oh my gosh this is so sexy. i want it. so bad. i seriously was going to pee my pants when i saw it. the new imac G5. what? it's just the monitor? nooooo.. it's the whole freaking computer all in there. slim and sexy... it's a little bit of a hard debate between the powerbook and this new imac.. but damn this thing is HOTT. my birthday is in november by the way :P

also looking forward to:
felicity: junior year
dawson's creek - season 4

hell yes. (no wonder i have no money)

i stole this from lisa:

"be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

-dr. seuss


i need to keep that shit more in mind.. but it's hard because sometimes you're just at a loss. and sometimes you just .. i dunno.. you just don't. i don't even know what the fuck i'm talking about right now.

ahh... 17 more minutes until i can get out of this place for a little time of peace and food. rest from my hard morning of not doing my work and applying to jobs and wafting in my bothersome co-worker's awfully pungent (not in a good way) perfume. good stuff. at least someone tries to make me feel better about it.

TooMuchPete: What is up, homegirl?
jeanyah: same ol same ol
jeanyah: slacking off at work
TooMuchPete: AWESOME.
TooMuchPete: You're my hero.
jeanyah: thanks...
jeanyah: we can't all be overacheivers like you
TooMuchPete: No really.
TooMuchPete: I wish I had a job to slack off at. Hahahaha.
jeanyah: someone has to suck to overcompensate for your goodyness.

anyhoo.. as my co-workers come back with the scent of their taco bell pilfering the air to my empty stomach i sit here very sad that the olympics are going to be over tonight. closing ceremonies are always fun, and granted i haven't been really watching the past week since swimming and gymnastics are over (not a huge fan of track & field or wrestling and i don't have cable to see ALL the sports), i am still sad that i'll have to wait another 4 years for a summer olympics. i'm crossing my fingers it's not going to be in NYC in 2012 just because they rejected me from that internship. hah. i'm such a bastard. but it would be cool to go to.. probably crowded as fuck and impossible to get tickets for.. but maybe cool if you could get in. hmm.. how about a trip to beijing? but with the olympics ending it will be back to bad (but so delightful) soap operas, new episodes of sitcoms and i can get back to tivo'ing all my regular shows. i am excited for one tree hill, and just saw a commercial for a new WB show (probably more crap that i'll love) "the mountain" starring Oliver Hudson (Eddie from Dawson's Creek)... philly will LOVE that. hahah. it'll be another young adult angst show, but this time set in a cabin resortish area (hence.. the mountain). i CAN'T wait :P

i applied to a few jobs today, and a few unpaid internships... i may not even qualify because you need to go to school and get credit. i applied to this sales job that my sister told me to apply to, and it's already been filled. then take it off your website!! :P i dunno.. it's a slow morning, a slow day, SO glad that it is friday.

so my sister is leaving for taiwan again on saturday. boo. but she'll come back for her 10 year high school reunion (yay CAMS) so she won't be gone for too long. but it still makes me sad. i missed out on dinner with the the parents, sister and bro&sis in law because i was @ the gap. i maybe could have met up with them afterwards, but instead sakura and i went to long beach to visit ms. kathy ha who was down in so cal showing her friend visiting from england around the wonderness that is california :) it was weird going out after i got off work at 10pm, when i felt like i should be going home. when i picked sakura up, i totally felt like we were sneaking out or something. haha. we drove to long beach and got a little lost because kathy was lame and didn't know anything around her. we drove by the street we were supposed to turn on because we told kathy we were by the wendy's and borders, and she didn't know where we were, when really, we were like half a block away. so thus i drove for a few more minutes until we hit the freeway again, one exit south, and got back on, drove north and the went back to the exact same place we were. hah. story of my life huh? yea yea.. shut up you jerks.. i know you all are thinking.. "jean that's not new, you SUCK at directions." anyways bitches. we hung out in kathy's brother's apt, and just chatted about disneyland and other stuff they had done. her friend from england was really fun, and sakura and i laughed a lot. apparently the funnest thing he's done (after going to hooters of course) is going to albertson's because he saw lucky charms and mountain dew which they banned in england, so he has been eating them non-stop here. he saw an "escalade" which he was excited because all the cars in england are small i suppose, but when he told us sakura and i thought he said "escalator" - where a 5 minute conversation ensued with us perplexed that they didn't have escalators in england. i was very excited because he had seen the hogwarts express and harry potter being filmed :) how dreamy it would be a production assistant on that movie. *love*

anyhoo.. it is 10 minutes past the time i wanted to leave so it is now time to go. i think i'm going to get the "souper combo" a chicken wrap and clam chowder combo from red robin. sounds yummy to me. (although i should curb my spending habits.. maybe tomorrow.)

short updates.... pictures to come later. i know how you love those :P

friday went to disneyland with nicole for a few hours to catch the last EVER "who wants to be a millionaire play it" game. sadness. saw a girl from my high school which i chose to avoid.. i dunno.. it would have been weird :P the first girl in the hot seat was from canada and the host picked some random guy outta the audience to "set her up with" but ended up being from the same area-ish and the same age. nicole says, "she's so lucky, she gets pins AND a boyfriend." disney magic.

that night drove to san diego to the belly up for the tristan, bushwalla, jason mraz show. due to some retardedness, lateness and general crappiness on the part of stupid friends i missed tristan's opening act. i was bummed... and i didn't get to see her and mraz sing "shy that way." double boo. i know some of my friends don't like it, but i personally LOVE that stuff... i also love *nsync and sometimes sing along to hilary duff. i rule. anyways. i got into san diego and to the belly up as tristan was singing, but i had to wait for kristen to get here, and she got really lost. and because i'm a good friend/nice person/schmuck/loser i waited outside on the phone, walked down to the corner and waited to spot her car. consequently missing tristan's set. watch bushwalla, got a drinked spilled on me, moved for jason's set, sat on the side. fun yet boring - maybe i was tired... i dunno.. can't really explain... but it was a good time. as i was walking out i got this huge wash of "i really miss san diego" i don't know what it was because i was just walking out of some bar... but it seemed so different. i dunno. drove home, swerving a few times, but made it home safe and sound. yay.

worked all weekend, gap, hockey, blah blah blah.

went swimming for a little bit at the dinky pool @ bally's. i felt i was turning more than swimming. and although the lane says "fast lap swim" the people who may think they are fast are slow, and in the next lane over are a couple making out, so can't swim there. i don't mind it too much, but i just felt bad that the people would stop and be like "go ahead" like i was some punk ass kid.

i got a call for an internship yesterday. i'm considering chucking my temp job gives me a steady check every week for unpaid grunt work that is a killer commute. everyone has to pay their dues, i'm wondering if this is my time. it's not exactly in the perfect field that i want, but similar... i wonder if that is good enough. a stick in the mud is that i need to be in school and get credit for it, i don't know how stickler they will be about it, but i called el camino to ask about it - and boy are they useless. i was thinking about going home right now and calling that guy back. when i talked to him yesterday i was confused and probably sounded pretty stupid. i'm sure he's already thrown my resume away... just like that NYC2012 guy. fuckers. why doesn't someone just want to hire me already? is working for free or getting a bs job just to earn a living and "be responsible" the way to go?

tried to go ice skating yesterday, but got there too late.. boo. next time. sat around and talked with beth and haphazardly watched the games going on, the referees :P and talked to a guy who's in the chocolate business. i asked him if he wanted to hire me. hah. beth should be a sports commentator - after a guy swings and misses "boy he feels stupid now."

my grandfather (mom's side) is in the hospital. i guess he fell. i don't know what happened really... i didn't want to probe my mom too much. i don't know if he broke anything, but my mom was complaining about how there is no one who takes care of him, he doesn't eat enough, doesn't eat right, isn't healthy.. etc etc. she doesn't like my step-grandmother all that much, and thus i think she is a flake and kind of evil as well. once she ran out and left my grandfather alone for a few days and no one could find her. my grandfather is pretty feeble, can't really do anything and pretty much just sits and watches tv. i've never been that close to him, so i feel more anguish for my mom than for myself. this is something else she doesn't need on top of all the other stresses and unhappiness in her life. but it'll be sad if the worst happens and i will also have no grandfather's left. sure.. it'll always happen eventually, but doesn't mean i can't be sad about it. my mom is really worried and had that whole "breaking voice" when she was telling me. i don't know what is better.. to live a feeble life or to go in peace. i recently found out on my last trip to taiwan that my other grandfather suffered from alzheimer's. so it makes more sense to me how he got sick (i think pneumonia) and died so suddenly. because it wasn't sudden.. it was just something i never knew. he would go out and walk around taipei and get really lost. he got in a taxi once and the taxi driver tried to ask him where to go, but my grandpa was unable to tell him. he couldn't remember where he lived. while we were walking back my dad walked right past the front door and kept walking half a block. maybe he just wasn't paying attention, or what if he'll fall to the same fate? there is a typhoon in taiwan right now. my sister is also going back there soon.

i had in-n-out for lunch today. i can feel my arteries clogging up and the heart attack coming on. fab.

"you call that short?" oops.. sorry.

here's a somewhat happier post (but very non-original) post for y'all.. because i REALLY don't feel like working and this gives me something else to do besides pete's addicting games.

so here are some excerpts from my friend maurene's xanga that i really really enjoyed. maurene is really cool and super funny, smart, creative and a great writer. we bonded over our sound project where we spent many a late late night fidgeting with pro-tools, sneaking in food, getting dirty looks from the lady @ OVT and talking trash about everyone else in our class and how we were better than them.. hahahh. "beat this assholes." maurene is great.

"again: Olympics=<3
i was jumping up and down in my living room in this silent frenzy while watching the men's relay last night.

there is something that is just pure goodness about the summer olympics. the winter olympics are so lame compared to the hugeness and overall spectacularness of summer sports. it's like a "pretend' olympics compared to the shit that goes down in the summer.

chris and i actually talked for an hour last night about the olympics. the topic of discussion: is it horrible not to cheer for a US team?

NO! i am definitely not cheering on our basketball. but yeah my heart automatically goes to US for everything else. swimming? pshyeah...michael phelps hello! gymnastics? yeah those poor suburban girls whose lives are eating disorders and doing cartwheels all the livelong day, i want them to win also. chris was all cheering on australia during the relay which i do not approve of, but hey, he likes the "thorpedo" (which is the most embarrassing nickname ever). i have a soft spot for the chinese girls during gymnastics too, they are just so little. and i have to say i love the romanians, they're so damn good.

see? you can cheer on other countries and still the <3 the u.s.a. it's not fucking polarized, right chris? right?"

"san diego rules.

granted, i lived in la jolla for three out of the five years...but it ruled nonetheless. when i first moved down i couldn't understand the cleanliness. like, the sky is pure blue every single f-in day. it could be freezing, but it was freezing in a norman rockwell picturesque way. because you see, i am from this place called Los Angeles. and even on the most temperate day, the sky has a grayish pallor to it. and it is a damn dirty city when it wants to be. so imagine my surprise when i go to school in this beautiful, sprawled-out campus full of tan kids wearing flip-flops. ok, so those kids? i didn't really like them...but still i loved ucsd. the campus was the prettiest campus ever and i would be so damn grateful just to be walking around. most importantly i guess i loved the friends i made there. "

"anyways, it sums up alot of my feelings towards LA and my immense love/loathing for it. (p.s. you are only allowed to loathe LA if you were born and raised. shut up if you've lived there for a year and you complain about it--just move the fuck out. shut up if you've visited sunset 3 times in your life and think it's seedy. shut up if you're from the east coast and think it is attempting to compete with new york, puhleeze)."

i hope she doesn't mind, cuz she rocks.

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oh yea... so i burned like 70 of my anytime minutes on my cell on friday trying to do too many things and getting a ton of 30 second phone calls and other phone calls being 3 minutes and 2 seconds.. so i have like 15 minutes to last me the next 7 days (2 of which are weekends, which helps a little). i'm not really going to picking my phone up much before 8pm.. so that sucks. i'm a little worried about tomorrow when i'm going to try to meet up with people... ack.. i hope it's okay.. maybe i'll have to use the power of text messages tomorrow. blech.. i hate when i do this.

ooh..unless you are part of the "in network" then we can talk all live long day :P join in!

so i've been pretty pooped for awhile.. and today i shouldn't be. i've been falling asleep at work this week, and yesterday was the worst... so when i went home i took a "nap." my nap lasted from 6pm-ish (had to watch my tivo'ed olympics first :P) and ended at 7am this morning. crazy huh?! i woke up around 1am and 4am, but really had no difficulty going back to sleep. i just feel bad because i think my dad wanted to "hang out" or something. and although i'm home, me sleeping is just as bad as me going out.. who knows. i'm still a little tired.. but pretty rested up.

why am i so tired? because i spent forever last week doing stuff for my sister's wedding reception. it was way fun though. last week i was barely home though.. and the mess in my room grew and grew... it's pretty insane.. i really need to clean. who knows what's growing under all of my clothes.. ack! i cleaned it a little, but it just came back with a vengeance. monday i went to my sisters, tuesday i worked, wednesday was "sick" from work... went to help my sister buy flowers and spent a lot of time editing. yikes.. i think i stayed until 2 or 3 in the morning. thursday - work and that night my cousin (and her new baby!), aunt and grandma came in, so we all met at cheesecake factory in marina del rey for dinner. it was good times, although there was some arguing earlier in the night and i flung my passenger door open in anger and a passing car hit it. boo.. i don't know who's fault it was.. but our car is okay and it scraped and dented the side front part of the guy's rental car. hmm.. it was just a bad bad day.

friday i had an interview.. it was okay.. seemed really vague and it was a job i wasn't really interested in.. so who knows. it's an interesting story though because i have weird ties to the company, so i've been hearing things about how i don't necessarily want to be there anyways. afterwards i went to walmart in cerritos. i guess walmart is okay, not necessarily worth a drive out to cerritos just to go there. it was handy though and i picked up a lot of things i needed for the wedding :) i think they're building one around torrance somewhere.. and last time i went back to sd they built one right by my old apartment. so if it was there earlier.. i might have fallen in love with walmart like beth did.. but i'm still a target girl :P although those two stores are pretty different. ate lunch at home, went to my sister's after having lunch with my cousin, edited the wedding video and watched my sister and jeff-gu stress over the seating chart. nicole came over later - after enduring horrid traffic - and then we went to go buy some flowers and supplies and we came back and got to work. nicole is PRO. she whips up flowers so fast.. arranging, taping, de-leaving..

she's AWESOME. she made boutineres and the centerpiece for the sweetheart's table and made my sister's bouquet. amazing i tell you.. amazing! we took a break (which i was hoping to only be an hour.. but lasted two or three) and went to ryan's birthday celebration at the wood ranch bbq @ the grove.

it was pretty yummy (a little pricey) but good, and the company was great, and we even got to watch opening ceremonies there. yay! our waiter was really really funny -

ryan: is there a way i could get some of those onion strings on top of my steak?
waiter: if you had saved some you could have

afterwards me and nicole came back and i put her back to the slave labor :P she got done around 1am and went home and i stayed until like 6am and went home to nap. i was supposed to come back on saturday at like 9am, but didn't make it until 10:30am or so. drove up to my sisters, bought two cases of flowers from trader joe's and finished up editing the video. i made two versions of the second video because i didn't really like it much and wasn't sure which one was less sucky - and was kind of too tired to make something really spectacular (sorry joan).. so i let my sister decide and then tightened some other stuff. in the end we went with the "jessica simpson" version.. haha.. which was okay because i really like that song.. as did my sister.. and so does sakura. we were giggling that night when it came on and nicole goes "is this mandy moore?" in disgust. haha.. funny beacuse i almost put mandy moore in there too :P i called sakura to go pick up some stuff for me to save some time because i was already running really behind.. THANKS SAKURA and finally drove back home to pick up my stuff that i needed and drove back to LA with sakura, my cousins and to pick up beth for more of the slave labor.

we headed over to the skirball and unloaded the flowers, baskets, buckets, lanterns, candles and various other tools from the cars. started placing the centerpieces on the tables, cutting the flowers, hanging the poster pictures... it sounds so easy as i type it out, but there was a lot of work that goes into it. i think the hardest part was cutting and arranging the flowers... THANKS TO BETH AND SAKURA for doing it... you guys are the best too. and they did it so well and i knew i wouldn't have to worry about anything :) i just felt bad because i hadn't really helped them much.. so i hope they didn't mind. they did an awesome job... my sister thought it was going to look all ghetto compared to the taiwan wedding, but it was still really nice :) i finally went to go get ready in these rooms they have underneath the main area... the rooms were really nice too, couches, bathrooms, showers... i could have stayed there for awhile. haha. beth, nicole and sakura helped me do my hair too.. sorry i was so fussy. haha.. but in the end it was nice. and then they went to go decorate the cake too.. so pretty!!! sucks though that we missed out on cocktail and appetizers :( i hope everyone else enjoyed it though!

the bridal party took pictures and we all got introduced.. it was funny having the dj call out our names as we walked in.. i felt like i should wave or something... it was strange :P like a basketball game or something. then we started eating and sakura, nicole, beth and i snuck over to the photobooth because it was empty (cuz everyone was eating) and we took a bunch of pictures (round 1), they showed the first video - which everyone seemed to enjoy.. so i'm glad :) dinner was yummy, they showed the other video, which people clapped again for. i thought it seemed a little short.. but i wasn't really sure what else i could put in without making certain parts too long or too boring, but my sister thought it was good, so that's what matters right?

we had yummy dessert :), got our obligated drink from the open bar and then went on to dance and have rounds 2 and 3 and the photo booth :) until it broke :( sadness... i swear it wasn't us :P we cleaned up and afterwards i went to denny's with the girls. we wanted to hang out - but once we got there i think we all realized we weren't that hungry and were really tired. hahaha, but it was still fun :) thanks girls.. i'm SO happy that you came and i had a REALLY good time because of you. it wasn't just me and my relatives and my sister's friends. and THANKS so much for all your help... you girls are the greatest!! :)

sunday morning i woke up early (despite my work being pushed back) to have breakfast with relatives, then work all afternoon, and then i came back and had dinner with my relatives again at this japanese restaurant in rolling hills called "iccho." it's pretty good.. check it out :) here's a random picture from work that i thought was cute:

monday i took my cousin to a dodgers game because he really likes baseball and i'm lucky that i have friends who also like baseball - or will just come to hang out :) sampled some of the food in the park, found out where the good hot dogs are (too late though :P) and ran around the park a little bit. me and sakura didn't get to go shopping, but she already got me a penny last time she went, so i was okay with that. i wasn't okay with the dodgers losing (boo) but what can i do. i think my cousin had a good time, so that's good. i hope it made up for the whole month he sat at home bored during the daytime. i got out of the parking lot pretty fast (5 minutes) and i got home just as beth was leaving the park.. haha.. mad skillz.

tuesday i worked and wednesday i slept. tonight i have work and friday is jason mraz... hell yes. pretty eventful huh? i think me and nicole are also going to hit up california adventures before they close "who wants to be a millionaire" sad huh? :( i'm definitely going to miss it, they needed to shows after 5pm. but yea.. disneyland and then mraz in SD. i'm SO excited.. it'll be mraz, bushwalla, and tristan ... almost like old times - but no philly :( but it's going to be GOOD. i may have an extra ticket.. anyone want to make the drive down with me? you won't regret it.

so i'm super bummed out right now... i just called to follow up with this nissan job that i applied for. but they said that they're only doing internal recruiting for this position. i was really excited about this job.. and i thought "hey.. i'm internal.. i come and work here everyday" but yet i'm not. so the fact that i have a nissan email address i'm on their intranet - and can see all the postings does me no good. boo. i know that i shouldn't get my hopes up, and i don't really, but it still sucks to never be good enough :(

i have an interview tomorrow but i am screwed because i can't find the paper that i wrote all the information on. SUCKS. i have been home probably like 5 hours this week (aside from sleeping) because i've been editing my sister's videos. not that i regret that.. but it just makes things more complicated when i'm trying to find my shit.

so it was a pretty good weekend.. although i did too much stuff. which is always nice, but it makes the weekend go by so much faster! so i need to just never do anything, and i'll feel like my weekends are sooo long. but probably still never long enough. it was exciting and fun though... here we go.

friday started out a normal day.. lagging at work, being excited it was friday. i was entertaining ideas of going down to san diego (SORRY philly that i didn't make it down) :( it was a little too much of a trip for that weekend. i was talking to my aim@work buddy linh and she was telling me how she was going to this club V20 in long beach, and how it was a promo for this movie called "LADJ the Movie"

This was funny to me because a few weeks i had read about this somewhere and told nicole i wanted to go because i thought that's where they were going to screen this movie starring and created by thomas ian nicholas (of american pie and rookie of the year fame) and his brother tim scarne. we nixed the idea because it was trance and house and we weren't really into that. but lucky for me linh is. :) and because she just wanted to be on the guest list, but got entered into this contest and because the 5 people before her didn't answer their cells she won! whoo hoo... pretty sweet huh? so she won this zvue - mp3, video and photo player thing - which was neat.. i played with it a little, and then a limo ride for her and 5 of her friends to a private screening of the movie and then back to the club for a fun night of partaying.

the club, the dancers, the bathroom, the lights

so it sounds really posh, and it was exciting.. but we got to the club and waited for everything and everyone to get ready. finally we got into the limo - which was stocked with drinks. whoo hoo! that was the first time i'd ever been in a limo. it was nice, still pretty hard to make drink in the moving car.. i thought i'd be smoother.. haha. but i discovered that adding lime to vodka and coke makes it way tasty. it's like candy! :P anyhow.. we drove literally down the street, it was cute, tim scarne (who wrote the movie) came out with a video camera trying to capture our "entrance" but he came late so we piled back into the limo, drove out of the drop off area, then back again and made another entrance. yay for staged entrances.. hahah. we went up to the room where they had the screen and projector set up and yet more drinks. hahah.. the lushes in us were happy. either i didn't eat enough dinner or i hadn't drinken in a long time, but halfway through the second drink i was getting pretty toasty... lucky for me i was just sitting and watching the movie. the movie was pretty good, fun, lots of subtle jokes that i liked a lot. linh liked it a lot for the "talent" in it - cameos from big time dj's - but that was all lost on me. sorry.. :P it was a little cheesy.. but i like cheese.. so i dunno.. it was enjoyable, and really funny at certain parts, but not something that i immediately liked. but i can't write worth a damn, so props to anyone who can. but i did like it, i just think it could be better.. yah know? but i was really excited to see it, that's one of the main reasons i went. so, after the movie we rushed back to V20 because tim was spinning so we felt all special with our fluorescent wristbands and "sexy" wrist stamps. heck yea.

us in the limo, linh's "pocket", linh is the new "LADJ the movie" girl, me and linh

the club is nice and pretty. there was a LONG line for people to get into the hiphop room... and it didn't seem to be moving. but the music outside was good so it's chill. i had another drink and then a shot and i was pretty done for the night. it's not the most i've ever drank, but that's definitely the drunkest i've ever been :P i usually am pretty conscious and remember everything... but...umm.. friday.. there were parts were i was like "whoa.. how did that happen" nothing more than G rated mind you.. like i was waiting in the bathroom for linh.. and i sat down on this chair and waited. and at some point i was like "damn she's taking a long time" so i yelled around the bathroom for her and she wasn't there... so i went outside and there she was asking me "where the hell were you?" haha.. uhh.. i must have looked pretty dumb in the bathroom.. i wonder how long i just sat there. and then another time i was taking pictures of dj tim on stage and after i was done i walked back to the "vip area" :P and he was standing there already. i was like "whoa.. i was just taking pictures of you, and you were on stage.. how did you beat me back here?" he just laughed.. that was probably like 20 minutes before that.. hahah.. wow.. i bet i looked dumb. sorry.

me and tim scarne and me and thomas ian nicholas, creators, writer and director and stars of LADJ the Movie they're awesome!!

anyhow.. the rest of the night was fun.. just dancing, talking, drinking, chillaxing :) at some point the LADJ stickers were passed out.. and tagged on people. linh got many a sticker on her bootay and when the guys put it on i remember her "he fucking touched my ass man!!" hahaha. and btw.. linh is a party animal. she is skinny as hell but drinks a whooole lot. she's all like "you need to party with us!" but now i'm scared. hahaha scared that i am too lame for her :P anyhow.. it was cool to hang out, to have a good time, and to be a "vip". :P i think it's a really good way to promote the movie, sure maybe people are just coming for the party, but hopefully they take home something about the movie as well. afterwards we drove home safe and sound.. and i went to bed. in the morning i felt a little queasy.. but i went back to sleep and it was gone when i woke up again. thank goodness.. i hate that feeling.

saturday i went with benji and my cousin shopping at the gap for friends and family. benji, who is color blind, tried to argue with me some about how some of the colors of the shirt were the "same".. but in the end he learned to trust me, and my friends at the gap (aka the girl who works there that he thought was cute). it was time consuming, but fun.. it's like playing with dolls again. hahah. that night beth and i were supposed to go over to benji's to eat dinner that he was cooking... i think we ended up cooking most of it. hahah. so much for that.. but it's cool.. i just took over because i was starving. or else i would have just been happy waiting watching big brother 5 and armageddon :) afterwards we drove out to burbank for his hockey team's broomball fundraiser. let me tell you, they know how to do fundraising, because they charged $20/person. and sure i griped and complained - but i still paid it. they only had like 15 people show and still made $100. hah.. dang it. oh well. the sucky part was that is less people you have more ice to cover... which isn't bad except when you're running at high speed and then eat it. yea, that was me. i had a breakaway so i started running, oops, when i tried to slow down my feet weren't having any of that and kept going so i flew up in the air, landed on my back, hit my elbows and my head whipped back and hit the ice. OUCH. i had that ringing sensation in my head for a little bit, but then i went back to playing. memories of lssp and the waffles flashed through my head. haha.. my elbows are sore and bruised and i have a big bump on my head, plus my neck is really stiff and sore, but i don't think i have a concussion, so that's good. afterwards we went to the kettle to eat... drunk people watching is pretty fun :)

sunday i worked and then went out to dinner at black angus for my cousin's 21st birthday.. yay! although since you can drink in taiwan when you are 18, 21 to him wasn't a big deal. we had the coupons for 2 filet mignon dinners for $35... but good lord is that a lot of food!! i gave more than half of my food to my dad and i still had to be rolled out of there. i seriously couldn't even sit up by the end of the meal. ugh.

monday i had lunch with linh and had CARNE ASADA FRIES... yum!! i was really excited to find a place around here that had them.. and they're not as good as Roberto's.. but pretty decent. so yay for that. afterwork i went up to my sister's to edit a video for the wedding and got to see her new house/condo. it's so nice!! hardwood floors, a laundry room, giant jacuzzi tubs and awesome walk in closets. loves it... i want to house sit for her. hhaha. i spent all night editing, and i was productive, so that's good. i felt kind of bad because i had dragged my cousin with me, so he just read magazines and watched dvd's... which is basically what he does at our house.. so i guess it's not too bad. i did more than i had planned which is good in the grand scheme of things, but sucky for that night because i stayed until 3:30am! yikes. i still made it to work today too.. sakura was proud of me.. hehe. good stuff. i had lunch with her today @ busy bee in pedro. the BEST sandwich place ever. YUM. tonight was work, novice playoffs and a pickup junior kings game. it's so weird how good those kids are.. haha.. it was almost like real life mighty ducks! (the movie) but seriously, it's insane how into sports some kids and parents are... not insane actually.. but kind of cool. i always wanted to be "really into something" and my parents weren't really the supportive type, unless it was being really into cleaning the house. my mom actually grounded me and my sister from going to the library because we would stay up too late reading. sorry.. my bad :P it's nice to have parents that totally support what you want to do. but everyone does have their own ways of doing things.

anyhow.. my sister's wedding reception is this weekend!! yay. but it's still busy. everything is still kind of last minute.. still have to finish one video, and then start and finish the other one, figure out flowers & centerpieces, seating arrangements, decorations and who knows what else. but it's fun!! i live for this kind of stuff!! i applied to a few places for jobs, quite a few actually... no phone calls yet :( that's depressing.

i just drank some old milk.. i hope i'm alright :P i have a pretty strong stomach .. i should be okay.. but here's this for you enjoyment anyways...

TooMuchPete: Was it chunky?
jeanyah: mm.. no
jeanyah: but it was low fat.. so i couldn't really tell
TooMuchPete: ?
jeanyah: low fat milk is pretty thick
jeanyah: it could have had mini chunks :P
TooMuchPete: Low-fat milk is thick?
jeanyah: compared to non-fat milk
jeanyah: yea
TooMuchPete: *sigh*
TooMuchPete: Silly hippy chick.
TooMuchPete: "Low fat" milk is not THICK.
TooMuchPete: It's thicker than WATER
TooMuchPete: But shit... damn near everything is.
jeanyah: blame my parents
jeanyah: well.. my dad
TooMuchPete: There are no "mini chunks"
jeanyah: like.. drinking low fat milk is like eating ice cream to me
jeanyah: it's so creamy
jeanyah: it's like a treat!
TooMuchPete: Try whole milk.
jeanyah: oh man
jeanyah: i might choke
jeanyah: do people actually drink that?
jeanyah: i thought it was just used for baking
TooMuchPete: Ok, I'm going to bed now. By the time I wake up in the morning, how about you just make sure that you've introduced yourself to the rest of the world outside of your little SoCal bubble, mmkay? :-)

oops sorry... that's the first time i've been called a hippy though. :P

have a great day!!

i need to win the lotto or hit it big or something....

jeanyah: 27 minutes
xlinhie55x: mines is only 25 mins
xlinhie55x: :-P
jeanyah: maybe if i finish i can leave early ;P
xlinhie55x: haha
xlinhie55x: 14 more minutes
jeanyah: yup yup
jeanyah: 7 more mintueeeeesssssssssssss
xlinhie55x: m4 more mins and 38 sec
jeanyah: hahah
xlinhie55x: go home!
xlinhie55x signed off at 4:58:58 PM.

*she left before 5pm!! :P

Vizilla: AUGH! SO BORED AT WORK!
jeanyah: i know
jeanyah: only 10 more minutes!!!
Vizilla: :-(
Vizilla: eh, more like forty for me

sorry friend.

i've got a case of the mondays :P

my parents always complain that i go to sleep late and i'm not getting enough rest and that i'm ruining my health..

but really.. too much sleep is WORSE for you. i was pretty pooped yesterday... so i went to bed at 11:30. today.. my alaram went off and i heard it, but didn't wake up, although i felt okay... but my bed was just that much better. so 6:45am, 7am, 7:25sm, 7:30am... my alarms keep going off, and snooze buttons kept getting hit. finally i wake up at 8am.. yup.. ooops.. i'm supposed to be at work. i go to work, and now i am TIRED. i'm falling asleep, and i'm typing with my eyes closed. i got 8.5 hours of sleep!! like's like 4 hours more than i've been getting lately, but i am butt tired. what is wrong!!

i think it's time to go take a nap in my car :P

this week is inevitably so much longer than last week because lastweek i took three days off to go on a guided tour bus trip with my out of town relatives. it was pretty fun except for the annoying last and her loud shrill voice gabbering as i was trying to sleep, the awful karaoke on the bus as i'm trying to sleep with the speaker blasting next to my head, the time constraints and the waking up real early. but that's expected when you travel with lots of people and you have no control. it was nice not have to deal with parking or driving or paying for a lot of stuff. so there are always goods and bads.. but it was fun, i got sakura (and myself of course) lots of pennies :) we went to hearst castle, yosemite, san francisco, chinatown and lots of BFE places in between for rest stops. friday night we spent in fresno and i freaking left my cell phone at home.. which wouldn't be too bad except when i came back and chatted with petey i found out he lived 15 minutes from where i was staying. i could have saw his house and pet goats! :P sucks. i bought a $5 phone card too, but it was GHETTO and i tried for 2 hours and couldn't get through. SUCKS. i also hung out with my cousins, one of them who is bratty and hates me. my uncle says he hates everyone so not to take it personally.. but he is a brat :P after awhile it was fun just doing stuff to annoy him. hahah.. like smiling. :P

anyhoo.. i'm too lazy right to do a detailed blow by blow.. but here are some neato pictures. i just figured out (a year later) that i can take use this cool function to match up pictures and stitch them together to make cool panoramic pictures. it's awesome.

tunnel view


yosemite falls



fisherman's wharf


golden gate bridge


the view from lombard street

"You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending"