So far so good. I woke up this morning, cooked myself a delicious chicken quesadilla, with seasoned chicken that I must say smelled FANTASTIC when I was done with it. I'm glad I let it simmer for the chicken to soak in the flavor some rather than taking it out after the chicken was cooked.

It took me longer to eat that bugger than to actually make it, and it took me a long time to make it too. I have pictures of it though!! I just have to connect my camera sometime before I can post it.

Afterwards, I worked on some web development stuff before hanging out with my friend at her restuarant before work. After work, I came home and sat around doing more web development stuff.

I'm pretty sure I'm doing some rendition of clear noodle soup tomorrow. Let's hope everything goes well!!! If not I'll have a lot of boiled chicken to eat at least, right? It'll go good on the salad. ahaha.

I'm thinking of getting a pot and pan set as well. (Tools of the Trade Basics Classic 12-Piece Set) On sale at the store! I'll go tomorrow when I wake up before I go shopping for ingredients for my clear noodle soup!!!!

Today's move went relatively well, and it all seems like a nice beginning. I finished packing this morning, and moved a car-full load with my brother to the townhouse. I suppose I should start calling it home now. But for future references, if I talk about my parent's home and my home.. my parent's home shall forever be home to me, i grew up for 21 and a half years in that house. Therefore, my current place? It'll be called CAMP or cAMP (which for nerds, should mean cyclic AMP the dephosphorlyated form of ATP). It's called that because if you arrange the letters of all the inhabitants of this place, you form the world CAMP.

But yeah, my best friend/roommate's boyfriend came over with his own housemates who had the trucks and SUV's to pick up my bed, desk, and bookcase. They were in an out pretty quick like a ninja I must say. They got everything here and all good and well. I fed them girl scout cookies because that's pretty much all I had.

after the guys left, my brother and I spent the time to hang up all of my clothes in the closet since I didn't do all my laundry yesterday just so that they would smell like cardboard. After all that, he and I went over to my roommates' current place to snag whatever I could for the kitchen. I'm not about to buy something that they already have and what not.

Afterwards, my brother and I went to get some food and what not for me to cook on my own, I was planning on making dinner. But towards the end of our shopping, my mom called my brother and told him that he and I should come home for dinner, which I did. Dinner was relatively normal, there was no drama. The only lecturing I got was the whole don't drop out of school, continue studying and aiming for higher education and what not. Other than that things were normal.

I stayed and watched this drama some with my parents and brother in the living room for two or so hours before I started heading out. I borrowed a stock pot, and took a thing of soy sauce and a thing of marinara sauce from them as well as a sponge that I saw  in the laundry room. Afterwards, I left to go to the store to get a few more things that I needed. I really wasn't done shopping before but my mom had called so I figured I should head home so I did.

Came back here and started to unpack and everything. I'm pretty much all unpacked and settled now with the exception of my books and DVDs as well as whatever wonders I also shoved in those boxes. I think I got most of them out when I went to get some of my hair stuff. I feel really small and insignificant right now in my room it's at least 2.5 times bigger than my old room. Of course I'm sharing but I don't think it matters to me all that much since I pretty much claimed the study area as well for studying. So whatever was in my room originally, I split into two.

I talked to my brother online earlier as well when I got back to cAMP. And since my mom found out that my roommates haven't moved in yet, she tried to talk my brother into coming over here and spending the night with me, which he didn't. I'm fine here on my own right now. It's a safe neighborhood and everything, so I have nothing to fear. Am I being so bold? All the doors are locked, window blinds are closed, and there's really not much else to do.

But other than all of that, my parents didn't really tell me anything directly so.. I think I'm good for now.

Tomorrow's menu consists of making chicken quesadillas. I figured they're easy and I can manage.. assuming that I can cook the chicken right. At least that's for brunch. Dinner will probably be from work since I work tomorrow night.

So right now my assistant manager's trying to convince me to commit to becoming a shift manager for work at Noodles&Co. It sounds like a good plan and everything really. I mean I'll just work there until I graduate Pharmacy school, because I have a feeling I'm not going to get any sort of real job any time soon with how bad the economy is at the moment with the lay off and the massive amounts of people who are unemployed right now.

I'd get paid more. It'd still be hourly so I wouldn't be working 40-odd hours a week or anything. It'd just be like how I am working now, longer shifts, more pay, more responsibilities, but other than that everything seems decent. I'd have to go through training so I probably won't be able to be a shift manager until later on in the year, like more towards December.

However, I was also talking to my Pharmacy School informant and he suggested that if I could find a pharmacy to work at. Since I don't have the time to get a pharmacy technician certificate or anything, he suggested applying to work at Walgreens or King Soopers, since they'll train me and pay for me to take the test. So that's good.

While talking to my informant, I've been chosen to be his successor for his vice-president to the SAPP Pre-Pharmacy division at school, which I hear helps out my credibility and acceptances into schools as well. So that's a plus!

Overall:
  [  ] Become Shift Manager at Noodles&Company
  [  ] Get a job as a Pharmacy Technician at either Walgreens or King Soopers
  [  ] Be the SAPP Pre-Pharmacy Vice-President

Everything sounds good so far!

So with a move out, I definitely have to buy certain things mainly because of the arrangement of how I want things to be at the new place.

Laundry Basket - Need an actual basket opposed to a hamper so I can put away laundry more efficiently
Night Stand (Second Choice) - Need one next to my bed so that I can put my glasses there, and have a small reading lamp to read in bed
Bookcase - (Second Choice) Pretty obvious. Bringing along with me 5+ boxes of books, yet one 3 tier bookcase currently, need more shelving areas. I'd have to go to the actual stores to see which one I like better. I don't want a 5-tier bookcase that's too skinny.
Bathroom Tote - To organize all of my bathroom crap stuff considering I'll have one sink, roommate will have the other. I have far too much of it.
Hangers - Since I can actually hang my clothes in the new closet this time instead of folding them up and shoving them in this closet shelf thing I have.
Mattress - Apparently my parents want me to buy a bed and have it delivered to the new place opposed to me taking my current bed. But they're paying for this one so it's not that big of a deal. Definitely buying a twin sized bed again.
Cooling Pad - My old one broke. x_x;

New Bedding - Optional; I just want a new comforter and sheets. You know, new start and everything. Just looking around for now I guess. (Option #1 | Option #2 ) Mainly I just want the comforter. I'm still looking for this though.
Underbed Storage - For the Future, when I actually do have bedding and sheets to put somewhere. RIght now shoeboxes with shoes shall live under my bed.

Other Random Stuff for the Place in General:
Mail Sorter - Personally, I think this one's far too big when I went to go look at it at the store; (Alternative #1 | There's another one I like too but I don't remember where I saw it. Boo.); In general, it's to keep the mail organized provided that there's 4 of us living there, there's going to be a lot of mail.

Things to Make Sure I Grab before the Move:
A Kleenex Box - My mom buys these in bulks, so there's no harm in taking one or two boxes for me to start off with.
A Roll of Toilet Paper - My roommates won't be moving in until the middle of the month at the earliest, so I figured I'd just get some toilet paper from home first.
My Shampoo/Condition/Hair Products/Facial Cleansers - Since I'm the only one using them, I'm taking them with me otherwise they'd just sit there and collect icky slimy bacterial growth for sitting there for too long.
Towels - I figure I'd snag two towels from my family's gigantic stack of towels. Like for real, who needs 30+ towels for a family of 4? We never even go through it all in two weeks.

Just talked to my newly accepted Pharmacy school informant today, and we're planning out what I have to do and when I have to do it. So far it looks like this:

Take PCAT in October (test date is October 17th)
Apply for Pharmacy School by December 31st for CU-Pharmacy School.
Take a Sociology class if I want to apply to Regis.
No letters of recommendations are required, but it'd be a nice boost. - Maybe ask Professor Palmer for a L.o.R.
See if I can get Pharmacists to do it for me. (ask cousin's friends?)
Having a Bachelor's degree is a bonus.
See if I can get a job in a pharmacy. (Contact Linda, BaoChau, or Michelle about this).

We'll see where I go with all this ne?

My dad told me to write down somewhere that the moment I move out, I'll fail at life and never accomplish anything. This entry isn't about the possibility of not doing what I want to do, not achieving the things I want to achieve, and getting to the places I want to get to. For me, this entry is about the things I want to do when I move out. A promise to myself, a list for me to work on in the next year.

Call it the Next Chapter Resolutions or something, opposed to being like the New Year's resolution.

[  ] Study for the PCAT for at least 10 hours a week until I take the actual exam
[  ] Try Yoga
[  ] Try Tai Chi
[  ] Come up with some exercise regimen and follow through with it.
[  ] Take walks around the neighborhood, weather permitting as well as time-permitting at least 3 times a week
[  ] Read a Chapter of a book every day for pleasure, no more no less. (Preferably right before bed)
[  ] Study for class materials immediately, do not wait.
[  ] Make study sheets as I go, flash cards if necessary as well
[  ] No gaiaonline.com until all homework is done.
[  ] No watching any film or anything while studying
[  ] Avoid internet at all cost while studying if computer is required; otherwise, study with laptop off.
[  ] Learn how to cook:
     __ Enchiladas; __ Penne Rosa; __ Cá Kho Tộ; __ Various Chicken Dishes; __ Mam Sauce; __ Various dishes with Chicken
[  ] Bedtime at 1AM at the latest; Goal is Midnight.
[  ] Write at least 1 creative writing piece a week
[  ] Eat Breakfast Daily
[  ] Blog on my lj daily
[  ] Eat at least two meals a day; breakfast and dinner
[  ] Get a Cartilage Piercing in one Ear (Here's where I want it: Position 1)
[  ] Get a third lobe piercing on the opposite ear

I've been meaning to write something here for a while now, for at least a week and a half, but I haven't had the chance to. Not only that, I wasn't quite sure what I should write about, or even what to say. However, I suppose for starters I should say something like this: "It's official. I'm moving out."

The majority of the people here in this country probably thing of two things (At least that's what I've come to think of it). The first case is, "Oh man, it's another one of those adolescent things where the kid moves out as soon as they can to gain what they think is freedom and independence when they're stepping into a world that they're ill-prepared for. That's not the case for me, at least that's how I'm seeing it. Why? Well, I'm not exactly some new high school graduate who's enthusiastic about entering the real world. I'm 21 right now, I'll be 22 in four months or so. Not only that, I've already completed all the requirements to obtain my bachelor of arts degree in biochemistry with minors in chemistry and philosophy as of May 2009. I'm just prolonging my graduation date until December simply because I don't want to pay the post-baccelaureate rates for some classes I need to take as prerequisites for Pharmacy school.

Now comes the second thought that people may be thinking: "Oh, it's just moving out. That's nothing!" That's where you're wrong. It's a HUGE thing in my life. The bulk of my issues with moving out stems from the fact that my parents are traditional overbearing, overprotective Asian parents. They are the type of parents who continue to remind their children that they came to the United States so that their children would have a better future in terms of prosperity and careers. From how I see it, such saying is more focused on careers than anything. That brings me to why moving out is such a huge issue with my parents.

It's the fact that I haven't gotten anywhere with my life yet that my parents are having fits and spasms over the whole moving out thing. Sure I haven't gotten an actual career yet, but who does that right out of school? I have my whole life ahead of me. Now it's just me finding somewhere in society for me to belong to and gather skills I should have learned a long time ago. In addition to all that, living life for myself and being me without hindrance. Another factor is the current economy right now, it's already hard enough to find just any ol' job, not to mention a career that should last a lifetime.

I'm prepared to move out. I need to be on my own. Be my own person. Have my own life. There are aspects of life that I feel don't really develop until you are truly off on your own, out from under your parents' wings. Sure some people can develop them while they're still with their parents, but it's more or less because of how they were brought up given the conditions and circumstances. I feel that as long as I live under my parents' roof, I shall forever be a child unable to develop and bridge over to the next stage of life and be a fully responsible adult in society. My parents say that I can learn that after I've established my career, but I feel that it might be too late.

My social skills have been hindered as I find myself socially awkward in most cases because my social skills were never allowed to develop as a child growing up. as a result, it has effected me deeply in terms of my relationship with people as well as my perception of self. I don't want my parents to hinder this next stage of my life.

Overall, I'm prepared to do whatever it takes to move out of my parents' home and stay out of it. I vow to myself that I will get to where I want to be, I will be honest and true to myself, and I won't do anything that goes against the moral ideals that I have grown up with.

Moving out doesn't mean that I'm cutting myself off from my parents or my family. They still mean a lot to me. Moving out doesn't mean I will become an irresponsible college freshman who holds no concept of responsibility for my actions.

To me, moving out is simply a step I have to take to enter a new chapter in my life. Any consequences that may come out of this decision are mine and only mine to bear. I am prepared...

So.. I'm running off of less than an hour of sleep at the moment. I spent over 18 hours working on my term paper with minimal distractions. It was to the point where I wasn't even on my laptop so i didn't have my normal browser issues. My brother's currently out of town doing some orchestra competition sort of gig, so I just pretty much camped out in his room to use his computer. I changed his background to my laptop's current one.

But in any case, I went to bed at around 4:48AM and officially woke up at 6:09AM. Only, I ended up having a hard time falling asleep, and then I had issues with staying asleep. Life hates me. I'm tired, and I'm sure I have work tonight, even though I'm not entirely sure when I have work. Probably at the same time I've always had work on Thursdays for the past couple of weeks from 6PM to 9PM.

I'm supposed to study for my physical chemistry final that's going to be on Monday with a friend today after class, but I feel like I should just call it off because I'm too tired to do anything productive, and I have work at six anyways. I feel kind of bad for even considering it though because I called off on studying with her on Tuesday too. We're for sure studying Saturday evening though (after my Microbiology final).

I forgot to fill out my graduation packet to turn it in today. Tomorrow is the last day to turn it in, so i guess I'm going to have to get up to campus tomorrow to do this shit. Ugh. My life sucks. My head is empty. Blergh. I might as well pick up my summer bus pass while I'm at it. Can time just stop right now? I want to give up and curl up in some corner and just sleep my way through life. I'm way too tired to deal with life and my stupidity.

I just realized how long it's been since I've actually updated my LJ. Nothing exciting things happening. I've somewhat broken my Gaia addiction since Thursday when I officially declared going on hiatus for finals and doing other shit. I've only really signed back on when I had nothing to do besides wait for my rice to cool down so i could roll a few sushi rolls. Even then, it was only for 10 minutes ish.

Oh! I got a new job too! Kind of. It hasn't started yet, I still have to meet with them but they really seem to want me on board. It has nothing to do with food, medicine, pharmacy or health care in general. I'll be managing this website to a local public tv show. It'll be cool I think. Making my hobby since 1998 into something I can really put on my resume.

I started my staphylococcus aureus antibiotic lab report on Tuesday at around 3PM, finished it at around 1AM, went to bed by 2AM, turned it in at 10AM. Then proceeded to sit around on campus playing free cell until I got the Blue Screen of Death and restarted finding that it's probably a good idea to work on my 10-minute play that was due today at 8AM.

That's pretty much that's all that's happening up to date. This next week and a half is going to be hell for me. So, let's get to it!

( To Do List Time! )

MAIN GOALS FOR THIS WEEKEND:
*Finish putting together Creative Writing Portfolio
*Get caught up on copying P.CHEM notes
*Start working on Socio-Political Term Paper

I'm sure I can get this list longer. I'll add to it later. But just having my list is rather depressing right now, I've been doing really well with getting work done at a reasonable time with good quality.

I was talking to Mo on Tuesday, and apparently the summer road trip is still being planned! We're going to go the second to last week of May. On the Itinerary is Disney Land, Lego Land (or was it World?), SeaWorld, Medieval Times, and I guess that's all. Then we'll probably stop by Vegas at some other time too.

Camp Wapiyapi is coming up too! So I'll be gone from the last weekend of May for a week. I'm way excited, and hopefully I'll be better prepared and not as cold. The mountains are really cold in May apparently.

July brings about summer classes. I'm taking Physiology and a Lab. So The lecture is five times a week from 11AM to 12:35PM, and the Lab portion is three times a week, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 1:30PM to 5:20PM. Good thing I at least have an hour break to eat lunch otherwise I don't think I'd ever really make it. DOOM!

August is really just cool down period for me. I'm probably going to be working a lot when I have nothing else to do in June and in August at the same old job I've always had: Noodles&Company. Maybe I should try and see if I can get a waitressing job too.

Anyhow, I think that's all I have to say right now. I'll probably update my list again whenever I can think of more stuff.

my period just skipped. I'm pretty sure of it.

It was supposed to have start somewhere around the 20-23rd. Ugh.

I HATE this. I hate when midterms are right before my period, it makes me so stressed my period skips.

Fuck fuck fuck.

April's period is going to be more pain than I want it, and it'll take me another 6 months to get a regular menstruation cycle.

FUCK.

... without a List that is. Apparently lists on lj make me do things, while lists on paper don't. eheh. So let's get to it!

( Epic To Do List )

Bah. Initiating Hellweek Mode.
Ugh.

I think that's all I have to do. I'll edit later if it's not.

End of Story.

I forgot my phone on Monday.. and that just led to a chain of bad events all week. I think this entire week sucked.

I also forgot my phone again today. I fail at life.

I seriously epically fail at life.

Blah. Yeah. I have not been doing anything thing productive what so ever this week. I pretty much sit around on my ass all day and sleep. eheh. I finished making Patti's birthday present though! I'd post pictures but I'm not sure if she follows my lj or not. eheh. Perhaps after Saturday I'll post pictures. Here's my "To Do" list again, hopefully I'll do everything today and tomorrow so that I can have the weekend free.


( Weekend To Do List )

For some reason.. my list seems really long this weekend.
But I think that's all I have to do.

On a side note, I miss my giraffe.

What the heck happened to me? I'm entirely unmotivated right now to do anything. I barely got anything done. BLAH.

For some reason, I'm getting sick and tired of life. I want to find something new to do, something different, something exciting. I'm just sick and tired of it. Maybe I just need a new job, it aggravates me oh so much. But I know my managers are trying their best to keep me there. I just don't understand why they're hiring new people, when they can't even afford the labor hours for the current workers. Ugh. It annoys me oh so much. The reason why my Saturday hours are cut so short is because they run out of labor hours for me.

I think I'm going to bring up being cross trained to them tomorrow. Maybe.

( To Do List )

Here's something I did for Facebook. ^^;

( 25 Random Things About Me )

Here's a 5-page short story that  I managed to crank out in more or less 4-5 hours today. It's for my Creative Writing class and there were no guidelines for it at all. it was a "Write a 5-page story due on Tuesday. Go!"

It's rather morbid, but read as you will. Any feedback would be nice!! Enjoy!!!

( Such a Pretty Girl )

Yeah. I'm fucked, not screwed or fscked. I'm definitely fucked at the moment.
5-page short story is due tomorrow at 8AM but I haven't written anything because I can't think of anything to write. I have a midterm tomorrow as well at 11AM that I haven't studied for or done anything for really to be honest.
I haven't read anything for my microbiology class, I haven't caught up with my philosophy class yet.

Yeah. Definitely fucked.
I don't know what's wrong with me really. I just keep getting distracted or procrastinating everything.

On another note, the Tet Show was really successful! It went really smoothly, we didn't have as many people come this year as we did last year because we didn't advertise as much as we did last year. But in general it was still pretty good.
I'll steal some pictures off of facebook later on whenever I'm not fucked and show.

I'm fscked. I'm beyond fscked.. I might even be fucked.

It's currently 3:22PM as I write this entry, and the pressure of everything is starting to get to me. The New Year's (Tet) Show is tomorrow, and I'm all antsy and nervous about it. I'm afraid we won't have that many people show up like we did last year because we started advertising so late this time around. I'm afraid that someone's going to mess up because we haven't been able to put anything together yet and I'm scared shitless about that. I'm in the Candle/Hat Dance, I'm also in the Fashion show wearing my Ao Dai. My partner is actually the little brother of the guy I used to have a crush on for almost half of my life. It's going to be awkward, I mean my parents are going, his parents are going, and my parents and his parents are friends.. and we're doing a fashion show strut with each other. It's so entirely awkward. If it was any other guy I'd be okay with it but he's always been the little brother. eheh.

I'm scared that I might trip on something. On my pants. On my ao dai even! Especially during the fashion show, and even in the candle dance. I think I've made the executive decision to not sing along with the Vietnamese National Anthem tomorrow because there's not really a group to sing it and I don't like the version that the president picked out. I like mine better but I'm not about to go say that to he rin her face. But hey, if there's no one else who's going to sing with me then forget it. I won't do it, saves me the embarassment and another wave of nervousness.


Aside from that things should go well, I hope. I think. At least for the Tet Show.

On the academic side of things, I think I'm royally screwed again. I still haven't gotten a chance to read any bit of my Microbiology textbook; I'm behind in my Philosophy class because I haven't had a chance to read Hume yet and I think we just finished Hume yesterday too. UGH! I have a Physical Chemistry midterm on Tuesday and I don't think I've really learned anything this semester because the professor's so bad.

I also have a 5 page short story to write for my Creative Writing class but I pretty much don't know what to write about. I'm suffeing a really bad writer's block at the moment. But on the good note: People enjoyed reading "It's Only Just a Little." I just wish I knew what I could write that'll be just 5 pages and not any longer than five pages.

I suppose I should just start doing something instead of writing this entry. I'm so totally fucked.

( To Do List )

Yea... I'm definitely screwed. Fuck.