My last entry got caught off. Like 7 people walked into our room and started introducing themselves. I haven't seen any of them really. Or maybe I just don't remember them. :/ It's been happening a lot lately. One of the girls from my orientation group, her name is Maria, was asking me something about what we had done in the group and I had completely forgot she had been in my group the whole day. Embarrassing. I've also forgotten some others names...


So today is the second day of orientation. I had been planning to write yesterday since it had been the first day, but I was dead tired and Tanya had been chatting with Gema over the MSN. I ended up falling asleep before Tanya left my room last night. We came back to our room after 10 pm since mostly everyone stayed to watch the Cabaret that the Orientation Counselors put up. It was hilarious. It was mostly bashing on USC, which is always fun. I got to do alot of things yesterday but I was really too tired at the end of it. People in my group were nice, so was our Orientation Counselor. He's a Statistics Major so he can probably tell me what it was like going through the whole process.

I'm really thinking of double majoring. Maybe I'll major in a Language. But the question is...which???!!! I seriously want to learn all of them. I really want to learn Japanese, Mandarin, and Korean. But Portuguese and German sound exciting too. Hmmm. Well, later today we have our Academic Appointments with our OC (Orientation Counselor) to start discussing about what classes we want to enroll in. They suggest for us to start off with 3 classes so I'm going to try to sneak in a language class. :D Just to see how I like it.

I also get to meet with some advisors from the Statistics Department. Ah, I feel so lonely. I don't think anybody signed up as a Statistics major. Well, it doesn't matter. I just have to go check out how it is. Well today is pretty much academic and mainly us getting our schedule together. I'm going to have a schedule tomorrow! How exhilarating! :P

Well, I think I will start getting ready to go to my meeting.

Wow. I never thought I'd be here typing from a dorm room in UCLA. It's interesting where life takes us. But then again, it is even more interesting where we take ourselves.

I know I was supposed to update at least once a week, but I was too busy getting ready to come to UCLA. I am now 18! Me and my twin had our b-day on Friday. Our friends bought us a mini fridge for our room. However, we're not living together since the Summer program assign everyone to different rooms. I think me and my sister will be sharing our dorm during the Fall and Spring though.

Well, I cried all the way to LA. Except when I fell asleep since I felt like puking (crying when you already have a cold isn't a very good idea). When my parents finally left at 1:30 pm after helping us unpack our stuff, I didn't cry as much as I thought I was. I was already so sick of crying. Tanya hadn't cried that much until this afternoon. I think not being able to keep in contact with my mom (she doesn't have a laptop yet) is getting to her. But I'm sure she will do much better tomorrow. Compared to me, Tanya is a very strong person. I think we're just trying to find our independence. We haven't really talked to anyone here; my roomate sorta talks to me, but not as much as I would like. Well, it is just the first day here. Classes start on Monday.

I hope to update as much as possible. I really want to see my progress these next 6 weeks. I really hope that I can become a much stronger person than I am today.

And with that I say goodnight. I just hope I am able to wake up tomorrow. We have a pretty full schedule this day

It's hard typing with long nails....
Prom is today and considering that almost the whole week was hot, today it was raining. It's still pretty cold. I have a long dress, so I shouldn't get too cold. My sister on the other hand, is going to be freezing.
It's just weird. The weather was unbearably hot, now it's cold. I hadn't gotten sick for more than 6 months, and I wake up with a snore throat. I hope everything goes fine at prom. I'm going to be taking pictures with my friends during the dance. No after parties for me. I'm going to be surprised if I stay up the whole time over there. Knowing Jenny, she's going to have me dancing as much as possible. eh, i feel so sick. Well, at least it will be memorable. :P

well, imma go rest a bit before we leave. :/

It's barely Wednesday, but I'm already celebrating this week. There is testing going on at school, so seniors don't have to show up until 12 :D It's been fun. Waking up late, studying a bit for the upcoming AP tests, going to school, coming back home in 3 hours. It's really awesome :)

I'm at home by myself doing laundry right now. I just put in two loads but they are still pretty heavy. I guess I really shouldn't complain. The laundry place in only like a few feet from the bottom of the stairs. Hahah. I could only imagine how much I would complain if it was farther away.

Oooh. So there is going to be a Twilight panel at San Diego Comic-con! More details haven't been released yet, but I'm so totally hoping Robert Pattinson will come! AHHHH! :D It's so scary how easily obsessed I've become with the book and with the upcoming movie. The obsession has begun to take a hold of me. Noooooooo!!
Hahah. :D

To go to UCLA :D



After I visited the campus last Saturday, I came back home and I made my decision. I really liked UCSB, especially the beach that is close by, but UCLA made such an impact on me. When I stepped into the campus, I was like, where am I? The campus just left me in awe. O_O Throughout the day, I started to think about it. The most important thing for me was to choose a campus that I would feel comfortable in. And I figured. I could picture myself walking through UCLA everyday. I'm so excited about graduating from high school now!:D

My sister is also going to UCLA. It had been an issue that people asked us about. Where we going to the same university? Our answer was that we wouldn't necessarily go to the same one. It just worked out that way, I guess :P We're planning on sharing a room for this first year. We might change our mind afterward. People say we've been attached to each other for too long. I don't think we'll be attached to each other every single second if we live together. I'm pretty sure that we are going to try new things by ourselves. We're already making plans about the activities we want to join :D

We're going to be attending the summer program for Freshmen, so that means our vacation will be cut short, but we don't mind. Our high school always started the school year at the end of July, so we wouldn't be used to a 3 month summer vacation anyway. :D

I really wanted to write last week, but I never came around to sitting down and actually writing. Mainly homework and studying for the upcoming AP tests. I also got a job (yay my first job :D) waitressing for a catering company. Our first job is on the Midway servicing in a party for the Honda company, I think. The money I get from that job will be put towards the fees for the summer program. Hmm I think I'm typing too much.

One more thing. :D I just finished reading Twilight. I can sooo totally imagine Robert Pattinson playing Edward!!!! My heart was melting through the whole book. :) He is going to be just wayyyyyy tooooo hottttt! :D I'm just going to have to wait until December 12 for the movie. I need to get my hands on the other book!!!!

God that song has been stuck in my head for a while. We were reading through Much Ado About Nothing , actually everyone else was, I'm still stuck in Health. I saw the movie that has that one guy who plays Wilson in House. I love House, one of my favorite shows. Bones is pretty good too :D Hmm then again, so is The Office. :D

It's been a pretty interesting break so far. Hmm only a little over a week left over, though. I have so much to worry about when I go back to school. There's a blood drive I have to organize, as well as gathering information about the seniors in the JROTC. Bleh. There was a reason why I didn't sign up to be the Commanding Officer. I swear, all I wanted was a peaceful Senior year. :P I hate it when this kind of stuff comes and bites you in the ass.

Well, throughout my boredom in Health, I've been drawing. I was drawing Kamijo from Versailles today. My friend really wants me to go with her when they come to L.A. in June. I really want to go. I guess I'll have to see how stuff goes these next couple of months. Hmm I tend to go off track with what I want to write. I've been awfully bored in Health because it's all about stuff I have heard at one point or another. Don't do drugs. Take up some physical activity. Have self-esteem. You'd think this would be common sense that people wouldn't need to make a class for it. However, I know people that really don't get the point of how bad drugs really are. Thanks to these people, I need to spend 3 weeks in a class that is slowly putting me to sleep. All I have to do are the section reviews for each Chapter.

The Army Reserve Won't stop calling my house. I just had a 30 minute conversation with one of the recruiters. At least I saved my sister the pain. :P

Well, I guess I'll stop writing for now. Need to stretch my abs for Prom! Hahaha. Lately I started walking and running with my mom in the afternoons and since we can't go walking today, I might as well stretch. :D

Gum in the mornings is always good. Especially if it's Bubbaloo. :D I like the stuff inside the gum :D The one i chewing on right now is spicy.

Yesterday, instead of going to Movie Night at Marcos' house, I stayed at home and I was reading Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice. I've already read more than 100 pages, a great feat for me considering the fact that I don't get to read books while school is in session. I really love The Vampire Chronicles. Anne Rice made me fall in love with Lestat, he's so beautiful :D.

Ah, I had finished writing an entry right now. I thought I lost this one and now it restored it. Bleh this sucks. The last one was so thoughtful I'm too lazy to rewrite it.

Well, I'm really happy to be reading this book. I haven't read a book from the Vampire Chronicles since last year. It's been a while. Those books take a while to fully digest :D Hmm still have a lot of thinking to do about the universities. I'm hoping the answer will come to me. Don't know when it will. Maybe when I'm reading, at church, just walking or maybe i'll wake up in the middle of the night and say OMG i found out which university I really want to go to. I doubt that will happen. I'll have to think about it carefully.

:D

Ah, finally. The week is over. One week of Intersession, 2 more weeks to go. Health is sooo boring. I really wanted to save myself from the boredom of taking it for a whole semester, but 3 weeks is pretty boring too. :P

Well, yesterday I officially heard from all of the Universities I applied to, and I got accepted to all of them basically. I can go wherever I choose to go to :D UC Berkeley was the last one I hear from, and they said they would be happy to have me for the Spring semester. I don't want to go up to San Francisco anyway. :P Well except to go see Miyavi. :D

Right now I'm stuck between UCSD, UCSB, and UCLA. Each pretty much offers what I want to study (which is a combination of Statistics and Psychology, or maybe even Neurology) so I'm not really sure which one I would really attend. Hmmm. I still have about a month to think it over. I guess it really doesn't matter where I end up going, just as long as I end up doing what I want.

Ah, it has been an exhausting time these past few months. So much to do, and most of it is stuff I don't want to do (*COUGH Homework *COUGH). Still have to study for my AP exams and finish my Spring Break HW. I haven't really had the time to finish my sketch of Miyavi either. I bought a new sketch pad and everything but when I had started my sketch, Mrs Rymer called my house and she told my mom I had a lot of missing HW. How embarrassing. There really was no need for that. AHHH. Hope she never ever calls my house EVER again.

I like skipping lines, makes me feel like I actually wrote alot :D I think it might be time to get a new livejournal layout...

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Miyavi is performing in Anaheim 5/14 and in LA in 5/16!!!! OMG! Wah. Chances are I might not be able to go. Why do u toy with my feelings? Why?


Ah. Well, I've seen him twice already. But 3rd time is always a charm, right? Wah. Well, his new album is a delicious treat for any fan. I really like JPN Pride. Really catchy. I hope money falls out of the sky. That would be awesome. Hmmm. Couldn't he just stop by San Diego? It would be awesome beyond belief!!!!!

But yeah, i hope i work something out. I should have just taken those driving lessons too. :P I hate having to ask my mom and dad for a ride all the time.

If I don't get to see him this year, I will definitely see him later. I have to :D

Eh, I'm really wishing the week would just finish now. Bleh, it has been a rather retarded week. (Even though it has only been 3 days of school. I'm already hating it. But then again hating is a strong word. Despising? Ah, even stronger.)

What has been annoying about it? The work. Mainly Physics. The ridiculous amounts of work she assigns and expects us to have finished by the end of the week. I have always had decent grades in all of my classes, or if I don't, I can at least catch up with the work sooner or later. Physics, however, is like a class that is almost impossible to catch up in. AHHH!!!!! All that meaningless busy work! I get A's and B's on my tests, doesn't that show I get the chapter? But no....I have to do all of the section reviews, the notes, the worksheets, the labs that don't get finished during class on my free time. Bleh. Oh well. That's what I'll hopefully be working on today.

Well, Friday is just around the bend. It's always something to look forward to. Ah, I love Fridays. Although everyone is getting together on Saturday to finish calculus homework at the Living Room cafe. Eh, don't wanna go. I don't like the coffee at that place. :P I don't really like coffee at all. I just drink it a few times. Just to see how it tastes.

Well, I'm going to try my best to do most of my missing hw today. Let's see if I have time to write again.

Yay. Friday comes with presents.

I don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday grey and Wednesday too, Thursday I don't care about you, It's Friday I'm in Love

Yes, I truly feel the love on fridays. This last karaoke night we celebrated Gema's and Lilia's birthdays (Lilia's is on Feb 25 and Gema's on March 3 so we decided to combine them in one single party) Kathyrine made a very awesome cake with sugar paste over it. Damn, she used so much sugar for it. I felt guilty every single time I bit into that cake. My teeth are going to fall out soon considering all the sugar I've been eating lately.

Gema's friend Miguel came over so we had a new member to the karaoke night. He didn't want to sing at first but after we got into the Singstar Pop game, then he started singing. Oh, the craziness. I think it's soo cool when it's just the girls left with the karaoke. The guys went to get something to drink while we stayed and went through some of the songs. I think we sung "You spin me right round" twice, "Cool" by Gwen Stefani and "Respect." Hahah, we were dancing and standing on chairs while we were singing. But then the guys came back, so we finally sung Happy Birthday to Gema and Lilia in English, Spanish, and Filipino. It's funny that we can sing it in 3 different languages. hahha.

I'm almost through with my physics homework...I just need to do my calculus too. Eh. So time consuming. I wish these things would just finish by themselves. I thought about it hard enough...ah.

Well about the appointment for my headaches, I escaped a blood test. Yay! :D But the Dr said that I'm going to have to take some migraine medicines, although i have never had a migraine in my life. Well at least not yet. She also said that i would need to schedule an MRI exam, because my mother had mentioned to her that in my family there has been a history of strokes and one of my aunts has recently been operated because she had a tumor in her head. So they're checking just to make sure. I'm excited though, because we recently read about neuroimaging exams in Psychology and it's going to be cool to have one taken on me. Although I really do hope it's nothing. :/

Mmm. I really have to sit down and think how the days can possibly be hectic without nothing really occurring. It's very interesting that this is the case for me. I can't recall another time I have felt so stressed out with life, friends and just my environment.

My headaches have truly increased, thank god I'm going to the doctor's soon. I've never had my headaches checked out before. Hopefully they aren't anything bad. The reason why my mom scheduled the appointment is because my aunt ended up having a tumor and she really hopes that the reason why I have headaches isn't because I have a tumor. Gosh, I hope not. I can barely stand blood tests; I cry worse than a little kid. Last time I went my mom kept screaming at me because she said that I looked ridiculous crying while the little kids in the room weren't. I told her I didn't care and kept on crying. My arm ended up having a pretty bad bruise because my mom tried to tell me to hold my arm and she pressed down hard on it and i could feel my pulse and i started crying more. Yeah, blood tests aren't the greatest moments to experience for me.

AS for my life right now? Fridays are the best. I love karaoke/super smash bros melee days. It's just the last day of school for the week and what better way to end it by singing it off? AS for the rest of the week, my physics class and calculus class could use some dedication. I don't have problems in calculus like understanding the stuff, I just can't do my hw. As for physics, hw also seems to be a problem but i also don't seem to be getting some of the things. I've always preferred math to science though. Physics sucks. :P Even though it does involve math...

Hmm. longest entry? I think so. Well at least for me. I have a lot to take out of me right now. I really hate the fact that I keep so much inside of me. That really shouldn't be what I do. Hmm, my room needs some cleaning. I really want to sleep in a clean room tonight. Well, ja ne for now. :)

D-day (Decathlon day) was yesterday and we received it the best we could. At one point we were 2nd place in the whole county, a very big feat for our school who has only come in 7th. I think we went down to maybe 3rd or 4th. It depends when the rest of the scores are added into the overall scores. But yeah. We placed first in the SUPER QUIZ! It's a separate event after the tests and it's every school competing for a trophy. And we placed first. Past years, we didn't even place 10th for that competition. And we made it to 1ST PLACE. >D

I could not believe it.

Every time my division marked an answer, we got it right. And every time we got it right, I just couldn't believe it.

We ended the day in high spirits, happy to have been able to do something our school has never done before. We have certainly set high standards for next year's team.

Well, after the celebration at school, my friends decided we should do some karaoke. And we had a kick ass time. I got the highest score for "Helena." And I KNOW one of my friends videotaped it. I hope this doesn't turn out to be blackmail. Hahaha. We had a kick ass time.

I wish all of my weekends were as kick ass as this one. I loved this weekend. :D

It's kinda unsettling that Decathlon day has come soo quickly. Eh, yesterday, we stayed at school studying till 5 pm. We fixed our speeches as much as we could.

I'm still having troubles with mine. I decided to talk about music in my life in general, instead of any specifics. I would enjoy doing another speech on Miyavi (that was my topic last year :D ) but I really want to talk about how I really enjoyed playing in the orchestra . It really killed me giving up my viola and violin 2 years ago. I had something fun to do during school time, not just come to class and take notes. We actually got to learn something else. Learning to play an instrument is the most fun anyone will ever have, even when it becomes difficult certain pieces of music that make you want to drop down your instrument because your so frustrated.

My speech is slowly coming together and I'm happy with the introduction now. It includes a quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes. “Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.” It really applies to me. Whenever I'm stressed out, I just sit down and listen to music and it really is like a water-bath for my soul. I wonder if that's how miyavi feels whenever he plays music. To be so passionate with music and make a career out of it seems great. I hope that I will one day be able to make a career out of something I'm passionate about too. :D

Well, this week I have to study my ass off and I think that's what I'll go do now. :P

I'm bored. I think I should go dance. Eh. @_@ typing takes too long.

We had to meet at school at 9. Of course ppl overslept. And once again I'm thankful that Alan didn't crash the car. He scares us so much when he's driving! >_<

Well we survived. We have to go to school on Monday, sadly enough, even though we have the day off.

Well, I'm done. PSP is annoying at this.

WAHHHH! Miyavi didn't win best dressed. This casting of votes was rigged!!!!

Eh. He's hott in my eyes no matter what.

Well, the essay was pretty easy, so everyone was freaking out when we stepped out of the examination room. We were all very happy with what we wrote, so it is only for us to find out our real scores at the day of Decathlon.

I was supposed to go to the karaoke night, but I really just want to spend Friday in the confinements of my own house. I'm soo tired. I was pretty much done with my week on Wednesday. I think the Decathlon team definitely over studied. I know I did.

I still have a couple of things to do for tomorrow.

Ah, the day of the essay came way too quickly!!!!


I wish that time will soon begin to stop and i will be able to pick up on any extra reading I could have done. Sigh. But there is no way for this to occur. Not yet, anyway. I wish I could write something more interesting about what has occurred, but alas, it's just been me going to school and actually finishing my hw. It's been weird finshing my hw on time. I don't wake up worrying about a quiz  I didn't study for; I wake up calmly, although somewhat reluctant. I'm always soo tired when I wake up. I wish I could have those extra 10 minutes.


I'm really exhausted. I think I shall take a nap. I will write more when this essay is over. :D

I hope for the best tomorrow! As Alan screamed at my sister and me, WOOO!!! DECATHLON!!!

I accidentally fell asleep while I was waiting for my sister to get off. Bleh.
    I've really felt so tired. I hope I will be able to do some hw today, I need to study for Decathlon tomorrow.
   

    Jay Chou is soo hilarious in Cowboy On the Run. First time I have seen the video today. I think I will continue to look up some jrock and cpop. My mp3 needs a makeover. :D Some songs are getting too old and they get me mad when I listen to them. My Miyavi Discography is safe; I never get tired of listening to that beautiful god/man. :D

Still waiting for the rest of It Started with a Kiss 2 Episode 4 to get uploaded.....I want to see the rest of it now!

Um. I think I'm getting really random now. I should definitely take my time to explain my interests one of these days. Maybe tomorrow? Or Monday? School has been great so far. I love this feeling. I don't feel pressured as much as I did before, however, my headaches have gotten worse and my mother is worried. She reckons I should go see a doctor soon. Eh, that means BLOOD TESTS. O_O I don't know why I'm horribly scared by them, I just don't like them. I don't care if I am 17 and cry like a little baby whenever I get one.
;_;

Gigpig boogie is alway fun. :D Haven't heard this song in ages~!
Ah, the torture of one week. I actually completed my hw like I was supposed to this whole week. I haven't left anything till the last minute yet. I like this feeling of relief. I don't have to wake up early in the morning to finish my hw anymore. Hope it stays that way. :(
    Ha I wonder why I never realized this until now.
Well, In ROTC I remained with the same rank but I got a new job as the Admin Officer. So I guess I help with paperwork? I don't really know what I do. It's hard explaining it to ppl. :(
    It's been an interesting first week. But very tiring. We have our Academic Decathlon essay coming up so we've been studying in room 203. I really like studying in there. Almost everyone studies. Of course, we do have to have those certain breaks when we talk in between the silence or then it gets really awkward. I think everyone is happy in this silence. Well, almost everybody. Marcos just won't shut up and work already. God, I don't think you can pass the essay if you don't know scrap about the novel or short selections. God damn. Maybe I should move. Cause I can't get any studying done if I sit next to him. :P Oh well. We'll see.
    Today I'm gonna take it as my break. I have been working hard to keep up in my classes and at least I still have an A in all of them :D hahah. we still haven't been counted down on anything. bleh. hahah.
    Well, may my good luck continue!

    And I'm really sad it's gonna end. Wah. :(
    I had the weirdest dream last night. It had all of the NBL crew there and i ended up seeing people die twice. Who knew that The Red Badge of Courage could give me nightmares? I also had this very weird thing happen to me at night. Since I slept in the living room, I was struggling to go to sleep and I think I was close to going to sleep when I was awoken by my dad waking up to go to the bathroom. As I opened my eyes, I noticed there was this black vapor that had been hovering in front of my face and it began to slowly disappear in the air. It scared me but since I was really tired, I just closed my eyes once more and went back to sleep. I wonder what the hell it was though. Really frightening when I think about it.
    Well, I'm planning to do my physics homework as soon as I get off the computer. We studied Decathlon for a while today but we ended up going to Carl's Jr to grab something to eat. I enjoyed talking to everyone today. I really need to get out more and talk to my friends. :/ I haven't seen some of them in more than 2 weeks. Even though we do live within a couple of blocks from eachother. :) well, I'm feeling good that I was able to keep to my goal of writing in this livejournal for 2 days in a row. I really want to use up these Miyavi moods. They are so kawaii! Once I remember where I got them, I will be sure to put up credits for it. :D Well, さようなら!