Money On My Mind

I’m trying to save money for whatever trip I’m gonna go for the senior trip some of “us” planned. Since Edward, An Duc, and Seward are going on the SUPER expensive Florida trip to Disney World, the rest of “us” have to plan somewhere cheaper to go. We’re thinking of possibly going to SoCal like Los Angeles or somewhere around that area. Well.. without money, I can’t go anywhere. In order to conserve money and save as much as I can, I’ve been cutting down on spending. Here’s what I’ve done so far to cut down on spending:

- Buy only “Baos” if I’m hungry
- Can’t buy food before 4PM. I could just bring food out or eat at home
- Can’t eat out for dinner more than twice a week
- One event spending per week
- Quickly only once a week
- No meals over seven dollars

The result of this plan is that I get so hungry that I feel like passing out sometimes. Well, not really. I just get hungry enough to feel the burn and feel tired. At that point, I’d eat anything so saving money wouldn’t be a problem at that time. So far, in about a week, I’ve saved around twenty something bucks. That’s pretty good, eh?

Daily Life Section.

These past few days, I always watch a movie first before I leave the house. During the three days, I’ve watched “The Notebook”, “American Gangster”, and “Michael Clayton”. I’d watch anything interesting at home. The Notebook was one of them. It turned out to be a pretty good movie. After watching those movies, if it’s after 2:30 – 3:00PM, I’d leave to go to Chinatown and do whatever there. After around 9-10, I’d come home if I feel like it. Sleep. Repeat.

Summer: Week.1

Well, summer is finally here. So far, it’s been pretty boring. I always wake up at around friggin’ 9-10AM. I can never seem to sleep past 10AM. After I wake, I either go microwave myself some Eggo’s or watch anime. I finally finished Guren Lagann. Right now, I’m starting to watching Honey & Clover, as recommended by Betty. After I watch a couple of episodes of anime, I proceed to going out to do what I think of doing. Usually, I head out to Chinatown and meet up the people doing Beacon. I did that on Tuesday, where I went to Helen Wills to tag along with Angela’s group, then An Duc’s group. After, we usually go buy stuff to eat. On Wednesday, I stayed home to watch “The Notebook”. Yes, it is my first time. That movie IS pretty good. Haha. After “The Notebook”, I went to church to practice drumming, then went to Ma’s to eat some dim sum. After the nice and yummy dish of dim sum, I went to meet up Kenny at GJL, then the Beacon people came out. Tony came and we then proceeded to go to the basketball game. Lost by 7 point omg! Went back to Chinatown to eat dinner @ D&A. Home. Then today… so far I watched 4 episodes of Honey & Clover. It’s pretty good. I’m still deciding whether I should go out to Chinatown right now or go to Sunset..

End of High School

I just had my graduation two days ago. How did I feel? Surprisingly, I had no feelings for it. I was neither sad or happy. I basically felt indifferent. The only feeling I remembered feeling was feeling annoyed that Mr. Wing was so stupid. It kinda sucks knowing that high school is over. No more  going to school, saying hey to people early in the morning. No more watching people playing basketball at lunch. No more chilling at Mr. Ring’s after school, playing hours of MJ. I’m gonna miss people. There’s no doubt about that. I’m sure I’ll see all the people I’ll miss though because if I’m gonna miss them, I’m sure we’d hang out some time in life. I still owe David Chan a toss and a dunk in basketball. After graduation ended, I felt relaxed. The dreaded  graduation was over. I was surprised to see that no one was crying. I’ve heard so many people saying “I’m gonna cry during graduation.” The pictures were the highlights of the day. It’s gonna be memory etched onto the paper in form of pixels.

What’d I do during graduation day? Let’s see.. ate breakfast with Jennifer, Betty, Kevin, and Edward @ New Regency ? I think that’s what it’s called. The servings were so small, and the red bean ice wasn’t that good. After breakfast, everyone went home. Oh yeah! We saw An Duc along the way going to the 12 bus stop. I went to An Duc’s to drop down my stuff for graduation and sleepover. Kevin came up to drop his sleeping bag. We all got redressed for graduation, since it was so hot and we were all sweating. We had to cool down. Took our gowns and walked to the graduation spot. Took pictures, went in. Lined up, walked into the auditorium, waited. Name was called, walked up, sat down. Waited. Left the room, met with family, took pictures at Grace Cathedral. Met up with friends, took tons of pictures. Went to Sweethearts with Corey, Amanda, Ben, An Duc, Kenny, Kevin, Karen, Edward, Miffy, Linda, Jimmy. Jenny came sometime later. Hung there for a couple of hours. Everyone left to either go home, go somewhere, or An Duc’s. I went to An Duc’s to chill for a bit, the Kitaro for dinner with An Duc, Kevin, Betty, Angela, Edward, Jenny, Kenny, Ada, Kathy, and Richard. Stuffed in Kathy’s car after dinner. Drove to Kowloon to eat dessert. Stuffed into car again, drove to An Duc’s, then played some American Idol Encore. Amanda and Corey came. Jenny, Kathy, Richard, and Ada left. Played some more American Idol, watched Shutter. TRIED to watch Zohan but it sounded weird. Slept at 4:30AM. Everyone woke up at like 10. Hung around, then went to eat lunch with An Duc, Betty, Jeffrey, and Edward at Pacific Court. An Duc’s again, then basketball @ Spring Valley. Visited some old teachers, then left cause some fat lady kicked us out. Did nothing at Angela’s for like 2 hours. Decided to go on a ghost hunt since it’s Friday the 13th. Walked to Cuhan theatre and Geary and Taylor. Nothing, but it looked freaky on the outside. It was locked. Haha. Went to the Marriot to check out what was there and we got free “Yo Yo’s”. It looks like a rubber band with noodles on the end of it. Took the bus to Sutter and Octavia to see Queen Anne’s Hotel. Nothing again cause we didn’t think the hotel would let us into room 410. Walked to J-town. They decided to go to the Army Hospital. I decided to go home since I was so tired from sleeping for only 2 hours. The end. Haha.

End of the Line

Whoa. The school year’s coming to an end already. I could remember like it was yesterday when I was thinking five more months of school was long. Is it me or does all this senior stuff seem unreal? The thought of walking through the stage, receiving my paper that tells me I’m not allowed in high school anymore, and then going on with my life seems … odd. I’m really gonna miss all the friends I’ve made and also all the friends I could’ve made. I regret not being more outgoing and social during the first two years of high school. I was your typical quiet asian that wouldn’t want to have anything to do with you unless you spoke to me. I went home almost everyday after school because I don’t see the point of staying out. After sophomore year, I became more social. Sigh…

Well enough about the end of the year crap. What did I do today? I woke up at 7:45AM to take a shower since I went home at 12:45 yesterday. I don’t like taking showers late at night so … I went to sleep without showering. Eww, right? Well after I showered, I got dressed and walked to the bart station. Barted to Chinatown, then went to chuch to have my Daycamp Leader Orientation at 9:00AM. I got there at 9:10AM so.. oops? Haha. There was no bus! Had the orientation until like 1:15PM. Hung around and started making this pop up card until 2:30PM. Walked to the Salvation Army gym to have basketball practice until 5. Went to eat at Ma’s, then went to Kenny’s house to scan Seward’s picture from prom. Spent two darn hours uninstalling Kenny’s old printer, installing his new printer, and trying to figure out how to work Kenny’s scan function on his new state-of-the-art printer. I fell asleep. Haha. Then .. I went home because I was tired. (:

Here’s some new songs that I’m addicted to.

Lil Wayne ft Babyface – Comfortable

The Afters – Beautiful Love (Jennifer’s favorite song. lol)

Fate Stay Night

Sigh.. now that I finished Fate Stay Night, there’s really nothing good to look forward to when I go home. For the past week, when I’m taking the Bart home, all I could think about is dinner and Fate Stay Night. It such a good anime. (Note: If you have time to watch it, and you enjoy anime, you should totally watch this.)

Fate Stay Night is about seven randomly chosen magicians (I think they should really call them sorcerers because they DO use sorcery) that participates in the Holy Grail War. The Holy Grail War is a war not literally a war. It’s when each magician gets to summon their own unique “servants” to fight against other magician servants. The whole point of the game is to defeat all other servants and obtain the Holy Grail. With it, you can wish for your heart’s desire.

Why is this anime so cool? Because it has everything wrapped into 24 episodes (It’s too short in my opinion). There’s fighting, drama, suspense… EVERYTHING! The only thing bad about the anime (not really bad, but weird) is that when they cast spells, they speak in German. The other animes I usually watch, they cast their spells in Latin. I don’t know. Maybe it’s just different from all the other animes.

Now that I finished Fate Stay Night, I gotta find a new anime! I watched one episode of Gurenn Lagenn. It seemed like an okay anime. I’m gonna give it 2-3 more episodes before I decide if I should watch the remaining 30 something episodes.

Crisis Response Network

So Friday was peace day, I assume. During Ms. Morrison’s class, these three dudes came in to talk to us about teenage violence. They were pretty cool. One was black, another was Vietnamese?, and the last one was Filipino?. I don’t really know why, but I respected everything they said.

They talked about how theres a lot of violence between youths over drugs, gangs, etc. They promoted their various ways of helping youths, like driving people home when they’re drunk, or escorting people. It seemed kinda weird since they had this service called “Safe Passage”, which means if a gang is out to get you, they can drive in a van to pick you up and drop you off at a certain location because they’re a respected group and gangs wouldn’t  target the CRN(Crisis Response Network). They seem like the perfect group to have because they do everything a “cool adult” would. Drive you home when you’re drunk and you got no money to call the cab, escort you, talk conflicts out. Well, peace day. Whoooo.