Below are the 11 most recent journal entries recorded in kytocali's LiveJournal:

Sunday, February 22nd, 2004
1:13 am	as effie commands... how could this happen to me?!? innocent little me!!! my question mark key has fallen off! FALLEN OFF, i tell you! i can never ask a question again! this is horrible!!! oh wait...*snap* *snap snap* *snap* wow, that is so cool! it totally snaps back into place! this is great! ???? oooh ???? one day not too long ago, i was working at my computer as my roommate browsed the sunday ads. suddenly, she screams, "this is SO great! the toilet bowl brush is on sale!!!" 'course i won't complain if i have a roommate with such fervor to clean the toilet...better her than me. ;) okay, so i am here because effie IM'd me and said "please update" and since she said "please," and since i am tired of trying to cut my 4-page paper down to 2 pages, i will abide. btw, i was thinking about how amazing it is that the reason most of us are here (on LJ) is effie. so kudos to her for getting us to keep in touch. :) i am starting to feel the stress of school, as my four midterms approach in a week and two days (yikes!). i am truly a genius: i managed to arrange my schedule so that I have the following midterms on March 1: 8 am- bio, 9 am- business, 10 am- econ. fabulous, isn't it? in other news, i have become a member of the berkeley figure skating club and will be competing with them, because i'm so bad i make all the others look REALLY good. no, i'm actually not kidding. so this means i will be at a competition from noon to 10 pm next saturday (in san jose). that's right, the saturday before the monday with my 3 midterms. but actually, it's not really too bad. reading other people's entries, i feel their classes are quite a bit harder than mine. for one thing, taking only ONE science class is really sweet. i took three last semester and i admire all you ppl who are taking two or three at once, especially if they are w/ lab. i hate lab, btw. anyone love lab? really, i'm interested in hearing how you make it enjoyable. i feel i'm wasting my life away pipetting, drawing pictures of blobs under microscopes, and doing physics experiments that never work. well, it's not actually that bad. sometimes lab is fun. oh yeah, like last time when my lab partner spilled this mixture (either sucrose or acetone or ?, we don't know) on my calculator and cemented the keys in place. i cannot use the up, down, or left arrows, nor the delete key, meaning that i cannot make mistakes while doing long calculations. i tried water and alcohol so far, in addition to jamming my finger repeatedly into the cemented buttons, but to no avail. so i am planning to take my calculator to the biology office in hopes that they can find some solvent that actually dissolves this stuff. i'm a bit concerned, when neither water nor alcohol helps, but the stuff was originally dissolved in something, so i imagine it must be re-dissolvable. as for what i've done lately, today i went to my group Eggster's 10th anniversary and met some cool alums, one of whom is the guy who started the club and is now a UCSF pediatrician who heads the UCSF Community Service Board. It's cool to see where we could all be in 10 years. And tomorrow, we all get together to build props for the event (we put on this big egghunt april 10). I think we'll mostly paint posters for our 30+ booths, since my co-chair and i have not conned anyone into driving us to the hardware to get the foamboard & wood for our larger props. i am a little worried about running this session, because if i'm not organized and we get nothing done, ppl won't come back for the next one and our props will be crud. so yeah, i'm gonna go plan some stuff to do tomorrow so that doesn't happen. oh yeah, our best prop idea so far: since our theme is Be Somebunny: Exploring Careers, we thought we should make a life-size politician where the kids can stick their faces through the head and take a picture. and who better than governor schwarzenEGGSTER?!? luv y'all. have a FABULOUS last week of February! Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: "Lady California" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, February 16th, 2004
4:07 am	personality test? omigod, two updates in one weekend! (hey, stop groaning! you don't have to read this.) after receiving an email from an old buddy of ours (ngoc uyen), i was encouraged to take that personality test that we all took back in like the 11th grade or something. remember? the one at thespark.com? what's frightening is that our scores are still there! (check it out, thespark.com -> personality test and login with your old email addy.) so i thought it would be amusing to take the test as a "new" person and see how much i had changed since coming to college. result: i have only a 74% compatability with my former self. apparently, i have gone from a submissive introverted abstract feeler to a submissive extroverted abstract thinker. what i'm trying to figure out is why i'm still freakin' submissive! grr! just cuz i don't "need to have my own way" as one question puts it, does NOT mean i am submissive. hmph. (do i SOUND submissive to you?!?!?) anyway, if you want to delay doing your homework like me, go take the test. for the second time if you took it as a 16 year old. especially take it if it's 4 am and you want to delay doing your homework and you had a bit too much sugar earlier in the night and...yeah. Current Mood: awake Current Music: *roommate's deep sleep breathing* (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 28th, 2004
2:46 am	ooh what's this? my name is actually in print, in the student newspaper. http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=13900 Current Mood: flying Current Music: *refrigerator's middle-of-the-night noises* (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 19th, 2004
12:21 pm	HOPE! "A New York Times/CBS poll out Sunday said given a choice between Bush and an unspecified Democratic candidate, 43 percent would vote for Bush and 45 percent would vote for the Democrat." (Yahoo News) Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: *Indian music drifting up from pickup truck in parking lot* (3 Comments |Comment on this)
12:41 am	i updated a few days ago (on jan. 14 to be exact) and my entry would not appear on my friends page (where i have it so i can look at my comments while i'm looking at friends' entries). i was really annoyed and spent far too long playing with different options to try to get it to appear. tonight, i finally figured out two things simultaneously: 1. what happened to my journal entry and 2. what the "backdate entry" option does. so apparently, backdate entry lets you set the date of an entry (i.e. you can set a future date), but because the friends page MUST go in order of posting and not by the date you set, your entry is completely deleted from that page if you select "backdate." i suppose it's awfully boring to tell you all this. well, hey, you never know. it could happen to you. saving the world one person at a time... p.s. any thoughts on the dem. primary? i like all the candidates, but they all seem very similar. extremely similar. different haircuts, birthdates, and birth states, but i swear they are plagiarizing each other on their websites, they're so similiar. *sigh* help pleeease. :) Current Mood: mellow Current Music: "wind beneath my wings" -The Divine Miss M (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 14th, 2004
11:28 pm	ky to cali you know this LJ thing is addictive; ever since i last updated, i have been writing journal entries in my mind, but for whatever reason, i haven't been able to type them into the computer (i.e. i am on the airplane, am 2 seconds from falling asleep, am showering, etc.) so now that i sit down to write, of course i feel i have nothing to say. yesterday (was it really only yesterday?), i visited manual to drop off a request for a transcript (darn, i forgot to call ms.lampton today...oops). yes, we all thought the days of counselor recommendations were over, but see my previous comments about mr. schwarzenegger's his tuition increases to see why they are not over for me. in the counselor's office, there was this new dude who replaced nelson. he was really nice and gave me a post-it to put on my envelope so I could slide it under Ms. Lampton's door. i hope she doesn't step on it. i also talked to zwanzig, who seemed pretty happy, except he mentioned that people seem to drop by and see him less and less often...*gutteral(sp?) clearing of throat*...*cough GO cough VISIT cough ZWANZIG cough WHEN YOU ARE HOME cough cough* i had this GSI (aka TA) last semester who, when he used way too many words to explain something, apologize for having "diarrhea of the mouth." Classic expression, don't you think? And a disorder to which I will claim to have fallen, at least in this entry, if not chronically. *sigh* okay, cut to zwanzig and i walking out into the warm (read: 50 degrees) afternoon. we parted ways. i proceeded to Fourth Street to visit Supraja (in her apt.), but she was ignoring my phone calls, so i thought i'd find a u of l hang out. i first walked into a convenience store, which gave me a fascinating insight into the problem of obesity in this country. However, the store was deserted, so I left. I knew I'd found it when I stepped into the next establishment: THE u of l hot spot on tuesday afternoon at 3:49 pm was Gray's Bookstore. Rarely can even the best frat parties boast of the high density of people at Gray's. Figuring I'd run into someone from high school, I checked my backpack with the cops at the door (see? i told you it was better than a frat party! cops INside the place, not just outside!). I cruised the aisles, checking out eraser tips and...suddenly, i heard a familiar voice: "Anne!" It was none other than Supraja's very own roommate, my good friend Sowmya. We ditched that miserable party (well, now, really, it's quite inhibiting to have all those books and cops around) and went up to sowmya's (and supraja's) room. i chilled for a couple hours, having fun watching supraja & friend frantically make phone calls to indian restaurants to get price quotes on something called samosas for a dance party (which was sowmya's idea, if you can believe that...maybe her dance w/ sudip inspired her, we'll never know). supraja was having a heckuva time trying to get this guy to cut the size of her samosas in half so she could order half the number at half the cost. made a great deal of sense to ME, but apparently not to this guy on the phone. supraja can do a very good impersonation of a middle aged indian male. you should ask her to show you sometime. and don't worry; Supraja made sure the guy wasn't listening before she impersonated him. (luv you supraja :)) other stuff ensued and then i bugged out for dinner. i'm not sure what i did until 4:20 am. But at 4:20 am, I finished packing and went to bed. at 4:30 am, my mother tried to wake me up. at 5:00 am, i actually woke up and my mother and i hauled our butts and our luggage to the airport, my mother flying to minnesota for my grandma's funeral and me flying to dallas, en route to oakland. if you ever go to dallas, don't buy a biscuit from the popeye's near gate A11. for a good hour, i was convinced i was going to hurl right there in the shuttle I was taking to san fran from oakland. it probably didn't help that the driver was worse than a new york taxi driver. i consistently stepped on the imaginary brakes at my feet a full 2 seconds before him; and that was me braking in panic! i finally stumbled out of the van 15 minutes before the meeting of the UC Regents (read: ppl who raise or don't raise my tuition) which i was about to attend. After having five granola bars confiscated by one of eight police officers ("no eating allowed" i'm so NOT kidding), I was cleared for entry. I met up with my the president of my out-of-state/international diversity club. The public comment period usually allows speakers 3 minutes, but we were informed that we would have only a whopping 1 1/2 minutes to make our points. I cut out the middle half of my speech while listening to some UC clerical workers who were angry about below-poverty line salaries. Mr. Club President gave what i thought was actually an excellent speech, pointing out that UC is the most expensive public university for out-of-state (oos) students and also offers the least financial aid. after another girl, i walked to the microphone to read my speech. (sorry, no memorization here.) the speech went okay, except that halfway through, my right leg, onto which i had placed most of my weight, began shaking uncontrollably. so i began debating whether it would be better for my whole body to twitch slightly in response, or if i should attempt to transfer weight to the other leg, in which case, my right leg would shake alone, and perhaps stick out more obviously. i stayed on my right leg. oh yeah, and my speech got cut off to, due to that 1 1/2 minute rule. i was just about to say "as much as fee increases are irritating and make us feel unloved, out-of-state students love this university" only i got cut off at "irritating" so i hope that's not the word i left with all those regents. c'est la vie. (is that right?) gawd, this entry is long. it's okay though. i appreciate don diego's long entries, because they make even mine look short. thanks, todd. oh yeah, and mr. zwanzig says hi to everyone & good luck with the semester. even HSU ppl. he says he remembers HSU people, too. Current Mood: disoriented Current Music: "whose bed have your boots been under?" (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, January 12th, 2004
4:10 am	mumbling on and on and on... i should be sleeping right now, but i promised effie i would update. although i feel like i just did update. today was the longest day ever, i swear! it all started at 7 am when i got up and tried to write some crud and i did write some crud, but i was hoping it would metamorphosize into something not so cruddy and it didn't. then at 8:30, the phone rang. i was hoping it was effie letting me know i could drop by and say goodbye before she left for philly. but unfortunately, she was still asleep and it was actually my uncle calling to say that my grandmother died. greeeat. NOT. so after my mother used up a few boxes of kleenex, i did finally drop by both effie's and suma's to say goodbye (well, they do live 2 min. from each other). it was great to see them again and have a parting image to carry with me for the next who knows how many months. thanks, effie & suma for not killing me when i rang your doorbells on a sunday morning. hope your flight went well. (same flight, isn't that cute?) okay, i'm really sorry people, i have no brains left at this point. that's my excuse for rambling. so i finally went to church at 11:30 (we usually go at 9), sans the momma, cuz she promised she would only cry through the whole thing (which made us feel really confident about leaving her at home by herself). there was this adorable 2-year-old girl with the most curly hair you've ever seen in your life being baptized. i think they forgot to warm the water though. poor girl screamed the whole 45 seconds they were pouring water over her head. i'm sure i would've screamed too. i haven't in a while...it sounds appealing right now, but i'll resist the urge. i did nothing all afternoon. mostly just sat around with the mother and waited on phone calls. apparently, my two uncles were duking it out about when the funeral should be. really amusing, honestly. i tried to make a deal where whoever got to choose the funeral date had to give the eulogy, but no one was really listening to me. is it psychologically bad if i imagine my grandmother sitting on my shoulder? it's not denial really, i mean, in her spiritual form, she really could be there. okay, let's just skip dinner and more sitting around and more trying to write some crud on the computer and now we're up to the present time. i just discovered that mr. beloved schwarzenegger (that is correct spelling...i just memorized it...ha) has decided he would like to raise my tuition $2746 next year. if anyone would like to terminate him for me...(if you are from the FBI, CIA, or other 3-letter govt. agency, i am JUST KIDDING) geez louise, my entry is almost as long as todd's but not nearly as interesting. i spose i covered everything. don't know how i took up this much space when i did nothing all day. i love you all. :) have FUN this week! Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: "that's what i'm doing these days" and "i can only imagine" (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 9th, 2004
1:08 am	can'T....finnd...bifocals....aNywherre So, apparently, Effie and I have been branded by the "Juniors" (c/o 2003) as "too old to party" because we passed out on the couch at Suma's birthday party the day after my party. Honestly, those JUNIORS. They're TOO much! I would just like to take a moment to defend our "halfway over the hill" (gawd, who said that?!? Sudip! Don't give them ammo, man, c'mon!) gang. Okay, first, in Effie's defense: the girl did have a long and exhausting night. If you were in the bathroom with Todd for an hour and a half...Todd, do NOT let this go to your head. I'm just trying to defend us here. So Effie was tired. Okay, as for me, I literally got less than three hours of sleep on a hard floor before I ran off to Village 8 to sleep through bloody werewolves and vampires in Underworld with Zoe & Todd. I maintain that sleep on/in hard floors and hard chairs does not count. And then it was straight to Suma's party. Now, if someone would just link those Juniors to my livejournal, I could clear our name...I'd do it myself, but...it's 1 am and that's 3 hours and fifteen minutes past my bedtime. G'night! (NOT!) oh, in other news(?), i am now considering replacing my potential business major with econ. why? well, i had this coach once who majored in econ, and effie is majoring in econ, and my friend adam on the track team is majoring in econ, and...also, i don't have to take accounting and i get five electives instead of two. besides, you never know; i might just want to go to grad school in economics. "what do i do every night, pinky?" "try to take over the world, brain!" or at least it's economy...mwhahahaha! yeah, i know, i'm a case study in finding bad ways to choose a major. any thoughts on business v. econ, gang? (or does it all seem the same to you like it does to me???) Current Mood: awake Current Music: "If I were invisible" (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 5th, 2004
1:49 am	you rock my boat how come all the girls have "lose weight" at or near the top of their lists of new year's resolutions? anne and effie, you do NOT need to lose weight! you're both quite gorgeous just the way you are! i had a very...short day today. i pretty much slept until dinnertime (officially, i did attend church, but i can't say i was awake), then enjoyed phone conversations with effie and sudip. i also spent more time on AIM than i've spent all semester (which doesn't say much, does it?). and i have to say that this live journal thing is getting very close to winning me over. i really like the "friends" page- it's so convenient to see everyone's most recent postings in one place. of course, it helps that I have awesome friends who write intriguing and/or hilarious journal entries! y'all kick butt ;) Current Mood: happy Current Music: "Hell Yeah" (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 4th, 2004
3:01 am	three (is gone) It's 3:02 a.m. I've slept for three hours in the past 40 hours and it feels hecka good too! I just got back from Suma's surprise b-day party. I love it when a surprise party actually surprises its intended victim. And if it didn't tonight, I think Suma should forget the sciences and switch into theater, cause she sure looked surprised for several MINUTES. Effie and I had some business to discuss, so we walked back to my car (parked at Effie's house), and drove around for a while. I really love my nighttime rides with Effie. I love the left turn light which actually WILL turn green as long as you're not forward of that special white line. (Trust me; we've experimented with a very particular light.) So Effie and I started discussing our really awesome relationship with people from Manual. For one thing, we agreed with what Zoe, Todd, & I concluded earlier today as we spoke in the parking lot of Village 8. That is, we agreed that when we come back for breaks, it's as if nothing in our relationships has changed. We can pick up where we left off. At the same time, people do change from one break to the next and they also build up their experiences, which keep the relationships interesting. I decided that this is a lot like marriage. People constantly change, but your relationship isn't altered by years going by. Ooh. Hey, that's deep sh*t, as Effie said earlier tonight. Emphasis on the word with the star in it, by the way. These are the kinds of things people come up with on deserted roads at 2 in the morning. Oh we watched this great Indian movie at Suma's. Suma promised us the movie would be "1 1/2 to 2 hours MAX," and I'm really pretty sure we started watching the movie by 9. Effie and I said goodbye to Suma at 1 a.m.! FOUR hours long! However, it's a pretty good strategy cuz once you're engrossed in the plot of the movie, you'll continue biting the bait: "It's really almost over," and "Just another fifteen minutes, really, I think; or maybe half an hour." But the movie was great! It was called cucha cucha or something like that; I'm sure I have that WAY wrong. It has the most adorable, rosy cheeked little Indian girl in it. Indian movies seem to generally be pretty darn good; then again, I LOVE musicals and romantic comedies, so Indian movies must be my kind of genre. I'm really glad so many awesome people came to my party on Friday! It was fabulous to see everyone. Brief summary of highlights from the party in hopes that I can add more interesting details later: Performances: Sowmya & Sudip; classical Indian dress, a sword, and a scarf Psychologist: Tess, "and," Lord of the Rings, expletives, 2 seats to the left Telephone Charades: Little Mermaid, Independence Day, Dirty Dancing, AMERICAN PIE, Fight Club, Beauty and the Beast, Zoolander, Shrek, The Graduate DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) Hide-and-go seek...outside, y'all; bushes & cars Truth or Dare: such a nasty little game; what happened? shoulda been there! when it ends with Strip Chess, it's pretty interesting Strip Chess: only two people were involved in this one Hope, I gave a sufficient blow-by-blow recap of the party and didn't skip anything. I can't believe some people are leaving already. It's been a fantastic break and I had so much fun seeing everyone. Hope y'all had fun too! Current Mood: indescribable Current Music: Moulin Rouge #3 (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 31st, 2003
3:39 am	Hi Effie Okay, Effie, I made this lovely journal. Well, lovely might be the wrong word. Anyway, here it is. Current Mood: tired Current Music: "what would you do if i sang out of tune?..." (2 Comments |Comment on this)