Writer's Block

I just finished a 40-minute analysis essay on Dover Beach by Matthew Arnolds.

Bite me.


It's been an entire summer since I last wrote anything worth reading. Cranking out this essay was like trying to squeeze Elmer's glue out of a container that had already been dried shut. Like clenching and clenching but getting nothing more than a prairie dog. Oh, the pain.

I don't know how much longer it will be before my muse returns. Formal writing has never been my forte.

I need to start reading again. ):

2 AM

Ok, that's totally the title of a song. I swear it is.

So yes, it is 2 AM, 2:24 AM to be exact, and I am wide awake. I was tired as hell around 11ish, but once that big hand went past 12:00, I was hit by my second wind. I wish this kind of thing would happen to me when I'm trying to exercise.

I should be working on my AP Government paper right now on sexual offenders, but somehow, thinking about such things at this ungodly hour seems very unappealing. Nonetheless, I have one more page to go, and nothing's gonna stop me now! (Queen - Don't Stop Me Now: Go listen to it.)

I just had a nice long heart to heart chat with my sister. Well, actually, I verbal diarrhea-ed all over her. It's always nice to talk about things out loud, it helps me to organize my thoughts. They've been jumbled of late, I haven't really needed to pull them together and organize them. I think its time to defragment this brain of mine in preparation for school re-entry. 4 more AP classes to go, and off to college for me!

I still haven't seriously started looking at college apps. I'm not even sure what major I want to go into. One thing I know for sure is, I can't wait for college.

ADVENT is still weighing very heavily on my mind. OK, that's not the right way to word it, makes it sound too much like a burden. I've been suffering from a bad case of ADVENT nostalgia for a long time now, and like last year, it seems that nothing will cure me until next summer.

Another important note, I am being baptized soon! Yay! It's something that I have been thinking about for a long time now. I've always been afraid of taking such a large leap, of making such a binding commitment. But this ADVENT trip, I've learned that there is no reason to be ashamed of my religion. God is God, and it's time I publicly announced that I recognize him as my Father. It seems that making the decision to get baptized is much easier than actually getting/organizing a baptism. We are struggling to find a date and a location that is convenient for all parties involved. Amy and I are willing to go as simply as possible. A hose in the backyard would suffice. This event has been a long time in coming, and I just want it done!

The guest list is still a little iffy. One part of me wants this to be a very private ceremony, with only perhaps, five people present. Another part of me wants to share it with the world, shout it from the rooftops! I understand that my Dad is very proud that we finally decided to take the flying leap, but does he really need to go through the phonebook and tell everybody? Sheesh. That Daddy of mine...

So anyways, I'm just praying that this whole thing works out, with the relatives coming over and whatnot. (Oh horror, I just used the word "whatnot".) We really wanted to invite Pastor Chang for dinner, but with relatives involved, things just might get a little messy. Whatever the result, I'm sure it's going to be a hell of a ride.

Yeehaw!

Epic Fail

So I failed my driving test today. Hee. Made two critical driving errors. (Two automatic fails) Poor Bob the Proctor. He almost had a heart attack during the first one. Well, my next test will be in September. And the test after that probably sometime in October. What a great birthday present that would be. A driver's license.

I can't say I'm not pissed. But it's not Bob the Proctor's fault. I was mentally prepared to fail, but it still irks me. It's irksome. D: Driving scares the hell out of me, but I know that once I master it, it will be worth it. As of the moment, I can't decide if I'm more pissed or more disappointed. Gosh, I wanted to punch something. But, rationale prevailed and I did not break my hand(s) on anything concrete. Instead, I clutched a body pillow and sobbed my eyes out. Sadness. I had watermelon to comfort me though. (:

I've gone through many close calls in the past. Panel, which I really should not have passed. Blegh. That's the freshest wound on my ego right now. Well, here's a new scar. I can't say I'm traumatized for life, but I'm a little turned off driving right now. It just doesn't came naturally to me, this driving. Steering a big metal box at breakneck speeds next to other big metal boxes. Thank god for airbags.

I discovered another major fear in my life. (Not failure. I already knew about that one.) I think, I am very afraid of going insane. I don't know why, but my family knows a lot of insane people. Like, lock up in an asylum insane. What if I go crazy one day? The scary part is, I won't even know it... I don't want to end up like House! D:

So yeah. A little mopey. A little emo. Food makes it worse. Comfort even more so. I don't want to be comforted. I want to feel the consequences of my actions. Or else I'm going to think I can get away with it the next time.

School's starting soon. More things I can fail at. EPIC FAIL. (sigh)

Kids on Bart

This morning, my sister and I woke up at the buttcrack of dawn to catch the BART up to Berkeley. The ride there was totally uneventful, besides the cool African people conversing in...African. O.o (Sorry, totally ignorant comment there.) There weren't even any scary lesbians hitting on me this time! Look, times are improving!

We got to Berkeley and diddled a bit before heading over to Jamba Juice. We got this nifty coupon from BendyDan (I would post it up but it expires tomorrow), and we used it to treat Jeremiah and Nehemiah to some Jamba. :D Cutest phone conversation ever. I love how Jeremiah treats every question like it is life-altering.

"What do you want at Jamba, Jeremiah?"
"Hmmm.....mmm....hmm.."
"Take your time, Jeremiah."
"Ha ha. Umm..."

HAHAHA. I love Jeremiah.

Then when I ask Nehemiah what he wants, he's just...

"Umm...just...umm... (after a full moment of deliberation) Just get me whatever you think is good."

Got them a Caribbean Passion (J) and Mango A-Go-Go (N). Hoped they liked it. ><

Got the pictures! Yay! 31.4 Gigs of ADVENT goodness. I spent over an hour just looking through them. Got blinded by half-naked boys along the way. Andrew's pictures should come with a disclaimer. (sigh)

Anyways, went to Barney's with the Kims and Alice. The guacamole burger was to die for. We had curly fries and deep fried vegetables too. I haven't had that much ranch since...since middle school. I never understood people who dipped their pizza into their ranch. Ugh. Or their hot cheetos into cream cheese for that matter. Ew.

Went back to the Kim/Alice/Mindy residence for some Wii. I had to sit through Amy screeching on Rainbow Road. (Insert Mario Kart Love Song here.) "I HAAAATE THIS GAAAAME." Nazgul!

So anyway, to the main point of the post. On our way back to Fremont, the cutest little girl and her mom got on. She looked like she just got back from an art class, masterpieces firmly nestled in paint-spattered arms. I saw her big, blue eyes and I was overcome with a Daniel-like desire to throw her over my shoulder and run away. (Funny, I thought my tastes ran more toward the Asian. Oh well, discover new things everyday.)

"Honey, grab onto the pole."

The kid reaches, misses, headbutts Mommy in the stomach. Ouch. Watching this, a nice man offers his seat to the little girl, who takes it without even a word of thanks. Of course, being an Asian, I wrinkled my nose at this. (Very judgmental, I know.) Later, this same man offers her a bag of Peanut M&Ms. This time, the gratitude was profuse.

"Honey, what do you say?"
"THAAAAANK YOUUUUU. This is my lucky day!"

Cute. She turns to her Mom.

"Mommy, can I share?"

Cuter. The little girl proceeds to pass out peanut M&Ms to her fellow passengers on BART. Then her Mom goes, "Honey, can I have one?"

"No."

Cutest.

As passengers disembark, the girl is soon left alone with her mother. Now there are only two M&Ms in the bag. Again, "Honey, can I have one?"

The girl fishes around in the bag.

"This one is for me." She eats it.

She fishes in the bag again. Mom reaches her hand out.

"This one is for me too." Eat.

At this point, I think the girl is hilarious, but exceedingly ill-bred. (Yes. Again, very judgmental.) I also reflected that the mother must be very lax in her disciplining of this child. Who lets their three year old child devour an entire bag of M&Ms? Bad. Very bad.

The little girl starts crawling all over the BART, asking her Mom all sorts of questions. I noticed that the Mom was not really paying attention, making short, semi-interested answers while scrolling through her iTouch. This kind of annoyed me. If I had a kid, he/she would amuse the heck out of me. I'd probably spend every waking moment playing with my little Uruk-hai. I'd answer every question and sit twitching in wait for the next. But here this woman was, blessed with the cutest angel in the world (For now. My kids are going to be freakin' beautiful.) , and she is more preoccupied with Twitter.

But get this. The child starts knocking on the BART window, looking for some place to throw her trash (the M&M wrapper).

"Mommy, how come this window don't open?" [My Uruk-hais will have perfect diction and syntax.]

The woman looks up, puts the iTouch away, and says:

"Well, honey. There are a lot of reasons, but here are the three best reasons I can think of: 1.) This way, people won't fall out. 2.) If the windows could open, there would be a lot of wind. 3.) It would be very loud."

I was floored. First of all, those were good reasons. Second, they were presented in a perfectly logical way, as if to someone older than a three year old. I loved it. Most people would have said "Because the train was built like that. Now, sit down."

Then!


"Now, honey, you have to be more quiet. There are people sleeping on the BART."
The kid looks around, sees people sleeping, and whispers, "Sorry."

CUTE! I want one. D:

This taught me to reserve judgment. Ha. I probably shouldn't judge people that I don't know. God's wake-up call of the day. (" You is being a biznatch.") And it made me really want kids. ): Eight years is too long to wait! haha. (I can hear Amy's face right now.)

Also! I discovered that I talk to myself in my head. Well, ok, I always knew I talked to myself, but for the first time, I noticed how retarded the conversations are.

(Imagination is running wild.)
"And he'll love me a lot a lot. And we'll have the cutest kids..."
"Ok, Abby. Now you're just being fanciful."
"Fanciful? Really? Who says fanciful?"
" You do, apparently."
"God, I need to stop reading Wuthering Heights."

And that's just a small glimpse into the insanity that is Abby Wang. I have to wade through that cesspool everyday.

Anyways, kids. I love.

Return to Sender

This is a love letter I never intended to write.
Words are inadequate to describe the magnitude of my emotions.
As I make my intentions toward you known,
I hope you will forgive any awkward sentiments that may blossom between us.
Love has always been a fruit ripest when bittersweet.



Sucks.

Week 2: Hua Lien Memories

It seems that no matter how meticulously I go over my memories, I'm always bound to forget something. Please fill in the blanks!

Week Two: Hua Lian

1.) New skit: After losing Jonathon and adding on Team B, we needed to revamp our skit. We had Ben play Jonathon's role and it was PRICELESS. HA! Sweatiest toilet I've ever seen. (: And the crying was epic. It was like acting and football practice all rolled into one. There were other role changes. I got a new masseuse. Fired Daniel and got Phil. Phil, hands down, was the best masseuse ever. He didn't even try to kill me or anything. Except I had Creeper in the back, muttering "Penetrate harder. Oh yeah, penetrate the muscles." It made keeping the Coach face on very difficult. Oh! Cathy and Nick, with their "I'm so scared!" and the "OOOH!! (does crazy hand movements)" Or Cathy and her shopping cart. "Angry shopper, angry shopper!"

2.) The Dentist: It's kind of sad how we all called her the dentist. Her children were awesome, though. One kept me forever entertained on the piano. The other scared the hell out of me with her scary stories. (shudder) Oh, the little ones animal impressions were hilarious. (Scared the hell out of Yummy though.) We had some fun at her house. Watching really bad models on TV. Watching the grocery store dance routine. (Thus inspiring "Angry shopper, angry shopper" and "Pay in cash, pay in cash", and finally "Put it in the car, put it in the car") Oh! The wall that sprung up toward the end and cockblocked us from the showers. Her birthday celebration where Cathy and Jenny broke out their violin duet. Playing Chopsticks with the kid (switching off to take showers).

3.) Freak Show: Well, we all knew we were freaks, we just didn't know the extent of our freakishness. Jojo can do the eyebrow wave. Yummy can do the slingshot peace sign. And (sigh) I, I have El Torro. Well, the boys weren't exactly normal either. I missed it, but apparently they had some sort of eating contest between John and Phil. Phil the twig beat John the angry basketball player. How the hell does that work?

4.) Creeper Eric: Nothing like waking up to find some strange boy on your back saying "Penetrate those muscles. Penetrate." It actually hurt like the bejeesus. I didn't realize you were such a Creeper until this week. When you scared the hell out of Fish. Ha! I think she scared you far worse than you scared her. Your face of shame. D: Your scary aim with the rubber band. (Or the repeat snapping thing you showed us during Training) Your pale zombieness. I thought you were going to keel over at any second. Ooh! The six kids hanging off your limbs at any one moment. Wahahaha! This was a good week for you, Eric!

5.) Fish: That was epic. I don't think any of us ever thought that Da Jing Gang would save our lives. When she came into the classroom, I thought all my students were going to implode. They're never this unified and silent when I'm teaching! The two bodyguards. Ha! Priceless. By the end, I think there were at least five teachers dancing Da Jing Gang. (Andrew came in randomly from only God knows where.) Man, Fish cracks me up. When she offered a ride home to Jackie and Jackie refused. There were bodyguards involved there too, I think if I remember correctly.

6.) Birth of a Queen: I think this was when we started calling you Queen. (Or at least when I started calling you The Queen.) Your little first graders fanning you without being asked to (or so you say). I still remember you choosing your class, screaming "Ooh! The midgets! I want the midgets!" hahahaha. You used to read the Tim letter to us in the classroom. I didn't find out about the true identity of Tim until Yummy told me this week. Good times. (: I think this week also brought the birth of the Alliance. (Allies?) Amy didn't know about Tim until the day the boys revealed the truth to you. Your reaction has been forever immortalized by film. Sorry we didn't wake up when you guys left. D: Nobody woke us up! We totally slept though it. Boo.

7.) Rubber Band wars and Man Niu: We shot rubber bands during Training too, but it kind of died out during Changhwa. I think Man Niu was the catalyst, but do you remember that epic CS style rubber band shoot out at Yi Chang Guo Zhong? hahahaha. WE were like "AAAAAHHH!" (shootshootshoot), or in my case, (missmissYESSSSSS ow!). Man Niu is the powerful elixir of life. I remember the first time I bought it, already convinced of its power because of this commercial I watched last year. All it took was my highness to convince Daniel and Eric of its potency. Then we moved on to Man Niu 2. (Not as good, by the way. The grape aftertaste was disgusting.) Oh! And the coach telling us that it was bad for us while we tried to convince him that it was only for our own good.

8.) Scary kids: How could I leave this till so near the end? I remember the first day back, as we all sat around the table in silence/horror, breaking out into "OH MY GOD. I MISS MY CHANGHWA KIDS." hahaha. When we thought of the kids, we thought of "AAAAHHH!" (Some screaming on both the kids' and our part.) In the morning, when we walked to school, the kids would run out of the schoolyard screaming "AMY LAO SHIIII!" and Amy would calmly move out of the way so they could attack Eric. Ha! I had this one kid named Andy who was such a ho. D: He cut me out of our class picture and pasted me in a separate corner. I was devastated. Oh! And I got to use my Teacher voice when I had to take him out for a tokkatokka (talk). Ray's kid pissing the hell out of him. John's demonic kid who drew scary photos and rejected the altar call. Having the kids exhaust us so entirely that we just set them free in the schoolyard and said "Run until you're tired.". Haha. I had mine doing baton races. hee. Amy and Cathy punishing their class with Chubby Bunny...with OREOS. Hateful.

9.) Food: This week was bian dang all around. We got bian dangs for lunch, bian dangs for dinner. Remember the leftover bowl that we made to put the stuff we didn't want in? (I hope it wasn't the bowl with the cockroach in it.) Remember the first meal we ate here? At that stupid 99 place that made us wait for like two hours before any food came on the table? They had a really nice dog though...BUT STILL! Food is more important! I liked that one dinner that we walked to. The sizzling plates looked amazing. Oh! And the sushi place we went to after the Debriefing. Expensive, but pretty. I almost forgot! The meal that the middle school prepared for us. The cockroach dong gua cha that tasted suspiciously delicious. Hmm...

10.) Debriefing: Pastor Chang and his spiritual shrimp. The supposedly volunteer-based testimony. Daniel and his freakish notes: "The first week was epic." Then we went arcading. Apparently, Phil and John are very good at baseball. Daniel and Amy are good at pitching. The game Daniel wanted to play was broken...but we got to play it during and after the third week. (; Bowling! I BEAT DANIEL! (That's all that matters.) Guh. Getting killed by Daniel in that one Mallet game. D: By a lot. On film. I think my ego died in that one moment. After arcading, we went to the Golden Clam place. I was cracking up during the video because it was so boring. (These clams won the Golden Glam award! (Me on the side: HAHAHAHAHAHA! Golden clam award, snort.) OH! David and I leading the others in a Pirates of the Caribbean inspired attack on Daniel. Daniel running around the edge of the pool so he wouldn't be dragged in. Rolling up our pants inappropriately high. Ben and the BMW sticker on his head. Later losing it to The Bus that Ate Trash. (It ate my Man Niu bottle too. D:) Getting rejected by the noodle store we went to last year. Going to the sushi place but ending up at Family Mart eating gross ice cream. Way better debriefing than last year. Let's do this again!

11.) Tour Bus: I totally forgot about the tour bus we took to Hua lien. That was hilarious! I can't believe we did devos on the bus. I can't even remember what the prompt was. We were like praying, praying, reading the Bible, TRANSFORMERS 2! ("GIVE ME YOUR FACE!" Seriously the only quote I remember.) Josiah swooning over Megan Fox. The really crappy quality of the video as it kept on stopping and going, stopping and going. The really scary girl that became a machine with a really long tongue. :X Shi Mu mysteriously getting off, later explained away by motion sickness. Too bad we didn't karoake. That would have been epic. OOH! Daniel's sunfish impression. We'll never let him live it down. This trip also provided us with a lot of blackmail material in the sleeping pictures department. muahaha.

12.) Yummy and Cats: When the two girls were mewing at the other table, scaring the bejeesus out of Yummy. The day afterwards, when we were walking to school, saw a cat, and formed a wall. (" Quick guys, get Yummy out of here. Go, Go, Go!") We were like Yummy's Secret Service. haha.

13.) James's visit: His first visit, he walked in when I was still sleeping. (Very unattractively, might I add. Thanks Amy.) His second visit (I think), we threw Chinese Chess pieces at each other. (Real mature.) I believe it was David's idea. But Andrew had the best aim. And he was teamed up with Daniel...against me and Amy. REAL fair guys. D: I'm not even sure we got all the pieces back. haha.

14.) Singing on Sunday: Deep Deep went down fine. Then we got to One Way. Epic instrumentals. Except they were so epic they drowned out our tranny voices. So basically, all the church got was David on the microphone. hahahaha. Their tribal music was great though! ("Something somethingsomethingsomething HALLELUJAH!!")

15.) Abusing the Church as a Home: We did all kinds of crap on the stage at night. Mock funerals. (My favorite was Shi Mu's touching speech during Daniel's.) Jamming sessions, with people on instruments we pretended to know how to play...heh. Bang on the stage. Amy and I sleeping under the piano/onstage because of the ants in our room. (Stupid popcorn chicken.) Shi Mu sleeping on the pews with us. haha. The stand-up comic night with Club Bounce and the Lollipop Man. That stage was the hub of good fun. ): I miss it.

16.) Ramen: Andrew and Nick, Ramen partners. Eating Ramen for breakfast to piss Cathy off. Eating Ramen at Night when bian dangs didn't suffice. Ramen was a lifesaver.

17.) Hitting Andrew with balls: Oh man, that was really good. We HAD a video...but DANIEL HAS IT. >:[

18.) Afternoon naps: Watching people sleep all over the place at the middle school. People on tables, people in chairs, people twitching onstage...

19.) Left or Right. Nuff' said. It's right.

20.) Devos: I think this is the first week Josiah and Andrew led a group. Then it was a Russian Roulette of "Avoid Daniel. Avoid serious discussion. NOOOOO!" Without Pastor Chang, we stayed up real late and woke up...a little...late too. haha. No wake up songs this week because the boys and girls were separated by an entire floor.

Random Things/Quotes:
"Only a little boy named David. Just a little sling." -Jojo (Or however the hell it went)
"ShiMu: Daniel was always a good boy.
Amy: LIES!"
Daniel the cockroach king
"-twitchtwitch-" -Daniel
The tuna sandwhich story.
Blessing the ball. And later other things.
Poking Daniel while waiting to bowl.
Getting shaved ice

ADVENT Memories

It's time again to reminisce about ADVENT. Prepare yourselves for a long one, folks.


Where to begin? Well, as in most cases, I think the beginning would be best. The very beginning. Remember Advent training guys? Yeah, the three torturous days that took place before we were thrown into the gladiator arena? Didn't you wish you were back there after the kids sank their teeth in and latched on? Thank God for the point system. haha

Orientation Memories:

1.) I roomed with Amy, Jojo, Tammy, and Snoopy Aiyi. Good times! Freaking Jojo and standing me up for shaving parties. ): Amy and I had to taste the Taiwanese dirt for ourselves, so we slept on the floor while everyone else slept on mattresses. Let me just say, those Advent pillows are pretty darn comfortable.

2.) Jojo's Blonde moments - "You mean cooking chefs?", "Oh cool, they have a swimming pool!", "Well, I'm 25 哲!" I think these decreased in number after the first week. I was actually kind of sad about that. ):

3.) The Elevator - The boys ran down the stairs to press the button on every floor to suprise the girls in the elevator. Stupid boys. I hope you guys were really tired after running down those stairs. By the third time the door opened, we were like "FREAKING BOYS." And how many times to Team A and Team B race upstairs to get home before the other? -sigh- Team rivalry. In the end, we merged into one anyways. Everyone wins.

4.) Daniel's Meetings/Laptop - I must admit, I did not have a nosebleed. (Sorry, Jesus) I was just stalling so I could shower before the meeting. :X And what a meeting! Daniel with his scary secretarial skills. Then, Amy's face when he called on her to lead a prayer group was priceless. Oh, the horror. Classic. Then my secret inadequate prayer skills were unveiled in a neverending round of popcorn prayer. -shudder- Who invents these things?

5.) Rally Prep - Andrew spazzing during Pastor Chang's lame joke. (Can anyone remember what it was?) Andrew spazzing during the "OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, Hey!" thing. Andrew spazzing in general.

6.) Classroom Prep - Torturing the people who went ahead of us. Nick = 怪叔叔. Preparing to abuse Daniel, only to be shut down by the Tap System. Guh, I was so disappointed. I was cockblocked by a tap to the shoulder. D:

7.) The Buddy System - We all had a buddy to prevent losing people while squeezing onto the automatic MRT system. 20 seconds goes by quickly when you have to load 10+ people and their luggage. Daniel being ditched by his 6 person buddy group.

8.) Registration - This should really be number one, but I'm too lazy to switch up my numbers. Amy and I sat at the registration desk, trying to persuade people to take large T-shirts because there were too many. Then, we watched as Pastor Chang slowly (slooooowly) checked people in. The best part was Yummy's (Yoomy) face when Pastor Chang was like "YUMMY! That's the best name on this list! We've been waiting for you, Yummy!" Wahahaha!

9.) Animal farm - "I'm not playing", "Man.", "Mary!", "Macho Man." I really hate this game.

10.) King of Hearts - "It's OK! We don't need Jesus!" Nick Ho disappearing and getting Daniel as a replacement. Awkward hugs and fake smiles. Laughing at the scary Korean guy. Laughing at Samuel Jackson Jesus. Doing it over and over again.


I think it's really interesting to go back and see how we interacted when we didn't really know each other. Team A and Team B were totally separated. I never really got to know you guys until end of second week and, more intimately, the third week. You guys turned out to be all right...but Team A is still better. >:]


Week One: Changhwa Memories

Changhwa is perhaps as good as it gets. Eileen Aiyi and her husband are the most loving hosts anyone could ever ask for. Their kids (Anna, Joshua, and...umm...one more. heh.)are so cute! Their house is basically a humongous Stairmaster 5000.

1.) Getting Sick - All I remember is taking a nap and waking up in hell. I felt like total crap the moment my eyes opened. The hosts managed to persuade us to go to the doctors. Amy got like 5 pills and I got 3. heh. I remember walking through the doors of the doctor and feeling miraculously better. Everyone else was hacking and dying while I was like "Wheeee!" Ray and I tried to convince the others that we were injected with a happy drug. I paid for it the next day. I woke up and almost toppled off the stairs as I was heading down for the shower. As it turned out, I had a fever. If 臭豆腐教練seemed crazier than normal, it's because she was on crack! haha. It was a hardcore day. >:] I had to surrender by the afternoon, but I'm rather proud of myself for making it through the morning class. Thanks Amy and Daniel for splitting my class. (: SIN!

2.) Getting prayed for - Their prayer is always so powerful. I always end up bawling over something or another. I feel a little silly afterwards, but it's always like a gigantic weight has been lifted off my chest. Unlike last year, the prayer this year was volunteer-based. As I was laying down to sleep, Amy turns to me and says "I think you should go. Or else you're going to regret it for a long time." Best advice ever. Thanks, Amers.

3.) Point System - At the all-girl school, Amy and I came up with the point system for our male teachers. I could see the teachers become meat in the girls' eyes. A little intimidating, very demeaning. I did not get any lesbian action at all. ): There I am, cracking jokes for my life, and I get nothing. Daniel just speaks into the microphone and, all of a sudden, girls are swooning left and right. Then he busts out his guitar. (Boop boopboop!) Show-off. Humph.

4.) Leaving Members Behind - We forgot Ben and Austin at the afternoon school. Best part was, Austin's mom didn't even notice. >< We were all eating dinner when Eileen Ai-yi got a very...alarming phone call. hahaha.

5.) Wake-up Call - I don't know how they did it, but Jackie and Jojo got all the boys to sing for us. Barbie Girl, Aladdin, Jolo's solo. My personal favorite was I Want It That Way. (: When the opening notes wafted through our door and into our hearts, I think I cried a little.

6.) Advent of Tim. 'Nuff said.

7.) King of Hearts - Tranny Buddha. Good times

8.) Skit - This was the week we actually had to make up the skit. ): It was tough staying on track (or awake, in Ray and Jonathon's case), but we managed. John the Bad Boy was born! Wahahaha. I must admit, Team B's skit could almost compare with ours. >:]

9.) Food - The Changhwa church prepared bountiful feasts for our meals. It looked so good. Mmm. My favorite was the ginger chicken soup. I could really go for some right now. Oh! John was eating noodles and I caught him mid-gobble. "Woah. O.o" "Mmph." "Aaaand that is how you make someone feel awkward." haha

Quotes:
"I'll bend my body." -Daniel
"Cathy, you are my one true love. When I see your eye..." -Tim


OK. I am le tired. And that was only the first week. Feel free to add stuff I may have forgotten.