my friend, enrique (my former co-worker at indiana jones @ disneyland), dedicated his myspace page to me!
http://www.myspace.com/enriquee
you should all go check it out! hahaha it's pretty sweet. there's a background and then a nice note to me on his page. :) aww! what a pal.
due to a request from my friend, jared, to join him on the ride down to L.A., i am currently home in southern california for the weekend. hurray for lakewood! :D i got home about half an hour ago (we lost an hour due to traffic). it feels great to be home; i've been missing my parents a lot the past week.
summer school has been good. i like the feeling of being busy every day. plus, i've been working ahead every day, getting homework done two days before it's due. it's a good feeling, being on top of things.
i still have pictures to post from last week, but i've been too busy lately. perhaps i'll have time to post them sometime this weekend, but for now, that is all.
i'm back in berkeley @ my apartment. got dropped off by the parental units around 2:30 pm.
it's been great hanging out with genevieve (who made us a delicious dinner of salmon w/ salsa, pesto pasta with potatoes, and cobb salad), juliette, and robert, and the fifth floor kids: eric, arianne, chris l, and chris k. hurray for people who live in this building.
summer school classes start tomorrow. argh.
i miss my parents.
and, i still miss you.
(i'm in berkeley & everything is a reminder...)
two days and it's back to berkeley.
i'm split: i'm excited to go back and see friends, but i am sad to be leaving the comforts of home and family. *sigh*
i went to the 5:30pm saturday mass at st. pancratius today since i wouldn't be able to go to mass on sunday (going to san diego with the family; ryan [my cousin], his dad, and my grandparents are here at the moment). it was my first time attending mass completely alone (usually i'm with family or friends). that was an interesting experience, i suppose. introspective.
anyway, the point of this post is that i really liked this line from the homily:
it's funny how life can change at the drop of a dime.
all it takes is a little faith that everything is fine.
sunday, june 10, 2007
cast of characters: paul, me.
setting: the getty center, los angeles
comment: i love angles & depth.
tuesday, june 12, 2007
cast of characters: ronny, me
setting: the lab, costa mesa
comment: we had a bit too much fun with the wall paint.
i hadn't hung out with ronny in a very long time, so it was good seeing him. it's always easy to talk to him about stuff. i guess it's because he's a pretty open person and he has no problem with talking about anything that may be on his mind, so it makes me feel comfortable talking about things as well. wow, gosh, i hadn't hung out with him since senior year of high school! it was good catching up and talking, even though the majority of our topics of conversation had to do with past events.
hopeful and naive,
i had told myself i wouldn't be that way this time,
but i never listen to myself sometimes.
the set up was perfect,
and i let myself in
completely
and with abandon.
i held back somewhat -
i let you take the reigns,
and every where you wanted to go, i went,
without objection,
without hesitance,
because i believed whereever you would take me,
there would always be a clear path to continue on
whatever trail we were t r e k k i n g.
but apparently there was a
fork road,
in the
and you let go of the reigns,
and set off onto the other path,
leaving me in the middle - not knowing what path to take.
i let you take the reigns.
i let you take the reigns.
i let you take the reigns and you were not supposed to let go,
not without showing me where the paths would lead,
not without telling me that i am not what you need.
it was unexpected of you; i did not expect this from you.
i thought you understood the fragility of a heart.
just as easily as it can skip a beat for you,
it can be broken, damaged, ripped apart.
and i don't understand how we could have felt so close,
yet now the distance, oh, the distance is so far, so far,
and i'm not talking about the miles,
but of everything that made us who we were and are.
and here i am, still waiting at that fork in the road.
i let you take the reigns.
you need to tell me
where
to
go.
yeah, not sure how i feel about this one. i'll probably omit a few lines and reword some here and there. hmmm...
for lunch, my parents and i ate at a peruvian restaurant in gardena. mmmm, delicious.
@ 4:40, i watched a filipino movie, paano kita iibigin (how will i love you), with my mom and my aunts (her two sisters) today. awww, girls' day out. ;] the film is showing at the edwards in cerritos town center. my, that was a full-packed theater filled with filipinos! haha. oh the sappiness of that movie. hrm.
it's interesting (or predictable, i suppose) that in movies or tv shows or stories...
girl likes boy. boy likes girl. boy and girl start "dating" or "seeing each other" or "act couple-y" with each other. boy and girl exchange words of affection. they seem to be falling for each other rather quickly. everything seems to be going perfect and wonderful. all of a sudden, out of the blue, something happens and/or simply boy changes and does not like/love girl anymore or acts like he doesn't. girl tries to find out why, but boy does not give any clear reason. girl cries and is heartbroken. girl does not hear from boy afterward or things are just not the same. time goes by, whether it be days, weeks, months, even years. and then...
well, in the movies/tv shows/stories, boy realizes he made a mistake. he feels horrible that he hurt girl. and he realizes that he really does like/love her. of course girl still likes/loves him. so ta-da, tears are shed, all is forgiven, they end up happily ever after.
too bad life isn't the movies or tv shows or stories.
too bad things don't really work out that way.
it pretty much ends at 'girl does not hear from boy afterward or things are just not the same', unfortunately.
why?
today!
josephine slept over last night, so today i took her back to UCI. we met up with michelle again [yay!] and then met up with my friend, jiunn, who i used to work with at the indiana jones ride at disneyland [yes, he still works there and he works at big thunder mountain railroad as well! :)] josephine swiped us into brandywine, their dining commons (thanks!) and we had lunch and talked about randomness; it was quite entertaining. toward the end of our lunch, i was surprised by ronnie! he came up to me and exclaimed, "denise!" that was shocking. haha. he's a friend from high school, one grade below me we hadn't really been in touch for the past two years, and i had forgotten he went to UCI! that was nice seeing him.
after lunch, jiunn went back to work on a project, michelle left to beat traffic back home to norco, and josephine swiped us some starbucks! mmmm. we visited her future apartment building then had the spontaneous idea to go to huntington beach. too bad the 405 north was disgustingly congested with traffic. we instead went to south coast plaza and took a gander at a few stores, then called it a day. i dropped her back off at her dorm and headed home [in the traffic! argh].
i think i may be visiting UCI again next week perhaps! i can make it there in 20-25 minutes, which is awesome, and parking there is so easy. ah, and i love hanging out with those kids, especially michelle & josephine! :) (and i rarely ever see michelle too, aw! im glad i got to see her two days in a row.)
michelle loves my silly faces. :) haha.
jiunn made a mickey out of his bread and bread bowl. :) and they were all amused at me eating a big pickle. psh. pickles are tasty. mmm. disneyland has the best ones. i miss disneyland. :(
thursday // 06.07.2007
i went to UCI [UC irvine] to meet up with michelle. i went to her spanish class with her (where i, too, did the worksheet they were working on. haha. ah, i miss learning spanish!). after that, we had lunch and talked about life, caught each other up on recent events. ah, i've missed her so much. she's another one of my closest friends; we've been close since the 6th grade! [i would have to say my friends that i've known the longest and that i'm very close with would be michelle (9 yrs.), morgan (14 yrs.), and dorothy (15 yrs. ). *smile*] afterward, we walked around campus and such and met up briefly with my friend, jeremiah, who used to work at disneyland with me. we chatted with him a bit, then i met up with my cousin, josephine, and we met up with michael (my friend from high school) and his bf (who is also named michael! aw.). got starbucks (thanks josephine! UCI has starbucks on campus, argh!) and then sat in the on campus park and talked. it was good times!
following UCI, josephine went home with me and we stopped by brian's house for a bit and played around with some stuff around the house, including this humongous sombrero that chris apparently bought the day before (why he bought it is beyond us!). too bad he's in arizona for their cousin's high school graduation so he couldn't be in on the fun. hahaha. (yes, i do hang out with my ex-bf [chris] and his older brother [brian]. haha. they are fun! :]) josephine and i then went to my house for dinner. after dinner, we went back to brian's and went with him to life plaza in diamond bar so he could meet up with his drifting friends briefly. we explored the cue! japanese photo sticker place and ended up taking picture IN the booths rather than paying money and using the actual photo booths. :p we then proceeded to guppy teahouse for some deliciousness, which was the plan since josephine had never tried it before! at one point, i dipped a piece of popcorn chicken in a LOT of chili powder and made brian eat it, therefore making him burn up and make odd faces, which were all caught on camera! :p
