HAHAHA

dang..im so glad i'm done with stanford. SO GLAD. man...in spite of EVERYTHING, even though i woulda been unhappy...i think going to ucsd would have been just fine. AHHHH. stupid stupid stupid gloria. why are you so fucking dumb.

happy thanksgiving, adrien brody!

hahahaha. so i woke up about an hour ago to the water spilling off the roof and splashing on our front door step. that's why my door is usually cloooosseeeeddddd. anyway, yay happy thanksgiving everybody! =) lets see...plans for today. my sister is coming down around 3pm and we're gonna eat at the restaurant for some reason. oh yeah! someone ordered a party tray and so we're gonna go there, my dad is gonna make it for 'em, and then we'll eat, and bust a move on home. i might go shopping with huong at the carlsbad outlets cuz they open at 11pm! how weird huh?! ohhh and my sister wants to go to michaels cuz they're open today 6-9pm! how crazyyyyy. lol. yayayya for shopping. im going to get a laptop and a digital camera..i also need an mp3 player because my poor shuffle broke. i should just take it into apple. we'll see if i actually do that. lol. i also want a boom box! so i can take it to the beach for bonfires n shiet...although i heard that they might be taken out the bonfire pits in sd because it costs several million? or so to maintain over the cousre of a year. BITCHESSSSS. i really hope they dont take those suckers out. =( anyway, yepppppppppppp.

so yesterday i volunteered and then did nothing and tried to studied and then chatted and then watned to go out and then i ended up watching KING KONG, again! but its such an awesomeeeeeeeeeeeee movie. i <3 adrien brody. he's soooo awesome and he's such a stud in the movie. he's like geeky but all heroic and shit...and he has a nice asss body for that one scene they shoot with his shirt off. man..gives me gooosebumps! =) so i imdb-d him and stuff..DUDE he was friends with TUPAC...and he's into hip hop music! woooo. plus, he kept me company last night while i was supposed to be dancin dancin dancin...hahaha anyway, yeah yesterday was a failure interms of plans for hte evening. i dont know why i want to go out so much but its like when i wanna go out i just really wanna go out. *sigh* so i got all dressed and readay to go but i just stayed at home. lol. whatever. OH but yesterday was an AWESOMEEEEEEEE DAY interms of volunteering atht ehopstal! i felt pretty darn useful! i wrote an account of my day yesterday so i'll just copy and paste haha:

umm..i felt so helpful today! i was a "sitter" for like half
an hour, i got an IV pump from central service in the base-
ment downstairs...i helped a patient find his room and got
him some ice water...i talked to some visitors, and helped this
one lady -abeaitufl old lady -find the right elevator and she
told me to look out the window and she was like all that used
to be nothinggg..like 50 years ago mission valley was all
truck farms and like...dirt. hahaha. oh man...another visitor
was visitning his brother in law and he was from
barstow! wooooooo. anyway, OH YEAH. and success! i visited
my usual patient and he was stronger than last week but
not in th emood to talk much so i just sat with him..i saw
him like 3 times today..the last time i gave him a crane -2
in fact, 1 pretty one and 1 that moved - and he seemed pretty
grateful. im not good at giving gifts but I LOVEEEE it when
people like my gifts. =) so that was coool. i like it when people are
appreciative. it makes me soo happy. mannn...OH and
there was a guy who wanted therapeutic dogs. it seems like
thats the only thing that'll make his visit so im super
happy he's going to get 'em tomorrow. =) i actually saw a
lot of patients today. woooo. OH, the lady i was sitting
for...i felt horribe because she was tearing up and i tried
to talk to her..she didnt open up too much but i think i was able to
reassure her a little...and i think she was grateful so yayyy!

hmm...i dont konw what else to say..but today was good. good good.
i had a positive attitude and it helped soo much. i wasan't too
awkward..i was confident in what i was doing - i knew i where to get
ice/water..i kne where supplies were...where the magazines were..igot the officer xlarge gloves.. i got the routine down now...and i
was helping with other errands! i guess they were a little
understaffed or something today because there were fewer pp..
anyway GOOD DAY. =) ANDDD i dont have to work! awesomeeee =)


sooooo yep that was all yesterday. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....k that's all! im totally bore dright now. hahahah its GREAT! :D

have a wonderful thanksgiving everybody!

the hulk

what an awesome movie! i just raided annie and john's house and ate banh mi and we watched the hulk. =) so much for working out. gosh, i'm larger than life.

instant gratification

this is what i'm all about. be happy. be happy now cuz you can die tomorrow! =) i think this is what it's come to in recent years especially after all of my travels. people live day to day and they enjoy life regardless of how much they have. hence, why i'm home now and why i'm trying to wear my emotions on my sleeve. my main priorities are to spend time with family and friends, and closely after is to study for MCATs although its still up there. anyway, i was reminded when a customer came in yesterday and talked about how different the US from other countries where people live simple lives and just enjoy what they have. interestingly my mom countered with the delayed gratification bit, which makes sense, but if you have enough to LIVE NOW if you aren't super poor and don't need to slave away at a job, why not enjoy yourself a little. dude, and whos to say you can't do both ya know? i don't meanto say splurge on fancy cars or trips other countries, but just live a little..just a little. yeah i know there are a bunch of caveats to this but like i know what i mean and i'm too lazy to go through times when this wouldnt apply. anyway, the moral of the story is: BE HAPPY. haha, dang i used to be all about working hard for the future. EFF that. i mean i'm still going to sort of, but i'm going to be happy now too. man there are so many dimensions to this, but whatever. hahahahahaha.

anyway, umm. im going to eat lunch with annie and john at noon. maybe work out. then i have work at the restaurant tonight! im currently studying for MCATs. GO OCHEM!!! :D

long time no blog

man what an awesome weekend. here's how it went down. actually let me start with.......friday!

so friday: volunteering at the med center from noon-4pm. came home and showered. THEN GOT PICKED UP BY ANDREW FROM MIDDLE SCHOOOL WHO WAS DRIVING A NICE ASS MERCEDES SLK CONVERTIBLE and we had dinner at wasabi sushi in PB. itw was soooooooo awesome to see him again after a bajillion years! i wanted to meet up with him and some other middle schoolers but that didn't happen. we ate and then had boba at tea station. then he dropped me off, and i drove with annie and john to BUCAS because it was eddie's birthday! 28th! crazyyyyy! it was funnn we saw all the tennis folks and we took shots of patron out the back of someone' s trunk. gooood times.. i freakin had 2 dinners. mommaaaaaa. after that we all split. i went home to get changed because i wanted to go out but i was a little buzzed and i didnt want to drive cuz then i couldnt drink. sooo yeah. i ended up staying at homeeee for the rest of the night. oh and i chatted on the phone!

saturday: woke up around 8am, drove up to irvine. drove with ava to see sexy cousin JENNY who opened up a nail salon/spa place in West Covina! it's called cherry blossom and its suuuper cute! ava and i got pedicures. my first ever!!!!! it was pretty darn awesomeeeee. i was hella giggly when they were scrubbing my feet cuz it tickled! anyway it was a parttyyy! the place was really really nice and sister and i left in the afternoon to meet up with william. we had some RAMEN for lunch! and then i knocked out. i woke up around 6 and they dropped me off at UCI for the 8th annual ROSE PAGEANT, which was coordinated by my awesome friend HUONG. it was an amazzingggg showww!!!!!!!! great lineup of performers and acts and the girls were pretty awesome too! it was pure enteratinment throughout. what an awesome vsa! yayyy vsa!!! =) i also saw huong's dad and brother, who i havent seen in a wihle so it was pretty awesome to talk and catch up with them =) after that, i got picked up and ava and i baked cookies for sunday's thankmsgiving get-tgoetherrrr. then i watched the rest of bourne ultimatum and went to sleeep

sunday: i woke up at like 630am to william talking in korean to scout. lol. i got my booty up and drove back down to san diego to the restaurant around 10am. OHHH, and did i mention i had a dream!?!? i dreamed a freaken NOVEL or rather, i dreamed a MOVIE! like it was supper crazy and intricate and had all these twists and turns....it had aspects of the bourne utlimatum andother shit going on in my life. GOOD TIMES! anyway at the restauarnt, i was suuuper tired but helped out a bit. then ava and william came around...3pmish. we had just eaten some lunch before they came but then they brought hella food - awesomeee stuf too! (mashed papas, candied yams, green bean casserole, honey glazed HAM! and moreee! oh yeah and the cookies! ;) ) so we ate and ate and i felt sooooooooofulll but i kept going. on top of that we had champagne! WOOOOOOOOOOOO from spain! it was greattttt. i really enjoyed it =). it was nice to eat together; it was everyone minus brian. =( plus nikki and william. =) yay for our growing family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D anyway, we hung and chatted a bit longer. then THIS IS SUPER CUTE! cuz we all had to get gas - the kids that is, so harold/nikki, ava/william, and i drove our cars downt he steret to costco and filled up our gas together. hahaha it was awesome. then when we were done we all split our seaparate ways and rolle ddown our windows yelling goodbye and shit. goood stuff. kodak moment indeed. =) all the other ppl filling up their gas were like wtf?! heheheh gooood times. anyway,i went back tot he resturant and tried to study but nearly fell asleep. i was SUPER tired. then mama and i drove home. =)

hmm..im really tired so i'll write aboutlast week later. lol. =)

im too young

to give relationship advice, particularly for marriages. *sigh*. anyway, i had an awesome day...yesterday. i woke up around 1030am - my bed is so damn comfortable! i ended up snoozing until like 1115am. then i got up, ate real quick, changed, and got to the med center around 12:05 for volunteering. i volunteered till about 4pm. it was pretty awesome. i talked to maybe...7 people total but it was really nice to hear about some of the peopole's concerns instead of mere chatting. anyway, i saw one of the regulars and i took him around the hostpital in a wheelchair! it was awesome. my first victim. it otally warned him in advanced. it was funny cuz we were all making sound effects n stuff. good times. he got bored quick though because there wasn't much to see in the hospital..lol not very scenic. good day, though. at the end of the shift i talked to judy and susan! they're sooooo nice and lovely. =) yayy for awesome people.

then i went rushed home, threw off my shirt (hot, huh?) put on the work shirt, hopped in the van, and went off to work with mis padres. work was pretty darn busy. there were lots of dine-ins, which both my mom and i don't like because it's more work even though you get tips. i tried to do some more of hte work because my mom is getting sick and she's stressed so i was a good daughter! i'mproud that i manned so many tables at once. i was half htere too because i was all pooped. lol. anyway, we made it through the day. when we ate, it was soooo gooooood cuz i was starving! we got home around 10pmish, i showered, and here i am!

FUCKING MOTHER FUCKERS

MOTHER FUCKERS. fucking bitches overturned fucking gay marriage. UGH. and fucking colorado or whatever the fuck it was is tyring to put an end to affirmative action. muthaa fuckinnnn bitches! UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. japweoifjaopwiejfapowiejfaowpiej haha i was reminded because i'm watching cnn and it just came up. someone texted me about a rally in white plaza this morning cuz of what happened with prop 8. CHEEZE ITZ. anyway that's all.

say what say what

woke up around 930. ate. did a practice test for VR. ate. went to volunteer from noon-430. late so i met my parents at the restaurant, stopping first at costco for gas. worked. came home. watched cnn with the padres. saw my daddy off to work. =) i think im going to study o chem tonight maybe. dunnooooooooooo.

I VOTED!

moo wah hahaha. i got up around 930am today, finished filling out my practice ballot, and then walked over to the Clairemont Church of God to cast my vote! There was like NOBODY there. hahaha..woooo. i think 2 people were voting when i got there. =) it was kinda cool filling out the ballot cuz it was like MY VOTEEE and stuff. haha i was kinda excited about voting cuz its my first timeeeeee andmy first presidential election. i was 17 for the last election and couldnt vote. tee hee. so yeppppppp. i voted, got my sticker, and walked back home. since then i've been doing the homework for my mcat class. working on verbal reasoning. DUDE, i suck. all the passages are so freakin hard to read cuz there are big words - for me - and its just hard to follow. i'm also always not too focused too. it'll be hard doing verbal reasoning on the computer because i like writing all over things andmaking notes and stuff. =/ oh welllll i gotta practice. oh and my cousin just called me to tell me about boys. tee hee. YAY! who knows what the rest of the day holds...

yesterday: i tried to study but couldnt focus, so i ran some errands. i went to pick up some hair stuff for my mom, i went to michael's cuz its the best place ever and i bought a little something for annie and meanwhile i talked to my sister for like an hour while iwasthere, then i went to fryz and got toner for the fax machine, and then i came home. i dropped off the goods and then changed and then went to TP to go running with john. then he went off to work and i stayed at the beach and did some studying..for maybe 1/2 an hour.i studysurprisingly well in the car..something i've noticed over the years. then i went home, changed, and then went to work wiht the parents. it was pretty busy for a monday, lots of people callin in orders. YAY! =) at night i chatted with my mama and tried to do some studying..once again only partially focused cuz i waas poopered.

sunday: i worked all day con los padres. we had to go early because there was a party tray order for this dude who was having a baby shower ! so yepp, spent the whole day a tht erestaurant. it was pretty quiet. my dad says that for somer eason, whenver the time is changed, business slows down. sooo yep, pretty quiet. i did some studying. i read my "microterrors" book and also read my rick steve's europe 101 book about european history and art. =) the venus of willendorf..remmember her? tee hee. when we got home we did a little bit of house cleaning.

saturday: in the morning i did alittle bit of cleaning. i also cleared space for the treadmill so that we could use it..and the i used it! hahahah yayyyy. then around 1, i went to meet up with my dad because we were going to get my sister in OC and then go to LA. my dad's friend from army was having a wedding party for his youngest daughter. it was pretty darn COOOOL to meet my dad's friends. you know how like meeting someone's friends tells you about that person? well my dad is pretty darn awesome just as i thought he was cuz he friends were way open and friendly and diverse! and the father of the bride was older than my dad and kept like touching my dad and touching his beard and was soooo happy to see him! =) my other dad's friend was definitely a jokester and kept cracking jokes and this other dude was an awesome artsy fartsy kinda guy who painted water colors and he said he'd show me how too!! iloveeeeeee water colors! i've always thought waterc olors were sooo COOOOOOOOOL! i painted something once for maykim. i thought it was way awesome. lol. oh and there was another dude who could sorta tell fortunes. anyway, yeah, the dinner was great. there was plenty of food, fun people. OH and the music was awesomeee!! the first song was this traditional chiense song that i kenw the words to because my dad listened to it and i sang along...the second was this AWESOMEE old school vietnamese love song thati knew from my days of ..i'm not sure. i think its from when i was in the vietnamese choir at the churchabck in high school lol. it was called uoc gi (or something..i dont know how to spell it). OH i SPELLED IT RIGHT. im so AWESOME. here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjnom8YAlt8
i dont think she's the orginal singer but i dunno. anyway YAY! :)
after the wedding,we dropped off ava and william and then drove home. my dda still had to go to work. =( my parents work so hard.. WHYYYY WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
*sigh*.

anyway, yepppp. those were the past few days! =D

happy halloween!

yesterday was fun. i woke up, did some studying...for a while. watched some TV. did some more studying. went to run errands with my dad. we went to smart&final, food for less - to get a pumpkin!! - and T&L. when we went home, my parenst left for work, i did more studying, and fell asleep. around 5ish, i decided to carve the pumpkin - which loooked SOO AWESOME by the way, it was super crooked and looked like it was smushed on one side - and made a scary jackolanttern face using a pattern. then i put hte pumpkin outisde and lit a candle! woo hoo! i t was super thrilling. oh yeah, i should mention i put batman begins on and watched that cuz it was just me at home and i thought i should party it up with a movie. i had some trick-o-treaters who were way cuteeeee. as i awaited the kiddeees, i decided to make a sign using the easel/chalkboard thing. i got super into and im very proud of my beautiful sign. it says "happy halloween, knock AT YOUR OWN RISK..." most people were like..uhh.whats so scary about you? lol. but some girls got freaked out cuzi was standing right by the door and htey didnt see me. mooo wah hahahahaha. umm..annie came over and we went to check out this carnival by my house. i never knew we had one there, buti guess the church around the corner puts it on. it was cool, we went with my brother and nikki. they were giving out free hotdogs and lotsaa stuff and they had SUPER TALLL people. we didnt spend much time there. then annie and i split and went to yogurt world for some frozen yogurt. then we went back home and watched the rest of batman begins...then we watched mee the fockers. my parents came home and brought annie cream cheese wontons. i ate too. then annie fell asleep and then i fell asleep. eventually we both woke up, annie went home, and i did some studying. lol. wooooooooooo! iti was a pretty chill halloweeen. pretty awesome though. i'm so proud of my decorations!!! =)

today i'm off to LA with my dad and sister for a wedding...the father of the groom was like best friends with my dad back in the days of 'nam. there are a bunch of their other friends there too! i'm happy for my dad. hopefully my sister and i will be entertained too! lol