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Thursday, December 31, 2009

happy new year

so a new year is beginning!
and im sitting at home at the moment... thinking or pondering on whether or not i should go to this one event. haha i know that in the back of my head, i do want to go, but something is telling me not to. i know what it is. but i shouldnt let it effect me. *sigh*

starting today... this new year, everything is going to change.

haha ok im gonna write in viet now. haha i feel like it!

chuc mung nam moi.

mot nam moi sap den roi. thoi gian troi qua nhan qua. minh khong biet lam cai gi het! mot nam buon da qua. nam moi nay can phai vui ve hon. minh suy nghi nhieu qua. can phai nghung. ok. chuc moi nguoi mot nam moi binh an va manh khoe, va hoc gioi! cho mai sau duoc van su nhu y! haha song lau tram tuoi. haha.

minh nghi minh ghen voi ban trai cua ban minh. haha! cung khong phai la ghen. giong nhu khong thich moi dung. haha. i dont know. nhung minh vui tai vi ban cua minh kiem duoc mot nguoi roi... i'm very happy. minh nghi toi phien minh... hopefully this year?! haha. we will see.

i neeed to listen to vietnamese songs. im losing my viet! i used to write so well... this is like... sad common words... ugh. im sad.

ok. i guess im going to the event later... hahah we will see how it goes.
i know its gonna be awkward...

oh btw, im waiting for my "year" and maybe this might be it...

i got accepted to the LONDON BIOLOGY program at school...
i need to talk to my mother now... iono. i have a feeeling i wont go.. cuz its 5800 without airfare and food money... and tickets are like 1500 ish... right now... so thats like 7200 already.. without food! and we all know that i enjoy eating out... so for 6 weeks... in london... how much would be enough for FOOD!? hhaha i think all together this trip will cost me 9000. so 1800 for food and shopping perhaps!? haha i think thats good. ok... i need to raise 9000... well i need 800 by jan 15th.... *sigh* SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME IF I SHOULD GO OR NOT! i need advice! dont tell me what i "want" to hear! tell me the truth!!!

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

i cant breathe without you, but i have to.

hahah

FOOD!!! post #2


 I FORGOT ABOUT PAMBICHE! haha its cuban food...


Places I want to try…perhaps before winter break ends!?

  1. tour de crepes (alberta & 29th)
  2. Blue plate (3rd & washington)
  3. Berbati's Pan (2nd near Ankeny?)
  4. Paccini (pizza! Mainly) (Park and 12th?)
  5. St. Honoré Boulangerie
  6. Bar mingo/café mingo
  7. Muu Muu's
  8. Yuki's Sushi
  9. Urban Fondue
  10. Toro Bravo
  11. Rogue Ales

Of course there are more places… but these are just sugggestions for now. haha

Monday, December 28, 2009

Family Gathering


Sunday. Did not go to church. Cuz i was so tired from sleeping all day the day before! and watched movies: ALL ABOUT STEVE and yea...

I did not get out of bed until... 4 ish? haha
was about to go to church, but mother decided to go to uncles house!
so we went and we ate... FOOD! we made crab...but i did not eat it cuz i dont like crab. there was papaya salad that was SPICY as HELL! but i liked it... hhaha so i ate a lot of that... and bun bo hue? and other stuff... a lot of seafood! but no OYSTERS! i was saddened! haha

hanged out with the little cousins upstairs... tried to get them all together for a polaroid picture, but none of them would stay still and no one wanted to take pictures! (later on they wanted to, but i was "pissed off" or something so i kinda yelled at them... haha)

hanged out with the older cousins and uncles at the table... talked about:
Boys ----- how they are animals when they are drunk (this is coming from my very mature, awesome, soon-to-be doctor cousin and uncle-in-law). boys can be really nice and a good person when they are not under the influence, but when they are, us girls, need to be careful and not let them take advantage of us! we can go have fun, but the important thing is TO NOT LET THEM TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU!!! thanks for the advice boys. haha
What a "man" should do #1 ----- so... according to them, a man should be the one sacrificing for the girl. it is NEVER the OPPOSITE! if the girl is sacrificing more for the boy, then she needs to stop and find someone else because that guy is not worth it. he probably only wants to get some and thats it..  he doesnt "love" you enough...so why bother. like my cousin, he was dating his wife and she went to OSU, so every weekend, he would drive all the way to OSU to be with her... after work, which was after 11pm! man i did not know that. haha. but wow that was pretty crazy... (ps - it took him 6 months to hold her hand... hahah JK he said.., but patience is a good quality to have)



What a "man" should do #2 ----- he should be paying for the girl/lady/woman... NO MATTER WHAT! (even if you're poor!) NEVER LET THE GIRL PAY FOR ANYTHING!!! my uncle-in-law (pretty funny guy) said that he was really poor when he was dating my aunt and he was like sorry but i cant afford to take you out to expensive places, but we can go to SUBWAY! haha at least he was true to her! and being honest! and PAID still haha.

Friends ----- make good friends. and if we do go out and party or go clubbing, remember to look out for each other. especially watch out for SPIKED DRINKS!!! haha and BOYS!

yea we talked about other things too.. but this is what i remember right now.
oh. a family trip to Vietnam in 2011? i dont know yet... i have a feeling i cant go then... but we'll see.
uhh talked about careers...

BTW, they were drinking Jägerbomb w/ rockstar! and Courvoisier VSOP (cognac)... i was surprised! with the Jägermeister! it was their first time at home. AND it was my first Jägerbomb! it was pretty GOOD! i actually liked it. haha (of course my family doesnt know that i drink...before haha)

 well then there was the trip to VN talk. same old drama. MONEY MONEY MONEY! my mom didnt have a fun happy trip... full of drama. *siigh* and she "disowned" her sister-in-law... haha oh how i dislike my family in VN...

Overall, it was a fun day today. i like family bonding time...

Saturday, December 26, 2009

........

ugh. some people can be so... LAME!

sometimes, i dont feel like trying no more.
i think i'm caring less nowadays...

for instance, if i got a C back in the day... i would totallly freak out... now, it's just... "oh a C... how nice, i passed..."
im losing it.
which is not good at all.
i dont know what to do with myself anymore.
my dreams are impossible to reach.

& i'm losing the people i care about through different ways.
(lying, cheating, hiding things like THE TRUTH+secrets, not being honest, & simply the lost of communication!)
i saw it coming.
i just never wanted it to come true... or admitted the real fact/truth...
i think i started losing them when i was in high school...
and i'm still in the process of losing.
(i have to admit, HS wasn't "fun," it was just nice to finally have some real friends. that is probably the only reason why i liked HS so much. i was a loner throughout elementary+middle school. i had friends, but were they really friends? just a bunch of little tattle talers, self absorbed, selfish, and mischievous kids. PLUS the drama that came along with it. i think i made some good friends in HS. just think about how different i would be if i went to Grant!? (my 2nd choice). I dont know if anything that happened was right, but it's fate? haha whatever happened happened. cant go back now. And i dont know what will happen in the future, tomorrow or even in a minute... but i'll let fate decide... my decisions do matter... but who knows... sometimes things doesnt go as planned. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I GOT TO THIS MATTER OF FATE... ANYWHO! HS was HS. Glad all the people i dont want to see is not in my life anymore haha pretty messed up but it's true. some people were just so annoying and... fake. btw, i dislike FAKE people! i mean a lot of people are... but theres a limit... like... for me, i act differently around different people... is that consider fake? haha i am still me though... SOME people are totally TWO different people! sometimes... i get scared... but anywho i am done with HS. just wanted to mention that because... OH because HS was the time period where i started losing people... thats right. family, friends, old AND new).

again, i think it's time for me to give up.
& let things be...
most importantly,
letting things go...
always has been my problem
& probably will always be my problem.
im always returning to square #1... losing that epiphany that i thought i gained... but in reality, it's just me imagining it or wanting it so badly that i put it in my head thinking that i have it... haha hopefully that made sense.

anywho... i dont know why i started writing about this... oh nvm. i do.
because of PEOPLE.

my day today

haha
we can never have too much butter!
lobester killer haha
you are the butter to my bread, the air to my breath.

i finally finished Julie & Julia. It was a pretty good movie. I want to learn how to cook now. I really do. I feel like if I have lived in a different place, I would totally know how to cook. It's limited here. My mom doesnt even use the OVEN! If my dad was still here, we would be making desserts and whatnot together. (especially cheesecake, his specialty from what i hear from my cousins who knew him when they were young...) Every time i eat cheesecake, i think about my dad. haha. it's weird how i feel... this bond... with him still... even though it's hard for me to picture him... AHHH! why am I talking about this!!? haha

anywho, good movie.

i cant wait to go watch sherlock holmes. i wanted to see it yesterday... haha and right now....

so i picked up mothers today at the PDX waited.. for 1 hour! international airlines... she went the tokyo way. which was different from the previous times... haha I waited at the D gate section, and then i was like no one is coming out (8:15am)! then one of the people who works there told me that i had to go downstairs to the international arrivals. mothers and uncle didnt come out until 9:15am! haha lame i woke up so early... 7am. and was hungry so i ate... a #2 at McDonald's haha 

i got home and went back to sleep. right now is 2pm. and i'm still in bed. haaha.


SO now i am watching THE KITE RUNNER!
i read the book last summer and i cried at some parts... it was a reallly good book. i recommend you guys to read it if you havent!

so the movie is alright. not as detailed as the book of course. and is missing a lot of scenes! i didnt CRY or like just teared at this one part... but not pouring down crying when i was reading it... haha. not a lot of books can do that to me... but yea. i say read the book. 

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

The Real Fact

Sometimes stuff happens for a reason.
But what i hate the most is not knowing ahead of time.
i like to be spontaneous, which contradicts my previous statement.
the two are two different things though.
not knowing ahead of time is when there is a plan, but i dont know about.
the second, being spontaneous, is not having a plan, in which we come up with one at the spot.

there is always a reason when it comes to my actions.
like me not wanting to do something. eating, stressing, drinking, etc...
i am easily persuaded, but it is not because i am easy, it is because i dont want to make things complicated.
i feel like my stubbornness would make people hate me. cuz i am stubborn. i just never showed it. like if i really feel like it...no one can make me do something that i dont want to do, i will NOT do it, to the point where i would get pissed off and just leave or w/e depending on what the situation is.
but, of course, this will never happen. because "i love my friends" too much.

yes, i hate liars.
doesnt mean i cant lie.
sometimes it is necessary to lie so things can be ok.
sometimes it is better than the truth.
BUT lying is not the way to go.
in the end, it would get out somehow... sometime... in the future.

sometimes, i just want to be... myself.
OR
just someone else..
a totally random person...
that no one knows.
if i act differently around new people whom i havent already met then... that would be interesting!
they dont know who i actually am.... they dont know the real me. and i dont know them. haha... it would be funny and interesting..... hmm.... interesting...

Monday, December 21, 2009

Winter break. one.

so 3 days has passed. yet felt like a week. i am super sleepy. so ttyl.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

oh the pain...

i am currently going through two types of pain...
the pain of:
(1) joy - i am happy that tmr is THURSDAY the 17th! last day of finals! it is painful because it is finals week! so much work to get done and studying to do.... all the information did not exactly go inside my head like i wanted it to, but the bad part of it is over so i'm glad. i only have two more finals: fine arts, which is a speech on JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (a famous baroque composer...) and the other one is my biblical and traditions class (theology) which is a paper... ish essay type of final. which i still need to study for.

the second pain that i am experiencing is:
(2) physical pain
-sharp stabs throughout the left side of my back...(started like... a long time ago... but it usually goes away without me knowing... but RECENTLY like for 3 weeks now... my back is constantly aching or w/e it is... sitting/standing... so hard to focus. i dont think its my posture! or the way i sit... but yea... not good.. im putting some medicated oil (on myself) and like patches on my back right now to calm it but its not working... )
-my left foot cramping up... (weird, i noticed it started in the summer... like a couple of times... but recently it started again... i dont know what's happening to me.... scary! foot cramping up hurts! like i cant walk! like half your foot is stacked on top of each other... i dont know how to explain it.. but it is not a good feeling...)

thats basically all the recent PROBLEMS i have right now... *sigh*
ok back to studying.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

The Phan Files, Episode 2

Kthanksbai

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Diane Phan wrote:
Great! That is so wonderful. Hope you will knock it outta the park!

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Diane Phan wrote:
I know, but tonight I will embrace my she-wolfness

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Diane Phan wrote:
I soo neerrveeus...ghdkfjdskfj.


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Diane Phan  wrote:
Oh nothing much, just practicing my speech


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Diane Phan wrote:
Hello me again, it's been a while! How do you do?


Thursday, December 10, 2009

Quote #10

"Happiness is only real when shared."

                                                - A Friend...

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

horrible friend...

i am a horrible friend/person!

so i was working on this assignment with a friend and we were going over every single question (50 of them) and when we got to 45... i decided to take a quick "let's close my eyes while laying down" while searching for the answer which was at 12 ish?... and i totally FELL ASLEEP! i didnt wake up until 6:30am!.... isnt that horrible?! i left my friend hanging!!! *sigh* i hate(d) myself for the past few weeks. it has beeen hard.
unnecessary things that happened, which made everything more stressful for me... please go away.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Fwd: Phanny phan phan phannnnn fo fanna fan fan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Diane Phan 
Date: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: Phanny phan phan phannnnn fo fanna fan fan
To: Diane Phan


Note to self: never leave computer unattended :)


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Diane Phan wrote:
FASHO!


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Diane Phan wrote:
I AM the SHEWOLF..........!!

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Diane Phan wrote:
You no fun :(


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Diane Phan  wrote:
Wtf?!


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Diane Phan  wrote:
Knock knock!

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Diane Phan  wrote:
Bananas!


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Diane Phan wrote:
Who's there?


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Diane Phan wrote:
Knock knock!


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Diane Phan  wrote:
I love my new crocs, they are so preeeetttyyyyyy :)


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Diane Phan  wrote:
Why did 6 eat 7? Because 7,8,9!!!


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Diane Phan  wrote:
Where are my lovely friendsies?


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Diane Phan wrote:
I enjoy talking to myself :)


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Diane Phan wrote:
I love the fans of Phan.













Saturday, December 5, 2009

Thao and the Get Down Stay Down!

another cool video! haha i love them! and she is awesome.

Blake Lively!

well since she's gonna be on SNL today... i wanna let everyone know/remind them of how awesome she is! haha this is a clip of her on the JIMMY FALLON SHOW! haha funny people!

Videos Dedicated to ME! haha

haha i thought this was hilarious....



week #1 of hell is over.

well this week was horrible. but i got through it... it wasn't easy though.
now... starting on one of my 4 presentations for next week... *sigh* i dont know man. pretty intense stuff coming up. it should be fine right? i need to pull up my grades or else... something i want to do wont happen for me.

i cant wait for xmas to come. sleep and do nothing! snow too. and maybe hang out with my friends... its a maybe haha. cuz once again, i'm going broke. i dont know how to survive for the next few weeks! *sigh* i need to stay MIA for awhile! haha.

PHOENIX IN PARIS


Phoenix - 1901 - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.



Phoenix - Lizstomania / One time too many - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.


Phoenix - Long distance call - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.