[truth][adolescence-apocalypse]

Saturday, December 17, 2005
Never underestimate the power of little choices you make everyday; take a chance, the worst that can happen is failure. Failure is nothing more than a momentary hurdle in a long series on the road to success. As the saying goes: 'Success if often little more than an opportunity to fail at greater and greater things'.
-Charles Ross, One Man Star Wars Trilogy

how can you not RESIST this man? he's quick witted, HILARIOUS, dedicated, AND determined! sigh, words cannot describe how much i love him soo much now...though grace is convinced that she has met her 'soul mate'.

but let's start at the beginning...gracey ben and i meet at the bus stop, with ben wearing, of course, his star wars shirt and his cool blue shades. all three of us giggling like crazy, excited that we were finally going to see charles ross.
the bus ride there, we amused ourselves with 'tunak tunak', and michael jackson's 'thriller'. i mean, daler mehndi's brilliant, and who can't resist watching michael jackson's zombie breakdance? lolz.

so after arriving at new york, and getting momentarily lost at the bus station, we go out and skidaddle to TOYS R US, in search of presents to give our peeps. problem was, since it's the holiday season, at least 78453431 parents and children were there as well. how us three managed to push through the crowd, i'm still trying to figure out.
of course, ben lead us to the star wars section, determined to steal the huge darth vader mask to hang on his ceiling. that's when my eye caught to a spud stormtrooper. you know how they have darth taters out? [pictures in some of my earlier xanga entries], well we assumed since that sold REAL well, the potatohead company decided to make a potato storm trooper. tee hee...i'll post up pics of him later.
so after toysrus, and after visiting lamb's theater, we ate applebees for lunch, while reminiscing about old cartoon shows, laughing about whale explosions, grandmother smacks, and adrien brody's nose.

after a lil bit of more shopping...the time had finally arrived: the show of the one man star wars.
and we thought that it would be just US THREE in that small theater...ha, it was jam-packed with star wars geeks. gracey and i were eagerly looking around the crowd, in hopes that we might find ben's future wife [this is becuz our science teachers met, fell in love, and got married while at a convention, so we figured that ben would find his future wife at a star wars convention, but the charles ross performance was close enough], but all the girls were either ten years younger, or with their boyfriend. awww...maybe next time.

as predicted, charles ross was absolutey HILARIOUS, from his sinister imitation of palpatine, to kicking the sand in frustration [luke skywalker, IV], from twirling around the stage to imitate darths ship which han fired at [VI], to imitating darth's SSSSSSIIIISSSSSTTTEEEERRRRR...oh gosh, it's all coming back in a blur! this momentous occasion all occured in ONE HOUR! HE COMBINED ALL THREE! with NO intermission, except only when he ended an episode, and took a quick sip. i mean...the man's a GENIUS! BRILLIANT! @_@

if only he stayed out and hung around...but NO, he just left! sigh. well, for running around and speaking for one whole hour, i wouldn't be suprised if he just collapsed on a bed offstage and took a nap...
his last performance is on december 31st people...ALL YOU STAR WARS GEEKS! I URGE URGE YOU TO SEE HIM! he'll make you pee in ur pants! pwahahaha

if he ever comes back to new york for his one man lord of the rings...ben, grace and i will be first in line for tickets...^_~

Friday, December 16, 2005
hey it's moi...it's been quite awhile since i've updated. sorry.
so it has been eleven days, and eighteen still hasn't hit me. i still feel like the dork i always was. actually, i could've used my eighteen skillz to vote for our towns referendum, but no...i was too lazy to register.

ha oh gosh.

so in case u didn't know yet, i got REJECTED from NYU. *gasp* yes, i was upset and cranky, but in the end...it may sound crazy, but i praise god, that i didn't like, crawl into a desolate corner and cry my heart out. i mean, for months i DID NOT pray and pray that i'd get into NYU, but rather, that i FIND the right college that will help me mold into the person GOD wants me to be. so i don't make NYU? then GOD knows that i won't be molded best there. HA! praise god...he knows what's best.
so now what's next for me? well, i'll strive for NYIT. maybe i am destined to work for disney ^_~ GOD will make a way.

hmm...wat else has gone on? oh yeah! emiliana has returned! she and her baby, MARIA EDUARDA! maria's only a few months old, and bears a strong resemblence to her father: white skin, blue eyes...like a brazilian aryan. she, my family, along with my other local-area relatives went out to a japanese restaurant in celebration of my aunt's birthday, so monika and i played with maria the whole time. sigh. i love babies. if i ever have any, i'd eat them right up XD.

i haven't eaten in a japanese restaurant in a LONG TIME, so i was soo excited when our chef came and performed some crazy culinary skills in front of the grill surrounding our table. our chef happened to be a bit psycho...he always barked, lit a stack of onions with his cellphone [yes, cellphone], and claimed that his name was spiderman. >< towards the end, he specially greeted my aunt a happy birthday by squirting her with water from 'the hot springs of japan'. worse of all, he then threatened to spray with me with a soy sauce bottle. sigh, if i wasn't holding maria, i would've SO chucked my leftover wasabi at him. jk jk.
man...if i have a graduation party...i SO wanna have my dinner at that restaurant. maybe i'll specially request spiderman to do my cooking once more.

sooo....what's up for me tomorrow??? wwweeelll...

that's right, me, ben, and gracey are gonna see charles ross, i very energetic man who has seen the star wars trilogy [literally] 400 times, and will re-enact every star wars scene, INCLUDING him imitating the music and sound effects, all in one FREAKIN hour. now...how the HECK IS HE gonna combine a six hour saga into one hour? well, that's what i paid fifty bucks to find out. not to mention that i am going to die of laughter.

that's all for now folks. peace out fo' shizzle yo.
hmm...i wonder if nat ever got my 'gizoogle' message...

Monday, December 5, 2005
sigh. my friends. my cherished friends. how the heck am i gonna go on without you guys! you are all there for me even if i feel like the biggest loser. i love you all from the bottom of my heart!

jessi, i can't thank you enough for my scalding lake shirt, it's got the lake all steaming and stuff. and thank you soo...soo much for ur mom and dad, that they didn't mind me crying to them at four in the morning, yet they still offered comfort. you know u rock my world and i'm never NEVER gonna leave you. you're too much a part of me dude...fo'shizzle and drizzle and all...

to lucy, mikey and ben. AAAHHH! mikey's so happy that i'm now as old as him [though he'll forever be known as the 'old one']. looosey my seafood lover, and ben...well, i love u for just being ur silly self. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE STAR WARS TRILOGY! it's all shiny and stuff, and i finally have something to watch if there's a snow day tomorrow! XD

for lucy, gracey, shelly and heather. WE GATHERED AROUND THE STOVE FIRE AND TOASTED MARSHMALLOWS! nothing can get funkier than that in the winter. you guys are all my heroes and i love you guys endlessly.

to gracey: MARK! ROGER! KYOU! ANGEL! AKIO! SHIGURE! FUU! MUGEN {LOLZ!!!}! JIN!you always know how to keep a smile on my face. AVENUE Q ROCKS...and will keep me laughing until the end of time.

i praise god to blessed with friends and family who love me for who i am, and i can't ask for anything more. I DONT' CARE I SOUND CORNY! IT'S SOO THE TRUTH YA'LL!

<3<3<3

Monday, December 5, 2005
aww...look at thelittle figurines mom gave me:

so before i mention those lil figurines....i just wanna say...HAPPY BELATED BDAY TO MY DEAR MICHELLE KIM! YOU MAY BE EIGHTEEN, BUT YOU'RE STILL A LIL TEN YEAR OLD AT HEART!

tee hee. on saturday, after the SAT II's, which i found suprisingly easy, i was able to join michelle's birthday pawtay, as me, gracey, shelly, heather and i went to the movies. we were all supposed to see pride and prejudice, but noooo, our dear silly shelly welly held us up, so we missed p & p by about twenty five minutes. tsk too bad, i wanted to drool over darcy again.

well it wasn't a total loss...cuz 'rent' happened to be playing around the same time! we were only ten minutes late, so we didn't miss much. gosh it was such an amazing movie...all the characters were awesome! including maureen...GRACE. i mean, how would u not resist idina menzel pretending to suck milk from a cow's udder: 'come on people...MOOOO!!!'. taye diggs was hot, roger was not too shabby, mimi had an amazing voice, and mark needs a girlfriend ^_^. sigh, it's such a beautiful bohemian story. i cried when [SPOILERS!] angel died, and when roger was singing 'in ur eyes' to the "dying" mimi. *swoons*
according to michelle, it was sooo realistic: "did angel really die?...i thought this was a documentary!" yes michelle, and all those people who were in the backround, just HAPPENED to know wat song the main characters were singing, and decided to dance along, with an invisible orchestra playing as well. XD i love you.

after that movie, gracey, michelle and i traveled to a korean restaurant, and enjoyed ourselves to some nice fried dumpings, some kind of meat, and soon...dobu? {plz correct me}. people of the world, if you have never tried korean food, i urge you to. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSING! not only is the food there absolutely AMAZING, but i continued to master my chopstick skills [yes i dunno how to use chopsticks...i'm a FLIP, and we don't use CHOPSTICKS K? PWAH]. the funny part of that meal was that the waiter misinterpreted our order, thinking we wanted THREE of that roasted pork [SORRY! I FORGOT WAT THAT MEAL IS CALLED] dish, and already created three of that dish. we only wanted one, but since the cook made three, we were obligated to pay. gracey michelle and i were stunned...that's THIRTY MORE DOLLARS. oh THANK GOD that customers appeared and ordered TWO of that same dish. we finally breathed again.

aaah...so after we had frozen yogurt, we drove home, and i rested until i hadda go to work. louise dropped me off a present of some hollister clothing...awwww i was touched.

the next day...sunday...mom dad and tita rosa were busy cooking (and ordering) all of my favorites. the cake was filled with strawberries and decorated with the star wars figurines [see above picture]. my mom also brought a smiley face balloon, and a balloon with snow white's grumpy, grimacing and saying: old and grumpy...SO WAT!, with the balloon decorated with all the cursing signs, such as !!#%@%!@%# ha ha. that's wat she thinks of me. i should've taken therese's advice and gave it to benj.

okay enough is said, it's past twelve, and i needa finish stupid homework.

wait...IT'S PAST TWELVE....??? OH MY GOSH!

Sunday, November 27, 2005
alright folks. my birthday/christmas list is pooosstteeed on my catalog...and don't u DARE IM ME and ask where the CATALOG IS! we've been through this already people! DX

i already yelled at one person:
jessi: where's catalog?
me: GGGAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Friday, November 25, 2005
HAPPY BELATED TURKEY DAY TO EVERYONE! hopefully your stomaches were filled to the top with delicious turkey meat, even-more delicious stuffing, and gravy. mine was, but i must add that my stomach was also filled with pasta and chinese food. bryan came back and throughout dinner, i kept questioning him about college and how i'm never gonna make NYU ><.
eating at my aunt's house is the fun part. the boring part is after the eating, when all the adults gather around and converse about gossip or reminisce about their childhood...so me, monika, and bryan lazily watched several movies and an hour of 'whose line is it anyway'. then about twelve, we all left, and i then once i was back home i slept like a....um...monkey. o_o

the day after thanksgiving: just about every girl's favorite day. ^_~
man i have like, the best birth-date; the day after thanksgiving i go on a major shopping spree, and then ten days later i am showered with more gifts, and spend the next twenty days shopping for others, then on the twentyfifth, i get more even more stuff. [ha ha, december five is STILL far from christmas, so you CAN'T say give me gift and say that it's for bday and christmas XP] by the time these merry shopping days are over, my room's gonna be so crowded that the floor's gonna collapse ><.

so after spending a lil over a hundred bucks, monika, my parents and i watched harry potter; this is the second time for me since i saw it two days ago with my fellow c-hall friends. sorry for all u people that thought the movie was great, but, since i've read that book a hundred dozen times, i find that movie quite dissapointing; but i enjoyed the movie more when seeing it a second time[spoiler warning!], maybe it's cuz i noticed that in some scenes, mad-eye flickered his tongue, signifying that he's barty crouch...or maybe it's cuz i didn't have ben by my side to tell me that karkaroff bears a strong resemblance to osama bin laden...

now i wanna see rent. i just bought the movie soundtrack and the music's just amazing, though i'm mad that idina menzel (<3 <3 <3) is only on one song. hopefully i can watch it tomorrow, when all my friends come back from new york ><

Wednesday, November 23, 2005
production graphics field trip day....was yesterday. we went to new hope PA, a lil town filled with antiques, witchcraft, and rare medieval merchandise even i can't afford. oh well.

one of the millions of pictures i took out in the cold...but if u look closely...u can see nardonie and gracey!

HALF DAY TODAY! ACK ><

Friday, November 18, 2005
besides the disgusting substitute for jello in the wrestling rink, mashed potatoes mixed with 'tang', looking AND smelling like vomit [thank god we were the fourth match]...JELLO WRESTLING WAS ALL OUT AMAZING!
now before i collapse on this computer desk of exhaustion, let's see how much i can recall...

so obviously, michelle and i grouped together and called our team 'the burninators', after the beloved beefy-armed trogdor. lind was chosen as our manager.
versing us was gracey and loosey, calling themselves 'the gothic snowmen', and claiming that they'll FREEZE our FIRE over. pwah, according to the pokemon rule of which element defeats what...gracey and loosey's CLAIM would never happen...

so being the ap studio artists we are....michelle and i , over the course of this week, created niice trogdor shirts; lind's had trogdor [beefy arm and wings and all] with cross bones, while michelle and i had trogdor with fire surrounding him.

when the day of jello wrestling arrived [today], lind and miche came over, and miche decided to munch on my food-for-my-beloved-freeloaders (^_^) while mike spiked his hair up. [we all planned to dye our hair red, to accentuate trogdor's BURNINATION]. being the dye-ing expert i am, i eagerly sprayed lind's hair...mike couldn't help but be tickled from the whole process. once i was done...lind was so amused to the point that if anything came in contact with his spiked up red hair [with him being tall, and the ceiling of our basement being not soo tall], mike would freak out.

then miche and i had our hair sprayed [our heads combined makes up around four heads, and our two dye cans were easily used up], then we polished our nails green, as WELL AS MIKES [to unleash his inner feminine self], then we all set out for our highschool.

lucy and gracey's costumes consisted of a black shirt with a snowman drawing [kudos to nardonie], their black cloaks, and an actual gothic snowman. ^_^. all the participants had awesome costumes: horowitz and weber wore tight white shirts with angel wings and a halo, dan and jorge had darth vader masks and light sabers, the donelley's had tight white shirts and bright green shorts and suspenders to represent irish pride, the list goes on....

so the time came when the wrestlers and managers, were to line up in the auxilary gym, and then make a dramatic entrance into the main gym. even though us four were excited, our hearts were pounding with nervousness. we eagerly watched as the first three groups climbed into the ring, and just pushed each other down, pinning and drowning in that disgusting orange liquid, splattering everywhere, while hysterically laughing. then it was our turn to go. i was the first one to step into that nasty liquid, and dragged michelle with me on the right side of the rink, with my opponent, lucy, right on the other side. mr. quiles, the announcer, shouted for us to go, our theme song began to play, and lucy and i just ran and SMACKED against each other! both tumbling into the "jello".
i didn't have time to quickly glance at michelle and gracey wrestle, i was too busy being pinned down by lucy, and then swinging over behind her and slamming her down. the "jello" arena was extremely slippery, so whenever i stood up and hit lucy, we'd automatically fall right back down again. HA HA. finally our time was up...and THE BURNINATORS WON! thanks to michelle's wrestling skills.

now that the fun jello wrestling part was done, here comes the disgusting aftermath...washing off all that throw up substance out of our bodies. we all climbed down the slippery stairs, and were guided into the changing rooms. mr. carey was monitoring the rooms, and i greeted him happily. mr. carey grimaced, since i wreaked of that stupid foul stench, and pointed to the shower room. ha ha...since my hair was dyed red, when i went under the shower, it looked like i was severely bleeding. even when i walked into the locker room to change, one of the other girls stared at me and shouted 'oh my god! are you alright???'

lucy, gracey, miche and i changed, but we still smelled awful. we all decided that us wrestlers and managers will go out to TGIFridays for a lil...celebration. geoff [the gothic snowmen manager]wasn't allowed, so it was us five ladies....and mike.
words can't explain how funny our night was, even though us wrestlers were butt tired. i was convinced that lind had a 'community service card', lucy and i together sliced a shrimp, and lind tried to hook up with our waitress, which includes him leaving a fake name and fake phone number for the waitress to call...

sigh. this all happened in a blur...and i am SOOO tired. tomorrow i'll take a shower, and then i'll be off to columbia!!! ><