5'5" with brown eyes, smile like the sunrise.

What's so fun about Taiwan, you ask?

well, besides the fact that it's nice to go back to the motherland, to see where you were born, what kind of place you left, it's nice to see old friends. And when I say old, I'm talking, like, kindergarden.

I've probably known kathy since I was, like, 5 years old. Maybe even younger. We kinda lost track of each other for like 8 years, then found her again in taiwan, haha. We also met up with some of the kids we taught english to last time we went back... sean daniel wayne wendy hermione etc etc. Good times... drank 4 nights outta 4 the time we were in taipei... i think I lost like 5 lbs due to malabsorption; didn't really get a chance to absorb all the good food in taiwan, and good food it was.... ahhhh i wish I had ate more in taiwan... but my stomach wasn't feeling up to it.

clubbing was fun, drinking games with friends were even more fun.... I think their parents probably think we're alcoholics, haha. so bad. But we were there only for 4 nights in taipei, gotta make the most of it.

less made-up girls in taiwan, more natural beauty, which is nice. me likey. I also met one of my former student's gf, who is ridiculous. She knows german, japanese, english, taiwanese, and mandarin. She speaks better english than I do, goes to Taipei University (which is like the best school in taiwan), interns for microsoft, and is gonna become the CEO of Microsoft one day, haha. Ambitious girl huh? She told me all this with her perfect english, and cute too. I like wayne and he's a good guy, and it's just good to know that a nice guy like wayne found a good girl like her. I've known my share of good guys that don't get the type of girls they deserve, so it's nice when ppl who deserve each other get together ;]

I miss taiwan, haha. I wonder when I will go back again. It's kinda all up in the air. At least my parents didn't try to sell me off too much. I mean, maybe they were selling me more than I realized, but at least I wasn't there, so that's good. haha.

and the cheap good food! aww i wish I ate more!...

There are pretty much two things to see in japan: A shrine, or a temple. Sometimes you get a castle. That's all we saw on the guided tour! every day you get up, pack your bags ('cause we stay at a different hotel every night), eat breakfast, get on the bus, drive to a shrine or a temple, look around, take pictures, then drive to somewhere else, more shrines/temples/castle, go back to the hotel, check in, dinner, shop around, then you do it over all over again the next day.

Now, that sounded pretty boring, and it would've been, but we (me and david, david and i, whatever) met these other kids that were our age, and so we kinda ran around together. The tour guide was really informative and she had a lot of interesting stories about each shrine/temple/castle we visited, but you can only take in so much stories before you just feel like taking off on your own. Me David Catherine (we call her Cat) Brian and sometimes Sophia all hung out together, so that was fun... it really is about who you go on the trip with rather than where you go.

So of course we went clubbing. The first night we went clubbing was not successful per se, as in, we got drenched by the typhoon and walked around for an hour before finally just chilling inside a bar that we ran into. Japanese clubs are HARD to find unless you know where they are...

The 2nd time we went clubbing we had better luck. We ran into a canadian who was working in japan.... he brought us to this place called david & sam's (or something else equally corny) that was on the 3rd floor, and you had to get in this tiny elevator to get up there, and the elevator was kinda secluded and pretty much there's no way you would've found that place unless you knew it was there. On the way there he was telling us how since it's sunday night, there might not be a lot of ppl... since japanese ppl work HARD. We ended up paying cover to go in and see what's going on, even though it sounded like nothing was really happening... but i was like, fuck it we're in tokyo if there's a place that's gonna be clubbing it's this place.

We went in and there was like... 40 ppl... and we're like... o...k.... we ask the bartender and he said there's gonna be around 300 ppl here tonight, and we're looking around, like... um... ok. Long story short, a lot of ppl did show up later, there were ppl from youth hostels (sp?) because I guess those close at 10 and open at 5am, and since the club opened til 5 am, ppl came. I don't remember too much of that night besides taking these really strong drinks called "japanese slippers," going back to the hotel like 3-4 times, running into david and brian at the noodle place, looking for david 'cause I dont know where he is (which I do with absolutely horrible accuracy when i'm drinking. I seem to always run past whatever person I'm looking for) and then passing out.

the next morning was a lil rough. We barely made the bus, haha.

Next one will be about taiwan, which was bomb. Time to get ready for immu crap now.

Japan was fun, but Taiwan was the bomb.

I miss everyone already, damn.

gotta pack and move down and settle in and do immu crap, more later.

SOME people... / tsp = teaspoon and tbsp = tablespoon

YES I'm still alive. Slaving my summer away at freddy's as usual. My weekends are too short and my weekdays too long... Today we had someone call in for our hours of operations. Now, this kind of request is not unusual; people needs their meds, they want to know when we are open so they can pick up the meds, TOTALLY understandable.

But the call came in around 6 pm, and it went something like this:

"thank you for calling your fred meyer pharmacy, can I help you?"
"yeah I need to know when you guys are open til."
"oh sure, we're open til 9"
"wait, 9 am or 9 pm?"
"9 pm you freaking idiot are you f-ing kidding me? you must be f-ing retarded"

ok the last line didn't exactly go like that, but that would've been much more satisfactory. I mean, SERIOUSLY? COME ON! the more I work in a pharmacy, the more I realize that for SOME people, not all the lights are on upstairs. There was another incident where the guy was complaining that we didn't give him enough medicine *think annoying asian guy who speaks in annoying asian accent*, and we were on the phone with him for like 15 mins until I helped him realize that he was feeding his father-in-law THREE TIMES the doses he should've been getting, because he read "TBSP" and thought that stood for "teaspoon" Seriously, there is no B in "teaspoon" Which acronym have you EVER read that had a letter that wasn't in the actual word?

He then proceeded to ask if he can have some more, to which i replied, "no, I think at this point in time it would be a good idea to make an appointment with your doctor" [read: you really should find out what kind of damage you did to your elderly father-in-law before you give him anything else] I feel bad for the old guy :(

welp, at least I'm going to japan. whew. I wish that we didn't really had an itinerary, so that we can just chill and cruise around japan, but I guess this way we get to hit the hot spots. It'll be a nice break. I'll be missing out on some dough to be made, but it'll be a nice break.

then I come back and get ready for school in one and a half days. oh joy. I think I'll especially enjoy adjusting from the jet lag. yep yep.

just call me J.R.

Some people age well ;] They just kinda blossom into their 40's and 50's. it's pretty sexy.

finally starting to do more transfers and taking new rx's... and also more counseling. fun stuff. Today I met a guy who had his knee replaced and he was telling me how he's been doing construction all his life and he's had 11 surgeries throughout the years. His knee was so swollen... and you could still see the staples... yeah... talk about a pain warrior.

I think my preceptor might be lesbian. Not sure. Will have to get confirmation.

btw, having to shave everyday sux.

It was rough

We were heading home from hanging out at the refactory, I only had 3 beers, and I was driving home alone with boram and david behind me in another car... and as I slow down to turn onto glisan, I noticed a bike pull out from the 76 gas station following me...and being the sober driver that I was, I immediately took my next convenient turn into the parking lot... and then watched that bike COP take the right into the parking lot next to mine... and he slowed down and looked at me too i think... hah, think I'm on top of it bitches, how you like me now? ;]

so yeah, david and boram saw the whole thing and david called to see if I was ok... we both decided it was prolly a good idea to sit it out where I was for a bit before heading back onto the road... even though I was pretty sober. So yeah, I had to sit it out at jody's for like, 20-30 minutes... it was rough, yep. fo sho.

HELLO WORLD!

haha, so pretty much my xanga doesn't work anymore... i don't know why it won't let me log in. I think it has to to with the fact that the site got hacked a while ago and they had to do maintenance or something... poopy, but I'd like to think it's a nice lil change. call it an opportunity for a different part of the world wide web to enjoy my awesomes posts. yep, that's right ladies and gentlemen, I wake up and piss excellence.

ANYWAYS, went to the beach this weekend to celebrate my brother's birthday with friends... um.. a whole lot of beers. not too much food. lots of chilling and hanging out... overall, good times. After checking out we decided to go eat breakfast... so we sit down, and there's 6 of us, but janelle steph went to the bathroom, so there was 5 of us at the table when the waiter brought us the water, and as he was putting down the glasses, he asks, "four people?" and the FIVE of us looks at each other and I say, "uh, no actually we have 6." So he leaves and the 5 of us are like... WTF?... if there's 5 of us sitting there, why would you ask if there's 4?...um... what? ;]

we ended up going to the outlet to do some shopping after we ate, and I found these cargo pants at aeropostale that were marked at $49.50, but it was in the 50% off section, so i'm looking at it and i'm like, hmm.. yeah I feel like spending some money today and these look pretty nice, I'll shell out $25 bux for 'em. I go to check out and I was asking about some of the other pants on that same rack that had their prices marked down even further and blah blah... and then she was trying to explain why some are and some aren't... then I remember her saying "five ninety nine" and "two ninety nine" and I'm totally confused 'cause i'm like what's she talking about now?... so I pay, and then I'm looking at the receipt, and i'm like... dude, I got those pants for $2.99!! hahaha, me and mike were kinda stoked about that. He got his for $8 dollars for some reason, I have no idea how they do pricing on those things, oh well...I got a good deal ;] I mean his deal was good too, just not as good as mine ;]

ok. exhausted from partying... gotta turn in early... tomorrow is back to work... grr.

It wouldn't be worth it if it was just THAT easy, now would it?

OF COURSE it has to be hard.

I should've known, dammit ;]

torn i tell ya, torn.

I should be sleeping, or studying... anything but chilling...