An Update

So this AIM conversation prompted me to update this blog:

xVienVu:

so whats up with no blogspot updates?

I don't know what it is, but there's something about Vien Vu that just makes you feel terribly bad if you've been on a temporary hiatus from blogging.  Don't ask me what it is, it just is.

So Sadies has come and gone.  I even made a pretty bomb-ass YouTube video to ask my date to Sadies:

HAHAHA.  It's cute right?  Better have been.  Took me forever to edit and re-edit it. :]

After Sadies, the excitement level in my life had sort of experienced a slump and then a stagnant period.  Nothing much was going on, except for the whole "school" thing and all the unpleasantries that follow it.

Speaking of unpleasantries, you happened to surprise me a great deal.  But at least now I know what kind of person you truly are, without all the fake politeness.  You really should have just made it upfront and obvious, instead of beating around the bush; I felt the same way.  :]

Winter Break was, AWESOME.  For the most part, I just stayed home and did a lot, and I mean a LOT, of Biology homework.  I felt super productive and it scared me for a moment.  I was procrastinating much less than Samantha was!  :]

I visited my Grandma in Hacienda Heights the Saturday before we came back home from Winter Break.  Her home is so cute, even though it is in a retirement home.  She always has all these little knick-knacks from her past, serving as memorabilia to remind her every day of the kind of person she used to be and what hobbies she's created for herself as her life progressed.  Gosh, I really forget how she's aging.  Every single year.  I know it sounds silly, but ever since I was in the second grade and my mom told me she was 72, I've been thinking she's 72 ever since.  She does age very well though, if I do say so myself.  I hope I'm so lucky.

Biology Exam #7 was extended.  I swear by my life that you will never see an entire classroom of 37 juniors and seniors jumping up and down in an old rickity portable, screaming at the tip-tops of their lungs for any other occasion.  It just doesn't happen.

**Remind me that I'll never meet another group of friends quite as amazing and lovable and this.

In March, I've consumed myself in MTV's America's Best Dance Crew.  I have every single JabbaWockeez and Kaba Modern dance uploaded onto my iPod.  Come and find me and watch them with me and we can squeal like little girls about how awesome they are.  Makes me sad that Kaba Modern was in the Bottom 2 though, for this week's Episode 6.  :[  They'll make their way to the Top!  I know it!  :D

JABBAMODERN<3

F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C.S.  What could I possibly say about this amazingly heart-pumping event?  I'll start off by saying that F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C.S. 2008 was the fucking shit.  I have never seen so much heart and spirit and enthusiasm from ALL FOUR of the classes.  The attendance was awesome, the screaming was awesome, the creativity was awesome.  There's no doubt that every single player put into the games everything they got out of it.  I just was to thank the Junior class for being so cooperative and pumped with adrenaline.  We owned in Tug-of-War, Line Basketball, and Jenny Vo, girl, you are a mo'fuckin' savage at Over, Under, Through.  :]  Great job, errybody; it was a sexy night.  

Congratulations to the Class of 2008 for winning first place!  To bad we won't be able to show y'all up next year. [;

Other than that, the weekend after F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C.S. was fun.  Snuck out, stayed out late a couple of times, came back home undetected.  Haha.  Good shit, good times.  We should all do it again!  :D

I hate school.  I'm starting to get questionable grades now, and to be frank, I really couldn't care less.  My eyes are shot, my head feels like it's going to screw off and roll away from me, I can't even stay awake in my classes anymore, I keep getting distracted when I start my homework; I just cannot focus anymore.  Junior year has tested and tried my patience so much that I surrender.  I give up, I tell you.  Summer's just too close, and I can hear it calling my name...

A Review of New Years Resolutions

So, let's see which resolutions I've kept up with and which ones I've completely thrown out the window (italicized/bold elements are ones that I have already broken): 

1. Stop binging.
2. Wake up early and run during the weekends. This includes breaks. (I have a reason for this!  The weather is all whack and cold!!)
   
3. Improve in pole vaulting.
4. Get through Junior year without having a major break down. Keep my composure.
   
5. Don't bite the hand that feeds me.
6. Be happier with my own life; it's not that terrible.
7. Become at peace with myself. Only then would I be able to proceed to #16.
   
8. Start my personal statement in the summer. NO STRESS WHEN NOVEMBER ROLLS AROUND.
9. Keep my promises. No matter how small.
10. Find a hobby. Find a passion.
    
11. Party responsibly.
12. When I get my license, don't be reckless with my driving. No car accidents as a senior.
13. Procrastinate less. Strive to keep up the grades. Don't give up.
14. No more soda. Only water.
15. Stop comparing myself to my sister. I don't have to go to the places she's been. I don't have to do the things that she's done. I don't have to follow in her footsteps.
16. Get myself a boyfriend.

Boy, do I suck. :]  Haha.  So, so far, I've only been able to keep 11.5 out of 16?  That's like a 71.875%!  That's a solid C!  Oh, has finals weeks gotten me obsessed with percentages.  Haha.

In other news!  I started to use a new web-browser.  I used Firefox for a year or two but now I'm trying out Apple's Safari browser.  It's so cool!  It looks just like iTunes.  Hehe.  It's almost like I own a Mac, almost.  :]

A Medly of Thoughts

Finals. Holy fucking shit, FINALS.
Yes, that just about sums up my entire feelings towards the matter. I seriously do not have the patience to deal with all of this shit right now. But I do have a positive outlook on this; I like to think that when this entire thing is over, I know that Junior year is that much closer to being over. One semester down, and one horrifically and significantly more difficult semester to go...

My dad made resolutions this year to stop drinking, of course this excludes occasions when he goes out to eat and drink with friends or business people. But he has done a very good job of not drinking when he comes home from work, contrary to his previous habits. He usually just washed his dinner down with some Jim Beam and lie down on the couch to watch some T.V., but he'd be snoring by the time it's 8:30PM. I must say, that my father's become happier and more playful. Let me explain:
Oh, stop looking so surprised, your dad does it all the time. (My mother is actually laughing.)

I've been thinking of college lately, more seriously I mean. It all started when I got my SAT scores back. I was so happy when I calculated my score, but to my dismay, my parents suggest I take it over. So I suppose I should be unhappy with it. But since then, I've been researching all my "dream" schools to see which ones my scores match up with. Even more so, I've ventured into the Career Center looking at catalogs for college; like FAFSA, Cal Grants, UCs, etc. They're actually quite interesting and I can tell that they'll be helpful. I just wish I knew that the same material was there two years ago, when I was a freshman. In any case, I'll comment on anything interesting I may read.

I really don't have very many friends. People view me as some sort of bubbling pot of laughter and enthusiasm. More often than not, people with these personality traits are more likely to have an entire entourage of carbon-copies, thus forming cliques. But this is hardly the category I fall into. Now, this is not to say that I'm not happy underneath. Yes, there are some parts of my life which I wish to refine, but I cannot honestly say that my life, in its entirety, is miserable. I have a fun family and a few very close friends. But I am granted with the misfortune of having all of my best friends attend different high schools. One of my best friends from eighth grade moved to Tracy, and thus eroding any sort of bestfriendship we may have been able to create; my other best friend attends a private Catholic school, or Bellarmine; and my best friend of all, Isabella, goes to Independence. This only leaves me with Samantha, the only one of my best friends from middle school who goes to my high school. I love Samantha, but she's found her own niche that I would hate to take her away from everyday. So what do I do? I wander. I wander around campus during breaks and lunches, hopping around from group to group. Thankfully, people don't raise an eyebrow when I suddenly pop into conversation. Thankfully, people think that I have such an effervescent personality that they just assume that it's my nature to be so awkwardly friendly.

My boss recently called me yesterday. This pleased me a lot, a LOT. He told me that if I come back for the third year, there would be a raise involved and, as always, I will be able to reap the benefits. I was actually not really thinking about going back to work again this summer just so I could focus on writing my Personal Statement and finish it before school started; working on creating instructional folders for my teachers whom I want to write my recommendations; searching for scholarship money. But I suppose an offer for a $2k paycheck for working only seven weeks can really force a girl to re-work some of her plans.

And for those of you who might have been a bit disturbed by the previous picture...
Don't worry, my mom got him back. :]