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My current desktop layouts -- though really I only use the second one. <3

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Things I use Google for.

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I swear I don’t look that old yet..

Was walking along a park and had crossed the road and stopped there for a bit, until I heard some driver honk repeatedly like a madman.  Turned around, and saw this tiny little girl with this light pink dress and little bows in her hair running across the street by herself...

Driver turns to me angrily and demands if I’m her father, and implying how the hell I could let this adorable little girl run across the street by herself...

Okay cut.  I realize I forgot to shave today, and I’m wearing a buttoned up shirt and got a recent haircut, but this kind of made me a little sad.  Although I guess looking a bit older at my age isn’t too bad.  Anyway...

I was a bit in shock with everything but assured him I wasn’t her father but I’ll help look for her family.  The man looked in a hurry and relieved I wanted to help and drove off.

I sat down next to the little girl (she’s like two feet tall, heh) and she stared back completely unfazed.  I was a bit surprised she didn’t run away but then I thought, hell she ran across a street, I guess she’s a bold one.  There’s a bunch of Asians in my area, and this little girl looked a little Asian, but had light brown hair, not black -- I decided to try English first, and I’ll switch to Chinese if she didn’t understand me.

Tried asking her if she knew where her parents were, general information like that, and after a couple questions all I got was “Daddy left!”  While I sat there wondering what she possibly could have meant by that, she took a while longer and decided to finish her sentence: “Daddy left- to take a walk.”  Apparently I found out after a minute she meant she came to the park with someone else.  So I tried asking for mommy and she just shook her head.

At this point I decided it might be faster to just lead her back across the street and look for people in the park, as she came running from that direction.  So I lead her towards the crosswalk and suddenly she pointed with this big smile on her face.

I turn around to see two exasperated Asian grandparents pointing at the girl yelling “I FOUND HER” in mandarin.  Chucked a bit to myself as they berated her for running off on her own -- it seems like this was most definitely not the first time it’s happened.

They ran over and thanked me, explaining how they left for “just ONE minute��� to use the restroom, and of course she disappeared.  Guess I was right though about her being part-Asian.

Anyway that was the first time I was mistaken for a dad haha.  She was adorable and full of curiosity in her eyes as well as a little mischief -- I hope she doesn’t run into too much trouble with all that boldness and doesn’t get hurt!

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I found lions off google images.

I drew one (as in I can’t come up with original poses).  for someone, with subtle coloring.  Showing it off :D

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Purring is really difficult. :/

I’ve googled it and everything.  I sounded like a duck.

Although at this rate, even if I get it, instead of looking happy and content my face will look like i’m in the middle of a math exam.

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I’m actually in quite a good mood; I just thought it fit.

Also, why is my draw tag so boring.. :<

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And today I had to actually change my DNS ip (to google’s, our internet masterminds) so I can connect to webpages again... since Comcast having DNS lookup issues for a giant portion of their west coast subscribers... 

oh. and hello again, tumblr!  Not sure if I really missed you, but hey glad to see the cat blogs I follow are still alive.

Edit: Love you too, comcast. <3

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First time making all of these, Cranberry Pie, Cranberry Sauce, and Scalloped Potatoes!  All made for the ARCC Thanksgiving Potluck, which was lots of fun!

Watched Annie Chen make an entire turkey, in awe the entire time.  Everyone brought such good food!

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Made a bunch of little quiches before we went camping -- little bite-sized things that are easy to heat up and eat quickly, especially for drivers!

Quiches are wonderful, both taste wise and the fact that I can throw in whatever I feel like at the moment, haha.  Made little potato-nests for them, which also saves me from making actual crust -- although after I finished doing that, I think perhaps making a dough-based crust would've been easier... oh well, lets say it was for the visual effect. :)

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Made a cheesecake-swirled banana-nut bread! :D  Had a couple super ripe bananas and I remembered those were perfect for baking, so I had to try it.

As for swirling, it tastes fine but I have yet to make it so it looks like those gorgeous swirls they make in cake stores -- how do?! D:

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Made little stuffed mushrooms today (bite sized, perfect to hungry feed drivers!)

- mom says they look like they're dim-sum-styled haha.

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CHEESECAKE, DONEE!

Putting cheesecake into a waterbath into a little toaster oven is one of the hardest things I've done haha.  Totally worth it though!

I hope next year our actual oven's gonna be fixed.  Until then.

Also, farmer's market strawberries? Yes please! California is the best. <3

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Morning.. in VMware's new parking lot, haha.

Getting ready for another day of internship-ing! :)

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Berkeley!

Drove to Berkeley today, with Karthik/James to visit Kunal/Andrew [Alex was back home! what D:]

So nice seeing everyone again; watched Kings of Summer, which was uhh, interesting. yeah.

Also, a ton of stuff happened this summer but omg didn't have time to post everything -- I'll try later!

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Just like any other cs major, yeah..  Human, snake, tiger, dog... what next..

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Iron Man 3 with all its fire-ry goodness!

Watched Iron Man 3 with the Stever group today, down at AMC, then went out to eat at Friday's. (:

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One Night in Beijing

ONiB was yesterday!

I was only in A Capella, but the whole thing was super fun; everyone else was awesome -- thanks for such a good show guys!  [Dennis for ONiB hosting, Krissy for the a capella arrangement]  I'll definitely be back next year. :)

Also the afterparty was pretty wicked, most fun I've had at any party.  Love you guys. <3