I'm starting to notice that the only time I write is when I can't sleep and the sun is starting to rise outside, but that's usually when I have the most on my mind anyways. It hasn't been long since my last update; just a few days so the countdown to Korea is just at 62 days. All the kids that are going for the summer program left for New York orientation today and honestly it's driving me crazy seeing their photos and updates. I wish that the year students still went for the summer program too... But it's okay! My time will come.


"@wojiaosovanny: TO NEW YORKKKKKK"

I bought the Tomatox Magic White Massage Pack by Tonymoly earlier this week and it finally arrived today! I'm pretty impressed with the results honestly. My first time using it and I could already see the whitening effect as soon as I washed it off. I can tell that this is one of the few products I will buy repeatedly. It normally sells for around $9, but I bought it for $14 because it was a US seller and the shipping time would be way faster. I ordered it on Thursday and it arrived on Monday, so not bad considering the post office doesn't run on Sundays! 



The packaging is so cute I want to die ahhhhhh.

This is the first time that I've ever used a product that had immediate results. Although the pale tint does fade after a while, it still feels nice to wash off the mask and see how fresh your skin looks. It came with a sample of Appletox moisturizer and Snail Regenerating Moisturizer, something I've wanted to try for a while.

I am the Tomato Prince!

I ordered my first DSLR camera today! I saw the Nikon D3100 on the eBay Daily Deals and couldn't pass it up for only $300. The retail price is currently at $450 everywhere else I look, so I'm hoping that I got the best price for it. It's not the best or newest camera with only 14.2 megapixels, but I know I'm definitely not going to get a price like that anywhere else. I had about $800 in my savings for Korea, but now that's going to drop to about $500 and I'm also ordering a camera bag and an SDHC card for it.




I figured since I was going to be there for 9 months, I needed a camera that would take some great pictures without breaking the bank. I have my iPhone 5 with 8MP for basic point and shoot pictures, but wanted something better to capture special moments. I really did want a Canon, but I definitely can't complain about the price I got for the Nikon. I found the D3100 twice on Craiglist for $400 and $350 used, so I'm more confident about the price I got. I keep looking through Flickr galleries of photos taken with the camera so I know what to expect and I'm getting sooooo exctied. I really wanted a fast memory card, but wasn't too worried about the size since I'll be transferring the photos and videos to my MacBook constantly anyways. I was looking for a simple, basic bag to carry it around in, but was lucky enough to find a really cute Burberry style bag.



So yessss this has been another pretty pointless and boring update; mostly about my recent online purchases and retail therapy. I just couldn't sleep and wanted to share some of the news heh.

Now Playing: Send It Up by Kanye West


 I got my SAT scores back recently and I'm proud to announce that I made a 1950! In all honesty, I was just taking my SAT because I needed a score if I was going to apply to an international Korean university so didn't really care how I scored. I stayed up until 4:30 AM the night before just playing League of Legends with my sister, I didn't study at all, and I was almost late that morning so I had to skip breakfast. I had gotten out of work at about 10 PM that night too... Sigh. On a more positive note, my countdown for Korea is ticked down to 65 days!


My beautiful, bloodshot face after waking up that morning!

When I had arrived at the testing center, I brought my paper with all my information on it. What I didn't realize was that we were supposed to have some form of photo ID with us and I live about 15 minutes away from the testing center. When I got to the room, they told me I couldn't get in unless I had my ID so I had to call my sister to bring it up for me. It was kind of funny because the other girl who was waiting outside for her ID to get dropped off was in the same testing room as I was so there was just that mutual respect between us. My ID arrived first, so I told her that I'd see her soon. She got in about 5 minutes after me and we basically just missed some of the instructions on bubbling in answers.



A pointless video I filmed of a cute bird that was 2 feet from me 
while I was waiting for my ID. Please excuse my weird noises... 
I was trying to see how long it took for the bird to fly away.

I kind of wish that I had studied a little bit now because I'm sure I could have gotten that extra 50 points and proudly say that I had a score of over 2000. I mean I'm only 450 points away from a perfect score, but still I wish I could retake it or something. Oh well I guess I should be happy that I effortlessly made a 1950 when I fell asleep halfway through the test haha.


Anyways I guess that's all for now! I had about $1200 saved up for Korea earlier today, but I just transferred $500 to my mom for rent. I'm back at $700 nowww.


Now Playing: Miss Right by Teen Top


Now that summer has started, I have so much free time. Sometimes I wish it was mid-August already so that I could start packing for Korea. Ahhh that day will come soon and of course I'll make an update when it does. I've just been working since summer started and taking days in between to relax and basically do nothing. My countdown to Korea is currently at 77 days!


Finally have time to watch a few movies like Garden of Words.

It's only been 6 days since my summer officially started, but it feels like I've been on break for a good month already. I have a feeling that the days are going to drag on now without school and work occupying literally all of my time. I really do enjoy this time I get to spend relaxing and taking it easy. It's reminiscent of Summer of 2011 when I used to spend a lot of time alone, usually just in my room writing in my journal and things like that. In the time that I spent alone, I got to know myself really well and I began to realize just how much I enjoyed my own company. Ever since then, I've always loved spending some time alone just inside my own thoughts. To this day, I can see myself living alone in the future and the thought of it is actually very soothing. When I go to Korea, I'm really hoping to explore and just do things on my own. I don't want to be bothered making new friends and going out with them when I could just save myself time and do the things that I want to do by myself. I guess this is where my "ice prince" personality comes into perspective...


Where I spent the majority of my time writing. It's funny that
it's exactly the same right now, but I'm writing from a laptop instead.

I remember especially during those days, I used to dream about going to Korea. I really believed at the time that I would never be able to go unless I won the lottery or something, but here I am about to depart for 9 months when I used to fantasize about spending just 2 weeks in Seoul. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself the great news so I wouldn't spend so much time moping and being depressed! At the same time, it was this depression-- no not depression... it was more of an emptiness; a deep emptiness that drove me to explore my inner thoughts and emotions.

Just stationary itself made me very happy, like decorating my thoughts.

Because of that time, I became so emotionally intact and stable. I understand myself and my feelings so much better and have become so much happier with myself. In a way, you could say that I reached some kind of inner peace; a somewhat emotional nirvana. I guess what I'm saying is that I wouldn't be who I am today without all the time I spent alone that summer. Let's hope this summer will be more or less as meaningful!

My current savings for Korea is about $900. ($300 more since my last blog update 10 days ago! Not bad!)

Now Playing: It's Love, Isn't It? from Howl's Moving Castle OST