1. there are some parts of the american healthcare system that are beyond fucked up
2. if you're from an asian family and your parents are fobs, check to see if they've been tested for hep b. if they test positive, make sure that you received the appropriate treatments upon birth, or you might be in for a not so pleasant surprise =/
3. chlamydia DEFINITELY is NOT a flower
Friday, February 20, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
stroke study, moo0siC, koo0be
end of an insane week. it's saturday. i got into stroke study. currently listening to epik high. chatting with friends online. might get a new phone tomorrow
quick update. i'm considering dropping out of the RA application process. somewhere in the midst of kamei lab, committees, mobile clinic, regents, hw'ing/studying, and now stroke study, i'll need time with my friends, my piano, my writings, my basketball, my books, my family, my LIFE. which also means, i may potentially be looking for apartments soon!
so yeah, stroke study. at some point, being part of gov team in high school really paid off (that on top of the kickass people). getting owned by a panel of lawyers on a weekly basis in the realm of con-law and politics kind of makes questions like "why do you want to go into medicine" or "what are your strengths/weaknesses" seem like free churros on a saturday afternoon in disneyland. anyway, i'm really glad to have gotten in. and i seriously have one baller RA. and good friends in the right places :)
epik high is really good. listening to them alone compels me to learn korean and try to 100% understand their lyrics. subtitles never suffice. the connotations, syntactical structure, and all the mechanisms that go into making a song what it is always gets lost in translation. anyway, the point is, epik high is freakin good, and i want to learn korean! oh, and that'd help with all the korean sc'ers too
so i spent friday night catching up with a few friends i hadn't had the chance to talk to in ages. this always tends to happen for me whenever i'm having a relatively crap week. (and yes, this week was a major crap week - 12+ hours on campus daily, weeks behind in multiple classes, and fail in every part of my social life) you guys know who you are. thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedules to talk :)
midterm set 2 starts early for me this quarter, so no updates anytime soon. i will be a hermit studying in my non-allegorical cave. if i look sleep-deprived and tired, please don't ask me if i'm sleep-deprived or tired. i get that so often now that it's actually irritating
tom cost me 20 bucks and a dinner to jon lin. wtf man
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for all the kobe fans out there
quick update. i'm considering dropping out of the RA application process. somewhere in the midst of kamei lab, committees, mobile clinic, regents, hw'ing/studying, and now stroke study, i'll need time with my friends, my piano, my writings, my basketball, my books, my family, my LIFE. which also means, i may potentially be looking for apartments soon!
so yeah, stroke study. at some point, being part of gov team in high school really paid off (that on top of the kickass people). getting owned by a panel of lawyers on a weekly basis in the realm of con-law and politics kind of makes questions like "why do you want to go into medicine" or "what are your strengths/weaknesses" seem like free churros on a saturday afternoon in disneyland. anyway, i'm really glad to have gotten in. and i seriously have one baller RA. and good friends in the right places :)
epik high is really good. listening to them alone compels me to learn korean and try to 100% understand their lyrics. subtitles never suffice. the connotations, syntactical structure, and all the mechanisms that go into making a song what it is always gets lost in translation. anyway, the point is, epik high is freakin good, and i want to learn korean! oh, and that'd help with all the korean sc'ers too
so i spent friday night catching up with a few friends i hadn't had the chance to talk to in ages. this always tends to happen for me whenever i'm having a relatively crap week. (and yes, this week was a major crap week - 12+ hours on campus daily, weeks behind in multiple classes, and fail in every part of my social life) you guys know who you are. thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedules to talk :)
midterm set 2 starts early for me this quarter, so no updates anytime soon. i will be a hermit studying in my non-allegorical cave. if i look sleep-deprived and tired, please don't ask me if i'm sleep-deprived or tired. i get that so often now that it's actually irritating
tom cost me 20 bucks and a dinner to jon lin. wtf man
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for all the kobe fans out there
Saturday, February 7, 2009
a legit, albeit poorly written, update
i began this entry on a pretty light note, but im shifting to a more serious tone after realizing that my creative juices are lacking at the moment. so let's see, where to begin. it's week 6 already! midterm season 1 is over, for me at least. much has happened. i'll just list things as tehy come to mind. stream of conscious, so i apologize for the lack of style. here be the upDaT3z
***
i've gotten into the kamei lab, so mission accomplished! i've been wanting to work in his lab since spring quarter of my first year at LA, after hearing about what he worked with (which, if you are interested, has to do w/ polypeptide vesicles in drug delivery. go to pubmed and search up daniel kamei). that happened at around week 2 of the qtr. if i am not around in the dorms or am not picking up my phone, or if my google calender has nothing at the hour but i'm still not around anywhere, it is because i am in lab. i'm projecting a lot of cell culture. like a lot. i'm also being trained by the same undergrad who helped me get into the lab, so fun times!
mobile clinic is still great. everytime i come back from a clinic shift, i feel like i've gotten so much done. i've grown accustomed to the smell of homeless clients :) but more importantly, i've grown to appreciate the connections i've made with various clients i've worked with. i think many of you would be surprised if you guys knew the stories behind the homeless in LA county. the superficial and common explanation for homelessness is sloth and incompetence, but it goes so much beyond that. take the time to talk to a homeless person and hear his or her story. you'll get the occasional crazy, but many of them have eye-opening stories to tell. and you'd be surprised to find the number of homeless individuals who have higher-level college degrees.
i interviewed for stroke study yesterday, which i think went as good as it possibly could've. seeing how there are like 150+ people applying for probably less than 10 spots, i think more is required to get in besides a perfect interview >.> so wish me luck there as well. tomorrow morning, i have my interview for being an RA next year. wish me luck there too.....i am asking for a lot of luck.
i'm taking math33b, chem153a, ls4, and something else next qtr. maybe a departmental 199 or an easy ge. let me know if we have anything in common, yea??
andrew bynum is injured. so... so lame
i've talked to a couple friends about finding time to do things in college. nowadays, i'm either taking notes in class, getting trained and working in lab, volunteering in WeHo/Santa Monica, doing homework, attending meetings, studying, sleeping, rinse/repeat blah blah blah. you could say it's the quintessential premed lifestyle. life only gets busier from there. med school takes the academic load up a notch, and as time goes on, education financing becomes a bigger and bigger issue, so more distractions. my first ochem TA told me that if i wanted to be a doctor, that i should get married before beginning med school. granted, the guy's a sarcastic type and exaggerated, but he genuinely felt that doctors have the unique pressure of juggling a time-consuming education and career with marriage and family. my dilemma is - how do i expect myself to get settled, have a great career, become financially successful, AND find the girl of my dreams when i'm already strapped for time now? so after some good conversations with a couple good friends, i found the answer to be simple. suck it up and make time. there are a lot of things in life that i want to do, and there will always be a demand for time. so it's either miss out on those things by making excuse after excuse, or make the time yourself and do the things you really wonna do. tough stuff, but it's what you make of it. life is hard only if you LET it be. it's just an issue of mentality, approach, and perspective
but dating is always pretty hard. you girls are so hard to read.
***
i've gotten into the kamei lab, so mission accomplished! i've been wanting to work in his lab since spring quarter of my first year at LA, after hearing about what he worked with (which, if you are interested, has to do w/ polypeptide vesicles in drug delivery. go to pubmed and search up daniel kamei). that happened at around week 2 of the qtr. if i am not around in the dorms or am not picking up my phone, or if my google calender has nothing at the hour but i'm still not around anywhere, it is because i am in lab. i'm projecting a lot of cell culture. like a lot. i'm also being trained by the same undergrad who helped me get into the lab, so fun times!
mobile clinic is still great. everytime i come back from a clinic shift, i feel like i've gotten so much done. i've grown accustomed to the smell of homeless clients :) but more importantly, i've grown to appreciate the connections i've made with various clients i've worked with. i think many of you would be surprised if you guys knew the stories behind the homeless in LA county. the superficial and common explanation for homelessness is sloth and incompetence, but it goes so much beyond that. take the time to talk to a homeless person and hear his or her story. you'll get the occasional crazy, but many of them have eye-opening stories to tell. and you'd be surprised to find the number of homeless individuals who have higher-level college degrees.
i interviewed for stroke study yesterday, which i think went as good as it possibly could've. seeing how there are like 150+ people applying for probably less than 10 spots, i think more is required to get in besides a perfect interview >.> so wish me luck there as well. tomorrow morning, i have my interview for being an RA next year. wish me luck there too.....i am asking for a lot of luck.
i'm taking math33b, chem153a, ls4, and something else next qtr. maybe a departmental 199 or an easy ge. let me know if we have anything in common, yea??
andrew bynum is injured. so... so lame
i've talked to a couple friends about finding time to do things in college. nowadays, i'm either taking notes in class, getting trained and working in lab, volunteering in WeHo/Santa Monica, doing homework, attending meetings, studying, sleeping, rinse/repeat blah blah blah. you could say it's the quintessential premed lifestyle. life only gets busier from there. med school takes the academic load up a notch, and as time goes on, education financing becomes a bigger and bigger issue, so more distractions. my first ochem TA told me that if i wanted to be a doctor, that i should get married before beginning med school. granted, the guy's a sarcastic type and exaggerated, but he genuinely felt that doctors have the unique pressure of juggling a time-consuming education and career with marriage and family. my dilemma is - how do i expect myself to get settled, have a great career, become financially successful, AND find the girl of my dreams when i'm already strapped for time now? so after some good conversations with a couple good friends, i found the answer to be simple. suck it up and make time. there are a lot of things in life that i want to do, and there will always be a demand for time. so it's either miss out on those things by making excuse after excuse, or make the time yourself and do the things you really wonna do. tough stuff, but it's what you make of it. life is hard only if you LET it be. it's just an issue of mentality, approach, and perspective
but dating is always pretty hard. you girls are so hard to read.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
lol #2
before my exams, i habitually go to ellen for insults regarding my masculinity and sexuality. why? well, last year, before my midterms, she would consistently insult me the night before a midterm, and i would always do well. so i'm going to do this for every midterm until i get owned by a midterm.
i will post about the worthless going-ons of my life this weekend, i promise.
i will post about the worthless going-ons of my life this weekend, i promise.
willou says (12:37:09 AM) : ellen
willou says (12:37:12 AM) : i need all the luck you have
willou says (12:37:13 AM) : now!!!!
fuzzypanda00 (12:37:20 AM) : kekeke
fuzzypanda00 (12:37:26 AM) : midterm tomorrow?
willou says (12:39:02 AM) : yes'm
fuzzypanda00 (12:39:17 AM) : would you like insults?
fuzzypanda00 (12:39:20 AM) : or another story?
willou says (12:39:22 AM) : sure
willou says (12:39:22 AM) : both
willou says (12:39:25 AM) : insults in the story
fuzzypanda00 (12:39:30 AM) : HAHAHA
fuzzypanda00 (12:39:31 AM) : so greedy
fuzzypanda00 (12:41:35 AM) : WELL then
fuzzypanda00 (12:41:37 AM) : hmmmm
fuzzypanda00 (12:46:13 AM) : william in a slice of life high school romcom anime?
willou says (12:46:30 AM) : okay
willou says (12:46:30 AM) : do it
willou says (12:46:31 AM) : GO OG OG
fuzzypanda00 (12:46:35 AM) : hahahaha
willou says (12:46:35 AM) : i have 10 minutes
willou says (12:46:36 AM) : bveforei sleep
fuzzypanda00 (12:46:39 AM) : hahah okay
fuzzypanda00 (12:46:43 AM) : i'll try to crank it out
fuzzypanda00 (12:46:54 AM) : [typical japanese high school bell rings]
fuzzypanda00 (12:47:35 AM) : william opens his shoe locker. inside is a note that says, "meet me at the cherry blossom trees after school <3"
fuzzypanda00 (12:48:05 AM) : he walks outside to the cherry blossoms. standing there is a girl
fuzzypanda00 (12:48:07 AM) : she's very cute
fuzzypanda00 (12:48:26 AM) : but william is only attracted to her slightly mannish adam's apple
fuzzypanda00 (12:48:56 AM) : "did you leave this note in my locker?"
fuzzypanda00 (12:48:59 AM) : "that was me..."
fuzzypanda00 (12:49:08 AM) : *awkward
fuzzypanda00 (12:49:31 AM) : "i just wanted to say...i like you! please accept my pure-hearted feelings!"
willou says (12:50:00 AM) : is she a trannie 
fuzzypanda00 (12:50:01 AM) : "i'm sorry...but i can't accept your feelings...
"
fuzzypanda00 (12:50:06 AM) : HAHAHA
fuzzypanda00 (12:50:10 AM) : don't interrupt
fuzzypanda00 (12:50:20 AM) : "is...is there someone else?"
fuzzypanda00 (12:50:25 AM) : "i'm sorry...but yes..."
fuzzypanda00 (12:50:40 AM) : "can i ask...who is it?"
fuzzypanda00 (12:51:32 AM) : "my heart belongs to *insert one of your suitemates here*"
fuzzypanda00 (12:51:48 AM) : "i see...so...it was true then..."
fuzzypanda00 (12:51:55 AM) : "...?"
willou says (12:52:23 AM) : omg, i see what you're doing there
fuzzypanda00 (12:53:32 AM) : "you're gay...people tried to tell me but i wouldn't believe them...all of my friends...and the teachers...and my little brother...and the janitor...and the hobo that lives under the bridge...and the cashier at the supermarket...and my dad's accountant...and my sister's boyfriend..."
fuzzypanda00 (12:54:15 AM) : "...and the zookeeper...and the milkman...and the guy that owns the gym..."
fuzzypanda00 (12:54:40 AM) : i can't think of anyone else
fuzzypanda00 (12:54:47 AM) : sorry that was lame
fuzzypanda00 (12:54:54 AM) : there really is no ending to the story
fuzzypanda00 (12:54:59 AM) : the point is that you're gay and everyone knows it
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