it's the new year!
Overall my break has been pretty boring. I've been on my deathbed twice, went to Vegas for a few days and hung out with my nephew, saw some friends, went shopping, went shopping, watched season 2 of scrubs, am halfway through season 1 of arrested development, and ate my weight worth of fast food.
Unspecified illness #1 was determined to be exhaustion and dehydration. I'm just glad I can join the ranks of celebrities like Martin Lawrence and Lindsay Lohan--I'm in impressive company. My doctor said that she used to get the same thing when she came home from med school--my defenses were down from all the not doing anything.
Unspecified illness #2 was me vomiting several times on Thursday morning. It was a combination of me eating food that I'm not used to eating and eating too much of it(when I'm home I pretty much gorge myself on whatever foods aren't in KC) thus leading to gastritis. But really that hasn't stopped me from eating at Del Taco like twice since then. I've already eaten there 3 times, and that number will surely grow by next week. I've only had one Jamba Juice (which is disappointing for me) and one Double Double from In-n-out. I've had Viet (if anyone in the SoCal area is looking for a 'nice' Viet restaurant I would recommend this place in Westminster called Quan Hy which is like a trendy place to go, but the waiters are sort of assholes and there's always a wait for a table--and they shouldn't be to me because I freaking discovered that place like 5 years ago before it was trendy--anyway, but the food is good and it's a nice place to see tiny Viet girls with their gucci bags and chanel sunglasses), persian, thai, french (if you're in Vegas--Pinot Brasserie at the Venetian is great), chinese, japanese, mexican, and italian food (i may have overdone my dinner tonight at il fornaio) since i've been home. I'll probably try to fit in more persian/middle eastern, cuban, Flemings, and more Del Taco/In-n-out. This sounds like a lot, but I just had my cholesterol checked, and it's pretty good, so I'll only have to pay for this when I'm like 45. I'll probably throw it back up anyway.
In other news, my nephew is just so cute. I had to play babysitter one night, when my parents went to a show and my sister and her husband went to dinner--and this is probably a bad idea in retrospect because I know nothing about children--but we had fun, or at least he did when he was making me entertain him most of the night. As soon as I would look away from him, he'd wail, making me pick him up again. It's a good technique that I will have to practice in real life.
Yeah, it sucks to be an older kid in my family. It always has. But I had my glory days for 7 years as the youngest grandkid before my cousin Briana was born. And my sister had 10 years before me when she was the only grandchild who lived in CA. Like, now, I'd be happy to get lumps of coal for Xmas, but as it is, they didn't completely forget about me come Xmas this year. It's really much more fun watching the little kids rip open their gifts anyway. My mother is the eldest in her family, so most of my cousins are like under the age of 10, the mean being 6, i think. This year, my cousin from Germany came to spend the holidays with us, and we were able to celebrate his recent graduation from med school with him, which was fun. It's too bad that I only see him/his family like every 3 years. He brought a friend with him too, so it was fun that way--even though Xmas eve was one of the nights I was like confined to bed. So I slept most of the night on my grandparents bed next to my nephew, paranoid that I would roll over him.
So, this year, I got books, some clothes, a few scarves, socks, VS lotions. Santa brought me money. And he finances my credit cards the rest of the year, so that's cool. Especially since I spent a ton this year (my sister got an 11 quart Cuisinart from me, how freaking awesome of a sister am I?). My sister got me 2 paul frank watches and a new Fendi bag, which is like my favorite. I got myself (and when I say I, I mean my mother) 4 shirts and a skirt from Banana, lots of stuff from VS (semi-annual sale time!), Gilmore Girls Season 4, NARS stuff, a big Kate Spade bag from Neiman Marcus, a Fendi scarf, 2 dresses. And I actually got myself a Kate Spade wallet, and a spa treatment. My mom wouldn't let me buy another Burberry scarf though--she was like, you already have one, and I was like, but they are very useful to me! Oh well. My mother and I are going shopping in LA today, and on Monday I plan on buying this pair of Chanel sunglasses that I have to have. Like, I must have them. I've been saving. Sort of. Okay, so I'll just not eat until my birthday, which is only a month away.
I had to go to 4 Target stores and a Walmart to find this specific toy for my nephew. It's a Leap Pad learning stuffed animal named Baby Tad, and there's like songs and games and stuff. I remind you that he's 6 months old and has no idea what's going on.
My favorite part of this season is our annual trip to South Coast right around Xmas. This year, we went on the 24th, and surprisingly it was not that crowded. I love the simplicity of the displays at South Coast. They just make everything look so nice. The Jimmy Choo window is so bright and beautiful, and the Gucci store front is like the most beautiful one. Louis Vuitton is always bustling with asians, buying up the bags like they cost as much as latte. And then the Carousel is all overflowing with children crying from their encounter with Santa. It's just a fun place to go and people watch, and then fight your way up to the counter at Tiffany's--which this year proved a little dangerous for me, as a girl wanted to kill me when I may have gotten the attention of the sales rep first while she was waiting. That's what you get when you're too passive. And they probably thought I was some tourist that was gonna spend like megabucks rather than just $100.
The best part of the vacation so far has been not having to look at anything that relates to school. I'm not a big reader in general, I used to be when I was a kid and I could go through books in hours, but now I pretty much only really get excited about a book if it's written by a sedaris or klosterman. Like, this break I reread Memoirs of a Geisha, and am reading the latest Amy Tan book--which should fulfill my Asian book quota for the rest of my life, and that's it so far until I can find something else that interests me. But in terms of school, I'm not one of those people who starts reading ahead. I loathe schoolwork. I like learning, but I'm not crazy about the process of reading texts. Never have, which is a wonder how I made it this far in "med school" without actually reading a text until this last semester. I just don't even want to think about it. It does not register when I'm in CA. It's too nice here to sit around and waste my time reading for school. Like, if there was a required reading, I would half assedly read it, but really, you can't expect me to do work when it's 70 degrees outside in January. I check my email maybe once a week, and I pretty much ignore the ones that aren't marked as important. I'll care once I get back to Missouri and get back into the grind, but as for now, I am not thinking about it. My parents, ever concerned about my health (I've been devastatingly ill the last two times I've been home), have even told me that it's not necessary that I get a 4.0 every semester. And trust me, I have never ever heard that before. It's always been like, "96 on your test? that's not 100." I'm asian, that's the only way I can explain it. That brings me to my new year's resolution: I'm going to try to take a more relaxed stance on my life this year. I will try to not worry as much in general, and try not to incite fights and be nicer (which was last year's but I like broke that in the first week). i have never been one to follow through on my resolutions, so when I'm pulling out my hair over school in about two weeks, you can call me out on it.
And if you value your life, you will not talk to me about the football game that was played this past week. Trust me, you do not want to feel the wrath.
Unspecified illness #1 was determined to be exhaustion and dehydration. I'm just glad I can join the ranks of celebrities like Martin Lawrence and Lindsay Lohan--I'm in impressive company. My doctor said that she used to get the same thing when she came home from med school--my defenses were down from all the not doing anything.
Unspecified illness #2 was me vomiting several times on Thursday morning. It was a combination of me eating food that I'm not used to eating and eating too much of it(when I'm home I pretty much gorge myself on whatever foods aren't in KC) thus leading to gastritis. But really that hasn't stopped me from eating at Del Taco like twice since then. I've already eaten there 3 times, and that number will surely grow by next week. I've only had one Jamba Juice (which is disappointing for me) and one Double Double from In-n-out. I've had Viet (if anyone in the SoCal area is looking for a 'nice' Viet restaurant I would recommend this place in Westminster called Quan Hy which is like a trendy place to go, but the waiters are sort of assholes and there's always a wait for a table--and they shouldn't be to me because I freaking discovered that place like 5 years ago before it was trendy--anyway, but the food is good and it's a nice place to see tiny Viet girls with their gucci bags and chanel sunglasses), persian, thai, french (if you're in Vegas--Pinot Brasserie at the Venetian is great), chinese, japanese, mexican, and italian food (i may have overdone my dinner tonight at il fornaio) since i've been home. I'll probably try to fit in more persian/middle eastern, cuban, Flemings, and more Del Taco/In-n-out. This sounds like a lot, but I just had my cholesterol checked, and it's pretty good, so I'll only have to pay for this when I'm like 45. I'll probably throw it back up anyway.
In other news, my nephew is just so cute. I had to play babysitter one night, when my parents went to a show and my sister and her husband went to dinner--and this is probably a bad idea in retrospect because I know nothing about children--but we had fun, or at least he did when he was making me entertain him most of the night. As soon as I would look away from him, he'd wail, making me pick him up again. It's a good technique that I will have to practice in real life.
Yeah, it sucks to be an older kid in my family. It always has. But I had my glory days for 7 years as the youngest grandkid before my cousin Briana was born. And my sister had 10 years before me when she was the only grandchild who lived in CA. Like, now, I'd be happy to get lumps of coal for Xmas, but as it is, they didn't completely forget about me come Xmas this year. It's really much more fun watching the little kids rip open their gifts anyway. My mother is the eldest in her family, so most of my cousins are like under the age of 10, the mean being 6, i think. This year, my cousin from Germany came to spend the holidays with us, and we were able to celebrate his recent graduation from med school with him, which was fun. It's too bad that I only see him/his family like every 3 years. He brought a friend with him too, so it was fun that way--even though Xmas eve was one of the nights I was like confined to bed. So I slept most of the night on my grandparents bed next to my nephew, paranoid that I would roll over him.
So, this year, I got books, some clothes, a few scarves, socks, VS lotions. Santa brought me money. And he finances my credit cards the rest of the year, so that's cool. Especially since I spent a ton this year (my sister got an 11 quart Cuisinart from me, how freaking awesome of a sister am I?). My sister got me 2 paul frank watches and a new Fendi bag, which is like my favorite. I got myself (and when I say I, I mean my mother) 4 shirts and a skirt from Banana, lots of stuff from VS (semi-annual sale time!), Gilmore Girls Season 4, NARS stuff, a big Kate Spade bag from Neiman Marcus, a Fendi scarf, 2 dresses. And I actually got myself a Kate Spade wallet, and a spa treatment. My mom wouldn't let me buy another Burberry scarf though--she was like, you already have one, and I was like, but they are very useful to me! Oh well. My mother and I are going shopping in LA today, and on Monday I plan on buying this pair of Chanel sunglasses that I have to have. Like, I must have them. I've been saving. Sort of. Okay, so I'll just not eat until my birthday, which is only a month away.
I had to go to 4 Target stores and a Walmart to find this specific toy for my nephew. It's a Leap Pad learning stuffed animal named Baby Tad, and there's like songs and games and stuff. I remind you that he's 6 months old and has no idea what's going on.
My favorite part of this season is our annual trip to South Coast right around Xmas. This year, we went on the 24th, and surprisingly it was not that crowded. I love the simplicity of the displays at South Coast. They just make everything look so nice. The Jimmy Choo window is so bright and beautiful, and the Gucci store front is like the most beautiful one. Louis Vuitton is always bustling with asians, buying up the bags like they cost as much as latte. And then the Carousel is all overflowing with children crying from their encounter with Santa. It's just a fun place to go and people watch, and then fight your way up to the counter at Tiffany's--which this year proved a little dangerous for me, as a girl wanted to kill me when I may have gotten the attention of the sales rep first while she was waiting. That's what you get when you're too passive. And they probably thought I was some tourist that was gonna spend like megabucks rather than just $100.
The best part of the vacation so far has been not having to look at anything that relates to school. I'm not a big reader in general, I used to be when I was a kid and I could go through books in hours, but now I pretty much only really get excited about a book if it's written by a sedaris or klosterman. Like, this break I reread Memoirs of a Geisha, and am reading the latest Amy Tan book--which should fulfill my Asian book quota for the rest of my life, and that's it so far until I can find something else that interests me. But in terms of school, I'm not one of those people who starts reading ahead. I loathe schoolwork. I like learning, but I'm not crazy about the process of reading texts. Never have, which is a wonder how I made it this far in "med school" without actually reading a text until this last semester. I just don't even want to think about it. It does not register when I'm in CA. It's too nice here to sit around and waste my time reading for school. Like, if there was a required reading, I would half assedly read it, but really, you can't expect me to do work when it's 70 degrees outside in January. I check my email maybe once a week, and I pretty much ignore the ones that aren't marked as important. I'll care once I get back to Missouri and get back into the grind, but as for now, I am not thinking about it. My parents, ever concerned about my health (I've been devastatingly ill the last two times I've been home), have even told me that it's not necessary that I get a 4.0 every semester. And trust me, I have never ever heard that before. It's always been like, "96 on your test? that's not 100." I'm asian, that's the only way I can explain it. That brings me to my new year's resolution: I'm going to try to take a more relaxed stance on my life this year. I will try to not worry as much in general, and try not to incite fights and be nicer (which was last year's but I like broke that in the first week). i have never been one to follow through on my resolutions, so when I'm pulling out my hair over school in about two weeks, you can call me out on it.
And if you value your life, you will not talk to me about the football game that was played this past week. Trust me, you do not want to feel the wrath.