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Name: alpha
Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 4/25/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: the little things that put a smile on faces, pictures, eating, sleeping, going out with friends, and ice cream
Expertise: procrastinating, eating, and being a dork
Occupation: Engineering
Industry: Nonprofit
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Member Since:
9/19/2002
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| surprised? i don't think i could let this year pass without me making an appearance on xanga though it has been more than a year since my last entry. that and it's 09/09/09 hehehe... thank you, anne, for reminding me about xanga! i wonder if ppl still go on xanga and check their subscriptions because i know i don't =P i would be more surprised if ppl from my friends list read this entry!
it has been a year, but i'm still accident-prone. no change there really. i started my last semester at state last week and i already have stories to share. greeeat, huh?
ONE. it happened last wednesday. i was in a hurry to get to this class that i was trying to crash and i didn't want to walk in the extreme heat so i went thru an air-conditioned building :) i thought i was sooo smart. i walked thru the stairwell and hallway of the BA building minding my own business and walking with a faster-than-usual pace when I avoided an opening door. "that was a close one," i thought. about a couple of seconds later i found myself falling forward. i slipped on a trail of water and bruised both of my knees. maaaaan, and i've been doing so well about not getting bruises too. i got right up and tried to play it off pretending it didn't hurt at all, but i do remember making a pretty loud THUD and yelling "ahhh" with a pretty big voice (i don't naturally scream/yell with a higher-than-usual voice) then just chuckling because i knew i was due for a fall sometime soon. i do remember causing a bunch of heads to turn too--just awesome. aaaaaaand the student in front of me tried to ease my pain (or what she probably thought as embarrassment) by telling me that it happened to her too.
well i really bruised both knees, more like below my knee caps. the funny thing was that if i wore shorts or a dress that showed my knees, my knee caps would look huuuuuuuuuuge because my bruises extended the darkness from my knees hahaha.
TWO. this happened earlier and caught me by utter surprise. you know how there are those paper towel dispensers with the levers in front of the sinks when you wash your hands in the bathroom? you probably don't ever think that it's locked so the cover doesn't fall on you and that the cover is there to protect and help dispense paper towels, right? well i was washing my hands when out of nowhere (i really mean out of nowhere) the cover just fell open and... landed on my nose.
hahahahahaha i never imagined that happening so i kinda just stood there a bit confused and surprised. my last semester really doesn't wanna spare me of stories to write about on xanga =P and that concludes my "alpha" stories/happenings. til next time (whenever that is)!
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san diego is one of the top 10 places w/ crazy pollen infestation this
season. i’ve never really had allergies before, til this allergy season
struck its vengeance. allergies SUCK.
yes
ladies and gents, i experienced something weird worthy of sharing. i
can’t say that it has only happened to me, but it doesn’t happen very
often. it’s one of those moments that you’d see happening in a romantic
comedy, minus the guy… sorta like my fire alarm in the shower story.
imagine the protagonist girl getting all dolled up for her date. queue
in the music (whitney houston’s “i wanna dance with somebody”) and the
montage of her trying on different outfits with the biggest grin on her
face. everything’s going fine, she finds the exact dress she’s been
looking for when she gleefully slips it on until she realizes that
sucking in is not enough. she has a really difficult time zipping the
back of her dress and the zipper is stuck.
well
i was trying one of my older dresses (one of my absolute favorite
dresses… it was one of those dresses as if i was made exclusively for
my body cuz it fit that well) cuz i bought a pair of shoes that would
nicely accent the outfit. i totally forgot that i had a method to
putting on the dress (it’s a summer dress so i haven’t worn it since
last summer). well to make a long story short, the zipper seriously got
stuck halfway up and it wouldn’t go up nor down. the zipper wouldn’t
budge (let's clarify this part. i know i have gained some weight, but the zipper had the ability to zip all the way up. it was just that certain spot that got caught. it wouldn't even unzip). then the bottom of the zippered part started separating and i
was screwed. not only was the zipper stuck, i was stuck in my beloved
dress -_-“ i seriously couldn’t get out of my dress. just imagine that. straight out taken from a movie!
i
was about to cry cuz i was so frustrated hahahaha. and imagine me
asking for help and having my mom and sisters just laugh at me for a
good handful of minutes. after they got all of their laughter out, they
tried helping me and to no avail, i was still stuck in my dress. well
about one hour later i somehow slithered out of my now-defunct favorite
dress. defunct? why? oh because i seriously had to break the zipper to
get out of it.
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i know i can get childish every once in a while–it’s who i
am, but what happened today completely left me stunned. it goes down in
the books as one of those “what in the wooooooorld?!” moments. i barely didn’t get any sleep last night. i woke up
around 10AM yesterday–not too shabby. i went to my afternoon class and
bookstudy right after. i didn’t get home til about 9:30PM. i originally
planned to sleep at 9PM only to wake up at midnight to study for my
horrid fluid mechanics exam at 8AM. yeah, that definitely did not
happen. i tried sleeping at 10:20 only to find myself restlessly
tossing and turning and finally getting up at 11:15. yeah, so study
marathon til 6:30AM.
to stay up all night, which isn’t even a difficult thing for me to
do anymore, i make myself a cup of coffee and take 1000 mg of tylenol.
it’s routine.
so it’s 6 AM and i make myself another cup of coffee and took another
dose of tylenol to last me the morning/day. i make it to school, take
the test (i don’t believe i bombed it; at least passing), met someone
new (actually, i finally got his name. hahaha. he’s not so bad looking
either 
buahahaha), made it thru class, hung out w/ jerard for a while, and
thanks to a long lab report that i procrastinated on, i didn’t get the
chance to sleep thru my first 3 hour break for the day because i was in
the computer lab all three hours. mind you that it’s about 2 PM and i’m
at my lab class. i realize that i’m getting a headache so i was getting
ready to pop another two acetaminophens into my mouth, but at the same
time i was taking notes. here’s where it all goes down.
i guess i found one pill in my backpack and put it down on my desk
then i get back to writing. and thanks to having to draw pipes that
connect to these tanks i had to draw, i had to uncap my mechanical
pencil to use the eraser. the cap was probably around the same size of a
pill. yeah… you know where it’s going, but i’ll continue. so i
continue to scavenge thru my backpack for another pill and successfully
do and eventually get back to note taking. i take out my water bottle
and absent-mindedly take the two pills, or what i thought to be pills, into my hands, shove 'em into my mouth, drink water, and swallow. it wasn’t
until about 45 seconds later i looked down at my desk and found another
pill on my desk and my mechanical pencil missing its cap.
at that moment, i felt stupid. i swallowed my pencil’s cap. aren't two year olds the only ones supposed to do that?
it’s pretty bad that i swallowed it, but now i’m also missing a cap to my mechanical pencil  yeah, my life should be a sit-com.
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| so guess what? i FINALLY have something to share and blog about. it's
about time that i had another one of those "classic alpha" moments... more like "classic alpha" moments to the third power. hahaha...
i was running late to my first class. i really don't know why i was, somehow i was. i ran outta my house and into my car and started to back up (no, it's not a replay of the garage story). halfway down my driveway i realized that i forgot my textbook and my notes that i needed to bring so i could study some more for my midterm later on the day. i ran into the house to get it and ran back down to my car. i don't know HOW or WHY, i just did. did what?! i slipped. but i didn't fall. it was one of those like you slipped because of a puddle of water that you didn't notice was there and you had the falling back kind of motion, but there was no water on the garage floor. hmmm, interesting. i just thought to myself that it woulda sucked if i injured myself badly cuz that would mean i would miss my midterm. school definitely has a grip on me.
after my first class, i headed off to the east commons (like a cafeteria). i knew i needed sugar or some caffeine because my energy was wallowing away. so i was walking out of the east commons headed towards the market when i slipped again. except this time i slipped because there was water on the floor. they really gotta get those "wet floor" signs out. i didn't fall, yet again. i caught my balance again... whoo, i'm good. and ppl thought i was that clumsy. hah! whatever, i didn't fall. i thought to myself. i knew some ppl saw, but i forgot about it and got my sugar and caffeine supply.
time comes for me to leave and go to my midterm. i was all ready to go. i had the information retained in my mind, but say anything to confuse me, i'm pretty sure i would've forgotten something important for the test. i got up and headed out. not even a couple tables later, i freakin slipped once more. and this time i fell. the third time's a charm, huh? hahaha I KNEW it was too good to be true! but i fell forward and was able to put my hands in front of my body. maaaan! i'm pretty sure even more ppl saw that this time, but hahaha man. i was afraid of not being able to catch myself from eating it hard cuz i had the bottled starbucks frap in my hand and it could've shattered on the floor and i could've landed on top of it. well, i just got up and started walking out of the commons and towards class again.
who slips THREE TIMES IN ONE DAY?! apparently, I do.
btw, gooooo chargers! bolted the colts and manning. BUAHAHA! til the next time!
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| i'm finally done with finals and this hectic spring semester :) so here i am on xanga at 1 in the morning cuz i can :) i'm gonna take a couple days off and dedicate it to being aimlessly unproductive because i haven't had much sleep lately. my biological clock is out of whack and it has taken a turn for the worst thanks to this offbeat sleeping pattern of mine. rich tagged me earlier on the month for a survey and i finally have time to do it so here it goes: D is for...Leave a comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to list 10 things you like starting with that letter. Post them in your journal and give out new letters to your commenters in turn. NO TAGBACKS ALLOWED, unless a commenter specifically requests to be given a letter!  
 
 
 
 
well, what's been up with me since my last blog? i haven't had much happen hence the entry drought. i've probably pulled off more all nighters this semester than most people have in their lives thanks to being an engineering major. i've literally had test week after week since february so i've been MIA. i've just been kickin it at home during the weekend because i get tired from the 8-5 and 12-5 school days. umm, i got to see john legend and corinne bailey rae live at embarcadero :) that was a great show. oooh, i'm now of legal age to rent a car from enterprise. hahaha. that and i got my braces off :) holla!!!! oh, and i got retainers... try saying "shawshank redemption" three times while wearing retainers, not that fun.
on the other hand, i'm just so happy to be on break UNTIL the end of august :) i'll be pioneering and i'll be going for an internship. so that'll take up most of my time. i DO want to go to a theme park, go to the beach innumerable times, possibly redecorate my room, take a roadtrip, and simply, just chill. *sigh* i love summer :) i can't end this entry without a story so here's a quick one that happened about a month ago: i was in downtown 'frolicking' around w/ gretchell and edelen when we split up because they were gonna go to their car thru the parking lot access on the street while i was gonna go around the corner and go into the horton plaza parking lot by passing sam goody's, abercrombie, victoria's secret, and all at good stuff. well once they went into their parking lot entrance, i crossed the street laughing for some reason. and some bums sitting on the corner smiled at me and said this is the first time someone crossed the street who was happy enough to give us some change. i said sorry because i really didn't have change and kept on walking when this old bum, sketchy kind of guy was walking towards me and said hey baby. i was so distraught. no kidding. but i guess i was so confused that i projected a blank face and he replied with do you speak english? buahahahaha... i know i look really asian, but did i seriously look like a foreign tourist?! hahaha whatever it is, i'm glad. well i played along and gave a really confused face. i was about to say "no" but "no" IS english =P and after that he just kept walking and that's the end of the story. not that funny. okay, end of story and entry. | | |
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