let the rivalry be forever.
there IS some ounce of pride in being the blue team....usc vs. ucla, stanford vs. cal, harvard vs. yale, red vs. blue...although we did get crushed today. =( if there was a football team in undergrad, i would've been one of those crazy girls with facepaint even on my tummy!....well maybe.
my last two weeks--a complete joke. ever since i stepped onto that plane to go home to CA, where did my productivity go? haha. every time my mom called to check up on me, i was on the road...looking for food. i ate everything from ALL TYPES OF ASIAN to good ole in-and-out. i always take up any opportunity to eat...and thanks to all those beloved friends who knew just my cup-o-tea---thanks for all those food-outting invites! too bad i had such a *short* vacation in such a random time of the school year. i DID come back for a conference, really...i did! *wink*
for my health and my sanity, it was a (timely) blast. i went to see love actually and loved it---i'm such a british-romantic-comedy-flick-chick. =) probably not the usual type you'd imagine, but i do enjoy the "unspoken love" the most. there's something about unrequitted love and yet still falling madly and perfectly in love that speaks volume. my time was wisely spent on blessed friendship and conversations. words will not do justice to the energizing spirit and nurture these conversations did for me. and unfortunately, i STILL have a few that i would love to take rainchecks for, come december. promise, i wanted to hang out with everyone from SF and everyone from school! ;) can you actually believe that i'll be done soon? that it was more than a year ago that i left teary-eyed? :) time flies. c-r-a-z-y.
i've been blessed to experience the deepening of many friendships---even to the point where i can openly share bathroom jokes/conversations during dinner! :) and of course...it feels great to be completely vulnerable to girlfriends. i spent more than an hour the other night catching up/praying with sister S. dy had said: it's great to see the friendship between you two blossom. and the funny thing is, without dy's encouragement for me to visit her back in August, we would not have known each other so well! oh the love! :)
the big game.
it was quite an experience.
a friend of mine from 4 years ago purposely flew into new haven from duke, just to support his alma mater. now, THAT is the school spirit. despite my need to catch up after having an unexcused week off (now who's the nerd, M?), i ended up going to the game as well. i had to. the friday night before, all the restaurants and stores were bustling with people. i have never seen so many dressed-up preppy "elders" with both spirit and zest--wearing pins that read: H-LL with Hah-vard. it was hilarious. more importantly, these big gunners probably have a lot more enthusiasm than i can at this stage in life.
to make a long story short, 6 girls smashed in an Accord, travelling for nearly two-hours before we could find parking. mind you, the yah-leh bowl should only be 15 min away, max? after circling around behind buses, seeing a ton of crimson red fools getting off, trying to get into lots (but to no avail), we ended up parking on someone's lawn...yes, the owner of the house came out and signaled us, cars, to park there. $20 bucks. i found myself whipping it out of my pocket, because well, by then, the game had already started and we were all hungry. to the tailgate off we go, finding tables and tables of free food (hamburgers, hot dogs, cookies), and i myself ultimately scarfed down two FREE hot dogs within 10 mins. i didn't stay long for the game, but i was there during the third period--in time to see the team score a touchdown. :) that's all i really wanted to see. who cares about the outcome anyways? :)
S and i ended up leaving earlier than the rest. on our way to the shuttle, we passed by the lawn again...this time, there were 12 cars in his front lawn. 12...that means, it's at least $240 that dude has made, excluding a few cars on his driveway.
"wow." i thought to myself...those were two EXPENSIVE HOT DOGS. =P
there IS some ounce of pride in being the blue team....usc vs. ucla, stanford vs. cal, harvard vs. yale, red vs. blue...although we did get crushed today. =( if there was a football team in undergrad, i would've been one of those crazy girls with facepaint even on my tummy!....well maybe.
my last two weeks--a complete joke. ever since i stepped onto that plane to go home to CA, where did my productivity go? haha. every time my mom called to check up on me, i was on the road...looking for food. i ate everything from ALL TYPES OF ASIAN to good ole in-and-out. i always take up any opportunity to eat...and thanks to all those beloved friends who knew just my cup-o-tea---thanks for all those food-outting invites! too bad i had such a *short* vacation in such a random time of the school year. i DID come back for a conference, really...i did! *wink*
for my health and my sanity, it was a (timely) blast. i went to see love actually and loved it---i'm such a british-romantic-comedy-flick-chick. =) probably not the usual type you'd imagine, but i do enjoy the "unspoken love" the most. there's something about unrequitted love and yet still falling madly and perfectly in love that speaks volume. my time was wisely spent on blessed friendship and conversations. words will not do justice to the energizing spirit and nurture these conversations did for me. and unfortunately, i STILL have a few that i would love to take rainchecks for, come december. promise, i wanted to hang out with everyone from SF and everyone from school! ;) can you actually believe that i'll be done soon? that it was more than a year ago that i left teary-eyed? :) time flies. c-r-a-z-y.
i've been blessed to experience the deepening of many friendships---even to the point where i can openly share bathroom jokes/conversations during dinner! :) and of course...it feels great to be completely vulnerable to girlfriends. i spent more than an hour the other night catching up/praying with sister S. dy had said: it's great to see the friendship between you two blossom. and the funny thing is, without dy's encouragement for me to visit her back in August, we would not have known each other so well! oh the love! :)
the big game.
it was quite an experience.
a friend of mine from 4 years ago purposely flew into new haven from duke, just to support his alma mater. now, THAT is the school spirit. despite my need to catch up after having an unexcused week off (now who's the nerd, M?), i ended up going to the game as well. i had to. the friday night before, all the restaurants and stores were bustling with people. i have never seen so many dressed-up preppy "elders" with both spirit and zest--wearing pins that read: H-LL with Hah-vard. it was hilarious. more importantly, these big gunners probably have a lot more enthusiasm than i can at this stage in life.
to make a long story short, 6 girls smashed in an Accord, travelling for nearly two-hours before we could find parking. mind you, the yah-leh bowl should only be 15 min away, max? after circling around behind buses, seeing a ton of crimson red fools getting off, trying to get into lots (but to no avail), we ended up parking on someone's lawn...yes, the owner of the house came out and signaled us, cars, to park there. $20 bucks. i found myself whipping it out of my pocket, because well, by then, the game had already started and we were all hungry. to the tailgate off we go, finding tables and tables of free food (hamburgers, hot dogs, cookies), and i myself ultimately scarfed down two FREE hot dogs within 10 mins. i didn't stay long for the game, but i was there during the third period--in time to see the team score a touchdown. :) that's all i really wanted to see. who cares about the outcome anyways? :)
S and i ended up leaving earlier than the rest. on our way to the shuttle, we passed by the lawn again...this time, there were 12 cars in his front lawn. 12...that means, it's at least $240 that dude has made, excluding a few cars on his driveway.
"wow." i thought to myself...those were two EXPENSIVE HOT DOGS. =P
