I finished watching the ryla 2004 yearbook yesterday. the slide show was sooooo sad. i almost cried. i still talk to some ryla people and all, but watchign the slide show brought back so many memories. no matter how many reunions we have, how many pictures i look at, and how many people i talk to, nothing will ever be like that one week. watching that slideshow totally brought that warm, fuzzy feeling of being surrounded by such a great group of people. And just the atmosphere was so great - Everyone wanting everyone to succeed.

i remember after it’s a wrap I was talking to brian in the car as he drove me home, and we were talking about interact, key club, and ryla - and how we've made such close friends because of those experiences. (well interact for me and key club for him). It takes years to make a couple REALLY good friends. but ryla's just like hard-core getting to know each other. Everyone just talks all the time and we really become close.

It was so cute on the slide show when they showed my brother cabin serenading us by "rowing" into the cafeteria. awwwww. I miss it. And after the slide-show it totally hit me that i'll NEVER have another experience like ryla. I already knew that before, but over the months I kinda forgot what it was like being at camp.

I’m having a major ryla withdrawl now….

HeavnOnEarth127: ryla withdrawl support group = RWSG

^-------I totally belong to that

I LOVE MY RYLA PEOPLE. YOU GUYS ROCK MY SOCKS SO MUCH =D.

i had enormous amounts of fun with my ryla/dc crew these past two days. we met at eric's house monday afternoon (on the way there we were singing “sex bomb”), some of us tried to scare people coming in the door, then we left for ikea. i love that store. so what's the first thing we do when we get to ikea? EAT. hahaha. me, paula, and bjay made this weird mix of cranberries, ketchup, salt, pepper, and gravy. me and michelle tried it then peer pressured ruthann and eric into trying it =D. then we had fun sitting and talking in different rooms, fitting six people in a shower, and playing "would you hit that" with eric, tina, rahul, brian, and anita.

then it was off to stanford mall (my first time there). so what did we do at the mall? bjay, michelle, and i did the wizard of oz dance (we have it down to an art), rahul spotted a girl from ryla, and we took pictures of laura and eric licking a poster of a topless abercrombie model (crazy DC kids).

Then we had sushi for dinner, mainly for Rahul since he had NEVER had sushi. Sheltered child. I swear to goodness – all I ever spend my money on is FOOD. There was a sushi plate called Screaming Orgasm. Funky. It took us awhile to figure out the check, but we finally got it!!! I felt so proud of us afterwards. Hahaha. After dinner, we went to Christmas tree lane. I love it. The lights are so pretty =D.

We all met up at Eric’s house afterwards, and I got an irritated phone call from my dad. He was screaming at me for reasons I could not understand. I won’t go into details cuz I could probably bitch for two pages. After ranting to Michelle, holding her cider for comfort, and many cuss words later I was feeling much better.

It ended up being Me, Laura, Ruthann, Michelle, Rahul, Eric, Carlo, Brian, and Bjay sleeping over. For the first time ever in interact/ryla history the guys outnumbered the girls. Wow. Paula stayed till about 4:30 am then she went home. That girl makes me so proud =D. I mean….bad influence! Hahaha.

So at Ruthann’s house we played ten fingers, drank excessive amounts of Capri sun, told scary stories, played twister, played uno, and just lounged around talking and laughing. there was way too much talk about tea bagging. I think I went crazy at 5 a.m. At that point I was the most wide awake I had been all night, and everything was freaking hilarious. Especially – badger, badger badger…… snaaaaaaaaake. Hahahahahahaha. Good times. We ended up sleeping at six a.m. I got about four hours of sleep. Not bad for a sleepover. It’s not possible for me to blog about everything that happened – way too much funny stuff. Besides, inside jokes are fun =D.

I love my ryla/dc people. You guys are so awesome, and you make me extremely happy =D.

I saw coyote ugly on tv a couple nights ago and now I have this strong urge to dance on a bar.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

guess what im doing now? homework. whoop-de-doo. but anyways....

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

eat lots of good food =D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS!

what have i been up to besides serving bitchy customers (see previous entry)?

monday night was fun.....i was really hyped up for some reason so i had a crazy fun time at nick's house with everyone else. I mainly stayed in nick's room on his bed with patrick, paula, danny, lu, terry, jean, and brad. we stayed far away from the disgusting brown pillow. HAHA. there was so much food that night. wow.....it was like a feast =D.

i went shopping in sf today wtih my sister - tons of fun. i hate shopping but it always ends up being fun with her. plus, i surprised myself today by being pretty damn decisive and i found the stuff i needed in like one hour. i didn't have to put myself through the torture of going to a billion stores looking for shoes. sweet.

i think i've been annoying my parents with all my guys and dolls singing. every day after dinner, without fail, i burst out in a guys and dolls song while doing chores. it makes the chores more exciting. hahahaha.

i feel grody......shower time.

I served the world’s bitchiest woman yesterday at work….

Customer: I’d like a banana split with French vanilla ice cream, caramel, and whip cream only
Me: ok
C: but I want you to scrape away the top of that French vanilla because there’s chocolate mixed in there
(I look into the ice cream tub and notice that there’s only a smudge of chocolate on the side.)
M: Yes okay I can do that
(I get a banana from the counter)
C: I don’t want that banana. It’s brown
(I understand this because there have been customers who have requested fresher bananas. The way she said it was just so rude. Plus, I would like to add that just because a banana is BRUISED does not mean that it is brown on the inside.)
C: get me another one
(I go to the backroom and bring back a fresher banana)
C: that one’s too green. If I’m gonna be paying five dollars for this I want a good banana
(she looks over the counter and into the backroom)
C: I can see more bananas back there.
M: but all the bananas back there look like this
C: Bring them out here
M: there’s about fifty of them
C: Bring out a few
(I go to the back and bring out a bundle of bananas. She picks the one she wants. I cut the banana and proceed to scoop the ice cream)
C: I want you to scoop away more of the top. It looks like it’s melting
(the ice cream was so not even soft, but I scoop away more of the top and proceed to scoop her ice cream)
C: no no no no no…..i want you to scoop away more of that top layer. I’m allergic to chocolate. I can’t have no chocolate in my ice cream. If you scoop just from the front you should be fine
M: I can do that, but the deeper I go, the more frozen it gets and it gets harder to scoop.
(I scoop the first ball of ice cream)
C: why are the scoops so small?
M: that’s just the way we make sundaes. If I make it any bigger I’d get into trouble with my boss.
(customer gives me an annoyed look and makes a “humph” sound. As I’m scooping the last one she says….)
C: drop that one back in and redo it. There’s chocolate mixed in there
(by now im seriously thinking she has eye problems)

I finally finish her sundae, she pays, and she leaves. As I’m serving the next customer he says, "I’d like two scoop of daquiri ice in a cup. (then smiling) but not that cup, the cup back there."

It was kinda funny to see him making fun of her. He was watching the whole time, felt really bad for me, and ended up giving me a dollar tip. Sweet =D

After I served him I was taking a cake order when one of the guys eating in the store asks me if he could talk to my boss. It turns out he gives her five dollars to give to me as a tip because he was watching the whole fiasco also and he felt really bad for me. He also told my boss that he thought that was the best customer service he’s ever seen. He said he thought that I handled the situation really well, and I was really polite even though the lady was absolutely horrible.

So I served a totally rude woman and ended up getting six dollars in tips from other customers. Woot =D. Plus it made me really happy that the customer talked to my boss about my good customer service. Now she knows im a good worker and all. Cool.

I realized afterwards that while I was serving the lady the entire store was strangely quiet. The place was PACKED full of people but for some reason barely anyone was talking and I could feel a lot of eyes watching us. HAHA.

Picked my sister up from the airport today. We’re spending the day in SF tomorrow. Should be enormous amounts of fun.

my voice is shot. what a great time to lose my voice.......in the middle of rehearsing for the school musical. great timing. i started off with a sore throat. then i got a cough. and throughout all that i was singing and dancing at rehearsals. and on friday i sang like allllll day after school. first voice rehearsals then off to reconciliation at irvington to sing praise songs.

wow...reconciliation night was pretty freaking awesome. the speaker was really great. i seriously felt that everything he was saying was directed at me. all the questions he posed were all questions that i've had. and he provided me with answers which was awesome. i could totally related to all of his personal experiences that he shared. and he really made me think. i felt that God was talking DIRECTLY to ME through him. that night just totally brought me out of my self-absorbed life. i'm so happy i went =D.

then on saturday i was out from 10am to 3am. first the clothing drive which i think was pretty damn successful. and from what paula said, american and fremont christian were successful also. aw, i'm so proud of her for organizing this whole thing. what a spiffy area rep =D. then we had an officers meeting for like three hours. when everyone finally left at four o'clock michelle, paula, and I were FRANTICALLY running around the house trying to get ready for it's a wrap. it was CRAZY. we had to get dressed, do hair, do makeup, print directions, duct tape michelle, and bake cookies, all while three freaking phones were going off every five minutes. first paula's house phone rings cuz willis doesnt' have a ride, then her cell rings cuz fatemeh needs directions, then my phone rings cuz eric needs directions. and when we finally hang up, all the phones start ringing again. holy crap.......i was about to throw my phone in the toilet. i wish someone video taped us. it was pretty freaking hilarious.

then we left with ruthann for a potluck at tina's house. i guess since i was so busy that day i didn't notice that my voice was getting progressively worse until laura says, "what happened to your voice?" potluck was fun - tina makes excellent pizza, rahul gets turned on by my sexy voice ("could you stop talking cuz im about to jump on you." HAHA), tickling while taking pictures, getting hand massages from carlo, and getting high on sugar (well that was just me).

the dance was soooooooo awesome. only six people from SS Ryla were there, but it was still heck of fun. the dance was not even ryla rated. compared to whs dances, it wasn't DIRTY but it definitely wasn't ryla-rated. at one point there was this looooong freak train. it got really hot and sweaty. HAHA. i won a bottle of apple cider but that doesn't even compare to all the my little pony stuff that kevin won. hahahahaha. i got lots of compliments on my "look" (as eric calls it). i had some people tell me my outfit was like britney spears and other people tell me it was like michael jackson. funky. i just got the idea from our marathon dance.

so after the dance, it tooks us DAYS to figure out what we were doing. We finally went to donut wheel, played ten fingers, had trouble figuring out rides, almost decided on a sleepover at brian’s house with eric, me, michelle, and paula but parents got in the way of that idea, and just plain fun talking. While me and jp were talking in rahul’s car, eric and rahul started shaking the car from the back. HAHA. Some people are so dirty. Paula was all like, “I can’t believe these guys are our friends.”

After that it was back to Fremont. Didn’t get to hang with eric and brian in palo alto and see Christmas tree lane or go into the hills to see the view – too many ride problems. Damn it sucks being a pedestrian. But I had nice talk with brian in the car on the way back. I seriously could just sit in a car with a friend and talk for hours. We met up with paula and eric at paula’s house and talked in her living room for almost an hour….

Me: It's wierd how you guys [Eric and Brian] are both shaking your legs at the same time
Eric: It's leg masturbation
JP: Yeah it's supposed to make yourself feel better
Brian: No it doesn't... (stops shaking his leg) Wait... you're right. Now I feel kinda... empty.

That carried on for awhile. They tried shaking their whole bodies….but it didn’t produce the same affect. hahaha.

Finally got home and went to bed at 3am. It was a good night =D.

this is what i do when i should be doing homework

You Are the Peacemaker

9 You are emotionally stable and willing to find common ground with others. Your friends and family often look to you to be the mediator when there is conflict. You are easy going and accepting. You take things as they come. Avoding conflict at all costs, you're content when things are calm.

What number are you?

Your Dominant Intelligence is Interpersonal Intelligence

http://www.quizdiva.net/bt/interpersonal.jpg">>You shine in your ability to realate to and understand others.Good at seeing others' conflict. You would make a good counselor, salesperson, politician, or business person.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

man, i don't feel like doing ANYthing. i don't think it's senioritis; it's more like break-itis cuz i just started feeling this way this week. break is TWO days away. ahhhhhhh. yesterday at ten i had to do my english hw and study for anatomy still. so what did i do? go on aim. HAHA. i'm such a loser.

i have a sore throat and a cankersore on the bottom of my tongue. what's up with that.

i've gotten into a reeeealllly bad habit of cussing. i used to majorly cuss when i was mad or when i saw a bajillion ants in my house. but now it's like part of my every day language.

freaking A.....i have to memorize about 100 formulas for Calculus. that's insane. im a human not an effing machine.

i'm so excited for It's a Wrap. if only i had a ride home. currently, it looks like i'll be stranded in cupertino. the streets can't be too bad.....

what a busy weekend. (this is a long entry...)

Rotary Christmas Celebration
on friday laura and I went to past rotary international president mr.king's house for an annual rotary christmas celebration. holy crap....his house is gorgeous. not only is it big, but everything is decorated and furnished so nicely it feels as if you've walked into a house straight out of Sunset magazine or a Martha Stewart magazine (in her pre-jail days). it feels so homey. Laura and I were looking at his pictures and since he used to be a performer in las vegas he's known all these famous people. We saw autographed pictures from people like Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis. WOW. we basically ate and sang christmas carols for almost three hours....

DC Meeting
DC meeting went well. I felt very productive - got a lot covered despite the four absent people. humph. afterwards laura, rahul, eric, tina, and I went out to lunch at quiznos. we made way too many u-turns cuz rahul had no idea where the heck we were going. we turned into this parkway that wasn't a parking lot. it just looked like parking, and since there were four cars, eric's car was half in the street for like four minutes. laura couldn't make a u-turn and rahul was right behind her so he had to reverse right at the intersection. HAHA. lunch was fun, aside from when rahul told me not to eat too much or else i would be fat that night for winterball. i probably deserved it....i think i made fun of his face.

i went straight to work after lunching with DC friends and oh man i was soooo tired when i got home. i didn't feel like getting pretty or anything. so what did i do? i took a nap then went on aim =D. well i got ready for wb in a record breaking time.....15 minutes i think. woot.

Winterball
the pre-party at ash's house was cool. there was me, ash, mayur, susan, marty, deto, vanessa, rahul, eric, brian, michelle, paula, steven, nick, chen, jenn, wendy, carlo, and ruthann. we took tons of pictures in front of the christmas tree. ash kept on fondling on my head so my hair probably looked like i just got out of bed in all the pictures. everyone looked soooo gorgeous/pretty/handsome. rahul got me a really pretty white corsage that is sitting in ash's bathroom right now cuz i forgot after we went to her house when wb was over.

i had a lot of fun at the dance. rahul had all these crazy dance moves. hahaha. they played a few rock songs which was nice cuz in all the dances i've been to no dj has EVER played rock. brent walsh tried crowd surfing, but it didn't work. and holy crap, a fight almost broke out between amy jensen and brittany haffer. i'm thinking - oh my goodness people.....this is freaking winterball. take care of your drama somewhere else.

i have to mention perry's white suit. aw, he looked so spiffy in it =D.
all the juniors were getting heeecka freaky. duc was like all OVER this one girl....
lots of people making out on the dance floor as eric pointed out. hahaha....eh, notthing new at our dances.

as usual, after the dance coat check was a mess. i cut about 50 people (shhh), someone grabbed my ass, and i got called a bitch by crystal leinweber (sp?). i would've told her to shut the f---- up, but she has this tendency to get into fights, and i kinda like my face the way it is so i didn't say anything.

then after the dance we met up at ashleys. it took awhile for eric, paula, michelle, and brian to get there cuz this one crazy dude kept on following eric's car, and he wouldn't let them pass. freaky.

we finally decided to go to in-and-out in union city. i think brian and i spent more time in the car than in the restaurant. it was soo freaking cold outside that we didnt' wanna leave the car. Ruthann told me today that inside they were all making jokes that we were having sex and fogging up the windows. Wth is that….people are hecka weird.

all in all Winterball was great fun. fun pre-party, fun dance, and fun after-party. i'm so happy that so many of my friends went =D. it's just sad to think this was my last winterball.....but there's still sadies (which me and anita were talking about getting hecka DC people to go to) and of course senior ball.

College Interview
When I got home and went to bed it was 2:00, and I woke up at 7:50 for a college interview. talk about sleep deprivation. I thought the interview went really well. I was under the impression it would be done by a couple admissions officers and not alumni. And the types of interviews with admissions officers are a lot more formal and they have trickier questions, so after WB Brian was doing a mock interview with me cuz I was having major spasms. It turns out the interview was with an alumnus, so it was really casual.

And now I must do the homework I haven’t touched at all this weekend.

Jeffrey Akira Fudenna gave me some very cool advice today.

i was feeling a little stressed cuz i'm heeeecka busy this week, and freaking calculus is like raping me. and jeff being the sensitive soul he is, called me a dumbass and said, "stress is such a waste of time." and what he said, actually made sense.

stress is just the product of worrying about stuff that's gonna happen - or stuff that might happen if you do this and don't do that. all this shit i was telling him about.....i have to do anyways. i mean it's gonna come and i'm gonna deal with it cuz that's what you do when stuff comes. you deal with it. so basically i was stressing about stuff i had to do. it would be more productive to NOT stress, NOT worry, and just DO it. don't think about it and take the plunge. i was annoyed cuz i was at work and not at home studying for government, doing calculus, writing my college essays, writing my gov't essays, blah blah blah. and the more i thought about it the more flustered i became. so he told me to just do it. it sounds so simple, but when you're stressed you don't think simply. it's like you go out of your way to make things complicated.

so i had some good laughs with jeff tonight and left work in a happier mood than i had been in when i got there. that's the nice thing about working with jeff - i always get a laugh. he's such a goofball.

i have all this crap do do this weekend. i have a government test tomorrow. rehearsals are gonna get hectic. but it's ok. because stressing about it is just gonna waste my time.

the fog is thick tonight. kinda nice actually.

i got nominated for "Most Fun/Sociable" for senior favorites. HAHA. so not expecting that. i wasn't one of those people that "campaigned" to be a senior favorite, so it was a surprise. but it's nice cuz i like surprises =D.

i hope i don't die by sunday. this week is too hectic for me

thursday: work from 6:30pm-10pm
friday: rehearsal from 2:45pm-6:00pm
friday: rotary christmas celebration from 7:30pm-?
saturday: DC meeting from 9am-12
saturday: work from 2pm-4
saturday: winterball from 6:30pm-11 (or 12 or 1)
sunday: college interview from 9:30am-?

oh man.....someone shoot me now.

i had my first college interview yesterday. it was with a Claremont McKenna alumni. He was a little late coming to the interview so I called Ruthann to fill the time. when i told her that my interviewer was 25 she said, "oooh...i bet he's hot." i totally didn't believe her because it was a COLLEGE INTERVIEW. the last thing on my mind was whether or not my interviewer would be hot. And lo and behold when he shows up and shakes my hand im thinking in my head, “dammit Ruthann, you’re right. He’s hecka cute.” HAHA.

Had had nice style also – this might be just for me personally, but I think it’s so hot when guys wear the express-type faded jeans and a button up dress shirt.

The fact that he was really good-looking didn’t take away from the interview though. He was easy to talk to and had a good sense of humor so it wasn’t like a cutthroat, stressful experience.

I have to say he had a really nice smile. Whenever he smiled while he was talking I thought to myself, “Wow…that is a really gorgeous smile.” And then I thought about what Ruthann would say if she saw him and I had to smile also. Thank God he wasn’t saying anything like, “my mom died so it made my college experience hard,” cuz then it would’ve made me look like an inconsiderate jackhole.

One thing I really respected and appreciated about him (and no it wasn’t his outfit) was that he looked me in the eye while we were talking. I can’t stand it when I’m talking to people and they look everywhere except AT ME. It’s really annoying. Whenever I’m having a conversation I look directly in the person’s eyes. And this guy had such a steady gaze that I had to look away sometimes cuz it got unnerving. HAHA.

Overall, i think the interview went excellently well. We were in a coffee shop in San Francisco, so it was a really nice, relaxed atmosphere. and like any interview, afterwards I kept beating myself up (not literally) about all the stuff i could've said but didn't say. it's so hard to think on the spot. like when he asked me what my favorite country artist was, i couldn't even think of it. hahaha. i guess that might be cuz i don't really have one. but even when he asked me why i didn't like president bush i totally forgot to mention how i disagreed with changing the Constitution and not joining the Kyoto pact. grrrr. all i focused on was the war on terrorism having nothing to do with sadaam hussein and all that junk. oh and at one point i sat cross-legged.....i don't know if that made a good impression or not. haha. it's a habit.

i submitted part 1 of my Northwestern application. I'm so proud of myself for clicking the purple button. WOOT =D.

i am officially a crap shooter..........


........for Guys and Dolls.


i'm excited. it turns out that Ballin feels there's a lot of talent so he's not gonna cut anyone from the callbacks. and even if he did cut people, only 5-7 people would end up being cut....and that would be really weird and depressing for them.

hm, i guess my audition wasn't as crappy as i thought.

i get to gamble, dance, and sing at the same time. this is gonna be sweet =D.

i had a bad audition. i don't wanna go into details. i'm going to do my homework now.