two roads

:: Sunday, August 15, 2010 :: QiPao

This Saturday is the annual Kinder Awards in Teaching Excellence, Be the Change Dinner. It is sponsored by TFA, KIPP Houston, and YES Prep to recognize great Houston teachers.

I did not go last year but decided to go this year. Mostly because I wanted a reason to dress up and wear formal wear I never get to wear. The attire for this award/dinner is cocktail attire.

While in China, I got a QiPao tailored for 180RMB (around USD $26). This included fabric. A great deal. In retrospect, I should have had it down full length with an inner lining but oh well. Anyway, I tried it on again in anticipation of wearing it to this award/dinner but found that it was too big! While in China, I gained tons of weight, and since returning, have lost it all and gone back to my pre-China weight. Therefore, this QiPao was now a bit baggy on me. I took it to a tailor to get it brought in. I asked her to keep the extra fabric in in case I go to post-China weight again. It cost me $10 to get it brought in...when it only cost $26 to get it tailored. =)

Should it not work, then I have a nice back-up dress I found in my mom's closet. It's nice when your mom has good taste and every girl in the family is about the same size.

That is all.

:: posted by diana.10:45 PM :: (0) comments ::

Yesterday morning, the school director sent an all-campus e-mail saying that he'd been given 14 free Astros tickets and they were up for grabs. As I am not a baseball fan, I did not jump at the chance. Come staff shout-outs that afternoon, there were still tickets left. My grade-level chair "roped" me into going - I use roped very loosely since basically, he said he just got convinced into going and I should go too - last year, we were usually the only members of the 6th grade team who go to staff events. I use roped because that's the term my team-teacher used last year since I was always the one to volunteer to stay after school for Super Wall Street (a system in place at the school for those who fail to get their homework done). I said that I was after school anyway and this way, got paid for the time too. Instead of "roped," the GLC puts it in a more positive "whatever it takes" tone.

Anyway, so few of the staff end up actually at the game. It really is about the company and not the game itself. Had good company. The Pirates were up for most of the game but ultimately the Astros won. It was actually my very first baseball game.

That is all.

:: posted by diana.9:50 PM :: (0) comments ::

I had another good dream last night. About the same subject matter I posted about a month or so ago. This one was better than last time in fact. Last time, left; this time, stayed. I find it odd that I had not dreamt about this for so long and then in the span of a month, I have two of them.

That is all.

:: posted by diana.2:26 PM :: (0) comments ::

two roads diverged in a wood, and i--
i took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.