open ended questions.

so it’s my last staying up til 3am night of the summer because why the hell would i stay up til 3am in Seattle. the only reason i stay up late here is because of the blazzzzzin’ wifi so i am able to watch my porn in peace when everyone is sleeping. jk. more like, i talk to shawn.

— speaking of shawn. im a tad bit ticked because he said he would be online to talk to me tonight since it IS my last night of fast webcamming and whatnot which i won’t be able to do in Seattle. but he didn’t show. so i called him via Skype — more on that later — to see what’s up and he’s at a friends house? wtf? i mean, okay. i try not to be the clingy type but maybe i am! did i NOT tell him that i get DIALUP in seattle? gah. i know i’m being pesky but i just really would like to see him for the last time for a while. IM NEEDY. rawh. —-

and then i indulge in my allkpop.com [which i do realize gets news way faster than popseoul. but popseoul gets more cynical and funny and totally biased] and my online shopping and my youtube. bytheway, i stumbled upon this guy on youtube because of the “top watched” videos of the day.

peter chao? http://www.youtube.com/user/pyrobooby

he’s…i don’t know! i mean, he’s clearly faking that accent and he’s just…irritating as “fahk”. but i don’t know why i just had to watch most of his videos! i mean, its like profanity x10. and when i watch it, it’s just like “………o…my…god…what the hell am i watching…” and its just…so…i don’t know! people say you have to be able to laugh at yourself, but he takes that FOB stereotype to the fullest extreme. i cringe watching it but i can’t stop. it’s like that car crash on the freeway that you HAVE to slow down to see everytime and say “wow, i wonder if anyone died” to. okay i don’t know what kind of analogy that was but, all i’m trying to say is that he’s so crude but so freaking ridiculous.

but yes, it’s my last evening, night, whatever in Iowa. im going to miss it but i need to go back to my room im Seattle as well. my vacation here has ending with a in a spray painting daze. i got these rainboots at a garage sale and they fit amazingly but they’re just pink. really really really barbie pink. so i decided to do what any person would do to shoes they don’t like the color of [besides not buy them] — i spray painted them black. though it was more like my brother who spray painted them for me. i just stuck on dots and the paint tape on places that i didn’t want to get black. now they look like some random army boots i got from at trash can. haha, jk. they’re drying so i actually don’t know. we’ll see how they turn out. they were only five dollars so that’s okay if they don’t turn out so great.

i also watched harry potter tonight. overall, i would say it’s an okay movie. i understood what alysonman meant when she said it was boring, then good, then boring, then good. my brother [who has never read any of the books] said he liked it because there was more action. and i must admit, there was more action. the romance was quite stifling though. and what the heck was with the whole ron weasley’s house being burnt down part. err, was that in the book? i mean, what the heck? just adding in random scenes for the hell of it? it felt more like running around for no point. and i was looking forward to all the dueling that was suppose to happen in the castle and the fighting back against the death eaters thing. students against bad guys! i mean, where was all that?!? just harry running around chasing snape down?

— on a very lighter note, hermione granger is looking absolutely gorgeous in that movie. [: im absolutely intrigued where she got that SO SO cute peacoat. the checked one she wore a lot paired with the scarves.if anyone knows, please drop a line please?! 

for the skyping topic, i just did my very first phone call via skype and it was crystal clear! it was quite funny because shawn absolutely did not know who the hell i was at first so he talked to me in chinese [wei? wei? ni wei?] and im like “its hao you dodo.”. but yes, i am thinking about geting DSL for my house because i figured i’ll be needing to get faster internet for school. it’s an easy argument for me to give to my parents too. they’d rather have me study at home then at the library at UW. haha. but yes, maybeeeee sometime soon i won’t have to wait half an hour to load a MV from Big Bang.

also, night market for seattle is coming up. i’m considering asking my parents if i can volunteer with VSA there since i am now joined as a member. it should be fun and a good way for me to be introduced in with the people. i’m serious about joining too and maybe hopefully becoming an official in the future? VSA is Vietnamese Students Association. Night market is this thing held in the summer in the International District which is basically a mini fair with lots of food vendors and a night movie showing on a big projector set outside. it’s just simple fun.

well, it’s 3:30 am so i will head to sleep now. just packing up tomorrow so nothing so busy. i will definitely miss my late night eating out at taco bell or steak n shake and watching movies. and playing scrabble and upwords [amazingly competitive.] but i’m ready to head home. i can’t wait for school to start!

…even though you’ll be hearing about how much i can’t wait for break to start 5 days into the school year. [:

ttfn!

autobots! rollout!

my sleeping has been crazy wack lately. i sleep late. and then i wake up randomly in the middle of the night. and then back to sleep. and then wake up and then my alarm goes off cuz i forget to turn it off and this i press snooze repeatedly instead of turning it off cuz i’m so use to pressing snooze.

today today was bouncy butt numbness. i actually woke up at 9am. for no reason. my bladder wasn’t even full. and then i just mulled around and slept a little but it was that kind of in-and-out sleeping. and then around like 11am my brother opens the door and is like “hao. hao. hao. wanna go see a movie?” and im like “uh. yea.” cuz i “get to see only one movie a year or something…” (liz 6/27/09) (lol, i’m such a school nerd.)

so up i go dressing and brushing my teeth and leaving my dad a post-it on the counter that read: ba –@ southcenter with anh hai –hao. because i’m SUCH a good daughter and so use to being controlled and telling my parents where i go so they don’t freak out and call the cops slash call all my friends that they have numbers of slash go to my friends house and knock on the door and ask if they know where i am (the latter actually happened.).

southcenter it was. man the imax line was packed. but we managed to get tickets.

overall? movie rated: ehhhh.

first of all. yes, i know megan fox is pretty sizzlin’. like, very very very even-if-i-wasn’t-a-lesbian-i’d-expletive-her sizzlin’. running around in those boots and white pants that never get really dirty. yep. bet you all the guys in that audience were like “if only….”

but besides that, the sound was a bit too loud for me and the whole movie made me a bit headache-y. sad right? considering how much i adore transformers and the hot robot metal sex they have when they grapple and wrestle with each other. and the close-ups of optimus prime transforming? ROBOT P0RN! and yes, i typed that “o” as a zero just to emphasize some geekness. (:

but unlike the first one, the plot was quite thin. i mean, what does the sliver of the all-spark that was with mikela end up doing. just staying in her bag?  and i mean, the whole part with alice hunting (literally) down sam was a bit carried out. and scenes that we absolutely unneeded and added just for stupid slapstick amteur teenage boy humor. yes, i’m talking about the taser to the balls and the TOTALLY UNNESSARY closeup of that sector 7 man’s ass in a thong (very little cellulite i must say..) and you know what got the 7 year old boy laughing his ass off in the row in front of me? the part when mikeala landed on that leo’s “testicles” when they portkeyed (yes! harry potter terminology!) to the desert.

but the most important part is when i cried. yes, i cried. i mean WHO CAN SIT THERE STONEFACED WHEN OPTIMUS PRIME IS BEING RIPPED APART MAN! HE DIEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD. *starts tearing up again*

but then he came back to life! with like upgrades from the old man! and it was awesome again!

[:

it was a bit long, that’s all. all action in the last…30 minutes. running and shooting. but oh well, it was still sexy.

oh you crazed twilight fan…

SO OMG. GUESS WHAT. THE NEW MOON TRAILER CAME OUT. AND OMG. GUESS WHAT. EDWARD. BELLA. JACOB! SHIRTLESS! WEREWOLVES! HOT STEAMY KISSES.

OMG GUESS WHAT!

I DON’T CARE.

but nonetheless, I was curious enough to know what the trailer looked like. Can I ask if Edward is wearing extra white powder? He no longer shimmers in the sun like diamonds! But I do like James. He’s quite terrifying. Oh the amazing things colored contacts can do for you (and in a certain person’s case *I hope STEVEN TRAN isn’t reading this*, it can really be a turn-off). Bella and her cheesy “I love you”s and Edward and his “I can’t be with you because I may potentially lose my mind and eat you”s. I mean, that’s the basic storyline right?

Girl loves guy. Guy ends up to be blood sucking vampire. Girl still loves guy. Guy goes through emo phases of rejection and then love and then rejection and then jealousy and then love (Maybe PMS for guys?).

I actually don’t know how the “saga” ends because I never did read the last book. I don’t even know what happened in the second book (don’t kill me Twilight fans!). It’s that forgettable.

Now you know what movie I wanna see? My Sister’s Keeper. I mean, I wonder how Cameron Diaz will pull it off. I hope she doesn’t fuck up the entire movie or something. Oh yes, I said the eff word. That’s how much I love that book.

The End.

hakuna matata.

if you don’t know what the means, you haven’t seen the Lion King. if you haven’t seen the Lion King, you missed out on a huge part of childhood. so please do. go. i command you. after all, that movie can teach you more lessons about life than any sexist princess movie. 

anyways. i think stress has definitly gotten the better part of my because my face has literally turned into ZitWorld. but i don’t blame myself, i’ve been up too late, battled with a slight cold, changed my face wash (i think i should go back to biore, as expensive as it is, at least it kept my face less red than usual), battled with friends, battled with homework, battled with seattle’s effing cold. and of course, finals week is coming up soon. next week i have so much stuff due it’s ridiculous. 

i actually have to start attending art class now because we actually have a new teacher that took over for our old one (who’s in the hospital) and she actually teaches and is going to do our final and takes attendance and whatnot. but y’know what? apparently i got full points on everything i’ve taken in that class (midterm, essay, quiz) so i’m in hefty fine shape. plus, i already did my museum writing (the notes at least) and the art piece should be easy enough.

i did want to write about having no worries though. as much as stress i have now, i’m trying to keep my chin up. my family’s been talking over lately and the recession has started to affect us. profits are going down low. my dad took over the saturday shift (9-4) and we’re considering working until 10pm on fridays too. though i don’t understand because i swear my mom has money stuffed away somewhere in a bank saving’s account but apparently we can’t touch that until we’re dying. so my dad is stressed out over selecting which bills to pay and which bills to leave until the absolute last minute (that is, when they threaten to cut our power or something the next day) because we just can’t pay everything at once. and i do the bill paying every month for the store. gah.

 

anyways. im watching gossip girl.

definately cinematic.

i’m sorry if you don’t like Transformers. because i do. i’ve watched it probably 4-5 times and considering that is a 2+ hour movie, i wasted 10-13 hours on it. and everyime, i’m still freaking  jaw-dropped by it and everything. some of the stuff i like about it:

• the soundtrack. it’s the first thing about it. with big speakers and amplifying sound, each “momentous” song is reverberated off the walls on my house and sounds incredible. especially the part where they come from the sky and transform into each car of their choice (“excuse me, are you the tooth fairy“. man, girl. you must have messed up dreams of what the tooth fairy looks like.) 
• the transforming. i mean, after all, it IS transformers. i like how each piece is so focused on and each detail exceptionally clear. i’d probably cry at the crystal picture of it if i were to watch it in Blu-Ray or something. O__O the first time Sam and Mikeala . and WE LOVE CHIHUAHUAS!
• the cheesy humor. the simple response of the hoity-toity cop with the gun of “are you on drugs?” and sam’s blubbering around mikeala. it’s cute and in a cheesy way. but it’s still cheap.
• the visual effects. the desert scenes especially. the round aerial camera view.

okay, liking Transformers does not make me a nerd. if it does, i’m a proud nerd. and i will definitely see Transformers 2 when it comes out.

speaking of movies. these are the ones i want to see when it comes out (so far.)

1. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
   
2. Watchmen (the comic book was astounding)
   
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (duh. it’s harry potter)
   
4. Where the Wild Things Are (THAT WAS ONE OF M Y FAVORITE CHILDHOOD BOOKS! it’s out 10/16 too, in time for my birthday!)
5. The Lovely Bones (please, i hope they don’t eff this up. it was also a good book.)
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox (a roald dahl movie? count me in.)

i pretty much spent the day watching movies.

i watched The Family Stone and Ray on tv, and then now Transformers. YES!

‘kay. well. back to pervy mister Sector 7 the a-hole (:

TWILIGHT IS…..HORRIBLE?

So I illegally watched Twilight online. & My comments (coming from an avid reader of the books of course ~ I don’t pick a team. That’s stupid because she’s clearly in love with Edward and vis-versa but Jacob is clearly the one that wouldn’t get carried away and kill her via the neck — maybe he’d rip her head off in a werewolf frenzy but that’s okay.[=) on it are quite different from every girl (excluding the few feminists and girls that hate cheese) that probably watched the video.

Let's see : I stopped watching it after an hour.

I know. I know. You can't really do that in a theatre but hey, it's the WWW so I can do anything I want (include killing the movie industry through my boycotting ways. har har har). It's not that the movie wasn't...how should I put it...well-made. The actors//actresses are pretty good. The visuals are pretty sweet. The music fits what scene is playing at the time. There was lots of cheese and making oogling eyes at each other and you could basically see the drool coming out of Edward's mouth and lots of HIGH POWER FAST VAMPIRE SPEEDING AROUND.

I'm sorry. I'm cynical. Don't get wrong. I'm a sucker for all that true love and romance and corny and cutesy and wonderful stuff that woos every girl's heart (why would I be completely in love with Taylor Swift's Love Storyif I wasn't?). But this movie...I laughed so much! I mean, god "like diamonds...you're beautiful!" in a deep boy's voice has to be SOMEWHAT funny. I think they completely the "deadly romance" aspect of the book (basically the ONLY aspect -- the other tribe wanting to kill Bella is completely a subplot, y'know) and tried to make it into something "deep" which in the end made it unbelievable. I know that 2 hours is little room for any character development and stuff but can ANYONE just step back and (ignoring the whole vampire aspect of the movie, lol) see that this love is so unrealistic? She is like, BAM. I AM IRREVOCABLY IN LOVE WITH YOU EDWARD.

...PSH. WHATEVER. I don't understand why girls like the actor that plays Edward anyways. He's not that handsome. Sorry.

I like some parts though. I like Jacob. I think Bella and him are completely sweet and there. should. be. more. development! Second book second movie! I like the Cullens (the family) and the housewarming scene. Though I completely expected their house to be different. I can't explain it here but for some reason, for Seattle people, I kind of imagined the Lake Union Armoury? The place where GHS Spring Waltz is held every year? Yea, o___O" and I completely am in love with the guy that plays Eric. I mean, LAHHHHHVE! I could easily print out a picture of him and draw hearts everywhere if the creepo factor of actually doing it was lower. (Btw, to make up for my loss in creepo points, I just googled him and found out his name is Justin Chon. Ka-ching!) Man, Bella. All these guys be swooning over you cuz you're an albino from Arizona (oh, LOVED her nickname too. If I went to some little town in Louisiana [totally random state popped into my head], would they call be Washington? Though, maybe they’d call me Chink or something just because those Lousians [<--ahaha don't know if it's true] probably think all Asians are alike. Ah JAY-KAY!). I really think you should take your pick. Eric? Mike? Tyler? (Shawn? haha).

Okay. Well I think I will go watch Slumdog Millionaire because I heard THAT was a good love story (complete with attempted murders in India’s impoverished village backdrop!) =O

 

Oh yea. Carlisle Cullen melts my pants! Teehee!

daily 2.

 

it’s cold

i’m cold

i don’t get it. it’s suppose to be nice and warm i thought. ’specially for this weekend.

oh well. i guess we get what we get.

 

im quite…blah right now. i just took a nap. 3.5 hours. it’s almost nine so almost cleanup time at the store. almost time to go home. almost time to take a shower and crawl into bed and sleep again. life is such a routine. routines are nice in a way because you know how life is going to go and you’re not scared of like…having nothing to do unless having nothing to do is part of your routine and if that happens then you’re basically screwed. er. yea. whatever. as i just said. i’m quite. blah right now. so when i’m blah. i tend to ramble. rambleramble ramble..

 

my chemistry quite well okay i guess. i’m not going to fail it hopefully but i’m starting to get a feeling that i’m probably just gunna get a C in that class and leave it at that. i mean, i want a better grade but there’s like three weeks and left and it’s not like there’s a miracle waiting to happen. more like a ticking bomb aka the final /= sadness. but but but. history is going good and so is badminton definately and accounting is alright.

 

i feel like watching a movie. just sitting with nice warm fleecy covers (like the numerous ones that exist at my house) with a pint of ice cream and crying my eyes out watching like…the phantom of the opera. or moulin rouge. yes. one of those two movies. i miss them. i haven’t seen them in a while. i wanna watch a movie about love. love and how everything overcomes it. but i really hate those cheesy movies that like..are really cliche. i like the ones where there’s a happily ever after but you have to work at it to get to it. yes. more realistic in a way. though moulin rouge does NOT have a happily ever after. more bittersweet but still it’s happy in a way. ramble ramble ramble. 

 

im watching the rerun of grey’s anatomy on tv right now. last night’s season finale was…bittersweet too. happily ever after but it was straining emotionally. i think it was the first episode that i felt was kinda “deep” for me. uncovering more secrets and darkness and less of the the fluffy stuff. i wonder how next season is going to be. meredith and derek’s relationship makes me sigh so much. i mean, jeezus cripes they’re meant for each other. seriously. SERIOUSLY. for all you non-grey’s fan. seriously = a grey’s word. seriously D: and it was all so sweet when merder set up the couple in the room so they could have sex without disturbance because both of them could potentially die and they were in love and they wanted to at least have sex with each other before they died… mhm.

 

 

 

i feel restless. im really hungry. im actually looking forward to pho tonight. even if it is with my parents and everything.

 

 i had quite the most interesting thing happen to me during my nap today though. but i’ll keep it to myself. but i seriously said wtf? twice. that’s how interesting it was.

 

it’s memorial day weekend. i have an eye appointment tomorrow. hopefully i will get sexy new glasses. not that i don’t like the ones i have now. i want black rims now. what else. nothing else. wow, such a weekend. maybe i will just sit down and do all my accounting labs in one day. oh yes! so much partying this weekend for hao x] well better than anna who was all like “i’m locking myself in my room and studying SATs all day”. i mean, ew. lol. though i really really should do that too ~,~

 

mundaneness.

3 days without blogging and I’m about bursted.

I went to the waltz. It was fine and dandy. Though going to those events where I see everyone (aka. bulldogs) again makes me slightly wistful and sad inside. Where you keep knowing that this is probably the last time you’ll see them and you feel as if there’s not enough time in the world for anything =/ Though one particular face that I wanted to see there, WASN’T there so I will have to call her up and totally yell at her *grumble grumble*. Anyways, yes, that sad feeling. It really sucks. But I guess when moments like that come along, you just have to enjoy them and bathe in their glorious nature *cough cough lame cough* ^^

I watched two movies this weekend

• Happy Feet : I know I know, I’m way behind. It’s SUCH a cute movie. Though the ending was quite disappointing. But I guess the theme is all like “Be true to yourself..”. I liked the music.
• The Illusionist: An astounding amazing beautiful motion picture. I liked the whole love theme paired with the  illusion aspect and how it blurs the border between reality and what’s fake. And the ending reminded me quite of Ocean’s Eleven where it like made you go “whoa. cool”

Today was suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch a great day. The only shitty part (pardon my language but it was indeed, shitty.) was stupid Courtney, my high school counselor who I made a 1:30pm appointment with and when I came, he was busy with another student and then he had an “impromptu meeting” with other counselors and made me freaking 30+ minutes and THEN he blamed it on me? and said that I shouldnt have cnacelled my earlier appt of 8:00am? I mean. What the hell. I MADE AN RE SCHEDULE FOR 1:30OPM AND YOU WERE BUSY. Jeez.

DId all my registering and crap for Fall Quarter.

I’m all set to go. I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow which I’m slightly dreading because the clinic I go to is quite claustrophobic to me. I just read Almar’s blog and she’s quite entertaining so check it out. It makes my day and makes me feel happier. I saw her today too, when I stopped by GHS. Her and Mister Picturesque.

I have a huge bruise on the back of my right upper thigh. I got it when i slammed my side into the railing of a little kid’s slide. Way to go Hao. It’s turning greeny purple =/

Hope you have a good day.