O, for a Thousand Tongues to Sing

mmm hello!

i haven't done anything this week. on tuesday, i spent the morning at simi's house doing secret ____ things lawl andd baking cupcakes :) we made chocolate cupcakes with vanilla cream cheese frosting, yumm :9 so good. i ate three in one day :X sighhh. after i departed from her house, i bought some necessities and went home. that is all!

and today....also didn't do anything. half expecting ____ to ask to hang out but also know that she/he won't bcus she/he never does. flaky=no :(

siiigh this summer has been too short.

going to college soon :X dislike.

tomorrow, though, is spirit west coast yaaaay i haven't gone in like three years :( david crowder band! matthew west! jeremy camp! kinda bummed about missing hawk nelson but oh well! sacrifices must be made. tres tres excited to be going again :))))

i desperately want to see 500 days of summer. and frolick on the beach. and watch a meteor shower (the drama AND the real thing :D), go to petroglyph, move away. kind of.

GARA GARA GO!

hmm wednesday/thursday need to come faster and be over now.

sunday:
got to church semi-on time? ate ice cream and caught up with kathy :) made plans for spirit west coast. went to in n out for lunch! yom and saw CCIC SJ+naynay+alyssa thurr, pleasant surprise :)
afterward....returned to church and played around whilst the retreat band practiced and thenn went to amc 16 to watch the hangover! haha with church. talk about awk :P heh.
looong day

monday:
hmm impromptu plans to chill at SR with danyo, drank PMT, browsed the selection at UO, ate at pinkberry, and talked about many things for three hours :P i'm gonna miss my friends so much :((( sighhh

anyway, danyo was being really pessimistic or what he calls "realistic" about maintaining relationships during college and how loooong four years really are T_T DD: sighh.
anyway although the talk was kind of sad, it was, i suppose, a productive talk as well. sort of. :/

oH HAYY STEFF-O'S BORED AND NO ONE IS CONVERSING WITH HER ON AIM.

Six Things I Wish I Could Say to Six Different People. (but don’t say their name)

1. i love you waayy more than you love me
2. stop bailing on me. supah lame :(
3. i stalk you frequently on facebook
4. thanks for being my email buddy :) and being there for me
5. REPLY.
6. i'm not that bad at organizing :/

Nine things about myself.

1. i'm a very shy person
2. i like to look at myself in the mirror. heh. usually?
3. i think it's pathetic when people are ashamed of their own race.
4. the only channel i watch on tv is the food channel
5. this half year was one of the best half years of my life.
6. i am strangely unproportional and i think the best part of my body are my hands
7. i stress out very easily
8. i've been waking up at 8AM every morning without an alarm this past week
9. i find it hard to imagine life without church every sunday morning.



Eight ways to win my heart (not in a particular order)
1. pick me flowers :)
2. cuddle/hug/kiss me a lot :)
3. hold my hand
4. tell me you love me
5. hold your promises
6. tell lame jokes
7. play the guitar and sing a song
8. be optimistic, especially when i'm being "realistic."


Seven things that cross my mind a lot.

1. youu!
2. food cravings
3. Jesus
4. college
5. checking my email
6. fixing my bangs
7. songs

Six things I do before I fall asleep.

1. pray
2. check my email
3. brush mah teeth
4. wash mah face
5. ...look at myself in the mirror
6. dance.


Five people who mean a lot (in no particular order):

1. won hee
2. (cheatingg...) SOSr
3. the yaks :P
4. deniz
5. Jesus


Four things you’re wearing right now.

1. a guy vneck shirt
2. booty shorts
3. friendship bracelet :)
4. WWJD

Three bands/singers that you listen to often. (not necessarily your favorites)

1. big bang
2. snsd
3. ft island

Two things you want to do before you die.

1. travel the world
2. marry the man i love


One confession.

1. i'm not looking forward to leaving.

COME BACK NOW, I MISS YOU :( hurryyyy

:(

these past few days have been ridiculously looong and uneventful :( except last night! but yes.
i can't wait till...next week, which is technically tomorrow, but whatever.

hmm yesterday, jeff, pao, barrett, and i went to palace and ate meat. which was good. and then barrett drove us all the way to palo alto to drink the best milkshakes with the best whipped cream in the world at this creamery. and thenn we went to pao's house where we ate some pie (that he spent thirty dollars on at the creamery!!) and watched mall cop. congratulations pao for picking a TERRIBLE movie. anyway yes, that was 5 hours of fun and mayhem and korean bbq

i also finished harry potter book 6! i officially have no life!

anyway, i am hoping that i will have interesting things to do from now on and interesting people to see.

my tummy hurts D:

good night!
muchlove,

you suck.

ajfdojohoud D:<

p.s. i'm wearing pants for the first time in a month and it feels weird.

Tibet part 1!

hellooo readers. i am sitting here at 11PM and i am very lonely :( and i've decided to write a little bit about tibet so you'll know what to expect when you go! because i strongly recommend going once in your life :P preferably with a tour guide you understand completely :P

1. my friend and i stayed at the pullman, this really nice hotel in dongguan for a night after our trek across hong kong and entering chinese borders. this was quite difficult as we carry american and canadian passports but anyhow! we spent the day eating, sleeping, and catching up on facebook -_____- we awoke at the wonderful hour of 4AM the next day and showered (long story) and hurried to the airport to catch our flight.
2. we took a connecting flight to xining. there, we met one of our tourguides who took us to this...lake. which wasn't exactly spectacular considering it was very rainy the day we went and we were all really groggy and it took like 2.5 hours just to drive there and we only spent like half an hour there -___- lawl. then we hurried back and ate a 5-minute dinner to catch our 9PM 24 hour train to lhasa <3
3. we were lucky to leave the restaurant when we did because we encountered some difficulties when we got on the train. at the end, we managed to get all 6 of our travel group in one 6-bed cabin and it was a happy ending! or so my friend and i thought. this part was the most uncomfortable part of our journey -___- there wasn't much to see after 9PM so my friend and i climbed up to the very top bunk, being the youngest, and slept the night away. kind of. we woke up and the old people made us do productive things such as look at the scenery siighhh still 13 hours :(
4. we traveled through BEAUTIFUL scenery, lots of animals, and wonderful snow-capped mountains. we also passed through altitudes of 5,000 meters, intense right?? they have emergency oxygen supplies in case you pass out (someone in our group did but was saved by a laptop-wielding man!) and there is rumored to be an ice box to put the dead bodies O_O anyway. let me tell you the reasoning behind this train ride. this would be your wisest decision because if you were to take a plane, i would gurantee that you would pass out the minute you stepped off the plane as your body has not adjusted to the high altitudes. although the train was supplied a bit with oxygen, you could still definitely feel the effects :X
5. we finally arrived in lhasa at around 10 PM and met our tourguide WANG DAO lawl what a funny man. anyway, he gave us these white silk scarves, a traditional sign of respect, and we were on our way to the lhasa four points sheraton.
i love this hotel.
6. even this night, after two plane rides, a long road trip, and a 24 hour train where the toilet was a hole and no one bothered to undress for "bed," we were still not allowed to shower because of the danger it posed. wang dao said we could shower the next NIGHT sighhh and even then, we had to leave the door open to let steam out and stuff -___-
tibetans rarely shower anyhow (and no, they don't smell) but there are three important bathing events in their lives. at their birth, their marriage, and their death (in preparation for the sky burial, to be explained later.)

anyhow. that was day one/two of our wonderful journey through the mystic orient. lawl.

until latar!

못난이

if i haven't mentioned yet, ft island's new cd is <3<3 <3
and brown eyed girls video for abracadabra is O_O ga in is soooo sexy T_T

anyway.
yesterday, simi came over and we dyed some tshirts. lawl and ate a massive pancake. and we also went to pick up my sisters from tennis and i showed her hugo who is like the cutest little japanese kid EVER :)
my sisters dyed their socks.
then we watched crappy shows on tv.
mmm besides that...i read the whole 7th book of harry potter today!
:( won hee IMed me but i wasn't at my computer :( i haven't talked to him in like 5 days or something T_T siiigh

my life is boring.

i had a dream

a couple nights ago and it had to be the weirdest dream i have ever had O_O

anyway, i'm PRETTY sure it began with ana, simi, and i having to jump from this helicopter or something of that nature and we were plunged into the icy depths of a glacial ocean with the sole objective of swimming underwater until we found the shore. for some reason it never occurred to any of us that we should be swimming upward before we ran out of oxygen. but then this brilliant idea happened on ana and we just HAPPENED to swim through one solitary hole in the ice, the only hole for like, miles, or something. anyway, from there, we could see land/a beach (with sand and everything....lawl so tropical!) and we swam there and when we got closer and were randomly clinging onto a mini iceberg, simi whips out her phone and it says it's got "bear reception" on it which means both that there are bears on that piece of land and that she can call. and i took mine out and it says there is "monkey reception" and i got all excited bcus i was certain this was my motherland, australia.
but no, it gets weirder.
when we get close enough, there is this MASSIVE sign that says "WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES" with a smiling sun and we're like wott and we run into the guys (i specifically remember barrett asking where we'd been) and we were all there on some sort of seniortriplagunabeach kind of adventure.
then the scene shifts and i'm with mai and unknownmale? and we're in like chinatown. and we were really desperate for some pure aloe harvested from the aloe plant and we spied some on the top of someone's house and the houses were all very victorian. anyway, we snuck in and climbed all the way to the top and snipped off the leaves and began to come down. i remember waiting in anticipation for that moment we could run away in freedom with our aloe leaves but the owners of the house catch us and all we did was ask very calmly if we could have some aloe and they said yes. then we saw sabrina paseman and her brother sitting at the foot of the stairs. in my dream, i vaguely remembered that she was in hong kong and asked her how hong kong was except the weird thing was that she was like...a younger version and she just looked at me with this confused face (bcus she hadn't, in fact, gone to hong kong). then we finally escaped and we were on the streets and i was telling every street vendor our exciting story bcus mai magically happened to be in the iceberg adventure too.
THE END!

100 truths.

STEFF-O IS BORED. GO LOOKIT MY YAK PHOTOS ON FB.

WHAT WAS YOUR:
1. last beverage = green tea
2. last phone call = simran
3. last text message = henry
4. last song you listened to = bodyguard by shinee!!
5. last time you cried = hahhaha a couple nights ago? for random reasons -___-

HAVE YOU EVER:
6. dated someone twice = yes
7. been cheated on = ....hopefully not
8. kissed someone & regretted it = at one point
9. lost someone special = mhmm
10. been depressed = naaah just sad.
11. been drunk and threw up = nope!

LIST THREE FAVORITE COLORS:
12. pink
13. teal
14. tangerine!

THIS YEAR HAVE YOU: (2009)
15. Made a new friend = uhmm i think so!
16. Fallen out of love = nope
17. Laughed until you cried = lawl no. but i've got abs of steal now!
18. Met someone who changed you = yess!
19. Found out who your true friends were = i've always known
20. Found out someone was talking about you = HAHAAH ALL THE TIME HAHHAHA
21. Kissed anyone on your FB friend's list = oh yahh ;)

GENERAL:
22. How many people on your FB friends list do you know in real life = most if not all
24. Do you have any pets = nope.
25. Do you want to change your name = uhmm i'm okay with it :/
26. What did you do for your last birthday = spent two days and a night at the beach with my closest friends :)
27. What time did you wake up today = uhmmm 945 AM
28. What were you doing at midnight last night = talking to mai :P
29. Name something you CANNOT wait for = spirit west coast, retreat, when won comes home.
30. Last time you saw your Mother = half an hour ago?
31. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life = taking some things more seriously in high school. and being a more confrontational person
32. What are you listening to right now = the chinese dramas downstairs
33. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom = probably...?
34. What's getting on your nerves right now = nothing
35. Most visited webpage = gmail/facebook
36. Where do you want to be right now? = on the dance flo, with won, at the beaaach, on the town.
37. Nicknames = steph, steff-o
38. Relationship Status = IN LOVE
39. Zodiac sign = pisces
40. Male or female? = girlieee
42. Middle School = HARKER
44. Hair color = dark brown? black?
45. Long or short = medium ish. long.
46. Height = 5'4
47. Do you have a crush on someone? = i guess you could say that
48. What do you like about yourself? = my nails.
49. Piercings = ears
50. Tattoos = NONE!
51. Righty or lefty= righty
52. First surgery = uhm...none?
53. First piercing = ears
54. First best friend = bryan yu, aimee nguyen, and lauren strom-berg :P
56. First vacation = sydney? out of the country...china?
58. First crush = bryan yu.

RIGHT NOW:
59. Eating = nothingg
60. Drinking = nothingg
61. I'm about to = brush my teeth and sreep. or read a good book.
62. Listening to = the highway near my house. kinda.
63. Waiting for = tomorroww

OUR FUTURE :
64. Want kids? = three please
65. Get Married? = def
66. Career? = something out of a cubicle

WHICH IS BETTER
67. Lips or eyes = lips. heh
68. Hugs or kisses = uhmmm BOTH!
69. Shorter or taller= taller please
70. Older or Younger = older
71. Romantic or spontaneous = a bit of both
72. Nice stomach or nice arms = mmm arms :P
73. Sensitive or loud = ...both. you can be both.
74. Hook-up or relationship = relationship
75. Trouble maker or hesitant =a fungi

HAVE YOU EVER :
76. Kissed a stranger = nope
77. Drank hard liquor = err
78. Lost glasses/contacts = nope
79. Sex on first date = no
80. Broken someone's heart?= most likely
81. Had your own heart broken = oh yahhh
82. Been arrested = noo
83. Turned someone down = back in the day...
84. Cried when someone died = definitely
85. Fallen for a friend? = haha.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
86. Yourself = i am here. and alive.
87. Miracles = definitely
88. Love at first sight = that is lust
89. Heaven = yes.
90. Santa Claus = nope
91. Kiss on the first date = mmm maybe, depends!
92. Angels = of course

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
93. Had more than one bf/gf?= nahh
95. Did you sing today? = in the car
96. Ever cheated on somebody? = nope!
97. If you could go back in time, how far would you go, and why? = i dunno...on a small scale? maybe freshman year. large scale...the ice age :D heh jk
98. If you could pick a day from last year and relive it, what would it be? uhmm from 2008? good question.
99. Are you afraid of falling in love with somebody? = uhmm kind of. nothing to worry about right now though :P
100. Posting this as 100 truths? = yesh.

party every day p-p-p-party every day

FRIDAY:
aakash's bangin party :B haha it was nice to see a lot of harker kids again although i saw some only 4 days earlier O_O this week has been ridiculously long.
hanyway, lots of delicious food and conversation and then we danced the night away with strangers
........
HAHAHHAHA

SATURDAY:
church grad night! was awesome we had this city-wide scavenger hunt (tino and SJ) and we ran allll over the place. i am SO out of shape T_T
anyway the senior girls tied with the senior boys, LAMEEE
the list included
"number of a payphone" "take a picture of you making a pyramid at tap-ex" "take a picture with the merlion statue" "ride the escalators at AMC 16" "take a picture with a stranger" "run through the tartini fountain"
haaahaha it was amazing.
i love 4hoc :)
hopefully i'll find a fellowship just as amazing at usc....

anyway, we were also presented with the kingdom challenge/assignment in the form of one hundred dollars. ask me about it or google it :) i'm excited :D

SUNDAY:
after church my sister had her bday party
it was amazingly...loud.
her cake was a pikachu, i'm quite proud of it.
the children were obnoxious
i got my tan on.
lawl. sort of.

THAT IS ALL, GOOD DAY.

4:38 PM Seoul Time

i've just been freaking lazy since i got home from orientation and maybe i don't even plan on blogging about tibet! sighhh.

1. THIS WEEKEND WAS GREAT. or well, sunday. we spent it at alex he's house screwing around with old friends and indulging in quality girl gossip.
2. monday, we arose after a long night bright and early at noon and went to harker! hooray!
3. HARRY POTTER PREMIER on tuesday was flipping AWESOME bcus, well, we got to see it four hours early, and bcus i got to see seany megan naomi and barrett! well, mostly seany naomi and megan since i saw barrett the past two days. we ate at armadillo willy's sooo gooood :) i love that place.
hanway, it was fun walking out of the theatre a full hour before the suckers in line could even get into theres :) teehee
4. i didn't do anything all day! and then sean texted me about the miraculous tournament going down at saratoga high but to be honest i was way too lazy to drive the whole two miles. but then the guys came later to pick me up after their match and they sent the two guys who don't know where i live. so david got out of his car, convinced it was my house, and serenaded a large white man three houses down. it was excellent.
anyway, we watched napolean dynamite, it was terribly hilarious. terrible. and hilarious.
5. i didn't do anything today.
6. PAAARTAYYY :)
7. gradnight on sat? hopefully...and happy bday lil sis :) teehee

sigh i've been wasting my post-grad summer away eating cheez-its, reading tacky girl books, and talking to the boyfriend whose in koreaaa :(
sigh.
he gets off work in a little less than two hours. :D

kay bye.

HELLO READERS

it's been a while, my bad :(
since coming back from china, i haven't really had time to upload photos/too lazy or write about my trip but i promise that that's coming soon!
orientation wasn't amazingly fun but i met a lot of cool people and i LOVE usc :)
i'm really excited to start school but i'm kinda bummed that i didn't get all the classes i wanted :/
anyway.
i just saw a fleece blanket with a toucan on it. it seemed to be rainforest themed hehe i want it.
i love fleece blankets.
my dorm is amazing.

that is all,
good day to you all. call me up, i'm home, with a car, and usually hungry.

HKIA

at the airporttt
not looking forward to this 11 hour flight
sadface :(
will update with 8? day journey in tibet
tata!
happy fourth of july, americans! it's july 5 hurr already
speaking of which
5 months :)) <3

zai jiaan.