Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

It's been months since I came back from my amah-zing trip from Europe, and I still miss it everyday. I enjoyed eating, wandering, and am now thinking of doing a backpack trip alone. After going with a friend, I realized I could do this alone, as long as I carefully planned everything. Plus the hotels I stayed at were all friendly and in close vicinity to all the major tour spots. In the future, I hope to visit more museums (I am a huge history-nerd although never ask for information, my memory is horrible), locations, and just soak in the beauty more and relax!


My museum visits started at an early age. My mother was a huge advocate for museums and galleries, so we'd visit all the visiting exhibitions near our town. While my mother insisted on me reading all the details in the display note describing the artwork, I preferred staring at the pieces and imitating the ones I found hilarious. Now, I've grown to enjoy learning more about the artwork while still humoring myself by posing my favorite ones.

Friend and I imitating the statues in the Statue Room

The same occurred at the Louvre walking into the Statue Room. Walking in there was like being Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice(2005) film, where she visited the statue room of Mr. Darcy's Pemberley home. Call me crazy, but I heard 'The Living Sculptures of Pemberley' as I walked around. I was Elizabeth, but without the Darcy scupture. It ended soon once the quirky side of my came out and wanted to pose as some statues. So here is one of my favorite, enjoy!



As Charles Caleb Colton said, 'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery'.

Girls Season 2

Should be working on my essay, but I found the new trailer for Girls Season 2. Now I just need to wait until my friend Suehee finishes watching Season 1 so I can talk about that and about this trailer. 

On the other hand, Walking Dead. It's getting more grotesque and thrilling! If Glenn or Darryl ever die, that'll be the end of my interest towards the show. 

Money

What if money was no object? What would you do?

While watching this video I found via Swissmiss (one of my favorite go-to for random information), I thought what I would do. I'm going towards the path of becoming an educator, but if I truly were to do something with no regards towards financial issues, I would choose to go into the woods, live in a small quaint cottage with a small vegetable garden,  have a horse, cat, dog. I would drink tea daily while reading, learn to cook, paint, run, swim (assuming I have a lake nearby), and create things. I don't know what these things are, but I find it fascinating when I learn someone created something extraordinary from something plain. Just adding the little detail makes a whole lot of difference.

It was a wonderful 3 minutes of daydreaming in my head. Now I am going back to editing my essays woot!

Booty Booty Booty Rocking Errwhere!

Just recently came back from a wonderful 25 day trip around Europe! My eyes had a feast viewing the beautiful architectures and scenery that is completely different from the view here in America. Pictures will be up later...but for now :)

I purchased a pair of Clarks! I've been eyeing these boots for the longest time, and once I was in Europe I saw them in all the boutiques in Italy, and Clarks. Calculating the cost, I realized it would be cheaper so I waited. Currently still trying to break into them, but I love love them.

Here I am sitting on the Kirkland port with my mismatched socks and Clarks desert boots! Excited for the many other years I will have wearing these beauts :)

Olympics anyone?

It's the last week of London Olympics 2012! If I had all the time in the world, I'd watch everyone of them, but I only managed to watch soccer, or football, and a bit of other sports but mainly SOCCER! Ever since I actually witnessed my first World Cup game in Korea 2002, my interest in soccer peaked to the top. I was never the same haaaaa.

I've been avidly watching the Korean soccer games lately and they will be battling for bronze against Japan tomorrow. One of the few reasons I keep a tab on the soccer games is because I'm crushing major on one of the soccer players. Not going to lie, tall soccer players are one of my many kryptonites!  I was a bit disappointed to find out USA didn't get their team in the bracket but hopefully we'll be there for the World Cup in Brazil woot. At least the girls made it :). I'm so nervous for tomorrow's match I can't stop thinking about it! Either way, I know it'll be a nerve wrecking yet interesting game!

Once upon a time, I had a little but big crush on this boy who sat next to me in fourth grade. He and I always made fun of and chased each other. Slowly, despite all the tricks and chases, I somehow fell for his devilish self and enjoyed every little interaction I encountered with him. One day my fourth grade teacher asked the class to write on a piece of paper the name of our crush and best friend. Little naive me wrote down my sincere answers, and found out that the following year the paper meant to separate us. And that was the last time we teased each other. Fast forward a little over ten years and one week,  I found out my crush from fourth grade won bronze in the Olympics! It was a shock to see his face and name on my screen as I was watching the replays. My jaw figuratively(heh heh) dropped to the floor as my mind was processing what I was seeing. I knew it was him because we kept in contact until four years ago and he talked about judo. At the time, I joked that I'd be keeping an eye on him for the Olympics but who knew?! I couldn't be more proud of him congrats!

One month till I leave for my europe trip :) I'm so excited eeeeeeeeeeeek! I'm still trying to figure out what clothes to take. But hopefully I'll find some excuse to wear this lovely dress I bought from anthro on my birthday tee hee.

I love the water effects on the dress along with the the swirl it gives when I twirl! Shanks anthro once again for a lovely piece!

always,

annie

Come Clean, Leave Colorful!

Happy Mother's Day (yesterday) to all mothers in the world!

Yesterday, my friend C, her boyfriend M, and I attended the Color Run near the Space Needle. We've been waiting anxiously for this date ever since we signed up for it. Tickets ran out within 5 hours, so it's a good thing we signed up right when it opened. C and I were especially excited to dress up. I was thinking of Quailman from Doug, with a cape, and underwear on top of our pants, but in the end the cape was the only thing that passed.

Once we arrived at the Seattle Center, all you could see were people in white shirts. Some runners wore adorable tutus, some with white wigs, and one lady had a white umbrella draped with sheets like a jellyfish. The energy just in Seattle Center was lively and splashy! Everything was perfect, especially the weather thank goodness. In a rainy city like Seattle, our luck turned around!

My friend and I as superheroes, ready to dominate the run. I heard one or two runners say 'I should've worn a cape too'. Yessssssssssssss. There were many tutus but few capes. High-Five C!


After each 1k, there was a powder station where one would intentionally get themselves colored. At first I forgot about the dust and inhaled some in, which resulted in gargling with water once I left the station. I accidentally lost my friends after we went through the green powder section (line was ridiculous towards the end), so I walked and ran around like a lost superhero till the finish line, where I reunited with them yay! Once we arrived at the finish line, we opened our color pouches and traded colors with other people, by splashing one another with the powder.

M threw a huge chunk of the powder at my face without warning, okay he actually did but I failed to pay attention, so I accidentally swallowed some and my eyes caught some too. Thanks to him, I looked like I came out of Avatar, which grabbed a lot of attention. The orange splash I received from a trader helped add the details. Oh, and you can see my contact lense on my left eye.

via Facebook

A picture of the crowd throwing powder, which my friend found on facebook. Unfortunately, I don't have my own because we were inside that crowd throwing our powder.That blue section might be me who knows? I wish I could say I took a picture, but once the MC said 1, all I could see was blue dust from the bag I threw. I had to hold my breath for a while, thank goodness for my swimming practices which helped me with this. It was as if we were being attacked by a colorful harmless smog.


Overall, I had so much fun! It was my first run ever, and I wish I prepared myself more as I planned on, because my whole body ached this morning. The hot bath from this morning helped, but I am not as physically fit as I would like to be . But I plan on running a zombie one this October, so hopefully, I'll be more diligent in my running by then. Here are more pictures from the run that I took and instagrammed to look like pro-work.

I'd have to say, it's one of my more cherishable May memories I'll remember in the long run. The wash afterwards was gruesome, especially my hair but it was all worth it. I can't wait for next year to come so I can do it again. 

Sincerely,

Annie

Glasses on my shirt!

I don't know if anyone's heard of 'pants on the ground, pants on the ground looking like a fool with your pants on the ground' from American Idol a few seasons ago, but that chant was what I was thinking of when thinking of my title. Oh the good years in college with K and C....We sang this song nonstop when we first heard of it.

So here's the link to that wonderful song, via Youtube haha!

A couple weeks ago, I visited Moksha, which I believe is a local boutique, and found this quirky beige t shirt with mustaches all over it. I think there were spectacles too, but after much debate going on in my head, okay it was actually two minutes, I decided to just buy an adorable skirt instead. But I now I wish I was bold enough to buy that shirt, so I'm planning on visiting this week again to see if it's still there.

Madewell currently has a shirt similar to the mustache one I discovered, but with spectacles! It looks so cool, all I can think about is wearing it with an awesome pair of sunglasses and singing 'glasses on my shirt! glasses on my shirt! acting like a fool with glasses on my shirt!'

via Madewell

Having these kind of printed shirts are cool, but ever thought of actually wearing mustaches?
Cool doodle sire. Bravo!

Sincerely,

Annie