Good times in Dallas
I hung out with friends from my Chinese class at Texas Tech today! They drove in from Lubbock and Abilene and we met them at Bistro B in Dallas for lunch, went ice skating for two hours at the Galleria, and wrapped up with korean barbecue for dinner at Chosun Kalbi off of Royal Lane in Dallas and boba teas afterwards at Teh Guk Dang Bakery just a few doors down. It was an awesome day filled with great friends and food :)
Just keep swimming...
"And maybe after this we'll never see each other again. And maybe we will. And maybe I'll meet up with you again in ten years. Or maybe twenty. And maybe you'll still be single. Or married. And maybe I'll be as well. And maybe you'll ask me if I want to go for coffee. And maybe I will. Or maybe I won't because it could bring up old feelings again. But for now, I'm not gonna worry about the maybes or the what-ifs; I'm just going to continue living my life the best way I can."
It's always been JATE
WARNING: DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THE LOST SERIES FINALE. SPOILERS AHEAD.
I was one of the fans who actually loved the series finale of Lost. Yes, I was pissed that I didn't get the answers to all of my questions, especially the ones concerning the island mysteries, but in the end, it came down to whether you had watched Lost for six seasons because you were intrigued by the series mythology - polar bears? Dharma initiative? time travelling?! - or because you enjoyed watching Jack and Kate and Desmond and all the other beloved characters and learning about their pasts and watching them grow and change with time. I loved Lost for its complex and layered characters, and so I was happy with the finale because it was all about the characters and love lost and refound and souls reaching across time and space to find one another. I cried during those last fifteen minutes, thinking about how Kate had lived a life without Jack after the island, loving him and unable to have him for the rest of her life. I cried as the scenes intercut with Jack reuniting with all his friends and loved ones in that church and Jack stumbling through the bamboo grove to end up where he had first begun his island adventure, his eyes closing for the last time. And that's why I love the following video so much - I've always been a Kate/Jack shipper and the finale definitely swung our way!
Think happy thoughts
Why must life be so complicated?
"It's so easy to look at a broken relationship and tell your friend, "He's a jerk. He treats you poorly and has no redeeming qualities. Leave him." But it's completely different when it's you and the person you love(d?). When I hear about situations like this, I never say, "That girl is so stupid for staying with that loser." Because it's always deeper than that. It's not so easy when it's personal." (Soompi)Munshi225 totally took the words out of my mouth. It's so easy to judge other people's relationships but when it comes to your own...love really is blind. You invest so much time and emotion and energy that it's hard to walk away, even when you feel that something is not right anymore. So you desperately hope for change and yearn for the way things used to be. I know I did my part in wrecking the relationship. I'm an insanely jealous person with insecurity issues, and I know I can't truly love someone until I love myself. One step at a time, I'm going to work on making myself happy and learn to like me for who I am.Be confident. Be happy. Love yourself.
I ♥ 鍋貼
I recently read an article on NYTimes about people who photoblog every meal that they eat. Although I'm not quite that obsessive - I don't want to whip out my camera for every single meal or snack - there's tons of cool or delicious food that I get to eat while studying abroad in Shanghai that makes for a pretty photograph =) It'll also be nice to be able to look back at those pictures when I'm back in the United States with no access to that food :/
Dinner tonight: guotie (鍋貼), a type of dumpling, and Coco's milk tea with tapioca pearls. Yes, I'm addicted to the milk tea, because it's both yummy and cheap (only $0.80 USD)!
Dinner
Yummy! Coco's milk tea with tapioca pearls and a bag of fried chicken. Total cost: 11 元 ($1.60 USD). I love being in Shanghai =)
As the Dalai Lama says...
No attachments. It's as simple as that. Don't desire, don't form attachments, and you won't suffer.
My snack run today at Trust-Mart =)
I went on a snack run today at the grocery store near my school, Trust-Mart, and I got everything in the picture (plus a few more) for only 65 元, which is about $6.50 USD!
My loot: 1 box of strawberry Pocky, 2 boxes of Pretz, a box of egg roll cookies, 2 folders, 1 bottle of soy sauce, dry erase board to practice my Chinese characters, a box of butter cookies, 2 erasers, and a reusable shopping bag.
