for clarification since some people apparently think my parents read my blog ~ the comments on my previous entry that are from "your mom" and "your dad" are indeed NOT my parents. it is the craft of alex, who thinks he's just so witty.

now speaking of my dad, this snippet is actually him e-mailing me.

Dude,
Looks like you spend a lot of times studying Chinese, I think you could handle business, math, computer and medical research if you spend the same amount of time on them, don't you think? Have a good day.

my reply:

okay im sure i can HANDLE business, math and computer science BUT i REALLY dislike the subjects. wouldnt you rather me do something i LIKE than something i HATE?! STOP complaining, during my graduation i do not want you saying things like "she should have majored in biology" or something. HUMPH.

his response:

May be I just go to the math graduation to pretend somebody there is my daughter. Ha, Ha. (And you know I'm just kidding.)

I'm out off here. Bye.

my dad's so funny.

at least once every semester my dad inquires about all my friends...and their boyfriends.

and then proceeds to ask me, "why don't you ever have a boyfriend?"

answer (of course, carefully recited in my head): because, dad, i don't settle for anything less than 110% perfect. i'm picky, i like boys with hair that is more than perfectly tossed and messily spiked, i like them tall, not too tall, i like them built, but not overly muscular, i like them intelligent, but definitely not cocky, i like them honest, adorable, sensitive, but not sensitive to be girly cry babies, they must worship the ground i walk on, shower me with endless gifts, wait on me hand and foot, and be willing to lay down their new 100% cashmere emporio armani coat on the mud just so i don't have to get my dingy chuck taylor converses dirty.

but instead. i sigh. like i do every semester he asks.

the annoying fan on my laptop must shut up at some point. but i need to stop talking shit about (insert name for my laptop here) or else he'll (he seems like a he, always throwing temper tantrums, getting all jealous when i talk about buying a new one, crashing just because the day doesn't seem to go his way) shut down on me again.

monday. oh my god the filet mingon at fleming's steakhouse is simply too great for words. it melts in your mouth. literally.

plus sauteed (damn i can't put accents) mushrooms. perhaps even orgasmic. but then again, what would i know. (i raise my eyebrow here)

i want a boba. too bad those damn starch filled things are just so bad for you.

for the past three weeks, i've slept in my bed for a total of four days. it's good to be home.

i absolutely love traveling. granted i twisted a wrist, caught the flu and at the current moment still coughing up a lung (jihye says i have SARS), this has been the best winter break.

i love going to SD with the girls. from taxi drivers backing up on the damn freeway in TJ, hookah bars in PB, fish tacos, tea station, shopping (go winter sales!), to cramming four girls in a bathroom grooming (i shouldn't go into details here, heh) spending time with the gals is one of the best parts of winter break.

next to ... five weeks away from berkeley (no amy, not because i abhor the area but rather, i abhor school and berkeley just happens to be where school is).

lots of things to do this last week at home.

run errands, visit christopher at UCLA (check, doing that tomorrow), watch several movies since it's going to be god-knows-when till i can relax and not watch a movie without worrying about a paper due the next week, pick up an LSAT book (blah to this), read anna karenin, spring clean my room at home, write my damn resume (i'm using jihye's template - freaking small font, small margins, bullet points i do not even understand - i think i'm using the wrong template), start writing cover letters for summer internships, worry about my future, etc. etc.

i like grapefruit. i ate an entire one this evening and i still have to pee. i think my bladder is really weak or something.

my laptop is a piece of shit - we have a love/hate relationship. i need it to death, but it hates me. what else can explain it's sudden crashing on me freshman year and last summer's virus and now, its lack of memory when i have not installed anything.

i ramble. my loyal blog readers know that. and i love you guys for reading. you know that.

i'm leaving taiwan tomorrow! i'm a bit sad, i've only been back for a week yet it feels so much shorter. since it's been so long i've forgotten just how good it is to hang out with my cousins whom i haven't seen for 6 or so years. and i totally understand now how christine and annie love it here so much - everything is so convenient, so cheap, and things are open really late! too bad we're all not here at once or we can totally tear up the taipei night life. i miss you all at home though, i know i picked the worst time to leave the country when everyone's back home and once i come back, most of you have to go back to school. ah, well i think it's time to go out again, take my final walk around here ... i'm so pathetic i'm already starting to miss taiwan! haha perhaps i am a fob at heart, it's caught up to me.