Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills my mind.

the day is finally here

Friday, July 25, 2008

yoohooo! summer school is officially over! now 14 hours till i go to the airport! the day has finally arrived. been waiting since forever. im soo happy now. on top of that, im 99% sure i'll get a 4.0 gpa for summer, raising my overall to 3.75. im one happy jessica now. :) best summer?? almost done packing. just waiting for clothes to be washed and dried. i need a bigger bag. i can barely fit my stuff. so, sorry if u dont get something from me. i cant stuff anymore stuff in my bag.

spinning was torturing today. he made us cycle non stop for 20 minutes on tension. went out to eat after and here i am. of course, after i showered. haha. waiting to download some games into my psp but the disc arent behaving very well today. hope it works or i ll be bored to death. united needs to upgrade its service/entertainment. install some tv pleaseeee. gawd.. im sooo excited.. i know i know i said this a million times but i cant help it. i have a small dictionary inside my brain.

the sad thing is, i wont have internet connection for the whole of next week so forget about seeing me online. another boring thing to look forward to. how am i going to survive. plus, im certain about getting tons of mail. especially with phi theta now. meetings meetings and more meetings. hope i dont have to miss any. if they hold it on the 15 i might still make it.

alright, should go and see if i forgot to pack any stuff. i shall try to enjoy my 14 hours flight.

p.s this psp is driving me nuts.im tempted to upgrade it and buy normal games.


yoohoo. retrievered photos

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

im sooooo happy! haha. just retrieved all the photos from my old nokia phone. i could never find the right device to put in my mini sd card and never did i know i would find one in school. haha. now i got all my photos of my doggy. was so afraid i wont get those photos back since i know im going to change phone soon. shall post some photos later back home.. watched 5 videos just now and i have to say i finished watching the entire show of beach ball babes. mobtv is brilliant. haha. i think ive created more than 7 accounts to watch since they have this 3 free day trial thingy. heh. im soo mean. but at least it cured my boredom for a while. and now im back in school for spinning/pe class. boringgg...... if only he let us listen to our own music, perhaps i wouldnt be so bored. plus no one talks in class. all so focused on exercising. poof. i realised i never quite complained about this. but yes, its torturing. i mean its not tiring or anything (alright sometimes it is but its not that bad) but to sit there riding a bike with nothing else to do for 2 whole hours is just torture. i think i like netball more. haha!

3 more days to go before i reach hong kong!! whee! i must have said this a million times but i still cant wait!!!!!! finally get to see my real relatives. didnt mean to sound rude/mean/ungrateful but yes, your own relatives are always better. definitely not as awkward/out of place/nothing to talk about. i think im going to start to rant. lol.

psychology exam is 2 days away and i havent started to prepare. thanks to the videos. will try to finish 2 questions tonight. dont know if i should go out tomorrow after school to get some stuff. should have gotten them last week. boo.

alright im bored now and running out of things to type. should go look through the photos. my doggy is so cute although i figured he's always in the same position-lying down. but i still love my lazy and fat dog. cant wait to hug him when i get home that is 10 days later. =))))

off to boring spinning class......


relay for life

Sunday, July 20, 2008

so tired and sleepy. blog tomorrow instead. i think i may get sick. it was windy and freezing in Pacifica. sitting in a corner didnt help. neither did walking 24 rounds and collecting paper clips. off to blow my hair and sleeeeeeeeeep. YAWNS.................................................................................


packing list?

Saturday, July 19, 2008
bored.. its friday and i did think of going out just to walk around the mall but since i'm going to be walking so much tomorrow, decided not to.

relay for life is tomorrow and it's gonna be soo crazy. apparently, we're suppose to walk around the track for a whole day. and our "leader" was so smart to break the team and have one person walk for 4 hours each. madness! and it's one person at a time too. im sooo gonna die of boredom. seriously. walking for 4 hours. i think thats gonna beat my record for walking from the golden gate to fisherman's wharf. seriously. im dreading it. 4 hours. who knows how many laps that is. he is a no brainer. not looking to tomorrow at all. i rather just collect donations. i dont know who to ask so i asked my parents and dad gave fifty bucks. i was shocked. didnt expect him to give so much. i mean i just said i wanted to have something in my account so it wouldnt look as though i didn try since the others had close to a hundred bucks already. but anyways, he's always making me feel bad now. i know he doesnt mean it. =)

i'm currently thinking of my packing list. cant seem to think of what to bring or rather what i should bring. there shouldn't be much anyways. clothes, psp, phone, sg cash and my cards, camera... not going to check in anything so cant bring on liquids and stuff. hope i remember before next friday although i could always get what i need in hk or sg. =)

i'm still sooo excited. 7 more days. i mean who wouldnt right. and that reminds me, will be going to macau too. good dessert awaits! and bro's tagging along too. aww. whats gonna happen to doggy???? he's gonna be alone again. but he's gonna have a surprise. hah!

im running out of things to type even though im bored.........shall go and have lunch =)


itenary

Thursday, July 17, 2008
9 MORE DAYS!! i'm soooo excited!!! i was daydreaming in class during psychology on how i was going to spend my days or rather week in hong kong. the class was just sooo boring. it was basically a 3 way conversation. i was scribbling on my paper: shut up people. lol. i know its mean but seriously, the whole topic changes and half the class already has their head down and eyes closed. she is good professor but people just become way tooo personal telling the whole class about their lives. i'm not interested! give me facts and follow the book. not the best way to learn but i'd rather not fall asleep and be tortured. and that reminds me i still have 2 papers to do by today. that's what happens when u procrastinate. anywaysm, back to what i wanted to blog about. i didnt mean to rant and complain. it was suppose to be a happy post. haha!

you really dont have to read it. it's just fairytale stuff or kind of.

so as i was saying, what i was going to do in hk. i ll arive at 6pm sat and mom's going to wait for me at the airport. can't wait to see her. its been 6 months? by the time we get home, it'll be 7-ish. and i'll be hungry then. yes fooood. we shall go downstairs and find food. i wonder if that fishball noodle place is still there. oh yes get my curry fishball from the street vendor. and go to sleep after. must get used to the timing there. jet lag! my aunt said just follow the normal time or rather sky. hope that i can really sleep if not its really gonna be a torture. and and and, i must get used to the weather again. i know im gonna suffer fromt he hot and humid weather. its just way too comfortable here. who likes the heat? i like the sun but not the heat?

next day (july 27): go visit grandmother. definitely going to have dim sum with her. thats just a grandmother thing. mong kok her favourite place. she can hang out there for the whole day. i mean the restaurant. go walk around mong kok with mom. its shopping time! i need clothes, shoes, bags and food. i think. definitely food. im drooling now at the thought of it. probably going to have dinnner at grandmother's place too. and yes, we need to go to the supermarket to get junk.

july 28: might have dim sum again if not i ll be off to find my cousins. if i do, we're gonna have buffet for lunch. they have the best food there. okay maybe notas good as the line at shangri la hotel but passable. thats only because they have free flow of sashimi and good crepes. nothing beats shangri la where they have everything. i hope we get to go there when im in singapore. i know my parents will bring us there but i ll feel bad after seeing the bill. they chargel like 60 bucks per person the last time i went. it must have definitely gone up now. no surprise. back to the topic! hang out at cousin's place after lunch. wait, no. what about mom. might see third uncle too for dinner if we are with my cousins. go home, more junk food or street vendor food. must stop thinking about food.

july 29: again, either dim sum or we'll go get our own food at 68. might visit grand dad at the nursing home. he has dementia. then we might just go shopping around. yoohoo. more shopping!

july 30: i've run out of ideas. definitely if we dont have anything planned, we would be dragged out for dim sum again. might have already gotten sick of it by then depending. and that is also why i dont see the need to spend one whole week in hk. spend more time with grandparents. must remember to bring my psp along with some movies(if i can even find some to buy) or i ll die of boredom at my grandmother's house. dont mean to be mean since i really rarely see her but thats a fact.


july 31: refer to july 30. haha. okay.. might hang out with cousins again especially if my bro is with us. thats make everything more troublesome since he hates shopping and whines all the time.

august 1: morning might go have dim sum since we're leaving at night. must buy roasted pork back. we always do that so it's not a surprise. do more last minute shopping especially at the supermarket. flight is at 8pm so we'll probably leave for the airport at 5 or even earlier. arrive singapore at 11.35pm. anyone wanna pick me? dont know if dad is back from germany yet? i miss our odessey. i know dad is considering selling it to get a smaller one since when we come back, it's only going to be 2 of them plus my dog so a 7 seater car is really not necessary. and gas is really expensive too. but i really love that car since it's the first one we bought ever since we're in singapore. we always used to rent cars if we ever needed it or the cabs will be our chauffers. wont get home till 12-ish. i sooo cant wait to see my dog!! hope he doesnt bite me though or least will be loving enough to hug me without needing a day or two to remember me. i shall make my parents allow him to sleep in my room. :) that reminds me. i should beat up everything in my room to be wary of mosquitoes. it always happen that when i come back from overseas, i always seem to get bitten by mozzies at night and i get scared. i hate mozzies!! need to mozzie proof my room considering it has been vacant for a whole year or more. who knows what has been going on in there. its creeping me out now. bacteria multiplying with the humidity. germs seeping around between my plush toys on the window sill. alright enough! eeek. hire a maid for a day!

alright i shall stop dreaming now and write my two papers. no i should have lunch first. im procrastinating again.......

ps. i'm still soooooo excited. :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))


photos from birthday

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
PHOTOS FROM SAT AND SUN:)

my 2.50 shirt

elmo is a dollar fifty


kaye :) and catherine


the really good cake they bought from safeway
kaye's photoframe
from the one who wants to make me fat


over to my house and vacaville shopping!


another weekend just flew by... but i have to say that was a really good weekend. no need to worry about tests or exams or last minute homework to complete. really, summer is always the best semester (that is, if you get good professors). COUNTDOWN: 10 DAYS TO HONG KONG. 17 DAYS TO SINGAPORE! caaaan't freaking wait!

anyways, i just had to put that in. im sooo excited though i really dont feel the need to stay in hong kong for one whole week. plus, my dad wont be there too.. he'll be in germany. i dont know if my bro is going too. if it'll be juts me and my mom, that'll be awesome!!! hahah. get to eat whatever roadside food there is. (my dad doesnt let us do that since he thinks they're dirty/contaminated which i dotn disagree with but i really dont care). get to eat tons of dim sum and get fat! i should really weigh myself before i go. swear i ll gain like 100 pounds.

back to what i really wanted to blog about. on saturday, catherine and kaye came over to my place to "celebrate my birthday". was really fun and they were really sweet. came over at around 1.30pm since they had to go to the exploratorium first for their class. and.. they bought me a cake!!! i totally didnt expect that. plus my birthday was two days ago too. had kfc for lunch and played rock band!! it was funn. we were so loud, aunt jenny could hear us from outside when she came back. watched over her dead body and muched on popcorn. we're such pigs. wanted to go out for dinner but kaye had to leave to babysit her niece so we just had leftovers and the cake. 3 of us finished half the cake! haha. and i had to pick the wrong candles. they were the magic kinds that dont go out till you blow until ur mouth hurts. i wouldnt be surpried if my saliva was all over the cake. haha. opened my gifts. got a photoframe, really cute one and 4 packs of chocolate. catherine really wanted me to get fat. haha. gave them some to take home since i really wouldnt finish all that fat and sugar. i take forever to finish a bar of chocolate cos i nibble them. hate the feeling of having chocolate stuck all over your teeth. so i become a bunny rabbit that nibbles. and thats why i get sick of chocolate really quick. they had to leave and no one was home yet so i just stoned in my room. tried watching videos but they took forever to load. i think i ended up sleeping realy early. no wait. joyce came home and she told me about her bad driving day which i wont type here since its really long. but people are sometimes really unreasonable. i still wanna learn to drive though.

on sunday. got up and we went to vacaville outlets. shopping!! whee!!! was sooooo hot i think it was hotter than singapore. no serious. should have worn shorts. went to walmart first. got 2 shirts from there. and it was freaking cheap. my elmo shirt was $1.50 and my bunny shirt was $2.50. 2 shirts for $4 bucks. heh. i know. and the fact that we should boycott walmart is just hard to do. with all their cheap stuff, i could spen a day there and not go over a few hundred bucks. went to all the other outlets. gap, old navy, banana republic. got jamba juice since we were burned by the heat. the car was worst than a suana. wanted to get ghiradelli chocolates since there was an outlet but was afraid it would melt. pity. bought quite a number of stuff but not as much as joyce and janet. haha. they literally went crazy. had dinner with rest of the family. they went to cache creek to play. ate at applebees but we were all sooo full we all had leftovers. had a 1.5 hour drive home and i was sleeepy. plus there was school the next day too. showered and slept.

LASTEST UPDATE:

i'm going to have to endure a close to 14hours flight to hong kong on the 25 of july. so dreading it. plus i ll be alone too. hope i get the window seat plus some nice person beside me. no one that smells please or is so big sized that he has to spread his hands and legs so wide i barely have space to sleep. better still, may the plane be empty so i can get the whole seat to myself. i mean like 3 seats. i'm serious here. it happened before and a couple of times too. will be spending one week there so i wont be in singapore till august 1. leaving singapore either on 14 or 15 depending on whether the flight is full on 15. the cool thing is, i only have to pay 72 bucks in total. 2 way trip okay. haha. no. i ll be using my mileage points. 60,000 in all. mom says its saved up from the time i started to travel. pretty amazing. now i realize how much i travel. okay. i knew that a loing time ago. but at the same time, its pretty sad or rather a pity that im using it for this occasion. could be used to go somewhere nice you know. anyways, CAN'T WAIT!





happy 18th birthday!

Saturday, July 12, 2008
YESTERDAY WAS AWESOME!! thanks everyone for all your wishes and gifts and letters! i shant name everyone here or my hands will ache like how my legs are aching now. haha. 18th birthdays can never get any better!

so i had an early celebration on sunday with their relatives and cousins, some of which i dont even know. there was lots of good food. imagine 3 trays of sushi and tons of other stuff. nothing beats that. though im spoilt and didnt get my haagen daaz cake, they got me a mango raspberry sponge and it was so good, i couldnt even get a second slice. boo. now im craving for cake. played lots of games that day too. was fun other than me having to worry about doing my psychology work since i had a test the next day. but it turned out well. got 120/100. hahaha. she's way too nice in giving points. i bet 99% of the class got As.



so yesterday, still had to go to school. in fact, it was the last day of my history class. but anyways, went for psycholgy class first. didnt do much. broke into small groups and talked about stress but we started doodling on a piece of paper. it was soo funny. i should have taken a photo of it. maybe another time. left for history class and we did our sharing of the interview projects. was soo bored. i spoke for less than 3 minutes i think. but it wasnt counted in the scores so i didnt care. got my our tests and this is where i got mad. ruin my day. okay not really. so i calcualted all my scores for the tests and assignments and if i gave myself full points for attendence and participation, i got 4 marks beyond an A. so i was really happy. but i asked her to make sure how many points i would get for attendence. and she kinda hesistated. she was like i cant give you full points cos you werent here for 3 days. blah blah blah. like she didnt believe that i went for the institute. i only had the flyer with me so i showed it to her since she asked me to show her sth. and she went oh its just a flyer. i m like what do u want me to show you. its academic stuff hello. nto liek i went for vacation. although it did feel like one. haa. she was like email me and we ll think of something. maybe you can do extra credit stuff. i went blank. class is over hello. who wants to deal with more history. cant u just say that u ll deduct four points and then i ll still get my A? so im kinda worried now. but we ll see.


went to eat after class since i had an hour before the sweeney ridge clean up. had eggs that uncle jackson made for me in the morning. apparently we re suppose to have eggs on our birthday. no idea what that means but i had a pretty hard time eating it. i mean egg whites are fine but the yolk is argh. but i felt bad if i didnt eat it so i forced myself. it was all out of good. met kelnia and bianca at the top of the parking lot. i havent climbed that many flight of stairs in such a long time. what a hill. whoever parks there is nuts. seriously. it was funny cos we were waiting at the other end. ashley and dr case was at one end and we were at the other. good thing they came to find us or we ll be waiting for like forever. got gloves and bags and started to clean up. there were just so many weird stuff that people throw/litter. found tons of pieces of parking paper, plastic bags, a bra, marijuana bag, condoms, broken glass from bottles, a shoe and so many other stuff. was a quick clean up. think we only spent one hour. then dr case drove us back to civilization. haha. oh yes we saw a deer! a wild deer on the school campus! our school is located in a national park so theres wild animals there. apparently, one tenth of the mountain lions reside there. dont think i want to see one though. i guess it would be kinda cool. WILD animals not easy to find okay. dr case's car is bloody nice. its a red mercedes benz and its 2 doors too. she 's really nice outside of class. we even know where she lives now. haha. walked around finding phi theta stuff. now we know where the stuff are kept. stayed at the library while waiting for pe class to start. surprisely i didnt feel tired other than my legs aching now.


went home and ate. only janet was home. watched a lil tv and yes, mom and dad sent me a parcel! not that i was surprised since she told me the previous night. i felt like i was opening a christmas sticking. literally. i was pulling stuff out continuosly. i love them to bits and i actually felt quite bad. they spent so much money on me. the parcel alone for delivery was 160 sin dollars so imagine how much the total was. there was just so many gifts in there.


got 2 bags, one backpack, one sling bag and in the sling bag was a puzzle globe (pooh bear), a stand to clip small notes, a birthday bear and mouse, and a bear from hp. bet they got it from the it convention. there was a forever friends bear dressed up as a princess. its sooo adorable. it was sitting on a box saying our little princess. awww. now i have a pair of forever friends bear. one from last year and i got them married. haha. there was a jewelery box too. kinda kiddish but whatever. it was cute. got 2 wireless mouse from my mom's company but the quality was bad. connection wasnt good. she even said that i could just dump it if it was bad. haha. i guess she has plenty. also got a bear holding champagne bottles and a usb. i'm over the mooon. talked to mom and dad over the phone for a while. i cant wait to go back now. still have a phone waiting for me. haha. im sooo spoilt! no seriously.


and on sun, got a top from auntie lynne and a cute card. its a golden retriever and when u open it, its barks. so cool. got another 2 tops from aunt elizabeth. grandma gave me a display thingy. its a little gold made out of gold studying. i know. haha. but its really cute. gave me 20 too. uncle noraman gave me a candle sitting in a star shaped thingy. cute. plus 20 bucks. uncle kenneth gave me 20 too. haha. im rich. duhh. kidding. j wong family got me a princess towel and necklace. was really nice. and joyce owes me an admission to harry potter land in universal studios. haha! im such a princess!


nothing much to do today. i really dont have studying to do now since for psychology, we get our essay questions days before and we can just copy our prepared answers. best summer! haha. friends coming over tomorrow. alright, till then, here's some pictures.....






kiddy jewelery box.

the married couple. arent they adorable..
the little princess
i stripped her. her dress is so glittery i cant put her on my bed or my sheets will become shiny. haha. nah. i dressed her back and she's sitting on top of my drawers.
i couldnt wait to put it together. i got such a hard time. but its all done now. slept at 1.30 doing this okay. haha.
the hp bear
can i really drink at 18? dream on! its 21 mommy! haha. but its really cute still.
dad got me a mouse. looks like a bowling balll head.
note stand. the card is small and really cute.
princess card. seriously, im turning into a princess
the family portrait. missing the 2 bags.
will never forget my 18th birthday. theres more to come. cant wait till i get back to singapore!


fireworks!

Saturday, July 05, 2008
im soooo gonna have trouble sleeping tonight with all the fireworks going off. people are like having fireworks going off at random times. i remember last year, there were fireworks at 4am! good thing there's no school tomorrow or i ll make sure i ll put off fireworks onto their house. alright. i sound so negative and bitter because no one's home or we ll have fireworks too. boohoo. i want the colors back!


hopkins


Its the forth of july! happy independence day! haha.

side note: what happened to the colors??

anyway, its a public holiday but it doesnt make much of a difference to me since i dont have school on fridays anyway. everyone's out, well almost. the usual people are here playing mahjong again so im cooped up in my room. went out for lunch just now for vietnamese noodles and it sure satisfied my cravings. haha. came home and watched soo many videos on abc. watched i survived a japanese game show, duel and hopkins plus a mix of others since i wasnt that interested. hopkins was really insightful. nearly made me tear. its like grey's anatomy but definitely more real. the soundtrack is really great too. i wanna get it if i see it. theres so many things that i wanna get now. its time to go shopping! mom got me a phone too. apparently everyone in the family got one except for her. lol. i got the nokia 6500, dad got n78 and bro got the n81. we're such spoilt brats. i swear we change our phones like every 1.5 years or at least 2. hope the battery doesnt swell again though. and i wanna get my sms back. change plan!!

im bored nowww. boohoo. maybe i should go play rock band. =) although i have a psychology exam to do. yes, we get to take home our exams or sort of. she gave us the question paper and we can write notes and bring it to class to copy it. or rather write the whole essay and just transfer it to another piece of paper. how great. i better get my a or im considered useless. =) i need to go watch wall-e tooo. im getting so random now. alright tired of typing. i shall go play first. and i just remembered i have to finish reading the great deluge on hurricane katrina so i can write my book report. i still cant get over the fact that i need to do community service on my birthday. wont get home till 7pm too. grrr....