jt's gift!

dick in a box! HAHAHAHAHA!  i LOVES it!

Tags: snl, justin timberlake, dick in a box, christmas, song, youtube

mammoth

as mentioned in a previous post. phil and i went to mammoth a couple weeks ago. it was amazing! i got to see my first real snowfall! i've actually seen it really come down before. but i was in a car, so it wasn't really real, if you kno wat i mean. so this time i was running around like a little kid asking all sorts of questions. i've never really bothered thinking about it, but i guess i thought snowflakes could be really big. like as big as the ones we used to make out of paper back in elementary school. haha, i'm such a dorkass! lol, the snow was freaking awesome. and oh yeah, the rest of the trip was great too, haha.

phil and i left real early on saturday. but the drive wasn't too bad. we got there at 10something. later that afternoon we went snowboarding as it started to snow really hard. :) but it was the perfect kind. light, dry, and fluffy. afterwards wayne and i played around in the snow (snow angels, snowmen, the works) while the others were slaving away trying to put on snowchains. lol, naw, we helped out too. it is hard work tho. putting those things on...

that night different groups did different things (there were 14 of us). but basically we watched gladiator and mean girls, played texas hold'em and craps, karaoked, and just generally had a really good time.

the next morning we woke up early to perfect weather and played around in the snow for a couple hours before heading down to some town abot 40 minutes away for some lunch. crazy phil had left some snowballs on the hood of his car overnight, so they were pretty packed. and as we drove down we pelted the other cars in our caravan. for lunch we went toschat's bakery and afterwards we split up and went home. phil and ed got speeding tickets on the way back tho. bah.

all in all it was a great trip. :) i love love love snow! and as always, more photos at my flickr.

     

1. phil on the eggy thing that took us into town. 2. me exclaiming over the snow 3. me snowboarding by philip (the photog) 4. anchormanning it the next morning

Tags: mammoth, snow, phil, snowboarding, road trip, photos

best photos

best photos of 2006. seriously, some of these photos are just amazing.

Tags: photos

weird science

weirdest science stories of 2006. btw, the first one really isn't a weird science story. it was just a damn bad coincidence. everything else tho...

Chester, England, A giant Komodo dragon at Britain's largest zoo is expecting to hatch by Christmas eggs that apparently developed without male fertilization. "Essentially, what we have here is an imminent virgin birth and, because the eggs were laid back in May, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that the incubating eggs could hatch around Christmastime," curator Kevin Buyley of England's Chester Zoo said. "We will be on the lookout for shepherds, wise men and an unusually bright star in the sky over Chester Zoo." Other lizard species can reproduce without a male, but this is believed to be the first time it has ever been reported in Komodo dragons, Sky News reported. The upcoming hatching follows a similar "virgin birth" at London Zoo. The Chester immaculate conception was discovered after a giant lizard named Flora laid 11 eggs that contained embryos. Paternity tests showed Flora was both the fertile eggs' mother and father, a system of reproduction known as parthenogenesis. The eggs' overall genetic makeup exactly reconstructs that of their mother, University of Liverpool researchers found. 

christmas loot

wowie, this christmas i made out like a freakin bandit! basically i got dvds and money up the wazhoo. i recieved the soundtrack to 'the fountain', the first two seasons of 'friends', and the whole 'sex and the city' SERIES (from reep). unbelievable! i also got $100 gift card to best buy (more dvds!) and $420 in cash total (from three different parties). i'm gonna be giving most of that money back tho. a good deal of it was from amy (my godma) and harry's mom. i think harry's mom felt bad cause i didn't take her money earlier this month when she was trying to pay me for helping wit harry's hw. but at that time i wasn't really tutoring him, i felt like i was just volunteering, so i didn't want the money, and still don't, so i'll be giving most of that back. also, my mom got me some clothes, which is always nice. and she and my dad offered to buy me an mp3 player (or a tv; cause mine sorta sucks, but i got that free from amy a few years ago). can you believe it? i think imma wait on that mp3 player tho and get a snowboard instead. it'll be cheaper for them to get me a snowboard anyway. and i'm more willing to spend my own money on an mp3 player than a snowboard, so i'll have my parents cover that. but seriously. this christmas has been freakin awesome for me.

Tags: christmas, presents, gifts, mp3 player, snowboard, cd, the fountain, tv, dvds, friends, sex and the city, satc, lucky, wow

boobie

Jack Black insists being tubby has a major upside - you can play with 'breasts' anytime you want without having to be in the company of a girl.

He said: "They're unbelievable, man. If my 'boobs' were on a girl, guys would be going mad for them. But they are all mine, and that means I can enjoy them anytime I want. I don't need a woman for my squeezing needs anymore!" 

bah humbug

being at home is uh... interesting. sometimes it's nice. but usually it's just annoying as all hell. god. i don't even kno where to begin; so i won't. but seriously, i can't wait for people to get back to work and to stop fucking bothering me. thankfully romrow my mom goes back to work. and the day after that, my dad. and, even better, little lamb's mother has gone back to taiwan so yay! no more chauffeuring her around. my uncle is still wit us, but at least he leave me alone. altho he bothers me too. i mean, jesus, would it fucking kill you to help out a little? you saw how many trips it took me, and how many more it would, and all you have to say is 'wow, you have a lot of stuff.' ...you see! this is why you don't have many friends. this is why you're not in a relationship and why you probably won't ever be getting married! you're utter lack of concern for people is astounding! i'm your fucking neice! not a goddamn stranger. good lord!    ...damn, i am pretty cranky today.

Tags: break, respect, chores, obligations, rents, angry, bitch

pduddy

good golly! pdiddy has been selling dog fur jackets! and not just any dogs, but raccoon dogs, only like the cutest dogs ever! and appt china has no animal welfare laws. "animals killed for their fur in china... are often skinned alive"! wtf? i mean, i knew us chinese people weren't exactly the most animal friendly culture, but sheesh!

fantasy jewelry box

fantasy jewelry box: affordable jewelry for expensive tastes. in other words, pretty stuff for cheapish prices. i loves me these horseshoes earrings. i think they're a bit large tho... but these 'love and peace' earrings are so pretty! ooh this is pretty, valentine ring, only $15 and just in time for valentine's day!

Tags: jewelry

sporting booboos

the dumbest sports injuries of all time. :)

encounters

we had a plan this winter break, to go to a resturant that neither of us has gone to before. so last night we went to encounters near the lax airport. we've both seen it many times and have wondered about going there. i don't think either of us were expecting much of the food (it was just okay). and the drive there was not so good. i nearly drove into a car (i checked, but didn't see him. we were on the curve, maybe that's why?). and it was hard getting off the freeway (something about a checkpoint and a haz mat team). but eh. i think we had fun. it was pretty, you kno? good view, nice decor, okay prices, disapointing dessert menu. anyway. below are some pictures.

   

1. reep and his super tall drink. 2. me and mine 3. inside. that's the ceiling. 4. view from our table of lax (terminals, parking, and actual airport) 5. outside and underneath. i didn't get to take many pictures from the outside cause reep was cold. bah. we need to get him a coat.

Tags: reep, me, dinner, resturant, lax, encounters, photos

yum

Martha Stewart ended her brief relationship with Anthony Hopkins, because she couldn't separate him from his famous character Hannibal Lecter.  

Martha appeared on Howard Stern's radio show last week and admitted she had second thoughts about dating Anthony after watching 'The Silence of the Lambs' while they were dating.  

She said, "Oh, I loved him, but he was... scary. I was going to invite him up to Maine; I have this beautiful home in Maine... but then I reconsidered because I saw that movie again.  

"Do you want someone eating your brain while you are sitting in your beautiful dining room in Maine?"  

Anthony won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Hannibal, but the honor wasn't enough to sway Martha.  

She adds, "I would have probably had a very nice relationship with Anthony Hopkins, but I couldn't get past the Lecter thing."

nearly everything in the above is surprising to me. martha stewart dating? she was dating anthony hopkins? she was on howard stern? wat!?

s/he started it

okay, so i don't want to sound too optimistic but i think reep and i are finally growing up. :) the other day something happened. and normally i won't call him back just to yell at him. i'm more the type to seethe within myself and then eventually get over it. but that day i didn't. i called back and told him wat was on my mind. and he said nothing. i then got really pissed and said "you have nothing to say? nothing at all? i mean, if you disagree, that's fine, but tell me that you disagree and why. and if you agree then apologize!" and he didn't say much. but the next day he apologized. really sincerely. and really completely. it was amazing.
today we were together for a little while. and i got to thinking about wat i rather consistently say to him when i'm really upset about us. and it sucks. that thing i say. it really does. and it made me feel sad. that i always say that. it's just mean. and i would hate hate hate to hear that so often. so i told him so. that i am sorry. i'm not exactly sure wat he was thinking, he didn't say, and it's not like he complained about it in the first place. but still. i feel better. and even tho it's basically true, wat i say (even tho i'm mad, i try never to say things i don't mean), i'm going to try to not say it anymore.
so anyway. this might be a turning point for us. ...who knows?

good and bad

happy!: shocking version of russian roulette. haha! i want one! (thanks to phil for the link)

sad: after living for 20 million years, china's white dolphins are deemed basically extinct.

aftermath and forcast

lol, last night daniel asked why this blog has been so angry lately. i was like 'well, maybe people should stop pissing me off!' :) anyway. this week has been an interesting one.
reep and i finally got to play pool together. he's not bad (which is unsurprising; he seems never to be particularly bad at anything). i'm not very good either. i think i was too tired to really pay much attention. i seemed always to miss the first few shots. then later in the game get serious about it and make 3 or 4 shots in a row then revert and do poorly again. eh.
little lamb's mom came to the states from taiwan this previous saturday. she's been calling him for nearly 5 weeks and he's been dodging her the whole time. he was supposed to graduate sometime this week tho, so she was starting to get worried (my family had dinner wit him last week so we knew he was at least alive and healthy). so she and my dad showed up at the house and eventually went in (he has a room in a house of a friend of ours so we have the front door key) and knocked on his door. and he answered, in total shock, because he had no idea she was coming, much less already be here and standing in front of his door.
little lamb works during the week. and his room is really small. so she's living wit us now. but my rents work too. which means that i'm left to entertain her. which totally sucks. i was way looking forward to winter break because no one would be home! and now not only is someone here, but i also gotta take care of her? that i don't even mind so much. but she and i don't have much in common. i think she wants to do a lot of shopping. so i'll probably end up driving her to the mall and following her around all day. =\ i don't really wanna go shopping cause i haven't much money and i don't want to be tempted, which is why i would follow her around rather than going off on my own. ah shitwit. i was gonna take her the mall romrow cause macy's is having a sale. and then hopefully get away from her today. take her to the library or something. because i need to go. and then maybe to marshalls or something. but she told me right now that she wants to go to lunch and then grocery shopping. ...she fucking went grocery shopping yesterday wit my dad! oh god. i seriously feel like crying. this is my first day wit her and already i feel trapped.
another thing. later this month my uncle will be coming down to live wit us again. at that time she'll probably move in wit her son. but then my uncle is gonna be around all day! blarg, at least i won't have to entertain him. he has a car. but still no alone time for me!
the other night phil called me up. he had heard that gamestop would be getting a shipment of wii's in yesterday morning. he has work tho. so he asked if i could go and try to get him one (actually. one for his coworker and possibly another for him). so i went. and after about an hour, and four stores later, finally got one (the last one!). then i drove to another gamestop hoping to get another but by then my luck had run out.
and this weekend phil and i will be driving up to mammoth. we're leaving at 4am saturday and coming back sometime sunday. ...can you believe that? oish! (for those of you who don't kno. mammoth is pretty damn far away. it's like a 6 or 7 hour drive) appt his friends are going up friday, but phil has some work stuff that night so we'll be going up saturday. and since everyone is coming back sunday, it's not like we can stay extra. i'm probably not gonna board. maybe just walk around and see the sites. mammoth is supposed to be beautiful, but last time i went i didn't get to see much.
btw, i want to get an mp3 player. i don't want an ipod (unless it really is super awesome) and am leaning towards the creative zen and possibly towards the zune. any suggestions?

go target!

as you should already kno (cause i've already posted it a while ago), the next target go international designer will be proenza schouler. while i'm excited (i love their clothes) i'm not going to get too excited. i've been disapointed by nearly every single collection so far (esp wit the behnaz sarafpour one. i love it in the ads but in real life...). anyway. here are the preview shots of their collection. :)

Tags: fashion, target, proenza schouler

racist rosie

good lord... now rosie o'donnell has joined the fray... so maybe you heard that a pretty much drunk ass danny devito was on 'the view' the other week. well later rosie said this (watch this clip, it's really short) about how it was such big news that there were even talking about it in china. after the broadcast the asian-american journalists association (aaja) said "the use of distorted phrases is insulting to the chinese... and gives the impression that they are a group that is substandard to english-speaking people". then rosie's rep actually releases a statement which said "she's a comedian... i certainly hope that one day they will be able to grasp her humor. (emphasis added)"...michael richards is also, sorta, a comedian. that doesn't in any way forgive his racist tirade against black people. or does it? maybe those people simply don't have a good sense of humor. maybe they just didn't get it. i mean, come on, he's just doing his job right? he's a comedian; he's just being funny. like how rosie was being funny. granted, richards went way too f*cking far. but o'donnell also crosses the line. cause, you kno, you don't have to use actual racial slurs to be saying racist remarks.

UPDATE: yay! rosie apologized. i'm not entirely sure wat to make of it tho... she says that she just really didn't kno any better, which is fine. but then she says that "there's a good chance that i'll do something like that again... not on purpose." ...um... how about instead of just dismissing the whole thing based on your utter ignorance you try to be sensitive towards the issue? like after the whole mel gibson anti-semetic remarks, he met wit some jewish leaders to discuss stuff. i mean, yeah, some of that was just publicity. but that shows that at least he cares enough to pretend to care. rosie just... makes light of it. 'oh, i'm stoopid. please forgive me, and next time too! harhar.' i feel also that since she is in a rather well acknowledged minority (she's gay) she should show a little sensitivity. as in, it's not like she doesn't kno wat it's like to be discriminated against.


the superficial had this to say (which i find freakin hilarious): "Yeah, who would've guessed 'ching chong ching' would be offensive to Asians? Summing up the most widely spoken language in the world into two single-syllable noises? I mean c'mon, that's tough work."
and someone commented this: "Rosie... you're fat. And unfunny. Ching-chong that." lol, totally not the point, but hilarious anyway.

tech

elekson gadget bag doubles as usb keyboard. - pretty cool!

pantech's flexus 03 concept cellphone. - looks very sleek. a bit large tho?

benq musiq dogtag mp3 player. - i can totally see all the gangstas sporting this...

unforgiven

okay. normally i would censor who this is. but i'm kind of pissed. so this guy. we were friends. then he got a little invested. and i said no. then he started like... stalking me. which creeped me out. so i ignored him. and then i told him to back off. which he did. and sometime after that we talked again and said that of couse we would still be friends. he basically hasn't talked to me since. i've called him tho, and asked if he's wanted to hang out wit me and some others. out of the four times, he's said no thrice. and on the one time he did say yes, he left early. this from the guy who always wanted to go out before. ...okay, so i kno that i wasn't the best of friends when i was ignoring him. but seriously. he was practically stalking me. and you kno wat? when you say something like that, you give the person some damn space instead of calling them like every fucking day! anyway. so tonight i see him online and ask for him email (i have some pictures to send him, from when we were hanging out.) and the following is our convo:

me [11:32 P.M.]:  dude. wat's your email?
him: wassup?
me:  wat's your email address?
him: for?
me:  ..so i can send you viruses. duh
me:  so i can send you pictures
me:  ..so untrusting...
him: pictures of what?
him: untrusting?
me:  .dude. forget it
him: k

we didn't talk after that. and you kno wat? i won't be talking to him anymore. not unless he talks first. dude, you fucked up our friendship. then later i tried to make amends. and you're not accepting it. when the hell did you get the right to be so standoffish? argh! so much for me feeling sorry for your socially inept ass!

borders coupon

30% off of $10 total purchase coupon at borders.

Tags: borders, coupon

wii!

robert got the wii and we played it the other night. he only has wii sports, but that game is great fun. there's baseball, golf, bowling and boxing. my fave was boxing. well. that's prob a little unfair seeing as how i didn't play baseball or golf, but those two seem too serious for me. anyway. i liked boxing. it was fun. :) i like beating people up. hehe. oh, and appt the wii likes beating people up too as several people hae already been injured from playing! lol, lucky for me, i didn't experience any muscle soarness even tho i was flailing around quite a bit. anyway. below are some pictures. very bad ones. lol. and i was running out of batteries so i couldn't take better ones.

    

1. robert's cute character. 2. ting's meek character is on the left. 3. phil's crazy character. he does actually have two eyes but the glare makes it look as if he has only one. i wish i had a better picture... 4 & 5. and me. teehee. i'm gorgeous. ;)

american

keith ellison. you heard of him? appt he's the first muslim elected to congress, like, ever. and now he's getting major flack because for his swearing in he wants to put his hand on a quran instead of a bible. yeah, wat's the problem?, you might ask. well appt this act "undermines american culture" ... the same dude also said that since "america holds [the bible] as its holiest book... if you are incapable of taking an oath on that book, don't serve in congress." um... most americans maybe. but not america. and maybe it's just me, but i didn't kno that being in politics meant that you also had to be christian. i also thought that it was important to americans to be tolarant of others because of our history, you kno, the bit where we came to america to escape religious persecution and so therefore our bill of rights says something about a separation of church and state and how it's wrong to "prohibit the free exercise" of one's own religion? it's the first freakin amendment!

all history, laws, freedoms, and humanitarian rights aside tho. why would you even want a man to swear on something that means nothing to him? see, i always thought that for my inauguration i would swear in on the constitution or something. because the bible means nothing more to me than a book of fairy tales (which i've never completed reading). the whole point of swearing on the bible is that it's supposed to mean something. you're giving your word to god, the god you believe in, that you will try to do a good and honest and fair job. so wat if you don't believe in this god, or any god at all; wat does it mean to you when you are forced to swear in on that? nothing. if anything, it's an insult. to yourself, your own god, and the god the book is about. think about it. does the christian god want someone to take his name in vain? i think not. come on people, let's be american, in the constitutional sense of the term.

american

keith ellison. you heard of him? appt he's the first muslim elected to congress, like, ever. and now he's getting major flack because for his swearing in he wants to put his hand on a quran instead of a bible. yeah, wat's the problem?, you might ask. i don't really kno... but appt this act "undermines american culture" ... the same dude also said that since "america holds [the bible] as its holiest book... if you are incapable of taking an oath on that book, don't serve in congress." ...maybe it's just me, but i didn't kno that being in politics meant that you also had to be christian. i also thought that it was important to americans to be tolarant of others because of our history, you kno, the bit where we came to america to escape religious persecution and so therefore our bill of rights says something about a separation of church and state and how it's wrong to "prohibit the free exercise" of one's own religion? it's the first freakin amendment! all history, laws, freedoms, and humanitarian rights aside tho. why would you even want a man to swear on something that means nothing to him? see, i always thought that for my inauguration i would swear in on the constitution or something. because the bible means nothing more to me than a book of fairy tales (which i've never completed reading). the whole point of swearing on the bible is that it's supposed to mean something. you're giving your word to god, the god you believe in, that you will try to do a good and honest and fair job. so wat if you don't believe in this god, or any god at all; wat does it mean to you when you are forced to swear in on that? nothing. if anything, it's an insult. to yourself, your own god, and the god the book is about. think about it. does the christian god want someone to take his name in vain? i think not. come on people, let's be american, in the constitutional sense of the term.

ferrets

aww! ferrets are sooo cute!

Tags: flickr, photos, animals, ferrets

sporting

pictures of the the week's best moments in sports. (i don't even understand picture 2, and picture 7 is funny)

wow!

dude! i knew ting had been hording her pictures but i was really surprised at just how many pictures i didn't have. from july fourth, to tsai's bday, my bday, random target nights, reunions and craft nights; holy wow. i'm one of those who likes to email out my pictures within a week of having them. i mean, wat's the point of taking them if not to share? anyway. below are a few hightlights of her stash. (btw, i emailed out a few packets already, but if you didn't get any and want some let me kno. i am missing quite a few email addresses)

     

1. scary scary chang trying to attack tsai who's sitting inside the car. 2) july fourth this year. crowded around the 'friendship pagoda' 3) me sexing it up at mystery house when ting and i went up north. 4) me, ting, and mish at the yardhouse.

friends

so if you've missed any of the big bits of the last 10 seasons of friends, here it all is in a 90 second recap.

movies 2

watched two more movies over the weekend. went wit harry and and did something i haven't done in like 10 years, we movie hopped! first we saw stranger than fiction, then we saw the fountain. btw, movie websites are getting better and better. some of them are seriously amazing... go to them! and hm... i think i'm gonna start rating movies like reepal. not wit stars tho, or numbers. that's too confusing. so imma do... wait for dvd, go watch now, and buy dvd.
stranger than fiction. good movie. it's will ferrel exercising his acting chops. so perhaps it's not as comedic as you might expect. i wasn't expecting it to be tho, so i was okay. it's quirky and interesting and smart.  it's a love story, but not a full on romance. a bit predictable but not boring, even so. good music. altho that might be because i like spoon.
the fountain. absolutely beautiful. a bit confusing tho. it's the type of movie you'll need to see more than just once to fully understand. after it ended, most of the audience stayed and quietly talked it over. it's also a romance. i urge you to go see it wit your boif / girlf. i saw it wit harry and it just wasn't as good. it's incredibly moving (i cried, seriously, like 7 times). and i'm seriously planning on watching all of darren aronofsky's films, starting wit requiem.

mashup

the wii is dangerous! people have been hurt, even dogs! oh noes!

and in rather unrelated news, here's a list of tv's 100 best catchphrases.

@ gap

maybe this has gone too far... these big name designers for 'cheapo' brands... now it's roland mouret. for the gap. this should be an interesting match tho. roland's designs are a lot more structured than the usual gap fare.

Tags: fashion, gap

broken locks...

so you have to take the test to kno. but here are the answers (and explanations) of our quiz taking:

me [12:32 A.M.]:  1. horse reep:  yeah horse, cuz if the worlds ending i might need to ride fastme : 

i said horse because they're multipurpose. they're strong so you can use them. and they're also big so you can eat them reep:  yeah i didn't think of eating itme :  it's the end of the world! reep:  maybe i can stop itreep:  if i can get some place fast enoughme :  well, cause like. you can't work a sheep. and deer and rabbits are pretty useless. but rabbits are the worst. they don't provide nearly anything. they're too small for clothing or food

me [12:34 A.M.]: 

2) monkey. because i feel like i'd be able to entertain it so it wouldn't be too sad about leaving home reep:  lion,  cuz its the bestme :  i like lion too... i wanted that. but i thought it would be lonely

reep:  yeah but i'd keep it companyreep:  i also thought snake 

cuz thats easy to dispose ofme : i thought that too. but i'd probably just put him in a tank thing. so that'd be sad. me : i wanted the giraffe just cause it's so damn awesome but i worry about it's food..

reep:  i dont think of these things in usual everyday termsreep:  like im not bringing a lion from africa to my apartmentme :  lol, see, i am 

reep:   im bringing a lion to be with me wherever

me [12:36 A.M.]:  3) cat. definitely. comforts of home. but independence all my own reep:  deciding between dog and horse... horse. cuz its fast, and strong, and free!me :  see, i like the free part too. which is why i picked cat and not dog

 me :  4) i'm really thinking none. but imma say crocodile. because we already have alligators. 

reep:  snake, cuz i dont know what they do for the ecosystem anywayme :  eat rodents 

reep:  so can lionsme :  see, i thought that too! about the ecosystem... me :  no. lions eat big game. but like... they're sorta redundant. like... there are other big cats in africa...

reep  [12:40 A.M.]:  5. Bird

me :  5. bird. me too. yeah. cause it can fly and tell me about things far away

reep:  6. i dont want to say human..but i dont want to say any of those things

me : 6 human. cause it's the only thing that will talk about. i mean... i heard that pigs have personality too but... and if i had an animal i'd have to feed it 

reep:   yeah okay humanreep:  actually, i'll go with bird

me :  why bird? wat if it flies away? reep:  it wont. its my companionme : rather get a person. and maybe they can help me get off the island. and if not. then at the very least i can kill and eat them

reep  [12:42 A.M.]:  mmm white tiger or leopard..reep:   leopard, cuz its cool, and it can protect me, hella fast, 

even in small spaces hahareep:  dinosaur = big poopreep:  polar bear = too big

me :  i like them all. but polar bear, it's too hot here. dinosaur, scientists would steal him away. and white tiger, people would also want to take him away.

me :  and you kno, it would be a little dinosaur. they didn't say wat kind.

reep:  it might be a t rex

reep [12:44 A.M.]:  8. pigeon to flyme :  me too. i would looooooove to fly

keys to my heart

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free.

In love, you feel the most alive when your lover is creative and never lets you feel bored.

You'd like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring.

You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic.

Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with.

Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.

You think of marriage something you've always wanted... though you haven't really thought about it.

In this moment, you think of love as commitment. Love only works when both people are totally devoted.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart? http://www.blogthings.com/keystoyourheartquiz/

keys to reepal's heart

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free.

In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you're told that you're loved.

You'd like to your lover to think you are optimistic and happy.

You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please.

Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with.

Your risk of cheating is 100%. You are not suited for a monogamous relationship.

You think of marriage something you've always wanted... though you haven't really thought about it.

In this moment, you think of love as commitment. Love only works when both people are totally devoted.

vocab

+------------------- Bizarre Vocabulary Facts -------------------+   

All Hebrew originating names that end with the letters "el" have something to do with God.  

Alma mater means bountiful mother.  

Corduroy comes from the French, cord du roi or cloth of the king.  

Fido means faithful in Latin.  

January is named for the Roman god Janus.  

Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'  

The Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan 'finger-lickin' good' came out as eat your fingers off in Chinese.  

The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.

simpsons!

simpsons, the movie, the trailer!

rose and radish

rose and radish has a lot of really unique home things. i mean, lookit this outdoor shower. it's so simplistic and unassuming. it doesn't look like anything 'useful', maybe a coat hanger or something... but it's a shower! and lookit this beautiful steel bird ornament thing. so pretty!

Tags: art, home, design

hp teaser

new harry potter teaser trailer: harry potter and the order of the phoenix.

friends!

black friday was yesterday; did anyone participate? i did a little bit. went to three different best buys. didn't get anything tho. reep got some stuff at fry's tho. then today ting, chang and i went to target greatland and we went silly buying each other gifts. i got chang a justin timberlake cd (for her bday). she got me season 2 of friends (christmas). she got ting batman begins (christmas). ting got me season 1 friends. i got ting xmen3 (christmas). and ting also bought season 3 friends (first three seasons were only $15 each)for me, but for tsai to give to me later. lol. so we purchased each other's things and right outside the store we opened up our bags and swapped presents. :) hehe. it's nice to get christmas presents in november!

comic

ohmigod this room is amazing! and no, it's not photoshopped or anything. it really does look like that. wow!

Tags: art, home, painting

gobble gobble!

for me thanksgiving is about the food. not so much the history. not the family stuff or the football. and definitely not the shopping. last year we ended up having hot pot for thanksgiving dinner. needless to say, i was disappointed. but tsai and i went over to denny's sometime that weekend and i got a 'proper' thanksgiving meal. ::beam:: i thought this year we also weren't going to be doing anything special but i was wrong! last night my rents went out to boston market (all the way in massachusetts! lol) and bought some turkey (not a turkey, only like 3lbs of one). and as soon as my mom gets home from getting more groceries i'm gonna make mashed potatoes and my dad's gonna make sweet potatoes. pretty exciting! and appt we already have a pumpkin pie too. yahoo for thanksgiving! let's get FAT! haha!! :D

movies

have seen quite a few movies lately: jerry maguire, borat, marie antoinette, and casino royal, the new bond film.

jerry maguire. most of you have seen it so i won't go over it much. but that little kid? jonathan lipinski or watever? he's the cutest ever! the movie itself was good. could've done witout the nudity tho...

borat. disappointing. i was looking forward to liking it but... some parts were hilarious but overall the movie wasn't so awesome. the commercials give away a lot of the funny parts (but not some of the funniest bits of all). it was supposed to be hella funny because it was supposed to be all real, or unscripted or watever. but it wasn't. and i'm not talking about the parts where he argues wit his producer. i mean the bear, or garage sale, or pam anderson... eh, anyway. the movie wasn't bad. but it also wasn't good.

marie antoinette. i was totally looking forward to seeing this film and i was not at all disappointed. i think that it helped that i already knew the movie wasn't going to be 'conventional'. reepal didn't like the movie at all. i think he was waiting for the story to kick in. well, it doesn't. not really. it's just not that type of movie. wat it was... it was arty and beautiful. well shot wit good music. exuberant and colorful, candyful. i loved it.

casino royale. of the four, this is my favorite. i gotta say that i wasn't quite sure about daniel craig as bond. i didn't find him attractive enough, which i kno sounds silly for judging a whole movie. but bond is supposed to be hella attractive. anyway. after seeing the movie? wow. i'm sold. totally. he makes a great bond. i read something somewhere about how he's not handsome, but he's sexy. the bit that sold me on him being bond was when he was in the shower wit the girl. he does these two things and just wow. i don't want to ruin anything. but the finger thing and the temperature. :) i liked that. and he has a nice low voice. besides just sexy tho, craig does a good job. he's very human in this movie, which i liked. there's this part towards the end when he's on the boat talking to m and he's touching his feet. lol, i dunno why, but i thought that was nice.

i was pretty ew when i saw him wearing his tight little swim trunks in the commercials and movie. but really, wat else would work? reep said in some interview daniel said that the wardrobe people brought over a lot of different types of swimsuits. but craig said that the little shorts were the only thing bond would wear. which i agree wit. i just... wish bond would have worn regular board shorts. eh. oh! and nearly everyone in this movie has bad teeth! eek! or big noses... bond's love interest was pretty, but she looked better without all the overdone makeup. and her top teeth were a bit off. and the 'sexy lady' of the movie had a huge head. and an ever larger nose! and the 'bad lady' of the movie wasn't bad looking but her nose in profile was hugenormous! bah. and maybe that's just me as an american, but wat's wrong wit these europeans who don't care about orthodontistry! and yeah, i kno, i don't have perfect teeth either. but hey, i'm not an actor.

anyway, the movie itself is very solid. it's supposed to be like the 'first' movie. how he becomes like the bond we kno now. i think they did a really good job wit that. he blunders a little bit. doesn't have the drink or the name down just yet. but he's so egotistical that he carries it all off quite well. the movie addresses his personality and character. how come he can't seem to be true to just one women. and how come he seems so aloof and emotionless. anyway, definitely worth seeing if you have the time.

btw, for those of you who think you've seen him before, you probaly have. appt he's been in lots of things, including layercake (as the main character), munich, sylvia (her love interest), road to perdition, i dreamed of africa, and even tomb raider (her love interest). who knew? full list here.

stoopid!

you mean a cat didn't give birth to dogs? you gotta be kidding! ...eediots. i could've told them that witout the blood test. but then. we already knew people are stupid. i mean, lookit these incredibly dumb warning lables. is this stuff really warning anyone from anything? if you're stupid enough to be trying those things, i don't think you'll actually be reading the labels!

splatter

jackson pollock. even if you've not heard of him, surely you kno of his work: paint splatter. anyway, now you can do art in his name as well.

(thanks to reep for the link)

Tags: art, painting

frauds

---------------------- Bizarre Frauds ----------------------  

Some of the amazing and famous hoaxes around Darwin's time:  

Barnum's Fiji Mermaid (he spelled it Fejee Mermaid). This was an ugly, dried-up, black object about three-feet (one-meter) long that was promoted as being half-monkey and half- fish. It was eventually found to be a hoax.  

Poet Edgar Allan Poe ran a long-running hoax promotion of a manned balloon flight across the Atlantic.  

The city of Palisade, Nevada, enticed tourists to visit the city because of its regular gunfights and street brawls. Tourists flocked into town to witness the gunfights, not knowing at the time that they were all staged.  

A report in The Illustrated London News of February 9, 1856 claimed that a living pterodactyl (an extinct flying reptile) had been discovered in France.  

A hotel operator hoaxed tourists to visit his city by creating a "Silver Lake Serpent" that lured many people to the area.  

A cigar manufacturer named George Hull hired stonecutters to carve a 10-foot giant, which he buried on his property.  
In the wake of evolutionists' desire to find fossils of creatures that lived in the ancient past, this Cardiff giant was "accidentally" unearthed in 1869, and wagon-loads of tourists came to see Hull's find. He charged them 25 cents each for the privilege.

two face

eyelash transplants. reepal has beautiful eyelashes. adam heller did too (you kno the boy had nice eyelashes if that's basically the only thing i remember about him, couldn't even remember his last name). i always thought it was terribly unfair for boys to have such long and curled lashes when society tells us it's the girls who should be well endowed. at any rate. i have sorta longish lashes. they don't curl tho. and they don't appear particularly long because they're mainly hidden by my single eyelid. so this surgery. do you think if i got it i could also get a double eyelid done at the same time? something to consider. (altho i don't see myself ever getting this type of cosmetic surgery).

i find it intriguing how people spend so much time on making themselves look good. i mean, i'm not entirely witout vanity. but i don't think anyone can call me vain. a while ago a friend i were talking about how we kno wat makes us look good, and yet we don't care enough to actually do it. i remember once going over to another friend's house and before going out, she curled her hair. i think that's amazing. wanting to constantly look good. i think i care most about my clothes. i sorta need to match. even when it comes to dragon boating. altho i don't go overboard wit that. i only need to match. one of the hs girls actually goes to the beach in heeled sandals. can you imagine? and i scoff at the girls who feel they need to wear makeup to the beach practices.

some entertainment show (extra or et or something) has a segment on 'ugly vanessa' where she first dolls up in a blond wig and does stuff. later she dresses down (fat suit, not so trendy clothes, unkempt hair, braces) and tries to do the same stuff. of course she's met wit different results. the tyra show did something similar. identical twins tho. one made pretty, one not so much. they went on job interviews. homely girl was way qualified. pretty girl totally not. guess who got offered the jobs?

each time the reporters were shocked at the results. but why? i thought it was established fact that attractive people get treated better. (tall people too. alfred told me of a study they did for women choosing men. the shorter men were well educated, good jobs, good hobbies and habits. tall men were, besides their height, not so outstanding. women overwhelmingly chose the taller man) and yet even knowing that, lots of people don't try much to make themselves more attractive. why is that?

my mom wants me to get double eyelid surgery. she tells me that it'll be easier for me to apply eye makeup. i tell her that if i were ever to get it (and i have a lot of reasons why i wouldn't, not wanting to conform to western standards of beauty being at the top of my list) it would probably be so that i would look prettier wit my conventional, larger, more opened eyes. because, as we already kno, attractive people get more benifits. so then why not just do it? it it's not something drastic (surgery), time consuming (blowing out your hair everyday), or expensive (professional teeth whitening) then why are we so anxious to hold ourselves back?

and since it really is the case that attractive people get treated better, then why are we so hard on those who put in a lot of effort? for those who have had multiple surgeries. maybe they don't have a mental problem. after all, they're only trying to be the best they can be. they're only trying to reap the rewards of being beautiful. it's not their fault they weren't born as naturally beautiful; they have to put in the extra effort. society rewards us for being beautiful. and why should we punish those who want to be rewarded? isn't that a bit backwards? they are living up to their full potential. the rest of us are just settling wit wat we have, wat we care to bother ourselves wit. maybe those people should be praised. "be all you can be" the army tells us. but at wat price? is there only so much beauty in a person? in order to enhance your beauty outside, must you give up the beauty on the inside?

borat

borat. unless you've been hiding under a rock you should have heard about this movie. i mean, lordy, he even has a wikipedia entry! anyway, here's an article about how the people of his supposed hometown are mad enough to sue. there's also a bit in wikipedia on his lawsuits, lol.

reepal and i actually saw the movie a couple weekends ago. and we were both pretty disapointed. there were parts in the movie which were just hilarious. but overall the movie was just 'eh'.

squid

i really like this rubberblubber's flickr set named sketchbook. it's just squid, but he draws them so beautifully. and each is in a different style. so creative!

Tags: art, flickr, drawing

overstock.com

overstock.com has some suprisingly nice things! well... not surprisingly nice. but surprisingly pretty! these picks are a little different from the ice.com picks in the last post. a pretty cheap ($32.99) but still pretty art deco necklace. a good choice for that sorta modern, sorta old school woman in your life. i like this next necklace a lot (sorta considering it actually). very simple and perfect for all occasions, wit real diamonds! for $89.99. and for the ladies who don't like necklaces maybe she would like a ring. it's sorta a weird ring... reminds me of a class ring. or something superman would wear. but i like it; it's pretty cool, and meaningful! ctr: choose the right. in gold it's $14.99 and in silver it's $12.99.

and lastly, from nordstrom, we have this very cool winged necklace for $98. i actually like this quite a bit too. planning on going to nordstrom this weekend to check it out. it says mini, but i'm not totally convinced (and no, i can't be bothered to take out my ruler and just measure out the dimentions)

craazzy!

surely you're heard of the ps3. and i'm sure you also kno that they are already fetchy crazy high prices on ebay. retail price is about $600. and originally ps3s were fetching up to $2000. but do you kno how much this one ended up? the closing bid was $99,999,999.00. no, i didn't add in six extra 9s, it really was that much.

ice.com

this snapshots site has become nearly exclusively fashion and jewelry stuff. sorry! originally i wanted to make it broader than that. have a little bit of everything. as long as it was 'pretty'. but i dunno... i'm pretty dedicated to fashion and jewelry, so it's just easier for me to find stuff like that... i'll try tho. to expand the posts beyond that. ...but not starting wit this post. lol...

ice.com has lots and lots of pretty pretty things! here are some ideas for things to get for a girlfriend or sister or mother or friend who likes jewelry. :) btw, there's free shipping on all orders and everything i've chosen is for less than $100!

a simple silver flower pendant for daily wear for that girly girl of yours ($25). and a fancier (altho not much more expensive $30) necklace wit colorful and sparkly stones. another option, maybe for a more tomboyish girl, is this tough looking black stringray pendant on a ball chain ($75). and for the girl that prefers earrings, i suggest this pair ($55). very pretty czs, which can be both dressed up and dressed down.

cheap cheap

this article brings up a lot of really good points. so if you've ever had a relationship, are in one, or ever plan to have one again, read it and take notes!

something i found striking was the bit on forgiveness. 'some people forive too cheaply.' i think sometimes that's me. i don't like to punish people and so when someone says their sorry, i sort of just accept it. whether or not they've actually shown remorse. i believe that 'genuine forgiveness must be earned'. however i don't think i always make people earn back my trust. instead of focusing on them (showing me that they really are sorry, showing me that they'll never do it again) or focusing on us (making changes to assure that it won't happen again), i only work on myself. working to forgive them and not punish them. working so that things remain the same. working so that my actions are not affected by my hurt so that i don't take out my feeling on the person. but mabye i should 'take it out' on them. after all, they messed up. and they should suffer the consequences. not just me. i've been wronged, but i didn't do anything wrong. so why is it that i'm the only one suffering? if i too easily forgive them. maybe they'll get the wrong idea, and think that it wasn't such a big deal afterall, and that only makes the mistake all too likely to be made again. =\

i saw a little bit of the greg behrendt tv show the other day. the segment was on forgiveness. a guy cheated on his wife and greg decided that his punishment would be to strip down to his underwear and wear a sandwhich board saying that 'i'm sorry', 'i love my wife' and something else... 'i'm sorry i cheated' or something. anyway. the guy had to wear this and walk around on the street outside the studio. he also had to ring a bell and shout out 'i love my wife!' another girl cheated on her boyfriend, and they made her get into a big glass tank, where they poured worms and maggots on her while she shouted that she was sorry. and since her mouth was open, i think she probably even ate a few. but anyway. before they poured the bugs on her, her boyfriend steps in and asks greg 'does she have to?' greg was pretty upset. 'of course she has to!' he wanted these people to prove that they were sorry.   i don't kno if this was a good way to do it. i don't feel like bugs have anything to do wit cheating. and him walking around nearly naked like that does not make up for the fact that he cheated on his wife. but nothing does. you can't ever make it up. you can't ever fix it new. maybe not even fix it like new.

i think one of the worst things for me (back to personal stuff) was that it didn't seem like he was really sorry. i felt like i was nice enough to forgive him so easily the first time that he should've taken care to never hurt me like that again. but he did. even immediately after i didn't punish him. i still believed him when he told me he was sorry. but when i asked him to prove it to me, by not talking to her, he wouldn't. maybe this has to do wit his character, in that if he just doesn't agree, then he is unwilling to compromise. but i think it also has to do wit me forgiving him too easily in the first place. i try to be strong. i try to handle things myself. and i usually blame myself before blaming others. and i think that's wat messed me up. i took on too much of the burden of blame. i think that's wat we're thinking when we forgive too quickly. we think we're being kind. by not putting all the blame on the person. but it's not fair to yourself. people need to take responsibility for their actions. because like greg said, there is never a good reason to cheat. never. it may not have been their intentions to hurt you, but they did. and now they need to share in your pain. because otherwise they just won't understand wat you're going thru, and will forever be going thru.

and in closing: 'the instant we become an adult is the moment when the instinct to love is greater than the desire to be loved'.

bond!

in honor of the newest bond film, here's a link to all the bond movie intros.

sketchy

i was in class today and saw a girl drawing in her notebook. she was amazing! she was drawing out of her head and she was so damn good! anyway, so i can't really draw. but you kno wat? just cause i can't draw good, don't mean i can't draw at'all. so! after school i went to aaron brothers and bought a sketchbook and drawing pencils. i also went to target and got some colored pencils and a little broken doggie thing (picture 1). and picture two is the stuff i drew. so yeah, i'm not very good yet. but eh. i'm having fun. :)

and speaking of fun, i love these 'stardust ballerina' flats from anthropologie. and i love them in both colors. wow! unfortunately it's $128 a pair. :(

collage

pretty awesome / funny video of some weird guy (lasse gjertsen) making some music.

(thanks to robert for the link)

spiderman 3

the older spiderman 3 teaser trailer and the new trailer trailer.

::edit:: controversy over the leaked unfinished trailer. which is, btw, damn worth watching, if you can find it, that is.

lol

+--------------- Bizarre Political Insults ----------------+  

"He makes George Bush seem like a personality" - Jackie Mason on John Major.  

"He is a sheep in sheep's clothing" - Winston Churchill on Clement Attlee.  

"Winston, if I were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee." "Nancy, if I were your husband, I would drink it." - A conversation between Nancy Astor and Winston Churchill.  

"He could not see a belt without hitting below it." - Margot Asquith on David Lloyd George.  

"Richard Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Gerald Ford as  
his revenge." - U.S. politician Bella Abzug on Tricky Dickie.  

"Nixon's motto was, 'If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." - U.S. writer Norman Cousins.  

"Gerry Ford is so dumb that he can't fart and chew gum at the same time." - former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.  

"I wouldn't say she is open-minded on the Middle East, so much as empty-headed. She probably thinks Sinai is the plural of sinus." - Jonathan Aitken on Margaret Hatcher.  

"A shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Harold Wilson on Edward Heath. 

racist?

did anyone find the last gilmore episode to be a bit racist? suki's husband goes to the babysitters to pick up thier kid and he rants and raves about their asking him to take off his shoes when he enters their house (they're japanese). okay, yeah, i kno that not all cultures don't do this, and most asian ones do. but that doesn't make it right or wrong; that doesn't even make it weird. anyway. he goes on and on about how 'crazy' it is that they make him do this and how his feet smell and how he wears boots so that others don't smell his feet... dude. so the problem here isn't that their culture is crazy, it's that you have poor hygiene. and that's no excuse to be racist.

after the show they had this little blurb thing from the aerie girls (wat's the point of this segement anyway?). as i recall there were three caucasion girls and one girl who was very possibly asian. two of the white girls said some stuff about the show and then they panned to the asian girl talking. and then they basically mute her out. you can hear her still talking (altho you can't hear wat she's saying) and the camera goes back individually to each of the three white girls thought bubbling about the couples on the show (loralie and chris? loralie and luke?...) okay, so i kno that the asian was rambling but you could've edited it down. you didn't have to make it so that it appears that her opinions are unimportant. and them muting her emphasizes her ramble. which makes her seem weird or crazy, again wit the unimportance. the studio people need to be more careful about these things because she's the token asian in the group. so you probably shouldn't be censoring her.

and grey's antomy. why is that minorities are wit minorities and whites are with whites? all the african american actors (besides burke) are in relationships wit people of their own color. and christina, the token asian, is wit a black buy. i'm glad tho that they brought in a latino actor: dr. callie torres. but she's wit, like, the pathetic underdog of the show, george, who's still basically in love wit meredith. and as badly as you want to feel for her, dating a guy who can't fully commit, you can't feel bad for her because she's crazy. she lives in the hospital, takes her off her clothes all the time, says 'i love you' too soon, and forces herself of george. (the crazy latino ladydoesn't deserve the white guy) and yes meredith did once sleep wit an indian guy, but she kind of broke his penis. ...is that a sly poke at how asian men can't handle white women because they don't have the sexual powess?  and yeah, african american dr. weber did sleep wit meredith's mom, who's white. but they didn't end up together. she left her husband and now has alzheimers. he just got divorced. is this their 'punishment' for crossing racial lines? and burke, as you recall, now has a bum hand.

also did you ever notice this asian women thing? we are stereotypically portrayed as demure and subserviant. so to get away from this, they've done a 180 and now we're all bitches. high strung, over-acheiving, type a bitches. lucy liu's character on ally mcbeal? christina on grey's? wtf is this? stereotyping is still stereotyping.

omg!

guess who the next target go international designer is! proenza schouler! can you believe it?! wow! okay, but seriously. i don't want to get too excited about this. even tho i've been excited about each of the last four designers: luella, tara jarmon, paul & joe, and behnaz sarafpour i've been let down by each. especially behnaz... i even saw the collection preview and still when at the store... i guess there's a reason why their 'real' clothes cost so damn much... anyway, here are some previews of the proenza collection. :)