diva dami

and the thrilling conclusion to my saga..

2011-01-25T19:01:00.001-08:00

Look at that. Didn't even make it to SAVING the file. Instead, I put my laptop away and just listened to the professor talk while eating a sandwich. It was a great sandwich. Chicken pesto. Man, you should have tasted this thing. It was great.

I did slightly better today...

2011-01-20T20:18:00.001-08:00

This is like twice as much as the other day! Yeah!

behold, the amount of notes i took during a 2 hour class

2011-01-18T23:06:00.000-08:00

three lines. THREE LINES. and i don't even know what they're SAYING. hahahaaaaaa.....

Sometimes you just wanna let someone know they've done a good job

2011-01-05T18:54:00.000-08:00

I might just have been overly excited to be getting new laptop batteries.

shudderr

2011-01-01T21:54:00.000-08:00

Hope everyone had an excellent holiday season! I spent my new year's eve at our family friend's annual party, quickly breaking the ice among the younger party-goers with some viral youtube videos of the "cat hiccups and farts at the same time" variety. I would. (I briefly considered "spend less time watching cat videos" as a new year's resolution but...I can't. I'm weak.)

I returned to San Diego today so I lifted my bed covers to check for any spiders that might have rented out my bed while I was gone. There were none so I breathed a sigh of relief until I looked at the wall and OH GOD there was this HUGE SPIDER. erjaeighgilheilagheebiejeebies. I'm pretty sure I scared my neighbors with my screaming. Sorry, neighbors.

i hate thinking you're done with a paper and then you realize you have to do your works cited page and you're just like

2010-12-09T00:48:00.000-08:00

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

crazy

2010-11-19T04:40:00.000-08:00

I made jjigae (bean paste soup with tofu, zucchini, potatoes and cabbages, nommmm) at 3:30 am because I was starving. While I was waiting for it to cool down, I made a pb & j because I just could NOT wait any longer for food. How impatient am I??

I often felt that if I had two obstacles to overcome right now, it's sleep and food. Honestly, if there was anything that would lead to my downfall in college, it's these two. Both keep me from going to class; I've been having trouble waking up for my 10am class (I'm ridiculous, I know :<) and sometimes I get so lost in a trance just enjoying my food in the morning that I would rather finish my breakfast than catch the bus.

You can see where my priorities are at because now i'm wasting time writing a blog post rather than doing my reading for tomorrow's weekly section quiz. I'm also supposed to e-mail my TA about the midterm from last week, but it's 4:50am right now and I don't want to freak him out and have him think I am insane. So I googled how to make gmail send emails at certain times and no luck. Gmail, please make it happen!! This is a problem I face all too much.

I'd like to end this post with these motivational quotes I should be telling myself everyday:
"SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK. YOU CAN SLEEP WHEN YOU'RE DEAD."

ok, apparently not

2010-11-11T09:58:00.000-08:00

ummmmm im having technical difficulties linking my tumblr and blogspot so here forth be my latest comics:

Tumblr!

2010-11-09T17:13:00.000-08:00

I made a tumblr for just my comics: as-per-usual.tumblr.com.
It's linked to this blog so if i post a comic there, it also posts here! (and goes on my twitter and facebook. i'm so linked in! I also have a LinkedIn. please add me.)

I finished my midterms last week so I took a trip to San Francisco with FBLA this weekend! Good times! I met my internet soulmate who literally knew every single cat video I have ever watched. :3

Now i'm enjoying some of my free time with movies. I finally saw Lars and the Real Girl, which was really sweet. I also realized I never watched the Lizzie McGuire movie so that's next on the list. I don't care if I sound like a 13 year old girl right now, Lizzie is always encouraging people to wear gold instead of yellow. Why not?

EDIT: Just saw the movie. it was TERRIBAD, in the most excellent way.

Story of my life.

2010-10-18T02:58:00.001-07:00

Days I look great, originally uploaded by trixroxmysox.

seriously!

i wish i had taken my own advice

2010-10-14T23:50:00.001-07:00

because i am SUFFERING. suffer suffer suffer.

Today I went thrifting at Hillcrest! I was looking for halloween costumes- I joked to my roommates that I wanted to be a slutty Antoine Dodson, but I crushed everyone's dreams when I revealed it would not be so. I am open to suggestions! My roommate needs help on how to go as a double rainbow.

Wish

2010-10-04T22:45:00.001-07:00

Wish, originally uploaded by trixroxmysox.

I'd always go for the unicorn. Always.

You and Me

2010-10-03T21:50:00.000-07:00

(click to enlarge)

how i lost my phone.

2010-09-29T23:54:00.000-07:00

I think it fell out of my back pocket when I was in the parking lot of my apartment. I texted it with my roommate's phone saying, "If you find this phone, please call this number. Please please please please." This is the same phone that I left in my dad's rental car and it ended up going to SFO with him, then overseas to Korea and shipped back to America. I guess it finally had enough of my shenanigans and was like, "Fuck you. I'm out. PAYCE."
THE NEXT MORNING. My roommate got a text saying they found my phone and I should call that number. So I did but no one ever answered. I checked online and they weren't using my phone for anything either. When I first got their text I was like "Wow, there are good people in this world!" and that just turned into "Wow, there are some confusing people in this world." Why would you let someone know you have their phone and never return it to them? So finally after five really lonely days without my phone, I finally admitted defeat and got another phone.

I'm not gonna lie, my little tofu man charm is what I miss the most. You can get contacts back. But you can't get a little tofu man cell phone charm anywhere anymore. I checked.
I'd like a moment of silence for our fallen soy soldier.

"Go buy your daughter some pants, quick!!"

2010-09-04T07:25:00.000-07:00

This was said to my mom by a lady on the subway, who first asked if we were coming back from hiking. I was wearing a backpack and shorts.

Why didn't anyone tell me that getting their wisdom teeth removed would be TERRIFYING?? Is that why they're called wisdom teeth because you gain the wisdom that PEOPLE ARE FRICKEN LIARS WHEN THEY SAY THEY IT DOESN'T HURT (I'm talkin' to YOU, DR. SONG. "Don't worry, this will be fun!" my ass.)?? But in all honesty, I was definitely whining more from the (very improbable) fear that my jaw was going to snap off than from the actual pain.

The first few days of my Korea trip were spent driving to the East sea and staying at a pension house in the countryside. It rained like nobody's business on the first night, but I didn't mind because I tried to stay up during the entire flight to avoid jetlag. (It failed and I ended up falling into a deep sleep coma that night.)

Sidenote! Did you know that hurricanes are called hurricanes in America, typhoons in Asia, and cyclones in India??? (it actually depends on wind speed too, but whatevs) I DID NOT. It was a shocking revelation.

The pension houses. I had no idea what pensions were until last year when the English camp had an overnight field trip to one. 60 kids + unbearable heat = imminent death

A dragonfly and my brave mom's hand

Sunflowers and corn. I don't really like corn.

I went to the- ...wait let me look it up. It was "The ChunCheon 2010 World Leisure Congress and Leisure Games". Phew! A 5 day festival/ competition for...leisurely games? I'm not exactly sure. But there were free boat rides and parasailing shows!

I got to ride a "peanut boat" (It makes no more sense in Korean.) which was unbelievably fun. This is a peanut boat:

Like this, but less painful looking.

Overall, I've been having a pretty good time. Hopefully this TYPHOON will go away and never come back so I can go walk around and explore some more!

Matcha green tea shot!

2010-08-13T20:38:00.001-07:00

One of my favorite drinks at Jamba Juice is the Matcha Green Tea Shot. It's basically soy milk and matcha powder. It is also $4, which translates to "way not worth it for the money".

I got this Maeda-en Sweet Green Tea Powder and Soy milk from Mitsuwa, the Japanese supermarket yesterday. And mixed together, it tastes EXACTLY like the matcha shot at Jamba! The green tea powder is a mix of matcha green tea and granulated sugar, aptly priced at around $5. You can pick it up at any Asian supermarket. Trader Joe's (my fave supermarket ever) didn't have matcha powder and whole foods had a tiny jar for like $30!! For shame, whole foods!

Almond Meal Blueberry-Lemon Muffins

2010-08-09T11:45:00.000-07:00

Blueberries are on sale, we have lemons in the house for some reason, I want to use up the almond meal from the time I made macarons, and I have a sweet tooth. It's muffin time!

I used a package of almond meal from Trader Joe's, but you can make almond meal yourself by grinding up almonds and it becomes a viable substitute for 50% of the flour that you're using. Low carb! Not that it really matters when the recipe calls for a stick of butter, but still.

Is it still an original recipe if I took it from this site and tweaked it based on my lack of ingredients? I'm just gonna go ahead and insist that it is.

Almond Meal Blueberry-Lemon Muffins
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cup flour
1 cup almond meal
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 eggs
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 cup blueberries
2 tablespoons lemon zest

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 F. Check to make sure the oven does not already contain baking pans your mother stored in there to save space in your tiny kitchen.

2. Combine flour, almond meal, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and the lemon zest into a bowl.

3. In a separate bowl, beat together eggs, sugar, and butter until blended.

4. Slowly add the dry ingredients until blended. Now get out a spoon and stir in the blueberries. I wouldn't recommend an electric mixer for this part, unless you want a blueberry massacre on your hands. Spoon into prepared muffin cups, dividing batter equally.

5. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden.

6. Eat and proclaim, "Mmm, this is hella good!" or some other variation of regional slang. Fist pumping is also appropriate, and encouraged. The muffin top is the best part, but don't eat too many, lest ye desire actual muffin tops on your hips.

Obsession #2: Goat yelling like a man

2010-07-31T16:58:00.001-07:00

I think it's safe to call it obsession if i've seen, thought about, and quoted this video more times than I can count. And by quote, I mean just yelling "BOBBBBBB!!!!" repeatedly.

Also, a bonus: Goat yelling like a man, the man being Usher.

You're welcome.

Obsession #1: Pankun and James

2010-07-17T23:11:00.000-07:00

My new goal in life is to own a genius pet chimpanzee. Owning a therapy llama is right up there, but it's too close to tell.

Watch this video of Pankun, an adorable chimpanzee and her best friend, James the dog, doing sit-ups. And fall in love.

This chimpanzee is amazing. She can even make udon!! Enjoy!

Macarons!!

2010-06-22T17:58:00.000-07:00

I am not allowed in the kitchen for some reason. My family discourages me from baking, probably because the sweets I make are so delicious, and they can't help themselves from eating. "Please stop!", they say. "We can't stop eating your amazing baked goods and you'll make us fat." they forget to say. So when my brother left the house to go to school, I jumped at the chance to make MACARONS.These French desserts are notoriously hard to make, and I already failed at making them twice before. But I had to redeem myself from the monstrosity that was THE DOG CAKE that Yeonhee and I made for Jenny's birthday.note the brownie ears.
Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised to open the oven door to find that my macarons were perfect! They even sprouted feet and everything, bless their hearts.The macaron shells.I filled them with blueberry jam, peach jam, and nutella! The blueberry was my favorite.Delicious!
If you want to try making them, head over to this website right hurr.

incoherent thoughts from finals week

2010-06-08T10:50:00.000-07:00

- i used the word "nay" in one of my essays, as in "...there were seven people to a room- nay, a crowded, unsanitary garage". so proud of myself and hopefully, TA will award me with extra points for my usage of outdated olde english.
- i pretty much had a field day on facebook on my birthday. finals procrastinating + replying to everyone who wished me happy birthday = COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME but really fun.
if i didn't reply to you, it's probably because i don't like yo- JUST KIDDING i will respond to everyone in a prompt and timely manner!!
- i am sitting in the dining hall by myself right now with my laptop.. i bet i look super lame....HAHA waiting 5 more minutes so i can go get the salads.....OH god that's even lamer
- in a desperate attempt to further delay finals studying, i bought tickets to the black keys concert in september!! i bought two hoping i can find someone to go with me later... COME WITH ME PLEASE
- their new album, "Brothers" is AMAZING. like, super amazing. it's so good.
- i was turning in my final today and i saw someone wrote on their blue book the date as "7. 3. 10." hahah
- so basically my diet now consists of coffee, cake, (lots of bdays in the past week), cereal and toast. COLLEGE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME.
-THIS SATURDAY= kickoff of world cup, graduation for seniors, MOVING OUT! this will be the greatest day of my life and many other people's lives.

not sure if i've posted this comic before- it's the first one i ever did.

the vicissitudes of life

2010-06-01T19:52:00.000-07:00

i have a thing for literalism.

but despite my bitchy comic this week, a heartfelt congratulations to all the graduating seniors!! I will miss them all ;(

onward to finals week!

My Little Spork Baby

2010-05-24T13:09:00.000-07:00

Week 9. WHAT THE CRAZY.

happy 51st blog post anniversary (???) to me!

2010-05-15T22:24:00.000-07:00

i missed the 50th one about my fish shoes last time.
and now, to celebrate, i present to you, guinea pigs eating a watermelon:

SO CUTE. my ovaries just exploded!!!

attention world: i love these shoes

2010-05-11T14:15:00.000-07:00

the other day i was in marshall's and i saw these pair of giuseppe zanotti sandals. marked down $350 from $800!
ahhhh i want them.
i could never justify $350 shoes though, so i went home and googled 'fish sandals' to find these cheap-o knockoffs:
$17. what do you guys think: "splurge or save"??

i personally wouldn't buy either because the designer ones, as amazing as they were, were really uncomfortable to walk in, and i wouldn't get the other ones because they're just not the same. with the designer pairs, you'd look at the fish and be like, "a fish! how novel and strangely beautiful! what a high quality, well-made shoe!" and with the knockoff shoes, i would think that that person's feet smelled like fish. cheap, rhinestone encrusted fish.

so with that, i am going to stop obsessing over these shoes (check my google chrome [which by the way, is SO useful] history, there's like 10 searches for "fish shoes") and instead, i'm going to rock an unexpected, "bob ross's happy little accident" result of my compulsive google searches:

AMAZING.

a special mother's day comic*

2010-05-09T12:13:00.000-07:00

happy mother's day, or not, if you gave birth to a pterodactyl baby.

i learn more from the internet than i do in school

2010-05-05T22:36:00.000-07:00

i love wikipedia. one of my favorite ways to waste time is reading the abridged biographies of famous people. Like did you know oprah and roger ebert once dated? i love roger ebert. I love a lot of things, i have noticed. but anyway, I read his reviews after every movie i watch. i don't like reading them before because i know i'll be biased when i watch the movie.

i have a paper due in the morning tomorrow, so naturally i went on youtube to listen to music from american idols past. man, i used to love this show, but lately they've been sucking so i stopped. anyway, short story long, i searched for tamyra gray from the first season singing "A house is not a home" by Luther Vandross. I looked up the lyrics because i'm deaf when it comes to words and this is what i found:
hahahahaaaaa. why is this funny to me?? I'm sure if i weren't as tired, it wouldn't be that funny. actually no, it would still probably be hilarious. at what point do lyrics stop being lyrics and just become sounds that people emit from their vocal chords in a rhythmic manner? i guess it's just one of those things i'll never find out.
this week has been hell: one midterm, a midterm essay, a prospectus and a presentation. I added "Korean for Korean speakers" as a 5th class thinking it would be easy, but it is proving to be more work than i had thought. korean class, why you gotta be so hard??

ain't no party like a liz lemon party...

2010-05-02T14:32:00.000-07:00

cuz a liz lemon party is MANDATORY!!!

a liz lemon party would definitely be up there on the list of reasons to partay.
but until these 3 midterms, a prospectus and a presentation are over next monday, it's gonna be a sad dami til then.

ps. i LOVE PAR-TEE CAT!!!!!!!! and cats in general. especially the keyboard kind.

shadow chandelier

2010-05-01T11:32:00.000-07:00

i saw this chandelier wall fixture at ligne roset in downtown la jolla a while ago. "Wall light in transparent plexiglass. Shaped like a 17th century chandelier, the enlarged shadow of the outline is projected onto the wall behind."

soooo beautiful

Check on it

2010-04-25T00:57:00.000-07:00

is it me or is 'destiny's child' the coolest group name ever?? i've just been hit with a MAJOR wave of nostalgia right now. also i wonder if destiny had her child out of wedlock because otherwise wouldn't it be called destiny and so-and-so's child? or was there a messy divorce and did destiny win full custody of this aforementioned child? it's only 1 am but i am really tired for some reason and i get quite rambly and incoherent at the wee hours of the morn.
it seems i had an asian waldo in mind when i drew this. this week's comic kind of sucks as in it's not funny to me, but what can you do, they can't all be winners. jk!!

in sad news, i had to drop gospel choir because things were just getting CRAZY. but tomorrow is my second surf lesson!! last week's surf class went well, if "surf" means "wiping out repeatedly against powerful waves that JUST DON'T STOP COMING". but i'm going to make it my goal to stand up at least TWICE tomorrow. oh yeah.

blue

2010-04-17T02:41:00.000-07:00

march madness! in april

2010-04-05T22:14:00.000-07:00

thanks to demetri martin for the idea!! also congrats duke. i knew it all along.

my hp laptop of only 1.5 years is dead! i'll turn it on and the monitor is just blank. i took it to the repair and they said it would cost like $700 to fix the board so i have to buy a new one. RIP laptop. also, i hate hp. everyone in my family thinks it's my fault, they think i don't take good care of my laptop BUT I DO. this is a KNOWN ISSUE with hp laptops yet they won't recall MY specific model. ughghgh. the ucsd computer guys suggested that i email the CEO so i did. he better email me back. also, this is what happened when i called hp support:

Seth in the Phillipines: So, can i ask you a question? How are you related to Amy Lee?
Me: Who?? Who's Amy Lee?
Seth: You know...the actress! From the movie! Daredevil!
Me: I am not familiar with her.

i am going through internet withdrawal. i'm finding myself having to interact with...people...

I have a busy quarter ahead of me. *20 units now.

HELLO

2010-03-31T23:39:00.001-07:00

Today I went to go get my eyebrows threaded for the first time. If you know me, I am all about having new experiences and eagerly shouting, "THIS IS LIVING!!"* This wasn't quite as titillating but it was a new experience nonetheless. I had always been fascinated/embarrassed watching the people who get their 'brows done in the middle of the mall and now it was my turn! We went to this place called 'Beauty by Dolly' which came very highly rated on yelp. I would be lying if i said it didn't hurt like a mother, because I am blessed with unusually thick eyebrows for an asian. The process took a while and I worried I would have any eyebrows left to emote with. They look really clean now but I think it's too thin...

Lent is over this Sunday! I'm sorry to all the people I have inconvenienced and making their lives harder by having to plan meals around me, especially my brother. But we should all eat less meat and more veggies anyway! :)

I have so much free time this quarter because my schedule is awesome and i'm not working. I'm looking forward to GOSPEL CHOIR tomorrow and surf classes starting next week!!

* Note: This has never happened unironically.

T-Rex

2010-03-07T12:15:00.000-08:00

As Per Usual: Now in all of its technicolor glory!
This is the last comic of the quarter, and dare i say it, last post of the quarter!! Because it's the calm before the storm: yes, ladies and gentlemen, finals are upon us. One more week of classes and my internship, one more week of finals, and then it's spring break!! i was just thinking. i've taken the bus 60 times to get to my internship!! is that not crazy? and only two encounters with creepy people on public transportation this entire quarter! but the times not on public transportation, too many to count.

buena suerte on finals everybody!

extreme literalism pt. 2

2010-02-21T21:49:00.000-08:00

i will never tire of these stupid jokes hahaha

I've decided to give up meat for lent. wish me luck because this is turning out to be pretty hard. harder than all of my midterms put together. harder than this upcoming week will be, because i have not done anything productive in the last week and i need to write 40 pages worth of papers in the next few days.

dairy goods

2010-02-07T22:18:00.001-08:00

this one is dedicated to my babygirl Mur, my favorite lactose intolerant person.

Roses

2010-02-03T14:51:00.000-08:00

Carolineeeeeee~
she's the reason for the word, "bitch"

4th week already?!?

2010-01-25T22:55:00.000-08:00

i tried to make this one fit in with the "career" issue of this week's Guardian.
hopefully this has been helpful to any prospective job seekers.

also, this picture makes me laugh every time i see it. i don't remember where i found it or even the story behind it. all i know is that it is a duck and it is happy to see me.

good night.

extreme literalism

2010-01-11T23:40:00.000-08:00

The new year

2010-01-04T21:13:00.000-08:00

my brother and i hella lol'ed when we came up with this.

On the ubiquity of christmas carols...

2009-12-24T10:09:00.000-08:00

Store background music plays "Santa Claus is comin' to town"
Mom: "He's still not here yet?"

Merry Christmas and I can't wait to wear these babies:

Week 10 nightmare

2009-12-03T14:30:00.000-08:00

(click to enlarge!)

i think my heart would stop beating if this happened to me. i'm almost sure this never happens though. i just happened to overhear the TA telling a student that he didn't have his e-mail, but i'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time, right??

i'm soo relieved i don't have to draw another comic until next quarter, because i am already running out of ideas. how saddddddd

konglish jokes

2009-11-17T14:46:00.000-08:00

where do korean grandpas go to find true love?
e-halmony.com

lolol
halmony means grandma in korean.
there's like 50 more here.
i hope that link never goes away. it never fails to make me laugh.

this is yesterday's comic:
it kind of sucks, i was having major ...illustrator's block.

ideas are gladly accepted!!

a less threatening title

2009-11-09T22:31:00.003-08:00

now that my midterm-a-week season is over, i am home free until finals week. except not exactly because i have a 10 page paper due before and after thanksgiving break. isn't that cruel? oh and i have three finals on the friday before winter break. go me!

i am now drawing weekly comic strips for the ucsd guardian newspaper!

catch it every monday!
speaking of catching things, i think i caught the piglet flu. it was really mild. but i'm getting better.

oh!! i downloaded this program called poladroid the other day. you put in your own pictures and it turns it into a cool looking polaroid. get it!
before:

after:

it doesn't photoshop out people in the background with strollers, that was actually me.
this picture was taken by ram when he visited korea!! we went to a palace on the hottest day of the summer. i was seriously about to crawl into the sacred rooms that were closed to the public just for the shade.

here is ram vandalizing the walls of the sacred palace. just kidding this was at in-sa-dong, where it is totally NORMAL and EVERYONE does it but when i tried to do it this random man yelled at me. i got scared and there's probably half my name written on that wall somewhere.

The following picture will kill you

2009-08-15T04:53:00.000-07:00

WITH CUTENESS

His name is peter and i love him. he also happens to be a talented gangsta dancer. no joke.
he gave me his business card ~~ <3

Camp is coming to an end and I cannot believe how fast it went by.
I will miss my sweet, adorable, sometimes headache-inducing but mostly cute Yale class kids
I will miss correcting their diaries that sometimes make no sense
I will miss all the other CAs who have taught me good things about korean culture keke. Thank you Sonia, Jamie, Joey, Rachel, Hera, Willy, John, Jeppesen, Tobby, and James! Also the staff, "Eileen" and "Nadia" and "Kate" and "James". :)
I will miss the teachers: Spencer, Mike, Belinda, Alex, David, Elyse, Lisa, Christina, Carol, Maria, and Nari (who makes me laugh because she draws sad faces on the board when kids misbehave.)
I will not miss calling parents
I will not miss riding the subway for 3 hours everyday, nor being squished up against people close enough to see the fibers on their clothes
I will not miss going up the stairs and walking up the hill, nor the 100 degree humid weather to get to camp. i will not miss buying and carrying back 3 cakes in aforementioned 100 degree weather and later finding out that they actually deliver if the total is over 20,000 won.

soongsil university english camp, i will miss you~

Some of my "Yale" class kids. we did a self timer but they're kids so they all crowded around the camera. still cute though!

work

2009-07-24T17:11:00.000-07:00

i've been working as a TA at a summer english camp! the kids range from 2nd to 6th grade and their english skills vary a LOT. the lower level classes can barely write their names while other classes can converse comfortably. this would be fine, except that the most important rule of camp is "never speak korean". if they do, they get a red sticker, which is "negative points". so the young'uns try to get each other in trouble by yelling, "Teacher!! He speak korean!!" My class is the honors level, so we get to play a lot of games, do science projects, and even perform a play for the parents! next week we're playing mad libs and i'm crossing my fingers it'll be like angela and andy's from the office.

"the tall man...entered the nice building... to visit a very nice man. "Sit down, Mr. Smith...Can I interest you in any good cat food..."

look!!!

2009-07-08T04:08:00.000-07:00

i was just strolling through the mall and was overjoyed to run across this store with an amazing name:

and for an added bonus:

it's a great day to be me!

but a bad day to be the 4th floor at the hospital:

:(

hi

2009-07-04T18:59:00.000-07:00

I've only been in korea for 2 weeks but it feels like forever. this was mostly due to sleeping in the hospital for about a week because my mom had minor surgeries on her arm. time goes by so slowly and it will only go even slower for the next month and a half when i work at an summer english camp from 9 to 6 everyday. i have to commute by subway for an hour!

now for some pictures:

HI REBECCA! flashback to 2 years ago.

i've been craving crepes since finals week, and the craving has worsened since i was denied one at tartini. this one was amazing- it had ice cream, caramelized bananas, raspberries, and chocolate!

you'd think kfc's bing-soo (shaved ice) would be really nasty but it was surprisingly delicious. the little soda next to it is a drink that you shake before opening the can, and the contents inside turn to jelly! i also tried shrimp hamburger and bulgogi burger at mcdonalds but they looked gross.

these are my new sandals. i just wanted to brag haha.

i stepped in gum 10 minutes after i put them on though. so that was pretty upsetting.

i was happy to be reunited with my favorite ice cream! isn't it adorbs? the seeds are chocolate covered sunflower seeds.

that's it for now! check back in a month or two for my next update. or after i give birth to my first child. sometime in that area.

lately

2009-05-05T11:47:00.000-07:00

hello internet.

lately i have been re-addicted to this game.

this game is delightful. you play the role of an ambitious dolphin with dreams of reaching space through fancy flips and turns. i find myself playing it during mayan art class because i'm taking it pass no pass and my professor is horribly dull and weird. someone asked me today if i had any more midterms and i was like, "nope! i'm done!" and then i realized i have the maya midterm on thursday. aaaaaaaah i hate this class.

2 weeks ago was muirstock. we got totebags and painted them!
i straight up ripped off this design from an online shop. don't sue.

and my friend's!

dino mite!

and we painted these at midnight after coming back from the rooney concert, giddy from having met matthew the bassist and robert schwartzman (!!!) while we watched princess diaries ~~to look at him~~ because it is a cute movie.

i'm going to korea for 3 months in the summer! this blog will get a lot more interesting then.

interests

2009-03-05T00:13:00.000-08:00

i was really close to deleting everything in my blog yesterday but i got a message from an old friend who said she liked my blog so here it shall stay! :)

i am so, so excited for spring break. i have had just about enough of this school thing. no more! and this summer i am going to korea for a month in mid-july. can i get a woop woop??

a picture of my room, as promised in a few entries back:

i love my rooooom

i can't wait to decorate my cute apartment next year!!!! it's gonna be the bomb diggety.

anyway, being the nerd that i am, my spring break will be filled with baking, sewing, reading, and nail painting. i love painting my nails. 16, 16, 16 more days til break time! (sung to the tune of jai ho from the slumdog millionaire soundtrack)
jk. but i do love 'giant ho'.

flight of the conchords

2009-01-27T10:09:00.000-08:00

i have a new obsession. how have i never seen this gem of a show before?!

in other news, i'm pretty conflicted about my future. are you guys thinking of going to grad school?

CORRECTION: also, i am going to see FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS AT UCSD.
that is all.

it has begun...

2008-12-28T15:41:00.000-08:00

the diva-fication of my phone, that is!
i forgot how much fun it was to make over my phone. i remember when i had that crappy cameraless flip phone and eventually i sat on it and broke the antenna.
let's go revisit the memories...

decorated with ~~rhinestones~~ diamonds.

painted with nail polish. that lady who painted her entire car with nail polish totally ripped off of me!!

the back covered in stickers.

[EDIT!!] i actually found another on my computer and i wasn't going to put it up because it's only one picture and it's not important but then again this entire post isn't important but then if you think about it, if little things like these aren't important, then WHAT IS?!?!? so without further ado, i present hello kitty phone.

then i got a new phone and everything was dandy and i managed to keep it clean until this weekend when i saw target had a box of rhinestones for $1 so i HAD TO HAVE IT.

oH yEaH~

mighty gnat part II

2008-11-30T22:06:00.000-08:00

the gnat is back.
kimi: "gnat again!!"

DANCEGIVING

2008-11-28T23:24:00.000-08:00

my aunt arrived from korea, expecting to celebrate dancegiving. needless to say, she was disappointed when she realized it was actually thanksgiving we were celebrating and she sadly packed away the purple dress she brought for the dance party. aww!!!
i love home!! my mom brought lots of goodies from korea, including wall decor stickers! these are amazinggg and i would post pictures but i forgot to bring the camera connector cable so just wait until next week. or just come over or something and marvel at my wall, ok?
i have new headphones. they're the really big kind. and they are wonderful.

mighty gnat

2008-11-24T23:02:00.000-08:00

so there is a gnat in our room. it has been in here for the past 3 days. i have placed a catalog on my desk for easy access so i can whack it when i see it. but alas, it keeps getting buried under the all the books that i keep putting over it. and everytime i see it, i can't reach the catalog in time and when i turn back, it has blended into the room and i can't see it anymore.
be gone, gnat!!!

in more exciting news, we went to balboa park this weekend to go to the museum of man for extra credit. it was the most tiring day of my life. then we were crossing the street and some guy yelled from his car, "I love Japanese women!!" D:

EDIT: the gnat saga is over. in a dramatic conclusion, kimi squashed the gnat with a tissue. there was wild cheering as our room was safe again.

some glorious news

2008-11-17T17:43:00.001-08:00

pho la jolla is now open!!!! only a 15 minute walk from campus, and it's right next to frutti yogurt. yum.
i wanted to wait for the bus but jenny insisted that we walk. so we made a bet that if the bus passed while we were walking, she would owe me pho and if it didn't then i owed her. upon agreement of the bet, jenny bolted off and ran down the street!! what a cheater! so we got there and still the bus had not passed us! so i admitted defeat and 10 seconds away from the door, the bus came!! so we called it even.
there are rats hiding in the bushes. sometimes it's scary walking past one because you can hear the rustling and you never know when one is gonna run out and bump into your foot, like it did to kimi. what a jerk! why can't it watch where it's going? it's like that time i was walking and a bee ran into my face. ugh! i was so offended. can it not acknowledge my presence please? acts like i'm not even there!
this is going to be the longest week ever. thanksgivin' seems so far away. i cannot wait to go home.

sleeptalking

2008-11-09T13:15:00.001-08:00

a month ago, i woke myself up because i was laughing. in my dream, i was talking to my roommate jenny and she was wearing a hat. so i said "hey, cute hat!" and she replied, "thanks! my parents got it for me from taco bell!" then i started laughing out loud in real life.
kimi, my other roommate told me i was sleeptalking in korean once which is really weird because i never say "aigoo" in real life anyway. that means something like "oh man" by the way.
and THEN. last night i had a dream that i was arguing with my mom about getting my hair cut. my mom has this weird thing where she gets all offended if i want to go to a salon instead of having her cut my hair. so to that i said, "i don't underSTAND!!!!" out loud and i KICKED the wall. HAHHAHAH and i woke up and i was like 'did that really just happen' and evidently so because my toe was throbbing with pain. thankfully jenny didn't hear me and think i was a total creeper.
i finished my fatty midterm on friday and it went better than i expected so i came out of the room saying 'life is wonderful!!!' but sunday has crept up on me and i have to prepare for 3 more midterms in the upcoming week :(

there was a time in my life...

2008-11-05T23:29:00.001-08:00

when i used to have really great hair. but now i don't know anymore.
i know i come off sounding really cocky but i used to have it all. now i have nothing. and by 'all' i mean great looking bangs and satellite television with hundreds of channels. now i have ugly awkward looking bangs growing out and no tv in my dorm. sigh.
i desperately wish i could go to live105's not so silent night with death cab, jack's mannequin, bloc party, FRANZ FERDINAND AND THE KILLERS. but it's on dec 11th and my flight is on the 13th wahhhhhhhh
i dislike my history class, i don't know what to write for my paper on black conservatism :I
i need to decide what classes i'm taking next quarter!! i think i will explore different majors and maybe take some music classes too...

the best website ever

2008-10-30T00:58:00.000-07:00

http://mymomisafob.com/

OMG major props to Jamie Fung for posting this on Rebecca Y's wall for me to stalk and find.

it's a compilation of all the cute, hilarious fobby things asian moms say.

.....................
A few days after the baby bro and I explained the notion of 1337 to my (very, very, computer literate) Mom, upon her departure after dropping me off at school, I received a couple texts.

First text: Lunching. Then leaving 4 home. do u n33d us 4 anything?
Second text: How u lik3 my 133t

......................
Mom: I just heard on news that cell phone can blow up! Don’t use the cell phone too much!
Charles: You just called me on my cell.
Mom: OH! Okay I hang up now! [hangs up]

......................
gchat status says 'food coma':
Mom: what do you mean by food coma?
[Voicemail received 30 seconds later:]
Mom: Eric, I saw that you had a food coma? Are you okay? Please call back to make sure that you are okay.

ahh it makes me miss my momma lolll ahahahaha

spiders

2008-10-24T00:48:00.000-07:00

my suitemate Marisa was sitting on my bed when she saw a spider on the floor. i ran in the room and tried to hit it with my shoe! but alas, it went under my bed and was nowhere to be seen. five minutes later, she screams and points at the wall where a GIANT ASS SPIDER is hangin' out. it's like, oh hey. i'm a spider. sup? and i was like
hey spider. how's it hangin? so you're a spider, right? what's that like? say hi to your mother for me.

or
scenario 2:
so i saw this spider and i was like, 'ahh! spider!" and the spider was like, "ahh! dami!"

anyone who gets these references is my new bestie.
ANYWAY. somehow i became really brave and put a cup over the spider. pandemonium ensued. jenny is standing on her chair. everyone ran away. all the while yeonhee was playing bouncing balls on her computer. she would have been scared but she was in her own world. it kept racing back and forth between the opening and end of the cup!! so we were yelling 'put the paper in now! no! don't! ok, do it now!"
"the spider is crawling rapidly!!!!" said jenny.
then, to my utter astonishment and surprise, kimi TORE OFF the screen of our window for me to throw the spider out. at this point i just lost it and started cracking up, still with my cup on the wall and terrified of the spider all at once. i finally got the courage to throw it out and all was forgiven.
we were sitting around and my hand grazed my other hand and i thought it was a spider running around on me and i freaked out and then we all had chills for the next 10 minutes. then kimi drooled. again. just kidding! i think i forgot everything i studied for my midterm tomorrow.

midterms

2008-10-21T12:30:00.000-07:00

today i had my first midterm and i was scared straight. not like how oscar sr. gave his scared straight speech in arrested development but like actually, really scared straight.

"you want some guy messing with your junk in the middle of the night?"
"is he cute?"

puhahahah

anyway, even though it was ok, i still regret that i chose to watch gossip girl AND dexter yesterday instead of studying some more so i could have gotten an A.
it's been like 4 months since i studied for my last test. i'm so used to having all this free time that even studying for only 30 minutes sounds like forever. i am scared for my mmw and black history midterms. i hate reading a question and vaguely remembering it somewhere in your notes but you don't really know what it is and you're sure that if you just studied like 5 minutes more you would have gotten it. arhghg
today i forgot my life binder in my dorm. i call it my life binder because it has all my life in it. jk! but seriously. how come i never have anything when i really need it? it had my blue book in it which i needed to TAKE THE MIDTERM and it had my notes so i could be prepared for my morning discussion. unfortunately, the one day the shuttle came late and i was late for the discussion, the professor was there and i didn't have anything prepared. i hate discussions. i get all nervous when i speak. and i'm really bad at gathering my thoughts and forming coherent sentences. sometimes i think it's ironic that i'm a communications when i'm so bad at communicating. ha ha.

layout test

2008-10-19T01:41:00.000-07:00

on wednesday, i went to the ucsd newspaper office to do a "design test". The design editor told me to reproduce a page of their newspaper exactly onto the computer screen. she gave me an hour and i used their crappy mouse to do what i thought was a pretty accurate job. this was kind of hard because she didn't really specify the sizes of anything, like the columns and texts and pictures so i had to eyeball it. anyway, i thought i did ok but this morning i got an email saying my expertise is not what they require at the moment. i don't really know what that means but it made me a little sad.

the weekend

2008-10-18T22:14:00.000-07:00

this weekend has been pretty fun so far, but i feel guilty for not studying for my two midterms this week. yesterday, Yeonhee, Marisa, Jenny went to go eat pho. I really wanted to go too but it takes 40 minutes to get to the pho place by bus and that was pretty ridiculous. Kimi and I wanted to study so we stayed, but by a strange turn of events we ended up watching the office and Nacho Libre online. it was soooo funny ahahha. we were waiting for the movie to load so we would pause it periodically and rest but then i ended up falling asleep on my bed. so this morning i woke up and i was like 'huh??' and we finished the rest of it.
today we went to get Yeonhee a new phone (yayy) and i got a jamba juice!!! matcha green tea blast. then we got boba. i bought $.38 cup of just boba pearls and put it in my jamba. haahahh it was really good.
THEN! we went to UTC! and i bought cute things on sale at anthropologie. i don't know what has gotten into me, i used to really hate shopping but now i love it. jenny is my new shopping partner fo life. and we ran into jon hu and kyung on the bus. sd par-tay! jk.
AH! i bought this dress at forever21 without trying it on and i tried it on when i got back and i decided it was too bootylicious so i have to return it. boo

greetings from san diego!

2008-10-16T11:56:00.000-07:00

I am sitting in my jewish music class shifting between watching the documentary playing and reading blogs online! It's kind of tiring. I miss everyone and I can't wait til thanksgiving! My roomie Kimi, our friend Yeonhee and I are renting a car and driving up. road trip! I miss my momma's home cookin', playing my guitar and piano, dancing around in my room with my ipod (which i can't do anymore), watching food network, downloading music whenever i want, PHO, KARAOKE, and my dog :(
college is going well. I am really, really blessed to be rooming with Jenny and Kimi. They still like me even though i drop things all the time like KETCHUP oh god and a container of delicious merengues from trader joe's. i need to get a vacuum. And i'm also glad to have Yeonhee and Marisa! the five of us have been making good use of the bus by going to get boba, blockbuster, the mall, downtown la jolla, and the beach!
probably the most exciting thing that's happened is i went kayaking!! and i saw lupe fiasco and ben kweller!! i'm going to go see JASON MRAZ on halloween and JENNY LEWIS the very next dayy!!! i don't have anyone to go to jenny lewis with cuz no one knows who she is. but that's ok.

thanks to bertrand, i've recently been using imeem to listen to all the songs i can't download!! songs i'm currently obsessed with:
the killers- human, and all these things that i've done
keane- spiralling
ben kweller- falling
mark ronson- ooh wee
wondergirls- nobody