Tuesday, June 30, 2009

japanese bed rock spa



So I recently heard about this place from my mom and it might just be exactly what I need = complete detox time.

after i get my first paycheck... (i'm officially employed now! super duper excited) a must-visit :)

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

San Freezy Zoo


















ended my happy fun-animal-filled day with the infamous "eggettes" in Sunset District







sooo delicious. yay for hongkong-nese chocolate "eggette" waffles :)





The best things in your life need no searching. Sometimes you just have everything you needed, but never realized it.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

alphie.







When you meet someone, millions of things can happen after that moment. Whether or not they become a pillar in your life or just someone you met once, or they stay in your life for years on end or just for a moment, sometimes the factors don’t matter.

It can take a lifetime of memories, or even just a split second glance as you walked by them on the street.

Whether or not you ever knew them, sometimes you just don’t forget someone.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

summer = self-improvement

Goals;
- Lose 10lbs
- Lose 10lbs
- Learn how to swim
- Learn how to cook better
- Read the newspaper err' morning :)
- Lose 10lbs
- Lose 10lbs

Reading List;
(Currently Reading) -Water For Elephant
-Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
-Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer
-Curious Incident of Dog in Nighttime by Mark Haddon
-Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
-Secret Lives of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

time is money & money is time.


areezy f baby be back in the bay = time to stir up some trouble!


before i begin... I've got a question for y'all!
guess what this is.. :)


*hmmm*
"is that a freaking bomb?" "no wait.. kinda looks like a condom.."


Answer:

JAPANESE ICE CREAM! you suck on it to taste the yummies! only japanese people WOULD come up with such a thing.. I wouldn't be surprised if the container actually can be used as a condom for little japanese people.... oh my


another perk of being japanese = bombass diggity food.






As I sat outside on my balcony to watch the sunrise at 6AM... I have come to realize that my life runs of a bad timing. you know what they say.. "patience is a virtue", or "good things come to those who wait." Yet, don't others also argue that if you want something, you go out there and pursue it? So..... if we want something, are we supposed to constantly work towards it or do we wait in the meantime because it's not time yet? But don't we always find ourselves running out of time? Isn't time enemy? We cannot wait for the perfect condition forever because then we'd spend our entire life waiting, but the irony is that harder we look for something, it seems to evade us even more..

well.. if life depends on timing, when is it right to take action or inaction? how do you know when to strike when the iron's hot? how do you know when you're supposed to wait a little longer?



*ponder time*



I guess afterall... I believe that there's a timing for everything. I just haven't figured out how it works or why it happens..

Friday, June 05, 2009

love found and lost in this box.

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our scarlet liquid pumps divided by multiple question

here the shadows lay in symbols of confused confession
who's to say that passion equivelates to unboundedness
the number eight tipped over to its side is limitless
stale like a bike missing a wheel unable to ride
the image presented tells only half only its side
only hands can tell where unexplainable dimensions lay
but not the hands that told me what time it was today
the sense of a thousand swords by my crimson interior
its noticed by my brain casket showing to be inferior
this moment in time what is there for me to execute
a hypothesis that will release me from my birthday suit
inhaling this atmosphere deep into my lungs like cancer
finding within ones self eyes to the sky a fallen answer
take 1st place in this race to the source of blood
fertilize the core with my passion and create a flood
a seat i desire at the peak of this mountain i try to climb
there at the top, i will wallow for i preserved my absent dime



still searchin' for the meanings.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

mistakes, mistakes, mistakes.



honestly, the word "mistake" has seriously been the word that I've loathed the most. I ALWAYS make the stupidest mistakes. so many people tell me, "don't be so hard on yourself" but it's human nature to dwell on the past, right? in every single aspect of my life, I've made some stupid mistakes and they aren't the ones that are put on billboards, not the whole dropped outta school kind of thing, but the ones that trip me up little by little. they get to my head, phase me. it's frustrating. maybe I am too hard on myself, but it just seems necessary. and it sucks more that I know I've made the particular mistake right after I do it.

"I don't want you to be so hard on yourself.. you can learn from your mistakes. keep your head up, it'll be okay." ... so simple, you know?
just don't let it phase you... the whole carpe diem mantra of life. oh, how I wish I could fully embrace it and really, fully live it out but it's so hard for me to not dwell on mistakes I've made. the time I've spent doing the WRONG thing. the things I've put so much effort into with nothing in return. especially when you want something to work out so much. It's the inevitable tho, mistakes will happen. Once I wrote an essay on this word.. I tried to define it and at the end, I was pretty much trying to convince myself not to cry over spilt milk. everyday I tell myself over and over againt that I won't think about what's already happened but my mind takes a grip on the negative and just won't let go. the hold it has on my errors is stronger than anything else I've felt. a constant reminder of being not enough..

why can't there be a "back" button or a "refresh" button for life? or maybe. a "home" icon, bringing me back to when things were okay. where I didn't care if I completely word-vomited, if I got a couple points marked off my papers, or if I didn't take that last shot. scractch that. that's how i've alwys been, and sadly I don't think it's gonna change. a mistake on my part? probably. good thing I'm used to it... this isn't a way for me to pity myself. it's a lightweight epiphany..

Congratulations Arika, you've come to a huge realization.