went home this weekend for a night...i always realize how much i've missed my family when i see them. and now i miss them again =( but my brief little visit was nice...watched the opening ceremonies of the winter olympics, which was pretty corny (yes, one of characters in the ceremony was actually called "the child of light" and the fruity-looking guy in the flowing orange and red ribbons was "the fire within". please gag me.), but kristy yamaguchi was in it. fremont represent! hehehe. kidding. ooh ooh! and i got to eat mommy-food on friday =) can't really call it authentic "chinese food", but it doesn't matter because it's mommy-food. and oh god, the RICE! it makes my dining hall rice hang its head in shame while whipping itself. it's so easy to take good asian rice for granted until it's gone and replaced with whatever the hell they serve here.

then i had my hair cut. and when i say cut...oh boy, do i mean cut. i wanted it short, but in a different style than my sister's, so my hair stylist gave me this all-over layered cut...didn't quite turn out as i had expected. so since it looked like a big black mushroom on my head, i got copper highlights (first time i ever colored my hair...i'm so asian now! O_o). then i just looked like a fob. amanda: "it looks...uh...different!" we messed around with it after a while and gelled it down. i'm pretty satisfied with it now =) it's definitely a different look for me. there were a lot of double-takes from people tonight =)

ooh, i also went to the santa cruz sopi installs with monique and steph and saw marina and peggy. their new mu class did some cute performances. tim and stan were deejaying and james was there too! =) then we "dropped by" sherman's party but ended up staying for uh...quite a while. had a lot of fun...comments on my appearance ranged from "your hair makes you look more sophisticated!" and "i didn't recognize you at first!" to "it makes your face look round" and "did someone vomit on your shirt?" interesting. especially that last comment...it was the design on my shirt, dammit! haha. 'sall good though. i still think my shirt is cute. =P