What is wrong with me? I couldn’t sleep properly again. I slept in and out of it until mom herself woke up at 1:30 pm. The next thing I knew, I woke up to the sound of my cell alarm- 7:30 am Toradora :Pre-Prarade. I forced myself out of bed and got ready for work. I didn’t hear the sound of raindrops but I remembered that Google forecast that it was going to rain so I picked out the warmest clothes and got ready to leave. My sister heard me and said “Drive carefully and slowly.” Before I left though, I went downstairs cleaned out my thermo cup and made myself tea for work.

“Ah thank god it’s not raining,” I thought as head for the 22-West on ramp. And it really wasn’t, just the roads were wet and slippery from the rain. Then I continue and drove to work on the freeway. All of the sudden I noticed a rainbow in front of me. It was a fantastic and marvelous view that I never really had a chance to see for the longest time. I think I paid more attention to that rainbow than the road when I was driving. As I drove a bit further another rainbow to the left of the first rainbow was spotted. At first I thought it was just me seeing things since I was concentrating too much on the rainbow but nope it was definitely another rainbow. Sweetness! But as I got closer to the exit ramp of Seal Beach, the rain started pouring and the rainbow disappeared. I wondered where the other end of the rainbow was and thought it would be nice if I could have seen the whole rainbow.

I reached the parking structure and found myself a parking space. I love how I am actually on the first floor of the parking structure but realize that is because the semester hasn’t started yet. I guess I should come early next week to get the first floor again…which I remembered I have to anyway since I have 8 o’clock classes to attend. *Laughs* So then I took my umbrella and headed to work at Brotman Hall:Financial Aids Office.

Once again, I was early…really early. Work doesn’t start until 9 o’clock but as always I left the house at 8 o’clock and got to school around 8:15-8:20. Its always like this, but I don’t really mind since I find myself preferring to be early or on time rather than being late. When I entered the building, I went to my co-worker/2nd supervisor for the schedule, had a small chat, and I went up to the window since I was “window 2/phone back up” from 9:00 – 11:00 am and browsed the internet because I had roughly 20 minutes before 9:00 am.

9:00 am! That was the time what showed up on the computer and the phones but my co-worker in charge of “window 1″ who was suppose to open up the window did not show up yet so I had to open instead. After helping the first couple of students, my co-worker came in and I let her take over the window, closed the blinds. and logged into the phones. Heck! Phone overload!! So many people are calling in today! Well figured because financial aid recently disbursed the financial aid for the Spring semester and Fall grades were finalized so many students are disqualified from financial aid due to unit limit (exceeding the required units for their major times by 150 percent) or not meeting satisfactory academic progress (completing 75% of attempted units). I also had to backup the window so I switched back and forth from window to phone and vice versa.

11:00 am – 12:00 pm, I was on the phone again, but this time I was on the phones only. Some of the students were giving me a hard time due to them being disqualified. One student gave me such a hard time that I was late to lunch for 8 minutes…but all is well…plus it sucks being disqualified especially if you really depend on financial aid.

I took my thermo cup and umbrella and walked out of the building for lunch. Since I was craving burger…Western Cheeseburger to be exact…so I heard for Carls Jr. at the Student Union. As I got near though….I found that the walk way to it and the whole Student Union was blocked off using those plastic yellow that says “CAUTION!” *Sigh* There goes my burger…. It seems the Student Union was closed because of the mega rain that we received…caused the place to flood…which was the reason behind our EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN on Wednesday and Thursday. Since it was still break, the only food place that was open was the Nugget so I went there for pizza. I finished the pizza within 15 minutes and walked back to work. I then went to see my “main” supervisor (“main” because she is the one in charge of Federal Work Study peer counselor but there is a real supervisor of financial aid office that I am also under) to clear up a student situation and went back to the windows.

1:00 – 3:00 pm. It is my turn to be “window 1.” Not so bad since there aren’t that much student, but also because I find myself liking the window more than the phones. More disqualification questions, disbursement questions, etc. But boy…unit limit disqualification kills me the most. “WHY!? WHY AM I DISQUALIFIED!? I DID NOT EXCEED MY UNIT LIMIT! MY MAJOR ALLOWS THIS XX AMOUNT OF UNITS!!” Matter of fact, this one male student “got into my face” regarding his unit limit disqualification. I felt dizzy as hell after I manage to stand my ground and send him in to see a counselor. I felt bad…but there wasn’t anything I could do for him other than to state the facts… and I understand that he is giving me a hard time because he really wants to get his situation cleared off…but no matter how hard he makes it…I can’t please him and say “Oh! It’s OKAY! EVERYTHING is OKAY! So don’t worry about it.” Its impossible to sugarcoat something as bitter as a bitter melon.

3:00 pm…it is my turn again on the phone but since I felt dizzy and tired, I went on a quick break and got back on the phones. The phones was still busy but it was dying down a bit. I remained on the phones until 4:00 and then head to the parking structure. On my way out, my “main” supervisor said “drive home safety” and I responded “thanks.” Was that a odd response?

I came home and ate two leftover slice of pizza that my sister ordered while I was at work and did the things I always do…browsing the internet, watching anime, reading blogs, and lazing around.

Ah, I couldn’t sleep throughout the night so I ended up sleeping in. When I woke up, it was raining again and I had nothing better to do so I ended up spending my day playing Kingdom Hearts 365/2. Though, in between the game I washed my clothes and prepared for work tomorrow.

Ah, I overslept again today until 11 o’clock. I can’t keep doing this next week since classes are going to start again; in addition to that, I registered myself for 8 o’clock class every Monday and Wednesday. I am actually looking forward to this coming semester and I really hope everything goes well. The only thing that is on the disappointing side is that the textbooks are so expensive!

After waking up, I checked my email and watched some anime and drama. The anime that currently grabs me a lot is Kimi ni Todoke; I am expecting a lot from this romance anime. As for drama, Stars falling from the sky has hit home; such a touching and comical Korean drama. I can’t wait to see how things develop between Pal Jin Kang and Lawyer Won. In addition to that, the children that are acting in this drama is completely adorable and professional acting! Another drama is Code Blue II where Yamashita Tomohisa is back for another round of being a doctor. Go go Yampi!

I went downstairs around 1 o’clock looking for food and it seems sister bought Mc Muffins this morning after she took her daughter to school. Yum. I haven’t had a chance to eat these in the longest time. I realized that my eating habits have been horrible…not eating properly. That should change tomorrow!

Ah, its pouring again. When will it end? It looks so gloomy outside to the point I do not bother opening the blinds. In addition to that, my campus had a emergency shutdown to the over pouring and flooding. Seems campus won’t be opening the whole day tomorrow. It sucks how most winter intersession is still probably going on but got canceled. I really hope it doesn’t pour on Friday since that is when I go to work.

I am so tempted to make a linking banner for Michael’s blog but he said “don’t tell anyone.” =[ I’ll probably just make one for fun…

I mega-overslept today and woke up from the hard rain. Without anything to do, I browsed Facebook and saw friends posting news about a tornado warning that was suppose to hit around my area. It seems it did hit, but not where I was; the tornado hit Huntington Beach and somewhere else. Thanks to the rain I am stuck inside the house even though I want to go to the bookstore and get some instructional books to review Vietnamese. Maybe I should have just gone, but I don’t feel like going out in such a weather…cold and wet. I spent the rest of the day browsing the internet and watching whatever new anime or drama came out.

Sister went and picked up her daughter from her school, but it seems she went to Target before coming home so she brought some surprise home. She has finally bought her two son a mini helicopter that he has been begging for. The look on his face when he played it was just too cute, but of course a two year old kid can’t properly fly the helicopter yet. I hope the helicopter will last awhile, despite all the crashes that occurred so far. And despite my brother-in-law’s opposition of getting the helicopter for his son, I think he is happy that there is someone in the house that has the same hobby as himself. Just watch, when my nephew grows older I think my brother-in-law and my nephew will be spending their time flying those 1k+ helicopters together.

Another song from Gackt! =]

January 13, 2010 – January 18, 2010

During these time periods I got addicted to my DS and ended up playing in all day in bed, while mom watches movies and play games on her new laptop. Then occasionally, my sister would drive us out to the supermarket for food. After awhile, my sister’s toothache became worst and she ended up going to the dentist even though she hates them the most, which I too feel the same.

Other than that, nothing much really occurred. Oh, that isn’t true… I added a friend on Facebook and he ended up msning me; we had a pretty nice chat. The next day, I found out one of my younger cousin in Vietnam class standing drop because of “love.” When I heard that, I was pretty disappointed. What makes it even worst is that he told his mother that he would continue with his studies if she bought him a laptop. His mother ended up borrowing money from others to buy him a used one…but I think he is only saying that since he wants a laptop so he could chat with his “girlfriend,” which was founded to be true after few days of owning the laptop. *Sigh* I wish he could get back on track since out of all my cousin…he was the most studious…a person with good things ahead of him if he just continue to study.