mindful

dude, i really should update more often. actually, i think about it all the time. i even compose my posts in my head. i just never write them down. so by the time i get to a computer i've already forgotten wat i wanted to say! =\

this weekend i played pool for like the third time ever wit some friends. will post pictures if ting sends me hers. mine suck (stupid slow shutter speed...). it was fun. daniel came up from sd (unfortunately tsai wasn't able to) and we caught up some. then went shopping wit my mom on sunday. oh! get this. so she had a $20 gift certificate from nordstrom which expired on the 30th. so we went sorta desperate to spend that $20 (she wasted it last year cause she forgot about it, so she really wanted to get to it this year). we went around but just didn't find anything we liked. well, no. there was a coat she liked. but it was $1000. i said she should buy it and use the $20. she was like 'that's wat they want me to do!' lol, anyway, so we go back downstairs to the cosmetics. i figured she could splurge and get a $25 lipstick. so we walk around and still, no luck. then i happen upon a lipstick set from clinique. i ask how much it is ($25) and if they have a free gift wit purchase (nope, starts on wednesday she says). we try on the colors and luckily, my mom likes two and i like all four, lol, but i'll get the two others. so we go to pay and the lady asks if we would like to get an advance on the gwp. so appt we can get a preorder on the free gift. so in the end my mom ended up paying a measly $7some for 4 lipsticks, a bag, a mirror, a mascara, a 3 eyeshadow palette, a lipgloss, a cleanser, a lotion, and two other products. can you believe that? holy crap! did you ever hear of such a thing?! preordering a free gift! seriously tho, i think it's only nordstrom which does they. they have legendary good customer service.

as of yet, have no plans for this weekend. altho appt russell peters is in town. have a couple of groups of friends going to that but i probably won't be going. while i find him funny, i think he recycles his stuff too much. =\ maybe i'll go watch a movie? i wanna watch 'marie antoinette' and also 'stranger than fiction'. anyone?

oh well, here's a list of the safety of 371 cities in america. irvine is number 7. :) 2nd safest in california (mission viejo is 1st in california. 3rd overall). some cities of interest: sunnyvale 38, fargo 47!, rancho cucamon 62 (but wat about ranch cucamonga?), fullerton 80, chino 88 (this is the city, which on the oc, is the ghetto...), buena park 103, anchorage 212, la 250, vegas 302, sacramento 322, compton 368 (least safe city in cali), and in last place is st. louis. it is a pretty interesting list. worth your time in going thru. lots of nearby and well known cities: norwalk, anaheim, pasadena, pomona, torrance, santa monica, oakland, berekely, escondido, sd, carlsbad, riverside... lol yeah, cali towns take up like half the list.

oh and i recently got into 43things. so if you're in too, look me up. oh, and i'm really really into 43places too.

fast livin'

a race between a jet, a car, and a motercyle (it ends pretty mcuh exactly as you think it would...) and idiots trying to outrace roadblocks (funny!) and for those who want to want to race to their deaths by heart attack, now you can wit fried coke! nono, not coke like cocain, coke like cola, soda, pop, fizz...

ever together wallet

i love me this wallet; it looks just like one of those air mail envelopes!

halloween cuties

 

halloween is coming up, as you really should kno. so to get in the mood, lookie at the cutie key chain dolls. :)

halloween cuties

 

halloween is coming up, as you really should kno. so to get in the mood, lookie at the cutie key chain dolls. :)

dressing up

in the october issue of jane magazine there was an op ed peice on a lady who was protesting slutty halloween costumes. and damnit, i agree! actually two years ago i was thinking that if i were to dress up i would be a muslim woman wearing a veil, or be an orthodox jew, or some other religious person where the woman is required to be nearly compeletly covered up. i mean seriously, halloween is like the one time ayear where you can be something you're totally not. so why would you waste this perfectly good holiday and be exactly as you are only in slight 'disguise', as a naughty nurse, sexy french maid, or playboy bunny? okay, so i kno you're not a nurse, or maid or rabbit, but damnit, you're still a skank. good costume, you uninventive whore! . wat is wit this need to be just like everyone else? dare to be different for once. wear wat you really want to wear, and not cause all your friends are wearing it. listen to the music you wanna listen to, not cause media tells you it's cool. be your own weight, witout hollywood teling you you're too fat. fuck the other people and their sheeplike drivel.      stand   up   and   stand   out.

balloon lights

thelermont hupton. amazing light fixtures. so wimsical and adorable!

found

found magazine. consistantly hilarous, even tho they have a new find every day. i esp love this one from december of last year: "Some people say I should go out wit you but I don't know. Don't take that wrong your not ugly, and I'm not gay." haha!!

apples

this sunday phil, jong ling (phil's friend), reep and i went to riley's farm in oak glen for apple picking! yay! i went cherry picking a few years ago wit the girls, which was a lot of fun. so when phil suggested apple picking i jumped at the chance. anyway, it wasn't like all the fun in the world, but it was interesting and new. :) anyone wanna go fruit /veggie picking sometime? oh, and yeah, i got a haircut last friday.

            

1. my apple picking staff. 2. rome apples. so yum! 3. sorry, this is the best picture i have on jong ling. 4. phil :0 5. reep and me at the lake / pond.  (rest of photos at my flickr.)

btw, i never heard back from sephora so i'm pretty sure i didn't get the job. but eh, it's okay. it would've ruined my winter vacation anyway.

speeeeding!

we should all move to texas! they changed their speed limits to 80mph. it's the fastest in the nation! they're smart about it tho. day speed is 80mph and night speeds are 65.

piperlime

piperlime: the new online shoe shopping site by gap inc, and not gap, so they sell all different brands. ...except gap inc brand shoes. :) silly.

crap shoot

+-------------- Bizarre Historical Accounts ---------------+  

DAILY RECORD (15th MAY 1992)  
Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record in 1992. But after he came down, he not only discovered he was eight hours short of the 400-day record, but also that his sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend had left him, and his phone and electricity had been cut off.  

INDEPENDENT (19TH DEC 1996)  
A rapturous welcome awaited Antonio Gomez Bohorquez and Pascual Fuertes Noguera when they returned home to Murcia in southern Spain after pioneering a new route up Mount Sisha Pagma in the Himalayas. On studying specialist publications, however, they had to sheepishly admit that they had, in fact, climbed the wrong mountain.  

DAILY MIRROR (28TH SEPT 1995)  
Another armed robber, jailed for eight years in Argentina, decided to hire a private detective to trace the father he never met. The detective discovered the man's father was the warder of the prison in which he was incarcerated  

WESTERN MORNING NEWS (28TH SPR 1994)  
Ian Lewis, 43, of Standish, Lancashire, England, was also interested in finding out about his family. He spent 30 years tracing his family tree back to the seventeenth century. He traveled all over Britain, talked to 2,000 relatives and planned to write a book about how his great-grandfather left to seek his fortune in Russia and how his grandfather was expelled after the Revolution. Then he found out he had been adopted when he was a month old and his real name was David Thornton. He resolved to start his family research all over again.  

INDEPENDENT (26TH JULY 1995)  
Markku Tahvainen drove his family 250 miles to a zoo in Finland in order to see the bears. Whe they returned home, though, they discovered footprints and droppings in their garden which revealed that in their absence they had been visited by a bear which had eaten their ducks.  

NEWS OF THE WORLD (21ST AUG 1988)  
Martin Reeves traveled 8,000 miles to India to find parts for his 1957 Morris Cowley. His mission was succesful, but when he got back to Brighton, England, he found the car had been stolen.  

DAILY MIRROR (25TH MAY 1990)  
Securitymeasures bring their own headaches. In Broadway, Worcestershire, England, in 1990, a safe was unlocked for the first time since its key had been lost in 1942. All it contained was a note urging people not to lose the key.  

REUTERS (20TH JULY 1994)  
Likewise, a Dutchman who invested more than $1,000 in a police trained guard dog to protect his house in Schalkhar woke up two days later to find the house had been broken into. The only thing the burglars had taken was the dog.  

DAILY TELEGRAPH (25 JUL 1986)  
A fireman in Bath, Somerset, England, using a metal detector to trace a fire hydrant which had been covered in tarmac after road resurfacing, dug seven holes in the wrong place before realizing the device was being set off by the steel toe-caps in his boots.

lyrics

johnny cash - boy named sue

My daddy left home when I was three
And he didn't leave much to Ma and me
Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.
Now, I don't blame him cause he run and hid
But the meanest thing that he ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me 'Sue.'

Well, he must o' thought that is was quite a joke
And it got a lot of laughs from a' lots of folk,
It seems I had to fight my whole life through.
Some gal would giggle and I'd get red
And some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head,
I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named 'Sue.'

Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean,
My fist got hard and my wits got keen,
I'd roam from town to town to hide my shame.
But I made me a vow to the moon and stars
That I'd search the honky-tonks and bars
And kill that man that give me that awful name.

Well, it was Gatlinburg in mid-July
And I just hit town and my throat was dry,
I thought I'd stop and have myself a brew.
At an old saloon on a street of mud,
There at a table, dealing stud,
Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me 'Sue.'

Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad
From a worn-out picture that my mother had,
And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye.
He was big and bent and gray and old,
And I looked at him and my blood ran cold
And I said: "My name is 'Sue!' how do you do! Now you gonna die!"

(Yeah, that’s what I told him!)

Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes
And he went down but, to my surprise,
He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear.
But I busted a chair right across his teeth
And we crashed through the wall and into the street
Kicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer.

I tell ya, I've fought tougher men
But I really can't remember when,
He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile.
I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss,
He went for his gun and I pulled mine first,
Hestood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile.

And he said: "Son, this world is rough
And if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough
And I know I wouldn't be there to help ya along.
So I give ya that name and I said good-bye
I knew you'd have to get tough or die
And it's that name that helped to make you strong."

He said: 'Now you just fought one hell of a fight
And I know you hate me, and you got the right
To kill me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do.
But ya ought to thank me, before I die,
For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye
Cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you 'Sue'.'

(Well what can I do? What could I do?)

I got all choked up and I threw down my gun
And I called him my pa, and he called me his son,
And I come away with a different point of view.
And I think about him, now and then,
Every time I try and every time I win,
And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him
Bill or George! Anything damn thing but Sue! I still hate that name!

tv head

lol, you gotta check out the picture of this article: toshiba's head mounted display.

color me in

went to sephora at south coast tonight for an interview. dunno how i did tho... i had tried to prepare but was asked a couple questions i was totally not expecting. 1) wat annoys you and 2) wat would your friends change about you? the answers i gave to 1) could definitly be used against me for job relates stuff. and for 2) i gave a totally unrelated answer. i mean, i answered the question. but it wasn't job related in any way. =\

        

but anyway, since it was for a job at sephora and since i had left most of my makeup at home (i only brought some lipstick and eyeshadow), i went to macy's benefit counter for a make-over before my interview. i think i looked pretty good. she did a really natural look, but still polished. and i was pleasantly surprised wit the way the blush turned out. anyway. above are some pictures. lol, i can't get over the blush and the eyebrows. i think i look pretty good! they'll be flickred eventually.

coach @ target?!

so ting and i go to target the other day and i'm looking at purses when i notice these familiar little c's on the other side of the display. i go around think, wtf? they're not allowed to sell fakes here in the states! i get to the other side, look closer, and it really is those coach c's! zoom out and hey, that looks just like a coach purse! look up, holy crap! $200+ for a fake bag? look up a little bit more, wtf? it really is coach! (pic 1) and not only that, but the bags are freakin cheap! the signature demi pouch, which normally sells for $138 is only $100! (pic 2)

 

so tonight i'm 'researching' for this post and see this article: appt coach is suing target for selling fake bags? wat has this world come to?!

lego ice

lego ice cubes! why didn't anyone think of this earlier?

charades

went out this sat night wit a bunch of db friends. had dinner at thai original bbq, which is accross the street from the cerritos mall. and then went to boba loca (aka, the new cerritos 'hotspot' [altho it seems as tho it's not actually in cerritos...]). after that we went back to thy's house and played pictionary/charades. see, we used the pictionary cards and board and all that, but instead of drawing it, we acted it out. i think this version is waaay better!

   

 

1. me and russell, er... acting something out. 2. tom going 'wild'! 3. russell looking very confused. 4. louise is oh so 'smooth' 5. tom and russell as 'ram'ming it up

more photos on my flickr. btw, i added on to the last post as well, so don't forget to read that bit too!

aids

these aids awareness ads (straight female & gay male) are the cutest things! and, of course, they make hella sense. so come on, be smart, protect yourself, and live long enough to find the right one. :)

aids

these aids awareness ads (straight female & gay male)are the cutest thing! and, of course, they make hella sense. so come on, be smart, protect yourself, and live long enough to find the right one. :)

golden thi

thi cosmetics. it's for asians! the website even has tips (altho not pictures) of how to apply eyeshadow on non-anglo-saxon features. and i love the new donna karan gold eau de parfum bottle. it looks so lux.

and i love the new donna karen gold eau de parfum bottle.

news

ERIE, Pa. - A woman has been charged on counts of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and simple assault after using her 4-week-old baby boy as a weapon during a domestic dispute. Chytoria Graham, 27, used her infant during the fight by swinging him through the air and striking the baby's head against her boyfriend's body. The infant suffered a fracture of the right temporal region and some brain bleeding. He is being treated at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he was in serious but stable condition. Other children were removed by authorities from Graham's home, and later placed in the temporary care of their maternal grandparents.  

and in happier news, here's an article about a guy who bit a panda.

and another article about a pretty damn awesome dog. ::edit:: haha! cat i mean, cat!

name calling

so you kno my thing? when/if i get married i'm keeping my own last name. i don't see the point in changing it. mine is just fine. it has served me perfectly well for the last however many years and yes, it has a good many years still in it. if i had no middle name i would perhaps be willing to take my husbands name as that. but, wouldn't you kno, i already have one of those as well.
for the children. the first born (regardless of gender) will have my last name. all future children can have his. i cannot guarantee there will be future children, indeed, i cannot promise any children at all. but if he wants more kids, i will gladly try for a second. children after that will have to be negotiated. after all, i don't like kids, i don't see why we need more than two.
i have these conditions because i am an only child. my father was, essentially, also an only child. his father was not, but to the best of our knowledge, they have all remained in china. we have a rather uncommon last name. and damnit, i like my name.
i feel that this is fair. yes the child will be both of ours. but in the child bearing process i will be doing nearly all the work. in the child rearing process i will most likely also be doing more than half of the work. so i feel that i should get more of the say when it comes to naming our children.
for as long as i can remember. i have always felt way. i have made this clear. to my friends, family and significant others. i told reep all this before. i do not remember his agreeing or disagreeing, but in any case, i made it clear that it was unlikely i would be changing my mind. and you kno wat? i haven't.
reep and i had a serious 'talk' the other night. appt this issue is bothering him more and more. appt all along he thought i would change my mind. i don't see why he would think that, but anyway.
he wants it all. for me to change my name. and for all the children to have his name.
i am willing to compromise.
i will keep my own name. there is no good reason (besides western tradition and convenience) for me to take his. but it's the point of the children's names that i'm willing to compromise. the first born can have his name. the second mine. and all future, his. that way, if we only have one child, then it'll have his name.
reep says that if anything he'll want all the male children to have his name. i no longer see the point of that. it's not as if women can't pass on their last names (as i plan on doing). and if we do it this way then we'll be telling our kids that we devalue females, which is so not true! also if we do it either of my ways, then we'll have one child each wit our own names. if we do it his way, we might end up wit one of us having all the kids and the other wit nothing. that hardly seems fair.
furthermore. while yes, reep is the only male child in his family. his father has brothers. but i'm from two generation of only kids. also he doesn't have any real 'good' reason for wanting me or the children to take his name besides tradition. but the times, they are a'changin'.
::edit:: i have a better idea. instead of rock/paper/scissoring it, we should flip the kids for it! you win? you name! i call tails!!!

catch up

yup, it's been a while since i've updated. eh. been busy. anyway. a couple weeks ago (the weekend before chang went up north) ting and i went ovr to chang's house and we got a little silly wit the picture taking.

            

1. annie wit her stuffed owl. 2. hear, speak, see no evil. 3. totem pole 4. who says you need to drink to have fun?! 5. ting feeding annie.

more (altho not complete) pictures at my flickr.

anthropologie

anthopoligie has the prettiest stuff (albeit, rather expensive as well). i love these binocular drop earrings and this absolutely gorgeous lotus flower ring. i am not kidding about this ring. i am in love! wowie! i seriously think this ring is pretty enough to be an engagement ring. well, no, i mean, it's only plated gold. and besides, it wouldn't fit me. it's a size 7 and 8. ...maybe on my big toe?

drwarf!

did i ever post this? a hippo ate a dwarf! or as i say it, a hippo ate a drwarf!

rob dobi

rob dobi. wowie this guy is talented. appt he does a lot of the art stuff for a lot of pretty well known bands: fall out boy, coheed and cambria, the used and even story of the year. and don't forget to check out his photography. pretty awesome.

airheads

+------------ Bizarre Quotes from Supermodels -------------+  

"They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind." -- Cindy Crawford  

"Everywhere I went, my cleavage followed. But I learned I am not my cleavage." -- Carole Mallory  

"Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery." -- Beverly Johnson  

"I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that." -- Christie Brinkley  

"I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care." -- Tyra Banks  

"Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling." -- Gabrielle Reece  

"My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'" -- Beverly Johnson  

"When I model I'm pretty blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work." -- Paulina Porizkova  

"It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would." -- Kate Moss

gothloli

interesting article on japan's gothic lolita culture. btw, some of those responses in the interviews? wtf is wrong wit some of these people? you dress that way because someone told you to? ...well, i'm telling you to get yourself a damn backbone, ya damn idiot...

teehee

men really are stupider than women. :) a new study finds that testosterone kills brain cells. oh and estrogen? appt that causes less cell death.

batmobile

everything you've ever wanted to know about the batmobile.

animal tee

fred flare's no animal testing tee is the cutest thing ever!