candid camera

Zhong1 Wen2

2009-02-03T12:22:00.000-08:00

I was in the TEC lab, practicing writing chinese characters [even though Austin told me it was too early to learn them]

He caught me in the act! He was upset with me for ignoring his advice.

I just

didn't understand.

Why won't he let me do what I want?

.......
.....OH well, there's always thermal.

grand plan

2009-02-03T08:02:00.000-08:00

I tried to go to DENNY'S with Austin today to get my hands on a free grand slam. The plan was to go at 7 to try and "beat the lines", but the lines would've taken hours to get through. Maybe I'll go for a grand slam lunch, before 2pm? The problem is we're going on a double for lunch at 11, to get some sushi...but most likely I'll still be hungry :]

i think i want a combo.

2009-01-14T14:09:00.000-08:00

some people are starting to wear (super cute) headbands instead of veils for their wedding (what? i just always have weddings on my mind...). i so love the veil, i don't think i could NOT wear one...but how about combining the two? check these super cute bandos

alice in wonderland

2008-11-10T17:08:00.000-08:00

i want to go to the ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: A PHOTOGRAPHER’S LIFE exhibit in new york. she is just amazing. if ever there was time to be everything i wanted to be, photographer would def be one of my occupations. this was just so inspiring...

hello there

2008-10-25T13:20:00.000-07:00

Wii worked really hard today

2008-07-25T13:33:00.000-07:00

Work was so stressful today. After receiving our new equipment and software, we had to put it together and learn how to use it, so that we can help future teachers learn to use it in the classroom. There was just so much to do and by the end of it all I was pretty exhausted. Sheesh, I really should be paid a lot more for all the work and stress that goes into my job.

reading time

2008-07-16T17:47:00.000-07:00

I found this on another blog and it got me thinking about my mother. Some day i will buy her a house with a book room remarkably similar to this one of Karl Lagerfeld in the new Elle Decoration (UK). With the addition of some color, of course.

"It would be great if you could buy with the books the time to read them". -Schopenhauer

When I was a girl, my mother would take me shopping. No, scratch that, my mother would find a bench outside the store and read her book while I did the shopping . Purchasing was the only disruption she allowed me.

Father, of course, would always be caught with a book too, lazily reading in his recliner. Both my parents are such marvelous readers; what happened to me?

airplane delight

2008-07-10T07:31:00.000-07:00

$140 is really not that much for this, is it? Would it be so bad if I blew a week's paycheck on this adorafreakingble luggage?

n.o.

2008-07-09T17:03:00.000-07:00

yes? no! n.o.
nicole osborn.
sooo fetch.
[haha that was for b.b.]

summer floats

2008-07-02T11:46:00.000-07:00

MY lovely roommate, Nicole, came home the other day with (gasp!) floaty-innertubes! They had F-U-N written all over them, and they were on $1. We slid into the pool, only nicole didn't fully inflate hers so it sort of collapsed in on her (like I usually am with her, I was laughing so hard by this point)! But eventually we got the hang of it, and if it weren't for some rambunctious swimmers, we could have floated there all day long. Isn't Nicole's swimmer-suit so sensational?? From Deliah's. Mine is another sale find at GAP. Oooh blessed summer.

2008-06-30T12:25:00.000-07:00

Can you see the rufflets? They're there, on the bottoms of my dress. And on brooke's. Um our random roommate took this picture so deal with the blurrrrrr. And the second picture, where it looks like i'm coughing...that's because I am. I have this weird-sick-cough-sorethroat-stuffynose-can'tTASTEanything-thing, and it won't go away. Hey! This dress is from Italy too. How fun. I love to buy things from far away. And I love the store ZARA's, which is where I found this foxy dress. Bellissimo!

Second Day of twin-fit-week

2008-06-26T10:58:00.000-07:00

WE had some more fun today. I think our co-workers are starting to wonder where we are disappearing to, for the brief moments we are gone. Rogan for GO International designed my wonderful pencil skirt that I found with brooke yesterday. We got pretty darn lost trying to take a "faster" route to Target, and, um let's just say that I have zero sense of direction. My light sweater was a SALE find at the GAP, and my delicious short-heeled half-backs, I picked up from a little shop in Florence, Itlay. And brooke of course is wearing like all vintage pieces, as usual. So day 2 turned out to be quite entertaining, wouldn't you agree?

twin-fit-week

2008-06-25T11:05:00.000-07:00

MY co-worker/roommate/fellow-blogger Brookie B., over at sohotsofresh and I have lots of fun at work, together. Especially when we show up matching! We have kind of come to this conclusion: we usually end up matching in one way or another. So we decided to snap some pics while we were at it. Hey, when you're locked inside of a lab, day after day, you start to find ways to entertain yo-self. But, like, please don't tell our boss.

2008-06-16T12:34:00.000-07:00

Happy birthday presents are always fun to wear. Step & Meg got me this lovely number, all the way from....can you guess? Thank you dears, and thanks to Utah for giving me crappy summer weather that enables me to fashion this free Nantucket find.

2008-06-06T12:52:00.000-07:00

is it just me, or did stephanie meyer's write a book on my life? i was telling spencer today (yes we were talking about something other than white-out, for once), that i am going anti-social. and i am. this is my life, everyday: i wake up, go to work, come home, and if no one is home, i go for a run. then i climb into bed and inevitably fall asleep reading. no mexico, no montana, just me and an ocean of pillows and blankets. excepting the late night sushi run the other evening, that's pretty much what i do. luckily, in books, i am able to transport myself to somewhere else, be someone else, feel the hurt and pain that doesn't belong to me. Gutenberg, to you i owe my sanity. and to photoshop.

2008-06-03T10:19:00.000-07:00

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

[Robert Frost]

2008-05-27T16:18:00.000-07:00

if any of you know how much i love birthdays (besides this year's uneventful bash), this is the girl who taught me to. in 8th grade we planned a surprise birthday for two of my friends. we ordered a limousine to pick us up in front of the school, and headed to Bullwinkle's--a miniature golf course that was freaking off the hook (to us, at that age, anyways). we stayed there til we were all worn out and very full, before we rode our limousine back school. i love her for this memory and a thousand more. happy birthday emowlio!

2008-05-20T08:55:00.000-07:00

2008-05-19T10:16:00.000-07:00

yessss i need a new bathing suit. i have been trying them on left and right but by budget has not been approving of my selections. whateverrr. rhianna's 1940's-inspired leopard print one-piece is one of those "that looks good on her, but not on me" situations, but i would wear it in a heart-beat...that is how deep my desperation goes.

2008-05-15T07:14:00.000-07:00

i'm listening to augustana's can't love, can't hurt album. its new, and i'm liking the sounds. i want ittttttttttt.

2008-05-12T15:25:00.000-07:00

i wish that melissa would come back to provo. i miss having insightful conversations with her and talking about books we will write and adventurous places we will go.
prediction: Danielle and Brooke will both make enough money to rival Bill Gates, while Megan and Stephanie will have too many stories to share about the who, what, when, where of their little magical island.
BIRTHDAY girls. happy birthday megan! happy happiness to you. this was before we all said our summer goodbyes. and TODAY is my dear brookies birthday. wishes to you bkb.

FOr a couple days, my mom's dearest friend, Dorhthea, took us to San Diego where we stayed in a beautiful hotel with pool's and slides and forestry, and that was aside from the breathtaking view of the beach just a stone's throw from my window. the room we stayed in had a bathroom and decor that is just what i hope to have in my home.

2008-04-22T11:44:00.000-07:00

i should be studying. i watched a movie last friday that i liked very much. based on a book that i wish i'd have read before watching the film. and my dear, sweet, loyal ipod that has been with me all these years is slowly and bitterly fading from existence. the end of the year is a day away. Media Law & ethics, and WOrld Civilization is standing in the way. soon, tho, i will be on a beach in california, soaking up a tan before coming back to provo, which, as of late, is seeming a mundane option for my summer, but good to prepare for future church service. i welcome the summer.

2008-04-03T11:56:00.000-07:00

I'm looking out the window and I'm wondering if the sunlight on the grass is a warm sunlight, or if it is a deceitful, come outside because it looks warm but really it's chilly and windy kind of sunlight.

this is my grandmother, who died in Vietnam when my dad was only 18. i wish i could've met her, i wonder what she would say to me.

2008-03-22T12:49:00.000-07:00

2008-03-15T11:53:00.001-07:00

2008-03-13T13:58:00.000-07:00

i doooo like to dooooodle. especially during an extensive lecture that i'm mostly likely NOT paying much attention in.

i do like to sing

2008-03-10T10:28:00.001-07:00

If there's one thing that influences my feelings, moods, thoughts, style, dress, LIFE...it's music.
here's how i see it:
good music = happy thoughts
if i could sing, and i mean really sing, like a mixture of mandy moore+norah jones kind of melodic sound, i would be one of those really annoying people who sing 24/7, every possible song that flies into their heads. i would probably just stop talking all together, and simply live the life of a broadway musical, where everything inspires a song. can you imagine if every conversation on the weather, every argument about politics, every communication with God, was in the form of a song? in the words of ERC, "...you can't tell me that wouldn't change the world."

*you know those days...

2008-03-03T09:17:00.000-08:00

you know those days when all that you can see

is the sidewalk lines, and the shadow of the trees?

and every thought you think somehow makes it hard to breathe,

and every sight you see somehow makes the world blurry...

you know those days when all that you can feel

even when it's warm, is a freezing, goose-bump chill?

and every step you take never fully feels real,

and every soft embrace seems to almost turn to steel...

and then you know those days when you start to see the sun,

when you start to feel warm, and you want to tell someone?

that you can breathe again, that your world is not a blur,

and that getting through each day becomes a little easier?

i think we all know those days, though we often do forget...

so when a friend is down, we calmly do not seem to fret.

but we should realize that their days feel just as blue

as when we had those days, and so now it's up to you

to chase away the clouds for this chilly, shady friend

and help them find the sun, so they feel happy, warm again.

*dedicated to some people in my life whom i dearly, sweetly love.

H&M! H&M! i really reallly like the new spring collection from H&M!

2008-03-01T15:06:00.000-08:00

feast your eyes upon the spring collection!

I don't know if it's because I'm getting ready for a mission, or because I'm just growing up, but sometimes I want to put my miss-matchy style on the hanger and dress like a woman from the Hampton's (on an H&M budget, of course): ----->

i like...the feeling of spring

2008-02-29T12:10:00.000-08:00

i am madly cramming to finish a research paper for my media law class, but as i was listening to iTunes radio, a song came up that brought a flood of memories and feelings and sounds that i needed to tell someone about...so here is a list of the song and memories that pushed thoughts of ethics and first amendment rights out of my spring-filled head:

pretending that my hard-core mountain bike was really a ten-speed roadster, and perusing the downtown parts of provo.
learning to skate during the late hours of the empty-parking-lot-nights.
fake tatoos.
demolished schools.
an extraordinary amount of roommates.
no job.
the creamery's kids meals.
midnight shakes (that make me siiiiiick).
cabins, bon-fires, birthday celebrations (week long ones!).
being anti-anti.
traveling everywhere for every reason.
"this...is the way i live..." big boi.

2008-02-27T10:21:00.001-08:00

ever since my mother put me in a ballet class when i was in first grade, i have dreamed about leaping across stages with the flow of a tutu behind me. haha, laugh at the image of me in a tutu
...since my dreams of being a prima-ballerina will most likely not come true, i guess i'll just have to stick to wearing soft pinks and floaty fabrics.

PS: i saw the prima-ballerina dance when i was in russia. it is the inspiration for this blog.
PPS: click on the image to see the bigger, beautiful-er version that blogger couldn't upload :/

i like... New York atmosphere

2008-02-11T09:28:00.000-08:00

Must-sees at the Met: I would definitely say that not only was the art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art breathtaking, but so were many of the fits on the fellow art-goers.

Subway Checkout: One of the (many!) perks of underground subways include a wide variety of people/clothing styles. I met a girl who had these Burbury rain-boots that, once seen, prevented any further desire in me to buy any other kind of rain-boots except those.

SEE Through: Can you see? Can you see! You can see right through those Nike's! Better purchase some funky socks for these sheer shoes.

Asians + Clothes = styleeeee. Purple-plaid-print is nice, nice, nice.

Denim-on-denim Delight: Yeahhh nike dunks in levi form! In SOME cases, D-on-D looks delish.

H&M for Kids: I love to shop for my future children! ^

Subway Stylin': See the Evisu jeans all the way to the right? Pure love. The pocket designs come in all sorts of neon and neutral colors. I love the neons the best. www.evisu.com

Window Shopping: Okay, stores like these^ are more like eye-candy for me. (1) my pockets don't run deep enough for these designers, and (2) it's more artistic than practical. Either way, i love these funky finds.

The Prophet of our Church, Gordon B. Hinckley 1910-2008

2008-01-28T09:45:00.000-08:00

Ever since President Hinckley's wife, Marjorie, passed away in 2004, he has expressed in almost every address he gives, how much he loves & misses her dearly. After four years away from her, he can finally be with her again. I want that grow-old-with-you kind of love, and I want to be just like him and his wife, whose love perpetuates the grave and lives on into the next life.

i like... decorated packages!

2008-01-25T09:37:00.001-08:00

broken limb. brooklyn bridge. lambergini. BROOKE LAMB. she is my friend from back home, who goes to school at san jose state--near frisco. SHE just sent me tons of new music, and her packaging was uber stylish. i love her magazine cutouts, so teen-vogue-DYI. packages are fun to receive. so decorate a package and send it to someone you adore! thanks brookie!! from me and my ipod ;]

i like...family.

2008-01-20T06:37:00.000-08:00

I like my family. My Auntie Ha from New York gave me and my brothers Vietnamese names for Christmas. Mine is "A Tran". You say it like "ah-truhn". It means "pearl from asia". I like it. My brother's all got cool Viet names too, but mine is the best. It is! Ask auntie. Right now I'm at my Aunt Rachel's house. She's my mom's sister. She fed us delicious homeade chicken noodle soup, with spetzle noodles. I like her because she always lets us invade her home and devour her food. She also cooks really, really good food. She cares a lot about her children, and that is something I admire. I also like Idaho. It's cold, and snowy, and inconvenient, but looking out the window right now makes up for all that. I wish Megan would come up to Idaho. Her family doesn't always appreciate the jewel that they have, and I hope that sometime soon they will wisen up. Until then, if she'll have us, she will be a part of our family. Even though we are crazy and mixed up, we want her here with us. I like my family.

harajuku loverssss

2007-12-19T21:12:00.001-08:00

i love japanese fashion. this picture was inspired by the bright bubble gum post below, and may i just say that i think america definitely lacks in colorful, bright, happy clothing... everything is blue and black! wtf, wake up! wear something bright today.

today, i swallowed gum.

2007-12-19T20:42:00.000-08:00

i don't really know how it happened, i was just leaving the asian floor (4th floor in the lib) and i realized i had swallowed the orange mint orbit piece i had just put in my mouth. i tried to pull it back out but then i almost gagged and fell down the stairs, and if the EMT's had to come to my rescue again, i would feel even stupider than when i nearly passed out in the bathroom from major killer cramps yesterday. it made me remember, when i was little, ivan told me that if i swallowed gum i wouldn't be able to digest it for seven years. and that made me think of how i believe everything he tells me. how i believe everything a lot of pple tell me, actually. some call it gullible-ness, gullibility, whatever it is, i have it. no, you know what? i'm not gullible! it's called being trustworthy, and i happen to trust what people tell me. i happen to trust that what people say, they truly believe to be true. i happen to trust YOU. so watch what you say, and say what you mean, because those that mind don't matter, and those that matter don't mind. whatever, sometimes it feels good to not make sense. ya dig?

let me explain..

2007-12-19T20:28:00.001-08:00

for those of you who don't know what apple bottom jeans are...

they are ghetto booty jeans...

...emphasis on the BOOTAY.

and it's just fetching hilarious to me cuz i have noticed them for yearrrrrrrsss and when the song came out "apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur..." it made my LIFE! so check the site: applebottomjeans.com, and the song Low featuring my boi T-PAIN... maybe then you will laugh as hard as brooke and i did.

shorty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low

2007-12-15T10:58:00.000-08:00

please leave me a comment if you find this as hilarious as i do.

doggie couture

2007-12-08T09:41:00.000-08:00

i've kind of always thought that it was a bit cruel to put clothes on your dog. i dont think they like it very much, and sometimes it looks silly. but ralph lauren just changed my mind and these little pupper doggies are so freaking adorable, i would justify spending the $32-175 bones that these little fits cost.

[click on the pic to see it in a larger view]

homework time

2007-12-04T22:38:00.000-08:00

meg found an evil cat named lil' romeo. i don't know how she finds good in literally everything she see's, including this creepy, fat (adorable--thatwasformeg) feline. sarah is pretty allergic to cats, and i am getting pretty itchy...

also, sometimes we like to play with lamps...jus' for fun. and make faces on the computer. shorty shorty whatcha name is, oh whatcha name is..

bleh: snowy byu campus. from this mornin.

2007-12-01T12:38:00.000-08:00

it snowed today. and i went to work. the trees on campus were thick with frost, and the ground melted faster than my suede boots would like. when its wintry and cold outside, i actually like to be outdoors, walking around with my head phones in, listening to my snowboarding playlist from freshman year. hhumph. my eyes are tired, and my body is weary. something that is cheering me up, tho, are these beautiful poinsettias at my work. they are, in fact, REAL. i adore real plants, they're living and breathing and beautiful. i am talking to megan duff on the phone right now and she just said "..sex with socks on!" & i laughed very hard. what is she learning at those bridal showers? showers. i took one this morning. it was one of those mornings when the house was dark and chilly, and my body was too exhausted to think, so i soaked in the shower and let the hot water pour over me for a looonngg time. well. i hope you are not imagining me in the shower right now.

i just want to...um, disappear. for now.

eve of thanksgiving

2007-11-22T15:22:00.000-08:00

please meet the 7-10ish people that kept me out of the LA streets as a kid. they alwas have something to say, that's worth laughing a long while at. the first time i hung with these hoodlums, we terrorized the mall, and when i think about that night i can still feel the sting in my side from bursting with laughter. really, literally, truly bursting. i freaking love them all. we brought chris and matt food because they're lame bosses failed to realize the importance of their presence at our fourth feast. but the scuba section in sports chalet, and blockbuster welcomed us with open arms. matt sat on the floor and devoured his dinner, and chris hid is in the back, probably hoping no one saw that we brought him 5 pounds of food. but we still love you both. try and make it to the festivities next year? <3

thanksgivin' plans

2007-11-13T08:30:00.001-08:00

i fee like the weather is at an awkward stage, it's cold but warm. i wish it would just be cold. or warm. i'm going home this weekend and i'm excited because it will be deliciously warm. and even if it's not, it will be that cool california breezey winter. hoku and i are stopping in vegas to do some outlet shop-hoppin. ivan is coming wednesday. i am going to hopefully buy a new pair of jeans over the holiday, which, for me, is a monumental process. i think i pick my jeans like i pick my boys, i want nice ones that fit me, and make me look good. yep, black friday will be my shining day. it will be nice to be home. it's always nice. well, sometimes not so much, but it's all how you look at things. when i have a family, i will have like 11 kids, and thanksgiving day it will be mass chaos with ppl and food everywhere. and after we all eat and make a huge mess we will go outside to our big backyard and play a mean game of tackle football. then we will go inside and watch movies and sleep away our full tummies.

fankie b.

2007-11-10T14:40:00.000-08:00

i want these bad boys. recause they're red, they're hearts, and they're bad a. as in bad apple. not to be confused with ghetto apple bottom jeans. these are FRANKiE B.'s & they're the comfiest jeans i've ever lived in.

from japan

2007-11-09T15:44:00.000-08:00

these studs are sweet! i want to put them all over my everything.

twinkie

2007-11-08T12:46:00.000-08:00

every summer i go to idaho, and let's just say i'm very in touch with my white side. but sometimes i forget that there's a whole nother half of me that i know almost nothing about. someday i will go to vietnam, and visit the house where my dad grew up. i'll walk through the rose gardens that are probably demolished from the war. my auntie will show me around vietnam, and tell me stories of their child hood. and i will wear my ao dai, and finally know my other half.

i do.

2007-11-07T21:58:00.000-08:00

i want a pearl on my wedding ring for so many reasons. a big fat pearl doesn't dent your wallet like a big fat diamond. pearls are classy. plus, i gotta stick to my roots. my Vietnamese name means "beautiful pearl from asia". and, of course, pearls remind me of my mama. which is your fav?

7 for all mankind: bootylicious

2007-11-03T11:45:00.000-07:00

7 jeans are such a common brand that i almost don't like to wear them anymore. especially here in utah, they seem to be more of an "i paid a pretty penny for these" jeans, where the brand matters more than the style. but, they were my first premium denim pair that i purchased way back in my sophomore year of h.s., and i adore them still, because they are made for women who have a booty! i can't stand wearing mainstream denim because i hate bending over and having to cover my behind, or having them fit so tight that it leaves an imprint on my hips for a week. so to those of you out there who have a little junk in the trunk, these are the jeans that will sweetly fit your curves :] it is worth the pretty penny that you pay.

i have a tassi

2007-11-01T09:11:00.000-07:00

this thinger is amaaaaazing! it makes face washing hecca tight instead of hecca annoying. thanks to the twinners: danny &chase. and their growing tassi company :]

simple

2007-10-28T18:23:00.000-07:00

the tree outside my window once had many, bright green leaves.
then yellow, orange, red they fall, til bare, its branches grieve.
though wind and frost and season's change can take it's colored ends,
the sturdy tree stands still and tall, just waiting for the mends
that come with spring, which follows cold--that wintry,darkened season,
when leaves and color come again, and brings back all the reason
for this lonely tree, when all is gone, and winter takes its light,
to hope for that which it knows will come, but is not within sight.
Hold on to hope, it's all we have, to get us through the cold,
Our hope is what gets us through life, it's all we have to hold.

Live Text BBQ

2007-10-20T14:34:00.000-07:00

italia for now

2007-10-15T23:53:00.000-07:00

i have so much good news to share. but the pictures are on steps cam! so until i can post those, i will wait to share my exciting news...for now, i will say that i am terribly homesick for italy.
the coliseum: night or day, it is magical.

ahhh i can just smell these roasted chesnuts, and the sounds of people sitting and talking on the spanish steps that rest just beyond this old man and his chestnut cart.

this picture was taken for my one and only cousin stef, who i dearly miss when i'm halfway across the world...

for those of you who have, at some time in your life, depended on buses as your main transportation, you can appreciate this picture. while i admit that it was annoying to have to run to catch buses, only to be crammed up next to stinky pete, and then realize you are on the wrong bus, with no air conditioning in the 100 degree heat...there is just no better feeling than sitting down and looking out the window, watching the bustling street life of people and cars and bicycles race around, while postal service is vibrating through your ears, and time just seems to slow.

i mostly wanted to capture the graffiti on the wall behind me, but photographers are just hard to work with. as usual, we are all waiting to catch our train, in Castellemare di Stabia. ooh just the name brings back memories. sights and sounds and feelings that make me ache for italia.

seattle

2007-09-19T19:59:00.000-07:00

me and pops went to a wedding in seattle. we ate pho everyday. ya, thats right, i out-ate my pa, he still had noodles left in his bowl.

i love green-ness! i want to live somewhere that is super green and has plants and flowers galore. sorry so cal, i don't know if i can live with a tiny patch of grass for the rest of my life. how will my kids run around and explore with a 10 x 12 fence around the yard?

freshman year

2007-09-16T22:54:00.000-07:00

i miss how fun it was freshman year, going home for christmas break. everyone was there and still excited about where they had come from. i also miss michelle siller, who is a little crazy.
i miss newness! i had no idea what was coming to me at this massive college university thing.
yes, there's alot of things that i miss. <3

as i make my exit...

2007-06-29T11:23:00.001-07:00

i wish to bid provo goodbye. liberty square, we've had a lot of memories. i now make my exit, never again to sleep in bunks of mansion. farewell bike rides and late night quesadillas. i bid you adieu. italy...i come to you! (that rhymes:)

thanks, erc.

2007-06-28T10:06:00.000-07:00

my friend, his name is the erc, and he's a nice guy. took me to where all the cool, v-neck, blue-haired, sean-white, indie-looking people hang out. i saw a kid with an astronaut sing about incredible dinosaurs, and sat next to my parents [not really, but according to erc they were asian and that qualified for such]. they stamped this horse on me and it got me thinking: if i got a tatoo, this is what i would want it to be. but then a kid got up on stage, who had his arm covered in them, and thought: no, not for me.

d.i.

2007-06-28T09:40:00.001-07:00

what a backpack. it makes me think about when i was in 3rd grade, i had a purple one. and the boys made fun of me, but you know what? i wore it everyday & told myself boys were dumb, what did they know about cute backpacks?

these are some stylish little kid sunnies! i wish i had them when i was a tike.

the graduate

2007-06-20T10:13:00.001-07:00

what a nicely dressed young man! this is a very well dressed grad, good job hoku!

2007-06-20T10:09:00.001-07:00

i want my gown to be flowy and lacy with a big bow on the back. i love claire pettibone's designs. of course, i will ultimately be the designer of my dress, and my aunt- the seamstress. i have almost every detailed planned. as for the groom?...

this is for all the MEN

2007-06-19T19:46:00.001-07:00

most girls (if they are like me) have been planning their perfect wedding since they could rip out pages of Modern Bride Magazine. i have torn out pages from when i was ten, of wedding dresses, and cakes, and boys' tuxes...
i found this bride when i was in salt lake. out of all the cookie-cutter-same-style gowns that i saw on brides that day, this one stood out the most. it is lacy and fitted and she was just gorgeous in it.

high school

2007-06-18T12:10:00.001-07:00

his shirt is LRG, one of my fav brands. and the boys have levis on, another fav. there are so many cool asian fobs that dress WELL from my school. nothing is hotter than a boy who is creative with his clothes :]

my throne

2007-06-14T13:13:00.000-07:00

i want this chair. $150. i thought d.i. was supposed to be cheap! and that yellow cabinet, i also covet. so shabby-chic.

2007-06-12T13:37:00.001-07:00

to the left: i love her basket shoes, and her high water light blue jeans!

i couldn't find my luggage in sacramento...

tell me how this picture makes you feel. it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.