i win!

*david beckham couldn't pass the 1st grade if he tried. *why i want seymour hoffman to win an oscar. *new james bond can't drive stick shift car. ...i should be james bond. i can drive stick, i'm not scared of guns and can shoot one wit pretty good acuracy (the last time i checked anyway) and would save the producers a buncha money because i could also be the bond girl! that's right. oh, and i kno my maths (that's british for math) pretty well. that's right folks, i'm better than beckham and craig combined. ..can't top hoffman tho. i'd not bark my win speech. but anyway. i can do a british accent. and i'm way hotter than hoffman. way way hotter.

design*sponge

found this very cool site today: design*sponge  lots of very pretty things, mainly to do wit home decor. nothing boring tho. slight twist on everything traditional. great quirky finds. things i'd love to fill my house wit. (angie's name keeps popping into my head as i write this. this post along wit the loftcube post remind me of her).

makeover

bday coming up... turning 23 can you imagine such a thing? i'm getting crazy old and crazy fast! anyway, this weekend reepal and i finally hit up robinsons may, which is closing btw. well, no, that's misleading... not all of them are closing. if you didn't kno.  macy's bought robinsons may a while ago. and while that doesn't mean that they're going to fully take over (like macy's did to bullocks) they are closing a few stores here in so cal, including the cerritos and south coast branches. so basically the robinsons which are closing are all having this super sale wit at least 30% off everything. anyway! so reepal and i finally went this sunday. he's been complaining about needing new clothes anyway so i figured this was a good chance to go and supervise his shopping. :) he ended up getting a dark blue track jacket sort and a pair of grey cargo shorts. nothing fancy, but something new. he's not had that type of jacket before and i think the shorts are a new color for him as well. cargo is sorta new too, but i think we bought him a couple pairs last year sometime? at any rate. he's starting to dress better. and you best believe imma take all the credit! most dramatic (and important) change: no more tapered leg pants! (god i HATE those!) and he does look so good in baseball tees. :) so wat's on my wishlist for me? this ring. so pretty! but because it's so large it's not at all darling, it's just rock n roll baby. :)

first thoughts

1. I need : betterment
2. Garbage : diane (stupid trash...)
3. Relationships : hard work
4. Your Last Ex : in japan (wit his new girlfriend!)
5. Love : lots
6. Biggest Regret: school
7. Crack : head
8. Food : yum!
9. The President : dork
10. War : sucks
11. Cars : my kristy!
12. Gas Prices : damn premium!
13. Halloween : razor blade apples (remember those?)
14. Politics : suck
15. Religion : awesome
16. Children : hate
17. MySpace : bandwagon
18. Worst Fear : possession
19. Marriage : ...huh?
20. Fashion : kills (word associations sure do work weird... i love fashion...)
21. Brunettes : better (f*ck blonds)
22. Redheads : sexy (doh!)
23. Work : none
24. Pass the time : read / sleep (i thought of them at the same time...)
25. One night stands : no
27. Pixie Stix : colorful (was thinking about the packaging, not about the candy)
28. Vanilla Ice : cream (doesn't nearly everyone think cream?)
29. Porta Potties : harry potter (i dunno. it was the first thing i thought)
30. High school : sucked
31. Grade School : was better
32. Pajamas : shorts (which is actually funny because it's still cold so i wear pants at night)
33. Wood : morning (like the band: morningwood)
34. Surfers : blond
35. Pictures : internet

(thanks angie! and btw, where's number 26?)

lyrics

song

Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better

Hey Jude, don't be afraid
You were made to go out and get her
The minute you let her under your skin
Then you begin to make it better

And anytime you feel a pain, hey Jude, refrain
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders
For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder

Hey Jude, don't let me down
You has found her, go out and get her
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better

So let it out and let it in, hey Jude, begin
You're waiting for someone to perform with
And don't you know that it's just you, hey Jude, you'll do
The movement you need is on your shoulder

Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into you heart,
Then you can start to make it
Better, better, better, better, better, better, whooooooah, YEAH.

Na na na, na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey Jude...
Na na na, na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey Jude...
(repeat 9 times)

say wat?!

+----------------- Bizarre Warning Labels -----------------+  
  
"This product not intended for use as a dental drill." - Found on an electric rotary tool.  

"Caution: Do not spray in eyes." - Found on a can of underarm deoderant.  

"Do not drive with sunshield in place." - Found on a cardboard sunshield that keeps the sun off the dashboard.  

"Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts."  - Found on a package of airline peanuts.  

"Not intended for highway use." - Found on a 13-inch wheel for a wheelbarrow.  

"Kills all kinds of insects. Warning: This spray is harmful to bees." - Found on a can of insecticide.  

"WARNING: Contents flammable." - Found on a container of lighter fluid.  

"Do not use orally." - Found on a toilet-bowl cleaning brush.  

"Please keep out of children." - Found on a butcher knife.  

"Warning: Do not use on eyes." - Found in the manual for a heated seat cushion.

(for ting!)

holy wow

the most awesomest car commercial ever. seriously. i want, no, i need this car. i don't care if it is like 30 years old. and i don't care that i most likely couldn't do any of those things in the commercial. it is so freakin awesome. (...in case you didin't read the caption, it's all real. no cg stuff.)

lesson time

+--------------- Bizarre Teaching Methods ------------------+  
  
Coach Mark Davies of Darwin, Australia, has a peculiar method of motivating his 13- to 21-year old swimmers to break their own records. He drops a crocodile into the pool. Since Davies started this practice, the swimmers' times have improved considerably.  

Dr. George Plitnick, a professor of physics at Frostburg State University in Maryland, dresses up like a wizard to teach a class called "The Science of Harry Potter." With only a few props, such as a petri dish and a bit of liquid nitrogen, Plitnick attempts to answer such questions as "Can objects really be levitated?"  

Magnus Skarphedinsson of Reykjavik, Iceland, is an elf historian and headmaster of the Icelandic Elf School, which has issued more than 4,000 diplomas in elf studies. According to Skarphedinsson, more than half the population of Iceland believes in elves, dwarfs, gnomes, and other such creatures.  

At Dronfield Secondary School in Derbyshire, England, a spaniel by the name of Henry Fanshawe Smart works as a classroom assistant. He was appointed to his position to help teachers deal with student behavioral problems. Henry is so good at his job that as soon as he trots into a room, a group of 30 energetic students immediately begin to calm down. 

In the 1980s, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Roger Wells of Valparaiso, Florida, regularly assigned research projects to an English class at a junior high school in NYC, more than 1,000 miles away. Wells broadcast the assignments over shortwave radio and mailed souvenirs he'd picked up on his world travels to the students who produced the best work. 

Ji Ping, the head teacher at an elementary school in Shanghai, China, lets the students borrow grade points against their future marks as long as they agree to pay them back with interest. Ten-year-old Cai Wenyi, who just missed getting the top grade on a math test, was allowed to borrow the point she needed for an A+. Although she had to deduct two points from her next test, she still got herself out of debt by scoring an extra 19 points on her exam!

Teacher John Honey wanted to demonstrate to his students that gambling is a waste of both time and money. Sure that they'd be losers, Honey bought 24 lottery tickets - one for each of his students. Imagine his surprise when one of the tickets turned out to be a winner worth $1,000. Oops!

parting shot

last set! i remember that same summer i got these done tsai also got a set done. i in taiwan and she here in the states. so one night a bunch of us went out and i was showing her my set and the guys wanted a look. as they were going thru, chris asked if he could be introduced to my 'twin'. which is funny because these days ting and i are constantly joking about her. so, ting, appt it isn't steffy. appt my twin and i look sorta alike. but if you ever see one of us in the street and can't decide who it is. look for the eyebrows.

         

1. these are for me?! 2. i like this one, could've done witout the gloves tho. 3. one of  my favs. 4. i don't remember which one i got enlarged, maybe it was this one and not the other one which looks similar? but again wit the gloves... feel like the freakin queen of england. 5. love this pose! i mean, wtf am i even doing?! lol. makes me laugh every time i see it.

tmi

so appt for guys actual sex is better than the mastabatory kind. (um... duh) and you kno how much better? 4 times better! and you kno how i kno? cause i read this article! which... actually. is sorta interesting. have a few more answers you'd like to find out? maybe you should ask a mexican. and so i probably shouldn't be as excited as i am, but guess wat? hello kitty is coming to tv! so cute!

accidents

hm... quite a few video updates lately. but anyway, here's one of a really bad car crash. and i do mean really bad. look out for the flying derbies. er... i mean. bodies! and then of course there's this clip of a lady face planting after tripping out of the tub of grapes she was stomping on. seriously. it sounds just as funny as it actually is. and i love the comment the news guy says afterward. man is he perceptive!

more glamour

           

so when you get the shots done you can pick one where you get it blown up really big. i forget wat size, but pretty large. nearly poster size anyway, and i think this first shot is the one i picked. i'm not sure why. i think my aunties suggested this one and so i went along wit watever they said. the 2nd picture crackes me up. you prob can't see too well, it being this size but i have this really er... sexy angry face on? it looks really angry but i think i was supposed to look sexy? i dunno. i have an eyebrow raised so it looks like i'm saying 'no really? cause you're not nearly as amusing as you think'. i could've done sexy a hell of a lot better. same eyebrow but more of a smirk this time. anyway. watever. it crackes me up. and the motercycle! haha! i'm sitting on one! maybe that's why i love bikes so much? lol. and the third one is actually a really bad shot. too much flash. but it's the only one i got of that background so i'm posting it. i think it would've been really good if only my face didn't look like that of a ghost.

good god

lent. this year it's from march 1st thru april 15th. i think i'm going to do it. and i think i'm going to give up cussing. specifically the words: f*ck, sh*t, d*mn, and b*tch. i can't decide about @ss actually. but i think imma keep that in. four no-no words for the 40 days of lent. pretty good huh? lol yeah. i dunno. i like the idea of lent. and of ramadan. ..basically, i like the idea of fasting. i think it's a good idea. now, traditionally catholics give up meat. but i'm not catholic and i don't eat much meat during the school week anyway. and really, giving up meat means nothing to me. i was thinking about soda? i drink quite a bit not. not actually a lot, but a hell of a lot more than i used to. oh, and btw? words like hell and all those 'taking the lord's name in vain' stuff, i'm still gonna say. cause i'm not christian. ...altho maybe i should like... do it right. give up all cuss words on fridays and have sundays as my free days? naw. that's too weird. imma just give up those four for all... wat is it. 46 days? cause i'm gonna include sundays. and i think actually maybe even extend it to easter sunday? eh, we'll see how i feel. so why would a non-catholic observe lent anyway? well, why not? i think it's a good idea. occasionally giving up things. and of course, nothing bad can come from giving up things that are bad for you anyway! it's a bit hard tho. i mean... it's easier to stop yourself from eating meat. harder to stop yourself from saying things which come out so naturally anyway. so i've got to... punish myself if i mess up. uh, i'm going to work out. run around the block once for each bad word. wait. no... that's too hard... and the blocks in irvine are freakin huge... okay um... okay. i'm going to run up and down the stairs once if for every word. so... well, if you've been here then you kno the set up. but i'll start from our front door. run down the stairs, thru the corridor and up the stairs on the other side. one cycle for each bad word. yeah... i can do that. well okay. i'm not totally sure i'm going to do this lent thing. but i figure, why not, right? but anyway, i'll let you kno night before lent if i decide to do this.

know-ledge

so actually quite a bit has happened recently, i've just been...reluctant to post about it. i think it's all this talk about marriage and such... but i've been talking to my girlfriends and trying to figure out wat exactly it is i want from reepal and this relationship of ours. he'd been saying things like 'i want to be wit you for the rest of my life' and i'd find myself silent and unable to respond. i realized that i simply do not think in terms of 'forever' and 'the rest of my life'. i have a problem conceptualizing these measurements (or lack) of time. i can barely understand 'in the next five years'. it seems as tho so much is in the air right now. graduating college, getting a real job, actually being an adult... these are really big life moments that are lurking basically right over my horizon. reepal asked last night, rather suddenly, if i thought we would be together the rest of our lives. i told him the truth, that i didn't kno. that i could see anything at all, much less anything so specific. he asked to see if perhaps he's wasting his time on me. he wants to kno if we're approaching the same goal. and i really am not sure. i've never wanted marriage the way many people have. it's not on my list of things to do. it's more of a bonus, a gift wit purchase, something extra, something nice. but it's not something i'm reaching for. and for him, i guess, it is. it's a goal. something he wants to do, to acheive, to check off. so he wants to kno now, before he invests any more, if we're together on this. if we have the same vision. at this point i'm still too clouded to kno. but i promised that that i am trying to figure things out. and he said, basically, that that would have to be good enough. but for how long? when you don't believe in 'the one' it's hard to look at someone and say 'you. i want to be wit you. forever. and always.' but then how do you decide that you want to be wit them forever? how do you kno? .. i want to kno.

'love is only a feeling' 'drifting away' / 'when i'm in your arms i start believing '(and we've got to stop ourselves believing)' 'it's here to stay' 'but love is only a feeling' 'anyway'

 

'can't explain all the feelings that you're making me feel' 'my heart's in overdrive and you're behind the steering wheel.' / 'i believe in a thing called love' / 'there's a chance we could make it' / 'i wanna kiss you every minute, every hour, every day' / 'you got me in a spin but everything is a.ok!'

brokeback

everyone is spoofing the movie brokeback mountain. (which i think was a good movie, altho not really awesome) there are now a million gay cowboy jokes and even lil movie splices. including this one featuring the classic movie back the future. creating: brokeback the future. funny lil gif of some kissy boxers. :) lol, cracks me up each time i see it. (thanks to reep and ting respectively for the links!)

glamour

so in taiwan a few years ago i got persuaded into taking some glamour shots. most turned out pretty good but it was still weird as hell. it's nice tho, to see wat i'd look like wit a full face of makeup should i ever decide to actually start applying myself and caring more about my face and its appearance. more useful tho, is knowing how i look wit actual eyebrows. ...trippy...

       

1. lookit me trying to be all sexy! that slit goes so high!! 2. i actually rather like this picture. i looks pretty interesting. very... bold. the colors and all. wish they smoothed out my tan tho... 3. i dunno why, but i like this one. the fan i guess. and now you finally understand why i had that aim icon from before. and even the one now. the buns on the head. it was fake hair, btw. the buns and the braids. 4. not much to say about this one. just added it so you could see all the backgrounds they used. but i do have pretty nice posture in this photo... that was esp annoying. the camera guy kept telling me to sit up straight, pull down and back my shoulders and stick out my chest. i can't fully remember but i think the next day my back was hurting from all the strain... 5. this is one of my favorite photos. i was just looking out the winder on my own and he snapped it. wish i wasn't smiling tho. oh well. when i went to china over the summer i actually bought a quipao, or three. lol. i have a traditional red one wit gold piping. a more demure white one wit a lavender and pink floral pattern. and a shiny blue one! it's more modern. all three are sleeveless, high collared, and cut at the knee. i still haven't found the chance to wear them. but am definitely looking forward to it. esp the blue one. :) it's shorter and the slit is higher. ;)

home

the loftcube. a very interesting concept. altho for some reason i think i'd rather have one in my backyard. for my kids or something. sorta like a tree house. on the ground. or... no. forget the kids. it's actually pretty awesome. i'd want one for myself. it's a bit too modern for me however, i would want it in addition to a big house. ...babbling... using the menu tho. go watch the story.  it's pretty good.

hungry hippo

an octopus eats a shark!! and then a crocodile tries to eat a monkey but this time it's the monkey that gets lucky (turn up sound)

congrats!

oy! so guess wat happened over the weekend? angel got engaged!!! it's true! she went to davis to see kevin and they went to dinner then the arboretum where he handed her a box. angel, smart girl, was trying to read the writing on the box, rather than actually open her gift. so after a couple (i imagine for kevin anyway) excruciating hours later he opens it for her, crouches down, and asks. (the ground was wet from the rain, remember?) isn't it incredible? the ring, btw, is beautiful!! sososo pretty! lots of people lately have gotten really nice rings. altho i do think that thus far, i have liked angel's the best. but anyway. she's the first of my closest girl friends to be engaged. imagine that! but since she and 'kevie' (hehe) are still in school they won't get married earliest until next summer. she finishes school later on this year. he has still a few more to go but she'll be moving to davis to be wit him after her stint in ny is up. anyway. i would say... keep this sorta on the dl, as angel's parents perhaps are not fully excited about it just yet. we'll just let it sink in for a bit shall we? but congrats again to the happy couple!

phone home

a man coughed up a 40 year old nail that used to be stuck in his lung. ...sexy... and seriously, an apple iphone? it does look pretty cool. (3rd comment is funny!) and because appt cell phones are where it's at, myspace is getting in on it too.

post secret

new postsecret. lots of really touching ones today. altho this one made me laugh. teehee.

tarjay

holy poop! i forgot to tell you about this! so target. it's one of my more frequented hangouts. (altho ting went like... 8 times this last weekend, which i think tops everyone). and lately i've been checking out the luella collection, esp hoping to buy this cute coin purse. but when i'm not there and i kno my friends are going i ask them to be on the lookout for me. and guess wat? chang bought it! amazing! she got it at the target in irvine on sunday. i went on tuesday and it was gone! and because my bday is so close chang said that she was gonna give it to me for my bday so i don't even have to pay her back! isn't that so cool? friends are awesome! oh, and even more awesomeness. if you've read snapshots then you kno i found that camera that annie got developed for me. and did you kno that target actually goes thru each and every one of your pictures and crops them for you? yeah, weird huh? so sometimes that's cool. for instance, i had this one photo which was basically of my thumb, but wit reep in the corner. and so they cropped it rather nicely for me. there's still a blur of my thumb, but it's pretty obvoius the picture is of reep now. but in some other pictures... i mean, wat if i wanted a picture of the building behind the person? and wat if i wanted the person to be off center? so yeah... it's sorta a mixed blessing. and if the pictures come out really dark they don't wash them for you. but you still see everything on the contact sheet, which is a bit weird. i think normally, yeah, i wouldn't want the dark pictures. but because i didn't remember wat was on this camera anyway it would've been nice to have tried to figure out wat they were of. but in any case. i only have the minis from the contact sheet. oh wells.

poem

John Donne - Woman's Constancy

 

Now thou hast loved me one whole day,
To-morrow when thou leavest, what wilt thou say?
Wilt thou then antedate some new-made vow?
Or say that now
We are not just those persons which we were?
Or that oaths made in reverential fear
Of Love, and his wrath, any may forswear?
Or, as true deaths true marriages untie,
So lovers' contracts, images of those,
Bind but till sleep, death's image, them unloose?
Or, your own end to justify,
For having purposed change and falsehood, you
Can have no way but falsehood to be true?
Vain lunatic, against these 'scapes I could
Dispute, and conquer, if I would;
Which I abstain to do,
For by to-morrow I may think so too.  

quotes

+-------- Bizarre Quotes From the World of Sports ---------+  
  
Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model: "I wan' all dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I wan' all the kids to copulate me."  

New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season: "I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first."  

And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the 'Skins say: "I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl," Matt Millen of the Raiders said: "To win, I'd run over Joe's Mom, too."  

Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins: "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."  

Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann, 1996: "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."  

Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh: "I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."  

Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach: "You guys line up alphabetically by height." And, "You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle."  

Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King: "Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."  

Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."  

Chuck Nevitt, North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice: "My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt."  

Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player: "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, "Coach, I don't know and I don't care."

rediscovery

so here are some more pictures from that disposable camera. these are from when reep and i went to six flag together a couple years ago.

        

first and last are from reep and me waiting in line for some ride or another. pictures two and three are of us rock climbing. i'm the one in red. obviously. :)

shiney

so this music video is pretty cool. very prettily done. altho i don't quite get it? i dunno. maybe i'm just thinking too hard. and uh, can anyone say compensating for a lack of something else? and in case you've not check back in a while: factual jack bauer. (new #1! well, for me anyway)

gang bang

so things are still good between reepal and me. but old stuff has been coming up a bit lately. and i don't totally kno wat to say. i feel like loralie whever luke mentions his kid. but anyway. yesterday reep suddenly realized he never knew just how al got wit her new guy (this was all brought up from another convo about al2 btw, so you can tell wat sort of mood i was in). in any case it seemed really soon and he was wondering if even when they were together she was already setting it up so she could date this other guy afterwards. i told him that i seriously doubted it. she was pretty hung up on their breakup after it happened so it wasn't like the al2 situation. anyway. he found out the story last night night and so now he's assuaged. which is good, altho he wasn't worrying about it much anyway, i think. but then he said something that was pretty messed up: "i wouldnt have even gotten with her in the first place if not for [insert name here] wanting to get with her in the first place" ...isn't that terrible? i would never get wit the ex of one of my best friends. esp not so soon after the breakup. and esp esp if the relationship was a long one. and while theirs was a hs relationship, so it didn't really count, it was pretty serious for a hs one. at any rate, it's not just the friend's fault (altho more theirs than anyone else's). if i were the ex i'd not get wit any of the friends either. esp not wit a couple more after that! you're like the group whore! and you kno they're gonna talk shit about you. no thanks, homie, i'd rather not involve myself in a situation like. i really don't kno why people do this... i kno of this one girl. she's done this. and the group says the worst things about her. really personal and intimate things. ::shiver:: anyway. that's not for me. and even then, as the friend... i don't think i'd have the self-confidence for that. wondering if i'm better than than my friend. better at anything. i'd wonder if we all went out wat he would be thinking. is he thinking about me? or my girlfriend? if we went to somewhere where we all went out together and had to dress up sexy like. would he be thinking about how lucky he is to be wit someone like me? or will he thinking back to some other night wit another of my friends? esp if she wore the same dress. too much pressure. i couldn't handle it. but i don't kno... appt guys think differently? cause i kno it didn't stop any of the friends from passing her around and dating her. at any rate. maybe it's just a girl thing? i'm pretty sure my girls would agree that we'd never date each other's exs (not that any of the short term guys are worth dating anyway. i think we've disliked them all) but reep said "guys are lame like that. The girl they like become available again, and they go nuts to get in line first" which to me is pretty f*cked up. there are billions of girls out there. why you gotta date your friend's cast offs? and besides? your friends are a reflection of yourself. so she and him didn't get along together then you and him probably won't get along so great either. so why waste your time? couldn't find anyone that wasn't second hand? elck. i dunno. mainly i think 'group whore'. and that's reason enough for me to not want to date my ex's friends.

mirth

first, go check out these small ads from the uk (2nd one is classic). then go watch this short movie thing: lucky. also somewat strange.

'taxidermy'

so this is a little weird. it's still strangely beautiful tho. altho i'm not how much i'd want one of these creations hanging around. i think my favorites are the birds. maybe scarlette. she's rather pretty. and not so creepy as the rest.

happy day

so today was valentine's day. did you do anything special? i didn't. but it was a good day anyway. a really good day. i only got to see reep for about an hour and half but it was a good hour and a half. :) we met at target, from where he had just bought me season one of grey's antomy and a candy bar. i then gave him his present. a baseball tee. in green. i was gonna get him burgendy. i have a burgendy one myself. i already have green tho. and i look really good in it. :) but anyway. burgendy was sold out. and the one i got for reep seemed a bit large? it was the size he usually wears but a different brand so the fit was different, which was pretty annoying. i'll probably get him another later. then we back to target to pick up some tissues for him, staples for me (i bought a box of 5000! it was either that or 2000 for nearly the same price), and also some pictures that chang dropped off for me (see snapshots for more info). afterwards we went for dinner. he had a sandwhich from steak escape and i had one from subway. then he went to his school and went back to mine. very chill. nice tho. only wish he didn't have the flu. was all worried, still am, that i was gonna catch it. but it was very nice being able to see him and all. :)

'with nothing to stop us is it not worth the risk?' 'cause these are the days worth living' 'these are the years we're given' 'and these are the moments' 'these are the times' 'let's make the best out of our lives...'

discovery

so last week i found a disposable camera in my room which was already fully used up. altho i really don't remember from when i used it. so anyway i was gonna develop it this weekend but i forgot so chang dropped it off at target for me. i got the pictures back today and some were from when reep and i went to six flags and some others were from my 21st bday. these next four pictures are from bday night.

     

1st: at krispy cream (i actually have another better version of this. someone's digicam i guess) 2nd: me wit my bday creme brulee after dinner at ruth's chris. 3rd: four of us again at dinner cause ting didn't attend dinner(so that night the ones that went to dinner all dressed up all nice. they all wore black and i wore red cause i was the bday girl.) 4th: chang being chang (sexy!) at tsai's house after the whole shebang.

pretty

 so for vday, instead of getting your girlfriend something as generic as regular flowers, how about tampon flowers? aw... not really a craft sort of guy huh? well then how about some victoria secret lingerie from 1977 no less. but no, that's no good either. cause maybe you've read this article about the 5 worst vday gifts? seriously guys. lingerie is a gift that's better given to men from women, not the other way around.

lovey dovey

valentine's day. the one time of year you're allowed to tell someone you love them. or something... anyway. so reepal and i don't ever go overboard wit holidays or bdays or anything altho we do usually do a little something. last year for vday we went to the cheesecake factory, ordered some dessert to go and went home to watch 24. :) romantic huh? anyway. this year we might not even meet up. reep's been, as i've mentioned, really sick wit the flu. so he missed work last thrusday, meaning that he'll have to stay later this tuesday, so he'll probably just go straight to school. anyway. i was planning on getting him something, but the store didn't have it. and i don't really kno where else to get it. so i was gonna get him something else but i went to two stores and neither one had the exact thing i wanted so i got him something similar instead. anyway. i hope he likes it. bleh. he asked me last week wat i wanted and recently i've been pretty into sour patch kids so maybe i'll be getting a bag of those. yum! and actually (reepal you don't have to get me this, really) i saw this on etsy and sorta wanted to get it but thought that would be pretty lame: buying myself my own valentine's jewelry. but it is really rather pretty. maybe i'll buy if for myself for my bday, which is conveniently rather close to vday! oh! and guess wat come out valentines day? grey's anatomy season one dvd set! and it's only like $18 at target! ohmygod that is so freakin awesome! i am so totally gonna go on tuesday, right after school. yay! oh, and i went home this weekend to find that my handmaid's tale had arrived so neat and clean and pretty and perfect! i got it from ebay. which is actually a rather new thing for me. buying books off ebay. which is actually rather silly. i mean, i buy other stuff from there, why not books? silly me.

news!

so appt cheney got shot at. yep. ...well, that's wat my uncle heard. and told me and my dad. and for a second there i got really happy. and then i watched the news. appt cheney went quail hunting and shot someone else? yeah. this story could've been a lot funnier tho. i mean, wat if he'd killed a man? but anyway. glad everyone's doing well.

michelle kwan suffered a new injury during practice on saturday and has since dropped out of the olympics entirely. forever this time. ..i've never really understood wat all the hype was about her. i only knew that i really liked her and wanted her to win gold but now unfortunately that won't be happening.

and speaking of the olympics... i thought it was in torino, italy. but did you kno torino is italian for turin? turin! as in the shroud of turin! that's so freakin cool! okay. i couldn't treally explain to you why that's cool. but yeah. it is. my dad has this book and i've read it and scared myself witless over those stupid pictures. but yeah. i just think it's so cool that i actually kno this turin place!

exhale

(if anyone has this song. i need it. actually physically need it. it was the last song on grey's anatomy tonight, btw. and ohmyf*ckinggod is that the best freakin show ever!!!)

anna nalick - breathe (2am)

2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
"Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?,
I don't love him. Winter just wasn't my season"
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize,
Hypocrites. You're all here for the very same reason

'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, girl.
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe... just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe

In May he turn 21 on the base at Fort Bliss
"Just a Day", he said down to the flask in his fist,
"Ain't been sober, since maybe October of last year."
Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while,
But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles,
Wanna hold him. Maybe I'll just sing about it.

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button, boys,
So cradle your head in your hands,
And breathe... just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe

There's a light at each end of this tunnel,
You shout 'cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around.

2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me,
Threatening the life it belongs to
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to

But you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand.
and breathe, just breathe
woah breathe, just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe.

brits!

One of the British national daily newspapers is asking readers "what it means to be British?" Some of the emails are hilarious but this is one from a chap in Switzerland.  

"Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV. And the most British thing of all?  

"Suspicion of anything foreign."

another one!

one of my favorite hobbies is reading. and if you anything about me, you really should kno that. it's funny tho, altho i wouldn't saw that writing is a hobby of mine, i write more than anyone i kno. and i'm not just talking about me posting random links and stuff. like... real writing. cause blogging is writing. and i write tons in my head. tons! ..anyway. so. reading. yeah. and writing. yeahyeah. so yeahyeahyeah = new site! lol, it's one dedicated to my reading. my booklist. and reviews. purely literary. so if you don't like books, you don't have to go, you're not going to find anything of interest anyway. anywya, it's already put in the box wit my other links so it's easy to access. oh. and btw, if you've noticed at all. this site. travel log, i didn't link it thru musings or trips/travels. i 'hid' it. cause this site is more personal. so, if you wanna link me on your site(s), please don't link this one. i'd really prefer you to do musings, as it's my least personal site. but still very frequently updated, unlike trips/travels. so anyway, thanks for understanding. :) oh! one more thing. i can set up my new site so that you can also post your own stuff. reviews and booklists. i've not totally decided that this is wat i want to do. i might just want to keep it to myself (yeah i'm selfish like that) but i dunno... if you wanna joing, ask me and i'll think about it.

another one?!

so uh... guess wat? i have another site! this one however, only has to do wit books and my reading them. it's basically my reading list. i'll keep it updated wit the books i've finished and occasionally write a short review. link is already conveniently located wit all the others. so, witout further delay: travel guide. and this may sound silly, but i'm quite proud of myself, that i've managed the keep the travel theme thru all of my pages and such. :) oh, btw, if you really wish, i can add you so that you can also update too so that we can review books together. i'm not totally sure i want to open it up this way just yet, but if you manage to convince me that you will be serious then i'll let you in. cause "we should start a book club!"

oish!

firstly, the youngest human mother on record. guess. no homie, guess again. and lower. again. give up? well, it's five fucking years old. yeah. seriously. that's hella messed up.

and to get those horrible images out of your head go watch this funny video about racism and the dating world: yellow fever (kinda long, so be sure you got the time to watch it). and btw, hair? it isn't because it's rugged. if i wanted rugged i'd go date the brawny man. no, hair signifies true manhood. so yeah, you hairless boys out there... you aint lookin too appealing.

wash more better!

firstly, did you kno that the guy from that ralph lauren polo blue isn't leonardo dicaprio? yeah, it's this guy named doug pickett. lol yeah, bet he wishes his name was leonardo dicaprio doesn't he? doug pickett, doesn't sound too modelly to me...

washing dishes is a pretty common thing. most everyone has done it at least a couple times. so why is it that people can't do it correctly? they just sorta put some dish liquid onto the sponge, wipe the dish a couple times and rinse. that's it! they don't check to see if it's actually clean! people! if you're washing glass you gotta hold it up to the light to make sure there's nothing left. if you're washing plastic you gotta smell it (yeah, plastic does hold really big smells, esp if you microwaved it, but if you've not microwaved it and have been doing a good job at washing it there really shouldn't be any smell.) and if you're washing regular dishes then then best thing to do is the touch test (glass too!). you hold up the plate or watever. and put a fingertip to it and withdraw. the water should immediatly pull away from the point of contact. and all water droplets should be pretty evenly scattered throughout. (wit plastic the touch test isn't always good enough. sometimes it really will be clean but will still hold the smell. so wash it again and then do the smell test again. if the scent isn't any weaker then you can stop washing it. it's already in the plastic itsself.) and holy moly don't forget to wash the bottems of things! including pots and pans and rice bowls! and check between the tines of the fork. and the part where the silverwear meets the wooden or plastic handle. food particles sometimes get stuck there so you gotta watch out. oh! and chopsticks. wash both ends, duh! ...so i kno i sound a little crazy (esp because i bascially touch and smell test every large item i wash) but holy moly you eat off this stuff every day. it's probably best that you actually clean it when you clean it. bleh.

auroras

aurora borealis this. aurora borealis that. well how about aurora australis, huh?! yeah, bet you didn't even kno that existed! but it's not like either makes a big difference to me, as i've never seen them in real life. but here's a nice photo as well as video of the latter. very pretty! hopefully someday i'll get to see at least one of them.

hot dogo!

nacho libre! that's jack black to you. but anyway, his new movie looks pretty funny. jack's pretty damn funny anyway. even in king kong when he was trying to be all serious! anyway, so go here and watch the trailer for his new movie. and then, for some more movie fun, go take this short movie quiz.

flowline

so altho computer animation and graphics stuff are getting better wit each movie water and fire have never looked all that realistic. but check this out. both videos are quite good but the shark one is really super. looks so realistic! the other one is pretty cool. altho the fire doesn't look quite good.

pledge

reep said to me yesterday that he wishes he was rich so he could buy me things. aw.. isn't that sweet? of course, i told him that he doesn't need to buy me things anyway. and he said 'i kno, but i want to.' :) he's so cute.

so he's been sick lately. really sick actually. and he had this dream where he was driving and got into and accident where he flew off the freeway and out of his car over a cliff. so he called me and he told me all these things really fast ("i told you that I was about to die, and that I loved you, and that I wouldve married you, and that I'll always love you...") and then he hung up really quick so i wouldn't hear him hit the ground. isn't that the saddest thing? anyway, and so he hits the ground. and rolls! and get up and calls me right back! but he's dead, you kno, so it was like his ghost or something? so then he wakes up. but yeah... so sad! i think a couple years ago one of us had a dream like this? one of us (lol, yeah, it's been so long i can no longer separate us. but yeah. i can remember it being both ways. him having the dream. but also me having the dream. but i doubt we had the same one!) died and came back and sorta.. followed the other person around. making sure everything went alright. yeah... pretty depressing... but i did / do appreciate a call if you're gonna die and if you kno it! but yeah... i dunno. i've always hoped that me and my guy would die together. at the same time. so we're... together... yeah... i got a way wit words...

edit: reepal's later talking about 24. summerizing michelle and tony's er... demise.  "Reep [1:56 A.M.]:  anyways, i kept thinking back to that scene..  Reep [1:56 A.M.]:  and although they werent getting along that moment, she still kissed him goodbye Reep [1:56 A.M.]:  and so yeah..i just..always want you to know that i love you.."  isn't he just the sweetest guy ever? i'm soo lucky!

hi-ya!

oh no! the ninja apple is wounded! who will save him?! maybe uma  thurman from kill bill? or no... she has more weighty matters at hand, like how to escape mario world! and speaking of ninjas, remember those jack bauer facts and how a lot of them referenced chuck norris? well here's why! because the whole idea of those facts came from the pre.existing chuck's! makes jack seem a bit like a poser now doesn't it?

origins

the creators of that lazy sunday thing actually have a webiste!: thelonelyisland.com. and really take the time and go thru all the pages. everthing's pretty good. even the episodes (both of them! reepal forgot to scroll down and missed the second one completely! haha!).

photog

scott stulberg. some really good stuff. see here at his site. i esp like his travel pictures.
and for some contrast: john hyde. he does mainly wildlife. but you gotta check out some of his kayak pictures. love the colors of the boats against the ice and water. so crisp!

fires

so this wat it's like getting old. woke up this morning and my neck hurt really bad. slept on it wrong i guess. it's been hurting for while? but nothing too serious. then throughout the day it's just been getting worse. and now i can barely turn my head! in any direction! well, that's not technically true. i can turn. but only very slowly. my dad suggested that i use a hair dryer and aim it at my neck, like a heat compress. it seems to be working. i'm not sure wat to do however. i can't sleep on my back. cause my throat closes up more and i get scared that i'm going to suffocate. and sleeping on my side seems just to be aggravating the situation. bleh.

btw, it's starting to ask over here. from the fires. it's sorta scary but not really? i was actually in sd a couple years ago when that big fire was going on. and i actually didn't kno about it until one morning when we went outside and the sky was literally orange. it was freaky as hell. as it the sky itveryself were on fire. if i were a uninformed and hugely god fearing person i would have thought that armageddon was upon us. even when i got back to lp later that weekend there was ash everywhere. it was literally raining ash and there were piles of it on the side of the road, built up on cars it was really strange. and today i went down to my car for a bit and saw basically the same thing. but not nearly as bad. in any case it was scary as all hell. let's all saw a quick one that these fires don't get anymore out of hand.

video night

top ten bush moments! and mario 'game'!

doofus dumbdumb

Neurp [11:33 P.M.]:  btw, you're a lier! 
daniel k [11:33 P.M.]:  ?
Neurp [11:33 P.M.]:  eh?
Neurp [11:33 P.M.]:  lyer?
Neurp [11:33 P.M.]:  lier?
Neurp [11:33 P.M.]:  lieer?
daniel k [11:33 P.M.]:  liar
Neurp [11:34 P.M.]:  ah yes...
daniel k [11:34 P.M.]:  ...

ting [11:37 P.M.]:  ....
ting [11:37 P.M.]:  o my gosh
ting [11:37 P.M.]:  HOW DO YOU READ SO MUCH AND NOT KNOW HOW TO SPELL!!!
Neurp [11:38 P.M.]:  i dunno?
Neurp [11:38 P.M.]:  hahaha!

jan 30: "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!"

so i can't spell liar right in three tries, but i get incommunicado right in just one. wtf? i mean, incommunicado isn't even a common word!

great mosque

china again! eesh it's been a long time since i've posted china pictures. here some pictures of the great mosque, which is appropriately located in the muslim quarter, in xian. btw, these are pictures of things leading up to the actual mosque, which is actually a sorta boringish building to look at. it's quite large however and leads quite deep inside. but we weren't allowed in. me being a female and wearing shorts and a near sleeveless top i'm sure helping tons.
     
1. sunset over a doorway arch thing. 2. a pagoda thing wit emily (left) and vic (right) in the forground. 3. an arch thing. 4. an imaginary game of go.

critters

remember that french lady wit the face transplant? here's a rabbit wit the same. altho hopefully hers turned out better. cause seriously... why the half white half gray? altho i suppose that he should feel lucky to have any fur at all, unlike these here sphinx kitties. (the first one looks like a brain!!) but anyway, we're all just here to monkey around. (yeah, i kno, that was a bad segue) oh, and btw? happy year of the dog! (link stolen from angie!)

gap!

went to target like... thrice this weekend. looking for this coin purse. didn't find it. did however find the cuff. which was a pleasant surprise in that they worked for small wrist ssuch as my own. however since it is quite large length wise it looks sorta awkward on my arm. bleh. but i did find these shoes which were oh so cute! a bit high for me tho and not quite comfortable in the heel area. so i might get them if they go on sale. i loathe to pay full price on something that doesn't fit right. even if full price is less than $20. and i didn't see these wellies at the store but think they're so cute! not that it rains much here. and besides, i think i'd want the traditional bright yellow kind.

anyway, i'd like to tell you about my gap experience this weekend. went in to return a pair of pants. found a new pair i liked. but in size 2. which looked alright on, but i could take them off witout even unzipping or unbuttoning so i figured that yeah, they're too big. however, couldn't find anything smaller. also the pants didn't have a price tag on them so i found another pair of pants (same cut altho different color) wit a price tag and brought them up to the counter and asked if she could check the computer to see if they had a pair in my size. they didn't. not in the store anyway. but they did online! and since i was there she could order it for me and get it sent to my house, free of charge! i just had the pay the regular price (or... regular sale price cause it was on sale) and tax. so i ordered size 0. anyway, so pants that i had brought up wit the price tag was for $19.99. but the pants were actually $9.97! haha! so i bought the size 2, cause i love them! and in case the 0 doesn't fit at least i'll have these. anyway, so since i had returned a pair of pants i got credit back on those and she charged me for the two pairs of pants i bought (one at the store and one online) and my total came up to me owing them 1cent.all i had was a quarter tho. so i gave it to her and apologized for not having anything smaller (altho for a while tho i couldn't find any change at all and so the smallest thing i had was a dollar bill) and she was like, eh, forget it, just keep it. so i made a penny off the deal too! wow! gap is my favorite store! ...not that i didn't already kno this... but it's nice to re.realize it! haha!

falling

thanks to ting for this link to a weird yet very cool interactive waterfall display at a children's hospital. and speaking of ting, have you met her future husband yet? presenting will demps. :)

prison break

LONDON - A list of the silliest insurance claims against local governments in Britain includes a shoplifter who sprained her ankle while running away. Others on Zurich Municipal's annual list are a man who claimed he dirtied his trousers because a municipality failed to provide enough public toilets and another man who sued the Archbishop of Canterbury and local authorities "on behalf of all the homeless people in Britain," the BBC reported. Then there's the sanitation worker who claimed he was "startled" by a dead badger that fell out of a bag while he was making a pickup. Zurich Municipal, which is part of the Swiss-based Zurich Group, one of the world's largest insurers, provides insurance for local government authorities in Britain. The company says that spurious claims are on the rise. "We are constantly amazed at some of the excuses people use to try to claim against public bodies," said claims director Iwan Borszcz. "It just goes to show that working in insurance is more interesting than people may think."

LINCOLN, Neb. - A Nebraska grandmother wants Ronald McDonald returned to her backyard after thieves made off with the 8-foot fast food icon. The 8-foot statue of the McDonald's clown stood behind Marie Siefker's house in Lincoln for 15 years. But last Saturday, when she pulled into her driveway, the statue was gone. "That was very devastating," she told the Lincoln Journal Star. "I don't know who could be so mean." Siefker, a longtime McDonald's employee, acquired Ronald when the restaurant where she worked was redecorated. The person who was supposed to pick up Ronald failed to show up so she gave him a good home. Ronald has been a popular figure at birthday parties for her grandchildren and at Easter egg rolls and other festivities. She does not know if the thief stole Ronald as a prank or to sell him to a collector.

SYDNEY, Australia - A prison inmate found a great reason to lose weight - so he could squeeze through the walls of his cell and escape. Robert Cole was serving time in a prison hospital when officials noticed he was missing earlier this week. Cole, who had lost a dramatic amount of weight, was able to slide his 123-pound frame through a space between the bars on a cell window and a brick wall. He had been chipping away at the wall. "Because he's lost a lot of weight, he's a very narrow person, so he squeezed his way through the gap in the brick wall," an unidentified Corrective Services spokeswoman was quoted as saying.

hold up

yay! reepal asked me about that thing i was talking about a couple posts ago. and he reassured me that yes, i am crazy. which is good! ...well, it is cause that's wat i wanted to hear. it's basically about some one who's been slighted but who might not kno it. and i had certain worries about things between reepal and me in relation to this incident. and so that's about all i'm gonna say about this. if you're dying to kno more (like who), you may ask but i'm not gonna tell you anyway! haha! cause think, if i wanted you to kno who it was then why didn't i just post the name? oh! you got so moaded!! :)

btw, i went to the drs today and they said that most likely it's just a slight viral infection. cold or something. not that i was expecting them to give me any really bad news. so why'd i go anyway? cause firstly, it's scary. you're throat being constantly constricted. and it's been nearly a week of this. and second. ting mentioned this the other night, which was really cool cause i hadn't even thought about it, but remember my lymph nodes? how i have a bunch? well, ting mentioned that they might be somehow related. which is so true. so anyway, i went and told the dr and she said basically nothing. lol. but she did say that if it gets worse then i should come back in.

also! shocking news! i got weighed at the drs today. guess how much that was? keep in mind that i had all my clothes on, including my shoes and that i had on my bag. which had a book in it (as well as my usual purse items). well? guess.   no, it was higher than that.   higher still. give up? 118?! uh yeah. can you believe that? i mean, i've been wanting to gain weight but 18 lbs in like... i dunno how long... crikey. after that i had serious thoughts of asking her if i could strip down and get weighed for real. i wonder how much then? so for me it's not like. oh-my-god-i'm-so-fat-i-need-to-lose-weight-hold-on-while-i-throw-up. but at the same time... it's a bit shocking to have put on that much so suddenly. and yeah, it wasn't that much. cause i had all my stuff on. but still. shocking to hear it! indeed! shocking indeed! argh!! lol.

excerpt

from Things My Girlfriend and I have Argued About by Mil Millington.

 

"Hello, everybody, and welcome to the boilerplate. We know you want to get on with reading the book, so we won’t detain you here for any longer that we need to, but we do have to take a moment to point out – tiresomely obvious though it is – that this is a novel. It is a work of fiction, in which made-up characters do invented things: no actual people were harmed during the writing of this book. All characters are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.  Any builders, academics, librarians, Germans, comic-shop assistants, house sellers, government employees, gangsters, bank workers, doctors, reporters, IT technicians or others whom the author has ever met who may think they recognize themselves are simply wrong. And, it has to be said, could also do with working on their self-image a little. Okay, thanks for your time – we know how tedious it is to have these kinds of delays when you just want to get on. You may continue with your journey now and we hope you enjoy the book; remember to take things steady at first and drink lots of water."

 

the boilerplate is that legal section in the front of the book, before the story begins (this is a work of fiction blahblahblah). ever since reading huck finn ("persons attempting to find a plot..."), i've normally make a habit of reading these. you'd be surprised actually, lots of contemp 'light' novels have funny ones.

vdc

vista del campo, vdc, it's where i live! now, most of you have already visited. or... actually come to think of, many of the six have not. well anyway, a few of you have, over the summer for the fair and swim thing and anyway! here're a few pictures. notice none of them are of my room of my appt itself! lol, and i don't have a camera now so you'll just have to make do. btw, just to let you kno some of the details. it's on campus, but it's not run by the school. i'm on the third floor. there are four of us (actually five. desiree's boif lives here too, but that's a discussion for another day...). we each get our own bedrooms and two each share a bathroom (but we get out own sinks, yay!). there's a living room and a kitchen as well as a little 'patio' area. we have several rec rooms scattered around the complex as well as a pool, a jacuzzi and basketball court. it's a really nice bball court, btw. there are quite a few bbq areas. we've got a gym (smallish), computer room (free printing tho you gotta bring your own paper), conference rooms, laundry room (lots of machines), pool tables and i'm sure i'm missing something tho i can't think of it. anyway. it's a great place to live. seriously. we're all very lucky. :)

         

okay so i've only really got some pictures of the pool and the main building and i've none of where i actually live. but they're pretty, so just enjoy. that last picture is taken from the back of my 'house' looking down the street back towards the main building, which is in the center of the complex.

pyro

A Charlotte, North Carolina man, having purchased a case of rare, very expensive cigars, insured them against, get this, fire. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of fabulous cigars, and having yet to make a single premium payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the man stated that he had lost the cigars in "a series of small fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigars in a normal fashion.  

The man sued... and won! In delivering his ruling, the judge stated that since the man held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable, and also guaranteed that it would insure the cigars against fire, without defining what it considered to be "unacceptable fire," it was obligated to compensate the insured for his loss. Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the judge's ruling and paid the man $15,000 for the rare cigars he lost in "the fires."  

After the man cashed his check, however, the insurance company had him arrested ... on 24 counts of arson! With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used as evidence against him, the man was convicted of intentionally burning the rare cigars and sentenced to 24 consecutive one-year terms!

piercings

so i'm actually pretty sad. i was looking up stuff on constricted throats and found this link on pierced uvulas which i thought was just incredible. it is absolutely something i want to do. absolutely. except, get this. it's actually quite dangerous. appt you can swallow the thing and you could either choke on it, or even better, it could puncture your lung and possibly kill you! yeah. awesome huh? so while yes i would love love to get it i'm not really the risk-taking type. and that's exactly why i still haven't gotten my tat! because i'm so afraid of regretting it. one of these days tho i'll get it! i promise you that! (dude, maybe i should shave my head and do it there? last year i had thought seriously of shaving my head. that didn't come to pass tho. i didn't think i'd have the self.confidence for that. probably still don't...) speaking of which. i told a couple people about me wanting to get my uvula pierced and some people have actually asked 'why? no one's gonna see it.' uh, so? you think i do things simply for the sakes of others? f*ck no. that's why i don't want to tat my back, cause i wouldn't be able to see it. it would basically just be for the enjoyment of others. and i do not much care to be around soley for the entertainment of others. wat about the uvula piercing tho? even i'll not be able to see it. well yeah, but i'll kno it's there. and who knows, i might even be able to play wit it. wouldn't that be cool? i couldn't care less that i can't 'show it off'. i kno i got it, and d*mn if that isn't the most important person of all.

along wit this uvula pierced, i think snake bites are really awesome (altho i'd never get them). on some i really like the lebret. but it really only looks good on some people. i used to want to get my eyebrow pierced but i decided that i really couldn't afford to lose any more eyebrow hair. i hate hate the monroe. seriously. i think that is, of all bodily peircings, the ugliest one. (grossest peircing? gums. eck!) right now i got one in each of my lobes (which i feel is enough) and also a helix one. (btw, read this! appt this is a dangerous one too!) i had originally wanted a ear head piercing but clair's wouldn't do it (too dangerous cause of the blood vessels) and i really wanted to get a piercing that night (a couple of us were getting things done) so i went ahead and just got the helix. i had intended to go somewhere else and do the ear head and take out the helix but i'm happy wit it. besides i worry that a ear head would be annoying wat wit me wearing glasses sometimes. and the helix took forever to heal anyway. bleh. and that's about it for piercings...

as for body piercings. i love love the corset piercing. i think it's sexy as hell. seriously. so erotic. but i've gotten compliments on my rather 'flawless' back so i intend to keep it that way! and appt it's really easy for corset piercings to scar. so unless they figure out a safer way to do it, i'm out on that too.

bleh, i am too safe. :(

edit: whoa, look wat i just found! not so dangerous after all huh? or how about this? that way there's nothing to swallow! but i dunno. i think i'd like a lil ring hanging off better. well anyway, something to look into!