hello blogger

and just like that i have a full blog on blogger/blogspot.

i just imported/exported and edited as much as i could my posts from typepad to here. so ignore it if some old posts are a little wonky. the entries actually started at Vox, which got shut down and everything automatically transferred to Typepad, which is what i've been using. i tried to start on Tumblr but then i realized it isn't really meant for actual blog entries. so since i had an account here already, i spruced up my page and voila!

see you around.

class of 2003

i was looking through old pictures to find some from a particular event, but found something even better.

look at this. we are all in the second grade (well, the majority of us. there were some 3rd graders) and just completed our First Communion.

and this was right after our graduation ceremony (in the day, for the students). we all went to the south bay galleria mall and took these pictures. we thought we were hot shit, walking around in our flowy blue gowns, because we just graduated. FROM 8TH GRADE. god, it's so embarassing to think about sometimes. i look at 8th graders now and they look like children! ugh xD

i'd post one of the most recent group shot taken in august during a last minute and impromtu reunion, but the girl whose camera it's on swears she doesn't know how to upload pictures to facebook. i'll edit this post and add it if she ever does though. i want to show the progression of everyone.

EDIT: my friend FINALLY posted the pictures!!! it only took about a year, right? =P (not really) here they are...

 that was a fun night.

btw, this is my elementary school class. 8th grade class of 2003. i always find it odd when people are so shocked that i'm still friends with my elementary school classmates. i guess it's different for public school kids. but the majority of us traveled from classroom to classroom for 8 years together. ♥

finally feels like fall

today it's raining and i'm wearing a scarf! so i didn't write for two months. i'm not surprised, and you shouldn't be either. =P

i can't even begin to try and catch up on everything that's happened...went through some less-than-happy stuff, but things got worked out and everything's good again. decided at some point that me and my mom are going to japan for new year's. did some unnecessary shopping ^^; and had a lame halloween >=[

i wish i would update this more. i'm lazy enough with actually WRITING in my journal, if i can't take 10-15 minutes to TYPE something...that's a whole new level of laziness. but i think i already knew that. on to the entry!


right now i'm just procrastinating from work. so, what's new...oh! i've been really into disney again for some reason. i found the mousewait app and the lounge so i've been reading that everyday. i bought two sweatshirts from forever21, one with Mickey that says "Tokyo" in red glitter across the top, and another with a vintage-looking screen print of Aladdin. and because of my recent renewed obsession with disney, i planned a disney day with my friends and there were about 12-13 of us traveling around the park. it was during october so i want to do it again during christmas time.
i've also been wanting to go to disneyland with new people. i love my friends and i have fun when i go with them, but it's always a new kind of fun when you go with new people. i don't care if they have passes or if they haven't gone in years. although going with someone who has never been/hasn't been in years is fun because it's like going with a little kid and everything seems new to me too.

here's the ultimate group picture from our day.

okay, so i guess i better get back to work. until next time!

best and worst of summer...

it's now september. i decided i'm not going to bother with keeping up with design changes so i picked something simple and neutral for the time being.

well, august was fun. my party bus in particular was crazy fun. some of my elementary school friends were able to come and that made it so much better. but there was about a week and a half of craziness for me so i'll start there...

august...

ok, so i'm back here. i felt like writing something and i felt bad for leaving this blog. so i decided i'll just double post my entries to tumblr.

i skipped all of july [and most of june]. and i changed my design again. i think i might've used this last year on vox. but it looks summery because of the beach and like i mentioned in one of my past entries [can't remember which one], i associate august with like a golden color.

plus it's my birthday month! how can i not post something.

but what i really wanted to vent about was drama. there is drama in nearly every aspect of my life right now. even the places i thought i'd be safe from drama.

friends - but that's kind of a given. at the moment it's not necessarily between my close friends, that just ended. but i'm sure there's some kind of drama somewhere.

home - sure every family has something going on...but ugh. this is kind of bad. when i look at my situation then look at the little things people are complaining about, i think everything else is so trivial.

work - yes, work. the place i thought i would be safe. it's not directly at me, nor do we have to deal with it constantly throughout the day, but it's there if you bring it up. and guess what. the people who are stirring it up? they're in their late 20s, 30s and even 40s!!! you're 40 years old and you're bitching about "he said, she said" shit. ugh. it's SO annoying. people claim they're mature and want to move on...but are you? psh, no.

you know the saying, "Wisest is she who knows she does not know." i think that could be switched up to be about maturity. i can't word it all pretty, but you'll get the jist. i think those who claim to be mature, are nowhere near it. because right now, i can think of two people who've said similar things and then did a total 180.

btw, that quote. i know Jostein Gaarder said it in the book, Sophie's World. but is it original? it seems like something socrates or some philosopher would say. it seems like something good to get as a tattoo. as a reminder to be humble and keep learning new things.

alright, i think that's it for now. byee! =]

june bug

it's juuuune!

and i changed my design to something more "summery". i swear, typepad sucks with designs but i feel like i can't change to another blog site because i have a lot of entries here already. so yeah, this is a soft lime green and seems bright and summery enough.

hmm...maybe i'll switch to tumblr or something. everyone seems to be using that one. which one did you recently sign up for george?

so last saturday i went to disneyland for a full day. yes, a full freaking day. since tony took the day off and could get in free thanks to the ap star tours thing, he wanted to take advantage of it. and boy did we ever. we got there a little bit before 9:30 i think. but because we didn't know the details of signing people in, we had to wait for katch so we could sign everyone in at the same time. i can't remember how long we waited or exactly what time she came, but we didn't wait that long [although i think tony might beg to differ].

maayyyy!

i'm slacking on my may update. so here it goes:

the first weekend [coming in from april] was my work's las vegas vacation. it was very relaxing and a lot of fun. i sunbathed for the first time and it felt nice. i swear i almost fell asleep a couple times because it was so nice. we saw the Lion King show and wow, that was cool. i want to see it again. and of course i cried. once because i couldn't believe i was seeing it and it was so cool, and twice because of the ending when simba takes his place as king. the part gets me in the movie too. we also ate at great restaurants. the first night was at canaletto in the venetian and the second night was the eiffel tower restaurant in paris hotel. i definitely like italian food over french food xD