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2009-07-15T00:56:00.003-05:00

It's been more than a month since I've blogged, and just like always, many things happen during the times I don't blog... and most of the time, these new chains of events end up being the reasons why I STOP blogging about my life.

During this past month, there are so many changes, new customs, and new routines that have surfaced and evolved into my daily lives. As I've gained much within the month, I've definitely lost much as well. Seems like nowadays what I don't have is time, money, and a relationship. All I seem to be doing these days are dance practice, dance practice and more dance practice. Okay I guess I'm over-exaggerating a bit, but dance life has definitely sneaked its way back into my normal life without me acknowledging it. Gotta love it though... I miss it so much and I'm glad that I'm having the time and energy to allow myself to get back into it again... Although I must admit that my physical state may hit a peak very soon.

There's so much to talk about what's going on in my life and where my mind is as of late, but too bad I got work in the morning so my random babbling will have to end here... for now. There had been a few requests made by a couple of friends that I invest more time in this blog, so in order to satisfy several insatiable blogging appetites, I'll do my best to keep this blog alive and well.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

2009-06-06T02:01:00.014-05:00

I've come to a conclusion that I befriend and trust people way too easily. I've always managed to give people more than enough opportunity to get to know me thus possibly become an important person in my life and vice versa. I always give people the benefit of the doubt so I don't just throw away trust at the snap of the finger. However, when people lose this trust of mine, it is very hard to earn it back. VERY hard. I for one have lost the trust of some of my friends from the mistakes I've made, and I fully accept the consequence of my actions and understand that I may have jeopardized my friendships. Til this day, I still do my best to earn that trust back, and it's from these past mistakes that make me deem friendships so much more than what they used to mean to me years ago. I guess this leads to my new resolution: don't trust too easily yet maintain your love for everyone with reason.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare

Music makes the world go round.

2009-05-31T00:17:00.005-05:00

YES! I finally got a music player set up on this blog. SUCCESS! Haha actually it wasn't difficult to set up at all but it was just my laziness that delayed this process. Instead of all of them being current jams it's actually mostly songs that I've consistently loved, couple of them dating back to high school days even. I'm damn proud of the playlist, but soon I'd need to shorten it to just current songs so it doesn't get boring. As for now, the music player will play the following 22 tracks. Some are new and some are old. If you would like to get ahold of some of these songs, hit me up. :)

(In alphabetical order by artist)
Atozzio – Burned Out of Love
Brandon Hines ft. Ryan Leslie – Find You
The Cool Kids – A Little Bit Cooler
The Cool Kids – Gold and a Pager
The Cool Kids – Mikey Rocks
Drake ft. Nicki Minja – Best I Ever Had
James Fauntleroy ft. Timbaland – Back Together
Jazzy – Don’t Let This Go
Jazzy – Make Up
Jesse McCartney – In My Veins
Kanye West ft. John Mayer – Bittersweet Poetry
Kid Kudi ft. Kanye West & Common – I Poke Her Face
Kristinia Debarge – Gotta Be Love
Miguel Jontel – Sure Thing
Mila J – Complete
Nasri – Click Click Click
R. Kelly - #1 Fan
RL (of Next) – Designated Driver
RL (of Next) – Shhh
Ryan Leslie – Promise Not 2 Call
Tyga ft. Lil Wayne – Lay You Down

It's the summer time!

2009-05-28T20:15:00.002-05:00

I never anticipated summer as badly as this year, and I'm glad that it's finally here! So many items on my summer to-do checklist and I can't wait to tackle each and every single one of them. :) I realize that this is going to be the last legitimate summer for me so gotta make it the best one ever. Summer classes begin in two weeks and by the second part of the summer I'll probably just travel around Texas and most likely Oklahoma. Can't wait to catch up with old friends, old UT graduates in Houston and of course, my WyldStyl crew members as well. Hopefully I can get back into the dance scenes for the summer cause I miss it so much. Gonna get back into running for the summer too so I can get rid of my beer belly. Sigh... me and beer have a love-hate relationship. Love the way it tastes, hate the way it makes me look. 24-hr fitness is going to be my best friend this summer. Probably going to pick up swimming this summer, which means time to get a good one-piece swimsuit. I miss it when I used to take swimming lessons every summer so I'm gonna bring it back this year by doing more swimming drills on my own. Man... so many things to do and I haven't even listed all of them! I hope I can keep up with all of these goals and carry them out. Self-reminder: MOTIVATE THYSELF!!!

Twitter it up!

2009-04-21T23:04:00.007-05:00

This past month or so had been rather hectic and crazy, so it resulted in the lack of posting from me on the blog. =x

However, I noticed that even due to not having the time to blog, I did manage to find the energy to tweet quite a bit on my Twitter. For those of you that haven't gotten one yet... GET ON IT! =] It is the best remedy to not wanting to blog your life away yet still wanting the whole world to know what's on your mind at that very moment. For those of you that are obsessed with twitter, try installing the Twitterfox plugin for your Firefox browser. That stuff will make you EVEN more obsessed with tweeting, I shit you not!

But anyhoos, it's been quite a trip these last 30 days or so. Alumni Weekend, my 2nd 21st bday, catching bronchitis, TX Revue.... man, so many things have happened but certainly these events have passed its expiration date to be blogged so we'll leave it at this. Hopefully I'll get more opportunity to blog on this as much I tweet on twitter. It does seem like I've made a habit of the whole "no more than 140 characters" shebang from twitter... hmmm we'll see how this all works out.

Add me on Twitter if you haven't done so already. :)

EDIT: I saw the Wall-E icon that I posted so it made me watch Wall-E again. It's been 5 times since I've watched the movie, and it still makes me cry in the end. I'm anticipating the day when I no longer need to blow my nose after watching it. Random sidenotes: Eve reminds me of myself (hot-tempered and all) and M-O is still my favorite. :]

Jia & Laura.

2009-03-25T15:31:00.007-05:00

Just discovered through a pic from Britney Spear's twitter (yes... I follow Britney on twitter :P) that Jia & Laura are both dancers on her tour! In case you don't know who they are, Jia Huang (Kaba Modern) and Laura Edwards (Fysh n Chicks) were both ABDC alumni, and both amazing dancers. I went to Laura's class over the past summer in LA at Debbie Reynolds and loved her dancing style. Girl's got swag! Jia is definitely one of my favorites from Kaba aside from Cindy Minowa. GAHH this makes me mad that I didn't buy a ticket to Britney's concert that's coming up this up coming Tuesday. =\ $163 for an upper level ticket... SHIT, I'm too broke for that. -sigh-

Meet Theresa Andersson: The one-man band wonder.

2009-03-25T10:02:00.006-05:00

Simply amazing. I'm obsessed now.

Antidote of cynicism.

2009-03-24T14:35:00.007-05:00

A 17-yr-old kid testified in Vermont over same-sex marriage, and his poignant speech brought me to tears. There is much respect that goes out to the kid for courageously voicing his opinion while still being open-minded and tolerant to others that might oppose his gesture. He made a lot of valid points in the speech and he's a very lucky child to be brought up well in a family that accepted him for who he is.

12 days of diet starts.......NOW!

2009-03-23T01:55:00.006-05:00

I went to the hospital this past Wednesday to get my checkup on my heart condition. After the whole fainting episode during the basketball game really shook me up a bit so the hospital appointment was definitely something I needed to take care of. Good news is my condition isn't as bad as the paramedics made it seem like, bad news is... DAMN I am so ridiculously out of shape! I didn't realize how much weight I've gained and now I need to get back into diet mode. Nothing like starving myself because that shit doesn't work. I've come up with a plan and I hope that I can hopefully shape up in time for VSA Family Field Day/Camping... which means I really only have about 12 days to lost 10 lbs. -bites nails- Sounds like a case of mission impossible BUT I think I need this. Discipline, Julia... think discipline! -cracks whip-

So my new weight loss plan goes a lil something like this...
- Cereals in the morning
- Fruits (typically apples because they're filling) and crackers for lunch
- Small snacks throughout the day
- A good size dinner that cover proteins and fiber intakes
- No more food into the body system 3 hours before bedtime.
- Alternate diff. cardio workouts everyday.
- Last but not least, NO MORE FAST FOOD!!

Time to stay away from theseeeee!
WISH ME LUCKKKKKK! :)

On the side note, a bunch of us went to watch I Love You, Man earlier tonight. Another clever movie that makes me love Jason Segel more than I already do. Definitely adding it to my fave. movies list. From all of the previews we saw tonight, this one stood out to me the most. --> Year One. I think Michael Cera is perfect for this role. Can't wait for it to come out. :)

Hello world!

2009-03-21T23:39:00.000-05:00

Hello world of bloggers. I have returned! :) Which means, I am once again putting myself in vulnerable positions where many of my friends can correct my horrible yet unavoidable grammatical mistakes at their convenience. :P

Since I no longer obtain my skills in photoshop & html coding, I decided to copy and tweak someone's design on createablog.com. =\ I feel awfully unoriginal but this will have to do for now. Once summer arrives or whenever VSA/school isn't pwning me anymore, I will make an attempt to allow my creative juices to flow and come up with something that's more of my own.

Like I used to do on my Xanga posts, I like to leave each post with some cute icons that are visually appealing. Sometimes they are more or less icons that speak to my mood at the time, but as for today, these will do. :)