quote of the day

"It's like I'm full of shit...literally." hahahaha

quote of the day

"poo is king!"

things that make me sad...

1) when you know someone one day and then they're completely gone the next

2) when you wake up in the morning and dread waking up

3) when you realize that there are people out there who actually like their jobs

4) when you feel like your life is empty

5) when you wish a lot of things could have turned out differently

things that make me smile in the morning =)

1) seeing the huge white flowers in our backyard that bloom at night and sleep during the day. They were still in bloom yesterday morning when i was eating breakfast, but they weren't in bloom this morning, which made me kind of sad...

2) seeing this cute old chubby man who could barely bend down to stick incense in the grass. He's usually there every morning in front of the hair salon near my house, praying to the gods and cleaning the front door area

3) seeing a line of green parrots perched on the telephone wires near my house. I usually hear them flying in a swarm on weekend mornings...it was pretty cool seeing them once, a green and yellow swarm of birds all cah-ing in the air

things that made me smile...

• seeing an old man (yea, old, with gray hair and all) roller blading past traffic with his cap, wrist guards, knee pads and all

• driving past a car with a middle aged man driving with a bunch of red roses and balloons in his passenger seat

• my parents starting to take dance lessons

• my boyfriend sending me emails with pictures of furniture to ask me my opinion on which he should buy =)

quote of the day

"Is he squashing your uniqueness?"

moment of the day

when a man dressed like Charlie Chaplin, on a red bike, crossed the street

protest for democracy

I come home everyday and my dad gives me an update on the protests and the killings in Burma. This topic usually comes up because it hits close to home - my parents and my entire family are from Burma (but ethnically Chinese) and it hurts to see and hear what is happening to the people of that country. We (all 27 of our family members, mostly from my mom's side) visited Burma in the winter of 2006, and the country was still very underdeveloped from the time my parents had left til now. And now, hearing about all the protests and killings by their government just makes me angry. Their government is killing innocent people, from students to monks, and I hope their government burns in hell for doing it. Images can be found here - the most horrific is one of a dead body of a monk floating in a river in Rangoon:

http://english.dvb.no/photo3.php?cat=6

Burma needs help and the UN has done nothing. They sent a representative to visit the country after everything has somewhat settled, after they killed hundreds of people they claimed not to have killed, after they burned all their bodies to rid of the evidence. If this were another country that the US could benefit from - China, Korea, Iraq (remember Saddam Hussein?), the US would have done something by now...

i <3 my parents

We were moving furniture around this past weekend, and after a tiring day, we gathered in our temporary family room to watch a movie together. While my dad was upstairs, my mom suggested that we move his favorite chair into the room because she thought he needed to relax after his tiring day. So my mom and I moved the chair (that my dad hasn't gotten to sit in for awhile since construction started on our house) into the room and when he came in, he laughed and smiled and sat in his chair like he hadn't sat in it for years. He was happy, and he said hadn't gotten to relax in "his" chair for a long time. Since then, he's sat in it every single day.

things that bug...

1.) procrastinators
2.) incompetence
3.) late people
4.) lazy people
5.) people who think they know what they're talking about but really don't
6.) people who never learn...
7.) getting home late because of work
8.) traffic - i hate traffic!

randomness

1.) random pockets of sunshine
2.) "don't be scared of something that you never had"
3.) cold
4.) fearless?
5.) "is it ever wrong to do the right thing?"
6.) how do you get a fly out of the refrigerator?

not so in like with you anymore

so i joined www.iminlikewithyou.com because my sister said it was fun, and it actually was for awhile...until it got all skankified with games with titles such as "my tits..." or "nipple licking." I'm sure lots of people are into myspaceified sites (there's nothing wrong with myspace btw cuz i do have an account - i just don't have a bunch of photos where i'm half naked in them, that's all) like this, and there's nothing wrong with that, but it was kind of nice that there was a new social site that was different. Before, the site consisted of techies and creatives where people came up with clever games that generated clever responses. I hadn't logged on to this site for awhile and when i went on there the other day to browse, i was disappointed to see what it had become. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Sorry iminlikewithyou...I'm not so in like with you anymore.

strange...

It's a weird night when...

1.) you go to see a friend's friend perform and the place is pretty much empty

2.) a fight breaks out and you don't get to see your friend's friend perform because you feared for your life

3.) you see a guy lying in the middle of the street and you think he's dead but his head moves and some people are surrounding him laughing

4.) you see an old guy with long gray hair sitting by himself at the bar with a neck brace and headphones

ewww...

uh, i think there's a problem when someone you work with (who's probably like 15 years older than you) tells you that your skirt is too long and that all asian girls wear short skirts...ewww...

and it's totally gross when someone leaves a pile of poop, wrapped up in newspaper, outside on the sidewalk...also ewww...

quote of the night

by a friend..."We're three small Asian girls...three of us equals one white guy. We don't take up that much space."

i think they can dance!

so i think i'm obesessed with this show (so you think you can dance). i know, it's another reality show, but it's entertaining and these people are actually really talented! one of the routines last night made me cry - i don't think i've ever cried watching people dance before...until yesterday. mia michaels and wade robson are two of my favorite choreographers - they're amazing! give it a watch and you'll see what i mean...

yet again...quote of the day

by a coworker..."After we finish eating the babies, we'll eat the parents!"

quote of the day

by a friend..."i've banned the red hot chili peppers from my car and i've also banned dead people."

quote of the day

by my cousin..."i thought i was ugly but then i saw her!"

age of love

I can't believe i'm watching this show and i can't believe Mark Philippoussis is on it and that guy who used to be on All My Children is hosting it. The premise is to see if age matters when in comes to love - blah blah blah. They have women in their 40's, the cougars, and women in their 20's, the kittens, competing for his heart - blah blah blah. At first, I was sure there was no way he'd pick someone in their 40's (coming from me who's in my 20's) over someone in their 20's, but as i was watching, i found myself rooting for the 40 year olds. They're way more mature, fun and less catty - they actually all get along with each other, unlike the girls in their 20's. What a bad representation of women in their 20's - I think they were all chosen for their huge boobs, which they all have btw...