celebrAsian 2011

May 14 was the day of the Annual Asian Heritage Festival aka CelebrAsian! I've been volunteering for them the past 3 years and every year it's been a roller coaster but somehow we've managed to get through a successful year. This year was definitely different, I can't say it's better or worse but with a new leader it wasn't something I wasn't use to. The thing that made me really love volunteering for this group was because I really made some great friends from it, actually close friends. I love the time I spent helping putting this whole thing together with great people but I think it's time for me to retire from it all. DEUCES!


Me snapping a picture of my proud VIP pass!


My friend Elida and I taking a quick picture


LOL Banker's Trust mascot thingy


afterschoolspecial performing on stage


Olivia T


DANakaDAN of afterschoolspecial


Headliner Jason Chen with my friend Amie and my cousin Rosie

Drugs and Alcohol with the Family

Last night, I had long chat with my cousin... Well it was mostly him talking and me listening but he was giving me a run through of his life and how he was living the life of a dealing and gang banging and how he's changing his life around. I only met this cousin a couple days ago and he seems to be able to open up so easily and sharing a lot of his past and how he's struggled with drugs and how heavily it had affected his life. I'm not sure what made him spark this conversation with me, I told him the original plan I had when moving back to my parents' house. Trying to save some money and then moving out to new place all together and out of Des Moines. I brought up LA and Chicago as key places.

Now that I think about it he was just worried that I would be caught up in all of the temptation of a bigger city. Let's say this about my history, I have "blazed up" before in my life in high school and a little in college but since then I have moved away from it. I honestly in my opinion don't think weed is as bad as everyone seem to believe it is. It's an herb that people have proved to be used for other purposes and some for the better.

I don't know where this blog is going... I just feel like talking and don't have anyone right now to talk to. I guess I'm happy that I have met a cousin this weekend that I should keep in contact with. Hey maybe it's Houston that I'm meant to be. I can't believe in my 27 years I haven't really "found myself" yet...

Long Weekend

So it's been interesting long weekend, a lot of relatives from Texas and France came here for my uncle's wedding and it feels like such a long one. It's been awkward around the house with me having to be extra quiet because there's one sleeping in the other room and can't use the bathroom in the morning because it's being used... As much as I love my family I can't wait for them to leave so I can have my house back.

My uncle's wedding was pretty boring I must say which is kinda weird because he is the youngest of the siblings and that was definitely not what I was expecting for when he got married. There was a moment me and my sister had when I bought up my other uncle's wedding and how grandpa was there on the dance floor trying to get people to dance... We both had tears in our eyes thinking how both my grandpa and grandma have missed one of their son's wedding.

We thought that we can put songs on my iPad and they would be able to play it through the headphone jack but apparently their equipment didn't have an audio in to play the songs we were wanting. Let's just say I had to drink a lot to make the wedding easier to handle. It ended up that I was a mean drunk that night and was getting angry with my little cousins. I'm sure it wasn't too bad because they still hung out with me today. It was a rough night though, I ended up vomiting that night all over my bed and carpet that I didn't get cleaned up til the morning after. I should know better than to mix other alcohol that night and pretty much downing a whole bottle of wine.