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Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 11:54 AM
?Posted By mAi
    hey. the first week of winter break is over. boo. anyways, all the trouble with my article straightened out, and I was relieved for a second, because I still had an internship, but now my editor is leaving the newspaper and we have a new editor, so here's back to anxiety over my internship. This is a great layout. Everyone must blog soon, I'm leaving now, to go eat Pho for our Christmas celebration. Enjoy!
[music: none][food:Pho Bo][thinking:I have so much winter break homework to do][doing: watching The Apprentice][]
Tuesday, Dec 12, 2005 11:25 AM
?Posted By mAi
    okay. i'm blogging. go me. anyways, i am in DEEP SHIT. my god, there was some miscommunication with my editor and me, and I didn't write the article the way she wanted, and I'm trying to rewrite it, but I'm not sure if I have the notes to write it correctly. I am SO FUCKING CRUCIFIED. man, i hope i don't lose this internship. that would just kill me. okay, it wouldn't. i don't even work that hard but i mean, it'd make me feel bad. actually, i don't think she'll fire me or anything, because she's really nice and my last two articles were really good, so i'll get another chance...hopefully? another intern at the newspaper wrote this column on the holidays and how all the relatives are so annoying. it was supposed to be a just-kidding kind of column, but then the newspaper got all these letters complaining about her. that's kind of funny and sad. i'm NEVER going to write a column. well, not never, but I hate writing them anyways.
    I didn't mean to write so much about the newspaper, but that's what's on my mind. hey chi, i'm thinking about coming to San Diego this summer. would that be okay? could Beemy come to? because if it's alright, i'm totally up for it. I'm only looking for a small internship this summer, and if I get into a school out of state, I won't even take an internship. I'll just spend the summer reading, then going to Canada to visit my grandparents, a little vacation with my parents, and then off to San Diego. woot. anyways, i'm feeling so stressed out. i miss everyone. write soon.
[music: none][food:M&Ms][thinking:AHHHHHHHH! MUST WRITE ARTICLE!][doing: nothing][]

FRIDAY, baby! May 19th, @ 2:49PM
--->pOsTeD bY Chi!
MAI. NHI. Guess whaaaaat! Your VERY last day of being sweet, sweet sixteen!! Hope you guys have a KICKIN' 17th tomorrow! I wish I could be there to celebrate with you guys, but it's okay! Like I said, when I get there during the summer, we'll all go out to sushi or ice cream or something and celebrate AAAALLL of our birthdays TOGETHER. Yeaayuuhh. :D Mmm, definitely in Spanish class right now. We're in the lab, and we're supposed to be working on something or other, but I really don't know too much about what it is. Haha, whatever, this class is SO pointless compared to everything else, plus we don't ever learn much in this class because my teacher doesn't know what she's doing. Actually, that's a lie, but she's still not so great, even though she can be nice sometimes. Haha, anyway, guess what! GOING TO Rancho Bernardo's PROM TOMORROW, yeaayuuhh. Well, after I go to the 24-Hour Relay for Life for American Cancer Society for at least half the day. I'm bummed though! I was supposed to go to my friend's 18th birthday debut and everything, but I'm gonna miss out because I got the invitation late. :( Bummerrrr maaan. Anyway, GUESS WHAT GUYS. I'm gonna be a SENIOR next year. Senior, senior, senior. As much as I say that, it sounds so weird. Like, I'm used to the idea and everything, because all teachers have been preparing us for it like crazy (("You guys'll have to know this for senior year, blah blah blah blah,")) but I don't feel like I'm old enough to be one yet. Weird. You & me, Beemy, you & me! YOU guys are gonna be FRESHMEN in COLLEGE. Haha how crazy is that? DEFINITELY visiting you guys once you guys get settled or something! I'll wait a while, so you guys know the grounds and everything, then go and you guys can show me around! Anyway, I hope you guys are glad everything's over for this year. And Nhi, don't get so anxious about everything -- it'll all work out GREAT! Why worry about something when there's nothing you can do about it for now, right? Oh, and btw, good luck with that graduation speech! I'm sure you'll get it. What about you, Mai? What've you been up to lately? And BEEMY. Dude, I have not talked to you in AGES. Hit me up sometime! It's okay though -- summer's almost here, and we'll be reunited! I'm going to Miami around the end of June and coming back around July 4th or so ((bummer, 'cause I LOVE going to the fireworks shows here with my friends, but maybe I can see the fireworks in Disneyworld? That'd be SICK. :D)) and then July 11-13, I'm gonna go to Vegas with my uncle, aunt and baby cousin! And hopefully my brother and my parents. And then, I don't know, sometime after that is San Jose for a week and a half or two weeks, yeah? Not sure though! Tell me when you guys are going to Canada, and Beemy, I'm not sure what or when or where your summer plans are gonna be, so let us know! Anyway, school's almost out soon, and I gotta go set up the tents at Hilltop for the Relay for Life right after I get out. See you guys in ((hopefully)) less than two months! :D Have a GREAT weekend! . ][thinking: bummeeed that I can't be there to celebrate your birthday with you guys. :( man, we could go out to sushi or something. ][doing: hanging out in the laaaab at schoool][]
Sunday, March 19th @ 12:19PM
--->Posted by Chi!
DAAANGIT. Grrr! Don't you hate it when you've typed up something and then you accidently hit a key and then you go to a different website or something and everything you typed is gone?! DANGIT. I hate it when that happens! Just happened to me. But oh well, at least I didn't type much into this blog before that happened. But it DOES suck to type on this keyboard -- it's so effiinngg haard! Geez, my fingers should be able to pop out some guns/muscles on their own by now. Anyway, guess Sunday's just by blog day, eh? How you guys doing?! Haven't talked to you in a while. CAN'T BELIEVE BEEMY'S SEVENTEEN. And CAN'T BELIEVE THAT MAI AND NHI AREN'T EVEN SEVENTEEN YET AND HAVE ALREADY BEEN ADMITTED TO UCLA!! NICELY DONE, guys! Wish we could go out for some Cold Stone ice cream to celebrate or something. But it's okay, I'll see you guys soon enough! Okay this is probably gonna be a random blog, just gonna say whatever's on my mind. Know what? I think I'm going to ((effing a my fingers are freeezing right now, I wouldn't be surprised if one of them just *SNAP!* popped off right now)) take it easy my senior year, even though I always saw myself as the, "OhI'mnotgonnabeliketheotherkidsandtakeiteasymysenioryearandslackoff" kinda person, but screw it. I mean, I'm still gonna take AP Gov and AP English, but I might not take AP Calc BC. Then I have to do aerobics and drama out of pure necessity because of fine arts credits and health credits and whatnot. Fun fun fun. :P But I want to have FUN my senior year, and slack off, and not have to put homework in front of friends and family anymore. Maybe I'll take Calc BC and not AP English. *GASP* different for me, eh? I've found that a lot of these classes I'm taking are changing my interests. I used to TOTALLY not be into politics, but MAN I love APUSH because of all the stuff it's teaching me. I actually understand what I see around the world more now because of it -- funny how education actually does work, isn't it? Haha, used to think I wouldn't really be able to apply it to real life. Anyway, I wanna know how you guys have been! Blog or email or something, guys! Especially you, Beemy! Haven't talked to you in a while. Man this weekend has been a lot of fun lately -- a lot of food and hanging out with friends. Haven't done too much of that lately due to stupid AP classes and whatnot. Wow, I wonder what my score on the SATs will be. Pretty darn low, I'm sure. Like no joke. Hate those new SATs. The old ones used to be so much easier, dangit. Heard they messed up on SAT scores for the class of '06 around the country -- haha sucks. VSA is getting somewhere, although it's SO MUCH WORK -- running for ASB President or Senior Class President probably would've been easier. Everyone's telling me to run for Senior Class President, but I just don't think I'll have time. Plus, I kinda just want to GO to the events and have fun at them, not worry about how much fun other people are having there -- because that's what you gotta do when you're the chairperson of the event, which I WOULD be if I was Senior Class President bc of all the Senior Class activities and whatnot. HOLY CRAP I'm gonna be a senior. WTH. Wow, how did I get this far? Freaking crazy. Always thought seventeen and sixteen were light years away. That'll be interesting. I'M NOT GOING TO HAWAII THIS SUMMER ANYMORE! :( Dude saddest thing ever. I was SO looking forward to that. Due to some confusion or whatever, my uncles got a free week in a hotel in LAS VEGAS, not Hawaii. Bummer, huh? Damn. Oh well, maybe LV will be fun. But a week there? Whaaat am I gonna do there for that long. Probably won't even be able to go since my uncles are flying there and I wouldn't go and fly there just because...I don't know, rather spend money for a plane ticket to SJ? My sister's coming back Friday for her Spring Break. Man, everyone's spring break is at different times. Mine will be right before the APs and SATs -- joy, huh? Spent STUDYING. Yes, love the high school student life. Minus the crack-your-whip, crazy Nazi studying going on. Oh well. Anyway, gotta go do some more homework, because MAN I NEVER RUN OUT OF THAT STUFF. Literally. Haha, ttyl guys, byee!
[music: none right now 'cause I'm in my parents' incredibly cold run with this hard hard keyboard, dangit. ][food: PEANUT BUTTER Chocolate Chex Mix! the BEST thing EVER guys, no joke. Although Caramel Crunch and Bold Party Blend Chex Mix is pretty darn good, too. Aww dangit Nhi, you'll never know the taste of Peanut Butter Chocolate Chex Mix. Too bad, 'cause it's the food of the gods. Maybe you should just try some and sneak some anyway, and damn the consequences. :P haHAAAA. :D wow i am so weird. ][thinking: about how it's funny to read what i wrote in these things last time because i always have to copy & paste this part to my new blog -- haha i was thinking of a waffle-maker last time. :D ][doing: trying to hurry my butt off this computer so i could go and finish some homework, already. before michelle comes over to watch "Walk the Line" with me at 3! yaaaay :) ][]
Sunday, January 29th @ 8:01PM
?Posted By ChI!
Hey you guys! Duuuudes, sorry I haven't blogged until now! I've actually been wanting to lately, but with everything going on, it's been pretty hectic. Finals, that thing...Did I tell you guys that I was in San Jose for a day? Yeah, I meant to call you guys, but everything was too crazy when I got there. My cousin, Kim Loan, called me for a second while I was there, but I told her I couldn't talk and that I would call her back. Which reminds me...damn, I should be doing that right now. Haha, I will right after this. Anyway, how were finals for you guys? Hopefully not too stressful. Anyway, let me know what's been going on with you guys! Hope that your Vietnamese New Years' was great. Mine wasn't too eventful, although my brother and I and some of our friends did go to the Tet Festival in Qualcomm Stadium and all that yesterday -- but it was nowhere near as big as the ones in San Jose. My sister actually went to San Jose's today with my uncle -- I'm so jealous. That bum. Haha, anyway, I was supposed to come up to San Jose during the Presidents' Week in February to visit my sister in her dorm at UC Berekley because my parents and my sister are trying to convince me like crazy to go to school there. I wouldn't mind, but duuuude, I don't think I'd want to live with my sister. And that's the whole reason they want me to go there -- to go live with her so that they save money on housing and all that good stuff, which totally makes sense, but still. I don't know. We'll see though. I'm starting to apply for scholarships, so hopefully that'll go well. Besides that, I'm just glad that finals is OVER. I'm starting to get that really feeling where I get really irritated with myself. I get that every single time I stay at home for a whole day doing nothing, which is exactly what I did today. I was supposed to go out and do some things today, but I stayed home instead because I felt kinda sick and SO SLEEPY lately because I've had no sleep, so I just took like 120398120498 naps today and just read over my APUSH book. Didn't get as far as I wanted, but oh well. Damn, I guess I really am a people person. Can't be by myself for too too long, although sometimes all I want is space from people for myself. Good recuperating day, I guess you could say. :) Ugh, not having ASB as my first period this upcoming term -- :( suuucks. AP Bio first period -- too much thinking in the morning, especially with a harder teacher this time around. Not looking too forward to that, but hey, what can you do, right? Karate's going alright -- I need to push myself more. I'm not doing track this year. Ha, watch me get slow, just WATCH. Oh well. I don't want to do things that I dread every day anymore. I think I'll train with them, but not race. Racing sucks -- to much pressure, makes you feel like you wanna throw up. Haha, as you can tell, just trying to do a brain dump and let you guys know what's been going on with me lately. Got really annoyed a couple days ago because one of my friends, who's usually really bright and optimistic, said she hated her life and that it sucked, for no reason whatsoever. I asked her why, and she told me because she hasn't been truly happy in a while. Told her that I could understand that ((because I've actually been through that)), but I told her that at least if she hasn't been happy in a while, that she doesn't have reason to be truly sad. She told me, Yeah, that's true, but still. Teenagers have it so bad. Life sucks. I hate my life. Don't even know what I thought, I was just thinking, Things could be so much worse. But whatever. That's what people are like. Some, anyway. They need to find gratefulness in themselves, and I'm sure that if they just looked into their lives, they would find something to be grateful for. I miss him, and I wish he was still here. I wish I had spent more time with him in these past years, but there's nothing much that I could do anymore. All I can do is pray for him, and hope that his last couple of years were full of happiness. I want to know why, though. I just want to know why. I've been so tired lately. Truly, truly tired. Winter Formal last Saturday was so...strange to me. Halfway through, I just had to go sit down at one of the tables and put my head down. Luckily it was dark, so nobody could see my tears. James noticed something was wrong when a slowdance came on, but it's alright, he didn't ask too many questions. Honestly considered not going to the dance, or at least leaving early, but that would be ditching my date, so I couldn't. I've just been too tired lately. Maybe today was a good day, just for myself. I feel listless, though, when I do nothing. These are trying times, but I'm recuperating. I just need sleep, that's all. But New Years' Resolutions? Here we go! 1. ((You guys know this one -- my #1)) Make at least one person smile or laugh each day

2. Start applying to scholarships to help my parents pay for my college tuition.

3. Get over stupid, meaningless drama & build strong relationships while I can

4. Sharpen my katas in karate & become a better fighter by changing up my kumite techniques.

5. To try not to live for the weekends. Just live and have fun.

6. Turn VSA around with Kelly, Hieu & Phil ((I'm President of it now, btw, if I hadn't told you guys yet)).

7. Make my mom happier.

8. Try to forgive my dad his faults whenever I can bring myself to.

9.Pay more attention to my grandma, and let her know that I think about her and care about her.

10. Score well on APs and SATs, I guess? Haha. Well, that's it for now, guys! This was a long one. Mmm I want pancakes. Oh yeah, and Nhi, tell me more about that poem. 'Kay, laterr!
[music: ][food: pancakes, hopefully! ][thinking: man, i really, really, REALLY want a waffle-maker. Like super bad. ][doing: WANTING to do something productive.][]

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January 30, 2006 8:03 P.M.
?Posted By Nhi
    So it's been a while. But tons have happened. Yet, I don't have much to say here. Well here's something: I'm gonna be a BRUIN next year!!! Unless something goes terribly wrong. I am so excited though. I can't believe I got in and that I'm actually going! I'm going to visit next week, you guys! I hope I love it. Hahahaha. Umm....i have a lot of stuff to do. I have to study for my econ midterm, do my math hw, read Othello for English, memorize my lines for drama, do stuff for NHS...so I gotta get going. Sorry this was so short, guys!
[music:FRANZ FERDINAND- TAKE ME OUT][food:none][thinking:back to homework][doing:blogging?][]
January 6, 2006 9:37 P.M.
?Posted By Nhi
Morning
I can imagine
That my limbs would quake
In the earliness,
That I?d eat in eager silence
That my mirrors wouldn?t fog
That I?d catch the morning shake
Just enough to wake the church
Where the worshippers ran
From the void
And clapped the light, but
I
Have
Never
Seen
It.

Comments? I'll tell you guys about the poem later. In the mean time, honest opinions, por favor.
[music:Josh Kelley- Only You][food:none][thinking:my finger hurtsck][doing:nothing][]
December 28, 2005 12:14 A.M.
?Posted By Nhi
      Blogging really quick before bedtime!! I just made myself a planner! I'm so excited! Haha, yes, it's nerdy, but aweessooommee...I already had a planner that I used sophomore/junior year and could use this year, but it's running out of space and it's TOO SMALL! So I made a new one. Inventive, huh? It's so awesome!! I have 8 sections: Calendar, to-do, daily schedule, weekly goals (where I put my big and small rocks), notes, important papers, addresses, and other stuff. It's super cool! Well, in terms of new year's resolutions, I don't have many but the ones I have are kind of broad:
1. Stick to planner every single day/try to have discipline
2. Drink more water
      Only two, but they're hard! We'll see how it all works out. Good night.
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December 25, 2005 6:50 P.M.
?Posted By Nhi
      helloooo ladies! It's a rainy Christmas day (no visions of white snowy days here!) On Christmas day, my wish is for everything to sort itself out.
      Sometimes I'm only the observer. There are many things, many people--who I'd like to be--and yet, nothing fits me just right. There will be something that fits me, I know, but there isn't. But sometimes it's this puzzle, and I try to push the pieces together so hard when I know they don't really fit. I often wonder if I'm waiting for something to come to let me out of this shell. Because I do live in a shell, and the windows are a bit fuzzy. Good night girly girls!
[music:none][food:I should be dieting][thinking:I should be productive][doing:trying to do something][]
December 23, 2005 9:38 P.M.
?Posted By Nhi
      HEY PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. Haha...new layout! And it's been forever, ladies. And we have this new layout...comments? concerns? criticisms? Lay 'em on me, kiddos. I was so SHOT for ideas this time, I ended up doing the flowers. The only thing I knew I wanted was the four vertical columns, because I had never done that before and I thought it would be fun. At first, I didn't even think the flowers were going to turn out well, but they grew on me and I like them now. If you guys don't, well, too bad. No, just joking, they'll be changed eventually...as all things do!
      So what have you gals been up to? Christmas plans? I don't really have any, except that I'm going to eat lunch at my Grandma's tomorrow. Other than that, what a boring Christmas it will be. Well, we have school off and that's always good. Time to sleep in all the time and never do anything =P. Anyway, over break, I didn't really do anything...I went to a Girls Steering Commitee event, I watched a lot of movies and slept a lot. Haha, that's it! Chi and Beemy, you guys probably did a ton of things. Tell us all about it.
      Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, as Chi and I were raving, is a great movie. Haha. I cried the first 2 times I saw it. The third time, I was watching with my friend Anh, but luckily I didn't cry because I already knew what was coming =D. GO ME FOR NOT CRYING LIKE A BABY. Anyways, have a good Christmas, tell us all about it, etc, etc. Have your cake and eat it too!!!
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?Posted By BeEmY!
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