the purpose of my trip to chicago was to chill with ryan. i accomplished that, so i didn't mind not really seeing much of chicago since i CAME from there.
ryan's niece is the cutest thing. i have a pic with her in there somewhere. she gets annoying after awhile because she gets spoiled sometimes. i became her best friend while i was there, isn't that cute? so i got to play horse a LOT because she's in the phase where she LOVES horsies. literally, we take plastic horses and talk with each other, and she also pretended to be a horse. ryan's mom says i have a lot of patience with kids for someone with no siblings.
so for father's day we went out with his family to minigolf and olive garden. the lunch size was definately NOT enough for me although it seemed to be ok for everyone else. i think its cuz his parents eat a lot of the salad.
ryan got sick. he had mono (i found this out after i got back), cuz he was tired and was having a fever, which sucked cuz it coincided with my visit. i don't think i got it thought because i've been back and i don't feel sick or anything. besides, i only shared like ice cream with him and it was like opposite side of the cup.
i went to chicago for a little bit by myself (we live like an hour drive no traffic from chicago, i took the train) because i wanted to go to the museum of science and industry. i love science. it's pretty nice there but there aren't as many interactive things as the exploratorium. i like hands-on stuff better. then i had to go back to the train station and i took the bus back to state, then i walked to the train station stopping at nordstrom rack for a little bit. i didn't know they sell stuff other than clothes there! i got some got2be conditioner and straigtening balm, cuz they rock!
it was a nice relaxing time over all... i miss you ryan and hope you get better soon!
Jenni Cheung at 06:15 AMi love blink 182 so much!!!!!!!!!!
ok, now about the concert. we left rowland too late. i wanted to leave at 3, but we ended up leaving at 4. there was so much traffic! i was sooo anxious because i wanted to get there early so i can get paraphernalia in my size from the concert. we ended up getting there at like 7:30 (the show started at 7, doors opened at 5:30) and we missed the opener. i was telling him that we were gonna be late for the show in the car, but he kept saying "there's gonna be an opener, for sure". unfortunately, the opener was the living end, and i actually like the living end cuz i used to have their cd. so we missed that. but then i bought a lot of stuff. i spent 20+30+35+10= $95 on blink182 and no doubt stuff! also spent 8+5=13 on food, which were only funnel cake and a hot dog, respectively.
i'm not a HUGE no doubt fan, but i do like their music that were mainstream, and i knew all the songs they performed since i have the album that had all their singles. gwen is awesome, her voice is sooo good and she's soot. their performance had so much energy! when she performed "bathwater" she emerged from a bathtub, wearing normal clothes of course and she had girls dancing alongside of her. even though she's really pretty, i don't really like her bodyshape that much. she's really fit, and toned, but not very curvy. but still, she's a hottie!
i love blink 182. i really do. but they didn't perform the one song i wanted them to perform, "always" on their new cd. i love their music, but i wish that they would not play it so hard. i mean travis is a great drummer and the melody's still there, but the songs that are softer aren't as soft as we know them to be, and i think that's also one of the reasons why they didn't play "always" or "lost without you" because they're slow. but they're so funny and cool and still so much energy! tom is so hot. sooo hot. and so is mark. and so is travis. they're all taken, boo-hoo. i wanna get myself a rock boy! it was really cool when travis rose up on a platform in the middle of the audience and did this crazy and long drum solo. it was sooo cool cuz he was like spinning around and shit. i wanna learn drums.
it took us like 30 minutes to get out of the friggin parking lot. no kidding.
Jenni Cheung at 08:00 PMi need a place to host my videos and some MP3s (of me). if anyone can do this or knows of a good place contact me! i wanna make more videos of random shit but i don't wanna do it cuz i have no hosting!
and with the cam... i want a place that will archive it too. the guy from camrewind's cool but i don't like how the gallery is set up. does anyone know of a good site that does this that still exists?
i also need a good webcam software to download. i dont' have a cd drive, so i can't install the software that came with my intel pc pro camera. the programs i've downloaded to take cam pics takes bad quality pics. and i don't think it's my cam because the image when i use yahoo messenger cam looks alright.
Jenni Cheung at 09:26 AMi photoshopped the watermarks out of the installs pic that the photographers took! it turned out pretty nice didn't it? i tried to add depth to it, i think it looks ok but some says it looks weird. whatevers. oh yeah, my gallery works now!
on the train back from chicago to crystal lake, i bought a magazine to keep me entertained. i ultimately chose cosmo because i have boy issues and angelina jolie is on the cover (she's so hot!) so yeah, so i figured something out. charlie is really good for me. i should try to work at that instead of being too idealized on romance. and i need to eat better. and exercise.
fuckin' mosquitos. i have like 5 bug bites since i arrived here...
Jenni Cheung at 09:09 AMi just got in tonite. people hella change when they get older! ryan is pretty damn cute now! i remembered that we were so dorky and he was kinda pudgy, that's definately not the case anymore!
here are our old pics and his hotness now (sorry ladies, he got a gf)! btw, he looks way better in person. more pics later!
by the way, i find so many profiles on friendster, myspace, and i heard elsewhere, that uses my pictures and my information. some doesn't use my info, but just my pictures. i HATE it when people use my pictures. remember, my email is invazngirl@hotmail.com. so if the friendster or myspace profile doensn't lead to this email, it's not mine... if you find any other imposters, please email me ^_^ thanx!
good night hunnies!
Jenni Cheung at 11:38 PMthis quarter I tried to better myself, well at least I did at the beginning. still keeping my job at click2asia and taking 4 classes was quite a task. whenever I told someone that I was taking 4 classes, they were like “you’re crazy!” and I guess it eventually made me crazy. finals took a lot out of me, but I’ll talk about that later.
the four classes I took were Philosophy of Politics, Music History: Beethoven, Money and Banking, and Monopoly and Competition. they were actually all pretty good classes, I would have learned a lot this quarter if only I went to them more often and read the material.
the professor of philosophy is a funny guy, but not in a good way. I always quietly laugh at him because he trips on his words and thoughts all the time. he did a pretty good job explaining everything, but then he always repeats himself over and over again that I skipped this class the most and everytime that I did go, I end up falling asleep. that’s really my fault because I swear the topics aren’t boring. I think it’s just that I’ve been tired a lot.
the music professor of music history was very knowledgeable. I would have learned a lot in that class too if only I wasn’t always online when I went to that class. that is one of the few classrooms that get wireless connection because the Schoenberg library has wireless and it’s right next to it. I love Beethoven, what a visionary/nut case.
the grader for my monopoly and competition class is intolerable. I think that the teacher doesn’t actually grade it, I’m not sure. like I get points taken off for everything. so I ended up with a C+ on both midterms and will probably get a worse grade on my final. more on finals later. the professor also goes off topics sometimes. like he tries to make analogies from economics to life, and it’s worth a chuckle sometimes, but sometimes I just wish he spoke better about the material because he never writes anything down and I’d have to type what he says verbatim and he RAMBLES. I’m kinda scared because I signed up for another of his classes for the summer and I don’t wanna get anymore crappy grades.
money and banking is a pretty good class. I actually went to that class a lot cuz Tim is in it. finally I have a friend in the same class as me! but the professor is pretty cool too. he’s funny too, but in a good way. and the topic isn’t that difficult. the problem was that there was too much history. my mind tends to wander off whenever I hear dates and historical facts, even if it’s economics related. he’s a good teacher too and very patient, I’d definitely take another of his class.
finals were horrible. I had one on monday and three on thursday. I stayed up all night sunday to study for my final monday (music history). I actually did ok on that despite being up all night. but then I kinda goofed off monday night/tuesday day. I didn’t even get to sleep much. so I was at the library over night tuesday and wednesday night trying to study for my finals thursday (the rest of the classes). so total I only had about 7 hours of sleep since sunday morning by the time I took my first final thursday morning. bad idea. even though I read all the material (even though my studying consisted only of me reading the material for the first time, I usually remember something) my mind went blank. the same happened for my other two finals. so yeah… my last three finals went terribly because during the first and third final, I actually dozed off for a little bit DURING the final. and how embarrassing, during the last final, tim had a TA wake me up because he didn’t want me to miss my final. so I’ll just be happy if I pass these classes. man I gotta study earlier next time and not have three finals in a row and not sleep.
Jenni Cheung at 11:07 PMthe other day, I was trying to get fun-yuns from a vending machine and the spirally thing spun, but the bag didn’t fall. so I gave the machine a light tap and that bag fell, but the spirally thing spun again and I got an extra bag. SCORE!
during finals I smoked so much to help me stay up. it was so bad for me. on the other hand, it made me lose weight because I had no appetite when I was smoking. yeah, time to cut down on it.
little things make me happy. yesterday I was at McDs ordering stuff from their $1 menu. I always get the snack-size fruit-n-yogurt parfait (sooo delicious.) so I got that and a McChicken sandwich. and then the lady after me ordered a snack-size fruit-yogurt parfait only. so she actually got the last one. when they finally got my McChicken sandwich, they realized that they didn’t have anymore small ones, so I got a FULL-SIZE fruit-n-yogurt parfait. that made me so happy that I was skipping back to my car!
the lakers are cool, but what the hell?! like the games were so painful to watch. I was watching game 4 and cringing into charlie’s shoulders the whole time. they got the ball soo many times and then just basically threw it back to the pistons. but you gotta hand it to the pistons, they were good. people say that I only became a lakers fan cuz they were good during the playoffs. not true. I just appreciate a game well played. game 4 of the playoffs was the first professional sports game I went to and it was so fun! and it’s easier to root for your home team. and kobe is the man. yeah. I’m not bandwagon jumping!
Jenni Cheung at 11:06 PMi'm studying for finals at this moment and i cannot concentrate. i am hating myself for the double standards i possess. why can't i be ok with a guy i like dating someone else also? so tonite he went on the first date with another girl. and i couldn't take it. i've been ok with stuff like this in the past, but i guess the difference is that i actually have feelings for him. there's something about him that's so romantic. his carefree, easy, peniless, singing-in-a-band, living-on-a-boat existence has planted itself surprisingly firmly into my heart. the whole situation is romantic. something that i've been looking for. i never liked dating guys that took care of me too well.
i am infatuated.
i think i seek heartbreak. every time a relationship is going well i find a way to sabatoge it, then cry about it later because sometimes it feels so good to be sad. i am so rash. why didn't i keep my mouth shut about not seeing him. i wonder how he feels. i don't want to ask because it is not like we're in a relationship.
one might ask: what about dear charlie? yes he is still dear to me. i still love him. he's so good to me. when i hold him, i feel at home. i'm so comfortable with him. (that doesn't mean i'm dating him out of comfort, for it is no secret that i crave adventure and new strange things) but i never had a love with lust and passion and everything that you hear in "always" - blink182, but in the good part. i need something new. 20 is too young.
Jenni Cheung at 03:06 AMso i got my tongue repierced. i had my camera, but no one to hold it. so whatevers. it wasn't that exciting anyways, since they basically opened up my previous tongue hole. didn't really hurt this time and my tongue didn't really get swollen. so my piercer mark (or matt, i forgot) was talking about my previous piercer angie. i liked her cuz she was so pretty and professional and she did a lot of my piercings. i guess she doesn't work there anymore and went back to school. my piercer got into UCLA business school but opened up the shop instead. that's good for me! and it seems that house of freaks is doing pretty well anyways. got my lip ring changed too. i LOVE having a ball-less ring.
i saw this girl at the civic tour with black nails and decided since i haven't ever worn black nail polish willingly (i wore it before as a punishment for biting nails, it's a long story), that i'd give it a try. wore black nail polish to the click2asia dinner thing at yi cuisine (which was DELICIOUS but outrageously small portions). i don't know how well black fits me, but its fun so far.
torn up feelings... are just what they are. i'm so full of double standards. i don't think i can date a guy that's also dating other people, but at the same time i can't commit. like do you ever wanna feel passioin and stuff that only yearning love songs can rival? i do. which is why i'm being so difficult.
Jenni Cheung at 11:30 PMfinals are sucking. i'm not ready at all. i have no will to start studying. i don't know why. i think its cuz i dont' care enough. the next few days will be hell. i have this huge music history test on monday noon-ish. i have to write a mini essay before hand so that i can be prepared to write it in class. i have sooo much to read for that class and my philosphy class. SOOO stressed. my health isn't the greatest now either. i'm always tired, i sleep too much. i think i'm dehydrated.
Jenni Cheung at 11:17 PMi love musicals, and i went to see this on wednesday with charlie. mad fun times.
i had no idea what the musical was about. from the title and the picture of the bride, thought it was some italian wedding thing. and i didn't really know who abba was other than they were a band.
so i was pretty surprised to see that it was located in greece. the first act was pretty fun, there were some songs that i recognized and the plot unfolded to something quite interesting. this girl has three possible fathers because her mother was in a band and decided to sleep with 3 guys in a very close proximity of time. now she built this inn on this island that was from a plan that one of those guys drew (he's an architect.)
the songs fit into the musicaly quite nicely. it compliments the humor that's nicely spread throughout the musical. the choreography is pretty fun too, because it's not TOO produced. it looks like the characters are having tons of fun but not in a sloppy way.
a really fun and great musical to watch, even if you're not an abba fan, but if you are an abba fan, you should DEFINATELY go!
i'm still a renthead. rent rules!
Jenni Cheung at 11:09 PMthis movie sucked. the only redeeming quality of it was how cute kate hudson is. but despite that, it still sucked.
from the previews, i was excited. i mean what can go wrong when kate hudson needs to switch her lifestyle to take care of three adorable kids? sounds like a making of a hit to me! WRONG. there was no point to this movie. i mean it was endearing in some parts, but there was no point. no climax. nothing. and it was bad enough that there was no point... it was like TWO HOURS long! totally uncesary.
and it is super corny. there are random REALLY corny lines inserted where it was totally unnecessary. real people don't act like that.
rob says that a lot of movies are trying to be similar to "lost in translation" and be like a segment of time, and not have any "point" in particular. i guess that's cool in some respect, but i never liked "lost in translation" much. maybe i'll have to watch it again.
so unless you'd pay just to see the gorgeous kate hudson on the big screen, skip this.
Jenni Cheung at 10:52 PMyesterday was another one of those weird mood days. its like i'm depressed when i have nothing to be depressed about. maybe it is because my four finals are next week and i have neither been going to class nor reading. so i WAS gonna go to watch chronicles of riddick with yoni, but then i'd have to go right after class and i found it was all the way in hollywood. so i opted out of it.
(i don't usually talk about my dating life, because i think i date too much, so if you don't wanna hear it, stop reading this entry now)
i headed home, but instead of turning left on sepulveda, i continued onward west. after a few more blocks i decided that i was gonna go to santa monica promenade and walk around, and then maybe go to the pier later and get some funnel cake. but the weird loneliness inside made me wanna call someone, so i decided to call rob. i haven't seen him in awhile, and i remembered when i did see him, it was refreshingly different. i guess it's cuz i'm a sucker for skinny white boys that sing and are in a band. but yeah. i walked around the mall on the promenade a bit more then i headed over to his place.
watched the end of the lakers game. that shot that sent them to overtime was quite a shot! kobe rules ^_^ headed to starbucks, watched raising helen (which i will review later), and ate at denny's. it was quite a bonafide date. it felt like highschool again for some reason. like, i'm kinda all giggly about it and everything. i dig that feeling.
afterward, i was gonna just go with my earlier plan, to drive around listening to dashboard confessional and chain smoking in the car. i dont' usually smoke, but i've picked up this habit of smoking in the car sporadically like a month ago. so i start driving. i light my menthol light and took out the CD out of the wallet and into the cd player in my car. unfortunately, since the car accident, there's a gap between the cd player and the "frame" around it. i stuffed the cd into the gap. stupid me. frustrated, i pulled over and tried to fish it out. i called charlie and told him my predicament and he said he'll try to get it out the next time i see him. i figured i'll listen to the other cds, so i popped in simple plan and started driving. but it just wasn't the same. so i drove east on the 10, and then decided that i wanted that cd now so i drove all 40 minutes to charlie's place.
having had only 2 hours sleep the night before, i knocked out at his place. sleep is such sweet seclusion. but yeah he tried to get the cd out, it was firmly lodge in there. so he had to basically take my dashboard apart to get my dashboard cd ^_^ hehe i thought that was funny, oh well. he woke me up so that i can help him get my cd out. anyway, he got it. and the CD was all scratched up! normally i keep my cds in top notch condition because i actually BUY my cds. i was so frustrated. but i was so tired. so i just went back to sleep, missing my class this morning. i went straight to work from charlie's place and that is where i'm writing this entry from...
i'm in a very contemplative phase of my life right now, trying to figure out what i want and what will make me happy and wondering why things i think will ultimately make me happy doesn't make me happy now...
"And you stood at your door with your hands on my waist
and you kissed me like you meant it." - hands down - dashboard confessional
ok, the body art section is updated with the neck piercing. i guess that freaked a lot of people out.
the pet section is up, but nothing is working yet, i have yet to write the different pictures for my animals and i haven't figured out a good way to orgnaize the pictures yet.
this is a kick-ass video! it's this guy doing hand shadows, but it looks like monkeys having sex!
my intel pc camera came! it works fine, but i think the programs i have for it sucks. i'm trying to DL the programs from the internet because i have no CD drive on my laptop. i'll have to figure something out...
so i'm thinking about repiercing my tongue and taping the process then posting it. it'll cost me $60. wanna donate to the cause? anything will do! even a nickel!
Jenni Cheung at 02:40 PMwhat prompted me to buy tickets to a sunday night in concert in san diego to a band i've already seen, i don't know. i think it's cuz after seeing them in new york, i finally got one of their CDs and fell in love with it. so when i found out that tickets went on sale, i bought it without hesitation.
it was actually the civic tour (or whatever) that was at the cox arena. there were 4 bands total, DC, thrice, the get up kids, and something else (we got there late so i dont' recall what the first band is called.) the get up kids were pretty good, thrice was good but not my type of music. the frontman always talks sometime during their set and i can NEVER understand what they're saying. i bet it's cuz english is my second language or something like that. maybe it's cuz we sat so far away. maybe it's just cuz the acoustics suck at the venue.
yeah i'm a sucker for whiny alternative love songs. chris carrabba's a hottie, but he's weird. it's kinda annoying how he always stops singing and lets the audience sing. on second thought, i think it's only annoying when i don't know the lyrics to sing to. because when he was singing songs i knew i dug every minute of it. man i almost cried during "hands down." i fuckin love that song! the lyrics touch me so much. ok, no more on how much i love dashboard confessional songs and will get more of their cds and listen to them over and over again whiel i drive...
Jenni Cheung at 10:55 AMso i saw "Saved!" last week and it was a GREAT movie! i give it * * * * o (4/5). it's set at this christian high school where there are all these stereotypes, including, of course, the top dog (played by the adorable mandy moore.) she's all "filled with christ love" and condemns anything that's not according to christianity. although she's hot and "good" she's actually very ugly inside. the main protagonist is played by jena malone. she tried to "save" her gay bf by doing it with him, he's still gay, she got pregnant, now she likes the pastor's son. the other main characters include the bad girl played by eva amurri and the crippled brother played by macauley culkin. the rest you have to watch.
the acting was actually not bad. it's a very teen oriented film, but i think anyone can find some meaning in it for themselves. it certainly makes me wanna be more spiritual (spiritual, not religious.) anyway, i'm glad that the "home alone" kid is finally in a movie that doesn't suck where he doesn't suck either. he actually plays a pretty good perverse teenage cripple. mandy moore is really cute, but she plays villian so well (i guess cuz she's so pretty.) the other parts of the story are not totally original, but still worthwhile.
when i first saw this in the previews i was enticed, but i had my doubts. a trailer that begins with "WHO'S down with G-O-D?" seems too catchy to be good. so i actually read the reviews before going to see the movie. people either gave it 4-5 stars or 0-1 stars. guess who gave the latter. most people (who have a sense of humor) gave this movie a 4-5 star for its satirical yet heart-warming nature. devout christians and religious school students were the ones giving the 0-1s, claiming "I go to a christian school and it's NOTHING like that!" boo hoo, yeah i know. i totally respect christianity and i still think it's funny. the movie is telling us that christianity is about tolerance and acceptance too, not just blindly following the book. if you didn't get that out of the movie, i seriously doubt your purpose of following the said religion.
but yeah. watch "saved!" it's almost as twisted as "mean girls" (which is a great movie too!)
Jenni Cheung at 09:44 AMi've been buying stuff lately.... bought the intel pc camera pro from ebay since my webcam broke. bought some HK dvds off ebay. bought a case for my kickass camera off etronics. bought duwop's lip venom off ebay (but the seller has some problems and i can't pay her yet.)
but yay! new webcam! well it's such an old model, but i used to have a the intel pc camera and i liked that a lot. so i'm hoping i'll like this too. i needed a good webcam with a tripod socket. i'm really hoping that this will do the job! ^_^
Jenni Cheung at 09:38 PMyay i was on MTV!!
i went to a TRL taping today at longbeach for the summer beachhouse thing. the first one we did was with ludacris and christina milian. i'm sooo short that i didn't get to see anything since jon came late. (jon who went with me to E3 and told me about this). it was so tiring because i had to stand all day. (i also had a shoot this morning for a seller on ebay for DDR pads. i had to jump so much that my calves were sore.) at least i caught a glimpse of their face, so that was enough for me. this was aired today, and one of my friends saw me on tv! so yeah i was on tv!
but.... WATCH MTV TRL NEXT FRIDAY! (or whenever cassidy is performing.) we did another taping today with cassidy. i got a stamp, so i got to stand on the back of the main stage, stage left most of the time. so i got my face on the camera a lot, so LOOK FOR ME! i'm wearing a red bikini top and a demin skirt.
man the girls were so crazy about cassidy... i think he's ok, but i guess he has a cute smile. i was like the ONLY asian girl on the stage area... how racist are they. we need more asians representin' in the media!
but yeah... WATCH FOR ME NEXT WEEK ON MTV TRL!!!
Jenni Cheung at 09:32 PMmemorial day weekend was a lot of drinking and smoking and other mind-altering experiences!
so i went to installs with jason friday night and then vegas over the weekend. it was pretty fun! i was kinda bored at the installs because he had to go off and do pledge stuff. but i like dressing up. the BAD thing is that i always have to wear my glasses because after wearing contacts more than 3 hours they get all infected looking and shit... VERY unpleasant.
saturday afternoon we took off to vegas, jeannie rode with us. i slept most of the way, as i do on most road trips. that night we all (like with jason's bros and their dates) ate buffet at aladdin's then partied at a suite at the venetian. that was whatevers cuz everyone was drunk. (not me tho!)
the next day me and jason walked on the strip, I GOT MY NEXT PIERCED (pics 1, 2, 3!) jason got his eyebrow pierced. we played ddr at gameworks. smoked cigars. watched the bellagio water show FIVE times (it's beautiful!) that night there was another hangout with eveyrone at a room at the rio. we didn't get back to our own room till 5 am then we slept cuz we were so tired and we checked out at 6 and then finally got home at like 1am. MAN! crazy weekend!
Jenni Cheung at 09:01 PM