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Nov. 12th, 2009

  • 6:50 PM

Dearest Journal,

I wonder why people are tossing and turning about the life style that they are living. Surely it may not be the best or anything even comparable to what they have in mind but they should be grateful for what they have. Sometimes I just think that they take for granted what they have and when it disappeared their simple respond was “it was not what I wanted anyways”. Argh, it’s annoying to hear how they should be making more, or be more driven in life, or have something to show for…I am not saying that I am happy with my pay or life style but it’s enough to get me by. Besides, you choose to live that way so man up!

Aside from that, there’s a lot that’s going on in my life, but I haven’t found the time to blog about it. Well…it’s more like I was too lazy to blog about it when I could be watching TV or doing something else.

Here’s a recap of what happened lately…

Mother Kongo’s Birthday

We celebrated my MIL birthday last Saturday. As a present we got her some Godiva milk chocolate with almond and a pair of earring handcrafted by me. I had to put a lot of thought into the earring. The criteria were pretty simple: it must be sterling silver and turquoise. When we say turquoise, it’s not only the color but the stone also. I put on my thinking cap and created something very simple, but it definitely suited her taste. She was really surprised when she opened her box because #1 the box played “Happy Birthday” and #2 the earrings were hand made. I really hoped that she likes it. It appeared like she did because she wore it right away but I will have to keep an eye out in the future. If she wears it again than I am sure she liked it. =) I gave myself a pat on the back. It was my first time making jewelry and I enjoyed it very much but it was also a very costly hobby. Thank goodness my coworker Ruth lent me her tools for the weekend. Without wasting any time, I had to finish my project over the weekend. I made a pair of earrings for my SIL: Tracy and Angela. My BIL came back from Japan but he plans to take a couple months off to do nothing and enjoy his life before he starts working. I am not sure if that is a good idea because the job market is so bad that there’s no guarantee that he will get a job, especially one that he will like. Than again, he has a Master from APU so we’ll see how far that will take him. He wants to move to Oregon and pursuit in his dream job, working for Nike’s headquarter. I wish him the best in that! I want to achieve my dream occupation soon too, and that’s being a housewife. I know its lame…why go to college if you only want to be a housewife. Well, you won’t be able to catch a good guy if you’re just loitering around home =p

David’s birthday

David just celebrated the 2nd year anniversary of his mother’s death. I am not sure if you would call it an anniversary but nevertheless there was a big party and David even wrote and performed a song in her honor. Wherever she may be, I hope that she will watch over him and bless him with the happiness he deserves. I figured what better way to lift his spirit than to throw him a birthday party. I quickly got into the mode of planning his event under a budget of course. I have to pay for everything and this year, money is looking tight. I made his invitation and being a crafter I figured it had to be hand made. The only problem is, the glue stick adhere to the paper a little too well, more than what I anticipated so if you receive an invitation in the mail, you’ll have to struggle a little to open it lol. It’s a learning process…Anyhow, I wanted the party to a little more on the elegant side. I was tired of having regular birthday bbqs. The bad part is that it is on a Tuesday so I am not expecting a lot of people to come, and so far, I have 3 people RSVP. It is completely understandable though since it is on a Tuesday but David only get the weekdays off. He’s job is also cutting back his hours! He went from 40 hrs/week to 22hrs/week. I hope he’ll be ok with his bill and what not. To cheer him up, I decided to have lots of goodies. You know, the brownies, red velvet cake (his favorite), pound cake, strawberry dipped in chocolate, fruits, and lasagna. I would make the lasagna from scratch but it was easier to buy the Stouffer one. Less work would make me happy

Thanksgiving

This year, I decided to take the day after Thanksgiving off. I plan to participate in the Black Friday rush but I don’t plan to get hurt =/ I heard horror stories and I don’t want to be the unlucky one to get tramped on. I am still debating what we should do for Thanksgiving. I was thinking Yakiniku, or maybe we should cater the dinner from somewhere. I remembered cooking last year and it was an ALL day thing. I definitely don’t want to do that again. It was fun because all my family was helping but it was too crazy and the clean up was insane. Since this year, I moved to a smaller home, I don’t think I can fit that many people. I was thinking of having at my mom’s place but renting some chairs and table.

Christmas

I am spending some time with my in laws in Vegas. They go to Vegas every year for Christmas and I don’t understand why but this year is no exception as well. As for my holiday shopping, I have already started that last month. With the economy, you have to just jump on the opportunity when you see it. I don’t want to wait and convince myself that there will be a better deal later on. I figured, most shops will carry less this year and the sales won’t be as great. Who knows, I could be wrong but at least I don’t have to be stuck in the crowd fighting for leftovers. I still have a couple of people left that I have to get gifts for and I am more determined this month to finish my x-mas shopping. I have also started on my crafts for the holiday. I am currently making the tags that go on the cakepop that I am making for my coworkers. I think I will also make a goody box for Belle but I am still indecisive. I most likely will but that’s just a lot of work. I haven’t made my wish list yet but I should think of it soon. I was not sure what I should get Alex but I decided to get him some NikeID shoes. I love the idea how I can design his shoes and make it personalize. I however hate the idea that his shoes will cost me $120 +tax+shipping. Sigh -_-“

Money problem

After coming back from Japan, Alex is temporarily paying for his dad’s bill. It’s not a lot but still, $800 is a lot because it was unexpected. Beside that, Alex and my mom got me a heart diamond pendant. (Retails: $1950. It was way more than what I thought Alex would get me) I love it!! I always wanted a heart pendant but I don’t know from when. Maybe it was from the cruise we went on recently and I just wanted one so badly. Well I got it, and along with it means $$$$. Alex doesn’t seem to be mad but he’s a little sad because we’re not saving. It’s pretty easy to understand though because the holidays are so close together. I do have to be careful about my spending because it’s around this time of the year that I rack up quite a bit on my credit card. As for jewelry, I saw this super cute Blue Topez set that I want…I don’t know why I’m into jewelry now but I guess it comes with age?? Maybe the pendant is my X-mas gift…I really hope not. I had my heart on this hair straightener! Sigh -_-x

Ok, I think that’s enough blogging. I realized I can only blog from work because during the hours that I am home, I don’t even want to log on! Sigh

~Ciao

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  • Music:marie digby version of sweet dreams

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Life is good

  • Oct. 27th, 2009 at 9:55 PM

Well there's not much to post about my life. I just got back from a cruise to Mexico. I thought I would be sea sick but I managed not to throw up and had a pretty fun time. Alex and I are planning to come back again but with the whole family next time. Work is getting interesting because we're coming closer to Halloween which will determine which department will stand #1 in the decoration contest. I sooooooo think that my department will kick butt!  I will post picture later lol. Aside from that, there's nothing much. I hanged out with my brothers today and they said to me "wow she just think she's too good to be your friend now huh?" and honestly I felt good that it didn't bother me. True,  some girls may think that they are too good to be around me, but I don't see any gain in that. I am having a fun with my life. I travel when I want to, eat what I feel like, live with great people so what more can you ask for? oh well....I will never understand why people think that they are better than others.

thought of the moment: I feel like volunteering at some homeless shelter this year...I wonder where I can start....

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live it, not dream it

  • Sep. 28th, 2009 at 8:49 PM

Have you ever wonder why you're not happy but when you think about this fantasy world of yours, you feel better? I noticed that a lot of people tell me that I am lucky and perhaps lady luck was on my side, but I think most  of it has to do with me working hard. I am not going to lie that I feel jealous about some of my friends but I wouldn't trade my life for theirs. Everyone has their own drama and that's life. I say if you want something than go for it. You only live once so if you're going to regret it now, the next 50 or 60 years isn't going to easy. So if you want to be pretty than be pretty. If you want to be thin, than get on that treadmill unless your one of the lucky few who doesn't have a slow metabolism. If you want to be smart, genetic is a factor but through hard work you can stand over the other 90% of the population. I am tired of hearing the "If only I could be..." or "I wished I could". It's all blah blah....money doesn't fall from the tree, and your dreams doesn't either. work for it...everything in life looks so much prettier when you earn it. Like I said, you only life once! I am 25 so I figured if i'm lucky to live up to 80, i'm already 31% done with my life! I also know when I turn 60ish, I just wont be as active as I like. There goes another 25% so I figured, about 54% of my life is pretty much settled. I only have the other 46% of my life to live it...that's 40yrs!  I have no time for regrets and no time for people who want to hinder me

ciao
 

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  • Mood: creative
  • Music:REO Speedwagon - Live It Up gosh i feel so old......

cleaning

  • Aug. 23rd, 2009 at 1:21 AM

I don't know why, but there's always cleaning on the weekend. I sometime wonder what type of cleaning do I do that takes up my entire weekend! Well, I wanted to sleep in today but my mom came by and she woke me up. We talked for a bit and than she went home. Jaime was packing her stuff so we just left her alone. Alex and I went shopping. Shopping is so much fun but so costly lol. I bought alot of new stuff for the kitchen, and some for the bathroom. I am trying to remodel my house on a budget but my kitchen is coming along really nice. I love the brown that I picked out for the cabinet. It used to be this white peach color with swirl all over it, and I didn't like it. It was not me. The cabinets have been around for the last 20 years so you can only imagine how it looked but I couldn't afford a full renovation, so we did touch up. I picked a new color and we painted the cabinet which was still in good shape. I changed all the knobs for something simple. I'll post a picture when it's complete but I have been working on it weekend after weekend. I have been buying little stuff for my kitchen and eventually all the little things added up. I even got this tree to mount on the wall which gave it a really nice touch. I just have a couple more things to do and I am going to call it done.

Aside from that, tomorrow I will be cleaning the garage. I haven't gone in there for years so I don't even know what to expect. *shivers*
Anyways, I can't wait until the whole house is finally complete. It will be a very cozy house =)

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some things just don't change

  • Aug. 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 PM

There's one thing I can't stand and that's people changing when their in a relationship. Lately my roommate found a new boyfriend so she's spending less time at home which is whatever. She doesn't talk to us, or respond to email so I figured ok, enough with the trying. Than you go and ask if everything is alright and she gives you an attitude and say "don't take it personally". I don't understand these type of people. You know, the people who you helped when they hit rock bottom in life, and all of a sudden they toss you to the side because they got new friends, changed social status etc. They are also the people who comes running back to you when their life goes sour again. sigh...some people just don't deserve that type of kindness. whatever! I stop caring so I just continue my life the way it is.

Aside from that, next Monday will be our 1 year anniversary! I am so excited. I have no idea what I am going to do but it would be nice getting off work early and just spending the day together.

Bennihana

  • Jul. 29th, 2009 at 9:00 PM

It was pretty tiring this morning. I got to work and Cintya came in early and asked if I could help her with some projects. I was happy to since it was related to crafts. Then I went to my regular meeting and updated my department with what is considered  hot. Shortly after that, I had to learn how to update some of our report through crystal. I am so bloated from lunch because we had diversity day. So it was mainly a potluck with different food from different places. I was so full but after work, Alex came and picked me up for dinner. We went to Bennihana for my late birthday dinner. The food was great like always but I was just too full. I really need to start on my workout plan because I am falling behind.

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the crazy weekend

  • Jul. 26th, 2009 at 10:06 PM

Saturday

I woke up at 8 ish, and started to watch some drama "I DO" which is a Chinese drama. At 11 I got ready for Belle's bridal shower. I had to go shave, shaped my eyebrow, curl my hair and do my makeup. By the time I was done with everything, it was already 1. I headed to the mall to pick up Maer's birthday gift from Forever 21. After I got the gift, I went straight to Mimi's house where the bridal shower will take place. I got there at 2:15 and I was also the first the sign the card. I spent the next 30 mins or so talking to the brides maids and maid of honor. We kicked off the day when most of the guest got there at 315 (it was supposed to start at 2:30). We ate, chocolate covered strawberry, fruit salad, cupcakes, shrimp cocktail, mini sandwhiches, and had tea. I mingled a little but it was very little since I felt out of place. I didn't really know anyone beside the bride. We played a few games and off to opening gifts. She got A LOT of lingurie. Some of them I thought was cute and some of them, wasn't my taste lol. After all the guest left, I thought that I should have left too but stayed and helped out. Mimi (maid of honor) pulled everything that Belle recieved and she was planning to make a rehearsal bouquet. Apparently it is a tradtion but I didn't know that. I didn't have one for mine but eh, different culture. I helped make the bouquet since Mimi wasn't sure what to do. I took all the Victoria Secret tissue and made it into roses, and I made the steam out wrapping paper. The bouquet turned out really nice! I like it alot lol. I think it would pass for a origami bouqet of roses =). After everyone left, Belle tried on her lingurie to see what it looks like. I am happy to know that she feels comfortable dressing in front of me. I can't say I was too comfortable at first when she took off her clothes but you get used to it. Only her brides maid and I were there to see and laugh about it. It's just something that I don't really understand. Belle and Peter (her fiance) than took me out to dinner (along with Mimi) at a Thai restaurant. I am not a fish person but since they ordered alot of fish dishes, I ate it. I thought it was pretty good. After the dinner, I quickly headed from Garden Grove to Palos Verde for Maer's Karaoke birthday celebration. It was a crazy night with minors drinking, singing, dancing, arguements, puking, lost keys, and me driving back and forth to take people home. I didn't get home until 5:30 AM today.

Sunday
I woke up at 11 and had lunch with Alex. We than cleaned our room, did the luandry. After all that, we went to my parents house and I talked to them while Alex sit there bored. I think we left my parents house around 8 and came home. We ate something small and Alex did the dishes while I took a shower. Now, I am going to bed....I am tired from my weekend...

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being a girl is hard

  • Jul. 24th, 2009 at 11:52 PM

Belle's bridal shower is tomorrow and it's suppose to be a cocktail party but I'm suppose to wear yellow.....it was so hard to find something in yellow that would work for my body size, let alone my comfort level. sigh....well belle showed me some picture but the shirts that she showed me was not cocktail like. It was more like just a regular outing, so that is what I will go for than. After 3 hours at the mall, I finally got a yellow shirt. It's a yellow tanktop shirt with some white laces. I don't feel fat in it like in all the other yellow items I tried on. I seriously need to lose some weight. I tried on some skinny jeans and omg, I was horrified with the way I look. *Shivers*
So I am going to wear a yellow tank top with white shorts. I know I am not suppose to wear white but I don't have any tight jeans to go with it. Besides, the only thing I have other than that is black pants which doesn't go with yellow and white. Than I am going to change into a black laced halter top for Maer's birthday. Her theme is "think sexy" which according to Belle, it's not that difficult because all I have to do is show cleavage. sigh -_-" I think being a girl is very difficult when it comes to fashion. I am too much of a tomboy. What do you do in that case? You look up tutorials! I wore makeup before and I don't think it comes out all that bad, but definitely I'm no pro at it. I went on youtub and some saw tutorial by Michelle Phan. I think she's really pretty (with make up on) and when she's not wearing makeup, she looks ok. I guess that's the power of makeup! I will just have to try my best and hopefully I wont be underdress tomorrow. I hate it because you feel so out of place.

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Thursday

  • Jul. 23rd, 2009 at 10:30 PM

I went to Excel training today which was pretty interesting. Excel is sooooo cool and there's so much you can do with it but only if you really need to lol. Aside from that, I can't wait until this Saturday. I am going to Belle's bridal shower and than to Maer's birthday party. It should be fun, and Belle's theme is Spring Cocktail Style (no idea what I am suppose to wear. I think I have to go buy something yellow....) and Maer's birthday is "Think Sexy", which I also have nothing to wear but let's see what I can pull off that would be considered sexy. Beside I think I am the oldest one there! my my

anyways, tomorrow is Friday so that means it's PAYDAY so I will go shoppping either tomorrow or Saturday. It's going to be a fun weekend.
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Trainers

  • Jul. 21st, 2009 at 9:29 PM

Argh, so I went to orientation today at 24 hour fitness and oh boy did I hate it. I just don't understand how some people can survive in this sale business with such horrible customer service and a bad attitude. First of all, not only did they show up late to your appointment, and than they give you an attitude about servicing you. Argh, it made me so mad but whatever. I am not going to deal with people like them!

Aside for that, nothing new happened. I am spending tomorrow night at my in law's house because my father in law went to Japan. He went to Japan because he wanted to see the total eclipse tomorrow. sigh

This week is finally over

  • Jul. 18th, 2009 at 2:25 AM

Monday: I got back pretty tired but it was nice of my friends to take me out. My coworkers got me strawberry pie and lemon cream pie for my birthday which we enjoyed together at work. Afterward, I went out with Carolyn, Andrew, Glenn and Jason to Boiling Crab. We had shrimp and they were REALLY good but it's pretty pricey too. Alex came along and I don't know if he enjoyed it or not because it was a bit on the spicy side.
Tuesday: I stayed at work a little later than usual making cards for the presentation the next day.
Wednesday: Got off work a little early and waited for Belle to pick me up from work. We went to her fiance house to try on her dress and to see if my veil complements her wedding dress. She didn't feel like spending so much money on a veil so I let her borrow mine. She looked so pretty! I was envious and thought to myself, I wished I had a dress like that for my wedding. Of course than I thought about it, I love the dress I have, and I would NEVER pay $1,700 for a wedding dress like she did. After that, we just chit chatted while she made me dinner. Peter was in on the conversation regarding income and how I can afford to live on my own but she can't. Of course she can't, she's always buying LV and Channel purses. How can she save money!?
Thursday: I finally went to the gym. I ran a couple of mile, did some weights and I survived 12 mins on the stair master. I really hate it because it's so tiring and I can't feel my feet later on.
Friday: I went to work, which was very tiring for some reason. I got off of work at 1:30 today and I decided to walk to Ross since Alex wasn't going to pick me up until 5. It took me an hour to walk there but luckily I had my Zune and an umbrella with me today. I spent the first hour or so picking out clothes and I ended up with one outfit. I got a purple shirt and some white shorts. That's one of my 10 outfit for Japan and this summer. Then I moved on to the home decor section. I ended up spending $130 on some stuff to hang the wall and lots of fake plants. No one really finds the time to water the plants and I am not always home to do it.

Aside from that, I reorganized and cleaned my kitchen. I wished I took a before and after picture because there were some major changes. The only thing I have to do now is replace the stove.  I found a good deal at Sears so maybe this weekend, we will go buy it and replace the one we have now. The stove we're using is like 20 years plus so it's about time we changed it.

Tomorrow....will be cleaning. I am also making a list of how I want my dream house to look like (maybe not exactly since I want a bigger house) but i want it to look nice and very comfortable, not cheessy.

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Finally 25

  • Jul. 12th, 2009 at 9:14 PM

Today I officially turned 25! I am excited but at the same time, not so trilled about being old. What was so special about today? Well, there was great company and no drama. I started my day with waking up at 6:45 and I realized that Alex was not by my side. At first I thought that he was in the bathroom but it turns out that he went to McDonalds to buy me breakfast. I remembered telling him that I would like it if he woke up one day earlier than me and prepared breakfast. I always that it was a difficult task because he doesn't like to wake up late. However, he was afraid that he couldn't get up early enough so he basically didn't sleep. I felt bad because we came home pretty late yesterday from Catalina. After breakfast (which I shouldn't have eaten 2 sandwiches) we waked "The Women". I always wanted to watch that movie but I couldn't. We finished pretty early still so I went to homedepot to check out some stuff. I am remodeling my house but nothing major. I just want it to look more like what I want. I know that it cost money so I am taking it really slow. We went to Walmart after Homedepot to pick up some curtains for the kitchen. Then, he took me to Target so I can return a rug and a towel rack. I ran into Phat but he seemed nervous and I guess it was because he was buying me my birthday gift lol. After all that was done, we walked around the mall. I headed to my mom's house around 2 P.M and who did I find? My half brother! I was suprised that he showed up but I guess now that we're all older, things are becoming easier for us to connect. We had some awesome food: Chicken bbq, ribs, steak, chicken salad, fruit salad, and chips. After talking to my brother Doug for awhile, Ryan (my newphew) wanted to go home because it was his nap time. They left at 5ish and I played cards wtih my brothers, cousins and Alex. We played this new game called Hearts and Spades. Litterally there was only hearts and spades in the deck of cards. We split up and my team won 4-0 lol. Alex was not happy because his team didn't win at all. They did came close in the end but I blew them away hahah. It was getting dark, so we decided to cut cake and open gifts. The theme for this year was 25, so I was getting 25 gifts from them.
  1. Catalina Trip
  2. Spa Treatment
  3. BBQ
  4. Cake
  5. Hand Made Card (it was so cute)
  6. Cream dress. It was too big but we couldn't exchange it for a smaller size because they ran out. =( I will still wear it and Alex said just to wear it when I'm pregnant since it's so loose. it makes me look really big
  7. Pearl flower earrings (I really like this one!)
  8. EZ Combs- black and bamboo version
  9. EZ Combs- white and brown version
  10. Heart hair clip
  11. Green flower hair clip
  12. Butterfly hair pin
  13. Red flower hair clip
  14. Long drip earrings
  15. $25 gift card to Charlotte Russe
  16. Blue Star hair clip
  17. Black chandieler earrings
  18. Baby blue and sliver design hair pin
  19. Shirt
  20. Black dress shoes
  21. Sandles
  22. $50 from mommy/daddy
  23. $60 Banana Republic gift card
  24. $25 Sephoria gift card + mirror
  25. Panda pencil/pen holder
I don't know why I got so many hair clips but I was happy. I know that my brothers don't work and neither does my cousins, but they made an effort to get me a gift. I will make an effort to use them now since I have alot lol. I am so full now because I ate alot. However, there is no such thing as a diet on your birthday. I ate pretty badly this weekend but it's ok.

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Catalina Island

  • Jul. 12th, 2009 at 12:32 AM

Today I hanged out with Alex, Luis, Geoff and David at Catalina Island for my birthday. I woke up at 4:30 and got ready to go because our boat leave at 6:15 and check in is at 5:15. We were all suppose to meet up at my house at 5 but Luis forgot to set his alarm clock so he was running late. He was so jumping when he got to my house and instead of taking Alex's car like we planned, we took Luis's car instead. We got the to the port just in time before it departed. I was curious if I would get sea sick and the answer was YES!. I went outside for some fresh air and that helped a lot. No, I did not throw up. We got to Catalina Island and we didn't mind renting a golf cart because that's what people drive there. However, it was $60 per hour with a two hour maximum and we decided that it was too pricey. We had breakfast at Joe's dinner followed by wondering around the small town of Avalon. Nothing opened until 9 and it was about 7ish when we got there. At 11 O'clock we booked our tour and since the tour didn't start until 1, we decided to go for a hike. We went hiking towards the botanic garden. David didn't want to pay $5 to get in because he was spending a lot of money already so I bought him his ticket. We were goofying around and we saw some really cool bugs. The plants were interesting too considering that there were a lot of edemic plants there. After the long hike, we were tired so we took a tram back down to town so we wouldn't be late for our tour. I fell alseep on the tour. I was hoping to see some buffalo  but they were so far that they look like specs on my camara. We went to the Catalina Airport and it was not what I expected. However the cookies there were REALLY good but not worth going on the tour. We got back from the tour and grabbed some lunch at a taco place. Than, for the first time I went snorkeling. I had a blast but since I couldn't swim I couldn't go far. I want to either learn how to swim (mainly tred water) or I am going to get a life jacket and I am going to the diver spot to see the kelp forest. I really wanted to do it today but I ran out of time and I should really take things one step at a time.  I don't want to drown. The snorkeling area is 100 ft + deep and I don't know if I can handle that yet. I was too nervous because I have never been in the water before and now that  I have, it was a big step. The next diving site would be lover's cove for me.  I heard that it's a bomb place to go snorkeling and diving. Oh yeah! Another reason why I couldn't continue to snorkel was because Alex made reservation at 5P.M. for a massage treatment. It was a little painful but it felt great afterward. After the spa, we sat and watch people dive and snorkel. Something else caught my attention which was this dog that LOVES to swim. He kept asking his master to throw the rubber chicken in the water so he can go get it. I was really surprise and we watched that for awhile until it was ready for dinner. I mob around the town somemore and I found this pretty pearl earrings and Alex bought it for me. We also ran into Jean, who's David's friend. He hooked it with some free drinks which was really nice. After all the walking and shopping, we went to Antonio's Pizzaria for dinner. That's when the guys surprised me with ice cream which is nice because I also had the same thing yesterday lol. However, it was interesting because the restaurant blew so many different types of horn lol. We than head back to the boat at 9:30 P.M. for the last boat ride back to Long Beach. We got there late so most of the seats inside was taken so we sat outside. I feel alseep and it was really cold. I am now finally home and very sleepy so I am going to bed now.

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Birthday Plans

  • Jul. 9th, 2009 at 10:40 PM

Tomorrow's Friday!! I can't wait because this week has been long enough. I am actually going to the gym now and the first day was difficult. After the wedding there was no motivation to go to the gym and I thought I could maintain my weight but I was wrong. I gained 15 lb! Crazy! Tuesday was the first day and it took a lot of effort to go and I had to really push myself to get on the treadmill. When Wednesday rolled around, I was hyped about going to the gym. I forgot out much of a stress relief it is to run and sweat. I am almost back to track...probably still got a long way to go. Lately I have been running about 2.5 miles and 350 crunch as my basic routine and I do some weight lifting in between. I guess I am pretty motivated because I takes me 30 minutes to walk to the gym after work and I work out until Alex gets off of work. The schedule works great but I am pretty sore. Hopefully I can drop the 15 lb and maintain it this time.

A side from that, I am going to happy hour with some friends tomorrow. Alex arranged it at Tantalum, and for those who have not been there before, it's pretty relaxing with a dash of Asian fusion. The calamari is really good! I think that's the only reason why I want to go. I am not a big fan of drinks, and since I am in the process of being a mommy, I don't want to take any chances if you know what I mean. For Saturday, me and a couple of friends are going to Catalina Island. We're going to either go snorkling or go hiking. I think I am leaning toward hiking because I don't know how to swim but of course we can end up doing neither. I think we're going to have dinner there because we're catching the 10.45 ride back to Long Beach. We haven't organize the carpooling yet but I guess we can talk about it tomorrow. As for Sunday, I am having a bbq (more like just American food and not so much BBQ) with my family and a couple of friends (mostly roommates). With that said, I will be 25! I heard that you look your best at 25 but I think differently lol. Anyways, I am not getting younger so I figured I might as well start taking care of myself. Beside getting into shape, I want to focus on nails and hair. I really want to dye my hair but at the same time, I don't want to deal with the maintaince. That, and I really like my hair color being this dark natural black. As for nails, I have been playing around with it alot but lately no time. So right now I have some chipped red nails with faded white flowers on them. I will do my nail either tomorrow night or maybe Saturday. Andrew is taking me out on Monday for my birthday. He says that it's a surprise and he seem very happy about it so I am very curious. It will be my first surprise party that doesn't seem to forshadow drama.

hem....oh and Alex got me a gift but he's testing my patience. It's not wrap and it's still in it's delivery package and of course if I take a look I will know where it came from and possibily what it is. However, I told myself I can wait... it's more difficult because it's right there only 2 feet away from me. sigh.... only 2 more days

oh I also want to remodel my house but since I live with people I really don't want to do that either....

growing up/ $th of July

  • Jul. 5th, 2009 at 12:44 AM

Another July has come and I feel so much older. Lately I have been confused with what I want in life. There's just so much that I want to do but time and money is an obstacle. I know that right now the house market is the best time to make an investment but at the same time it is not. I know that there are cheap houses out there, but none that is in my price range that I want. I know that it's just a phase and it will pass and I won't regret throwing so much money in it. Right now, I am being more proactive about my health and starting a family. Oh, I also want to buy a car but when I think about the payments, I would rather not. I don't need a new car right now anyways. We are saving up for our future child. We want to be able to provide for it and give it anything it needs. I don't want to struggle and live paycheck by paycheck with a family. With my birthday approaching I can't help but feel old but I should be thankful for what I have. I always thought that what  I have in life is not enough but when I see other people, I am starting to feel very lucky. I ran into an old friends and she's engaged now. I saw the rock on her ring, which was more like...it's so small that I had a hard time seeing it but I suddenly felt very lucky. I am not trying to brag or anything but it made me feel how much Alex loves me. He tries so hard to make me happy and he tries really hard to give me everything I want. He complains about it every now and than but most of the time he just let me have it my way. This makes me want to try harder and be the best wife I can be. I can't wait until we have our own kid. I bet that it will be so spoil but everyone is waiting for its arrival.

4th of Jul\y, I spent it with my in laws. It's also my father in law birthday so I couldn't spend it with my family. sucks. we did some small fireworks and than Alex and I drove back from OC to LA. For some reason there was so much traffic! I would have to continue this later but I have to get off the computer now...

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a great weekend

  • Jun. 28th, 2009 at 10:01 PM

I didn't go to work on Friday because I took my brother to an orthodontist appointment. He got his braces put on and oh boy does it bring back lots of memories. I had braces for 5 years plus a major jaw surgery to correct my underbite. I had to go with my brother because I am paying for it. -_- $4100 is what I am responsible for. At first, I didn't like the idea of paying for my brother's braces, but I figured that it would be a nice graduation gift (he's going to be a senior this year) and it's something that will benefit him in the future. Braces changed my life and I am sure it will make a big impact in his as well. I can't wait, I get to make corsages, etc for his formal dances lol. It's probably not something that normal people will be excited about but I am =p

I spent Saturday watching movies. I woke around 10:30 and got dress for my dentist appointment. No cavity this year so I am happy. After the cleaning, I did my laundry and than headed to Glenn's bbq. Belle just got back so she went too. Belle and I snuck out to go to Van's Bakery where we took care of her wedding cake. We decided to go with a three layer white cake with brown ribbon and pink flowers. I will post the picture when I have time to find something similar. We got back to the bbq and  I spent some time with Carolyn and Andrew. Our little group is planning to go to Vegas August 1st and I know it will be fun, but at the same time they are pretty wild people lol. Alex said that he's ok with it...he's hesitating but overall there is trust that I won't do something stupid.

Sunday I spent at my mom's house. Alex and I are preparing for Expo so we spent most of our time packing. Baby Truc came over and Alex was playing with her. He was fascinated at how she act and how small she was. lol. He was so cute though!
I had a stomach ache so he helped make dinner. =) Well I'm going to cut this entry short because he's still waiting in bed for me. Apparently he can't really fall alseep without knowing that I'm lying right next to him. so cute

ciao

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Last weekend

  • Jun. 23rd, 2009 at 9:44 PM

The week went by pretty fast for me but I can't recall what I did. On Friday, I headed up to Luis's place to celebrate his 32 birthday. We played games, and watched a lot of movies. On Saturday, Geoff joined us for dinner at Kabuki in Fontana. Luis was suppose to pick a shabu shabu place but the place he wanted to go turned out to be something different. So we decided to go for a walk, and wala Kabuki. It was his first time there, so the atmosphere was nice. I gave him his card and he was so emotional that he wanted to cry. I can pretty much understand. Alex said it was very heart warming. I thought about my birthday coming up and being 25, I haven't accomplish much. Surely others may beg to differ but in my own world, I am far from what I want. Everything that I do, tend to be big or at least that's how I want it. My brothers and Alex is going to throw me a party. For sure, Alex said he'll get me peonies if they are still in season (probably it will be hard). I just wanted to celebrate it with people who truely cares about me. It's not about people you know anymore, but it's about people who's there for you. I can't say that I have many friends like that but I should just keep those that I do have. Aside from that, we went to Shin Sen Gumi for Father's Day (Alex's dad). I felt very distant but nothing new I guess. Angela turned 21 so she boost about drinking but she can't handle soju. =/ I am never going to understand that girl. His family is too distant for me which is going to be troublesome in the future. Oh well....it's getting late and I should be going to bed. I have to think about a birthday list because Alex said I can have one. yeppie!

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such a tiring day

  • Jun. 13th, 2009 at 9:36 PM

I got up at 5 A.M to get ready to attend a graduation ceremony! Overall, I am happy for my cousin, but the way they had their ceremony was lame! They didn't even announce the graduate's name. I had no idea when my cousin was going up. Plus all we looked at was a screen and they had 4 people at a time. Just getting a picture was difficult. Some of the people there really annoyed me. I hanged my flower lace on the gate because I didn't want it to get crush or damage but there was this lady that kept going back and forward. I got really irritated and asked her to stop because she was damaging my flower. She gave me an attitude saying "I want to take a picture of my daughter, she's graduating today, you know". Do I give a fuck about your daughter? I mean, everyone there was special but it was unfair that she had to block my view when I was trying to take a picture of my cousin. We were all suppose to be seated by the way. The security guy told her twice that she need to remain seated. I mean, each person is on the screen for about 5 seconds only and I waited outside early in the morning to get this one in a life time picture and I got this retarded lady blocking my view. It was also sprinkling! argh. I told her that she was blocking my view and she ignored me, so I just pushed her out the way. She gave me a look and my reply was "you're blocking my view. Go back to your seat, if not stand somewhere else". People these days...

Afterward we went to Baccoli for lunch. The portion there was HUGE. We went there with some of his friends, which are people I knew too. Poyun, Fong and Cecilia looks the same but all grown up. I am surprise Cecilia got a got as a teacher because I thought that school were laying off teachers but apparently she's teaching at a private school. After lunch, we went to Yogurt Land. Omg, I should have taken picture but it was sooooo good. Love it!

I took a nap when we got back to my cousin's house. Than we watched Taken and Hangover which both movie I recommend. =)

Other than that, I am pretty tired now. I have to do chores tomorrow and that meet up for graduation dinner at some Korean BBQ place in LA.

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Jun. 13th, 2009

  • 5:40 AM

I worked late yesterday! My shift was 13 hours and I was so tired when I got home. I actually spent the night at my cousin's house because of his graduation. Omg, we are expected to be there at 6:30 A.M.! Why do you have to graduate so early in the morning!!!!!? It was wiser to get dress and wake up here, rather at home. That would mean that I would have to wake up at 4ish and drive down here. Alex was not fond of the idea of waking up late on a Saturday. Anyways, as soon as the family is ready, I can go pick up some flower lace at the flower market.

-Ciao

Jun. 11th, 2009

  • 9:37 PM

People at work is starting to annoyed me. Well...only one person to be exact. She keeps telling me that stuff needs to be expedited but in reality it is not. My boss told her off and most of the managers got my back. They think that it is unfair for me to give 200% on something because I wanted to help the company when in reality it is not as important as some of the other things that is still pending on my desk. -_- Oh well, I am not going to vent about it because I have been stressed out enough regarding it.

Today was really nice. My dad will be out of town for Father's Day so we took him out to dinner today. I took him to a Chinese restaurant, and the food there is pretty good. My brothers and I were too busy reading the zodiac signs. Alex enjoyed some of the food but it's because I ordered some spicy food. We were also watching the Laker's game. Woo hooo go Lakers.

On the side note, my body has been feeling differently. I wonder what it can be. My parents are hoping that I am pregnant and they noticed that I am slowly gaining weight and my appetite has increased. Hem...I wonder too. We'll find out eventually.

yeah Friday is almost here!

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