Archive for January, 2005
How much is too much freedom of speech on the radio?
Jan 27th
I’ve been reading about this popular local hip hop station, Hot 97, and how its morning show DJs played this disturbing parody song called the “Tsunami Song”. Basically, it makes fun of this tragedy. What’s even worse is that one of the DJs is of Asian descent and before they played it, she said she felt offended by it and would take no part in it. You can go listen to the actual song here. It starts up with the DJs fighting. Miss Info is the one who is against the song. Miss Jones is the annoying woman who keeps fighting with her. If you’re too lazy to listen to the actual clip, you can read about it on cnn.com. If you want even more details, I would get it from hiphopmusic.com
Do you think this song was appropriate? You should really look at the lyrics. I don’t understand why anyone would even want to poke fun on such a serious tragedy. I won’t even touch the racist aspects of this song and the whole attack on Miss Info. :mad::mad: More >
Most depressing day of the year
Jan 24th
I was reading Gothamist and I came across an article about how today is the most depressing day of the year. The guy who came up with this has an entire formula in how to calculate how depressing each day is. Weird huh?
Like most people, I think I definitely have a case of the Mondays. Not only is the weather incredibly depressing (cold and cloudy), the toilets in my building are broken! How crazy is that. Pretty soon I will have to go to the coffee shop to use their toilet. 
It’s so cold outside. Earlier today I had a headache, but lucky for me I did not bring my bag of aleve with me today. To top it off, our office was fresh out of Excedrin. I debated about going to Duane Reade to purchase one of those travel packs of Advil. After what it seemed to be an eternity, I concluded that it was far too cold to go and buy Advil. I decided on ordering a large chicken noodles oup at my new favorite soup/chili restaurant, Guy and Gallard. I ordered their chili on Friday and tried one of their oatmeal raisin cookies. It was very moist and chewy. Just the way I like it! I really need to stop ordering lunch. Just because I don’t see it being deducting on my paycheck (yet), doesn’t mean I’m getting free lunch! 
Lastly, I would like to give the Blizzard of 2005 a shoutout. It was a very terrible experience. I was stranded in NYC. My friend who I was staying with had to work all Saturday. My sister’s big birthday bash was cancelled on Saturday, which left me with no reason to be in NYC. By the way, Happy Belated 26th Diana!! 
I hope you spent it inside. Oh yes, I was wearing dress shoes the entire weekend too. Let’s hope we don’t get another “blizzard” for awhile. I’m not in school anymore, so snow does not equate snow day anymore. :mad:
I installed these cute smileys, if you guys haven’t noticed. I’m having a lot of fun using them. :geek:
Three hours until my most depressing Monday of the year is over.
Short Week!
Jan 19th
Wow I never thought having a Monday off could really shorten the entire week. It’s almost Thursday! Woohoo! I think my week at work has been going by so well because I have a very short priority and now I’m just revising and updating menus. It’s quite nice. I’m enjoying it because I’m sure next week I’ll be working like mad again. 
I’ve been thinking about writing about this little insignificant story from my daily life. So here it goes. Everyday I take the same subway train and get off at Herald Square/34th Street. Everyday I come out of the same subway exit. Everyday I see the same friendly guy distributing AM-NY. For you non-New Yorkers, it’s one of the free daily newspapers in NYC. I used to read it on the train, but now I just listen to my iPod and nap. Well, I will always take his newspaper because his happy attitude brightens up my day. He always asks me how I am and how my weekend was. I even remember when he asked if I’d be here the next day when it was 2 days before Thanksgiving. I usually end up throwing out his newspaper at the end of the block because I don’t ever have time to leaf through a newspaper. I also like reading all the rumors and trash news online. I don’t know if this makes me a tree killer, but I figured that if I don’t take the newspaper, it’ll probably be found on the floor somewhere. At least this way I discard it at a garbage can. No matter how crappy the weather is, I can be sure to find Mr. Newspaper guy waiting for me at the end of the stairs. His smiling face brightens up my day even if it’s only for a moment. The idea that New Yorkers are the rudest people in the world is very untrue. You just need to find the people who care and are willing to open their arms to anyone. Also, I went to Beijing in 2001 and the people there were so rude. They are definitely ruder than New Yorkers.
I will leave you guys with a picture of my friends and I at the club Strata last Saturday.
My friends and me!
Notice the guy with the pink trucker hat? HAHAHA!
House of Flying Daggers
Jan 15th
I just would like to say that I’m not the only person in the world who thought House of Flying Daggers was a big let down. I wrote a “bad” review on NYTimes.com. I don’t know why this movie keeps getting praised for being so beautiful and perfect. Did everyone forget the original true masterpiece?
Dear Mr. Zhang Yimou:
Please stop making these Chinese martial arts movies with a romantic storyline. It’s been done before successfully, and you’ll never be able to achieve the same great result. Also, please stop using Zhang Ziyi in all your movies. She might be pretty to look at, but she’s starting to be typecasted for these fighting movies. Lastly, please stop wanting to be Ang Lee. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Teresa
P.S. The only reason I sat through the entire movie was because of Takashi Kaneshiro. At least you found an appealing guy for the female audience. Now for your next movie, try to think of a creative storyline that hasn’t been used before.
Busy like a bee
Jan 14th
This week totally flew by. I was given a very crazy priority list this week. I had to complete nine menus (which is a lot). Along with these menus, I had to do a lot of revisions on my old menus. They were stylistic changes, but they were very time consuming to complete.
Somehow I managed to complete all 9. Isn’t that crazy? My bosses were quite impressed as well. Life is good. Today my friend and I are going to Jackon Hole for dinner. I did their menu, and I remember drooling heavily while doing it. They have like 30 types of burgers and all these other things. I hope it’s as amazing as their menu looks. After dinner, we’re going to go see Meet the Fockers. I’m not expecting a quality movie, but rather just to be enteratined. 
I loved the first movie, so we’ll see how the sequel matches up.
I just realized why my smileys weren’t showing up. I must have deleted the smiley folder when I upgraded. Have no worries, they are back now! I’m going to have Monday off due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’ll be pretty nice to have a three day weekend for a change.
Oh yeah, I did spinning this week, and it’s getting easier. I tried to do Body Works on Tuesday and I had this crazy sub instructor who made us do like a million lunges and squats. After spinning, my legs were very sore. I thought about walking out of the class at 8:15 (it starts at 8pm). That would be rude though. I ended up walking out during the ab section of the class. Hehe. I enjoy spinning because I know I’m really doing a lot of cardio for my heart. Hopefully my butt doesn’t get too large. I’ll keep you all posted about the situation.
Lastly, this week’s weather has been pretty crappy. All the local weather forecasters have been very off. For example, they said it would go up to 62 degrees Farenheit yesterday, and when I went home yesterday it was pretty chilly! Today, it dropped about twenty degrees from 49 to 29. Crazy huh? I’m glad I wore my big eskimo coat to work. On Tuesday or so, they said it would be high 52, so I wore a light pea coat, and boy was I sorry. I think from now on I’ll be wearing my big coat if it’s cold in the morning. I don’t care if it goes up to 80! Okay, I better start walking. Have a great weekend!
Life is good
Jan 9th
Well I had a pretty good week at work. I got to catch up with some of my college friends this weekend. It was nice seeing everyone. It’s kind of strange to see everyone wearing work clothes and talking about their jobs. I knew this would be coming, but I still feel like a little kid. This whole work thing doesn’t feel “real”. It’s scary to know that this is what I’ll be doing for the rest of my life until I retire. I’ll work five times a week and then all my weekends will fly by. I’m lucky enough to find a job where EVERYONE is friendly and I’m not just another person in a cubicle. Everyday is always a new challenge. Although I may be one of the youngest employees, I know that people know that what I do is extremely important for the company. Without me and my office mate, there would be no point to the company.
Anyway, in other news, the Jets beat the Chargers last night. It was pretty amazing I must say. Next week they’ll be playing the Steelers. GO STEELERS!! In bad news, I hear the Mets got Beltran. RAWR!! My friend who also is a diehard Yankees fan was telling me that we don’t need Beltran and that we have plenty of offense. I would have to disagree with him. Our offense is either on or off at each game. There is never time where they can just score a few runs. Either they score a ton, or they score none. It sucks. I wouldn’t mind having Beltran on our team. We need all the help we can get. Oh well, I just hope our batters will be able to perform under pressure. They definitely CANNOT fall apart like they did in October.
Lastly, I would like to link to my friend’s John Mayer pictures she took at Webster Hall. My pictures all came out like crap because my flash is not strong enough. I want a new camera just for my concert picturs. Wah. Here are the wonderful pictures! Enjoy! Good night.
John Mayer with one of his many weird facial expressions.
Spinning
Jan 4th
Just thought I’d announce to the web that I participated in my first and probably last spinning class. It was very intense and my legs are definitely paying for it now (it’s only been a couple hours too!). I heard that spinning builds muscles in your thighs, legs and butt. I really don’t want to get an even larger butt. My butt is the reason I can’t fit into jeans! Argh. Anyway, I think I burned a lot of calories. Maybe I’ll do spinning once a week. Hopefully that own’t do anything to my huge butt.
I hope everyone had a great New Year’s. I will be posting John Mayer pictures when I have the chance. I must go to bed now. I finally donated money to Unicef. Although it’s not a considerable amount; I do feel better about at least doing something about this whole mess.
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