OCTOBER 06

even the flowers are prettier in fall!

8:18 PM 10/14/2006

happy post friday the 13th! i'm doing a decent job of cramming an entire year's worth of non-work activity into one month. highlights from the past couple of days include the following: watching seven episodes of spongebob squarepants in a row; heading up to BH to look at purses with my mom; negotiating the price of a 2004 clk 320 with an asshole of a salesman at the south bay mercedes benz dealership; getting hit on by aforementioned asshole's sleazy manager; eating at bob's big boy for the first time ever; meeting jenny in cerritos this morning for breakfast and shopping at the mall afterwards across the street to kill time; having lunch at guppy teahouse with the love of my life; and checking out the super-nice cerritos library (which is seriously a work of art, second only to the central library in downtown LA).

since everybody else is doing this, here are my random 20 facts. there's gonna be a test on this next week, so read carefully:

1. my first language was taiwanese, even though i was born here in the US. my parents raised me like a little fob kid and i didn't speak a word of english until i started preschool.

2. i've had the same favorite song since eighth grade (cheesy, i know). listen to it here - you need real player rhapsody.

3. i first tasted alcohol at age 3, when my babysitter taught me how to guzzle beer.

4. butterflies scare/disgust me so much i'd rather cram a handful of live maggots into my mouth than have one nasty, flapping monarch land on me.

5. i entered my first piano competition in fourth grade. i pulled off a spectacular rendition of burgmuller's "l'orage" ("the storm") but was subsequently disqualified because my idiot teacher didn't read the rules very carefully and skipped over the section which clearly stated that the only song allowed in the competition was burgmuller's "le fileuse" ("at the spinning wheel"). the humilation of having to sit down at the piano and bang out a loud, angry piece in a D minor after listening to an entire room of asian prodigies play the same cutesy spinning wheel song still haunts me to this day.

6. my lowest test score at UCLA was a 44% on a corporate taxation midterm. later on i discovered the professor made a mistake in adding up my grade - it was supposed to be 49%, not 44%. that's right, i got bumped up to a F+, baby.

7. my least favorite article of clothing EVER was this red button down shirt with blue trains printed all over it, which my mother forced me to wear TWICE in the first grade. it was so ugly i actually cried the first time i wore it.

8. my highest SAT score was 1490. ten points away from never, EVER having to hear my mother say, "who knows, if you had atually studied hard and broken 1500, you might have gotten into stanford," as well as the all-time favorite "didn't your friend hans get a 1560?"

9. speaking of hans, i lost a dumb bet to him our senior year in high school and had to wear a sign proclaiming "HANS WEE IS MY GOD" for the entire day. by third period, i had changed the word "GOD" to "GODDESS" because i was tired of people snickering at me.

10. i cannot, for the life of me, pronounce "colander" or "mariners" (as in the seattle mariners) correctly on the first try without practicing it silently for five minutes beforehand.

11. my highest bowling score: 83. i think. or was it 63? oh, does it really matter? i suck.

12. i once ate two dinners a night twice a week for twelve weeks straight because i was too chicken to tell my mother i had regular dinner plans with a boy. that was a painful summer.

13. the only time i've been sexually harassed was when i was a sophomore at ucla - a crazy old lady grabbed my ass and said, "hey, you're sexy!" as i was walking into my dorm room. i was so confused i almost believed it didn't happen.

14. i spend at least thirty bucks a week at starbucks. if any of you guys own stock in starbucks, you owe me big time. i mean it.

15. if it weren't for a crappy breakup that resulted in a crappy quarter with three crappy B's, i would have graduated summa cum laude from ucla. let that be a lesson to all you girls out there: never, ever let a guy screw up your GPA (or anything else, for that matter)!

16. i think the three sexiest things about a guy are his intelligence, his sense of humor, and his integrity. a close fourth is his driving ability. the three LEAST sexiest things are lack of ambition, lack of common sense, and questionable morality.

17. the very first shotglass in my collection was given to me by wayne han (or was it steve?) in 1999 - it says "college: the best six years of my life." i think the fourth, seventh and twelfth shotglasses came from wayne too (i sort of lost track after that).

18. after the thanksgiving dinner fiasco of 2004, i will never, ever cook dinner for a boy i like ever again. unless we're already married, because by then he'll be stuck with me forever.

19. i cry in 90% of the movies i see. including the stupid ones.

20. when i was four i kicked my friend in the face because she tried to punch my sister. and i would do it again today in a heartbeat.

x-mas is coming. i want one of these:




OR, one of these:




just kidding on the last one, i dont need to date a man twenty times prettier than i am. my ego couldn't handle it. but i really would like a panda, though.




i'll update more this weekend when i'm not so ridiculously brain dead from work. extra xoxo to rosa and johnny - call you two soon (separately, of course). miss you both!

aww, cute!


this is my ex, who despite being a huge dick (to me, at least), managed to deliver one of the most eloquent toasts i've ever heard. good job, dick.


me and jj. i've never been so happy to see a friend beat me to the altar before.

me and rosa in pre-school - gotta love those smiles.



us on our RV trip to the grand canyon. rosa is so cute here, it kills me.



this picture makes me happy. look how hideously tacky my sister's shirt is!



me with a mouthful of chocolate cake. rosa with a big lollipop in front of her face.



rosa, practicing for her future job as a pole dancer. me, inexplicably not wearing pants. classy.

maybe later i'll post more recent pictures from throughout the years so you can see how we gradually evolved into the whiny, high-maintenance girls we are today. uh, maybe "evolved" was the wrong word to use. ;)

me and peter



random coworkers



jocelyn, super pregnant! i LOVE it!



tom, dressed up for his flava flav halloween party.



doesn't he look like he's five years old here?