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It Takes Two Gays In the Wizard

2006-11-13T13:00:00.000-08:00

I was unfortunate enough to have watched It Takes Two over the weekend. It's a film starring MK and A Olsen. It seems Hollywood loves the idea of twins separated at birth, as in the La Lohan film The Parent Trap, or two identical strangers who actually meet each other, as in ITT. The second one is much harder to believe. So anyway, the film starring the Olsen twins, also includes the talents of Steve Guttenberg and Kirstie Alley. One thing I've concluded about the Olsen twins is that one of them can act better than the other. Which one is which I can't say exactly. I know they are interchanged throughout the film, a la imdb, but I don't know who was who at any given moment. And no, I can't say I lasted through the whole film; I was preparing to go out that nite to see Doc Martin, the house DJ and let me just say he rocked; Big Time! Having watched the Parent Trap as well, I can sincerely say Lindsey Lohan is a phenomenal actress... compared to these two.

I was also so fortunate as to catch the Wizard of Oz on TV. A much better film, if I may say. A very ingenious and innovative story. And who else doesn't think that Dorothy's friends, Scarecrow, Tinman and the cowardly Lion are not flamboyantly gay? Not just b/c they sing and dance, although that helps, but because of all their mannerisms. Oh and plus, all that make up!

I've decided to revive my blog!

2006-11-03T11:30:00.000-08:00

Its been foreva, freal, but I decided to revive my blog. So for the past few months, I've been working at a music company in Soho NYC and its been fun, although somewhat hectic at times. recently, I've decided to pursue a career in acupuncture and thats going to entail going back to school for a few years. I'm looking into some good schools in NYC and i think it will be reallyl great to learn more about holistic healing and stuff. Plus, its a tribute to my chinese background and I'm already a firm believer in Qi, which is an energy life force that exists in everything, people plants, animals, the earth, etc. Being healthy includes having a healthy balance of Qi, ensuring that it flows naturally from one part of your body to another. Acupuncture helps to rectify any blockages that may exist. ANd although I hate needles! Acupuncture actually doesn't really hurt, its nothing like a hypodermic needle which is hollow. It pinches just slightly but feels nothing like a piercing.
I think its a good decision in my life because so far, ever since graduating has been sort of lacking direction. I worked in Berkeley shortly after graduating. I left that job after two years. I moved back to the east coast and began working in film. i did that for two years. I studied audio engineering for a few months and then got this job I'm at now. I feel like I should really buckle down and decide what it is exactly I want to be.
Working as an acupuncturist sounds really appealing to me because I can help people, which is something I really want to do. I can use preventative medicine and help heal people who are feeling sick.

its before the but crack of dawn

2006-04-04T03:24:00.000-07:00

and I'm up and at work. lucky me to be one of those early risers who can't seem to fall asleep early no matter how early I drag myself to bed. I'm in the office now and I'm the only one here, hence the blog the entry. I ordered breakfast a while ago, am going to be making coffee soon and already did some paper work. What can I say? I'm a busy girl.
being a PA sucks ass.
But thats ok, most jobs kinda suck anyways. thats my big revelation.

I should take pictures of all these freaks I see in the subway system. The other day, I saw some guy dancing with a blow up doll...actually expecting to be paid money for it. Then there was some dude with a electronic keyboard and he was surrounded by those dolls that dance when you play music, or make noise. He was playing some organ music and those little dolls where all dancing, it was crazy I tell you, crazy.

went to a wedding today

2006-03-25T20:06:00.000-08:00

It was one of my dad's friend's kids. Well he's not a kid , he's actually 35. He's chinese and his new wife is korean. so they had a little bit of a korean ceremony. the festivities were celebratory. yeah, that sounded nice the way I just wrote that... i don't know what else to say except that the best man's speech wasn't funny, even though he was trying to be, but I'm being mean. My dad's friend sang a few songs. He loves elvis and wants to be him. He's an asian elvis basically. Which reminds me of when I was in hong kong and there was a guy who dressed like elvis and went out to parties in lan kwai fong and it was funny. I saw him numerous times at numerous places. he had the white bespeckled suit, the sunglasses, the hair and everything.
Dreams are weird aren't they? I had a dream I was in Barnes and Noble but it was more like strand books, there were ladders to climb and everything. By the time i got to the top, I wanted to buy a scarlett etienne cd and I found one in the music section. But then I checked my back pocket and only had 20 bucks and the cd cost 38.99. I actually remember looking at it and seeing that amount and thinking,"shucks, I can't get the cd, after all the climbing of ladders I did."

Winter Music Conference

2006-03-17T19:21:00.000-08:00

ITs going to be starting in miami FL on the 23 of march and unfortunately I cannot go. I wish I could.
Paul van dyk is gonna be there, gabriel and dresden, dave seaman, scarlett etienne and many more. I wish I could be there but maybe next year. I just wanted to go the parties and have fun, but alas, My job doesn't allow it. Definitely next year I will plan things out better and go.

Plan to not to be working for that week anyways.
-My friend TJ is visiting from SF in early April and I can't wait to hang out with him.
I don't know why I have a blog, I don't know what to say sometimes, thats the same problem I have when I'm out with people, I just don't know what to say and I get caught in my own head.
I'm fine socializing at clubs though because I love to dance but not everyone likes to party.

2006-02-11T15:29:00.000-08:00

This is schmoe joe.

He likes to drink merlot..
hang out in my pocket...

And at night, he likes to sleep next to me on my pillow.

Some people may think this is freaky, but I love Schmoe Joe and he loves me.

4 things

2006-02-11T15:04:00.000-08:00

Four jobs I’ve had:

1)Cashier at Food Emporium when I was all of 17 years old

2)Intern at Sony Pictures Entertainment in LA for the TV Special Events Department

3)Document Assistant at Meyer Sound Laboratories

4)Production Assistant for the movie titled The Untitled Scott Hicks Film, previously titled Mostly Martha

Four movies I can watch (and have watched) over and over:

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2. Ghost World

3. Gone with the Wind

4. A Christmas Story

Four places I’ve lived:

1. Upper Saddle River, NJ

2. Hong Kong

3. Berkeley, CA

4. Elmhurst, NY

Four TV Shows I love:

1. Everybody Loves Raymond

2. Grey's Anatomy( even though I've only seen it once, last sunday, I loved it)

3. Friends

4. Mr. Belvedere

Four places I’ve vacationed:

1. Aruba

2. Paris, France

3. Daytona Beach, FL

4. Cancun, Mexico

Four of my favorite dishes:

1. Chana Saag

2. Eggplant Parmesan

3. Chocalate Ice cream

4. Baklava

Four sites I visit daily:(You lazy biatches can find the links yourselves)

1. Yahoo!

2. Google

3. Craigslist

4. IMDB

Four places I would rather be right now (but just for a little while):

1. Shopping and eating in Taiwan

2. Hanging out with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Paris.

3. In heaven with god.

4. At a janet jackson concert.

Four bloggers I’m tagging:(There are four people who haven't done this already):

I don't know that many other bloggers so instead I'll do...

Four of my favorite songs:

1) For An Angel by Paul Van Dyk

2)Concrete Jungle by Jurassic Five

3)All I want it you by U2

4)Don't Leave Home by Dido

posting is a problem

2006-01-29T08:03:00.000-08:00

for me. it seems.

Its been weeks which a friend and fellow blogger pointed out to me www.vignette.org
I'm now working at a new job on a film called mostly martha. its directed by scott hicks and stars catherine zeta jones and aaron eckhart, who i've never really heard of except he's in that new movie called thank you for smoking, which looks hilarious.
I'm hoping its going to be a good movie. it'd be nice to be part of a project which I believed in , that last tv show i worked on love monkey isn't getting the greatest reviews, one of them being from me. Tom cavanagh is really funny and I like him a lot but him alone, he just can't hold the whole show together for me.
my dad's 60th birthday was this weekend and i came home to celebrate. its also chinese new year, the year of the dog. Its nice to leave the city sometimes. I love working in manhattan and everything, but getting out into the subarbs definitely calms the mind.

2006-01-07T15:05:00.000-08:00

seriously though. i went to bungalow 8 yesterday. impossible to get into...but not for me!

just kidding.

i just stuck around and chatted and it got me in. qt was there. thats quentin tarintino or watever the fuck his name is! I keep messing up my typing. oh well
it was a blast I was dancing all nite. I had a couple of reedb ullls and it rocked.
I went to new york today and saw brokeback moutin it rockers heath ledger and jake gylllhealll
anwyays
gottin to passing out I 'm just too drunk.

LATES

(Edited Feb 11, Someone had too much to drink)

2006-01-01T12:55:00.000-08:00

its the first day of 2006. I still can't believe it, how quickly things are moving. I'm 25 now, but not for long. Getting older just puzzles me sometimes. What will it feel like to be 30? probably the same as it feels to be 24, 25, or 26. Who knows, I guess only time will tell. I go back to work on Tuesday. That should be interesting. A part of me wants to go back, another would love to just continue bumming around like I've been doing for the whole break. Surprisingly though, as much as I've been bumming around, I've not published a new post here once. That is, until today. But truly, my break is almost over. And I just wanted to add a post since I know I haven't posted in here in forever.
I still don't much know what to write in this blog. Other than daily musings and other jib jab. I guess that will do it for the day. WElcome in the new year, have a glass of sherry. ALthough I don't much drink, I had a stella artois yesterday. It didn't do much for me.

Colon and Candy Canes

2005-12-17T08:26:00.000-08:00

Things are very weird in this world. I saw a police officer on the G train who was named Colon. I kid you not. Poor guy, I wonder if he had a rough childhood. Another thing I noticed thats weird is that candy canes become a lethal weapon when you suck on them. Seriously, ever since I was kid, I'd be sucking on a candy cane and it always comes to a sharp point. Granted its not a very strong material, but it could still seriously give you a cut or poke your eye.

World of Darkness

2005-12-15T18:46:00.000-08:00

forever

2005-12-11T18:12:00.000-08:00

i saw a special on the science channel today and it talked about the beginning of the universe, the big bang. and all the galaxies and how they are floating around circling around each other.Some of them are even colliding. We are so trivial in the grand scheme of things. Our sun won't explode but as it ages it may grow huge into a red giant and encapsulate earth. unless we figure out a way to shift our gravitational pull using asteroids and such, we will become part of the sun. then after some time, the sun will shrink into a white dwarf and stay like forever...until it collides with another star or something. really interesting to think about all the stuff that's out there.
I went home to new jersey for the weekend and had a good time with my family. it was nice. we are all getting along pretty well now. while I was home i saw the kanye west video on tv. MTV had a making the video special and I was even in some of the scenes on TV. it was cool. Michel Gondry is such a genius. Somehow someday, I hope to work with him again. For those of you that see the video, I helped set up the rotating pianos in the scene with jon brion. I didn't even know who jon brion was while I was working on the video. but he's worked with fiona apple before who I like and he scored Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. eternity is deep man.

2005-12-08T00:50:00.000-08:00

I haven't written here for a few days. I'm very busy at work at the TV show I work for. I worked 14 1/2 hours today.
I found out that to a fault means to an extreme. Which I really like. its interesting that we have all these phrases, they float around in my head . and somestimes I'm not even sure what they really mean. post hoc for example, it refers to reasoning. I think that it means after the fact. but I'm not sure.

carpe diem means seize the day. but what does that really mean? Seizing the day by living it up?

To a Fault

2005-12-02T19:16:00.000-08:00

What does this phrase mean exactly? it puzzles me. Someone said, "when i'm in a relationship, I'm in a relationship to a fault." ok, I won't hide it, Kate winslet said that. What does she mean exactly? That you are taking that relationship with all its faults? That you are in that relationship even if its wrong? I mean, I get the gist of what the phrase means, but I just don't get it. It makes me wonder what I am "to a Fault".

Can you say, "I am wrong to a fault"? Does it work if the phrase you are using is negative, is what I'm trying to get at. He is stupid to a fault. Can you say that?

why are you obsessing, you might be wondering? Well someone used this phrase at work today. and then I read a kate winslet interview and she used it again. you might be so bored out your mind right now reading this. But I still am confused. Am I confused to a fault? I guess so.

the nature of the beast...

2005-12-01T05:36:00.000-08:00

Wow, its already Dec. I'm feeling sick today and didn't go into work. I'm stuck in bed and yet I still feel guilty about not being at work. such is that nature of the beast. I guess it's just the type of industry i'm in and the demands it has. Its very demanding and very high maintenance. Which is ok by me. But its not ok when I'm sick because I can't give 100% and if you're not going to be giving 100% then you might as well not be working because then you guck things up, and that can get messy.

After watching Walk the Line, I'm officially overexuberant about Johnny Cash. I say that but I'm loving his music and his life was so interesting and inspiring. I'm like obsessed with downloading his music now.

24 days till christmas. Haven't gone shopping at all.

I might be getting a one-bedroom apartment in Queens soon. Well, I'm sick, so this will be a short post.

Another Day

2005-11-29T17:47:00.000-08:00

I can't decide what to say in this blog. I still have the sneaky suspicion that no one is reading. Probably because I haven't told anyone about the blog Regardless, I'm a little scared as to what I can write, should not write and what not. Working on a TV show, I'm sure you have some guidelines as to what is privileged information and what is not. That being announced, I actually don't have any juicy hollywood gossip. I'm merely speculating.

That sums just about up most of thinking. I speculate a lot. I think 'what if' and imagine all sorts of scenarios. I drift out of myself and imagine all sorts of possibilities. For myself, for the world around me, for others. I occupy myself with these thoughts and imaginings and at the end of the day, it keeps me sane.

Sanity is another issue that is debatable. I think George W. Bush is officially insane, but he's the president. Just listen to how to answers questions or rather doesn't answer them. No one who is sane would give the sorts of responses he spits out.

Yet he's the leader of the free world. Most politicians are insane too. They don't know how to answer the simplest questions. Yet they think that the answers they supply are totally sufficient. They spend money on things like war and destruction but can't seem to find money to end world hunger. World hunger should not exist. Thats crazy to me. That in our modern day and age, little children are starving and without water. Forget little children, how about any person. What about politicians delaying giving much needed supplies after devastating natural disasters? Thats crazy to me.

Enough of this tirade. I never meant to get so political. Thats the thing that bugs me most though. Someone thinking that I'm getting all political, when these are real life issues dealing with real live people. Who are suffering right now. You don't have to be political to care or to think about it. You just have to have a pulse and somewhat of a brain.

November 27, 2005

2005-11-27T18:14:00.000-08:00

Well, news for today. This is my first blog entry. I've had friends who've had their own websites for years, but I've never ventured forward. That is, until today. Somehow I feel like no one will be reading this.
I went house hunting today, well actually apartment hunting if you're going to be precise. I found this really cute apartment and its a one bedroom and I just had the feeling that I'm going to be moving into this one soon. It wasn't exceptionally big nor was it exceptionally convenient, but I just had that feeling that I sometimes get. We'll see! That was it.
Thanksgiving is officially over for 2005. It was quite the experience. Well, to be honest, it was uneventful. I spent the day with my family then the rest of the weekend I watched movies and saw some friends from highschool. I don't know why I haven't kept in touch with more people from high school. I guess because I lived in Cali for a few years and it was tough to just reappear after those years and be all, "I'm back!" but whatever, maybe I just should do that.

One of my friend's from highschools older sister is cutting an album. Thats hella cool. I wanted to ask her more about it but never got the chance to. Thats so cool. I wonder how she's doing it, i should probably just ask.

I go back to work tomorrow. Yes, Back to Love Monkey. More 12 hour + days. Joy. Well, I'm getting paid and thats all that counts. Just not working would suck. And its actually a pretty good job, it pays really good. And, and thats it for ta day