Hello!! It's been a while! I've been a bit busy with school and pharmacy school apps. I'm still not done with my apps yet, and I honestly don't feel too ready for it yet. But we'll see how it goes!! As for school, I'm taking two online courses in psychology and microeconomics. I was really frustrated by how unorganized these classes were, but it's going well now. I've been spending most of my day working on either apps or studying for my classes with one or two days off to hang out with friends. Overall, nothing too exciting...
...except for yesterday! I went to the Cal vs. UCLA homecoming game!! :)
yay!! I miss football games, but I sat in young alumni section, which is quite different from student section. Watching the student section cheer made me realllly miss college though! It's cool, we still got to do a few "go bears" and the alligator song chomp. I don't actually know what that alligator song is called, or what it's for.. lol forgive me, I don't know much about football LOL
Before the game, I went to Sproul Plaza to check out the homecoming festivities. In the past years, I used to help sell banh mi for VSA at the homecoming festival. The first one I went to was really fun. There were club booths selling food up and down Sproul, athough we got stuck with the worst booth location, all the way past Sather Gate. There was also a little kid's area where they could play games get face painted and sticker and stuff like that. I think that homecoming was successful because the game started around 5. The following year, the game started at 11, so we all had to set up and sell at 8. And to make matters worse, it was a rainy morning!! No one wants to buy banh mi 8 am in the morning at homecoming!! People didn't even want to buy Vietnamese coffee!! People already made their accommodations elsewhere before coming to the homecoming festival.
Well this year, I was excited to go, because it's my first time as an
alumni. But surprisingly, I only saw like 3 booths this year!! WHAA?? urgh, budget cuts!! :P I did get to see Cal Band play though! I love Cal Band!
The game started at 12. We missed the kick-off, but eh.. we didn't miss anything too exciting lol. I saw Oski Bear when I got in, and so of course I had to take a picture with him! I remember at one point during the game, I saw these little kids punching his nose!! poor Oski!! Oh and at one point, his neck was sticking out of his shirt, lol and we kept trying to tell him to fix it. Oh Oski!
I sat pretty close to the field. We were in the 7th row by the end field. They were pretty nice seats! and I got to see one of the players, Shane Vereen perhaps? i dunnoo lol, jump over some UCLA players during two different plays. Pretty awesome!!
Testing out the zoom capabilities on my camera. Look how sweaty they are!!
UCLA's band played first, and then Cal Band. They played the same songs they did at Sproul earlier in the day, a medly of Latin American songs like Livin a Vida Loca and The Macerena hmm.. a Gloria Estefan song and J Lo song.
Final Score, woot woot!! I knew we would win :)
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| Chicken Basil Pizza from Zachary's |
After the game, we walked to Zachery's from the stadium. Yes, we walked the entire 2 miles!! Luckily, we didn't have to walk back, although I think I would've really liked to! So this was my first time eating Zachery's. Yes, I went through all 4 years of college and never tried Zachery's!! Well.. I DIDN'T LIKE IT!!! lol I guess deep dish pizza just simply isn't my thing!! The pizza was just too tomato-y, and it was sour. And I was stuffed after eating two slices. I had a slice of chicken garlic, and it was good but if I
had to pick a pizza to eat, I wouldn't eat this. Next I had a slice of sausage pizza, and it definitely was not as good or flavorful as the Chicken Basil. We also ordered a thin crust pizza, which I was only able to eat half off. Although I prefer the thin crust, their thin crust pizza just had
too much cheese on it! It was like eating globs and globs of cheese X_X After eating here, I was completely stuffed, and I felt bloated well on through the night. And it's left me with no appetite to eat, even til today!! Now I'm craving for some
good pizza. Lol, I even prefer Dominos and Round Table and even Costco to Zachary's!!! Bleh..
Oh I forgot to mention, I sunburned my nose and a part of my shoulder and neck :( Poo, I put on a lot of sunscreen on my nose too!! I used my Neutrogena SPF 70 sunblock on my nose, and then put Aveeno SPF30 tinted moisturizer on top of that! I thought it would be enough sun protection, but I guess not enough.. So now, my nose is significantly darker than the rest of my face, but hopefully it'll fade away quickly! :(
