Things have been so hectic for the past couple of weeks. I just got done with midterms last week, so I finally have a lot more free time. However, I'm still behind on work... especially for my history and drawing class. I have drawings to finish, a research paper to start, critical responses to write... yikes! I will get them done soon though. I'm so sad though because I haven't had time to spend time with some of my college friends... even though they are right here on campus with me!


So I came home this weekend for Halloween. It was my little brother's birthday party (he's twelves now! I got him a UCLA t-shirt as gift), but afterward I also left to Jonathan's family Halloween party. It was really fun! Here are some pictures of me Saturday:



I was Minnie Mouse for Halloween! My cousin Kristen was Hello Kitty.

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I miss everyone so much! I hope you all are doing well. I'm sorry that I cannot update as often. D: If you have a facebook, don't forget to add me! I'm always on lol.

Ooh! And for you high school seniors on my F-list~ good luck with college apps! It's finally that time of month when you have to start working! Haha~

Love you all! <3

Yesterday I invited Chayo and Jonathan to Skate Depot for roller skating. It was a lot of fun, except that I'm a very bad roller skater (yet I'm the one who has been a figure ice skater for 10 years). I fell down a lot and once accidentally a kid toppled over me when I was on the floor. Then there was this other time when I was feeling a little bit too confident and I feel really hard on my side. I have this gigantic blue and purple bruise on my thigh now... it looks just like the inside of a purple sweet potato. I can't sleep on my left side now because it's too painful.


I almost finished packing for move-in day. I was starting to feel a little sad when I was rolling up my clothes. I'm going to miss my raspberry pink room and I'm going to miss Pocket waiting for me to wake up in the morning. But my older cousin (who is a UCLA alumn!) sent me message saying that I won't miss a thing. XD (In a way, I know that she's right.)

Anyways, as I was packing, I found this piece of magic in my room. It's a quote that I ripped out from a Starbucks cup a long time ago when I was hanging with my friends. I had forgotten why it stood out to me and now I'm glad that I found it again... just in time!


Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.
-- Laurence Shames


I'm off to bed now. Have to buy some last minute things for Saturday in the morning~

Today I went to a 9/11 Memorial Symphonic Concert at Cerritos Heritage Park with my friends: Chayo, Jonathan, and Joseph. I didn't realize that today was 9/11... nor did I realize that I was going to a concert because Chayo told me that we were going to a picnic! But it was a concert by the Cerritos College symphonic winds, so it was really nice although they had rocky start. I had lots of fun catching up with my friends and rolling around on Jonathan's sleeping bag blanket.

After the concert was over, Jonathan zipped me up in the sleeping bag! It was so funny because I would walk around and wave my arms. Little kids came over to look at me and parents were making comments like "That's Sleeping Bag Man!". There was this one kid who actually tried to hug me, but I accidentally fell and I took him down with me. ^^;

After my sleeping bag fun, we went up to meet with the band since we know a lot of the members and the conductor. Some of the park staff were yelling at us because the area was closed, but we didn't care and went up to meet them anyway. I met this weird Asian guy there who kept forgetting my name and touching my shoulder. He was really strange, but my friend Luis told me that he was weird in general.

Then we left the park to get Golden Spoon at Cerritos Towne Center. We originally wanted Cold Stone, but they moved locations. ): I got coconut frozen yogurt, with rainbow caps and caramel sauce. Yum. ♥

Tomorrow Jonathan is taking me to the mall to go shopping with him. I haven't been at the mall in awhile so I hope to buy some things. I'm on the look out for chunky necklaces and new stockings for Fall/Winter. I love the Fall/Winter season! My kinds of clothes!


Oh oh, I also now have my own laptop! My mom still hasn't been given back my internet on my own computer so I can't make graphics really, but I'm really enjoying having the freedom to go online with this thing. I have to move my music over here and some graphics. I already have my Photoshop 7.0.1 installed, although I should really invest in Photoshop CS (?) like everyone has.

I can't believe I'm using 7 year old software to edit my photographs and create my digital art. It's still good though... even my friend April who is a creative GENIUS was surprised at how clean my lines are in 7.0.1.

I'm back from Montana! The wedding was very lovely and my sister was so beautiful. I had a nice time up there. I will be posting pictures up later when I get my internet back since I'm grounded (how did I get grounded when I am 18 years old? I must love my parents too much).

Btw, I apologize for the typos in this post. It's dark and I can't see my brother's keyboard.

So I'll talk about yesterday. I threw a surprise going away party for one of my best friends, Hugo. He's leaving to New York this Saturday because he will be attending New York University! Isn't that exciting?

The party was held in my backyard. I set up a long table so everybody could sit down and set up nice cushion chairs in the patio. For dinner we had Church's fried chicken and pizza! XD Also summer watermelons and grapes. Yummy. Before the actual party started, I also strung up wedding balloons (I couldn't find plain ones at the 99 cents store) with the help of some of my friends.

As for the actual surprise, it actually ended in a flop. When I brought Hugo in, everyone didn't see him come in and everyone sort of came out late one by one yelling "surprise!" at different times lol. But the rest of the nice was good. During dinner, we decided to roast Hugo. Not toast, roast him! Roasting means you insult the person, but the compliment him after. A true compliment of course. My friends and I successfully roasted Hugo at least once, but for some reason we ended up roasting each other instead. It was like an inferno! Of laughter.

After dinner, I put on some school video projects that he was in. The first was Lakisha, a old video we made for Spanish 2 class in Sophomore year. Then I put in Black Rabbit Murderer 2 which we made back in 11th grade for AP US History. Here it is again for those who don't remember:



Hugo is the sarcastic one with the 7-Up can.

After the videos, I put up a slideshow I created for him. It was awesome and had Black Eye Peas goodness for background music. I've Got a Feeling was the theme song for the night.

When the slideshow was over, we went out to the background to play a game called Touch Someone. It's a really sweet game that Chayo and Joseph learned at their Orientation at UCI. First, everyone sits on the ground in a circle. You have to make sure you sit facing outward of the circle and that you are not too close to anybody next to you. Everyone also must close their eyes and keep it closed the entire time. Then there is one person who is a narrator who picks a couple of people to stand up. When the narrator gives an instruction, the people standing up must touch someone (and you can touch more than one person) that applies to that instruction. For example, the narrator would say "Touch someone who made you smile today" and the people standing would go around to touch people who made them smile today. The games continues endlessly like that. After several questions, the narrator could also choose to switch the standing people to go around and touch others too. In our game we had a total of nine people, so we had two people standing.

Although the game sounds a little cheesy, it is a really sweet game that shows how we all touch each other in someway whether it is positive or negative. It's really effective when you don't know who is standing up, that's tapping you on the head or poking you in the back. Every little tap feels like a heartbeat telling you that they are there with you.

Some of my favorites that really surprised me since I didn't expect to get touched for were "Touch someone that has a beautiful personality" and "Touch someone who is talented but doesn't get enough credit for". Those were really sweet~ and another one that was cute was "Touch someone who you would dodge a bullet for".

There was at one point where I was about to tear up a little. I think it was "Touch someone who you would never want to forget". That oddly made me feel very loved and warm on the inside. So thank you to whoever two touched me for that!

I also got the chance on the second round to touch people. One of them was "Touch someone who you love to hate" and I decided to run around and smack most of my friends on the back for the heck of it. I know smacked Jonathan really really hard on his back and he yelled out in pain, "That has to be an April smack!"

When the game was over everyone left except for Hugo and Chayo. So we spent the next couple of hours outside talking, playing the gameboard LIFE, and listening to some music until they had to leave.

For gifts, we created a poster for Hugo to post on his dorm wall at NYU and also a pop-up sex book to bring along. I actually really like the pop-up sex book since the illustrations are really colorful and had a lot of care to them. And I'm speaking about this in an artistic perspective. The book was very tasteful! Even my friends who would cringe at the sight of it thought it was a really nice book. It even has gold lettering on the cover.

So that was Hugo's going away party. I'm going to really miss him. I'm going to miss his sarcasm and wit... his perverted drawings and the way he insults people... gonna miss his funny hair and how he laughs like a hyena. Lol. I'll see him again this Friday when I sneak out of the house to go to Penguin's BBQ.

I can't believe he's leaving. :/

The past two days have been crazy and insaely fun! On Friday I went to Downtown Los Angeles with my friends. We went to Chinatown, Little Tokyo, and walk down Hollywood Blvd (ALL of Hollywood Blvd. D:) I got a new tote bag with bunnies all over it from a stall in Chinatown. It was my first time bargaining... and I felt so confident in an odd way. Then in Little Tokyo I got myself a new Japanese mascara that was on sell in Marukai Market. It's now one of my favorite mascaras. :D I wish I could show you all pictures of the trip, but as I said before, I no longer have my little digital camera. D: Hopefully when Chayo uploads her pictures, I can show you some of the things we did.

Then yesterday I went to my friend Johana's going away party. She will be leaving to UC Berkeley in a week! I'm going to miss her a lot. But the party was really fun and I danced my sandals off to banda music all night. I also learned to dance merengue. Good stuff.


Now today I went to Cerritos Mall to try to find a dress for my sister's wedding this weekend. I found absolutely nothing. However, I did fall in love with this necklace that I found at Forever 21.





Sorry for my puffy face. Anyways, it was the last necklace of this kind that was there so I had to buy it!

Oh, btw. I need some readings for my sister's wedding. D: Does anybody have any poems/lyrics/passages about love/commitment/growing old that they could recommend to me?. Love-dovey stuff is not my forte, so I need help.

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