the Queen's tea

what a lovely place... i felt like a Queen! thanks to you gals for such a lovely surprise lunch, i felt connected back to my British roots again (well it's more of that teeny weeny amount of colonized roots). everything was awesome, the food, the tea, and people, the conversations, the atmosphere, and of course the gifts... i will just say i'll do my best to put everything into good use one way or the other... no promises though ;)

the cute little lovely tea house!


and the tea and food are superb!

1 month and 1 day

looking at ceremony music right now.... and suddenly i feel all sorts of creepy crawlies crawling all around in my stomach... it's the weirdest feeling ever. and trying to decide between 2 pieces of music is creating more emotions... arghhh... calling stel helps alittle but still, i can't sleep. everyone is gonna focus on us in 1 month's time. the aisle walking picture in my mind is still blurry but getting clearer, and i'm freaking out. arghh. help. i need to breathe.

Labor-free weekend...?

so it's towards the end of the last long weekend before thanksgiving... another 2.5 hours before the next day begins at 12am. i was both ready and not-so-ready on the past friday for the weekend... due to the GRE exam which i took on Sat.... and as expected, i was off to a shitty start. i was having the before-the-game-nervousness on the way to the test site, even with my bro's prayers and cl's hugs and kisses they couldn't quite calm the jiggery feelings dancing all inside me. long story short, i had my game face on and did the whole darn test, and the immediate results bounced back to hit my face flat. the verbal scores were lower than expected while the quantitative scores were the other way round.... why? why? why??!?!? i couldn't even bear to open my eyes wide to look at them, and that little peek i took threw me off. if only they average it out!!! arghh........... i thought i did the verbal part well too. shucks..... now i probably have to retake it again...

so i was the ultimate bi-ach that whole day.... everything and everyone annoyed me and i yelled so much that it was like the worst pms mutiply by a hundred times. really.

but sunday was good. the 3 of us plus doggy drove to santa cruz, ate some tasteless burritos when we couldn't find the original burger place we had in mind, walked the broadway strip with all the amusement park stuff with my bro and towards the end of it, i convinced him to play this game where you shoot water from this gun at the target so this platform thing will rise and you compete with a whole row of people so if your platform touches the top first you win. At first we were the only 2 people so i thought it's great since if 1 of us lose the other will still win. but when it was about to start 6 other kids sat down and i was like darn it.... so we had to compete with them but my bro actually win in the end.... it's so fun to win!!! and he got this plush dragon:

i feel like a kid again!!

and today is doing nothing... went to dim sum and then grocery shopping, car wash and fillmore walk to get present for bro's gf. the best thing we did was cooking dinner! our mommy will be so proud of us *tears*. eating nasty food outside like that bubble zone place makes me appreciate homecook meals SOOooOOo much more.... now with just a good night's sleep i'll be ready for another crazy week...

OMGoodness I'm SOOO stupid

after writing a whole post and uploading its pic and getting all excited, i finally put on my new jordan mach III and guess what..... they are actually FOOTBALL SHOES.

omg omg omg. i feel sooooooooo stupid!!!!!!!! and i thought they are basketball shoes because some idiotic staff has put that shoe among all the basketball shoes on the rack!! and jordan didn't play any football so why the heck is he putting his name on the darn football shoes?!!?! arghhh..... of course i found out after looking at this cool tag that came with the shoes and recognized none of the big beefy dudes on there... only when cl pointed out "jordan football" on the bottom of the shoes did i realize.... ARGHH...... feel cheated of my joy....

i guess i'll return them this weekend. darn it. stupid jordan. i'm glad my battleground (pic below) is still number 1 in my heart.

mine's all black! (>.<)

my new bball shoes!!!!!!

yesterday after church went walking around stonestown with cl and of course the first thing we did was to go into copelands to look for his bball sneakers... but in the end i came out with a new pair of shoes as well...

JORDAN MACH III!

it's so cool! it's so light! it has my size! and it's on SALE!! so i just can't help but to take it home with me... yeah i know i can't pivot for another 5 months with my bummed knee but i can take that time to break it in...

1 year 2 days later...

... and i am writing again. it's been such a long time that i forgot how to log into my blog page, and trying several times later i finally figure it out. since the last time i post, i've got a new dog, a new job, new school plans for the coming future, a wedding coming up, 2 best friends married, lost a few pounds, trying to gain back another few pounds, wisdom teeth removed, left ACL replaced, left meniscus repaired, met new friends, caught up with old ones, laughed a whole bunch, cried a few tears, and so on and so forth. can't remember everything off the top of my head. but it seems that life is more real than ever before.