Woke up to wash the mascara off my face
Wondering why he was embodied with me
But its not amnesia or a drunken dream
Just another case of lonliness -- the typical
Physical, low sober feeling one gets at night
Nothing happened, for a fact, yet something did
That I don't regret, but I don't understand
Are we fooling ourselves that we have something?
Left him in his sleep with a quiet good-bye
Unsure of next time us two friends meet again.

In lieu of all our uber religious Catholic friends out there, me and several of my hallmates and classmates are observing Lent with them.

Indeed, practically none of us are affiliated to any religion, so this seems completely new. But one of my fellow athiest hallmates convinced me with the reason he chose to sacriface cussing: Lent seems like a good excuse to practice self-descipline. And I agree that, if you really need to cut down on something, why not do it? Especially with friends also trying to better themselves, cutting down on a bad habit seems more appealing when it doesn't have to be done alone.

Since school began, I've probably gained about 8 pounds from my daily (sometimes bi-daily) side dish of potato salad, bag of candy, and 2 (sometimes 3) desserts every night. So this year, I'm giving up anything from the dessert bar for 40 days and 40 nights. Hopefully, there won't be apple pie a' la mode anytime soon. Oh I'm such a sucker for pies. Maby this is gonna be harder than I thought it would be...

Eww... my dickies, track jacket, gloves, shoes, EVERYTHING is soaking wet. I walked into my chem midterm looking like I just showered with all my clothes on. Apparently, everyone else living in the city of Davis decided not to bike today, except for moi.

Seriously, bring on the sunshine goddamit! Rain is totally great at home when it comes sparingly, but c'mon, this is not fun whatsoever. Must go swimming, get a tan, look healthy. Maby I can just go swimming all summer. Even tho I want a job, I doubt there's many places offering employment for only 2 and 1/2 months. Oh well, then I can spend my time remodeling my bedroom and looking/making decorations and furniture for the apartment.

This morning, I woke up to my hallmates shouting and running down my doorway to look at this:



There's a huge storm today, and unfortunately, two hapless souls from my building got their cars smashed in by the giant tree. We all went out there with our cameras (cause every college student must have a digital camera to post current happenings of their lives on their blogs, xangas, etc.), including yours truly, to gawk at the scene. This pic is from Chris. Well, most of my hallmates from my side of the building were awake, but no one saw or heard the tree fall. Hmm... maby they don't make any noise...

"Does a tree make a sound if it falls in the forest?" - Professor on Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Well Fritz stayed over in our living room last night. It was good: talking, joking, good times. Why is it that I love any visitor more than the one(s) that come regularly(weekly)? Actually, I like anybody more than Mr. I-have-to-come-every-other-day-to-obssess-over-my-wifey.

Anyway, must remind myself to visit more 'ol classmate friends, the ones that I enjoy being around. Khoa visited me/Davis kids four times this year, counting friday, and I still haven't called him up when I'm in Milpitas. Oh my, I've been forgetting to reciprocate my friendships. Meh. :/

What to do in Sportmart during an end-of-the season sale for snowboards? Buy one of course!

Alrite, so I've never snowboarded before and have only SEEN snow once in my entire life. That just makes buying an entire snowboarding package even more motivating to go out to the slopes. With the help of May, I got fitted boots, bindings, and a nicely cut and curved board for $184.50. Too bad my black/baby blue bindings don't match my black and red samurai board. But hey, they were the cheapest equipment made of good quality.

God, I'm so psyched to go snowboarding now!

thursday: tubby's sis Cat came over. She's still here and she's cool. Much cooler than poo-ngan-ee. Too bad he's coming over AGAIN today. Blah.

Math midterm, woke up for it. yay! wasnt too bad.

Ehh... got tired of the standard template, so I finally changed it. My first homemade heading. Nothing special with this heading, but it's a start. I just learned Photoshop 2 months ago, and stopped a lil less than 2 months ago. Oh my... commitment is not my friend.

P.S. It may take a few "refresh"-ings to see anything.

Drove back up to Davis from Milpitas in the rain. Rain is your friend, so please don't slow down on the road.

Those VH1 promo commercials with all the black and white drawing effects on music videos is totally awesome. I wonder who sings that song "dooo yooo know... that you have the most be-yooo-tiful face... do yoooo feeel..."

I'm trying to post everyday as my way of being "committed". That sounds like I'm being institutionalized.

It's my pathetic attempt to a relationship - me, my blog - but that's what us singletons must do for Commercialized Love Day a.k.a. Valentines Day. Well, I'm not that alone; tomorrow is also Cindy's day of birth celebration. Good food with good friends - I can never get tired of that.

Is my alarm clock forever doomed to never work when I have a midterm?

So once again I accidently slept in. This time missing my chem lecture and half of my english, the one and only day with an in-class essay. Good thing my English teacher gave me the choice of having less than an hour to write or show up to her next class. I chose the latter. And good thing the prompt was on an excerpt from The Joy Luck Club, which practically every MHS kid was required to read.

Anyways, Spring registration is tomorrow morning. Oh man, I don't even know what classes to take.

The sun is finally out. Its almost 60 degrees outside and this can only mean one thing: Spring is on its way! Though I'm quite the Winter person, I can't help but look forward to biking in the sunshine, and not the rain. Ooo... so exciting!

No Doubt - "Marry Me"

Finally, I'm officially on the road to recovery from this whack ass "lingering cough". The one time that I DO see a doctor at the student clinic, I run out of my constant hacking mucus-blood clotted cough. Too bad... I wanted to show this nasty symptom to somebody besides my hall/classmates. At least I got some perscribed medicine, 2 nurse counsultations, and a doctor's appointment all for 10 bucks.

Most kids in my class were surprised to hear that there was even a clinic on campus. I'm so lucky that I went to the student health center for a free t-shirt during summer advising. Free things AND informing the uninformed youth... Education is great.

I'm starting to like people more. Not anyone in particular, its just that I spent most of my Fall quarter not caring about making a close-knit group of friends. Well I cared, but I never put in that effort until now. And now, there's just more people that I'm spending so much time hanging out or in class together that I can't help but form another clique. Yes yes... cliques are so high school, but I really can't help it.

Let's face it: friends make you feel happy. And indeed, I'm much happier this quarter. :o)

I like looking at my cashed checks online. Black and white photocopied checks with large sums written in MY childish chicken scratch handwriting look so... intriguing.

Hmm... I just released a hold on my registration with my adviser. I heard lots of good things about her; you know, like she's the witty type. Anyways, she probably implied several times throughout our short meeting that I was a ditz. Just cuz I'm changing majors? or was it my cheerful mood, despite my horrendous cold?

Whatever it was, I wasn't very welcomed in the strict world of engineering. I'm looking forward to getting out of that department as soon as possible.

Got a lump in my throat and a violent cough. Yay.

This is what it means to be a social antisocial.

Currently: trying to finish Lab Report while recovering from a night of drunkedness.

May's lovely cousin Jackie called us up while we were starting our lab reports. Sounded like she wanted some company at a party, so we came along. Turns out, she didn't need our company! A lot of ppl at the party just wanted to see "Joe's 'lil sis" (that would be me), since most ppl didn't know that I exist. Yea, we had this rule of never being seen together at school.

There were a lot of familiar faces there, class of '01 from MHS. Didn't intend on drinking with my bro around, but hey... what's he gonna do? Danced for like 4 hours with all his guy friends. How awkward is that? Luckily, according to May and Jackie, I was totally out of it -- talking a lot, really loud, singing? And my bro was out of it too, so its all good... I think.

Nate actually said he preferred me partying with Joe and guys I've known as a kid, cuz they can keep an eye on me. WTF? We're close and all, but Joe's never kept on eye on me! Especially not in my social life. I know my limits. Anyways, it was sooo fun, but I don't know if I'll do it again.