Fat Sal's mmmmmm

FAT SAL's = deliciousness and surprisingly did not even give me the slightest food coma. Good day. Thanks ENAD for the treat.

I ordered a Fat Sal.

21st BIFDAY + Co Catch Up

SATURDAY 6/27

MY BIRTHDAY my birthday MY BIRTHDAY and twenty first to be exact!

Some people observe this about me but when it come to my birthday I LOVE it. I don't know why but I get really excited and happy. I run around yelling its my birthday its my birthday and then when it becomes closer to 12am on the 28th I always get really sad....I don't know why I get like this but I doubt this will change even as I get older.

Alright so here's went down on my birthday.....

1. 11:30 walked over to Ralphs with roomie Connie and friend Steven.
2. Got to RALPHS and bought raspberry Skyy Vodka

When we got there I had a really hard time deciding which bottle of alcohol I wanted to buy for my very first legal shot. I was deciding between 3: UV, Smirnoff and Skyy Vodka. I ended up choosing Raspberry Skyy Vodka because it was the prettiest bottle. Blue..

3. On our way back to our apartment I was PUSHED IN A SHOPPING CART that we found on the street.

I truly looked like a drunk person, even though I had yet taken a sip.

4. Got back and took a 1 shot with roomie Connie and neighbor. It smelled waaaaay better than it actually tasted.

5. Woke up and began a EPIC FAIL day...sort of. My plan was to call in to arrange an interview and then stay close to campus in case I received a call. So instead of going to MOCA I was going to go to HAMMER and FOWLER on campus...

Looked online and BOO HAMMER doesn't open on Monday's. I thought fine...I'll just go to campus and have a low key day, go to Fowler and then maybe read a bit. Got to Fowler and in front of me was a sign that said CLOSED. WHAT THE FREAK! GRRR I seriously walked and then grunted and muttered to myself.

6. So then decided I'd go and DONATED BLOOD.

Took about 2 hours can you believe? It felt good though, hadn't donated in a long time...It actually hurt the most this time don't know why. But it was all good. It was cool even got free portable bag cooler thing.

7. When back to apartment, cleaned a tiny then napped a bit and then talked on the phone a bit...

8. Went to PALOMINO with Connie all dressed up and pretty.

We shared Potato Gorgonzola (had blue cheese and some yummy sauce on it), Crispy Calamari and and mushroom pizza. It was hella delicious and greasy like crazy mmmmmmmm. I also ordered a Candied Apply Drop, or something that that. It was a cocktail. It made my face really tingly and warm though and I felt super affected by it.

9. Got back to my apartment and was SURPRISED with friends, cake, ice cream and gifts.

It was wonderful..I've never been surprised for my birthday ever. EVER. I was supposedly easily lied to. Connie told asked me french vanilla or vanilla bean and I answered obliviously. She told me she had to get back to the apartment by 9 to sign up for classes and I didn't even realize enrollment times didn't even start yet for second pass. I saw Steven's shoes at our apartment, asked why they were there and was told he left them and believed it without a doubt. It was soo great...THANK YOU CONNIE! And thank you to the friends that came to wish and celebrate a happy birthday with me. It was a really great way to celebrate my 21st :) There was red velvet cake, homemade cupcakes from Cathy and vanilla ice cream.

THE END OF MY 21ST BIRTHDAY

MONDAY 6/28

Not much I had a super duper quick catch up with my CO SHAMU!!! In her car as she was double parked across from my apartment haha.

I am soo glad to have her as a friend. She seriously is such a good person. I feel like she has such a pure heart and is soo soo philanthropic. She brought me a McCafe, the new lemonade-y one, soo delicious! Hearing about how passionate she is about camp and about her new job makes me really happy. I'm so excited for you and your new job. Your going to love it and I can't wait to hear about it next time we meet :) Love you CO!

a big whoppin FREE LA adventure day :)

FRIDAY 5/24

Nothing much. Didn't watch a movie. Internship as always good. Read scripts and also really starting to feel comfortable at the internship and with the people I work with.

SATURDAY 5/25

Great great day today! Yet another LA adventure with apartment mate CONNIE! This is what we did....

1. Took two buses the 2 and then the metro red line to OLVERA STREET.

- It was a lovely street. Filled with small stores that sold jewelry, candy and toys. Lots of knick knacks. A lot of hand made goods as well. Didn't take us long to walk through. After a while all the little shops sold the same thing, made us wonder how any of them are able to sell anything when they all sell the same thing and at very similar prices.

2. While walking along Olvera Street there was a small exhibit of a Stockton's Adobe. My history is not the best so not exactly sure how it fits in or that much of the historical background of Calforn...i forgot. Anyways thank goodness I was with Connie because she's pretty knowledgeable about history was able to answer my questions. It was still cool to walk through and see the different rooms of the adobe, the bedroom, living room, child's room and outdoor kitchen.

3. Walked then stumbled along OLD FIREHOUSE.

- It was they very first says the lady who was there. First in LA or in the US do not know..but it was pretty cool. On the walls there were the different styles of helmets used by the fire fighters. In the center of the room was the waaaay old "fire truck". It was more of a wagon thing that was pulled by 2 horses. Pretty neat. The place was closing in 10 minutes so we also got there just in time.

4. Walked some more, took some pictures then came across CHINESE HISTORICAL MUSEUM. It was pretty cool. There was a section on Angel Island and on the two floors above a mini art exhibit compiled of art from street artist and their take on immigration. A lot of the pieces were really interesting and I enjoyed expanding my horizons both in terms of art and about immigration, which I have to admit I don't know much about. Its really unfortunate how unaware I am of my surroundings. I need to fix that...and be more culturally aware.

6. Walk to LITTLE TOKYO

- There Connie and I got thai iced tea, delicious...Then walked and heard some Taiko drumming and watched for a sec. Then we went into Nijiyah where we bought snacks! I got shrimp chips, not the spirally ones but the ones that are chip shaped you know what I mean. MMMM. Then we looked in about 3 stores and just explored. One store was like a Daiso but more expensive, they had stationary, makeup, stuffed animals and kitchen ware. We looked in a Sanrio one and some other one. I can't remember but in many of them we were prompted/drawn in by big fluffy stuffed animals and I would very much liked to have owned but do not have the money to spend on them...

7. Back home on the Metro Purple line and then on the 720

TOTAL ADVENTURE COST: $12.11

$6 round trip bus fare

$4.12 thai tea

$1.99 shrimp chips

basically everything was free...love it!

A very eventful day :)

MOVIE: No Strings Attached

Funny movie and much more rom com then I expected. Some lines that had me dying...

- It's like a crime scene down there (referring to having a period)

- BOO! Here's my dick.

- Did you make me a period mix tape? (that is pretty awesome and hilarious)

- Yesterday I pulled a penis out of a Vitamin Water. I think we're good on penis'.

- We're all doctors we see hundreds of penis' a day. I see a thousand.

Can't wait to see Friends with Benefits and see how it compares.

PEACE yall!

yay for learning to be a CRITICAL READER!

alright alright alright no movie AGAIN i know i know its actually kinda harder to squeeze because basically its come back from work then make/eat dinner than after gotta start movie soon if i want to sleep at a decent time before work next day which means cant do anything else the rest of the night.

SO what I did today.

Internship was a good day. I would say very productive. Wasn't actually given projects or assignments, but what I did was started to read a lot. Read through bunch of power points got an idea of what they look for and how they go about developing and choosing shows. Also read through two scripts and I think I'm getting better at being critical when reading, maybe tv shows are easier because they are shorter less to try and comprehend and figure out? But yea really good practice for me. Read 1 script and LOVED IT so badly...the girl like described me TO A TEE not even funny. The funny thing was the girl's character was a dork, actually the biggest dork in the school. But totally cool because I've embraced that side of me and think it makes me uniquely endearing haha. Don't know if others would agree. ANYWAYS I would say parts that made me laugh so hard, but feel I should keep it on the safe side and keep it hush hush. Also was assigned by supervisor/boss to begin and do my first script coverage. At first was very scared because I wanted to do a good job and have it be perfect....I even brought it home with me and that's what I worked on. Wasn't too bad, I think the next one I do will be easier. We'll see after I get feedback.

TV SHOW: SYTYCD

DANG IT lost the tapper dude, he was one of the cute ones...OS WELLS.

Random. Listening to T.I. Whatever You Like on Pandora right now and some of the lyrics actually the chorus is quite inappropriate and very graphic...

TOOTLES for tonight.

Sin Nombre

Internship.

MOVIE: Sin Nombre

Yes, its a movie about gangs and about immigration, but from my perspective its mostly about perseverance and the drive to achieve a goal, a dream and a better life. That's it.

Hollywood Adventures

Today (which means Tuesday because I always post my blogs at midnight) I went to Hollywood, interviewed for an internship then....explored and had a Hollywood adventure.

Here's what I did... (maybe one of these days I'll add photos don't know)

1. When to H&M and bought a dress...could not resist dang red sale signs. That's it though.

2. Used Baja Fresh's bathroom then left so they wouldn't realize I wasn't a customer...

3. Walked through Forever

4. Went to Grauman's Theater (aka Chinese Theater) took bunch of pictures of the building and then a bunch of the cement foot/hand prints of celebs that I knew here were a few highlights: Harry Potter cast, Shirley Temple (tiniest feet ever), Star Trek cast (not sure which series), Robin Williams, Donald Duck...

5. Walk through Kodak theater. Took pictures the movies that won best picture through out the years. Took pictures of the building. Took pictures of the water fountainy thing.

6. When through Sephora to find lip stain, no success.

7. When outside sad down ate my home made sandwhich and chocolate milk.

8. Walk down the street and took pictures of: Ripley's Believe or Not, Hulk man, billboard of new Winnie the Pooh movie, parrot on guys shoulder...

9. Stopped by the outside of the wax museum to take a few pics and look at the free wax figures they had outside. There was one "anamatronic one" that I went up to. I didn't recognize the "famous person" so I went to read the plaque when BAM its a real person and he scared the living bajeezus out of me seriously screamed and jumped back so loud and far. Lucky for me there were lots of people around to witness this. Ended up taking a picture with the dude.

10. Thing that was the end..well walked to the bus stop and took a picture of Hollywood High School.

11. Came back and relaxed, signed up for classes and yup.

NO movie tonight...ok I'm kind of failing right now on this movie thing but no worries no worries lots of summer to go.

Grammy Museum

BEHIND as always...

SUNDAY 6/19

Went to the Grammy Museum with Connie. SUPER fun adventure! Here is the outline of the adventure...

- 1.5 bus ride

- Free visit to the Grammy Museum

- 2.5 hrs to go through all 4 floors of the museum

- Got some gelato

- 2 hrs trying to find the 720 bus stop and lots of walking

Bus ride was HELLA long.

Grammy Museum was fun especially since it was free. There was original copies of lyrics, audios to listen to, costumes that artist wore and booths and toys to play with. Connie and I mixed tracks, rapped and other technically things it was quite fun and entertaining. Our rapping was DA BOMB and her harmony in the singing booth was pretty awesome as well. "Oh. HU-MAN". Ooo another highlight was when Connie and I were trying to listen and read about the history of sub genres of music and it was a touch screen interactive pad. We tried to choose genres to listen to but along came little kiddies who thought it was a toy and just key touchin away and Connie even tried to be quick and choose the genre before the kid but it didn't matter because the little kid would then just touch another genre and we'd be listen to some other music.

Gelato was hella good hella hella good and creamy and caramely.

Trying to find the 720 was sort of ridiculous. We walked around in a bunch of circles, asked 2 bus drivers, 1 cop, 3 randoms until we finally found the bus stop. BUT not before we saw the 720 pass us as I yelled..."WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!" Yea...fun times fun times. Feet were killing by the end. Oh also crazy before 720 took 45 minutes...so much shorter than the 2...boo.

MOVIE: The Notebook

Yes a repeat...but it was worth it to introduce it to a dude.

MONDAY 6/20

Didn't do much...woke u at 2... :D

Finally made chex goodies with pnut butter, chocolate, powdered sugar, butter and "crispy hexagons".

That's all that really happened today.

No movie.

Movies!

WAAY behind so here's what happened...

FRIDAY 6/17

Internship was yet another really busy day and again I loved it. I'm learning so much and I feel like they are starting to see my work ethic and warming up to me which is so great. Can't wait for Wednesday to come again to see what I'll be doing. I was even treated lunch by one of the employees which was awesome and such a nice gesture. I had a teriyaki burger and it was deliciously messy.

Friend crashed at my apartment which was cool. We watched...

MOVIE: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Finally saw this movie. Didn't think I was gonna make it all the way through because I was super exhausted and the movie is just about 3 hours long but I made it and I really liked the movie. Yes it was long but I think it made good use of the 3 hours to really build the characters and tell the life of Benjamin button. All the character building made you really invested in the characters and sad and sympathetic when he goes from youth to senility. Such an interesting love story. It's really amazing whenever you see movies where love is so strong and so everlasting, really makes you or rather me day dream. Anyways liked the movie!

SATURDAY 6/18

What a day full of taking the bus. So first I went to see a free screen of Super 8 on the Paramount lot which was amazing! It was super far though. I waited for the bus to come and it took I swear at least 30 minutes, bus took 1 hour and ended up missing the 2:30 showing because I arrived at 3. Then the inform me that I would have to wait for the 5:30 showing and could not be let onto the lot and theater until 4:30....sucky thing was there was nothing around there so I literally sat at a bus stop for 1.5 hours and read "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom" which is quite good so far. Finally saw the movie and the theater was soo spacious and the chairs were the comfiest chairs ever. Also finally got to meet my fellow intern which was great.

AFTER immediately I hopped onto the next two buses and got to the Korean BBQ restaurant where I ate a billion pounds of meat and soaked up all the smoke in the world in my hair and clothes. SO GOOD and wonderful getting to see and chat with past coworkers.

Back home to watch a movie here is what I got to say about them..

MOVIE:

Super 8

Really liked it. Characters were adorable. Great mix between suspense and touchy feeliness. So many poppy outy moments, o mai. I also cried a bunch. Don't feel like saying anymore but thought it was good movie and was glad I decided to watch it. There was so much hype on it that I seriously felt obligated to watch it just so that I could contribute in conversations.

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Second movie of the night, a doc about street art. Really interesting. I think it so awesome that there are artist out there that take the risk to post up their art all around cities, for the simple joy of expressing their thoughts or informing others of issues. Which is why...I thought MBW was such a poser because street artist to their core aren't about the money, that's not why they do it. I just felt like MBW was trying to get the moolah and also was trying just too hard to justify his art work. I liked it exposed me to Banksy, Obey and Space Invaders.

cra ZAY work DAY + 2 dinners for 1

Internship was CRAZY busy today and I L-O-V-E-D it! People were giving me work here and there and for once I actually felt like it was substantial work. Not that I don't learn from every task that I'm given, because I do, even the smallest task, but it was just really great to be given a project that had some weight to it you know? Also good tip about life perspective is to realize that every thing has value in it. Everything. And once you realize that, not only are you more content, but also you grow more (because your more willing and open). Take for example making copies, most dull task every right? Anyone can do it, it really doesn't take too much skill once maybe you figure out the machine once or twice. BUT you can actually learn a lot from helping make copies because if are observant of what you are being asked to copy, you are given a looking glass into the specific job or department or person. Most things done have a purpose, thus you can learn a lot just by observing what others do or ask you to do. Yes yes.

oOoo cooked 2 dinners today! haha spaghetti for lunch and future dinners AND a really delicious steak with marinated mushrooms mmmm soo good soo good.

TV SHOW: So You Think You Can Dance

Caught up I think finally...which means soon I can start my goal of movie a day.

Feh-thas, Tiger Mom and Catsup

I'm a day behind so here we go...

TUESDAY 6/14

Had the quickest interview of my life. Do not know if that is a good or bad thing, I will just have to wait and see.

Also go FEATHER EXTENSION. Long story but they are sort of placed in an awk part of my head and also they were not secured way at the scalp which also makes me a bit upset because they last even shorter now...*sigh* BUT still YAY. Colors = cream with stripey pattern, cream, dark turquoise and orange red.

Also started reading "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom" IT IS GREAT!! It's an autobio about a mom and how she raised her children the "Chinese way". Premise is reasons for why Chinese children are so stereotypically successful and how they differ from Western children and their up bringing. It's actually extremely hilarious, not that I can related, although I am Chinese my parents are not "Chinese parents". Someone really needs to make a sitcom out of this like no joke. ALL YOU ASPIRING ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS someone read this book and write up a sample script and pitch etc etc based on this book. It would be great! I think it'd work better as a tv show then a feature just because I can see how like each lesson or point she makes could be the basis for an episode. I see it being similar to "How I Met Your Mother". There's a great quote she says that asian kids are only allowed to do activities that can win awards and those awards must be gold. Imma be quoting the book from time to time but it's really a fun and quick read, at least so far.

TV SHOW: So You Think You Can Dance / The Voice

Amazingly I watched these shows at the same time. When I The Voice was on commercial break I watched SYTYCD and when it came back I paused SYTYCD. It was actually an amazing multitask feat if I must say myself (not really but, you know..). Anyways few comments. Christina seriously lately has been like showing sooo much boobage and I really feel like she needs to like put some away/cover it. I just feel like she is going to pop out any moment. Few favs of the night were Vicci and Casey Weston. Also love love love Dia and glad that she was saved. SYTYCD not much to say except oh "stripper from SF auditions" was strange...not only did she have 1 tooth missing but spoke very eerily and I don't know but just something about her was very off putting to me.

Did watch a movie because just so tired and I think I probably won't completely start the movie a day til I'm caught up on all my shows.

Some random comments though about movies...SUPER 8! Comments anyone for those who have seen it? The hype is soo huge for this movie I cannot believe it. I have heard nothing but rave reviews and I feel obligated to watch just so that I can socially be aware and be in the know. But I watched a trailer and it seems a bit scary. Like it's sci fi-ish, thriller and mystery mixed genre. I don't know but I guess I'll just have to find out myself.

TODAY (WEDNEDAY 6/15)

Internship - got my mac on today. So not used to using macs but slowly learned. It was good and learned how to use iMovie which was fun.

MEANIE big blue bus driver lady...made me pay $1 too tired to elaborate.

In n Out - with past coworkers to say good by to our lovely foreign gal from Germany! BYE!!! We'll miss you and come back to us soon.

LEARNED that Ketchup = most likely Hein's commercialized and now socially adopted way of spelling the condiment that is tomato sauce. Originally it was spelled catsup and I guess still is by other companies or areas? Who knows all I have to say is I was MIND BLOWN when I wikied this almost positive that my friend was incorrect to have believed there were two spellings, but I guess there is...It's crazy look it u yall!

And that is it no movies or shows tonight I'm just popped...

Photo-SLEEP!

Title = my attempt at being clever..hopefully you'll get it as you continue to read on..

Learned (very basically) how to use Photoshop. I don't know if I retained anything, but hopefully I did and once I get the software and get to play around with it I'll get the hang of it. THANK YOU NEIGHBOR for giving me the quick tutorials.

MOVIE: Insomnia

It's a thinker that's for sure. You definitely have to pay attention closely because if you miss one or two details like I did that are crucial you'll be trying to piece things together the whole time. But definitely a good movie, interesting. Favorite part was the end (SPOILER) when Al Pacino's character tells Swank's character "not to lose her way" expressing one of the movies main themes about corruption and down ward spirals. Secondly I like how he says "he just want to sleep" not only representing his need for physical rest, but also the need to put to rest all the corruption and bad decisions that he has made.

TV SHOW: So You Think You Can Dance

Watched about 2 episodes. Nothing much to say except crazy girl who claims her father is "the original Ringo Star" is cray cray. Yea I said that already but forreal she was crazy....

That's all for today yalls!

The Beginning of Summer 2011!

Another summer has come which means its time to start up this blog again.

This blog is more for me to keep track of the things I do so that some day way way in the future I can be like what did I do the summer of 2011? Oh right...that's what I did. And of course to share it with people who would like to gain a little insight into the going ons in my life.

Also did I mention this summer each day I plan to watch a movie if not a movie then a bunch of television shows. I'm thinking some days I'll give it a grade, some days I'll give a few words to comment and other days I'll just list the movie title. Who knows..

Alright so a bit of a catch up...

SATURDAY 6/11

• grocery shopped
• did like almost a months worth of laundry and spent a fortune. it cost me a i think a total of $6 about...
• caught up on glee and desperate housewives

MOVIE: When in Rome

Lacked depth. It was cute to watch and Josh D. definitely a hottie, but it all seemed to kind of happen really quickly. I don't feel like the characters or the relationships were fully developed.

SUNDAY 6/12

• when to 3rd Street Promenade by myself (yay independence)
• bought: bare essentials lip stain (charisma) and beige forever pencil skirt
• returned: pretty brown purse with gold zippers that just didn't cut it, it couldn't fit all my stuff...
• ate: frozen yogurt AND mcdonald's soft serve ice cream
• also sent out a couple of apps

TV SHOW: Bones

Not quite done yet...but have about 3 more episodes til I'm done. Cried so badly when a character died on the show. SO BADLY...o goodness..