Rain of Fire

I’m..feeling an interesting mix between elation and bittersweet sadness now that ATDP is over.

Mood: Content, a little sad
Event of the Day: pegging Trev right in the back of the head with a water balloon, ‘blasphemy!’, singing ‘The Mysterious Ticking Noise’ on the way to dinner

The TIC half of my day was amazing! Water fights, food EVERYWHERE, frisbee, volleyball… 8D I was feeling a little sick afterwards because it was REALLY hot and sunny, and I wasn’t wearing any sunblock, but heck. I listened to Lloyd’s speech…and it reminded me all over again about TIC ‘06. He did leave my name off the list of new TA’s and iTA’s, and I backed a rolling chair into a pit, but it was a touching and reminiscent lecture nonetheless.

After that we went to dinner. On the way, Janvi, P, Sarah and I were singing “The Mysterious Ticking Noise.” It’s amazing…you’d think that I could get these lines down, I would have had an easier time with my Latin vocab, but…

Dinner was fun. We ate at a small Vietnamese place. We must have filled up half the restaurant. It’s amazing, the topics that pop up while we’re waiting for food.

The plan was to go to GelatoMilano after that and get some ice cream. P and I were hurrying because we were supposed to be heading home, but when we got there people started to leave…and while I’d been hurrying I hadn’t realized that tonight was probably the last time I would be seeing them again. People are moving on with their lives. TIC won’t be the same if they don’t come back.

Even for the rest of the people I have to wait until the next get-together or next summer. That’s too long. In the BART station, Kass was saying that every year these good-byes get more and more emotional.

One year…is too long not to say goodbye. Forever without a bittersweet hug is unforgivable.

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…this just made my day xD

http://www.morbidoptimism.com/asc.html

Mood: Edgy (behind on homework)
Event of the Day: Waking up at noon despite the fact that I went to bed at 9:30 last night

Katie left today ): I hope her flight was alright. I’m going to miss her so much…talking to her on the internet isn’t the same.

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Mood: Happy
Event of the Day: going to Japantown with a bunch of buddies

Eh, sorry I haven’t updated in a while. Latin is a very unforgiving class once you fall behind.

Anyways, we finally got Katie to agree to a group-trip somewhere before she leaves for Maryland…which will be this Tuesday. ): There was a restaurant in Japantown called Benihana, where the cook prepares the food right in front of you. Pretty cool. It was part of our plan to go there.

We got off to a sort of late start, and there was quite a bit of traffic. But heck, when you’ve got five girls in one car and at least three of them are hyperactive, you can stand an hour of snail’s-pace. Parking was easy to handle as well, we got one that was right in front of the Japantown building.

Once we got inside, we didn’t want to go eat quite yet…so we visited a couple of shops 8D The bookstore has a sdjkfhksdjkin huge manga section. I found all the series I read, and I finally, FINALLY got the last book of the Magic Knight Rayearth series. Out of MKR I and II it was the only one I didn’t have. -happy- I had to really force myself not to ask my dad to buy the other three books of Gundam Astray R as well, since each book was a little more than $10. D:

Then we stopped by the…stationary store??? O: I got a .3 and a .9 pencil, and 2B lead for each. Hecka cool. :]

Ok, so we finally decided to get food and go down to Benihana’s, only to find out that without reservations, seats would only be available in an hour or an hour and a half’s time. So we trooped back and after a bit of debate, went to a noodlehouse and had ramen. Then dessert-crepes. Mwahar.

While we were waiting for Jackie to finish her crepe (she decided to get one last-minute, after watching us eat ours…and she thought the process of crepe-making was hecka cool), we were watching this Utada Hikaru concert show on the TV. I didn’t recognize her, but I recognized the three songs we listened to…except there was one I couldn’t name. -must find!-

As we were about to leave, we wrote wishes on paper strips and hung them from the bamboo plants in the entrance lobby…I hope my wish comes true. :)

My dad drove us all to my place, where we played Guitar Hero until everyone was picked up. So much fun, hehe. I finally found out what that bloody little stick is for on the guitar. Too bad I can’t use it for beans.

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…that I had two cousins in Australia :O!

Mood: Sleepy, content
Event of the Day: Described below…

Anyways, today after piano lessons, we drove down to the bay. My mom’s cousin’s family was moving from Australia to Shanghai, but for some reason they stopped in California for a while. They or somebody they knew was having a party on a boat, and it turns out that they have two sons…

…which means that they’re our second cousins.

The older one was named Jo (Joe? I dunno, for some reason I think it’s Jo). I think he’s 18, maybe 17. In any case he graduated from high school in Australia, and is going to university in Shanghai. Well, I think. I’m really not too sure.

The younger one is a year older than me and a year younger than Tansen, named Chris. He’s really into video games and computers too.

Anyways, they’re pretty awesome. They’re a social family, so there wasn’t much awkwardness. I think. Once again, I didn’t know they existed until…what, yesterday? And it only registered that they were cousins when we were introduced.

It was a lot of fun. The shipyard is a little cold, but a peaceful and quiet place to watch seagulls bashing mussels open on the ground. Tansen and I walked around for a while, kicking the shells into the water.

We played some chess and chinese checkers with two other siblings. Well, Jo stayed upstairs by himself for a while…Chris said he wasn’t too happy about leaving Australia. But he did eventually come down to watch the chess game.

Yea, they’re cool. They invited us to go sailing, but we had homework…sdfkhsdjklfsd…It’s too bad they’re moving to Shanghai. =/

Lol I love their accents. Jo’s is a lot stronger than Chris’s. :]

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…they finally forced me to get a cell phone.

Mood: okay…comme ci, comme ca
Event of the Day: discussing whether it was easier to break a Samsung or a RAZR

My dad forced me to get a cell phone. Blinding red Samsung. At first I was going to get a grey RAZR (hey, there weren’t that many choices) with a holographic-ish front, but then the guy mentioned that if I was planning to drop my cell phone once in a while, I should probably stick with the Samsung. It’s so big D:

Now I needa find out how to use it. >——>

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