i was randomly walking today (the weather today, by the way, was BEAUTIFUL - i'm sure many people would beg to differ, seeing as how it was...well, cold, but i LOVE cold, beautiful weather), and i just saw...
this woman with two asian babies in one of those double-carriage things. the two baby-toddlers were fast asleep, but the cutest part was that their heads were leaning in towards each other!!!! and the boy was wearing blue and the girl was wearing pink.
how could that NOT brighten up your day??
ADORBS!!
<333
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
haiti
after the earthquake happened in haiti a week ago, i'm completely ashamed to admit that i did absolutely nothing. i don't know why, but it wasn't like last time, when an earthquake devastated the area around sichuan and i literally organized an entire community garage sale. during those weeks, i scoured the news daily, reading every article i could, learning about, hurting for, these people. this time, though...for some reason...i don't know if i felt busy with school, or was too preoccupied with my own selfishness - i don't know what it was, but the compassion and caring i prided myself on that year was missing.
but there came an opportunity for me to take action. penn for unicef has a campaign going on where if you donate a dollar, you can sign a petition. the goal is to get 1000 signatures on the petition, because IF we're able to - which i really hope we are - there are penn professors who have pledged to donate at least $20 (some have even pledged $200!) to haiti.
so as part of it, i just went up and down the four floors of kings court (someone else is covering part of english house later). i was so pleasantly surprised by how eager and willing people were to donate to haiti. although i suppose i shouldn't have been that surprised. i was probably just extra surprised because of the not eager way i personally reacted to it.
anyway, it is really heart-warming to see people so enthusiastically donate and sign the petition for haiti. obviously, it's hard not to have heard about such a sad event happening on such an enormous scale, but while a dollar seems so little to some of us, it is precisely the thought, the action, the wanting to help others that's gonna go such a long way for humanity. HURRAY!!
so...thank you to the wonderful people who donated money or signed the petition. :) :) :) :) :)
loove
but there came an opportunity for me to take action. penn for unicef has a campaign going on where if you donate a dollar, you can sign a petition. the goal is to get 1000 signatures on the petition, because IF we're able to - which i really hope we are - there are penn professors who have pledged to donate at least $20 (some have even pledged $200!) to haiti.
so as part of it, i just went up and down the four floors of kings court (someone else is covering part of english house later). i was so pleasantly surprised by how eager and willing people were to donate to haiti. although i suppose i shouldn't have been that surprised. i was probably just extra surprised because of the not eager way i personally reacted to it.
anyway, it is really heart-warming to see people so enthusiastically donate and sign the petition for haiti. obviously, it's hard not to have heard about such a sad event happening on such an enormous scale, but while a dollar seems so little to some of us, it is precisely the thought, the action, the wanting to help others that's gonna go such a long way for humanity. HURRAY!!
so...thank you to the wonderful people who donated money or signed the petition. :) :) :) :) :)
loove
Thursday, January 14, 2010
i just got back from china a couple of days ago (blogspot was blocked. sad). things that made me smile on my trip:
1) love. there is no greater feeling than love. i'll just leave it at that.
2) one time, we got in a cab, and unlike other cab drivers who just want your money, this cab driver was like, "if you cross the street and get a cab, it'll be going in your direction, so it'll be cheaper. so you guys should get off and cross the street and take the other one. what an honest and nice person :)
3) on my way back (on the long long flight), as we were landing, there was a little girl sitting way behind me, and i kept hearing her little voice exclaim: "oh my gosh!! look! it's so beeeauuutiful!!" over and over. it was SO cute...the girl must've been about six or seven. AHHH.
4) while i was waiting to get picked up from the airport, i was squatting by my luggage (looking for something) and i didn't have one of those carts, so i must've looked like i just had a ton of stuff. this random guy walked up to me and said, "miss? there's a cart over there." i was like "oh, thank you! but i'm just waiting to get picked up." but it was so nice of him :)
lovee.
1) love. there is no greater feeling than love. i'll just leave it at that.
2) one time, we got in a cab, and unlike other cab drivers who just want your money, this cab driver was like, "if you cross the street and get a cab, it'll be going in your direction, so it'll be cheaper. so you guys should get off and cross the street and take the other one. what an honest and nice person :)
3) on my way back (on the long long flight), as we were landing, there was a little girl sitting way behind me, and i kept hearing her little voice exclaim: "oh my gosh!! look! it's so beeeauuutiful!!" over and over. it was SO cute...the girl must've been about six or seven. AHHH.
4) while i was waiting to get picked up from the airport, i was squatting by my luggage (looking for something) and i didn't have one of those carts, so i must've looked like i just had a ton of stuff. this random guy walked up to me and said, "miss? there's a cart over there." i was like "oh, thank you! but i'm just waiting to get picked up." but it was so nice of him :)
lovee.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
white
so last night around 4am, it started to snow here in philly. the snow's pretty much carried on till just an hour or two ago - so maybe a full 20ish hours. it's gotten superthick, and i'll admit, it looks beautiful outside - until you hit the roads, that is (maybe it's because i'm from chicago, but i just don't understand...WHERE ARE THE SNOWPLOWS?? AND SALT???) . anyway, i'm still studying for my last final - stressful thursday is over, though, so i'm just grateful for that.
i ended up just staying up and talking to someone until 5am last night - bad for the both of us, because we both have an accounting final on monday - but the talk was good. we sat in a lounge in the lobby of her dorm. i would say it was probably around 3:45am? actually, i really don't know - but there was always soft music playing in the background, because the security guard just had christmas music playing as she sat at the desk. i don't know why i think this is so cute but all of a sudden she just started singing along to the song - i can't even remember what the song was (seriously...4am = burned out brain) but it was so...cute? simple, but cute.
as the snow continued to fall, it saw me sleep...from 6 am....to 12 pm. gross. anyway, i headed somewhere to study (little did i know how unproductive i would be...) anyway, it was literally like, blizzarding. crazy snow. as i walked in, teh security guard told me, "wipe your feet right there!" at first, for some reason, i thought it was because he didn't want me to get huntsman hall dirty. then he continued, "good, sweetie. i don't want you to slip and fall or anything - be careful walking in!" to which i just...i don't know. greatly appreciate it, i guess.
i feel like some things i write about on this blog are just things that a lot of people just kind of brush by and don't stop to think about. but once you do, you see that not everyone's always going to be that kind, or that considerate. that you can be pleasantly surprised in the littlest of ways. it's less than a week until christmas, and then new year's after that. i should be updating a couple of times between now and then, though.
:) xoxoooooo.
i ended up just staying up and talking to someone until 5am last night - bad for the both of us, because we both have an accounting final on monday - but the talk was good. we sat in a lounge in the lobby of her dorm. i would say it was probably around 3:45am? actually, i really don't know - but there was always soft music playing in the background, because the security guard just had christmas music playing as she sat at the desk. i don't know why i think this is so cute but all of a sudden she just started singing along to the song - i can't even remember what the song was (seriously...4am = burned out brain) but it was so...cute? simple, but cute.
as the snow continued to fall, it saw me sleep...from 6 am....to 12 pm. gross. anyway, i headed somewhere to study (little did i know how unproductive i would be...) anyway, it was literally like, blizzarding. crazy snow. as i walked in, teh security guard told me, "wipe your feet right there!" at first, for some reason, i thought it was because he didn't want me to get huntsman hall dirty. then he continued, "good, sweetie. i don't want you to slip and fall or anything - be careful walking in!" to which i just...i don't know. greatly appreciate it, i guess.
i feel like some things i write about on this blog are just things that a lot of people just kind of brush by and don't stop to think about. but once you do, you see that not everyone's always going to be that kind, or that considerate. that you can be pleasantly surprised in the littlest of ways. it's less than a week until christmas, and then new year's after that. i should be updating a couple of times between now and then, though.
:) xoxoooooo.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
cookies!
finals season is highly, highly, HIGHLY stressful.
also, seeing people who are done super-early makes me super-jealous.
it's been a really rough semester, but also a really encouraging semester in terms of everyone just trying to encourage each other, whether it's randomly dropping a line on gchat/AIM, or...
people who are done baking cookies, then travelling all around campus to deliver them to those of us who are still studying (and close to passing out/giving up/needing sleep).
thank you for being sunshines in our dark, gloomy, depressing, long, tiring, stressful nights of studying.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxo.
also, seeing people who are done super-early makes me super-jealous.
it's been a really rough semester, but also a really encouraging semester in terms of everyone just trying to encourage each other, whether it's randomly dropping a line on gchat/AIM, or...
people who are done baking cookies, then travelling all around campus to deliver them to those of us who are still studying (and close to passing out/giving up/needing sleep).
thank you for being sunshines in our dark, gloomy, depressing, long, tiring, stressful nights of studying.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxo.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
have a good night
dear security guard on shift at 3:30 a.m. in huntsman hall,
thank you for, as i walked out into the wee hours of the night, looking at me, smiling, and saying, "have a good night!" in such a friendly manner. you made my night more bearable and a little brighter.
xoxo.
thank you for, as i walked out into the wee hours of the night, looking at me, smiling, and saying, "have a good night!" in such a friendly manner. you made my night more bearable and a little brighter.
xoxo.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
arms
so i went to go see a production of the nutcracker by the pennsylvania ballet today. it was good seeing the nutcracker again - i love the music (mainly second half, though...not gonna lie, i'm not a huge fan of the first half) and the ballerinas (and ballerinos...?) were good. a lot of them were kids, so they were SO cute, especially the little boy that played fritz :)
so there was a family sitting next to me, and at first the little boy was seated next to me. but he kept craning his neck and kind of getting out of his seat. i think his dad realized that whenever he did that, i couldn't see, so he kept telling the boy to sit down. finally, they ended up switching seats with each other...haha.
but what was cutest was when, after the dad ended up sitting next to me, the little girl - who must've only been about 2 or 3 years old - ended up sitting in her dad's lap, and as we all watched the sugar plum fairy's dance (the pink people - i think my favorite in today's production), she moved her arms out and waved them around, imitating the dancer on the stage. it was SO. FREAKING. CUTE. and then when that scene was over, she clapped as hard as her little toddler self could.
CUTE.
xoxoooo.
so there was a family sitting next to me, and at first the little boy was seated next to me. but he kept craning his neck and kind of getting out of his seat. i think his dad realized that whenever he did that, i couldn't see, so he kept telling the boy to sit down. finally, they ended up switching seats with each other...haha.
but what was cutest was when, after the dad ended up sitting next to me, the little girl - who must've only been about 2 or 3 years old - ended up sitting in her dad's lap, and as we all watched the sugar plum fairy's dance (the pink people - i think my favorite in today's production), she moved her arms out and waved them around, imitating the dancer on the stage. it was SO. FREAKING. CUTE. and then when that scene was over, she clapped as hard as her little toddler self could.
CUTE.
xoxoooo.
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