The cousins of Taiwan are leaving one by one.

My job is making me really hate living in Taiwan... I don't think I could deal with working at that place for a year.

When I came back home from vacation, I found there was a GNAsTy problem! I found out when I arrived home around midnight (aka it's dark in the apartment) and I went toward the sink and got attacked by tape. There is sticky tape to catch em, which I prefer vs them flying at me and itching me. Very unBuddhist but tearing down trees (home to plenty of wildlife) to build a temple over it isn't any better(worse in my opinion).

In other news, here are some pics from my vacation!

Leah's itinerary:

June 9-12: Singapore
June 13-14: Johor Bahru
June 15-18: Malacca
June 19: Johor Bahru
June 20-21: Singapore
June 22: USA

I just decided that I'm going to Malaysia next week. See you there!

Kitten Meow

We had a lil' visitor at KL. She has two names, Miley Cyrus and Zeratul. She lived in my bathroom for a day. She meowed all the time, so much that we got used to the meowing. It was sad cuz she always hissed at me when I wanted to go potty. Yep, she didn't really like anyone much. She's gone now.

Leah graduated! She starts working at a preschool May 30th but no worries, she'll probably look for something else. Just wanted to start with SOMETHING besides the restaurant industry.

Bright Modern Art

Kai and I live together (aka KL Austin) and it had been my assignment to find some light fixture for the living room (some Austin apartments do not have a main light in the living room and so you have to plug one in). My vision was a light from the ceiling, since that'd provide the most light.
So what I did was I bought a lightbulb, electric line, and extension cord. But with this design, it was basically a lightbulb hanging from the ceiling. The only problem was that I bought a lightbulb that was huge aka TOO BRIGHT. To give it a classier look as well as to dim the light a little I used a paper bag as a lamp shade. Kai liked the end result better with the new lampshade because it looked definitely hand made. I personally thought the paper bag had a modern edge to it. I was proud of my new light fixture. But it was STILL too bright.
My solution? I decided to add some asian flavor, which would also add even MORE modern edge. So now the paper bag has chinese written all over it. WHEE! I know I have inspired you to have a paper bag hanging from your ceiling. Yes, you can be awesome too. o(^.^)o

現在

Okay cousins, I ask for your help.
My teacher played two songs that I fell in love with but I can't find who the singer is. One of the songs she played was 存在 which I found "5566" sang it but I'm guessing they weren't the original singers of the song, since the version we heard was a solo, which I liked better. Please help your poor cousin fulfill her chinese song collection!!!! Ｏh, and if you have any recommendations of then hook me up!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hqty0e-KiPE

These are the lyrics in simplified (you really don't expect me to actually type out all the lyrics do you?)
你说着 我听着 像海浪打着 沙滩烧着
你的忧伤大于快乐 连彩虹都只剩下一种颜色

我听着 你说着 像刀子划的 隐隐痛着
就因为爱没有规则 所以心痛了死了回不去了

但是我存在着 我一直存在着
和你一起的照片仍在我的手机上贴着
爱会永远永远 你说的
离开我的时候 却没舍不得

我真的存在着 我一直存在着
不管是疯的气的我受着我紧紧手握着
傻傻的陪着守着证明你值得
但我会笑着因为一切都值得

A new outlook

My mommy went with me as I had my hair chopped off to be donated to Locks of Love. I miss having my long hair mainly because me with short hair is a completely different look. I don't look bad, just fabulous in a different way. No worries, when donating hair you don't have to have it so short, I just wanted a boy haircut. I was worried about how work would react but they all love it, even my customers love it.

My father double booked himself so I took over one of his duties yesterday as he finished the other. I was part of a biology booth that had a line of microscopes with different things to look at. I had a huge line of people waiting to look thru the microscopes, it was awesome! The booth was the star of the show. Thru the chaos, the most bizarre thing happened, someone stole the paramecium. Yes, someone stole single celled organisms. What would someone want with paramecium, esp since one needs a microscope to see them? No idea. I just don't understand.

Christmas with the cousins in Austin :)

Spice Up Your Life

I'm not going to go out because Halloween is the day I work(whee to making drinks!) but I did have a costume. This past wkend I was a Spice Girl, Sporty Spice to be precise. I spent some money for that outfit, but I didn't mind so much since they're comfortable and I'm gonna use it again. For me, whenever I work out or run, I get really itchy because apparently that's what cotton does. And sport clothes help decrease that, which obviously I would like. So happy medium for me!I had to put a lot of gel in my hair to get rid of my bangs. For the pic above, the order of who is in the pic(excluding the Darth Vader aka Danny): Fran, Dalina, myself, Alisha, and Paige. If you are bored and want to kinda play a game, you can try to guess who's who. I agree it will be somewhat difficult because most of the girls did not dress up to the best potential(I was the most recognizable to ppl). The ACTUAL Spice Girls in order from left to right in the picture below:Posh, Sporty, Scary(in gold), Ginger(in red), and Baby. Good luck!

New Camera!

I got a new camera a couple days ago! It's very awesome, I like it! It's not very attractive which is why I think the price was lower than the other cameras. But I checked out all the info, in comparison to the other cameras Best Buy was selling, and this camera was better overall. It may not look attractive or sleek but, unlike the other cameras available for at least $50 more, this camera has the MANUAL mode(which is more like taking pics with a nice camera that isn't digital). So I got it with no regrets. I've been learning some of its features, my favorite being it's ability to take pics really close. Either way, I've been playing with it a bit! Kai, of course, enjoyed being a model.

To create the picture of my eye with my name on it was a bit more work than Kai modeling in behind flowers. Originally I had my glasses on and wrote my name normally on the computer. However, I realized there were two reflections(from my eyes and the glasses) as well as the characters being backwards(since it's a mirror image). I don't have a program on my computer to flip the picture. Therefore, I had to write the characters backwards on the computer(aka using a mouse which is not the same as writing it by hand) and hope for the best. Luckily, it turns out that my chinese handwriting backwards on the computer isn't TOO bad.

In other news, Kai still loves his bunny, Kiki. And, I will admit, Kiki is a really cute bunny, even though she's very naughty. I just needed to add this picture because I'm sure Kai might actually want it as well as to prove that even though Kai has shown pics of Kiki looking evil, she is not infact evil. Just has redeye sometimes.

Pooh be GONE!

I made myself a new hat with a Winnie the Pooh kiddie costume body suit(I found it for $3). I like it. I'm gonna wear it to school tomorrow with pride, even when ppl look at me funny(which will happen).

The Optimus Wars

My friend Daniel, who happens to be a comic book artist, drew a pic of Optimus Prime on a computer program. I saw the pic and created war. I was defeated but then my friend, Steven, cut in and saved Leah's Optimus. This is the result:

Kitty Rescue

Today, Kai let the kitty out onto the balcony. 20 minutes later, when he went back outside, "Leah..." The kitty had jumped to the balcony next door. That's over 5 ft away! I was impressed but now we had to figure out how to get the kitty back. Yes, it jumped to the balcony next door but it's doubtful that it'd do it again. After some critical thinking, I suggested we use my mattress, placing it as a lil' walkway for the kitty. We tried one of my lighter mattresses first. It was easy to get over to the other side. The problem was that this mattress was way too flimsy, if the kitty got onto it, the kitty(even tho light) would of probably been too heavy for the mattress and fallen down the stairs. So then we decided to use my actual mattress. Since the mattress was heavy and a little flimsy, Kai had a hard time forcing the mattress to raise high enough to reach the other balcony. While doing this, we started laughing in response to people walking to their car, looking at us, us laughing at what it must look like we're doing. After many attempts, Kai finally got the mattress to the other balcony. The mattress still wasn't long enough so Kai was forced to hold the mattress on our end as it hung from the other balcony. At first, the kitty just looked at us like a punk, sitting there. I took some documentation just cuz it was a funny moment but also because I knew the kitty would be influenced to watch me and come back to me. Sure enough, the kitty took the bait and walked along the mattress and crawled toward me. As soon as she got close enough, I grabbed her by the top of her neck and dragged her inside, Kai following with the mattress. We felt like firemen.

Hello!

So hmm... this summer has gone by way too slowly... it's only been 3 MONTHS and it's still summer! It feels like it's been about 6-8 months. I only feel like it's dragged due to taking summer school. It will be over in 2 wks though, yipee!

But on the bright side, I had a slight vacation! Yes, you know it, a packed wkend of fun! First off, I went to SeaWorld! I hadn't been there since I was about 10 so it was fun! I got to ride on all the roller coasters(2), get some sun(I usually swim everyday but it's been raining like crazy here), cry during the Shamu show, see other shows such as the adorable beluga whale show, eat cotton candy(yummy!!!!), and not be at school or work!

I also found out that weekend that I'm really horrible at bowling. I remember bowling 2 times in my life. Once was in Malaysia at one of the malls, the other was at Paige's thing. I scored pretty badly, but hey! I learned that bowling isn't my thing, good times! I still dislike it. I'm more of a person who uses their legs, not arms.