Slacking on Posting

Oh jeez! I’ve been slacking on posting what I’ve been doing. Everything I get home, I’m always so tired that I don’t really want to do anything tedious. I usually get home around midnight, then I just go on the computer to either chat or YouTube. I only do late night postings in San Diego ;] Hm.. what have I been doing? Let me try to remember …

Christmas: Before & After

What did I do for Christmas Eve? Hmm .. I left the house at around 4PM to go to the pier with Betty, Angela, Shirley, Jeffrey, and Sabrina. Man! It was raining pretty hard that day. While walking to Pier 39, we passed by Starbucks and saw Edward taking out the trash. Since we were there, we decided to go visit him, but he went to the “back” to do something. He never came out so … we left. Haha. Once we got to the pier, we just went to look at the bay for a bit, then the sea lions. Surprisingly, there were still some out in the open and were “arf-arf-ing”. Someone was hungry, so we decided to go to In-N-Out. We got our food, then Edward came to meet us up. Since I had to go to a White Elephant thing at Jordan’s house, I just got an In-N-Out gift card, then we all left to go take the bus. I rushed to the BART station, then took the BART to Balboa Park where Joey picked me up. He gave me a ride to Jordan’s, then we just chilled, played White Elephant (I got a fleece blanket ), then watched “Bucket List”. It was still good the second time I watched it. Home after that. Nothing big.

For Christmas, I left the house at around 10AM to meet up Betty, Sabrina, Angela, and Jeffrey to watch “Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons“. That movie was pretty good, but not as good as I expected. It was a pretty hilarious too, which I didn’t expect. After watching Benjamin Buttons, we went to watch “Valkyrie“. I actually had high hopes for the movie, but it wasn’t as good as I expected. Eh. None of the movies met up to my expectations! They didn’t suck though, which was fine .. I guess. Haha. After that, Betty and I left to go eat while Jeffrey, Sabrina, and Angela went to watch “Yes Man”. We met up Edward at his house to go to Boudins to have some clam chowder in a bowl. Man, it was pretty darn good. Outside eating + fire place + clam chowder in a bowl = some friggin’ good clam chowder in a bowl experience. After .. we went to 7-11 to get some stuff. Then .. went to Edward’s to wash my hands and use the bathroom. After, we left to go home. I had dinner with my family + grandpa & grandma, then went back out at around 11PM to go to Embarcadero with Edward, Anthony, Sabrina, Kenny, Betty, and Angela. We went to 7-11 again to grab some food, then went to the Hyatt to chill. After the Hyatt, we decided to go to Sabrina’s to SingStar for a bit. Turns out a bit became 3 hours. We left her house at around 4AM-ish?

Valkyrie

December 26th

Woke up at Edward’s. Then used the computer for a bit. I woke Edward’s lazy butt up to go eat. Went to Pacific Court at around 2PM. An Duc and Seward came a bit after. Edward decided to go get a haircut. The rest of us went to Pier 39 to chill. Saw some crazy breakdancing people there. Edward came a little later becacuse his aunt’s place was crowded. After we chilled there, we went to Chinatown. Seward went to D&A, which is now called Broadway Cafe, to eat. An Duc went home. Edward and I went to Macy’s to check out some stuff. After Downtown, which was around 6PM, we went to CC to meet up Kenny, Seward, and An Duc. Played basketball until 10PM. Went to Broadway Cafe to have a little snack, then went home.

December 27th (Today)

Betty texted me late last night at around 4AM to go ice skating, but I didn’t see it until like 11AM. Met up Betty at around 2PM at the Embarcadero, but we couldn’t ice skate because of some ” ‘unforseen’ complications”. Haha . We then walked around the Embarcadero for a bit, then decided to walk to Ma’s Dim Sum. Ate at Ma’s, then went to Quickly to grab a drink. Went to Woh Hei to chill for a bit, then went to Downtown to take the L to go to Sunset to Karaoke. Met up Karen, Linda, Angela, Annie, Jeffrey, Devin, Anthony, Kevin, Kenny, and Sabrina at the Karaoke place. We karaoked for around 2 hours, then went to KFC for a bit. After that, took the L back to Downtown, where Linda & I went home. Now I’m here! Oh jeez! So much that I wrote. I guess I’m done for today.

Secret Santa: Before & After

Another winter break is another year of Secret Santa! Okay, lets see.. Secret Santa was on December 22nd. I woke up that day and watched an episode of House on SideReel. I randomly went onto SideReel and clicked on an episode of House to try it out. After that one episode named “Last Resort”, I got hooked. After that one episode, I got dressed and went to Downtown. I had to get a scarf for my Secret Santa, then wrap the presents up. I got wrapping paper from Walgreens, which costed $1.99. I don’t know if that’s cheap or not, but I bought it anyways. The fifth floor of Westfield isn’t the ideal place for someone to be wrapping presents. After that, I decided that I wanted to go eat at Ma’s, so I walked over to the bus stop. I ran into Jenny and Edward (Actually.. they ran into me). Those punks tried to rob my Secret Santa present! Haha. Anyways, I took the bus to Quickly to buy a quick drink, then went to Ma’s. Ordered myself some curry chicken over rice for old times sake. Ate and ate, then started drinking tea. After a while, Jennifer called me while I just about done eating. We chatted on the phone while I was drinking tea for like 30 minutes, then I went to CES at like 4:15PM. Seward, Karen, Kenny, and Kevin were already there wrapping their presents and/or dropping it off. We just chilled there while waiting for everyone else to come. After most of the people arrived, we went to Metreon to watch “Seven Pounds” at 7:15PM. We got there at around 6:00PM so we went to the arcade to play around a bit. When it was almost time, we went into the movie theater. Oh man .. I thought this movie sucked in the first 30 minutes, but it got good and stayed there. What a great movie! After the movie, we went to Chinatown to grab some dinner. Some went to Sam’s Burger, some went to D & A. I got me some scrambled eggs with BBQ pork over rice. After everyone got their dinner, we went over to CES to eat and just socialize. My scrambled eggs were so salty that it made me need to constantly drink water while eating it. Stupid eggs! After everyone was done, we went on to open the presents. That took around an hour and a half.

” Who could this present be by?
To: Edward Young
From: Sabrina Pan”

Yay for secretive-ness!

After the present opening, we cleaned up the place and started taking pictures outside after we closed CES. Some went home after while most went to Edward’s to hang. Some played King’s Cup downstairs while others were upstairs playing Dueces and Gin. After a while, we started playing the “reflex” game or whatever, which turned into free-for-all-spike-the-ball-in-your-face game. Haha. We got some laughs out of it. Everyone went to sleep at around 4:30AM. Jeez! I couldn’t sleep at all! Everyone woke up at around 11AM and I only had around an hour and a half of sleep. Boo! People were hungry so we decided to eat Pho. Got to the Pho place at around 1:45PM, ate, then some went to the Y while others went to CC. Played basketball until like 6, then everyone went home. I went to Betty’s place with Betty. Kevin and Angela were already there watching Titanic. Oh man… that movie is the bomb. I watched it like 10 times. Haha. After that, Kevin, Betty, and I just watched Family Guy on TV. Kevin and I got hungry so we decided to go to Carl’s Junior at around 9:00 PM. Ate, ate, ate … then we went home.

/End

“Fob” Hair

Since I came back to San Francisco, people made fun of my long hair. I was too cheap to cut it in San Diego, so I left it growing freely. After a while, the hair on the top of my head would not stay up for more than an hour after being blowdryed up. It would slowly droop down until my hair looks like Super Saiyan hair. I call it Super Saiyan hair, but some people call it fob hair, wanna-be fob hair, bush, or even Dustin hair. Dustin hair? Really? Maybe guys coming back from San Diego have similar hairstyles. Haha. Well, I cut my Super Saiyan hair today in Chinatown. They cut it so fast that it seemed like they took only 5 minutes. They put on the flip, shaved the top of my head, then shaved the sides, then cut the rest. That was probably the fastest hair cut I’ve ever had in my life. It might be one of the best I had too. Too bad .. it looks like An Duc hair now. Ew.

Just kidding.

Super Saiyan Hair Status!

San Francisco: Day 1

My first sleep back in San Francisco was not good. I could barely sleep because my pillow was as hard as a rock. I don’t know what happened. I was used to it before I left for San Diego. I also had the weirdest dream when I was like half asleep the whole night. I actually remembered it when I woke up too! But anyways, I woke up at ten thirty, expecting Linda to come over because she said she would. Instead, I met her up at the BART station. Oh .. the how I missed the BART. We took the BART to Downtown to look for presents and just chat. I totally missed hanging out with Linda. Haha. After like two hours of being at Downtown, we went to Chinatown to grab some Quickly and ate at Kam Po. Mmmm! Cha Seew (Barbaque Pork) Rice! My favorite! I savored every bite of that rice plate. Haha. After I finished my food, Karen came. We then walked Linda to Sushi Rock to eat lunch because it was Jenny’s birthday. Karen and I then headed to Downtown to finish looking for presents. Oh how I missed hanging with Karen! We walked around and eventually ended up at Border’s, where we met everyone: Kenny, Seward, Angela, Betty, Sabrina, Annie, An Duc, Anthony, Devin, Jeffrey. I don’t know if I missed anyone. But anyways .. we then walked over to the 38 busstop to take the bus to Richmond to eat for Kristina’s birthday thing. We ate Thai food, then went to Kowloon to eat dessert. Yummm haha. After that, we loitered outside some apartment so she could open her presents and just hang. Then .. we took the 1 bus and I went home. They went to Sabrina’s. What a busy day, huh?

Westfield!

It’s B-Ron, Fool!

“No thanks?! That’s the way it’s gonna be?! You gon’ play me like that?”

Watch Me!

Turned It Up

I finally bought speakers from the UCSD bookstore for my computer. I’ve been getting bored of my built-in laptop speakers. It sounds so terrible; I can’t enjoy my music. Once I bought it, I quickly boarded back to my place and installed it. I plugged this here, and that there, and turned those two knobs all the way up and then BAM! The place had an earthquake Oh yeah .. I totally forgot my apartment-mates were still sleeping, but … they didn’t get out of their room so I assumed they didn’t wake up from it. Anyways, I’m studying for my last final with an bumpin’ music. How do you like my study habit?

Pfft. Whatever

Poem From A Brother

Pleasure turns to the pain,
lessons learned from the strain,
questions burned in my brain… About
whether love is humane in its touch.
These thoughts are like salmon
swimming upstream in the tears of
your deceit, fighting the current hurt
that kills more than is created by the
chaos of our intertwined emotions,
chaotic because the anchor of Erros’
arrow has been plucked from the
vessel of my undying infatuation
separation not as simple as the
distance between us. My mind no
longer possessed by demons that
have been the overseers of my
enslavement to your lies.
The seeds of these lies rooted deeply.
they have cracked the foundation of
what we once shared allowing the
faith in us, I had sealed inside, to gush
out like a river
ripping the image of our future
together from my thoughts as
violently and as brutally as if it were a
child being taken from its mothers
arms. I’m left surrounded in darkness
but I refuse to be swallowed by it.
My loneliness like the night air
invisible to the eye obvious to the
touch, it is so cold uncomfortableness,
yet if I could do it all over again I’d do
it in the same skin I’m in.
To lay down and let love die, just stay
down and let love lie? No. no… not I…
I’d stay around and let love fly even
though I have seen its darkest form
deceit nothing else could taste this
warm and feel this sweet…

Finals Week: Study Lockdown

I’m at Price Center East right now. Oh man! I need a break from all this studying I’ve been doing since Thursday. I think it’s safe to say that I’m on study lockdown. I’ve been studying for my Math20B (calculus 2) final since Thursday afternoon until now. I hate locking myself in a room, or sitting on a chair for long hours, but it must be done. Working over math equations and remembering formulas is no fun for the weekend. Now I understand what all the fuss was about when people said finals week is crazy. Back in high school, finals was nothing! I don’t need to study. I could just wing it and still get an A. Now, it’s either study or fail. I’m kinda struggling with my grade in Math20B right now. It’s not that I don’t know my material; It’s because I forget things during the test because of nervousness. By being nervous, I make careless mistakes and I get points taken off. If I final my math final, I won’t be able to go to Math20C next quarter! Please let me pass.

I’m currently studying for DOC right now. Ever since week 4, I’ve been slacking in this class and have been getting low grades. I think I’ll come out of this class getting a C+ at most. I hope the final isn’t hard …

Later on tonight, I’ll be taking a sample final that I could print out from my professor’s website. If I’m able to do that test ease, I think I’m ready for the final tomorrow. (My stupid final is at 8AM! 30 minutes after my math final is my DOC final. ) If I still have problems … I guess I have to put in a few more hours of studying.

Thursday: Math studying: 4 hours
Friday: Math studying: 7 hours
Saturday: Math studying: 12-13 hours
Sunday: DOC studying: 3 hours
Math studying: predicting 4 hours

Estimated total time: 30-31 hours (Math: 27 hours DOC: 3 hours)

If I fail, I’m gonna cry. (Or I could just jump off Geisel Library. Haha. Just kidding. Not Funny.)

Roughly how I look like when I study

Counting Down

Two more weeks until I get to go back to San Francisco! Oh, how much I’ve been longing for that day to come. I hate how the two last weeks are the hardest weeks of the quarter. Finals week! Darn it! I got two finals on the same day, and they’re for the classes that I’m not doing so well on. Stupid Calculus and DOC! I must study day and night for a few days for math just to hope to get a good enough grade. I hate college!

I hate how no matter how much I study, I can’t seem to get a grade higher than a C-. I studied for 13 hours for my last midterm, and I ended up getting a C-. Whats up with that? I swear I had everything down before I went into that darn lecture hall to take my midterm. When I came out, I thought I did pretty good too. When I get my results, I didn’t do so good. Studying doesn’t help!