summer 2010

I decided I'm going to travel the world. I'm going to quit my job, buy a one way ticket to ___, and take it from there... (summer of 2010).

How much money should I save to start off? If all fails, I will become an Au Pair.





photo via tatielle

Her Morning Elegance

Dazzle me

e totally just made my Monday! By now, I should have a little twilight corner in my office.



in order left to right
I <3 EC
I Trust you. With you. I <3 EC. Bad Guy
Lamb. Soul Mate. My Love. Bite Me

I'm still looking out for dazzle, secret, and true love.

Candy taste like crap though.

monday mourning

And it's the start of a new week... I can already tell this week is going to be a drag. I couldn't seem to get up this morning. The cold might have something to do with it. So here I sit, bored, wishing companies allowed spring break.

I'm excited for the new season of My Boys.

For the DVD release of Twilight today. Unfortunately, I preordered it from Borders, and will most likely receive it next week in the mail.

I accidentally turned off my phone alarm when I tried to snooze it and ended up waking up an hour late for work. This is the worst way to a day. Now there is just something off about today. I'm just glad it's a Friday.

It's going to be a quiet weekend with most of my friends being in the desert. They are either partying their last days of spring break in Palm Springs, celebrating a birthday in Vegas, or raving it up in San Bernardino at How Sweet. This makes me seem like a homebody, but I'm still healing. Sunday, I am going to my first baby shower. I bought my aunt and her unborn baby girl a light pink (how cliche) minnie mouse onesies, a sippie cup and a stuffy Pooh and Piglet. Hope she likes it, and by she, I mean my aunt. She is not too girly, and I might be the only chance this baby has if she wants a barbie in the future. =)
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It was my friend Jess' birthday last month and a few of us decided to get her a birthday slash house warming present. She just bought a cute one-bedroom in Bedstuy, NY. Thanks to Aubrey for designing this.

Behind the art: Since I'm on west coast and Jess, Nas and Terry are in NY, we only get a change to meet up for during summer holidays. Last year we went to Atlantic City and we wanted Aubrey to incorporate all of us and our times together. (My initials are in the front light pink balloon). She did a great job and maybe I will have to get little something done for me and the boyfriend.

Photoshoots look so fun

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Boyfriend's birthday

The boyfriend is turning 24 today.

He is no longer in the 'early twenties' category. He is practically mid-twenties now. I feel kind of bad because I don't have any tricks up my sleeves this year. I usually have some sort of surprise for him, but today, rien. Well not exactly nothing, I am going to run out at lunch and get him some cupcakes. But it sucks that he has nothing to unwrap tonight since I already bought him the PS3 and he couldn't wait until his birthday to get it.

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I am currently reading the 500 Days Of Summer screen play and I LOVE IT. I can't wait til the movie comes out. (7/17/09)

Green for luck

I crave this, despite it looking only half as appetizing as red velvet.

Green Velvet




Happy St. Patrick's Day

West Side Story

The Sharks and the Jets mark out a piece of urban turf while simultaneously expressing the joy of being young, vigorous, and able to kick ass. As Bernardo, in red, Rodrigo Santoro (Behind the Sun) leads fellow Sharks played by Brandon T. Jackson (Tropic Thunder) and Jay Hernandez (Grindhouse, Hostel, Ladder 49). The Jets’ leader, Riff, in yellow, is played by Chris Evans, equally hot-headed in the role of the Torch in the Fantastic Four movies. Rounding out his crew are Cam Gigandet (The O.C., Twilight), Drake Bell (yes, the Drake, of Nickelodeon’s Drake & Josh), and Robert Pattinson (Edward in Twilight, Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire). They are not fully visible but they don’t mind, because they know the maxim, “There are no small parts, only small actors.”


Between Maria (Camilla Belle, far left) and Tony (Ben Barnes, far right, also known as Prince Caspian), it is dancing, dancing, dancing. Latin steps predominate on the left, as the Sharks and their ladies give America a taste of the culture to come. On the right, we have a series of funky Anglo moves, as the Jets and their gals go rhythmically at it. On either side, our two tragic protagonists have eyes only for each other. The lead Sharks dancers are Anita (J.Lo, in an incredible pose) and Bernardo (Rodrigo Santoro). The Jet girl dancing with Riff (Chris Evans) is played by Ashley Tisdale (of High School Musical fame). Rounding out the Sharks, left to right: Minka Kelly (she’s Lyla on Friday Night Lights), Jay Hernandez, Natalie Martinez (Death Race), Brandon T. Jackson, Melonie Diaz (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints). On the Jets’ side: Sean Faris (Never Back Down), Shane Lynch (she’s gonna be big), Robert Pattinson, Cam Gigandet, Trilby Glover (88 Minutes), Brittany Snow (Hairspray), Drake Bell.


Before West Side Story takes its tragic turn, Anita (Jennifer Lopez, amazing in purple) drives the film’s most effervescent and sexually charged scene: the rocking rooftop song-and-dance sequence set to “America.” The lyrics, by a young Stephen Sondheim (Sweeney Todd, etc.), give Anita all the ammunition she needs to top the verbal thrusts and parries delivered by Bernardo (Rodrigo Santoro, to the left of J.Lo) and his band of toughs. From left to right: Jay Hernandez, Brandon T. Jackson, Sean Faris, Shane Lynch, Melonie Diaz, Minka Kelly, Natalie Martinez.


Tony (Ben Barnes) is trying to leave behind his old street-fighting ways … which is tough for him to pull off, now that he has fallen in love with Maria (Camilla Belle), who happens to be the sister of top Shark Bernardo. But tonight is a night for a serenade. A fire escape takes the place of a Veronese balcony, but the underlying emotions that have brought Tony and Maria out of their enemy camps are the same ones that fired Romeo and Juliet, not to mention James Carville and Mary Matalin.

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