• Ra Ra Riot The Rhumb Line

(thanks Will!)

• Cut Off Your Hands You and I
• Death Cab For Cutie
  • Transatlanticism (thanks Willisha!)
  • We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
• Arcade Fire Funeral
• The Dresden Dolls No, Virginia...
• Beirut March of the Zapotec
• Loney, Dear Dear John
• Ladyhawke Ladyhawke
• Silversun Pickups
  • Carnavas
  • Swoon
• The Decemberists
  • The Crane Wife
  • Castaways and Cutouts

• 2GB DDR2 PC2-5300 RAM x2
• grey wool cloche hat
• Nutone PT-01 portable record player
• short ankle boots
• nice messenger bag
• comfy desk chair
• a viola
• anti-static record brush
• Temperpedic mattress
• amigurumi pattern books
• crossword puzzle book
• 64 GB iPod Touch
• sewing machine
• bento box (Thanks Weiya!)
• Cal sweatshirt (kinda picky on design)
• blanket with sleeves (not the Snuggie, something made of better material)
• cat toys for Kitteh
• 2011 Cute Overload calendar (Thanks Weiya!)
• black or grey Converses (low-tops), size ...

• drums
• piano
• cello
• ukulele

• Apple pie
• Bed
• Concerts
• Dogs
• Engineering :P
• Friends and family
• Good deeds
• Holidays
• IPod
• Jeans
• Kittehs
• Laughter
• Music
• Nerds
• Organization
• Peacoats
• Quiet
• Rainboots
• Shoes
• Torrents
• Umbrellas

• not drinking bottled water
• hanging laundry out to dry on clotheslines
• turning off lights when I leave the room
• not driving, but taking public transportation
• recycling whenever possible
• using the backsides of paper
• getting things secondhand instead of new (ie furniture, some clothes) YAY CRAIGSLIST
• not littering
• thinking twice about buying something with too much packaging material
• wearing a sweater instead of turning on the heater when it's cold

• BBQ pork on a stick served with achara and java rice (with the special gravy sauce)
• sushi
• ramen
• In-N-Out
• mangoes
• fried banana with ice cream
• fried chicken
• cheesecake
• burritos
• Korean BBQ
• rice
• pasta
• smoothies
• boba
• adobo

• concert ticket convenience fees
• mosquitoes, fleas (literally!)
• a couple points from getting an A in a class
• broken bones
• being sick
• being allergic to garlic
• oversleeping
• having to think about the future
• feeling awkward
• missing the bus
• failing a test
• running into a doorknob
• waving at someone who doesn't wave back
• not knowing the name of a person who you've met a couple times before and being too embarrassed to ask
• having your mom contact your friends, asking where you are. at 1 in the morning.
• playing out of tune and having somebody point that out to you

• my family
  • a responsible, loving mom
  • a good younger brother I get along with very well
  • stable childhood
• financial stability
• living in the Bay Area (where the weather/culture is nice)!
• great friends
• having the opportunity to attend UC Berkeley engineering, one of the best engineering schools in the world
• finding God
  • that God wants us to be with Him despite how wicked we are, enough to send his Son to die for us
• living in America
  • high standard of living

• same faith/beliefs/morals
• plays a musical instrument
• roughly same taste in music
• funny
• thoughtful, kind, well-mannered
• smart (academically and practically)
• responsible
• reasonably good-looking (hahahahh)
• gets along with the parents/brother
• dresses well

• Antarctica
• London, England
• Europe in general-- backpacking across the continent with some friends would be awesome
• Tokyo, Japan
• Socotra Island (the most alien-looking place in the world!)
• Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
• the "vomit comet"-- to experience zero gravity on board an airplane flying a parabolic path
• Iceland
• places where alternative transportation (transit, biking, walking) dominates (Amsterdam, Germany, Japan, etc.)
• Galapagos Islands

• travel around Europe
• attend Coachella
• see a ballet
• stay at the Ice Hotel
• see the northern lights
• see the Milky Way with the naked eye
• hear Racmaninoff's Piano Concertos live in concert
• go to the Olympics

• violin/viola
• crocheting
• embroidery
• baking
• collecting vinyl/LPs
• concertgoing
• Wikipedia-ing
• reading
• listening to music/looking up indie bands
• crafting in general
• sewing
• quilting

• Peacoats
• Having a large music collection
• An aversion to the mainstream
• Mad Men
• Arcade Fire
• Music piracy
• San Francisco
• T-Shirts
• Standing still in concerts

• Dol sot (hotpot) bibimbap from Toust
• Sisig from House of Sisig
• BBQ pork on a stick over a sizzling plate of java rice and achara, served with special sauce from Toppings
• Pad Thai
• Pad see-ew
• Kimchi ramen
• IN-N-OUT
• Tri-Tip Rice Bowl from Brazil Cafe

• Canada
• Japan
• Philippines
• Mexico
• USA (duh)
• France
• The Netherlands
• Finland
• Russia
• Japan

• small cute dogs (pomeranians, pugs, malteses, etc.)
• hamsters/guinea pigs
• squirrels
• rabbits
• giraffes
• elephants
• sea lions
• penguins
• polar bears
• otters
• heh anything small, cute and fuzzy
• kittehs
• hedgehogs

• Greek Theatre in Berkeley
• The Fillmore in SF
• The Warfield in SF
• The Grand Ballroom at the Regency in SF
• Fox Theatre in Oakland
• Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View (boo!)
• Paramount Theatre in Oakland
• Great American Music Hall in SF

• More Cowbell!
• Odd Couple with Will Ferrell as George W. Bush and Darrell Hammond as Al Gore
• Office Meeting with Rainn Wilson and ARCADE FIRE!
• Lazy Sunday with Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell
• Natalie Raps with Andy Samberg and Natalie Portman
• Mango sketches with Chris Kattan
• Sister Mary Catherine Gallagher with Molly Shannon
• Barry Gibb Talk Show with Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake
• Laser Cats!

• Arcade Fire
• Andrew Bird
• Beirut
• Interpol
• Final Fantasy
• Death Cab For Cutie
• Sufjan Stevens
• The Decemberists
• Bloc Party
• Muse

• glasses (at the SF pillow fight)
• my younger brother's Stanford cap when we were little kids
• socks, so I'd only have one in the pair
• my black plastic headband
• retainers :(((((((((((

• M. Ward
• Iron and Wine
• The Airborne Toxic Event
• TV on the Radio
• Spoon
• Ladyhawke
• Animal Collective
• The Bird & the Bee
• MGMT
• Black Kids
• Tokyo Police Club
• Amanda Palmer (I already listen to the Dresden Dolls, but I want to check out Amanda's solo album)
• Cut Copy
• School of Seven Bells
• Phoenix
• The Mars Volta
• Sunset Rubdown
• The Flaming Lips
• Hot Chip

• Cruises to Alaska, Mexican Riviera
• Trips to Big Trees State Park, random forests
• Las Vegas/Grand Canyon/Hoover Dam
• Washington, D.C.
• Philippines (x3)
• Tahoe/Reno (x billion)

• Gnarls Barkley
• M.I.A.
• Santogold
• Metric
• Franz Ferdinand
• The Dresden Dolls
• Gogol Bordello
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Stars
• Broken Social Scene
• The Postal Service
• Daft Punk
• Sufjan Stevens
• The Decemberists
• Patrick Wolf
• Final Fantasy
• Cut Off Your Hands

• telepathy
• ability to stop/rewind/fast forward time
• telekinesis
• invisibility
• teleportation

If I was skilled/blessed enough, and the pay was good, I'd want to be:

• violinist in a band
• Mythbuster
• pastry chef
• rock concert photographer
• diagnostician

• invest roughly half of it into a mutual fund/IRA
• donate a tenth of it to church/charity
• buy my mom a Mercedes
• buy some nice furniture for the house
• go on a trip abroad with friends!
• go clothes shopping (although I'll still go to places where I could stretch my dollar)
• save the rest for pocket money

• dentist scraping accumulated plaque from my teeth during routine cleaning and getting too close to the gum
• mom sermoning me in the car about getting a job
• getting grilled in front of a class
• in a room with a big spider
• in class hoping I won't get called on during a discussion of a topic I know nothing about