Typical conversation with my mom

Mom: Hey, you really should bring a couple lemons back with you to your apartment.
Me: Okay.
Mom: Yeah, lemons are really good for you. Make lemon tea with ginger and honey…
Me: Okay.
Mom: …It’ll help you lose weight so you’re not so fat.
Me: Sigh.
She finds a way to work that into the conversation no matter what and [...]

Ghostie

Today I heard my mom’s take on ghosts and it actually made me feel so much more at ease. I have always had a huge fear of ghosts ever since I was little because I used to watch those scary shows with my brother late at night that are like true stories about ghost encounters [...]

nom nom nom

I had a date night with my brother yesterday. I think he was trying to kill me by stuffing me with all-you-can eat sushi at Midori in Studio City. Needless to say, he got me beat by another handroll, but we almost ate about the same amount, a fact that makes me feel more fatty [...]

Alone

I want to go home. I haven’t been back for a few weeks now and I just want to be in my bed in my own room sleeping in at home surrounded by my most trusted stuffed animal friends. I want dumplings. I want tomato soup. I want to wrestle with Patchon. I want to [...]

AH!

I feel really restless right now. It might be because I just had this little milktea/coffee combo. Oh the wonders of powder drinks! I’m supposed to do homework but it’s just too hard to concentrate when I’ve got all these other things racing around my brainskis.
For a good hour or so, I was bumming around [...]

Quakes gone wild!

Almost anywhere you go in the United States suffers from some sort of natural disaster periodically. The midwest has their tornadoes, Hawaii’s got volcanoes, Florida has hurricanes, the east coast has blizzards, and some places suffer from boredom. California’s got earthquakes. And yesterday morning at about 11:45, we were hit with a 5.4 in Chino [...]

Echtes Leben

I am now back to the reality that is my life, where my parents ask me not even a day after I get home to run errands for them and I get nagged to eat when I’m not hungry. Oh how I miss thee, Europa. But when abroad, I missed my lovely family (including my [...]

Metro Art Tour and then some

Dark and early Saturday, April 5, my sister and I tumbled out of our beds to get to the local train station on time so as not to miss this month’s Metro Art Tour. Neither of us had ever used the rail system in LA and I don’t believe my sister had ridden any Metro [...]

Last week’s Week One blues (and golds)

So I am in my second week of school already. Craziness. Time is flying by so fast! Last week felt like it lasted a really long time, but maybe it was because of the little sleep I got. I had quizzes every day in Chinese and for the first time in my college career, I [...]

Buh-reak!

At approximately 6:20am Saturday morning my break began at full throttle. I kicked it off by going to sleep and waking up sometime before 2. I had come back unannounced Wednesday night/Thursday morning, but break was yet to be official. I spent the next couple days procrastinating, rewatching the part in Enchanted where Patrick Dempsey [...]