L.A., here I come.

Okay, so I broke the "no more 16 oz." rule ONCE-- with a 12oz. . And I just realized that I need one more stamp on my punch card and I can get a free coffee. Anyhoo.

So invitations of backpacking out of town have been pouring. Thanksgiving in L.A., Christmas break in Orlando/ L.A., Spring break in New York, Mexico/Hawaii for summer, etc. But I've had my mind set on L.A. for summer, after graduation. I figured that it'd be a more meaningful vacation, celebrating graduation, yada yada yada. But of course, I'm gonna have to save for it. Just adds a special touch to my motivation factor :)

I'm off to bed.

No more 16oz.'s, missy!!

I hate myself. I know I can avoid buying and wasting money and yet, I'm too weak. I'm letting that Whidbey Coffee stand on campus take away my money. Everyday, I throw away about $2 on hot chocolate. If I avoided it, that's like saving $10 per week , $40 per month... Sheesh. That's like a good hoodie from Hollister right there. From tomorrow and on, I'll stop!!!! No more coffee stands for me.

But then there's always that seductive, overpriced Starbucks. When I strolled the mall with my aunt today to pay bills, used my debit to buy a soy white chocolate mocha... ARGHHHH.

NO MORE!!

I have to be cautious of my spending. After all, it's my own money that I'm spending. I've been using my own earnings for my allowance and everyday spending. I just depend on le papa's account on big academic things like tuitions, books, etc. But since I got a job last year, I'd been paying my phone bill, shopping money, etc. Heck, I'm even paying for my TOEFL test... (which makes me think why?.... Hahaha, it's for my academics... hmmm. Hahaha.) But yeah, I feel like I haven't saved anything since I got a job... Except for that first paycheck which I saved in le papa's account.

I really want to save up for 2 things: For a car and for a nice gradutation trip.

We'll see what happens...

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

Wow, no blogging for a week, Venus, is thatchu?

I guess I just don't want to talk about things. I'm frustrated. Ah, whatever. Classes are going well, work is fine, friends are well yada yada yada. I'm just feeling weird and I don't like feeling weird.

Seattle has been nice to me for the past 2 years. But I feel like something is still missing. Duh, human beings are never satisfied but whatever. I've moved from place to place all my life that perhaps I get bored with staying in one place. Seattle, Shoreline Community College specifically, served as my comfort zone but I want to get out of it. I want to find a new group of people, new faces. Not that people at Shoreline are not nice (they're the coolest!) but I just want to meet new people and venture on new things. I know I still haven't finished serving my purpose at Shoreline yet and hence why I'm not out of there yet. But I wanna leave, soon.

My two choices for university transfer are (I don't wanna say in case I jinx it--) but one is here in Seattle and one is still within the state but somewhere further. As much as I want to stay in familiar Seattle, I want to move to a new location and experience having an apartment or living in a dorm. We'll see what happens, time will tell. After university, I can't believe I'm done. Hello real world. But then again, I thought college was the real world. Hahaha, kidding. It is real, kids. Stay in school. Wtf? :P

Old Friends.

I got in contact with old friends today and it was amazing. It wasn't like we lost touch, it was just that all of us were busy with our ish that we never really get to talk with each other on a regular basis. Anyhoo, I got to have a conference call with Tish, Raff and Costi on Skype today for like an hour and I had a blast!! It was so nice to hear from them and it was so funny how Raff was making fun of the accent that I've acquired. "AMERICANO!!!" hahahaha. And then I asked if they've moved to their dorms and she was like "Yeah but they'Re not called "doRms", they'Re called halls"... hahaha, stop making fun of my strong "R's", okay? :P I missed their British accents so much :) Costi was like "we haven't sta-H-ted ou-H-a lehc-chu-H-s yet [we haven't started our lectures yet]".. hahah, I love it :p And Tish was laughing half of the time. I love those bitches :D

It just hit me that high school is a very important time in a girl's life. Coz it's where you find lifetime friends who you'll call your friends for a long time. It sucks that I started college here in the U.S. coz most of my friends have their own high school friends and I have no one. Well I have a couple [Roxanne, Polly and Cindy] whom I call my real friends but high school friends are just very different. They're off the same age and you go through shit together in classes. But in college, since it's on a quarterly basis, I feel like I have to make new friends every 3 months. And those friends I've made in the previous 3 months just kinda go away since I don't see them anymore.

Raff asked me if I have loads of friends and I really didn't know what to answer... I mean yeah, I DO have friends but it's a very different and still unfamiliar group of friends. It's more of an individual thing. Like when I hang out with Roxanne, I can't really tell Cindy to tag along since Roxanne and her don't know each other and I know there will be impending awkwardness. I just want to find a group of friends that I can hang out with all together!! I really miss my friends in Cyprus, I felt like I belonged somewhere, know what I mean? :( Oh well.

Another thing, one of my classmates back in Cyprus is now studying in California. I know I shouldn't really care of her whereabouts but I think I'm jealous! She's freaking studying Fashion Merchandising/ Design (not my field of interest but get this--) she's in L.A. ... in Santa Monica to be exact! And freak, she goes to clubs like Area... that's where people from The Hills go!! I don't know why it bothers me so much.... hahaha. It's not like I wanna live a rich kid's life but.. oh I dunno. Shut up, Venus. Hahahaha

Okies, Laguna Beach time! :P

P.S. I can't believe they let her in Area... haha, I thought it was hard to get in there or something. You gotta have like connections or whatever. WHATEVER. *__*

Reality Dramas are Love :)

Before I start talking about my subject, just want to say that college is just wonderful. I get my classes. Not necessarily that I know everything but I'm willing to learn and understand what's being taught. LOVE ITTTT!!! Believe it or not, I always look forward to waking up early in the morning to take a shower and then rush my way to my 8:30am Statistics class. It goes by really fast then time for Speech Comm. class. I love that class too :D For various reasons, by the way... let's leave it at that :P

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For the past week, I've been watching Laguna Beach on mtv.com... I know, right? Hahaha. I just love The Hills so much that I wanted to see if Laguna Beach was any good. I've seen episodes of Season 3 before and didn't really like it. But now, I'm done with season 1 and about 3 episodes more til' I get done with season 2 :) It's alright... it contains more of a high school-going-to-college drama as to where The Hills is more of a grown up one. It's okay. What is it that attracts TV watchers to these drama-full, kinda-fake-looking, reality shows?! Hahaha. It's just very interesting. I know most people would be like "ugh, why are you watching that??" (I was one of those people). But if you actually sit down and watch every episode, you'll understand what I mean!! I can never relate to those Laguna Beach/The Hills people but I love how they become real or "come to life" or whatever you wanna call it. Like with Kristin Cavallari, she's such a bitch. Hahaha. But as fake as most people think Laguna Beach is, there could be a Kristin somewhere out there. LOL.

Call me crazy but it's fun to watch these rich kids live their Hollywood life.

Whateva!