John Yi meets John Cho

Look at that face that John Cho, probably most known for his role in Harold & Kumar, gave my crappy camera phone.  Haha.  After he talked at Brown for the Ivy Film Festival, I waited around in the lobby area and he unexpectedly came out, so I asked to take a picture with him - except I didn't have a camera.  I busted out my camera phone and took a picture, but it gave me a "MEMORY FULL" message.  Haha and before I got to say sorry, he said "Oh, LAME!"  Anyhow, that was an amusing encounter. 

Dang, two entries by johnio in one day?  Amazing.  I have under 30 minutes to finish this one though.

I just wanted to say that THE WEATHER TODAY WAS SO DISGUSTING.  AND THAYER STREET WAS ONCE AGAIN TURNED INTO A RIVER.  NICE.  AND ON MY WAY TO THE GATE EARLIER THIS FABULOUS EVENING, I ALMOST FELL.  IN ADDITION TO ALMOST FALLING, AS I WAS HALFWAY TO THE GATE TO GET ME SOME DELICIOUS TASTING CHOCOLATE PIZZA, SOME DELIVERY GUY COMES UP TO ME WITH A DOZEN ROSES,  STARTS A POINTLESS CONVERSATION, AND THEN MAKES ME WALK WITH HIM ALL THE WAY BACK UP TO THE TERRACE TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR HIM.  THAT GAVE ME MANY MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO FALL.  BUT IT WAS VALENTINE'S DAY AND I DIDN'T WANT TO PREVENT SOME GIRL FROM BEING HAPPY AND AMUSED BY THE FACT THAT SHE GOT FLOWERS FROM A SECRET ADMIRER.  ANYWAYS, BACK TO THE DISGUSTING WEATHER TOPIC.  MY UMBRELLA BROKE.  IT'S LIKE RIPPED IN 5 DIFFERENT PARTS AND THE METAL PARTS ARE STICKING OUT ALL OVER THE PLACE.  I COULD PROBABLY POKE SOMEONE'S EYEBALLS OUT WITH MY UMBRELLA.  THAT WOULDN'T BE SO GOOD.  THE LAKERS AREN'T PLAYING SO VERY WELL RIGHT NOW.  THAT MAKES ME KINDA SAD.  I'M GOING TO LAS VEGAS WITH A COUPLE OF FRIENDS FROM BACK HOME ON MARCH 24-26 AND THEN I'LL BE HOME UNTIL APRIL 1ST.  WE CAN PLAY.  COME PLAY IN VEGAS.  OR BE IN SOUTHERN CAL.  I ALSO COMPLETELY WASTED MY DAY TODAY.  I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I DID.  WELL, THAT WAS A PRETTY FUN SESSION OF RAMBLING.  YOU MUST'VE BEEN REALLY BORED IF YOU'VE READ ALL THE WAY TO THIS PART.  HOPE THAT'S BEEN FUN AND I HOPE YOU HAD A NICE VALENTINE'S DAY.  I HAD SOME NICE COOKIES WITH CHOCOLATE FROSTING AND SPRINKLES AT THE V-DUB TODAY.  THAT WAS PRETTY DELICIOUS.  NOW IT'D BE A MIRACLE IF I GAINED A SINGLE POUND.  HA.  AND I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M STILL TYPING IN CAPS.  IT GIVES THE IMPRESSION THAT I'M YELLING.  MAYBE I AM.  BUT I CAN'T BE, BECAUSE MY LIPS AREN'T MOVING.  OH, WHATEVER.  SAYONARA AMIGOS! 

Look!  If I were in the NBA, that's how I'd stack up!  Earl Boykins is 5'5" and Dirk is 7'.  Paha. 

anentryaboutnothingreally

I have a 5-6 minute oral final exam today.  I don't know how seriously to take this.  First of all, who gives oral exams - in an economics course!?  5 minutes!  That's how long it's going to take me to say, "Hi, hopefully you recognize my face from showing up to class and not participating in discussion, but my name's John.  Nice to meet you.  Ok goodbye.  You look lovely, btw.  Really lovely."

I was looking through facebook and, courtesy of mini-feed, noticed that several of my friends had joined facebook groups from middle and elementary school.  My elementary school group is called "Once and Always A Hickory Hound."  That made me nostalgic.  Random fact: For those of you who know Thomas Kim (Brown/RUF), he used to go to my elementary school!  Except we never knew each other.  Or saw each other... haha.  He apparently moved to Tennessee after 3rd grade, and I started going to Hickory in 4th grade.  Weird, huh.  Our first conversation as freshmen at Brown went something like this:  "Hey, I'm John.  Where are you from?" / "I live in Tennessee, but used to live in California." / "Really? I'm from Torrance.  What part of Cali are you from?" / "Torrance?! I'm from there too.  I went to a school...... the mascot...... had like.......a dog?......and.......kids?......." / "Dogs? Hounds? Hickory! Hickory Hounds!" 

Oh the good ol' days.  In elementary school: walking in a straight line to lunch (whoever had the straightest line got to go first!  man our class sucked at lining up straight!) Playing nation (dodegball).  Playing on the monkey bars.  Square dancing (I have video of me square dancing!  lol).  Living in Chicago for a year in 2nd grade (One day during recess, I missed the cue to go back inside and played outside for an extra recess period!  Don't ask.  Anyways, the teacher let me have my lunch while everyone was in class.  It turns out the class was working on "goodbye" cards to me since I was leaving to go back to California.  Everyone saw "awww.")

And in middle school: running as fast as you can to be first in line.  Beating Hull in cross country meets for years (Hull started beating us after our class left, apparently).  Falling on my face during a 4x400 relay race against the other PE classes (don't worry, I still beat my guy) Mr. Baltz screaming and yelling at us to run faster.  Mr. Henderson always screaming and yelling at us during band (sadly, he had a heart attack and died after we graduated middle school. I still remember the day he came to our class in 4th grade telling people all the different instruments he had and wanted to teach us.  I shall miss him). 

That was fun thinking about elementary/middle school.  Anyways, only 2 more weeks until I go home to warm California. 

Las Vegas this winter break!  and of course Morongo!  Let's go!  If you're <21, you can watch me take people's money at the poker tables.  :]

It's 27 degrees outside, and my heat is off.  I called Facilities today, but they didn't do anything about it.  We pay $45,000 to come to Brown, and they let us freeze.  I better wake up sweating.

I'm cold, so I'm going to reminisce about the summer.  Ah, the warmth.  Here's me wakeboarding. by a tree. in the middle of the lake. 

This was long.  That's what you do when you don't want to prepare for a 5 minute oral exam.  I shall end this entry with a nice photo of a sunset in Huntington Beach, California. 

MMM

That's from dinner at Jeanie's. 

How did I spend my Thanksgiving?  Well............. let's just say it involved a lot of eating.  Had lunch at Christina's then headed over to Jeanie's for a second helping of turkey. 

The most memorable event of the evening was Mike charading the Pillsbury Doughboy.  Oh yea, I almost forgot.  Can you imagine Dave Yeh, the rugby playing Canadian (boo Canada), doing a little Tinkerbell move?   

Muahahahaha.