Randoms

 My dog is not allowed in the house and only under extreme special weather circumstances is he let into the garage. Well, as I was trying to take a picture of my dog, the sneaky little thing just bolts into the garage. Let me tell you, my dog has recently surprised me with his good behavior by sitting at the door and waiting for me to step out of the garage. Today's little stunt was totally unexpected, but I caught him in the act, red "pawed"...

I have no idea what this fruit is but the literal Korean translation is cherry what is it? My brother pointed this sign out and at first I didn't believe him because this makes no grammatical sense.

Fresh starting

WHOOSH.

This week my mind has been going 1340982340 mph thinking about the (so far denying/dreading) future.

 My brother and I noticed this car, it has to be one of the ugliest cars we've ever seen. From afar, the truck looks like a normal suv, but when you get closer I think something about the curves in the car and the horizontal lines on the back make the car totally unattractive.

Quapa?

 Day 3 of rain! :)

The bad 'taking pictures while driving' habit still continues... -_-.

Serious family addiction ever since my mom brought home pastries/cake for my birthday -_-.

I love the varying colors of these three girls. I know, I know, this picture is totallyyy creeper-esque.

After dropping off my brother at tutoring, I've drove past my old Granada Hills neighborhood and elementary school. My neighborhood looks the same, the current owners to my old house in my opinion have made the house uglier, but I guess the old huge trees planted in the sidewalks make up for the small designed 1950s homes. When passing my elementary school, everything from the playground, the buildings, the stairs I used to get picked up at looked the same until I saw the front of the school... they had painted a huge mural with a super ugly horse and knight. I was shocked, then "sped" off quickly before someone noticed a small asian girl driving suspiciously around an elementary school. 

Later in the evening, I got to attend a "special" SUV event with my lovely ol' pals Paul, Jo, Ash, and David (plus some of P's friends Iko like Eco and Jen). YAY! Thanks for hosting Paul!

The day Paul finally knew how to make French bread! hahahah

I haven't had Beard Papas in 2 years! Thanks Jo & Davidddd.

They're so cute.

Dance off! Such a good duo, great job y'all. hahah 

Don't ya just love dancing to Lady Gaga?!

Here's the story with tonight's blog title...
So we got on the topic of Jon/Kate and their 8 kids..
David: Oh those cute 8 hapa children..
Me: What are they again 1/8 Korean?
Ash: No, they're 1/4.
D: Oh so they aren't hapas...
Me: What do you call children that are 1/4?
Ash: QUAPA!

Special thanks to ASH for the title of tonight's blog. ;)

"Study" party?

Got to spend some time with PAUL at Crave Cafe on Ventura. For a gal that has been living in the Valley her whole life (on and off for the past 4 years), I never knew of any such place that is open for 24/7 in the Valley, just never thought it existed. Paul and my hang out sessions are bomb hahah, we just having fun hanging out while we are both on our computers - him actually studying/facebooking, me just reading my back logged blogs. I seriously read so many blogs that I can't keep up. Good times! :)

My grilled chicken panini with some delicious pesto on the side.

So I haven't had ramen in YEARS, but with all the rain and my lazy motivation to actually make real food, I decided to make some Shin Ramen, my favorite brand of course. It was delicious, just like how it tasted in my childhood. I made it more of my own concoction adding more garlic, ginger, and egg, sounds more like an asian pasta.

RAIN!

FINALLY! Fall is here! YAYAYAYAY!
In LA, it rained all day today; the weather was cool, nice, and gloomy.

View from my balcony

Weird dream pt. dos. Last night I dreamt that I was basically repeating my RA year again and few friends, Karen, Michelle, and Mikey threw me an extravagant birthday party right before I was going to go to hall dinner with my residents. I'm not sure what's going on in my head but I feel like I'm living my college years again, just this time with different twists.

I am a "night owl" because no matter how hard I try I end up sleeping late and waking up late. The past few days I think I was so busy dreaming that my mom surprisingly woke me up. She hasn't done that since probably my 2nd year of college... Oy vey.

Just a kid

Weird dream. I'm not sure what kind of message it's sending me. I was reunited with my student staff team from 2nd year, MCC and we were all living in this creepy big house outside of Mesa Court. I'm not sure what happen, but Jo ended up giving me Condi, her guinea pig to watch or something... Condi went berserk, climbing walls and running around the house super fast as if she was on drug. The Condi I remember always stayed calm and didn't really move when I took her out of the cage. Oh the irony...

This is my brother doing his Spanish homework last night. I miss the days when our teachers required us to make creative projects for our class, it was so much fun. Lately, I've been trying to help my brother with his homework primarily proofreading some papers (I dare not go anywhere near calculus). Curtis was right, I definitely do miss and should have appreciated my status as a student more. Is it possible to miss writing papers for my classes at UCI?!

We are family

I recently got the HTC Incredible and started downloading some songs.  Naturally, my ringtone for my family is "WE ARE FAMILY... I GOT ALL MY SISTERS AND ME!" Whenever my phone rings and I'm in a public place, and it's one of my family members, I sort get embarrassed that "We are family" is blasting from my bag but at the same time I love it because it's such a catchy and fun song.

Went to CPK for lunch. I love having my camera with me constantly because I can even take pictures like these of my family. Hahaha this picture makes me laugh because my mom is giving my brother the "study hard, okay?!" look. <3

Mi papa

Happy October

I am starting to develop a Friday routine: have lunch - today was with my mom, mosey around doing errands/be at home i.e. watch project runway and grey's anatomy, pick up my brother, drop him off at hagwon, back at home working out, dinner, computer, sleep. A day goes by too quickly! :/

 

I LOVE the rows of gigantic palm trees on Sherman Way. I smile every time I see these wonderful trees, and think of how much of a staple these trees are to giving character to the San Fernando Valley.