Life of an INTJ

I’m All Yours - Jay Sean ft. Pitbull Still waiting to...

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:26:28 -0400

I’m All Yours - Jay Sean ft. Pitbull

Still waiting to officially put this on my Spotify playlist :)

My mom says she doesn’t want to watch Smash because...

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:26:00 -0400

My mom says she doesn’t want to watch Smash because “the girls look very mean.“

Bahahaa

iamnaughtybynature: Gosh this is cute

Thu, 24 May 2012 09:54:30 -0400

iamnaughtybynature:

Gosh this is cute

lindeliciousness24: OH. MY. GOODNESS.

Thu, 24 May 2012 09:37:45 -0400

lindeliciousness24:

OH. MY. GOODNESS.

newsweek: Today is World Turtle Day! Respect the turtle.

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:47:19 -0400

newsweek:

Today is World Turtle Day! Respect the turtle.

Photo

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:00:25 -0400

Because of all the facebook statuses saying "goodbye" to Gregory House,

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:57:00 -0400

my brother asked me today if Hugh Laurie died or something!

Hahah good stuff.

White Fang

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:03:00 -0400

White Fang

Zooey Deschanel’s theme song for New Girl!

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:58:00 -0400

Zooey Deschanel’s theme song for New Girl!

citrusmint: ileftmyheartintaiwan: missing-you22: Bubble tea...

Tue, 08 May 2012 10:44:49 -0400

citrusmint:

ileftmyheartintaiwan:

missing-you22:

Bubble tea 👍#tapioca #starbuckscup #milktea #taiwan #whipcream (Taken with instagram)

no way they essentially have boba now at starbucks in taiwan! man, i wish i was there!

…need this.

OH SHOOT. Getting this when I go back.

lolol cray. The plus side is that I won’t need to be here...

Mon, 07 May 2012 14:35:34 -0400

lolol cray. The plus side is that I won’t need to be here while it’s being built.

newgirlthings: Preview from the Season Finale We’ve got...

Mon, 07 May 2012 11:29:45 -0400

newgirlthings:

Preview from the Season Finale

We’ve got to catch up please - @Youknowwhoyouare

Yes please. Smart is sexy :]

Fri, 04 May 2012 19:44:24 -0400

Yes please. Smart is sexy :]

thedailywhat: This Is Also All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day:...

Thu, 03 May 2012 09:08:52 -0400

thedailywhat:

This Is Also All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Daniel Chong, an innocent UC San Diego student, spent five days in a holding cell without food, water, or human contact after he was wrongfully detained during a raid of a friend’s house by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The 23-year-old wasn’t charged with a crime, but officers forgot to release him. He kicked, screamed, and cried, but no one came to his aid: “They never came back, ignored all my cries and I still don’t know what happened. I’m not sure how they could forget me.”

Chong was forced to drink his own urine for hydration and he carved the words “Sorry Mom” into his arm with glass in a fit of psychosis. “I had to do what I had to do to survive,” he said. “I was completely insane.”

On Chong’s fifth day in the small, windowless room, officers finally heard his pleas for help. Upon his release, he was incoherent and had to be hospitalized. He was found to have eaten glass and treated for a perforated lung.

Chong is considering filing a lawsuit against the DEA, which has apologized to him and promised a review of the incident.

[huffpo]

Phantom of the Opera anyone? :) Listening through Train’s...

Tue, 01 May 2012 20:17:10 -0400

Phantom of the Opera anyone? :)

Listening through Train’s new album, California 37, right now

:] Sometimes songs get stuck in your head for a reason?

Tue, 01 May 2012 19:41:00 -0400

:] Sometimes songs get stuck in your head for a reason?

Eric Kao's ITASA Reflection

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:14:00 -0400

Since 2005, I have written a reflection after every year at the Taiwanese American Foundation (TAF), a week-long summer camp I have been attending since 2002. After attending last year’s ITASA Midwest Conference, I was amazed at the potential that the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association had to further the spread of TAFlove - the impact of irreplaceable friendships built on common interests and experiences.

I think my decision to apply for ITASA National Board last April/May made the biggest impact on my 2011-2012 school year. I did end up getting pretty absorbed into it and people started commenting how ITASA became my life (you know it’s actually true when people are telling you this, and it’s not just self-proclaimed). It wasn’t difficult though, because unlike some others on National Board, I had always been proud of being Taiwanese (now identifying as Taiwanese American) because besides going to TAF every year, my parents would bring me along to TAA, FAPA, NATWA, and other events, even as a child.

**Video recaps of the Summer Summit, Midwest Leadership Retreat, East Coast Conference and Midwest Conference have been consolidated here for your convenience.

**For a quick post on some of the major Taiwanese-related events I went to this year, click here, because that isn’t the point of this post.

**For my vision of what ITASA has the potential to be / can become, click here [link currently unavailable].

It’s been a long year, and I’ve had time to think about what ITASA means to me.

The main impact ITASA has made for me is allowing me to expand my circles of friends to an extent that was previously unfathomable. ITASA gives you the opportunity to connect with peers from all over the country, if you’re willing to do so. Sure, if you attend the conferences you’ll also have the chance to network with speakers, but to me, connecting is more important than networking. As the year progressed, I started to realize that some of these friends would be for life. Having a web of friends from all over the country - that’s something that can’t be replaced. As long as you care, the connection quickly becomes more than just ITASA, and you hang out just for the sake of hanging out.

The result? This last semester has been epic.

Chilling with new friends at Brown University

Karaoke Love!

Eating out at the Taiwanese 527 Cafe!

I’ve been adopted into UIUC TASC!

Hanging out in Times Square

Lunch at Gourmet Dumpling House!

Exploring Chinatown on a Sunday Morning with some Ohio State students!

Adopted by Northwestern Students as well!

Out to eat at Bob’s Noodles in Maryland, with students from JHU, UMCP, NYU, Rutgers!

Planking in the Smithsonian Art Museum

Despite all this fun, I still have one trip planned after finals (right before I graduate), where I will visit my friends at Illinois, Northwestern, and Ohio State. You may find that there’s just not enough time at conferences to catch up with all of the people you’ll get to know, so you’ve got to make time for your friends. I’m so glad that I’ve been able to meet who I have, and I really do hope that we’ll be friends for a long time. Even when we part ways, I like to paraphrase one of my friends and not say “goodbye” but “see you later,” because you all matter to me, and I’ll make sure that our paths do cross again.

Moral of the story? I highly recommend that you apply for ITASA National Board, especially if you’re passionate about Taiwan, and all that Taiwanese Americans have to offer. It can be a life changing decision, or at the very least, a very good one.

-Eric Kao, 2011-2012 National Public Relations Director

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Yeah. Okay.

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:11:28 -0400

Yeah. Okay.

My major ITASA events

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:59:21 -0400

Here’s a brief post with some of the major Taiwanese events to I attended over the past school year.

It all started with Summer Summit. I got into LAX after being in class for less than a week, and got to chill with a lot of people. Nice weather, new friends, and Korean BBQ - what more could you ask for?

National Board in Southern California

I swung by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to cover their Taiwanese Cultural Day, which was a really cool event jointly held by two of the Taiwanese groups on that campus, TASC and TIA.

What’s cool? A majority of people in this photo are now my friends!

Early in second semester, Northwestern held the Midwest Leadership retreat, while I personally had already done most of the workshops in some other context, it was still a great experience to meet even more people.

Group photo at Northwestern

A week later, we found ourselves in Atlanta for the ITASA East Coast Conference - where I got to meet even more people! Giant groups came from the New York / New Jersey area, as well as Maryland!

ITASA National Board in Atlanta

Fast forward a month or so, and we wound up in Ann Arbor for the Midwest Conference, where another nearly 200 students got together - some people were meeting for the first time, and others were busy catching up after many years.

ITASA National Board in Ann Arbor

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My year in ITASA videos

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:22:00 -0400

Shooting the ITASA Footprints promo - Photo via Stephanie Liao

2011 Summer Summit

2012 Midwest Leadership Retreat

2012 East Coast Conference

2012 Midwest Conference

2012 ITASA Footprints Promo

2013 ITASA East Coast Conference Promo

It’s been a fun year, everyone!

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