My sleep cycle is so out of whack. I'm screwed when school starts. But for now, I'll continue my slow transformation into a vampire. Break has been hella fun so far. Here are just a few pictures...



Church every Sunday with this crazy woman.



First DC hang out over winterbreak in Palo Alto.


I've been seeing a lot of these kids...

This is at Denny's after watching Narnia.


And this kid...

We went to this place at Stoneridge that sold bath stuff, and my hands were attacked with soap and water. It was good.



Billiards with Daveed, Michelle, Sandeep, and Perry.



Crazy fun DC+2 party and sleepover. I suppose it should be +3 since Thai was there too.



Carlo, Michelle, and JP looking thoughtful outside the Mission San Jose church.



Bowling at Cloverleaf with...hella people; I don't have the energy to name all of them.



Christmas in the Park with Alan, Sophia, and Patrick. Look! We're standing in front of the Giving Tree...like the one from NEOPETS. hahahaha, yeah shutup you know you used to play Neopets, and you loved it too.



The End =D


And this concludes my picture update. More pictures can be found here:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/small_fry_781/my_photos

^----That would be my way of telling DC+2 that they can now steal pictures.

I'm not gonna lie...

The sleepover with DC+2 was hella fun.

Recently I realized everyone calls themselves camerawhores. They cheese it a few times in the car and take a few goofy pictures and suddenly they're a camerawhore. I don't disagree that they like taking pictures, and sometimes the pictures are funny...but honestly no one is a camerawhore unless they take over 150 pictures in one night. Only DC+2 is that amazing. And those 150+ pictures were on my camera alone. There were two other cameras that were getting some action that night also.

Oh how I've missed DC+2. I love you guys.

I miss Interact like crazy.

What's next guys? Hookah? Clubbing? I'm 18 now. Let's go =D

Merry Christmas Eve.

I'm sitting at home feeling rather bored.

I want to go to a beach and watch a sunset.

I also need to fix my glasses.

And practice my Chinese characters.

This morning I walked out of my house comfortably wearing a t-shirt and flip flops. I'm feeling much love for California right now.

I'M OUT OF BURTS BEES LIP BALM. CURSES. I don't know where to get more....



*EDIT*
I just read Jeff's xanga, and he was talking about Pho. And that made me realize...I WANT PHO TOO. AND I WANT IN AND OUT. I WANT BOTH BEFORE I GO BACK TO THE EAST COAST WHERE NEITHER EXISTS.

Curses. I'm such a bad friend. When did I stop caring? I never did...honestly. But I guess some things just get lost in the shuffle. I'm sorry this did.

This entry is boring as hell. Don't read it if you don't want to gouge your eyes out. I wrote it for my own purposes, so that I could look back on it. If you have anything better to do...like breathe or blink...then don't put yourself through the pain of reading this entry.

I wore flip flops today. And I didn't feel as if my toes were frostbitten. That made me really happy. Oh, how I <3 thee, California. Since I've been back (Saturday) night, I don't think I've spent more than an hour in my house (except sleeping at night). I love how I've been able to pick up right where I left off with my friends. While I was away it felt like I hadn't seen them in forever, but when we started hanging out again it was like I had just seen them the other day. Only difference is that now everyone just has funny drinking stories to share.

Speaking of drinking, practically all my friends who didn't drink in high school got into the whole party/drinking scene in college. I don't mean to say that anyone's been sucked in and now my friends are raging alcoholics, but it's definitely a shift from high school. I'm not surprised though; I figured that once we got more freedom it would happen. And no one's been drastically changed because of it, so I don't see it as a big deal. And I'm not accusing anyone because I'm not an exception...I'm just making an observation. I'm glad I wasn't a party-er in high school though. I was focused on academics and other activities, and that gave me direction. It would've been so easy in high school to not study and screw myself over for college. But now that I'm in college, I have more of a focus and I'm more grounded so that I can party but not get lost in it.

I was back on Washington's campus these past couple days visiting teachers and friends. It feels as if it was ages ago since I was a Husky, when it's only been six months. I didn't expect it to feel so different, but the atmosphere and the way people "move through space" (as Perlman puts it) is on a whole different level from college. Everyone seems so young. It was good to see my teachers again, and go to the Interact meeting. When I walked into the room, I didn't recognize more than half the people in there...which is a good thing I guess since that means they have a lot of new members. Aw, I miss Interact so much.

After visiting all my teachers, all of them have asked me if I felt I was well-prepared for college. I guess I was well-prepared because I can see how college could have been so much harder. Granted, chemistry wasn't all that easy and the Econ final raped me, but in general the transition into a whole different academic atmosphere wasn't as bad as I expected. The difficult part of high school was balancing academics and extra curriculars, but in college academics in itself is just way more intense. I feel a little silly now because of all the stressing I did in high school. But I definitely think I developed good study habits in high school. Being a nerd does pay off.

I can't believe I'm half done with freshman year. Wow. Time does fly. Right now, I can't tell how college has changed me or even if it has because I still hang out with the same people and interact with them in the same way.

Looking back on high school, I'm very satisfied with how I conducted myself. <--That was a weird way to express how I feel, but I don't have the energy or brain power to find a more suitable sentence.

So what have I been doing since I've been back? Seeing a lot of friends. Seeing a lot of the boyfriend. Not seeing a lot of my parents, but there's plenty of time for that when all the UC quarter system kids leave for school, and I'm still around. I saw Narnia. Lu spent a long time that night talking about rolling penises. I went shopping for a bunch of belated birthday gifts.

It's raining cats and dogs right now, but it's not freezing cold so I'm loving it. I don't mind the rain. Norcal doesn't suck. Joe is wrong.

I'm hearing "hella" left and right ALLLLL the time now. I love it. Seriously. It really makes me feel right at home. Which I am.

I've said sketch/sketchy a few times, and everytime I've gotten weird looks from my friends.

MY DAD SAYS DINNER IS READY. I LOVE CHINESE FOOD. I LOVE MY DAD'S CHINESE FOOD. SCREW YOU HAVERFORD COLLEGE DINING CENTER.

Late picture update from the Snowball dance....



J Wu, Inez, Mary, Jen, Janice, Numa, Me



J wu, Po, Numa, Janice, Me



Me and Sarah



J Wu and Me being thoughtful



Po and Me



Po's such a pimp



Tharrison and Me. I always feel so small whenever I stand next to him.



Jesse (drunk, what else?) singing "Since You Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson. Well, more like screaming than singing



Robbie and Me



I also took pictures at Snowball that were put into snowflakes and are now hanging happily from the Christmas lights in my room.



The girls of 46...with our tongues sticking out



Josh and Joe carrying me. I love these two seniors =D.



Me, Po, J Wu, and Robbie acting hella gangster.



I'm back in CA now. Reflections on my school year to come later. []Deace.

Warning: This is a HUGE picture entry.

Well, Saturday night I experienced my first snowfall =D. It was amazing. I've definitely seen snow before since I know how to ski and I've been to Tahoe and all. But I don't think I've actually seen snow FALL. Besides even if I have seen it fall before, Saturday night was still freaking AWESOME. Here's a recap of the evening....



All of us chilling in Numa's room in Gummere.



Theo showing us a chemistry experiment with nail polish and styrofoam.



This is the chemistry experiment not working. The cup was supposed to disintegrate, but as you can see it's definitely still solid and in tact.



Shortly after the failed chemistry experiment, someone noticed that it was snowing outside. So we all ran outside and went crazy running around throwing snowballs and screaming.




My first picture with the first snowfall of the year and MY first snowfall also =D







Just fooling around outside.



Justin, me, and a drunk Jesse. I have to say that I'm quite impressed with myself when it comes to taking pictures with one hand.



Jesse carrying me to prove that he was able to do so even though he was drunk. Is he a great Customs person or what?



Kait and Me. I ran into her wearing her pajamas, looking like she was about to die from the cold. She was actually sleeping but got woken up since this was her first snowfall (Kait's a fellow Norcal kid from Cupertino).



After gallivanting around up campus I ran down to JoeChai's apartment to see the seniors. But they were all mellowed out, and my energy might have been a little too much for them. I admit, I did go a little insane. Half the people I ran into that night thought I was crazy drunk. But I was just drunk off of LIFE and SNOW. (OH! While I was running down to Joe's apartment I made up a dance. I call it the Graceful Gorilla. And I will break it out at the next dance...which happens to be a semiformal this coming Friday).




Two sober people....





And two not-so-sober people.









Hahahahahahaha. I love these pictures. Timmy passed out on the futon, and it was pretty entertaining watching Joe and Min try to pull out the futon from under him and roll him over onto it.



After much persuasion, I was able to drag JoeChai outside. This is his 4th year at Haverford, so his excitement wasn't nearly as high as mine. In fact, it was pathetic...




This is Joe being a wuss and complaining about the cold.



Joe looking miserable and me looking way too happy. This was around 2:30am.



Me and a piece of German candy that was so freaking good. It was fruity but not overwhelmingly so. If you couldn't already tell that I was extremely pepped up that night, a picture of me looking overly happy and posing with a piece of candy should be sufficient enough to show how hyper I was.



This is the candy in my mouth. YUM.



I tried to take another picture of Joe looking tired and pathetic, but he covered his face with a pair of pants.





Walking back to my apartment I saw this car with three miniature snowmen on it.





And here my evening ends around 4am.


I know that I'm going to hate the snow in about week. It's going to get dirty and gross, and I'm going to bitch about how gloomy, depressing, and cold it is. Which is why I decided to enjoy the snow as much as I could last night...before I get disgusted with it all and end up like Joe or Ed, hating the snow and the cold so that I want to "bring frosty the snowman to life just to kill him for being snow," (in Ed's words).

If you actually looked at all the pictures and read all the captions in this entry, congratulations. Ack, I spent so much time on this entry that now I really have to get cracking on my studying. Finals in one week!

This is me studying for Chem. I got tired of doing that, so now I'm making a picture post of 46.



This is the magnetic dart board that J Wu and I always play with on our way upstairs. We've gotten damn good.



J Wu taking a picture of me.



Shoes!



Jesse and Lorin are in The Throng improv group, and I think they were demonstrating something to us...but I don't remember what it was. So now this picture just looks silly.



The Asian people of the apartment being as Asian as we can possibly be. Except for J Wu and her middle finger...hahaha.



Dave, the half-asian that got left out of the picture. It's ok, he would've thrown off the balance anyways. haha, j/k.



Ben being excited and waving his hands like crazy because he closed the huge window that was letting in all the rain and flooding our apartment stairs. Well, not really flooding, but it would've reached that point eventually.



Ben, Po, and Tad with 2Pac. Ironically, no one in their unit likes him; they just have a poster of him hanging on their door.



Ben carrying Eric. This picture was from a couple months ago, but I like it...it shows our 46 love.




Inez hanging up lights in our room



The finished product (my side of the room) =D.



Inez's side of the room. That's her taking a picture of my side of the room.


Our room is hella cool now. I love it.

I'm going to go back to studying Chem now. Partly because I've wasted enough time, and partly because my roommate is getting comfortable with her bf on her bed and I should leave.

GAH! HOW I LOATHE THEE, CHEMISTRY.