rediscovery

matchbox 20 - hand me down


Someday they'll find your small town world on a big town avenue
Gonna make you like the way they talk when they're talking to you
Gonna make you break out of the shell cause they tell you to
Gonna make you like the way they lie better than the truth
They'll tell you everything you wanted someone else to say
They're gonna break your heart, yeah

From what I've seen
You're just a one more hand me down
Cause no one's tried to give you what you need
So lay all your troubles down
I am with you now

Somebody ought to take you in
Try to make you love again
Try to make you like the way they feel
When they're under your skin
Never once did you think they'd lie when they're holding you
You wonder why they haven't called
When they said they'd call you
You start to wonder if you're ever gonna make it by
You'll start to think you were born blind

From what I've seen
You're just a one more hand me down
Cause no one's tried to give you what you need
So lay all your troubles down
I am with you now

I'm here for the hard times
The straight to your heart times
Whenever it ain't easy
You can stand up against me
And maybe rely on me
And cry on me, yeah
Oh no, no, no

Some day they'll open up your world
Shake it down on a drawing board
Do their best to change you
They still can't erase you

From what I've seen
You're just a one more hand me down
Cause no one's tried to give you what you need
So lay all your troubles down
I am with you now

Lay them down on me
Oh yeah
You're just one more hand me down
And all those nots don't give you what you need
So lay all your troubles down...on me

ahhhh?

so i seem to be a little sick. not in the normal sense of the word tho? my throat seems to be constantly constricted. so it's a little difficult to swallow. and do nothing. lol. it doesn't hurt at all. nothing does. but it just seems tight. i looked in ealier and i don't think my uvula is hanging any lower than ususal. i read up on tonsillitis and i don't really have many of those symptoms either. basically all is normal. except that my throat is sorta constricted. i've had this for a few days btw, i just didn't htink anything of it. i still don't really, but i'm starting to realize that it's not just gonna go away. in any case i'm planning to call kaiser romrow and schedule an appt. i wonder wat i have? they'll probably just look in and take a swab and tell me to drink plenty of fluids. but anyway. i'll keep you, my adoring public, updated.

grecian gods

american idol produces some of the weirdest 'celebrities' such as zachary. and i actually didn't think he was a horrible singer. he's definitely not that good tho. his voice is not at all full like a real singer's but he was right on pitch for the whole thing. much better than the 'atrocious' as simon credits him. confusing sexes aside, here's a somewat confusing world sex survey. strange to think that china and india are near the bottem of the list when it's those two countries' populations which are / were fastest growing.

and this has more to do this the last post but but i think corset piercing is pretty cool. i think if not for the scars it would definitely be something i'd do. i think it's sexy as hell. but i'd not want to be scarred for life. if only i was more adventurous!

holla

reep asked the other day why it is that he has to read about things on my site rather than me telling him straight out. and i really didn't / don't have a good answer for that. i'd guess tho that it's a lot of reasons. one of which, i'm sure, has to do wit that i hate confrontations. and i probably forget a lot of the time. lord knows i update way more often in my head than i do in real life. and lately he and i haven't been talking all that much anyway. he's always off doing tekken. and i got sh*t reception here at school. and when we are online we don't talk much (never have really. nothing to say...). and recently i'll have imed him several messages in a longish time interval and he simply isn't there at his comp. last night he said he forgot he was online. which is all fine and well for him. but when i'm really tired and want to go to bed and 'need' to say goodnight and have no one to say it to... and i'm not sure wat happened tonight. 24 ended over an hour ago and his 24!!! away message is still on. probably started playing tekken again...  ...wait. something just hit me. reepal. we need to talk about this. if you don't bring this up by like... romrow when we meet imma post this on my site. so, homie, the ball's in your court. ting said something interesting tho. about me just being used to having him around. it making me feel safe. and i guess that's part of wat it is? i dunno. reep and i lately have been sorta... incommunicado lately. (whoa that is weird... i sorta just thought that word up? wasn't sure if it was real or not? and even then if i had remembered it right at all? but it is a real word. and i spelled it correctly on the first try! ting! the smartness that spread to you is spreading back to me! yuppie!!) anyway. yeah. remind me sometime reepal, really. btw, like rory said to jess, i'm not gonna be that girl! you got that? you're damn right.

'if you're listening, sing it back to me' / 'i won't play your hide and seek game...' / 'what a dizzy dance' 'sinking into sweet uncertainty' / 'if you're listening, are you listening?' 'if you're listening, sing it back to me?'

faces

this was sorta a weird thing ting sent over. feel free to read the faqs it's sorta funny. as are his other projects. weird guy, this guy. and strangely, this link is actually somewat related: personalized silhouette charms. very neat. now if i only had $1000+ to blow on something this would totally be on my list of things to buy.

body art

tattoos. i can't think of a time i didn't want one. but i wanted to be sure that i wouldn't regret it, kno you? anyway. ran into this site today. this guy has done some incredible work. i esp like picture 63 of arms. i really like the color and style. also really liked #38 of handwork. a few other points of interest is #24 of new stuff (top of a guy's head) and #11 of miscellaneous (i think the person is pregnant?). and for the most amazing sleeve i've ever seen, #1 of arms. most sleeves aren't really filled in. just tat designs, but this lady's arm. amazing. and for the strange side go to the lucky link (and this one too) who is appt the most tattooed person in the world. every single bit of his body is tatted, amazing. weirdest lucky picture? #19. eesh!

ashes & snow

i want, quite badly, to go see ashes and snow at santa monica pier by gregory colbert now thru may 14th. amazing stuff. really really...

   

wishlist

oish! i was excited about stella at h&m altho tho we don't even have an h&m down here so you can imagine how excited i am about luella at target! as if i needed another reason to love target! (btw, if you don't kno who luella is, she's the one who did the apple print last summer. and basically launched the whole fruit craze that season) the stuff i'm really looking forward to is the accessories and bags. :) specifically i want the ebony cuff (altho i'm worried my wrists will be too thin. bleh. and maybe white and orange?), cherry print coin purse (ohmygod this is so cute!!) but i would be willing to settle for the clutch. ..i wondering if i should just get it off target.com... ...i think imma wait till it comes out in the store and if it's sold out then i'll get it online. i love that coin purse!!

january

January 2 is Run Up the Flagpole and See if Anybody Salutes It Day  

January 3 is Festival of Sleep Day  

January 4 is Trivia Day and Humiliation Day  

January 10 is Peculiar People Day   (ie, ting day!)

January 11 is National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day  

January 12 is Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day  

January 16 is Hot and Spicy Food International Day and National Nothing Day

January 21 is Squirrel Appreciation Day and National Hugging Day

January 22 is National Answer Your Cat's Question Day and Celebration of Life Day

January 24 is Eskimo Pie Patent Day  

January 28 is National Kazoo Day, Clash Day, Rattle Snake Round-Up Day  

pictures

incredible photos. seriously. look fake actually.

ferrofluid is some weird stuff developed by nasa. but these photos are really neat.

honestly

1. honestly, where are you right now?
   ...are all the questions gonna be this stupid? ..i'm at school. duh. from where else to i update my site?

2. honestly, have you ever failed a subject in hs?
   yeah. several subjects actually. beat that f*cker. lol...

3. honestly, wat's on your mind?
   right now it's this quiz. but like angie, i'm thinking i should stop procrastinating. i got hw due monday and probably shouldn't start sunday night..

4. honestly, wat is it that you really should be doing right now?
   i just answered this: my hw.

5. honestly, have you brushed your teeth today?
   well, technically no; it being only 19 minutes into the new day. but yeah, i brushed my teeth since waking up. ...i gotta floss more often...

6. honestly, who are your best buddies in the world?
   the 6, i tell them most everything. but i'm absolutely closest to ting. reepal... i don't kno if he's my buddy, maybe just my boif. altho i confide in him the most out of everyone (some girl just broke up wit her boy i think. and threw something at his car. classy...)

7. honestly, who's the hottest person you kno?
   reepal. really. i think he looks just incredible. he has perfect proportions (better than da vinci's circle man dude). he's long limbed and has perfect skin. and (i love this) when he just simply bends his arm his muscles show! i find that so sexy. i've always been more into the thinish guy. not willowy but not too sinewy either. and altho i've always thought it was cool how strong he was (for looking so thin) i've really started to appreciate it lately. ...i'm rambling...

8. honestly, are you a good friend?
   yes i am. seriously. i mean. i have my moments when i'm not just a bad friend but also a bad person. but in general i think i am a good friend.

9. honestly, do you think school is important?
   only to some people. i don't, for instance, think it's important to have gone to school if you are an actor. or if, basically, your job requires skills or talents that you could not learn in school, or could learn better outside of school. but for most of us school is the way to go. altho, just cause it's important doesn't mean it's for everyone.

10. honestly, wat are your dreams mostlly about?
   i don't really kno. i don't try to remember my dreams so i forget most of them.

11. honestly, who/wat makes you happy most of the time?
   i am perfectly happy doing nothing important. but i love reading, sleeping, travelling, looking at beautiful things (ie, the mirror, lol)... okay. on a basic level. i love to be warm. seriously. finding the perfect temperature is just awesome. so getting into bed when someone is already there is perfect. because even tho the sheets are cool to the touch, they are warm. and instantly you are warm :)  (i think i'm 'suffering' from afterglow still...)

12. honestly, wat hobbies to you have?
   back to stupid questions are we? well. like angie, being crafty. reading, writing (obviously), recently photos... wat qualifies as a hobby anyway? ...i'm confused. maybe this was a smart question...

13. honestly, wat song are you listening to?
   matchbook romance - in transit for you

14. honestly, who do you want to see at this very moment?
   reepal. of course. (still that afterglow...)

15. honestly, do you have a deadly disease?
   as i was saying to ting a little ealier, you just wish i were a disease, cause then you could be finally be cured of me!

16. honestly, do you hate someone right now?
   not right now just now.

17. honestly, who/wat do you want to hug right now?
   no one. i don't like to hug.

18. honestly, are you bored?
   no. but i'm starting to hate whoever did this stupid 'quiz'. the word 'honestly' is getting to me.

19. honestly, who do you want to slap right now?
   ! whoever made up this stupid quiz!

20. honestly, wouldn't you rather be having sex right now?
   actually no, cause i have to poo.

21. honestly, do you like someone?
   yep.

22. honestly, are you single?
   no.

23. honestly, does anyone like you?
   well damn i'd hope so!

scan(dalous)

the other night i spent a good bit of an hour scanning my face. lol. i got a printer / flatbed copier / scanner a while ago and got sorta curious the other night. about wat it would or wouldn't scan. how close things had to be and such... lol. anyway. ended up wit a buncha really cool pictures. btw, eyes are always closed because if not then i'd be blind already wat wit the scan thing... altho if you do look slanted eyed into the light you see it prismed. red yellow then green. pretty awesome.

   

1st: the blurry thing on the right is actually my face. i just moved really quickly. 2nd: both sides, but slow this time. i also have another picture where you can see the left, right, and front of my face. weird. 3rd: one of my favorites. windy. beautiful... (i'm not talking about me. but damn skippy i'm beautiful too and don't you freakin forget it!! [btw, reepal said today that i'm fat! can you believe that?! geez! me, fat? no way! some places fatty maybe but eesh! bastards trying to make me anorexic])

easy

damn alcoholics. read this and get over your disease! but if it were only that easy... as easy as this owl appears to lose weight after getting scared, perhaps. (thanks robert!) tho just cause it's easy doesn't mean everyone's gonna do it. putting your parking brake up for instance, is pretty easy, but this cop forgets and then has to chase after his car! and it hits something! lol!

hair

so reep probably isn't gonna be too happy about this. but i'm thinking about cutting my hair again. now, i kno wat you're thinking, how am i to ever donate my hair again if i keep cutting it off every couple months? but i dunno. i don't like this current length. it's not long enough. but it's also not short enough. and since i can't make it grow any faster to make it longer. i keep thinking about making it shorter.

     

1st: couple years ago for my 21st bday. prob my fave short hair moment. we're at krispy kreme btw, and i'm wearing one of those hats. so no i didn't go find a sailor and steal his hat. altho i do love those navy uniforms... 2nd: my fave picture of me wit long hair. obviously you can't see that well but it's just past the bottom of my bra in this picture. altho i have a lot of pictures of me at this time, most are wit my hair up because long hair constantly gets in the way. so i always kept it up. i don't like the fuss associated wit long hair. you have to vacuum more often, you have to condition your hair, you have to be careful when getting into and out of cars... and you have to brush it! ...i don't kno if you kno this about me. but pretty much after my first major haircut in hs i stopped brushing my hair regularly. it never tangles anyway so why bother? and even when it was long it wouldn't tangle so i just kind of got out of the habit... 3rd: wat i'm considering. uh... i didn't kno you were on such intimate terms with michael jackson's plastic surgeon, stephanie. ...no, you idiot, the hair. i don't think i've ever gone that short actually. and i'm not sure it'll even look good on me... i worry that since i tend to wear big pants i'll look really off.kilter somehow. another worry, wit that style my hair will need a lot of body to look good. but my hair tends to lie a bit flat and i don't want to start blow drying and styling and watever. anyway. let me kno wat you think about the hair. or send in new suggestions.

confetti

*random jack bauer facts. pretty damn funny. but why 30 facts and not 24? *in case you've ever wanted to kno just how tall a celebrity was, you can look it up here. *reepal sent me this dumb game. i quit after just a couple turns (my best was around 17 seconds. but reepal's was 23.638!)

unfriended!

the other week, i was talking to a refriend (person you used to be friends wit. then that friendship lapsed. and then later you're friends again) who said that he didn't kno if he should be sad that i wasn't on his buddy list or not. but i've not talked to this guy in like seven years and he expects to be on my buddy list? but appt i've been on his. which then brings up the question of why didn't he im me if i've been there? he's not on mine; so it's out of sight, out of mind pretty much. as opposed to him. who purposely ignored me for seven years! you think that in the seven years i've been on his list he's never once thought 'hm... wonder how she's doing. i should im her.' but no, guy never once does im me. bastard. look who's sad now? lol, still not me actually. because i'm angry! ggrrRR like HULK!! lol...

perceptions

this is freakin so cool. seriously. go check it out. and man... that is such a great idea. can you imagine having a room like that? incredible...

moving pictures

top 65 music videos of 2005. you can dl them too! and many are ipod compatible. good selection. and not completely mainstream music either, yay!

planet hollywood

remember the brothers that wrote and directed the matrix movies? well, now it's a brother and a sister. yeah. larry wachowski is becoming a woman. and an okay looking one at that. altho i can't decide which looks better: him as a women or natalie portman wit a shaved head? i'm leaning towards natlie. but he does look pretty good in this picture (in case you didn't kno, s/he's the one in the glasses). and so appt the cast of friends has already signed a deal to come back for a few episodes. i'm not totally sure how i feel about that... i mean. i'll be glad to see them back but at the same time... wat for? and in case you didn't already kno, paris hilton is an idiot. and here's the proof. and did i ever post this? remember head from korn? how he left because he found god? well, here's his site. interesting...

edit 1-25: appt that friends thing was a hoax.

lucky

so call me crazy but i'm thinking i need yet another blog. to replace trips i suppose. i like how this site used to just be about my relationship ish. and now it's more of just daily journal thing. which, while nice... i'll think about it. probably set it up later on this week. anyway, tonight i saved all my past posts from this site (oct 18th 2004) and have 50 pages total. size 8.5 verdana font. sheesh!  lts Me Khoa [12:01 A.M.]:  wow you like to write out your thoughts alot. yeah, i guess you could say that. lol.
so this weekend ting and i went to super arcade for a bit and played strip poker (per ting's request, mind you). so she started (she picked a fireman) and didn't get very far at all! he took off his hat, his jacket and his shoes. and that's as far as she got. he kept putting things back on and taking them back off. lol. and that was after like 3 quarters too! so anyway, before after the first time i played reepal told his tekken buddies and a guy named cynnik decided to play (he picked a girl obviously). but he didn't get very far either! she only took off a couple layers (after one retry). so ting and i were originally thinking that it must be much harder to get the ladies to take off their clothes. so after ting played i decided to try my hand again, but this time wit a lady. so i picked a secretary lady (she was pretty sexy too, i thought) and got her naked in just one retry! now, after you win the round your time isn't always up so they start you on a new character. so i got a gym lady. i eventually ran out of time and wasn't gonna resume but by then reepal showed up and dropped another quarter in. so i got her naked too and started on two ladies! lol. anyway, the whole thing was pretty embarrassing cause the machine moans a lot (and loudly!) so we had gathered a bit of an audience. and.. well... i guess i'm neglecting to mention a pretty important part. but you get to see the ladies' boobies. nipples too. lol. you don't get to see them down there. same wit guys. secondary sexual organs only. (reep classifies ass as a secondary sex organ so...). but anyway... point is, i'm awesome! i'm the only one who ever manages to get anyone naked! haha! i told khoa this story and he called me his hero! haha! lol... i dunno. i'd much rather have this sort of good luck in vegas. when we were playing for money. maybe it's not as entertaining but it's definitely more rewarding. i can see a naked lady nearly anytime i want, after all. altho granted, she does have a couple body parts i don't have but anyway!

timing

timing is everything (hammers, bullets, water drops) [thanks robert!]

bullets and cards

liquid sculpture (water droplets)

sandman

had a bit of a bad dream last night. it involved me and the girls going to a dairy show / wedding banquet / dragon boat luncheon where i saw reep already there having a great time wit three other girls. girls that i have worried about in the past. anyway, it was really bad so i went to the restroom to gather myself (not wanting to start anything and ruin our db team's chance at a win [after lunch we were going on a cruise to our competition destination]) where i sorta lost my temper and punched in the metal towel dispenser. security showed up after that and i was telling them why i punched the thing in and i started to cry (up until then i had just been tearing, not really crying) and at that point i woke up. because my face was starting to scrunch up. pretty weird... anyway, i called reep and told him about my dream and he was really really nice about it. he even apologized! :) i think that's so sweet. i apologize when he has a bad dream where i do bad things but i think usually when i have a bad dream he just reminds me that it was just a dream and doesn't really pay much attention to it. but this time he apologized. :) watta sweetie. (that doesn't make me weird right? anyway, ting said no so imma just take her word for it). but yeah... mainly tho. i kno this wasn't the first time i've woken up from a dream crying but i think it was one of the very rare times i've woken up from crying. cause my face was all crumpling in. yeah. pretty sad... my pillow was all wet too. :(

'why did you?' 'she lost her mind' 'i hate these thoughts i can’t deny' 'she lost her head'

target 2

then exactly two months later ting and i end up at target:

   

wat's wit all the teeth step?

target 1

so on october 29th of last year chang, tsai and i go to target:

   

be gone!

was talking to my dad tonight. i forget why, but we were talking about marriage and my dad announces 'if i don't like the guy you're going to marry, i'm not coming to your wedding! i don't care if you want me to. you can't make me. if i don't like him i'm not going to tell you you can't marry him or watever, i'm just not going to come to your wedding!' ...uh... sure... and if you're going to be such a rambling idiot at my wedding i'd prefer you not to come either. but seriously. like. who the hell really cares if you like my intended? that's hardly the point of showing up. i'm your daughter. you're only child. and just cause you don't like the guy, you're going to, rather than just suck it up, ruin the wedding for everyone? yes everyone. cause everyone esp me and mom and those who you're supposed to care most about will be horribly embarrassed and hold this against you forever. and i don't exactly kno wat you're friends are gonna think but i hardly expect that they're going to be right there wit you at 'lowes' as you said you might go to. you can't make me! well fine, someone anyway, needs to be the adult around here. and since it aint gonna be you... btw? another weird thing. we're talking about ting's sister's wedding and i say how big a deal it is for her parents because it's their first child getting married for the first time. and i said that when / if  i get married it would be my dad's first and last child's wedding. and hopefully first and last wedding at that. and my dad says 'oh, you and i both kno it isn't going to be your last.' . and at this point i'm thinking 'because about half of all american marriages end in divorce and you think the numbers are only going to go higher?' and then i realize, no, silly me, my dad's talking about my horoscope. yeah... he says 'i've read your horoscope and you kno it too, that you're going to marry twice.' ...yeah. back wit this whole i'd rather you not come than say this sort of ridiculous hocus pocus sh*t at my wedding. first or last or watever, let's just not be a downer. but more importantly, let's all try not to be crazy! oh wait, is that gonna be too difficult for you? ...yeah... i mean, i kno my dad's lonely (wat wit my mom being gone and him not having a whole lot of friends) and so i try to be there for him. i call, i listen, i engage, i help out, i stay home, i come home, i am thoughtful and goddamnit i try to be patient but holy hell does hewear on my nerves... ...i want to say that he was drinking tonight and so that's why he's crazy talking but he wasn't drinking at dinner, altho maybe before hand. and i didn't smell it on him either. ...in some cases it would really just be easier to have a drunk for a dad than some senile old fool that you really do have to care about because overall he is a good dad. he just has these moments of sheer ... sheer wat? i don't kno... unbelievableness. and you kno, if you believe in this whole horoscope bullshit then how come you weren't able to predict any of the damn things that have happened thus far? how come you went back to taiwan because you thought you're mom was gonna die, only to have her not and then to have her really die like two years later. how come you didn't foresee your car accident? how come you didn't try to save your sister's life if you knew she was gonna die so young? how come you didn't f*cking foresee the biggest goddamn disappointment and shock of you life? you can't make me! yeah, maybe you didn't kno that it was gonna be me and school. but you should've known that it was gonna happen. it turned all our lives upside down. you and mom have not been the same physically or emotionally since. you have your health problems now. and basically all that sh*t happened when my sh*t blew up. wat's more, that was thus far the worst time in my life too. wit the pressure, lying, school, friends, skin, parents... i f*cking passed out in school and you weren't able to predict that. all of our lives. intersecting at this one devastating point. but of course, you already kno that i'm gonna get married twice. and naturally that's more important. i have absolutely no faith in your stupid horoscope bullsh*t. and if you think i'm going to divorce one and marry twice you got something coming at you. cause this i can change. i can divorce twice or even thrice if i so wish. because this horoscope stuff you believe in? it's on the assumption that my life is already mapped out. but if i already kno wat's in store for me, than i damn well can change that. cause even tho i can't make you, i sure as fuck can make me.

'they don't mean a thing' 'let them talk so they feel important' / 'i gave away my freedom to please you' 'why do you have to put this on me?' /
'do what you wanna do'

factual

A pork chop will dissolve if left to sit in a bowl of Coca-Cola.  

A rat is able to live longer without water than a camel.  

Moths aren't really attracted to light. They're attracted to the black spot behind it.  

The dot above the letter i is called a tittle.  

A lightning bolt is up to 4 times as hot as the sun.  

Romans invented the first popsicle.  

A cheetah does not roar, it purrs.  

No two zebras have the same kind of stripes.  

Reindeer stay warm in the arctic cold by eating moss.

playground

friend: i dont understand
friend: how you can love someone so much but yet, they hurt you so much
friend: or have hurt you
friend: same with my mom
friend: i love her to death, but
Neurp: you love them so they can hurt you
Neurp: the more you love someone, the more you let them hurt you.
Neurp: the more you put up wit. the more you can.
friend: that's dumb
friend: so were all masochistic
Neurp: it's a pretty fine line tho... and someday they might cross it. and you'll no longer love them. they've just hurt you too much for you to love them anymore
Neurp: stupid seesaws.

 

is that really how it is? the more you love someone the more you let them hurt you? cause isn't that just terrible? but if it's a mutual relationship, then they love you too. and part of love is not wanting to hurt the other. but of course you do hurt them. and it's not really your fault either, sometimes, the things that they're hurt by. any person who didn't love you wouldn't have been hurt by wat you did. and yet because they do love you, wat you did, did hurt them. it's terrible, this love business.

 

'when you’re lonely and you want to hear...' 'you will only sniff away the tears' / 'and in your head do you feel what you're not supposed to feel' / 'cause your thoughts and words won't last forever more' / 'but i'm not sure if it ever works out right' 'but it's ok. it's alright' 'cause it never, never, never works out right'

sky

during winter break a bunch of us hung out a lot. lol... so specific! but anyway. a bunch of us from hs. we had sorta a mini class reunion at my house one night. another night a few of us went to yard house in long beach. and btw, altho they might have the largest selection of beer? their coke tastes like crap. bleh. anyway. here're some pictures that i took of the pier and such outside said restaurant.

   

pretty incredible sky, no?

strange

up for a little shopping? how about gettin one of thse: top 10 weirdest usb drives. hm... already have one of those eh? well then how about getting something from this guy's site? yeah... i didn't kno amazon.com sold those kinds of things... well anyway, if you would prefer to save your money, just go ahead then and make your own simpsons character (not nearly as cool as i thought it was gonna be...). and for the funniest musical commerical i've seen in a while: carlton's big ad. :)

pairsomes

ah shit. i totally messed up. bleh. reep was out monday night so he asked if i could record 24 for him (his fav tv show) so i did. or... i thought i did. appt i recorded 7th heaven instead. uh yeah, how's that for polar opposites? and why 7th heaven i have no idea. i was watching the golden globes myself so if anything i should've gotten that... i dunno... we went thru a hell of a lot of trouble just getting the damn tape too. bleh.

well okay. i promised today's post was gonna be a chair gripper. so here goes. (btw, i'm finding it hard to concentrate. it's diane's bday today [thurs] and so a couple people came over round midnight [which is so freaking cool, btw, i'd love to do that for someone. i think sometimes i call the person. but i guess when you all live in basically the same appt complex...] and they're a bit noisy). a couple nights ago reep said that he thinks we might get, you kno... yeah. ... ... lol, don't kno wat that means? married, you fool! lol. anyway. so, how do i feel about this? uh... panicked, for one. (and confused for another. why is it that 'panic' has no 'k' but 'panicked' does? where does that 'k' comes from?!) and surprised and actually confused and ... dare i admit it? even a little happy. cause after all, i've almost for sure landed me a man! and you kno wat that means! it's okay for me to get fat and hairy! imma throw out my razor right now! yeah! ... anyway. happy cause. well, people don't say stuff like that if they're planning on dumping you, or cheating on you, or unhappy in the relationship. (well, good people don't. and yeah, i think reepal is good people. altho appt i can't count to 2 so...) and so i kno i'm over thinking the whole thing. but sheesh! we've been together now for a complete 5 years. i've always thought i'd get married later. at the very least 27. and if we do marry when i'm 27 then we'll have been together for 10 years already! that's more than several hollywood marriages put together! that's more than a couple hollywood people's multiple marriage put together! ...i think you get the point. anyway, i'm not really stressing about this marriage stuff. it's quite a ways off you kno. well, in any case, mine is. altho ting's sister's isn't! i'm going. :) ting and i will make quite a pair. we shall be the talk of the town! the talk of the town do you hear!?!

yay ya.

squares

rubrik's cube record breaker is from caltech. ...on one hand i'm like, whoa, awesome, good for you. and on the other hand... it's still kind of lame... but anyway. for those of you non.geniuses out there. here's directions on how to solve the thing on your own. still pretty complicated tho... i think imma just stick to moving those stickers around. but if you're too stupid for even that but still like crafts. here's a tutorial on how to make a stuffed felt monster. enjoy.

post

hm... am a little behind on this site... well anyway. this song. i listened to pretty obsessedly over the summer when i was in china. worrying about reepal i guess. a lot of the songs i took wit me to china were somewat in relation to him and me and the rocky times we were having. ...i've switched almost all those songs off my player btw. tho right now my favorite song is mariah carey's - shake it off. which says nothing about reep and me. so don't look too deep into this lyric stuff...


fall out boy - where is your boy?

Where is your boy tonight? I hope he is a gentleman.
Maybe he won't find out what I know:
you were the last good thing about this part of town.

When I wake up
I'm willing to take my chances on
the hope I forget
that you hate him more than you notice
I wrote this for you.

Do you need him? I could be him.
I could be an accident but I'm still trying.
That's more than I can say for him.

Where is your boy tonight? I hope he is a gentleman.
Maybe he won't find out what I know:
you were the last good thing about this part of town.

Someday I'll appreciate in value,
get off my ass and call you...
but for the meantime I'll sport my
brand new fashion of waking up with pants off
at 4:00 in the afternoon.

Do you need him? I should be him.
I could be an accident but I'm still trying.
That's more than I can say for him.

1-2-3-4!

Where is your boy tonight? I hope he is a gentleman.
Maybe he won't find out what I know:
you were the last good thing about this part of town.

(won't find out) he won't find out
(won't find out) he won't find out

Where is your boy tonight? I hope he is a gentleman.
Maybe he won't find out what I know:
you were the last good thing about this part of town.

Where is your boy tonight? I hope he is a gentleman.
Maybe he won't find out what I know:
you were the last good thing about this part of town.

mishmosh

*i totally forgot to post this! it's an incredible cgi lady, wow. i do have a complaint tho. and a pretty major one at that... the eyelashes are no good. and it's ridiculous that they didn't do each eye separately. if you enlarge the picture you can see that they just mirror imaged the lashes. why spend all that time if you're not gonna spend all that time? *ting has finally found her dream bike! and it's sponsered by mountain dew. so uh... yeah... i personally would keep looking, but ting insists on getting this one. well... okay... *and to close, a sea monster.

graffiti

you kno who i love? angie. damn that girl's awesome. (i'd link her site but am not sure if she wants it private) lol. just love it when you post on your site and the next thing you kno someone else has posted their version. makes you feel much appreciated. like people are actually reading your site! ahem reepal! anyway. hm... wat to post about tonight? actually, i have a lot of different things but am currently too lazy.. well, recap on the week i suppose. angel went back to ny on sunday and the girls and i hung out saturday night making tshirts. i made two that i loves very much! one is a black shirt of a skull on the back. and another is of a pair of clown balloons on a navy blue shirt. the girls thought it was scary looking, but i think they're just prejudiced against clowns. oh! and remember the lip balm we made the other week? well, ting's dog steffy got into one and ate it! silly thing. ah!! guess wat happened on friday the 13th? i got my vdc parking pass!! yay! i'm so happy! haha! oh, but on a downer note. i've not posted any pictures of the stuff i've done recently cause my mom took my camera wit her to taiwan / japan. so basically i'll be camera.less for the next 6 weeks! argh! i dunno, i might take my rents camera again? but it's so big and bulky... oh well. oh later on this month i'll be attending ting's sister's wedding. i'm going as ting's date! lucky me! hehe. er... wat else... yup. well... a better post romrow night, i promise. :) and just so you don't feel too let down tonight. here're three things i love from fred flare: partridge pin, rose ring (reminds me of the anna sui lip gloss rings. which i've so been meaning to buy...) and just so you don't think think pink is my new favorite colors (it's not!) i also love iguy. okay. and now just for fun, go dl some free music from aol.

quiz

wat's your perfect college major quiz. said i should be philosophy, (You should be a Philosophy major! Like the Philosopher, you are contemplative and you enjoy thinking about the purpose for humanity's existence.) which is funny cause yeah, i was totally considering that. in order my scores are phil 100%, english 92, engineering 92, theater 83, math 83, linguistics 83, lournalism 83, anthro 75, sociology 67, psych 67, dance 58, bio 58, chem 50 and art 42. i have some problems wit this. i dunno why dance is above art? ...i don't kno why dance is above anything? and socio, psych and anthro should've all scored higher. but anyway. reepal got math: You scored as Mathematics You should be a Math major! Like Pythagoras, you are analytical, rational, and when are always ready to tackle the problem head-on! lol, did you read that? 'and when are always ready to...' lol.

warning!

last night was the golden globes and did you see alanis morissette? she's a blond!! goodness gracious even mel gibson is upset.

anyway, short post today because i want you all to pay special attention to this:

California Highway Patrol will launch a 30-day speeding ticket frenzy in South Orange County starting January 25, 2006. The state estimates that 22 million dollars will be generated in speeding tickets. 3 million will go to pay California Highway Patrol officer overtime. There will be 90 California Highway Patrol officers on duty at all times patrolling the 7 freeways.

They are the following: 73, 55, 133, 241, 57, 5, 605 freeways

Now 7 mph above the limit can justify a ticket and every California Highway Patrol officers is supposed to pull a car over and write a ticket every 10 minutes. They have issued 50 brand new unmarked Crown Victoria cruisers and they are bringing all their part timers on full time.

only me?

ting's comment to my last post: 'soooo did you have fun with your striper guy?? lol, hilarious. only you, well actually i could see this happening to tsai too...' it's strange. i hear this being said to me from time to time: 'that could only happen to you'. and i wonder why that is? but the point of this post isn't about that. it's actually a shout out to stanley thomas (so if anyone that read this knows his email, send this post over, or give him this web address). ...i feel like i've posted about this before but i'm constantly writing in my head and failing to get it down permanently, but anyway... in our group of five (we call ourselves 'the 6' and oh, lol, we're very exclusive so don't bother trying out for that 'empty' spot) i and i'm sure a few others (i doubt i'm alone in this) have forever looked up to annie chang because of her uniqueness. her writing, her clothing, her kitch, etc, all very annie. well, to me anyway. so a couple years ago when i was in australia wit the band (for the olympics!) a bunch of us were talking and i mentioned that i envied annie for her distinctiveness. and stanley jumped in and said that i was more unique than she was. and i damn near glowed. i mean, he said it most likely not even knowing the profound effect this would have on me. but holy crap i think i will carry this wit me for the rest of my life. which is awesome considering that stanley and i were never close. but i will forever remember him, if only for this simple little comment. so anyway, moral of the story: be free wit your compliments. you never kno when you might be altering someone's whole view of themselves. i've never been really down on myself. i've always had pretty high self esteem no matter wat i was going thru. but sometimes when i'm feeling sad about myself i think about a few things that certain people have said to me and i feel so much better about myself. a while ago a girlfriend of mine was complaining about something, her weight maybe? and the others of us said that her boif really didn't do a very good job wit her. because a boif / girlf is supposed to make you feel better about yourself. they're supposed to be your compliment. and they are supposed to compliment you. build you up and make you a better person, just by being wit you. but anyway (goddamn i gotta stop saying 'anyway'! i no longer say 'like' all the time but this 'anyway' business is driving me crazy!) bleh. okay, this post was really er... jumbly wasn't it? not exactly my best writing. oh well. i gotta go pee again. damn uti!!! (btw annie, i wasn't trying to diss you. but you kno that.)

wildlife shots

i forget if i've already posted this... not this page anyway, maybe at musings? but anyway, here are the winners of the national wildlife federation photo contest. and actually, the grand prize winner isn't my fav photo. i like the one of the kingfisher best (last photo on page).

smarties

MADISONVILLE, Ohio - A Cincinnati-area family followed their grandmother's wishes and allowed her body to mummify in front of a television in their home for 2 1/2 years. Johannas Pope, 61, died sitting in her chair in an upstairs room on Aug. 29, 2003. She had instructed her family not to do anything with her body, as she believed she would be resurrected. Hamilton County (Ohio) coroner Dr. O'dell Owens told a news conference Monday that family members regulated heating and air conditioning as they attempted to preserve the woman's remains. They kept a window air conditioner running to keep Pope's body cool until about a month ago, when it broke, Owens said. Pope's sister, who hadn't seen the woman in years, called Cincinnati police last Wednesday and reported a dead body at the home.  

RIFLE, Colo. - Dian Geist and her husband Brian were enjoying a bag of nuts when they got a surprise - a condom was hidden inside one of the nuts. Dian had bought the bag of unshelled nuts from an open bin at a Wal-Mart Supercenter, and the couple had a good laugh when the bright yellow condom popped out of one nut. Police said someone must have drilled a hole in the nut, emptied the shell, put a condom inside, and then plugged the hole with wood putty. "The condom was new and unused, so it probably wasn't anything malicious. I can't find where any law has been broken," said Police Chief Daryl Meisner. (another reason to hate wal-mart!)

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. - Police arrived at an apartment after receiving a call about a man who was seen bleeding profusely from his hand. The man wasn't at the apartment, but a large amount of blood was found on the door. Police searched the apartment and found a shell casing on the bathroom floor and a large pool of blood near the toilet. "Apparently the male was playing with a handgun while using the bathroom and inadvertently shot his finger off," the RCMP said in a new release. The RCMP warned about the dangers of gunplay after the incident, and also warned of the dangers of playing with guns while using the toilet. (but just while using the toilet...)

BAKER, Calif. - For a self-portrait, an artist literally went to great lengths, hobbling the Mojave Desert for 12 hours with ankles chained, padlocked and the key missing. Trevor Corneliusen, a painter and classical violinist, had gone to the desert as he does each winter from his home in Olympia, Wash., to meditate. This time, he chained and padlocked his ankles Tuesday while posing for the self portrait but then couldn't find the key, reports The Los Angeles Times. He trudged for 12 hours through sand and scrub brush, using a wooden pole as a walking stick, before reaching a gas station in Baker, Calif. The fire department used bolt cutters to unshackle the artist after three attempts.

jackpot

went out wit reep last night for a bit and ended up where? at an arcade of course! bleh. but anyway, reep gave me a few tokens so i went around looking for something to play and settle on a multi game machine that had poker. so i put in a coin and on the screen pops out an option for strip poker! reep tells me to play that (lol, i think he's disagree to how it actually happened, but it's my site so i'll lie if i want. er... not that i'm lying now...) so i dutifully conceed figuring that the character won't really strip all that far down anyway. so i chose this tux wearing guy (was also a construction guy, a s&mish guy, and someone else. and there were also four ladies to pick from, in case you were wondering) and started playing. stupid thing tho was that if you lost a hand he put an article of clothing back on! but most surprising of all, he took all his clothes off! lol! he was down to boxers and i'm thinking 'no way...' then he takes that off and is wearing a thong! then i won that hand and he took that off too! oh my god! but thankfully when he was in the thong, and afterwards, he was facing away from the scree so you couldn't really see anything. i think for the ladies tho you'd get to see her boobies. reepal made fun of me and said i should play again but after already seeing two naked guys in a day i figured i had already fulfilled my quota. (...two naked guys!? how many times did you play stephanie?! lol, well, a lady never tells...) anyway after that i switched to checkers then tri-peaks. btw? while ago some tekken guy asked reepal for my picture (er, why?!) and i had the pleasure of meeting him last night... yeah... was trying not to look him in the eye. bleh. but he left early so that worked out. anyway, all in all, a pretty interesting night.

ps. unfortunately for you i've no pictures of that stipper guy. for once i left my camera at home! but i'm sure all y'all got dirty minds so imagine away.

dinner menu

more pictures from the grocery store:

     

1st: wat's hiding amongst those bloody fish heads?  2nd: ah, a handy snack! and how are you enjoying that mr fish?  3rd. and for you my lady? will it be squid or fish today?  4th: and wat would you like to drink mr bond, a martini perhaps? no? an iced coffee latte?! oh really? well, er, sure...

myths

live science dispells some common myths. so common in fact, i didn't even kno about several of them! and while some of them only idiots would believe, i did learn a few things. (only one link because it's sorta a longish one)

dinner

coupla weeks ago my rents and i went to rose hills to visit my grandparents and aunt. afterwards we went to some asian supermakert. and i gotta say, altho i've been to a lot of asian supermarkets (even those in asian counties) this was by far the weirdest experience. (notice i say weirdest not unsanitary. taiwan tops all wit that one. bleh.) anyway. we they had live fish and live crab. no big deal you say, sea palace has the same. well yes, but do you get to catch the fish yourself? thought not.. anyway, my rents also decided to pick up some crab for dinner. this is the first time they bought crab live (well, we've done it before but we had a lady who knew wat she was doing. and my rents have no idea how to pick a good live crab). anyway, but they were little things and i wanted to see just how strong they were. VERY! eesh, i put my finger into the claw of one, just to see, and holy shitness that hurt like none other! crikey. was stinging for the next half hour. oh well, i ate that bastard later so i got the last laugh. but those guys are freakin crazy! so we picked the out and put them in a bag. continued to shop for the next hour maybe? then took another half hour to drive home. and when my rents were starting to prepared dinner another half hour after that, the crabs were still alive! all six of them! crazy buggers...

     

1. my dad messing wit a HUGE lobster per my request. 2. dad toying wit the fish per my request. (haha, i'm not a terribly nice girl. but before you go and call peta on me, when i go to the markets wit live crabs i always always turn them over so that they're not laying on their back. and when they're all pushed up in one corner i move them around so they have space. and sometimes if i have the time i'll transfer some water to them so they're all parched and dying. see, i'm nice. oh yeah, peta should call me now and be their spokes person) 3. rents choosing the crabs. lol, i dunno why my mom looks confused. 4. jerk who tried to eat my hand. well, look who i'm having for dinner!! loser...

balmy nights

did i tell you? last saturday night us girls got together finally. all five of us! :) anyway, so i had the idea of making lip balm but didn't get to it all winter break so we decided to that night. we must've went to like 10 stores total just looking for the ingredients. eesh. but anyway, all we really got correct was the wax (we used soy wax, we're so trendy). we couldn't find coco butter or sunflower oil anywhere. it was really annoying. but anyway, we used european butter and peanut oil. lol. we made several batches and finally settled on a mixture we all liked. altho i gotta say, i still think it's too waxy. then we proceeded to mix and match colors and scents. yay for orange bread flavored lip blam! hehe. btw? i love my sparkly pink peppermint mix. night was funny cause i took the mixing really seriously. measuring and time and mixing... ('submitting to step the nazi's ways' quoth chang) but my dad is a chemist so give me a break! i think only angel and i had the most fun. we're planning to do it again some time. yay for lip balm! (sorry no pictures!)

animals!

look at this cutie! aw, it really is too bad that he died tho... :( but god only knows wat the owners would have done wit him. maybe audition him for sex tapes? btw, if you do happen to kno a sex-crazed, boner popping donkey, be sure to contact this lister. and in better uses of animals, how about the next time you need to burn something down, you hire out this little guy? man couldn't kill mouse but irony dstroyed his house. lol. i can rhyme!

wavery

you think i would've found this out ealier. but i realized today that reepal has essentially no empathy. today something pretty devastating happened to a super close friend of mine. i told reep and he then made a comment on the traffic. then said something again about the traffic. . ... um, okay. couple months ago i told him i had received a text message from a friend who said that his girlf just tried killing herself. i think reepal's next question was whether or not i had romantic feelings for this guy. i got angry at the time but basically forgot about it. probably thinking that well, he doesn't kno my friend and definitely doesn't kno the girlf. but my friend today. reepal knows. quite well actually. since hs. we've been on a few trips together and the three of us spent this past new years together. and they've also talked outside me. anyway. so reepal basically had nothing to say about her or her situation. i then told him that i had to go. was busy or something. (which was true. i had to go call my friend and see how she was doing) reep then tries (which i am thankful for). he starts to ask questions on why this is so bad and why i care so much. or why he should care. in any case. we talk a few minutes more but don't really get that far. he still doesn't get why any of this should matter to him. anyway, it actually takes a turn for the worse and i basically hang up on him. i couldn't stand it anymore. ting asked how it's possible that i've only found this out now. so many years later. i really don't kno. they say love covers a multitude of sins. so maybe i've always managed to look but not really see these things. but i think recently it's been wearing pretty threadbare (not so much the love tho. i can't honestly say i love him any less. even after this. does that make me less of a person as well?) and the truth is starting to show thru. but it makes you wonder... empathy is a pretty common trait. something pretty normal. of course some people identify a bit more than others (i think i sometimes have this problem) but most of us feel bad when bad things happen to others (9/11, katrina, somalia...) so this lack of empathy in reepal is a bit disturbing. (chang put into words how i felt: disgusted. which is pretty harsh but rather true i think) it makes me wonder how someone who can have so little regard for others is capable of love. because doesn't a part of love have to do wit identifying wit others? and no, not just them in themselves. but them in relation to others. because no man is an island. and you and me do not a wholly populated island make. i think reep and i have always had this problem tho. me feeling that he's never cared about the things i care about, for simply the sake of caring because i care because he loves me. the holes are wearing larger. i complain about the quality of our conversations. but i thought it was one of those traditional things. now i think maybe it's cause he just doesn't care. i have full on conversational conversations wit others. i imagine he has the same. but together... i've become reticent. then babbling. at turns. strands are coming off the frayed edges. is it possible? to love someone but to not care about them? wat is love anyway? angel said that it's faith. i say sacrifice. but watever you think it is. it would be major help if the one you love defined it in the same way. or close. helps you understand their motivations. in either case. i don't understand reepal at all. i think nearly every fight we have brings me closer to this conclusion, and possibly, our conclusion. ...how can you be wit someone for six years and not understand them? how can you, at five completed years' end wonder just who you're wit. i wish i had a close male friend again. ask him wat this is about. if it's simply the battle of the sexes again. or if the battles are within ourselves.or maybe, even sadder, it's just in me. am i finally seeing clearly? or just looking again?

'are you drowning your fears?' / 'when everything is hazy then everything will be okay' 'when everything is hazy then you wont be sad that you stayed.' / 'time has been spread so thin' / 'and the things that are keeping you here are not keeping me here.' 'the things that are keeping you here will keep me away.' / 'don't follow your heart cause it just seems to get in your way.'

eyelights

msn nbc's the year in review, year in pictures. it's better if you have a faster internet connection and don't forget to turn up your speakers. btw? it was really hard to vote for my favorite picture! there are way too many good ones.

bowling

remember how reep and i went bowling over break? below are two pictures. one of the each of us. reep's is first. see how it looks like he's running away from the lane? lol, reminds me of that 'fun wit dick and jane' movie billboard thad had jim carey running. then you've got my picture. so obviously i've got a better pose thing. altho i think i'm a bit low? i dunno. i look strange too.

           

btw. the song reference a moment when reepal was going up and he released the ball as he was swinging the ball back! it dropped like rock! so loud! and scary!! but hilarious as hell. :)

pandas

pandas are some of the cutest creatures alive. and incredibly enough their babies are even cuter! here're some pictures and for something a little more substantial, here's a site devoted to pandas for your daily panda fix.

critters

how weird is this? it's a bird that can cross stitch. or... is it? the last line says 'we were amazed by the photos of spike'. ...photos? maybe it's a hoax! but anyway. speaking of bad hair (wat?) here's this shaved lama. lol. reminds me of the movie emperor's new groove. and for more pictures of animals and such. here are the winners of national wildlife's photo contest.

i

i am: procrastinating

i want: a vdc parking pass
i have: no vdc parking pass

i wish: for more wishes
i hate: being sick

i miss: being stronger
i fear: too many things
i hear: the clacking of my keyboard
i search: to get things just right
i wonder: about the little things
i regret: too many things
i love: being warm
i ache: in my left shoulder / side of neck
i always: wish i hadn’t wasted so much time
i am not: who you want me to be
i dance: unwell
i sing: constantly
i cry: in most movies
i write: constantly (in my head usually)
i win: never enough
i lose: myself in so many things (i over-identify)
i confuse: even myself!
i need: more self-control
i should: get to sleep

penes

plural form of word 'penis'? take a while to think about this, seriously. we had guess penises and also penii or peni? anyway. those are all wrong! it's penes! prounounced peeneez! lol! don't believe me? check it out for yourself here.

pie

i, the one who doesn't cook nearly at all, made a pie! (btw, when i say pie i drawl and extend it out. piiie sounds gooood. lol) allie (some of you kno) spent the night sometime last week before heading back up to berkeley. so we went to her step grandma's house where we learned to make pumpkin pie, and, more importantly, whip cream! twas awesome. we each made one. basically from scratch, well the crust anyway. we used canned filling cause they say it's so much easier. but we added stuff to it so it's not like we just poured it in or anything. btw, i normally don't much like pumpkin pie. but it's true. wat you make yourself does taste better. :) anyway, below are some pictures.

     

first: allie making the dough. second: finished pie crusts (mine's on the right). third: allie mixing up the pie custard. fourth: finished! (mine's on left). notice the little black bit on the crust of mine? i got a little over zealous when pouring in the filling. :) yum!

thoughtledge

how do you kno when enough is enough? (aw... emo music makes me think. sad thoughts tho. damn emo kids.) how do you kno when you're fooling yourself really well? cause, damn, if you kno you're fooling yourself then obviously you're not really fooling yourself. i think maybe if you say aloud where the line is, then when it's crossed, it's easier to get up and go. if you don't consciously establish where the line is then you stay on and on, waiting for the tipping point. which is rather silly cause really, you ought to set the tipping point yourself. not wait for outside forces to really push you over the edge.

'while you were sleeping i stared into the darkness and wondered how i ended up with you so close to me' / 'resting in your arms is the only thing that comforts and shields me from this night' 'so please, please stay and show me what it's like to be in love' / 'i'd do anything at all just to catch you smile again'

'you're the only thing that i can...'

r.i.p. rip

reepal is basically dead to me. harsh words!, you say. but no. it's true. tekken dr has arrived. it is being installed right now at... er... somewhere. he's there. appt tho it won't be fully installed until maybe romrow. at which time he'll really disappear for good. as of now he's still calling to let me kno he's alive and well. so sad! is this wat it's come to? you leaving me for a machine? ::sniff:: i'm heartbroken.

but in more uplifting news. romrow night the girls and i are supposed to meet up finally. all five of us. yay!

first jobs

George Michael was sacked from his Saturday job at British Home Stores for not wearing a shirt and tie in the stockroom.  

Madonna was fired from New York fast-food restaurant Dunkin' Donuts for squirting jam at a customer.  

Mickey Rourke lost his job as a cinema usher after getting into a brawl with a colleague.  

Boy George was sacked from his job as a shelf-stacker at Tesco for wearing the store's carrier bags. Tesco deemed his appearance 'disturbing.'  

Roseanne Barr got fired from her job as a salad lady at Chuckarama in Salt Lake City for refusing to enter the walk-in freezer after a painful visit to the dentist.  

Eric Sykes lost his job at a cotton mill for singing Bing Crosby's 'In the Blue of the Night' with an empty bucket on his head.  

Dusty Springfield was fired from his sales job at Bentalls for making a mess of a demonstration and fusing the store's entire lighting system.  

Peter Finch was sacked as copyboy on the Sun, Sydney's leading newspaper of the 1930s, for emptying a jug of water over the editor's head.  

Sidney Poitier was fired from his job parking cars because he couldn't drive. He got first gear mixed up with reverse and crashed into another car. 

ikea

went to ikea the other week to kill some time. had a lot of fun actually, esp wit the stuff in the home decorations dept.

     

1. ceiling hangings  2. wat a large telephone you have!  3. racist reepal's creation  4. ack!

promises

a friend of mine (who shall remain nameless [i'll ask him later if i can reveal his identiy]) has appt found himself a girlfried and how fast they are moving! they've only known each other for a few short weeks but already he's gotten her a promise ring, to be presented sooner rather than later i'm thinking. btw, i saw the ring and was impressed. boy has pretty good taste! it's very simple and it's quite classic. i'm sure she'll love it.

so this has got me thinking about time tables again and just how wildly different they can be. this guy, known this girl just a few weeks, getting promise rings. jon wit his girl of less than a year already moved in together and have seriously considered eloping. chang and her guy, together for six months and he wants her to move in (she had her reservations [good girl!]). angel and her guy, together for well, i dunno actually, i think maybe three years? getting fingers sized and looking at rings. then of course, there's ting's sis lavonne (sp?) wit her guy for 9 years and getting married later on this month. so reep and me. 6 years. no real talks of marriage or moving in. which, i think, for the both of us, is just fine. right where we want to be. and yet wit all these people who've been together much shorter than us and yet who are so serious. well, i can't help feeling the pressure. which is silly. cause i don't want to marry or move in or get promise rings. and that's totally cool, cause to each his own. ..right?

'some people go around the world for love' 'i make steady for love' / 'we can rumble and cuss, we can fight, we can fuss; but no i'm never giving up' 'it's nothing i won't do' 'nothing i won't go through' 'only you make me do for love what i would not do' 'i can't believe the things i do for you'

 

:edit on 1.8.06: twas james that gave his girl that promise ring. she accepted. of course. lucky kids. :)