i don't know why this entry is formatted into 2 columns...but bear with it

sometimes i look back on past xanga entries/convos and i get so embarassed at how stupid I was. and then there are those entries...that bring a rush of "cackling" (julie's uncontrollable type of laughter) and you laugh until tears come out. I realized that as I'm growing older, those cackling/omg I want to die from laughing too hard moments become rare.

most of the times, it's not even the story that gets me/ourfriends started...it's my/our wild imaginations that carry that situation above and beyond reality ... (most people would call this dragging it on and killing it) but not to me/us!

Example 1:
Irene: What kind of guy do you think you'll end up marrying?
X: (jokingly) Anyone that likes me back. (joking even more) Anything that breathes.
Irene: (dying of laughter already) Can you imagine, if on your wedding day, you're all walking down the aisle and a Sequoia Tree is waiting for you at the alter?
X: LOL! (laughs like crazy)
Irene: And on the groom's side of the wedding guests ... it's the National Forest.
Irene: (laughing with tears rollinng down my face)
X: .
(30 minutes later Irene is still cackling to herself)

Example 2:
Our freshman year of college, Tina, Jenk and I were dreading the days we would have to walk to class on bruinwalk when it rained. As if it wasn't bad enough going up and down those hills and stairs on a perfect sunshiny day. Then someone brings up the idea of stealing the kayak that the Outdoor Adventures club uses to recruit members on Bruinwalk and use that to "ride" down Bruinwalk.

...i know. but TRUST me. we were laughing hyenas the whole walk back from CCM that night.

Example 3:
Ben was giving Jen and I a ride back to Cerritos one weekend, and he had an Eminem song playing that had some scratchy DJ effect in the track of the song along with some other water noise sound effect. So Jennifer and I totally tortured Ben by saying that Eminem was washing his hands while rubbing sandpaper when in teh studio.

so easily amused. since this entry is about laughing and stupid humor ... meet my friend Eugene.

ROOster: i mean try to calm down a bit
ROOster: try to only consume 8,000 calories instead of 16,000
oox beanz xoo: LOL
oox beanz xoo: how much are u supposed to consume rgulary
ROOster: 2,000
ROOster: DAILY irene
ROOster: not HOURLY

oox beanz xoo: i left my phone at sushi mac
oox beanz xoo: maj hate life =(
ROOster: HAHHAH
ROOster: dude
ROOster: its cuz you were too into the sushi
ROOster: you're all talking to the sushi

ROOster: im just waiting for the one day
: where i draw a hamburger on a piece of paper
: and you eat it

ROOster: and you have dduck bo sam earrings
oox beanz xoo: LLOOOL what the heck are ddukbosam earrings!
ROOster: you dont just consume food
: you use it for decoration also
: its an emergency stash just in case you get really hungry

more flashbacks. the quotes and stuff should be self-explanatory...but i hope you guys remember these instances so you could laugh with me.

Cheer camp memories 2004
-ill sit here on the rockingchair and pretend like i'm demon possessed and scare her    -Sylvia Choi
-crowd encouragement gone wrong. Wildcats, "y-y-yy--yeeeaaaaahhhh"!   -Jennay Golden at Cheer Evalvs
-"C'mon, Trees! Have i got a cheer for you!" -Liz at retreat for a dare

All I Want for Christmas is playing..."this song reminds me of Christmas" – JeniferKang

"spain? in europe? isn't spain in mexico?" -grace park

-mao/failure to hit grace on the head  -Tina, when we were playing a card game, and the winner of each round gets to implement a new rule that you have to execute when you see a certain face card. grace got mad at this rule i remember

"if whitney were one person i'd marry him" -Irene on October 24, 2004. so disgusting

Memories from my 16th birthday at Warner Springs 2004
-seeing teh stars in the sky. jennifer saying this one million times. (LOL! seriously jennifer you never change)
-"Every sun has its uv rays"-Tina's quote (version 2 of 'Every cloud has a silver lining')
-"The land was covered with cows except a couple small patches." -Irene overexaggerating.

so funny. good times

SUMMERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

Things I've learned/done thus far...

1. Girls and guys can NOT be good friends.
       UNLESS a) you are from Whitney
                       b) you guys are childhood friends
                       c) the line is drawn from the very start

2. Nothing comes from being rude, so be nice. I learned this after going door to door for 8 hours a day.

3. Boys are boys. even gay boys.

4. Surfing! even though this entailed getting owned an infinite number of times...us Californians are blessed with living in the greatest place ever! and we take it for granted. so the next time you see the clear blue skies while you're driving down PCH with your windows rolled down ... love life.

5. friends will seriously be there for you. usually means shopping at the mall even though you don't have money to spend, eating ice cream together, venting about anything and everything, getting emotional, eating more ice cream, reminiscing on good times, coming to the conclusion that boys are stupid.

disclaimer: lol i am not a guy hater!! this is just the product of hanging out with some people..who shall not be named.

6. i am a very 'uptight' person. being an INFJ, other than my chosen few few circle of chosen ones, Daisy says that I give off this, I don't care about you/I have my own agenda vibe. which sucks. so Daisy gave me the task of loosening myself up in my work environment. lol too bad i quit. so i obviously failed at that task.

7. LD if done right, is the best feeling in the world.

life is so LD without work

Yesterday, as I was walking back to the apartment after class, Tina called me because she was so bored. She ran out of the apartment like a dog that's been trapped in the house all day. lol LD. so then we tried to schedule a busy day. We went job hunting for Tina in westwood, 2 places. Then we ld-ed at pinkberry for a good while. SO LD that I wanted to schedule the rest of the day. LOL so on a piece of paper...we wrote. 3-5pm Groceries shopping at Ralphs. lol 2 hours including time to get there, shop, walk back to the shuttle, put everythign in the apartment. too bad kath took us back. anyways then i wrote 5pm - ~ (squiggly line) Dinner. LOL THAT IS HOW LD WE WERE. but that is not it. I asked Tina if she were to be okay with seeing her boy once a week. Her answer: "I don't know. But on days that I'm busy, like today, I think I can be okay." ...........

That is yesterday's story. Today, we decided to study at starbucks. Around 7, we arrive at Starbucks. Get drinks. Sit. Talk. LD. at one point, we all decide to get started on our studies, then I look up for a split second and see Tina and Jenifer staring out the window. Then we decided to eat dinner at Chipotle. So we pack our untouched study stuff to go to Chipotle. We go to Chipotle, then we go to CVS to buy our wonderful foot scrubbers. then we get to our apartment and eat some more, then talk some more, LD, LD, LD. Jennifer takes a nap, LD LD LD. Mind you, Jenifer has a paper due tomorrow. It's 11pm.

Jennifer: *rolling around in Tina's bed* This is what happens when I take a north campus class.

I don't think this story will be funny to people who don't know Jennifer.

• hate/love (in Grace's case)  on Jennifer for her repeating stories, excessive details, etc
  • Grace: (talking about Jennifer's talking) Are you still talking over there?
    Grace: .....Because I LOVE IT!!
  • Jenifer: That sushi looks delicious!
    Grace: That sushi looks SO DELICIOUS!
    Tina: Look who's repeating now.
    Jenifer: Yeah. Look who's repeating now
  • After having to listen to Jennifer repeat this one particular story 3 times. Not even shortened but every time she retells it, she says it with the exact same, if not more, details. So when Julie asked to hear this story, I tried to give her a brief rundown version ... but when Jennifer interfered and upon opening her mouth ... according to Grace I just rolled up under the blanket and said OMY OMY.
    
• meet friendly people.
  • gay guys adoring us at Whym restaurant when we were talking about Sex & the city and doing our nails
  • the subway guy adoring us when even though we knew we were at our stop and the doors were about to close, we just stayed on the subway. LD
  • taxi driver advising us to stay good and pure, to not go out with guys from bars
    
  • Mike..? was it? who came running to the rescue with a flashlight at Bonchon when Grace lost her bracelet
  • millions of people who helped us with directions
  • the nice haramb who let us in out of the rain. :) lol
• EATING. then LD then getting up to ride the subway to go to another place to EAT
  • Today's schedule alone
    • Brunch at Jaiya ? Thai food > Cheesecake at Lindy's > Dinner at Whym > Dessert at Veneiro's > Chicken at Bonchon > Chicken and fries at Gramercy Cafe
  • our AWKWARD waiter at Whym
    • Grace: How's the Jambalaya?
      Evan the waiter: It's a creole classic. (reading off the menu)
    • Saying "good choice" after everything we ordered
    • how he said ordering the appetizers before our entries would "complicate" things and we joked about how the neukki song being played in the restaurant was probably him singing in the back and how he didn't want to be disturbed singing with our orders.
      
    • Evan: (setting a candle on our table) Here, for ambience.
      Guys sitting next to our table: Oh, is THAT what this is? NOW i can dig in and enjoy!
  • at the Thai food restaurant
    • Jennifer wondering what the name of the restaurant was...looks at the window and the sign on it .. "Deli Very". -_-
    • Richard ordering super duper spicy food.
    • George getting the bill. lol future Europe trip holler
  • Jennifer seriously loving life at Pio Pio
  • Jennifer LOVING life and her afterlife at Junior's Cheesecake.
    
• Our phrases and habits
  • Irene: Fasho? Fasho
  • Irene: 3rd Avenue Holler~!
  • Grace: I have to poo...10 seconds later...I'm so hungry...10 seconds later...I'm SO full, foolish...10 seconds later...I have to poo.
  • Grace: Daddy, I want a golden ticket!
  • Grace: Would you be a deahh~
  • Jennifer: jIJE;fjekhGekjfkjkejfkJEfjjfkjejfj (unneccessary talk)
  • Julie: BRE-TESH
  • Tina's nodding
  • me playing with food
  • Question: Would you rather live in NY or LA?
    Tina: LA
    Irene: LA
    Jennifer: ... There are pros and cons to both. And how much money would I have? And what is the reason I would be in NY?...
• Splurge shopping
  • grace park. enough said.
  • tina and finding sunglasses! finally!
  • Jenifer and her boots
• IN THE HEIGHTS. everyone watch this musical. NOW
  • Usnavi. what a hottie, forreals
  • the staddish dad
  • being SO lucky to win two lotteries to the show! even though Tina's name wasn't called. Instead it was another girl named Yoon Ha Lee. But we thought it was Tina and we screamed so we got it.
    
• Starbizzle!
  • the only franchised food we promised on eating...or drinking i guess.
  • our daily starbizzle run = LD time
  • Tina's new sn: Tinamutantnijaturtle. but since AIM only allows 16 characters, we shortened it to Tinamtntnjatrtl. lol
  • nonstop talking about our futures.
    
• Bonchon
  • Julie and Grace.
  • the fish move. lol what was that guys
  • party of OXen.
• Central Park
  • LD by the turtle pond.
  • Tina's favorite.
  • LOL. We saw a sign/picture of the turtle pond from 1986, and it says "What would we do without your donation?" because the picture is a "before restoration" picture when it was polluted and dirty. lol too bad the actual pond behind the picture was 10 times dirtier!
  • Irene: How do we get out of here?
    Tina: ...Step over the rocks.
• Jennifer dressing up in rainboots and carrying an umbrella even though the weather was so perfect that day and afternoon.
• My flying skirt. having to wear Grace's poncho because of it.
• Airport
  • Irene: I don't think i'm going to sleep at all on the plane, then I won't be able to sleep in NY.
    (Jen looks over before they go over the safety measures...Irene is KO)
  • Jennifer and her new best friend from the plane ride
    • he used her belt
    • they shared blankets..LOLLLLL
• there was a Feet Shop called Qi Gong Tui-Na.
  • Tina: Qi Gong probably means COME HERE. LOL COME HERE TUI NA!
  • this story is funnier if you know how much Tina loves feet.
• George and Grace
• Paparazzi
• After we watched 'In the Heights', while Jen and I went to use teh bathroom, Tina and Grace sat outside. They noticed a lot of flashes, pictures being taken...so Tina covers her face and goes "I didn't know they would find me here". Right then, Agyness Deyn gets up next to Tina and walks away with her boyfriend. LOL

Overall, this trip made me realized how much we've grown up...even though Richard and George swear we haven't changed since 9th grade. Such lies. Okay, I admit half our conversations were about ridiculous hypothetical funny situations which Julie didn't enjoy at all, lol. But the other half were pretty serious, who thought we'd be talking about boy problems, relationships, our futures? I will miss the cramping in Julie's apartment, the smelly subway rides, us navigating with our frittering map..seriously, getting all excited to LD at starbucks

<3

WHEN IN NEW YORK...