Back for Break

December 17th, 2005 Entries, Noteworthy

So my parents decided that they wanted to send out Christmas cards out too late this year, so we’re sending out lame cards over the web.

12.15 7:53 pm — My dad wanted it to have a border with pictures, but I couldn’t decide what to do with the middle part.

12:15 8:36 pm — So I took the package thing and went with the guides I already drew in Photoshop, but those bands look humongous

12.16 10:14 am — Had to redraw everything so I could do a smaller band. Looks better I guess.

It’s weird being back home for Christmas. On one hand it’s awesome being back with my parents and Whit… okay Summer too. But then again, I feel left out of the loop with everything that’s going down in Cali. The past semester all feels like a dream — the things I’ve done, the people I’ve met.

Hope that you are able to spend this Christmas with at least one loved one. I dread the day that I might have to spend a Christmas alone.

Wasabi — My New Rush

December 6th, 2005 Entries

I never liked eating Wasabi… especially the feeling of it going up your nose and potentially exploding through every pore of your body. But then, everybody eating sashimi eats wasabi, so I have to do it too.

I remembered the look on my Grandpa’s face every time I declined some wasabi. I disgraced the family. I was a non-wasabi-or-spicy-food-eating member of the Chang clan and that was humiliating. Although, I have made progress in spicy-food-eating, and my mom is proud of me for that.

Thus, I set out to overcome my non-wasabi-eating-ness and to just get down and inhale that green stuff when Charles partially treated us to Todai on Sunday. I piled it on and put some soy sauce in and dang, is it supposed to look that green? I forced that sucker down my mouth and … how can I describe the feeling…

It feels like dying. It goes straight up your nose and you can just feel the little wasabi aliens in the wasabi attacking your head. And then, it’s all over and you can do it all over again. SUCH A RUSH. And my sinuses have never felt so clear. BRING IT ON!

Here’s a picture of one of my new best friends and my protege:

He’s got the perfect look in his eyes for Blue Steel, but we’re going to have to work with the mouth a little.

We are so considerate

December 5th, 2005 Entries, Noteworthy

Unless you were hiding in a cave, you probably found out that USC slaughtered UCLA on Saturday. 66-19 is not a rivalry game, especially when they don’t even score until our 2nd and 3rd strings are playing.

Since a lot of people at Harvest LA have strong ties to UCLA, Peter and I felt that we should make it up to them somehow. And so, we bought Bruin bears and made them prettier for the three gals that currently attend UCLA, because otherwise there would be way too many of them and because the guys in Apartment 111 wouldn’t care at all.

From left to right, Yilin, Jenny, and Sally’s bears. The yellow things are notes that we wrote to them. Click on the picture above for more photos of the bears.

Yilin’s bear has one ear missing. Actually, the ear isn’t missing, because the bear is holding its missing ear in its right paw. And it has a cheek pierce because those are cool. It also has a bloody knife (and I mean literally bloody, not the way English people mean it) going from its butt through its stomach.

Jenny’s bear is missing an eye, and its right paw will forever be touching its own butt area.

Jenny: where’s its eye!

Me: Uhm… go look at Sally’s…

Sally’s bear is the coolest of them all. It has three eyes, courtesy of Jenny’s bear. Plus, it has a flesh wound just above its tummy. And it had lots of pins sticking into it… which makes it useful like a pin cushion.

On the back of all three of their bears had numbers like 14, 19 and 21 (major players of UCLA’s team) and Yilin, Jenny, and Sally’s last names.

Needless to say, we spent a lot of time on them and hope that they enjoy them very much.