Tuesday, May 30, 2006
south hall peoples
so i went to kar’s graduation party and ran into lotsa peoples i knew way back from my days at la sierra:
here’s a picture with kat, sean and clayton. the two brothers asked me if i was married yet, (thinking that they had perhaps missed the announcement) and i said, no, i’m not. then they asked me if kat was married yet. she was sitting behind me talking to someone else back there, but i thought that this conversation was too good for her to miss, so i rudely interrupted (sorry, ed koh!) and told her that these two guys were inquiring as to her marriage status. she laughed oh-so-heartily in their face and as we were sitting there, guffawing with our mouths wide open, asking ming to take a picture of us, i heard sean say, “wow, you guys haven’t changed at all!” funny, i think it’s when i’m around kathy that i hear that the most often!
and here is a picture of celeste wong (nercy and nelson’s child). she usually doesn’t smile for me but i was able to capture this chuckle when tucking her into the car… lookat her laughing! it’s so cool…
Sunday, May 28, 2006
congratulations, kar!
or should i say, congrats, doctor yung! =)
kat and i made this lei that’s kar’s wearing in this picture for her to wear while graduating… so we dropped it off last night so that she would have it in time for the ceremony (cause c’mon, let’s get real - i wasn’t gonna make it to the ceremony ahead of time to be able to give it to her, in fact, as i recall, the three of us were all late to our own grad ceremony 5 years ago at la sierra and as a result we’re not in the class picture!)
at any rate, here we are five years later… all three of us have finished post-grad work - i graduated last year from UCR with my masters in education, and kat graduated in absentia earlier this month from NYU with a masters in education communications technology, and today, kar graduated from loma linda med school… we’re so edjumacated, yet… if you look at this pic, it could’ve easily been taken five years ago in our honors dorm… we all still look exactly the same! hahaha…
congratulations, doctor kar!
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
orange blossom festival, part 1
(looking at my recent blogging history, i’ll probably never post a part 2, but i wanna make sure i post at least these beginning pics somewhat close to the actual event… here goes!)
this weekend riverside hosted it’s annual orange blossom festival…
rita, kat, and i headed over there with perry, kevin, jason, marc, and allan
(notice how marc has to be on his tippy-toes? =P hahahah!)
we had alotta fun wandering around and then perry bought 3 tickets, one for each girl, to ride the bull. YEAH RIGHT!! rita and i were in skirts… those guys were just dreamin! so perry ended up using one of the tix - and then he fell off in like, 3 seconds! he got back on and then rode it for 20 seconds, and so then kat had to try, and she lasted for a minute!
and then we just kept on walking around and ate some food:
fun times, fun times…
Sunday, May 21, 2006
sure i'm smart - but i shouldn't be a US citizen!
i woke up at 9 this morning, which is amazing cuz my alarm didn’t go off and i went to sleep around 2:45 am… at any rate, i know it’s too early to be calling most people i know, and so i’m just browsing online looking for stuff to entertain myself.
i found this quiz on laura’s blog and found that i speak 15% yankee and 10% dixie! hahah… yankee?!? dixie??!? where’d those come from?!
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Your Linguistic Profile:: |
| 70% General American English
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| 15% Yankee
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| 10% Dixie
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| 0% Midwestern
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| 0% Upper Midwestern
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and then i started taking a whole assortment of blogthings’ quizzes. so, apparently i can pass an 8th grade science test, and my fortune cookie generator told me that “beauty is only a light switch away!” HA! i should turn my light switch off then, shouldn’t i? =)
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Your Fortune Is |
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apparently, if i were a muppet, i’d be scooter…
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You Are Scooter |
 Brainy and knowledgable, you are the perfect sidekick. You’re always willing to lend a helping hand. In any big event or party, you’re the one who keeps things going. “15 seconds to showtime!” |
is scooter smart? cuz my quick and dirty iq test shows that my iq is 130 - although i’m lacking in logical skills? hahahah… that’s awesome!
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Your IQ Is 130 |
 Your Logical Intelligence is Below Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Above Average |
but check it out… i failed the us citizenship test!! yikes! apparently the requirements to stay here are much less than the requirements to get in =) hahahaha… ok… but try it yourself - could you pass this test?
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You Failed the US Citizenship Test |
 Oops, you only got 4 out of 10 right! |
Thursday, May 18, 2006
drawing donald duck
there was this animation workshop at california adventure that was pretty cool, and it was one of those things where we probably wouldn’t have experienced it if we stayed on the rides all day, but because the lines were so short, we were able to do everything.
i really enjoyed and i ended up going there twice, the first time, we drew donald, and then we went back and learned how to draw mickey. you should try it sometime!
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
california adventure
yesterday, i took the seniors to disney’s california adventure as part of their senior class trip… there wasn’t a lot to do, so i made them do it all! my excuse for everything i wanted to do that they thought was cheesy was, “hey, we have all day here! there’s no rush to go to the next ride!” followed by “let’s look at this exhibit!”, “let’s watch that play!” and my favorite, “let’s take a picture with goofy!”
they always tease me about being asian and taking pictures all day gave them ample fodder for and endless supply of jokes aimed at me.
they also were teasing me that i wanted to walk past the funny mirrors, and they wouldn’t let me at first, but we finally got to walk past them, and then they really enjoyed it, cuz everyone looked like urkel!
since it was a tuesday, we were able to go on all the rides, and logan, carynn, phil, and amy dragged shelby onto tower of terror. shelby was so frightened of the ride she almost broke down, and she actually was crying and shaking! they bought this picture simply because they thought it was hilarious how terrified shelby looked (you can’t really tell but she’s really red in this pic, and she’s about to burst into tears!!) and especially that carynn was pointing and laughing at her pain… ah… what are friends for, eh? =)
of all the costumed peoples, i thought that the green army men from toy story were the coolest looking ones
here, chris and elsa, BUNDLES of energy!, were excited to head off to the corn dog castle. i have to admit, that was the best corn dog i’ve had!
all in all, it was actually quite an enjoyable day!
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
the bachelorettes strike again!
kat, shelia, and i took this pic at church this last sabbath, and then i was like, dude, guys, let’s take a normal one! so then we took this pic:
but then thinking about it… i think the first one WAS normal for us =)
Monday, May 15, 2006
happy mother's day
our family had a wedding to go to for mother’s day… so that meant i got to see my mom and all my cousins’ moms too =)
me & my mommy
carlo and his mommy and his mommy’s mommy
omar, ryan, and dayday with their mommy
i’ll post more about the wedding later, when it’s not so late…
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Monday, May 08, 2006
10 yr reunion
the first weekend in may is always reunion weekend at glendale adventist academy, and i hadn’t really come back to participate in any of the activities before… but this year it was actually my ten-year anniversary of graduation, so our class had a few special activities. even though our main reunion is planned for june 3, we still had a few get-togethers this weekend…
here are a few of the classmates that i saw again… some of ‘em had already escaped to go play in the alumni games (they play alumni vs varsity), but pictured here are dan, lori, nikki, and sam in the front row, and bryan riffel, duane, susi, lyn, me, and kathleen standing behind ‘em.
probably the most reunion-y feeling i got that night was when i was walking up right when i got outta my car. i was headed outta the faculty parking lot and got a glimpse of bryan, standing there right behind the flagpole, talking on the cell phone, and he looked like it was 10 years ago - exactly the same! i almost thought he was his younger brother cuz he didn’t look like he aged not even a day! then, while i was standing there, saying hi to him, i turned around and saw ricky baptist approaching with his wife in one hand and his son in the other!
by the way, he was the only one of us who brought a spouse and a kid. well… okay, sam and kathleen came as a married couple, but they were both classmates… so jasmine was the only “in-law” to show up.
i guess in that sense, it was sorta nice that there wasn’t a whole lotta “reunion talk” - y’know, the “what are you doing now?” conversations small-talk were kept to a minimum. we were all just happy to see each other - as soon as someone new walked into the room we’d all cheer and welcome and greet them and it was really heartwarming to see everyone be friendly - now, we’re all friends. it doesn’t matter who your friends were in high school, we just wanted to see everyone again. we just sat there and spent time together and reminisced and called up classmates who weren’t there and passed the phone around to talk to them, and it was neat to be in that environment again. it was weird… everything was so familiar, there were barely any changes to the school, yet it was like i was seeing parts of the school for the first time - i even asked where the bathroom was before i remembered that i went to school there for 10 years and of course i knew where the bathroom was!
anyways, it was nice being back for a little bit. even playing in the reunion volleyball games the next morning - where old alumni (yeah - i’m old alumni!!! yikes!) beat the young alumni twice, and then we teamed up against varsity and beat ‘em 3 games straight - it was just neat being on the court with former teammates, working together as a team once again… it was neat, cuz we all just gelled on the court again, some of us were rustier than others, but all of us entirely enjoyed the experience =) i didn’t get anyone’s phone numbers and i have no delusions of making them part of my daily life again, but i think we just enjoyed it for what it was - visiting part of our past and enjoying those memories together.
laker flower
i saw this flower on saturday and thought, wow… that’s such an interesting daisy! it was made just for the lakers!
too bad they lost… now my clippers will have to face the suns.
Friday, May 05, 2006
uncle beny & auntie luz
they celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary this past sunday
here they are with their children behind them: ate noreen, kuya dennis, ate shirley, kuya glenn, and kuya chester
as you can see, it was hawaiian-themed. i had a dress to wear, but then when i went shopping with my students, i found this vintage hawaiian dress and ended up buying it for $7. it was so nifty cool! this is what it ended up looking like…
the rest of the family turned out in hawaiian shirts and dresses and it was really neat-o to see ‘em all colorful =)
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006
"if i had kids with you..."
“...our kids would be half jewish and half smart!’
according to my (apparently) jewish student.
hmmm.... interesting....
Monday, May 01, 2006
go, clippers, go!
7:47 left in the 4th quarter and we’re leading 84-61, a 23 point lead!
i love my clippers!
special thanks to jay for making this photo possible - he heard me say that i’ve wanted a clipper license plate holder forever (well, ever since i bought my car “chubby” a year and a half ago!) but at the TeamLA store in the staples center, they sell only the plastic black ones that i don’t like, and i asked jay if he knew where i could get a nice silver one. so i went over to his place to watch the game with him, and he gave me this nice silver LA Clippers license plate holder that he got at “the place.” it’s coolness!!!
oh wow, now it’s 5:30 left in the 4th and 90-63, leading by 27 points!!
okay, now i’m going back to watching the game… can’t miss a second of it!
go, clippers, go!!!