Lina's Sweet 16! (Christmas)

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE blogging? Well, I do. A lot. I'm 16 now! I got over $650 (for New York) and a buncha cool stuff. SENNHEISTER HD428 HEADPHONES( <3 )and running shoes from Simon and Eric's family! I'm in love with both. I got treble clef earrings and necklace. :). It was a pretty grand Christmas. Spent time with the family and spent a bit of time with Madison and Davista. Davis got me a Western sweatshirt and a buncha Beirut albums! Thanks. Madi got me some nifty bath and body works... and the headband I broke(I was moping about it...). Presents aside, I would like to show how much I appreciate my family and friends for giving me their love and care. I always say that, but life is too short to not show your appreciation for those you are close to. Thank you to everyone. Happy Holidays. :)

P.S. I effing hate my life right now because my iPod is broken and refuses to work. I've done EVERYTHING. *sigh*

Stuff!

First of all, as you may or may not know... Rio is my fave movie to watch with my sister excluding Lion King. We seriously watch it more than 3 times a week. She memorizes like the whole movie... She also sings and dance (: Next of all, I freaking love Adam Levine and I am obsessed with Dia Frampton's voice. Christmas is coming <3

Last of all, Daniel decided to post the XC videos on youtube and even though I look so gross... Here they are! I love XC <3333

December 23rd, 2011

It's been one year since I've watched Tangled. Only cool kids would understand why that is so significant. It's also why a cool kid I know got me these.

Thank you.

12/21/11

Why hello folks! I am so sleepy and tired from PARTYING. Well, my idea of partying is much different from other high schoolers. So Poto folks and I did white elephant and did secret santa! My person was Juli and I got her an extremely cute purse and tons of candy. Maya had me and got me a POOH BEAR PILLOW PET. She also got me cute tights and a scarf for my birthday. :) Speaking of which, I still owe her a birthday present... haha I hung out with Davista in the morning and Juli came and graciously gave us a ride to Madi's for the party! We played Mario Kart like the whole time... I ACTUALLY GOT 1ST ONCE. Of course, it was always Juli after that. Kyle and I were having a very competitive competition, which I kept losing. Overall, today was a grand day. I am so tired.
Yesterday was my piano recital! Piano recitals are so stressful. Andy, Kyle, and I got to eat cookies. Woot, woot. I also watched Pulp Fiction.

I am dedicated to continuing my blog.

I miss blogging. It's been too long. I can't remember everything that's happened so I'm gonna type out whatever comes to mind. Everything's been crazy busy. One thing after another. Stress kept building. No Facebook. Yeah, I went there. I was so busy I couldn't even Facebook for a period of time. I made it in the musical! Yaysies. I play a cookie in "Anyone Can Whistle"! Karina's now 2 years old. Howard and I have reconnected and become good friends again. My PSAT scores sucked to my stereotypical Asian standards. I have contacts. I freaking love Maroon 5 and Adam Levine. Obsessed with Dia Frampton's new album. I enjoy Bruno Mars' music now. Leavenworth with the family was fun. Got such AMAZING photos there with my siblings. I turn 16 in a week. Christmas is coming. So excited. One year on Friday with a certain someone. :)

I'm obsessed with this photo.

I look scary... But this bear is so cute.

Nutcracker! Wish I went this year with Juli again :(

:)

Kristin, Dakota, and Hannah's bday party!

Charlie Safari!

Me!

Well, well, well.

I miss XC. We had our awards night yesterday and it was fun. I'm going to miss the seniors so much ):! Three day weekend though so woot woot! Kendall and Lea kidnapped me today and we drove around. We went to Madi's, but she wasn't there... We went to Kyle's and scared him because his mom let us in and he didn't know we were there. I had some of Lea's delicious birthday cookies and we gave cookies to a homeless guy. We also saw some middle schoolers while we were driving around. Now off to do my crazy hard essay for Street and other fun homework....

10/29/11

Ice bath... She's nuts.

Frozen Cappuccino Cups I made Grandma for her birthday!

Just bein' Asian

Kaye is awesome.

League!

Preparing for the ice bath...

Where have the days gone?! I've been super duper crazy busy with cross country and school! I cut my time by so much in cross country! I'm so happy :D! I get around 24 minutes average now. Which isn't super amazing, but I cut my first time by 3 minutes so... Also, I really hate ice baths. They're the worst thing ever. Seriously. We got 2nd at League which was a bummer, but oh well. Today was Districts! Everyone did amazing, but do to a very huge douchebag coach that got Kristen disqualified for having asthma... We got 4th so no going to state unless we can get it appealed. I really don't know what else to write... So yeah... Well, I'm reading a book called A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and it's SO GOOD!

Unity Night!

I seriously love the xc team! They're like family. :) We had a unity night at Danielle's house yesterday and it was quite fun even though I had to leave early. The girls walked around the neighborhood and got to ride like this go cart thing that Mandeep owned. We then went to Wal-Mart, got yelled at, rode in shopping carts, and all that jazz. Then we got back and hip tattoos which we got from Wal-Mart and we're all just so "rebellious". Pics! Sadly, Ellie wasn't there with us for Wal-Mart (she showed up later).

(Tumwater meet)

Just garden shopping.

Seaside with XC! (and spirit week)

Monday was Nerd Day for spirit week (only day I took pics of too) so here are the pics!

Oh my goodness! I didn't think it'd be this fun going to Seaside with XC (Sept 24th)! I was so paranoid that I would hate it because I got a terrible cold on Thursday... I got to bond with many members of the team and we just had so much fun! Dancing, jokes, walking around Seaside, gag gifts, fake moustaches (Austin with his "Frenchness" and Norm with his swagger 'stache), and so much more! The camp was a military camp and the barracks were... so jailish. I did not enjoy it. The girls got yelled at for talking past 11 from a coach  because her team of 3 girls couldn't sleep. LAME. No one slept well... at all. Apparently the boys were playing poker. A game that the coaches claim to not know anything about. Teehee. I got the moderate course for the race and it was SO fun! MUD PITS. WOOT! I'm proud of myself for passing girls on hills and the mud pits. After the races, we went to Pig'n Pancakes and wandered around Seaside. I got tons of candy :). Lea got gag gifts at a vintage store and goodness gracious. It was so funny. No details shall be revealed ;). The ride back home with St. Clair, Lea, Kendall, Kyle M., Kyle G., and Madi was quite... interesting. St. Clair was asked us who we thought was the cutest boy/girl at the school. Oh gash! So awkward. His taste in music is also... interesting. To say the least and I'm like the least picky person when it comes to music! Oh yeah! I dropped my retainers on the nasty concrete military floors so I had to sanitize it with so many things... eugh. So gross that it makes me cringe.

Starbucks stop!

The girls!

Frenchie!

Monkey!

Team :)

Drawing courses!

Part of the team

Swag.

Crystal Ball and Braces Off!

Lina is completely braces free! I got my braces off on Thursday. I have to wear a retainer though and on the first day, my lisp was TERRIBLE. Everyone teased me and made me say words with the letter "s". It was funny though. :) I got first place in my heat at the Crystal Ball on my Cha Cha! They forgot my name on the program AND I didn't get me certificate because of that too :(. They're gonna mail me it... Lame! I had a great day though :). Everyone did so fantastic! Guess what? PHOTO TIME.

Alise!

Brie!

The Girls!

Coach :)

9/10/11

So school has started already... I feel like I've been in school forever. I enjoy my classes and teachers though. Vas is going to give me a heart attack though. I don't do well with loud noises and tend to squeal from the loud noises he makes by throwing and hitting stuff... I've been very proud of myself in terms of cross country even though I'm slow compared to others. I've been running the full distances :). I've also been eating healthy! I had my first cross country meet today at Capital Invite! It was so nerve wracking! I had lots of fun though and befriended/became closer friends with the others! I also got a t-shirt there! Then afterwards, I went to Andy's first soccer game with the Blackl Hills Football Club. They won 4-2. Hooray! I also had ballroom with my new ballroom shoes and they're awesssooomeee! There was this extremely creepy guy that I was dancing with though... He seriously looked like one of those child molesters/kidnappers you see on T.V. I don't want to be mean or rude, but he kept pulling me super close to his face and doing really, really uncomfortable stuff... He also completely just ignored the rhythm and just smiled creepily at me... CREEPY. I got saved from him though. Thank goodness. I am currently watching Rio with the siblings that Uncle Hai let us borrow. So Toodles!

South Sound Running Spike Nite!

Today I had a busy day! I was at Driver's Ed from 9-3. I get to drive my final tomorrow. FINALLY GET IT OVER WITH ALREADY. Then there was the South Sound Running Spike Nite! It was really fun :). We got awesome new shirts, pizza, autographs, and raffles! Later on, I went to Andy's ice cream social. The school is so different now! I had a blast catching up with past teachers. :) I'm such a dork.

Awesome free shirts!

Autographed poster of Amy!

Autographed poster of  Dathan!

Silverwood and Spokane

Speed dating at Applebee's?

Silverwood Train

Silverwood Bandit.

Food at the hotel

Cute breakfast tables at Pheasant Hill Hotel

More food! There's a lot more that I was too lazy to take pictures of.

Pool!

Haven't had these in years. They're digusting, but good...?

Riverfront Park

Riverfront Park

Riverfront Park

Sweaty Lina

Manito Park

More of Manito Park

Goose!

More of the park

My daddio!

Monkeys.

The GORGEOUS and BEAUTIFUL Columbia River

The vacation with the family, Ivan's family, Cindy, Mika, Mely, and their mom... It wasn't exactly... fun. The two brats and their mom ruined it for everyone. Terrible public tantrums... ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, there were some good moments. Like how we got to see Eastern Washington! It's quite beautiful and gorgeous. The hotel Pheasant Hill is FANTASTIC. We get free amazing breakfast :). I got new boots and pants from Macy's! Silverwood was okay. The lines were too long to do anything :(. Some obnoxious kid kept hitting on me in a line with Andy to the Ricochet Rapids and eugh. Oddly enough, I got to see Hunter and Tracy at Silverwood... hahahaha We went on Tremors together! Sort of. We waited in line together for it... It was also Cindy's birthday the day we went to Silverwood! So happy belated birthday, Cindy! On the way back, we went to Manito Park and stopped by the beautiful Columbia River. :) Right now, I'm reading P.S. I Love You. Almost done with Driver's Ed. I had a downtown drive today and then an emergency drive Friday. Then FINALLY the final drive on Tuesday. Then school on Wednesday... WHAT THE HECK. I NEED A BREAK :(.

Picture from the wedding I went to that I don't think I blogged about , but I don't know the bride or groom so I don't really care.