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Abandonment

2010-08-03T02:43:00.002-04:00

this is a sad sad post. oh so very sad. because...i have to leave this blog...i keep getting random comments in chinese....it's supah annoying...so i'm leaving this blog....booo. hahaha, oh well, i'm not shutting it down, just not updating here anymore...i hope the spam comments aren't linked because i'm still using the same account just a different URL. so here's the new blog: MUNDANE THOUGHTS i might go write the first ever post on it after this. MAYBE. hahaha. peace.

Day 1

2010-06-26T05:02:00.002-04:00

EPIC WIN! We left Tucson around 9am this morning, stopped more times than usual, and got to cali before 5. had dinner at delicious hong kong palace (zomg, seafood was so good) and then left for hotels. me, yixuan, weiwei, and angeline are sharing a room and the lu parents/kids are sharing a room...so today was the first day of their vacation package, and yixuan and i were saying what a waste it would be if we didn't go today! so we ended up going at like 9pm, and took Dshushu to Space Mountain first, wahahahahaha. so much fun! we got to go to all our favorite ones (except for matterhorn...) in just like 3 hrs, with no wait for any of the rides, except for thunder mountain! for pirates, splash mountain, and indiana jones, we just walked right in and sat down! hahaha, although, we dunno if it was cause they were closing or something, all the rides seemed a lot slower than they normally were...weird. anyways, super late. gotta go to bed and GOTTA do summer school hw tmr! @.@

Month 1

2010-06-16T03:45:00.004-04:00

It's ALMOST been a month since i've come home and i'm realizing a few things about myself, as in changes since the beginning of college...haha, some of them are rather shocking...i'm thankful though. also, i got an internship offering today! yay! i've been waiting for it, ptl! but we'll see how everything goes...so a month of being home has been great! i've already gotten paid :D hahaha, also i actually haven't eaten out much, been eating a lotta home made food, which is wonderful...shoot, i really gotta learn to cook like my mom >< i also haven't seen many summer movies yet....hm. anyways, it's been a wonderful month home, i'm thankful for everything. if i get this internship, i won't have to return to michigan 2 weeks early. yipee! i don't have anything to update on, just felt like an update was needed.

Some Things Never Get Old

2010-06-06T04:35:00.003-04:00

it has been SO long since i've updated...haha, well being home really just means: eat a lot, work a lot, and watch tv a lot, so there really isn't much updates...anyways, today was so so so freaking ridiculously hot, after having lunch with my parents at Sushi Yukari, we went to watch Shrek Forever After...it was cute! good moral, i like. i don't know if it was the heat or just because i didn't get enough sleep, i was super tired...so i took a nap at like nearly 7...then tracy was over, so 3 of watched Zoolander....STILL hilarious. oh man, and watching it with tracy and yixuan...it really doesn't get any better...haha well, if the other two girls were here, then it would've been complete, but oh well. i've really missed having some good bonding time with the girls, i mean, i can't really say tonight was "bonding time" but it was still really good...haha afterall, Zoolander IS our tradition....ai, so it's definitely time for bed. NEW PHONE ON MONDAY! :D

edit// forgot to post this: SO CUTE!!!

The [Not Quite] End

2010-05-13T19:24:00.002-04:00

last day of class was yesterday!!! today's reading recess...haha but last day of my freshmen yesterday! it was a really good day too! PTL~

in bowling, prof was gonna treat me, aileen, and joe to lunch, but he had a meeting after class so he bought us krispy kreme instead. and then yesterday, suddenly i was doing super good in bowling, so our final which was to beat our average, but since i've been doing so poorly before, i beat my average by 30+, while others beat it by 1 or 2...wahahahaha, then i got back the papers i've been working my butt off for last week, and i'm very satisfied with all the grades i got! yay! praise Jesus! then i went to talk to prof cioffi, who's in charge the congregation & ministry studies internship...whee! if i can get an internship from that, it'd be super awesome! so yesterday, was a good day!

Anyways, i've really gotta study for my finals. because after finals = home home home! 5 more days!!!

Friday: Philosophy Final
Saturday: Religion Final

Monday: Religion Final

Tuesday: English Final

BRING IT.

PHOENIX SUNS

2010-05-09T23:05:00.003-04:00

PHOENIX SUNS ARE IN THE FINALS!!! wow, i'm so glad tnt had a live coverage online, so i got to watch the whole game! i've only been able to watch the highlights for the first three games...so i was sitting alone in my room, shouting at my computer screen! hahaha, it was good tho, sweet sweet victory. :D

anyways, this week was quite horrible in the beginning, then quite awesome towards the end! i got like 4hrs of sleep the first three days - was up writing papers, then like 10hrs of sleep the next 2 days...hahaha i don't know what's wrong with me...but those few days of 8+hrs of sleep made me want to sleep before 12am from now on, but it seems impossible to do...so yesterday, a few of us went to go see Iron Man 2 it was good and i really liked it, but it was definitely not as exciting as the first one...also, not enough shots of cars and not enough action. ok i'm done with my critique...hahaha, it was fun tho~

9 more days till home!!!

edit//

today at church, 2 little kids told me happy mother's day and 2 youths - but they did that for haha's since i was teaching them today...and at the end of service the little kids were supposed to give all the moms a carnation, and a little girl gave me one...what the heck? i mean i like the flower, and it's pretty, but really? sigh. i don't get it, i didn't even "dress" old today, because enoch even said i dressed like a little girl today because i put a ribbon in my hair...what the heck...?

Play Play Week

2010-05-04T13:32:00.003-04:00

Last week was supposed to be my death week where i get murdered by all my assignments, rather it became a play play week! and instead of a run down of what i did everyday, i will only write about the highlight of each day...

Monday: WOG pot luck! lasted 5 hrs...only 2 hrs tops of eating, 3 hrs of talking...oh man, girls.
Tuesday: Taiwanese dinner! we had 1 more person than last time, woot.
Wednesday: CRAIG'S CRUISERS! so much fun! and the company was great!
Thursday: hung out with Milly for a little bit at night
Friday: Steak and Shake - last night with Milly :(
Saturday: bday surprise for lixin at midnight with david beckham

Sunday: dinner at bar louie for lixin's birthday

hahaha, it was a really fun week, i think too fun. i should've been more focused on hw...ALSO. yesterday, PHOENIX SUNS kicked DIRTY spurs butt! wahahahaha. ok, gotta write my paper.

TWO MORE WEEKS AND I'LL BE HOME!!!

Chi-Town

2010-04-22T13:37:00.003-04:00

wow, it's been more than a month since i've updated? haha life after spring break has just been busyness...anyways, Yixuan, Chan Min, Sung Guk, and I went to Chicago last weekend for the Hillsong concert...sooo spartknotes version time:

Saturday: woke up at 7 to go to airport to pick up car, neither of us had a credit card (only debit card) or a return flight ticket to insure them that we'll be returning the car, spent an hr there, remembered that i do have a return flight...in aug, it worked, got a free upgrade on car, drove back to campus, took a 2 hr nap, left around 11 due to asian lateness by everybody...got to trinity christian, Mark gave us a mini tour of campus, broke my flip flops, got new flip flops, went down town, took many pics of the bean, had fun, drove to Sears Arean for Hillsong, met up with Ohioans/Chicagoans after, went to eat "dinner" (@ midnight) with bro, P.Victor, john, jerry, josh, yixuan, and sherry (so many J's!), went to sherry's place for the night...

Sunday: church - bro improved so much in preaching, ah! so proud of him! had harold's for lunch, chilled outside of church, waited for chan min and sung guk, got on the road and i drove back, returned car, dinner at like 9, showered, unpacked, crashed - didn't even do hw...

overall, i was really satisfied with the trip...i had a really good time and i felt really blessed at the end of it. BUT Hillsong was NOT as satisfying as i thought it would be, it was not as amazing as i thought it be either...in fact, it was rather disappointing...BUT BUT, i learned something nonetheless...i think the reason i enjoyed last weekend so much was because of the company, it was so good to see the ohioans, and since none of the girls went, it was all of the guys that i was closer with! yay! and of course, it was really good to see mark too, haha but i'll get to see him over the summer, so not that big of deal as compared to the ohioans...there were quite a few lessons learned on this trip and i praise the Almighty for that (Almighty with a capital A...not winston...=.=) hokay, i think that's all.

March 19th, 2010

2010-03-20T12:14:00.003-04:00

(sparknotes version at end)

My God is so big

So strong and so mighty

There's nothing He cannot do, for you! (x2)
The mountains are His

The rivers are His

And the stars are His handiwork too!

March 19th, 2010 was such an amazing, epic, legendary day! God just kept pouring down the blessings! The past week was supposed to be my 緊張 week because i had to 1) register for summer class at pima 2) find out whether i got the worship apprentice position 3) find out whether i get to move into school apts...registering for pima wasn't too big a of a deal, but praise God i got all the classes i wanted. worship apprentice was a nerve-racking because when i applied i was confident, but after my interview, i was less confident...haha. for the apts, sophomores aren't allowed to live there, but it saves $5k per academic year so yixuan and i went appeal like a month ago and never got a response. i've been awaiting replies for both WA and apts all week...so yesterday was the final day.

when i woke up yesterday, the first thing i did was check my email on my ipod touch...there was nothing. i went to get ready for class, checked my email again right before leaving for class...annnndddd! email from matt cooke, the guy in charge of the apts telling me i got in!!! PRAISE JEEBUS! so that just uplifted my day! then i went to my only class of the day, cause 2 classes got canceled, so my spring break began at 950am! so i joyously went back to my dorm to write my paper that was due at 5pm, but then i saw an email titled "worship apprentice" i was so scared of opening it, but when i opened it, it just said "we've sent out letters telling those who got in and those who did not, you will receive them this afternoon" i could barely focus writing my paper...i finished my paper at 4, went down and got my mail...saw the letter, VERY slowly opened the letter...and when i started reading it, i was like "omg, it's a rejection letter..." cause it said "Dear Jocelyn, we're really glad you applied for the WA position and we were happy to have met you through the interview" BUT at the end of the first paragraph it said, "we hope you would accept this invitation for you to be a worship apprentice" I WAS SOOOO happy!!! PRAISE ALMIGHTY (not winston...)!!! then church was fun, i led games for the first time! =D then afterwards the yaf kids were getting ready to go on their spring break trip so we hung out with them at carson's and yixuan and i played rock band for a long time! then took jessie to meijer's, went back to dorm, packed, took a nap at 430am, woke up at 6am, met up with yaf kids to get apt keys from enoch and carson (their apts will be our hang out places during spring break...) and sent them off...took another nap at 7am, woke up at 850am, moved stuff to apts...then the rest of today might be in another blog post some other day...

in case you didn't wanna read anything i wrote, here's sparknotes:
1. March 19th was so full of blessings, SUPER thankful!
a. spring break started at 950: only one class in the morning, 2 afternoon classes got canceled

b. got into the apts for next year (only juniors and seniors allowed): saves $5k per year

c. made it into the worship apprentice program: will be in charge of chapels and worship! (with pay too!)

d. played rockband with yixuan for like 2hrs...

p.s. the reason the children's song is in the beginning of this post is cause when i found out each blessing, that song kept coming up in my head...hahaha =D

Finally

2010-03-11T14:17:00.003-05:00

I can FINALLY blog...these two weeks have been hectic...then i have an easier week, then it's spring break! haha, but spring break's not gonna be exciting either...yixuan and i are staying on campus...oh well, because APRIL 17th!!! SO EXCITED! IT'S GONNA BE SO MUCH! FUN! =D road trip with yixuan and chan min + meeting up with mark, bwen, guh, shing, victor, and chicagoans (maybe?) + HILLSONG CONCERT = LEGEND...

so i had two tests last week and two tests this week...my brain is getting fried...there's SO much to memorize, i've always taken pride in my capability to memorize a lot of things in a short amount of time, but mannnnn...i'm getting old...hahaha, just kidding...but i still can't do it as easily anymore! WAIT FOR IT i'm just glad all my midterms are over...i can let my brain chill out for a bit...but i've got 2 papers next week...aw, man...T.T

on a random note, yixuan and i didn't see each other all day yesterday, so when we finally got to talk at like 12am, we talked like we haven't seen each other in weeks...hahaha we're...awesome, hahaha...oh yeah! my mommy's care package arrived yesterday! i have enough food to feed haiti...haha seriously, i have food everywhere in my room...DARY it's crazy, but it's ok, cause i've gotta cook for the whole week of spring break and i've gotta treat koreans some random night...so i won't eat it all @.@

Dush Dush Dush

2010-02-28T21:45:00.002-05:00

a few more hours till my death week!!! >< 3 tests and 4 essays (includes 2 scholarship essays) TTL (thank the Lord, recently invented my Chan Min) i postponed 1 test...oh, so i don't remember if i wrote about this yet, but i found out that my status is actually a sophomore and i qualify for the religion department scholarships! (for juniors and seniors only) so TTL! but i only have 1 of the 2 essays done...and they're due tmr...

this week was pretty chill, nothing exciting happened, but it seemed like i had a good time...oh, i think i'm liking cooking more and more!!! i cooked dinner on tuesday and yesterday, cooked a dish at like midnight for the rangeela kids...i guess that's a new discovery that happened this week...

Rangeela: it was fun, but honestly, i expected a lot more since they all put SO much time into it...haha, i had fun tho...and i've always known i had a loud voice, but i did not know i could yell that loud...but all the people i cheered for didn't hear me, except for Chan Min, who even said, "Thank you" hahaha...after Rangeela, we went to Enoch's apt where they decided what to do for Spring Break...i might just stay here and hang out with the Koreans...sigh...don't really care anymore...haha anyways, gotta actually get to work...death week will not win, i will fight...and win! ;P

Unashamed

2010-02-21T20:28:00.007-05:00

Jeremiah 1:5, 7-8
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations...
But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am a youth,' Because everywhere I send you, you shall go, And all that I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the LORD."

Unashamed

(Chorus)
And I know I'm weak

I know I'm unworthy

To call upon Your name

But because of grace

Because of Your mercy

I stand here unashamed
(Bridge)
Here I am at Your feet
In my brokeness complete

when I read the above passage, I was like, "Oh snap! God you are SO awesome!" and then recently, i've been using Unashamed to be my "prayer song" so before i go to bed and i'm praying, i play Unashamed...now, whenever i hear Unashamed I just feel like bowing down...haha automatically in that mood now...man, our God is so legend. true story.

edit// on Friday, the registrar office emailed me back and said the summer school classes i wanted to take at Pima all pass!!! so that means i can take 2 classes at Pima this summer! yay! AND they're both online =P PRAISE JESUS!!!

CNY

2010-02-16T12:01:00.003-05:00

(red font in celebration of CNY!)

i think this weekend was too hyped up with fun that it just killed me...haha aside from me getting sick, it really was a pretty enjoyable weekend. this WILL be one of those weekend rundown posts =P

Friday: watched many silly people jump into the freezing sem pond, went to an ahyi's house to make dumplings...and i suddenly felt UBER sick, so i didn't do anything until we had to rehearse for our skit...on our way back to campus, i slightly passed out...

Saturday: worship practice in the morning, lunch at chipotle, drove Yang's car out to get necessities, returned car, pooped around, went to airband - pretty darn awesome...got me all hyped up, afterwards, helped justin remove his make up, showed him his video, shoo-ed him away, crashed.

Sunday: at church we had the chinese new year celebration, and we did the moses story that we did in TCMC a few years ago...(video) it was fun! haha, i got to draw egyptian eyes on enoch =P then afterwards there was a potluck, didn't really have an apetite due to sickness, so didn't eat much...then after church, helped enoch remove his make up, came back to dorm, didn't do hw till pretty darn late, went to basement, saw chan min, made random videos with him, justin, david, and daniel came...were super noisy....=.= went to bed at nearly 4....lastest i've ever slept on a school night since college T.T

Monday: i hated it. let's not talk about it. except at night we went to apts to celebrate karen's bday...really short celebration, but still fun.

SO, it was a good weekend, but way too unproductive...sigh, i needa get back to my antisocial, study mode again...yeah, that's all i got now...spring break's coming soon tho~ praying that parents will come here =D

First of the Second

2010-02-09T11:08:00.005-05:00

[rawr...in art history right now...and obviously paying attention...]

first week of second semester wasn't that bad, i guess it's cause i've already had 3 weeks of interim...but having so many classes makes my head hurt...hahaha, well, not really, i really like all my classes except for art history...i like my 2 religion classes so far and philosophy is pretty interesting...art history just has way too much reading and the class lasts for 2 hrs...@.@

after YAF on friday, yixuan, jessie, megan, david, and i went to BV where and SUPPLIES-D justin for his birthday...we ordered two pizzas and then ate it in the lobby and watched some random youtube videos, afterwards, we went to the basement and had a small worship...it was cool, got so hyped up afterwards that i couldn't sleep till 4am...

saturday: went to pastor ting's house for worship team meeting...then went to enoch's apt to cook for taiwanese night! whee! so aproud of myself! cooked 3 dishes and a soup! failed on 1 of the dishes tho, almost started crying when i realized what i did wrong...ok no, that's too extreme but i yelled fail =D Taiwanese night was fun, we did some pretty typical taiwanese people things (i won't mention what =P)

sunday: after church we went to Meijer's again...then the others all went to Tiff's for dinner, but yixuan and i came home and ate curry mmmmm! then we baked a batch of brownies and supplies-d justin again...and then we went with the church youth and justin to go see The Book of Eli at 10, i think it was a good movie with good values and spiritual context, but still a rather slow build up...then we came back and studied in the basement...i gave up at 2am...

so yeah, that's all...i'd say it was a pretty good start! so passion tea lemonade!

Interim Break

2010-02-01T00:11:00.003-05:00

interim break can be summed up by three letters: P T L!!! for once, i don't actually wanna do a day to day run down...hahaha, it was just a really FUN interim break! went tubing for the first time, it was SUPER fun, but i think i "freezer burned" my face...and then ever since thursday night, i've been hanging out with Yixuan (duh), Jessie (doi), Megan (new transfer), Justin, David, and Chan Min...hahaha, SO much fun hanging out with them...they're such an enjoyable bunch! i've been laughing so much these few nights that i my cheeks and abs hurt...hahaha...yesterday, i finally got to see the people who were all overseas during interim, it was good to see them again. so yeah, as much as i want to go into more detail about what had happened...if it was written down, it just wouldn't be funny anymore...so yeah, pics on fb and even a video this time...hahaha but definitely PRAISE JESUS for such a relaxing and hilarious interim break...SPRING SEMESTER, HERE WE GO!

SEAsia

2010-01-17T23:51:00.002-05:00

nothing exciting happened during the week, and if something did, YOU would have been important enough for me to tell you.

friday: "dragged" to international dinner (of pizza...haha) by Hidy, but had a lot of fun with the "international kids", then went to yaf at anding's, came back and chilled at bv lobby to keep jessie company while she works as a deskie...then at 1am when she got out of work, came back to my dorm and talked till like 2...slept around 3am

saturday: woke up at 130pm, left for mall with Hidy and Miki for an assignment around 3, got back around 4, pooped around, went to Sarah's apt for southeast asia dinner!!! it was exciting to be surrounded by my fellow southeast asians, i was scared to release my singlish tho, because they spoke it so naturally, i didn't wanna seem like i was just making fun of them, so i refrained. hahaha, we watched 小孩不笨2 and then watched random youtube videos...it was a nice gathering, it made me happy =D

sunday: went to Calvary chapel for the first time attended their main service and their college service, got back to campus around 1, picked up at 210 for chinese church...boy was it just a churchy day...@.@ i was so sleepy...so got back around 5, took an hr nap, dinner with Hidy and random koreans...then came back to dorm and watched the golden globes!!! but i was sad that the movies/tv shows/actors/actreses i was cheering for didn't win...except for Up...whoo!

there was something else i wanted to write about, but i totally do not remember what now, haha, oh well, guess it wasn't meant to be posted! or if i think of it later, i'll do a "edit//" =D, hokay, gonna try and sleep before 1 tonight!

Take It To The Lord In Prayer

2010-01-12T01:23:00.002-05:00

So i have been back to GRapids for almost a week now, class is good, i'm glad that my DCM (developing a Christian mind) is the most chill class from all the DCM of all my friends who are taking DCM...hahaha also, taking badminton is fun too, i feel like i'm reliving my SBC days...the 4-8 year old me playing badminton with people 20-30 years my senior on the [no longer existing] badminton courts outside of Block 4...oh man, good times...hahaha

i went outdoors iceskating [for the first time ever!] on saturday with my floor, and i've only been iceskating once 10 years ago, so i wasn't quite sure how well i'd skate, but thank goodness for my rollerblading years in SBC (hahaha, i think i was actually quite athletic in singapore...what happened?!) so i did alright, wasn't too speedy tho and was kinda confused on how to stop...but i did not fall...until my last round around the rink...i lost balance and fell backwards, i thought it was nothing, but the bone above my butt - tail bone? (where i landed first when i fell) has been hurting a lot lately...my mother says i might've broken something around there...but i wouldn't be able to sit if i did right? i dunno, it hurts a lot when i bend or when i sit...T.t

lately, i've been worrying a lot...and i don't usually worry...especially about things of the future, but i don't know why i have been lately, so i needa do more praying, because all these things i'm worrying about, i know God will take care of...or has already taken care of, as He's always like a billion steps ahead of me...but yeah, more pray pray, less play play...so i'm requesting that you faithful readers of my ~~mundane~~ blog to pray for me too, and if you talk to me i'll tell you what they are OR you could just pray for me in general =D thank you!

p.s. i haven't played sports in so long that a few days of badminton is killing me, i'm so sore...plus my butt hurts uber much! T.t

that was SO last year!

2010-01-01T18:21:00.002-05:00

In 2009

1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
move to the midwest, live in a dorm without family, and go to college

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
n/a

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
oldest cousin from mom's side

4. Did anyone close to you die?
grandpa from mom's side

5. What countries did you visit?
n/a

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
i can't think of anything right now...

7. What date(s) from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
aug 10, 2009 - disneyland with the fantasmic 8 and aug 27, 2009 - left tucson

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
living by myself in the dorms and getting pretty grades!

9. What was your biggest failure?
i don't know...but i do recall lots of people yelling "fail!" at many things...haha

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
n/a

11. What was the best thing you bought?
oh boy! i don't know, i really really really ridiculously like all the stuff i bought (including the stuff i bought today!)

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
n/a

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
n/a

14. Where did most of your money go?
winter clothing

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
first snow

16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
probably poker face cause of yixuan...

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
Wiser? hopefully
Healthier? fa sho
Richer? no...paying own tuition means much much much poorer

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
journal by hand...since all my electronic ones are GONE!

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
doing noting...haha

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
i dunno, back in tucson

21. Did you fall in love in 2009?
n/a

22. How many one-night stands?
n/a

23. What was your favorite TV program?
himym, but the newly discovered 30 rock too!

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
errr...no

25. What was the best book you read?
n/a

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
i dunno, if improving on piano counts then...that.

27. What did you want and get?
a lotta stuff...hahaha

28. What did you want and not get?
a pair of black boots

29. What was your favorite film of this year?
star trek!!!

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
went to mall, watched time traveler's wife, and had photo shoot with my girls!

31. What's one thing that would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
getting to go back to asia

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
AE and express

33. What kept you sane?
the Bible

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
ahahahaha, it went from james mcavoy to chris pine to zachary quinto

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
n/a

36. Who did you miss?
my parents

37. Who was the best new person you met?
jessie

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
do devotions or else i get nightmares...

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey!

My Precious

2009-12-26T22:43:00.003-05:00

I've been home for a week now and it has been wonderful!

Highlights:

Thurs: sushi yukari for lunch, new town buffet for dinner, music practice at church

Fri: church christmas special

Sat: christmas get together at our house

Mon: Jessie and Jake's wedding

Wed: Tony and Mei's wedding

Christmas gifts '09

Jerry: Digital photo frame keychain

Kathy/Meixuan: Express shirt and ring

Ken: pen

Michelle: Body Shop home scents

Shui Bing: AE gift card

Tracy: Swarvoski heart necklace

Yixuan: HIMYM season 2&3, A&F perfume

(did i forget anyone? i deeply apologize if so)

Depression:

Thurs (Christmas Eve): i tried installing windows on my precious mac through bootcamp, it didn't work, i couldn't turn it on afterwards...

Fri (Christmas): apple store was closed

Sat: apple genius tells me everything was deleted from my hard drive, so 3.5 months of my life in michigan (pictures and journal entries) are all gone...for some reason, i kinda think they were meant to be deleted...hahaha, but my pictures from friday night christmas service are gone too, and the two weddings i went to...sigh...so sad...but i guess...it's a new beginning? =/

that's all the updates i have now...i like being home.

DONE

2009-12-16T16:08:00.002-05:00

Passion Tea Lemonade!!! I AM DONE WITH FIRST SEMESTER OF COLLEGE!!! this semester actually flew by, it was quite amazing...everything is great tho! i THINK my grades are nice and pretty, good friendships have been established, church life is good, everything is...God ordained and wonderful!

SO, shall we have a stupid-Jocelyn story? yes, yes we shall. HOKAY! so yesterday i was supposed to have my psychology final at 9am, i set my alarm for 815am...now usually when it goes off, i put it on snooze, but yesterday, (for the first time ever) i turned it off because i was afraid of waking the roommate! why?! i don't know! i never turn it off, it's supposed to go to snooze like 3 times!!! sigh, anyways, i finally woke up at 945am, and freaked out, nearly cried...but immediately emailed my prof...she replied around noon telling me i could take it today....but it meant that i had to take three finals today...BUT they're all over now, so praise Jesus! tomorrow at 550am i'll be on a plane back home!!! YAY YAY YAY! that is all, i actually gotta finish my sociology take home final...because i don't actually wanna take it home...

3...2...1...BLAST OFF!

2009-12-14T14:03:00.004-05:00

edit//my widget says it's gonna be rainy/snowy these next few days, BUT cloudy on thursday, let's pray it'll be like that so my plane will fly on time!

i'm technically done with first semester of college!!! didn't have class or finals today, so i slept in till 12:15...no mundane events to report cause this weekend, fellowship was canceled and i didn't go out at all cause i was being uber studious and studying for my finals! i'm determined to kick these finals' butts, but i feel like such determination might lead to disappointment...hahaha either way, i've been studying, so whatever happens, happens. (maybe my IQ 就這麼高，沒辦法) whee! anyways, time to study again...4 finals in 2 days, and then HOME HOME HOME!!!

Tuesday:

9:00am: Psychology Final

1:30pm: Sociology Final

Wednesday:

9:00am: Math Final

1:30pm: Religion Final

p.s. I'M GOING TO DISNEYLAND WITH THE LU KIDS AFTER CHRISTMAS!!! SO EXCITED!!! at first, i was like poop, i won't be able to go on all the fun rides cause they are too small...BUT then, i thought, during my first visit to disneyland, i was already pretty big, so my parents/bro took me to all the "big kids/adults" ride, so i've never been on the kiddie stuff, so this'll be fun! PLUS, one of the attractions that drew me to Concordia University was its distance to DLand, but hey, i still get to go even though i chose the freezer! Passion Tea Lemonade! ;P

Christmas Dinners To The Max

2009-12-07T18:35:00.002-05:00

this past week was a very relaxing and gluttonous...hahaha, when ming was in grand rapids wednesday, we went to ruby's tuesday, on friday night (yaf was pushed to sat) i had the AHANA (minoirites) dinner in school and then saturday night went to pastor's house for dinner, had curry, i've never tasted this type of curry, it was interesting...delicious nonetheless...and sunday night i went to the ISAC (international) christmas banquet and ate more...i better not gain my freshmen 15 in one week >.<

i had fun in all the mentioned events tho...i dunno if i should go to anymore international events, i feel outta place...lol, but i hung around koreans last night, and most of the time i just fa dai-ed because i didn't understand what they were saying...it was still fun! for most of the girls it was like and ALL out dress up thing...i kept my hair and make up from church and just changed into 1 of the 2 dresses i brought...but still fun! ha.

oh and last week, my speech class was canceled all week, so i wasn't motivated to work on my speech at all, so after the banquet last night, i started working on it...till 4am...@.@ but i did it today and i'm glad i got it over with! but now that the relaxing week is over, this week's gonna be a little tougher with 2 papers due and finals week coming up! but "我靠著那加給我力量的，凡事都能做！"

Thursday: Religion Paper
Friday: Sociology Paper
Tuesday: Psychology Final (morning) Sociology Final (afternoon)
Wednesday: Math Final (morning) Religion Final (afternoon)
Thursday: 5am: FLY HOME!!! 12pm: ARRIVAL! =D

Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap

2009-11-30T17:34:00.003-05:00

edit// my mommy told me that she told susan ahyi i was sad bout how i haven't talked to anita in so long and she probably already forgot about me...and susan ahyi tells me mom bout how her 3 older kids play role play and anita would shout "我是嬌嬌姐姐！" thinking she was the oldest and in control, she was ready to give orders, and his older brother, anthony, stands there and waits for orders thinking anita really is "me"...bahahahaha!!! I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THOSE CHUBBY FACES!!!

original// SUPAH thankful for thanksgiving break!!! oh man, it was definitely legen-wait for it-dary! nothing amazing or incredible was done, but it was a relaxing (though i didn't get a lot of sleep) and bonded with amazing people!!! it's been a while since i did the "mundane" post, so i shall.

wednesday: guh, karen, and elean got to calvin around noon when i was still in class, after class, i took the girls on a ~~horrible~~ wonderful tour ~~in which i got lost~~ of our campus! then we had lunch with enoch to "talk" to these high schoolers so we can get free stuff...wahahaha, then we went to the admissions office and enoch helped us steal 3 free calvin shirts, and we went on the road! we stopped at Toledo and picked up marissa, then went back to columbus (i'm keeping these concise)

thursday: guh changed his time on me, so i was all prepared...to do nothing, but then later a group of us went to go see Ninja Assassin, a very horrible movie indeed. afterwards, guh took me to the Sung's and had a feast!!! oh man! it was SO good! i literally got food coma cause the boys just played katamari and COD MW2 after dinner...mmmm, then it was back to karen's, sleeping over with marissa too!

friday: was supposed to wake up at 630, none of us did, anna arrived, all of us freaked out, and the two poo faces tricked me into getting ready and going first, but when i got out, anna and i decided to wait for the two poo faces since the other girls were gonna be late anyways! so then the adventure began! at polaris we met up with katie, jacqueline, and bernard (the one boy amongst many girls) but then we split ways soon...hahaha i finally got the AE vest i wanted for so so so long, super happy! and then i also got the warm and fuzzy boots from AE because...they were comfy and i need a pair =P then kohls, petland, nap, filene's basement: got another coat!, marissa's for pot luck, ate, watched Anchoreman, watched HIMYM, home.

saturday: had DELICIOUS lunch with guh, went to his office to facebook, fell asleep in his office for a few hours, yg/college thanksgiving potluck, chris' for fire pit, home - helped karen on college apps, in which she was crazy because it was "late"...it was hilarious, but i'll keep it at that

sunday: church - oh man, haven't had a good english service in so long, uber enjoyed it! then lunch at arirang, then victor and anna dropped me off at toledo and harry picked me up from there and i pretty much died on the car...

man, in words, break doesn't sound that exciting at all, but it was, and i uber miss the girls now! and i probably won't see the ohioans till possibly spring break? anyways, praise Jesus for a good break and wonderful people! now i can't wait for christmas break!

MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES

2009-11-24T14:10:00.002-05:00

the past weekend was just filled with movie watching...hahaha, it was fun, but kinda bad...on thursday (yes, that was already my weekend since my class was canceled that day...) so i watched Ghosts of Girlsfriends Past, it was alright, wasn't terrible, but wasn't great too...nothing exciting happened on friday, and then on saturday i saw Star Trek for the fourth time!!! hahaha, it was showing for free at Calvin, so why not? but after that a few of us went to go see 2012, which was also only ok to me, it wasn't great or anything...VERY predictable...hahaha, anyways, then i came The Ugly Truth, which was also only mediocre, i liked the duo, but the story was...too quick and slow at the same time...then on Sunday after church and dinner at a vietnamese restaurant i came back and watched Paper Moon, a black and white movie for sociology...so i watched 5 movies the past weekend...crazy.

this week is really chill too, i have nothing due in any class, so it's just been playplay for me! hahaha, i even went out to IHOP at midnight yesterday with Enoch and Carson...and then tomorrow, Guh, Karen, and Elean are gonna come pick me up!!! i'm so excited! hahaha, this break is gonna be legen-wait for it-dary!!! but now, i'm done blogging and gonna keep watching 30 Rock. =D

A Quickie

2009-11-15T19:46:00.003-05:00

i actually don't have time for this, but procrastination is my best friend. this week/weekend was pretty chill, no hang outs, no nothing...haha because this past week i got back all the exams/papers i had two weeks ago, and all of them had very pretty grades on them, so this weekend was spent studying to keep these pretty grades...i have a psych test tomorrow, i don't feel ready, but i started studying on thursday! which is crazy cause i never start studying so early! haha, anyways, on friday i was retarded and texted yixuan instead of tracy, so the info about me going back home is no longer a secret...after keeping it a secret for 1month, my own ~~stupidity~~ speedy texting ruined everything! hahaha, SO, i'll be home on december 17th, 2009 around noon...YAY! SO EXCITED!!!! ONE MORE MONTH!!!! and a little more than a week till OHIO with my karen ("愛" 小姐) then two weeks after that is HOME WITH MY COUSINS/GIRLS/ANITA/HOME MADE DELCIOUSNESS!!!! oh man, so exciting! ok so before all that can happen...i needa study hard to get pretty grades which means this blog entry has come to an end.

Not Quite Break Yet

2009-11-11T23:12:00.003-05:00

wow, time for an update eh? (haha, first one to agree: tracy) i've been procrastinating/post-poning my updates, cause...i dunno, just didn't feel like it...anyways, nothing EXCITING has happened lately, i survived my death week last week, but because it was so "much" that this week i'm kinda just like "break time!" hahaha...it's been pretty "warm" lately, and warm means michigan warm and tucson freezing...haha, but i'm really enjoying it! the moment it's over 50, i'm like SHORT SLEEVES AND THIN HOODIE!!! i even went a little extreme and wore capris...lol, it's just that exciting to me...native michiganers are saying that usually by now we should have quite some amount of snow, but it hasn't yet, they say it's global warming, i say Jesus loves me. hahaha, i mean, i'm "excited" for the snow, but i know that once it comes it won't stop, so i think the snow can wait a bit longer =P so, now that i'm down to the last month of this semester, i've been getting "lazier" in doing work, but i mapped out my 3 year plan yesterday and i know if i want to succeed, i better get my act together...sigh, but thanks to yixuan's netflix pass, i've been watching so many movies...it feels like summer again...(without the heat...) i'm done.

p.s. parents came home yesterday, when my caller ID said "mama" i was overjoyed, i'm so glad she's back. =D

Nerdo?

2009-10-19T21:12:00.004-04:00

the past week flew by, well actually, school is just flying by...i mean already 7th week, so i'm half way through my first semester!!! i got all my test results back last week, i'm off to a good start! haha, praise Jesus! hopefully...no, i WILL keep this up! i haven't gotten "pretty" grades in so long...haha anyways, weekend run down!

friday: yaf without adults (yes!), it was alright...group was so tiny, hahaha, i really enjoy fellowshipping with the kids from yaf, but i kinda wanna find a white fellowship for me to join...i'd still go to yaf, but i want something else too...i'll see, gotta keep on praying~ after yaf, we had practice, it was hectic and i realized at the end it was cause we didn't start out with prayer! it's funny how such a little thing can be so powerful, so fail on our part. then came back to dorm, skypped with beloved anita and anthony (i forgot to put it on full screen before taking a screenshot...hahaha, he was SO cute tho~) then after that, i skypped with yixuan and tracy till 430am...<3

saturday: woke up at 645am cause i was supposed to go play basketball with 3 boys at 7am, but they texted and said 730, so i slept till 720...went and played bball...IT WAS SO COLD! but, it was fun, hahaha...then mcdonalds for breakfast, then came back and talked to mom for half an hr (-sigh-, would've been so much longer if it wasn't an international call...=/) then sometime later, took a nap for 4 hrs =D...then wasted my night away...

sunday: church - played for worship and taught youth group sunday school, went to apts to bake a cake (i miss all my baking materials...it was so much harder without everything...), celebrated chia-wen shushu's bday, the kids put on skits, i was the camera-woman...then came back to dorms and wanted to cry...hahaha, because i procrastinated so much saturday that i had homework left to do at 1030pm sunday, i didn't even have a lot of stuff, but i freaked out cause i KNOW i had time to do it saturday...the weird thing was, all of senior year i was so used to that kind of living, i didn't care, but now that i'm actually TRYING in school, i freak out about things like that...hm.

i really miss my mommy, she should never go out of country for so long...it makes me sad. =(

Jiow's Night Out

2009-10-13T00:15:00.002-04:00

Regardless of what others are choosing to call my friday night, i'm still gonna call it Jiow's Night Out. So on friday, we didn't have yaf this week cause we were gonna go apple picking/fall color tour saturday morning...i asked Yang if he could take me to the mall, but he was gonna be super busy, so instead, the Navy Honda Civic car keys were handed to me! (actually, he didn't wanna explain to me how to get to the mall, so he drove me there and wanted to walk back, but i said i wouldn't allow it, so he drove me to the mall, i drove him back, and drove back to the mall...good thing mall is less than 1mi away...) the mall was really small, but it was sufficient, as in the stores i usually shop at were all there...except for A&F, but that's ok, i can't afford anything without my mommy anyways...hahaha so after shopping at the mall i went to Kohls and Target and "harvest" of the night: Band Aids from Target! hahaha, i ended up not getting anything from anywhere because 1) the stuff i actually wanted were too expensive/not on sale 2) the stuff that were on sale were just stuff i wanted and not needed 3) without a job, i feel guilty spending money...so after shopping, i went and treated myself to a very delicious bowl of Chipotle, boy, was i satisfied! after that, i drove around a bit more, just cause i had a car, so might as well...haha (no worries, i filled up his tank before giving it back) then later on that night 5 of us went to Culver's and it was entertaining, i don't really remember what was done/said i just remember it being a funny hang out...the rest of the night is unimportant.

saturday: woke up early to go pick apples (i drove yang's car again, cause he didn't go)...it was so cold...if you guys ever visit me, even though they say it's a "michigan must" we're not doing it. the fall color tour was beautiful tho! i loved the colors and the sky was beautiful that day!!! praise Jeebus! =D then later that night we went to downtown g-rapids to eat a asian restaurant, the only reason i was persuaded to go was cause i checked out the menu before hand online and saw abuncha southeast asian foods and was like ALRIGHT I'M GOING! i got curry! yay! that made me happy, i mean it wasn't as good as mom's/malaysia, but being able to taste curry just makes me happy, thank you Jesus! then after dinner we went to Carson's to play Rockband, that made me happy too! hahaha, it was a good night...

sunday: typical church day, it was funny hearing Pastor Ting mention "lee dao hong mu shi" cause i'm like puahahaha, i know that dood. anyways, then it was back to dorms to do hw...so nothing exciting. but weekend was good overall, mainly cause i got to drive so much =D

It's getting colder and colder here, BUT i'm not complaining (yet.) i'm actually rather enjoying it, and i'm not just saying it to make myself believe it, i really am enjoying it SO FAR...so that's a plus! also, i realize that i'm getting dumber and dumber...not school wise cause there was already no hope...hahaha, i think the problem is that my other half is usually the dumb one and without her here, i have to bear the burden of being the dumb one too...maybe that's why she's being so smart over there too because she has to take on the responsibility of being a smart person too...please, let us reunite. we complete each other =P (you know i only play play ;) ) ok, i'm done, this is possibly the fastest i've ever written an entry...quite surprised.

"Short" Entry

2009-10-07T21:25:00.002-04:00

been slacking on these blog posts cause i've been doing hand written entries in my journal! hahaha, anyways, a quick weekend update.

Friday: had pot luck at yaf for moon festival celebration, after that had worship practice, then went to enoch's for "sleepover", which really meant eating party...haha but i had self control and did NOT eat, because i do not want freshmen 15/look like a gugu! =O

Saturday: was woken up at 10am, went to go play bball, lunch at Ichiban (eh...), came back, pooped around, studied for religion, blah blah, bed

Sunday: church, played piano, hard to understand sermon (the canton accent completely threw me off), signed up to teach children sunday school, it'll be interesting cause i signed up for the young kids, and i haven't taught that class in a few years ><, then we went to Yang/Alex/Chia-Wen's to cook, watched Stephen Chow's movie, went out to buy some stuff, GOT A STARBUCKS (haha, but no cool kids to get it with =/ and i had to get a hot drink) ate dinner, watched funny/stupid videos on youtube, blah blah, end.

anyways, this week i have 3 exams, i already finished 2, and i've got one more friday...i'm pretty sure i owned the religion exam, haha, it wasn't "easy", but i knew my stuff PLUS i studied! and had the math test today, i'm not SUPER confident, but i know i didn't do bad...i'm not that sure bout friday's oral rhetoric written test tho, will have to do some extra studying...uhm, also, on monday my grandpa passed away in malaysia...i was really sad when i first found out, but now, i'm "happy", as in i know this is so much better, for his health condition and his "memory" this is so much better for him and for the aunts...plus, we know where he's at ;)

on a side note, i'm SUPER excited for winter break, i can't wait to go home! i really miss my girls....haha and my GIRL, ANITA <3!!! then, if everything works out (pray pray pray!) i'm super excited for spring semester! hahaha, but that's all i'm saying. life has been good tho, God has been awesome, everything's been taken care of, He's in control and it's awesome to know He's by my side =D

Firsts

2009-09-28T15:54:00.004-04:00

edit// I LOVE MY PARENTS!!! hahaha, i got their GIANT package of food today!!! i could not stop laughing...at one point at unpacking, i had to stop just so i could laugh...my mom packed EVERYTHING!!! i'm SO happy! =D YAY YAY YAY!!!//

-i did my own laundry for the first time ever last night! i'm real proud of myself no matter what others have been saying on my facebook status!
-i took my first exam of the semester today! i actually just got back from it about 30min ago...this blog post was actually postponed because of this test! (look, i'm even straightening out my priorities!)
-yesterday marks first month away from tucson! so this post was supposed to happen yesterday to make it more exciting...haha oh well.
-today was also the first day i wore long sleeves (hahaha, i just wanted another "first")

i was told that my "friday: blah blah, saturday: blah blah..." was mundane, BUT i'm still gonna do it...hahaha

nothing exciting happened during the week except that on wednesday night i got to webcam with anita (thanks again, tracy~) and that made me SO happy, her laughs, her smile, her fat chubby face...TOO cute. i love that little cutie pie~ other than that, it was a typical school week...

friday: typical, yaf was interesting...our group pwned. =D then there was worship practice afterwards, oh boy! i love the feeling of just "jamming" even tho we were practicing...cause even tho i get to practice in our basement almost everyday, it's different with others and going all out, fun stuff! now all i need are the 4 other stars and that moon. ;P

saturday: woke up at 9:50, picked up by yang at around 10ish to go to church cleaning...blahblah, we barely did anything since they started at 9...then went out to lunch with the usual kids to MingTen, the only good asian restaurant here...it made me appreciate New China...hahaha, but the sushi was good, so i was still satisfied...then i came home, watched season 9 of friends AND studied psychology, haven't studied on a saturday since freshmen year of highschool...i'm in the "freshmen mode" again...hahaha

sunday: typical church, nothing exciting or i can't think of anything...soooo...yep, i did enjoy our worship tho...haha, Light of the World in chinese...bahaha, i can't think of that song without hearing it in chinese now...One Way's like that for me too...two english songs that have officially "translated" in my brain and can't be "translated" back...=/

This is 4th week of school!!! i'm quite surprised, haha it's also super exciting because it means winter break is coming up, which means home!!! eep! excite excite! and before that, thanksgiving break in ohio!!! yay!!! =D God is good!

He Loves, He Cares, He's There

2009-09-21T22:19:00.003-04:00

edit// i forgot to add, on sunday after church, i was just bored so i asked Liu Yang to let me drive is car to the front...and after i did, he's like "why don't you drive?" and i was like "really? ok!" so i got to drive it for the rest of the night, it made me really happy, finally being at the wheel again...ooohhhh, good feeling...haha//

There is None Like You
There is none like You,
No one else can touch my heart like You do,
I can search for all eternity Lord
And find, there is none like You.

I remember just a month ago (or maybe a few weeks ago) i was blogging about stuff like "i know He has a plan for me, i just needa step out and find out"...stuff like that? stuff that i wrote to reassure my decision to come out here to "The Freezer"....it's silly how us humans have to go through something TOUGH to finally realize "oh! He's here!" when really, He's been here the whole time! Man, i've got so much testimonies to tell now...but i'll just compile it and share it sometime. In short, I've never felt this close to Him before, and it's AWESOME, feeling His presence, realizing afterwards that He had already thought about this way before i did, and knowing that I needn't be afraid cause He is there. Boy, do i love our God! =D

now that i'm done with that, onto my weekend update!

Friday: I HAVE WAITED FOR THIS DAY ALL WEEK! when class ended at 330pm, i was jollificated! then i went to yaf, it was their "normal" routine this time, i played piano for worship...i didn't know whether i should be playing the chords or the melody so i did half-half, like the chords when i heard them singing, so i knew they knew the song...anyways, then after it i came back to my dorm and wanted to shoot myself in the face...cause i was SO used to going somewhere after church that coming straight home i was like @.@ this is a new feeling! and so i felt...poopy. which also led up to a lot of complaints (my b.) i won't go into further details.

Saturday: slept till 1:30pm, i was trying to waste the day away by sleeping that way i don't spend a lot of time being in a poopy mood on how there's nothing to do...so then at dinner, i ate with Jessie, who i like to call the Indowanese (Indonesian + Taiwanese) and it made me happy to know her as i am Malaywanese...hahaha, so we had quite a few things in common, then after dinner we had this Taiwanese gathering consisting of Me, Jessie, and Jacky...then Ivy joined so it wasn't taiwanese anymore...we chilled at the lobby of SE for like 30min talking about nothing, then Jessie said that she was gonna go watch a movie with her friends, so i went with her! went to go see The Proposal eeeeee, it was cute and funny, i'm not exactly the biggest fan of Sandra Bullock, as in i really don't like her, but she wasn't too bad in this movie! Ryan Reynolds is good as always, good looking too, so the going out and watching a movie part made me really happy, as God took care of my "blah" from friday night. =)

Sunday: woke up at...12:45pm, got ready for church, wore new shirt from express, all this "wearing new clothes" is making me happy, i like pulling tags of these clothes, makes me smile, especially when i see the price too...hohohohoho...church was weird, there was a promotion for a "loving couples camp" which i obviously need, you know? so i was NOT paying attention. HOWEVER, after church, some of yaf kids decided to go cook at Tiff/Karen/Teresa's apt! so a crew of us went to go get the ingredients and a crew went back to get ready, when we got back, we got down to business! Jesse cooked ma puo tofu, and this other tofu thing, Liu Yang cooked this lotus root thing and the Jap curry was a collaboration of us two, but he was the 大廚 fasho. anyways, so it was (alphabetical order...haha) Alex, Chia-Wen 叔叔, Enoch, Jesse, Joshua, Karen, Teresa, Tiffany, and Yang at this gathering, it was fun and definitely some bonding time! i can already see some interesting, definitely amazing, quirky, friendships coming up these next few years! I'm so glad God's blessed me with this church, He's definitely providing~

I had a wonderful weekend if this post wasn't clear...it started out with quite some complaints, but that was a waste of my breathe as He had already had my weekend planned...so once again, PRAISE JEEBUS! He is good, and He loves me way too much =D

Passion Tea Lemonade

2009-09-16T20:16:00.006-04:00

edit// (09.17 10:55am) i forgot to mention that on sunday i was also told that i'll be the pianist for the "youth worship team" that leads on sunday every other week! sooo, this week is us! i'm excited! i also found out last night that they want me to play on friday too! this is one of the reasons i'm starting to feel "at home" with this church cause i have stuff to do! Praise Jeebus!

original// Passion Tea Lemonade (i want some.) aka PTL aka Praise The Lord!

Today makes 1 week and a day at Calvin College! For those of you wondering/been asking...classes have been alright, i don't see them being a pain in the butt...YET, i think a few classes will annoy me cause of the "stuff" there is, but i know they're not HARD work...so PTL! My roommate and i are getting along better, not that we weren't before, but we kinda just didn't talk at all the first week, but we've been talking more now, so PTL! Now aside from the complaint of last week's fellowship at this new church of mine, i REALLY enjoyed sunday service, PTL yet again!

Sunday: service was very simple, church is supah tiny, but that's ok, it's what i'm used to...they sang oldies, hahaha, but oldies that i knew, so hoorah! anyways, after service (that started at 2:30pm) they had a bbq/pot luck and i was introduced to 2 Malaysian Families, 1 Singapore lady, and a buncha other people that knew about me before i came...hahaha, and 1 of the Malaysian family knows of my parents! it was so weird! the moment i mentioned our JB church, they were like "OHHHHHHHHH!!!" O.o but it was awesome, it made me feel very much at home...=) and after church i went with 4 other youths the the grocery store and i got myself some junk food...haha, enoch's predicting that i'll gain the Freshmen 15 and he WILL make fun of me...and i said it won't happen....(hopefully! ><) sunday made me really like church and look forward to church this weekend! which is a good sign cause it means i'm starting to treat this church as home...so there's no more homesickness because i got one here =D so PRAISE JESUS!!! He is good~

I have Oral Rhetoric class because it completes a core and i thought that this would be most helpful for my future career than like...science education studies or art (which everyone knows i fail at...) and we had our first speeches due today, and since i had sent my speech to my teacher the day before for her to "edit"...she knew i had it ready, so she called on me...haha, it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, but i spoke a lot quicker than i practiced...=/ oh well, i'm glad it's over and i don't have to worry about it for another day...one class tomorrow! yay! so all in all, life is pretty good...it's also starting to get cold...59 degrees right now...isn't this tucson winter?! @.@

Strengthened in Him

2009-09-11T23:33:00.003-04:00

滿有能力
我的盼望就在耶穌基督裡
在你裡面滿有平安
生命泉源就在耶穌基督裡
有主在我裡面活著

我宣告在我裡面的
比世界一切的更有能力
我不屬這世界
我高舉耶穌的名

我宣告在我裡面有
活水湧流滿有能力
有耶穌在我裡面活著
我勇敢站立

有主在我裡面
沒有懼怕能戰勝仇敵
有主在我裡面
沒有懼怕還得勝有餘

this is a long one! color coded!
Today marks 2 weeks and 1 day since i've left tucson...and of course the past 5 days have been the hardest...but instead of writing about all the boo-hoo stuff, gonna start with praise!

the past weekend in ohio has been legen-wait for it-dary! haha, i'm so happy i got to spend those few days in ohio because 1) i had a really good bonding time with a few of the girls 2) it kept my mind off the whole "moving" thing 3) i saw a lot of growth in many of the youths in just half a year...anyways, for those ohioans that are reading this, i had a REALLY nice time with you guys and i even told my mom "dang it, i should've went to cedarville" (but no, i'm glad i didn't go there...hahaha) i can't wait to chill with you guys during thanksgiving break =D oh, and this trip to ohio was kinda weird...to me at least, cause i got "close" to all the people i wasn't exactly close with before...like, even though karen and i talked occasionally, this trip...WOW. hahaha, we had some intense talks. and anna too, somehow was able to talk about a lot more things this trip...and then bernard, i told him we better talk this trip cause we didn't talk at all my past two trips, and we did! so it was cool finally talking to "BMW" also got to hear a lot of his retarded stories...hahaha, i was just kinda surprised at how easy to was to get close to them even tho this is only my 3rd visit...but then again, it's cause 因著耶穌我們成為一家人!!! annndddd yeaaaahhhh, it was really nice being the ohioans, gave me that "home" feeling =)

Monday: dropped off by family around evening...didn't start the tears till the last hug with parents...anyways, later that night we had a "Dorm Mixer" so i went downstairs and stood awkwardly away from the little groups of friends that had already formed while i was in ohio...but then randomly, this girl starts talking to me, with the usual "name, major, hometown" and then asked if i was gonna go back to AZ for thanksgiving and i was like "no, but maybe ohio, cause my brother is there" she flips and says "Where?!" me: "columbus...." and it turns out, that's where she's from! hahaha, the awesome part is, i've found myself a ride to columbus during thanksgiving break! =D praise Jesus! the first night and He took care of my "biggest worry"

Tuesday: first day of class, only one class, Christian Theology, EXCITING! haha, i was also the only "religion/pre-seminary" major in the class, so professor was like =D...then the rest of the day was like reading/food/boo-hoo/etc...

Wednesday: had the other 4 classes...they all seem interesting...haha, sociology, oral rhetoric, math, psychology...i'm not sure how i REALLY feel about them yet, because i always judge a class to quickly and end up not having a good time...so yeah, i'll wait and see...i can't recall anything exciting happening here too....

Thursday: can't recall anything, and it was only yesterday...just remember calling my mom about 4 times throughout the day due to: 1) questions 2) decisions 3) home sickness 4) just because...hahaha not in that order tho....but then my mom told me the story about anita looking for me...oh my goodness, could not help but cry hearing about her...gah, i miss that little tadpole...=(

Friday: was excited for yg all day, i REALLY wanted to see what it was like and i was hoping to rely on the yg for "comfort" as i did with my yg and as i did with the ohio yg...so waiting outside at like 6:50 even though they said 7 (and they were NOT on time) i was just SO READY to go to yg...but today was the first yg of the semester so they didn't do a typical yg, they just played games the whole time (not exactly fun games...hahaha, but it was alright) and honestly, (i hope none of them reads this) i was quite disappointed... i guess i just had too high of an expectation, but praise Jesus! i got to know a few people (asians) that go here too...and that does comfort me a bit more...but after yg, i couldn't help but miss yg (MY yg) SO SO SO SO SO much...and i couldn't call any of you because all of you guys were AT yg...so that made me even more sad, and that was probably the first time i really missed yg as a whole...-sigh-. keep up the good work guys, i hope to see big, wonderful changes in the winter.

Tomorrow morning is chaos day...i finally decided to buy a dorm shirt, and they ran out...OH WELL. haha, keep on praying for me guys! i need to learn complete dependence on God! =D

Keep Moving Forward

2009-08-29T23:15:00.004-04:00

edit// i miss my 小蝌蚪, i was gonna wait to post her pics up, so that i can post my "moving pics" too, but these are too cute tot wait! =P

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” - Sir Walt Disney

As much as i like procrastinating on my blog posts, i do think that i need an update. (i color coded it again for you lazy readers =P)

Thursday: early in the morning, my 2 xuan-xuans and winston took me and my parents to the airport, they literally just dropped us off, which was fine, and completely not sad...haha ok, not competely, but it really wasn't that bad as the xuans have left me and i've left the xuans, and winston left us before too...anyways, one of my luggage was 12lbs over weight (what the fart, it had the lighest things inside too...) and so we had to take some crap out and that was real fustrating...oh and jerry appeared at that time, his eyes were water filled...i thought he just didn't get enough sleep but my mom claims that he was crying...hmmmm...(sparknotes version here) left tucson, transferred in Chicago, arrived an hr late in columbus, picked up by brother and jacqueline, went to Oo's residence to drop off all luggage, ate dinner at this korean place, went with brother to OSU while him and some youths played tennis, end.

Friday: woke up at noon (9am tucson time, be proud of me) to have lunch with bro at Tensuke (sp?) then came home, (the highlight of my weekend...so far, as there's still tomorrow) so in the spare time between after lunch and 8pm yg, i watched 2 disney movies! haha it made me so happy to see the mini collection of disney movies here (which i think xiao qi jiejie would be really happy to see too) i started with Meet The Robinsons just cause i haven't seen that yet, and at first i was like @.@ but then it became O.O it was so good! hahaha, it totally surprised me (i won't go into detail so i won't ruin anything for you yet-to-watch-it-ers...) but in it "keep moving forward" was like the main theme and at the end they put the quote by Disney that i put in the beginning of this post....and after the movie i felt like it was God telling me something too, cause the night before i left i started freaking out so much that i couldn't even sleep all night, shocker right? (details some day) but now, KEEP MOVING FORWARD! anyways, then i also watched The Little Mermaid...i couldn't decide which one, but then since she was the only princess one i decided to watch it...left for yg, played redonkulous game, stm testimonies (thumbs up), came home, end.

Saturday: had lunch with Rev. Oo's, went to Easton with anna, bernard, dianna, jacqueline, katie, marissa, mj, shirley, si chu, and later met up with steven and victor (bahahaha, it's alphabetized...i hope i'm not missing anyone) during Easton (sparknotes) bwen became obsessed with jam and steven is extra shady and almost got in trouble...oh and Tiffany and Co had free food <3! after Easton, went to park near katie's house, went to katie's house for dinner, came home, end.

Overall, it's been a good transition, and i'm getting a little excited to see what my classes are like...haha, but the whole parents leaving thing still scares me a little, so keep praying for me kids! i needa "keep moving forward!" (向前走呀! 努力向前走!)

p.s. if you girls see starbucks "vanilla bean truffles" YOU MUST BUY, SO DELICIOUS, i had one here at Oo's place, almost died from it being so good...dark chocolate on the outside and vanilla yumminess on the inside. =P

Major. No Longer a Minor

2009-08-18T00:40:00.005-04:00

PRAISE THE LORD! for: 1) amazing family 2) awesome (and beautiful, might i add) friends and 3) a wonderful day

Today, morning i woke up at 10:15am and before i could REALLY wake up, my dad told me happy birthday and then prayed for me (couldn't help but teared up)...after that i checked my facebook/gmail to clear all the notifications/emails...hahaha then talked to my mother for a bit, then got ready for the day with my beautiful girls! got to the mall late, waited for meixuan, and began our amazing/fun photoshoot! then we went and got our tickets for The Time Traveler's Wife, ate lunch, checked out our pics, and watched the movie. The movie was really cute, sweet, adorable, but sad...haha i won't say too much about it tho...i really enjoyed seeing Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana tho...hahaha. anyways, then we shopped for a bit, i got a a hoodie from A&F for $12.90!!! haha and yixuan and meixuan also gave me an abercrombie hoodie (thanks~)
Then after getting home from the mall, i left again after about 10min, went to Sushi Yukari with parents, it was super delicious! and Yukari made a special dessert for me, oh man, super fattening...chocolate/banana cake, vanilla ice-cream, topped with whipped cream and chocolate cake crumbs...haha, then we came home.

I had a really really really great 18th birthday!! thanks to all who wished me happy birthday, each and every wish made me smile =) i'm especially thankful for The Girls tho...i think this birthday celebration was pretty downlow for an 18th birthday and we decided to do a birthday celebration that we used to do when we were like 12/13, haha when we couldn't go anywhere but the mall...but it brought back so much good memories and built so much more today~ thanks girls, it was legen-wait for it-dary! true story.

<3 Yes, it's true, we're that beautiful.
haha, posting this one just for kicks.

The Fantasmic 8

2009-08-13T01:43:00.002-04:00

As previously written, (most) of youth group went on a road trip with Rev. Ongs//Lim Parents//D.Lu family last weekend...

Thursday: (IDIOT) Tony came to our house at like 6am something, when we emphasized 7:50am...(geez, he never gets anywhere on time, but that day he had to be early...) so that started off both my parents off in a pretty bad mood, cause they didn't go to bed till like 3am wednesday cause of 餐館團契...anyways, after getting to CA, we went to eat at 金都, SO DELICIOUS...then drove another hour or two to Torrance, practiced for a bit, went home, SPA-ED.

Friday: practiced from morning to night, except with lunch in between...ate a buffet, i thought it was hilarious that they'd treat us to a buffet when they KNEW we had a buffet owner with us...@.@ anyways, our New China PWNS. Praise night was pretty awesome, God really did some work...it seemed like the congregation was pretty dead, but we only got positive feedback...and parents with younger children are all hoping they'd grow up to serve in church, so praise Jesus for setting examples! then SPA-ED at night.

Saturday: REDONDO BEACH! had SO much fun riding the waves...hahaha, the boys were such wimps, all the girls jumpped in before they did, and that fatty mcfatfat winston took forever to join us...=.= after that went home and went to Q&A...blahblah DID NOT SPA. =O

Sunday: church, my babies left me =(, wanted to punch annoying lady in the face...talked to ex-SOP members, went home and "napped" (i did not, i poo-ed instead) then left for good korean food with a few adults, went home and SPA-ED with Nathan...went back and chilled.

Monday: DISNEYLAND!!! i want to live there...oh man, like yixuan said, there's no describing, it'll just ruin it...it was so amazing, and the company was great. it was a good birthday thing. thank you guys for making it awesome.

Tuesday: left early in the morning...DIED on the car...haha. done.

i have yet to upload pictures...but i will...tonight, maybe tmr...oh and i LOVE anita. she's here with me now (at church) boy, is she adorable. i think her nickname should be 嬌嬌...she is so much better at it than i am...

To The Left, To The Left

2009-08-04T04:20:00.002-04:00

so last thursday, i started packing...haha i can't believe how soon my "moving date" is coming...AND i got my residence hall assignment yesterday...haha, but all the stuff i packed were just winter stuff, so it's making me rather excited =P, i'll save my recent "college transition" experience for my last bible study

yixuan, mark, dean, and i went to go see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on saturday, SUPER exciting stuff! i really can't wait for the 7th one! practice after that, then tracy, yixuan, jerry, tony, and i went to applebee's...hahaha there were so much funny stuff, like voice-automated car...i love this group, can't imagine college life without them =/

for some reason, before blogging i had a lot to write about, but now, i'm stuck...haha oh! today, woke up at 10 (crazy early...hahaha) to have breakfast with parents at Good Egg...was pretty delicious, and i couldn't finish...which was really surprising...O.o then i came home and went online for a while and fell asleep...=P then left for the most entertaining and fun practice ever...my mouth is feeling crazy uncomfortable right now, for the past 3 weeks since the surgery, i've been fine...but tonight it started swelling and hurts...boo. i guess i'll just sleep tonight rather than watching a movie...haha

Movie Fanatic

2009-07-29T02:05:00.005-04:00

nothing much has happened the past weekend, except the fact that i got to go swimming with the most adorable kids on saturday...i had previously written a whole blog about those kids, but then i decided that no on really needs to read it...haha, so that's all i'm saying on that subject...

so i haven't written anything about this yet, or i don't think i did yet...but we're going to cali for a praise night on 08/06 (poster on side) and leading sunday worship, so if you know people around torrance, CA (or even if they're not) make sure to tell them we'll be there!! oh and the time is 8pm not 730pm...i'm not sure how this'll turn out, haha, i've never organized a mainly chinese songs set (well, except for my brother, but it doesn't really count, cause i just pick songs) so yeah, pray pray pray!

we had our first praise night practice tonight...it was just really a run through/get a feel of the songs...without all the instruments there, it's really kinda hard...but may God help us!!! after practice i went to blockbuster to switch out a movie, as i do almost every night, and my two favorite guys were there! i only know one of their names tho...but the one that i'm not so sure's name asked me about Watchmen (rented it two nights ago) when i walked in and asked what i thought of it and said he knew i'd think it's a too slow of a movie...then when i checked out Alex helped me and asked me how The Heartbreak Kid (the dvd i was swapping out) and when i told him that i was surprised, seeing that it was a ben stiller movie, he was like "THAT'S WHAT I SAID!" hahaha, i just found that really funny that he was so excited...but yeah blahblahblah more bout the movie...i've been watching so many movies lately, but been watching "new movies" from last year...and my blockbuster guys are awesome critics, i wish i was their friend...lol, just because my OH-SO-AMAZING-AND-AWESOME-FRIENDS now aren't into the whole media thing, like movie stars blahblah, movie details blahblah, behind the scenes blahblah...hahaha...why don't i have cooler friends! just kidding guys. (maybe.) i think that's all, i've just been watching SO many movies, trying to catch up on all the movies i missed last year when i cancelled my pass...i don't know what i'm gonna do in college without this pass, although i am paying for it myself now...but i won't have this extra $23 to spend every month...i should just work at blockbuster...=D ok i'm done rambling...i should start jounaling again rather than blogging....

p.s. rented Pineapple Express tonight...not having any expectations cause my blockbuster guys laughed at me when i got it...@.@

Preparation

2009-07-22T05:58:00.002-04:00

"Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil." Ephesians 6:11

it is now 3:00 am and this time i'm not awake because i can be, but rather i was kept awake by
omgpop HOWEVER, i was not up playing games on it...i was at first playing "Blockles" on it, but then this player said "religion is a joke" and most of you know, i pretty much will never run away from a chance to get into a religious discussion! so i started just saying a few things here and there as i kept playing, but as he kept throwing questions at me, i created a chatroom on omgpop and continued the discussion with him there...i REALLY praise God for putting this chance in front of me, because i do love these discussions, and i got a taste of what my future life will consist of! and i praise Him for not allowing any anger, not even a little bit, to enter into the conversation, as i was constantly reminded before by mommy to never get fustrated at the "evangel-ee" so it was good no anger was in it from both sides...anyhoo, we talked about a lot and he asked a lot of questions, in the beginning those question were easy beasy (not being prideful, just have heard these questions/answers a lot from those mission trips) but then he got into evoltionism, which i only understand the surface level of it...so my answers were rather weak, but i told him i'd get back to him after i consulted with someone else (as mommy told me before to never let the evangel-ee feel like they've lost) but when i knew my answers were weak, i felt disappointed, but hopeful at the same time...because starting this fall, i'll be able to be more fully equipped and learn more about how to deal with these situations, which is making me excited just thinking about it!

(i just read the above, and i think it was written more for myself...haha) i might as well update now as i'm already here...these few days have been fun with the aunts, but every time it get quiet, i think about how i have to leave so soon, and it makes me sad...i even told my mom two days ago that i regret choosing Calvin because it's so far away and so cold...i really didn't want to go there anymore...but when i know it's where God wants me to go, disobeying Him will only bring more troubles, haha, and He reminded me again with the song "Trust and Obey" so that's what i'll have to continue doing, and i hope that you'll continue to pray for me too.

p.s. one of my excuses to elminate Calvin out of my list when i was choosing colleges was that the major i'd had to go into there is "Religion" rather than "Theology" but today when chatting with dood on omgpop, he mentioned other religions (but not too much as he wasn't that familiar with it either and he mainly mentioned buddhists and muslims - which i'm rather ok on) and i was thanking God for allowing me to be able to go into Religion! so point of this random update so early in the morning is that, i really gotta be more prepared! =)

"I hid under your porch because I love you."

2009-07-21T03:46:00.004-04:00

first of all, just to clarify about the title, i'm not that big of a stalker, it's just a quote from UP by Dug (rather than Doug, weird huh?)

on saturday morning, my parents, tracy, mark, dean, jillian, and i went to go see UP in 3D and i really really really ridiculously like it! it was SO cute!!! and the most unbelivable thing is that i cried! ok well, i didn't cry, i shed like 2 tears...first movie (aside from The Passion) that i cried at...it was so good, i'm glad i finally got to see it (after being promised by mom 2 months ago) and the company was great =)

sunday was good too: great sermon by mom, sunday school was enlightening too! and after lunch yixuan and i went to the mall BECAUSE (not to buy more things) we went to AE and got price changes on our skirts and yixuan exchanged for a different color at a cheaper price, so we got about $15 back!!! felt so great! hahaha, then i went to work very tired...=.=

today was fun: we drove to phx early in the morning and chilled with my 2 older aunts, laughed so much and got a good ab workout =P...i can't even think of anything they said tho...oh well, it wouldn't be funny as text anyways...then tonight my older aunt taught me how to apply makeup so that i don't look like a clown when i do need to wear makeup...haha, ummm...that's all i can remember from these few days that i have to write about...so till later on~

Updatezzz

2009-07-17T02:05:00.005-04:00

FINALLY updating...it's really long, so i color-coded it, like the sparknotes version =D

Last week when my parents were gone for the week in cali, i cooked for myself (and yixuan)! haha, i was so proud of myself...made japanese curry, didnt' turn out exactly the way it was supposed to, but still tasted good...=D quick review of the week of things that happened aside from work:
Monday: dinner at chipotle with Mark and Dean, i think Mark is getting more and more homogay...=/
Tuesday: went shopping with yixuan, but came home and ordered stuff online instead cause of free shipping/cheaper prices/more sizes (because we needed the smaller size not the larger)
Thursday: cooked japanese curry xD
Friday: yg, watched Marley and Me, was cute, not as sad as i thought it would be, haha maybe i'm just heartless? was still fun...

Saturday, i flew out to cali early in the morning, almost missed my flight =X, but arrived safely and had a very delcious Korean lunch with parents, then went to EFCSB to teach kids...wasn't supposed to at first, but was suddenly put to work, which i gladly did...once again, i was faced with a class of boys...haha, but good thing i've had my fair share of training from the all boys group in malaysia and the all boys class here...had fun teaching them, then Sunday, played piano with EFCSB's worship team, was once again suddenly told to teach Sunday School...haha, but it's ok, cause i think God used this weekend to clearly show me what i'm gonna do in the future, i'm more excited about it and i really enjoy doing it! Monday was pretty boring, i had to sit in my parents' class for about 3hrs, in which i just watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which by the way, i really liked it, Brad Pitt (46) is still hecka good looking....haha, i even rewinded some scenes just to get a better look =P, but around evening, i got to hang with the Twins, of course we played some omgpop first...but then went to Yogurtland afterwards, yummy! after that, went to LAX to pick up the two hilarious aunties...next day, went to dentist for check up, made an appointment for later that afternoon to get wisdom teeth out, went to eat a GOOD lunch, shopped at japanese store, went back to dentist and got my smart teeth out...then went shopping again, then went to dinner, in which i ATE...slowly, but surely...hahaha, i wasn't gonna not eat those amazing food!

so aside from having chipmunk cheeks, i've been fine...getting fustrated at the slow eating tho...haha usually a super fast eater, so having to slow down SO much is killing me....oh! update of tonight! we had worship practice tonight and afterwards we all went to Starbucks (as usual) had for some odd reason, i had a REALLY good time, haha we do these kinds of hang outs so often, but tonight made me especially happy, maybe it's cause i didn't see them last weekend...either way, i'm really gonna miss this youth group =( what a "special" bunch.

edit// finally got to drive in monsoon today!!! so much fun!

Southeast Asia Pride

2009-07-06T03:33:00.003-04:00

every night when i sit in front of the computer, i open blogger and click on "new post" but every night i end up not posting anything, and yesterday when i really felt like writing something i convinced myself to just write it at the end of the week...so here i am at 2:09am blogging =___= haha...

the few days before summer began, i was sorta dreading it just because i really didn't want to go back into full time working...but i'm enjoying it so much now! hahaha, especially this weekend of the Forth, Dillards had a sale, so went shopping on Saturday with mom, 2nd aunt, and yixuan...got another cardigan from express and got a pair of sunglasses from Dillards, and because i'm working, i don't feel bad when i spend money cause 1) it's my money 2) i still have money 3) my hard work is paying off, but don't worry i only allow myself to spend a certain amount of money from each paycheck so that i don't spend everything...it's been exciting tho! and work is not terrible anymore, especially in this economy where people aren't really willing to eat out, it's not busy = it's not that tiring...and my co-workers take care of me! michelle made pandan cake (picture on right, yes, it is green cake! yum~) for me one day then two days later made pineapple tart and these little cheese flavored biscuits type thingy (no idear what they really were) for me! the pandan cake thing totally made my day, i haven't had that since elementary school (which i ate everyday) so it was so awesome! then she also had steven buy lunch for me when he went out to get their lunch...man, working was supposed to be where i worked out, but they keep feeding me...>< haha, oh well, and the jokester servers never stop entertaining me, they said they're my entertainment monkeys. and that's pretty much my week. oh, and i'm starting to learn Indonesian/Malaysian from my Indonesian servers again, it is SO fun, i'm already beginning to understand MOSTLY what they're saying, but i wanna be able to talk to them too.

only thing different from all the work update is that today, Han Wei visited from NYC, so after work we went to eat with him (it was his like 50th meal today @.@) we went to Zachary's for deep-dish pizza (seriously deep-dish...) and laughed A LOT, after that very filling "dinner" we went to cold stone and got ice cream...oh man, i only ate like 3 bites tho, was so full ice cream could come out my nose...but we definitely had fun chilling with him, such a funny guy. AND yixuan and i finally got to use all our HIMYM references!

parents are gone this upcoming week, yixuan's baby sitting me. hahaha, i'll be flying out to CA on saturday and will be there till wednesday...kinda excited, my 1st aunt is coming, gotta prepare the ear plugs! =P

Tucson Love

2009-07-01T03:13:00.005-04:00

wow, what kind of title is that? haha...it's been crazy hot lately, and it's not even the hottest yet...but crazy hot weather also means MONSOON season!!! which is absolutely the most amazing time in Tucson! but the monsoon we've been getting these few days weren't very big...so it's kinda disappointing...i love driving in a huge monsoon storm, dangerous, but fun...=P on saturday while driving to work, it started raining, but the sun was still super bright! haha only in tucson...all this driving and living so far away, gives me a lot of time to enjoy the amazing tucson scenery! AND today, after cleaning out closet (i say closet because, after cleaning closet, my room is now messy...@.@) i went to go see Transformers 2 with Tracy, 2 Xuans, Mark, Aaron, Sam, Charlotte, and Melody....haha i won't say anything just because i didn't want anyone else to say anything after they saw this move too...but i will say: 1) they overdid the MEGAN FOX thing...like WAY too much...i used to think she was pretty, but now, i do NOT like her face, everything else about her is fine tho, haha 2) they were so racist!!! that's all. it was fun tho, but exciting stuff is that some of those scenes were filmed in Tucson!!! AND filmed in DM right by house! where i drive by EVERYDAY! hahaha, felt so at home! =P

my life has been so repetitive lately, since i work every other day then all weekend..so it's like a cycle...i need something exciting to spark my life right now...OH! I CANNOT WAIT FOR HARRY POTTER!!! the trailer played today and AH!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!! O.O i need someone awesome to watch it with tho -coughcoughxiaoqijiejiecoughcough- anyways, so after finishing Heroes in 2.5weeks, i'm super obsessed with Milo Ventimiglia now @.@ and the fact that his name is my favorite drink makes me laugh...i really wanna re-watch season 1 of heroes tho! definitely the best out of the 3 (as almost everyone told me when i first started watching...) cause i have yet to find another tv show to start...haha thought about starting gilmore girls cause Milo's in it for 2 seasons or something =D ok must sleep soon...too tired to even blog properly...

edit// i rented the first transformers last night and watched it at 2am and finished around 430am-ish...haha, but i woke up at 130pm today...felt so good, but this just leads to my point that, only 30min after i went to bed, mark woke up O.o

Malaysian Love

2009-06-26T00:53:00.005-04:00

I think today is worth an update, because my life is usually pretty boring...haha =P

i didn't have to work today, which meant sleeping till i naturally wake up...BUT that didn't happen, because i set an alarm for 8:55am so that it'd be 11:55pm in malaysia, so that i could text ahBin happy birthday and by the time i finished the text/sent it it'd be around 12am there! so i forced myself to wake up that early, sent him the text, read his reply, fell back asleep...till about 130pm when my mom woke me up, so that i wouldn't sleep till like 3pm...hahaha...so i pooped around for a bit (includes: "lunch", piano, tv, etc etc) then around evening we went to Kohls so that i'd be able to get some work clothes, in which i did! so that made me happy, i also got a pair of skinny jeans for 13.99...i super like cause they're crazy dark wash, and my mom made beef curry before we went out, so when we got home, it was all ready to eat!!! yum~ (that's right, stop rubbing it in my face that you get delicious malaysian food =P) so that was exciting and super delicious! then after dinner, i called ahBin for his official birthday blessing, talked to him for about 15min only cause he's at work...but i had fun nonetheless, i miss that kid...(過來吧！)but yeah, that's pretty much all the malaysianness that was in tonight, but those two bits of malaysian made my night =) tomorrow's friday! hooray for youth group~

p.s. 啊彬，生日快樂！21歲了哦，成人了 O.o...哈哈，認識你也夠就了，該絕交了對嗎？哈哈哈，不要煩！！！thanks for always being there to make me laugh, you're an AWESOME friend, and i'm terribly sorry for not being able to make it back this year, but there's still plenty of chances for us to celebrate...like...YOUR WEDDING?! =P anyways, 生日快樂！上帝祝福你！今天晚上別玩的太瘋哦！！！ =D

Nope, I Gotta Work

2009-06-23T01:08:00.004-04:00

edit//the floodgates of dissdom opened...all these are by the previously mentioned disser...
- "u are just as fat"
- rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr "wait for it...STUPID YOU." (rawrs = putting in context)
- "i really REALLY want to think better of u, but u are not helping me"

i understand that none of you think those quotes are anything, infact when taken out of context they are just hecka mean...but the disser is really just made of pure evil sooo =/ haha but i found those 3 hilarious still =P

original// "Nope, I gotta work" - Eric Forman in the one about him working at Fatso Burger.

I've been working at the restaurant since last wednesday, and i'm having so much fun again! hahaha, my indonesian coworkers are hilarious (not that i don't enjoy working with you, yixuan =P) and my uncle is back as my manager, so it means easy going work again...yay! i some how can't think of anything exciting happening this weekend except sending the ong family off, except that wasn't exactly exciting, although i got to see the girls one last time =D

i don't have anything to update about cause i've just been working...but i need to record these few things down, so i don't forget...hahaha, so stephen and michelle, the only married couple out of the servers i work with...and as i was taking my random break that my uncle told me to take, i told them how cute i thought they were, and stephen hides his face in his hands like a little boy, and i was like "you got a good one!" and stephen in his very strong indonesian accent says "nooo, not good!" and i'm like "what!" he's like "got the best one!" AWWWWW...haha, and michelle smiled and walked away...lol but then stephen being the 5 year old that he is...randomly said "i'm spiderman!" and begins "shooting webs" out of his hands...@_@ and my favorite server, alex saw Land of the Lost and insisted i go see it...he kept laughing as he tried to tell me about it...haha, i like how immature my coworkers are...had fun working these few days, i just don't like how it's taking away my weekend time...but i do get tues and thurs off =D

my mom almost sold my piano this weekend...=_____= but she didn't and isn't going to...good.

Mini Vacation

2009-06-17T01:49:00.003-04:00

for the almighty weekend details got to tracy's or yixuan's BUT one thing they missed out was winston said: "root beer froat" in perfect american english...hahaha good stuff...oh and vivien wanting to hit winston/tony with branches...haha

so we left for california right after church on sunday cause there were this couple who were teachers at Singapore Bible College that were visiting LA and wanted to see us, so we went and had lunch with them on Monday, but it was fun in cali...the weather is quite cold actually...haha, well i just wasn't prepared for it...anyways, ate a lot of good food, probably gained 50lbs, haha, and monday night we stayed at this crazy place...it was up a mountain...literally and it was a mansion! it was giaganticus! my mom kept telling me it was a mansion, but i thought she was just exaggerating, but it was so big! hahaha i did't take any pictures tho, cause i didn't wanna walk around their house taking pictures of everything...creeper to the max. but yeah, it was nice visiting cali...but getting back to work immediately! working at the restaurant tomorrow, hooray! but for 10 hrs...O.O off to bed, already 2:14...good thing i slept on the car...=P

No Goodbye Yet

2009-06-07T04:11:00.003-04:00

nothing really happened this week except that i worked at the restaurant (yay!) and got tipped $7! hahaha, yes, that is a lot for my job and for the kind of customers we get...

friday: youth group, i was very happy with the discussion, it seems like our youth group does better discussions when we require them to come in with something...haha, i'll try that more x) anyways, then after youth group i SO wanted a park-a-thon...so we went to frost then went to Udall Park, and it was really fun, but then i was retarded and tripped over this metal thingy and killed my knee, so now my right knee is crazy messed up (but i'll now match my brother's knee...haha it can be an Ong thing) and it sucks cause it hurts AND it's ugly...=___= but yeah, so i didn't get to partake in the jumping pictures...super sad. haha, next time! then afterwards, yixuan and tony came back with me and we talked till 4am...from celebrity hair, to celebrities in general, to food, to i don't even remember anymore, but whenever we switched topics i would map it out...haha

saturday: practice with uncle Ong, he said some touching words at the end of practice =/ then came home, at lunch, PF-ed, finished heroes season 1, napped, then went to kathy's house for lian-see ah yi and my farewell party with all the sunday school teachers...hahaha, i'm already getting a farewell party >< it was cute tho, they had all the kids make cards for us, and since my class is all boys, it was cute seeing all the cards that they made...but the fact that i'm leaving has not hit me yet, so i'll live in denial till it happens...(so don't start the goodbyes yet...please) then i had a really good discussion with the Ong couple, they're so cool, i want my family to be like them (but more awesome of course =P) cute couple, cute kids, pretty mom/wife...-sigh- hahaha, but yeah, the farewell party is rather weird just cause 1) i'm gonna see everyone again tomorrow 2) i'm gonna see everyone for another 2 months 3) am i really leaving? O.o i'm rather sad that the Ong family is leaving tho...oh well, mmmm, well, this is it~

p.s. pray for my $4000! Calvin says they can't tell me for another few weeks...oh and pray for my knee, i don't want a nasty scar like my brothers...=X

New Celebrity Crushes

2009-05-31T22:10:00.002-04:00

this past week was just work and work and work...but on thursday, yixuan, tracy, and i decided to go get el guero after work, i like spending time with my girls~ (at least those who are here and are usually willing to chill =P) youth group on friday was cool, haha i did not expect so many people, but praise God these kids are still willing to come! after yg, yixuan, tony, and i puzzle fighted till 2am then on saturday, there was on practice so yixuan, tracy, jerry (since he missed out the first time), and i went to go see STAR TREK again!!! AH! I CANNOT GET OVER THAT MOVIE!!! the first time was SO amazing, but the 2nd time made it even more awesome! and i'm over James Mcavoy (cause there hasn't been any new movies with him in it...) and so so so in like with Zachary Quinto/Chris Pine! (not the best picture of them, but i wanted to use one where both of them were in it, so that i didn't have to post 2...) i also watched the rerun of SNL last night cause there was nothing on, and it happen to be the episode where they appeared! i was so happy! hahaha then after the movie i came home and napped, then we went to the Lu's...ANDREI IS BACK FROM THE HOSPITAL!!! OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD! he's still pretty sick, but well enough to be home, so keep praying for him, as his mother is a little discouraged...=/ Anyways, i finally got to see my little tadpole, Anita after 2-3 weeks of not seeing her, and as she is more comfortable being at home, she's much more outgoing, gave me so many hugs <3 then we left and went and got El Guero AGAIN, then went to church cause the phoenix church arrived...then today, the phoenix church led worship/choir presentation, which was pretty good, the little boy was ADORABLE! (marry Anita, please =P) but after church, the Lu's and Lim's seemed to stay for a very long time so yixuan and i played with the Lu kids for quite a while, Anita is SO adorable! i wish she would stay this small and cute...hahaha...soooo, nothing exciting has happened, but it's not boring either, so it's good. =)

p.s. i'm still waiting on $4000 from Calvin or else my tuition's gonna be $6000, so pray pray pray!

Life As A Graduate

2009-05-26T00:30:00.003-04:00

I had an awesome weekend with my other half, it was our 兩人世界 time! we had a power weekend! hahaha

Sat: short practice, went to mall to go get $1 flip flops from Old Navy, but the line was so long that yixuan and i decided not to wait and went home to eat Beef Curry (oh so delicious) then we went out again to take family portraits/graduation pictures and i took 3 pics with my other half too! (it's from the website, so there are watermarks...)

The Whole Family
The Parents
The VERY GOOD LOOKING Siblings
The Other Half (we're not holding hands...hahaha)

There's a lot more pictures, but these are the more favored ones...anyways, after taking pictures, yixuan and i shopped for about 4 hrs...she had a 大收穫! I got a shirt from Hollister and then we came home and ate dinner and pooped around...

Sun: church, guh preached in chinese, it was my first time hearing it, excluding the recordings i heard on 4C's website...it was pretty awesome, he's improving, i'm proud of him! then sunday school, lunch, went back to mall to order more prints, then came home and took a nap, then bbq! haven't had guh's bbq in the longest time! so delicious!!! then after bbq we went back to sau guh's house and had a puzzle fighter tournament! supah fun! and yixuan converted! =D

Mon: went to phx for lunch...literally...we got there, ate lunch, went to the hospital to visit Andrei and then shopped at Leelee's and came home! it wasn't very exciting, but adorable Andrei's getting A LOT better and is absolutely adorable! praise God! BUT i begin work tomorrow...and i'm sad because i have to work at the office...i hate working at the office because i have to drive so freakin far, and i got my task list today and i don't understand what i'm supposed to do at all!!! boo. i wanna work at the restaurant. =/

The Beginning

2009-05-23T04:35:00.005-04:00

the ending of high school and the beginning of summer!

wed: graduation was ok...haha it was pretty boring actually, but the whole mood of being at graduation is fun! can't wait to graduate again...? i'm glad my brother, cousin, and tracy got to attend (parents are a given, so not mentioning...) so hooray, i'm officially done with my diploma; therefore, i don't care if they pass my absecnes appeal or not...cause they can't take it back! (and as ahbin would say: neh ne neh ne bu bu! =P)

~my three closest friends in school~

haha i literally ONLY took pictures with them...cause had to leave pretty quickly after graduation to go eat, because both brother and cousin were starving...went to el guero to eat delicious fatty food, went to church for 餐館團契...so yep, my after grad party which pretty much SUPER awesome...hahaha nope, not complaining.

thurs: went to phoenix at around 930am, got there and had lunch with dad's side of the family...we were never too close to them, so i didn't talk at all unless they asked me a question in which i had to answer...after lunch got a "haircut" i wanted it to be a "thinning" cut but she said if it was that then i shouldn't pay for it, so she cut a bit more trying to not shorten it...then went to mall where i shopped around and couldn't find anything, but then went into abercrombie and fitch and found some crazy cheap stuff!!! i got a sweater that was originally $70 that was on sale for $9.90!!! so happy! then a dress shirt for $15.50 that was also originally $70...was so satisfied that i decided to not try and get anything from AE...haha

fri: came home after lunch, pooped around, went to church, came home, played puzzle fighter with cousin...sorry i meant, kicked cousin's butt at puzzle fighter...then i'm here writing this...

tomorrow family's gonna go get a family protrait taken...haha i'm rather excited~ although, not completely satisfied with the new "haircut"...so i'm not quite sure how the pictures will turn out...oh, who am i kidding? it'll never turn out ugly! haaaa! =P yeaa, this is it, i begin working again next week! boo!

p.s. a quick update on Andrei, he's now in a hospital in phoenix with a specialist, they performed another surgery on him today that put a thingy in his stomach to control his appetite...=/ keep on praying!

THE END

2009-05-19T23:20:00.002-04:00

LAST DAY OF HIGH SCHOOL!!! i'm done done done! ~~unless my appeal for my excessive absences doesn't pass then...i'm lying~~ haha, so hopefully it passes =P i concluded my high school career very nicely, i wrapped it up with a nice meal at in-n-out with Yixuan, Meixuan, and Tony (Jerry was gonna come too, but technical difficulties he didn't.) and then watched Star Trek with them! OH-EM-GEE, it was the best movie this year!!! it was SO awesome! i wish i watched it in 3D though, would've made the experience even more amazing! Captain James T. Kirk is super awesome and Captain Spock (or "Spark" with an english accent as Yixuan thought...hahaha) was pretty spiffy too, haha, that bowl cut is an excellent touch too~ I CAN NOT BELIEVE ERIC BANA WAS NERO! WHAT WHAT WHAT! i still can't see it...but the movie was LEGEN-wait for it-DARY! so if you guys haven't seen it yet, i strongly urge that you do. too amazing, i'm absolutely willing to go spend another $7 to see it! but i also really wanna see X-Men Origins: Wolverine and opening this week Night At the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonians...i think Will Ferrell's Land of the Lost can be waited till DVD tho...haha OH AND CANNOT WAIT FOR TRANSFORMERS and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince!!! exciting!!! this will be a good summer before college...hopefully...though since Yixuan and I will both be working it's gonna be hard to schedule hang outs...=/

GRADUATION TOMORROW! whoo hoo! i'm not sad at all...hahaha all the school kids are all getting depressed and crying, but i'm super excited! but when it comes time to leave my yg kids, oh no. T.t

2 More Days

2009-05-18T00:39:00.005-04:00

edit// 1 day till How I Met Your Mother season finale!!! and yes, it's VERY important.

2 more days till the last day of high school! but more importantly, 2 more days till guh comes home! and 3 more days till graduation! 4 more days till phoenix! 7 more days till california! then it's WORK time!

man time flies, each year of high school went by quicker...i think the only time that i want time to slow down a bit is this summer...haha 1) i don't wanna leave home 2) i don't wanna leave the people (ok, that's a lie =P) 3) i don't wanna cook for myself...

Anyways, friday night was Senior Night at Italia, i literally called every restaurant in tucson to get a place for us...finally got Italia, which was actually pretty nice AND we got a private room even though they told me we couldn't, so praise God!

how are my girls so pretty?

after dinner, came to my house and gamed and chilled and had fun, haha, the whole gaming thing reminded me of Ohio when we were all gaming at my brother's house, hahaha...

saturday was dinner of the Ongs! hahaha, had dinner with Uncle Ong's (pronounced as "ang-kuh oh-ng" for the singlish affect) family at olive garden, i love his daughters! such cutie pies! and not once did they mess around at the restaurant, such good kids, i want my kids to be like them~

sunday was good, chilled with sau guh for a little bit, and it's been a while and it's always fun...haha

update on Andrei: he's fine now, still in the hospital, but daniel shu shu said he's gonna check out before wednesday, susan ahyi is now worried that this sickness might affect his brain and make him slow...=/ so please continue to pray for him...

About Time

2009-05-13T02:24:00.002-04:00

I think it's about time i've had a new post...nothing has really happened lately so that's why there's been a lack of updated...so Monday was supposed to be my Bio AP, but i totally backed out of it, because i don't need it for college...haha but then i just didn't go to school since i'm already marked for "school business"...so i slept till 2:40pm, yea, i'm pretty much THAT amazing. So this week is such a waste, i don't have APs anymore, therefore all AP classes are done, that's 4 of my 5 classes...so i just go to school and sit there and text or play on my macbook, but there's no wifi so i can't do anything more fun like omgpop or beat bwen/joshyen's tetris scores on facebook...lol

Andrei: we literally visit him everyday and i take pictures everyday, but i'm getting lazy of uploading them...he's such a cutie pie, but too bad i'm leaving soon and he won't even know who i am! sad. but he's getting better! and the doctors are stupid! haha so we'll just keep praying that God heals and we won't rely on those useless doctors...

this was really weird, on the way home from visiting Andrei tonight, my parents and i started talking about our 4 years in the dorms of Singapore Bible College, and man, the life was probably the worst we've ever had to live through, but it was so much fun and we laughed at so much stuff...like we had this floormate who was Indian that literally (i'm not even exaggerating this time) cooked some type of gooey brown thing that smelled SO bad, it was like baked poo (I'M NOT KIDDING) and there were so many other things that really brought the family together...so then my mom was like, hm, we should all go back and study again, afterall, we want your brother to get another degree, your dad and i are still studying now, and you're about to go to college, we might as well go back as a family again! puahahahaha...that would be...i dunno, no word would really fit...haha

Sick Babies

2009-05-08T02:09:00.006-04:00

edit// my mom was making me research some stuff near Calvin, and there's a Kohls <1mi away, a mall <2mi away, and a Costco <3mi away! haha i love it! those are the only 3 places i need! hopefully there'll be a few good restaurants around too =P
lol, that's my favorite picture of him from all week cause 1) all the crap is off his face! 2) his eyes are open! 3) he's so pissed off that i would even dare take a picture of him...hahaha
so Andrei's been doing much much better! praise God! he's been brave going through all this too! but his liver is still swollen and the doctors don't know why, so keep him in your prayers!

so yesterday morning my parents took a couple to look at houses, and there was this random bird that kept following my mom so my mom decided to take it home, and it even let my mom do that! so i woke up from my nap and there was a random bird in our old hamster cage...
then we gave it to Pat ahyi/uncle John cause they know how to take care of birds, and i'm scared of birds...but apparently the bird is a little baby love bird that hasn't eaten in days...so died today...haha

10 More Days Till Graduation!!!

Praise God Almighty!

2009-05-05T01:47:00.002-04:00

Praise God! Andrei is getting better without the help of the doctors! we still dunno what is/was wrong with him, but he's recovering!!! they took the sleeping meds off today, tubes/machinery go off tomorrow, and out of the ICU! yay! when we were at the hospital today, he was semi-awake, he was so adorable, wiggling his tiny fingers and toes, and getting angry at the nurse for messing cleaning his mouth...hahaha, so it's good! God is good! when we got to the hospital, Daniel shushu was standing at the door smiling, and immediately we knew that was a good sign~ Praise Jesus!

whee! as of yesterday, i've had a new, beautiful, lovely, 2.4 MacBook! it's awesome, can't stay away from it...hahaha...i'm trying to think of a name for it, suggestions? anyways, this macbook does more than be amazing, apparently, it has some kind of defense mechanism to fight against the previously mentioned "disser"...hahaha quite special...

tomorrow's the stat's AP, i don't really feel ready, but i don't think i'm gonna study anymore...some practice tests are SUPER easy and some are crazy hard...so i never know how good i actually am doing...oh well, at least the AP isn't in like 6 in the morning...pray for me! mmmm, that's all for now, school is winding down and temperature is heating up...=/

Healing Hand

2009-05-03T02:30:00.004-04:00

i just came back from seeing Andrei for the second time today...and this time i got to see the nurse do stuff on him...they poke his tiny little finger every 15min to check his blood stuff...and the nurse was messing around with the tubes around him...it was so sad, and i saw the pain in both parents, so while my mom was praying for him, i couldn't help it and started crying again...the worst of all is, this morning they performed a spleen surgery on him, and after the surgery found out there was nothing wrong, AND THEN tonight, another doctor came and told us that the surgery was completely pointless! now Andrei has absolutely no strength to regain health from the surgery, so it's even harder to heal from whatever sickness he has right now...it's so sad, he's only 8 months old...so please please, i don't care what you're doing, just take 10secs to say a simple praying for him and the Lu family...

Long Awaited Answer...

2009-05-02T03:08:00.004-04:00

I finally decided! i'm gonna be in Michigan starting this fall...after months, weeks, and days of applying, waiting, and deciding...i sent in my deposit and housing application last night, while i was filling out all the forms, i was still very hesitant, but i DEFINITELY know it was the right thing and what God wants, so i obeyed. I'm happy with the choice tho, if you want to hear of the miracles and signs, i'll be glad to tell you, as it is a very good testimony, but i don't want to type the whole thing on here. Anyways, praise God for parents who were with me through all of this and continually praying for/with me and a brother i can run to for advice. Lastly, thank you all for praying for me, glad to have all of you around. =)
Now that the decision is made, LET THE CRYING BEGIN! i'm gonna be much worse than my brother was when he moved...ohhhh boy.
edit//(142am) oh yeah, forgot to mention that, Calvin's school colors are GRYFFINDOR COLORS! lol super exciting~ xP

Aside from the "happy" news...after yg today, we went to the hospital to visit Daniel shushu's 4th child, Andrei...and when we got to the hospital, i started crying, it was so sad to see such an adorable little baby being so sick and hooked up to so many machinery...and he was in so much pain! oh my goodness, thinking about it makes me wanna cry again...it's so sad...so please please please pray for the Lu family and little Andrei...T.t

Countdown

2009-04-30T21:31:00.008-04:00

Cousin and Anna both did this, so i'm gonna do it too...haha

Ten things you wish you could say to ten different people right now:

1. just have faith, don't take the easy way out, God will provide =)
2. make sure it's what God wants before you do anything you'll regret
3. just tell me.
4. come home! eegee's!
5. don't be stupid, you can get a better girl than her.
6. start making smarter decisions, please.
7. make sure he's the one God provided, if not i don't approve.
8. i'm glad you're my friend! x)
9. have you prayed about this?
10. sank you ;P

Nine things people should know about you:

1. i talk to myself when i drive
2. i cannot sleep still
3. i'm very straight forward
4. i tell my mom everything
5. i trust people really easily once, but once they lose it, i never trust them again
6. i will always choose mint chocolate chip over any other flavor (same as cousin)
7. i'm very protective of my brother...haha
8. i don't talk in school...which is very different from what most people usually see
9. i naturally like you better if you are from southeast asia.

Eight ways to win your heart:

1. Godly
2. laughter, the more the better
3. servant heart
4. musical talent
5. random acts of kindness
6. Ferro Rocher...hahaha
7. skilled in eating
8. SMILE =D

Seven awesome movies:

1. Zoolander
2. The Dark Knight
3. Infernal Affairs =D
4. Count of Monte Cristo
5. The Notebook
6. Italian Job
7. Iron Man

Six things you do before you fall asleep:

1. clean up
2. devotions (usually ><) 3. journal (usually ><)
4. put on chapstick
5. check next day's weather
6. pray

Five people who mean a lot:

1. family
2. my girls
3. malaysians
4. youth group =D
5. ohioans
more like five GROUPS of people x)

Four things you don't like:

1. school...haha
2. ugly people...that's right. x)
3. waking up before my alarm
4. people who bash on christianity when they know nothing about it

Three things you like:

1. food
2. sleep
3. laughing

Two things you want to do before you die:

1. learn to make my mom's curry
2. play jon schmidt's love story/viva la vida

One Confession:

1. when i was in middle school, and i had a "bed time", i would go online AFTER bed time by turning off my lights and closing my door, but at our old house, my brother didn't park in the garage so he'd have to walk past my room window (from the outside) whenever he came home at night...so whenever i hear his car pull up, i would turn off my monitor so the light from the screen wouldn't be visible.

Countdown is over...i will reveal my college tomorrow. x)

Shopping > Homework

2009-04-28T23:52:00.003-04:00

i went to the mall after school today, to go get some stuff and to get my glasses tightened...and i ended up shopping for almost 2hrs, and on any other day, it would be not enough time at all, but it was way too long for today cause i had so many other things to do...then went to kohls to go get the frame my mom told me to get...but instead of just buying that one frame, i was attracted to another, and had to get it...

(pictures are dark cause i turned off flash to prevent glare) dang, we're one good looking family! - taken on brother's last sunday in tucson

<3 my girls, and i'm gonna get a picture of the lu's kids before i leave and replace my own baby picture with them! x)

but yeah, i really like that frame ^ there was another one that was similar to it, but the picture sizes were weird so i got this...it's gonna look wonderful in my dorm!

i hope you guys have been praying, cause no schools have contacted me this week...and i promised i'd decide tomorrow...i'm gonna give calvin and concordia a call tomorrow, and the decision should be made! if not...thursday ><

AP studying time!

Violence is Not the Answer, PUZZLES!

2009-04-28T00:05:00.003-04:00

whee~ those two are the characters i use to play too! my cousin downloaded it for his xbox, and i promised him i'd go play after school today, so all day in school, i've been thinking about getting home to play puzzle fighter...oh man! it was so satisfying! ben's pretty darn good, he's so fast, all our games were so intense...it was so much fun! and then i came home and took a nap and dreamt of puzzle fighter...that's how crazy it was! i have nothing else to update about....so yep. i'll have college update before thursday!

Last Bit of the Race!

2009-04-27T00:05:00.004-04:00

edit// oh man! i love my Jesus! i'm sitting here doing stats hw, ~~worrying~~ thinking about college...and suddenly the hymn "信靠顺服" (Trust and Obey) yes, in chinese, bursts into my head...and i don't even know the lyrics...i only know "信靠顺服 lalalalalalalala 只要信靠顺服" haha...so i shall trust and obey...whatever God does, wherever He leads me, i'll trust and obey! Praise Jesus for reassurance~(12:22am)

Eye Doctor Appointment Update: i have to stop wearing contacts for at least two weeks...till my next appointment, got 2 pairs of new glasses (my mommy cannot get over them, she's excited every time i wear them...hahaha), was prescribed steroid eye drops called "FML" - 3 times a day for 5 days, and 2 times a day for 5 days...and so bernard asks me "did you fml today?" hahaha. the eye drops are crazy tho, the moment i drop them in my eyes, i suddenly have like nearly perfect vision, which is stupid, because it makes my new glasses completely blurry...

Weekend Update: I slept a lot, that's for sure...haha...i slept till 130pm on friday and 230pm on saturday...i didn't do anything for senior ditch day since i woke up so late, so pretty much just pooped around and then got ready for church...and i didn't even go anywhere yesterday, but today i went shopping with my mommy! i didn't get anything tho, she got so much stuff! i think this is the first time she gets more stuff than i do...i found clothes at AE that i wanted, but not the price i wanted...so i'm gonna keep waiting...other than that...that's it!

i have not yet decided on a college...i have not showed any sign of worry, anxiety, or anything...God's prepared my schooling since the beginning (so many testimonies) so i know He'll continue to provide and be in control, but this is the last week, where i must make a final decision, i still don't know! i have almost a full ride to Calvin, but Azusa and Conordia's programs are pretty darn awesome (plus it's in cali)...location's not a big thing to me, but cali is closer to home...aiiii, i don't know, pray pray pray!

so this coming week is my last full week of high school...haha i haven't gone to school for a whole week in quite a while...
week of 3/16: was gone thurs/fri for cali trip
week of 3/23: was gone mon because was sick from cali trip
week of 3/30: hey! was actually at school for the whole week
week of 4/6: was gone thurs/fri for spring break
week of 4/13: was gone mon for spring break
week of 4/20: was gone wed for dr's appt and gone fri for senior ditch day...
coming week of 4/27: will try (and will force self to be, because i need to save my last few absences) to be at school for the whole week
coming week of 5/4: will be gone tues for stats AP
coming week of 5/11: will be gone mon for bio AP
coming week of 5/18: LAST WEEK OF HIGH SCHOOL! will probably not be there all week...haha

"Yes, Indeed"

2009-04-24T05:07:00.002-04:00

it's 2:04am and i'm up, why? SENIOR DITCH DAY (#2) tomorrow!!! yipee~ haha but i'm too lazy to write about anything, so i leave you with this...watched this with my cousin like a year ago, i suddenly thought of it, had to find it, and share it, it's TOO cute.

hehe, it's SO cute cause he's so serious about it too! hahaha...too cute, too cute.

Fighting Against the System

2009-04-22T00:40:00.003-04:00

edit// i want to complain (just like everyone else) about the weather! SO HOT! i need AC blowing at me...constantly...i should just be a total fob and wear that winnie-the-pooh fan necklace...wahahahahha. my bro and i rocked that in malaysia =P seriously...i don't know if i can handle the 110+ coming soon...T.t

so the past weekend in phoenix was very very tiring like i expected (3-4 hrs of sleep...) but it was also very fun, yg kids are too funny and chuck was pretty entertaining to chill with too! he's really different from the last time he visited...haha, in a good way tho =P
we got to phx around 830 on saturday, practiced till around 1030, checked in at 4point sheraton, went to applebee's, pulled the "happy birthday" prank on chuck, jerry laughed his butt off, went back to hotel, cleaned up, took pictures, died a little before 330am. woke up a little before 7am, formalized, ate speedy breakfast, where water was spilt 5000 times by smarty mcsmart smart...(hahaha so funny.) checked out, left for church, choir, dim sum for lunch, THEN THE ADVENTURE BEGAN!

the "youth van" - consisting of: the 4 girls and jerry, tony, yee - wanted to go get boba at lollicup, but because we were ordered to stay together at all times...when we went to get gas, yixuan was the sacrificial lamb and was supposed to stay in the bathroom long enough for the adults to get annoyed and leave first, but when we got to the gas station...the boys needed to poo and there was only one bathroom! so long story short, the adults left after some negotiaiting (good job yixuan, i'm proud of you, my 徒弟) and we went to get boba and yen shu ji! YUM~ it ended very well =D

AP's are coming up in less than 2 weeks and i have barely studied. somebody shoot me in the face, please. i need to decide on a school in less than 2 weeks, somebody shoot me in the foot please. i have no idea what's going on, but that's the awesome thing of having a God that does! so i'm leaving it all to Him and still praying!

p.s. going to the doctors tomorrow to get my crazy bloody/drug-user eye tomorrow! >< maybe they'll give me an eye patch...lol, sick.

Lucky

2009-04-17T01:49:00.006-04:00

i cannot get the song Lucky by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat out of my head...ALL week! @_@ it's a good song tho, so it's ok =Pit's a terrible picture because i was quite far away...because my dad literally RAN to my mom after we parked...haha i wanted to get a better picture but i didn't want to run, so i took it from far away...haha...my mom came back on Tuesday...FINALLYY! and bought SO much stuff...and by stuff i mean FOOD! she unpaacked, and literally our whole living room floor was filled with taiwanese snacks! and that was excluding the stuff that was in her carry on GIANORMUS bag...hahaha...i wanted to get a picture but she kept moving stuff away so i couldn't, she said she didn't want to "ruin her reputation" =P mmmm, so happy for her to be back and so happy to be eating all these amazing snacks...mmmmm....

errr...focus of picture is the tai yang bing, not the ritz...lol

i've been crazy tired this week, like even more tired than i usually am...don't even know what happened...i want sleep...=( although i did take a 4 hour nap yesterday, felt so good~ i'm sorta dreading this weekend...the whole phoenix trip is only gonna make me more tired...gotta get off now, gotta wake up about 10min earlier to go to church to copy and fax stuff T.t (and yes, 10min earlier is A LOT...)

p.s. there's blogger mobile now! hahahahaha, it means i can blog through texting!!! too funny...

Spring Break #2

2009-04-14T01:04:00.003-04:00

edit// (232am) got SO much gov stuff left to do...but i developed this nasty skill in singapore and i'm using it now, because i don't want to pull an all nighter...haha since we don't have to turn it in YET, he's only checking if we have it, i just do the beginning stuff, so he sees it and gives me credit...learned this ~~awesome~~ terrible skill in singapore when i had to write 10,000 pages of chinese characters, i'd just do the first few pages =P

whee, just got back from phoenix...instead of sleep, spent 2 hrs talking to tony, which was cool...i think it's the first time i've talked to him about "deep" things...hahaha, didn't know i could have a deep conversation with tony...@_@ anyways, it was cool, i spent time with my awesome aunt, went shopping for 3 hrs - got 2 shirts from AE ($9.95 and $4.95! hooray for buy one get one 50% off!), brought home the UGGs my aunt got me 2 months ago, and ate good chinese food! hahaha, so as i was walking around Chandler mall, i was wondering where A&F were, and before i turned the corner, i was like it must be RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER because i can SMELL it!!! hahaha and it was! goodness, they're perfume smell is crazy...didn't get anything from there tho...too expensive...=/ i'm excited to wear my new shirt tomorrow tho~ =P

i don't want to go back to school tomorrow...have all these hw to do tonight, sigh...but i'm actually surprised i did some in phoenix! haha...maybe i'll be like crazy Bernard and pull an all nighter...@_@ MY MOMMY COMES HOME TOMORROW!!! i'm so excited!!! picking her up right after school! yipee! gonna go make a sign later...haha

p.s. congratulations Bernard & Shing on getting baptized! =D

Death

2009-04-12T01:12:00.003-04:00

the picture above was taken on the way to Thousand Oaks...i found the comments on facebook really funny...
Parker: very artistic, but maybe not in a good way, it's like gore photographs...
Stephanie: I thought this was some beautiful piece of Jackson Pollock-esque artwork
Winston: So textured
it was the biggest bug "stain" on the windshield, and it had blood on it, so i had to take a picture...and i thought this picture would go along with this post because of easter...haha because when i saw the comments, i thought so death isn't always a bad thing...and i don't need to connect the dots for you on how it relates to easter.

"praise night" went alright...haha i think we did good though, using the little time that we had, the small amount of yg kids we had, it went pretty good, all glory to God~

i've had so much on my mind lately...this is what happens when my mom goes to china for 3 weeks and i only get to talk to her for a very short amount of time on the phone...everything accumulates in my head...and i overthink things...haha, i'm so dependent on my mom =P i also wish i had a Pensieve, so i could look at my own thoughts/dreams/memories...haha alright, i'm done...time to make the powerpoint for tomorrow....@_@

L-O-V-E

2009-04-10T01:35:00.004-04:00

double edit// (241am) i'm still not asleep...i will right after this tho...so someone should push me to scan pictures this weekend/spring break...there's a lotta pics i wanna scan...maybe i'll even scan one of my parents 30 years ago...hahaha
(a few years ago...Linda visited our old house for the first time, saw pictures on the wall and said:)
Linda: dang! Pan Mu Shi was a hottie!!! and look at Wang Mu Shi, he's such a pimp! look at the way he's posing!
haha too bad neither of them are like that anymore =P

edit// (133am) i'm up doing the powerpoint for tomorrow night's praise night, and talking to a few of 4C's yg boys...haha, they're so weird and funny (i mean that in the nicest way possible...) and i'm so tired, my eyes are half open...i should really just go to bed...i really wanna go shopping tomorrow...off to powerpoint again....

so, why have i been wanting to post today? because, today is just a wonderful ADORABLE day! 30 years ago today...my parents got married! heeeeee~ my parents wanted to get married on 4/4 because it's children's day in Taiwan, but apparently every other couple in taiwan wanted to get married on that day too...so they were pushed back to 4/9! and it's been 30 years! i'm so sad that they're not together to celebrate...they don't ever actually "CELEBRATE" but i usually force them to at least go eat dinner together...ALONE. my parents aren't the cutest, most loving couple...but they're definitely a couple that was saved by God's love...haha, when two crazy, hot-headed, stubborn, people are able to love and stay together for 30 years, it truly is God's work...i wanna do something next thursday for them...cause my mom will be back and it'll just be a celebration 1 week later...hmmm...i'll think of something...also reminds me that i need to get them their gift...but i have till next tues to get something, maybe i'll get someting in phoenix on monday...whee~ ok, i've really got nothing to write about except that it's my parents 30th anniversary today! haha x)

PRAY FOR OUR GOOD FRIDAY PRAISE NIGHT TOMORROW! i'm rather worried...but i know He's in control, so whatever happens, it's OK!

Spring Break #2

2009-04-09T01:51:00.002-04:00

YAY! spring break!!! hahaha though it's the crappiest spring break ever...who has 5 days of spring break with weekend already included?! hmph. AND i'm just gonna be working all of spring break, except for monday, i'll be in phoenix chilling with my awesome aunt! haha...so i don't really have anthing to update or write about...it's just cause it's "can guan tuan qi" right now, and i have nothing to do (i usually do homework, but no hw to do this time) so i'm just sitting here chilling, so decided to update, but i'll definitely have something to write about tomorrow! haha, i've been awaiting tomorrow for quite some time! don't anticipate anything big, it's nothing that deals with YOU, in fact, you might not care at all...goodbye.

Sunday Morning

2009-04-06T03:25:00.003-04:00

"Sunday morning rain is falling"

Friday: i <3 our youth group~ i think God revived my love for our youth group =) AND Aaron and Sam came!!! THAT MADE MY WEEKEND! i've been trying to convince samuel to come for forever....but he has a pretty strong youth group so i don't blame him, but oh man! when you put the three boys together, they're just the funniest kids ever! after yg Mark and i talked for like 1.5hrs...it was pretty interesting, it's kinda weird thinking about what would've happened if i had attended desert instead...=/ oh well.

Saturday: 1.5hrs late for practice, i felt SO bad...i wanted to cry while i was driving, but apparently i'm so cold hearted no tears came out, but i felt terrible!!! then, make up at mall, back to church for hair by tracy, NoRTH, prom...it WAS fun, haha but i also discovered how critical and mean i can get...hahahaha, we'll leave it at that...=P oh and i think my cousin was right about going with a close friend to prom, and it would make it more fun, unfortunately i don't have any close guy friends in tucson, ahBin should've flown here just for it! hahaha, prom would've been amazing if ahBin was there...although, we might just laugh and "argue" - over who's more fan - the whole night...which is pretty much all we do anyways...

Sunday: i think this happens every weekend: i think about how much i'll miss adorable little anita when i leave...i love playing with her, she's the highlight of my weekend~ (sorry, tracy) but i think i'm buying her affection, she just likes playing with my keys, phone, and because i give her lots of sweets...-sigh- but she did give me a nice big hug before she left, TOO CUTE...nothing much happened, we had more easter practice...surprisingly i haven't gotten yelled at by Chuck yet...or maybe i'm just immune...because i simply don't care. hahaha i remember 3 years ago where i held in my tears SO badly during practice, that once i saw my mom i just bursted into tears by her...but now i'm like "Ok." "alright" "hao" "ha, k" "-nod-" wo yi jing shi lao liu mang le~ =P

so i'm disappointed i'm not currently in Ohio as i had planned, but that's ok i guess, haha i had a long ohioan conversation tho, so that was fun! Today (4/5) marks my parents 6th year ordination anniversary! how exciting!

First Post of April

2009-04-02T23:35:00.003-04:00

Troy is on tv right now, boy does it remind me of why i used to be obsessed with brad pitt! haha loved it when he threw the spear like 1000miles, so shuai! =P

anyways, this week's almost over...i spent most of it doing...well, absolutely nothing...haha, it's so bad, i'm not motivated to do anything, i don't wake up in time for school...whee, senior year! haha...oh and about schools, Cedarville just gave me another $1000! that's $9k from them already! but it's my last choice...so i really don't know now...@_@ i'll keep praying and see where God leads!

this saturday is prom, i wasn't excited for it at all...because i had planned to be flying to Ohio on saturday, so when those plans were cancelled, it seems like nothing could compare...and i didn't even want to go to prom anymore, but i gave in and got my ticket yesterday...haha i had to spend $45 tho cause i had to spend $5 getting a school ID, but the awesome thing was, yesterday night Daniel shushu paid me $45 for working one day in the office...hahaha so that was cool~ i'm gonna be working this spring break, which i guess i don't mind cause i want money to buy that new beautiful macbook in June...haha...

i'm SO excited for summer, i can't wait to go back to asia, it's been two years and two years too long!!! AND after malaysia we're going to taiwan and meeting up with my brother's church's STM, YAY! extra excitement! alright more updates after this weekend...

p.s. TOMORROW MARKS THE END OF MY MOM'S FIRST WEEK IN CHINA! keep praying for her!

No Title This Time

2009-03-30T00:45:00.002-04:00

nothing much happened this weekend...it was a very typical weekend...haha well, this week's youth group game was much more entertaining, so that was fun~ saturday was easter practice...i better start practicing like crazy...half of the stuff i was playing was improvisation and usually that'd be good, but this time she actually wants me to follow the music...which means i've actually gotta learn everything...haha AND if Chuck's coming (and singing that one song) it means i've gotta get it right, or else he's gonna bite my head off (HE CAN PLAY THE SONG HIMSELF LAH! haha) then we went to firebirds for yee's pseudo-birthday party...haha it was fun...i think the after party was more interesting tho...gotta spend time with my girls (minus kathy, but that's typical) and martha...it was fun...as in, we just took a lot of pictures with anything we can find....hahaha....then sunday, i taught sunday school, and promised my class if they memorize all 9 verses from the 2 months i taught, they would get eegee's (including refills) and half a big cookie from eegee's! they were all amazing and did it! so proud of them! then the yg kids wanted some too, so i made them memorize a verse before getting a cup...and TONY FAILED...HORRIBLY! hahaha...

been procrastinating so much ever since i got back from the cali trip...just absolutely no motivation to do anything...AT ALL...like i haven't done homework allnight...instead i've been playing tetris or pictionary with yg/ohio kids....haha it's alright tho...i'll get started as soon as i finish writing this...i think, maybe i'll write in my journal after this....haha -shrug- i'm so sad my mommy's gonna be gone for 3 whole weeks...every time i'm driving home alone from wherever, i get all depressed and wish i could call her...but i can't cause she's so faraway (tracy, start singing) and the time difference...-sigh- you guys should try and keep me entertained a lot a lot...x) ok onto some exciting stats homework!

Spoiled

2009-03-26T22:47:00.003-04:00

mmmm, i love being the baby of the family...lemme rephrase...i love being a baby GIRL in the family! haha...so my eye has not gotten better, so i didn't wanna wear contacts to school, which means i have to wear glasses, which are not strong enough, which means i can't drive to school, so my mommy drove me to school super early because i had to go make up a gov quiz...and they picked me up 30min later because i had to make up an eng test...=______= so the day began pretty crappy because of all the make up stuff i had to do, the painful left eye, and the random bug bite that i found when i got on the car that slowly got bigger as the day began...HOWEVER, i took an hr nap in bio, because Woon was gone and the sub didn't care what we were doing...so i just decided to take a long, nice, refreshing nap! haha....ANYWAYS, onto the best part of today, after school, my mom wanted to go to the mall because she wanted to get a new purse before leaving (more on that later) but she didn't find anything she liked, so she's like "you wanna shop for anything?" and at first i was so tired that i really just wanted to go home....but because two weeks ago, when i had that empty friday, i went shopping all by myself and suddenly discovered a love for the overpriced clothing at Abercrombie and Fitch...so i told her to go there with me...and i showed her all the stuff that i really liked...and she said "buy it." i was like "REALLY?!" she's like "yeah, go ahead, buy it, you'll need these when you move anyways" i was trying to be a good little girl, so i only grabbed 2 pieces of clothing...and she's like, why not get more colors? so she bought me a total of 3 sweaters and 2 knits...total price was nearly $100...@_@ (but do realize that the original prices on them were CRAZY, 2 pieces of clothing would've been OVER $100) so it made me super happy...haha yes, i can be bought. =P

my mother is [supposedly] leaving for Guangzhou, China tomorrow...to go to a factory to do ministery stuff (ministery stuff sounds like harry potter...hahaha) and hosting a special Easter event there...i didn't really mind her going, because 1) i thought i would be in OH 2) i knew about it for a long time...but then when i heard she was going to be gone for 3 whole weeks, i was like O_O...BUT, there's been so much trouble with her ticketing stuff...like, she hasn't even gotten her actual tickets yet...haha i dunno, i was making fun of her saying she can't go, and if she can't go, she might as well accompany me to OH (if i'm going that is....)

Whee~ i haven't decided which new shirt i'm gonna wear tomorrow...i guess it depends on the weather...but my mom told me to put it away after wearing ONE tomorrow, because 1) it's getting WAY warmer soon so i won't need 'em 2) save 'em for my new place of living (hey, just buy new ones right? =P) OH, their clothes smell SO nice, because i tried on their clothes, my hair was smelling like their store...haha

p.s. keep my mommy in your prayers as she steps into dangerous water!!! seriously, i'm scared for her...traveling all alone to china, doing some "sketchy" business....lol, at least it's sketchy to chinars

Fanest Buddy

2009-03-26T03:47:00.003-04:00

hahaha, there are so many reasons why ahBin is one of my favorite people in the whole world...so funny...so even though this might not be at all funny to you...it still made me smile...the random things he says are just hilarious~

so i showed him this picture:i tell him the blood veins in my eyes popped so i look like that...but that was one of the better nights...and he asks: "你的眼睛还能看到的吗？" (Can you still see?) ahahahaha, just thought that was so funny, who even says that? so i told him "i'm not going blind!" and he responds: "在不久红色就会变成黑色！你整个眼睛就黑到完了！！就看不到了" (soon, the red will turn black, then your whole eye will be black!) wow, seriously ahBin? can't wait to see you in person and 烦死你！

roar

2009-03-24T19:58:00.003-04:00

gahhhh! i've been "discussing" (angry discussion...haha) with my parents since last night about my trip to Ohio during spring break...this trip was promised since my return in the winter...they said as long as i finished everything (college stuff) before march, i would be rewarded a trip to OH...i finished everything by Feb! and it's not that they're not giving me this trip, but because they had delayed the ticketing process, my mom's free tickets are not available for the departure flights, only available for the return flights...so then they said to go search for a cheap ticket...so i did...i found one for $130+tax last night...but today the cheapest is $170+tax...and i told them that i wouldn't mind paying for the ticket too! but they don't want me to go...they say that we'll be traveling a lot soon...which doesn't even make sense because we'll only be traveling once more in the summer...which is a trip that was also planned forever ago! (i'm also realizing that this post isn't really making sense, i'm really just ranting) bah! i can't make a decision, they say it's really up to me...but like the way they're putting it is pretty much a NO. i dunno, i've been planning/promised this trip for so long, PLUS, i wanna go visit Calvin! it's been bumped up on my college list and i really wanna go see it...roar. i don't know. sigh. T.t

Praise Jesus!

2009-03-23T01:17:00.003-04:00

(tracy, i like how you expect me to write a detailed version of the trip...)

i give you permission to skip everything till everything after Saturday

thursday: left tucson around 845am...super long car ride...i only slept for barely 3hrs the night before, and since my dad was the only driver for our van, my mom specifically told me to keep him occupied so he'd stay awake...so i tried talking to him most of the time...when i fell asleep, he woke me up to help him work the GPS, Hao Nian Dang for dinner, yum! then i took the girls to Ten Ren's...because we were in the area where i'm actually pretty familiar with...they fell in love with the buttermilk toast i ordered for them! haha, drove another like 2hrs to get to our Residence Inn Marriott hotel...in which we somehow beat Tim shushu...hahaha! then around 11pm was when Winston was gonna get to the hotel...so when we saw through the room window that he arrived, we all hid in the room, turn off the lights, and i stood by the door ready to open it...when we opened it, turned on the lights, everyone sang Happy Birthday...when it's not his birthday...then i said Merry christmas! and kathy said happy new year! yup, we're a weird bunch...chilled around, slept...(it took us 12hrs to get to thousand oaks...@_@)

friday: up at 830, devos, breakfast, practice - went out with dad to do copies, buy lunch, and get random stuff -, lunch, practice, dinner, hotel, yg, pinkberry, hotel - chilled, talked, goofed, slept. oh, around dinner time, my eye decided to burst into blood...not literally, but my entire eye was red...it was SO nasty...haha such a great way to meet people at yg, "hi i'm jocelyn, with the nasty left eye!"

saturday: up at 730, devos, went back to bed because i felt like poop - i was so sick, i had no voice left in me, woke up at 845, went to church, did full rehersal without a voice...lan fong ah yi was like "can you do it tonight?!" i was like -in a whispering, raspy voice- "yeah no problem, i have faith that i'll be alright, it's just spiritual warfare", went out with dad to get meds and lunch, went back to hotel to rest/change, went to CCCTO for the praise night!

Praise Night: PRAISE JESUS! the voice...or rather, the lack of voice i had earlier that day was SO bad...i could not make any sound come out, and being the one that's supposed to start off praise night...not a good thing at all, and even 5min before it was supposed to start i was eating like 3 Halls...and still squeaking...but the moment i stood on stage and said "hey, welcome to praise night!" my voice was perfectly fine!!! it was amazing! God is so good! He healed the mute! hahaha...it was amazing, i was able to sing the songs, i was able to shout the "commands" everything was good, at the end of the night the girls were in shock of how loud i was able to talk...the Praise Night turned out really well, i don't know how it was for the people, but it definitely was a good learning experience for us! Praise God, though we tend to make mistakes, He is good and always there to catch us! (12:40isham Sunday)

(4:05pm Monday) skipped school today, cause i still felt like poop, and there's too many things to catch up on...woke up at exactly 3pm...felt good, but the moment i woke up, i could feel all the sickness in me...so gross...pictures from the trip i being uploaded as i type! yay!

Nasty McNastnast

2009-03-21T02:52:00.003-04:00

we arrived in thousand oaks, california yesterday a little before 9pm, after leaving tucson at 840am...we did a 12hr drive when it's usually an 8 hr drive...i felt so bad for my dad, he was the only driver for our car...he was so tired, and because i had to keep him awake, i couldn't sleep either...so it was bad...haha...anyways, we didn't do much yesterday, then today we got together at 800am, did devos, breakfast, then went to church to practice, lunch, practice, dinner, youth group, pinkberry (yummy! i got kiwi, mango, and strawberry! i liked where my brother took us better tho...they had much more toppings and falvors of yogurt...haha) then finally back at hotel again...i'm so tired...my ENTIRE left eye is red...it's SO nasty, i tired taking a few pics of it so i can post it on here...but it looks so gross that i don't want to post it....we're meeting even earlier tomorrow so i better get some sleep, or else i'm gonna be the nastiest looking...oh, who am i kidding? i'm NEVER "nasty looking!...hahaha...but yeah please pray for us! pray for the praise night! half of our worship team is sick...including myself, can't stop coughing, don't know how i'm gonna lead tomorrow, but we know that it wouldn't be a good fight if there wasn't any challenage from satan, so it's all good....BUT, keep us in your prayers and let's see God do His works tomorrow night!

p.s. we're staying at the Residence Inn Marriott...haha so nice, but i haven't taken a lot of pics this trip sooooo...ya'll will just have to wait for people to post 'em on facebook! x)

p.s.s. OUR YG SHIRTS CAME IN! THEY LOOK AH-MAY-ZING! yay!

You Make Everything Glorious

2009-03-18T03:26:00.009-04:00

weekend update: (all activies were done with yixuan)

friday: yg, applebee's, took jeff back(1130pm), came home(12am), chatted with yixuan(3am), guitar hero, shower(5am), ADVENTURE! (6am)

click on the picture for the full size...i'm so proud of myself for taking a picture like that! The others are on facebook...

Saturday: sonic happy hour (230), practice (3pm), dinner (630pm), sonic value menu (10pm) : each got a jr candy sundae and shared a chili cheese fries, home, himym, bed.
Sunday: church, home: napped, practice (4pm), home (8pm)

so it was our third adventure this time...this time was a very successfully planned adventure tho...the first one was completely unplanned, the 2nd one was failed, super tiring adventure, then this time was awesome! the clouds made it so mysterious yet so glorious at the same time...i could not stop saying "wow, this is so awesome!" "wow, this looks so pretty!" haha seriously, although i absolutely LOVE sleeping, and would kill anyone that tries to wake me up...seeing God's beautiful creation...totally worth it~

so we leave for california tomorrow! haha, i'm really not that excited...at all...i don't feel like we're ready at all, but i guess that's also a good thing, cause then, that way we get to see God work!!! which then of course will turn out awesome...i'm so excited to be serving with ~~almighty~~ Winston again! it's gonna be so exciting! cause we get to make fun of him and laughing like "hohohohoho" IN FRONT of him! hahaha...that reminds me...i needa go home and charge both my batteries for my camera...

so i haven't told anyone this yet but i'll announce it next week at youth group (since yg is canceled this week due to the trip...) but yesterday i got 3 letters from 3 different colleges...one of them from Wheaton...now, Wheaton has been my top choice for FOREVER, and after visitng it last year, i like fell in love with it, and just imagined myself going there, and i just went crazy~ ANYWAYS...i've been wait-listed at Wheaton, if i choose to be...at first when i read the letter, i was like "i definitely want to be kept on the waiting list!" then later in the night, i decided...i don't want to be....as much as i want to go to that school, it's obviously not part of God's plan, i mean i tried so hard...applied for early decision, got pushed to regular decision, then now on waiting list? forget that. God has a greater plan for me elsewhere. so yeah, and don't worry, i'm not at all depressed or anything, i mean, even tho i really wanted to go there, it's not the end of the world, if anything, i'll just go there for grad school. it's not that bad, and with God by my side, it doesn't matter what school i go to...i'm happy with the way everything turned out!

p.s. I DON'T GET TO SEE ANTHONY AND ANITA THIS WEEKEND! HOW SAD?! T.t i'm gonna miss them so much...

Urban Dictionary

2009-03-15T05:19:00.005-04:00

Like my brother, i didn't pick the first entry of each of these, because some are quite inappropriate...haha

1.) Your Name: Jocelyn

The most beautiful girl ever, special in every way.

"Wow Jocelyn, you are just so AMAZING!" said Ryan, as she has probably heard many times before."

pshhh, i didn't need urban dictionary to tell me that!

2.) Your Age: 17

When you have more responsibility than at 16, but without all the fun of 18.

"How old are you?"
"17."
"Dude, that sucks..."

lies, i like 17.

3.) One of your friends: Tracy (yixuan your name was undefined...lol)
Some one that sleeps around with anyone that gives a complament.
"She just did a Tracy" or "Let's pull a Tracy on that chick"

seriously tracy, so you.

4.) What should you be doing? Sleeping
A gateway drug to being awake.
"What's the point in sleeping? I'll just be awake again tomorrow?"

didn't change this from my bro's....

5.) Favorite Color: Purple
An adjective to describe something worthy of being epic. If something deserves the status of epic, you award it with purple.
"This, my friend, is epic win. I'm giving it purple. "

that's right.

6.) Birthplace: Phoenix

A correction to previous erroneous definitions regarding this city in the desert. The largest city and capital of Arizona which is the 4th largest city in the United States of America, not the 5th as suggested in previous descriptions.

"Chauncey Schmidt only likes to visit the Valley of the Sun's primate city of Phoenix in the dead of winter when the lake effect makes Buffalo a white out."

7.) Month of your birth: August

The idea of perfection. The 8th Month of the year in certain European and Asian cultures signifies greatness in achieving perfection, or something close to it.

"You look August tonight my love!"

yes, even the month i was born is perfect, so fitting for me...=P

8.) Last Person you talked to in person: yixuan, but still undefined...so yee
The announcement of a person arriving. Must be spoken in a high pitched voice.
"Yee!"
"There he is."

9.) One of your nicknames: jiow is undefined! ah-mei-ah...i just did mei

pretty pretty pretty

"That sunrise is mei."

ha! of course.

10.) Name of your last boyfriend/girlfriend: N/A...and too lazy to make up a name or think of a star's name like my bro did...so just none.

Home Alone

2009-03-13T01:01:00.005-04:00

edit// i'm the baby of the family, at home and in both sides of the family (yenyen doesn't count...haha) so i'm very 嬌 (hence the nickname)...so my "tendon cyst" on my left wrist has been gone for a year or so...but because of the intense practice lately it's been hurting...yesterday, i pushed to open a door with my left hand, and it bent back and made a LOUD popping noise, and it hasn't stopped hurting since...T.t please pray, what if i have to chop off my left hand?! hahaha jk, the worst is i have to go get a surgery to remove it (although, it's gone right now...it just hurts) the reason i didn't want to remove it last time was because the doctor says it won't kill me if i kept it, but if i got surgery on it 1) it'll leave a scar 2) it might affect the nerves around it 3) it has a high chance of coming back....so i just left it...>< it hurts so much, like knives poking at it...constantly. (worst of all is, there's no one home to 撒嬌 to...just sitting here in pain and pouting...haha) 1:46am

so i'm pretty sure this is my first time being home alone through the night...i mean i've been home alone a ton of times, ever since we were living in singapore....but i've always had somebody, usually my brother (sigh, i miss him a lot again...) with me...my mom was gonna have tracy stay with me tonight, but i thought it was pointless because, i get home from work at like 9...and won't sleep till like 3/4am...and then won't get up till...NEVER. soooo no point having anyone with me...hahaha, it's fine tho, it's just like a night when parents come home really late, but this time really late would mean the whole weekend...haha three day weekend! tomorrow's grading day, no school! hooray! it's so exciting, i managed to bring ALL my grades up~ guess senioritis isn't hitting that bad yet, i can keep going...haha jk

so next week is when we go to california to do the praise night...eek! completely lift this whole trip up to God, i have no clue how it's gonna turn out and it's pretty intense planning it...haha lan fang ah yi's giving me so much stuff to do, the funny thing is, i've done half of the things before she even told me too...not because i'm high and mighty...but because i'm just OCD like that! on tuesday, she was like "you need to listen to these songs A LOT and know exactly when/what instruments have to do...it's best if you take notes" i'm like "oh...i already started" and she ignores me and repeats that same thing like 3 times then i'm like don't worry, i did it. she's like what?! show me! and i show her my extensive list...and i really only did that because i'm just OCD and like writing every little thing down =P i think that part of planning is fun tho...she wants to train me to be completely normal on stage, and now how to speak and pick up a crowd...@_@ kinda nervous...ANYWAYS, the shirt making company emailed me today and sent me a proof picture...it looks pretty awesome! i guess i'll give you guys the "sneak" preview now.The Front

The Back - props to Jennifer Bao for the AWESOME design!

so this busy week went by quickly, praise Jesus! now onto the busy weekend! then another busy week! then the california weekend! oh man...@_@

Senyum =)

2009-03-10T04:02:00.003-04:00

-senyum is smile in malay/indonesian (learned from my awesome co-workers)-

i JUST noticed that...A LOT of my posts revolve around Anthony and Anita...i just love them too much!!! too adorable! but yesterday, Anita totally made my day...week...year...or however long it take me to get over it, it was SO cute! So, her mom was feeding her outside and she was goofing around as usual, so i whipped out my phone, knelt down, happily snapping away at her adorableness...she circles me, goes behind my back, and lies on my back...i was like AWW! COME HERE YOU LITTLE CUTIE! she come to the front giggling...then she took my keys...haha i don't know why, but she takes me keys every week...then her mom was like "ok give the keys back to jiow jiow jie jie!" and she does, and i'm like "thank you, anita~" so i begin to walk off...i take three steps, i hear this high pitched "JIE JIE!" (that was the loudest i've ever heard her talk) i turn around i'm like "gan ma?" she RUNS towards me and clings on to my legs and giggles...OMG! i knelt down and gave her a big hug! IT WAS SO CUTE! then she took my hand and made me walk with her, so i did...=) AHHHH! thinking about it makes me smile! her smile is so cute! i really can't believe i have to leave before she's old enough to remember who i am =( so depressing...Anthony on sunday was a dou dou head...i walked towards him and he screams "NO!" =____= at least his sisters love me! hmph

then work on sunday was CRAZY busy...i haven't worked on a sunday for like 3 months, forgot how busy it can get...my legs turned into jello at the end...it wasn't fun...haha the only motivation that got me to go to work that day was 1) i get paid 2) work is my only work out 3) i felt bad because i knew they would be super busy and the two people in the front would pretty much die if i didn't go...

so it's 1:48am right now and i am NOT in bed...i've got work and cali practice tomorrow...fun stuff....x_x

p.s. i have 2 pics on my phone of anita...but phone is being poopie and won't upload them...so no adorable anita picture to incorporate to this post. boo.

Voice

2009-03-08T01:32:00.002-05:00

i made it alive friday! haha, had so many things going on that day...i'm very confident with my stats test, but whenever i feel like that, i usually end up doing pretty bad...=/ oh well, too late to worry about it now...haha...and i did bad on my gov test...-sigh-...which is why i am NOT going to take the ap! anyways, i really should be in bed right now, but because i woke up at 1 today, i'm still full of energy! haha not really tho...it was such a long day today...went to church at 3 for sunday worship practice, 4:30-6:30 Easter worship practice, 7:00 meeting for the California trip, 7:30-10:00 practice for the California trip...got home and just vegetated on the couch...and still am...hahaha

i don't know if i've posted about this yet, but our yg worship team (AND WINSTON!!! cause he's technically not OUR worship team anymore...) is going to California to do a praise night...i've always been super proud of our worship team and just how awesome we are, but i don't think we're good enough to go to other's churches to do praise nights...we've never even done a praise night at our own church before! ><" however, this is a chance to serve, so we must take advantage of it! afterall, our theme is to "Go Out And Tell" (shirt designs are coming soon!) so today during practice, i had to sing...now, i'm not the best piano player in the world, but i can definitely play piano much better than i can sing! hahaha, not afraid to admit that...cause my dad's tone deaf, my mom's got a pretty low voice, my brother's the only one that can actually sing! but just like when i first started playing piano, gotta ask God for help! (but if this isn't gonna be one of my spiritual gifts, i'm totally ok with keeping my singing in the shower! haha) if only i could steal Ariel's voice through a seashell necklace tho! hahaha (i wonder how many disney nerds actually got that...)

i texted Z.z yesterday cause it was his birthday and then i called Ting Ting today because it's her birthday...two malaysian birthdays in a row...20cent text to Z.z! SO not worth it...and he replied saying that my text ruined his day and that he's unhappy after he got it....Ting Ting, on the other hand, was super grateful to get my call, and even after we hung up she decides to call back and we get disconnected and she calls back, she just would not give up! hahaha...i miss my malaysians

busy week coming up! got work everyday cause the other half time hostess is on vacation, so i've gotta fill in...and then more cali practices during the week...AND last week of third quarter, so some catching up to do...so excited...almost can't contain it anymore....><

娇娇姐姐

2009-03-03T22:50:00.007-05:00

edit// i got a letter from Concordia University of Irvine yesterday saying i got in, with $7000! hooray! praise Jesus! He is good~

so on sunday, we went to dinner at Texas Roadhouse with the Lu's....hecka lotta kids...hahaha, because there were too many people, they had to split us up...so i was put with, Jin Hua, Ivan, and Karen...now Ivan and Karen are the quietest kids to have ever exisited....so the table was silent the whole time...and since the other table wasn't that far away, i could still see Anthony/Anita, so i would keep making faces to them...and when i see them do something cute i would go take a picture of them...now the CUTEST CUTEST CUTEST part of the night was when i Anthony told his dad "jiow jiow jie jie" and pointed at me...and his dad moved him to my table so he could sit by me...then 5min later he was moved back because my food arrived and his dad wanted me to eat...but 5min after that he did the -point- "jiow jiow jie jie" and so his dad moved him back to my table! it was so adorable!!!!

-Anthony at my table-

i'm so sad that i'll be leaving them soon, and even if i visit, they'll barely remember me...=( i think i'm the most sad about leaving them...yes girls, i'm more sad about leaving them than i am about leaving you....hahaha...i don't want to leave them! T.t

i sound really mean and ranty in this next part, so ignore me if you don't want to read it, i don't really care...at all.

i heard someone say this yesterday and i was like dang, good phrase...so some people are 很多意见，没有主见 (a lot of opinions, no decision) you know how annyoing that can get?! so many ideas and opinions but then when you ask "what do you want?" they say "i don't know"...i finally understand my cousin's frustration with that answer...and i finally get what she means when she said people used to call her bossy, when she's really just a person capable of making a decision. i know i'm bossy, stubborn, and very opinionated, but i'm also very willing to listen to what you have to say, but if all you can do is talk and can't come to a conclusion, I'LL make the decision! i especially can't stand people that complain about the decision that i made, don't get me wrong, i'm not perfect, and my decisions definitely can be altered with others perspectives, but don't complain if you don't have a better plan!! i've had enough with these people, either be confident/affirmative (as google translated "主见" to be) with whatever you have to say, or shut up about what i just said. whew~ that felt much better...hey now, my mom said on sunday, sometimes people just need to let the anger out or else it'll turn into stress that makes people CRAZY! haha so i'm just trying to not go crazy =P

on a happier note, ohioans, i've been checking out tickets for my visit in april!!! i'll MOST LIKELY be there...unless lan fang ah yi kills me before i can go...@_@...haha pray that i can find the perfect tickets during the perfect time! yay!

Death

2009-03-01T23:38:00.003-05:00

i have a major headache -salutes- "major headache" (hahaha...oh you himym fans better get that!), but really, i don't even know why...i got plenty of sleep...especially this weekend, and i didn't hit my head or anything...@_@...so this weekend was very relaxing...i think i say that every weekend...hahaha, but really, it was nice, because it was a 4 day weekend and i really haven't been doing anything at all...except for:

yesterday, from 3-6:30 was just practice, practice, and more practice....i loved it tho~ lan fong ah yi is crazy, but when she put things together, they sound pretty darn nice...and after taking a break for a month...my fingers WERE able to do their thing, Praise Jeebus! BUT my "bony" hand was hurting like crazy today...the first time it grew out was when it was my first time playing for a whole Easter set too...and it finally went away, maybe this Easter's set will make it grow back...sick...so i've got lots more practice coming up, lan fong ah yi is NOT letting me take the easy way out this time...=P

lately, there's been so much talk of mission trip, not just from the ohioans, but all around...like at home and me with my malaysians...i'm SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!! i can't wait to go! it'll be so exciting! and my parents decided to postpone our mission trip so that our schedule would match up with CCCC's mission trip in Taiwan! YAY! so exciting! and i finally get to see ahBin! (ha, ahBin, ni kan ni duo zhong yao!)

BUT before all that good stuff can happen...i've got 3 math assignments due tomorrow, did our teacher REALLY think that just because it was a 4 day weekend we would actually do all our homework? and AP fees are due soon...i can't decide if i should take the AP Lit one...=/ we'll see...HEY! my headache went away! x) but that means...time to do homework...

Big Brother

2009-02-28T02:59:00.004-05:00

edit (3:21am) // i found out yesterday that i'm actually getting $67.00 for tax return!!! first time doing taxes, i get money back?! how fun! i'm thinking about spending it...=P

big brothers are such a nice thing to have around, haha, i'm sure any one with one would agree...(praise Jeebus that i adopted another big brother last summer!) i really miss my guhguh tho...(yes, i know it's "gege" but that just looks weird...) so i can't say that my brother and i are the closest siblings ever, cause we're definitely not...and ontop of it, we're asian, so we're not exactly that affectionate...i remember on my 7th birthday, my parents said his gift to me would be a hug and when i went over to get my hug, he put the pillow in between us...hahaha, i was so sad, but pretty funny now...i think the most "affectionate" we've been was the day before he left tucson, he picked me up from church on a wednesday night...and during the 30min drive from church to home...we both cried our eyes out...the car almost flooded...oh and when he gave me a hug when i left ohio last may...but i think lately we've both been trying to be "closer"...hahaha, so it's good, and working (at least i think so...) oh yeah, he plans on getting me the blackberry curve 2...haha but i don't just love him because he buys me stuff (it's a big part tho, jk) so ohio girls, take good care of him and take advantage of his big brotherly love~ AND if yer gonna try and find him a girl, make sure you tell her to send the application to ME...(along with the application better come some goodies too, gotta win my heart before you can win his =P)

NOW...after that long thing about big brothers, i promise you it relates....youth group went bowling today...and it relates because 1) my brother's really good at bowling 2) when i visited my brother for the first time in ohio, we went bowling as a yg 3) driving home...alone...in his ~~ugly~~ '96 green camry, made me think about him a lot...SO, it was fun bowling...i technically only played one game, cause the second one yixuan and i were just eating our "deluxe nachos" and yee and tony were goofing off and playing in our lane...so whatevers...i got like 70+ on the first game, forgot to look...haha, i'm no good at real bowling but totally a PRO bowler, with my own shiny ball on Wii Bowling!!! x) it was pretty amazing tho, never seen this many people at youth group before...27! so close to 30!! but that's cause: 3 non usuals, 1 out of state, 3 new...BUT we were also missing 3 guys that didn't go...OH EM GEE GUYS! I JUST REALIZED GEORGE WASN'T THERE!!!! HAHAHAHAHA...he was the first to reply on facebook too and i talked to him about 3 times making sure he was gonna be there and i didn't even realize till now....WOW. I slept till 1:43pm today, felt soooo good...i love sleeping till i naturally wake up, and i'm sure if my phone wasn't vibrating like crazy, i would've slept till later...

Yesterday, i worked at the office instead of the restaurant...i only did TWO things at the office tho...typed a 13page thing for him...it's a good thing God gave me the gift of speedy typing skills...and then burned 8 CDs for him...haha i like doing all the "technical" stuff for him...cause it's things i can do really well...=P oh and the beginning of this week i was about 1 and a half season behind on smallville...but within 3 days i was completely caught up, and now winston is convincing me to catch up on desperate housewives...i don't know if i want to, but i told him i would...haha.

i'm blabbing. beause it's 1:39am. so i shall stop. oh, 3+hrs of practice tomorrow for sunday and easter...after a month of not playing let's pray that my fingers can still do their job!

Sleep, oh how i miss thee!

2009-02-25T00:30:00.004-05:00

i think someone threw sleeping powder on me...my eyes are small enough usually...but right now they're literally -.- and no, not ._. because my eyes are a little slit, not a little dot....hahaha...so much to write about!!!

Oscars: didn't see any dress that i was like "O_O I WANT!" i think Slumdog Millionaire won too many awards...Hugh Jackman was an awesome host! haha, really enjoyed his monologue...Reese Witherspoon looked beautiful, but not STUNNINGLY beautiful like she did at the 79th Academy Awards...ok, so this next part is very opinionated so if you don't agree, just don't agree and ignore me. I DO NOT THINK HEATH LEDGER SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THAT OSCAR!!! don't get me wrong, i thought he was absolutely, wonderfully, awesome in Dark Knight, but i do not think he won because of his performance, i honestly think it was more of a "pity win"...i think the other nominees knew they didn't have a chance with him...the other men were all very amazing in their films...gah! i think they should have just done this crazy long memorial to Heath Ledger, and taken him out of the nomination....=/ whatevers.

Today: it was free pancakes day at ihop...i had work after school, so i wanted to go grab a togo that i could eat at work...i got there and it said "dine-in only" so i left...then after work i wanted to go get it....and there were a lot of people so i left....sigh...hahaha, it's not big deal, i just really wanted some pancakes!!! =P so i have this essay due tomorrow, that i haven't exactly started on...if i wasn't so tired, this blog post would be much more "meaty" but since i can barely keep my eyes open...i'm just typing whatever comes to my mind...wow, good state to start writing an important essay...@_@ oh wait, so during work today, ah hao, our bbq-er came to the front, hostess podium place, and handed me a coconut! so refreshing!!! x)

p.s. four day weekend cause of rodeo!!! praise Jesus~ but i'll be working thursday and possibly friday...so not much of a break, at least i get gold, so it's good i guess =P

Movie Addict

2009-02-22T19:51:00.004-05:00

so yesterday, tracy and i went to go see He's Just Not That Into You...oh! it was so cute! i really enjoyed it, and my new favorite is: Justin Long~ he was so cute in this movie PLUS, he's the mac guy, there's nothing cooler than that...hahaha...~~but he kinda has a butt chin~~ and since whenever i watch movies i'm very focused on the actors/actresses (as in, i really care about who's in the movie), this movie was filled with so many stars! not all that i liked, but still so many! Jennifer Aniston is so pretty! (getting old but still pretty...losing her "Rachel" days =P) the gay guys and the fat black ladies were just the perfect touch up to the movie...hahaha! a very cute movie, but it's how the world views relationships, and not how christians should...BUT it's still cute nontheless! -sigh- liking this movie so much just means i've gotta add another movie to my long "buy dvd" list...

Alex: If you can find him, then he can find you. If he wants to find you, he will. (Alex is Justin Long's character, there were a few more of his "wise" quotes that i wanted to put on here, but no.)

Then nothing much happened today, church and then when we went to go get togo at eegee's for lunch, we ended up $4 short...and the person was like "ummm...hold on" and he gave me a military discount, so that was about $2 off...then i was able to pull out $2.50 in quarters from my car's coin thingy...hahaha.

whee! the Oscars!!! so exciting! i've waited for this all week! i don't understand why Miley Cyrus is there! she's so nasty mcnastnast!!! ah! it's starting for real now! i'm done posting~

Little Balls of Poop

2009-02-21T01:57:00.006-05:00

"you always relate your desserts to poo huh?" - Yixuan Lim, my other half.

so if you guys have seen the desserts that Jennifer Duann has posted on her facebook, you would've seen a lot of amazing looking desserts...and the one as the album cover...seems to always be on my "photo page" so i always see them~~and drool over them~~...so this week i was like I'M GONNA MAKE THOSE!!! so yesterday, while my parents were in phoenix, and i was home alone, i decided to start baking and making...THESE

BAH! i don't know why this picture is sideways! i didn't have to "rotate" it cause it was already the right way, and when i view it it's fine, but when i upload it, it's rotated....

chocolate cake, Godiva dark chocolate coating, and crushed peanut powder! it was so delicious, and i'm not "praising" myself for making such an amazing dessert, i'm praising whoever came up with this...hahaha

i made about 40 of these...mmmm...haha, so i'm not super skilled in cooking, because my mom is, and so it usually ends up in me getting yelled at, haha, but i've learned to make a few things lately (just so i'll be able to survive in college) but i'm usually way better at making desserts...and i ENJOY making desserts too!!! haha...so my future husband, is gonna become a fatty mcfatfat and my kids...well, i won't allow my kids to eat any...or i'll just continue making it for church, and get everyone at church fat, and keep my family skinny...hahaha...i'm gonna keep making these cake balls, and try different flavors/coatings...await these fatty foods! x)

I GOT AN A ON MY BIO TEST!!! there were only 3 people that got an A and i was one of them! and the other two were the class's smartest kids that ALWAYS get A's....i was super duper pooper scooper happy! i told mr. woon, "i got an A!" "wow really? what happened?!" "i actually studied!" "you see jocelyn? if you would just give me 10min a day, just 10min, you would be a bio genius" hehe...i guess i'm not that dumb afterall!

p.s. i got $2000 from Calvin for being smart and $3000 for being "multicultural" yesterday! praise Jesus!

Waste

2009-02-18T11:48:00.002-05:00

gah! why am i on blogger so early? because i'm sitting in the school library pooping around...today is such a waste of time...like i said, half day, with 3 of the 6 classes being a state math exam that i'm not taking so i'm sitting in the library waiting for it to be over...but because they actually are keeping track of the number of absences we have, i can't ditch!!! stupid...at least i'm saving these up, so you ohioans can see me in the spring! hahaha! be grateful!

so i had the most interesting conversation with my mom last night...
ma: what does your msn name say?
me: uhhh...jiow?
ma: beside that?
me: -pause- Oh! 你的愛是我的 Everything? hahaha, that's a Wang Lee Hom song lah!
ma: ba say it on there yesterday and started freaking out and asked me if you were (using her exact words) tan lian ai?
me: no! it's just a song! guh sent it to me, you can even ask him!
ma: he thought you started tan lian ai-ing, he asked me to be more cautious of what you were doing, especially since you're always online
me: hahaha, please, i would tell you guys! trust me, it's just a song
ma: why put it up there? what do others think?
me: others think it's a great song too...haha

so while we were having that conversation, i could not help but laugh/giggle the whole time...because it's just funny! but the giggling definitely did not help the suspicion...but like that has absolutely nothing to do with a boy (cause it's for tracy...haha...NO) except for it being Wang Lee Hom's song...i found it pretty entertaining.

p.s. the time stamp might not actually be an "early" time, since i decided to finish the blog post at home, so only the first paragraph was written in school...

p.s.s. i just found out that one of my friends, a kid of a professor from singapore bible college, so we used to hang, who graduated from Wheaton just wrote a book! like a LEGIT book too! thought it was pretty spiffy...check it out: Green Revolution

Easy

2009-02-17T23:46:00.004-05:00

double edit// i have the greatest brother in the whole wide world! haha =)

edit// i talked to ahBin again yesterday, i mean, i get to talk to him almost everyday if work isn't that busy for him...but we had the most serious talk, we've EVER had...it was interesting and good too...praise God for all these friends he has blessed me with, whether they are my close girl friends, my bed party/hanky panky ohio girls, silly/homo youth group boys, funny ohio boys, or my malaysian kids~ =)

this week has been easy beezy, nice and easy! lol, it's only been two days, but it's gonna be a pretty easy week, or maybe it'll pick up at the end...not that i want it to but yeah...i had no homework yesterday and i have no homework today...tomorrow's a half day, with half of the periods of nothing, because all other kids and a few "studious" seniors are taking a state math exam that i am NOT...i wanted to ditch, but i'm gonna save up my absences so i can take days off to go to Ohio and California in the spring...hehe, planning my ditches ahead...

so last summer, i learned knitting through youtube just so i could knit a gryffindor scarf...i successfully made one for my bro as most saw...and i had started one recently again for my cousin, and i'm on the 5th stripe! only 14 more to go! then after this gryffindor scarf...i must start on the Edmund scarf from Prince Caspian!!! i'm so bored...when i have a ton of hw, i'm procrastinating and doing nothing...and when i don't have hw...i'm still sitting here doing nothing...haha...i'm gonna keep knitting like a g-ma! x)

Valentine's Day Weekend

2009-02-15T23:33:00.003-05:00

edit// i was emailed a few awesome pictures taken by a friend from a point and shoot camera...and it has now inspired me to go take awesome pictures with my ~~crappy~~ simple point and shoot camera too! people, await these awesome pictures!

i spent valentine's day with my mommy! She took me out to Sushi Yukari and we had DELCIOUS sashimi...mmmmm then she took me shopping! hahaha, we went to DSW, to try and find me some silver heels (unsuccessful), went to Kohls, got a white cardigan and an "I <3 Yoshi" graphic tee (wearing it friday to show Mark...haha)! Then we went to the mall, Dillards still has 70% off shoes, but can't find anything!!! so left shortly after...got home and chilled for 1hr or so, then went out for Chipotle...my mom has officially fallen in love with Chipotle, cause she got the salad version this time, and just loves how much veggie can be in it! @_@

ming's back this weekend...so we had to go do the "tucson" things again...so we went to el guero AGAIN. but i had much less food than i did last time...so i didn't feel like i was about to die...then tracy took me home after we spent like 2secs at super quiet, no-one-got-any-drinks, playing-stupid-games, Coffee exchange...so i got to spend time with my valentine! hahaha

Overall, this weekend was relaxing, ALTHOUGH, i have a rough draft essay due and a math test tomorrow that i have yet to write and study for...so i should get started on that!

p.s. i don't believe i've said this on blogger yet, but i got into Cedarville! i'm really not that excited! but i'm gonna keep putting exclaimations marks to make it seem like i am!

Hope~

2009-02-14T01:20:00.004-05:00

don't worry, i'm not at all "fan" right now...i'm perfectly content, haha...so i have quite a few things to post about, i'm gonna talk about it in reverse chronological order...so i just got back from youth group and right after yg, i made an international call to my best buddy: ahBin! (aka, FANEST-EST!) oh man, had the most interesting, entertaining, catching up, messing around, 1 hr phone call...haha, i got called gay by him...yelled at each other (the non angry kind, the retarded kind), and had some "serious" talk and of course, it's never a real conversation with ahBin if we don't call each other "煩"...haha, had so much fun~

God is so awesome! so i led bible study today, on Hope In God and as i was driving to church, i started flipping out and i was gonna postpone my bible study to next week, and think of another "activity" to do instead....but right as i was turning onto church's street, i was like oh snap! my main point in my whole lesson is to courageously step out and do what we fear and to have hope in God! i was like, WOW I JUST GOT TOLD...BY GOD! so the .25mile from turning into the street till getting to church i was just like in awe of God...haha i was so happy, i don't really know/care of the turn out of my lesson because i'm just glad i learned the lesson first...=)

I asked someone to be my valentine today! HAHAHA...so during passing period between 3rd to 4th...i texted...Miss Tracy Song to be my valentine! puahahaha...i was giggling the whole time i was walking and texting, everyone thought i was retarded....and then before getting to church, i went and got her a rose...a fake one, because "just like my love, it will never die!" (1 of the 20 things guys should never say on valentine's day) it was pretty entertaining...i was gonna be all ~~stupid~~ "romantic"and take the rose to her while everyone was there...but i thought it was too embarassing that i told her to go to the parking lot, i blasted my iPod from my car playing Kiss Goodbye by Wang Lee Hom, because it's both of our ringtones for each other...and handed her the rose...naturally, we both started cracking up...she has quite a few pictures of us with the rose, it'll be on facebook soon enough...

Alright, that's it, i'm pretty sure...i can't wait to go buy all the on sale valentine's candy! hahaha!

Michigan?

2009-02-10T23:46:00.003-05:00

edit// (because tracy's comment reminded me of this, i decided to reupdate) i applied to all private christian colleges, so they all cost a fortune...so i'm technically kinda waiting to see which school offers me the most money...but money is the least of my worries because through past experiences i know fasho He will prepare....x) How awesome is it to have the Big Guy prepare and plan out everything perfectly for me? too awesome.

so after my very complainy day...because i didn't get a lot of sleep, a snow day didn't happen like everyone had hoped for, i didn't eat breakfast (not that i usually have time for it, but i usually have something small), it was super cold (but i really enjoyed it, so i wasn't complaining about that), i was hungry, even after lunch, and the worst of all is, having to work after school...i usually don't mind working because i get money and i like having my own money so i can my spend my own money...but because of all the things i had been complaining about, work was just a big fat poop ontop of a poopy day...HOWEVER, (i am not just posting a complainy, ranty, blog post) during work, today, i decided to keep my phone with me instead of leaving it in the drawer, i suddenly get a call, and it's from this super weird number, so i'm all confused, (and usually i would just not pick up, since i'm at work and it's random number) but i decided to pick up anyways...it was my acceptance call from Calvin College!!! i was super excited~ i sent in all my stuff, except my application, last october, but because i had originally given up on this school, it took me forever to send in my application...and by forever i mean, i sent it in two weeks ago...but after being put on the waiting list for Wheaton, my dream school, i bumped Calvin up to first, so getting accepted was just AWESOME stuff!!! Praise Jeebus! He is so good to me =) I finished applying to Concordia Irvine and Azusa Pacific, so we'll see where God leads me! it's either the midwest or the west!

An Arizohioan Weekend

2009-02-08T22:55:00.002-05:00

So Shing arrived in Tucson, Arizona on Friday! before youth group i took him to Eegee's - got some Eegee's and chili cheese fries - since it is an ONLY Tucson thing; although, it might not have been that big of a deal to him, but it's one thing everyone loves in Tucson as misses greatly when they leave! Then we went to YG, which was interesting, haha, he lead and indeed his workshop from retreat was spiffed up and redone. Good job. Afterwards we went to Wingstop for MORE food...then finally home. Saturday, i slept till 1 (could've slept longer...but mom woke me up to make sure Shing could get in after his interview...) i cleaned up and then took Shing to In-n-Out to meet with Tracy and Yixuan...we went to eat our delicious burgers at Reid Park, then went to the mall for 20min, each (except yixuan) got a Jamba Juice, then went to church to take care of kids (AHHHH!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE ANTHONY AND ANITA!!!!!! more on that later) then they went out and got Chipotle for me, and them 3 came to my place to Guitar Hero while i stayed and took care of kids...then i got home, guitar hero-ed a bit with them, Tracy left, we watched Vicky Cristina Barcelona...interesting movie...not awesome, not horrible...ehhhh...then sunday, church, went to El Guero Canero(?) then Tucson Mall, then home, then New China, then home....

This weekend was just filled with food, food, food, and more food...Tucson is just so boring that there really isn't anything...so we just tried to take him to restaurants that Ohio didn't have...so gained about 50lbs this weekend and spent about $5000...hahahaha...jaaayyykkaaayyy...but seriously, ate SO much...@_@....it was fun tho, ~~although, i much prefer the other Chow or other girls than Shing...~~

That's pretty much it, surprisingly, i didn't take that many pictures, maybe cause he isn't that important, so whatever little pictures i have will be up on Facebook sometime this week x)

You're Jealous Because...

2009-02-05T00:51:00.006-05:00

...I HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUSIN EVER! My favorite, most beautiful, smart, hilarious, beautiful, wonderful, amazing, beautiful, cousin turned 24 today! TWO DOZENS! haha, oh wait, did i mention she was beautiful? I was lucky enough to spend EVERYDAY with her from last January to August and we did the most amazing things together...like going to Eegee's every time we go out, going to Sonic at 1030pm when she picks me up from church and "want half?" on TWO XL Coney's...as in we each get one...hahaha...there's really not much to say but I miss her a lot a lot...and...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

here's to prove to you how beautiful her and i are:

you think doing the "Chinese Family" photo is hard? try doing it on Photobooth.
don't be jealous...WHAT?!
Yeah, really, we're the most beautiful...and when put together, we're undefeatable...x)

I MISS YOU! I LOVE YOU! HAPPY 24th WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY! God bless you on this day!

p.s. it was freaking hard trying to take those photobooth pictures, as you can tell, it was night time...so everyone was asleep, and we were wearing our aunt's gianormus sleepwear....we had to restrain from laughing out loud...oh man, great times....

oh yeah, happy 5th birthday, Facebook!

Your Grace is Enough

2009-02-03T22:12:00.002-05:00

Your Grace Is Enough came on through my shuffle play today, and even though i'm quite sick of Chris Tomlin now, i still finished listening to the song and was very happy. x)

i just played piano for about 15min and decided to come write this blog post (i will continue to play after this tho) because i realized how much i sucked...not even kidding, i'm TERRIBLE, especially having stopped lessons in so long (my piano teacher died, i didn't quit....lol, that was for you xiao qi jie) and i wasn't even great when i stopped...so my skills only went down hill...i took out my piano books, instead of playing my usual random sheet music of Jay Chou/Wang Lee Hom/Worship songs, and tried playing my old songs, i could barely play any of them! Not even the ones were i was super good at, at that time...but i was talking to my mom a few weeks ago about this...
mom: you have the spiritual gift of playing piano
me: ma, i really don't think i do
mom: yes you do, you know how i know? because me and your dad didn't give you ANY musical talents, but you are able to play piano now, that's definitely from God, so it's a spiritual gift, but definitely not a talent
i thought that was interesting...cause i have no talent, but it's definitely a blessing from God that i have been able to play for worship and so many mission trips! and if it weren't for the serving, i would never touch the piano...haha

"And He has said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness " Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me." (2 Corinthians 12:9) -- Favorite verse (it's even the first quote on my Facebook, and if it's on Facebook, it means something =P)

So, i'm not afraid to say...i suck a lot a lot...but that's ok! cause that means God gets to teach me piano! x)

p.s. my brother learned piano till 6th grade and in 2005 ~~when he was going after this girl~~ he had me teach him piano so he could play 龍捲風 by Jay Chou...my mom was very entertained by both of us sitting on the piano bench and me telling what/how to play...haha

First Post of Feb

2009-02-02T21:43:00.000-05:00

holy poops, already February! so i officially love anthony and anita (not in a pedophilic way)!!
Anthony has been a little brat because he's spoiled because he's the boy of the family, but lately, after coming to church more, getting used the surrounding and knowing us more. He is SO adorable!!! I'm teaching sunday school this month, so as i was walking out i was like "Anthony, 走, 去上课了!" He runs over, grabs my hand, and says "上课了!" waaaaahhh! SO CUTE! and my mom told me, during dinner on friday night, suddenly while eating his rice, he looks up and asks his dad "娇娇姐姐呢?" and his dad says i'm "with the big kids" and he says "oh..." and continues eating...ahhh! i can't believe 1) he can actually say all four words of my name now 2) he knows exactly who i am 3) he asked for me!
And then Anita, who has ALWAYS been adorable, but always shy and doesn't smile....lately, is the cutest thing in the whole wide world! She laughs now! As i walked out of sunday school yesterday, she was outside getting fed by her aunt...and i see her and i'm like "ANITA!" she then, runs over with her hands reaching out, i lift her up and she starts giggling!!! wow, it was just TOO CUTE! and that happened twice yesterday, it made my day!

Soi don't know how this happened, but i slept at 3 last night!!! i got my bro's rec letter for yixuan at 1, and i was gonna go to bed right away, then i had no clue how this happened but it was suddenly 2 and i went to go shower (i know! CRAZY LATE!) then i flipped around my bed for like 30min....it was so dumb, but i didn't fall asleep in gov...and got home and took a 2 hour nap...x)

Before actually writing this post, i had stuff to post about, but i am currently watching How I Met Your Mother...and it deserves my full and complete attention! wahahaha...

Stacy's Mom

2009-02-01T01:29:00.003-05:00

Whee! went to inaugural ball today and it was alright...haha i don't have super close friends at school and at school i'm the quiet girl (and everyone out side of school knows i'm definitely NOT a quiet girl...hahaha) so i'm like just chilling...also, i don't dance. so it wasn't every interesting...although my friend did drag me onto the dancefloor three times...so i...err...danced? not really...hahaha...but then finally at like 10pm i was like "i'm leaving..." then suddenly...Stacy's Mom starts playing...i was like "OMG I HAVE TO STAY!" wahahaha....i never really liked the song, but because of mine and Yixuan's creation of Winston Yu (a song in the tune of Stacy's Mom dedicated to Winston) i had to stay...i don't know what's up with our youth group and Stacy's Mom....but i definitely blame the twins for that...hahaha....i left after that song and it made my night and made inaugural pretty fun...=P (it's cause i'm super lame and didn't know any of the songs that played except for that...haha)

I watched The Duchess last night...it reminded me of The Other Boleyn Girl...i think those people are crazy...why do they want a son so bad?! crazy people.

i finished TWO college applications and TWO scholarship applications this week...i have been such a good girl...i should reward myself with something...i should go watch a movie with the girls tomorrow! hahahaha...eek! it's so late!

p.s. errr, i published it, and i looked at the time stamp and it's an hr later than my time here, so i checked my settings and everything's right...i think blogger is just crazy.

God is good

2009-01-30T00:11:00.003-05:00

"He made the lame walk and the dumb talk
And He opened blinded eyes to see
That the sun rises on His time
Yet He knows our deepest desperate need
And the world waits while His heart aches
To realize the dream
I wonder what life would be like if we let Jesus live through you and me"
-What Life Would Be like: Big Daddy Weave

I haven't listened to the radio in a long time cause i usually just plug in my iTouch when i drive, but this morning, i forgot my iTouch, so i listened to kLove....and this song came up (mind you, i have this song on my iTouch too...but yeah) and right at the line "i wonder what life would be like if we let Jesus live through you and me", a car cut me off and i almost rear-ended him so i was right about to blow...but then i heard that line and i was like dang, what if it was Jesuses driving on the roads? crazy, if only we were all more like Him.

God is so good, God is so good, God is so good, He's so good to me. (it's the children's song, it was stuck in my head) Seriously, He gives and takes away, but honestly, i don't think He takes away until we start becoming proud, He just keeps giving...haha during 餐館團契 (correct ma? i velly ~~pretty~~ cheena queen hor) [excuse the outburst of singlish, don't try to understand it] we sang 耶和華祝福滿滿 and it hasn't been more true than this week. ALSO, i've been a good girl this week and working on all my college apps and scholarships stuff (because two are due this weekend!) but i feel so accomplished when i finish an application! so all my midwest schools are officially applied to! Now onto the 3 west coast schools: Azusa Pacific, Concordia-Irvine (zOMG TWINS!), and Biola...Concordia is done except for the essay, which i know what i want to write about, just need to actually start writing. x) but i'm happy that i finished all of Calvin's stuff...i actually really want to go to Calvin now, i'm just applying to the addtional west coast schools because it's in the west and they're good schools...=/ BUT by the looks of this, i'll definitely finish everything before end of Februray, and that means i'll get rewarded with a ticket to Ohio! I should be going there the week of Easter...(kids, i don't think my brother actually knows i'm going yet, please don't say anything, i don't plan on telling him till everything is positive) but it's also yer guy's spring break, so i don't really wanna go if none of you guys are there...maybe i'll visit you xiao qi jiejie!!!

i'm liking my haircut more and more everyday. x) goodnight.

ΔΣLΤΛ

2009-01-28T21:16:00.002-05:00

Senior Mock Election Debates today! i would comment more about it, but i don't know enough about politics/government to actually comment on how well they did...hahaha...i was just cheering for my party, Project ΔΣLΤΛ! yay! x) well, i don't really care about the whole mock election thing at all actually...but i got out of school early today, technically, all the seniors just left...the monitors tried to stop us...so the 50,000 of us crowded into the office and called parents to get signed out...i was the lamest tho, everyone else left to go hang out with people...i left, went home and at lunch...hahaha, after lunch, watched some TV, went out to go get a new passport cause MALAYSIA THIS SUMMER!!! SO EXCITED!!! FOOD <3! PEOPLE <3! KIDS <3! anyways, then on the way back, i rode with Sausau Guhguh instead...it's been quite some time since i've gotten to hang out with him...but it was hilarious and a very enjoyable ride home...

this rest of the week should be pretty chill, i think, except for the bio test tomorrow, everything should be alright...in fact should be a pretty fun weekend...i've FINALLY decided that i'll go to the inagural ball, problem now is: DRESS! ><

Gone

2009-01-27T23:47:00.003-05:00

edit// during lunch today, i helped mr. woon buy a woman's hat from ae...it was hilarious...too lazy to tell the whole story...but man, such a funny teacher....he wanted the hat cause it ties on the bottom and he's afraid it'll blow away when he goes to chicago....too funny.

My hair is more than half gone...after school yesterday i went and got my haircut...i was quite nervous, but excited too...cause finally groomed...lol...i wanted it around shoulder length, the haircut i ALWAYS get, but she kept cutting...and she started layering...so it got shorter and shorter...haha...so now it's right under my ears...but it's alright, i'm getting used to it...and it's much easier to take care of...well, there's really nothing to take care of...T.T...i'll have pics of it this weekend...cause i don't like/want to take selfpictures...hahaha...

Tomorrow's senior mock election debates! i don't really care about it at all...but i'll go in for first to third and leave fourth to sixth...i was planning on just not going at all, but i'll go support my party...go Delta...haha...i'm just happy to leave before lunch...and then there's the inagural ball this saturday...i still can't decide if i want to go or not...it's the cheapest dance tho! only $15!!! and it's at savory opera house, so it's not a bad either...but i still can't decide.

Anyways, i've added another college to my list...Concordia in Irvine...one more essay to write...oh boo. haha...but everything's due in the next 3 weeks....so i'm pushing myself to really do everything i'm supposed to do...x) but still praying! we'll see where God leads me!