HAPPY THANKSGIVING

happy thanksgiving everyone! hope everyone eats a lot of good food while vegging in front of the telly. hee hee. i miss vegging so much.
while i was driving home from work i was calculating how i spent my day and how much of it is spent at work. i am in the office for about 10 hours so that leaves 14. then it takes me 2 to get to and from work and 1 to get ready. so i'm down to 11. then 7 to 8 to sleep... erm, down to 3 to 4. 1 hour to eat dinner. crap. hardly any time...
i'm sure most of you who have been working for quite awhile now have already come to this realisation. ((sigh))
alright, so i have been chatting with coworkers and friends and they have been saying how they plan to go shopping this weekend. is it just me or is that crazy talk? madness i tell you! do people just like to subject themselves to torture? see, i'm taking the easy route and shopping at mom and pop discount stores. who doesn't like kitschy, tacky items... like plastic molds of birds? hey new wave i'm being sarcastic and looking in your direction.

currently listening to: the lawrence arms/chinkees EP

wow chia? that's cool, good thing darth wasn't right, although that was a great guess. all right just dropping by to say to everyone. have a great and happy thanksgiving. i'm off to mammoth today through the weekend, so don't mind the early greetings. oh ya and everyone be safe and have fun.

i should be asleep now but eh ....

i was talking to my coworker today about the holidays and christmas and discovered she celebrates it like darth and nick with the whole "whiteness cheese ballish" and i'm thinking hey but she is asian and stuff ... shouldn't she be deprivated of presents, a tree, santa and so on .... then slowly i realized "wait no it is only my family" (pigern i'm looking your way) who does this ... it use to really bug me growing up but as i got older i just hated everything so i didn't even care anymore but a childhood with that whole "whiteness" feel to it would have been nice .....

i really don't like some of my coworkers by the way ... they are such tards ... blech

oh the person in the ad was chia chia pet ... those from brightwood know who i'm talking about and sorry to the other members of the house for this whole inside joke/story thing ...

music to my ears: crash - dave matthews band

I think its pretty obvious who was in the vaseline ad. All you have to do is think about it....vaseline.......duh its man-wah......thanks i'll collect the winnings now

dude darth you have the sweetest guess. please post it. i think you'll be right.

a Vaseline ad? hmmm i have no clue. my guesses would either be kaigee or ryan, just cause they were on tv shows and what not. hmmmm nick? i would've guessed that you would say the same thing. i think you know those two guys, don't you? hahaha. plus i didn't even go there and i'm still not a crustacean because that was what i was most likely to be. wtf?

hey y'all....yes, i know i've gone MIA for a while. but not as bad as juwanna. i really don't have anything to say about the encore thing so i won't. darth: you're welcome. please don't do that ever again :) but that was pretty funny that you were "attempting" to study for your GRE. Pigern: i'm sorry about UCLA's loss. ha ha. that was mean. btw, did you ever take the olympic to los angeles street route to get home? how did that work out? new wave: i'm wondering who could be in the Vaseline ad cuz you know everyone that came from brightwood is ugly and bitchy. ha ha. and how would mac even remember someone from brightwood? right pigern?
anyway, i'm tired, tired, and little more tired on the side. it's been a weird couple of days. i'm sorry to rub this in everyone's face (those of you that work full-time), but i can't wait for december. i think i have more days off in december than i actually have to work :) i know you are scrunching up your face in disgust, new wave. good times.

i never thought encores would spawn a discussion but i guess it did ...

i came across this ad in the dec 2002 Self mag (pigern gets free copies) for Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion and they used an old classmate of mine as a model ... how funny is that. mac and nick it is someone from brightwood ... can you guess who??? (btw where the heck are you nick edney and juwanna man ... sheesh you guys are all MIA ...)

well the holidays are upon us ... eh i don't care. i hate this time because i feel like a consumer whore and then i feel like helping the needy but then that makes me feel bad because why does it have to be once a year you decide to help others who are less blessed than you are ... shouldn't you do that all year long ... ack it is just depressing is what it is ... and when you help others less blessed than you don't you wonder if they feel like they are getting your pity and that it is taking away from their dignity ... just a thought

music to my ears: exploding boy - alkaline trio and strange - tori amos (sooo good)

i like encores. i think it's a compliment to the band. like, you guys were brilliant. now come back out (even though you are tired) to do just a bit more. come on now ((clap clap))! one of the funniest moments was when i went to see death cab for cutie and the lead singer was deathly ill. so when they finished their set (barely), the audience was like "erm, do we applaud for an encore? we feel bad..." i don't think we made them come back out. the lead singer was vomiting or something.
hm, moving on... thanks for everyone's traffic tips. i have actually been staying at work until 7 p.m. so it makes my mapping techniques moot. but if i ever leave earlier...
f.y.i. i don't like no doubt. i never really did but i like them less with each album. especially the 'underneath it all' tune: "and when it's really bad i guess it's not that bad." who writes that? eight-year-olds! geez.
i would have like to see the distillers. i like their new album.
alright, have a happy thanksgiving and watch out for the windy weather. try not to get blown away.

first off i wasn't presuming anything, although it might seem that way because of the way i typed it. the "no?" should've probably been "or not." so that being put out of the way, i still stand by my words and say encores are lame. i just hope one day people are disappointed when a band doesn't come back out, that would be sweet. hopefully it's at an emo show though, so a flood of tears flows throughout the crowd. i will speak no more on this subject for now.

darth, man you're sweet. i think you're going to get the highest score possible, whatever it maybe on your GRE's. oh ya and darth did you see UCLA beat the crap out of USC, it was kind of like ken shamrock beating the crap out of tito ortiz. and jamal anderson winning the superbowl, what is it like 8 years in a row?

Hey party people, its been a while since i last blogged so i guess i should before i get kicked out. I assumed garbage would put on a better show than no doubt, just cause no doubt seems to be everywhere and i think the hype was too much for them.....A special thanks to nick and juwanna for aiding me in my hour of need. Here are a few pointers for the kids out there 1) don't drink and drive....thats obvious.....2) don't attempt to study for your GRE's while waiting for a ride.......3) Always make sure you have a backup person to pick you up..........Encores are cool, but sometimes they are annoying cause the band takes forever to comeback and the audience has to sit there hollering and clapping and just making noise, its sort of annoying that way, but its cool when they come back out....so I see both of your points.

Mac the Knife, you say, "Just play the damn set thoroughly, and not come back out for an encore, everyone knows its coming. that's just my two cents. but i think you people would agree, no?"

Well, aren't you being a little presumptuous? thinking that we would all agree w/ you about how encores suck. whatever! don't presume
anything about anybody! I'm not saying encores aren't lame or cheesy or that they are the best thing ever, but encores are needed. maybe for psychological purposes, for closure or something, but really, if i saw a band (esp one that i paid a lot of money to see) and they didn't have an encore, i would be like, what's up w/ that? a band can play a solid set, but an encore will still be demanded by the audience. get over it! accept it! yeah, everyone knows it's coming, but that is just how it is. No matter how good you are.

I was at the No Doubt / Garbage show Saturday and did not stay for the encore. Oh well. Knew it was coming, but decided it would be better to beat traffic. I mean, how many times do I have to hear "Spiderwebs?" Nonetheless, good show. Encore or not.

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ok, must blog after the interesting show last nite. of course, shirley and the boys kicked major ass, shirley is soooo cool (and no, i do not sound like a girl). the distillers were cool also, but brody looks like a major druggie and i feared she would fall over and die. and then there was no doubt... the set was alright, or it could have been alright. they are a good band with good songs, but the audience TOTALLY KILLED IT. i mean, they killed my "concert buzzed" that garbage had created. once they came out, the audience went crazy, and not in a good way. too much shoving for the first couple songs, with people trying to get to the front, only to just stand there like bitches, totally no respect for anyone. it was all them, i-know-two-songs-and-own-the-latest-album-so-im-a-fan peeps. not that i was so into the set, and im sure people wanted me to get out of there, but i had my garbage shirt on and there were no ambiguities as to why i was there. anyway, i knew i had withstood the insanity for some reason, because after the "encore", which, yeah, i think is silly. gwen brought out garbage & the distillers and the girls sang blondie's call me, while the boys played, totally awesome. of course, all the kiis-fm/no doubters hadnt a clue what they were singing, but i totally enjoyed it. i was, however upset with myself that i had not saved a couple pics on my camera to take of the girls singing. oh well, lesson learned. so, yeah, garbage needs to tour alone from now on.
oh, and FTC, the blur song, is, um different, yet good, cos its blur, haha.
alright, peace out.

i just finished doing some christmas shopping and realized the holidays are scary ....... it is not even near christmas and there are TONS AND TONS of people buying stuff. i'm scared just to think how bad it is going to get the closer to christmas.

hmmm dawson's creek ... yea when are they going to end that show.

i so want to hear the new blur song t.w.i.f.o.s.l.y ...

hey mac i think encores are cool. i don't mind them, especially if they are a worthy band. sigur ros didn't do an encore for us :( even though we were cheering for a good 20 or some mins. but when i saw travis, radiohead and of course the wonderful and all great the cure they all did encores and i was so happy they did :) .... not sure if seeing an encore of no doubt really would have been worth the wait though ha ha. i mean i like them, don't get me wrong but put that up against garbage and i think we all know who wins .... dang i would so make sweet love to shirley manson .... she is so fucking great :) her and debbie harry.

music to my ears: fernando - abba

i can't fall asleep...it sucks. anyways i caught a rerun of an old snl and the musical guest was ugly kid joe. i never noticed it before, maybe because he's been out of the business for quite sometime, but he really looks like freddie prince jr. i went to the no doubt concert on friday, yippee....... actually i couldn't back out of it. anyways i went into it thinking it would suck, but it was actually decent. the distillers put on a nice set, even though people didn't know who they were, then garbage came on and shirley manson kicked ass. never really seen them before, but their set was the highlight of the evening. man i feel like a girl. anyways then no doubt came on, and did the whole encore thing. i hate those, it's so lame. why do bands, esp. the "superstars" have to do that? just play the damn set thoroughly, and not come back out for an encore, everyone knows its coming. that's just my two cents. but i think you people would agree, no? oh ya, and of course almost acoustic x-mas is coming soon. night 2 anyone? c'mon you know you want to see chris carraba. someone, anyone, please? haha. hopefully i can go to sleep now. peace out.

on the topic of new songs...i heard the new song from billy corgan's new band swan. sounded decent but i was half asleep when i heard it, so hehe I guess I'll have to hear it again.

hello everyone. okay hedwig, i also watched dawson last week. i don't watch it regularly... actually i hardly ever watch. i think it was the fifth episode i've ever seen but i was curious since no doubt was on. i think joey (or katie holmes) looks less cute each year. i don't know what happened to her. her coloring is off... too orange. and audrey slept with the guy jen liked! ewww... i think jen looks cuter each year.
alright, new topic. i was pretty upset yesterday at work because me and the coworker i dislike were both given tasks. and i did mine incorrectly because i was given the wrong directions. so while i was fixing my mistakes, my coworker snorts and says "you aren't done yet?" ewww... the nerve! so i lost my temper and replied, "you don't have to be so haughty." but i thought about it more and i suspect that arrogant attitude stems from the fact that he is older (about 30) and born in china. in that culture the man is dominant and therefore more domineering. i don't want to think we can't get along with those from other cultures but i think it can be more difficult. when i was at ucla, i met a great girl from hong kong. she was super nice but i could never really talk to her because communication was difficult. she didn't get my sense of humor and i had to explain more in depth what i said to her. so naturally our friendship fell apart pretty easily. anyway, perhaps if i take into consideration these factors of culture and communication, i'd get along with my coworker more. i hope. i think it'll be hard though. (and by the way, he really did snort. gross.)

ok, havent posted for a while, but just heard the new blur song "dont drop bombs when ur the bomb", and i must say, its pretty good!
obviously, thats the song-o-d-moment

ahhh finally done w/ all my secondary applications. i just finished temple. really highly doubt i'll get anything from the UC's....*shrug* UC's suck anyway!!!!! :P anyhoo, just wanted to drop in and say hello to everyone in the house---or shall i say NOT in the house. I get to go home next week so that's cool...I'm hungry, I want turkey hehe. I bought Lion King tickets for December so I'm happy about that. It will be a good Christmas break. I cant' wait until school is done. I hate it. I hate this year. I need more structure. I don't like research...it's interesting but I'm too lazy to be doing all that work dammit. I'd rather see patients and take their history's...can't I get a Master's degree by doing that? hehe...master's in community service. awesome! :D

i am neglecting my research duties...but I don't care. don't care!!!!! mmm oh I watched Dawson's Creek...I didn't really like the ep too much....the show is annoying, but I watch it every week...weird. i just don't like the fact that everyone gets w/ everybody else. I guess you need that kind of dynamic to keep the ratings up. I guess it would get pretty boring if Joey and Dawson were together for the whole duration of the series. Ah well, I don't like Dawson right now...I like the guy Joey has, but no doubt before the end of the series D and J will get back together....i don't think they should. I DO however think Ross and Rachel should....don't worry they will. hehe. Ok enough of my sad sad sad discussion of TV characters as if they were real people. *sigh* the life i lead...it's sad hehe.

currently listening to: THE LOUD ASS LATIN MUSIC PLAYING IN THE LOUD ASS CLUB NEXT DOOR. they play every wed til 2am....i'm livin in the lap of luxury, complete w/ live in mice and cockroaches(well just the one cockroach that i saw and tried to kill today)...soon my room will smell like smoke if it doesn't already.....*COUGH!*....*cough*...*choke*.....*flatline*---"beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep"

the sigur ros show was v. entertaining. it was like a philharmonic concert, because there was a mini orchestra that played with the band and everyone was seated. to be honest, it was so mellow that i was half asleep during the first half. i don't know if it was because the music is mellow or i was just tired from work. hm...
so i went to the grove on my lunch break to visit barnes and the place is elaborately decorated in christmas themed schlock. the big christmas tree is up and there is a tacky santa riding in his sled with the reindeers and christmas jingles are playing over the loud speakers. okay, first of all, it's november. november! christmas is in december! secondly, the christmas themed surroundings seemed very insincere. the grove people just want you to buy buy buy. all these lame signs about the perfect christmas gift. consumerism hidden behind the pretense of holiday cheer. grrr... plus it was 80 degrees today and gap is selling scarves and mittens. i wonder how well those sales are going.

shocker .... i'm the only one blogging again ... oh well

i went and saw me some sigur ros: and it was GREAT !!! every minute of it ... they are so good live and just the lighting, the images they used and of course their music made it a wonderful experience. they started off the show with some slower songs but by the end of their performance everyone was on their feet clapping and cheering for more .... i'm sorry if this sounds vague, i'm not good at describing things really .... just believe me when i say it was a GREAT !!! show and i was quite disappointed when it ended (smiling blissfully) .....

music to my ears: anything sigur ros :)

good to see some people are in the house :o) ......nick why would you divorce or split from the person who you knew you would be good together with, i mean he is not the supposed ONE but if you knew he was good enough to be together with then isn't he was worth the fight of working things out with. and i don't think it would be the end of all relationships for you, just with that one person who is the supposed ONE.

in reality (at least my warped one), there is no ONE person out there, actually my random thought was more on why people use the term "knew/know" was all because i don't think anything in life is for sure. i think people would like to think the person they are with will be the ONE but maybe others don't. and yea maybe people want to settle but see they don't think it is settling, they think it is their true love and that they "knew" this was the person, i just don't like people using that stupid phrase. and mac i agree with you shockingly enough, i mean if there is that special someone then why do people spend so much time looking, don't you think that ONE person will just come when it is time ...... obviously they don't so we as people settle for whatever we have around us and sometimes, key word i used here is sometimes please note that everyone ... i did not say always, end up in unhappy marriages just because society deems it so. ha ha man people are fucked ......

music to my ears: nothing really ....

what a weekend. so exhausted yesterday, it felt like i dug a deep deep hole and fell in it for 20 years. i was so dead to the world.
pigern: hmmmm....shall i reveal my commute secrets to my biggest rival? ha ha! you probably won't be able to take my path anyway since you work north of the 10. but find a street that runs parallel to the 10, (for me that would be Adams on the southside of the 10) and take that east towards home as far as you can. i usually hop back on right before the 60. no matter what, taking a street is hell of a lot better than the 10. damn that 10 freeway. but yeah, it took me 1 hr 15 minutes on friday still.
ok and now on to the whole couple thing. i don't know if i believe in that whole "i knew it was him" thing. for me, i know there was a specific moment when i knew that we would be good together, but not necessarily he was the one i was SUPPOSED to be with. cuz if i was supposed to be with someone, if we end up breaking up or divorcing, does that mean the end of relationships for me? that no one else in this world is for me, because i broke up with the one that was supposed to be for me? i don't know....everyone has their own opinions. ok, enough about this....
i'm gonna see harry potter this week sometime if anyone wants to join me.

Currently playing on Winamp: Slick Shoes - Angel, Millencolin - Duckpond, Samiam - Sky Flying By

The One. Isn't that a crappy Jet Li movie? My thoughts on that, hmmm well, I think that there is no single one for any person, I think there are many different "ones" out there, it's just whoever you find first. I agree with pigern, I mean who really wants to say, "I settled," instead of "I knew he/she was the one." Classic example is the Wedding Singer when Julia Goulia was going to settle for that Don Johnson dude. See that makes everything so clear! Okay I don't know what i'm talking about. What I do know is if there is that special somebody for everyone how come so many people are still searching and never find that person in a lifetime? Think about it. The funny thing about this is that the people in relationships are probably gonna have the opposite views of the singles, so speak up, I want to know what you're thinking.

Oh ya and pigern, I don't know exactly where you work, but you can exit any street after Vermont and take Adams which is one or 2 blocks south of the 10W. It will get you to La Cienega faster than going on the 10. Only bad thing is you pass through some "nice" neighborhoods. Nick should be able to give you all the details though.

nah i haven't seen COS yet, I'm waiting to see it with the red-head and other friends when I come home COME HOME! for thanksgiving. I wanted to see 'far from heaven'...i'm glad that it was good. i suppose i will watch all these movies i missed this summer on video hehe. still waiting for lilo and stitch DVD. I have it on my computer but I want the DVD so I can take it home home to watch it on my couch w/ my sis.

right now i'm studying for my next pathology exam...boring. It's only 840 and it feels like it's 1am. I can't wait until tuesday afternoon.....or better yet, I can't wait until NEXT tuesday afternoon and I will be on my way home! woohoo.

as far as the true love thing. i'm not saying that when i met the red-head, I "knew"...but well, right now I don't even know if he's "the one" but i'd like him to be and i'm hoping he is. you never really KNOW until it's there--there being when you get married...and even when it is there, you still don't know b/c who's to say it's not gonna fall apart? SEE I'm not single and I'm synical and insecure still hehe. But right now I'm in a good place and so are the red-head and I...so I just continue to hope that it will stay this way. Cuz lord knows it wasn't always this way. Welp, gotta get back to the hell that is studying path. BLAH! hate it.

listening to: Big E. Smalls aka Notorious B.I.G.--One More Chance

hello everyone. like new wave, i would recommend the film 'far from heaven.' both julianne moore and dennis quaid gave brilliant performances that may be oscar worthy. i think one of the central themes of the film is repression. and whether you should go after what you really want or follow what is expected of you. it seems like the answer would be obvious with the typical 'follow your dreams' spiel we always hear but then this film explores the degree in which societal expectations and restraints make such pursuits seem foolish considering the negative consequences. also, the film was visually stunning, which followed the theme of superficial perfection.
so hedwig, did you see harry potter yet? if so, how was it? i'm eager to see it but am waiting out the long lines. i've been hearing good things so far from critics.
on another rant, it took me an hour and forty minutes to get home on friday. an hour and forty minutes people. i live sixteen miles away from my office. okay, there was a game at the staples center that night and a three car accident that closed off one lane on the ten... but still... going four mph was not fun. nick, how do you get home? or will you give the secrets of your commute to your dual rival? grr... (lol)
new wave, i was thinking about what you were saying re: your coworkers saying they "knew" it was the person... blah blah... and perhaps people say these things to reassure themselves and convince others that they made the right decision. i mean people can't go around saying, "yeah, i love the girl but i'm not really sure you know? but i figured i was getting old and i'm tired of dating..." they have to say to people, "this is my one and only true love" so people can swoon and think "ooh, how sweet."
as for people i don't like at work, the other guy who was hired to the same position as me is super annoying. and he has to sit next to me. and he is in the same team as me. i think i would be much happier at work if i could avoid him at all costs... or if someone else was hired. he makes me think, "gee, what did the boss see in him?" and "was it slim pickings?" isn't that awful? and there's no real concrete reason for my strong distaste. i just find him extremely irritable. he makes work less enjoyable.
as for music, i am currently listening to the pixies. brilliant, subversive rock. so subversive that i think my coworkers who hear it on my stereo think i'm weird. hah hah. especially the line when frank black yells, "AND THE DEVIL IS SIX... THEN GOD IS SEVEN!" RAWK!

where did everyone in the house go .... well i'll just keep talking to myself

hi how's it going ..... good good and how are you this is me talking to myself

saw far from heaven today. it was good but very sad ... you don't come away from it feeling great. all i know is i could not live in the 1950's .... i would die. but pigern and darth pointed out that in the 1950's you wouldn't know anything else so you would just accept the way things are but i would think a part of you would find something wrong with it ... i mean it was so very very repressed then ... makes sense why people freaked when the 60's and 70's started ... ha ha

music to my ears: you know you're right - nirvana

i should be asleep now, sheesh i'm like 40 now. i'm so sick of traffic, i hate it ever so much. no one in the house is really talking. i guess everyone left. oh well.

so just random thoughts going on in my head:

- i was talking to some co-workers and they were telling me about how they met their husbands/wives and how they just "KNEW" that was the person they were going to spend the rest of their lives with .... so i'm thinking how can you "KNOW" ... i mean honestly i think that is such a dumb thing to say, nothing in life is for sure, there are no guarantees in life EVER ... i think the only one for sure thing is that people will die .... i mean i'm not saying it is not possible to meet that one person i just don't like it when people use the pharse they "KNEW/KNOW" because no one really knows anything

- i noticed a majority of the people in this house are single and i wondered why that was ... it's not like we are all ugly people. i've seen all of you and i think we are alright looking ... i know for me a relationship makes my stomach curl up in a ball because i use to be in a four year relationship (kinda of marriage) so i know what that was like and i so want to stay away from that for awhile and as for the dating thing .... there are WAY too many losers out there. ha ha i think i already brought this subject up huh.

- i hate how people at work drag all their personal problems to work, hey was there a sign in the front of the office that read "WE GIVE A DAMN" because last time i checked there wasn't ... i don't care about your sorry ass sob stories about your family and paying the bills and the kids and blah blah blah. just shut the hell up .... seriously

- i REALLY REALLY don't like the MIS people at my work place

- no doubt is so overexposed right now ... they are reissuing the rock steady cd, they were on dawson's creek the other night, they are doing breakfast with kroq and like 5 or 6 shows in la ... man i'm tired of them already

- i truly love THE CURE. i'm not sure if i mention this enough, they are so ..... i don't even think words can explain how awesome and great they truly are. i'm sorry for bringing this up to people who hear me talk about all the time but i mean seriously they are so good. (sigh ... brushing tears away)

music to my ears: plainsong - the cure

Hi everyone, haven't posted in a while, I was sick for the longest time. It really sucked, but now i'm better. Anyways the main reason I wanted to come on was to share this awesome news. Manute Bol is going to play in the Canadian Hockey League (CHL), basketball, boxing, hockey......what's next? This guy is the athelete among atheletes, he is sooooo sweet. Don't believe me? Check out ESPN, should be on the main page. I know for sure Darth is enjoying this very much so.

man, i feel so lame because everyone at my office always goes out to eat and i sit here at my desk with my packed lunch. i don't like spending money on food but there is this pressure to do so since everyone else is. peer pressure. i hate it. anyway, i haven't given christmas much thought. except that i would like to go to london on holiday. :o( yeah right. in my dreams. i went to see badly drawn boy on friday. it was a good show except that he played for 2.5 hours. i was so tired that even though i had floor seats, i went upstairs to the balcony by the second hour where i proceeded to fall asleep. hee hee. i was so tired and his music is so melodic. my friend also dozed off. by the end i was thinking, finish already! people need to get home and go to bed. this morning there was hardly any traffic. i was half hoping the office made a mistake with the calendar and we did have veteran's day off. but alas, everyone was here working. so i sadly trudged in to work...

i'm going to california for thanksgiving and christmas!! hehe. it beats philly...except for maybe seeing the pretty snow. but it doesn't snow a lot here. the christmas thing...i haven't really thought about it that much, but I HAVE thought about it. the red head already got my present...which sux cuz now i feel pressured to get his...but i don't know what to get him. I got him part of his gift and i got his grandma something but that's the extent of the Christmas gifts.

i just watched lilo and stitch for the second time. my friend downloaded it. :) I've been waituing to see it for months now. so cute. :D I've never sen U.S. Marshalls...and now i don't think i'll ever watch it...esp since it's like the Fugitive.

dang man it's only 1130 and i'm getting sleepy. we finally found this filipino restaurant in northeast philly. decent food except the adobo didn't taste/look like adobo....it looked more like teriyaki chicken. everything else was good! and we are all full and fat and sleepy hehe. it made me happy to see my people haha. ok back to my presentation....what fun.

i know what you mean, new wave...i already made my xmas list of who i have to give presents too a couple weeks ago. xmas is creeping up way too fast. new wave, i was thinking the same thing. i don't think i've hung out with you for like a month or two. we'll get coffee this week or something.
i'm watching U.S. Marshalls for about the 10th time. i don't understand why they made a movie so similar to the Fugitive. it's pretty much the same concept. anyway...
is anyone going anywhere interesting for thanksgiving or xmas?

i'm bored ... nothing to really do. (sigh) i'm too lazy to go out and it is cold. bored bored bored bored ... actually i think i'm more restless ... restless restless restless. tomorrow will be sunday ... then monday and 5 more long days of work ... oh well at least i will get paid at the end of the week. hmmm i bitch about work a lot, don't get me wrong my job is okay i just hate the drive there and everything else ... eh.

no interest to see 8 mile but good to hear it is doing well. i personally think they are giving too much credit to eminem and his acting, i'm sure he does well but they make it seem like he is oscar worthy.

is is crazy i'm thinking about christmas shopping and stuff like that now ... okay i'm crazy

nick i have not hung out with you in a long time. we should get together ...

music to my ears: anything Cure - they played hamburg last night

hey all...i saw 8 mile on friday night...was sold out til like 11...so we watched the 11 showing. it was actually decent. it's also getting a few good reviews...however, they give way too much credit to eminem's acting. i mean...yeah he can act. but well, i don't think i would say that his quiet desperation was really him acting. or well it didn't look like it. he just kinda looked like his face was blank. he pulled off a pretty decent performance. i'm sleepy and can't really think straight......so i'll end it here. hehe. cya

Hey people...its friday!!!!! that actually means very little....its raining depressing and makes me want to go to sleep. I love how all the newstations are going crazy with STORM WATCH 2002!!!!!...because this is the biggest storm that has ever hit anywhere in the world...so stupid....i wanted the valley to break away from l.a. if and only it had gone with the name camelot that would have been hilaiously funny.....to answer a part of your blog concerning the two party system t.w.i.f.o.s.l.y. i feel that a new party can only arise if they bring about some new change that the general public is in favor of (i.e. the creation of the whig and republican parties of the past). Until a party come across with new ideas that appeal to a bigger population voters will continue to vote in a similar fashion. The independent party formed by Ross Perot had the best chance to make a run for a new party, but because of splits within the party it has all but fallen apart.....okay thats just my opinion though........traffic blows big time.....it took me over and hour and a half to get home yesterday and come in today......i love the rain and i'm sure rain and darkness will be just as sweet tonight!!! thanks again to new wave for meeting me up for those beers.....i'm still waiting.....still here.......hello?!!?!?!? hahahhaha....

love your blog FTC :) ... i mean t.w.i.f.o.s.l.y. you brought up some great points with the voting and how we can't complain but we all will anyway and how our country is a piehole and the ghetto-ness with the rappers paying fo' everything (darn i miss riverside sometimes ... seriously)

man i need to go to sleep ... it is raining outside ... i usually love rain but not when i'm sitting IN FU**KING TRAFFIC waiting to get home ... ugh why has traffic been so bad lately (sigh)...

love those liberal bummer stickers on cars ... ha ha

is anyone aware that it is nov. 7th now and that in a few weeks christmas will be upon us .... then a new year ..

hey if anyone here likes burger king or works/lives near one can you help me out ... i'm trying to get all the simpsons halloween kid's meal toys (i think this is the last week) ... i'm missing marge, lisa, maggie, ned flanders, willy, and kang or the alien dude. PLEASE HELP !!!!

the cure trilogy concert is coming up ... okay i'm not going to cry ... seriously i will be good (sniff) man i love them so much. do you know how AWESOME it would be to see the cure play pornography, disintergration, and bloodflowers in full and back to back ...(lip quivering .... sniff)

music to my ears: i'm still in love with you - new edition ... i've been on this total r & b / hip hop kick right now ... my alternative cds are just not doing it for me, i need a break from them.

i'm c-c-c-oool-l-ld-d-d-d! no heat! wtf?! :(
now playing on winamp: drive you home-garbage

oh, i'm so happy that the blog house is full of people. yay. (note imood) anyway, i agree with you slut. why are we off to fight another war? our nation is suffering and we have to go try to "help" others. i remember one of my professors said that our country tends to think it's the american way or no way but that's a really arrogant attitude. because our country has its own set of problems. for example, the number of deaths caused by guns. we have over 10,000 gun-related deaths but some countries have just a few hundred (according to 'bowling for columbine'). i'm still complaining even though i didn't vote. hah hah. but seriously, i will vote for the next presidential election. i will make sure of it. alright, so i have been noticing more and more liberal stickers on cars. examples include "no more bushit" and "waiting for 2004." interesting... maybe this conservative tide will turn. soon soon soon.
so i agree with new wave: i am too old for these emo punk shows. i mean i could ignore the little high schoolers but i feel out of place. can't relate to math class and senior class photos you know?
on an embarassing note, a rep from SPIN came to the office today to make a presentation and one of her slides had a pic of Travis. so i pointed out to one of my coworkers that Fran Healy (the lead singer) is cute. and the rep heard me and said, "oh, this girl likes him eh? he is cute." and all my coworkers turned to look at me. so embarassing. i turned bright red. that rep must have super good hearing.

awesome blog slut! hehe can i be up in the enterage w/ jay-z and his peeps too? I need money for apps! So anyway there's this seminar that's gonna talk about doctor's leaving the profession b/c it's wack and they don't want to practice under the wack ass health care system etc etc...and they were gonna discuss what the medical community can do...how to prepare med students...what med students can do etc etc....i really wanted to go to it-----UNTIL I FOUND OUT IT COSTS 50 bucks! Bastards...greedy ass bastards! hehe they lure us w/ interesting topics, when it's really just a disguise to get them more money! :D

yeah---ack I didn't vote I can't complain...but let's just say I agree w/ slut!

winamp is playing: Take me out of the dark--Gary Valenciano---filipino singer...it's actually a Christian song, but it's really good :)

ok so yeah, i promised new wave that i would blog, finally, even tho i dont really have much to say.
so ive read the last several blogs, and u guys have some interesting things going on, i should check it out more often, but im too lazy to type in my long-ass log-in name, although it is worth it, who doesnt like being called a slut anyway?
ok, so, yeah i forgot to change my address for registration to vote, oh well. although that will not hold me back from complaining about the gov't (a retarded one, i might add) i mean, whats the difference, our good ol' two-party system allows us no options anyway. the only thing i wanted was the valley to get away from LA (damn i hate LA), and that didnt happen. and whats up with the republican control??? why is the general population still too wrapped up in the supposed post 9-11 shite and so hyped up about war? good lord, can we start to make some changes at home before we try to taint the world with our materialistic, egotistical, dont give a f*ck about anyone but ourselves thought processes?
ok im over it. *sigh* what a beautiful world we live in.
i am afraid that theres much to be afraid of
oh yeah, props to the peeps who yelled "go dodgers", sounds like something i would do, u know, just to be in opposition, kinda like when the laker hype comes around.
hmmmmmmm, i think i would like to be friends with rappers, cos they like to spend money, and i would make them pay for my med school apps. hehe, they have enough to go around. and then i could be part of their posse, and roll with like 20 peeps, and dress all ghetto. oh yeah, and talk ghetto, cos i LOVE doin dat.
but seriously, i think shirley would be a totally cool person, but she would probably get annoyed by me. i guess it would have to be someone i dont follow too much. i think vanessa marcil would be cool to know (btw, shes back on gh, hehe) but then i would just stare, so i dont know.
so yeah, hedwig pretty much summed up our feelings on the med school app process. also, its so fake. just some remnants of the old (white) boys' club.
but dont worry, we will get there!
ok cant think of anything more to say.
and no, im not getting the nirvana cd, isnt it just a bunch of old stuff anyway? im not getting u2 for that matter. i wonder if the next foxy will be good? ive been hella ghetto lately, oh well, u cant take the hood out the homeboy. damn im so out of the music loop, how sad
oh yeah, i went to hollywood for halloween. we went to the party at the roosevelt hotel. it sucked ass! they oversold tickets and almost didnt get in. after waiting an hour, we finally got in, teh drinks sucked, the music was alright, but not worth the 30 bucks we spent. would have been better off drinkin at home. (its all about the kick-backs, ftc!) so yeah, i dont doubt that the bronger west hollywood incident occured, after all ftc and i have heard some crazy stories (haha, sorry dude, cant stop the taunting just cos we dont live together anymore)
so thats it, a novel later. does that make up for time lost new wave?

song-o-d-moment: kylie minogue - come into my world (fischerspooner remix), someone called as i was listening to the song and thought i was watching porn cos the end has these noises that sound like a woman making sex noises. funny stuff.
hasta la próxima...

yes darth there are a lot of cars on the road now ... what is up with that. it is taking me so much longer to get to work now, not that i'm in any rush to get there ... i'm just saying. hey darth sorry about the mix up this evening ... i'm a loser and rude hence my imood. i didn't vote today ... so i can't say anything, i really wanted to though .. (sigh)

man hedwig sorry to hear about med. school, i always found it funny when people said oh doctors make all this money and blah blah blah ... i mean think about the amount of work that goes into being a doctor and it's not like you have all this time to spend money or even make that much ... eh go figure.

nothing much to really talk about ... you see strange movies nick and you and lisa are SERIOUSLY SICK for going to the bridal expo ... and actually having fun, what is wrong with you ... ha ha. hey dorkus please tell me all the good reel beet stories when you get a chance, i bet they are all classic .. HA HA.

this post was for sunday: i went and saw me some saves the day - aside from being WAY TOO OLD for these shows, std gave a good performance, i liked how they played a pixies song which none of the kids there even knew who the pixies were ... ha ha classic, seriously. personally i don't think it was as solid as it could have been, a lot of stuff from their older albums. and what is up with chris (the lead singer) and his new look, a hanson hair cut with nerd glasses and we are not talking the typical emo kind then there was his strange dancing. the other three bands were not so great, ash was the best of the three but even they were pushing it. although they did bust out jack names the planets and kung fu from the angus soundtrack. one highlight from their show was their cover of a weezer song, pretty sweet.

music to my ears: love will come through - travis :o)

yes radio is a cool yet bitter song. that's the only song i have from alkaline trio...but well it's a good song so, so what. hehe. Sorry Darth, i didn't vote today. i didn't do an absentee cuz I feel like I would be voting blindly cuz I don't know about the issues...etc etc. I usually vote tho. :) I was working on my USC secondary application for med school. so annoying AND they make you pay 90 bucks after making you go through the hell of answering their redundant stupid questions. Slut and I were talking about the app process and how retarded it is. No wonder why doctors are so synical and anal retentive.....you get the shaft up your arse enough that lil hole starts to close up and your face starts to permanently form a scowl. AFTER you get into medical school IF you get in...you accumulate an enormous amount of debt that could probably pay for a decent house and a car! After you graduate and hopefully pass the boards that cost a sh**load of money also, and HOPEFULLY get matched...you get to earn a crappy salary despite the fact that you work 36 hour days...so it takes you FOREVER to pay back your loans. But don't worry I'm not bitter hehe. So I must really want to be a doctor huh? :) I just wish the system would change somehow. We all deserve better for our efforts. well that's MY two cents. I'm going to go read about the kidney now. Happy urinating everyone!

Now playing on winamp: 'waiting in vain'--annie lennox

i'm sooo bored right now i think i'm going to die....haha...i'm sitting here at work doing nothing, cause i am so exhausted. it was a really busy day and now i have to rush home to go vote. GO VOTE TODAY everyone!!! If you don't vote you can't complain. Thats my two cents....okay its dark out and i have to drive through....why can't people drive at night and why does it seem like there are more people out at night? This time of the year is sooo annoying...okay i'm leaving a bit early today.

Currently listening to: Alkaline Trio - Radio (probably one of the most bitter songs ever, but damn good)

Being sick sucks, ever since Halloween i've been sick. Dammit. I think I might of caught something that night in West Hollywood.........a cold, what are you guys thinking? Anyways Band of Brothers DVD comes out tomorrow. If you haven't seen the series, and like Saving Private Ryan, or movies of that sort, it's definitely worth a watch. I think you can rent it, because it's going to be pricey. Nick you watch crappy movies dude. Where are the likes of Battlefield Earth, Ghost Dog, or Dude Where's My Car? Those are the classics. All right i'm getting sleepy, night all.

oh no! i better blog...don't want the self destruction. i finally saw the movie 'Carrie' this weekend. the OG one with spacek. i didn't like it. but back in the 70's it might have been a different story. it was movies galore this weekend. i saw big fat greek weddng again, carrie, fatal attraction, and 'frailty'. i'm sorry juwanna, but 'frailty' SUCKED! has anyone seen it? anyhoo, also went to a bridal expo which was so much fun. new wave girl right now has a disgusted look on her face. ha ha. am i the only person who hasn't seen jackass yet?

if no one blogs, this blog page will self destruct in five days. hah hah. but serious folks... you are making me sad. :o(
anyway, i went to santa barbara this weekend and it was happy days. but v. expensive. i forgot how fancy schmancy it is up there. quaint small town life for rich people. downtown santa barbara anyway, not ucsb, which is pretty craptacular in comparison.
anyway, you guys should check out 'bowling for columbine.' it gets you thinking... even if you don't agree with michael moore.

in davis now ... so far i've seen 20 cows ... hee hee just messing, actually i've seen none but i'm waiting. there are a lot of white people here, oh wait everywhere there is a lot of white people, only LA is pretty diverse, well that and NY. ha ha ... it is cool to see my buddy pete the future lawyer (see i'm giving you props)

w. hollywood on halloween night was pretty sweet. i really liked some people's costumes, darn them being all creative and the likes. yes i think the best ones were the plant from little shop of horrors, the older brother trying to sell his younger brother, powerpuff girls and the alien dude. i think darth bronger really liked all the half naked men :P hee hee. especially the one who wanted to kiss him, hee hee okay that didn't really happen but still.

hmmm i wonder if i should take another shot ... i really should, darn it stop being a pussy new wave girl ... nah forget it. ha ha. yummers we get all you can eat sushi tomorrow :)

music to my ears: left behind - sleater kinney

well, it's now november. the year is almost over...
halloween was a good time. there were lots of creative costumes when i went to west hollywood. some memorable ones were the moveable disco party, the plant from little shop of horrors, the board game operation ivy, and several droogs. i was surprised so many had the same idea as me. the only downside was that we had to leave early because of work. oh wells...