17, October 2009

Hello fall, goodbye ceiling

Well…remember my previous post about my ceiling being fixed on July 27th?…well..turns out it was only temp.

With the fall weather setting in, the weather recently has been rain, rain and more rain. These last few days have been pouring down rain like no other…yikes.

As I had the lights off in my bedroom..I noticed that the blotch on my ceiling looked…rather…large..and I noticed that the big wet spot in the ceiling also had a friend growing. Crap. I stood up in the dark to check and bingo. Wet. Well..it was late and I couldn’t do anything about it in the meantime anyway.

I got up the next morning to find that the spots were only growing >____< I need a fixing! That picture is taken from EXACTLY where my head would lay on my bed. Lovely yea?

1, October 2009

NEET

The day has come. I’m officially…a NEET. What is a NEET? Well…it is me. haha

NEET is an acronym meaning “Not in Employment, Education, or Training.” Can you believe it?? I’m done with school finally and unemployed. It’s a bit strange, waking up and knowing I will never be back in there again unless I go to graduate school. How bizarre.  Reality has set in. As many of you know, my former job, which ended this last Tuesday, was a job I had on campus as a student worker. I finished up my final quarter of my undergrad in summer, and spent the rest of the time working on campus, so the reality of not having school never set in since I was on campus so often.

On my final day and hour of work, I walked through campus as the fall weather set in; the cool winds and rain brushed against my face with a reminiscent feel to it. Usually…I’d be avoiding the rain and walking briskly through it, seeking shelter…but last Tuesday, I enjoyed the rain that set across Red Square for the first time as I walked through the puddles. I could smell the rain, and I could smell the start of school. I never realized how signific ant the weather was to the beginning of a school year until now.

I’m glad I graduated, but at the same time sad that I’m done. Well, onward to something new and better! And..we’ll start it off with me being a NEET for the month =)

19, September 2009

Got Cut

Ahh..Look at that cut on my wrist. It doesn’t look so bad in the photo though, but it hurts like crazy. It looks like some failed suicide attempt since it’s neither vertical or horizontal haha >___<  I could have some badass story to it and how I got it…or perhaps my dogs slashed me..but no.. Guess how I got this painful mark that was close to bleeding all over the nice bracelet Jane gave me?? A Banana. Yes. That’s right… banana cut me. Wth?

11, September 2009

Fixin’ it up

Fun story. I already told the story the other night, but visual aid is always nice =)

2009-07-27

So, right above my head, exactly where I sleep, there is a giant yellow stain. There has been a stain there since I could remember though. When I got back from my DC internship, I remember looking up when I got up from bed and thinking…”wow…looks like it got bigger,” but I thought to myself…eh, I’ve been gone for a few months, I probably just imagined things.


Well..sure enough, I woke up one rainy day and noticed that the stain grew in diameter…so I stood on my bed and touched my ceiling to find it damp…

Khang, Mr.Construction, said he could probably patch it up though! awesome. Problem is…we found that there weren’t any holes on the roof, so Khang investigated the side of the house when we were on the roof, and found a crack. Bingo. Let’s patch it up then! Well…another problem was that the area was VERY difficult to reach since it was between 2 roofs and also the corner edge. Our 20ft ladder was too short as well.. So..instead, we did it the ghetto way.

“Jen, hold on to my legs, and don’t let go” and then Khang was on his way to haphazardly patching up the crack as best as he could from the angle he hung by.

It was a messy job..but it seemed to do the trick. As he continued to patch the crack though, he found that the crack extended, so he needed more leverage. Leverage in which I could not support..SO. My bro came in the picture and held me so that gravity wouldn’t have its way with us.

Surprisingly enough, it worked and no one was harmed =D Thanks Khang for doing that! and Jane for taking pics haha

16, August 2009

Blue and Red Lights

Most people have probably heard this story already if they see me..but..It’s a fun story to tell…unfortunately..there won’t be any photos though, but you’ll understand why after you read the story =D (it’s a bit long…so have fun!)

Well, on a random Thursday night, my friends/bro, and I were all chilling..it was about midnight when Jane decided that we should go get bubble tea! At first..I wasn’t up for the plan but..heck why not? Khang was super tired, but I convinved him to go and we even took his car. He was too tired to drive though, so I ended up with the keys of his truck.

Since I was driving his truck, I drove extra careful. I’m always a bit more cautious when I’m in someone elses car since I know there are sooo many liability issues, so I was keen to drive the exact speed limit, do full stops and yada yada. Well..we loaded up the car, in the front was me..then Khang in passenger seat, my bro behind me, Jane in the middle, and Matt on the far right if you’re faceing the dash.

We headed off to get bubble tea! And for some reason…lately, there have been a strange, and amazing amount of cops on the roads, so as we exited, I saw a cop sitting and scanning at the side of the road. We drove to 2 bubble tea places to find them closed…we mistakened the date and thought it was Friday, so the bubble tea shops had just closed…so we headed back.

As I got off the exit, I noticed that a cop car was following me amazingly close >___> And he had some crazy white- strobe light on as well. I didn’t really know what to do though..since it wasn’t the typical blue and red lights..plus I knew for a fact that I didn’t do anything wrong. THEN…he backs away and drives to the right of the car, peering in and looking at us all in the eyes O____O then he drops behind me again, and goes to the left of me and does the same thing…WtF??

Well…he then went behind me and turns on the blue and red lights…the road was under extreme construction and cutting off lanes everywhere so I pulled over on the left. The cop comes up to my window and I hand him my license, and he ask where we were heading, and I told him straight out that we were going to get bubble tea haha. Well, he informs us that our truck fits the describtion of a vehicle being used in the area for an abduction, and our truck also happened to be full of people >___< He then goes to the back window and looks at tiny Jane, sitting in the middle of two boys and ask, if she is doing alright and how old she was…HAhahahha…

ah…so in the end..it was all a huge mistake >___< My first time getting pulled over…do I look like a kidnapper? Or does Khangs truck just look like one? haha …..too bad I couldn’t take pics ;)