wow... i totally suck at updating lately. sorry dudes. i thought i was doing good with all the mini posts, but they're all about nothing.. so yea. hmph. wow.. i can't believe that it's june 9 already!!! yikes! i thought june 27 was sooo far away.. but my sister is getting married in a two or so weeks! CRAZY. it's been a little crazy, not too much.. but still a little :P doing a few things for my sister's wedding, calling places, dress/shoes/jewelry stuff. she called tonight and asked me to do a whole bunch more things.. which isn't bad, and i'm really happy to help, but i just gotta find the time to do it all! the girl i used to work with at my temp job i probably TOTALLY took for granted because this new guy came, and he's okay (not the really nice hot guy that i was hoping to fall in love with and get married to, but that's okay.. jk). he seems really nice and like a good worker but he is SLOW. he tries (or maybe he doesn't .. i don't sit anywhere near him) but he isn't the best data entry-er. i sometimes end up having to do a lot of his work, and i don't know if it's the change in hours that is screwing me up or his slowness or what... but i am doing way more than i used to and it sucks. i feel like a brat because i should be complaining about "working" because that's what i should be doing.. but i feel like somehow i'm getting the short end of the stick. i dunno.
been doing a lot of the hockey scorekeeping training lately, and not so much of the gap, although i did have to work a 6am shift and then work again on memorial day.. so that kind of sucked. but yea. scorekeeping is pretty cool.. it's a lot like what i did for water polo and ICA, but more by yourself (you do stats and clock by your lonesome) and less regulated because it's recreation.. so you get a lot of angry yelling and cussing.. which i don't enjoy, but hopefully it's something i get used to, or immune to.. like that awful sweaty stench. i have one more training session on the ice on thursday and then sunday i work my very first own shift. i'm a little nervous. i get really antsy because like with everything new i always feel like i'm doing something wrong or forgetting something when everything is really okay. we shall see. oh my! it gets a little daunting with all the rules and when the games get scrappy with lots of penalties and yada yada yada.. but hopefully i'll manage. yikes. but i do like the people a lot. the girl who hired me is super nice and is a lot like me (but older) and she likes me because she can relate to my asian-ness. hahah. plus she's from indiana! and her middle name is jean. how cool is that... we're meant to be friends. hahah. and everyone's pretty super nice, a few oddballs, but you get them everywhere. i went to this going away party for the guy who trained me.. and i wasn't sure if i should show up or not.. like was it a pity/courtesy invite? or if i didn't go would that be rude? i ended up going (cuz i had nothing better to do, of course) and when i walked it i knew like two people and everyone else stared at me like i was stupid in the wrong house. after that initial ice breaking, things were okay. i just sat around and people watched.. but apparently i earned brownie points for showing up.. which is good, plus free food! (well not exactly free i brought food :P) but whatever.
a few tuesdays ago i drove up to ucla with beth to go watch NAPOLEON DYNAMITE at this place @ UCLA (melnitz) that shows free movies - mostly (or all.. i dunno) of the indie persuasion. it was good times because a)that movie is SO funny.. i cried a few times b)it was free AND they gave out free tshirts and c)i had great company with ryan, beth & emily. :) i HIGHLY suggest ALL OF YOU go watch it.. it comes out June 11 (friday!) but there may be a few more free screenings you can go watch and get free junk and be part of the cool kid club. or try and find it at the theatre near you come friday. and if you really are the bandwagoney type.. hilary duff's sister, haylie is in it :P go see it dude. and if you're nice maybe i'll send you a "vote for pedro" button that i got @ sundance. :) go see the movie, you'll totally get it and then you'll want one.
that weekend was memorial day weekend... yay 2 day weekend! it was jam-packed. saturday everyone met up at "the big sam woo" in la puente and had the big 'ol 7/10/12 course meal (we lost count) full of lots of yummy food and some (well one) food that wasn't so desirable. i bet my parents would have like them though... yay for sea cucumbers. but it was a LOT of food and so yummy and the BEST cake ever. it's like chocolate mousse, with cake and then cheesecake on top and i think white chocolate shaving on the outside...mmmmm..... nicole.. for my birthday just buy me that cake :) after stuffing ourselves we rolled ourselves over to nicole's house for an "after party" full of leftovers, more food and fruit and plenty of alcohol. nicole opened her gifts and then proceeded on to karaoke on the magic mic. i had to leave early because i had work @ 6am and i heard i missed the best part! they showed a video of nicole's 18th(?) birthday party... or something with nicole and her friends doing synchronized dancing. damn the gap. :P but CONGRATS to nicole!! :)
the next day (or a few hours later) i worked a full day at the gap doing men's new flow.. i got to do section one, redoing the shelves and doing visuals and building the "closet" (the clothes that hang for display on the walls). it was pretty cool and everyone was telling me that it looked really good so i was very proud of myself. yes i sound like a dork, but it's harder than you think. i came home and napped for two hours before sakura, carol and i carpooled up to ryan & jason's apartment for ryan & beth's BBBQ. :) it was lots and lots of fun too.. more food as well, and i brought drinks :) i tried to play bartender, but not very successfully. but it was fun while it lasted. we ate lots, played a variety of games, chit chatted, made fun of each other .. and towards the end as the crowd dwindled down the real party people stayed for a few hours of texas hold 'em. it wasn't too bad and i did a LOT better than last time. i wasn't the first to go out (and i never did).. i owe the success to my teammates ryan billings and nicole, and yahoo poker. there were two really big hands that we won, one was a flush on the river. jason got really mad because he bet a lot of money and i called it... betting a lot of my money on chance.. when i wasn't supposed to win the last card came through. everyone cheered.. i felt like a hero. i think i bet because nicole was saying "do it! do it!" although she had no idea what the cards were.. but hey.. good job nicole! i think the second time i had some sort of straight nicole told me to go for it again and it worked. nice. i won something like $6 or so.. which is not bad at all considering i think i lost like $10 or $20 last time. :P finally dragged my sorry ass home at 4am (thanks for the ride billings!) and slept almost all of memorial day away.. until they called me to go help them close the gap. blech.. i can't believe i said yes.. i'm such a sucker.
next big adventure was HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN. yaaaay. i am a harry potthead. :) ryan, beth, benji & i drove out to chino (aka the wrong side of the tracks :P) jk.. to watch the movie with nicole, carlene, sonny and her mom. :) we had this whole deal where nicole bought the tickets early so that we'd be guaranteed a ticket, but it wasn't even sold out! i guess people in chino just aren't cool enough for harry potter :P for dinner we met up at the new stand alone chick-fil-a as ryan drooled all the way there :) it had a play area that had weird noises when you stepped on a certain part of the ground and cool cow patterned cars. there was pictures of giant chick-fil-a sandwiches on the wall and i had beth stand next to it and pose like she was trying to take a bite out of it. beth is so cool and posed so well and i was laughing so hard i couldn't even take the picture. and when nicole looked at the picture we all laughed really hard, and i'm chuckling just thinking about it now. it's awesome. nicole, beth and i wore our gryffindor scarves (well beth and i finished them while waiting for the movie to start) and played a very unethusiastic round of harry potter uno. the movie started and it was good.. a lot different than the other two.. and beth and i spend forever hours on end talking about the differences from the book (while ryan plugs his ears). when malfoy first appears on screen his new "look" cuaron gave him makes him look like aaron carter. i could not help laughing everytime he came on screen and nicole and i kept waiting for him to bust out a song and dance. :) our group was very giggly and kept snickering at lots of jokes and innuendos and who knows what else. but it was awesome... harry potter rocks. i promptly re-read the book this past weekend. oh how geeky i am.
not much else ... been working some, the countdown is on to my sister's wedding.. crazyness. she just asked me to do a whole bunch more things so i might be leaving later than i had planned.. subject to flight availability. but it's pretty crazy.. i feel like this wedding is going to be so big and extravagant, and then we're also trying to plan the LA reception too. it's cool that it's in taiwan though because a lot more relatives will be able to go and a lot of the US relatives are flying back.. so my grandma's really happy that a lot of the family will be around. we got the invitations for my sister's wedding and they're so fancy! apparently her fiancee's dad is some important person in taiwan, and i actually saw his dad on the chinese news as well as his sister, and they said that he looks happy because his only son is getting married at the end of june. on the freaking chinese news!! crrrrAzy. my mom's all paranoid because she thinks there will be papparazzi or something and she's telling to start starving myself :P (not like i'm already not).. but yea. and i found out there's going to be a stylist for the wedding.. a STYLIST?! yea. i feel like my sister is trista (of bachelorette fame) and i'm her ugly sister who was sitting on the beach all lonely while her bachelorette friends jumped up and down in the water in their cute bikinis. hahah. so yea.. i hope my sister isn't the pretty pretty princess and i'm the ugly wicked stepsister with warts and bad breath. well i hope she's a pretty princess.. just not the latter :P i still gotta decide on which shoes, find some "appropriate/mother approved" dresses & clothes to wear and start/finish stuff that my sister wanted me to do for her wedding. ack! my mom is leaving tomorrow so she was pushing me a lot to go shopping for the "right" clothes. you would think that it'd be a dream for my mom to offer to buy clothes for me but for some reason i dreaded it so. we bought a bunch of stuff, but nothing quite right and now she's leaving, so... i guess i'll just have to surprise her :P. i was supposed to leave on the 18th, but now with all the added stuff i might leave on the 20th or 22nd. which may be kind of sucky because i've never flown to taiwan by myself. i hope i don't get detained in customs or lost in the airport or anything! we shall see. it is madness though.. but i am off of work starting next wednesday. WHEEE!!! i am very excited and counting down the days.. yea... sure my work isn't a "real" job.. but maybe that's what makes it so unbearable.. that it's so mundane and monotonous. i wonder how that place will fare without me since the other guy is pretty new too. oh well. :P i gotta train those foos tomorrow. after i get back i need to be on the ball with the job hunt. the other temp guy (who started after me) has left and gotten a real job too.. i'm the only loser left. the chick who i work with at healthsouth is into the "industry" as well, so she always tells me about stuff and maybe can help me out. she has "friends".. i hope something pans out. everything happens for a reason right?
time for some promotional plugs.
check out the new asian reality show.. Quest USA. it's kind of like road rule vs. real world challenge, but it's all chinese ppl and team usa vs. team china vs. team hong kong. i think i watched the first episode, and it was alright.. they had a relay race and got a bunch of free clothes and shoes. not too shabby. it's interesting though. :) they get to go to cool places, and probably get lots of cool stuff. it's funny though because i saw this awhile ago and was thinking about applying.. but watching it i realize i'm not quite fobby enough and my mandarin probably wasn't that great... but it could have been fun.. or i could have been rejected.
also pete and manny have resurrected their love child unofficial cki. either they're stupid or brave, or not scared of lawyers, or don't care or had lots of time on their hands. jk... they probably just got fed up with more bs and decided to wreak some more havoc...it's almost like a std, lays dormant for awhile, the flames back up when you least expect it. check out their kick ass handy work.. pete and manny rock.
also a belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY to nicole. she turned the big 2-4 on tuesday.. and while i meant to finish this blog by then.. it just didn't quite happen. nicole celebrated her birthday with the lakers.. they won just for her :)
man.. i really need to get back in the habit of updating more regularly. i know when i go to taiwan it'll all fall to pieces again. one last thing.. tonight i was SOOOOOO close to driving the zamboni... for the longest time i have wanted to drive one because it just seems so neat. last year when we played broomball @ UTC (awww.. my last cki event as president :P.. awww.. san diego!) and my friend brandon who worked there was doing it, i thought, "hey it can't be too hard." so i was joking around with the guy today after the last game and i asked how hard it was to drive the zamboni and if you had to know how to drive stick cuz i saw lots of levers and pedals and junk. but he said no.. all i needed was to know how to drive and have a license! he was gonna let me do it but he had to get the other one from the back so it would take too long. damn! now i gotta find a way to show up when he's working so i can do it.. haha. i don't know why, but it's a very strange obsession. i got really excited it was pathetic. but i had my little moment of glory for .5 nanoseconds. it will happen someday.. hopefully i don't crash into the walls.
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