bots

sorry for the lack of posts lately. i'm at home. and so i'm on dailup. incredible isn't it? but seriously, guess the speed i'm connected to the internet right now. go, guess! hahaha, i'll tell you later. but keep checking back, because i do promise to keep on updating. just really really sporadically.

kidrobot.com. site wit ubercute 'toys' and such. i'd post pictures but i'm on dailup so don't be a lazy ass and go check it out yourself.

(my connection speed? a lousy 12000. seriously. now i think normally i'd be laughing on the outside, crying on the inside. but this 12k bit is so bad i'm just a'laughing.)

i want!

oy, finding a job is hard. and trying to find a job at the mall is worse because you're also shopping. but, of course, you shouldn't buy things because you don't have a job yet. and yet you're like 'but it's so pretty! and i'm gonna get a job...' oish. but yeah. i saw a really cute pair of shoes at cathy jean? and they're $15! but i already have several pairs in that same style. but i'm thinking, they're a different color, so... lol. and at nordstrom i saw a shirt i liked. but the green one i wanted wasn't in my size but the purple one i also liked was. but i already have a couple tanks in that color. but i dunno... ting did say i looked good in that color. oy! eesh, i forgot how much that shirt was... i think under $20. eesh... and i did tell ting that if i didn't bought the shirt i wasn't gonna buy the shoes and so far i haven't bought anything... argh!

(btw, in case you didn't notice, i added a bit to the previous post. more anger directed a the db team people)

news

KIEV, Ukraine - A man was killed by a lion after he climed into its enclosure at the Kiev zoo. The 45-year-old man, who was not identified, apparently told witnesses that he believed God would keep the lions from harming him. "The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," a zoo official said. Police spokesman Volodymyr Polishchuck said that the man acted aggressively, prompting one of the lions to seize him by the throat. He died at the scene. The incident occurred Sunday evening when the zoo was packed with visitors.

 

BELOGORSK, Russia - Russian police say a boss allegedly chained an employee naked to a tree in the forest for doing his work poorly. Last month, a 39-year-old man was found beaten and chained with handcuffs to a tree near Belogorsk in Russia's Far East, MosNews reported. There were conflicting reports to how long he had been there. Interfax said the man spent almost 24-hours in the forest before he was found by railway workers, while Regnum news agency reports he spent several hours at the tree. The man told the police he had been punished by his boss for refusing to engage in illegal actions. Police, however, say the boss had been angered by the man's poor work. The boss faces up to two years in prison for the attack, MosNews said.   
 
NEW YORK - Thomas Everett, a teacher in Brooklyn, was convicted of stealing from elderly women and submitted his request for an unpaid leave lasting 60 to 90 days. In the request, he wrote that he had "problems with the State of New Jersey Judicial System" and "must fulfill an obligation to the State." School officials at Sheepshead Bay High School, where Everett taught social studies, said that he will not be welcome back in the classroom. "We get some strange ones, but this one is a little different," said Richard Condon, the lead schools investigator. Needless to say, Everett's leave request was denied.

 

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A convicted robber in New York is suing over the reported beating he received from the two AutoZone employees he robbed. Moments after Dana Buckman brandished a 9mm semiautomatic pistol to steal cash from an AutoZone store in Rochester, N.Y., employees Eli Crespo and Jerry Vega beat him with a metal pipe and held him at bay with his own gun, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported. Buckman escaped when Crespo and Vega recovered the money and went to call 911. He was arrested a week later, pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and was sentenced to 18 years in prison as a repeat violent felon. Buckman is suing AutoZone and the two employees, claiming they committed assault and battery and intentionally inflicted emotional distress, the newspaper said.  

sign me up

some rather hilarious interpretations of swat and military (or watever) hand signals.

shellfish

i hate the majority of the members of my db team. they are selfish and self-serving. they don't care about helping anyone but themselves. do you not realize that you are part of team? the leaders try very hard to make things work for the team. we organize practices, fund raisers, socials, and other things that we think you either might like or just some stuff we think would benefit you. and all you do is take. you don't bother to help out watsoever. and also, you aren't careful with other people's properties. you don't use your head and you end up breaking chairs, stealing chairs, stealing sandals, breaking paddles... wtf is wrong wit you people? wat if i saw that you had brought sunblock and i went and used it, witout your permission. not only that, but i also managed to do a very poor job of it and got sunblock all over your bag. and i used it all. how you dem apples?! ...assholes. seriously. i think people who are like this, people who do nothing for others, deserve nothing. nothing at all. not even life. or, just get the hell out of mine. yeah., that's better. i mean, i'd like to kill you. but i dunno, maybe you're a contributing member of something else, and maybe, just maybe, you redeem your otherwise wasted life on some other type charity work. but if that's they case, if you really are just this apathetic about dragon boating, then you should, nay, need to, quit the team and stop pissing me off.

edit: oish. i forgot to mention. we had a social the other week. i brought along that hover disc thing reep bought me a couple years ago as a gift. unfortunately, thy inflated it a bit too much and so the 'corner' caved in. we were trying to deflate it so it would be normal again, but they built the thing so that's not easy to do. it has double insulation stuff, you kno wat i mean? two layers of stuff so air doesn't escape easily. anyway, i had to leave early to pick up my rents from the airport so i left them the hover disc. later thy brought it back over to my house and it was deflated! wow! but i examined the thing, and you kno how they deflated it? fuckers ripped the plastic foil stuff right off. they took off one of the layers of the thing so basically it will never stay fully inflated for extended periods of time again. and by extended periods of time, i mean like 5 minutes. um... thanks guys. how about the next time you need to fumigate your house i burn the whole thing down. i mean, mission accomplished right?

and you kno wat really bothers me? okay, fine, so you messed up and maybe accidently ruined my thing. well, then fucking take responsibility for it. tell me that you're sorry but you didn't mean to. you don't even have to offer to replace it (altho you really should). but no, i'm going to fucking break your toy and then not tell no one, so that i can get away wit it. the fuck should i ever do anything for your shitface ever again? ...if i ever find out who did this, someone's gonna pay. i'm not gonna set no one's house on fire or anything. but swear to god i'm gonna borrow something of theirs and break it to fucking pieces. ...asshole.

catch hell

from newsweek's beliefwatch (june 26, 2006):

Conservatives are more confident than liberals that they'll avoid hell--and that they know someone who won't. Liberals are less confident about their own chances of escaping hell and less sure they can identify the damned. These are a few results from an unusual online survey Beliefnet conducted this month among 10,000 of its members.

Asked to rate their "chances that you might go to hell," 46% of self-identified conservatives said "not a chance"--compared with 28% of liberals. Born-again Christians were the most upbeat and their odds: 55% said "not a chance" compared with 21% of Roman Catholics; 56% of those who filled out the survey thought they knew one or more people who were "probably" headed south, with 64% of conservatives saying yes and only 47% of liberals. Conservatives, and men, are more likely to believe in hell as a physical place with fire and demons, as opposed to a spiritual state of separation from God.

Do you know the doomed? 61% of men said they knew some hell-bound folks, compared with 54% of women. (It's unclear whether the results show that men are more judgmental, better judges of character or hang out with more evil people.) Most people said the doomed are "acquaintances," but almost 25% said said the hellbound are members of their own families. Women were more likely to consign family members to hell, quite possibly because they spend more time with the family. And why are these people going to fry? The answer reflects one of the oldest theological debates: what matters more, faith or good works? For instance, 60% of born-again Christians (almost all of them Protestants) said the unfortunates didn't have the "right beliefs," compared with just 19% of Catholics who said that. 80% of Catholics said it was because of the person's immoral actions, compared with 40% of born-agains. The same split persisted politically: liberals said damnation was determined by bad behavior: conservatives, by a smaller majority, thought beliefs mattered most.

In what may be a worrisome sign of the state of family relations, those who thought their family members were headed down were very likely to think of hell as a place of fire and torments. Oh, and eternal. It was unclear whether the respondents were expressing a prediction or a wish.

-steven waldman and laura sheahen

adventures

the trip up north was interesting. i can't say that it was fun.. but i did have some fun. ... yeah. it wasn't all that bad. eh. anyway, i ended up going wit ting for the middle half of the week. had i gone wit reepal it would've been the latter half. before i left i was struggling to decide who to go with. and even afterwards i can't say that i absolutely chose correctly. (sorry ting!)

wit ting it was great because we get along well and she's really... how to say... well, when other people displayed some interesting behavior, ting and i would look at each other and not make an issue of it. and she's more opinionated than reepal about some things so it was easier to decide wat to do the next day. oh! and she cooks and cleans! she made fajitas for us one night. they were yummy :)

wit reepal it would've been really nice because it would've been like a romantic trip or watever. and we haven't taken a trip wit just the two of us in a really long time. and altho i would've been able to listen to more 'rocky' music and had an awesome time singing parts we probably also would've had to have listened to his crappy music too. also because of reepal's nature, i sorta feel like he would've have gotten along wit allie as well as ting did because he wouldn't try to engage her in any way. ting, thank god, tried.

anyway, the trip. it was interesting. i think between the three of us lots of fun was had. i was pretty stresed out tho, trying to appease everyone (and the first day we were there my mom called me at least five times trying to get a hold of me, even tho i had already told her that there was very bad reception up there. allie had no reception at all!). it's also stressful to be wit someone who is sorta totally different from the 'normal' people you're used to. and it's really difficult being wit someone who always has to be right. and if they don't get their way they throw a fit. and don't huff 'it's fine!' and not even bother to pretend that it really is. it only makes everything more uncomfortable. but oh well. it was really interesting to be wit someone who confronted my sterotypes of that culture. ..oh! and i learned how to play two games i already knew how to play in totally different ways. cool. :) and ting? i messed up! in mahjong there is 16, 13 and 12 tiles. and 12 tiles is the hardest, not 13! 12 is the one mahjong pros play. doh!

idol worship

shop intuition's target couture: jewelry, tees, bags, and jeans. my faves are the distressed logo tees, the canvas tote bag (looks like it's gucci!) and the canvas tote buckle bag (which looks a lot like that lv bag which i also find rather fetching)

chiao!

this is my last entry ever from my vdc appt. :( anyway. i'll be home from now on so i'll be updating much more sporadically. but do check in occasionally! i'll try my hardest to update as much as i can. :)

gimme a break

so i'm sorta back home from school already. i'm officially moving out from vdc this saturday. on sunday night i'm going up to the timeshare until thursday night. and after that i'm 'free'. notice the quotes. already las night my dad started hasseling me about finding a summer job and stuff. i was gonna update my resume today but as i was just starting tsai and ting called and asked me out to lunch. and right now i was gonna start it again but now appt my mom needs the comp. bleh. so much for my resume.

spam

*remember screech from 'saved by the bell'? well appt he's having some financial woes and hopes that you can help solve them!

*dyke dolls: like barbie, but gayer.

*fans killed for cheering too loudly.

whoa

have you googled shakespeare recently?

timeshare

the situation: my rents have a timeshare. we have one scheduled this weekend up in norcal. my rents aren't going because they basically just came back from europe for a month and are too tired to go traveling again. (...this intro makes us sound sorta richish...) so they've given the week to allie and me. allie is a family friend who goes to school at berkeley. my rents really like her and so they're giving her the week as a graduation present. for me, well, it's pretty definite i'm not going to taiwan this summer so this'll be a mini vacation for me too. so, i'm planning on going up and taking maybe the first half of the week? maybe have allie along too, so she'll still get a full week.

the problem: i have, potentially, no one to go wit me. reepal can't go. summer school starts that monday. and he also has his sister's hs graduation to go to. and my girlfriends. well. i dunno about that yet. ting says she can leave sunday afternoon / evening. but i really had my heart set on leaving that saturday. =\ well, actually no, i really had my heart set on reepal going. we haven't had a trip alone in a while. i dunno. i mean... i kind of feel like he should ditch class. i mean god knows he misses classes all the time anyway. and first days.. well nothing happens on the first day. and he can always email the teachers. but anyway. i totally understand why he can't go. i'm just super disapointed. and i dunno about the others yet. i'll probably end up going wit ting a day late. bah. i dunno. i feel like maybe i should just go up myself. it'll be fun! my own personal road trip! :) i mean.. i loved driving down to sd by myself for timeshare during the winter. and last summer i had a great time wandering around shanghai by myself. ...i dunno. we'll see. :)

lol

mascot roommate. some guys just have a little too much time on their hands. altho not enough time to make a decent website...

grillz

aol has this weird thing called 'guess that grill'. lol. it's awesome. you should go thru it. i mean... you might not be able to guess who it is, but i'm sure you'll get a laugh out of it. lol. and btw? i had no idea this grillz stuff was such a big deal! but, lol, it's actually a pretty 'normal' thing to do!

 

btw, i just randomly found the picture posted wit this update. i image googled grillz and this is wat i got. lol. i love it tho. and that asian guy in the background just makes it all the more awesome. :)

the breakup

so we did end up seeing the breakup. which i quite liked, i think because i could totally identify wit some of the things jenn's character was feeling. afterwards (i forget how exactly) we end up in this big ol' arguement. and i tried quoting this bit from the movie when she's all sad and has basically given up on their relationship. it was a really sad moment. me and random homegirl next to me were all crying. lol. i thought i was quiet about it (she kept sniffing) but reep said i was just as loud, lol. anyway. so i asked if he remembered wat she said at that bit and he totally didn't. he just was like 'well, i remember her telling him to get out of her room.' ...yarg! anyway. later he said something about how the two of us are poorly matched and that we'll never be really happy because we can't communicate wit each other. i agree, but i was little weird to be hearing those words a' comin' outta his mouth if you kno wat i mean. i asked him tho, if he thought we should just give it up. seeing as how we kno we're not really good for each other. i don't think he gave me a reply. i'm not sure. but yeah... i guess things are getting serious again.

oy

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A man was so determined to prove to his wife that he was faithful to her that he severed his own penis. The 41-year-old man, who was not identified, is now in the hospital recovering after an operation to reattach his organ. It all started when his wife found a text message from another woman on his cell phone. The two got into an argument and the man's son could hear his father shouting that he wanted to prove he was not having an affair. After that, the 14-year-old son heard loud screams and then the man came out of his room bleeding profusely. His wife took him to the hospital.  

 

NEW YORK - When a woman's 16-year-old son showed up at home in a new $35,000 Mercedes Benz, she had every reason to be suspicious. It turns out he got the car from the 39-year-old woman with whom he was having sex. Lisa Frodella was charged Wednesday with two counts each of third-degree rape and third-degree criminal sexual act after the youth told police they had been having an affair since January. It all fell apart after the youth, now 17, came home with the new car. He claimed that he and Frodella had met in at least two motels, her car and her home. He claimed once, Frodella called his high school pretending to be his mother to take him out of class, Nassau Detective Lt. Kevin Smith said.  

 

TOKYO - A would-be Japanese bank robber has given an example what NOT to do when robbing a bank. When he first walked into a branch of the Saitama Resona Bank, he asked a bank teller how he should carry out the crime. "Any idea how you rob a bank?" were his exact words. Then, when a staff member told him to leave, he meekly obeyed the request. And to top it off, while he was leaving the bank he accidentally stabbed himself in the leg with a knife he was carrying. The 58-year-old man was arrested for illegal possession of a weapon. "He didn't brandish the knife at anyone ... but he injured himself in the leg," a police spokesman said.

blik

     

blik: wall graphics for the urban dweller. cool reuseable wall and window decals. my faves are the heads, the robots and the poetry stuff. :) but seriously. i love love those robots.

cannes

kirstin dunst. i don't like her much. she's not a good actress. further more, i don't like her name. kirstin is just.. pretentious. and dunst. reminds me of 'dunce'. but anyway... here she is wit the some of the marie antoinette group at something (cannes i think?) a while ago.

  

1. notice her scary little toothy smile. that right! she's a vampire! an old vampire, cause see, her canines are blunted. she sucks even as a vampire. haha! the puns! 2. jason schwartzman has the right idea here: don't get too close! lol, i love that he doesn't even bother to hide his disgust for her and her incredibly droopy boobies. homegirl is only 20something but lookit where her boobs are. eesh! btw, that rochas dress she's wearing is actually a nice dress. she just can't pull it off. and sophia's dress is not my favorite. but i love love her shoes!

stfu

reep [12:37 PM]:  what did you want to see?
me [12:37 PM]:  the breakup?

...

reep [12:38 PM]:  okay
reep [12:38 PM]:  i hear shes "nude"
me [12:38 PM]:  she is
reep [12:38 PM]:  which is probably what they showed in the commercial
me [12:38 PM]:  you get to see her back
me [12:38 PM]:  yeah.
reep [12:38 PM]:  she might as well show her butt
me [12:38 PM]:  ..is that the only reason you want to see that?
reep [12:38 PM]:  she already did in Rolling Stone
me [12:39 PM]:  .
reep [12:39 PM]:  yeaars ago before Friends
reep [12:39 PM]:  or maybe somewhere in the middle
...

me [12:43 PM]:   me [12:38 PM]:  ..is that the only reason you want to see that? 
reep [12:43 PM]:  no, of course not
reep [12:43 PM]:  you dont need to pay to go watch a movie to see a nude scene
me [12:43 PM]:  .
me [12:43 PM]:  reepal
me [12:43 PM]:  swear to god you need to stop talking RIGHT NOW
reep [12:44 PM]:  eh?
reep [12:44 PM]:  okay, well, no, thats not even a reason i want to see the movie
me [12:45 PM]:  see, but i don't believe you now
me [12:45 PM]:  you already ruined it

dada?

in season two of felicty ruby gets pregnant. she keeps telling noel that he doesn't have to do anything. if he doesn't want in, she won't force him. and yet... she does keep forcing him. when he tells her that he's simply not ready for a kid and needs time to think about how involved he wants to be she gets all angry at him. ... obviously it would be great if he wanted major involvement, but realize that he didn't want this child in the first place. and you made up your mind to keep it. you decided that regardless of wat he wanted. so you don't really have the right to be pissed at him for not being totally supportive of your decision.

in relation to this subject.. a friend of mine said the other day that he wanted a f*ck buddy. he's never had sex before. and i'm like. ...sex is a big deal. not cause of religious reasons or watever. but like... stds and pregnancies are not something you wanna have to deal with. ithe first person you sleep wit doesn't necessarily have to be a soul mate or watever. but you should definitely have some sort of serious feelings about them. and i feel that wit any sex partner, not just the first. if you're female sleeping wit a guy: is this guy someone you can trust about stds and such? if you got pregnant and decided to keep the baby and he wanted to be involved, would you like that? i mean, if he wanted to be involved and that made your skin crawl, i'm thinking that sleeping wit him is a bad idea. or if he didn't want to stick around, how would you feel? or for guys. do you trust her about stds? or wat if you got her pregnant and she wanted to keep it. how would you feel about that? cause i mean. yeah, safe sex is safer but nothing's 100% except abstinence. so i think, for this anyway, it's best to think in worst case scenarios. because potentially, the outcome could be totally life altering.

exhibitionist

exhibitionist: it's a line of jewelry by michael spirito. and seriously. if i had some of these peices i'd be dying to show them off as well.

   

1. skull earrings  2. crowned heart pendant  3. skull pendants  4. skull ring
most of these peices come in your choice of silver or gold. and also your choice of stones. i think i'm in love :)

not funny

remember pee-wee's playhouse? well it's returning to tv. lol. and remember that post about lawrence fishburne being cowboy curtis? ...guess where cowboy curtis is from? that's right! pee-wee's playhouse. i'm not kidding. morpheus used to work hand in hand wit pee-wee. awesome visual eh?

some opportunistic nigerian doctor guy finds the 'cure' for hiv. asshole.

and in some seriously unfunny news: a comatose woman went misidentified for weeks. there was an accident of sorts and the coroner told a family that their daughter had died. therefore another family thought their daughter was the one in the coma. uh... not so. so coma girl wakes up and people are like wtf are you talking about? and that's when they realized a mistake had occurred. eesh!

lyrics

story of the year - anthem of our dying day

The stars will cry
The blackest tears tonight
And this is the moment that I live for
I can smell the ocean air
And here I am
Pouring my heart onto these rooftops
Just a ghost to the world
That's exactly...
Exactly what I need

chorus:

From up here the city lights burn
Like a thousand miles of fire
And I'm here to sing this anthem
Of our dying day

For a second I wish the tide
Would swallow every inch of this city
As you gasp for air tonight
I'd scream this song right in your face
If you were here
I swear I won't miss a beat
Cause I never
Never have before

Chorus

For a second I wish the tide
Would swallow every inch of this city
And you gasp for air tonight!

Chorus 3x

brackish

mood: grossed out

so i share a bathroom / shower wit desiree and her boif kevin. recently our shower drain has been a little backed up (i intend to go home this weekend and steal a bunch of cleaning products). normally this wouldn't be a super big problem. but one of them... well, so after you shower there's usually still the foam from your body wash or shampoo floating around. after a couple minutes all the water goes down. but the foam, well, some of it goes down and some of it dries up. along wit your dirty stuff. so potentially (depending on how dirty you are) you can leave this grimy stuff. so i always make sure that i check back in a few mintues and run the tap for a little bit, to wash away the extra foam or dirt. well, one of them doesn't do it. and the shower is left hella dirty. i mean seriously dirty. like they went to beach. but. this is every day. and i'm pretty sure they don't. desiree studies all the time and kevin works at a nice hotel. so it's not like they got the time to get all dirty. so i'm thinking. and yeah, i kno this could be super racist, but, i'm thinking it's kevin's dead skin stuff left over. cause he's african american, you see. so his dead skin is darker than hers or mine (she's a light skinned latino?). they both shower every day and i'm pretty sure they don't like roll around in the dirt. so i'm just thinking... yeah... lol... kind of gross!

short changed

go to most major department stores and see in the women's department sections for 'regular', 'larger sized' and petites. well no longer! neiman marcus, sakes 5th, and bloomies are getting rid of their petite departments. okay. i may be totally off but i wonder if perhaps race has to do something to do wit this. asians tend to be 'smaller' than the general american public. and many asians also like to shop at higher end department stores such as the ones aforementioned. is this their way of keeping us down and out? i mean... if anything the petites industry is growing. there are whole stores now to the 'vertically challanged'. and petites is for 5foot 4? that's slighter taller than our national average for women. the article says that women suspect that the department stores view petites as being 'older, unfashionable and undesirable.' well undesirable may just be right. =\

gimmicks

because even food has to has it's gimmicks to sell, here's a resturant that promotes 'dining in the dark'. altho actually, the food sounds pretty good, if a bit expensive.

(thanks to ting for the link!)

ipoo

ipod. it's the most popular mp3 player out there. i don't have one. lol. actually i have another. it was gift from my godmother. but as a replacement i want one that uses memory disks. they say sony does that but i've not looked into it. anyway. ipod. even tho it's #1 it may not be the best: the 10 things they won't tell you.

posters

        

more vintage posters from galerie montmartere. tonight's selection is from their transportation gallery.

yum

dogs fart. that's just a fact of life. but rather than forcing a beano down their throats, how about you buy them a dogone thong? ...yeah. appt it neutralizes the smell? i wonder if it works on humans too?

 

speaking of eating... do you kno wat ducks eat? that's right, aliens! well, according to this xray anyway.

pd..f-off!

so recently i've been hanging out a bit wit couples and have noticed that they're a bit more touchy feely than reep and i are. i was actually a bit icked out by some of their pda but appt wat they're doing is quite normal: holding hands under the table during meals, arms around each other when standing in a group of friends, leaning on each other when either standing or sitting, and feeding each other. ...it's strange because i thought that i had gotten better at the touchy feely bit but appt i have a ways to go. =\ but ting and i agreed that you'll never offend someone by not touching. it's only when doing it too much that people will get grossed out. so actually, i'm like... doing a public service by being super socially conscious. :)

mispelled

130 of the most frequently misspelled words. a lot of these.. i dunno... i mean, if you just sound them out. like 'independent'. altho some of these i absolutely cannot spell either: conscoius, embarrass, guarantee, miscellaneous, necessary... but you kno wat word should've been on this list tho? anonymous. seriously.

tp

+--------- Bizarre Toilet Papers Around the World ---------+  

One can write very easily in pen and ink on modern day Czechoslovakian toilet tissue, which is of the consistency of writing paper.  

German-made toilet paper is light gray in color and rather coarse textured. The brand used in railway trains is imprinted 'Deutsche Bundesbahn' on every single sheet.  

In England, museum-going tourists are quick to notice that each square of paper is plainly marked 'Official Government Property.'  

In some Scandinavian restrooms the extra heavy roll is simply too large to carry away.  

Mexico solved their paper pilfering problem in airport and bus stations bathrooms by not supplying any at all. Better be prepared and bring your own.  

Upscale European consumers are switching to a new luxury brand of paper - pre-moistened, perfumed squares, sealed separately in foil envelopes.  

[From Uncle John's 4-Ply Bathroom Reader] 

...wtf?

elmo asks 'who wants to die?' in his potty training book he's actually supposed to ask 'who wants to try to go potty?' but uh... ends up asking something else entirely.  and speaking of potty. a man was arrested for a weird 'sex' crime. guess wat his fetish is? drinking the pee of little boys. ...yeah... like ew!

makeup

sephora has the pretty cool thing that suggests what makeup to wear for your skin type and desired skin appearance. just answer the two questions and it'll give you a list of recommended products.

and in related sites. if you haven't yet. visit themintpages and review a product or two. :)

spoils

if you internalize your fears and worries then you can't really blame others for not knowing what they are right? that's how i feel anyway. i kno some of my girlfriends would disagree. they would say that seeing as how i've been wit reep for such a long time then he really should kno how i feel, witout me having to tell him. and while i do kind of agree wit that i also don't. because if i hardly tell him just how much something bothers me, or how often it does, then how would he kno? he'd have to be able to read my mind. and obviously, he can't do this. altho sometimes i wish he could. but that's another story entirely... i feel like... wait, you kno that new movie 'the breakup'? in it jen aniston's character tells vince vaughn's character that she wants him to want to wash the dishes. and he doesn't get it. and actually, it seems to me that lots of guys don't get this concept. altho to me it's perfectly clear, and wat's more, perfectly reasonable. anyway. so i feel like sometimes.. i want something. but i don't want to ask for it. because i kno it's not right to ask. and so i don't. but you kno wat i want. even i don't ask it. so why not just do it? or at least compromise a little. oy. cutter, one of my aeia guys, tells me that i should just give him an ultimatum. i was like, but... that's not right. and he said that no, it's not right, but it's okay, because i'm a woman. ...wat? yeah, appt women can get away wit totally irrational behavior simply because we're women and we're expected to behave in a certain way. yeah. so appt even tho reep would be really mad, he'd eventually get over it. i asked wat would happen if my plan backfired and he didn't chose me? cutter said that no way could this happen. he said some other stuff, but i don't feel like getting into that right now. anyway. so i brought this up to reep. and he said that no, he would be mad, really mad, for a long time. because, get this, i had already done this once before: given him an unfair ultimatum. i couldn't believe it. i mean seriously? how was that unfair? it wasn't. and i just... ...sometimes i feel like i'm such a pushover when it comes to him. like... he feels as if he's already yielded so much to me, but really, it'sonly that he's been spoiled. al was super forgiving and i think, i am too. and thus i don't blame him for much. i tend to blame myself first. which really, only perpetuates the cycle. ...i don't kno wat to do. and no, don't suggest breaking up. that's just stupid. that's obviously not the most viable answer for me. maybe it's the best, you think, but that's obviously not something i'm prepared to do. ...oy. now i'm getting mad at imaginary rebuttals.

 

'they say it fades if you let it, love was made to forget it' 'my love keeps growing still the same, just like a cancer, and you won't give me a straight answer' 'the pains of love and they keep growing' 'because the spark is not within me' 'your name is the only word that i can say' 'i pray for blindness'

alag

angry little asian girl. it's a cartoon created by lela lee. it's an cute cartoon that battles the issues of racism. sorta. it's also kind of racist in itself. ...yeah. lol. go to the friends section and read the profile of the characters. kim's dad for instance. he appt just reads. isn't involved in his daughter life, or home life at all (just like the 'typical' asian dad). and wanda is described as 'a soul sistah' and it goes on to say that 'we secretly hate people like her'. ...seeing as how she's the only person of african descent i can see this quote being skewed in really awful ways. but anyway. for the most part it tries to be racially concious. which is good. :)

jie jie

people keep sending me this link so imma post it before i start getting hate mail:

there is a baby boy born in china wit a third arm. ...that's right. a third arm. btw, it's fully functional. oh, and he only has one kidney. ... anyway, doctors are considering the surgery options. obviously they're planning to remove the arm that is more er... deformed, but i guess they're having a hard time finding which one that is. yeah. well. anyway. good luck 'jie jie'. which, btw, since there are no accents? for those of you who are chinese, i read that wit the 3rd accent. so it's like his name is 'older sister' which, lol, i doubt it is. but really, i can't come up wit a good alternative. i'm thinking 2nd? oh watever...

felicity

so i've been rewatching the first season of felicity on dvd. now, i've always always been for ben and couldn't understand why there were people rooting for noel. but now... i dunno... i mean, i'm still totally for ben. but at the same time noel is really freaking awesome. he's like... incredible, how he stands by her, even tho she screws up. and ben. well... he's a pretty face. but not such an awesome boyfriend. anyway. just thought i'd let you kno. oh, and if you ever cared i'm joey & pacey and rory & jess as well. :)