smile for me. (:

september twenty-fifth, two thousand and three: the happiest day of my life.

well..one of them. (:

so i was scheduled to take my driving test today, blog. twenty-fifth of september, two-forty pm.

..because jordan called in for me since dmv wouldn't pick up my phone calls. @_@

advised to arrive at dmv at least half an hour early, i was to skip half of fifth period and go straight to dmv.

except nine minutes before i left class, i discovered that my heart locket was missing. -_-

i lost my heart. ._.

it's the one that has "evangeline" engraved on it; given to me from my dear sister steph. for my sixteenth birthday.

great. i can't even keep a gift for a year. -_- and it has much sentimental value. *sob* ._.

after the office calls mrs. wong to let me out of fifth period early to go take my driver's test, i went searching for my dear heart. on the ground, under the benches, in the grass, my locket was nowhere to be found. ._.

then i distinctly remember wearing one of samson's "hey! vote samson kim for frosh senator!" sign taped on my shirt..except i don't really remember if it was taped to my locket. -_-

and i was walking around selling see's candy chocolate bars for journalism fundraising (i finished selling my two boxes! HAH jojoe! and dannyee! before you guys :) i was selling my third box so someone could sell my entertainment book since i seem to sell chocolate much better even though i am not fond of it; since if you think about it, chocolate tastes like mud @_@)

oh yea it's fun selling, blog--because people actually BUY IT!

sidenote: jordan attempted to stick a "i like poo alot" phrase here when i wasn't looking..stupid jordan -_- i'm not blind. !!!

so i was just walking around with the white see's candy box like a loser since no one was buying anything..so at the top of my lungs i started advertising or you could call it promotion:

"chocolate for a dollar! oh what?! did i hear CHOCOLATE? mmmmmmm! yummy! and ONLY for a DOLLAR?! oooooooooo! and what? almonds and toffee and just milk chocolate? ALL THE FLAVORS? *GASP* and only for ONE DOLLAR?

and sure enough, people turn their heads, dig their hands in their pockets..or for girls, they hastily unzip the front of their backpacks and grab their wallets and then

*twinkle winkle* there before me stands a LINE of people. or i should say a horde since they're not very orderly. but just to buy chocolate from me!! (:

and soon my box gets lighter but my money envelope gets heavier not to mention bulgy. (:

sidenote2: another phrase that jordan tried to stick in: i like to eat poo..

@_@ okae. so i was selling candy and andy yu directly informs me that he wants a chocolate bar. except chris jeong shields andy away and exclaims that andy is his property because he's trying to sell candy bars too. push! and chris jeong is thrust aside, and i hand andy his awaited chocolate bar while jimmy attempts to steal one. erhg. i am not blind.

still bearing samson's campaign sign on my shirt, chris and paul exclaim: WHO'S SAMSON? and rips off the dear sign and throw it to the ground and trample on it while jimmy, andrew harada, and andy laugh on. -_-

"here, put the sign back on," they mockingly tell me. -_- it is dirty, and i was taught not to wear dirty things.

here. i don't remember if the tape, RED DUCT TAPE, mind you, from the sign was attached to my locket. but nevertheless it is gone. nowhere to be found. and i feel sad. ._.

barely an hour ago, and i can't remember anything. seriously i think i must be coming down with a disease, blog. -_-

or what is it--my hippocampus, which processes memory, is being destroyed! @_@ i learned that in psychology. (: but it's still a little bit of bio. -_- erhg did i tell you that i don't take an instant liking to biology, blog?

well we have to learn a "little bit" about the brain so we can have a "deeper understanding behavior, biological, psychological, and social systems" if i recall correctly. but see--i have been learning. (:

so my meticulous search was to no avail. chris just said to go look in the lost and found. -_- but i don't think custodians really pay attention to small things. -_- and a lot of them wear glasses i think. @_@

alsdhlaui. alas, my time is up; my mother calls me and demands why i am taking so long and shrieks that i'm going to be late and take no driving test. -_-

ten months and six days, alongside was i with my dear evangeline heart. goodbye, farewell, i will never see you again. *sob*

with all hopes lost, i dejectedly walked away from the lunch grounds where my dear locket possibly laid.

seeing christina and my mother and marianna waiting impatiently under the hot sun, i ran and we left the glen a. wilson high school for the day.

because time runs too fast we hurriedly rush home to drop off christina and marianna. and finally i get to drive and off we go to dmv located in pomona.

exiting, my mother tells me: wow. i'm impressed. you drove so good today. i think you improved. you'll pass your test today.

yayay. (: okae. so i know at least ONE person had faith in me. everyone thought i'd fail. people who've never ever ever seen me drive. -_-

well jordan claimed he believed that i would pass. heh. (: well he gave me a "good luck call" yesterday night. and he tried to call right before my test but TOO LATE. (: heh. thanks jordan. :)

and thanks to chriselley because he went driving with me..but i knew he was nervous when i was driving..because i was nervous too. @_@ and we almost hit a car when i was merging but we didn't. and that's when i really scared chriselley. (: sorrie. -_-

BUT he didn't think i would pass. he DOUBTED me. -_- and i heard that he and jonathan talked behind my back--and said i wouldn't PASS. *shriek* they should get a spanking. -_-

oh well.. -_- it's not like i had much family support either..stephanie was rather skeptical about me passing. and christina openly admitted that she doubted me also. how sad. -_-

but angela believed in me. (: (thank you angela *hug*) and abraham didn't say anything. and marianna doesn't even know what a driving test is. @_@

and my father just said: good. i am proud of you!!

but my mother said: did you remember that i told you that you were going to pass even before you took your test?

and my mother prayed extra hard for me too and i prayed too. (: thanks God.

so i missed ten. wahsai! i know: what an awful lot. (the most you could miss is fifteen)

it's so sad. the lady said i didn't do traffic checks. BUT I DID!! i promise!

i even exaggerated but every time it happened to be traffic-checking time, SHE WASN'T LOOKING!!

erhg. -_- i was so exasperated. what did she want me to do; tap her on the shoulder and say: LOOK AT ME!

or like steph said, i should've just yelled out: I'M TRAFFIC-CHECKING!!

well after waiting a dreadfully long sixteen years ten months and six days, i can finally say it: i passed my driving test!! *beam*

p.s. it's quite offending when people are super surprised when they find out that i passed my driving test. -_- but that's okae. I PROVED THEM WRONG. HAH! (:

so i meant to talk to you earlier, blog, except i didn't. -_-

but that's okae; i'm talking to you now. (:

as i've already been at school--for two days in a row prior to the first day of school, i was already tired of school. -_-

i had to go to school because of: business day. but in other schools they call it "registration."

but i think 'business day' sounds much more professional than 'registration' (: that's one of the reasons why our school's better in some ways than other schools. ^_^

as a devoted member of the associated student body, i had to go to school for both business days and stay there from seven am to four pm. @_@

but it was fun. (: i took in id card orders. :D and i got to write on those receipt papers that copy onto another paper that's yellow than to another paper that's pink. but i don't know what it's called. -_-

and then i had to change shifts to the book room and i had to look for books in the book room and come out hauling stacks of books because they're too heavy.

erhg. i depise people who take AP honors classes. -_- they're the people who have the heaviest books. @_@

so i was quite exhausted when i went back home. -_- i think i sat down for fifteen minutes doing nothing because i was so tired.

the next day wasn't so bleak. i did p.e. clothes with kaya. and since juniors don't buy p.e. clothes we just sat there doing nothing, blog.

and eric poomi and jason nakano decided to model in p.e. sweats and sweaters except poomi got in trouble by mr. c. and we decided to sit still and be good.

after lunch break, hordes of freshmen came in. -_-

and they bought p.e. clothes. (: and they kept buying p.e. clothes. -_- and my hand got so tired of writing up receipts.

but more freshmen came in. and more and more.

two-thirty, our planned time to leave and go home except they kept coming even when it was three forty-five.

and jordan was waiting outside under the hot sun because he promised to bring me home after his class ended. @_@

but he wanted to go in and help but we were scared mr. c would get angry because he was in a bad mood already. so he went back outside to accompany mimi. (:

heh. mimi's a FRESHMEN now. (: i see her at school and i bought lunch for her once and gave her my lunch twice--i think. -_- she's so old.

..but i am too. ._.

so on the way home, jordan talked and talked (he talks so much). and i was depleted so i fell to asleeping once i got home and left jordan to talk to christina, angela, and abraham.

and i wake up to angela telling me that jordan was still there. @_@ six o'nine. the kids are hungry. i was tired and dragged myself down the stairs.

"WAKE UP EVANGELINE!" jordan yells but i was tired and just sat there. and they all took it that i was being grumpy. -_- but i'm not usually a grump when i wake up. i'm just TIRED. @_@

there was nothing in the refrigerator so jump in jordan's car we did and off we went to go grocery shopping at vons--our favorite market besides costco.

jordan thought it was amusing to go grocery shopping with us. -_- but he's not the first.

chriseley beat him to it--when he bought us lots of junk food and pizza so we wouldn't starve because we have no mother to cook for us. (:

and because he doesn't think i could cook. -_- but i SO CAN!! even ask christina, blog.

but it was all for a good cause so it's okae. thanks chriseley. *hug*

so we buy the needed ground beef, green onions, celery and all that good stuff we can't forget the BANANAS!! (:

and i didn't have enough cents to get only dollars back so i ended up getting dollars and cents back. -_-

then home we went and i cooked. (: except jordan kept thinking that he was the PRO at cooking and started showing off his "skills" since he works at a restaurant..and he kept saying: "no evangeline, you do it like this" or "okae what do you need me to cook now." -_- what a girl.

and i "learned" that when the pan is hot enough, the oil trickles really fast if the pan is turned sideways and that means that it's ready to cook.

and true enough, i used his "advice." (: haha thanks jordan. -_- but i still think i could cook better than you. heh.

and we watched jsa without jordan. it's a sad korean movie about north and south korea. -_- we almost cried.

and then i was more depressed because i had so much summer homework to do. @_@

and i pulled two all-nighters during the weekend. -_-

then i decided to drop. then i wasn't sure. -_- erhg i hate being so indecisive.

i was so sure of dropping it after talking to uncle [dennis].

(which reminds me that uncle was supposed to catch me a fish when he went fishing on monday but he never gave me one so now i am angry at him -_-)

so on labor day i went to irvine with my favorite family and we played all day and went to see the cheesecake factory to find out that it wasn't a "real" factory but it was just a cheesecake place. and we were kind of stumped and disappointed but we were still happy.

me and christina saw a cartman that looked like frodo from lord of the rings. (: we wanted to ask him if he was frodo's brother. but he was too tall--he's six something i think but i'm not sure because i'm bad at judging height.

then we went hometown buffeting except we were really full. and before we left we filled up two cups of gummi bears. (: they weren't stale either.

and i was so relieved and happy because no ap english for me. except after going to school so many people told me not to drop. -_- and i wasn't sure again.

and i ended up pulling two more all-nighters.

so first day of my senior year at school i felt like lost freshmen because i didn't know what was going on. -_-

and my whole schedule was mixed up. @_@ and they wouldn't let me go see my counselor so i had to go see a lady. -_-

well so it was six twenty-one on the first day of school and ALL the doors were superglued shut.

and so zero period didn't start 'til later and some people had class outside on the green grass.

and custodians and janitors had to smash windows to get into classrooms to unlock the doors.

and us asb people came early for nothing. -_- but we still passed out schedules. (:

how could i forget; this could make the headlines, blog!!

i was ON TIME on my FIRST DAY OF CROSSCOUNTRY!! (:

evangeline was on time on the first day of crosscountry. yay. (someone should congratulate me) (:

mr. fessenden looked at his watch and (if i'm not mistaken) said: wow you're on time, evangeline!!

but before he said that, i scared him from behind. (:

heh. to get him back for all the humiliating remarks (blonde kwan and et cetera) he made about me during track season.

but sadly i was late for the rest of the week. -_- but on some days it was because i had to report to journalism. @_@

i was penalized with eight-minute push-up position under the hot boiling sun after running from school to schabarum park. -_-

oh well. serves me right. ._.

but i hope i still stay on varsity or i will be very sad. -_-

then on thursday, jordan said he'll pick me up from school at four but it was already three fifty-five and i sprinted back to school with all my heart to find that no jordan was there. -_-

he was late because of traffic but christina called mother already so home we went with mother and jordan came over with a box and ate our food and chatted with my mother and stayed for dinner.

what a boy. i believe he's falling in love with us. and becoming like us kwans. (:

so there's going to be a carnival on the fourteenth of september. (: heh. i'm doing face painting with timmy and gloria. yay.

we're going to paint hearts and trees and i'll leave complex drawings like spongebob to gloria. (:

my memory is limited i can only remember: spenroe and seAng (lol just kidding seong) are doing cotton candy, reube's doing moonbounce, wilso and weelbur are doing snow cones, jordan and mimi are doing darts and hiroshima's [sherman] doing ring toss, and popcorn by christina and amanda.

which reminds me of a joke to tell you, blog.

q: who do you see on the streets?
a: a man, DUH! (amanda)

heh. amanda doesn't like that joke though. -_- i'm going to start calling amanda mandie. (:

and in the paper, they spelled seong's name as seang and he was quite offended. and they put timmy (tim cheng) as tim chang. -_- they can't spell.

since he nitpacked about his name, the name 'uncle' shall expire at the end of the year. ._. what a complainy boy.

oh yea darin and thomas got baptized today!! (: happy baptism birthday. twice said, i will say it again: you guys are now ZERO YEARS OLD! yay.

and i made both of them a card. which i worked really hard on. and stressed out on because they were right next to me when i was making them. -_-

briaan's a good helper. (: he helped me uncap and cap the gluestick. and he helped hold the scissors and papers. good boy *pat on head*

and to conclude:

yttyj: hey...evangeline....you're the greatest
SAtoHsHiMei: is that better than being awesome?
yttyj: it's better than being awesome

he beat your comment, timmy. (: