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i haven't been updating my blog for a while, because i've just been way to lazy.

yesterday i got my eyes checked and got new frames. apparently i have slight astigmatism in one of my eyes, it's not bad so whatever. but my frames are going to take a while to come in so i'll get them when i come back for chinese new year.

i finally got to get back home to get ready for helen's white elephant hang out. we played some rockband 2 for a bit. i started to make the cookies. the sugar cookies came out terribly ugly but tasted good and the oatmeal cookies came out normal looking and tasting. time for gift exchange! i got the dvd Burn Without Notice or whatever. helen got screwed over by getting a yoga dvd and a WoW card set. she traded the cards for something less sucky, i forgot. isaac got this cool plush zombie that you could take apart, i was jealous. devin got a domokun plush and batman begins dvd. cynthia got a weird shirt and something i forgot. alex got a starwars mug and something he traded with helen. later daniel, wilson, greg and shaina came over and hung out too. we all played rockband and ate meat pies, that tasted pretty good. soon lissette and i had to go home. but it was a fun day overall.

today cynthia gave me, helen and lissette a christmas bundle that had candy and a scratch lottery card. we were all amazed with the lottery card but none of us won. some drama with lissette's family happened and she couldn't go with us to eat at spaghetti factory.

so the rest of us went to spaghetti factory. me and cynthia have never been there, it was nice. i ordered an italian soda, it came with a free glass, it was pretty cool. i got spaghetti with a bunch of sauces, it was pretty good but not awesome. after the meal we got some free ice cream!!! yumm!

after that we walked around the mall. there were sales but they weren't that great. a highlight was a trip to the puppy store! there was a cute dog called a chiweenie, a chihuahua and a dachshund, it was soooooooo adorable! more walking and i bought a wallet but it wasn't on sale.

god i'm depressed

about what? about FAILING in organic chemistry. i thought i would at least get a fucking C- in that class, that's not even enough to pass for my major. but a fucking F?! OMG! when i saw that on my grades i broke out in a cold sweat. omg...just omg...i'm pissed because i thought i did okay on my final or at least not that bad. i thought the professor was going to curve the student's grade to make the better scored test be worth more on the over all grade. or was that offer only for people who got A's on their final? i don't know! god, now i have to take it over again, which means i have to drop next quarter's ochem class, oh wait someone told me you automatically get kicked out. i have to fucking retake it this quarter. fuck fuck fuck. i secretly hope they made a mistake and are going to change it but doubt it. OMFG! i keep looking at it, somehow hoping it will change. fuck! am i crying? no, i'm in fucking shock.

this coming quarter, i am going to fucking step it up. no more fucking fooling around. omg, i really can't believe it. i just hope i don't fall into a hole i can't get out of. maybe i really need to get those ADD/ADHD medications. when school starts, i hope i remember to go to the doctor's.

Ruby Tuesday's

it was late again last night and helen and i were hungry again. i really wanted to try the new restaurant, Ruby Tuesday's. Cynthia also came along. we got to the restaurant, and it smelled weird, like eggs. not a good first impression. their menu wasn't so bad, it wasn't too expensive. we all took a while to choose something to eat. helen said that the mashed potatoes there were really good. so we looked for stuff with mashed potatoes.

on the menu was a Bistro Barbecue Chicken, it came with broccoli, mashed potatoes, lightly fried chicken with onion strings. that sounded delicious, so ALL of us ordered that. nobody likes to copy each others order but we were all stubborn. we were thinking it would suck and that all of us would be miserable.

we finally got our food, it didn't look like a lot but we dug in. the food was soooooo good! it's the best dish i've ever gotten at a restaurant! for once we were really silent while eating, and when we did talk it was about the food. i ate the plate clean! OMG that food was sooo fucking good! the place might have smelled funny but the food was delicious!

also i paid with my credit card. the waitress came back and said that her name was the same as mine, first and last. except she spelled her name Jeannie. weird coincidence.

the good side of laziness

i've been bumming out all day. all i've done is watch several movies, get up twice for food, and watch tv. not standing around might do some good for me. as we all know, you grow like a quarter inch, or something, when you sleep. but when you get up and move about, you get squished back. i think i have been growing for the last few days. i checked the measurements of my wall and compared it to my height. i have marks on the wall saying how tall i was at what time. last time i checked was around thanksgiving. i was the same height as i was for like a year. i just checked my height right now and i'm an inch taller! whether or not i will stay like this, who knows. but that's just one thing that actually benefits me from bumming around.

cookies

today's weather was kinda shitty but i went out with helen, cynthia and lissette to get sushi. it was really good and it started raining again. we went shopping for groceries to make cookies! we made soooo many cookies, lissette used us as her slaves. i had to use my hands to mix the butter in the batter. plus, we made up something called an alphacat. apparently we are all alphacats. pierre brought his girlfriend's brother with him. we alllll argued with him, it was hilarious! after all was said and done we made like over 50 cookies.

stranded again

so yesterday helen wanted to go get some food. this was at 10pm, i agreed and my mom let me go. but my mom put up a fight saying that it's really cold outside and that i had to wear a billion layers. she said i couldn't go if i didn't wear all those layers. i wore it and went off to eat.

Helen and i went to diamond plaza, to eat at The Boat. it wasn't raining when we got there but just in case i brought my umbrella with me into the restaurant. we ate and talked it was fun. it's also kinda weird because we were basically the only ones in the restaurant. so we finished eating and paid the bill. there was a really nice christmas tree in the front and asked to get our picture taken. it was a nice picture, hahahha!

so we head to the car, on the way to the car, helen's searching for her car keys. she can't find them, we get to the car and see them in the cup holder. it's just a big OMG cuz last time we got stranded, she left the car running. at least this time the car was off. she tried calling her brother, he didn't answer so she kept calling. still no answer. it's like 11:30 at the moment. we go inside the asian store and browse and wait around. helen's brother finally called back. then we got kicked out. so we waited outside for a good 40mins. i was so glad i was wearing so many layers and that i had an umbrella. helen's brother finally came, it only takes 20min or so to get to where we were.

guess what? he brought the wrong spare key!!! it was like OMG again! so we went with him to get the right key. at her house we couldn't find the right key. her dad after 15min found the key. during that 15min, her brother was talking about they spare maybe being under the car. he almost convinced us to go drive back to the car and search under the car. helen's dad came out with teh key. imagine if we drove to the car and had to drive to the house and drive back. that would have been hell. but we got the key and drove back. helen drove me back home. i got home at freakin past 1:30am. geez...

but it was funny, kinda not.

Finished with finals

so for some reason, i was not really worried about my bio final. that was bad because when i actually started studying, i procrastinated for a day or two, i realized that i was totally unprepared and that i really needed to catch up. too bad by the time i realized that, it would be too time consuming to go through everything! so i just picked out what i felt i would have a problem with and just studied that. this is the class where i can watch lecture videos. the professor also had a video of his review session, i made sure i watched that one. plus i went over all the old exams. oh yeah, and i accidentally missed a catch up session for tutor for bio. woops!

i got the the final really early because that's just the way i am. i didn't see any seating charts on the projector so i just sat somewhere. about 15mins later they put it up but by that time there were a bunch of people. that one guy in my lab that looks like Dr. Wilson sat near me. i really wanna tell him he looks like Dr. Wilson but i think it would have really weirded him out. because i didn't sit in the right section brian didn't sit next to me. apparently, he was sad and he blames me for bombing the test because we didn't sit next to each other. when i did turn in my test, i did see him, he did look very sad, poor thing.

all these precautions helped a lot but because i didn't read everything, i sometimes i had to guess on the final. that was around 7 questions out of 83. i thought that i would have the hardest time with the genetics problem solving parts, but it was the easiest part because i watched the review session and the questions were easier than the previous exams. overall the exam wasn't so bad since i went over the old exams, that really helps a lot! i didn't panic during the test, i just took my freakin sweet time. i felt i did a good job, maybe not an A but close enough.

after i got back from the test, the roommates and i started binge cleaning. we got everything cleaned up in around 3-4 hours, i left after the major stuff was finished cleaning. i fell asleep on the way home. when we were almost home i woke up and wanted food, so my mom bought a roasted duck, yummm.... i came home to a bunch of stuff i bought online, it was like christmas! i watched a bunch of movies i downloaded before i left school.

i'm glad i'm home, i can rest, hang out with friends, eat, and sleep!

2 Finals down

On Tuesday i had two finals, psych and ochem. i woke up early to study for psych because i didn't study for it recently. i ended up procrastinating and just watching tv, i felt like i really knew the material. i went to my final and i'm pretty sure i got an A on the test. i finished in less than an hour, there were 60 multiple choice questions and i triple checked my answers. i wanted to punch this guy in the back of their head because he was eating chips, DURING THE TEST!

after that i was really procrastinating. i went back to the apartment ate some food and took a nap. then i packed very slowly to go to the library. for once i decided to sit in the cubicles instead of the 24 hour study room. i was there for 4 hours! that is so much time just to spend studying. i even got some good tips from Brian. i was really anxious for the test. they put a clock on the projector so we could see what time it was. they came with the test more than 5mins late!!! but once i opened it and started doing problems i found that i knew how to do them all. is it cuz i studied and actually learned?! no..it's cuz i went to a review session with the best tutor and she gave out practice finals with the answer key. i used those to help me study. and guess what, that practice final was exactly like the real final! it even had some of the actual problems! so i did really well. the class is curved by whichever test you do better on. i did really bad on my midterms, so they'll take up 20% of my grade and my final can be worth 80%. so i think i can really pass this class, that was my biggest fear, not passing. that was such a relief. i left the test after an hour and a half. before a lot of people did.

there were a little less than a hundred people at that review session. i am just amazed that i did well on that test.

when i came home, the whole house played Pigball. this game i made up, it's like raquetball but with a stressball pig and there's no bouncing. you can only use your hands to hit it, no kickinig. it was so fun!!! we played for about an hour or more, gah everyone was so sweaty and tired.

oh and i sleeptalked to mika last night, i'm not sure i was awake but i remember talking to her. Mika said that i also started saying other stuff. hahahaha!

say what?

oh i'm blog, it's finals soon, why am i on the internets? because my bio class has video lecture streams online!!! wooh! i have around 12hours of lectures to watch/listen to. if i do several hours a day but that's cool. i'm glad that my classes don't start till later in the day next quarter.

so studying, i haven't really been doing it. it's sooo bad. i really feel like i'm going to fail ochem, it's really depressing. i found out that if you don't pass it, the school drops you out of the next class, because your grade isn't good enough to go to the next class. i thought physics was hard, no no no, at least i understood the concepts which helped figure out the answer. i got some tips from susan, she didn't pass the class the first time so she's retaking it this quarter. i have some clues on what to study but basically everything we learned this quarter is going to be on the final. that's freaking 10 chapters!!! oh god. i can't wait till after tuesday.

i have two finals that day, psych 1 and ochem. psych i've actually been studying because it's an easy course. i better get a good grade, i actually did all the reading, thanks to my job. i have a lot of time at my job so i just bring my hw and read. i would bring my ochem stuff, but that book weighs at least 5 pounds. maybe next quarter i'll tough it out and really buckle down and study, if i pass this quarter of ochem. god i hope i pass.

for the past few days i've been eating, out of procrastination. i'm never really hungry but i eat because i'm bored. i'm really trying to avoid ochem, it's ruining my life!

end of dead week

i haven't been going to my 8am bio classes and i feel really bad, but i found out that there are videos of the lectures online, yay! i can review online and watch tv/computer! which meant that i didn't go to my bio class today. instead i just went to my o-chem class, which lasted less than 30mins, lame.

i was tired but i wanted to watch stuff on tv and Ann owed me a blender's smoothie. got the smoothie, ate and took a nap. after the nap i had work then a review session. i saw some guy i've never seen at work. he was kinda cute. i asked a co-worker if he was new, and he said that that guy worked there longer than he did. he just works earlier hours. i was shocked at the fact, hahaha! a bunch of people were returning clothes and i learned how to do that. it was pretty quiet for work.

review session took forever, made me not able to go to the parade on state street. ohwell, the tutor was funny cuz she read all her evaluations and only one person gave her a bad review. that person also made comments that were personal. the tutor said the girl was in the review session and that she will get kicked out if she takes the tutor next quarter. the tutor said that the girl was stupid and added something personal to the comment and that's how she knew it was her. and everyone clapped for the tutor, imagine if you were that girl, that would suck soooo bad. also somebody gave me a papercut, ouch.

aw last day of lab

today was the last day of lab, awww. last night i sent brian a graph for the lab and it was great that i did because i think it was worth a lot. we had to take a test for the lab. i became very sleepy during the test, i could barely keep my eyes open. plus the test was really hard, i hope i did okay on it. after the test we had a few mins of free time, so me and brian started playing with photobooth on the mac. we got scared so we only took two pictures. the sad thing was that we couldn't email or take the pictures off the computer. aww. lab was pretty uneventful for a lab.

Black Friday, Thanksgiving, and Spending, Oh My!

Wednesday: i actually went to my 8am and 9am classes, but skipped tutoring to catch the train. it had been raining but at our apartment it stopped. there was a lot of traffic, it took almost an hour to get there. funny thing, i forgot my umbrella and it started raining cats and dogs. i got my train ticket at the station and sat outside freezing for an hour. getting on the train was hard, i almost didn't get a seat, that was scary. the train ride was overall boring. we got delayed for an hour.

Thursday: i didn't actually have thanksgiving dinner. instead i just bummed at home and shopped online at amazon.com and american eagle. i slept kinda early to get ready for black friday.

Friday: woke up at 6am cuz cynthia texted me about picking me up, i got ready really fast. we went straight to target. we got there around 6:20 but there was a bunch of people already. cynthia grabbed 30rock season 1, the thing i was going to get. it was also the last one. i was sad, but i figured they stashed some more elsewhere. i finally found it, and it was the last one. i also bought weeds season 1 and 2. after we headed to the mall since we didn't know where to go. i bought yatzee and apples to apples at KB toys. it was really cheap how could i pass that up? so apparently cynthia and ashley were supposed to watch twilight together later on that day. cynthia called and texted ashley but ashley didn't respond at all. that's lame.

i took a nap and went to my family's thanksgiving dinner. there was so much food. i ate til i just couldn't. there was turkey, asian stuffs, macaroni salad, mashed potatoes, and more deliciousness. then we played with the kids, it was overall fun! i wish i took pictures though.

Saturday: hung out with Helen a bit, we ate sushi and went to the mall. i had to go home early cuz my mom is mean. i packed and got ready to head back to santa barbara. i watched all of weeds season1. it wasn't that good, it was an interesting subject but the directing was bad or something. i just didn't like the style. they just put characters in, making it seem like they were important, but then they just tossed those characters out. plus the main lady's face annoys me. the character annoys me too because she seems like she wants the business more than her kids. it's like she started dealing to provide for her kids but she completely ignores them even though she didn't have to. she doesn't make the effort. so i'm going to watch the second season and sell it on amazon.com.

Sunday: headed back to santa barbara, i fell asleep for most of the way but i was awake for an hour and i got a bit sick. mary got an xbox and was playing fable 2, it's a funny game. for dinner we went to a hawaiian grill place, it's reallly good. i got a great sandwich called Burnt Ends that had the best parts of the meat. it was awesome!

Monday: i splurged money on shirt.woot.com and aerie. geez i gotta stop spending money. work was cool, just talked to trevor about thanksgiving. oh yeah, also the guy frances is so hot already, and he decides to take a break to go surfing. how hot is that, i was flabbergasted.