warriors

hm... not much going on lately. been playing a lot of mahjong at annie's lately. and didn't go roller skating last week as planned. too many people are bitches and didn't want to go. :( but did find this space dragons video from tempe pretty funny. :)

ooh, actually. i brought my neighbors to the space dragons friends and family event. and they're planning to keep coming bakc! :) they brought their 5yo daughter along and she got to sit at the front of the boat. towards the end of practice we rowed to a place where they got jellyfish and afterwards we had a mock race (3 space dragon boats against each other). it was all pretty cool :)

one more thing. romrow (april 23) is denim day in la. "In 1998, an Italian Supreme Court decision overturned a rape conviction because the victim wore jeans [they said that she couldn't have been raped because everyone knows you can't take off someone's jeans for them; they have to take them off personally. therefore, it must have been consentual sex] People all over the world were outraged. Wearing jeans became an international symbol of protest against erroneous and destructive attitudes about sexual assault." participate people!!

crash!

+-------------- Bizarre Driving Test Answers --------------+  

Driving School: Real answers received on exams given by the California Department of Transportation's driving school:  

Q: Do you yield when a blind pedestrian is crossing the road?  
A: What for? He can't see my license plate.  

Q: Who has the right of way when four cars approach a four-way stop at the same time?  
A: The pick up truck with the gun rack and the bumper sticker saying, "Guns don't kill people. I do."  

Q: When driving through fog, what should you use?  
A: Your car.  

Q: What changes would occur in your lifestyle if you could no longer drive lawfully?  
A: I would be forced to drive unlawfully.  

Q: What are some points to remember when passing or being passed?  
A: Make eye contact and wave "hello" if he/she is cute.  

Q: What is the difference between a flashing red traffic light and a flashing yellow traffic light?  
A: The color.  

Q: How do you deal with heavy traffic?  
A: Heavy psychedelics.  

black day

reep and i are doing well, so don't read into this or anything. but we should start celebrating this holiday. next year anyone? i don't kno wat black foods we could eat tho... i don't like korean ja jian mien and the chinese version isn't black. bah.

daring do

vogue may 2008 daring do editorial.

and a close-up of the opener. amazing. i also love the last shot of her against the yellow.

spam

+-------------------- Bizarre Foods ----------------------+  
  
Perhaps one of life's most mysterious foods is SPAM. Here are some interesting facts that you may not have known about the "other" other white meat.  

Spam stands for Shoulder, Pork and hAM.  

It was launched by the Geo. A. Hormel Company of Austin, Minnesota, in 1937 and became a great favorite of military cooks during WWII because it contained protein, was easy to digest and convenient.  

A six-year-old Dorset boy became addicted to Spam and ate his way through six tins of the stuff every week for three years. He had to be sent to a child psychiatrist to get him back on a normal diet.  

Over four billion cans of Spam have been sold worldwide.  

The Hormel Plant at Austin contains an oven that cooks 450 cans of Spam a minute.  

Spam came to Britain as part of the Lend Lease Act whereby food given to the U.K. would be paid for when the war was over. Often the only meat available, it became indispensable until rationing ended in 1954.

just try it!

have done some fun stuff lately: karaoke and a lot of bowling (no pictures. most were crap). next week we plan on going roller skating! and after that, ice skating! who knows about even after that!! lol. a lot of people are game for nearly anything. 'you wanna go out?' 'sure!' others... not so much. they wanna kno who's going, and wat we're doing, and blahblahblah... others don't wanna do stuff because they're bad at it. ...but is that the right attitude to have? of course not! because then you'd never do anything. so wat if you're no good at roller skating. you think the rest of us are pros? ...has anyone even gone roller skating since, like, elementary school? and seriously, just cause you're bad at it doesn't mean you can't get better. and most likely, if you just go, you will get better. it's your own stupid attitude that's holding you back. and honestly, it holds everyone else back too. see, annie doesn't like roller skating. but she's still going, if possibly only because me and mike are so excited about it. (he wants to get shanked or something. i wanna live out the 80's or something.) but imagine if she made a big deal about it. then we wouldn't go (obviously). but we'd resent her. cause she's stupid. lol. (i've had too much sugar tonight). but you kno wat? annie's a good sport. she's gonna go and strap on some damn skates. and she's gonna skate the f*ck along wit us. because she's awesome.   so stop complaining about how bad you are at watever it is. cause you kno wat? it's not about how good you are. it's only about how good your damn attitude is.

real life

homer simpson in real life. (thanks to reep for the link)

batman and superman in real life. (thanks to ting for the link)

greys = b&w only

i was looking thru abc.com the other day for new episodes when i saw this picture:

notice anything strange? in case you didn't, sandra oh (aka christina yang) is missing. and i'm pretty sure she still on the show. she's supposed to be the main character's best friend, actually. and yet, the one asain person on the show is mysteriously missing from their promo picture. wtf?!

and is it my imagination or is this show getting less and less diverse? lookit all the white people they added recently (one white surgeon, one white intern, and one white scrub nurse). course, callie is hispanic (thank god), but her character is portrayed as kind of crazy. and btw, now everyone who's in a relationship, is in one wit a person of their same race. callie and george broke up because he slept wit another woman (who's white). christina and burke broke up, burke got fired, and now christina is appt is no longer on the show. oh, and the two other black doctors are having major marraige issues. one got divorced and the other will probably be getting one too. now, i'm not saying that all the white people are happy on this show. but they, at least, seem to be getting some (...altho the show really does portray white people as slutty. but you kno wat? i'd rather be slutty and on the show than fired).

Tags: grey's anatomy, tv, racism, racist

aoljpictureUpload, aoljpictureUpload_1

elderly

watched a bit of show on pbs tonight about people taking care of their elderly parents. besides the usual, it esp made me sad because i was thinking that when my parents are that old, their english will probably be really really bad (even if they don't get some disease that causes dementia, i'm sure some of their language skills will deteriorate). and who knows how bad my chinese will be by then? i'm lucky that we're here in so cal where so many mandarin speaking people live. if it came down to it, i should be able to find a pretty nice senior citizen home that has chinese speaking staff. but that's not good enough. i still won't be able to talk to my rents. :(

death cab for cutie - what sarah said
'in a place where we only say goodbye' / '‘cause there’s no comfort in the waiting room' / 'as each descending peak on the lcd took you a little farther away from me' / 'but i’m thinking of what sarah said: that love is watching someone die'

workout

aol's best spring workouts. ...let me kno if they work. lol!

Tags: workout, exercise