january: week 2

Jan. 9 (mon): Off and Date w/Cat
Had the day off so I spent the day organizing my music. After transferring all my music over to my new iMac, I felt the need to rename all my music since I was starting to see many repeats all filed under different albums. My new way of organizing is just by "Artist - Song" in the "Artist" folder. Hopefully this will free up some space on my harddrive.

After HOURS upon HOURS or organizing, I was only at folder "Aaliyah" so you can tell it was really going nowhere lol. I took a break from re-organizing and tried to catch up on my blogging. After that, I got ready to visit a fellow pharmer for a dinner date.

decor at RA sushi in Chino Hills

Cat and I decided get some grub at RA Sushi in Chino Hills. We got the Lobster Spring Rolls for sharing and I got the Viva Las Vegas Roll and I can't for the life of me remember what Cat ordered lol. I just looked thru their whole menu lol. I'm pretty sure it was something with shrimp on top lol.

our food at RA sushi

I had to work the next day at 8am so we called it a night pretty early.


Jan. 10-11 (tues-wed): Work


Jan. 12 (thurs): Extreme Couponing at CVS
In my haste to leave on Wednesday night after closing, I left my lunch box and my water bottle at my store so I went there to pick those items up and also to pick up some fish oil/multi vitamin combo packs for Tony. I also bought a bunch of new make up as well for a future haul post.

I've been dying to try more products and there were a bunch of good coupons at CVS.


Jan. 13 (fri): Work and Naked 2 Palettes!
I had been working the closing shift on every single Friday since I could remember (6 Fridays in a row I closed) so it was my lucky Friday the 13th to be opening for once! But too bad it wasn't even that great since I had to work the entire weekend so it didn't make any difference whether I opened or closed. Usually I want to open on Friday because I want to leave to San Diego earlier for the weekend but since I had to work the entire weekend, it really didn't matter. When I got home, my Sephora package with my 2 Naked 2 Palettes arrived!

I ordered one for Lauren for a belated x-mas present and one for myself. I figured I would use my VIB 10% discount so the 2 palettes ended up being less than $50 each including tax (free shipping). People don't seem to like this palette as much as the older one but I haven't really touched either one (so lazy to do eye make-up lately lol) so I wouldn't really be able to tell you as of right now.


Jan. 14-15 (sat-sun): The Weekend that Shall Not Be Discussed
The most horrible weekend in the history of the world. I was pretty much a verbal punching bag for every fricken customer. I don't think I've ever said "Sorry" so many times in my life.


And that concludes week 2 of January... the week I pretty much wanted to stab my eyes out and was verbally raped by every fricken customer. I think I'm almost caught up on my week in reviews! yay!

january: week 1

Jan. 1 (sun): Pizza and Football
Started off the new year by sleeping in and then ordering pizza from one of my new favorite places for piza besides Pizza Hut lol. Baby Bros Pizza is the place these days. I'm a big fan of pan pizza and they make it super well. Also, they are super fast as well. We've never eaten at the restaurant but they've got a really good sports area with TVs and alcohol. So we took the pizza to-go and watched football.

look how plump that looks! lol

Jan. 2 (mon): NYE after New Years
Worked the opening shift today and was super frazzled today. Discovered a mistake I had made and spent the rest of the day trying to fix it. Great way to start off the new year right?! Goshes maloshes. Later that night I went to watch New Years Eve with Pearl. It was actually a pretty funny movie surprisingly although seeing Zac Efron with what's her face was really weird lol.


Jan. 3 (tues): Day Off
Spent the day running errands. Went to Trader Joe's to buy Tanya's sister some stuff since they don't have Trader Joe's in Hawaii and then went to Target and the bank. Didn't really do much for the rest of the day.

Jan. 4-6 (wed-fri): Work
So I ordered my iMac during Christmas on Woot.com but due to some unfortunate planning I wasn't able to get it until Thursday. I went to pick it up at FedEx during my lunch break so I spent the rest of the night after work setting it up. Tony came up on Friday and helped me install more RAM so now my computer has 16GBs of RAM. I went back to using my Lenovo from pharmacy school and was shocked by how slow it was lol. But I think it's also because when you don't use something for a long time, it needs more updates when you do use it so it slows everything down.

Jan. 7 (sat): Father's Office
Can't really remember what I did during the day :/. I believe we went to the mall and walked around because I remember being in these shoes...

And my feet were starting to hurt. Oh! Now I remember lol. So we ate at Cheesecake Factory at the Santa Anita Mall for lunch because originally I wanted to go to Din Tai Fung since Tony's never had it before but their line at almost 2pm was 1.5 hours! It was pretty ridic. After that, since we still had some time to kill, we shopped around for a bit. I was trying so hard not to purchase anything but I couldn't resist some combat boots at Cathy Jean for $40 including tax. They were 70% off so I just had to get them lol. I also bought 2 cinch belts from Cottonon.

After that, we went to Father's Office to meet up with some friends. That place is a little ridic. We had to wait in a line to get into the restaurant... like it was a club or something! Wtf! It was so crowded we decided to take the stuff to-go and just eat it at Nam's apartment.

Jan. 8 (sun): Work
Worked at one of the slower stores which felt really painful because it was just me and one technician for the entire day. When one of us was at lunch, we had to call the front store for back up.

And that concludes week 1 of January!

NYE 2011

After a super funsies night at Nam's for Fab Five secret santa, me and Tony decided to spend NYE at Disneyland since Tanya & Jason were coming down from NorCal. We had lunch with my parents and then headed to Disneyland. We checked on MouseWait and it said that Disneyland was at 90% capacity so we were really worried that we weren't going to get in. I was more worried about not being able to park in the structure. I hate having to park in the Lion King or Buzz Lightyear area because the tram ride feels so much longer. Thank goodness when we got there, we were able to park in the structure so we got extremely lucky. Here are some pictures!

one of the best picture spots of the castle

NYE with my old roomie

popcorn bball

michael jackson gloves

NYE countdown at Disneyland

it's a small world - one of tony's best shots

And that concludes 2011! Can't believe it's been an entire year of blogging! Here's to another year of great posts!

blog: year in review

what i'll be blogging from in 2012!

2011 has been a great year of blogging. Thanks to all those have followed me and subscribed. Although my initial goal of blogging daily didn't work out, I did still managed to blog about all the things I really cared about and I think my life isn't that interesting to blog daily anyways lol. I think you guys would be extremely bored lol. Here are some stats for the year:

Number of posts: 95
Number of hits: ~2100
Most popular post: november makeup haul
First post of 2011: day 1: happy new year!
Last post of 2011: november makeup haul

Thank you for your continual readership and I wish you all the best in the new year!

december: week 3 and week 4

Dec. 12 (mon): Laundry & oil change

Dec. 13-16 (tues-fri): Workin' it. Had to miss Sophie's birthday shindig because I had to work but a big Happy Birthday to Ms. Sophia!

Dec. 17 (sat): This was the weekend of Lauren's bridal shower. I was going to start driving after work but it was a long hard day so I decided that we would drive up after a full nights rest. However, I guess me and Tony were super excited or something because we could not fall asleep so we decided to start our trip to NorCal at 5am. Took us about 4 hours to drive to Fresno and once we got there I was craving Chick-fil-A big time so of course we made a stop there. I also made a video about the fog. Bear with my delirious-ness in the video lol. It was really early and we were pretty much running on 1 or 2 hours of sleep.






After picking Blaire up from Fresno, we drove another 3 hours to Oakland. We met up with Lauren & Jason and had sushi for lunch and went to Fenton's for dessert.

our dessert at Fenton's

For dinner, we ate at Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers. Their skinny fries with garlic were so good! I could have sworn I took pictures of the food but I guess not lol.

Dec. 18 (sun): Lauren's Bridal Shower @ The Cliff House

Lauren's Bridal Shower was at The Cliff House in San Francisco. We ate at the Champagne Brunch Buffet. Here are some pictures:

our view from our table

view of the buffet area

our table w/my little favors

dish numero uno (didn't even get a chance to take a picture of the other dishes lol... scarfed them down too fast lol)

beautiful bride-to-be with pharmer friends

pharm fam that started it all :D

lauren & tanya 

throwback to the back to back pictures in high school

pharmer bridal shower :) thanks for coming out lovely ladies!

After the bridal shower, we spent nearly 8 hours driving home. On the way back to Lauren's house we saw a motorcyclist go down on the freeway. It was really scary. Thanks to Tanya for driving because I probably would've had a heart attack.

Took us what seemed like FOREVER to get home. There was another accident on the freeway on our way to Fresno so the entire freeway was stopped.

Dec. 19-21 (mon-wed): Work, work, work. Also made my cereal mix for friends and coworkers. Ended up decorating them so they looked like presents.

Dec. 22 (thur): Finished the rest of my holiday shopping and then went to boba at Tea Station with FF friends.


Dec. 23-25 (fri-sun): Worked the closing shift and then drove down to San Diego. Spent Christmas weekend with Tony's family.

I didn't take that many pictures with my camera but here's one that Tony's cousin took. She had a super nice camera.

Merry Christmas, friends!

Dec. 26-30 (mon-fri): Actually spent this week working Monday thru Friday at my usual store since they were forcing the staff to take their vacations.

Dec. 30 (fri): After closing, I went home and picked up Tony and we made our way to Nam's place for our annual secret santa gift exchange & party. This year's secret santa seemed a little rigged because a lot of the couples got each other lol. Here's our secret santa pictures for a more visual story!

That pretty much concludes December (besides NYE which I will post in a separate post)! Hope everyone is having a good time getting ready for Chinese New Year! Happy Chinese New Year everyone!

tuesday day off randomness

Howdies!

So I've been super spoiled with only working 3 days a week and now that I'm working 5 days a week, I feel completely spent. Today was my day off and since it'll be my only day off (besides the weekend) before Chinese New Year, I really wanted to spend the whole day cleaning my room, car, etc. I'm not sure about you guys but I always feel like when my life is a mess, my room is usually the same way and when I clean up my room, my life also starts going more smoothly sooooo lol long story short, the last week has been pretty horrible (especially this last weekend) so that means a deep cleansing for my room.

Here's my OOTD. Just a racerback tank from Pacsun, jeggings from Forever 21, and AE long sleeve shirt.

Anyways, I started off the day by going to the post office. I ordered 2 Naked 2 palettes because I was going to give one to my friend Lauren for Christmas so I went to send one to her. I had to get them as soon as I saw that they were available on Sephora. I was actually waiting because I had my "Welcome to VIB" 10% off coupon so it ended up being a pretty good deal.

After the post office, I went to get a hair cut. I've been growing out my hair but lately, it really just feels like a bird's nest (I mean literally, some of the tangles were making my hair look like a bird's nest). So I went the Supercuts, my go-to place hahaha. I ended up purchasing a leave-in conditioner, detangler/everything else from them. I bought a small bottle since the large one was like $36. She sprayed a bit in my hair and I've had it on the whole day and it feels pretty nice. Not too heavy.

After leaving Supercuts, I went to the mall to Nordy's and Ziba. If you have a Ziba near you, don't forget about their Happy Hour special (from 2-5pm on Mondays & Tuesdays). I got my brows and upper lip done for $12. Such a steal! Anywhos, I saw Lauren's post on how Butter London's Nail Foundation is a good basecoat especially for glitter polish and I had a Nordy's giftcard so I had to try it out. I bought the set with the Hardwear top coat and the Nail Foundation basecoat for $25. They were sold separately for $18 so it was a better deal to get them in the set.

So I'm not one for patience so I messed up when I was painting my nails earlier. Here are the results:

Red polish is "Cocktail Waitress" by ULTA and stop sparkles is actually 051 "Starry Pink" by Revlon. I wanted nice red nails for Chinese New Year. So being the impatient person that I am, I was trying to paint my right hand while my left hand was drying and messed up one of my nails so I had to remove all the messed up glitter and polish on my index finger. To my surprise, it was so fricken easy to remove the glitter! I was literally shocked! I had painted my nails with Starry Pink when I had first purchased it but it seriously took my over 30 minutes and numerous cotton pads to remove the glitter. Like the rest of the polish would be gone but the glitter was still stuck on my nail. But with the nail foundation, I was able to use one cotton pad on 2 different nails (I messed up another nail while trying to soak the cotton pad... I know... lol). I used 2 coats of the top coat so lets see how long the nails will last before they start chipping.

I think it was last weekend when my friend painted my nails with the OPI Shatter nail polish and I was sooooo disappointed that it didn't even last me 3 days. It started chipping on the next day. We used basecoat and top coat. She painted them for me on Saturday night and by Tuesday, this is what they looked like:

Anyhow, that pretty much concludes my day. Back to more laundry! Hopefully my nails won't get ruined :/. Hope everyone has a great rest of the week!

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new title and blog address

Not sure if my subscribers will get this post but I've decided to change my web address to timesnewjen.blogspot.com so if you come to my blog and it's "gone" it's because of the change. Anywhos, I had a busy day off running errands and I'll post a little something later. In the process of painting my nails :). Trying out the new Butter Long Hardwear & Nail Foundation I got today (using my Nordy's gift card, Thanks Pearl!)

december: week 1 & 2

Howdies!

Just wanted to catch up on some December blogging and just wanted to give you guys a preview of some new products I'm testing out. Hopefully I'll find some good stuff :). Hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was fantastically horrible... as in came home in tears Saturday night and worked 12 hours straight on Sunday. But what's done is done. Count it as a lesson learned. What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger. I find that motto quite useful these days. Anywhos, on to the happenings of December...

dec. 1-5 (thursday thru monday): workin' it

dec. 3 (saturday): after work, I met up with Tanya & Jason and Tony at Disneyland just for a small get-together since they were in town. We got some drinks at ESPN Zone while we waited for a table at Rainforest Cafe. And of course, we had to get more drinks :).

dec. 6 (tuesday): went to ziba to get my eyebrows done, bought some stuff at the mall and went to kohl's for christmas presents. Then went to Disneyland with Pearl. We tried to do as many holiday things as possible and I also got to try the clam chowder bowl for the first time!

clam chowder bowl... ooozing with yummy goodness

it's a small world... on crack

dec. 7-9 (wednesday thru friday): workin' it

dec. 10 (saturday): spent the weekend in San Diego. Woke up and totally craved Chick-Fil-A so I got some of that for breakfast :). Then spent the afternoon in Julian just walking around. Julian is this little town that reminds me of Big Bear... but without the snow (well at least when I was there). It's up in the mountains and it's basically a small town with little shops... and pies lol. I'm not the biggest pie fan so I didn't buy one but there were people lined up for that stuff. We ate at this soda fountain shop called Miner's Diner. I ordered a Buffalo Burger because I don't think I've ever had one before and I wanted to try it.

I also go strawberry flavored soda. Soooo good!

Their fries were super good too! I think these were the ones that tasted like gynormous McDonald's fries (yes, I like McDonald's fries lol).

After Julian, we did some extreme couponing at Target and then joined Tony's friends at Ballast Point Brewing Company for some beers. They had these huge barrels for tables which I thought were pretty cool.

Stopped at Yardhouse for some food and then walked a couple blocks to Fumari Hookah Lounge.

That pretty much concluded my weekend in San Diego.

I guess I'll end this post here. Laundry's done :). Hope everyone has a great rest of the week!