not that turning 20!

Now that I actually have time to write a full post....

It was my birthday on the 18th! I'm 20! I'm old! Yayyyyyy....

I had quite an eventful weekend.
Saturday, my actual birthday, started off with my first day teaching tap, ballet, and jazz at my dance studio. I was very nervous at first because it was my first time teaching ballet, but everything worked out in the end. Too lazy to go in more detail about it.

Later in the evening, my family came over and we had our usual "eating time", "cake time", and "present time". No pictures because the only one that took pictures was my brother with his SRL camera.... and anything that he takes on his SRL camera does not show up online until months and months later.

Sunday felt more like my birthday for some reason. I guess it took 24 hours more for it to really sink it. I obviously don't feel any different, but it's weird knowing that my age now starts with a 2! o___o

To celebrate with my friends, we had all you can eat sushi at Umi. Yummm... I very much appreciated everyone coming early and arriving there before I did myself! That was really unexpected, but made me very pleased! Ahaha. No, I was not late for my own celebration.

I was only able to take a limited amount of pictures because I was stupid and forgot to upload all my Europe pictures so the memory card was pretty much full... and I was also stupid enough to remember last minute that I had to charge my camera and only had it plugged in for about 15 mins. So there really wasn't much battery life for me to go and delete all the unnecessary pictures to make more space. Sad face.

Hmmm.... Well, we ate... a lot. We thought we ordered too much food (like always), but we succeeded in finishing everything because we're tanks! >=] ... or whales. lolololol.

I decided to just open some of the gifts I received then because some people had to leave after lunch. So this will sorta be my "birthday haul, friends edition" post within a post.

Firstly, Johnruss paid for my lunch! Thank youuuu!

Sick picture frame. My fav is the lil "LOL" at the bottom.
And my dream journal!! I can't wait to start writing in it!

Katherine thinks I smell bad... as you can see.
But now she won't be able to resist me. Muahahahahah

No waaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!! Thanks Bryan!! The white one is so awesome :D
(Yeah, I never told him I've been wanting this for like a year)

Yeah, I surprisingly got things from my wish list that I never expected to receive!

Fail attempt to take a group picture. Squinty eyes! XD

We all spontaneously went to Playdium afterwards because Johnruss had work anyway. Thanks to him and Bart most of us were able to get free time cards! :D

Thanks Johnruss!!!

I THINK he passed the height requiremets

Playdium moments...

• Killed at Tank Tank Tank with Andrew and Bryan
• Failed at the racing game with everyone. Kris won T_T
  
• Went on the Roller Coaster thing for the second time. (First time being when I was 12? 13?) ...and then lost one of my earrings in it. Sad face.
• Reunited with DDR once again. Didn't fail so miserably. But did break the bottom of my boots =( At least it's fixable.
• Saw the "bar" at Playdium that I never knew existed before.
  
• Watched Quan fail miserably at Deal or No Deal, but still earned enough points to get a small plastic ring for his girlfriend. Ahah.

asians and their pictures

asians and their DDR

asians and their ...shooting stuff

I had tons and tons of fun! However, I was not looking forward to having school the next morning T_T

One thing I told myself by the end of the day and I'll never forget.

You are loved.

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day one.

Day 01- A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself

not super recent, but the most recent I have on my laptop before Europe.
haven't even uploaded Europe pics. whoops.

15 Facts (from the top of my head)

1. I love crispy spicy salmon rolls!!! (obviously the first thing I mention has to be food related. lulz~)
2. I've had 7 years of orthodontic work on my teeth. Yeah, my teeth were pretty messed up when I was a kid/ teen.
   
3. I'm a dancer, but I'm incredibly lazy and want to sleep ALL THE TIME D:
   
4. The only high end item I'll splurge a great amount on money on are Coach purses (when there is some sort of discount of course). I'd rather spend 100+ on a designer hand bag, which I'll use more often and take better care of than an expensive watch or sunglasses.
   
5. I have a shelf in my room dedicated to my collection of Beanie Babies that I used to collect when I was in elementary. There's actually A LOT of them.
   
6. I cut my own hair now. I haven't been to a hair dresser since last December.
   
7. I'm starting to become more of a ring collector. I like wearing two finger rings or wearing multiple rings on one hand.
   
8. A pet peeve of mine is when people walk slower than me right in front of me when I am in a rush... and when I'm not in a rush.
   
9. Another pet peeve is when people constantly publicize online how depressed they are so people can pity them. It's immature and I don't take those types of people seriously.
10. I love shopping in my own closet and finding clothes I forgot I had. Dressing up old clothes in a way that works makes me feel more accomplished when it comes to making use of everything I have.
11. I miss Tweety soooo much when I'm away on a trip for a couple of days! I'm always worried that he's not being taken care of well while I'm gone and get so lonely that he starts pulling his feathers out! ;___;
    
12. I have a second stomach for ice cream. No matter how full I am there's always room for ice cream. Green tea ice cream all the way! ^^
    
13. I'm generally a pretty forgiving person. It's not me being too nice - it's me not being stubborn or a bitch because I don't need to be.
14. I don't watch TV and don't follow any shows. Whatever I do want to see I just look for online later. Youtube = my TV.
    
15. A lot of people know me for having gigantic but super cute phone charms on my cell. It makes it a lot easier to find my phone in my bag =]
    

Thinking of 15 "interesting" facts about myself was a lot harder than I thought. I actually tried to not repeat myself from previous tags I've done in the past.

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Amelie

Amelie is not like the other girls. When she grows up she becomes a waitress in a Montmartre bar run by a former dancer. Amelie enjoys simple pleasures until she discovers that her goal in life is to help others. To that end, she invents all sorts of tricks that allow her to intervene incognito into other people’s lives, including an imbibing concierge and her hypochondriac neighbor. But Amelie’s most difficult case turns out to be Nino Quicampoix, a lonely sex shop employee who collects photos abandoned at coin-operated photobooths.

My sister made me watch this movie with her years and years ago. I don't even remember if I had watched the whole movie with my full attention at the time. I was still a kid. Ahah.

So when I rewatched it on my sister's laptop on the flight to Paris, it was like watching a whole new movie all over again. I only remembered a bit of the beginning. And I have to say, it is absolutely one of my favourite all time movies!

I adore this!

There are so many things about it that are so inspiring for me. The overall style, the characters, the music, etc. The actress who plays Amelie is so beautiful and she really suits the character. I recognized a lot of the music and I would like to get the whole soundtrack of the movie.

Watching this movie did make me more excited to go to Paris and actually see the certain places where the movie was filmed like the the restaurant that Amelie works at in the movie. It wasn't too far from the hotel we stayed at in Paris so we ended up having breakfast there every morning in Paris. The food was very good and affordable compared to most of the restaurants we came across.

I highly recommend this movie. It is in French so subtitles are needed... unless you're super awesome in French, which I am not.

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Dear jet lag,

You know you are around when I crash at 10pm and wake up very wide awake at 6am. That's not too bad considering school is coming up tomorrow and I'll have to start waking up that early anyway... Oh dear.

Chantee

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