Done: Start a business

Ever since my senior year, I've been looking into starting my own business.

Right now I have two on going projects, but the one that's started is called Spirit Ink. I think i've talked about it before; but I just wanted to further explain what i've learned because for the last few weeks, it's taken over my life.


It's a (con)temporary tattoo company with cute designs fit for the more fashionista group of girls!

I learned so many things ever since I started it with my friend.
It's only been going since April, but the amount of work and stress that I've endured seems unbelievable.
I mean I figured that it would be a lot of work, but really.. wow.

I had to basically teach myself (with the help of the interweb!) how to build a website, which let me tell you is SO FUCKIN HARD without the knowledge of this foreign language called HTML.
many many nervous breakdowns over this one.
Also, even though starting a business with a friend or friends could be really great since there's that underlying trust to begin with, but it may or may not end up being that fairy tale "best friends starting a business together and on a road to crazy success and live happily ever after."

This project has taught me more about responsibility and relationships than school could have ever taught me.
I'm so damn proud of it, and I still have faith that this will work.
And IF it doesn't pan out the way I am hoping and believing, then I will pick myself up and move onto my next project.

I won't give up.

Hayon

Thoughts: the tragedy in CO

I am against guns. Always was, always will be.

I'm sure many will agree, but killing our own kind is pointless and wrong.
I can't say killing all things is pointless and wrong since that would be quite hypocritical of me, the meat-eater.

Ideally, I would be a vegetarian, but my selfish mind says no.

What's the point of killing anyone?
What do you gain from killing people?

I actually agree with the batman on this point--no killing.

It seems so unreal that a person killed and injured a bunch of innocent strangers for no reason.
But, it happened, and that scares me.

I try to live without hurting or pissing off people, mostly because I believe in Karma.
It makes me sad and scared that sometimes it doesn't matter what I do.

I really wish that there was some ways to heal the emotional wounds the families of the murdered and wounded.
I ultimately wish that there was some ways to bring back those the world lost in any senseless killing.


Along with so many people, I watched the midnight premiere of the Dark Knight Rises.
I actually watched the trilogy all in a row in theater for the Dark Knight Trilogy thing.
So, 9 hours in the theater.
I've done it for HP7&8 with the boyfriend. Kinda became a tradition.

The movie was awesome.

But, overall, the movie theater or just watching movies are supposed to be a way to escape from the harsh realities that make life a bit difficult. Movies are supposed to provide a sanctuary.
With this tragedy, that luxury has been taken away, along with so many other securities that we took for granted and that we should be able to take for granted.

Sincerely,

Hayon

Done: Have a photoshoot

So, I have this business that I started with my best friends.

Spirit Ink

We sell a grown up version of temporary tattoos that are hip and chic!

And for the website and our business blog, Jenn and I decided to have a photoshoot.
fun fun fun!

I've been wanting to take some pretty pictures, and we really needed to get some pictures of the tattoos that can showcase them.

Please support our business!!!

Entrepreneur,

Hayon

Done: Peace Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting

I found a recipe a longggggg time ago that I've bookmarked and forgotten about and just found!

Since it is summer, peace seemed like the perfect fruit to make into delicious cupcakes.

This is the LINK to the recipe, if you are interested.

The cupcakes turned out amazing!
Dana helped me with them and took some home for her bro's bday. (:

I haven't baked cupcakes in a while, so it was fun and rather impromptu.

Yummy,

Hayon

Random Thoughts: Period

Is it gross to talk about period?
Probably.

But, is it an extremely relevant and ubiquitous part of girl's/women's lives?
Heck yes.

For me, it is the only thing that makes me so angry about being a girl (maybe other than giving birth, but that seems like you at least have the option to refuse).
I may have more things to be angry about, but I can't think of anything right now because I am currently suffering from cramps.

And along with the uncalled-for cramps, period just comes with other fun things.
1. forgetfulness
2. extreme mood swings that can range from jumping up and down in joy to crying my eyes out for no apparently reason to volcano eruption like rage
3. pain. everywhere. mostly in the abdominal areas and back
4. purely uncomfortable situations
5. I want to punch everyone (comes with the mood swings, but important to emphasize)
6. losing 2 weeks out of every month to period.
7. skin issues

yea. that's right. TWO WEEKS.

the week prior to the actual torture that is called period, I suffer from PMS.
Pre-menstrual syndrome.
that's what it stands for, I hope. I am too lazy to look it up.
And it also bothers me when people refer to PERIOD as PMS.
They are different!
Anyways, yea. During my PMS period, I am grouchy and my body starts giving out and gives up.
So, I guess I should take some comfort at the fact that I can predict when I will go through the torture week, but at the same time, it just seems unfair that I am suffering HALF THE YEAR.

Also, during the actual torture, my brain refuses to work, along with my body.
So, I am pretty much a bedridden, grumpy, pained, retarded BEAST that should not and does not want to interact with other people or things.

But seriously, people need to leave me the fuck alone.

However, ironically, something important ALWAYS come up when I am suffering.

For example, I am leaving for Vegas tmrw.
WHY? because my family wanted to go with dad for his business trip.
They obviously disregarded my plea and went ahead with the plan.
I am just praying at this point that advil and midol will miraculously make the pain go away (which sometimes isn't the case...).
Sitting in the car for 4 hours AND suffering from the unbearable heat of the desert seem REALLY unappealing during my period week.

I have about 10% interest in going to Vegas right now.
I've been many times before.
Call me ungrateful, but I seriously just want to rest at home and do nothing.


So, I should list good things about having period.
1. excuse for acting absolutely crazy and bitchy
2. my body refuses to eat, so I do tend to lose weight.
3. I get to appreciate the other half of the year.

I think that's about it.

Every month, I wish for a hysterectomy.

I'm, at this point, almost 70% sure that I don't want kids.
so... getting rid of the one thing that's been making me suffer seems rather appealing at the peak of my cramps.
Obviously, half joking and half desperately wishing for it to happen... :(

I envy those girls that are like.. yea my period is so short and blahblahblah.
STFU!
GAHHHHHH.

yes, there's the option of birth control pills.
But, I'm kinda iffy about messing with my hormones since I don't want to alter my body that way.
And taking pills everyday seems like a bitch.
I try to stay away from pills as much as possible; although it seems impossible to stay away from advil once in a while (I take gummy bear multivitamin like a child because I hate pills).
So, no on BC pills.
and also no to other forms of hormone things.. they kinda freak me out.

So, I just have to wait until I hit menopause (which comes with its own sorts of crazy fun things, I've heard).

Let me just bury myself in sorrow and pity,

Hayon

Done: Date with Mom!

So, I thought it would be fun to spend a day in LA with mom since she hasn't seen a lot of LA.

Our original plan was to go to LACMA, but I thought the Getty might be more fun since we both enjoy classical art more than modern art.

We started the day with lunch at Jitlada.
I've never been before, but I heard that it's one of the best Thai food ever!

I realized that they specialize in Southern Thai food. I have never had Southern Thai food before, but from my experience from Jitlada, it is effing spicy.

Morning Glory Salad

Jungle Pork Rib Curry (or something like that..)

The Morning Glory Salad with Shrimp was delicious!!! Tangy and Sweet. I don't usually like a lot of fried things in my food, but with the dressing and the shrimp, the salad was amazing!!

But, everything went south when the Curry came out. OH MY GOD.
IT IS THE SALTIEST AND THE SPICIEST FOOD I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.
My tongue was numb and hands started tingling. Finished my cup of water.
Same reaction from Mom.
We had one scoop full and were done.
I mean it was strangely addicting in the end though...

We took most of it home and cooked it with more veggies and meat to make it edible.

Problems other than the spiciness:
1. took forever to get the food.
2. small restaurant
3. yucky smell
4. THEY CHARGE FOR RICE!

But, I want to go back..
lol

Then, to soothe our poor mouths, I decided to take her to Urth Caffe, one of my favorite places!

We went to the one in Beverly Hills and ended up walking a mile overall to get the coffee and come back lol. Because I miss calculated how far it was from the parking lot... hahaha
It was interesting walking there and back, and paid a visit to Anthropologie!
Not too bad!

I got my usual green tea latte, and my mom got the spanish latte.
(:
YUMS

Then, went to the Getty!

 My favorite artist & one of my favorite paintings <3

Beautiful day there.
We walked a lot!
We really enjoyed it (:

After we were done, we decided to get dinner near the Grove.
Since we've eaten at the Grove before, I decided that Little Next Door would be great!
Cute little bistro style.

 We found a parking spot relatively easily haha.

Ordered a calamari salad and the mussel entree.
DELICIOUS!

Then we drove back and stopped by a Korean market to shop for groceries.

It was a really fun day (:

I want to do it again, and maybe my broho and dad can come along too!

FUNFUNFUN,

Hayon

Fun: FaceTime with the bff

Okay, it's really not that big of a deal to most people.
But, for a person who has used FT once since she got her iphone in October of 2011, it is a big deal!! Especially because my bff is in Paris at the moment.
Technology these days... just AMAHZING!

I mean since shes usually away for most year in Boston due to school, I haven't felt much different about her lack of presence. But, I'm excited that she's coming back in 4 days!

And I'm also glad that she's excited to come back to Cali!

This was when I visited her in Boston! (:
I miss the food and just the whole trip was amazing!!

We are planning on road tripping across the country (kinda) to TX and LA!?
hopefully, that works out!!!!!! fingers crossed.

But, we are both pretty broke... :(
wahhhhhh.

Well I think it'll all be fine one way or another, but I really hope the road trip works out.
It feels like this summer would be the ideal time to do something like this.

BFFL,

Hayon

About me: Tall

I am quite tall for a girl.

To be exact, I am 5' 8.75".

So, practically 5' 9''.

I used to hate it growing up. I stood out. I looked like a giant. I was already feeling awkward, and the height didn't help. It was weird with boys since so surprisingly many of my guy friends are either as tall as me or slightly shorter. People always commented on my height. I didn't feel delicate or girly.

All of these things did not help during puberty. lol.

However, now I love it.

It separates me from the rest of tiny Asian girls. I stand out! My legs are long. Clothes don't look awkward on me. I don't feel like a little girl. And I have a little more room to eat since I'm a giant anyways and have a bit more room to spare. And since I have began to lose weight, I love how my clothes fit on me, and on good days, I feel like a JC Penny model lol. And now I just wear heels if I want to wear them, and do not give a fuck about how people may think i'm a godzilla.

Obviously, it's not my physical appearance that  changed.
I feel more comfortable in my skin as I grow up.
I still have more internal things to work out to really remember what makes me beautiful and that I am beautiful no matter what.

But, I no longer hunch and slouch in an effort to make myself look a bit smaller (which had the affect of making me look like a hunchback.. not attractive). I no longer look at other petite girls, just wishing that I could shrink somehow. I stretch regularly to let my body grow or whatever it wants to do (even though I doubt that I'd be growing at this point).

I'm proud and thankful that I am who I am and I look as I do.
Of course, there are so many things I still would love to wave a magic wand and change about myself physically. However, that doesn't mean i'm going to recklessly get plastic surgeries or go cry to myself.
Everything in moderation. lol
I'm not too proud or resentful.

I'm just glad to be me.

I'm glad that I'm the only me.

Content,

Hayon

Fun: The Laugh Factory

I know I haven't updated in a while.
Partly out of pure laziness and partly out because I haven't had access to my laptop.

But I ended up going to the Laugh Factory while I was on my short blog absence.

It was my first time going, and there was a discount for students with valid IDs.
Mine is technically not in use anymore, I suppose lol, nor am I a student anymore, but wthell.
It was 10 bucks cheaper, and for an unemployed recent graduate, 10 bucks is a lot!

Honestly, I wasn't even sure if I wanted to go since I have my reservations about going out in LA at night due to the shadiness that takes place all the time in LA and parking's a bitch.
However, I didn't have much to write on this blog to make my life seem awfully more interesting that it actually is, so I figured why not.

I didn't even look at the lineup before going, nor did I care much lol.

We ended up sitting front row on the side, as you can tell by my pictures lol. We were kind of concerned that we'd get picked on, but that didn't happen since nobody looks to the side anyways lol.

This was the lineup:

Pardis Parker (Combat Hospital)
Eddie Ifft (Jim Jefferies & Eddie Ifft's Talkin' Shit)
Iliza Shlesinger (Excused)
Neal Brennan (Chappelle's Show)
Chris D'Elia (Whitney)

 

Oh, and Dane Cook was there. I only knew of him from that crappy movie he filmed a long time ago, where he is a douche bag, and my friend used to love him?
I don't know much about him, but I always thought he looked a bit douchy hahaha.

I also got excited over Chris D'Elia since I actually watch Whitney and love his character on the show.

Overall, Eddie Ifft was my favorite. He was completely inappropriate. I think one of his jokes was about how he hates babies on the plane. He suggested that we throw them off the plane with a parachute because he believes giving everyone a chance for survival lol.

And some other completely unhinged jokes that made me crack up.

Pardis Parker was quite funny too.
So was Iliza Shlesginger. She's really pretty! And at the end, she brought up her dog and sang Sarah Mclachlan, mocking ASPCA's commercial lol. But her dog was freakin adorable.

But, there were some odd things about the last two comics, Neal and Chris.
Dane Cook wasn't in the lineup, but I heard that he frequently bumps other comics at the Laugh Factory since he does have the star power and I guess he likes performing there? So, I guess Neal and Chris were not happy about it. I mean I would be kinda annoyed, too, if a douche bag came and pushed me to later spots.
Oh, Dane Cook was aiiiight. there were some dumb people in the crowd that kept making comments and he made fun of them, which was awkward and kinda funny.

Anyways, I was just observing Neal and Chris when they weren't performing, and they just looked so unhappy. Maybe it's nothing weird to some people, but how can you or should you make other people laugh when you are so unhappy? Perhaps they were just pissed about getting bumped back.

Then, another funny thing. Chris was talking about his annoying ex with alchy tendencies. And I noticed that he came with these two very modelesque girls, and played with one girl's hair and very obviously flirting with her. So, I figured they are going home together or dating or whatever. So, I watched her while he was talking about his ex, and she had no evidence of humor or amusement on her face lol. I mean the girl was laughing at his other jokes. I just thought it was funny.

So that was my experience at the Laugh Factory.
One annoying thing was that they have a 2 drink minimum, and their drinks are pricey. blech.

Laughed,

Hayon