Welcome to the online page for Ally's Column of Randomness! Here, you'll find an archive of all of her online, and eventually, newsletter columns. We're just starting to update this page, but see below for a table of contents. Enjoy!
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
2010 in Review-12/1/10
Careers-11/16/10
Foodies in Adventurous Seattle-8/17/10
Alaska-6/27/10
Tired-6/8/10
Ally's Column of Randomness-"2010 in Review"-12/1/10
Hi everyone! I can't believe that it's December 1! This whole year so far has gone by so fast! And so has last year too! Most of the years go by pretty fast! Well there's the saying: "Time flies when you're having fun!" That's pretty much true! Lots of cool things happened this year! Let's see...what were the fun things that I've done??In January, well nothing really happened. Aha. In February, it's Valentine's Day but nothing exciting happens XD except that we went to Anaheim to visit my grandparents. It was also the time when the Olympics were going on! We also went to Disneyland and California Adventures, Nixon Library and we also went to go see Wheel of Fortune LIVE! Very awesome. But most importantly, Valerie and Jimmy got married! The wedding was pretty coolio.
In March, not a lot of things happened. I went to the Pier 39 with Aunty Donna and Josh. That was a lot of fun! In April, it was my BIRTHDAY!!!!!! (and Josh's) but of course mine is first! Yays. I went to Sushi House in Alameda, and Ici in Berkeley! Yummy places...I'm starting to get hungry! Aha. In May, I went to Cazadero with the Portola bands! That was pretty cool! It's a music program in the great outdoors. In June, it was the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL AND YES, THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER! I went to Napa just to hang out with friends! Oh, and I cannot forget my first cruise ever! We went to Alaska (you can read about the trip in my previous article) and it was rockin' awesome.
In July, Hip Wah began and we went on multiple places each day! Pretty awesome! Also, my friend, Maddie and I got to hang out a lot cuz we go to the same camp. We also went back to Anaheim. In August, we went to Seattle (you can read about it in my previous article) and it was totally awesome! But the worst thing happened: SCHOOL STARTED. And I was totally lonely at first, but hey, I made lots of new friends!
In September, my family and I went to the Walt Disney Museum in San Francisco.In October, my friends and I went potato digging and pumpkin digging. Also the "Make a Difference" Tour was cool! It was this thing where popular Christian artists come and they sing songs, and then Max Lucado talked about helping children in need, but the music was AWESOME! And that day was my half birthday! There was Halloween, but nothing exciting happened, except I went to my friend's house, and the SF Giants won that day!
In November, THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS BECAME THE WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS!!! I WAS SOOOOO HAPPY THAT DAY! We went back to Anaheim, and I had the best mochi ever! You should go to LA Japantown and go to a place called Mikawaya. Dude they had mochilato(mochi filled with gelato)! That was very good and totally awesome! For Thanksgiving we drove back to Anaheim and had a meal at my Paw Paw's house. Then I hung out with my Uncle Larry and Josh, by going to Downtown Disney! Fun!!
Yeah, that's what happened so far this year. There's probably other things that my journal left out (I'm getting all of these events from there!), but those are my highlights! Have a good weekend everyone! Please give me questions or ideas of what I should talk about next! Email me at ask414@yahoo.com. Okay, bye!
Allyson Ko 
Ally's Column of Randomness-"Careers"-11/16/10
Hi everyone! I haven't written a column of randomness in a LONG time! Or it felt like a long time. XD I've been busy. Like for my four day weekend (I'm so lucky, I know, I know. :D) we drove to Anaheim to visit my grandparents for the whole weekend, then I come back to school with a lot of homework. Drats huh?
In English, we will now have a class about jobs and what to do to succeed. Well we didn't learn all that today, but we will have that on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This made me remember all the things that I wanted to be when I was little...well most of them, if I remember..XD
Well the first one I didn't remember, but my mom had written it down in her journal (see mom, I said journal, not diary. Be happy, be healthy!). Anyways I wanted to be an acrobat for Cirque Du Soleil (which I don't really like now..sorry Cirque Du Soleil fans.) Then I wanted to be an artist, then a mail lady, then I don't know...., then a fashion designer, then a wedding fashion designer, and now I have no idea. Heck, that's a lot huh? Well yeah... maybe that English class thing about jobs will help...
For all you people that knew I wanted to be a wedding fashion designer...well the dream is kinda gone. Yeah...I couldn't think of any designs...but I like to do that for fun. Speaking of fashion, as some people would say (AHEMMM {joshua...} I'm kidding XD) that it's bold and big and colorful and stuff like that. All those commercials for makeup, perfume, colongue, urgh I mean really? I'm sorry for all those people who like that stuff, but that is not me. Nope. Skinny jeans, converse, tang tops with little sparkly things, all those things crossed out on my list. I'd just like jeans that are not skinny, t-shirts, oversized hoodies, and tennis shoes. My idea of comfy clothes.
OK, now when I'm in my "yo what's up?" mood, Josh always has to like be like "what's up dude?" EXCEPT he sounds nerdy :P XD No offense, brah (ahhhha I sound Hawaiian now! aloha oiii...) work your slang before I bust your...I'm kidding. Okay I think I'm done here. Email me at ask414@yahoo.com for more questions. Maybe your questions will be in my next post :} I will answer them truthfully...and best as I can. KK bye!
Ally's Column of Randomness-"Foodies in Adventurous Seattle"-8/17/10
Hello everyone! I'm going to tell you about our trip to Seattle, WA. Gosh, it was very un-scheduled. We mostly went to places with little planning. We went to Sculpture Park, which had many different sculptures, the Seattle Library (which was super huge), we saw Chihuly art (which is like blown up glass art, real pretty)! We also went to the Snoqualme Falls, Lakewold Gardens, Wing Luke Museum, Boeing Museum, Blue Angels Sea Fair (where we saw the airplanes fly!!!), Arboretum where we saw different plants, we went to Mt. Rainer National Park; we also had dessert mostly everyday! Haha, that part was cool. On the first day, we had Safeway gelato(flavors were lemon, creme brulee, coffee mocha, and chocolate); the second day we had frozen yogurt(the flavor was pretty good! It was acai berry and chocolate); Molly Moon's Ice Cream (my flavor was balsamic strawberry. Mom's was salted caramel. REALLY SALTY! Like the ocean :D); and we went to a place called Old School Frozen Custard (where I had a wild berry smoothie. Yummers!) Oh we went to this HECKA GOOD ITALIAN PLACE! IF YOU GO TO SEATTLE, GO TO SPINASSE! REAL GOOD ITALIAN FOOD! I loved their food! Best Italian food ever! Sorry I'm repeating myself. Haha! :D
Oh also, Josh thought he saw an actor, Andre Stolka, in this radio drama called "Adventures in Odyssey", but it was some random guy. We "spyed" on him, but he was younger, and less fat. So technically, he was wrong. Nice try, Josh, though.
So all the places I went to in Seattle were awesome! I recommend them all to those who want to go to Seattle or Washington!
So now, my editor is now forcing me to write about my take on a current event. Today I will talk about food. Dude, we made crepes yesterday for breakfast filled with nutella (it was like a brunch), and today we made french toast(which was also like a brunch. Haha.) Today I also made a salad for my dad's cousins, Karen and Rob Magovern, who are coming over to my Grandma's house today. I made Mandarin Orange Salad with Carmelized Almonds. Really yummy!
And for my last paragraph of this column today, I'm gonna talk about Adventure City. I'm the associate producer with Natalie Hamada. We have a website for the movie. If you want to go to it, go to adventurecityproject.blogspot.com. It sounds interesting. Here are the main characters that you can audition for:
Ben: the leader of the gang, serious and would sometimes lighten up, an orphan
Takumi: Asian kid who has interests in dancing, purple, and laughing
Charlotte: A tall, loud, but sweet high schooler, who's big mouth gets her in trouble a lot
James: muscular, popular, pretty boy, big ego (now I'm laughing while I'm typing this. Hahahahahaha!)
Kristie: spunky tomboy who's interested in technology, animals and sports, but still tries to show off a girly side.
So wait until you hear the audition dates if you want to audition! Well it's time for me to end. Bye bye! And keep checking back on the website, as I'll try to post more often.
Ally's Column of Randomness-"Alaska"-6/27/10
Hey everyone! I just came back from Alaska! We went on the Island Princess Cruiseline on June 14, 2010. It was interesting, since I have never been on a cruise before. IT WAS HUGE! 12 decks in all. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, and 16. Well I'm pretty sure there's deck 1, 2, and 3, but we've never been down there, so I dunno. Well we slept in deck 11, and met our steward, Jorge. He was really nice. We had bunk beds in our room, and Josh and I slept on the top(of course), and mom and dad slept on the bottom(of course). We had first class meals every dinner with appetizers, super salads, main courses, and dessert! Who could ask for more for a girl who likes food? ;) SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOD!On June 15, it was the rockiest day of the ship! I felt sooooo sea sick it wasn't even funny. At least I didn't barf unlike some people(just kidding). On June 16, we arrived in Ketchikan, AK. It was coolio. Small town, cool place. Yep. On June 17, we went to Juneau, AK. And we saw the governor's house. Pretty big (not really). Anyways, we saw this hilarious show by Kevin Hughes. It was sooo hecka funny. My whole family was cracking up like eggs(not literally but you know). On June 18, Skagway was our next destination. It was small and boring and cool at the same time. Interesting little town. June 19, we were on the boat and watching one glacier in Glacier Bay. Cool huh? Yeah...one glacier. Amazing. Wow. One glacier(you get my point). June 20, uhhh we went to College Fjord. Nothing there. Just mountaings, and islands and melting ice in the ocean. Nothing much. On June 21, we saw a show with Adrian Zmed. If you don't know him, he's famous. He was in Grease(that's all I know about him) with Michelle Pfeiffer. Yep, he sang with others and ya. On June 22, we got off the boat and rode a bus to the Anchorage Museum.
The Anchorage Museum was sooo cool! Lots of gizmos and such! Cool place for us! Well that was in the kid's room. Most of the museum had art, Indian or Native American stuff etc. Then we took a bus to Denali, AK. We went to our hotel, Denali Bluffs Hotel. We ate at a restaurant there on the hotel grounds; it wasn't as good as the cruise. And we had to pay too (and the prices were so expensive...). The next day was cool! It was June 23, and we took a bus tour around Denali National Park. We saw moose, two mama grizzly bears, two cubs(one mama and cub in one place the others in another place FAR away,) a red fox that followed us, dall sheep, a gray wolf peeing on the road, and caribou. It was amazing! On June 24, we saw the sled dogs that drive a sled in the winter. SO CUTE! AND ADORABLE! Then we took the Alaska Train to Anchorage and we finally saw an eagle! Yay! The train took about 8 hours. We got picked up by my Auntie Karen's friend, Uncle Hung. We ate at this SUPER GOOD AND AWESOME SEAFOOD place called Momma O's Seafood. Pretty good. Then we slept in the Comfort Inn. Those liars. It is NOT a "comfort" inn. The bathroom door was hard to close, if you needed to print something from the computer, the printer was broken, while walking to my grandma and aunties' room, it smelled like SMOKE, and bad TV reception. Yep.
On June 24, we went to the airport. And guess what? OUR FLIGHT WAS CANCELED. YOU KNOW HOW LONG AND BORING IT FELT IN THE AIRPORT?!?!?! IT WAS LIKE TOM HANKS IN THE TERMINAL. EXCEPT WE DIDN'T LIVE THERE BUT IT FELT LIKE THAT YOU KNOW? Finally we got on the plane...AT MIDNIGHT! I barely fell asleep! Ay yah. Well we made it home on June 25. I was super tired, got on my bed and slept for 6 hours without being awaken. Well, this was our trip to Alaska! Hope you enjoyed it!(or my little rapping up of Alaska ;) Well bye!(oh and thanks to Fabriola and Jazmin for being awesome waiters! And Jorge too!)
Ally's Column of Randomness-"Tired"-June 8, 2010
Hey y'all! What's up? I hope you all have a good week. Just wanted to say yo! OK bye!P.S. My editor (aka my brother) is forcing me to write more...:( this stupid poem. Brothers...why do they force us women to do work?!?! Does he understand that I'm AT LEAST COMMUNICATING WITH YOU? ISN'T THAT GOOD? I hope so...if not...wait till we go home, buddy. I got a big surprise if not >:)
i get bored all day
thinking i've got a ton of play
but when my brother comes i say
hey! what the heck are you doing?
puppy said, can't you see i'm pooing?
woofy said, that's a lot of doing
whoopy doo doo!
i don't need your foo!
hate that doo doo
i'm so bored boo hoo.
Hey y'all. Isn't that the stinkiest poem ever? Ok, I can write better but I didn't want to write one, that's why it's all sappy. I know, I know...I'm better than I'm showing you, but WHO CARES BUT ME? Ok, I must go because my bro says it's too long (hahahha I'm lying, he didn't say that, I just wanna check my mail). hahahahhahahhahha XD I'm hilarious in my little ways and no, I'm not that disgusting in real life; ask my friends. they'd probably say yes(especially Joshua Allen Ko) and you'd say ....ok. hahahahahhahhahahhahaha...ok i'm tired of sicking writing. Bye bye.
-Allyson Ko
p.s.s. i will write another post, but it will be better than this. I'm just hecka tired, ya know? bye...FOR REAL :D
P.s.s.s. read the bottom and doesn't my brother make me sound bad? I feel like a fugitive!!!!!! what's next? i'm going to jail or azkaban?(read harry potter FYI)or alcatraz?!?!?!(that'll be horrible with all those tourists thinking i'm a stunt playing a bad prisoner when I AM!
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NOTE: The views of this column do not necessarily reflect the views, concerns, and positions of the Josh and Ally Ko Company.
