A round of applause.

Herein lies my family's next big challenge: fruit flies. Recently, we've been having a problem with fruit flies popping up all over the kitchen. We'll be eating dinner and a fruit fly and a couple of his buddies will fly across the dinner table. Every time we sit down to eat, fruit flies will show up out of nowhere. I feel like it's almost deliberate, like the fruit flies wait until the moment we sit down to eat, and then they mockingly fly over the table. It's gotten to the point where I can't take anything seriously because I'll hear clapping randomly in the middle of doing something. For example, I'm practicing piano in preparation for an upcoming recital. As I'm playing a piece that I think I've got completely memorized, I hear the clapping of my mother attempting to rid the kitchen of fruit flies. As I'm doing homework upstairs in my room, I'll become overwhelmingly distracted by my mother in pursuit of the kitchen fruit flies which will then be followed by a triumphant cheer at having finally killed one of the tiny suckers. You don't realize until you try to kill a fruit fly how rewarding it is. They slip away through your fingers, dodge your determined capture, and attack in numbers.

This one day, I open the microwave door to warm up my lunch and find at least 20 fruit flies swarming over a poor piece of pummelo. Totally taken aback, I slam the microwave door to contain the mass of flying insects. However, realizing my need to use the microwave, I quickly take out the pummelo (fruit flies and all) and plop it on the counter. I look back into the microwave and notice a couple lagging fruit flies. Vengefully, I close the microwave door and set the timer to 15 seconds on high. Yes, 15 seconds of pure hell will serve them right. After 15 seconds, I open the microwave again expecting to find fruit flies fried sitting on the bottom of the microwave. Instead, nothing, like they vanished into thin air. To my dismay, I realize that they probably escaped my vindictive microwaving through the circulation vents. No fried fruit flies today.

Sad songs on a splendid...Thursday

This year has really whizzed by. I remember the beginning of school all too clearly; I remember sitting down in my desk, restless at the thought of the end of summer break; I remember attending my classes for the first time as a senior; I remember knowing what it's like to have a free period in the day; I remember (and am eager to forget) the dread of looming college applications waiting to get done. Remembering all of these things, I can truly say that this has been one of the most enjoyable, rewarding years I've experienced. This is probably partly because of the thrill of entering college in just a matter of months, but also the people I've met, the friendships that have grown have made this year so much better than my past years of school. And now that we're already halfway through April, prom is in a few days, and AP exams are too close for comfort, I'm realizing exactly how scared I am of what's coming up next for me, because I have no idea. All of this thinking and remembering and memories shows me just how desperate I am to cling to what I've experienced through the years. Think about it. For me, I've been in this school district for 13 years. The structure was familiar. We knew what to do though at times we didn't exactly know what we were doing. But at least we knew what was coming next. No curve balls. No blurry future. Always a clearcut path. And now that we've come to the end of this road, it's like we're standing at the edge of a big empty field. I guess that's what comes with growing up. There aren't clearcut paths for us anymore. Just a big empty field waiting to be run across, waiting for someone to lie down among the flowers, waiting for something to happen. Which way are we going to run? I've seen so many people run across this field and get to the other side. And now that I'm standing at the edge of it, I can't get myself to take one step into it. Which way am I going to run? I always knew that I was growing up, but I never imagined that one day, I'd be the one walking across the stage, looking out proudly, yet sadly at all the people who made it all possible, at the parents who were always there to support me, at the friends who pulled me up when I was down, at the teachers who taught me lessons in and out of the classroom. I tell everyone that I can't wait for that moment, for the moment when I finally achieve what I've worked so long for. For the moment when I receive my diploma as a mark of my accomplishments. For the moment when I'll look out into the crowd and give all of those people a thankful grin. But the truth is, I can wait for that moment. Because waiting for that moment means I'll have more time to spend with those people instead looking out at them. I can wait for school to be over because I just don't want it to end. It's only a month and a half...just a measly month and a half to really appreciate all the people who have made my experience unforgettable. How is that possible? I just want to hold on tight to what these longtime friends mean to me. The years in kindergarten "cooking" ants on a log. The fifth grade when we thought we were so cool because we were the oldest in the school only to realize that the process began all over again in middle school. It's just growing up, and as much as I want to deny it and turn away from it, it's inevitable. Some people say they want to grow up to become a fireman, an astronaut, a doctor, a lawyer. I want things to stay the way they are right now.

I can wish and hope all I want, but the truth is, we've all grown up, and it's almost time for everyone to run across that big empty field. And if I can build up the courage, I'll be running with them. But I sure as hell hope that I come across these people again later in life. And you all better be at the ten year reunion!

The Great Gasoline

Today started off pretty normally; going to class, getting work, doing work, getting restless, distracting people. It was a pretty rough and boring morning, so I was relieved when 4th period rolled around so that I could enjoy 50 minutes of school-less bliss. I turned my car on to go home and saw that I had about 1 tick of gas left in my tank, maybe a little more. I probably should have gone to get gas at that point to avoid this whole situation, but it was my free period, and all I was thinking about was getting home, eating, and watching cheesy movies on Disney Channel. Today featured one of my favorites: Halloweentown High, the 3rd movie of the Halloweentown trilogy which is what I had been hoping for since yesterday when Halloweentown 2: Kalabar's Revenge, the 2nd movie in the series of 3, played. Well, tempted as I was by what turned out to be the highlight of my day, I decided against going to get gas which would have probably wasted half of my free period, and besides, I had more than a tick left which was equivalent to around 20 miles. And the closest gas station was right up the road about a mile away. So instead of getting gas as any sensible person with one tick of gas left in their tank would do, I promised myself that I would get gas after school when I had all the time in the world. If I went after school, the only time I would be cutting into would be my homework time which was perfectly okay with me.

So I continued on with my day, enjoyed a nice long free period, got covered in pollen, and made a quick run to Orange Leaf with Lydia to get ice cream. I explained to her my gasoline situation, and she assured me that as long as the gas light hadn't turned on, I was fine. And the gas light hadn't turned on, so I returned to school comforted.

After what felt like forever, the last bell rang, and school was finally over. I turned on my car and again looked at my gas meter which still showed 1 tick of gas. Well, I still had about 20 miles left to drive, so I decided that instead of driving to the closer BP which was not even a mile from school, I could make it to the Exxon which was just a little farther away. What led me to this decision was for one, I wouldn't have a bunch of high school students staring at me while I pumped gas and two, because I needed to go to Harris Teeter to buy chapstick (though I suppose I really should use its proper name and call it lip balm because I wasn't going to Harris Teeter to buy chapstick since I'm allergic to the brand Chapstick. I was actually going to buy Burt's Bees lip balm) and the Exxon was really close to Harris Teeter. Clever me, killing two birds with one stone. After I got some gas, I could make the short trip to Harris Teeter to take care of my grocery needs.

Well, I arrived at the Exxon with a smile. Good thing I didn't run out of gas. That would have been a pain. And there were plenty of open gas pumps for me to choose from. If you've ever been to the Exxon at Chapel Hill North, you know that there are 2 rows of 3 stations with gas pumps on either side. I decided to use the one facing the curb (and also facing the ABC store). And since there were two cars ahead of me already getting gas, I parked at the 3rd gas pump. I got out of my car and went about my business acting like I knew what I was doing because if there's one thing that's embarrassing, it's going to the gas station and struggling to pump gas into your car. Who doesn't know how to pump gas? A few seconds later, some sort of landscaping truck came up behind my car. Clearly, it needed to get gas, but the lane between my car and the curb was too narrow for it to pass my car and reach the now-available gas pumps in front of me. So the driver parked the front of his monstrous truck right behind my car. I contemplated moving my car forward to allow him to get to a gas pump because having the grill of a truck parked behind you as you get gas is sort of intimidating, but I decided that it would only take me at most 5 minutes to get gas, so he could wait. With a few difficulties (1. forgetting to open the gas door 2. being unable to open the gas cap for a couple minutes), I was ready to pay for my gas. Now, keep in mind, I hadn't actually pumped any gas into my car because of the whole pay before you pump deal at gas stations. (And ignore the fact that paying for gas is actually the first thing the machine tells you to do.) I was ready with my debit card in hand to begin the fueling process. The screen told me to insert and remove my card, so I did. The word "Authorizing" appeared on the screen, and I waited a couple moments for the machine to read my card. To my horror, instead of proceeding to the "Enter pin" screen that always follows payment with a debit card, the words "DEBIT not ready" appeared. What the heck did that mean? I had no idea. I canceled the transaction and tried again, figuring that it had to be some sort of glitch. Once again, the words "DEBIT not ready" came on the screen. I looked around at anyone who could be watching my struggles (and most likely laughing), and remembered the huge truck parked behind me. Well, this was too embarrassing, so I decided to move my car and pretend that I was being nice by letting him get to a pump. I drove up to the first pump in the line and tried my debit card again. "DEBIT not ready." This was something I'd never encountered at a gas station before, so I scanned the whole machine in search of some sort of clarification. Then, I came upon a sign that read, "Only credit cards accepted at pump, pre-fuel cash payments accepted inside." Well this was just great; I didn't have a credit card, and I had a total of maybe $10 in my wallet. And you might be thinking that I could've just gone inside and paid $10 to get a couple gallons of gas, just so I wouldn't run out of gas, and believe me, I considered that, but in the end, my laziness won over. I would pass by the BP on my way home anyway, so I could just get gas there with much less hassle. And by the time I finished shopping at Harris Teeter and drove to that gas station, there wouldn't be so many students around to watch me pump gas. So it was settled.

I made my quick Harris Teeter run then set out for the BP. I checked my gas meter which was at half a tick mark at this point. While driving, my gas light came on which made my heart race. I didn't know what that meant or how many more miles I could drive. Lydia had said I was fine as long as my gas light wasn't on, and here it was glaring brightly in my face. A few moments later, however, the light went off. This confused me. Did I have sufficient gas or not? Then, the light came back on. I fretted the entire way to BP as this cycle of the light coming on and going off continued. But my worries left me when I pulled into the gas station and saw open pumps and thought, finally, I'm going to get some gas. However, I was completely shocked to find a yellow "Out of Service" bag on the gas nozzle. Well, no worries, I could just drive around to the other side. I scanned the other side and saw more yellow bags covering the nozzles. Great. These were the two closest gas stations on this side of town, and I couldn't get gas at either of them.

Panicked, I decided that I could either go home and try getting gas again tomorrow, or I could drive across town to get gas. I checked my gas meter and saw that there was less than half a tick now. I couldn't go to the Exxon tomorrow because I didn't have a credit card, and the BP might not be in service tomorrow. So I just decided to get gas now. The closest gas station I could think of was one by Staples. I was hysterically worried that I would run out of gas before I could reach another gas station. It seemed like I got stopped at every traffic light, and it appeared that all of the cars driving ahead of me were driving slowly on purpose. I started thinking about a time when I was riding with a friend and her mom, and we ran out of gas. My friend had to walk home to get a gallon of gas they had stored in their garage. I didn't have gas stored at my house. And even if I did, I wasn't about to walk miles home to get gas. Then I thought about a story my brother told me about his friend who had had barely any gas in his car. He had said that his friend stopped using the brake so that he wouldn't have to accelerate as much. I decided to try that, but I hit too many red lights for it to do any good. Then I thought about the end of his story, when he told me that his friend eventually ran out of gas. I didn't even remember what it was like to run out of gas. Did the car just turn off and you were on your own, or did the car give a couple warning beeps then stop working? When I was younger, my sister and I always thought cars drove slower when they were running out of gas. Of course, I'm older and more mature, and I know that this is not the way it works. But still, I wasn't sure what was going to happen. I got so worried that I even began scouting out good places to break down (i.e. in an outside lane, on the shoulder, aka NOT on the road) as well as some pretty bad places to break down (i.e. at a traffic light, in the middle of 15-501, in a sketchy part of town, etc.). As I was waiting to turn left into the Exxon I had found, I even thought that as much as it would suck and as ironic as it would be to run out of gas right by a gas station, this spot would be an alright place to break down.

Well, luckily I made it safely to the Exxon. I was content that I didn't have to deal with a break down though I did have to pay an outrageous $2.84 per gallon. The BP by the school was at least 5 cents cheaper than this gas station, so I only filled my gas tank up halfway.

Maybe some other day I'll find out what it's like to run out of gas. But not today.

Anyways, hope you enjoyed the story, and hope your day has been superb. And advice for the future: when you're running low on gas, save yourself the worry, and fill up your tank at the nearest gas station.

it's a beautiful mornin'....or afternoon

well, the last few days have been...kind of a blur. it hasn't really set in that i've only gotten into 1 college. well, it kind of has. here's how it looks so far...

unc - accepted! (despite my diehard duke fan-ness, i can honestly say that i appreciate unc so much more because they accepted me, no lie)
duke - waitlisted
emory - waitlisted
wash u - waitlisted
uva - rejected
northwestern - rejected
brown - still waiting...most likely rejected
johns hopkins - still waiting...noo idea

so college decisions are pretty depressing right now. so is getting on facebook with all of people's college acceptances. but i'm sooo happy for everyone. it's so amazing that everyone's getting in and i'm soo proud of all of my friends. i don't want this to sound like i'm complaining, it's just my blog...so it's going to be about my life =) so anyway, i'm going to write letters to the places i got waitlisted and hopefully i'll get in at least one place. though now that i think about it, going to unc wouldn't be bad. obviously, people would rub it in if i ended up there...knowing how hard i cheer for duke/oppose unc. but that would only be the 50 some east students that go to unc. the other thousands of people wouldn't know a thing. though they may suspect my dukeness. i don't think i could take it out of my life completely. and when i say i end up at unc, i'm not saying that it would be terrible to go there because it's a terrible school. it's a great school, i just maybe wouldn't like it because i've grown up with duke. yeah...

anyway, i've been trying to fill my days with hang-outs and things so that i don't dwell on what's already past. but in all my hanging out, i haven't been productive at all. i just need one day to work on hw, birthday gifts, birthday cards, etc.

that being said, today, i went to duke gardens with marsha amelia aman andrew and nancy. it was so pretty outside. the sky was perfectly blue. everything looked so crisp and sharp. activities included...

fishing around the watering hole...

catching some zzz's...jk participating in the lying down game...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lying-Down-Game/102051902359

taking lots and lots of pictures...

proposing...

sticking our heads where they shouldn't be...(aka in soft trees)

yep, that pretty much sums up our duke gardens adventure. it was a gorgeous day. hopefully other people profited from the gorgeousness of the day.

yesterday i went to crabtree with amelia. =( we didn't know that we were supposed to get ann. and i forgot my phone so i missed all of her calls. so we bought her some gummies that spelled out "ann is always right". we gave her the letters and made her unscramble them. (we were sitting at the container with the gummies for like 15 minutes picking out letters. in the end, we had to compromise and make a 'z' an 'n'. we could only find one 'n' because 'n' is just so popular said ann.) other answers she came up with:

ann is trashy

ann is a girl

ann is math

ann is a math girl

ann is a whale

i think there were other ones but i'm not sure of what they were now. she would come up with every other possibility except the one we were thinking. but she got it in the end =) there was also the world's largest gummi bear at that store...soo grosss...the concept of eating a gummi bear in more than one bite...

(hands to give you an idea of the size...and no, those are not my hands. they're too white...plus if those WERE my hands, that would imply that i bought one. and i would never buy something like that. imagine the sugar content of one of those things...wonder what the serving size is measured in...bites??)

peace out.

text tiles

made this for emma's birthday (march 24). and you say, wait a second, aren't kate and emma twins?? yes, they are...cool thing: they were born on different days. bet you've never met any twins like that. until now. so i made her a scrabble kid. with standard scrabble letter tiles. also made a set with just the letters ABDEHIMPRTY. whyy?? because those are the only letters you need to spell HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA. why would you want to spell anything else? also made some chocolate chip cookies in the shape of her name. it was slightly decipherable...forgot to take a picture of it though. i had people telling me that my cookies were all smushed together...

alright, yeah, as you can see, there have been just a rush of birthdays this week. like..4. well, that's not that many. but now i'm on a break. which is so convenient because spring break is coming up(!!!). i'm excited, can you tell? the weather recently has been really really nice. it's nice to be outside.

i haven't written down anything to talk about yet...which is why this will be pretty random and divergent. every time i say divergent, i want to say evolution. oh, had the 3rd quarter common assessment in apes today. common assessments ruin my life. just saying.

oh, i had a pretty scary vehicle incident recently. i was driving to someone's house, and i wasn't exactly certain which roads to take (i had been to her house before, but not from the direction i was coming from). so i had a map out on my lap in front of me. it was nighttime. well, so far from what i've described, you know that the only way this can end is badly. anyway, there was a red light so i took this to be an opportune time to check which roads to take. well, i was braking slowly...slowly and i heard this little scraping sound and i braked HARD. i looked up really quickly and noticed that i was really close to the car in front of me. like...dangerously close. well, by this time, the light had turned green and the car had begun to drive forward. i was sooo freaked out; my heart was racing. i was just waiting for the in front of me to turn into and empty lot so the person could get out and beat me up. well, not really, but i was waiting for the car to signal to me so that we could chat about it (not a friendly chat of course). lucky me, the car just kept driving and i was so relieved when i finally turned onto the street i needed to be on. lesson learned: do not try and read a map while operating a vehicle. unless you want your insurance to go up. way up. i'm going to be a much more careful (and slow!) driver from now on. not freakishly slow because that bothers me. but i've been told by many that i drive fast. and i seem to run into many scary driving incidents. soooo...moral of the story...well, not a moral. but a goal from the story: stay out of driving trouble!

good thing my parents aren't good with technology. and don't know what blogs are. or else they would get mad at me for this little escapade. it's so funny because today, i asked someone who they were texting and they replied, "my mom." wtf, your mom knows how to text?? my mom barely knows how to dial. like, my phone has a touch number pad. and she mashes down the buttons as if pressing on the screen harder will make the numbers work better. no, mom, no.

i have this thing with bottled water where if i don't know who drank it or when it was open, i won't drink it. so  i just have a ton of partly drunken (hahaha...water bottles can't be drunk) water bottles sitting around my room. i think it's a psychological thing. i mean, water can't go bad...but i don't like drinking old water. is that just me or does anyone else think that water starts tasting weird after awhile?

aha, i can go watch the next episode of the secret life. it's so bad but so addicting. amy complains/cries too much and talks weirdly. adrian wears too much lip gloss. the person who plays ashley is a terrible actress...and has no enthusiasm. grace preaches too much. so does ben...plus he has a weird body structure. mrs. juergens opens her eyes really wide a lot when she's talking...and also talks weirdly.

that is all.

life in technicolor

multicolored cupcakes (normal sized) with one funfetti cupcake. all with vanilla icing and multicolored sprinkles!

blocks on blocks

construction paper cubes with a nice message. i made her do math. at the end of each square side, there was a math equation and she had to figure it out and then find the side it was on...haha i'm evil.

another picture...they were all connected by string...a letterblock necklace =)

chocolate chip cookies baked in a mini cupcake tin with chocolate chips in the center. i forgot to grease the pan...so they started falling apart when i took them out. but they turned out alright. mmm mmmm =)

alice in wonderland

cupcakes dyed with food coloring w/ multicolored icing (also dyed with food coloring) with corresponding colored sprinkles (to match color of cupcake)...except purple because there weren't any purple sprinkles...lammeee

this was a little thing i made for katie because her birthday was today; she said they looked like alice in wonderland cupcakes...and in light of her giving up chocolate for new year's, i put them in a godiva chocolate box to mislead her. clever me.

melange

my blog has been dying lately. i think it said the last time i posted was march 6? yeah, and now it's march...21. almost 2 whole weeks...well more than 2 weeks. 2 weeks and 1 day. so i feel like it's about time that i post.

my life lately has been mundane. and i hope i'm using that word in the right way. i've been busy working, thinking, walking (i will explain this later), observing, creating, and everything in between. i officially bought tickets for the needtobreathe concert...looking forward to that.

as i think of exciting things that have happened in my life in the last 2+ weeks...let me begin with my walking story. so lately, i've been really into walking to places. whether it's to school (and no, i will probably not be walking to school just because i already paid for my $50 parking space and i only enjoy leisurely walking...not purposeful walking...but you never know, maybe some days i'll walk to school). so because of the gorgeous weather recently, i've found that being outside makes me...happy. so i just go running/walking around my neighborhood. it's unfortunate that nowhere exciting is within walking distance besides...the park and the gas station or i would walk...to the grocery store or to the movies for example. anyway, if you ever just need to get away from everything, go for a walk. it really puts me at ease. maybe it won't for you, but at least you'll burn some calories =) funny thing happened while i was running/walking. i would wave at every car that drove by....at least 30 cars. guess how many people waved back? 6. yes 6. i counted. snobs. haha, i'm totally kidding. but it was all good because at the end, i got 3 cars in a row to wave. i guess i just perfected my technique.

asian night was amazing. thank you to everyone who came to watch/help/perform/eat/participate. i know i posted this as my facebook status but it really was a blast.

what else what else...i can't really think of anything else right now. maybe i should just start writing things down as they come so that i can have a list of things i want to talk about when i post these things. but it's 12:55 AM right now and my brain is...tired to say the least.

thanks for reading! good night!

maneater...that's not relevant, it's just the song i'm listening to

wow, my life has been so crazy lately. with ASIAN NIGHT coming up, i've had so much stuff to do. i don't want this to seem ranty but i've just been so busy. you really don't have to read this, it's just me basically ranting...even though i said that i didn't want it to seem ranty. you can just skip this section and read the next one, this is probably mainly for my own sanity. so here's what's was on my plate: thursday i went to school at 8AM to tutor this kid in french. then right after school, i went to the apac show rehearsal until 715. i got home around 730, ate dinner quickly, then went to amelia's house to work on our stat presentation. we ended up working until 11. i actually think i went all of that day without seeing my mom. i saw my dad for a few minutes when i got home but...i know what it's like to work overtime now i think. then friday was pretty much the same thing. by the time i left for school, my parents had left. then afterschool, i came home for an hour, then headed to carol's house for a 7 hour apac meeting...granted some of that time was spent eating/chatting. but we all...except someone whose name starts with d and ends with avid...stayed at carol's house until around 12. i was so exhausted that day that i just wanted to go to sleep...okay, i watched grey's anatomy first (have to keep up with my tv shows!) then almost fell asleep talking to someone on fb chat. then finally went to sleep. i think i also went that entire day without seeing my mom/dad. well, i heard my mom walk into my room at around 2 to check to see if i was home. i feel so family-deprived. it's been like living on my own. so weird. and i keep telling my parents i have a "meeting". i bet they're pretty sketched out by that. i mean, what high schooler has meetings that are hours long?? and i normally wouldn't be posting...much less awake at 9:45 on a saturday morning, but i had a piano lesson at 830 which i would normally have at 6 in the evening but i didn't have time so i changed it. and well, i f-ed that up pretty bad since i haven't had time to practice in the last 2 days. which makes me mad because i was actually practicing everyday before that. like, i was devoted unlike before when i'd just play for 30 minutes and stop no matter what i was playing. and so 2 days without playing kind of canceled out all that practice. now i'm doing laundry b/c i didn't have time to do it before and i'm like...out of clothes. there were so many clothes in my hamper that everything barely fit in the laundry machine. like, when i tried to close the door at first, it popped back open, lol. and normally (don't laugh) there's something about the laundry machine that mesmerizes me...i always watch the machine spin for a couple minutes...it's just like hypnotizing. and i know, the clothes just spin in circles. but...idk, you see some clothes, then they go to the back and you see other clothes. it's interesting...anyways...then at 1130 i'm going to play tennis until 1. then at 2 i'm meeting with MCs for asian night. then later, i'm going to someone's house to watch the duke/unc game. then tomorrow, i'm going to someone's birthday party and i have to get her a little something in the morning...and i've been craving shopping for awhile. i soo want to get shorts, shoes, and anything else i see. so i think i'll shop for her really quick and then shop for the clothes i've been wanting soo bad =) wow, that statement just made me really excited to go shopping. yes, it's been that long since i've been shopping. i just need to find out what size i am so i can shop for stuff online...and avoid the mall. so, in a nutshell, there is my life. sorry for the lengthiness.

okay, on to bigger and better things, well, maybe not better. yesterday in lit, we got our macbeth quizzes back. that was the book that i actually read. like, thoroughly. i read the summaries. then read the scene. we took a quiz out of 65...guess what i got?? a 39. yeah, andrew calculated it for me...it was a 60%? soo impressive. it just goes to show that reading the book does you nothing. i think everyone around me did better than me and they just read the sparknotes. though, i guess that makes sense because if you just read it, you don't actually comprehend it. you have to read it then analyze it whereas with sparknotes, you are reading/analyzing it at the same time. maybe i should read the book, then read the sparknotes. that seems to be the logical solution to all this. we'll see if i finish this 300 page 1984 book though. i mean, i've read it before. except that was in 8th grade when i didn't know how much of a big deal it was. so i remember stuff but...i don't.

oh, danielle's birthday was yesterday...happy birthday, danielle! (lol, i seriously doubt she reads/will read this...oh well)

ahh...so many people have birthdays coming up. i love this time of year!! well, after asian night is over and we quit having long meetings. =) love baking...and i've finally perfected the art of the chocolate chip cookie. and i even made a dessert that i couldn't eat. i hope it tasted good because it sure did look good (and that's taking in to account that i was allergic to something in it). crap, i forgot to take a picture of the thing i gave her...=(

REMEMBER: take pictures of the gifts you give people.

have an awesome day!

oh me oh my how the time does fly

wow, it's been such a long time since i last posted...over a week!! and this is exactly why i didn't start a blog all these years. but i am determined to keep up with this one. anyway, blogs kind of remind me of buddyprofiles from way back in the day. remember those? ehh...i just tried to go to the site again but i don't think it works anymore. anyway, there'd be a guest book and a quiz, a poll, and a bunch of pages you can make yourself. but probably MOST important was your profile views. every time someone viewed your profile, it tallied it. i don't know why i visited some people's profiles so many times or why people visited mine so many times because i never changed it but i felt so popular because i think i got up to around 400 something. yeah...i was a cool one in middle school =P anyway, it also reminds me of aim 3.0 which is like aim from elementary/middle school (i don't know why but i think i used aim in elementary school...yeah i could barely type and all but i had friends to talk to...).

that was back when you couldn't have multiple aim conversations in one window. oh how technology has changed. yep, i loved that warn button. i used it so much and thought i was so cool warning people. another weird thing i did on aim was when there wasn't anyone to talk to, i would look people up in the little registry thing they had and just start talking to random people. i thought it was completely normal at the time but now that i think back on it...wow was i a creep. i even remember that there were categories where people were and i always chose the category real estate or something like that because it always had the most people....oh my life.

geez, this post is so reminiscent. might as well continue with the trend. hmmm...playing gameboy color. those pokemon games always got me. i loved them. items pokeballs masterballs flying cerulean city saffron city snorlax. wow, that was a pretty random train of thought.

hehehe, i hated gary (your rival). he always showed up when my pokemon had like 0 health. exactly what i wanted when my pokemon were DYING.

oh and remember when beanie babies were all the rage? i always tried to get a collection going but i only ever had like 15 total. i was always jealous of brooke and britt because i went over to their house one time and they had an entire laundry basket full.

ooo, just came across this:

furby!! they used to give out the fake ones in mcdonalds kids meals. they weren't furry or anything. but they had wheels on the bottom and when you rolled the furby, its ears would go up and down. so not legit.

and...gigapets!!

alright, this post is turning out to be nothing about my life. anyway, my day was fine. i'm getting a bit tired of the cold weather though (which is crazyyy because i prefer cold over heat but now i'm craving some nice warm weather). it's freaking march mother nature!

oh and does this happen to anyone else? last night, while i watched the bachelor finale** i went on an eating spree. i mean, was i hungry? i'm not really sure. i'm pretty sure i wasn't but i just kept eating. i ate this gross orange, some pineapple, pringles, a glass of milk, a chocolate chip cookie, a piece of bread, and cup of water. all in about...15 minutes?

**two thumbs DOWN...i cannot believe vienna won. and i mean, i didn't really like tenley either...she's too chipper and 'yay jake' and 'he's incredible/amazing/cute' and she doesn't have much of a backbone. but come on jake pevelka. you can do better than vienna...a girl who stole money from her ex to get a boob job. really? but, the only good thing that came from this is that ali is going to be the next bachelorette!! i lovee ali, sucks for you jake!

stay cool.

blend of lemons and sugar

loll...oh just your typical day in ap lit.

i don't know why my blog keeps recording that i update at the weirdest times. like 3 in the afternoon? i'm at school at 3...

so today started out as not such a great day. first of all, i can't seem to convince myself that school starts at 8:45. so i woke up with a jolt...again. and you know how i hate that. so i look at the clock and it's 8:54. perfect...so i kind of rush to get ready...then i think about it. do i really want to go to stat 1st period? and that's when i realized how terrible this thought process was. and how much of a senior i was. i was trying to decide whether i should go to 1st period at all?? but i decided that i needed to get work and all that so i got to school with 15 minutes left in 1st period. apparently i snuck in like a ninja...said olivia...because mr. fitz didn't notice when i walked in. and then he brought up how calling me a ninja was bringing up stereotypical labels. lol, that kind of made my day better. as nice as it was to wake up an hour later than i normally would, i hate waking up late. it just messes me up. so my stat class...props to you guys...you made my day better. then when 4th period came, it started raining outside. and not just the sprinkle misty rain. it was RAINING. so i ran to my car and lucky me i was wearing a gray shirt so you could see all the rain drops clearly. lit was kind of painful. we played a "game" where an event from the bluest eye was read out and we had to guess what season it happened. well, fortunately, the last book we read, the sound and the fury, labeled its sections by season. so i got all confused about which season came first.

but the best part of my day happened after school. which is weird because it was work. i'm in the process of making a video for asian night so everyone should come!!

since i am the publicist...why not publicize asian night on my blog?? i do what i want.

ASIAN NIGHT

March 12, 2010

6-10 pm (dinner@6 and show@7:30)

It's going to be awesome and you do NOT want to miss this!

so yes, my day was up and down today, but it's ending on a good note. so i'm glad about that =)

i hope the weather's not so gross tomorrow.

i just finished a box of thin mints...why must girl scout cookies be so good??

cool...later!

sunday best

oh, sunday night, how i despise sunday nights. but this afternoon was pretty nice. lydia ann and i went and played soccer at rainbow. well...not really. here's actually how it went down. i went to 2 different gas stations because for some reason, the gas nozzle at the bp didn't work. then i went to a kangaroo place across the street where the attendant had to help me get the thing working. anyway, after filling up my tank, i met ann and lydia at the rainbow soccer fields. both lydia and i brought soccer balls. haha...just our luck though...both of them were flat. mine had a hole somewhere because i pumped it up before i went and when i got there it was flat. so we went to ann's house, pumped up her soccer ball (i feel the need to say soccer ball every time i want to refer to the ball because i know that "pumped up her ball" would enter into some people's minds as having some sort of sexual connotation) and then decided instead to go to rashkis field. so we drive to rashkis and walk to the fields but of course, they're closed to protect the new turf for the winter. and we, being the good, law-abiding asians that we are (but we really just didn't want to get into trouble before college decisions came out), decided not to jump the 5 foot fence and instead went to play on the basketball court/playground. so all in all, we did not end up playing soccer really at all. which is what we had intended to do in the first place. but no matter...it was fun nonetheless. and then we went to this place called lickity split in meadowmont...i was really curious about it because it sold ice cream and...guess what else? hot dogs! yes, so the weirdest combination everr...unfortunately and just our luck again, it's closed on sundays.

advice for the future: DO NOT GO TO LICKITY SPLIT ON SUNDAYS. IT'S CLOSED. but i plan on going there sometime in the future to experience their hot dog/ice cream combo.

so we drove to tcby instead. which was open. and we saw dory there. and she made me a delicious mango tango smoothie. i always hate ordering from ice cream places though. you want to seem civilized and sophisticated and all but how can you when you really want to order the freaking leaking bonanza extreme or the berrylicious blasterberry smoothie. it just...doesn't work. no matter how hard you try and make it sound cool. it will not work.

yesterday, my room was immensely messy.

oh swell...my computer is cool...it just shut down on me randomly. thank you dell...i love you.

anyway, well, it wasn't immensely messy...it wasn't as messy as it's been before, but it was sufficiently messy to distract me from doing anything else. except cleaning.

before:

after:

i love when my room is clean...it's just easier for me to function...is that weird? lol, you have no way of knowing...i could have just moved all of my stuff out of that corner of my room. maybe it's still messy, i just moved all the mess elsewhere. you'll have to trust me on this one.

hope you had a relaxing sunday and have a marvelous monday morning!! (you like the alliteration??)

splendid sushi saturday

i always love the feeling right after i exercise...i feel like i could go run 10 miles...i've got adrenaline pulsing through my veins. of course, haha, yeah right, i will never be able to run 10 miles in my life...but i just feel like i can do anything. however, the motivation that has to go into getting myself to exercise is the problem. i wish i loved exercising, like you know how runner's get a runner's high? i wish i could get an exercise high. i don't actually like exercising unless i'm doing something that's distracting me from the fact that i am indeed exercising...like playing frisbee. though playing frisbee requires so much straight up running that i don't get too distracted by it. but i only like exercising because of the feeling i get afterwards. while yes, i might be tired and sweaty and gross, but i feel so energized for the rest of the day. that's why exercising in the morning is the best. you should try it. it's so nice =)

finally got a memory card adapter for my camera! so i can take more than the 12 pictures my camera alone can store! unfortunately, a few weeks ago, as someone was transferring pictures onto a computer using my memory card, the top half of the adapter got stuck. i got the memory card back okay, but you can't use a memory card without half the adapter! so my picture-taking days will be less limited. hopefully i get more pictures up on here so you all don't have to just read my writing.

soo...this past week...wednesday and thursday, i had so much free time because for some reason (and as you all read in my post from wednesday) i finished all of my homework within an hour of coming home. that turned out to be a fail because the next day i realized how much work i had and stayed up till 230 finishing it all. but, no matter. anyway, the reason i brought that up was because i started watching the bachelor which i didn't think i'd have time to watch. but now, i'm on the second to last episode and i'll be caught up. and on monday, i'm tempted to watch "the women tell all" episode...on TV! (i never watch shows actually on tv. for example, right now i have the last episode of grey's anatomy up so i can watch it online) but my mom is going to be home so i don't know how thrilled she's going to be about me watching tv. my dad's usually pretty chill about letting me do what i want if i've finished my hw. don't get me wrong, i love that my mom is coming home today (oh btw she's coming home from taiwan) but i'll just have to work the system more cautiously when it comes to going out and hanging out with friends.

last night, i went to sushi yoshi with my family minus my mom plus choong (you all should go there, it's never crowded but the food's good...i'm afraid it's going to go out of business and then i'll have to find another japanese place that sell good food that's close by). anyway, i always end up eating too much when we go out to eat but it was good nonetheless. i got salmon teriyaki and then a shrimp tempura roll (delicious!!) and a tuna roll. my sister got spider roll which is soft shelled crab which is also soo good. and choong got a spicy tuna roll.

shrimp tempura roll =)

spider roll...mmmm..

and you can actually eat the whole thing...shell and all

that's why it's called SOFT shelled crab ;)

tuna roll and spicy tuna roll

the top one looks like plastic...

and i left my phone at the place when we left so i had to go get it afterwards. oops.

sooo...it turns out that this was a really bad idea...now i'm craving sushi...

enjoy the amazing weather today!

delayed day delights

delayed opening! these days are always so weird because my day is so broken up that i don't know what to do with myself. well, luckily, i used my time wisely and watched episodes of the bachelor. and right now i've got quite a lot of work to do but i'll just blog real quick and then get on with that. but i like them anyway, feels like i have so much time in the morning

today in gov, we watched episodes of the simpsons and looked for keywords like 'lobbyist' and 'muckraker'. it was really strange...but afterwards, we had like half an hour so i played spades with some people in my class. well, my partner and i lost by a lot...like we were just trying to get out of the negatives towards the end...but it was still fun. i wish everyday was like that in gov.

morning activities:

trader joe's run for some mango mochi!!

i was craving these soo much..good good good!!

i recommend this...a lot

made cookies with jasmine! they were delicious! finally

perfected the art of making chocolate chip cookies...

here they are! i thought this was a cool pic angle

oh no...no more cookie dough =(

i don't really have that much else to say...this is a first. i think i might end up taking a nap accidentally. i'm kind of tired. is that weird? i'm tired on a delayed opening...bad sign. but tomorrow's friday =) i love the weekend.

cool, have a great evening!

tv show mania

so if you're ever bored one day...here are some shows that i watch/have watched/wish i had the time to watch:

- gilmore girls

- grey's anatomy

- lost

- the secret life of the american teenager

- the city

- the hills

- teen mom

- made

- house

- ncis

- what not to wear

- extreme home makeover

- the bachelor

- the bachelorette

- JERSEY SHORE

- real world

- real world/road rules challenge

- the office

- what i like about you

- degrassi

- super nanny

- 7th heaven

yeah, i'm a tv show junkie. any other shows out there that i should watch?

bookmark STAB

today felt very weird. i began my day by accidentally turning off my alarm clock...i guess i just really didn't want to get up since i went to bed at like 230 last night...but i don't want to seem ranty...it actually wasn't too bad. so i woke up at 806 with a jolt. if there's one thing i hate, it would be waking up with a jolt. i get so freaked out when i wake up on a school day and don't know what time it is. time controls us...one day, i even woke up in a panic on a saturday because i thought it was a school day. good and bad. so i checked the phone that's near my bed for the time. haha, clever me, i set it for an hour later than it actually is...so i gain an hour. of course, i remember that every time i check it...so not only do i NOT gain an hour, i also have to do some quick mental math before i'm even at school. so i got up semi-quickly...i had to take a shower because i was too tired to take one the night before.

and now i'm blogging...and it's around 5 and i think i'm finished with all of my hw which is really really crazy. i dont' even know what to do with myself now. there aren't any tv shows that i watch on tuesdays (therefore i would watch them on wednesday online). i did kind of want to see some of the bachelor because it was a pretty big deal. i haven't watched a single episode but i've heard that vienna is quite the...well, i won't say it. but the episodes are so long. like an hour or two. do i have that much time in my life? well, today i do. especially since tomorrow is a delayed opening =) and i have gov, free, yearbook. tough schedule.

the strangest thing happened to me last night. my dad walked into my room and told me that georgia tech was up by 27 in the second half. and i was like...oh that sucks for unc though it's not really that exciting anymore because they keep losing. anyway...so 15 minutes later, i want to check what the final score was. so i go onto espn and look for the score...and i saw 73-71. and i was like...wow gt, great job, you blew a 27 point lead? really? but i was okay because they still won. so i watched the highlight reel to see what happened and apparently graves went on a shooting spree...oh my, not like that though. graves went on a shooting...idk, he just started shooting really well. so i was like, alright cool. and i checked the date and thought it was that day. well, turns out, gt won like 68-51? correct me if i'm wrong. and my world was rocked. so apparently, that article was on last months game between them. yeah...i read january 16, 2010 and thought it was today. guess that's an indication of how slowly i think time is going...when really...it's going very very fast.

last night, my dad also made some pasta with teriyaki sauce and it was really really good. so i tried to make that today during my 4th period and...it just didn't quite taste the same. i think i put too many green onions in it. i hate eating those. i spent the entire time dodging them so i didn't get the chance to appreciate my creation. wish i'd taken a picture of it...

question for everyone: do you take a shower at night or in the morning...or both? and why? i'm a night person personally...i just like to go to sleep clean so that my bed doesn't get all gross. but i've heard people who like to shower in the morning to be clean for the day...which i guess i understand...idk, it's not really for me. then you have to wake up earlier to allow enough time to shower. and then what happens if you wake up late? do you just not shower? now it sounds like i'm bashing people who take morning showers. i'm really not, just curious.

have a good day =)