Halloween with the law school

A Brazilian referee, a seventy's gogo girl, a twinkie, a cop and an infomercial guy.


Me and two legally blondes... well, one of them is a cowgirl in thongs. Trick or treating is sadly limited to eating Twix the day after to heal from a crazy night at the club.

A cup of real Chai

I made myself a pot of Chai using Celestial's Chai tea bags today - The taste is like looking at a picture of the Taj Mahal on a tacky postcard - u get the idea of it, but somehow it's not quite right. Anyway, as I sip my American packaged Chai tea in Boston, I am once again missing the smell of the monsoon rain mixed with loud bhangra music coming out of TVs, the chicken bryani takeouts, mangoes, and a cup of real chai. While Amsterdam taught me how to be professional and party (two separate ideas, to begin with), India gave me a sense of living... I need to go back there. The Celestial tea is killing me softly.

Boo

I just had the biggest laughs in weeks from watching Borat on Youtube. Apparently he's already been to Amsterdam (Your city has very nice sewers) and Canada (Women driving are like monkeys flying planes), as well as a small Republican committee (Thanks to the anti-communists at Fox News). I love his jokes even thogugh a lot of times he leaves me gasping in disbelief.

And then there are the not so funny things - after a particularly stressful week in school last week, I stopped by at one of the largest supermarket stores to pick up some beer - only to realize that, there was none! So I went to the next one, same thing. Two days later, I returned to buy ice cream (my other substance abuse) and saw midterm campaign signs that said, "Vote Yes for Wine in Supermarkets." It saddens me to think that the poor 18 year olds can vote to put alcohol in supermarkets, but they can't (legally) buy it. Stupid laws.

On a happier note, I was sitting at home eating my ice cream and watching TV today and found that the Chinese CCTV news is available! I miss the sound of crisp news reporting in mandarin. The propaganda issues is a lot less than you'd expect from the government-controlled media. It is, however, rather unforgiving on US domestic policies. Kind of like watching a watered-down version of the Al Jazeera in Chinese.

Halloween is here. I am swinging between going all out and party for three days in a row, and just staying at home with my good friends Ben and Jerry. I think I might need to see a shrink about that.

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I feel a large space growing around me. Am I shrinking?

Loss of basic motor skills

No, this is not in reference of the fact that I, being Asian and female, cannot drive very well. But the recent barage of information cramming has caused me to forget how to do the most basic things in life, such as locking the door when leaving my apartment. I have missed appointments, forgotten to turn in paperwork, double paid insurance bills, etc. I haven't seen my roommates in almost a week, and have had one too many chocolate chip muffin with my nova lox sandwich. When I went to the hospital for a regular check up yesterday, one of the questions was,

"Do you feel that food dominates your life?"

I burst out laughing in the middle of an empty hospital room. And then I felt an overwhelming need to put a big tick next to it.