YAY~

For those of you who know me well... you know I'm an international student and have been worrying about getting a job that would sponsor my work visa. I've been worrying about this all through college and especially the last year and a half in grad school.
BUTTTT now those worries are OVER!!
Last week I had my final interviews and yesterday I got a final offer from the company I've been interning!! I'll be starting my new job Feburary 5th. They will not only sponsor my H1-B work visa (and pay the $4000-5000 fee) but they offered me a higher salary because I was an intern and have a masters (even though I'm not finished with my degree yet)! yay~ Yesterday was officially the best day ever!!

wow time goes by so fast.. half of this year has gone by already! 2006 has been a great year so far and i thought this would be a good time to look back. so what better then to look back through pictures!

to start.. december 31, 2005. i spent with my girls in korea.

mlk weekend - my best friends from college came to visit me =)
went to Disneyland, santa monica, prive... lots of great memories

then the weekend after that, my best unni came to visit! lots of shopping, eating and good times.

went to San Diego for one weekend.

my best friend from high school got married!!
went to Las Vegas for her bachorlette party (crazy times)

and then her wedding.. was absolutely beautiful!

SPRING BREAK - definitely a highlight in my 2006. South Beach and Key West.. a whole week of the beach, mojitos, water sports... unforgettable memories with the best crew. BDA forever!!!

after we got back.. some of us weren't ready to face reality. so we ditched class and went to Six Flags!

then came casa banquet..

also went down to san diego again and went to the san diego zoo. you can't see but there's a giraffe (my favorite) behind us.

and now summer.. i have a lot of great plans as you can see below but I MISS EVERYONE!! hope u all are having a great summer!!
(and to be continued with pictures from palm springs)

Summer Plans!! yay~ so excited

(may 18 - june 27  summer class and work.. boo)

memorial day weekend = PALM SPRINGS!
june 17-18 = san diego. sea world & wild park
june 19 = snow patrol concert
june 22 = allan and my birthday!! =)
june 23-25 = Las Vegas for birthday weekend ^^

july 1 = camping trip
forth of july = cruise to Catalina Island!!
first week of july = KOREA. kristy and dori go home =)
july = Hong Kong. tim, marc and i go visit jenny!
july = jenny, tim, marc visit me in Korea!

first week of august = back to LA
second week of august = Seattle. visit my bestie
mid august = back to school and work

wow.. This week seems to be hell for everyone.

Thanks to my own damn procrastination, in the last four days i have slept less than 2-3 hours/day, survived off of drinking an average of 3-4 redbulls/day, and have been stressing out like madness. But I've managed to pull a 20 page paper on Target's advertising campaign out of my ass, give a stupid presentation, and write another 52 page research paper. yeah.. 52 pages. I think I'm gonna die now and my eyes are about to pop out of my head... but in three hours I have to give another stupid presentation. i'm most bummed out cause i can't join in BDA's "hell to school and stress" fun. =(

oh but getting to see giraffes this past weekend was totally worth all this stress.

but something i read on Mike Woo's page just cheered me up a lil.. and i think this is what everyone need right now =)

My Cup of Coffee
   
 A group of alumni, highly established in their
careers, visited their old university professor.
Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress
in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the
professor went to the kitchen and returned with a
large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups -
porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain
looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them
to help themselves to hot coffee.
  
  When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand,
the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice
looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind
the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for
you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the
source of your problems and stress.
  
  What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the
cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and
were eyeing comparing, perhaps jealously, with each
other's cups.
  
  Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and
position in society are the cups.  They are just tools
to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life
doesn't change. Some times, by concentrating only on
the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.
   
  So, don't let the cups deceive you. enjoy the
coffee instead!