OWS: PacSun

okay.. i had to stop looking at my ugly facial expression that youtube decided to pause on. so.. online window shopping! yay~ as in.. not getting anything.. and not getting the satisfaction. LOL. 

neon colors! hahaha. i like the slight gradation.. and heck, i probably wouldn't wear something this bright. but it's fun to imagine it! :P

this looks kinda cute :D minus the pink design on it.. hmmm.. 

more neon colors! with a black pencil skirt? fun for the night out :)

this reminds me of the 90's.. LOL.

i kinda like these.. hmmmm.. but i bet the bottom would curl up and i would get annoyed.

fuuuuuun! i really like this :)

white shorts! my other pair.. are booty shorts. LOL. 

purple! dress. fun. i still like the other one better though.

more fun! :P

this design is pretty cool.. but i can't tell what's going on with the actual shirt.. LOL.

also funnn! :)

hmmmm, white sun dress for spring/summer!!

i need to find a non-see-through white v-neck. still. i'm so late with this, hahah.

these look nice :D but.. $25?? what the heck? WHY pacsun, WHY?

wetseal wishlist

OLWS.. online window shopping ;) at least i think that's what i called it before. maybe OWS?

pattern, color, scarf! loves :)

looks fun and summery~

cute :D maybe not on me. who knows?

plain and simple.

i LOVE cuffs.. and circly things. haha :P

gotta get me a white v-neck.. that isn't see through!!

hoops(ish), swirly. silver :)

think i've posted this one before.. still up on my wishlist ;P

gotta get me some plaid!! and i love tunics :)

cute maybe? i bet one of my girls could definitely pull this off better than me though.

whee, winst is in santa barbara! so dinner @ shintori sushi w/ bryant, me, shaan & winst. awesomeness~ :) gotta get ready!

more aimlessness

SO.. seeing as i'm posting mainly about clothes lately.. why not keep up the trend? :D seeing as i've been LAZY as HEEEEELL with my face (besides morningly skincare routine which lasts about.. 5 minutes.. and an ALL OVER body lotion session. gotta take care of my skin!) which means NO MAKE UP which means.. nothing to post about, makeup-wise :D oh i know, that was such a far-off connection/deduction/etc. 

ho hum.

anyways.. so.. of course, AFTER i buy my forever21 stuff, as i'm browsing around online (i've subscribed to SO MANY makeup/fashion blogs it's ridiculous! thanks google reader!), i find MORE cute stuff.. but at this point, i think i can wait for one of their sales. i HOPE the item/s still stay there, but if not.. i'll post 'em up here so at least i can imagine having them... 

well, i would BUT.. of course, their website decides to stop working--okay, wtf? it just started working again. 

SO! more stuff.. from tillys.com, forever21.com, wetseal.com, cutesygirl.com.. oh and americanapparel.com ;P 

TILLYS
plaid-ish flats? cute. i dunno about the weird zipper looking thing but i'm sure i could get over it, if i were to ever buy these.. which i doubt.. mostly because i'm too in love with my red flats i just bought :) tehee. OH! i dropped them off at aldo to get them stretched--i don't even have to break them in!! (thank GOODNESS because i wore them for about 30 minutes and my feet were kiiiiiilling me! i don't know what it was!).

wide sash belts are cute :) plus the material looks soft-ish. always a plus. 

not the coolest tshirt but i think the random design looks cool. of course i don't know what the design IS so it might not be as cool as i think. plus it has pink on it xP bleh!

beeecause i like grey, black, racerbacks and stripes. dunno about the cowl neck though.. reminds me too much of my 8th grade promotion dance dress. xP bleh!

jaaacket! fur-lined. olive. cute. too bad it was about.. $50.. freaking tilly's. 

FOREVER21
also in grey/taupe, which i think might be a little better. but i have way too much black.. so white/black it is! ;P IF i were to get it. now, if it was tunic-length and if i could wear stockings underneath.. CUTE. however, i don't know how long it is (i really need to measure how long my torso is..)

tunic length! i dunno about having other people on my shirt though. hmm.. 

cute dress, yes? yes. i LOVE the color too, royal blue is AWESOMENESS. wish i had more boobies to show off.. but i don't.. but i think it would look good regardless. this alone might make me want to make another purchase but I SHALL HAVE SOME WILL POWER!

WET SEAL (yea i never understood that name either)

it just looks so cute on that model.. plus i have short hair too! couldn't it look at least half as good on me as it does on her? maybe? but i'm not a huge fan of built-in spaghetti straps. HMM.. i'm sure i'll survive, if i ever do decide to purchase it (where's my effing 15% coupon??). 

CUTESY GIRL (hmm.. weird name.. not ordinarily a site i'd go to JUST based on the name BUT.. some other blogger mentioned it and i'm bored so.. why not?)
decided i need to get some sandals.. but not just flipflop ones. and these might just do the trick! only $15.99, if i remember correctly.. PLUS a 15% discount? HMM i might just be sold! except.. for their $10 s&h. WTF? hmm.. what do you girls think? cute? 

was also looking at these BUT.. i dunno about the blingbling. i do like the thick strap but it's a little too much like regular flipflops i think.. 

AMERICAN APPAREL
simple, very versatile. i dunno though, i usually don't like the fit of most AA stuff. 

and i think i hear some neighbors outside hitting on each other.. via their dogs interacting. HMM.. this place is interesting indeed. there are so many people outside! it's so weird. it's usually never this loud. maybe some new people moved in and i just didn't notice (sort of hard, but then again we don't go outside all that often unless we have to, we're some special kind of lazy).. 

um.. let's see. since this IS a blog about ME.. i guess i should at least update a little ;P 

i've been sort of slacking on the 11pm-8am thing.. today i woke up at 10am.. and i blame it on bryant! usually he's awake so when he's not my heat source, i usually can wake up pretty much on time.. but he stayed in bed today. AND i've been sleeping a little later, mostly because.. i don't know. i guess i just spend so much time browsing the net that i just lose track of time.. or something. weird, eh? when you look up at the clock and think, "holy shit?!".. then.. it's time to.. i dunno. get a life or something ;P 

i've been trying to schedule a time to shoot w/ kelli (remember her from one of my previous posts?) and she said she'd call but she hasn't, so i texted her (in case she was in class) and.. still no response! i dunno :\ i'm also helping her out by giving her tips on monoblocs (lighting equipment). THIS ES NO BUENO! :( and we have FOUR assignments due on sunday, not only 3.. ah, well. i guess i'll just brainstorm, and if i can't get her to model.. then.. yea. i dunno. 

OH! and the dishes got done. i finally just.. got sick and tired of seeing so many dishes that i was moving dishes around in the sink (sort of loudly, not really on PURPOSE) and.. TA DAAAH! the boyfriend shows up and starts doing them for me! what a sweetheart :) :) :) i was so happy that i hugged him for about.. oh i dunno.. 5 minutes while he was washing dishes.. then decided that he couldn't stack dishes in correctly (in order to maximize space of the dish dryer thing) so i started wiping dishes. the whole process must've taken about 30 minutes (he says 45). but i was SO HAPPY! :) i even made him lunch without any sort of grumble, pretend or real ;P hahah. 

aaand.. i've been using the laptop.. basically.. all the time. partly because i never really liked where the computer is in the bedroom and partly because blake needs a mouse so i lent him mine and decided to just.. use the laptop. i took it back on sunday to edit my stuff and turn it in but lent it to him again. maybe i'll get him a mouse for an early birthday present. 

what i really should be doing with my money is to put some in a ROTH and $100 towards my website. actually. i think i'll do that now.. the website part at least. get the money sent, then start bugging them to actually set it up.. then.. i'll probably have LOTS less time 'cause i gotta sift through pictures and decide which ones i want to put up, which will probably make me dissatisfied with my work and want to take new ones which is ALWAYS GOOD! :) 

hmm.. i got lost in looking through bludomain sites (where i already put down $100.. but i might be in love with another site! oh noes! must find the original site i was looking at and compare!). 

what do you guys think?

do you like SAMUEL or EMANUEL? 

asdasd. i will make another post because this one is just too dang long!

old clothes

it's hard to realize when you have "too many" clothes..

i just realized it today (well, i suppose before today). i was hanging up all of my clothes (i hate folding) into my closet--which is HALVED because bryant needs to hang up all of his dress shirts (and polos), jackets, suits, etc. i'm not complaining--much ;P hahha. and plus the bureau we have.. bryant takes up more than half of it with his stuff (i think he has 6 of 9 drawers).. so there's not much room to put folded clothes either.

what i mean by clothes: ALL sorts of things. tshirts, even some jackets i'm debating on giving away, etc. not jeans though ;P 

either way, i had a really hard time moving clothes to the side to make space for a new one that i was hanging up, or just to look through the ones that i had hanging up. and a hard time stuffing clothes into the bureau too. 

DILEMMA! what to do, what to do? 

i was thinking maybe i should hit up buffalo exchange and see if i can make some money off my clothes.. i mean, they're nothing all that great but still. it'd be nice to get rid of some clothes and then make some money. 

have you guys had any experience with it? selling, i mean. 

i've bought a pair of jeans there for $10ish and they're pretty amazing in that fact. most of the clothes are more "vintage" or "weird".. not TOO many normal clothes.. then again i went to the one in costa mesa. apparently the one near newport (or some other beach) is better? hmm. plus i want to get rid of my old dance dresses (unless you want 'em, cuzz hahaha).. 'cause.. i'm never going to wear them. they're way too flashy/etc for what i wear now or where i'd wear them to.

ANOTHER DILEMMA!

it's hard for me to look through the clothes and say, "i'm definitely not going to wear THAT again.." and there's some clothes that just don't look good on me.. even some NEW clothes that i haven't even worn all that much! it's a hard realization. but i really should get rid of some of this stuff.. just need to put my foot down on my "pack rat" instincts. 

the other option is just to give it away to good will or etc.. but with me scrounging for money to get birthday presents, pay rent, etc.. i think buffalo exchange would be best. hmm.. 

anyone wanna go with me? seriously.. that would help kick me in the butt and get me going. sucks is that there's no B/Ex in santa barbara (go figure).. so i gotta figure out when i'm gonna go back down to yorba/LA then figure it out from there. 

or my other option is something like eBay.. but since most of my clothes aren't name-brand, it'd be harder to sell there too. hmm.. 

i hereby dub this.. winter cleaning! haha ;P

sb since the new yr

played tennis sat morning.. wasn't going to.. but.. decided i was just being a lazy ass and got myself up and went. it was pretty fun.. played mostly with this guy named "tom"? he had a really heavy vietnamese accent so it was hard to understand him. and he covered, LITERALLY covered--his face was white!--with suntan lotion.. while i forgot to put some on. booo.. lost most of my sets (3/4) but it was fun anyways :) they were all close ones except for the one that i won (w/ tom). 

decided i wasn't going to take the 2pm train. ate lunch.. then noah and joyce were gonna go boutique shopping (apparently there's 2 in the east lake shopping center??) so i went too :) went to.. adanyas? or something like that. next to happy bagel, joauquin's(sp?). got a dress.. size L.. so it's very loose.. but it was on sale (orig $40, got it for $34 WITH another 20% off). i figured it might look better with a belt, but who knows. i'd need to get a thin(?) black belt.. maybe.. hmm.. tried some chip and pepper jeans.. SO COMFORTABLE! but i wasn't in love with the fit :\ so i didn't get them. tried on some other nice jeans at the other boutique that was closing (SASSY BOUTIQUE - 60% off?) but wasn't in love with the fit either.. boohoooo.. also went to steinmart and bought some stockings.

home, tired. showered, packed, left for the train.. got there around 5:20 or something, bought my tickets, waited. got on the train.. sat across from some white guy who seemed kinda miffed that i was invading "his space". i dunno. tried to sleep but managed to get one of the few seats that DIDN'T RECLINE. ugh! he left after oxnard so i stole his seat and MAN, train travel isn't so bad! hahha. of course we were delayed 30 min but, eh. bryant picked me up, i was very happy to see him :) went home.. KNOCKED OUT.. hahaha. 

today? woke up 8am :( went to class.. 9:30-3:30! ughh. 30 min break for lunch and breaks during class but still. loooong. chipotle for lunch. after class, went to blue bee.. since they were having massive sales.. andddd.. 

http://www.jamesjeans.us/index.php?p=product&id=123&parent=62

^ my new jeans. looooove! :) it makes my butt look nice.. hahahha. from BLUE BEE DENIM.. entire store was 80% off! so instead of $198 (in store price), i got them for about $45 :) tehee. i've been wanting grey jeans for awhile.. so YAY! :) 

got home.. and.. found out my car was freakin' towed!!!!  D: D: D: D: D: i usually park on a side street, since bryant and i go basically every where together and since the other roomie needs a parking spot. and it's usually FINE.. but apparently they were having construction and had a sign posted up so i got freakin' TOWED! i was REALLY upset. and the sign says "no parking tuesday" blahblah.. SO GAY. i don't know what's going on! :( :( called SB city hall, said i needed to call the PD.. said it was a $101 fee plus the car wasn't in my name so my parents had to fax something over, releasing it to me. then on top of that, the cost for towing the car (and storage for one day) is $242!!! WHAT THE FCUKK! i was freeeeaking upset. i think i might try to fight it (even though i'm sure court won't be fun). SIHT, man! i'm pissed! i teared up for awhile.. then bryant hugged me and made me laugh. still kinda upset. gotta go pick it up before 2pm otherwise i'll get charged another $40 something for another day of storage. UGH~ :( what a ballbuster. 

anyway.. yea :\ sigh. bryant and i decided to wake up every day at 8am, regardless of the day.. and sleep at 11:00 or 11:30 latest.. just to get me on a normal person's sleeping schedule.. hahha. aiyeee. i bet this first week's gonna be hell! and no more sleeping in, not even on weekends! gonna be a bummer but it's for the best, i really do have a horrible sleeping schedule, and waking up late has made me late for multiple, multiple things.

on a positive note.. my dad bought some mexican hot chocolate from a 99 cent store.. and it's pretty good! only thing that sucks is that it takes awhile to prep since you gotta grate the chocolate block thing, heat up milk, etc. but it's.. i dunno.. cinnamon-y? and good :) so that's been my comfort "food"..

and that ends my blog. my right hand keeps spazzing for no reason.

i don't think i've forgotten to update about anything, right? :\ hmm.. 

ah! being spendthrift. the jeans i had to snag 'cause i've been wanting those for awhile and the perfect opportunity just came up :) other than that.. i'm trying to stay away from clothing and stuff. i'm pretty sure i found cuzz's birthday present (early, i know! haha) and part of bryant's birthday present (feb5).. and some darned cute boots off wet seal.. 'cause i've been wanting another pair of boots (but brown) since my purse is now brown instead of black. vanity thing. but they are cute :) and besides that.. i dunno. maybe a lipstick or two (NYX round lipsticks.. about $1.50/ea).. and.. that's IT. save save save! bryant and i agreed on trying not to eat out (but darn these 6 hour classes.. we'll just have to make/bring lunch).. my bank accnts are at an all time low! :( booo.. but i did get $740 of the $760 that i was owed.. but.. still. blehhh. 

goodnight chicas! love you <3

weird experiences

peeling nail polish. i normally don't use an undercoat or anything.. but lately, when i've been using my dark colored nail polish, it started to get into my nail (made it look dirty) so i figured yesterday.. eh.. why not. since i didn't have a base (go figure), i decided to just use my clear wet n' wild top coat (clear) and it worked pretty well. today, i noticed some chipping so i poked at my nail like i usually do when i'm half-assedly chipping at it and... it peeled! the nail polish just peeled off. i probably had the hugest WTF look on my face so i started poking at my other 2 nails that i was sort of bothered with.. and.. they peeled too! not completely clean but the majority of the color came off. it was.. WEIRD :| have you guys had that happen before?? i remember hearing about nail polishes that you could do that with.. but the one that i used was definitely not one of them (at least not that i was aware of). oh, and i'm in love with the color i'm using now :) NYC's 115A.. skin tight denim creme. i don't really know if that's the actual name :| go figure.. but.. it's an awesome lustre-y dark blue.

realistic dreams (not fantasy). i "wake up" and go about a fairly normal routine.. ex, this morning i "woke up" and i was walking around the neighborhood, taking pictures. later i wake up and.. i've been sleeping the whole time. wtf? NOTHING out of the ordinary, no weird psycho fantasy dreams.. a normal every day something-i-would-be-doing dream. trips me out sometimes :|



anyway, had to get those off my mind before i could type anything else. plus i figured those were lots more interesting to you non-makeup-users :)



SO! i was at longs drugs, trying to find the same top coat nail polish.. just.. because.. you know, it was decent plus it had that really cool effect (unless it was just some weird side effect of me not using it for awhile.. or.. something, i dunno). either way, i was searching around.. could NOT find it. got distracted by some neutrogena lip glosses (looking for a peachy color, since i keep seeing so many pretty FOTD that all use some sort of peachy colored lip gloss).. got distracted by the NYC nailpolish colors (was sort of looking for a dark lustre-y red.. but saw a pretty cool dark purple--but it had some weird blue reflect/shine that i didn't like). i turned around, remembered what i came for and... GASP!

NYX stand at the nearby longs drugs! ironic because i was JUST looking through another MU blog and saw her "NYX" category.. looked through.. and found out SHE had a NYX stand at her work :| and was thus jealous. es are $6/ea (instead of $5/ea like online). AAHH. they replaced the wet n' wild stand with NYX (or at least wet n' wild used to be around that area).. and i could not resist :| bought "oro" (gold-copper), "alaska" (dusty purple w/ slight silver reflects), "ocean" (blue-green with slight green reflects) and "green tea" (green w/ slight gold reflects?). pics when i get un-lazy enough to get off my butt and find it.. which will.. probably be before the end of this entry :| definitely colors that i was looking at buying when i was ordering offline but figured i didn't need them either due to my mindset of "i don't need more than one shade/hue of one color" and "i'm a cheap asian.. yet i'm spending. must be more frugal! *deletedelete*".

wandered back to the NYC stand.. and hidden in the back, underneath all the "last chance! 50% off!" signs, misplaced and alone.. was this GORGEOUS dark red (pinkish??) lustre-y nailpolish.. that was incidentally one of the ones that was 50% off. of course i didn't find the REAL price so when i went up to the register, the lady asked me how much it was.. i just told her it was 50% off.. so it could've been less :| who knows. i'm hoping it's actually going to be red on my nails 'cause i just swatched it on paper and it seems more of a dark pink-fushia. who knows. i'm sure it's just my eyes playing tricks on me. like right now i keep focusing with my left eye only and it's making my head hurt -__- damn lazy eye!


anyway.. i ordered some stuff off ELF.. and i have another sephora order too. i was hoping the roomie would be there just in case it came over the weekend (for whatever reason.. or even today) but he's gone :| oh! i can check with my tracking number.. if the internet would work. but.. yes.



did i partake in black friday? YES! well. sort of. i went to mervyn's (as you all know, ALL the stores are closing). the entire store was at LEAST 50% off.. and i ALSO could not resist. but.. beyond christmas shopping (for other people!) this will be the LAST money i spend--besides on food and groceries--that i will be doing for at LEAST a couple months. until bryant's birthday rolls around in early feb :| and valentine's day shortly after. huh, and HE complains that my birthday and our year anni's are in the same month.. his isn't that much better. jerk :| hahha, i kid, i kid. and even with everything being 50% off, i still managed to get about $125 worth of stuff. 4 shirts, 1 sweater dress and 1 pair of ankle boots (love!).


damn, i guess that means i should go find my camera now...

140. new craze

so i decided although clothes are cute.. and VS's jackets are definitely cute.. i don't like wool. and i've been fairly disappointed with my recent online purchases.. so i'm moving over to make-up. weird, huh? it's just fun to put ON make up (eyeshadow, lipstick/lipgloss) and just feel pretty. even if it's not much, it just makes me feel better some days.

of course, make up, as is with everything else, is terribly expensive :( MAC eyeshadows are $14.50 each! yikes. no bueno! :( no bueno, i say! not to mention the other products they have.. they work so nicely.. but are so expensive. :(



but! i browsed anyways :) here's some colors that i like~
(aahh! MAC won't let me link files from them :( boohooo..)

LISTED
- gorgeous gold (even though i already have a gold)
- juxt (blueish.. i think?)
- signed, sealed (purpley)
- carbon (my black sucks!)
- shimmermoss (green)
- lipglass viva glam VI SE




i want to try:
- purples.. because purples are awesome! not to mention the fact that they're IN now :) but i love them regardless of the fact if they're IN or OUT.
- teal.. because.. face it. i just love the color.
- some shade of green? i'm thinking darker tones 'cause light green = no bueno in my experience. unless it's SHINY green. then maybe :)
- adding some color.. or mixing colors together. i had a successful purple+orange+gold+light gold going on the other day.. but.. maybe if they were more vibrant colors. it might be easier and show up better if you have a double lid BUT i will find a way!



found a new way to put on my eyeshadow, seems to work pretty well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEeirtPq0T0

of course my end results don't end up nearly as dramatic as her look.. i stick to browns or just the darker tone or the color that i'm using (light/dark blue, gold/brown, red/brown). i know i have a picture of my eyes SOMEwhere.. i just don't remember where. and i'm sitting at home in yorba with no pictures :( and no calibrated monitor to edit the pics that i DID take.. and still craving pinkberry. boooo..



i still want to find a place to get my eyebrows done. i know regular nail salons do it but i don't know if they do a GREAT job. a GOOD job maybe but eyebrows are precious. believe me, i know. i overplucked a few times, especially when i first started in 8th grade and oh me oh my i had a chola look (no offense). it just did NOT work well for me at all. and now they're all bushy and long.. i need to get them trimmed and i feel like i COULD do it myself but.. i don't trust myself with my eyebrows. much less hair cutting anymore beyond my bangs (which is iffy at times too).



hmm.. what else is on my mind.



GUITAR HERO WORLD TOUR IS AMAZING. i hurt my wrist playing it.. but.. it's definitely worth it. well. you know what i mean. not WORTH IT but "worth it". and my wrist feels fine now :) i love the new guitar too.. plus bryant hooked up his electronic drums (yes, he has electronic drums PLUS a regular drum set at home.. and my parents tell me I'M the one that's spoiled??) so that's awesome too. which frees me up to play guitar all the time 'cause he's obsessed with his drums, so no competition there :)

irrrrrrvine tomorrow! i hope i get to see all of the people that i want to see.. saw nikki hosang today and took her out to coffeebean.. then CUZZ and GDAWG and TRACE and BRYAN and RANTE and JIN and KRISTINA BUI and MICHELLE LEW and JENNY MIMURA. i feel like i'm forgetting people too :|

i've been up since 8am.. and.. i'm not even really tired. and i did NOT take a nap. wow. i really should sleep though :( try to regular my sleeping schedule.. no more sleeping at 3-4AM and waking up at 1-3PM.




i feel like i had something more important to post. hm. i g