Sunday, January 30, 2005

my boyfriend has a bowl cut.

Sorry baby, I just can't drown in silence any longer....

yes, everyone, he has a big huge bowl cut. straight across the forehead. he's trying to grow his hair out. i'm sure it will look great in a few months, and personally i think it's adorable--my little cousin has the same haircut. but his friends seem to think it's HILARIOUS. so, the caring and wonderful girlfriend i am, i've jumped on the wagon and continue to tease him mercilessly.

yesterday when he was driving me home on his way to LA:

Me: "Honey, drive carefully, okay? Whatever you do, don't drink and drive tonight...because...that might look like a helmet on your head, but it really isn't. It won't protect you in an accident."
He: "Get out of my car!" *opens door*

I spilled out of the car laughing, while he drove off: "Hrmph, I'm going to use my hair to get myself a new girl tonight!"

i cracked up so hard i could barely unlock the gate to get into my place.

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

i spent WAY too much time making this...

disgusting

Last week, New York Hip Hop Station Hot 97FM broadcast the following song to millions, repeatedly:
(sung to the tune of "We are the World")

"..All at once you could hear the screaming chinks
and no one was safe from the wave
there were africans drowning, little chinamen swept away
you could hear god laughing, "swim you bitches swim"

So now you're screwed, it's the Tsunami
you better run or kiss your ass away, go find your mommy
I just saw her float by, a tree went through her head
and now the children will be sold to child slavery..."


What an unbelieveably sick thing to do. I hope they are fined by the FCC and the people responsible for this are fired. I can't believe they thought it was funny.

I don't even have the words.....

hiphopmusic.com is keeping very close tabs on the situation. Visit their site to sign the online petition and write to corporate sponsors of the radio program.

Links to the media stories on the incident:
New York Times(registration required)
Daily News
Newsday
Billboard



Thursday, January 20, 2005

Family reunion

The holidays are all about family drama.

After much cajoling and grandmotherly intervention, my dad and the stepmonster (hereinafter SM) finally allowed my sister to come to visit me in SD and attend the family reunion (of relatives from my mother's side) last Saturday. This despite a sneaky last-minute coup staged by SM at the last minute to prevent my sister from attending, taken straight out of "Cinderella."

For weeks, she had smiled and said to my sister, "Of course you can go, IF you finish your chores and IF you complete all homework assignments." My sister worked her butt off to finish every chore and complete all assignments. BTW my sister's chores consist of cleaning, sweeping and mopping every inch of the entire house each week, doing all family laundry, all heavy lifting and all the dishes every day, as SM doesn't lift a precious finger to work.

Then, the afternoon of the day before the reunion, SM called each of my sister's six teachers directly, asking for a progress report of any assignments she had EVER missed. Since my sis had missed seven assignments EVER, SM staunchly refused to let her go, arguing that it would cause her to flout authority and become a bad student.

And I spent the afternoon crying my eyes out 100 miles away, shouting at the top of my lungs over the phone to my dad, as he parroted SM's whispered arguments.

Like any desperate person, I immediately called his mother. Grandma heard my sniffles and commandeered an army consisting of herself, my dad's brother and sister, and one of my mom's sisters, who spent the evening yelling at SM, eventually securing my sister's safe passage to San Diego.

I suspect we will have to go through this whenever she comes to visit me.

But, the family reunion was lots of fun, full of lobster, Peking duck, abalone, and drunken distant relatives crooning Chinese songs over a soundsystem turned so loud you had to shout to the person sitting next to you. A total of six relatives crammed into apartment to spend the night, including two little cousins, and now I've been finding strange things everywhere. There was a miniature hourglass on my desk, a collection of legos at the foot of the bed, and all the tissue boxes have had their contents removed, scrunched into tiny balls, and put back into the box.

It was a great weekend, even better because we had won a small victory against the forces of evil.

Stay tuned for the account, to be posted in approximately 30 years, of SM's sufferings at the slummy sweatshop disguised as an old folks home I shut her up in.

Saturday, January 15, 2005

pictures from winter break


margaritas and poinsettas Posted by Hello

Vegas trip with all my girl cousins! Actually there are 4 more of us who couldn't make it...we should start our own gang. Posted by Hello

Showing an unconscious drunk guy my boobies in Vegas.  Posted by Hello

Got too drunk in K-town and had to get a hotel. Why is everyone in this picture sideways, you ask? I have no idea. Posted by Hello

New Year's 2005 Posted by Hello

what the fuck were you thinking?? Posted by Hello

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

New Year's Resolutions

1. Eat healthy. I improved a lot last year, since I was cooking a lot of my own food, and managed to lower my (previously extremely high) cholesterol by 30 points—yay me! This year I want to start including more fiber in my diet—less white rice, more brown rice. Less caffeine, more herbal tea.

2. Drink less. This year, I want to cut back on alcohol, since eating a healthy dinner is no good if I wash it down with four beers and two red bull-and-jagers. I also had an epiphany earlier this year that the point of drinking isn’t to drink as much as I possibly can without passing out, said epiphany possibly triggered by the detained-at-the-mexican-border-for-being-too-drunk-to-say-“USA” incident, which my friends are STILL laughing at me for.

3. Be nicer to other people, especially my parents. I still argue with my dad sometimes because, deep down inside, I still resent him for marrying my stepmother. But I realize that this resentment is poisoning our relationship—my dad is a great guy, and he loves me very much, and I love him very much, and letting her get in the way of it will only make things worse for everyone in the long run. I’ve also resolved to be nicer to my stepmother, because even though she is a money-grubbing psychotic bitch, I should not allow her to turn me into a hateful and disrepsectful human being. My grandmother said something when I visited her a few weeks ago, and I really take it to heart—she told me that I shouldn’t let my stepmother or people like her to cause me to compromise my own manners, because respectfulness and kindness are part of my personality, and if I’m not normally a mean, ugly person, I shouldn’t be one to her either. I’ll get her one day, but now is not the time, and every moment I spend hating her makes me more miserable and makes my dad angrier at me for being bitchy to his wife. It’s just not worth it. I’ll most likely live to see her helpless and old, and I will have plenty of time to take things out on her then, when she most needs my help. Plus, I do believe in karma, and if there is a just god out there, she’s going to get hers, and expending energy hating her will only cause me more stress.

4. Don't let law school crush my soul. The pressure of law school is causing me to rearrange my priorities, let friendships slip between the cracks, neglect my family, miss appointments…and this should not happen.

5. Exercise more. Tim and I just bought annual passes to the Zoo and Wild Animal Park, and we’ve resolved to go at least once a month. It’s a great way to get exercise (the parks are HUGE and lots of uphill terrain) and you get to ogle the pandas and make fun of the uglier animals while burning fat!

6. Form my own opinion on things, and become a more critical reader. Too often, I find myself adopting the viewpoint of the articles I read. I resolve to be more critical of things I read, especially if I don’t agree with it at the outset. This has been an ongoing personal goal of mine, and it’s why I linked The Right Coast on my “Recommended Blogs” section—they may be a bunch of right-wing zealots, but their posts are compelling and cause me to see both sides of the argument. I’ve always hated that some people run around parroting the viewpoint of the latest pundit/author/critic they’ve read as if they came up with these ideas themselves…but how often do I do this myself? It’s very easy to skip the analytical process and adopt other’s views as your own, but I think I’ll gain more by questioning the ideas of those whose ideas I most agree with, and trying to understand those whose ideas I dislike. Not that I’m not going to take a stand for what I believe is right…I just want to make sure it’s really what I believe, not what I’ve mindlessly adopted from someone else.