a year of white rice

Thursday, May 2, 2013

ESLRs Presentation

done with eslrs presentation! its a presentation that all 10th graders need to pass to pass 10th grade so its a little bit nerve wracking :/ we are required to talk about our personal development with the use of eslrs from the past 2 years, 9th and 10th grade. the different eslrs are academic achiever, involved citizen, self directed learner, effective communicator, and critical thinker. so i based my presentation of the metamorphasis of a monarch butterfly to show the growth of my past 2 years. i think it went fairly well and the judges seemed to enjoy it. however, they didnt really ask me any questions and i was totally pumped to answer them so i was like noooooooooooooooooooo but oh well at least i didnt get a question wrong or something :)

me and alyssa were practicing before and mom just insisted that she get pictures of us

and i wasnt gonna add this but i suppose i should say that im wearing the tallest heels ever and alyssa is actually like 5 inches taller than me normally

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Hula Dance for the Spring Concert

Our spring dance concert is coming up on may 10th at MKIS and i have been choreographing a hula dance for it. but the problem is that its a different type of dancing than these girls are used to and it's pretty tough to teach them. and i cant really say that im making it exactly very easy for them. i staged the whole dance yesterday and its literly so complicated its hard for me to understand myself. the girls have to be in 5 different positions for the whole dance . and they have to chant which i dont think makes them very happy haha but i think in the end it will turn out pretty cool. gabe still needs to work on learning how to blow the conch shell that we got and then hopefully it will be perfect! :)

this is approximately what the outfits will look like except the hair will be down and as crimped as possible and there will be leis around the head and kupe'e around the wrists. the rolled up top of the skirt is good for the dance because it will exaggerate the dancer's hips which will be needed in my dance :)

so this is the kind of head leis i want and then the ones around the wrist as well except that the leaves and flowers are very thin strands of jasmine

Thursday, April 4, 2013

new phone ;)

well my birthday present from gabe arrived in the mail aand im totally using it against my friends.

yes if youre wondering it can plug into my phone and it works. so awesome :DDDD i plan to take the phone out of my purse when im with friends in public and talk as loud into it as i possibly can just to make them wonder why theyre really my friends ;)

Perhentian islands with Rose and Helen

Well Rose and Helen arrived on march 24th and they were pretty jet lagged but lucky for them we had a busy schedule planned and they didn't have time to adjust to all this weird tropical Malaysian shtuffff.

^that was at the airport seeing each other for the first time in about 8 months. good to be reunited with the sister again

anyway since they landed on a sunday, Rosie spnt one day with me at school on monday and then on tuesday morning we set off to the perhentians to begin our holidayyyy :DDDD

in the LCCT airport

on the boat to in view of the perhentians

view of the beach from the little restaurant place at our hotel

the next morning, our group decided to set out on a "little" 2 hour hike. (of course it wasn't a consensus). and of course the 2 hour hike turned out to be more around 4 hours. and it wasn't flip flop friendly either. part of the hike was more than a 60 degree up, which ya know, wasnt the most pleasant thing in the world but whatever. and then obviously gabe needed to stop at every single volleyball net and play while the rest of us suffered in the heat. it was absolutely fantasticccc ;DDD

before we lost all our energy from the hike

ooooooopppppp theres that volleyball

yes we did find a terrifying monitor lizard on our adventure

it got too hot so we swam the final stretch hahaha :)

the next day we spend the morning snorkeling and i dont happen to have any pictures just cuz that doesnt work out too well to bring a camera under water. the rest of the day we kinda just layed around on the beach and got really sunburnt. well i didnt that much but everyone else did :)

friday morning me and rose went for a walk and mom came along to take cute pictures of us. i mean, haven't seen this babe in 8 months we need some cute ones together

we also happened by some henna by the store there so we had a bit of fun with that thursday night

bouldering ftwwww!

the rest of the day we spent in the sun (big surprise) haha

saturday morning we took like hours to clean up our room (yea it kinda was that messy) and then Rose and Helen set out on their way back to sacramento, through kl, singapore, seoul, and sf i think

these were our last pictures of their departure :(

^ thats nice....

anyway the final viewing of them was actually the 2 of em on the back of the boat headed towards kota bharu doing the gangnam style dance thing. that was entertaining <3

Friday, March 15, 2013

REALIZATION THAT MULAN IS FINALLY OVER. I HAVE MY LIFE BACK<3 OMG SKALFJKFALSHJKF JUST SO DAMN AJSILFHDDJKAS EXCITED I CANT EVEN FNJALFJANF BEGIN TO EXPRESS FNDASJAKJ THE JOYYYYYY :)))))))))))))))))))))))

I JUST GOT ACCEPTED INTO DA VINCI SO YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY NOW I HAVE SCHOOL FOR NEXT YEAR! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. ON TO THE NEXT GOAL :D

Sunday, March 10, 2013

my sweet 16 :)

my sweet 16 was pretty chill this year which was quite nice. i got my nose peirced and had dinner with jiayu and monica and then 3 of my friends over to watch disney movies. i really dont have much to say about it although i had a fantastic dayyyy and it doesnt feel any different being 16 rather than 15 hahahaha