man, it's so hard to study!

i don't know why but lately, i just can't get myself to sit down and do what i gotta do. (well, i sorta know why...haha, but i won't gross u out with any details..) anyway... finals are just around the corner. i just got my MT back (a C...not great, but at least i didn't fail..i was expecting around there), but that means i gotta get crackin w/ that class..and there are 2 other classes to worry about too. i haven't really been reviewing much. i didn't understand it when my counselor said that you have to master the material...until i took the mt's. you basically have to know everything to distinguish yourself from the rest of the class...

blah blah.. more about school and stuff.

man~ i had a total twilight zone moment last sunday. i got up and went to church to find it closed. i was so confused. apparently they had a retreat (i haven't been to that church for 3 weeks cuz i went to berkeley, home, etc) and their service was held elsewhere... i was really sad...

i'm just not in the mood to blog.. but i sorta feel obligated to write something.. haha~ it's almost been a week since my last pointless blog.

i'm weird.

i forgot my state capitols. that made me sad today.

"No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all the way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with." --Kirsten, age 10

i want to know who her parents are so i can congratulate them on a job well done. x)

i want to start doing QT's every day. who wants to keep me accountable?

my daddy is SO funny~ haha~ he's taking an english class and he has an essay that's due. he wanted me to look at it and correct it. here is an excerpt that i found particularly funny:

[about when we used to bug him to take us swimming]
Sometimes, it was really hard to get away to them to swimming, so I would just fill the bathtub and let them play for hours and hours getting everything in the bathroom soaking wet and making my wife very, very mad. My wife would have to clean up the mess the kids made and sometimes she would be so mad she wouldn't talk to me for weeks at a time. Because she said I always would be looking for the easy way out of being with the kids, because I am a man. But that is the difference between men and women; women take time to think things through, but men are always looking for the easy fast way. But sometimes it is make more hard way? For me it was an easy way of dealing with kids and it also made Daddy, look like the fun parent. The wife was the mean one, in the kid's eyes.

I'm very proud of my dad. x) He is 55 years old. He came here when he was in his 30s or something like that. And here he is, writing an essay for English 101.

I know I say this a lot, but I'm always amazed at how blessed I've been when it comes to the people in my life. It never ceases to amaze me...

As my daddy ended his essay: "God bless to you and all. Thank you."

all this buzz about scott song's articles again.. i remember reading them my freshman year at berkeley.. but here's something that i didn't remember:

"i think a problem with a lot of guys getting led on has to do with the guy's mentality. the guy tends to assume that he really knows the girl well, even though it might have been just a few weeks or months. i think a lot of guys need to understand that it's REALLY hard to get to know a girl...and even when you think you know them, you really don't. i don't think a man every really does."

i actually got it from izzie's site, but i totally agree with this.

this is where i get into trouble. i give guys too much credit...

*sigh* cup-o-noodles again for lunch. i need to start makin my lunch before i go to bed. xP i loved cup-o-noodles, but after consuming a price-club sized box of it within 2 months, i'm starting to get sick of it...

anywho...

i had one of the best weekends i've had in a long time..

i finally got to go to berkeley. i didn't really do anything that big, but it wasn't like i was planning to do anything (other than eat, which i did much of) but it was time spent with people that i haven't seen in sooo long~~ x) thanks for spending time with an old fart like me~

church was....so wonderful. i never realized how much i really missed it all until i came back.. the kids got so big! -__-;; makes me feel older. but they also made me feel really loved. *sniffle* i miss those kids~~

yea, being back in berkeley definitely made me feel the pangs of aging.

but mang, i ate SO much! haha~ i had: thai basile fried rice (disappointing) and mongolian beef chow fun (YUM) and thai iced tea for brunch. an hr or so later, i was back to share a top dog (ok -- i tried keilbasa? or watever.. i like hotlinks better) and crepes a go-go strawberry and nutella (FREAKIN GOOD) w/ girsty. 4 hours later i went back for dinner and had la burrita chicken burrito (YUM) and oyako donburi (YUM -- i'm glad some things don't change). i realized that i couldn't leave berkeley without eating cheesy stix so i ordered some at 1 am. i didn't get to it til 9 am though.. haha~ it was goooooood~~ i love cold pizza. *sigh* i miss the food.

on the flight back to LA, i got to see the most beautiful sight: i was flying right when the sun was setting. there was a blanket of clouds beneath me and on the horizon, a beautiful purple, pink, and orange hue from the sunset. took my breath away...

haha~ carroll made fun of me cuz when we were eating i was professing to the mongolian beef chow fun how i missed it so. he looked over at lila and jokingly asked, "does she only say that to her food or has she told you she missed you yet?" we had a good laugh, but when i thought about it later, i realized that i only said "i missed you" to food this weekend.

we know what's on my mind...