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  • A Chat with a Friend in China

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    me: tell everyone i said hi, if they remember me her: no problem. they remember you!!! me: yay! i’m the chinese girl who can’t speak chinese her: haha, no, you are the nicest girl who never sings

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  • Sucky Sunday

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    <begin rant> Yesterday sucked. (Mind you, I don’t typically use the word “sucked.”) </end rant>

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  • Fry Day

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    We bought a turkey fryer for Chris, my brother-in-law, for Christmas. We thought it was a good gift for him because he used to bring the turkey over to a friend’s house in El Cerrito, use their fryer, and then bring it back to his house 45 minutes away in San Ramon for dinner. I…

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  • High School Potluck?

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    We had a mini-mid-Christmas-break-par-tay at my house tonight with my high schoolers. The main course was provided, but we asked them to bring drinks and snacks. Here’s what some of them bought: 2 packs of microwave popcorn chips soda jello (2 boxes that came in those plastic take-out containers from Koi Palace) brownies Baileys truffles…

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  • What means birthday?

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    birthday n. 1. The day of one’s birth. 2. The anniversary of one’s birth. Wikipedia mentions several things about birthdays. The celebration of birthdays is not universal. I remember working with family who were Jehovah’s Witnesses and they didn’t celebrate birthdays. Some adults loathe celebrating it as it reminds them that they are getting progressively…

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  • To All My Sisters

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    Conversation I overheard last week at the McDonald’s at Stonestown Mall: Boy 1: What do you think about this hot weather? Boy 2: It’s ok, it’s been like this all week. Boy 1: Well, to tell you the truth, I kinda like it. Boy 2: Yeah, me too. It gives the girls at school a…

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  • Shooting at Golden Gate Park

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    After a guy was recently stabbed to death at 47th Avenue and Fulton Street, a homeless man was shot yesterday in Golden Gate Park. According to SFgate, he took a hit at 25th Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, a little after 11 p.m. No arrests have been made. Good thing I leave the park…

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  • Burning Up in SoCal

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    Charissa: socal is burning up like crazy me: really? Charissa: yeah me: yeah, it’s been pretty hot here too Charissa: nooo Charissa: fires That’s what I get for not watching the news on Sundays. Pray for all the SoCal folks please. +- On a different note– check out Crackbook: a hilarious spoof on the popular…

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  • Load up the family moped

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    Phuket, Thailand. Thailand is still definitely a scooter culture. Look at the row of them in the background. Oh, and I love how the man is the only one with a helmet. What’s up with that?

  • Orchid Farm

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    Chiang Mai, Thailand

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  • 2007 Excelsior Festival

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    If you have time, volunteer and help the coordinator.

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  • Blood Transfusion

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    Update (4:50pm): She’s out now and we’re all going to have dinner. Thanks to everyone out there who donates blood. My grandma is getting a transfusion tomorrow at 8am PDT. She’ll be 97 at the end of this year.

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  • Sawasdee Kaa

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    Here’s Ronald McDonald doing the Thai greeting gesture. “Sawasdee Kaa” (pronounced Sah wah dee kah) is the verbal greeting used by females.

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  • Elephant Trek

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    Chiang Mai, Thailand +- Thailand was fun. Too bad everyone tried to speak to me in Thai because they thought I was Thai. So sad. No wonder everyone in China looks at me funny, probably because I don’t look Chinese. Anyways, I learned several phrases in Thai–one of which is “mai chai khon Thai”, meaning…

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  • Mafia

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    When the teams got together, they couldn’t stop playing Mafia. Since I can’t access wikipedia from here, you’ll have to look it up yourself if you haven’t heard of that game. Here is a picture of everyone squeezed into one of our rooms playing Mafia. You can tell it’s pretty late at night because that…

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  • New School, New Friends

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    It’s been pretty hot here. Our new friends seem…well…pretty friendly. Looking forward to seeing more of the area. Will post up more pictures soon at Flickr.

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  • 回歸十週年

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    Check out the celebration–the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China from Britain. Too bad I was only able to watch it on TV. Must have been madness out there. Happy birthday to my dad too.

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  • Hot and Humid

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    It hasn’t been that bad since I got here. I love those red eye flights where I sleep the whole way through. Sure makes the flights go faster. Too bad my light wouldn’t turn off, but the flight attendant was nice enough to put a plastic covering over the entire light panel. I should have…

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  • Going to China

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    Mackenzie: Can I go to China too? Me: You have to go with your mommy and daddy. Do you WANT to go to China? Mackenzie: No, I want to stay in the car. Ah, I miss working with kids.

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  • Stop Getting Junk Snail Mail

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    I really hate going through my mail because I feel like I’m wasting a lot of time going through credit card offers and other unsolicited mail. My shredder is dying because I use it so much. You can call a single number to get your name and address removed for 5 years from the mailing…

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