roommate woes

so today i moved into my dorm room, and since its my third year, its nothing new to me anymore. but this year, i was talking to my friend who's an RA and we both agreed that there were PLENTY of new freshmen this year. nothing wrong with freshmen, i was once one, but there is something wrong with you if you can't follow the basic [unsaid] rooming rules.

1. change the toilet paper. its not fun or funny when the next person goes to the bathroom with number two and winds up with a square or three of toilet paper left. just because we're in college, doesn't mean that we'll do everything -- like wiping our butts with our hands. we do some pretty dumb things, but we're not THAT dumb.

2. the walls aren't made of egg cartons. the walls are almost paper thin, so yes, we hear everything that you do. so be considerate, and don't bounce basketballs on the walls, don't bang the bed against the wall when you're ... doing whatever you're doing, and keep your voice down when you're on the phone. we don't want to hear about how you broke up with your boyfriend or that you were getting down with your other half last night. its okay.

3. finals week means shut up. if you don't have finals, then go home. no one wants to hear you brag about not having finals and no one will appreciate your noise when you're playing your PSP or something.

4. food. not everyone has kitchens, thank god. but microwaves are sometimes just as bad. not only are the walls paper thin, they also soak up every single smell that floats through the air. so please refrain from eating weird smelling foods in your room because it might be pleasant when you're eating it, but its not pleasant for the other people around you.

so yeah, heads up froshies. try not to get beat up. try not to pass out on the campus lawns. and don't drink before class.

i got moon-ed

i have to admit that i was a fan of the previous one. i just fell in love with all the relationships that were created, especially the one with moses chan and linda chung. LOVE IT. so needless to say, i was the first to jump out of my chair when they said they were doing a sequel for heart of greed.

but, of course i had to forget that sequels usually never are equals to their previous installments. i definitely have a bone to pick with moonlight resonance [moonlight resonance?? that's a far cry from heart of greed]

is it just me, or does anyone else hate the way the characters have changed? i dont like how no one is related the same way and i hate how tavia yeung is now the adopted daughter because they dont really go into specifics about what really happened. [i only watched up to ep. 5 -- excuse me] and i definitely hate how they advocate incest.

im sorry, i dont care if you're not really brothers and sisters [ie, the suggested relationship between linda chung and raymond lam] but its gross to have feelings for each other like that. i mean, how can you?! you've watched each other grow up and then you're going to do them and have kids? that's just messed up. it was giving me such a flashback of the first cruel intentions where ryan philippe and sara michelle geller made out. THEY weren't blood related but they WERE half brothers and sisters and guess what, we gagged at that scene...yeah.

yes, i hear that linda and raymond never get together [because in steps bosco] and moses and tavia never get together, or something like that, but ew. even for the suggestion is bad...  i haven't been watching yet, but please, tell me that it's worth the gut feeling of sin.

new brain teaser game = "where's my soulmate?"

so yesterday, i finally got to sit down and have some face time with my lovely G-ma. usually, she's out playing mahjong with her buddies at their apartments and doesn't come home till after dinner. on the weekends, she out again with her friends to places like NY chinatown or to go grocery shopping in groups [i swear, she has more fun than i do at times] so its not always likely that i'll see her when i come home from school or whatever.

anyway

we got around to talking about dating...go figure. she was talking about her olden days, as per usual. but this time, i really felt rushed. personally, i want a big family of my own. i want four kids, at the most, and i want to get married young. i dont want to be 30 and just have my first kid. i know that plans never always work out perfect, but my ideal age is to get married at 24. and if that were to really happen, it would mean that i would have to start dating someone "husband material" now. at school, i see no potential mate, and by the time i graduate, i would never find someone. i dont want to date someone at work because that always gets messy. but i mean, i only have TWO more years left before i graduate! i remember just leaving HS and thinking i had all the time in the world. all the other adults around me are just like, dont worry, you're still young, you have plenty of time.

plenty of time, yes. i'll live till im 80. but you have to admit that the biological clock doesn't tick that long. lets face it. i dont want to be 50 and have a kid that's 10 because by the time he graduates, i'll probably be so blind that i can't see him walk down the aisle, much less see him get married. by that time, he'll probably want to introduce me to friends as his grandma instead.
i want to be that fashionable young mother who's got the style and the energy to keep up with her kids. i dont want to be stuck with the mom haircut and the mom body which i will gag at every time i look in the mirror.

but the problem is, it's not that i don't try finding "the one." boys nowadays not only have big pants but also egos to match. so is it really that farfetched when my G-ma tells me that a guy who is at least 5 years older than me, is perfect?

pros ||
- he'll be settled - ready with a good paying job and home - no shoe boxes for starters and yes to organic shopping
- wiser - he'll automatically know how to deal with children and diapers and most importantly, a hormonal wife
- has direction - not all, but most men by this time will already have an idea of how they want the rest of their life to go. its good to have goals...bad to have none

cons ||
- he's 8 years older - which means he'll be in a different stage in life. we won't have the same friends which translates as we won't have as much to talk about
- he's 8 years older - which means that he probably won't want to go to the bar with me for drinks anymore and just want to stay in and cuddle in front of a saturday night movie because sundays are reserved for laundry
- he's 8 years older - which means that he'll be ready to get married and have kids by the time i'm 21, which translates to too young for me to have kids

but even before i can rant about all this stuff...

where the hell is he?

second parents

there are so many people that i've talked to that have godparents whom they aren't close with. and i have to say -- i can't relate.

i have a godfather and i love him just like a second father. i admit that i could spend more time with him, but with our schedules, the time that we manage now is pretty good already [i think]. i love the relationship that i have with him now, and the relationship i had with him before when i was younger. i remember spending time with him and his family, growing up with his nephews and acting as if i was one of their cousins. it was very -- at home -- for me.

i love having a lot of people around me

and i think i find it a thrill to be able to say i have a godpa. its not only a "title" to me. its more than that for me and i guess it frustrates me when people tell me stories of how detached they are to their godparents. its such a special relationship to have and yet people neglect that fact because they "don't really count as family"

i can't imagine a definition of family without godparents

idk, it just sucks to see people around me not value their relationships. it takes forever to build one, and just a single action or word to break it. as daddy's little girl, its a bonus for me to have another daddy to spoil me, and since i don't have much of a relationship with my mother, i want a godma to spoil her with a bit of me. so ---

"start a new fashion, wear your heart on your sleeve" -CU

personal teddy to stop my tears 

i heart dogs

i really want him!

unattractive old pilots

i just got back today from my trip from hong kong, and i have to admit, that im not looking forward to going back anytime soon. fifteen hours is just way too long to be sitting in a super crowded air craft. but when i was in hong kong, i also got a chance to sneak away to japan on cathay pacific, which was a first for me (to ride cathay and go to japan) but anyhoo, that prompted me to do a little comparison to the two biggest asian flying giants.

continental = blue
cathay = green

service:
con - i have never been fond of their service. whenever i get into their check-in area, i always get so turned off by these random flight attendants coming around and shouting out at people to get to empty lines. 
cat - the ladies were smiling and they never assumed that you spoke one language, and so they were very versatile. and they never interrupted me when i had a question or when i wanted to say something stupid. 

flight attendants:
con - granted, they're very nice when they greet you when you come into the plane. they're very nice about showing you where your seat is (but i think that's a little irritating because it does say on your ticket). and its a scam. because after that door closes, that smile goes from their faces and suddenly they're miss cranky pants. 
cat - unlike continental, their smiles last throughout the flight. they're always kind. you know how when you're on the plane, sometimes your ears and your quality of sound end up declining? yeah...cathay flight attendants won't give you dirty looks like you've just said something real inappropriate. 
con - they're getting old. im sorry. most of the continental flights that i've been on have ladies that are in their 40's and up. not that i don't think that's fine, but if you're going to turn all sour on your clients, then you need to take some happy pills and perk up those old ... wrinkles.
cat - they're not all that young either, but they're not nearing their 50's either. 

pilots:
con - its very important to have pilots to talk to their clients before flight take-off to kind of, you know, insure that you're in safe hands with a nice, welcome aboard. but no... not all continental pilots take this time to talk to their clients. and i've noticed that they're a little older as well, like the rest of their crew. meaning that landing is now jeopardized. for this last flight of mine, the last 20 minutes before touchdown, i felt like i was on a roller coaster. there must have been three times where the plane actually dipped so much that i felt my heart go up my throat. the poor kids around us were all screaming and crying in fright. gosh.
cat - they made the smoothest landings and the smoothest take-offs. when we landed, someone in front of me actually said, when did we take off?

continental needs to spice things up.

typhoon aka big wind

so i've been here for three months and i've been lucky enough to go through two typhoons here in lovely hong kong.

GREAT

both times they were level 8 (their highest) and both times i was stuck at home...with nothing to do. i dont know why they make it such a big deal. its like, minor winds to me when i walk outside. can these people really be that scared of wind?!

***

it really isn't funny to laugh at other people's misfortunes ... but its funny. in light of yesterday's typhoon, i wanted to point out just a couple of things.

1. if you know that its going to be high winds with rain, don't bring an umbrella. the umbrellas not going to help you if winds are high, because you're just going to be struggling to keep the umbrella upright.
2. don't wear skirts. unless you want to reenact a marilyn monroe all the way down the full stretch of the hong kong island.
3. don't put your laundry out for drying. granted that small winds are good to dry your clothes faster--but be smart and pull them back in when the winds get higher because i'm almost positive that fellow typhoon bravers [that's not a word] on the street will not appreciate it when your socks, or better yet your under wear, get caught in their face.

i find this last picture needlessly amusing...

what you SHOULD do is -- wear a helmet! 

home never looked sweeter

i've been in hong kong for almost three months now, and im desperately yearning to go home. towards the end of my trip, i feel like everything is coming at me in a whirlwind and suddenly, everyone wants to see me before i leave. it always happens that way. its like, i've had all the time in the world for you to see me, but you wait till the very end to try and fit in something with me. there are really just two reasons why people do this:

1. they feel like this is a great time to see you because that means that they are not obligated for a second visit since you're leaving soon anyway.

2. they want you to bring something back for them. and usually, it's not something light or small...it usually is something big and heavy and may cause damage to the original contents in your luggage.

my solution? for people are infamous for committing number one, i usually just say that im booked all the way till my flight departure. for people who are notorious number two committers, i just flat out say no. thanks, but no thanks. i dont want to pay an extra fee at the airport for going over the weight limit, and i definitely don't want your liquid gift spilling over all my clothes.