the living room & the tiny dining area.
the light's from the huge window right next to the entrance. originally, there was a huge flat-screen tv on that table, but Loria's has her Gohonzon there now.

and the tv has become:


my little brother's to-be huge monitor haha

oh, did i ever mention my brother is moving down to champaign and living with my sister?
he's gonna drive her mad. i can already see it. he drives me mad sharing a freaking room.

my brother's room is kinda being used as a storage room until he moves haha. but here's Loria's:


you can totally tell that it's a girl's room ahaha. my sister and her pink stuff lol

the size of the room is probably not that different from the last one, but this one has an actual window with sunlight coming through it. also, Loria and I both agree that this place looks a lot more cozy.

guess where this is:




tiny ass bathroom LOL. this is it. there's nothing more.

the sink on the left side:


the toilet on the right side:



well the bathtub is behind that curtain. but yeah, it's tiny. but it still works. so no worries.
oh, and having a sink inside the bedroom is quite convenient ahaha

now the kitchen:




there aren't enough cabinets and drawers to store everything, so we had to shove a lot of things on the top of the cabinets and whatnot.
but the appliances are all new so that was good. the refrigerator does make a lot of weird noises, but meh, they can live. my grandma and i did for 5 days haha although she did complain a lot

before going down to my sister's, my grandma had gone on a trip with her friend.
she mentioned something about going to a desert but she had no clue where it was LOL so i don't know where she went, but she got me a soap and gave it to me at Loria's:


she's been chanting about my skin for a long time and she just really felt like this soap would help me haha. i don't know if it's working, but it smells suuuper nice and so far, it's not causing any issues.

i finally left the apartment somewhere between 1 and 2 to study for the physics gre.
there's a second floor inside county market with tables and booths, so i went there to study. i really like the lighting by the booths. it's my ideal "study light" haha

took a picture for instagram because i just wanted to take a little bit of break lol:



and after couple of hours, i realized that my study method is not really helping at all... it was just making me feel more dumb and dumb. so i tried out a new method, and i think it's helping a bit more. we shall see haha
but i did study the most while i was there because Loria's place didn't have internet boohoo. i think it was also because i was away from my usual life back in chicago.
i should go there again to get more studying done ahaha

after wrapping up, i went down to get this:


it's a blister relief or whatever the hell it was called.

i have a bunch of shoes that i can't wear because they give me blisters, so i bought one at county market because i could not find this anywhere in chicago. well not in the places i could go to..

so far i put some on three different pairs of shoes, and i tried one pair and.... it's not helping...
i hope it's because the shoes just suck lol. they actually do. it's not even my size LOL

anyways, back in champaign, my sister and i made another peach cake. yayyyyy:


and by another, i mean we made one two months ago when i went to visit her during her graduation.


yummyyyy. but the texture was a little off. it tasted good but something was a little different haha

we baked something every night because i've been craving baked goods and i can't make any at home.
our oven's been broke for the longest time ever but our owner's not fixing it for us. we didn't even use the freaking thing!!


July 6, 2013:
the next day, i went to study at county again. there's a caribou inside the market so i got their classic black tea before going upstairs:


i tried their coffee the day before but didn't really like it. but i did really like this tea. imma get it again if i go back to caribou.

after a little while Loria came to county too to use the internet haha and i think i stayed there for only about two hours.
Loria had to go to walgreens to get top coat and i wanted to go get the thai iced can coffee Loria had in her refrigerator, so we dropped our stuff at the apartment and went out to get our goodies

at the korean market, Loria got this for me:


isn't it cuuuute? ahaha. Loria also has these in different color. i saw that she had them on her laptop and kinda wanted it, so i was gonna get it. but she ended up getting it for me in the end. thanks ♥ hehe

after getting back from walgreens and the market, Loria decided that she wanted to make bubble tea.
we had some apple at the apartment, so i asked her to make me an apple bubble tea:


it was just apple...haha. kind of watery. nothing special. but it was homemade haha

after the bubble tea, we baked again LOL this time we made a pound cake.
my aunt made one for my grandma before and she really liked it and wanted to eat it with us


it was sooo good. omg. i love cake. i love bread. i want a functioning oven please.

so later that night, as i was trying to figure out why the ice maker wasn't working, i accidentally hit the bottom of the blades or whatever those were and it...burned me D:


i thought it was a cut at first but this is definitely a burn. i don't think it's gonna go away T^T it's just dead red skin now...

and then there were other scrapes and scratches... my right hand did not have fun on this trip


July 7, 2013:
Loria wanted to get some gre prep material with the barnes & noble gift cards she got from our family friend, so we got ready to go out and took selfies while waiting for the bus haha


i'm trying to grow my bangs out, so i've been just putting them up for the most part. does no bang look weird on me? TOO BAD. imma grow it out like a boss

Loria said she'd probably never go back to barnes to get anything, so we got moleskines and i got some magnetic markers:


i gave two of the clips to Loria and we exchanged one of ours because they came as a set of three.

the tan was has grid lines. i like grid lines. gives me much more freedom than just lines.
the red one is blank... i honestly don't know what i'm gonna use it for... i wanted it because of the color LOL it's so prettyyyy. but i don't know what to do with it...

after we got back from looking around barnes, tj maxx, and the mall, Loria made another pound cake because i wanted it XD hehe


it came out to be better than the one from the day before :D it was a lot more soft. i want it againnnn


July 8, 2013:
on the last day of our stay, my grandma and i did laundry all day long... well she did the laundry. i pressed the buttons for her haha

the last time i visited champaign, i took amtrak to come back home and it was sooo much better than greyhound. so we took the train back home, and my grandma liked the train a lot more, too.
we left champaign around 7 and got back around 9:30.
i didn't want to take the train back home that late so my dad came to pick us up and by the time we dropped my grandma off, it was around 10:30

but instead of sleeping i did this:


yay~ kawaii ahaha cassie said it was cute too hehe

this keyboard used to be sang's, but he left his desktop to throw/give away. my brother was gonna use it, but his laptop is fine unlike mine. so i took it for myself. tada:


honestly, it's not that great LOL it's kind of slow. but i think it functions better than my laptop since it at least doesn't die on me for using 2 or more things at the same time haha
but i don't have a wifi adapter yet so i had to move it to the living room. the adapter's supposedly coming within next week so i'll be able to move my shit back into my room soon...hopefully...

oh, and while i was away this came in:



i ordered a new wallet case for my gs2 couple of weeks ago not knowing that i would do something crazy in champaign LOL
so i only got to use this case for 2 days ahaha. i like this case. it was sad to put it away after just two days D:


July 10, 2013:
while i was in champaign, i was annoyed at the fact that i didn't get any data out in the country (champaign is definitely a country, at least to me LOL) well i only get edge. i don't get 3g like in the city because my gs2 is international. so i was complaining to my sister about that and she was like get a t-mobile phone then.
while i was at county studying, i checked to see how much i had to pay to get the galaxy note II, and with discounts on the monthly plan, i only had to pay $170! with tax and whatnot it came out to be $230, but it wasn't $600 like my gs2. soooo i got it ahahaha

they originally said it would be delivered on the 16th, but guess what??? it came yesterdayyyyyy
i could not wait to go home and open the freaking packages!! i love getting packagesss!!!


the package with caution is obviously the phone and the other one is the case. yayyy right on timeee

the big white box ehehe:


and the freaking galaxy note II:


omgomgomgomg look at it!! it's so white and prettyyy ahhhhhh XDDDD

i love white phones! i love white electronics haha. i wish my desktop was white too D:
and i love getting white phones because they give you white accessories hehe


i gave my old earphones to my brother because he breaks his all the time. and i think i'll store away the charger for now since i have my gs2's

after i got the phone, i was looking at the samsung flip covers with replacement back covers attached, and originally, i was gonna get a green one but i saw that they had a mint one and i really liked the color
of course, since i wanted it no one was selling it but i did not give up ha! i searched and searched until i found it muhahaha