Been a while (update for the past two weeks!!!) <--a very ambitious one

Wow, i just realized that it's been more than 2 weeks since i last logged on and said anything about my life....how can i ever make up for it? :P Well here's my legitimate excuse: entertaining my family. There. they visited for 3 weeks and between that and the exams, i really didnt' have much time to say anything online. But just to adhere to the promise to myself, here are the notable events that have occured (both good an bad):

1)Celebrated Chinese New Year at Takami Sushi (see previous posts for my restaurant review): of course this occured during the LA restaurant weeks. I liked the ambience of the restaurant so much that I decided to take my family there. Apparently they've all enjoyed the view from a high building and the 3 course meal.

2)went to a joint social event thrown by the graduate student association (in conjunction with CalTech and UCLA): met no one in particular, but a whole lot of nasties for sure. :P it was held at Boulevard 3 in Hollywood. the place is very interesting as it has these cabanas in the courtyard, and a pond in the middle. The actual club itself has some cirque du soleil type of performance as well as hip hop dance offs. yummy midori sour. but then again, my friend puked at the end of the night, IN MY CAR. that was a nightmare in itself. i had my car detailed the interior and i had to apply some enzyme solution to make it smell not as pungent. let's just say i'm an expert in vomit now.

3)failed a exam, missed a hw, missed a quiz. yes, i'm pretty concerned.:p

4) applied to a bunch of industry internships. i'm doing it in a really scarily systematic matter. i have researched a list of big name pharma's i want to intern for, and have attacked their job search engine mercilessly. i've applied to at least 50 so far, and most of the time the return rate is quite low. we shall see what happens.

5) GETTING ACCEPTED BY IPSF! as i mentioned before, this is a international internship for pharm students. you can apply to 3 diff countries. however the matching rate isn't 100%. so i'm using that as a backup. quite excited about the aspect of interning in a diff country. :)

6) Taking my family to Red White and Bluezz: a restaurant with live jazz music. we tried out diff flights of wines and cheeses. :)

7) WICKED!! let's just say, a far better musical than i had originally expected. our seats were great, the location is convenient, and i'm loving the music. i give it 4 stars. (Only Phantom and Sound of Music get 5, sorry.) :P