No Parents?

After touring prospective students around school for two hours, my Mom picked me up at noon. We went home and my parents had to get ready for their flight to Vegas. My parents plan to iChat with me while they're on their trip because I taught them how to use it. Haha, I find it pretty cute. Then they left at around 2 and I felt a little empty. I never knew how dependent I was on my parents. Sometimes I feel that my dependency on them is keeping me from going to the mainland. I'm honestly going to miss them.

So other than blabbing about that, today was the opposite of progress. I just watched t.v. all day and wasted my time on the computer. I finished my Math homework, which I believe went really well. I think I'm starting to like this Law of Sines and Law of Cosines crap.

Hm, so my Mom just called to say that they've arrived in Vegas already. Here's to one week of no parents.

January Babies

Tonight we had a surprise party at my cousin's house for my mom, aunties, and nephew. They had no clue about it because we kept it on a DL. It was, of course, a big filipino party with lots of delicious food to grind on. Apparently, I didn't really get to grab 'seconds' because Kathleen came to pick me up around 8:30 for Misha's party.
The party was fun with no alcohol and drugs included. I got to spend time with the Waipahu/Sacred Hearts/Damien community in Kunia. Misha had two cakes, a Barbie cake and chocolate cake (made by Lexi), but I ended up eating the Barbie one. It was yummy though. I love cake, especially chantilly <3
Kathleen, Casey, and I left the party around 11:45 and they dropped me back off to my family party. Everyone was drunk and my cousins were practically sleeping already. Got home around 1ish. Now I need to sleep, I have to go to school tomorrow (Lovely).

Other than that, tonight was well-needed, considering my week of school sucked. I long for more weekends like this.

I just realized we wore the same color. (Un-planned)

Filipinos.

FILIPINO-JAPANESE COLLAB. I love 'em.

Happy Early 18th Birthday Misha! (Her real birthday is tomorrow)

Fatigue

I've been feeling this horrible stress in my brain for the past two days. I haven't been getting enough sleep due to school-related things. But thanks to Catholic Schools Week, we don't have school tomorrow, which gives me time to catch up on sleep. I feel like my eyes just want to fall off or something.

Anyway, today went pretty well. I went to Casey's house after school and we went to Kam Shopping Center to buy lunch. Oh shoot, I just remembered I still have spring rolls to eat. Haha. But uhh, then we went to her house and watched previews for upcoming movies. The movie '2012' scares me. I don't think I'm going to watch it because it's going to make me paranoid about the end of the world. That's crazy.

My mom finally got her MacBook today, which she will be bringing with her on my parents' trip to Las Vegas. They won't be here for a entire week and they'll also be missing my Ohana Luncheon ;[ So instead of not attending , I decided to bring my other family members to replace my parents for that day.

Well, I've been making random blogs about my days so I'll just end it here. I'm going to get some sleep!

And the weather's so breezy

Man, why can't life always be this easy?

So my subject pretty much relates to what I'm going to write about: Weather and life. Haha.

I loved the weather today. I was in warm classrooms the entire day and when I stepped outside, it felt like being in an air conditioned room. I shouldn't be complaining though because I'd rather have cold weather than hot. Too bad I keep hearing, "Ressiel, your jacket," from teachers. It's not my fault that I don't have a school jacket. I like wearing my comfortable gray sweater. I'm probably just going to buy a cardigan that looks like the one for school so that they won't notice. I think the weather is making me sleep earlier at night and wake up later in the morning. Ah, it's so hard to get up when I'm so cozy in bed.

On the other hand, I think I'm in the state of being depressed. Of course I'm over exaggerating, but I think that best describes how I feel right now. I know it sounds lame, but I hate being a failure. I don't know, but I feel kind of "off" right now. I know in one of my previous blogs I talked about "living in the moment," but I think that's really hard right now. School is taking up my life. I know it's really important but I hate being sleep-deprived, cramming shit in my mind, and worrying about everything that deals with college. Guh. Maybe I need sleep or I'm just mad that I can't solve this stupid math problem. But I just want to feel happier. Haha, so gay.

Happy Birthday, Mom!

After a long day of school, I met up with my Mom at Chinatown for our family dinner at Golden Palace Restaurant. I love love love love love Chinese food, especially their dim sum and walnut shrimp! It was too late for dim sum though, but it was a fulfilling meal. Too bad extremely delicious food can be expensive. Haha. Then after, we went to Best Buy because my brother and I were supposed to get my mom and iPod. However, she became really attracted to the MacBooks that were there. Since my Dad loves to spoil my Mom, he was planning on buying her the MacBook Pro. But they ended up thinking about going to the Apple store instead. So by Wednesday, my Mom will be a mama to a MacBook Pro. Damnit. I'm hella j. It's alright, I'll survive with my HP desktop >.<

Okay, I have a lot of homework and college thangs to do.............

Ha.

Wasting time

I realized how much I take advantage of time and how I let situations "slide" instead of doing something about it.

I need to live in the moment and stop worrying so much about the future. Before I know it, all the good times in life will pass me by and I'll regret not living it.

I love surprise visits

The original plans for tonight were to eat Auntie Pasto's on Beretania Street with the girls. Due to indecisive situations, the plans resulted with California Pizza Kitchen and my house. Since I was home alone and had no transportation to Pearlridge, I wasn't able to eat dinner with them. I felt really bored and sad? Hah, I don't know. But I felt a whole lot better when they decided to visit me! It was really cute.

<3 Because they visit me when I'm hashed.

Selling school books

After cleaning out my drawers full of school-related things, I realized how many quality used school books I have. I hate how our school has to buy most of our school books (other than textbooks) at Ike Pono. It's only a good thing when someone who didn't buy the books that they need for a certain class, you can sell it to them. So far I'm pending on selling a Church History book that I used in my Junior year. It's still clean and doesn't have any rips or anything in the back, just some highlighting in the beginning. I hate having unnecessary things in my room, I just want to sell them all.

Anyway, school was okay today because it went by very fast (it's a Wednesday - 1:00 dismissal). It was my first day back from my long weekend and I felt really tired. I don't have much homework so I finished it all already.

Oher than that, today was a good day.

Malama Obama

I got him like two weeks ago? Yoshi was given to me by Mark "just because". It's funny how I mentioned getting one and he bought it instead.

But other than that, I spent the whole day cleaning the house. I'm proud of myself though because I was very productive. Cleaned the living room, bathrooms, and my room. I think my Mom and I are going to buy bed sheets when she gets home, to match my comforter. Hopefully we can stop for dinner somewhere because I'm sick of the food at home. Well, there goes my 5-day weekend. I return to school tomorrow and second semester officially begins.

Here are some goals for second semester:
- Get exempt from as much classes possible (Minus AP Spanish)
- Get a better grade in Pre-Calculus
- Attend all club meetings
- STAY FOCUSED
- Try my best to stay away from distractions

Hopefully I accomplish these goals :)

I didn't watch the full Inauguration of Obama, but it was really inspiring. Today is such an important day and I'm pretty happy to be able to experience it.

Here's to the 44th president of the United States and the 1st to be half African American :D

Long, relaxed weekend

I believe that I've had the longest, relaxed weekend so far. Apparently, it's going to be extended until tomorrow. Evonne and I decided not to go since they're going to have exams that were cancelled on Friday, on Tuesday. So if we went, there would be no point in getting exempted. It said that we're 'expected' to be in homeroom at 12 to watch Obama's Inauguration. It's a waste of time though, when I can just watch it at home. Staying home sounds good to me, can't wait to clean. I like cleaning when I'm home alone. Cook. Clean. Watch movies. Hm. I don't think I have anything due when I get back to school. Other than the January issue for the KaLeo. But i'm always procrastinating on it, so that can wait.

Thank you to, Martin Luther King Jr. for ending racial segregation and racial discrimination.
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "

Winnie the Pooh

My cousin's first birthday party was yesterday. He looked really adorable with his little tuxedo and converse shoes. Ugh, I seriously love little kids. They make me so happy. Haha. Anyways, I had to stay in the front and welcome guests for the beginning half of the party. Then I got to eat the delcious Chinese food that the restaurant had. The only food missing was the walnut shrimp, which is seriously 'ono.' Other than that, my dinner was fulfilling and wonderful. I love Asian food. The party was really fun since my cousins and I had to watch our parents do embarassing things on stage. It's alright though, I loved it.

My mom dropped me off early to set up so I did most of this on my own :)


He was soo happy when he got there.


This is his "Ugh. I don't want to wear this tuxedo" face.




I thought the cake was soo cute, especially since it was chantilly ;]


Good night!

School cancelled tomorrow

I know it shouldn't really matter to me since I'm already exempted from the exams that were suppose to be tomorrow. But it's really funny how all those people who are supposed to take their exams tomorrow, are taking them on Tuesday instead, which gives them a four-day weekend. Lucky. I guess this storm must be really big because it seems like schools are going to be cancelled. I hope there isn't going to be a power outage again because if we do, I'm charging my phone already. And thanks to my very handy cord phone, I can use it to talk on the phone if anything. Apparently, the wind is very breezy and I love it because I don't need to use my ceiling fan :) Saving electricity that way.

My day went pretty well today. Mark picked me up from school , which was very nice of him since he ended at 10 today. Which meant he needed to wait for about an hour until I finished my last exam, which was Economics (H). Which by the way, went really well because it was so easy. We went to eat at Kuru Kuru for the first time this year, since we abstained from eating there for a while. We went to Pearlridge, Waikele, and he dropped me off home.

My eyes are trying their best to close. This week will be a good time to catch up on sleep and my social life. Haha. I think my friends and I should go out or something. Well, I think I'm going to take a nap before my Mother and I get our nails done and go shopping.

Exemptions

The past two weeks of returning back to school have been really stressful. College, last minute tests, and exams have been seriously clogging my brain. Sometimes I feel like laughing when I'm stressed out because I feel crazy working so hard. But working hard is rewarding so I can't argue with that. Can't wait for the weekend, which starts early for me because I don't have to go to school on Friday. I'm exempted from my Physiology and English exams. Whoooo! Today I had my Pre-Calculus exam which was gay. I'm more of a science and english type of person anyway. Anyway, I got home really early thanks to my seminar class that doesn't require an exam. Two more exams tomorrow and my weekend officially starts!

My mom and I are going shopping tomorrow for our outfits on Saturday. The weekend is going to be exciting and full of events so I feel like this is a reward from being stressed out. My mom's fun to go shopping with anyway because she buys anything that I want. That sounded really spoiled-ish, but it's not like I spend a huge amount of money on unneccessary items. I'm a bargain hunter and I love it. And I love my mom as well. I forgot to tell her that I ended early today so she thought I ditched school when I called her on the house phone.

On the other hand, my dad is out buying korean food for us because he said, "I'll buy you korean food." Then he asks to borrow my money. Hahaha, so lame. I think I need a job. Wait, I don't think. I NEED A JOB. I can't live off my Christmas money which will eventually disappear in a month or so, especially since I volunteered to give most of it for college. Life is full of many sacrifices.

I'm growing up. Turning 18 sounds great and depressing at the same time. Great in the sense that you're allowed to go clubbing, Susie's (where I don't think I would want/need to go), and that you're considered an adult. So it's bad in the sense where you can get arrested, you're an "adult" not teenager, and you feel old. Casey and I were talking about it on Monday (two days after her 18th birthday) when I told her she was going through "mid-teen" crisis. Haha.

At times where life seems to be passing so quickly, I need an Edward Cullen to bite me so that I can be 17 forever!

Here's a recap on Casey's 18th Birthday on Saturday, January 10th. It was at the Oceanarium in the Pacific Beach Hotel.


:)

And yes, I cut my hair two weeks ago.

Last day of Winter break

I can't believe how much this sucks. Today officially ends my last winter break of my senior year. I'm not even prepared for midterms and college even. Fuck my life - well, not really. But seriously, AP Spanish is going to kick my skinny ass. I never studied anything for that and I already feel the failure screaming at me. Oh well. At least I know I won't be taking an exam for English (prior to an upcoming test), Theology Seminar (because of that 5page paper that I haven't even started on yet), and Physiology (hopefully I get an A on this upcoming test). So basically, I'm going to have to shut off my "break" habits and turn on my "studyeverynightandkillmysociallife" habits. It's not like I even go out nowadays, but I just get really lazy and distracted from other things that I forget about things like my life. Yeah, I'm crazy. But I'm getting better at being focused.

Here's to the things I've accomplished this break (not as much as I wanted to):
- Physiology packet
- Math packet (Thank you ^_^)
- College apps
- UH Manoa
- HPU
- USF (half)
- Seattle (half)
- Econ (5pts)
- English extra credit
- Going to my very first school event stag
- SHAbang Christmas party
- City Lights


I just realized how boring my break was. But hey, at least I caught on with my sleep and became very family oriented. So whatever.

I have school tomorrow. That sounds so painful . I'm getting off now.

HA PEA KNEW YE EAR

2009: There's so many things that I hope to do/accomplish this year. I'm totally anxious, nervous, and excited for every bit of it though :]







Here's to the first blog of the new year!