Capitalizing on the opportunity.

3:45 PM ----> Currently in MCB 62: Drugs and the Brain Lecture-professor's talking about nicotine and statistical data on use in youth 12 and up. I'm on this laptop chilling next to Bianca Carson, who at the time was KTFO. bahahahah. Song just listened to - Leaders - Nas and Damien Marley from the Distant Relatives Album
- also Dirty Laundry by Bitter:Sweet
- and the Budos Band 3 Album (Tony Lufrano hooked it up much love maing)

Because of the fact that this is my last semester as a student at Cal,

I'm going to take advantage of the fact that I'm here in class with my computer to write in this blog, and talk about how I want to fully appreciate this opportunity that I've been blessed with.
Recently I took a step back from my two volunteer internships at the Children's Hospital Research Institute and Alameda Hep B Free Campaign to focus on school. Shortly after I got my financial aid package and realized that I didn't have enough grant money to cover tuition, so now I'm looking for a work study job. Aside that I'm helping BSP start a mentorship program so that they have a means to truly build community. One critique of BSP is that there aren't as many opportunities for members to get involved, since there are about 800 members, and the sad reality is also that not many folks know each other within the organization. John Matsui once said, "The best resource in BSP is each of you to each other", eventually I want to see this program evolve into an inclusive space for all BSP members where if someone wants to share knowledge with the community from talking about cats to a research opportunity to a social justice issue that they want to have meaningful dialogue about, then they can have a space to do that, and eventually it'd be ingrained in the structure of the organization that attendance and participation in these spaces are integral to the being active members of the community. On another note I applied for the Thailand Thammasat program 4 MONTHS LATE. bahahahahaha. Thankfully the EAP people had mercy on my soul and allowed me to still submit my application, but first I had to of course write quite a bit mroe and get my application endorsed by professor Um. Hopefully Thailand will be an opportunity for me to reconnect with my Thai/Chinese culture and figure out a lot of things. I want to visit family that my father never got to know in his youth, I want to go to the records department in Nakhom Pathom and figure out what my Chinese last name is. I wanna bug out with the dancers there. I want to skate. I want to reconnect with friends from my childhood and family. I want to travel. I want to work with a non-profit doing health work out there. I want to appreciate everything that I am privileged to experience. Speaking of appreciation, being that it is my last semester here at Cal I want to get the most out of each day and do everything that I want to do this semester: drama-free. What that entails but isn't limited to is: spending time with friends and family, coming through to meetings for organizations/organizations that allow me to explore more facets of my ethnic identity, dancing (and learning from bboy lucid and folks from soulshifters crew),taking photos, working on another hip hop album with jason, transcribing my Filippines travels to this blog, finishing applications for programs, working on video projects, going to at least ONE cal football game as a regular human being student (bahahahaha), skating, working and saving money/paying off tuition, growing, loving, and learning.

We'll see how things go.