bet you didn't know i was a bandit in high school.

Taking a walk down memory lane. Circa 2003.

tanya lam of vulpevulpes - made of steel.

Even after all these years, I'm still in love with this girl.


Cover of Our Lady Peace's Made of Steel.

the decade according to 9-year-olds.

The decade according to 9-year-olds from allison louie-garcia on Vimeo.

Really interesting.

Found this from Herman (along with a ton of other nifty vids that I will soon share!)

this is what i used to say.

(stolen from Shendi.)

From about the age of 8 until 15, this was my response without hesitation.

all i want for christmas/my birthday...

is a new Mac. Or at least for my Mac to not die.

I've had mine for almost 4+ years now and it is clearly dying. Unfortunately, between paying for rent & paying for tuition (I've cut out eating, essentially), I have no money to purchase a new laptop. I've been heavily debating if I would be able to survive without a computer if -- God forbid -- my Mac dies on me.

Here's a picture of it 4 years ago when Calvin first gave it to me:


Don't mind the idiot text -- I was going through a phase with my photos-in-blog.


This is all I want this year. More than my entire Urban Outfitters or Amazon wishlist; more than a new lens for my dSLR or even a Polaroid/Fuji Instax. I just need my Mac to not die. Please don't die.

resolution #1.

Mend relationships.

blast from my past.

I was looking through my closet the other day, trying to find a Jansport-type backpack for my next trip in a few days (I have a strong feeling that I dumped it shortly after returning from the Peruvian jungles...) Inside, I found a big black garbage bag...and in that, I found my elementary school years.

Initially, I was going to post them all up at once but I do care about my fellow blog readers and their eyesight so I think I'll post only a few for now (there's a lot of color and a lot of ugly about to occur) and save the rest for other times.


The first things I pulled out were old school t-shirts. On the left is my elementary school shirt with it's phrase "Discover a Whole New World" hahah. On the right is one of the shirts my mom & I painted. We used to make t-shirt designs a lot with fabric paint. Bt-dubs, the clouds above the dino glow in the dark (still!)


One of my friends in elementary school decided she wanted to do painted t-shirts at one of her birthday parties. I remember working so hard on this one and after I had finished, I looked up and saw that all the other girls had decorated their shirts with their names fluffily written or oddly drawn pictures of cats. The birthday girl's mom appreciated my shirt at least...or so I think she did when she said, "Oh, honey, that's...nice."


I made t-shirts even in high school though. Flashback to old pictures:


Tribute to my darling Priscilla & the Adam Brody, 7 years ago.


My AP Bio t-shirt, 6 years ago. Quote from Kahlil Gibran too (you like that, huh).



I used to decorate hats too, in addition to t-shirts. the purple and the rainbow/white one were decorated by me but the green-printed white one was a gift in elementary school -- we took them around our classes and had people sign them.

Look at one of the signatures on it (if this were Facebook, this is where I'd tag her):

Isn't that precious.