under the blue sky

So today, I had the ultimate epiphany in regards to my story. It’s really going to change it from how I was originally going to write it but I think this change will be good. Mwahaha… really good. It may take awhile for me to actually come up with writing it out so yah… posting the story (or at least part of it) may be delayed further. D=

I went to the driving range today with my boyfriend and his coworker. She showed me how to hold the golf club and the whole swinging motion. Its all in the hip, baby! I did small shots because I still lack a lot of control. Yet, it was really fun because I was actually able to get the ball off the ground. Exciting! The furthest I hit was 67 yards. Haha… not bad for me. I hope to go again to the driving range and eventually take golf lessons. I think it would be fun in the future and for brownie points! XD

Anyways, tomorrow is Europan sandwich day! Mmm… open face egg salad sandwich. I look forward to it. I’ve been craving it for 2 weeks now. =9

So… I haven’t updated this in a little over a month. Not bad, in my opinion since previously I didn’t update for a like over a year… I’m still working on the same story idea, which hasn’t gotten very far… (-_- ) Again, I’m writing bits and pieces here and there, whatever I want to write about basically.

Work has been keeping me very busy during the day as of late. I’ve been doing things such as managing/monitoring in-game activities, answering our customer support tickets, moderating the forums, and whatever side projects my boss gives me. It’s good. It really is. The only problem is MY PAY. I haven’t gotten a raise yet… and I’m not exactly too sure when it happens. I was told it happens during the 4th quarter. We’ll see.

Yesterday was one of my friends birthday. Andy turned 24. Geez, I feel old. I’m like not OLD OLD but the years do pass by fast nowadays. I knew Andy since junior high when he use to copy off my tests and I did have a crush on him during my emo phase, hah. We (meaning Thai, Teresa, Patrick, Victor, and I) met up with Andy and his peoples at Dave & Busters for some drinks. I don’t really enjoy drinking too much so I always volunteer to be DD. I only had a Midori Collins that night. I thought about getting a mojito but that stuff really gets me buzzed fast. Now my buzz isn’t a WOOO I R HAPPEH!!11! It’s more like, ‘oh snaps… my vision is slowing down.’ Concluding the night, they down Patron equila shots. I dislike the smell of Patron. We all have Patron stories as quote from the QA manager at my work. After that one crazy night that involved 4 shots, a couple of girly drinks, a car ride, and yakking in a bag and throwing it away like a good girl, and lastly tucked myself into bed, no more tequila for me. That was one crazy night I do not want to repeat… Haha. Anyways, hopefully I’ll post something soon from my story.

Here I am just back home in my room after work and taking a trip with my boyfriend down memory lane as we were at USC for about an hour. Afterwards, we headed to West LA to his sisters’ apartment before heading out to a burger joint called The Counter. Good burgers there indeed and taste best with a nice fried egg on top.

So I’ve been trying to get into the habit of doing more of my story writing. It’s been on my mind a lot so really I just need to sit down and write it all out. Everytime I come up with a scene for the story, I write it down. I have bits and pieces here and there. I should have something posted up soon, not a complete draft though. This one is called Remember Spring. Because of something I started 10 years ago (gosh, do i feel old) I use Japanese names for all my characters and it always takes place in Japan. It helps now that I’ve actually been there. Aha! Maybe within a couple of days I’ll have something up. More later.

Hi again. I’ve decided to blog again after realizing I have a blog and I want to start posting my short fictions. I have story ideas buzzing around my head that drive me insane day and night. So without further adieu, I’m going to start posting snippets of my writing, which will vary due to whatever idea is driving me insane. I’ll also post my edits though I’m not sure how many people would be even reading this… Haha.. but you get the idea. I’ll also post other random ramblings if I get around to it.

On a random note, I’m currently infatuated with Nana the Japanese movie with Mika Nanashima as Nana Oosaki. I’m listen to Nana starring Mika Nakashima Glamorous Sky over and over. Also Reira starring Yuna Ito’s Endless Story. Both are very good songs by very pretty and talented performers.

I find the Nana movie and manga very different. I must say I watched the movie then read the manga. The movie had a more serious overtone which I enjoyed a lot more. Nana was a stronger woman, cooler, like she knew what she was doing. It was definitely one of the few Japanese movies I really enjoyed. Shinobi was utter crap by the way. Lalalala… yeah… Nana starring Mika Nanashima rocked. I look forward to seeing movie 2, which doesn’t have many of the original actors but meh Maruyama Tomomi who plays Yasu is coming back so thats all that matters… well Mika, Yuna, and Hiroki too. =)

The last semester of my undergraduate years have been long over. In Mid-April I had my finals which were the longest finals I have taken in the 16 years I spent in an educational institution. The required global business seminar class final took about 3 hours… 45 minutes per essay there being 3 essays to write. The capstone final took well over 3 hours to complete, also with 3 essays. We were allowed to bring our laptops to both finals. There was only a hand full of students in seminar, but capstone was everybody majoring in business. Some people there did not have laptops. Props to writing by hand straight for 3 hours.

Well, now it’s May Term and I have never been to relaxed! This is only my 2nd May Term. So I forget how empty the campus can be and how strange it is to be going to school here in Redlands during this time. (My first May Term to Japan was cancelled due to SARS, I spent the 2nd May Term on campus, 3rd I was in Japan still, 4th… we’ll I’m here now.) Everyday I find myself chatting with my roommates and Heather, which I consider our 5th roommate cause she’s always here! I don’t have much time to be lazy and lounge around though I can’t seem to stop myself from taking naps during day. Lately, Heather and I have been speaking about going to Canadia. It’s been finalized that we are going and flights and hotels have been booked. We’re going to go in a little more than a month from now. I think it would be an awesome time and to enjoy Quebec. Yes, I said Quebec. I get to visit my roommate I had when I was in Japan a year ago, Nicole. She’s from Montreal and I look forward to seeing her again.

Next week, I will be attending Electronics Entertainment Expo, e3, at the LA Convention Center. I will be attending the three days with the founder of Denmark’s Entertainment Trading. It will be definately a good time, good leads, and make fun of Nintendo’s Wii. Wow, that sounds bad. Besides spending the last 2 weeks making fun of the new name, Wii is the sound of fun, and when we have fun we shout Wii not XBOX360! Though as a new running joke, (around my geeky friends) I’m going to say PS3 every time I have fun. Hopefully, it won’t be a habit. More reports later!

Yesterday, I managed to crawl off my bed at 8am on a SUNDAY to attend the Tau Pledge Social they organized. It was breakfast and bowling. How early to be bowling! Anyways, it was a good time and well-organized by my little bro, Coty. If there were any problems, she must have encoutered in them in the beginning since it was pretty much smooth sailing all morning.
I came back to my apartment to chill and be interviewed by 2 pledges. Two great kids. They will benefit well from the Fraternity.

So… my boyfriend was here since Saturday night. On Sunday, we were suppose to watch ‘Failure to Launch’ movie at 2:35. Sara had watched the movie two days before and she liked it. Matthew McConaughey was good-looking as usual but Sarah Jessica Parker usually doesn’t look as good-looking as people say she is. Well, I don’t find her so hot. I think its her nose. Anyways, seeing the previews for the movie and such I found her to be pretty good-looking for the movie. Maybe it was her make-up and her hair that made all the difference but she looked good I have to admit. Oh wells, next week I will see the movie.

So anyways, my boyfriend took me food shopping instead where he was extremely claustrophobic at Trader Joe’s. Silly thing. After that we went to Vons so I can buy juice and bread and whatever random goodies. I bought sirloin ground beef so I can make hamburger helper and/or speghetti. My boyfriend helps me lug all my food back into the apartment and he left afterwards. It’s his spring break and he’s working all week. ;(

At night I went to my usual General Business Meeting for the Fraternity. I cracked an Asian joke as usual. It was about how UCR was going full-out for SharkFest like making up dances for the contest etc. I responded “Because they’re all Asian.” You’d have to know what the Fraternity is all about– culture wise etc. to get the joke.

So… as my day ends, I look into the freezer because I was just looking around. I couldn’t find my BEEF! It was $4.31 for less than a pound of sirloin beef! I frantically search for my beef (Sara helped too) because last semester one of my roommates ate my beef. I dug through the fridge and I looked through the Freezer again. There it was… my beef behind some boxes of food. I sighed a relief and Sara laughed because she’s never seen me frantically search for beef before. I’m sure people misplace their beef all the time, right? Anyways, thank god I found my beef. <3

So I decided to have a blog. It’s quite a major step in my life since recently I decided to go onto facebook. I’m not a fan of these online ‘cool people’ socializing trends though I am a internet junkie. You want to talk Internet? Let’s talk Internet.

It hailed today. Like I screamed ‘OH MY GOD!’ in my room as I heard it come down. I went over to Lydia’s room where we watched the hail come down and people running outside to play in the hail. To play in the hail? Damn, that is really stupid. I think it snowed a tiny bit after. It was almost unnoticeable because it literally became rain. It would have been nice to see it snow since a very long time ago it snowed in Redlands, and it is my last semester here. I would only come back to visit people, etc. I’m lucky to see snow when I was abroad in Osaka, Japan. It was like a week after I arrived in Spring 2005 it ‘furried’ a bit. It was still snow to this southern California girl. The most beautiful and softest thing. Too bad it was fuckin cold trugging to class 8:30am in the morning because it took 30 minutes to walk to the main campus! Anyways, it was nice to blast the heater all day today… mmm…