The Fails In My Life

Eff.

I haven't drank any water today.

This is no good for my One Waterbottle A Day Everyday Life Goal Plan.

I will now down this half full water bottle on my desk.

Done.

Sigh. Good enough.

Today I was supposed to wake up at 9:30 AM, half an hour before I usually get up cause i'm trying out this thing called, "eating breakfast" I hear it's good for you. So anyways my alarm didn't go off. My class takes attendance and I had a midterm afterwards too, so if I overslept that wouldn't have been too great. So I think God was kind enough to wake me up at 10AM (the time I usually would get up); however I think God is a little prankster because the way I woke up was that I pulled both leg calves muscle, you know those extremely annoying Charlie horses? So I laid in bed writhing in pain for a good 5 minutes before I got up. Thank you God for that loving wake up call.

A Peek Into The Past

Two midterms coming up this week, and of course a procrastination post is needed.

This is my favorite shirt.

(hence the awkward pointing at said shirt)

Wow, I look like a huge dork. But I guess you can tell I really like this shirt because i'm smiling so ecstatically that my eyes have actually disappeared in this picture. Anyways, this shirt is my favorite more than the reasoning of the immense amount of style it has but of the memories it holds. I've actually had this shirt since I was 6 or 7 years old, can't remember exactly. My parents put me in sports camp over the summer and I was in this co-ed soccer camp called Skyhawks. Soccer actually used to be my favorite sport. I used to say "Why does everyone like basketball? That's stupid, my favorite sport is soccer." I don't think I was very good at soccer though. All I was good at was running quickly, but there's a lot more to soccer than just running. I remember one time the ball flew into my stomach and knocked the wind out of me. Remember that I was just a 6/7 year old girl and this camp was co-ed and I was one of the smaller, and younger ones there. And then one game I was goalie, and the soccer ball hit my face, more specifically my eye. And it was that day on, that basketball became my favorite sport. I think the mere fact that I can use my hands to catch the ball if it comes flying at my face has a lot to do with my favoritism of basketball.

As a kid this shirt used to be pretty large on me. 15 years later though, surprisingly it's a perfect fit. I love throwing this shirt on and lounging around in it. It reminds me of my childhood. It reminds me of all the sports camps and summer camps that my parents put me throughout the years in my childhood. Plus the graphic design on the shirt, I definitely am feeling it. It's funny how we can recycle so many things. If you saw me wear this shirt, you wouldn't know the story behind it and what it means to me. There's a lot of stories out there about our friends that we don't know about. How many stories are there that our friends are keeping inside them and that we don't know?

I want to hear about each one of your stories.

Let's grab some coffee and share.

In Loving Memory

My sophomore year, i wrote your name down at the senior GRX as the senior that i wanted to get to know more.

you actually got in touch with me and we had lunch at gypsy den

you paid for my meal despite my refusals

you were so warm, hip and kind

i remember feeling so elated that you wanted to get to know the little me

you were this cool, pretty and wise senior and i was just some sophomore noob

& i felt so touched that you still wanted to spend time with me after our hang out

i remember the time we played racquetball and you laughed at my poor skills

i remember your great big smiling face as i barely made it to visit you during your graduation ceremony

i wish we had more memories together

i wish i called you up and hung out with you when i was in norcal

i wish i had one more hang out with you so i could soak up your presence once more

you are such a beautiful person inside and out

all this leads to my confusion

i dont understand.

you take for granted the time you have with a person.

you touched my heart & i'll never forget you

my prayers go out to your family.

you are so missed by many.

Rest In Peace CJ

Bitch, You Got An Itch?

Okay so the title of this post, really has nothing to do with what this post is about but I like rhyming and sometimes I like to pretend i'm all hard and ish. Thus the combination of the two led to that. I'm...awesome?

So I have some little everyday goals set up for myself.

1. Drink a water bottle a day.

Don't laugh nor mock me with your "one bottle? shoot, i drink 8 glasses a day!" Some of you know that I have a little difficulty with drinking water. :( Water to me is so bland and I only like drinking it if i'm doing sports or eating something spicy. SOOOOOOOOO, I have to constantly remind myself to drink water. I used to write it on my mirror, have little post its, yadda yadda. Many times I go to campus with a water bottle and I come back to my apt empty handed, and i'm like, what the heck? Wasn't I holding something earlier? Poor abandoned water bottles, i have no idea where you are. But as result of my goal, I have multiple unfinished water bottles next to my bed. See:

That is a total number of 5, and I have another 3 in my car. Sigh. But i've been doing better lately and have been consistently drinking a bottle a day! This is going good guys, I am hydrating myself!

2. I'm going to buy a jump rope and jump rope every day for 5 mins and maybe 10 if i'm ambitious. Don't worry guys, I live on the first floor so I won't be bugging anyone.

So yay to good health! And i'm not longer eating microwaveables. :) This probably is highly related to the fact that i'm out of my Costco supply of microwaveable teriyaki bowls and pizza.

wish me luck!

You Got This

This is my prayer in the desert

And all that's within me feels dry

This is my prayer in the hunger in me

My God is a God who provides

And this is my prayer in the battle

And triumph is still on it's way

I am a conqueror and co-heir with Christ

So firm on His promise I'll stand

The Desert Song//Hillsong

I'm Full Of Good Ideas

Good Ideas List

1. They should make a television series about DMV people in The Office style. Definite potential there.

2. Offer a slide right next to the stairs, so you have two options. Option 1: Stairs Option 2: Slide

3. Have little tasers that shock you when you start tangent-ing from your studies.

4. Create an iphone/blackberry/everyphone app that lets your phone be a taser too so you can tase (is that even the right verb?) the creepies. Forget pepper spray! Attacked by a rapist? Bust out your cellphone! Free taser-ing after 7pm on weekdays and all day and night on weekends.

5. Let every noun feel like it's a verb by adding -ing to the end of it. I am water bottle-ing (drinking water from a water bottle) or beach-ing or chair-ing or hot dog-ing, see how easy it is?! And fun?!?! Nouns ought to get in on the fun the verbs are having too.

6. There should be a day where everyone has their earphones in, listening to music on their ipods or whatever choice of mp3 player they have, okay who am I kidding? Everyone and their moms have a fcking ipod, just like facebook. Anyways, tangent but everyone listens their to their own music and dances to it at the same time. So we're all dancing to our own music while living out our normal lives doing normal things. Can you imagine? Walking to class and every student is dancing to their own ipod music. That would be legendary. There's a term for that though, it's a dance when everyone's in a room listening to their own ipod and dancing, i forget what it's called though but yeah, let's bring it into the outside world!

Side note, found out someone I know now has a fiancée from an arranged marriage. That is crazy. Arranged marriages I would put on the Bad Idea List. haha But i'm glad it's working out for him because apparently at first when he met her, he didn't like her but now is in love with her. Crazy how love works sometimes. Actually I take that back, crazy how love works all the time.

Daily Life

it's late night/early morning at Gateway and i have a midterm i'm supposed to be studying for since the midterm is tomorrow but alas, i am blogging. go figure.

The Daily Events in My Life Today

Moment 1

I live nearby campus so i just walk to school and i walk through UTC. Today as I was walking to campus, this old man probably in his 50's who was dressed fairly nice in a casual suit or whatever and he has red hair. As I noticed him and wondered why his hair was so much redder than his eyebrows, and if he was wearing a wig, he comes up to me and asks me "Excuse me, do you know where I parked?" Ummmm.......haha I think I stood there for a good 3 seconds wide eyed and confused. I eventually got to my senses and just answered "Sorry, I don't know..." Then he forgave me with an "It's okay" and left. haha but what in the world??? why would I know where he parked? Poor guy.

Moment 2

Books are way too expensive and the library one's on reserve were all checked out so...I ended up going to the UCI bookstore at the basement where all the textbooks are at and I sat on the floor with my laptop on to type up notes, my papers spread out next to me and i'm reading the textbooks. So ghetto. Students would pass by me to buy the books as I was sitting there like a bum. haha Although a couple of students also ended up talking to me and one even ended up joining me and doing the same thing. haha Yay for saving $$$.

Moment 3

J.chiang and K.ko went to Gateway after small groups to do some studying and long story short we share this table with these lesbian fobs. I have no idea what they were doing, but there was a major flirt sesssion/fighting? I don't know but damn, stop flirting over a pencil and just both get your own! yeesh. And then there were a couple of gentle-ISH slaps to the face that we all had to pretend to ignore. Eventually, it just ended up being me and the said lesbian couple for awhile. Awkwardness when you're trying to study and they're like petting each other's hair.

Moment 4

So now i'm by myself at the table (Thank God) and these 2 guys from the table next to me came up to me cause I guess my papers were out for the class, since we have the midterm tomorrow and then they asked if I was taking Econ 149. I said "yes" .......and that essentially was the conversation as they stood there for a bit. Awesome moments. Five minutes later, one of the guys comes over with his bottle of Xytenil or wtv gum (you know that Korean brand gum) and offers it to me. I kindly declined but that was nice of him I suppose.

Now that I have sufficiently wasted my studying time, I shall study for 15 minutes then go back home for some Z's. Nice.