[RE]Traveling!

One of my biggest goals in life is to travel around the world. - Kevin

Yessss. I totally love traveling. It’s so much fun! My family travels a lot and that is because my dad loves to just go out to see places and have fun. I want to travel to as many places as i can!  Throughout my life, i’ve traveled to Las Vegas, Hawaii, Reno, and more.

When i went to Las Vegas i went with my friends’ families so it was really fun. We watched shows and walked around.

Hawaii was super fun. I went there with my friends’ families also and we did a bunch of activities. We went to the Polynesian adventure tour, shark diving, visited pearl harbor,shop, and got on the beach. Their beaches are way better than ours. I really enjoyed going there.   

Reno is Reno. I went when i was young so i didn't do much. My parents went to the casino and i went to the arcade place.

I went to Hong Kong one year but it was only for a short while. We went to watch fireworks there for their 60th anniversary. It was really crowded but awesome.

I only visited Macau for a few hours. We walked around the place and visited some historic sites. I don't know where i went but it was nice. I went into their casinos and the interior and exterior are gorgeous. I went into the Venetian and it was really trippy. I was inside but it looked like i was outside...

Beijing was a while back so i don't remember much.. We were on a tour and we visited many places. One of the stops was Beijing. We had some good food there. I also climbed the Great Wall of China and damn does it take forever. I obviously didn't climb the whole thing but i got to a check point and took a picture there.

We went to this other place in china... i didn't know where it is at all. My dad decided to take us with a tour there and i honestly didn't like it there. We climbed a bunch of mountains and the people there kept saying how pretty the rocks are and how it makes an image. I totally just saw giant rocks. I don’t get why we went there.. Also it was sorta a rural area so there were almost no cars there. The people washed their clothes down at a river and the houses used lamps. I didn't experience that since i was in the tourist area where there were only small hotels.

Every time we visit China we go back to my parents’ hometown. It’s nice there. I mostly go there just to visit family though. There isn’t much to do there but it’s nice.

So you see i have travelled a lot. I plan to travel even more in the future. I really want to visit different parts of Europe. It would be so awesome! My mom says that this summer we are going to Korea and i am super excited. We’re going to be in Seoul and looking at tourism sites probably. I hope i get to go to a concert while i am there (;

[FR]So much stuff going on..

Stressed oouuuuuutttt. Ahhhhhh! There’s too much going on right now.. Everything is just crashing in and i feel really stressed out. To start off, i have SATs tomorrow and i did not study at all. I know it was stupid of me but i just kept pushing it back since summer started. My mom kept reminding me to study but it didnt happen. Since school started i had no time to study for it since i devoted my time to AP Calc. I always need to study for that class because of our weekly quizzles. Now it is the night before the testing day and i’m going to try to cram as much as i can into my brain.

On top of SATs i’m worried about all the college stuff. Recently, i’ve been trying to find scholarships online since college is super expensive. I also need to decide where i want to go to since almost everyone already has a list of colleges they want to attend. I’m still a bit stuck on what i want to study but things have been getting better on that part. I’m researching more and i narrowed it down. To add to everything else, im stressed on whether i’m even good enough for UC’s. My parents view going to a UC as being a step to a successful future, which i disagree with, and they actually expect me to apply to top UCs. I am really worried that i won’t get in to UCs  since my grades were absolutely horrible in my freshmen year. It really brought down my GPA. My parents think i can get in and i feel like i will fail and disappoint them.

Well my only hope is to do well in the SATs, which i have no confidence in doing. If only i can score 1900+.. big sigh..

[CE]Mmm Bugs....

Oh damn. So there are more and more people in the world now and the human appetite for meat is increasing so we need an alternate way to satisfy our demands. According to the professor, we are going to have a meat crisis very soon because 70% of agricultural land is used for livestock while the human population is doubling. The insects are nutritious so they are put with meat so the amount of meat used is lesser.



Holy crap do those insects look gross. I am just an insect hater so i got creeped out throughout the whole video. There were so many worms there and it was kinda uncomfortable to watch. Yeah i see that they are trying to lessen the meat consumption but i don’t think i will ever eat insects through free will. I would probably eat it to survive since i would have no choice. Since i have a choice now, i definitely would not eat it.



The chef in the video made the food look good though. They looked perfectly normal if you disregard the little wormies popping out. The pasta actually looked good. I think the worms would taste fine but it’s just the fact that it is a worm that i wont eat it. The guy said it had a nutty taste to it so it is probably not that bad. I think since you’re adding a bunch of flavors with the insects, you won’t taste it. But still, it’s just....blargh

[BC]College essay 2

1. Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.

I was born in Oakland and i lived in Chinatown for 8 years since i was born. I remember living in an apartment packed with a lot of people. About eleven people lived in the tiny apartment and they all consist of my family. I was never lonely since there was always a lot of people. Things started to change though little by little. We started to move out since everyone was making more money in order to buy an actual house. My family moved to Alameda and i had to leave the hectic but comforting home i had.

When i moved, my views on many things changed. I understood that my parents just bought a house and spending big is not going to happen. I was young so i didn't know the hardships of earning money. My parents always loved my brother and I so when we wanted something, they would want to get it for us. As i grew up i felt that it wasn’t right to ask my parents for a lot of things. I remember always at grocery stores my brother would ask to buy junk food while i never asked to buy anything. I felt that i needed to help out financially by restrain my desires for my favorite foods. I didn't want my parents to spend so much money because of me. Even though i didn't know the difficulty of earning money, I always tried saving money.

In 2005 my parents opened their own business in Chinatown. They didn't want to keep switching jobs so they started their own place. They opened up a restaurant and in the first year, business was booming. The place was always jam packed with people. As the years went  by, business declined because the economy since then has been going down. People don’t go out to eat as much so it has a big affect on us. I always overheard my parents talking about what they were going to do since money is starting to become a problem. The restaurant is losing money and it is the only source of money for us.

My family gave it their all for me so i think i should do the same for them and others. I plan to study accounting, specifically managerial accounting. I want to be able to look into the future and help business owners make decisions on what to do financially. I can help businesses with cost analysis and strategic planning so they can utilize their money in the best way possible. I also want to help my family’s business. By studying accounting, i can help them out and keep the business, which they love so much, running smoothly.

ahh... i did prompt 2 first...this needs a lot of editing..will do later..

[RE]Don't Waste Food!!

 Well I don’t know about anyone else but it bothers me so much when people take the food they get for granted!


I got this from Julie Le and i have to agree with her. It totally bothers me that people take food for granted. I was out to lunch with one of my friends one time and we ordered a box of food. It was pretty big but i knew i would finish it, either during lunch or later. My friend got the same thing but she only ate a few bites of it and wanted to throw it away. There was still a bunch of chicken and rice left and i couldn't help but feel bothered by it. I told her to save it for later and she said that she didn't want it later if it was soggy. I asked her why she bought such a big portion if she wasn't going to finish it and she said she liked to eat it but she just couldn't finish it. I mean if you cant finish it, at least it for later or give it to someone else to eat.


I feel so bad when i see people throw food away; It just makes me feel all icky inside. My parents and my grandparents told me about their hardships when they were younger. They couldnt be picky about what they ate and they definitely couldnt waste food. Even if they wanted more food they couldnt because they had 6 or 7 brothers and sisters in the family. My mother and grandfather couldnt even eat sometimes because they had to care for their children first. Ever since i was a child, i was taught not to waste food. My parents always remind me how lucky we are to have food to eat. There are people out there in the world who are dying because they are hungry. We shouldnt waste food even if we have enough to do so.

[FR]Free food

On Monday I went to my little cousin’s house in the morning because I don’t have a first period. I went to give him some snacks like cookies and candies because my mom bought some for him. He is only three years old and he is super cute. When I went into the house he said good morning to me and I gave him the bag of treats. He really likes snacks so he eats them quite frequently. I actually found out that he has a whole cabinet full of them.

After he left for school. My aunt took out some of my cousin’s snacks and gave them to me. She put on the table yogurt, grapes, two packs of crackers, and two packs of gunny candies. It was a lot and I didn’t want to take it all but they insisted on it. Then when my other aunt woke up, she gave even more treats. She gave me some cookies from Hawaii and it looked really good.


I carried all the snacks to school and ate a pack of the gummy candies during third period, in physics. It was pineapple flavored but it smelled bad. In the first few seconds, it tastes fake since it is coated with some kind of powder. After awhile though, it tastes pretty good. My friend told me the orange flavor is much better so I ate some on the next day. It tasted alright, just like any orange flavored candy. It also had the weird powder coating on top unfortunately.

[CE]School of Bottles

In the Philippines an environmental group came up with a  great idea of saving the environment and money . A school of recycled and glass bottles was made and i think it is a great idea. It is said that in the Philippines, enough waste is produced to create a school in two weeks. That’s a lot of waste that can be used for a good cause! Building a school is a lot of money and a lot of people do not have the money for the materials to build one. It costs half as much to make and that is a significant amount they are saving. By reusing bottles, it saves a ton of money that can be used for other things, such as school supplies, and it is environmentally friendly. In the video above, the kids were in their new room, double the size of their old one. They get more space and it doesn't cost much either.



Building these schools in poor areas will really make a difference. Kids can actually have a place to get an education at a more spacious area rather than a cramped up class room. Bottles are scattered everywhere and what better way to reuse them than to build a school? I really like this idea although i am a bit worried about how much the building can take from natural disasters. It is said that it can withstand high winds but i do not know about other things. I’m not sure if it can survive if a hurricane or earthquake hit it.