What have I been up to lately.. hrm Not too much really.. though there were quite a few mem­o­rable events that hap­pened in the past week, post pos­tive and negative.

On Tues­day, Des, Emz, Meg­gers and I went to eat at Antons because Des said she had never tried it before and I wanted to myself :D. We ended up eat­ing at about 2PM in the after­noon, but it was all good. The pasta comes in huge por­tions, so the 4 of us had shared 2 dishes of lunch size pasta LOL. I must say.. I liked the spinach fil­ippo pasta in white sauce the most HAHA.

Des hap­pens to have 4 pairs of avi­a­tors in her car. Meg­gers made sure to roll down the windows.

I’m back to craft­ing..! I can’t help it.. my hands just itch to do stuff haha. I have some wood pan­els ready for me to paint/draw on.. but right now I’m fixed on felt­ing crafts haha.. is it cute?! bow03icon

I can’t believe I have only a lit­tle over a week left here! I’m going to miss home again :( Thank­fully I’ll be back dur­ing spring break (hope so!). My mumma’s been feed­ing me like crazy !

This week has been crazy!!! It’s gone by so super duper fast haha.

On Sun­day, Aunty Linda and her hus­band too kme to Mon­erey Park, where most of the Chi­nese reside, and so I did some Chi­nese gro­cery shop­ping. I spent about $45 on food in total (crazy). I don’t know how I’m going to fin­ish all of that food! I will def­i­nitely fin­ish all the per­ish­able foods, and try to save the frozen ones. I bought some dumpling wraps and made some pork (I made it with beef –_– last time) dumplings which turned out REALLY yummy haha. I’m really proud that I can make some good food. Wife in train­ing right? jokes..

Any­way, before we went to Mon­terey park, they wanted to visit a friend’s new house in Wood­land Hills, which is near the Val­ley. Dammit their house was so cold!!!!! I was freez­ing my ass off in the house, while try­ing to study for cul­tural stud­ies. I did my best to stay warm while writ­ing, but I couldn’t take it any­more and sat on my hand. I didn’t want to rush the aunty and uncle so I pre­tended that I was find LOL.

Did you know that Los Ange­les gets cold?!

I know! It’s like 8–12 degrees cel­cius here.. and idi­otic me didn’t bring a jacket. How­ever, the aunty did lend me a jacket which is good because it saved my ass on Mon­day when it was FREEZINGGGG.…. :( *tear*

a week and 2 days until I get to go home guys! I can’t wait.. today I felt like break­ing down in life draw­ing class because it’s so hard. I know.. you don’t think draw­ing the human body is hard.. but mother nature did her job very well and our human body is the most beau­ty­ful but demand­ing object to draw. To add on that, my teacher kept point­ing out neg­a­tive things about my 4 hour draw­ing :( It’s really demo­ti­vat­ing, but i know she just wants us to do well for the final drawing.

Last night/This morn­ing, roomies and I woke up at 5 min the morn­ing to reg­is­ter for the courses for next semes­ter. Ded­i­cated much?! ahha one of the classes were closed by 5:15AM. That’s crazy! But as you can see, pop­u­lar classes are in high demand here! I can’t wait until spring semes­ter — we get to finally work with colour *jumps up and down*, even though I love white, grey, black <3.

It’s finals week — mine is on Fri­day and next Fri­day. *sigh* :) study time!

This is part of my form and space project. (the curve). I knocked it over the cof­fee table and it broke. I wanted to just quit, at 4AM in the morn­ing .. who wouldn’t? I went out to the bal­cony.. took a deep breath, and made myself an instant noo­dle. I’m try­ing to train myself not to break down so eas­ily.. to think pos­i­tively.. to be able to push on no mat­ter how dif­fi­cult life may become.

I have been work­ing on these two pieces lately.. ><” for.. belated birth­days! haha. I am so behind.. :(. But yes.. like always, just a lit­tle busy with school and .. life in general.

I just fin­ished with pack­ag­ing design project for graphic design :)! The assign­ment was to design a pack­age for a fra­grance. I made mine quite sim­ple.. and a lit­tle generic I guess you can say –_-” didn’t put too much thought into it.. I’ll admit. Then again, I have not been putting any effort into any of my art lately. It seems as though.. I don’t even have time to do that.. and when the due date comes around, I end up using one of my old sketch­book assign­ments and turn it into a project piece o.o”. Let me say though.. the stu­dent teacher was not much of a help.

Right now in careers class, we’re work­ing on a paint­ing that must be based on trees, and a 20th cen­tury artist. I’ve cho­sen Tamara De Lem­picka :D Her paint­ings are absolutely gor­geous!.. unfor­tu­nately I may butcher the painting.

I don’t know I had men­tioned in my pre­vi­ous post, but I have selected my school for post sec­ondary! haha I have finally come to a deci­sion that I will be attend­ing Otis col­lege of art and design, as opposed to School of Visual Arts. I would LOVE to attend SVA, but I think at this moment in time, I am not emo­tion­ally pre­pared to be thrown into New York city. It is quite over­whelm­ing, and a lit­tle bit threat­en­ing. How­ever, after 2 years in Otis, I may even decide to trans­fer to SVA! haha I hon­estly believe that mov­ing to New York(later in life) will help me expand my career oppor­tu­ni­ties :). But, for now, I will be going to Otis for Fall 2009, in LA.

(Click HERE for my Cal­i­for­nia trip photos)

When I was young, I wanted to be old, but every­one kept telling me that being young was so fun.. so care­less. I know what.. they mean by now. When I was young.. I could do what­ever I wanted.. now I’m not say­ing I’m old. I’m still a baby lol.. but think­ing back to those younger days, I wish I could go back and do it all again. There was no such thing as cram study ses­sions or multi-paragraph writ­ing, aka essay. All there was.. were field trips, chip sale day, and Poke­mon cards.

There are 4 more months until grad­u­a­tion. What have I accom­plished within those years, and what have I not? All I know is, there are so many regrets that I have, and it kills me a lit­tle every time I think about it. I guess you can call this.. a reflection.

I regret..

• Not get­ting my “L” even though I am mov­ing away from HS. I feel too depen­dent on my friends (Melly+Patu), and par­ents for rides.
• Attached with the above, I regret not get­ting my rid­ers license. I’ve wanted it for the longest time.
• Not being able to con­trol my crav­ings. Those that know me, know that I don’t spend a lot, and if I do — I spend my money wisely, but then there are times where I waste so much money on use­less shit.
• Pro­cras­ti­nat­ing. This is prob­a­bly going to be the worst of the list. I spent a lot of time pro­cras­ti­nat­ing on my study time and home­work time. It has obvi­ously reflected upon my marks.
• not help­ing my mom more. I know my mom has a hell of a time try­ing to run the house­hold. My house is not small. MY HOUSE IS FREAKING HUGE. I’ll be hon­est with that. Vac­u­um­ing is prob­a­bly not the most bliss­ful job ever.  There are  2 floors/levels, 8 rooms, 4 bath­rooms, 1 rest room, 2 patios, 2(door) garage, 4 liv­ing rooms, 3 kitchens.. and 1billion win­dows (I just rounded it to the near­est bil­lionth). Though, obvi­ously, she doesn’t do all the clean­ing downstairs.
• never buy­ing my dad a gift. I never know what to buy him.. :( but some­times I buy food for him.
• say­ing that some­thing doesn’t mat­ter, when it really does, and most of the time.. I say it doesn’t mat­ter because it hurts me and I don’t want the other per­son to feel bad that they hurt me.
• work­ing so hard in grades 8–10 for really.. noth­ing.. except pass­ing each grade.
• never get­ting to really know my brother. We’ve lived together for 17 years, yet I barely know him. I actu­ally found out more about him through a day of Face­book than in the 17 years of my life.
• not con­tin­u­ing tae kwon do. Although tkd was vig­or­ous train­ing (for my brain for the most part), it was quite fun and it was exer­cise, but I couldn’t keep up with it, with my hec­tic schedule.
• not vol­un­teer­ing more out­side of school. I’ve always wanted one of those.. gold, sil­ver, bronze pins that the school gave.. hehe too bad I dont’ really have enough hours — well I never really sub­mit­ted hours.
• not learn­ing how to cook, do laun­dry, and how to vac­uum prop­erly. Watch me live off kraft din­ner and mr.noodle when I get to art school.
• not join­ing lead­er­ship. I never knew what the hell it was in ele­men­tary, and now you can’t really join.. and now I kinda don’t really want to, but I think I would have been an awe­some can­di­date :D .. I mean, besides the phys­i­cal activ­ity part, and besides my bit­ter­ness, I can take action and lead. yes. =_=”
• not return­ing to Fraser Lake after such a long time. I miss Fraser Lake despite the iso­la­tion. It’s peace­ful. Although, I must admit, while flip­ping through the pho­tos of my ex-classmates, they look a bit trashy.
• not print­ing all the pho­tos I’ve taken through­out the years of high­school. I can’t print it now because I always look at the total, and it’s usu­ally a high dou­ble digit num­ber o.o…

what regrets do you have? (sounds so depress­ing. LOL)

Je dois étudier.  Désolé.