i was looking on etsy.com, a place where people sell & buy handmade stuff, and i found this:
wow! a hello kitty rosary! eek. it's been weird to see rosaries become such a fashion trend, but this hello kitty rosary is way off. i was always taught that you shouldn't wear rosaries because they're sacred- you should only pray with it. i know it's not a real rosary, but it's kind of mocking.
perfect gift for hello kitty worshippers though. it's all yours for $28.00.
when i do anything remotely sneaky, i feel guilty. i also feel this rush... a thrill. even if it's nothing big.
for example, today. i checked my email at work! what a bad girl i am. you have to understand that i work in a very tiny office inside a bigger office (kind of like michael's room from the office but 2/3 the size) and there is only one computer. the screen faces the door so people who are passing by can see what i'm doing. but my boss was out of the office, taking pictures of properties.
i felt safe. she had other errands to run this time so i wasn't expecting her to return for a while. i checked my gmail and even started writing an email to alice. i had about three paragraphs done when she walked in
silently. she didn't intent to be so silent, i think. she's just like that.
i guess i should've been more careful~
she didn't say anything, but i was so nervous that i panicked and i quickly tried to close the window. it gave me that stupid "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO EXIT THIS PAGE" yes or no thingies so it didn't go away fast enough. my palms were sweaty. so many things were passing through my mind. omg omg omg. what to do what to do.
it's been two weeks and i haven't done anything wrong yet. and i'm really scared of my boss.... i've seen her yell at other people. i really didn't know what to expect. surprisingly, she didn't say anything. she might have not caught on though, since she is somewhat computer-illiterate. either way, i'm never checking my email again at the office. at least not for a while.
i thought i liked routine. and i did like it until i started my 9-4 job.
omg so boring... haha. honestly, it's only been 3 days and i can't accurately tell you how i feel about the job yet. working in the real estate business is a lot of paper work, time and being selfless... at least for me it is.
anyhoo, have you heard the new musiq soulchild? there's this song called 'radio' on his new album on the radio and it goes:
whatever i like i put it on my radio
you can probably find something new on my radio
if you wanna ride (cool) just don't touch my radio
and it cracks me up!! the song sounds kinda funky too. it doesn't sound like what you'd expect from musiq. 'if you leave' sounds a lot more like him. it actually sounds really similar to 'teach me' except 'if you leave' features mary j blige. 'if you leave' and 'until' are my fav's from this album. my all time fav from him though, is 'don't change.' teehee. i love me some r&b~
yayy another entertaining movie! i love it when a movie is good. it doesn't feel like i wasted 2-3 hours haha =)
the synopsis sounds a bit drab: a dentist who dies for 7 minutes during an operation can suddenly see dead people and they ask him a bunch of favors. since he is not a people person (actually he hates everything about people), he ignored their dire requests to help.
one dead guy stood out to him though because his wife happened to live right below the dentist's apartment. do you smell a romance? yes, the story develops around their relationship. she helps him become friendly and less of a prick. it's categoried under comedy and it definitely is funny and witty.
the dentist speaks with an english accent, which kind of makes everything more fun somehow. it doesn't have much action in it, which might bore you a little. it's just not that kind of a movie.
it got 84% on rotten tomato, which is pretty darn good. check it out when you have a quiet evening to yourself~
kanye west's latest album '808's & Heartbreak' was released on 11/24/08. i really didn't like love lockdown, which started playing on radio a while ago, and it didn't welcome me to his new album. i thought his second title song, heartbreak was just aiite but after hanging with lois on thursday, i was sold on his album. she really likes the new album so we were listening to it all day in her car, during production, etc. it's very different from his previous works- very indie, i have to say.
there isn't one happy song on this album. he seems really heartbroken. i'm sure you heard his mother died. it was big celeb news... and he broke off his engagement to fiancee, alexis phifer not long after that. she was a stylist and i thought they looked good together... but anyhoo. my favorites are street lights (this song kind of breaks my heart a little), welcome to the heartbreak featuring kid cudi, and tell everybody that you know featuring lil wayne.
well, he debuted at number one on billboard 200. that should mend his broken heart.
i think my blog is like a pet to me. i could not wait to blog this whole weekend! i've been just busy with everything but i've been wanting to blogggg haha. now that i'm done with all my things that are immediately due tomorrow, i can stretch my two feet and typeeee.
i just wanted to talk about the short movie on coco chanel that karl lagerfeld did. it's on the chanel website.
i heard he was making one a while ago and i was like... he can make movies? he's amazing at everything else he does such as photography and FASHION of course so i was excited.
i am so glad it's free. haha! the model who plays chanel is so pretty. i never thought i would enjoy a silent, b&w film but this one was funny, entertaining, and like candy for my eyes.
i really respect karl lagerfeld. and he's half the reason i love chanel <3
this coming week can either make or break my grades.
i am pretty sure i am getting all a's in my classes... it's just a matter of how good of an a.
i am worried about english 1c and american history. for english, i've been getting a minuses on my essays. ugh. keeping me on the edge of my seat. i cannot let it tip over to a b. history should be ok as long as i get an a on my final. it's not accumulative so it shouldn't be too bad... except our professor is a bit psychotic and some of her questions are unpredictable.
someone said to me
if there is no such thing as an a plus, there shouldn't be such thing as an a minus.
i completely agree!!!
i wish everyone GOOD LUCK on their finals-
and don't drink too much caffeine. you NEED sleep to remember what you studied !!
i was looking through my old magazines for a project and i found an article that i thought was absolutely cute. it's from ellegirl, which folded in 2006. it was one of my favorite magazines on the same level as teen vogue but somehow it got cut =(
the article is titled "we ask nine random guys" and they asked guys at Ozzfest in LA "how is a girl like a song?" it's by sam comen from the dec/jan 06 issue. there's pictures of 9 guys and their answers. i left out 3 bc they were stupid.
robert, 16
there may be a long verse, but it's worth it cause the chorus is gonna rock.
ulysses, 20
a song can enthrall you just like a girl can.
michael, 21
girls are just like music- you like what you like.
danny, 19
it depends. some make you sad; others make you wanna rock out.
ryan, 17
girls are like songs in the sense that they're beautiful and there's nothing like them in the world.
sean, 19
you have to listen to them to figure them out.
wow sean got it right on the dot! listening isn't the only thing boys need to do, but it's a big part of a relationship. i just thought i'd share.
i fell in love with fashion magazines in high school when i first laid eyes on W. the big magazine had chic ads that made girls dream about clothes at night. i really wanted the rich enough one day to own the items in the ads. but in the last couple of years, the ads have lost their magic on me. they're not as good. i used to rip them out and put them on my walls and now, i can't find any that i like enough to do that.
when i saw the new dolce & gabbana ads in vogue, i was shocked. i guess i didn't expect much from them since their ads haven't been my favorites but still. it looks disgusting. the overtanned women (dolce and gabbana are overtanned themselves) and the unimpressive clothes? what are they trying to sell?
i want the fabulousness back in the high fashion ads. really.
it's one of the best movies i've seen this year. i liked it a lot.
i used to not take keira knightley seriously. i didn't like her much in the pirates of the caribbean movies because she didn't have much of a variety. all her expressions were the same and her acting seemed sort of flat. i started liking her a little more with atonement (i heart this movie). the duchess really put her on the 'serious actress' map.
i don't want to give too much away but she goes through a lot of drama and she is confronted with a lot of problems. marriage, infidelity, freedom, children, friendship, etc. it must have been such a hard time back then. it's set in the 18th century so the women are wearing ready-to-be-ripped corsets and 3ft wigs. i love costume movies! haha. and the women had to bear sons, and if they didn't, the husband would keep trying with the same woman or find a new woman. they thought it was the woman's fault that she couldn't give birth to a son. what nonsense.
and don't compare it to the other boleyn girl. that movie was so terrible, natalie portman lost a bit of legitness(?!?) in my mind. i strongly recommend the duchess!
haha i wanted to share our pics from guppy's last night. you can judge for yourself- do we look like a couple? lol.
after watching twilight, kristen, ashley, sarah and i went to guppy's for some grubs. we talked about a lot of things, but one thing that really stood out to me is what sarah said: things don't happen when you want it to. i completely agree with this from personal experience. for example, almost all the great things in my life have happened when i least expected them. it's a weird philosophy- don't expect anything- but if i really want something, i can't FORCE it to happen. you can only lead yourself in the direct of whatever you desire.
i liked reading the book but i didn't like the book so much. does that make sense? it was really easy reading and entertaining because in a way, it's such a korean drama and it's kind of ridiculous, what this 16/17 year old is going through. it's funny. plus i enjoyed all the cheesy parts.
the movie was terrible. first of all, the casting was all wrong. many girls think robert pattinson is hot... he SO is NOT. in the book, the vampires are supposed to be ridiculously irresistible to their prey = humans. robert pattinson does not make my heart throb or anything close to it. he's not even cute to me. as for kristen stewart, i didn't like her at first but i liked her better after the movie. she fits the part. rosalie and other vampires were not attractive either. i'm not being shallow, i'm just saying that according to the book, they're supposed to be hot beyond hell. and don't get me started on jacob black...
they also sort of tweaked some parts to fit the movie. and of course, they left out a lot of things too. they could have done a better job of adapting the book into the movie. the way they did it made the film 1. a bad movie in general 2. a bad movie adaption of a novel.
i am sad i wasted money to see this in theatre. i should've seen quantum solace instead. all the twilight fans i know have told me they were a bit disappointed and weren't too fond of the movie- but i really wanted to decide for myself =( if you really want to watch it, go to watch-movies.net. it's probably bad quality but hey, it's free.
so i have a lot of gay friends- gay guy friends- and i wondered if that made me come off as a lesbian somehow. i found out that it doesn't. people seem to understand the concept of a 'fag-hag' so it's been good.
but today kristen and i were mistaken as a lesbian couple. i've been saying that my short hairdo makes me look like a boy but i didn't know i would start giving off the samantha ronson vibe. kristen can certainly be an asian lindsay lohan minus the coke habit. we both got a haircut at the same time and her stylist thought that we were a couple. i didn't hear this bc i was with another stylist and i was talking about tattoos with him.
i mean, we met up for a group project on a sunday morning so i was like.... in minimal makeup and plain clothing but since kristen dresses a lot more girlier and fancier, i guess we looked like a couple. how did i feel about it? it was interesting to hear that she thought that... but i got a strong urge to like seriously dress more girly. but then it's also the hair. ugh. i bought lipgloss today.
my hair doesn't look much different from before (i can barely tell the difference), but the proceeds went to the fire victims in brea so it was all worth it. it was at this salon called studio 5150 and they were raffling free 1-hr drum lessons with this ex-drummer from ACDC. cool, huh? i don't care much for them, but i know toni does so i got an autographed picture of him for her. his name is chris slade and he's the salon owner's dad or something. teehee.
there's only 3 weeks of school left (3rd week being finals) and everything is piling on in every class. group projects, essays, tests, BS!
and then for some reason, i signed myself up for a features story. 1000 words. i might as well replace it with one good picture. haha... ha... ha...
i guess i wanted to do it because it's the last issue of the semester and it's probably going to be my last newspaper ever. cheryl, the student trustee at mt. sac wanted the mountaineer to do a story on halmuhnee and she only speaks korean, so i just jumped at it.
halmuhnee is one of the several recycling ladies on campus. she goes around trash bins to pick up water bottles, soda bottles and any other recyclable things. there's another lady who has been at mt. sac for longer than she, for about ten year according to dr. maynard. but halmuhnee gets all the attention and knows a lot more people. anyway, i got to actually sit down and talk to her.
there is so much to say about her, but i'll make it brief. she has 2 daughters here in US and a son in korea. she lives with her younger daughter's family in an apartment just down the street from mt. sac. they have been here since 2 years ago but her son-in-law cannot get a job, so she's helping out by bringing in some supplemental income. her daughter calls her 'guhji' which means homeless. the rest of her family though, is supportive. she said her granddaughters are very thankful and they do very well in school. one of her granddaughters actually attends mt. sac. But she told her granddaughter to not say 'hi' when she sees her because it will be embarrassing. my heart breaks.
omg so sad. she used to go to mountains and rock climb in korea! now she has to dig through trash. oh, the absurdities of life.
i wish i can say more, but i gotta save the juice for the actual story. the issue is coming out.. during finals week?! i'm not sure. but wait for it... i'll make it a good one.
A general view of the fireworks at the Atlantis resort in Dubai, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. While the rest of the world is tightening its belt, Dubai is throwing a US$20 million party Thursday complete with Hollywood celebrities and a fireworks show that organizers said would be visible from outer space. The party, which will be headlined by Australian pop star Kylie Minogue in her Middle East debut, is to celebrate a new US$1.5 billion marine-themed resort built off the Gulf coast on an artificial island in the shape of a palm tree. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)
really? wow. where is all their money coming from? and why do they need fireworks that is visible from space? is anyone watching from outer space? who CARES about all this nonsense when the economy is so terrible? does anyone have the money to go to the resorts there?
i don't know why but i've been very ditzy and forgetful lately. i hate it! i feel so dumb. i can't form my sentences right. i sound like a valley girl. not cool.
and yes, it's 7:16am and i am at school because i have class at 7:30. boo. and i woke up at 5am to finish my damn movie review. ugh. life.
listening to: jumping in the pool by friendly fires
so i hope no one noticed, but i've been changing my layout a LOT over the last couple of days. like ridiculously, obsessively. and you're probably saying.... and you've only got this? it's not that i've been preparing extravagant graphics or style sheets but i've just been experimenting with different colors, etc. i wasted a lot of time. in retrospect... in psychoanalyzing myself, i think i was trying to distract myself from the REAL things i have to do. like... writing journal entries for my interpersonal communications class.
i have to handwrite them in this tiny 5x6 journal and i need 16 entries by tomorrow. i have 6 and a half so far. yea i'm royally fucked. i have things planned out and i know what i want to write. the things is, i just don't feel like doing it.
uh oh. haha.
well i said i would talk more about jacc in my earlier post, so i'll update briefly. overall, i was disappointed. i liked the whole event and all, but i feel like mt.sac could've done a lot better. i mean, we ARE the best. so why aren't we performing? we didn't even get general excellence for the mountaineer and that really upset me. we have to get things done on time and make it look good... we need higher goals. but congrats to carmichael for winning second place in features writing! that is amazing.
the best part about jacc was hanging out with the mountaineer crew afterwards at shawn's house. i drank! omg. haha. and i played beer pong... and won thanks to aldo, my teammate. it was definitely a bonding moment for all of us. and a moment of realization that albert serna should never drink bc he goes ape shit when he's drunk. i also realized that i like vodka and redbull even though i don't like redbull. and rum isn't all that bad. teehee.
now i really have to go get started on my stupid journals. wish me luck!
i am here at Cal State Fullerton for the second day of the JACC (Journalism Association of Community Colleges) SoCal Competition. it's an event where journalism students from community colleges in socal come together to compete in different areas such as photography, newswriting, designing layout, etc. i'll write more about that in the next post, but first i want to talk about an article i read in the Daily Titan yesterday.
it was on the front page and the headline read something like "suicide among asian american women on the rise." it immediately caught my attention. one of the professors at fullerton did a research on women and suicide and she found out that the rate of suicide in asian women increases as women get older. the professor said that it's because asian women have really high expectations that they must meet. overall, they are pressured to be good at everything. wow! that's how i've been feeling these days! ... all my life! haha. and i can't say that i haven't thought about suicide, but i think that's normal. it wasn't anytime recently but i definitely feel a lot of pressure to be good at every aspect of my life- as a student, daughter, sister, person, etc. but i thought everyone else felt that way... so what makes us crack??
it's all in the way we deal with our stress and pressure. the professor did mention that women exercise, meditate, get involved, etc to cope with their stress but i wonder what it is for asian women that makes us so vulnerable to ourselves... i mean, bc other women obviously have similar problems. it must be the way we deal with it. we need to rise up, asian women of the world!! reach out for help! reach out to the community! get involved and lets live....
one of my coworkers had to get a surgery on her ear... more like a procedure for an infection from a piercing so i have to work 4 days straight. friday-mon. it's not too bad but i'm not used to eeeet.
holy apps, stats hw and photo assignments! i want a break. i canNOT wait for thanksgiving! my grandma told me my aunt is planning to prepare crab for thanksgiving. AND ham. what the... we always have ham from honeybaked but now we're gonna add on crab? i love crab but i don't think turkey and crab go very well together. but then my family DOES eat a lot. holidays are truly a feast for our family and we overeat too. but still, i'm gonna tell my aunt that we only need one kind of animal for thanksgiving. one or the other.
on a different note, i need to stop skipping class. not going to stats is SO much easier than going and fighting sleep for two hours. ugh. i was thinking about skipping monday but then i would be missing class for the third time in a row... and the ever studious person that i am, won't let myself do that. skipping class is something that you shouldn't start in the first place. bc once you do it, you know how much better it feels and you start doing it over and over again. ugh.
well have a great veteran's day weekend, everyone and thanks to our troops overseas !!
i was so nervous... and then it happened. obama indeed is our next president and i was thankful that our nation made the right choice. i am so excited to see him as a president. he is going to face some MAJOR challenges but he'll handle it.
as for the propositions, we'll have to wait for the complete count so i'll check it in the morning.
i've had a long day with classes starting at 7:30am and covering the forensics event, election night spectacular which went from 6:30 to around 9. there were debates on prop2 and prop7&10 which didn't amuse me very much. the speakers were not prepared since they did not know any information beyond the 3-5 line description in the general election booklet. a lot of their arguments sounded like last minute bs. maybe it's because i've seen some really great forensics stuff in the previous semesters, i had high expectations. i did enjoy a reader's theatre performance. it was about people moving to canada to escape the rule of bush haha. it was very entertaining and it saved the event. there was a great turnout- the seats were all full and people were standing against the walls. it was held in the stage area of 9c, the student life center, so it's a big space. about half left after the performances were over because they were there to get extra credit for their speech classes.
after that, i went to the measure rr celebration in their office by stater bros. with carmichael and freddy. mostly adults were there, such as the school's board of trustees and some other school faculties. some people who worked for measure rr were there as well. there were plenty of food, so i replenished myself there. i ran into a lot of people i knew and met the director of media and community at mt. sac. her name is jill and she was so kind- she said that she still knew a lot of photogs from her days as a journalist and if i ever needed her help, she'll be glad to assist. yay!
today was a GRRREAT day...except for my history test that i got back today
but OBAMA won and that's all i really could have asked from today.
i feel so tense right now. i'm struggling to stay awake because for the past 4 months or so, time went an hour faster and now i'm supposed to adapt to the real time. which makes it only 9:45 right now.
needless to say, i haven't adapted at all. i woke up in darkness this morning and when i looked at my phone, it was 5:45. i said 'holy shit!' and tried to put myself to sleep again.
it might have been because i had a huge interview today for my interpersonal communications class. i was really nervous all day yesterday and when i feel that tense, i tend to wake up earlier than usual. the interview went smoothly i think, and i am thankful for that.
i came home and i thought i could relax. no such luxury. i have an essay draft due tomorrow for a paper due thursday- i know you're saying 'then just do it wed night!' but it's always helpful to have my friends read it and give me feedback and see what other people are writing about. then i started panicking about UC apps. they did start on the first and it's already the third. i have a month but i feel so out of time. recent changes of heart: my major and my first-choice of school are what's really screwing me. ugh. applications are such a complicated process, especially for UCs. and i don't even know if i want to go to one anymore.
to relieve some tension, i went on youtube. on the front page, i saw a featured beyonce music video of 'single ladies (put a ring on it)'
and immediately i remember another video that i had seen a while ago. i actually had it on my myspace a couple years ago when the song 'walk it out' was new. the video was a parody of 'walk it out' and i had to look it up.
after watching this one, i was sure that the choreographer for the beyonce video was 100% "influenced" by this second video. i don't know, it was such a weird discovery. i had to write about it.
i'm so tired, i'm gonna go. but if you read this before 11/04, PLEASE VOTE and remember to vote NO on prop 8. it's REALLY about discrimination! gay people are BORN gay just like you were born with your skin color. being gay is not a choice. it is a NATURAL thing. they LOVE their partners just as you love your man/woman. legalize justice.
this weekend so relaxing for me ;) i cleaned out my closet and i made a couple piles for goodwill, put all my clothes away, cleaned up my desk, did laundry and i put all my school work into organized folders. i feel greatttt about this. i even finished my math hw which i usually do on monday mornings before class xP i know, my definition of relaxing is a bit different from other people's but getting organized and cleaned makes me feel SO refreshed. i could have started my english paper that's due thursday but i felt like rewarding myself so i decided to watch a movie.
i watched my man godfrey last week for a history project and i loved it. it's a movie from early 1930's but wow, it was hilarious and i really enjoyed it. it was a pleasant surprise. so when i saw giant on my dvd shelf downstairs, i decided to give it a shot. it's another oldie and i guessed i might like it. the cover informed me that it was a clasic... and that it was 200 minutes long O.O but i kind of had the time so i watched it >.<
and i am in awe of that movie. it was made so well. the effects aren't laughable at all, and it is like... what a movie should be. it was a love story that isn't ridiculous and it was also about family and money and racism and texas. maybe it went a little too in-depth compared to the kind of movies we like watching nowadays but it was a good change from all the crappy movies i've been watching in theatres. it was my first elizabeth taylor movie. also my first james dean movie. boy, they can act !! i am so impressed by this movie. i never would've guessed i would be into a 1956 film. it sounds so nerdy to say i am glad i had that assignment for history... but i am. it made me give old movies a chance and i actually appreciate them.
i've been trying to not go out at all so that's why i have a lot of time on my hands. i love hanging out with my friends and going out to eat and things but times are bad right now. the economy is going on a downward spiral and it's not going to get better anytime soon, that's definite. it's taken an affect on me so i try to do everything at home. it hasn't been too bad yet. i read more, i do better in school and i watch a lot more movies and tv shows haha :) and when i do meet up with friends, we go out for a coffee or froyo. they're affordable and don't take long.
today i was able to meet up with nicole and try the salted caramel hot chocolate from starbucks. ohh lordy. it's thickkk. it's not thick in texture but it just tastes thick. you can't taste the caramel at all. which is a good thing. it tastes exactly like chocolate-covered pretzels but more hot chocolate-y. i like it a lot but i don't know if i like it more than the hazelnut hot chocolate. hmm...
i want to add one more thing before i go. so i've mentioned i've been watching a lot of tv shows lately. i watched the first two seasons a while back and i loved them. it is not like any other show, just the content and the characters. i got started on season 3 and it is SUCH a disappointment. it's the same thing but it seems like they're trying too hard with the plot. there are too many things happening to dexter that is screwing with his life. it just doesn't seem like the other seasons and they're trying to hard to get new viewers. it lost its excitement for me. *sigh* money ruins everything x(
there's something in the air. i know it. i am feeling SOOOO lazy.
i've been fighting it well, sorta. and then yesterday i gave up. i watched all the new episodes from the most recent seasons of ugly betty and grey's anatomy. i think ugly betty had 3 and grey's had 2. and then i watched some scrubs. earlier this week, i caught up with my 91210 and dexter. holy me!
but it feels soooo good to be lazy!! oh my goodness... i'm getting fat too. i feel the blubber trying to form on my abdomin. *sigh*
and another sigh for all the shiz i have to do over the weekend. i have to watch a movie to write a history paper on it, a lot of math hw (sO tedious), i gotta assign photos to photographers, do a phone interview for a class and ugh! work!
A rave (or rave party), is a term, in use since the 1980s, to describe dance parties (often all-night events). At these parties, DJs and other performers play electronic dance music (sometimes referred to as "rave music"), with the accompaniment of laser light shows, projected images, and artifical fog.
okk so obviously, i've never been to a rave. i know a lot of people who do go, so i've heard a lot about them. i've also seen a lot of pictures on facebook and myspace of raves. the ring-pops, the bracelets, the costumes! they look fun and crazy. i've been clubbing a few times but raves look like they're on a different level. the things that have been keeping me from going (besides my uber conservative parents that want me home at 11) are the scary people that i heard about that go around raves, poking people with drugs/AIDs, etc. holy crap! ravers will say that you're ok if you 'stay in the light' and go with a bunch of people but THAT does not comfort me at all. some ravers want to trade bracelets and some may have acid on them! i can't understand the people who do go, and i guess i can't speak for them until i go to one, but man... it sounds really dangerous.
if anyone is planning on going to monster massive, watch out !
the chilling number of home foreclosures, the fall of lehman brothers, and now wamu?? wow.
according to npr, it is the the biggest bank to fail in the history of united states. you don't need to be worried about your account because business will be back as usual on monday. but just... wow!
"The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized WaMu on Thursday, and then sold the thrift's banking assets to JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $1.9 billion."
and i just received an email from uber, another blog hosting website:
"Thank You. Goodbye. Uber will be turned off on Monday.
Thank You.
That's the first thing that we wanted to say. We have some bad news. The crisis in the economy has claimed Uber as its latest victim. Our investors have decided to stop supporting Uber and we have closed the doors. We would like to thank them too; it’s no fault of theirs that this happened. On the contrary, without their unflinching support we would never have made it this far, and they have stood by us and tried desperately to help us realize our dreams.
The site will be inactive as of Monday September 29, 2008.
We, the former Uber staff, are very disappointed in this outcome and feel bad that we can’t continue this journey we started with you. Uber was an art project in the form of a for-profit corporation whose mission was to change the way the Internet was built. We felt and still feel that everyone needs a voice in this new medium, not just the big media giants. We tried to build a site that let people of eve ry skill level, every style, and every generation express themselves and meet fellow individuals.
After two years of refining Uber, listening to your feedback and working at breakneck speed to try and make a product that accomplished this goal, we were unfortunately cut short right as we got on a roll. But we’re not quitters. The team behind Uber will undoubtedly reform in a new way and bring another set of ideas to you and will have had the benefit of the wonderful experience we had here to aid us on our way... "
i was so sad to read this. uber provided a blog service that was on another level. it provided room for personal portfolios, which was my favorite part. and it's funny to me because i thought uber was doing well. underground celebrities such as cory kennedy, and awesome writers like rose apodaca blog on it. lisa ling had an uber too !! and i'm sure they brought in a lot of hits. it's where all the cool artistic people blogged. but i guess it didn't get much publicity and failed to spread wide =(
i assume blogger will never have to shut down since it's owned by google. yep. *sigh* what's happening to our economyy and when will this end??
i've been a fan of anne hathway since princess diaries and now she's HUGEEE!
i think it started with all the promotions for the movie get smart. now she's the face of lancome's fragrance magnifique!! even more intriguing is her making cover of W. wow!! i'm so sad my subscription to w ended like... last year. nowadays i'm so broke, i don't want to pay $5 for a magazine. here's the cover:
isn't she amazing?? ugh. the hair, the makeup... she can pull it off. i wish i was as half as graceful as she is.
although i haven't weighed myself in ages (because my scale is broken), i still 'watch my weight' by not eating after 9 if i can help it, reading my food labels and drinking lots of water. i realize that exercise is an important factor which is missing from my routine but i can't help it. i hate exercise.
well i happened to run into this picture on a blog a couple weeks back and i'm finally posting it:
her name is jessica stroup. you might recognize her from the new 90210, she plays silver. everyone on that superficial show is skinny even to LA standards and i was very sad when i saw this picture. the picture on the left is probably how she was normally. what did she have to do to lose that much weight? probably develop an eating disorder. people always say 'what are we showing our kids through hollywood tv?' and many research links eating disorders to the media. right now, it's telling us: if you want to be anything near cool, become underweight.
it is so unfortunate. i'm not saying lets all be sedentary like myself. but rather: lets not go to the extremes to be skinny. what's it all worth?
eyes, lips, nose: they all define how a person looks. but hair makes the biggest statement. hair style shows a lot about a person. if your hair is always messy, you might be a messy person. short hair may suggest confidence. if you have homely hair, you're a person who plays it safe. if your hair is always in a tight bun like cindy mccains, you might have a stick up your ass.
well i got a haircut today and it is quite a drastic change for me. my mom got her hair cut a couple days ago at a new salon and i really liked her hair so i decided to pay a visit. my hair was already above my shoulders but it was really thick and blunt in the back. so i told sunny, the stylist, that i want to grow out my hair but i want to 'clean up' the back part. that's all i told her.
a few snips later, i realized she was like.... really cutting my hair. she was going so fast. i started to panic with worries like: omg am i gonna look like a fob? a lesbian? a man??? but it wasn't going too bad so i didn't say anything. as she came closer to finish, i saw myself in the mirror and i looked so different... i have heavier bangs but not messy. my hair's less thick overall so it doesn't look all built up. it's hard to describe the rest but- i like it.
i went to work a few hours after getting my hair done and one of my old coworkers came in. he said 'hey you got your hair cut, huh?' and i said 'yea! i got it done today!'
6:54 second issue of the mountaineer is in the works. i don't have any more editing to do but i must stay here just in case... i had yama bowl like 30 minutes ago. everyone else is waiting for subway. i'll keep updating.
8:40... only?!?!
i thought it was at least 10pm. i'm so tired. i'm done but i'm here just in case...
i'm repeating myself, aren't i....
10:30 done. been done. i get to go home now. mmmaaannnnyyy are still staying....
or am i getting cheap? my pair of sandals i wear right now are tearing apart and i disparately need new ones. i just can't find the ones that i can afford... eeps.
so today was like another day, another wrong google weather forecast kinda day. it was off by like 10 degrees. i'm so disappointed. i had some eye-candy at school to cheer me up though.
this one eye-candy was wearing red vans, the kind i like, and had an extremely adorable butt. lord knows i love a cute butt...
anyhoo, i was sitting in my speech class when i thought of a new goal. you know, just like one of those goals you set yourself. it sounds really obvious but i want to stop looking for happiness in superficial things. i feel so materialistic at times, i just want to be able to look at things on a deeper level.
first, i can start off by looking at trashy blogs like perezhilton....
you name it: xanga, uber, vox, blogger, livejournal... i have made at least one blog on each of these websites but xanga is the one that i was persistent with. i eventually grew out of my xanga and stopped.
i've been meaning to start blogging again for a long time, but i never got around to it. i needed an extra push, an inspiration. and i got that inspiration today.
i was at community college journalism day at usc, which is known for their annenberg schoool for communication & journalism, and i took a 1-hr session on blog writing and how to get your blog read. the guest speakers were the blog editor for la times, tony pierce and brad friedman from bradblog.com. they were kind of amazing. tony's personal blog is in technorati's top 300 blogs, which led him to work for LAist, etc. brad friedman is an expert at political reporting, more specially election stuff.
two things that stood out to me from the session was 1. write about stuff you want to write about, something that you're passionate about. 2. have multiple writers on your blog. offer different views, get more hits.
the only thing is... 1. quiet sadly, i don't know what i want to write about 2. besides carmichael, i don't know who else wants to blog
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