Sick

So I've caught some bug going around and now I'm sick. Yesterday began with a little sore throat which turned into me getting really dizzy around lunch time. My skin began to get really sensitive and all my muscles were sore like I had just gotten back from snowboarding. After work, I went to a doctor and it turned out, I also had a fever. But thankfully, I got me some medicine and I'll get to sleep it off with my week off for Chinese New Year!

Also, to continue with my complain-a-thon, I bought two LSAT prep books yesterday on Amazon which were at the time priced at $64.00, only to find out today that their prices were both lowered to $40.00! So basically with the extra $40.00 I could've saved, I could have bought a third book. Oh, the injustices!

In other news, I've found a dress that I really want to get from Urban Outfitters, when I get home and lose the appropriate amount of weight of course.


I love it, it has the same vibe as that dress Carrie wore in the Sex and the City movie.

Inauguration Day

HAPPY INAUGURATION DAY!!


I warmly welcome the next president of the United States of America, thank goodness he's a good speaker, that was one great inauguration speech!

My Japanese Twin

My friend Thomas says that he's found my Japanese twin, what do you think? See if you can guess which girl it is...

I wish I knew how to post a youtube video to my blog. But here's a picture for quick reference.

Sorry this picture is so big, I'll fix it when I'm not so tired.

Edit: Figured out how to embed the video but still too lazy to fix the picture. Haha..

Vladstudio

I found the cutest website for moniter backgrounds. This guy, Vlad Gerasimov, from Russia creates these amazing backgrounds that apparently I can't find the right words to describe so here is a small picture of the one I'm using right now called "Google Library." Check it out!


In other news, I just found out that on top of the new clothes, hair cut, and clean house that you need to have to bring in Chinese New Year, you also have to have new money. When people send those little red envelopes full of money to their families, they can only be filled with brand new money. So today at work, one of our conference rooms was turned into a tiny little bank where everyone could (and did) trade in all of their money for brand spanking newly minted notes. I don't think I had ever seen that much cash in my entire life. It's really interesting to learn about all these cultural affinities that I missed growing up in the U.S., although it seems a little over the top obsessive with new-ness.

Tonight, I have my appointment to get my hair cut! Hopefully it will be nice and I won't be left with an awful mullet-like 'do. I will post pictures if I approve, if not then I'll leave you to your imagination!

New Year

Chinese New Year is coming up and the entire country is winding up for the big moment. It is way bigger than Christmas and "regular" New Year here and its very exciting to finally get to celebrate it for real. In the past I would just get a call from my mom telling me that it was Chinese New Year and to expect a red envelope with some money in it whenever I got a chance to get home.

Chinese New Year is a time for new beginnings so everyone here starts to clean everything and everyone gets new haircuts and new clothes to wear on the first day of the new year. I also have an appointment to cut my hair on Friday so I'm excited about that. The last time I got my haircut in Taiwan, I was not pleased, so hopefully this time will be much better!

Rudy left today, it was sad but now it just means that I have to study everyday for the LSAT. My new beginnings will be hopefully to concentrate more on applying for law school and such, as well as doing more reading and excercising.

I'm excited, with Chinese New Years, I get two New Years, so hopefully that means twice the amount of hope for a fresh start. My life needs a makeover!

Taipei 101

Happy New Year!! 

So Rudy and I spent New Year's Eve with some of my friends at Taipei 101!  

It's really difficult to take pictures of fireworks, especially since I haven't bothered to learn how to use my camera properly.

This is a gajillion people trying to make it back into the subway station after the fireworks.  It took us about 45 minutes just to make it from here to that big "2."

So this is how I spent my New Year's Eve in Taiwan, a full 14 hours ahead of my friends at home!  I hope eveyone else had a great New Year's and may we keep all the resolutions we've made for '09!  *fingers crossed!*

2009!

First up, some pictures from my trip to Japan!

This is me in front of the Hiroshima A-bomb Dome.

Pretty picture of the dome, this was one of the few structures still standing near the epicenter of the bomb.

I saw geishas (maiko) in Kyoto!

So as not to overload blogger, I'll make another post with pictures from my New Year's night at Taipei 101.  Hope everyone likes the pictures!