,968 | $21,988 |
| 3. | UCLA | $4,669 | $17,519 |
| University of Michigan | $7,952 | $24,676 | |
| 5. | University of N.C.-Chapel Hill (2002-2003) | $3,278 | $13,270 |
| 6. | William & Mary (Va.) | $6,430 | $21,216 |
| 7. | UC-San Diego | $5,150 | $13,480 |
| 8. | University of Wisconsin-Madison (2002-2003) | $4,470 | $18,390 |
| 9. | Georgia Tech | $4,076 | $16,002 |
| 10. | University of Illinois (2002-2003) | $5,748 | $14,352 |
| 11. | UC-Davis | $5,498 | $18,977 |
| 12. | Penn State | $9,434 | $18,922 |
| UC-Irvine | $4,555 | $16,057 | |
| 14. | UC-Santa Barbara | $5,285 | $18,765 |
| University of Texas-Austin | $5,340 | $11,446 | |
| University of Washington (2002-2003) | $4,336 | $15,337 | |
| 17. | University of Florida (2002-2003) | $2,630 | $12,096 |
| 18. | University of Georgia | $4,078 | $14,854 |
| University of Maryland (2002-2003) | $5,998 | $15,100 | |
| 20. | Purdue (Indiana) | $5,860 | $17,640 |
| Rutgers (New Jersey) | $7,308 | $13,284 | |
| University of Iowa | $4,993 | $15,285 | |
| University of Minnesota | $6,280 | $16,854 | |
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| 39. | Clemson University | $6,934 | $14,532 |
And yet another random adventure to visit lazy alan!
We gossiped about the past few months\’ dramah, which he had missed because he was immersed in school.
Despite my demands for a non-asian, non-chain restaurant, we ended up at the chain Vietnamese restaurant of Pho Hua. And Alan grabbed the check. BAD ALAN. Then we pursued the 26 things project. And played Uno with Alan\’s sister Lindsay. Can we say that I am the WINNAR.