Border Crossing

Warning for touchy subject matter.
I've been video editing for the past couple of hours, but the lag has been testing my patience. It's a big file, so that might explain the lag. So I'm taking a break from Adobe Premiere Pro-ing for now. I'll be getting back to it in just a second. This year, I'm determined to be a more legit writer by making more meaningful posts rather than keeping this blog as an online diary, the kind of blog in which you just post stuff you do every now and then.
I think I might have mentioned about this in a post before, about drinking, but I might approach this subject matter a little deeper.

New Year Resolution

I know it's late, but I just realized that like anyone else, I need to compose some New Year Resolutions. I can't say that these are promises, but at least these would serve me as goals and targets to accomplish this year. It'd be great if I could accomplish all of them, but at least it's the effort that counts:

I don't mean to show off or brag in this post. I just need something to keep on track with my targets, so if these resolutions somewhat strike you as bragging, I'm sorry but that's not my intention.

Flight delayed

So this post concludes my winter break trip. I'm waiting in the gate right now as the gate where I'm supposed to board the plane is still packed with the previous flight that is delayed. The previous flight that also occupied the same gate and was scheduled to leave an hour ago, was still delayed up until now. Now the gate is PACKED with passengers from my flight and from the previous flight.
It started snowing again in Michigan, and it's been snowing for 3 days in a row, ever since before the New Year. Anyway, I had a blast this break! I had the opportunity to go to Ann Arbor to visit my friend Elda, and to reunite with my old friend Aymee as well as her sister who studies in the same city.

Thank you 2013

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014

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Wishing you a great and blessed year ahead.

FROZEN

Hey guys,
So overjoyed cos I'm done with finals!!! The last final gave me such a hard time: there was so much to do but so little time, regardless I decided not to procrastinate. I ended up going to the final presentation without taking a shower or washing my hair. However, it ended with a good note since the presentation was received positively by my instructor, guest critic, and my classmates. My classmates and I had a Korean Barbecue afterwards.
Anyway, I'm posting from Ann Arbor, Michigan! The weather is way more extreme than the weather in LA, obviously. It looks like this...

Give Thanks (Pt 2)

THANKSGIVING DAY
The next day, Jessica and I met up to see Frozen in the afternoon in AMC Santa Anita. Seeing it was Thanksgiving, we thought the cinema would at least have less people than the other days, but instead, it was PACKED with families and children.

Of course they were there to see one of the most awaited Disney flicks other than Monsters University. Even more, it's a Disney's fairytale movie that was said to be the best one since Beauty and the Beast. Come on, who's not down for it?

Give Thanks (Pt 1)

This might be the last post for me before I have to prepare for finals. It's week 13 y'all!!!! As I mentioned last time that I'm not going out of town for Thanksgiving. Some people do but I choose to stay in LA since some of my friends from the Bay Area came to visit.

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PRE-THANKSGIVING

The first dinner that started my Thanksgiving break started slightly roughly for me, not that bad but it shifted a bit out of the plan: on Wednesday late afternoon, I was still having a class. It was an individual critique day where students put their names on the list and took turns for the critique with the professor. Unlike last week, I got to the campus earlier than I thought and I managed to get the earliest critique time as possible (I was the fifth out of 15 students in total). So I finished and wrapped up quickly at 3.30 pm and decided to chill a bit with my friends, as well as making some corrections according to the crit I had.

Fascinated by Cruise Ships and Ocean Liners

Despite the fact that finals week is coming in two weeks, I decided not to do anything exhausting for Thanksgiving. I'm saving up for winter break trip. It would be highly impossible to do homework during the break while on vacation at the same time. So I decided to stay in LA and instead, welcome all my friends who will be coming to visit later.

Anyway, I might have something that I haven't shared to you readers. Don't worry, nothing bad. I've been into cruise ships and ocean liners these days. Yeah, that might sound a little strange for you. Obsessed on cruise ships? Who does that? I do.

The "Meh"-est Year: A pretty shitty reflection (Part 1)

Approaching the end of the year, I thought I should make a post dedicated to all the going-ons in 2013. 2013 has probably been the "meh"-est year out of all previous years I've had in US. I've been looking back and forth to the previous posts I wrote back in the 2010 up to 2012, and even before 2010, back before I went to study in the US. So I looked back at all the happy posts I did up to 2012, how I had so much fun, when YOLO was a main lifestyle - life's motto, more or less like Hakuna Matata.
Dang, I got to travel to so many places within those 2 years, got to try bunch of things, do bunch of stuff, went to 2 different yet most visited cities in US within a month of winter break, spent so much money on those trips, and all other good things. Before I led you guys to the next point, I went to community college for 2 years from 2010 and 2012. Yes, two freaking superb years of community college life. If you take a 2-year in community college and 2-year in a 4 year university education course, you'd definitely feel what I mean here.

A Bruin, A Trojan, An Orange Dot (Part 2)

Hey guys, as promised, here's the second part of my campus visit tour. About two weeks after my visit to UCLA, Bella, Kenneth, and I decided to visit Kenneth's campus, USC. I think I mentioned this before, but I've visited USC campus for so many times, but the campus vibe it has never keeps me from coming.
Before visiting the campus, the three of us met up in Little Tokyo, which is only a couple of minutes of drive from USC, to have late lunch. We dropped into this restaurant called Oomasa in Japanese Village Plaza.