Friday, February 27, 2009

two interesting tidbits

numéro une.

apparently doodling helps you pay attention, because it prevents you from daydreaming. so i guess my pages full of random insanity helped me pass those gen. ed. math and chem classes my freshman year.

link: i love doodling!


numéro deux.

the first time i ever bs-ed an assignment was in second grade. it was show-and-tell day, but i forgot to bring something to class. the only thing i had in my backpack was a banana. and it was spotted, not all smooth now-and-later yellow as all bananas should be. quick as i am, when it came my turn, i held up my spotty banana in front of the whole class and declared, "i know this is just a banana, but i brought this to show everyone today, because i call this a dalmation banana."

i think it actually delighted my teacher. "how clever!" she said. oh, little did she know... little did she know.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

life is throwing sour lemons.

yes, i know, lemons are sour. but boy, were they sour this week.

first, a sinus infection, complete with fever, headache, dizziness, and toss in a cough or two.
add in the female monthly cycle, along with its cramps of glory.

this is one hell of a recipe for misery.

on top of that, canceled a week's worth of work, and i still need to study for a midterm.

so here i am, with a mountain of crumpled tissues to my left, a text book to my right, and i'm wishing that i could be 5 years old again, blowing bubbles for no one in particular and getting myself all soapy with not a care in the world.

yet, i wouldn't trade where i am now, with any moment from the past. how funny life is.

thank you, ricky, for not just bearing with me, but soothing my aches with fuzzy bears and chocolate milk. everything a little girl needs when she's got a bad case of the sniffles.

and now, a baby beaver:

Monday, February 16, 2009

you can't be serious

i was at brea mall today with my mom, shopping for "american" gifts for her chinese friends, and as we passed through macy's, i saw one of these:

(i didn't actually get a picture of it, so i found one online)


i thought to myself, you can't be serious. so instead of "doritos or a kit kat today?" it's become "a nano or just little white earbuds today?" are we so spoiled and flagrantly wasteful that we have automated machines churning out ridiculously overpriced gadgets we don't even need, while the country (not to mention the rest of the world) is up in flames about being "economically responsible" because we can't all agree what it would look like to be so?

i'm more incredulous than disgusted, but it's pretty upsetting to see that our american sense of insatiably impatient materialism has escalated thus far.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

limbo

i'm in theme limbo. i still haven't decided what kinds of stuff i'll be posting... all i know is that i want them to be consistent in some way. i also know that posts are more fun and enticing when there are pictures, so here's one from this week:


i took a shamelessly stalkerific picture of a skater punk dude who apparently likes hello kitty. note the hanging keychain, and the faint white-out tattoo of hello kitty's face to the left of the keychain.

Friday, February 6, 2009

hello fellow globbers!


i've been convinced, oh so easily, to start a blog. so here i am! as of this moment, i have nothing clever nor witty to say, so i shall be off to find myself a decent lunch. i leave you with the awesomest cupcake in the world.