Some things I've noticed that's different about Taiwan:
- people do not wear flip flops, except to shower. girls will wear sandals, but they're fancy or heeled. everyone wears versions of converses
- everyone seems to wear polo shirts. are they real? i have no idea, but I feel like I'm at Princeton walking around.
- to dispose of trash in my neighborhood, I have to go meet the trash truck on the main street at 8:40 every night. everyone comes out, it's like a community event. the trash truck arrives playing "fur elise" much like an ice cream truck would and everyone swarms dumping their trash, with recylables, food products and others sorted.
- this truck drives around my neighborhood in the morning collecting newpapers and other things he can turn in for $, all while blasting this tape of things you can give him.
- TV is either news or soap operas, either Chinese or Korean. everyone goes to see hollywood movies w/ chinese subtitles in huge movie theaters, with assigned seating. i guess this means that people try to get their tickets earlier to get better seats, which means theaters are always full.
- reciepts are standarized, each one w/ a serial number which you can win prizes with. you can also donate your reciepts to charities which will sort through them to see what they won.
- most crosswalks have the flashing numbers for how many seconds you have left, and a lot of the traffic stoplights have it too for the cars
- you turn on the power to your hotel room by slipping your key into a slot, so it saves electricity, and you never forget your key
I'll edit as I think of more...

Directions:
Put your music player on shuffle.
Press forward for each question.
Use the song title as the answer to the question.

1) How am I feeling today? "Marvin at the Psychiatrist", March of the Falsettos (hm.)
2) Will I get far in life? "Go the Distance", Hercules (ha!)
3) How do my friends see me? "Dry", Wild Party
4) When will I get Married? "Happy New Year B", German Rent (still got a few months)
5) What's my best friend's theme song? "There She Is", Titanic Musical
6) What is the story of my life? "Frankly, Mr. Shankly", High Llamas
7) What is/was highschool like? "Caring is Creepy", The Shins (not as creepy as Mr. Smetanick)
8) How can I get ahead in life? "Tonight, Not Again", Jason Mraz (better get working)
9) What is the best thing about me? "Something to Sing About", Buffy Musical (if only)
10) How is today going to be? "The Gods Love Nubia", Aida
11) What is in store for this weekend? "Secret", Maroon 5 (wink)
12) What song describes my parents? "Circle of Life", Lion King (ha!)
13) What song descirbes my grandparents? "Too Gay for You - Too Hetro for Me" - Forbidden Broadway (i don't even want to know)
14) How is my life going? "Prince", Vanessa Carlton
15) What song will they play at my funeral? "Take Five", Dave Brubeck (aw)
16) How does the world see me? "Long Run Leftovers", The Eagles
17) Will I have a happy life? "Storybook", Scarlet Pimpernel
18) What do my friends really think of me? "Evaporated", Ben Folds Five
19) Do people secretly lust after me? "An Opening for a Princess", Once Upon a Matress

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i am home. SO MUCH WORK over break. le sigh. but i really want to do well this semester so.... gotta get to it!
I am #6 out of all princeton ppl who filled out NCAA brackets on facebook. ha! i picked them completely arbirarily. but I always end up doing badly in the end.

... that says it all.

( I <3 the MD! )
... that's it.

"i used to think the world was indifferent to my existence, but, as it turns out, it's actively opposed."
I just read it from a Richard Greenberg play (who, btw, i am newly OBSESSED with) but I swear I've read it before. I have in fact read Richard Greenberg before... but I feel like it was more recently.
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE THIS IS FROM/ remembers me telling you where it was from?

It's really not a good sign when you're "studying" for your midterm the next morning... and you manage to spill superglue all over yourself...

Yeah... I'm not cool enough to be Mal or Jayne. I like Kaylee.
ps - why am i checking LJ instead of doing my lab report? Gah!

You scored as Kaylee Frye. The Mechanic. You are a natural mechanic, and you are far too sweet and cheerful to live out here. How you can see the good in everyone around you boggles the mind occationally. Still you don't seem to be any crazier than that, and it is a nice kinda crazy. </td> Kaylee Frye 69% Hoban 'Wash' Washburne 56% Capt. Mal Reynolds 56% Jayne Cobb 50% Inara Serra 50% Simon Tam 50% Shepherd Derrial Book 50% Zoe Alleyne Washburne 44% River Tam 38% The Operative 38% Which Serenity character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

It's so sad how I'm walking around in the cool night air, and then I come back to my room and sit down, and instantly start sweating. Why is it that my room is approximately 20 degrees warmer than outside? Bleh.

San Diego/ San Francisco trip, 2005!!!

Let's see... so we got to the airport at 6:30 or 7, and got onto the plane, and once everyone was situated, the captain says that the plane's compass is broken. We figure that's pretty important, so we spend about an hour sitting there until people start getting worried about connecting flights (us included), and a lot of us get off the plane. When we finally got our turn to the agent, and she's like... there's no way you can make your original connecting flight, the next plane leaves in 3 minutes, can you make it? We say yes, but she spends another 2 minutes getting us tickets... so we hear the "final boarding call, closing doors in 1 minute" and finally we get our tickets, and book it to the gate just as they close the door. Good workout. But anyways, when we arrive in San Diego, we have no luggage, so we can't go to the beach, so we ate lots of food. Then we drove to the a scenic lookout.

Point Loma, San Diego! You can't see the naval air base/ ship docks from here, but it's really cool. My dad says that Top Gun is set here.

Afterwards, we decided to walk along the shores... Sunset in La Jolla!

Sailing in Mission Bay.

Bodyboarding on the beach... I have a really bad strange tan, and forgot sunblock and got all peely.
Randomly my mom asked me if I wanted to go to a nudist beach. Apparently, back when my parents lived in San Diego in the 70s, San Diego had a really popular nudist beach, and although my mom claims never to have been, my dad later revealed he'd gone before. Anyways, they couldn't find it, so we called the hotel, and the receptionist said she didn't think it was a nudist beach anymore. Just then, my dad found a sign to the Glidaport, which he remembered was right above the beach, and he said the Glidaport was cool, so we went anyways.

Paraglider! The view from the cliff were so good, we decided to climb down to the beach.

Long way down...

Very pretty view... when we got to the bottom, we realized... hey! There are naked people here! It was funny because my mom went back up to get something, and when she came back down, I didn't get the chance to tell her about the naked people when the people in front of her suddenly stripped down and dove into the water. It actually wasn't awkward at all, and the view (the landscape, not of the naked people) was so nice.

Me (not nude) on the nudist beach... you can sort of see a nude guy behind me... oops.

View of naked beach from the top.

Surfing! Yeah, I know that's a really pathetic wave, but hey... I'm learning!

La Jolla by day. To think my parents used to live here.... what were they thinking moving to DC?!

More of La Jolla.

A very wall-calendar-ish picture.

Right before we left for the airport, we visited Balboa Park. It's kind of like San Diego's Central Park... except way better.

San Francisco!! When you look at this picture... note the height difference between me, my mom, and my grandma. And then recall that I'm 5'2".

This is what I want to be in my next life... a sea lion who spends all day sleeping on Pier 39.

I forget what this place is called... Palace of Fine Arts? You've seen it in The Rock... The Bachelor... I forget what else. Extremely beautiful place right outside the city. And they have these resident swans that don't seem to be afraid of people.

As this picture proves.
My huge extended family gathered (for the second time in 2 weeks) and then after dinner we went to see my aunt's new house, where all my aunts and my mom decided to dye my dad's hair.

That's about it. All in all a great trip. Only really bad part was that when we left my aunt's house for the airport, it was 12PM California time, and when we got to my house, it was 2AM East Coast time. Boo to that.

Your IQ Is 130

Your Logical Intelligence is Exceptional Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Exceptional

and this is the other one...

Congratulations, Bob!
Your IQ score is 140

This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others.

Your Intellectual Type is Visionary Philosopher. This means you are highly intelligent and have a powerful mix of skills and insight that can be applied in a variety of different ways. Like Plato, your exceptional math and verbal skills make you very adept at explaining things to others — and at anticipating and predicting patterns.

Gotta go with the princeton pride...

So i've got a room, 121 Brown, a quad w/ all my lovelies! It's weird, I finished the following play right before I found out.
The characters were supposed to be based on real people, but ended up not being, and were really just very nondescript. Whatever. I was bored.

( THE WAIT LIST )

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English

25% Yankee

20% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

that 20% dixie is only because i like to say y'all for no apparent reason...

walked around campus with kiran...( taking pictures )

Went home this weekend, and visited the cherry blossoms, which were in full bloom and GLORIOUS.
( Los Blossoms De Cherry. )

University of Pennsylvania
You were a hard-working wannabe cool kid, and now
you are at the Ivy Leage equivalent of a rich,
suburban high school, and all of the kids used
to be too hard-working to be cool, so now you
all pretend to be cool together. As long as
Daddy keeps sending you money and you keep that
coke habit in check, you're degree will mean
something someday, even if none of your classes
did.


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