On friday me and Polly hung out with two cool AUAP students guys. It was fun, we ate pizza, and sushi. We also played card games, and I used some of my Korean coins so we could bet on the game. It was silly, when someone lost the card game we would all slap their hand! After that I went to Yong Min's roomate's birthday party. It was fun, hanging out, and I drank 4 cold coronas. Almost everyone there was an international student in IEP, but I knew some of the students. I stayed there until 4 in the morning.



Tonight I went to the Black Heritage Month Dinner on campus. It was really good, the speaker (I think his name was Craig Mack?) was so powerful. His speech honestly almost made me cry. He was talking about how knowing and being aware of history is important. Of course America's history is very sad sometimes when we remember the horrible things people did to other people, but also his words were so powerful and beautiful. I'll be thinking about that wonderful speech for quite awhile I think.



I was in the computer lab today waiting for the time of that Dinner. And two guys were teasing each other and one guy said something and the other American guy said: "I don't know that language, all I know is German, Sweedish, and Indonesian." Maybe he was joking, but it would be really cool to have somone to talk to in my bad Indonesian. I should have asked him, I just didn't know how too brake into their conversation...! ANJING! ~~~ ....ITU SEMPAT HABIS. ... T.T

With this posting, I'm including a picture above of the area around Kayo's parent's house... Her new fancy hi-tech Nipponese cellphone sent that to me. Its cool.

I'm affraid right now that my diary is becoming boring, but I also realize it dosen't matter because the most important fact is that this is mainly for me.

With that said, let me say something that happened this week. I was waiting for the bus. The guy next to me started talking to me, I thought he was kind of odd, but I just had a conversation with him. Then a person who could not see came and sat down in the middle of us. The guy looks at her walking stick, and says to her "looks like you don't need that." She ignores him with a huff of her voice, so he knows she heard but refuses to answer. The guy is getting annoyed, so I try to change the subject and ask her about how her walking stick works... ("technologically, is it hollow so it vibrates as you walk?" etc) She also ignores that. He starts to get mad at her about not answering, so I try to calm him down by telling him that the universe dosen't require anything of anyone. She turns towards me and says "I wonder if he is always this much of an asshole?" he gets really angry, and says "Well, I won't try to justify my self as a decent human being!" and I try to explain to him what she didn't like about his attitude, but its lost on him. I wonder if she thinks I'm an idiot too, although she has a conversation with me about my major and school in general. My bus comes and that was the end of that moment.

Someone I didn't know today told me to put my shoes back on because my toes were stinky. I thought that was funny! anyway... INI HIDUP SAYA. SAMPAI JUMPA!

Year of the Ram

Gong Hey Fatt Choi~!

Wow! I don't know what to say. Tonight was CSA's Year of the Ram Chinese New Year Culture Dinner Event. I was one of the announcers who was giving speeches (the other was Nikki) and it was a lot of fun! Everything got changed at the last minute, and I had to say different things at different times. .. but it all worked out, I wasn't really nervous and it was actually fun standing up talking to the 200+ people in the crowd. I was also wearing King Yao's tuxedo, so it was fun to dress up. Several pictures were taken, and I'll put one here when I get it! Anyway, I'm sleepy so I'm going now. APA? SELAMAT MALAM! DAAG~~!

This is us at Priscilla's house for Lunar New Years. (lef to right: polly, priscilla, me) We ate so much good food and watched the Korean movie "Yupki Girl" it was so much fun, but I need to go soon.. Priscy's mom needs the phone.. But I should say a FEW more words... uhm uhm... Priscilla gave me too much coffee and I cant sleep! But really the food was so good, all sorts of chicken beans and rice and nuts, squid, octopus, and etc etc. It was all so good! But anyway, I should go,.....DAAG!

A hate to be connected too much to our whimsical, ever changing times, but check out this flash animation. It takes a while to read it, but the author has some interesting currently relevent points to make. (re: war. etc)



Kayo sent me a really beautiful e-mail. I reallly liked the images it drew in my head, and I'm going to share it here. If she dosen't want me to, I will delete it. ^^; I should include a little explanation. In Japan they have public spas. ("public baths") And at Kayo's house the pipes froze over so her family needed to go to public bath to get washed up. Kayo's orginal writting:



The Spa place was so crawded because almost all the houses' hot water system is not working now, and my sister even met her teacher in her school. Everybody thinks the same thing (coming to spa). And, they have a spa outside also. It was so cold and snowing just a little bit, but I went out side alone, nobody was there, and I lay down on the water and put my head on a stone, and looked up the sky. The steam from the spa was coming up at my both side, and the sky was filled by lots of cloud, (it was like the steam thing became the cloud) and I thought about a lot of thing. I felt like I was vacuumed by the sky or something. I was thinking too much. (�ã‚Ì•û�A“ú–{Œê‚̃o�[ƒWƒ‡ƒ“‚Í‚±‚Á‚¿ Japanese version on my Japanese diary page.)



I've been advertising the CSA "Year of the Ram" event... more about how that goes later! INI BACA, TERIMA KASIH. SAMPAI JUMPA~!

I just finished the "open mic" poetry/music thing I was helping my class put on. It was fun..~



I just wanted to say I hate it when I accidently draw on my pants. I have a pen in my hand and I think of something and then pen drops, and ink streak dashes across my pants. ARGUH! I hate it when I do that. Most all of my pants look like I am trying to draw a picture on them. I should just give up, and start drawing pictures on my pants.



I'm going to Priscilla's mom's house this weekend for dinner, I guess its for Chinese New Year, and it sounds so fun. I love food...



I'm going to update my Japanese journal after this, if your reading English (but can also read Japanese) and wonder why you can not read that journal..this is way: this company (that makes these journals) is very stupid. they don't have Japanese encoding by default, so you have to switch it to Japanese in your browser.... SAMPAI JUMPA, DAAG!

Just a quick note. Nicky (any one else?) was teasing me about the strange mess it looks like when I type Japanese into this diary... so even though I'll still sometimes type Japanese here... I have a Japanese diary now! its for the new words I learn, etc, so if you want to learn lots of dumb words ...see what I'm feeling in Japanese or whatever... please check it out! “ú–{Œê‚Ì“ú‹L ...anyway, its late at night, and thats all I have to say for now! SAMPAI JUMPA!

Hello. Hi...uhmm, whats up? (OK! Now its time to write in my journal~!)



Tonight (its 1:50 something in the morning so actually I guess I mean yesterday~) I went to VSA's Vietnamese Culture-Dinner night with Even and Christina (the Christina from here, not Wilson of course!). It was really fun! We had a really good Vietnamese meal and then watched some cool performances (such as dancing, singing, etc). I hadn't hung out with both of them at the same time for a while, so it was cool. (After the event Even came over and he watched a Chinese movie "The Wesley's Mysterious File" .. yes, I know the English title is kind of strange, but it was interesting. A science fiction movie, about aliens, and etc... it was really trippy, but I liked it.)



On Friday, ISC hung out at Stewart's cafe...(Chiaki, Jeff, Polly, and me)... it was fun, we had silly conversations. (A list of remembered topics: black holes, walnuts get you high, translating, and drinking) After we all hung out, Polly invited me to go over and watch the video "LIKE MIKE" at her house. It was a cheesy movie~.. we watched, ate rice (with furikake) and ginger sake.



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I was shocked beyond words this weekend to find that Kayo came up to visit me this weekend. I was so shocked to see her outside my window! (If you don't know, she lives in LA~!) She had waited in the cold for FIVE hours because I didnt come home until late, because I didnt know she was coming! (I had been hanging out at Polly's house watching Lilo and Stitch for the first time in Cantonese with no subtitles! woo!) I felt so bad to have made her wait outside! Also that weekend Priscilla and her cousin Jerry came over to hangout! that was fun! We watched an interesting Korean movie: "Barking Dogs Don't Bite". I thought it was cool... anyway, it was all so fun! click "amazing" above to see a picture of all of us...~ DAAG!

click image for bigger, better, version!!

Yay! I'm posting the picture today of when Seung One and Hyun Jung came and visited Bellingham! It was so cool! I really felt so relaxed just hanging around with them, thank you guys you all are COOL! What did we do? We watched some of my Korean movies (with no subtitles, so I inserted some of my own ideas sometimes ^^; but I like the movies!) oh oh oh! me and SO and HJ and also Hye Yeon (going to this school in Washington, but from the same Korea School: SWU!) had a pizza party! that was fun, we hung out and ate 2 large pizzas (garlic & bacon, and a pepperoni) and etc... was a lot of fun... After SO left, for some weird reason, the sun came out and showed HJ that it can really be sunny in Bellingham. (Too bad SO didnt get to see! t.t) and me and HJ also hung out at my school and went to a burger shop: Boomers! Good burger, yummy~!... anyway, the whole thing was like going on a trip but I never went anywhere... Cool!

I also wanted to mention an experience from the MLK celebration I went to yesterday after my diary entry. The main speaker had been in World War 2 (way back then!) and had been a part of the Civil Rights Movement and I met him! I felt like I was connecting to history... after the event he was hanging around as people left the room, and I went up to him and told him that his speech had ment a lot to me. I wanted to shake his hand, but he was holding a book in his right hand so I reached out lightly and put my hand breifly on his shoulder. He put his hand on my shoulder and said, "You go to school here, my man?" and we had a short conversation.. he was distrated by age and by the thousands of places he has been, but the brief connection to his mind was really cool. ^^; Anyway, it was a good speech and a good man. SAMPAI JUMPA!

Happy ML King day! (actually on this monday, but every day is King day~!) I think MLK was cool, he's my hero and heres my wave to him.

SO and HJ came up to visit me from Wyoming (44th state to join the union) .. it was cool seeing them! SO stayed for 2 nights (between going to Canada), and saddly she only got to see the rainy side of Bellingham. HJ stayed longer and got to see one sunny day before she left.... ~ More details soon... We took a few pictures with SO's digital camera and I'll post them here as soon as I get a hold of them.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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group of friends who met in Korea! ^^ (click image to see a bigger version!)


Hello from LA, this is my kind of late NEW YEARS message in my online journal thing, this thingie, woo! Anyway, the weather here is awesome... just perfect. Yesterday I hung out with a big group of people I met in Korea this last summer. (In the picture we are outside of a huge 30 screen movie theator in LA. I'll post more pictures and etc when I get back to Washington. Peace and joy, happy 2003 everyone. SAMPAI JUMPA, DAAG!