saturday i headed out to irvine for the 50th cal-nev-ha circle k district convention. since it was the 50th they wanted to do alumni day.. and i got suckered into going. oh.. $65.. jimmy said he'd consider it a donation.. so i guess i'll think of it that way too. i left kind of late, but also made myself later because i stopped by disneyland to renew my pass. except i didn't take into consideration that 10:30am is when disneyland just opens so there was a bajillion people in long long lines. so i decided that i didn't want to wait, or walk over to main entrance so i just left and would come back later in the day. so off i was to convention. i got there and registered and made my own name tag.. haha.. because i'm a slacker and registered late so i didn't get an "official" badge or any of the souvenirs, except petey was kind enough to let me steal all of his. :) thanks! had fajitas for lunch, sat with petey and my club.. aww how i've missed them. although i do wish more oldies like hailes or tanya would have been there too (i know petey wished tanya was there also.. haha). after lunch i went between the scrapbook workshop and hod. i wanted to see what this years scrapbooks looked like! hehe. hod was alright.. alice won for gov.. CONGRATS ALICE!! and i stayed until norma got desert oasis ltg YAY NORMA!!! although she ran unopposed so that would have been sad if she had lost. hahha. :P then i cut out of hod and petey and i went to disneyland to renew my pass. this time there was definitely a lot less people there so renewing my pass was easy, although it took me awhile to decide whether i wanted to stay deluxe or move up to premium. anyhoo afterwards we had haagen-daas ice cream (because jamba juice was too packed) and everything was fine and dandy except my eye started to hurt, A LOT. i guess something got in my eye, but i washed out my eye multiple times and tried everything, but my eye kept hurting and i kept crying :( so i had petey drive back and tried to get my eye to rest. got ready for the vip/senior reception and sat with norma and maritza. haha.. the whole time my eye kept watering and later when i explained to maritza that something was in my eye she was like "oh.. i thought you were crying because you were so moved. all your cki memories were coming back to you" hahahahha... what a dork she must have thought i was. anyways.. sat with ucsd one last time for dinner.
ucsd cki and cki alumni!
they got honorable mention (BOO) for scrapbook and emily got distinguished president. not as great as last year :( it made me a little sad.. like i feel like i wasn't able to train the new board as well or i just didn't know how to make the success so continuous like other clubs (ie berkeley, ucla) hmm. but anyways. afterwards took lots of pictures and said goodbyes and then instead of staying for the dance/casino night a bunch of the alumni plus a few stragglers went over to the spectrum to the yardhouse to have a few drinky-poos.
it was a good time just to hang out and chill and have a few drinks. my eye was hurting (still!) and i was kind of tired so i wasn't in the mood to get totally trashed, which would prove to be a good thing later. haha. nicole crashed the end of the dinner at convention to say hi and benji met us up at the yardhouse.. i hoped he didn't feel too weird as the only non-cki'er. because we are all weird and cultish about that crap.. but he had a good time, and i'm sure he was flattered that pic was friendly with him. hahah. although as nicole's post proves that pic was friendly with everyone, but i guess we're all used to it by now.
we just imbibed a little, have some interesting conversations, nicole tried to make ryan chug his margarita, pic and nicole went on the look out for cute boys, manny had a good amount of drinks, as did ryan, and nicole. hahah.. good think that most of my friends aren't annoying drunks. because you know how when you're the sober one and everyone else is drunk it can sometime grate on your nerves? it wasn't too bad and nicole especially was entertaining :) anyhow.. it was a good time to just hang out and chill.
afterwards we went to ihop to try and get everyone to sober up. i should have went home because it was uber late and i was pretty tired but the allure of hanging out was just too strong. although my eye started hurting again once i got there... thank god for nicole and her visine. i napped for a little bit in ihop, while manny passed out in my car and pic revived miss witch. oh lordy. we all laughed thinking about how many times we were haunted by miss witch, ryan made the fact that pic would move his hand closer to the phone in attempt for beth (on the phone) to "hear" miss witch (a hand puppet) better, while benji just thought we were all crazy. haha. afterwards we finally parted ways and i drove home and talked on the phone to stay awake and got home after 4am. yikes. check out the rest of the pictures from that night here.
needless to say, on sunday i was TI-RED. so i shut off my phone and anything else that could possibly wake me up and slept until 4pm. i like sleep. i ran some errands and ate some food at costco and target with sakura and came home in time to see jason mraz on american dreams. it was cute. on monday i went to the optometrist and he asked about my eyes, so i told him about my pain on saturday. he checked it out and i have an "abrasion" on my eye from something that totally scratched my eye and i have a small hole in my cornea. so i got new contacts that let more oxygen through so that doesn't happen as often. but see.. something was definitely wrong. you can totally tell in all the convention pictures.. my right eye is red and puffy and smaller than my other eye (and no.. it's not just small because i'm asian :P)
tuesday sakura came over so i could help her, or rather make her calendar for her.. but we watched lots of tv, americal idol and average joe. we laughed so hard when adam jumped and squirmed when the golf cart crashed into the water. it was hilarious. :) yesterday i went to the job fair at the staples center. it was alright.. it was a sports and entertainment job fair so there was various companies there. i had never been to a job fair where i had a huge vested interest (i just went to the job fairs on campus at ucsd to get free stuff :P) i was a little nervous and just talked to some people. not exactly what i thought it was going to be, but there may be a few good things that come out of it. considering a job in sales.. i wonder what that would be like.. if i'd even like it. we'll see. went to the hockey game.. my first ever :P since i had paid for the ticket (it came with the fee for the job fair) and i didn't want to waste the money (too late for that) so i watched the kings lose to the sharks. but it was pretty interesting because i sat by these two guys who had also gone to the job fair.. and by randomness i knew people that they knew. one of them knew my family friend joey and mike wei and plus he was in cki for a little bit so he knew some random cki people and this other guy was from the same town as some guys i knew in college. so weird! so it was cool, we all got to talking and enjoyed the hockey game. even from far up (3rd to the last row) it was a pretty good view. my love of hockey still stays with the mighty duck movies (we will we will quack you!). but the BEST part was during the 1st and 2nd periods where they had these 5 and 6 year olds come out to the ice and play for a little bit. not an actual game, but just a bunch of little kids in hockey gear putting pucks in goals. there was like 30 of them swarming the ice, but it was so cute. anyhoo.. i cut out of the game early and went to grab a late dinner with keri at rocky cola cafe and got a tour of the house she's house sitting.
today.. played hookey from work and went to the sizzler with my daddy. my sister's going to come over in a little bit and shower me with gifts from taiwan (i hope). hahah.
yesterday there was some crazy business going down in torrance. although i'm sure bad stuff happens all the time every day, but yesterday was the day for all the high profile junk to happen.
there was a stolen purse and car chase going on in south/east torrance.
there was a car chase/shooting in northeast torrance/gardena (right down the street from my work.. and right by the starbucks i almost went to right about that time!! good thing my lazy ass went to the other starbucks instead for the drive thru!! where by the way i spilled freaking coffee in my cd player because the morons at starbucks put too much in the cup. my cd player is jacked up.. grrr...)
and craziest of all there were bank robbers hiding out near my house.. literally in the street behind my house. i went home during my lunch hour to change for the job fair hoping that they had already caught the guy because erika had told me that there was crazy stuff going on by my house (she saw it on tv). but no.. there was still tons of coppers... they blocked off our entire neighborhood and i had to circle around the block a few times to find an entrance to get in. the blocked off the main street and the highway entrance right by my house making traffic insane. and i had to pass through a few cop barriers to go home. crazy crazy crazy. but still.. i swear torrance is not ghetto.
this was a long post.. congrats for being a trooper and getting through it. but i made it fun right?!
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