"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.

When September ends...

Last day of September y'all

My fascination/soon becoming an obsession of clouds got heightened today. I took a series of pictures while driving around Northridge trying to showcase the clouds as much as I could. The clouds that are forming nowadays keep reminding me of the clouds I marveled at while I was in DC last summer.  The clouds are poofy, pure white, softer than cotton balls type clouds. But only do they remind me of DC, I keep envisioning Disney's baby Hercules to be laughing away on one of them. Hahah...perfect.

 

 

 

 We raised corn in our backyard this summer. I was SUPER fascinated because 1) I thought the dirt in my backyard was in no condition to make corn grow 2) I didn't know the process of how the corn stock grew 3) we grew PURPLE corn. Unfortunately, I don't think any of my family tasted the corn we grew, so here are the dried out products. I'm planning on growing them next year, if I'm still in the valley (I hope not!); if not, my dad will grow them.

 My dog, Lucky!

Appreciating my home base.

Some realizations and goals:
I will be more motivated and productive than I was all summer. 
I will be the only one out of my friends still stuck in the Valley.
I will have one friend in NY, DC, OC, France, India, and Italy for the next year. SHIT!

Waking up, now that September is over. 

The past 4 months were __________.

Next chapter.

Good Drained

Today was SUPER eventful. I haven't been this tired in quite a while.

I got to hang out with Seong-Ah for the last time in a very long time. I realized this was probably the last time I'm going to physically see her in 2010. :( I'm going to miss our hang outs, eating with you, drinking coffee with you at cute cafes in Hollywood/LA. I hope you have the time of your life in HK and in India! I expect to see your blog(s) updated! 

We went to the $3.99 store in Westwood.. haha such a fun store. This picture brought me back to the 80s... who wears overalls?! :)

Amazingly cute trash cans.

I know this is really bad.. I've recently been taking pictures of things while I'm driving -_-. I had to capture this image of downtown LA driving on highway 2 from La Cresenta to Irvine! I'm trying to limit my bad habit right now. After driving for 2 hours during LA rush hour, I finally made it.

Had dinner with my Puente kiddos, super last minute reunion. So nice seeing them now as 3RD YEARS! 

Last but not least, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DARLING JESS!
I'm so so so happy I got to see these ladies! 

It was a great way to end the night! <3

After a total of at least 5.5 hours of driving, I finally come home and KO. Fin

Casual Day

Flowers are just an added effect. My mom brought home a pretty flower arrangement and decided to make her own edited version getting rid of the extra "fluff". But by far today, seeing this USPS advertisement show up in the mail was the most eventful part of my day. Haha...

When I saw this in the mail, I just thought, Oh man.. at least the postal service is attempting to get creative by advertising with pop-up ordering forms. 

Enjoy.