Photo Diary : Weekend Round Up

So here is what I did over this past weekend ... well mostly Sunday because Saturday all I did was stay home and be lazy :P

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Pei Wei's Thai Chicken Curry - first time there and was really cool on the self serve, but the Thai Chicken Curry was not to my liking .... too much whipped cream.

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California Pizza Kitchen Fundraiser ... waiting for about 2 hrs to be seating :/ Also they took out my favorite, Greek Salad Pizza and I was experimenting and tried the Pear & Gongorzola Thin Crust pizza which was hmmm earthy. I also got this yummy smoothie drink and tiramisu for desert which I split with my friend.  

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The beautiful Christmas lights at the outdoor mall. However, it is missing snow! (;

Photo Diary + Diary : Boring as Ever Wednesday

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Green Rocket Dog boater shoes ! (:

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Freebie Haunted House T.shirt |  Abercrombie & Fitch Dark Jeggings
Hollister Leather Brown Twisted Belt | Top Knot Bun
Twinning day with my best friend!!! These shirts are so cool ... do you see the monster ?! ( I wasn't going to show the whole monster because I wasn't wearing a cami underneath) 

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Yummy school snack : apple, cracker, brie cheese and caramel = yummmm

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Yummy Halloween chocolates ever from a family friend! I didn't even notice the adorable faces :)

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relaxing with some good old children Halloween movies ... recognize this one (; ?

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Some Halloween decorating that I find absolutely cute!

So today was our Student Development Day which was the worse day ever. Yeah sure we didn't go to class, but we were on our butts sitting on the floor for the whole day while taking History lecture notes, listening and learning Ethics from TOK and listening to already listened to College Presentation. In History, our teacher got a professor to come in and lecture us on the Arab-Israeli Conflict with the Cold War which I kept wanting to close my eyes and sleep but I couldn't because we had all the history teachers there and one was watching our class. It was such a pain to be sitting on my butt for the longest time... I felt my butt went flat... and I am talking about butts. But yeah, nothing happened at all today like I felt like it was useless. I should of stayed home and worked on homework and college applications.

So once we got home, my mom had her jewelry buddies over and the were making beads together and we had our yummy snack including Halloween chocolates and Pocky from my mom's friend (: We sat down and watched a Halloween movie that we watched when we were young, Twitches Too. Yep, I need to finish Calculus and start cracking on my Common App essay so my friend can help me grammar check it tonight (yes, I suck at grammar)

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Photo Diary + Diary: Gossip Girls

Saturday was the day that I wanted to do so many things like B, ST and I had planned a study group for chemistry and history at the library before going to my friend's K surprise birthday party at Olive Garden, but it ended up flopping.

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So I decided to wear my Hollister tunic, dark blue Hollister cami, Love Culture faux tan leather bow waist belt, black leggings from Parisian and these adorable suede, deep purple/maroon ruffled cowgirl boots with my huge GUESS purse. I was late to the library by like 30 minutes...oosp, but we ended spending the whole 2 hours gossiping. I found out so many things that I didn't want to know and now I can never look at people the same again. I didn't really get K anything expensive because we had to pay for our own dinner and get there early to make the reservations....what? But I gave her these drop earrings I got at the mall, Bath and Body work Japanese Cherry Blossom lotion and nail polish. B gave her a whole bunch of candy and S gave her a card so B said he could share her present. We had to wait there for 45 minutes because it was Homecoming, so we sat there evaluating the outfits and S was busy looking up the people he knew on Facebook. 

There was 19 people, 6 of us and the rest family and it was enjoyable. I got the Capellini di Mare which was like a seafood pasta which was okay, but their breadstick and salad was yummyyyyy! We gossiped again with everyone and had actually a good time. K wasn't surprise at all by the surprise party but regardless we had a good time hanging out and such. My sister V was already at the pirate theme homecoming and I didn't go because I didn't have a good time last time, but she came home and gossiped with me more about what happened from someone spiking the water and to my classmate making out with a random chick who was my sister's age. 

I was going to do chemistry studying when I got home, but instead I re watched Project Runway with my mom and then alternated between the memoir of SNL and Aladdin.

You know you love me (;

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Preview: DIY, bedazzling, last minutes, lazy

Photo Diary + Diary: I thought today was Friday

I seriously thought today was Friday. Because we had no school on Tuesday, I am seriously messed up on my days and forgot we had school tomorrow.

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Today was going to my lazy day because I didn't feel like doing anything, so I decided to try the sock bun that I failed so many times before because of the layers of my haircut. However, I finally got it to work! Was so so so so happpy :) I used an old sock I had (as you can see it has school buses on it). My layers did come out but I just used bobby pins and hairspray to keep it in place. Then, I decided to wear my new H&M oversize cardigan and BAM comfy cozy chic and I have gotten so many complements on my hair and plus it makes me look like I have a ton of hair :)

The local tv station came to our school to interview and showcase our school today and it was very cool being they told us this while we were having a college presentation for the college 

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Oh so much homework, this week or next few days! I at first had 3 test and a presentation on Monday which were Biology, Chemistry and 20th Century History and a Chinese presentation  My worst nightmare came true at first, Biology and Chemistry on the same day, and that would mean all our Biology would be due and it is a lot (an example of the specific notes we had to do above). Then today our teacher spoke these beautiful words, "Your ch 16.17.18 test is going to be moved to Wednesday." OMG joy!!!! Happiness !!! That means I can study for the dreaded Kinetics test in Chemistry. I dropped recently to SL Chemistry because I can't handle HL and I was afraid of failing the IB exam. 

I have a Statistics test tomorrow for SL Math, which I took a Statistics class in 10th grade as an AP class and now I'm cracking out the AP books and now not even the AP books, but the ACT books. Yes, if you look closely you can see that I have an ACT admissions ticket... I am taking the ACT yet again. Because I gotten a 29 on the ACT and after hearing all colleges talking about scholarships and honors college starts at a 30 so I need to get that 30 or higher. So this would be my...(embarrassment) 10th time taking it...yes I said 10th. I started taking it in 2009 so like 8th-9th graders. Yes, I was that young... what was my parents thinking.

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Hamlet....tomorrow for English class we have the dreaded socratic circle. If you haven't participate in a socratic circle before it is basically a small group of people inside a circle discussing while everyone else sits outside and "listens". I say "listen" because truthfully no one listens. I don't like socratic circles because I hate being under pressure to talk... I get nervous and start blabbing. I especially hate dominators in the groups because then I don't have time to talk and get the A. So, I usually try to get group of people that don't talk, but tomorrow's group has a few dominator so we need to battle it out.

Well I was bored on Wednesday in English class and me and my friend B were talking about the Renaissance festival with my table mates and B brought up her favorite part... the pickle selling man because he sells the pickles funnyingly (not a real word). So I drew pickles in all my table mates Hamlet books on page 157. I got the girl pickle, B got the boy pickle, K got the french pickle (she's taking french, and her pickle is my favorite), D got the sleeping pickle (bc she always sleeps in class. B claims it looks like a puddle), S got a musical pickle (she is taking IB music), and other K got the shopping pickle (she is very upper class like and is very fashionable). So I am the odd chicken out again for our table for groups which I am happy because I don't want to duke it out with my friends.

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So the parents are away for our school's Open House and while "studying" meaning attempted study or do anything which I didn't do anything due to the lack of concentration and my stomach growling "feed me", I made myself a toaster strudel. OMG they are heaven and I <3 the frosting to the nth degree. Eating breakfast as a midnight snack is always yummy. My sister nibbled on my strudel because she is trying to keep the weight down for Homecoming...stay strong baby sister. But we ended up....

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Making a whole meal. At least it was healthy, it was avocados, scrambled egg whites, sliced Asian pears, and green tea.  I was in charge of eggs, which I messed the pan up because I added more egg whites than I did vegetable oil making the egg soak up all the oil and causing the pan to be stuck to the eggs. The oil is limiting reagent while the eggs were the excessive (chemistry is seriously starting to get to me).


Preview of tomorrow: Homecoming football game, college applications, ACT and driving (yeah buddy!)

Until next time.

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Julia Child's Birthday

Today is Ms. Julia Child's birthday and in spirit of her birthday I have decided to watch the Julie & Julia  movie starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. Which then inspired me to borrow both Julia Child's novel and Julie Powell's book about her journey. Being a huge foodie, I absolutely love the french cooking of this movie and makes me want to attempt cooking some of these recipes despite being a high schooler (: So here I am with a coffee on my left and my chinese vocabulary on my right with Julie & Julia playing on my computer as I type this. In the mail today, I received my back to school orientation packet, which made me realize that school is fast approaching and with nothing completed I am far behind. Summer is leaving and school is coming which means this senior year is my last as a high schooler and I am going to make the most of it! More later....

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