Why hello. Welcome. I’ve decided to switch my major ranting over to this blog away from hiccups, which might become my travel blog, or more likely, become another holder in my life of a old chapter of my life, a record of my passage.

So for those of you who don’t know, I currently am residing in the United States Capital. Waahoo, the place of politics, over humidity, and a seeming overflow of my university of michigan fellow students. There seems to be a historical trend. I watched a video of the OCA interns for since 2001. And I swear, I knew so many people: Ijun, Elaine, Shana, Mona, Cliff, Lee Ann, Charlie, the list goes on…hahaha. And now Denny and I are added to the list. bleeeeeeeh.

So I’m currently on the 3rd week at work. I’ve decided that since I have the time I will babble. So the first weekend, an Eric Li and I traversed the city. Friday night (the 2nd) we left work from Conn & Kst and meandered through the city to find a grocery store and found one a little past Q. We then headed over to the famous DuPont Circle. Where we circled around and visited the Church of Scientology. Ohmigod. We were so frightened…and akward. The lady wanted to give us a tour and seriously it just creeped us out. She forced us to read picture frames and then watched us intensely as we did. She then proceded to show us the founder’s wonderful office, as it would have been 20 years before. This room is tempuratured and humidity controlled. The door is a sliding door to get in and seals when you close it. We were creeped out to say the least and Eric though the woman was going to kill us. Much to say, but little to say on Scientology right? All I learned was that it is about stress and they are totally in love with their founder. The creeps.

The next day, Eric and I went to the Native American Museum, which is new and also the American History Museum (Made for White Folk Museum). Needless to say, anger ensued, especially at the American History Museum. At the Native American Museum, they tried to be nice and stuff about it, but honestly what is with the confusing circle layout? What are you trying to imply?! Honestly.

The American History Museum was worse though. The thing is old and weird and mostly about white people. The little that was on AAPI were little side panels, even the American Internment only has this little panel, shorter and just a little wider than me. Honestly. Die. Every floor was a floor of opression. So we went around making snide comments about imperialism and how it had be translated into “western expansion”. After the Museums, we walked from the Mall all the way to past U street to Adams Morgan – the hot ethnic food/bar hotspot. It was pretty cool, but we had already eaten at DC’s fake Chinatown. It was all regular stores with Chinese Titles, I mean even Ann Taylor had Chinese Title panel! -_- DC must feel that they need to have a Chinatown because all the other big cities have one, so they FAKE IT! urg.

The next weekend (Since for the most part, the workweek isn’t that interesting – it is somewhat but not enough for me to spend time writing about it.) Saturday (10th) we went to Eastern Market, an open air food and arts and flea market. It was fun but expensive. We met up with CC! yay! We then head over to the Mall and checked out the National Gallery of Art: West. Nothing too fasinating and Eric said we choose the wrong gallery. Oh well.

The next day was hot and great! We went to the Gay Pride Festival on 7th & Penn. and walked around, listened to music and got our face’s painted. I’m trying to get a picture of all the elements together, but this will have to do for now: (Doris: Earth, Xiao: Fire, Denny: Wind, Steph: Water)

When I stood up, denny was like, that is very you. What does that mean?! After that, we walked across town to a Reception put on by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to honor King Kamhaehae and was suppose to celebrate the Akaka Bill. And just to be fair, the dissenting view. Or the Wikipedia Site. It was sad that they had planned all this stuff for the Bill and then cloture was so close at 56. But the food and music were good. It was great, some people started dancing when we got in line. There was pork, poi, salmon & tomatos, raw tuna, guava juice, fruit, and some cocunut cream, guava, pinapple, etc cake concotion. The food was so good.

The final topic is last night. I went to DNC headquarters to see Howard Dean speak. He was unfortunately very dissapointing in some sense. He seemed very stiff and when he moved his arms, only the stuff from the elbow down moved, probably due to TV stuffing He constantly talked about winning. There was one particular instance when he was like, the US will soon be like CA and so my young folk, you should run! Run for office. And I turned to look in the room, the racial diversity in that room did not reflect CA or anything. No wonder we are going to hell in a handbasket.

Ok I’ve typed a lot and typed a bit of nothing. You are now up todate on the steviek profiles. Check back later for more information. I have a list of people that I am suppose to call, you know who you are and I will do it soon. Just been having antisocial tendicies. Luv.

Check out more pictures of what’s going on and what happened in the past at my Flickr site. I will upload more soon.