forehead/palm

crying...


again...






Saying our usual bit...


Dad: Well, you're my favorite youngest daughter...
Me: Dad, I'm your only youngest daughter...
Dad: That's what makes you  my favorite.


I miss my daddy.


Just got off video chat with him, saying goodbye is always the hardest part. Telling me that he loves and misses me pulls my heartstrings taught and I can feel the lump in my throat and the heat of the tears behind my eyes.

Happy (early) Birthday Daddy, I love you. 

hhehehehehehe

contagious laughter.... love it

TSUNAMI SAY WHAAAAAAAT?!

OK so the whole world knows that Japan was hit by summo sized mutha of an EARTHQUAKE then quickly followed by an unstealthy ninja tsunami attack...

They're in a heap of trouble, so if you pray or if you don't just please, please, please send good thoughts and vibes out there way.

HuaLien and Yilan (as usual) got hit first then Keelung and I haven't heard any bad news so I think that's a good thing.

Keelung students got to go home at 4:00 so they can get safely home before the waves hit around 6 ish.

Taipei just got a whole bunch of rain. I had no idea how bad it was because I've been in school all day. I came home to worried FB posts. I'm SO sorry that yall were so worried.

I think the news blew up about Taiwan since we're in closest proximity to Japan.

Rest assured lovelies, I'm A-Okay over here.

Taipei kinda of sits in a basin so we've got mountains and giant hills protecting/surrounding us.

I love you all.

♥ ♥ ♥

The Places We Should Have Gone

http://wongfuproductions.com

This was shot in different places around Taiwan. The night market scene was actually shot down the street from my school. I even by fried chicken from the same stand and snacks from the stall at 3:22. I think the story is cool, music was good, and it was well edited. Read the description =)

 Good job Wong Fu!




Thanks to Annie P. for the discovery.
Love n miss your face a bunches!

randomosity to the max

Sorry for the intensely angry post... I guess between fight n flight you know which I'd choose. Hey if I was goin down I'm goin down swingnin...




So onto other shiz... actually there is none... only the third day of class and I already missed it. I'm averaging a cold a month here. I've never been sick so many times in my life. It might be the amount of moisture in the air, the erratic temperature changes, the pollution or the lack of air ventilation in the metro stations... for whatever reason it's caused me to be sick at least once a month. =/ I can deal with it for the most part but I hate having a stuffy nose.


My mommy just sent me her itinerary =) yay. I'm excited. I feel really bad that our vacations never line up so I always have class when she's here but we'll make it work.


I'm listening to some TW artists (I mean besides Stay Cool www.staycoolmusic.com) actually just 2 artists... Show Luo and Will Pan mostly their latest CDs. Not bad... it's just super pop, really mainstream... can't really sing along yet but hopefully I can.


Even though I'm not really a KPop fan... I've been addicted to a couple of songs lately...

Super Junior- No Other

TaeYang (of Big Bang)- Wedding Dress

and THE hottest song right now on my iPod

SM the Ballad- Hot TIMES

I mean wooooo R&B killed KPop

hahah as you can tell I've been stalkin music recently... and it's made me feel a lot better i can feel my spirits are lifting. I honestly feel like I'm not done with Taiwan so it better watch out cause I'm here and I'm ready... bring it 

Hey yall GUESS WHAT?!... 2 Points & 2 Woots for 2 Posts! Woot! Woot! Was my 100th post! woooot wooot its a celebration, shake you booty, put a ring on...

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERY ONE FOR READING!
I LOVE YOU ALL ♥

and now I'd like to thank the new visitors 

(even if you never come back...)

ROMANiA
SiNGAPORE

the RUSSiAN FEDERATiON

and

BELGiUM

(of course and as always Kansas ♥)

He called me “the fat girl”

If you've seen any of my FB updates from the last couple of days you’d know that Alicia is not a happy camper…

This past late Saturday/early Sunday morning… I probably had the worst experience here so far… and for it to have lasted less than 5 minutes thats saying a lot.

Me and some of my new friends were at a lounge/bar and we were chillin all night having a pretty good time. Then a royal douche came and effed it all up… let me just say I’ve never experienced this in the states… and that fucker is American… I don’t even know if a Taiwanese boy would be capable of what I’m about to tell you…

One of my girls spent the night talkin up some guy she had met… well by the end of the night she was a bit shnockered up… this dude was also drunk but he looked like he was about to pull out a club, knock her upside the head and drag her back to his cave…

In reality he was pretty much pushin her into a cab…

LIKE HELL I’m letting my friend go home with a stranger… any friend would have done the same… right?

So I got her away from the short balding man and he got mad. We get half way across the street when he yells…

“HEY, YOU JUST GONNA LEAVE WITH THE FAT GIRL?!?!”

Quicker than you can snap your fingers I SIMULTANEOUSLY hand my friend off to my other girl and run up on him faster than Usain Bolt… cussing him out, saying he only had balls to say that shit cuz he all the way across the street and to say that shit in my face cuz I’ll fuck him up (I cut out A LOT of swearing… just multiply that by 10 or so plus 5 then add another 2 for good measure)

I swear to all things shiny and pretty I was SO heated I was gonna knock him into next Tuesday and as I was closing in, bout to knock this sucka square on his ass when his friend tells him to walk away… He walks away, seeing him retreat I turn around to round up the girls…

I get all of us across the street and right before I can raise my hand for a cab I see him out of the corner of my eye running towards us… I'm think awwwwwwwwwwwwwww shiet. its bout to go down, Oh well, time to nut up or shut up. The second the cab pulls up, he reaches us asking (slash mildly screaming) why she wont come home with him and why she’s leaving with me…

I shove my friends in the back of cab and close the door…

Right before I can close my door… THIS FOO THROWS HIS CIGARETTE AT ME…. Seriously… WTF… yeah never IN MY LIFE.

I was so heated yall you don’t even know… hella heated, hella angry, hella irritated

I apologized to the cab driver for getting a cigarette thrown into his cab…

My friends apologized to me… but I wasn’t mad at them I was mad at that asshole.

        Seriously dude… your parents obviously failed.

When I came home I was lucky to have my good friend My to talk to and calm my ass down. During the conversation she pointed out the clear fact that when I ran up on dude… I ain’t had nobody standing next to me, behind me, nothing… I was alone.

Back in the town I was so used to rolling at least 2 cars deep and with hella dudes that I was never afraid that someone didn’t have my back but here?! completely different story… apparently if I get in a fight (be it with a guy or whatever) I’m in it alone.

Now that  I’ve calmed down a bit… I realize that I got mad because I was afraid for my friend, ya know I didn’t want anything bad to happen to her… so my concern and fear multiplied my anger times 10.

I know I’m putting all my shit out there and telling everybody to HIDE YO KIDS HIDE YO WIFE… forreal cuz everyone needs to stay the f*ck away from that dude.

Every time I think about it I get mad again… even after I’ve written this I still get hella heated… you can prolly tell huh?... sorry yall… forreal... I needed to put that Antoine Dodson video to make me less mad... smh yall

2 POiNTS & 2 WOOTs for 2 POSTS! WOOT! WOOT!

PLAY ME

I'm really trying to write more often. But this time around I really don't have nothing [new] to say. I've enjoyed my couple of days off and happily spent them sleeping and eating and eating and sleeping with an occasional shopping sprinkled in but not too much just the necessities... like that sudden downpour forced me to buy a new pair of cute black boots. Hey, don't give me that look I seriously didn't know it was goin to rain, there's no way my feet would have stayed dry and my fave faux suede moccasins definitely would have been completely ruined.

Stop looking at me like that! =]


Let's seeeeeeeeeeeee


oooOOOoooo I can tell yall that I'm learning to fall asleep to music... le sigh... however....as always there's a big fat 'but'

I like big butts n I cannot lie you otha brothas can't deny, when a girl walks in wit an itty bitty waist n a round thing in yo face you get SPRUNG!


I digress...

buuuuuuuuttttttt (told ya it was a big butt ;] ) ok ok... I'm just tryin to work y'all up cuz what I'm about to say will make you feel like you stuffed your face full of Warheads (the candy not like real ones... ok so maybe I'm being a lil over dramatic, but its kinda a revelation... at least to me)

Using music to help me sleep... causes dreamlessness. *gasp* I knooooooooooow right?!?! how horrid is that? (1point and a woot for using the word horrid, woot!) as nonsensical as my dreams get and as fast as I forget them in the AM I still enjoy being in the state of dreamsville; coasting down the highway in a fire engine red 65 Mustang with Tupac riding shot gun, where the clouds are made of cotton candy, talking flowers are completely normal, and no one even bats an eye at my pet sloth, 'Speedy,' with his blinin rhinestoned collar and the best part in my dreams... stupidity doesn't exist and I can fly. 

(and yes I've dreamt of having a pet sloth cuz in real life I really do want a 3 toed sloth. They're kinda like pugs, so hideous they're kinda cute, no???)

OH I know I know... I can tell you about my first day of the new quarter... brace yourself... its not at all happy... in fact I should probably invest in a "Dunce" cap...

emoticon progression

=D ...=)... =] ... =| ...=[ ...=( ...=˙(

The entire class I sat there and the soundtrack in my head went like this... "UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"


What's another word for frustrated? cause that's what I am. I know I'm lucky  that I can understand what's being said to me but le sigh what's the point of saying it again...


SO even though I probably could struggle though this quarter I really don't want to feel like how I did last quarter. So I'm actually quite content with my choice to repeat the quarter...


The down side to all of this is: I don't know how to tell my TW family. I'm sure out of politeness they wont say a thing (firm believers in 'if you don't have anything nice to say...')


At the last 2 family gatherings my family has asked how my classes were going with expecting eyes... it left me speechless... because that's just what I am.


So that was what? a month ago? I still haven't been able to face them... I feel like I'm back in kindergarten and I'm getting sent home with a note pinned to my shirt and it's the dreadful feeling of knowing I will eventually have to go home and face the music. I know choosing to repeat the quarter is for the best but one of the things I hate the most in this world is disappointing people, especially my family. For all they've done for me...

the least I can do is learn Chinese.

BOOGERS

The cool thing about Taiwan hair salons are that all services come with a massage and something to drink. (well obviously idk if ALL of them do but everyone I've talked to said that they get that when they get they hair did)

Too bad I don't like massages. I always turn them down... yeah, yeah I know I'm weird.

anyyyyyywhooooooo

One of my favorite parts of making a trip out to the salon is getting my hair washed... it's sooooooo comfy! If it wasn't for the occasional splash of water I'd prolly fall asleep. hehehe

During the last visit, while my stylist was suddsing up my mop I had a thought (unfortunate but they do happen sometimes...) "With my head at this angle she can probably see straight up my nose" then I thought... "oh gosh, I hope I don't have any bats in my cave..."


true story