you know, last night made me really wish i was in a rock band. i would LOVE to be able to just get ALL MY AGGRESSION out while playing some good fucking shit. and i would be in an all-GIRL rock band. i would name it cherry and the pussycats. ;D okay, maybe not.

anyway, since sum 41 was able to get all these girls (myself included) on stage to make out with each other, I would get some HOT guys to come onstage and kiss ME. not other guys, but ME. you know what i don't get? what is it with guys and lesbianism? i just don't get how guys get so turned on by girls kissing one another. not that i have anything against lesbianism (well, obviously), but you know, it's just funny.

okay, time to go study. bye.

woohoo!! sum 41!!! awesome concert, man. what they lack in maturity, they make up for in vulgar humor. wait, that doesn't sound right. oh well, whatever. the whole thing was great. the first opening band, gob, was really REALLY good!! the second opening, unwritten law, was ooookay. i think we were too antsy for sum 41 though...and a little tired cuz me and sanaz started nodding off. okay okay, it was just me. but yeah...sum 41 came next. those guys are hilarious. fat lip was AWESOME!! you know how sometimes some bands songs don't sound very good live? yeah, well, they're not one of those bands. the lead singer, the shane west look-alike, is quite short in person. i could tell when i was standing next to him. now, at this point, one might ask, "why was cherry standing next to him?" well, let's just say, the kissing was interesting. the onstage LESBIAN KISSING AND ORGY. no joke, folks. wanna know more? yeah, so would everyone. so HAH!! oh...i just thought of something...my first kiss...and i don't even know her name. oh well, sanaz didn't know the name of her girl either. so that makes me feel somewhat better. ;D ooh...sum 41...helloooooo....

okay, i guess the ONLY drawback to the whole concert was the fact that like 80% of the audience were like high schoolers, junior high and even pre-pubescent kids. they were extremely annoying. but they definitely got an eyeful tonight. their virgin eyes!!

so all in all, it was a great concert. interesting, but great. fat lip was awesome. sum 41 rules. will listen to more gob. good night! PEACE OUT, YO!!!

most romantic song ever: "everything" by lifehouse. makes me weak in the knees every time i hear it. mmm....

my vietnamese teacher started crying in class today. it was very surprising. yeah, she's always been a somewhat emotional person but this was bad. she started crying while she was yelling at us. apparently she was extremely frustrated with the numerous mistakes in our quizzes. i mean, yeah, i know we're not exactly geniuses, but this *is* a beginner's class. i think she forgets that sometimes. she started accusing us of not being proud of our heritage because we can't spell correctly. first it started out as a stern lecture. then she started yelling. and she got louder and louder until she started crying. it was really weird. i think everyone felt really bad because the entire class was silent and she's not usually like this so there must obviously be something else wrong (she's got a lot of issues). i mean, obviously (i know i just said that twice), i felt really bad about it too and i'm pretty sure there must be something else to this, something else must have provoked her and she's just taking it out on us, but still....it was really weird and i didn't think it was right for her to accuse of us not being proud of our heritage. yeah, i'm not exactly miss asian pride but the reason all of us are in that class (well, maybe not ALL of us) is because we want to know how to read and write and speak in vietnamese. i'm excluding the idiot fobs who already *know* how to read, write, and speak and are only taking this course for an easy A, of course. but our errors aren't proof that we don't care. this might sound terrible, but if anything, it's because the class is very disorganized and the lectures are unstructured, in my opinion. it's easy for me to say this because i'm taking italian at the same time, and i can compare how both language classes are taught. it's especially obvious since my vietnamese teacher is NOT a language teacher; rather, she is a history professor. so...anyway, i don't know what my point is. i don't want to sound heartless or anything, since i DID feel pretty bad that she started crying and i know she didn't do it to guilt trip us or anything because she's not like that, but i still felt she put us all in a pretty awkward position. however, if it does turn out that all of this was because of something else, something personal, then i would completely understand.

aaaanyway, that was my weird moment of the day. i got pictures back from the beach and the zoo. well, most of the pictures from the zoo, not all of them. the beach pictures turned out really cute. i love our little sand boy. i have GOT to scan that in and show you guys. later, though. i really really need to read this italian play. i told myself i'd keep up with my italian readings this quarter...and i haven't. so i need to do that now.

ben made a copy of moulin rouge rouge for me. so now i can watch it on my comp! he even added the music video for the "come what may" remix. isn't that nice of him? :) thanks, ben!!

in other news: i gave sanaz's birthday gift to her a tad early because she needed it. it was a candle and an aromatherapy body lotion from bath & body works - the exact same kind i have. i noticed how much she liked it so i went out and got it for her today. it's supposed to help you relax and she needs that right now, so yeah, gave her her gift a few days early. four days, to be precise.

okay, time for bed now, bye.

must. stay. away. from. mall.

oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRIS!! not like she's going to read this, but just wanted to blog it anyway.

um...i don't want to go to vietnamese. so...i don't think i will. :)

okay, there's a reason behind this: i looked at the syllabus just now and i don't want to do what it says we're supposed to do today so i just won't go. mature? yes. although i wish i had looked at the syllabus last night so i would've decided not to go then and could've woken up later today. but that's okay.

some retard keeps calling my cell phone and trying to fax it something.

in other news: i am a horribly unproductive student with a procrastination problem.

this morning, my italian teacher asked me what i did over the weekend. i told her i went to the zoo with some friends. she asked me if i did anything else interesting. "ahh....ho visto...come se dice 'gay lion sex'?" [i saw...how do you say "gay lion sex"?]

no no, i didn't really say that, but that would've been funny, si?

today: the great roommate switch. long story behind it, but let's just say that i've been having a few problems and so this roommate switch is an attempt at fixing them. natasha switched rooms with sanaz since both of them didn't have much on their walls compared to me and neha. did all the moving this morning. sanaz is now officially my new roommate. things just make more sense this way. it is a bit weird to see all of sanaz's things in here though. gonna take a while to get used to. but that's okay.

oh, got another letter from aborn today. i feel so bad. i haven't written him in so long, but he went ahead and wrote me anyway. nice of him, no? will scan in later. need to do work now. looots of work.

i am a bad student. i am a bad, bad student.

hey, you know what? i hate hypocrites. i really do. they're one of the worst sort of people.

hypocrites suck.

weird weekend. good, but weird.

deb, ha, chi, and david came down to san diego yesterday morning around 10. met them in the parking lot. hugs all around. walked them to my apartment and just chilled for a few minutes. then it was off to the san diego zoo. i've been living in san diego for over a year, and it was my first time going. it was very...interesting. we saw a lot of interesting animals at the zoo doing some interesting things. okay, we saw gay lion sex. it was actually a bit disturbing. reminded david of prison. [haha, that last sentence sounds so wrong, but it's funny so i'll keep it.] the whole zoo was pretty cool. we got tired of walking around so much though especially since they hadn't slept much the night before. let's see...we saw hippos (a baby one and a momma one. the baby kept trying to swim up above the water but couldn't so his momma had to follow him around and repeatedly nudge him up. very very cute), giraffes, elephants (two had grass on their backs when they walked out of their little cave. deb said they must have been fooling around inside there), duikers, gazelles, loooooots of birds (thankfully, none crapped on us), a shy panda licking his toes, hogs, random monkeys, kangaroos, koalas (definitely a 10 on the cute factor), a huge python, polar (?) bears, other bears, a seal, otters, apes, and....i dunno, a lot of other animals that i don't know the names to. we basically just wandered around the zoo with no real direction. luckily, we ran into a shuttle that was taking people to the exit so we got on because we just did not want to walk around anymore. the driver was a really cool guy. pretty funny too. he was like, "so did you guys see the two-headed gazelle?" and everyone was like, "what?! really?? where??" and the driver was like, "yeah, he was born here just last week." and everyone was like, "woow...." so finally the guy said, "yeah, i'm just kidding." you shoulda seen the look on deb's face. she was so surprised. *cough*gullible*cough*.

so we left the zoo around 430, about half an hour before closing time, and came back to my apartment. waited for chi and chris to come, so when they did we left for islands to eat dinner. me and ha ate lots. well...it just felt like a lot. was *definitely* full afterward. david had a bug in his lemonade so we asked the waitress for another one and she returned with another glass of lemonade that had ANOTHER bug in it so we told her again and she was like, "hmm...that's weird. there must be something wrong with the machine." yeah, definitely not the right thing to say. but when she came back, she said she used another machine. so she SAID. but yeah, third time's the charm. no bug in this one. then we celebrated chris's birthday a bit early (three days early to be precise) and the waitress brought out a piece of this coffee-flavored ice cream cake thing which me and ha ate most of.

and then...we went back to my apartment and watched the best of whose line is it anyway. that show is hilarious. and the best of show was just super-hilarious. aaall the funniest moments packed into one hour. it was great. then we watched the last half of the golden globes. i'm so sad. i missed pretty much all of alias except like the last five minutes. and guess what?! i just found out this morning that jennifer garner (the lead actress in alias) won a golden globe for alias!! and i *missed* her speech!! apparently, it was "the most genuinely authentic" speech according to E! Online. and i missed it. =|

so we just watched a little more tv and then went to sleep really early. around 1 am. although, now that i think about it, that's about when i go to sleep these days anyway...well, a little later than my usual bedtime, actually. but it was early for them. then we woke up this morning around 9, 930ish and yeah. took a few pictures and they left this morning around 1030. =| i'm sad now. that was a nice little break. now i have to do work and go back to class. and i have an 8 am tomorrow. gross. it felt really weird to have them down here though. a good weird, but still really weird. chris agrees with me. cuz usually, i just think of all of them (except chi) as being really really far away (over 450 miles), so it was just, you guessed it, weird. that's all i can think of to say. weird, but good.

okay, before i get any more redundant, i'm going to go...pretend to do work. all right, i'm just gonna watch tv. bye.