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8:40am: Free At Last!



School is finally out! And so the days of mindless time wasting begins!
I decided to test out a bunch of my new Macbook Photobooth settings
and "Trance" particularly caught my fancy! Warning: these are lame! :)

10:48pm: Sorry


This is honestly just a really bad time for me to get back into LJ.
School is brutal, and I need to focus. After this madness is over,
hopefully I'll be ready for a comeback. But until then, vacancy.

8:24pm: If I continue...
to slack and avoid my duties, I might start posting various pictures/blurbs here. I'm a current blogspotter, but who knows, we'll see. This thing is pretty dead though. :| Until then.

9:29pm: Nouvelle Chaussures!

 
(LEFT): I drew a wood grain pattern with an industrial sharpie on an old pair of Walmart shoes that I had no other use for.
(RIGHT): I bought these snazy babies at an awesomely asain store on sale for $20. (similar pair at anthropologie: $100+)

12:00pm: o hay!

Tis Summer
I'm Back, I Guess

7:58pm: Retreat!

The 3 day retreat in Arrowhead was pretty awesome compared to what I previously expected. I seriously didn't want to go AT ALL. It turned out to be pretty fun, not counting the boring speeches told by the boring people about their boring lives. There's way too much to say and I'm exhaused, so I'll paraphrase! Basically: Pray, pray, GOD stuff, f00d, more food, a couple bitches, snowball fights, pray, more GOD, CAPTURE THE FLAG<33, more snowballs, broken windows, secret (totally creepy) rooms, escape windows, pray, confess, food, lots of food, strobe light (if only you knew), "party in 112", 123GABE, pray, gossip, hardly any sleep, and bus rides. I might have forgotten a ton, but I'm still half asleep, so don't mind my vague, pointless blog. bye.

ohyeah & about that picture above, I really have no idea. if you asked me why I'm so completely random, I really couldn't say.

7:31pm: Four Whole Days?? C'est Possible??


Quick Birthday Update: I'm officially 16 as of last Sunday (jan. 28)! I'm feeling no different though! I went bowling with jess lisa steph & em +family. Bruised up my knees pretty bad by doing some bombin' dance moves on the hard wood floors, totally not kidding! 

Anyway, tomorrow is the start of my experimental Risk Project for english. Basically, the concept is to take a risk/do something out of the ordinary, then write a paper on it. If only you knew how hard it'd be for me to give up talking! But needing to be ambitious and all, I choose to not talk for four entire days, with only a note pad to communicate! Customized note pads saved me the tedious task of having to write down an explanation for my vow of silence. 

4:25pm: Beads&Tetris


My sister got this PERLER BEAD kit and I've been making random things here and there. Super Fun!
This would be my TETRIS bling necklace :D. I tried making earrings too but they came out pretty gay.

7:19pm:

 
Today was the first day back to school. It went suprisingly fast, but that whole finals thing is really starting to hit me. Lots and lots of studying is in order to raise my math grade. My dad's been on my back about seeing my report cards and I think he's suspicious of my successfully (or so I though) interception of the mail a few months ago. EEK! I will kill myself if I don't full on ace this thing next week! Tomorrows Almighty Jessica Ong's 16th birthday! (which I am much more excited for than her due to final stressing! and I'm relatively a frequently excited person.)

12:43pm: Lots Of Text This Time.

          I guess a Christmas update is in order. I received a piece of shit iPod that doesn't seem to understand the meaning of PLAY from ehem Santa. An exchange is in order. My stepmother wanted us to know what Christmas smelled like and had my dad do all the cooking. He sure makes a mean honey glazed ham! Got hoodies, random clothing, thinks I really have no use for, and money from my aunt and uncle who never actually buy anything for me since don't really seem to understand me nor do they have a desire to and who'd rather spend their time buying video games and cameras for my sister and encouraging her to become anything she wants to be in life. I'm hoping to God for a camera on my birthday (January 28)! My stepmom was raving a couple months ago that she would get me one but we'll see about that. She told me that she was going to give me a blow out for my 16th then proceeded to give me the details of this so-called blowout. She was going to invite all those family friends of ours (who basically consists of about 10 people with quiet kids who enjoy sitting around eating peanuts and playing mahjong) and about 8 friends of my choice. Yeah, what a blowout. I said maybe. I'll think of something later. 

          I was hoping to do something productive during this break, but all I've done was play tetris DS, animal crossing, Solitaire on my lagging iPod, and watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off and 10 Things I Hate About You in HD. I swear I'll get to studying. The most depressing thing on my mind is my grade in Math Analysis. I will never be able to get any higher than a C in that class. It's the most frustrating thing in the world. That will be number one on my new years resolution. I've been reading Running with Scissors and it's gloriously disturbing, but in a good way I guess. I'm more than half way and I can only imagine what the movie must have been like. (I didn't get to see is since it wasn't playing in many theatres, esp. the ones that are easy to sneak into ;D.) No Spoilers please. Okay, I'm done, nothing too eventful as you can see. 

3:35pm: Typical Holiday Sugar Rush.

4:42pm: The Enjoyable Company of Old Friends

Yesterday was the wonderful start of vacation. Life pretty much sucked before 12:52. I must admit, I'm loving this whole old friends thing. [currently going through some(/alot of) shit w/ autre amis.] I totally appreciate old friends' company. We took the bus to the mall and watched the pursuit of happyness; b4wl3d. Such a good movie. Did some half selfless shopping with Steph (Miss totally looks like Rachael Bilson) and gave in, ignored our montras and selfishly bought matching shirts and underwear. Whatev, they're so cute. IN-N-OUT, Love Actually, the OC. Basically a normal day @ Steph's house, which I realized I've been to frequently this month. I'm currently eating a box a see's assorted mini pops (w/o the stick) that Peachy (awesomest person ever) bought for me for christmas. I need to gain weight. I could have totally been in Vegas watching O with Lin right now. Okay time to self loath bye.

( waiting for the bus... )    

11:01am: Peace On Earth

5:06pm:

I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired
To be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind
Wouldn't mind it
If you were by my side
But you're long gone
Yeah you're long gone now

Keane- A Bad Dream
(*a seriously good song!)

( What's Up Tiger Lily? )

 

6:48pm: Absolute First Attempts @ Drawing the Almighty Regina Spektor

 


1. SLEEP with quotes from "Dance Anthem of the 80's", "Carbon Monoxide", and "The Flowers"
2. THE FLOWERS self explanatory. probably inspired from the song. 

WELL anyway, I've acquired this huge obsession with Regina Spektor. Or actually, I've always had this obsession, but now I seriously love her love her love her love her like no other. It's become a daily routine to come home, eat a sandwich, and put on every Regina Song on shuffle/repeat for the rest of the day. +singing randomly @ school (avec richellephant!). So yeah, here are some quick sketches I did while avoiding homework. yay

8:31pm: Pomegranate Sunday!

Ignore the fact that these were all taken without my pesky tripod, 
but I felt the need to document my eatings of some of these yummy 
Pomegranates from the Farmer's Market! So cheap(?) and JUICY!

11:02pm:


Halloween, hm. For the most part, it was FUN. I was "astro-naughty" (homemade btw :D) LOL aka omegatron sector 53 beta 33-99's personal bitch (haha, love nathan oomega). My sister, standing avec moi ,was a butterfly (stuck in a spider web) and i know you can't see, but she had on some bombass spiderweb tights. So, did anyone else notice that halloween is slowly dying. No one gives out candy no more! What's the deal!? But trick-or-treating was fun anyway. HAHA Brandyn and Dustin in tights, lol yeah. Nathan and Anthony as sexy riddlers with orange SPARKLY hair!!! ROSANA AS A TOURIST omg best costume ever, love you rosana forever and ever til the end of time! Okay done with lame-ass-short-fragmented-sentences recap. What were all of you?

7:34pm: Pointless Blog #2

4:40pm: Pointless Blog

I haven't had any time to blog lately, or rather, I haven't had anyTHING to blog about lately.But here's a public post with random pictures of a prey mantis I found dead in front of my house, since my public page seems a tired and boring. The most recent thing that has happened that anyone will remotely care about is homecoming, though it has yet to happen. I'm pretty excited; first real dance! Jess O, Rose, Erica, Richelle, Steph, and Jess Lo! Woo how exciting. I seem to have nothing to say, at least, nothing that would suit a public post. So many things have happened, but none of that stuff will make a public orrr friend post; gotta keep stuff private. Well, my LJ is dying here, so I'll update when my life gets more interesting. HAH, right.

4:57pm:
Season premiere of Grey's Anatomy, and I'm pretty much ready to jump out of my pants. Since its a school night (-_____-) and I have the asianest father on the planet, I'll be enjoying the best show in the universe tomorrow on TiVo. So please please, no spoilers. I told about everyone I knew, and some people I didn't really know (which was pretty stupid of me haha) not to tell me what happened tonight, tomorrow. God, I want to watch it. I CAN'T WAIT! EDIT:: I'm sorry to say, but it wasn't much.

6:07pm: Vous Aidez Moi?

That would be my lastest stencil job! My Mac baby! Rosana and I are probably the only two people on the face of the earth (or at least at school) that find him to be a fucking cyootee (SIDE NOTE: FUCK, ROSE I MISS YOU!). Oh yeah! and dianapop!, since she gave me a nice little myspace msg about him. It was ridiculously murderous cutting that out onto plastic... Anyway, I'm stuck on color choice. Help Moi! Give me two pretty pretty colors that would go good together; preferably constrasting light/dark colors. Im sick of mixing paint and producing grotesque colors, so i'll probably go to Michael's again to get more than just primary colors. hey, can anyone tell me where I can get some handy acitate papier pour moi? I've been in a stenciling mood lately. I recently made Lisa's "BABE" David Bowie shirt, which i have no good pictures of, ehhhhh. And I need to make Erica's bday gift and Robb's "Map of the World" (?) shirt cos he is a selfish needy boy. :D Woo, I'm Bored and I'm failing every class! yay, bye.

2:18pm:

I am completely drained. Yesterday was Lisa's birthday dinner! It was great/fun/intense. Me and Erica went to Jessicas house before to frrreshen up. We gave Erica the fakest of fake-clip on-real human hair-hair extensions in the world that ended up looking fucking hot on her and teased Jessica's hair to the point where it looked like she was struck by lightning, HAHA! Before dinner, we bought Lisa about 17 balloons (and a big heart shaped powerpuff girl one) hoping to udderly embarrass her at the Macaroni Grill :D. Basically, dinner consisted of 9 loafs of bread cos they just kept giving us more, the most intense stories ever (but also funny/seriously-strange ones about Lisa's childhood sleep walking), new friends!, and random flashes going off since Lisa's mom had this obbsession with taking a candid shot of us talking every 20 seconds. haha! After that, Erica Jessica and I had religious br4wls in the car (also intense-ishhh). Erica's mom dropped Jess and me at Jess's house and we continuted with intense talks about my bizzare childhoodless life which followed with talks about jesus and reading the bible with Jessica's mother (who I loveee). Lol, oh the intensity of that night. No wonder I'm exhausted. 

11:51pm: Holy Moly, Last Night.


However, it was also the funnest blackout of my life. Even though it lasted from around 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm. We lighted tons of candles and made shadow puppets on the ceiling with pieces of paper we cut random animals and shapes out of. Obv I was playing with the little bro and sis cos that'd be pretty gay if I was doing that alone, lol. Showers in the dark are extremely awkward, yeah. Hm, yeah that's my life, heh. :D BTW happy belated birthday LISA STEGNER. you are my ultimate bitch! lol. I've got a blog of your birthday present that will become public after you recieve it. Even though you stayed loyal to xanga and probably won't read this thing anyway. :D hah. okay, im going to bed. p.s. Math Analysis sucks major hole.

4:13pm: Dear _____,

What a Weakend.

7:12pm:

Went to The San Diego for Labor day weekend. Saturday was the zoo, and Sunday was the Andy Warhol Museum, which i sadly have no pictures of. Not Allowed, duh. Anyways, it was like 110 degrees and I was suprisingly not at all tired at the zoo, which is crazy since the walking would usually k1ll me. The only reason I didn't, seriously, die in the middle of the park was because I took my dad's monster on the way out (Aunt and Uncle took me and my sister). Thanks Monster, I owe you one. Andy Warhol's American Dream was ridiculously nice. I'll post a pic of my purchase at the Merch Store l8r. Sux a huge chunk of Warhol's fans are little middle schoolers and freshmen with Urban Outfitters Andy Warhol bags. It's hard to stop talking the sh1t this year. You should see us go at it during dance, eeeee. People r sucking hard this year, not my f4ult, srry.