happy day before independence day! not that i prescribe to this country's independence, especially given the fact that i know maybe 10% of its history (if i am lucky) ....
anyhoo, i was going through our file server today, looking for certain key video that i wanted to watch, and was very disappointed (and annoyed) to find that they were somehow deleted from the folder i stored them in! i dont know who would do that (i dont think it was me - so it had to be the other person who lives with me!!) - now i have to start re-collecting those videos, and its hard when you dont have the appropriate means to download stuff off the net anymore. oh well, i guess i can use my imaginations..
but the fun part of searching for those lost videos was the fact that i found some of my old letters and files, and pictures from 1998!!! or even before then.. 1997... the year i arrived on the shores of oceanside, california, green as can be and excited to be traipsing in a country oh-so-yearned-by-many back home. i can remember that day as vividly today... flight into LAX, with 20 other college bound scholar participants, all excitedly talking about what they wanted to do first. being greeted by the pre-college advisor, Kat, of LCP International Institute, and another Malaysian scholar, who drove this huge astrovan from LAX to oceanside. The very first time in an apartment with four other girls, living independently from the parental unit. And then - the first store that we stepped foot in, was none other than Savon-Osco (or Jewel Osco in the midwest). It was pretty intimidating the first time we were in there - not being used to the way the aisles were divvied up, the scale of it (it was HUGE!) ... and getting used to the green dollar bills... *sigh*... long ago, when we were green and innocent. I loved those days.
anyway, this has a point.
i was going through my folder structure and found some old college essays, some of which had gotten me into various universities across the US. i must say, i wasnt entirely sure why or how some of those made it through - this one essay that i wrote that got me into northwestern - what the heck! it had nothing to do with ANYTHING - something about dad expressing his love for me verbally and how i realized how special it was, bla bla bla... haha, i cant believe the college admissions people bought that story - it was way too sappy.
found some old websites that i used to create as i learned the trade - which got me to yet another folder structure, some personal website i had meant to create, finish, and upload to akirasoft as part of a "fasha.akirasoft" extension. that led me to remembering the fasha.akirasoft.com/portfolio... which is still up there apparently.. hehehehe... oh my gawd - all these old memories coming back to me.....
i have grown, havent i? from that green, 17 year old girl, excited by the very thought of going shopping for groceries in mega ginormous stores, to this womanhood that i have created of myself - embarking upon the big two-seven... a decade ago i was purified and untainted, unaware of the world. now i am none the wiser, but definitely tainted and not so purified =) you learn as you go along i suppose. in many ways, i have accomplished aplenty. a new job that loves me as much as i love it (hopefully this will last), a new house, a new husband, a new set of kittens that grew into a pair of beautiful cats, a new car.. everything new.
two-seven.
27.
in 2.7 months.
anyhoo, i was going through our file server today, looking for certain key video that i wanted to watch, and was very disappointed (and annoyed) to find that they were somehow deleted from the folder i stored them in! i dont know who would do that (i dont think it was me - so it had to be the other person who lives with me!!) - now i have to start re-collecting those videos, and its hard when you dont have the appropriate means to download stuff off the net anymore. oh well, i guess i can use my imaginations..
but the fun part of searching for those lost videos was the fact that i found some of my old letters and files, and pictures from 1998!!! or even before then.. 1997... the year i arrived on the shores of oceanside, california, green as can be and excited to be traipsing in a country oh-so-yearned-by-many back home. i can remember that day as vividly today... flight into LAX, with 20 other college bound scholar participants, all excitedly talking about what they wanted to do first. being greeted by the pre-college advisor, Kat, of LCP International Institute, and another Malaysian scholar, who drove this huge astrovan from LAX to oceanside. The very first time in an apartment with four other girls, living independently from the parental unit. And then - the first store that we stepped foot in, was none other than Savon-Osco (or Jewel Osco in the midwest). It was pretty intimidating the first time we were in there - not being used to the way the aisles were divvied up, the scale of it (it was HUGE!) ... and getting used to the green dollar bills... *sigh*... long ago, when we were green and innocent. I loved those days.
anyway, this has a point.
i was going through my folder structure and found some old college essays, some of which had gotten me into various universities across the US. i must say, i wasnt entirely sure why or how some of those made it through - this one essay that i wrote that got me into northwestern - what the heck! it had nothing to do with ANYTHING - something about dad expressing his love for me verbally and how i realized how special it was, bla bla bla... haha, i cant believe the college admissions people bought that story - it was way too sappy.
found some old websites that i used to create as i learned the trade - which got me to yet another folder structure, some personal website i had meant to create, finish, and upload to akirasoft as part of a "fasha.akirasoft" extension. that led me to remembering the fasha.akirasoft.com/portfolio... which is still up there apparently.. hehehehe... oh my gawd - all these old memories coming back to me.....
i have grown, havent i? from that green, 17 year old girl, excited by the very thought of going shopping for groceries in mega ginormous stores, to this womanhood that i have created of myself - embarking upon the big two-seven... a decade ago i was purified and untainted, unaware of the world. now i am none the wiser, but definitely tainted and not so purified =) you learn as you go along i suppose. in many ways, i have accomplished aplenty. a new job that loves me as much as i love it (hopefully this will last), a new house, a new husband, a new set of kittens that grew into a pair of beautiful cats, a new car.. everything new.
two-seven.
27.
in 2.7 months.