oO Monday, June 28, 2004 at 02:28 p.m. Oo

hello.

i'm back from LA.

when we arrived, we went for lunch with my dad's business friends at Claim Jumper, quite a cool restaurant, i had never been there before. anyway. they found out that my bday was the next day so they got me a cake and they sang happy birthday for me! yay!!

on to the wedding!! it was so much fun and i can say it was probably the best wedding i've been to. my [extended] family likes to party, that's all i can say.

it was so awesome because the wedding ceremony took place in an asian museum, it was really simple and short, and then the reception was at the westin hotel, with lots of free alcohol, lion dances, an elvis impersonator for entertainment, lots of dancing, and partying with my uncle doug (who is the pimpest uncle anyone could EVER have). congratulations laura and iain!

since laura works for 'channel one', there were some kinda famous people there (excluding my cousin/her sister lisa ling), like janet choi (formerly of real world) and derrick (the hot one) who are reporters for the news program anyway. haha it was pretty cool.

i got to meet my awesome cousins that i've NEVER met before in my life, like darren, JT and mike. it was like a whole "are we related?!" kinda thang. it was so cute, JT and mike are brothers and they were the ushers for the wedding and were decked out in matching suits and pink ties. all of us got to sit at the same table at the wedding aka the "kids" table, but it was pimp and i was the only girl at the whole table so that was particularly nifty. we drank and danced so much, lol. and everyone was like "holly, it's your 18th bday tomorrow, get WASTED!!!!!!!" and i'd be like, "wheere's my drink?!"

i felt like such a skank ho though, because my dress was a little risque, really low cut and really short, but all my aunts and stuff were like "wow you've grown up so much!!" "i like your style!!" etc etc. even lisa and laura said something so i was like. yeeeeah who da pimp now?! hahahahhahaha!!

anyway the next day was my BIRTHDAY!!!! and also we went over to laura's and lisa's mom's house for a brunch, which had suuuch good food, omg i was so stuffed. so we had to leave around 1 so we could drive back to phoenix. anyway, lisa pulls me into the house and tells me she didn't know it was my birthday and so since she's all famous and everything, i guess she gets free clothes and what not, or at least goes on major shopping sprees, so she grabs 5 shirts of a stack of clothing and she goes, "here holly! happy birthday!!" and i'm like *jaw drops*. then she says "i dont' know if you like (insert designer name here) but have this shirt" and im like "wha? who?" and then the other shirts were from her friend's clothing line or something like that. now, how freaking AMAZING is that?!?!

holy shit, my family is AWESOME.

so okay, since it was my birthday and everything, i wanted to be home early so i could go out with my friends and all, right?! (see previous entries). okay so we arrive back at the house at around 8pm, i jump in the shower and get ready and all that. i call everyone and tell them i'm home and stuff., lexi comes over and gives me my gift. and to my dismay, there is absolutely nothing going on whatsoever, and everyone's like aww man i'm sorry, but happy bday. nobody comes over to hang out w me (except lex) and so i spend my birthday by myself, at home on the computer. mucho fun right? to be in a car driving for six hours on my bday, to come home and find out that i'll spend my bday on my own. fuckin fan-tas-tic. then my brother comes home and the first question he asks is "hey what are you doing at home?!" and i say "bc i'm a loser"

to top that ALL off, my mom comes and tells me at like 1am that my brother got a postponement on his military service medical check up thing, so he doesn't have to go back to singapore for a couple weeks. but since our lawyers are trying to get us our green card (aka Permanent Resident Status) here in the states before my brother goes back to singapore, we have to wait till that comes through before either of us can go back, and who knows how long that is going to take. SO IN OTHER WORDS, i'm not leaving for singapore this wednesday. my trip has been postponed and i'm PISSED. and also, even if i go back, my brother won't be with me and i'm really ticked off about that because i was looking forward to spending the month with him before he starts the whole military thing because i'll be returning here w/o him. so that means that when i do go back to singapore, he won't be with me. ARGH!!!!! at the rate things are going, i won't be surprised if my trip is cancelled.

so. i think i can safely say my 18th birthday was absolute shit.

thank you and have a good day.

oO Saturday, June 26, 2004 at 12:27 a.m. Oo

i just got home from eric t's party.

however, i am in a shitty mood. i don't have very many pleasant things to say right now but i'm going to try and withold from running my mouth.

eric's : huge party, lots of free alcohol, and really dark outside in the backyard. ashley, lexi, shannon and brittany are sleeping over there, while i am currently home, getting ready to head to LA. yuck.

i also forgot to give the 4 of them a gift that i've had for them for a while now.

over the last week, i've gone tubing on the salt river again, went for a pool party thing at joebutt's house, and then to jen's house for a party where i swear i was gonna get killed bc too many people showed up who weren't supposed to come but came anyway and it was my fault, saw jon's new saline mustang (oooh aaaah) which is yellow, so i hope his car never gets into the condition mine is in, went to a party on wednesday (stephano's? i don't know how to spell his name. but i know i will probably refrain from wearing a hat in his presence again, since he kept taking it), went into work and spent some of my hard earned money in there on a cute new skirt that isn't even stocked for people to buy yet (aah the benefits of being able to shop in the stockroom), and that brings us up to date, i think.

today i got my nails done, picked up a paycheck and then packed for LA.

well. i have some last minute stuff to throw into my bag, and i have to gather all my shit together.

i'll see you guys on sunday, hopefully. and to ash, lex, shan and britt, sorry for my shitty ass mood tonight, i hope you guys had fun regardless.

see ya.


The stars will cry
The blackest tears tonight
And this is the moment that I live for
I can smell the ocean air
And here I am
Pouring my heart onto these rooftops
Just a ghost to the world
That's exactly
Exactly what I need

audio:: story of the year- "anthem of our dying day"

oO Sunday, June 20, 2004 at 11:07 p.m. Oo

so i've been a little annoyed today, sorry if i've spoken to you and snapped or something.

turns out that my dad doesn't want to leave immediately after the wedding on saturday. he wants to stay the night in LA, have lunch the next day and drive home. under any other circumstances, i'll be like hell yeah, why not? well. see, the 'next day' i'm talking about here, the 27th (sunday) is my birthday. and so my dad's like "you just want to get back to phoenix so you can go out with your friends." WELL HELLO ROCKET SCIENTIST. it doesn't take much to realize why i want to be home in time to go out on my 18th birthday to celebrate with my friends, who, mind you, i won't see for a long time since i'm gonna be in singapore for a month. HMM. pretty logical if you ask me.

plus, my car keeps getting more and more and more fucked up and i absolutely don't understand why. i've got some new scratches on the left side of my car near the front tire. now where did these come from? well to be honest, i couldn't tell you. i didn't hit anything, no one hit me while i've been driving, and to TOP IT ALL BLOODY OFF, i barely drive anywhere!!!! the only places i go to are the office to help out, and then to work at hollister. i haven't done anything else and i think its RIDICULOUS that my car keeps getting messed up!!!

anyway, my dad wants to sell my car, i think he thinks it's "cursed" or something like that. he's been looking at the mazda 3 and 6 and if he gets one of those, i don't know how keen he is on letting me drive it. so maybe they'll trade my car in for a hyundai sonata for my mom to drive, trade in my mom's durango for a chrysler 300 for my dad, and i'll take over my brother's accord since he'll be gone for 2+ years doin his time in the military. whatever it is, i think it's pretty damn crazy to be switchin up and trading in all these cars. but whatever it is, i don't think i want to own a yellow car for a long long long time. maybe forever.

i'm kinda glad that everyone in singapore travels by public transport, so i won't have to deal with car shit for a month. furthermore, as ashley pointed out, i won't have to worry about working, which is great. i guess this vacation is what i need. i just need to get away, chill out and relax and have a good time holidaying.

so. i think i have to add a "makeup train case" to my birthday wishlist because i have too much makeup and everytime i try to get something out of my handy medicine cabinet in my bathroom, something topples and crashes and my makeup is EVERYWHERE. not to mention i got more eyeshadows today. so uh. fuck. i need somewhere to store my makeup before they all crumble and die on me.


let's tune out by turning on the radio.

audio:: the format- "tune out"

oO Saturday, June 19, 2004 at 06:43 p.m. Oo

so according to this:
Wu-Name
FROM THIS DAY ON I WILL BE KNOWN AS MAD BANDIT

awesome.

i just got home from work and i'm really tired. :(

anyway this week has been pretty chill, we hung out at matt e.'s place two nights in a row, our river tubing plans fell through, i tanned SOMEMORE, i worked at office as well as back at good ol hollister, my new favorite phrase that cracks me up a hella lot is : POO POO PLATTER, my brother has gone to vegas for the weekend, my cousin's mom is here to visit again i think, and i saw the movie Dodgeball last night (review: it was sooo funny, and soo awesome, a little random, and ben stiller is hilarious! hint: stay all the way past the credits!)

shannon should be back in town today!!! i'm so excited, i missed her alot. SHANIQUA YOU IZ HOME.

i leave next friday for my cousin (laura)'s wedding, and i'll be back either on my birthday (the 27th, biatches) or the day after. then i'll be packing and getting ready to head back to singapore.

so much for a surprise, my brother already decided for it not to be a surprise that we were going back, but it wasn't a full surprise anyway, so screw that. (wow i said "surprise" alot)
uh. yeah. i'll be back in singapore starting july 1st. so biatches in arizona need to hang out with me one last time before i leave, and biatches in singapore, contact me through email or something and give me your phone numbers so i can call y'all when i'm back so we can chill and partay YO.

i'm out like a MAD BANDIT.
word.

audio:: Pharrell Williams ft. Jay-Z- "Frontin"

oO Tuesday, June 15, 2004 at 02:55 a.m. Oo

oh. and before i forget.

HOLLY'S BIRTHDAY WISHLIST

1. a laptop
2. a 15GB ipod
3. FM radio transmitter for the ipod
4. a new cell phone (preferably a color flip phone)
5. gift certificate to XI Clothing
6. Starbucks Card (i think my cousin is getting me this)
7. MAC Nymphette Lipglass
8. Vidal Sassoon 3 Barrel hair waver thingy.
9. $$MONEY$$
10. a pair of low-rise gray sweatpants
11. a camo-print mini skirt (preferably the one from hollister last summer but it can only be found on ebay, its got a huge belt and a couple pleats in the front, i wear a size 0... if ya know... anyone wants to get it for me *HINTHINTHINTHINT***)
12. a thick strapped watch (there are some nifty pink ones from fossil.com that i like. ooh.)
13. i'd say cute new bras was gonna be on here but NOT ANYMOREEEEEEEEEE BECAUSE I WENT BRA SHOPPING TODAY!


so i'd say that's my wishlist. can't think of anything else. i know there are some expensive things on there, but maybe my parents will pick either laptop, ipod or cellphone as my gift, but we'll see. and yes i'm being bloody materialistic as hell, but these gifts will be GREATLY appreciated. YESS MA'AM.

UP IN THE HEEZY FO SHEEZY, I'M OUT!

oO Tuesday, June 15, 2004 at 02:37 a.m. Oo

whwhawhat's thethe dddddealy YO.!

haappeee birrthhhday aaaashley! GO 18! who's legal?! hahaha.

so i'm a little hyper and its crazy early in the morning. and my dad's packing to leave for LA and i can't go to bed because i have to wait for him to leave so i can park my car in the garage bc his car is blocking it right now. plus i think i won't be able to sleep since my mind is racing. lol.

today i went to the office and helped out some more, except that everybody seemed to be in a bad mood and thus put me in a bad mood. and nobody wanted to respond to my phone calls and text messages so i felt like a loser. so i called ashley and told her i was gonna pick her up and we were gonna go BRA SHOPPING!!!!!!!!

victoria's secret was having a mad crazy sale and we absolutely couldn't miss it. so i got her some pretty new lingerie for her 18th birthday, AWESOME PRESENT I KNOW. and i got myself some too, of course.

i have sassy new underpants. well, not underpants, but sassy new bras! rawr! i just feel like showing them off, why wear clothes when you have cute underwear?!?! hahaha, i hear all the guys of the world shout "hallelujah!"

hmm. after shopping we stopped by my house real quick, then went to her house to rent a movie and sit around and be silly. we got "win a date with tad hamilton".. which in my opinion was a pretty cute movie with alot of those "awww" moments, but it was a little strange and we'd go "wtf?!" at parts. lol.

ANYWAY. so now i'm home and i feel like dancing.

audio:: no doubt- "hella good"

oO Sunday, June 13, 2004 at 11:09 p.m. Oo

i laid out today. i've definitely been working on my tan this summer, i have no idea why, but makes me happy to see those tan lines which show how much i've actually tanned. weird eh?

so i raided my brother's cd case, and burnt myself some cds because i'm getting rather cross with not being able to get some good music without staticky noises in the background. so i just burnt myself Maroon 5, Story of the Year and Jack Johnson. good times, good times. i was testing out a bunch of his other cds and couldn't find anything else i was coveting, because he's got tons of techno/trance/house stuff, and alot of rap. too much of either is a bad thing, so i'm good for now. yay!

so let's see what's happened till now. well. i've been sleeping in, usually to be awoken by a phonecall from lexi or ashley or katie or larky or SOME person who is brave enough to talk to the grumpy-just-awoken-up holly. oh i kid i kid. it's not that bad.

i've been out by the pool alot, since i bought those floaty pool thingys so now i can just roll into the water when the heat gets a little too unbearable. ah. i've been working also, at hollister as well as at my brother's office, kinda. i just go in and help them out some and just hang out with my bro and the two travis's. or i sit in my office and just talk on the phone. lol.

over the last week we've been over at kessler's house 3 times, once to watch Eurotrip (funny movie, btw) and the other two times for parties. over the last week, i've slept in ashley's car, had alot of people walk in on me, lost a game of drunken ping pong to lexi, celebrated katie's birthday, got home at 5 in the morning and realized i didn't have my house keys and so had to call the house and get my dad to open the door for me, bought new hair stuff which makes my hair smell like coconuts (john frieda's brilliant brunette hair line, yay!), had two cell phones sticking out of my skirt which alot of guys decided it would be fun to STEAL those phones away from me every few minutes, sat on a swingy thing, jumped on a trampoline, gone out without showering and wondered the whole night if i smelled really bad, had dinner with my bro and the two travis's (i heart them), watched the mtv movie awards, got my cell phone bill which is insanely crazily expensive because i went over my minutes, oh and to top it all off, managed to piss some people off unintentionally.

yes, i live for nights i'll never remember with the friends i'll never forget.

and yes, that's the fuckin quote on one of my away messages and alot of people have been using it alot lately.

it's june. aka birthday month. we gotz my dad, KT, ash, a couple aunts and even me!

i should make a birthday wishlist, hehehe.

i can't think of anything else to say except that hollister is having an end of season clearance sale, and that means, LOTSA CLOTHES!!!! so stop by the store, say hi to me and buy some clothes that have been marked down quite a fair bit! hooray!

audio:: Maroon 5's "Songs about Jane" CD, and i just happen to love the song "She will be loved". check it out.

oO Monday, June 7, 2004 at 08:58 p.m. Oo

so i saw the 12.25am showing of harry potter early thursday morning.
okay, i have to say i was a little disappointed with it because i was hoping it had stayed close to the book since it was such a well written book anyway. however i do realize that had all the details in the book been kept to, then it would have been like a 7 hour movie. so some sequences were different from the book, and they left out some parts, gave some dialogue to other characters, etc etc.

BUT. i probably didnt enjoy the movie as much as i should have since i was nitpicking all the details i wasnt happy with, which, i admit, was a mistake, because now i realize that it was a great movie overall, and it was beautifully made. i still love harry potter, and the movie was excellent (everyone should go watch it).

on saturday, ashley and i went to the salt river to go tubing!! we went with the boys, namely: busta, kalman, shaps, kessler, shumaker, and bren, plus a whole bunch of girls that i just met. it was alot of fun, and i didn't get burnt, yay! we just had a lazy ass day floating down the river, drinking and chillin out.

after that i went for dinner with my family because it was my dad's birthday. we went to the cheesecake factory, my first time there, thank you very much. it was awesome, i had the fettucini and then we ordered one of the very many types of cheesecake for dessert while my dad got a tiramisu with a complimentary birthday song. haha it was a nice dinner and he got some sweet gifts. i got him two shirts from gap, my brother got him an ottmar liebert (flamenco guitarist dude) cd, trav got him a dvd (total recall, hahaha) and the funniest bday card and my cousin snagged dad some crazy ass varieties of chocolate.
aww it was fun, i like spending time with my familia.

lexi picked me up from there and we went back to ryan kessler's, since he was having people over. ash did a kegstand, lexi was the happiest person EVER(a-lan!), the hookah was very dangerous with its falling coals, my elbow got scraped on the cool deck stuff, the house is huge, lexi and i slept in the master bedroom (unfortunately we did not have it to ourselves)and we finally crashed at 4am. or some absurd time like that. oh well, it was a good party, although we decided that we pretty much didn't really do alot and it wasn't productive or anything, except that i met quite alot of new people because lex and ash kept running off together on some new mission. lol. it was fun nevertheless.

sunday i dragged home and then to church. later we pretty much spent the day getting ready for the bbq we were having over at our house. it was like a graduation/dad's bday/ kinda thang. we had tons of food, our A/C broke so it was extremely hot in the house, we finally used the funky gazebo thang we bought for the garden and the brand new garden furniture, woohoo. as well as the tiki torches! anyway, trav cornered me, accosted me pretty much and i got thrown into the pool. i knew it was coming but i still put up a fight, which was probably quite amusing to watch. anyway. it was what i needed anyway, a nice bbq at home. ash and lex came over and we just hung out. when they left, my bro, trav, their friends and i went midnight swimming/moon tanning. then i put my brother and trav to bed and tucked em in and then sat in my room and read a book till i fell asleep.

and today i laid out some more bc i'm intent on getting a nice tan, and YES i used sunscreen so i wont die of skin cancer.

dinner's callin. and yeah, i'm staying home tonight. :)

audio:: modest mouse- "float on"

oO Thursday, June 3, 2004 at 12:12 a.m. Oo

so the glass on my car is fixed, and i have a rear windshield again, thank god.

mom and g-ma are back in san francisco, i dropped them off at the airport yesterday, and i drove my bro's car to do that, so that was quite fun, pimpin it in the accord.
dad came home from his china/taiwan trip today, its good to have him home.
my cousin is on a 3 day fishing trip with my neighbors, so everything's been pretty chill at home.
my bro has been at the office alot, selling those rims, baby. holla holla.

yes those were my family updates, lol.

um. so i was at work today, i like to work on weekdays, i've decided, because not alot of people shop then, and it's nice to just chill out and do things at my own pace. plus today i was with my cool managers so that made it better. yay!

i think i'm getting sick, and i feel like i have a fever, but i don't understand why. perhaps it is the varying temperatures in my house. downstairs is burning up because the A/C is messed up there, i think we need new filters or something like that. upstairs tres cold and i have a jacket on. oh well. i just hope i dont get sick, because that will be so damn unfortunate.

so let's see. i'm not allowed to drive my car out anymore, except for work (and school, when it comes to that time). it sucks and i hope my dad will lighten up about that sooner or later. i have no idea when i'll be allowed to drive around anymore, pretty much i'm not supposed to go to parties and sketchy areas, but i guess to work and the mall is okay. i'm not gonna push it right now anyway. i feel really bad about it though, because ash and lex have to drive me everywhere now, especially when we go out bc i have no other ride. i do appreciate the rides from them and i'm glad i don't have to ...... uh. walk everywhere. lol. thanks guys. i love you!

i watched "down with love" the other day, and i reeeeeeally liked it! haha, i wonder why i didn't see it in the cinema. i like ewan mcgregor alot, i realized. plus renee zellweger, i cannot get over her performance in chicago. that was insanely good and i love that movie. lol.

speaking of movies. i'm gonna see harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban tomorrow at midnight!!!!!!!!!!! HARDCORE HARRY POTTER FANS ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE EXCITED!!!!! hahahaha. so am i! the third book was my favorite, so i'm uber excited for this one. plus it looks all dark and different than the other two because alfonso cuaron is the brand spankin new director for this one. i heard the uniforms changed, as well as malfoy's hair, and hermione gets to punch malfoy.. ooh exciting. SIRIUS BLACK IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER so i'm stoked to see it all happen and unfold.

holy shit i sound like the biggest GEEK in the world when i get started on harry potter. ENOUGH!

i'm going to go be a hermit in my room and read my YM magazine.

muah, i love y'all!

audio:: coheed and cambria- "a favor house atlantic"