i got a tattoo!!!

So I finally got a tattoo after wanting one since forever!!! I took the above pic the next day after getting it and it looks so dry and gross but it's now fully healed and looking cute as hell :~) So I had wanted a tattoo for quite a while but the main issue was that I never really knew exactly what I wanted until I came across this tattoo as well as Olivia Harrison's instagram. So I really wanted a hand holding some sort of flowers and that's when Madalene and I found out that Olivia would be tattooing at a flash tattoo event at Black Medicine. Basically there would be 4 artists there with pre-drawn tats and you pick one, it gets crossed out so no one else can get it, and you get it done right there. So we went there with a couple other friends and lined up for 2 hours (we survived on mcdonalds dont worry). Luckily I was 10th in line so when we got in we went straight to Olivia's flash sheets and I was praying that she would have one of a hand (since she did a couple before) and to my luck she did!!!

Madz and I waiting after we chose our tattoos :~)

:O!!!! I was so nervous at this point lol my hands were sweating

right after I got it done!!!

So I got it on my left inner forearm (close to my elbow). I wasn't really sure what to expect in terms of the pain but it honestly wasn't bad at all!! I thought it would be a lot worse but it literally felt like someone scratching you hard. Plus vibration from the machine lol. In fact I was just laying there staring at the ceiling and I got kind of bored halfway through haha. While getting it done though I was telling Olivia about how I was quite fond of her hand tattoos and tattoos of hands in general and she said that she wasn't even going to put the tattoo that I chose on the flash sheet until the night before! She was like oh well and she threw it on the sheet anyway. She said she must've subconsciously heard my wish haha. I was so lucky!!! Anyway, the entire procedure took ~40 minutes and it costed $80 (not including tip). Madalene got a cute tattoo of 2 lavenders in a similar location to mine (hers is a little bit outer on her arm than mine - mine is like right in the middle of my forearm when I hold my arm out).

The tattoo shop was pretty cute too :~)

Afterwards we went to Matchstick Coffee Roasters in Chinatown because it was super close (about a block or two away) and it was really cute in there!! I got an iced latte as did another friend, and Madalene got a hot chocolate.

dat saran wrap

So yeah!!! My mom wasn't very pleased with the fact that I got a tattoo but she seems to just pretend it doesn't exist anymore (she hasn't said anything or even looked at it since the night I showed it to her when I got home lol) and my dad doesn't seem to care. So oh well. I mean it's not like they can get rid of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway I think some people may feel like what I did was quite rash and naive since I just went and picked out a random tattoo as my first one (which is basically what I did lol) but in all honesty different people have different opinions and perspectives when it comes to tattoo. Obviously some people believe that tattoos must have a meaning and a story behind it but personally for me, I like tattoos because I see them as a nice piece of art on your skin. A lot of people seem to enjoy looking down upon people who get tattoos without a special meaning to them or making them feel bad by saying things like "you're going to regret that in the future" and whatnot which I think is absolutely ridiculous. If I really like a tattoo and it makes me happy because I think it's a beautiful little work of art on my arm, why should I be made to feel guilty about it? Besides, had I not gotten my first one done so spontaneously I feel like I would have continued putting off getting a tattoo and probably end up never getting one. Welp that's just my oniOn :~)))

To end this post here's a pic of a building I spotted while waiting in line ଘ(੭ ᐡ ᵕ ᐡ)੭* ✩ ♡ ˚

garden party, ice cream tacos, grad (not mine), tina's bday :-)

So on may 9 Madalene and I went to this garden party thing on campus!!! Photographer sneaked a pic of us lol

Pre-garden party. I was late..... as usual.... but anyway I think Madz forgave me :-) *halo emoji*

The party itself was meh... kinda lame to be honest lol. I'm not sociable at all and it was pretty awkward and it was like just people sitting around talking to their friends. At least the outdoor space was cute though with fairy lights and balloons and stuff. But yeah. There weren't any highlights or anything interesting that particularly comes to mind.

Check out this pic of Madz and I though hahaha we were on the bus on our way there and we were like omg lets take a pic of us blissfully looking out the window!! Luv it

Then 2 days later, my summer school courses started (it feels weird typing it now because I just had my last lecture yesterday!!! it's a 6 week course which really goes to show how inactive I've been on this blog). It's math 221 which is matrix algebra/linear algebra.

The next day we had a cute lil Madajaskar reunion at Rain or Shine Ice Cream!! It was their Taco Tuesday which is an adorable ice cream taco :-)

The place itself was so cute (look at dat wallpaper and unicorn thing with an ice cream cone as the horn!!!). Fortunately when we got there, there weren't too many people and they had eventually cleared out. We sat there for a while shamelessly taking selfies with the ice cream wallpaper haha but then all of a sudden a bunch of high schoolers started coming in and we realized it was a bit past 3pm aka when kids are off school so we left.

Unfortunately about an hour after eating the ice cream I started feeling really bloated and a bit gassy and ugh :-( I don't even know if I'm lactose intolerant but sometimes dairy products like that make me get super bloated and my stomach feels weird for a day or two which is what happened this time. I'm thinking about trying some Lactaid pills or something haha. I guess the true test will be taking Lactaid pills and going back to Rain or Shine again lol

Afterwards we went to Oakridge Centre because we didn't really know what to do. We ended up going to Oak+Fort and buying matching friendship bracelets!!!

It was so perfect because they had 3 colours and we all wanted different ones! Mine is the gold one, Karman's is silver, and Madalene's is rose gold. The holy trinity!!! Also omg my hand is so dark compared to theirs. It's probably from LA though since I was out in the sun so much with my hands exposed.

Then a couple weeks later it was my sister's grad!!! She graduated from UBC with a BSc in geology.

(unfortunately my bro was busy that day!!)

The ceremony itself wasn't as boring as I thought it would be. This is because people with a major in physics were also in this ceremony and during while presenting the PhDs they would briefly summarize the graduate's research and it was really interesting hearing some of them. I think there was one guy who specialized in relativity or something and he studied space time and how black holes are like a finite tunnel into the next dimension??? That was actually really fascinating

When the saturday came, it was my friend Tina's birthday (well not quite because her actual bday was in the middle of the coming week) so we went to the Pint! I didn't get any pics that night except for selfies on her bed while waiting for her to get ready so here's one for yall :-)

On the monday 2 days later, the new Student Union Building at school opened up (finally..... after delaying its opening for like a millennium). It was actually really cool in there haha take a look

 dat yellow aesthetic staircase *_* this staircase literally went up from the ground floor up to the 4th floor?? 5th?? how many fucking floors are there idek

These pics really don't do this building justice!!! Going up to the very top and looking down was so incredible because you could see pieces of each floor and it was so tall and big and open and I swear if I had accidentally dropped my phone down the middle I probably would've killed someone. But anyway unfortunately like half of it wasn't even finished yet?? Like nothing is open and everything is still taped up and there's like temporary handrails along the stairs. As annoying as that was I can't wait to see the new SUB completely finished and fully furnished!!

That's about it for this post!! I have I think 4 more posts that I have for yall before I'm caught up. Pce :-))

LA!!!

Hello!!!! I died but I've come back to life

I have tons tons tons of upcoming posts since I haven't updated this blog in 4ever so don't mind me.

Okay so I returned from my lil trip to LA like a month and a half ago so I'm finally making a post about it!!! There's 100+ pics in this post so I'm gonna do that lil jump break thingy so it doesn't make my blog super fucked up on whatever page this post is on lol so yeah eNJOY!!!