doesn't cry over spilled milk.

honeydewliqueur @ 2006-01-24T23:13:00

2006-01-25T07:13:28Z

I MADE IT.

That is all.

La jizzle.

2006-01-08T16:58:56Z

So winter break was an incredible 4 weeks long, and I got in a good mix of everything. I also went cross country skiing for the first time and loved it! So if anyone is crazy like me and enjoys the xc, let's go up to the mountains sometime. Drove the eight hours back with Zach yesterday, and now at the house. It's supposed to be sunny, 68 degrees today. Mad unpacking, cleaning, errands to do. High hopes for the quarter, and pretty damn excited about only having three classes. Lacrosse double days start tomorrow, which also means tryouts. Oh boy. Cross your fingers everyone.

PS. Texas did cheat. All I can say is, not the first time someone from the Lone Star state manipulated their way to victory.

Oohwee.

2006-01-02T04:13:59Z

What an awesome New Year's! Cheers to 2005, and lots of love to 2006! It's our last week of break, let's live it up.

Winter break A-list

2005-12-22T05:36:04Z

1. Hermitage. I don't think anyone really appreciates/understands it though.
2. Catching up on movies...except they're not playing Brokeback Mountain anywhere remotely near me. Sacramento on January 6 does not count. I mean, it's showing at a local theatre in Tulsa, OK, aka the middle of the heartland, but not in progressive Davis? Or "the most diverse city in the state" Sacramento? What the heck.
3. The ARC. It's freakin sweet.
4. Books for fun! I finally finished two that I've been waiting to read forever.
5. PLANS--cookie-making, hot tubbing, shopping, thai food, formal dinner parties, tiny road trips, cross-country skiing.
6. Seeing people.
7. Driving around the country. "Sprawl" is not in our vocabulary.
8. My queen-sized bed. I can stretch without hitting the edge of the bed.
9. My crazy family and getting together with all 8 aunts and uncles and 11 cousins at the Wong Family Christmas Gathering!
10. Going to sleep and getting up exactly when I want to.
11. The cold weather. As much as I will always be a summer girl, there's something about that feeling of being bundled up and warm when it's cold outside.

I've thought of a couple new year's resolutions I guess. Ah who knows. Currently thinking about study abroad.....

Where did this music come from? It's listed as "dreampop."

honeydewliqueur @ 2005-12-14T18:02:00

2005-12-15T02:25:36Z

Mm wow so I have essentially abandoned all forms of online journaling...but I started to look back on last year and it's fun to read what I wrote about my freshman year...so here are some pictures and things from fall quarter.

Chillin' with the Scripps House summer residents.

Sarah's birthday! We went to PF Chang's for dinner and I had a job interview the next morning so I didn't drink but yes it was fun.

The non-alcoholic portion of Halloween--carving pumpkins, old school!

Loooooong gone in SB for Halloween. I vaguely remember telling people I was actually from Alaska.

My 2005-2006 NSU family, the Karakura Superheroes! My lil sib Steven rocks!

Me and Angela on the Meltdown party bus! Meltdown is when all the NSU's from SoCal get together and rent out a club and throw a big party. Good times.

Men's lax party at the Del Mar beach house...I want to live there SO BAD. That's Nick kissing a ping pong ball. Did I mention how much I love beirut?

Well there are other embarassing pictures...and embarassing stories to go along with them. Anyway, now I'm home, and I love break already. There's so much to do and so little time! Here's to four weeks of pure, unadulterated bliss. Good luck on finals to los demas, see you in D-town!

Life in a nutshell.

2005-10-04T05:56:28Z

Lacrosse -- preseason practice starts next week! So excited, if I work hard I think I'll be on A-team this year. All that pre-preseason training is finally going to start paying off. I got a sweet new stick, it's bee-you-ti-ful. The house is home. We went to a guys lax party in Del Mar on Saturday at this amazing, charming little beach pad literally steps from the shore.

Work -- got a 5 hours/week job at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, mostly clerical but money is money. I work for the people who control the buoys all over Southern California and do the daily surf condition reports and the office is literally, right on the ocean. Gorgeous.

School -- pretty much like all of my classes (Spanish, Urban Studies, Ethnic Studies: Intro to Asian American Studies, and Oceanography) and although my schedule's kinda weird everything is pretty good. Narrowing down my major and minor options.

NSU -- went to the SD Buddhist temple food fair (mmm Japanese food) and helped sell Blacklava merchandise (it's a clothing line promoting activism and political awareness) with its founder, Ryan Suda. He's a cool guy. Sooooo much stuff going on, can't even begin to list it all and hopefully I can go to all of it. I'm excited because I get a lil sib this year!

Upcoming events of interest:

Fallfest this Friday! I think Yellowcard, DJ Quik, and Reggie and the Full Effect are playing, so even if the concert's bad the night will still be fun.

Halloween at SB!! I'm still deciding on my costume. Any ideas?

Knott's Scary Farm with NSU, it's becoming an annual thing.

TJ! And possibly a weekend in Rosarito...

In short, college is just incredible. To everyone in my life, I love you. Go be amazing!

honeydewliqueur @ 2005-09-19T08:17:00

2005-09-19T15:25:40Z

I'm back in SD! I moved in yesterday and now begins the long process of putting my room together. Everything is in boxes and trash bags and I don't have any sheets...but the room is very nice, new carpet and new paint on the walls. We are also decorating the house so it's getting nicer, I'll take pictures sometime when everything is done. And my housemates are awesome too. There are a lot of things that need fixing so I will definitely be cleaning for a while, but other than that I am just trying to get everything put together before classes start Thursday.

Other big news: my parents gave me the stationwagon to drive around down here. I was really surprised because I thought all summer I wasn't going to have a car but they decided otherwise like, the day we left to come down here. I feel really spoiled actually because now our house has one car for each person, but here you sort of have to drive to get anywhere and you know what they say about Southern California, no one walks. So the Tank isn't exactly glamorous, but hey, functionality first, I have my entire life to buy a really nice car.

Well I don't really have time to post because I have a job interview in 40 minutes so I am a little rushed and anxious. It's a really really part-time job so it's not that bad and interviews aren't 100% terrible I guess. Wish me luck!

"George Bush doesn't care about black people." --Kanye West

2005-09-07T04:16:28Z

by John Nichols, CBS News

Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism."

On the heels of the president's, "What, me worry?" response to the death, destruction and dislocation that followed upon Hurricane Katrina comes the news of his mother's Labor Day visit with hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston.

Commenting on the facilities that have been set up for the evacuees--cots crammed side-by-side in a huge stadium where the lights never go out and the sound of sobbing children never completely ceases--former First Lady Barbara Bush concluded that the poor people of New Orleans had lucked out.

"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home.

On the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just how great things are going for families that are separated from loved ones, people who have been forced to abandon their homes and the only community where they have ever lived, and parents who are explaining to children to children that their pets, their toys and in some cases their friends may be lost forever. Perhaps the former first lady was amusing herself with the notion that evacuees without bread could eat cake.

At the very least, she was expressing a measure of empathy commensurate with that evidenced by her son during his fly-ins for disaster-zone photo opportunities.

On Friday, when even Republican lawmakers were giving the federal government an "F" for its response to the crisis, President Bush heaped praise on embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown. As thousands of victims of the hurricane continued to plead for food, water, shelter, medical care and a way out of the nightmare to which federal neglect had consigned them, Brown cheerily announced that "people are getting the help they need."

Barbara Bush's son put his arm around the addled FEMA functionary and declared, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

Like mother, like son.

Even when a hurricane hits, the apple does not fall far from the tree.

Good little Asian intern strikes back by slacking off...gasp

2005-08-31T22:16:08Z

I mean...that never happens...

Happy 18th Birthday Emily! 1987 love!

Well I'm at work and even though I had Monday off I am pretty much bored out of my mind. The novelty of my job has begun to wear off, mostly because the 7 a.m. workday kills most of my enthusiasm. And because yesterday we had super gusty winds and where was I? Up on a 20 foot ladder in a tree putting up twinkly lights. Yes, I feared for my life a few times. Another day in the glamorous jetsetting life of an intern! Anyway, next Monday is Labor Day and my last day is next Friday, so thank goodness.

The two week crunch is starting to hit...two weeks to pack up all my crap, two weeks to get all my home errands done, two weeks to see everyone before I go back to San Diego. Even at my job, it's uh oh, six work days until Midori leaves, let's dump all this crap on her because she's a good Asian intern and will get it all done.

I drove down with my friends/teammates/housemates Leah and Ai to San Diego this weekend and we stayed at our lacrosse house. It was awesome as usual and I can't wait to get back to college living and going out to dinner with friends and just being young and feeling like you don't have so much responsibility. I also can't wait to start playing lacrosse again. But I need new cleats...new goggles...a new stick...that's a fair chunk of change.

New (school) year's resolutions...because I am lame and would like to look back on this entry in June with the wisdom and experience slowly gained over a year's time: I would like to make more friends. Be less awkward. Try not to let sarcastic wit get the best of the situation. Approach everything with an open mind and an optimistic outlook. Spend wisely. Find a good balance of work and play. Improve my game. Get a fake id...mayyyyyyyybe.

I really wish more of my friends would get lj's and write about their lives. It gets sort of pointless out here when people don't update and I'm not really the kind of girl who writes a lot of personal, deep stuff in such a public setting. Don't get me wrong, I love all of you who do write. I just wish more people would join us!

All of my little tribulations don't mean a thing compared to what's going on in the Gulf Coast states (and not to mention, the rest of the world). Live strong.

Shuffleboard anyone?

2005-08-23T22:04:49Z

Doctor's orders, I’m sitting 4 feet away from my computer and I had to change the font size to "large" to relax my eyes.

I’m wearing shoes made by Dr. Scholl’s.

I have grey hair on my head.

I get sleepy after 9:00 o'clock.

My transportation is actually a golf cart, yes like in retirement communities, top speed is 25 mph (26 if you’re flooring it).

...um, remember when I said I was too old to be 18? I didn't mean this old. Who knew that this summer would transform me from a freshman into a fogey.

EDIT: Crap, I thought of more...I enjoy watching the Lawrence Welk show and I sort of like the taste of Ensure! Okay, that's it, I'm officially 90. Bring on the dentures.

My, how you have grown.

2005-08-08T01:33:21Z

Summer self-discovery 101:

I like the thrill of the chase.
I'm confused easily.
I love my hometown.
I'm a little more country than I thought.
I'm intrigued by intrigue.
I thrive best in warm weather.
I'm charmed by old-fashioned manners.
I don't like goodbyes.
Friends come and go.
Old habits die hard.
I'm a workaholic.
I'm too old to be 18.

"Let's go to San Diego, that's where all the kids go."

2005-07-31T21:16:48Z

I love this album. It's like drawling, indie, a little breathy 70s harmony, occasional organs, and country twang. I think they're from Dublin (yes, Eire) but settled in San Diego, however that works. It's hard to describe--like Wilco meets Belle and Sebastian meets the Mamas and the Papas. Okay that's a terrible description.

Speaking of Dublin, I thought it was funny, I found out there's a Dublin in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia. Call me the queen of useless almanac facts.

Hey it's quality family time! Seeing "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with my family.

Family matters.

2005-07-25T04:04:17Z

Eating dinner at political function number five million six hundred fifty two thousand four hundred and seventy-nine:

Mom: Where's Meilee?

Me: She's in the bathroom. Why?

Mom: Well, maybe they accidentally put peanuts in the food.

Me: But we just asked the owner of the restaurant and he told us there wasn't.

Mom: Well sometimes they switch out the ingredients!

Me: Well you could go check and make sure she's not keeled over next to the loo.

Dad: Maybe that's their secret ploy...get rid of the daughters so Mom will drop out of the race.

Mom: What race? I'm not up for re-election for another three years.

Me: But Dad, what about me? I don't have food allergies.

Dad: No one cares about you.

Me: Look, Meilee's coming back from the bathroom right now.

My family. Is insane.

A day in the life.

2005-07-13T05:21:28Z

6:00 a.m. wakeup
work
lunch
work
4:00 p.m. home
midafternoon snack
work out
shower
watch a netflix movie or some other form of relaxation
10:00 p.m. or 11:00 p.m. if i'm lagging crash

rinse and repeat.

This is why I'm a hermit and I'm slightly amazed I still have friends who actually still call me and want to hang out when I basically blow off everything all the time. I want to go out with you but I am running on super empty! Other than that, life is excellent.

Meanwhile I had the most fantastic three-day weekend I can remember driving down to SD with Leah and spending time at the Scripps house with our incredibly awesome subletters and fellow lacrosse players. Pictures (mostly drunken pictures, but really, what did you expect?) to come soon.

honeydewliqueur @ 2005-07-01T17:02:00

2005-07-02T00:08:01Z

You might have already read it in Meilee's lj, but in case you didn't...

Upside of job: getting to drive these GEMs (that's Global Electric Motorcars, LLC, to you) around and teaching the environmental folks of Davis to do the same! Wahoo! My oh-so-eloquent sister puts it best: "Cruising the mean streets of Davis, OPEC-free." Take that, war for oil!

Another part of job...working on 4th of July! I'm a co-stage manager, so I'll be up on stage in Community Park for the whole day of festivities and the fireworks too...come visit me! Maybe I can get ya backstage to meet all the famous bands performing this year (wink wink).

I love my job, but...

2005-06-28T01:55:31Z

#1 PET PEEVE OF JOB: not being able to hang out with your friends. Or acquaintances, or sister-like cousins named Emily, or participate in pretty much any social event. RAWR and a half.

EDIT (10:00) - I take that back...last minute planned dinner at Guadalajara celebrating Anli's birthday with all the old Davis crew. And supergiant burritos yum. Not to mention two friends of his from Alabama roadtripping across America. How great is it to sit between them, Anli, and a bunch of born-and-raised Davisites and discuss politics? Hey what's your take on gay marriage? Haha oh awesome times. Especially since I missed El fuego haha.

Meanwhile, work at 7 a.m. is slaying me. Really, Starbuck's, here I come. Coffee is my new Diet Coke aka I am addicted--Madeline and Mario please tell me you are working the early early morning shift soon. Pictures from this weekend in Monterey to be posted. Okay this edit was pretty much pointless, I'm just happy I got to hang out and see people and not just slave away at work all the time. And that is "helllllla sweet."

Home after third day of work.

2005-06-23T03:06:52Z

San Diego: no paper recycling, no visible efforts to promote recycling, city picks up bottles/cans/glass once every other week, no one cares and usually mocks me for being a "hippie."

Davis: separate recycling receptacles next to trash cans, one bin to hold all of your recyclable materials (plastic/glass/aluminum on one side, paper on the other my how revolutionary), everyone recycles at work, city picks up lawn clippings on a weekly basis, people are driving GEM electric vehicles and biking and using solar cookers instead of ovens and planting trees...

For this reason, I LOVE DAVIS.

I can hear my dad mowing the lawn with our electric (not gas, doesn't pollute and is runs off of a rechargeable battery) lawnmower.

honeydewliqueur @ 2005-06-15T20:13:00

2005-06-16T03:42:42Z

These things are somewhat cliche (like those "list five things no one knows about you...list three things you are wearing right now...") but still interesting...oh well, aznposseandajew made me do it!

List five songs that you are currently digging ... The Good, The Bad, The Embarassing. Just post 'em. Make your friends empty out their musical closets as well.

I listen to way too much music, so I tried to dig up stuff that is a little more obscure that I like, by groups you perhaps have never heard of before. I guess it's like a little plug for the not-so-mainstream (not that I don't like that genre too).

1. Wilco | A Ghost Is Born - a tie between "Hummingbird" and "Theologians"

2. The Life Aquatic Soundtrack - everything on there by Seu Jorge (it's acoustic Bowie sung in Portuguese, enough said)

3. Hayden | Elk-Lake Serenade - "Home by Saturday" (I like the whole album, as well as previous album, Skyscraper National Park)

4. Low Millions | Ex-Girlfriends - "Eleanor" (can't vouch for the rest of the album yet because I haven't heard it)

5. Spoon | Kill The Moonlight - "All The Pretty Girls Go To The City" (you might have heard "The Way We Get By" on The OC)

Honorable Mentions: Sense Field, Creeper Lagoon, Nada Surf, Tegan and Sara, Steadman because no one knows who they are and they deserve way more credit than that. And this is all fairly mellow, so you don't have to worry about anyone screaming or swearing at you on this list specifically.

I realized that not many use lj anymore, but if you're out there: woosterooster , antiu , rei_dolor , zeewaywho , keiko321 go for it! Speaking of music, my sister and I made good use of my semi-old birthday present from Jesse across the hall (hey if you ever read this) which was $30 to Tower. We got John Legend, Switchfoot's old album "Learning to Breathe," and Weezer's "Pinkerton" (on sale for 9 bucks!). And some sweet posters.

Stream of consciousness.

2005-06-13T06:39:08Z

Home. Eight hour drive. It is HOT. Unpacking. Started xanga against better judgment. Tired. Queen bed at home sweet. Summer's starting YES. Coherency to follow.

Say It Ain't So.

2005-06-10T02:38:15Z

A summer's thanksgiving list:

MY SISTER. <3. And her crazy life.

Re-connecting with old friends who you thought maybe forgot about you just a little.

Making road trip plans for the summer.

Chats with your little cousin who's suddenly not so little anymore.

Nicknames.

Tripling your music collection.

Last night in town partying.

Can't get too nostalgic about the end of the year, it makes me sad. My roommate left today and to say the obvious, our room feels so empty. I'll miss that crazy cool girl. She definitely taught me a lot about what it means to have a good time and live it up. Now off to dinner with cousin Zach and my aunt and uncle, who have become sort of my parents sometimes. I'm excited to be home, but I can't believe I'm leaving.

June gloom don't get me down.

2005-06-05T00:53:26Z

The Beach Boys...classic. What I'll listen to this summer when the D-town heat is unbearable and I miss la playa.

FINALS WEEK SPRING 2005!
Monday - Spanish (I missed 45 of 50 minutes of my last class on Friday due to OVERSLEEPING. SHIT.)
Tuesday - Ethics and Society (slightly sca-rewed but taking it well)
Wednesday - Physics (I love my professor...he is the epitome of environmentalism and over summer I am petitioning to install solar panels on our rooftop)
Thursday - Urban Studies and Planning (take-home essay = thank you heavenly forces)

My suitemate's parents came to take the television set away today...good for studying, but I sense major cable withdrawal. WHAT no Inferno II, Trippin', Sex & The City re-runs, HBO, Sundance's random Italian movies about transvestite hookers?? I guess better to wean myself now before I return home with its distressing lack of anything but the local channels.

I never realized how much good music I have combined between my and my sister's collections...there's something awesome about listening to that album that you kinda forgot about since you spent too much time dancing drunkenly at various forums of fiesta and therefore have been hearing basically only hip hop's top 40...

Take Back The Universe and Give Me Yesterday | Creeper Lagoon
Skyscraper National Park | Hayden
Good News For People Who Love Bad News | Modest Mouse
Musicforthemorningafter | Pete Yorn

For more relevant, non-random musings, please refer to the previous entry.

honeydewliqueur @ 2005-06-02T15:26:00

2005-06-02T22:46:25Z

Congratulations, Arnold. There's hope for you yet. "Do it for Caleeforneeya."

Poor little livejournal, I've neglected you for so long. So...I'm toying with the idea of having a xanga because that's what everyone uses here at UCSD and it'd be nice to have a way to keep up with my Tritons. As much as I detest the name xanga and its extremely AZN connotations...I mean, come on, I belong to the "Asian Kids Who Hate AzN kIDz" group...I have little choice.

I'm waiting for some extra pictures, then I'll post about what was quite possibly the awesomest month of all time. May rocked, to say the least. My lovely cousin Emily told me she was on the front page of the Enterprise (sweet!) and then I discovered her friend Mike's photojournal and he takes pictures of his everyday life activities...it's pretty awesome.

One more day of class + four days of finals + moving into the LACROSSE HOUSE...then begins the long roam home.

honeydewliqueur @ 2005-05-20T14:33:00

2005-05-20T21:44:57Z

It's a beautiful Friday afternoon in La Jolla. I finished eating lunch and was chilling before the gym and I was thinking about how excited I am for this weekend--TJ, NSU banquet, the beach--and I was watching TRL, it's the end of Prom Week and the Backstreet Boys fell three spots, and then I changed the channel by chance to find the movie "Malcom X."

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery." --Malcom X

Funny how something like a Hollywood movie reminds you about the things you kind of forgot about on a beautiful Friday afternoon.

This ain't no MTV.

2005-05-08T02:26:12Z

Everyone in my suite went home except my roommate and one other...so I turned on the tv and guess what is on,

Interesting, for all my parents' desire for me and my sister to grow up with a sense of soul, diversity, culture, what-have-you, I remember watching the Lawrence Welk Show when I was five or six. It was pretty much this old white dude from the Midwest who moved to California and started this show consisting of wholesome singing and dancing backed up by a full orchestra playing "champagne music." This guy was like, the Hugh Hefner of the old music television program, always surrounded by these glamorous young women all dolled up. When I was little I loved the dancing and the perfectly matching polyester suits and sequined ball gowns and the hair, oh the hair aerosoled to perfection. And when things got exciting, all the crusty old couples in the audience would get up and start boogying across the wood floor. To my parents' credit, I think I did notice the token black tap dancer given his two-minute spot or the dark-skinned trumpet player in the corner of the orchestra. And later, we started watching Soul Train.

What can I say, this show for me was like stereotypical home-grown big-band era America at its best, before Elvis started gyrating and people started to wonder what was going on in Vietnam. What watching Fred and Ginger did for my dad was what watching Lawrence in his little bubbly world did for me. Meanwhile, my roommate walks in and is like, what the hell are you watching? Is this religious? I was like, no, it's Lawrence Welk!, but I don't think anyone gets it. Now he only lives on in re-runs on PBS where the old stars relive their glory days with little vignettes interspersed throughout the program and, as I found out, through his three resort complexes located in our very own San Diego. I don't know, most people probably think this is pretty creepy and lame, but I must admit it was part of my very colorful childhood, you know, like Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow. I guess if any part of this old White America is ingrained in me, it's Lawrence Welk.

Okay meanwhile I just got back from LA and Chibi-K which was so much fun...more on that later because I am tired. But here's a little memory of the viking party.

Me plus Chui plus Kenji way under there plus Tim plus Ryan. That's a lotta NSU on one couch cushion. Four weeks to go!

I finally had my first Midori Sour...

2005-05-03T20:33:24Z

A crazy ride down with some stoned folks, some people stuck in the 80s, and one wacked out bus driver...

Sarah, Beka, me, and Leah inside Safari...

Then the sauce started to hit...

And dancing occurred on platforms and near poles...before we were joined by said 80s boys on said platform...

And before you know it, it was five hours later and time to cross back over the border...except the very same driver who drove back to State first, and then wouldn't drop us off until some people promised to smoke him out back on campus.

Oh yeah, and remember that time MTV called my friends and wanted to make our lives and our new house into a tv show? We'll see how that one goes...until then, one more midterm until finals in a couple of weeks. Congrats to Editha on Cal and Ems on UCD! I am so excited for you girls.