BC DAY @ Peace Arch Provincial Park

It was RIGHT beside the border. On one side of the duty free store. B’s mom bought a hammock which was GREAT! Us and a bunch bac hai phong country side people. They spoke funny. There were a bunch of kids there. Total of 16 people(I counted for the burgers hehe). CH used this delish bbq sauce from some korean market. It was pretty crowded there.

Down a steep hill was a *beach*. It was nice and hte kids wanted to go down but no way was I going to take them down. IT WAS SO FRIGGEN STEEP!!

The day before while mom and dad went to see their friend from Calgary, sis and I went with CH to go grocery shopping to prep for the next day.

Lying in the hammock myself was much more spacious.

What a jerk. I’m not laughing…. I swear

Notes: My mom is really social. My dad is social in RL but not on the phone. My sis is social all around. I am… not so social.

Victoria Day Weekend

My weekends are never this full. I usually do nothing except work, so this is a pleasant change.

• Friday - AF. Mom’s friends from TO came and mom picked them up from YVR. THey got home pretty late and we had hot pot… moms infamous lau ga. I haven’t met either of them before besides a couple pictures here and there, but they look waaaaaaaay older than their age. 4 and 6 or 7 years younger than mom, respectively. The younger one is “slow” and has some not serious condition and as a result of that she eats excessively and does not know when to stop. She also has a reaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllly old old chinese boyfriend she’s been dating for many many years. Like RAELLLLLY old, as in almost twice her age? She’s like thirty something I believe. While talking about one thing, she would interrupt and just talk about random shit that had no relation to the previous topic. One of the things she said was:“Sometimes I think my blood isn’t vietnamese. I believe it’s half japanese or half korean” -Because she likes korean and japanese food. They left early next day.

• Saturday - Work 5 hours! Waited at the mall for my grandparents…. I was supposed to buy my grandma shoes as a present but they flaked! They didn’t show up. I waited an hour and then went home. It turns out me and my grandma had a misunderstanding. She told me she would meet me at the play place at 330, when I finished work, but she came on monday(3 days lateR) and told me that she didn’t need shoes cause she already had shoes. What! Work was interesting because the regular morning crew wasn’t there. It was mostly people from the night crew. hm! Janet & vicky volunteered at the Vancouver Children’s Fesitval today. From what I heard, Vicky LOVED it! Learning English right now, she thoroughly enjoyed interacting with the public, and above all, the kids. Nancy went with them because they didn’t know the way. What nubs. Janet said thu speaks very very well now. I’m glad for her!

• Sunday – My turn to volunteer at the same festival. My sister went as well. The shift was 7 hours, but it felt like 10. Time just crawled by with a broken leg. My favourite part of volunteering at this fest is that I hear french-speaking families and it amazes me. Last year I understood nothing and this year I understood exactly what this man was saying to his daughter. HA I have decided that a requirement for my future S.O. is that they have to speak french (almost, if not) fluent. My sister thinks I’m crazy/picky/etc. Last year I got a ride, but this year we bussed. As soon as we got out, and we got out EARLY mind you, the line up for the bus was thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssssssssssssssssssss long. 15 mins later the bus came but it was soo crowded it didn’t stop. Another excruciating 10 mins later another one came, but again it just went by. The thing I hate most in my life is fucking waiting, as I’m impatient as hell. Nothing good comes out of it. My estimate is 40 mins for the bus, standing in a tight, airless space, barely being able to move and just squish to each side so people can leave. Sounds fun, doesn’t it? Well it was just one road to the skytrain station, down burrard, so sister and I decided to walk. When I got home I looked on google maps it was 3.6 km. Not as bad as it sounded and we even BEAT the bus there. Food at the fest = bloody expensive.We walked to robson, and I finally bought my sis a bday presents 6 months late. Jeans shorts from ae :/ went home. The hats at below the belt are damn expensive! Probably 10-30$ more than the ones at plush. I need to buy a haaaaaat. I tried on a red smet on at btb on mon and it looked NIACE but it’s $90. $20 more than I’m willing to spend.

• Monday – Aly, Annie, V., S, Sister, AL went to see Angels and Demons. Not bad, but I do have one disagreement. I didn’t like how RObert was in the swimming pool. He should’ve been in BED like the book! Other than that it was not a bad movie. The scene were the 3rd cardinal was being killed was exactly how I pictured it as I read it.Vanna’s hilarious. During one part she whispered to me:
  “If you are Buddhist and you go to Rome, will they kill you?”

  
  

I have never spoken authentic, real french to a real french person(outside of a classroom setting of course) so I suck. Well……..years ago I did try asking my cousin “how are you” in french but it came out as garbage and she understood nothing. That doesn’t count though.

HAHAH I thought Pierfrancesco Favino was cute and vanna thought Thure Lindhardt was:

I swear everyone looks better in a movie. We were both sad when they got killed.

My springbreak

What have I accomplished/done?

1. 6500+ RATING ON TETRIS WOOOOO
2. resume

Yup almost nothing. I am working on my cover letter though

family rant:

Yesterday I went to my grandparents house. Mom went super-bitch when talking about her sister. Her and her sister are in sort of an argument and to add, they have conflicting personalities. She went on and on about how her sister is stupid. How she lets her sister do things “first” and steps behind. How her sister’s husband is stupid and he has no authority whatsoever over blahg balh blah blah. Oh yes it’s stupid. I heard my mom say “after she said that I slapped her”. WTF? SHE SLAPPED HER? No matter how much I would/will fight with my sister I would never slap her. Physical contact is clearly crossing the line. Sure some “hot” words were thrown around but come on. I used to see that aunt regularly, but now I haven’t regularly since 3 years ago? It’s stupid and they should get over themselves.

My grandma tried to get my mom to make peace with her sister because as my grandma stated “how come you two can’t get along? When other people see this they would LAUGH at you guys. You guys are family and can’t even talk to each other without getting into an argument”. Oh yes not only that but my mom is in conflict with ANOTHER sister. Yayay yippidty doo. I used to see those cousins really often probably 7-8 years ago. Now I rarely see them. So um ya I don’t really feel I have cousins.

My aunt L first informed me about these over-the-top stupid fights. My mom tells me nothing but L does. She tells me what the fights are about and how they act so “nammer” because they can’t get over themselves. Neither person wants to admit they are wrong and make up. Instead, they hold pointless grudges which (as I said) years. My aunt was raised white-washed and she knows how to say sorry. L says she would get into fights all the time but usually admit wrongs the next day.

My sister and I see my family’s terrible example of this and have learned from it. Geez I can’t even hold a grudge longer than an hour with her LOL it’s hard.

other news:

I went threading yesterdayyy. Waxing too :/ and BIG NEWS!!!

My face didn’t swell up nastilly after waxing!! This is great news. It WAS the cheap drugstore product that gave me “dermatitis”. (The wax was SO HOT). Waxing > threading for sure. Faster and less painful. When my sister waxed for me before it was over a long period of time and it was lengthy torture.

I wasked JR at work to be my reference and he said yes! He’s SO AWESOME.

LOVE MADE ME DO IT

Obviously I am terrible at title-ing my posts. Song names will have to do.

Work

S was putting trays of cups away and then due to some difficulties, the tray fell and she broke about 8 coffee cups. 6 were saved and P was freakin’ pissed.

I told P I was interested in FRing and he was hesitant answering. The long pause was really awkward so I just said “not yet?” and he said yeah, maybe in a couple months. Then ask him again. I asked how long.. and he said end of may so I will have to ask again. BOO I have to B for at least a couple of months.

I worked with a “new” guy at work today. He was hosting and… well he’s not new. He’s been working here almost as long as I have. Just never the same shift/day. He thinks I look old. (LIEZ)…gr. 12. He’s awesome.

After…….

Mom and dad and J picked me up and we went to B’s house. We played street fighter 4 and I’ve come to realize that I have lost my streetfighter skills. I still have streetfighter…1, is it? On super nintendo. He kept BEATING me though I’m the one who always beats him(cause he’s 6 lololol). He was happy with himself and then I asked him if I was fun, as his mom tells me he gets super excited everytime me and J come over.

me: Hey B am I fun?
B: ya but your sister is funner.
me: ………………………….
B: ya you are fun but your sister is still funner.

Then I beat him in streetfigher. BAHWAHWh I was that crazy green hulk-like guy. I have to say that all the girls in streetfigher have really manly legs and are too muscular to be real. I like C. Viper. She looks the best out of all the (SISSY LOOKING) girls. Surprise surprise she has manly legs too.

Later B wants to brawl. K sure. He’s not that great at it lolololol. Later we play.. “racing” on these tiny car-like things with steering wheels meant for 2-5 year olds. But I do it anyway. Then he wants to color. I wrote stupid things on his coloring sheets, which made absolutely no sense.

Fireplace B has

Then I write: B like poop and draws him a picture. He then writes my name and writes J likes poope(poopyLOL), J likes ants and for my sister writes: J likes worms. The artist that he is, draws us each a picture of us(me bald) eating ants and my sis eating worms. But my sister gets hair.

He asks me the worst thing: Are you gonna date my brother? WHAT!?!?!? DON’T SAY THAT. Are you marry him and be his wife?(implying that then I could live with him and play games with him forever). The whole time he had this ugly evil smirk on his face. This was mortifying and I scolded him, telling him never to say such things again.

BLaghnlasklhbkalkal we’re going somewhere. Sushi. It’s a… minute drive. *later* I try this sushi. HOLY F IT WAS SO SPICY I started to tear up and my mouth was burning. My nose starting to run too. It’s worse for my sister ’cause she can’t eat spicey things. It was SO HOT that some people took their jackets off and started to sweat LOL. Blah blah eons later I conclude that it was good, though my parents had a discussion over how it aws “chinese-a-fied” and that the sushi on broadway was much more authentic. Same shit to me LOL sushi is sushi and they all generally taste the same.

So full. B is getting really annoying so I told him I’ll play yugioh with him later. This excites him and he shuts up. I taught him the concept of “thumbwars” and he LOVED IT.

one two three four.. I declare a thumbwar… bow… shake hands.. BEGIN!!

Obviously the douchebag didn’t like the original and made up his own, unrhyming version: one tow tree four five eight who is the greatest THUMB??

I got bored of that so J suggested pat a cake. AGain, HE LOVED IT! Especially the “roll it… mark it with a ___, put it in the oven” part. he loved it so much he showed his mommaaaa. I swear this kid’s so smart. I recite it ONCE and he memorized it.

Later he gets boerd of that and wants to play “pretend pokemon battle”. It was kind of fun at first(ahhh) but it got dull. I CHOOSE YOU PIKACHU!! ELECTRIC SHOCK!! YOUR SQUIRTLE DIED YOU HAVE ONE MORE POKEMON LEFT!!! We forgot the names of the pokemons so he made some up. Then he used fake moves which are big FAILS.

I got vachement sick of that so I thought of some contests to do. Clapping contests. Finger on nose contest. Blinking contests. Closing your eyes contest, (his) licking your teeth contest LOL, licking your nose & eyeball contest(again, his)— but we couldn’t reach them and he had saliva all over his upper lip. And ALAS, we had the “put your right hand on top of your head contest”. This was our longest contest. He did have some slip-ups from time to time as he put right arm on the table for balance, but ultimately, when our moms caught on to what we were doing, he lay down ON HIS RIGHT ARM and of course I was declared winner. He wanted a rematch but I was exhausted.

Please excuse how stupid I look.

TIME TO GO HOME!! Yes!!! I did not have to play yugioh with this kid.

I went home and finished “a thousand splendid suns”. I would recommend it to everyone. The genre of this was “historical fiction”, which is something I NEVER EVER read, as the historical component is boring enough as is. It’s a reallllllllllllllllllly great book, BEAUTIFULLY written.

I began “the lost art of walking”.

Oh yes. I requested to the library to have “pride and prejudice and zombies” and THEY HAVE ORDERED IT! I can’t wait.

Coraline

Yesterday morning when I woke up, I had the flu. I had this terrible cough, a headache and I was extremely dizzy. Luckily it was Pro-D day. I had AF yesterday but I was as sick as a dog. I didn’t know if I could go. But I took some medz and my health restored. I took advil and this cough pill prescription I had. I got better and dad drove me to AF and then went to his co-worker-dinner-party-talk-about-union thing at some chinese restaurant. I felt wonderful and knew I could work tomorrow(today).

Yaddayadda I worked today. I coughed ONCE and then my voice totally changed. It’s still kind of fucked up right now and yup. Darn COUGH now I sound stupid *shakes fist*.

Janet had ortho so mom and dad drove her. Later they went to Bryan’s house. Bryan has this thing about losing. He is 5 and losing is horrific to him. Everytime someone else beats him, he breaks down and throws a fit. A horrendous fit I must add. He was being such a douchebag so my sister let him win. 8 times. Mommy I beat Janet 8 times in a row! Heh. Glad I wasn’t there.

Later my whole family went to the movies to watch Coraline 3-D. Each 3D glasses cost an extra $3 which is total BS. On the plastic wrap the glasses came in… “WARNING can not be used as sunglasses[...]” They’d be pretty G as sunglasses. Mom and Dad loved the movie. They were smiling the whole time(according to Janet). I think they’re fascinated with the 3D aspect of it and now they are excited for Ice Age 2(or 3?) 3D. Now we are at home: tired and sleeeeeeeepy. Time to go to sleep zzzzzzzzZzzZzZ.

BTW I got my cards. I am HAPPY but sad they came 10 days late. BOOO.

Edit: while doing a Google image search for a coraline picture, I came across the book. Observe.

I’ve seen this book COUNTLESS countless times in Elementary but have always overlooked it. Hell the cover is hideous. No wonder I didn’t have any interest in it. But then again I might’ve read it. During my younger days I read a LOT of books which I don’t remember any of. Maybe that’s why it’s so familar?

Compressing 2 storeys(stories?) into one

It is a PAIN IN THE ASS. We were given such short notice. I believe they agreed to rent on WEDNESDAY? and it is Saturday now. They are going to be living here starting from the first of feb. Which is tomorrow actually. I sold the twin bed from our port moody house on craigslist LOL… people are not buying the sofa because it’s freaken huge(2 brown families have came in and measured it) and…… dad’s exercise thing.. No one wants to buy it/can afford it. I know my friends can’t (Hey how  much is it? 950, we bought it for 2000+ Oh ok nvm). SOMEONE BUY IT! I think it’s nice… we just never use it and it’s been sitting there since we’ve bought it (5-6-7 years ago?) It’s Eurosport.

Anyway I saw the son today. He’s like…. emo. Mom thinks he looks Korean and a tad gay. Just a tad. They seem like nice people and I hope they don’t DL shit on my internet because I will not be happy. THe mother seems like a total bitch though. They moved some of their stuff in today.

So today we:

1. Moved the sofa we want to sell upstairs (cause no one would buy it if it were in the garage -.-)
2. moved the other tv into the front door room.
3. moved my piano into the room with our front door(pf)
4. moved our desk into janet’s room (surprisingly it FIT)
5. Took apart the exercise thing+ moved it into the garage + put it back together on the carpet
6. disconnected and connected the internet several times because.. we’re trying to figure out how to extend the wire into janet’s room
7. I went to work for a dreadful 4 hours
8. mom and dad got the curtains to cover the doors
9. dad put locks on the doors
10. dad put some shelves up *shrugs
11. me and mom went to hen long
12. I put the computer into janets room
13. installed the printer again

Yesterday we moved the bookshelf into my room and I think it looks classy(okay.. smart)LOL.

It’s 11:04 and I’m cranky and tired.

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*sigh John called me earlier to help him install yahoo messenger so he can chat via webcam/voice with my uncle in vietnam for free HAHA. He tried to run/dl messenger a billion times with me on the phone but he kept messing up. Finally when I tried it(I had to reconenct my internet) it worked. He said he kept messing it up.

john: username? do i just put whateva?
me: no that’s ur email… beoduong….etc….
john: oh okay *spells out password to self as types it in*

Later thao went online and then she woke her dad(my uncle)up and finally chatted iwth john. B thanh has nagged me for weeks to go to john’s hosue to help him isntall messenger. Then john was chatting with grandpa. Grandma and grandma saw each other via WC and that was kind of nice. Allison kept making faces at me and janet. Hehehhe “HI JENNY” “HI JENNY” HI JENNY” Hi guys.

John should owe me. He named me……………………

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side note: G said he’d try to fix/reformat our effed up computer. Why the fuck is HP so cheap and does not include fucking system recovery whatever CDS anymore? Fuck you guys.

P.S. I learned how to say first storey, second, third, ground floor, etc. in French ^o^

Doez eeeeeet look beetttah?

Ok I changed my layout. I didn’t know this used arial so it’s love at first sight.
Tomorrow is chinese new year! Grandma stayed over last night. John came today to pick her up so she can cung cause John’s really noob at it. He ate dinner here…. Gia dinh an do den de xem ghe nhung ghe thi to qua. I think mom and I are going to the temple in RIchmond tomorrow.  I’m so mệt. Email của john la… béodương@…… va cậu cũng đâu nhớ. Hôm nay thì cũng đi mua bảo hiểm xe. I will stop writing in two languages now.

SHOWAH TIME!
(because you need to know)

First semester is OVER!

Yaah it’s offcially over. But not for me. I have an english prov. 8:30 on Tues morning zZZzzZzzzzzzzz.

Yesterday mom and dad drove me to AF ^-^ then we went to Bryan’s house. Oh gosh is he SO FAT. He insisted in playing brawl, which got boring after a while. And finally I persuaded him to show me the wii fit thing. It was a match made in heaven. Really chubby 6 year old + wii fit. There was only 1 2-player game and it was a running game. HOW does he keep beating me? Because he cheats and only shakes the controller. Besides that, he did work out so hard and it was kind of cute LOL. Workout = thirst = apple juice consumption! oh yeah.

The games are really great. I still want to buy eeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttttttttttt…………………………….

Writing personal ads for a newspaper in the ELIZABETHAN Era…..

Nguyen, Je n’y says:
okay okay i changed it
Nguyen, Je n’y says:
Looking for a man who is willing to help take care of my 11 children. Will pay in pistachio nuts and pickles.
, LLINNDDAABBUUI !  happy birthday germaine ! says:
LMFOA
, LLINNDDAABBUUI !  happy birthday germaine ! says:
WT F?
, LLINNDDAABBUUI !  happy birthday germaine ! says:
is htt like how they paid back hen?

HAHAHAHAHHADIUFHUAHF I LOVE YOU<3

New years and following days.

January 1st I spent new years eve at my cousins’ house. My grandparents were home, as well as their parents. Linda was waiting for her dad to come from Cowtown so she didn’t go with my cousins to the YMCA new years family party. Instead, Janet went along. I stayed home with Linda and we chatted…….. a lot. She’s great ;D. Grandparents went to sleep early(8-9) because that’s their usual bedtime. New years is no exception. Janet and them didn’t come home till about 10:30. Just past 11, Linda’s brothers and her dad came. I was watching the thing in Times Square with Ryan seacrest <3. I was really tired at 12:30 and alex already fell asleep. I fell asleep as well. Janet later. At 5 in the morning I awoke suddenly because of a loud thump. It turns out Alex fell of the bed and started to whimper. LOL. Dododod……. it took me a while to fall asleep because I’m not a terribly easy sleeper at houses other than my own. At 5/6 in the morning I heard the sound of glass shattering. I assumed it was plates, but it turns out that the front window was smashed. I also heard repeated “I HATE YOU”s. My aunt’s family snores so loud. Alex included. *shudders*

Next day dad pickes me up to go to work. Boo hoo. 1.5x YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS! I’m okay. I tried the waffle. It’s overpriced FOR ONE WAFFLE and the fruits make it so sweet. Sdbfhsbdgkjshdkgfa. I go to Walmart after and I bought paper. Yes. Now I can make paper toys on some good paper!(cardstock). My family picks me up after to go to a new years party…. at a family friend’s house. I have not met their mother, or her other 2 siblings before this day. They seemed nice. Interesting intro to say the least. I’m kidding they’re really awesome and welcoming. I met some other people tooo. Their bfs are nice too. We watched 200 lb beauty! It took almost exactly 2 hours…. unnecessarily long. It wasn’t a bad movie though. Mariaaaaaaa ave mariaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (8)

Jan 2nd: I got my eyebrows done with my sis. Ouch.

Jan 3rd: WORK. poooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Jan 4th: Just chillin. I’ve been playing… tetris a lot lately. Getting ready for school tomorrow and making paper toys!