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Name: joey cho yi
Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 10/6/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: cracking myself up.
Expertise: anything that doesn't require common sense, writing music :D
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
1/3/2003
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| Touching Stories From EarthquakeIt has been 7 days since the tragic earthquake in Sichuan happened. Although we keep hearing the death toll and seeing pictures of the destroyed cities on the news, it is still impossible to comprehend the level of destruction and misery those people faced. Just want to share two amazing stories I saw on the news here in Hong Kong:
A young man rushed over to the collapsed building after knowing that his girlfriend was trapped under layers of cement. He heard her screaming for help through a tiny hole. Although he knew she was in there, he couldn't do anything. The opening was too small to rescue her. Over several days, he stayed awake and talked to her through the cracks. He kept chatting with her about everything just to keep her conscious, but he could sense that she was getting weaker and weaker. He did not want to let her go. Eventually he said... "Let's get married. You want a Chinese style wedding? Or western style? I think you'll look really pretty in a western wedding gown  " That night she was finally rescued out, alive, after being trapped for 104 hours.
The rescue team discover a woman in kneeling position in a collapsed building. She was already lifeless. Just when they were about to take her body out of the building, they found a baby boy by her feet. Amazingly, he was still alive because the woman had used her body as a shield to protect her son. After taking the baby boy out, the rescue team found a cellphone wrapped together with the boy. The cell phone had an unsent message from the mom that reads: "If you are lucky enough to stay alive, I hope you know how much I love you..."
Cherish life, and everyone who plays a part in it.
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| Hi from LondonI've been in London training for more than 2 weeks already. Will be here for another 3. Thank goodness that I am technically getting paid already or else I would have eaten all of my life savings by now. So expensive >.< and don't worry... the flood isn't that bad here.
Have been exploring the city quite a lot. Went to Oxford, Windsor Castle, and all those touristy London places. Will post photos later.
Just watched Avenue Q today. It's a funny show, but I teared up a bit when they sang this song  :
I Wish I Could Go Back to College
I wish I could go back to college.
Life was so simple back then.
What would I give to go back and live in a dorm with a meal plan again!
I wish I could go back to college.
In college you know who you are.
You sit in the quad, and think, "Oh my God!
I am totally gonna go far!"
How do I go back to college?
I don't know who I am anymore!
I wanna go back to my room and find a message in dry-erase pen on the door!
Ohhh...
I wish I could just drop a class...
Or get into a play...
Or change my major...
Or f*** my T.A.
I need an academic advisor to point the way!
We could be...
Sitting in the computer lab,
4 A.M. before the final paper is due,
Cursing the world 'cause I didn't start sooner,
And seeing the rest of the class there, too!
I wish I could go back to college!
How do I go back to college?!
AHHHH...
I wish I had taken more pictures.
But if I were to go back to college,
Think what a loser I'd be-
I'd walk through the quad,
And think "Oh my God..."
"These kids are so much younger than me."
so true...
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| brand new start...Tonight is the last night i'll spend in Arcadia/California/ the United States, at least for a while. Taking off to London tomorrow for 5 weeks of training, and then starting work right away in Hong Kong. Intense 
Although there are many times when I really want to get out of here, it is quite different when I actually have to leave. This time is different from last time when I left for college in Boston. Last time I still know that I can always come back home and everyone will be here. but now... everyone is going their separate ways. I don't even know where I should call home from now on.
Anyway, I'll miss all of you Arcadia and MIT people. You've made me not want to leave at times... and for those of you who really know me, you know how much I have been wanting to go back to fobland. So you guys really do mean a lot 
I'll send updates from London and HK soon!
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| 4 years ago...Just came back from a crazy 6-day roadtrip. Hit up New Jersey to visit Jesse's house, New York for fob karaoke+visiting 06's+comedy club+ st. mark's, Pennsylvania for white water rafting, and Atlantic City for gambling+tanning on the beach+gelato  great trip guys. thanks for planning it! Now that I'm back, I realized dead week is pretty much over, and senior week is starting, which means graduation is in a week. It's starting to hit me. When I walked by Killian Court one day and saw that the stage for graduation has already been built, I felt really weird. The stage is built for us this time. We'll be walking on it. I started looking at my xanga posts from 4 years ago when i wrote about high school graduation. It's kind of interesting how some things change and others always stay the same. Check out my gangster spelling... that has definitely changed. I'll write how I feel right now when I'm less tired. Wednesday, May 28, 2003wow...... i just realized how soon the school year is going to end... the mixed emotions are so overwhelming... sometimes u realize y things must change if u already like them the way they are... can't ppl just stay at the same point with the same friends in the same environment?? so much time is wasted to adapt to new environment... new ppl... everytime u meet someone cool, u r no longer happy, but r sad because u know u'll eventually become distant... ppl should just count the days they hav spent together instead of count down the days they have before they depart... Friday, June 13, 2003 i feeel ___________________..... fill in the blank...cuz i'm sure all 800 seniors feel exactly the same way... how can i describe this feeling? even with millions of combinations of the 26 letters in the alphabet will not be enough to describe the feeling of loss of 4 whole years of memories.
i'm sure i'll feel better tomorrow... sad thing is... we're always the most sad before we depart... just like we're the most scared before the roller coaster takes off... after that... life will continue | | |
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