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So I’m about to willingly throw myself completely out of my comfort zone and move the hell out of Hawaii for good! In a way, I’m kind of scared cause I know once I do this there’s really no turning back and life will never be the same. But really, there’s not much to worry about cause things can only get better by moving… it’s just hard to leave your life when nothings really wrong, you get everything you want or need and nothings out of order… unless you want to be ubersuccessful that is. In fact… not all that long ago I was LOVING my life!… until I realized that was as good as it was going to get on this little ol’ rock.

Comforts really the devil though isn’t it… you get comfortable with what you have, where you are, what you do, who your with…. so you never change it! But without change things can neither get better nor worse…. and those who aren’t willing to take the chance to make things better will be stuck where they are…. and in my case, where I’m at is not very self fulfilling which therefore, makes me unhappy. Or bored, unsatisfied, low energied… whatever you wanna call it.

The hardest part is leaving behind my awesome friends and family… people you’ve shared experiences with, who you’ve bonded with, who “know” you and not only understand but accept you. But if I really think about it, people aren’t (usually) born with great friends. They’re found. One by one. By sorting through all the, shall we say, junk. And boy, did it take a great deal of sorting to find the ones i already have… but if i did it once (or rather several times) I can do it again right? Besides, it’s not like I’ll never see or talk to them again… luckily I make the best of friends with people who have the luxury of traveling often! :]

As for family… or “my mom” I don’t spend much time with them anyway.. I’d like to.. but don’t. Probably because I know they’ll always be there whenever I need them. So moving will probably make me appreciate what I have in terms of support from my mom. I’ll miss her dearly… but in reality I really won’t be seeing her any less than I do now! It’ll just put higher value on the times that I WILL get to see her so maybe it works out better.

Guess I am a prepared as I can be for this move… Normally, being the quick decision-ed person I am.. I would have moved a couple days after I thought about it and rationalized the goods and bads and dealt with the problems as they come AFTER I move. I miss being 100% uninhibited, free spirited and unrestrained. But this time since I’m in school it wasn’t so easy. But it’s good. I’ve had a good.. 2 or 3 months to really think everything through and plan it out.

Actually, the idea first came to me in Vegas (what was that? Jan or Feb?). I was talking to Jimmy and he was mentioning how great the college was. And it got me thinking and after I hung up the phone I mentioned to my friends that “Hey I think I’m going to move to LA for school”… Hahaha.. I don’t think anyone really took me completely seriously but neither did they doubt that I could or would. :] comes with the territory of being spontaneous, I guess.

Oh well. I got a little less than 3 weeks before this chapter of my life officially closes. Guess I really gotta live everyday like it’s the last! =]

Hiya, wow it’s been a long time! I’ve been super preoccupied with school, a new business and the newest edition to our home.. a 3 month old adorable puppy named Rusty hehe.

So I was looking through my old blog archives from blogspot right? Haha. Damn. No wonder the blog was so popular, I did so much random crap everyday and took so many pictures! I was living vicariously through my own former life! haha. Nowadays my life is not nearly as interesting…. you can thank college for that haha. Otherwise I’d be blogging from Vietnam or Japan or China right now

I’ve been helping with a new business venture with graphics and marketing and sales. Finals are coming up and I’m almost completely sure I’m going to get an A in psychology… unless attendance counts.. haha. Accountings another story though, it really depends on how I study for my finals the next week. I started slacking off on the studying after I realized college is not really as hard as it’s cut out to be. My intense one week studying of the books ritual before exams turned into briefly skim through the pages two days before. Which, I found to work great for psychology but not so much for accounting haha. Psychology is memorizing terms and crap… Accounting you actually have to understand the concept which skimming won’t help you with heh… I’m pretty sure I can still get an A though as long as I study this week. O_O

My social life is like… non existant now. I see the same person everyday haha. We work together, sleep together, eat together, brainstorm together, the only time I’m NOT with him is when I’m at school! But idk, I don’t really have the urge to go out anyway. Nothing new ever happens in Hawaii.. maybe it’ll change in LA ha. I did go out like, 2 times though.

Rollerblading in Venice

Grand opening of some bar

Mr. Racesauce

Out with the girls

Ok well hopefully once school is over I can do something interesting! This weekend we’re going jet skiing so that’s a good start!

xoxo

Cat

The other week, a guy approached me while I was out and started up a conversation with me. He asked me what I do and I told him that I’m in school. “Oh wow! That’s great! Let me guess, you’re in fashion design”

Fashion design! I was slightly offended but could understand why he would come to that conclusion. Any girl who’s decent looking and well dressed MUST be stupid, right?? I replied to him, “No, I’m in finance”.

He reacted in the same incredulous manner that I did 5 seconds earlier, recomposed himself and said, “Oh! I’m in the finance industry” and proceeded to give me advice on why I should become a financial adviser.

I politely listened to his opinion on a field I never plan on getting involved in and the topic changed shortly after. 10 minutes later after we got to know each other better he stopped mid conversation and sheepishly admitted, “Wait, I have to tell you something. That financial adviser thing that I told you about earlier? Erm… that like the lowest level of finance. But you! You belong on Wall Street! Your very smart!”

Gee, thanks jackass. (Haha, just kidding. Actually I really like the guy and don’t blame him for his first impressions of me.) He’s an older guy that owns his own finance company and is really smart and a very nice person. I actually had some great intellectual conversations with him on a later occasion. But anyway, I just had to use that particular scenario as an example because things like that have been happening to me alot!

In fact, I’m convinced that my classmates think (or thought) that I cheat in class or have someone else do my homework because, well, I’m pretty and pretty girls get smart nerds to do all of their homework, duh. Yet somehow when we get our quizzes and exams back I get better grades than them.. How can that be! She’s a ditsy GIRL with BOOBS who doesn’t pay attention in class, take any notes and texts on the phone half of time. I caught one of my professors watching me extremely closely during one of our exams cause it’s impossible that I was doing so well on my homework. -__-

That may be true…. but that gives no indication of my comprehension abilities. The only reason I don’t give my full attention in class is because it’s unnecessary. KCC is a joke. There’s nothing the professor’s lecture that’s not straight out of the textbook.

Who’s the dumb one, the girls who dress up, take care of themselves and put on a dumb act or the guys who can’t see through the facade?

PS: I proud of myself though! School was ridiculously difficult the first month while I was getting back in the groove… but it’s midterms right now and I got A’s on all of my exams! Yaaay!
Also, since it’s been a while, here’s some recent photos from the last couple of months that I suppose add to my brainless party girl image =D

Being placed in Algebra has really bugged me since school started in January. I KNEW I didn’t belong in Algebra so I took the placement test again and I was right… I am NOT in the right class!

This is both good and bad. Good because I can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that I’m NOT stupider than I thought I was… Bad because now I’m going to drop the class since it’s a complete waste of time retaking a class I took in junior high… which now means I’ll only be taking psychology and accounting… which makes me feel like I’m wasting my time only taking two classes in school!

Here’s some more exciting news:

Doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity… and I feel like I’m dangerously close to crossing that line of insanity because nothing really ever changes here and it’s beginning to get tiring and boring because nothing much here gets you anywhere!

Soo… at the end of this semester (end of May) I’ll be packing my bags and moving to LA. Yep… moving not just taking month long trips like I usually do. Moving as in getting a place, registered for school, changing the area code of my phone number and all that jazz.

I’ll be relocating to West LA.. Santa Monica.

I know, I know… seems really sudden and rash but I’ve actually put a lot of thought and consideration into this move the past few weeks and I think I’m pretty prepared.

Nothing good can come out of staying in Hawaii. The education is better on the mainland, the people are much more motivated and exciting and there are way more opportunities.

I’m pretty excited. Excited but a little bit nervous at the same time. I can imagine the first few months might be kind of hard to get used to.

I’m kind of looking forward to a fresh start though. Although I love my life here, it’ll be a nice change to be a little normal… be a full time student, not working, being broke and not knowing anyone. hahaha.

It’ll be pretty interesting to see how things are gonna be 9 months from now.. (3 months before I move, 6 months before I settle in..)