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I came back from Vegas today after sitting in a car ride that lasted forever *sigh*. I'm at a state where I'm tired but not tired enough to go to sleep. I hate it when that happens. Anyways. Vegas was fun. Though I don't think I have ever wished I was 21 so badly until then. I didn't take as many pictures as I wanted to because I realized my camera was running out of batteries and I forgot to bring my chargerback from Berkeley. Fail.

I spent most of my time in the car playing pokemon red (I think thats what its name was) on my old gameboy color. Actually, I kind of took it from my sister because I started to get bored from looking out the window and what was initially a matter of helping my sister level up her pokemon turned to be a three hour journey through Kanto. :D I also realized that after 10 years, my gameboy color is still running as well as it did when I bought it from my earnings of completing worksheets that my mom assigned in elementary school.

I also have a new found addiction/love to Orbit strawberry mint through out the car ride.

I don't think the Berkeley dining shops have this gum, either that or I just haven't noticed it. But ITS SO GOOD!

There were a lot of amazing stores and attractions in Vegas. It really made me wish I had a lot of money to splurge on (and that, once again, I was 21).

I went to the Bodies exhibit in the Luxor casino and it was AWESOME. It consisted of an exhibit of all the body systems shown through various parts of cadavers. My sister got kind of freaked out halfway but I thought it was really cool that I completely understood the descriptions in the displays because of Anatomy and Bio lab. It also made me sad that I didn't take anatomy class as seriously as I should have and once again, makes me wish that Professor Diamond was teaching....

There were also a lot of expensive restaurants, like this one french restaurant that contains a sample menu of $300. Then again, the restaurant contains three michelin stars.

Yay Fleur De Lys at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas! Hubert Keller ftw. <3

Believe it or not,the food above cost $20. Such a rip off. It was this Asian mall food restaurant (for the lack of better words) at the food court in MGM that had this really pretty display where you get to choose the vegetables and meat that you want. I picked Flank steak + shrimp with a bunch of different veggies. The people then combine it together in a wok and out comes '$20 worth of food'. My dad paid for it because he saw me staring at the place because I wanted to see if it was actually legit or not. ><; My dad then went off on how I could easily cook the same dish and now wants me to cook dinner with 3 dishes+ soup starting on wednesday. -_-

I walked around a couple stores and managed to get a pair of shorts and gloves from Nike. Very exciting. Most of the other stores I walked around were very high class and couldn't really afford to buy anything there. I ALSO FOUND MY BELOVED/EXPENSIVE TRENCHCOAT AT METROPARK <3<3.

The secret of success at Cal:

I found it at Urban Outfitters in Mandalay Bay. When I opened it, I chuckled so loudly that I

think the guy next to me was looking at me weirdly. -_-

There were also very cute lion cubs at MGM grand. <3.>

I think I might be getting sick. While I was sitting in the car coming back to SF, I started to get a sore throat and now my nose is getting runny =(.

I also plan on stopping by the gym at YMCA today because of this awesome deal that they have for college students. wootz.

How fun =)

Woke up relatively early today because the sun was shining into the room really brightly. =|. Had a pineapple bun and watched a little bit of the christmas parade until I found out that there was a Dogs101 marathon! WOOOOOOOOO! :D :D. Too bad there wasn't any cats101. =(

Then went to one of the many Asian malls and satisfied my sushi craving. Then walked around this asian supermarket, which I believe is the cleanest one I have EVER been into. It was amazing. Perhaps it was because most of the people working at that place weren't canto and spoke mandarin. Who knows.

Went back to Godparent's house and played a little bit of ps3. Then my parents decided to watch some hk gangster movie, which I fell asleep in (Not good enough for me. haha jk). Some people came over and then I helped my sister out with her homework.

The dinner was REALLY yummy. It consisted of Smoked salmon (YUM), bacon wrapped scallops, potato scallops, tri tip (YUM), law mai rice. yumyumyum. Afterwards, we made mini gingerbread cookies. At first mine was really ugly because I put a LOT of frosting on it and then it turned it pretty good.

Before

After! YAY!

The cheesecake I made turned out to be really good. Everybody loved it ^^.

Also took a shot in front of my parents with the rest of the adults. Very interesting experience.

The shot was really good though. Smirinoff Vanilla Vodka+ Frangelico Hazelnut liqueur . I had it with lemon covered in sugar. Really yummy.

My parents were concerned that I was going to get drunk or SUPER red off of it. Oh parents. :) It's quite interesting because according to my dad, he can't really tolerate wine or else he'll get extremely red. I guess I got lucky in terms of my genes. kekeke.

I think this has been one of my favorite christmas' so far. =) It's kind of rare for our family to be spending christmas with a group of friends not to mention to have a massive feast. yayy

Have a safe trip bao bei. No mosquito bites please and remember to bring back what I requested <3

Merry Christmas!

Today I woke up relative early. Went downstairs to each kimchi ramen with ham and egg.

yumyum!

Then went to Hollywood! wee!

The shops at Hollywood were so amazing and HUGE! I found this shirt at H&M for 10 dollars.

I decided to get it. I also went into Guess and got two long sleeved shirts. Ah I love Guess.

We then went to Santa Monica to walk around the boardwalk. We were hungry around that time so we went to Bubba Gumps. bwhaha. I love that place. During the summer of Junior year in high school, I was pretty obsessed with Bubba Gumps. We ate lots of shrimp. YUMYUM ^^

Afterwards, we went back to my Godparent's house and had hot pot and I started to make cheesecake. I hope it turns out well. While waiting for it to bake, we decided to watch ipman. hehehehe. Phil says I'm obsessed with that movie but I don't believe thats the case. I just find ipman to be an awesome movie. lulz It's so pro-cantonese, which I approve.

YEAH. HK FOR THE WIN.

Too much traffic @_@...

Seriously. How do you SoCal people deal with the traffic?!

Anyways. I woke up super early today to get ready for the drive down to Socal. We ended up not leaving until 9 or so because my mom tends to take her time when it comes to getting ready to leave. *sigh*. It's pretty annoying actually. I don't really know how my dad manages to have the patience. (Another note to future self: Don't take all the freaking time putting make up and doing whatever just for a 6-7 hour car ride....>_>)

Pretty much the whole day consisted of sitting in a car. I guess it wasn't too bad in the beginning because it brought back all the times we used to go traveling by car but as we passed grapevine, traffic was TERRIBLE. GAH. It was the worst I had ever seen. AND THERE WERE NO

ACCIDENTS! SHEESH! It was three when we passed through grapevine and we didn't get to my Godparent's house until 6:40. Also, seeing that we're not familiar with the radio channels around here, the music that I was listening to in the car varied from a christmas jazz station to classical to MILEY CYRUS then to country to hip hop (it was hard to hide my approval of the music that was being played in the car at that time.) and then to spanish music. x_x.

When we finally arrived, we ate at a chinese restaurant and then went to the supermarket to get items for the baked goods that my dad asked me to make for tomorrow.

I was originally going to make tiramisu (because I haven't made it in a while) but could not find mar

scapone cheese (>=O!) so I'm making cheesecake instead! =) My dad wanted me to make pumpkin pie but I couldn't find any cans of pumpkin and I'm kind of sick from making so many different sizes of pumpkin pies at

once on Saturday night and Sunday when I was at ED's place. (Will post up the picture later. It consists of baby pumpkin pies and the mama pumpkin pie underneath. )

Once we got back, I ended up watching food network and animal planet on tv. BEST TWO TV CHANNELS EVER. Oh. and I played a little bit of the ps3 too. (My dad wanted to bring it down here bwhaha.)

Happy 21st Birthday Flooonase!

Or Aunt Flo. Or Florax. (KEKEKEKAKAKAHOHOHO. ._.) Or all the 125443 names that you have been called.

Despite it being winter break, I'm afraid that I won't be able to see too much people during this time. I just found out that I'll be heading down to LA and Vegas this Wednesday to visit my godparents and I don't know when I'll be back o_o. Sigh.

Anyways, today has been a pretty chill day. I woke up, went to the dentist, then the library and headed back home to learn from my dad's cooking. I was SUPPOSED to run with Justin this morning but he left his running shoes in Berkeley. >=|!

I shall run tomorrow.

On another note, it's pretty frustrating to find that even at twenty years old, my mom does not approve of me hanging out with other boys or in particular, dating one. Today, my mom started with the usual questions of "WHO IS THAT BOY WHO BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH?' "ARE YOU DATING HIM?" "WHAT KIND OF GRADES DOES HE GET?" (yes. Grades. Grades will reflect how good of a friend that particular person will be. How typical. SIGH). RAWR. This is the reason why I can't seem to be close to my mom because she always seems to judge me upon my choice of making friends or doing whatever. Ever since middle school, I've had to lie to my mom about the type of people I hung out with. It wasn't as if those people were 'thugs' or whatever you think of them but rather, just that they weren't GIRLS. Granted, I feel bad about lying to her face but what can I do? Tell her that I'll be out late with the boys? That probably wouldn't set well...

While I don't think to myself as to particularly hanging out with one type of gender, it's pretty annoying to see that my mom still makes assumptions that every single guy that I hang out can get me pregnant or somehow sabotages my academic life.

If I ever have kids, I am going to trust the type of people he/she hangs out with or would at least WELCOME the idea of my kid dating at some point in their lives.

SHEESH! -_-

Btw. I received a playstation three as well as Tekken 6, Resistance 1 &2. bwhaha. Words cannot express how thankful I am. <3

YES I AM DONE!

DONE WITH FINALS! YES YES YES. FINALLY.

For some reason, I wasn't able to go to sleep until like 6:30 in the morning. =/ I don't know why. It was really frustrating. Perhaps it was because I was studying up on insomnia and other various sleep disorders that made me slightly paranoid. Half way into my frustration of not sleeping, I started to get paranoid that I might have Fatal Familial Insomnia. Very very scary genetic disorder. Yeah. I know I was kind of overreacting. -_-.

I got super excited that I managed to actually sleep when I woke up today for some reason.

Today I went to Dwinelle and studied in the back of the class while Mary, Marcus, Jenn Hung and a couple of their classmates studied for Animal Behavior =). Thanks for the

fries and letting me crash your room mary!

I started to get tired of studying and asked the Racist to recommend good Chinese songs.

The final wasn't too bad. It was designed to last only for one hour and I finished pretty early.

Now I'm just waiting up on ED to come over so we can go get either Noodle Theory or Flame and then Ici. And get my christmas gift. WEEEEE! =)

I love my tokidoki headphones. I swear I am not a tokidoki whore.

Btw. On Tuesday December 15, Muse (aka Muzz or Medicated Urethral Suppository for Erection lulz.) Presales for their concert at the Oracle on April 14 came out at 1pm. It was sold out within minutes. I managed to get those presale tickets. Chyeah baby.

FINALS! O_O

twas the night before finals

Twas the night before finals,
And all through the college,
The students were praying
For last minute knowledge.

Most were quite sleepy,
But none touched their beds,
While visions of essays
Danced in their heads.

Out in the taverns,
A few were still drinking,
And hoping that liquor
Would loosen their thinking.

In my own apartment,
I had been pacing,
And dreading exams
I soon would be facing.

My roommate was speechless,
His nose in his books,
And my comments to him
Drew unfriendly looks.

I drained all the coffee,
And brewed a new pot,
No longer caring
That my nerves were shot.

I stared at my notes,
But my thoughts were muddy,
My eyes went ablur,
I just couldn't study.

"Some pizza might help,"
I said with a shiver,
But each place I called
Refused to deliver.

I'd nearly concluded
That life was too cruel,
With futures depending
On grades had in school.

When all of the sudden,
Our door opened wide,
And Patron Saint Put-It-Off
Ambled inside.

His spirit was careless,
His manner was mellow,
He looked all around and
He started to bellow.

"What kind of student
Would make such a fuss,
To toss back at teachers
What they tossed at us?"

"On Cliffs Notes! On Crib Notes!
On Last Year's Exams!
On Wingit and Slingit,
And Last Minute Crams!"

His message delivered,
He vanished from sight,
But we heard him exclaiming
Outside in the night.

"Your teachers have pegged you,
So just do your best,
Happy Finals to All,
And to all, a good test."

-______________________________________________________-

Sent from my IB professor.

I have to admit, this is a pretty clever poem. Never the less...

FUCK YOU ANATOMY, BIOLOGY AND PHYSICS! (I would mention it to psych as well but I have some time to study for that)

x_x.

My cortisol levels released from the Zona Fasciculata of my Adrenal Cortex will slowly rise in...3..2...1.

ENTJ

"Hardly more than two percent of the total population, Fieldmarshals are bound to lead others, and from an early age they can be observed taking command of groups. In some cases, they simply find themselves in charge of groups, and are mystified as to how this happened. But the reason is that they have a strong natural urge to give structure and direction wherever they are - to harness people in the field and to direct them to achieve distant goals. They resemble Supervisors in their tendency to establish plans for a task, enterprise, or organization, but Fieldmarshals search more for policy and goals than for regulations and procedures.

They cannot not build organizations, and cannot not push to implement their goals. When in charge of an organization, whether in the military, business, education, or government, Fieldmarshals more than any other type desire (and generally have the ability) to visualize where the organization is going, and they seem able to communicate that vision to others. Their organizational and coordinating skills tends to be highly developed, which means that they are likely to be good at systematizing, ordering priorities, generalizing, summarizing, at marshaling evidence, and at demonstrating their ideas. Their ability to organize, however, may be more highly developed than their ability to analyze, and the Fieldmarshal leader may need to turn to an Inventor or Architect to provide this kind of input.

Fieldmarshals will usually rise to positions of responsibility and enjoy being executives. They are tireless in their devotion to their jobs and can easily block out other areas of life for the sake of their work. Superb administrators in any field - medicine, law, business, education, government, the military - Fieldmarshals organize their units into smooth-functioning systems, planning in advance, keeping both short-term and long-range objectives well in mind. For the Fieldmarshal, there must always be a goal-directed reason for doing anything, and people's feelings usually are not sufficient reason. They prefer decisions to be based on impersonal data, want to work from well thought-out plans, like to use engineered operations - and they expect others to follow suit. They are ever intent on reducing bureaucratic red tape, task redundancy, and aimless confusion in the workplace, and they are willing to dismiss employees who cannot get with the program and increase their efficiency. Although Fieldmarshals are tolerant of established procedures, they can and will abandon any procedure when it can be shown to be ineffective in accomplishing its goal. Fieldmarshals root out and reject ineffectiveness and inefficiency, and are impatient with repetition of error."

http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=5&c=fieldmarshal

Today has been a very annoying day.

THE CATS ARE BACK AGAIN! <3 <3

Sorry I haven't been updating in a while. I've been quite busy from studying for finals and all the prepping for DB banquet.
Let's see what has been going on through out these past couple of days...

Thursday: During my lab practical, my right contact lens was bothering me A LOT. I was very tempted to remove it during the practical but i would've wasted time. Anyways, I walked home constantly squinting my right eye and when I finally took it out, the contact lens split in half. T_T. Oh well. At least I have one more set of contacts before I need to refill them..Anyways, I went to DB elections. Man the results for coach were extremely close. We had to do a run off o_o. Went to the gym to work out and then played with Fatty and Pretty because they came back! <3 <3. Fatty looks chubs now. =|
Friday: Went to Target to get a bookcase and a ottoman. yay! Then went to Serena's place to play various board games such as Settlers and COLD WAR. haha. We also found out that it takes 10 minutes for Brian Ng's face to get red after taking 3 shots.'
Saturday: The only thing I remember this day is staying up all night with the DB officers to prep for banquet. It was quite an experience. Listening to Leehom and JSu talk about his endeavors with him, as well as some Chinese pop star gossip. It was very cold in ED's apartment that night. ><; We didn't finish everything until 9:30am on SUNDAY morning. Ah yes. Sleep Dep. for the lose. -_-This is the blanket I made for Eric Pon. It was very soft. Especially when I was super tired from making it..

Sunday: Took a nap until 2:30. Showered, got ready for banquet. Seeing that we didn't couldn't get a projector in the end, we decided to borrow Yuan's tv (<3 THANKS!) to showcase all the slideshows and stuff. It was pretty sketchy carrying that tv through Embaracerdo center. lol. Banquet was very fun. =) I'm really glad it turned out well. After banquet, we went to Phil's place to play some Warioware and I got to eat more Paella! :D :D I was SUPER tired by the end of the night.

Yuan's TV in his Car. Jasmina is behind it. Thanks for making this whole banquet possible! :D :D

Monday: Went to physics and psych review session, which was pretty much like class -_-. Then I went to the gym to lift with ED, ed and jizz. Went back to ED's place and played with the kitties. ^^. <3

Today: I think my sleeping schedule has been messed up due to studying for lab practical and preparing for banquet. I need to fix it before it's too late =|. Anyways, went to VLSB to study on IB and now I'm in Eschelman with ED and Phil for a Fantasic Four study session. Except Luke isn't there.
Now that I think about it, perhaps it's good that luke isn't there. I don't think we'd get any studying done. lol.

The three S's

Study
Sleep
Social Life

In college, you can only choose two out of the three.

So spaceous!

So I recently switched rooms in my apartment and now I have my own room! yay! It's really strange to see how spacious it is because I've been so used to living in rooms that are relatively compact ever since I came to college. Now that my sister has pretty much taken my room as hers at home, I haven't really been able to get a lot of private space until now so this is pretty exciting.
This is a section that's full of calDB stuff. It's still in the works because I have yet to get a bookshelf so I can place the TI and college race trophies and add more pictures. I also plan on getting a nice chair to put in here. weeeee. Thanks to ED and Jon Su for moving the bed frame..even though there was some 'struggle' in doing so.I haven't been updating this blog because i've been studying for lab practical. To be honest, I'm pretty scared about this practical because of what everyone else has been saying about it and that I need to do well on this test or else. I stayed up til around 4 or 5 last night drawing out the vertebrate lab stuff + a cladogram. While it was productive, I ended up missing my physics class and bio disc. because I was wayy too tired to wake up -_-. boo.