hakuna matata

SUCH a long day.. of akpsi and in-house draw and sealnet. and feeling very drained and feeling like i didn't want to be places. i'm glad i came back and caught sean online! improved my mood by a lot, definitely. googletalk is quite phenomenal. haha. althought really, it's because of sealnet pple that i'm using it that much now. the new IM...

anyway in house draw was so dramatic.. but i thank God for his blessings because we got a TERRIBLE in-house draw number so we were one of the last few rising juniors to draw. so the way in-house draw works is this: you're assigned to a house, right. then there's in-house draw to determine which room you get. and it's another lottery thing (ie the equivalent of picking a random number out of a hat) and the lowest number gets to choose first. but usually in-house draw goes by seniority then by draw number (i.e. rising seniors with the lowest numbers get to pick first and so on..)

yup so there're like 8 doubles in this house for us to pick from right. and i think 6 pairs went before us.. and dayoung (my nxt yr roommate) was totally freaking out about us getting a horrible room. and i'm like seriously, it's not like you can do anything about it at the moment.. plus i'd been praying for a good room so i was pretty sure God would give us the best, and He did give us our 1st choice!

it was pretty crazy.. cos we had quite a lot of criteria -
* 2nd floor (cos 3rd floor is too hot)
* on the non-frat side of the house (there's a rather loud frat next to my house so if we'd ended up on that side.. the music would be that much louder)
* decent-sized room (although i think we may have been slightly deceived about the room size because of the way the current occupants utilized the space)

and we got the room we wanted! really praise God for his faithfulness. it was rather interesting cos i was sitting there staring at the floor plan thing "seeing" our names written into the room we wanted and hoping that other people would choose other rooms, and they did! very amazing. and dayoung was so relieved. haha.

anyway yeah, that's my amazing story for the day. but also rather nerve-wrecking. cos even while i'm sure God will always give us the best, sometimes what He thinks best isn't what we think is best so i didn't know what the deal was.. but yay! haha.

at this point i just received my TA's comments on my psych paper due monday which i have not really started on. a bit freaked out. but i have faith.

The Tale of Three Vaden Visits (Thurs, May 31)

(vaden's the name of our health center, which is notoriously unhelpful to poor sick students)

background info: last thurs my right thigh started hurting mysteriously, followed by a long bruise stretching till my knee. and then i started limping. (reminiscent of when i hurt my left hip during winter cos of snowboarding...)

and this is the detailed timetable that i sent to my mom, updating her on my adventures for thursday. it was definitely too eventful for my liking, even though i got my wish of not going for 2 classes (be careful what you wish for!)

11am went to see doc about my leg. She says probably trauma, like lunging during tennis or something.. So take ibuprofen and ice my knee (to reduce swelling/pain)
So I got the ibuprofen from the pharmacy and took the tablets during lunch and then iced my knee after

1pm went for psych section, everyth’s fine, leg’s feeling a little better

2pm go to library, sitting around checking email and stuff..

2:30pm right eye suddenly starts itching

2:40pm itching increases, can feel some swelling

2:50pm swelling is getting QUITE bad (and at this point I was emailing jackie about being bored etc and she was replying pretty instantly so she was like go to vaden now, wat if it’s conjunctivitis! - but I said I must wait till my introsem starts so I can go tell the prof exactly why I can’t go to class)

3:10pm look for prof, he stares at my eye and says yes, I should go check it up

3:20pm ask for emergency appointment at vaden (at this point right eye is rather rather puffed up n I’m looking like a freak)

3:30pm nurse gives me benadril (sp??) and says it’s probably an allergic reaction, take the medicine and come back later to check up.. The antihistamine will make me a lil drowsy (and I’m thinking that’s just fine, I’m not going to class anyway)

3:40pm ice the eye, take the pill, fall asleep (leg’s feeling better but now my left eye starts itching a bit)

5:55pm get up (I don’t know how come I didn’t hear my alarm at 5:45 but oh well) go to vaden, see doctor, who says they don’t know what’s the cause but for now I’m allergic to ibuprofen.. Prescribes me some antihistamine which is non-drowsy and recommends that I go to longs drugs and get it asap (cos the vaden pharmacy is closed)

7:00pm reach town & country (where longs drugs is – took the marguerite shuttle) and go get the prescription.. They say it’ll take 10-20mins so I go get dinner

7:30pm the pharmacist tells me my insurance card is insufficient cos they dunno who to charge the medicine to.. And I have no idea what’s happening. And then she says they can only call them up tmr (since you know, it’s after office hours). And that it’s $88!!! When I see that I’m like okay.. I really don’t think I need the medicine that badly. And if I really need it I can just get it from Vaden tmr.. So I took back the prescription and skipped getting the drug. (and the pharmacist said claritine is ok too but I couldn’t be bothered..)

anyway, end of long story: eyes are pretty much back to normal (yay), leg still hurts a bit, been icing it, that should help. i should've taken chuansheng's advice n not taken ibuprofen -_- oh well. and colin asked me something interesting - 'do you not like to be taken care of/dependent on someone else?' (because i didn't want to ask anyone to drive me to longs to get the drug) i guess that's kind of true though, i probably have more to say about that but later.. too tired...

so anyhow, i had to blog about this before i forgot. SPEED DEMONS!!!! yesterday night, i was out with akpsi pple at a rather unearthly hour (in my opinion, on a schoolday night), and we were driving at 80mph down el camino real (which is really a 40-45mph road). haha. it was CRAZYYYYY. i also need to tell jackie about this later.

little explanation: my co-sib is chun kai - who happens to be from philippines/taiwan and is currently a senior who's taking very slack classes cos it's his last quarter. he drives RIDICULOUSLY. he hurtles around everywhere (in a manual car, no less) but still, surprisingly, manages to be quite safe.

oh, one of his ways to cut down driving time - when the light turns red and there's an intersecting road, turn right, do a quick U-turn and turn right again and you get out onto the road! this has to be seen to be believed.. he did this last night and my lil sib sabrina was like "u totally just wiggled!" (like off the main road and on again).

i still remember when we went to get gelato for our lil sib and he was eating with one hand while driving (A MANUAL CAR!!!) with one hand. man. and apparently last night he drove from castro to stanford in like 9 mins (the journey normally takes maybe 20mins at a normal speed i.e. keeping to the speed limit).

anyway, so his roommate jon chang (the two of them are really cute & funny) has this really powerful sports cars (its a subaru something or other with a turbocharger and dunno wat else haha reminds me somewhat of jon goh & his eclipse) anyway... so jon was driving last night as well and they decided to race along el camino!

apparently chun kai's car is quite lousy as compared to jon's car but we were racing anyway.. super thrilling. but of course, really not a very good thing to do. and i think they kept slowing down to check for cops. haha. it was ridiculously crazy though..

yeah so last night we had this akpsi big sib-lil sib thing, which i was at first really reluctant to go for cos i really have lots of work to do and all, but i went cos i felt it was my duty to. but it ended up a LOT of fun, we definitely need more social events like that. and so i'm happy:)

daryl's talent is amazing. http://www.upok.net/triskaidekaphobe/TheHeartbeatOfGod/
i really don't know how he managed to come up with the entire song - vocals, backup, the 16+ instruments (or even more? haha). well given it did take a few months to complete.. but still.

actually through fellowship i really see how amazing people's musical talents are.. christina, sicheng, colin, lindsey. i guess it just got brought back to me at chi alpha on wed nights and praise night and yesterday at adelene's house.

anyhow, very glad i got to meet silly ser today.. she definitely says a lot more silly things than i do. >< wish our school was over and i can chill! sigh. really i'm so slack it's shameful.. ser was like "it it were 2 weeks to finals i'd be freaking out already!" and i'm like nyah.. two weeks.. hm. well. they are on semester.. -shrug- i will survive. :p