Happy memorial day

Happy memorial day, everyone! Today is a day to commemorate all those who sacrificed their lives and future just to make sure we have a future as bright as today. *Moment of silence.

Jazz Reggaein' all up in my window. Enjoying the bright breezy day from my room, while studying on my roommate's desk for my upcoming midterm. Life is just peachy.

It's been an interesting weekend. Started out with Thursday night hitting the clubs and waiting for the bus at 2am and going to bed at 5 in the morning to crazy beach adventures in Santa Monica and being stranded past midnight with no working bus, to uneventful Saturday filled with memorable culture-rich SPCN performance at Royce to productive Sunday afternoons. Finished my 5 page study guide for my O-chem midterm wednesday and got upset with my boyfriend over the stupid things. Had to fall asleep to his voice on the phone (I swear that boy is too patient with me, more than I deserve) and waking up to more frustration (I think by now I realized I'm major PMS-ing which is when I get irritated at my boyfriend for no reason) and then somewhat productive day.

About to enjoy my hot (probably now cooled) cup noodle--shrimp flavored! Cause that is just how I roll. It's like a cup of cancer, msg and preservatives all in one. And I am breaking out so bad. I feel like a dried prune. But things will get better, I hope. They always do.

How is your day going so far? Lemme know :)

Sprinkles ice cream?

Dannng! It looks like Sprinkles is trying to take over the world! First, a cupcake ATM and now an ice cream store? I applaud their efforts in expanding their horizons just to bring in the customers. I've never actually been to the place before but I want to! And now, I really want to try this ice cream place, it looks legit! God, this picture is making my mouth water already, although it looks like diabetes in a cone...

If you feel like falling down, I'll carry you home tonight.

*Edit: I was waiting for pictures of the weekend, but they are nowhere to be found*

Campathon was a couple weeks ago! So much emotion, laughter and memories shared. It was basically a 24 hour simulation of what would happen at camp. Camp for the volunteers. We went through dance, arts&crafts, rec games, and situational rotations. One of my highlights this weekend would have to be choreographing the last dance for our skit. We centered our skit off of Toy Story with Woody and his posse rescuing Buzz from Zurg's evil lair and our ending piece was the dance! Basically my co & I choreographed a short piece to "We found Buzz in a hopeless place." And the choreo wasn't all amazing, but the way my session talked about it, and tried to learn it, it made me feel really good about myself. It was the first time I'd ever taught a piece; never in my life had I felt the authority to even teach since the other dancers around me are super good. But I will take this chance to improve my dance skills this summer.

Happy Mother's Day!

Picture with my momma because today is Mother's Day! My mom is probably one of the most amazing people in the world that I know of (which I'm sure all of y'all will agree that your momma's the best) Not only did she gave birth to my brother and I, is the only person working to support my family, but always have been the main supporter of my family. She is kind, thoughtful and always know the right thing to say. Extremely sentimental and motherly, smart, clever, funny & a social butterfly. Well loved by everyone. Valedictorian all through out grade school and high school back in VN, and ranked 7 out of her university. A well versed writer, and devout Buddhist, and the most loving mother I've ever known.


She has taught me, everything needs to have a reason. If I were to scold a kid at temple, I would have to explain to them what they did wrong, and what they can do next time. She has taught me to back up my statements with truth. Not only that, she gave me courage to stand up for what I believed in (for when I was treated unkindly at work) She also gave me strength to pursue my college dreams and totally support my decision to go to UCLA instead of UCI. She has always supported me in my extracurricular activities, not just high school but way back, when I was a toddler: swimming, piano, temple, orchestra, karate, running club, cross country, soccer, track, csf, nhs, key club, circle k, vsu modern, unicamp, dance marathon...the list goes on and on. 


Not once has she complained about paying for my many banquets during senior year. Not once has she complained about me coming home late every day. Not once has she complained about me not going home so often my first year of college. She was always patient with me and my never-ending excuses, which were really never-ending. I thought she wasn't going to be okay finding out my relationship with my boyfriend either, but she ended up going along with it.


Overall, she's an amazing woman that deserves a platinum (forget gold!) Olympic medal for being such a champ because she IS one. Being the core to my family and not falling apart all these 20 something years is a HUGE deal. I wish I can appreciate her more often because she deserves to be treated as a queen. Now that after the accident, her capabilities have shrunk to just easy household tasks, and we have to drive her everywhere. But she is going back to work on Monday & let's hope she will make a full recovery.


I love you Mẹ, and I don't tell it to you often enough. I hope you have a wonderful amazing day today doing what you love best (being our Mother!)

Hello blogspot!

I guess I’ve been wanting to start a blog for a while and I never got around to it. Well here it is! Hello world & blogging community. My name is Denise, and I am beginning my journey of blogging. How does this even work? I’ve had many blogs before, but none like this one. I just recently deleted my tumblr(s) because it wasn’t quite what I wanted for a while. I still have my secret blogspot which will never shall be revealed, for it holds too much of my past.

A little bit about me:
I am twenty years old, residin’ in SoCal at the wonderful school of UCLA. Some may call me a social butterfly although I believe I am an  awkward turtle most of the time. I have great passion for a lot of things: knowledge, Buddhism, circle K, unicamp, helping the world, the arts. I can be a bit impatient (props to those who can deal with me) and I don’t like to follow directions. I believe in karma and what goes around comes around so I don’t do things that will come back to haunt me. Always thirsty for adventure. I believe the best in people and sometimes trust them too much, but you can’t love without trust. I love my family dearly, and get along with them quite well. I have an attention span of a 5 year old when it comes to studying, which is why I never get much studying done. I am not quite tech savvy, which explains why I spent about an hour trying to figure out how this site really works before blogging. I do text quite a lot ^_^ I like to be optimistic and happy and spread my sunshine like the “petals” of dandelions on a windy day.

Follow if you find me interesting and get ready to embark on this blogging journey with me!