mY ♥ sTOpPed bEatinG siNCe yOU leFt.....

I slept late last night or should I say slept early coz it was already morning when I actually slept. I think it was around 3 am when I went to bed. Of course you can’t expect me to wake up early, well I don’t usually wake up early so yeah. Lol I woke up at like 11ish, early huh? Keke it’s a shame knowing that I have to go to church today. Bad me, God’s eyes are on me! Mianhe! T-T I can’t resist staying up late though I don’t have better things to do last night than to stare at my laptop and watch some hilarious BB vids. My sister decided to watch some old clips of them well not really old but clips from last year’s CHANGE! It’s funny how Yongie and maknae tricked grandpa Seunghyun, Daedae and Bae to do ridiculous things. Plus who could forget Bae’s Spiderman act. EPIC FAIL! Not to forget Dae’s cute WOW being Superman and Top’s But-ti-man (Batman) followed by a great landing! Haha knee-slapper moments! I just can’t get over how funny this ep was. The prostetics they use on Yongie and maknae-ah did made them  kinda look like twins.  I just realized how much I miss seeing BB together but YGTV  makes up for it yet not enough. I’m like in a withdrawal syndrome. Poor me!  *cries in the corner*

Back to the present, I mean today’s events. So you know that I woke up late. Church starts at about 11:30 and I woke up 30 min early while my lovely sister woke up at around 11:20. How nice? To think our church is all the way downtown LA. This is just great! We got ready and left our dumpster home at around twelve. Yeah I know we’re late, but oh well we’re always late for church nothing new to that. *shame on us* Just as my parents want us to get there faster, the car in front of us in the freeway decided to do a little “let’s drive safely and slowly so that no one gets into an acciden and appreciate the beauty of LA”. Lol Imagine us trying to get to church as fast as we but not really going over the speed limit. The driver of the car infront us is taking his sweet time driving. It’s like the driver’s in a road tour, taking his chance to record the view of LA in his both sides to his memories, most of them were just old buildings and houses. Yeah nice view! Though it was pissing my parents off big time, I find our situation kinda funny. It wasn’t the driver’s fault that we’re running late, if they(parents) woke us up early, we would’ve left early which is not the case . so yeah their fault pretty much!! Lol I actually felt bad for the driver of the car in front of us coz my parents kept badmouthing about him. Then after 20 minutes of trailing the turtle car in front us, we finally passed over it with my dad looking over who’s the driver of the car. Isn’t that a bit rude? I find my dad’s action a bit rude. I know that the driver’s slow but do have to rub it in his face? Aiiishh! What if he’s a beginner or some of that kind? I myself dunno how to drive so I feel for the driver. Though it was really frustrating that we’re moving like we’re in a procession of some sort. There’s no need to eye on the driver. Poor him! L

So yeah we arrived just 20 minutes before the preach finishes. My dad was the only one to go inside coz I followed my mom in the kitchen to bring the food as my siblings trail behind me. I decided to just stay in there until the pastor which happens to be my grandpa finished preaching. I was hungry too so yeah I figured out it’s too late to go inside so why not each breakfast since I didn’t get to eat at home oh wait it’s already past twelve so it’s really lunch. I ate my brunch along with my sister and I won’t even elaborate on the details coz my conscience’s killing me for not going inside and take in God’s word for this week. Ppssshhh, who am I kidding? Of course I didn’t want to go inside..just kidding! God I’m sorry *peace*. Feels like I’m using God’s name in vain. Another round of Mianhe! As I am typing this part, Taeyang’s Baby I’m Sorry started to play on iTunes. Just great! Kinda not the right song but fits a little so yeah! Nice song! Nega useul su man itdamyeon nan gwaenchanha <3

After church we went to Citadel outlet(isthatright?dunno what to name it?) to buy guess what? …dundundun..SHOELACES for my brother! Yeah I know we went there for his shoelaces. Funny huh? We went to Converse to buy his shoelaces. Well my little brother’s not really interested in buying his shoelaces so my little sister and him stopped by Auntie Aunt’s to buy some pretzels. While I settled for a frozen coffee with chocolate chunks in Chocolate factory. It was there version of Double Chocolate Chip of Starbucks.  While I was waiting for my drink, I wandered around the little store and stared at the tempting sins in front of me. By sin I meant a stand full of different variety of chocolate. I even took a picture of it. It was a feast for my eyes too bad I wasn’t able to buy any of them. They were burning my eyes and asking me to buy every single one of them. I can’t help but to drool. Lol As a chocoholic who wouldn’t want to have those “sweet little devils” that goes by the name of chocolate. It would feel like Nirvana having them. Though they may look appealing they surely bring you a lot of trouble. But who cares, it good right? Hehe I didn’t have some so I can’t even say anything about how good it is or any of that sort. So I just sat by the bench not too far from the distracting/tempting things. By the bench sits a cute big bear who I decided to call Jirin. I dunno why I gave him that name, maybe I’m just too fond of Jiyongie and Chae Rin-ah! Hehe love the Leadahs!  <3 Anyways back to reality..though I find the bear irresistably adorable it surprised me a bit. Why did the owner or the staff of the store put a big fat but extremely cute bear in display? Does he depict the result of having too much of their product? Oh how I love the irony of it! It's like telling the buyers to look what you'll become after eating chocolates hehe. but it's cute enough to have a hug and so I did hug him! It's not everyday that I find bear this big and I would love to have one. It reminds me of BB's pictorial with a big white bear or maybe the teddy bear that sat beside yongie in a pic before. All I can say is that..umm what am
I gonna say again? yikes forget about it.

I don't want to talk about what happened after I got my drink coz it gets kinda boring so yeah! That's a wrap!

PS: I'm actually craving for some frozen yogurt! the pic above was from last month i think? YOGURT LAND! wahh! it would be nice to have some today! I love green tea and plain yogurt flavor!

 

WARNING: this entry is LOOOOONNNGG!



 

Caminos so hot right now! That was the chant we kept screaming out this last two days. I kept screaming out this last two days..It was for my college orientation.UCI college orientation. Specifically called SPOP by the anteaters..zot zot..lol It was a two day orientation which made me experience what it’s like to be in college..to be in UCI! I was hesitant at first to go to that orientation…I was like ahhhh why do I have to sleep over? Why the hell do I have to do this blah blah blah.? What I didn’t know is that this two day orientation will not only change my perspective in life but will live something great inside me.

Let me take back Wednesday night(08.12), the night before my orientation..I was all complaining that night that I have to wake up early, go to UCI and that stuff. I can’t really sleep that night coz I was nervous I guess? What if those people don’t like me? What if I make myself stupid in front of others and all the other what ifs. So I woke up like 5:00 am the next day(08.13), the first day of orientation. I’m always like this when I have something important thing to do the next day, I automatically wakes up before my alarm rings. Well in this case I didn’t really see this as an important event coz I’m not really looking forward to it, more like I didn’t want to go at ALL!

So yeah my dad and I left the house at around 6:00 am..stopped by Carl’s Jr to grab something to eat then went off to a 30 minute silent drive to UCI. I thought we would get there at like 7:30 but nooooo I was so wrong. I got there at 7 and had to wait for at least an hour to check in. just how great is that? Aiish. I was a little pissed coz I was the only one in there. I just sat in the student center like a stupid girl and watched as peepz from UCI walked by. I didn’t know anyone so I was a little nervous plus I didn’t know where to check in. haha I was sitting at the wrong place coz the check in was inside the student center so lucky me *note sarcasm* I had to wait in line just coz I didn’t know that we had to go inside and I had no idea that that building was the student center. I went inside and dropped off my luggage and notice something: everyone had too much luggage, no more like I didn’t bring the stuff I need. I’ll rant about that later and my hardship. LOL After a few minutes I got the orientation packet with my hall name: Camino. ^.^ oh I don’t to narrate all what they said on the intro but just few interesting things: I met a new friend by the name of Lina Tayo. She’s Filipino too. I’m so happy to have met her coz though I saw peepz from my school, I didn’t know them much so we’re like strangers too! Back to the intro orientation, Lina and I sat together and listened to what they said. They even made us do the hand sign to officially become anteaters. Zot zot!

After an hour of that we had to go to another orientation. An orientation about our major, well I didn’t have to leave and Lina too coz we have the same major. We’re both Bio major! ^-^ they told us about what class to take and all that. I didn’t understand half of what the lady said about our major and the classes not because she has an accent coz she don’t but I dunno. I think I was just spacing out! An hour after that was lunch, I didn’t really like the food but it’s not that bad. I was just not use to eating those. I also met with the other kids from Camino and the Camino staffers. They were so energetic, more like HYPER loud! They were all like CAMINO yeah and the others were screaming out their hall name. It was a little crazy, no cross that it was indeed CRAZY..haha

The day went by fast, faster than I expected it to be..well I got my I.D. and my pic sucks! I also registered for my classes. I took Bio 93 and Chemistry 1P(I had to take pre classes just coz I can’t remember anything from that class lol) I still dunno what English class to take or if I should take a math class. Poor me all lost. Haha not really, I just dunno where to go after that. Oh I also took the campus tour which doesn’t have any difference with what they gave us a year ago, there’s just a new building. I didn’t really understand half of what our tour guide said. As well as Lina, we were together in almost all the activity except when it comes to hall activities.

            After that we had to go check in and got our keys for our room. I got my keys and went on a journey to find my hall with all my HEAVY baggage. Poor me, Camino was all the way in the back. I kinda got lost. Hehe no one said it was right there, the others were lost too! I wasn’t the only one >_<  

the pic's blurry but you can see CAMINO written on the banner..

When I got there I saw these banner at the veranda saying “Flamin’ Hot Caminos”. I was like okay..whatever that means, it turns out to be their version of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. Get it? great! <3 So back to the story, I went inside and all it screams out is PURE AWKWARDNESS! I am not familiar with anyone in here coz all the people I met, well they’re in another hall so yeah imagine that. It was like this when I first stepped on the hall ………………except for us asking where is room insertnumberhere. Before I forget, I find one of the staffer intimidating, I was kinda scared of Andrew Liang. First impression.. wonder if that’ll change the next day? Haha

They told us to put our things in our room and go out so we can play games. I got the last room in the 103 suite. I’m kinda nervous and excited to meet my roommate but then she didn’t show up in the next 10 minutes so I just went out. It would be kinda weird for me stay there all day just waiting for her. Wouldn’t it? We played some silly games outside. The first game was this game called This is so much fun. The purpose of the game is to keep a straight face while staring at another person saying THIS IS SO MUCH FUN! Of course I couldn’t do it, just staring to another person makes me laugh. XD the next game was Ninja..this game is just skjfldskjf..I am too lazy to explain how it works. Let’s just say it’s a fun game. But nothing beats the last game. I forgot what’s called, is it dance game? Oh well, we were divided into 3 groups and we had to come up with dance steps and so on. Grace, one of the staffer became my group leader. The steps they came up was purely HILARIOUS. Is sit ups or plainly sitting dance steps? Go figure!

The game lasted for a good 10 minutes until Ciudad accepted our challenge. We were against them and of course we won. Camino’s better! Haha j/k but really we’re great! ^-^

And so we went back to our hall. I was really nervous coz I know there’ll be an icebreaker of some sort, but it went well. Luckily. Before I forget, I got to know all my staffer’s name but it is not until the second day that I remember all of them. Their names are Andrew, Jackie, Grace, Tim, Jay, Jeanette and Gina. I got it all right? I hope I did. Then we went to the cafeteria to eat dinner. I must say it was way better than LUNCH! They got all sort of food, Chinese, Mexican and etc. it’s like a buffet with desserts and all that good stuff. Haha

              After Dinner, we went back to the hall and that’s when I got to meet my roomie, Elizabeth. She’s nice and cool! We got along well. I promise we did! *-*

The staff prepared another game for us, this time it wasn’t a silly one. It was a silent and serious game. They call it Cross the line. Through this game I got to know more about other people from our hall and what they’ve gone through. It was one eye opener game. As the night deepened, the staffers gave us the option to stay and rest or join the other halls in the Student Center for a nightlife experience. Of course, I went with the latter. lol

Once I stepped out of the hall and went with the others, (umm..Elizabeth also came with me!) I knew it’s gonna be a long night. There were loud music banging from the speakers. There were people dancing everywhere. Some were amazing and there were some that weren’t just gifted. xD that included me but I didn’t dance! Haha instead Elizabeth and I went to Starbucks and bought something to drink. I got a green tea while she went with a mocha frapp. After a an hour or two of watching them dance to songs like Since You’ve been gone, you’re a jerk, etc.. the staffers told us to form a big circle and we did the most random thing in the world! They said it was a UCI tradition so everybody went with it, including me. I won’t give the details but it has something to do with watermelon. Lmao

Following the random tradition, was one crazy activity where the halls had to form another circle of their own and guess what we had to do..we counted to at least 5 and ran in the middle of the circle while holding hands. Imagine bumping yourself into a wall 10 times, that’s how I felt. Every hall was doing that and were only a few inches away from our circle so go figure what happened. After that one of the staffers broke the circle and started running on one direction. I think it was Jeannette, she told us to hold tight and run with her. We ran in a random phase as well as the other halls. It was INSANE! Insanely FUN! Though I can’t count how many times I bumped into another person or stepped on someone’s shoe or hoodie in the floor, I had fun. Though I was out of breath after running, I had fun. A tiring yet fun activity.

Dun..dun..dun..Later on we went to Cha for tea just a block across the university. We just chilled there and ordered some drinks. I got mango green tea and Elizabeth went for an almond tea with boba. We got to try some of their drinks and food before we ordered ours. There were guys that were giving free taste that’s why. It was GREAT! I love the chicken dumpling. Everything that’s free is good. lol Since Elizabeth and Mara didn’t bring their jacket we went ahead and left for the hall first, that was about 1 am. It still kinda early for them I think coz they stayed in there to relax while we head to the halls to freshen up and get ready for bed, well not really all of us coz as long as I remember when Elizabeth and me were trying to sleep I can hear the staffers and some SPOPers playing games outside. It was around 3am and they were still playing games. I chose not to coz I’m too tired to play games though it felt like I was with them coz I had a hard time sleeping with them all noisy outside the room. I guess they were playing dressup coz I can hear them saying “wear this” and “wear that”. So in my mind I was with them I guess. lol oh yeah another thing that made it hard for me to sleep was because I forgot to bring a pillow. It took me a while to sleep and with all the noise, it was just great! *note the sarcasm*

The next day or should I say hours later I woke up, that was around 7ish or maybe a little earlier. I felt like crap, a little. Coz that was like what, less than 4 hours of sleep after a long day? I think it was a miracle that I woke up coz I usually sleep in until like 11 but luckily I woke up in time to get ready for breakfast. As we made way outside the hall we noticed people sleeping on the floor. I guess they didn’t get any sleep at all.

Breakfast isn't that bad. typical American breakfast..
 

So yeah we got our breakfast and all. I’ll just skip the other things we did coz I honestly can’t remember some of what we did coz everyone in the conference room was all TIRED. It was only 9 am after all, and some people barely got sleep, some none at all.

The rest of the day was just workshops. I had a chance to see a glimpse of the Middle Earth dorm and I gotta say the rooms were smaller than the ones we have in MESA but the bathroom was bigger. I heard the food was better there too..so I can’t make up my mind on which of the two should I stay in this fall. Though I already submitted my apps, I forgot what dorm I chose. So yeah it’s not like I can do anything about it. I’ll just wait and see, by that it’ll be like a surprise for me. keke

Wait I think I forgot the highlight of the day….the TALENT SHOW! From the looks of it, the staffers prepared for this event well. Hmm, so they were practicing for these whiles were out on some sort of workshop. >_< Some of them prepared speeches. Some sang but the best of all were the dances. They even danced to the tune of NOBODY by Wonder Girls. Yay! Can’t get away from Kpop for that long. haha xD

A little later we got back in our respective halls and got our stuff ready for home. We had our last activity/game. The staffers call it the Touching game. This game was the most memorable of all for me. It was one of those game that made us more close to each other though it was like our parting game. It literally made me cry. But not as much as others who cried a bucket. I won’t touch upon the details *note: no pun intended* I just have to say that it made a lasting impression on me. I will never ever forget that moment we did the game and how it ended.

So yeah that was the end of the activity, the end of my two day orientation. It ended on a good note, different from what I expected on the first day. I thought it will all be boring but SPOP proved me wrong. I thought I was gonna go and leave the campus empty handed but I was wrong. I gained friends and most importantly MEMORIES. It’s one unforgettable experience of my life. Yes, I’ve been to a camp before but this was different from the other. I agree that everyone that I attend to left something on me, but SPOP left lasting impression. In the short period that I was there I learned about the classes, the school and the professors. The staffers made us feel welcome in the campus. Most of my doubts and fears of going to UCI vanished, thanks to them. I can’t emphasize that enough but I’m really GRATEFUL to them. They helped not only me but all the SPOPers that attended SPOP.

Kuddos to all the staffers for their hardwork! I’ll miss all the staffers I had and all the SPOPers on my hall. I may not be too familiar with them but the things we shared were enough to make me appreciate each and everyone of them. I’ll miss all the new people and the friends I made. I hope to see them all this September. SPOP <3

PS: one thing I realized while I was there was I was really bad at names. I tend to forget the people I meet so yeah..in my freakin long essay I didn’t put some of the names coz I forgot. Sorry about that! I think I met too many people and my brain just ditched me.

-I’m sorry that this entry’s FREAKING LONG! It’s about 5 pages in Microsoft word. I started writing this last week after I got home from SPOP so yeah. It took me about a week to finish this. I know it’s kinda boring but I just wanted to write down the experience for memories sake.

Hmm.so how do I start? Okie, I’ve been meaning to write this ever since the beginning of the year but yeah, school took over most of my time, or should I say soompi.LOL I had one blog that I never got the chance to edit. I think that was the one I started on valentines?

Now, I’m writing this..a day after my high school graduation, but before I spazz about my graduation and all that let’s reflect upon what happened throughout my senior year, the good and bad times, oops let me replace those two words, lemme think of words that are synonym to those two or mr. Hogan/mrs. Yasuhara would kill me! j/k! XD

I surrender, I’m too lazy to think! Lol

I feel like I’m writing my valedictory speech. How I wish! Oh wait, no I don’t want to speak in front of thousands of la gente. Haha! That’s Spanish, I learned something from Vasquez! Though it never exceed the normal level of what’s my name to my address or what I’m doing! :D

Okie, I’ll be in a serious mode. Hmm. What about this past year? I met new peepz. In the form of Rey –the total camwhore who almost didn’t graduate coz of his lazy ass! Diane/Mithra- totally cool & smart plus her brother Dale – freakin’ tall & nice guy

Oscar & OJ – the totally timid brothers, I think? I barely talk to them. Hehe

Jayjay – he’s smart and fun to talk too! I’m happy that I met them before I graduate/leave BHS! Plus factor = they’re all Filipinos! Hmm. Why didn’t they all show up when I first came, my ninth grade year! But nevertheless I met other people that year, they helped me go through the year. My first friends in highschool: Elizabeth, Ingrid and Cindy! <3 u guys! Though I haven’t talk to them much, it really is nice knowing them! All those times..9^th and 10^th grade moments! I’ll miss them too!

next topic, umm..my teachers? I think? Let’s start with my 9^th grade year, I had Ms. Riccio, Semaan, Jarjoura, Reynolds, Mr. Porch and Macias. My first year in BHS! I didn’t enjoy it much. I think coz I’m still not adapted to my new habitat! Haha bio!

But I really liked mrs. Semaan! She’s cool and a great bio/honors bio teacher! How I wish she didn’t move! ^^ my tenth grade year I had Mr. Sears, Napier,(he’s really scary at first but turned really cool at the end of the year! Actually he’s nice) Thompson(I really enjoyed his class, all those times he told us story and his voice imitation. FUNx1000), Mendoza(cool teacher! It’s in his class where I first met barna and odd Kevin), Mrs. Whitney(she’s great, first Filipino teacher, ironic that she teaches English), Bignami, and Chui(I soooo LOVE her, go ASIANS..lol but really, she’s a great, nice, pretty insertsgreatadjectivesinhere). It’s funny how I didn’t have any comments on any of my PE teacher. Let’s just say I hated having a PE class. Yeah, let’s leave it as that! >.<

On to my 11^th grade year, let see…oh yeah, this is the first year I took AP classes. Wonder what got into my mind and took three on my first year having them? Haha. Totally failed the two. But hey I passed AP BIO with a freakin 4! TAKE THAT! Lmao

Okie, hmm. I had Mr. Vasquez for Spanish II, I like his class but his grading system sucks! Mrs. Mayweather for Art: her class is okay, boring most of the time. Lol but hey I won the district for my crappy work. Mrs. Guzman for AP US History:lalalala no comment..hehe ; Mr. Hogan for AP Eng Lang: I learned a lot about writing essays but sadly failed the exam. And by that I mean bombed it! Mr. Ellis for AP BIO: he’s such a great teacher. I really really really learned a lot about plants&animals through his class. I still remember our acronyms and the answers for all questions if we can’t think of anything. PPRITMOE, PCPNRAAEC, increase surface area and evolution.haha totally love that class but didn’t talk that much coz I find him a little intimidating. Hehe lastly Mr. Le for Algebra 2: he’s so cool, friendly again GO ASIANS! He’s also funny. I’ll miss him! So that’s my 9^th-11^th year summarized!

What about my senior year? Hmm..i can say it was fun, toxic, stressful and interesting! Such words doesn’t even match. It was indeed fun! I didn’t have first period coz I dropped guitar class with Mr. Shu for I didn’t want to risk my grade. And I had Ms. Nic for AP GOVT I also had her in the summer for Econ. She’s a cool teacher! I hope I passed the test! Lol then I had mrs. Yasuhara for AP Eng 12: she’s sweet and kinda like a mother to our class! Though I doubt that I’ll pass the test, I’ll still have little hope that I will. But I learned from her class. Mr. Vasquez for Spanish 3: two years in a row for Spanish! Still didn’t get pass 92 for his class..i really hate the grading system! Mrs. Fisher for Honors Anatomy: Boring x infinity. LoL this class is really aisshhh! Negamichosso chongmal micheoso! I am really going crazy whenever I’m in that class. The quizzes and tests are kldsfjdklsjf;dsj! That’s all hehe XD and lastly MRS. CHRISTIAN for math Analysis aka Precal: she’s a really GREAT teacher! I learned a lot of things from her not just math related things but yeah! I love her stories about her family! Her class is fun with only 11 of us in there! I’ll miss her! Once again GO ASIANS! I really love all my ASIAN teachers. Hehe. I’m so biased!

Hmm..though her class were boring as I said about my anatomy class, I really find the dissection part of the class: INTERESTING! Though I was scared, nervous and disgusted at first, I really enjoyed dissecting the cat! I even took a pic of her for keepsake. Here’s a pic:

I feel like this is way too long so yeah.. I guess I’ll just write another blog for the senior awards, assembly and the graduation..didn’t know that I’ll be writing this much! But yeah! Maybe I’ll write another one if I feel like it! I’m running out of things to say. So yeah ciao! Annyoung! :D

                           Our finals are officially over as of yesterday. the tests were hard especially SPANISH.aggrr.. i hate that class. i should've gotten an A if only he lowers the percentage of an A to 90..oh well that's life. i'm cool with what i have but yeah having better grades would have been cooler.LOL oh yeah English.......another one of my frustrations.. wth with that class. my grade went down.i always fail the final since 9th grade.LMAO..i wish some teachers(knock knock) would give us extra credit!

sooo yeah..today's a great day! wish to have a wonderful 2nd sem.. hwaiting! :]

I just finished taking the SAT hours ago....OMG!!can't think right now...my brain hurts..the test was freakin' hard...haha...but compared to the first time I took it..i think I did better this time at least raise my score by a hundred...(i HOPE i did..)lol

what just happened this week???MONDAY - quiz day..lol...i took a vocab quiz in english..and in Anatomy 2 quizzes..not that hard but still 2 quizzes in one period...aggrrr..hmmm...i finished my personal statement last wednesday..which i hope is good enough for my teacher's taste...coz i don't want to that thing again..it took me a week to do that freakin' essay!!!!

oh btw...it's exactly a month after school started!!! HAPPY one month in school for me...haha...did that make any sense???lol...lallalala....dunno what to write...uhmmm yeah.SENIOR YEAR...in 7 months i'm off to college...nervous yet excited! i need to do a great job this year...last year in high school...yeah...hmm..oh right...here's my sched:

NO 1st period(yeah!)                                                                                                        

2nd : AP Government

3rd : AP English

4th : Spanish III

5ht : Honors Anatomy

6th : Math Analysis

best of luck this school year!!aja!jia yo! fighting!!haha