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09.25.11: 20th was Jessica's 21st birthday, so we were supposed to have dinner on this day. but she wasn't feeling too great D: so it got postponed to tuesday :P but Jin and i still went to downtown cuz i still had to get Jessica's b-day gift hehe

the first thing we did when we got to water tower: EAT! we were kinda hungry haha cuz we had a meeting before haha so we got food from wow bao.




spicy peanut noodles. before mixing in the sauce.



after. haha

the noodles were pretty cold;; but otherwise, it wasn't that bad haha



also got teriyaki chicken and thai curry chicken baos. (just noticed that these are not in focus. great auto focus, camera -_-)


after searching for Jessica's gift, we went to forever yogurt cuz Jin never tried it before. i actually had no idea that it opened on chicago :P


the poop logo HAHA



i honestly don't remember which ones i got haha. but definately got strawberries and mochi! hehe XD



Jin getting her fruit of the day LOL



you see that? only half of its filled with yogurt, rest are fruits lol

we had to eat our froyo inside the train station because the place was so damn small and didn't have space for us to stay. also, it was so freaking hot in there :X



so this is Jessica's b-day gift! haha. the content changed, and i never took a pic of it, soooo i guess you'll see what it is on Jessica's blog post haha.


i got hungry again by the time i got back home, so i made:


jjol myun! it's krn spicy noodles :3

and i think that was it for the day? ha

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09.27.11: the birthday dinner! we were originally gonna go to a sushi place, but Jessica had a bad experience at todai on her actual b-day, so we changed it to pasta. and went to:



it was Jin's first time and my second time.



Jessica ordered a strawberry margarita! XD ahaha so weriddddd.

but she didn't like it....way too strong. none of us liked it :P

(*update: it was a martini LOL)



Jin, on the other side of the table.



my shrimp scampi. Jessica and i got the same thing.

they used to have a pasta called jumbo shrimp and you could get that with marinara (i'm guessing) or lemon sauce, and Jessica got that one the first time we went together and it was pretty good. so i wanted to get that one, but i think they took it off the menu D: and this thing was the closest haha. more shrimp and less pasta. it was good, but it would've been better if THEY mixed in the sauce :P


after the meal, we had Jessica's b-day cake.


too bad we didn't have any candles D:




she was making the funniest/cutest "plop" noise while placing the slices on the plate LOL



my slice. Jessica was finally successful in putting the raspberry on top, just on mine B)



polaroids from that day haha. Jessica was like "i'm not in the pics D:" and wanted to put pics of her in between hahaha


after the dinner, we went around and bought some stuff then went to forever yogurt, again haha except this time, Jessica was with us :D


mine kinda looks the same, huh? but i got kiwi this time~ just a little X)



we were cramped into a corner, and i was in the way of other customers cuz the cups were right in front of me D: the girls next to us wouldn't move when there were two chairs next to them T-T


we were freaking tired by the time we were at forever yogurt, so we headed for home after the froyo.

and on the train i saw this:


haha just wanted to take a pic of it. i dunno :P

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10.01.11: the day of the aids run & walk!

beyond this point, all the pics are taken with my new phone XD except for one haha. oh, did i ever mention that my digital cam and phone are both 8 megapixel? maybe i did lol don't remember. and the front cam on my phone is 2 megapixel.

andddddd starting off the day with some selca HAHA




Jin told me my smiles never look genuine on pics;; so i was trying to fix that haha :P


so on this day, i woke up at 4am;; (cuz i'm slow at getting ready and gotta chant and shtuff), went to pick up Jin at 6am and met with Eva at the swift at 6:13ish? cuz i thought the first train was at 6:16, but i was looking at the wrong schedule :P it was at 6:31 haha XD my badddd but we were all on time? hehe



failed group photo;;;



ahaha Eva looks so goofy with Jin's glasses on XD


the venue took place at grant park which is near Jin's school, so it took about hour and a half to get there, i think. i wasn't paying attention cuz i was on my phone playing games ahaha

oh, and you know what's funny? columbia didn't participate in the event LOL and it's RIGHT there. wth? haha


tents with all the groups that participated.



loyola's tent. woot woot. HAHA


after getting our shirt and whatnot, we went to dunkin donuts cuz Jin and i were hungry :P (no pics tho) the place was packed with all the people from the event haha



waiting aroundd~



Jin looking away -_-



Eva's nice, so she actually took a pic with me. haha





at the starting line! a confused person and a lost eskimo LOL

we were trying to be near loyola people, but they were all over place. soooooo we gave up haha




walk begins! XD



can you see the crowd up there? there were A LOT more people than i expected. nvm, i didn't know what to expect haha



Jin trying to ditch us....



awww a little kid on his......what's that thing called again? LOL but his mom took it away a little later cuz he wasn't going fast enough haha;;



Jin trying to ditch us again...walking into the dark....



ekimo reveals her head haha.

i think it was a little after this pic was taken....Eva and i stopped trying to catch up to her and just started studying for japanese LOL
the walk was just an hour or so and wasn't so bad. my shoulders were killing me tho...T^T i was wearing a backpack with a textbook and whatnot.


so after the walk was finished, i thought there was going to be something, but there wasn't...haha. so we just left and went to victoria's secret and topshop.

whilst waiting for Jin to find her pants, i took selca! haha just one tho :3



after getting the pants, we were hungry and couldn't decide where to eat. so we just went to chick-fil-a cuz it was new and we never tried it before.



this flower's on all of the tables haha. and i guess i didn't have the cam set as macro?;; haha oops~

and i would forget to take a pick of my sandwich;;; i got the deluxe chicken sandwich tho! haha it wasn't that bad. it's a fast food place, so i didn't really expect anything awesome, so it was ok haha



at least here's my waffle potato fries HAHA yeah....remembered to take it after i ate all except for three haha. the fries were pretty good, too.


while we were eating, Jin left cuz she wanted to go home and sleep before she had to go off to work at 5pm. Eva and i went to argo tea to grab some tea and go study at our downtown library.

and on this day! we discovered that there's an einstein bros bagel right next to argo tea!!! and they're both like a block away from the building where the library is! i dunno why i didn't notice that before T-T


anyways~ after getting the tea, we went to the library. and instead of studying, i did this (take pics of random things;;):


guess what this is?



my watch! haha and it's not broken this time >] the seller actually thought this time and put it around a cushion.



my first argo tea ever! XD got red velvet. so good ♥

oh, and i took it with my digital cam for comparison haha:


same settings. auto shoot and focus mode: macro.

i guess the digital cam's more true to the actual color? but which one do you think is better? haha i don't think there's much difference :P



there's a garden on top of the building!! that's loyola's building, too haha. but we couldn't find the name of it. i guess i could search it up, butttttt i'm not that curious lol


after taking those pics, i finally started studying for physics! haha XD while Eva napped.


haha she looks so cute.

she spent the entire 6(?) hours doing absolutely nothing lolllll


while i got distracted again and selca-ed LOL


it's so easy to selca now cuz of the front cam X]


towards the end of the six hours of stay, my brain was too used up to comprehend anything LOL so i decided to go home, eat, and study more later haha



at howard. waiting for the yellow line. tired as efffffff.

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10.02.11: had a meeting in the morning. was debating real hard whether i should study at the library again or not. ended up studying haha. and it was a good choice because there was bears game that day and our culture center's parking lots were all filled up, so my dad was just gonna wait for me in the car until the meeting finished, but since i was gonna take the train to go to the lewis library again, he was able to just go home.


before heading off to the library, went to grab some bagels from einstein and a drink from argo tea :3

i am officially addicted to argo tea HAHA



tried iced green tea strawberry creme. it was...ok? haha it got weirder after every sip for some reason;;



i LOVE this shmear!!!! i tried garden something the last time i was at uiuc cuz i thought maybe that was the one i liked, but nope. this is it. this is the baby i like haha. i think i finished 3/4 of it already :P



*asiago. my fav ♥



honey whole wheat. it was pretty good haha


i don't remember how long i stayed....i think maybe until 4pm? dunnno. but guess what?


got another argo tea! hahahaha no Eva to stop me this time D: cuz the day before, i was so close to getting another one, but she stopped me haha.

got red velvet again but with 2% milk instead of whole. i think i like whole better. next time i'll try soy like Eva :D


when i got back home, i was hungry again so ate another bagel hehe


sesame

i also ate blueberry with cassie but didn't take pic, meh. and the next day, today, i had egg and original haha. yeah, i bought half a dozen :P

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10.03.11: it's been getting cold lately (although the weather was really nice today and it's supposed to be for the rest of the week, wth?;;), and i wanted to start knitting again XD so went to michael's with mom and bought all this!: