Umm, I guess this blog is losing attention in favor of Facebook. 

Okay

I'm in Milan! How's that for cool?!? More to come- but I know we needed a new post.

David

someone post something new and cool.

people need to post more about their lives.

i reallyyyy want to hear about the cool stuff everyone's been doing.

pretty please? [insert krista-like pout here]

still at home :)

its been wonderful the last few weeks at home. i'm getting this antsy-ness to go back to school but then again I'm not looking forward to leaving the comfort of my home. I am the only child in this house! Its kind of new to me, but fun at the same time. My dad finally admitted that I am his favorite (Sorry, Tim!). He's always been saying he loves all his kids equally, but its not true. Though I still think he and my mom are partial to Tim. My mom started missing him BEFORE he left for Japan and both of them diligently check for Tim's blog posts every day.

I finished teacher training for Kaplan and I'm excited. For those of you who want a job for the side, Kaplan is always hiring. Its a great job and it pays pretty well. (MCAT teachers get paid better than SAT, so premed students... after you take the MCAT, you can jump on board!) Let me know if you want to work there and I can refer you to the academic manager. I'm really excited to get teaching! :)

I keep telling my parents how funny it would be to tell my friends what my favorite foods are. So let's see what you guys think. Radish/dicon cake (or paste I suppose) and fried tofu... it doesn't seem very appealing on the page, huh? I just finished eating a wholeeeee bunch of radish cake. Mmmmmm. Homemade food. :)

Anyone else have weird sounding favorite foods?

Basically I'm bored when I'm not working or making food. Btw, I make a mean salad now with a wasabi vinaigrette.

And Tim, mom finally made me clean/organize my room. Its pretty spotless. Can you believe it? Me neither.

My first quake!

So an earthquake shook up my town yesterday, registering a 5.3 on the Richter. It was my first one too, and when my entire house started to act like it was on wheels, I went and hid in the bathtub with my sister, because I couldn't remember if you did that for quakes or tornadoes. Silly me!

The phones went down for hours because the lines were inundated with frantic calls, and I think a couple rafters came lose in the backyard, but other than that, everything was okay.

Fact: Most hospitals are actually built on wheels - its supposed to lessen the impact and all because you roll with the shake, but it also makes even the tiniest ripple seem like you're going to die. Did you know that?

whilst avoiding doing work...

i thought i'd update you on a restaurant discovery. its not new. its been around for five years, and a lot of people have been telling me to go, but i hadn't taken any of that advice until this past weekend.

Figo Pasta.

many people probably have been there before, but i went for the first time with arielle for dinner saturday night. it's fabulous. SO fabulous, in fact, that i took my mother, aunt, and 2 cousins there again last night.

for those of you who have never been, its italian, obviously. the general format is that you choose the type of pasta you want: ravioli, short pasta (penne, rigatoni, gnocchi, etc), or long pasta (linguine, fettuccine, etc). if you get long pasta, you have a choice between spinach noodles or egg noodles. the spinach noodles are extra wonderful.

then after choosing the pasta, you choose your sauce. when i went with arielle, i got the siciliana, which is eggplant, mozzarella cheeze, fresh basil (big leaves of it too. yum), and ricotta cheese (in big chunks) in a marinara sauce. last night, i got their gnocchi which is amazingggg in a marinara sauce that has lamb ragu, olives, and a type of rosemary cheese that i had never had before and don't remember the name of.

my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

oh and if you tell them you're a first time guest at figo (it might be different for different locations, of which there are 5... 6 soon), they bring you this FABULOUS tiramisu. think of the best tiramisu you've EVER had. its better than that.

yum.

k. now i should do some work so that i don't look like a fool during training tonight.

bummer.

so I vividly remember trying Google Maps a couple years ago. I put in my home address for the starting point and then London, UK for the destination.

and it was great. cause after the directions to the border, it said "swim _____ miles."

seriously.
it was HILARIOUS.

so, I told my mom and cousin Shannon today about it today, but they didn't believe me. I just tried it again.

it doesn't work anymore. :( :( :(

now it says the boring "we cannot provide driving directions between Lilburn, GA and London, UK" or something to that effect.

they should've just kept it for kicks. even if we didn't need Google Maps to get places, we would use it just to see "swim _____ miles."

david's visit

Blogging last weekend is going to take a loonnnnggg time. But day 1 is up. Read.

(click on the right)

Tim Soo

wow.

http://www.cracked.com/article_16459_13-things-you-wont-believe-are-against-law-somewhere.html

So I was reading a newsfeed and came across this link. #2? Lilburn Ga. WHERE I LIVE. It's like population nothing, how the heck did we make it on there?

Tim Soo

http://neverbashfulwithbutter.blogspot.com/2007/12/experiments-in-deliciousness-bacon.html


Someone please oh please try this and let me know.

A friend recommended this video..

and though I'd seen it before, it never gets old!

WATCH IT WATCH IT WATCH IT

If you thought the Emory Bubble was bad...

today was my fourth day at work. I barely got all my necessary gear together and the real work starts next week. Fridays end early, so I went to play squash with my friend. I ran into a girl, who seemed familiar, and it turns out that I had lunch at the table next to her today. She already knew I worked on the floor above her, my exact department and position, as well as how long I'm staying. If she wasn't cute I'd be freaked out!

Blood.

Gah. Go read my last post on my blog. Vampiro....

end of vaca

we got back from vacation a few hours ago.

i loved every moment (well almost) of it, but i'm so glad to be home. i've missed my bed.

tuesday we left home and got to myrtle beach. the marriott resort was glorious. the beach and view from the room were even better. i'm tan now. i got a little burnt but not unbearably. i took the most glorious nap on the beach. for about 20 minutes. the perfect breeze. in the shade but nice warmth. wonderous waves to listen to.

we spent two days there. then went to charleston.

charleston has this constant SW breeze. beautiful weather and warm but not unbearably hot because of the breeze. we visited two historical houses which was just astounding. a lot of preservation effort went into it.

the next day we left for savannah. if you've never been, you should go. its so much easier to describe the experience with pictures.

but that's going to have to wait. cause i'm exhausted. i drove a lot. well not too much but i'm pretty tired now.

i'll explain more in depth when i'm not so tired.

tomorrow i have to prepare all my stuff for training on monday. about 7 hours of preparations. that's what THEY estimated. knowing me, it'll be at least 10. ew.

~tiff

p.s. btw, tim... we miss you, but not TOO much because you were there. we have proof.
p.p.s. i ate so much seafood on this trip that my stomach feels uneasy at the thought of more seafood. please, no mentions of that topic.

yes, i think i'm going a bit crazy...

Reasons:

1) I wake up at 6:30 in the MORNING... to go on a jog with my pops... hrmm

2) Then, I go crazy on the starbucks.. kinda like this--



3) Then, I get a bit jumpy, giggly, hyper (tiff knows what that means) and go a bit more crazy at work and take pictures like this- (and partially it could also be cause i'm bored from growing balls all day hahahaha)




But, for the most part I try to be normal and work like a real scientist and make my own thermacouple--



Hehe.... I got bored at guess where? -___-;
Well, that's it for today kids! LOVE YA'LL <3

Next Day

After last night, I called in this morning to say I'd be a little late so at least I would be able to think coherently in lab. I called half-awake but still managed what little Japanese I could to get my point across.

Dr. Saito is awesome... well and crazy. He came to work today and I met with him. He's very knowledgeable and seems to know everything I've read or talked about. Anyways after talking to him for a while he said he had to leave soon b/c he needed ivy drip antibiotics b/c his pneumonia was of a dangerous degree. And he came to work. Crazy.

Just now finally getting caught up on some things but I'm still exhausted. Coffee keeps me awake, but painfully so. Gah. I'll get somethin.

-Tim Soo

I'd be scared to be a puppy.

The late night last night took a toll on me.

I was tired at work. Dr. Saito was still ill but I had enough to do. Researching and relearning a lot of terminology.

To stay awake and work effectively I drank a iced latte from the vending machine. These machines are much cooler than the ones back home. It had a countdown to when my drink would be ready and I got to see it finish as the little door opened and it pushed my drink out.

This was probably stupid of me but I had just enough change in my pocket to try one of the canned coffee drinks. I see them everywhere so I thought I'd drink one.

My body doesn't handle caffeine. I rarely have it aside from tea so two coffee drinks had be shaking all day. Caffeine has the effect of making me nauseous, causes me to cough a lot, lose memory capacity, not think straight, and shake randomly. Great stuff isn't it?

Anyways, around 6 I get a call from Ming-yee (a friend who happened to also be in Japan) asking if I wanted to meet up with her and her friends from Yale to go sing Karaoke. Now I was dead tired but I thought, "You only live once, eh?" And since we were all busy most of the time, I thought I might as well seize the opportunity.

Unfortunately she told me she wanted to meet at 7 and I still had to go home and drop my stuff off first. I packed up, went home, cleaned up, took the bus to Shibuya and then the train to Shinjuku and got there by 7:10. Not bad eh? Except they didn't get there until 8:30. No worries though. I explored this HUGE mall (Keio mall). There were 9 floors that were each quite large. Everything was ridiculously expensive... but it was still fun to shop. Mainly it was clothes so I lost interest quickly.

I was however fascinated by the restaurants all over the place... the different types, foods etc. Well since I had had caffeine as was nauseous/tired, I was far from hungry. So I walked into a Haagen-daz and ordered a mango sherbet while I waited for them. Quite good.

The rest of this story gets somewhat dicey so I'll avoid using specific name at times to protect their own identity. Who knows who'll end up reading this.

Ming-yee was there w/ a language program with nine other students from Yale. They're all pretty cool though their personality style was a bit different than mine. Nonetheless they were fun to hang around. Initial greetings and then off to karaoke. It was a little place but it had a lot of English songs and enough of them knew basic Japanese to get by. Oh right. Introductions.



Kevin, Ateesh, Elizabeth, Aflua (sp?), Rochelle, Hans, Jane, Reno, and I'm leaving one out and mixing their names. All from Yale and most are in the pictures.



Singing was fun... course I was half-dead and feeling ill but still all good. Their music tastes were interesting and definitely hilarious.




Unfortunately things made a turn for the not-so-good. Apparently some had pre-gamed earlier and long story short, one of the people had never gotten drunk before and ended up passing out and hurling in the bathroom. I stayed with a couple others to try and clean him up/keep him awake until the ambulance came and they took him away. Luckily one of the girls is half-Japanese and so she could do well w/ communicating. At this point though it was late and I still needed to make it home.

The trains run until 12/1230 depending on the train line and I had a lot further to go then anyone else. I had been planning on leaving a lot earlier but things happen. Anyways by the time I got to Shibuya (video below), the buses weren't running anymore and I couldn't even find my bus. So I had to take the train line home... I had done this once before but it was very different at night and I had also taken a taxi for the last stretch.

Again long story short, I got to the Denny's and couldn't remember how to get back home. An hour later I found a map and made it back. It was late and I was covered in... the products of their night activity... to say the least.

And the image of this little weiner dog looking scared w/ tons of feet walking past crossing a major intersection kept crossing my mind. I'd be scared to be a puppy.

Drinks Drinks

Soooo.. what kind of coffee is the best?

Vending machines everywhere with coffee and ... weird drinks.

-Tim Soo

My so-called summer

Soooo i figured it's about time that i update everyone about my summer (I'm sure you're all dying to know.) I'm working at the friendliest little coffee shop a few blocks from my house. I now know everything i could ever want to know about coffee. I used to not be a big coffee drinker, but this place has converted me. It's the best I've ever had! I try and stick to decaf though or else I get kinda wired. In addition, I'm studying for the mcats. no course though-- just me and a book. And I'm volunteering at a homeless health clinic in new orleans, which is not nearly as exciting as it sounds.
Although neither balls nor bras nor foreign countries are involved it suits me fine for now.

Sunsets around the world

Yesterday was the longest day of the year, and it ended in a correspondingly stunning sunset, one of the prettiest I can claim to have ever seen. Needless to say, my phone camera hardly does it justice. If you have a romantic spirit and some time on your hands, go ahead and share a sunset!

By the way...

Does the stuff to the right ... not show up on the right for anyone else? (shows up underneath)


Tim Soo

Thanks to Samyukta

I've included my blog in the taskbar to the right. It'll just link to it so you don't have to keep going to the posts.

Also, I've fixed the comments per Samyukta's request. No more word verification or anything. And it opens in a new window.

-Tim Soo

Night Time Adventures

New episode of where did Tim end up tonight?

tasooey.blogspot.com

-Tim Soo

A couple new posts

tasooey.blogspot.com

a couple more days logged in....

tim soo

tiffany, once i arrive in lilburn, ga in a box with lots and lots of popped bubble wrap, we should go to this victoria's secret semi-annual sale chelsea is speaking of! I mean, think about it! If we are going to walk around in our underwear, next year, we might as well look good doing it :)

well... i am bored once again in this dungeon-like lab. i should be growing more balls in a bit. i am warming up the medium... which is where these prostate cells are grown on... sounds exciting huh?

i sometimes picture myself out roaming europe, or learning japanese like tim instead. hahahaha... but then reality checks in.. and then, automatically the krista pout is displayed on my face! maybe tim is right, i will never be able to make any other facial expressions. oh nooo!

the timer is going off.. which means back to growing balls -___-

Krista's Old Post

chelsea, you are awesome for working at victoria's secret and reminding us girls the important news of the semi-annual sale! :)

tiffany, we must go to this sale once i am fedexed over to lilburn, ga because we might as well look good while running around in our underwear next year in our apartment.

sooo, i am again growing balls in my lab

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Heres Krista's original post.... i think it got cut off and she had to rewrite it.

home life in ga

you know what's surprising? its actually not THAT hot in georgia (crap... its going to get hot now that i've said that, huh?)

my mom, sister, and i had a really large brunch at rise n dine. i tried a pirogi for the first time. yummm.
but still... its essentially potatoes inside flour-y/dumpling like thing with lots of sour cream on top.
oh, and if you've never had the sweet potato pancakes there, you need to drop everything right now and go get some. yummmmmm.

so anyways... after our starchy heavy breakfast, my sister and mother decided that we had to exercise it off.
i don't like exercising outside of dance. seriously.
cindy and i power walked 3 miles. the first two miles, my mom joined us... really it was me power walking and cindy staying behind to accompany my mom. (i figured out i walk faster than i jog. bummer. but then again, i power walk pretty fast.)
i've never slept so well in my life. i woke up this morning... in a lot of pain.

oooh and i get to start training for kaplan on monday. according to rachel (white), it's not fun at all, but i'm excited to get started. i'll start teaching in mid- to late july.

and i got a haircut. it's currently right above my shoulders. expectedly, it is now a big poofball again.... but manageable after straight ironing it. i'll post a picture later.

going to philly in a few weeks (2nd week of july) to help cindy move in. (mark it on your calendars, philly people.) and probably taking a vacay next week. we were thinking maybe costa rica but decided it was too mean to go without tim. i'll keep you posted.

The Victoria's Secret Semi-Annual Sale is this week...don't miss it.

I don't know if I can beat Krista's "growing balls" but I am working at Victoria's Secret. That's right...I'm hawking bras for the summer at minimum wage because no one else would hire me.
I am also interning like 30 hours/week during the days, though, so I'm definitely busy. And my internship (North Georgia AIDS Alliance) requires me to know the difference between chlamydia and syphilis, be able to write radio public service announcements in Spanish about AIDS (SIDAS), and deal with small town politics.

Needless to say, I cannot wait to go to DC to see our beautiful Annabelle. Also, I bought the world's greatest backpack for Nicaragua. I think it's important enough to include on the blog.

Also, I got netflix for the summer because this town shuts down at like 8, so post up if you have any movie suggestions for me.

Also, I miss everyone and I will be on campus August 20-26 ish, so I better see everyone.

Wisdom

I had a wisdom tooth pulled today. Here I am, trying to think about something other than food. Especially solid food. Mmm, I looove solid food. Like steak, potatoes and fresh vegetables. Wow, it sure does not help to let it all out in a blog.

First Full Day...

http://tasooey.blogspot.com/2008/06/first-full-day.html

Japan!

Since I have to post in more than one blog, I just started my own and I'll link to it here if you want to follow my Japan escapades.

Post people! I want to know what people are up to!

http://tasooey.blogspot.com/2008/06/japan-ahoy.html

Leaving for Japan in a few...

So I'm leaving for Japan soon... didn't start hitting me until now. I already miss everyone. PLEASE stay tuned to make sure I'm alive. :-) I'll post pictures and I expect YOU ALL to do so too...

Tim Soo

soooo i was supposed to be learning japanese.. but i got distracted.. *cough*.. stories for later. but seriously.. any advice? anything people want? and japanese kids you want me to steal???

tim soo

from the texan

soo i find this blog awesome :) haha

what am i doing this summer? david told me to answer: i'm growing balls in texas this summer. hahahahahha! well, i guess that is pretty much what i am doing.

i work in a bioengineering lab here at university of texas at arlington, and my job is to culture cancerous prostate cells. i know sounds sexy doesn't it?! lol. and then, i get to burn them.. as in heat them and see at what temperature they die. sounds more exciting than it is. sometimes i'm stuck in the dungeon-like lab.. with nothing to do but go on aim and check facebook a million times. sooo expect lots of post from me! hehe. 

miss you all! hope to hear about ya'lls awesome summers ;)

agent

I was called by a casting agent and they want to see me tonight....
I'm so dead nervous.

boston

:-(... sorry man. i don't have the funds or time to do so... I need to save up for this next year since I'm not working.... raincheck?

Tim Soo

Boston

Anyone want to come to Boston? Ben's coming up next Wednesday (5/21). If anyone else wants to come, let me know. You're all welcome to visit.

and so it begins.

how's summer for all? slash what's everyone doing again...?

my favorite new story

So I was helping my mother cook for a dinner party last weekend, and was moving a pot from one burner on the stove to the one behind it using a napkin as my mitt. The napkin dangled down and caught on fire!!! And then a minute later, it touched my shirt and that caught on fire!

All of a sudden, I was like, hmm, why does my stomach feel hot, and look down and scream, obviously. I put the shirt-fire out with my burning napkin (brilliant, I know) and then threw down the napkin to the floor. My mom walked in to see me beating it down and flipped. It was really funny seeing her mourning the loss of a good napkin for a good while before she saw me and became hysterical and huggy. I really wish I was in the right mind to take pictures.

Guess what sucks...

So apparently I have to be in Panama by August 25... I apply for that program b/c it said they didn't start until into September... I get back the 20th and leave five days later... meaning I won't be able to see any of you guys until the spring.... For the people whose stuff I'm storing.. I'll make sure it gets to you. No worries.

Tim Soo

This Blog

Hey all. This is just to keep up with each other over the break and for those of us gone... through junior year... at least. Who knows, we might even be able to keep this after college. Post about where you are, what you're doing, ancedotes, funny pictures... whatever dost thou wish. I have to keep a post for the summer anyways so get a gmail account and start posting.

Tim Soo