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yesterday i went to one of the best shows ever (Constellations). here is a picture of me crowdsurfing to Les Savy Fav:
i was looking through my pictures and wondered why the composition was so awkward. i also saw broken social scene, liars!, and gold panda. sorta this festival like thing. i missed local natives cause of all the clashing of times. it was an epic night.

some bits of summer

i really need to keep up with this! especially since the big move out is less than a month away :( *SIGH* oh yeah, i'm also switching the date of my flight. when ever i tell someone i'm flying out on 9/11, i always get some sort of worried/wtfareyouserious response and it's really getting to my head. yesterday at work, one of our regulars who is a body guard for the Governator asked me when i was leaving. i told him 9/11. in response, he said "honestly, i think you should switch your flight date. even WE don't fly out that day--and we carry guns!" so yeah. that got me kinda scurred...

Anyways, PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in the beginning of summer, i baked quite a few times. i made these with wai. i was pretty proud of these cupcakes. i was in love with that icing! CHECK OUT THAT SHEEEEEEEN! they were salty chocolate cupcakes with caramel filling and a sea salt garnish.

making caramel for the first time

a couple of days later, wai and i made more cupcakes. these were cheesecake cupcakes! you can't see the bottom but it had a yummy graham cracker crust. we made these for a surprise picnic for Ashley's birthday. they turned out delish

here's the strawberry version. (sorry if some of these are blurry, i took them with my camera phone) i like how the marbling came out

Wai, Ashley and I went to this thing in Chinatown called "Make It Funky". it was a music/art festival with live music, a bunch of vendors, and food trucks. food trucks are all the rage right now and we managed to try some food from a BBQ truck and a shaved ice truck.

My BFFs, Wai and Ashley

the shaved ice we got from The Original Shaved Ice Truck. it was soo soft!

saw some art......

....and live painting. this guy was working his spray cans on this one. i thought it was cute haha



since my parents are on vacation at Cambodia now, Richard and I have been holding down the fort at the donut shop. it's been going quite smoothly but i have to admit, i do miss them sometimes, lol. i hope they're having fun!

since my mom is gone, i have to do the baking now. i made these muffins! :) i have to make them every 3 days.

Do you know the Muffin Man? well, he's actually a lady named Mawissha Chhan.



Here's when my family and I went to drop my parents and Sonich (he went with them to Cambodia) off at LAX

The boys in my family
(Richard, Dad, Sann, Sonich and Ken)

The women in my family
(Mom and I, lol)
I miss her! I get sorta teary eyed whenever she calls me on the phone. Damn her. Damn her! Only she can do that to me...... >:(

this is them going to their gate. hahahaha my mom looks hella stoked.

Au Revoire!

I hope all is well! :0)

<3,
Mel

Ode To Myself

Today's post goes out to me.



Because I am a damn strong woman. Because I don't have to eat the bullshit that is being fed to me. Because I don't feel like I have to be "grateful" to you--you should feel lucky for even having me. Because for as much as I like to believe I don't have a heart, I still feel compassion towards you. Because I think I have my head screwed on tight enough to understand. Because for as much as I can get angry with someone, I will never, ever raise my voice at you. Because I am damn confident in myself--don't confuse that with being a selfish bitch or a cocky egotistic wannabe. Because I believe in the love I give someone. Just don't take it for granted. Any of it.

I poop photos!

Alllllllllright. So I promise to never procrastinate again! Here's some pictures I promised to make up for the days I didn't post any. Feels good to take a photodump. yalllll better appreciate these because they took forev to resize + upload on to this thing! i'm not even going to attempt to put them in chronological order. but here are some memories nonetheless :) .......

***NOTE: there are a bunch of spaces in between the pictures cause i tried to group them into clusters. Also, hold down CTRL and click the picture at the same time if you want it to open in a new tab. i know it can get pretty darn annoying since the pictures don't open in a new window.***

from our impromptu night beach trip:

missing you crazy kids! the princesses and Sal

"you're a tigaaah! YOU'RE A TIGAH!"

i LOVE whales oh so much! i was so stoked when i saw this at the 2nd floor of the lib. i texted jon and it turns out he's the one who drew it, hahaha. but the text is written by unknown

assembling our spinach burgers (by Dr. Prager, hahahaha) and them eating them. YUM!




where i spent my many days + nights, the print lab:
6+ hours of carving of linoleum

special poster

beginning of my production

during the first week of break, i took Sonich to get a haircut. his hair was ridiculously long, luscious and shiny.

my room at the Princess Castle. it was never clean

POUT!

a rude awakening. that was placed right outside of my room. wonder who did it? >:P

way to my heart is through my stomach. thanks babe! :0)

kings cup + SoCo + being everyone's mate = god damnit. that was a good night hahaha :0) i remember i was craving cereal and then daniel remembered that he left milk in his freezer. the whole complex had to move out by then so we had to break into his apt cause he didn't have his key. it turns out he forgot 2 handles, milk, chicken, and a bunch of frozen shit. hahaha

went hiking with the Guchster!
best hiking partner, EVER! lol, she redeemed herself from last time ;0)

helllllla tired but happy cause we were at the top of.....................

INSPIRATION POINT!
it was so lovely! pictures don't do the view justice cause it was simply gorgeous. i wanna do it again!

dinner with jon. this is the day i helped him move in to his new place! he make chicken alfredo and i used a target box for a table. we're high class :0)

UCSB's art department's annual undergraduate show. this year it was called "Das Ist Art"

i felt very honored+grateful to be picked to be in it. august and i were the only 2nd years. the rest were 3rd or 4th years. and angie was the only 1st year. ha-AAAY!

my piece for the show

close up of prints. edition of 10 but i only picked 8.

handmade boxes! (hand creased, hand cut, hand folded!) i actually sold one of these hahahaha. my first "sale"! i didn't want to sell any of them though. jon said he's gonna put all the money he makes from his art towards a tattoo--i wonder what i'm gonna invest in? lol.

my label thing. i felt pretty official lawl

i was cleaning out the papermaking lab and i found this tiny ass frog!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hate frogs but this one was kinda cute!!! it was the size of a freaken quarter ZOMG!!!!!!!

when i helped sobeck make a plaster mask. lol his face is all shiny from the vaseline. it was kinda gross hahaha. but fun! i had to put straws in his nose or else he couldn't breathe

car chats! him looking at me. me looking at him.

books books books. love making my own books.

first book i ever made by winging it :p

oh hay finals week at davidson library




ok i'm going to end this with a very special picture:

TACOS FROM LILLY'S IN SANTA BARBARA!
L to R: Cheek Taco, Pork Marinaded Taco, and Tounge Taco
never thought i would try such exotic things but it was fucking delicious. why didn't i know about Lilly's sooner? That is me on the left corner, dr0000ling. ZOMG i want some. i had the eye taco (!!!!OJOS!!!!) on the next visit and it was amazing.


i hope you enjoyed this post. until next time <3

Love,
Mel

meesh my boy very mochi

i promise not to make this all about jonathan. but i stumbled across these. and i'm gonna take a big photodump later on today. why am i always posting shit at 4 am?

too cheap to take $5 booth pictures at the zoo. so we took pics with his cam in the booth and i put em together in photoshop. hah

miss your face

wine, guac and SASS

can you handle the sass? yes, its kind of obnox how toatadorbs this is.

last night at Other Mel's thing. yumyum. i brought some guac but it's hiding behind other kinds of beauty


love,
Mel