So it's been a looong time since I last posted.  So much has changed but also not so much.

I guess first off, I graduated from college with a bachelors in biochemistry and molecular and cell biology with a minor in Asian American studies.  yay?  and I got a job at genentech in HR.  yay?  and i finished boys over flowers YAYAYAYA.  ha ha.

I moved outta my apt and back home.  i sold my car and now driving another one.

but i'm still the same arashi loving, j/k pop listening dood from CA.  what else is new yeah?

thinking about going to hk/guangdong/shanghai this dec.

more details to come..have work in the morning...  :)

bye!

Sometimes I just can't even look at my pictures from Japan because it hurts so much...

Since cjplbm and thtlam are doing it...i'll do it also.  These are drama's i've watched...

( Japanese Dramas )


( Korean Dramas )


( Korean Variety Shows )

( Japanese Variety Shows )

Sorry guys!  I haven't posted for a long time now.  Last week was so crazy that I had absolutely no time to post a random fact.  I'm BAACK...for now...we'll see....ha ha

Our eyeball actually sees things upside down but our brain corrects for it.

The average, normal breath is about 500 mL of air.

Radar detectors (for speed) use the Doppler Effect.

Angel Island was the central Immigration Station for the West Coast from 1910 til some of it burned down in 1940.

So I'm doing this orientation tomorrow for the people that are going to Japan this summer on the program I went on last year.  So I was reading my journal that was part of our curriculum and I literally felt so sad that I had to stop reading.  Words really can't describe how I feel right now.  Plus it didn't help that I was chatting with Amy now who's back in Japan to study and she was telling me about the people in her program and how they don't get along like how we did.  I feel so extraordinarily sad that it kinda hurts.  I haven't really ever felt this way before.  This pain is different than the pain I felt when my grandparents died.  I just get short of breath.  I miss those days so much.  I miss the people so much.  I wish I could go back and do it all over again because it was just that great.  There isn't a thing that I hated.  I mean, there are things at the time that I disliked....like Andrew and his effin pissy ass mood, but then I look back on that and I just realize that those are memories too.  I don't know what to do now at this point because I've never felt like this before.  Don't get me wrong.  I had to come back.  And since then, I have made some truly amazing friends.  I knew them from before my departure but not really.  Scary, sweet, and sour.  I am so glad that we have become such good friends and it's one of the reasons why I can not live in the past of the time when I was in Japan.  All my friends and family here made me realize how much I missed home but at the same time, I had to go to Japan for me.  There's no other feeling like doing stuff on your own.  Indepedence.  Granted, I wasn't fully independent because my parents gave me money but going out there and getting around in a country where you don't know the language is amazing. 

The current way to test for Swine Flu H1N1 is using a PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) kit.

If you work over 5 hours without a break at Walmart, you can get "kicked out". (According to Walmart employee)

The capital of Washington is Olympia.

McDonald's Chicken Selects are actually worse for you than the Chicken McNuggets.

When the first Chinese immigrants arrived to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed with open arms. 

So I missed yesterday's random fact so here's today's!

Male ducks are prettier than female ducks so they can attract the ladies. (according to thtlam )

Chymotrypsin is an enzyme used to sequence DNA and digest proteins in our stomach.

You should eat 25g of fiber a day.

So it's been such a long time since I posted last.  Let's recap on what happened/randomness:

1.  I finished my finals in one piece.  I had all three in one day=DIE
2.  My spring break came along and now is over (like 5 weeks ago XD) and I enjoyed the happenings at VEGAS!
3.  I started my last quarter of college.  Due to me being a lameo, I have to take 5 classes this quarter.  (Physiology Lab, Microbiology Lab, Macromolecular Structure and Function, Chinese American Experience, and Asian Diasporas)
4.  I'm currently looking for jobs in the field of biotech.
5.  I'm debating on whether to watch BoF
6.  I've started to really like Wondergirls although I said I would never like them.
7.  I am maybe getting into SS501 perhaps.  I like some of their songs.
8.  Plurk will not take over my life unlike some of those i know.  (stickerbox cjplbm ouran611 )
9.  Dreamwidth=livejournal basically but with no ads.
10. This quarter will kill me.
11.  I got an iPod touch!

So my finals was crazy last quarter but I can honestly say that I learned a lot!  especially in my human anatomy class.  I know that cjplbm is totally tired of hearing all my crap about anatomy but it's seriously awesome.  I can watch Bones (which is a really cool show) and know exactly what they are talking about etc.  I love it.  It even allowed me to diagnose the death of Natasha Richardson.  *sidenote:  that was really sad.  she seemed so cool and chill/funny etc*  I didn't get superb grades last quarter because it was pretty hard.

Spring Break=AWESOME!  Vegas was so cool.  I hadn't been there in sooo long.  I went with friends and we just hung out.  We tried to get into Tao but the line is sooo long.  We saw the 'O' show at the Bellagio and it was cool.  I liked all the tricks and stunts but I totally didn't get the whole story.  I guess I'm not deep enough for it.  We ate so much!  the buffets=amazing.  I loved the Rio one though it was pricey because the crab=heaven.  the planet hollywood one wasn't as good but still yummy.  We walked the whole trip=dead.  And I lost some money to gambling....oh well.  it was all in the name of fun.

this quarter may just kill me.  I have a little break now since all my midterms are over.  But I like this quarter.  I wish i could just have more time to study....

looking for jobs=sucks....everyone knows that...

BoF bandwagon is nearing my station.  I'm thinking about jumping on but I don't know yet.  Depends on whether the sweet twin will watch with me.

WG=hot (well some...)

SS501=idk....i haven't really listened to them much so we'll see if I like them

plurk....enough said...

so that's the happenings of my life...nothing spectacular....i wish it were something amazing but no.

You Scored as Ariake Shizuna stable . naturalness . gullible

I took this quiz from ryuseinokizuna to see which character i am. I'm a girl...at least a hot girl? i don't know...whatever...it's like there are so many dudes and i end up as the girl...wtf

Personally, I don't believe in regrets.  They are in the past and we can't change the past.  And I also think that things that people would regret are about things that we had a say in.  It was our choice to choose the path that we did and for that, it is only our fault.  Why regret something if you chose your own path?  It's not to say that all of our decisions are good ones.  But I think that the biggest things we would regret are from our biggest decisions.  And for these decisions, we would normally weigh out each side, yeah?  And as I sit here now, I think back and try to decide whether I did make the right choices.  And I would say yes.  Of course there are things that I would like to change; however, all of the decisions that I have made has sculpted who I am today?  Don't believe me?  Think about a decision.  You never know what would happen if you decide one way or another.  You don't know what the other path would lead to.  That small, minute change could lead to a world of infinite possibilities or not.  But you will never know.  And if you do pick that path of infinite possibilities, you don't even see all the possibilities that lay right in front of you.  You don't know if that one decision lead you to the path you are on now.  All you know is where you are at this exact moment in your life.  That doesn't mean you exactly know WHO you are, but you know WHERE you are.  I feel like no one can fully know themselves.  I think that other people know you better than you know yourself.  For YOU, you have a picture in your mind of maybe who you want to be or how you want to act; but sometimes, those pictures aren't conveyed in the way you want it to be.  But for others, they see the real deal.  They see what is actually going on.  No matter the person you want to be, what they see is the person that you actually are.  Now you make think that that is totally wrong.  You could say no way...what about so and so...that person is so unpredictable.  But in that, you know that that person won't do what you think they'll do and thus, you are predicting something about them.  You are predicting what they aren't gonna do rather than what they will do.  Isn't that the same?  Either way, from an outsider's point of view, that is all you see, a point of view from the outside.  You can't get into people's heads and choose for them, you just see what is there in front of you.

Now going back to the whole 'each decision you make forms who you are'.  I have always wondered about those people who are complete jackasses.  What could have happened in their life to make them the way they are?  What decisions have formed their being into a bitch?  Is it because they live a life full of regret?  Or is it that they are mad at others for the life that they want?  Or maybe it's just a bad day for them...but come on, no one has so many bad days where you always come off a complete bitch?  (It's like saying, so you're telling me that this is the 20th time I've seen you and each day has been a bad one for you...nothing good has come out of your life between those days where you could be happy?  I disagree with that.  Bad things do happen yes, but we still need to be 'chin-up' and walk forward). 

As I sit here thinking about all of this, I think about things that I would change.  I don't regret my decisions that I've made (I've made that pretty clear...) but maybe something that I would've done differently?  I think I may have been more active during my college career.  I think that I did so much in high school that it just burned me out.  I think I was afraid of doing the same thing only college is so much harder than high school, I would fall behind.  But then again, if I spent all my time in clubs and organizations or volunteering, I wouldn't have gotten to know the people I know so well.  I mean, yes those clubs or whatever allow you to network but do you really know those people?  I would rather have 5 close friends than 100 distant acquaintances.  But then again, that's just me.  I see many other people who are involved with those things and have close friends; however, what is sacrificed in their lives?  School?  I most certainly hope not.  We pay so much money to be in school right now that I think it should be our number one priority.  We live in Davis for a reason: school.  We cannot squander all of that away.  This is not to say that we shouldn't have fun because we should.  If we don't, we'll go crazy. 

Yesterday was Valentine's Day.  Bummer to the max.  I think that I either need to find a girlfriend or get some more single friends.  Because today, I sat in Starbucks studying Eukaryotic Genetics while everyone else was out.  I mean, I did go see a movie with friends later that night but it's not the same.  Valentine's Day is meant to be spent with someone else, a significant other.  No matter if you're gay, straight or bi or whatever else there is, it's a day where romance is in the air.  But for me, it was IN YO FACE! HAHA! YOU'RE SINGLE! day.  Sometimes I think it would be easier if it were like Japan: where the girls give guys chocolate.  But then the girl would be in the same position.  And what if the guy doesn't get any chocolates, is that worse?  But at least I got some studying done?