Random Piccies from iPhone

Ok I'm just totally procrastinating now....

The Problem with Pisces....

I love my new d&g sunglasses!! I just can't wait to go home, since theres no sun and hence no need for sunglasses here in London.



I look so nice in them bc they cover half my face.. But without the glasses... NOT SO MUCH (in Borat voice)

Anyway, I think it's really sad that I have to force people to read my blog. It's funny that I was afraid that having my name as my blog domain was going to give too much information away. It's like people don't even care about reading it, so what am I so worried about.

Anyway... it's time to get to the crux of this entry.

I hate being a Pisces.. I'm prone to daydreaming and fantasizing about things that won't happen if I just SIT ON MY ASS ALL DAY and just think about it. My friends always talk to me if they want to feel better about their own lives in terms of spending money, eating healthy, working out, doing school work, and last but not least.... dating ambitious guys.

For example, I keep making calculations on how to super skinny by losing 1 pound a week if I consume 1000 calories a day and work out. (1 pound of fat is equivalent to 35,000 calories). But what do I do? I eat junk food all day and sit on my ass instead of working out.

Second example, I always wanted to make $1 million before I turn 25. I have unrealistic dreams of being the next Warren Buffet, yet I just pretend like I bought citibank at $3.77. I also spend everything I make on useless shit...

My last point would be about school. I keep telling myself that I will get a 4.0 this semester, but instead of doing my 3,000 word paper, I'm blogging about how I am a failure.

Camera whoring all over London...

Totally realized that I will leave London in 3 weeks and decided to go on a major shopping spree while the Dollar still kicks the Pound's ass and do some major camera whoring all over London.. Connie and I were fascinated by all the store display at Selfridges. And for anyone who wants to know... I just feel uncomfortable posting my friends' pictures on my public domain for everyone to see (like im infringing on their privacy or something) so I do have friends, and I don't only take pics of myself? ok? love, annie











My fav champagne!

I Love Paris!!!

Beautiful Eiffel Tower, grander than I envisioned it..



Mona Lisa, smaller than I thought it would be, but never the less still magnificent.



The Louvre.. no amount of being typically touristy or being just like everyone else took away the excitement from being there



And it didn't even matter that it was raining.. still love Paris



Does anyone know who this dude with the white hair michelle is pointing to is? He only had like 50 bodyguards around him... Some discreet and some not so discreet



Shopping... the mother of all LV stores!!!!!!!



And hot guy (the street performer in the white). What more do I need from a city? I LOVE PARIS!!!!!!!!!!

D&G or LV?

LV Sunglasses?

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or D&G?


I love the fact sunglasses can make a hideous girl look decent. And I love the fact that my sunglasses are covering up my completely hideous face because I have this allergic reaction to something they put on my face at Harrods leaving my eyelids completely swollen.

Megan Fox

Megan Fox is genetically perfect & the hottest person on this world

Sociology

If I'm a finance major, how come all the classes that are interesting to me are in sociology...?

Classes I want to take but I'm too much of a sell-out to do a finance major and law & society (less of a sell-out?) minor:

• Cities in Global Context
• NYC: Social History
• Wealth, Power, & Status inequality
  
• American Corporation in theory and practice
• Criminology (wanted to take it but there is no waitlist)
  

4 Cities.. 8 Days

I've been dreading this post... I know I had to blog about it, but I just didn't want to. Part of it is because I hate being generic and I hate being "like everyone else." Now going to 4 European cities in 8 days is definitely something out of the ordinary. Not everyone gets to travel to Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, and Milan. I guess what killed it for me is the fact that everyone and their mom seems to be traveling. On my Facebook feed, everyone seems to be going somewhere. Nicky's just come back from Amsterdam. Michael's pictures from Prague are posted. Rachel's tagged in pictures from Egypt.

Story of my fucking life... why can't I just simply be content. No idea. Whenever I go out to eat with my friends, I always think other people's dish look and taste better. Grass is greener on the other side... blah blah. I guess I just always need to be different, extraordinary, and better. I wished I could be happy with what I have and just be in the moment.

Everyone at work asked me how my trip was. The "politically correct" and "socially acceptable" answer was.. It was great! I had so much fun! It was so nice seeing all the sites... Duomo was so pretty, Prado Museum was so nice.

What I really think? I felt it was nice because I simply got shit done. I've been to Spain, Portugal, and Italy now, so I can be a pretentious brat and pretend how cultured I am. I can talk about how much I love Picasso and the museum. I just felt like it wasn't all that it was hyped up to be, and it could have been better. I wanted to stay in 5 star hotels rather than hostels (which were actually really great). I wanted to be there with my (non-existent) boyfriend. I wanted to experience fine dining rather than tourist traps that charged €13 for spaghetti with tomato sauce that could have been better if I had pulled it out of my ass.

On that note... I don't even know where to start describing my trip. So much to mention, so much not to mention. The four cities and the sights are pretty much all mashed together in my mind. Not even sure what really happened. I guess I can start with some pics...






















Out of the four cities, my favorite was Barcelona... minus the fact that my friend got pickpocketed.... It's very modern and edgy. The arts and culture in the city is amazing and the nightlife is comparable to New York. My second fav would be Lisbon. I love Lisbon because it's so beautiful and it was such a clean & new city. Milan was nice because of all the awesome shopping boutiques. Madrid was just pretty shitty. It was an old city and everything was falling apart.

Heading to Paris this weekend.

I really don't know what makes me happy and why seeing the world isn't doing it for me. :(

Fashionrexia

I coined this term from theLondonpaper, which means skimping on the essentials like food and necessities to buy ridiculously priced big-ticket fashion items. For example, one girl confessed that she would only go the the Loo (bathroom) in restaurants so she wouldn't have to buy toilet paper. I mean that's a bit ridiculous. Why don't you just save by not going out for dinner? Another girl said she ate bagels for 3 meals a day for a month to buy a pair of shoes.

I think I also have fashionrexia.

Here we are heading into a global recession and financial melt-down, and I'm looking to buy wallets and accessories. Just got myself this Marc Jacobs Patent Zip Clutch on Barneys private sale online for $249. I know it seems a lot, but the original price was $495, so it's a great deal. And of course, it's pretty, convenient, and I can put all my shit in there.



See this purchase wouldn't be SO bad if i didn't JUST get a small Mui Mui wallet yesterday for £95 (roughly $150). It's really cute, I can't seem to find a picture of it online, but I'll take a picture of it when I get home. It's black patent with a huge bow. It's hot pink on the inside and it holds a few cards, cash and best of all, it has a ring where you can hang your keys on.

Worst of all, I'm also looking to buy the new LV bag from this season when I head to Paris this weekend. It's the Mahina collection in bronze or Mordore as LV calls it.



The bag is SO beautiful and SO comfortable. I don't think I'm in that much of a problem because it cost $3,000 and even if I scraped all my life savings together, I would not be able to afford it. Therefore, I am SO happy to be broke right now. Just FYI- LV is SO much cheaper in Paris than the U.S. The bag already the cheapest in Lisbon for €2020 (roughly $2626). It was €2080 in Milan, and I heard it will even be cheaper in Paris...

OK, I am officially broke thanks to extravagant spending and traveling to Nice, Cannes, Monaco, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Milan, Paris, oh yeah and living in London. Actually, I seemed to have gotten a lot accomplished with my life savings....

It all comes crashing down...

Everyday, things get more dismal. First it started with the financial crisis, then it starts to hit the mainstream economy. With America and most of the world entering a recession, there is sure to be social unrest (Think Shays Rebellion). The headlines just gets scarier and scarier everyday. Things have never seemed this dismal...

The Morning After...

So there's this whole mentality of ..... Obama Won! Great for America! We are so proud of America for electing the perfect candidate. Our lives will all be better now. There is now change, hope, and a future.

I seriously don't understand it, and I definitely am not part of the whole "Obamaism" movement. My friend asked me if I would have been happier if McCain was elected. No, I wouldn't be, but I am just more realistic and sick of the whole cult of personality.

Now that the celebration is over, people will be hit with the coldness of reality... The harsh truth. I call it the morning after, or the hang over. America's economy is still shit. GDP is expected to decrease at 3.5% annual rate in 4Q2008. Car sales plunged 32%. consumer confidence is at a record low. Jobless rate in October is at 6.5% losing 120,000 jobs, for a total of 1.2 million job losses this year.

Obama has promised tax cuts to 95% of Americans. Promised national health care. Increased infrastructure spending. With our national debt over 10 trillion, are you serious this will happen?

This article in the New York Times really broke my heart.

“I’ve tried for everything, retail sales, office work, but the employers all say they have too many staff and they’re not hiring now,” Ms. Everett said. “McDonald’s was the only place that would take me, but only part-time,” for $7.25 an hour. Ms. Everett cannot afford to rent even a room, and stays secretly with her grandmother in a home for the elderly

And the sad thing is, Obama's socialism is not the way to go. If his wealth redistribution plan can really eradicate poverty, I'll be the first to give everything to give it to the poor. He's only destroying the American dream, punishing the working class who worked hard to earn what they have... This not only reduces the efficiency and the output of America since people would not aspire to work hard to make something of themselves, it only reduces social mobility.

And I think we can all finally agree by now that the current state of the economy is not just a "bankers problem." It's main street problems so all you stupid socalist rallying against the banker, go eat a dick and read a book on economics.

I'm just angry at America for being so gullible and blindly believing in something that really isn't all that. Most of all, I'm angry at the whole culture and trend around it. Electing a president shouldn't be a "trendy" thing to do. It should be based on policies and who is better for America. I'm not saying that it's not Obama, and that McCain is the better candidate (Albiet Hilary was definitely the better candidate)... but the whole approach taken, and mass hysteria is just ridiculous.