buffalove v. buffawoe?

It's been awhile since I last blogged in a serious manner! I apologize. E. Cha knows this but when I go to Buffalo, I become completely disconnected from the world. Did you miss me? I know one person did. She kept on ugh-ing. (Yes, I'm talking about you).

I don't have much to say. I have some random pics I took during the past few days! Here are some pictures plus commentary.

This is my fob-style picture with my cool glasses. I went to see Avatar with my family. I vow never to watch an IMAX movie again. Watching it 3D almost gave me a <3 attack. I once almost got a heart attack watching Star Wars with Tina and Gene. I think I have a weak heart for visual stimuli. Never again.

 J. Lafond sent me this picture. I don't know what the store sells but kind of cool.

Everyone should purchase this dish-washing soap. I thought I was taking a bath while using this soap. It was scent-fabulous! A really awesome experience.

Remember one of my February goals? Well, I gave up on keeping them polished. Also, for full disclosure, I did not accomplish my "go to the gym seven times" goal either. I only accomplished the  "give blood" goal and the Red Cross hasn't sent my blood back yet,  N. Chang and M. Choi. I wonder where these two are...they're on a road-trip, I think.

I found my sticker book! I guess I was a Pochacco fan. Strange. I hate real dogs. Well...hate is a strong word. I like dogs that are not needy (as in, dogs that stay away!).

Y. Kim (my mom) got an I-Phone! She is playing with her I-phone and ignoring me as we wait for our food. I guess this is how others feel when I do this.

Food at P.f. Chang's. I love Chinese junk food and junk food.

 

This is a picture that didn't make the cut last time.

In other news, I got an offer from a Korean firm for their summer program. (They had rejected me last year! WOES).  I asked them if I could work for them later in the summer for a shorter period of time before I go to Japan for my program at Waseda. I can't accept the offer as it is because of my gig at EY. They haven't replied back yet. I hope they let me. It will be cool to spend a few weeks in Korea. :)

I am going to Toronto, Canada for a beautiful haircut. Also, I get to see my cousin and my aunt.

That is all. Until I return to Ann Arbor, take care! I must now go catch up on all the blog action I missed out on and leave my valuable opinion (ie., comment like crazy).

embracing defeat

There are some goals that were never meant to be accomplished. Not everyone can be like JC and go "It is finished!" Thus my goal of going to the gym seven times and keeping my nails maintained -- they'll remain as goals. I don't want to be perfect or anything. Hah. Anyway, that is my lame excuse for not having gone to the gym today as planned.

I guess the higher power knew I was going to adopt this laze-attitude and punished me by making me forget my keys at school. I walked home and to my dismay found that I didn't have my keys with me. I walked back to school and received a text from Nick that I had left it at a meeting. Bahs. So I walked about 1.5 miles today.

But the food sins I committed from 8:30am to 8:30pm are ridiculous. I had a breakfast sandwich from the snackbar at the law school. I was too hungry to take a picture. It's basically an english muffin (buttered) with ham, cheese, and eggs. I also had a sugary drink with that.

For lunch, because I have a heart for Haiti...and because I love soul food, I bought a plate from BLSA's fundraiser.

After my double-walk from school, I had another cup of ice cream. Then, I surfed wikipedia for about 3-4 hours. I learned a lot about North Koreans kidnapping Koreans and the Japanese. Then, I went to dinner with Tina and Mina and the Veenstras and committed more crimes against my goals of obtaining a majide nice body.

I am embracing defeat. Also, I regret having eaten pork. I loved my dish but it is slowly killing me...I must go lay on my bed.

perspective 1 - ice cream might not be worth it

For dinner I had a sandwich with eggs, turkey, and cheese. As always, I must end on a sweet note. So I had a 3.6oz cup of ben and jerry's.

In order to fulfill my February goals, I went to the gym (two more times till 7!!). I know the machines are inaccurate when tracking the number of calories you're actually burning. However, I was alarmed at how slow I was at burning calories in the general sense (disregarding the impreciseness of the machines).

It says 200 calories on the ice cream cup. It says 133 calories after my toil of 26 minutes on the machine. I ate that cup of ice cream in less than 2 minutes. WOES.

Maybe I should reflect and think hard before I shove food into my mouth. I am regretting all my eating transgressions today. I committed quite a lot of eating sins today.

Or maybe, I should embrace defeat and continue shoving food into my mouth and give up on my dreams of having a majide nice body.

this is SPARTA...(or Athens)

I'm at the med school library with Tina and Gene to find my future husband. Kidding. But really. I'm having no luck and lamenting at the wasted energy of putting on eyeliner and wearing non-sweats for this outing. I guess I'll just study (which is my secondary purpose for this library outing).

I borrowed some chalk from scary looking med school girls to take this photo. I quickly erased the subtitle quote because it was embarrassing and I didn't want the med students to think I was a douche-bag.

This is Tina taking over my video-gchat with J. Won who is visiting Duke. Tina and Gene became uber excited as they chit-chatted with J. Won. They really love Duke. Gene spilled water all over the desk as he said, "Ahhhh...I wish I was at Duke!!!" Lame. He is now back to listening to his lectures.

Okay. Now back to Partnership Tax for me. This field-trip to the med-school library cannot go to complete waste. I will leave as a better me with more knowledge of Partnership Tax and the general satisfaction of having at least tried to scope out the med school boys at U-Mich.

classes, zingerman's, charmy, and shakespeare

I had a busy, busy Friday for someone single. I had two classes today that wiped my day from 10am to 4pm. I had lunch in between from Kang's. I had bean-curd stew there and it was disgusting. I hate it when I have to pay for bad Korean food.

I got approved by Michigan Law to attend Waseda Law for the fall 2010 semester! All I need is to get all my paperwork to Waseda. They need to approve me but this a formalistic requirement...even though it makes me nervous. If Waseda rejects me because of my looks (they require five 4cm x 3cm pics)...I'll be devastated. More about Waseda in a later post. I can't wait!

At 4pm, Sally picked me up and took me to Zingerman's! I love this place even though I think their prices are kind of abominable. The sandwiches are actually cheap in comparison to everything else they sell. As I was waiting for my take-out sandwich, I gazed at their cakes. Unaffordable! My wallet and my body cannot indulge in such expensive and irresponsible goods.

I went home with my Jay's Chicken Sandwich (not sure if this was the name) and an "old pickle." So delicious. It was the best meal I've had in months! Please take me fine dining!

And then I went to see Charmy! She was one of my small group girls. Her brother who is a sophomore in Michigan is in a Shakespeare play (he's a musical drama major?) so she flew from NYC with her Dad to see him. I went to see it to see my Charmy! Her brother was phenomenal. I obviously am partial (he was the only one I watched carefully) but he was truly outstanding. His role was also one of those roles that the audience adores (rogue+villain+self-absorbed+funny)! He was Parolles in Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well." I didn't remember how the plot went until the middle of the play. I am not too fond of Shakespeare because I always feel like I'm watching a foreign film/show without subtitles. It takes a little time before I understand what's going on. However, this play was exceptionally well done!

I wish my i-phone was better at taking pictures. It's also hard to take pictures of stage performances!

I was very busy today. Therefore, I could not go to bed at 9:42 pm. Eh, all's well that ends well!

new code in my tags: (+) means good day, (-) means bad day, (0) means okay day.

hermes, sec phone interview, grocery shopping

I don't know what other people do, but when I'm having a semi-important day, I need to make myself feel good.  I wear my favorite jeans, shoes, and eyeshadow. I also make sure to drink good water. Today, I sported my most expensive item in my wardrobe. My Hermes scarf! I'm still awkwarded out by it and don't know how to make it into a pretty knot. But it makes me feel better.

I had a phone interview with the SEC. I think it went okay but you never know. Sometimes the worst interviews turn out to be your best...sometimes the best turn out to be not so good. It was the first time I had two people on the line. It got a little confusing to hear two females of different ranks speak at different times. On the phone, their voices sounded awfully similar too. They said they let people split their summers (case by case approach) but aren't too fond of doing that. Hmm. Anyhow, we'll see. Most of my friends said to go with the flow and see what happens. I will do my best in every circumstance!

Because my landlord had to show our apartment to a prospective tenant, Sally and I went grocery-shopping. We went to the Korean market, Meijer, and Whole Foods. Do my groceries reveal anything about me? I love Capri-Sun. A box of ten pouches cost $1.70. That's mad cheap!