arts & craft sunday

sometimes i feel like i'm spiraling my life to out of control...like i'm losing the grasp of reality so when my lil sis was working on a project for her speech class, i decided to help her b/c it looked like a fun project.

So my lil sis had to do a demonstration project and she wanted to show to make paper mache. She made a turkey since it's almost thanksgiving and to show that she can make more than a turkey, she also made a terrier dog. It was fun watching her make them and fun helping out too.

Plastering the balloon.

letting it dry

after paper macheing it w/ white paper, it was ready to paint!

added the tail and crown and voila!

now is the dog's turn

a terrier-minus-the-cute-whiskers

We had excess paint in left over, and we decided to paint something for fun ^-^

My lil sis painted our Monkey King statue.

I painted an autumn tree since we mostly had mostly fall colors.

Now to go face reality..::sigh::

Halloween Weekend 2010

So it's been a few days after Halloween and thought I shouldn't put off this post any longer even tho I'm in a really bad mood, but hopefully this is going to help me out a little...

On Halloween eve, I went out with 2 of my high school buddies for lunch in the St. Mark's area. They were looking for a halloween costume and knew I was looking for a wig and so they dragged me there too. and thank god they did b/c i never noticed that the stores sold a LOT of WIGS! and i saw the nice purple color i wanted too. i had to go thru a few stores before finding the right one at the right price...now i regret buying the light purple one i got earlier.....=T

Bibimbap & trying out my wig =P

Hirai Mong

One of my friends bought a dark brown bob wig too, I don't know why since she wanted to be a leopard, but it looked so cute on her. I absolutely LOVE my wig b/c of the color and the shinyness~~~
Then we quickly jumped into Hirai Mong cuz they were still having a lunch special and I'm glad we did. This place was pretty quiet since there was only like 3 other customers there, but very welcoming and our korean waitress was dressed so cute in her cat ears and face makeup. She even made us look at her tail that was hardly noticeable. I can't say much about the food taste, but it was cheap and I liked the atmosphere more and we could have stayed longer just to talk there if my friends weren't so angsty to find their costume gear. And there was a line to almost every store we went to, which I didn't see just a day or 2 ago...crazy~~

The next day of course was Halloween! I didn't even have a plan yet when I woke up that morning, but I knew I was going to the parade with or w/o someone. I used up half the afternoon making my mask, belt buckle accessories, and weapon. Getting into my wig was the hardest since I didn't have one of those hair cap. My lil sis tried to French braid my hair, but my hair was sooo fine that it came out loose...I don't know how girls have the braid so tight. So we ended up using almost 15 pins to tie up the loose hair and get the darn wig on. All I remember now is getting so excited and juiced up as I stepped outside my house in my costume.

I met up with my high school friend, Jenny, at 5:30pm and walked down along Broadway so that her young nephew could go Trick-or-Treating. They were actually almost at it for 3 hrs and had to empty out her nephew's pumpkin bucket 3 times lols Luckily, I had bought some candy for her nephew, b/c he was so scared of me, esp my weapon.

opening my hershey bag

Hit Girl & Little Red Ridding Hood

Her nephew's mom came to pick him up later and we met up w/ another friend and stopped by a Dunkin Donuts for some quick snacks while we waited for more ppl to join us. The Dunkin Donuts guy was so nice to our group. We bought 6 munchkins for $2.00, but when we came to pay, he gave us like 10 more pieces for FREE! He said it was a halloween special on him lols and then he asked me if my wig was real. My friends think that we only got those extras for free b/c of my costume LMAO.

Then we headed over to a cheap Viet place near Canal St for dinner. It felt so weird walking into a chinatown restaurant dressed up like i was since no body else was like that except for maybe some animal ears. But I got over the awkwardness quickly since I was cold & voracious. I got me some pho and I learned that this dish is not pronounced w/ a long "o" sound but almost as if you're saying "fa" or the beginning sound of f***...go figures

It was almost 8pm and we decided we to make our way to the parade. We walked up along 6th ave, but even before we reached Spring St., there was already a big crowd just getting INTO the parade. The line wouldn't move at times, but it was crowded enuff that I liked the shared body heat and wind blockage. Ppl jumped fences, and even opened them up too when they a chance to move out of the crowd. It wasn't chaotic, but crowded. Ppl were all looking at other ppl's costumes. When we finally got to the official start of the parade, the crowd became very thin and there was a lot of open space, and then I got cold...brrrrr So we moved to the music even if it made us look silly hahas My lil sis was making video clips while I took pics...but sadly, the battery was already dying after taking the 3rd pic and that made me realize that it was time to get a new cam =( maybe this past summer's china trip got it worked overload...sorry camera T_T

Here is the video of the night...it's very fidgety so you mite get a slight headache but my lil sis did her best

my lil sis was a pirate w/ the patch and using my chick as a bird on her shoulder;
it almost looks like i'm slicing her face lol

my almost hand made bloody blade

the wolf and red girl were already a couple, but Jenny wanted to take a pic w/ a nice looking wolf

The parade was also cut shorter @ 19th st rather than 23rd st. If it wasn't b/c of the crowd at the starting line or the chilliness, I would have walked it again. All in all, it was a really fun night. The most common question i got was: Is that a wig or real hair? lols I don't know why, but it looks obviously a wig to me, but to other ppl, very real maybe? I even heard someone shout out:"Yeah, VIOLET girl!" and some ppl, even the cops, would act scared when they saw my bloody blade lols I was so happy to see all the great costumes and the many ppl who came out to see it on the sidelines or from their apartment windows. My only regret was my camera ::sniff sniff::

After working so hard on my Hit Girl costume, I thought I was going crazy, but I thought to myself that it was worth it since I'm most prolly not gonna do something like this ever ever again. But that night, I couldn't sleep....cuz all I could think about was what to be next year and get it better planned...

Looking forward to Harry Potter 7 movie and Thanksgiving~~~

ughhh....

WHY is it SO FREAKING HARD to find a good dark purple wig????!!! But alas, I did bring the stress upon myself since I'm shopping kinda last minute. So far i've been to Ricky's, New York Costumes, Party City, Wigs and Plus, and Jack Rabbit's 99 cent store..  and the stores are often messy, crowded, have useless retail associates/managers, and long lines. and when i had to settle down for a light purple one, it was originally too long and when i cut it, i cut too much and now i feeling like giving up on this costume >_<...blah..this costume is so taking the fun out of halloween...


i'm not a big fan of oreos, but when i saw these halloween themed oreos in shoprite, i couldn't resist! They're orange-colored creme, have some spooky decorations on the outside, and taste pretty good...nah, they taste just like original, but orange lols

 and i've also been in the mood for ice cream like this drumstick...mhmmm drumstick and sprinkled w/ peanuts too! xP

 and today, i got this free ice cream from Baskin Robbins thru their group scoop thing on facebook! it was rum-raisin flavor b/c i've always wanted to try the rum flavor and from the past, i could never taste it. but this one i did and the alcohol side may have been a bit too strong...

halloween costume

Lately I've been thinking about what halloween costume to wear even tho I'm not sure where I'm going to or what I'm gonna be doing on Halloween. But I've been vacillating between two costumes:

Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter 

Hit Girl from Kick-Ass

I really want to be Luna Lovegood since I've always loved the HP series. But I know I won't be able to find or make a lion hat with the roaring sound and I can't do w/o it either, so I think I will settle for the purple girl. I can't wait to go costume shopping tomorrow! If anything, I'll just join the Halloween parade, but that is if I can even get in since it gets crowded like hell every year. Sooooo excited!!!!!!!!

this fall is moving at snail speed..=_=

Oh wow, I didn't know I haven't posted anything for ~2 months. But that's b/c nothing exciting has been happening in my life since the summer ended. My life feels stagnate right now...kinda depressing. But to keep this blog up and alive, I'll make a boring post anyways....

mhmmm..looking back at my pictures folder, i realized that i've mostly been hanging out w/ my stony brook buddies hahas

For Jas's 22nd bday, I went to Pocha 32 in Ktown. It had a really authentic feel to it, like something you would actually find at the streets of Korea.

About a week later, Jas, Annie, and I went to watch the Devil movie. It was planned for Fri. evening, but the Social Network movie was also premiering that nite and the Devil was canceled, which was a total bummer. So we decided to go eat Chipotle, and it was my first time going there too. It was pretty filling, i could have even split it into 2 meals lols We decided to watch the movie on Sunday instead and ate lunch at Gahm Mi Oak restaurant in ktown.

tasty & ripe  kimchi and radish cubes

Ox-tail soup, very good on a cold/sick day

One day when I was home alone, I made myself a really tasty burger sandwich...soo good that I'm drooling like Homer lolz

Last weekend was the Breast Cancer Awareness walk @ Central Park. My lil sis has been doing this like the past 6 yrs or so, so I decided to join her cuz it was a nice day and I haven't really done any real exercise in a long while. It prolly took about 2 hrs to walk the 5 miles around the park, but there was so much ppl, we were practically walking shoulder to shoulder. Ppl could have opted for the 4 mi course instead, but my lil sis and I decided to do the longer route cuz we might as well if we're doing it for our health =D

They were also handing out these chips and I am absolutely addicted to this chip brand. It's so crunchy and you can actually use it as a straw. I am totally buying more of this!

Last Friday, I came out for an interview and Kaplan GRE test at my college. Just thinking about it makes me pissed like hell. The interview was actually on Thursday, not Friday! When I heard it, my feet practically fell frozen to the floor 0_0 I really heard the career center lady say Friday, and the interviewer even wrote the date on a piece of paper for Fri. Damn my bad luck (>_<)

So then I went to take the free practice GRE test, and it was shorter than before =_=. It used to have 4 sections, but this time they only had 2 sections. This was just annoying cuz I wanted the practice..::sigh::

When evening finally came, I met up with Jas and Annie @ Bill's Bar & Burger in Rockefeller Cntr. I got there early but could not find the place even after asking the standby cops for directions. I felt so embarrassed and confused b/c I could not find the place even after Annie was giving me directions. But actually, the map on their website that I memorized was wrong whew I almost thought I couldn't navigate around manhattan. After the dinner, we walked around mid-town, which was really fun just checking out stores like H&M and the Apple store, except i was brrrrrr cold. I think i will check out shake-shack next time.

Side dishes: Sweet potato fries & beer battered onion rings, but the portions were so small

my Bill's burger w/ mint mudslide shake;
my burger is practically engulfed by the salad

Annie's Mini-B w/ toasty marshmellow shake

 That's it for now...I still have to figure out what to do on Halloween nite.

rejecting an accepted offer

So I had my first interview since my job search after returning from China last Monday and I had a good feeling I would get the job. It was an R&D scientist position in a sterilization testing company and although the position didn't really go with my career interests, I was applying to anything science-related that I could do b/c I am always hearing how bad the job market and was afraid I wouldn't get a job. But as I learned more about the position and the company during the interview, I felt a growing dislike of the place. They wanted someone permanent and not go to grad school either. I wouldn't have mind this b/c I know that you could leave whenever you wanted to, but I also wanted to use wherever I am working at to be a good reference for me when I do apply to grad school. So I was pretty sure this place would not want to be my future reference if they learned how uncommitted I was.

I would have learned a lot of stuff there tho and gain alot of skills in research planning, marketing, and leadership, but even if they would be a good reference for me, I still felt that this place was not going to let me develop my research skills in a physical chemical science field. So I get their call 2 days later and for some reason, I gladly accepted their offer. The call got intercepted mid-way, and I was already thinking of a polite way to turn it down but I couldn't think of it in those few seconds and I accepted it after our call got re-connected. They were expecting me tomorrow @ 9am.

After the call, I just entered a state of mild terror >.<  I am not good with my talking skills...blah. On the train ride to my school's career center to give in my revised resume (ironic already?), I kept going thru my mind all the diff. ways for how I would retract back my original statements w/o making myself appear totally unreliable and unprofessional or even just a complete liar. That was 2 hrs of stressful thinking and when I was finally facing a computer, that was when I realized that I could EMAIL instead of talking directly on the phone. I searched online and found that ppl even put up sample letters on how to reject an accepted offer. It took me close to an hour just to send a 5-sentence email -__-.......I hope he receives it in time, but I cannot express how much of a burden was lifted off of my shoulders.

I realized that I am REALLY REALLY stupid in applying there in the first place. I felt like I was diving-into situations head first w/o thinking more carefully beforehand. From now on, I am going to focus on applying to places that are more in line with my interests even if that means taking a long, long time......

another poem

it's already been a week since I came back from China and I miss my family there already. Not sure if I need to make a blog entry on my adventures there since most of the pics are already on fb (which took me like 4 days to post up). While I was cleaning my desk (where did this mess come from after being away for a month?), i had written on a piece of paper another nice poem that i had discovered while riding the MTA and it went like this....

My heart burns in flames of sorrow
Sparks and smoke rise fuming to the sky
Within me, my heart has taken fire like a candle
My body, whirling, is like a lighthouse illuminated by your image...

{my adds hehe}

Summer came and went
But the memories captured in my camera has already been engraved to my soul chain.