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| I am going to write in a Blogger instead of Xanga from now on.
http://gloriasue.blogspot.com/
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| So, what's up with me... As some of you may know, I lost a dear friend of mine recently after his year-long struggle with leukemia, and I miss him a lot. I'm terrible at eulogizing, but I must say, Jon was definitely a model person throughout his entire ordeal: not once did I hear a single complaint from him this whole time. If anything, he was able to look at the bright side of everything, and that made visiting him such wonderful experiences. If you know him and are at all interested, check out the blog he kept; in it he describes his life pretty well. Well, what can I say... I learned so much from him in just this past year alone. And I miss him a lot. I've known him for such a long time... I first met him in 4th grade when we played on the same co-ed club basketball team. Then we went to the same junior high and high school from grade 6 onward... I really got to know him and his family when our two families took a private 2-week guided tour of China (Beijing, Xian, Shanghai, Suzhou, and Hangzhou) over the summer before our senior year... that was tons of fun. I remember him getting food poisoning in Beijing, it was actually kind of funny at the time... And of course doing all the touristy things, shopping, eating, and etc.
In junior year, we were in Spanish AP together... Jon is bottom left in this picture (in the yellow shirt). Good times.
Anyways...
School is going well. I guess I'm really happy about that, since I'm studying and everything... I guess cuz there's really not much else to do around here. Baltimore is a crappy college town. But it's okay, we make our own fun.... 
I promised a story, so here it is:
There is a carnival here at our school running from today, Friday, until this Sunday. It's pretty cool, since they have all these food booths set up on the Freshman Quad, Arts and Crafts booths on the Upper Quad, and actual rides and carnival games set up on another part of campus. It's completely student-run, and it is sort of a big deal. There is a ton of food here, from Indian, to Thai, to all sorts of cuisines and standard fair food as well. In short, it's an awesome time.
WELL, so after I stuffed my face with food, we decided to go play some carnival games in the kiddie area. There was this one game where you had to throw ping pong balls into a rectangular arrangement of several smallish glass cups (kind of like how ring toss games are set up, except with cups instead of bottles). We got 35 balls for $5, and basically, if you get a ball into a cup, you win a goldfish. If you have 5 goldfish, you can trade up for a really really cute lizard.
As we just arrived at the game, another grown man was about to leave with his son. They won 3 goldfish. I guess since they only wanted to keep one, they gave two of their fish to Annie and Julie. Cool. And then Vik and I start playing the game, more for the fun of it (I once won ring toss at the Circus Circus in Reno--I won a huge-ass pink stuffed Carebear) than for actually winning the fish. Anyway, Vik ended up winning one fish, and I got TWO... I got really really excited and because Annie and Julie donated their fish to me, I got a green lizard! I bought it a pink tank for 5 bucks. Holy coolness.
YAY! We immediately started collecting grass, twigs, and flowers for its new home. It was also given an undeniably awesome name: Felix "Flex" Komodo Sue.
Felix, back in my room on my desk.
FELIX!!! (Tigger is very excited about Felix as well)
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. I don't know what I'll end up doing yet, but because raising a lizard isn't exactly the easiest thing to do in the world (it needs to be fed insects every other day), I might end up giving him up. I don't know. It's for his own good, I suppose.
Spring Fair has been fun so far... It really just shows how sad of a campus this is. We're all so busy studying all the time that any bit of fun just appears to be really, incredibly fun. Hahaha. More Spring Fair...
A side view of the food vendors. Keep in mind that the ENTIRE FAIR is on our campus.
At Dr. Seussville (me, Annie, The Cat in the Hat, Thing 2, Julie)
YUP, it's back to work this weekend... I have to get back in touch with my good friend, the library. it's the home stretch... freshman year is almost over!!! 
A Story, Part II, 4/23/06 6:30 PM
So Saturday morning, after much deliberation with friends and Felix himself, we decided to trade Felix back in for five goldfish for Annie to give to her boyfriend Kevin. Luckily for me, the people who ran the game were nice people and bought the lizard cage back as well. I guess things turned out alright.... I had a pet lizard for a day, biaaatch!
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| I went up to Towson
mall yesterday and saw the movie “Inside Man” starring Denzel Washington and
Clive Owen. It’s basically just one of the several generic crime dramas that gets produced
each year which all follow this basic formula: (insert main character here) has
something to prove and is overly ambitious, (insert bad guy here) carries out
an ingeniously evil scheme, the good guys are down for most of the movie, then somewhere
in the middle the good guys go “shit! Why didn’t we realize (insert important
clue) earlier! We are such idiots!” and then they either 1) proceed to
successfully save the world, or b) the bad guys win. *Yawn*. Action movies are
retarded. And it’s not like they can rely on their special effects for
entertaining value, because special effects aren’t even special anymore.
They’re just effects.
Partway through “Inside Man” I became pretty upset with the
violence that was present throughout the movie. That isn’t to say I am a prude
and that I hate all violence in movies, I mean, I grew up watching a ton of
James Bond, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones and all that stuff. I just really
don’t like the increased amount of violence and aggression in the newer movies
being put out today, where every other word is a “fuck you, you cock sucking
hoe!!!” or “kill dat n*gga!” Bitch, please. I sincerely believe that these
movies send out a wrong subconscious message to viewers, and considering that a
sizable part of movie audiences has an IQ of “idiotic,” perhaps aggression in
our media is a major contributor to increased social violence. Just a thought. I’m
worried about the direction we as a people are headed these days, especially
with this misguided social agenda of ours. The movie industry is intelligently
capitalizing on the fact that humans, by nature, enjoy aggression. But they’re
not helping anyone but their own fat fucking pockets. And that is also why I
disapprove of rap (“rap music is an oxymoron”). Bitches, hoes, and “busting a
cap.” I can’t begin to describe how ridiculous it is for people to advocate stuff
like that. Granted, the music industry does it because it is profitable: there
are a huge market for these things, which just reflects how embarrassingly
misguided our society is. To be honest, I have some Ja Rule, Nelly, Sisqo, and
etc. albums sitting in my room at home, from my junior high teeny bopper phase.
Most young kids go through such a phase (freaking TRL), but it only becomes a
problem when they don’t outgrow it, listen to this kind of music all the time,
be subconsciously influenced by it, and become a gun-toting gangster homeboy
for life.
If I had things my way, everyone would enjoy movies like
Eurotrip and American Pie, laugh at all the penis and booby jokes, and be
happy.
Back to my own life:
Let me explain to you Einstein’s special theory of
relativity…
… not. Well, I could,
seeing that I am thoroughly owning physics 2 this semester, which is a complete
turnaround from the ass whooping I got from physics 1 last semester.  But see, last
semester was pass/fail, and I passed the class, so I guess I really don’t care
about how poorly I passed. Yeeeeuh.
We got our housing for next year, and it looks like I’ll be
rooming in a single (at a pretty big 140 square feet!) in a four person suite. Sweet.
Looks like fun.
I’m looking forward to the last day of classes on May 5th,
reading period and then finals until May 18th, then a possible trip
to New York City after that with the girls, and
then back to California
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| "One down, seven more to go"
How is it that the temperature lows here are higher than the highs in Baltimore?! Much love, California  .
Despite the daytime temperatures that hover around freezing point, the
worst part about the weather in B'more is the occasional thin layer of ice
on the walkways. You can't see it, which makes it all the more
deceptive, but you can definitely feel it. If you're lucky,
you'll get some ice-lovin on your ass after you trip and fall. It
happens a lot and it's actually pretty funny to see happen (to other
people). It hasn't happened to me yet, but who knows *knock on
wood*. The ice also triples your walking time to class because it
makes your feet slip every other step... and then you're like woah and
then you play it off by laughing but then it happens again while you're
laughing and then yeah, repeat that process x100 going from one place
to another.
I'm reeeally glad my first semester of college is over and I'm glad
to be home. Back in high school, I really couldn't understand
why college kids wanted to go home so badly all the time, cuz I mean,
you're at college! Go have a good time or something. But
once you go to college you realize it's all work. And college
really wears you out after
awhile, I mean sure it's really fun at times, but for the most part
you're there to learn and that's what you do pretty much all of the
time. And it's stressful, with midterms practically every week it
gets pretty freaking dreary. So my last final of the semester was
physics
(of which I just suck at), and my studying schedule
for the 3 days preceeding that exam were as follows (I'm not making
this shit up, Vik was studying with me the whole time but for a
different class, props to him!): Wake up at 7:30 AM, get to the
library by 8:30 AM, snag a study room, study until brunch break at
around 11, eat sort of quickly, return to the library around noon, snag
another study room, studyyy until dinner around 5 PM, again eat rather
quickly, return to the library and get another study room, and leave
the library around 9:30 PM, sleep around 10:30. The whole time, I
was wondering why I didn't study like this sooner. Haha.
I'm actually really lazy when it comes to schoolwork and this kind of
studying is new to me. In high school I kind of just did the bare
minimum to get good grades and it worked. But college is
different (at least here it is, I hear some people aren't even studying
hard and are doing well at their schools, wtf) and I guess this was
sort of out of desperation, cuz my physics grade was hovering somewhere
just above the class average, which sucks.
I'm glad it's over, and I feel sooo relieved. And I semi-raped
the physics final . There was one question that I felt came out of nowhere, but whatever.
Out around town with Vik the night after our last final:
On the shuttle to go downtown for dinner (Nepalese food)
Trippy shot
Vik and Glo: study buddies for life  I like this picture because Vik is a real OG.
From earlier on in the semester:
Sledding on trays we stole from the dining hall! hahah
Sledding foursome
Crew team Christmas party drunkenness
The front of my dorm/converted inn after some snow fall- us Cali kiddies were too excited about snow for our own good.
Christmas soon! Can't wait... I'll be home until January
29th. We have a hella-hecka-mad-wicked long winter break. sweeeet.
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| "Institution of Higher Learning"
So I'm basically mad busy all the time. I have tons of schoolwork
just like everyone else, but I also have a time-consuming job at the
Johns Hopkins Medical Institution which is a lovely 30 minute shuttle
ride each way. I do clericalish work at the genetics lab there which is
run by a medical bigwig (apparently), Dr Victor McCusick, who made some
major discoveries about genetics stuff like half a century ago. And I joined
the women's crew team here because I totally felt like i needed to do some
sort of sport to stay physically active and what not, and it's been alright... But that entails waking up
at 4:30 AM on weekday mornings for practice on the water. Sucks that
our campus is kind of in the ghetto with no large body of water within
walking distance, we have to take a shuttle to our boathouse on the
Patapsco off the Chesapeake Bay which is like a 20 minute trip. So
then usually we get back around 8 AM ish, then I grab breakfast to go
and then head off to my 9 AM class.
Classes are alright... some of my classes go through material at warp
speed (physio psych) and some i jsut don't get at all (physics). I am
getting owned up the wazoo by physics =[ Our freshman year fall
semester is all pass/no pass, thankfully. There IS a god =)
When I happen to have free time...
i play POOL! theres nothing like using sticks to hit balls into holes
the freshman class of '09, all 1000 of us:
Some random pictures from a surprise birthday party we threw a friend a while back:
Crew pictures from our first race two weeks ago:
carrying our 8 person boat down to the docks... The boat is pretty fckn heavy haha. i'm the loser in the front.
the entire crew team- men's and women's novices and varsity. i am the asian.
then yesterday we had a formal dance, the "Midnight Masquerade" (or massacre-ade), on a boat at the Inner Harbor
group picture: me, vik, julie, andrew, annie, kevin, nina, ken
this picture makes me miss california a lot:
I'll be going home in less than a month!! finally... about time
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