So....I'm going to BlizzCon this year in August and they have contests and stuff.....I'm still thinking about it...and that's usually how it goes for me. I think about things, and I end not going through with it. We'll see.
I went to South Coast Plaza with my mom today and after shopping around Saks and Macys (my mom bought a dress), we went to Abercrombie and Fitch. Of course, today they had to have a nearly naked male buff model standing out there greeting people. -__-". I always get so embarrassed when they stand out there and I'm trying to get into the store. It's really weird for me because while he has a good body, I don't want to stare at it or look like I'm looking...so I end up like...staring at the ceiling while walking in....which is probably really obvious but it's better than staring at him right?!?
Anyhow, I usually don't buy anything at this store because everything is so expensive, but I like looking at the new designs and wonder how they can come up with so many "different" designs and be almost the same thing, but different. I could walk out of the store and completely forget what specific things they had in the store within minutes; that's how unique this store is. Is that a good thing?
They had these shorts on sale so I got them. I originally wanted a different pair (red tartan), but they weren't on sale, so I didn't get them and got these instead. I couldn't find a picture of it, they look similar to this picture, except the color is a lighter apple green, and with white and yellow vertical stripes. The one pictured is cheaper too. The one I got, the original price was 49.50 and I got them for 28.90. That's pretty good in my book. And can you believe it? The name of the shorts that I put the picture up of is called "Cathy". Like me! While I was browsing through the site looking at the pictures of all the shorts, I hoovered over this picture and it said "Cathy"...i was like....wth?, did a double take..and finally realized it was the name of the shorts. I was like...."I don't remember signing into this site and making my sn Cathy.....". doh.
I was going to write up something about roller coasters...but right now it doesn't seem very interesting.
I really want to go to six flags though..i haven't gone there in like...8 years, or since Goliath came out.
hm....I'm hungry
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Today I'm going to talk about....Oakley!
I bought my first pair of Oakleys with my own money when I was in the 8th grade. I like them because my brother liked them! Back then, he had.....
A-wires I think....I can't remember the color combo...but they're something like this.
So anyway, my first pair turned out to be eye jackets...
They were a bronze color with billions of gold specks in the frames, and gold lens that are like mirrors. I really liked them even though...I might have looked like a bug at the time, because I was so small...eighth grade is what...13 years old?
Anyhow, I've had them ever since now and they've been my ultimate sunglasses when I'm really going outside and it's really sunny and I really need to protect my eyes. Only recently like...2 year ago did I get another pair of sunglasses that were Chanels. They are pretty and nice, but not something I would take out biking or hiking or doing any kind of sport. Which is why I'm talking about sunglasses becauuuuuse....
My beloved sunglasses broke! I went snowboarding last year for the first time and I took these sunglasses because I knew I would be blinded by the snow....3/4 way through falling on my butt and using my arms to get back up (which I paid dearly for in the next 3 days, barely able to put on my own clothes and unable to drive to my students' houses), one of my earstems broke, snapped and I was left the rest of the day wearing the sunglasses with only one ear stem. It was a sad day. Wah.....
I miss them....I don't know how Oakley works though...can I even get it repaired? They might not be the most fashionable things out there anymore, but I like them and they worked well for me.
So anyhow, I went to the Oakley factory today with my mom because my mom was looking to buy a new pair of sunglasses. One of her eyes has become swollen, and the doctor told her she needed to protect her eyes. This is just an excuse for her to buy new sunglasses because she already has a pair of Minutes but they aren't "big" enough I guess. So we went in and looked around, and the guy helping us was asian and really cool. He even took my mom outside to see the difference between the polarized and non-polarized. Personally if I get another pair of sunglasses, I want them to be polarized, so I was pushing my mom to get that, but the frames she wanted didn't come in polarized lenses...so she didn't, although she really saw the difference polarized lenses are compared to non-polarized ones. So as the guy was ringing us up, he asked us if we had a dog. My eyes went big and I was like "I wish!" and he was like.."oh, do you have a cat?" And I was like..."no..."....and he's like "oh...because i saw some hair on your shirt so I thought you did.." so I looked down on my tank top and I see one single white hair against my blue fabric....oooOOooh! It must be Stitch! Miri's dog! So I said "oooh this is from my friend's dog" and he was like oOoooo and then talked about the dog he had. He has the equivalent of the Japanese Shiba Inu....I forgot the Korean name.
Yeah, so that was my day today.
What the heck? It's cool that Nintendo looked for Utada to do their DS commercials...but Nicole Kidman? If she suddenly said that she was actually really good at Tetris like Utada did...I would be in a huge state of shock.
Maybe she gets free DS lites for her kids if she does this commercial.
Have you seen Utada play Tetris at the tournament in Japan? She's actually really really good! She lost, but she won one of the games out of three to the champion. It's on youtube somewhere I'm sure.
Sorry I'm not home right now, walking into spiderwebs so leave a message and I'll call you back. A likely story, but, leave a message and I'll call you back!!
Man......this song brings me back. No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom album was my first album I had ever bought with my "own" money (money I got to keep for myself). And I didn't usually get a lot of money when I was little..so I definately had to think about it for a looong time at the record store. But I decided I really did like them so I bought it. My second album I bought? Probably Six Pence None the Richer. And then later on I got No Doubt's self titled album. It was great. I could listen to the Tragic Kingdom album almost forever (the song about climbing that went on forever and ever for 6 minutes is a little too weird for me). Spiderwebs!
I just read that Gwen Stefani surprised her audience at her concert in Irvine. For her encore, she popped out with her No Doubt bandmates and sang I'm Just a Girl, Spiderwebs, and and It's My Life. .....
I wish I was there!!!!!! wah.......
sigh....i don't think i'll ever get out of this depression. It's been a bad MONTH.
Miri and I went to Rowland Heights! I had lots of places planned, but we ended up only going to Diamond Plaza for lunch, and took at least 1.5 hours taking pictures -__-"...we don't do it often...so....haha. Tada! Click for a bigger picture.
hmmmmmmmm. oh! Today I went to lunch with 2 of my old friends from my quartet I used to be in. We called ourselves Maestro Strings.....haha. The only person missing was Cary, our first violinist. I should totally put pictures up of them. I've had some really good times with them. Anyhow, so Rebecca, the second violinist, is pregnant! Congrats! She is due in August and is just like me: scared and anxious and nervous about labor. Labor freaks me out and I reminded myself of how scary it was today. We were also talking about all the asian myths around pregnancy and birth....you can't eat seafood, stuff like that. And after the birth, the mother has to stay at home for a month, not wash her hair, not move, drink Chinese medicine broth...stuff like that. It's intimidating! Corey, the violist, was enlightened today I should think. It's so hard being a woman....I used to say that I wanted to be a boy. But now, even with hinderances like...menstrual cycles, and giving birth...maybe I still like being a girl.
In other news (WoW), I got the new arena helm. It's so cool looking! > < I took a screenshot, but the graphic is still a little messed up, so I won't post it. Some of my hair pokes out where it shouldn't. So I guess I really won't be raiding anymore, and just do light pvp and arenas.
I'm applying to EB Games. That's Electronic's Boutique, or GameStop. I hope I get the job...it sounds fun! I know that I am going to make every single customer pre-order/reserve games! I'll use my girlish charms and suck them in. Do I get commision? Is that why they always tell me to pre-order stuff when I buy games...it's actually kind of annoying. But if I get a bonus of something, i'll do it! <: P
Okay, so last night eeearly in the morning I put up those pictures and didn't really have time to type anything. We went to Antelope Canyon at around 11am and took a van for about 15 minutes to get in there. We had to be driving in the sand and hard desert, so it was reeeally bumpy. I think this area was Navajo area, and our guide was Native American. You can still tell he had some sort of accent, and I actually really liked it. oh! and all the guide would talk to each other in their native language! Sooo..coooooool. I felt like I was in a movie (that doesn't sound like a nice thing to say, does it -__-") I really like languages, especially ones I've never heard. Anyhow, there are two types of tours that go in here, and the tour I was on was a photographic tour, which meant we got 2 hours in the canyon, and the other tour is a normal tour where they talk about how the canyon became and stuff like that. So in the beginning, it was hard to get shots without people in them, but our guide was really good at telling people around us to wait for the photographers to get their shot done, or tell people that their legs are showing in our shot, or know when a specific lightbeam is going to come down in a couple minutes and hold us there until it comes.
The light beams are reeeeally spectacular. When we waited for a light beam (that's what he called it so I am too), you watch the sandy ground, and you'll see a speck of light....and it grows bigger.....and bigger......and you start seeing a beam shoot across the air and then our guide will take a cup and sand, throw it up into the air and "shoot!!". haha.
Near the end, the guide and me were alone and he was instructing me on shots and stuff, and then he looked at a picture and was like "wouldn't it be great if you sat there and took the picture?" He was pointed to a little alcove in the wall of the canyon....i was like "....can i do that?!?!?!" and he's like "yeeeah!! come on" and he told me how to climb up there and he took the picture. hmm.....in the beginning of the tour, he told us not to climb on the walls!! haha. I guess he got really into it. The picture didn't actually turn out that good, because of the longer exposure, every slight movement makes the picture blur. That's why I didn't put up the pictures...but just imagine me on a red wall when I shouldn't be there. hah!
After that we headed out to Las Vegas. There was some traffic so we didn't get there until about 7PM. We dropped my mom off at Excaliber to check in, and my dad and I got "lost". We were going to just circle around until my mom finished checking in, but circling around turned out to be a huuuuuuuuge circle. There is so much construction going on there because they are making residential buildings!....residential.....as exciting as it sounds, I don't think I could life in those residentail buildings all year round. Seems like a vacation home for rich people. We went to the Bellagio for the buffet....I had to control myself so I would be tooooo full, because as much as it all tastes sooo good...i pay for it in the end by being extremely full and uncomfortable..and I tried not to get to that point. So many yummy pastas, and cocktail shrimp is a must for me. They had spicy tuna hand rolls too! I didn't have any of the steak-ish meat. Meat is so normal to me sometimes. oh! They had a Pesto Mashed Potatoes! It was reeeally good, i've never heard of it before, but now I know. I think I could make it, and i think there were bits of pine nut in it too...yumm.
I didn't get to walk around much, my parents wanted to stay in the hotel room. I didn't want to go out onto the strip by myself either, thought my mom told me to. She's like "why don't you just go out by yourself? you don't need us..." and I was like "...If i went out there by myself, I might come back as Veronica or CoCo" -__-". So my mom gave me 10 bucks and I went down to play penny slot machines (the fun kind with the touch screens and bonus rounds). I lost all of it in 25 minutes. Gone are the days when I actually won 60 bucks over how much I started out with. -__-" Maybe there really is such a thing as beginner's luck.
Here are the rest of the pictures from Antelope Canyon. I took a whole bunch because our guide kept stopping me every foot saying "stand here....look up there..." Basically everything was photogenic in that place. He says he points out a lot of angles to shoot, but he keeps the best to himself ^_^.
The guide would throw up sand up into the light, and as the sand fell down, he'd say "shoot!!" haha. Sometimes it didn't really need the sand though.
You can see how big the place is with this picture. It's actually not very big...and the whole length was less than a quarter of a mile.
This is a bear....
Another bear!
Elvis....
Sphinx....
Holy Lamb! I love you ^_^
aaaaah........It's 1am in the morning and so I'll just post up a sampling for now.
I took these with my dad's old hand me down Sony camera.
Right now I'm in Page, Arizona, close to Lake Powell. I have free wireless here, so It's nice to sign on. Yesterday I stayed at a lodge whose name isn't really worth mentioning. The service was pretty bad...and about 5 fake fire alarms went off in the evening (not while we were sleeping thank goodness).
So yesterday I was in Peach Springs, AZ. I went to the Skywalk in the western rim of the Grand Canyon. It was kind of daunting at first! It wasn't as big as I thought it would be, looking at pictures of it. It was about....30 feet in diameter, and only half a circle. What's half a circle called again? And the walk way is 4 feet wide...so ..it's a half circle that's hollowed out in the middle. You can't take anything onto the skywalk...no cameras, anything that could fall or drop, nothing. So if you want to take pictures, someone on the outside of the cliff has to take pictures of you on the skywalk.
In the car, my parents and I talk about some weird things. I was looking out into the mountains, and I said, "Wow....there must be some kinds of dinosaur fossil in there, but nobody would try to dig it up to see..."...then my dad asked me "...if you had a pet dinosaur, it should be okay! As long as you can feed it..I don't think it will eat you..." Or I was munching on an apple, and I thought out loud..."you know how you hear about worms in a apple...how does it get inside an apple? I've never seen a worm's mouth". So we debated on that...I won't say what we came up with because it's probably wrong. ^_^
eeeeee! Another site by me.....I know. I have like, a billion. I bought a domain and hosting space almost two months ago and I hadn't done much of anything with it up till now, so here it is! The background picture is by Tokidoki....I went through a phase when I hated it...I thought it was stupid....then I warmed up to it and went through a crazy phase..but now I'm better. The designer turns out to be Italian! Not Japanese, but a fan of Japan. In Taiwan, they call people who are crazy about Japan "Ha Rhe"..meaning...High Japan...I think......haha
I'm going to Grand Canyon tomorrow....taking some pictures! I'm going with my parents and we're going to that glass walkway up high on a cliff. I wonder if people have jumped @_@. I wonder if it will be scary....I'm sure I'll probably get wobbly knees the first few seconds. Then I'll probably get all crazy and skip around. I wonder if people at the bottom can see up people's skirts?...maybe with a really really good telescope haha! That's some dedicated peeping.
On the way back we'll be stopping by Las Vegas. I haven't been there for....hmm...4-5 years? Las Vegas is always just...look at new casinos, try to hide from all the smoke, watch the Mirage volcano, watch the Bellagio water show, and shopping. -__-". Maybe I'll gamble 5 bucks...but knowing my family and my asian fortune sign (same as my grandma, mah-jong extraordinare, and my aunt, slot machine addict)...I'd better not risk it. Haha..actually I think I'm pretty good at keeping my head on straight. Last time my aunt took me too an indian casino, I tricked my head on thinking I had won, and that I was still in the winning, and how many I can actually lose...it's really tiring on the brain! I ended up winning...but boy, was my head tired of my own mind games.