another weekend! they're so beautiful. weekends, i mean. sorry for the vague pronoun use.

i've been attending some immunology lectures at stanford--crashing the course my cousin's taking. some of them are pretty interesting =) and...some are completely not in my area so i sit there not understanding and trying not to fall asleep. "uh...where is that? i have no idea where that is on the mouse...der..." you know, not falling asleep takes so much effort, especially since each lecture is three hours long. i was so drained when i got back. one of the lecturers was so cool though. she's an M.D., Ph.D. who's a great speaker, is doing awesome research, and dresses well! my idol. hehe. also, i ran into vince and someone from my chinese class who's in med school when i was on campus the other day...it was sort of embarrassing. i mean, i didn't have that much time to talk to him, but i had absolutely no idea what his english name was. that's what happens when they're your language class classmate. =)

geez, amanda and her mandy moore/shane west fixation. she's making me listen to all this sappy mandy moore music. i do not appreciate it. i think that's why i like alternative music so much, in comparison to hip hop or r&b or something. all those r&b songs are too sappy and the lyrics are unimaginative. all about how much they love someone or how much they're hurt now that it's over, blahblahblah. at least alternative music does it in more imaginative ways. cuz i'm all about the lyrics. =) hm...when i'm in an occasional sappy mood though, i start listening to all that weepy mushy stuff. i can be weak and pathetic too. ah well.

ohh...happy birthday to jason. i feel bad for not going to his birthday shindig in berkeley, but uh...i think the only person i'd know there would be him. and he'd be a little too busy getting drunk anyway. =)

i think i may get red easier than i used to. i never used to blush...but my cousin convinced me to try retin-a, and i think it's made my face more sensitive. i hope i still don't get asian glow =\ i'm so vain. haha.

i need to improve my small talk skills, especially with people of other generations. it's so important in the professional world...but i suck at it. must practice. "how are your children doing? and your wife/husband? isn't the weather great today?" how's that? mrm...yeah, pretty pathetic. must work on that.

i've learned a lot from some of those immunology lectures--unfortunately, it's sort of depressing to hear how HIV/AIDS is such a huge epidemic. 16,000 people are infected each day...and only 10% of the infected individuals know they carry HIV, making it pretty much impossible to prevent further infection of others. the virus is incredibly mutable too...makes it so difficult to fight. and breast cancer...something like 1 in 8 to 10 women will suffer from breast cancer. that's so frightening...i looked around the auditorium and thought that a significant number of those women sitting there with me, possibly including me, would have breast cancer. here's a little way you can help: please email a letter.