Whole bunch of firsts this weekend:

Drove down to San Mateo for the first time with Yuko to visit Yan Yan. We ended up staying at her friend Jamie's for a little bit for her other friends to arrive. They did our make up. Which was another first for me. Eyelids felt kinda heavy cos I wasn't used to it XD Went to karaoke afterwards at I forgot where. But it was ten minutes away. Another first for me cos Melissa has karaoke. Stayed there till 2am xDD. Also found out that eyeliner works miracles, but is a pain in the ass the get off. I still don't understand what they did to me or what they used on me....but it was pretty =D

On the day after, Yan Yan's parents took us to dim sum for lunch then we went to Bloomingdale's. It was humongous. And the stuff was gorgeous.. and costly. I've never seen so many brand name things in one place *___*

My commencement was on Friday 13th =D. It was the longest two hours ever. I wouldn't have put up with it if my parents didn't insist that I walk. To me, the ceremony was absolutely pointless because I'm not doing anything remotely related to my major. Bleah.

But after the graduation, I went to LA with Walter, Yuko, and Yan Yan from Japanese class. We rented a white Chevy and drove down there on Saturday afternoon. On the first night, we chilled at Eric's place. He was nice enough to let us stay for two nights =D. He took us to a Korean tofu restaurant near his place and OMG.... food was soo good. The soup had so much stuff in it and there were so many side dishes. And there was free appetizers!! And yogurt afterwards!!!! <3 So yummy...

On Sunday, we went to Universal Studios after we spent forever trying to find Walter's friend Tyler's place to pick his ugly ass up. The idiot had some stomach flu or some form of diarrhea the first day and made us all freaking late. No, that's not the reason I have issues with him. That comes later when he decides to sit his ass in the front seat and decides to sleep the whole time when the rest of us are in the back of the van trying to help Walter navigate through LA freeways. WTF man. Fine... given that he might have been sick and may have needed rest, that might be forgiven. But WHEN WE TELL YOU TO GET YOUR ASS US AT 6AM IN THE MORNING AND WE'RE LEAVING AT 7:30, YOU DO IT. YOU DON'T TAKE A FREAKING 30MIN TO SHOWER WHEN THE REST OF US ARE WAITING ON YOUR ASS AT 7:15. What kinda guy takes freaking 30 min to shower in the morning? And another 1/2 to do his hair? WTF. *sigh* I think it was the shower thing that made most of us want to kill him. Then the fact that he has to get back on Wednesday to go camping with his buddies making the rest of us have to go back to Davis early finished it off. If he wasn't Walter's friend, we might have killed him.

Universal Studios was a lot better than I expected. I went a couple of times before but they added a lot of new rides and new attractions which was nice. Took a lot of pics =D. They're on FB. The Back to the Future ride was closed for some reason, but they opened up a Simpson's ride which was really cool =D The lines weren't that long which was surprising because it was on a weekend. We managed to get on Jurassic Park and the Mummy ride twice. Oh and they opened up The House of Horrors? I think that's what it was called. Yuko wanted to go in and she was freaking out the whole time we were there xDDD. I don't think it was was she expected it to be lol. One of the guys in there dressed as a mummy kept chasing her cos of her reactions xDD.

Disneyland...a freak load of kids, parents, and strollers. We wanted to be there at 8am when the park opened. But of course, that didn't happen. We ended up getting there at around 10. Everything was pretty much the same as the last time I went, but we went to California Adventure Park too which I liked a lot better. There were more rides for the "bigger kids" and less shows and stuff. Because we only had a day there, we were pretty much running half the time to get fast passes and lining up for other things. But we covered the two parks pretty well. We went on all the "big kid" rides and the lines weren't that bad... for Disneyland. They closed down the "Small World" ride though, because they were doing repairs on it. We wanted to go on it cos it was the traditional creepy ride =D The PoTC ride made up for it plenty though <3 We ended the day by eating ourselves silly and watching Fantasmic afterwards.

On Tuesday, we went to Santa Monica Beach. We didn't get there till 2:30pm cos we went down the wrong direction of LA. I think we ended up in the bad part of LA where Eric warned us not to go the first night lol. Me, Yuko and Yan Yan sat in Lisa's car cos we couldn't stand Tyler anymore. In doing so, we were hating on poor Walter for awhile too lol. In the end, we had to lead to get Walter and the van out of the pit of LA and into Santa Monica.
The beach was gorgeous and the waves were so big! We didn't see as many hot surfer guys as we would have liked, but it was really pretty. I wished we stayed longer.

We didn't start driving back till 8pm. Didn't arrive at Davis till 4am. Me and Yan Yan switched off the whole night cos we didn't want Walter the drive. We told him that it's cos he drove in LA the whole time and he needed rest, but it was really cos he drove like a maniac >.<. We were so tired that we started seeing things on the road. Not fun. Never doing that again.

But besides the countless detours, the packed packed schedule, ppl can't making our schedule, and Tyler, it was really really fun and I hope we can do it again sometime.

Fanime was so much fun! And so productive, in a non academic way <3. I got to meet Kiuchi Hidenobu, the seiyuu for Oshitari Yuushi, attended An Cafe concert, and join a mob of screaming (potential) fangirls at Yaoi bingo. Kiuchi san was at Yaoi bingo btw XDD And stayed for the whole thing. He didn't run away screaming.... I wonder why XD
Thank you Amy, for helping me draw my picture =D I hope he doesn't throw it away T__T

( Picture with Kiuchi-san )

Ah, but school sucks so much afterwards. Because I didn't do anything academically productive, work I have to do is piling up. My Japanese teacher decided to schedule the oral exam, chapter exam, and listening exam all next week. Found out my EXB 104L final is on Monday. My EXB group project is due Tuesday. And finals are the next week after. *sigh*

I've been out of it all week this week. And I miss Fanime so much...
Until next year...

This is why I still can't leave old Tenimyu cast members alone. *wibbles over Konii*

I need a life. I think I might go crazy soon. The workload this quarter is ridiculous for 15 units. 

It's only been a week... and I'm already exhausted. Can't blame spring break, cos we actually got a longer one this year. So it must be the weather xD or maybe it's senioritis dawning me, or that I was stupid enough to save up both my lab classes for my last quarter here.

I'm taking only 15 units this quarter, but because of my two labs, it's a shitload of classtime. Thankfully, my teachers only required readers not textbooks this time, so that saved me a lot of money. So far my schedule is, read for weekly quizzes for both EXB lab and EXB 117, prelabs for MIC 102L, weekly lab reports for EXB lab, and Japanese. In short, there's a mountain of reading to do this quarter.

Spent the first week playing my DS though. I stupidly thought I could control my time, so I brought it to the library with me. Attempted to read, then spent about three hours playing Digimon till my battery died. Which is why I left it at back home this week. I don't think I can look at it till the end of the quarter.

My classes, though, are actually pretty interesting. My teachers are awesome except for my Japanese teacher, but even he improved a bit from last quarter. Microbio lab turned out to be more fun that I expected. My professor is hilarious and my "clan" members are awesome. Our whole "island" is pretty awesome xD. Doing the worse in Japanese right now actually, cos I don't have time to read over the grammar points as extensively as I like to. So need to make that up pretty fast. We're learning Keigo right now, and even Yuko has issues with it.

Need to work a lot this quarter, especially early this quarter cos need to save money for next month's rent and fanime... *sigh* My fandom is expensive.

Sisweb came out with final grades for winter quarter!!!  I'm happy to say I did well and I can rest easy turning my brain to mush in the remainder of my break before spring quarter starts =D.

Saw Ling and Melissa this weekend! Went out to get Tapex and then make a last minute decision to go with Melissa to UOP on Sunday. It was really fun though. I'm glad I went before they both graduate. I still regret not being able to make it to Wellsley to visit Linda before she graduates though. I was considering going during the break, but never got around to ordering plane tickets. I think my parents will prolly kill me if I told them I'm flying to the east coast....

Was supposed to go to Japantown with Thu, Giang, and Quyen today, but my dad asked me last night to help him with a job today so couldn't go. Sorry guys >.< Hopefully next time I can go.

Only 5 more days of spring break left T___T Time passes so fast...

This weekend was so not productive. Barely studied for anything. And finals are next week. Why the hell did they make Daylight Savings so damn early this year? I want my fucking hour back.

I haven't bought anything impulsively in a long time. Not since Y-con anyway, mainly cos I've been broke and busy and yeah...... But OMG I went and ordered an R4 last night with a new protective cover and a 2GB microSD card!!!! T____T I kept telling myself it's worth it cos I get to dl games and and save all that money on game cartridges and stuff. But then this tiny little voice kept telling me, "when the hell are you going to have time to play all those games even when you do get all those games?" Of course that little voice got crushed when I clicked "Buy". Willpower..... I have absolutely none. 

*sigh* With that money, I could have gotten myself a decent racket. Speaking of which... Does anyone know where to get a Yonex MP88 for less than $100? Including shipping?

 I have ochem in 5 minutes. And my MIC 102 midterm in about 4 hours. I haven't gone over phages yet. Or the practice midterm. I'm so screwed this time. Coffee helped me concentrate for an hour straight so I covered all the transcription translation stuff, but omg... phages. 

I wished he would cover eukaryotic phages. Bacterial phages are awesome too, but I'm sure eukaryotic phages would be even more so. *sigh*  The medical aspect of it is kinda awesome though haha. Ok, I'm gonna stop now before I make myself sound any more nerdy. 

Tuesday after next week! Two finals coming up!!! My EXB one and OCHEM!!! Hooray!!! Kill me now. I may have to stay this weekend just to study for them. I can see a lot of coffee coming my way. That little stamp card from CoHo is going to fill up very fast. 

Also broke two badminton strings in class yesterday. *sigh* Need to find a place to restring racket. Or maybe I should just invest in a new one. A decent one. But knowing me, I'd break the racket before I get used to it.

Manga I have yet to finish/catch up on: Yu Yu Hakusho, Pretty Face, Death Note, Furuba, Penguin Revolution, Wallflower.
Dramas I started and should finish: Robbers, Lunch Queen, Iryu 2, Nodame Cantabile specials
Dramas I should start: Everything people have recced for me which is a huge list.
Movies I should have watched already but haven't yet for no excusable reason: Both Death Note movies
Fics I should start reading: All the DracoxHarry fics Quyen sent me, the rest of the SasuxNaru fics Giang sent me.

This is, of course, after the ochem and microbio midterms eat me alive. Then maybe I can shove in a movie next week too. Right before finals and everything.

I'm so behind... in everything....

And then in the midst of my procrastination, I got hooked on Sanda fights uploaded on youtube. I don't even know how I got there. It's so ridiculous.


And omg... these kids are so cute. But so vicious
The rules really weren't fair though. There was only one round with karate rules and two rounds with Sanda rules so duh the Sanda kid is going to win.

It's over. Completely finished. Konomi is done with Prince of Tennis. I'm so dazed, shocked, and feel like my life is going to end. Oh my god....

 Man, I feel so bad for my group members for lab. My ECG is filled with artifacts and I can't read it worth a crap. It looks like I'm dying. The only thing you can see on the stupid thing are the R wave intervals. I have no idea how we're going to find limits on it. Worse case will be having to run around looking for another person's ECG script tomorrow afternoon. mrgh. should have done this earlier. should have showed it to Tricia today and just skipped out on badminton. >.<   

which reminds me, playing badminton with a runny nose is not fun. especially when your coach makes you play singles that day. =_=   half the people in our class was sick and miserable and yet we all came. we're insane =D

It was my cousin's wedding yesterday!!! Which means more new year money next week!!!! kekeke  It was a lot of fun yesterday though. The bride is so pretty and skinny and he still looks like a little kid lol. All my cousins managed to make it so it was really nice seeing everyone again after so long.

Also was sick the entire day yesterday, probably because of the green beans I ate on Friday. Had the chills the whole day and stomach felt all bloaty and my head felt like it was going to split apart. Haven't been that sick in a very long time...

Midterms on Wednesday!!! Need to start studying!!! T____T

I think I need a new racket. Gary from badminton pressed on the strings, then laughed and said how do you hit with this thing =.=;   I'd go restring the thing, but restringing would cost more than the racket itself. Maybe I can get my uncle to get me a new one....

I'm bored man.. there's nothing to do at work. T-T  I need more PoT fanfics.

Our blue sky disappeared!!!! T___T It was cloudless yesterday!!!!!

I might be falling out of my Pillar Pair ship. I dearly hope not. It's too much fun being obsessed with them T_T

It's going to be a bad week.

On a worse note! There's my ECG quiz, ECG lab, and badminton with the incorrect shoes to look forward to! Hooray!!

As of Saturday, I've turned a ripe old age of 22. I can hear my joints squeaking already, and it's not from the rain.

Thank you for everyone who gave me birthday wishes and gifts! They were awesome!! I love you guys muches!!!! On Saturday night, Kathy and Greg bought me a cake, tapioca drink, and baked me cookies <3 And Mel and Janny treated me to Thai food and watched Sweeney Todd with me. Thanks for celebrating with me!

There was a storm Friday and the wind and rain practically tore apart our apartment grounds. Branches and leaves were everywhere. Thank goodness we live upstairs. Poor Yuko was stuck in SF for like 5 hours because a tree fell on one of the BART tracks and they became out of service. It died down a bit by 4 though so we took that chance to head up to Davis. Ever since then, there was rain. Which is good cos we haven't had this kind of heavy rain in such a long time. The ground needs a good soaking. It just sucks walking in it.

My classes look like they're going to suck this quarter. Japanese really isn't THAT bad yet, but we'll see. My clinical physiology teacher is super boring, talks really fast, and he doesn't know how to podcast. Which means I have to invest in a recorder thing soon. Microbiology should be fun based from the first lecture. My teacher, according to Linda, looks like Jesus now that he grew out a beard, but he really isn't as bad as I remembered. And ochem... I like Nasiri, she's a cool professor, but I don't think I'll ever like ochem no matter how great the professor is. Nasiri's exams are going to give me nightmares. And my TA has some sort of European accent. o.O I may have to introduce myself to the other TAs soon.

It's still pouring outside.. and I haven't eaten lunch yet... T__T

Happy 2008 everyone!!!! It's already looking better than last year cos SUMMER OLYMPICS IS GOING TO BE IN BEIJING!!!!!!! WHOOO!  And it's raining!!!!

School's going to start soon! And dreading it. After three weeks of sitting mindlessly at home without academics to deal with, my brain has turned to pudding and it's going to take me awhile to adjust again. And school starts on a Monday this quarter. wtf man....

So erm... the point of this post was, to list the stuff I wanted this year... Yes I know it's late dammit. If you didn't get something yet, this is what I want for my bday:

1. Gamestop giftcards- Yes, I realize this is going to ruin my life.
2. A batch of cookies that just came out of the oven- no cake please.... they're damn expensive.

And to my dearest dearest roomies, will you please play mahjong with me??? I haven't played in a year *cries*

Yep, that's it =D And if you want, you can also pay my rent for me, my tuition, my books, a new car, a plane, a new computer, a new camera, and my yaoicon ticket for this year.

OMG OMG OMG XD

I'M FINISHED WITH FINALS!!!! I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!  




Then three weeks later, I get to deal with Ochem again! With Nasiri!!!! Isn't it wonderful???? *breaks down crying*
But for now, FREEDOM!

Oh, and for those who are getting me presents, please, omg please let me know what you want this year?? Cos if you don't, I might end up getting something you won't like and then I'll be unhappy and you'll be unhappy, and and and... yesh. It's all not good. SO LET ME KNOW!!!!!