Let's talk about what really matters in selecting a new president:
Favorite TV show?
Wai-Ling: The Wire
0bama: The Wire (Apparently 0mar is his favorite character!)
Left handed or right?
Wai-Ling: LEFT and proud (in more ways than one)
0bama: Lefty
Favorite Pro-Wrestler?
Wai-Ling: Hulk Hogan (okay, okay, so I only know one)
0bama: Hulk Hogan (who said he supported 0bama)
Can't wait until next Tuesday...
1/31/2008
obscure LA post
n1c harc0urt read my name on the rad1o!
n1c harc0urt read my name on the rad1o!
n1c harc0urt read my name on the rad1o!
n1c harc0urt read my name on the rad1o!
I am DEFINITELY supporting kcrw next year. If nothing else, to hear n1charcourt read off my name on the radio.
I think I've decided that morning becomes ec1ectic is one of, if not THE best thing about Los Angeles. If you're not here, you're missing out.
n1c harc0urt read my name on the rad1o!
n1c harc0urt read my name on the rad1o!
n1c harc0urt read my name on the rad1o!
I am DEFINITELY supporting kcrw next year. If nothing else, to hear n1charcourt read off my name on the radio.
I think I've decided that morning becomes ec1ectic is one of, if not THE best thing about Los Angeles. If you're not here, you're missing out.
1/11/2008
my heart is heavy
On Sunday, I found out that a couple in my married couples small group is going through a contentious divorce under really strange circumstances. We are shocked, saddened and most importantly, fearful for the spiritual well-being of one member of the couple. There's a serious spiritual battle going on so we're praying for power from above. I've been in desperate prayer this week for my friends.
I also just found out that one of the kids that was a part of my afterschool program a few years ago (well, like 5 years ago) died in a car accident in Campbe11 this week -- at the same intersection where I was involved in an accident that totaled my car over 4 years ago. She was such a sweet girl. I found her legacy page on the local newspaper's website and it was heartbreaking to see condolences written to her by other students that were part of our program. She was 16 but I will remember Jessi as a cute, rambunctious 11 year old.
Sometimes I don't even know how to pray for the things that weigh my heart down.
"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will." - Romans 8:26-27
I also just found out that one of the kids that was a part of my afterschool program a few years ago (well, like 5 years ago) died in a car accident in Campbe11 this week -- at the same intersection where I was involved in an accident that totaled my car over 4 years ago. She was such a sweet girl. I found her legacy page on the local newspaper's website and it was heartbreaking to see condolences written to her by other students that were part of our program. She was 16 but I will remember Jessi as a cute, rambunctious 11 year old.
Sometimes I don't even know how to pray for the things that weigh my heart down.
"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will." - Romans 8:26-27
1/07/2008
i may be someone's enemy
I think someone has made me their office enemy.
I'm getting some weird vibes from the executive assistant to our exec. dir. -- whom I rarely work with and don't know well at all.
So why should I be getting weird vibes?
A few examples:
1.She has a high pitched shrilly voice when she says hi to everyone. When she sees me, she waves and says nothing.
2. At the holiday white elephant gift exchange, she told my co-worker she stole my gift "just because." She didn't really want it, she just wanted to take it.
3. When she leaves the office, she walks by and says "Bye Gloria!" -- even though I share the office space with Gloria.
Am I just paranoid? Or do I have an office enemy... or rather, someone has chosen me as THEIR office enemy (because I don't have any office enemies)
And if I've been tagged as the woman's enemy, why?? I'm probably nicer at work than I am any other place in the world, not joking.
I'm getting some weird vibes from the executive assistant to our exec. dir. -- whom I rarely work with and don't know well at all.
So why should I be getting weird vibes?
A few examples:
1.She has a high pitched shrilly voice when she says hi to everyone. When she sees me, she waves and says nothing.
2. At the holiday white elephant gift exchange, she told my co-worker she stole my gift "just because." She didn't really want it, she just wanted to take it.
3. When she leaves the office, she walks by and says "Bye Gloria!" -- even though I share the office space with Gloria.
Am I just paranoid? Or do I have an office enemy... or rather, someone has chosen me as THEIR office enemy (because I don't have any office enemies)
And if I've been tagged as the woman's enemy, why?? I'm probably nicer at work than I am any other place in the world, not joking.
1/06/2008
post-post remorse
"In Chino, a 25-year-old woman was swept to her death in a flash flood early Saturday...She was traveling east about 1 a.m. when her pickup truck was swept away by 8-foot-high waters."
Now I feel kind of bad.
Now I feel kind of bad.
1/04/2008
week in review
unrelated to each other, but all relevant to me right now.
1. "Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it." -- Damn you, 0bama. Your politics aren't as progressive as white-boy Edwards, but man, your speeches always get me. I'm so glad you stomped on h1llary in Iowa. I can't wait for November.
2. Season 5 of the-show-that-rocks-my-face-off starts on Sunday. "The show would instead be about untethered capitalism run amok, about how power and money actually route themselves in a postmodern American city, and, ultimately, about why we as an urban people are no longer able to solve our problems or heal our wounds...a show that would, with each season, slice off another piece of the American city, so that by the end of the run, a simulated Baltimore would stand in for urban America, and the fundamental problems of urbanity would be fully addressed."
"I’m from Baltimore and I’ve got some s*** you f***** need to see, people! Put down that CSI s*** and pay some heed, motherf******!"
"My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: f*** the average reader...The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white [cable] subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden."
"Most smart people cannot watch most TV, because it has generally been a condescending medium, explaining everything immediately, offering no ambiguities, and using dialogue that simplifies and mitigates against the idiosyncratic ways in which people in different worlds actually communicate. It eventually requires that characters from different places talk the same way as the viewer. This, of course, sucks."
-- Why the W1re rocks my face off. Quotes from Creater-Writer David Simon in an awesome interview with Nick Hornby.
3. "DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE." -- The warning from the national weather service website... the image it conjures in my mind makes me laugh, I don't know why. I wonder if any of the drunk Hollywood "It" girls will be driving out tonight. If only...
1. "Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it." -- Damn you, 0bama. Your politics aren't as progressive as white-boy Edwards, but man, your speeches always get me. I'm so glad you stomped on h1llary in Iowa. I can't wait for November.
2. Season 5 of the-show-that-rocks-my-face-off starts on Sunday. "The show would instead be about untethered capitalism run amok, about how power and money actually route themselves in a postmodern American city, and, ultimately, about why we as an urban people are no longer able to solve our problems or heal our wounds...a show that would, with each season, slice off another piece of the American city, so that by the end of the run, a simulated Baltimore would stand in for urban America, and the fundamental problems of urbanity would be fully addressed."
"I’m from Baltimore and I’ve got some s*** you f***** need to see, people! Put down that CSI s*** and pay some heed, motherf******!"
"My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: f*** the average reader...The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white [cable] subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden."
"Most smart people cannot watch most TV, because it has generally been a condescending medium, explaining everything immediately, offering no ambiguities, and using dialogue that simplifies and mitigates against the idiosyncratic ways in which people in different worlds actually communicate. It eventually requires that characters from different places talk the same way as the viewer. This, of course, sucks."
-- Why the W1re rocks my face off. Quotes from Creater-Writer David Simon in an awesome interview with Nick Hornby.
3. "DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE." -- The warning from the national weather service website... the image it conjures in my mind makes me laugh, I don't know why. I wonder if any of the drunk Hollywood "It" girls will be driving out tonight. If only...
1/03/2008
12/15/2007
you can see the joy on his face
Guess what movie inaugurated our new 42-inch LCD tv:
His choice, not mine.
Good bye panason1c 19-inch. You served me well. Through the various bay area moves, getting drenched with water after my ceiling collapsed, you remained faithful. Thanks for the memories.
His choice, not mine.
Good bye panason1c 19-inch. You served me well. Through the various bay area moves, getting drenched with water after my ceiling collapsed, you remained faithful. Thanks for the memories.
11/15/2007
today's union commentary...
"NO JUSTICE, NO NOODLES!"
- NYC Chinese restaurant workers who are protesting the blacklisting effort against workers who are trying to organize.
vs.
"Don't be ugly, don't be petty, You won't get your Ug1y Betty!"
- WGA members
I'm not sure which is more compelling.
- NYC Chinese restaurant workers who are protesting the blacklisting effort against workers who are trying to organize.
vs.
"Don't be ugly, don't be petty, You won't get your Ug1y Betty!"
- WGA members
I'm not sure which is more compelling.
11/13/2007
speaking of corporation greed...
Tonight, Hannah represents her 'hood against the evil developers near her neighborhood who want to build a parking lot facing their house.
I'm so proud of you, Hannah... not only for speaking up but also for spending almost 4 hours sitting in a planning commission meeting. Yay for streaming online commission meetings!
... and a guest appearance by AhBuhNim
Minsoo & I had stopped paying attention by this point, until we heard him say "My daughter hannah y..." and we were like OH SNAP, DAD TOO! REPRESENT YU!
I'm so proud of you, Hannah... not only for speaking up but also for spending almost 4 hours sitting in a planning commission meeting. Yay for streaming online commission meetings!
... and a guest appearance by AhBuhNim
Minsoo & I had stopped paying attention by this point, until we heard him say "My daughter hannah y..." and we were like OH SNAP, DAD TOO! REPRESENT YU!
11/12/2007
damn you merid1th grey
fine. no more tvontheinternets.
stupid corporate greed.
[see youtube video put out by the wga titled ourfriendsfromgrey.]
stupid corporate greed.
[see youtube video put out by the wga titled ourfriendsfromgrey.]
11/11/2007
tvontheinternet rocks (corporate green sucks)
I've been challenged by someone on my tvontheinternets habit despite my so-called support of the writers' strike. My response: I continue to watch tv online as a way to be counted as part of the online viewership so the writers can continue to make a case of why they need to get paid... and of course, I haven't gotten a memo saying to ban tvonline. But rest assured when I do, I will stand in solidarity, I promise.
11/08/2007
quarantined
I'm at home, quarantined by my boss who refused to let me come into work. I've watched all of the past episodes of survivor (by the way, eating 1000 yr old eggs is not the most foulest thing in the world, JeffProbst -- people here in the US eat that stuff, go out and get yourself some culture), did as much laundry as my quarters would take me & checked my email 20 times.
I'm so bored.
Here's a tidbit about the neighborhood where I work. I've been reluctant to post anything about it because it's not like this everyday:
2:30 pm Monday. The corner of West Slauson and South Western. Over 200 people watch as a brawl between 30 women ends as one drives her convertible into the melee. Two women were injured. One, Shontae Blanche, a 22 year old pregnant woman, is killed.
One witness, who asked not to be identified, said the driver hit the pregnant woman with her car, dragged her nearly 10 feet until she fell off, then backed up and ran over her again.
That's the corner where I go to get my starbucks fix. Usually, I go in the afternoon, but I had a meeting on Monday. Guess it's good I didn't go.
I'm so bored.
Here's a tidbit about the neighborhood where I work. I've been reluctant to post anything about it because it's not like this everyday:
2:30 pm Monday. The corner of West Slauson and South Western. Over 200 people watch as a brawl between 30 women ends as one drives her convertible into the melee. Two women were injured. One, Shontae Blanche, a 22 year old pregnant woman, is killed.
One witness, who asked not to be identified, said the driver hit the pregnant woman with her car, dragged her nearly 10 feet until she fell off, then backed up and ran over her again.
That's the corner where I go to get my starbucks fix. Usually, I go in the afternoon, but I had a meeting on Monday. Guess it's good I didn't go.
11/07/2007
give 'em their money!
I'm a believer in the power of unions to help maintain the middle class and protect workers rights. I know there are "bad" unions out there that make it hard for businesses, but I know A LOT of unions that have made sure teachers get paid, service employees get their due and port workers can keep their heads above water (see thebestshowintheworldthewire).
I know hollywood is a souless place, but the writers strike is legit. The Office writers have a great youtubevideo (go to youtube dot com and search for theofficeisclosed, with spaces).
Industry, give 'em their money! Reality TV sucks.
I know hollywood is a souless place, but the writers strike is legit. The Office writers have a great youtubevideo (go to youtube dot com and search for theofficeisclosed, with spaces).
Industry, give 'em their money! Reality TV sucks.
10/28/2007
anti-social internet user
I joined one of those new fangled online networking sites recently. I don't know why, given that I'm very paranoid about having my stuff out there. I did it just because it seemed like a safer place than my-whatchamacalit and it seemed legit.
By joining this networking site, I was hoping to stay under the radar and just monitor the landscape. Silly me. The madness is already beginning... And by madness, I mean the "unwanted adding"... I mean the friend requests from people who I've been trying to avoid for a decade (at least).
Dang it. I don't want to add them. But I can't NOT add them. They'd know, right?
And once one of them adds me, then everyone else sees me on their list and then wants to add me. And then I got a whole bunch of unwanted adding. Soon, my "list" will consist of more non-friends because I'm only adding people who find me and most of my friends know I'm adverse to these sites. [I typically only add friends who request to be on my list first.]
What do I do? What do I do? I wish I wasn't so anti-social on the web. I'm seriously considering erasing my profile. I'm think I'm going to go erase my photo from my profile right now.
By joining this networking site, I was hoping to stay under the radar and just monitor the landscape. Silly me. The madness is already beginning... And by madness, I mean the "unwanted adding"... I mean the friend requests from people who I've been trying to avoid for a decade (at least).
Dang it. I don't want to add them. But I can't NOT add them. They'd know, right?
And once one of them adds me, then everyone else sees me on their list and then wants to add me. And then I got a whole bunch of unwanted adding. Soon, my "list" will consist of more non-friends because I'm only adding people who find me and most of my friends know I'm adverse to these sites. [I typically only add friends who request to be on my list first.]
What do I do? What do I do? I wish I wasn't so anti-social on the web. I'm seriously considering erasing my profile. I'm think I'm going to go erase my photo from my profile right now.
10/22/2007
9/28/2007
the motherland
I returned home last weekend from China and barely made it through work this week. Here are a few pics from the trip:
Nanjing Road in Shanghai
Terracotta warriors from the Qin Dynasty were unearthed in the 70s in Xi'an, the former capital of China way back when.
We took two highly unsafe golf-cart things in Yangshuo. Breathtaking scenery. This photo doesn't do it justice.
On our way up to Victoria Peak in Hong Kong, Minsoo, found Bruce...
We also saw my mom's cousins... including TRIPLETS. One of them has 11 fingers. All three of them are very strange looking.
Nanjing Road in Shanghai
Terracotta warriors from the Qin Dynasty were unearthed in the 70s in Xi'an, the former capital of China way back when.
We took two highly unsafe golf-cart things in Yangshuo. Breathtaking scenery. This photo doesn't do it justice.
On our way up to Victoria Peak in Hong Kong, Minsoo, found Bruce...
We also saw my mom's cousins... including TRIPLETS. One of them has 11 fingers. All three of them are very strange looking.
9/07/2007
heading to the motherland...
Please pray for traveling mercies and no diarrhea. [Particular emphasis on the latter.]
9/05/2007
weekend in review
This past weekend was my aunt's memorial service, which was sad and traumatic 1. because we weren't sure whether she was a Christian and 2. because it concluded with watching her casket be placed into a big metal contraption with red buttons. Yes, a cremation machine.
I now know how I do NOT want my funeral to be like.
On a lighter note, I was able to see family & friends so the whole weekend wasn't totally emotionally draining. It was, however, very physically draining as it was so freakin' hot. We went bowling for Secret's 21st b-day and the bowling alley's a/c was broken. Sweaty drinking bowling fun.
Next up? Minsoo and I are preparing for my family trip to the motherland. Shanghai, Xi'an, Guilin, Shunde & Hong Kong. Woo wee.
I now know how I do NOT want my funeral to be like.
On a lighter note, I was able to see family & friends so the whole weekend wasn't totally emotionally draining. It was, however, very physically draining as it was so freakin' hot. We went bowling for Secret's 21st b-day and the bowling alley's a/c was broken. Sweaty drinking bowling fun.
Next up? Minsoo and I are preparing for my family trip to the motherland. Shanghai, Xi'an, Guilin, Shunde & Hong Kong. Woo wee.
8/22/2007
Auntie Wai
My aunt was diagnosed with MDS last year, which developed into AcuteMyelogeneousLeukemia. While they were deciding whether or not to do chemo, they found a huge tumor in her back. She went through 10 days of radiation but then developed a fever. They gave her tylenol, but it turns out she had pneumonia.
My aunt passed away this afternoon. I'm not sure about her God status, although a lot of my family members were talking to her about JC. This is what saddens me the most.
This is how I will remember my very kind aunt:
My aunt passed away this afternoon. I'm not sure about her God status, although a lot of my family members were talking to her about JC. This is what saddens me the most.
This is how I will remember my very kind aunt:
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