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30th March, 2002. 1:45 am. Back to reality...

I just got back from my Vegas trip. It was a very fun and relaxing trip, but depressing in the end just cuz I didn't want to leave. I was just looking up jobs right now. Actually found a few that interest me, but I haven't prepared a resume, so after seeing maybe 5 interesting ones (and like over 100 that's not), I realized that I'm wasting my time since I can't apply for them. I guess I should go prepare my resume, huh? Now that just sounds like too much work. I'll do it "later".

Oh yeah... on my way home, my mom called me, and guess what she told me... "Your brother sprained his other foot". Like one foot wasn't enough?! I just shook my head. I think it's cuz he's too fat, clumbsy and just being a big baby. I'm not sure what he did, but he fell on the tennis courts yesterday during 6th period. My dad took him to the hospital today, and now he's in a wheel chair. *shaking head* When he hurt his first leg, I felt sympathetic, but the second?! That's just his own fault. He doen't know how to take care of himself. Needs to not be so clumbsy and whiney. He gets frustrated and starts mumbling and whining. Wednesday morning, he was trying to put in his one shoe, and was hopping around the porch trying, and fell. I understand him frustrations... I fractured my ankles senior year in high school. But I just feel no sympathy cuz I don't feel like he's helping himself. I tried to be as independent as I could... he just whines and ask people to do things for him... he's always done that, but more so now since he feels he has an excuse. But he's now in a freakin wheel chair... over sprained ankles! I haven't talked to him since I got back. Just don't know what to say without rolling my eyes or getting into an arguement with him. I know he was embarassed when we first saw him cuz he was covering his face, but still. Oy... my brother is such a frustrating topic!

But at least I did come home to some good news. I just checked my grades... two solid A's! Definantly not in Physics, but that's okay. I don't even aim for A's in Physics anymore. Besides, I got very good grades for the amount of studying and ditchin I did this quarter. For one of my Physics classes, I literally went to class three times: first day of class, midterm, final... so I guess technically, I only went to one class. Man I was bad. I'm cleaning up my act next quarter though... don't worry! =D

So back to my Vegas trip... where should I begin? Well, we went to McKenna at 9:30 Wednesday morning to drop off my car, then headed out to Vegas. We stopped by some animal shelter in Victorville/Apple Valley to find my doggie Einstien, but he wasn't there! But I did see this cute huge-ass dog. He was so cool! I took a picture with him, but haven't uploaded any of my pictures from the trip yet. Anyway, we arrive in Vegas around 2:30, but it was super trafficy. We stop at MGM to get our EFX tickets and our buffet... all comps! We then headed over to Bellagio to check in. It was sooooo cool. It was my first time making reservations at a hotel. I just gave the guy my ID, and we were set! Comp is so cool! Bellagio's key isn't the typical credit card looking thing. It looks like an actual hard key, but is still magnetic.

The bathroom was so nice! The room was okay... nothing extravagant, but we were provided robes, sewing kit, cute little nail filers and q-tips. But what I thought was cool was the refrigerator/safe looking thing. I opepned it up and saw snacks galore! Then read it more carefully and realized that it automatically bills you once you remove an item, so good thing I didn't get over excited and grabbed a bunch of stuff!

After settling in and showering, we took the tram to Monte Carlo and walked to MGM to eat. The line for the buffet was freakin long... like at least 40 min wait, but because we got comp, we got to just go right up front. hee hee... nice feeling. Food was pretty good. Then we headed over to the EFX show. We got 4th row! At Blue Man Group, one of the blue men's butt was in my face, and this time, Sal's (one of the guys) had his butt in our face. We got a picture... will post later. It was rather cheesy at first, but got way better. Besides, it was a free show. There were parts that were sooooooo halarious. The dancing and chreography didn't impress me. The did have this cool acrobatic part with people in metal spheres. And we figured out who Rick Springstien is in the end. Highlight of the show is prolly when Rick saw a girl in our row wearing a t-shirt from 1982... I think that's the right year... maybe it was 72. Anyway, he then pulls her on stage, but she's like shaking, way excited, and giddy. At one point, she manages to pull out her cell phone to call her friend. He then was like "what are you doing?!" and took the phone from her and talked to the friend. Conversation kinda went like this: "Hi... Who's this? It's Rick Springstien... ya haw... who's this?... Diane? na aw..." Later in the conversation, he sings a line and has the crowd copy him, then the big fan, then he gets the girl on the cell to sing. It was cool cuz he put the phone to the mic and we actually heard her sing! Couple time, he sings and puts his face right in front of that girls face, nose to nose, and she just gets soooooo giddy. Then like after the 3rd or 4th time, she just suddenly holds his face and gives him pecks all over! He was like, "whoa". Jonathan and I like to think it was spontaneous, but I'm doubtful just cuz I figure everything is planned. So has anyone seen EFX? Tell me if something like that happened at your show!

After walking around that night, we head back to our room. I noticed that the blankets were pulled back nicely and the pillows were fluffed up... like instead of laying flat on the bed, it was resting against the headboard, but it just assumed Jonathan did it. Jonathan then asked me if I closed the curtains... there's two layers, one's thin, and the other's thick. I left the thin one closed, but not the thick one. We didn't think much about the curtains. Then I went into the bathroom and noticed that the towels we had used were no longer wet and nicely folded and hung up again... just assumed Jonathan did it. It wasn't until I noticed that the floor mats were rolled up and dry that it occured to me... someone's been here. OMG! Housekeeping comes in twice! They come in in the morning to open your curtains and make your bed and clean your bathroom, then come again in the evening to close your curtains, prepare your bed for sleep, and clean the bathroom again. They nicely lined up my shoes that I had just threw in a pile, pick up all the clothes we left on the floor (it was just my sarong, jeans, and tank tops... not like under garments or anything), and they straightened up all our bathroom stuff (like mosturizer, gel, etc), replace all the glasses, towels, soaps, etc. and left us chocolate!

The next morning, we went for a dip in the Bellagio pools. It was so nice! I wanted pictures, but Jonathan forgot his camera in the room. We swam laps for like an hour. What a good work out. Then we laid out for like 30 minutes. We stayed for about 2 hours in the pool area since it took us 30 minutes to jump in cuz we were applying sunblock and waited for it to set. They actually check your key to enter the pool. Not like just seeing our key, but actually taking it and scanning it. The had 3 pools, so it wasn't crowded there. It was soooooo relaxing. At that point, I already knew it was the best Vegas trip for me.

Since we slept in passed housekeeping's visit, while we were getting ready to go out (2PM), we get a call. It was housekeeping, wondering what time we would like house keeping. Jonathan said three, so I had to hurry and shower and get ready. We then headed over to get pizza at Ceaser's Palace and went shopping. Then headed back to Bellagio... played my first round of slots. I played $5 out of my pocket, but ended up playing like $20 worth. We were working up our appetite for dinner. We went to Bellagio's buffet for dinner. Again, we got to do the cool thing of walking in front of the super long line. They were soooo crowded, especially for being mid-week and all. The buffet was pretty good. I think it's not as "wow"ing cuz we've been there couple times... oh well.

On our way out, we bump into Ev. They were just getting there. They mentioned they were going to Studio 54 that night. Jonathan and I wanted to go clubbing, but didn't want to pay $20 each for it. We decided to just walk around. When we headed over to MGM, we saw that Studio 54 was only $10 and girls are comp. So we go back to Bellagio again to change. I wore this low-cute black dress, with my laundry calf length sweater with the fur collar that I never get to wear. I felt a little too dressed up, but Jonathan dressed up too, so it was just fun. I don't like people looking at me... I used to like attention, but not anymore for some reason, so I wasn't sure if I wanted to go out like that, but once we did, it was fun. We decided to gamble a bit to drink up before we go to the club. I had two Cranberry & Vodka, which I drank pretty quick. Jonathan had a pina colada and a strawberry daqurari. I really needed to pee, so we went up to our room, and never made it out. But I loved our room cuz the bed and pillow were so comfy, and when we return to the room, housekeeping makes the bed look so inviting.

I woke up in the middle of the night both nights and couldn't fall asleep for couple hours. I saw a really cool segment about learning disorders on PBS. I just kept thinking about going to the pool, or going downstairs alone to gamble, but was lazy. I ended up sleeping in and didn't get to go swimming this morning. But in the end, we concluded that this was the best trip ever... and the cheapest!

Current mood: tired.

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30th March, 2002. 11:37 am. morning!

Last night, I surfed the web till like 4 AM. I was surfing from my bed the whole time. I lay on my belly facing the monitor with the mouse and keyboard on my bed. I was actually playing WagerWorks, the Aladdin one when I fell asleep. Someone turned off the lights for me that morning. But I woke up like 20 minutes ago, saw the computer, and continuted surfing. Actually, I woke up to find that I had a bonus thingy on the Aladdin slots game! woohoo! I got 155 credits that bonus round. hee hee... I feel like I'm just continuing surfing from last night, but that's good. I don't feel groggy or tired.

I just found out that two of my cousins tried out for Kahana Kai. I heard there was like 50 girls there trying out this year! But unfortunantly, my cousin across the street didn't make it. =( I bet it's cuz my aunt made her leave early. It's so stupid cuz I wasn't planning on going to Palm Springs, but my cousin told me that her family is leaving Saturday morning, but tryouts is Saturday, and she wants to attend. The only way her mom would let her tryout is if I'm going Saturday night and take her, otherwise, she has to go on the trip and cannot tryout. I come home Saturday evening looking for her, only to find out that my aunt took her that morning! She doesn't even tell me! I was only going as a favor to drive my cousin... geesh! But I heard that tryouts was said to be done at 12, and my aunt and uncle waited till 1 and couldn't wait any longer, so they made her leave early. I had already said I'd take her later, why are they still being such party poopers. Don't think that I don't like my aunt and uncle, I do. It's just that I get annoyed at how over protected they are of their children and how much they baby them! The parents is what's holding them back from growing up, and it's just frustrating for me to watch.

Current mood: geeky.

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