Quarter Life Crisis!

I never thought this day would come! I am officially 25!!! ahhh! =/

I am definitely going through my Quarter-Life Crisis a bit. Yesterday, I ran to the nearest hair/nail salon to get highlights and a pedicure... ANYTHING to feel 21 again! hahahaha

So I freaked out a bit yesterday... hahah

But today is different. I woke up this morning with a great sense of joy. I feel incredibly happy with my life -- I feel that I'm moving in the right direction in every aspect of my life. I have super duper friends and family whom I love sooo dearly! I have the most amazing fiance who is the super encouraging and mature, who ALSO happens to be a total goofball and makes me laugh all the time AND makes me feel o-so-special =). I love my job, I feel challenged enough, but not too much that I get too stressed (most of the time =P)-- and I am always working on new things, and learning new tricks from all the talented people that surround me at work.

I really couldn't ask for more. God is good to me. =)

It was soo nice this morning to open up my email to a bunch of happy bday messages -- and one of my co-workers had filled up my candy jar at work! AWwww...It's those random acts of kindness that really make me want to try to be a better friend... So my 25th Bday resolution (if there is such thing) is that I'm really gonna try harder to be a better friend... to do a better job of keeping in touch, to make sure I let people know how I feel about them, to remember bdays, etc.

I'm headed to LA for the weekend to spend some quality (PARTAY!!) time with the friends I don't get a chance to see very often. I'm super duper excited!!!

I will def be back for MORE mischief next weekend in NORCAL of course. *wink wink*

On the verge of getting sick...

Don't laugh -- but my whole right arm and shoulder is soooo sore and in pain, from shooting hoops (the far ones, not the close ones!) at Dave and Busters on Friday night. HAHAHAHA Ya.. I'm such a weaksauce. sigh.. a buncha guys were laughing at me while I was playing... cuz I was seriously throwing with all my might, and barely getting any rim. hahahaha.. at least I made a few in...

The weekend was pretty chill. JT n I were supposed to go to Marine World on Sat with Sherry n David, but it ended up raining!! =( booo, so we didn't get to go... We ended up staying in, sleeping and working instead..

It probably ended up for the better, since I've been on the verge of getting sick for the last 4 or 5 days ..and Marine World would have definitely put me over the top.

Other than that, I spent a good part of my weekend stressing about work -- and came in at 6:30am today, and got my shit done and on-time for the big presentation this afternoon. woohoo... what a relief.

I'm really looking forward to going home this evening, chilling out, and watching "THE BACHELOR -- an officer and gentleman'" hehehe... he's soooo cute.

teehee... lol .. naw.. i really watch it for the drama, of course.

Yup, definitely gonna lay low for a bit till I get better.

Turbo Tax baby!

Yay! So I got my emails of confirmation for my federal and state tax returns. =) I'm getting a nice lil chunk of change back in 9 days! wut wut! I'm so glad I e-filed this year. It was quick and painless. yay for turbo tax!

Lookie who's on the Yahoo homepage today!

I got an email from a friend asking if that was me on the Yahoo front page. I had to refresh a couple times to see it... but look! There I am!

The photo was by Bill Reitzer/Plush Studios taken about a year ago.

Girl's night out

On Sat night, I had dinner at Beldon Place with Han Em and Linda to celebrate my engagement! hehehe


Us, with our creme brulee and creme puffs that the guy at the table next to us paid for. hehehe


me and han hong =)


em and linpin lookin beautiful as usual


So I went to the bathroom during our meal, and looked up and saw that my girls had graffitied the bathroom wall. HOW CUTe hehehe.. the bathroom wall was a chalkboard.



Us outside at Belden Place -- linpin got me flowers! aww sooo sweet =)


Afterwards, we stopped by at Boss




Then Em, Han, and I headed over to Slide to meet up with Elaine:






han, emmy, and me .. awww like the good ol'days!

check out all the pix on my FLIKR site!

Summer Plans?

I LOVE planning ahead... cuz it helps give me things to look forward to.. ehehe... and since spring has already started, that means SUMMER is right around the corner!

Time to start thinking about what I wanna do this Summer...

-I definitely wanna plan a trip to Toronto! I miss it sooo much! Clubbin is awesome there.. food is GREAt, and I miss my party peeps =) Who's down to go with me? I'm thinkin end of June or beginning of July

-Will do a trip to LA, since I haven't been there in ages

-Can you believe I've never been to NAPA. wtf? What kind of NorCal person am I?

-Hawaii? some of my buddies are gonna be in hawaii this summer...

-I've ALWAYS wanted to go to Disney World in Florida! But since Florida is hot year round, I can always save this one for the fall or next spring...

Any other ideas?






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Once a party girl...

me: i haven't been clubbin since JANUARY!
me: can you believe that!?
marcus: OMG
marcus: wuuut
marcus: who ARE you...
me: i know
me: LOL
me: AHAHHAHA

I think it's time to break out w/ the dancin shoes this weekend. hahaha

The Perfect Productive Weekend

I had a lovely relaxing and eventful weekend with my babe. ya know... we pretty much spend 24/7 together, but it's always fun and interesting and I never get sick of him. hahaa ok, almost never *wink*

Friday after work, we decided to do something fun instead of chillin out, so we went bowling, just the two of us. =) I kicked his butt 3 out of 4 times, scoring over 100 each of those times!! yayy! but JT ended up getting the high score of the night!

On Sat, we produced and shot a photoshoot for SuperImaging's PR campaign. I'm always constantly amazed about how many common interests and complimenting skills we have. We are the perfect duo, I tell ya! Anyhow, the shoot went really well - though we have lotsa post-production to take care of.

Afterwards, we chilled out for a bit in Fremont with my bro, did some e-stalking heheheh... and I gave my Beverly a bath. JT n I then caught a movie at night. 300 was SOO good. I was sitting on the edge of my seat the entire movie. "THIS IS SPARTA!!!!"



hahahah man... can't explain it, but it gave me the CHILLS, and not because I was grossed out by all the gore... but it gives you such a guilty thrilling feeling because you just want the Spartans to slash as many heads off as possible... hahaha. I loved that they stood up for themselves, and didn't back down, and I loved their culture .. how much they respected their women. LOVED it!

haha... On Sun, we went to check out some churches and fell in love with St. Joseph's Basilica Cathedral in San Jose. It's soooo beautiful. We attended mass there, and both JT and I agreed that the church really took our breath away. I really hope we can book a date that works out with the place we want the reception to be. Check it out:





I am soooo excited!! I'm gettin MARRIED heheheh... still gotta repeat it a few times to let it snk in.

After church, we went to a bridal faire n did some menu tasting and checked out some vendors (florists, bakeries, etc).

We made it home mid Sunday afternoon, in time to take a nappy nap, do some laundry, get some post-prod work done, make a nice home cooked meal, and have a couple glasses of wine (ya i know, so mature huh? heheh jk jk).

Life is sweet. I feel so domesticated these days hahaha.