a toast

from dustyburrito.blogspot.com

A TOAST

TO NEAREST

TO DEAREST

TO THE CREW

TO CAHOOTS

TO THE ONES WHO'VE BEEN THERE

TO THE ONES WHO'LL BE THERE

TO DROPPING EVERYTHING

TO SAYING ANYTHING

TO NO JUDGMENTS

TO NO DOUBTS

TO LOYALTY

TO TRUST

TO FAVORS

TO LIFELONGS

TO BEEN TOO LONG

TO NOTHING'S CHANGED

TO HAVING HISTORY

TO HAVING YOUR BACK

TO MOVING AWAY

TO NEVER TOO FAR

TO GROWING UP

TO SETTLING DOWN

TO YOUR SECOND FAMILY

TO FRIENDS

TO CELEBRATING THE HOLIDAYS WITH THOSE WHO MATTER MOST

found this too late, but chinese new years is coming up!!

ah, you know when you do something bad or make a mistake like breaking a cup or screwing up an order, etc. i'm talking about the moment RIGHT after you do it and no one in the world knows about it except you. and 2 choices come to your mind as you freeze and go "what did i just do??!" try to cover it up like it's alright OR you confess to the person. but this thought happens super fast you don't even know you're consciously thinking about it. then ANOTHER moment comes up: where you muster up strength to tell, in which the longer you wait, the more you hesitate, and the more likely you won't tell because you fear the consequences and their reaction.

but this all depends on what you did and how important it was.

not exactly sure what my point here was.

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! :]