Cupcakes tastes like violence.

This past weekend, Jasmine and I went to the city. It was a gorgeous day outside, no rain, nice and warm mm. Sharon was supposed to come with us, but she was sick. So previous times when LG goes to the city, we always go for dinner at night. However, this time we wanted to change things up a little and go for brunch and go shopping. We spent a good, productive two hours planning our city date. We researched places to eat by looking at rankings, reviews, etc. Hahah we are soo good at this, and the best part is that we enjoy it! :) I wanted to eat pankcakes, waffles, and french toasts. I love pankcakes! These are places we narrowed down our choices to: Good Enough To Eat, Clinton St. Baking Company, Kitchenette, and some others. We decided to go to Good Enough to Eat. They are ranked #3 on the list of best pancakes in NYC. When Jas and I got there in the morning between about 10 and 11, there was a line waiting to get inside. The interior was pretty cute and the pancakes were delicious~

- Waiting in line outside..
- Peter Paul Pancakes: with Belgium chocolate and coconut, topped with toasted coconut (very yummy)

- Banana Walnut Pancakes: Three four-grain pancakes with walnuts and sliced banana

After breakfast, we went to Soho and shopped shopped and shopped until 4 in the afternoon. And I haven't gone shopping for quite a while and I ended up spending waaaaaaaay much more money than I had intended to. The final cost was a bit crazy. Let's just say I'm not going to buy anything for a while now. Hahah I just can't. Our arms were in pain. Seriously, the next two days or so after Saturday, my arms were aching haha.. For dinner, we headed towards Times Square to eat at Sapporo, a Japanese Noodle restaurant. We ordered miso ramen and chicken cutlet. It was good.

We never go wrong with our restaurant and food choices ;) I just love the city. When I graduate, I definitely want to live in the city and take full advantage of living in one of the greatest cities in the U.S. by going to restaurants, cafes, shows, concerts, bars, museums, exhibits, shopping, etcetc. It'd be so perfect.
So, tomorrow's new years eve. I can't believe this years already over. It feels like just yesterday I was at a New Year Party celebrating 2008. I'm going to save a New Year blog for another post in a couple days :)

Merry Christmas!!!

I hope all of you have a wonderful and relaxing Christmas Day surrounded by your family and friends! :)

Caught beneath the landslide in a champagne supernova in the sky

I've been obsessed with this song by Oasis lately. Ah, it's just so soothing and makes you feel calm. The lyrics are also great. I recommend you listen to it.

So what's new? My first week of winterbreak has already passed, and I'm so glad that it did because it was being a drag. I was getting way too bored at home. I stayed up really late every night, at least until like 4 in the morning, and just talk to people, watch youtube videos, watch movies, and do other random shit online to keep myself occupied. Seriously, don't bother asking me why I haven't been sleeping lately because I honestly do not have an answer for you. People think I'm being really weird for not sleeping hahah. But something funny-I think I do need to sleep more because my eyelids are like giving up on me and twitch every now and then...hahah no, seriously, I need to sleep more.

Another thing that makes people think I'm crazy is my obsession with piercings, needles, and my love for the feeling of getting something pierced. In fact, I just got back from getting three new piercings today. My best friend, Jasmine, wanted to get her cartilage pierced again, and I wanted my third lobe on my left and a double cartilage on my right. I think I am done with these piercings now; I have no more room on my ears to get more even if I wanted more. I am ready for professional piercings now. I reallllly want my rook pierced!! I've seen videos of people getting it pierced. It looks really painful, but I don't know, I'm "special".. I want to feel that pain... hahaha. I'm curious of what it's going to feel like. Slash I just think the rook looks so sick- I want it!! :D Since I got three piercings in one day today, I think I should take a little break from piercings, and then get the rook lmao. Today, I got my third one done first, and then I was so close to not getting my double cart. I don't know why.. I just started to question myself, "Why am I here? What am I doing?" And then my friends were like "No, Kristen, you want it. Get it. You're going to regret it if you don't get it." And you know what, they were right. It's a good thing that I got them, because if I hadn't gotten them, I would totally be regretting it right now and hating myself. I am in love with my new piercings. They felt gooood. I am attached to my current piercings right now and I'm glad these new ones are added to my collection :) hehehehoho

Right now, I am waiting for Jasmine to come over. She's having dinner with her mom at home first. and then, she's coming over and we're going to watch The Night Before Christmas :] I'm excited. I haven't watched that movie since I was in like the third grade or something. It's been a longgg time. She's probably going to end up staying the night. Yay:)

Oh, so HELLO! Are you aware that Christmas is in three days?!?!? It does not feel like Christmas at all. I'm not even in the Christmas mood or the Christmas spirit, whatevers you call it. I feel like every year it feels less and less like Christmas...it's sadd :/ Even as you drive down neighborhoods and streets, you don't see as many Christmas decorations outside as you used to like three, four years ago. You know? What happened to the Christmas spirit?

I am content right now. I love my new piercings:) and tonight should be more fun than my other boring dull nights the past week. hahaha.

The Youth

This is a call to arms to live and love and sleep together. We could flood the streets with love or light or heat whatever. Lock the parents out, cut a rug, twist and shout wave your hands, make it rain the stars will rise again. The youth is starting to change, are you starting to change? are you together? In a couple of years, tides have turned from boos to cheers and in spite of the weather, we can learn to make it together.

The youth is starting to change, are you starting to change? Are you together?

I don't care what you think as long as it's about me

It's 3:17 am in the morning. Why am I still up? To that, I have no answer, except that I have been a nocturnal insomniac this past month. Actually, I don't think "nocturnal" is the correct term because I don't sleep during the day either. I do get tired and am tired, but I just can't sleep. I don't know what's wrong with me, but everyone definitely finds it weird too hahah. Oh well, this no-sleep-marathon will end sooner or later. I know it's so bad for my body.

Today was the Fall Out Boy show at Nokia Theatre. I was supposed to go. The tickets went on sale last friday at 10 a.m. By 10:15 a.m., all the tickets were already sold out! Crazy! However, my friend's friend managed to get my friend in and she told my friend to bring anyone. So I could've totally went today!! :( Unfortunately, due to such short notice, I sat at home on my lazy ass sipping a glass of wine. Ugh. My friend texted me and said it was cool. I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures. I listened to F.O.B. alot during their "Under the Cork Tree" album, and then after that I stopped following them. However, the title I have for this post is from their new album and is currently playing on my iTunes right now. When I can't think of a creative title for my posts, I'm just going to use lyrics from the song that's currently playing on my iTunes at the moment haha.

It has only been a day or two since I came home from college, and I'm getting sick of it already. I hate being home. I love how I finished fall semester on a good note with good grades. I love how I don't any more classes to go to. I love not having to study for any exams. I love everything about non-college related things. However, however, however, I hate how I'm home. I don't like how I'm not just one train ride away from the city. I need to be in the city or at least in NY. Jerz is too boring boring boring.

My life is so dull right now. I could use some pleasant suprises and spontaneity in it. Things I'm looking forward to include: new piercings next week :), restaurants/cafes in the city, food, more chillages after more people are out of school, parties, drinking, drinking, and more drinking. Hahah, on Monday while my mom was picking me up, I told her that I love alcohol and that I don't sleep anymore. She just laughed at me and basically told me I have serious issues. hahaha it was funny.

Tomorrow night, is the live stickam with Quietdrive. I am so stoked! I miss these guys!! I couldn't go on the last time they had it because my completely retarded theology night class. But I'm looking forward to the one tomorrow night. Yayay!=)

(ps.ps.ps I NEED A JOB NOW!!!)

You're never alone

There's always someone else in this large world who is thinking the same things as you and can portray them into words:

-PostSecret<3

Don't think too hard if you think it hurts that bad

Earlier this week, this song played on my iTunes and the lyrics got my attention. The message I get from this song is to think positive. Stay positive. No matter how bad a situation seems, try to think positive even though it may be hard. I have said this line multiple times before: if you think positive, good things will come to you.

I haven't written in this for a long time so I thought I'd update a little bit about the little happenings in my life. I'm over my friend's dorm at SVA. It's my second time staying over now. I really like the dorms here. Also, because everyone is all artsy and such, the way they decorate the little space they have is really cute. It's like simple, but cute. We went to bed at like 5 in the morning so my friend is still sleeping, but I woke up at 8. And I have nothing better to do than writeee so here I go.

Our last day of classes was December 3rd. Eversince that day, I've been pretty free, it was awesome. hahah. This week was finals week and it was death. I had 4 finals to take. My theology final was a take home final so it wasn't too bad. My other three finals were DNY, chemistry, and statistics. Studying for chemistry was painful. Friday night, my friends and I got together to review and go over the most important things and exchange exams to study from since our professors were different. The study sesh helped alot. We just couldn't wait until Saturday morning to get this final over with. Yesterday, when I finally took the final I felt so relieved and had a pretty good feeling about the exam overall. I feel like all my studying was definitely worth it and that it paid off. The only final I have left now is statistics tomorrow morning. I've been studying while my stay here at SVA. I'll definitely be studying more once I get back to my school today. Overall, I have been doing so well this semester. I don't want to fuck my good grades up with these finals, you know? I want to end my fall semester on a good note :)

Speaking of fall semester, I just can't wait for it to all end. I am finally going home tomorrow after my stats final. I have mixed feelings about going home. I want to be home but I don't. Why? because I know I definitely won't be having the same freedom when I'm home. I'll always have to tell my mom where I'm going, who I'm with, where I'm staying, etc. And I'll actually have to come home by the end of the night, whereas in college there would be days when I didn't come back to campus until like two days later or something like that. I'll definitely feel tied down and confined when I'm home for a whole month. I'm going to try to go out as much as possible. My best friend and I, this whole week, all we've been talking about were things we want to do, need to do. And we would just daydream the whole time and think about food and restaurants in the city and etc etc etc. There is never a limit with our thoughts and wild ideas. hahah. I love it!

I always think about this: if you could have one special superhero skill, what would you want to have? Lately, my answer to this question has been having the gift of being able to read people's minds. Everyone is different inside and outside. You can't help it. People will never speak their minds in completeness. They hold some opinions back, express others. They will craft some and present it in certain way to lead others to believe certain things. You never know when it comes to people's minds. You can never know what is going on inside people's heads. People's minds are unpredictable. Some people might have totally different feelings than the ones they appear to feel. Some people may have completely different intentions than what you thought they had. The list of possibilites can go on forever which is why I wish I could read people's minds. It may not always be a good thing, but it would still be helpful and would explain alot of unknown questions so easily.

I took my contacts out and I have no glasses with me. I can't see. The TV has nothing fun on. I just want my friend to wake up so that we can go to Lyrics for brunch :) Have a great day!