old faces
yes, yes, i know, it's been a while since i've last blogged. school, work, and general debauchy at the bucks are taking time away from doing other things... such as hanging out with the mrs. (sorry, babe).
but something happened today... well, not just today, cuz i have to tell the molestation story, too one of these days. and no, not when i was younger, but a month ago. but that's another tale for another time.
so today, i was in class, chilling. we had to do an exercise on focus groups, which wasn't too bad because it gave us a chance to bitch about our program. (if you're reading this, and there's really no reason why you should. but if you are, don't... DO NOT!!! get involved in the PASA program at 'sc. let's just say the program needs some major restructuring.)
so the focus group exercise took about half of the class time. afterwards, our professor, who is also the program advisor, suggested we got to the PASA network election meeting. sounds good, since it'll cut into some of our class time. actually, one of my classmate figured out that by going to the meeting, we basically blew $100 worth of tuition. i guess for 2 slices of pizza and a cup of diet coke, it really wasn't worth it.
anyway, we get to the meeting and a number of the first year students were already there. i went a grab my food and as i was sitting back down, i noticed this girl who looked oddly similar to a girl i had a crush on in college. but you know, since all white people look the same to us asians, i really didn't pay that much attention.
the meeting continued and i was chatting with several of my classmates. i wasn't paying any attention to the first year students who were writing their names under the different positions that they were running for on the blackboard. so when the current vp started the election, i looked up at the blackboard and noticed a name i haven't seen in a long time.
hannah.
now, most of you who went to college with me probably know the hannah story pretty well. i rather not have to relive it digitally so let's just keep it at this, i had a crush on this girl.
getting back to the present. so i was thinking, fuck, how odd is it that this girl who looked a lot like the hannah i knew in college is sitting here and someone here has that same name. totally weird. okay, granted that hannah isn't an uncommon name, but still, i don't think i've met anyone named hannah in eight years.
what i did next, i wouldn't normally do. i really wouldn't. but i just HAD to know. i was sitting there and it was really bugging the shit out of me. so after the meeting was over, i walked up to her and said, "excused me, are you hannah? did you go to ucla?" she was packing up her stuff so she had her head down. when i said that, she looked up at me and after a couple of seconds, i see from her expression that she remembered who i was.
"oh, hey, how are you? oh my god, we used to hang out at lot at school."
we chatted for a couple of minutes and i got her business card and i told her i'll email her later and maybe we could have lunch or something. so that's it. what a fucking small world. oh, yeah, she's in my program, but a first year. poor thing.
oh and another thing... as she was handing me her business card (she had to reach back to her backpack to give it to me), she said, "i'm married." which is all good and well, but then i saw the name on the card and she married an asian guy. hahaha, oh life and it's cruel little jokes.
but something happened today... well, not just today, cuz i have to tell the molestation story, too one of these days. and no, not when i was younger, but a month ago. but that's another tale for another time.
so today, i was in class, chilling. we had to do an exercise on focus groups, which wasn't too bad because it gave us a chance to bitch about our program. (if you're reading this, and there's really no reason why you should. but if you are, don't... DO NOT!!! get involved in the PASA program at 'sc. let's just say the program needs some major restructuring.)
so the focus group exercise took about half of the class time. afterwards, our professor, who is also the program advisor, suggested we got to the PASA network election meeting. sounds good, since it'll cut into some of our class time. actually, one of my classmate figured out that by going to the meeting, we basically blew $100 worth of tuition. i guess for 2 slices of pizza and a cup of diet coke, it really wasn't worth it.
anyway, we get to the meeting and a number of the first year students were already there. i went a grab my food and as i was sitting back down, i noticed this girl who looked oddly similar to a girl i had a crush on in college. but you know, since all white people look the same to us asians, i really didn't pay that much attention.
the meeting continued and i was chatting with several of my classmates. i wasn't paying any attention to the first year students who were writing their names under the different positions that they were running for on the blackboard. so when the current vp started the election, i looked up at the blackboard and noticed a name i haven't seen in a long time.
hannah.
now, most of you who went to college with me probably know the hannah story pretty well. i rather not have to relive it digitally so let's just keep it at this, i had a crush on this girl.
getting back to the present. so i was thinking, fuck, how odd is it that this girl who looked a lot like the hannah i knew in college is sitting here and someone here has that same name. totally weird. okay, granted that hannah isn't an uncommon name, but still, i don't think i've met anyone named hannah in eight years.
what i did next, i wouldn't normally do. i really wouldn't. but i just HAD to know. i was sitting there and it was really bugging the shit out of me. so after the meeting was over, i walked up to her and said, "excused me, are you hannah? did you go to ucla?" she was packing up her stuff so she had her head down. when i said that, she looked up at me and after a couple of seconds, i see from her expression that she remembered who i was.
"oh, hey, how are you? oh my god, we used to hang out at lot at school."
we chatted for a couple of minutes and i got her business card and i told her i'll email her later and maybe we could have lunch or something. so that's it. what a fucking small world. oh, yeah, she's in my program, but a first year. poor thing.
oh and another thing... as she was handing me her business card (she had to reach back to her backpack to give it to me), she said, "i'm married." which is all good and well, but then i saw the name on the card and she married an asian guy. hahaha, oh life and it's cruel little jokes.
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