tank tops and flip flops

spring is here! spring is here! the birds are out, i have my tank top and flop flips on, sitting on the grass enjoying the sun. to my right i hear a saxaphone playing jazz...a student practicing. to my left, a bbq is going on, students playing frisbee, hip hop playing in the background off some speakers and a laptop. the smell of bbq reminds me of the bbq's we have over the summer. then i think of the time we all soaked teddio with water balloons and super soakers for his bday. hahahaha....
the saxaphonist is done and a flute player starts to practice. i'm sitting on the lawn flipping though my notes, studying for an exam on friday.

i'm going to miss days like this when i have to start working again.

yepp 700 and itunes , together at last...ahhhhhhhhh

huzzah! oh happy day! oh joyous world! i finally figured out how to get itunes to work with my yepp-700H mp3 player. after many tries with copying the install CD onto a larger CD in order to fit it into the powerbook cd-rom, searching online, emailing samsung. turned out all i had to do was search for "yepp itunes plugin" in google. before i was doing "yepp 700 itunes plugin" and i was getting nuthin useful. take out the "700" and TADA! i found the right place to download what i needed. now i can finally download different music so i don't have to listen to the same thing i've been listening to for over a year and a half. about time i changed my music huh? hahaha....

am i a geek because this makes me sooooo happy?

well so what if i am! =P

however...i was secretly hoping that i would never find a way to change the music so that i had a great excuse to buy one of the new ipods.

drat.

...ok mebbe i was not too secretly hoping that since i've been whining to hunny that i want to buy a new ipod for the past few months.

...ok year...

...mebbe i'll accidentaly drop it so it'll break and i'll need an ipod.

...arg i couldn't ever bring myself to harm a gadget on purpose.

drat again.

nanny deb

so i mostly hang out with guys here since cmu's bschool is only 20% women. normally people say - "that works out well for you " since they assume that girls like to hang out with a lot of guys because they enjoy the attention. now, this is a misconception. girls do not actually like to hang out with only guys because you can't talk about girl stuff and it gets boring to only do things guys want to do all the time. for example, my guy friends are "guy" guys and they will not watch chick flicks with me when we go to rent movies. a girl however, is normally able to watch almost anything. with maybe some exception to realy scary movies because that requires ideally having my hunny rite next to me or else a very large pillow to hide behind. i also like to cook and when you hang out with mostly guys, that means you cook for them. when you are with other girls, you normally have fun cooking together.

over the weekend i had some quallity girl time that was much needed. i went to a step/sculpting class with rita. afterwards we went over to her place and cooked spicy pork tofu, baby bok choy, salmon, and corn. after dinner we watched alias and some sort of nanny show. i was also able to watch alfie and i heart huckabees with the roomies. also chatted with karen on the phone.

the nanny show was really interesting. basically a nanny will select a troubled family with a bunch of misbehaving kids. the family they chose had 3 sets of twins, 4-9 years old. oh man...they were really bad kids. we're talking kicking eachother, screaming and whining for everything, hitting the parents, hitting eachother constantly. the nanny, nanny deb, lives with the family for 7 days to try to turn the family around. at first i thought it was impossible, but eventually it turned out the nanny really did make a HUGE difference. she figured out the kids didn't know how to communicate. the parents would let the kids scream and hit until they lost their patience, then they would lose it and shout at the kids to go to their room. the nanny taught the family to talk about what was wrong, to teach the kids to say why they are angry rather than crying and screaming to get what they want. after the seven days, the kids were all playing with eachother and most of the screaming had stopped.

mental note: when i have kids, teach them how to communicate!

hrmm...i think i'm too self absorbed. i think being busy has caused me to forget some of the more important things.

spring break

so all the competitions , vc fairs, networking events went pretty well. have some good leads on internships and people are starting to recognize me now. so basically i was networking like crazy all break. met some really kool people. i think now networking is getting to be more fun than work since now i'm becoming friends with people rather than just contacts. that's kinda kool. one alum, he was a kauffman fellow. that's this program that grooms people for venture capital. he started his own fund now after working in other funds for 4 years. at 19 he started a biotech that went public. nutzo huh? and he's totally kool and not a nerd or stuck up at all. I hope he can become a mentor for me.

all this busy work got me wondering. am i forever destined to be busy all the time? what would it be like to just be satisfied to take some marketing position at a biotech and be ok with that, something more common. something easier to attain. would i then make myself nuts by doing more volunteering or something? i don't think i remember a time i wasn't really busy. as a child it was painting lessons, piano lessons, guitar lessons, glee club, band, summer sports, etc etc. in college it was volunteering at a hospital, research, peer health counselors. after that was work, social obligations, night classes, naaap. i wonder if there is a name for this disorder that i have. i hope this doesn't mean i will be stressed out when i'm older and won't be able to enjoy a family life. that really worries ...more than people know. what if i'm unable to be not busy? unable to slow down? i wonder if my husband will be ok with such a busy body for a wife. i wonder when i'll be ready for marriage. i don't feel ready now because i'm still in school. when will i feel ready? will i make the right choices for my future. will i always worry too much?

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redemption

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ok so how was i supposed to know that redemption was not the "trend" in term sheets anymore??!! so we had the VCIC competition this weekend. our team gave it a great try and came in 3rd. MIT took 1st and Harvard took second. I do have to say that MIT gave a great term sheet and performed very well. however, i feel like we were robbed by harvard. we shoulda gotten second place! arg.... that's ok. it was a great experience, we learned a whole lot, got to know some great people, and will do better next year. given the circumstances, we had nobody with VC experience so we did really well. other teams were heavier in the VC experience. oh well, that's how things go. we will do better next year i'm sure of it.

so wanna hear about the interesting people i had on my team? we had a guy from rice university who used to handle patents in nanotechnology. we also had an isreali sergeant who used to command over 1000 tanks. next is a guy who was a mechanical engineer who lived in japan and speak fluent japanese. he wants to start his own company. lastly is an ibanker who did private equity investments. talk about diverse huh? then there was me, biotech-recruiter gal who volunteers for asian american nonprofit groups. hahaha....

saw my cousin bernard this weekend too so that was kool to hang with him and his friends. man MIT people sure do party a lot. i don't think i see cmu people drink as many shots as they do. hahahaa.....boston was way kool though. very trendy and nice. we hung out on newbury street to eat at this asian fusion restaurant. oh man i miss fine dining. there isn't too much of that here in pitts. well you could find places but it's not as nice and the food is not as good.

anyways...i'm a lil' tipsy rite now from a networking event i just got back from. drinking wine on an empty stomach is not a good idea. but how could i resist a good syrah? it was a great event, i think the students that went really enjoyed it. :) hooray!

tubby tummy

my baby bro has a tubby tummy! hahahaha




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