My new swimsuit finally arrived in the mail, so I've decided to put it to good use.
I was at the gym for four hours today. I swam for about three.

And I am soooo tired.

But hey! It's all worth it :)

Unless you have been living in a cave for the past month or so (or if you *really* don't care about the Olympics / current events, which is cool too. we all have the right to make our own choices in life. and i sincerely believe that. anyways.), it should pretty much be common knowledge that Michael Phelps consumes about 12,000 kcal a day (i am not writing a research paper, so i don't feel like i am obliged to cite this. however, if you doubt, please search "calories michael phelps" and there lies the answer to your questions :) ). I am not sure about how many hours this guy practices, but I figured that if I swam for about two hours a day, it should be sufficient in achieving my goal of losing all the weight I've gained since ... 15 pounds ago. AND I can still eat! Yay! Go exercise.

Anyway, this amazing Olympic gold medalist / world record setter has really inspired me.

And Victoria's Secret model Alessandra Ambrosio is my motivation. :) So is being able to eat more, of course. :P

I think I've only gone swimming like ten times in my life. Total. From when I was born. Maybe a little more, but the number is definitely less than thirty.

And I didn't know how to do freestyle before today.

I learned freestyle and backwards butterfly today. When I initially got into the pool, I was kinda shy 'cuz everybody else around me knew how to do freestyle, and the only two things I could do was float and breaststroke. I almost thought of just leaving and going home so I can watch a video on YouTube on how to swim freestyle, just so I don't embarrass myself. But then I just observed the people around me... and imitated... and somehow I just started swimming freestyle. x_x !!!

It was fun. :) And some random guy goes, "you're good!" I'm like, really??? I haven't swam in like over a year! And he goes, "you have beautiful moves" (talking about when I swam on my back) and I was like, thanks x_x;; and then he says I should try butterfly on my back, and I was like, I don't even know butterfly forwards! And he goes, try it! So I did... and I swam so fast on my back! It was so much fun. I got water in my nose during the first few seconds, though.

Man, people around here are crazy. Kinda like me. It was like 2 am, and this guy comes in and starts swimming. I was like ... dang. Guess I'm not the only one who goes to the gym this late at night.

Okay, I think I need to stop writing my blogs at 5am, because I just start ranting.

Time to write the other languages, so I can hit the sack.

C-ya.

xoxo. :) lots of love,

Tiana <3

Hey guys! Sorry, another week and I hadn't updated. But honestly, I'm not doing much here (except for the same things every single day), so there's nothing really to write about.

BUT! It is a Chinese holiday today. (which is why life suddenly became a little bit more eventful and I actually have something to write about now!)

More specifically, it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival, which is sort of like the Chinese Thanksgiving. Except we eat moon cakes instead of turkey and mashed potatoes. If you would like more information, Wikipedia is your best friend. :)

L.A. can be pretty boring at times, but it's pretty cool to be able to spend this holiday with my family.

Yesterday, a family from my church hosted a party at their house. We had steak... and some other stuff that I don't really remember.

And then I rushed to a wedding party right afterwards. That was pretty fun, too.

And I was just talking to one of my friends online... and BOA IS DEBUTING IN AMERICA!!! OMG! I'm so excited for her... and I've been waiting for this for forever. Haha. I just saw the teasers for her music video... those are some HOT dance moves!! And the chorus is quite catchy, too. <3 BoA. ^_^ I just hope people don't diss her pronunciation too much (like they did to me for my debut :P). I would love to see her improvements, too. [Haha, I'm really excited... she was like the kind of artist I strived to be, growing up. And still is! Although she is about 8 years ahead of me in experience and even more in training.] You go, girl!! ^^

Okay, so that was the good news... and unfortunately, life comes with its ups and downs. I was talking to some other friends online earlier, and apparently Wall Street is having a really, really bad year.

Now I feel like a newspaper.

Anyway, so I was reading up on random things earlier like the Large Hadron Collider and genetic algorithms... and nothing seems to be registering right now. So I will save these for another day. Actually maybe that's just an excuse. I think my IQ probably dropped a million points since I started pursuing this career. I kind of almost want to type something else, too, but I think I shall refrain.

I wanna take a picture of the moon outside, since it's really pretty. Unfortunately my point-and-shoot camera, which, for the most part, is awesome, is unable to capture the beauty of the scenery.

This was the best shot I could get. Honestly, if I didn't tell you that this was the moon, people would probably just think this was a white dot on a black background. Because that's seriously what it looks like.

Anyway, the real thing obviously looked a million times better.

The moon.

Season 2 of Gossip Girl started airing this week! Finally!

There's one of my sweet obsessions. :)

W/ camels @ Inner Mongolia this past summer.

Hey everybody, I'm still alive!! Don't worry :)

Sorry I hadn't updated in so long... I've just been really reallly reeeeeeaaallllllly busy.

So I went to retreat this weekend with my church.

The mountains are very, very windy at night.

But the scenery was so beautiful!

Apparently we lived in the same portables as the people from IDOL Camp!

At night we made some s'mores around a campfire.

Youth Group roasting marshmallows

Can you believe that it was my first campfire, ever? [I mean in the wilderness. Since the only other bonfire I've ever been to (in my life) was at my AcaDeca coach's house back in high school.]

I am a deprived child. ;_;

Roasting some marshmallows. Too bad the fire was artificial (it was a gas fire ring, which is more convenient, I guess.). If you can't tell which one is me, I am to the right. And the other kid is my brother.

So I found out that my youth pastor (in red in the above photo) used to be a Boy Scout! I was like, really?!?!

'Cuz long ago (meaning in elementary school), I was a Girl Scout (my dad signed me up for it without asking me if I actually wanted to join). For about a year or so. I don't remember selling cookies, and I was never really at any of the meetings. I think the only thing I remember from Girl Scouts was this one picnic...

Okay, that was random. Anyways.

So I bought a bunch of cute things this weekend 'cuz the parents from the church wanted to go shopping. I am not always a huge fan of shopping (I have my days when I wanna splurge, but it's not everyday. And thank God for that.), but I bought these two really really cool accessories for my cell phone!

This. Is supposed to be a cell phone holder.

But for some reason, it looks kind of like the grim reaper to me. But I swear it looked sooo cute on the rack! I wonder what happened... (voice in head: same thing as when you bought that ugly hat... me: *sweatdrop* ^^;;)

And it looks even more like the ghost of cell phones present without flash.

Sorry, had to throw that in there 'cuz I found it a bit amusing. :-P

At least I have a semi-matching hoodie.

And look!

A seat for my cell phone!! ^^