Bring it on!!

I'm back at school and already procrastinating. Life is great! :):)

I had a very relaxing (minus Black Friday) Thanksgiving, which I am SOOO grateful for. I spent a relatively normal time with my parents and their friends. I'm glad things at home are looking quite low-key...but as I've learned the past 19 years and 6 1/2 months of my life, there's always a calm before the storm. ALSO! I've done no homework so far. Man, I'm so awesome. It's an all nighter for me again! :D

One thing I'm bummed out about is the fact that I didn't go to Todai and somehow, EVERYONE disappeared afterwards except a select few. (I'm a retard.) I was waiting in a cafe with Audrey and Hudson on 32nd street and I met Tyler, Zayn, Petra, etc. a short while after everyone left. But it was already too late since apparently everyone at Todai had already left. :( Hopefully I will get to meet everyone during winter break. We can go out and get food or something. <3 Cheap Food!!!

I didn't buy anything for Black Friday. I'm too poor. I want to save money for textbook buying next year. $_$ College makes me realize how important money really is.

Okay loves, I must go do homework now. :x I will perhaps make a more coherent entry on Wednesday. When everything isn't so hectic. ^_^v


I appreciate all the time we spent together playing games and being kids.

Recession Special!

In a time when the holiday season is looming, unemployment levels are rising, budgets are shrinking, and Spamburgers are the new craze... I realized that I haven't noticed the effects of recession until today. It's interesting to see businesses offer crazy deals that would have been unthinkable in times of prosperity. Black Friday isn't even here yet! For example, American Eagle never had huge sales until recently. And when I say huge, I mean really HUGE. Like, 50% off + an additional 25%. Aeropostale is currently offering 50-70% off on all merchandise. That means I can get a sweater for $15 (Retail Price: $39.99). Apple, this Friday, will be having a big Black Friday sale. (Has Apple had sales before?) McDonalds is offering 2 egg sandwiches for $3 and Burger King is offering 2 fish sandwiches for $4. I can get a 500 gig external harddrive for $79.99 (1tb for 169.99 if you really have that much porn to store :P JKJK) and lots lots more. Bargains are everywhere! Now is definitely the time to buy that cardigan sweater or external harddrive I've always wanted but was too cheap to get.

My favorite bargain of the day was when I went to 금강산(KumGangSan). I've been here about 3x before in my life, but I have NEVER seen it offer so many side dishes, large portions, or interesting delicacies before.

Sadly enough, I forgot my camera cable back at school so I will describe some of the jaw-dropping service/complimentary food I received for lunch.



1. There were about 9 side dishes. I distinctly remember getting only 4 back in the day when we weren't so worried about money at KumGangSan. They presented the usual kimchi, potato fruit salad, and other veggies. I thought there was no more, but the food just kept on coming. We also got the dried small fish (anchovies?) that I love so much, an entire mackerel (fish), roasted pumpkin, 1 bowl of delicious soft tofu, and Molokhia tofu. That's more than I've ever seen (side dishes-wise) from an order that did not involve korean barbeque. And might I add that it was all DELICIOUS. Dessert consisted of delicate fruit jellies that made me very very happy.

2. My order of Spicy Cod Fish Roe Casserole was huge. I barely finished 1/5 of it. I know I don't eat that much, but the amount of casserole in my bowl was definitely upped. Interestingly enough, the rice that came with my order wasn't in its usual tin bowl. Instead, it was in a hot stoneware bowl usually used for hot Bi Bim Bap, decorated with chunks of dried fruit and sweet potato on top. I've never seen more appetizing white rice. (lol)

3. Hudson's Bi Bim Bap was very big and delicious. Aha, that sounded dirty. :P But really, there was a lot of food in that bowl of beef, vegetables, and rice.

4. The bill came out to 25.90 total. Hudson looked at it and exclaimed "Haha! Recession Special!"

I totally agree.

SO while you're busy bemoaning the sad sad economy, go out and SHOP SHOP til you drop (or at least get those things you really wanted) because I don't think you'll see bargains like this for a while once the economy is back on track!

Have a great Thanksgiving! :):) Gobble Gobble!

There was a turkey floating in my tub...

I finally published the post prior to this one where I responded to everyone's comments in the 2nd post. If you commented and you're interested, go look!


There was a turkey floating around in my bathtub for 6.5 hours yesterday. His name was Bob (foodnetwork told me the more love you show the turkey, the tastier it would come out). Johnny summed this picture up very well in one sentence. "HAHAHA! IT LOOKS LIKE WE LYNCHED THE TURKEY!!!"

Anyway.

Yesterday we had an awesome thanksgiving party dinner. We ran into only a few mishaps and had to have dinner at like a little before 9 pm. (Mainly, we had to thaw a 14 lb turkey that we got yesterday and shrink the thaw time available from 3 days to 24 hours.) Nevermind the obscene amounts of money we had to pay, but it was actually DELICIOUS. For our first turkey, Bob turned out PERFECT. So perfect that I have to quote my anonymous friend on this: "That actually was the most delicious turkey I ever tasted, no offense to my mom". I think we're all ridiculously proud of ourselves with how the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, brownies, 2 cheesecakes, etc turned out. Everyone was in a food coma after eating so much.


Well...besides Sun who kept going at it for an hour more. Anyway, I'm thankful for such an awesome dinner!!! Thanks guys who made this possible!! And thanks to the people who washed up and put everything back together afterwards!!




I will reply to comments & tell you about my fail day later today, after brunch. :)

Fail Luck Club

There are several reasons why I fail at life.

#1. Out of 589 housing lottery numbers, I got 582. (For this sophomore year. That was pretty fail, I have to admit.)
#2. Econ test had everything I didn't study for.
#3. Government pop quiz on the same day of my econ test...also the ONLY day I didn't do the government reading.
#4. Prereg. I only really got 1 class I wanted out of all 4. All the other classes are full.
#5 and the last thing I will complain about. I didn't get to vote because my absentee ballot got lost in the mail or somewhere in the application process. In any case, I called the absentee ballot a billion times but they never sent it to me. Even though it didn't matter (NY), but I wanted to participate in this historic election.

BUT everything will turn out alright because it always does. I believe in it.

ANYWAY responses to my comments to my last post!

Eric Chan- I know. It snowed many places...just not here. :( Sadness. I can't wait to see you though! Haha also, I don't want to be completely antisocial. I'd just like to have life slow down for a bit. I hear they're raising metrocard prices, so I might be able to save a few dollars if I just stay home. :] Will you really cover for me for Todai? Naw, I feel bad. We should get together and play mah jong though (that I can afford!). Good luck to you too on your work!! Gambatte! We can do it!!!

Anoni- I like you because you're feisty and mysterious. haha :) I also apparently gave you a cute nickname because I'm too lazy to type out anonymous. First of all, I'm not fat but Bob was. Second of all, glad you appreciate all my econ lingo and puns! Third of all, I'm not sure how well you know me, but I HATE the Joy Luck Club. I named this post in honor of you. I think it sucks and doesn't represent Chinese Americans very well. I hated the characters (waverly? seriously?) My literary brain would like to excuse it as "a story unique to Amy Tan and therefore cannot be judged" but we all know that's BS and I'm begging for an A. However, it is indisputably Asian American literature...because it's about Chinese people in America and their experience. Sorry if I offended you by calling it so. We can definitely have a hate date on it if you want! :)

Yida- I definitely maybe want to meet up afterwards or something. I wouldn't know what we'd do though. I know majors don't restrict me to certain jobs, but I can't imagine myself doing anything economically relevant. I don't know. I'm still debating. I think I might actually be more interested in business economics than econ theory (calc repels me), which sucks cause Wesleyan is not very business-y. Maybe I can contact alumni and get an internship! :P I still got 4 months to decide. Isn't it exciting? Speaking of which, what's your major? Are you still in business? I just began economics this year. I seriously feel like a lost soul. lol, I hate going to a liberal arts college. (JK)

David H- HA. Yea right. I'd rather quit school and work at McDonalds.

King- Epically long comment! :) I love you! I hope everything is going well with you know what! ;) I love sincerity so I thank you for that long thoughtful post. I dropped premed last year cause I realized it was a waste of my time since being a doctor is very different from what I thought it to be. At least in this capitalist society. I liked government so I thought it would be great to be a government major. And then I took econ this year and discovered I liked that too! (Fundamentally very interesting.) I love the theories, don't quite like the math. It's tolerable though. I'm doing well in Econ so it's making me hopeful. Aghh I don't know. It's probably not a good idea for me to major in Econ too cause that means I can't study abroad. Or it might be highly unlikely. I'm going to try really hard though. Wow, I think this post isn't making sense anymore, I'm sorry. I'm very conflicted about what I should do. I'm going to see how my Econ class next semester turns out to decide for sure. :) Thanks a lot <3! By the way, what's your major?


I love all the silly moments we had together. Squared. :)

Schizophrenia

I'm not supposed to be updating everyday, but this is a wonderful way to procrastinate!

First things off... Happy Birthday 20th birthday Jed and Belated Birthday to Zayn, Yao & BLO! Man you guys are getting so old & wrinkly. You better be getting on that beauty treatment, like this kid over here:


Ahahahaha. JK dudes. I hope you have a wonderful day!

And so the complaining begins...
It's cold. I hate this schizophrenic weather. It was just warm in Middletown around a week ago and pretty cold the week before that. It's hard to figure out what clothes to pack away for good:(. Today, there was forecast for snow, which would have made my misery more tolerable, but there's no snow. Bummer.

Thanksgiving break is coming, which also means tests and papers are coming. Tomorrow is D-Day for Econ. Guess what I'm doing? Stressing!! And procrastinating too (I'm obviously not reading my Econ book). There's too much on my mind right now for me to focus.
*First of all, I have to figure out what I'm doing for winter, spring and summer vacation/break. After a year of spending them working/interning/volunteering away from home, I think it would be awesome if I could just travel somewhere nice or stay at home and have some precious time to myself. I don't know. I still have a little time to figure that out.
*Second of all, I'm having Major trouble. I am declaring soon, and I still have no idea what I really want to do in my life. I'm thinking I like Econ & Government, but what would I do with those majors? I'm pretty sure I'm not built to become a politician or a businesswoman. Whatever happened to my life dream of becoming a doctor? Who am I? What am I? The only thing I'm sure of is that I want to be successful. Then again, what is success? How I can get there? OMG there are so many questions. Someone help me!! Maybe I should try fortune telling or flipping a coin. It always works when I can't decide which restaurant I want to go to.
*Third of all, I have an Econ test and I haven't studied. much. yet.
*Fourth of all, there's Todai & I can't go because my MPC (Marginal Propensity to Consume) is 1. Which basically means I'm broke. I miss you guys very much though. :(
*Fifth " " I miss you. :(

What this all boils down to is that I should listen to Barney Stinson [HIMYM]: When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story.


I have to go to my Asian American Lit class and talk about why it's wrong for a 20 year old female to be called a girl instead of a woman. There's only a few things I regret doing in this world, and taking this class is one of them. What happened to the literature?! Asians?! Americans?! Joy Luck Club?!

List of things to do:
Go to Stop & Shop. Get a turkey.


I appreciate all the times we, CW & SQ, spent together shopping, laughing, cooking, and just being good pals.

Update: I'm really sad. I got only one of the classes I want for next semester and NO government classes. I wish Preregistration wasn't so stressful...

It's about time!

Whew. After about an hour of messing around with templates, privacy settings, colors, fonts, and whatever else they asked of me, I'm finally ready to start writing in my own blog. With all these fancy features, it sure beats writing in a book. Hooray for technology!

I had debated for a long time whether I should start a blog. Seeing as how #1) I keep losing my journals (keys, number locks and all), and #2) my memory is terrible, I decided this was the best way to keep track of my life and my thoughts. As soon as I started this blog, though, I had already run into a crisis. I think I stared at the screen for about 30 minutes before I finally had any inkling of a title that could summarize me in about 5 words. When I realized that the title "Thoughts and Concerns of an Chinese American College Student Whose Life Goal is to Achieve Happiness, Love, Prosperity, and World Peace by Helping Others" was probably a little too wordy, non-nonsensical, and boring (with a dash of socialism! Gasp, the horror!), I settled for a few words that describe the core loves that I have:

Eating
Rationalizing
Being Asian-American and a sucker for cute things (Yes I think Mochi desserts are cute).
Being completely and utterly random.

What better way than to call this blog "Appetizing Thoughts of a Mochi"! I don't know, it made sense in my head at the time. :) Perhaps I will change the blog name when I feel I have outgrown it much later on. Considering how fickle I can be, I hope I will be able to stick with this new arrangement in my life forever so that one day I can show my children or grandchildren the type of person I am. Am I thinking way too far into the future?

Today I will skip any philosophical thoughts and just end this entry with one thing I appreciate in my life. Maybe it's the bad Northeastern weather, the lack of sunlight, or because I'm feeling the pressure of being a sophomore, but I feel particularly incapable of thinking too much. If I do think, it's usually about something depressing. Therefore, for your sake as well as mine, I will always end my entries with a message of optimism.

I appreciate the warmth you, HL, bring to my life.

Edit:
If you want to procrastinate here's a cute site, courtesy of Sam Choi.
http://mingle2.com/dating/phases