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

Animal Dreams, again.

fast reading on my part, but skipped most of the descriptive pages.

hmmm most of these quotes are about insecurity, etc. mostly cause the main character is very insecure.

pg. 205

Life must be so easy when you have dreams.

pg. 206

How do you just charge ahead, always doing the right thing, even if you have to do it alone with people staring?

pg. 207

If I kept trying to be what everybody wanted, I'd soon be insipid enough to fit in everywhere.

pg. 209

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story. It must have to do with discomfort.

pg. 237

But Loyd didn't make those judgments. I could have told Loyd I'd lived on Neptune, and he'd say, "Uh-huh? What was it like, was it cold?"

pg. 238

You can't know somebody, I thought, till you've followed him home.

pg. 243

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

pg. 204

He'll sit for five hours in the back of a pickup truck waiting for you, just because he trusts you to come back.

need a new book, or a drama to watch now.