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Name: Diana
Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 3/20/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: singing and dancing, Origami folding, collecting music & Hello Kitty collectibles, being spontaneous on a mild level, peer counseling, hanging out w/ family/friends, grubbing, napping, and I can go on, but yeah, I'm up for a lot of things (when I can fit it in my schedule)! =)
Occupation: Director
Industry: Nonprofit
Message: message me
Member Since:
11/20/2003
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| "Time to write what is right rite where I want it."
Xanga-ing now is definitely a lot harder than xanga-ing back in the days. But that also means that I haven't had a chance to reflect as much as I would like to b/c that's how I view my writing and xanga entries. A time to appreciate my experiences, go over my memories, and feel an emotion based on where I am at.
I can't even sum up into words where I am at in my life rite now. I have been feeling a lot of emotionals because of everything in my life.
I wrote about change about a year ago and now I'm back in the mentality of change again. We've got a president who reflects some of our silenced struggles (Obama, that is), I'm looking at the next chapter of my life that semi-started Dec 11th but will be official Sept 27th (some will know what I am talking about), I will be looking at OC as my new home and workplace, and SEA CLEAR will be changing it's director by June. The last point really hits home because SEA CLEAR has been my family for all these years and I know that there will be a void in my heart when I leave but I everyday I tell myself: It's for the better and I know it's going to be fine.
Currently, one of the biggest things that keeps me smiling is....the dismissal of my speeding ticket case. With the help of peers, I was able to show the law that they should be working for the people and not vice versa. It goes to show that when we take the time to understand our situations instead of giving into it, it PAYS off (literally and figuratively). Yeah it takes a little bit of time to fill out paperwork, wait to hear back, but at the end of the day, I don't have to go to traffic school, drive myself to show up in court, get a point on my record, or PAY UP. I think the trade off was worth FIGHTING FOR!
I'm not gonna lie and say I'll write soon but just know when I'm not writing, I'm living life and I'd like to think that I am living life to the fullest that I can =)
Love and Peace,
Diana
P.S. Slumdog Millionaire IS a pretty great movie! I think it shows the power of experience versus knowledge and tha is what I am ALLLLL about =)
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| "It's been a long time since I left ya, without a dope beat to step to..."
So on a whim, I decided to reunite myself with xanga, my long lost memoirs. I tend to take for granted the outlets that I do have to balance out my life especially since I feel like all my reading, writing, creativity, and social skills have digress ironically  . Sooo I need to just go back to the basics, and do what I used to love to do!
My entry is dedicated to CHANGE. CHANGE for the better, CHANGE to carry out other changes, CHANGE to move with the cheese.
Symbolically I color and cut my hair after SEA CLEAR is done with trainings, budget proposal, and transitioning from last academic year to free myself from the weight in my hair from stress, suppressed feelings and thoughts, frustrations and unmet expectations. It's just my way to usher in a new year with a new look:
 
I thought I wouldn't be able to pull off the A-line bob cut, but I really like it...for now  .
This year's SEA CLEAR's Academic Year Budget Proposal Hearing was also AWESOME. I've been blessed with staff members that have such passion, energy, and conviction to serve students, the Southeast Asian community, and really want to embrace development and a higher sense of personal, societal, collective responsibility. In this project, dreams come true.
No one really told me how to be a 2nd year director and all these expectations get put on ya for being a 2nd year so it gets to be a bit crazier than being a newbie 1st year. It didn't feel like it got any easier.
Just started to rethink how I'm re-centering my personal life as well. I think my life has just been ushered into the phase of friends and people around me getting married and starting up their own families. It's quite a trip because I don't see myself there right now and I'm not sure sometimes how it fits into the bigger picture of my life. It feels like it has to be sandwiched between work and community. Sometime last month I forgot that I was ALREADY 24. The 20s are definitely a blur but an exciting decade to live up. Having a great person and great friends and family in my life makes a difference too:
     
    
Anyways, I'm gonna leave you all with this awesome piece from a book called Politically Correct: The Ultimate Storybook (A birthday gift from my Buddhist, multilingual hapa friend Aaron). It's socially conscious so I love it!
A Politically Correct Alphabet
By: James Finn Garner
A is an Activist itching to fight.
B is a Beast with its animal rights.
C was a Cripple (now differently abled).
D is a Drunk who is "liquor-enabled."
E is an Ecologist who saves spotted owls.
F was a Forester, now staffing McDonald's.
G is a Glutton who says he's "food-centered."
H is a Hermaphrodite skirting problems of gender.
I is an "Ism" (you'd better believe it).
J is a Jingoist-love it or leave it!
K is a Kettle the pot can't call black.
L is a Lifestyle not bound to the pack.
M is a Mindset with bias galore.
N was a Negro, but not anymore.
O is an Oppressor, devoid of self-love.
P is the Patriarchy (see "O" above).
Q is a Quip that costs someone a job.
R is the Reasoning done by a mob.
S is a Sexist, that slobbering menance.
T is a Teapot that's brewing a tempest.
U is for Umbrage at the slightest transgression.
V is a Valentine, tool of oppression.
W is for "Woman," however it's spelled.
X is a chromosome we share in our cells.
Y is a Yogi for the easily led.
Z is a Zombie, the differently dead.
*The traditional order of the letters in an alphabet is, of course, completely arbitrary. In spite of its association with excellence in archaic, competitive, literacy-obsessed school grading programs, A is no better or more deserving a letter than X,Y,Z.
Therefore, to deflect any criticisms of a noun-centric bias, I employed a random-letter generator before working on this new alphabet. Believe me, I was as surprised as anyone that, despite the tremendous odds, the random-letter generator spat out the alphabet in the exact order shown above.
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| SEA CLEAR ROCKED OUR BUDGET PROPOSAL HEARING! Today was the day........from just acknowledging the importance of the budget proposal, to workgroups working on it, to admin stafff doing budget proposal part 2 to prep time......................it got us to the stable point where even the committee knew we knew the answers but we were being modest about who would step up to answer the question.
Summer has proven to be fruitful. Trainings, conversations, car rides, informal this and that..............all builds up the family.
I think I fell in love with SEA CLEAR all over again. 
Tomorrow will be DIANA day. Since 12 midnight, I am not suppose to think about work. Friday will be time to: cut hair, wash car, go costco, hang out with Aileen and Vi and high school folks and do some meals and some dancing! Good times!
Then weekend is filled with some beach-ness, some mentorship-ness, birthday celebration, C-town grand opening celebration, and just relax time! Definitely a great way to end one week and start another! And this goes in line with that so-called Moon Cycle of the horoscopes!
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