emotionally overwhelmed, meet emotionally inept.

I am in a rut. I'm sorry if I haven't been acting normal. This has been the worst week of my life. Really.

Arrested Development Quotes

(Stars indicate level of funny.)

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Gob: Hey, guy. They tell me you're the actor who plays Marta's brother, Tio.
Spanish actor: Como?
Gob: Oh, you're gonna be in a coma, all right


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George Sr.: Don't get involved. Believe me. When I thought your first wife was pulling us apart, I did not make a stink.
Michael: You complained all the time and she was my only wife and she died.
George Sr.: Well, see? Things have a way of working themselves out.


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Gob: Steve Holt's not my son.
George Michael Bluth: Steve Holt? What, the moron jock?
Gob: That's my son, you pothead.


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Tobias Fünke: Gob, this is Flunitrazepam. It's a roofie.
Lucille: Those are illegal.
Gob: Shut up, Mom. Don't make me give you another one of these.


*****
Tobias: Lindsay, you're forgetting I was a professional twice over. An analyst, and a therapist. The World's First, Analrapist.


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Tobias: Even if it means me taking a chubby...I will SUCK it up.


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Tobias: I just "blue" myself.


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Michael: "Your Uncle Gob seems to think that he saw you down at the docks today. Was that you?"

George Michael: "No. No. Maybe it was the other George Michael. You know, the singer-songwriter."

Michael: "Yeah, that makes sense."


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Buster: Wait, wait. What about - what about me?

Marta: I'm sorry, I'm not totally sure who you are.

Buster: Wow. Wow. That's what it feels like to get punched in the face.

Parentals

Asian parents have this weird misconception that kids have an infinite amount of free time. Let's have a background check of my life. I am the oldest of three. I have one younger sister and a younger brother. I am a full-time student and on top of that I work 30 hours a week. I've gotten into multiple car accidents which basically means I owe my mom a lot of money. So as it goes, I continue to work and will continue to work all throughout summer and through college, etc. Today was a hard day. Last night, I got food poisoning so I was up majority of the night throwing up or writhing in pain on my bed. I was breaking out in cold sweat and my body felt like it got run over by a 16-Wheeler. By 11:30 AM this morning I felt decent so I decided to work from 2-9. Right when I come home my mom sits me down to lecture about college. Wonderful. It went like this:

Mom: We need to talk. You seem like you have no idea what you're going to do with your life. Have you even thought of a career?
(I HAVE thought of some majors, Public Relations, Kinesiology, or Nutrition)

Me: Yes, Mom. As a matter-of-fact, I have. First of all, I DO know what I want to do with my life and second of all, why now?

Mom: You just have so much free time (WTF?) and I don't want you to end up getting a degree in something pointless like Literature and end up jobless. (Wow.)

Me: I'm working thirty hours a week as a full-time student

Mom: Why are you working so much anyway? Are you buying drugs? When do you have time to study...

Me: Because I want to have some money in my account when I go to college... bye. [DUMB QUESTION!]

I feel like I lose brain cells every time I have these "What-About-Your-Future" conversations with her.

Just an FYI, I am completely confident that I will do well after I leave my home. I am an ambitious girl with a straight head on. I make LEMONADE yo.

Youtube Recognitions

I love youtube. Truly, it takes communication and networking to a whole new level. People are so extremely talented and it's so relieving to know that there are still creative minds at work. Here are some videos that I feel deserve some more recognition! Yay =)

This is a music video by Oren Lavie called "Her Morning Elegance"
It's a beautiful song along with an even more captivating music video.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go3c0q3AiS4
The video embed was disabled =( But it shouldn't stop you from watching a compilation of scenes from Arrested Development on why Arrested Development is the best show ever.


This is a video of a korean toddler breakdancing... sort of. How else would we know that there was such a cute and talented kid without youtube?!

\And here are some BaratsandBereta videos. These guys rule youtube.

ok and last but not least. This norwegian guy... or so I think he is. He's super talented and very original. Talent like this... well you can only find it overseas.

Enjoy!

Stats Class.

Mrs. Johnson: Okay, say a coffee machine dispenses coffee into paper cups. You're supposed to get ten ounces of coffee, but the ammount varies slightly from cup to cup--

Student 1: Mrs Johnson, I don't drink coffee. I don't like it.

Mrs. Johnson: Oh, okay then we'll use Hot Chocolate ["Billy"].

Student 2: Ugh, chocolate is gross.

Student 3: Can we say tea?

Mrs. Johnson: Sure, tea it is.

Student 4: I hate caffeine.

Mrs. Johnson: Ok, a machine dispenses WATER into paper cups...

Church Hopping and Politics

So this past Sunday I went church hopping with some few friends. I feel the need to form a nice fellowship amongst other Christian peers and I think I found a church where I can lay a solid foundation and recommit myself as I enter my adulthood and college years. I went to the church Rock Harbor in Costa Mesa and it was pretty awesome. I just have to say I've never seen such a stylish church in my life. Right when I walked in, I felt like I was at the Lab (the Anti-mall in Costa Mesa) and the place smelled like Starbucks. The environment is so young and alive and... hipster. Haha, well anyways, the worship is great, the speaker is great, but it's a rather large church. I can see myself breaking in though... hopefully. Nothing is certain but I definitely recommend college students and young adults to check out the 7pm service on Sundays. It's good but get there early... parking is really limited.

Democrat or Republican?

Today in Government we did this exercise (it's not really accurate, but it's pretty entertaining) on how to label what party we're for.

Okay, here's the scale.

-10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1. How to do you feel about abortion?

(10 being pro-choice, 10 being pro-life)

2. What do you feel about the stem cell research?

(-10 is continue stem-cell research, 10 is stop stem cell research)

3. How do you feel on gun control?

(-10 being that you strongly feel government should limit guns and 10 being the second ammendment gives the right to bear arms thus anyone can bear arms.)

4. What do you feel about controlling businesses to be more eco-friendly?

(-10 being government should control what resources businesses use and should set laws to help the environment and 10 being businesses should be able to decide what to do so that it can be economically efficient for both consumer and supplier.)

Add up all the numbers and if you guys haven't figured it out, any number lower than zero means you're leaning towards the Democratic party and anything right of the zero means you're leaning towards the Republican party. Okay, so it's not really accurate, but it gives you a sense of how strongly you support some of your idealogies.

Serial Killers, psychopathy, schizophrenia

Who looks like a serial killer to you?

A. B.

C. D.

E. F.

The truth is, they're all serial killers.

A. Charles Manson

B. Ed Gein

C. Ted Bundy

D. John Wayne Gacy

E. Cho Seung Hui

F. Jeff Dahmer

After watching Changeling, I decided to look up biographies of some of the most notorious serial killers. What corrupts and possesses someone to mutilate and murder human beings? It's a sickness, a disease. The even scarier thing is that, regardless of their mugshots, they all look pretty normal and all led very "normal" lives. Creepy.

Don't take candy from strangers!

Holden Caulfield vs Me

I am absolutely captivated by the Catcher in the Rye. It is hands down my favorite book to date and the character development is absolutely riveting. Holden Caulfield is me. I am Holden Caulfield! I'm interpreting this book as if J.D. Salinger wrote my biography. I've never been so intrigued by a novel. His ability to alienate in order to self-protect feels familiar. The shallowness of people are described to the tee and the bittersweet feeling of becoming an adult are topics that I think about constantly yet find hard to describe in words.

Oh and here's the most relevent exerpt to my life:

• "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible." [Ch 3]

and some few pet peeves that we share...

• "He always said it as if he were terrificially bored or terrifically tired. He didn't want you to think he was visiting you or anything. He wanted you to think he'd come by mistake, for God's sake."
• "... he always pickd up your personal stuff and looked at it."
• "He always made you say everything twice."
• "He always put things back in the wrong spot on purpose... He was holding by roommate's knee supporter up to show me. That guy Ackley'd pick up anything. He'd even pick up your jock strap or something. I told him it was Stradlater's. So he chucked in on Stradlater's bed. He got it off Stradlater's chiffonier, so he chucked it on the bed."
• "He was exactly the type of guy that wouldn't get out of your light when you asked him to."
• "He hated Stradlater's guts and he never came in the room if Stradlater was around. He hated everybody's guts, damn near."
  

It's not much so far, but that's only because I don't want to really get in depth. Anyways, you should read this book if they haven't already made you read it in your senior year literature class. It's a good one.

P.S. Jason said Amelie Poulain (main character of Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain) and Holden Caulfield (the Catcher in the Rye main character) would produce me as a baby.

I'll post up some March Event pictures soon.
'Til then!