Merry Christmas!

My whole family including our newest member, Twitter =]

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Mine was amazing!

Christmas day went by really fast, but the Christmas season is definitely not over... especially the Holiday shopping o_o, which I never do anyway because I usually just go out and do things with my cousins during the crazy boxing day sales. There's nothing I'm hunting for at the moment that I'm capable of getting during boxing week I believe. I'd rather just save my money for my lomography camera desires for the future. lulz.

Nonetheless, I'm in happy mode and will not let anything get in the way of that.
You should too =]

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It's a beautiful day once again...

Thanks Dorothy =]

Happy Birthday!

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Noah's Bar Mitzvah

Warning: Video heavy!!!

This is pretty much the "Cousins presentation" for Noah's Bar Mitzvah
NOAH ON DEMAND! =]

Number 5!

Number 4!

Number 3!

Number 2!

Number 1!



And because Noah was finally allowed to get facebook, we made a song for him afterwards...


Good times.

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Clubbing... with the familyyyy

Warning: This post is picture heavy

So I went clubbing for the second time with my cousins(again lol). It was my first time going to a club in Toronto though! I wasn't too sure what to expect. Like, I went clubbing in LA, and I didn't think it was that great. I was more excited this time around because I guess I knew a lot more people going. It was for Christian's 19th party and I swear he knows everyone! ... which is why I was often known as "Christian's cousin" for a while in high school x_X.

I wasn't planning on going initially because I wasn't even sure if my parents would be okay with it even though I'm legal and also because my first time clubbing wasn't AMAZING or anything. At my New Years party, Christian and Lylline asked me if I was going, but I said I wasn't sure and that I was actually scared to ask my mom, so they just asked her for me! LOL She couldn't possibly say no because first of all, some of my other older cousins would be there and second, she can't say no in front of the whole family and seem too strict! XD

I already had an outfit appropriate for clubbing so I didn't freak out because I didn't have anything to wear. I actually have A LOT of things that would be appropriate. How? Dance costumes. Tutus? No. Corsets =] I have some fancy ones that I pretty much haven't worn since I performed in them. But yeah, from what I remember I should have at least 6 corsets that were costumes from the past 3 years.
But no, I didn't wear a corset though. I ended up wearing this dress that I bought maybe after exams were over. I got it at the store called Katie, which actually has a lot of branches throughout Toronto. The one I went to was on Queen and I know there is another one in Chinatown and at least three more down Yonge street. Everything in the store was 35% off so I just decided to go in and check it out. The dress was on one of the mannequins in the store and what really caught my eye was the back the dress. It had an open back. I love love outfits with open backs, especially low ones. I don't know why! Ahah. I thought it was unique, well worth its price, and would be good for clubbing so I got it even though I didn't know the next time I'd go clubbing. I also wore this military style jacket that I got from Forever 21 to go over it because I knew I'd be cold getting there and I wasn't planning on taking my winter jacket with me. I love military style jackets!

Model face time.

You can barely tell the jacket apart from the dress XD

Camwhoring in the washroom with laptop webcam
in front of my colourful shower curtains yayyyy!!!

So the next night, everyone who was taking the limo with Christian met at his house, which were all the cousins who were going and some of his friends. His other friends that were going just met up with us at the club. I'm pretty sure Christian already got drunk in the limo LOL. He drank lot. I drank a bit in the limo, mainly because Lylline made me! I honestly didn't like the taste of anything she gave me though D:

We all left our winter jackets at his place or in the limo. So I pretty much was outside in my outfit and heels, when it was colder than - 20 degrees and windy too!! x_X. All the girls pretty much died outside when we had to walk to the entrance of the club and wait for a bit, all because we did not want to pay for coat check =] yayyyy. I was so happy that I brought my military jacket even though it was thin. But my legs were frozen for sure. We didn't wait too long outside because the club was just opening and we were going through the VIP entrance.

The club we went to was Guvernment. I didn't know how many rooms they had there but from reading a couple of descriptions of the rooms I pretty sure we were in The Drink.

An elegant second-level bar, lined by mirrors. Originally known as the Guvernment's VIP club, it's still a place for well-dressed, mature clientele. Patrons of this room also have access to the main room and the rooftop patio. Friday nights hold Commercial R&B and House and on Saturdays, House and Progressive.

Because it just opened, we could see the entire room, which was very fancy. I noticed that there was a wall of doors at the end of the room and I saw some people going in and out of it. I decided to check it out along with Sarah. When we went through the doors, we were on a second level balcony, and down below was the main room which was MASSIVE. I thought there was no way that the whole room could be completely filled. I wasn't really aware of the other rooms so I didn't explore more.

Bad quality picture. I know. This was not even half the floor space.

We got a sorta group photo taken by the club photographer who put all the photos up on the website. 'Sorta' because none of my cousins except Christian was in the shot. Still a nice picture though.

Lylline made me drink again! D: Actually she made everyone have a bit because the bottles were expensive so she wanted to make sure that we drank all of it. I don't remember what drink we had but I remember it tasting like crap XD To be honest, I only kept drinking the juice or soda they give you when you get a booth because it tasted good... at least I think it was juice.

The room got PACKED after a while. There was still enough room to dance of course so it didn't really bother me. It's more exciting when there's a lot of people anyway. I decided to go look back at the main room and the entire room was even more packed! I swear they were all like shoulder to shoulder. I didn't wanna be in the middle of that crowd at all. It seemed WAY too claustrophobic for me XD

There were of course creepers and random guys asking you to dance with them. Not as many as LA though! Ahah. There was this one really creepy old man who was trying to dance behind this girl who was already making out with her boyfriend. I don't even know if she or her boyfriend noticed him or not! This asian guy actually bought a drink for Sarah, but when she tried to leave him, he kept following her around! Ahhhhh.

Christian was probably the funniest in all the pictures I got throughout the night. He was soo drunk!

This one is my fav! LOL

Surprisingly, I had sooo much more fun than I did in LA! What's up with that? The main reason is because they played better music! They played all these popular pop and house songs from now and from years ago that were great songs to dance to. I ended up downloading most of the songs later on. Couple examples are Took the Night by Chelly and Paparazzi by Lady Gaga... that's actually all I can remember right now. lawl. Maybe for the last hour we were there, they just kept playing black music, which weren't as fun to dance to, to be honest. It was very ironic that at that time it got more crowded and all these black people came out of nowhere. I wasn't the only one who noticed though! Then I looked at the DJ and it was black guy. I remember the DJ before was white. I probably sound so racist right now D:
Bad Chantee! Bad!

It was okay though because we had to leave soon after and we were all just sitting down at the booth. We were all sorta dead by then.

After clubbing, the limo took us all back to Christian's. We were starving though, so just the family members except Christian went to Denny's! Yummm.

I had the ultimate omelette, which was very good. But IHOP will always be the best! XD


Until next time.

peace, love and lol.

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Not those lightsabers!

Yes, well after the excitement of having almost all the cousins getting lightsabers for Christmas from our family, someone had the brilliant idea to have a lightsaber battle for New Years instead of popping bubble wrap and balloons (which we still did anyway).

We didn't actually do the lightsaber battle after the count down. We had to do it before because two of my younger cousins, Daniel and Arielle, wanted to be in it but every year right before the count down they go home and do their own thing. But it was A LOT of fun though! I took so many shaky videos x_X. Each one probably wasn't worth posting on facebook or anywhere so I put together a lil video of my own with the best clips I had for New Years.

I enjoy putting together videos =] I wanna do it more often.

Christian. lulz.

Funny thing that happened during the battle. Nicki screamed EVERYONE GET SHINGO! So then everyone attacked him. Then after that she told everyone to get Jeff and then everyone did, except for Chris who was protecting him. Then it became FIGHT THE WHITE PEOPLE! So, Julia and Noah who are half white and half asian got attacked as well.

Not these white people! D:

Oh yeah, I missed the countdown. Apparently they didn't count down on whatever channel the New Years performance was on. I wasn't looking at the television. So the few of us who weren't paying that much attention to the TV, were a bit confused and weren't sure if it was the actual countdown because some people were making fake countdowns a couple of minutes before. Ahah.

Not those glow in the dark glasses!

The majority of us were legal so we all had a shot of hpnotiq as you can see from the video. It's probably the only drink that I've tried that I don't think tastes horrible like most alcoholic drinks I've tasted before, which isn't a lot. I still have yet try something alcoholic that actually tastes good.

We played more games afterwards until 4am because that's when everyone got too tired pretty much. Because Pictionary was so much fun on Christmas, we played it again. I think there was more people this time around so pictures got really messed up by the end! Ahah.

getting ready for an intense game of pictionaryyy

We also decided to draw each other for fun for a bit.

Ion, because that's what Darrel drew on him during the Kris Kringle game XD

Earlier in December, my sister asked everyone to fill out surveys and she made a bunch of multiple choice questions based on them. We played this game last year, but instead of lining up behind the chairs with ABCD, you would just write it on the small white boards we used for Pictionary. Yes, we were lazy at the time. I think it's more fun when you line up though because you can just follow others when you don't know the answer XD

Overall, it was probably the best New Years party everrrr! XD Who else has lightsaber battles to celebrate? I love my family.

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Christmas... with the familyyyy

Like always, for Christmas Eve, me and my family went to church, had dinner at home (with my mom's awesome hot chocolate! :D ), and opened gifts at midnight.

Where did our tree go?

Christmas with the cousins was at our house again because it was the most convenient with the structure of our basement and large amount of family that would be there. My sister brought the idea of having a dress up theme for Christmas. There were ideas like ugly Christmas sweaters and black & white. I wasn't there when everyone voted, but in the end the theme was TV shows... which I personally didn't like too much because it's almost like Halloween. But oh wells. It was still cute when we were taking family photos beside the Christmas tree.

Yes, Charlie Brown =] Tweety was Woodstock

I was Sally. I knew that she wore pink and sometimes blue, but my sister was Lucy so I had to wear pink. I have very little pink clothing and obviously did not have anything that resembled Sally's dress. So I went to a Value Village and found a dress top that was $4 =] It was too short to be worn alone so I wore this pale pink sorta poofy dress from Forever 21 underneath that I remember was $4 on sale last year. Forever 21 doesn't have as good sales anymore for some reason.

I'm wearing my Angel Brown circle lenses =]
I sorta look like those hime gyaru girls with the bow and pearls lol

Another fun thing we decided to do was a sorta Kris Kringle between the cousins. For 4 weeks before Christmas, we had to get a small gift not more than $5 for our person that went with the week's theme.

Week 1: Tiny and Sharp
Week 2: Ugly and Underwater
Week 3: Hard and starts with an S
Week 4: Slimy and Soft

Nicki made a chart after it was over showing all the gifts everyone got.

Our last gift to our person was to be given on Christmas and had to be around $20. So a REAL gift. ahah. But before we could receive them, we had to guess who was our Secret Santa in a game form with punishments! D: We all had small white board and wrote down our guess all together. Then my uncle who organized the whole thing would say if it was correct or incorrect. If it was wrong, then the person they guessed got to draw anything on their face with face paint. Then that process would just repeat until everyone guesses right.

Unfortunately, I don't have pictures from my camera of the event =( It was a lot of fun though. I was drawn on a couple of times because I had no idea who had me. But at the same time, almost everyone guessed that I had them so I drew everyone as a Pikachu or Harry Potter XD The funny thing was that the person I had was the only one that hadn't guessed me and he was the last one to guess right. He thought that he guessed me because everyone did already. Ahah.

After that, we used the white boards to play Pictionary, which my sister organized. We did it in a way that is similar to Broken Telephone. There were two teams lined up and my sister would show the people at the end of the lines the word and picture. They would have 15-20 seconds to draw it and then show it to the person before them. Then it would pretty much go down the line and the first person in line would write their guess down. It was actually harder than it sounded like because of the way people interpreted things. Also, having a 10 year old cousin adding a pot of gold and a leprechaun to a simple picture of a rainbow that was consistently passed down until it got to him wasn't so great.

This is probably getting more boring from the lack of pictures LOL But it was like 5am when we finished playing pictionary XD Everyone slept over and for boxing day everyone just stayed at my house again, playing Super Mario Bros, Rock Band, and Brawl on the Wii. I've never gone boxing day shopping before. It seems stressful D:

Christmas Haul in another post! =]

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epic singing

Cousins

This was probably like the third time they sang because my family wanted more pictures LOL. This was also the most coordinated out of the three.

Friends

Highlight: "Don't press me down!" - Katherine LOL XD

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Birthday... last month. lulz.

I got the idea from Rheena for writing my blog posts on Word when I don’t have internet. I’m on the bus right now by the way. I don’t have to wait to get internet at home to write my blog posts!

Caaaaaaake!

So over a month later, I finally get to this post. Procrastination on social life yayyyy... Anyways from what I can remember (lawl), my birthday was pretty awesome! I had a separate party with my family and a separate one with a few high school friends. I didn’t wanna do anything too big this year for my birthday this year although I did turn 19 and am legal now yayyy. I didn’t want to do anything crazy like clubbing or just getting drunk for the heck of it? I’m not really a fan of clubbing after my first experience over the summer. Ahah. With drinking, I don’t even like the taste of alcoholic drinks so why bother. But then again maybe I haven’t tried an alcoholic drink that I really like? It's not like I’m not gonna go searching for it though. lulz.

Anyways... with my family I just did whatever we usually do, have “eating time,” “cake time” and “present time” at my house. Don’t know what else to say about it. Ahah.

I have a lot of cousins. More on the other side of the table.


We also celebrated my aunt's birthday. We didn't have another cake for her so we made one out of her cupcakes and candles that spell Happy Birthday =]

With my friends, I decided to eat out with them for lunch at my favourite type of restaurant... ALL YOU CAN EAT SUSHIIII! MUAHAHAHA! XD Surprisingly, almost everyone I invited came except for people who had work or didn’t reply? It was like a reunion because I hadn’t seen most of them for a while. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the money to treat all 7 of them who made it to the lunch so I didn’t care if they didn’t get me anything since they already paid money to celebrate with me. Oh yeah, and I came a bit early to get the big table and felt like an idiot waiting for like half an hour on my own, because people decided to come in like 20mins late, which I should have saw coming. I’m never coming on time to a hang out ever again! XD jks. The sushi was veryyy good and the service wasn’t bad because there weren’t that many people at Umi at the time. The service is soooo horrible when they are busy!

People who didn't come AS late. yayyyyy...

Bryan posing with Kris's glasses


Had to cut Lizzeh out because she wasn't looking and her eyes were like half way open LOL


It's all good. I got another pic with her =] ... and yes, I wore the same thing I did for Christmas. My $4 top. Muahaha.

Afterwards I invited everyone over to my house for ice cream cake yummm. I was planning to just get everyone to bus there, but instead we all walked! It wasn’t that bad actually. I forgot how long it took, but it didn’t feel that long because I had friends with me.

I secretly got a pic of everyone walking behind me... except Katherine was looking XD. I like how her and Kris are popping out behind Johnruss... They're also the same height as him LOL


Muahaha

Bryan and Andrew. lawl.

Abby and Kevin met us at my house. They couldn’t make it to sushi because Abby had work. So for the rest of the night we played Rock Band, played Brawl (duh), had a laptop party, ate ice cream cake, and a bunch of other things =]

Laptop partyyyy


Rock Band

Only one where our faces looked somewhat normal.


LOL Andrew

Not too much partying. School the next morning for most of us. Ahhh...
I just realized everyone was wearing black except for me and Katherine, who dressed up nicely for me yayyyy ^^

Best people everrrr!

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