Thankful

A lot has passed since I wrote in here, partly because I've been busy beyond words and also because my laptop screen broke and it was way too much effort to try to get it to work long enough to write a post.

Tomorrow's already December, which is also my birth month! I absolutely love December, simply because I love the holidays in general. It's such a good-spirited time and I don't ever recall having a bad holiday season. (:

As for the past couple of days..
- Amanda and I had a joint birthday party! REALLY early for me, I know, but since my birthday is on Christmas Eve I NEVER get to celebrate with school friends because we're always off on winter break. Plus, it was the only time before the craziness of finals that everyone could come through (:
- Cal won the Big Game against Stanford and won the Axe back! Go Bears (:
- AiR has been moving at full force in preparation for our fall concert, which is already this coming weekend. If you're in town this coming weekend, please come out and support!
- Thanksgiving break was amazing, as I was able to come home again fiiinally. Just as I was about to break from all the busy-ness of school, I was able to come home and see my family and my beautiful baby niece who I've missed so much!
- I had my first Black Friday camping out experience at Best Buy. It was crazy haha. And I finally got a new laptop, which explains why I'm able to post haha
- My friends and I had our reunions this Thanksgiving, which have been absolutely amazing and very much needed. I looove my best, babygirls, and the homies!

I finally go back to Berkeley tomorrow morning (helllla early flight, def not cool!) and I am highly unprepared for all the stuff that's going on. I have rehearsal every night this week, aaand two really big papers due within a week (5 pages and 20 pages.. yeah, I know, wtf right?).

But I just gotta really get on the grind like I have been these past couple of days..

Anyway, more updates later, I gotta get back to living my life. Haha.

LATE

West Coast A Cappella Showcase!

Here is AiR's set from West Coast. Feel free to comment and subscribe! Enjoy (:

Weird Dream #4!

My mom was at an indoor high school (think Saved by the Bell layout, lockers and all) and she was in a fist fight (yes a physical altercation) with some of her high school mates. But they're of age, and not in high school. My sister and I go there and ask, What are you doing? You gotta get out of there! So they all scramble..

Except my sister and I wanted to get revenge on the women picking on our mom. So we go to their house and it's dark but they're home. We're sneaking around and stealing things and plotting things.. But they find us out. We jump out of a window while they're chasing us. We hop their fence to a street, and we see a guy in his front yard.

"Do you have keys to a car?"
"Yeah, right here"
"Can I borrow it?"
"You have to promise to give it back"
"Just come with us!"

So they hop in the back seat and I'm driving this manual sports car. I go in reverse for a good amount of the time but somehow drift into 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc gear. We go on the highway.. And we pass freeway 310. I ask if we're far from home, and someone says we're almost at San Jose. I freak out and say we're too far and say we should just turn around and go home since they're probably done looking for us..

Then I awake!

Dreams..

This is the third night in a row that I've had a really vivid dream. After my end of the world dream, I had a not-so-good dream where I was running the WHOLE time, trying to get away from a really scary thing/person (haha). The cool part about this dream is that I sought refuge at Siene's house which had been turned into a really high-tech mall which also had condos and stuff. It was pretty legit!

Last night was a great dream though. It was of HIM and me and in my dream we were happy without regard of other people's opinion. We went adventuring on car escalators and elevators (hehe, much like we do in real life), and he kept me safe from the scary parts of our adventure, and he reassured me that he's still there. And the best part?

Waking up and seeing that he was. (:

Dreams Say it All?

My dream last night...

I don't exactly know where I was at but I was in like a neighborhood or area where all the houses were just open and people could come in and out as they please (kinda like a frat row type of area if you could imagine that). I was in one of the houses with my sister and this blonde-hair, blue-eyes guy came and he was trying to spit game.. Then a few minutes later this light-skinned, green-eyes black guy came and was trying to get with me too. The problem was, I couldn't decide who was cuter (or if I even thought either of them was cute) and my sister didn't know how to help me.

Then all of a sudden there was an end of the world scares so we all had to file into lines and go to a shelter. My mom was there too but we got separated cuz we ended up in different lines, and the people I was trying to ask where my mom was didn't know how to speak English. So I abandoned my line and I eventually found her but by that time the scare was over and everyone was let free.

So I went outside and there was barely anyone out there.. The place looked abandoned, but it looked like it had gone under attack. So i sought refuge in a store and it turned out to be an electronics/computer store and my dad was in there. We were looking at laptops and there were these two laptops side by side, one HP for $600, and one Mac for $300. But the problem with these laptops was that were big (more than 15 inches!). My dad was like, See look how cheap they are! But I was like, But those are big like my old one and I can't take it to class! So I somehow wandered to the back room of the store and found this 13-inch Toshiba and it was $2150.. And I was like, See, dad this is what I wanted! And he was like, Ohhhhhh.

And that was pretty much the end of my dream.
Pretty random, no? (:

Underneath it All

Today I was on Facebook reading my News Feed (some like to call it the Stalker Page, haha) and I chanced upon a video my friend had uploaded of himself. My friend is a bboy, meaning he break dances and does all that muscular stuff that muscular guys do when they break dance. Except it was a different video this time. It was a video of him doing a lyrical dance piece.

I was absolutely amazed.

I never would have guessed that my bboy friend could perform something so beautiful and moving as I saw in his video. I guess I had already created the notion in my head that he did one thing and only one thing. And that just made me think. People really do surprise you.. And no matter how much you think you may know a person, there's only so much you really do know, and so much left to discover.

It really was so beautiful to find that video of him. I'm glad he uploaded it.

Another eye-opening experience.. Cuz there's always so much more to learn about the people in your life.

(:

Passenger Seat

A song I used to love and rediscovered and now love again..

AiR at Halloween Show!

The videos of AiR's performance at the UCCE Halloween Show! Special thanks to "dabby123" (aka Chris Seymour's dad) for taking these videos!
1. It's All Been Done (Barenaked Ladies)
2. Kill the Girl (A twist on The Little Mermaid's Kiss the Girl)
3. Thriller (Michael Jackson)
Enjoy!

Happy Veteran's Day!

In lieu of Veteran's Day, I have no school and no work today. Hooray! Usually on Tuesdays (and Thursdays) I'm in class from 930-2 and work 3-7. That's pretty much my whole day. So it's good to have a break from the same old routine that has grown to be soo mundane.

So a biiiig thank you to all the Veterans who have served (and those currently serving) our country! It really is greatly appreciated. (:

Speaking of, I miss my brother!

On another note, AiR has had several performances these past couple of days, and we have yet more to come. Come out if you can!

AiR Upcoming Events:
11/15 West Coast A Cappella Showcase @ Wheeler Auditorium
11/18 Big Sing (Cal v. Stanford) @ 155 Dwinelle
12/04 AiR Guest Performance @ SF Exploratorium
12/05 AiR Fall Showcase @ 105 North Gate
12/06 AiR Fall Showcase @ 105 North Gate
& Every Monday on Upper Sproul in front of Sather Gate, 12pm. (:

As for my day off today, it's time to get some productivity going! Laundry, reading, essay writing, arranging.. Ahh, literally so much to do with sooo little time!

Lack of

That reassurance I was once so sure about is no longer there. Here I stand, yet again, waiting. waiting. waiting.

Complicated

Halloween Weekend!

Haha, so it's been a week since Halloween Weekend and it was def the best Halloween I've ever had! Thursday night started off with an AiR halloween performance, and the evening was spent at Lambda's with some of my favorite boys (and of course, my favorite girl). Friday was spent in Santa Barbara with the awesome craziness of Halloween in Santa Barbara. And Saturday night was hella chill with some of my other favorite boys (Mani & co.!). Some of the details of the weekend are hazy, but it was def the funnest Halloween I have had, ever. Needless to say, I doubt I will ever party that hard for Halloween again. But I'm glad I got to experience it all! -- The dressing up, the going to SB, the haziness of it all.. (:

Last Request

This guy is greeat, and the song is so sweet.. (:

Positive Progression

After the craziest election day in American history, our president for the next four years is President-elect Barack Obama.

Many of you may have voted for or against Obama, but regardless, we should be celebrating another defeat in American history -- the defeat over nationalized racism against minorities.

As a political science / legal studies major at UC Berkeley, I'm constantly reading up court cases highlighting the unfair treatment of minorities. And it was only 44 years ago, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that race discrimination was officially made illegal in America. Forty-four years ago. There had been several attempts prior to that, which, sadly, did not pass. Think about that, cuz 44 years was definitely not long ago at all.

I honestly did not think I would be alive to see a non-white president in office. I always knew it would happen, but I thought it would be years and years from now. It makes me really proud to be an American (I know, sounds cliche) but seriously.. To know that we have been working toward justice and equality for all.. And nothing says justice more than voting into the position of Executive a man whose race had suffered severe discrimination in the country he has now been appointed to lead.

Change has DEFINITELY come to America and it is time to embrace it. Let's keep the momentum going and support our new president in all his endeavors. He's here to represent us -- and we must do the same for him.

We're living history.. And it feels so incredibly amazing!

And just a funny aside:

Election Day!!

Today is Election Day, so get out there and ROCK THE VOTE! Whatever or whoever you believe in, let it be known on your ballot.

Don't let the chance to make a change pass you by!
Get out there and vote!

Polls have been open since 7am and will be open until 8pm.