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)

TIME FOR A NEW START?

I've been racking my brains around, trying to figure out if renaming my blog would be a good idea or not...and I'm at a complete standstill. Inputs my lovelies? Please help a poor sistaaa soul out yo!

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 ;)

I FEEL LIKE AN ASIAN OPRAH!

OOOH, OH, OHHH! I'VE GOT A SURPRISE FOR YOU ALL LOVELIES! CSN approached me about doing an awesome giveaway for all my amazing followers! I love each and every one of you so naturally I jumped at the opportunity! What is CSN? CSN is a site that sells anything and everything; from lights to boots to exercising equipment! How ridiculously convenient and lazy-approved is that? I mean their byline is "....Shop Easy!" Hell yeah! Thumbs up from lazy ass #1!

So back to the giveaway! What do you win, cause that's all that matters in the end right? Totes! Well, you're entering to win a $40 promotion code for ANYTHING your heart desires on CSN. You can buy boots, bedsheets, or a floor-length mirror! HOW AWESOME IS THAT YO? OMG, I'M SUPES JELLY! Boy, do I feel like an asian Oprah (just poorer, way way way poorer actually, and yellow!)

My personal picks:

1.Pan Am Originals Explorer Bag

How classy is this? Imagine walking in to the airport with this chic little carry on, ahhhhhh, how old school vintage cute is it!? It's the perfect size too! It can fit your sweater for in case it gets cold, your chapstick (you never know when it could come in handy...wink wink!), your huge cover-half-your-face sunglasses and 700mL bottle of smart water (a girls got to do, what a girls got to do when she gets a hangover), and a book to read or pretend to read to seem classy and smart (duh!)

2. Women's Puddles Rain Boots in Black Burst

RAINBOOTS! YAY! How freaking cute are these?! GAHHHH, I would literally pray for it to rain to wear these cute little suckers on my feet! Luckily (Not, screw you rain! Kidding! We love you, you water our plants and make the world go round and round!) If I didn't already have a pair of rainboots, these would so be it!

SO GO, ENTER, AND WIN! SO YOU CAN SHOP, SHOP, SHOP!

All you have to do is leave a comment with:

1. Your name

2. Your email

3. What you follow me through (cause I want to get to know more of you lovers)

1 extra entry for following me on GFC

1 extra entry for follow me on BLOGLOVIN'

1 extra entry for follow me on TWITTER

1 extra entry for tweeting "I just entered CSN's giveaway with @anisaYO for a $40 promotional code, enter here: http://tinyurl.com/45ko8v8! GO GO GO!"

The giveaway will be going on until March 12 at 11:59PM

ENTER, ENTER, ENTER! I love each and every one of you lovelies :)