I just came back from Chinatown in downtown Seattle. My parents and i went there around noon for a New Year's flag rising celebration. About 200 people showed up from various chinese organizations. After roughly 2 hours of singing and saluting to the american and taiwanese flags, my only thought was--freaking cold!!!!! Even tho there was no snow in Seattle, but since it was closer to the ocean, the freaking wind just wouldn't stop blowing, which generated very cold air. the ginger tea and hot boaba really helped tho, for like 3 minutes. Boy were we freezing our butts off. I don't know about the rest of the 200 some people, but i certainly felt like an idiot standing in the middle of a very ugly park trying to wave the tiny little flags with the hands that weren't even mine 10 minutes after we got there. It was only 32 degrees, altho it felt more like 10. dang it was cold. by the end of the ceremony, actually no, it was more like 20 minutes before it ended, i just HAD TO go inside somewhere warm coz i seriously felt like i was losing my toes too. so i went into a boaba cafe and ordered a garlic toast, which turned out to be the nastiest garlic toast ever. no wonder it was only $1.09. I really don't understand what the hell we were doing out there abusing our bodily functions. stupid chinese people. i felt even sorrier for my stepdad who doesn't even understand chinese but had to tag along coz my mom couldn't drive in the snow. that poor man.

Afterwards we went to eat at the same chinese restaurant that we went last time, with almost the same group of people, except this time, there were finally someone else other than me under the age of 30. there were 2 guys in late 20s, cousins i think. one of them looked like a gangester who goes out and beat ppl up at random, the other looks a bit like an old taiwanese soap star at first. wut really bugged me was the gangester kept on peeping at me. if he were cute, i probably wouldn't mind it so much, only he was nowhere near cute. the other guy, maybe about 28 or so seems a lot decent but a bit chubby and definitely too short. as matter of fact, i think we are about the same height. he tried talking to me about applying to eva airline but we really weren't clicking well. man, it was a new year's celebration from hell.