Category: thisnthat

mother’s day is coming up, folks, so it’s time to run to the stores and pick out something lovely for your mum!

… unless you’re like me, who is a terrible daughter and will be lucky to even remember to call. >_ wewewewewe

You are Perl. Congratulations. You’re chic and easy going. You can’t do everything
but you’re good at connecting with others to help you overcome this.

What programming language are you??

status report:

spending lots of time with jer…

common rotation show at hard rock cafe on sunday…

pulling things together bit by bit…

coachella on saturday…

mike chan is in town…

three weeks of reading to catch up on and an assignment due next week…

>_

stolen from alice and linnea.

which children’s storybook character are you?

this quiz was made by colleen

sight of the day.

walking down to cj’s in the middle of the day, we see a truck parked on sawtelle. the back of the truck features an attractive (read: HOT) young asian girl clad in something resembling a black bikini. she is striking a seductive pose, fingers to lips in that universal hand gesture for “I’m so hot, I want you so bad right now.”

and to the side of this picture of this girl are the words:

“what is boba?”
“call 1-818-xxx-xxxx” to find out!”

three things.

1. no where on this truck is there a picture of boba, or any real mention of what boba is. however, additional writing on the sides of the truck hint that the company is some sort of supplier for this boba stuff. and it is only “hint.”
2. this is the most shameless use of sex appeal I’ve ever seen. it’s hilarious.
corollary to #2: only asians would have the complete enough absence of basic human values to do something like that. so hilarious, so wrong. gosh, i love my peoples. [half-rolled eyes]
3. quoth a friend who accompanied me down aforementioned street: “and I thought I knew what boba was all these years!”

and to continue on the hot-sexy-asian theme, nea posted a hilarious entry in her blog here.

ABCNEWS.com : ‘Sesame Street’ Threatens Lawsuit Over Gay Muppet Rumors

My new home page!! SoYouWanna speak with an Irish accent?

hee. no, I’m kidding. My home page is the boring but always error-free about:blank. I know! so non-descript! If it were espn, or nytimes, or something then that would tell you a little bit more about me, right?

No, my “Home” page serves a much more practical purpose than that. It’s a throwback from my “unreliable internet” years when my connection would be completely crap (read: AOL). I despised (and still despise) getting those “page cannot be displayed” messages. I think it’s part of my hidden deep-seated resentment at being told I can’t get what I want (harhar). So this scenario would often happen:

pearl gets on computer. she is cheerfully opening up applications. on reflex, she opens up IE.
wait! she’s not connected! doh!
computer is heard humming away, workin’ all 120mHz of pentium power with all its might….
Pearl: no!! stop!!
pearl hits stop button. frantic click click click.
computer still hums away, stuck on trying to open IE and open page…
Pearl: NoooooOOOOOOOooooooO!!!
computer finally realizes its being told an alternate command, ceases looking for page, but only after having just realized it’s not there and just before displaying “page cannot be found.” Browser displays “action cancelled” instead.
pearl sighs in half-relief, half frustration

So you can tell I got really tired of this after a while. When my young teenage mind discovered that you can set your home page to about:blank, needless to say, I was very happy.

One of the things I miss about Netscape (-sigh- rest in peace, you now-clunky browser) was that you can set the page you start up with about:blank, but have your home page be something else. Isn’t that kind of special? Netscape had some good ideas back in the day. Now it loads too slow, pages don’t display properly, and it’s [voice]now more unstable than ever[/voice]. I’d go purchase Opera, but I’ve wussed out so much on my anti-Microsoft stance nowadays (Apple sticker on monitor notwithstanding) that I don’t even mind IE anymore.

[weeps]

UC Irvine’s got their charter back! Hooray!

A few folk from Chi Chapter (that’s ucla) went down to Irvine tonight to show our support. Solemn ceremony, but fun chatting once it was over. Went to TGI Friday’s in Orange afterwards for about 10 minutes (and that place is kind of far from Irvine…) and went home. Left around 1:30am… and got back right around now (2am).

Too tired to reflect on this right now. But I will say that it rained on the way home, and I have to say, I love the smell of rain. =)

having a shitty day.

Aphio is a really wonderful thing, but I’m just not into it anymore. I went to a rush event tonight and I felt brittle and on edge and trying too hard to be perky and excited about things. and I came off worse than before because I’m not truly into it, and because i’m tired and feeling tied to doing things for something I wish I cared about more. Aphio is a great organization: its ideals are first rate, the people in it are the kind of wonderful folk who somehow have all found each other in this great organization, and there’s a lot of very positive energy. But somehow, I haven’t managed to get myself as caught up in it as everyone else. Maybe if I were actually closer to more of the people in it. I feel like I have working relationships more than friendly relationships with everyone. For me, Aphio is a task, not a pleasure. Aphio is not my social circle; it’s an added obligation for me.

I’ve met so many great people in Aphio, no question. It’s my own fault that I haven’t developed many of those friendships into something more.

so this guy I’ve been talking about? I’m a bit uncertain as to how I actually feel about him. -scratches head- I’m getting a sinking feeling that I may I like the notion of getting away/out of LA more than I actually like this guy. 0_o Not that this guy isn’t cool — when he launches into how he figured out how to overclock his 75mhz Pentium back in the day before it was a big thing, I just get chills up and down my spine. (no. I’m serious. I was actually really turned on when he busted into techie speak. Gosh, I’m such a techie whore.) But yea.. the more I hang out with him, the more I have doubts. So I’m not sure exactly how much I like him.

this is hard to explain. I have a tendency to idealize lots of things, and my relationships are usually subject to a bit of that. Believe it or not though, I still have my head, and i’ve gotten better about keeping my head in the past year. This new thing is too new for me to behave otherwise, don’t you think? There’s nothing there yet, just wisps of fantasy. Yes, it’s fun to dream, but really. What kind of fool do you take me for? -rolls eyes-

anyway, lots have been on my mind lately. I think that psychic woman was right when she said this is a thinking year. =P At any rate, it’s been a thinking week, if you couldn’t tell from my blog. I’ve put a lot of personal stuff on this blog these past few days — most of it stuff you REALLY didn’t need to know — but I’ll trust that you know me well enough, or at least are generous enough in spirit to allow me to speak freely. Things with me tend to shift day by day, hour by hour, and there’s no point in pretending that some of the less appealing aspects aren’t me. So, there it is. Maybe I’m going through a purging right now, maybe it’s that time of the month or something, but I feel like leaving a lot of things behind. You might lose respect for me now, but at least I’m confident that I’ll change your mind later. Have faith.

But from the comments I got from my last blog entry, don’t worry. I’m not planning to up and throw my heart at some dude who just landed in heartbreak hotel. It sounded bad, didn’t it? Anyway, I’m probably just going to give the whole thing some time. Thanks everyone fer your comments and your concern. =)