Sunday, July 31st
busy but well-rewarded (yester)day
music: Iron and Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
mood: 
just happy.
today (saturday actually) was just a really busy day, but well-rewarded in the end. sat down for a family lunch today at this chinese restaurant on balboa street. it was fine, the food was actually quite good, (fried calamari! wee!) and i started to realize that this truly may be my last (forced) birthday party with my family. i never want them to do much for me, but they always end up doing something cuz my mother is insistent and it's "tradition." after i finished eating, i sat there staring across at my mother as she gossiped incessantly with my aunt. after pondering about how long it would take for my mother to choke on her food for talking so much, i began to look around me and observe my relatives. it was kind of shocking how different this family gathering was. one by one, each of us "youngsters" have been leaving this family in pursuit of "bigger and better things." we're leaving behind a history of suffering under the communist regime, a legacy of accomplishments by the generation before our parents. i guess it's just a reminder of how much i want to achieve, and how much i want to make my parents' investment in me worth something. typical of a first/second generation asian kid i guess. ;P but yeh, i guess i really am going to miss my family more than i had expected.
i finally developed my pictures today. 207 pictures including a few doubles, most of which were from senior events of may-june. gawd, i hate to admit it, but i really am gonna miss lowell. well, many of the people at least. and senior year i guess. except for the pre-college process. and the people i didnt (and still dont) like, haha. afterwards, went to work. hectic night at the restaurant, and just terrible miscommunication. oy....wtf is wrong with me? i just keep screwing things up! ;( curses, curses, CURSES! stuart and tammy dropped by for a calzone, left without saying BYE! ;P but it's okey because evan, wolf, and their friends dropped by for dinner and freed me from work afterwards! lol. it was evan's birthday, so i sent him a tiramisu of course and embarrassed him, hehe. went for coffee (well, i had coffee) after work with them, browsed green apple books until they closed, then drove around sf. ended up at the beach where the bonfires were, but didnt start one of our own. we were lacking the essentials, haha. it was just a really nice night out. perfect weather for the beach, though slightly chilly. i kind of wanted to just sit near the waves, but i was too afraid of stepping on jellyfish in my sockless shoes >.< there will be other times i guess.
jessica on 07.31.05 @ 02:32 AM GMT [link]
Friday, July 29th
zoo
music: Bobby Valentino - Slow Down
mood: 
disappointed
took my sister to the zoo today. unfortunately, we had to leave after only a couple of hours because i had a doctor's appointment at 2:20. got there late anyway though, haha. punctuality isnt my thing when it comes to public transportation. anyhow, visited wolf at the zoo! he was working by the giraffes, hehe. the zoo was slightly disappointing. i dont really like the renovations. the entrance is a bitch to walk to if you dont use the parking lot. LOTS of lemurs, which wasnt too interesting. most of the animals were away/feeding/sleeping?/just AWAY from their artificial habitats. -_- at least i got to see my penguins and polar bears! XD according to my dad, my sister had a really good time. oh man, there are so many other things i want to do with my sister. i cant believe how little time i have left.
went to kaiser and ran into maya! XD we were both there for pretty much the same thing. physical check-up, forms to fill out for college, and meningitis vaccine shots. >.< i dont mind shots, but HOT DAMN! my left arm is SORE AS FUCK. at work, i was trying to reach for the glasses and i barely made it without dropping them. omg, i'm just totally out of it at work. i'd say that was one bad night because i kept hearing ghost phonerings, but kept missing the real ones. dropped 2 glasses and broke 1. thank gawd it was just 1 and water. but still! I DONT KNOW HOW IT HAPPENED! they literally like, tipped from the table. what the hell?!? ::sigh:: and then i messed up an address for a pizza delivery, so basically i made santiago drive farther than necessary. at least there was a correct phone number that he used. omg, can i say how many "d'oh's!" that was tonight?? fuck, it was like i was dyslexic. but good news is that i saw moe for the first time since graduation tonight. she and adam dropped by for dinner.
i also started to seriously manage my finances this week. as in, i saved receipts, kept a log of my spending including how much i've been using my check card. so far, i'm SOOOO over the limit. maybe i'll sweep in some money for my birthday, haha. or not.
jessica on 07.29.05 @ 11:17 PM GMT [link]
murderball
music: Ghost Town DJs - My Boo
mood: peachy
today was a terrific day! met up with evan to see murderball at the embarcadero. the movie was all right, not that great. i guess it was sort of lacking a coherency? overall, it was pretty funny though. it was interesting to see another side of sports. beautiful sunshine downtown today. wandered around downtown before and after the movie to kill time before i had to go to the asian art museum. the store was pretty breezy tonight. got cold when i left >.< and the sunset is like, 10 degrees lower than the rest of the city.
jessica on 07.29.05 @ 12:04 AM GMT [link]
Wednesday, July 27th
charlie in neverland
music: Inoj - Movin On
mood: 
embarrassed because i just went overboard with my spending today, haha. but what can you expect? i was at jtown!
took my sister to see charlie and the chocolate factory today at amc kabuki. went there because it's cheaper than metreon, and i like the pretty theatre. we were in theatre one with the fans against the lit wall. you have to see the aesthetics cuz i'm terrible at descriptive writing, haha. anyhow, the movie wasnt so bad, as evan had promised. it definitely was satirical, the children wore too much makeup (especially augustus, the fat german kid), and johnny depp was creepy as hell. edward scissorhands flashback moment! (except he was hot in that movie.) afterwards, browsed around the kinokuniya stationery store (after buying my sister a crepe from sophie's) looking for cute things that i could possibly deck out my dorm with. wound up with nothing worth buying, but i did spend ridiculous money on overpriced stickers, hehe. they were cute and decorative! what can i say, haha.
anyhow, since johnny depp totally weirded me out from that movie (but he was once again, an amazing actor), i decided that i needed to redeem his hotness again, so i stopped by le video to pick up a copy of finding neverland. kenji and i sort of snuck a preview of the movie when it first came out last year(?), and we were too confuzzled by what was going on (we walked into the theatre 20 minutes into the movie), so we left and headed towards the movie we actually paid for. after watching it with my sister tonight, it turns out that the movie is quite good. johnny depp is gorgeous, and kate winslet kept this ineffable elegance about her. (iono, maybe it was the blond hair.)
i know this sounds weird, but in the last scene during the conversation on the bench between johnny depp's character and peter (Freddie Highmore), i was thinking that Freddie Highmore would make a perfect actor for the part of a blind boy. like if they did a movie on louis braille or something, lol. seriously, the few moments when his bright blue (bluegreen?) eyes were tearing up and staring (er, blindly?) at the camera instead of johnny depp for some odd reason, i thought that the look was just perfect for....anyway....
jessica on 07.27.05 @ 11:41 PM GMT [link]
Tuesday, July 26th
mak the yak
music: Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes
mood: spiffy
i bought my yak today from the asian art museum! look at my baby:
it's actually the yak from the baby clothing company, mak the yak. the tag on it was the same as the company logo. after picking up my yak, i went to the main library next door to just chillax and read. i love the main library. it's just soooooo nice. one can spend the day there, just buried in books or other archives. anyhow, after browsing the music sheet section and finding nothing worth borrowing, i headed up to the sixth floor to check out the featured historical exhibit. it was a focus on the persecution of homosexuals by the nazi regime before and during WWII. a lot of tidbits about Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the gay, jewish, professor who wrote a lot about sexuality and feminism, and founded the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin. it was a very interesting exhibit, even though there were 30 panels to read, haha. took me a while to go through everything. anyhow, check out the sixth floor of the main library if you get the chance this summer. the historical floor is very interesting, with random nautical artifacts encased in antique wooden display shelves. very quaint.
some random chinese man interrupted my reading when he started chatting with me in mandarin and english. to be polite, i responded, but i'm pretty sure i made a clear indication that i wanted to be left alone to my reading. however, he insisted that i go help him with his new laptop, since he wasnt terribly fluent in english and some of the programs werent translated into chinese. so i helped him out as much as i could, and when it was clear that it was gonna take a while to answer all his questions, (and not to mention he reeked of cigarette smoke), i politely told him i had an appointment that i needed to go to. quickly scurried out of there, down to the first floor to the self-check out kiosk, and went downtown, where i found a very nice pair of brown pants at forever 21 and a nice pair of black pinstripe pants that i'll be getting tomorrow. it was a fantastic day to myself, and i actually got a lot of little things done. not to mention the fact that i spent a good deal of time in the sunshine.
jessica on 07.26.05 @ 10:26 PM GMT [link]
Monday, July 25th
grey day
music: Frank Sinatra - Dancing Cheek to Cheek
mood: 
unsatisfied
my day was so grey. from the sky to the mood to the day's activities. it was all so grey! even the converse shoes i want now were grey! lol. i guess everything went flat when i woke up late. i hate starting the day late, because i feel like i've already missed out on a lot, even if it's only an hour or so.
anyhow, i met up with jenny z from Hoover sixth grade! omg, we hadnt seen each other for almost...six years! she found me again on facebook and we started chatting again, haha. we had lunch at UCSF, had a nice little talk before she had to go back to work at the lab. it was a nice reunion.
i really didnt do much else in the afternoon. i tried to get all my bowdoin forms filled out, but it turned out that half of them were medical evaluations that had to be filled out by my physician. thank goodness i'm going this friday. too bad the forms are already late, lol. postmark by july 20th? whoops!
it's really hard to absorb the fact that i'm really leaving in less than a month. i bought luggage yesterday, but i think i'm gonna need more. my peacoat alone takes up a good deal of space. not to mention all this hiking gear i have to bring now for the preO trip. absolutely insane....i really should start thinking about what to pack. i need to stop thinking of this as a short vacation. it's hard because i'm realizing that for these next four years, i'm not gonna have a home. i mean, yes, i have my parents house. but it's not gonna be home, not really. who knows if i'm really coming back next summer? and bowdoin residency isnt exactly home. college is just temporary living space when you think about it. so when i think about it, it feels like i'm really gonna be living out of the suitcase these next four years. and that's scary. time to swallow the truth and totally accept the fact that i'm leaving possibly for good. ::sigh::
the hardest part though, is realizing how much i havent done. i havent done many of the things i wanted to do, and i havent spent time with the people i care about most. time is running out like mad. as i wrote to a dear friend today, i quote from andrew marvel: "But at my back I always hear /
Time's winged chariot hurrying near." i think father time is catching up.
jessica on 07.25.05 @ 11:30 PM GMT [link]
Saturday, July 23rd
sunnyside up
music: Creeper Lagoon - Under the Tracks
mood: 
OMG, GORGEOUS SUNSHINE TODAY. XD!!!!!!!!! too bad i couldnt enjoy it much. worked at the museum store in the morning with hillary's sister, came home to eat, nap, read, and left for work around 5:30. the restaurant wasnt too hectic until about 8pm. i stayed in the front, doing phone orders and pick up orders. bought a thai iced tea tapioca at the gelato place on clement that wasnt too good and overpriced. but one of the drivers was really sweet and bought me a really good iced tea. tiffy, rose, and michelle lew dropped by to order pizza too! i was really happy to see them THEN, wolf and evan dropped by to have a pizza and they sat in the moroccan-style room to keep me company. or rather, as hostess, i sat them there, haha. man, i cant believe i hadnt seen them for a month until tonight. anyhow, they waited for me until i got off work, and evan gave me a lift home (or rather, his parents). i felt so loved today, lol. or tonight rather. 
i'm going to cry. only a month left in san francisco. so much i havent done. so many people i havent seen. please, shoot me now.
jessica on 07.23.05 @ 11:54 PM GMT [link]
Friday, July 22nd
tibet
music: frou frou - must be dreaming
mood:
once again, my mother killed my mood for the night.
but other than that, my day was pretty good! met up with michelle lew, diana, and tiffy at the asian art museum to see the tibet exhibit. it was like, my bijillionth time seeing it, but it's always nice to see it again. ;D jenny a. met us up in the museum and off we went to explore the gallery. diana and i jumped onto the bandwagon as we followed a tour in the osher gallery. i always figure that listening to a docent brings me more information and plus, i dont have to spend time reading the details. XD afterwards, we went looking for the naan 'n curry on o'farrell, but it turned out that it was closed down and in the process of moving?! luckily, we found a nifty little thai restaurant nearby and settled there for lunch. what's really great is that when we got our check, we had trouble reading it because the waiter had written it all in thai. omg, how amazing is that? the really silly thing is that after seeing tibetan script many times from the museum, i seriously would have trouble distinguishing it from thai. O_O wow, am i linguistically ignorant, lol. (does that even make sense?!?) anyhow, after jenny a. left, the four of us went exploring (well, not really exploring) downtown, looking for a 3.5x5.5 plain moleskine for tiffy. and jenny a. was right: PEARL art is the cheapest, haha. we seriously went all over, from paperwhirl on maidenlane (well, around there) to the crocker galleria to jeffrey's (cuz diana and co. wanted to get a murder mystery/dinner party set and omg, there was one with a roman theme! maximus testosterus! LOL! ) and finally PEARL. yup, spent the entire afternoon walking around in the bright sun. oy....but at least i got to work on time and even got off on time.
jessica on 07.22.05 @ 11:47 PM GMT [link]
Thursday, July 21st
peanut butter cookies
music: Jump, Little Children - B-13
mood:
i dont like peanut butter. therefore, i dont like peanut butter cookies, lol. but kenji does, so i went to his house today to bake peanut butter cookies with him. according to him, they tasted "perfect" (as in perfectly fine i assume) so yes! success! 
then we watched waking life together because he hasnt seen it, omg. that was a wonderful afternoon
yesterday, had lunch with josie at the ABC in chinatown, rediscovered TenRen on grant ave, and just cruised that area of sf under the beautiful sunshine. had a nice talk, then i went off to my art class. it was a terribly slow class, i'm just a terribly slow painter. around nine or so, stuart called me for our "crepe date," lol. went to crepevine for cherry blintz(s) and loitered around andronico's until he settled on his pop rocks. omg, i totally proved him wrong! TART-TO-TART DOES HAVE INDIVIDUAL TARTS! HA BITCH! XD ended up at my house as he tried those pop rocks with root beer. nothing happened (to my dismay, lol) but we just chilled watching cable telly b/c he doesnt have cable. ;O
i'm slowly coming out of hiding! going to go out more and see all my lovely friends before i leave. only one more month! omg, time is flying too quickly!
and just one comment on GWB's supreme court nominee: john g roberts will inevitably crush decades' worth of social progress, especially in civil liberties and women's rights. and puh-lease, he aint that good-lookin. ;P
jessica on 07.21.05 @ 11:42 PM GMT [link]
Tuesday, July 19th
waking life
music: Lyala - Time to Fly
mood: fine
did anyone watch waking life? my chemH teacher, adam rosenfeld, showed that in our class one day. (this was of course, toward the end of the schoolyear when attendance was almost optional.) i never watched it in its entirety, or actually watched it carefully, but i saw it at the library the other day and decided to pick it up. so i spent a good 2 hours watching the film carefully, noting the details in the scene transitions and putting up the subtitles to make sure i was getting every word. that movie is trippy, artistic, and beautiful. i like movies that exercise my mind.
reading david sedaris now. the good thing about him is that you can read his book and another novel simultaneously (well, not LITERALLY with each book in each hand) without losing your train of imagination. that's what i hate most about reading more than one book at the same time. your imagination loses its flow as you switch from one book to the next. in fact, the only time i ever read more than one book is to fully finish the second book in one sitting before going back to the first. even then i feel dissatisfied, like i havent gotten the most from that book. so yes, here i am. buried in my books. talk about a listless summer.
jessica on 07.19.05 @ 10:24 PM GMT [link]
Monday, July 18th
penguins
music: telepopmusik - breathe (extended mix)
mood: 
today was just....bleh. the weather said it all. after putting j.s. bach's toccata and fugue in E minor for kenji on a cd (among other classical pieces including thekla badarzewska's only piece), and after reading through my mountainload of mail, kenji picked me up to go watch march of the penguins at west portal. the documentary, beautifully narrated by morgan freeman, was all right. 4 stars out of 5. i think i would've enjoyed it fine on the discovery channel in the comforts of my living room. not particularly cinema-worthy, but nevertheless, a fine film.
but the day started to REALLY go downhill when kenji and i found his car with a parking ticket b/c of streetcleaning. w.t.f. streetcleaning at 1pm???!!?!? 
and it's totally my fault b/c i didnt look PAST the tree to read the streetcleaning sign. (there was a sign behind the tree in front?! 
) i cant believe i didnt notice the empty side of that street. i cant believe i failed to notice such details. i'm so fuckin blind. gawd damn. anyhow, ran into katharine on irving today, which was a surprise since i havent seen her in a few years. odd too because i live right by irving, the typical high school asian hangout. brought home a lychee milk tea boba for my sister b/c she's never had any form of milk tea in her boba drinks. oy, a day of paperwork awaits me tomorrow. not to mention managing my finances AGAIN. i hate growing up. i hate being responsible. i hate having irresponsible parents for whom i must take care of such financial crap. can i just ask, what kind of a declivity is my summer sliding down?
jessica on 07.18.05 @ 10:05 PM GMT [link]
Sunday, July 17th
symphony and pi
music: Beethoven - Egmont Overture
mood: eh, could be better
took kenji to davies hall on thursday to enjoy a night of beethoven performed by the sf symphony. they played the egmont overture, piano concerto no.5 in Eb major opus 73 (otherwise known as the emperor concerto), and symphony no.7 in A major opus 92. alastair willis, the conductor for the evening (where did MTT go?? ), did a rather, er, mediocre job, i'd say. he started out fine with the egmont overture, but symphony no.7 felt like a flop. i mean, beethoven was one of (and i quote from ron chase that evening) "the most radical composers" that ever lived. his music is beyond amazing as it literally overwhelms the listener. but symphony no.7 did not feel like that at all. i dont like homogenous harmonies in the first place, but i definitely didnt think that was a beethoven piece. sounded more like a mozart during his off-periods. the piano concerto was all right, although i must say that the concert pianist, kirill gerstein, was quite amusing to watch during the tuttis. he swayed to the tutti music like a happy branch in the wind, haha. brilliant pianist though. quite an impressive performance that evening. overall, the concert was satisfactory, despite our first tier seats, lol. but hey, free tickets are free tickets. thank you mr. ron chase!
nothing much on friday except ran a few errands, and got into life of pi. (i'm totally chickening out with the intense books right now, a.k.a. faulkner and the russian literary masters. >.<) pi patel is quite a character, and i'm thoroughly enjoying the novel so far, hehe. it's hilarious how i was attracted to the book. first, i saw the new cover at black oak books and thought to myself, "oh! what pretty colors!" :rollseyes: so i picked up the book, read the back (again because i forgot why i remembered the book title from last summer) and thought, "how quirky!" went home and read the review on amazon and became REALLY interested in the book when critics reiterated the spiritual aspect of the book. the book even claims to renew your faith in God. although i havent received that enlightening result yet, i really do enjoy reading this book. so i guess judging a book by its cover isnt always terribly misleading.
work was hectic on friday, but nevertheless, amusing, haha. i'm always scared that i'm screwing up the orders though. and i do screw up. oy....i hope i'm not disappointing the managers too much. >.< they're so nice to me too. the info desk at the asian art museum was rather busy today. group of 50 in the morning followed by ANOTHER huge group only moments later. nonstop bustling at the south court indeed. coat check was relatively calm, and i did get some more reading done. but yeh, busy day today. or rather, yesterday, haha. busy saturday, full of work. totally the opposite of the usual schoolyear. or maybe not because as i recall, my saturdays during the schoolyear were filled with work too. (i guess relaxing saturdays are just never meant to be.) oh well. life goes on.
jessica on 07.17.05 @ 12:12 AM GMT [link]
Wednesday, July 13th
movies!
music: damien rice - cannonball
mood: ok
i watched the rest of in good company with my sister today, so check! there's one movie on my list that i watched, lol. still several more to go, not to mention the few in the theatres that i must see:
march of the penguins
rize
the beautiful country
murderball (maybe)
and possibly charlie and the chocolate factory, just for johnny depp, hehe.
i finally fixed my printer today, so yey! now i can print sheet music from home again! thanks to josie, i now have sheet music from my sassy girl, the canon in D (which is actually in C) and "i believe." XD it's always exciting to have new sheet music to sightread and massacre on the piano, lol. (okey, so i dont think i'm THAT bad, i hope. 
) anyhow, aside from playing a lot of music today, i went to art class and started on a new xie-yi landscape. i was going to do this fan-style one, just because there were a lot of purple and indigo hues, but i decided i should finish my eight-nine years there with a nice big piece. i settled on this strictly black ink piece. and yenno what? it felt good. it wasnt as dreadful as the last one, even though i really liked the last one i finished. but i think i'm really getting the hang of it. the pine leaves came naturally to me today, even the rocks dont look as retarded, lol. i think i'm gonna finish my oil painting tomorrow. i still have a 24"x30" canvas to work on!
jessica on 07.13.05 @ 11:23 PM GMT [link]
Tuesday, July 12th
bowdoin packet!
music: ella fitzgerald
mood: psyched! XD
did i mention that i got my bowdoin packet in the mail today??!! XD my preO trip wasnt the one i wanted, but it's okey. except now i have to get geared up for camping, lol. oy....R.E.I., here i come!
AND not to mention that i'm housed at the best dorm ever: Coleman! woot! it wouldve been great to be housed at one of the two new dorms on coffin street, but hehe, it seems like Coleman has a fantastic bunch of people. oh man, cant wait! XD
jessica on 07.12.05 @ 11:46 PM GMT [link]
sleepy
music: my little sister playing a mozart sonata on piano
mood: 
so sunny. and very pretty outside. clear blue skies, a couple of clouds, and extremely bright. ::rubs eyes:: but i slept through half of my afternoon because dostoevsky just wasnt keeping me awake. or maybe it was a huge bowl of sauteed noodles i made and ate for lunch today. oy....i dont like this. i think i'm gonna go to ggpark and actually get some reading done. maybe i'll get a tan too, hehe.
meanwhile, check out www.penisland.net. please click it so you wont think i'm dirty. ;P
jessica on 07.12.05 @ 05:07 PM GMT [link]
Monday, July 11th
chariots of fire
music: Way Out West - Mindcircus (Gabriel and Dresden club mix)
mood: all right
work on friday was incredibly hilarious because the music was totally bizarre. at one point in the night, "titles" from chariots of fire was played, lol. for those of you who dont know, that's the song currently used by nike in their shoe commercial, the one with the guy running on the beach with a crowd running along with him. XD
saturday, worked at the Asian Art Museum Store in the morning. i got to see the completed sand mandala in samsung hall. it was such a work of art. the destruction ceremony was today (sunday afternoon), but i couldnt go see it. how unfortunate! i must say though, the Tibetan exhibit has completely brightened my interest in Tibet. i'm definitely gonna read some books regarding that subject this summer. stuart picked me up from work last night, and we headed off to adam's bonfire at the beach. but when we got there, the bonfire had already ended because a) they were out of firewood; and b) adam and some of the guys got caught by the cops with fireworks and alcohol. ;P supposedly adam shot up several firecrackers into the air and the police (obviously) saw them from the parking lot. luckily they only got off with a warning. as for the alcohol, no one was drinking that night, but they were using the booze to light the bonfire, lol. and i though gasoline was cheaper? so yes, it was only 10:30, and there we were, bonfire-less. so stuart and i ended up going to naan 'n curry to pick up some garlic naan and chicken tikka masala for him, and ultimately ended up at his friend's (nate) apartment in the friggin presidio. gawd, that area is creepy at night. his roommates were very nice and hospitable, though high, lol. we ended up just watching tv all night, and i got home around 3, after watching R. Kelly's new music video/pseudo soap opera, lol. and somehow, i got away with that, haha.
today (sunday), i went to safeway after my viola lesson to pick up some milk when i thought i saw chantillys on sale! turns out, the sign was "buy 1 get 1 for 2.99" not "buy 1 get 1 free." damit. they fooled me! either that or i'm totally dyslexic. >.< but gawd, those cookies are soooo good. raspberry jam on sugar cookies....mmm.....screw milanos, i'll take chantillys any day. ;P in the afternoon, after reconfiguring my laptop/internet connection crap, i went to work. definitely more easygoing than last sunday, stayed an hour later than i was supposed to, and got a ride home from one of the drivers, daniel. ;D the people there are so friggin awesome.
whoa! short week ahead i'm really not ready for the summer to fly by.
jessica on 07.11.05 @ 12:33 AM GMT [link]
Thursday, July 7th
War of the worlds
music: Ella Fitzgerald - They Can't Take That Away From Me
mood: ok
went to watch war of the worlds with Kenji ;D and holy crap, that was such a let-down. i mean, sure, from the synopsis, i wasnt supposed to expect much. but gawd, the ending was just....awful, cheesy, vomit-inducing. i hate how spielberg movies are basically obligatory to watch like hitchcock movies; you never know when 2 hours of your life will be stolen from you 
it's all right, it's not spielberg's fault. blame h.g. wells. i really hope the book isnt as much of a disappointment.
badminton thursdays, alas, have returned. sort of. josie and i attempted to play today, to sort of warm up our game. unfortunately, unexpected circumstances hindered us from fully accomplishing our goal. hehe, til next week then! XD
actually, we got hungry and gave in to KFC. i havent been there for like, 2 years, and who do i run into? frank wu! my artistic buddy, frankie! XD i hope to see his magnificent interpretation of the Mona Lisa. it's a huge piece he's been working on for ages, while i have been struggling away with Chinese landscapes. gawd. i really suck at xie-yi. maybe i should just stick with my western art. >.< i feel like i'm shaming the Chinese art community.
check out earth.google.com
jessica on 07.07.05 @ 11:18 PM GMT [link]
Tuesday, July 5th
aura science
music: DJ Tiësto's new CD, "In Search of Sunrise Vol. 4 Latin America"
mood: hopeful
today was a cold, foggy, gloomy day. well, the weather was, that is. other than that, things went pretty well. went to see dr. kir to have a bone fragment removed from my gums because apparently, that happens sometimes when you have wisdom teeth removed. quick, painful procedure, and then i was out of the dental office, off to browse chinatown shops. actually, i just went to the 98 cent store on broadway. XD went to Victoria's Secret Beauty for no reason, BUT, omg, get this, Aura Science products for 75% off! ;O i couldnt believe it! but yes, you wait a week, and the prices drop even further! score! XD so i bought the fragrance i wanted, (spirit, awakened) and skipped the lotion, because i still have that tub of cocoa body cream from b&bworks. wow, shopping and finding stuff i really want at awesome prices gets me on a happy-high. XD but yes, i LOVE Aura Science products. amazing fragrances at outrageous prices though! hm...maybe i should get the lotion. it's $5 versus the original $18. (outrageous prices!!)
okey, stop jessi, stop. shopping is not good. materialism is not good. >.<
i'm going back to my book.
jessica on 07.05.05 @ 10:27 PM GMT [link]
Monday, July 4th
what july 4th?
music: Jimmy Eat World - Just Watch the Fireworks
mood:
hoping the cheeks stop swelling. the left side is irritating like mad.
work was fine tonight. well, it was HECTIC and i ended up leaving around 11, haha. it was kind of fun, running around, jotting down numbers, helping out. but gawd, it was hectic. i'm glad everyone that works there is so awesome.
july 4th. what am i gonna do? i think i might just stay home and read a good book. my sister is at elk grove with my dad, celebrating with my cousins and their baby, Grace. i guess i'll be missing the fireworks, haha. junebugs, sparklers...why cant we have those in sf?? >.< i like my sparklers! 
so i guess i wont be able to watch movies and fatten up on ice cream with my sister. that kills a plan option. darn. but i figure, since i'm not a family person, nor am i patriotic, i dont think i give a damn about celebrating july 4th. it's really just an excuse to get drunk and play with fireworks, both of which i cant do this year. i guess i'll just have to wait til next year. or this new year's eve. XD
jessica on 07.04.05 @ 12:04 AM GMT [link]
Sunday, July 3rd
chubby bunny on one
music: only the soothing sound of the cars whooshing by on the street
mood:
my cheeks totally puffed up today, except it's more like my left cheek because i had two removed on that side. yup, playing chubby bunny without the marshmallows. i wanted to go back to dr. kir today to remove some unidentifiable fragment i found that i cant remove myself, (i think it's a fragment of my wisdom tooth), but his office was closed for the holiday weekend. damit! ergh! but i still went to volunteer at the asian art museum today, met a couple of really sweet girls from the walnut creek area, and just enjoyed my saturday reading a rather intense novel. umberto eco's books require so much concentration and discipline. i remember reading somewhere that in name of the rose, eco purposefully inserted a hundred pages of history just to test the reader's patience, to kind of weed out the weak readers. to an extent, i'm thinking, "what an erudite, elitist asshole!" but then again, his plotlines and philosophical themes DO require intense concentration AND contemplation. it's just always such a long, strenuous (and sometimes tedious) journey to the novel's conclusion. i hope this time, it's more rewarding than the first.
there are so many books i want to read this summer! unfortunately, my list just keeps growing. i hope i wont do what i usually do with my reading lists: start a book, get into about 100 pages, then start another book that happens to catch my eye at borders/library/green apple, and inevitably repeat the cycle. i think last summer, i started around 20 books, and finished only 5 of them during the schoolyear. (well, i did finish several other books that summer that i actually stuck through without "starting" new ones.) i really lack discipline. sometimes, it really feels like ADHD.
so chubby bunny (me) wants a ONE bracelet because this is actually for a cause that i've been genuinely interested in for a long time. okey, screw the bracelet, i'm just really happy (ecstatic!) that people are ACTUALLY paying more attention to the plight of Africa and the Third World. policy debate really sparked my interest in global affairs, and inspired me to learn more about the status quo of other countries, to research beyond my historical interests and actually educate myself about our current world. these days, i'm practically addicted to reading the international section of the new york times and christian science monitor. it drives me to pursue my international goals. and yenno what? i really do have faith in the UN. i believe in diplomacy and i believe that the UN can make a difference. it's just that kofi annan has been kind of a pansy. 
which is okey! there's hope in NGOs still! >.< unfortunately, i dont know if i have much faith in the G8 summit, the major players of this new world order.
i appreciate the fact that ONE is taking a big step to fight against preventable poverty around the world. i believe we must rid the so-called "dependency theory" and cancel the debt of countries that need help most. i mean, europe still hasnt paid the U.S. back for WWI, and that was for a pointless war. the U.S. isnt complaining about that, so why should any of the First World countries have the right to complain about the debt of Third World countries? and besides....money is human concept....
i'm disappointed at Live 8. i know that raising awareness is crucial, but directly educating the masses and bringing about some immediate change is just as significant and more effective. it's great that so many musicians and celebrities around the globe willingly gave up their time (and monetary greed ;P) for this cause. but c'mon, i highly doubt that giving free concerts around the world actually inspired that many people to take action. at least the bracelet fad raises money for Africa. if anything, the concerts almost detracted from the main goal of Live 8. the concerts in south africa seem almost a slap in the face to those who are actually in need of aid. hungry families dont need concerts; they need food. but i guess, baby steps. we're taking baby steps. at least we're finally recognizing the level of crises in Africa. that's still something. i just hope the world will move the UN agenda forward and actually take the millennium goals seriously.
okey, my medication is kicking in again. i dont think i need the prescribed painkillers, but yenno, just in case i wake up in pain. oy, annoying puffy cheeks. at least i know how i'll look like if i get fat.
jessica on 07.03.05 @ 01:20 AM GMT [link]
Friday, July 1st
wisdom teeth
music: Jimmy Eat World - Lucky Denver Mint
mood:
one word: pain. >.<
jessica on 07.01.05 @ 09:34 PM GMT [link]
