hakuna matata

i love this.

"[mexican] bus drivers may engage in an impromptu race down the boulevard, even as their passengers are shouting that they want to be let off at their stop"

from my psych reading on mexican american cultural models. oh and that was to illustrate the concept that they really prize relationships over abstract concepts. if that makes sense. the other example was of a mexican taxi driver stopping to pick up a friend he sees walking down the road, even if he has a paying customer in the back.

i can just imagine the two buses zooming down the road while the poor passengers are flailing their arms trying to get the driver's attention. kind of reminds me of chunkai & jon racing down el camino at 80mph. also, that we just missed the bus coming back from stanford shopping center and had to WALK. but i'm quite proud that i estimated the time correctly - 30mins!

at least there can still be some joy found during finals week.

oh and we were at andronico's and the cashier (this nice old man) remembered us! so crazy. i think the last time i was there with jackie was like a month ago.. and then he was playing around and pretending the counter was closed and then telling me i couldn't buy chocs cos they were reserved for mother's day.. and then he asked for our names and said we had very nice names or something. and he remembered it today! rather surprising.. i wasn't sure it was the same guy but i guess so, hm. yay for sat night shopping at andronico's.

heh i just spent like 2.5 hrs talking to colin. i really can't believe it's the end of the year and people are graduating! i suppose this year i didn't hang out with seniors very much so it wasn't like with sean and joel - the acute realization that they're leaving and won't be around next year to have fun with:(

and yeah, thinking from the time i first met daryl to how he's walking this june and graduating next quarter. daryl if you read this, i really hope you get a job here so you can hang out with us for another year! :p

anyway yes i've been rather slack concerning pwr cos rushing work since sunday has just taken a bit of a toll on me. and i have until 5pm tomorrow to do pwr so i THINK i should be fine.. pray pray pray.

oh also very thankful for jap dinner + ice cream :p quite sick of going to the dining hall and seeing sucky food. isn't finals weeks supposed to be better food!!! :(

i thought i had excessive-paper-writing syndrome, after spending the entire night (and early morning) on my psych paper, and i really did NOT want to start revising my pwr paper (urgent though it may be) but then i finally did (yay) and i realized how sucky it is.. haha. my psych paper paragraphs are so much longer and more substantial. i think i know why he gave me a B. thank goodness for rewrites..

on another note. i was listening to daryl's song (again), and then it suddenly reminded me of how 2 years ago, i was sitting in the US embassy in Singapore and upon "eavesdropping" on a conversation next to me, discovered that daryl was coming to stanford and met him. so very interesting. and then the gathering, where i met cs & jon for the first time. they still look like a pair of Ent-like giants to me, although they aren't THAT giant (as compared to the guy whom I catch a ride to church with). i suppose compared to me they are though. and flying over here with kiat n wang ning (both of whom which i hardly see as compared to cs & jon, interestingly enough).

first times are so interesting. i mean, first meetings. or like, roots - there are SO many pple from nyps here (or coming here, at any rate), it's rather uncanny sometimes.

reminds me of something else jon was saying yesterday, about how next year me cs & wangning will return to our freshman-dorm-areas. well for wangning it IS his frosh dorm. for cs its like west campus. and for me it's central (storey is, thankfully, nearer to campus than flomo) :)

anyhow i guess i was in a somewhat reminiscient mood cos seniors are graduating! it's crazy. i can't believe i'm going to be a junior :|

ahhh! stupid PWR has destroyed my ability to write a proper paper. after writing my script for the past two weeks now i keep wanting to write informally and that is so not going to work! -tears hair out- okay. shh. it'll be okay. just a bit frustrating..

Something I just randomly remembered while thinking of church. Last night, Leng was speaking (he's one of the professionals who helped to found SEALNet) and he told us to remember 3 things when we were on our projects this summer: commitment to faith, commitment to hope, commitment to love.
Ididn't realize it at first, but when he repeated them at the end of his speech, I recognized it.

1 Cor 13:13 "And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

the universal truth.