DIGGIN'

This is going to be the longest, most stressful, ridiculous weekend of my life. 4 day, 3 books, 1 5-pg paper, furniture diy, 1 move-in,1 2-pg proposal, a million designer outreach, and more! Ohhh boy. You know that saying, "don't stretch yourself too thin?" TOO LATE FOR THAT NOW!

The sun is making me oh so giddy! It's nice for CA to finally ditch the dreary clouds and rain and embrace the sunshine. Each day has been extremely busy and I'm getting into the swing of it. It's going to take some time but I can dig.

Yesterday I did the unthinkable. I went into Home Depot, alone, and stayed there for almost 2 hours. WTF RIGHT? I needed to pick up paint and paint supplies to DIY the old bed frame I'm using in my apartment. I spend forever turning around, looking from paint samples to paint samples, trying to figure out sponge vs. paintbrush vs. roller, but it was all worth it! I picked out a beautiful color by Martha Stewart called "Sea Glass," it's a nice sea foam. I can't wait to show you the final look and feel of my apartment room! Now it's time to get back to painting! Then off to do some thrifting for more furniture and hopefully I'll get through two of my books tonight!

I went for a little chill, down-with-the-flow kind of feel with my outfit. This is basically going to be my summertime uniform; high waisted cutoffs and a tee. It's comfy, relaxed, and no fuss. My kind of an outfit.

thrifted white floral tshirt, high waisted cutoffs, black studded belt,

vintage owl necklace, tights, urban outfitters brown ankle boots, fake raybans

VAMPY

Summer happened and attacked so fast, I can hardly keep up with this busy as a honey bee life when I'm so accustomed to the lazy dazy hazy feel of the summer sun. I wake up around 8 AM and start my ridiculous amount of reading (300+ pages per night, sigh) for my social history class which I'm actually loving! THEN I have to get my little booty over to Berkeley and leave around dinner time amidst the horrific rush hour traffic. It doesn't sound like much, but it's definitely a hand full. Ahhh, I need to start updating more so I can cut down on my writing and post more pictures, cause, let's face it, no one likes a text heavy post!

Good news! Actually awesomely fantastic news! You're looking at the new designer outreach/boutique management/social media & PR intern at Member of Melange and I seriously could not be more excited! Not only is this my first ever internship but it incorporates basically every aspect of everything I like! My first fashion team meeting is tonight and I am in a blunder of nervousness/happiness, I can't wait to get deep into it and get started! I have one more internship interview on Friday, I'm keeping my fingers crossed and wishing upon 11:11!

I've been rather productive lately (GO ME!) and I'm entirely sure what's the deal with that. Not that I'm complaining whatsoever, I love the feeling of being productive and making little lists and checking them twice (oh Santa! You have the bestest job in the world!), but it's just something I'm not used to and I can't figure out what prompted it. It feels like one day I just woke up, the light bulb dinged!, and I came to the realization that I only have 3 years left at Cal...OH NO! HOLY COW! It's time to do everything I want to do and there's just so much I want to, hope to, wish to accomplish before my years in college are over. I love the tired feeling at the end of the day where I simply can't gather up the energy to stand up and knowing that's due to a day full of productive shizz, aww yeaah! Look at me, I'm all grown up! HOORAY!

On brighter news, literally, the sun is finally out! Yay, the sun has come out to play and I'm indulging in it before it leaves us again. Hello bare legs, good bye leggings! I'm finally getting back into my groove and wearing something more than my beloved oversized denim tops with leggings and moccasins, it's about time! These t-strap wedges are my new buffalo exchange haul, they're deena & ozzy and they sooo remind me of vampires, am I right? And if anyone dares to make a Twilight reference...well, I may just have to kill you. I couldn't wait to break out my vintage skirt from JoellenLove, it's so cute and I love the uneven and distressed hemline. Ugh, I've seriously missed wearing actual clothes, it feels oh so lovely.

h&m leather jacket, stone necklace, cut up victoria's secret tank up, thrifted leather belt,

vintage printed uneven skirt, deena & ozzy vampy wedges

HEY HEY LA! (PART 3)

This is it. The last of my LA adventures, the end of the hoopla, the finale. TA DA! Let's begin.

Three girls, in LA, what to do, what to do?! We couldn't think of a better use of a day than to visit the holy bench that the amazing buttocks of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zoe Deschanel (among with a million of other die hard romantic's) have graced. I gladly smothered my own ass all over the bench to soak up all and any essence of the two that is still left on the bench. Not going to lie, I died a little on the inside. Died in a good way, my heart swooned all over the place. I promise, nee, I SWEAR I'm not a stalker....I SWEAR!

A little photo sess later, we needed a caffeine fix to prep us for the little drive back and to warm us up because the sun in LA never came up that day and left us with nothing but wind. Little did we know that everything in downtown LA closes by 5PM. UHM WHAT?! Confused? Indeed. But we eventually found a cute little organic coffee shop by UCLA that had delicious desserts that flavor-danced all over my tongue. Yummmmmm!

vintage wallpaper-esque flowy top: H&M ($9)

vintage brown belt: thrifted ($5)

brown "explorer" skirt: taiwan ($3)

grey knee highs: target ($1)

mocassins: crossroads ($12)

chandelier-like necklace: f21 ($8)

vintage coach satchel: thrifted ($15)

The next day, our final day in LA, I HAD to make time to go to the Melrose Trading Post and I'm SOOO Happy I did! Let me just say, vintage heaven, OH DEAR LORD! Within 5 seconds of walking in we spotted a Rumi Neely look-a-like! I found gorgeous vintage items from leather bags to shabby chic furniture to leather boots! Everyone, boys and girls, there dressed amazingly well, I couldn't help but oogle and stare and drool (just a little). Sigh, I left my heart there and I need to return and retrieve it ASAP!

And that was it, the end of my six day trip in LA. I'm already starting to plan my next trip down!

photo cred for some photos: My bestie, Laura.

HEY HEY LA! (PART 1)

After the dreary fuss that was finals, hectic move outs and sad goodbyes, a well deserved break from reality was exactly what I needed to gather myself before the eminent doom that is Berkeley summer session. So what could be better than a trip down south the west coast to visit the people I miss the most? Well, maybe a trip to Europe or Belize or Bali, BUT I'm broke and only have a week off and I'M BROKE, so a drive down to LA would have to do.

The first stop was Newport Beach. MAN is that place beyond BEAUTIFUL?! Seriously, I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to actually live there. Albeit it is a quaint little town, nevertheless the beautiful ocean surrounding is definitely something I could get used to. The beach has always been a favorite of mine. I love the way it smells, the way it sounds, and the way it can always calm me like nothing else in the world is able to do; it's pure magic and nothing but.

OHH, AWW, OHH! The houses there were just AMAZING! I am an architecture-junkie (or so I'd like to think) and the houses were so unique and different from anything in the bay. There were contemporary, modern, brick, European, old-school, southern, beachy, and so much more! I was in eye candy overload to tell you the truth, I was OOHING and AWWING at HOUSES. Not boys, or anything of that sort but houses. Typical me.

I love traveling and being a tourist and doing all things embarrassing, isn't it a fun thing to do? It's a speciality of mine, I'm freakin' awesome at being an embarrassment! It's pretty much encoded into my DNA, I can't wait to pass these amazing genes on, let's populate a world full of awkward embarassing kids, YEAH! Anyone down? Let's start a new tribe.

I had the best time driving around from Laguna Beach to Irvine to Corona del Mar, it was all just so beautiful! My eyes were kind of overwhelmed by the simple beauty that these towns provided. While there was not much to do there, the simple fact that the beach is merely 3 steps away changes the whole feel of the town. See, it is all about the little things in life.

leopard top: thrifted

light denim shirt: thrifted

tights: f21

socks: target

Steve Madden leather boots: Macys

leather Coach satchel: thrifted

IT'S BRITNEY, BITCH: GIMME GIMME MORE?

So dead weak has descended upon us, GREAAAAAT. The week before finals, its basically "study until you're on the brinks of death" week. Coincidentally, it is also the most sun Berkeley has gotten in weeks...THIS HAS GOT TO BE SOME SORT OF A CONSPIRACY! It's like Berkeley is tempting us to give studying the middle finger and, instead, prance around memorial glade under the glorious sun and be HAPPY so we'll end up failing...well, you have NOT succeeded! HA! Not that I still won't fail but at least it'll be all my doing. I'm currently sitting in the dungeon (aka underground study lounge) trying to write a 10 page paper on the infamous...or rather really famous Britney Spears' meltdown of 2007...and I've actually gotten negative work done...literally, I just deleted everything (1 paragraph) that I've written. So instead of frolicking out in the sun, I've decided to blog my worries away! YEAH!

So the post title is the working title of my Britney paper, you dig? I dig! I wonder if I could actually keep it as it is...IT'S JUST SO FREAKIN' BRITALICIOUS! Yes, I went there, I added -LICIOUS, it's like I'm a 7th grader again, I SO WISH I WAS SO I DIDN'T HAVE TO WRITE THIS FREAKING PAPER. Rant over.

I'm no longer a baby bear once May 10th rolls around, it's definitely a bittersweet affair. It's true that I'm no longer the bottom of the totem pole, no longer the rut, but, in a way, I kind of loved being the little wittle baby in such a big school. It gave me a cushion for all the mistakes I've made in the past year. Now I no longer have that diaper, that protective sheet, I'm on my own and it's kind of a "make it or break it" moment. Let's see how year 2 goes shall we? Fingers crossed it's full of good friends, good classes, good memories, and good grades! HA! Okay, the last one may be pushing it but a girl can dream can't she?

So these pictures, these purty purty pictures are from the Work It, BARE Series by the ever so lovely, Brittany Curran who is also the Blog Editor of BARE blog and the other Work It, Berk series. This girl is SO talented folks, like SOOO talented! I don't know how she finds the time to update all her blogs, I only have one and I can never seem to squeeze it in, as sad as that sounds. I promise to work on it, especially over summer! I love making my little brobro my personal camera man, MUAHAHA! See you all once finals are over and I'm free as a bird! Well for like two weeks anyways and then summer classes start, THE PAIN NEVER ENDS!

sheer cheetah top: buffalos exchange ($10)

black jeggings: old navy ($19)

black button up booties: f21 ($30)

multi-stranded black necklace: f21 ($8)

photo creds: Brittany Curran!

BORN THIS WAY

So, after much contemplation and reading through all your lovely feedback, I can't bear to part with The Laugh Slut. Honestly, I was thinking about going a little more fashion-y and a little less lifestyle-y, but, I love telling all you lovers about my whereabouts and my life happenings, it's almost like, and I've said this many many times before, we're BFFs and I just want to spill my guts to you! It's fun for me and it's fun for you (more so fun for me)! The pish posh fancy smancy fashionesque blog name can wait, I'm simply not ready. Really, it's totally me, not you! Yes, The Laugh Slut is a little immature and sometimes borderline embarrassing to say out loud, but that also pretty much sums up my personality. It's fun, out there, weird, attention-grabbing, and obnoxious, hmm sounds about right to me! I'm learning to embrace this...oh who am I kidding, I love it, I live for it, BABY I WAS BORN THIS WAY, YEAH LADY GAGA, YOU PREACH!

Thank you all for your loving support and sorry for the long absence! School is keeping me so preoccupied, there is just so much to do every, single day, bleh! And if I'm not doing work, I'm either writing my articles for Caliber Magazine or working on the BARE Launch Party, or face planting on my bed because I was just too tired to simply sleep in a normal position like a normal person. But, as we all know (and love...right?) I'm anything but normal. Last night, at my friend's birthday dinner, I was kidding around about me being normal...and everyone bursted out into laughter...so....sigh. But anyways! life has been all over the place! Busy, but happy to be busy, I'm loving life!

So many AMAZING opportunities have been thrusted upon me, and I'm so stoked for it all! It's amazing to just see what CAN happen, fingers crossed that they actually WILL happen! Keeping a tight lip on it for now, if everything goes according to plan THEN I'll let you guys in on the news!

These boots are my life. They were shipped to me about two weeks ago and they have been on my feet ever since. Even though they gave me blistering blisters and have absolutely no arch support, not like I need much, or any, considering that I'm flat footed like a duck, I LOVE THEM TO PIECES AND PIECES! The fact that they were originally $160 and I snagged them for $30 (including shipping and tax) makes my inner (and outer) asian glee with joy! Gosh I love a good deal, it really gets the blood in my body flowing, I even start to glow! It's basically like pregnancy minus the weight gain, the food cravings, the morning sickness, the bloating, and the baby.

olive military jacket: f21 ($25)

cheetah collared top: buffalos exchange ($8)

zipper leggings: f21 ($5)

dreamcatcher necklace: f21 ($6)

steve madden boots: macys ($160-->$60-->$30!)

men trouser socks: dollar store, holla! ($1)

SEA OF COTTON

Wow it's been a loooonnng time. I promise I didn't forget about you lovelies, quite the contrary. I actually feel guilty for not updating, like you guys are my BFFs and I'm keeping you out of the loop. But I'm not, I swear I'm not, I just haven't found the right words to string into sentences with the right punctuation at the end (shout out to hello goodbye!) I've been kind of in a rut; with both fashion and life. I'm soooo utterly confused as to where my life is headed right now. With my disinterest in my classes, I'm starting to question my major...yet again. Sighhhhh, give me a sign, please I beg of thee! SOMEONE, ANYONE, I N S P I R E M E, INSPIRE THE CRAP OUT OF ME!

On a more pleasant note, the weather has been ridiculously amazing. My favorite part of the day is my sun-soaked hazy dazy hour long lunch where I get to enjoy the sunlight and listen to my ipod while tuning out the world. It's lush, just lush. It's calming, peaceful and relaxing; just the pick me up I need after my stats lab, bleh!

Now onto a funny note, way back in December when I had my 20 minute orgasm at the Triple Ho Show with Enrique Iglesias, I was actually interviewed, more like ambushed, by a NYTimes Magazine journalist who's writing a piece on one of the performers, Miranda Cosgrove. Well, to sum it up, I sound like a complete and utter bitch. And not only that, but I sound like a complete and utter bitch that's incredibly obsessed with Enrique. Oy. Oh well, I only said the truth, if that makes me bitchy than call me Bitchy McBitchface then! If you're interested, you can read all about my manic rant HERE (or skip to page 5).

Look at me! I'm in a maxi! Crazy right? I look so incredible short in these shots, like I'm swimming in a sea of cotton, but I swear I look at least a couple millimeters taller in person! While the weather is heating up, the wind doesn't stop a-blowing here in Berkeley, ever. So I felt like this was a good way to balance it out (and because my jeans are judging my muffin top...which makes me want to eat muffins...I want muffin now). But, it's okay because I'd rather be in this weather than the Sahara Desert! HA! or the Antarctic!

Sorry to cut this short, we'll have a recap sess soon, pinky promise! Got to run off to finalize a couple details for BARE'S DIY EVENT + TRUNK SHOW that is happening this Friday! If you're from the bay, PLEASE stop by! It's going to be AMAZING! And I'll get to see all your pretty faces as well, what a double win!

Dig my messy messy ridiculously messy room? Yeah, neither do I. BUT, to give myself some credit, I did manage to clean my room AFTER I took these pictures. So HA, I'm not THAT bad...okay I am but taking 10 minutes to find my shower shoes at 7AM is NOT OKAY. NO.

sweater: f21 ($20)

maxi dress: f21 ($13)

bow belt: taiwan

brown wedges: tj maxx ($20)

RUT

It is pouring. Down right, pouring like it's cats and dogs out. IT IS THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING BREAK! This is absolutely, positively, a-NOT okay. Sigh, oh Berkeley, how you love to torture us, even when the campanile stops ringing (HAHA, like a high school bell...get it? Okay, fine, I'll stop). After an awkward encountering with my professor as I ditched class (I ran into him as he walked in...awwwk), I successfully avoided all my Friday classes so I can get a jumpstart on DESTINATION SDSU! WOOT! A couple of friends and I are road tripping it down to SDSU for the weekend to live it up, escape from the rain, and party hard! Ohhh and to visit a couple of good high school peeps, YO!

Thank goodness it's finally spring break, 9 days of happiness here I come! Cal is definitely burning me out, phew! It's a lot more draining than I imagined, but it's a good kind of draining...well, ish. Now if only this stupid rain would go, go, gooo away so I can enjoy my break and ignore my work! Please!

This upcoming week includes a lot of bumming around in my panda! sweatshirt and yoga pants...so really, it's not that different than what I do here at Cal...my life is sad. I know.

Last Wednesday, I met up with Kathleen of Inspirafashion and Deanna from A California Dreamer at the Sway Spring Fashion Show. It was a fun filled night full of bite sized food, pretty flowy clothes, cuties (WAIT, WUT?!), and beauties! Even though I had to hurry my boot from a BARE Events meeting and scarf down a quick snappy dinner to make the event, and had forgotten Finley (my Nikon) and money (RIGHT, RIGHT!?!?), yet I still had a jolly good time with my fellow Berkeley bloggers!

The weather's been making me feel supes bummy and my brain refuses to put together any feasible outfits, so I've been living in my leggings and nothing else. I'm in a fashion rut, somebody pull me out?

white lace top: thrifted

brown "vain" tank: hand me down

leggings: charlotte russe

rain boots: target ($30)

gray cable knit cardigan: old navy ($10)

own necklace: taiwan

awkward hand positions: ME, ME, ME, ALL ME!

P.S. CSN giveaway winner in the next update! Sorry loves I'm completely lackin' on my blogging duties!

P.P.S. Love you all and thanks for the constant support :)

FLOWER POWER

Where did the time go last week? Gahhh, I've been a busy busy busy bee for one! I've had meetings, concerts (okay, just singular but I didn't want to kill me roll of -s!), tons of homework (barf!), events, parties and...a photoshoot! :O

The past weekend was my first BARE photoshoot and it was a fantastic experience! Saturday morning, the committee and I went to pull clothes for the shoot and boy did it make my heart yearn to go shopping for...well, me! Saturday afternoon came the fitting with our beautiful model and it was a bittersweet experience as some things just don't look as good on as it does on the racks, sigh. But nevertheless, we made it work! Sunday was the actual shoot which went from 11-4:30pm, but it was a whole lot of fun, of eating, of merryness, of silly dancing! Can't wait to share it with you guys when it's completely finished, ah! I seriously can't wait for the next one, if only I could do this for a living, I'd die of happiness! I guess glamour does kill...(Okay, funny side note, my glamour kills is so my AIM sn, oh silly middle school me trying to be all hard and whatnot)

Monday was the Hellogoodbye concert! It was freaking delicious! I discovered two more bands that I'm seriously addicted to now...I'm even listening to one RIGHT THIS SECOND :O So, grab a pen and paper or just open up a Youtube page and type in JUKEBOX THE GHOST and listen to anything because they are gold, THEY ARE SO GOOD! After you fall in love with them and their charismatic performances (I can guarantee you they are 100000x better live) listen to GOLD MOTEL, because they're simply presh! All these songs are making me supes excited for the upcoming warm weather, fingers crossed! Hellogoodbye was epic as well, duh, that's just a given. Perfect road trip music, ayyy ay ayy!

My first post in my brand spanking new foodie column, Eat, Blog, Repeat, is up at Caliber Magazine Blog! Go go go, check it out, please please please with a cherry on top of Francisco Lachowski?! (WAIT, NO! Do not imagine that, he's mine, mine, mine, all mine!!!) Let me know if you love it, hate it, if it makes you hungry, if it makes you want to barf, CRITICIZE ME! I'M GIVING YOU PERMISSION! Be kind though, I'm like a delicate wittle panda bear and you simply can't be mean to little pandas! And if you do, you need to click the little red X and get off of my blog because I cannot and will not tolerate such atrocious behavior!

crochet top: goodwill ($7)

purple tank top: victoria's secret

black leggings: gift

grey booties: kmart ($20)

leather jacket: H&M ($30)

P.S. OH, OHH, OHH YEAH! I was interviewed and featured on Smashion last week, you guys should check it out, it's a goooooood one ;)

P.P.S. Last week to enter the CSN GIVEAWAY! Come on lovelies, enter and get all of your friends and blogger friends to enter, enter, enter!

BABY YOU'RE A FIREWORK

Corny title, yes, but oh so freakin' appropriate! Just last week, my roomie invited me to her sorority AXO's invite in the city. The theme? AXO July Fourth, how cute right?! Since invites at CAL always fall on Thursday nights, I had a huge dilemma; to study for my stats 2 midterm that was taking place Friday at 1PM or go to a huge (& free!) party in SF...the decision wasn't a hard one to make. My justification was that 2o years, what am I going to remember: that nice fatty A (ok fine, realistically it would be a B at best. grr math, even fake math and I do not get along) on my midterm or the night that I ran free and wild while wearing an American flag with my best friend? So of course I went with the latter because, let's face it, I'm always down for a good time, no matter the consequences (personality flaw on my part, oopsies!)

flag worn as a top: asian party shop ($8)

red skirt: borrowed (f21)

silver oxfords: urban outfitters ($20)

red&blue headband: asian party shop ($2)

Despite the downpour of rain (curses Berkeley weather!) we walked all over the place, not giving a damn about the possibility of us getting pneumonia, in order to get to AXO, to get to AEPI, to get on the bus, cause in the end, it was well worth it. The whole thing was a blurry memory of good times, of clumsiness, of everything that goes with being young (HAHA, GET IT GET IT? CAUSE MY LAST NAME'S YOUNG AND I'M YOUNG?!?! OK, BAD JOKE, FINE HUMPHH!)

I'm a firm believer that college is far more than just studying, attending lectures, and aiming for that perfect gpa. While all that is nice and definitely helpful towards your future, college is so much more than that. It's the place to find your bridesmaids, to find your best man, to find the people you're going to call in 10 years (or 20 years in my case) when your first born is here, the ones you're willing to put do anything for; it's the place to find your true friends.

I don't know if this is the case for everyone, or if I was just incredibly lucky, but the friends I've made here in the last 6 months are closer than most friends (though not all, I love my HS besties to death!) I've maintained during my 4 years in high school. They've seen me at my worst and at my best, they see me when I just woke up, eyes half opened and still drooling, and when I'm fully dolled out, they're there for me at all hours of the night and I'm there for them. I love them so much and can't wait to see what other kinds of shenanigans we're going to get into over the next four years, yippee!

P.S. I don't regret not staying in to study for my stats midterm one bit.

P.P.S. The fact that we get to drop our lowest midterm score doesn't hurt!

P.P.P.S. Don't forget to enter the $40 CSN GIVEAWAY! You know you want it ;)