Archive for November, 2001

hahahaha. kap just gave me a funny link. ever wonder what 16 hours at home depot is like? read about it. =D

i downloaded some michelle branch mp3s yesterday. i did some research on her and found out she’s only 17 and writes her own songs. i think she’s very talented. go check her out. she’s definitely has a future in the music industry. well i’m going to go attempt accounting. yay.

i’m back in pittsburgh. i had to wake up at 5:45 a.m. today so i could get to the airport two hours in advance. la guardia airport was pretty empty at 6:45 a.m. there was a small line, but i soon discovered that since i booked an e-ticket, i could check-in using one of the e-ticket kiosks. it was pretty cool. within five minutes, i was done and i already checked in my one piece of luggage. i checked in before my dad got back from the parking lot! that’s how fast it was. anyway, since only ticketed people can wait at the terminals, my dad and i sat near the check-in lines and chatted. i was pretty tired and just wanted to go sleep, but my dad insisted on staying. so after 30 minutes or so, i finally convinced my dad to go home. he said he was going to eat breakfast in flushing. go figure! hmm, so how was my thanksgiving break? in general i’d say my break was pretty good. i didn’t do much. i hung out with some friend on wednesday, and that was about it. of course of all the days wednesday was super cold and i had to be in the city. lucky me huh? thursday was turkey day (duh). my dad and i went to flushing to buy some chinese appetizers for our thanksgiving dinner. since my dad knows the owner of this chinese restaurant, she gave us some free dishes. she gave us a seaweed dish and a soup noodle. my dad told her that i loved their noodles, and then she asked me what kind i liked, and i told her i liked beef noodle soup. before i knew it she already told a waitress to get me an order! crazy. so we got home at around 5:30 and i ate my noodles. dinner wasn’t ready until 8ish, and by then i had already digested some of the food. i ate sooo much food! after that strenuous meal, i had to lie down on the familiy couch and watch tv. i did not feel any better until 12 am or so. it was pretty crazy.

on friday my family and family friends went to k.b. garden for some delicious dim sum. if you guys have no idea what dim sum is, go drool over these pictures. dim sum was sooo good. i convinced my mom to order some beef chow fun. it was yummy. after dim sum, we went home and then i decided it was time to get my film developed. to my disappointment, i would not get my pictures until monday, and by then i’d be back in pittsburgh. the lady at genovese (now eckerd’s) was really rude, so i decided not to get my film developed. what’s another month going to do? jessica and i decided we’d go shopping. i drove my dad and her to the mall. we strolled around and there weren’t that many good deals. i bought myself a sweater at express only because i needed to replace the holey gap sweater that i loved so much. hmmm so that was friday. friday night i attempted to do homework and procrastinate. it was pretty pointless.

saturday was the worse day of my week i suppose. i had a dentist appointment with a new dentist. since i already fear dentist appointments, going to a new one after going to the same dentist for over 15 years is a big change. the new dentist asked me when my last x-ray was. i told him that was a very long time ago. the only time i got x-rays was when i needed braces or had to get teeth pulled out. in my entire life i’ve had two x-rays. anyway, this surprised my new dentist and therefore he took x-rays. to his wife’s amazement, i had cavities, so he decided to take x-rays of my entire mouth. the receptionist (wife) made loud noises outside of the examination room. “wow she has so many cavities” (in taiwanese). i was very confused because i have had 0 cavities for 5 years straight, how could i get so many cavities in 5 months? anyway, the dentist kept asking me dumb questions like, “do you drink soda? i said no. he continued to ask me the same question, and again i said no. then he decided to ask if i drank any juice. again i said no. then he asked if i like to eat a lot of chocolate, and again i said no. do you notice a pattern? then finally as a last resort, he asked me if i liked to eat a lot of crackers. i said not really. he probably thought i ate candy for every meal or something. i drink like one soda a year, so it’s definitely not the soda. anyhow, after a long lecture of how to brush my teeth and how to do dental floss, my nightmarish dentist appointment was finally over. the dentist concluded that i had at least $1000 worth of cavities and that i might as well to taiwan and get them fixed since that is cheaper. i can’t believe that! my mom really wants me and her to go to taiwan during my three week winter break to get my cavities filled! for once in my life, i am not excited in going to taiwan because i’d rather stay home and relax. i know that after my finals, all i want to do is watch tv or hang out with my friends. i will probably stay in taiwan for two weeks, so that means i’ll only have one week at home. argh. sucks. diana (my older sister) told me that we should sue our old dentist because he was very bad. he didn’t take any x-rays of our teeth. he also did our braces very badly. i think he should at least pay for damages. all these years of false security. now i’ve definitely made up my 5 years of 0 cavities with this $1000 worth of cavities.

blah! on to other things. i’m currently in the middle of my paper about china’s one-child policy. this paper is not very hard to write. it is pretty concrete. i just need to write about the policy, what it did, the pros and cons, and my own opinion. it only needs to be four to five pages double-spaced in english! woohoo. i got back from the gym about an hour ago. i took a shower, flossed (very carefully), and brushed my teeth. i’m ready to finish this paper and go to bed. i can’t believe i have five classes tomorrow. i don’t know how i’ll adjust to this schedule. oh yeah, i joined another webring. i’m a webringaholic now. i don’t know why i keep joining them, but oh well. give it a click. i <3 my domain. hehe. well i better go back to my paper. i’m outties. :D

i went to the city yesterday. it was sooo cold. anyway, i don’t feel like blogging about it. just wanted to say happy thanksgiving! eat a lot of turkey! i hopefully won’t have to.

i’m going to be home in a day. i don’t care that i failed all my exams (i think). i think i might just drop off my homework in opti and leave. i’ve had enough of that terrible class. the weather is so nice in pittsburgh today. it’s like 65 degrees and sunny. according to the weather channel, it will be 40 tomorrow. typical pittsburgh weather. on saturday it was really cold and foggy. i think i need to call eatnpark and order a pie. heehee. i am in the process of joining a new web ring. boobie power! haha. isn’t that a funny name. anyway, just thought it would be cool. ok well i’ll blog later tonight.

i failed. i guess i will be getting a c in opti. i hate tolle. he is the biggest liar ever.

i think i underestimated the suckiness of my take home exam. i finally finished my first essay out of three just now! i started at 9, and finished in 2.5 hours. argh. i’m sooo dead. i better get going on the second one. i just wrote 809 words about something i don’t even understand. i hope my professor doesn’t notice how much i don’t make sense. in class today my professor talked about how either you really enjoy this new book about political philosophy because it talks about something, and then totally tears it down until there is nothing left, or you are like me and hate this kind of book because it is too confusing. you don’t know what to believe after. so right now, i am totally confused. i thought i understood utilitarianism, but this book totally tears it apart until there is nothing good left about it! oh well. i’m off to write about liberal equality and then libertarianism. joy to the world! in other news, my stats exam wasn’t so bad. hopefully i did better this time. i hope! :/ i can’t wait until this horrible week is over. i’m so going to relax this saturday. i can’t wait.

so i just heard that there was a plane crash in queens, ny. this is definitely not a good year for aa. there were 246 passengers and 9 crew members on this flight. they were headed to the dominican republic. i hope this crash has nothing to do with terrorism. i’m kind of worried about flying home next tuesday. it will be thanksgiving. if the terrorists want to attack, i think that will be perfect time for them.

in other news, i need hard drive screws for my hard drive because my ghetto ibm hard drive didn’t come with any. our computer store doesn’t sell any screws, and neither does the computer maintenance group. i guess this hard drive will just sit here for awhile, before i figure out how to install it. ok well. i’m out.

last night was crazy. i went to my friend’s 20th birthday party. hehe. i’m not going to even describe what happened there. it was sooo funny. i can’t wait until the pictures are developed. after the party, we walked really far for this party off-campus. we didn’t even go. we just came back to was “legally blonde”. i definitely think it was a good movie. i’m glad i saw it. well today is when i start doing all my hw. i have work in 20 minutes. blah! i’m going to bring a lot of my hw and attempt to get it done there. i hope it’s possible. i also need to write a chinese essay. argh. tonight i will do stats and chinese essay. that’s what i’ll strive to do. ok laters…

woo thursday is over. i’m kind of dreading my weekend. another thing has been added to my long list of things to do next week. i have a rough draft essay due for chinese on wednesday. i’m ecstatic. woohoo. i saw the rest of k-pax. it was kind of sad. :/ i didn’t know it was that kind of movie. i just spent fifteen minutes looking for my remote control, because i like watching tv on my bed. i finally found it under my bed. woohoo! i’m so lazy, i can’t get off my bed to change the channel or volume. tonight is gym night. i better get started in fixing my accounting homework. my ta finally responded to my email. hip hip hurrah. hopefully i can figure everything out because it will be too late to email her tonight. i bet that’s why she responded today. she didn’t want to deal with any more emails from me. heheh. ok well, time to tackle accounting. oh yeah, imood got new smileys. they’re kinda cool.

i don’t like how my host edited my blog. no censorship!

yesterday was such a useless day. there was no point in blogging. i went to work from 12-3. then i went to a stats meeting that was cancelled like twenty minutes before. i stupidly sat at the uc black chairs for thirty minutes. i even approached this indian guy asking him if he was there for a stats group meeting. he said no, and then i felt like such a dork. after waiting in the uc until 4, i went to the library to get some opti hw done. i did this huge two phase simplex algorithm. i made like so many mistakes, so i had to redo it three times, before i thought it was correct. then i was so happy that i was almost done. i figured i’d have one more iteration left before i reached an optimal solution for the artificial variable objective row. at the library, i get my horrible essay corrected. it takes a good hour before we’re done. by then i am starving since i hadn’t eaten any real food for the whole day. i went home to and bought some dinner. i start doing my stats homework, and i’m like wow it’s not so bad. i can finish it tonight, but it wasn’t meant to be. my friends dragged me over to this guy’s room to do something, i wasn’t sure what. i think we were supposed to just chill. so we went to mike’s room and watched the yankees get their butts kicked by the diamondbacks. so sad. what a disgrace for new york! anyway, tania and i leave early because we were so bored. i continued with my stats homework, and then my friend sangitha called and asked me about opti. i soon discovered that i set up the problem wrong, therefore all the work i did was WRONG. ok well i’m going to go check my opti hw again for the 100th time. i hate adding fractions! my stats teacher hasn’t replied to my email yet. blah!

i’m bored. i took this geek test. i scored a 20%. i thought i’d be a 0%! oh well. if you’re bored, go take it and email me your results or something like that oh yeah i made some minor changes to my form on the right. not like any of you guys care. hmm what else. if my site has a white background, i think you should upgrade your browser so you can see how beautiful my site really is. so far i know it works in ie 5.5+ and netscape 6.0+. if you guys use different browsers and are having problems viewing my site, just leave me a message. thanks. =p