Same Michelle. Just less cool.

May 3rd, 2007 · 3 Comments · General

I am never drinking again. Seriously, I can’t pretend to be Korean anymore. My liver can’t handle it.

Sigh. Anyway, here’s a questionnaire.

HOW MUCH HAVE YOU CHANGED IN FOUR YEARS?

Four years ago:

1) How old were you?
21

2) Where did you go to school and/or work?
UC Irvine. I worked for a private college counselor who overpaid me and for the school newspaper as a copy editor/slave.

3) Where did you live?
In a cute little house in Irvine, next to the plaza with all the fobby restaurants.

4) Where did you hang out?
People’s apartments, Nice Time Deli, sorority house

5) What did you do for fun?
Watch The Bachelor and American Idol, stalk people on Friendster, party, play Taboo, write stuff

6) What did you look like?
Tall, Asian, relatively thin, short hair, dark eye makeup

7) What was your favorite album?
The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most by Dashboard Confessional

8) What was your favorite food/drink?
$1.99 spicy tuna hand rolls from Bennihana, pork chop rice (PCR), spicy ramen, spicy wontons, beef chow fun from a random Chinese joint in the food court, almond milk tea with pudding and boba

9) Who did you hang out with?
Sorority friends, dorm friends, a couple SPOP friends

10) How often did you go out?
Life was a party.

11) Single or taken?
Single

12) Where did you see yourself in four years?
In LA or SF, writing for a newspaper or magazine, driving a Mini Cooper, making good $$$

Today

1) How old are you?
25

2) Where do you go to school and/or work?
KoreAm Journal as a writer/slave

3) Where do you live?
With the parents. Love it.

4) Where do you hang out?
On the couch, on Matt’s parents’ couch, in friends’ living rooms playing board games

5) What do you do for fun?
Watch American Idol, stalk people on MySpace and blogs, party (on the Internet), play Taboo, write stuff

6) What do you look like?
Tall, Asian, relatively thin (with a squishy Buddah belly), medium-length hair, dark eye makeup

7) What is your favorite album?
Waking Hour by Vienna Teng

8) What is your favorite food/drink?
sushi, pork chop rice (PCR), beef chow fun, pho, spam loco moco

9) Who do you hang out with?
Matt, a few sorority friends, a couple high school friends, my parents, work people

10) How often do you go out?
A party/gathering once or twice a week

11) Single or taken?
Taken

12) Where do you see yourself in four years?
In LA or SF, writing for a newspaper or magazine, engaged/married to someone who makes good $$$

3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Richard J. Lee // May 5, 2007 at 9:42 pm

    yeah, I can’t pretend to be Korean anymore either… lucky for me, I have an Irish-Man’s liver…

  • 2 timfu // May 6, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    hahahah from stalking on friendster to stalking on myspace. i wonder what it’ll be in the next 4 years!

  • 3 F.J. // May 6, 2007 at 7:02 pm

    I assume I am the one out of the two “H.S. friends?”

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1. Comfort food
2. "Good stress" (I think)
3. New calendar (life can now have order)
4. The boy in a hooded sweatshirt and pj pants
5. Self-control