Archive for June, 2003

wee nice weather :D

well hey guys. this will be a quick blog because i’m going to bed in a couple of minutes. so the hr lady came to me and told me that the receptionist won’t be at work on thursday and monday so i get to fill in. yay for me. at least i won’t have to photocopy or rip out ads. today i had to copy powerpoint slides onto these huge poster things. i kept messing them up so i had to redo them. there was this pyramid that i had to draw with a ruler and i was almost done with it when i messed up! i did it again ad at the end i messed up again. i got really frustrated and the administrative assistant said i could finish it tomorrow. hehe. yay. anyway, the yankees beat the orioles. yay. ) yay for ruben sierra’s homerun. i’m going to read for a little bit and then go to bed. i can’t wait until thursday. gnite <3

sundays suck

i really hate sundays. i haven’t done much this weekend. friday night was a little too crazy for me. i hung out with my high school friends for the first time in over a year. it was pretty cool to catch up with them. we went to a lounge in the city. ) saturday i went to minado for lunch buffet. it was good, but they didn’t have my favorite seaweed salad. ( we went kind of late, so there wasn’t as much food as usual. that’s okay though. D after lunch, mom, jessica, and i went to roosevelt field to get our passports renewed at the passports. looks like everyone and their mom were also getting their passports renewed. my mom and jessica took a long time filling out the forms, and soon a line formed behind them. i had to help my sister fill hers out because she’s never filled out an application by herself obviously! when we finished our passport stuff, we went shopping. i bought some cute stuff at ae. i wanted to buy jeans at jcrew, but they didn’t have my size. :/ the other jeans looked funny on me. i really want to buy a pair of these slippers. my mom and i asked random girls who were wearing similiar slippers where they bought their shoes. one told me a flea market, another told me brooklyn nyc. hehe. i wish i lived closer to chinatown so i could go buy myself a pair of them. my mom says those slippers are cheap and will probably break after i wear them a couple of times. that’s okay with me, they look super cute with capris or skirts. D today i’m doing fun laundry. i slept a lot last night. i guess i need it since i will be getting like 6 hours a night because of work. blaaaaaaaaah. i’m just glad i only have work until thursday. thank god for the 4th of july!! <3

another friday!

i think i’m the only person at work right now. i arrived at work at around 8:30 a.m. yeah i know, i’m an eager beaver. it’s just because i know that the e train leaves 179th street at 7:35 a.m., and i don’t feel like taking the f and then transferring to the e. usually i end up standing up for the majority of the ride on the e. anyway, i’m sure you guys have no idea what i’m talking about. cici and i have been talking about diets and being healthy. did you guys know that a 30 minute workout at 6 intensity approximately burns 272 calories? that’s equivalent to 1/2 cup of haagen-dazs ice cream, or 1 (2 oz.) croissant, or 1 strawberry kiwi snapple. isn’t that kind of discouraging? i also read in the atkins book that gardening for 30 minutes burns 215 calories! all this time i’ve been running my butt off the treadmill. grr. i guess it’s good for my heart. hopefully this will make me healthier and not have heart disease at such an early age. ok enough of this dieting babble. i will leave you guys with the usual friday five:

1. How are you planning to spend the summer [winter]?
this summer i am a unpaid intern at a pharmacuutical advertising firm in nyc.

2. What was your first summer job?
hrmm, i think i was a camp counselor at my school district’s day camp. that’s when i learned that i could never succeed as a teacher.

3. If you could go anywhere this summer [winter], where would you go?
well, i really wanted to go to taiwan before this whols sars thing. this summer i want to go to europe. i’ve never been there. maybe i can go this winter. D

4. What was your worst vacation ever?
hrm. most of my vacations were pretty good. my friends had bad luck when we went to california like 2 years ago. it was freezing and overcast the whole week we were there. i don’t know if that qualifies as the “worse” vacation ever. i’ll have to get back to you guys on that!

5. What was your best vacation ever?
oh geez, here’s another toughie. i really liked all the cruises my family took in the caribbean. we got to see the mayan ruins, traverse these waterfalls in jamaica, go scuba diving, ride horses in the banana fields, and all sorts of things. it was really exciting. )

ok well, i guess i should go pretend to look busy. tgif!! <3

ahhhhhhh

ok so me and cici are talking about going on diets and looking all hot and sexy for the summer. so i was calculating our BMIs. then we were talking about how asians need to have lower BMIs to be considered healthy. so this is what i found:

The WHO consultation set the ‘normal’ BMI range for Asians from 18.5 to 23, but it decided that individual countries should establish their own high-risk, or obese, cut-off points based on their own morbidity and mortality data, Dr Yap, a member of the Singapore Health Promotion Board, said.

wow i’m barely in the normal range!! ahh. i feel so fat now. also, on prevention.com i did a calorie counter. it said that my 30 min workout on the treadmill burns about 272 calories, which is equivalent to a 1/2 cup of haagen-dazs ice cream, or a hot dog, or a 2 oz croissant, or 1 snapple strawberry kiwi. hahaha!! hilarious. it makes me feel that my whole working out thing is worthless. grr. it’s almost lunch time. i should just skip it. ( boohoo.

sexy for summer

so i’ve been working out 4 times a week since i’ve gotten back from school. i must say i am looking better and better. i’ve lost about 8 lbs. it’s very good. i only have like 10 more lbs to lose. haha. i run on the treadmill for 30 minutes and then walk for like 5 minutes to cool down. yeah i know it’s not that long, but it’s a workout for me. i started at intensity 5, but i’ve worked up to 6 for most of the time. sometimes i even go up to 9! at that point i think my legs are going to fall off and i’ll trip and die on the treadmill hehe. in other news, i finished the harry potter book! it’s good. i can’t wait for the 6th book. i’m not going to ruin the book for anyone. my cousin jane, wants me to tell her what happens. we’ll see if she can bribe me. haha. =) i recommend everyone to read the 5th harry potter book when they have the chance. i started the book on saturday and finished yesterday night. i stayed up until 2:30 a.m. because i was so into the book. i couldn’t put it down! anyway, i need to get at least 6 hours of sleep tonight, so i must go to bed. <3

=)

today i was pretty swamped with all these photocopying jobs. i basically had to recreate 5 huge binders for one of the employees. i love how everything in the binder is stapled, so i have to unstaple it to photocopy and then restaple it. it’s kind of annoying. the copier staples are harder to pull out too. grr. i think i’m getting better at pulling them out with the staple remover. today was yet another hot and humid day. i’m lucky enough not to have to be outside for most of the day, but the commute back sucks. first i have to walk from my office to grand central at 4:45 p.m. the sun is still out and strong. boy was i hot! then after i get off at 179th street, i have to wait for what it seems like an eternity (really like 5 minutes), for the bus. it’s sooo hot. sometimes the bus’s air-conditioner is broken too. ack. anyway, i hear the yankees are winning even with crappy weaver pitching. that’s kind of exciting right? tomorrow is wednesday, and we all know what that means….mid-week party! woohoo. ) my days seem to go by way faster when i have things to do. after lunch, everything just zooms by. it’s kinda good. i just hope i don’t have reception duty (again) for lunch. i really wonder what they would do without me!! who would fill in for the receptionist when she has her summer fridays? hrm. i guess probably an administrative assistant. two more people are leaving kpr on friday. that makes 3 in two weeks. crazyyyyyyy. there are so many empty cubicles at my office. no wonder i got my own cubicle with a computer. hehe. anyway, i guess i will chat with my friends for a little bit, and then head to bead. maybe i will finally finish harry potter. i’m on like page 550 now or something. i read until 1 am last night. i’m a bad girl. i just get so caught up in the book. :/ gnite <3

summer is here!

wow i can’t believe it’s less than a month before i turn the big 2 1. i feel so old. oh well. i’ll try not to think of my birthday. in other news, the sun came out today and it was very warm. i think it’s going to be in the high 80s to low 90s this week. it’s going to be pretty brutal. hehe. i had to turn on the a/c so i could work out with out passing out. =/ today at work, there were cookies at work again. i took one and just sat around torturing myself. i didn’t eat it though! i brought it home and gave it to my little sister. haha. yeah so i need to train my self-control. anyway, i’m really going to bed early. i might read a couple chapters of harry potter before i really go to bed. another day of work tomorrow. i really hope the administrative assistants (there is one in particular) don’t give me all this copying stuff to do. i really hope my two bosses will give me something to do. oh yeah, i hope i don’t have to fill in for the receptionist during lunch. it really sucks. =( ok i’m just looking forward to friday. ahhh. it seems so far away. good night! <3

hello good night :)

i am so tired. i think it’s because i was up really late last night trying to fix my site. haha. i want to thank kap for restoring my site in such a quick fashion. oh so nice of you!! anyway, today all i’ve been doing is reading harry potter and doing laundry. the yankees are currently losing to the mets. grr. i just watched them get the bases loaded, but then it was wasted because mondesi got a double play. boohoo. we really need to tie up the game. anyway, i’m going to head to bed early because tomorrow is monday, and i’ll know i’m definitely going to have a case of the mondays. ( i really hope the sun comes out tomorrow, i’m way too pasty for june. <3

hello

omg so i just deleted my entire public_html folder. let’s see if this works!

yay!!

i was sleeping before then my mom comes and says, “you got harry potter!”. i thought i was still sleeping and this was my dream, but no it was reality! so i have the new book, harry potter and the order of the phoenix. yes i’m a dork, but i have a weakness for harry potter books. diana bought me the book for an early birthday gift. now i’m excited and i will probably spend this weekend watching the yankees kick the mets asses at shea (hopefully), and reading about my favorite wizard, harry. one of my future husbands, mike mussina, is pitching this afternoon. i hope he wins the game for the yankees. also, last night my other future husband, derek jeter, finally broke out of his slump. he was 3 for 5 and even got a solo hr right after soriano. he rocks. <3 haha. the book totally made my day! i’m supposed to see the hulk today with my family because ang lee directed the movie. i’ve heard some good and bad things about the movie, so i’m kind of excited to see how it turns out. ok i’ll probably blog later about the movie or something pointless. bye! <3

friday five!

so i actually remembered about the friday five this week. of course the questions are really dumb this week, but who cares i’ll answer them.

1. Is your hair naturally curly, wavy, or straight? Long or short?
i have the typical asian straight hair. although, my hair isn’t like stick straight. it is kind of wavy. i like to keep my hair long.

2. How has your hair changed over your lifetime?
when i was in 4th grade or something i got a perm. i looked like i got electrocuted! haha. the perm really damaged my hair. it took years before my hair was somewhat “healthy” again. i did get some highlights a couple of years ago. last year i got them again and i had a highlight disaster. i ended up dying my hair black because i hated it so much!

3. How do your normally wear your hair?
i usually just wear it down. i don’t blow dry it often. only when i’m going out for the night.

4. If you could change your hair this minute, what would it look like?
i’d get some really nice highlights. i’d get them done at a nice place and not some asian place in flushing!!

5. Ever had a hair disaster? What happened?
oh yeah i’ll talk about my highlight disaster. this lady must have put too much chemical stuff because a half hour later, i had these HUGE chunks of blonde hair. it looked horrible. to top it off, the old chinese ladies in the salon who were also getting their hair done said “wow your hair is so beautiful!”. it was so bad. my sister called me a skunk because that’s what my hair looked like. ugh, what a bad memory!

anyway, yesterday my family and i finally went to cheesecake factory. we were celebrating the fact that jessica finished all her regents/finals. hehe. yay. we only waited like 2 hours. haha. we ended up killing time at famous footwear, h&m, and old navy. of course i ended up not buying anything. i’m so indecisive and picky. i think to myself, “do i really need another pair of capris?” don’t get me wrong, i love shopping for clothes! i ordered, “sheila’s blackened chicken and pasta”. it was very tasty. for our appetizer we ordered the hot spinach and cheese dip. it came with some yummy tortilla chips. the bread they gave us was also very good. we even got some cheesecake for dessert. chocolate silk and satin was SOOO creamy and good. mmm. i’m getting hungry just typing this up. hehe.

even though we went out for dinner, i made time to do my workout yesterday. i’ve been slowly increasing my pace on the treadmill. i’ve gone up to 8, which is pretty damn fast. haha. i’m definitely liking the results of working out and eating healthier (ignore my splurge at the cheesecake factory). haha. i’m so addicted to genisoy zesty bbq soy chips. i think you guys should all go out to your local health stores to buy it. i guarantee it’s good! i’m so glad it’s finally friday. i’m filling in as receptionist so i came in early. i got here at around 8:30 am. yay for me. i just recently discovered that the e train stops at 179th street sometimes during rush hour. rather than take the f and then transfer, i have decided to wait the extra 5-10 minutes and catch the e and get a seat! woohoo. i totally don’t understand the crappy weather ny has been getting for the past month. the weather gods must really hate us. wahh. at least it’s going to be summer tomorrow. maybe the weather will warm up finally and the sun will come out. ok sorry for the long blog…bye! <3

where has the sun gone?

what a pointless day today. i had a couple of little projects to do. now i’m bored. i found out that i get to be the receptionist on friday. how exciting. that means i need to get in by 8:45 a.m. and leave at 5 pm because i need to close up the desk. hurrah. i should go back to my ad pulling, or maybe i can ask my boss for something to do. oh look, one of the administrative assistants gave me work to do. i guess i will be spending some quality time with the copy machine. lucky me. so i better get going. by the way, it’s going to be overcast and rainy until sunday. what a wonderful weather forecast. grr. <3 i hope the yankees game is cancelled today. :)

:D

is it just me, or does friday just seem like an eternity away. i’m glad tomorrow is wednesday at least. yay. i can’t wait until i can sleep past 6 am. that’ll rule. anyway, the yankees lost one game today. in fact they lost badly. i hate weaver. he is a crappy pitcher. on the other hand, david wells is good and we won the night game against crappy tampa bay. yay. at least we don’t need to embarrass ourselves twice in one day. it’s been kind of chilly in ny. it’s kind of weird because it’s going to be officially summer on friday or saturday (june 21) and it’s only like 65 degrees!! ridiculous. okay, well i’m going to bed soon. *sigh*. i don’t like going to bed so early. it sucks!! gnite <3

happy father’s day :)

happy father’s day!! it’s kind of sad that my dad is working in chinatown on father’s day. we’re going out to dinner in flushing tonight though. =) to all the yankees fans out there; we swept st. louis! woohoo. right now boston is losing against houston. that rules. hopefully they will lose the game and we will have an even bigger lead in the american east. seattle lost last night to atlanta. woohoo. i’m mean i know, but oh well. today is laundry sunday. fun times! <3

what kind of woman am i?

i just took this long test on weattract. i think match.com owns that site as well. anyway this is part of the results:
You have a special zeal for life
You’re a woman with a very balanced personality and lifestyle. You believe in making room in life to relax, think, and have fun. You refuse to settle long-term for a boring job or doing something just because it’s expected of you. Love is the same way. You know what real love feels like and you’ll accept no imitations! You pride yourself on not being the “typical woman.” You’re more honest and straightforward than most women. But just because you don’t “wear your heart on your sleeve” doesn’t mean you lack deep feelings. In fact, you’re deeply committed to your loved ones and the causes you believe in. Women as truly balanced as you are very rare.

i wonder just how true that is. oh well. in other news, the yankees won tonight. 14-4 baby!! ) giambi got two homers. yeah i know i just blogged twice in one day. lucky for you guys!! ) <3

my monthly outing

i don’t really feel like going in detail of what happened last night. it’s thundering so i should really turn off the computer. anyway, grace showed up about an hour late for her own party. we barely made it to webster hall for free. actually we ended up cutting like 100 people at least. i felt really bad for that, but oh well. it’s not like i’m going back anytime soon. the guys were like vultures/sharks. i was running away from all these nasty dudes. this one asian dude kept tapping me like he wanted to dance with me. so i left the dance floor. the hip hop floor was so packed and hot. we finally discovered the latino floor and it was more spacious and somewhat cooler. we left the club at around 2:30 a.m. my feet hurt so much. my friends were hungry so we stopped by this diner type thing. i had some water. it seemed like everyone from webster hall was there. haha.

finally after waiting for the stupid subway, julyan and i arrive at my sister’s apartment near penn station at like 4:30 a.m. to our disappointement her roommate was passed out on the couch. after many attempts in waking her up, we decided to just sleep in her bed for the night. i left her a note if she happened to wake up and wonder why people are in her bed. well her bed had no sheets and half the mattress was covered with clothes. it was kind of scary, but we were so tired and didn’t care. julyan and i left at 9:30 a.m. to go home. i told j that i wanted to just go home and sleep in my own bed. which i did! it was marvelous. i slept from 12-3 pm. what a great sleep that was. now it’s thundering. the yankees game is now delayed even though matsui just gave them a 3-0 lead. go matsui!!!!!!!!!!!! <3

friday is so near

yeah so i need to go to bed, so i’ll write a very quick blog. today’s morning commute to work was hellish. the e train was in the tunnel–stopped for like 15 minutes. it really sucked. i ended up being late to work. the m15 was super traffic jammed on 2nd avenue too. argh. tomorrow i’m going to be staying in the city and clubbing with my friends. yay. i’m so glad it’s the weekend. i can finally get my 8 hrs of sleep. gnite. <3

mid-week party!!

wee it’s already wednesday (almost thursday). i only have 2 more days of work, then it’s the weekend! today i was really excited because i actually had work to do. i put together a binder and i’m still in the process of putting together another binder. i had to ask one of the administrative assistants where the copy room was. hehe. time passes by quickly in the copy room. i had to order some materials from the office supply manager. he said the materials should arrive by tomorrow. then i can put together my other binder. yay for no more ripping out ads! hehe. the weather wasn’t so bad today. it was supposed to rain today, but it still hasn’t really rained. i think there was a shower earlier today, but there was no rain during rush hour. yay. D

today only one guy approached me. it was during my walk to grand central station. i was in the middle of crossing a street and this guy walking the other direction goes, “hey sweetie what’s up?” haha. i find that less offensive than a car honk. so for all you guys out there, instead of making dirty sounds like “MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM” or honking at a girl, how about you just greet her. at least for me i don’t feel as violated. ) on the bus back to long island i saw a girl from my high school. she doesn’t look as skinny as she used to. such is life. anyway, i plan on going to bed early tonight. byebye <3

hello :)

yankees win!! 5-3 baby. mussina finally broke his 4 game losing streak. hurrah. mariano rivera kicked butt in the 9th inning. hehe. anyway, i got home at 6:25 p.m. i was so excited. i was done with my work out by 7:15. then i helped my mom make whole wheat pasta with chicken and broccoli. )

on the way home, a car honked at me and a truck full of landscaping people (mostly mexicans from what i saw) were all staring and making comments while they passed me. ugh. i really don’t understand why guys do that. i was running to catch the n22 (which really was a n24, but i didn’t know) and this car pulls up to me and honks. i look in and there are two guys. yuck. what’s wrong with you people. have some deceny. ok that’s the end of my rant. i’m going to bed by 10:30 p.m. tonight. yay. i’m so tired. gnite. <3

boredom…

i’m so bored at work. i have another hour left, but i just want to leave now. boohoo. maybe i will sneak out at 4:30. haha. anyway, i’ve been ripping out ads like mad. that’s the only thing they’ve given me to do. tomorrow i get to help out administrative assistants. i almost rather do photocopying than sit here all day long bored out of my mind. rather than continue to complain about my boring intern life, i will talk about how beautiful today is. it’s about 80 degrees. i heard it’s very nice outside. i have yet to really experience it. it was still a bit chilly this morning when i got to work. i hope i can enjoy it while i walk briskly to grand central station. hrm. what else is going on. oh yesterday my internet was down for 4 hours. it was quite sad. i kept calling optimum online and all the customer representatives were very nice. too bad it took their tech people 4 hours to replace a big piece of hardware. tomorrow is wednesday. that means it’s mid-week!! on friday i’m supposed to be going to webster hall for grace’s birthday. i’m kind of excited since it will be my first club in nyc since senior year in high school. yay! it’s free before midnight too (for girls over 19). i just hope i’m not too tired on friday to go clubbing. i’m turning into such an old lady. i come home from work and i work out. then i have dinner and shower. then before i know it, it’s time to go to bed! ok well, i guess i’ll stop rambling now. until next time… <3

case of the mondays

yay i’m at work. i made it on time. the start of another exciting week. hopefully my two bosses will be nice to me. anyway, i was reading cnn.com because i’m a dork, and this article about students spending $100k for a degree and then not finding a job after graduation. that’s going to be me in a year. wahh. ( what a crappy job market to enter. i’m just glad i have one more year to live in my little bubble world of exams and papers before i have to start joining the workforce. i better get working. bye!

[edit] just read about some drownings in destin, florida. coincidentally, that’s where i went for my redneck spring break. how wonderful. ( [/edit]

yay

yay for my site being back. didn’t do much today. i went out with my family for lunch. this famous chef from taiwan is in flushing cooking for two weeks. =) we had xiao long bao (famous shanghainese dumplings) and a ton of other stuff. it was very tasty. apparently all the ingredients are from taiwan. i hope i don’t get sars. =( we bought some bakery stuff from yi mei fung. yummy! i hope my site doesn’t go down anymore. everything should be ok now. good night! oh yeah it rained today again. and the yankees lost. yay. what a crappy day =p

friday five

i am so glad it’s friday. for once i don’t have to wake up at 6 am. yay. anyway, i will do today’s friday five. the questions are:

1. How many times have you truly been in love?
hmm, that’s a hard question. i don’t think i’ve ever been in love. it takes a lot before i can really trust someone. i lack relationship experience to actually say i’ve truly been in love.

2. What was/is so great about the person you love(d) the most?
the person is a great and generous person. i like people who can make me laugh. since i’ve never “been in love”, i don’t know if i should answer this question.

3. What qualities should a significant other have?
intelligence, sense of humor, able to hold a conversation, interesting, mature (for a guy), polite, somewhat punctual, and not so stuck on his own way of thought.

4. Have you ever broken someone’s heart?
sad to say i have. not something i do on purpose. like i told my ex, i’m really nothing special, so don’t get involved with me! heh. i guess that’s not a good technique with the guys. oh well. :[

5. If there was one thing you could teach people about love, what would it be?
if you truly love someone, you should be willing to give up things just so you can be with him or her. if you feel that you don’t want to give up these things, then i really doubt you are “in love”. also, from the movie, love story, “love means never having to say you’re sorry”. haha. i would love to believe that wonderful quote, but it’s really hard for me, being the pessimist that i am.

anyway, i am about 30 minutes early for work. haha. what a dork i am. time to go and play receptionist! ) tgif!!

where’s the sun?

i don’t think i remember what the sun looks like. when grace and i went to giants stadium to see z100′s zootopia, we saw the sun trying to break through the clouds. alas, it was not meant to be. ( today it poured during rush hour. how convenient right? i thought it was spring (almost summer), where’s the warmth and the capri-wearing weather? *sigh* today i watched the receptionist take calls. i need to fill in on friday while lorraine has her summer friday. hopefully, i won’t drop many calls. it’s not like they can really fire me. they aren’t even paying me!! anyhow, today was kind of exciting. i got to take calls. at the same time i read the big stack of magazines. heehee. i’m so glad it’s almost friday. i can sleep late! yay! =) i’m going to bed at 11 pm tonight i hope. maybe then i won’t fall asleep on the subway. :/ gnite <3

good news!

i think china should also start a toilet rating system like singapore. the toilets in china are so nasty. you have to bring your own toilet paper too. most of them are squat toilets. yuck. i’m having bad memories already. ok well back to work i go!

1st day on the job

i arrived at work at 10:01 a.m. 1 minute late. tomorrow i will definitely be on time! i actually volunteered to work from 9-5 from now on instead of 10-4. i’m a nice girl i know. i’m happy because they are paying for my transportation! yahoo!!! i spent about 5 hours ripping out ads. that was fun. everyone kept telling me how much i look like diana. it was fun. anyway, i came home and my feet hurt. note to self, only wear sneakers to work. i helped my mom prepare dinner. we ate and before i knew it it was already 8 pm. then i bummed for an hour. then i worked out. and now it’s time to shower and go to bed. i have to wake up at 6:30 am. boohoo. by the way, i’m not surprised that clemens didn’t win his 300th game last night against the toothless tigers. i’ve lost hope in the yankees. ( at least we won in the 17th inning. go soriano + posada! good night. <3

is it really june already?

why hello everyone. i’m really tired of this crappy weather. it reminds me of pittsburgh so much. stupid rain. today our car got a flat tire 5 minutes before we got home. it was much drama. our neighbor came to the rescue and he fixed it quickly. hehe. so the yankees lost to the tigers. how pathetic is that? argh. today i’m going to zootopia and it’s going to be thunderstorming. we can’t even bring umbrellas to giants stadium. i guess i’ll be wearing a garbage bag. ( i start work on monday. hurrah. i guess it’s better than being home all day and doing nothing. gnite. <3