Who’s the Doctor?
Doctor Who was on the Scyfy channel today this morning! I had a bloody good time watching it; almost 5 straight hours of it!
That has got to be the the best TV watching I have done this summer (or for a very long time ever since I found out about House, I think). It was all the best episodes (or at least the episodes I haven’t seen and were recommended by my friends =P).
I wish I have BBC channel now…. I hate that bloody site because I can’t watch any videos on there since I don’t live in Britain. =_______=
I wanna watch G.I. Joe when it comes out! Sad thing is I haven’t even watched Public Enemies, even though it’s been my obsession since last year when I found out about it. Very, very sad. Anyways, Channing Tatum is hot in this new movie so I wanna watch it. Plus I just found out two days ago that the Korean actor my mom used to sort-of-like, Lee Byung Hun, is going to act as Storm Shadow in the movie–though he has a mask on that covers everything except his eyes (at least you can tell he’s Asian). Amazing~ It’s hard for Asian stars to landa role in Hollywood movies, especially one so well anticipated. I’m happy for that. =)
Have you ever liked someone for a really long time, and you figure that that someone probably knows you like him/her, and then you guys get to know each other more and talk. Then he/she goes off and gets a girl/boyfriend in front of your eyes? And now everytime you look at him/her, you just think of all the possibilities that could’ve been and all the “What if’s….” Doesn’t it just bloody suck?
Bloody Hell
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is one piece of failure. Especially when you go with someone who likes you but you don’t like him back.
I spent $8.75 on that damned movie ticket and a whole afternoon putting up with crap Friday. That’s enough to make me pissed all weekend (and I am).
I need to start typing out my English summer homework. I finished my books, but I stopped completely right after that (I still need to reread the first 50 pages of Brave New World.) My goal is to finish before August, and I’m going to abide by that. (By typing it out I hope to actually fulfill it.) Hopefully, I won’t forget a lot of the stuff I read.
I rewatched Death at a Funeral today because it’s such a great movie that deserves more love than Harry Potter the 6th…. Matthew Macfadyen is freakin’ hilarious in there (loved the part where he looked like he was about to burst out crying xD). I didn’t know they had that DVD at our library (I must search in that section next time, Michelle!).
Young & Sweet, Only Seventeen
It’s almost been a week since I turned 17! I’m aging so fast it’s ridiculous.
I had a small friends “gathering” last Wednesday. Hence “gathering” because it was kind of last minute. I invited some of my female friends over to chat and swim in the afternoon. (Only Rui, Melissa, Joanna, and me ended up swimming. Lol.) I got a lot of neat presents (THANK YOU GUYS!) and I’ve been wearing them this week. =) Well, Rhenchie came first to my house. She said she couldn’t come the previous day, but then she called me an hour before my gathering and told me she could come (I was kind of confused). Then Michelle and Mindy came, then Catherine. A little later, Rui and Melissa came (they rode their bikes and kind of got lost on the way to my house so they called me). Sakshi came later with a whole bouquet in her hands, and Joanna came last.
I told Michelle to bring the Pride & Prejudice movie so we could watch it, but it ended up that Catherine bought the DVD for my birthday present, so then we all watched the DVD. It’s extremely fun watching a movie with your friends cause then you can comment on everything in there. What was supposed to be a romantic story turned out hilarious under our remarks, but I have to say, God is that movie ecstasy or what? (I already watched the whole two-hour movie 3 times already, and if you check my Youtube account there’re a whole section or Pride & Prejudice MVs.)
I’m in love! Mr. Darcy is so hot that I doubt any women in their right senses would reject him. Matthew Macfayden is my current obsession, and I shall rant about him later on in my post.
Now… back to my party. I mean, gathering. We finished the movie at around 5-ish in the afternoon, so some of us went swimming afterwards. I guess they weren’t used the temperature of our pool, since they were all screaming bloody murder (too much Brit stuff) when they went in; it was actually amazing our pool could reach 78 degrees F without heating it. Lol. We played in the pool while everyone else watched–it was kind of awkward–and afterwards they got annoyed with my shooting water at them and their feet hurt from stepping barefoot on the stone ground, so they went in. Sakshi left first when we were still in the pool, and when Michelle and Mindy announced they had to go, I couldn’t let that happen.
We came out of the pool and my mom took the birthday cake outside since we were still dripping wet. It was a strawberry boston cake or something that we bought from Safeway. Haha. I made my wish and proceeded to cake Michelle with my surprise whipped cream M&M’s sprinkles Hershey’s chocolate drizzled pie, but she was too fast for me and I got it all over her shirt and new dress. (Sorry, Michelle! If I had moved faster, I could’ve gotten it all on your face. >< Still, sorry about that. I hope your clothes are okay….) Then she rubbed a whole bunch of cream on my face (I could still smell it even after I took a shower) and rubbed one of the huge strawberries off the cake in my hair. (I’m never trying pie-ing again if that was the consequences.) We both ended up pretty messy and had to clean ourselves up before we could eat the cake. Everyone else’s expression was –> O_O OMFG BBQ!!!
Anyways, I was kind of scared that Michelle would cake me unknowingly later on, so I had to keep my eyes on her. xD They had to leave right after before I was going to go have dinner at PJ’s with my family later on, so we hugged and they left. I took a quick shower cause I was wet and had cake all over my face and hair. Then we drove to PJ’s, and since my dad got there first from work, we already had a table. I love that place because the food is nice, the whole atmosphere feels good, and they have free Pazookies (or something) if it was your birthday. I wore Mindy’s present, a bright cyan colored hat, inside the restaurant, and everyone stared. When my family was singing Happy Birthday, everyone stared even more. I found myself enjoying the attention and raised eyebrow.
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Matthew Macfadyen is ohmyfreakingawdsmexybeyondbeliefheistheguyiwannahugncuddlewithalldaylong. You didn’t get anything I said. Even I don’t know what I said looking back at that. When I first saw him as Mr. Darcy in one of the fan-videos Michelle showed me, I thought he was all right. Later when I saw the whole Pride & Prejudice movie, he definately grew on me. I went to his website Darcylicious to search for more pictures, and I didn’t think he was that good-looking outside his “1700’s wealthy gentleman with an inferiority complex but very romantic nevertheless.” Then I found out he was in Maybe, Baby with Hugh Laurie, so I took a look at the trailer and I loved his “hot-tempered, every other word is a cuss word boss” role. (It’s hilarious how Hugh Laurie, Matthew Macfadyen, and Tom Hollander all starr in it. It’s like House vs. Darcy vs. Collins!)
Even though he’s not those sharp, good-looking, handsome guys you say is “cute” when you first lay your eyes on him, but he grows on you quite nicely. Now I just want to hug him to death and cuddle with him all day long. And his voice? Ear-orgasm. God if he could sing he could face off with Josh Groban (I heard “When You Say You Love Me” and “You Are Loved” the other day, and I say “YES! I know why Michelle gets high off his voice now!” xD)
I am a horribly obsessed fangirl. Have you seen Spooks on BBC? Doing that now.
I miss the little kiddies…
The Monday after we came back from camping, Wisdom’s Summer Culture Camp that was held in San Jose began. I volunteered to be a TA again (my third year!) and ended up in Class Dumpling, which consists of 3rd/4th graders. I was supposed to be an Office TA, but then the people there called me and asked me if I wanted to switch, and since I like hanging out with little kids so much, I agreed.
They turned out to be little hellions. (I know I’ve repeated this phrase a gazillion times)
They were more like that most of the time than little angels (one of the boys wasn’t even that tiny seeing how he was almost my height and was only going into 4th grade O_o). Those were crazy tiring five days. We TAs had to arrive at camp by 7:30 am the first day, and from then onwards at 8 am for the rest of the week. We stayed there until 6:30 pm every day, since we have an hour of TA meeting after every day. That means we spend, like, 8-9 hours with a class of elementary kids every single day.
We are in charge of taking them to the bathroom, watching over/playing with them during break, making sure they pay attention during class, dancing/singing/asking them to participate during activities time, telling them to line up whenever we go anywhere, and just basically being mothers. Of 31 children.
I don’t know what to say to this, but we have 31 kids in Class Dumpling (and I think there would have been more except some got moved up to the older class because then there would be too much in ours). Our camp is the smallest camp, being there is only a total of 90 kids put into 4 classes, and our class is 1/3 of that number. =_____=
Every class had 4 TAs except ours, which had 5, but there might as well have been 3. Crystal has been a TA there for 3 years also, and she really knows how to take care of the kids, so she was a BIG help. It was Joyce’s first time, but she caught on really fast. Not that I’m bragging, but I think it was mostly Crystal and I controlling the whole class. The kids only knew our names for a while. The two guys were kind of “whatever” and didn’t do much; they even slept during class! It was kind of like that for the first 3 days, then they slowly caught on and was better Friday, but that was already the last day.
I nearly cried during the last day when we were singing and had our hands on each other’s shoulders. The TAs were supposed to sit in a line facing their class, but I ended up sitting with the kids because I’ll miss them so, so much. They were much adorable when they sang, danced, talked to me about their interests, pulled my arm, hugged my waist, poked fun at me, and listened to what I had to say. <3
Truckee Camping
Last Thursday, I went to watch The Proposal with Michelle and Catherine. We originally planned to watch the 12:15 pm one, but then Michelle was going to be a little late, so to ensure that we get a good seat, we changed the tickets to 3:00 pm. Before we went in, we shopped around Forever 21 and made Catherine try on a whole bunch of clothes she would never try on her whole life (up to now, that is). Then we went to a lot of other stores that I forgot the name of (Victoria’s Secret, Papaya, etc.). I bought a pretzel and after a while, we decided to go into the theater to get seats.
The movie was so adorable and funny. Very cheesy, but I liked it. It was kind of like a Taiwanese Idol drama or something (reminded me of Miss No Good, which made me kinda sad). Ryan Reynolds was one infinitely cute piece of pie in there. xD The movie had some great and hilarious scenes that threw everyone in the auditorium into laughter (there was a woman who laughed so loud it was kind of outrageous). I really enjoyed the movie.
Afterwards, we shopped around some more. When we were walking, this weird Chinese guy came up to us and asked if we spoke Mandarin. He started speaking to us in Mandarin saying “How are you?” “Do you guys understand?” “Oh, are you ABC?” We were like O_o and told him no, then walked on and ignored him. At around 7:00 pm, we left the mall and Catherine came to my house. Her mom was already at my house when my mom drove us home. We ate some fruits and Kimchi, and then she left, and I had dinner.
On Friday, we left to go camping at Truckee at around 8:00 pm. We stopped at Ihop to eat breakfast, and we got to the campsite at around 3:00 pm. Alan’s family (sans Alan) was already there setting their tent when we arrived, and we circled the campsite a couple times trying to find out spot. We eventually found it and was completely blown away by how crappy it was. We couldn’t even fit our ONE tent there even if we tried; there were rocks EVERYWHERE; it was completely in the sun since there were absolutely no trees around it that could possibly provide us with shade on any given time of the day; and there was actual place to park our car. I was completely baffled by how such a shitty place could possibly be a campsite. Compared to everyone else’s (which provided room for 8 personal tents, parking space for 4 cars, and shade), our spot was a complete shithole. (Even talking about it now makes me mad). My dad scouted a place that was previously a site which had shade and was a little flatter to place our tent, so we just ignored what we were assigned and went to a random area. We even moved the huge and heavy wooden table to the other area so it would be easier for us to place our things.
It was my brother’s birthday, so we decided to drive to Reno to eat at the El Dorado’s buffet. Good food, good food. Makes me happy. =)
That night, we started a fire and roasted some marshmallows, except we couldn’t eat them because we used some random things for the fire. I completely burnt a marshmallow until it turned black. xD We just sat by the fire and talked until it grew dark, and then we made our way back to our own tent to sleep. We pitched our tent on a slight hill, so we were constantly sliding down in our sleeping bags and had to constantly climb back up so we wouldn’t step on my brother, who slept at our feet.
The next day, we went to the town of Truckee to look around. There was a parade celebrating the Fourth of July, and we stopped to watch it for a while. There were so many dogs there it was like a dog park. Then we ate dinner in one of the cafes there. I had a pastrami grilled cheese sandwich (later I wished I only got the grilled cheese). It was really good, and I ate too much so I didn’t feel good afterwards. After finishing our lunch, we drove to a beach there to swim. I got into my brand new bikini (YAY) even though it wasn’t a good idea seeing how everything’s just bulging out now. I didn’t really swim; just got into the water and splashed water at the other kids. Then I laid down on the beach to try and get a tan (nearly burnt my feet off standing barefoot on that burning, sizzling hot sand). Then we drove back to our campsite to rest, where we found a paper attached to our table telling us to move our things back to our assigned area or we were going to be asked to leave. Well, that area sucked, so we ignored the message and stayed on our spot. Besides, we were going to leave the next morning.
That night, we went to a nearby pizza restaurant to eat. They make really good bread and crust. We came back to the campsite and started a fire, thing time actually eating the marshmallows we roasted (screw the possibly of weird resulting gas). Then we sat around the fire again until it became dark and went back to our tent to wash and change our clothes. I sat outside on our chair for a while just enjoying nature (the moon, the trees, the sound of naturl wildlife). xD It was actually very peaceful.
The next morning, we quickly cleaned and packed everything on our car. We drove to McDonald’s at around 9:00 am to eat breakfast, and then we drove straight back home, arriving at around 2-ish in the afternoon.
