Giggles

I want to share with everyone my recent experience with Juicy Couture. Considering that they are a sub-company of Neiman Marcus, I believed that they were a company that would care about their customer’s satisfaction and wanted to make sure that their customers are happy and treated with respect. However, after dealing with their Customer Service Center several times and being charged unnecessary fees for procedures I was unaware of, I believe it is imperative to boycott Juicy Couture.

I ordered a skirt from their website on August 16, and received it in the mail August 23. It turned out that the size I ordered was too big on me, so I wanted to exchange it. Just exchange it, not return, but EXCHANGE it. On the packing slip provided, it mentioned that I would be reimbursed the cost to send it back. So, I sent it back the next day using the packing slip.

After not seeing a status change on my online account and not hearing back from Juicy, I decided to call them to check the status of my exchanged skirt on September 13. It turns out that they didn’t have the size that I wanted and would give me a refund for the skirt. I was fine getting reimbursed for the skirt and accepted the fact that I lost out on the shipping fee. But then when I asked how much I would be getting refunded, it was less than the price that I expected. I questioned what the fee was for, and it turned out it was for my sending the skirt back to EXCHANGE it for a different size, but because they didn’t have my size and the original skirt wasn’t damaged, I would have to pay the cost to ship it back because it was considered a return. Juicy did not give me the option of giving me the skirt back. They did not let me know what they were doing with my skirt and decided for me that I would be returning it. I should have been given the option to get the skirt back for no additionally shipping fees. Essentially, I lost money from all of the shipping fees, and got absolutely NOTHING for it.

I called the Customer Service number twice and explained to two different people the situation to see if I could get reimbursed for the second shipping fee. Of course, they said that I couldn’t, so I told them if they are going to charge customers unnecessary fees and automatically return items to be exchanged, they should let them know. I also told them if I had known that I would be charged the extra fee, then I wouldn’t have bought the skirt to begin with or that I would have it and gotten it fixed myself. At least I would have a skirt to wear and not just lose money.

On the last phone call I made to Customer Service, the woman who answered was completely nasty to me. I was explaining to her the situation and she basically gave me the tone of “so, what do you want me to do about it?” and told me that they don’t give refunds on shipping charges. I told her it wasn’t my fault that they didn’t have my size, and that I was initially going to exchange it and not return it. She said they sent me the size I requested and it wasn’t their fault it didn’t fit me. When she said that, I asked her if I could speak to a manager or supervisor. Instead she told me she was going to send this as a note to an executive. I asked her if there was a way someone can contact or find out if my complaint was filed with someone. She told me they have no contact information for executives and they don’t contact customers (well, clearly they don’t- considering I had to call them to find out about my non-existent skirt). So I told her fine, and I was on the actual website and I read word-for-word that the Juicy site says ”We want you to be completely happy with your order,” and that I was not satisfied at all. To pay that much money for clothes, and add to that the expensive initial shipping fee and additional fees because clothing didn’t fit or wasn’t in stock, which isn’t the customer’s fault, is unfair. I also said I don’t want another customer to be as unhappy as I am and lose out money while not having anything to show for it. I warned her to let the executives know that I will be posting my complaint online about the shady shipping fees and unsatisfactory treatment I received from Juicy for everyone to see. She asked then me to verify my information, so I told her my name and started to spell it because it’s an odd spelling. Then, she cut me off and said nastily, “You don’t have to spell everything out, I just need to verify your information, what’s your address”. I gave her the info and just said, “OK, fine. Bye.” And hung up.

Now, if I had lost that amount of money and not gotten a physical object from it, I would have preferred if it all went to charity, and NOT Juicy Couture. They have shady extra shipping fees do not update you on the process of your items, and some of their customer service representatives have attitude problems. Spread the word, even boycott, or just PLEASE use extra precaution when dealing with Juicy Couture online.

So I'm trying to generate more traffic to my personal site. Please visit it here If not, here's the latest entry from July 27th:

Since lately I've been getting a few people telling me to update... I shall update. (I can hear the gasps of shock and surprise!)

Let's see, in the past few weeks, craziness (both good and bad) has ensued:

I think I left off at the weekend of June 17th. I had my cousin's high school graduation party. It was ok; lots of food (ok, granted it was at a Chinese buffet place). There was even a lion dance to wish her good luck, which was cool. There was a little kid, about three years old who was dancing. So cute! Reminded me of a "lollipop kid." Another highlight of the day was that my brother's girlfriend got to come. That was the first time ever meeting my extended family. Kind of a scary task, if you ask me. Some of the pictures I took were quite amusing.

July 1 - Rachel's 23rd Birthday party at Eugene! Woo Hoo! I had a lot of fun that night. Actually, I have to admit, I had more fun that night than at my own party... anyways... granted we were 40 minutes late, but that's ok- we were with the birthday girl I did lots of dancing, even though my feet were in soooooo much pain (new shoes) AND I even SHARED an ALCOHOLIC drink with Carina (a midori sour, to be exact - it wasn't bad) After dancing till 2:30 in the morning, we decided to go to Chinatown for some food. Who would've thunk it that there'd be a restaurant open at 3 am. I didn't get home till 5. The sun was rising!

The following Monday, July 3rd, was quite the interesting day... I had plans to hang out with Tida down to Westfield and the Woodbridge Mall and to grab sushi with Alex, Ryan, and Tim (from the Hamptons weekend). I eventually went a few hours later (explained below). I bought a skirt. (I'm not allowed to go shopping with any of theedorks because they encourage me to buy things! hehe ) Sushi was really good! I even strayed from my usual California roll.

So, the plans got postponed for a little because we had to admit my dad to the hospital because the last few months he wasn't feeling well and couldn't really hold food in. I mean, not to sound angry or anything, but my family (sister, brother, mom, and I) had been telling him when this first started (about 4 months ago) that he should see one of his doctors. He put it off for weeks. When the doctor finally saw him, no real action was taken. We even asked my dad if he needed to have a special diet or anything- but nothing. The doctor couldn't "find" anything wrong, so we suggested a second opinion. And of course, my dad said that "there's nothing wrong" with the doctor he has. So this whole process went on for months on end. My dad had to leave work early, or went to work late some days because he wasn't feeling well. He missed my cousin's high school graduation party (as mentioned above) and other family events. And he would get kinda upset about it. So finally, on July 3rd, he decided that we should admit him. After running bunches of tests, and an all liquid diet, the doctors finally figured out what was going on. My dad was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease, which is weird because it usually happens to people who are in their teens or 30s. He was in the hospital until he could eat solid food; about 2 to 2 1/2 weeks- longer than two summers ago, when he was diagnosed with cancer. At least they now know what's wrong, they can't cure it, but they can treat it.

During those two weeks, it was even crazier. About five days after my dad was admitted, my uncle was also admitted to the hospital for what was thought to be just kidneystones. In actuality, it was a tumor on his kidney. The day after, my aunt, his wife, was admitted for gallstones. Both had surgery- my uncle to remove his left kidney, and my aunt to remove her gallbladder. Crazy!

Well, since my dad, and now my uncle, and apparently my grandmother (on my dad's side) have all had to have their left kidney's removed, I believe this problem is hereditary. I don't know about the rest of my family, but I'm kinda worried/concerned about this. Since all three diagnosi (plural of diagnosis inserted here) were different, I don't even think there's a genetic test to figure out if or when it'll happen. I guess the only thing to do now is to monitor everything.

Anyways... on a happier note, on July 7th, I went to Fridays and got to watch Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (on opening night) with Rachel, Tida, Alex, Ryan, Tim, and Stefan. The movie was good! But, I do have to admit, the first movie was better. There were definitely more laughing moments during this movie though.

July 8th- Meadowlands Fair fun! It started off with Tiff, Patrick, Diana, Lara, and me, but unfortunately Tiff and Patrick had to leave early because of the aforementioned situation above. But, Diana, Lara and I stayed. We got to ride on the the giant swings (twice), the "Himalaya"-esque ride, and Crazy Mouse. Later on in the night, we ran into an intoxicated Peter. This was really amusing because in all of my years in knowning him (since kindergarten) I have NEVER seen him like this. It was actually kinda amusing!

Friday, July 14th, I hung out with Diana and Lara, and finally got to meet some of Diana's friends from school- Mark and Liz (and Liz's boyfriend Rudy, and friend Amana). We met up for dinner in Ridgewood at The Office. They're cool peeps. (haha, since when did I start to type all sorts of ghetto? ) Actually, they were really nice, quite amusing too. At The Office, the food there is good as well! For those who like beer, they even have a beer menu with all sorts of beer. After dinner, we walked and hung around Ridgewood. Then it was off to find gas for Liz's car and Suburban for ice cream. (note to self: DO NOT get the chocolate cream pie again.)

On Saturday, July 15th, theedorks drove down to Westfield for Alex's birthday. It was just a casual bbq in his backyard. We tried to play "Killer Bunnies." I don't really get the hoopla that the guys talked about the last time I hung out with them. At night, we walked to town. Some of us got Starbuck's and the rest of us got gelato. I was the odd dork out and got Tiramisu gelato, while the others got Cookies and Cream. (Mine was really good though ) I also picked up a piece of dark chocolate almond bark. I dark chocolate. Actually, had a whole coversation about it with Ryan. Oh, "What is the most used name for a town in the country?" When asked that, I thought the name had something to do with chocolate because that's what the current conversation was about. But, apparently not... Kinda random, right? (the answer: Springfield) Anyways... that night was fun.

Almost coming up to "The All Caught Up Point"...

Last Thursday, I went out to dinner with Tiff and Diana. We went to Joel's Malibu Kitchen in Ridgewood. The food was good. The down side is that each person HAS to spend at least $10 there. If not, then they charge you $10 no matter what single item you get. And the entrees aren't cheap either, on average, about $18. I ended up getting two appetizers: Yakaturi chicken and mussels. It's very... what's the word? should I dare say, "kitschy" but in a good way. We're trying to make it a goal to try a new restaurant at least once a month. I don't know what's next on our list though.

Last Friday, theedorks, minus Carina, met up at Tida's to start planning our roadtrip to Myrtle Beach. I can't wait! But, before that we decided to pick up dinner. Of course, this turns out to be a whole long ordeal. You figure that it would be because we couldn't decide what to eat. But no! That was decided the day before because for some strange reason, Rachel and I were craving Uno's. It was actually getting the food that was the difficult part. The first Uno's number I called turned out to be the office or something, so we ended up placing our order at the Seacaucus restaurant. Yeah, when I placed the order, I asked them how long it'll take, the response was 10-15 minutes. Yeah... it took us three phone calls, and about an hour to actually get there and pick up the food. We got a little lost in the middle of Harmon Meadow and ended up by a hotel and an Outback Steakhouse. By the time we got to Uno's, three different servers/hosts/managers knew who we were... great

So anyways... we got some of the planning done for our roadtrip. We've decided to go during the last week of August, until that Sunday, so that we have the Monday of Labor Day to attempt to recoop. We've done research on the different places we want to go. The only problem we have is narrowing down our list. But, I DEFINITELY HAVE to go jet skiing. (That's one of the things on my "Things I have to do in my life" List (which i still have to put up)). We just booked our hotel room (today! hooray! )

And my last little shpeel (yeah, have no clue how to actually spell that)... work is seriously killing me! I'm feeling a bit stressed. On top of all of the hospital-ish (visiting everyday, and visiting three different people), I've had to work on this tight deadline. This entire week and the latter part of last week, I stayed late to work on this project. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a cool project delving into Generation X, it's just that I don't have enough time! I'm the head designer/developer on it, and I was given only about a week and a half to make it (I'm pushing on almost two weeks), after the client ok'd my layout design. The art director has one of the sections, I handed the non-interactive pages to the interns that I was given, two of the interactive parts to a co-worker, and I took the rest myself, which is about twelve interactive parts. It doesn't help that the interns kept on being taken away from me and replaced with other interns, so I had to keep going over what had to be done, so I wasted time there. And, I didn't want to give any of the interactive stuff to the interns, just in case... And it doesn't help that the script is so specific, that now I have to completely redo one of the sections that my co-workder made. I like what I do, it's just people don't get that if only one person for the most part is working on a project, they're going to need more than a week and a half to get the job complete. I know I shouldn't make it definite, and it's not because I think it's easier, nor am I considering the vacation time (but it is an added bonus), but teaching is seriously looking a lot more appealing to me. The times that I subbed, I felt more fulfilled with what I did, like I actually made an impact (a small one, but something). As of now, the fulfillment I get is more of a sigh of relief and a slight feeling of accomplishment, that I was able to complete a project. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm proud of what I create, and I like where I work, it's just the stress of these past few weeks have gotten to me. Maybe I just need some time to destress?

*sigh*

Ok, Ok,.... sorry about the end of the last entry- it was more to get a vote of what shirt I should wear for a party that I was going to.  I ended up not wearing any of them. HAHA.  Yeah, the party kinda sucked because there wasn't any dancing, and the guys there were old, well, older than my friends and me.  I felt kinda awkward there; out of place.  Some of the pick-up lines were really pathetic. 

The best of the night were:

"Can we take a picture?"

For us?

"Of you."

No.

"Would you risk your life for my computer?"

What were these guys thinking?!

We were supposed to get back at around 1:30am, but we didn't get back until 3:00am because there was so much traffic on the FDR. Oh well.

Grrr... this process of trying to find a job and getting credit is such a pain-in-the-butt. I got offered a job, but I needed a car, which I don't have.  And I can't get a car without credit.  And I can't get a credit card because I don't have a steady yearly income of like $14,000 because I don't have a job, but only have a summer job.

This Friday is another party.  Apparently there are supposed to be models there... who knows?  But what should I wear?  What do you think?

Well, it's been a while, actually a really long while since writing.  Let's see what's happened since then...

Some major events have been:

AAA's Mystique of the East     

AAA Spring semi formal- my last one ever!  

Senior Fine Arts Exhibition

Senior Week at TCNJ  

Graduation from COLLEGE!!  

My cousin's graduation from high school   

My brother's graduation from high school

Started my summer job at the Board of Ed...again

Cherry picking

So let's start...

My last Mystique was great, except for the fact that it was raining cats and dogs, so we didn't sell out like usual.  This year I sang "A Love Before Time" from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with Kat, in MANDARIN!  (for those of you who know me, I don't speak an ounce of Chinese).  I also sang the national anthem with 6 other people acapella, danced Chinese ribbon dance, and danced and helped choreograph a Chinese fan dance.  It was a little hectic during my last semester, but it was a lot of fun.  Definitely had a great workout for those 4 months.

singing the National Anthem

Fan Dance to Coco Lee's Dow Man Dan

Our flower

The Boys trying to ribbon dance, but we kicked them off

Ribbon Girls walkin' with ATTITUDE!

The spring semi was great!  It was at Diamond's Riverside, and the theme was "An Affair to Remember" set in Old Hollywood style.  My date... or should I say dates... were a few of my friends.  The night was fun.  It went by so quickly, and at the end everyone was so surprised that it was already over!  Thanks for the fun and the memories!

Well, I've been working on my Senior Fine Arts Thesis for the last semester.  It finally paid off in the end.  My work was straight across from the entrance, so it was the first one that you saw.  I worked my butt off to finish 6 charcoal portraits, a 24"x30" poster, a digital music video, and an interactive program.©  My thesis was based on my perceptions of what stereotypes are placed on Asian Americans in society.  The portraits were entitled various racial slurs that the subject has been called, such as "oriental," "chink," and "charlie."©  The poster contained images of how Asians are perceived in the media©.  My digital music video was in retaliation to that sh*tty-*ss "Tsunami Song" and combined images from various news coverage of the tragedy, and Jin's response song©.   My interactive program had a list of Asian stereotypes and then examples of Asian Americans who broke them ©.

My poster, left. Some visitors watching my video and using my program.
 

Charcoal Portraits
 

One of my favorite pieces made by another student.

From May 10 until May 13, the TCNJ Class of 2005 became freshmen again.  We moved into Travers and Wolfe, aka The Towers, for Senior Week 2005.  I was on Wolfe 1, with the rest of my girls.  It was so much fun!  At the beginning of Senior Week I had made a 'goal' with my friends that in order for me to graduate, well at least happily, I had to get a picture of someone, and have to take a picture with another someone.   Let's just say that I graduatated happily!      On the first day, after registration and move in, we had a luncheon and then had a 2 and 1/2 hour bus ride down to AC.  I ended up 'loosing' but not my own money.  It wasn't bad, except for the fact that it was freezing out, so I was stuck in the Taj.  Actually, I spent the majority of the night waiting in line, and at the Hard Rock Cafe.  That was quite amusing because Carly did a blow-job shot in the middle of the restaurant for her birthday.   After getting back at 3 am, the next day we spent 5 hours outside for the senior picnic on Green Lane fields.  The school had set up some activities for us, like an inflatable foam dance area, mechanical bull ride, and a giant slip and slide.  I didn't really participate in these, which kinda sucked, but I did have great fun watching my friends making *sses of themselves.    And let's just say that some guys at TCNJ should walk around without shirts more often.  And that I should have taken a picture of one of my "goals."   After being cooked for about 5 hours, we went to Bar Anticipation (BarA) in Belmar.  It was fun- I danced a lot, actually almost the entire time!  And by chance, always next to my 'goal'...LOTS!   But I was ready to go at 1, considering we had been there since 8 that night.  The next day, we went to Great Adventures for half a day.  Rachel went on her first rollercoaster- Batman the Chiller- and survived!  (haha) Since the lines were kinda long and we only had half a day, I didn't get to go on that many rides.  But Katie was able to get a pic of one of my 'goals'   The downside is that he's kinda far away, but good enough.  Later that night, was the last event before graduation the next morning at 8 am!   It was our Senior Semi-Formal/Senior Send-Off at the Cherry Hill Hilton.  Everyone was dressed up (though a little drunk), the food was pretty good, and the music was great.  I have to admit, I've never seen the Senior Class that tight with one another, even if we didn't know everyone's names.  I took bunches and bunches of pictures, and I even completed my other 'goal'- I took a picture with my 'goal'!     

The girls playin' in the foam

Headin' out to Bar A

The T1 Girls, and then some

After getting about only 2 hours of sleep, it was graduation time!  Our honorees were John Corzine and Troy Vincent.  I was a little dispointed because I wasn't able to take pictures with my friends before and/or during graduation.  We just stood with our schools.  I was, however, impressed with the speech that the Senior class president made.  He remembered little inside jokes of the Class of 2005, that we all experienced freshman year- such as 'Standing Ovations,' 'Athens to NY,' and 'Playfair.'  Afterwards, we all left for department ceremonies.  I had 2 to go to- Interactive Multimedia and Fine Arts.  I just made it in time for my art graduation, because IMM took longer than I expected, even though we only had 4 graduates this year (being that were the the first graduation class of this major).  *Sigh* Now that I'm out of school, I wish I could do this last semester again

Commencement

Senior Class Vice President

My family at graduation

So my cousin's high school graduation party was a few weeks after. It was, you know, the typical family get-together.  Except for the MC.  UGH!  He was the same MC that Tiff and I had for our high school grad parties... 4 YEARS ago! Majorly creepy- he's actually a year younger than me, but looks like he's 30!  He told my aunt, my dad, and me, that he didn't remember anyone in the family except for me.  Blech!  And then he called me, on the microphone in front of my family, out to dance, so I freakin' had to go up, so I danced with Tiff.  He then comes over, takes my hand and freakin' danced with me!   I wish my arms were longer!  I did however think that the DJ was cute- blonde hair, blue eyes, etc. I wanted to talk to him, but didn't know how, so I didn't.  (I'm never good at talking to guys. )  But anyways, so I told my aunt that I thought that the DJ was cute.  She said that he was cute and that she'd try to hook us up.  So at the end of the party, my aunt pulls me to the side and says she 'got his number, but do you think you can handle him?  His very outgoing.'  I thought to myself 'OMG!'  But I said, 'Wait.  was it the MC?  He was quiet, the one with the blonde hair?'  She said,' Oh, no, I got (DJ's) number.  He didn't seem like your type.  He said that you could call whenever.  Do you still want the number?'  After my eyes bugged, I was like, 'Nah, I'm good.' as I shivered, even though it was like 80 degrees.    

On the 23rd, it was my brother's graduation from high school.  The day started off good, and then started to rain about 3 hours before the ceremony.  But thank goodness it stopped, and the ceremony was held outside.  The rain held off for the most part.  Until the history student speaker gave his speech.  It was so bad, that it started to pour!  People started leaving.  After a little while, it subsided alittle.  They ended up cutting the speeches, and just handed out the diplomas.  I did get to see my band director, which was cool, so now a bunch of us can hang out, without having to go to a complete different town like 30 minutes away!

On Saturday, Tiff, two of her friends (Lily and Vivian), and I went cherry picking in New York state.  That was crazy!  It was 90 degrees out!  Let's just say, I'm never doing that ever again!    But at least, now I can say that I picked cherries.  But from now on, I'm just going to go to the supermarket and pick cherries there.  Silly enough, cherries are on sale for like $1/lb.  I ended up picking about 3 1/2 lbs. at $1.75/lb.

A random peacock!

CHERRIES!

That's basically everything that I've done lately.  But before I go, I just need to take a poll to see which shirt I should wear to a club on Thursday:

      

What do you think?  Don't worry, there'll definitely be updates for that.   Till then, toodles!

Well, right now, I'm bored out of my mind waiting for my stupid animation exercise to render out. It's taking forever!!! So, I've decided to write in here.

Yesterday I went to NYC to watch Wicked with some of my friends. It was great! I met up with diana before for lunch at Applebee's. I was hoping that we'd go somewhere different, but they didn't want to. Diana got me a rose... aw... hehe... So yes, the play is wonderful! My favorite songs are "I'm Not That Girl" and "Defying Gravity." I have decided that I'm Elphaba. Hehe...I don't want to give away too much of the plot, for those of you who have not seen it yet, but this is so much better than the actual Wizard of Oz! I have to admit, I think Wicked was the best musical that I've seen. Even over Rent!

I was very very very pleased. I would go see it again!

For those who do not want to be told about the movie, don't read any farther!!
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In Wicked, Elphaba has to take care of her sister, Nessarose, who is in a wheelchair. The "better-loved" of the sister, Nessarose gets a pair of silver shoes (hint, hint- the ruby slippers) from their father. Their mother died giving birth to Nessarose, who came early from too much milkweed, which was used to make sure that she didn't come out green like Elphaba. At Gizz, Glinda and Elphaba are best friends in college. "Gah-linda" (Glinda) falls for this arrogant guy, Fiyero. But then, so does Elphaba; which is where "I'm Not That Girl" comes in. It turns out that because she is already so powerful, the Wizard wants Elphaba to be "wicked" so that he has an "enemy." And gives her a book, where she creates her flying monkeys. Since the wizard and the press secretary (Madame Morrible) want Elphaba to be the enemy, they begin the rumor that she is the Wicked Witch of the West.

She uses the book of spells for good. To get her sister out of her wheelchair, Elphaba casts a spell, which makes her walk, and in turn, changes the silver shoes to ruby. Because Nessarose thinks that this munchikin, Boq, is her soulmate, even though he worships Glinda, she becomes angry when he tries to leave her and casts a spell to take away his heart. Elphaba tries to help him by making him sleep. (He becomes the Tinman). When he wakes he joins the hunt to kill the Wicked Witch of the West, along with the Cowardly Lion, that was the lion cub that Elphaba saved (but because she wouldn't let him fight his own battle when he was young, he became a coward). To get Elphaba to come back to Oz, Glinda suggests to use Nessarose as bait to the Wizard and Madame Morrible. They cause the house (the one that carries Dorothy) to land on top of Nessarose. All Elphaba wants were the ruby slippers, the only things that she had to remember her sister by. But Dorothy has them. This lures Elphaba, where she becomes in danger of being captured by guards. Luckily, Fiyero, who truely loves her and not Glinda, saves her by threatening to kill Glinda. Elphaba gets away, but Fiyero is captured. In love with Fiyero, Elphaba saves him, by trying a spell so that if he is beaten, he won't feel it. (This turns him into a scarecrow).

Elphaba gives the spell book to Glinda just before the castle which she is hidden in is taken over by Dorothy and the citizens of Oz. Thus ensues the battle at the end of the Wizard of Oz.

This next part is one of the other best parts of the play. Fiyero, the scarecrow, comes back, and pounds on the ground (as if out of anger for the death of his love, Elphaba). Instead, out comes Elphaba, alive and well! They leave Oz and live happily ever after!

Ever felt like you don't belong or fit in? I don't know, maybe it's because I was really tired today, or maybe I just didn't feel like drawing. But today it felt like a was a freshman again, trying to decide if art was the right major for me. It seems to me that I don't fit in with my drawing class. Granted, this was the first assignment, but I felt awkward. I thought my drawing was pretty good, it was of starfruit after all, but it felt that my professor wasn't impressed or that my technique was up to par. This just adds on to my uncertainity of my future.

Since the first day of class of the new semester, I've been feeling pretty unsure of myself. My dream is to work as a computer animator. But animation's first assignment was lighting, and I was having such a hard time trying to get mine right. I even spent over 7 hours of outside class time to work on it. Now, I know that lighting isn't my forte.

Also, even though I want to be an animator, I don't think I could ever live so far away from everyone; my family, friends. To move to California or Florida, or even the possibility of moving there scares me. But I do have to admit, I am excited to see if I can go to CA this summer for the computer graphics convention.

To add on to my confusion, I need, NEED to graduate on time, but it seems that the administration here is just trying to cause me problems. First, transforming my classes to 4 credits so that I take less classes. And, oh, the art department completely f***'n me over for one stupid class that I need to take, which is a requirement, but I couldn't take because I was (and still am) only a junior. What bullsh*t.

But it's stuff like this, the projects that I have a hard time on, the feeling that I don't fit in, or worrying about the future, that are causing me to put myself in question. So, to sum it up, besides being really angry now, I think I'm bipolar. Just yesterday, I seemed ok, but now, after this drawing class and realizing everything, and the lack of time that I have to complete it all, I seem... depressed. I know, never thought that word would be in a sentence refering to myself.

Wow, the summer is finally over. Going back to school on Sunday. Lots of exciting and crazy things have happened. When I last left off, I went to the Michelle Branch concert in Central Park.

hehe... that's from Tiff when I told her that I was updating my lj. Anyways from the last time I have written, let's see what has happened....

Well, April 5th was Mystique of the East. It was great! I'd say one of my biggest accomplishment of the year was not falling off the bench during the bench dance. It was such an adrenaline rush! I was also in the intro dance for exec and committee, and I also danced aray, a traditional Filipino dance. My partner was Andrew, we were probably the funniest looking dance couple out there because even with my heeled shoes, he was still about a foot taller than me! However, I'm still in search of my hips...

April 12th was the AAA semi-formal. The DoRkS went together; Carina was my date, and Rachel was Tida's. I took so many pictures. To view them, go here. I had a lot of fun. However, my dinner sucked. I had ordered stuffed chicken because, as many of you know, I don't like cheese, so I wasn't going to order chicken parm or eggplant parm (the only other 2 choices). I waited for my dinner for over 30 minutes while everyone else ate. Then they finally bring out my dinner, it was chicken parm, they said that they ran out of stuffed chicken. That's right, cause you know, I paid $26 to dance and not get the food that I ordered! grrr...

Let's see what else.. oh! I'm AAA's new Publicity coordinator! Yay!... Congrats to all of the other exec and committee members!

Finals and crap are over. Unfortunately, I'm going to summer classes all summer, from May 19 until August 7. I'm taking history and sociology, and then literature. Oh, and I'm working from July 1 until August 22. Yeah, so no fun for Loren.

This summer has been a summer of some firsts... no, I still have yet to have my first boyfriend, but.... On June 1, I went to see Michelle Branch concert in Central Park, sponsored by Allure. There, Allure had lots of stuff for free, like make up and make overs. This was the first time I ever had my eyebrows done! Tiff was really surprised when I was finished. Said that I looked a lot better. hehe.. The concert was great, except for the rain. I took sooo many pictures I still have to put them up on my picture sites. (Which reminds me, I need to fix up my TCNJ website... when I get a chance) I can't wait until her next cd comes out.

On the whole thing of firsts... I colored my hair for the first time! Actually, Diana and Tiff did it for me. I put in copper colored streaks. Except, the front was a little too bright. Plus, I wasn't able to tie my hair up, because if I did, I would look like a skunk (I would have a gold streak down the middle of my head!) So, I colored my hair again, this time a dark brown, close to my original hair color, just maybe a shade or 2 lighter, and the streaks turned reddish, and less noticable.

Let's see... I think that's about it.... so, for now... I'll leave that with you... hehe...

"I'm like champagne; bubbly and effervesent!"

You're a Venus vixen: You're an artistic person who looks at the world through rose-colored glasses. You're able to see the potential in people, so you take time to encourage them even after everyone else has lost interest and moved on. You love to be surrounded by beautiful things. It's tough for you to make up your mind, but once you do you seldom change it. You don't tolerate two-faced people, so you've weeded out the bad eggs and built yourself a crew of only true-blue pals. When they're down in the dumps, they come to you for comfort. And there's nothing you wouldn't do for them-except lie. Tough you freely give good advice you don't often listen to your own words of wisdom. Guys are your fave subject! You're a famous flirt, and even when you're going steady you've got a couple of guys in reserve. While you tend to rush into relationships, you do try hard to make them work. And when they end, you're bummed for eons.


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I got really bored one day, and found these prom dresses on gurl.com. If I could, I would so do prom over. My favorite dress out of these is the blue, one shoulder with the flowers. I would love to wear that dress.

Sorry everyone for not having updated in such a long time. Again, I can't stay for long, I have soooo much work and projects and crap to do. All I have to say is that this weekend sucked sh*t. Explanation at a further date.... Oh, I opened a pbase account for the pictures that I take on my new digital camera.
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