January 10th, 2011 — Day 10 of 365

Happy Birthday, Chris Nicolas! (@christerr). After embarrassing myself online with that video of the Marshmallow jacket, you’re forcing me to do another one (which I plan to make after I study.) Aside from that, today was the first day of the 2nd semester. It was overall pretty chill, although it seemed a little strange seeing faces I haven’t seen since the end of last semester. Dustin Nguyen’s haircut. Oh my god.

Afterwards, I treated the birthday boy to some Carne Asada fries and got a ride home from @janetislame and the rest of the kids. I knocked out right when I got home and woke up 6 hours later. Good day.

January 9th, 2011 — Day 9 of 365

Went to the first confirmation class of the New Year. I came in about an hour late, but it’s all good. Familiar faces I haven’t seen since early December, and talked to Lizette for a bit.

Went to Mass after, and just bummed it out the rest of the day.

January 8th, 2011 — Day 8 of 365

Woke up late and missed Janet’s kickback for quality time with the Family.

Watched Lakeview Terrace and Forrest Gump, pretty much bummed it out today.

January 7th, 2011 — Day 7 of 365

Today I woke up at around 3PM and found I had missed a call from @gotsean. I quickly called him back and found out he and @christerr were in the area and wanted to hang out. Seeing as how I’ve done nothing productive these past two days, I thought “Sure, what the hell.”

Quick shower, slipped on some jeans, and soon enough they were outside my window waiting for me. We were biking to his house, and unfortunately for me, I had no bike to use. I ended up taking my extremely ghetto scooter (which I still need to get back from his place one of these days) and slowly made our way to his house. On the way, we met Bree (?) and @justinedee and got some grub.

The moment we arrived, we quickly found half the guests already there leaving. Bummer, right? Nah. I took a shot and before I knew out, I was gone. Yes, I know, I’m a lightweight drinker.

I can scarcely remember what went on the rest of the night, but the pictures seemed to show I was having a pretty good time. I sobered up, had some talks with @aybaybayitslouie and @gotsean, went home, and found this dark brown hickey on my neck. Good god.

This may pretty much be the last eventful night of the Winter Break. Cheers.

January 6th, 2011 — Day 6 of 365

I’ve done completely nothing productive today. Oh, I got a pimple on my lip though.

January 5th, 2011 — Day 5 of 365.

I woke up at 4PM like always. No food, like always. @heyxian came over though, gave me some kind of entertainment to an otherwise average day.

Oh, I made a pretty good cover video (above) but the recording stopped before I could finish. Whoop de doooooo

I don’t know, my days are getting boring.

January 4th, 2011 — Day 4 of 365

So, I woke up at 4PM today. Horrible, I know. The house was completely stripped of food. I went to sleep eating with no meal in my stomach whatsoever.

The rest of the night, I spent the day webcamming with this bitch up there until we both knocked out. My day was pretty uneventful, but the splitting headache I had was enough to make it far from “Good.”

January 3rd, 2011 — Day 3 of 365

Today, I made my first dance video of 2011. I don’t think I’ve improved at all since the last. In fact, I think I’ve gotten worse. I can’t bring myself to finish watching this video because I know I can do better, but I will continue to leave it public so that I may one day see it and see how much I’ve progressed. I’m not satisfied with my progress one bit, two and 3/4 years of dancing and I’ve only gone this far. It’s hard to swallow, but the fact that I’m progressing slow hurts me.

Progress. I was never one to think negatively of it. I always look forward to the day I become the skillful artist I wish to become, but the journey is tough. I have so many ways to interpret a song through movement, but my body and mind do not cooperate.

People praise me for my skill, when this “skill” I have is not even close to some of the people I’ve witnessed. People think I’m confident with my dancing, but I’ll tell you it’s my weakest point.

If there’s anything to be self-conscious about, it’s my dancing. I fear criticism. I know it builds your progress, but I fear it. I know for a fact I want to go somewhere with dance, but in my eyes I am nowhere near as good as those around me. My progress is painstakingly slow, and although it is my passion, sometimes I get too frustrated with myself. Way too frustrated.

Frustration, that’s what I’m feeling right now. Frustration because I dissapoint myself. Not only in dance, but my work ethic in general. At some points, I just feel like stopping but I know if I work hard enough I’ll be able to reach my goals.

@jescyaface said in a post that claiming yourself as a “Dancer” means you have to have the ability to captivate your audience with your skill. You have to be good at what you do.

I’m nowhere close to captivating the masses, but I know things like this take progress. I’m not born gifted like others, so life is forcing me to give twice the effort, twice the blood, sweat, and tears, and twice the dedication.

2011 Self-Goal #1: Never. Stop. Dancing.

January 2nd, 2011 — Day 2 of 365

Woke up at around noon time today, expecting to grab a quick bite to eat and be on my way home from Vegas. Turns out my parents wanted to gamble a bit more after Lunch. They said they’d be done after a few minutes, but it turned in to about two hours. I gave up on the wait and just decided to walk to strip.

Stopped by the Forum shops first. Tried on a Blazer in the ENORMOUS H&M, only to realize it was from the girl’s section and that it fit me way too tight.

Went over to Miracle Mile down at Planet Hollywood and shopped a bit more. After completely giving up on the mall’s merchandise, I found this AA-type hoodie in Journeys. IT WAS SO SOFT AND AMAZING. AHH. SO MUCH BETTER THAN AMERICAN APPAREL!

After Miracle Mile, I’d thought I’d head over to Fashion Show to buy a Leather backpack like @aristen’s brother got yesterday. On the way there, I dropped a couple bucks in this homeless guitarist’s case. He was actually extremely good. It’s a shame talent like that goes unrecognized.

So, I arrive at Fashion Show and buy the backpack. My phone was seconds from dying, so I decided to head over to the Apple Store to charge it while Tumblr-ing. As I’m checking out my Tumblr, these two girls pass by me and make eye contact. Quick glances, no biggie right? Wrong.

I head out of the Apple Store and notice them again. I make my way to the Escalators and one of them comes from behind and taps me on the shoulder. Not to be conceited or anything, but I figured it was some Tumblr follower that recognized me and wanted to say Hello. I end up hearing “I like your backpack, where did you get it?”

Being me, I told them were I got it and went my own way up the escalator. As I walked towards the exit, I spot them walking at my pace on the floor below. I end up seeing them at Forever 21 and I try not to make it obvious that I’m looking.

I pretty much got the hint by now that they actually might be some random followers or something, so I decided to sit at a couch and just wait for them to approach. Soon enough I see them just standing there shyly making their way closer, and it took them so long I just approached them myself.

I got a better view of one of the girls, she was actually pretty cute. Turns out she wasn’t a follower, but we ended up exchanging numbers and such.

After that fiasco, I made my way back to Harrah’s and figured out that the snow that fell in California is making our drive home a hazard. So we booked another room, and am now staying for one last night in Vegas.

Luckily, my sister was still in town as well. I went over to Bally’s at around 11 PM and hung out with her until 4 AM. I had the best and most enormous nachos I’ve ever seen in my life.

[insert picture of nachos]

And here’s the Hoodie and Bag I bought.

If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you’re looking back at an eventful year. To the person I am in the future, I hope you’ve grown to become something the me of January 1st will be proud of.

As you prepare for 2012, I hope you look through your day-to-day experiences and smile a bit on how much things have changed. For better, or worse, I want you to have a self-reflection on everything that has occurred this year and understand that you’ve grown stronger because of it.

New Year’s Eve:

I had a whole-day friend date with @jaybeeezy around the strip.

Welcome to Day 1 of 365.

January 1st, 2011 — Part 1 of 2.

It’s 2:54 AM, and I’m currently sitting in Harrah’s Hotel Room 1429 in Las Vegas. The music from the club below is bumping “Teach me how to Dougie.” Oh my god, I wonder what kind of dance crazes will come up next this year.

As I’m typing, there’s a House episode showing on the TV. I haven’t been really paying attention but as far as I know, House acted gay so he can sex up a chick or something. I don’t know.

The picture above is a shot taken by me seconds after the count down. It was freezing cold. Mom, Kyle, Auntie Chona, and her siblings came with us to the strip to celebrate. It was pretty wild. I was totally barred from hanging with @lizetteangeli in her Paris Hotel Room though, which totally bummed me out. I’d be chilling with her right now. Oh well.

January 1st, 2011 — Part 2 of 2

[insert picture of @aristen and I on the strip, which she hasn’t sent me.]

I woke up at 2 PM after a long night awake. Picked up Kyle and went down to Miracle Mile to shop and meet @aristen and her brother. The day involved getting to know one another and comparing the differences in the vibes of NorCal vs SoCal. Overall, it was a pretty fun day. Aristen is one of the few tumblrheads I think are actually really friendly. No awkwardness was felt throughout the day, which is a complete milestone for someone like myself with awkward, intimidated followers. Oh, also, I got prank called by @gotsean and Shenica today. Really got me, thinking I got free Nike SB’s for the rest of 2011. Bitches.

NorCal better be as welcoming as she said it was, I’m coming up to meet all of you NorCal heads towards the end of 2011!