About Me
About Meda plane!! da plane!!
I have no idea how it happened. but somehow I managed to get a section to myself! 3 seats, just me. for the most part, I'm still using one seat, cause well... I feel bad taking up all three seats, the guy behind me has the same deal. he's all sprawled across all the seats like he owns the place. yes, it's a privilage to be in this situation, but I don't want to make others feel bad that their crammed together. for the most part I've been passed out. so my jet lag will be REALLY bad when I land. good fortune still working?? :P
I had a dream about the plane, that we were flying 100k feet in the air. think armageddon, instead of an led to display speed, it was feet. everyone was happy and cheering since it would get us to our destination faster? ya no sense. but hey, it was a dream.
I wonder what part of the atmosphere is 100k feet. no wifi on the plane, so I can't even look it up! wow my battery is estimated to last for 8-9 hrs just typing in notepad. I love that!! it's a foreign concept to me, for a laptop battery to last more than 3 hrs.
Mood: look at all this room!!
on my way home
I'm on the plane back home. fun fun! ... I'm feeling a little sick. headachy and trying to keep the plane food down. it's not the best food, partly cause UR sense of smell is off when UR in the air, so things taste funny.
in every new place, I have problems sleeping. jet lag kind of threw me off in the first place, leaving me 4 hrs of sleep at night and napping whenever I was in the car for more than 30 min. so I slept in my parent's apt in taichong for the first time. hard time to go to sleep, hard time to stay passed out early in the morning. @ 6 there was machinery, like garbage collection or a giant truck with a lift moving inventory. I'd rather have the roosters...
night of the 22, I went to the night market in taichong. it was good, lots of food and shopping. mostly clothes and random trinkets. I tried smelly tofu for the first time. I'm keeping with my "yes" deal when it came to food. trying anything that was offered to me. my growing belly is proof!! yes, it's definately not as bad as it smells, I almost threw up smelling the sauce. it helped that I love tofu... I got some engrish shirts for my sis and a friend. I got a few dress shirts. I feel bad. since the clothes I fit in are either L or XL I feel kinda fat :( well, since I'll have jetlag for a few days... I'll be able to have an extra workout in the middle of the night.
last night I met 2 friends back to back. first was a friend that met at tac oh about... 8-9 years ago. talking to her was interesting. I found out that I fall for people easilly and when I do, it's very... intense. it's how I am. I rarely do anything half ass, especially when it comes to something like love. a lot of times I can accept people not having any feelings for me. I think after one of my best friends confessed his feelings to someone, and the girl didn't want to talk to him ever again, I'm actually greatful if they still talk to me. ya. kind of messed up in a way... but I'm weird anyway. talking to her, I found that we have a lot of personality traits in common. I sooo didn't see it coming, then again it has been a LONG time since I last talked to her more than a facebook message. I also met fobii for the first time. she's always had a special place in my heart. she's one of my closest friends, we've been through a lot. we've known each other for 8 years, and chatting online for most of it. definitely weird seeing her in person. my uncle joined us for dinner, I felt kind of weird since they were talking in mandarin for 2/3 of the time. I do my usual where I just tune people out since I didn't understand. I feel like I didn't get to talk to her that much. oh well.. I'll see if I can visit again sooner than 2 years.
partly because of my ex, it helped me relize how warm and inviting my family is. I've always been kind of closed off to my family, a lot of it is because the used to tease me a lot. now I just don't care about the teasing, I'll live my life the way I want.
I read some of my previous entries a few days ago. I forgot about myself. I relized that I most likely end up single for the rest of my life. that anything more is a bonus. that I don't have to give into the social standard of marriage. that I should just be happy for my life, the things I'm doing, the people that are invovled.
Mood: happy that I'm going home. sad that I'm leaving part of my family.
Location: somewhere over japan
a little rocky.
yesterday morning, we went out to collect rocks. ya, rock collecting. it's just like it sounds. went to the riverbank and collected rocks. my uncle has rocks all over the house! there's a 3-4 foot wall and there are rocks on it, there's a giant pile right as you enter the lobby, there's another pile outside the wall. I'm surprised that it's not IN the house.
survived...
wow I survived my first earthquake. ok, Im being over dramatic. it was nothing major. it was just a little shake, I felt the ground drop a little, and the lights flickered a little bit. the ground felt kind of like walking on one of those giant trampolines. for 2 min afterwards, I felt a little seasick. I'm hyper sensitive to movements. or it was an aftershock. I think it's more of the motion sickness.
Mood: survived to see another day :P
jin pai jia
I went to the market in shueili yesterday, it's jsut a street with lots of vendors, lots of hustle and bustle. reminds me of downtown trenton in the summertime when it has vendors. except the difference is it has scooters driving around. pictures came out bad, lots of shade lots of bright light. too many moving objects to use hdr quickly. if anything this trip has made me want. is a newer dslr.
we also went to eat ice, and a little nature hike around a dam. the water had this greenish tint to it. kind of like a dark turquoise.
I played mah jong almost all night long from about 4-10 with dinner in between. I had a hard time sleeping, and I woke up early. I think with the impending return home, the weight of the world is creeping up on me again. at least I'm not jet lagged anymore!! it's hillarious, we had giant grapefruit. my aunt said "jin pai jia" which translates to horrible tasting. of course she passed it out for us to try how bad it was.
Mood: I forgot the taste. I kind of don't want to taste it again though.