Rihanna's We Found Love music video reminds me of...

Cee Lo Green's No One's Gonna Love You (which is a cover from Band of Horses). Just a tad. Now, aren't you glad you're single!? Enjoy!

I'm glad I don't have to do the proposing

I used to think being a girl sucked. It's calamitous. I bleed monthly, I'm easily agitated, I have to be extremely careful with my mating habits, and I'm in charge of popping a 6-10 pound baby out of my thinger (just imagine pooping out a full turkey).  Besides undergoing the natural processes, everything else is easy. I'm talking about relationships in the narrowest form. Politics aside, boys have a more difficult time than girls (with homosexual relationships I'm not so sure).We, in a fairy tale world, don't do the chasing. We give out numbers, sometimes fake numbers. We have the power to make or break someone's heart. Boys have the tough job - they have to put up with our hormonal moods and compete with  Ryan Gosling and Johnny Depp and whoever the male protagonist is in all the Nicolas Sparks' idyllic love novels (I pick the cutie in A Walk To Remember who said "love is the like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it" marry me now please).

Girls expect a lot from their partners and they have every right to. We all want the best. We do not want to settle with just any guy (please don't ever settle even if he's a millionaire or he has your child). Girls predict everything and anything. We (or maybe just me) have an imagination that's bigger than any romantic movie/ Korean drama.  We know what we want. So can you imagine how tough it is for your partner to come up with the most original, creative, memorable proposal!? I'm having a headache even thinking about it! Poor boys. What sucks more is that certain proposals gain more attention than others because they're the best ones (and they're not from a movie!) and thanks to youtube, you and your partner are able to join in on the event. Doesn't that just suck? You're both watching it, your girl is crying, one because it's so romantic and two because this idea has already been done and she wasn't a part of it, meaning you have large shoes to fill even though you don't even know this guy who did this stunt but you loath him so much for setting the bar so high. 

Below are two proposal videos that I thought were heart warming (I usually end up watching every single related video I can find but this one satisfied me). Well, the first one made me cry. The second one (recommended to me by a friend) I wasn't too thrilled about. I would go on and on about the reasons why I loved the first one so much, but..I'll go on forever and we both will not have any sleep. Watch and weep! If you have a significant other and foresee a future with them, be nice. 

All By MyYelp

He texted me this while he was in New Mexico. Please, don't get too excited. It read: "The further you go the fatter ppl get." I thought this was hilarious! I have never left the West Coast and I live in an area where people are constantly dieting, so the fact that 1 in 3 Americans are obese doesn't really resonant with me.  I should get to the point of this entry. I'm not saying I want to be part of that American trend. I could always try, but trust me, I will fail. It's just not in my genes. I ain't complainin.

I don't want to be that girl who has to be with her boyfriend 24/7. I don't want to be so dependent on a single person. It's extremely unhealthy. What will happen to you if this person is no longer in your life?  This is a challenge that I'm still going through today, and I have to say I've improved tremendously in the past four years. Jeez, I make this sound like I'm fighting some drug addiction.

From listening to Dr. Drew on Loveline to reading those eye-opening Yahoo! relationship articles, (they're really great at forcing me to take the jump, with headlines like Why some conflict is good, which reminds me, I should dedicate an entry toward these guilty pleasure articles on Yahoo!) the way we are, how we interact, the relationships we have, can be partially, if not completely, due to our childhood. So, yeah, my camp name really works well with this. Bambi aka Mommy Issues (thanks Kermit and Dino) should be reflected upon. I know my weaknesses, and I am aware of why I act the way I do. What I lack in certain areas, I make up in others. For some reason, Ralph Emerson's "Self-Reliance" comes to mind, even though I only read an excerpt from it as an assignment for my AP English class.

Moving on.

In my relationships resume, (someone please make a yelp for people and call it All By MyYelp) I can now add "Long Distance. " I know it's only been a few days, so it is hard to judge how this will go. We're both in the transitioning phase of our lives. We're young and eager with so many things we want to accomplish. That should keep us busy.

Take Me With You

Francis' attempt at taking a photo in dim lighting. I really like how it turned out though.

I did a paper/drawing in Mrs. O' Connor's class in 3rd grade. I love seahorses!

                         

Reminds me a lot of our universe.

This reminds me of the line "I've seen more spine in jelly fish" by Brand New.

It makes me hold my breath.

I want this somewhere in my new house. It's a huge white ball projector. Ohh, ahh.

Same ball, informing us to save the sea.

Alien like.

I love jelly fish.

Makes me feel like I should keep pushing on.

A sea of sardines? It was extremely hard focusing through a thick glass, but I like this better.

Let me tell you a joke.

A good photo of a not so photogenic person!

Talk to the tail.

What a colorful world.

That shell thing reminds me of a sun hat!

Dragon seahorses.

Banh Xeo XXL

The last time we came to the Long Beach Aquarium, the place was already closed. The last time was exactly last summer and we have changed so much since then. Because I'm becoming really irrirated with writing full paragraphs, I'll list some highlights of the day. Of course, you will probably not understand anything I say, because most of it only makes sense to me! He's leaving tomorrow, yikes! 

A day I'll never forget :)

• Wrong route to Queen Mary
• Pre-paid online did not save him money
• Polaroid showed us in a cave
• The sharks looked dead
• Exit liar
• Banana + chocolate + marshmellows + roasted almonds, or so I think
• Right, right, and right
• Snoop Dogg's hood
• The Industrial City
• Biggest Banh Xeo
• Half/Half
• Restroom break in identical house
• Psuedo first world problems
• The Notebook Night

I really like this song

July 2011 Huntington Beach, CA

Click here. Press play.

If you're genuinely smiling, shaking your body back and forth, and singing/reading along (in your head counts too), then you're fucking in love (at this moment). Or maybe you just really like this song.

For Everything

    Thank you.