walalalala! i decided its time for an update^^ lol, jonathan has been nagging on me for quite some time about my very....un-recent entry in my xanga....! lol, sorrie i haven't been updating very much^^ lots has happened over the summer...! hahaha, it was a fairly satisfying summer....went to Japan and Hong Kong to "stock-up" on some things, lol! man, the food in asia (japan and hong kong at least) is so expensive!!!! i spent like mor ethan half my money on just food....ahhh!!! lol, i have lots of pictures to post...except like, theres not a really good place to upload pictures....anyone know of a place where i can upload for free? hahaha=P besides...the ausd web thing....it makes me guilty to use the ausd one after i graduated, lol^^ okok, so lets see, this is like the 3rd...or 4th....week i've been back...=)! ahh, yesterday, which was friday sept. 9th, i was supposed to go through surgery, well, a very tiny one, to have all four of my wisdom teeth taken out. my stupid wisdom teeth (oxymoron...-______-") are growing sideways so like if i dont' have them taken out, the teeth that were so painfully "corrected" through braces, will be all squished again and therefore, will render my previous painstaking efforts to remember to put retainers on, useless...0-o anyhow, so went to the clinic yesterday, and found out that they had recieved news that my benefits from the insurance company can't be used if i do surgery that day, because i actually went to a different doctor months before but like he said that my case was complicated (meaning that my bottom two wisdom teeth were partially covering some bone.....and since they were growing sideways, the doctor my accidentally cut something he's not supposed to or something...-__-") so he recommended me to go to an oral surgeon instead, so finally found an oral surgeon to do the surgery for me, but the previous doctor sent a request to the insurance company to delete the previous request for him to do the surgery because he can't do the surgery anymore, does anyone feel kind of confused? lol, i explained this mcuh clearer yesterday...^^" but anyway, since my referral from before was cancelled, the current doctor can't do the surgery for me with the benefits until they submit their own request...so now i have to reschedule after they get the ok from the insurance company....! ahhh, the thing is, the surgery will make me look like a pufferfish for like days (around 4-5) after the surgery, therefore, this is the best time to do it since i don't have school yet...!!! but now, the new request for the referral will come in, about 4-6 weeks later, so like by the time the insurance sends the ok, i will be at school with no 4 day weekends..until like....thanksgiving...gayyyy!!!!! i dont' wanna be eating ice cream and soft foods while people around me are eating turkey.....and all kinds of yummy festive foods!!! ><!!! anyway, gay! hahaha, okok, im going to turn back time now and talk about my summer trips....! me went to japan this year, for the first time, and those who have never been to japan, REALLY should go...!!! its beautiful there....no wonder its the most expensive place to go in the world....! but like, its green everywhere and so clean! unlike china and hong kong, no matter how small the stores are in japan, they still decorate it to the last inch! and like its simple but really neat, no weird smells and no weird stains anywhere....! you know like in hong kong and china, theres sometimes these nasty smells coming from like streets and stuff coz people just pour all their nasty kitchen water or donno what kinda water onto the street and eventually it just stinks! but like in japan, me don't see any of that! and then.....went shopping, but like really expensive there, but it was fun just looking! we went to these streets where the stores and the houses are sooooooooooooooooo cute! like they looked like the ones you see in movies and in like cartoons...they would be like old-fashioned japanese, which is the style i really like....! simple but neat...and like the shops are sooooo cute!!! i saw so many owl statues and stuffs! they really like owls i think....i took a picture with this really really cute owl statue....actually, i think ill post that picture only...^^ weee,

seee, the owl looks so cute rite?! hahahaha, me thinks so! hahaha=P and then, hmm, we went to atami, which was a place where there were a lot of hot springs! the hotel we stayed at was soooo nice!!! if we didn't go with the tour, we might not stay there...coz its $350 per night per person!!! ahhh!! hahahaha=P and like the hot springs....it sounds weird when i say it like this.....its seperated by gender rite? but when you get into the respective hot springs.....its ALL - OFF, like no clothes whatsoever.....not even bathing suits....0-o lol! it was really weird....but its still really nice? like it feels really nice in the hot spring...^^" wee, and everyone had to wear yukata!! haha, i have pictures of that too, except....its somewhere else, im not on my own computer so no pictures much^^" and then went to more tourist places to visit...they're all really nice, like...not just plain tourist places coz we saw A LOT of japanese people wandering around too, so its like places japanese people always go to too, and like its really nice....really pretty, and they aren't all like geared toward tourism you know? its like you go there, but its not all set up and stuff for tourists^^ weee, and then after japan (btw, i spent kinda a lot of money there too...hahahah^^" but like...ahh!! its hard!!! and i saw A LOT of totoro stuff!!! i nearly screamed coz like there was this one store in this really really really cool shopping place that had all totoro stuff!!!! hahaha^^) after japan, i went back to hong kong, where my real shopping spree began...^^ i spent $1000 USD...which is nearly equal to someone's salary in Hong Kong....kind of feel guilty? except....the food was really expensive though, so not all of it went to shopping...hahahaha=) actually, i really didn't buy that much either...hahahaha, but like yup...?^^ ohoh! went to macau too, and met up with aron, andy, and bryan...! stayed at their house for one night.....lol, its a very...interesting night?^^ lol, it was fun, and then went back to hong kong, and they came to join me two days later, it was really fun, we went to lots of places to shop and we were very silly and stuff, like very...free=P my parents had left by that time, so...mwahahahaha, didn't do anything bad but like the feeling was kinda loose after parents had left^^ lalalalala, and then thats when i spent most of my money...! hahahaa=P and then after hong kong....came back...^^ ohoh! i forgot to say, that i was working before i went to japan, like working at cellphone store....! haha=P GO TO BROADWAY TELECOM CENTRE TO ACTIVATE NEW PHONES!!!!=P me still working rite now too, like just getting experience, not even asking to get paid....although...i did buy a new phone...^^ w800i!!! its the best phone ever!!!!! but it cost me $460 =P but...it IS a great phone....and its all out of stock in LA rite now...=P and btw, its from sony ericsson...!! equipped with 512 mb memory stick and with internal memory of 32 mb....=P its a mp3 player too, so like its almost like a all-in-one phone...^^! lalalala, now i feel guilty though, coz im neglecting my iPod...and oh! before i went on the japan trip, me bought a camera too...! there went $435....for my black t-7!!!! its a wonderful camera^^ looks nice, and takes nice pictures too!!=P and hmm, what else ne? yesyes, this summer i bought a lot of stuff...>< ahhh! now i feel extremely indebted to my parents so at least i will try very very hard at school?^^ hahaha thats the only form of payment i can give them now, so i will do my best! hahahahahaha....weee...okok, the more i write the more silly i become, so i am just going to end here...! weeee, jonathan satisfied ma? i took like 1/2 hour to write this thing, and it should be really really long....hahaa=P okie, bibi!!! ill try to not be lazy and upload some pictures...=) bibi!

one word to describe prom 2005: amazing

haha, it was amazing for me at least...can't say so for my brother and some other people, but...yes...^^ no more stuffs to say now, here are some pictures..not even half of what i have, but too much to post if iw anna post everything^^

yupyup, thats our big beautiful group there^^ funfun=)

here are some girls, many whom i do not know, but thats ok^^

walala, here are the guys! from left to right: henry (my date), andy, steven, and aron

here are aron and henry

my uncle and i at my house^^

parents and i (i <3 my parents^^)

my handsome brother, beautiful mom, and me

wah, people say this looks like wedding picture...::ahem:: not really...rite??

hey! its merlin and me!!

max and i^^

ada and i

charlie and i

group pic with claire!!!!!! w00t!

claire and i

its jonathan!!!!!!!

kingsley, me, henry^^

last but not least!!! hiro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahaha

Henry...biting aron...?!

the dance floor!!!

dancing...under the moonlight

susan! me! and jessica!!^^

the food on our table!!!!

weeee! at the table...^^

our dinner^^!

yesyes, prom was wonderful, and the place was beautiful, wonderful date^^ wonderful friends, wonderful food, and just wowness all around! hahahaha, anyway, ill recap more on prom later^^ must run off to do bio now! bibi!

haha, i thought i'd show the world what really goes on in our "japanese class"...^^" hey, this did not happen last year, nor the years before, so....ya^^

here are chris, paul and ryan playing tetris on their graphing calculators (listed from left to right^^)

more tetris...

tetris...

and...more jessica is here too...watching them play...::Drum roll:: tetris

here is merlin...taking a nap..^^

david and tianchu...games on a cellphone...

here's david again, with his cellphone and games...

walala, and last but not least, we have ryan (#1) and crystal...doing their homework..! note that the marks on the papers do not resemble hiragana and katakana and not kanji either...^^"

ahh!! i should be studying ap bio...because my ap test is tomorrow!!! but nooo...im not...^^ because im too distracted...!!! had a um...pre-18th birthday celebration yesterday, wow, there were a lot of people...!!! and so many gifts...thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ::hugz:: here are some pictures of yesterday...

me about to cut the cake..^^

kissing my dad^^!

kissing my mom^^!

me, henry, and andy^^ thanx for coming!!!

me with cake^^

me with cake again^^

me with two little girls i was kinda sorta babysitting all nite^^ they're cute though=) no, they're not related, but they just sorta both coincidentally wore pink...^^ typical little girl colors...hahaha....i should have worn pink too...^^"

my wonderful aunts and uncles^^!

ah! i love flowers^^! my first time receiving flower! they're from my aunt and uncle^^

lol! omg, all guy friends...^^" ::ahem:: i would had ONE girl friend at the party....::cough szu cough:: hahaha, but thats ok, stephen comes close to being my girl friend^^

heehee^^ friends again, thank you guys so muchhhhh^^!

lol, thats the end of the birthday pictures, but theres a few more pictures i wanna add, stephen lam gave me this wonderful birthday present, for my hamster, lol! my hamster gains from my birthday! but its so fun!! haha^^!

this is the new playhouse stephen bought^^

here's what it looked like after got it all connected^^

look at how happy he is!!

wowness! haha, close up^^

eating from his new food plate^^!

haha, ::munch munch:: yay!

okie, quick update, status: very happy, very "un-single", and ecstatic about the ending of my ap classes and ap studying and ap tutoring classes...yayness^^! walalala, and awaiting the day of my real birthday...heehee...

okie^^! end of updates^^ bibi!