November 29, 2008
Wow, I’ve had a quite eventful past two days!
Thanksgiving dinner was quite delicious… Of course it was a mix of Asian food and American Thanksgiving food, haha. I thoroughly enjoyed the turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. MmMmmMm! After dinner at a family friend’s house, all the kids came over to my house and we watched The Departed. It is such an intense movie. It actually reminds me a lot of the movie Burn After Reading, except with less dark humor and more action/suspense.
Today, I woke up late..big surprise. I was probably hungover from my food coma. 
My family and I ate delicious, delicious dim sum, came back home, and went on a 45 minute walk around on the trail in my neighborhood. It was such a nice day today… It makes me happy. 
Afterwards, we came back and watched Iron Man since my parents and I have never seen it (although my sister has). It was such a good movie. Yay for movies since I don’t get to watch many of them. After the movie, we went to dinner at a really amazing Italian place. (Have you noticed a trend here? Movie, eating, some walking, more eating.. life story, minus the movies!) Then my dad decided we should go to The Montage to get drinks. So we did. And then he decided the wine there was no good..and wanted to go to St. Regis for more..so we did. Haha. The music was really nice, not gonna lie. But two hotel lounges in one night? A bit much!
Anyway, after we got home I’ve been working on my Haas business school app. It’s frustrating for me to try and explain why and what I want to do with business, in so few words. Blah.
I need to finish it sooooon! But for now, I’m going to bed. Goooodnight.
November 27, 2008
I’m so happy to be homeeeeee! Minus the horrible rain that’s pouring down like crazy.. but it’s so nice to be home. And to see my family. We’re having Thanksgiving dinner tonight at a family friend’s house. I’m excited.
But before that, I must go to the gym with the sister, especially if I’m going to feast tonight!
I think after the gym, my family and I are going to play poker..we’re going to teach my mom beacuse apparently she doesn’t know how to play!!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
November 21, 2008
Recently I read some of the blog entries I wrote about 1.5-2 years ago.. (all of those links under “The Girl”). And damn have I changed. Some of those entries..some of my thoughts are quite scary. Looking back, I’m not sure how I allowed such intense pessimism and cynicism to get the best of me. Damn did those feelings have such great impact on me. It’s funny because looking back and reading them, I think I could pinpoint the main thing(s) that led me to write all those different entries, and I could still remember how I felt back then..those memories are still very real, but I think I’ve learned to move on and accept certain facts (if you could call them facts) about life, and not be so hung up over things that just aren’t worth getting hung up on.
I think maybe it just didn’t quite hit me just how much my ideology and way of looking at things in life have changed until I started reading Moby Dick again for Philosophy. I remember when I first finished reading Moby Dick two years ago, how much I idolized Ahab and how much I seemed to have identified with him. A little part of me still does worship Ahab (or more, the idea of Ahab and what he stands for) and his actions, but nowadays I’d say I am much more like Ishmael if anything… and none of this probably makes sense if you haven’t read Moby Dick but if you haven’t, you should..it’s such an amazing book and the ideas in the book are just..amazing. Too much amazing’s but that’s the only word I can seem to come up with.
I think my classes this past semester have exposed me to more ideas and ways of life. I’ve realized that I shouldn’t live my life with such conviction that I become narrow-minded and closed to new and different ideas, especially those pertaining to “religion” and the principles behind religious beliefs. Yes, I am an Atheist. My core, fundamental beliefs and world views haven’t changed..those are still the same. And I still hold strong convictions about them. But that doesn’t mean I can’t open my mind to all the other ways of life, because learning and understanding different ideas makes life all the more worth living and definitely more interesting. And although I may never (and am not sure I’d be able to nor want to) understand fully all the other ideologies and ways of life, there is no harm for me in attempting to do so, right?
