Happy Birthday To Me (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

i am now officially 20 years old (o´ω｀o)

honestly, i feel like it's amazing personally that i've made it to this age. i never thought i would actually make it to 20, honestly.. i survived life this far. i feel old, but at the same time i am aware i am still very young. i feel like it's time for me to go really be a person or something, it's time to take on life in a different mindset in sense? i don't know, but i have more of a looking forward to life feeling than i did during my teens. of course me, i celebrate my birthday not just on the 8th, but the entire month of February... because i am a princess to my family LOLOL really though, i love my birthmonth, it's a short month except every 4 years & yeah it's just nice, i feel special this month. at this age, i've come to realize who i truly feel like are my friends & who were people i just hung out with to kill time, i realize that no matter what i do this life, my family will always love me & finally that life goes by really fast, it feels like yesterday i had just turned 10.. it's time to live my life this year being 20, because i am only this age once~

Garlic & Chives

Garlic & Chives - Garden Grove, OC

so i didn't know till today when my parents asked to have brunch with me but this new restaurant opened up in garden grove called Garlic&Chives, it's a very casual vietnamese shop. my parents haven't eaten here prior to this time with me either, so we had no idea what to order really.. the menu is a bit could look better.. is how i will state it, but the food from the other options sounded interesting to try, they pretty much had all the basic vietnamese foods they most vietnamese restaurants have. we got: lamb, salmon belly, corn, shaken beef, sausage&eggs on sweet rice, crab & garlic noodles. the lamb was really good, that was probably my favorite item. everything else was good, but not like amazing wow, it felt like any other vietnamese dish is how the other items tasted, which isn't bad. it was also all really cheap everything is under $20, most items are about like $7. would i go back? for the lamb & to try other things, probably. presentation on the food was good too & i also liked my soda chanh (soda lemonade) overall rating for me would be ✮✮✮☆☆ 3/5. 

KRAPSYK GOES TO: Las Vegas 1/18-1/20

So this time i went to vegas i got to stay @ bellagio's penthouse suites~ it was really big, about 5 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms, living room, dining room & bar. As always i'm very thankful to get to stay in penthouse suites/skyloft suites & such^^

Sage @ the Aria Hotel

Of course my first night in vegas i had to eat at my favorite restaurant Sage @ the Aria hotel. The food as usual was amazing. i ordered all my favorite & this time around i decided to try the bacon wrapped pork loins & the foie gras candy bars, which was like a hella taste like expensive snicker bar. overall, the food here is always consistently amazing. i truly cannot describe how amazing the food is, because it's something you seriously need to experience for yourself~ service as always is attentive & they're so nice when it comes to asking "what would you recommend?" i forever love the food here.

Prime @ the Bellagio hotel

For my second night in vegas, i decided to have an "early birthday dinner" (my birthday is feb.8th). i didn't think i could find restaurants to top my favorite sage, but i actually did & it was prime. the atmosphere is very nice & fancy is exactly how i would describe it. note, i ate alone both nights, long story, but at this restaurant i had such a nice romantic view of the water show, it truly is a nice romantic place. my date was my food obviously. the beef tartare was amazing.. forsure my favorite place now when it comes to raw meat~! the truffle mashed potatoes was seriously a taste you must try, it was literally amazing.. the ahi tuna melts in my mouth & had a nice tempura like texture on the outside wrapping it. since i told them i was celebrating my birthday, i got a free creme brûlée~! this restaurant is now my current number 1 instead of sage when it comes to favorites in vegas right now.

Here's some bonus pics of some food & stuff i saw before i left Las Vegas & headed home.

'til next time~! (◠‿◠✿)

CES 2015

So, i went to CES 2015, which is the consumer electronic show, where big companies like samsung, sony, polaroid, kodak, canon, etc.. showcase what's up & coming for their latest electronic products & such. i was lucky to be able to go this year & check stuff out. i got a lot of cute key chains & such & also got to meet 50cent who is like my childhood rap star~! haha it was nice to experience this, i felt like a cool company person. i look forward to seeing some products release soon & cars are such. it was like being in tomorrowland of disneyland, happening today. the future really is happening so fast. i would type out more but i am honestly so tired from walking around the convention & such, there also isn't much to say, my pictures should be self explanatory~ much fun, such wow.

& so begins 2015...

this strange chapter in my life is now beginning. strange because i am going to be 20 years old next month. this year i am 20 years old. i have been alive for 2 decades. in my 20 years of living, i feel like this strange feeling of this is the end. the end of feeling like a kid. i have to grow up now, i have to go figure out what i want to do in this life. all my childhood dreams are now dead. i have this overwhelming feeling of stress because i still have no idea what it is i want to do. i don't know where to start, i seriously have absolutely no idea what path it is i am looking to go for. i seriously wish i had an absolute idea of what i should be doing, but i absolutely do not know. so here's to the year of figuring out where my life will begin. let's remember this post & see where i'm at december 31st 2015. i look forward to seeing what "destiny" or "fate" my life may have already been written out for me this year & so begins 2015...

Sueshiro Cafe

so i went to LA for lunch & ended up eating at sueshiro cafe & it was okay, there was a lot of noodles. i feel like my opinion is like a bit biased since i've eaten ramen at a lot of places including in japan.. so yeah, overall, i feel like i won't have a full review until i've tried other things at this restaurant. it was a very cold windy day in japan town LA, so i guess it was a good thing for an okay. i realized all LA trips are usually spontaneous..

Goodbye 2014, Hello 2015.

This year has been full of many experiences. honestly, this was a pretty good year for me. it's had it's ups & downs, but overall it has been a good year with many opportunities i am forever grateful & thankful for. this year really was a rough time at 19 figuring out myself as usual. i still am figuring myself out, what i want to do with my life etc. i got to meet my favorite boyband bangtan this year. i started a crazy shrine obsessing over them. i made friends, i realized who i am truly comfortable with. i had black hair, i had blonde hair & i'm ending the year with brown hair. gained weight, lost weight, trying to lose again lol because gained again. interned at a marketing firm, went to a bunch of concerts for free. backstage events. tried to save money, spent a lot of money (mostly on my shrine tbh & food) still single since '95. auditioned for yolos. princess of oc went to las vegas often. played pokemon, cut my hair, felt sad, felt mad, felt happy, felt bored, had every emotion tossed into an entire year of bipolar feelings. this paragraph is, honestly it really is a mess, but that just how my year was, a beautiful mess that was all over the place. i hope 2015 will be as awesome, if not better than the last couple years have been. all i have to say is, i really hope next year things will hopefully fall into place, probably not because i'm only turning 20, but i need to remind myself, i'm only 20 & shall try to work hard to make it a good year. my resolution: try to not get upset over little things, let it go~