cinemagraphs!

so i started to experiment with more cinemagraphs. These things are interesting.. harry potter status.

happy birthday lexi

its my brothers birthday so i made him my first cinemagraph! hehe

Best Quarter Ever! (Academically)

All my grades for the past winter 2011 quarter have finally been posted. If at the start of the quarter someone told me that I would end up with the best grades in my hardest quarter, I would have responded, "You crazy, foo!" 

However, thanks to 2 sprained ankles and a text a day from esther, I made it through the quarter. And even more than that, I made it through the quarter without putting a dent in my GPA. So, thank you God, thank you family, and thank you friends.

Thursday, March 10, 2011 [Final #1]:

Monday, March 14, 2011 [Final #2]: 

8:31AM: Good luck on your test! :)

 Tuesday, March 15, 2011 [Final #3]:

10:34AM: Hey Chris! It's your 4th to last final! youre almost halfway there! haha gl!

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 [Final #4]:

8:04AM: Hey. You have a final. You're going to be awesome.

 Thursday, March 17, 2011 [Final #5]:

11:39AM: CHRIS YOU CAN DO IT! A++++!
(Haha, she was right.)

 Friday, March 18, 2011 [Final #6]:

2:27PM: Chris youre really smart! one more to go you can do it!

New [Last] Quarter!

Spring quarter has arrived.. and it didn't take its time either. I was excited to go to class today. But I don't think the excitement was from finally being done with my undergraduate. On the contrary, I will genuinely miss college and all the friends and memories I have collected over the years. Honestly, one of my biggest flaws is that I am a memory hoarder. Some people hoard newspapers, others hoard animals.. I hoard memories. I guess this is why I got into photography. It was a way for me to hold on to things that may not last forever.

Looking back, it seems a bit pointless for me to put so much effort into things that have already past, but still for some reason I really need to do it. Something inside me really wants to have that evidence that I was really there, or I really did that.

I printed out some new pictures and bought 100 clothespins (for only $1.00!). I added these pictures to the ones  I already had up in my room. Four rows of pictures looks several times more fulfilling than just two rows.

One by one I put up each picture, and each one sparked something in my brain, kind of like the scene Ratatouille, when Remy is eating the cheese and the strawberry together. In his mind all is dark, but after a bite of either the strawberry or the cheese, there is a tiny flicker of color. And then when he finally mixes the two together, an explosion of colors replaces the darkness. Each of my pictures has the same effect. Though the human brain is amazing in its ability to hold so much memory, often times our memories become dull; they lose their color. All it takes to revive that memory, is a picture.

This morning I opened my eyes to a wall of pictures. Sometimes as I go through life day to day, picture to picture, it is hard for me to see the blessings around me. But all these pictures, memories, blessings--stacked side by side reminded me of all the gifts I have been given. They give me joy and best of all hope. Then it wasn't so strange that looking back helped me to look forward.

Sometimes when your brain tells you not to,

and your heart wants to,
just do it!

examples:
- cliff jumping
- bringing the $215 dollars you found at Costco to the Lost and Found, instead of buying that gameboy pocket you wanted.
- the last couple of points of a close volleyball game (trust me, you can't win with just playing smart).
- loving by letting go
- letting go of anything for that matter
- Believing in God!
- blogging about feelings instead of studying during finals week.

1 down, 5 to go

I have to admit that before this quarter, I wouldn't think that anyone could take 6 classes in a single quarter. But now, after 10 weeks of taking 6 classes, I can wearingly say that it is not impossible. Strangely enough, this has been my best quarter (academically) yet. I am among the top 25% in each of my classes, and am even rank 1 in one class (I'm sure some of you can guess which class). However, there is one last obstacle which is consequent of six classes-- six finals. I have already taken one last wednesday, but there are still a whopping 5 remaining. I am comforted to know that UCLA is looking out for me, because somehow they scheduled my 5 finals to one a day next week.

It is not surprising then, that I will have very little to write about over the next few days. Furthermore, if I took a picture a day, it would probably just consist of a textbook, or notes, cause thats all I will be seeing this weekend.

Fortunately for us, Esther visited my room today to watch the laker game.

Its cool that I can talk to her about how strange Artest is, or how Pau would look bald. There's only one other female I know who enjoys watching Laker games with me, and thats my mom (but I think my mom has been habituated into watching laker games because shes the only female in our family). 

Anyways, I have 20 pages of EE132 notes with my name on it (literally). 

p.s, Connie Liu and I got into a fist fight today. I don't want to talk about it.

He Hits From Second Floor

Shaggy

Hagrid

Shagrid

Garbage

Garbo

Trash

The Big Friendly Giant

Big Guy

These are all the nicknames of my friend Nate who will be moving back to NorCal next week. I met Nate for the first time during welcome week of my freshman year. I ventured out to the IM field to check out club volleyball, and the first thing I see at the table is this 6'8'' monster of a guy shadowing over everyone around him. Amazing myself, I summoned up enough courage to ask him if the net set up behind him was open for anyone to play (JK Rowling says that giants, even half giants are prone to violence). 

Anyways, my memories of Nate from welcome week and the first day of open gym to the present are all jumbled up in a haze of Quicks, 3's, Steps, Pushes, back 1's, Pipes, and 4's. Wow, I guess I will miss him (or at least his hits). He's probably the only one at open gym who I can see and time my sets easily with. Our Quick and Push combo is nearly unstoppable on most nights, and melts other teams on good nights. I think we've only lost 1 game this year with him and me on the same team (and other select people). 

Last night, we had a party for him (thanks Gerren! and thanks Amy for the ride!). I'd say mafia, taboo, some card game that resembles poison, rockband, and meerkats were an appropriate farewell.

For a guy so tall, he also has a big heart. And even though hes usually the catalyst/target of trash talking at open gym, its all fun and games. Nate, your presence will surely be missed (its hard not to miss 6 feet 8 inches of giant).

Ending my Week on a High Note

So, I finally made it through my last class of this hectic quarter full of homework, lab reports, and other problems which one would only believe existed on TV. Anyways, I got out of my last senior design lab yesterday 1 hour past the listed end time. I ran over to Shroudenberglaksndalkn or however you spell the music building to watch a couple of my friends perform a concert with exotic chinese instruments. Mary told me the room was 3143, so when I got into the building I went straight to the stairwell and up to the 2nd floor. Unfortunately, that stairwell did go up to the third floor, so I ran to a map to direct myself to another stairwell. The next stairwell didn't go up a floor either.After a complete tour of the second floor of Shroedenbergaksnlad, I thought back to before I entered the building when I noticed the building didn't look high enough to contain 3 floors. Giving up, I went back down to the 1st floor and stopped to look at something interesting happening in one of the classrooms. After about 5 minutes of watching some wierd instrumental performance, I looked up at the room number... 1343.

Sadly, I had missed my friends' performance, but still it was nice seeing them all. I realized that lab reports have kept me from seeing any of them for nearly a week now.

Who wouldn't miss this peaceful bunch of asians?

I also went to the girls club practice so I could get a ride to Nate's party. I miss disciplined volleyball. To think that I used to be able to pass the ball instinctively to a target.

p.s, I sprained my ankle again at basketball this morning. Ugh. same ankle, I was wearing my brace too! WTH! It is worse this time though. I heard/felt it pop. I hope nothings broken. Time for my wolverine genes to come in again, they've been pretty active lately. I guess I'll get a lot of studying done now.

Let it Out

I've been really confused these past few weeks. I don't remember the last time I actually had a real conversation with someone which consisted of more than, "Hi, how are you" and "I'm ok, just busy with school." I know I am taking 6 classes this quarter, but strangely, school has been the least of my worries this quarter. I've been holding in a lot of things, trying to handle them by myself.

I'm not really sure if this post is going where I want it to so I'm just gonna skip to where I want it to end.

Basically, I've been trying to handle all my problems between just myself and God. On one side, this has been really good as I've gotten used to just talking with Him at anytime throughout my day. On the other side, I've been collecting up a lot of emotions inside me.

Today is an especially emotional day. Its kind of weird to describe, but I can feel my emotions pounding inside my body-- pushing out from under my skin, trying to get out. I was going to stay in my room all day today to study, but I am literally shaking from everything going on inside me. I think I'm going to go to open gym tonight afterall. I really need to hit something and it would be convenient if that something was a volleyball.
p.s, don't worry, its nothing bad. its a beautiful day today. I'm happy.

p.s, the picture: I don't know if anyone else gets this, but I get a weird feeling while I stand at the edge of a high cliff before jumping. My heart wants to jump to feel the thrill of the fall, but my brain tells me to avoid danger. The resulting conflict between what my heart wants and what my brain thinks, produces a similar feeling to the feeling I described in my post. But then, when I finally muster up the courage to push my feet off that ledge, for a split second, time seems to slow as my mind and my heart are in perfect synchronization. For that split second, it feels like I am flying.

4-Peat, even the Lakers couldn't do it.

Freshmen year, I walked into open gym volleyball at the John Wooden Center, not knowing a single person and too scared to play on the main court. One day, Chris Tuyay comes up to me to ask if I wanted to play on his Intramural team since their setter (lol Jorge) was injured. Their team name was named after a facebook app called... Fluff Friends.

After winning the Championships that year, we reformed the team the next year for the more competitive Co-ed league and won the championships again. On my third year, the seniors had graduated, but I decided to keep the team going and so I got together some new people and reused the old name. The championship game showcased two teams of people from open gym. And once again Fluff Friends prevailed!

And now we arrive at my fourth year at UCLA. Volleyball has grown much more popular, especially at open gym. At the start of the IM season, there were now 4 teams from open gym, whereas in the past there were only 2 (these two usually met up in the Championships). 

After a markedly more intense season and playoffs, Fluff Friends once again made it to the Championship Game. But this time we were against the Foxy Dolphins, a team made up of a few players from the Fluff Friends team from last year and more open gym people.

The funny thing about this game was how well we all knew eachother, not just within our own team, but within the opposing team as well. We have probably played with/against each other at open gym nearly a hundred times by now. And though we were all friends, for the next 40 or so minutes of this epic match, all friendships ended at the net. 

Coming from a 6 point deficit, Fluff Friends somehow managed to pull off a win in the first game of a best-of-3 match. The next game went to Foxy Dolphins after we took a pummeling from Shawn and Joey's spikes. Our two teams were so evenly matched. During the 3rd and final game, I found that I had become lost in the battle, and as I took a moment to catch my breath, I looked around the gym and there were so many people watching our game. Basketball players, other volleyball teams, IM sports staff, even the gym custodian was there watching what I would deem the hardest fought match of Intramural/Open Gym Volleyball of UCLA history (of course I've only been here for 4 years, but I'm sure the custodian would agree with me and he's been here longer.) Fluff Friends: 8 - Foxy Dolphins: 8... 9-8... 9-9... 10-9... 11-9... 12-9... 12-10... 13-10... 13-11... 13-12... 13-13... 14-13... Our serve, championship point... they pass, Shawn goes up for the spike, aw... 14-14... oh wait!--Megan dug Shawn's hit! Allison sets the ball, Erin goes up for the outside attack... the ball speeds over the net, the whole gym is silent. The ball bounces once inside the side line and rolls all way to the gym walls before the first cheers erupt. We won. WE WON!

I once asked Jorge why they decided to name the team Fluff Friends. His answer was, "Cause how would you feel if you lost to a team called Fluff Friends."

My First Date...

...with the rest of my LIFE. Today was the engineering career fair here at UCLA. I woke up 2 hours early. Got my usual bagel bacon, two orange juices, and tatertots from Ron's House (Rendevous) and went over a few of the big name companies that would be at the fair.

I was really excited; I never get to wear ties. I like ties a lot (now that I know how to tie them). After 30 minutes of figuring out which identical white collared shirt to wear, I finally picked up my 55 freshly printed resumes and left for the fair.

I felt really awesome as I walked down bruin walk in my nice clothes. No one ever double takes at me with shorts and flipflops.

The actual fair was indeed an experience. The atmosphere was intense, yet exciting. After walking a few laps around the grand ball room, I finally found the nerve (and the words) to talk to a recruiter. I started with Boeing. Mmm. At least she took my resume. I don't think it helped that I got her name wrong.. kristina, katrina.. meh pretty close. I blame kcheung.

After going through the other big Electrical Engineer employers: Raytheon, JPL, Northrop.. I stopped by St Jude Medical. They are a medical device provider. And when I told the recruiter that I was an Electrical Engineering major with an option in biology, I saw her eyes widen. (This was a much better reaction than when I told other companies I was EE and Biology). She even smiled as she wrote down on the back of my resume that my senior project was Design of Minimally Invasive Surgical Tools.I kinda messed up at the end when I didn't know what that actually ment, but I'm not even in that class yet, so how am I supposed to know?

I tried going to the Blizzard Entertainment booth, but they were stagnant on hiring non software oriented Electrical Engineers (no matter how much Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft experience you have).

On my way past the entrance I noticed a seemingly innocent girl standing, trying not to get swept away in the madness of the swarms of job hungry engineering undergraduates. I smiled when I noticed that seemingly innocent girl was kristina. For the rest of the fair, the two of us wandered the floors nervously poking into the various booths hoping that someone would have a need for an EE-bio, or a material science major.

At the end of the day, I felt like I really got alot out of this fair:

Two google shades, one book light, one sparkly google pin, and a shiny crystal thing I got from a chinese company to be exact.

p.s, 3M also makes things that are not sticky (i.e, braces). Who knew?

Frosh Frenzy

I went to frosh frenzy again this year. If you don't know what that is, InterVarsity hosts this all nighter event for new students from Friday night at 8pm to Saturday morning at 7am. Yup, thats eleven hours of fun, games, competition, eating, and no sleeping.

I was wearily impressed by this year's freshmen. By 3am last year, the game room was filled with people knocked out on the couches. Besides a few people in the sleeping rooms, this year, the only person that was knocked out was the girl Justin ran over during "Do you love your neighbor."

3am this year, in the game room people were still playing signs. I left to play some basketball then came back after three games or so and the same signs game was still happening.

Amy Hu's karaoke hour was also a surprising hit-- 4am in the morning and a room full of freshman are singing "A Whole New World"

No magic carpet here.

I spent my whole frosh frenzy last year playing volleyball. I vowed this year not to fall victim to that addiction. But after hours of signs and ninja, I found myself back in the gym in a circle of people focused on not letting a ball touch the ground.

I spent the rest of the night/morning resting in a tiny chair discussing catching leaves as they fall from trees and watching the sun rise. And so the night was over and day had come.
My parents picked me up from school and we drove to my grandpa's birthday party where I spent half my time sleeping.

Poohwho, Season 4 Premier

Mmmmm... yeaaahh... picture a day... I kinda failed. As some of you might know, I was doing medical school stuff all summer up to now. Even if I had kept up with my blog, each day you would just have a picture of a different page of my Kaplan MCAT book and I think that would violate some copyright or something.

Anyways here's a summary of what you missed:
1 week of summer break
study for mcat
study for mcat
took mcat
woo summer vacation for 5 days at lake powell, UT

started med school apps
woo school starts
yay rieber
yay friday lunch/volleyball crew

yay old friends
yay new friends
ahh med school apps due
ahh need more letters of rec.

okay now we are caught back up to the present.

Sprang Sang

Sorry about the title, I didn't want it to just say "Spring Sing", cause that's boring.

Tonight I went to my first spring sing as a UCLA student. "But Chris! You are on campus Friday night and you didn't go to volleyball?!" Yea, I know right? Its ok. My elbow is sprained so I thought I'd give it a rest through the weekend. I'll be back at open gym on monday.

Anyways, my first Spring Sing was pretty entertaining. People at UCLA are so talented. Me and kristina were talking about whether or not we would trade our skill in our respective sports (volleyball and softball) for skills in dancing. At first we both said yes, but as I am writing this I take it back. I love my vb :] Who needs dancing when you can get the satisfaction of smashing  balls at peoples' faces!

Ooo and they gave us glow sticks! This was actually the first time I actually broke my own glow stick. Grownups always seem to like to break your glowstick before they give it to you. WHY? Whats the point anymore? Its like popping all the bubbles in bubble wrap before using it to pack a shipment.

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Yea so that was my first Spring Sing. Today was also my first time going to the Young Research Library. Deep in the heart of North Campus (*shudder*), this library wasn't as difficult to find as I expected. The reason I went was to surprise my friend who works there. I forgot to ask her what floor she worked on, and as it was a surprise, I couldn't call to ask now. After searching all of floors 1, 2, and getting lost somewhere in the stacks of floor 3, I finally arrived at floor A (pshh leave it to North Campus to number their floors with letters).

After she gave me a tour of her desk, we left for friday sand volleyball with Happy Belly Productions.

Amazing stuff always happens on fridays. Whether it be clapping and cheering for friends with the RCC, or getting attacked by finger pointing clouds and mobile trees, fridays are always legendary. Me and Jo found these conveniently shaped objects on our way to volleyball.

Haha, ok im gonna go get some sleep for spring fling tomorrow. Yea, I know right? Spring Sing, Spring Sing... so many Spring Things.. haha see what I did there?

Super Awesome Ultra Master Ball Blog Post

Happy Birthday Jo!

Yesturday was May 9th. It was Jo's birthday.

I just met Jo a couple weeks ago, and I  found out her birthday is right in between mine and Josiah's. Together we share the ultimate birthday weekend. Another thing we all have in common is that every couple years one of us will have to share our birthday with Mother's day. Mine was on mother's day 2 years in a row, and this year it was Jo's turn.

Jo is a pretty cool girl. I first met her playing sand volleyball at saxon and I remember thinking, "pfff, this girl doesn't look like she can play. this will be interesting to watch." but actually over the past couple weeks, shes gotten pretty good. After our secret training sessions, she's mine and steven's secret weapon for friday sand volleyball.

2/3 of Super Birthday Weekend Complete.

Happy Birthday Jo Ana! and thanks for not throwing a water balloon at me :]

Happy Birthday Josiah!

Today is May 8th. It's Josiah's birthday.

I wasn't at school today so I didn't see him on his birthday.

He's a pretty fun kid. He does alot of things you don't really expect him to do (as you can see above). Anyways 1/3 of super birthday weekend complete.

Today I celebrated mothers day with both my dad's and mom's side of the families at separate parties. As always, I love to see my family again and to see how much they care for me. I must of been asked over 50 times how my eyes were doing.

these are two of my cousins on my mom's side.

my dad's side is crazy. i have an uncountable amount of cousins on that side. today we counted all our second cousins, so our cousin's kids. We have 35 second cousins.

Some of my cousins and their kids. Yay for mommies!

p.s, my new hedrick con video is finally finished. it was fun to edit :]

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/video/video.php?v=389593184131

Whoa!

Long time no post! Sorry I got lazy, but I'm going to try to get the picture a day going again.. starting now.

My birthday is coming up this monday! and amazingly, 2 of my friends birthdays are also this weekend, Josiah and Jotana! Today I got my facebook flooded with pictures tagged with me by Josh. I clicked the first one and this is what I saw:

Him, Connie, and Steven did this ultimate chalking sometime last night, but I still don't know what wall this is. Chalk Squad strikes again! Check out the video of them doing it, its amazing!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/video/video.php?v=1351328657498&comments

Thanks, Connie, Steven, and Josh!

Dear Steven, This is an Intervention

It is Steven's birthday today. All throughout highschool, Steven Chan has wanted one of my animal hats and I never got him one. So yesterday night, I lured him to my room in Rieber Terrace by saying I finally got him a hat. But when he got to RT 9th floor, instead of a hat waiting for him, there was an Intervention. Interventions are from the Show How I met Your Mother, and the purpose is to point out to a friend a specific area in their lives that are consuming them, usually to get them to stop doing it-- such as smoking, drinking, obsession with tanning salons, overuse of pyrotechnic magic tricks, or faking a british accent. Steven's intervention was about him being way too good looking. I am so glad Josh recorded this because, I havn't had a real laugh in a long time: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/video/video.php?v=1333076241199.

After the intervention, I told him that I had to run back to my room to grab is "real" present. On my way to my room I hit the elevator button and instead of running to my room, i hid behind the corner with a blanket at the ready. As soon as the elevator got there, I gave came back with my "present" all though it wasnt an animal hat. We threw the blanket over him and kidnapped him.

The rest of the story I cannot disclose over the internet, as it may contain incriminating evidence.

In other news, Rendevous has new orange juice, or rather its the same juice but different container. I feel as if theres more in this one.

Half A Grand worth of Spring Sing Tickets

So, im out of hard drive space and memory on my sd card for my camera. I have to be really choosy with the pictures I take now, so my selection for pictures of the day is becoming limited.

Anyways, yesterday I went to a nice Catalyst. Mike Eubanks talked about racism, an issue that we all pretend doesn't exist, yet we all know is still prominent. This is a pretty sensitive subject. As I am typing this, I think I have deleted and retyped the same sentence atleast 10 times already. Starting out in a predominately white elementary school, then moving on to a very ethnically diverse highschool, and now to UCLA where the majority of the student body is asian american, I consider myself pretty ethnically educated. Some people argue that all people are equal, but from my experience, there are huge differences between races. However, for me atleast, these differences are not governed by skin color but rather differences in culture. Its really amazing, how so many different cultures have emerged. And I am really glad that there are different races in the world, becuase without them, the world would be so boring.

Yea, I know this picture doesn't fit with the race theme since they are both chinese, but this is a nice picture from catalyst :P

Today, after class, I was walking back to my room near rendevous when I heard some people passing by saying, "Hey someone should go walk in front of them to see what they will do." I looked at where they were pointing, and noticed a group of people sitting in a straight line in front of rendevous, apparently clapping and cheering for people walking by. As my eyes focused, I recognized that it was Steven, Jordan, Josiah, Josh, Justin, and Mike Eubanks.

And so I joined in their fun...

 ...and silliness. 

And so the Rendevous Clapping Club or RCC was formed.

Oi, and all of today I was walking around with 528 dollars worth of spring sing tickets in my backpack. Why do I have so many you ask? Well, Joyce, Katherine, and I woke up early in the morning to go wait in line. Between us three, we were to buy tickets for us and 22 IV friends. In line we met up with some other IV people and the group of us together bought nearly $1800 worth of tickets!!! 

And so I was put in charge of my 22 tickets for the day since Joyce had to go to class.

If you bought tickets from Joyce, just pay her and get your ticket from her cause I'm gonna give her all the tickets tomorrow.

Yea, so that was the beginning of my day. It was fun. The end of my day was also pretty fun. Steven and Josh invited me to go play volleyball with them at Sunset. I never play beach, but it was a really nice day so I went anyways. I made some new friends and it was a nice change to be playing volleyball outdoors for once and without much competitive pressure. Towards the end, a group of guys showed up and challenged us, so we formed a team and I'd say we represented quite well. The net was a foot lower than regulation so me and steven got to show off a little :]

Today was a pretty nice day, but alas friday is almost over and I must get back into engineering mode.

Don't Stop Believing

So as many of you may know (or not know), my chalk work on the Puzzles Stairs yesterday night was erased by sprinklers this morning. But a little water can't stop the Chalk Squad. After refilling my supply of happy sticks, I decided to rebound tonight! This time however, I was not alone. At my sides were Connie and Sarah. We not only rewrote what water had erased, but added a few extra touches with our combined minds. It was not an easy task either, mind you; it surprised me how many people ventured the Puzzle Steps at 10:00pm after Mark Study.

Courageously, the Chalk Squad worked as many eyes stared and judged us on their way up. It really made my heart glow when a girl stopped to say she always wanted to meet the people who wrote all those things. She called us the "Happy Writers"... lol.

As I walked back down the stairs later alone to take pictures of the newly improved stairs, I heard a guy telling his friends, "THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!" And at the top I heard a couple laughing after one of them said "its funny because we actually live in Hedrick." Haha, and when Connie wrote the "Jia Yo" I asked her if she thought anyone would be able to actually read the chinese characters, and just as I said that, a girl passing turned back and exclaimed, "I can read it!"

I'm happy I was able to leave some mark at UCLA, even though it will be erased by the next time the plants need watering.

Here are the newly improved steps:

Chalking up the Puzzle Stairs

The Chalk Squad strikes again! This time, instead of the usual party cats and moorawrs, I moved on to encouraging statements! We are so used to seeing our teachers and professors chalking up the blackboards with a bunch of boring school stuff, and most of the time the things they write on the board make us sad. The Chalk Squad's goal on the other hand, is to use these little sticks of white powder to make students happy.

So the next time you walk up by Deneve on the way to the Hill or up the Puzzle Steps near Cafe 1919, it is completely normal to find yourself smiling.

I think I will wait until after class tomorrow to post up my pictures and video so it doesn't ruin it for ya! I can tell you i was really happy as I was doing it because people coming up the stairs were all smiling as they trudged up each step. I even got a hug from one of the girls walking up behind me! Amazing what just a little chalk can do.

Goodnight!

UPDATE: I forgot to take into account the sprinklers that go off on tuesday mornings.. soo all my hard work got erased.. no matter! I won't be stopped that easily!
I guess I can post the pictures now.

Check out the video of it! http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=380144849131

Oh and also a new addition to the party cat wall: