I said I would post some thoughts from Japan, so here are some.

• I’m not a huge travel person, but I was still glad I went for many reasons. With all the sightseeing and experience gathering, it also brought out a renewed appreciation for home and having a community and environment I can call my own.
• I need to write more.. there were a lot of times that I was able to be alone (trains) and think, and I recall making significant progress in working out some areas of my life that needed some time to sort through. Problem? I can’t remember 90% of it. Haha FML. There’s also a lot of stuff I think about that isn’t really categorized under “WordPress-able” either.
• We lived in hostels and met the most interesting people. Out of the dozens or so there, our group was the only one comprising of young adults who took the cookiecutter route of high school -> college -> job. Everyone else seemed to be on another track that was striving after something more than money and prestige, which was cool to see. We met English teachers, travelers with no money, random British people who smoked 3 packs a day, K1 fighters, and too many more to really remember. Makes me wonder if we really are the minority, or if we simply happened to meet that many eccentric people.

A great conversation.

Me (AIM): best obvious quote of the night
: “sometimes cancer makes you feel very lonely”
: from sutter health commercial i just saw

Jon Yang: hahaha

Me (AIM): like wtf does cancer give you friends?
: what did you expect : hahahha

Jon Yang: the funniest is like
: did they expect people who have cancer to watch that commercial and go
: OHHH so THATS wat that feeling is
: i thought it was hunger

Also, I am back from Japan. Some thoughts and funny stuff to come soon.

/edit:

one more…

Meesun: Okay sleep time
: I want to take more theraflu (she’s sick)
: But I don’t want the calories haha

Canned conversations, part 2.

1. Facebook

[someone makes some Facebook rude/funny comment]
token girl: WHERE’S THE DISLIKE BUTTON?! FB NEEDS A DISLIKE BUTTON!! :[ :[ HAHA

 

ooookay

 

 2. Kobe

Person A: OMG Kobe is amazinggggg I love him to death!! Is he not the spawn of Michael himself?!
Person B: OMG I hate Kobe. Lakers fans suck and are sooo obnoxious and I hate Kobe he’s so cocky!! 
Person A: Oh cmon, at least you gotta recognize that he’s good, regardless if you hate him or not.

Happy Friday everyone!

Awkward Conversation Mishaps.

Couple things I have noticed in the past few weeks:

- It’s so awkward when you have already prepared a greeting (or a farewell) to some stranger you see walking towards you from a distance. And then when they get here, they totally throw a curve ball at you and greet you in a way that makes your greeting sound absolutely retarded. Example: Sometimes I like to anticipate someone saying a phrase like “have a good day!” to me (or “take care!”), so I think up in my mind to say “you too!”

Sometimes though people will say something like “Catch you later!” Then you just look like a fail english conversationalist when you blurt out “you too!”. I bet they laugh all the way to their cars about how idiotic I am. Ugh.

….I cannot remember for the life of me what the other awkward mishap was. Will update later if I remember! haha.