in reference to something that shall remain unspoken of:
debbiewebbie44 (9:02:04 AM): too bad you weren't there to watch, sensei. i was thinking of you the whole time
debbiewebbie44 (9:02:05 AM): lol
debbiewebbie44 (9:02:05 AM): ahaha
mintie2100 (9:02:46 AM): HAHAH SEN SEI
mintie2100 (9:02:51 AM): NICE
mintie2100 (9:02:57 AM): i'm inspirational at the most critical moments
mintie2100 (9:03:01 AM): *sparkle*
debbiewebbie44 (9:03:11 AM): SPARKLE?! HAHAHAA LOL
calliea is the biggest nerd i know.
alright folks. as i've promised...PICTURES!!! it's a conglomerate of the past 5 days that i've been here. enjoy!
this hello kitty car is supposedly the most popular car in asia. i don't doubt it. hahaa. it's like the size of a mini but with like hello kitty decor all over it and so i HAD to take a picture of it.
the bed i wish i had. *sigh* so pretttty and soooooooooooft and comffffffffy. not to diss on my bed or anything, cause god knows i love it soooooo but dang...a queen sized bed would be nice too. hahaa
remember the free chocolate covered strawberry that i got? well, this was the wonderful man who gave it to me! haha
just look at the strawberry desserts!!! sooooo goooooood!
endless...
and after looking at all that, i had to have my own. c'mon...such great desserts for <$1? who can resist?
me and the mimi's. heh.
our alcoholic beverages out in public. 
at Cheers Nini. me, wendy, amelia, phoenix (the hip hop teacher's cousin) and mimi.
me and my golden ticket. ahhaha. go go fity in the house!
outside the CKS Memorial Hall MRT Station. Since its year of the dog, there are lots of dog posters everywhere. you would've loved it sarah!
all of us that went to see the lantern displays at CKS Memorial Hall. top row: amelia, me, manly. bottomrow: jessie, mimi, wendy, and karen
can you find which dog i'm trying to imitate? well...sorta...haha
at the front of CKS Memorial. it was quite an eye pleasing site. lots of really cool lanterns
another shot of the place but with the cool building thing in the background
us, trying to be zoo animals. keep in mind, these are for lil toddlers to put their heads in...so it was really, REALLY low to the ground. ahhaa. this is wendy, jessie, and amelia.
this is manly, mimi, and me. that's a lil toddler next to us...just for reference to show exactly how small it really was. yes, parents were laughing at us.
that one big hotel that looks hella cool made into a lantern. heh. these are all hand made!
me and manly next to some red lanterns
hahaha...by a giant bone which resembled more a fallic symbol then it does a bone. heh.
and of course, this bone just happened to be called the "auspicious ding". HAHAHA. i dunno but we thought that was HILARIOUS.
this picture is for you sarah...we tried to find a maltese but couldn't. couldn't find a shitszu either. hahaha this would just have to do
Highlights/Interesting Things/Not So Interesting But Made Me Happy Things:
1. Helped an older lady who was riding the MRT for the first time find her way to Gu Ting. She was way far from where she needed to be and I used no Chinglish at all. On top of that, she didn’t even know I was from
2. Went shopping and was desperately trying to find some cute stylish fob clothes. No success. Everything was just too fobby. But I did however, find an awesome steal for HELLA CUTE SHOES. 3 pairs for $3000NT…which is less than $30 a pair. Very cute! I shall try to post pictures up later but Xanga is GAY (yah, you hear that Patrick?! Gay!!!) and I’ve gone over my max uploads for a while. Bleh.
3. Got dinner with Mimi and hung out at Berry Milk (hella good strawberry dessert store) later on by her place. We were just chilling and enjoying people watching when we came up with the brilliant idea to run to the nearby 7-11 and grab some beer. Heh. (1)Because we can and (2) well, because we can! Hahaha. We were like damn,
Met up with Mimi again and her friend Karen who came to visit while studying abroad in
Went to Xi Men Ding afterwards and got the Tie Ban Sha Wei Ma (really good steak sandwich) that I’ve been longing for. It was splendid. Just as I remembered! Then visited Jessie at her work and chilled on couches at MUJI (home furniture store sorta…) for a good 40 minutes I must say. Mimi, Karen, and I were all so tired from a whole day of walking that we just sat there and talked. Hahaha. It was awesome because it was as if we were at a café but we weren’t really…we were in middle of the furniture store. We were smart enough to not have sat down on the bean bag chairs because all the people who sat down had a hard ass time getting up. We watched and snickered like immature lil school children. Aiya. Ok, maybe not snickered, but definitely giggled. Heh. Good times, good times.
Went to a club, Cheers Nini, later on that night. It was a party thrown by liquid-lifestyles and of course, that Royal kid was there again. I saw him and I was like, I remember that dude…funny name…oh yah-Royal. But anyway, so it was a traffic light party- so wear green if you are single, yellow if unsure, red if taken, and if you participated in this, you get a chance to be entered in a raffle drawing for 50 cent/linkin park front runner dude concert in
Headed back to Mimi’s shack at like
Not much happened today. Got woken up by Borkae way early. My cell just wouldn’t stop ringing and he was the cause of it. Bleh. Hahaha. Jkjk. But yah, had lunch with the girls and then headed back home. Came back, showered, got ready and met up with Bk. We walked around Gong Guan and I got my Nai Lu (green milk tea) that I’ve been wanting since me, Helen, Dave, and Trace went there back in December 2004. I also got a Mango Bing Sha (err…icy? Smoothie sorta?) and the lady thought we ordered too many drinks because there was an excessive amount of beverages on the bill (BK ordered a drink too) but no, I just wanted both. Heh. We talked and caught up and walked around. That was fun. We walked from Gong Guan all the way to Gu Ting, which I guess wasn’t that far, but it was a fair amount of walking. Again, good times, good times.
Today was Yuan Xiao Jie (lantern festival) and while walking out of the Xiao Bi Tan MRT Station, I was just casually looking up into the sky and I see all these red glowing balls in the sky and was like wth??? Those, of course, were like…lanterns of some sort that float in the night sky and there were fireworks going off too in the near distance. It was such an awesome sight to see and I enjoyed it very much. It was just so cute…all these red glowing balls in the sky coming from every direction. On top of that, can’t remember the last time I’ve seen fireworks either. Didn’t see any this past or last year’s New Year. Didn’t see any this 4th of July b/c I was in
Because my dumbass was in a rush today (what’s new), I totally forgot my journal and so therefore I must resort to using my laptop for the duration of my trip. Can ramble on about all the errands I ran this morning before getting to the airport or the lack of sleep I got last night, or rather, this morning (went to bed at 5am and woke up at 11am), but I’ll spare the details and go on about the more important things, like how I’m currently feeling.
So, am at Gate 100 and just people watching. It amazes me that for well over a year now, the only thing that I wanted badly enough was to go back to
Another thought that runs across my mind is how easy it is for me to pinpoint out all the fobs. I honestly don’t know what it is. Is it the fobby hair? The lack of makeup? The bushy eyebrows? The mix-matched colored clothing? The moth ball smell? Glasses? Hmm. I believe it’s all of the above. I think I stick out like a sore thumb. Deborah, get ready to become fobalized again. Horray! I can’t wait. Perhaps blue streaks in my hair will help with that. Heh.
February 8, 2006 - This day essentially ceased to exist because I was on the plane the entire time and because of the time difference, by the time I got to Taiwan, it was already the next day. How sad. Some interesting things that occurred on the plane:
1. A husband and wife sat next to me in a 3 seat row. I had the aisle seat. Chatted a little bit in the beginning. First thing out of the husband's mouth: "So, how long have you been in the States for now? 30 something years? Are you teaching there?" My thoughts on this: " 
." I was speechless. 30 something years???? Are you effing kidding me??? I look effing 30 something to you?!!! My god! I was wearing NO MAKEUP, hair pulled back, and in sweats. I look like I'm 12! Argh! Ok. Fine, maybe not 12 but sure as hell not 30 something. oiyeee. No good already.
2. The husband and wife grab everything that the flight attendants bring by. Wine. Water. Ramen. Peanuts. Anything and everything they take. Sure enough, the wife gets plane sickness due to the bad mixture of the wine and her high blood pressure or something and starts yacking. JUST MY EFFING LUCK. Looking back at my entry earlier that day, yah, maybe I should have got upgraded seats. *sigh*. Hopefully the plane ride back won't be so bad.
Hmm...today's won't be so interesting for people who've never been to Taiwan so stop reading now, unless you really have nothing to do at work and want to hear about my day. I'm just updating for everyone who said to keep them updated. haha
Great day. Leave it up to jetlag and time zone differences for me to finally get to a normal sleep schedule. No more going to bed at
Walked down "the alley". Much has changed to lots of the food stores there too. Many stores that were there before were gone now and some of the smallers stores got larger and some of the larger stores got smaller. Odd. I got Da Chang (uhh..i’ll spare you the description of this one) at that Gan Mian (dry noodle) place and it was HELLA GOOD. That was one of the stores that got bigger. About time. More eating space! The lady who Marilyn always went to go get tang qing cai (hot green veggies) from was still there too. I didn’t say hi this time but I’ll be sure to go back with Manly to say hi. It was lunchtime and she seemed busy. Headed to Bele’m to grab me some garlic bread. Yum. Been craving it for a while and got 2 loafs! Heh.
Went to the Ke Ji Da Lou (Technology Building) MRT station and merted to Taipei Main Station cause that’s where I was to meet Mimi since she lives around there. Saw hella signs of Valentine’s Day celebrations and just red decorations and shit all over and made me all blaaaaah because dude, apparently Valentine’s Day is a big thing here. Annoying. Met up with Mimi, but before that happened, got hunted down by these girls doing this damn health survey thing and I just filled it out for the hell of it. I was talking to them and I don’t know why I was so shy. Bleh. MUST get acquainted with
Met up with Mr. To Lee and also saw his girl, Linda. Very pretty, very nice. Apparently he moved back home and quit the China Post. Now he’s working at this news station as a story go-getter. He seems to really like his job. Chatted it up at a Barista Coffee, then me and Mimi headed to the center where she teaches English in bu xi bans (group learning classes). I got to be her TA for the day and it was cool learning some English grammer. Haha. Do YOU know what a past perfect participle is? Yup, sat there for 1.4 hours while she taught/asked/engaged in English speaking activities. It was pretty cool. Dunno if I’d do it again though. If you are reading this Mim’s, sorry…dunno how much more I can take of that guy talking about camping and walking everywhere as a mode of transportation.
Later on, went to a night market near by and got lots of food. Met up with one of her Taiwanese friends that she met on loveboat. Forgot the girl’s name, but she seemed really down to earth and cool. We are all going to go party it up together. Horray for you fan (oil rice) and xian nai fen yuan (fresh milk tapioca drink). Mimi got this papaya salad that was really good but also very spicy. The level of spicyness was even kicking my ass. But nevertheless, I was in heaven.
And I am still in heaven and still smiling at the end of the day. Can’t wait for what’s in store for tomorrow as well as Saturday. I smell an all-you-can-drink ladies night (that means NO COVER!!!) clubbing adventure coming up. OOH. That, and free gelato ice cream cause Mimi has a friend who is opening up a gelato ice cream store. Interesting. If that falls through, Capatina (hella good Italian ice cream), get ready cause here I come.
in a gross way, i sorta actually miss college. but then i think about doing problem sets and going to lecture at like 10am and having to do stupid crap that it makes me change my mind. i'm glad to wake up whenever the hell i want and do whatever the hell i want. well, at least for the next month or so. then hell sets in. yipeee skipeee. but as of now, cheers to waking up at 4pm, working out, playing badminton, catching up on tv (gilmore girls, the oc, 24, smallville, desperate housewives), redecorating my room, test driving my future car (lexus is300???), and remembering good times with friends.
stole this from lucy's xanga...check this out: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Departments/College/?article=collegefilms>1=7538. go berkeley! heh. who says our school wasn't a school where backdrops for college campuses were set at? heh. might i mention, sandy and kirsten cohen attended berkeley (fictional, of course) and also that one crappy freddie prince jr. and claire forlani movie was located at berkeley. muahhaa.
why so much cal pride now that i'm an alum and not when i was a student? beats me...i've never even attended a football game ever. don't hate!!!
i need to lead a more adventurous life. even though my room is on it's way to being quite the awesomest, life in newark/bay area just ain't cutting it anymore...
i need change. east coast??? taiwan??? anyone wanna sponsor me to go out there? i'm up for takers!
bleh. 
too much time on my hands to think impossible thoughts.
| So according to this quiz that I took, which I felt was a pretty good quiz, I should have been a Math major in college. hahaa. Or Art major...??? heh. Tracy said I should combine the two and be an Art Engineering major. heh. Notice how English and Chemistry are way low on my scale...sounds about right...I HATE chemistry.
You scored as Mathematics. You should be a Math major! Like Pythagoras, you are analytical, rational, and when are always ready to tackle the problem head-on!
What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3) |
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