bonjour 0 comments add
July 16, 2007 at 6:49 pm permalink

new favorite store = trader joe's. i was telling my co-worker (who is much older) this and she said she hated trader joe's because it was full of label-reading yuppies who talk on their cell phones all day...after which my cell phone rang...8[ meh


anyway, onward to more pressing matters: HARRY POTTER DROPS JULY 21ST..puahaha

ashwin likes to toss salads

ella ella eh eh eh

summer!!! 0 comments add
May 20, 2007 at 12:37 am permalink

lots o' swimming
sky diving
goo goo dolls
daft punk
mcat classes
good foood
new recipes
daylight savings
summer heat
probaby a lot of ice cream
partypartyparty
new apartment


sup to the sup sup 8]
(props to whoever can guess where this the above is from)

margaret cho on vt shootings 0 comments add
April 21, 2007 at 7:41 am permalink

Our Humanity
4/17/07

Whenever anything really bad happens around Korean people, that is when I would like to hide, go to Hawaii and eat spam sushi until it blows over. I don’t want to comment on it because I don't want to escalate the situation and I don't want to implicate myself in it. I don't want to 'come out' as Asian because therein lies a tremendous responsibility that I never volunteered for, that I don't have any real control over, and that is as mysterious to me as it is to someone who isn't Asian.

So here is the whole terrible mess of the shootings at Virginia Tech. I look at the shooter's expressionless face on the news and he looks so familiar, like he could be in my family. Just another one of us. But how can he be us when what he has done is so terrible? Here is where I can really envy white people because when white people do something that is inexplicably awful, so brutally and horribly wrong, nobody says – “do you think it is because he is white?” There are no headlines calling him the “White shooter." There is no mention of race because there is no thought in anyone's mind that his race had anything to do with his crime.

So much attention is focused on the Asian-ness of the shooter, how the Korean community is reacting to it, South Korea's careful condolences and cautiously expressed fear that it will somehow impact the South Korean population at large.

What is lost here is the grief. What is lost is the great, looming sadness that we should all feel over this. We lose our humanity to racism, time and time again.

I extend my deepest sympathies to all those who lost their loved ones, their children, their friends and family, in this unimaginable tragedy. I send them all the love I have in me, and I encourage everyone to do the same.

rilo kiley - a better son/daughter 1 comments add
March 30, 2007 at 5:26 am permalink

i don't think i've given this song a good listen until today..it's too appropriate right now..on repeat..and i'm glad i found it..or ?that it found me?

Sometimes in the morning I am petrified and can't move
Awake but cannot open my eyes
And the weight is crushing down on my lungs
I know I can't breathe
And hope someone will save me this time
And your mother's still calling you insane and high
Swearing it's different this time
And you tell her to give in to the demons that possess her
And that god never blessed her insides
Then you hang up the phone and feel badly for upsetting things
And crawl back into bed to dream of a time
When your heart was open wide and you love things just because
Like the sick and dying

And sometimes when you're on
You're really fucking on
And your friends they sing along
And they love you
But the lows are so extreme
That the good seems fucking cheap
And it teases you for weeks in its absence
But you'll fight and you'll make it through
You'll fake it if you have to
And you'll show up for work with a smile
And you'll be better
You'll be smarter
More grown up and a better daughter or son
And a real good friend
And you'll be awake
You'll be alert
You'll be positive though it hurts
And you'll laugh and embrace all of your friends
And you'll be a real good listener
You'll be honest
You'll be brave
You'll be handsome and you'll be beautiful
You'll be happy

Your ship may be coming in
You're weak but not giving in
To the cries and the wails of the valley below
Your ship may be coming in
You're weak but not giving in
And you'll fight it you'll go out fighting all of them

bicycling 0 comments add
November 15, 2006 at 5:14 am permalink

i now own an overpriced vintage yellow road bike, and am excited to prowl the streets of berkeley with it. look out, lance armstrong..

my right eye will not stop twitching 0_~

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