I haven’t seen my sister and father for about 8 months now. My sister just had her second child about a month ago, Khalia Tran! I’m so excited to go over there and rest for one wonderful week without any worries whatsoever. I’ll be running around the beautiful lake, getting my exercise and taking lots of pictures of my beautiful niece. Photos to come soon, but before that I must survive 4 tests and a paper. T.T Wish me luck
From this point on, my social life will continue to dwindle until there’s nothing left. On Monday I start my IV orientation. Midterms, Health fairs, Cancer walks, and IV’s will make my schedule quite hectic until the end of the semester. After school is out, I’ll be taking four classes this summer. Granted, the classes will be held during the weekends, I’m sure I’ll be busy either working during the weekdays or doing hw, and presentations for those classes.
I’m sure I’ll find periods in between to relax a bit, but my carefree days are officially over. It’s constant busyness from here until the end of my third year T.T
I do regret not following some of my upperclassmen’s advice about enjoying 2nd year to its fullest. I regret working 3 days on the weekend after 4 days of class instead of enjoying my Friday’s off. Oh well, some people don’t have the luxury to enjoy themselves. Many of us have to worry about the growing debt accumulating above our heads. With the way the economy is going, maybe it is a good idea that I work all the hours given to me. Many people don’t even have jobs at the moment.
Since last Thursday, I’ve had a string of bad luck, I’ve lost quite a few things and had a couple of near-misses as well. It started last Thursday after case conference. I walked into class trying to save seats for my group of 4 friends that sit together and had to reserve seats in two separate rows. Why we need to save seats is another altogether ridiculous story. You would figure that after 1.5 years, all the students would settle down and sit in the same seats but they don’t. They steal our seats if we don’t come in soon enough. Anyway, so I saved the seats with my folders. Shortly after, I left to go get some tea. When I came back my friends had returned from case study. Some of them sat in the seats that I saved, and the others didn’t because they didn’t recognize my folders. Because they didn’t sit in the seats I saved, I totally forgot about the folders I used to save those seats. After class, I left and those folders are now missing. I didn’t lose too many important things but it’s still a hassle since some of my class notes needed for my oral exam next week are in those folders. On Saturday, Valentine’s Day, my roomate and I were supposed to go to Rage, as you have probably read in my prior entry. She lost her id card so we decided to go to a tea house and hang out instead. In a rush to go and pick up my friend Phuong that night, I left the house without my wallet. Then Tuesday rolls around and I go to the gym with Kimberly. I misplaced my temporary gym membership so I take my id card out of my wallet for proof of membership. Later that night, I accidentally drop my wallet inside Kim’s car and forget my driver’s license in my exercise shorts. So on Wednesday, I panic because I cannot find my wallet, but fortunately Kim finds it and brings it to me in class. I then drive around on Wednesday not realizing that my driver’s license was taken out on Tuesday and was never put back into my wallet. On Thursday night of course, when I open up my wallet to grab my driver’s license again for the gym (I never found my gym pass) I panic when I don’t see it in my wallet. A few minutes later, my breathing and heartbeat return to normal as I realize that I just forgot it in my gym shorts. To make matters worse, I realized I left my thumbdrive in the computer lab yesterday when I met up with a classmate to work on our case study. This has been an awful week! I hope I don’t lose anymore stuff T.T
I’ve never had such a string of bad luck in my entire life. What is happening?
I’m currently researching for my pharmaceutics case study paper that is due next Thursday and also studying for my Therapeutics oral exam as well. Thought, I’d take a study break.
Utada is coming out with a new English album in March so I thought I would post up a link so everyone could enjoy it.
Hope you like it. Utada's new single "Come back to Me"
Valentine’s Day was quite interesting this year. About 3 weeks ago my roommate Melissa invited to go to Rage on Vday. I was actually dreading the whole event although I knew that I was going to have an awesome time. I was scheduled to work three days straight this weekend and wasn’t looking forward to having to drive from Costa mesa after work to Alhambra and back to Costa mesa the next morning for work.
It turns out, Melissa somehow lost her driver’s license while she was out perusing for shoes that afternoon, so we ended up making a trip to Guppy tea house and chatted until 2am in the morning. This was perfect because I would rather have an amazing conversation any day over dancing up a storm in the club (although I do admit that that would have been fun as well). It’s funny though, because Melissa and I overdressed for a tea house. We were in our clubbing attire and arrived early too, (at around 11pm )which makes it difficult to pretend that we had just gotten out of a club since that’s the time when people just start to trickle in. Ehh but who cares, people are generally trendy there anyway and it was for a special occasion.
We just talked about relationships, about people, you know, all the fun stuff to talk about on Vday. Talking about these things really helped to solidify in my mind the type of person that I’m looking for. Melissa was entirely right, I do have high standards but I tend to settle because I can’t find the right person, which I shouldn’t do. It was a reality check of some sort. Good times
I’m glad that I didn’t have to wake up early the next day with a hangover, drive to work, and then manage to work an 8 hour day. Yesterday was stressful enough working sober, no need to compound that with lingering alcohol in my body.
On the weekend of the 1st of February, VAPSA was at the Tet Festival in Westminster representing USC. We had cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension screening in addition to educational booths regarding skin cancer, healthy living, and smoking cessation. I brought about 200 individual sample sunscreens that day to give to individuals that passed by and was able to give all of them away. It was slow towards the educational booths corner for most of the day. I’m guessing it had more to do with language barriers more than anything. There were very few of us that actually knew how to speak Vietnamese. I attempted to speak to some of the people but was stumbling as I tried to find the correct scientific terms to address my point. No one would have approached us if they hadn’t seen the free samples. Towards the second half of our shifts, we became a bit more aggressive and stepped out into high traffic areas offering the sunscreen while giving people a small excerpt about how to use the sunscreen and prevent skin cancer. It was a great experience as always, and I’m looking forward to additional health fairs this semester. We will also be participating in the Relay for Life at USC Main campus, and the Revlon Run/Walk to raise money for Cancer Research in a few months.
So windows live writer was installed on my computer when I bought it. I’m testing to see if I can cross post to both xanga and blogger from just one program with pictures. I’ve figured out how to crosspost within Microsoft word but the picture part I have yet to comprehend. If you see my picture pop up, you know that it worked. That means I’ll be posting more pictures in my blogs.
If you've read any of my earlier entries, I talk a lot about the topic of time. Here's yet another entry. I'll begin by talking about how I always came out of relationships resilient, often times seeing new people faster than I think is healthy for my emotional well being. I've always had this mentality though that my true match is out there, and the longer that I wait, the greater the possibility that he might just pass me by. I have this idea, that every person out there could just be that perfect person. So if I decline the offer to get to know someone new, even if it's at a bad time of my life, I may be declining the once in a lifetime possibility to meet my true soul mate. However, what I've learned from my experiences is that the right person will come at the right time. So much of this is out of our control. I say this because I'm thinking back a few years when I met someone I thought was really interesting and fun. We were good friends, and would call each other up at random times to talk. I think there was chemistry and even potential between the two of us. I won't provide the details but it just seemed that the timing was always off. One person was always in a relationship while the other person was single. It seemed to rotate like that back and forth. Fate wasn't on our side. This is why I've come to the conclusion that I'll just let destiny manage my love life. In time, the right person with a complementary soul will come my way. To my lover, I wait patiently until the day we meet. Our meeting may be like the rare occurrence of an eclipse but our love will be eternal, beyond this material world.
It's finally over. The show that Vy and I have been working on for the last month and a half was yesterday. Everything seemed to fall into place. The dragon dancers came right when the show was about to start so we did have to start about five minutes late but that gave student extra time to walk over to the quad and watch up. The dragon dance I must say was very impressive but it was only 10 minutes. We were expecting more considering we paid them so much but in the end I'm just glad that everything went smoothly.
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