money!

got sidetracked from studying. started taping keyboard to try to memorize how to type russian.
then ended up looking up symbols...

Currently used currency, but there's way more:

฿ (Thai baht) Br (Belarusian ruble) Bs (Venezuelan bolivar, Bolivian boliviano) ₵ (Ghanaian cedi) ¢ (cent) ₡ (El Salvador, Costa Rican Colon) B/. (Panamanian balboa) ден. (Macedonian denar) ₫ (Vietnamese dong) € (euro) ƒ (Netherlands Antillean guilder/florin) Ft (Hungarian forint) ₲ (Paraguayan guarani) Kč (Czech koruna) ₭ (Lao kip) Kn (Croatian kuna) kr (Danish, Norwegian krone, Swedish, Icelandic krona, Estonian kroon) L (Honduran lempira) Ls (Latvian lats) £ / ₤ (pound, lira) ₥ (mill) ₦ (Nigerian naira) ₱ (Philippine peso) P (Botswana pula) R (South African rand) RM (Malaysian ringgit) RSD/РСД (Serbian dinar) Rp (Indonesian rupiah) (Indian rupee) ₨ (rupee) ریال(Iranian rial) р./ руб. (Russian ruble) S/. (Peruvian Nuevo sol) ৳ (Bangladeshi taka) R$ (Brazilian real) $ (dollar, peso) T̅ (Kazakhstani tenge) ₮ (Mongolian togrog) ₩ (Korean won) ¥ (Japanese yen) zł (Polish zloty) ₴ (Ukranian hryvnia) Q (Guatemalen quetzal) ₪ (Israeli shekel) TL (Turkish lira)

once upon a time currency,

₳ (Argentine austral) ₢ (Brazilian cruzeiro) (Portuguese cifrao) ₰ (German pfennig) DM (Deutsche mark) ₯ (Greek drachma) ₠ (European Currency Unit) ₣ (France franc) Kčs (Czechoslovak koruna) Lm (Maltese lira) ℳ (German gold mark) ₧ (Spanish peseta) I/. (Peruvian inti) ℛℳ (German reichsmark) Sk (Slovak koruna)

places i've lived.

i realized that I've lived in a few different types of places now.

1. city (Taipei, Tokyo)

2. suburbs (Fremont)

3. countryside (Tsukuba)

4. by the beach (La Jolla)

Maybe in the future I'll be living in the mountains or in rural places or in a small town.

It's always weird for me when I wonder how life is; how each decision we make changes our future one by one; and there would be entirely different sets of people in our lives depending on where we go, what clubs we join, what classes we take etc.

how just one single event can be insignificant or very important to us. but the thing is that we will never know until it hits us.

There are people who cannot really live anywhere because they don't like crowded smelly areas, or places with nothing to do. For me right now, I feel like I can adjust to anywhere and any type of place. The countryside and city are both awesome and ugh in their own ways.

Everything just depends, you know.

my desk! :]

to cook

what i'm gonna cook/eat this coming year!

牛肉麵

lamb & ginger

tomato & egg

dukboki, korean sticky rice!

kim chi!

porridge

broccoli

grilled cheese sando

FRUIT :P

avocado/guacamole

naan

hummus

more spread

pickles & meat

cereal & milk?

TOFU

bok choy

foccocia & CHEESE & jalapenos

...

what else?

anything i can find and want to try at markets

weird how habits from home follow you everywhere, and i find myself cooking things from childhood instead of trying new food.

trees

change of plans.

this is gonna be good even if it's not

i just know it!

why didn't i think of this before?

haha, i'm excited.

let's see if i see it through.

give me a year or two.

you have no idea what i'm talking about

but one day you will know and SEE!

trees are love.

i like willow trees, palm trees, redwood trees, taiwan rong shu, . . .

not good with tree naming