Today I attended one of my best friend's dad's funeral. I have to say, it was quite an experience. it was my first -ever funeral, so I didn't really know what to expect. My friends and I went through some trouble to get out of school in time, but luckily we did (and it was after I took my AP Human Geography test (: ). The only thing I anticipated was a lot of crying, and yes, there were many tears shed.
I think I was actually one of the first in the audience to start crying. Victoria, Jarick's sister/ Mr. Simbol's daughter was the first to speak, and she barely uttered 2 sentences before I started to cry. Her speech was very moving and well-written and articulated and I think she did the best job she could have done. There were a couple more speeches by Mr. Simbol's siblings, and then some singing and prayers in the church.
The funeral procession then moved on to the cemetery, where 70+ cars were escorted by the police to Forest Lawn, where there was the burial. I honestly had never seen or heard the kinds of cries I did today. The agony was so pure, I'm sure the entire audience was teary. People were allowed to take a flower from the bouquet to lay over the casket and touch it for the last time.
Everyone was invited to attend a reception at the Double Tree Hotel, where there was yummy food. :3 Everyone was much more relaxed there, and I think many had a good time. It was nice.
Derek and I went over to Jarick's house after everything and we had an adventure to Tofu House & had dinner together too. yay! <3 you harry (:
Hi harry :3
thanks for giving me the privilege to attend the funeral today and for allowing me to have a very memorable first funeral. i'm glad we got to spend the whole day together. (: I'm so proud of you for being so strong and amazing. I really believe that you could do anything if you set your mind to it, so stop doubting yourself! If you want to run for ASB, go for it!! don't listen to derek >:l LOL. remember to live life with no regrets, so just do it man!! your dad will always be watching over you so there ain't no worries. he might even be reading this with you LOL... hi mr. simbol! Anyways, always know that I'm here for you and I'll always love you no matter what ♥. good night, rest well, & i'll see you on wednesday, maybe? :D♥, harley
Monday, March 12, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
birthday wishlist
omg i'm turning 16 in 9 days!!!! i never thought this day would come... of course i'm both sad and happy about the matter, like i always am. but anyways this is a birthday wish list not a rant list so here are some tangible items i am interested in:
-college ruled lined paper
-a handwritten, sentimental/funny card :D
-skirt
-toilet paper
-creme/gel liner angled brush
-gift cards
-ice cream
-ap psychology study guide book (barron's or 5 steps to a 5)
-ap chinese study guide book (barron's)
-for you to spend time with meeeeee
^__^
-college ruled lined paper
-a handwritten, sentimental/funny card :D
-skirt
-toilet paper
-creme/gel liner angled brush
-gift cards
-ice cream
-ap psychology study guide book (barron's or 5 steps to a 5)
-ap chinese study guide book (barron's)
-for you to spend time with meeeeee
^__^
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Lame and random things that I found out I love doing
- sharpening pencils
- making lists of things i have to do
- crossing things off that list
- plucking eyebrow hairs
- marking dates on my calendar
- eating celery. just celery.
Monday, February 6, 2012
fun fun fun day
I never thought I could be so happy one day after a break up from a relationship of almost 11 months.
Today was National Frozen Yogurt Day, so Yogurtland decided to give out free yogurt from 4-7 PM. Isaac and I biked to Judy's house at 5-ish and we ate ramen and watched TV and studied Human for an hour and a half, until Allen and Ralph and Isabel came and picked us up and we speeded to Yogurtland at 6:30. The line was freaking long, and we were really unsure of whether or not we would make the cut before 7 PM. Luckily, we got through the door at around 6:58 and we were sosososososo happy :D. At least, me, Judy, and Isaac were. The worker at the door who was handing us the specially made Frozen Yogurt Day cups asked us to not fill it over the rim with yogurt. I honestly tried to not let it overflow, but it did anyways. =/ I felt a little guilty, but IT'S OKAY! More yogurt for me :D! After that i was completely content with life, and we went back to Judy's house. Ralph and Allen played a prank on me and made me think that my bike got stolen, and I really believed them for a really long time... Luckily, they merely hid it in Judy's backyard and I had a bike after all! Isaac and I started biking back home at around 8:10 PM and it was really dark and kind of scary... Luckily, Isaac was there to make sure I didn't crash and he saved the day by picking up my special Yogurtland cup that I dropped while I was biking. I'm gonna keep that cup as a souvenir of this grand day until next year, when I get another one :D I even washed it at Judy's house so that it wouldn't get moldy. heheheohoheohoehoeh. what a fine day.
oh yeah, the best part about it was that we had almost no hw, which permitted me to engage in such activities. ^___^
Today was National Frozen Yogurt Day, so Yogurtland decided to give out free yogurt from 4-7 PM. Isaac and I biked to Judy's house at 5-ish and we ate ramen and watched TV and studied Human for an hour and a half, until Allen and Ralph and Isabel came and picked us up and we speeded to Yogurtland at 6:30. The line was freaking long, and we were really unsure of whether or not we would make the cut before 7 PM. Luckily, we got through the door at around 6:58 and we were sosososososo happy :D. At least, me, Judy, and Isaac were. The worker at the door who was handing us the specially made Frozen Yogurt Day cups asked us to not fill it over the rim with yogurt. I honestly tried to not let it overflow, but it did anyways. =/ I felt a little guilty, but IT'S OKAY! More yogurt for me :D! After that i was completely content with life, and we went back to Judy's house. Ralph and Allen played a prank on me and made me think that my bike got stolen, and I really believed them for a really long time... Luckily, they merely hid it in Judy's backyard and I had a bike after all! Isaac and I started biking back home at around 8:10 PM and it was really dark and kind of scary... Luckily, Isaac was there to make sure I didn't crash and he saved the day by picking up my special Yogurtland cup that I dropped while I was biking. I'm gonna keep that cup as a souvenir of this grand day until next year, when I get another one :D I even washed it at Judy's house so that it wouldn't get moldy. heheheohoheohoehoeh. what a fine day.
oh yeah, the best part about it was that we had almost no hw, which permitted me to engage in such activities. ^___^
Sunday, February 5, 2012
I should have listened more to Taylor Swift
I'm 15 and someone told me they loved me and I fucking believed it.
I'm fucking stupid.
I'm fucking stupid.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
please let me get past this week...
holy effaroos my stress level is high x10
-chem miniexam tomorrow on stuff that i have NO IDEA how to do
-ap human test tomorrow and tuesday on stuff i have yet to study
-sat math level 2 this saturday on math i am not capable of doing, especially under 60 minutes
-comps next week
-formal on last day of comps. blegh
-chem miniexam tomorrow on stuff that i have NO IDEA how to do
-ap human test tomorrow and tuesday on stuff i have yet to study
-sat math level 2 this saturday on math i am not capable of doing, especially under 60 minutes
-comps next week
-formal on last day of comps. blegh
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Fun Day ^_^
So today is the 2nd Sunday since I returned from my Europe trip. Josh and I went to go pick up his cousin Patrick and Patrick's girlfriend Marissa from the airport at 11-ish. They go to school together in Shanghai but they're not fobs 'cause Patrick probably grew up here since he sounds exactly like us and Marissa is a white girl from South Carolina who lived in Shanghai for 4 years. :D so cooooool.
So we picked them up and went to go eat In-N-Out in Westwood by UCLA. We proceeded to head on home and decided to pay a visit to Patrick's grandma, who's in the hospital right now for something really minor. Only two visitors are allowed in a patient's room at a time, so Patrick and Marissa went in first and then Josh and I went for a quick "hello". I realized while I was there that it was the 2nd time I had ever, in my life, talked to an elderly person.
Of course I've had grandparents; it is quite difficult to come to existence without them. However, I've only met my paternal grandparents, who were only here to witness my birth, and then they flew back to China. My maternal grandparents never saw me. I have only scarce memories of my parents mentioning their parents. When I was a child (2-4 years of age), while we were still living in my previous house, I was on my daddy's lap one night before bed, when I asked him where his mom was. He plain out told me that she died a couple years ago. Another scarring recollection was from when I was about 5 years old. I was cleaning my closet in my own room when, suddenly, a whole mess of clothes fell from the top shelf. Being too lazy to clean it up myself, I ran to my parent's room to complain to them. I started tearing up to manipulate my daddy's sympathy so that he would clean it for me. Instead of his compassionate answers, what I received were the sounds of my mother's wailing cries. It was a heart-wrenching, terrible sound; one that I had never heard before. She was bawling her eyes out and I had no idea what had happened to her. I asked my dad, who was desperately trying to soothe her anxiety, and he quietly told me that her mommy left the earth. I didn't mention the state of my closet to them.
OKAY ANYWAYS, we dropped off Patrick and Marissa at Patrick's grandma's house after that since they wanted to clean themselves after a long flight. Josh and I decided to go to the Brea Mall because I needed to spend my Borders gift cards 'cause they're closing down. We got there and looked around and realized the Borders was across the street, at the Brea Shopping Center, which apparently, is not the same as the mall. Who knew?! But there was an Apple store at the mall, so we took a few Photobooth pictures. ^_^
The line at Borders was ridiculously long and I was only able to find one of the books I need for AP Human Geography, but it's okay because I have friends who have the other book(s). ^_^ Aren't friends wonderful? I ended up not even spending all of my Borders gift card money. I have about $10.66 left, so I am willing to sell it to someone for $10! :D
After that, I did not feel like going back home, though I was falling asleep from the food coma that my double-double was causing me. Josh and I went to the Artesia park and slept on the grass for a while and talked in the car. It was 6:30-ish when we checked the time again, so we decided to head back home soon. We stopped at Quickly Boba 'cause I felt like drinking some $1.08 Tapioca Milk Tea. ($0.99 without tax) He dropped me off at home and I practiced some piano and my parents argued and I didn't eat dinner because of the boba.
I realized I was supposed to drop off Megan's bicycle basket at her house today, so Daddy and I decided to walk to her house. We did, and we had lovely conversations, like we always do. When we came back, my parents were done being mad at each other, so I fixed myself some peaches and yogurt and sat down on the couch to chat with my mother, who I have not had a civilized conversation with in a while. My dad came down to us as well and sat next to Mama on the sofa and the three of us had a nice talk. It just felt normal for once, and I'm still ecstatic and I feel like the happiest child on Earth. I love my parents.
Good night! I didn't accomplish all my academic goals for the day, but tomorrow morning, I will! Then, Megan, Olivia, and I are going to have a picnic at Cerritos Park East, where Megan and I will also teach dear Oliver how to bike! :D Then maybe we will go to the Sheraton Hotel to inquire about internships and then we shall make scrapbooks of our memories while simultaneously watching Harry Potter movies. I need to watch HP 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 before we go to the theaters on Tuesday to watch 7.5. Sigh.
I am one happy Cindy ahora. ^_^
11:05 PM- (about 10 minutes later)
My parents just said they were getting divorced again. (They just said it again, not they're getting divorced again.) Sigh.
So we picked them up and went to go eat In-N-Out in Westwood by UCLA. We proceeded to head on home and decided to pay a visit to Patrick's grandma, who's in the hospital right now for something really minor. Only two visitors are allowed in a patient's room at a time, so Patrick and Marissa went in first and then Josh and I went for a quick "hello". I realized while I was there that it was the 2nd time I had ever, in my life, talked to an elderly person.
Of course I've had grandparents; it is quite difficult to come to existence without them. However, I've only met my paternal grandparents, who were only here to witness my birth, and then they flew back to China. My maternal grandparents never saw me. I have only scarce memories of my parents mentioning their parents. When I was a child (2-4 years of age), while we were still living in my previous house, I was on my daddy's lap one night before bed, when I asked him where his mom was. He plain out told me that she died a couple years ago. Another scarring recollection was from when I was about 5 years old. I was cleaning my closet in my own room when, suddenly, a whole mess of clothes fell from the top shelf. Being too lazy to clean it up myself, I ran to my parent's room to complain to them. I started tearing up to manipulate my daddy's sympathy so that he would clean it for me. Instead of his compassionate answers, what I received were the sounds of my mother's wailing cries. It was a heart-wrenching, terrible sound; one that I had never heard before. She was bawling her eyes out and I had no idea what had happened to her. I asked my dad, who was desperately trying to soothe her anxiety, and he quietly told me that her mommy left the earth. I didn't mention the state of my closet to them.
OKAY ANYWAYS, we dropped off Patrick and Marissa at Patrick's grandma's house after that since they wanted to clean themselves after a long flight. Josh and I decided to go to the Brea Mall because I needed to spend my Borders gift cards 'cause they're closing down. We got there and looked around and realized the Borders was across the street, at the Brea Shopping Center, which apparently, is not the same as the mall. Who knew?! But there was an Apple store at the mall, so we took a few Photobooth pictures. ^_^
The line at Borders was ridiculously long and I was only able to find one of the books I need for AP Human Geography, but it's okay because I have friends who have the other book(s). ^_^ Aren't friends wonderful? I ended up not even spending all of my Borders gift card money. I have about $10.66 left, so I am willing to sell it to someone for $10! :D
After that, I did not feel like going back home, though I was falling asleep from the food coma that my double-double was causing me. Josh and I went to the Artesia park and slept on the grass for a while and talked in the car. It was 6:30-ish when we checked the time again, so we decided to head back home soon. We stopped at Quickly Boba 'cause I felt like drinking some $1.08 Tapioca Milk Tea. ($0.99 without tax) He dropped me off at home and I practiced some piano and my parents argued and I didn't eat dinner because of the boba.
I realized I was supposed to drop off Megan's bicycle basket at her house today, so Daddy and I decided to walk to her house. We did, and we had lovely conversations, like we always do. When we came back, my parents were done being mad at each other, so I fixed myself some peaches and yogurt and sat down on the couch to chat with my mother, who I have not had a civilized conversation with in a while. My dad came down to us as well and sat next to Mama on the sofa and the three of us had a nice talk. It just felt normal for once, and I'm still ecstatic and I feel like the happiest child on Earth. I love my parents.
Good night! I didn't accomplish all my academic goals for the day, but tomorrow morning, I will! Then, Megan, Olivia, and I are going to have a picnic at Cerritos Park East, where Megan and I will also teach dear Oliver how to bike! :D Then maybe we will go to the Sheraton Hotel to inquire about internships and then we shall make scrapbooks of our memories while simultaneously watching Harry Potter movies. I need to watch HP 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 before we go to the theaters on Tuesday to watch 7.5. Sigh.
I am one happy Cindy ahora. ^_^
11:05 PM- (about 10 minutes later)
My parents just said they were getting divorced again. (They just said it again, not they're getting divorced again.) Sigh.
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