Beach, and a little bit of everything in Manhattan

 the girls at manhattan beach

Wednesday: Planned to go to Manhattan Beach today because it's super hot out! Viv & I took the train/bus there, which felt like forever in the heat. Calvin was already there and Viv & I just tanned until Jon, Jen, and Alex came to join later on. They had a beach umbrella so we didn't melt under the hot sun haha. Then we talked and drew silly cartoons on Jen's sketchbook. We left the beach around 5-6PM and Jon drove us to eat pho at 86st. After that I went home to take a nice, cleansing shower. That night, Sunny walked his new doggie, Telly, over. It was super adorable and friendly! We talked for a few hours and then I went to bed.

my chicken cutlet @ Cafe Orlin

Thursday: Viv & I were supposed to watch Sex & City and then hop to Letters to Juliet but that didn't happen because I ended up being super late because my internet suddenly stopped working right before I had to leave my house. My mom and cousin were nagging me to fix it and I frantically tried to somehow make it work but failed anyways. We saw Sex & City at a later time and then walked to St.Marks for some food. Viv got kind of cold so she quickly bought a sweater at American Apparrel haha. We wandered around looking for a new place to try out but couldn't find anything other than Japanese Ramen places (which I love but must try new things!). So we ended up at Cafe Orlin (Mediterranean food) at Jimmy's suggestion. Unfortunately it suddenly started raining so after we ate, we just went home :(

playing with the military gear

Friday: Last day to hang out with Viv :'( We decided to go out for Fleet Week. We first went to Times Sq where we got to see and climb aboard a tank. There were a lot of people from the Army and the Navy all around. Viv even tried to do chin ups on this high bar, which was pretty impressive since she was so tiny. There was a bunch of stuff going on, like mini shows of push-ups, and equipment exhibitions. We then migrated towards the pier at 48th and 12th ave to the ship tours. They didnt allow drinks nor pepper spray so we both chugged our drinks and Viv stuffed her pepper spray down her pants LOL. We made it through the bag search & metal detectors though so it was all good. We went aboard to one of the fleets and it was HUGE. There were tons of tanks and other big vehicles on the bottom level. We took pics with some of them but there were lines so we kept moving. There was also a big equipment exhibition so we both took pics with guns and helmets and vests, etc. Pretty cool.

the navy band

We then made our way up to the deck where there were many types of military helicopters. We took some more pics and then tried to go over to the 2nd fleet, which had really colorful helicopters. Unfortunately, it was starting to close so we couldn't get in. We walked back to Times Sq for the Fleet Week concert. We didn't know what to expect and Jon met up with us, but the concert turned out to be awesome! The navy band did many covers of popular songs and everybody had a blast. Viv thought the drummer was cute and we ended up getting a photo with him, yes! 

Went to eat Korean at 32nd street after that. I love free side dishes :) But then I realized that my the little monster doll I had gotten with the seniors was gone. It hadn't fallen off my bag because the clip is also gone. I think someone stole it :'( Damn NYC hooligans. Went home after that.

congee village, yum!!

Saturday: Today was a super, super eventful day. Met up with Google in Chinatown and went to eat at Congee Village. So delicious, I gotta go back there!! Then I tried to get a haircut but the wait was too long so I didn't end up getting one. 

 what do you think?? he looks creepy here hahah!

So we walked down to St.Marks to get sunglasses. Tried on a few pairs and we both found ones that we liked.  At first the salesman said they were 10 each. We then said no way and he just dropped the price down to $6 each. Nice.

After that Google wanted to get some lobster rolls so we went to this little place to get some. After peeing at Starbucks, we decided to go see McGruber at the movie theatre. Didn't turn out to be such a good movie but it was alright. 

Then, we went to play pool. I sucked, of course, but I learned a lot! Practiced some shots and Google of course recorded me doing terribly :( 

We then went to Khyber Pass to smoke hookah for my first time :) We had the peach and mango mix flavor. It was pretty interesting. Took a little getting used to but eventually I think I got the hang of it.

Afterwards, we got Pomme Frites as promised. We had the Vietnamese Pineapple and something Mango sauce for dipping. It was sooo good. I must go back again. We ate at a random park and then snuck inside this church to try to find a place to pee, but no success. Went back to Khyber Pass and peed hahaha. 

some guy spittin out rhymes @ union sq

THEN went to Union Square to sit on the steps. There was actually a poetry slam/rap taping going on. People were giving their best lines and some were really good, others were ehhh. It was really entertaining and I'm definitely going to miss these kinds of night-life things in NYC. Other people were dancing, music was playing, and everyone was just chilling at 1AM in the morning on these steps. I never felt more alive in NYC then now.

Happy 22nd Vivian!

 chipotle

Today was my best friend Vivian's 22nd birthday! I met up with her in the morning and we went to Battery Park to go tanning (haha!). We were originally going to the beach today but it was going to be a lot hotter tomorrow so we decided to do a pre-tan today. (I'm way too pasty from being in Rochester so long). We stopped at Chipotle first because she's never had it and I wanted to eat it with her for her first time. NYC is such a rip-off compared to Rochester! They charged extra for guacamole. GUACAMOLE!. Not to mention they skimped on everything else. Damn, being a stereotypically cheap asian makes me care too much about this. We brought the food back to Battery park and ate it while we talked for a few hours. It was a really good bonding experience, I always like these heart to heart talks with biffle :) Afterwards, we had to leave because her birthday dinner was at 6ish. 

my bff <3

We went home, took a shower, met back up and got to her dinner super late. Turns out the restaurant she picked out was closed so we randomly walked around and ate at this bar/restaurant called Firefly. It wasn't too bad there, food was kind of pricey though but it was delicious. Calvin got her a forest cake, yum. I had second helpings but all that resulted in everyone calling me a cow for my "extra stomachs" lol because I somehow always make room for more food. 

at 1849

Afterwards, we went to 1849, which was a bar on Bleecker. Their Wednesday specials were $2 Coronas and $2 Jose Cuervo shots. So we got a bunch of that and chilled there a while. We left around midnight. Met up with Kelvin when I got back home and we talked in his car for an hour or so. It was really nice catching up with him because I'm leaving soon :(

Anyways, I still have a lot of errands to run so I need to set some time out for that before I leave. Also my mom wants to "hang out" before I go back to Rochester so I have to make time for that too. By the way, I caught a ride up with Victor so I canceled my Amtrak ticket. Phew! I hate traveling long distances alone.

Graduations, back in NYC

Crap. Trying to recall the past 13 days is going to be really hard...here goes nothing! Warning: Extremely long and terrible grammar ahead.

at luxe

Tuesday (5/11): Went to a senior night tonight even though it was raining outside. It was supposed to be a pub crawl but due to the rain, we didn't really go anywhere. We went to Luxe first and had a nice corner by the window but then we tried to walk to Colony. The line was long and wasn't moving so we walked back to Luxe lol. We liked that they had lollipops (ate so many that night!) and random board games on the tables. I actually bought no alcohol tonight, wasn't really in a drinking mood, and played the game Sorry with Ling haha. 

Senior Ball @ Radisson Hotel

Thursday (5/13): Got ready in the evening at Camille's room for Senior Ball. Camille did an awesome job on my hair--she made a poofed up french braid. She also did everyone else's hair haha. Everyone looked gorgeous! Thank goodness it had stopped raining and we were able to make it onto the bus. Got to the Radisson hotel where it was based and just chilled around til everyone got here. Bumped into many familar faces and took pictures with them. Ate as much food as possible and spent a good portion of the night on the dance floor or the table, sipping on the fruity drinks from the open bar haha. It was a great night, it really reminded me of prom!

 senior champagne toast. free champagne, yes!
Friday (5/14): Had graduation rehearsal today and senior champagne toast! We also went to Senior Brunch...free food all around! I ran a bunch of errands today and that was pretty much it, i believe.

took my family on a tour of campus

Saturday (5/15): My parents, bro, and Calvin, got in around 3PM and we took a tour of campus. Then we ate at Douglas with susana's clubs (thanks!). After that, went to Walmart to get some stuff. My brother ended up getting the most items haha. Then went to this performance by campus groups. The singing groups kinda sucked but it ended well. Finally went back to Riverview & slept. My parents slept in an empty bedroom and my bro slept on my floor. Calvin took the couch. I didn't sleep at all! I think because it was way too early (around 12:30AM) so i fidgeted around in my bed for hours and finally gave up around 6am and got out of bed.

the seniors minus ling :(

Sunday (5/16): Graduation day!! Thankfully there was a shuttle from riverview to campus :) While the families took seats at the Eastman Quad, all the graduates lined up on Wilson Quad. Stood in line with the graduating Sigmas and we processed to Eastman Quad. The ceremony was ridiculously boring but it was finally over. That wasn't the end though! I had two more major graduations to go to (damn double major!!!) but good thing there was a reception after each (that means free finger food!). Finally finished all the graduations around 4 and went back to Riverview to start loading stuff in the car and move it to my new place. It was crazy hectic but we left Rochester around 6:45PM and got home around 1 or 2AM.

my family & my aunts family at malaysian

Monday (5/17): Didn't do much most of the morning because I slept in but I met up with Andy later on in 8th avenue. Got the dumplings & wonton soup I've been craving for as well as Quickly's bubble tea. Played pool for a few hours before my dad picked me up for a family dinner to celebrate my graduation. Went to eat Malaysian :p

eating at Dave & busters
Tuesday (5/18): Went to Chinatown to meet up Simon, Dillion, Andy, and Susan. It was raining though so it definitely made it an obstacle to hang out. Simon, Dillion, Andy, and I went to eat at the tunnel and then met up with Susan at Dr.Lyons. There we chilled and played these difficult verbal games haha. After that I went to meet up with David Gao for pho. We talked for a long while before I left to meet up with Simon Andy and Susan and Dave & Busters. After chilling there for a while, we all went back to Simon's for an all-nighter haha. Simon and Dillion were busy working on some project so the rest of us just did random crap. Sometime around the crack of dawn, Dillion Andy and I started playing with this autotune thing on Andy's Ipad lol. We made so many rap songs and for some reason it was mad funny at that hour. We made one rap called Fiber and sent it out. Someone commented with "GG". pretty awesome hahaha.

chillin @ kenkas

Wednesday (5/19): Woke up at Simon's around 12-1PM and went to Baruch. I went to hang out with James when Andy met up with his buddies.  Afterwards, met up with Andy again with Danny Tjeong and Paul Kim. We stopped by the AT&T store cause my phone died and I needed to recharge it lol. Then did a little shopping before we headed off to St.Marks. I left the group to stop by Ale House to say hi to kevin lin and david park, as well as a lot of UR PDPSI alums. It was nice meeting them and I stuck around way longer than i was supposed to lol. Wandered around St.Marks to find my friends because my phone died and I found them at Kenkas haha. Drank some and went home.

kenkas

Thursday (5/20): Went to Dara's house and got sushi yummm. Sat around talking & watching TV with Jon Dara and Annie for a good part of the day before I left to Manhattan later that evening. Went to the Blind Tiger bar around West 4th to meet up with Solomon, Calvin, Brian Wong, and Jack. Then we went to Kenkas and drank some more. I somehow got sucked into a 7-shots-of-JD challenge for tomorrow. sigh.

k

kelly singing on the ghetto mic

Friday (5/21): Met up with Solomon, Calvin, Brian Wong, Jack, Kenny, and Kelly for pho at 8th ave. Then we all went to Kenny's for Rock band and drinking. Lol brian and Jack made the craziest, ghetto-est microphone (with socks and hangers and papers) and microphone stand (cardboard tubes, hangers, textbook, etc). I fulfilled my 7-JD-shot challenge woot!

Saturday (5/22): Didn't go out today, but instead took a personal day to do a cleansing of my room. It hasn't change sinced I graduated high school because then I left for college. I felt like I needed to go through everything and throw out stuff I didn't need or want anymore. So I spent the whole day doing just that. I ripped my room apart and put everything back in a more organized manner. I feel a lot cleaner haha. I have a few boxes of sentimental stuff. I don't think I can ever throw those away for a long time. I'm such a pack rat!! Vivian told me last minute that she wanted me to go to her graduation and that her mom, dad, and uncle were taking off 4AM so I got ready to go.

vivs graduating!

Sunday (5/23): Slept in the car the entire time. Got to Viv's campus around 9:30 and tried to find her. Her campus smelled like poop from the fertilizers lol. But otherwise it was very rural looking! and hilly haha. Found some seats in front of these obnoxious men in suits and listened to her commencement. It was definitely shorter and more to the point than my graduation haha. I'm glad it didn't rain today. We drove back to Viv's place, quickly loaded her stuff in the van, and drove back home.

Christy at Ippudo

 Dara, Jon, Viv, & I at Asian Pub

Monday (5/24): Went out to meet Christy although I was late :( I had to transfer three times...bus to the D to the N to the 6 -_-'' It was super annoying! Went to Ippudo for my first time and it was very edgy looking inside! The noodles were delicious :p Then we went to get some red mango. yum! We also started wandering from St.Marks to Union sq and stopped by some bakeries. Christy got some ice cream called Cereal and Milk at one of the bakeries. It seriously tasted like what it's called. Then we went to some stores at Union Sq and Viv met up with me. Christy left to take care of some stuff at home. Viv and I shopped a little bit before Dara and Jon met up with us. We then walked to the Asian Pub and got some drinks during their happy hour. Their drinks were SO STRONG. So worth the 3 bucks. I had the Asian ___ and a Lychee-tini haha. They had good chips and salsa as a complementary snack. After that we went to Menkui-tei for Japanese noodle. After that we went to Pinkberry and headed off to Continental. We then ended the night at the Ale house for their $1 for 6 wings deal. Left at midnight after saying happy birthday to Viv!

OMG FINALLY DONE RECALLING THE PAST 13 DAYS!! I'm never slacking again...or will I haha. I never learn my lessons :(

La-Tea-Da, Buffalo, Senior Nights

I've been putting off my updates all week but before I forget all of it, I think I should start writing now. Despite the fact that it's 4AM and I need my beauty sleep (haha!) for Senior Ball tomorrow, I need to do this!! Nobody should have to suffer reading this extremely long and detailed post so skip this!

Friday: I *tried* to wake up early to go to work around 9AM but I failed miserably and didn't get there until 11AM. I rushed to get my last minute things done since today was my last day of my student employment. There is a two-week gap between today and the day I start full-time so I wanted to make sure everything was in order. Around 12PM I ran back to campus to catch the Red-line bus to La-Tea-Da to celebrate Camille & Frances's birthday.

La-Tea-Da is this cute cafe for "tea parties". There are many differently themed rooms and they are all tea party-themed. It's super adorable because people of all ages go and they have fancy hats and other costume accessories to help their customers feel like they are in a childhood tea-party. They have scrumptious tea and sandwiches too! There was this one moment when I was waiting for the bathroom and I looked inside this small tea party room and I see an old woman on a wheelchair and on an oxygen tank. She was adorned with a fancy hat and a pretty boa and she was clutching a stuffed animal with one arm. Across from her was a little girl who also had on a too-big hat and fake pearls. The little girl pretended to serve tea to the old woman and they were just having such a picture-perfect time. It made me smile at the innocence and sincerity of it all.

our monsters!

Afterwards a few of us walked around Park Ave. It was drizzling the whole time but it was okay. We went into some shops but there wasn't much to buy. Christy & I tried to sneakily buy a present for Camille but it failed when the cashier blatantly handed the newly wrapped present box over to us while Camille came around lol. Still, we pretended nothing happened and we snuck in the signing of her birthday card through. All of us bought matching monster dolls too!! We walked to a cafe near Eastman called Spot and chilled there sipping coffee for a long time before we took a bus downtown to the bars. Met up with Porchea and we chilled at a bar all night and then back to Annabelle's house. When I got back home, Frances was having her birthday party in our suite still so hung around for a bit before sleeping.

Saturday: Had a good sleep over at Christy's because Frances's party dragged on a lot longer than I thought and I really needed sleep so I slept over at Christy's. We were going to walk over to campus quickly because we were already kind of late to catch the bus to Darien Lake. But when we were waiting for elevator, guess who we saw when the doors opened? Nina! She drove us to campus (THANKS!!) and we caught our bus with extra time to spare. So I made a mad dash to Connections to get some breakfast for us. Got to Darien Lake around noon and it was super cold and mildy drizzling. Most roller coaster rides were closed unfortunately so we rode on whatever was open (Mind Eraser, and some wooden one). Some other rides opened up later so we went on those too. We went on the Viper twice and they took the funny rollercoaster photos and Christy & I posed both times haha.

We stopped to get some fried dough but that was such an adventure. Since it was incredibly windy and rainy, the wind blew our plate over while we were trying to pay so the lady had to re-frost it. Then we snuck into random gift shops for shelter and pretended to look at their merchandise while eating our fried dough haha. But we ran out of places to take shelter and finished the rest of it under the awning of some arcade place. Bad idea, the wind blew whatever powdered sugar was left all over us haha. It was hilarious nevertheless.

We won a stuffed animal each...although we were the only two who were versing each other LOL. We were getting extremely cold and wet midway through the day and decided we could not continue. So we figured we could try to get the bus to leave early if we gathered enough people. We stopped to get a bucket of popcorn to pass time in case the bus wouldn't leave. The popcorn stand was having issues with their cash register so we ended up getting a free giant vat of popcorn, yay! Sadly, we downed the entire bucket within the first half hour or so. Good news was that one of the bus drivers offered to drive back early. We hopped on that bus and got back to ITS with the GLC bus waiting (THANK YOU!!) Went back to Christy's room, took a shower and we both snuggled under our respective covers trying to get warm after today's awful weather. Watched some movies/TV all night and ordered chinese food.

group pic in front of hummer limo

Then I randomly got picked up by Andy Poon to go to Buffalo tonight. He drove down and picked me up and went up to Buffalo. Got ready quickly and went to someone's house to pregame. They actually got a limo for the night to go to Club Pure! Felt like prom all over again :) It was a cool place, it was more awesome seeing old friends from Tech & meeting new friends. However, because it was Buffalo there was tons of drama happening by the end of the night haha.

Sunday: Woke up mid-afternoon and went to go eat Pho with Andy, Jia, and Sabrina. Their pho's are mad tiny! Haha, still good though. Went back and watched The Office before going back out later that night to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings with some buffalo people. Played this trivia game that I completely sucked in lol. We rock-paper-scissored the blazing hot wings but for the first time I did not lose and did not have to eat any of it! :D Went back to watch more Office (haha!) and had the cravings for chocolate milk so made Andy take me to Wegmans to get some. Got some random stuff but they did not have the Nesquick chocolate milk :( But it was okay because the next gas station had it and my cravings were very satisfied.

Monday:  Woke up late and went to eat some Korean at this ghetto place modeled after a Chinese take-out restaurant. Haha. Then Andy drove me back to Rochester (thanks!!) Right afterward I took a shower since it felt like forever since I had one. Left to go to Boulder Cafe to meet Ling, Christy, and Camille. We all chilled there til we got kicked out around 9PM. Their chocolate+coffee drink is always so delicious!! Went over to Camille's and had some girl's night-out sort of thing. We had a bunch of asian magazines to help us decide what sort of hairstyle & make-up to do for Senior Ball on Thursday. We experimented on some make-up styles and then did some facials. I walked back home afterwards.

Tuesday:  Went to pick up some packages ( I've been ordering a bunch of books and some of them finally came in!) and went to Ling's room to drop off my stuff and the alcohol I brought for tonight's senior night. Then went to hang out with Tommy's at Starbucks but it was closed early for this week so we were trying to decide what to do when I had that chocolate milk craving again. We walked to CVS (super super far!) but they didn't have any so I got some Starbucks Frappucino bottled drinks.

 tommy holding my bag haha

Then went to get Susana's ID so Camille & I could get dinner cause we were both poor haha. Susana was packing and told me she had to pay for storage since she will be studying abroad next semester. So I offered her to store some stuff at my new place so she didn't have to pay so much. After dinner with Camille & Christy, I helped Susana take her stuff to my place and went to Camille's room where we got ready for the Senior Night Pub Crawl. It was starting to rain so I caught a ride back to Riverview, grabbed my boots and went to Ling's and finish getting ready. We all head out to the bars.

Luxe

The first one we went to was called Luxe. It was nice and we had a really good seating arrangement. I couldn't find my credit card and suspected I left it on the bus to the bars so I checked every bus that looped back to the bars and finally found it on my 2nd try! Phew :) We left Luxe to check out Colony but it was too full to get in and it was raining so we went back to Luxe where we stayed at the rest of the night. Ling &I played the board game Sorry for a while (No idea why there were board games but believe it) Went home later on.

i look awful in his gear

Wednesday: Did nothing for most of the day. Made some kimchi fried rice in the morning and ate it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner haha. Hung out with John Foote later that night. We were watching HIMYM and Family Guy and played some drinking games with the Family Guy flashbacks haha. But then we got distracted when we started talking about stupid stuff lol. First we had to settle a long time debate about how we first started talking. He said that I messaged him about biology and I said I would never do such a thing to a stranger. So I checked my AIM logs and turns out HE WAS THE SKETCHBAG! He messaged me first for most of our conversations haha. Then I laughed at his murses and his love life and etc. Too bad our college years is coming to an end because we just realized that all those times we spoke we wanted to chill but both of us didn't want to get rejected so we never asked. Haha. 

Transitions

Went to work today and my bosses surprised me with a graduation gift. They wrote me really cute card and gave me a gift card. Then they showered me with compliments, which I felt compelled to reciprocate somehow lol. For some reason I'd feel guilty if I didn't say something back.

my bosses are awesome!

Speaking of compliments, I was just talking to Tommy yesterday about how I used to be (and sometimes nowadays) terrible with accepting compliments. Most people would just say, "thank you" to a compliment. But not for me. I start getting nervous, bashful, and quickly rack my brain for something to compliment them back with--which totally comes off as awkward. It's like I couldn't just take compliments for free, I wanted to do something back. For example, once this stranger complimented on my hair and instead of JUST saying thanks, I said, "thanks...your...glasses...are nice.." and we both knew that was a lie. She gave me a weird look and then went on to do her own stuff. Then I mentally slapped myself for being an awkward turtle. Nowadays, I'm a lot less awkward but I'm always acutely aware of my controlled thank-you's. I need help lol.

Anyways, so today I did a lot of transitioning into my future full-time position in the office. I actually held that position for a week temporarily in between the time period when the last person retired and Katie was hired. I remembered how to do a bunch of tasks so I hopped on that. It was nice sitting at a big desk with my big chair har har. The chair feels kind of uncomfortably large though--I had to keep pushing myself back. 

Afterwards I went to the place where I'll be renting from when I start my full-time job. I changed the room that I originally signed in for. I won't be staying in the guestroom to wait for my bedroom to clear out. Instead, I'll be taking a different bedroom that'll be clear once I'm going to move in. That saves me the hassle of having to move my stuff around so much. One highlight is that some dude my age will be moving in as well--so it's not all going to be old people! So far it'll be me, this older woman professor, this man professor, and that dude my age. I met the man professor today--he was really nice! He offered to help me move in my stuff and told me that he'd be shopping for groceries every week so I can join him.  

Then I went to Starbucks where I joined people still studying for their finals (Thanh, WaiLing, Trissha). I left the table to go to the next corner table and webcammed with Viv for a while. Ling then stopped by for a study break and we chatted/surfed the net for a good amount of time. Then we both left and I went home. Now it's 3AM and like the other day, I don't know how time flew :(

Another Day

Went to work as usual. After work Tommy came to have dinner with me at URMC. Then we ended up chatting for a long time and went to Starbucks to talk some more lol. Good times. Feels so good to be able to sit for hours and not feel like you're wasting you time when you could be doing some homework or studying.

Nothing

Monday was very uneventful. Most people have their finals this Wednesday and Thursday so the pressure's on. I figured I should not go to campus and distract people from their studying as I have been doing this past week haha. So after work, I went straight home and somehow miraculously blew many hours away doing absolutely nothing. Watched a bunch of things online and then talked on the phone until I fell asleep. 

Time passes by so fast when you are doing random nothingness. You look at the clock and wonder what in the world you just spent the last 7 hours doing. I seriously don't even know.

R100KV

So the game plan didn't go exactly as planned...

Spent way more time being distracted and way less time "studying". For the final take-home exam due Wednesday, I didn't start writing my 6 page essay until 2 hours before it was due. I realize just how efficient I could be if I really put my mind to it because I completed my paper exactly as those two hours ended. Whereas I was spending countless hours trying to work on it the day before but got nothing done really. If only I can bust out that sort of adrenaline-time-sensitive-paper-writing any time I want.

But I guess the more important thing I want to say is that I'm done!! After I exited class on Wednesday, I walked out with a smile on my face (hopefully nobody saw) and declared that the final step out of my undergraduate career. It felt like sweet, sweet, victory--just as I had imagined.

So then started the process of finding random stuff to do to waste time. 

Wednesday night after that final class, I went over to Ling's to do a facial (haha my first!). We drank a beer and just talked about random things. It was nice.  Went over to her place again on Thursday after work and we watched some stuff at her house and went to starbucks for the rest of the night just to chat. Yea, I'm excellent at distracting people from their studies haha. 

Saturday was more uneventful. Woke up early with Frances to go see Priscilla who came to Rochester to visit. Then went back home but on the way, Frances and I were stopped by this random old man.

The conversation kind of went like this:

Him: So you ladies are oriental...did you know this place used to be occupied by native americans? if you have time please read the sign (and he reiterates this like three more times)

Us: ok...

Him: I know I'm an older man and you are young ladies and this might seem suspicious with me talking to you but I assure you that there is nothing to worry about....

Us: ok....

I'm a poet...can I read you a haiku? (and he actually recites this two to three versed haiku lol I only remember one line "Her wings were like dawn")

Then he said bye and left. Talk about random lol.

Sunday: Today was the Raising 100,000 Voices event. This is the event that my office has been working on for the past semester. It finally came together today, very smoothly. It was a red-carpet theme and all the kids had made movies about the Rochester community and are showing them today at the Dryden theater. Some of our sisters volunteered to be paparazzi lol. There was a large garden area adjacent to the theatre that we used to showcase their posters and other works besides the film. A good number of people showed up, including some senator. Cool stuff. After the event ended, went to Gleason and ordered chinese food with the group of friends studying here. Then went to see Frances's piano recital and came back to gleason. Currently bumming in a cubicle full of studying folks and I'm trying to figure out how to waste time on Phong's computer...lol ;)

---edit---

fell asleep while watching family guy on Lynna's computer. Then waited for Ling & Christy to get back from off-campus. Picked up a few videos at the multimedia center and then went to starbucks. Chatted for quite a while and Camille had to leave to do her group project. Ling, Christy, and I bummed some more until it was near midnight. We picked up the birthday cake from CLC and then stood around trying to pass time. After the minutes slowly inched by, we were on the move. First we checked her room and she wasn't there. So we snuck over to Gilbert where she said she was doing her group project. Surprised her with the cake but sadly she had to continue her project! So hopefully she had a wonderful bday--happy birthday biggie!! <3