July Highlights

Here we are again another month has passed. Actually, I felt like July went by at a relative speed. There were quite a few birthday's this month, shout out to all of you July babes! 

I'm legit scared for August because school is going to start ahhh ;-;

Anyways, let's take a look back at the month of July:

Happy birthday (again) to my dear friend Crystal! We had a party at Min Sok Chon which has karaoke rooms where you can drink and sing and just have a good time :) [& bad times but that's not a story to tell here haha] I'll never forget the times I karaoke with these guys because its hilarious and memorable lol

Woo of course in America one of the biggest events of July is Independence Day (July 4th)! Almost every year my family sets up at the park and we spend the day running around like kids and walking around the little fair area until the firework show. 

Happee birthdae to Yenny! Her boyfriend threw her a surprise birthday party and it was another night to remember (especially for me but I aint gonna talk bout that here) We drank and stuff and some of us stayed the night, including me.

The next morning the best food to eat after drinking is tacos!! yumm we went to Tacos El Gordo ^_^

That same day we went our for dinner to URBN Coal Fired Pizza Bar and Hammond's Gourmet Ice Cream for dessert :)

*phew* what a birthday :)

Something a bit more random this month, I attended a writing workshop with my cousins (we're in the same grade and had to take the same test) and so after we went to eat at Tapex or Tapioca Express and then we got to jump for free at Sky High Sports with my other cousins. This place is always a work out *_* 

This cake is the only picture I got of girl's shopping day :( My girlfriends and I ate at Nordstrom Cafe 

and shopped a bit ^_^ <3

Sorry for a lot of pictures of food :| my boyfriend and I went to Mitsuwa market to buy snacks and we came across the new Matcha Love stand where they sell yummy green tea soft serve and other things ^_^ 

So a thing my family has started doing is this style of outdoor eating where we cook a bunch of seafood and place banana (or palm? idk) leaves down and we eat on it instead of using plates and utensils we use our hands. 

After eating we had a water ballon + squirt gun fight, we were gonna go to the pool after anyway :P My cousins are crazy haha

I really wanted to see Planet of the Apes: Dawn of the Apes so I convinced everyone to go :)

So for this months list of movies I saw include:

Planet of the Apes 2

The Purge 2: Anarchy

Deliver Us From Evil

I think that's it?

I want to see Lucy & Guardians of the Galaxy this coming month ^_^

This is the only good picture I have from ANOTHER birthday event for our friend JP. So happy birthday again! We at at Karl Strauss Brewery downtown and afterwords went to a bar (which I couldn't get into *sob*) 

I went on a spontaneous LA/ OC trip and we did a lot of adventuring and eating! I'll just list the things we did: All you can eat KBBQ, Little Tokyo, Art district, Blacktop Coffee, Little shops near that coffee place, Porto's Bakery, The Donuttery, Kickin' Crab, Bon Epi Patisserie & Cafe.........is that it? Ahh good times good times :)

Ahh so you remember that workshop I went to? So this is the place where I went to take my test yay so exciting -_-

I didn't get a friend selfie but I did a mini-girls night after my friends and I went to a cafe and did some back to school shopping <3

Here's a selfie with Kristy at Pho Ca Dao & then our deep boyfriends acting like a couple lmaoo

So we managed to make it up to Murrieta to see my cousins again ^_^ its so hot up there I'm glad that they have a pool ^o^ We didn't do much, bbq, swim, sleep over & chill yeah sounds about right haha Its super hot up there so I'm grateful its not that bad here in SD.

This sandwich represents me and my friend Margot hanging out because I didn't take a proper picture haha we ate lunch & did some shopping and just hung out the rest of the day <3

BBQ BBQ BBQ is the essence of summer. Here me and my friends are grilling oysters and some marinated meat :)

A lot of the times its me and Kristy who just chill out inside while the boys do this:

Yep! Yu go oh! haha :)

Again I didn't take any people pictures..but Kristy and I did some semi-homemade cooking! She made the goat cheese pasta with chicken & I made a strawberry short cake :D

Wedge between the hectic planned out events I spend my time with the love of my life just going out to eat, watching movies, and playing games <3 I cherish those moments =*

But when EVERYONE is busy, I end up alone and bored on a summer day. So I go to the mall by myself and shop! heheh

I know last month ended with friends playing jenga but that is were this month ends as well. Kinda funny isn't it haha 

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Looking back I feel all the emotions that occurred. Its wonderful and I hope I can look back from way in the distant future and still feel the same way. Thank you to all my friends and family for making my life so fun and happy! 

My LA Weekend!! In chronological order~

So this weekend happened some what on a whim with my cousin inviting me to go to IMATS (the International Makeup Artists Trade Show). Let me take you on my journey!

My first ootd (friday):

and my super cute luggage:

Along with my cousin Cat & her friend, Kate & Kate's bf, Ben - we all traveled to Orange County to drop Ben off (he had some business there). After that us girls had dinner at Star Korean BBQ:

I am gonna write a Yelp review soon but overall I highly recommend this place!

Finally we ventured off to Cat's sisters house where we stayed our weekend at.

We picked up her sister Christine & we headed to Milk, an ice cream cafe place (will also write a yelp review)  This is what we got:

They are ice cream macarons, yum!

~Thus, concludes day 1~

Staurday - ootd #2:

IMATS!!!! Yay!! Okay so we got up at 5 am and left like 6:30 am ish and arrived to IMATS around 7:30 am. The lines were CRAZY. Our timing was pretty good; door open at 8 and we werent at the very front or end. Actuall, we didn't even get in until like before 9 probably. Anyway, I don't have too many pictures because I was lazy but I'll show you what I have:

I didn't do too much damage those are Cat& Kate's bags too! ahah I'll show you a full haul in another post!

 We left IMATS at 1-2 pm ish because we were soo done. We actually got everything we wanted. As far as seeing gurus, I wasn't set on seeing anyone in particular. Anyway we left and headed out to have some lunch at Four + Tea:

This place was super chill & cute! They had the besttt sandwiches like, you wouldn't expect them to be so good but they are! After we actually went to a little thrift store but I have no pics and didn't buy anything there. Haha We were trying to pass time until dinner because Christine was at work so we then went to the Griffith Observatory:

There was sooooooo many people for some reason. Maybe an actual even or typical Staurday I do not know but they were swarming everywhere. But we watched the sun set and toured the museum section an it was nice. We left before 7 and at this time Christine said she couldn't make it to dinner so to pass more time we went to the LA Museum of Contemporary Art (LACMA):

We actually took a bunch of pics but they are all on my cousins phone :( If I get them I'll post them somewhere idk. It was so cold though and we were starving (its now like 8 almost 9) and so we went to Umami Burger:

They have the best sauces omg. The burger is so simple but the sauces..I dream about them now..haha okay well yeahh we were very much trying to pass time because Christine wasn't home & we can't get in without her!! So this night went on for a long time. After Umami we had to figure out what to do. So why the hell not an eat more right? Nahhh we got LOST looking for Scoops Ice Cream Parlor haha they close at 10:30 and by the time we got there they closed early because they ran out of ice cream i guess that can happen. There we were sitting in the car outside of Scoops thinking of what to do. Since I wasn't driving I had KOd in the back. When I woke up we had ventured back to Christine's place because we decided just to wait for her. (mind you we got lost again trying to get back..siri is a stupid hoe that can't give directions!) In the parking lot we waited for like an an hour and a half. Finally we got to sleep.

Sunday, our last day ootd:

Haha yes the style is much different than the tone of the previous outfits! I very versatile lol

We woke up at 10 after a wonderful rest and got ready to eat lunch. We at at Bouttega Louie:

 Will review on Yelp as well. But this is definitely my kind of restaurant! I bought macarons hehe and for lunch we ate a pizza, portabella fries, bengies, and I had a melon juice to drink. Yumm. Btw it was suuuch a nice day. Haha Then we went to the American Apparel Flea Market:

To be honest the stuff was shit. Lol. I'd rather just pay for the over priced new arrivals they have. I was dissapointed. Neddless to this is the only pic I have lol Then we went to Daiso, the Japanese 1.50 store. And I got goodies there which will be featured in my haul post! That was our last LA stop. Around 530 we left to OC to pick up Kate's BF & get bread from 85deg Celsius:

They were super fresh too mmmmm.

Now I home sweet home & broke as fuuuck.

Be sure to check out my haul that's not food lol and if you have any questions please feel to leave a comment!