one of the best things about sf is how readily accessible the great outdoors are. i went to yosemite about a month ago with vchou,bybwang,yayu,atchang, and others. it was a difficult trip for me to say the least. i knew it would be tough when sonali mentioned that she'd been running to prepare for the ~19 mile hike around tuolumne meadows, but i approached it with my ( Read more... )

social chameleons get to be anybody, move in and out of circles with ease. interests and ideals are camouflage. like the moon, they reflect the glow of others; when there's no light they become invisible.

people wonder what it's like to go through life as the weirdo whose hippie parents named you after a plant, but what about those whose names are taken from _the book of most common baby names in america_? it's enough to provoke one to go through life defining herself by how she's different ( Read more... )

when i read things i wrote years ago, it's like entering the mind of a different person--someone i don't always particularly like, someone who is never quite as mature as i'd hope. it's easy to get reacquainted with that person intimately. the pieces meld together, my old self becomes someone else: familiar and dear, but separate.

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in my free time i don't write perl scripts, i watch tv. :)

it started 2.5 years ago. simplyjeska came up to borrow a purse for an outing ("is it a date? i don't think it's a date." "yes, it's the symphony--it's a date!"). it culminated in a proposal last friday night (one that due to wingerz's aversion to sunsets, i missed by mere minutes ( Read more... )

with two weeks left until the move, i've come to the realization that i have too much stuff. the most telling symptom: my gleeful reaction upon being told that my new room has not one, but two closets. this pack rat mentality stems from childhood when i saved all of my movie ticket stubs under the misguided impression that they might one day be ( Read more... )

i used to hate the spring daylight savings cycle but now it's my favorite time of the year. it means that summer is coming, that if i play my cards right i can get out of work early enough to take advantage of an extra hour of sunshine. yesterday was one of those days---i went out to chrissy field with a friend and walked the length of it to the ( Read more... )

my mom and dad, in typical asian-parent fashion, forced me into piano lessons at the tender age of 6. despite a prodigious start, i soon lapsed into a career of mediocrity ( Read more... )

to demonstrate my serious commitment to running, i bought new shoes yesterday. for the past three years i've worn a $35 pair of new balance sneaks bought on sale from nordstrom rack, and it wasn't until i actually tried to run in them a few weeks ago that i realized that my abbreviated workouts were not the fault of poor stamina, but rather ( Read more... )