* song of the moment * - “need you” bai devotion [english]. beautiful song ^_^
* mood * - good, i guess.
oooo right now it’s the 27th so i’ll give yoo a day bai day account of mai trip to seattle… ummm yay!!!
saturday, june 23rd — we got to seattle [mee, tin-win, mai mom, and mai dad] and drove a rental camry to this lady [family frend]’s house… we went out to dinner @ some chinese place and went to this lakeside house that this guy owned but didn’t even friggin live in. he owned it for like ten years but never lived in it and just let his friends go there and live in it… hella weird. but it was nice-looking with cool furniture, good location, good view, yada yadeh. then mai parents drove us to angie’s dorm… that night got to meet lotsa people… two girls [jane and valerie] who were frendz of this guy jim… one of them’s from san jose which is hella close… and the other one was from maryland [they’re cousins]. hum also got to meet jim, john, wes, tony [who does the most amazing magic tricks… we were sooo entranced and it is soooo amazing… they’re card tricks but no, not just lame card tricks… amazing card tricks =O]… angie only has frendz that are boiz ^^ but it was okay. ummm we watched “what lies beneath” in the lounge… that was pretty kewl, i guess. that’s about it.
sunday, june 24th — got woken up hella early in the morning for one of the most hellish experiences of mai life… we went to this one chinese church. awww shiet, it was psycho. we only stayed an hour but that was horrible enough that i will never return. the church is one of those churches in which they don’t believe in pastors, which i totally agree with, but other than that, there’s nothing good about it. during communion, they would sing a hymn, and then five people would start praying and after every single line that they said something as lame as “gan xie zhu [give thanks to god]” or “zhan mei zhu [praise god]”, the people would say “amen!”, “yes!!!”, etc. hella loud; they were practically screaming it. hella psycho. hella fake [as if church isn’t fake enough already]. i’m NEVER going back. anyways, mai parents told the ah-yee and uncle that we wanted to leave early [thankfully they didn’t ask why, cuz we were gonna say that angie had to meet a frend and so we had to leave wahaha]. so then we drove to richmond in canada. canada is soooo clean. and nice. and clean. yeah in richmond we ate @ this place… and then went shopping. they have kinda kewl fobby stuff but it is SO expensive. so that’s a turn-off. didn’t buy anything; the only thing we did was take sticky pictures. i guess that was kewl. but they weren’t that special. blah. hum yeah and then we went to vancouver which was boring; we just went to the pier thing and watched a cruise ship leave [mai dad found this soooo exciting]. it was embarrassing cuz a foghorn went off and mee, angie, and tin-win all screamed hella loud and many a people were looking @ us funnie -_-; later that night we went to eat japanese food at this place… SUCH a nice restaurant. they had the best interior design ever. the furniture, layout, even the friggin WALLS were awesome. and the food was good. best japanese restaurant i’ve ever been to and it was so nice. and the owner was ACTUALLY japanese. that is never the case anymore; the owners are usually either chinese or korean. but yeah then we went back to the place where we were living and played pool downstairs… that was kewl i guess. ^^
monday, june 25th – orientation for mee today. in the morning we [mee, jane, and valerie] walked to the hub, which was the orientation building… lugged a big bag and a sleeping bag HELLA far and it pisses mee off cuz i didn’t end up staying overnight and i did all that work for nothing ^^* well anyways, we checked in and the first person i met was this korean girl, grace… kinda funnie cuz for the rest of the day i didn’t really see her, but thas another story. but yeah we checked into our rooms and i actually didn’t have a roommate… hum and after that we went to this auditorium and from there we split up into small groups… mai small group sucked… all of the people were unfriendly and no one talked to each other @ ALL. hecka lame. after that went to a computer lab to do… stuff, and then went to lunch… met a girl named amy… we got lost trying to go to lunch for a while but finally found it. met a japanese fob guy who was directly from japan! WAH. good english, tho. i forget his name cuz it was too hard -_-; he was a chinese guy born in japan tho. lucky. after lunch [which was OKAY, i GUESS], went to take placement testing which now that i think about it i shouldn’t even have bothered taking, but either way, i took a spanish placement testing…
on the way there, met a guy jared from hawaii… and i was talking to him and he said he was half-japanese and half-chinese and while he was saying that this girl jennifer turned around and was like, “hey! sorry to interupt but yur half-japanese and half-chinese?? i am too!” and yeah… she lives bai mee! in fremont! yay. the spanish test was hella easy, actually… i was supposed to stick around for results but i forgot. this one guy zach [goddammit, why do i remember everyone’s names?? i’m psycho] shocked everyone in the room cuz he took up to spanish 7 + 8 or some shiet… who the hell takes spanish 7 + 8???? o.O there IS such a thing??? strange ~~~
but yeah after the test i saw jared outside the room so mee and him waited for jennifer and we went to our little meeting thing for our job… jared went to business and mee and jennifer went to the humanities meeting… it was hella boring and not very informative, but then everyone went to the computer lab and did their schedules… hella confusing… i didn’t finish mai schedule yet, but i am taking this introduction to linguistics course [which counts as mai math cuz i’m an arts and science major], this english course [iono what it is exactly… i think it’s composition], and then i have to e-mail this chinese teacher about taking chinese. ^_^ hopefully i get everything i want. if not… arrrgh.
okay anyways after going to the computer lab umm i went with jared to the “ave”, which is a street nearby cuz he wanted to get his frend from hawaii a present from the student bookstore so we were in there for a while… and we went to get boba nai cha but it was hella gross yuk and i think we waited a half hour for it… iono why. but it was nasty and sooo not worth the wait. @ least i didn’t have to pay, tho! ^_^ yoo kno naicha’s in hawaii cost like $5.40 for a cup or something??? shewt and i thought us paying $2.50 here was a rip!!!
anyways, it was hella weird cuz i saw nick debarr from amador [mai high skool] there and he wasn’t even going to skool in washington!! and he was @ the chinese restaurant eating and he walked bai and we both kind of pointed @ each other and were like “hey! what are YOO doing here??” and he was there for baseball… just hella random and weird. o.O; actually i saw him walking bai from the student store through the window and i was like “WHOA! WHOA! WHOA!” hella loud… i think i was embarrassing. ah, well.
ummm after our little trek we went to go get id cards but the place was friggin closing so friggin jared ran hella and i was all tired and stuff… ugh i need to exercise more. i guess the id card turned out good. saw jennifer again. then we were going to the dorms cuz jared had to get something and ran into amy again… she came with us and then we went to dinner together… it was bbq stuff… i just ate a slice of watermelon, tho hehehe. yukkieeeee. yeah but we met this new hawaiian girl named erin. hella hawaii people up in there. after dinner, we had to go back to the bookstore because sharilyn and amy wanted to buy stuff and i left mai binder in the boba nai cha place… luckily they had it when we returned *whew.
@ the bookstore we ran into tin-win randomly, and so she went with us when we went to a nearby shopping place [it was sharilyn, erin, mee, amy, and tin-win… we had to walk hella far up and down hilly places… tiring >_<] and bought… groceries. they have self checkout counters there! exciting. but yoo can cheat hella easy… we scanned this bottle of iced tea and it asked us if it were single or multi-pack… we could have said it were single but we were good 0=) bought hella more food and then after that went back to mai dorm and mee and tin-win sat around for a while cuz mai feet hurt and then we went back to angie’s place… kinda got lost and asked like three people for directions, haha. hum that night we ended up playing cards with jim til like two in the morning… blah.
i think these big paragraphs are intimidating to read and it makes things look sooo uninteresting?!
tuesday, june 26th — i decided to ditch mai second day of orientation so after angie came back from class @ around 11-ish, mee, tin-win, jane, valerie, angie, jim, fu, and david [fu and david are the first vietnamese guys i’ve ever met!! and on top of that… they’re vietnamese FOBS! omg!!!!] walked down to the ave and we ate japanese food… well fu and david went to eat pizza instead but yeah… hella cheap japanese food… it cost five bucks for a big plate of tonkatsu or teriyaki stuff that we all only ate half of… yeah afterwards david left cuz he didn’t like us and we went to went downtown bai bus… their bus system is sooo kewl. halfway they attach these metal things to those wires that cable cars have and it turns into a metro… like a subway. hella tight.
yeah and they have hella nice malls in seattle too… and all over the place they have this thing right now where people decorate pigs and then the pigs are sold to people as fundraisers… the pigs all look hecka different… some are made into pianos, some are painted differently… it’s really interesting, but hard to describe. i’ll get some pictures of the pigs scanned once i get mai film developed ^^*
but yeah we just walked around and stuff. met up with this guy named stone [there’s a long story behind his name] and he held jane and valerie’s luggage until they had to ride the bus to the airport, cuz they were leaving a day earlier than we were… hummmm and then we went down to these fish markets that apparently were very famous… they throw fish around in this one market where angie, jim, and fu knew this guy named ___ [i finally forgot a name!]. he was on the real world seattle, not as an actual real world member, but as a guest. kinda kewl. ^_^
but yeah after going to the fish market, fu left to meet up with david who didn’t like us [they’re cousins], and we dropped jane and valerie off at the bus that they took the airport. then mee, jim, and angie took the bus back to the dorms… that night angie wanted to cook us curry and so they had to buy potatos… so her and this guy mike went to safeway for like an hour while tin-win slept and i talked to people on AIM ^^*
when they came back, they came back with wes and we went to the student store… @ the student store yoo can use the money yoo dun spent on meal plans and get random junk food. ugh… we ate SO much junk food. i think mee and tin-win both gained like five pounds. -_-; horrid. when we came back, mee and tin-win sat around watching tv while wes and angie cooked… kinda. mike was off doing something else, i dunno what. but yeah we watched “dark angel”… i slept through half of it but it was a crappy show. that show is SO crappy. why the hell is it so famous? jessica alba isn’t even that hot.
but anyways, met two more guys named craig and craig… i met one of them before cuz he went to mai skool last year and he went to mai church once… and there was this other girl who iono. hum hella people joined us for dinner… i dunno three of their names because i never LEARNED their names, but there was this guy andrew who ate a whole lot, and this other guy matt who worked @ an ice cream store that is called the mix [which is kinda like coldstone’s] and so he brought people tubs of ice cream]. but yeah, the curry was yummie ^_^ hella “ma-fan” but still.
after eating lots of food we went to “our [angie’s room]” for a while and then we went to wes’ room to look @ a demented stuffed penguin… and then we went to mike’s room to look @ HIS stuffed animals [hum i don’t understand it either] and he played guitar and sang some green day song for us… it was quite interesting ^_^ and then wes left for a while to talk to his girlfrend and mike had to entertain mee and tin-win cuz angie fell asleep… after a while we tried waking up angie and it friggin took a half hour… but actually she was awake but just pretended she wasn’t. she’s hella good @ that tho… she didn’t even laugh when people tickled her o.O; scarie… hum yeah then went to bed. ^_^ well actually mee and tin-win stayed up for like another hour almost just talking about random shiet.
wednesday, june 27th — mee and tin-win went downtown again… it was raining… hum iono went to the malls and i bought a yellow tank top and a green / blue / yello tank top with a criss-crossed back thing… ur… yoo have to see it. i really like the style, but the pattern on it isn’t that great, but oh well. hella cheap. they were like less than 10 bucks each… but tax in washington is 8.8%… hella… and drink tax is 10%!!! crajee… tin-win bought a pair of pants…
we ate lunch @ this hella big food court that friggin had everything… reminds mee of taiwan. it had mongolian bbq [what tin-win ate], philly cheesesteaks [what i ate], mexican food, italian food, chinese food, japanese food, friggin everything. it was AWESOME. hard to decide what to eat, haha. and not just that, but it was cheap… and it LOOKED good. seattle is SO awesome. ^_^ i have nothing bad to say about it… i love the weather that is never too hot, and damm. wonderous skool for mee to go to!! i’m so happy.
but yeah after shopping for like three hours we went back to angie’s dorm where we met stone again cuz he was taking us to the airport… nice guy. and yeah after meeting people @ udubb, i’m gonna rename mai buddy list categories… cuz right now they’re named after… cha siu bao [chinese ppo], kimchi [korean ppo], mochi and pho [japanese and vietnamese ppo], milkshakes [people who are something but think or act like they are something else], s’mores [black and white ppo], leftovers [other people… they’re actually cambodian, thai, and crajee mixed hawaiian]… i think i’ll change it to huskies [university of washington ppo], fishies [so-cal ppo], cows [nor-cal ppo… i think of cows cuz davis = cows], aliens [outta state ppo], and flies [highskoolers]. yeah i’m lame. guess i’ll go do that now. what a lame life i live. and it’s 1:14 am. oh well. who needs to sleep anyways?? psha.
(diana’s response:)
woohoo!! i’m an alien on your buddy list~!! >=D but i can’t believe you had the categories named after food. you glutton!! =P i either have way too many categories that don’t deserve to be categories [there’s only like 3 people in each >P], or i have big lumpy categories called “people”, “more people”, & “other people”. [just in case anyone ever thought i talked to aliens o_O]
anyways, seattle sounds fun. confusing, but fun. college sounds pretty cool. except for the whole cohabiting with strangers part. and the school part. and the mass drinking & promiscuity part. are you gonna join a sorority?? mwahaha
btw, glad you’re liking the book so far. did you get to the cow part?? i love the cow part. “i begin to resent the cow and the cow begins to resent me.” that’s got to be one of my favorite lines ever. the cow & the limo driver rock my world. ^_^ *a hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world* is interesting in a quirky way too. the only thing with murakami is that practically all of his main characters are thirtysomething men who pretty much have the same personality-traits. >P oh well~
(my response to diana:)
mee? binge drinking??? hummm no… drinking is gross >P i’ll pass. i’ll be anti-social if i have to. being a picky eater is probably the only thing that steers mee away from drugs. wahaha.
i can’t believe ur categories are so boringly-named!! what am i?!?!?!?!?!!? hmmm??? better not be other people! >_< that one just sucks [like the other ones are better].
seattle is kewl. u should visit mee there. wahaha. >P hey didju ever take ur test?!!! anyways the strangers part… i am scared that mai roommate will be psycho. uh-oh.
i haven’t gotten to the cow part yet… i’ve only read up to like 1/5 of the book maybe. gotta read more =)