Saturday, July 29, 2006

Woo! It's been a fun-filled week.

I got addicted to Project Runway (AMAZING show... never thought I'd like reality television). The only thing that bugs me about the show is that it's not ONLY based on how good the clothes look - they base it on how interesting the competitors are, too. Like they don't eliminate the annoying ass woman with the ugly streetwalker clothes because BECAUSE she's an annoying ass woman with ugly streetwalker clothes. They eliminate the boring competitors - the ones with a bland personality and mediocre clothing designs. I suppose it's realistic for a reality show to do that (har har) - they have to keep it interesting for the viewers.

ANYWAY, sorry that was a tangent. Party on Friday at VJ and John's old apt- was fun fun fun. I got a nice butt massage. I realize that could be potentially awkward the day after, so I'm staying low for a while. Again, of course, I was wheeling everywhere in a pathetic attempt to walk in a straight line after one wine cooler. Nice. Actually, it's sad, really. I also realize that almost no one calls me by my name anymore - it's officially "Lesbian". Better than "Ugly," I suppose, or "Labia"...

Went on the long-awaited canoeing trip today! With Alex, Brenden, Joey and AJ. 'Twas fun and good - hoping to whitewater raft or something before school starts. The weather was pretty nice, but then we found a snake in our canoe! It was a little bastard and refused to come out even after we tried to drown it. Smarmy little sleezeball it was. Or maybe it was just dead. Huh.

Well, that was a disconcerting revelation. And sad.

I'm totally exhausted now, though - it doesn't hit you till later that you've been rowing in the sun for a few hours. Gunna either chill and work on my essays or sleep or SOMETHING. Or... I can watch Grey's Anatomy. Hehehehe.

And as do trips always come with its private jokes, I won't post it here because it's always fucking annoying when people share private jokes in front of other people and giggle.

Wooooooo! Hope ya'll have a good weekend, I'm going back to work and med school apps after this. Sigh. (i'm pumping out an essay a day - no joke).

Thursday, July 27, 2006

On the verge of falling asleep, she suddenly realized that she couldn't relax her face. She took several deep breaths to calm down, then railed against the tightening of her facial musculature. That was when she found that her face was permanently paralyzed into a scowl.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

I ordered a lemon chicken salad from Gypsy's

the description for the salad SPECIFICIALLY said that it was "covered with zesty buttery lemon sauce"

I got no "zesty" I got no "butter" and I got no "sauce" though they did include a slice of lemon in my salad along with some kirkland's italian dressing.

I dont' know why I'm so violently angry. I'm just filled with righetous, vengeful SALAD RAGE right now.

assholes.

Monday, July 10, 2006

It's TRUE:

veggiegirl2059: so i was reading your blog
veggiegirl2059: and i remembered emo poetry girl
veggiegirl2059: and became inexplicably and unreasonably angry
veggiegirl2059: hahaha

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Just got back into Cal!

So home: got to see a whole bunch of friends and my auntie and uncle. Thank you, Kamaal for the Peruvian carpet/blanket/quilt thingie. It's on my wall now.

Man, being back home made me re-re-re-realize how much I like my family and high school friends, and how, whenever I go back, I don't feel quite like a socially incompetent weirdo anymore.

But then I gotta back into the swing of things.

So: while at home, bought some clothes from J. Crew, because I'm preppy, and then got contacts, and hair gel, and lotion. You're looking at a NEW WOMAN. Kinda. The contacts hurt after I have it on for too long.

I'm getting to know my brother a little better, which is really cool. He's growing up to be pretty fucking awesome. He's joined the wrestling team... I hope he kicks some ass. Meeeheheh

In other news, I HATE the 51 bus. hate it hate it hate it. It never ever comes on time. Ever. Does it ever? NO. NO it doesn't. Cause it's a dick bus. BLAH

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Vacation!

Yay, so i'm back. Alaska was pretty good. THe landscape was like WHOA, I feel REALLY REALLY small when i look at all the mounatins etc etc. The glaciers were blue. Um. Ice pieces on the water. Hard to describe, other than really really pretty and the colors worked really well. No bad dressers in nature, or something.

Went whale watching, saw orcas, which was apparently pretty rare, so that was awesome.

Um.

Yeah, i was intending a better post.

But funny mom quotes:

"So, we're in a Christian Orthodontist Church?"

"He has a crash on her!"

"Well, some people might find him, well, inimitating."

"Can I get 2 bags of spandex with my coffee? You know, the ones in the yellow packets?"

"I'm a neverending source of entertainment for you, aren't I?"

Aand my brother got stood up by a girl, continuing a long and proud family tradition.

The food was ok, but there was a lot, and I gained 4 pounds. Operation Fat Chin Chen is now in effect. (except I had a steak and pizza for dinner tonight. Har har)

that is all, carry on, carry on.

Friday, June 23, 2006

Med school ap primaries: sent. Fingers crossed.
Alaska cruise: waking up at 4 fucking AM tomorrow
Note to self: need batteries for MP3 player
Video games: I'll miss you!
Bringing Books: Impro, Lolita, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Email access: yes. Hurray for the internet.
Sleep: now (10:55 pm)
Stress level: 100 (an hour ago)--> 0 (now)
Haircut: Today. Woo.
Wardrobe: atrocious
On a boat
Hope not to lose sanity.
Check ya'll later.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Lalala

I have an eye infection

and my left eye is swollen up like a tennis ball now. A pink tennis ball.

Lalala

Going to work with my swollen eye now.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Okay! So many posts in one short time period - hey blogs are supposed to be inconsistent, right?

So update #1: MCAT scores. I'm preeeetty happy with it. It was way higher than I expected it to be, and the best I've ever done on it (when comparing it to the practices). To note: the score isn't like "zomg ur a geeenius", but it's pretty good. Think of it as high 1400's low 1500's on the SATs. (Tangent: called my dad, and was like "Guess what I got on my SAT?" Well, obviously someone hasn't dealt with her issues) My ESSAY score, however, was pretty lame. My essays, as usual, blew ass. But it wasn't TOO bad, I've done worse. It's passable. I wasn't expecting to do THAT well on the essays, anyway.

Update #2: Goin on vacation for 2 weeks starting Thurs night, wooooo! First it's off to Alaskan cruise on Sat for about a week. Then it's back down to LA for another week to just chill. I'm not sure who'll be back home, but let me know. I think most people are gone at that time, so it's just some quality downtime for me.

Update #3: Summer's goin pretty well. Work is okay (I'm not as excited about it now as I was before. It's a bit boring, but it's not bad or anything). I screw up constantly at work, but it hasn't caused too much hatred directed at me, yet. So it's good I'm leaving for 2 weeks. Pretty good times w/ friends up here too. Though a lot of the times, when I get home from work, all I want is to curl up in bed and sleep. So I basically am dead monday through thursday. Weekends are generally pretty good, though. Always something to do.

Update #4: Finally done with my med school ap. Thanks to everyone who helped on the essay. Already it's going to cost us around 800 bucks. Ack.


This was the most boring entry ever. But hey, bored people are boring people? What did that ol' addage say? I forgot. "If you're bored, then you're probably boring"? eh, I forgot.

Monday, June 19, 2006

I got my MCAT scores back.

:D

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Ok, so I've gone without mentioning how "GHEY GAY GGAAAY LESBIAN" I am for a few months. In fact, I don't really talk about it much on this blog. Or any blog, really. I have had people tell me that what they like about me is that "you're not all in-your-face about being gay. I like how you're not such a stereotypical dyke."

Personally, I find that offensive.

It's like being told "I like you. you're not like those OTHER black/Asian/Jewish/whatever people. I like you because you don't have to be all in my face about it."

It's annoying. I'm sure many of you out there reading this are minorities, and I don't know if you feel the same way I do, but what IS wrong with identifying with something? No, it shouldn't be the ONLY thing that you are, but at the same time you shouldn't have to feel ashamed to bring it up.

I hate it when people say "I don't mind gay people, but why can't they just keep to themselves? Why must they have these parades? I don't want to see that"

I guess being at Berkeley has made me more insulated in that I expect everyone to be liberal. Or at least PC. Everytime I hear "fag" or "that's so gay" I think "what?" and want to telepathically will said person under an oncoming semi.

It's kind of scary, since I've been working at my job over the summer, and it reminded me how heterosexual everything was. nearly all my berkeley friends are gay, and all my straight friends at home are obviously not homophobic. It just scares me how dangerous it's going to be being out, and how much courage I can have to face it.

I've been going through a dilemma on whether or not to be out on my med school applications (since I do some clubs at cal). I've decided to be out. I'm scared that it'll ruin my life, but I'm also scared that not doing so would ruin my life as well.

It's ridiculous when people say it's a choice. I would love to be straight and just fit in. It doesn't quite work that way.

"If you feel so strongly, why don't you talk about it all the time?" Well, that's not really all there is to me. I get speeding tickets (heh), I have funny/sad/awesome things happen to me in school, I had the MCATS, I procrastine, basically things other than the fact that I'm a lesbian. This IS a personal blog after all.

*steps off of soap box*


whew, I think that's the most opinionated you'll hear me for a while.

the only other thing I get this riled up about is the obnoxious emo poetry girl :)

Friday, June 09, 2006

Yeah, I'm writing a blog post at work, how badass.

Actually, I'm just waiting for some experiments to finish running. Wow, yeah, so there's really nothing much to say considering my life's been pretty much the same/boring.

Well, I just paid for my entire 4.00 lunch in CHANGE. how ghetto is that? The cashier was like "..." Heh heh

Weekend's looking fun :) But I'm stressed out about med school aps >.<

I had a freakout session on Tuesday or Wednesday, I think? But then people chilled me out and then I calmed down.

Okay okay, i'll make some attempt at resusitaing the blog.

A) I really really like "Lost". Now, I'm not one to get addicted to tv shows, really, because I don't have that much interest in it.

....

You know, when I become interesting again, I'll let you all know. But for now, I'm just going to watch the centrifuge spin in a circle . Woooooo!

Things that make me happy:

naps
hours-long marathon of tv shows heh heh
food

I live for the simple things
and porn, I also live for porn. Except I jsut lied - I, and most people won't believe me, have never watched porn from beginning to the end. I get bored. I'm serious. Really, what does it do for me? Seeing two other people get it on, oh, that's great, that's great for you, way to remind me of my own impotency. When you think about it, why would anyone even like it?

one word: Vicariousness

which, i'm not sure, if it's a word I just made up

vicariosity? :)
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summer's REALLY bad for blogging cause nothing ever happens.

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Um

Life is more or less back to normal, but I'm still a moron. And I'll be paying... quite literally. Oy.

man

I just want to graduate at this point. Skip the med school application process and just... end up in med school. magically. just like that.

HA!

So fucking tired.

Can't things work out just like... for once?

Okay done whining. Back to Lost, it's SOOOO ADDICTING! And naw, my life is great and fine, i'm just being a debbie downer.
Um

Life is more or less back to normal, but I'm still a moron. And I'll be paying... quite literally. Oy.

man

I just want to graduate at this point. Skip the med school application process and just... end up in med school. magically. just like that.

HA!

So fucking tired.

Can't things work out just like... for once?

Okay done whining. Back to Lost, it's SOOOO ADDICTING!

Monday, May 22, 2006

oy. Hasn't really been my year. Started with kinda a zing and ended with a bang. A bad bang. Oh well. Hopefully it gets better.

Friday, May 19, 2006

Hokay, so went clubbing/dancing /whatever last night with a bunch of folks at Lucre Lounge. T'was fun. :)

Done w/ finals. Went kinda blah. I kind of don't care. Well, we'll see, right?

Had an insecurity thingie again, so called mommy, and, yes, there's nothing like a phone call to mommy to make everything ok. Yes, i am a total loser. You know, my mom is probably one of the wisest people I kow... about SOME things. hehe, but yeah, she's awesome.

Everyone's been asking, so MCAT scores come out June 2. Eeeeeee

Going to some commencement ceremonies this weekend. Waaaaah why's everyone leaving?!

I'm determined to go through with acting and this whole improv thing. It's time I stop doing the same stuff all the time. I mean, if I suck, then I suck, but hopefully i'll have fun. I signed up for the workshop. SCARY!

Driving back home by myself on Sunday. Not a big deal, just a 7 hour drive. I remember the first few times were with my dad, then I drove down soph year with Theresa, and that was really good times. Spring when I went back home, I somehow finagled David to come up and help me move and drive back home. Then when I came back up to Cal again, it was with Alex. Then my car stayed here basically forEVAR, till now, when i'm driving it back, but doing it solo for once. But uh, one thing's for sure, I'm a really bad driver.

Ex: Driving back down with theresa, "hey, hey, Jenny, watch the road. You're VEERING OFF THE ROAD, WHAT THE HELL."
"I don't know, I think there's something wrong with your car."
Theresa, there was nothing wrong with your car, I was just lying to cover up my bad driving.

Driving back down with David: "OH MY GOD JENNY, what are you DOING? What are you...? OH my god, we almost died. Look, just get out at the next exit and let me drive, ok?"

Driving back with Alex: "No, you're not allowed to drive." and "David told me you're really a bad driver. So, uh, yeah."

So.... basically my friends drove me back and forth berk and PV. Because I can't drive. I'm an Asian GIRL, gimme a fucking break, i'm just living up to my stereotype of being good at school, submissive, and crappy driving.

Hopefully I'll make it back alive? :D
Seriously though, I'm actually looking forward to it. I really like driving alone. One of my favorite times when visiting friends or family is usually always the driving part. So yay, 7 hours of fun?

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

REALLY

I should be studying.

Anyway, nothing really.

Just some regrets really, but i'm actualy in a pretty good mood.

To list them off

1. not doing sports in high school
2. not doing anything really "new" or "scary" to me in college. I.E. not taking risks
3. acting like a total douchebag to certain people and hence burning bridges
4. not keeping my room clean
5. rejecting people before they reject me (cliched, i know, but I realize I do this a lot)
6. reading too much anoncon livejournal, going on facebook too much, going on AIM too much


Lame.com!!!!!!!!!!!

Hopefully will change that. 3 can't really be fixed, but the other ones can. :)

EDIT: 1 can't be fixed either. Funny how I missed the total temporal distortion there.

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OTHERWISE

Congrats to the seniors who'll be graduating this year! I'll miss you guys. But until then. PARTAY!!!!

Friday, May 12, 2006

So instead of writing my paper outline, or memorizing my 5 paper outlines for my class tomorrow (whatever p/np), I'm writing here. Procrastinator! You'll notice that I've been incessantly posting this week. Probably because it's finals ....eeeeeeeee

Whatever!

Funny thing about this blog; more people read it than I think. Because everytime I'm like "hey... so this one time..." someone's like "OH YEAH, I read it on your blog!" And I'm like "oooookay, wow I didn't know you cared/were THAT bored!" The best part is many many of my closest friends don't read it (some have almost religious beliefs against blogs/xangas/ljs.. these are mostly my home friends).

------had cheesy entry here, I deeeeeleeeeted it cause it was saaaaad ----

Arena

(known to self and others)

timid, insecure, withdrawn, overdramatic

Blind Spot

(known only to others)

vulgar, lethargic, cynical, distant, childish, chaotic, embarrassed, loud, panicky, rash, dispassionate, foolish

Façade

(known only to self)

glum, selfish

Unknown

(known to nobody)

incompetent, intolerant, inflexible, cowardly, violent, aloof, stupid, simple, irresponsible, hostile, unhappy, unhelpful, needy, unimaginative, inane, brash, cruel, ignorant, irrational, boastful, blasé, imperceptive, impatient, weak, vacuous, unethical, insensitive, self-satisfied, passive, smug, dull, predictable, callous, inattentive, unreliable, cold, humourless

Dominant Traits

66% of people think that JCZect is cynical

All Percentages

incompetent (0%) intolerant (0%) inflexible (0%) timid (33%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (0%) insecure (50%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (16%) lethargic (16%) withdrawn (33%) hostile (0%) selfish (0%) unhappy (0%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (66%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (0%) brash (0%) cruel (0%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (16%) childish (33%) boastful (0%) blasé (0%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (16%) impatient (0%)




Arena

(known to self and others)

accepting, intelligent, nervous, shy, silly

Blind Spot

(known only to others)

able, bold, caring, clever, complex, dependable, energetic, friendly, helpful, independent, ingenious, kind, mature, responsive, searching, self-conscious, sympathetic, tense, trustworthy, warm, wise, witty

Façade

(known only to self)

reflective

Unknown

(known to nobody)

adaptable, brave, calm, cheerful, confident, dignified, extroverted, giving, happy, idealistic, introverted, knowledgeable, logical, loving, modest, observant, organised, patient, powerful, proud, quiet, relaxed, religious, self-assertive, sensible, sentimental, spontaneous

Dominant Traits

81% of people agree that JCZect is intelligent
54% of people agree that JCZect is silly
54% of people think that JCZect is witty

All Percentages

able (9%) accepting (36%) adaptable (0%) bold (9%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (9%) cheerful (0%) clever (9%) complex (18%) confident (0%) dependable (9%) dignified (0%) energetic (9%) extroverted (0%) friendly (45%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (9%) idealistic (0%) independent (18%) ingenious (9%) intelligent (81%) introverted (0%) kind (18%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (9%) modest (0%) nervous (18%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (9%) searching (27%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (36%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (9%) silly (54%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (9%) tense (9%) trustworthy (9%) warm (27%) wise (9%) witty (54%)

Created by the Interactive Johari Window on 13.5.2006, using data from 11 respondents.
You can make your own Johari Window, or view JCZect's full data.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Jenny is a puss day

so randomly ran into Theresa and Grace today, and they were like "Augusten Burroughs int he Castro! COME!" So I was like "ummm, i'm sick, i have to study, etc etc etc." but I actually went. Got on the bart. But then my stomach started acting up and my limbs stopped working, so uh, i came back. But SHIT, it's Augusten BURROUGHS. I LOVE the guy. I feel like such a douche, but then again, as I'm sitting here typing this, I actually can't really move my limbs other than my fingers, so going to the castro for the rest of the night probably would've been a bad idea as well.

I'm really bummed about it actually. My one chance to be spontaneous! :( Buuut I wasn't. I was lame.com, but i was also legitimately sick.

ee double-u

On my way back, i tried to get on the the 7, but it was leaving. A couple of high school kids behind me were like "SHIT! HEY!" and helped me try to get the bus' attention. When it didn't work they yelled "HIT THE BUS!" Um, I'm Jenny Chen. I don't hit anything (ok, buddies, I know what you're thinking, drop it), even buses. So I just stood there waving my arms frantically. "JESUS! JUST HIT IT!" the kids yelled again. So um, I tapped politely on the bus door. It opened. I got in looking sheepish.


That was way too much adventure for me in one day,
The end.

Wah, I'm lame.