Wednesday, June 15, 2011
RA Sushi with Angela, May, Ruby and Diane. First day of training, meeting new staff.
Saturday, June 18
GRE at 12pm. Rented a Zipcar from 11am-5pm because the test is scheduled until 4pm. The Issue Essay was to take a position on whether or not to make hypotheses/theories without data for support. I talked about the double helix and the possibility of life on other planets. The essay at the end was something I already forgot about. Retake will be on July 18th. There were two sketchy-looking guys hanging out around my car, so I called Mom and talked on the phone with her until they left. I totally didn’t think how that would cut into the hour I gave myself to go to H-mart and drive back. With 30 minutes to go, I thought I could still make it, and turned on Alton to go grocery shopping. It was trafficky and far and I’m still not sure how, but I ended up at the District. I called at 4:59 and extended my reservation for 30 minutes, and then another 30 minutes when it was apparent I still wouldn’t have made it back in time. I drove around the school once since I still had time left, and Angela Poon called me and said stuff about going to get orange balloons. I thought we were going to Party City, so I said I’d make it back before 6. I got there and Crystal and Patty were going too. Turns out we were going to OC Great Park to take the big orange hot-air balloon 400 feet in the air to see the Irvine night sky. We learned later on that it was actually just a balloon gondola. It was 6:30 when we got our places in line and were told that our wait would be 1.5 hours, at 8:30. Well that was confusing. We took that loud buzzing thing and went to Denny’s and I had a hard time choosing what to order. I ended up getting three things, but made Patty order the pancake puppies for me because everyone else just ordered one thing. The chicken quesadilla was pretty good, and so was the breakfast plate I ordered. Everyone was all, thanks Colleen, I’m starving now. Really though, I did you guys a favor, because your appetites have increased, thus resulting in a greater appreciation and enjoyment of your food! So we ate, and I ate and ate and there were still pancake balls left, and for some reason it was extra funny when Patty said that. We split our bill and I ended up paying less than Crystal did by a few cents! Good job ordering from the value menu. I took a water to go, because the puppies left me parched. We went back to the Park a little before 8, just in case. We ended up waiting until 9:20 before we got on. In the meantime, we had fun talking about everything and nothing, then riding the merry-go-round and Angela and I watched and laughed ourselves into pieces as Crystal and Patty took suggestive pictures on the animals. I liked the mer-horse. No one wanted to go on the pig because it was too ugly. Crystal realized we were all single, and said we should have been picking up guys the whole night. We played Spin the Bottle with the lighty-up thing they gave us. Patty got Crystal, Angela got Patty, and Crystal got herself, which cracked us all up, since we were going on and on about how Crystal was so cocky. This was all before the merry-go-round. After that, we went outside on their playground for a bit, and it was one of those where it mimics a rainstorm and shows where the water goes relative to rivers and oceans and all those. I didn’t really understand it, but it reminded me of the one at one of the million National Parks we’ve been to. We took pictures with the big orange balloon and went back inside after a while. We talked about nothing again, only when “marijuana” came up, we got beeped! It was so exciting, only it had us wondering had we talked about pot sooner, we would have been on the balloon already. =) I wonder why everything was free though. I know it’s the OC, but where is the money coming from? Oh well. It made for a great double date. We finally got on, and it was so exciting! I don’t know how long we were up there, but it was absolutely amazing. (If I were to guess though, maybe 6-8 minutes?) The people waiting after us in the tent were so tiny when we were up there. It’s a good thing none of us were afraid of heights, or we would have missed out on an amazing experience. To top everything off, when we wondered out loud where Disneyland was, and the balloon attendant pointed to an area to behind us, we saw fireworks! Granted, they were so tiny we would have missed them if we hadn’t asked; plus I think the smog impaired our sight just a little. We descended after a while and I made some jokes about how the balloon would land on my side first, only it thumped right under Crystal’s feet. I’m happy the balloon was even able to lift off from the ground in the first place because I ate way too much at Denny’s. That day was one of the most exhilarating; one, because we were up so many feet in the air at zero dents to our wallets, and two, because I’m glad I was able to step out of my comfort zone to hang out with people I normally wouldn’t. We stopped by Albertson’s to rent a movie while Patty went to get her things and I went to get some conditioner. Angela and Crystal came with me and started talking about how Angela needed to get rid of her alcohol before she moved out the next day. It takes Crystal five shots to at least feel the buzz. That girl is crazy. After pushing each other in line for the movie rental and annoying the people behind us for being too rowdy and taking up two of the rental booths, we decided on “Green Hornet” and left for the apartment. Angela had to do ridiculous rounds throughout the night, twice an hour?, and I went with her. Rey finished up his shower and came over too, but he was so tired he mostly sat there falling asleep. The best part of the movie was the end where they camouflaged the car to run from the cops. It wasn’t great at all. Just about a couple of stupid guys running around playing with gadgets. The romance was there, but it was so lame. It was such a guy movie. Anyway, the credits kept rolling until someone changed it to the main menu, and that kept replaying and replaying. It was nice to just sit there and talk about nothing. Well, they talked about nothing; I was busy falling asleep. Good thing I didn’t snore 
) All in all, it was a good night. We all left the apartment around 4 in the morning and I went to bed when the sun was just about to come out. Good day.
Sunday, June 19
Worked late check-in with Alison. Christine taught me how to do the sublease check-in and I got to see Susan, Bonnie and Devika! I re-met this guy whose name I always think is Sam, but is actually Chris, from my 1LB way back during first year. The furniture got transferred to me that day too. 
Bonnie and Susan stayed to help me set up the cage as we talked on the phone to Vanessa making sure that they were getting them situated nicely.
Monday, June 20
I overestimated my own social skills. I can’t just up and hang out with everyone now, especially if one of them is Amanda. I had reservations spending more time than necessary with her, but I was attracted to hanging out with Crystal and Patty again. Plus, David was going, so how bad could it have been? Turns out, not that great. We ended up not going to the movies at all, but just out to eat at Sushilicious. We went in Amanda’s little rice car, and she was griping the whole way about work, about how she felt left out because we hung out before, and just everything in general. We got there, thankfully didn’t have to wait long in line, and sat down. Our waiter Alex was a cute guy, and when I say cute, I mean adorable kid cute, not dateable cute. Kind of like Cute Brandon cute. Apparently he was the new guy there and another waiter came to us and told one of us to give him a fake number on the way out. He told us he got three groups of people to do that to him earlier in the day, which blew up his confidence and ego, which was probably why he was being extra nice to us. I ended up writing a number down after much argument with David that he probably should have done it. We left after that and yay for no more hanging out with Amanda. I know how Vanessa and Kenneth must feel when people come to visit not because of them, but because of the bunnies.
Sunday, June 26
Susan’s dad drove us back to Irvine and treated us out to some delicious Capital Seafood, or was it Sam Woo? It was located in a plaza with Petco, and that reminded me that I was running low on litter. I checked out a Zipcar, and this was the day I found out Priuses are really not my thing. I felt bad for making Susan and Bonnie wait, but I had to call them to make sure that the car was turned completely off in case it drained the batteries. I asked the Zipcar lady, who thankfully was understanding and nice, to change my reservation to the Civic. I’m not too sure what happened, but I guess my first reservation wasn’t canceled, just written over so that I had two cars checked out. Good thing I only had to pay for an hour extra. We didn’t plan things out well, because we got kind of lost on the way to Petco and couldn’t find it at all, tried Target, only it was Sunday and it closed early, and drove around some more, getting lost to a point where we were expecting to be approaching Jamboree, only the sign said it was Juneberry! We finally found our way out and decided to go to H-mart since I had half an hour on the clock and everything else already closed. That was also the night I didn’t see a car coming and had to turn really quickly. I was surprised after it happened that I didn’t swerve at all! That car brings out the best driving in me.
Monday, June 27
Checked out the Civic again to take Simon grocery shopping at Albertson’s and to finally get the litter. First time scraping the car against the fence due to my terrible parking. I can no longer say the only thing I’ve ever run into is the curb. We dropped off his stuff at Park West and he asked if anyone wanted to go with us to get food at Aloha. Spencer and Martin came. I felt so bad. I know it’s wrong but I came to rely too thoroughly on Simon to tell me where to go and when to turn and change lanes. I changed lanes without really checking and cut off someone, who honked really loud at me. But on the bright side, I didn’t swerve again! We pulled into the parking in front of Aloha and I parked so bad. I had to extend the car for another 30 minutes because I thought we’d be staying to eat longer. I should have thought that I was eating with guys who eat faster than Simon. I dropped them off and had way too much time on the clock still, so I called Susan to see if she was still at the ARC and she was! I picked her, Bonnie and Jenny up, and we went inside to see Jenny’s apartment. I liked their room and giant closet that spanned a whole wall.
Wednesday, July 13
Don’t know what happened that night, but most of the Posse was on Facebook and mass spammed everyone with likes, comments and everything. Notifications popping up everywhere made me feel special (:
Thursday, July 14
Jenny, Susan, Simon and I went to Spectrum. HPDHP2 premiere, and there were people dressed up everywhere. There was a Mad-Eye moody, I think a Bellatrix, lots of Harrys and regular school wizards, and this lady with a giant emerald velvet cape that dragged on the ground. We had Johnny Rocket’s. I meant to keep ordering fries since they were unlimited, but couldn’t. Saw Clever, Kevin Limtao and their Evenstar people. So jealous they’re still so close! And they wore some matching t-shirts.
Monday, July 18
Second GRE. Math: 720, didn’t finish the last question! Verbal: 550 ): Sped through the new GRE stuff to get my scores. Day to unwind from all the stress and go watch Harry Potter with the same people we watched Part 1 with, plus Karen and Anthony. Flamebroiler first though. We were out from 5-11:30. $30 for Zipcar cancellation, so never doing that again. Target after, where I got carded for compressed air.
–>I was the only one who noticed Harry’s green eyes when Snape was looking into them as he was dying “We were in Japan actually, when it was released. And uhm, the Japanese version hadn’t come out, but the English version was out there. So I got it, and cause I was on Holiday, I turned my phone off so nobody could tell me. I blitzed through it in like two days. I couldn’t put it down. I remember I was on the bullet train, and the part what happens to Fred, and I was like, (makes a distressed sound). And literally at that second, the ticket guy came around, asking for my ticket, and I was like, “I just died, mate, leave me alone!”—James Phelps, on reading the last book.
–>4. Hedwig and HERMIONE’S NOT AN OWL.
Hermione: Ronald would like me to tell you, that Seamus told him, that Dean was told by Parvati that Hagrid’s looking for you.
Harry: Well you can tell Ron that—
Hermione: I’M NOT AN OWL!
Thursday, July 21
Yen and I went to Souplantation. Called me from her car getting out of her Anatomy final, but I had discussion at 12. So I ran back to our place by 1 and then we went! I extended my break until three, to give us ample time to get back. Yay for Hello Kitty Yogurtland later in the day! Fot the red HK one. Need to get blue Chococat later. Green Kerropi and pink My Melody in a month. Ana snapped at Jenny for alcoholic references. Took me completely by surprise. Susan and I biked back to CV from the bookstore. I miss Helen’s bike.
Friday, July 22
Souplantation again with Susan. Buy 1 lunch and two drinks and get other lunch free. Crunchy island pineapple tossed salad, island coconut chicken and lime soup, kind of like a curry. The sourish, spicyish kind. Mango coconut mousse, taste was great, texture made me want to puke after a while. Around $14, Susan treated (so nice of her!), and I paid almost $18 for the car. No Civic, so I went with the Mazda. Scary drive. It goes into manual too. And I got scared. Emergency brake. It shuddered like a manual drive. I figured it out and then it was fine after that. I was scared because I couldn’t accelerate fast enough for a left turn and got honked at. Dropped Susan off, and the clock said it was the 56 or 54 or something, and I’m all yay! Just in time, when I locked the door, it was the 51 -_- oh well. Back to work, cleaned out rabbits, first time in a while, so it was gross and smelly. Took about an hour. Crystal said she needed to get a pink shirt, and I’m now waiting for her call so David, Rey, she and I can go. The Proposal was on the other night. Rey, Crystal and I went to the District and sat in front of the fountain in front of AMC and talked until late. 11? It’s funny how that always seems to happen.
Saturday, July 23
Jenny to Fashion Island. Almond pretzel and their raspberry lemonade from Auntie Anne’s. Victoria’s Secret. Dress from F21. 18something +tax.
Monday, July 25
Susan bought me half-dozen Krispie Kremes! So nice of her! First time in 8-9 years?
Thursday, July 28
Susan and I went to Berkeley Dog and had funnel cake fries, then Yogurtland. Did we watch Inception and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days that night? Regardless, it was fun.
Saturday, July 30
Ma’s birthday party
Lots of family
Babies! I surprisingly got along well with them
Pictures! Timmy and Isabelle, good thing she doesn’t understand our language. Because I talked shit about her mom thinking it was Moi.
Monday, Aug 15
IKEA with girls, dinner there
Helped pick out shower curtains, got fish ice tray
Tuesday, August 16
Vanessa took her rabbits back. $65 for 8 weeks! Rudy prank called me and scared the crap out of me: from Western Union, asked about everyone I know, kept going on about getting lunch. Susan, Rudy and I went to Tacos ‘n Co. First time I backstabbed donut aunt and bought a 95cent donut from someone else; it wasn’t all that great. Visited Puerta, so pretty! Bathrooms are huge and nice. Makes up for the crowded room by a lot.
Thursday, August 18
Rey, Angela. Juno in the TV Room for a little, reservations for Sushilicious. $4 for red plates, and something for pink plate ($2.50?) Good thing UCI students get the $2 deal. 6 plates for me. The night would have been weird without Angela chattering away.
Saturday, August 20
Aithuan, Simon, Jenny, Mike, Brian. Egg pudding shaved snow at Balcony Grill at DJ was amazing, but the rest of the food was just okay. Pricey though. All of us squished in the car, me sitting on the floor on the way there and Aithuan on the way back. No entry. Starbucks walking on the way back so I could finally get the cake pop back for Maria. Birthday one for me, and we disturbed everyone studying in there. Dirty looks all around. Jenny was being bitchy to me when I didn’t know how to use the TV Guide on the remote, mean to Brian when he didn’t know how to play Mahjong.
Monday, August 22
That ass Rudy prank called me again in a girl voice, Billy!, around 10, picked me up at 10:30 and promised it would be a couple of hours max. I was sleepy and tired, so I knew I wouldn’t feel as awkward with new people. It surprised me Christina knew everyone, so I was the only new one. She and Vikram were in Wilson’s hall first year. We thought John was going to beat up Rudy after he told us they slapped each other, the same John Susan and I watched Rudy dog that day in front of Subway while eating the backstabbing donut. Haircut is an alcoholic drink. Camino for the first time! Rudy was being actually very nice, telling Christina to keep me company while he left the room. They were photoshopping Oompa Loompas, Guess You! was fucking boring. Chris-topher was a bitch, so were the rest of their friends, so good thing they left. I still don’t understand why Apples to Apples is such a fun game, Mario Party, Smash a little, pool which I sucked at. Stayed up talking and wanting to go back, and finally left around 5:30. 7 hours! Talked crap about Dallas right in front of him as he was thrashing around. He’s nice but total douche bag potential. Went to sleep at 6:45, woke at 11:15ish. I realize that’s 4.5 hours, so right on the cycle, so I wasn’t as tired as I could have been. Still tired though.
Thursday, August 25
Kenneth and Vanessa’s great idea to have a Dumpling-Making, Potluck Dinner Party & Game Night! I thought a carton of ice cream was too little to go around so I went across the street to get another. Very convenient. Ana was being dramatic, Jenny was not being that nice. Made pork dumplings, Susan’s ants on a log, Jenny’s deviled eggs, Simon’s fried rice, Aithuan’s cookies and my ice cream together to make sandwiches were all good. New Taboo was fun. Pooping man came up a lot. Simon called Martin to drop me off at CV. His dad’s truck, Kat shifted gears, the 4 of us were squished into the front row, cops! They followed the cops back after dropping me off apparently.
Tags: eating, GRE, harry potter
