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Yuko

About Me

born in tokyo, japan and been in california most of my life. just graduated from college and i miss my friends there. i am currently a grad student in Monterey, CA and i'm going to be a English teacher. hope to teach in Japan after i graduate! i love food and i love to sleep. give me food and i will be happy:) my ex-roommate influenced me to love hawaii! love to hula nd i hope to live there in this life time!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

my mom, Ikeda Sensei, and all my friends in SUA, back home and my sister in China-

My Blog

oh no...

oh my goodness...i haven't written anything for nearly 9 months...oops. my last year in college was just too busy i pretty much forgotten to write anything. well, now i am in grad school in Monterey,...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:00:00 GMT

happy new year

i haven't written on this blog for the longest time... well, happy new year everyone! hope you all had a great vacation. jet lag is killing me...its 12pm and i'm already ready to go to bed...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:54:00 GMT

laoshi ai dami

laoshi ai dami (meaning "mouse loves rice") is a famous chinese pop song that is played millions of times everywhere in Beijing. the famous phrase goes like this. "wo ai ni, ai zhe ni, jiu xiang laosh...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Jul 2005 09:20:00 GMT

need your comment: how old do i look like?

yesterday i met a chinese women, and i was talking to her for a little bit... she said i looked like i was 16.... to me that was really shocking because i never had asian people tell me that i look ...
Posted by on Sat, 07 May 2005 23:25:00 GMT

the great wall...beautiful but painful...

the great wall... everyone knows the great wall of china. and if you go to beijing, that is probably one of the places you will go to. but have you ever thought of camping there? i never knew you coul...
Posted by on Sat, 07 May 2005 22:35:00 GMT

i am a shopaholic...

well, at least i admit it my friend harusa and i for some reason started a shopaholic club... and she calls me president...i think she should be though because she definitely has more shit than me. a...
Posted by on Fri, 06 May 2005 06:42:00 GMT

horses...in beijing?

well, everyone has seen horses. i have never experienced horse back riding, but i have at least seen them...in appropriate places. i have seen horses in beijing as well, in appropriate places. but t...
Posted by on Sun, 01 May 2005 03:53:00 GMT

fishing in beijing

yeah, i never thought i will go fishing beijing because beijing is pretty far away from any water resources... well, we went to a city up north of beijing (my friend's hometown) and we went fishing th...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:45:00 GMT

Hainan, the "hooker's capital"

yes, according to my friend Linda, Hainan is the hooker's capital of china. so lots of prostitutes. so a funny story related to this story... we went to a city called Chonghai (aka the hooker's cap...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:53:00 GMT

Hainan, the "Oriental Hawaii"

well, yes i went to Hainan island. It's an island really close to Hong Kong and Macao...yes the southern part of china!!! i finally escaped from the cold, windy, dry beijing. it was just me, atsuko, a...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:40:00 GMT