First things first, HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!!!

Today was a very lovely day. I'm just bubbling with happiness and holiday spirit and joy and all that jazz. Thanks to all my wonderful friends who made this such an awesome day. I haven't felt this happy in such a long time!

But at the same time.. in my annoyingly Victorian way, it's slightly depressing. But more on that later. First, a synopsis of the day!

Woke up an HOUR LATER than normal... which was SO NICE. Just having the sky be light already when you wake me is so refreshing. I felt like the world was alive with me, that I wasn't a solitary person creeping through quiet streets disturbing dreams and sweet slumber. There were actually other garages open and other people getting ready to leave, little girls with their backpacks, men in suits, old people walking their dogs. It was amazing.
The only downside to the early morning sojourn of this particular More than 150 cars (I'm estimating) stuck there for a ridiculous amount of time, stopping one by one at the flashing red light, and hesitating and arguing over who's right of way it is next.

Yet all that was erased completely from my mind as I walked into English. We spent the period camera-whoring and eating (which pretty much sums up the whole day). Blogger is really losing out on Facebook in that pictures are SO tedious and difficult to load on here. Pictures would totally aid this narration. Since I have like 300 of today... I shall just upload a few interesting/significant ones.

It's Mr. Sawaya!!! Wearing the hat that Prem made him wear because he's a terrible person. He's SO NICE. He's just like... a kind person. Truly kind. And I love his artistic taste. :)

Matthew's mother is the best baker ever, by the way, if you didn't know already.

Yogin gave me his present!!!!!! A Barack Obama calendar. First step of my conversion process. Mwahahaha. He WILL support Obama instead of Hillary! And a keychain with a penguin, whom we have to name by the way. Poofy's sibling!! And... my favourite bit... a little porcelain figurine of a bear with newspapers. It's a journalist bear!!! His name is now Jude! :)

DICKEY!!!!! We stood here for like... 5 minutes literally, just taking photos. It started off with just Vicky and me. And then Prem and Joseph wanted to join. And with every click of the camera, more people ran into the picture, until it became a class photo. Dickey so popular!! (Imagine Asian fob voice there!) But the poor man was sick today. :(

I need our jumping pictures from Vicky... wait till she gets on facebook. I was so excited and happy today when I gave Vicky Ge her present. I've never seen anyone that happy to get a present. Calvin & Hobbes for the win! :) She's so precious.

Whee! Kayla! Me! Amy! Amy decided that she just HAD to braid my hair during English... and then Yogin added his Santa hat later to complete my attire. I look straight out of a Chinese village.

After physics, during which we TOOK NOTES (GRAH), it was time to fully embarrass ourselves!!! :) I can't believe Crystal actually got a picture of this, even though she supposedly had no clue this was us when she took it! I didn't fall!!!! And I kinda remembered the steps! Mostly! Kinda! It went a lot faster than in practice. I was like, "WHOAA WHAT ARE WE DOING NOW? AHHHHH!!" But, it was fun. I was happy. :) So strange though... there were so many old seniors (from last year) sitting in the senior section of the gym and while I was sitting on the floor waiting for the Elf Dance, I was just browsing through their faces, and for a few moments I totally forgot that I was the senior doing the Elf Dance. It seemed just like they were all still here. I can't be almost 18. It's just not possible.

It's Castillo Brown!!! The rally wasn't very... spirited this year, I guess, but they tried really hard! And it was a cute idea.

Then after that, the girls decided to take a photo! I LOVE ALISON AND VICKI'S COSTUMES!! And I love Jen's nose. :) Andy was here with Irene and Meghan as well, and Steph and Crystal turned up too. I miss them so much, but I'm pretty happy to say that while they are so wonderful and missed, I love my friends that are still with me, and they make each and every day more than just bearable. They make me love it, even if I fall asleep in physics and fail calculus and stay up at night. I guess I shall be very cliche and trite when I say that whenever one door closes another one opens. No one could replace people like Kathleen, Andy, Winston, David Lau, Amity, etc, but that just makes me appreciate Vicki, Yogin, Royston, Shayne, Sarah, Alison, Jen, Kristina, etc even more. I love you guys!!

Calculus just does not deserve mentioning. Test. Unannounced, unplanned test... after the test yesterday... because MR. KNOX SCREWED UP. GRAH. MORE FAILING.

Spanish was fun. I love this picture with Danielle, my future roommate and fellow McFly/football lover!

Gave Matthew his last present as Secret Santa: a glow-in-the-dark football that he immediately began terrorizing the campus with, and a "ticket" to the UEFA Cup Final (that Everton won't make, by the way). Yesterday, I gave him (thanks to Shayne's generosity) photos of Mikel Arteta and the Everton crest, which basically TOLD HIM that I was his Secret Santa, plus my hint, "Soy una persona que nunca anda sola" (You'll never walk alone--Liverpool). His head snapped up so quickly when he saw it and he just started laughing. So then afterwards, he was like, "I demand that my present tomorrow be tickets to the UEFA Cup Final!" Obviously, I couldnt' actually get him tickets, because first of all, Everton aren't even in it (as of yet, and I have decided that they won't be in it at all), and secondly, it's probably 5000 pounds or something. So today, I "made" him a ticket... it was pretty bad, but hey I tried!

Lunch was AWESOME, one of the two best parts of the day. Took LOADS of photos... hehe mostly of me terrorizing other people!!

I loved lunch today because it was so nice... and beautiful to see people talking, laughing, photographing, doing idiotic things, and just... enjoying each other's company rather than studying, doing homework, begging for hints on next period's test from someone's who has already taken it, or stressing. I love days like this.

Alison Ozaki!!!! I love this picture. So cute! And it's BLESSED BY THE DIVINE LIGHT! DO YOU SEE THE LIGHT ABOVE OUR HEADS?? It's... JESUS!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!! ALMOST-SORTA PUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *PUN DANCE* PUN!!! PUN!!! PUN!!!!

Okay. So.. we're celebrating CHRISTmas. And we're being blessed by CHRIST. AHA. AHA. HAH! Alright moving on... but I still say it's the divine light pointing out to all of you commoners that WE ARE ANGELS! MWAHAHA!

MY REIGN OF TERROR BEGINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elaine: I AM THE SCARY MONSTER FROM "PAN'S LABYRINTH"! I AM COMING TO EAT YOU!!!!!

Shayne: ... I am going to stare at you like you are an idiot, which you are, by the way. Why do I even know you?

Michael Yang: I HAVE THE SCARIEST SMILE EVER. I AM POSSESSED.

I think this picture is just like... the epitome of our relationship. I WILL WIN THIS WAR DAVID LEE!!! And on that note, thank you Shayne, by the way, for the wonderful present that will serve as a primary weapon in my OFFENSIVE STRIKE THAT WILL END DAVID LEE ONCE AND FOR ALL.

(Shayne got me a 365-day calendar of Shakespearean insults, to aid me in my most eloquent word wars with David... I think we have dredged up THE most synonyms for the word "prostitute" in the world.)

DIE DAVID. DIE!!! :)

SHAYNE IS SMILING!! TIS A MIRACLE! This is the first of many smiling pictures, but I'm only posting one because it's taking forever!

Hahahahhah his eyes are closed because he's CHORTLING with laughter! CHORTLE! Always reminds me of a teapot. I'M A LITTLE TEAPOT SHORT AND STOUT! HERE IS MY HANDLE. HERE IS MY SPOUT.

Wow. What I wouldnt' give to see/hear Shayne sing that.
I don't know what I'm doing.. Hiding? Sneaking into the picture?

Shayne--you would totally look Asian upside down in this picture!!!!

I just like this picture for how natural it is. It kinda captures everyone's personality. I'm looking very hyper. Norman's staring intently. Michael just looks strange, and Shayne is gesticulating wildly with his hands, which he tends to do when he gets rather excited about what he's speaking about. Not as bad as Sayak though. Haha. I don't think anyone's that bad.

Hahahaha poor Alison!!! Norman is crazy. I LOVE THE MISTLETOE OUTFIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

I have decided that Alison is abused because of her height. Cue: Vicky and Elaine scream, "ALISON ABUSE!!!!!" at the top of their lungs

People pick her up randomly, twirl her around, bite her head (as Norman is doing), use her as an arm rest, mock her verbally, and just... ABUSE HER!!! (I am so eloquent). She's so cute though! :D

OLD PEOPLE!!!!!!! Oracle was too short today!!! I only got to say hi to people, not actually talk to them, but it was really nice to see them again!!! Sheena's facial expression is very odd here...

Aww I miss David Lau... I miss reading dimensions to him in fobby voice!

Oh how I miss my editor. Oh how the Oracle misses its opinion editor. Winston is just so... perfect. *sigh* Too heavy a burden to live up to. That's why I went from opinion to chief. Chirag is much easier to live up to. :D

In the middle of memory lane, Royston came to collect me, so he could give me the sweetest present!! He taught himself "Too Close For Comfort", which, for all of you who somehow STILL do not know this, is my favourite McFly song, and one of my favourite songs ever. He played it and sang it, and though he is not Danny, it was AMAZING!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH ROYSTON! IT WAS SO NICE!!! *HUG*

Speaking of hugs!

I loved it!! Even if he's too skinny to hug!!! :-P

Gain some weight! ALL OF YOU BOYS OUT THERE!!!

After school, Kathleen, Yogin, and I went off to Starbucks/Chipotle and terrorized the complex!

While Kathleen was getting food, Yogin and I started playing with the camera. Bad thing. Trust me.

Scariest photos ever.

Aww whee :)

And then.... Kathleen came back... and we decided... to jump. I shall spare you the horrid attempts that we made and just get to the one where we FINALLY succeeded.

Yay! We look so cool!!!!!

WHEW. FINALLY DONE. GAH. This is why Facebook is taking over the world. It took me exactly 2.5 hours to upload all those pictures onto here. It took me 5 minutes (and that 5 minutes was spent WAITING and not actually doing anything) to load 60 photos onto facebook. GRR.

GRRR. AND THEN, when I actually POST THIS, it doesn't take the same format as it does here, which I PERFECTLY ARRANGED AND FAUNED OVER. GRAH.