"I hope you had the time of your life..."
UCLA Graduation '05 pictures (really fun pics!):
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=37z8c8vj.72y1xi7v&x=1&y=txp40h
Graduation weekend was super fun! yes, super! last week, ty and i painted our cars all UCLA-esque. They look awesome and i keep getting thumbs up and stuff when i drive--fun! friday was the college of letters &science grad--cookie monster was the speaker...take that trojans, thinking you're all cool with lance armstrong! i think i already wrote about this...so i'll skip ahead...
Saturday was the pscyh graduation at freakin 8am...so after a few hours of sleep, we got our asses up and trudged ourselves to pauley. ty and john were in the grad, along with a bunch of other people i know through classes and such. i sat w/john and ty's family. it was incredibly long and boring. After, we walked around campus taking pictures and stuff. then we went to the fairmont in santa monica for cocktails. the view from the top was gorgeous--you could see the beach all the way to malibu. i never really realized how beautiful the coast of california is! at least from far (up close, santa monica doesn't look as gorgeous because of the trash and stuff). we had a lot of champagne and then piled into the hummer limo to head out to geoffrey's in malibu for ty's graduation celebration. there were about 25 of us in 2 limos, riding in style. geoffrey's, of course, was delicious with a 4-course meal. mom and dad were there too and they had a good time. i think everyone did. we were there till about 7ish, then drove back to the fairmont--got home, went to say bye to will before he left for bruinwoods for the summer, then went to the W hotel in westwood for drinks and to chill w/trevor, liz, Jason, ty, julie, dana and me. good times, but by this time i was super tired cause it was about 1am and we had been up since 6am and had only gotten less than 3 hours of sleep the night before! so finally came home and literally crashed.
Sunday woke up around 9:30am and went to say bye to matt before he left for BW...last time in 409 and last time seeing matt for awhile. but, i'll see him again in the summer when ty and i got up to lake arrowhead...after that it'll be awhile since i'll be off to philadelphia. so said bye to matt, which was sad, and his dad and sharm and then went to royce for mel's communication graduation. the comm department grad is really nice cause it's small--their student speaker was awesome too...he started out by singing the beattle's song "there are places i remember" and it was just really good. i liked the decorations they had on the stage in royce--more personal then pauley is for department grads. they walked in with pomo&circumstance playing of course and it was played on the massive organ and sounded really good--it made me teary. cause the psych and english grads didn't use that song (god alone knows why), so it was the first tiem i had heard it in awhile...they played it on friday, but that grad is so chill and loud and fun that it's just happy. but hearing it made me teary--damn graduations!!! i'm going to miss my UCLA. anyways, i had to leave mel's grad early b/c ty and liz's english graduation was right after...i walked with ty and liz in the english grad. it was really fun! we brought our crunk cups and had a shot of rum at the beginning and end of the ceremony--good times...the people around us were laughing. for the english grad you can write whatever you want on the paper you hand them, so i wrote that i majored in english and double-majored in Chemical engineering...when they announced that, literally the whole audience and all the other grads gasped and were like "wow" and started clapping. it was absolutely hysterical...ty and liz's families were laughing because they knew. fun times. (liz also said she minored in LGBT studies, lol). so now i have a BA in english, hehe jk. so after sunday's grad, we all went to El Cholo on wilshire for lunch. i left early and met up with john and his family b/c his family was leaving to drive back up north. john's mom and ginny decided not to stay the week. also, sunday was john's birthday!!!! so we hung out at his place for a little bit--we were both really tired and fell asleep, but when we woke up we came back to my place to get ready to go out for his bday. except instead of going out, we decided to have fun at our apartment. so we went to the grocery store and bought lots of food, cheese, snacks, bottles of wine, and stuff to bake a cake. then came home and had a lot of fun! liz and jason came over so they were here, plus ty, julie, john and me. we baked john a cake and decorated it short-bus style...it was awesome!!! opened some bottles of wine, had food, played drenga and twiquor--basically got really drunk. there were 6 of us and we finished 7 full bottles of wine....including a couple really nice ones, so that tells you how drunk we were! lol, it was really fun though and a good way to celebrate john's 22nd.
monday was chill--we were all really tired. i can't remember what i did. tuesday night we celebrated john's bday and grad with my family at Cha Cha Cha in encino--fun restaurant! john had an aweseome time cause my parents got him nice golf clubs for his grad and money for his bday and i got him a PS2 with 5 games, memory card, extra controller, warranty, etc. for his bday. that among other stuff from sisters, more money, etc. made him really happy! spoiled, lucky boy ;)
yesterday was really fun! liz, john and i met up with ty at her apartment in malibu and we painted!!!! it was really fun and we actually did a good job. now all her walls are a light blue and match the gorgeous ocean view...grrr, so jealous! but seriously, the place is beautiful and the colors of the wall make it look really good. ty's going to have fun next year, and hopefully liz too! we'll see...I, on the other hand, will be in the ghetto streets of philadelphia ;) hehe
it's weird that school is over and summer is here. it's weird that i'm going to be starting med school in a little over a month. time goes by so freakin fast. i'm getting excited though! but everyday, i think about how i'll miss all my close friends--that'll be very weird. i don't want to think about it...
anyways, back to the 24 marathon! we rented all of season one of 24 and have been watching it...we watched 13 hours so far in the past few days--that's intense, but the show is so good and addicting.
And just because this song is so perfect for right now...
"Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time
It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth it was worth all the while
It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life."
--Greenday--
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=37z8c8vj.72y1xi7v&x=1&y=txp40h
Graduation weekend was super fun! yes, super! last week, ty and i painted our cars all UCLA-esque. They look awesome and i keep getting thumbs up and stuff when i drive--fun! friday was the college of letters &science grad--cookie monster was the speaker...take that trojans, thinking you're all cool with lance armstrong! i think i already wrote about this...so i'll skip ahead...
Saturday was the pscyh graduation at freakin 8am...so after a few hours of sleep, we got our asses up and trudged ourselves to pauley. ty and john were in the grad, along with a bunch of other people i know through classes and such. i sat w/john and ty's family. it was incredibly long and boring. After, we walked around campus taking pictures and stuff. then we went to the fairmont in santa monica for cocktails. the view from the top was gorgeous--you could see the beach all the way to malibu. i never really realized how beautiful the coast of california is! at least from far (up close, santa monica doesn't look as gorgeous because of the trash and stuff). we had a lot of champagne and then piled into the hummer limo to head out to geoffrey's in malibu for ty's graduation celebration. there were about 25 of us in 2 limos, riding in style. geoffrey's, of course, was delicious with a 4-course meal. mom and dad were there too and they had a good time. i think everyone did. we were there till about 7ish, then drove back to the fairmont--got home, went to say bye to will before he left for bruinwoods for the summer, then went to the W hotel in westwood for drinks and to chill w/trevor, liz, Jason, ty, julie, dana and me. good times, but by this time i was super tired cause it was about 1am and we had been up since 6am and had only gotten less than 3 hours of sleep the night before! so finally came home and literally crashed.
Sunday woke up around 9:30am and went to say bye to matt before he left for BW...last time in 409 and last time seeing matt for awhile. but, i'll see him again in the summer when ty and i got up to lake arrowhead...after that it'll be awhile since i'll be off to philadelphia. so said bye to matt, which was sad, and his dad and sharm and then went to royce for mel's communication graduation. the comm department grad is really nice cause it's small--their student speaker was awesome too...he started out by singing the beattle's song "there are places i remember" and it was just really good. i liked the decorations they had on the stage in royce--more personal then pauley is for department grads. they walked in with pomo&circumstance playing of course and it was played on the massive organ and sounded really good--it made me teary. cause the psych and english grads didn't use that song (god alone knows why), so it was the first tiem i had heard it in awhile...they played it on friday, but that grad is so chill and loud and fun that it's just happy. but hearing it made me teary--damn graduations!!! i'm going to miss my UCLA. anyways, i had to leave mel's grad early b/c ty and liz's english graduation was right after...i walked with ty and liz in the english grad. it was really fun! we brought our crunk cups and had a shot of rum at the beginning and end of the ceremony--good times...the people around us were laughing. for the english grad you can write whatever you want on the paper you hand them, so i wrote that i majored in english and double-majored in Chemical engineering...when they announced that, literally the whole audience and all the other grads gasped and were like "wow" and started clapping. it was absolutely hysterical...ty and liz's families were laughing because they knew. fun times. (liz also said she minored in LGBT studies, lol). so now i have a BA in english, hehe jk. so after sunday's grad, we all went to El Cholo on wilshire for lunch. i left early and met up with john and his family b/c his family was leaving to drive back up north. john's mom and ginny decided not to stay the week. also, sunday was john's birthday!!!! so we hung out at his place for a little bit--we were both really tired and fell asleep, but when we woke up we came back to my place to get ready to go out for his bday. except instead of going out, we decided to have fun at our apartment. so we went to the grocery store and bought lots of food, cheese, snacks, bottles of wine, and stuff to bake a cake. then came home and had a lot of fun! liz and jason came over so they were here, plus ty, julie, john and me. we baked john a cake and decorated it short-bus style...it was awesome!!! opened some bottles of wine, had food, played drenga and twiquor--basically got really drunk. there were 6 of us and we finished 7 full bottles of wine....including a couple really nice ones, so that tells you how drunk we were! lol, it was really fun though and a good way to celebrate john's 22nd.
monday was chill--we were all really tired. i can't remember what i did. tuesday night we celebrated john's bday and grad with my family at Cha Cha Cha in encino--fun restaurant! john had an aweseome time cause my parents got him nice golf clubs for his grad and money for his bday and i got him a PS2 with 5 games, memory card, extra controller, warranty, etc. for his bday. that among other stuff from sisters, more money, etc. made him really happy! spoiled, lucky boy ;)
yesterday was really fun! liz, john and i met up with ty at her apartment in malibu and we painted!!!! it was really fun and we actually did a good job. now all her walls are a light blue and match the gorgeous ocean view...grrr, so jealous! but seriously, the place is beautiful and the colors of the wall make it look really good. ty's going to have fun next year, and hopefully liz too! we'll see...I, on the other hand, will be in the ghetto streets of philadelphia ;) hehe
it's weird that school is over and summer is here. it's weird that i'm going to be starting med school in a little over a month. time goes by so freakin fast. i'm getting excited though! but everyday, i think about how i'll miss all my close friends--that'll be very weird. i don't want to think about it...
anyways, back to the 24 marathon! we rented all of season one of 24 and have been watching it...we watched 13 hours so far in the past few days--that's intense, but the show is so good and addicting.
And just because this song is so perfect for right now...
"Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time
It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth it was worth all the while
It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life."
--Greenday--