Chinese Drama version of Mulan

So they're betrayed by their own commanders, surrounded by enemies at a dead-end, basically waiting to die, and Mulan and their version of Shang are stroking each others' hair. I'm sitting here, screaming at the TV, "STOP BEING SUCH A GIRL! DO SOMETHING, GEEZUS!!!" and they just keep crying and caressing and the supposedly romantic moment just sickened me. Then in another scene, a soldier couldn't bear to stand by and watch his fellow friend die so he ran out to try to do something and got shot on the spot by the enemy. And this is when I choose to bawl. I'm telling you, these dang war scenes always get me.

Too much action for one weekend.

Paintball was a blast. XD I always knew I liked shooting games, just not real shooting. Unfortunately, lots of people got hurt--I mean, battle scars--but call my craycray, I kinda wanted one, y'know? The whole paintball experience. I mean, what's paintball without a few bruises? (: I guess, in a sense, fortunately, I didn't get any. Butthead didn't either (: hehe, she can finly cross it off her bucket list! <3 She didn't enjoy it as much as I did though. Even though I couldn't breathe after those two rounds of Capture the Flag. XD haha, I didn't faint though! YES, I'm getting better at this physical stuff! uh, what else? Oh yeah, BECAUSE I was so afraid of bruising, I wore my Eskimo down bomber jacket, which was a bad idea, guys. Don't do it! XD in the end, most of us looked like ... Well, unfortunately we didn't take a picture. I think we all died from the heat and the moving and allathat, but if you can imagine Me, Michelle, Jessica, Joanna, Angeline, Tam, Scott, Brian, Kevin, Louis, and Daniel all rolled up in dirt and then steamed for several hours, well you've got a pretty clear image of what we looked like. My arm is still sore from holding the gun and running and shooting, but boy, I'd do it all over again if I could! (: preferably in the winter, yeah? XD got headshotted several times, out. Then on the butt several times but the paint never exploded so hah! according to the rules, I'm still in the game! XD run Emily run! Thanks to Louis, Scott, and Brian for covering me. LOL, the Buttheads dropped so many paintballs accidentally, whoops. And Jessica was trying to make her shoes more paint-splattered so she kept trying to manually break the paintballs to prettify her shoes. Then she squeezed some on mine and that just looked like bird poo or mustard. Whichever works. P.S. to the guy whom I shot in the neck, I'm sorry if it hurts. I didn't mean it; I was aiming for your head. If only you'd been a bit shorter...

Some crashed at my house after and then off to

Jessica's dinner which she didn't approve of, but still, finally got it over with. (: Dang sour patch kid. Hope you enjoyed yourself though. With the people you supposedly love, minus Julina and Jaime. HOBOS covered in dirt and whatnot at Buca, ftw. Placed in the corner where the provocative art was, heck yeah. Then ran into PHHS Radix(?) teachers/classmates, lovely awkwardness. Jodie creamed Jessica who creamed her back and then dragged the Buttheads into it. x_O" GRT.  Just chilled and skipped around Target. xD Then sat for the longest time in the Barbie / Polly Pocket / Monster High section. xD (Sorry for panicking about SFDK so much.)


SFDK worked out in the end, I think. xD Didn't get to see the animals but I loved the rides. xD 'Cept Superman. That ride can go rot. Not worth the 2+ hours under the scorching sun. & they needa play more songs. xD Singing like maniacs while everybody else just stares. #YOLO, have a little fun, people. 7 people sharing one cup. Hehe, ASIAN STYLE. Got our money's worth. Hopefully nobody got sick. Haha, Benson was kinda cute. Honestly though? I'm pretty sure we would've had the same amount of fun at PGA but now at least we can say we went to SFDK in the summer! (:

& then now I'm compensating for all the action by being lethargic and lazing around the house.

Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans

• Dirt (Dyl Pick): Fail. Spit out. Cannot re-eat. Cannot swallow. Even when Tiff tried to hold his nose. I smelled it from the other side of the car.
• Black pepper (Dyl Pick): Dyl likes it. He's weird though. ("Tim too!")
• Vomit (Tiff): Can't even pretend to chew it. "horrible."
• Booger (Me): doesn't taste like booger but not bearable.
• Sausage (Me): swallowed it but almost threw up. Needed jamba juice to wash it down. Ew. Sausage aftertaste stuck in teeth. Ew. Just thinking about it makes me remember the aftertaste. Ew.
• Cinnamon (Tiff): it's okay.
• Lemon (Dyl Pick): duh it's good.
• Soap  (Dyl Pick) : soapy and disgu--delicious.
• Grass  (Dyl Pick) : "I tasted grass before! It tastes like grass!"
• Green Apple: car ate it. Sadness. ):

"50 Ways To Say Goodbye" - Train

• Phantom of the Opera spinoff?
• Mariachi band.
• Revenge song.
• Guest cameos.

= new replay song (:

Dreamcatcher failed today.

I don't exactly remember the order of events... but I do remember going on a roadtrip and we like went through some kind of crazy time-travel tunnel/bridge and ended up at this... home depot? Where they were selling all sorts of tiles/bricks/whatnot but this place was special cause there were a whole bunch of men in cubbies (yess, cubbies... like each man was stuffed individually in a tiny box where he literally had to crouch down) and each man had a different sort of tile and they just kept carving names in the tiles. Constantly carving random names with a chisel.

Then I found a note (from you)... a bunch of scribbles which I couldn't read (and trust me, I tried very hard to decipher your handwriting). All I could make out was:

dancing in the moonlight.

in cursive at the bottom. Then... Tracy(?) looked over my shoulder and started giggling and I had no idea why. & I set off to find you.

I never did find you; maybe the note wasn't from you and I was just imagining things. Instead, Skype somehow transported my family from Vietnam to here (right inside my house!) and I was really excited and happy and all things wonderful. Be Phuong started running around in circles... accelerating and we couldn't stop her but she was really hyper and happy and then Rapunzel from Tangled did all these karate moves to try to stop her.

Then my ma woke me up.

Now for the analysis:

• Home Depot tile place: Chet Trung and Xiem My came over while I was sleeping and examined the tiles in my bathroom because they're planning on remodeling their bathrooms. The men stuffed in cubbies... I have no idea where they came from; I swear I wasn't thinking of stuffing men in cubbies!
• The note: Absolutely no idea. I wasn't even thinking of you yesterday. x_O"
• Family from Vietnam: Maybe 'cause I miss them and everybody's going places to visit family and I'm not? Rapunzel... well I did text Butthead yesterday?