So my boss wants me to make the website for Red Berry, the place I work at, which happens to be a frozen yogurt joint. I have taken web design and intermediate web design and I have sufficient skills to make a nice website, though I think I lack creativity. Well Min, my friend and co-worker took the photos of our yogurt and the interior of our little place.
So in Sacramento, frozen yogurt has taken storm. But unlike usual places in San Diego or L.A. where frozen yogurt is full service, our frozen yogurt places are usually self-serve. YES YOU DO IT YOURSELF!!! Before working at Red Berry, I had a couple experiences at other yogurt joints but I was not a frequent customer to any particular yogurt place. I liked the idea of doing it yourself but I wasn't a big fan yet. Red Berry opened in late May, by Safeway that is two minutes practically from my home and I applied with Min and we were lucky enough to get a job. Well since I have been working there since practically the opening, I know the business in and out. And I eat yogurt practically every day (when working) and I am addicted/sick of it.
Here are some lovely pictures of our dear place:
Our logo (on the wall)
the machines
area where we have the fresh fruit, mochi, chocolate bars, etc (YES THEY ARE FRESH, we cut them EVERYDAY)
our cool ikea chairs and our variety of toppings
just some examples of our yogurt.
I am a yogurt connoisseur after working for Red Berry for so long (two months?). I think our yogurt is pretty damn good though. And the variety of toppings leave endless choices to change it up each time. Personally I like granola, mandarin oranges, Nabisco cracker crumbs, thin mint cookie grind and lots of butterscotch and hot fudge sauce with my cheesecake frozen yogurt or cheesecake/cookiesncreme swirl yogurt. IT IS PURE SINFUL HEAVEN! Though I get too caught up in trying too many toppings and it ends up in a crunchy mess, with not enough yogurt to spread it out. But still, it is good either way.
Wow we haven't updated in a looong time. Well a lot of things has been happening in my life since the last update. One important event is the birth of my baby sister, Sophie Soo Yun Kim--born on July 7, 2008 at 5:15am. I am sorry to not have pictures up because it is on my cousin's camera who has still not uploaded them ;(. The last couple days with this newborn has been crazy. The crazy thing is our seventeen year old difference. But I am not worried about us not being close. Our family is always close. But she is so cute but I realize, babies scare me. Whenever she cries, I am scared to DEATH that I would not be able to get her to stop and sometimes she is so fragile. But she is an angel and I love her to death and she is happy addition and now my family is very happy and in a very good mood (especially my father). Our life has not totally changed 180 because of her, but it has slightly changed. Wow I have forgotten what it is like to raise a baby. The toddler years are the worst. When my sister Tiffany (now she is nine) was 4 or 5, she was a holy terror. I pretty much raised her then because both my parents were working and she would spread peanut butter and ketchup everywhere the moment I would go away from the room. She is still a bit of a terror, but at least she can take care of herself now.
So while my mom and dad were at the hospital, my sister and I were up all night and I finally got to watch Across the Universe. It has sitting in my computer files forever!!! Well it is one of my favorite musicals but as a movie, it wasn't great. The beginning was confusing with the not smooth transitioning of introducing characters. Pretty much bad transitioning for most of the movies and it got pretty trippy/hippie sometimes. But the thing that saved it was the music. ALL THE SONGS WERE FREAKING AMAZING and beautiful. Jim Sturgess is an AMAZING SINGER (and that girl...whose name i cannot remember). And their love was beautiful. I love the ending.
So I finally got my AP scores. Whoot. I actually go it the day Sophie was born. Haha very...joyous. Hanh called me at the hospital and I checked it the minute I went home. Well I just ripped it open and saw the scores 4,2,5,4. One 4 was from last year's ap world history. But I got us history - 4, chemistry - 2, english lit & comp - 5. It was freaking amazing and sad. I am sad about chemistry but I deserve the score. I was not smart enough in chemistry. I can only balance so much ap classes in my life. I am not a megagenius but I AM EFFIN PROUD OF THOSE OTHER TWO SCORES ESPECIALLY THAT FIIIIIIVEEEE! I thank my wonderful teacher for making me WANT to be a good writer, for making me WANT to improve, and for HELPING me grow and I thank myself for actually doing good in english this year and actually getting an A (one of the only two A's for that year in english ap). I don't know how I did and why I got it and I wish collegeboard gave DETAILED score results but DAMN, I am freaking amazed at myself. I deserved my scores through and through. I have never studied so hard for so long, not even last year.
So today, I had a very nice day. "The group" --adrienne, jerri, tiffany, kingston-- came over to my house and we went swimming and then went to park to play night tag/hideandseek with my cousins and sister. It was a lot of fun actually especially when it is dark at night and you can only see figures instead of faces. But mannn, it was a lot of running since we declared a "free for all" so the whole park was open for hiding. And in the process of hide and seek, Tiffany managed to break a pipe and water gushed on the walkway and grass and we got scared but also make a youtube video to tell the story and went home so we would not get caught. I hope it is still not running, then the whole grass area and neighborhood would get floooded, OOOPS.
Afterwards, my aunt really wanted to go to Red Berry (my workplace) because she was craving frozen yogurt. I took her and my cousins there the day before and she loved it. So we had to get yogurt for my two aunts and little cousins and the total came out to be 48 bucks!!! That is a lot of yogurt. But it was good. I got to my work even when I AM NOT WORKING.
It is always to take pictures, to remember days like these. We take pictures at the park too much. I love the TOOOP picture!!! I think it is so cute.
Pachia is gaaaaayyy and says she has nothing to post so I will post. So this week has been pretty crazy. I have officially ended junior year, went to graduation of my senior friends, took SAT IIs and lots of finals. CRAZY!!! Looking back, it seems like this was not a couple days ago. Well Tuesday and Thursday were finals but Thursday was last day and I actually did not have any serious finals in my classes. Yay.
WEDNESDAY's graduation. I didn't go to school that day because it was only 3 hours long and I wanted to leave for graduation before everyone else did after school. Hanh, Tiffany, and Jessica got a ride from me. I-5 was closed so we took the long way (local), felt like a million years to get to Arco Arena. To say it short; graduation was pretty okay. But the whole time I was thinking "This is us next year!" As I saw seniors walking the stage, people making the speeches, all I could think was about next year and ME GRADUATING and MY FRIENDS GRADUATING?! Surreal. Very. I cannot believe we have gotten this far. The two speeches made by the valedictorian (who I actually know) and the speaker at large (who I also know) were pretty inspirational. Even though they said the usual "cliche" kind of things... I felt the speeches were directed at me also. Gabe's quote for his speaker at large speech was the best.
“And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed)”
-----DR SEUSS "oh, the places you will go"
Amy's valedictorian speech was mainly about how we should not be afraid of success. At first I was thinking.. I am more afraid of failure but I think at the same time, she is right. We are afraid of taking the future HEAD ON and being afraid to do things alone. We have to take chances. She inspired me to think that I will change my attitude for senior year. I AM GOING TO TAKE SENIOR YEAR FULL ON and no complaints and no fears. This whole time that people have being saying "oh yeah we are finally gonna be seniors yay". But I am in denial. I really do not want to be a senior. I am just a little girl who wants to stay at home and suck her thumb. But I have to be brave. I have to not fear anything. I will just do it and get it done! FOR ME AND ME ONLY!!!
But after the graduation, we rushed to go find as many of our senior friends as we could and take pictures and have "last goodbyes". I did not find all my friends :(, but it was all good. It was fun and it was actually a pretty happy event, I did not cry at all.
Tiffany, Francis and Me. Francis went to the Phillipines for college :(
Before Graduation, at my house. Our dresses!!! I wore my "wild dress".
Gabe had a million things in his hand so we (tiffany and I) had to pull out his phone out of his pocket and hold it for him, while we were taking pictures he was on the phone.
Jirell and ME.
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL was on Thursday. It was a really chill day for me. In AP Chemistry we had a potluck. So we wanted to make pancakes from the left over mix we had because Chem Club always has breakfast meetings. So we took two hot plates and foil on both. We put enough batter for one small pancake on one hot plate, then we took the foil and flipped it on to the other. Taylor sprayed on some non-stick spray (BAD IDEA) and we put the pancake batter on. Then it started to sizzle and bubble and Lissah thought it smelled weird and she said we should flip it. So we took the foil and flipped it but then IT BURST INTO FLAMMMMMESSS.It was right underneath the wooden cabinents too. Well we paniced and we couldn't think of anything to do. I was in the motion of thinking which way to run to put out the fire even though there was sweet tea in front of me and a sink next to the fire. Well the fire died out by itself a minute after but we were all shocked. We probably would have died at our slow reactions. We had to open the doors and windows because of the smoke. It was pretty crazy. That was a nice way to end AP Chemistry. At lunch, we just took lots of silly last day pictures of course.
Our cheesy crew
In celebration for last day of school, we continued our tradition from last year. We went to El Super Taco and I had a Super Burrito again. Then we went to Safeway and Red Berry and caused some ruckus. Then I had work. Sad, I had work on last day of school. But it is all good. I cannot wait for the summer to really begin!!!!
---------------goals for summer--------------------------
learn how to drive (im almost a senior and i still do not know, SAD)
do summer work early
HAVE A KICKASS SUMMER because you freaking deserve it
So Thursday was actually the last day for the seniors at my school. But unfortunately I was gone half the day because my AP Chemistry went to an elementary school to teach science. We were gone for 2nd and 3rd period and we came back in the middle/beginning of 4th period (last period of the day) and most of didn't want to go to class so we just hung in the back, where all the science teachers had their offices. We had to stay super quiet. Well we just hung around until the AP Calculus class had finished their last test, then we went to visit them across the hall. Most of my senior friends were in there. We just were signing yearbooks, exchanging last minute senior ball pictures and taking crazy pictures. I took their class picture for them. Three guys picked Mr. Yee (who is super short, shorter than me!) on the last couple pictures. It was really cute and sad at the same time. I hugged everyone a million times. I was "sad" but I did not cry. I knew in my heart it wasn't the LAST time quite yet.
Me and Eunsong. Eunsong is GOING BACK TO KOREA for her senior year. :(
One of my favorite seniors, CORINNE!!! There is no one like her, haha.
So after school, the bell rang and the seniors were going crazy. I guess some seniors had cans of WHIPPED CREAM so they were whip creaming everyone and throw their backpacks in the air. It was really cute. And again...SAD. Again I gave a million hugs, signed more yearbooks. But there is still graduation and my party I am throwing for the ONE LAST TIME (that is the theme). After school, went home and ate then went to work. I worked from 4:30-10. Around 8ish Matt came with some of the seniors (the super smart ones that i dont know so well). Around 9ish, it was pretty quiet. Then I saw Debbie walk through the door with a couple friends. She was like "we came to see you". Then I saw more people coming; Mindy, Corinne, Kelly, etc. Then EVERYONE just swelled the place. All the crazy asian/filipino seniors that I knew came to hang at red berry and just swelled the place. I was really happy. They got frozen yogurt and we all were just hanging around. It was super fun. Though I hope my boss was not annoyed that I was hanging with my friends instead of "working" though I did not have much work to do. It was pretty crazy. Then most of the people left around 9:50 and I had to clean. But some people were still left and they hung outside and they helped me put in all the tables. I wish they would be there everyday to help me put the tables inside.
I am really sad how blurry this is, because it is such a cute picture with most of my senior friends. Why do I look so lame with my uniform on!
But there is still graduation. Then my party. Then it will be the last time. The last time. I don't want to even think about. I kind of want to cry once so I can feel less guilty about not crying. :) But I am sure they want to see smiling more than crying.
But as I was watching everything unfold and laughing with my senior friends, I felt sad because I could see in them, US. MY FRIENDS. the ones that are juniors now. I am sad we aren't as crazy as the seniors, but next year we have an EXCUSE TO BE just as crazy and immature. But I see them scrambling to do everything and do it with everyone and it just reminds me how close I am to doing the same thing. And I know this summer is the last summer because I have a feeling next summer, a lot of us are going to be gone, out of the country, or too busy to hang after senior year. SO THIS SUMMER MUST BE THE BEST!
IT MUST!
dude, i just heard this song from perezhilton. everyone has gone techno.
I feel bad for neglecting the blog a bit but I have nothing interesting to write lately haha. My life has been pretty simple and my new job at RED BERRY has been keeping me pretty damn busy. I work a lot lately. That is a good and bad thing. Good thing = money yay. Bad thing = tireeedd!! But I don't really have much homework to worry about. Just cruising for EIGHT MORE DAYS (minus weekends) and it is SUMMER.
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? SUMMER '08 ARE YOU REALLY THAT CLOSE? you really are. and i am amazed. and also sad. because that summer is really too close and really too short. it really will be. i just want a good summer. i dont want to have expectations because it is always better to have no expectations. like last summer, i had no expectations whatsoever, and it was a good summer. a good simple summer. that i truely enjoyed.
Well since I probably getting paid NEXT WEEK and I have worked at least over 20 hours...counting hours... at least 24 hours x 8 dollars = $ 192 ALMOST $200 already!!! But I am putting a lot in the bank and probably going to limit myself to like... $20-40 dollars for shopping/partying/eating out stuff. I really need some shoes and some clothes. Hopefully I can blow $20 with some good thrift shopping and still get a lot of clothes which actually does happen. I need to save my tips and stop going out to eat with my friends.
Funny pic for the day since it has been ages since I posted a picture or music.
Picture with my AP CHEM sisters and our really cool substitute teacher
So I finally have a JOB!!! Yay for me. I am working at Red Berry. It is a new frozen yogurt place that just opened by my Safeway. It is really close to my house, like five minutes so it is sooo convenient. I am so happy I got accepted. Min also got a job. We both turned our apps the same day on Thursday. Then we both got a call on Friday after school to work today (saturday. She worked 12-5 and I worked 5-10. Actually I worked until 11 because it got busy and we didn't have much time for cleaning up. The job is pretty easy, except it gets tiring to stand all day and say the same things over and over to customers because it is self-serve. But I am pretty happy. And the owners are really nice. I hope I can keep my job on for a long time.
I plan to just deposit money to save for senior year and the future. I just need to save money for all the money we spend senior year. Senior portraits, yearbooks, senior activities, senior trips, senior shirts, ETC. But I also get to keep tips!!! So the tips will go to the OTHER funds which is pretty much CLOTHES CLOTHES and food. I just need to learn how to manage my money.
I work on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday next week. I saw some kids from school today and Mickie came to see me with her boyfriend. She is same as ever though seems like she got skinner? And I noticed how SMALL she is but maybe that is cuz her boyfriend is super tall and huge. But it was nice to see her face, after HOW MANY YEARS actually? And Maggie came to visit too. I am probably going to see lots of Sheldon kids now. The place is pretty nice for a high school hangout. But the owner told me he got over 50 applications so I am sure they will find the right employees soon.
Our logo (on the wall)
the machines
area where we have the fresh fruit, mochi, chocolate bars, etc
just some examples of our yogurt.
