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Jan 1: I'm looking at my wristband because it was from NYE and it was the craziest experience I've ever had.

Jan 1: Nothing like fresh cut oranges

Jan 1: Marco got this for my birthday last year, I didn't really express my appreciation to him, but I really do like it.

Photo project/ NYE craziness

Fine Annie, I'll Blog!

So courtesy of the internet I have decided to start a 365 day photo project. It will get me to use my camera everyday and possibly lead to getting a different camera, we'll see. I don't like my camera it's too slow and i have shaky hands. I guess this project will get me to look at everyday life in a different way. This is not a way of me trying to be artsy-fartsy because I am really not artistic at all. This just seems like something fun to do and I think in the long run it will pay off. I'm putting my pictures up on Picasso, the account name is the same as my email. I think everyone can look at it, I don't know. I probably will make some days be more than one picture, but I promise not more than five per day.

My NYE happenings:

so went with helen, devin and some of devin's friends to city walk for new year's eve celebration. we went to one club/arcade, lol. i just had ordered one drink.

I had been sipping on the drink all night. so it's not a lot of alcohol, plus it tasted like candy.

At midnight we were all on the balcony of this one place Jillian's. Suddenly my view was darkening, i knew i was beginning to black out, then my body was numb, i could still move and stuff but i couldn't feel anything.

At "3, 2, 1" i was going down. i tried to hold myself up but that wasn't happening, so sat on the floor. people were talking to me but everything was very muffled. i just closed my eyes and sat there. i could feel my body getting colder. i used all of whatever strength to fight blacking out. i know if i had one more drink or if i kept my eyes open i would have definitely passed out.

someone got me water, i said i wanted to throw up to get whatever it was out of my system. after a couple mins i felt good enough to get up to go to the bathroom. this is when the fireworks were going off and stuff. i don't know how much of it i missed.

but i felt better and better. so it was really scary i couldn't believe it was happening.

the rest of the night i felt better, i was just disturbed at how this could happen. i never let my drink out of sight or reach. i held my drink all night so i suspect if i got drugged it was when i wasn't looking at my drink but still holding it.

i'm still wondering if i got drugged or if something happened. alex said diabetes, i don't think so, and helen said maybe food poisoning but i doubt that too.

this is the worse thing that has ever happened to me. overall i'm okay right now. what a way to start the new year.

Helen's Birthday Party, only story 1

it's been a craaaazyyy weekend, i'll say that.

Got to helen's place on friday around 6pm, i left sb at 2:30, so much traffic around. took the worst freeways the 101, the 5 and the 10. traffic on all three. afterwards i went to get Classic Burger with Helen and Cynthia, i was starving so it was pretty damn awesome. Then we went shopping at Target, 99 cent store and Wal-mart. i bought a bunch of stuff that i needed and some peach passion champagne, only 4 bux, what a steal! yeah we were out til like 11pm shopping. we're big spenders, hahahah!

next day/ party day. kinda just were lazy in the early part of the day. we just chilled, ate and talked to people online. went to food4less and bought a 30case of beer, midori, and some smirnoff passion fruit. i felt so proud being carded. it's jus weird that people have to type in the birthday on the ID into the register, it's like, you can't figure birthday out? whatever. got ready then took a nap i got sweaty from the nap because i was using a thick comforter. but it was too late to take a shower, people started coming.

i got kinda drunk and kept reading to mike for some reason, hahaha! funny stuff. all night i wanted to slap freakin isaac cuz he was bagging on me in a not nice way. so i was pissed about that. antho was kinda mad at him too for some reason, probably because isaac is just isaac. the night was going great everyone was having a good time. had some good drinks, good food and good friends, what more can you want?

later cynthia and lissette left then a fight broke out between antho and isaac, antho got him by the throat with one hand and kinda just pushed him down. isaac apparently talked shit about antho's cousin and antho wasn't taking that. isaac got up and said "go ahead and beat me up" and stuff like that. i had to separate them, isaac went out in front of the house and cried or soemthing. helen went out to calm him down, but that made her upset/cry. then everyone started getting angry or something. marco said some stuff to isaac like no one wants him there and blah blah blah. so isaac drove off, like freakin drunk, but we couldn't stop him. then helen was really upset/more crying and everyone was angry at isaac for that.

so helen's parents were mad or upset about this and we had to pack the party up. people decided to go to Ey's house after. i said my goodbyes and was going to sleep over at helen's place, but little did i know that isaac was back in the house. i was kinda upset about it so i slept over at Ey's place.

Comic Con Breakdown

Just gonna remind myself of stuff here, then i'll write more about it when i'm done with finals.

Thursday:
-drivings
-sleepings

Friday:
-awake at 7am
-get there 8:30am
-volunteering
- line for ballroom 20
-Big Bang Theory
-24
-Bones
-Joss Whedon/Dollhouse
-Sci Fi Hot List panel
-Zach Levi/Subway
-BBQ

Saturday:
-there around 7:30am
-ballroom 20 line
-name dropping
-3rd row Chuck panel
-Jeffester
-best panel
-exhibit hall
-chuck signing
-stupid indigo room/running
-freakin hot and humid
-cory from glee
-glee panel/2nd episode
-heroes panel
-true blood
-pretzel guy
- sad mythbusters
-dessert place

Sunday:
-exhibit hall dash
-swag time
-love connection, hahhaha
-more swagness
-volunteering
-torchwood panel
-pick up sticks
-drivings
-crazy tardis
-chik-what?
-sorting stuff

Conclusion
-awesomeness
-SDCC people
-going next year
-pack/prepare better
-best fun ever for first time con

Friday the 13th

so i'm not really a superstitious person, but something always goes wrong on friday the 13th, whether i realize it or not. it's not self-sabotage either.

so on friday i knew it was friday the 13th but i didn't really realize it. it just wasn't on my mind. i just went through the day like it was normal. last day of MCDB woo! went to work, help set up for the volleyball game. watched the men's volleyball team practice, like a creeper. the maybe cute guy from the physical therapist place came by to pick up towels. i was moving a table and offered to help and i accepted. i know he's in my bio and eemb class so i ask if he was and yup, it's him. we introduced ourselves and talked about how bogus the bio class is. so i made a new friend, the last day of the quarter, hahahah! he went back to what he was doing and so did i. on the court only two of the volleyball guys were practicing. my boss threw me a basketball. i didn't catch it so i chased it and got it on the floor. well my feet were still going when i bent down to pick the ball up. i kicked the ball while it was in my hands, which bent back my middle finger on my right hand. this was in front of the volleyball guys so i held in my pain and let out a squeak later. it hurt a lot! so i got some ice from the physical therapist place. then it started hurting for abit more longer than i liked so i went back and got it checked. i was embarrassed because the new friend works there. so it's not broken, i just hurts a lot. the guy got me this strip of brown stretchy material to wrap my finger. it sticks to itself, it's so cool i was playing with it all day.

today i got up and my finger has swelled up. i figure it's a sprain and if it gets worse i'll go to the doctors. it's just annoying, i can't close my fist all the way, it also feels like i need to crack the knuckle it's near but i figure that's a very bad idea. of course i would sprain my finger on friday the 13th.

Last 2009 Basketball home game

i haven't really been updating because i've been busy with school and PCN. i haven't had much time for fun.

yesterday i went to vagina monologues it was not what i expected but better. i enjoyed it a lot and also i knew three people doing it.

today i went to the last home game of this year's men's basketball. i got a free senior night t-shirts. there was a typo, that's sad, who can't spell Chris? the game started off good we were ahead by a few points. then we fell back a bunch of points. we spent to whole game trying to catch up, it was always around 5-7 points behind. at the end we were tied but with 30 seconds, there was a personal foul and the other team got 2 free throws and made it. we were devastated. there was only 6.3 seconds to get 3 points to win, but from across the whole court. one guy got the ball and ran to half court, threw the ball and made it!!! it was fucking crazy!!!! everyone rushed the court and started jumping around the middle of the court singing "ole ole ole ole gauchos, gauchos!" it was awesome!!! i saw chris devine and patted him on the shoulder and it was sweaty as hell! i was super happy that i patted him but super grossed out by the sweat. it was still all in good fun. afterwards there was an autograph session, i got my gaucholoco shirt signed by the whole team! it tickled! that was an awesome game. i messed up my throat by yelling and screaming. it was amazing!

my week or what i remember of it

Wednesday:
i was kinda having a poopy day, it was really hard for me to get out of bed, i think i was late for ochem, that's never fun. so i head to bio, and i see brian, we usually meet each other at the same time. he was just standing waiting for me and there's something he's holding behind his back. he hands me a yellow daisy. it was a really sweet gesture, but before there any hoopla. he said that it was random act of kindness day. someone gave him the flower and he gave it to me. i didn't really know what to say besides thank you. i felt a little awkward since i usually don't get flowers. but it cheered up my day notheless.

Thursday:
it was just a shitty day, i was moody and cranky. i was glad that day was over with.

Saturday:
Kinda just chilled for most of the day. i've been kinda sick for a while, so i took it easy. Ann and i wanted to go to the basketball game, but she had been somewhere else all day. Mika finally came home. we started the movie Dead Alive, it was really good there was a lot of screaming cuz it was horrifying but also funny. we had to stop half way so we could go to the game. so Ann, mika and i went to the basketball game. there weren't a lot of people but there was quite a number of them. i never realized how small the court was, but since we hadn't been to a basketball game all year we decided to make the most of it. lately our basketball team had been losing to other schools. the game itself was really back and forth. we were in the gaucho locos section so we cheered our heads off. when the clock ran out we were both tied. so we went into over time and we won!!!!! yay!!! we actually won! i was really happy. after we went back home and watched the rest of Dead Alive, it was really funny.

Ann, tony, mika and i went to April's birthday party. we all had some alcohol, passion fruit skky with cranberry juice. it was good cuz i put a lot of cranberry juice. i tried some beer pong but i don't drink beer so i made someone else drink it for me, hahahahha! good sport. then drank like a shot of this hazelnut alcohol, i like hazelnut but that was just too much hazelnut smokiness. during the night i started stacking beer cans into a pyramid. it got really high, over my head high. me and this one guy were competiting. another guy criticized my pyramid making skills, but in a joking way. there were a lot of ooo's and ahhh's. my tower fell always. people even took pictures it was great! i talked to this one guy i used to like from FT back in the day. he was really nice and i'm glad a spoke to him. i met a lot of people that night. i met these two guys and implied they were in a relationship, they took it to the next level, it was hilarious. i called one guy a slut, he admitted it, hahahhaa! those guys i met started messing with me saying "hella" a bunch of times, i had to be pulled away cuz i was slapping/hitting them. not hard, or at least i don't think it was hard. they knew i was joking. then it was dancing time. the slutty guy danced sooo well, i was throughly impressed and entertained. i found him attractive because of the dancing, he was so good. he danced for me like a monkey. i was sad to leave, i was having fun but developing a headache. said our goodbyes and walked home. at home a threw up as usual and went to sleep.

i didn't get a hang over in the morning but my throat is fucked up from screaming and talking loud for a long time. i woke up really early 9:30am on a weekend. that'd just crazy.

weekend in SF/UCB

Friday:
it had been raining for a while so i ditched my class but i had to go to work so i did just because i get paid to do it. work was boring but i just read a bunch of Watchmen, almost finishing it. Margaret finally came by i guess there was traffic. so we finally left at around 7pm. the ride was pretty boring so i kinda fell asleep at a certain point. we got out of the car for McDonalds, they offered a mini meal for $3. i got a chicken sandwich, drink, and fries. i think it's a good deal. the fries were so salty though, too much sodium! when we got out it was raining, so we bee-lined for ann's car. margaret was in front of me and suddenly stops. then she shouts to ann, "drive to us!" that's kinda messed up but it was a good idea, hahahahhaa! so we finally got to Berkeley, we dropped off Margaret at her person's place (she doesn't like to use the word boyfriend). Ann and i just crashed at Carolyn's i slept on the floor in a sleeping bag. i was on top of 2 other sleeping bags but that was slippery so i removed them. during the night i slept on my side and it got numb cuz the floor was so hard. but i didn't care i just kept going back to sleep.

Saturday:
Us girls had lunch at an awesome food place Durant Cafe. my combo had french toast, potatoes, fruit cup and eggs benedict. it was really really good. we told stories and caught up with each other. it was quite enjoyable since the weather was pretty much crap, at least it wasn't raining. so after brunch Ann had to go home for her dad's birthday. so we had to decide what to do, Margaret decided to bring her person along. that was cool with us. we decided to go to SF for Stella the bakery, Brian told me about it saying that it's the best thing ever and that it was "love" in your mouth.

so Carolyn drove us to SF, it was a pretty short drive, Margaret was the DJ in the car and played really good music so i was pretty happy. i tried to take pictures of the ride over but it didn't really work since i was in the most unscenic part of the car. ugh! so we finally get into the city, finding parking was a bitch, but we got lucky. we were going to just park in a loading zone and Carolyn would just stay in the car, i didn't want that. fortunately the car in front of us, an actual parking space, yay us! we got out and walked to Stella, the ordering was confusing and incompetent workers piss me off. so i got the pear tart recommended by Brian. it was pretty good, but i'm not really a tart person. i didn't have the heart to tell Brian so i texted that it was good. i think he bought it. hahhahah! afterwards we realized we had unlimited parking so we wandered around. we walked all the way to Ghirardelli Square. checked out some stores and galleries on the way. saw some salvador dali, dr. sesuss and other fancy people. we wandered around the square, we even got some free samples, my mistake, it was peanut butter, grosssss!

so we got hungry and we couldn't decide where to eat. finally after walking up and down the streets someone said in-and-out, it wasn't me but i love it. we walked all the way back to the car. we were all freakin' tired. we got back to Carolyn's place, we watched a weird movie with george clooney and catherine zeta jones. it was so strange. i knocked out that night, i was sleeping on the couch.

Sunday:
woke up because Ann got to the apartment. we planned to have tea in SF so we made reservations. then we had to add on because margaret's person's roommate and friend were coming too. so we had about 7 people. Ann, Carolyn, and i took the BART to SF. we found the place and knew the others would be late. when they finally came, there were two other guys we haven't met. Thanos and Matt. i kinda thought Thanos was cute. kinda interesting during tea because he wanted to learn the ways. the bill came and it was $33 per person. we were shocked.

afterwards we were going to go to MOMA but Matt had to buy gloves at Burberry. completely unnecessary but whatever. finally got to MOMA, it was raining pretty hard. it was pretty cheap because we were students. it was a cool museum. cool pictures, paintings and displays. some other stuff was not so cool, i just breezed through that. we had fun taking pictures and messing around. after we went to the westfield mall. wondered around and decided where to eat for dinner. we went to some french place, it just got a sandwich. we were going to hang out after food some of us had to go back to Carolyn's place to get the alcohol and change.

over the day i kinda stopped being interested in Thanos, he just wasn't interesting anymore. he wasn't boring just interesting up to a point. we all got to margaret's person's and matt's place. the stuff we had was skyy and smirnoff. we played a card game where people have to drink if they get an 8. that got carried away because people didn't want to drink by themselves and non-berkeley people had to take a welcome shot. after that game we played king's cup. i grabbed a strawberry acai smirnoff, it was fucking delicious. so i kept drinking that, drank it fast. king's cup didn't help either. it messed me up. i suddenly felt powerful so i started throwing stuff. like the box for the cards and a bottle cap. that was when i had to drink water instead of alcohol. i spilled a lot that night. on myself and kicked over stuff. it was so funny. i had to throw up, i did and broke the toilet, that was just so funny to me. but i fixed it by putting water in the back tank, it wasn't really broken i just flushed to soon right after. so after resting and drinking water we went back to carolyn's. i was starting to get a headache. i thought it was going to get a hang over.

while sleeping ann woke me up by knocking down stuff. she picked it up and went back to sleep, it took a little bit to do that. ann spoke in her sleep and said "hamster hambuger" it was so funny!

Monday:
so i didn't get a hangover, thank god. we planned on dim sum. apparently we had even more people coming, ann's grand came from the BART and matt's friend was coming too but he got lost on the BART. so we were late luckily we moved our reservation. the girls came first and the rest got there just in time. had a great time eating and ordering dimsum. we took a while. we paid about 10bucks each but that's with lots of tips. after we had to buy stuff for free parking at the asian market. i bought some asian junk food, it was all cheap too. great stuff. sad because we had to leave. we were sad and said our goodbyes, telling people to come visit santa barbara. they considered it.

the ride back was pretty horrible, we had a full far and i was sitting bitch. one of the breaks we got was at mcdonalds i got a happy meal with a chococat watch it was cute. i also made substitutions for my happy meal. i got apple dippers instead of fries and chocolate milk instead of soda. it was better than fries and soda. nom! the ride was really long. i don't like it, at least i didn't motion sickness.

saturday!

started out as a quiet reading day, that is a very rare day. then evolved to going to state street. we all went to the sex store, i was uncomfortable. lots of interesting stuff... later we went to urban outfitters, i love that store, i bought some London Dunny's. i finished paying but mary was still looking at stuff, i went over to her a new sale section and found some shoes. they were some cute hightop pumas, i've been looking for some cheap but cool-looking high tops. they were a size 7 but yolanda convinced me to try them on and they fit. big plus the shoes were only $20 i had to buy them. walked to world market, while crossing the street some guy in a limo offered me a free coke, i took it. when i got to the other side of the limo/walked the rest of the cross walk, a different guy accused me of stealing their coke, asshole. watever i got a free coke.

so we finally went ice skating, it was fun!!! i love ice skating but the ice was choppy because they didn't go over it with a zambonie for a long while. went home tired and watched SNL, the digital short was really funny. i ordered The Lonely Island cd, it's all those digital short video songs but more. they're so funny. i used my best buy gift card, i only had to pay 76 cents.

bike crash

i haven't really updated my blog in a while.

i actually have something to write about. this morning i was riding my bike to class, i was a little bit late to get to class early, yeah that's weird but watever. i was turning a corner and BAM my bike and another crashed together. i was stunned, some guy and the biker checked up on me. it was still stunned but late for being early to class, so i just got up and assured them. i got up walked my bike and noticed that the handles and tire did not align. i walked it to a bike rack and put it back to what it was supposed to be. then went to class. in class i assessed the damage: sprained thumb, stiff arm muscles and maybe a bruise on my ankle. not bad!

i want to go see Flight of the Conchords but the tickets are so expensive, i don't like to spend that much money. it's over 50bux! that's a lot of mulah!