January:

• 1/2 Sundubu, Shaved Ice, and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows with A
• 1/4 Puss in Boots with S
• 1/7 back to lab
• 1/7 Hawaiian BBQ with L
• 1/8 Sherlock Holmes AGoS and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol with L
• 1/9 winter quarter begins
• 1/14: 50/50 with R
• 1/15: Crab catcher and Downtown La Jolla with L
• 1/16: Ocean Terrace with K
• 1/18: EAP Application successfully sent!
• 1/20: The Fishery with K. and i don't even know what happened there

February:

• 2/11: Chuao Chocolatier and Henry's Restaurant with R
  • best chocolate cake I ever had- "trilogy"
• 2/24: Back home to Irvine
• 2/27: EAP UK Program Acceptance! and JLPT N1 Passed!
• Dad get's job!

March:

• Dad goes to work in Japan
• 3/14 Acceptance to Kings Collee London study abroad exchange programme
• 3/17: turn 20
• 3/20: Raymond's 14th birthday
• spring break: sleep, eat, internets
  • Taiwanese food with the parents
  • Korean BBQ with n
  • Chinese food with the family
  • Chinese food with dad
  • okinawan food with mom

April

• spring quarter begins
• tap dance!
• the girl with the dragon tattoo with L
• Hawaiian BBQ with L H E
• procurement of my baby kindle
• procurement of tickets to London
• kings college dinner thing at LA

May

• holyshit it's may
• UK study abroad orientation
• brownie baking movie marathon alone lol: kiss kiss bang bang and secret life of arietty
• moms birthday and mothers day
• sun god lol no movie date with myself- avengers, 5 year engagement and hunger games
• home for memorial day weekend~ rampart and hugo with dad.

June

• fuck procrastination
• fuck finals
• met J
• went to a meditation thingy club thing
• sophomore year over
• home to irvine
• special summer session- EDS 115; commute from irvine to school
• menchies work

July

• EDS 115
• Menchies
• Spectrum/Corner Bakery with A and V
• Library/Mochilatoo with A
• home forclosed
• EDS 115 passed with a 97 aw yiss

August

• EDS 117
• still menchies
• visa trouble fun
• London planning with A at panera
• A visits menchies huehue
• dad's job ends, back to the job market.
• EDS 117 passed with a A-, okey okey.
• Summer school 2012 ends finally, no more 1 hour 45 minute commute by amtrak

September

• quit menchies, because london
• move to apartment
• London?!!! it happened
• study abroad times, first flight alone to london
• haha EAP orientation...
• move into wolfson house flat
• begin king's college london
• alice and iris' adventures in london
• met m! went to westminister area/portobello market

October

• things happened

November

• more things happened

December

• Winter Europe Trip with JAIL
  • Berlin
  • Prague
  • Budapest
  • Vienna
  • Italy
    • Venice
    • Florence
    • Rome

Movies:

• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (amazing yes yes), Puss in Boots (cute and funny), Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (jeremy renner mmmm a bit overrated but fun), 50/50 (surprisingly enjoyed it, seth rogen was tolerable), While You Were Sleeping, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (intense, rooney mara was amazing, but too much mumbling a bit frustrating), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (hilarious), The Secret Life of Arietty (omg amazing i cannot so cute squee WHY SO UNDERRATED deserves more love), The Avengers (OMG AMAZING CANNOT FLAILS), The Five Year Engagement (ok.), Hunger Games (tbh i had high expectations which were not fulfilled omg annoying filmography. it was... ok.), Rampart (... what.), Hugo (loved it omg ~plot twist~ so cute), dororo (weird/bad cgi, but fun steampunkish feudal japan)

TV:

• Japanese: ラッキー 7 (finished, loved it fun.), もう誘拐なんてしない, 鍵のかかった部屋 (eh. eh. ehhh. love the characters but it gets a bit repetitive)
• American: Colbert Report, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Once upon a time, Modern Family, Community, Dr. Who

Books:

• The Fault in Our Stars, Quiet: The Power of Introverts,