Lookbook

Melanie's got me in love with lookbook.nu.
Great. Another distraction.

In love with photography.

Thank god for fast shutter speeds.

Action shots tmrw. What to do, what to do. (;

Mood: internal tizzy.

Tizzy

is officially my new Scrabble word.
If I ever luckily randomly select these letters.
Which is near impossible because there's only one Z, so I'd have to get a blank too.
What a Scrabble nerd I am.

I am constantly in tizzy.

Leap Year

was the most expectable, cheesiest movie ever

and I loved every single moment of it.
Esp. this part:

A bride is toasting her husband at their Irish wedding:

"I want to say thank you to my husband. I want to say may you never steal, lie or cheat. But if you must steal, then steal away my sorrows. And if you must lie, lie with me all the nights of my life. And if you must cheat then please cheat death because I couldn't live a day without you."

^If I attend any significant weddings in the future, that will officially be my toastspeechthingy.
Nearly died on the inside.

P.S. I LOVE THE WAY THE IRISH SAY "IDIOT".
I seroiusly will act like an idiot around an Irish just to hear him call me an idiot. ♥

Eggs Benedict

Upon my return from Reno (a year ago?),
I embarked on a quest to find my beloved EGGS BENEDICT.

After days of searching for such, I found them
@ Cheesecake Factory
and after months of waiting,
going and missing,
B/C of the fact that you can only eat their Sunday Brunch on SUNDAYS BEFORE 2:00 PM
I went today.
I woke up especially early
to go eat.

And, it was not good.
To my utterly extreme disappointment,
Cheesecake Factory < Reno's Saltwater Cafe.

Mood: super disappointed

Thanks, Kirby Boy!

I love it how whenever I'm busy doing homework, you always seem to AIM me and it makes me smile knowing that I can still talk to you and that I haven't drifted from you.

& whenever I'm horribly/fatally sad/depressed, you're like, there. POPPED OUTTA NOWHERE, I SWEAR. And you are, I think, one of the only people right then and there that could bring a CHEESEY smile out of me voluntarily.

& how you can comfort me with your kind(?) narcisstic/skeptic/pessimistic words. xD

& how YOU are in love with Kirby and bunnies and lil kids. Kinda creepy, now that you think about it, but still. (COUGHcreeperCOUGH)

& how you still put up with me after all this time, and don't get annoyed by my random rants.

And even though you sometimes remind me of Confucius, or another really old Chinese philosopher man, I'm thankful for having you in my life.

Long story short, thanks for being my Kirby Boy (:

AHAHAH. ROFL. I love our convos.

"American Talk" w/ HP Cast!

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

In the spirit of HP, I just had to have something about it.
This cracked me up like CRAZY.

Omg, Real Malfoy Dude is really cute when he does his impressions.
HOWEVER, Butthead, he is not cute in general. ;)

"AW MAN, JUSTIN BIEBER IS THE MAN.
BOOYAH!"
<3 so cuteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

The Assumption Song

Honestly, did you think dirty?! xD

P.S. YAY! Thanks for teaching me how to embed a video, Oxnard!

WERE YOU ABORTED?! HUH?!

Look to the left. Under username Mastr0something. Read what that says.

^ I guess Jessica wasn't completely nuts when she said that last year while debating in Woods'.
ROFL. EPIC.

Thank you, FLED ♥

For awesome FLED days.
For another sense of belonging.
For sprucing up my days with loving randomness.
For the fact that we don't need to dress up, nor plan anything, but purely chillax around each other.
For people who I don't mind getting on the same bed with. xD
For memories captured in pictures, a.k.a. camera-horsing.

For Fiona, Linda, & Danica.
For being able to say that 100 years from now, I'll still remember y'all.
I hope. xD

ESSAYS KILL ME.

So I finally finalized on what my thesis is going to be.
And I'm writing smoothly and no signs of writer's block yet.
Then, I realized...
MOTHERFUDGEEEEEEEE!
My intro,
my beautifully-written, carefully thought-out intro,
has absolutely nothing to do with my entire essay.

Lovely.
So what do I have to do now
That I don't don't don't want to do?
I'm going to CtrlA my entire wondrous chunk of words
and press delete.

Which means I'm gonna have to come up with a new hook.
Time to go fishing.

LiNK - Life in North Korea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwwyzpEnK0M

One thing I really hate about Blogspot? I can't embed a video onto this page, so you'll just have to click for yourself and see.

You really should watch that because it might change your world... or it might not.
But aside from my usual "Thank you" blogs, I guess by watching this video, I figured that I'd have to thank my country for the liberty that I am so accustomed to that I forget to be thankful for.
Sure, even when I say that, there's controversy, because my freedom is limited.
But it's not as limited as of those in that video.

Sure, I might not know the whole story.
And sure, maybe this isn't as big of a deal as it seems.
But it's worth watching.

My opinion?
I've watched footage of Invisible Children.
Jacob, the survivor, visited our school.
And it hurt me to know such things were going on in the world
(as cheesy as that sounds).
And it's real.
But when I think about it, I see no point into taking action.
I know it's wrong and purely evil.
And sure, people will know be informed.
But then what?
For me, I see our war in Iraq all over again.
US taking action.
US butting into somebody's else's matters.
US ending up getting hurt in the long run.
I mean, isn't that what happened in Iraq?
I'm sorry if my ignorance led me wrong, but from what I know, as of now, I just see that whole war happening again if we ever do persuade our government to take action. More blood. More tears. That's it.

I could be wrong. Chances are, I am wrong. But that's just my opinion, if you took the time to read through that mass of words.

Watch the video and decide for yourself.
& help spread the word.

Thanks, Daniel Mai!

Wow, it feels weird saying your name. xD So used to calling you "Oxnard"!

Well, I'm not sure if I'm still your best friend, because I'm a pretty horrible one at that.
But it doesn't matter, because I am so thankful for ever having you as a friend.
Like, really.

Not just because you ceaselessly help me with my homework x_O"
But because you're there for me like always.
Which is a bit crazy now that I think about it.
(Note to Oxnard: Get off AIM more often.)

& I don't mind being me around you. Not one bit.
Even when you creeperily take pictures of me WHILE I AM WATCHING CAMP ROCK 2!!! >:|

For sure, the best guy friend I've ever had.
The one shoulder I wouldn't mind leaning on.

Thanks for simply being my friend. <3
Merci beaucoup, mon ami!

Thank you, Tua Cu!

Haha, I didn't have time to blog on the previous days, so I'll make up for it later.

This one's to my uncle in Virginia.
For caring for me like his own child.

And even though I don't agree with his teaching styles,
I'm still super thankful for him.
Because he basically keeps me on track of life.
And wants only the best for me.

Kind of like a second father.

My mother told me that if anything ever happened to my parents, he would be the one I would get sent to. So, I suppose anybody who is worth my mother's trust is worth mine.

& I was never that close to him or anything,
but I appreciate everything that he's ever done for me.

Just this weekend, he called and gave me a "SAT" lecture.
I patiently listened while watching Avatar with my father. Teehee.
He ended up ordering 11 books for me.
& he is officially the incentive for me to sign up for the SATs.

Oh, and I asked him:

But if I get good scores in March, and I skip the one in June, doesn't that mean that I will have wasted $47?!

His reply:

Emily,
You are right!
I will send you a check $500 if you get a score above 2300 on your SAT that you will take in March 2011. That means you are making $453, and I am happy to waste $47.
Have fun studying!
Tua Cu~

Touché. ;)

Thank you, family whose house I take shelter in.

Obviously, for the shelter.

But also, for displaying deception, sin, untrustworthiness, wrongdoing, etc.
Because of that, I've become a stronger person.
Maybe that's a bad thing, that I've gone through that right of passage,
but still, I think I would've been more susceptible to breakdown if I had experienced such evils elsewhere. Coming from family, I have learned to cope with it more and more as each day goes by.
Because you can't hate family.
Or, at least, I can't. I am obligated to accept them and I do.

So thanks.
For slimily sweet-talking in front of faces and stabbing backs from behind.
Because of you, I've found who I won't be. I won't be a liar.

Thank you, EJMTZ.

For a sense of security.

As a teenager, one struggles especially with "finding yourself" and "belonging" and allathat emotional fudgesap.

Y'all gave me a place to reside forever&always. I found a part of me within each of you.

Nomatter what happens, I know I'll always have you guys. Nomatter how far apart we are, how we're drifting more and more each and every day, there's absolutely no way we could go wrong. Never completely. I could hate the way you do something, act someway, but I could never hate you. I can't. I've tried before, but never with success.

I don't know why. Maybe I do. Hm, it's an odd little thing inside my head. But the term EJMTZ is somewhat eternal to me.

So thanks, y'all. For putting up with me. For the smiles. For the pain. For helping me grow up. For keeping me true to myself. For loving me, as far as I know. ;) For giving me a place to stay.

J

M

T

Z

 I love y'all. ♥

5 parts of a butthead/partnerincrime/olbuddyolpal/zeelong whole.

Thank you, ma famille.

It's November! Which includes Thanksgiving; therefore, I will post one thank-you per day every single day of this month.
And since I skipped yesterday (purposefully), I get to thank two people today.
The 2 most important people in my life. No doubt.

I love my parents more than I love anything else in this world. And no, I'm not your typical rant-about-your-parents-on-Tumblr-when-you're-angry-then-thank-them-when-you're-trying-to-be-a-good-child-and-you're-in-a-good-mood.

These two are my best. The only people I wouldn't mind living forever with on a deserted island.

I can only thank you forever. Because the list really does go on and on and on.

But both of you must know that I love you. Yesterday, today, tomorrow, forever&always.

And absolutely nothing can change that.
That's the one thing I can swear on.

To: Mì & Pá
Thanks for everything.

LA LA LAND!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow7SBaQTjlo