GET TO KNOW ME TUESDAY-PART 6

It's been a while. Let's bring it back.

1. I'm not wearing pants right now. Scandalous, I know! Not really since I'm cuddled underneath sheets and heaps of blankets!

2. I am no longer a baby bear! My freshmen year at Cal ended this morning at 11. I'm growing up, scary thought bro!

3. I've been on a constant 90's pop mood lately; hello Aaron Carter, J Lo (from the block), Hilary Duff, Bewitched, S CLUB 7, A*teens, old school Britney Spears, Xtina, and so much more! Oh, it really is the best music to study to...okay, I tend to end up singing like a loon in the middle of a stone quiet library getting glared at by angry studiers...SO WORTH IT.

4. I just took a "how fast and accurate do you type" test and I only got 66 wpm, WHAT?! THIS IS NOT OKAY! I BASICALLY LIVE ON THE FREAKING INTERNET. ANISA IS SO ROYALLY PISSED, I TOTES JUST TALKED ABOUT MYSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON THAT IS HOW ANGRY I AM. GR. MUST GET IT TO BE OVER 100 OR ELSE.

5. Haven't slept yet, pulled an almost all nighter studying for my stats final so I'm about to PTFO ASAP FYI (I'm also a lover of text talk because I think it sounds silly!)

MOMMY DEAREST

Hi Ma Ma. I know you're never going to read this but I want the world to know just exactly what you mean to me. We've been through so much in the last eighteen years; we've fought (A LOT), we've said things we didn't mean (A LOT), we've done things we wish we hadn't (A LOT), but in the end you're the best mom I could've asked for. Through everything, through our ups and downs, through our highs and lows, we've been through it all and came out on top. We've grown from it all and created a beautiful relationship unlike any other. You are my role model; you are the strongest woman I've ever known. You are the bravest, kindest, sweetest, most inspiring woman in my life. Though some parents refuse to allow their kids to take control of their own life in fear that they'll mess up, you thrust the responsibility onto me and allow me to make those fundamental mistakes so I'll learn on my own and for that I thank you, I love you. You are the reason I am the person I am today, you and you alone. I thank you for being the stability in my life, for being the provider, for staying up until 5am just to make sure that anthology gets finished, for pushing me to bigger and better things. Thank you for letting me live the life I want, for letting me have dreams and for letting me go after those dreams. Happy Mother's Day Ma Ma, I love you.

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)

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 :)