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Because numbers are fun
I now present to you guys, a quantitative evaluation of my summer. So here we go, the number of -
Airplanes I’ve been in: 4
Countries I’ve been in: 3
Jungles I’ve hiked through: 1
Times we got lost on the roads in Malaysia: 7 (we were only there for a week…)
Times I’ve been stuck on the beach due to our 4-wheel-drive getting stuck in the sand: 1
Times I’ve been to the gym: 29 (approximately?)
Times I’ve walked down and up 20 flights of stairs: 36 (again, just guessing)
Days I have woken up at 6.10 AM (or earlier): 1People I’ve randomly recognized in the gym as someone who goes to Stanford: 1
People I’ve had awkward “Hi how was your first year?? OMG SO GOOD TO SEE YOU” conversations with: Too many. Just too many.
People I’ve said “We need to hangout” with no intention of ever doing so: 14
People who haven’t recognized me due to the hair: 6
People who have called me “sir” or “son”: I don’t even know…
Girls who I’ve met up with who I may have previously had a crush on: 7 (ok this is basically everyone I’ve liked in my life minus 1 girl)
Girls I’ve asked out on a date: 1Girls who have said yes: 1
Girls who have said no: 1 (confused? Yeah. So was I.)Nights(/afternoons) I’ve consumed alcohol: 5
Season finales I’ve watched: 6
Animorphs books I have read: 61
Days I’ve decided “Bra? Screw that” (it’s summer ok I’m allowed): 17
Scoops of (disgusting) protein powder I’ve consumed: 39
Scoops of (disgusting) protein powder I intend to consume before leaving: 20
Star Wars films I watched last weekend: 6
Items on this list my friend Katy and I did http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/20-methods-to-make-your-weekend-interesting/: 11
Facebook birthday wishes I received on August 15: 132
Facebook birthday wishes I received on my real birthday: …19? Something sad.I could go on but really… I’m sure you guys have stopped reading already. Anyways I hope those amused you!
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hey y’all the tumblr has basically died but quick updates:
i’ve streaked my hair! the original plan was to do rainbow colors, but the purple doesn’t hold at all, so it’s just pink, blue (which turns green in certain areas) and orange. my family kinda freaked but it still happened AND i took the time to tell them before i did it :P
my hair is apparently impervious to bleach? it just like…doesn’t care. everyone always talks about how their hair gets so damaged but mine is still basically the same, after bleaching twice and dyeing twice. so that’s cool!
i’ve officially switched from psych and urban studies to sociology and urban studies for my double majors!
IM SUPER EXCITED TO SEE ALL OF YOU
that’s about it :)
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Since no one’s really been posting… Have this spontaneous video!
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HI FAMIRY! <3
So,
Since no one has been updating this I shall update it. I don’t really have that much to talk about. Just going to lab and feeling unproductive in general. But that’s okay because it’s summer time! Right? Please say right. Anyways.
Over the weekend, Saturday I did a bunch of Taekwondo and was really tired. I was trying to do all the stuff we were supposed to do in Taekwondo but I pulled my glute. I like to say I pulled my butt but I don’t actually know if that’s the same thing. GLUTEUS MAXIMUSSSSSS. Sorry. lol. Anyways, we did a lot of sparring this week as opposed to conditioning which made me UBER DUPER happy and I couldn’t stop smiling the whole time because it was so fun. That was probably the highlight of the weekdays. Sad. I know.
Then I met up with Harry and David. They were on campus because David had to give a tour to a bunch of his Dad’s friends from China. Lol. He was ranting about how dumb Chinese tourists were with their planning. That kid has a lot of anger. Anyways, while he was off giving his tour I just hung out with Harry and it was cool.
Sunday I met up with Allison and got Buy one get one free Jamba Juice. Awww yeahhhhh. She had a coupon for it. And then I think we’re gonna go get free Sprinkles on Wednesday. Yay! Also gonna go with her and Elvis to Ike’s on Friday for lunch. Excited about that too.
So, I really want to get my ears pierced and I’ve been thinking about it but i don’t know where to get it done. I shall update you people on this once I actually decide where/if I am going to get it done.
Last thing. AHHHHH SUMMER IS HALF OVER. It went by kind of fast but that’s probably because I wanted it to go by fast while I’m up here. I’m kind of tired of Stanford :p Actually I’m tired of Stanford without you guys. DAWWWWW <3 Yeah I miss you guys. Karen and Shayda!!!! You’re coming down soon and we’re going to have lots of fun :D Also the east coast hooligan+alex meet up is coming up soon and I don’t know why I’m excited about that when I can’t even go D: Anyways, I really want to go home and eat a bunch of Korean food :( I miss you guys. I miss home. On that note.
HOW ARE YOU GUYS?!
Update the god damn tumblr!
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AHAHHAHAHA TITI YOUR LIFE IS SO AWKWARD OMG I LOVE YOU
guys i’m not gonna lie, the life of the youthfully unemployed is pretty fuckin chill. literally all i do is hang out with friends, smoke, waste my life online, and exercise when i work up the energy.
i’m still seeing ryan the 28 yr old, he’s super chill and we have good times and just generally hang out so that’s really nice :)
i’m helping out my old internship by putting together a how-to-apply-to-colleges workshop for the rising seniors in the program, for which i will hopefully get a small stipend! also i look after the kid of my mom’s friend when she has appointments (she’s pregnant with her second) and i might help her prepare for her baby shower so that should be nice.
this weekend i went down to stanford/palo alto/menlo park with my sister because her friend went down and we hitched a ride. IT WAS SO GOOD IT WAS LIKE TASTING FREEDOM OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDD (i’ve been having a lot of ~problems~ with my mom because i’m incapable of following all her rules these days). we hung out with the fam and everyone was very harmonious, saw The Dark Knight Rises (I literally had tears in my eyes because it was so good and i had so many emotions), The Amazing Spider-Man (it was pretty good too but not nearly as amazing, i mean come though how is that possible), and part of Magic Mike (which was great!). I also saw Kevin, ran into some Larkinites who are on campus over the summer (Elvis, Allison, Artyom and Sketchy Marco, as well as Carlo!) and in general had a lovely time. It was great! Mich was busy and so were David and Harry but it’s fiiiiiiiiiine.
last weekend, my family came up to sacramento and we went to lake tahoe, which was another awesome trip! i’m still learning how to drive and that’s been on hiatus as a result of these last two weekends, so i need to get back on track for that—I WANT OFFICIAL ID!!
hm i can’t really think of anything else noteworthy in my life…but it’s pretttyyyyy sweet right now. OH, when i was on campus i went by Hamm and even though it’s not even halfway done with renovations IT LOOKS SO GOOD. I AM SO EXCITED. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
love you all, miss you tons, so excited for our reunion!!!
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Finally leaving the apartment!
Hello dear family,
Today I went to have lunch with a friend of mine who left Manila after 9th grade and who I therefore have not seen in 4 years.
The last time I saw her was the day before she left when I told her I had a crush on her. On her very very straight self.
So you can imagine this was a rather interesting reunion =)
As you can see, my life is full of small, widely dispersed, but amusing, incidents.
PS. It actually went totally okay! Though she did ask me what MY rugby superlative was and I was like “um. um. well… it was ‘most likely to have a crush on a girl who bats for the wrong team’.” This was followed by my (amused) and her (awkward) laughter.
Hope everyone is doing well!
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The Start of Something
Just settled into my temporary home in Sacramento and boy is it hot as hell here. It was around 104 degrees today! Shieett. Anyway, my host family is super awesome and hospitable (although I already miss being spoiled by my parents) and I love my fellow intern/roommate, Diana.
I’m kind of afraid of all the assignments and readings that we will have to complete aside from all the work and mandatory volunteering that we will have to do. The program coordinator prides herself over being evil and believes that since she doesn’t have a life, we don’t get to have one either.
It looks like the only free day that we will have will be this Saturday during which all the fellows get to go on adventures together! I’m really looking forward to bonding with my fellows and getting to explore Sacramento! PS: Nana, apparently Carmichael is like a 15 minute drive from where I live! I’ll have to check this crazy ass schedule and let you know when I have time. We’ll most likely be at the state fair this Saturday so I would love to see you there if you’re free!
Well that’s all for now. Dead tired. Bye bye!
Voxtrox- The Start of Something.
I can’t get this song of out my head. The lyrics aren’t relevant, but the title is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxezbqwbTVY&feature=related
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Hellooooooooooo
Sup cool kids, glad to see the tumblr is getting its fair share of use :)
1. Karen don’t trip about coming to Sacramento! It’ll be fun. Homestaying will be awesome and adventurous and if they suck you can come live with me! We have an empty room. :D
2. Dude Karan your life is INSANE RIGHT NOW! so much shit going on! sorry to hear about your uncle, that sounds really bad. =/ survive the heat, don’t meltttt. and uhm actually he’s probably older than 26, that’s the absolute youngest he could be without having skipped grades or anything. don’t worry though, he’s not creepy, and if i sketchily disappear i have friends who know where he lives. HAHAHA. no but seriously, they do. i’m not that into him but it’s fun to go on dates and hang out, he’s a really cool guy.
3. titi, are you tearing up the streets of manila with your wild clubbing and nighttime adventures? say yes! or else your mother is disappointed in you…
4. alex, you got a job!? WHERE!?!?!?
i’m still unemployed as all hell, and this shit is getting laaaaaaame. my three closest friends aren’t in sac (kevin’s at stanford, one has a job in chicago, the other is at berkeley) and a lot of my other friends have limited access to cars/aren’t really allowed to leave their houses. i’ve been hanging out with people quite a bit despite that but it’s just weird to not have a structure to my day other than doing something with friends (which = spending at least some money, probably) and wasting time on the computer. i’ve been applying to a lot of different places but have yet to be hired!!! shit sucks.
the place i wanted to volunteer at FINALLY got back to me and was like “sry your time commitment isn’t enough, has to be 3-4 months to justify training you blah blah blah” which is so annoying because if they had fucking responded to my shit ON TIME, at the beginning of the summer, it would have been three months. GOD.
tomorrow i’m helping my friend finish moving into an apartment with his mom, so i’ll be getting up at an all-time early of the summer, 8:30. the shit i do for friends.
learning how to drive is kinda fun but i hate driving a minivan, you can’t see SHIT.
ready to be back at stanford where i don’t have to live by other peoples’ arcane rules and a steady source of income!!!!!
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Lol
Look at that CS Major(Karen).
Here’s my schedule
while(atStanford()) {
WakeupLate();
GoToLab();
if(day == Wednesday || day == Thursday) {
volunteer();
}
goHome();
if(day == Tuesday || day == Thursday) {
goToTKD();
} else {
running();
}
if(tooLazyToCook) {
eatsRandomThings();
} else {
eatsRealFood();
}
watchesKDramas();
doesMCATStuff();
readsFromKindle();
sleeps();
}
Lol I appreciate the fact that our entire family is well-versed in Java. Makes me heart all of you guys even more. I JUST WANNA HUG YOU ALL DAWWWWWW <3
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La gente está muy loca.
Well here’s what my days have been looking like for the past few days:
For (int i=0; i<daysLeftUntilSacramento; i++) {
WakeUp();
Eat();
Work();
Eat();
If (enoughMotivation) {
Exercise();
} Else {
GoOnTheComputer();
watchTv();
}
Sleep();
}
LOL…
At this point, I’m not too sure I want to leave home just yet to start my internship in Sacramento. I’ve gotten use to going on random adventures with my friends, getting into pointless arguments with my brother (they’re fun, really), being able to depend on my parents for everything once again, and Southern California weather. Also, this host family thing is kind of scary, but I was just “e-introduced” to them and they seem really nice. Also, I am really excited about living with another intern from LA; it’ll be like having a sister for a month (yay, I’ve always wanted a sister). I also get to visit Nana and see Mich + other Larkinites while I’m up north so that will be nice. So yeah. That is all!
PS: I have no clue why it is displaying code on the top of my post…
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So here’s the stuff I baked mama alex. Yay. Fourth of July with the hooligans/minions was pretty fun. David’s sister is also really funny. So much food at their house I got to bring some home so I don’t think I have to cook for a couple days. YESSSSSSS. Anyways, Karan I’m glad you’re back online!!!! I’ll try to calculate time zone differences and whatnot. We’ll see. I MISS YOU ALL <3
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Oh, also
At the independence day party, a bunch of us were discussing the tagalog slang for boobs and vagina and then…
This one aunt: Wait, this reminds me of something. So what’s this I hear about your roommate next year being named Titty?
Me: Oh it’s just a nickname. Her name is (slight hesitation) …Smriti.
Aunt: How did she even get that nickname? Whose messed up idea was that? Poor thing.
Me: …
Apparently my mom mentioned that I’m rooming with “this girl named Titty”. Come to think of it, I don’t think my mom knows Titty’s real name.
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It was Independence Day here (more like an excuse to gorge oneself on desserts and bbq food and get into shenanigans rather than a celebration of independence) so we did some fireworks in my godfather’s driveway. They’re kind of illegal, but whaaaaaatevvvver. I posted a similar photoset to my own tumblr, but figured I’d put a set here too, cause I liked the fireworks so much. So here you go. I just want to strap some to a bike and ride down a hill! Or tie a bunch of them together and light them all at the same time! Or light one and then throw it off the roof!
Anyways.
My life has been kinda boring this week (highlight of the other day, for instance = listening to the leekspin finnish song while doing the dishes) but work starts tomorrow, so yeah.
Titty: I quite enjoy lists! But I hate you (and Karan) for having delicious mangoes. Although we’ve been getting some pretty decent ones lately.
