In the blogosphere, 2011 was a good year for me. I came back after taking a very long break and nearly closed this site for good. Even though I had to start all over, I had a lot of fun rebuilding this site and meeting and interacting with new bloggers.

In the spirit of uh, recapping (huh?), I’d like to share some of the posts I had a lot of fun writing in 2011. I hope you enjoy it too!

In chronological order:

1. Top 10 WTF Files I Kept from the Teenage Years – When I was younger, I used a lot of blank CDs to save all of my files every time I thought my shitty computer would crash and delete everything. I still have most of the CDs to this day, and the files pertaining to them are well, things I wouldn’t think would be worth saving today.

2. Top 9 Guilty Pleasures – I first hesitated publishing this only because I was actually kind of embarrassed by a lot of these habits that I was about to divulge on the internet. After posting it though, I don’t feel so bad about it anymore.

3. Hot Topic Store: Past & Present- I’m just showing some obvious proof that Hot Topic was once a creepy dark store made for freaks and now it’s become a lot more friendly to the general kids of America.

4. Blogging Trends of the Past- Blogging, like fashion and clothes, definitely does have different “trends”. Most of them don’t last very long and boy am I glad they don’t.

5. My Top 5 Chick Crushes – What more can I say? I love women too, especially the hot and smart ones.

6. Top OLD 10 Karaoke Songs to Sing – These were the kind of songs I listened and sang my heart to back in ’00. These songs are also very specific to region, so if you don’t live in Southern California, you might not be familiar with any of the songs I post. Still, it’s good!

7. Top 5 Man-Crushes (Literally) – “Eww, old men are gross!”–NO, THEY ARE NOT. They are smarter, stronger and more experience than you therefore logically hotter than you (but if they’re really old, like senior citizens kind-of-old, then I’ll have to pass).

8. Top 6 (Justin) Biebers of my Time – It’s really just about the young cute actors I had huge crushes on when I was a little girl. They’re probably just a bunch of sad has-beens by now, but it was fun while it lasted right guys?

9. Tiff Puts on Her Face: A Walkthrough – I noticed that no matter how minimal my makeup is, I will still look drastically different without my makeup on only because I have a very simple Asian face. Oh well, I think it’s pretty cool to watch the transformation though.

10. Tiff, in 34 Years – I’ve always thought, “God, how weird would it be to continue blogging when I start having grandchildren?” It’s weird and like the weirdo I am, I’ve practicaclly summed up my future (of blogging).

May 2012 bring us fun/weird/awesome topics and stories to blog about. Have a wonderful New Years!

Ah, shit, quick–think of something before they get bored and vow to never come back to your blog again! Throw them pictures of cute cats or show off your biceps. Something.

Do you have your tickets to the gun show?

That’s more like it. It’s been almost a week since I last posted something and I’m already having a borderline anxiety attack. I don’t care if I have only two or three loyal visitors, I just can’t stand knowing that there’s an entry of mine that has been gathering dust on the front page for weeks. Eugh. Screw that.

So I have a new layout. I know it seems like I’m constantly changing it, but trust me, I had to. Now that my entries are more picture-heavy, I can’t have all of that clashing with the usual “loud” and “busy” layouts I tend to create. God, it was so hard keeping this layout to a minimal. I just wanted to add more and more shit to it until it becomes the god of all tacky, but I had to contain myself. It’s been a while since I last made a simple layout. Hopefully this will be more pleasing to the eye.

Also, this isn’t the most original layout I’ve created. I didn’t actually steal any codings or images, but just the IDEA of the header, really. Does that make it any better? I sure hope so. Anyway, huge thanks to Bunnytoothed for the concept. Her illustration is far better than mine. I used this picture to trace mine. I didn’t do a very good job so now I have a full-on tard for a header.

That’s it for now. Here’s another picture of, well, who else? I just really like how my Tom Ford glasses looked in here. ^_^

Yes, that was me towards the end of 2008, and if anyone says they miss the “old me” then I’d be terribly disappointed because I’d like to think that I’ve been evolving since. Lulz.

But still, it is a bit trippy to compare the differences from 2008 and today. Three years ago, I wore a lot of black and loose t-shirts of various zombie references and comic book characters. My hair was long and rarely brushed…well I still never brush my hair to this day so that hasn’t changed really. I didn’t wear a lot of makeup back then and I remembered looking kind of dirty most of the time. This year, I’ve been a lot more bright and colorful. I guess I just wanted to look more presentable and look like I actually shower, you know?

I think the biggest difference is–not the way I dress or how I act–but it’s the level of stress I have. I’m not sure why I looked grumpy in that 2008 picture, perhaps I was trying to look like a hardass or something, but it was probably one of the the funnest and easiest years of my life. Now that I’m almost turning 24, I’m in that really awful transition where reality just smacked me in the face: I’m an adult and I have to start acting like one, and time is flying waaaaaay too fast and I haven’t done shit yet. Great.

Anyway, this post isn’t about me whining about my personal life, it’s about remembering the good times (even though I’ve been known to bitch a lot back then) in 2008, so here a couple of favorite entries I’ve written (as an ungrateful kid):

• Kanye West Shutter Shades are Dumb
• Hot People are Goddamn Boring
• I Hate Clubbing
• Five Thugnificent Ways to Gangstify Yourself 
• My Hair Evolution
• How to Survive a Slasher Movie
• Top 5 Eurasian/Hapa Men
• I <3 Dentists