TOMORROW (or today!) IS MY LAST DAY OF FRESHMAN YEAR IN COLLEGE! EEEEEEEEEEEEEE :) :) 

EVEN THOUGH I know no one will really read this, I think it's pretty fitting to blog right now, considering that I only blog when I feel like procrastinating.. and also considering that I've deactivated my facebook for a week (to not get distracted), I need to go on xanga to update my life and distract myself before I DIVE INTO MY PAPER DUE TOMORROWWW.

SOO, I feel extremely happy right now because reflecting upon my first year in college, it seems like more has happened to me than I could have ever DREAMED OR ASKED FOR.  Honestly, thinking back, I've realized how much I've accomplished and grown throughout this year.. I'm so thankful for the amazing opportunities that I've had and the wonderful people that have walked into my life..  =')  teardrop moment.

I'm not kidding when I say that almost all of my dreams/resolutions/hopes in LIFE (not even for my freshman year) have happened to me.. 

maybe it's just that I feel so jittery & happy now because I just received a twitter comment from AJ Rafael: "ajrafael@AILEENwithitt aileeeen. we gott ta jam this summer..." HEHEHEHE YES!!

I can't believe that in the course of one year, I have met all the YouTube/Internet-famous people that I have ever wished to meet.. Here's the list:

--WONG FU! at ISA Concert.. AND now they personally know me because they watched me at rehearsal for the CASA Culture Show :) 

--Jennifer Chung, also at ISA Concert

--Olivia Thai, obviously because she played my beloved mommy

--Far East Movement (well, kind of.. they performed at the culture show haha)

-- saw AJ Rafael, Cathy Nguyen,  & Randolph at a hot wings restaurant.. and it was THEM who noticed me first and said hi :)  I was sooo pleasantly surprised because that's the first time I saw them all in person!

--Quest Crew @ USC  & plus my "great grand big sis" in the sorority used to date Steve Terada so he knows me on facebook HAHA i'm a loser.

--Marie Digby, last week because she performed at USC .. I even got to talk to her & told her about her songs that I covered on Youtube!  She was so excited to hear about it and told me to send her the links online.  I sent it to her through MySpace, and she replied telling me that she really liked them and liked how I changed up a few songs YAY I'm noticed by my inspiration!!   (P.S. She's the reason I started my YouTube channel in the first place.. I only wanted to make one to cover her songs!)

--I guess you can count David Choi, Kina Grannis & Gabe Bondoc too, because I saw them at Kollaboration, butttt hopefully I will get a chance to meet meet them one day :)

BUT STILL, I'm more grateful to have met the people that I've grown close to at USC & in AGC (greeek world), and am super excited to live in the apartment with my suitemates + new friends next year!  I don't want to get all sentimental right now because no one at USC/AGC really know about my xanga, so I'll just leave it at that :)

Sigh, I'm just so happy with this year.  I'm glad that I did the culture show; it was one of my "summer resolutions" last year to finally perform/sing on stage.. & although it was a bit late, I did it !  We also recorded the soundtrack for the show a couple weeks ago, so I'm looking forward to the DVD+Soundtrack release coming up!  If any of you are interested, you can buy each for $15 or BOTH for $25!  Just contact me :) 

Yeah, but aside from that, I'm glad that I kept my grades semi-decent.. as long as I am above (or around..lol) 3.5 I am happy :)  Yay.  But next year I will continue working on the going to class part.. HAHA at least all of my classes are scheduled 12PM and after.  I'll worry about school later on; right now I'm just stoked and soo soo soo excited to FINISH MY LAST PAPER OF THE YEAR and head STRAIGHT FOR SUMMER!   I only have one final exam on friday, and a final paper due the tuesday after, which is not bad at all.  So I consider myself free after 4pm tomorrow. 

Def looking forward to summer.. my plans:  SINGAPORE for 2 weeks, Online summer class (microecon), short internship course, internship @ E! Entertainment Channel in the wardrobe dept for E! News (SOO STOKED, can't wait to meet ryan seacrest.. HAHA), possibly find a job around Rowland, invest in a good acoustic guitar & play/write music! (possibly some collabs on YouTube?), HANG OUT WITH ROWLAND KIDS, DRINK BOBA AT TEA BAR, EAT BANANA/COCONUT BAY, oh god how much I miss & love Rowland Heights in the summertime :) :)   & many more surprises and adventures to come.. as always!


What are your summer plans?


xoxoxoxo,

the happiest, most grateful girl at 3AM who still needs to finish 5 more pages of her paper.

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:) ^ I was excited to see this! A couple weeks ago Phillip & Wes from Wong Fu came to watch our open rehearsal.. & I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THERE WERE THERE UNTIL THEY LEFT! The two guys stood up & started talking when we finished singing, and I was just staring at them thinking, "Wow they look so familiar, is that guy in my class? ..... .. OH WAIT NO ITS THE WONG FU GUYS!" And then they left. :( I wanted to bump into them at Kollaboration later that night butttttttttt, I guess not. I wanted to bump into BoA too but I guess not. BUT I did see Kaba Modern and MIKE SONG, who was THIS |----| close to me :)

Anyway, life has been pretty eventful and I've been grateful to have all this happening around me! So much stuff going on with the show, just had my formals last Saturday and officially became an active for Sigmas, FINISHED THE WALTZ which I miss doing so much, halfway done with midterms.. okay it doesn't sound like a lot but somehow these things have been taking up all my time for the past month or two! But this week marks the week where the CASA Culture show "peaks," as my director would say... & although everything feels very very last minute and crammed, I know we will pull it offfff. We already sold out the Bovard Auditorium (1,200 people)! GAH the pressure. So seriously.. last week I dedicated my life to the sorority/waltz/etc, but this weeek is entirely for the show. It scares me that we're already halfway through the week and every minute is ticking closer towards SATURDAY NIGHT. I'm super excited for the show but I will be sooo relieved when it's over; I'll FINALLY have time to chill, spend much needed time with my family, catch up a LOT on schoolwork, eat korean BBQ with Jane LOL, and the list goes on. But for now, I must focus on not tripping and falling on my face when I run around on stage..

Sooooooo, I hope to see some familiar xangan faces this saturday :) If not, it's okay.. there will prob be videos that I will post here haha. Ookay, back to work! PEACE.

P.S. Here is a video I did with Olivia a couple nights ago.. it was kind of last minute but we had fun with it! I know, she too crazy for me, but its okay haha. :)




ANNDDDD for ANYONE interested, I'm selling clubbing tickets $15 each, to LUST at Club Sugar TOMORROW.. It's a clubbing event hosted by USC, UCLA and UCI. You can pick up tickets from me here or meet me there!

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

Click on that and tell me if you see the dancer turning clockwise/counter-clockwise.

I just thought it was really trippy because I was filling out my housing application to live in the Arts & Humanities building.. and I was writing about how I am more interested in arts & music, etc. I mentioned that I was more right-brained than left, and googled "right brain" to double check if I didn't mix the two up.. then I found this dancer thing, and clearly saw the dancer turning clockwise. It distracted me for a moment.. a long moment, actually haha. I really tried to focus on it but could not get it to turn anti-clockwise. Then I went on and started to do my marketing homework and downloading powerpoints online & whatnot. I left the site open, and when I went back to it to close the window, I realized that I was seeing the dancer turn ANTICLOCKWISE. What. The. Heck. It was so trippyyyyyy. So, now the dancer will not stop turning counter-clockwise and it is driving me nuts. Did I just lose my right-brained creativeness? Maybe if I go play piano for an hour and come back the dancer will be spinning clockwise again... ?


Hope that entertained you for a while, back to work!

So over break I've been pretty MIA, but alas, silently keeping up with the xanga community :)  Finally, I feel it's time for me to speak up.. haha.

This winter has been probably one of my most unproductive winter breaks ever, but I don't really mind.  Usually I set goals of the people I want to see, the things I want to do, the songs I want to learn on piano, etc, but this time I made no plans and hoped that life would flow smoothly with spontaneous outings to keep me entertained.  So I've been extremely chill and taking life as it comes... waking up at 2 or 3PM everyday, being out but doing nothing, shopping, eating, singing, and watching movies until 3 or 4 AM, and repeating this everyday along with random adventures that came along the way I guess.  Yeah, I know I sound very lazy, but that's me.  Haha.  Some notable things that I did were going snowboarding with cousins (with my new snowboard :D), Christmas with family (and putting on a last-minute-rehearsed-Christmas-show -- we've done a Christmas show every year since I can ever remember -- with my cousins), hanging out with Rowland kidsssss :), meeting Wilson's half Indian-half Chinese cousin from Germany who speaks British English and taking her shopping and clubbing at Avalon (she was shocked at how Americans dance so dirty and unclassy.  In Germany they actually dance hip hop -- think Chris Brown freestyle -- in the clubs; the guys dance more than the girls, and a lot of them are model-looking, half black boys who have six packs and are 2 meters tall. HAHA.), CityWalk & YES plaza for new years, going to a wedding, meet/hanging out with CASA Culture Show cast, and... learning to buck from Elvis.  Haha, apparently I'm not angry enough to look the part. 

Oh, the bad bad luck of my break is that my wallet AND camera were stolen in the locker room at the gym  :((((   incredibly sad about that..  it's such a hassle cause I had to wait at the DMV for 2 hours to get a temp license, wait for new license, credit/debit card in the mail, and get a new school ID.  UGHHHH.  I only had $40 in my wallet but everything else in there were things that were only important to ME but not anyone else, such as:  pictures of everyone from prom, Starbucks giftcard, Mt High points card, Red Cross donor card, Buddhist good-luck-charm, SIM card for my new phone (which is why my phone has not been working for this week, T-Mobile has to cancel that SIM and do their magic to transfer whatever..), etc.  Blahhhhh.

Anywho, I just wanted to say that I am quite ready to start school!  I've visited Riverside this week & hung out with Wilson, Toan, Jane, and Harrison.  It's so nice to be there cause you bump into so many Rowland people :)  I never see any familiar faces at my school.  Sigh.  But yeah, being there and sitting in a class with Wilson and Jane put me into school-mode and eager to start the new semester!  And as for New Year's Resolutions?  I still have my list from last year posted on my Stickies on my computer.  Most of them I'd like to keep, but I'd probably add "Get a 4.0 this semester" and "Make more friends at USC" to the list.  Like Lillian, I want to make more girl friends.. girls who are not there just as party buddies or to only talk about boys with, just girls I can be myself around and not have to feel like I'm trying to impress anyone.  Girls who have some depth and will talk to you about beyond-the-surface-subjects.  Honestly the only girls I talk to outside of the sorority are my two suitemates, Stephanie & Swati (who invented the 4308 Suite ghost.. HAHA)  They're the only ones I think I can be myself around, maybe because I live with them and have gotten used to them?

On a side note, my teeth are getting more crooked than ever, and I suspect that it's because my tongue pushes out my bottom teeth and so when I bite down, my bottom teeth push out my top front teeth.. resulting in the resurrection of "Buck-tooth Billy" for the first time in 10 years.  Yep, fun fact of the day: one of my nicknames when I was given by my cousins as a kid was "Buck-tooth Billy" (Did I mention this before? I have a feeling I said this on xanga sometime before.. ) because when my teeth were coming out, my two front teeth stuck out but wouldn't fall off.. you know, when your teeth are halfway off the gum but not completely?   Yeah, that.  My dentist had to pull off my two front teeth because they wouldn't budge.  So now I'm wearing my very restricting and unfitting retainers in attempts to push my teeth back in but I don't think it's gonna help much.  :(  hello braces?  Oh, God.  I'll probably not do anything to my teeth, unless it gets really bad.. I want Invisi-line or something.