ok so apprently i have a job of updating my xanga to keep people like connie and james amused during work… but connieee. my beloved roomate won’t even cook korean bbq for me!!! annnnddd ur lazy ass is sleeping on the couch and i’m staring at ur head.. i think i’m going to put a post it on ur face now… property of christine dai muahhah ehehe.. annndd i just took a classic picture of it.. i wonder if maressa will post those pictures of us being stupid and girly.. anyhoo we went to this adorable thai / laotian place today at berkeley on shattuck it was like a garden setting and for four people only 37 dollars we got a spicy duck.. which was pretty good even though i’m pretty weaksauce wihen it comes to spicy food… and the pad thai was amazing, fried tofu with sweet and sour sauce, and a papaya and calamari salad. A buttload of pictures later, a very full and bloated maressa sirina christine and stephen walked out down the garden path back to stephen’s car with the oakland A’s teddy bear dangling from the rearview mirror. So maressa was like. i wanna meet someone laotian and i was like. i bet our waiter was laotian.. i had never seen a laotian dude before.. but i was confident that he was laotian if i ever saw one! but since i hadn’t i was just b.s.ing..

Mr. laotian / watever he was… came over to take our orders.. and smiled .. and bright metal flashed.. our little group of four looked at each other and thought.. was that a grill? was he a laotian guy with a grill? or were they just braces? hahah.. how bizarre huh…. so we speculated that he MUST have been from oakland/richmond and he was laotian with a grill! hubba hubba.. now that was sexiness…. ahaha. .no jk. he was so not attractive.. and he didn’t bring out chopsticks… I had to go get chopsticks AND the check later… dood.. talk about bad service.. but then again.. who am i to complain.. i’d be the worst waiter ever… like.. if me and anna ever became waiters.. dear lord… i’d get fired in about a week for being absent minded and she’d probably beat some guy up if he asked her for ice. can’t you just imagine it… anna saying “go get ur own damn ice” and then she pummels him.. i’d just be like. huh… dood oooo doo.. walk away talk on the phone while i serve the food… which is probably why i would never be able to be a bartender. .too much multitasking i’d spazz out

i have majooorrr food coma now connie is currently eating string cheese so sheee didn’t come out to dinner iwth us cuz she ate a cow on steroids this after nooon.. she just said that..i thought it was hilarous… the ribs were big.. so she said the cow was on steroids!!! i love this girl.. hehehe.. ok so maybe its kinda a moment thing.. anyway.  ohhhhh so .. apprently it was a pig on steroids.. cuz ribs came from a pig?? i totally thought they were from a cow.. no wonder gtheyre so good.. well regardless i still like steak.. big juicy slabs of steak medium rare more rare!! with blood oozing out when i cut into it.. mmmm… by the way… Boa steakhouse is like… delicious! and when u drink wine with that juicy slab of bloody steak.. its like heaven.. seriously who needs drugs when u can eat steak and shop and then frollic on the beach.. by the wayl… just cuz i’m rambling now.. drugs are bad.. bad bad bad.. In my most humble opinion drugs are for pathetic people who arne’t completely happy with reality and instead of doing something about it to change it for the better they choose instead to escape from it.. and what do these sad people do? they turn to drugs which temporarily create a shallow, and evanescent pseudo reality in which everything is happy and pleasant and fun.. yay.. woopdee doo.. but … when the drug wears off… everything just sucks.. and because druggies are a total bunch of weak minded cowards they have to retreat back to this reality and that’s how they get hooked mentally.. physically/chemically drugs block the reuptake of seratonin which is what gives drug users that lift and initial happiness.  Drugs for most purposes are not only detrimental to a personas health but also it hurts the people around him / her.  SEeing someone’s body deteriorate from drug use is probaly the worst feeling ever. One feels helpless and frustrated.As happy as drugs initally make the user it could never keep one happy forever.  This is because the central nervous system supports a web of mutually inhibitory feedback mechanisms.  In response to a fleeting increase in mood mediating monoamines in the synapses, neuronal receptors and genes reregulate.  Therefore, no real long rterm benefit is extracted from the use of these heinous substances.  No drug or chemical can possibly yield the sustained activation of intracellular signal transduction cascades needed to surmised the hedonic needs of our bodies.  Therefore, its a lose lose situation.. god this rambole jsut came out of nowhere i think its from living with my gdi high school friends so long.. its like enhancing the anti drug person in me =) but seiorusoy though.. i have a lot of respect for those who have done it and quit for someone or for themselves.. that shows a lot of character =)

club number two club suede was much better than envy much much much better.. but then all good things must come to an end for when the club lights turned off and normal fluroescent lights came on, the harsh lighting heralded stark reality.. and reality is very very not attractive.. seoirusly.. its like by the end of the night the drunk effect and the dark effect which made some people quite pretty wore off and that is why you leave the club before the lights go on. 

at club suede.. ok so i was about to drink it.. buttt then.. it just turned out wrong

you thinki woudln’t run into any agla people there.. but lo and behold an old lambda and an old omega. hahah how random.. oh yeah i ran into evie too!!!! she was drunkie off her butt =) and yelled outloud.. what are u doing here.. ur not 21… haha

me blowing off some poor guy who went clubbing in a flannel t-shirt hit me today .. she told me that his friend was like.. your friend over there was so mean to him he went over to the bar and had five drinks by himself.. at first it was kinda funny but in retrospect maybei shoduln’t have blown him off right away.. but then again he did spill his dark drink over my white shirt.. and i did spend five minutes trying to clean it off.. so i geuss one drink by himself for each minute that i spent trying to clean my shirt? that seems well worth it but

pet peeve guys who dance with a full drink in their hand like durrrrrrrr  go figure

what would i do without my pledge sis’? you guys are always there for me =) makes me feel loved and warm and tingly inside.. but yes. .isn’t that totally creepy and can we all say no      life?  but to those girls that i talked to .. thank you for being there for me and supporting me  when i needed you.

woot woot theta oh me and deanna and catherine and deanna’s friend are driving down next thurs! happy birthday to vicki this sunday yay for new roomate and harmony night next weekend! ehehe

the second good thing.. i can watch the sun rise and go jogging yayuh!

i believe a magazine over my face, a fat fish in my lap, and his big sis’s pillow as a blanket would be a suitable do no disturb sign… butt apparently mr. robert is above the law and the fact that we went to high school together doesn’t give me any immunity to paparazzi rob thus… this happened.. see how productive i’m being at berkeley?

but everyone look at my fat fish!! isn’t he totaly cute?? deanna would think so but lorraine would take one look and get a very disgusted look on her face my nemo’s like a fluffier smaller version of joanna’s nemo.. haha.. he’s so fat and chubby.. mr. nemo keeps me company and is currently squashed under me as i write this entry.. mr. nemo doubles as a stomach propper upper too i couldn’t stop laughing whne i discovered him hidden under other fat stuffed animals so i decided that since he makes me laugh uncontrollably…he’s worth buying… stuffed animals are pretty pointless and i’m usually not a big fan butttttt…. i’ve found a keeper… i wake up to his rotund face looking at me every morning.. !!!! =D ya’ll dont get jealous now

well that was anticlimatic… so i leave la with two of my lover diana’s surplus ids i am miss jungwon (28) and maressa is now miss laurie(21) and then i do a double take… 28!!!! while robert laughs at me… i look like i’m 12!!! I did’nt realize this until i was at his house and by the way.. robert shen  is a computer god! my vaio looks even more cute!! and its like..super adorable he put these things called widgets on… kinda useless but it looks cute! which is pretty much my whole laptop anyway. 

so me and maressa went with connie to the club and while we were standing in line we were like.. dude there’s no way we’ll get away with this because we look nothing like our ids.. AT ALL! but when the security lady gave my id a cursory glance i did’nt know whether to be more insulted or relieved… i decided that i was both.  Upon entering the club hmmm how can i fully describe the scene…well it was just sad… the scene was    SADDD!!

i mean.. how many bald headed earring wearing goatee growing guys could there be in one spot you may ask..? oh you’d be very surprised.. i was so grossed out.. like majorly grossed out… seriously throughtthe whole night i would have given anything to be magically transported to my 18 and over agc asian clubs yes even century with their obnoxious security…I now have a newfound respect for asian clubs =) so there i was thinking it would get better.. but it just got worse

i gave my first pity dance yesterday.. yup.. the pathetic little baldie came up to me and instantly i was overpowered by the nauseating smell of axe.  Yes it did smell good in the beginning when it first came out but when guys started using it as cologne well that scent is now categorized as oober cheap.. on the other hand… old spice body wash smells really good…. that i like… =D so back to my pity dance after having rudely turned down guys who think theyre really cool if they just start dancing next to you i was ready to tell this guy off too but then he surprises me and goes “Can i pleasee dance with you?” and i was like   ummm i ‘m a little tired” and he’s like… “ok! i’ll come back later and leaves with a ginoromous smile” i go watevever and don’t think much of it.

no joke.. five minutes later he comes back like some sick puppy dog and goes..”may i please have this dance” chivalry is usually very admirable but i didn’t know whether to laugh or cry cuz he just didn’t get it… and he had this disgusting hopeful look on his face that i was like.. ok i’ll dance only for a few minutes because i have a bf and on the condition that you dance over there… whereupon i pointed to a spot about four feet away from me .  Surprisingly he wasn’t that bad of a dancer compared to all the hooligans getting stupid around us buuttt nevertheless looking at his glistening head his hoop earrings and little goatee sickened me so much that after about two seconds into the dance i stopped and said “ok that’s enough it was very nice to meet you” shook his hand and sent him on his merry way. I turned around looked at maressa and connie, rolled my eyes, and all three of us burst into hysterical laughter . At the moment that incident was so sad that it had to be let out of my system somehow..  I called kayu to tell him what happened… he didn’t make it anybetter he thought it was funny… psh no sympathy.. woe is me!

what i learned from being in a 21 and over club.. one) drinks lose their novelty because theyre so easily accesible, two) cute guys = close to none, guys who can dance= nope, guys who think they can get girls way out of their league= plenty~!  seroiusly the first time someone tried to put his filthy hands on my waist i was like.. woah woah woah back off buddy..apparently my  if- you- want- my- red- stilletos- in- your- ugly- face- if- you-so -much- as- put- ur- hands- anywhere- near- me translates in club language as  yes please- grope- me- i- like- it .

I was so mad and sick of swatting away hands that by the end of the night i had a lot of anger in me.  Looking around i noticed other equally flustered girls who were busy batting away grossness in the flesh.  As we were walking out of the club i was seething and just thinking “i’d like to see some idiot try again” but no surprise i suddently felt a surreptitious tap on my right hip as i was walking whereupon i turned around found my target and commenced to unleash the wrath of christine dai on him.  After cornering him while holding maressa back i let him know exactly how i felt about him and how disgusted i was at the mere sight of him so how dare he even think about touching me until i got all the  revulsion out of my sytem.  I left that loser who flinched whenver i made a move toward him in the corner , regained my compsure,and calmly left the club vowing never again to go to a mixed 21+ club.

i’m here i’m here!!!! yay berkeley i really hate the potholes and the cracked streets .. and the one way streets i think i’ve drive through that island that says do not enter about 6 times just to get to blake street cuz i coudln’t figure out how else to get there… i finally figured out how in the end… go through dwight and turn right… and that was my moment of glory..

yesterday i drove my beloved car over to joanna’s and then deanna came over and we went to this super asian place called fantasia… and yay met lorrainey and gossiped and laughed until deanna turned to me and went” ew she’s laughing like an old woman” and that’s when i felt the tears due to excessive laughter.. ok.. then we went back to jo’s after consuming massive amounts of asian chicken and shrimp, commenced to watching a movie.  This morning joanna’s super adorable mom who just keeps feeding you made so much food!!! it started out harmlessly as just strawberries.. and then she plunked two apples into the sink and then busted out this crazy korean melon.. and then tore apart some seewead and brought out delicious anchovies and bean things… in no time i found in front of me a giant plate of rice =) i left saratoga quite happy and full. 

i miss my camera

MY CAR IS MINE! woohoo as of today! i’ve officially paid off my car =) yup done. within three months! ehehe..

i have my own office with “Miss Christine Dai” on it.. ehehe.. my ego and head got huggee and i started unprofessinally prancing around the building.. now that  i’m doing all the finances and handling the business of the company … it hit me how much i liked it the perks arn’t bad too

After interviewing for potential secretaries.. i realized.. wow i could really get used to this. 

Guess what inflates your ego more than having your own office with a view? having your own secretary that’s older than you =) he gets paid like 8.50 sadly.. which is why my pay is so high.. =D *shrug* oh well… i love my job

on another note. i got this laptop .. totoally cute.. kayu was like.. uh. you can get the exact same one at dell for probably 400 dollars cheaper since realistically.. what am i going to use it for really? word and internet but against my better judgment i chose to buy the cute one. i wanted the green one.. buuuttt they ran out online of the ones you an engrave

sooo i got the rasberry red one its still cute plus it’ll match my room next year

i was like.. guess what color i got nha and being the bitch she is.. she was like.. gold?

..-_- anna’s the harmony that likes gold.. i like white gold more .. but then again if they did have a gold one. i probably woul dhave gotten it so yeah nha konws me pretty well

WAHHH!!! i have a pimple on my face!!!!!! its so ginormous!!!  like this big!!! AND
THEN to make things worse!!! i was going WAHHH to my roomate and her
boyfriend aka our third roomate.. and he took a  look was like
“ewwwww it needs its own zipcode ITS HUGE!! you can build like little
houses on it” and that did it.. i am forever depressed today.. until
this pimple goes away i won’t be happy

Lambda Convention usually entails drunken asians running around the
floors of a rented out hotel.  Lambda Convention 2006 turned out
to be anal woodland hills marriot security chasing frustrated asians
from all sorts of states and canada too.. around the hallway. 

Highlights: as much as dance practice sucked.. we totally bonded
with random girls that maybe i wouldn’t have gotten to really know
otherwise.  Melinda Julie Olivia Vivien Tiffany Nha Chrissy Jackie
Me Annie Thuy Rira yay for gamma class dancers =) honestly that was the
highlight of convention as nervous as we were and though performing in
front of a million lambdas yeah its a little nervewracking but we were
pretty good =D ehehe

Friday night slept on the floor with melissa as drunken lorraine
stepped all over our faces …then me and mel retreated under two
tables so when lorraine came back from the bathroom we wouldn’t get
stepped on a second time haha i love u rainey buttttt… u drunk with
me on the floor was very painful

Saturday night clubbing at miyagis i was actually more interested in
miyagi’s normal business hours and their menu than clubbing buutttt
then clubbing happened…

               TOO MANY PEOPLE!

               My
poor pinky knuckle is now gimpy from shoving some drunken guy off
 me         who
thought i looked like his gf.. but when he discovered i wasn’t he was
like.         ur so
cyootte and small (no heels). and i
waslike..                            
arggghhhhh grossss –> shove with backhand–> gimpy/grumpy
christine

               Melinda
and me danced the night away with each other.. forget the guys.. and it

              
was soooo much fun!!! bonding time hehe i was sober the whole weekend

              
which had its benefits too =) i bonded with lance my funny and tall /
skinny

              
grandbig since he no longer had a place to sleep =D. yeah not
much

              
partying this weekend.. i brought my psych book, bought a room at the
marriot,

              
and commenced to studying for psych. In the process of looking for rira

              
i rudely pushed through a sea of smokers.. and duh i got a cigarrette
burn on my

               woe is me. 

Sunday

-performance over

- put on our OOBER CUTE! lambda lil sis shirts guess what awesome genius made them?…

alpha chapter originally wasn’t that big.. until reno was like.. wah
wah wah.. alpha should be humongous.. and then he too out gamma
dancers.. freakin pledge dad.. ok well.. anyways

he bought us courvoisier which
was pretty good i was impressed with him and then we filed into lance’s
car.. but sadly.. there was nothing to do cuz cops came and broke
everything up… go figure its l.a. but next year its chicago sooo
hopefully it’ll be better…

i got pulled over sunday night but luckily for
me i brilliantly talked my way out of it fifth time i’ve gotten pulled
over.. with not a scratch on my record. the key.. is to open ur eyes
really big and look oober innocent and clueless =)

monday i went to meet parents in arcadia/
monterey park to go eat and then i went to au79 to get boba and i was
wearing my lil sis shirt cuz i mean .. who’s gonna see me.. its
arcadia.. i park and a million  lambdas are there. i’m like.. oh
lord.. so i left and went to the mall since i was sick of seeing so
many asians in one spot and while shopping for joanna’s bday present..
lo and behold some old guy comes up to me and goes ” excuse me i saw
you and i coudn’t help coming up to talk to you.” and there i was
holding five purses and internally rolling my eyes.. and he looks at my
shirt and goes.. i founded the u much chapter nad i was like… dear
lord.. can i not shop in peace.. upon which i pulled one of my
eternally useful phrases

1.  i have a boyfriend

2.  i need to go fix my contacts

3.  I’m sorry i’m in a big hurry but that’s v ery flattering thank you

4.  I’m sorry but i don’t date guys

=D

all in all it was really fun

sooo lancome is having this free gift with purchase thing.. all you
have to do is buy 26.50 dollars worth of sutff and they give you this
really cute duffel wtih sunglases and sunscreen and mascara and
eyeshadow and lipgloss andlipstick.. its really worth it

My wonderful weekend.. until sunday night ish.. well anyway

Friday: omega exchange ( playboy mansion) ok so i was a litttlleee
drunk.. buuutt since its the last exchange i decided to go all out
…yay! its my last exchange of the yearrrrrrr  that brings my
attendance at exchanges to a grand total of *drumroll please*….5!
yeah we’re all pretty drunk.. by some miracle lorraine’s robe stayed up..must be the boobs

where’s caryn’s sexy outfit?!?!

family love?

harmony waterfall love!

theta and omega socials

i belive megan wins the skank award.. good job family =) hehe di su madre  looks like she wants to bite maggie’s chest

waterfall starlight and harmony… apparently jenster didn’t WANT my love.. hmph

buuuttt she had no choice cuz i was drunnnnnnnkkk

and the robe slips lower and lower.. and debbie’s just out there. .haha.. awwww wer’e cute.. as my wife would say and drunk!

drunk joanna + drunk debbie joanna’s seducing the camera with a lowered bra strap.. oohlala..

psh angelina and asian girl got nothin on me

instead of choosing to show off his arms.. he shows off his pale nothing stomach… weaaakk

daymmm my lil bro is pimppp!! until wes jumped into the picture.. grump
wes walks as slow as a grandpa.. walking back from chinese class with him is painnffulll hehejk

smurfs showing xc pride

two bunnies =)

HARMONIES!

Saturday: wake up at 10:30 still drunk maggie’s sobering drink did NOT work.. but it tasted really good

drove out to sunset ranch and rode Midnight around.. what a cutie-he
kept biting the other horse’s butt.. he just couldn’t stay in that
single file line… i think i got a relaly competive one.. but anyway..
he was a feisty black horse that loved to sneak up next to another
horse and just nip the other animal on the butt ..leaving a green
saliva mark on about six other horses.. I guess the problem with
walking single file for horses is that when the front horse stops a
horse sometimes finds his head right up the butt of his fellow equine
comrade in front… I guess mine had had enough of smelly horsebutts..
i think he’s quite bitter actually and now he’s taking
revenge…   ACTUALLY horse’s butts are quite cushiony if you
lean your arm back and kinda press down on the left butt like.. on the
back still.. itsl ike a giant cushion! we were sitting there for a
while just amazed and just poking at our horses which were probably
thinking “first you sit on my back.. and now you sexually harrass me..
my life sucks” like. wow its squishy!!! but yeah the view was lovely..
its such a nice place and great way to start off the morning

http://www.sunsetranchhollywood.com/

one hour= $25

i recommend this place over the one  in griffith park.. this one
has a way better view and the horses are livelier and surprisingly
responsive. you can actually get them up to a trot and if you’re
lucky.. a canter.. before the guide tells youto chill out.. luckily for
me i had a very spirited horse

2:00 ish

Surfing in malibu my newfound love


ITS TOUGH WORK!…paddling out and then waiting for waves to come..
buuutt we stood up by the second wave and by the third.. it was just
too much fun!!!!! seriously.. even though my feet got all scratched up
.. it was really awesome and you know me! little miss compulsive
buyer.. i want a surfboard now!!!!!! and a wetsuit.. i want a red
surfboard!!! yup yup ok so anyway…  yeah! i really like it
malibu has this relaly good oyster place called Gladstones really yummy
oysters nice view too and not too expensive afte ryou can run around
the beach and frollic like little children.. but that’s not where we
went after surfing…

then we went to the Lobster at santa monica.. and i had steamed
lobster.. it was so good and yes so i drenched it in butter..yes i KNOW
cholesterol but i’d rather die early and happy than die old and
miserable and butter deprived  then we watched Hercules. yay for
disney movies and sang along to this song

Meg:
If there's a prize for rotten judgement
I guess I've already won that
No man is worth the aggravation
That's ancient history, been there, done that!

Muses:
Who'd'ya think you're kiddin'
He's the Earth and heaven to you
Try to keep it hidden
Honey, we can see right through you
Girl, ya can't conceal it
We know how ya feel and
Who you're thinking of

Meg:
No chance, no way
I won't say it, no, no

Muses:
You swoon, you sigh
why deny it, uh-oh

Meg:
It's too cliche
I won't say I'm in love

I thought my heart had learned its lesson
It feels so good when you start out
My head is screaming get a grip, girl
Unless you're dying to cry your heart out
Oh

Muses:
You keep on denying
Who you are and how you're feeling
Baby, we're not buying
Hon, we saw ya hit the ceiling
Face it like a grown-up
When ya gonna own up
That ya got, got, got it bad

Meg:
No chance, now way
I won't say it, no, no

Muses:
Give up, give in
Check the grin you're in love

Meg:
This scene won't play,
I won't say I'm in love

Muses:
You're doin flips read our lips
You're in love

Meg:
You're way off base
I won't say it
Get off my case
I won't say it

Muses:
Girl, don't be proud
It's O.K. you're in love

Meg:
Oh
At least out loud,
I won't say I'm in love