What a sassy airline attendent. We just landed in lax from san jose, and she says "welcome to los angeles and it was a pleasure serving MOST of you this evening."

Jenni Cheung at 07:29 PM

so i'm still missing on of my GE's. i think i still have to take a GE Writing II course. SO THIS MEANS THAT I TOOK ENGCOMP100W for NOTHING!!!!!! well i got upper div units, but i needed the WRITING, and i totally thought it was a writing II GE. or that 4w was a writing II. this sucks ass.

i wrote a petition, but they won't let it go through unless my employer write a letter that they wont' let me keep my job unless i have a BA. fuck this shit. this is total retardation.

GAWD, i HATE WRITING CLASSES!!!!! i've avoided this till the very end now and this sucker is still not satisfied!!! WHYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

Jenni Cheung at 12:29 AM

i drink too much. i think that's why i got sick again. today is the second day i'm staying home from work due to illness. being sick sucks, esp when there's no one taking care of me. i'm so friggin dependent.

i almost freaked out today cuz i thought i had a fever. but it was more like i was stupid. cuz i took my temp and it was 98.6F and i thought that was higher than normal. then i start whining about it, then i finally checked webmd and found out it's THE normal temperature. man i feel retarded.

Jenni Cheung at 02:30 PM

i suck at waking up in the morning for work. so i had a diet coke this morning to wake me up because i ate too much last nite and didn't want the calorie intake of a proper breakfast. near the end of my soda pop, i was more in a hurry, so i started taking bigger gulps. dear god, one of those gulps was the most painful gulp of beverage i've ever had in my life!!! i think i swallowed too much air or something. but it didn't feel like bloating, it was actually very painful. i tried to burp it out, but it took awhile before that pain subsided.

i was driving this morning, and there was this billboard that said "mpg:)" in huge bold letters against a blue background. after more careful inspection, it was an ad for some hybrid car and evidently it gets good mileage, hence the milespergallon. is it dorky that the first thing i thought of when i saw "mpg:)" was MPEG files?

i've been bringing my own lunch to work these days. so much more economical. that's another 7 bucks closer to getting my CC bills paid off.

Jenni Cheung at 10:29 AM

that's one movie i gotta see. although there are holes in the movie and the killings weren't as meaningful as i wished they were, i LOVE PSYCHO KILLER FILMS WITH A TWIST! that's why i don't really like films where they just kill everyone. i think they're pointless. SOMEONE is gonna go see this with me, dunno who yet...

Jenni Cheung at 10:15 PM

so what makes it so that someone actually keeps wanting something to happen that they know will never happen and that they even care for happening that much. so that's how i'm feeling now. like, i tell myself, why do i bother with putting emotions into something that's no longer intense as i remembered, and that is totally not reciprocated? is the distance thing really that attractive to me? i'm worth more than how i'm treated by him, so why do i even bother? i guess i don't anymore. but 2 blocks is so much closer than 350 miles.... i hate having boy problems.

on the other hand, girls....

Jenni Cheung at 11:43 AM

... i fall for someone so closeminded and judgemental. i hate it even more when i'm willing to change, but he makes it so conditional...

people are pissing me off. i think imma do my celibacy thing again...

Jenni Cheung at 05:01 PM

imma try to learn css and maybe php, so i mite be changing the front page around just to play with it. so don't be surprised.

Jenni Cheung at 11:37 AM

... calmed panic.

the flight attendent said that from what it sounded like, a tire probably blew out. she said that in her 37 years of flying, this has only happened once or twice. lucky us, huh. so airlines are retarded and they wouldn't let us use electrical devices for the longest time, even though we were just sitting there, immobile. they did serve us beverages and gave us pretzels, and they were about to serve us food when we were told that we were gonna disembark. this was like after sitting in the stopped plane for 1.5 hours. so they had buses come and shuttle us back to the terminals.

i sat at the same table as the girl that sat next to me on the flight, since we're both single travelers. then this guy joined us. so it was 3 of us at the table: me, stephanie and justin.

they gave us a coupon redeemable for 60RMB of food at the airport. i got an iced coffee that cost 58RMB with it. u'd think that they'd put sweetener in a 58RMB iced coffee because they should know that it'd be hard to dissolve sugar in it if i wanted to do it myself. evidently, they did not think of that, or think to provide liquid sweetener. retardation.

after more uncertain waiting, i felt i needed to take some action. i was gonna buy liquor at the duty free shops. so i bought a bottle of malibu and brought it back to the table. i asked the cafe for 3 paper cups and some ice. we had shots and conversations. justin is like super nice in letting us use his phone, so stephanie made her calls and i called my dad.

we ordered a sandwich, and it was almost gonna come by the time that we were told where to go for luggage/rebook flights. so i had to forgo my part of that sandwhich, and i was quite hungry. i stood in line for a longass time, a lot of it by myself because justin was in premier seating so he's in a diff line, and stephanie had to go make calls and stuff. then we stood in the other line after everyone came back and stephanie determined that the other line would be shorter. justin coulda gone home by then, but then he wanted to wait with me cuz he's just "such a good citizen" as he says it. so the flight was at 1245pm, and by the time we left the airport it was 6something pm. they offered hotel, but i said i didn't need it cuz i was just gonna stay with my dad. justin and i shared taxi home cuz i was kinda on his way back anyway.

went home, i think dad actually wanted me to take the hotel, but whatever. took a shower cuz i was all oily from running around the airport all day. got ready to go out, cuz i was gonna go drinking with justin and his friends.

around 930pm, i rode the subway to his place, then waited while he finished up some work stuff (i was watching ELF on HBO) then we went to this place where some of his friends were already. i'm not sure what the place is called, but i'll post it when i find out. it's like a restaurant/lounge/bar/jazzclub in one. it's pretty big and has some interesting seatings. i learned another drinking game! it's basically a modification of rockpaperscissors, but it takes longer for a drink to be determined. i ended drinking a lot from playing multiple people rockpaperscissors.

when i got home, i dropped off my purse and went to the bathroom. dad was still sleeping. after a few minutes, my dad knocked on the bathroom and asked "mui mui?" (that's what he calls me) and i said "yes" and he asked when i got home, and i said 5 something. and he sighs and goes off about how irresponsible i was. i'm back in time to back and go thought, right? i guess he was disappointed in his daughter being out all nite. that's how dad got mad at me for coming home in the morning again...

Jenni Cheung at 11:26 AM

dad got mad at me for coming home in the morning again... here's the whole story:

as we were taking off, i imagined the plane tripping on something and the wheel breaks off or something and the whole plane kinda just colliding with the ground in an almost parallel manner, teeter-tottering down the runway. (i like to imagine dangerous situations while taking new forms of transportation... like if there's turbulence in the air, i like to imagine the plane bein ripped apart, like that one little cutscene in fight club, only it'd be in slow motion. i'm morbid like that.)

anyway, so as i'm imagining this, during takeoff, we hear a loud bump, and then there was this grinding and rough ride. evidently, the tire blew out. i was sitting in the emergency exit row so the flight attendents were sitting right across from us and we got to see the calmed panic.

shit, dad is rushing me to go to airport (my flight is now 1 day later, shanghai to tokyo, then to SF). i'll finish the story when i get back to the states.

Jenni Cheung at 03:39 PM

due to events of the past year. the friggin symptoms are starting to show! i need to go to bad-relationship rehab or something. this, and having your period at the same time only leads to bad baddddd things.

just thought i'd share.

Jenni Cheung at 12:46 PM

my china trip in its entirity (sp?) is up now. not nearly as many pics as before because i'm still not liking the short red hair. and i've been sick.

i haven't gotten around to editing videos yet. i mite not post them, cuz i don't like the hair...

Jenni Cheung at 11:25 AM

went to "window to the world" today with my dad. it's like this big amusement park thing in shenzhen where there's all these landmarks from all around the world. it was pretty fun and chill. i think today is some sort of holiday in china, but there weren't that many people there, and it didn't cost that much. i guess explaining would be best left to the pics i'll post later.

i participated in several of the attractions (for $ of course, but it really didn't amount to a lot in US$, and it's vacation, so what the hey) i did the "inca rock climbing", "indian archery", and i tried snowboarding. yeah, that didn't work out well. well the rock climbing and the archery stuff i was ok at. it was my second time rockclimbing ever, but i just haven't exercised, so my arms got tired fast. and the archery was my first time, and it's pretty fun! i kinda wanna take it up now. so yeah the snowboarding. i've never done it before, but it totaled to like US$10 for one hour, so i figured i'd try. i'd say i snowboarded for a total of 3 feet. got dragged by the lift for a lot of the time. my dad describes it as "dragging a garbage bag." it's really a sad sight. i fell a lot too. my dad took vids of it. it'll be small, but u'll witness my total incapabilities at its best.

there's this huge like 1 hr show at the end of the nite. its like this 4 scene dance number with a huge cast. pretty lavish, with rising stages, and floats and all the works. my dad and i wonder how they keep this place open, since today is supposed to be a busy day and it wasn't that crowded. whatevers, it was good dancing.

so it's my inevitable that-time-of-the-month and i bought tampons in HK. i like to try different things, to figure out what i like. so this time i've decided to use the "tampax minis". supposedly they're just like the regular ones, but more portable. seems purposeful. so i got them, and they seemed promising, because the cardboard applicator was sturdy, yet insertion-friendly. so i wear them out, yadayadayada, and a few hours past. and here's when i realize, that the tampons is TOO FRIGGEN LONG. since i like skipping from attraction to attraction at amusement parks, the tampon shifted downwards. like it's not coming out, it's not like prariedogging or anything, but its just lower that optimal comfort. kinda feels like your vagina has to shit, but you wanna hold it it, but it's just sitting there. sounds kinda gross, but it really isn't. it's just an awkward feeling.

you might ask if it's just me, and not the tampon. my answer is NO. i actually am quite satisfied with the brand i've been buying for the past few times (o.b.) because it expands and is short and fits right and don't try work its way out of me. but i wanted to stay away from that in china since it's a hassle to use. i'll spare you the details of that.

i miss being in LA. i miss my animals and my room and my facial cleanser and my anime and some people. i wonder if the dogs miss me... oh i wonder if my pets miss me too (^_<)

Jenni Cheung at 08:11 AM

wow there are a lot of models and model-ish chicks in LA. mebbe i should move away if i'm to meet a nice boy. cuz i'm actually going through my guy friends' myspace profiles, and then i feel my insecurities welling up. i dig candid pics. i need some normal chick friends. know any that's tomboyish like me too?

there's something about california cantonese boys that are only a few years older and 5'8" and have short shaved-ish hair...

Jenni Cheung at 06:58 AM

went shopping for luggage my last day in shanghai, and at that shopping center, i encountered the ghettoist bathroom in my days. no, it's not just the squatting that made it ghetto, cuz i'm used to that. like the other squatting bathroom, they have a DOOR on the stalls and it actually is an individual toilet with a flusher usually. THIS is like a tile DITCH that interconnects all the stalls. the stalls have no door, so you just squat and pee into this ditch and the waste just flows somewhere. and this was a busy shopping center, so all the stalls are filled, so ur just standing outside the stalls, waiting for the chick to finish going and get out. you see the actual squattish of the other patrons. it reeked.

we went to shenzhen, then to HK. i'm in HK now. i love eating simple HK food. like the char-sui and chicken on rice, so simple, yet so satisfying. and i finally got my curry fishballs. been going around to places where i grew up and went to school, and it even smells like i remember. a total sense of nostalgia. but i can't really enjoy it as much i should, because i'm still sick.

i watched a movie in the theaters with my dad today. i like watching movies in HK cuz i can actually understand the language. it was starring andy lau, called "wait till you're older." it was a tear jerker, but also pretty good. cuz its not a romantic story.

so here are my ponderings: ketchup and airplane seatbelts. where did the word ketchup come from? it's not anything like tomato-ish. BUT, in cantonese, the word we use for ketchup, sounds like keh-jup, and the literal translation is "tomato juice." so it makes me think that the word ketchup may be from asia!

oh and the seatbelt thing. so you know how comedians say that that little strip of fabric is not going to save you when you're plunging 20000 feet? well, i've come to the conclusion that it just makes you're inevitable death a little more comfortable, because you won't be thrashed around the inside of the plane as you're plunging, so i guess it makes a little sense to put on that seatbelt.

Jenni Cheung at 04:51 AM

its the mixture of the drinking, partying, lack of sleep, change of weather, and the eating of all sorts of crazy foods that's caused this.

i'm coughing, sniffly, sneezy, a lil phlegmy, and lightheaded. this sucks. right now my dad is taking care of me, but when i go back i won't have anyone to take care of me. so when i said this to him, he said that i was so bad at being subtle. and i said he's right, i'm horrible at it. then he changed the subject...

so who IS gonna take care of me?!

Jenni Cheung at 10:08 PM

i really just don't know i'm drunk until i get too drunk.

went to babyface 2 the night before. it's so nice and trendy looking! clubs i go to just look better and better! anyway, judge jules was spinning, evidently he's a really big name or something. but that kinda music has never been my thing, so i remain ignant about it.

i spent 300 RMB because i had to chip in for the table and shit. i was like the only girl that paid at our table. but i guess i drank a good amount, and 300 RMB is like not even much. so it was the same stuff, chivas and green tea. so this time, the club was passing out GLOWSTICKS! but these aren't normal glowsticks that you'd see in the US, these are long and skinny ones. yeah, i was playing with them like i was a third time raver (cuz i can do the very basic stuff, but that's it.) but everyone there was like glowstick-retarded. they just wave them around in the air like limp sausages.

there was a pretty girl in the group i was hanging out with. i kissed a girl in china ^_^. i don't think she's a china-girl tho. like she's probably chinese and all, but she doesn't act/dress like the mainland girls. anyway...

i got fuckin drunk. yeah, i was pretty out of it. i passed out at the restaurant that they went to afterwards. they said i almost fell into teacup and also a cha-siu-bao. i need to drink a lot less. and get some sleep. good night.

Jenni Cheung at 09:07 AM

last nite i went clubbing with junius and his friends at VIP room. its a nice place. in fact all the clubs i've been to in china are pretty nice so far! this place had dance/house music. the lights were pretty good too. near the end when there are totally less people, we sat at the loungey area where it's all comfy, pretty chill yet loud at the same time. i kinda felt like i was at a high class rave. i wanted glowsticks. but i wasn't on E, just drunk. somehow they felt kinda the same...

i love chinese food, like instead of getting hotdogs after clubbing, they have meat skewers. i love food on a stick.

so i'm hungover now. i used to not get hangovers, like my first year in college. but after i graduated college, i always get hungover. or is it i drink too much when i party? ... nah...

on another note, this yogurt stuff is really good. drinkable yogurt is really big in china. it's not like yogloo or the japanese drinks that's watery. this is THICK, just like yogurt, but drinkable. you can get the more commercially packaged type, or at some stands you can get the more fresh stuff. the fresher stuff comes in ceramic cups that you have to give back. and there's a paper over the top with a rubberband around it. you just poke a straw through the hole and drink, then u return the container while ur there. the literal translation is "sour milk".

Jenni Cheung at 07:17 PM

pics will be here

so i went to a lot of the other places that i really need to go to the rest of my week in beijing.

pics pretty much tell them all. pic 1 is me eating @ McD's. then i'm carousing tianemen square while it's drizzling. then i'm eating bugs. that's right. i ate fuckin BUGS. there's this street where there are all this crazy shit on skewers that opens at night. i had silkworms, chickenorduck hearts, wholetiny birds, scorpians, part of a centipede, grasshoppers, and seahorses. i was so psyched when i got to eat the scorpian. i yelled out in english "i'm eating a fuckin scorpian!" and then i ate it. it was just crunchy. the centipede wasn't that good. the silkworms are gooey inside, so it's kinda cool. my teeth hurt the next day from chewing all the shells.

then i went to the great wall. it's so cool! we walked from the 9th to the 10th gate i think. it goes in kind of a loop in that segment, so it was convenient. it took like 3 hours, but it was cuz we stopped to take pics so often. and the videos. dad took like 5 clips. it's a pretty long thing. my dad kept saying how stupid the king was for making it on the top of the ridges, and why not just move it north. i was saying that the top of ranges makes it easier to spot the enemy and attack them if they decide to invade. and if we move it north, towards the plains, the watchmen at the towers would have trouble communicating back to the country. if they were on top of the ridges, it'd be easy cuz they could use torches as signals. but that's all my speculation.

then i went shopping a little bit and visited the ultimate place to have peking duck. we didn't eat there, but we ate at a chain of it the nite before or so. i think it's too fatty.

then yesterday we went to the forbidden city. it's so big. the messengers had to travel so much to get news from the front gate to the others. and there's a lot of space between the living quarters and the ceremonial halls. dad says that's probably why the king doesn't make appearances often. we took a lot of pics. yeah.

now i have red hair. i cried at the hair place cuz like half my hair is cut off. and i was gonna highlight it, so i told them to dye it first back to my natural color. and when they finished dyeing it, i decided not to highlight it.... natural color, my ass. it turned out sooo red. well too red to be anywhere near my natural color. but it looks ok i guess when it's straight. i hope i can learn to make it straight without spending too much time blowdrying it. wanna see?

Jenni Cheung at 07:01 AM