soles4souls update

thanks to everyone (esp chang and kenny for helping to pack up) we collected and shipped out 194 pairs of shoes (plus two shoes missing their mate)!! it's so amazing that we've done this. i'm sooo crazy grateful for everyone's help!

since we have a couple stragglers, we've held onto a few pairs of shoes for another shipment later this year. will update then with a grand total. :)

judgement

honestly, no matter how you feel about same sex marriage, you should at least respect carrie prejean (former 2009 miss california) for having the courage to say what she believes in even though it's probably not in her best beauty pagent interest to do so. i think a lot of people in her position and with her position, knowing that the judge who posed the question is gay, would've dodged the question. they would've blurred their answers so you wouldn't really know what their stance is. carrie, inarticulate as she is, very clearly states that she is not in favor of same sex marriage. well good for her. it may have cost her the crown but at least she wasn't bullied out of saying what she believes in. everyone is entitled to their own opinion and they should have the right to express it verbally.

(video of her response)

gone fishing

karl marx - "sell a man a fish, he eats for a day. teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”

for your heart!

oh that karl, he always knows exactly what a woman wants, no? the tweed helmet with handy ipod holder is just what i need. ...if i was super rich and had a vespa and there were no laws against listening to dual headphone / earpiece devices while driving around... eh, cute anyway. :)

soles4souls

about a month ago i was on the piperlime website when noticed the words "donate your shoes" towards the bottom of the page. i clicked on the link, looked up the website, and found soles4souls, which is an organization that collects gently used shoes and distributes them around the world to people in need. this was what i'd been looking for.

i think i've always been civically minded, if generally too lazy to do anything on a greater scale. but setting up a soles4souls drive was pretty easy. i emailed for more info, set up a date, typed up some flyers, got a couple boxes, and waited for everyone else to do the actual work. i joked with my dad that if i collected 500 shoes i would personally go and help to deliver them (which is an opportunity that soles4souls does offer).

it's nearly a month later, and while i haven't counted up the shoes yet, i think i have definitely received at least 150 pairs. most have been from my chinese school class and from the la dragonboat community, notably from my team space dragons. i'm currently storing all the donations in my uncle's car (he's overseas so i took the liberty of stinking up his car).

the drive ends in about a week, and after that i'll be packing them up and shipping them out. bestline products has provided all the shipping materials. and best chucks has very generously offered to cover the shipping charges. i'll post pictures and another update soon after that.

thanks for everyone's support!

right to...

"if you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?"