Sunday, 03 January 2010
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2010!
Oh, 2009. What a year you were.
You started out nicely; I celebrated your birth with family and friends in Taiwan. You gave me a new boyfriend on Valentine's Day and legalized my drinking, gambling, and clubbing habits on April 13. You gave me my first major school failure and you also took my virginity. You saw me develop an interest in nails, hair, makeup, and other girly shit. I spent the last month of your life raping finals in Berkeley and then going home and spending the holiday season doing all the things I love with the people I love. You left me with better family relationships, an amazing boyfriend, wonderful friends, perfect grades, a job for the new year, and a relatively healthy body. What more could I ask for? RIP 2009, I will never forget you.
I celebrated the death of 2009 and and birth of 2010 by kissing the boyfriend in Disneyland with fireworks going on behind us. Hehehehe I've always dreamed of kissing at midnight on New Year's Eve but I've never had the chance until now. Let me just say, it was perfect~ <3
Welcome 2010. New year, new decade, new experiences. I have a feeling it's gonna be a good year. So far, so good. May you be even better than 2009 was. Happy new year everyone!
Cheers,
Kat
P.S. Every year I make a new year's resolution to lose weight & every year I fail horribly LOL hope this year is different.
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
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Busy Busy
This past week:
12/03: got an A+ on my 60% of my Geog70AC grade 12 page midterm paper!
12/04: interview with Equilar
12/04-12/08: spend the weekend at Roe's place eating/studying/watching House/Glee haha
So much shit to do before I can go home for winter break!
12/09: 3 papers (1 page, 1.5 page, 3 page) due for CP198 (affordable housing decal)
12/10: 1 paper (3 page) due for PS198 (US-Taiwan-China strait relations decal)
12/11: 1 paper (8 page) due for Geog70AC (Urban Experience)
1 report (10-15 page not including R code appendix) group project due for Stat133
12/14: UGBA101A final (5-8pm)
12/16: Stat133 final (5-8pm)
12/17: fly home!!
12/18-20: big bear trip?
12/22-01/02: Roe spends the holidays with me & my family ;>
加油 kat!!!! You can do it~
Love,
Kat
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
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I am so tired of this insomnia shit! Ideas to help me sleep, anyone?
-kat
Thursday, 19 November 2009
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Doomed
My mom has advised me many times to find a guy who likes me more than I like him. Otherwise, (according to her personal experience) I will be doomed in my relationship . Unsurprisingly, my mom was right. Why am I always the one who cares more, worries more, hurts more? Investing so much of my self and my time and my feelings in this relationship is rewarding, yea, but so, so tiring.
There's a tightness in my chest that won't go away whenever you're mad at me or don't talk to me. You occupy my thoughts for hours at a time so that I'm unable to sleep at night (not that I'm ever able to sleep at night, but if I were, yea). You say you never want to make me cry, but why do you always say things when you're mad that make me sad? And why do we argue about the stupidest fucking things sometimes? What is it about being in a relationship that turns me from an awesome chill girl into an insecure stubborn bitch? I don't know.
I'm so tired of always being the one to message you, yet I do it anyway because I need to do it because talking to you completes my day, makes my day that much better, regardless of what we talk about. Would you even care if I didn't message you for a day? Would you even notice? How long would it take for you to be the one to message me? A week? Two weeks? A month? I've tried to figure this out before, by stopping myself from talking to you until you initiate a conversation, but it always fails. I always give in before you make a move because I miss talking to you, and you never so much as notice that I haven't spoken to you all day. It hurts. Why am I the only one who feels like this? Why doesn't it affect you like it affects me?
I feel pretty embarrassed as I'm writing this. I feel like I'm whining, I feel like I'm being clingy, and I feel like I'm acting like one of those crazy girls in relationships who become psycho ex-girlfriends. But am I? Am I being unreasonable? Am I a bad person for caring too much?
I don't want to break up with you. I don't want to date someone else. I know you love me. I just wish you'd show it more often. It's hard enough not seeing you every day, or even every week. But adding on to that, you don't ever message me, because you take the fact that I'll message you for granted. I guess I was always too eager to talk to you in the beginning of our relationship.
Sigh. I think I'm over-emotional cause I'll be on my rag soon. Or maybe not. Either way, it hurts. Sorry mom, I'm doomed. I think I'll always be that girl who likes the guy more than he likes her.
Love (hurts),
Kat
Friday, 06 November 2009
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Stupid Insomnia ;<
So it's 5am and I can't sleep. Booo, typical. So of course it's time to come here to talk about my life and pass the time. Brilliant idea, Kat.
What's new with me?
+ I somehow still have an A in all my classes. Who knows how long that'll last though. Roe and I made a bet on school gpa hahaha if i win he's taking me to Disneyland~ ;>
+ Nan peng you is coming tomorrow. Yay.
+ I wanna go shopping.
- I'm freaking broke though.
- My room is a mess.
+ I love doing my nails.
+ I was a cat for Halloween. Haha, get it? Kat the muthafuckin' cat, wassupppp.
+ I'm starting to like ums games on sc lately. Desert strike, spiral d, dodge the rapist, oh my.
+ I really want to go snowboarding. Didn't get to go last season cuz I spent winter break in Taiwan, but this season for sure. Haven't even had a chance to try out my new board/bindings. Pewp. Hope we do a Mammoth trip.
I can't think of anything else going on with me right now. Freaking boring life. My dad's going to Taiwan tomorrow (or today) until the 28th. Have a safe flight dad.
Um, the end~
Meow,
Kat
Kat the cat with a cat, ballinnnnnnnnnnn'
Tuesday, 08 September 2009
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Dayum girl, you intelligent!
So today I was coming home to my apt from spending Labor Day weekend at boyfriend's place in Santa Cruz, which involves taking the HWY17 bus from the sc metro to San Jose Diridon station, then taking the 180/181 bus to Fremont BART, and then bart to downtown Berkeley. At the 17 bus stop, there was this ghetto black guy with a doorag cussing someone out on the phone for like 20 minutes ("Nigga you a fucking beeitch nigga!"). Not gonna lie, I was pretty scared lol.
So anyway, the 17 comes & everyone gets on. I reach sj right when the 180 bus leaves, so i have to wait another 45 min at the bus stop. The black guy from the 17 stop ends up waiting for the same bus. Being scared, I do all I can to avoid eye contact, but he still ends up sitting down next to me. He seems to have calmed down by now. He asks me if I have change for a 5 for the bus fare ($3.50). I tell him I don't, but I can give him my change & he can pay for the both of us. He says thanks & starts talking to me after that.
This is what I can remember of our conversation:
Black Guy: You goin to Fremont?
Me: Naw I'm going to Berkeley.
BG: Ohh Berkeley. You live there?
Me: Naw I go to school there.
BG: Oh you go to Cal?
Me: Yeah.
BG: Dayummm girl, you intelligent!
Me: LOL
BG: You ever go to the football games or basketball games?
Me: Yeah I got season tickets for the football games.
BG: You ever see the players around campus & shit?
Me: Naw.
BG: Cuz I bet dey all be tryna get atchu!
Me: LOL
BG: -whips out his phone- Whass yo name & number girl?
LOL he asked me for my name & number like 3 times during the convo but I just kinda brushed it off. I have never been so blatantly hit on before HAHA what an experience. Although I gotta admit, he was a lot nicer than I expected.
Nothing else exciting happened. Good day.
Love,
Kat
Monday, 10 August 2009
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Blogs are for Venting
I'm having a super shitty day & I just feel like going on a rampage. So instead I will channel my anger into my xanga. Warning: Do not continue reading if you are offended by expletives.
First of all, I started my rag yesterday, which makes today the second day, & for me, the second day is always the heaviest. As if this were not enough to piss me off, my cramps only ever come on the first day (if they do at all), but of course, for the first time in my life, I was honored by the presence of cramps on both the first and second day of my cycle. Fuck you, Mother Nature. Fuck you really fucking hard. Why the fuck do I even need a period right now? I didn't need it at age 13, I don't need it now, I won't need it for another 8 years at least. Please save your fucking gay bloody shit till I'm like 30. Kthx.
If you don't know me very well, then you don't know that my sleep schedules/habits are really messed up & that I sleep really late (4am is early). Well now you know. I'm taking summer school which is every day from 11:10-12. So over the summer I sleep anywhere from 4am to 1pm (after I get back from class). I wasn't very tired this morning (last night?) so I decided to sleep after class. The hours passed by pretty quickly until about 9:30am, when I got really tired. But I couldn't take a nap cuz I knew that if I did, I wouldn't be able to wake up for class, & I couldn't miss today because take-home midterms were being passed out today.
Somehow I survived the impossibly long & slow hour & a half until class. But of course, in class the prof tells us that the take-home midterm is canceled because a couple of assholes cheated on the second in-class midterms, & if students would cheat in class, they would definitely cheat at home. So no take-home midterm, which was 20-30% of our grade (I don't remember the exact percentage right now).
Of course I needed this midterm because I never had enough time to finish the in-class exams since each class is only 50 minutes; the take-home would've allowed me to spend as much time as I want on every problem. Fuck you, cheating assholes. Why the fuck would you have to cheat anyway? We have fucking open-note exams. Are you fucking kidding me?
Anyway, the prof's solution is to take the highest exam score & count it twice. But I didn't do great on the first two because like I said, never had enough time to finish (the prof himself admitted he made both tests too hard). Of course, there's always the final, but that's gonna be even worse- a cumulative final covering material from the entire summer crammed into 50 minutes. Fucking great, eh?
I thought I'd look at the bright side of all this. A week ago or so, boyfriend & I had planned for him to come Monday-Thursday (because he would be busy all weekend with family from Korea), but instead, on Friday I told him not to come cuz I wanted to be a good student & thought I'd be pretty busy doing the take-home midterm & studying for the final. So I thought, hey, no take-home midterm, at least I'll be able to see bf. But of course, since my life hates me, boyfriend already has new plans that he can't break. Awesome. Really fucking awesome.
After my final on Friday, I'm going back to Arcadia that same day & not coming back until two days before classes start on Aug. 26th (coming back Monday, school starts Wednesday), meaning I can't see him until the following weekend. I haven't seen him in 2 weeks already, & I miss him like crazy already. Two more weeks is gonna suck big ass fucking balls.
On top of that, when I got dressed today, the weather forecast today said it would be a high of 80 so I wore jeans & a tank. I felt like throwing up all through class & a whole hour after that. I thought it was another repeat of the time when I had to be hospitalized, but I guess it was just the heat. When I got home I checked the weather again; it said high of 80 in the 10day forecast, but I clicked the hour by hour, & it was high of 86. Fucking weather forecast noobs.
All that happened by 1pm. Can you understand even a little how pissy all that made me? Shitty ass fucking Monday. Today can suck my big ass fucking dick. Fucking fuck. Asshole of a day. FUCK.
I'm done.
Piss the fuck off,
Kat
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
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Mom's Guide to Cooking: Pot Stickers
Welcome to the first episode of Mom's Guide to Cooking: College Edition!
Since my mom is basically the best cook in the whole world (in my very unbiased opinion), I often ask her how to cook the food she makes. Since I'm at college with limited resources, most of the dishes I ask her about are pretty easy to make & the ingredients needed are relatively easy to get a hold of (although it usually requires some familiarity with 99 Ranch Market). I often have to call my mom whenever I want to cook something other than ramen because I don't cook much & I always forget her recipes. So I've decided to write them here to keep a record of them (& to share with people the genius that is Chef Mom).
Today's menu is pot stickers (鍋貼)!
Materials & Ingredients:
1 frying pan
1 spatula
1 bag of dumplings (preferably from 99 Ranch; Asian dumplings taste better in my opinion)
1 rice measuring cup (you know the clear little cup that measures rice? all Asians have one!)
water
cooking oil
rice vinegar
soy sauce, sriracha, garlic, whatever else you use to make your dipping sauce
Directions:
1) Pour some oil into the frying pan (cover about 1/3 of the bottom of the pan with oil). Maneuver the pan in different directions so that the oil spreads around & greases the entire pan bottom. When this is done, turn on the stove. (Turn on the stove? Light the stove? Dammit, whatever. You know what I'm talking about.)
2) Place about 15-20 dumplings in neat columns (I have a big pan so I usually do 3 columns with 5 or 6 in each) with the pinched part of the dumpling pointing up.
3) Fill up the rice measuring cup about 8/10 with water. Add 1/10 of rice vinegar into the cup. Pour this into the pan over the dumplings. Cover the pan with the pan cover if you have one (this will help keep the steam in & cook the dumplings more thoroughly for better tasting pot stickers!)
4) Wait until the water is almost all gone. This should take about 3-5 minutes. If necessary, use the spatula to gently move around the dumplings to make sure they don't stick to the pan. When the water is pretty much boiled away, repeat step 3.
5) Wait some more. This time wait until the water is completely gone. When the dumplings have a lightly charred brown ass, they are done! Congratulations, your Level 1 Dumplings have evolved into Level 2 Pot Stickers! ;>
Pretty easy huh. I thought so too, until I made them for lunch today. They turned out okay, but not as good as my mom's. ;< Guess I need more practice.
See you next time on Mom's Guide to Cooking!
Love,
Kat (plus Chef Mom in spirit)
Friday, 19 June 2009
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Update Dump
Dang, I haven't written in here in awhile. I feel like I want to start updating daily (or at least weekly/monthly, knowing how lazy I can get) just to keep a record of what goes on in my life & how I feel about it so that in the future, I can have fun reading about how immature I used to be. Dunno if I want to keep writing here or start a new blog on blogspot/wordpress/livejournal/whatever? Decisions decisions. Never used anything other than xanga to blog but the other sites are so popular they must have something going for them. I don't know. If you know, let me know.
In other news, my parents will be driving me back up to Berkeley in a couple of hours & of course I'm still awake now so that I can just knock out on the 6 hour car ride. That & I'm not really done packing yet. Boo. I'm bringing up a lot of new clothes/accessories (dunno when I got so interested in shopping, I used to hate it) & a shitload of food. Along with the usual unhealthy stuff (like Shin ramyun) I'm actually being semi-healthy & bringing a bunch of fruits & vegetables. Good job, Kat.
Hopefully I can start eating healthier when I'm at college & lose more weight so that my parents will stop bugging me about how much better I would look if I were skinnier. Somehow I lost like 5 pounds in the 3 weeks I've been at home since school ended. Cool, wasn't even trying. I've been practically feasting on my mom's home-cooked meals & eating out with friends all the time. I figure it's because I ate breakfast almost every day since I had to take my mom to work at 8am when I wanted to use her car for the day. Moral of the story: take your mom to work = lose weight. Works for me.
Speaking of moms, yours was great in bed last night. Lol kidding, this past Wednesday was my mom's birthday. I bought her a pair of heels. They were cute; I wanted them for myself. Shucks. Family ate GoGo Sushi in Pasadena for dinner. I love salmon sashimi. With a passion. Yum. Love my mom too. Happy birthday mom.
In completely unrelated news, I have so much free time now that I've stopped playing games. Too much boring ass free time. I spend a lot of time doing my nails, or styling my hair, or playing with makeup, or watching beauty-related tutorials on YouTube just to pass the time. When did I turn into such a fucking girl? Can't complain though, it's fun for me. I think that's why I enjoy clubbing so much now. Besides the dancing with my girls part, dressing up/getting ready is so much fun.

^ My first legal clubbing drink @ my first 21+ club! (RIP Cabana 05/29/09 ;<)
^ Clubbing again before Jo left for HK (grand opening of Apple Lounge 06/05/09) My hair took forever to do; couldn't get the volume I wanted. Womp womp. Turned out ok for my first try though.
Wow I'm good at rambling. I could keep going too but it's 7am & this entry is already long as hell. So, talk to you later, Kat of the future who will read this.
Love,
Kat
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
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Broken
My life is falling apart...
Time to pick up the pieces.
-Kat
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