Celeb Sandwich

I remember when she was just an everyday gal doing your average every day things.

Nowadays, she can't even go to work without some celeb (or TWO) asking her to take a picture with them...


hehe... :)

trial period - Gorillaz

When the last Gorillaz album came out, i was hooked on that album for months. The songs all seemed to have that addictive beat... sometimes mellow, sometimes upbeat. So many of my edited video clips used Gorillaz songs in the background... a true testimony to it's universal ability to become my life's mini soundtrack.

Tonight I saw that Tower had a new Gorillaz album on sale (aka, still too expensive) and I took a gamble and bought it without hearing a peep about it yet on any radio stations. Listening to it now, and so far it's got potential... but it's still not sinking in.



So glad it's a 3 day weekend. The last 2 days at work were quite draining. I'm going to try not to think about next Tuesday, if i can help it.

Stupid Food Myths

It's lunchtime at work, and I'm scarfing down mini carrots from Trader Joe's... and i recall hearing (don't know where, maybe in my imagination) a myth that:

*If you eat too many carrots, your skin may start turning orange.

Sounds kind of like a joke told on Sesame Street. But couldn't it be true? Too much or some vitamin and this and that? Then it made me think of some other Food Myths I've heard growing up...

*Don't mix Cherries and Milk, because the mix of them in your stomach causes the formation of hard 'stone-like" substances in your stomach.

*Eating too many apples makes your teeth bigger.

Boy do these myths seem silly now, eh?

Couldn't find these myths on this site, but here are more 'normal sounding' Food Myths...

Feel free to share stupid food myths you've heard in your lifetime...

Can you reprimand a Pet Turtle?

Many months ago, to my shock and horror, I had come home to find one of my 2 turtles 'badly injured'.

Perhaps a better description is badly 'bitten'. (I'll spare you the flappy details.)

These two turtles were tiny when i first got them, and now they're larger than a CD. But one grew considerably larger than the other, and it's this "Bully" who's been biting at the smaller one, for no apparent reason but to be mean.

I removed the big one from the aquarium tank and put him (I assume they're both guy turtles, but I don't really know...) in a big clear rubbermaid container as punishment. I eventually put them back together since they looked so lonely in their respective containers...and they've been just dandy for months... until TONIGHT when i heard a thrash of water and found Bully snapping at his brother's head, which was tucked as far back into his shell as it could go. SIGH.

Bully is in his tupperware prison, which is sitting in the bathtub now. Will this 'teach' Bully that what he did was Wrong? Can turtles tell when they're being punished? Do any pet stores carry turtle muzzles?



Anyone out there in Cyberland have good turtle parenting suggestions?

House? Or bad home videos of britney?

A new episode of "House"? Or satisfy pure curiosity for a sad cry for attention from Momma-to-be Britney Spears? I think I'm going to be outvoted to watch House... IF any one sees the BS (Britney Spears) on UPN, i'd love to hear your critiques! :)

My friend Laura sent over a goofy game that's in german, but still rather addictive... basically you have to use the mouse to hold this drunk guy up, as he tries to walk home. And you're rated by how far you go... sounds easier than it looks....


Home Run

OH, and must share this... At work, someone from the WB Burbank office called and told me,
"You're lucky you don't have any meetings over here."
"Why?"
"Because I'm looking out our windows and the 134 is at a COMPLETE stand still, and there are helicoptors flying all over the place."

Well, here's what happened, that caused all that commotion:


A blip in the Matrix, you say?

What happened to the sun? Goosh!

Today I visited my good pals Lizette & Merri.

Lizette's one of the lucky ones who lives in walking distance from the beach, so it was only natural to meet at her house and proceed to the beach with our portable lunches and beach towels at hand. OF COURSE it would turn out that yesterday was SUNNY and WARM on the beach and TODAY was nothing but cold breezes and overcast skies! (I heard that Pale never goes out of style... yeah right. >sigh<)

But the disappointing weather was quickly forgotten because it was just so nice to keep up with old pals. One of my wishes is to still have a handful of friends when I'm in my retirement years... It's just so easy to lose touch...

On an unrelated random note... here's a movie that I didn't really enjoy at initial viewing - but for some reason the goofy lines have outlived the movie and can be quite amusing when said at the right moments... These one liners are great to have on a key chain or something...


Napoleon Dynamite Soundboard

Meet Josiah...

Here's Josiah waving...




Today Josiah invited us over for lunch, with the consent of his parents Michelle and Jeremy. We had delightful burritos and enchiladas at Rigoberto's, while he chilled out in his comfy blue 4-wheel drive stroller. Then we later cruised to his pad, and he let us "old folks" chat and catch up while he napped. (Gotta be prepared for a night of wide-eyed, don't-let-the-parents-go-to-sleep fun!)

He's growing up quickly though. You can tell how much he awaits the day when his feet are big enough to run in, so he can escape the ticklish licks of Misty the friendly four-legged furball...

hooked on House

Highly recommended show on Tuesday Nights (FOX):


House

It's the type of show where the dialogue is so sharp, you find yourself blurting out "yeah!" or "oooh" to a tv screen every now and then. Who knew a drama could be more like cheering for sports?

Toe smashing fun...

Watched "Kung Fu Hustle" while munching Hawaiian BBQ Chicken takeout from Shakas.

This was the second time we've seen it now. We originally wanted to catch the flick in the land of its creation, while we were in HK, but by the time we were there it was already on VCD. So when we got back to the States... we caught it in the theaters and it was pretty hilarious, as expected. :)



Perhaps the line between the violence being 'cartoonish' funny and being malicious and disturbing was a bit blurred though... so for those who haven't watched it... be warned! Shaolin Soccer contained hello kitty injuries compared to this movie...

Here are my favorite scenes (hopefully without giving anything away) from the flick: The 'backfiring' knife throwing, The splintered stick 'tap' by a 'pulpy' lead character, and the Sentence-Stopping Toe Smash move.

random thoughts

I've always wondered what it would be like to change my hair color to something totally unnatural for me, like platinum blonde.

But I think i'm too practical to ever do it. Being asian and having hair that grows fairly quickly - I'd probably get noticeable black roots in less than a week. But if somehow I had some magic potion that allowed me to not have to be a pop celebrity with stylists on call 24/7 to have radiant hair - I think i would try it.

I have a feeling this temporary disguise would make me a different person somehow... maybe a bit more unreserved? More likely to talk back to clients? Drive faster? Wear darker eyeliner? Be 2 days late on a cell phone bill? Eat out for lunch every day? Lease a sports car that has no real trunk and fits 1.75 passengers? Call in sick to work one day and return the next with a tan?



Less likely to care that I had platinum blonde hair with dark roots showing? Maybe i'll never know...

050505

I just realized that today's date creates "05/05/05". Don't know why that seems so amazing... but I just had to officially document this realization.

Maybe it's because i'm half-zoned, sorting out this month's Q2 estimates for my account. (ya, still at work and it's time to go home.)



All dolled up with no where to go...


050505

Google Game - procrastination tool of the day

Friend sent me a link to this Flash Game that could probably suck away a good hour or two from work you should be doing:


GUESS THE GOOGLE game

Basically, a guy created a way to piece a bunch of 'searched' images into one big collage. If you type "apple" - all the images that relate to "apple" show up... everything from the actual fruit to, the Apple computer, to the "Big Apple" new york.

Anyway, now he reversed it, and you have to guess what "word" created the images you'll see in the collage. Don't think too hard. It is usually a word as simple as "apple" or "doctor" or "bow". :)

Enjoy!!

May Day

Who decided to make the combination of the words "May Day" be a call for help? And should we all brace ourselves because we now have 31 more of these May Days to come? :)

May Day also seems to be a holiday for the 'common people'. Found a few websites that were Canadian... maybe a canadian holiday?

Any way -

Feel free to stay...

But now i'm going away. :)