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.