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"

how i feel right now...

http://www.despair.com/indem.html

so i've been working on this since last friday (or a few weeks actually), and just now my lazy ass finally got it done. i think it's because i'm putting off laundry and cleaning my closet. but okay.. enough babbling, shut up and post.

i never did a whole review thing on my taiwan trip, i guess i forgot because i had all those mini posts while i was there. i took like 600 or so pictures, but they're hidden, so if you want to see them - let me know. and if i like you, then maybe you'll get to see them :P hah. jk i just put a password on it so that freaky people wouldn't see it - my sister's idea. but it's chill.. here are a few - hope it's okay.

my cousins, my grandma toasting to my sister & the "kids" table, all of my grandma's kids - minus 2 cousins :(

this was from our "family dinner" at the howard plaza hotel. my grandma was so happy that so many kids could be back.. there was a lot of "family dinners." but it was a good time, and lots of food, of course. my dad and i were walking because he said it was a few blocks. after walking for 15 minutes he decided it was too far and we hailed a taxi and rode in it for like 20 more minutes (with traffic). my dad has no sense of "blockage."

my cousin and aunt, the centerpieces at the engagement, the happy couple :)

so yea.. there was an engagement ceremony two days before the wedding. that comes from the more traditional style. the bride is introduced to the groom's family, and it's a ceremony for the bride's family, for when like in olden days the bride's family couldn't attend the wedding. they exchange rings here and i think there's present giving and all that. it was nice. the ceremony, and then lunch.

wedding pictures!! gettin ready, the bridal party, our family (both sides), the hotel where the wedding was at, the room setup for the wedding, yummy wedding dessert!

it was way fun and way pretty. wedding day was an all day event - in the morning the groom & groomsmen came over to "our house" (which was a hotel because we don't have a house there - at least not large enough to fit all those people!) and the bridesmaids made them "play games" to see the bride, and then we did a thing with my parents (and my mom was kind of bawling.. ack.. made everyone else cry!) and then we all went over to jeff's house to do the same, taking lots of pictures all along the way. crazyness there was paparazzi all over the place, as my sister exited the hotel to get in the car.. it was like when you see those shows and the people are leaving the club and people stick cameras in your face to get you. it was wild. we got to rest in between while my sister had to go do some other junk. plus she couldn't take off her wedding dress all day because she was only allowed to wear it once, so it was bad luck to take it off because that's considered wearing it twice (when she puts it back on). crazy. the hotel was way nice.. but my sister didn't get the presidential suite because they had to give it to gray davis. hah. and the wedding room was BEAUTIFUL. i seriously started hyperventilating right before we were supposed to walk in because i hadn't seen the whole room set up and it looked so drastically different from rehearsal. it seemed so big and huge and i had to kneel and catch my breath real quick, my heart was beating so fast. and it caused my sister to cry too.. aww..

SIGHTSEEING!!

taiwan flag in the pretty blue sky, the pretty pretty ceiling of taipei city hall, taipei 101 - the newest tallest bldg in taipei. it's not completely done yet, but there is 4 levels of shopping! yay!, night club and office buildings. soon there will be a observatory deck where you can go to the top.. that'll be awesome. i went to the toy store and saw harry potter stuff.. it was wicked... i should have bought that giant lego harry. beth would be so jealous. haha. me among the giant chess pieces on the street outside taipei 101 (just like harry potter!), after the wedding everyone got to go play- eating shaved ice at shi-lin night market, riding the mass rapid transit (subway), me and olivia at shilin, yuen-ling street market - purses galore!! :)

yay for sightseeing, glad i got most of it in before the typhoon hit. the amount of time i was there was a good time.. enough for business and pleasure :) i think if i had more time i wouldn't have been able to come home because my luggages would be too overstuffed :P but i think by that time i was ready to come home, getting out of the weather, plus it's hard to be somewhere for a long time and be so helpless. but it was way fun, no doubt.

my taiwan trip would not be complete without some cloudy pictures :) - the sky after the storm.. so pretty. the view from the plane, somewhere over the pacific.

okay.. some fun pictures from back in lovely california :)

gary hall jr. and his dad after he won the 50 free oly trial :) didn't want to pay for the picture.. ghetto.... :P






fun birthday pictures!! pre-birthday celebrations for beth @ disneyland - yay!, sakura's dancing, fireworks :) and the castle (teeny tiny blue thing :P), beth looking cute, my dessert at the dinner place for beth's bday, karaoke @ 501, me and nicole.

for beth's bday nicole, sakura and i took her to disneyland and got her a pass.. fun for a whole year!! whoo hoo. the next day we all met up in torrance at a korean bbq place for yummerific food and dessert and then karaoke-ing at 501. afterwards we drove down to hermosa for an hour or so of last minute celebrating, drinking, dancing, getting kissed on cheeks by boys (that was just beth). :) highlights include tons of fun @ disneyland of course, they brought back the mark twain for the end of fantasmic!, beth (former disneyland hater):"how can anyone hate disneyland?!", sakura eating all the m&m's off the cookie cake, cooking our own food and desserts, me sucking at karaoke, nicole and beth drinking 40's in my car, beth flashing everyone on the pier, and... other stuff i can't remember. i'm tired.. and this blog was entirely way too long and overdue. sorry.. i suck.

i'll update the last few days.. before i have to play catch up again. blech. this week was just a lot of work. nissan, gap, hockey.. blah blah blah. my uncle (mom's brother) and his family came in this week, and a family friend (new aunt) and her new hubby came as well. our house is packed with people - sleepin on the floor, on the couch.. but it's fun. more exciting, there's stuff to do. but then i feel bad when i have to go do other stuff.. boo. oh well. i might go on a trip with them next week to norcal.. if i can get off work. that could be fun. i hope :P friday i did some editing for a video to show at joan's wedding, and then went to go meet nicole at disneyland for some bonding and piano man watching. it was fun even though i was only at disneyland for like 1 hour.. haha that's what annual passes are for! afterwards we went to denny's and i got my "princess" meal complete with pink ranch sauce and "a cinderella story" poster. yay.. chad michael murray, i love you :P saturday was more editing, family lunch, working at the gap and then sakura came over that night so i could do her calendar and we watched "confessions of a teenage drama queen." it was pretty bad.. there were some okay parts, but it wasn't that great. and now that i think of it, it's almost just like mean girls, but suckier. girl comes to new city/school, wants to be cool, clashes with the popular pretty girl, befriends the outcast, and in the end overcomes. blahbity blah blah. there i just saved you the rental price. today i worked at 5am (ack!) and the gap doing women's new flow. the hours are sucky, but it's okay.. i like being there when the stores not open and rebuilding walls, putting out new merchandise, dressing mannequins, creating displays :) i'm such a dork. i did women's section one.. go ooh and ahh :) then i went to hockey - work work work.. my aunt and uncle think i'm "hard worker" little do they know is that i work so many jobs to make up for my lameness and un-hard-workingness. :P but today was fun, someone that i thought didn't really like me was nicer to me today, there weren't too many fight, the little kids are cute like always. came home, fell asleep but got back in time to go back to hockey, but to watch some friends play tonight. it was a good time, except they lost (to the first place team) :( in sudden death overtime nonetheless, but they were up in the beginning so that sucks. it was also a scrappy game, and some off calls, so that sucks too. i hate sudden death, it's like everything else is washed before that point and it's so gut wrenching! but i guess i should be glad i wasn't bored :P

okay.. i'm done.. i should go clean my room. or do laundry.. i've been meaning to do it forever.. like a week or two. i semi-cleaned/organized my room, but of course messed it all up again. i have very little floor space to begin with, and now it's just non-existant. i should take a picture and show you all just what a slobby-bobby i am. hahahh.. maybe...

ps.. i'm watching my video of jason mraz @ hotel cafe from way long ago.. it's SOO good :) such good times, such nostalgia, intimate settings, $5 fee, really really good shows and love always. *sigh* plus the part where annie comes up for the say anything game is priceless. loves it.

pps. my sister is a dork
*while watching news of lance armstrong's "tour de force"
joan: do you think he's really good or do you think people just let him win because they feel sorry for him?
jean: huh?... i think he's really that good. *pause* why would people feel sorry for him?
joan: because he had to overcome cancer.

hahahhahah. say what?

so i was working on a blog with pictures and lots of good stuff, but it takes awhile, because i'm slow.. but here's to three people who aren't :)

nicole, manny and pete are doing the blog-a-thon today!! yup.. 24 hours of straight blogging.. they're troopers. but it's all for a good cause, the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

good times.

so i think everyone should do a few things..
1)visit my weblog brings all the boys to the yard :) great name huh?
2)visit all of their sites too - there's some good stuff on there
3)visit the blog-a-thon site and sponsor them!! (register, then click on sponsor a blog, then find their blog - under pete holiday's name, and give money. help the kids)
4)continue to read for 24 hours

yay!!

sexy 

okay.. so this post is a TOTAL act of desperation.  but does anyone want to buy my tickets to opening night of the FINA men's water polo tourney.  it will be really good water polo - the top 6 men's teams in the world!  in a newly constructed above ground pool in long beach (where the swimming olympic trials were held).. it's pretty neat.  me and keri can't go tonight and i don't want to waste these tickets ...  website
 
boys- good action sports!
girls- hot half nakey men
 
buy them.. comment if you want them.  please comment. :P
 
ps. if you care, (i'm sure you don't), gary hall jr. not only made it to the olympics for the 50 free but beat jon lezak.  nice.  can't wait for the replay broadcast on NBC, july 18, 10am (pst) :)

happy birthday beth!!

wow.. so many july birthdays. i gotta get to bed.. but we just came back from disneyland to celebrate beth turning 24! :) the celebration of her actual birthday was in the parking structure... exciting huh? :) we have made beth "join the cult" as "non-believers" are saying... but really.. disneyland is awesome. love it.

more blogging and pictures later

9 minutes of work left.. and then i get to go home! yay! i am DEAD tired.. but i can't take a nap because if i do then it'll pro-long the jet laggyness. yea.. wasn't i supposed to be over that already? umm.. i thought so.. but i went to bed at 6am this morning. i feel like crying :P yea.. i need to stop taking mid-afternoon naps. but the sucky part is that i have hockey tonight.. so i have to work until like 12:30am. so i feel like i should take a nap. i'll probably just get like a grande from starbucks or something. ack. going to bed as soon as i get home tonight.. i swear!

but it's funny because as i look down the row of computers i see 3 guys playing games and one guy shopping online. and you all thought that it was just me that didn't do any work :P

tv was fun yesterday.. although it was a little sad because the girl that i "sequestered" for who wants to marry my dad got booted last night :( left at the church steps in a wedding dress. how sad huh? it was so dumb too because the dad feigned dissapointment in his interview saying that he had chemistry with her from day one, when the week before he told his daughters that he didn't feel it with her. what a dork.

but i was excited about for love or money because rachel won. yay! i liked her.. i don't know why. i didn't really even watch the first part of this season until the last episode, and i wanted the other girl to win. but that other girl andrea was a snotty nosed brat. she was so smug and smarmy.. blech. so i'm glad it ended how i wanted it to. haha

last night i was really frustrated with a lot of things, which probably added to my staying up-ness.. but i guess they're a little bit better now. spent a lot of time doing some job stuff.. hopefully it will pay off. but i need to not get my hopes up, because it just usually always ends in dissapointment :( i know that it's not just going to come immediately to me, and i have to work hard to get what i want.. and also when the time/situation is right.. it'll happen. i just have to believe.. right? patience is virtue? or some other crap like that.

this week looks exciting though - hopefully i'm not too cranky for it. work tonight, wedding reception tasting tomorrow, disneyland thursday, beth's birthday friday (yay!) and then world water polo tourney this weekend. yay!! :) hopefully my mom doesn't get too mad about me going out too much (yea.. shut up.. i know how old i am) - i'll have to squeeze it cleaning my room in there somewhere :P

on a sad note.. gary hall jr didn't qualify for the 100 free :( he got beat out by eight one hundreths of a second. ugh. he's gonna swim in the relay, but it's not the same you know? it's the 50 free finals tonight.. i'm not going. i'm gonna be "responsible" and go to work :P also i don't know if i could handle the dissapointment if he doesn't make it again.. although it's not gonna happen right? :P he's going to make it.. he will. plus tickets are probably either sold out or $75 (yikes!) i hope he wins though :) and beats that punk ass jason lezak. haha :P i was seriously so sad on sunday when i watched it.. you would think i knew him or something. no.. i'm just retarded. :P

happy birthday to my daddy! :)

yay... good times. today is get over jet lag day. not just for me, but for my sister.. except, she's pretty conked out.. but she hadn't slept for 36 hours. so she's taking a "nap". we have to go to dinner for my dad's birthday though.. hopefully she doesn't sleep through that. hahaha.. one time when i was in new york and i was SUPER jet lagged i slept through a family dinner. there's tons of pictures of everyone, but you can only see the top of my head slunken down in the chair :P

anyways.. i gotta come back later and apply to these two jobs. one i'm kind of iffy about, and the other.. is good. i dunno.. for some reason i get all scared when it comes to the idea of a "real job" somehow having my variety in my 3 fake jobs pleases me. i don't know why.. maybe because i'm crazy? :P but anyways.. i go back to the temp chain gang on monday. they called me on friday to make sure i was coming... they must really miss me. haha.. right. and today i went to the "find your perfect fit" gap meeting and then scorekept for youth hockey. i love little kids playing hockey.. they're the cutest. my favorite so far is this kid named quintin with "quinny" on his jersey. i'm gonna name my kids so they have cute nicknames. hahah. i'm stupid.

anyways.. yesterday was family time.. my sister came back, so we picked her up.. oohed and aahed over pictures and her wedding dvd. which had the funniest soundtrack ever. it was so hilarious. and then we had vegtarian food and fried zucchini and carne asada burritos for dinner. yum! :) not quite as good as el cotixan's.. but it'll do for now. i suppose. i did get to play poker online pete and manny.. it was good times :) too bad i can't play that good in real life. :)

men's 50 free olympic trial prelims are tonight in long beach. gary hall jr. is swimming. love him... i wish i could be there - and he's swimming tuesday.. but i have freaking work. maybe i can ditch it.. hehehe. ack. long beach!! so close! yet so far away. okay.. enough of the stupid cliches.

okee dokes.. off to dinner now.. i hope it's not more vegetarian food. blech.

meat is good.

and just when i thought i was going to get over my jet lag.

yahoo poker and baking cookies are the devil tonight :P

ack.

oh.. and while i'm here. happy birthday jimmy. :)

msn celebrity gossip is just too fun to read.

i especially like the last lines of the the britney article and the mary kate and ashley olsen articles. ahahha..

such a good laugh to start.. err.. continue the day.

i'm such a theif.. i'm stealing yet another thing off another blog. whatever.. jk. anyways.. nicole found her illustrious 4th of july drawing from our memorable holiday at our last ICON in indianapolis. it was a drawing of the "awesome" firework display at the minor league baseball game cki provided us with. yay for guys pushing lit up boats with shooting fireballs across the field. those were good times. see i tell you - nicole is good at re-enactments of all sorts. hahah

nicole rocks.

god i have jet lag so bad... i need to stop doing this. maybe i should just stay up all day today and then go to sleep at like 8pm. maybe that will set me straight. because i always stay up late and try to wake up early.. but you know that never happens... today i woke up at noon.. a pretty decent time.. then went back to sleep because i was so tired and slept until like 5pm. rad.

i did a little bit of resume and cover letter drafting today. my printer sucks butt though.. i gotta get back to work and to that laser printer.. haha. i also need to get back to going to the gym.. i'll get really good at going for like a few days in a row (probably like three.. hah) and then stop for a month. that sounds like a good way to spend $25 a month eh?

i have dinner @ red robin with benji and beth. it was a good time.. i like hanging out.. just feeling free :) although the conversation was sometimes a bit sketchy (haha) it was loads of fun. thanks friends! also thanks to nicole because i still have your dresses and wore one tonight and felt very pretty :) i think i'm going to hold it hostage forever. :P

stole this from philly. haven't done a survey thingy in awhile... i must be bored :P

Last Alcoholic Drink: some flaming thing in taiwan.. a shot of lemonade icee with fire! ooh!!

Last Good Cry: at my sister's engagement - watching my mom cry :P not necessarily a lot of crying, but it was a good reason to cry :P

Last Movie Seen in Theatres: the notebook

Last Book Read: harry potter and the prizoner of azkaban

Last Beverage Drank: milk

Last Food Consumed: cheesecake and chocolate cake from the night market in taiwan!

Last Phone Call: my mom, trying to find out where she was

Last TV Show Watched: friends

Last Shoes Worn: my black reefs. love them.

Last CD Played: maroon 5 - acoustic 1.22.03 ep

Last Item Bought: dinner @ chili's

Last Annoyance: not being able to find my nintendo. argh!

Last Disappointment: not going to san diego :(

Last Thing Written: hockey scoresheets and my timecard

Last Key Used: house key

Last Word Spoken: "Are you sure?"

Last Ice Cream Eaten: ice cream at the sun yat-sen memorial in taiwan - big tom's. with sherry, olivia and chinson :)

Last Time Resentful: seeing my uber messy room.

Last Time Amused: nicole's re-enactments on ryan's balcony.

ack.. it's 4:32am. i moved my computer into my room so i will be on the internet all live long day... and night :P. so add my jet lag, plus the internet in my room, plus my tivo and tv watching.. bad bad news. oh well :P (for now).

just because i don't have to go to work just yet. i'm supposed to be driving to san diego tomorrow to take my mom to go do errands and visit her friends. you know what that means... california burritos and carne asada fries here i come! yumm... i drool just thinking about them :P

tonight i did work a little bit @ the hockey rink tonight. i kind of messed up.. my first night working in like a month or so and i didn't review the rule books. oops. plus.. lots of hectic fighting, penalties, injuries and stupid people trying to pretend to be other people.. aiya. oh well.. it all got handled :P

i am in tv bliss. big brother is back with season 5!! yay. yea.. it's hokey with all their "project DNA" crap and retardedness.. but i still love it. hahah. i always laugh at how stupid the people are.. and i'm always like "ew.. i could do so much better than that!" but really i'd probably be the first one voted off. (well hopefully not the first.. but whatever). i also watched the amazing race for the first time. i always heard it was good, but never watched it. i thought it was a cable show or something.. wasn't eli swanson on the first season or something? i bet that was hott. but it's good too.. and i sit there and think the same thing.. "oh i could do that! i know how to get to lax! i can drive aggressively on the freeways! i know spanish!" haha..except for that whole carrying 55lbs of beef slab. i'll have to find some strong guy. haha. and work out a whole lot before that too. :P but i'm glad that people who you wouldn't think would make it did.. nicole is rooting for the soccer moms. i like them.. i also like the military dad and his daughter. i'm torn about alison and donny. i HATED her on big brother.. but i dunno.. she's entertaining at the least. hahah.

OH! i've also been watching who wants to marry my dad 2. haah.. i never watched the first one.. was it always so much like meet my folks? but i'm especially invested in it because i worked as a "sequesterer" for a weekend and hosted one of the girls.. nicole. so i hoped she'd win!! except the dad said he had no chemistry with her at all.. how sad. i wonder why... and i wonder why the girls didn't boot her off. weird. maybe there's still a hope! i kind of think it's suzanne.. but it's too obvious! they wouldn't be so obvious would they?

oh reality tv is the devil. :P

so a belated happy 4th of july to everyone! yay! or as nicole would say "happy birthday america!" haha. i went to my parents' friend's bbq for a bit and then to beth & ryan's bbq @ ryan and jason's apartment. it was good times. a LOT of food, driving around getting lost trying to find culver city hs (nicole told us to go right although the directions clearly said left!), some good times laughing on the balcony with nicole, lighting sparklers with kim, nicole and beth (i was a sparkler virgin! not anymore!) and many games of bubble bobble... that game is intense! and playing super mario brothers 3. thanks to ryan i think i'm going to hook up my old japanese nintendo and play my heart out. :)

i also have been sleeping A LOT. it's really bad.. it's never taken me this long to get over jet lag because i've usually been more disciplined about it.. but now my bed time is usually around 5 or 6am.. (one morning it was 11am!!) and i'll sleep until anywhere from 3pm-6pm in the afternoon. ack.. i need to get over this jet lag quick! good thing i have a week :)

my jet lag does benefit me in the fact that i can do stuff at night without getting too sleepy.. haha.. stayed late @ ryan's last night, saw the notebook with sakura on saturday night. it was pretty good, sakura cried a lot.. haha. it was definitely cute.. aww.. i want a noah!! :P

i might head to san diego tomorrow because i'm playing chaffeur to my mom who wants to deliver these engagement cakes to her friends. yea.. when you daughter gets married in taiwan - you send cake to your friends. awesome :P but it's pretty and they're in gold boxes.. it's neat. my sister is the talk of the town, my mom tells all her friends, beth told all her friends.. haha. i brought the newspaper and magazine my sister was in and all the girls freaked out about it, while all the boys looked around at each other. and then looked at the prostitute on the cover of the chinese magazine. hahah.

today i went and returned stuff that i bought in preparation for my sister's wedding. i felt kind of bad returning hundreds of dollars of stuff to nordstrom's, but i just had decision anxiety when i was buying stuff, and really didn't wear any of it.. so hmm.. what to do. also, when i went to taiwan i took one 8.5 shoe and one 9 shoe (oc accident of course).. and wore them (for my sister's wedding.. i had no choice!) so i returned the 8.5 because the front part just KILLS my feet. they didn't look at the box.. so i felt kind of bad.. but what could i do?! but sakura was right, they do take anything back. haha.

anyhoo.. i'm probably off to go search for my nintendo. i might play some other games.. bubble bobble isn't really fun with only one player.. who wants to come over and play?! :)

i'm back... :)

safe and sound, survived the typhoon, the turbulence and the plane flight. i don't think jet lag will be too awful (i hope) although it does feel too early to be 2am. i took 620 pictures (well.. the ones i didn't delete) and it's gonna take me 1.5 hours to upload them all :P but they're cool!

i have a week to play because i told my work that i wouldn't be back until next week. i'm such a slacker. but i'm supposed to use this week to start REALLY looking for a job. i have no more excuses. my mom kept trying to convince to me stay in taiwan and teach english. haha.. i told her i'd look for a job, and if i don't have one by octoboer (when it starts to cool off in taiwan) i'd maybe think about it. well i told her i'd go.. but i'll think about it :P

mm.. pretty tired.. should sleep so the jet lag doesn't hit me too hard. pictures to come soon :)

i saw some fireworks from the plane .. it was cool.

so it's 7:30pm-ish here in Taiwan and i'm gonna leave soon for my flight back to the US. yay? :P i'm excited, to get out of this heat, to have stuff to do.. to know what everyone else is saying! but it's sad that vacation is over :P my mom keeps telling me to move here to teach english, and that may be really exciting, or could get old really fast. it was interesting to just hang out with relatives, or with my sister's friends... neither of which i'm particularly super close to, so if it was me and big 'ol group of my friends i think it would be way fun. but i had a SUPER good time too.. and shopping is always fun, no matter who you're with :) but for the first few days i felt like i had been here forever... probably because we were doing so much stuff.. by the second or third day i thought a week had passed! but now i feel like i've only been here for three days!

sorry to sakura because i couldn't get you those hole punchy thingies, but i got lots of other cute stuff! and sorry to my boss (not that he reads this) for not being able to get him a magic mic. oops.

anyhoo... the typhoon is here or has passed.. the brunt of it never really came near taipei, so i'm safe.. but just lots and lots of raining.. all day.. sometimes hard, sometimes light.. but just lots and lots of wetness... and humidity.. blech. but at least it's not as bad as the sweltering heat and humidity.

last night i went to go see spiderman 2 (which i liked..except for all the cheese :P) and then went out for a bit @ this place called champagne. not too bad. and during the day my mom took me to more day market shopping stuff, and when i didn't think i could buy more bags, i did. hahah..plus lots of pens at the $19 NT store (yay) and cool other stuff.. it sounds like i've spent so much money and i sometimes feel like i have, but i've spent less than $300! and although that's a lot, for the amount of stuff i've bought, eaten, drank... it's not too bad :) i feel like a bandit :P

anyhoo.. so there will be no weather delays for my plane tonight.. i think. my mom's still packing and re-packing and sorting stuff out. i'll probably take a shower and change before getting on the plane. good times..

can't wait for 4th of july!! and to see you. :)