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Country: United States
State: California
Metro: San Diego
Gender: Female
Interests: working out, running, tennis, cooking/baking
Expertise: making fun of zhenni, eating, procrastinating
Occupation: Student
Industry: Entertainment
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AIM:  avocadoboba
Member Since:
8/24/2005
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| This week has been so freakin' HECTIC it's not even funny...hehe all I can say is, thank goodness it is only first week.
The big day is quickly (or should I say, TOO QUICKLY) approaching...and what day am I speaking of?
FUSION: the biggest hip- hop dance competition on the West Coast, hosted by MASA & 220
When: THIS Sunday, April 9th
Where: UCSD RIMAC Arena
Hell yea! So now where can I buy tickets??:
UCSD Box Office : pre-sale for $13 until Saturday
www.ticketmaster.com: $14 + service charge
@ the door: $15
SWEET I got my tickets...what time does the show start?!?: doors open @ 5:30pm, show starts @ 6 pm.
To ensure good seating, be sure to arrive early to get a better spot in line...
kunFUSION has been...kicking my butt. There are so many routines that I still need to get in my head and just practice continuously... it's bad that for many of the routines I need to constantly think of the next move. Only until I can perform the dances without thinking, like second nature, will I know that I am more ready for this Sunday.
We still have a lot of work to do...blocking, practicing, and cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. However, everyone is working and dancing hard, that I can see. Major props to y'all!! There are only a couple of more days...we just have to push extra hard, and work extra hard at workparties. They may seem long (and smelly, when working w/the spray paints), but seriously, Fusion will look and turn out so much better if we put in extra hard work NOW.
So nervous...so nervous. *breathes deeply*
Aite, let's do this. | | |
| Ayee....indeed it has been so long that I've posted that I almost forgot my username and password for my xanga. ahaha. Oh well.
So yeah, the title of this entry describes my current state of
ILLNESS...I have the flu! boohoo. It's been a while since i've felt so
crappy. Heh, I feel bad for my close friends + ck around me, as they've
been the ones who have felt my bitchy wrath. Sorry y'all. I know that
even if I'm sick, I should not be spreading my feelings of misfortune
and irritation on others, but meh, I can't help it. Hopefully the virus
will pass soon and I'll be back to normal. But until then, I'm warning
everyone that for my temper and attitude are a bit short. So don't mess
with me. lol.
Everyone has been asking...but how do you KNOW that you have the flu
and not the cold? Damn it, I just know, haha. There are some major
difference between the two illnesses: the flu is marked by extreme
tiredness, higher fevers and more worse cold symptoms (cold, dry cough)
and oh, did I mention muscle soreness? Yes...muscle soreness....aargh.
Hrmm...school has been quite hectic lately. I can't believe it's
already what...8th week? Holy crappers. I'm kinda psyched to go back
home and see all my family, but then again that means that finals are
approaching WAYY too quickly, and man I am so not ready. Finals =
death.
I would say that thus far, I think this has been my hardest quarter so
far at UCSD. Taking Chem 6BL with Ochem hasn't helped either....it is
utterly ridiculous how much time that lab class takes and it only
counts for three units! ::shakes head:: But alas, life is unfair like
that. Next quarter I will be taking Writing: Fiction, Chem 140B,
Chinese 13, and Phys 1C/1CL. I hope it'll be a bit easier....it should
be, without stupid chem lab.
On another note...some of my close "friends" have not been doing so
well with their classes, and are realizing now that they need to
improve on their studying skills. Being in college truly tests one's
studying/time management/self-will skills...all at once. While we all
come to college in hopes of gaining an excellent education, we also
want to go through the whole "college" experience by hanging out with
friends, doing club activities, partying, and simply put, we want to
have a good time. Doing both well is truly a skill that unfortunately
most people lack or need to improve upon. I'm not saying that I possess
that skill (and believe me, I wish I could do both well) but if
someone asked me, I would say that time management is perhaps the one
skill that can be worked upon more easily. It definitely takes time and
practice to improve one's time scheduling...but once that aspect
improves, it makes studying and everything else a little bit easier.
In the end, all I can say is, stay strong and fight through it.
Although times might not be easy, just try your best and work hard. But
when you work, don't rush through it - be consistent and persistent,
and even if you're working more slowly, at least in the end you'll
produce a better quality product, and you'll be happier with the
results. I'm always here to listen, to talk to, to try to make you feel
a little better, to support you. You know who you are.
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| happy new year's everybody
and another year has come and gone....so crazy, i swear. 2005 was good for the most part....it ended well (with zena getting her surgery =D). classes were hard, as usual, but life has been good to me. i've had good times with my ridiculously awesome friends, my wonderful and supportive family, and with my little doggie.
thanks to everyone in my life for being a part of it and making this year stupendously great and never boring....and may next year be just as fun and eventful (in a good way, hehe). | | |
| ayee...'tis been a long time since i've updated this thing. 1 month, hehe...and unfortunetely, it's all sad news that i have to talk about. y'all have been forewarned.
the main reason why i returned home for thanksgiving break was to see my dog, zena. before all of this shit happened, i wasn't planning to go home...because winter break is only 2 weeks after thanksgiving break. but yeah, shtuff happens =/. and so here i am, at home. freakin A'....every second i see zena hobbling around on one leg, my heart breaks into a thousand little pieces. it's a lot worse than i originally believed her condition to be. yeah, she does still act pretty normal...haha she's such a puppy a heart and everytime i go out with her to the backyard she grabs her toy and hobble-runs to me, wanting to play...fuck and now the tears are rolling down. it's pains me so much to see my baby gir's health slowly deteriorating...
everytime i look at her i think to myself, why the fuckk did this happen to zena?? freakin shit.
i love her so much....so much....i can't explain it in words. i know it's pathetic, but i cry for her every night. it sucks because now i'm always in a grumpy mood and it's hard to concentrate...crying drains me so much. all i want to do is lie with zena and pet her and hug her and kiss her and make her feel better. but only surgery can make her feel better now....i really hope mom and dad decide to get the hip replacement surgery for zena, and soon. i can only cry for so long...
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| my mom had been telling me that my dog, zena, had been limping lately...so she took her to the vet. the vet said that her limping was either due to 1. a torn ligament or 2. hip dysplasia. none of us thought that zena had anything serious, because she had always been a healthy girl, with no outstanding medical problems. whenever we played with her she always chased/swam after the tennis ball with such gusto...and therefore we all thought that the worst ailment she could have was a torn leg ligament.
the next day my mom took zena to the vet and he took x-rays of her leg and hip. it turns out that the worst has happened to my baby girl, and she has hip dysplasia =(.
after i found out from my mom i started crying so hard. i mean, this is a progressive disease, so at least zena still has time and stuff....but damn. hearing that piece of news shocked me. how could my dog have this disease?? i had always heard that larger breeds like german shephards were much more prone to hip dysplasia than others...and because zena was a mix of laborador retriever/german shephard/rottweiler that she would be relatively safe from genetic diseases that were associated with those breeds, but alas...*sigh*
what is hip dysplasia?
from wikipedia: Hip dysplasia is a congenital disease that, in its more severe form, can eventually cause lameness and painful arthritis of the joints.
I looked further into the disease and the development of a dysplastic joint occurs through time:
1. articular cartilage damage due to inherited bad biomechanics of an abnormally developed hip joint
2. cartilage damage leads to the release of many degradative enzymes into the joint, which degrade/decrease the synthesis of important molecules that form a certain type of cartailge, which makes the cartilage lose its thickness and elasticity (helps absorb shock)
3. eventually, the joint loses its lubrication and ability to block inflammatory cells, and damage spreads, allowing synovial fluid to contact nerve endings in the bone, leading to pain.
4. to try to stabilize the joint to decrease te pain, the body produces new bone at the edges (bone spurs), which thickens the the joint and decreases it's range of motioin
(from Orthopedic Foundation for Animals)
so basically...this disease sucks major ass. a genetic hip abnormality leads to a hip joint that has a severely decreased range of motion and causes a lot of pain for the dog...which in most cases leads to severe arthritis. it may get so bad that my baby girl can't even walk anymore....
there IS a solution, which is total hip replacement. however, this surgery is very expensive and my parents are currently deciding what they want to do =/. freakin'. i looked up the statistics on this type of surgery and they have an average 90% success rate!
we first got zena when she was 6 weeks old...and i've loved her with every inch of my body and soul ever since.
zena is my little girl...i've spent so much time training her, playing with her, walking her, picking up her poop, feeding her, laying with her, watching her grow from an insanely cute puppy to a beautiful adult dog, and just...loving and caring for her...and to learn that my girl has had this disease for a while and is at such at advanced stage of hip dysplasia just breaks my heart.
bahHHh i miss her so much. *sniff* i feel so helpless that i can't do anything to help her, with me being at school. at least my parents decided to stay home for thanksgiving break so i can see her...
stay strong zena girl. i love you so much! | | |
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