Sunday, February 7, 2010

Stranger in the Laundry Room

A long time ago when I was still relatively new to blogging I wrote an entry about love and what is love.


What's interesting is I started it with the question of what if someone was to say "You are Loved" and simply walk away. The reason why I say that little bit is interesting is because I was doing my laundry last night and a random lady in the laundry room came up to me and started a very casual conversation with me. Most of the time it was me detailing the little bits of my life as a student and how school is getting tougher and how I am lucky enough to find to time to enjoy life, but as randomly as the conversation began she stands up and ask me this:

"Can I give you a hug?"

Honestly, I didn't know what to do because I hardly knew the woman yet she asked to give me hug so I obliged not knowing what is going to happen. While hugging me she told me "May God bless you," and that she is happy to hear things are not too hard on me.

The rest of the night was weird for me. It's funny because right before I fell asleep and I remembered that entry I wrote a while ago and I realized that the reaction I said I would have is exactly the same reaction I had right after meeting that lady. I don't know if I'll see that lady again, but what I do know is she is very nice lady and is capable of brightening up everyone's day.

Oh how I love random acts of love.



Saturday, January 30, 2010

I'll give MTV a little bit of respect...

So the other day I flipped to MTV and saw this show called The Buried Life and for once it wasn't some garbage TV show on MTV. The Buried Life has a really basic premise of four college friends having a list of things to do before they die but as they accomplish these things on their list they have another goal of helping out one person they meet during their adventures accomplish one thing the random person wants to do before they die. Talk about a random act of kindness. It's really rare to see TV shows today that inspires us, the viewers, to live life to its fullest like these four guys, thus it's really refreshing to watch this show and see how these guys accomplish all the things on their list.

You can check out the list at www.theburiedlife.com. Here's a trailer for the show:



“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” - Albert Einstein

Monday, January 25, 2010

Fortune Cookie

I was eating at Chinese restaurant the other day and when the time came for me to open my fortune cookie, I was really caught off guard by what the fortune said. The fortune said...

"You may lack the ambition, but not the ability to succeed." -Fortune Cookie

That the first time in my life a fortune cookie actually made me think. Normally the habit for me is to eat a great dinner and then at the end entertain myself with the cheesy and sometimes random fortunes from the fortune cookies. However, this time I was presented with something that really made me think about what I just read. That single quote, in some ways, has been the story of my life. I always hear about this potential that I have, but sometimes I feel like I lack the drive to do anything to help reach that potential.

So, in context with the events that are going on in my life right now, SPOP returner applications are out right now. Ever since I staffed Gold year, I have always aspired to become a returner but I feel like I'm taking a lot longer than I need to fill out my application. I think the one thing that is holding me back is not the fear of being rejected but if I can as amazing as my spmother was. I hate admitting this, but my SPOP family wasn't as nearly as cohesive as we could have been. Granted we had our moments, I felt like that a lot of our family members were MIA at times. Although, I am extremely grateful that I was able to spend time with the other returners and my own spmother and had the opportunity learn so much from them. Now that I'm thinking about it, perhaps my biggest fear is I won't be able to provide as much wisdom and knowledge to the new staffers as compared to the returners that I aspired to be like. It's just so hard for me to imagine myself as a returner because I respect them so much. Whenever I talk to them, I always end up not wanting to end the conversation because I always learn something new and they continue to impress me with their knowledge.

After thinking about the application this past hour, I think I should go through with it and if I make staff this year, I'll make sure I'll do my damn best to help pass on everything I learned from my returners to the new staffers this year.

On the side note....
CONGRATU-FREAKIN-LATIONS to Walter and Lisa on your engagement!!!!! You guys are amazing and I wish you guys the best!

Sunday, January 10, 2010

A Fond Farewell to the Decade...and 2009.

It's almost mind-boggling to me that I've been alive for two decades now. It's almost just as hard to believe that another year has gone by so quickly. Although it's a little late for a New Years resolution post I'm going to post mine anyways...

-Work out more (so far, so good)
-Study harder for my classes and be more focused in classes.
-Take more time to appreciate my blessings and enjoy my life. You only get to live it once
-Continue to dance and improve as much as I can
-Enjoy the time spent with friends as it is getting harder every year to have quality time with them

Time is flying by and I life just keeps on getting more interesting. As corny as it sounds, everyday is a brand new adventure and I just can't wait to see what this year has to offer me!

Happy New Years!

*This song has me mesmerized...Ever since I heard it on (500) Days of Summer, an excellent movie, I can't stop listening to it

Monday, December 28, 2009

All You Need is Love

As we are well-aware of, I have this infatuation with love. As I was roaming the internet I came across an amazing video. It's part of some Starbucks project to help fight AIDS in Africa. I cant' really explain it other than saying watch the video. It is a bloody brilliant video and I can't believe my good fortunes to come across this. I'll probably end sharing this on my other public networking websites.

New Years is so close!

Friday, December 11, 2009

Collegeacb is revolting

So my friend showed me this site called collegeacb and honestly it is a disgusting website. No it's not a porn website or some disgusting website like meatspin. It's disgusting in the sense that it shows the true ugliness of human beings. Basically it's a website that allow people to post anonymously about your school (pretty much gossip or say hateful things). Ande th things said in the posts are unbelievable. Normally I would be depressed when seeing this because all this tells me is that immaturity I wanted to escape from high school still exists in the college that I love. And then I see one post that upsets me greatly.

http://collegeacb.com/sb.php?school=UCIrvine&page=thread&id=99425&p=1

This post directly attacks one of things that I absolutely love about UCI, SPOP. For one, I do not wish to create a response on that website because it's pointless. I wouldn't change anyone minds or opinions through a stupid website argument. So it's best to just stop reading and accept the fact that there are a lot of ignorant people on this campus who really need to grow up. However, it really angers me to see someone to blatantly attack SPOP without any valid reasons other than it's filled with "fobby Asian hip-hop wannabes" or AXOs who he/she refers to as "sorority pornstars." I may not know the real reason why this person despises the people in the program but generalizing an entire sorority as pornstars is CROSSING THE DAMN LINE. I know some people in that sorority and they are good people so it really offends me when someone would make such outrageous and immature generalizations. Not only do people such ignorant generalization they would go as far as saying that a group of "all asians" is a lack diversity. This is BS. Some of these guys forget what the word diversity means. Diversity is not just restricted to the color of our skin but also by our cultures, our pasts, personalities, religious views, etc. I don't get why so many people are so focused by the color of our skin. I thought we were past those days and these are the days where follow the simple rule of not judging a book by its cover but by its contents.

The other thing that really made me angry real quick was the fact that someone directly attacked someone that I respect a lot. The post is as follows:

"Its because that hannah bitch, a smug korean cunt (like all koreans, she is smug as fuck) who heads spop is asian, thats why." (Someone a post later corrected this person's mistake, but I'm still frustrated by it)

This was in response that there was a lack of diversity (not enough "non-asian" or white people) but to directly attack someone because of her racial ethnicity and then go as far as generalizing an entire group is upsetting. But the thing that really gets to me is that he/she would say something about this woman. I may be a little biased when writing about Hannah, but I love her to death and she was like the older sister that I never had. I have so much respect for her and I credit a lot of my growth in college to her. But to see that someone would say that about Hannah makes me question whether or not this person really knows her. Hannah was and will always be one of the bigger influences in my life because the way she conducted herself and the amount of wisdom that she has shared with me has really left me in awe of her as a person. I can't imagine anyone disliking her to the point where someone is willing to say something like that about her. It just doesn't make sense to me.

But then again a lot of things in this world doesn't make sense.

On the brighter note: I'm done with finals! My winterbreak has started and I can't wait to relax.

Wrong thing to be thinking about during a final...

I thought I should share this...

While I was taking my abnormal psych final, for some odd reason instead of thinking of an answer for one question the thing that popped into my head was this: