Rambling as usual

I've been too lazy to blog nowadays...and it's already the end of September! I feel like it should still be the beginning of September. First quarter ends in a few days. This means that there are three quarters left in the school year until I friggin graduate! ;o; I don't know if I'm ready for it.

The thought of moving away from home for college is so scary. I've looked at colleges in Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York. Since I'm a city girl at heart, I think I'd feel better in an urban setting. Schools in big cities are pricier, though. -_-;;; Before I move away, I need my own cellphone and laptop.

Therefore...I finally got a cellphone two weeks ago! It's the Venus by LG and it's pink! Coincidentally, my iPod is pink too. I swear that it is all a coincidence~ I don't favor pink over any other color. But it is nice! :)



I'm still getting used to talking on a cellphone. Verizon is supposed to have the best reception, but the voice on the other end still sounds a little scratchy somehow. =/ I can also connect my cellphone to the computer, but I don't know how to transfer my pictures to the computer! Nor do I understand how to transfer music! Gahh! I spotted an OWL by the library a few weeks ago and I took a picture of it on my cellphone. The image isn't the best quality since the camera is only 2.0 megapixels, but it's better than nothing. I can't post the picture up here until I figure out how it can be transferred. If anyone can help me figure out how to transfer stuff from my cellphone to the computer, I'd really appreciate it! Please and thank youuu!

Remember the kabocha plant I bought at the Okinawan festival a while back? It bloomed!



I was expecting a tiny pumpkin, not flowers. But it's still a nice surprise! A second flower bloomed the very next morning:



When I get back to school tomorrow, things will get really busy since it's HOMECOMING WEEK! I've never been to a single homecoming game (shame on me!) since I was never interested in football, but it's my last year so I'm going. There are quite a few events so hopefully I can take some pictures and blog about it afterward. :) Until then~ I'm signing off!

P.S. Yesi found out that the "mysterious fruit" in the previous post was called, "noni!" Thank you Yesi, you're so smart! ^o^ <3

Zucchini cake that doesn't taste like zucchini, a growing cactus, and a mystery fruit!

It's another three day weekend for me! Yay! But I'm stupid so I'm still going to school on Monday (to help out with the senior class homecoming banner). =X I also heard from a friend that it will also be a potluck so I decided to make some chocolate zucchini cake!



I have wanted to try making zucchini cake for a long time, but I never got the opportunity to do so until now. I haven't tried it yet but my sister liked it so yay! ^_^ I gave a mini slice to my dad and he complained that he couldn't taste the zucchini at all. (Um, dad, that was the whole point. Why would you want cake to taste like a vegetable? Ew.) I'm going to try carrot cake next! Tee-hee.

Today was not the typical Sunday... Not only does my body shut down at the end of the week, my brain doesn't seem to function very well either. But I actually went out in the morning to study for the SATs with my friends at McDonalds. We only did the essay and two sections before my friend got tired. We quit and went up to another friend's place to finish our British literature homework. We're reading Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" right now and not enjoying it. ^^;

Oh, and this may seem really random, but I bought a cactus for a $1 during last year's Okinawan festival.



It was a really cute little thing. I'll be honest and admit that I almost forgot about the cactus for a while...until a year later, I looked out the balcony and noticed that my cactus plant was gone and replaced by one that is twice as tall and in a pot that was twice as big. I asked my mom, "Is that mine? O_O" And she said it was. I couldn't believe it! (The difference isn't obvious in the pictures though, because the bigger pot is in proportion with the bigger plant.)



My sister and my brother also bought a cactus each, but I think they both died. I was really surprised to see my cactus so genki. *^^*

Some more randomness:



This is a picture I took at the Queen Kapiolani Garden in Waikiki before school started. I've never seen such a fruit before and none of my friends knew what it was either. Some fell off the tree and the impact of the landing revealed the lavendar flesh inside the fruit. My sister said it might be breadfruit, so I looked it up:



It looks a little similar, but it is not quite the same. Breadfruit isn't purple inside either. =/ Does anyone have any idea what the mystery fruit is?

My ears go POP!

Weee~ I had a pretty busy three-day weekend! My ears kept popping today! Is it because I'm still sick? I wish I didn't have school tomorrow! XP

On Saturday, I spent the day volunteering at the annual Okinawan Festival at Kapiolani Park. I got dizzy from the work, but I met a lot of really adorable kids. <333 I always look forward to shopping around the booths after the shift is over~ this year, I bought so many things!


Ramune drinks! Left to right: Peach (new!) and orange


You CANNOT imagine how long I've been eyeing this. I ate two on Sunday and they did not disappoint. Yummy things, these are. ^^


Yes, I did buy a venus flytrap! Although people's eyes pop open when I tell them I bought a carnivorous plant (some people didn't even know it existed), it's really tiny. I wonder if they will really eat the mosquitoes and bugs that come flying into our apartment. D<


Kabocha! Since kabochas are smaller than American pumpkins, I thought they'd be easier to grow on our balcony but I'm still not sure how big kabochas are exactly...hehe. ^^; This was only $1.00 so why not?

Sunday went by slowly...I tried to spend the day finishing my homework, but I only got a few math problems done. What got in the way was the novel, "The Crimson Thread" by Suzanne Weyn. It's a retelling of Rumpelstiltskin and I couldn't stop reading it. Later in the afternoon, I got a call from a friend to attend a birthday party so I ended up not doing any homework that night. XP

It was really fun though~ her apartment is really tiny and cute. Although there was no television, we all managed to keep ourselves occupied by talking and laughing. We ate Chinese food and ended with strawberry ice cream cake from Cold Stone.



After eating, we took pictures, played card games, and made a lot of noise. xD I was worried that the neighbors would complain, but the birthday girl assured me that we could laugh until it was 10:00pm. After 10, it was difficult for us to shut up so we eventually went home around 10:30pm.

On Sunday, I studied calculus with a bunch of classmates the whole day. It was actually my first time studying with other people. I thought I wouldn't be able to concentrate, but I did get fifty problems done (even though there was a lot of chatting going on). I think I rather like studying with everyone~ it made doing the work more fun. ^o^