Corners of My Mind: Archive

From one home to another

I’ve gone from living in female dorms to a female house.

Oct 19th

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Routine, unscheduled

Life has settled into a routine, of sorts. Work —> Dinner w/ A —> Play/relax. But I have so many things I still want to do. And so often, things happen. Yesterday, a birthday dinner with A’s coworkers. Today, bargain shopping with a college buddy. When will I do laundry? Write a letter to Joel, my Compassion International child? When will I write and send those emails and...

Oct 19th

Day 1 - Single Life

After Work: Took a new route that worked out well and ended up at… Sprouts! To buy Onion Rye Bread and some salad fixings (namely just the leafy part…). Got a bag of 3 organic romaine hearts for $1.50, and decided it was a decent enough deal. Dropped by the bank in the next plaza over to run some errands, then drove home. Realized the sky was starting to get dark as I was parking,...

Oct 11th

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Learning to Grow Up

Praying for the right words to say Thinking about how I want to have acted if I were to look back on the current situation Contemplating God’s identity Separating love from routine Going stir-crazy when not challenged

Oct 4th

Work World

Tidbits of life from a college gal: Having gone through life expecting everything to be smooth….. well, everything was and is smooth. I’m just slowly realizing what kind of job I want, and that process, while smooth, may not be the most fun.

Sep 28th

Aug 29th

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Cucumber Water

Chopped up a peeled cucumber, threw it into a glass pitcher and poured in filtered water. Stuck a sprig of homegrown mint beneath the cucumber slices and refrigerated for two hours. Ahh, a perfect summer afternoon drink.

Aug 26th

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Banana Smoothies

Bananas are super easy to eat in smoothie form. Yum….

Aug 26th

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Jul 16th

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Home

Driving through the streets of my hometown(s) is like driving through landmines… you have to do it with the utmost caution, constantly on guard for sudden explosions (aka cars darting out of driveways, cars swerving, etc.).

Jul 12th

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Yosemite

It was gorgeous. It was fun. But I’m glad to be back… Pictures soon!

Jun 20th

Yosemite

Heading out to Yosemite tomorrow morning with A and family plus extended family and family friends. Excited to enjoy more of God’s beautiful creation— meadows, waterfalls, rivers, rolling hills, wildlife, and so much more! Hopeful to make friends with all of them since this is the first time I’m spending an extended amount of time with them (in close quarters too!). Praying for...

Jun 16th

Delicious

I’ve been enjoying being a college graduate by cooking (and driving!) a good amount these past few weeks. Today was A’s first weekday as a college graduate; we celebrated this morning by cooking a Baked Apple Oatmeal dish and Fluffy Weiner-Onion-Tomato Omelettes spiced with homegrown chilies and Mexican salsa picante. We’ve enjoyed cooking for my parents a lot, this morning...

Jun 13th

Perfectionist Tendencies

I don’t consider myself as having a type-A personality, nor do I consider myself a perfectionist. But in realizing that I really hate being bad at the things I choose to do, I also realize that I may indeed have some perfectionist tendencies to surrender.

May 25th

God, never let me forget that you are good and that your mercies endure forever.

May 3rd

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Last Assignment

Stress. I’ve got enough time to finish it, but it feels so big, it feels so incomplete. But God is bigger, and so I’m more than okay.

May 3rd

Hello World!

It’s past 3am and I’m still up. Maybe I should stay up for the sunrise!

May 3rd

May 2nd

Painting

I like painting, but at 10:40pm after having taken a final, I feel pretty exhausted. Figuring out transportation for Friday is more difficult than I would have thought.

Apr 28th

The weeks go by

Week 0 (this week): Thesis Week 1: Painting + Job Apps Week 2: Finals + Job Apps (no more going to work…) Week 3: Senior Week (no more going to class, no more going to work, to all extent and purposes no longer a college student) Graduation. Week 4: Catalina. Week 5: The currently unimaginable is here.

Apr 19th

3.5 weeks...

25 days: 17 hours: 35 minutes. Then I must face the music and embrace my next identity.

Apr 19th

Groupies

Everybody has their circle of friends. Why do I want to be in ones that I should be in but that I am not in?

Apr 19th

I am unhappy because my thesis is not of good quality. This is not satisfactory. I do not want to turn this thesis in.

Apr 19th

Thesis Block

I had a lot of caffeine today. I had breakfast. I had some oatmeal and a hardboiled egg. I took a nap. I had lunch. I had soup and tea. I worked on thesis. I had work. I had a 3 hour class. I had dinner. I was hungry and ate a lot of food. I worked on thesis. I worked on thesis. I worked on thesis. I hit thesis block with 3 more hours of alertness left. Productivity declined to...

Apr 14th

Fighting panic over the hunt

Apr 5th

Becoming nocturnal

I’ve become nocturnal, sleeping past 4 and waking up at 11…

Apr 4th

You know it...

- “We’re going to be the real next millionaires” - “What, is he here? No? Then what, is he going to come here and beat me up? Come on, just have fun, nothing serious” - “No need… for. a. phone!” (x5— rapping to the beat) - “I like your dress, it feels sexy.. what’s it made of?”…. “M: fabric.”…...

Apr 2nd

bittermatcha asked: WHY?

Mar 28th

Couture Courier, I like your blog, but I don’t understand why you are following me… who are you and why are you following me?

Mar 28th

Hi of 72...

Hi of 72* on Saturday! I’m so going home this weekend.

Mar 1st

Feb 25th

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Sugar

College has gotten me addicted to dessert.

Feb 23rd

Post-LV

I thought I was just bothered by the loneliness once everybody left, but it’s more just that I’m having best friends-withdrawal. I miss the silly world of banter over ethnicity and

Feb 22nd

UCR

Uniform Crime Reports or University of California, Riverside?

Feb 16th

Amazing Love

Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens,your faithfulness to the clouds. -Psalm 36:5 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. -Romans 8:38-39

Feb 5th

Warm Spring Mornings (aka early summer mornings)

I forgot how much I love early summer mornings. “Summer in January?!” you say. Well, late spring mornings then… it’s been unseasonably sunny with crisp air just a tad moist. The things you miss out on when you don’t wake up before 10…

Jan 25th

Call of Duty

Jury duty in LA’s financial district— felt official, mature, young, local, and foreign all at once. Beautiful area… need to go back with Allen and our cameras so we can look even more like tourists.

Jan 11th

Allow 30 minutes of aeration

And I love Trader Joe’s Petit Reserve Pinot Noir. Sweet, smooth. Try it with salami, fresh mozz, and fresh baguette slices.

Jan 7th

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The Future.

Applying for jobs is a scary process. Not only do I have to figure out what to apply for, but I also have to figure out what in my past and present make me the right person for what I’ve chosen to apply for. Then I work hard for several hours, send it in, and must wait until I get notified of success or failure. I hope and pray for success. Following Shell’s post: ...

Dec 11th

Nostalgic and mushy.

The past couple of weeks have made me mushy and nostalgic. Looking at pictures of this summer, of the weeks before A left for study abroad, of LTG this past weekend… I’m apprehensive about what the future holds, but also so very excited. And this WB? So excited for hanging out with package. Which, in lieu with the package group in my gmail, includes the girls and C and A. Maybe LV,...

Dec 7th

I’ve never been so traumatized by a rooming situation.

Dec 5th

Know who you are; be humble, but proud

Anybody who says Asian Americans do not have a unique culture is dead wrong. We are so very different from everything else I know. We acknowledge our heritage— indeed we should own it proudly, but please, without ethnic generalizations— and at the same time have a culture and a nationality different from what our physical appearance tells the world. And for those, like me, who grew up...

Dec 3rd

HI :D

Nov 30th

Fail

Applied to a job I don’t qualify for and am not interested in. Oops…

Nov 22nd

I haven’t posted much since my facebook status got written on by some stranger that got into my account (left facebook logged on while using a public network…..). It’s an interesting time of year.

Nov 12th

The longest game of Monopoly played in a bathtub...

dorsavestheday: ohyeahfacts: (The Book of Useless Information) i want to do this Why would you play monopoly in a bathtub? The gameboard would get soggy…

Nov 5th

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Friday

I like doing homework and figuring out problems while sitting on the floor in my room with the windows thrown open and the blinds pulled up taut, praise music pouring worshipfully from my laptop. The only problem is that my butt gets sore. I love sunshine. It lifts my spirit and makes my soul sing.

Nov 5th

Working, thriving, living everyday. The rest of this semester is going to fly by.

Nov 2nd

Intermediate Macroeconomics

A midterm that would have taken me two hours to do, that I could very well have gotten an A on, got crunched into less than an hour. The result? The worst midterm I’ve taken since my first year of college, hands down. What’s sad is that I’ve spent hours prepping for this test, hence the could’ve done it with more time…

Oct 28th

Today’s kind of weather is my all-time favoritest kind.

Oct 27th