House warming party

Had a housewarming party at my tiny apartment yesterday.
10 people in total.
Quite amazed that 10 people could actually sit in my apartment, I guess my apartment is not as small as I thought it was.

update on my face

So after 7 days, the huge acnes stop popping out and the ones that were already there stop growing and start disappearing..

after 12 days, my face is getting better, the scars are turning red ( previously brown ) and the scars are getting smaller..

after about 18 days now.. the scars are much smaller and other areas of the face are smooth.. see some small pimples coming out but it maybe because of my period

overally result : i'm very satisfied with Dr Lancer's products.. He wants me to return for more peeling session and microdermabrasion.. but i think this is enough for me.. I'm practically broke.. Good type of broke.. I mean a ticket back to Indonesia is $1100...

nothing

No interview invite from NYU .. :(
SIGH.. Okay.. live goes on..

Marshall USC had told me that they would get back to me next Friday on the decision.. That's about 2 weeks faster than the afore mentioned deadline. We'll see.. I kinda screwed up the interview since I didn't research much about SC's program...

In 3 weeks time I'm going back to Indonesia.. YAIIIIIIIIIIII.............. I haven't gone home in like 2 years plus.. My friends and family are missing me.. I'm actually going home for Chinese new year on February 18th.. So a day after I reach Jakarta, I'm flying out to Semarang, my grandparents' home town. Chinese always celebrate events by having a dinner with the whole family.. This will be exciting..

I'm also going to hold my late house(apartment) warming party at my tiny studio apartment here in LA this weekend.. I actually had moved in last year October but was so busy with the B-School application - giddy from the UCLA result, that I only have time to throw a party now..
When I was working on the guest lists.. I ended up with 20+ people.. And that is not going to fit my tiny apartment.. SO I had to cut down my list to less than 10 ppl.. HAH!

I'm going to have Indonesian food for the party.. ( Ordering in, I don't cook, and My friends don't trust me in cooking )... This will be fun.. Paris will be excited to see many people at my apartment.

As a result of my upcoming party, I have been checking out www.apartmenttherapy.com to seek inspirations to design/re-design my apartment.. My close friend is tired of my talks about changing the position of the furnitures/ hanging more stuff on the wall/ painting the kitchen brown...

Okay I think I've been talking all over the place tonight :)

Second Visit to Dr Lancer

So today I went in to Dr Lancer's office to have 'peeling'... ( $250 + tips )

So what they did was.. they put acid on my face so that in the next 14 days my face hopefully will peel ( on some rare cases, some ppl's skin won't peel ).. and by peeling some of the acnes will be brought up to the surface and even washed away by the peeling...

Cheers to 14 days of flaky skin, no-sun exposure and no-cardiovascular training...

RPK, my facialist, insisted on the importance of diet to prevent acne from coming out in the future Meaning :
NO :

• chocolate
• acidic fruits ( grape, oranges, grapefruit, tomato)
• chocolate
• alcohol
• dairy ( milk, ice cream )
• sushi and shell fish

More of the :

• leafy vegetables
• water
• chicken and fish

Anyway in one week, I have to return to see RPK to have facial.. In two weeks time, I need to have microdermabrasion ( No idea what it is.. but will let u know )

I'm back from My trip to dermatologist Dr Harold Lancer

And I spent $1000... Wiii..Shierley had gone there and got charged the same.. But she did say she saw another gal who was only paying $300.. so you never know.. But anyway.. $150 for seeing dr Lancer, $125 for my facial .. $315 for products, another $500 or so for pills and a cream

Well I'm up for a new beginning.. a brighter, clogged-free, pimple-free face.. I'll let you guys know how it goes..

Went there, had the derm checked my face.. he ordered me to have facial right on the spot to treat the big HUGE acnes on my forehead and the black heads on some other parts...
The facialist used something that looked like a needle to take out the black head and squeeze the acne out.. HURTS SO BAD.. but yup that's the way to do it..

Dr Lancer deemed that I need to return on Saturday for a facial. and in two weeks time I had to return for peeling...

I brought home 11 products ( 2 of them are 2 types of pills ) worth $700.. Okay I just want to share this because some other gals may want to try to go to Dr Lancer but is not sure how much it'll really cost.. so for those people :) hear me say... expensiveeeeeee.........

but i'll let you know in a month if it works or not

6/24

Hey that's not bad... I had failed miserably for 6 out of 24 new year's resolution..

See that's why you should always aim high, so you can fail just a little less high..

Lumba2: 2006 New Year's Resolution

Lumba2: 2006 New Year's Resolution

Omigod.. Has it really been a year???

Let's recap my 2006 New Year's resolution :

2006 New Year's Resolution

New Year Resolutions ( TO BE BROKEN SOON ENOUGH):
1. go to gymn every two days [Did it from January to June]
2. Eat healthy food (more veggie and fruit, drink milk, eat calcium) [YES YES YES]
3. Go surfing again this summer [NOPE]
4. Take paris for a walk ( must buy his shoes again) [Totally Did it.. I actually walked Paris twice a day now ]
5. Learn new skills (French/art/sport) [Checked, took French 1 with UCLA Extension ]
6. Go to Paris, France this year!! [NOPE]
7. Meet up with more people [You can say so ]
8. Go to Church... (failed to do that yesterday) [ Not regularly, less than 20 times in a year]
9. Write/text my friends overseas more often ( tat means Mareen Sasa Gigi Shierley NPS kacang tine lipola chang yien etc etc etc etc ) [ Did that, Texting, Emailing, Sending Cards ]
10. Be proficient in my job ( read more books, newspaper, Economist, Forbes) [ Failed Miserably ]
11. Read more books.. (novel, Da vinci code, harry potter) [ The Joys of Much Too Much, The lovely bone, currently reading Automatic Millionaire ]
12. Travel more in USA [ Mammoth for Snowboarding? East coasts with family in June ]
13. ROAD TRIP... ANYONE??? [ 5 hours road trip to mammoth ? ]
14. Save up more money [ Eat out much less, shop for clothes MUCH MORE ]
15. Less shopping (I am only allowed to shop once a month) although at the moment I feel like I have no clothes to wear) [Kinda... HAHAHA except for the year end sale ]
16. Go back Indonesia to see family n friends this year [ February 2007 ]
17. Paint more often [ FAILED MISERABLY ]
18. Take good care of my skin ( especially my face since I am getting old.. SHRIEKKKKKKKKKKK) [OMIGOD I was having a breakout.. SO scary .. it lasted for 3 weeks.. Going to dermatologist soon]
19. Go out at night more often (HAHAHAHAHA Erly's influence) [ HERM.. only after my gruesome b-u period]
20. Go to Yosemite this year, either hike or camp or go fishing [NOPE]
21. Go New York this year [YES YES YES]
22. Improve my memory! ( I am not sure how to do this: my boyfriend tells me to take up chess, my mom told me to eat more bananas, I should probably do Sudoku like Shierley) [KINDA...]
23. Come to work on time ( OHHH SO HARD... 8 am???) [ FAILEDDDDDDDD]
24. Be cleaner and more organized... [YES totally ]

Okayy at the end of the year.. let's see how many of these are accomplished :>