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January 30, 2004

Tests

I got bored. I snatched this test off a website: here

These are my results:
1. You are attracted to those who have split personality, like cold
as ice on the outside, but hot as fire in the heart.

2. In the process of courtship, the approach that would make you
feel irresistable is creative, never let you feel bored.

3. The impression you would like to give to your lover is stylish.

4. You don't like it when your partner is emotional and/or too
moody; and you don't know how to please him/her.

5. The kind of relationship you would like to build with your
partner is one that you care not only about the present but
also the future with your partner, a long-lasting relationship
that you can grow with.

6. You care about the society and morality, you won't do anything
wrong after marriage.

7. You think of marriage as a precious thing. Once you get married,
you'll treasure it and your partner very much.

8. At this moment, you are quite self-centered; you think of love as
something you can get and trash anytime you want.

I wonder if these are true. I think the beginning of 8 is true. Boo.
Actually, aren't most of them true?

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January 29, 2004

Cats...

I think...Portia is mad at me. Yesterday, she had a little bit of diarreha. B/c I didn't want poop potentially dripping all over my room, I decided to give her a butt wipe. This, for Simon, as he has a stinky butt anyway, has never been a problem. However, apparently for Portia, this was extraordinarily tramatic. I think she still hasn't forgiven me for wiping her butt. Now, when she sees me she runs in fear (ie, under the bed, darts away to underneath my chair, runs toward the bathroom...). This makes me sad. I am sort of worried about her as I think she is the one throwing up on my floor too. Stupid kitties.

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January 28, 2004

Bad Start

You know it's going to be a bad day when you wake up to meowing kittens that will not shut up. Especially when they are more persistent than usual. Then you find that one of them has barfed all over the place.

Then you discover that, hell, one of your toenails is FALLING OFF. Literally. I knew something felt sort of weird, but this morning, I realized that in actuality, my entire toenail was hanging by a small piece. It's never happened before. Should I just cut it off?

Then, while walking down my steep driveway, I slipped and fell. Scraping my hand on the snow and asphalt. Basically ripped off the upper layer of my left palm. On further inspection of the driveway, I realized I left a blood mark. It was sort of....intriguing. In a disgusting sort of way. Felt like a random wild animal having been killed and left blood stains everywhere. I know, I'm being dramatic. BUT, I've never left blood in snow before. Anyhoot, needless to say, it took me another good five minutes afterwards to get down the driveway.

Lastly, I got yelled by the bus lady. And I dunno, being yelled by a bus lady just puts one in a bad mood. ESPECIALLY when I didn't do anything wrong (except maybe yell out "back door" not enough times for her to realize that I DID want to get off). Ugh.

Oh, and Pittsburgh is bitch ass cold today. And friggin' CMU hasn't salted/shovelled any of the sidewalks. That always puts me in a good mood too. :)

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January 27, 2004

Espresso

I made the perfect double shot espresso today (like two minutes ago). No spillage anywhere. God...perfect espresso shots are hard to come by nowadays. It's going to be a great day. :) <-- this will become an emoticon when I get off my lazy ass. But until then, that will have to do.

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January 21, 2004

Mean, but true

A "friend" of mine that I have been waiting to graduate, has told someone that he might actually decide to stay for a PhD. I would literally cry if this happened. He happens to be a dick to me, but apparently since he is friends with my friends, I end up having to hang out with him in social settings. Basically, it's sort of the same awkardness when two people who have mutual friends break up. In this unpleasant situation, the only light at the end of the tunnel was that he had vowed to leave after getting a MS (ie: he said he would rather die than stay and extolled the wonders of industry even though he has NEVER been in industry before, and mocked up for wanting to stay). But now that he cannot find a job (loser - ok that's sort of mean, but whatever), he has decided that he might stay. That would suck. Man.

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January 20, 2004

Feeling sick.

You know it's going to be a bad day when you wake up and gorge yourself on Doritos. Death to my cousin who left them out on the table for me to see this morning. I dunno what I was thinking. Tummy ache.

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January 19, 2004

Today is a depressing day.

Today is a depressing day. Can't concentrate.

Why is no one at school?

I think today is a holiday...well, SHIT.

Posted by szujin at 09:49 AM | Comments (1)

January 14, 2004

Leavin' Taiwan in about five

Leavin' Taiwan in about five hours (literally lifting off and waving goodbye). Sort of depressed b/c leaving Taiwan basically means I have to go back to Pittsburgh. And Pittsburgh means facing reality and getting back to work, netiher of which I am too thrilled to be doing. I really like Taiwan. Sometimes I wonder if it's only because I haven't had to work here, and being Taiwan means relaxing and doing nothing. OR if beyond all else, I just like Taiwan. It's probably a mixture of both.

So, I guess...this is probably it for me in Taiwan. Boo.

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January 13, 2004

Feeling: extraordinarily rejected. Down. Blah.

Feeling: extraordinarily rejected. Down. Blah. Not surprised.

Sort of annoyed b/c I really don't like my research topic. Feels uninnovative.

Posted by szujin at 09:24 AM | Comments (0)

January 11, 2004

Do all females become super

Do all females become super bitches when they have kids? My mom is really pissing me off right now.

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Saturday, my dad took us

Saturday, my dad took us to the mountains near Taipei. It was like, the perfect day for hiking and looking at the scenery. We went on a 2.5 km hike to some grassland where they have wild cows. The wild cows like to poop a lot. On the trails. Their poop is extraordinarily large. I took pictures. :)

Other than that, we also went to a hot spring (my first!). Apparently, the fact that the water in the hot spring is filled with sulfur is a GOOD thing. Too bad sulfur smells like fart. Yay on the cleansing properties of sulfur (although I fail to see how that is really quite possible as sulfur when touches water happens to explode...), boo on smelling like fart for the rest of the day.

Today, we went to a gym that my parents are thinking about joining. Being that I am stupid and cannot do conversions between miles and km (ie miles/hr vs km/hr) in my head (I really did try...), I set the speed on the treadmill to a speed that was WAY over my head. So, the first km I did was apparently (after doing the calculations on a calculator...heh) basically, a 6.5 minute mile. That was the fastest (and hardest) km I ever ran. Felt pretty stupid afterwards too. Heh. At least I can do conversions for distances easily. :)

Side note: I think that if I don't get married, I'm going to be one of those scary women with 40 bazillion cats. That worries me. Every homeless cat I see, I want to take home. I think that is the beginnings of an obsession. Friggin' A, I better get married....

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January 09, 2004

Done. I still feel like

Done. I still feel like a fatass. :(

Posted by szujin at 11:54 AM | Comments (1)

My grandmother (on my mom's

My grandmother (on my mom's side) went into the ER yesterday morning. They were pretty worried about her since her heart stopped TWICE that morning. So, we decided to go down to Chiayi yesterday instead of Saturday. My aunt was freaking out when we got there (after a four hour drive), and it was really really depressing. ICUs make me slightly queasy. I'm not sure if it's the smell or the way the people look in there, but I always get really depressed when I am there. Reminds me when my other grandmother was there...

On the other hand, we found out today that she is going to be ok (well, at least she is stable now, thank goodness). So since my dad had work function back up in Taipei, we drove back up today. Lots of driving for us. I think I am getting office butt already...

Other annoying/interesting/gross things:

1) I got a mosquito bite inside my ear. You kno how they say when your ear itches someone is saying something bad about you? Well, it's like someone is perpetually talking shit about me. Huh.

2) I bought a shitpile of junk food. Some for my advisor, some for me. I'm so nice to my advisor. :) But, basically, my dad had said we could stay in a hotel in Tainan when we were there last night, but we ended up staying at a relative's place. So I guilt tripped my mom and dad into letting me splurge at Mitsukoshi how much it would have been to stay at the hotel that I found (about 3000 NT, not that I spent that much, but it's the principle)

3) I inadvertently borrowed (and read) a gay comic book series. So, the author of this series wrote this other series that I really liked (Full House). So, I figured since she had started a new series, I would check it out. I didn't bother to look at the cover since it showed TWO GUYS, and since my Chinese isn't good enough to really be able to tell the gender in names (while reading the synopsis in the back), I decided not to let the fact that the front looked like two guys (as sometimes guys and girls sort of look alike in comics) and started reading it. I dunno why, maybe I am not "open" enough to this kind of stuff, but when I expected it to be a love story between a guy and a girl, and it ends up being between a guy and a guy (as there is a girl who is in love with one of the guys, but JOKE ON ME, he's in love with another guy), it sort of weirded me out. I finished it, as I did pay money to borrow it. But still...it was sort of, a 'hmm' kind of experience...

4) I've lasted until today not washing my hair (as I wasn't supposed to wash it until Friday night, starting onTuesday). It is SO nasty. I usually wash my hair once, twice a day. But, for this hair straightening thing, I had to wait. Which precluded me from working out...which is why I have been feeling the office butt...

BUT...I get to work out today. So hah. :)

Posted by szujin at 10:25 AM | Comments (0)

January 07, 2004

Learned how to focus on

Learned how to focus on objects that are close with my digital camera today. This makes me happy, as I was getting frustrated that I couldn't take really good pix. It makes me feel stupid b/c it was really easy to do it. One click and beautiful close up pix. *Sigh*

Posted by szujin at 03:47 AM | Comments (0)

January 06, 2004

My hair is flat. It's

My hair is flat. It's different. Makes my face feel a little wide. But it's cool. Too bad I can't wash my hair for three days. And I can't really move my head around as my hair might set in that manner...which is slightly disturbing too. I think I might have to sleep sitting upright or something now....

BUT...my hair is flat. :)

Posted by szujin at 11:40 AM | Comments (0)

January 05, 2004

Ohmigod. I hate slow computers.

Ohmigod. I hate slow computers. I don't know how my parents deal with this POS laptop. The stupidest part is that I have a laptop that they could use (that is mad faster, even for it's gimpiness), but my mom is very insistent on using this one. Stupid stupid stupid. So now I have to install the JVM on the machine (which should be easy), but for some stupid reason, the program that installs it decides that it likes to crap out half way through. Annoying. Fixable, but annoying.

On other hand, going to get my hair straight permed today. Sort of excited, a little bit nervous. What if it ends up too straight and flat and then l... (GRR...have to take a moment to vent. So laptop not running on AC power, decides that battery is low, so not only does it warn me, but it decides to send itself into hibernation...while I am friggin downloading the JVM software. PISS ME OFF. Oh...and now the AC power has a high pitched constant SHRILL. WTF)...

Posted by szujin at 09:29 PM | Comments (0)

Are video games supposed to

Are video games supposed to suddenly crash on you when you play them on a Gameboy Advance? I was in the last battle for the game I am playing (Golden Sun), the dialogue takes forever to get to the gameplay (which, btw, isn't all that exciting), and halfway through, it BARFS. Now I am less inclined to finish it. Doh.

Posted by szujin at 01:33 AM | Comments (2)

January 04, 2004

Another thing about suburbia: You

Another thing about suburbia: You can work out and make noise whenever you want and not have to worry about pissing off your neighbors (at least the ones who live a floor below you...)

Posted by szujin at 11:38 AM | Comments (0)

Ughh...I feel sick. Eating too

Ughh...I feel sick. Eating too much is not so good for the stomach. Actually, eating mad crazy spicy hot pot is not good for the tummy either. I woke up feeling like my stomach was going to roll over and die. But then, after I got over that, I went on a mad crazy eating spree again. And now, my tummy hurts again. *sigh*

My parents might join a gym, which is a bit exciting for me. It's not quite as cool as California (for some odd reason, I have this great affinity for the gym, and hell, if it were up to me, I would probably live there), but it works well for my parents (as it has a swimming pool). I really miss the gym. Eating is not half as much fun if you don't get to work it all off. Bleh.

Thought for the moment: Standing in front of an "automatic" door in a crowded restaurant, waiting for the door to open for 10 seconds is really embarrassing. Especially if you realize after ten seconds that the door isn't really automatic and you have just been standing there looking like an idiot.

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January 02, 2004

Some interesting/disturbing things happened today.

Some interesting/disturbing things happened today. Some thoughts crossed my mind, I thought I would just enumerate:

1. A girl, I would say about 20-25 called me, "older sister" when she asked me to take a picture for her and her bf. I was really disturbed by this. Do I really look that old that someone that I think looks about the same age as me feels inclined to call me older sister? I think I am having a major crisis about getting old.

2. My uncle told me that he had a co-worker that drinks his first pee of the day every morning. Apparently, this is becoming a new trend. He said that his friend who had white hair, after drinking his pee for a while, turned it all back to black. My first and only thought to this was, "that's NASTY" and that was about it.

3. I am in love with suburbia. We went to Costco in Taipei today, and the Costco was exactly the same as the ones in States, including the ample parking space. I like ample parking space. I like not parallel parking. As we drove around the parking lot, I was reminded of how much cooler suburbia is, and how I can't wait to have the house in suburbia with the garage and large kitchen. (Yes, I know, I am a freak).

4. Listening to a lot of Taiwanese is extraordinarily tiring. I never realized how strenous it is for me to listen to it all day long. I always thought I was pretty decent at listening to it (as my speaking is really quite terrible), but apparently my parents usually switch between Taiwanese and Mandarin, which makes it easier for me. But my relatives and my mom spoke in Taiwanese for the entire day, and by nighttime, I felt really drained. Like I had been listening to a foreign language for the entire day. Weird, huh?

5. I bought the chinese version of the second Harry Potter book. They didn't have the first one, but hell, I've read the english ones, so I should be ok. Figured I should give another go at retaining my chinese.

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