this is your brain on liz

just some lizness

01. i really like cilantro. realllly like it. i can eat a whole plate of it with my dinner if you give it to me. i'd probably eat more than 1 plate actually. mmm delicious. i ate spring rolls today, and i jam-packed them with ciltantro! i used to get jealous of Chocobo when i fed him cilantro. i'd always think

"damn this shit smells good!"

02. i'm downloading p90x right now. it'd probably be good for me since i'm quite the fat now. this is me&B's new challenge. we gotta look sexy for the next time we schlitter! i don't know if i'll actually do it, but i just wanna see what the hype is about. i've seen people's transformation videos on youtube, and it's crazyyyy! this one guy was a straight up chunky monkey. after 30 days, this fool had a 6pack! daaaaaaaaamn!
it suuuuuucks because it's taking for-freaking-ever. there's 18912492834923847928 parts to download. all big files. i can only download one file at a time, and between each, i have to wait 15 minutes :( sad. 3 more minutes til i can start download my second file!
-- okay so i just watched the first like 30 min or something. that is soooo intense!!! there's one chick in the video that's freaking siiiiick! she was keeping up with the guys and maybe even did a bit more. GET IT GURL!

03. THIS HERE IS ON SOME TRUTHFUL SHIT.
is anything i'm doing brand new?
i love drake. he's the bizznit. he sounds so different when he sings from when he raps. when he sings, he sounds a bit like r. kelly, super smooth voice. when he raps, he sounds rough.

04. it's annoying when people write about themselves in a really vain manner. i don't know if that's how they want it to come out, but it does. it's as if they're trying to tell the world

"hey, i'm fcking perfect. i'm the god/goddess of the world. don't mess with me bc i run this shit."

idk, it pinches at my knickers.

05. these chicas are my idols! so amaziiiiiiing! AND they're gorgeous!
this is also my new favorite song :)



lyrics:

I love to see you walk into the room
Body shining lighting up the place
And when you talk, everybody stops
Cause they know you know just what to say
And the way that you protect your friends
Baby, I respect you for that
And when you grow, you take everyone you love along
I love that you don't fly me away
Don't need to buy a diamond key to unlock my heart
You shelter my soul
You're my fire when I'm cold
I want you to know

You had me at hello
Hello
Hello
You had me at hello
Hello
Hello
It was many years ago
Baby when you
Stole my cool
Cause you had me at hello
Hello
Hello, oh oh oh oh oh

I get so excited when you travel with me
Baby, while I'm on my grind
And never would I ever let my hustle
Come between me and my family time
You keep me humble out of this hype
Cause you know there's more to life
If I need you, you will be here
You will make the sacrifice
Don't fly me away
Don't need to buy a diamond key to unlock my heart
You shelter my soul
You're my fire when I'm cold
Just want you to know

You had me at hello
Hello
Hello
You had me at hello
Hello
Hello
It was many years ago
Baby when you
Stole my cool
Cause you had me at hello
Hello
Hello, oh oh oh oh oh

Gotta feel you and be near you
You're the air that I breathe to survive
Gotta hold you, wanna show you
That without you my sun doesn't shine
You don't have to try so hard for me to love you
Boy, without you my life just ain't the same
You don't have to try so hard for me to love you
You had me at hello!

You had me at hello
Hello
Hello
You had me at hello
Hello
Hello
It was many years ago
Baby when you
Stole my cool
Cause you had me at hello
Hello
Hello, oh oh oh oh oh
It was many years ago
Baby when you
Stole my cool
You had me at hello
Hello

my plague.

i've come to the conclusion that i hate vietnamese people. the old fashioned ones. the ones who think they can judge me because i'm not a fucking cookie cutter vietnamese girl. the ones who make me feel like a disgrace to the culture.

alotta people know that i don't speak vietnamese. i do understand though. just everyday language, the stuff my mom says to me. that's the only vietnamese i know. everything my mom's ever said to me. i didn't learn any vietnamese from anybody else but my mom. i grew up an only child with a single mother. i lost my vietnamese during elementary school. my mom was always working. i was at school. during the first few years of elementary school, i was always sent to a babysitter's. they were vietnamese so i still had my vietnamese at that time. but then this boy attacked me, and i told my mom i never wanted to go back there ever again. she never made me go back. i started staying home alone. so after school, i'd always be outside with my neighborhood friends. eventually, my vietnamese just left me since i only saw my mom at night. she had also started dating this chinese guy, so we spoke english around him. i haven't spoken vietnamese in over 10 years. i can't even formulate a proper sentence in my head if you told me to translate a phrase from english to vietnamese. it's not natural anymore. i know that alotta people, esp. viet speakers, don't get it. yall think it's easy. it's not that easy.

i don't think this defines me as a person. it doesn't make me any less of a person. i don't think i should be talked down on because of it. and even if you CAN speak and it doesn't sound super vietnamese and fobby, adults STILL talk about how poor your vietnamese is. WTF?

i know a few people that can relate.

i talked to B earlier, and he made me feel a little less alone. he lost it when he was super young as well. just because his parents started talking alot of english. B also told me about how a friend's family gave him shit about it and would talk shit about him right in front of his face. they called him "dumb" and "fat". i just can't even believe that! that's bullshit. he can understand as much as me, and that's enough to get by. i think he's learned to deal it with better than me though. thanks B, love you! ♥

i talked to my optometrist a few months ago. she's a real cool chick! she's older of course.. has a kid. but she's badass. my mom is friends with her mom, so we went over to their house. i sat there talking to her about tons of stuff! i thought it'd be weird cuz she's old but we relate soooo much! she's kinda like me in the way where she's not super vietnamese. she doesn't really speak it. she doesn't really speak it to her kid either! we had a long talk about how we hate the old traditional vietnamese people. she told me that when patients come in to get their eyes checked and she knows they're vietnamese, she'll still speak english to them. just because. the next thing she told me is just forever tattooed in my brain.

"This is America. I have nothing to prove."

basically sayin', i have nothing to prove to you. she feels like she shouldn't feel pressured to impress them. to kiss up to them. all that shit. anyone who needs a really nice optometrist, get at me!

i've actually encountered one really big family that didn't care. they were awesome and super welcoming. even the grandma spoke english to me, wtf? haha. but that's just one in a million huh? they made me feel comfortable and at home.

it's just really aggravating and upsetting to me. it makes me really uncomfortable. awkward.. out of place.. etc. maybe i'm just too americanized. i don't know. but i guess i go along with american culture. in the way where a simple hello and goodbye are okay. where when you're a guest in someone's house, the host takes care of everything and the only expectation they have of you is to sit and relax. i just think this way because that's how my mom is. she doesn't care if you speak vietnamese to her. it doesn't change how much she likes you. she likes you based on your character and what you show her. i noticed the people she likes more don't even speak vietnamese to her. they speak english but they act super friendly. she loves that shit! also when we have people over, she likes to cater to them like crazzy.

"want food? want ice cream? lemme get this plate out of your way. are you thirsty? do you want a smoothie?"

that's just where i get it.

does anyone want chili cheese fries??? no? i'll get some anyway.

so i just had so much fun saturday, i gotta brag.

i had an awesomely fun time @ schlitterbahn with phu, anh, and bryan!
on the way there, we put a tramp stamp temp. tattoo on phu!


he walked around all day with that! shamelessly hahaha. look how glittery that crap is! hahaha! sexaaay

we spent our entire day in different lazy rivers and eating the bestest foods ever. all day we ate free bbq, turkey legs, sausage-on-a-stick, chili cheese fries, funnel cake, dippin' dots, lots of coke, beaver nuggets, funyuns, and a chili cheese hot dog. we thought we'd stop eating after we left at like 10pm but we saw buc-ee's and got excited!

"BUC-EE'S! EXIT EXIT!!!!"

badass. we were the laziest bitches ever. we did jackshit but had a ton of fun! :) excited for the next time. wooooohooo! TEAM SCHLITTER! :)

also went to lake conroe with brenda and tony! that was fun too! jet-skiiing and drinking all day. i'm sad i didn't get a tan though. we played king's cup @ the cabin and brenda had to drink beer out of a pot.






REVIEWS

so stanford&i went to a tasty thai place the other day called THAI GOURMET on richmond next to d&b's and cafe layal. we both had never been there, but i was craving thai food. service was pretty good. they were on it! our server was really nice, she warned us that even mild is pretty spicy. our rice came out in star shapes! cuuuuute!!! :) we ordered the hot&sour fisherman's (basically seafood tom yum), green curry chicken, and garlic beef. the "hot&sour" was pretty good. not too bad. i liked it :) i really liked the green curry! i'm not a fan of bamboo shoots, but i was allllll over that green curry! delicioso! the garlic beef was pretty normal. it was good, but i guess i was just in love with the curry that i didn't really care for it. i probably ate about 2 pieces of it and stanford ate the rest. theeeen, we ordered dessert, thai coffee ice cream. i reeeeeally liked it :) the first couple bites were kinda weird, i wasn't sure if i liked it yet. but yeah, delicious. they even gave it to us in a heart shaped bowl thing. :)



overall, i loooved it! i would definitely go back. in houston, i usually only go to thai spice. i'm glad we found another place for thai food :)

in austin, make sure to hit up TITAYA'S THAI CUISINE which is good as hell. wth, might as well review that too. it's on lamar past the triangle, not too far away. we ordered the gang garee (yellow curry), firepot tom yum, and pad thai. aaaaaawesomeness. every single dish was good. service was good too. our server was super sweet. we were referred by our realtor who said it was the best place to goto for thai food! great alternative to the frequented madam mam's. :)

i can't tell which one i like better yet. but they're both faves to me! go go go!!!

i have a mad craving for monkey bread :(

don't be a pussy, mMmkay? - mr. mackey

01. sooooooooooooo.. i'm trying to start running this summer. foreal foreal. sigh. :( i'm making sean and jane do it with me too. i need to get skinny again! i waaaaant to lose like 15-20 lbs and get abs of steeeel! i'm tired of getting shit about how much bigger i am now. i hate you skinny bitches!

^ i wrote that yesterday and decided to finish this later.

TODAYYYYY, i started running with jane :) we went around my neighborhood 3 times which is approximately a mile! i'm so out of shape. i felt like dying :( i also discovered that i can't do crunches the way i used to. sad. so sad. but hopefully, i keep this up for the rest of summer. i'm just glad i even started!

FEEL THE BUUUUURN!

02. how many wedding/engagement rings are lost in our sewage systems? or maybe just jewelry in general. i always see that on tv.

03. oooomg, can you say DRAMATIC? i hate when people are so vain to think everything is about them. the world doesn't revolve around you. things that you think are happening because of you.. aren't. maybe we just need to quit overanalyzing things. i was never a fan of that. we drive ourselves crazy thinking about why things could be. there are such things as coincidences. speaking of overanalyzing, that's what He's Just Not That Into You is about!

04. i watched He's Just Not That Into You today. sooo why not review it? :)



this movie is kinda like Crash in the way where it has like a billion stories where all the people are connected in some way or another. it's an extreme chick flick though. seriously. i don't think boys would like this movie. i had high expectations for this movie since it has a bunch of well known actors in it. i must say i was a little bit disappointed. just a little bit. i liked it though. it was cute and had alot of truth that many of us should probably realize. i like that it wasn't the usual fairy tale. i guess it's a little more real. the only thing i didn't like about it was that it's kinda too slow. kick up the drama pleaaase! a plus is that scarlett johansson is in it and she has huuuuuuge knockers! ryan reynolds is so lucky. definitely a cute movie. i would give it.. 3 - 3.5 stars. :)

10 Chick flick cliches you will NOT see in He's Just Not That Into You


05. btw, i love JOSH because he's my #1. :) he made my blog his homepage on internet explorer. wise decision, young grasshopper :) wise decision indeed!

06. GO MAGIC! BEAT LA!

07. JET-SKIING TOMORROW, WOOOHOOO!!! :) nuff said.

footprints on my face ☁

so while girl-talking today, i've realized i let alot of things happen to me that i shouldn't have. i should've stood my ground and recognized my rights. i've been walked on and let someone else's insecurities dictate my decisions. they're MY decisions. why should anyone else have any control over that? some people are going to be insecure no matter what, and you can't really mold your life around that. it's not fair to yourself. i think some people just need to realize they can't always have things their way. also that their wishes cannot always be satisfied. sometimes people are just gonna be jealous, and there's nothing they can do about it. if you keep letting them have their way, what are you going to have left? will they ever be happy? will you ever be happy?

"Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening."
- Maya Angelou

"Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil."
- Robert A. Hienlein

some people like that shit, but just sayin', it's not my cup of tea. it could work for others. i'm just not a big fan. i don't thrive on that crap. some think of it as passion in disguise, but it doesn't make me feel loved.

something sooooorta similar just happened. i'm watching fresh prince and will just said to his mom "so everybody that loves you gotta do exactly what you say?" His mom got mad because she didn't want her sister to marry this guy. she irrationally concluded that her sister doesn't respect her and doesn't love her. basically, she disowned her. tell her whassup, will!

why is it that i get headaches from wearing glasses? the part that pinches my nose makes my head hurt. :(

ma name is lizzy, and i am perfect. i don't work hard, and i deserve it. haha :)

This is the funniest thing ever :)

so today i drove back to houston! whoopie! :] i do miss austin though. packing and loading my car was such a biiiitch. i was like.. how the hell am i supposed to fit all of this in my car. i left behind a big bin. the heaviest bin. josh tried to move it and looked at it with the biggest eyes ever saying

"WHAT THE FUCK IS IN THIS."

haha. kinda like how joey looked @ the turkey in the thanksgiving episode of Friends (the one with brad pitt.. sexyyyyy) and said

"YOU ARE MY EVEREST!"

super heavy lifting! luckily, i got my bitches to do it for me ;) haha jkkkk simon and joshhhh. we had to play tetris with my car in order to fit everything in. those hours of blockles finally came to good use :) haha. driving sucked! my car was filled to the max! my rear view mirror was useless. i couldn't even check my blind spot -_- scary as hell switching lanes to my right. everytime i switched, i switched supppper slow and prayed "i really hope no one is next to me".. BUT i got home safely! :) pshhhh rear view mirrors and blind spot checks.. who needs 'em.

and the friends episode.. sooo funny
part 1
part 2
part 2

so on the long car ride home, i was jammin' to drake, jamie foxx, and elliott yamin. i noticed lil wayne likes to quote himself in songs.

example 1:
jamie foxx ft. lil wayne - number one
"he so sweet make her wanna eat the candy store"

example 2:
drake ft. lil wayne - unstoppable
"your girl hanging from my dick
your girl sanging to my shit
like ah loli loli pop"

i feel like there are more instances but i can't think of anymore.

last night, we had the biggest feast ever. it consisted of.. curry chicken, digiornio's pizza, mashed potatoes, some meat simon made which he burned me making, white cheddar mac&cheese, green beans, and kimchi (gross). our recession-friendly meal :)



damnit, i need a job. no moneys :( and i miss kenobi. luckily, i'll be back after the summa! the hostesses had a slumber party after my last day :) i'm going to miss those grrrls. i felt so lame though. i knocked out at like 2am on the floor. 2 of the other girls went on a whataburger adventure. i'm usually awake for these things! what's going on!? then i woke up @ 7:30am. WHAT. weird, right? people know i usually don't sleep until the wee hours of the morning. last night i slept at 12:30ish. WHAAAAAT. shocker. srsly. i'm turning into a gma.

look what sandy & thao wrote for meeee :) they're so sweeeet!


ENLARGEEEE!

my mom is about to get a facebook -_- i hope she doesn't try to search for me. BLOCK. haha. that would be too weird. o_O

now that i'm back in houston, time for some tacos del juliioooo, crawfiiiish, 101's milk tea, and moooooores. yeaaaaah boooooooy!