I’ve been mad lazy at taking pictures/posting up things that I buy ;x

H&M

Uniqlo

I freaking face palm my face every time I see this because I’m like, “MAI. WHY WOULD YOU SPEND [insert amount here] ON LEGWEAR?!” But yes, I do have a leg wear fetish/addiction D: !!

Forever 21

I actually bought this in the middle of the blizzard in February. Its like, “Hey! There’s 3 feet of snow outside, but lets buy summer clothes anyways D:

E.L.F.

Yeah, iunno why but I really enjoy looking at what people buy & then posting up what I buy. I know a lot of other people find it interesting too, but I just don’t know why. Maybe its because we’re all secretly a little addicted to buying things on the inside.

Anyways, I was sad when I went into Uniqlo and found out they got a new designer for their jeans cause I had to stand in line and try it on ~_~;; Gah! All of their new washes are really boring & most of their jeans are now regular rise instead of low rise so I feel like a soccer mom ;/ Either way, Sunny convinced me into buying a pair of raw/dry denim from them so that’s what I’ve been wearing for the past four days so I really didn’t need to buy any of the other leggings/jeans D:

So on Saturday a billion things were happening. Chinafest hosted by CSA at UVA. A Touch of Gold semi-formal hosted by VSA at VCU. Culture Night hosted by VSA at UMCP. Culture Night hosted by VSA at JMU. FIND at UMCP. But due to my absence of commitment to any of those clubs or anyone at those schools, I got to go do something more fun (: (Yay for lack of commitment~)

Sunny & I went to New York for the day. Yay~ It was so hilarious because my parents have reached the point where they don’t flat out stop me from doing anything anymore, so instead they heavily suggest that I stop. My dad was like, “I’m just calling to let you know that there’s three feet of snow in Pennsylvania and New York. I’m not going to stop you from going, but that’s a lot of snow!” and he went on and on for another ten minutes. Then when he found out that I went anyways, he got mad at me >:[. Well, we don't even have to go to Pennsylvania & there was absolutely no snow in New York. It was actually pretty sunny outside. We were so excited about getting stranded and stuck too. Rawr.

Either way, one of the stores we went to in New York was Super Dry because it looked cool. When we went in, this super mad old school song was playing. So I suggest you play it and bop your head to it to get in the mood for the story that I'm going to fail at attempting to narrate.

Just do it cause I said so, okay :]?

p.s. If you don’t recognize this song, I sincerely apologize for you having a really deprived and failed life.

Sunny came to pick me up around 8:15AM (I guess that’s more exact than “around”) and we arrived around noon?

The only drinks that Sunny is allowed to drink cause we’re trying to cut him off of his soda addiction. Soy milk, water, and cranberry juice, yey! He also has very tiny hands :3

Mad clear roads.

Sunny packed leftovers for brunch, nom nom nom~

His americano & my iced green tea latte

In the city.

Subway station!

I wish the subway system in D.C. was this advanced. They have that electronic thing on top to tell you where you are and what’s next. (That’s not the back of my head btw ;x)

This thing is really cool. You wave your hand in front of the hole and it makes a noise~

I only took a short video because people kept staring at me. You get the general idea though.

This is where the Bon Chon goodness all started. (Okay not this one exactly, but somewhere in New York.) We didn’t eat here though, I just wanted to take a picture LOL.

Went to Go Go Curry for lunch :3

Random chalk artist in Union Square (Sunny correct me if I’m wrong ;x)? It like freaking pops out at you & iunno how he got the color to be so vivid when the pavement is still wet.

Bubble tea in Chinatown.

Sunny took me to Otafuku so I could eat some really amazing たこやき & おこのみやき for the first time.

Covered with a lot of dried squid :3

たいやき〜

Right after that, we walked a block to Mamoun’s for shawarma. (Yeah, we were being fatties D: )

Dragged my Hello Kitty instax along just for this one picture (:

Somewhere in between there, we walked around a lot and shopped at Uniqlo and only Uniqlo. So that stopped me from buying a lot of useless junk from Chinatown but instead spent it on stuff that is just as useless from Uniqlo D: Imma post my buys in another post because I have a bunch of other things that I’ve bought recently but never posted either.

Before we left, we went to Chinatown so I could get bánh bò for my mom and so that he could get roasted duck and char siu for his coworkers. He was carrying everything so I stupidly went, “Here, let me hope you carry your….. meat…..”

MAN. I am so fail. I don’t know why that was the first thing that popped in my head, but clearly someone took it the wrong way ]:<

Anyways, it was a super mad amazing fun adventure & I can’t wait to go again with my partner in crime ;D

All of these pictures are from last week and I’m posting them up now because I never got a chance ;x

TUESDAY

On Tuesday I woke up late because I stayed up late on Monday night for no apparent reason. It was too late to try and make it to my first class and I had four hours to kill until my next class, so I called Sunny up to see if he wanted to eat brunch. So he came down and we went out to Panera to eat. Afterward, we walked over to Pastry Xpo for some macaroons. They’re so pricey for something so small, but its okay to indulge every once in a while (:

Then we just went back to my house and chilled for a bit until I had to go to my next class (which I was late to even though it was at 1:30 D: !!) and he had to go to work. We saw my violin sitting in the corner of my living room and so I re-found my “passion” for the violin. I’m not very good at it, and I’ve never been good at it, but I still love playing it. I remember back in high school when I was troubled, I would either play Ellegarden/AKG really loud to drown out my tears or play the violin really passionately while I cried. Meh, no doubt I still sound like crap no matter how much passion I put into my playing because my skill just isn’t there.

He eventually helped himself to all of my salad ~_~;;

I need to learn how to make this properly so I stop spending $1.50/macaroon D:

WEDNESDAY

I don’t remember why but Wednesday was a busy day for me. So busy that I didn’t have time to eat at all until 7ish and by then I didn’t have anyone to eat with so I was pretty close to eating alone. But then I asked Phana if she wanted to meet up at Lotte for dinner. Lotte is a Korean grocery store with mini-restaurants in it, and they’re oober yummy for a really reasonable price.

My とんかつ (:

Phana’s どーもくん and my ハローキティ

Phana’s 자장면 (ja jung myun)

떡볶이 (dukbokki)!!

After dinner, I met up with my study buddy, L (and not like the cool L from Death Note either), so that we could study for our geology exam. Before I got there, he was on a smoke break and then when he came back he left right away again so that he could go buy more cigarettes. The rest of the night on campus he smoked a total of eight times, but then we had to leave because the building was closing. So I got all of my stuff packed up only to go outside and wait for him to smoke again ~_~;; We then went to a Korean restaurant near his apartment so that he could eat since he was hungry, and I ate with him out of courtesy. An hour later, we finally make it back to his house at 3AM. The first thing he does when we get back is take another smoke break D: !! Seriously?! He came inside and then whined about feeling “dirty~~” and took a shower. He then came out of the shower and blow dried his hair =_______=;;! Then his mouse on his laptop wouldn’t work and his pad on his laptop died a long time ago. So then he had to restart his computer and wait for his Windows updates. By this time, its like freaking 4AM so I just go home because that is ridiculous.

I know I said that I would never date anyone who smoked, but now for sure I know that I would never ever date a person that smoked. I don’t mind being friends with them. Its just that I wouldn’t date them because of the fact that I generally hang out with a s/o significantly more than a friend so the smoke breaks, the smell of smoke, etc would definitely take a toll.

FRIDAY

Thursday was a pretty hyped up day for me because of the lack of sleep, presence of caffeine (was caffeine free since December 18th~), and lack of food. So after I took my exam on Thursday, I came home and was unable to sleep due to still having too much caffeine in my system. So because I never caught up on sleep on Thursday, I woke up late on Friday and was bumming around. I eventually decided to skip class because I was being so slow with my morning routines and couldn’t get out of bed. So I started my weekend early by going up to Maryland (:

Sunny decided to surprise me by cooking a crazy mad yummy dinner even though I was being cranky with him on Thursday because lack of food & lack of sleep makes for a very unpleasant Mai D: ~

I stole his little brother’s cereal as a snack >:]

Sizzle sizzle.

Ingredients :{D

These mashed potatoes were like freaking orgasmic ;o

Cutest little whisk ever.

I got bored waiting so I climbed up on his loft & had a lot of trouble getting down because I’m afraid of heights ~_~;;

His mirror is dirty D:

Sunny’s being mad pro by using his mad pro 1337 chef’s tool thing to check the temperature of the pork ;x

His backyardddd :3

Small portions for Mai’s small appetite!

We then tried, keyword: tried, to make macaroons but it failed horribly. So here are the pictures of the making process. No final product picture because it was just that bad D:

Ingredients :]

Sunny fidgeting with the whisk machine thingy.

Our hearts are turning into blobs D:

Exactly after we finished our fail, I sped back to Virginia to catch my little sister’s Heritage Night. I didn’t take any/many pictures because I recorded most of it (:

Here is my sister’s fan dance with her VSA:

Here is my ex-stand partner’s performance via electric violin:

Note:This is from LAST weekend, LOL.

SATURDAY
Woke up early Saturday to go hang out with Sunny for a bit cause he rules at cheering me up. We went first went to Guitar Center to find a guitar, but they didn’t have it D: ~~ So we went across the street to Eden Center where he phailed parked and we went to get bubble tea and banh mi. Nom nom nom. Okay not really, I drank my bubble tea, but Sunny stole teh banh mi and ate all of it ~__~;; We then went to Home Depot so that he could buy sand paper and then he dropped me off at home cause I had to go with Anonymouse to the optometrist ;x

Sunny does not like to pose with teh bubble t3a.

The goodies.

He likes to take pictures and drive at the same time ~___~;;

Sunny: “Cam slut D:< !!"

We kept seeing guys in Statue of Liberty costumes but this is by far superior.

Anh Dieu naturally posing at Home Depot ;D

Anonymouse had to go to the optometrist because he his eye had been red for a week now and it wouldn’t go away. I thought it was pretty strange because he wouldn’t stop wearing his contacts even though his eyes were CLEARLY red. In fact, his optometrist was like, “Oh… So your eyes were red for a week and you still kept wearing your contacts?” in a way that made it seem like he was stupid, cause he kinda was on that common sense =___=;;

Afterward, we went to Maryland cause we were hungry. We went back to Ten Ren’s Tea Time because apparently they have food too :3. We got more bubble tea except this timed I skipped on the bubbles & we both got rice with orange chicken. It was pretty good but I couldn’t taste it really well cause it was temperature-wise hot and was burning my mouth.

Then Anonymouse had to go to campus to work on something, so I bummed around in the computer lab for a while. Man, it was the first time I actually used the keyboard on a iMac, and they’re a lot flatter than what I’m used to ;x. When he was finished, we went to go get frozen yogurt from Yogiberry & headed back to his house for the awkwardest party of my life. He kinda left me in the corner again while he was hookahing ~___~;;. He even tried to push hookah on me. I’m sorry, just because everyone else wants to look like a dying fish to make stupid “O”s doesn’t mean that I want to. At least Sunny stopped by to make me feel more included, but it was still pretty awkward. Awkward in the uhhhhhhh kinda sense, if that makes any sense.

Doesn’t he look so Oh Gee with my sunglasses on?

Thai tea & Taro tea! He said he would let me try some, but he didn’t ~__~;;

The portion is perfect enough for me :3

I was sad that I couldn’t fit more mochi in it because I decided to try a little bit of each flavor ;/

SUNDAY
Sunday was my mommy’s birthday <3. It was a busy day for me because I had work & we were kinda understaffed so we stayed there until eight. Then rushed home to take my mom out to eat with the rest of my family. My mom had no idea what we were doing and thought it was just a normal family dinner. Haha mom, you’re so cute! We got you good ;D She turned 52, but for SOME we all had no idea how old she was and thought she was turning 56. So when we told us over dinner, we were like, “CRAP! We got the wrong numbered candle.” in our heads D: Its okay though, you’ll see how we improvised…


Their Thai tea was too sweet D:

Appetizer!

Nam & Trang are so freaking uncool.

My parents ♥

This tiny piece of cake was SOO much better than the one at Chima. It was also five dollars D: !! For one slice, really?!

She loved her cake cause its so pretty (its from Shilla’s Bakery) & you know you’re jealous of our improve (;

Thank goodness our next birthday will be for a few more months cause I think I need to work on this singing business if I’m going to sing that close to the camera & be THAT out of tune. Singing happy birthday is actually really hard to sing in tune cause everyone is always off D: !!

THURSDAY
So on Thursday, after class I was invited up to Maryland by Anonymouse. (Haha, I like giving people nicknames, so just roll with it.) I was delayed cause SOMEONE wanted me to walk around the mall with them and waste time because they wanted to “hang out with me” even though I was in a rush /rant. (They then called me rude because I was checking my phone the whole time. Well I think imposing yourself on my time when I already told you I was busy is rude /rant.)

I guess it would be kinda considered a “date” since he did cook dinner for me~~ He made Chicken Parmesan. Nom nom nom! It was a really cute gesture, and I did the dishes because even though I fail at cooking, I’m really good at washing dishes. Afterward, we met up with some of his friends at a nearby deli cause they wanted to see me or he wanted me to meet them? Iunno~ It was interesting I guess? Then we went to go get bubble tea at this Taiwanese place called Ten Ren’s Tea Time. We sat with his super emo friend who was there. His friend was emo because he just got over the relationship that APPARENTLY everyone goes through that makes them suicidal (yeah, I don’t think this is going to happen to me :knocks on wood: ). So yeah, he was super emo and I guess I offended him by saying, “Why can’t you just get over it?” But that’s me being inconsiderate for you ;/

Half way through our bubble tea, Anonymouse sees another girl he knows and leaves me to go talk to her for like ten minutes =___=;;. The emo kid, also walks away cause he obviously doesn’t like me so I sat in the corner by myself and I didn’t even have my phone to fidget with because it was dead. Man, it was soooo awkward~ Anyways, when he finally came back, I was in a horrible mood and wanted to leave. So we did. Mer, boys are stupid D: ~~ Making me drive to Merland and then ditching me in a foreign place.

Home cooked meal = yey!

At the deli

Taiwanese bubble tea is weird because its liquidy tea unlike Vietnamese bubble tea which is smoothie like.

It was oober yummy, but would’ve been better without bubbles (;

FRIDAY
On Friday, I was oober stressed cause of drama (me and my big mouth and people’s misunderstandings/communications ;/), myself, work work, and school work. So I agreed to go do something mad fcking retarded as sht. Something that I would’ve never turned to ever, but I guess I’m kinda sick and tired of being strong. Everyone has a breaking point right?

So it was around 7ish, and I finally finished the stupid Java program that I had to do for my Java class. Sunny came to pick me up and took me to Temari Japanese Cafe for dinner. He knew I was gonna do something stupid so he ended up kidnapping me for the rest of the night so I couldn’t go do that stupid thing. What a sweetheart (:.

Man, he really enjoyed his water.

My とんかつ <3 ~~

Iunno what this was called, but its raw fish, yuckyyy D:

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that Sunny made Chicken Parmesan for me on our second get together a few weeks ago too. So coincidental right? I mean I love Chicken Parmesan and all, but the best Chicken Parmesan that I ever had was made by my brother and his then-girlfriend with the stupid crispy chicken and huge globs of cheese. :drool: