home sweet home

i got home last tuesday, and it's been a ball since. i unpacked everything, especially my books (after daddy came home too)...mommy and i hemmed and hawed and shifted and squeezed until we fit all the new books into an already-full set of bookcases. we've also been baking strawberry pies (at the same pace that i eat them, which is about a slice a day...except one day i had TWO slices), and waking up late (generally 9:30am for me). very fun.

one of the days we had dimsum with auntie elaine in koko marina



i also spent a morning going to doctors' appointments...to the dermatologist's and to healthpass. my total cholesterol went down, but so did my good cholesterol. my fasting glucose went down too. my body fat is 18% compared to the recommended 24-31%, whereas last year i was 11% compared to the recommended 12-18%...how the measuring is being done (or not) is beyond me. i took a picture with the model of 5lbs of fat...only, i wasn't able to swallow my cookie in time, so (ironically) this is a picture of me with 5lbs of fat and a mouth stuffed with cookie. hahaha.



also had dinner (at spices) with uncle les, auntie kyukyu, and their son ryan (who's '92). we ran into mr hamamoto and mr dyke there...both of whom pretended rather unsuccessfully to recognize us when we went over to say hello.



the other day i had coffee with jenny and ced (our advanced pre-calc honors teacher) in manoa...2 hours flew by like nothing...we had lots of fun chatting, and ran into both clynton namuo (i always run into him!) and jack canfield (who recognizes me even though i've never had him)! it was lots of fun.

goo-ma and goo-jeung (my paternal aunt, and uncle) came today from hong kong. we had lunch at zippy's, then dinner at morton's. it's goo-jeung's bday, and he's been celebrating for two days because of the time differences...so cool! tomorrow we're going to maui, after which there'll be lots of cool pictures, and even more if i can get the pictures from my underwater cameras up!