Friday, December 31, 2010

Santa brought me some more goodies!

Loves it!!

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Merry Holidays!

My friend sent me this. My friends know me very well lol

Monday, December 27, 2010

the san diego adventure

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday this past weekend! It's been a crazy week but here's the jist of what happened.

On Monday Dec. 20th, my friend Christina and I embarked on our journey to San Diego. Our plan was to head to Carlsbad, CA for some Legoland fun. Apparently Legoland has been open for 10 years and we've lived in Southern California all our lives but we've never gone! We pretty much picked the best 3 days to go down to San Diego *sarcasm*. It was seriously raining cats and dogs the whole time we were down there. Anyways, it was a light drizzle the whole time we were in Legoland and once the rain started coming down, we hopped over the their Sea Life Aquarium. Overall Legoland seems like it would be a really fun day trip (being that they are only open from 10-5pm). You could definitely finish the whole park in one day. It's just pretty embarrassing when you can't stomach some of the kid rides lol. But seriously, there's this one ride where you pull yourself up to the top and then you just kinda free fall down. It seriously did not look scary at all until we got on there lol.
Because of the rain, we pretty much finished Legoland and Sea Life Aquarium around 4pm. Luckily, they are having this promotion where if you buy a day, you get a 2nd day free so we can go back sometime before April 2011. We then stopped at the Carlsbad Outlets which are literally right next to Legoland. Maybe its 'cause I haven't been to the outlets in a really long time but everything seemed super cheap so I ended up buying something at every single store I went to (except Coach and the only reason I didn't buy anything was because it took too long for them to bring out the item that I wanted!). Looking back though, I didn't really buy that much for myself haha. It was mostly all Christmas shopping. There was a buy one get one 50% off at Lids so I ended getting 2 hats (one as a present and one for myself lol). Then I stopped over at Gap and their clothes are usually too big but I found these Gingerbread pjs that were super adorable and cheap! My friend's sister loves gingerbread peeps so I just got them for her. I figured even if she doesn't use the top, she could just use the fabric to make something else (she's quite crafty). And then I got sucked in to buying some tights there too lol. I've been obsessed with tights lately! They are so comfy! But after that we stopped at Coach. I wanted to get this wallet for my dad. It was a super deal 'cause their items already had a discount of 40% off (up to 70% off) AND you got to add an additional 30% off on top of that! Deals! But sadly the item I wanted was way out of my price range. I think if I got that item, I wouldn't have been able to buy anything else on the trip haha. Then I stopped at Dooney & Bourke and found this bag that I'd been wanting since forever!!
It's this bag except the bag is white and the ducks are red.
After that we stopped over at Swarovski. I was looking for something to get my friend who always goes into their stores just to look at all their sparkly stuff haha. I ended up purchasing this little buddy for her.
I'm the cutest USB drive ever! Yee-ha! <-- that was the sound a cowboy makes btw lol. His name is actually "Robot Naughty Raymond" bahahaha. 
Then we stopped at Pacsun. They were having a buy one get the 2nd item 60% off which meant I had to buy two things lol. Ended up purchasing two tops. I think that was the end of my shopping extravaganza lol.

It's so weird how time seems to slow down in places that aren't LA. Maybe I'm just biased but we were done with the outlets by 6:30 and by the time we had finished dinner, it was 7:30p. We were checked into our hotel by 8pm and we just kinda sat around in our hotel room til 12am with literally nothing to do but gaze lovingly at our purchases lol. Time seriously seemed to slow down to a pace of a sedated snail.

On Tuesday Dec 21st, our first order of business was to eat at Hash House A Go Go. The weather was seriously frightful that day. We got to the restaurant and it was raining cats and dogs once again and there was still a line!! We ended up waiting about an hour and 15 minutes for a table. Their food was pretty good and their portions were gynormous!! After that, we purchased these GoCar tour things from Goldstar but because of the rain, we really couldn't take the GoCars out. :(


Its literally impossible to find parking around Downtown San Diego and I had read online that there's free parking with validation at Horton Plaza so we ended up doing some shopping there. I rarely shop at Macy's but I had been looking for a puffy white jacket to add to my jacket collection and I literally spotted this beauty as soon as I stepped into the juniors section and originally it was $50 but it was on sale for $20! It was such a deal! The mall itself is pretty much outdoors except there's a ceiling over some parts so we ended up seeing Burlesque to hide from the rain. It was a pretty good movie. Cam Gigandet is such a hottie!
all I have to say is: DAYAM!!!!
After that, we met up with some of my other friends at Soju Town, this korean karaoke place. So much fun! I refuse to sing karaoke 'cause I have this secret fear of microphones. I hate the sound of my voice enough already and to magnify that by a thousand decibels? No thanks lol. But I finally did it! lol Just a tiny bit haha. I left the real singing to Pearl haha.

On our last day in San Diego (Wednesday Dec. 22nd), we had bought tickets from Goldstar for a 2-hour Hornblower Cruise of San Diego Bay but they cancelled all of their tours that day due to the poor weather conditions. We were thinking about calling Goldstar to possibly get a refund but the amazing thing about Goldstar was that within minutes (and I literally mean minutes) after we were told that all the cruises that day were cancelled, I received a call and voice mail from Goldstar saying that the price of the tickets had been refunded to my account. That is some pretty amazing customer service! *thumbs up*

After that, we had purchased a Groupon for this place called Toast Enteca & Cucina near Petco Park. I seriously still have dreams of eating their bread with balsamic vinegar. Their balsamic vinegar is seriously to die for!! Their food was super flavorful and very filling! The place itself is fairly small though.

After eating at Toast, it started raining so we made our way back to Los Angeles. We ended up going to Office Depot to get our Lego Caricatures laminated. I didn't realized how cheap it was to laminate things! It was only about $3 to laminate this caricature that's a little bigger than a normal 8x11.

That pretty much ends the San Diego Trip!

Merry Holidays everyone! I've got a ton of reading to do for my next rotation :/ and a bunch of random errands to run! Will update again soon!

Sunday, December 19, 2010

goodnight friends!



off to SD to play! be back soon!

Saturday, December 18, 2010

So Fresh & So Clean

Here's the progress on me cleaning my room:



My cleaning outfit:

Before: (ok it looks worse than it actually was!)











After:


daily link round up

zomgz. Found the coolest app in the history of the world... possibly.



So it's officially break time!! Yay!! Yesterday was my last day at my hospital rotation. As it was our last day, we (my fellow interns and I) decided to document this momentous occasion!


Pyxis inventory - action shot lol

In the Peds checking stuff. They called us the pharmacy cops lol.

Us with our preceptor, Wayne

BJs celebratory lunch! Dunzos!!

Very sad to leave this one :(. My next rotation will be in Long Beach where I'll be doing a specialty in HIV/AIDS which I've always had an interest in. Hopefully I'll learn a lot!

So my room is a complete mess so I've been trying really hard to reorganize things. I really want a new book shelf from Ikea but finances are seriously in a slump right now (being that I have no income and lots of expenses).

Anywhos, I'm off to do some cleaning. Before/after pics will come soon!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

daily link round up

Ok, so lately I've been having a lot of free time. Free time that I really shouldn't be having because I should technically be spending my free time studying for my board exams or cleaning up my room (which seems to never get clean... I swear the elves come out at night and mess it up when I'm asleep!). But instead I go on Google reader and just see what is going on out there in the world and I'm so amazed! So much great stuff that I'm flabbergasted (it's my word of the week.. I've used it about 5 times already =D) about. Here's where I'll share these great things!

Google Chrome - Do a Good Deed! - I only found out about this today but seriously I love Google Chrome and I love tabs (I always have the most important tabs open... one for gmail, one for facebook, one for meebo, one for my Google Calendar so I can see what I'm doing instead of what I'm supposed to be doing lol...). Now you're doing a good deed while browsing the web! Deals schmeels!

  • 10 tabs = 1 tree planted
  • 10 tabs = 1 book published and donated
  • 25 tabs = 1 vaccination treatment provided
  • 100 tabs = 1 square foot of shelter built
  • 200 tabs = 1 person’s clean water for a year
  • You downloading this = awesomeness!!!

iPad Game Just for Kitty - ok, I'm not the biggest fan of cats (being that I pretty much go into a coma when I'm around one) but this game just looks so funny! I want to see a cat playing this one.

Paper into Pencils - Seriously, what will the Chinese come up with next?! Let me say... I was flabbergasted lol (is that even the right word? Maybe dumbfounded is more appropriate... Maybe that will be my next word of the week haha).

Beauty and the Beast Library - This might sound a little crazy (but being that my friends all know me as being a little cookoo to begin with), I'll go ahead and say it anyway: having a library like the Beast's in Beauty and the Beast is a dream of mine. Keep in mind my reading rate is probably -300 right now but once in a great while (i.e. recent break up or absolute depression) I'll sit down and just breeze through 5-6 books (right now not being one of those times lol). I swear I'll be through The Hunger Games soon (*crosses fingers*)!

Funny!!! - omg I literally LOLed reading this. I seriously think this is a conversation I could have been having with one of my friends. Hilarity.

Pokemon Bra - ok seriously?!! but pretty awesome lol.

I'll leave it at that. Just one more day and Christmas break officially starts! yay!

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

it's a beautiful night... we're looking for something dumb to do...

Twas a beautiful night indeed for Anh & Gary's wedding! What a great wedding! I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. Wish I could've taken actual pictures with the bride and groom but it was an Asian wedding meaning  Asian meat market mania! I'm just glad I got to attend and share in the moment for this happy couple :)





Monday, December 13, 2010

gahhh!!!

Last week of Pharmacy Rotations and then 2 week break!! Just gotta finish these assignments and I can finally give a full update!

Friday, December 03, 2010

Listen to My Current Mood



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Vegas Trip, Foodie Adventures

Day 1 - Black Friday:

  • Vegas adventure started on Friday morning. My friend Tanya slept over at my house so we could start off the day early which consisted of us waking up at 8:30am (lol :). I love sleep!). We got ready, packed up the car and headed to Ontario Mills to do some Black Friday shopping. We picked up some pretty good deals. Off 5th had 30% off of their premium denim so I picked up 2 pairs (they now have a promotion for 2 days for 40% off their premium denim so boo.. should have waited but oh well.). Victoria's Secret had BOGO 50% off all their bras so I bought 2 more incredible bras (they are amazing!). 
  • We filled up on gas and then hopped on the 15N headed for VEGAS! We probably left Ontario Mills around 12:30pm and got to Vegas at 5:30pm. We saw the most horrible accident at the agricultural check point. A car had rolled off the top part (heading back from Vegas) and stuff had flown out of this SUV. There was also someone on the ground. The accident had just happened so there were tons of cop cars and ambulances. 
View from our seat.


After arriving in Vegas, we checked into Treasure Island (they only have the most comfortable beds on earth!). I thrashed about in the bed for awhile and read up on restaurants on the Strip. After about an hour of looking up places to eat, we decided to eat at Rainforest Cafe at the MGM Grand (this was despite the fact that we wanted to try out a new restaurant. It had been a  long day and we wanted something that we knew we'd like. Their Pastalaya and Onion Stack is what we usually get. It usually hits the spot.). We got to MGM and it was a pain in the butt to find parking! BUT we ended finding a super close spot to the escalators so we were lucky. It was freezing in Vegas, btw. We ended up getting seated right next to the water and their was definitely a light sprinkle.





After eating it was time for our first show, David Copperfield. Ever since I was a little girl, I'd watch him on TV and I've pretty much watched all of his TV spots. I figured this was one item I could knock off my bucket list. It also helped that when I went on the MGM website, the tickets were for the front row! I originally wanted to get the Meet-and-Greet passes but since they were about $200/person, I decided to go a little more on the frugal side and go with just the regular tickets. So we get seated and we are literally right next to the stage (I was using the stage as an armrest basically). They show starts and he does all these tricks I've seen him do on TV. It was as if I was reliving my childhood. It was pretty awesome but the problem with seeing these tricks was that I spent the majority of the time trying to figure out how he was doing these tricks.

The most awesome part of this experience was getting to be apart of the show! At first, he went into the crowd looking for a ring. My friend had told me he would do a trick with a ring so I had worn like 50 rings... ok by 50 I meant 2 lol. But he ended up choosing this other chick who totally looked like she could be in on the trick so the whole time me and Tanya were like "oh this is totally fixed" even though we totally had no idea how he did the trick lol. He then went into the crowd, picked some lady toward the back of the room and I was totally disappointed but at the same time relieved. As much as I wanted to go on-stage, I have terrible anxiety when it comes to being in front of large crowds. He walks towards the stage and then comes to our table and asks me to come on-stage. My hands are sweating buckets at this point (and for those of you that actually know me, you know I'm not exaggerating). So we get on stage and he tells us to put on these thick black rubber gloves. He then tells us to hold onto this tray and in the middle of the tray was this clear box that had a scorpion. Yes... a scorpion. At first I thought it was fake and then it started moving. I was totally freaking out inside. Black rubber gloves. Scorpion. He was totally going to put the bug on one of us! Please not let be me!!! So he takes the clear box with the scorpion and hands it to the other chick. Whew! Just when I thought I was in luck he grabs my gloved hand on makes me reach into the container. I couldn't even look at the box lol. Right at the last second before I could touch the scorpion he says, "just kidding" and I was off the hook! Thank goodness! So down to the actual trick. He gave me a deck of cards and made me choose a card. I chose a card and showed it to the audience. 9 of clubs. He made me shuffle the deck a few more times and spread the cards out with one hand and got the scorpion with the other hand. The scorpion then picked my card out of the deck. And after the trick, I got to give him a peck on the cheek bahahaha (I guess I completed that bucket list item with flying colors lol). Pretty awesome stuff! lol. I hadn't seen this trick before so I had no idea what was happening. After that super awesome experience I obviously bought a bunch of souvenirs lol. Sadly, they didn't allow any photography inside the theatre or I would have gotten one with me and David (yes, we're on first name basis these days lol).

After all that fun at the show, it was time to start the drinking fun at Margaritaville! So the last time my friends and I were at Vegas, we went to PURE at Caesar's Palace and it was so packed that we didn't even get to move let alone dance so we left the place and partied our asses off at Margaritaville. Sadly this time it was very quiet inside and there was barely anyone there. However, we still had a good time meeting up with friends. Good company makes up for everything especially when we are such karaoke whores singing along to all the Journey songs haha. We had a lot of fun trying to tie our cherries into a knot and using sign language to tell each other how we got from place to place lol. After Margaritaville, we were stuffed so we decided to walk it off by going to the Bellagio gardens. Little did we know that the Christmas decorations weren't up yet! Tragic! We made the best of the situation and took some pictures with this one tree that literally looked like the whomping willow. Being the old farts that we are, after that we were pretty beat so we headed back to our hotel and had a good nights sleep!

Day 2 - Eat, Shop, Sleep, Repeat

he liked it AND he put a ring on it
We started our day off with the Wynn Buffet and met up with Lauren & Jason. The first thing we noticed was the huge ass rock on her finger! Congrats to the happy couple who go engaged at one of their favorite spots!

Although I think they raised their prices due to the holiday weekend, it was as delicious as I remember!

So after filling up on food, we decided to go walk around Fashion Show mall. They've definitely made it a lot better since the last time we were in Vegas (last December for a pharmacy convention). They've added this 2 story Forever21 that is to die for! It's seriously the most organized and gynormous Forever 21 I've ever been in. It has the Men's section, Maternity and a Plus Size section too! And they had sooooo many accessories. I was seriously walking around for hours in here and still wasn't finished! I did some damage here lol.

My beautiful pharm-ing gals :)
After shopping for hours, we were completely beat so we went back to the hotel for a much needed nap. After napping, it was time to get ready to go to dinner. This time we actually went somewhere new: Serendipity 3 at Caesar's Palace. One of my friend's had tried the place before and another one of my friends actually went to the place in New York. I actually read about the place online and really wanted to try the famous Frozen Hot Chocolate (which was delicious! btw). So we left Treasure Island at 6:15pm and drove to Caesar's and it literally took us an hour!! Traffic on the Strip is horrible! We even took Koval (which is right behind the strip) but we couldn't find Caesar's parking lot.

Here's some picture of the delicious food! lol On the Left is the Frozen Hot Chocolate and on the right is the ABC Burger (avocado, brie, and caramelized onions) with the Sweet Potato Fries. Yumes.


Delicious dinner. Check. Off to see Zumanity! So I've never been to a Vegas show before. *gasps* I know. There wasn't a better way to de-virginize me than with this show. It was so funny and sexual (obviously lol)! Loved it! After the show we enjoyed some drinks at New York, New York Casino. This was where I lost $20 at a slot machine lol. Don't worry I hit a jackpot on a penny machine and got $2 back lol bringing the grand total lost to $18 lol. I'm such a big risk taker lol. After that we had to finish off the night with pho at Treasure Island haha. Another successful night!

Day 3 - Bye, Bye Vegas 
After one of the best Vegas weekends, it was finally time to say goodbye :(. We left Vegas at 11:50pm after doing some shopping at The Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace and ended up back in LA at 7:30pm. Traffic was a bitch!!

  • Shopping: $400
  • Hotel: $240
  • Food/Drink: $100
  • Shows: $467
  • Spending one of the  best Vegas Weekends with some of my closest friends: Priceless :)
love, j
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