Finally brought my camera to school!

Sorry for not posting for so long. It’s the last week of the semester and teachers have been jam packing it with work and tests. I’m finally through with most of the work, so time for a little post on my Friday, when I finally brought my camera to school and got my earbuds fixed.

It’s fun to take shots of people during lunch. People make the weirdest expressions when they aren’t paying attention, including myself. ;D If you were curious, we had this errm … interesting… orange chicken for lunch that day. Photopost time! Yeah I would have put it up as a gallery, but I’m lazy and it’s a pain to do small little captions for galleries.

Paul staring

Doug is actually blinking!

Proof that myspace pictures are evil.

I was actually just randomly talking, and while Chris wanted Danny to take a shot of the USB key, Danny tilted up the camera. I make such weird expressions.

Danny in his … geekiness?

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. Paul promised me to help fix my earbuds that were literally ripped in half when I somehow slid them out of the car while going out. It was a soldering job, during which I realized that my soldering techniques are quite different from his. We learned from different people. Photo post number 2!

Paul made me promise to not take anymore pictures of him.

And… After going home, I got my Metamorphose Temps de Fille Lucky pack! In Japan, for New years, a lot of stores sell these pretty cheap lucky packs. You have no idea what you’re getting, but what you get is usually worth more than the pack itself. I’m so happy with mine. Here’s me wearing it. The cardigan is small, so I’m selling it off. >_>

Finally, I ran off at 6:30 and was nearly late for Student Directed Showcase. Had a great night and took lots of pictures, though I have yet to find the time to edit all of them. I’ll make a post about SDS later. Anyways, time to get back to work! Over and out.

GUESS WHAT I GOT?

Wut Iz This?

Heh. I got my gym membership card. While we’ve been members of the club for a long long time, I never had my own card. Now I officially have no more excuses to be a lazy bum at home during the weekends. Fun. xD

Shiny!

I also painted my nails in this sparkly dark purple color. Now I’m trying to figure out whether it’s an emo colour or not. Last time I checked, I don’t wear black or have dark thoughts…

FINALLY…. *drumroll*

I got my magical Taobao stuff! My boots, bag, JSK, and bolero are finally here! They are really cute and comfy. I can’t wait to wear them.

Now, back to studying and stuff.

Tea Party on 11/25

Yummy!

Here’s the ridiculously overdue post of the mini tea meetup I had with Dan and another friend. For those wondering how my turkey day was, we had this delicious chinese roast turkey and amazing appetizers, and I was really stuffed. I don’t want to make a full post about it since it would take too long to write up, and I need to finish my HW right now… I didn’t take any pictures either.

We met up at Tyme for Tea in Fremont, since they live all the way up around the Oakland/Alameda area, so we made a decision to go for tea at the halfway point between our cities, after I’ve been nagging them about a weird craving for cucumber sandwiches! It’s the first time I’ve gone to a tea room, and it was really fun! I got to wear classical lolita.

I arrived 20 minutes before them, since they were stuck in traffic. The atmosphere was very cute and rustic. The shop itself was run by a group of old ladies. They were so nice and made a lot of compliments about my dress. xD The tea room itself is in this really secluded area of Fremont full of antique shops and other cute shops. It’s sorta weird since I’m more used to the Asian area of Fremont.  Finally, when Lynda and Dan came, we had a look at this massive tub full of hats!

omg!

We had a lot of fun with the hats, just playing around with them. I’ll post some of the pictures I took of us wearing the hats at the end of this post. Anyways, me and Lynda ordered Victorian high tea, while I think Dan ordered the desserts platter. We each got a pot of tea with unlimited refills with our orders. Dan ordered this interesting black tea with some type of fruit(need to go and ask him for specifics), I ordered apple blossom green tea, and Lynda ordered this interesting Belgian Chocolate thingy tea (again, need to ask her for specifics). The teas were really good. Lynda’s was very unique. It ended up being popular with her and Dan, though it was a bit too sweet for me.

Here’s a fast rundown of what we ate! We spent the rest of the hour just talking about the food and gossiping/chatting about life, so I don’t have much else to say.

First  things first, the Victorian High tea. It was split into 3 courses of yumminess!

First course: Blueberry Scones with rasberry preserves, lemon curd, and crème fraiche. The scones were served to us warm. I loved the lemon curd. They were really good! First time I truly liked scones.

Second course were the sandwiches: Cucumber dill, Chicken walnut, mushroom turnover, spinach filo, and last and not least, jalapeno cheese on a baguette. I’m getting hungry just talking about this course haha. The chicken walnut was really creamy and heavy, and I had a hard time eating it. >_< I was very happy to eat my cucumber sandwich, but these sandwiches filled me so much more than I thought they would! Tricky tricky…

The sandwiches!

Yay! I got my cucumber sandwich!

Finally, we had a dessert platter, consisting of ginger snaps, chocolate cheesecake, and these cute little petit fours.I was so full already. D:

Dessert!

The inside of the elusive pinafore…

As for Dan’s dessert plate, he had a selection of fruits, a petit four, chocolate truffles, the chocolate cheesecake, a madeleine, and this cute little Red Velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Lots of sweets! He spent part of the time taking pictures of the food and of himself eating it and texting the pictures to his friends in order to make them jealous. Haha.

So much sugar!

We were all very very very stuffed after the meal. Dan had enough leftovers to put in a box, on which he quickly drew on the cute little companion cube from portal on it in order to deter his roomate from touching it.

You gotta love your sweets.

We then paid and had a short walk around the area. Then, it was 5PM, so I quickly rushed home. However, seeing that I don’t have much experience driving, I almost got lost going to the freeway, though I used rational reasoning (Gasp! yes.. I can actually do that) to find it… Though I did go on 880 in the wrong direction at first… Then, I was stuck in ridiculous rush hour traffic, and for some weird reason google maps told me to go on highway 9, which is really windy and in the middle of the hills of Saratoga, in order to get back home. Seeing that it was pitch black, I spent that ride convinced that I was lost, not to mention that I had to pick up my brother to go to Tae Kwon Do.. At least I got home just in the nick of time, only to find out that he was still changing into his clothes, so we ended up being late for his class. Oh well.

The rest of the pictures from the tea party. For those wondering what I did with all those extra calories from this not so good for you meal, be glad to hear that I ended up working out(yes I was breathing hard and ended up being very sore) in some fashion for the rest of the week, except for Wednesday and Saturday.

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Lynda and I both wore lolita that day. Coord post time!

Me (sorry for the Macross frontier pose. xD)
JSK: Dear Celine from Taobao
Blouse: Bodyline
Cardigan: Target
Heart Bag: Claire’s
Socks: BTSSB
Shoes: Secret Shop

Lynda (I don’t remember her full coord.. D:)
Skirt: Heart E
Coat: BTSSB
Shirt: Japanese offbrand
Everything else: Probably offbrand

Anyways, back to reading research stuff for english and history + AP music theory HW, as well as preparing for the musical auditions tomorrow! School’s starting tomorrow and I’d rather be relaxing during free period than working. I finally got some ideas for my new blog layout. It’s going to be a grungish, warm colored, photo collage type of thing. It’s hard to explain, but I can see it in my mind’s eye. Hope you guys look forward to it.

Coordinate from Nov 11, 2009

Here’s the coord I wore on Wednesday last week. Ironically, it was the homecoming dressup day for the juniors, who wore blue since they were the element water.

Quick outfit rundown:
JSK, Socks: Angelic Pretty
Cardigan(which won’t stop making me look larger than I’m supposed to be): Target
Shoes: Bodyline
Leggings: welovecolors
Muffler thingy: Offbrand

First Lolita Meetup!

Yesterday, I finally went to my first lolita meetup! I decided to dress up in Angelic Pretty Yumemiru Macaron. I went with 2 of my friends. They picked me up and we sped up Saratoga Avenue to Vallco.

We met at the Vallco Ice center. It was pretty crowded yesterday, and a lot of people wouldn’t stop asking us why we were wearing dresses. It was pretty cute when these little girls asked us. We all answered that we were doing it since we felt like it. Anyways, I haven’t ice skated in years so I had a bumpy start on the ice, especially since it seemed that it hadn’t been groomed in hours! However, even though most of the people there hadn’t skated in awhile also, we only had a couple of falls, mostly due to speed or having to stop since a child suddenly skidded in in front of us. Suprisingly, I didn’t fall at all, which was quite a surprised.

I didn’t bring a camera with me, but the organizer did. Here’s the group picture of all of us on the ice:

Everyone was really nice we had a bunch of hilarious conversations. When everyone was tired of skating, we went up and did some Purikura. I don’t have the scans of the pics yet, but I’ll put them up once I get them.We also stopped by Claire’s which was nearby and I got a 2 dollar pink heart purse! It’s really cute and I’ll take a picture of it later.

I ended up having to leave early since one of my friends needed to go home to do HW. From what I heard, the group that remaind ended up going for Chinese food and desserts without us. As for me and my friends, we stopped by In-N-Out before going home. Yum! I had a great time and it was an amazing stress reliever off Junior year. I can’t wait till the next meetup!