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| I went out with a bunch of people I just met to San Francisco last night. We were originally going to go to a jazz club in Downtown Berkeley but the place turned out to be a poetry reading with old people. We wound up taking the BART to the Civic Center and walking around in the Mission District from club to club all night. It was fun in a crazy, chaotic kind of way! We were originally planning to go to a party being organized for Mexican Independence Day, which wound up being a party organized for transvestites at a sketchy bar. Our group was a large one (nearly a third of the I-House residents) and we predictably got split up several times during the night. Fortunately, I would up with some cool South Americans who definitely knew how to party.
Sometime during the night I also encountered a group of Bosnians and one of them proceeded to hit on me in a ridiculously cheesy manner:
Bosnian: "You are like a cream puff with chocolate coating and whipped cream and cherry on top. Yes?"
Me: "You'd better stop while you're ahead, buddy."
Additionally, I've realized that I just don't understand men. Maybe I'm out of the loop. Maybe I'm just an idiot who doesn't get it. Why are men so frickin shady? It seems like every attractive guy I meet is shady in some way or another.  I HATE SHADY GUYS!! Argghhh 
I was complaining about this to Mel, who assured me that she had similar experiences with guys:
Mel: "The same thing happened to me"
Mel: "I was chilling with this guy all summer"
Mel: "He was eating my food and shit"
Mel: "Then his baby mama called me and I was like oh hell no"
Mel: "It stopped after that"
Mel: "But the idiot still kept calling me afterwards"
I didn't bother waking up for my insanely early hot yoga session this morning. I mean, come on? Who the hell gets up before 9 on a Saturday morning? The stupid cable guy was late coming today to install my cable and the physical opps office was closed today so I had to reschedule for him to install cable in my room on another day. Gahh!!
On a completely different note, I LOVE the Pussycat Dolls' new song, "Buttons." I also love the lead singer. Was her name Lee or something like that? She knows how to work it!
Also, I love the "Angry Little Girl" comics by Lela Lee. They're so funny! You can find some samples of them here: http://www.angrylittlegirls.com
I really liked this one:
Little girl: "Mom, I bought you a flower."
Mom: "Why you waste money!!?"
And this one:
Little girl: "I have no friends."
Mom: "You Ugly, that why you have no friend."
It looks like it'll be another crazy night tonight...  | | |
| I've finally moved into my new place in Berkeley! Woohoo~ I searched
for an entire week through Craigslist and local ads for apartments
until I finally decided to settle in the International House right next
to campus. It's a really big, old, and beautiful building with a cute
little courtyard and garden in the middle, a nice cafe outside, a
library, and several big common rooms. It's a little unnerving being
homeless in a new area so I felt it would be best to stay in a place
like this at least for a semester while searching for longer-term
housing elsewhere. Plus, I can meet some interesting new people while
I'm here. 
I had my first Trader Joe's experience a few days ago while driving
around El Cerrito with my dad. The place does live up to its
reputation! Nearly everything is organic and is very reasonably priced.
I bought out nearly the entire store (jk... but I did get a lot of
stuff...).
There are so many bubble tea places around here! Also, I've noticed a ton of Indian food places in the area. Yeayy 
Work is going... okay. The last SRA our lab had was juggling like 20
different jobs before he left, so everyone expects me to pick up all of
his responsibilities. Ack... Little do they know that "responsibility"
and I don't really mix.
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| Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
"Owaranai Ai Wo" (TV version)
(English translation: "Till the end")
Atsui kumo chigire orite kuru hikari ga
Kataku kizutsuita kako wo sukoshi-zutsu tokasu yo
The thick clouds part, and the descending light...
slowly melts the hardened, damaged past.
Kataku nani ikiteru kara
Konagona ni koware yasukute
Nanni mo mamoru mono nado nai to omotteita...
Because we live so stiffly,
It's so easy to smash into pieces.
And I never thought that I had anything to protect...
Owaranai ai wo nido to wasurenai omoi wo
Tsukami totte ubai totte
Kimi wo tsutsumu yo
Never forgetting there is unending love.
I'll catch it, I'll steal it,
I'll embrace you with it.
Itsuka kono hoshi ga kudake tobichiru toki ga kitemo
Kodoku janai hitori janai
Eien no kaze wo dakishimete
Even if there comes a time when this star is destroyed,
I won't be lonely, I won't be alone.
I'll be embracing an eternal wind.
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| I'm currently back in the states after having spent an awesome vacation in Turkey. I got to see some friends and family while I was there, as well as go out to a few cool nightclubs. I also got to chill on the Mediterranean coast at my grandparents' summer house. Very nice.
It was very difficult leaving Istanbul. Almost heartbreaking... Just kidding. But, I have decided that I will settle there (at least for a while) in the future. There's really no place else I'd rather be. :)
Anyway, after returning to the "good old" USA and getting over a nastly cold, I began to slowly prepare for my move to Cali next week. I'm very excited for this opportunity, since I definitely need some change in environment. I'll still be visiting the east coast frequently, though, since I get homesick pretty readily. :)
I just got the new issue of Elle in which there's an interview with Lindsay Lohan. There's just something about this girl that I really can't take seriously. Sure, she was cute in "The Parent Trap," but now she's all skanky and gross. She talks like a self-obsessed primadonna (much like a certain someone I know) and says something about how she hooks up with all these people all over the world and how she has always wanted to be a pinup girl like Marilyn Monroe. She just looks like she's trying too hard. She's posing with big hair and skimpy clothes in the Elle fashion spread and yet to me she still looks like someone's little sister playing dress-up.
Also, I just recently heard about that crap that Brandon Davis was spewing about her to the paparazzi outside some nightclub. The greasy-haired brat was saying stuff like how she had fire-crotch and how she was only worth $7 million and lives in a motel in New York. These people are so ridiculous!
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On a completely different (and quite random) note, I've been listening to "Rinbu Revolution" (English: "Round Dance Revolution") non-stop for the past few days. I'm such a fangirl... Anyway, the song puts me in a good mood whenever I hear it. Here are the lyrics! (Yay) Sorry, but they're in romaji! I was too lazy to look up the right kanji to use if I was going to write it out in hiragana.  The English translations are included after each verse.
Rinbu Revolution (TV version)
isagiyoku kakkoyoku ikite yukou...
tatoe futari hanarebanare ni natte mo...
take my revolution
Let's live our lives heroically, let's live them with style...
Even if the two of us are ever separated...
Take my revolution.
hikarisasu garden te wo toriai
chikaiatta nagusameatta
mou koi wa nido to shinai yo tte
In the sunlit garden, holding hands,
We drew near and consoled each other,
Swearing we'd never fall in love again.
hoho wo yoseatte utsuru shasshin no
egao ni sukoshi no sabishisa tsumekonde
In that photograph of us, standing cheek-to-cheek,
A touch of loneliness fills our smiling faces.
yume wo mite namida shite kizutsuite mo
genjitsu wa gamushara ni kurushi
jibun no ibasho sonzai kachi wo mitsuketai
kyou made no jibun wo
Even though we dream, even though we cry, even though we hurt ourselves,
And reality approaches frantically,
I want to find my place, the worth of my existence.
From this day, I will take myself and
isagiyoku nugisuteru hadaka ni naru
juu wo mau bara no youni
tatoe futari hanarebanare ni natte mo
watashi wa sekai wo kaeru
Find the strength to throw it all away, bravely strip down to nothing at all,
Become like a rose petal blowing free,
Even if the two of us are ever torn apart,
I will change the world. | | |
| I arrived in Istanbul two days ago and was actually getting over the jet lag up until now. I love this city so much! Driving through the different areas while getting home from the airport brought back such great memories of my junior year. I'm currently making plans for another crazy summer of clubs, cafes, and beaches.
Everyone in Turkey is appalled at how Israel is bombing Lebanon. I can't say that I disagree with them. I think Israel's actions are too extreme and must be mediated. Innocent civilians in Lebanon are paying the price for a terrorist group's actions. | | |
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