BLoGGeR PaNDa

IN A PERFECT WORLD, I WOULD…

• have a pair of pet pandas
• work for japanese animation
• live in a beach house and be in the water ALL the time
• never have weird alcohol reaction
• eat anything anytime and gain zero pounds
• own a jazz club
• collect bugs (of the volkswagen species)
• win Iron Chef USA

There’s this annoying rumor that’s still going around that needs to be dispelled! Mints do NOT cause infertility!
http://www.studentbmj.com/back_issues/0598/data/0598ed1.htm
People, have some mints. We go to church/chapel everyday, which means we share the hymnal a lot, which means Mints are a must.

Today my brother and I went on a desperate search of free wi-fi, after another disappointing visit to Panera Bread. Out of the five times I’ve been there, only one and a half times did the internet really work. Some have accused my laptop to be the cause, which is really stupid, because: One, I know my laptop and she’s very sweet and meek and quiet, therefore unable to do nasty things; and Two, How does a single laptop bring down the whole establishment?! Unless she’s that powerful. But that goes back to number One, which is the sweet nature of my laptop…
So anyways, our little expedition today resulted to nothing satisfying. The internet worked alright outside TCBY but the thing STOPPED when we tried it inside. Rained hard when we were testing Whataburger. Got a weak two-bar at Barnes & Noble with a speed worse than that of a dial-up. Sigh. Getting on the internet shouldn’t be this hard. What about the wireless at my school, you say? My school’s internet is limited, of course. Here, what isn’t. Can’t even get on Yahoo or Google.. But I heard that Pensacola is installing routers to enable internet all over the city! Which I hope will get done while in this lifetime.

I miss California and jeans and free wireless everywhere!

Thanks for everybody’s support. I know, I know, I’m a crybaby.

My brother’s new GPS is named Katrina. Katrina doesn’t know how to find shorter routes. But who cares, I prefer her to Michelle (the radar).

Ryan and I are taking a web programming class together. Everybody who’s ever taken the same class with his/her brother/sister know what I’m talking about. Competition has never been more intense. I’ve wanted to do this for a long time but I was thinking about maybe some Bible class, ya know, neutral grounds for both of us. But web programming is like already built in to my brother’s system, him being a computer major. Oh well. More challenge for me. So I got 3 out of 9 questions correct last pop quiz, while he missed only one. Great start.

While on the subject of quizzes, here’s a Love Languages quiz that explains a lot about how you act/react towards others, what you expect most from others in terms of affections or love… I dunno, stuff.

Love Languages Quiz

My
Score   Love Language
     9    Physical Touch
     7    Quality Time
     5    Words of Affirmation
     5    Acts of Service
     4    Receiving of Gifts

Anyways, so I was kinda disappointed yesterday, indignant even, because of how a certain Christian institution behaved in a business dealing. I guess this is what we normally struggle with when we go to a Christian school, to battle bitterness and not let the messenger get in the way of the message. (Message: Keeping your faith no matter what.) Which is hard because day to day I hear chapel sermons coming from people who work for the same institution that wrong me (slander, to be specific) and most likely many other helpless student workers, and I try to get past the imperfections of the worldly to gain spiritually… but I’m imperfect myself and therefore I lack patience when it comes to pharasaical behaviors. Yes we all learn and I see that this is part of God molding me. And I recall a certain Bible passage which was Christ’s promise: "Vengeance is mine; I will repay."

Switching gears… My funny friend Irene once took a computer class on JAVA. The reason she took it was because she thought it was a computer language that’s derived from the Indonesian Java dialect! *DUH!!!* Did I tell you Irene was funny?

The first several days being back was torture camp. I missed David so much. People don’t understand it. They say they do but really they don’t. Only when they go through it will they know that it kills. I was without the drive to do anything. Aching in an unexplainable way. Putting on a smile for the public when all I wanted to do was mope around. Talking on the phone made me miss him more.

Fortunately I fell into the routine of classes (or the lack of them, hahah) and church and catching up with old roomies and friends. I have survived the worst. Well, at least I hope that was the worst. Long distance relationships need work - they don’t just happen.
Positive things to drown out negatives: Hose rule changed. YEAHHH FINALLY SOME HUMANITY! …And no hurricanes. Yet.

ATTENTION:
My cellphone has ring tunes. Instead of "Ring Ring" you hear a song. Thus far, very little positive feedback but lots of disapproving ones ("totally annoying", "it crackles"). And tons of misunderstanding. People hang up on me before I pick up because they mistake it for my voicemail.

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David’s surprise birthday dinner at Joe’s Crab Shack.

Alan gladly assists with the blindfold.

Poor guy was led through a busy intersection safely.

Was persuaded to perform intelligent things in front of the restaurant, where strangers watched, pointed, and laughed.

Then the blindfold came off, no matter how much David enjoyed playing blind man.

This and several shots led to a happy, jabbersome Korean.

The restaurant made him do some more humiliating stunts in a funky getup… which somehow I think he LOVED….

…and we ended the night with karaoke, where Alan became Fred Durst and I became deaf.

things i’ll be missing:
boba
in n out burgers
cocktails
jaka
OC
my bako and irvine people
david’s integra
david
david
DAVID!!!

things i won’t miss:
lukas and bako friends’ computer science discussions
irene’s alarm clocks
bako’s heatwave
LA traffic

as you can see, there’s more things to miss than not. this summer has been like a never-ending holiday. what a blessing to get to meet/know so many people. and to fall in love. i’ll be so alarmingly sad for a couple of days but i’ve promised myself not to wallow.

p.s.
prayers go up for the katrina victims.

MY FIRST VEGAS

Arrived there really late but on perfect timing - lights lights lights!

I sucked my gut in. Ate at the Rio buffet, the buffet of all buffets. (If you’re smart you’ll try the ribs, crab legs, and strawberry shortcake dessert.)

My favorite Vegas thingies were the Bellagio fountains, the Venetian’s beautiful indoors, Luxor’s sphynx and glass pyramid, Paris’s Eiffel, dinner on top of Stratosphere tower, and the awesome Cirque du Soleil.

What were my Winny and my Grace (hailing from Lancaster, PA, amish town) doing in sin city? Naughty amish girls!

David and I saw Cirque du Soleil’s Mystere, and got to be part of one of their pre-show acts. It was embarrasing and I still slap David whenever I get flashbacks. He’s responsible for thinking (before the thing happened) that it’s okay to get there like 5 minutes before the show started. He should’ve listened to my womanly intuition!
But it wasn’t all bad because we got famous. *grin*