Third Year To-Do List

As you may or may not know, I will be entering my third year at UCLA! A new year with new experiences and goals to achieve. I have always been a fan with going back to school in the fall; the thought of it is too beautiful: new boys, new clothes, new classes, new friends..makes me feel like I'm in high school all over again. But just as much as I reminisce high school, I absolutely LOVE college. I love starting school once again, because I get to see all of my friends. I absolutely adore my college friends, my college campus, just everything about it. It makes me feel busy and successful and ambitious at the same time, so I decided to make a list of all the things to be accomplished this year.

1. Tailgate a football game.
2. Go to a masquerade ball!
3. Travel abroad. Anywhere, please
4. UCLA v. USC football game
5. Attend a wild Halloween party. With classy costumes ;)
6. Roadtrip to Nor cal! (possibly visit Berkeley?)
7. Research, research, research. Intern. Something
8. Holi Festival! I've never been to one of these before :(
9. Host a kickback at my apartment.
10. Professionally get my hair colored.
11. Dinner for Strangers.
12. Vegas? Maybeee
13. Tunneling. It's time to break those rules.
14. Hit the gym, at least ten times each quarter.
15. Get some rec letters going ;)
16. Fall Training Conference (it's always fun!)
17. Travel to the Big Apple and visit my best friend.
18. Ice blocking, again and again and again.
19. Splash in the fountain! Never been done, but I've always wanted to
20. Highlighter Party; Highlighter Party!!
21. Go to a rave with my homegirls
22. The GROVE!!! During winter time when the pretty lights are out.
23. Get a 4.0 GPA for at least one quarter.

Nostalgia

I've recently gotten into Pinterest and Weheartit again. I swore to myself since I deleted my Tumblr, I wasn't going to fall for these things again. They are mindless addictions, a waste of time. But, since the school year is starting, maybe I need something to take my mind away from things. Some aesthetic pleasure, you might say. But after liking the pictures or pinning it on my board, I want to share them with the world. So I might just post all of my favorites in here every once in a while. So you get a sense of my taste in beauty, fashion, and life, in general :)

There is just something so magnificent and peaceful about red and purple skies. I've always been a fan of romantic sunsets. Something about it, so elegant, dreamy, like someone just took some paintbrushes and drew it across the sky. And the Eiffel tower? One day, I want to go to Paris, and explore the ancient city of Romance. Maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic.

Again, it's the colors that draw me to this picture. the pink purple gradient as the world transitions from dusk to night is absolutely breathtaking. And the water, the statue of liberty, all beautiful scenery that I enjoy. Pictures like these bring out the dreamer in me--bright hopes for the future: love, success, happiness, adventure. Of course, these pictures could be photoshopped, but if they were, they are a magnificent work of art.

Although we can't choose where we came from, we have the power to shape our own decisions. We can paint ourselves from a blank canvas and be whoever we want to be. The world is our oyster. We are infinite.

I just recently placed a hold on this book at the local library. I really want to read it before the movie comes out; it seems really deep. I'm always on the hunt for good reads; seems that lately all the novels I read are all the same-uninteresting. The only other good book I've read lately is Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares and it is incredibly captivating and flawlessly written. In my honest opinion, it is probably the best book out of the Sisterhood of Traveling Pants Series and it ends the adventures perfectly. Definitely recommend it to any of the ladies out there :)  

Taste of Summer

Two weeks ago, my boyfriend and I went to LACMA to view the beautiful art and we couldn't help it but take advantage of the gorgeous late August weather to have a photoshoot! I personally enjoyed the photoshoot a lot better than the artwork of the place itself. Maybe we went at a bad time, but there wasn't any unique exhibits.

I recently shopped online at Urban Outfitters and bought this cute dress! Free shipping, ftw. It looked super simple online, but once I tried it on at home, I knew it was a keeper. Only wished I didn't slouch in this picture. :(

All smiles! Necklace is from Forever21, necklace is from somewhere--got it a while back, on my lips was Revlon's lip butter in cherry tart, sunglasses are from St. John (birthday gift from my aunt this year)

Peek-a-boo! I see the camera!

I wish my boyfriend had a normal picture. Why must he look so creepy in every picture :( I want to show him off to the world, but this is so unattractive, LOLOL.

Afternoon sun was in my eyes, so hard to see.

Finally we got one decent picture. The lighting was just right, you can see how blue the skies were! I wish we had some cute couple ones near the poles, but beggars can't be choosers. Finding a photographer who knows how to work a dslr is pretty tough. Glad mr. photographer was able to capture this beautiful day ^_^

Two years to forever

Finally another update! I've been caught up in the whirlwind of summer school, work, apartment life, partying (jk about the last one!) that I haven't had much time to blog or much less feel inspired to blog. But trust me, I've been thinking about a lot of stuff! :)

Last weekend, my boyfriend and I decided to celebrate our two year anniversary early! So I told him to visit me in LA where I spoiled him with goodies and food (and now I am a broke ass) but hey, if you to be spoiled, you got to do some spoiling first yourself heheheh :)

This was my first time making an edible arrangement EVER! After weeks of watching my good friend Diane make these, I finally ventured to do some of my own arrangement. The only bad thing was the chocolate was overheated so I had to add water, which diluted it so it didn't harden properly :( If you look closely at the strawberries, you can see parts of the chocolate not drying properly. But nevertheless, the overall result looked pretty darn good, for a first timer! I used chocolate candy melts (you can get them from your local groceries), blueberries, peanut topping, kale for decoration and a huge orange as base. It's pretty simple to make, and would have taken me at most one hour max, but since the chocolate was giving me a hard time, it took me three hours :(

My boyfriend got me some roses! I still have them dried up in my orange juice case since I don't have a vase at the apartment. What a nice surprise--roses are always so classy and romantic, although I like a variety of flowers from time to time. Last time he got my brother flowers for graduation and the sunflowers were really nice, compliments from my momma.

Dangerous? Better be careful!

Ever so studious me. Always working on physics--my entire summer right there.

It was around 10 pm--the night was still young and we didn't know what to do. I texted my friend and found out she was in LA for the night so we decided to hit her up and venture into SGV to get our boba fix. We're too young to sleep at 10 on a Friday night, LOL

I rarely ever get Half & Half so I always get excited when I do! I think we both got the same drink: Ice milk with strawberry, pudding and honey boba. Life was good. :)

Summer bucketlist 2012 :: update

About two months ago, I posted a summer bucketlist. Here's a quick update on what I've added and accomplished!

1. Make 10 new friends (Unicamp, duhh!)
2. Unicamp! (Amazing week, no regrets)
3. Trai He La Hau La (Chill and relaxing, had a tent all to myself + kids really enjoyed it)
4. Attend brother's graduation (and took plenty of pictures)
5. Graduation party anyone? ;) (my brother's!)
6. Eat at some good korean bbq place (cham soot gol works, right?)
7. Read 3 new books (Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald; Love the one you're with - Emily Giffin; Sisterhood Everlasting)
8. Attempt a new manicure (yes, finally)
9. Film a haul video (been wanting to do this since foreverr) (update: finally done! but too scared to actually upload it)
10. Attend 2 bonfires (got one down-Duy's bonfire)
11. Dip in the pool
12. Run at the beach
13. Get my pharm tech license
14. Finish 2 seasons of shows (one season of Korra is down; Avatar: last airbender--all three seasons!)
15. See 10 movies (Avengers 6/20; Amazing Spiderman 7/10; Dark Knight Rises 7/24; Prestige; Memento; She's the Man)
16. Learn a song on the piano
17. Shop 'til I drop (spent over $100 at f21--floppy hat, fedora, floral dress, zebra top, stars tunic, demin jacket)
18. Explore the wonders of OC Fair (Alaskan pig races! Bacon covered turkey! Funnel cake with vanilla ice cream!)
19. Funnel cake! (at fair)
20. Buy a new camera (Canon s100 anyone?)
21. Get dolled up and go out at night
22. Lighten hair (Champagne blonde)
23. Treat myself out to some brand name makeup ^_^
24. Play volleyball at the beach
25. Get a nice beach bod (should happen before summer, LOL)
26. Splurge on quality makeup (keeping my eye on Smashbox BB Cream)
27. Thrift! (attempted, LOL)

Tv shows

• Glee season 3
• New Girl
• Friends season 1
• How I met your mother season 2
• Voice season 2
• Avatar-Legend of Korra

Movies

• Avengers
• The Hulk
• Ironman
• Captain America
• Thor
• Twilight: Breaking Dawn
• Dark Knight Rise
• Men in Black 3
• Prometheus
• 21 Jump Street

Food

• Milk
• Class 302
• Red Lobster
• M Grill
• Saffron & Rose ice cream
• Sprinkles Ice cream

Places

• Friendship Bell
• Huntington Botanical Gardens
• Hot air balloon ride
• Disneyland
• US open
• Griffith park
• City walk
• DTDisney
• LACMA

*list is open for updates!

**italicize=accomplish!

As you see, I hadn't quite complete everything yet. But summer's not over yet, I have about three weeks left. Let's finish this list off!