in a nutshell...

curiosity killed the cat...but cats have nine lives

2010-07-01T16:53:00.000-07:00

its finally sunny in san mateo. and i realized that a lot of people have commented on my blogs. i didnt even know that people read my stuff. i usually just write this all down so that i can clear my head. so thanks

this years been different. i've made a lot of new freinds. some were old that i reconnected with. some were new that i've seen around college. some i just never thought i'd ever meet.i do miss some of my old friends because its werid but the new freinds you make dont knwo you like the ones you've known since grade school. but the weird thing is, you still get along just fine.

after making new friends you dont know how you've gotten by so long without knowing them. and of all this, i think what i like about people is that each person is a little different and they bring something new to the table. like salt brings out flavor in food, people bring a new paradigm shift to your perspective that lets you see the world in a whole new way. but you have to be
careful where you step because you never know how deep the river is.

but im never careful. and while i know its wise to think twice, i'd rather live my life no regrets. so then i think that if i think twice, i might think what would have happened if. and i dont want that.

i've realized my room is filled with junk. junk i dont need. i desperately want to get rid of it all. start new. my walls are so covered you wouldnt be able to tell what colour they were. my wall is probably more 3-d than imax could ever get. i take my things i like but have no wehre to store and tape it onto my walls or nail it down and smile. nails, hammers, and thick clear tape is my best friend. but i think ill take off some of it. start new. i've done that before. i feel like i can seriously let go of what's happened when i do. and i think maybe its time to do that again. clean off the slate. and recreate again. plus, i've lost a few things i'vce been meaning to find.

2009-11-06T23:16:00.000-08:00

on the drive home from an awkward moment, the radio was playing Weezer's i want you to. then it playd cant stop by red hot chilipeppers. then i went to another channel and they were playing red hot chillipeppers otherside. and i thought it would be pretty sick if they too playd weezer's i want you to. then right as my trip was about to end, it started to play weezer's i want you to. two radio stations that went and completed a circle with each other. i was like woah. that was sick. i wish sometimes that life did that.

why?

2009-10-21T00:42:00.000-07:00

When people think that they need help with a problem like how to fix a broken relationship, or how to make someone like them, how to loose weight, or any self help program and they go looking in the internet, i would say that is the number one mistake they are making.

the internet does have lots of people's voices and opinions that may be encouraging or sounds like it helps....but how much does the person who wrote the article know you, or what you're going through, or anything about you besides your ip address? basically, the internet has tons of articles. but most of the the time they all tell you the same thing in different versions because most of the authors of the article generalize and assume that you fit into this imaginary catagory that they've created mainly so that they know who their audience is. usually, what the author is saying doesn't fit for your catagory. and if it does, then maybe the article is very vague and tells you waht you already know; only rephrased to sound smarter...because the author wants to seem like they are helping you, but only really telling you the basic elementary story.

what i'm trying to say is that the internet does cater to you in a way; but when it gets down to the details, it really just makes assumptions that you are this person, or the problem you are dealing with is caused or can be fixed by a certain thing...and thats usually never the case.

if that isnt it, then really you should consider the validity of the article. if you search soemthing on google, theres no way in telling who really wrote it. it might have been some sophisticated middle school student who got a head start in learning their SAT vocab and wants to practice. or maybe theres a man who acts like he's a billionare, tells you how to get there, but in real life, is maybe going through bankruptsy.

if that isnt it, then dude think about it. yeah, maybe the author is writing from a waay different point of view or a super similar view (if that's the case, and you think the way you think is wack, why are you thinking about listening to what they have to say??). but really, who sais that what you think is not important or that what they think is correct. there's really no wrong or right way to deal with things. okay there maybe some wrong ways and those are what mistakes are made of. and if you make a mistake, as long as you learn from them, its really not the end of the world.... usually.

the one thing that is viable, reliable, and usually (if not always correct) is what you belive and what that means to you. if you believe in god and need help, pray. if you believe in detoxing adn yoga, do that and dwell on your delema. really, the only one who knows how to deal with something very (or kind of) personal to you is what you knwo about yourself. if you knkwo that you always get in trouble, dont act hastily. if you knwo that lots of times unless you really pray about it and seek guidence to get the answer, do that. if you think that rearranging your chi helps, by all means reaarange untill you're all through.

the point is that sometimes althought the net is great and textbooks enlighten us, they dont know you like you do. and so always question what you hear or read adn think for yourself. dont just absorb it all and think that you can stop thinking because you've heard all the ideas that sound smart. because you can absorb all the info you want but in the end, without thinking for yourself, you're gonna end up a bloated ugly sponge....kinda like sponge bob...foolish. only the difference is you're not a cartoon and even he thinks for himself. absorb all you want but be sure to digest it too.

vine parties and going to the apples is where its at

2009-09-01T13:45:00.000-07:00

I woke up like around 7:20am this morning. i have not gone up this early since.....summer camp at santa barbara? yeah. it was sort of hard. i woke up, ate, and drove to escalon. its estimated to take about 2.5 hours from my house to here. its been like 4 hours since i've landed at escalon. but i got here in like 1.5 hours....esca-where u ask? its right by modesto. theres a road there that you go through here to get to Yosemite. yeah. not very big. actually, its pretty big...but its all mostly farm land. lots of orchards, grape vines, cows and corn fields!

so what am i doing here? im visiting morgus borgus. she lives here. we met at ucsc adn are pretty awesome friends. she took me on a tour here. ther are like 8 or 9 churches, an elementary school, middle school, and a highschool. one bar. lots of farms. and everyone basically knows everyone. theres one mansion that used to be an old hospital thats basically historic. morgus's mom takes pottery every tuesday night at their estate. apparently their fam and morgus' fam are pretty tight. they have one dog thats friggin adorable and there like old now. but apprently been good friends for like ever.

it seems like a pretty awesome place to grow up. super relaxing. football is big here. i feel like im in texas. i've never been but i guess it would be like this? im not sure. but it sounds like it. like its conservitive adn loves football and everyone knows everyon. hahha. the novelty of it had worn off for morgus. but to me, its super awesome. like you're freinds with ur teachers, you know everyone. theres COWS everywehre. GOATS walking arund. adn lots of farms. there were corn fields adn this is the best part. there's this tomato truck that went by and its this truck with so many tomatoes on it, i freaked out. i've never seen anything like it! and apparently there are trucks with dead cows that go around every so often as well.

apparently, around here, there are no house parties because cops have nothing to do so you can get pulled over for anything. so where do they party? dude the apple orchards or the grape vines. so they usually say theres a party at the vines or their going to the apples. pretty legit.

oh and the thing was, morgus drives a super old bug. its red and kinda my dream car. close. like second place. my fav car that i super duper want: carman ghia '75 or something. next is a super old bug. cuz they cute! hahah. dude she has two keys: one for the door and one for the ignition. crazyyyy! it was for some reason, fitting listenin to country in her bug as i got a tour of this little country town that no one knows about.
...and i hate country hahah. but i didn't mind it. superr werid.

popewired

2009-07-08T00:40:00.000-07:00

drama. i dont need it. its stupid. aand a waste of time.
then it got me thinking, why are girls so addicted to it? why cant everyone jsut be nice to each other adn say what they mean? then i realized. duh. becase not everyone likes each other and we're taught to be polite from a very young age. so like really goign up to someone and telling them "you suck" isnt polite so instead you say "thats intersting" while thinking wow when will this girl shut up. so then the girl is mislead. thinks that you appreaciate her company. but you tell someone what you really thought. girl finds out. girl talks smack about you behind your back. and Poof. a surefire recepie for a war. ever watch mean girls? yeah this is how it all really starts. oh and wehn people are jelous of others, they talk smack too. really its just stupid.

drama to girls is like cars to men.

not all men are addicted to them and not all girls love drama. either way, chances are that where there are girls, there is drama. and where there are guys is usually where a car show or a car dealership or just a single car is around.

then i thought, wow waht is it with guys and cars. like lots of guys just like to work on cars that are crappy and make them "amazing." my dad did that with a mustang, i know someone who tried to fix up a karmanghia, and another friend souped up his mazda, while another just got a crappy mustang. etc. its like nothing new. its an expensive hobby.

most hobbies are expensive. like music. if you like music and play an instrument, chances are if you get really into it, you have some really nice instrument(s). or art, art supllies cost a buttload. or if your hobby was fashion, you would either spend a fortune on clohtes and purses and accesories or make your own. either way, an arm and a leg. or if you liked to surf or sail. surfing requires a good suit and a great board. a car that can carry all ur crap. sailing requires a boat and a lifejacket. computers. people who build comps pay a lot for parts but they always say its cheaper than buying it premade. and if you like cameras and taking photos, you spend a fortune on lenses or the camera or maybe you develop film yourself = more chemicals and paper you need and a dark room, etc. really the only hobby that doenst cost a leg is like walking or the park or like i dunno people watching. baking isnt too bad but it costs you lots in medical bills if sweets with lots of butter is all you really eat.

wow money doenst come in easy but it goes away CO2 when you breathe.

All We've Got for Africa

2009-06-03T15:49:00.000-07:00

to feed the children of Africa, we put on an art and talent show where all the proceeds went to feed the children. $5 feeds 50 kids. and this is what i contributed, other than helping setting up...

the sky was pretty

2009-06-03T15:47:00.000-07:00

so i took a Polaroid picture and kinda scrap book'd it.

out of boredom

2009-05-30T15:38:00.000-07:00

i was absolutely bored one day and decided to draw....

in the past 5 months

2009-03-19T11:27:00.000-07:00

in the past 5 months a lot has happened.
for the first time i cabin lead.
for the first time, i had a real final.
a lady conceived for the first time.
a lady lost a baby for the first time.
a baby was born.
i finished mt second quarter away at college.
i missed home.
i stage managed a play.
i've lost too many people.
i couldnt sleep.

4 of them younger or older by a year than i
rip m.g. 12.17.08
rip k.a. 12.19.09
rip b.c. 1..09
rip k.k 2.17.09
rip d.k. 3. 17.09

i miss them all. I remember when i was little i used to chill with megan. she broke her arm infront of my house.
i remember kyle talkin about openin a restaurant some day. i also remember him always goofin around the halls of the theater during the talent show with matt.
i remember brian always chill with whatever. being there. and playing ddr and raving. i still dont know
i remember when me and my mom went to deliver traditional japanese new years delicacys to her on new years. she said it was the first time in about ten years since she's tasted it.
i remember when daichan came to a practice at church. he was randomly playing the bass line to "By The Way". it was before our worship team played. i was suposed to play in a week. i didnt want to. i got cold feet and i was going to fake a feaver. i forgot what he said but it made me change my mind and go play. it was terribly played but people saw god through it. and it shocked me. because we sounded sour. but people still felt something. i still worship even though i suck.

thank you for all the memories. its one treasure death can't take away.

this quarter's sucked for sure. but the show must go on. i miss you all. and i can't help but wonder who's next. and it scares me. god show me the way because i can't see anymore

march

2009-03-01T18:40:00.001-08:00

march means lent. lemme tell you what i learned... you can give up lent on sundays. so that is now what i do. i give up lent on sunday. but monday through saturday im giving up tangents.

its super hard cuz thats my life. like right now i'm thinking i want to dance, i wnat to learn to finger tut. i want to learn spanish. i need to do my research paper. its due tmr. and i havent started. all these things i want to spit out in an eplictical way. but i cant. because i gaive up tangents.
the reason was because it was disruptive/distracting for me. yeah.

but i think if i could dance like quest, i'd be like going insane. like crazy. we all know im not that coordinated enough so im still sane

abdc. vote quest. i love them :)

sooooooo its not cold

2009-01-14T21:51:00.000-08:00

and its suposed to be the winter. i think im lovin it like mc Donalds.
lately i've been so busy with school i've lost track of what is really important. i knew it subconciously but not really conciously.

about a few weeks ago a freind of mine passed away. and i thought, what was he thinking before he passed away? what did he think he was going to miss? i thought his answer was probibly closely related to family and friends along with music, being a musician and a family kinda guy.
unable to see my dad during winter break and finding that i have to stay in santa cruz over spring break made me a bit antsy adn perhaps a bit homesick. i ended up missing freinds the first week i was back and then that longingness grew to family. life kinda seemed like a long journey but after the events that took place weeks ago, i realized it can end any moment and when it does, would i have been able to see who i really wanted to beffore it was too late? college really taught me the importance of friends and family and my friend taught me the greatness and love they had for me and i for them.

spontaniously, i called up a firend heading twards youth group on friday. as she was driving out of the parking lot, i luckily caught her. she kindly agreed to pick me up adn take me to youth group with her. from there i would get a ride home and visit my unsuspecting family. i was so glad to be home i did not want to leave. jsut watching television or playing cards or talking was enough to satisfy me. usually i like being out and about and over winter break there barely was any time for sleep. but jsut taking it slow and being blessesd with the company of my siblings and parents were enough.

as i was dropped off to church on sunday wehre i would go with the freind who picked me up from ucsc, my dad told me, "dont try too hard. watch your health. okay?" as i walked out the door. i promised him i would with a smile on my face and walked into the church with a feeling of regret for not picking a closer college. i didnt want to leave for the first time in my life. but i went to church and went to spend the night at my friend's apartment and go back to school.

the first few days were iffy. i had regrets about picking this college i live in. i even regretted my university choice. i missed my friends like crazy and i missed my family even more. however, through all this buisiness, i had less and less time to dwell about my family and firends. i had the luxury to move on. three days after the weekend and every day had the sun beaming down on my shoulders. birds twittered joyfully. and i thought, what a beautiful day it was. skys of blue. clouds of white. what a beautiful campus i was blessed with.
i think that i can live out the days here and i can definantly live out living here for a good 3 or 4 years. after college i plan to move back with my family but untill then independance is good too.

back from japan

2008-07-12T15:12:00.000-07:00

last three weeks were really busy. so i ended up going to japan on like the 13th. yeha.

the first few days we chilled at my mom's parents place. then we headed up north to aomori to hang with a fam freind of ours. they're famous for their production of apples so everywhere u turned, apple trees were there. the air was so fresh compaired to the tokyo air and you can actually see the stars!!! then after about 5 days we headed down a bit south to yamagata.

they are famous for their soba noodles and cherries. so for the day that we were there, we went cherry picking and also visted this rose garden the size of like 3 tokyo domes. that is pretty darn big! there were over like 700 different kinds of roses and it was just realy the biggest rose garden i've ever witnessed. we then went further south to fukushima, aizu wakamatsu.

for a night we just rested at a hostle. right next door was the house that the bushi used to live in. its basicaly a huge house from like 200 or so years ago. there was a famous battle in aizu back before lots of us were born. there was a war againts the aizu-han adn the satsuma-han (kyuushuu). Aizu was loosing and so they started to recruit boys as young as i belive 13. during the war, the boys saw the cities around the castle burning and thought that their castle was burning. when someone looses in the war, in japan, they burn down the castle of the side that lost. the boys all thought they had lost adn took their lives cuz thats what soldiers did back then. instead of getttin caught, they killed themselves, showing their loyalty to the tonosama. and basically in the house that i visted, tis more like a castle. but in that place there was this room wehre all the women of the family committed suicide. when the satsuma-han came into the house, one man discovered the room where the women had died and one girl was still breathing but basically dead. she asked the man if he were enemy or foe and if he was a foe to finish what she had started. the guy was an enemy but he sympathises and says he is a foe and finishes her off. so basically it was kinda creepy hahah. after that we went to visit my dad's fam in Bange.

my dad's side's fam sells rice and stuff. so basicaly its realy like farmland everywehre. its a family of 4 genereations. basically i went to see them and the new born baby! my dad's cousin's kid just had a kid. hes 9 months old and named soushi. he is adorable! he is a people person mainly cuz hes around all these people.

we went back to tokyo and basically i hung out with friends and went shopping with my sister. i also did fireworks at kamakura and went to a zoo in yokohama. pretty fun.

oh and now im back so basically i was working on a painting i was giving to my friend. he asked me to paint him soemthing like a year or two ago adn i didnt knwo what to paint. i started with a zeebra and i like it. its kinda cute. i didntk now what to do for the background so i just did a blue sky with clouds. i dont really like the clouds but i didnt really care to fix it etiher. i dunno i guess i liked it flawed.

live 105's BFD

2008-06-09T01:47:00.000-07:00

i went to bfd with a few of my firneds. basically its a festival of a day's worth of music. its at the amphatheater in Mountain view every year. and this year i went with a few friends. i originally went for phenomentauts, anti-flag, and umm that was it. but when i was there i was stoked cuz dude atreyu actually put on a good show. i was impressed. so in a day i saw flobots, atreyu, mgmt, anti-flag, the kooks, the phenomenauts, then pennywise and cypress hill. so when i saw the kooks we were basically up front and umm all these band girls were excited to see them...i dont think they are that hot/great. anyways. i was like getting squished and then the singer's like eveyrone jump. so people did and imlike if i dont, i'll sufficate. i never reached the ground. cuz wehn people jumped a whole bunch of people thought that they chould get closer to the kooks if they push. so i was stuck between two people. i decided front was not worth it. so i left and went back but yeah. o and i decided to sit on someone's shoulders during atreyu and anti-flag and cypress hill. what happened was i got sunburnt...i was more sunkissed. that was how bright i was. it was really bad. but hten i went home and put on some crap and it hecka worked. today i dont feel so bad. actually the red turned brown and now im semi-tan. still kinda red but not that painful. suprisingly awesome. ima go swimming tomorow. hopefully its better by tomorow. all in all it was suprising a good day yesterday

licourice

2008-06-05T22:15:00.000-07:00

tastes gross. it really does. but today i didn't care. i woke up expecting to get on a plane. funny thing is, my mom forgot her passport accidentally. she ended up bringing my dad's passport instead. so then the lady put both me AND my mom (although i could have gone by myself she told me that we would make it so we should go together) on stand-by. so then I'm like okay what now. so i wait for my mom to go get her passport. and I'm like great. i start to pop licorice like a pill popper pops pills. I'm an addict, to the point that my teeth turn black-ish and 90% of the bag is gone. i wait and i wait and this lady with this ridiculous get-up sits two seats next to me. shes got this hot pink blouse with her hot pink hibiscus flower designed lesport sac. she obviously is in her 60's, has a perm and has her hair done. shes wearing designer jeans that a teenager would be wearing. i could tell because although they gave her some room and were somewhat baggy, they still looked like something my friends would wear. 35 min pass and she comes back. we get in line and then she decides to go to the ticket agency. I'm up and then she calls my name from the other side so i go over, assuming she got us tickets. so i head over. turns out she only wanted to know if she wanted me to check in where i was. pointless i know, but i didn't have my cell so communication is only mediocre. so then we get put on standby but the lady said she doubts that we'll get on. while my mom was in line without me, she met this African American couple from Arizona. they caught a flight from there to SF to go to Japan. their son is on a military base in japan and he has a Japanese wife. they just had some kids. they were psyched to see them. and on top of that, their son who's on the military base was about to be moved to Iraq. this couple was ridiculously calm, sweet, and you could just tell they were good people. well, their flight was on time and they could have caught the 11:00Am flight, only security took forever and when they were out of security, the plane had already taken off. i was like wow if ever two people get to go to japan, i would say these people. well it turns out the world isn't so easy hearted. so while i was waiting in line with my mom (we were already at the front) and ten minuets ago, this old man and his young daughter (both pretty depressed looking) cut in line. then someone says something and the person with them flashes this employee badge and was like sorry. I'm like what in the. well the girl wore this over sized button-up shirt that was clearly a man's with this over sized white t-shirt under. she had on some clothes that looked like something the fresh prince from bell air would wear. she also had these loafers that were too big and she had no socks. the old man was wearing this wrinkled-ish suit. i think he was someone important because we saw both this duo and the African American couple along with a few other people at the gate. there were 14 people on stand-by. basically he knew people and they were able to fit two people so they got on. so not fair in my book. but you could tell this guy was important because people would always bow and say sorry for the wait and treat them hecka nice and he would stand there like mono-faced. like no emotion. the only emotion i saw was a glimpse of happiness when they were told they could get on. so i gave up and i quite frankly found all this kinda hilarious. that's how tired i was.

we were told to get our baggage in the domestic terminal isle 3. we go there and we wait for an hour for baggage. so i go and ask someone if this is the right spot and all they say is, "well it takes a while. there's like ten thousand bags down there and very little amount of people working." so we wait another hour and a half.

then, this crazy lady runs and attacks this white girl and this man comes to the rescue. the crazy lady runs out and the attacked lady is so scared she runs towards the 5-10isles. so basically the cops come and i get to hear the whole thing and it was very funny to me too. i shouldn't be laughing and usually i wouldn't but i slept maybe 4 hours in the last two days and I've been running all over the airport and asking people what to do. so that was entertaining. so by now, its been like 3 hours and they told us 4 hours at the max. so i was like this has got to be wrong. i go back upstairs where people check in for the flights (international) and the lady tells me the same thing. so i waited another half an hour and my mom finally goes to tell the people in the counter we've been waiting forever. turns out there were now more people by the counter and lots of people in line. so then she waits 20 minuets and they say, "oh you were supposed to send a message to send the bags down here. they are still in the international terminal. I'll call the bags right now. it should be 30 minuets."at least i knew that the baggage didn't fly to japan without us right? cuz i know that's happened to some people before. well anyways I'm like oh great. so there we were and by now its 4:00PM. I've been here since like 10:00PM. great. so then the stuff comes. and by now its 6:00. so here i am waiting for my dad to pick us both up. see my dad works in the city and he took us to the air port with my sister and her bf and they decided to stay in the city. so it was kinda comical for me. i started to find this day very amusing. i was kinda laughing the whole time inside.i thin kit was the licourice. or maybe i was genuinely amused. i didn't thing anything this funny could happen. but it did. and usually no one would find this funny....except maybe me....when I'm really tired.

mission accomplished....

2008-06-04T03:31:00.000-07:00

i did lots of things this week. like i graduated, finally got my licence, and umm i also made this shirt. i kinda like it. i found this picture of a machine on some wall on University Ave in Palo Alto and this dude told me that the two machine pics on the walls were like the first of something. and like from like 18something. i wish i wrote down what they were cuz that woulda been sweet. but i said i'd make a shirt out of the machine pic so i did. and now i feel acomplished.

smart asian

2008-05-29T23:38:00.001-07:00

i never understood smart asians. i never really got school. i wasnt failing but i didnt have outstanding grades. quite frankly, i'd rather take classes i might get a B or C in if its more beneficiary internally. i could careless about grades really. which is ironic cuz last year i kinda cared and got bad grades. this year i was like psh grades. im a senior and i finish off with a 4.2! amazing. quite frankly i guess attendance doesnt matter either cuz i never showed up for lots of my classes or i was late. or i didnt show. wow. i love senior year. i jsut cleared everythign with the UC's and finished everything on my to do list. wait two weeks and make sure everything is good to go. yes. i love this. i hope this feeling doesnt go away in an instant. thank god.
i dont think that grades are everything though. i think that they are kinda stupid sometimes.... ok most times. oh well i dont really care anymore. college here i come!

in a week....

2008-05-26T23:41:00.001-07:00

in a week i will no longer be in high school
in a week i will graduate
in a week summer starts!
in a week i will be in japan
in a week i have lots of things college-wise to do
in a week i hope my stress leve drops like 50%

in a week, i think life would be pretty different
i really just need to take a breather but i dont think i have the time. stressful, yes. but hey thats life. i cant wiat to get over this little hurtle!

Can you feel the love tonight?!

2008-05-21T02:12:00.000-07:00

i changed from xanga to this becuause i simply can not remember my password for xanga and i keep having to guess which is gettting annoying

so today was a bad day for me...untll like 6ish
and then startin there i got a few awards from my school and a scholorship! i got a:

a technical theater award from the school i think....
an achievement award in the field of technical theater from bank of america
a CSF thinggy...i got a pin and it looks like aladdin's lamp
and a scholorship from the aragon drama boosters

then....to make things better, my grade bumped up to an A in ap psych. so now for the first time ever, i have a 4.2.... i've alwayse been lazy and quite frankly, i still am....so why the 4.2? i dunno. iguess cuz senior year is super easy. so i guess im lucky. oh and as for the awards, lets just say it wasnt that hard for me to get cuz im the only senior dedicatin myself during shows to technical theatrics. so hahah. i think the first award up there the technical theater award from the school was created last year. i dunno why. but hey i feel important hahah. not really............oh and umm i think i got a donnie award (a chocolate oscar..so like an Aragon high's version of the oscars. its called the donnies cuz our mascot is the don) for being most helpful back stage and umm yeah so another chocolate donnie. this time its milk chocolate. i still have mine from last year and i think i might jsut use them both to make real hot chocolate. those little things are pure chocolate (but its hot now so maybe later) and not hollow so its extremely hard to finish. last one i ate everything buyt the umm legs and the bottom i think.

oh and the reason for the title: it poped up on itunes when i was randomly listenting to music and i was like hmmm yes i can feel the love tonight. esp. since my sister did the dishes for me!