Hi!
My name is Jessica and I’m turning 20
Ever since I was a kid, I've been a bit of a goody two shoes
The quiet kid
The rule-follower
Responsible
And I've never really had a problem with that
[I’m Jessica]
[Today is the start of winter break]
[Hi]
[Oh, Bố đang quây phim ha?]
[I’m Jessica!]
But as my teen years come to a close,
I’m running out of time to be reasonably reckless without it being frowned on by society
So follow along as I make it a goal to be as reckless as legally possible,
lose sleep to watch the sunrise,
and prove that youth really is wasted on the young
There's nothing I love more than sugar,
which I normally have to control as a functioning adult
but since we're doing whatever we want this week, I decided to have s'mores for dinner
JESS: Ducky's here!
JESS: And Soy's doing a TikTok
JESS: Time for s'mores
CRYSTAL: Ew
JESS: Eww
(singing "Midsummer Madness")
CRYSTAL: Our bad singing
DUCKY: Ready?
DUCKY: Ready? 1, 2. 3!
JESS: If you fail, then we get to roast Peppa
SOY: Why do you wanna–what is wrong with you?
JESS: I don't like Peppa, ok?
SOY: No
JESS: She hung up on Suzy!
SOY: I'll do–
SOY: I'll even do it from here
JESS: No–what?
JESS: No, no, no
SOY: Yeah
DUCKY: That’s easier
SOY: 100%
DUCKY: Soy, no, no, no, you can't jab it!
SOY: *does it anyway*
CRYSTAL: Time to burn Peppa!
SOY: No, no, no
JESS: It's time to burn Peppa
SOY: No, I don't–
I don't think YouTube will let you–
like, post this online
PETA's gonna go after you
CRYSTAL: Omg, she's a fireman too
JESS: Omg
CRYSTAL: Omg, you turned it on?
SOY: OMG
JESS: OMG
SOY: OMG
JESS: Her nose!
SOY: Dear Peppa Pig, thank you for being goodness in this world
SOY: Thank you for loving us, thank you for caring for us
SOY: Thank you for giving us warmth when no one else did
SOY: I'm sorry you didn't learn how to whistle
DUCKY: Bye, Pepe
JESS: It's Peppa*
SOY: OMG!
SOY: Why did you do that?!
SOY: Why, why?
HUY: It's burning, it's burning, Soy
SOY: Ow, no–
CRYSTAL: No, no, don’t, don’t–
HUY: Omg, he’s burning, he’s burning
HUY: Ducky, Ducky, Ducky
HUY: Oh my God…
HUY: Oh...
JESS: Omg, pieces of him are falling off
SOY: Oh, like new again
SOY: Ducky, let’s go
SOY: Ducky, let's go!
DUCKY: Alright, I'm going!
HUY: Soy, no!
HUY: Soy, I'm gonna kill you!
HUY: I just want a hug!
Good morning!
I know it sounds weird, but I usually don’t spend
I come from a humble family,
my mom has always taught me to save, and I guess that mentality just stuck with me
so today and only today, I want to spend recklessly
JESS: This one’s cute!
JESS: We should do one like that…
JESS: What if we tried to make it the ugliest one?
HUY: Really? Like, an ugly*ss cake?
HUY: Jessica, we paid $30
HUY: It’s $60
JESS: $36
HUY: $12, $12
JESS: So $24
HUY: WTF
JESS: What is this–it looks like a volcano!
JESS: Let's just do sea turtles
JESS: Ours...
JESS: vs. everybody else's
HUY: Yay! We're–
HUY: We did it!
HUY: This is the completed!
JESS: M'kay, so we finished
JESS: and...
JESS: we wasted our money today
HUY: I know!
JESS: which was my intention, so I guess, like–
JESS: It's so pretty!
HUY: Should we go here?
JESS: Oh?
JESS: Oh, free concerts Wednesday nights!
This one's funny because I feel like
every Virgo can relate to being that girl from "The Cat in the Hat" movie
"Number four, be spontaneous"
JESS: Wow, this is like, completely by accident
HUY: I know!
JESS: Off to the beach!
JESS: Hello~
SOY: What does it say?
HUY: Are you ready?
SOY: "Bad”–
CRYSTAL: "Bad b*tches”!
SOY: That’s really how you decorated $60 bucks?
CRYSTAL: That cost $60?
HUY: Yeah
SOY: Bad b*tches
SOY: Oh, that's cute
CRYSTAL: Ok, time to jump in the ocean
CRYSTAL: We jumped in the pool, time to jump in the ocean
JESS: Sharks are gonna come for me
JESS: Oh, it feels so gross!
I was starting to get really bad stress hives–
I'm not exactly sure whether they were bug bites?
but they showed up after the Cake Mix experience and swelled up a lot by the next day
So, I made a little change to the creative direction
I really enjoy doing hotpot nights
Soy brought over her hotpot set last year and ever since,
it's been a really nice way of getting everybody together
through grocery shopping, prepping, cooking, and of course, eating
JESS: Thotpot night! (my sister Jenny calls it this lol)
JESS: Yummy!
JESS: Mmm!
DUCKY: Wow Huy, you don't feed me?
DUCKY: Stop cheating on me for Jess!
JESS: -this life hack Ducky showed us
JESS: It's a lamp!
SOY: 1, 2, 3
JAMES: Thotpot!
DUCKY: Thotpot? What's that?
JESS: This is the miso broth,
JESS: and this one, we put the 2x spicy noodle–the Samyang
JESS: So useful, he brought batteries
JESS: and a gas thing
SOY: Good job, Ducky
JESS: Yeah, good job, Ducky
DUCKY: Ay, Fix-It Felix! Fix-It Ducky!
JESS: Good morning! It is currently 5:13 AM
and we are going to head over to James' place and pick him up to go to Malibu~
Soy is trespassing!
This day was super spontaneous
All I knew was that I wanted to see the Malibu sunrise
but despite having no set plans, this ended up being one of my favorite days
SOY: “What's in Jessica's bag” video~
JESS: Banana bread! 🍌
SOY: James, come hang out! What are you doing?
JAMES: Ok, no one move, ok?
JESS: Oh, he’s doing a panorama
SOY: It's pretty cool!
SOY: Good job, James!
JAMES: And then - woah!
SOY: Woah!
SOY: Oh, f***
JAMES: What?
SOY: Your hand
JAMES: AH! x3
(safe)
JESS: I'm just imagining what they see–
they're seeing inside
JAMES: They'll be like, “Damn, Asians are really weird."
SOY: OMG, so đắng (bitter)
JESS: Cheers!
SOY: Oh, there's a hummingbird!
(starts making duck noises)
JAMES: I think that's a duck
SOY: I mean, they're all birds though
JESS: We are now at a park
JESS: Mmm!!
JESS: I've always wanted to do this
JAMES: Wah~!
SOY: Set, go
(SOY + UBER DRIVER start singing “Happy Birthday”)
(CRYSTAL joins)
*cheering*
UBER DRIVER: Alright!
SOY: Great driver
JESS: Thank you
CRYSTAL: Ho ho ho ho ho
JESS: Wait, wait, put it up–
JESS: Wait, put it...?
LOL
SOY + CRYSTAL: ♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪
JESS: We're gonna try to ride these things instead
CRYSTAL: Oh my God, no–
JESS: OMG OMG OMG
JESS: Oh my God
JESS: There's literally a car right there
CRYSTAL: He's like… :/
JESS: Good morning! It is 6am
We're about to go get Joyce to go to the beach
JESS: Look! I have a beach towel this time
JESS: It's in here
JOYCE: Happy birthday!
JESS: Thank you~
JESS: So cute!
JESS: Mmm!!
JESS: Joyce gave us this life hack where
JESS: when you're at the beach, you like, make a cupholder out of the sand
SOY: Wait, can–
JESS: That's so smart!
SOY: Can you record this?
JESS: Innovation
JESS: We done~
JESS: and now we cleaned up
JESS: and we're gonna go biking!
JESS: I'm trying to get higher, but it won't let me!
SOY: Have you had kombucha before?
JESS: It's not bad
JESS: Tastes like chanh dây (passionfruit)
JOYCE: It's like–
JOYCE: Ooh, you can taste the ginger
SOY: It's good here – oh, woah–
SOY: Uống thử không? Do you want to try it?
JOYCE: There's a bit of a ginger kick
SOY: It's not really sweet, which is healthy
THU: Oh!
JESS: Yeah!
THU: Cool!
JESS: Wow!
THU: Whoa–
SOY: woOOOOAH
JESS: Wait, how do I do this?!
(Cá nướng spring rolls for dinner)
(singing "Happy Birthday")
SOY: Ew!
(continue singing "Happy Birthday")
JOYCE: Stop!
JOYCE: Hurry up
SOY: Wait, wait, wait–
JOYCE: (laughing)
JOYCE: She stuttered
SOY: Can you blow – can you blow one more time?
JOYCE: She was blowing candles and she stuttered JAMES: Is there a rule for candles?
JESS: James made us plates out of the cardboard box
CRYSTAL: Innovation!
JOYCE: Innovation that excites!
MICHELLE: Happy birthday, Jessica
JESS: Thank you MICHELLE: She's about to go in
MICHELLE: She's about to go in there
JESS: (throws Michael Scott doll into the pool)
SOY: NO!!!
CRYSTAL: You have to go in after him!
CRYSTAL: He jumped–
MICHELLE: Oh, it went in! Soy, go!
MICHELLE: With your watermelon
SOY: You have to–
SOY: Come on, let's go – you go!
MICHELLE: You guys are all gonna jump in? Wow
SOY: Jessy, we gotta push you in; it's your birthday
JESS: No no no no NO NO NO NONONO
MICHELLE: Ok, I will count!
MICHELLE: Một (1)
MICHELLE: Hai (2)
MICHELLE: Ba (3)
MICHELLE: GO, GO, GO!
JAMES: It's salty!
MICHELLE: Holy sh*t!
Apparently, the whole time we were on the rooftop, there was a trespasser hiding in a closet 5 ft. away from us
When we got into the hot tub, he stole James’ and Crystal’s phones along with my slippers by the pool
It sucked and was really scary to see the footage, but I'm really glad none of us got hurt
I called the cops for the first time in my life, which...I mean,
not really gonna add that to the checklist, but
I guess this is the start of my 20s? 😓
I didn’t go into this video thinking there was going to be a moral to the story
It was supposed to be a fun video where I just forget about my responsibilities
And although I did have fun with my friends,
I feel like more misfortune came when I was trying to be someone I’m not
Sure, I can be uptight and a bit of a control freak, but
the best moments of this week were those where I felt comfortable being myself
and just doing wholesome things with my friends
So thank you to everyone who celebrated my birthday with me,
to everyone who deals with me being a control freak on the daily,
and to you for watching and keeping up with me for another year
Here's to 20, and I will see you in my next video