Little Siblings

My 16 years old sister gets me so darn angry sometimes. I can't stand it. Seriously, how the heck are you going to ask me, "Why are you even sleeping here?!" Um, because it's my room? Why would you even ask that? Goodness. She's always giving me an attitude. Thank God for my 5 years old sister. I hope she doesn't turn out to be like her. Goodnight.

Summer, please come quickly

Just a random thought. I want to go to California this summer SO bad. I've never been on a plane before, except when I was 8 months, but that don't really count. I think I'm going to take summer classes too ='[

If I could go to CA, then attend my summer courses, then it'll be the best summer ever. Please let it happen.

Surprising Morning

This morning, when I went downstairs to eat breakfast, mom asked me if Sophia was sleeping over. I was so confused... I said, "No...why would she be sleeping over?" And she replied with, "I don't know...there is a girl on your bed." I have two beds, one in my REAL room and one in the TV room where I sleep with my 5 years old sister sometimes. I figured that maybe she's just seeing things. I went upstairs to the room and open the lights and I did see someone under the covers on my bed. All I saw was brownish, blond hair. For a bit, I really thought it was Sophia, but I didn't want to wake anyone up. So I grabbed my phone and went to the bathroom and text my sister, Arlene, asking "Who the heck is that?" She replied with," It's Cindy." So now I know it was HER friend and not mines. I guess she will be crashing another night since she's having family issues. I guess it's alright, just got to clean the room a bit, haha.

Time Doesn't Wait

I really don't know if I want to continue my education here at Penn State Abington. At first, I was so sure I'm going to transfer out to Temple University, but not anymore. I'm not sure what I want to do in life, nor do I have a major declared. I really want to attend Moore College of Art & Designs, but I don't know where to start. I know I'm wasting time, but I need more time. I wish I can stop time for just a bit.

The Man Who Lost His Face

I stayed up one hour later than the time I usually head to bed just to watch some show called "The Man Who Lost His Face" on TLC. I think it was worth being tired and sleepy the next morning. Although, some parts were very disturbing, I continued watching it. It was quite a beautiful story. It was about this 53 years old man named Jose Mestre, from Portugal, who came with his sister and niece to Chicago to see Dr. McKinnon. Jose Mestre had a tumor in his face since the age of 14 and the tumor continued to grow, defecting his facial features. His left eye is already blinded and his tongue was like 10x's the normal size of average human's tongue. Clearly, it was making it hard for Mestre to eat and breathe. Before the surgery was performed, Jose Mestre and his sister took a tour around Chicago and he sees people snapping pictures of him. The sister then points at those people and make them come over to her and delete them. I feel it's so rude of those people to snap pictures of him. During the procedure of the surgery, they removed over 10 lbs of tumor off his face. He was then released for two months for the healing process before going on to surgery number two. Since his mouth moved all the way to his right side, they have to reconstruct it back to the center. Doctors had to take take skin from his ears and legs in order to construct him a nose. Along aside with that, they also reduced the size of his tongue. After all the pain he had gone through, you can tell he was happy again. He didn't hide himself in the house anymore and actually wants to go out for walks. The day before he went back to Portugal, he visited his favorite nurses and doctor. He was dancing and singing with the nurses. It was adorable. The last 40 years or so may be a living hell to him, but those days are now over. I'm really glad that he had his sister's support through everything. Though they say he may need more surgery in the future, his life is promising.

Thought I share this

Extreme cute. I wondered if it's real...It looks real :D

I'd love to see this in person to actually believe that.

Sweet 16!

Sadly, it's not mines. Although I'm just 18, I rather be 16. My cousin, Wendy and I went to a Korean pastry shop called Paris Baguette to get my sister a sweet potato cake. It looks really pretty, but it didn't taste as good as I thought it would taste. I wish we got that Triple Berry Cake instead. 

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

After reading Beginners and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, I like the Beginners more. Most of the time, well, to me anyways, the original piece is probably better. I don't like that in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, much of the details of the old couple story were cut out. It was much more heartfelt in Beginners. Instead of just saying that the old man, whose heart was breaking because he couldn't turn his head to see his wife, Beginners had the extra details of how the wife was tearing when she finally saw her husband and gave us visual image of her bruised hand. I got better understanding of their love for each other. It's quite beautiful.

I need more sleep!

I wish I could be sleeping right now. For the past two days, I haven't had a goodnight sleep. On Monday, my dad was being weird and crazy. He kept letting out big "sighs" at 2 A.M waking me up and continuing to do it for another half hour. Every time I'm at the point when I'm about to fall asleep or I think he would finally stop, he either cursed or sighed loudly from his room. Scared the living soul out of me. He said he have so much on his mind, but he's not telling anyone of us what's wrong, including mom. Then last night, I was waken by crying cats at 3 A.M. It sounded so creepy, yet ANNOYING. Sounded like they're having some kind of funeral at my yard. Then later, I heard them fighting and continued on crying. I wanted to cry myself because all I want to do is sleep! Please let me have a goodnight sleep tonight :[

Year Of The Rabbit

Happy Chinese New Year everyone! This is one of my favorite time of the year. It brings family gathering and not to mention, red envelopes for kids! On the morning of Chinese New Year, we eat all kinds of vegetables like snow peas, cauliflowers, and other things that I don't even know what they are. There is one thing we are forbidden to eat: meat, although I don't know why. I also know we aren't allow to wash our hair for the fear that we will be "washing" our fortunes away. I heard that only applies to females though. During the first two weeks of Lunar Year, we can't buy new shoes either. Still, I don't know why. Yeah, I've tried asking, but I never get what they're saying. I just have to listen and do what my parents and grandparents want me to do to. Chinese people often greet each other with "Gong hay fat choi, Sun tai gin hon," meaning Happy Chinese New Year and wishing you good health. Ever since I moved to Pennsylvanian from New York, I got less red envelopes since most of my relatives live there :( At this time, I wish I'm at Hong Kong or somewhere like London. I never knew they had a Chinatown over at London. That's pretty awesome. I sure hope this will be a good year for us all.Gong Hay Fat Choi, Sun Tai gin hon everyone :) 

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