Happy Birthday to Daddy Phan! :)

12/29! Oh geez, Dad's getting older! So anyways, we celebrated with dinner at Applebees with the family including Uncle Hai! :) Yummers. Anyways, I started off this day getting quite far in To Kill a Mockingbird so yippee! I have yet to start Pride and Prejudice... I had an hour voice lesson and we picked a piece for Solo and Ensemble... My Johann. Aha. I really don't want to do it! :( Performing is so scary! D:

How was Lina's Christmas and Birthday?

It was quite strange actually. I woke up to an awkward dream/nightmare. Quite enjoyable but then very creepy. Haha. I somehow managed to talk to Davis for almost 2 hours on the phone. Then I went to help out with preparing for the party and what not. Simon, Eric, and their parents along with Oscar came early like they always do since Simon and Eric's dad does pretty much all the cooking.

Simon, Eric, Andy, and I played Rockband 3 and card games ;) Then people started coming and everyone had dinner! The entire gigantic family I have... Hahaha. Simon, Eric, Darwin, Andy, Chu Hai, Steven, and Cindy kept playing Texas Hold Em.... I actually won the first! -SHOCKER- We then opened presents! I have a ton of money, clothes, a gold necklace, an Ipod touch, and a ton of other stuff :) I have been abusing my new Ipod. hahaha I love it! I also have enough to pay back my parents and get a guitar. Yippee!




My birthday cake was mocha as usual... It was GIGANTIC though. Everyone wanted to take a picture with me so I was stuck taking pictures for half an hour straight. During a picture with Simon and Eric, they decided to be such loving cousins and try to stick my face in the cake. Oh cousins...



Anyways, I smiled so much I didn't even know when I was actually smile or not... Yeah... All in all though, I had a good birthday and Christmas.

Happy Day!

I am quickly typing this up before Christmas! Which is in 13 minutes! So yesterday... Juli, Madi, Maya, Ha-Yoon, Davis, and I went to watch Tangled. We saw so many people from BHHS doing gift wrapping and Christmas shopping! 12/23/11 is the date of a very special day :)

Today, Juli, Davis, Maya, Madi, and some other people are competing to become the first person to tell me happy birthday at midnight... Madi sort of cheated by posting it and saying "to be delivered at 12 am" or something like that. Oh Madi, she cracks me up.

I shall update tomorrow... When I turn 15! :) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!

Poto Christmas Party :)

The girlies at the Christmas party :)


Madi, Ha-Yoon, and me :)

Yesterday was quite a strange day...For multiple reasons :) Well since it's past midnight... Two days ago actually.

I was too lazy to write this two days ago and pictures weren't sent to me yet... So I'm doing it now :) IAN AND MATT DID NOT SHOW UP! What losers :(! Maya was happy with her pillow pet and other gifts I got her! Which makes me so happy haha. I also learned I don't know my animals very well. The pillow pet I got her was a dolphin and I thought it was a whale. I also gave her this panda thing that I thought was a monkey... IT LOOKS LIKE A MONKEY I SWEAR. We decorated cookies and gingerbread men. I've never had a gingerbread cookie... They taste gross. Yet again we played Curses...It got boring so we played truth or dare on Juli's Ipod touch like last year! I ended up dumping water over myself again. Maya is making this a POTO Christmas tradition...

Anyways, Ha-Yoon was my secret santa and got me all this cool stuff :D! A really cute scarf, lotion, chocolate, a photo shopped photo collage, an iTunes gift card, and shower GEL(?) :)! Yeah... I didn't know what shower gel was... Isn't it just body wash? haha You learn new things everyday... The photo collage thing is SO cool except she picked a picture of me LOOKING high, drunk, possessed, and nothing positive which explains why I look like a freak in that one picture on the left...but I still love it ;) I made looking all caps because I was not actually... You know.

THANK YOU HA-YOON LEE! I love you :)

Kyle's Piano Recital!

As everyone knows Kyle is amazing at the piano! I was lucky enough to get to go to his recital and it was so cool :)! His grandma thought I was Jewish because I didn't have Christmas lights on...haha. I think that's hilarious. His parents also think we're secretly dating... Oh parents, they're so silly! Kylie played Predlude Op. 23, No.5, G minor (Rachmanioff) and an amazing version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. I absolutely enjoyed the recital :)! Thank you Kylie for inviting me!

Pictures From My Birthday Party ;)

So here's just a post to show a bunch of my pictures from yesterday! There are a lots more, but I'm too lazy... So here ya go!

My Birthday Party :) 12/18

This morning, I went to Studio 6 and worked more on the swing routine :)! Natasha offered me to do competition... I don't think I'm ready, but I would love to do it!
Then I went to Safeway to get my ice cream birthday cake. Continued to go home to get ready for the party and then picked up 5 pizzas from costco. :)

BOWLING AT WEST SIDE LANES FOR MY BIRTHDAY WAS AMAZING :)! I actually celebrated my birthday with friends for the first time ever...So the people that actually came were Alex, Madi, Ha-Yoon, Ashley, Lauren, Juli, Maya, Corey, Davis, Matt, Ian, Jonny, Kyle, Tracy, and Liza! To those of you that didn't show up because you were busy with winter plans... Poop you :(. So bowling wise.. we all suck. Davis actually got strikes... What the heck. It was so fun bowling. Like amazingly fun. Then we all ate and I opened presents. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE GIFTS EVERYONE! I love you all! <3

Afterwards, we played Curses which was plain fun. Liza is an amazing Italian Santa Clause and Davis's falsetto voice is pretty darn amazing. hahahaha

So I told Maya, "My dad's worried you're gonna get raped if we just leave you here so we'll wait". Maya told my dad, "you don't have to worry because Kyle's gone". BAHAHAHHAA hilariousness.

So much more happened, but I'm completely exhausted to type it all up... I'm not home yet... I'm at Mika's house for her birthday... So I'll post pictures tmrw :)

WINTER BREAK STARTS!

The lovely Madi gave me cupcakes in a fed ex box while my friends decorated the box as my side birthday present. :)

In Spanish, Alex Van Hook and I had a blast! I love herrr! In PE, we learned square dancing... I was partners with Spencer! He's so ridiculously hilarious, but odd.In Biology we kept watching Lorenzo's Oil. It's so sad :( Kids in my class were being so obnoxious and throwing candy everywhere during the movie. In choir, we just had total free time since the concert is over. :) NO MORE SCHOOL TILL NEXT YEAR! Yippeee!

After school, Maya came to chill over for a bit. It was boring though because there was absolutely nothing to do but chilling with Maya is always fun. :)





Juli's amazingly fantabulous birthday present to me was taking me to the Nutcracker! :D I bought Emma, Alyse, and Natalie lollipops there. They're all so talented. My little Emma was an Arabian princess!

Juli and I finally actually bonded! Haha I mean, you can't beat headbanging to music on the radio. Then practicing headbanging for smooth jazz. Juli and I are gonna go moshing someday. Then we're gonna go to a smooth jazz concert and start headbanging.Pretty intense stuff there you have to admit.

Lovely day. heehee :)

1 more day till winter break!

I don't really have much to write about, but Maya and I said we'd try to post everyday or something like that. In PE, we're learning square dancing.... FML. In biology, we continued to watch Lorenzo's Oil and it's so sad... I feel like crying every 5 minutes. :( In choir, Ian and I did some "swing" bahahhaha. It was horribly bad, but hilarious. I have like 3 math retests to take... Hopefully I pass all of them with flying colors!

After school, Maya was choosing to retest on some stuff and made me stay there with her... I was just sitting there for like 30 minutes. Then we both went to the PAC. Jonny was singing and playing on his guitar and it was hilarious. :) Matt was being a loser and stole my phone.... AGAIN.

Choir concert... I arrived late. Alviar told me to be there are 6:30... I was! But we were supposedly supposed to be there at 6. I FORGOT TO BRING A CLIP TO CLIP MY HAIR BACK :( My hair was basically covering my face... Maya and Juli... Kyle in a suit... Enough said. Juli decided to shout out really loud, "I BET YOU'RE TURNED ON RIGHT NOW!"...To clarify, I was not. I was telling Maya about how Juli said that after the concert, and Alviar heard me say "Juli said" and Mrs. Alviar was like "what?"... Maya and I were like "NOTHING" and Alviar was like "haha well okay then..." Anywho... I was constantly tripping over my dress! It's way too long! Matt decided to be a lovely friend and try to trip me, but he didn't know my dress was too long. Oh well.

A.C.T. Day....

Oh ACT days, so full of joy and happiness. I got to kick off my amazing day with a "lovely" literacy test for The Pearl. Then in Spanish, I realized I forgot my glasses... FML. In Pe, we did the electric slide instead of swing... -tear- In biology class we watched a movie about a kid with ALD. We didn't finish the movie, but it almost made me cry :(

AFTER SCHOOL:

Pretty darn fun actually. Ha-Yoon, Madi, Maya, Juli, Davis, Matt, Kyle, and I went to my house to "watch" Inception! :) Ha-Yoon, Davis, and Maya decided to be such great friends after most of them left... Hacking my facebook, changing my statuses, messaging people, and all that good stuff. Davis is a very violent person. Maya's an aggressive hugger. Ha-Yoon is pure evil. It was quite fun to be honest. Andy decided to be a loser and text Dad that I liked Kyle... which I don't. Luckily, Dad's phone doesn't work! :D

12 more days till Christmas!

Davis decided to be oh so kind and make that...So I found out what Violins meant... VIOLENCE. I'm not that violent... :)

In Hummel's class... Ian's jokes totally made my day. I don' think I'll be posting them though...Then in Spanish class, Alex brushed her teeth again! This time not in the water fountain though! teehee :)What also made my day was PE! Swing dancing! It was pretty darn awesome being the best at something in PE! Austin B... He decided to take the liberty of telling which guys in class washed or didn't was their hands... YUCK! Every guy thought my hands were really sweaty so I had to explain it was lotion which it was.

Well the piano recital was a lot better than most. I hate recitals. Anywho, that's my day! I'm excited for the band concert tomorrow!

Part two of two... This is sort of dedicated to one of my favorite seniors ever! Davis!

You wanted a dedication Davis...
Yippee.

Since I'm the secretary of the school...I got to help out with the freshman mural which we won! :)
We got some productive work done... aha. Ha-Yoon, Madi, and Matt did a mass load of work so kudos to them :)! Actually... This doesn't really have to do with Davis even though it's a dedication... Well, he was there partially...And made me die of a laughing fit.




Oh yeah, I now totally love and adore Beirut,The New Pornographers, and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists because of Davis. He has great taste in music!

Oh yeah! So now in addition to being called Linnykins... It's now Phanny and Violins. Davis and Maya call me Violins...No not, violin.... Violins... What is that 's' even for...? Oh yeah... Davis figured out the language of Laya Pharton...

OOPS! Completely forgot about how Davis decided to make these lovely things for me...

This is dedicated to Maya... sort of. (Part one)

Maya wants me to start up my blog again. That silly Maya.
Hmm...
Since I haven't posted in... forever I shall try to hit the main points. Aha!

From Halloween!

I LOVEEEEEE the new Harry Potter movie :) I despise Steinbeck books. Especially The Pearl...

Oh yeah! I played Curio in the Twelfth Night and I absolutely do not regret trying out for the play at all. I've met so many fantastic people that I absolutely love and adore! I miss them all so dearly! Aha. Oh yeah, Davis took me up the catwalk with some other people. Kinda terrifying. Actually... QUITE TERRIFYING. The second time I went up there... I almost fell down the ladder. Oh yeah that reminds me... I now know how to go down a ladder thanks to Davis. hahaha

I am totally loving freshman year...

Football Game Photos:

TOY STORY PARTY!
Can't forget that...So we had a POTO Toy Story Party :)It was at Maya's house and we went downtown to starbucks and etc. :)Oh yeah! Kyle's a new member of POTO! Woot! :)
We took a bajillion pictures, but here are a few!

Kina Concert and my day!

Today I learned how to Salsa in ballroom! (: It's fun, but I got dizzy. heehee. After ballroom, I went to the costume shop that also sold dance stuff. I bought dance sneakers and Dad bought these tux shoes that were on clearance for $5 :)
In Seattle, Dad and I bought lots of food to bring home. On the way to the concert, a homeless man kept cussing at me for being Asian and spit on me. I almost cried... I'm such a baby :)
ANYWAYS! The Kina concert was awesome! The opening acts, Imaginary Friend and Ry Cumming were good and Kina sounds better live than on her videos! She's TINY! Oh my goodness, when she ran out to go to the bathroom, I didn't even recognize her... She's so much prettier in person. (:

Here are the pics! :) I look pretty gross in all of them... It was hot and I sweat a lot so... Oh yeah, I have two Cd albums because one is for Phong's birthday.

Second Day at BHHS...

It wasn't too bad today. (: I had fun in Spanish. Ms. Colbeck is hilarious and the other students are pretty nice. In PE, we did some games. Corey and I were so high energy and we were having a blast. In biology, it was fun because we got to work in groups and I got to talk to Brianna. Chamber choir was okayy. The problem is Mrs. Alviar doesn't really assign us to sections so she told me to just stand somewhere... I stood with the altos, but I've never been an alto...So now I'm like permanently an alto? Geometry... We took like a review "test" on algebra and everyone failed.... Thank you 8th grade algebra teachers for teaching us so much...-Sarcastically-

First Day of High School.

High school sucks. So far. Walking with Corey there and back is fun though. I hate how in some of my classes there are only like 3 other freshman! In first period, I was trying to cross my legs and I hit them against the table bar... Now it's all bruised. I still don't know where everything is... I have lunch with like very few friends and the hallways are so crowded. Bleh.

Cindy's Birthday

Her present from us was a ticket to the Kina Grannis show with us. We mostly played basketball and soccer. Simon, Andy, and I are like addicted to Harvest Moon Grand Bazaar! haha. I accidentally hit Cindy with my shoulder while playing basketball and she got a bloody nose... Whoops. :/

(I'm writing this at 1:27 so technically it's yesterday that this happened.)

West Side Story!

Oh my goodness. I watched West Side Story today and I LOVE IT! It made me laugh, it made, me cry, and it's just a beautiful musical! My only problem with musicals is that it's so long! I'm just really fidgety. haha. The ending was so sad. :(! I don't think I could ever watch Romeo and Juliet without crying.

Summer is ruining my health. I can't sleep early and I don't do anything. :/ I didn't sleep till like 4 in the morning... Bad Lina!

Song that I am listening to while I write this: Konna ni Chikaku de- Crystal Kay

August 22nd

Today we went to a relative's birthday party. Then we went to the mall and I bought a hat and lip gloss from Forever 21. I also got West Side Story from Best Buy. :)

When I got home I watched episode 21 of Maid Sama. It's so good ;) People say it's just an average anime, but I really like it. I don't know if I've said this yet, but I started a new anime called Seitokai Yakuindomo a while ago. It's pretty stupid and funny. :)

Congrats Mei and Allan!

The newlyweds. :)

Mom, Karina, and I went to the traditional Asian thing you do before a wedding. Stayed there for a few hours. Then I went to Yvette's hair salon (Mom's friend). I got my hair curled for the wedding party thing. I SAW HAYWOOD AND HIS DAUGHTER. I didn't say hi or anything because they walked away and they didn't see me. They were outside of the salon.

Then later on Dad, Mom, Andy, Karina, and I went to Seattle for the wedding party. It was fun. The first wedding I've ever went to that I thought was fun. There was pretty funny entertainment. They played the theme song from Up! It was pretty funny because Simon shouted out "WOOT UP".

Well I'm finally home now. Well obviously because I'm writing this up. haha. I wore heels ALL DAY! I've never done that. My feet hurt like crazy..

Summer Wars

I watched Summer Wars today and it was really good! :) When I watched the first 5 seconds, I was like... this is weird. I really like it though!

I'm SO CLOSE to finishing Fahrenheit 451 :)!

I need to figure out a way to get money to buy more music and manga.... :/

Obooma!

Haha! I laughed when I heard about Obooma! So today (well technically yesterday) the whole house shook twice from the sonic boom from two F-15 fighter jets. I thought it was an earthquake at first! I think it's so funny how there's already t-shirts for what happened!

Mommy took a day off from work because Karina was sick the other day and she wanted to make sure Karina was fine. We went to buy some stuff at stores and then ate dinner at Aunt Maria's house. When we got home, Dad was practicing soccer! I'm glad I got him to join the Oly Viet United team :). Haha. Thanks to Phong though! It's never too late to do something that you love! Next thing to do is to get Mommy to do ballroom!

I'm sick. It sucks. My throat HURTS. WHYYYYY ME? It's always me. I hate it! It's always before a vocal lesson too! What's wrong with me? :(!

Last Day of School Pictures :)

I noticed I didn't post these when I was editing my blog so here they are :)


My fave 7th grade math teacher! Mrs. Hodges!

Mr. Allard

Mrs. Alviar

Mr. Haywood

Mrs. Saiz


My last day as a middle schooler at TMS :(

Mario Party 7

WOAH. Today Andy and I played on the Gamecube... Mario Party 7. It brought back so many memories. :)
I whooped at that game. And I still got it! First place <3

I am so close to finishing my summer homework once and for all. Thank goodness. I love Fahrenheit 451, but honestly no one wants to spend their time answering like a billion questions.

Today was the last day of the summer hip hop classes so no more hip hop classes for a while. :(

Another summer day...

I think I may have a freebie, sweepstakes, and contest problem. I've entered a ton of sweepstakes and contests today... It's fun :)

Even if I don't win anything... It's not like I have something better to do...
Besides people actually win those things!

Also, I finally finished Death Note the other day! haha

Traveling to a place far far away. Sort of.

If you count Seattle as far. Yesterday,we went to Seattle to eat dim sum with Mom's side of the family. Since Mom's side of the family is always late when traveling long distances, Simon, Eric, their mom, Dad, and I played a game of what time they would make it. Haha.

Afterwards, we went to go buy food and bakery stuff around Seattle. Andy got a Pikachu piggy bank from a grocery store. It's cool. :)

Then Mom's side invited us to go to the Tulalip outlet. Which was HUGE. But I didn't get anything. :/

Then we went to go eat Chinese food again. :)

Haven't really been doing much besides summer homework, Chinese dramas, and anime...

Yay Portland.

Well, yesterday the family and I went to get a free oil change for the Hybrid in Beaverton. Then we went to Ocean City in Portland for Dim Sum with Aunt Tien and her mommy :).

THEN, we went shopping at some plaza thingy. Mommy bought a nice dress for my one aunt's wedding. I got a pretty green/blue and white scarf from Macy's and we got Dip N' Dots!

YUMMY~~~

Then we went to eat at some Vietnamese restaurant and I got food poisoning.

That is the story of the time I went to Portland. :)

Ice Cream Cake :)

Andy and I tried making an ice cream cake because it looked easy...

Here's a picture of a slice :)

YUM~!

Tuesday~

Fahrenheit 451 is actually pretty good :D

The last Funemployed was today :(
I love Wongfu, Kevjumba, Nigahiga, David Choi, Kina Grannis, and everyone else in it!

Pretty Little Liars and America's Got Talent today :D

Teletubbies~!

Since I was a huge fan of Teletubbies and still am, I wanted Karina to at least watch a bit of it... Then I found this a video on the actors behind the Teletubbies! My life is complete in a way... haha. I want a Po costume! Like a real cool one now those crappy one that show your face :(

Inception

OH MY GOSH. TOday, I went with Uncle Hai and his friends to watch...INCEPTION.... It's one of the best movies I've seen. All the actors and actresses do an amazing job! I LOVE Arthur in the movie (Joseph Gordin-Levitt)... He's a really good actor, and looks pretty darn good in a tux. Ellen Page was really cool in the movie... And Last of all, Leonardo DiCaprio! I've been a fan of him since the Titanic and I loved him in this movie!

7/23/10

I watched the Sound of Music today... It was good! :)
It was really long though...

I don't feel like watching Death Note now that L died...

Planning to go see Inception with Uncle Hai and his friends later... It better be worth the hype!

Lina's a blogger again!

I decided to start blogging again! Haha.

It's the middle of summer now and life's been great. I went to Seaside last weekend with Mom's side of the family and Uncle Hai.

I've been watching Death Note a lot... It's so good! L died :( I'm so devastated. Haha

I recently finished my list of things to do before the school year ends... 50 goals and I'm so excited to get it done! I won't be sharing that list here.... Heehee.

I found out today that Kina Grannis is coming to Seattle and Portland and I hope I can go! I'm so excited!

5th ave... again :)

Many of the music students went to watch On the Town yesterday and ate at the Cheesecake factory. I got really sick during the play. Other than that, it was fun. :)

Honk the musical.

On Thursday and Saturday we performed Honk! Jr. It was so fun and exciting. The Saturday performance drove me insane though because lots of people were missing. I've never done a musical before and I learned that it's one of the best feelings in the world to successfully finish one! I hope I'm in musicals in high school... It's so nerve wracking though, but the nerves go away and it's just amazing.

My Fantastic Saturday :)

Some of the pictures Ha-Yoon took :)

We took so many pictures at the railroad tracks and I'm waiting for Ha-Yoon to send or post them.

Decorating cupcakes is so fun. Ha-Yoon is such an artist. Reagan and Patty are silly string maniacs. Maya and I are the weirdest people ever when we watch the Proposal.

Well, I'm lazy to post a really long post and too tired. Today was one of the best days I've had in a while though ;)