in a loveless _________ship. Hint: the blank consists of a 9-letter word that starts with an A; obviously, it’s not “relation” because that couldn’t get any better. 
Also, the entire word after you fill in the blank is not a real word.
I no longer have any place or space to call my own. I really don’t. Even at home, my cousin has moved into my room. Though she is not there on the weekends when I am, it is still a little saddening to know that the room is not just for me anymore. But I mean, it kind of felt like it never was anyway because my brother was always in there. I mean, ALWAYS. The desktop computer was in there so he’d be on the computer all day and after he was done with that, he’d sit in my room and watch TV. I guess it’s okay…a room is just a room. One thing I know for sure is that, according to Luther Vandross, a chair is not a house.
Looking forward to next quarter because that means the one with phonology with the Del Taco professor will be over and I will have my TAP card, making me free to roam the mean streets of LA County without limits via all things Metro. I am abnormally excited about the TAP card because I’ve always been jealous of those people who just tap the machine when they get on the bus instead of fumbling with bills and coins. I’m almost considering getting a BruinGO card too but I really don’t take the Big Blue Bus enough to make up for the price of the card and since it’s going to be spring, I will probably try to occasionally bike to work. Maybe. Perhaps.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the future as of late and have decided on little. I know I do not want to work in an office the way I do now for a living. I also do not want to go corporate. One time Allison and I saw this place where they write captions you see on TV. I think that could be a temporary option… I’m sure you can never have enough caption writers. It’s something that is not that far off from what I do now and it’s something that is a little odd, like moi. I think at some point, though, my sister and I will move in together somewhere and it’ll be fun because we like each other most of the time and go on adventures and do stupid dances! And we can carpool back home together. haha.
By the way, something is wrong with my period button. It has somehow become oversensitive so when I touch it (not press it) this long string of periods comes out………… Like that.
Filed under: SADface
As of last Friday, my rainboots no longer serve their purpose. I am quite sad about this. They somehow developed cracks in them so water started to seep in. I want to say they had a good long run, but this isn’t really true. I mean, I live in LA where it rains but a handful of times a year and I have had these shoes for, what, two years and some months? I expected more from you, boots. Yes, they are just material objects, but they are material objects that allowed me to enjoy the rain, because nothing is more annoying to me than wet socks. Well, there are other things that are just as if not more annoying, but you get the point. Wet socks, ew! Wet jeans, yuck! I don’t even really have any sneaks at my apartment that allow me to not get my feet wet so I chose to just wear flats in the rain the other day and it was just not the same, especially since I had to stupidly roll my pants up to avoid getting them soaked with water up to my knees. So, I am in the market for some new galoshes. Been thinking about these. Thoughts? All two of you? They aren’t as colorful and crazy as I’d like them to be but they sound a little more durable.
I wrote this essay in Chinese about how 2009 will somehow top 2008 but so far things have been looking glum. This week alone (all like..two days of it) has not been the most awesome. My health is failing me, I’m worried about stuff, I feel grimy, my classes are assaulting me, I am a victim of life! haha. I’m kidding, just being a dramarama queen. These things are at least partially true though. I am getting that sick feeling where it feels like something fuzzy is in your throat and the worrying only makes it worse.
This weekend, my mom told me people born in the year of the rabbit should wear yellow jade this year and then she made me hang this charm on my phone. Hopefully it turns things around! I am a firm believer in my momma’s superstitions.
I am technologically cursed.
My 500 gig external hard drive is busted. It is covered by a one-year warranty…which expired nine days ago.
This is a year of many electronic deaths. First my laptop’s adapter, then my laptop, then my sister’s laptop, my computer at work (not my fault!), the label printer (faulty work equipment, I say), my phone malfunctionings….. and the list goes on.
Why do you hate me so, technology?!?
Filed under: SADface
Life is sad when sleeping in means waking up at 9am.
I am officially cursed with electronics. My laptop has passed away and I am missing a couple months worth of photos because the last time I backed up my computer was in March. Farewell, Drew Jr. Luckily I got off my resume and movies. The pictures are important but I have a lot of them on my Flickr, so I guess that’s good. Sigh. It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have bent (bended?) the truth because now my computer and I are suffering. I’m on my sister’s computer now and she’s not here in the daytime so no worries. I’ve been keeping busy anyway. Sunday I went to Heren’s grad dinner, Monday went to Old Town and Panera Bread with Wendorz and then we went to do decor child labor for Susan’s mum. haha. Today I met Dar at Boba Express by biking and then we biked to his house to Partyville and then play Diddy Kong when his dad kicked us out of the TV room (crazy new TV they have) to watch the Lakers game. Biking home was pretty tough because it’s all uphill but perhaps I will have awesome legs by the end of summer then.
CONGRATS TO EVERYONE WHO GRADUATED!! PLEASE DON’T LEAVE THE COUNTRY BECAUSE I HAVE FEW FRIENDS NEARBY AS IT IS!! I will especially miss my roomie, Heren, but we will have a ball in Europe soon enough. To celebrate (more like mourn) the “end of an era,” as Meeshella likes to put it, we shot a really touching video, which was put together by the talented M-Dub. Please watch it over and over and over again and then spread it amongst your friends.
Filed under: SADface, china, entertainsment | Tags: sharon stone, sichuan
Sharon Stone, though she apologized for it later, recently implied that the SiChuan earthquake was caused by karma, because the Chinese were “not nice” to her good friend, the Dalai Lama. I’m pretty sure natural disasters don’t come around just because a large group of people isn’t nice to someone, otherwise a freak hurricane would’ve swept up most of America for criticizing Sharon Stone’s fashion sense and crappy movies.
I have personally been to SiChuan and there are descendants of people from Tibet there, too, in case you didn’t know, Sharon Stone. The Dalai Lama is a peaceful man and I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t wish an 8.0 earthquake on anyone–not his own people, not anyone–especially not a group of people who did nothing to deserve it. Is it wrong that he was exiled from his own home? Yes. And is it wrong that the government gives Han Chinese people economic incentives for moving into Tibet and making the culture there obsolete? Again, yes. But the Chinese population isn’t the culprit here, the government is.
So due to her comment, there has been a ban on her movies implemented in many of the theaters in major cities in China, which, according to the article is more of a blessing. At least people have a better excuse not to watch her movies now other than the fact that they aren’t very good.
Anyway, I never got around to writing about the earthquake, but it’s really devastating. SiChuan is a beautiful place with people who live rather simply but enjoy food that I swear was fermented in fire because just smelling it makes me cry a little. Oh, and I was once attacked by little kids on a hillside in SiChuan near the Jiu Zhai Gou area when my family and I went up the hill to put up prayer flags, because I had a Hello Kitty keychain hanging off my backpack, but that doesn’t really have anything to do with anything besides that it was kind of funny. I digress. SiChuan is not a very rich province overall, so this earthquake is really, really tragic and more than 5 million people are without a home because of it. So if you can, donate some money to help them out, or even better yet, for those who can and are extremely ambitious, go over there and do something!
PS Speaking of bans on people implemented by China, did you know Brad Pitt is banned from China for being in the film Seven Years in Tibet?
My AC adapter for my laptop caught on fire sometime around 3am this morning. This is not an exaggeration. It started out smoking and then when I tried to use it again, there were sparks. And then a scene from Backdraft took place. That last sentence might be an exaggeration. On top of all my Ubuntu problems, everything I plugged into my laptop seemed to malfunction as well. Something was a little off with my laptop charger to begin with, but it got much worse within the last couple weeks. It wasn’t anything a little twisty maneuvering couldn’t fix, but last night it just refused to work. I twisted and tweaked the little nubbin that attaches to my laptop and it just wouldn’t charge. My laptop was on the brink of eternal hibernation (until I could get a new charger, that is) and the little orange light wouldn’t turn on. I started to hear this strange beeping noise and wondered where it came from. As I leaned in to the boxy adapter thing, I realized it was coming from there. I’m pretty sure adapters aren’t meant to beep, but it was doing it. I tried to move the wire a little again and the beeping shifted as the wire did. It started to get reaaally hot and the rubber got a little bloated. The beeping heightened and all of a sudden, smoke spat out of the wire. I unplugged it right away to prevent it from blowing up my computer and let it cool off. I stupidly thought if I tried it again maybe my laptop would charge, but this time was worse. MUCH worse. The beeping went all crazors and I did a little twisty action on the wire again, but all of a sudden I heard sparking noises. A bunch of smoke came out again as the sparking noises ensued. Then, i saw the sparks and they went craaazy! Even after I pulled it out, the sparks kept going. It was so traumatizing… I was extremely sad my adapter was now useless, but I found out my dad’s charger is the same size, which bumps me up to only really sad. Even so, it’s not like I can take it with me, because it just so happens that he’s returning from China this week. He wasn’t supposed to be back until later this month. So my sister is lending me her laptop for school, which I am very grateful for. She was going to pass it down to me eventually anyway, she says. I was thinking of buying a new adapter for Drew Jr, but she doesn’t think it’s worth it since he’s pretty old, but he works fine for my needs, so I kind of want to save him. I don’t know what to do. The adapters are like 20 bucks on eBay, which isn’t that horrendous, but she doesn’t even think it’s worth it to spend that much on little ol’ Drew Jr, emphasis on the “ol’.” Well, anyway, if anyone wants to be generous, my computer is a Compaq Presario 2100 series laptop who enjoys long walks in my backpack and being fully charged and turned on. 
And before I forget again, Duck Confit (con-fee) is kind of fun to say.
