Someone's birthday today

Just like to make a quick post here, I wish my friend Christina happy birthday. Today in California, it is December 19th and yesterday in China it was the 19th (it's the 20th there today). Here's a little something for you too LOL XD:



LOL just kidding, or maybe not O_o

Here:



Happy Birthday haha :)

Crazy Ass Day with relatives

So...I spent my Sunday before the school finals with my dad and my relatives because we were supposed to celebrate my birthday. But instead, what did I get? a bunch of bullshit about my car, in other words, they were indirectly telling me that I had no idea how to drive stick shift. So my dad brings us (my sister and I) over to my relative's house and the first thing that happens is we have a half an hour conversation about my car. I had printed out a paper with the list of problems my car has and my grand uncle starts lecturing me about each one. Even my aunt, when she saw that one of the problems was the cigarette burner fuse, she coldly asked me "what do you need a cigarette burner fuse for?". But then my dad took over so I didn't have to answer her. So then my grand uncle kept on lecturing me about how I was shifting wrong and all that shit and I was thinking to myself "Why are you teaching me how to shift when now, in the present, I drive a stick shift car more than you do?" He was telling me how if first, second, third, AND fourth gear grinds, to first step in on the clutch the first time, shift into gear, and if the gear doesn't lock in (grinds), then move the stick back to neutral, step on the clutch again, then shift into gear again. Well guess what? I already knew that, like two months ago and have been doing it ever since. He also told me a bunch of other stuff and at that time, I was already like OMG STOP TELLING ME THIS, I ALREADY KNOW IT ALL. At then end, when I tried to reason with him, he asked me "then why bother buying a stick shift car when you don't know how to drive one?" At this point in time, when he said it, I was speechless. Here I am, LISTENING to him TELLING ME HOW TO DRIVE A STICK SHIFT when I have been driving a stick shift every single day of the week for at least 5 months. I also thought "well first of all, If I DIDN'T know how to drive a stick shift, WHY would I have bought a stick shift car in the first place and to waste seven grand on it?" So that whole conversation in total took about half an hour to 45 minutes. The funny part was, my first aunt came out first, asked about the car. Then later, my grandma came out and did the same. Third, my grand uncle came out, guess what happened? yep, he did the same thing. Then lastly, my second aunt came out, I don't even need to tell you what happened. By that time, I just gave her the piece of paper with all the problems on it, I didn't even say a word to her. I was asked the same damn question four times by four different people in less than 5 minutes, doesn't anyone find that to be a bit too annoying? I know that they wanted to show care by asking me how I was doing with the car but four times? Seriously? Come on. So then afterwards, we finally went out for lunch, and then the next thing happens. Ok, I'll just first put out that, other than 2 iPhone 4's, my relatives do not own ANY apple products. So my sister asked my dad for a Macbook Pro 15' for christmas, and I asked for an iPad 2 32GB Wifi+3G (I already have an iPad 2 myself so I got it for my mom). So then, my dad told both my aunts to check the pricing and specs for the macbook pro models they had. Since my relatives didn't know that I had a macbook, I couldn't tell them that I've used Apple laptops my whole life so I couldn't add any other input. So then they were asking my sister questions and all my sister told them was 'ask him, he's the one who knows.' So the good part was, I ended up telling them what my sister wanted and what my mom wanted so that went pretty smoothly. At first though, they were against my sister getting a macbook pro because they thought she didn't need that good of a computer. I was thinking well applications nowadays use up the computer's processor to it's best and a macbook pro is able to handle the usage pretty well. But then they kept on arguing until my dad said it was fine for her to get a macbook pro. We started eating lunch and then my dad brought up winter ball. Knowing that I didn't go to winter ball, I lied to him (yes, I lied to him, everyone lies to their parents at least once in a lifetime) saying that I had a stomach ache, blacked out on the sofa for half an hour (now this did really happen) and couldn't move because I felt paralyzed (I really couldn't feel my entire body, I was just laying there motionless). So then my aunt started blaming me for ditching my 'date' for the dance and I just started becoming really pissed because she told me to lie to my 'date' instead of telling her the truth about why I couldn't go to the 'winter formal dance' (I didn't go to the dance that night, my mom's company had a party and that's where my stomach ache started from). We argued for a good five minutes until we both got really pissed. I originally had an appetite still (I didn't eat that much to begin with) but then soon afterwards, I lost my appetite. Why? Because if I ever get super pissed while Im eating, I don't feel like eating anymore. Who was the only one who noticed that? My dad. Why? because the same thing happens to me, and he told everyone there that he had my type of personality when he was younger so he knew exactly how I felt at the time. I told him 'dad, our generation is way different from your generation now. the overall concepts are different now, everything has been changed. it's not the same as the past anymore.' So then after we finished lunch, got back to my relative's house, coincidentally their son got back home and so that's when all my relatives told me to tell him about my car problems. I told him only one problem: um...first, second, third, fourth, and reverse gears all grind. I need to have the gear synchro checked out. JUST from telling him that, he gave me a O_O expression and paused for a moment, then afterwards said wow, you may have to change the entire engine then, that's several thousands...ok well see when you're available in the next few weeks, we can take it over to a friend in San Jose to get the car checked out. I was like FINALLY, SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS HOW FUCKING SERIOUS THIS IS, GOD. My main point is, NONE of my relatives actually knew how serious the problem is, only he did, which I was VERY thankful for. So I'm going to take in my car to a repair shop, get it checked out, perhaps if I'm lucky enough, even get it tuned also and see what happens afterwards. In the mean time, I plan on having Zelly drive my car once more, and this time HOPEFULLY, get her driving on the streets to get a real feel of the car when it's in crappy condition. My reason for this is, once she gets the feel for the car when it's in horrible condition, after I get my car fixed up, I'll let her drive it again and see how she feels about it.

My main point is, I'm very disappointed in the fact that...my relatives still don't understand that I am now driving a stick shift more than they are, and yet they are still teaching me how to properly drive a stick shift when I drive it every day of the week except the weekends (sometimes even on the weekends, depending on what it is) to school. Like I said above, if I didn't know how to drive stick shift, yeah, I would wisely spend the seven grand on an automatic car, rather than wasting it on a stick shift car and just letting it sit there. Also, I was also pissed at the fact that my aunt told me to lie to Zelly rather than just telling her the truth. I know that Zelly knows that I would never lie to her because I am just not that kind of person to lie to friends like that.

Limo Fun

Today, me and a few friends celebrated my birthday (wednesday of this week) by taking a Hummer 20 passenger limousine to Monterey Bay 17 mile and back. It was a rush since the morning because I had to pick my friend Brooke up from school and I had to pick up my other friend Zelly from her house. So I left my house at around 9:20, got to the starbucks in Saratoga Downtown at 9:30, and got to Zelly's house at around 9:40-9:45 (yes, I was excessively speeding like always, that's how I got to her house so fast). So after I picked both of them up, I sped back to my house and got back before 10:00, knowing that I still had 10 minutes to spare. Then something bad happened. My best friend Austin told my mom to call his mom because something had happened. In the mean time, my mom told me to bring both Brooke and Zelly to chill at the Safeway near my house and get some food to eat. We spent a good 20 minutes there in total then afterwards rushed back to my house because the limo had just gotten to the house. So we went back, I was surprised at how big it was (abnormally larger than a regular sized limousine) when I saw it in front of my house. So then probably about 10-15 minutes passed, Austin finally got to my house, and we were on our way to Monterey Bay. Nothing fun quite happened until we got onto the highway. We started blasting music and all three of them were just...uh(thinking)...crazy. Knowing me, I was just sitting there, silent the whole time watching them be crazy (i'm not the crazy kind if you were to know me at all). So we were pretty much just blasting music and singing along to it the whole way there. When we entered Monterey, we spent about 10 minutes trying to find somewhere to sit down and eat. We walked up and down the street once and found a few recognizable fast food restaurants but we decided with good old Round Table Pizza. We went in, ordered our food, sat down, and started eating. Lunch took about half an hour and after that, we headed over to Walgreens which wasn't too far from us (it was at most, a block away). We went to Walgreens, bought some drinks and left the place in 10 minutes. We then called the driver and told him to pick us up to go to 17 mile drive. The 17 mile drive was just amazing, and we got extremely lucky too. Most of the time, Monterey Bay is covered with fog and cloudy skies but today, to our luck, it was clear skies and sunny. We were originally planning to stop at 4 points but due to the amount of time we had, we only stopped at 2. The first one was Cypress point, and the second one was Ghost Trees. The main attraction at Cypress Point was a huge rock with a TON of sea otters and pelicans. There was no main object at Ghost Trees but the thing was there were a lot of dead trees with a bunch of branches and no leaves, but it had an amazing view of the bay and trees on either side of the vista point.

Trees, rocks, and a bit of ocean on the bottom left

More of the rocks and the ocean on the left, less of the tree


So after we had a good chance to look at the view from Ghost Trees, it was time we head back to Saratoga. So...when we were on our way back, most of us were tired by then, and Austin and Brooke head to the back of the limo to a secluded area where they pulled a curtain and secluded themselves from the rest of the car. That left me and Zelly, but Zelly was tired so she decided to take a nap. Me, having nothing to do and feeling a bit awkward, I took out my phone and earphones and started listening to music. After about four songs or so, I decided to play tap tap but for some strange reason, my phone was not sensing my finger touches so I kept on missing the notes even though I WAS touching the notes at the right timing. I ended up rage quitting (yes, I rage quit out of games, no big deal) and just sat there. While I was sitting there, I looked at Zelly a few times and saw that something was wrong. The sun was in her eyes and I knew that if she woke up with the sun in her eyes, it just wouldn't be pleasant. So I sat there for 10 minutes not knowing what to do. But then for some weird reason, I thought of using all the jackets/sweaters/sweatshirts that I brought (in case Austin felt that it was cold at Monterey), put them all on the windows, then rip the plastic bags we got from Walgreens, and tie the sleeves together to make a somewhat successful window curtain so that way the sun wouldn't be shining in her eyes when she woke up. So I spent about a good 10 minutes or so to do it because I tied the sleeves together but they were still falling down, so I ended up tying the tied up sleeves to the speakers so they wouldn't fall. In addition to that, I placed 2 water bottles each underneath the clothing so that way they would get elevation to completely block out the sun except for a few small holes.

wasn't perfect or anything but covered most of the sun

After that entire thing was done, Austin suddenly came out from the curtains, froze, looked at the windows, and complimented me on it. Coincidentally, right as he said that, one of them fell and I got pissed. After I put it back up, he complimented me even further and I just told him 'I just think that if she wakes up with the sun in her eyes, it'll be unpleasant.' So then after he went back, I told Brooke it was the most I could do, and she told me that it was a clever thing to do. To be honest, I didn't even think of doing that until...idk what sparked my brain on it. I just thought of putting up my clothing against the windows, I didn't know what got me to put the plastic bags to good use because it almost worked. Anyways, after that, we were pretty much 20 minutes away from Valley Fair (we changed the location on the way back) and she woke up. She didn't notice the 'curtains' which I was actually sort of thankful for because I didn't want her to know that I put it up. Pretty much the rest was a blast. They ended up rolling down the windows and wave at the cars driving past us, I ended up recording some cars driving past us with my phone out the window which was pretty insane to do. When we got to valley fair, I'll just say straight up it was hell. We ended up blocking traffic that was making a left turn into the plaza.

If there was one memory that I would remember from this trip...it would be...actually nevermind I'm not going to say it xP.

The Benefits of learning Manual Transmission

After having driven a manual transmission car for at least five months, doing a lot of researching about modding cars, and doing research on why it IS important to learn how to drive manual transmission (not saying that you have to, just a few tips of advice), these are my thoughts on why you should learn how to drive 'stick shift' (manual transmission for short, for those of you who don't know) car.

1). Just in case you are buying your first car and you don't want to spend too much on it and you still have some money left over to fix it up a bit, over 50% of cars from before the year 2000 are stick shift.
This is also why all the generations before us (our parents, grandparents, great grandparents, etc) all know how to drive manual transmission (especially China, Taiwan, those Asian countries). All the cars in the past in Taiwan and China were all manual transmission cars. For example, when I was researching for cars before I got my own mustang, I searched on Yahoo! Autos and most, if not all, the cars from 1999/2000 and before were stick shift. The thing is...depending on the car, those cars from 2000 or before cost $1000, $2000, $3000 at the most and some of them are even cheaper, just depends on where the car is being sold from.

2). If you learn how to drive a stick shift car, you know how to drive any car you see on the streets.
Believe it or not, when I got my permit, my mom told me to learn how to drive stick shift because then when I go back to Taiwan, I can drive my uncle's car. Guess what my reaction to that was? 'NO, I DON'T WANT to drive stick shift. I HATE stick shift.' I got mad at my mom for still pushing me to learn how to drive stick shift, but now? I am GLAD that she forced me to drive stick shift, because it's just pure 100% fun. After the six hours of driving with an Allied driving instructor in a stick shift vehicle, it had been one whole year since I drove a stick shift car. By the time I was driving alone with my mom's Lexus, I was itching to go back to driving stick shift. My mom had even warned me that stick shift will be twice or even more as tiring and all the cons about it (especially in rush hour traffic and bumper-to-bumper traffic) but I didn't care. All I wanted was to drive a stick shift car. Just the feeling of being able to drive both a stick shift and an automatic is awesome. I taught my friend how to drive stick shift and she learned it in half the amount of time it took me to fully learn how to drive stick shift (although I still have a few flaws such as downshifting and making the car jolt when upshifting and downshifting). I was even surprised she was interested in learning stick shift but there's no cons to that. The reason why I wanted to teach her was because first, me, myself, I LOVE driving. Second, it's the reason above listed right beside the number. Pretty soon, she'll be able to drive my car on the streets, and that's exactly what I hope will happen.

3). One of the most important reasons for me, personally, is that stick shift cars are actually at least half a second faster than automatic cars, if you're shifting right
I don't remember which source I got it from, but it's been proven that if the car was modded correctly and everything was in good shape and you were to take it onto a drag strip and race it against another car who either has similar specs or a bit lower/the same car with different mods and is automatic transmission, the car that's stick shift will take the lead. Why is that? It's simple. Now I never quite realized this until I transferred over from my mom's lexus and drove the mustang for a while. With an automatic, you cannot control how fast you can get to in each gear because the automatic transmission shifts gears for you when it thinks it's the right time to shift gears. But with a stick shift on the other hand, since you control the shifting of the gears, you can control what speed you get to in each gear. Take for example, if I were to drive my mom's lexus, I would be in fourth gear by the time I hit 40 mph. With the mustang, If I were to take each gear up to at least 3000 RPM, I would be past 40 mph. If I remember correctly, all stock engine/body parts, at third gear 3000 RPM, I would be at at least 50-60 mph. But then if I were to shift at around 2000-2500 RPM on the mustang in each gear, I would get to 40 mph in fourth gear.

5). Better fuel economy and can save up on gas
Now, for myself, I don't feel as if I did save up any gas on my own mustang because it is a sports car after all and me driving a sports car, it basically means to floor it so instead of saving up on gas, I actually waste more, but that's not the case with all the stick shift cars here. I still cannot figure out why it is but people have said that you do save more gas driving a stick shift than driving an automatic. It might also be because with stick shift, you can shift whenever u want (for instance, u can shift each gear at 1000-1500 RPMS when with an automatic, it's already set at a specific shift point depending on how much u pressure the gas pedal). But that's just a guess, I still have to do a bit more research on it.

4). This is one of my favorite reasons. If none of your family members knows how to drive stick shift (I'm the only one who knows how to drive stick shift in my family, my dad does not live with me anymore), then the car is all yours, unless they ask you to teach them.
Me, knowing how to drive stick shift AND automatic, I can drive both my mom's car and my own car. My mom? she's got a license, she can drive, but she can't drive my car. Why? Because she does not know how to drive stick shift. There is no other simpler way of saying it. At least my mom learned how to start up the car in the morning because it's just freezing cold in the morning and since my car is somewhat old with leather seats, the inside of the car is FREEZING in the mornings.

The reason why I wanted to teach my friend how to drive stick shift was because like I mentioned above, as long as she knows how to drive stick shift and can manage to drive it perfectly on the road without stalling the engine (everyone stalls the engine when they first start out with stick shift, even I did. I stalled the engine more than she did because I had no idea how it worked), she can drive any car she wants regardless of if it is stick shift or automatic. In case she, like me, had to get a car that's not new and was stick shift, she wouldn't have a headache about how to drive it. This was the same reason (well part of the reason) my mom wanted me to learn how to drive stick shift. At first she was against me driving stick shift too, but then one day I overheard her talking to one of her friends, the reason why she let me continue on to drive stick shift is because in the future, if I got my own car, it might be just like this mustang. Meaning, it might be stick shift also, not automatic. But...I won't have a headache about it because I know how to drive a stick shift. This was the point my mom was trying to get to. So in the end, I really would thank my mom for forcing me to learn stick shift because if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be driving...a stick shift mustang right now which I highly prize.

Last Few Hours of Being a 17 Year Old?

So..what exactly am I doing during my last few hours of being a 17 year old guy?
Here's my answer: I am...
1). Working on my psychology project that is due tomorrow, which is 50 points and I am not even halfway through yet.
2). I am semi-YouTube surfing videos of people drifting in the game Need For Speed: Most Wanted
3). Frustrated at the fact that I also have chemistry homework to do but the Psychology project will most likely take all of tonight even if I WASN'T YouTube surfing videos.

I know that whatever I'm about to say next has NOTHING to do with the title, but so far my three friends who I hang out with right now and my mom have asked me what I wanted for my birthday. I told them I did not want anything specific. The ONLY things I wanted was just to get my car fixed, perhaps a mod or two, and something else (no one will be able to guess what it is, except maybe someone...),that's it.

The Things About My Car

So...I am very glad that I happen to own a mustang but...there's some problems with it, and not minor problems. MAJOR problems.

1. Gears grind
When out driving (sometimes, during the morning at around 8-9:00), when I'm driving in first gear and want to shift into second gear, I step in on the clutch and try shifting into second, but guess what? It WON'T go into second. As soon as you put the shifter down where second gear is supposed to go, it gets stuck and even when u want to force it to go into second gear, it stays there. Not ONLY does it stay there, it also makes this grinding sound (this has happened twice to second gear). I haven't even gotten to third gear yet, and believe me, third gear is the major pain in the ass. Sometimes, even when the engine is warmed up to normal temperatures, when the car is, say up to around...3000-3500 RPM, I shift up into third gear, but the same DAMN thing happens. This has also happened more than twice. The only one explanation I can think of for these two problems is because the gear synchronization is messed up, so I will need to replace it IF I don't want the gears to grind when I'm driving (trust me, when the gears grind, it just makes the driving part completely un-smooth (idc if that's not a word, I'm just going to use it).
Engine Part to be fixed?
Gear Synchronization

2. Engine makes continuous squeaking sounds when in first gear (or now, it's even when i'm driving on the road...)
So when I'm driving, say in a parking lot, I'm in first gear to start with. So I coast along in first gear. Now, if you have the windows open, you will hear this sound coming out from underneath the car but the thing is I just CAN'T figure out where it's coming from/where the problem is. So then, when I shift into second gear from first gear, it does the same thing. i don't know why that is, when I first got the car it didn't make that sound, and I know I haven't been treating the car badly at all (except when I'm speeding, but that's only to the clutch as far as i'm concerned, because I do speed shifting).
Engine Part to be fixed?
Transmission

3. Cigarette Burner Fuse
I have to get this fixed because what if I needed to charge my phone or I needed to use some sort of portable GPS? I can't. Why? Because my damn cigarette fuse is not functioning -___-. I tried plugging in this electronic device but it didn't work on my car, so I asked my good friend Austin to try it on his car. Within seconds of him having the device plugged into the fuse, and turning on the ignition, the device turns on and starts working. Even better for me (not).
Interior Car part to be fixed?
Cigarette Burner Fuse

4. The Clutch
I don't even need to explain this one at all, all because of one good reason. If the clutch doesn't work, then you can't even operate the car. All you can do once your clutch dies out on you is just turning on the car and leaving it for show. The only way how you can operate the car is if you know where the exact shift points are for each gear in the car so that you can do a clutchless shift (but I think, based on a bit of research that I did, shifting without the clutch actually does damage the engine). I'll admit that I was a bit rough on the clutch (when I raced some people) from doing speed shifting (but that's what you have to do if you want to get faster acceleration) but I guess that's why people don't race with stock clutches (they always get performance clutches, i'm a dumbass -____-). I have dumped the clutch a few times (from doing burnouts) but not enough times to completely ruin the clutch. I don't know what the previous owner of the car did to it but I"m pretty damn sure that that person did more to the clutch than I ever did (got that car when it had 133K miles, idk about now).
Car Part that needs to be fixed/replaced?
The Clutch

5. Timing Belt
This one doesn't need much explaining either. When I got the car, it already showed signs of it having cracks. It's simple. If the timing belt breaks, you won't even be able to get the car to move. It'll just be sitting there for show.
Engine part that needs to be replaced?
Engine Timing Belt

6. Brakes
Every day, when I drive this car, I feel as if...the car cannot really come to a stop unless you REALLY put pressure on the brakes, but then it sends the whole gravitational force forward and it just doesn't feel good. Also, the brakes have worn out so it makes that screeching sound, which hurts peoples' ears too.
Car Part needing to be replaced?
Brake Pads

7. Handbrake (A.K.A e-brake)
One day, in the morning, at 8:00 A.M., I found my car parked in the middle of the court where my house is. When I saw that THAT had happened, I was shocked. I sprinted back into my house, grabbed the keys, and again sprinted to my car to quickly drive it up my driveway and re-park it. When I got into the car, I checked on the handbrake. Weird thing is, the handbrake was pulled up, so I have no idea how the hell the car ended up sliding down from my driveway and onto the street.
Car Part needing to be checked?
Handbrake

Now I'll talk about the possible mods I would like to install on this car IF I do decide that I want to mod the car.
1. Short Shifter
I want to install a short shifter because of the way how the stock shifter was designed. I gotta say, it was designed horribly. You put a cup in the cupholder nearest to the shifter? Whenever I shift into second gear, or TRY to shift into second OR fourth gear, the shifter ALWAYS hits the cup. It's annoying and it is a HUGE hassle to deal with. With the short shifter, I can shift at shorter distances, which most probably would mean the possibility of completely dodging the cup, but maybe not. Even if it didn't, it would be easier trying to shift than the regular stock shifter.

2. Lower Gear Ratios
I'm looking installing at 3.73 gears because the higher gears I can possibly install in my car, the faster the car will get to it's top speed. It helps when racing against other people, because right now it takes about 5 to 6 seconds when I'm going from 0-60 mph flooring the gas pedal and shifting at my best. With 3.73 gears and other major engine parts installed, I can hit 60 mph in perhaps less than 5 seconds, but that's uncertain. My main goal to installing 3.73 gears is to just gain faster acceleration and to hit high speeds faster.

3. BBK cold air intake kit
There's really not much to say about this install, other than the fact that it will increase the amount of horsepower you have by 15-20 HP. The reason being is because, this cold air intake can take in more air, therefore more pressure and allow the engine to get more power compared to the stock air intake I have in my car.

4. Borla Exhaust Pipe
I want this appearance mod because first of all, the sound coming out of this exhaust pipe is just BEAST. I've seen a lot of people debating on whether or not to get this exhaust or the catback exhaust pipe, other people have recommended Borla more than catback because the Borla exhaust provides a deeper sound to the engine. Also, the Borla exhaust also provides extra horsepower because of the size, and because there is also an option for dual exhaust pipes, both of which are Borla of course. With these dual exhaust pipes, hell, the car would most likely be twice as loud and can also add more horsepower to the amount of horsepower my car already has.

5. Performance Clutch
I want this mod because then I can dump the clutch more and it also won't wear out as fast. Performance Clutch=more peel outs and possible drifting in the future. Talking about drifting...here's where the next mod comes into play.

6. Lower and Stiffer Suspension
Having lower and stiffer suspension just means that you can drift better rather than not having the suspensions lowered and not being able to drift as well.

7. Sway Bars
The only one reason I want sway bars is because this also helps with easier drifting. I don't know why that's the case but when people want to drift, they ALWAYS install sway bars.


In the end, I love Mustangs and I would hate to sell this car, but honestly if it's a car that I don't feel safe driving (and my dad doesn't want to be responsible for fixing the car), then I'm just going sell the car and get another used car (hopefully a mustang, but if not probably a Honda Civic Si '11 or older).

future hobby: drift racing or drag racing? (and a side note)

YES, the title says it all, drift racing or drag racing as a future hobby? It is actually quite hard for me to choose in between these two options because first of all, the expense at which I will have to spend will most definitely be somewhat high and the amount of car modifications I'll have to do. I have been debating between these two subjects because I am very interested in drifting (even though I have no idea how to do it) and I have already been in some street races (similar to drag racing except it's illegal and it's on public roads). I know how to do burn outs, peel outs, burn outs leading into peel outs, making the tail of the car kick out left and right, etc, which basically means I can do drag racing but all there is to drag racing is just a straight strip of cement that's either an eighth of a mile long, a quarter of a mile long, or half of a mile long. As for drift racing, it's just basically a circuit (sometimes just an open lot with a course outlined by millions of cones) that you drift around in and also uses up tires VERY rapidly. The one thing that these two types of hobbies have in common though, is when some person knows what they are doing in either one of these activities, they get to know their car better, which is a key essential to how they should build up their car and what mods they have to install later on to increase their own enjoyment of their favorite hobby. As for me, I might consider being better off with drag racing because I already do sort of race other drivers on the streets so I know most of the basics for drag racing and as for drift racing, I will probably consider that as a "once-in-a-while" hobby to do.

Also, I wish my friend, Christina, all the best as she is starting school in a whole new environment in the world. Good luck to you Christina.

Not quite sure if you still come to this blog or not...

Not sure if you still come to this blog or not but just wanted to say hi, and how have you been these past few months. I know that during the past few weeks it's been hard for you with the loss of friendship with one of your closest friends, and as a result I feel sorry for you, but I hope other than that things have been going great for you (I'm thinking this may be a run-on sentence but oh well, whatever haha, it's not like this is English Class or anything). Anyways, Ever since you really left the U.S. to go back to Canada, let's just say that...things have changed. As you know, ever since the end of summer, I haven't been driving my mom's Lexus RX 330 because my dad got me a 2000 white mustang convertible and have been driving it ever since. When you do, and IF you do, come back to visit us during December break, I honestly want to give u at least one ride in that car just to let you get a feeling of how the car is. I know that back in Canada, I think you told me that you did get to ride in a mustang? The main differences are though, that mustang is a lot newer than mine AND it's an automatic. My car is a bit older and it's a manual transmission car. So...if you do come back during December, if I get a chance to, I wish I could take you on a couple of illegal street races either on highway 9 or in downtown San Jose, where they do real street racing, fast and furious style (2 cars side by side). In the previous post, I mentioned drag racing, those weren't actual drag races. Basically drag racing on the road=illegal street racing. To officially drag race, I would need to go to some drag strips, which are close to L.A. (that's why I want to go to school there in the future) and drag race there. Even when our car and the other car stopped at a red light and launched from there, that was illegal street racing too, but the good part is, illegal street racing is a LOT more fun than drag racing LOL. Anyways, this time that I went back to Taiwan, I did not get to drive my uncle's civic but he told me that if his car battery had not died, he would have let me driven it, only for one reason. He said that now that I know about the VTEC engine, he wanted me to test out how strong the overall car was but he had one concern: he was afraid that it was too powerful for me to handle, which I would agree with. So that's practically it about cars (I'm guessing like 90% of what I said above was about cars LOL) and now I'm going to say what I want to say to you, basically an update up until now. I'm thinking that you may think that everyone doesn't quite think about you anymore, but I do know that you still talk to Sara and Brooke. Now I don't know how often you talk to both of them, but you know that even though we don't talk to each other as often as we do when you were still here, but someone still thinks about you quite often, and that would be me. Even though I do like someone else now (there's a reason for it), I once told you I wouldn't forget about you didn't I? Well, I haven't forgotten about you yet and don't think I ever will. So basically to put it in a simple way, no matter what, there will always be someone thinking of you. I really hope your plan with your friend of visiting us in December really does happen, because I want to see you once more before we are all certain that you aren't going to come back and visit us anymore, at least for now. I still want to keep all my promises to you, haha (including that one trip to SF).

Response to Let's Be Awesome Together's "Hannibal" Post

I...am absolutely...speechless. After reading this…there's just way too many things I want to say. Haha you're right, I don't mind you writing out my flaws at all XD. I do know that me being neutral does annoy you because you wouldn't know what I really want and I'm sorry for that. Just, I'm glad with whatever you choose for me because you led me to step out of the box and try new things, which, no one has ever convinced me to do before in the past. And about cars, I really want to bring that 70% down because I realize that me obsessing over one thing for a SUPER long time does drive people insane and make people not be able to stand me for very long, and I’m pretty sure I have driven you insane talking about cars too, because I know that that’s not something that you like talking about and I apologize for that. But it’s just that, for instance, now that I’m looking into cars, I did have several cars that I had in mind but I wanted your opinion on them because it did help me decide which car I would feel happy to drive with. Also, since I know you like drag races too, I thought telling you about those stories would entertain you, in a way, but then I realized that drag races are really NOT fun at all without you actually being there. It is fun, like in general that I’m doing something illegal on the streets by racing with other people but it would only truly be fun for me if you were there, which is why I’m not planning to start racing again either when you come back or when you come and visit. And up until now, to what I said, 2/3 of this entire paragraph was about cars again -_- crap…Ok I’m going to stop now. Godiva chocolate isn’t the best chocolate there is, it IS one of the best rated chocolates here in the Bay Area but if you really wanted some good chocolate, I would go with Ghiradelli Square chocolate, if you haven’t had those already. If you haven’t had those already, I am SO bringing you to SF when you come back and we are going to Ghiradelli Square. Lol I brought you to the beach because you said you have never been to that part of Santa Cruz before and since I thought 1). I like going to the ocean side for the view and for photography (selfish on my part), 2). You were talking about it for 2 weeks or so and I really wanted to bring you there myself, and 3). I wanted to spend as much time with you as possible before you left, knowing that this was one of our last times we would spend together(I would even appreciate it if it was for a min, even a few seconds, as long as it was with you). About Victoria’s Secret and Sephora…I’m going to be completely honest here. In the past, I was actually interested in what Sephora sold because I’ve gone in to basically every store in Valley Fair since when I was young, just not Sephora. I’ve even stepped into Victoria’s Secret once but all I did was step into the entrance and sit at one of the windows, but never actually walked through the entire store. So yeah, you were actually the first one to bring me into both Sephora and Victoria’s Secret, but even now, still without you, I wouldn’t be willing to go into any of those two stores by myself XD. Me telling my mom countless lies…lmao I have nothing to say to that except the only reason why I did that was because I just wanted to hang out with you for a longer time. And what do you mean by endless crap? XD you never did…not that I can think of. Taking a friend like me for granted…how should I put it…no you did not. Now, I know we have been through millions of conversations similar to this but I did all of this because I wanted to hang out with you as much as I possibly could. I didn’t care about what consequences I possibly would have gotten at the end but to me, it was all worth the trouble because it was NOTHING compared to the time I spent with you. Lol, staying up till past 3 in the morning just to read your spam overflowing my chat window? That’s funny XD. I willingly stayed up, because I wanted to talk to you. About me patiently listening to you talk about how hot a guy is? Um…haha I have nothing to say to that, but I guess that’s what girls do so yeah, I have nothing to say to that. Those times where you weren’t at school, yeah I was just worried that something happened to you so I was just seeing if you were ok, if for any reason something happened. And now, for the final four, or make that five:

I am thankful that David did give me your number, things wouldn’t have been like how it is now if he didn’t.

I am grateful that I was able to spend as much time with you as I could and that you were willing to spend time with me too.

I am sorry for my behavior in the past that caused that one week to happen right before our second semester finals.

You are sometimes, a very commanding "mom." XD

And thank you, for always being there for me whenever I needed someone to talk to, for helping me get through hardships when I couldn’t get through them myself, and for being who I would consider, as one of my best friends.


Sincerely,
Pumpkin

(And amazing driver? haha, thank you :) and lol you ALWAYS win ;)).

Link back to their blog: Let's Be Awesome Together

One hangout, a total blast :) (continued from This Special "Someone")

We went to the beach boardwalk today. After the first day of summer school ended (I REALLY hate summer school but I had no choice), I picked her up at her house at 2:30 and started heading towards Santa Cruz. We had quite a ride there, considering the fact that it WAS my first time driving there and I was actually driving quite fast and it scared her a bit so I slowed down but we still managed to make it there in half an hour, so I STILL drove a bit fast. When we got there, I was actually feeling quite lucky because it had been a LONG time since I last went to Santa Cruz (last year) so I had to sort of figure out my way through the streets. So I was just driving along with her and I was thankful that I saw very familiar landmarks at the corner of street intersections and eventually got to the parking lot where my mom always parked at. So we went there, paid $12 (I was glad it wasn't that expensive and since we were staying there for a while, why not?), and went to find a parking space. If we had parked outside, however, we would have needed to pay with quarters and needed to have come out once or twice to pay more with quarters. Once we found a parking space, we headed into the amusement park and the FIRST "adventure" we went to, so to speak, was the fright walk. I"ll admit that I sort of killed the fun (or should I say fright? O_o) because I had used my phone's flashlight capability and walked through the whole thing with it, so I saw through all the scares before hand, and we eventually caught up to the group that started about 1 min before us. Even though I used a flashlight, it was still sort of scary for me because we were completely surrounded by mirrors and if I didn't look carefully, I would have walked into one of them and probably got stuck there for a good time. After we got out, we walked deeper into the amusement park and as my own personal tradition, I went to the speed pitch (I go to the boardwalk at least once a year and test out if I can pitch faster or not) and I ended up pitching a 52 (last year was 43). I was quite surprised when I consistently pitched a 52 for all three throws. Anyways, this isn't important...moving on...LOL. The next ride we went onto was the Haunted Castle ride. Now, for this, I was sort of scared but I knew it wouldn't have been as frightening as the first one because at least for this, you were sitting on a moving object going at a constant speed so no matter what, you couldn't slow down. But I honestly thought I could have not plugged my ears 'till the very end, but I just did it the whole way just to make sure I didn't scare the shit out of myself. Overall, the ride was pretty cool, except for the fact that I was being a complete wimp by having both my ears plugged for the whole time. Then after that, we went over to the Giant Dipper, and it took her nearly 5 minutes to convince me to get onto the ride with her, mostly because I didn't want to refuse to her and because I was doing it for her xD. If it was my other friend, yeah, he wouldn't quite succeed. Now, for this ride, at the beginning, the first small drop, to me, was already enough. But then right as soon as we were climbing up that huge climb, I was thinking to myself "oh shit...here...goes...nothing..." but I was prepared for it because I pretended I was in a sports car just without the top for protection (Sorry :(, I still imagined myself being in a car, natural reaction I guess, even though you told me it killed the fun out of the ride). But I have to say, it actually wasn't that bad. Even though I was thrown up into the air about 4-5 times, it was worth it considering first of all, I felt different about it this time, and second of all, I loved the speed. In the past, probably about 2-3 years ago, my sister and relatives dragged me onto the kiddie coaster, and I was scared as hell. Through the whole ride, I had my head down and had my eyes closed and kept on saying "I wish this was over, I wish this was over...". This time, no, not at all. And I have to say, she's really weird (in a good way) because she's afraid of heights and yet she rides roller coasters now??? XD just for some reason those 5 words, "roller coaster" and "afraid of heights" don't go together so I was surprised how she managed to get used to it. Anyways, after that ride, we went onto the other one, and the other one was a bit more scarier (if that's even a word). The slope of depression for that ride was a lot steeper and there were more angled turns than the Giant Dipper. Overall though, it was still pretty fun. So in the end, she got me to ride the two roller coasters of the boardwalk, the Haunted Castle ride, AND the fright walk when it took my relatives and my sister about 3+ years to convince me, and they still have not succeeded yet. So after we got off the ride, it was about time to leave the boardwalk (I swear, next time you come back, if you do, we are staying there way longer. today was just complete luck that it happened, but I was still glad it did happen ^_^) and take her to go sightseeing. So it took us a good 10-15 min to get to the destination point because first time round, we ended up meeting an ambulance with the sirens on. So then we had to go back the entire way a second time, and this time, it was a lot better. I was grateful that I sort of remembered the way but it was sort of like a "you make the wrong decision, u gotta start all over again but if u get onto the right road, then you're fine" type of situation. So I took her to the place where my mom and I went to stand by the ocean and the absorb the view, in a way. So I just walked around with her, stopped a few times to look at the ocean, and just treasured my time spent with her because (I know I say this every time, but I KNOW this is the last time we will ever spend together before she leaves, and if she ever does come back, maybe another time but the chances are slim, very slim) she was leaving the next day. So, we walked around a bit, then ended up moving our car closer to a beach which we stopped at. We ended up spending about 5 minutes looking for an entrance to the beach because we couldn't find where the entrance was. LOL. In the end, we FINALLY found the entrance and went down. When we were down there, I purposely tried stayed out of the water just to watch her (sorry if that sounds creepy, but it was what I was doing). Since this is a post that's just for her, I'm just going to bring out all of what was in my mind at the time. When I saw her playing in the water, to me, she was extremely cute and I just couldn't help but smile. So I was watching her the entire time and when she came up to the sand and sat on a log, I went to sit beside her. Right as soon as I sat down, probably 15 seconds afterward, I had this sudden feeling of the idea that this was what I wanted, this was what I truly wanted. I don't know why but I just had that idea. So then after we sat for about 5 minutes, we walked back up the stairs and continued driving to the other side. We saw some houses, commented on them, and then I ended up making a U-turn at one of the T-intersections. It was about time to leave SC, since it was around 6:30 and it took us half an hour at least to get back, we started heading back to the highway, but at the time when we decided that, I just realized I had one problem. I couldn't drive on the highway wearing only flip flops. So then I asked her if she could get my shoes for me (sort of embarrassed actually because I didn't want her to touch my shoes or socks because they were dirty and smelly in a way) but she did. So this was another time where it was dangerous for me because I was attempting to put on both socks and shoes while the car was in motion and the steering wheel was in my hands. So I started putting on my socks and shoes, and I still don't get why she laughed, but when I said "crap I think I threw my socks away," she cracked up. When she was laughing, I was completely blank as to why she was laughing. She then told me it was funny because of the way how I said it and because I was laughing WHILE I said it. So she laughed about it for about 3 minutes and then we got onto the highway when something else happened. Now I don't exactly know what the hell I did to the guy, probably because I cut him off or something, but he got really pissed and started coming after me. At first, I didn't want to even bother to mess around with him because I thought it was too dangerous to even attempt to do it in the mountains, but I thought since this was the very last time I was going to race someone with her in the car, might as well make it worth while and dedicate this race to her, since it was a challenge for me too but she wanted me to do it. So I started speeding up, and the guy started speeding up too (the guy drove an Isuzu Rodeo with 205 horsepower. LOL ikr? I even searched it up XD. I got no life). At first I told her "you know what, I don't think I should do this, it's way too dangerous." But then that's when something happened. I came to the fact that my family's background was racing, my uncle used to be a street racer, so it had to influence me in some way or another. So then I didn't tell her anything, and continued on. Overall, it was fun because the guy had no way of passing me no matter what, which I didn't quite get because my car definitely did not have as much horsepower as he did. So then after 5 minutes, I realized that this wasn't bad at all, and that's when the adrenaline started pumping. I completely turned this situation into a race in one of those racing games. So I completely adjusted myself to thinking "Ok, pretend this is a racing game except it's real life. Time to put what you know about racing into this one event." So then, I started driving my car like it was a sports sedan on a winding road in a game. The guy must have been thinking I was crazy because for the first turn, I drove really close to the center divider (when you race, no matter how sharp the curve is, you ALWAYS have to start from the outside and end up at the inside) but then as I was approaching the second turn, I moved my car from the center divider to the middle yellow dotted line (the inside). So after a while, the guy got REALLY pissed and started tailgating me. I wanted to piss him off even more by stepping on the brakes at him but I thought that it would be best if I got back to LG as soon as possible. So, with that in mind, I basically drove 60 on the turns and 90 on the straight roads. The whole time, I was actually pressured by two facts: 1. I had to maintain the lead or else I would have been second the whole time and 2. make sure it was intense and crazy enough for her to enjoy the ride and race. So I tried my best, and honestly it took everything I learned out of me and skill wise, and ended up succeeding. Even though, he came in at the very end and stayed in front of me for a good 5 minutes or so, the last stretch of straight road, I ended up overtaking him and passing him and then going up to speeds of 95, almost 100. The only reason why I knew we were at 95 and close to 100 was because when we were at max speed, I checked the speedometer on my car and it was between the 90 mark and the 100 mark. So then after I past the guy, to make it more entertaining for her, I rolled down my window, put out my arm, and waved "bye bye" to him. After I did that, I sped even more, except keeping the same speed, and basically disappeared in front of him. Then, the highway split into two directions, I headed toward the LG exit, and exited the highway. That's when I said "I dedicate this race, to you." So then, afterwards, after it all ended, I drove really slow because throughout that whole time, I wasn't myself. I ended up shaking from going back to what the heck happened in the mountains but she didn't notice. I also took a few big breaths because I had to calm myself down, and she did ask me if I was ok which was nice of her, I ended up telling her yes because I honestly was feeling fine, just I needed to calm down a bit. So anyways, we went to downtown Saratoga where I thought I could find the place where my relatives brought me to look at the stars, but I ended up taking her on a 20 to almost 30 minute drive through those set of mountains. By that time, though, I was starting to feel the soreness in my right leg just below the calf muscle. So we drove for a good 20-30 minute and we eventually hit the top of the mountain (somewhat) but at that time, we both had no clue where we were. Turns out, we were off big basin way for a long time. So then I decided to make a U-turn but something scared both her and me. While I was perpendicular on the two lanes, a mini cooper came up at a speed of I would say 25-30 mph. Thankfully they slowed down so once I completed my turn, I held my hand up, showing a sign of "thanks" and she did the same thing back, as a meaning of "you're welcome." So the whole trip basically took about half an hour to 40 minutes but it was actually fun considering it was driving in a mountainous area. Later, once we got out of the mountains, I brought her to the park, which I only had one intention for. Once we got to the park, I took out a red sharpie and a black pen, and got out of the car. She asked me if she had to go down and I gave her the option to choose for herself. She decided not to, so then I just walked across the bridge to where the stairs were, started heading down the stairs, but then turned a full 180º and wrote something on the piece of wood that directly across from it. I wrote "Christina We Will Remember You FOREVER" and put a smiley face right beside it. So after that, I went back to the car, and started heading for LG downtown, but missed the entrance to highway 9. So then we started for Saratoga Avenue but about half way through, I decided to change the plan. I ended up driving to the church where we had our very first hangout together, and right when we entered the parking lot, she knew what I wanted to do. So then I looked at her, then said "one last time to drive my car?" Then she smiled and said "ok sure." So then I parked my car into the parking space and we switched seats. So then she backed out and we started making loops around the parking lot. I was very impressed because she caught on pretty fast, or in other words, improved. But it was funny at the end because when she parked the car, she said "now it's your turn :)". When she said that, I smiled and almost laughed. So after that, I took her to downtown LG where we just walked around for a bit. To my surprise, I met my old friend, Courtney Hall, and other best friend, Katie Tedford (I met both from tennis at Courtside) but it was pretty awkward, I don't know why. So then when me and her crossed the street, I met both of them face to face and we just exchanged our "hi's" and went on our way. Our first stop was the candy stop which we spent about 10 to 15 minutes in there, just walking through the whole store to see what they had. She ended up buying a toad head (or if that's what you call it) for her brother which I thought was nice of her. After, we both headed to the apple store. There, she played scrabble and Sparkle HD. She was stuck on scrabble for a while but she sped through Sparkle HD. She ended up telling me to play for her, which I did. I actually found the game to be pretty fun but still, $5? I found it to sort of be not worth and she said it was definitely not worth it. So then after spending about half an hour at the apple store, we had to leave because my sister was extremely hungry. So I drove her back to her house, and when she was getting off the car, I had this sad feeling run through me, knowing that this may be the last time I see her until the week she comes back, sometime next month. So when she got off the car, I inched my way forward to watch her go in, but I also saw the Lexus that she was talking about for the whole time we have known each other for. So this marks the end of our hangout, I truly had a blast today, and I hope she did too, and I hope we get to do this again, except with a different car. I promise that if I ever do get the 3.7L 305 HP V6 Premium Coupe, I will bring her to Santa Cruz again and at least one joy ride.

This special "someone"

Ok, before you read this, I have to first warn you, this is the longest post I have made so far in my life and it may take you up to 20 min to read, I'm not quite sure though. Anyways...


I met this "someone" at the beginning of February this year. When I met her, my first impression of her was "wow, she is one crazy girl..." because after a week of meeting her, she took my friend's leftover pizza crust and fed it to the birds, which NO ONE at our school would do (or at least I think they wouldn't). So then after a few weeks of knowing her, I decided to start talking her because she seemed really nice. What's scary is, I still remember what day it was that I asked someone else for her phone number(or somewhere around there). February 18^th. So then starting from that day, I began texting her and I was right, she was an incredibly nice person. So after a week of talking, I thought it would be nice if I could hang out with her. So I asked her if she was free and she said yes. So I took her around Saratoga, taught her how to drive (I'll be honest here, at the start, she was a bit unstable with maneuvering the car (well hey, people are always unstable with a car when they first start driving, so don't criticize xP) but then after she drove around the parking for a good 15 min or so, she was driving like she already had her license for more than a year (except at a slower speed)). Then after that, we went to blockbuster to see if we could rent out a game, but apparently you needed a credit card so I just simply said "screw that" to the idea. Then we went to my friend's house so she could play black ops (I blame my friend for taking advantage of her being just an amateur at the game, he didn't give any mercy to her so I decided to kick his ass for her XD haha). At around, I would say, 8:00 or so, we left our friend's house and went over to Valley Fair to walk around. Since I was under a ton of pressure from the few weeks that past, I was actually really glad that I hung out with her that night at Valley Fair because when I was walking around with her at Valley Fair, I realized that I had put everything in my mind somewhere else and the only thing I was focusing on was her and spending time with her. So we walked around until the mall almost closed (I think we left at around 9:00 or so...) and then after we left Valley Fair, we just drove around. Since we couldn't think of anywhere to go, we decided to go to Courtside. When we got there, I was planning on showing her around the place but the farthest we got was to the counter. I find it pathetic how the guest fee was $20 so we ended up not going in. So after that, we were just sitting in the car for a good 20 min or so and then I sent her back home. That was definitely one of my best nights of this Junior Year. After I met her, I had realized that time was flying by way too fast and I just wanted to spend more time with her. Within a blink of an eye, 3 months had past and the next time we hung out was when the Impact Club at our school had hosted a some kind of Christianity event at our school in the McAfee center. Even though I am not a Christian, I attended an Episcopalean school so I sort of knew what it was about, with all the charades. I have to admit that it was pretty interesting but the most important thing was I got to spend time with her. The only bad thing was those 3 hours went by way too fast. Then just about a few weeks ago, I would say probably 3 weeks ago (as of when I am writing this, it is 06/16/11), I brought her over to my house to play some more black ops, to let her get used to the controls more because 2 weeks ago, we went over to my friend's house again because she wanted to get back at him for killing her so many times. So she got the basics down and actually got pretty good kills off of me from aiming down sights (the keypoint of black ops is to aim down sight while shooting or else if u were to use hipfire, you would needed to have pretty good accuracy). So when we got to our friend's house, we immediately booted both of our ps3s (his was already turned on and he was already playing black ops) and then started playing black ops. We did have some technical difficulties but we figured it out eventually. So we played through one round of FFA (free for all) and then we went for, I think it was, 3 rounds of zombies. After that, we went for another round of TDM (team deathmatch). After that, she wanted to watch Rush Hour 3 (amazing and funny movie) so we started watching it but we only got halfway through. Then later, I had to leave at 8:30, so I left my friend's house and drove her back home. I gotta say, driving around 75 on that road while it was pouring rain? It was really fun but at the same time, it was sort of scary/dangerous because first of all, I couldn't quite see the lines on the road and second of all, with the light reflection off the rain, it was sort of hard to see. But I made it safely to her house, dropped her back home, and went even faster on the way back home. I think I made it back home within like 8-10 min? Trust me, you don't EVER want to attempt that on a rainy day, I just got too hyped up and wanted to be a "daredevil" so to speak, haha. Anyways, after that hangout, I hung out once more with her, which was yesterday. I was really thankful that she let me hang out with her and her best friend because I honestly had nothing to do at home and I didn't want to game for 8 hours straight. Plus, surprisingly, I'm actually sort of sick of gaming now, so I wanted something else to do. So I ended up bringing her, her friend (I'll call her B), and this other guy that I got to meet (I'll call him J) to Great Mall, and the ride there was a blast but was dangerous. I'm not going to say how fast I went OR what I did so don't be expecting it. Just think of it as reckless driving, that's good enough. So we ended up spending about, I think it was, 4 or 5 hours there, and then B had to go home. So we all left Great Mall and went to B's house (B's driveway is one heck of a driveway). As soon as B got off the car, (I'm going to use the title for this so it doesn't get confusing but it might seem a bit rude. I'll just say that I don't mean it to sound rude or anything), "someone" got off the car too and gave B a hug. Right when they both hugged, I knew that they both started crying because it would be the last time they saw each other, other than skyping with each other. So then when B went into the house, "someone" got back into the car, but I didn't leave yet. Why? Because I wanted to give her a few seconds before I left (idk why I did it, I just thought it might have been a good idea and I felt really sorry for her that it was the last time she would see her friend, at least in person). So then after that, we all headed over to valley fair and walked around. The first store we went to was Abercrombie and Fitch, since she didn't find anything good clothing at Great Mall. But she didn't end up getting anything. Then later we went to Victoria's Secret, she went to look at stuff, and we followed her around. After that, we went to Radio Shack, walked around in it, and went to Lovesac. In Lovesac, we threw around this...ah crap, I don't know what it's called, but w/e. We spent a good 20 min or so in there and left. The next store we hit was Spencer's Gifts. We walked around, made a few jokes about stuff we saw, then went to the food court because they both had to go use the restroom. After we got out of the restroom, they both were thirsty and since I wanted to drink some jamba juice (idk why I wanted jamba juice again because I had it the night before. Must be because I haven't had it in months). So I got jamba juice, she got jamba juice, and J got Panda Express (he scares me because of the amount of food he can consume, haha). After we sat down for a good half hour, We went to the apple store to see if I could get my phone fixed (yes my phone's power button got screwed up so I needed to get it fixed). It ended up being that I needed to make an appointment and they didn't have any open spaces left so I just decided to go back the next day. Anyways, moving on, I found her playing Scrabble on one of the new iPad 2s and boy, is she good at the game. I tried playing that game and I completely SUCKED. So we fooled around with the iPad 2 for about 15-20 min and then we went over to....Lush? I don't remember what the store was called, but it's one of her favorite stores. So we spent about 10 min in there and then decided that we were going to leave until this one guy from a booth started talking to her about hair curlers. I was surprised because the guy knew exactly what he was doing. So then he ended up curling her hair, and the result, I didn't tell her yesterday, but as SOON as he finished, I was thinking to myself ".she is one incredibly hot girl. With her hair curled up like that, with the dress she was wearing, along with the heels she was wearing, HOLY SHIT!!!" (But she did still look pretty and hot even without her hair curled up, with the dress and the heels ^_^). So then afterwards, Justin had to leave, and we both just walked around for 10 min then decided to go get subway for dinner. We were originally planning to go eat at Cheesecake Factory but she thought that it would be too long of a wait. So we both ended up leaving Valley Fair and driving to the subway store at Westgate. She got a 6' BLT and I got a 6' Tuna sandwich because a foot long sandwich was way too long for both of us (no dirty thoughts here. LOL jk think however u want XD). So we got the sandwiches for togo and since I had to get back home, I told her she could eat in the car (there is nothing I would not allow her to do actually haha) while I drove her back to her place. So on the car ride back, we talked a bit, then when we got to her house, we said bye to each other, and I watched her go in her house before I drove away (Im NOT meaning to sound creepy but I just saw it as being safety still). So that marked the end of our hangout for yesterday. (UPDATE 06/16/11 11:15 PM) So during the afternoon, I sent her to her friend's house (I'll call her friend S) since I was around the area and that S' house was on my way. I later went to valley fair to get my phone fixed (power button got jammed so i got a phone replacement (hell yes ^_^ haha). I actually got really lucky because I missed my appt. at 1:45 but then someone cancelled their appt at 3:00 but then some guy from the genius bar was opened at 2:50, so overall, it was just LUCK. After I got my phone fixed, I went to another store, bought something, and then left valley fair and headed straight to Downtown Saratoga to have lunch with her and her friends (S & F). Although I didn't get anything to eat, I just found it fun and entertaining to watch S & F speak and cuss in swedish and she was trying to learn it (LOL). So we left the restaurant at around I would say 4:10 or so and then we went to shop at some gift stores for their friend's party that's happening some time tomorrow. But then I had to leave at 4:25 because I had to bring my sister over to school and I don't know why I'm even talking about this when it's irrelevant to the subject at hand, so I will skip all the way to where it was SHS graduation and they were announcing names. So when they were announcing names, S and her were clapping for at least 5 min, twice. Then I told her "I bet you anything if you keep on clapping like that, your arms will be sore in 10 min." She just laughed, which I found to be funny. Then after the graduation ceremony, she took a ton of group pictures with her friends, and I was actually looking at them for about 30 seconds, I couldn't help but smile. I don't know why I smiled, I just did. Anyways, after almost the whole crowd dispersed from the field, Me and Justin walked over to the library and met up with her, S, and another S (sorry, both names start with S, to clear up any confusion). So nothing really did happen except we just listened to them talk, even sang the Barney "I Love You" song which I thought was pretty sweet, and like always, were a bit crazy. Then I took a few pictures of her, S, and S. Afterwards, we went to Mc Donalds and then I drove both S's home and dropped Justin at school because he had a Senior grad event going on. Then when I started driving to her house, I started feeling really sad (even though I didn't show it) because I knew this really would probably be the last time I drove her home, unless some miracle happened and I drove her home again. The time when it really struck me was when she suddenly said to me "this may be the last time we see each other." I honestly had no clue how to respond to that other than the fact that I knew I would be seeing her again this saturday, but I didn't want to tell her because it was going to be a surprise. So then when we got to her house, I completely froze, put the car in P gear, and just sat there for a couple of seconds. I really didn't want to bring up the surprise party, but I give in way too easily, especially to her, and just told her. But as soon as she got off the car, and I drove away, I almost broke into tears, knowing that Saturday would be the last time I would ever get to see her before she leaves back to Canada. But that doesn't explain why I sped at 100 mph on highway 9 when the speed limit is only 50, back to my house. Anyways, I hope this saturday will be a blast and I honestly hope she will enjoy herself (i'm honestly not thinking in "dirty" terms here) as well as her other friend.

I know it's a bit weird adding this here at this specific location of this very post but I couldn't think of anywhere else to put it. Here are my three words to desribe her: a very caring, an INSANELY hot, and an EXTREMELY cute girl. (Ok, now the explanation of each will make me sound like my best friend, except it's from me this time) Very caring because she is ALWAYS there for her friends whenever they need her. Insanely hot because your eyes will not leave her once you see her amazingly beautiful physical features. Last but not least, extremely cute because of the way she acts around you and her overall appearance.

So my bottom line to her (speaking from a friend's point of view) is: Thanks for making this year fun for me, you have been a really awesome friend, next year will not be the same without you, I hope you had fun this year, I wish you good luck in the future, and last but not least...You have impacted my life a ton, and I am really grateful for that. I will really miss you and I will never forget you. I hope, sometime in the future, we will see each other again. And even though sometimes I was under pressure from driving you home and trying to get back to my own house in half an hour from no matter where we were, I would completely go through whatever trouble I would face later when I got home from my mom because it was spending time with you, and that's what i wanted, and that's what I treasured the most. And now i'm going to end this by saying...thanks for everything.

I am dedicating this song...to you