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xmas season in review (megapost) 12.29.2008 |

i miss 3 week xmas breaks...

[the color of our fake lil xmas tree]

*sigh* another christmas season has come and gone...it was definitely a lot more quiet this year both at my aunt's and at home. of course family time is still a great time but i miss the bigger family gatherings. a quick flashback to last christmas:

my aunt's--when my cousin from germany visited

and back at home with the padre n broham

this christmas...
>>>>at the aunt's for xmas eve

i introduce to you my aunt and her fam

and then there's my mum, bro, & me. damn he's so tall

again, different composition, with my bro as the intruder

the sisters

the girls in the family

the kids/cousins...i'm the oldest but the shortest...i'm on my tippytoes =*(

and fluffy the family dog..i want one~!

the glowy xmas tree, solo, with presents

and then we went outside and played with sparklers

and tried to make cool shapes

lol, and letters

it was a lot of lounging around and eating..but i like things like that ;p

>>>>at home on xmas day

the feather tree from last year

i made the tree topper myself ;p

family photo! can't believe my bro grew even more from last xmas

i mean seriously, size 13 shoes??? he's 14 i swear

poopoobear & doggy for xmassss !

xmas tree detail

>>>>on presents
so this year i didn't have to buy as many presents as i did last year...but i was super stressed out up until when i went to my aunt's on xmas eve around 3 because i still had some lingering work and i had all these gifts to wrap. but you know what, i still came to town bearing gifts (uh..i still have some of them..oops) ;p

and in terms of the receiving end, i got a bunch of random little gifts that i adore--i think at this point in my life (same as last year) i can't really expect anything big until i get a serious bf/husband so i never have high expectations for gifts during xmas. it's just fun to see what i do end up getting =) for instance, my brother asked me what i wanted for xmasand i said surprise me. he argued back saying that he didn't know yadda yadda. and i just told him he has to practice now because he'll have to have good surprising skills when he gets a gf later on. so he got me this hickory farms cheese and sausage giftbox thing, which i LOVE (it's so damn delicious). but i just realized that he didn't get it because he knew i loved cheese but because the damn box that it came in had the word 'surprise' written on it:

i swear. oh and i'm also sportin my new earmuffs--those came in the mail and was a nice surprise so thank you they're so soft and warm!

and i think my favorite present this year, aside from poopoobear herself, is this drawing from my friend. i wish i had talent =(

not only is poopoobear photogenic, she looks super cute drawn as well ;p

>>>>on christmas season
so to me, christmas season is about family (see above),

friends (jun's bday @ mesa =)

and snowboarding season ;p

and of course, it's about eating a lot. i think i ate more xmas eve through boxing day than i did the whole week prior. sigh. o well

+ i want to go snowboarding again this week
+ i'm only partially sore--didn't have any bad falls!
+ umm...i really want to go snowboarding again...

Labels: art, family, snowboard

omfg dos mas dias til Xmas 12.23.2008 |

cant stop wont stop

[everything is hectic around this time for me....]

took my bro to see the clippers today. raptors totally killed them. so sad...

anyway, from sat when i went to the xmas party in la with jo, mike david, & lambo.

before that i was playing around with doggy and his light up santa hat

and played around with some functions on my camera and my xmas lights ;p

+ i'm so excited for snowboarding

Labels: art

some things just make me happy 11.25.2008 |

like walking into my room w. all the xmas lights & doggy waiting for me

[the color of doggy's fur (part of it)]

so i was just shopping at forever 21 online and bought a bunch of things. and i mean a BUNCH of things. 15 items for $172 (not bad right??? for the quantity..lol). ok i just looked at my receipt and noticed that i accidentally bought 2 of the same item...hopefully they'll change it for me. anyway, i was a little sad because that pretty much exceeded the [clothing] shopping budget that i set for myself each month...but then i realized that i had just received a $175 credit from returning a purse that i purchased over a year ago~! so basically it's as if i didn't buy anything and i'm going to get all these clothes for free come two weeks =D ok that's not true, but it still makes me happy that it's all effectively taken care of and no extra money will be coming out of my bank acct ;p

in other news, i received my drivers license today in the mail. yay for not carrying my passport around anymore!

so i had coffee with my artsy friend again and i'm trying to muster up the energy and focus to pursue art. i never really gave it a serious try because i'm not that talented and i could tell that i can't really draw, so i just gave up. i mean there was a time in my life when i did art somewhat regularly as an emotional outlet--but i never really did it to be good or anything. but i'll try a little harder this time and see how it goes. i just don't think i have an eye for these things but since i have an expert handy, maybe my luck will change.

so after i got home i tried sketching some random items in front of me:

they're obviously not drawn to scale, and i obviously have a lot of work to do. that was pretty fun and relaxing though...

+ darn it, another late night
+ *sigh*

Labels: art

my last moments in new zealand 6.24.2007 |

well, the Last 4 days

[the color of massive posts]

Friday: it all started with me sleeping in, waking up, and feeling great. lunch with hana down at translate, which is the restaurant downstairs in my building. i see it everyday, but i've never been. so another food spectacle crossed off my list ;)

later that night ben and i hit up opium for a drink before dinner. it's a super flash bar, and the restaurant area was even flashier (too flash for a photo). i wanted to have dinner here on sunday but they're closed sun-tues. bummer

at around 8 we proceeded to a restaurant called kabuki teppanyaki with some of his mates--now this was the true food spectacle. teppanyaki, chefs cooking in front of us + audience participation= good times. i caught and egg in a bowl, cooked egg piece in my mouth, and 5 bowls+1 bowl filled with rice my first try. yes, i like food that much (my catching skills are horrific).

a couple donated a left over bottle of wine. this is how boozehags (ie, hollie & me) fill up their glasses

and we headed over to bungalow 8. i like house music, but i can't dance to it.

and then the casino, where i donated 2 bucks to droning slot machines.

Saturday: despite coming home late the night before, i woke up at 6:30 to check out the otara markets with dan. this is supposed to be the largest polynesian market in the world. it wasn't much, but it was fun grabbing cheap food and having good company.

we walked around a dozen times chatting up a storm, and then went to grab milk tea. and i've had milk tea here before, but that day i realized that we have this place in the states as well!

dan dropped me off because he had wushu class to teach, and then 30 min later ben picked me up to go to the R&R Ski Sale. That was a bust--neither of us got anything. Then we grabbed some grub to go, and headed to the concourse for go karting!!

so basically, i suck. came in 2nd to last, crashed twice (once because someone bumped into me!), and lost control for 1/2 sec a dozen times. but IT WAS SOOOOO FUNNN!!! i swear my kart was slower than the others because i seemed to be going slow on straights as well. anyway. that was some goooood fun.

...until i realized how painful it could be after the fact. two huge as bruises on the inside of my knees, and two bruises on my back. oh the pain ;( not sure if it was worth it...but i actually wanna go again!

ben dropped me off and i was soooo tired--i've been running on 3 hours of sleep. so i slept! woke up 2 hours later, and decided to dye my hair against all logical reasons not too. i was supposed to dye it dark purplish brown, but grabbed the wrong hair dye (i had bought 2 of the same brand because they were on sale but threw away the box) and so now it's a gingery color. meh.

and then we went to go BOWLING (sans shirley, phil, & wayne). that was good fun! jin brought a flask and we were buzzin the whole way through. 1st round i came in last and guttered more times than anyone. 2nd game i was a super buzzed and scored the highest out of everyone (a whoppin 93 ;\ )! good timesss. team a: me, jin, ben, dan. team b: jd, hollie, monica, james

we then proceeded to starks, where we met up with jo, and soon thereafter migrated to lounge where we danced 1/2 the night away. people were lame and left early before 3...lameeee

Sunday: slept in! ben came over to copy pictures, and then i went off to meet up maggie and some others for yum char (aka dim sum) down at China. it was really nice and YUMMMM. i miss dim sum!

dan picked me up and we walked around town, ate, and hung out for a bit, and then hana came over so we could all get ready for dinner. we ate at iguacu in parnell, which is fancy schmancy. it was nice to have a large group (11 of us) and i had really yum snapper fish with pumpkin mash

then we went to movenpick for yum icream. yummmmm. this was our goodbye dinner...so goodbye!

next came hanging out with diana. we didn't really do anything...just stayed in. but she showed me some photos of random chalking around town. so weird..i guess there's another diem and diana out there wreckin the streets ;p crazyness