So we are here to add some more stuff into our May signature, which we have going on here. This is a, I'm going to put all these little bits aside here for a minute. So this is what we have going on right now. I have to put the book in that we did the book review. I actually have written it down yet. These are some of our melted straws. I love these. Not only do I love the way they look. I love just rubbing on them. Really cool texture. So this is what we have going on at the moment. So let's add some more. Where are we? There we are. So let's add some more to it. So we're going to come back here to the front beginning page.  And this was on her confirmation announcement. So I love these little gold dragonflies. So I'm going to stick them in here. This is just Elmer's. Elmer's Extreme. All right. Then we have this flower drawing that I don't think you've seen the video yet for. But we do have a tutorial for this. And I'm going to actually tip this in. It's one of our prompts for this month. Right? It's tip in. So again, I'm going to grab some of my masking tape. My decorative masking tape, which works great for tip-ins. I pick it up everywhere. But one of my favorite places to find it is either staples or target. Put it along there. Not too far in because I don't want to cover up too much of the artwork. Am I going to tip it in? I want to do it right in the front. I want to do it in the back. I think I might want to do it like right here. I'm going to flip this over. Put another piece of tape.  Don't forget to do some right actual writing. Art journaling does have the word journaling in it. Alright, so don't forget to do that part of it. I also have, I was out running around running errands and we're getting ready for some construction around here. It's going to be a crazy month. And I found this paint chip which has these different shades of like turquoisey colors on it which I just thought were so pretty and kind of for me represented spring and, you know, the brightness of a fresh spring sky and all of those things. The colors are morning sky, tropical waterfall, and soft turquoise, and I just, I love that. So I do think that we're going to put this in. The question is, do I want to tip in another thing which I could do or do I want to just glue it in? I might want to tip it in. I hate to say that because I have a lot of tip-ins now. But I could just glue it in. But I think I want to, so I think I want to fold it at the white line dividing the different colors. And I'm lazy right now. I don't want to reach for the bone folder. So I'm going to use the handle of my scissors to crease that. Yeah, I like that. So we're going to put some glue on this part. Push that down. Is that the right way? No. That was the wrong way. Okay, let's try that again. I think I'm coughing my asthma. I'm not doing really good today. So that glue is going to hold it pretty well, but just for security's sake, I'm going to take a small piece of my masking tape and I'm going to put it back here, crease it there, and push it down onto the paper and onto the paint chip. Put a little piece of tape here. I could throw it away, but I'm not going to. I'm going to just stick it randomly right there. Okay, I like that. This is going to be like a month of tip-ins. All right, so one of the other things I did really early on this month was I took a bunch of surplus paint and art supplies, things that I am not using, that I don't care for, some of which I bought in the early days of starting art and art journaling, and they were still good, but I wasn't using them. And I took them down to a place in here in San Jose that's run by First Presbyterian Church on 4th Street, called a Women's Gathering Place, and I also took toiletries to them. We're getting ready to remodel our two bathrooms, and we had a lot of toiletries that were perfectly good that we weren't using. And so I took them down to them and made a larger donation, which felt really great to do. And I picked up this brochure about them on my way out. So one of the things I want to do is I want to add this in. Normally I cut it apart. I want to do that. I think I want this bit on the back, which has their address and everything on it. Not only do I like to document what I've done in the month, but I like to also have it as kind of a reference so I can go back to it and go, wait, you know, a couple months from now I can say, okay, wait, I found some more stuff. What was that place that I donated to? It was this place. Or if my husband says, what was that place? Oh, it's in my journal. Hang on, let's go look. I think I want to just put it in in its entirety, like right here. So we're actually going to just put some tape runner on the back of this, which I have to get some more of. Put that inside this tip in. Yep, that worked great. So now we can come back here and pull our pen out, and I can do some journaling. So I'm going to do that and I'll be right back. Okay, so here we go. We have our journaling done and already the journal is looking, the signature for this month is looking really great and really interesting, full of texture and color. Love it, love it, love it. So keep going with your journal this month. Add some tip-ins, add some texture, add some color, add some things that remind you of spring and starting fresh and have fun with it documenting your journey and your life. I hope that you're enjoying your week and if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please contact me. If you're in the Facebook group, you can just make a post and you can pin me in it. If you're not in the Facebook group, you can email me or private message me or leave a comment here in the video. If you want to be a member of the My Year 2017 Facebook group, which is what this is for, and you're not a member, why aren't you a member? The links for that group, my other Facebook group, my Happy Mail address, the link to my Etsy shop if you want to support my channel and my endeavors with art, my email address, my Happy Mail address, all that stuff's in the description, so check out the description. And the most important thing, of course also, like, share, and subscribe if you would. That would be great. But the most important thing is to go out and have a great day, everybody, and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with 2020 Panini Contenders Draft Football, three box, pick your team number nine. And you got a chance at the, you got a chance at the bangles, there you go. So let's copy everybody's name here, and the name on top after ten times four to six we'll get Joe Burrell possibilities. One, I said ten right, yeah. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and tenth and final time. After ten, name on top, Steel Curtain, Michael Galucci, there you go. Bangles for you, there you go, all right, now let's print and rip, all right. So here's the official printout right there. So the rooftop next to your names means you got them in a team random, or in Michael's case, got them into this latest bangles random, Paul Harris got last bought Mojo, so all sorts of things happening here. So there's the case, 2020 Contenders Draft Picks Football, is this from a fresh case? Yeah, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and then nine is okay. All right, so we'll go one, two, wait, these are three box breaks. Shave it right off the top of those. We'll go one, two, three, four, if I roll a five or a six, I'll just roll again. I'm going to use that guy right there. Five will roll again, six will roll again, one, there you go. That's the side we're going to do right there. And we'll save these for next time. X's in the corners right there. Maybe if they're mixed up a little bit, it'll be okay. There we go. All right, good luck, everybody. What do we got here? Six autos per box, on average. Oh, I should have a checklist up here. All right, so I'm going to drop this into the chat so that the groupratechecklist.com is the checklist I'll be going by. For this stuff. All right, good luck. I think each pack should have an autograph, if I remember correctly. On average. We've got Chase Claypool, I think is a stealer. I'm starting to learn these names here. I think he's a stealer. Yes, a stealer. Michael just said, how do you think that could possibly trickle down to the other 32 stakeholders for different markets, have different fan bases, and have sponsorships that they cater to, especially after college apricot would not stand for the national anthem? I mean, that's a great question. We've got Harrison Bryant, invocations of the importance of the shield and as if the shield blocks off the realities of the protocol.  Sean McKinnon goes to the Cowboys, tight end for the boys, undrafted free agent, that's Dallas, that'll be for Jason K. There you go, Jason. We finally got this done, and you're on the board with the Cowboy, nice. We got Aaron Fuller, college ticket autograph, I feel like the penmanship overall in this draft class has been pretty good overall, at least compared to last year's, just from top to bottom, you know. Free agent, undrafted free agent, picked up by the Seahawks, wide receiver for the Seahawks, and that will be for Seattle, Donald Brasier. We've got Taveon Feaster, Feaston, that'll be a Jaguar, and I'll go to Jacksonville. There you go, Jaguar's Mike Costello with the Jags. Jeff Gladney, college ticket autograph, is a Minnesota Viking first round pick, and we've got Collegiate Connections, Jake Breeland and Justin Herbert, will be a randomizer between Breeland and Herbert, and we've got Denzel Mims, well, that's one of the worst ones. He's got to work on that, he's got to go to Jasper's Autograph Camp. Denzel Mims, second round, wide receiver for the New York Jets, if you're a second rounder, you've got to have a better autograph than that. That'll be for Paul Harris, last spot mojo, we've got to send him to Jasper's Autograph Camp. AJ Dillon, college ticket autograph, AJ Dillon is a Packer, and that'll be for Matthew Shearer, who won the Packers in the team random, which is in a separate video. We've got Juwan Johnson, Oregon's Juwan Johnson Autograph, is a Saint. That'll be for New Orleans, that'll go to Duk Nguyen. College ticket autograph, Troy Jones Jr., Tony, I was like, there's no Troy Jones, there's a Tony Jones though, that also goes to the Saints, I can't read. Another one for Duk, got Stephen Gidry, college ticket autograph, and that is a Cowboy, and Jordan Brooks is a college ticket autograph, and he is a Seahawk, he was their first round pick, linebacker for the Seahawks, alright, next one. Um, I mean, if it sells out by the time I'm done with this break, yes, otherwise, we're just out of time, I'm afraid. We can get that in tomorrow though, if it doesn't fill tonight. In between the NTMBA, they get a big National Treasures Day. DK Metcalf, oh, for the Seahawks. That'll be for Donald. And the autograph is LaVisca Chanel Jr., out of 15, nice low number there. People talking about, people talking about him a lot, I feel like. Jaguars, they like his game. There you go, Jacksonville, that'll be for Mike Costello. We got Hunter Bryant, college ticket autograph, that'll be for the Lions, Detroit, and that's for Josie. We got college ticket autograph, Patrick Taylor Jr., I bet you by the end of the season it'll just be PTJ maybe, by the end. He's not going to do those squiggles anymore. Patrick Taylor Jr. is a packer. And we got Michael Warren II, who I think we learned, is he an eagle? He's an eagle, Philadelphia Eagles, that'll be for Matthew Shearer. We got Antoine Winfield Jr., buccaneers with that one, Tampa Bay, Brady's Bucks now. We've got Damon Arnett. Do you have a raider? Yep, that's the raiders, hoping to shore up that not-so-good defense that my raiders have. And that's for the Oakland, Las Vegas raiders. And that will be for Matt Hedges, I guess Vegas raiders now, officially. So there you go, Matt. Not Oakland anymore. Start that over. There you go, Las Vegas raiders right there. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. All right, Jake Breeland is a raven, so let's randomize this between Baltimore and Justin Herbert, Los Angeles Chargers. New dice roll, let's roll it, let's randomize it eight times, four and a four. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. After eight times, Chargers will get it. Justin Herbert, Wade Preston, who won that spot. It wasn't much in the way of Chargers, but you'll get these collegiate connections card. There you have it, Joe for Jasper's Case Breaks dot com. I'll see you next time. Bye-bye.


Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Laura Nolan coming to you from virtual PTC 21. Joining me today is Bill Radford, CIO of Edge Presence. Bill, happy to have you on JSA TV. Thank you very much. Let's get started. For our viewers who may not already know, please tell us more about Edge Presence. So Edge Presence is an operator of edge points of presence, providing traditional space power bandwidth and interconnection to its customers. We focused on multi tenant and single tenant built to suits, you know, someone wants the whole thing, they can have it. Basically, Edge Presence, what we do is we allow our clients to deploy their state of the art network of their edge storage or computing near where you or your customers need it most. You don't have to deal with the capital expenses, the operating complexity of a building that's out somewhere that's nowhere near where you're at maybe on the other side of the country, and you don't have to maintain the network. Each point of presence is secure, redundant, remotely managed in climate control environment that allows you to deploy your servers, communication equipment, routers, or any other gear you need. We do space by the rack unit. We do a quarter rack, a half rack full cabinet.  And essentially our fleet of edge presence points are managed and monitored from centralized network here in Jacksonville. It helps to ensure the network operations center can handle everything you've got your availability security, and we do it all using our patent pending designs. Bill at PTC you are speaking on a panel it's called transformations in data center and network infrastructure development. Can you give us more insight as to what you'll be sharing on the panel. And then when it comes to the edge in response to the challenging year of COVID-19. So, you know, we'll discuss a bit of who we are and what would what we do. Each of us will get an opportunity to discuss our strengths, how will we do will affect the future of their respective edge environments. I expect we'll have a little bit of fun with the questions and ourselves. It's interesting to see how our strengths are completely opposite of each other you know for for one company they have this strength and for the other company like us we were exact opposite of someone. And I thought I thought it was great. And of course, don't forget, there's always that answer the secret soft question you know that's out there so each of us have to answer that and I think we all did a great job on that. We each had our own effects of COVID-19. Some of us were affected a little bit. Some of us were not really affected. For instance, we weren't particularly affected because you know what we're at right now is it's just, it's fire, you know, it's a fire industry I don't know how else to put it so for us, you know, we have to be out there and be ready. I think someone who watches this is going to have fun and it'll be interesting for them. Sounds like a wonderful, wonderful speaking panel so we look forward to watching that. Let's talk more about 2020 and we just mentioned some of the challenges that we're certainly aware of that that you're brought. There are a lot of bright spots as well, including the news that data bank made a $30 million strategic investment in edge presence so first congratulations. Thank you. And next what's on the horizon now for edge presence in 2021. What I would say is, you know, people should actually pay attention to data banks willingness to invest in edge presence. They're obviously one of the biggest players in the industry. They had a lot of options and they looked at every option when data bank got to its presence. I don't want to say they fought for us because they're bigger than we are, but I will say they made it very well known that they wanted this relationship. And we certainly listened to what they had to say. It's been great for both companies, and we're expecting big things to come from each other's partnerships now and in the future for each presence. It's all about accelerating our deployment and helping educate the world's enterprises on the advantages of our curbside co location. And this is going to allow edge presence to stay way ahead of the industry's curve, and it allows us to explore more offerings from all of our strategic partners as well as our current and future customers. We'll be watching for sure so before we leave last question is there anything else that you'd like to share with us before we wrap up. If someone is interesting in a turnkey edge data center provider in a specific area of interest, please reach out to us, you know, go directly to our locations page on our website at edgepresence.com and edge presence is coming to a city near you. Go check them out you heard it from bill thank you so much for your time with us today bill it was a pleasure. Thank you. And thank you viewers for tuning into JSA TV and JSA podcasts. Happy networking.


Instead of just relying on footprints, TPO, volume profile and traditional charts, I wanted to try to condense some of that. And that's where I kind of came across the book map. It was presented to me by one of those friends from that community almost nine years ago at that point. You mentioned, hey, you might like this. This is more visual.  Take a look at it. And it was right after that that you started another competition. This is fantastic. This will let me like really kind of explain my process and in explaining my process, I'm able to kind of internalize my process a little bit better. But all of this comes about from journal and seeing what was there in time and then documenting that and then documenting my reaction to it so that when I come back across that problem again, I'm able to act in a better way to be more profitable, not just be profitable. That feedback tells me that maybe they don't know something or maybe I didn't explain it well. And either way, it gives me an opportunity to do something that improves myself.  It's that amalgamation of both groups that can make you a better trader.


Good morning. I'm Ernie Bauer, the Senior Advisor and Director of the Southeast Asia Program here at CSIS. And we're very fortunate this morning to have a visitor from Australia, Dr. Carl Thayer, who's the Professor Emeritus at the University of New South Wales, and also with the Australian Defense Forces Academy. Is that right? Dr. Thayer is a well-known expert on Southeast Asia, in particular Vietnam, and I wanted to ask you a couple questions about your outlook for Vietnamese politics after the Party Congress that just happened earlier this year. A lot of people in this town think that Vietnam has taken a turn for the more conservative after the Party Congress. Others think they see continuity. Could you share where you think Vietnam is headed after the Party Congress? Well, in a nutshell, the Central Committee, the vast majority of members are incumbents and are returning, 42% are new. So there's continuity. On the Political Bureau, 9 of the current 14 represent continuity. And Vietnam is not going back. It's actually addressed and agreed to be more proactive in pursuing international integration. And that simple phrase really means a full court press now to carry on from the remarkable success and opening to the outside world, but not leaving areas outside of the economy, such as defense and security, neglected. So they're broadening their engagement? Absolutely. Across the border. And that obviously includes the United States and Australia, but not exclusively so for either. No, I think Vietnam, they want to make friends with all countries of the world as the kind of aphorism that they use, but in reality, to mask working with great powers, they also want to build up relationships with other countries. So it's not to be isolated. And in that context, Vietnam's chairmanship of ASEAN last year was remarkable in many ways. They were seen as strong leaders of ASEAN, and they really had some important accomplishments. And could you comment on, you know, what are some of the most important things the Vietnamese did, and why were the Vietnamese so focused on ASEAN? Right. Well, I think two events stand out for me. One was they picked up a process where the ASEAN defense ministers, which had met for the first time in 2006, the last sectoral group in ASEAN to do so, reached a decision that there were areas in the defense field where they needed to cooperate with dialogue partners to enhance what they were doing. Vietnam picked up the ball and went running and convened the inaugural meeting and got eight players at the table, including China and the United States, at a time when both those countries had fictions. We're able to keep the South China Sea off the formal agenda, but individual ministers raised it so they had their cake and ate it too. The meeting set up five expert working groups, which will continue the process. Time will tell whether that's successful. They got that off the ground. And then they presided over the East Asia Summit, which has been going since 2005, but that organization made the momentous decision to invite Russia and the United States to join, knowing full well that the United States would agree. And so the United States has a seat at the table as a major plower in the Asia-Pacific, not excluded from East Asia. Right. I was really amazed last year when Vietnam... Not amazed, but I was sort of reassured, I guess, when Vietnam agreed to become a full member of this regional trade negotiation called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or the TPP. I think they agreed to be a full member in November, which is only months ahead of their own party Congress. So it looked like a pretty big commitment to regional economic integration. But are the Vietnamese biting off more than they can chew with the TPP membership? Well, for a country that was totally dependent on the Soviet Union, it collapsed. And without skipping a heartbeat, opened up to the Northeast Asia first and then globally and did so successfully, taking on the TPP is a similar challenge that I think they have already in their experience ability to do so. They've identified long ago the threat of falling behind economically other countries as a major concern for them. They're dead set in the party Congress and door signing multiple free trade agreements, putting pressure, putting stress on the TPP, because Vietnam needs to find comparative advantage globally. Massive trade deficit with China, it needs other markets. Turning now to the security side of the relationship. One of the aspects we've seen in the U.S.-Vietnam relationship is a real maturity of the security dialogue. But is it possible to normalize mill-to-mill relations between the United States and Vietnam? And if so, in what sort of timeframe and what issues should we be thinking about as Americans? Well, it's possible, but it's not going to be as fast as the United States would like. There's considerable reluctance inside Vietnam. Not because people who have concern are anti-American, is that they fear Chinese reaction and they always have to balance the two. And secondly, America is so big, they're just fearful. They can be taken for a ride or signed on to something and be entrapped in a way that they don't want to. But they made a commitment to open up and they need human resource training, so a big area for them would be to take advantage of what the United States has already put on the table, IMET, extended IMET, and send officers, not in small numbers, but in much larger numbers to the United States. And second, since they've now begun doing search and rescue exercises with China, they've broken the ice. They're fearful that they're backwards, but I think they could work with the United States Navy and several regional programs, carrot, for example, that both sides can agree on. I think they're ready, willing, and able. There's a younger mindset that's there that's empowered by new leadership in the military for this international integration that I talked about to advance that in the military sphere. Sounds like an important time to engage. And one of the things that apparently has driven American engagement with Vietnam and in Southeast Asia over the last 18 months, at least, has been concerns over South China Sea. Could you talk a little bit about that from the Southeast Asian perspective? Why do they want the Americans engaged if they do? And where do you think we stand now post last year's ASEAN Regional Forum? Over the last several years, China has become more assertive. It's modernized and begun to shift military exercises so they begin to intrude in Southeast Asia and in South China Sea waters. Regional states want reassurance and want greater transparency from China. They're not entirely getting it. And in the Vietnamese case, aggressiveness by China and doing unilateral fishing bans has hurt the Vietnamese fishing industry. And they feel the issue should be internationalized, that ASEAN had signed a declaration on conduct of parties with China that it would have been a good confidence-building measure but not implemented. So Vietnam and its leadership in ASEAN in a very subtle way helped to internationalize the issue and put China on the back burner. Secretary Clinton made a very major intervention which spurred then China and ASEAN to try to revive a joint committee that had been moribund to try to work on that. So that's of concern. Two, Vietnam wants to develop its exclusive economic zone. And American oil companies that wanted to assist in that development were threatened by China and that caused an early intervention by Obama administration officials. And Vietnam was absolutely delighted to see the U.S. backing the right of those companies to do business with Vietnam in its exclusive economic zones. It's vital for its own maritime development because it has a long extended coastline and they wanted to integrate the land with the maritime domain and that would contribute up to 50% of GDP in 20, 30 years' time. So it's big stakes for Vietnam and they wanted also an American presence to keep the region stable. Does ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas for the United States, is that an issue that matters for our credibility as for Americans? Well, it does. One, we know the U.S. Navy adheres to the unclos, but the United States gives interpretations of international law based on unclos, lectures China and others see it a bit, well, why don't you sign on to it yourself if you're going to lecture China and what law should apply? So I think the United States would be in a stronger moral and legal position if it's signed on to unclos. I agree with you, by the way. And my last question, since you're here in Washington, if President Obama calls you over to the White House and says, Dr. Thayer, I'm about to do my first East Asia summit in Jakarta this year, what are the three things I should be thinking of in terms of my approach and my strategy to go into EAS? What would you recommend to the President? Well, one, thorough preparations that the United States works with the leading players rather than comes on board with ideas of its own that haven't been pre-cooked and looked at. Two, look very carefully at the concerns that regional states are raising that might not be American priorities, but understand there has to be a trade-off for America to get what it wants. It has to be sensitive to the concerns of other states. For example, regional views on climate change, coral reefs, that seem tangential to the agenda, and I was thinking the U.S. is back, I'll say a lower Mekong initiative, but there are other things that come out of that where the U.S. is funding stuff on the river but on infrastructure, and they have those concerns. The third thing would be that for the East Asia summit to really work, it is congruent with the ASEAN Defense Ministers Plus process. So a strategic head of state, head of government level direction could be given to defense ministers who have been kept out of the regional security architecture recently to get together and shake down the overlap of what's occurring and try to firm it up to save resources, concentrate humanitarian assistance disaster relief in one area, safety maritime issues in another would be a good start because once the heads of state have done that, ministers follow through and everybody down the chain of command gets their marching orders. Well, Carl Thayer, tremendously thoughtful ideas and I really appreciate your taking some time to talk to us at CSIS this morning. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. Thanks.


Do you sometimes find yourself aimlessly scrolling when you know there's a lot of messages from friends to respond to elsewhere? That's not as unusual as we might think because responding to a message of a friend you care about actually takes some time and requires you to put in some effort, especially if they've asked you questions that are not just very easily answered in a minute or two. Whereas scrolling passively is something that we often do to self-sooth, to sort of distract ourselves or to get away from a busy day. Next time you're finding yourself scrolling, you might as well at least interact a little bit with those friends by leaving them a little comment or a little like. That by showing them you're there for them, you do care and you might just not have the energy right now to respond properly.


Did you know your old Pokemon games for the Nintendo Switch actually do something in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet? If you go through the front gate of Mesa Goza and walk straight up to a lady by a lamppost and talk to her, she'll give you a few options to select from.  And she'll give you the Pika V case. If you see Galar, that means you played Pokemon Sword or Shield and she'll give you the Ball Guy case. If you played Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl, you'll see Sinnoh as an option and that'll give you the Poke Edge case. If you played Pokemon Legends Arceus, you'll see Hisui as an option and that'll give you the Arc Phone case. This will make you stand out a little bit more from other players in the game. Subscribe and ask someone...


Hi, welcome to Quok Talk. I'm Crystal here. Lots of great energy in the studio today. Lots of dancing bodies we're going to celebrate today because we're going to talk about this upcoming footholds concert at UH Manoa. So I have three representatives from the dance department there. Fascinating lives of individuals who are choreographers, who are students, who are women, who are going to come together and celebrate their bodies by talking about it. So let's not waste any time by introducing them. Why don't you all give yourselves a chance to introduce yourselves actually and tell us what you want us to know about yourselves, your background and your identity. Go ahead Angela, you start. My name is Angela Sebastian and I am from the Philippines. So my background in dance is ballet contemporary modern. So I was trained to, at a very young age, I was trained to teach and then when I did my undergrad in the Philippines, more open to choreography and performance to modern and contemporary dance. Yeah, I'll start with that. Absolutely. Hi, I'm Bianca Moise. I am from South Florida, West Palm Beach. And then I went to UH. That's why I moved out here to Hawaii for school. I've been dancing since I was three on and off. And then I went to performing art schools as a kid in middle school, high school. I focused more on acting in high school rather than dance. But then in college, I took a break and then decided that it was what I was tested to do. And so I became a dance major. Then after I graduated, I spent a whole year as an internship at the dance studio on Island. And I focused on all my time on training my technique and my performance. And so that is why I'm back helping with UH. Great. Okay, welcome back. Hi, I'm Christiane. I'm a first year at UH Minoa. I'm a BFA student. And I've been dancing like Bianca since I was two years old. What? I know, like how do you dance it too? But I've trained in ballet, contemporary, hip hop, jazz, tap, hula. Yeah, I really like to focus on versatility. And I'm really excited to be a student at UH and now be focusing on modern. Okay, great. So now we have that all set up like who you are. Let's talk about we were on a way here, we're trying to figure out how do you define dance? I mean, there's so many different forms. And it's not just the form, right? I mean, there's a lot of interpretation of what you consider as dance. Do you want to chime in on what you think that is? Dance to me is like just the expression of who you are, what you think things are with the movements of your body. And it's just a form of communication. In all honesty. But that's what the answer to me. Well, I think in any art form, it is performance. So when we I guess focusing on dance, it is maybe a time or a moment or a the opportunity to take your body or yourself to another place to another realm or something of who you don't want people to see or maybe how you imagine yourself to be those things kind of. So it's for me, it's a space of possibilities. I don't know, like being a character of something or embodying yourself, your inner self. I don't know. So it could be something very personal, but at the same time, it could be a mask for something that you don't want to go to and create something out. And as you said, with the moment in time, not only are you allowing yourself to be present, but if you're doing it with others, like you're sharing it with an audience and you're allowing them to be present in that moment of time with you. Which is kind of insane because it's like, say that the dance is based on a love story that you're experiencing. And so it's just you two, then only you two experience it. But when you have an audience, you're sharing it with them and they're going through that story with you without even having to hear you speak. Like they just see it in your movement. Right. But that's the calls to the audience performer relationship. Like how much in your choreographic process do you think about how the audience is going to perceive it? Or do you do it for yourself? You know, where do you kind of focus? And that goes in hand with I think the dance can be anything that you say it is. I think walking across the street, if you say that it's a dance, then it can be a dance. I think sitting there and doing nothing can also be a dance. It just it's an art. So if you say it is something, then it's something like a painting could be like somebody spitting on a table. And like, as long as you call it art, then it's art. I think that kind of explains what I think dance is. But also it doesn't have to necessarily be performative. Like, you could be performing, but not acknowledging that the audience is there at all. Okay, so it just depends on how you want to interpret it. If you want some sometimes people, it's like they don't make the dance for other people. Right. And so it's like when it is, it really is a choreographer's choice. But sometimes, you know, when you're looking back at it, there are times if you are going to perform it for an audience, where you're like, maybe they should not do that. Or this is not reading the way I wanted it or intended it to you at all. But that again, depends on the piece, like really, like, is this for an audience? Or is this for like, nobody? And we're for nobody. How does that work for you in your personal lives? And just curious, how do you kind of work through your movements when you're by yourself?  Do you do it in the shower? Do you like go, I want to play with this movement and I want to kind of work it? Like, what's the process for you? I think it's very, very interesting process, because it's also figuring out the aesthetics of the movement, but at the same time, exploring your inner motivation, kind of like going deep into like, and then not thinking about what it's going to look like outside. Okay, you know, so it's for me. Okay, that's how I kind of think of how I developed my movement. Yeah, I'm kind of relating it to, I'm not creating this for people to appreciate it kind of thing. You know what gets me safely aisles, or any type of like grocery store, I love dancing and grocery stores. That's so funny. My daughter does that, too. There's something about that lane. That's aisle way. It's like a catwalk, I swear. And then I'll just start dancing, people will walk past me. But it's one of those moments where if I'm just out doing something, I get randomly inspired. And you really have to not care. Like, people are watching you because sometimes that movement, it just meant something to you in that moment. Right. And then you try to remember it. And then I'll go back in the mirror, look at it. And you know, find, tweak it, make sure it's what I want. And like what I'm going for. But usually, I don't have to do that. Usually, it's just like I try to stay true to what I felt in that moment. Right. But that's just a great idea. Also, I have this image of this performance in a supermarket. Wouldn't that be great? You guys should do something like that. And if people can stand around, look at that security camera that's watching you in different aisles and doing PK turns down. I'm sure some of the security men have seen me like go crazy in safe ways multiple times. Like that is definitely a place. Bathrooms, sometimes I get caught having way too much money at the bathroom. How do you like spend in a bathroom?  And then someone walks in here like, Oh, I'm dressing rooms too. Oh, yeah, that's unexpected. Yeah. So how do you embody your culture and your identity in your work? Have you thought about that? Like how much that has influenced? Because you talked about who you are, but how does that translate into your creative art form? Like maybe you're from Florida. What is your ethnicity? I'm half Japanese and half Caucasian. Does that influence any of your body language? You know, it's just kind of you don't really think about this, but it actually probably affects. Yeah, well, yes. No, I mean, I think yeah, in the beginning, I didn't think about that. But then when you kind of obviously you find similarities from your teachers and those things. But then eventually, once that transfer happens to your body, you cannot really deny that you have your own movement and it becomes your own as well. You know, so I mean, I guess being influenced not just as a Filipino body, but I guess trained in a Filipino culture or something. It kind of yeah, the training is there. The tradition is there kind of but I would say in a lot of my choreographies, I don't intentionally put the Filipino in it, you know, but because I do have a question to myself as well of how do I define Filipino identity. So I can't really say that this is Filipino identity, you know? Right. So but it is exploration of my identity from where I came from. Right. You know, so it's embedded. You just stop, right? Yeah, so this is actually one of the talks that I did with the conference of that becoming of that process of identity that it doesn't stop. Because right now, I mean, like I came from Philippines, I went to Hong Kong and I went to Hawaii. You dance at Disneyland. I mean, that's like so the culture is different too. So, you know, like that development is still happening right now. So I can't really say. No, yeah. Just defining your own voice and honestly, I feel like, you know, a lot of people ask you how your culture affects your dancing and it of course has an impact. But at the same time, I feel like once you come to this country or once you're in this country, this country has an impact on you. Yes.  Both my parents are Haitian and so I'm a first generation like Haitian American. So I have a huge cultural background with them. And Haitian like Caribbean style of dancing is very intuitive. It's very like either everyone is coming together or they show you the pain, they show you the struggle and it's like extremely expressive and I think that's really beautiful. However, at the same time, it's like I'm also American. So then it's like I try to like mix those values together while also reminding myself that even though I'm Haitian and even though I'm American, I'm still myself. And I there are things that I identify with both and there are things that I don't identify with both and I respect that. But I also respect myself and I just try to express myself to the best of my ability. That's great. Christianne? I think in my dancing, you can definitely tell the different styles of dance that I have passions for, especially like in my choreography that's in footholds, you can tell that I love hip hop and there are like certain little elements of hip hop in my choreography. Normally, even when I choreograph contemporary or modern, it will still have that influence and I'll throw in technique because I have a passion for ballet and it's just like all those little things come together and also growing up in Hawaii and learning hula as a part of like public education, you know, taking kwayana and then within the last two years I've also learned very minimally some Tahitian. I'm a dancer at Raku Hula and Waikiki. So we do have to perform Tahitian and hula every show. So I've kind of had to delve into more the native style of dance and training and that has definitely taught me about like simplicity more in hula and the beauty of the hands. And I think that that has also affected does it complicate the body language or conflicts because sometimes I when I think Tahitian or I think like hip hop, it's the opposite of ballet, right? Something comes from inside out, you're holding it in and so the other things you have to let loose. And so how do you use that contradicting kind of body language or do you have to kind of sacrifice one for the other? I think it's an amazing exploration of just variety like the universitility of how you can actually adapt your body to being this and then this and finding that there's a different identity to this and this. Can you be both? I have just a lot of challenges.  And I've seen people effortlessly combine both. But then I've also seen people who have struggled to like find their voice with both. So it can be challenging. However, if you know yourself very well, then you can really express it perfectly. I guess it's it can be challenging, but it's like if you have the right idea and you know what you want, like which parts you want to be more restricted and which parts you want to be more loose and like more fun and more fulfilling, well, not more fulfilling, but like more, I guess, your own personal hip hop Tahitian, you know, cultural style versus technical style. It's like it can they can both work well together. But don't you have to acknowledge what your strengths are technically in certain forms, which kind of goes back to cultural influences because maybe you can move because it's in your blood or you know, the Asian style is more controlled and perhaps it's harder to do hip hop. Like I read my daughter, she's always been criticized for hip hop.  And it's interesting the you know what you're trained to develop and what you're going against. Yeah. So I constantly think about that. And you have to have a heightened sense of body awareness. Definitely. If you want to jump back and forth between the two, I find that when I'm focusing more in hip hop, going back into ballet is it's harder to find my center placement because in hip hop, you kind of have to let it loose and you have to be very grounded. Where in ballet, you have to be very lifted constantly. And same vice versa for hip hop. If I'm training in a lot of ballet, which right now, I'm training more in ballet than hip hop.  Like do those kinds of movement movements because I find myself being very lifted, that I'm not allowing my body to do what it normally would. Yeah. It's just finding a balance between the two. If you're doing a lot of ballet, you know, jump back into some hip hop and same. Yeah. And just recognizing your strength and weaknesses in those different genres. But I think, yeah, knowing your weakness can also be like a strength in different ways, you know. Yeah. So. Yeah. Being honest with yourself is a major part of dance. Yeah. Yeah. So that you can really identify what's going wrong and then, you know, focus on that and fix it in that moment. Right. And then, yeah. Also, that's a major thing that's just not never lying to yourself. That's why it's a constant process, right? It's a constant exploration and self-examination and taking in your influences around you and your stimulants and your interests and things that maybe you have trouble with and you want to kind of confront through dance. I don't know. There's a lot. So why don't we take a quick break and we'll come back. We'll talk about your individual pieces and your choreographic vision of your pieces. And again, just to remind you all, this is, we'd like to promote the upcoming UH Dance performance of footholds. It starts tonight. But we'll give you all that information later. But just remember, it starts tonight. It's Wednesday. It's a Sunday. We'll give you more details later. So don't go away. Hey, loha. My name is Andrew Lening. 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I'll see you there. Back here in studio, talking about dancers and choreographic visions based on identity and cultural influence and just our bodies. Let's start again. So we have Angela, Bianca and Christianne here, all choreographers for the upcoming footholds concert. So let's talk a little bit about the pieces you've chosen to create for this performance. Okay, so I'll go first. For this footholds, I, the title of my piece is Tuxibol, which is Tagalog and English is Spring. So originally, my piece was created for the Aimen or Imen Center, because I wanted to work with the arches and basically that reappearing images of the self, like yourself. And then but then there was like some issues for safety. So this is just like the behind the scenes kind of issues that we had to transfer my piece to the trees besides beside the Kennedy Theater. So it was a very challenging process for me because I had to kind of adapt the movement to the more nature like, you know, the trees and the ground and because it was easier for me to play with that Imen Center trying to have that contrast of the woman's body as kind of soft and in contrast to that arc, which is very strong and stable and grounded. So when I transferred it to the trees beside the Kennedy Theater, what kind of made me explore was the space? Yeah, the space, the color of it, and still trying to keep that inspiration and just just explored it with bigger movements, because if you have this huge bigger space and the dancers are kind of eaten with that space. So but what I what I can tell you about it is, is it's just celebrating that the spring life, growth and those things. So it's actually very relevant, the tree and the concept of life. And you know, the creative elements of dance for you to be able to adapt to a different situation is kind of the beauty of your life. Yeah, because it like grew into something else. Yeah, yeah, something like that. Yeah. So things happen for a reason, I always think so. It's very beautiful. She has a really lovely movement that she and I feel like you're you dance it yourself or you know, my the other dancers. Yeah. Yeah. But the movement like you could tell translates well on all of her dancers and like they kind of look like fairies like with the trees and everything. I'm not like forced to. Yeah. Yeah. Initially, they were like guardians of this. Yeah. And then they're like summoned because my music is Kenny Endo's Noon Cycles. So it's a taiko drumming. So that's like that brings them out. It's not live performance though, right? Of the music. There was a piece with live performance though, right?  I love it. Okay. So for my piece, it's called Old School Funk. I originally quit. So it was the first piece I've ever really choreographed as an adult dancer for like, like something that I choreographed start to finish like the whole song because the original song was like five minutes. And you know, that's a long time to be on stage. And there was a lot of music and it was a lot of creativity and I want to challenge myself to really just try something different. Something more old school, something that I knew I'd have fun with. And then I did that. I got my dancers. We did it. But then it's been about a year since I've done the piece. And so when I was asked to choreograph for UH, I was like, okay, and then I tried listening to music and I was like, I can't, I hate this song. But then I was like, you know what, maybe I should do the same song, but just a different version. I picked a new version. I got my old dancers unfortunately could not do the piece. So we got new dancers to perform it. And then I just I recycled some choreography, some parts that really stood out to me that I knew were like, you know, just big milestones for the piece that I love. And then I added new choreography because after that year of training and performance and technique, I was like, I've grown so much like I need this piece to grow with me. I don't want to be the same person a year ago. Like I want to show everyone how much I've changed. And show everyone how much I can do and really like push myself to do something even better. So what took me about five months to create like that beginner, what I consider like beginner intermediate piece, I transformed within this past month as an advanced piece with two new dancers who are so incredibly wonderful who honestly gave their all and tried their best. And they, it really shows that they've been working so hard. And I just I've used movements that I grew up with. I'm sure you grew up with too. They're very like 80s, 90s. I don't know. I'm like Chinese anyway. Yeah, that's true. I don't know what you see on TV, you know, like those hip hop movements that you either see like Michael or Janet or, you know, Beyonce or anybody really do where they just like go out loose and have a good time. And it's just like so fun.  How do you work with dancers who don't you have to and all this goes to all three of you is how do you work with the dancers on their abilities or maybe what they don't have what you want it to work with, you know? Oh, you sometimes it depends on the dancer to you because there's skill level of their beginners. You have to break it down. I remember I used to like I'd have like this. And then I'd be like, okay, let's defeat and then hips. Now we're all together, you know what I mean?  Yeah, you have to work with that. Yeah, absolutely. Okay, cool. Interesting. Well, I guess instead of imposing like a movement, like, if you just ask them to do something and they did do it differently, then you can stick with that to kind of something like that. Yeah, I mean, that's how I like to play around with it.  Like if they do it differently, you know, that works too. So don't be as rigid as a choreographer. You need to kind of mold with what you're working. Yeah, I think that's a collaborative process of your dancers instead of just giving out, you're also sharing. Yeah, it's their piece too. In a way, like they're performing it. So to incorporate a part of them into it really makes it their own and it gives a sense of pride for them to perform it a little bit more. And I think when you combine the strengths of yourself, the choreographer or whoever else is the choreographer with the strengths of your dancers, it just brings the piece to like a whole another level. Like when you choreograph on a set of dancers and tell them do exactly this, it's not going to be as good as if you work with them, I think in the process. Yeah. So Christiana, what's your piece about? My piece is called enigmatic inspiration. And I was inspired by inspiration for this piece. Inspired by inspiration to love that. Yeah. I've heard stories about artists who try to explain the phenomenon of creating, creating something, creating art. And sometimes they explain that they don't really feel the inspiration coming from like their mind or their heart, like their hands just move and it just goes and they're creating and it just happens. So through my piece, I'm exploring the power of like external force and just exploring the process of inspiration. I like that. So, you know, on that note, how do we inspire people to kind of appreciate the world of dance? I mean, some people take it as just a performance on people kind of associate themselves with the piece and some people like to distance themselves from it. Any comments or suggestions on how to celebrate the bodies through dance? I guess before you try to like ask, not really ask or like encourage somebody to understand or appreciate something is that I guess try to do it first. You know, like maybe the way I would encourage people is like kind of ask them to not be afraid to move your body. Like why don't you just try it yourself first and then eventually you appreciate and kind of relate to what the dancers are like, you know, doing and exploring with their bodies too. That it is important that we all have bodies. Yes. We are not different from, you know, like, we may be different because we are trained, but then we all have bodies.  Or is that something that's just sometimes I feel like it conflicts with the motif or the message of what you're trying to convey. For example, in my piece, it has nothing to do with sexuality or the body.  And that was definitely not what I was going for. But women's bodies are just somehow interpreted in those kinds of ways by society. So it's really hard to avoid and people will take it how they want it. But I do feel like that sometimes interferes with what you're trying to say. Yeah, I definitely my piece is definitely also not based on sexuality or gender, like very gender neutral. Anyone could perform it. But at the same time, whenever I work with men, women, people who don't identify as either, I really encourage them with what style comes off more feminine or masculine, despite their gender or sexuality, to just pursue it. Because honestly, if that's your form of expression that you are truly feeling, then just do it. Like really go for it. You don't have to record it. If you don't want people to find out about it. But if that's what makes you happy, then you should totally do it. And use that as a therapeutic stress relief. Yeah, so therapy is another form, you know, dance through dance to be able to transfer and to kind of release or to explore. It's really interesting. Absolutely. Yeah. So let's tell everybody when and where this performance is going to be. Maybe we have a flyer. And what's the theme? Let's share the theme. Oh, so. Glimps. Glimps. Glimps. And it is glimps. You guys can announce the details. Yes. So the glimpse will be taking place at Kennedy Theater at the Earl Ernest Lab Center from February 20th to the 24th. It's going to be tonight, Wednesday at 7 30. And it goes from Wednesday to Saturday at 7 30. This Sunday the 24th, it'll be at 2 30. It will be a match. True. Two o'clock. 2 2 p.m. I'm so sorry about that. The match name show. Yeah. At Kennedy Theater Earl Ernest Lab Center at UH Minoa. And there's the installation outside that's not on the flyer. You want to talk a little quickly about that? Yeah. So it happens 30 minutes before the show. Oh, so you have to come before? Yeah. 7. You have to come at 7. You should come before 7. Before 7. Before 7. What time do you need it? It's 4 5. Yeah. It's 4 5 to see me stay here. OK. Absolutely. Yeah. So there's some kind of installations of some videos, multimedia aspects of performance. Yeah. Right? Some projections of the video. And your piece is Outside by the Tree. Yes. And your piece is I'm looking for some hip hop and some modern kind of cross cultural. The fusion. Every fusion of every sorts of body language. I love it. I'm so sorry. Thank you so much girls for it. And I'm so excited for your choreographic visions to be shown starting tonight. And it's throughout this weekend. Please support UH Minoa's dance department in the footholds concert. Thank you so much for sharing. Thank you. Thank you. See ya.


So I don't know that I'm gonna do any more videos on impeachment after this However, there's one more thing that I want to talk about here before we move on I think that all of the outside cases related to Donald Trump's criminality are still really important and I will be following those but I want to talk about one thing that I found interesting and Infuriating that is the Republican who definitely concluded that Donald Trump was guilty of the crime that he was accused of But yet did not vote to convict now when it comes to the Republicans who voted to convict Donald Trump There were seven and that includes Burr, Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, and Pat Toomey And some such as Burr have been censured by their home state's legislature for voting to convict Donald Trump They're basically being denounced Officially by their state's Republican Party. That is absolutely um That's crazy to me. Um, nonetheless, uh, the individual who said Trump was guilty, but didn't vote to Convict is Mitch McConnell So after he voted to not convict he said this There's no question none That president trump is practically And morally responsible For provoking the events of the day No question about it The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions Of their president so there's no question about it He's guilty yet. You voted to acquit Do we see the problem? This is a pretty obvious Contradiction and Mitch McConnell is trying to play this off as if it's not a contradiction when in actuality It is he's trying to uh paint this as a principled Constitutional move. It's not based on his own opinion. Sure. The facts do Conclude that trump He's guilty, right? He incited that insurrection on january 6th. His actions were morally reprehensible. However My guiding star is the constitution and so I just have to adhere to the constitution because we all know that Mitch McConnell definitely cares about protecting the constitution But in an op-ed for the wall street journal He tried to make sort of pseudo defense of himself And tried to reframe the situation But brook cyple of the hill explains Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell in a wall street journal op-ed monday Defended the senate's decision to acquit former president trump But clarified that it vindicated the constitution not trump. That's horseshit in his op-ed McConnell echoed sentiments He shared after the senate acquittal on saturday when he said trump is morally responsible for the capital insurrection on january 6th And that he was outraged by trump's actions But mcconnell went on in the piece to argue that convicting trump was not protected by the constitution Because he is a former official McConnell added however that he respects the decision of the six republicans who voted to convict and their interpretation of the constitution And I think that's a misprint because there were seven. So I don't know if mcconnell said that or the author here nonetheless They go on I respect senators who reached the opposite answer What deserved no respect are claims that constitutional concerns are trivialities That courageous senators would have ignored he wrote mcconnell suggested on saturday that trump could face criminal prosecution for his actions Outside the senate president trump is still liable for everything He did while he was in office as an ordinary citizen unless the statute of limitations has run didn't get away with anything yet mcconnell said after the vote Imagine if mitch mcconnell were correct He's not but imagine if he were correct that somebody who is a former president is no longer Legally culpable if they're a former official all you have to do is serve your full term And then once you leave anything you've done is um It's over can't be prosecuted So what this sets up is a precedent that allows presidents to do whatever they want on your last day in office You can murder Someone one of your colleagues perhaps you can bomb a random country just for the hell of it You could do anything you want to because that next day As soon as the clock strikes noon and you hand over the nuclear launch codes and your successors sworn in That's it. You can get away with anything like is that the type of world that we want to live in That's not what the constitution says and we'll get to the arguments that legal scholars have made but If the constitution did in fact say that That would be a flawed document, but thankfully mitch mcconnell is lying here And the constitution does not say that uh anyone who believes that They are in the minority in terms of opinions on the validity of this impeachment trial So the verdict writes impeaching a former president is plainly constitutional I think this is pretty obvious and when it comes to the argument that the lawsuit is legally frivolous because Trump was just exercising his first amendment, right? well, of course Insighting an insurrection Is not protected speech and the new york times published an article where 144 constitutional lawyers Say that that defense isn't going to cut it now market watch talks about how mit romney cited one of numerous constitutional law professors Who say of course it is constitutional to impeach a former president I mean, do we want to live in a society where a president can commit war crimes? Where president can break the law brazenly so and get away with it? I mean Basically, we already live in that society, right? Let's be clear about that because george w bush hasn't seen a day in prison or a dick cheney for war crimes Neither has obama neither will trump, right? But we at least Need to have some sort of mechanism even if it fails To hold former presidents accountable for their actions But mitch mcconnell like he's not driven by a concern for the constitution or driven By principle like this is an opportunist. He is driven By self-aggrandizement. He's motivated. He's motivated by what is politically expedient So everything that he's saying here is horseshit and he's trying to pass this off as like Him not contradicting himself when he's quite literally doing just that The senate voted to move forward with the impeachment trial citing that it was constitutionally permissible So your job at that point mitch mcconnell was not to determine whether or not it was constitutionally permissible because you already made that decision As a unit as the u.s senate your job was to determine Whether or not trump was guilty of the crimes he was accused of and you did conclude that he was guilty so then You vote guilty you vote to convict and this wouldn't have mattered because Even if mitch mcconnell did vote to convict that wouldn't be enough That wouldn't be enough.  I don't like the attempt to lie and you know mislead people into Believing that you were doing this out of concern for the constitution Like this is the same individual who blocked president obama from fulfilling his constitutional obligation to appoint federal justices or federal judges and a supreme court justice This is the same individual who passed the law when he was senate majority leader that prohibits americans from participating in bds That is a direct violation of the first amendment.  That's it It just is it is shocking like the level of disingenuity here that we're seeing and this is Par for the course for mitch mcconnell But we shouldn't just like give him a pass because it's mitch mcconnell and this is what we've come to expect This is still completely Inexcusable and he needs to be called out for this But I mean it doesn't matter if he is called out for this because there really is no amount of public pressure That will get him to buckle like this is a ghoul He absolutely does not care about the country. He just cares about whatever is politically expedient and in this instance You know, um voting to acquit donald trump is what was the most politically expedient even if he did not believe that trump was guilty um He would have voted to Convict donald trump if that was the most politically expedient thing Now I I would argue that If I am an establishment republican sure Convicting donald trump is important because he kind of is bad for the party But nonetheless, you know mitch mcconnell, he has His reasons for why you know, he did this it's not based on the constitutionality of this proceeding It is based on what he believes is going to be the best thing For him And his donors and the republican party at large. That's what this is about and perhaps he's afraid of trump's base I don't know what the reasoning is But what I do know is that the reasoning that he's citing here is completely bogus and anyone with a brain Who's followed mitch mcconnell can see that that's the case


Hey everyone, I hope you're well. Welcome back to my channel I hope you're new signing you're killing my introduction. I hope you're new here My name is seppy and this is my sister signer Cba for a zoom like you'll see her in a sec. She's like what else? So I literally just did my makeup fresh that is why I look nicer and more presentable I Didn't have makeup on when I went to uni. So my makeup is fresh That's why I look nicer than all my other vlogs and I'm joking say hi Sign it is wearing the cutest jump I literally just got this, but I'm so sweet. I let her wear it first Look, I love these jeans. Okay the jeans. She chose herself. She doesn't say he doesn't like it, but I do I have a skirt that's similar That it doesn't fit me anymore Don't be sure girl. Man, she brings all the boys to the yard. They don't like it. I wouldn't sing that I was gonna sing belly dancer by acorn Baby drop it down. Just want to see you touch the ground My sheer bit and she brings all the boys she brings is rice pudding my meat shake brings We're gonna go to the coffee shop that we always go to it's really good insert signers head from behind My camera keeps shutting off. It's so weird We've come to Mom everyone knows you there's no need to be shy with family Pink So we've got a chicken guacamole wrap and a chicken sent to wrap with sweet potato fries I already had lunch, but I'm eating again, so I'm gonna have a little bite from whatever that What are you doing? I feel like a stalker. I'm following you around with a camera That is the most butters back But to go to the airport because I'm always every weekend Why are you so shocked?   Do you know the difference?  So it's technically a dinner. Oh Whenever I see stuff like this like I just want a pink toaster But I have nowhere to toast it and Oh, I thought it was a matching pink kettle, but it's not Yeah, okay, then we could show the vlog when vlog can help us decide if it's nice for her or not Basically, she's trying to hit out I swear to God she said this in like all of my vlogs and I always cut it out because it's so boring I Feel bad She says it so far sometimes The last time you spoke for 20 minutes about your knee problem and that's a cut it out No, honestly, she has arthritis and we always try to make her wear heels, but she can't yeah, that's the long story in the short version That's a new measurement guys So I gave a fake name My name is Layla. No Lana My name is Lana if you guys watch my cam vlog, then you know that my fake name go to fake name is Lana Lana Bell What's your fake name What's your fake name So they had to say I was like the only non-german in my car My name is Sophia And my surname is like some German saying I can't remember but I'll think of it again So yeah, and we're basically waiting for my Starbucks, and I've just left my camera Sorry about that So I've literally left my camera on top of the stand thing for this and people are like getting their drinks What are you doing? It's backwards. So I did sign at the dance in the middle of top shop guys Shit security I found some earrings that I like so these ones from the self-ridge and This one No, you've got so much of the same anything diamante style sign alarm I like these ones too, and then I'm gonna get these I'm Celia's sister Clemmie had similar ones to this but it was bigger and it was from the self-ridge and I can't find it No, but this is cool part two go What are you looking at I'm pretending like I'm looking I'm doing a music video guy Why are you grinding the sky?   I was so tired. I was just going to work today. I'm going to stop kicking my train. I'm here. I came here because I had a lot of work. I'm going to go home and I'm going to go back. Don't worry, everyone prefers a... I'm sorry. Let's go and have a seat. Anyway, I don't know why she's complaining I'm not the type of person who watches YouTube I don't know how to make up I'm not the type of person who watches all the videos on YouTube I always watch them in the comments I don't know how to make up Say what happened? I don't know What did you think it would be? I don't know I was surprised I was happy So we're gonna go out to dinner I'm just gonna quickly change my outfit And brush the powder on my face We're gonna go to the Turkish restaurant in my previous vlog I've never been there for dinner I've only been there that one time for breakfast So I really want to try it because there's no family been But my camera battery's gonna die So I'm gonna quickly show you guys what I bought Without soul messing around So from Miss Selfridge, I got these earrings They're heart shaped They're so pretty Diamante And then I got these earrings from Topshop Again, like hoop I got a NYX concealer And then I got from NYX more makeup I got lip liners from NYX in the colours Sandstorm Which I think I have Soft spoken, which I have and I love And Aria And then I got this lip gloss in Ginger snap It's like a dark Sanya and I are about to film The blindfolded makeup challenge But my makeup's so nice, I don't want it to ruin it It's not amazing, but I just know That my makeup's gonna look hideous after the challenge Also mom, come say Like some final hello Because you're going from one place I'm going to Iran Hello everybody I can't say hello to you Hello everybody I can't say hello in the middle of the vlog We're in the middle I miss everybody You're gonna miss everyone Who thinks my mom should vlog her Iran trip I think she should Vlog it on your phone and then I'll edit it on your back Oh definitely, I will do I love to share with you I think she should I hope you like it It's not forced No, of course, I'm sure everyone will like it Write in the comments If you'd like my mom to vlog her Iran trip And for me to post it And I send it to you You'll be back, how long are you going for? I'm coming back next week So she's going for a week 10 days You're going for 10 days, we're gonna do this I'm going the day after tomorrow Mommy can't go My mom Everyone says how do you do everything This is how I do everything She takes care of me Better than Anyone in the world Can take care of anyone I love you baby That's why you're leaving me for 10 days She cooks to me She cleans my room When it's a mess Like literally every single day Literally she comes to my room When she goes to uni She starts half Sometimes she wakes up And she come in late And She's busy with her study And her vlog And A lot of things She has a surprise now And That's why I have to look after her The only thing I can help her She does everything for me so She's like my biggest support ever And I couldn't get through life without you Are you gonna cut my hair before you go? I'm coming back At least people They have a little bit of time They look at your hair It's too long, I have to cut it Let me show them This is it right now Oh sir, excuse this I wash vegetables Everything This is vegetables I make it ready for her Parsley Tomato Broccoli Lettuce Because when she's coming back from work She's so cute She's meal prepping for soul And she hasn't got time to wash all of those And prepare She's so cute My vlog So it's been A day since we last spoke On the vlog What is up with my accent I don't know why I have such high energy My hands are literally Like shaking I don't know if my hand is shaking more Or the hand that's holding the camera It's Sunday, so can you guys guess from the previous vlog What my mum has cooked Yep, if you're Iranian You guessed it, if you're not Iranian You probably still guessed it Bormisabzi Oh no it's not I really thought because it was green It looks like it's gonna be Bormisabzi So she's made something called ash It's basically Persian soup Iranian soup, why do I keep saying Persian So I went to the gym And then I haven't been In about 10 days So I went to the gym today I was currently sitting on top of a food mixer What's new? I haven't been to the gym in about 10 days, so I went to the gym this morning Like I made a plan, I woke up First things first, went to the gym I did something called... Actually it wasn't fasted cardio Leg day, fasted because My trainer always says it's better to do fasted workouts If you can And I rarely get the chance Because I usually go gym in the evening So yeah, I went to the gym and did leg day And then I headed to Waitrose And At first it started off because I just didn't have the time Then I just got really lazy And I couldn't be bothered And to be honest, I didn't want to push myself if I couldn't be bothered I wanted to take those few days And put off So that when I come back, I actually really want to be back And the truth is, I went back and I felt amazing Like it was a fresh kickstart So in the mood So ready to be hitting the gym more And yeah, I'm so happy about it And I also was eating whatever I really Felt like eating if it was unhealthy And it had me feeling Kind of bloated Like nothing special basically So today When I woke up, I felt fresh Like a whole bottle of water I've spoken about this water bottle in previous vlogs I got it from Fenwick in Brandcross But it's from a brand called Polar Gear And it has like The volume of water measured Across the side and like tells you how much Like you should basically be drinking two of these a day And that'll be like one and a half litres of water And then you probably get other sauces Like for me, I drink tons of coffee And tea, etc And I'm trying to cut out fizzy drinks So yeah I've had one of these already And then now I'm gonna have If you guys have watched any of my previous vlogs You know that I love the sushi counter at Waitress So I'm gonna have this for my lunch Some of you might say that's a lot But I don't know That's what fills me And I prefer to Like eat till the point of satiety And not snack in between Otherwise if I like eat less And then I Snack that will make me gain weight And then slowly slowly I'll start reducing my portions to A size that's not too big So basically doesn't need to Weight gain and doesn't need to weight loss And then I got Mushrooms These are shiitake mushrooms I got a lot of vegetables Because I love Vegetables and I love salad And I feel like that's the easiest way If any of you guys are looking to cut fat Use weight or just feel healthy Try and add as much vegetables As you can to your normal meals So that's what my plan is I got bell peppers I'm probably just gonna cut it Put it in the oven and then have some cottage cheese And stuff on top I think it'll be yummy Grape because I love fruit avocado Oh I love these These are thin bagels So they're pre-slice, multi-seed And cereal bagel slimed by Fitzgeralds And they sell these at Waitress And they always sell out I literally have to run to the aisle So they're basically brown Seeded bagels But they're half the thickness of a normal bagel So each one has 130 calories But basically it's lower in carb But it still gives you the Fillingness of a sandwich I always use these If I make my lunch for uni And I want to start making my lunches for uni So I'll use this and put turkey wafer Or something with lettuce, tomato and hummus Top tips right here Also I just realised that this jumper Is not family permitted Then I got this Colourful rice quinoa And vegetable stir-fry This is so good for when I get home from uni And I'm feeling lazy This is diced nutty Golden butternut squash and sweet potato So I put these in the oven And then I basically treat it like a jacket potato So If I want something really small and sweet I'm deciding on just having a Naked bar or a piece of fruit And I feel like Naked bars for when I'm feeling really naughty And a piece of fruit is when I still want to feel healthy So yeah, that was my little Healthy food shop. I thought I'd show you guys So many of you guys want to know what I eat in a day Stuff like that And I haven't been my usual Healthier self in the past two weeks So I couldn't really film that But I'll start off by showing you guys Hopefully this week, this coming week I can film what I eat in a day And you guys can see. I was going to film it today Because I haven't started eating yet But I feel like my weekend is not as Representative as the five days in the week That I eat Because when I'm not at uni, obviously I have a bigger Choice So yeah, I'm going to film what I eat in a day For you guys so you guys can see That is the end of this vlog I hope that you guys enjoyed the weekend With my firm and my little grocery shop And yeah, I'm going to leave you guys To enjoy The rest of your day On night, whenever you may be watching this Why does my voice go like this when I'm Ending my vlog? Don't forget to check out my Socials, they're always linked down in the description But my Instagram is Persian Bunny My Twitter is the Persian Bunny And my Snapchat is Stepi Samai And a lot of you guys ask about my sister's socials So I'll write that across the screen as well Sol's Insta is Dr. Sol Sam and Sinus Insta Is Persian Honey As you can see, Persian Bunny, Persian Honey Sol should just really change to Persian Bunny Yeah, she loves it but she hates it But we should change it for Persian Bunny Hey you guys, I love you so much Don't forget to like, subscribe So we can see each other next time Bye