OH MAN, what was i THINKING?  i just had indian buffet (buppeh)
for lunch and i have kickboxing class tonight.  indian food coming
outta the pores in a very crowded kickboxing class which makes me sweat
like crazy is not going to be good.  i have a feeling i'll lose a
couple of friends tonight and lose future potential for bonding with my
kickboxing mates...

i am stinky, oh so stinky.. i am stinky and stinky and .. well, you get
the idea.  i'm so distracted by the smell of cumin i should be
excused to go home and take a shower.  probably doesn't help that
i dropped chicken curry on my sleeve.  whew!  twas yummy
while it lasted but peeee yooooo!

bombast

hmm.. so people have evacuated new orleans in droves to avoid hurricane
katrina and those that have stayed are hunkered down in the superdome
with 5 days worth of food...

for a split second there, i was considering going to new orleans
anyways and check out the scene, but as mijung mentioned, all we'd be
looking at is debris and no restaurants would be open.  altho,
maybe we'd find a crawfish or 2 chilling on the sidewalk?  then we
could bring over our findings to the superdome, barbecue it up and
share with the refugees ...

wah!!  guess this means i've been granted extra time to work on
the lwf website!  that's not a bad thing, ya know?  i shall
save my furry vest for another day!  just sad to not see my lovely
travel buddies.. sniff*

*edit:  been reading about what going on in new orleans and it's
pretty devastating...  just a difference of a few days and we
might've found ourselves in the middle of all of that..  God's
grace fo sho.. but my heart goes out to the folks out there..

it's 4:30 and i'm about to crash.. woke up extra early today to take a
6am kickboxing class.. felt pretty good until about 20 minutes
ago.  eyes are drooping... time for xanga! 

got some pictures of my nephew j.d.!!  he looks like a Kim all
right.. my mom's genes are powerful!  we ALL look like her! 
j.d. actually looks exactly like my brother.. i'll have to post a baby
pic of him one of these days.

my dad likes to pretend nap while holding onto his grandkids.. he's in heaven....

"what you lookin' at, punk?"

he's a ham i hear.. laughs all the time..i need to visit seattle!!

ok, back to work...  *zzzzzzzz.......*

the day is almost done.. wahooO! 

my august:
it all started off with a youth retreat in morro bay.. we're
talkin' 3 days and 3 nights with no showers and primitive
toilets.  for a girl who thrives on being comfortable, warm,
clean, well-rested.. this was an interesting situation to find myself
in.  but despite the lack of warm running water, attacking
mosquitos, and drinking as little as possible to avoid the dreaded
toilet.. the time we spent on the beach was amazing and i'm so glad for
the chance to get to know the lwf youth better and to spend some quality time with God!  jiyung and i made
the 3-hour drive hours ahead of the rest of the crew to prepare the
campsite and put up the tents.  i think there were 8 tents? 
just a few mishaps later (a fully-made tent that did a couple
somersaults in the wind, and an angry pathological liar who didn't like
us playing the guitar)..  the retreat had begun.. 

here are the
counselors.. minus justin who was taking a nap on the beach (he's the
smart one)  and minus anna.. where was anna?!? we're trying to look gangsta, but failing miserably..
like my ajumah hat?  gotta stay outta the sun!

and here's the youth group.. so loveable and crazy!

so
i get home wednesday the 3rd at 7pm.. crash... wake up at 11pm to pack
for my trip to hawaii.. 8am flight so the plan was to meet up at my
aunt's place at 5am the next morning. man, that was the most relaxing trip to
hawaii ever and i only made it to the beach once!  so relaxing...
saw my cousin get married, saw old friends..  went boogie boarding with my aunt who kept her welder's mask on..

then the
day after i returned to cali, jenny cho lee came to visit.. she thinks
i almost forgot about her, and maybe i was just a little surprised that the day
had come so soon, but it was mucho fun-o...  we took a 16-mile
bike ride from san francisco to tiburon with a quick lunch stop in
sausalito... i LOVE this ride!  anyone want to come out for a bike
ride?  great views, and the weather was beautiful... jenny, you
got pics to send me?  i'm a goob and have none to show for
now.. 

which brings me pretty much up to date for now.. next stop? 
new
orleans with the an sistas.. next week.  dang, that snuck up on me
too....

i have no idea who this is.. but today's blog is too funny not to share:
http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=chrischoi

am i breaking some kind of xanga law by linking to someone i'm stalking?

i know how some of you guys feel about stalkers..

i went to the ear, nose and throat specialist today, the last
appointment of many which started as a simple self-diagnosis 2 months
ago.  i was playing around with my niece when a i discovered a
little soft bump on my neck.  overly paranoid, i showed it to my
equally paranoid aunt who told me to make an appointment with the
doctor.  that coupled with the story my mom told me about some guy
who had worms in his neck from eating too much sushi, i paid a visit to
the doctor. 

turns out, the doctor is super thorough and scheduled me for a CT
scan.  i felt silly after the scan was over, because the doctor
reviewing the scans asked, "where again is the bump?"  i'm
thinking, can't he SEE it?  hmm.. maybe i didn't need the scan
after all.

but it doesn't end there.  i get a call a day or so later and
am told the doctor wants to review the scan with me.  i ask: "am i
going to DIE!?"  the woman on the other end of the phone starts
laughing.  oops.  ok, i guess not.  but the doc did want
me to get an MRI because the scans picked up something else on the
other side of my neck. eh?  there's more?

so the MRI comes in and  i visit the specialist today. .. 
the bottom line is, i'm FINE... completely, totally utterly
healthy.  i told the doctor i'm a hypochondriac and he writes it
down on my chart.   he jokes that  it's already been
recorded in the computer system.  sueann: hypochondriac.

so no more self-diagnoses for me !  i asked for a copy of my scans to take home, i'm gonna see if it's free

*edit*  twas a little swollen lymph node.. too small to cause any
worry... heh.  when i tried showing the ENT doc where it was, he
said, "your fingers must be more sensitive than mine."  the mri
picked up some random stuffs.. also nothing to worry about... 
thanks for the concern!  minus jy.. you punk.

today is a very special day because it's jennycholee's birthday!!! 
happy birthday honey bunches of oats!! 

princess for a day:

to my cyrano, what would i do without you?  *sy*

just felt like saying hi to the xanga world today..

let's see.. going to hawaii for a little relaxation next wednesday and
what do i do to get ready?!?!   all-you-can-eat barbecue last
night at 9pm and all-you-can-eat barbecue again today for lunch!! 
i might have to invest in one of those bathing suits with a skirt, or
perhaps one with the built-in floaters and claim not to be able to swim

update on the birds:  first of all, they got SO sick of me and my
antics, they moved to my neighbor's doorpost!  all of a sudden, i
like them a little more.  my neighbor said she saw an egg, but the
next day, it's gone.  birds can't fly off with their eggs, can
they?  anyhoo.. the male bird is seriously a failure at building
nests.  twigs all over the ground and the female bird sitting on
top of a total of 4 sad sticks.  life lesson:  find a mate
who knows how to build a home so you don't have to keep moving all the
time!  heh. 

otherwise, it's another sunny day in california and God is gooood.

i get home the other day and there are twigs all over the ground in front of my front door...

and there's even a twig on the ledge next to my doorbell...

so
i look up and notice there are the makings of a bird's nest on the ledge
right over my door.. and i FREAK OUT!  sorry to all you bird
lovers out there but i was seriously grossed out.  birds are
freaky.  these 2 birds had been scouting out the area for the past
2 weeks, i'd come upon them quite a bit right outside my door and i
guess they decided to build their home on top of mine!! 

here's one of the hateful creatures:  mama birdie: eeeewwwwww

so
mission "die-birdy" was put into full effect.  i got my brother to
sweep off the sad makings of the nest, i slammed my door every chance i
got, i screamed at the top of my lungs when i saw them (altho this was more
involuntary), i even
called the hoa to see if we can install some of those pointy sticks to
prevent the birds from sitting on my ledge...  this went on for 2 days.

and the next day, they were
gone.

funny
thing is, the minute i realized they were gone, i was a little
sad.  not only that, i would look around hoping to see them. 
how crazy is that??!!