I likes owls...but I don't want to be one.

Today is a very sad day for me and the rest of America. Our economy is already bad and it is only going to get worse from here on. We'll just have to bear with it.

Although getting a day off from school should have been happy news (and I guess it was?) nothing much happened. I didn't get to hang out with my friends and I didn't even start on my calculus homework (writing this blog post is further procrastination on my part! LOL.)

The only time I went out was to eat lunch with my mom and my aunt. I rarely hang out with my family so it felt a little...strange. I didn't know what to say and I couldn't communicate very well since they spoke their own village dialect. I really like my aunt (who flew from China last year to marry my good-for-nothing uncle.) Although I couldn't communicate with her very well, I can tell that she is a genuinely good person. I also like how she smiles a lot. I wish smiling came naturally to me. :)



We ate at Golden River Restaurant, a Chinese/Vietnamese restaurant in Chinatown. The food was good! I actually liked it better than the pho made by other Vietnamese restaurants. At $6 a bowl, the price isn't bad either.

I woke up late so I spent the rest of the day...studying for accounting class and finishing up homework I was supposed to turn in last class (GASP!) I don't remember ever turning in late homework. I was a good girl.

I used to really love school. Now I find each passing day a drag. I don't like school for preventing me from doing the things I really want to do. I'm always tired. I'm becoming a nocturnal animal because I feel more hyper at night! (I've been sleeping later too! ;o;) I hope this is just a small phase I'm going through and that it'll go away soon. >< I know that I can't afford to slack off now...at such an important time in my life...!

Halloween

I usually don’t do anything special on Halloween, so it is funny that I actually dressed up this year! Compared to what others wore, you could barely call it dressing up...but the character I cosplayed didn’t require too much. ^^ I was Kiki, from Hayao Miyazaki’s film, “Kiki’s Delivery Service.” I wore red shoes, a plain black dress, and a red bow tie in my hair. I also sewed Jiji because the character would not be complete without her cat. ^^



Many people complained that I should have brought a broomstick with me, but I had my hands full that day (esp. in the morning!) carrying two bags of food for the Japanese Club Halloween Party, a huge yearbook camera, and my school bag.

Finishing Jiji was a close one! I didn’t have much time to work on him; plus, I ran out of black felt! (My good friend Wai Chu came to the rescue when she gave me what she had since there was no time to visit the craft store.) It was the first time I sewed anything (much less a plushie!) on the sewing machine. The experience was fun and I’d like to do it again! ^_^

The Japanese Club Halloween Party turnout was good. It could have been better (I’m sad that many people couldn’t make it) but I’m glad it wasn’t a total flop. After all, I stayed up 'til 1:00am to finish making chocolate cake! We bought a pinata for the event, and it was a major success because we got a lot of laughter. Everyone was having fun and enjoying themselves~


Here's a picture of Joyce trying to hit the pinata (and missed!) It's okay though, because I was worse. I didn't make any hit at all. :)

After the party, I went trick-or-treating at Ala Moana with some friends. A couple of people called us “old,” but that’s okay because this is the last year I’m going to do it (while I’m still 17 and not 18!)


I'm going to end this post with this picture because...I love my yearbook class! Everyone dressed up! (Except maybe the teacher, who claimed protested that he DID dress up...as himself.)