Next goal if Viet Nam works well this summer: go on my own week to two week trip around Southeast Asia or maybe a bit more of Asia if I can. Since my grandma is helping out with college now (THANK YOU) I can save money for travel! Of course, I’m still aiming for scholarships to pay as much as I can. I mean, I paid for two years so far.

Anyway, the plan. Since I am only able to go to Viet Nam this summer because the business visa is too much of a burden to play around with, I’m going to visit other countries next year. I’m hoping for Thailand, Cambodia, and Singapore for some brief visits and maaaybe Indonesia, but then I am hoping to spend most of my time in Malaysia. :) I got friends willing to help me in all these countries so I don’t need to worry too much. Malaysia I have friends from every major part and they all want me to stay with them, show me around, and give me food. Tickets and visas should be the main issue. It’ll be nice since some of them are graduating this year (Han) and I’m going to miss them like crazy.

So yeah… it’ll be cool. :) Hopefully my family will be cool with it.

Please?

Okay, maybe I could if I found out the guy I like likes me back… but I think I would explode into confetti if that happened. :D

1. Be more social, which I think I’m doing?

2. Get an A in Econ.

3. Work on my allergy problems and all that stuff…

4. Write, draw… I don’t know, something so I can feel productive and not just a homework junkie. D:

5. Lose 10 more pounds for a cosplay idea for Sakuracon next year.

I got this.

I see so many of my friends going out every weekend and partying, sometimes partying and hanging out a lot during the week days too, while they’re in school.

HOW. How do you do that? Are your grades in the tank or do you just not sleep or are you just incredibly smart? I honestly don’t get it. I have an average workload for school plus work on the weekends and I try to hang out with someone once a week if I can, maybe more… but I am EXHAUSTED by the end of it. It’s enough work to maintain straight As in college and look good at work.

And I just don’t get how people have the energy to constantly hang out together day and night. Maybe it’s just because I’m an introvert. I like hanging out with people, but I prefer a few people at a time. Large groups are just loud and annoying. But no matter what I get tired from hanging out too. I dunno, people who are in dorms with the same friends and do stuff with them all the time just baffle my mind. I do wish I could see people more sometimes, but hearing and seeing dorm life helped me remember I don’t really want a dorm… at all. 

This quarter I’ve been getting SO MUCH reading and other homework. Like overload. It’s kind of overwhelming and it keeps me from reading on my free time. :/ And I’m reading a great book about North Korea too. I feel like my life consists of homework, video games, and work. Haha, with occasionally hanging out with friends.

I feel like part of it is my fault because I haven’t been making much of an effort to hang out. I’ve had a lot of people telling me I should meet up with them for lunch soon because they miss me and I miss them too. I do see them around campus sometimes on the way to classes. I’m just always worried about homework and stuff… Since this week is chaotic, I promise to see as many people as I can next week. I even have a chart of everyones’ schedules. It may be kind of hard because midterms are coming up… but oh well! I miss Katherine, Sok, Ternessa, Mansour, Lee, Alex, Shiyue, Stefano, Kevin, Corrine, Patrick, Airi… even Connor haha, and all the others. And I need to hang out more with my new friends like Dallas.

I especially miss Mansour though. My homeboy. My Saudi. The best college buddy you could ask for. Someone you know is always hungry and craving coffee. Someone who always has cool stories about their home country. I find myself talking about him all the time, and no it’s not a crush. Even if I did it would just be WAY too complicated because of Saudi traditions and whatnot. I wouldn’t really mind going on a date with him once, but I dunno, he’s more of a cuddly friend that I can talk to. I’m just so happy around the guy, he gives off this radiant aura of fun and… sunshine haha. He can be a drama queen too and kind of arrogant sometimes, but I like that about him. Screw all those Islamophobes, if they ever took the time to meet him they would realize he’s one of the greatest people ever.

So yeah… really missing all my friends. I’m going to make a promise to myself to work as hard as I can to get stuff out of the way so I can hang out with more people. 

Sorry I’m a day late for this, I slept in a long time, drove to dinner, then came home to go work at Target for Black Friday from 1130 PM to 8 AM. I just really wanted to do this. So what am I thankful for? Well………

• I’m thankful for my amazing family who has always been here for me and loves me. They don’t try to kick me out, they don’t yell at me all the time, and they accept me for who I am.
• The fact my sweet little kitty of 15 years with a hypo-thyroid disorder is still alive and kicking… and pretty sassy again too. :’)
• All my wonderful friends I’ve made along the way and kept in contact with. All of you guys make me smile.
• My job at Target, even if it’s just a low paid minimum wage job. I have decent benefits, caring management, and I work with a bunch of fun-loving goofballs.
• The opportunity to go to UW, and I promise I won’t take it for granted. I will work hard for this.
• The fact that even though we are pretty low middle class, I have it pretty dang great compared to many others in the world and I’m so lucky for that.
• Even if he can get moody, I have a great Canadian buddy who is always there for me and listens when something is wrong.
• For all the people out there protesting and working hard for all of our rights. I really hope this will change something and I really wish I could be out there with you guys.
• The fact that just trying to help people in the world and doing the right thing can help influence your life for the better, and you don’t need anything like religion to do it either.
• For the Earth I live on with all of its wonderful people, animals, and places. I hope to see more of it in a few years. :)

Aaaand….yeah. That’s about it. 

Best freakin’ day at college ever. 

UW is amazing. Great. People are so kind. Definitely.

But it all feels like it’s just kind of forced to get to know everyone, and I haven’t really met anyone I can actually be close to and do things with. I do have friends going there, but still. I wish I could find at least one person I can consider a good friend and not just someone to talk to for a few minutes because neither of us have anyone.

Hopefully classes will fix that :)

It’s so freaking big… I’m so excited, but kinda nervous at the same time. Biggest fear: not making friends with anyone. :(

I’m back on Tumblr now that I graduated. If people continue to stalk my Tumblr page, that’s just sad. I don’t plan on seeing most people now that we’re out of high school, and oh my gosh… it is absolutely AMAZING. :) It’s like so much stress is off my chest. And now school doesn’t have to be so politically correct and concrete. I can actually express myself freely and start planning my travels.

So if you re-added me or something from the past, that’s cool :) I’d love to relink with a lot of the people I had. 

And more good news… 5 years and I will be in DUBAI for a year for FREE. Hopefully, I just need to do good at UW for it :D

Now for spamming with reblogs again and posting some of my own pictures.