Technology Can Be Confusing...

So I'm not sure if I mentioned that I had an iPhone on this blog, but to make things shorter, I'll just state very briefly that I do indeed have an iPhone.

So the other day, I was in the library just browsing through all the books, when I came across a book that explained all the things that you could do on your iPhone. I would normally tell you the title of this book, but unfortunately, I merely glanced at the title and never gave it a good look...

So I was very intrigued in this book particularly because although I had an iPhone, I didn't really know what kind of cool that I was able to do on it. I was looking from my phone to the book, learning all kinds of new things, when I came across how to organize your photos into albums. I had been wanting to do this for quite some time now, so I enthusiastically got to putting all of my photos into albums. Then I looked back at the albums where I had inserted a lot of my pictures, and my heart stopped. They were all gone. There were 0 photos in the albums. At first I was completely in doubt, not believing that all of my photos could simply vanish, so I searched through the entire phone, and the entire book, but to find... nothing. Absolutely nothing.
It was then when I had a full fledged panic attack. I started repeating over and over, "Oh, what do I do, what do I do..." I was cold all over and started biting my nails. This was a big deal for me because I have never, ever bitten my nails. Not once in my entire life.
Now I understand that some of you may think that I'm a nervous wreck, for panicking over something that some others may not even give a second thought to. But as you know from my previous posts, I recently visited the San Diego Zoo and also Venice Beach, and I also took many memorable photos. 
This is solely the reason why I was in such distress. I had taken so many photos that had been so valuable to me, so many photos that I took so much time to take...
Even now as I write about this, I am still quite melancholy as I think about all the photos that were gone...
Anyways, one of the major points of my post was to say how important it was to get over things quickly, and not spend long, long minutes of your life thinking of what has already been lost. I realized from this small occurence, I learned a big lesson in life... hopefully there are a lot of these moments in your life where you realize lots of important things!
I hope you have a great rest of the week!

San Diego Zoo!

So yesterday, after weeks and weeks of asking and asking and asking, we finally got to go to the San Diego Zoo!!
I had been anticipating this for an extremely long time and I was delighted when my parents told me that our schedule had finally opened up and that we could drive to San Diego. I was so incredibly excited, because I had never been to a zoo before and my first time ever to a zoo was to one of the best ones in the world!!!
When we got there, I took my parents all through the park, stopping at exhibit after exhibit and taking tons and tons of photos. We saw everything from the smallest meerkats to the gigantic elephants. 

One of the coolest animals that I got to see were the pandas. I have always loved pandas and have always wanted to see one in real life. Unfortunately, this little guy was sleeping the entire time, but he was still just as adorable, if not more.     
I have to say that the monkeys were one of the most amusing animals that I saw at the zoo. I could clearly see where the phrase "monkey business" came from; these monkeys were so lively! They were climbing around on the fence and pee on each other. They would all gather around and fight over a small bit of food that I couldn't identify and jump from tree to tree. I honestly didn't know how crazy monkeys were until yesterday.
Another cool thing that I got to see at the zoo was two of the most unlikely animal friends together. A cheetah and a dog apparently the best of friends, were just chilling out in a large exhibit together, and many people seemed to be drawn to that particular exhibit the most! They were both extremely playful, and as you can see in this picture, they were always playing around with each other. A few times I thought I saw the cheetah lick its lips and eye the dog for a second, but that was probably just my imagination~ :)




But my favorite animal in the entire zoo would have to be the river otters. They were not only adorable, but they put on quite a show too. They would swim in front of the glass and do 360 flips in front of all the little kids' faces pressed to the glass! They were by far the most playful animals I had seen in the whole zoo. They would do flips and dives - it was like synchronized swimming!! They looked so huggable too...
All in all, I had a wonderful time at the zoo yesterday - it was one of my most memorable experiences! There were so many cool things that I would've never gotten to see if I hadn't been blessed enough to have the chance to go to the zoo!!
I hope that all of you will have a chance to go to this or other zoos sometime; I say it's worth going at least one time!!
Thank you all for tuning in once again!

The Sound of Music

So I watched the Sound of Music again for the first time in quite some time now, and I realized that this movie was truly the best movie ever made.
I know that this is a very very old movie, and was made long before I was born, but I do think that it's worth watching at least once, simply because it's just that good.

I used to watch this movie probably about 2 to 3 times a day when I was a little kid, and I never got bored of it. In fact, you could even say that the movie got better and better every time that I watched it. I knew all the songs by heart and watched every single scene intently. I was quite an interesting toddler, singing songs from The Sound of Music while the other kids walked around singing the Dora theme song. I remember to this day rewinding the video cassette over and over, anticipating the next time I would watch it... That was definitely one of the best times of my life, watching my favorite movie over and over every day, not a care in the world.

But of course, school came along and I forgot about The Sound of Music and occupied myself with "playdates" and all of the great things that kids did as first graders instead. It was the same every single day after that right up until yesterday.
I saw an old, old home video of me watching The Sound of Music as a 3 year old and I decided right then and there that I needed to watch it. So I got on the internet and waited impatiently as I watched the streaming movie load at a painfully slow rate, and then when it was finally done buffering, clicked "Play." 

Before I knew it, I was watching that movie just like I did when I was a toddler. Singing along to all the songs and enjoying every moment.

Even as I watch it much later, I still think that it was the best movie that was ever made; you can watch it again and again without getting tired of it!

So I strongly recommend that you watch this movie if you haven't seen it; I guaruntee that you will love it!!

Venice Beach, CA

So today, we decided that we missed the ocean quite a bit since we had spent almost our whole time in Vancouver with the ocean at our doorstep. We called up my mother's friend, and she told us about Venice Beach. So she came over, and we all piled into the car and headed for the beach. I had heard many good things about Venice; it seemed to be one of many tourist attractions of California. Once we got there and sank our bare feet into the warm sand, I could instantly guess why. I had forgotten how vast the ocean was, and it took my breath away even though I had been with it for almost all my life. It was then that I realized that I needed the ocean by me to live the rest of my life. I loved it there so much. The thunderous boom of the waves crashing onto shore was wonderful... Digging my feet into the sand felt so great... I honestly didn't know how I had survived these past two months without even dreaming about going to the ocean...

There were so many beauties there next to the ocean. It was by far the most beautiful part of the ocean that I had ever seen. We saw so many breathtaking things, I was simply squealing with delight.

We gasped when we saw the pelicans flying right next to the waves, diving into the water when it spotted its prey.
After watching the pelicans for a long time, we realized that the beach was filled with small shells, smaller than the size of your fingernail. They were beautifully colored with such variety, so beautiful that they looked like they were manmade. What really amazed me, however, was that they were all alive. Every single one of them were alive and squirming. There were probably millions of those shells in the sand right next to the ocean. I discovered the majority of these shells by accident. I was wading through the shallow waters of the ocean, kicking up sand and making the water cloudy, when I realized that there were tens of thousands of miniature shells underneath the sand. In awe, I kept digging into the sand with my feet, and when there were hundreds of shells over turned, I waited to see if they would move. They did. They started to squirm and burrow back down into the sand; right where my foot was. I could feel them moving around my foot, and that had me laughing in the water for quite a long time.

While I was doing this, my mom suddenly exclaimed and screamed and pointed out in the ocean. She said that she thought she saw a black something slide out of the water and back in, and we got very excited, thinking that she had spotted a seal. (We saw seals all the time in Vancouver, whenever we went out for a walk, you could see their smooth black heads bob out of the water.) We waited and watched for a long time, and then we saw it. The black image... had a fin! They were dolphins! Suddenly, there were so many dolphins in one area, their fins visible above the water, going in and out of the water, putting on quite a show for us; it was so beautiful. I had never seen wild dolphins out in the water before...
We were so amazed at everything we had seen and thought that it couldn't get any better, when of course, it did. We saw these small birds, the size of your palm, squeaking and feeding right where the waves were lapping at the shore. They were, however, very afraid of the water (or maybe they just didn't like getting their snow white feathers wet and dirty) and whenever the wave came in every thirty seconds or so, they would make adorable little squeaking sounds and run away altogether from the wave, and run right back when the wave receded. They ran unbelievably fast; so fast that their legs were a blur and they looked like they were sliding across the sand. They repeated this process over and over again, and we were laughing and squealing at their cuteness and persistence.

Lastly, we saw another flock of birds, also feeding by the shore. They had long, thing beaks that looked like spears, and they dug their beaks into the sand, coming up with the small shells and eating them all. We watched in amazement at these interesting birds until we realized that we should start heading back. We had so much fun.
I loved everything I saw there, and I realized that there were so many beautiful creatures to see.
I really hope that I can return there sometime, and I recommend this beach for all of you; your breath will really be taken away!!!