just simply.

The only way to truly appreciate something’s value is to distance yourself from it for a while.

Legacy is a legacy

Today was my first day of my internship at Legacy House. And I must say that it was absolutely amazing. That place is an oasis in a desert. The people who I work beside are saints and that’s not even enough to cover how particularly fabulous they are. Legacy House is basically a nursing home in the International District (aka Chinatown) that has daily programs for the elderly in the community, particularly the Asian minority. It’s where I work 5 hour days (4 hours next week), 5 day a week. I’m constantly on my feet assisting the elderly and basically learning the whole concept of such an atmosphere.

Today I did Occupational Therapy (just like Physical..only less physical)  a lot and worked with the guy there, Voltaire. We did heat pads and bicycling and paperwork and one-on-one with patients. And man they get into their mahjong games! No lie! And the food there is actually pretty good and I learned how to say chicken, beek, and prok in Chinese and I definately hoping to learn more. There’s a Vietnamese lady that craves Vietnamese company since she can’t speak any other language so she basically clung to me >< and what else…. Gosh my feet hurt cuz I totally wore the wrong shoes and with the whole up-on-your-feet for the whole time deal, i have to get those spngey Dr Scholl’s (?) stuff to put in your shoes to make them “gel-in”.

Okay, Voltaire is hilarious. He’s sweet and charming and such a good guy. And while I’m on the topic of people, there’s Shigure, Frank, Mary Beth, Mei Yun, and Mary (my supervisor who wasn’t here today). Frank ended up showing me the ropes. And then afterwards, we all went out for bubble tea at Oasis. For an hour. ON my work schedule. Meaning, I just got paid to chat and drink bubble tea. Although it was a “meeting” but more like, 5 minute meeting, 55 minute joking around. Hell yea. And apparently we have field trips coming up and all that so I’m SO excited.

Anyways. Short blog. Too tired. Heading to sleep. Basically, I’m loving the summer already.

finalized finals

ohweeeeee shoowap! it’s over man! the quarter is ovurrrrr.

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unoffically of course cuz i gots to return my stack of textbooks and get my clothes from the gym locker tomorrow. but that’s all yo! oh yes. then it’s the weekend! and we’re getting sunshine! and then TIPS!

 

suh-weet!

oh yes yes!

guess who finished with 15 minutes to spare. hell yessssssss.

end of the quarter is here and i just finished my ever-long and tedious and mucho stressful reasrch project. total it was like two thousand some words. took me.. let’s see..*counts fingers* 10 hours. wow my teacher was right, he told us it would take ten hours. but yea. it’s due at 1pm today and i just turned it in. i must say thank you to…window’s media player. it helped me a lot with bass-pumping music and encouragement.

ohmann do i feel gross and unappetizing (not that i’m ever..appetizing..do u really wanna eat me? lol). i woke up, called my boyfriend to wish him good luck on exams, and then got right to work on my research project. yes, i skipped burhsing my teeth, showering, changing clothes, and actually, i’m still sitting in a pile of my blankets that i wrapped around me since i got out of bed cuz it was tood amn cold to leave them behind. my hair feels gross since i showered yesterday morning meaning i’ve gone..30 hours without showering…UGH. and i can feel all teh gross plaque on my teeth and the buildup on my tongue, and oh don’t i paint a delightful picture of moi? (=

well i have to complain first about this weather. what is this, february? it’s freaking cold outside. i have the heater running in the house AND in the room. oh man if my parents were home they’d KILL me for wasting electricity but i CANNOT deal with this coldness. it’s JUNE. dammit. i hear it’ll be okay tomorrow though. HOPEFULLY. though it oesn’t matter cuz i have effing finals tomorrow so i’ll be stuck indoors for like…5 hours. *sigh.

that’s next. Finals are tomorrow. Accounting and Chemistry. Today is actually study day for me but after this I will go eat and THEN i will study. Cuz who can study with an empty stomach? I don’t know but they’re crazy. BUt yea, study…I should really start cramming cuz I KNOW i need to. Just for Chemistry though cuz I find Accounting to be extremely easy. OH. NO. I JUST realized as I wrote that I haven’t taken a quiz for accounting that was due last sunday. Oh. fuck. I wonder if I can get an extension…AHHH

Nothing new besides it’s the end of the school year and I start working at Legacy House next Tuesday and so summer will probably go by pretty quick. Okay, gotta eat!

undergarments and sats.

i swear the SAT is overrated. i took it today and it was just like any other test i took. wasl. psats. whatever. i do find calmness in sitting there and filling in bubbles and solving problems though. people might think i’m crazy. i feel like i lost 4 hours of my life but i’d much rather be spending that four hours testing and exercising my brain than killing cells with tv or something like that. yes, i know. weird. and like…you hear stories about how students cheat for the SATs and are freaking out and doing like study groups and stuff. i mean that stuff sells. just look at the enormous section of guidebooks in the bookstore to help you with the sats. but i took them and thought they were…a test. i felt minimal stress. i just remembered that if i didn’t know the answer at all, it wasn’t going to come to me if i stared at it long enough. i had to keep in mind that they dock me more points if a get it wrong than if i don’t answer it. what else. reading and writing was easy. the only thing that i strained about was math. typically. or..untypical since i’m asian. ahhaa oh the love of stereotyping. but yea. i can’t say i hate the SATs. i only hate the aspect of getting my ass into some random place at 7:45am and getting yelled at by some proctor lady cuz i said hi to a friend and then having to wait an hour to actually take the test and not being able to have breakfast beforehand. the end.

 

i bought three tanks today. it was in those packets of three though so technically i made on purchase. they’re blue, lime green, and blank. boyfriend tanks. or wifebeaters as some people call them. but why they call them that i do not know. but yea. i’ve been meaning to get some so im quite happy. and i also got new underwear! that may not be a big deal. and quite something personal too. but i like them. i’ve never bought underwear in those default packages of like 6 (which is the kind i bought today) cuz i usually buy them singualrly. but i decided to go cheapo and buy a package. first-timer. they’re cute though. if you don’t know my theory on confidence here it is. always wear good undergarments. not just panties (oh that words makes me laugh. it’s just so…feminine X_X) but  bras too. if sexy works for you, then do sexy. if comfort is what you’re about, do comfort. just wear what makes you feel happy. i think that that’s how you build confidence. if you feel good about what you’re wearing, then you’ll feel good all around. i always feel drabby if i’m wearing an something uncomfortable and it just makes me feel high self-conscious which…makes me feel horrible. so yea. 

oh i wanted to say that i saw a few people i haven’t seen in a while today. and guess what. im indifferent. seriously. i was like “hi..okay leave me alone.” i wonder if i really have left those who don’t matter behind. and did i wrongly judge those who don’t matter to me? seriously deep discussions in my mind going on right now. x__x

 

take the $14 and shove it up your …

i like my library. i really do. it’s small, cozy, quiet, and filled with good quality books. i especially like their assortment of young adult novels and along with that, i love the young adult librarian Summer. She’s enthusiastic and always able to get me good books to read if i named a few book i liked. but gosh darn, they really aren’t sympathetic. at least the lady i just talked on the phone isn’t. *($&#(*@$.

so i lost a paperback a few weeks ago. i know where i lost it too. stupid stupid hao. it was a pretty damn good book too that i was in the middle of. the perks of being a wallflower. so anyways, it’s due last monday so i try to renew it and i can’t cuz theres like a few people in line on hold for it. so i’m like. okay. fine. i’ll just call them up and tell them i lost it so they can give me an extension and so the freaking overde fines won’t rack up and stuff. so i did. and guess what the lady said. no i’m sorry. i can’t do that. there’s peopel on hold. what the eff. did you NOT here me say that i LOST the book and i CAN’T find it and if you give me a week extension…a EFFING WEEK…i can get you another book to replace it. the same book in fact. new. i have been a very loyal library to skyway (perhaps it’s cuz it’s the closest library to my house. heh). i’ve been going there since i was like…4. no lie. i volunteered there in 7th grade. i pay my overdue fines diligently. i put books that i pull out back in their correct spots. i straighten their shelves when it’s messy (though it’s more of a compulsive complex than being nice. i can’t stand crooked shelving. a good thing to them when i volunteered there). i have even donated books i don’t read anymore to the libary. IM A FREAKING ASSET!

and they cannot even just. extend. it a week! you know what i could have done to straighten them out. tell them a lie. thats what i did one. told them that i returned the book and that it’s their problem that they can’t find it when i actually lost the book. yes, mayeb it’s karma? i’m slightly agitated. i wonder if it’s enough to do it a second time. it’d save the FOURTEEN FREAKING DOLLARS that they ask for to replace the book. for christ’s sake, i can get it for 7 at half prices. should i be a good person and buy them the book? or lie and say that i returned it. hmmmmmmmm. wonder wonder wonder.

people do irrational stuff when they’re mad.

a, b, c, d, or fail.

busy busy busy these days. projects and preparations for finals. told my parents that i have finals thursday and friday when i don’t? just thursday. minimal lie (: the things people do for bits of freedom. i’m pretty much pumped for everything and summer and im patiently waiting for the sun. i got water in my flats (again.) today and it was gross and whatnot. not much going on. i’ve been trying to get things in order and actually apply myself to schoolwork. with not much success of course. accounting presentation tomorrow! we’re going to kick assssss because my group is awesome and we’ve been meeting every wednesday to get ready for this project and im SO ready.

what i’m NOT ready for is the chemistry test friday. i mean, stoichometry? uhm. i still don’t know what that is. and can you imagine my happiness when i totally balanced 4 equations correctly ont eh first try today? i was beaming like a 5 year old kid who got a gold medal. too bad those were apparently easy equations that a 5 year old could balance. lol. i think i just need to figure out what kind of reactions there are for equations and how to work them out. finals for this class are going to suuuuuuck. i hope it’s multiple choice but fat chance. 

and i’m also NOT ready for the SATs. they’re this saturday. i don’t think i’m really worried about getting a horrible score, cuz if i do, i’ll just retake it. i’m just not ready to take a half-a-day test and waking up at like…seven AM on a saturday. lazy much? but yea, i guess i’ll take it just to get it over with. at least i’m doing it at a place where in seattle unlike some people who got screwed over and registered late (haha suckers.) and got stuck witha testing place down in federal way or tacoma. i’m at Franklin High. i wanted it at UW but that’s usually first pick so i’m lucky even getting Franklin. booyah. 

i wish everything was multiple choice. it’d make things way easier. or like on ballots where it’s multiple choice but they have a line where it’s like “write here if none of the options are suitable). that’d be great right? like choose a b c d or all of them are wrong, write the answer ________. tests should be like that. if i was a teacher. i’d make tests like that. but then again, i could be evil and make it wickedly hard. i guess you can’t get everything in life.

everything’s been busy late so i haven’t had time to write or do anything. i’m starting my internship at TIPS on the 17th, with five hours on the first day. summer’s going to be hectic with all those old people in their wheelchairs. i’ve seen the play. seniors are crazzzzzzy! haha

although it’s been pretty hectic. i’m still quite content in most aspects of life (though i could say the opposite for my grade in chem class but oh well). i’ve also been able to read books lately which makes me tons happier. like actual novels. and good ones too (:

okay. it’ll be a few more days til you hear more. cramming for finals has never been so fun! not.

bring ‘em back home.

Back Home – Blue Scholars. I cried.