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| HAPPY NEW YEAR!I kicked off the New Year w/ a $75 speeding ticket...for going 35 at a 25mph road. I should be grateful though...it could've been a $200 ticket w/ the DA, but I was driving in a gated community (and almost out the gate). Better caught going 35 than 90 eh?
How often do you acknowledge how fortunate you are? People are never satisfied. We all strive to improve our social status, financial condition, educational background, and even our significant other. I'll admit it: I'm not satisfied with the size of my network, I wish I could make enough to be financially independent, I wish I had the grades/scores to get into an Ivy League, and I'm still single because I haven't found a guy whose flaws I can accept. Just kidding, that last one was a lie. The point is, a lot of us have it good just the way things are, but we are often so caught up in our misery that we don't realize we've already aimed for the stars and landed on the moon. My parents have always made sure I knew there's always somebody better than me out there so I would not stop outdoing myself (it works), but I inadvertently forget that their are people who are worse off than me. Maybe this is totally off, but our generation (Y) seems to be the most self-absorbed lot ever. Charity level has dropped, we've accumulated more junk than ever (or thrown away more junk than ever), and our actions revolve around how the outcome can benefit ourselves as opposed to the world.
Yet, it seems ok to be selfish because, supposedly, it drives competition, which fuels development. So then why is there now a bigger income gap between the rich and poor? Why aren't more people contributing to social security? Why don't we have free health care that caters to anybody and everybody? Why is it so difficult to make up our minds? Answer me this: Should we be concerned? Are we developing backwards? Or perhaps it's just backwards integration?
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| no one, no one, nooooo Oooonnnnneeeee...can get in the way of what I feel for yoooouuu....
...that song has been stuck in my head for the last 3 days. It has no correlation with my current status, situation, etc, but it's just one of those songs that have a particular ring to it.
For the sake of stalling from doing homework, I'd like to leave a little update so years later, I can be reminded of this new breakthrough in my abilities. (Just in case I need a bit of encouragement in the future) I'm taking 6 classes (24 units) and 2 jobs right now during my last quarter at UCSD. I spend my weekends studying at the library and my week days studying, sleeping, or eating. That means, I have not been hitting the gym, not been playing volleyball, and have been barely hanging out with my friends. Luckily, my closer friends in SD have no problem spending quality time studying with me 24-7, so in that sense, I have not lost my social life completely. I did manage to celebrate Halloween the Saturday before until 3am and I flew home for Veterans Day weekend to hang out with the family and for an interview at Intuit. Life has been really hectic and demanding of every ounce of self control I have, but it does not feel stressful. I'm more or less prepared for my classes, midterms fail to send me in a rage of panic, and I'm actually looking forward to more study time over Thanksgiving. As pathetic as that sounded, I cannot disregard the fact that I can look back and tell myself, "I've handled a crazy workload before for 10 weeks straight." I simply wanted to prove that I can take the heat and the best part is, the friends that truly matter to me are still around. C'est super!
Next steps: Upon graduating in December, I'll be prepping for GMAT and perhaps will end up taking the exam in China. If I get the job at Intuit, I'll be back in the States in August for training, otherwise, I'll stay in China to work for a while. That's the game plan. Take care all...wishing you the best!
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| note to self: stop reading World's Richest People in Forbes and start writing your 10 page paper...LOSER!!!
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| i don't make sense...that belongs in the "about me" section on facebook, but i don't want to put it there (which doesn't make sense)
here's another example: i went to Vegas over the long weekend w/ j^3 and as much as i want to write about it, i'm not going to do that right now. if i don't write about my adventures right now (which involves Thunder from Down Under and getting my drinks bought), i probably wouldn't get to it until a while later. knowing that fact, i'm still not going to write about it yet. why? iono.
i'm also up at 12:47am writing in my xanga on a school night with an 8am class in the morning...does that make sense? not really.
trust me...there are many more examples. my logic is definitely distorted in more ways than one.
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| where's the love?so i'm looking through facebook and there's "tell jenny i miss her!" "do you have a jenny yu?" "sweet voice of jenny" "good times with jenny" "jenny never talks to me" jenny, jenny, jenny...everywhere EXCEPT FOR MY OWN WALL! what is wrong with this picture? oh my goodness, i've become jelous of other people's wall...and more of a facebook whore than you! eat that.
about memory:
don't you wonder sometimes whether having a good memory is a gift or a curse? as a member of the i-forget-my-own-name-sometimes society, i constantly wonder how far i can actually get, academically, if i had a better memory. i see my inability to recall material that i've read a big hindrence on my education. if only i can recall all that i've studied, my return from the amount of work i put in would be much higher. we are constantly taught in psychology that we have unlimited storage space in our long-term memory, but i find myself questioning its practicality more and more. what is unlimited storage when you can't retrieve what has been stored? furthermore, one runs the risk of forgetting something altogether in his/her memory when that material goes untouched. so, essentially, memories are perishable, in which case..all is lost for people like me who want to trust that all the good times spent with family and friends will be ingrained in my memory forever, but still resort to taking snaps after snaps of pictures...just in case. furthermore, i cannot make an argument for the life of me because i do not have the ability to dig through my memory bank and track down past experiences/evidence that can support my argument even when i know i'm right. so imagine my frustration when i'm trying to break the rules as the first-born at home against my overbearing dad who has a memory as sharp as the eyesight of a hawk. yet there's a bright side to remembering about 10% of everything i come across: i tend to remember the more good times than bad. when i look at it that way, my horrible memory then functions in such a way that filters the sad out of my system resulting in a more optimistic outlook on things.
this then makes me wonder whether it's so great being able to remember everything. for those who fail 29734038207 times before reaching success, the memory of those failures must be wretching. if mishandled, it may even lead to a rapid decline in confidence level. yet, one can argue that if he/she has the memory of failure ingrained in his/her mind, it is a great motivator for success.
what do you think?...besides "jenny, you are thinking too much. stop it."
HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE...CHERISH THIS MOMENT WITH THE ONES YOU'RE WITH. my best...always.
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