So, I've been waiting the whole fucking day for my ride to pick me up. My friends that were suppose to pick me up so we can go back home for Thanksgiving break, have been asleep for the whole day, after being drunk last night. I was there at the party; what. the. hell. they were not that messed up. They said they were cleaning up when they picked up their phones around 1 and 4 in the afternoon; its almost 9pm already, and I don't even know of they're coming to get me yet. I've asked for the ride, I know I should be grateful; but seriously?! they told me it wouldn't take long; it's been at least 5 fucking hours that I've been waiting for them; they didn't pick up their phones when I called; I just found out they were asleep by calling a friend that has to stay for the break. what. the. fuck.
I'm still waiting.

So, it's been a little more then a week since I came back from my first year of college. I have to say, it was a pretty good year. I've met new people, made new friends, and gained a bit more experience out of life. I've gotten good grades, all in the A-B range. I'm happy about school, for the most part.

I've mostly been spending time with the family, the last week and so. My sister Sui came back from Philly, since she has a week before classes started for her. It was mostly shopping, visiting relatives, and just hanging out at home. It was nice to have most of the family home again. She left on Thursday to return to Philly.

I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that she left the day before Benji died. Benji's the dog that she got last year from a friend. He was a white poodle and chihuahua mixed dog. From what I was told, Benji was hit by a car down on 14th Street, and the driver just drove away. He was still breathing after he was hit, but he was vomiting blood and all. My sister Lynda and Nathan, her fiance/long time boyfriend was there and brought him to the vet. Benji couldn't be saved, so he had to be put down.

I heard about this from my brother Tac, and at first, I thought he was joking. He always joked about stuff like that. I didn't believed him, so I called Lynda. Even though I heard her cracked voice, it took awhile for it to sink in for me. All I could think about was that he was just a little over a year old. He was finally starting to be obedient, maturing.

Bott my sisters are still upset about it. I've been avoiding going downstairs to her house. She's always so teary-eyed when I see her, and she keeps saying "No more Gee Jai('Piggy' was Benji's chinese name)" and downstairs is just full of Benji's dog stuff. I nearly teared up when I saw his collar.

There was talk about what we were gonna do with him. My sisters wanted to cremate him. Everyone was fine with that, but Lynda wanted him cremated privately, so we could have his ashes. My parents had a different take on it, though. They liked Benji,(Mom, anyways), but was never really that attached to him. 'It's just a dog', they would say. 'Why waste money to cremate him when you could use that for another dog'. 'It's no use to bring his ashes home. It'll be pointless to bury him in the empty lot we have, since we've planning on building a house there later on'.

It was decided yesterday that we'll just bring him home as is. It'll be a good way to let Bobo, our older dog, to know what happened to his sort-of brother.

I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about it at the moment. I've cried a bit, and my thoughts linger about it. And I dreamt that Benji came back in my dreams last night.

I miss that stupid pig.
R.I.P. 06.19.09

OMFG. EVERYTHING LOOKS SO MUCH CLOSER AND NOW.
I CAN SEE MORE THAN I CAN HANDLE. (i think)
lol. i gots contacts naos. 8D




..i feel like a hippie that just got high and is seeing things for the first time now. 8D

oh my goshh. XD
I've been feeling so giddy lately. Must have been valentine's. D';
I saw some Hey Arnold! stuff and god, that got me into the show again. Ahaha. XD
I really loved that show. ♥ Helga was just a character I related so much to back then. It makes me think/hope that first crushes might really work out. ♥, though the other side of my brain keeps telling it never really does. shut up, brain.

So, yeah, I've been in such a sappy mood lately, even with all that homework and stuff to do. >.>
oh wells. See you later!

P.S. I think my friends and I have been gossiping too much lately this year. o___o; we never really gossip like this before, it seems soo weird.

TT^TT
i just finsihed watching 200 Pounds of Beauty, and i love it ♥ ♥
i hadn't cried like that while watching something in so long, i kinda miss it. XD


on a side note, i've cut my hair :D
it's shoulder length now and i was missing short hair ♥
School's back on monday, and i have...
two essays, math assignments(3), and senior project sources to work on tonight and tomorrow.

Oh boy... D:

hey there flist!
:) how has everyone's winter break/hoildays been?
Mines was rather boring....i went and rewatched Sailor Moon. XD;
...dudeee, there's less then a week and it'll be a new year already. O________O;
times seems to pass by so fast sometimes. TT^TT

So, i started working at my sister's dry cleaner's yesterday to help her out; i hadn't been to the store in soo long, it took me a while to remember some.

It's a pretty good thing to so with free time i guess, but i have to come everyday if she needs the help D':

..i've been getting static shocked all day ;_____;
it HURTS. TT^TT i can feel the pain to my boooooooooooooooooonnneeess i tell you. D':


..ok, now for lunch ♥

:D
I got my friend Connie addicted to Avatar. ♥
So far, she's into the beginning of the second season, and she loves it. I was so happy that she was into Taang and Zutara too. Finally! Someone I can fangirl with during classes over Avatar! x3
She even ventured to the Avatar fanfiction, than from her usual fictionpress readings. ♥
She's been reading Rhythm in the Rain, and is gonna move on to DamageCtrl's other works.

Her OTP for Avatar is Zutara is seems. Can anyone from my bl recommend some good juicy Zutara fics? Mines are mostly Taang-centric ones with the side of Zutara. >.>;;

D:
why are there always so many fun things happening at the same time/day?
Tomorrow is...
...Wong Fu's premiere of "A Moment With You" at UC Berkeley
...OHS's talent show, that actually seems to be GOOD this year
...Avatar: "Day of the Black Sun" showing


what to choose...

;_____;

I JUST SAW EPISODE 10 AND 11 OF AVATAR!!!
alll i can say is?

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

♥♥♥♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥



AND I KNOW IT'S ALMOST 3AM IN THE MORNING, BUT NOW CAN'T SLEEP. D:

CURSE YOUR AWESOMENESS, AVATAR!!!!!

Today was a field trip day for my AP Environmental Science class, and we went to another trip to the Marine Mammal Center up in the Marin Headlands to continue our studies on marine life and it's ecosystem. The plan was to go to the Rodeo beach near there to go look for sand crabs, an indicator species, kinda like the canary in the mines, except it's for the ocean.

When we got there, it reeked of the smell of oil. We saw a citizen trying to help a bird covered in oil. It was such a sad sight. A few news people were there, taking videos of the current situation, and the oil in the waves and on the beach was such a horrible sight. You could see the dead birds on the shore. Doreen of the Marine Mammal center came, and told us of our change of plans, as the beach was closed due to the unknown toxiins of the oil.

She told us that the citizens that helped were great, but they weren't trained for stuff like that, since the citizen wasn't wearing gloves and her arms and legs had oil on them, and that she was using Joy dish washing soap and olive oil to get the other oil off of the bird. Dawn's soap actually works better and faster to get the oil off for something like this, and the lady didn't wipe her limbs from the oil till after a while.

After an officer told us we had to leave for them to use the area to save the birds, Doreen told us about all the affects of oil spills. That the oil covering the birds and other marine life, like the otters, have short term affects and long term affects. When otters and birds are covered in oil, the oil seeps into their fur/feathers, and those are what keeps them warm. It is hard to get the oil off them, imagine someone washing your hair 50 times to get it clean. It'll be different afterwards, and it won't have the same purpose for the animals as well it was before. They also discovered that sea otters that were affected years ago by other oil spills had their reproductive systems messed up; when they had their offspring, they had all these issues with their body.

The oil on the beaches are a bad thing too, since if critters like the sand crabs get affected, it'll affect the food chain, and all the way up to us. It's a pretty good thing that it's November, when salmons are done breeding int he area, and the sand crabs are very scarce during this time. The weird thing was that there weren't that many ships with booms, and the only one we saw had a pretty short one.

Oh, Doreen also told us we can kinda help by reducing energy, as energy = need for fuel = oil. Buy local stuff more than stuff from other places, because of the transportations and walk more, it's good for you and it uses no oil.

We continued our hike and study some on the harbor seals, and how they weren't affected as much since they had blubber to keep them warm. We passed by this lagoon, were a family of river otters lived and learned of to survive without much fish in the area: instead they learned our to drown and eat birds, most pelicans. It was kinda cool to hear and see the remains of the birds the otters left.

Well, KTVU 2 news got the backshot of the class and had talked to Mr. Jordan about the oil spill and it was on the news. :o Jackie also was interviewed too, but hers was on the KTVU site instead.

hm...it was a pretty good day, but the oil spill.. ;_____;

Blahhh...
So, i took the SAT Subjects today (or SAT II, as it was called before) for US History, Chemistry, and Literature.
I think i did ok in the Literature, could have been better for US History.....and i am totally screwed for Chemistry. ;____;
Once i opened the booklet, i thought 'holy cow, i don't remember HALF of these....;____:" I knew i could've have a decent grade for the chemistry one, but it's been a while since chem class, and i forget things~ ;_____;

On another note, Connie came over today after SATs and we watch The Phantom of the Opera. ♥ Needless to say, I LOVED IT. ♥ Charles was suppose to come too, but he had to deal with family stuff. I hope he's ok. He's still running cross country after his knee injury. >.o I swear, he gets injured every season, and Mr. Ponas doesn't let anyone take a day off from practice unless they ended up in the hospital. =_____= He's just a freaking arse. That's why he lost the girl's cross country team this year, no one could take his unreasonable behavior.

Hmmm.. apparently, I'll be sleeping downstairs at my sister's tonight; my auntie from LA is coming over with her brother-in-law. Darn, that means no late night computer. ;____; Oh yeah, i need to finish my draws for the yearbook people to use. I'm getting a free yearbook for doing drawings/comics for them ♥

i'll try to upload pictures of the week before homecoming and the week of homecoming + halloween asap. ;]

...the backstreet boys are back?!

So tonight,( or last night, technically) I wen tout to dinner with some old k-grade buddies. :D
It was me, Lily, Melissa, Janice and Eva. Sammy couldn't make it, but it was fun. Girls Night Out, you know ;D
I was kinda surprise that we were having dinner tonight, since Lily just told be during passing period before third period. I thought it would be post-poned by a week at least. So during lunch, we all met up in Mrs. Ferrier's room for the Kiwins meeting to end so we can talk about it. It was fun to talk about silly stuff with them again and i feels nice. They decided to eat out at Lao Cuisine Champa Garden at 6, and I was surprised, since I usually can't go out pass 6 pm ^_^;
I called dad and had permission, but i had to home before since it's gonna be a while before i actually go. So i spent some time on the computer and then walked to Franklin to meet up with Melissa and Lily after their EBAYC work. It felt so nogalistic to walk around my old elementry school like that. It felt more... crowed now then back then. ='\
After they got off work, we walked our to Champa Garden, and found out Smamy couldn't make it because of family stuff. Lily was playing around saying that "he's breaking a tradition!"
....it's not even a tradition yet, it's only the second year that we all got together and just spend time with each other. XD
So us three got tables and waited for Eva and Janice to come. There were quite a lot of OHS ppl there. :O we talked about some stuff like Winnie, and the Ngay family, etc. Then the other two called asking where the restaurant was. XD Turns out they thought it was in Chinatown. XD
When they finally came, Lily and Melissa was hiding behind the menus because some of their co-workers of EBAYC was eating there too, lol.
Took awhile to order, talked and messed around about each other. Dude, Janice somehow got the topic about bras, and give Lily some 36DD ones or something. They were saying what they could use to stuff it with, XD and Lily say BALLOONS while Eva said SOCKS. It was such a fun and crazy dinner. =)
After everything was paid, we went to the corner store across the street to get some snacks and walked over to Lily's house. We were talking some more, mostly about Shin and people while Lily continues to clean her room. we apparently "motivate" Lily to clean faster and better then the night before. XD More crazy and stupid silly stuff ensues, and then Lily had to kick us out to go somewhere with her sisters. Went to Melissa's house a block away, and IT WAS HECKA FREAKING DARK. @_@ it was kinda scary, it was what, late 8, early 9 pm? Watch some korean drama, and played with Melissa's dog Sammi. <3 then we had to leave. i left around 9:45, and when i called back home, the other two were leaving.
it was such a nice day. :D
We should do stuff like that more often.

Today felt like any other day, and then all of a sudden, the teachers found out that Mr. Shin, an ex-biology teacher at OHS, had died. Everyone was told that he had died of natural causes last night. he was just promoted to Budget Director this year, and i guess the stress and his high blood pressure got to him.
During first period today, Andrew Kim was called out of his AP Statistics class across the hall up to the main office. For the rest of the period, he and Johnny was seen walking around the halls with tears in their eyes. Turns out Johnny was in the counselor's office when the news was told to the school, and they asked him if he knew any Korean students that school, and he said Andrew. Andrew had to translate to Mr. Shin's mom about what happened. During passing period between 1st and 2nd, there was some talk that Mr. Shin died, and a lot of students thought it was a cruel thing to say, a bad joke. When I went into Mrs. Cone's class, she was on the phone and it turned out to be the truth. Mr. Shin was known to a lot of students, and was a nice guy. As Mrs. Cone said, "I guess the good do die young." There were a few tears and Mrs. Cone had the class continue everything. Man, all the passing periods were so quiet among the juniors and seniors. It pissed a lot of them off that the sophomores and freshmen were so loud about it. There were a lot of hugs, tears, and wet tissues. Third period was the worst. Ms. Allen was so torn up that she was just crying the entire period. Everyone in class was just sitting there letting it sink in and crying and everything. ;____; Most of the juniors and seniors signed a poster dedicated to Mr. Shin during lunch, and most people calmed down by the end of the day.
He was only 42 years old. And his birthday was tomorrow too.

Rest In Peace, Mr. Shin.
I didn't know you that well, but you were always great to be around.


RIP 09.11.07

So, today was like any other day...
after school I waited on the corner of AMPM to wait for one of my brothers to pick me up. There were a lot of people there apparently waiting for their ride too.
While I was waiting, there was a group of three African Americans that came out of AMPM and were talking about their matter out loud. They were two girls and a guy, one of the girls had on a black jacket with a silver diamonds print on it, the other girl a black hoodie that had "2400 OREO" on the lower back of it. The guy had on a large black hoodie, even though he was kind of tiny.
I had my cell phone out and was putting it in my pants pocket when they were coming over and was standing near me. The guy was eyeing my phone.
So, they were just standing there like everyone else that was there. They loud and I overheard them talking about, what I thought a friend of theirs, that was buying something in AMPM, and how they were saying she's going to buy a lot of stuff in there. The guy was saying how she gets a lot of money from her parents by saying 'I lost my ipod' to them every week. Then they were talking about how she's getting around $200 a week. They switched to talking about ipods and how they could sell some for $50 each.
An old classmate of mine, Cindy Ke was walking by and had what looked like a pouch for a digital camera in one hand and was walking by herself. The guy was talking about if it is one or not and say how she's walking by herself and was near the corner, then they saw Conny, my friend.
Conny had just walked out of AMPM with a drink in her hands, along with her binder and books, and she was listening to her ipod, with the wire hanging out and the ipod itself on the pocket of her jacket. She was calling, her family to pick her up, I guess, on her phone while she was standing there on the sidewalk.
The (fat) girl with the "2400 OREO" on her back and the guy walked over to her. The girl said something to Conny, and Oreo, (let's call the fat girl that), used her hand to trace Conny's wire to where the ipod was and started taking it. When Conny started to react and tired to take the ipod back, the ipod dropped, and Conny tired to step on the ipod so that Oreo wouldn't get it, and, I guess, Oreo pushed Conny to the ground and grabbed it while the guy held Conny back. Oreo was running away.
And straight towards my direction. So I did what I was thinking: stop her.
I grabbed onto her sweater with my right hand and said "give it back” and that b*tch started punching me in the face. After a couple of hits, I used my math book that was in my left hand and blocked my face with it, and she was still punching me. I didn’t think of anything but Stop her! and Don't let go! Instead of fighting back or hurting her. That was stupid.
Then came Johnny. :]
he had saw Oreo beating on me, and pulled her away from me, and told her to drop the ipod and give it back. Oreo started to punch Johnny and he was fighting back. I couldn’t really see what was happening, since my glasses fell when I was being hit.
Conny had came over to me to see if I was alright, and we saw that Johnny and Oreo was still fighting and they had knocked down the trash can in the corner. The police had came and Oreo had passed the ipod to the guy she was with, and he tossed the ipod into the trash can to hide it. Johnny saw this and went over to grab it when they were ducking from the police. The police didn’t get to catch them yet, but had brought Conny to the police station to ask her what happened. Johnny came over to me and asked me if I was ok along with some other people I know that were there; I started to cry a little. People like that pissed me off. A nice lady came over to me and asked too, and gave me some tissues to wipe the blood on my face caused by my glasses being scrapped down my face.
Johnny walked me to the front of the school and on the way there, we saw down the hill that those guys were in the corner going through the trash to look for the ipod. At least they didn’t get what they were aiming for. Some people on the hill by the bus stop saw part of what happened too. On the way to the front of the school, I called my brother to pick me up there and I waited for him near the pool area, where the swim team was practicing and people I knew where there. There was some talking and then my brother came.
Johnny called later and told me that he, Conny, and I will go to Mrs. Chamber's office to pick out the people there tomorrow morning, and that the other girl that was connected to Oreo and the guy was arrested. He also said that Conny got her ipod back from him.

omg... another wedding?! yea.. tomorrow (or today if you go by time..) my cousin Sharon is getting married and everyone's happy and blah blah, all these relatives come over and i dont know what i should be calling them and them to ur too...everyone's just smiling and saying hi and byes when they leave... my brothers and sisters did that after eating... i stayed with the ones that came later... when i was done eating i went inside cynthia's house and to the living room, and i saw judy, susan, cynthia, and two other relatives there eating....hadnt really seen or actuallly talked to them in a long time.. just after i said hi to them and they respond, sharon said she needed to go to her house to do somethign for the wedding..her friends are going to help her.. and cynthia just upped and said she'll be coming along, judy followed suit, and they even brought the food they were eating with them to the car too. =.= did they really want to get away that badly? went and saw the upstairs they had added....kinda like my upstairs... kinda smaller though...cynthia has a small room... i kinda like it... at least it;s all her own space... my so called room is closet-less, and my brothers' and family stuff is in here too.....and everyone usually just walks right in unless i actually lock the door. =.= stayed for an hour or so..left with brother Sam and Eric that actually came back from China! :O yea... i have no life and i am such a dork. i was feeling sad when they left... =.= god.... i am so weak...... ==_________________________==






.....it's one in the morning already?! damn... need to go to bed if i'm to go to the tea ceremony.. =_____=

ok, so my cousin laila is getting married tmw. what i forgot was that the one's that getting married are having a party the night before the wedding. so here i am at my cousin floyd's room on his computer. and my other cousins; cynthia, judy and floyd are playing cards. i kinda feel uncomfortable now so i better hurry up and type this: i feel misplaced here. they were always leaving me out of everything and when i finally told them so, there seems to be a gap between each of us. maybe it's just me but i feel like i'm too much of a loner. eep. gtg. they're starting to look over to the moniter.

omg. earthquake. O.O