lacking some updates

School has stripped me of all my time and money. In two weeks, I have finals and I still owe another few grand to the UC system for this upcoming Spring 2009 Quarter. School has gotten too expensive. My cousin's new girlfriend told me that when she attended the same school 4 years ago, the tuition was $1,500 full time. It's currently now $2,990 full time. Grants and FA are helping just a little. I'm talking about this because the state can no longer assist UC, CSU, and CCC financially. All is not well in the state of California (I guess you can say that about anywhere). There are a few things I have in mind to blog about but that'll be for later since I have papers and finals in two weeks that I need to prepare for. I hope that all is well in the blogging world!

Scary Business

Darrell Steinberg is on CNN right now defending his choices and suggestions on how he rules over the Legislature. California has always had problems with finding the right people with the right kind of leadership. Our buget deficit is scary business. I'm more worried about education right now. Last year, the government pays 70% of our tuition while we paid the 30%. If there's no money left for us, that 70% could go lower forcing students to shell out more. Scary thought during this time.

can't relax yet.

one more holiday then i can finally relax. anyway, a few weeks ago, my brother, sunny the bunny, ran a marathon. here are pictures because i'm lazy and have nothing on my mind to blog about at the moment. hopefully i'll get over this writer's block.

this is me, early in the A.M. where it was COLD and my eyes were too tired to hold any contact lenses! I have 3 Red Bulls in my kangaroo pocket. hehee

the best thing about having a blog is when you can say "Can I take a picture of you ladies? It's for my blog." yay me!

This was on Fair Oaks.

Here is Sunny the Bunny getting ready.

my sisters there for support. more like being bossed around by Sunny. Siblings Getting ready for the run! Runners!

Don't ask.

It was unbearably cold! I'm a Californian so I can't stand the cold. It doesn't help that I'm a July baby.

After he took off on his lag, as a group we DROVE to the finish line to see him finish. HAHA!

Sunny D

His friends decided to pie him for victory reasons. haha

smacked in the face.

Victory!

My parents showed up later. They run on Asian time, I always forget that... *rolls eyes* yay! Post by me! haha a lazy one.

a little late.

Lack of postings from me. Reasons? School, Work, School, Social, School, Family, and have I mentioned school? Glad that the Fall session is over for now. I'm dreading going back for the Winter session. Urgh. Anywho, here's some pictures illustrating what I've been doing: 1. I went to the One Republic concert in San Francisco in the early weeks of November. It would have been fun if I had brought the travel snack pack I had put together for that evening, but I had forgotten it! That meant I didn't enjoy the concert as much because I was starving. Pictures before the show:

In the car and before the show.

This picture of Richard and NakedGuy is classic. It deserves to be big!

Sunny the birthday boy.

This is how far we sat:

After the concert, we had to get our grub on and walk off the fatty food.

Lori's diner was OK.

Hard to believe, but yes, I am related to him.

Some fancy smancy hotel.

Walking off that horrid food.

2. Monterey Bay Aquarium. Supposedly, this was suppose to be a double date for Eric-Phil and Ruby-Myself. =P I'd love to spend a weekend in Monterey, the weather and view is perfect. Such a great tourist town.

Check out that gorgeous blue!

Feathered friends.

3. Parent's fruit farm in Sutter County. We visited the farm while the fruits were being harvested. We had fun doing labor work but I went home with 24 mosquito bites! Those m*ther f@ckers!

This was when gas was starting to go down. Right now, the average in Northern California is $1.69/gallon

This is all that we pasted by. Nothing but peaceful bliss. I can already tell that a bunch of gun owners live in those areas. Must be nice. =)

Haha, look at my sister!

I put the kiddos to work once we were done festing on our lunch.

That concludes the adventure! There's more but I've been too lazy to upload. These were the only ones I had uploaded back in November when the California sun was still shining. Alright, I'm off work!

Happy Holidays!