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so... sadly, because i dyed my hair last summer, my hair is pretty much useless for wigsforkids.org or locksoflove.org. tsk.
i can wait two years until i can have at least 10 inches of hair to donate.
so waiting till after marriage it is.
the experiment to see how long my hair can get continues.
haha. cinderella 2:
"and this hair, ew~!"
that's cinderella talking about the hair that the royal palace people inflicted on her.
craziness~ 
the mantra for the royal palace princess trainer:
"it simply isn't done! it simply isn't done~!" *faltering*
haha. silliness~
What's your usual [mood]?
Are You Naughty or Nice?
Which [Movie Genres] are you?
Is the glass half full or half empty?
Which [Rainbow Colours] are you?as a side note, i'm watching cinderella 2 right now. it's quite funny in the ridiculous kind of way. that is to say, i laugh at things that i doubt the makers intended people to laugh at. oohhh... and prince charming actually TALKS. haha~
complete with ridiculously condescending and useless people with our obvious heroine confused by the nonsense. yet another disney movie.
if you're curious, it's about how cinderella returns from her honeymoon and everyone is making fun of how "common" she is. she also has to coordinate a banquet that everyone expects to be awful. fun, huh?
since i really care about this:
should i cut my hair or not? look at the entry below and write me a comment. i'm thinking... maybe do that hair donation thing. for those kids that need wigs. they need 10 inches minimally, which i don't have, i think. right now, my hair ranges from 9-11, so i'd have to be bald or something.
found pictures of me with short hair and looking cute. pondering whether i should cut my hair again.
just for reference, it took me three years to grow my hair to this length after my boy cut back in my 2nd and 3rd years of college. after that, i kept getting trims. but yeah... three years to have my hair come a couple inches below my shoulders.
should i chop it or grow it? let's take a vote.
leave me comments, people.
more online tests
Which [Smallville] Characters are you?
Which [Charlie's Angels] characters are you?
Which [5 Elements] are you?did you all know that that keanu reeves is approaching 40? he turns 39 this september. weird, huh?
i was telling parakkum that he ias an example of a well-preserved, young looking face.
he's also everywhere. maybe he's the kevin bacon of our time.well... actually, he's not that much younger than kevin bacon, but whatever.
he was in dangerous liaisons, much ado about nothing, bill & ted's excellent adventure, babes in toyland, dracula, etc etc.... which is funny because he knows himself that he's not a great actor. but he's always in these movies with awesome casts.
ok... so here are the numbers....
kevin bacon, who is 4 years older than keanu, has 50 movies credited by imdb.
keanu has 53.
weird, huh??
Angry Little Girls by Lela Lee
this is the comic that used to be "angry little asian girl." she used to flip people off, but apparently it's been cleaned up a little bit and no longer restricted to asian girls. still, it's cute.
michael vartan, dude who plays the teacher in "never been kissed" is a hottie.
very cute.
the movie was a little painful to watch. i have a hard time watching people be cruel to each other. and i really don't remember high school sucking that much. but maybe my school was big enough that it didn't matter.
still... the ending made the pain worth it.
because i like drew. and even if it's in fiction, i'm glad that she gets the hottie teacher.
oh... and i want to be penguin too.
so i finally finished the lord of the rings game. it took me maybe 2-3 days on and off.
i appreciated the movie clips sometimes, because it had aragorn and the elven cutie, legolas. other than that.... some of the levels were really hard, but once you figure out the trick, it's fine.
i pretty much had to let the cuties die a few times before i figured out what i needed to do.
that... and aragorn kicks uruk-hai bootie, but legolas is weak. fast and cute, but also weak. gimli is a little stronger but SLOW. mindnumbingly, getting kicked around by orcs slow.
but yeah... it was an entertaining game. when it took me a while to figure things out, it was frustrating, but i think now that i've mastered the skill of forest troll killing, everything will be easy from then on.
as for the secret levels with saruman's tower... it doesn't make sense to me why you have to beat the first tower as a normal character, then have to play it again as isildur and then legolas, then gimli. but oh well.
oh yeah... i want to watch "freaky friday." i know that the story is pretty cliche and more than likely cheesy.... but jamie lee curtis is cool.
she was awesome in "true lies." she writes children's books. she adopted a child, so wrote a book especially for children who were adopted. she did a great thing for cosmo? instyle? some girl mag, where she wanted people to realize that stars look good because they have a whole crew working on their looks. so there is a thing where they take a before and after picture of her. before makeup and after makeup. it was cool.
i just like it when people are socially aware of issues and seem like decent people. it's just cooler that she's doing it because she's also someone that is high-profile.
and besides, you know a girl has a good sense of humor when she says a line like "i look like the crypt keeper~!!" when it's about her own face....on the big screen.
ok. so disney sequels are just evil. actually, most sequels to animated movies are a lot worse. i mean... a lot worse than movie sequels. they definitely have that feeling of something that was just hurriedly put together and are extremely derivative of the first movie that was already cheesy anyway. but at least the first movie is well-made (hopefully) and not as saccharine.
ok... so little mermaid 2... disturbing. it's just weird that basically, the kid is a younger version of ariel. and then all the old characters are back, but without the presence they used to have. they have the requisite forced romantic intered (when the kid is like TWELVE~!!!! at least it was for 3 minutes, though) and then they have to give the kid her own set of talking, bumbling animal companions.
geez... make up new stories and ideas. isn't that their job description?
and how does everyone feel about phil collins doing the disney music for the last decade?
disney really should take more risks, like they used to. if you haven't seen it, go watch "emperor's new groove" as an example. it wasn't advertised too much, since it was in between two movies that were meant to be their major productions, but i think the quality of this movie was by far better than the movies it was sacrificed for.
and who thought that "treasure planet" was on the same caliber as "spirited away"? there's a reason why pixar is trying to work separate from disney soon. they're contracted for 5 movies, apparently, because they wanted to have a higher profile with disney's name. but once they part ways, i'm sure they'll be happier.
lately, i think the only movies that i've liked from disney have been the ones that disney hasn't produced.
i haven't been blogging lately. mainly because i've been either busy doing stuff or busy not doing anything.
in the last week, i've spent two days running around trying to figure out how i can get out of GE requirements for SJSU. it looks like i can get out of one of the four and i can satisfy one of the GEs with an art history class i wanted to take anyway. that leaves two. two classes that i have absolutely no way of getting out of taking. oh well.
the writing requirement will take a lot of work. putting together petitions for waivers and whatnot. but all in all, i think it will be worth not having to take a full semester's worth of writing again. those classes tend to be time consuming and stressful, and i'd rather spend that time and money on my art classes.
yesterday, i helped amanda with her kitchen again. i was a little surprised at how people were telling me to stay away from the kitchen. i just figure that she needs help, no one else was, and i had the time. so we peeled linoleum with really really scary solvent thing that dissolves everything linoleum related (and man, that stuff burns if it touches you). after that we had indian food that we were too full for, and watched "hero." that was a really good movie, but i think ken and amanda have written more on that movie that i will (read the reviews: Ken's and Amanda's)
all i can say was that jet li was awesome as usual. i have the suspicion that he's one of the reasons why wushu has gotten so popular recently.
oh, and a correction on amanda's blog, the guy that responded to well to my "oh, jet li~" yell is actually a comic book seller, i think the new england comics, a publishing company. they publish "the tick" comics. the guys at the store just happened to really like the movie and flew someone to china to buy a buttload of dvds to sell at the comiccon. cool, huh?
i just watched "dangerous liaisons" on my tivo. i think it's better done than cruel intensions. just because i don't give high school students credit on understanding other people as well as the original cynics/manipulators are supposed to have. after all, just how experienced a lover can a 18-year-old really be? i mean geez...
but definitely the costumes, scenery, music and cast were great in "dangerous liaisons." i completely disagree with the chick that wrote a review on imdb. probably a high school kid.
oh, and if you do read amanda's blog (which you should) go check out her entry on "the age of bronze" since that is just an awesome book and i'm too lazy to write about it.
Comments: Coolest roommates...
Don't forget Christine! I forgot to mention it this morning, but w/o her a lot of the sketches wouldn't have been nearly as cool. She has a mutant superpower that allows her to talk to any comic book artist about anything for any length of time, which she put to good use helping us get great sketches.
Posted by Ken at July 21, 2003 05:36 PM
i just wanted to preen
because i am a silly little person, i've stayed up this long and read people's blogs, read my overmuch email, and gosh... i don't know what else.
maybe i shouldn't have had that coffee before my flight.
the comiccon was awesome. i think my first con will always be special, but that doesn't mean that this con didn't kick butt (i'm trying to clean up my language... AGAIN. it sort of deteriorated once i started having life traumas in college).
anyway... i got a chance to talk to a lot of cool artists, ask advice about what skills i should pick up. so i'm all excited now.
apparently, one of the cool people that i got to hang out with this past weekend (ken) thinks i have some strange power to talk to artists. fine by me. ken and amanda are a very cute couple.
it's always heart-warming to see couples that are happy together.
me and parakkum had a very chill day today. we went to the san diego zoo and looked at "minkeys" and i loved the little ducklings. i went mad with the digital photos with some vague dreams of actually getting to draw what i took and telling myself that i was practicing this whole foreign composition concept.
but really, i just liked the minkeys. they're cute.
oh yeah... another thing about the comiccon... LOTS of shopping. this means cute shirts, cool comics and random dvds.
did i mention AWESOME?
oh yeah.... batton lash remembered me from our conversation two years ago. that was really cool. he says that he'll wait for my version of his characters, wolff & byrd: supernatural law. if you haven't read it... go out and buy it.
anti watson was also cool. i am such fangirl.
i realized that i have two reactions when i meet people:
1) i stay silent after saying "hi"
2) i blab my head off. blab blab blab blab.
the second one can lead to my natural fear of feeling like i look like a nervous freak.
my bf assures me that people like me. since i need the moral boost, i'll believe him.
oh yes... GOOD FOOD was eaten this last weekend.
irish breakfasts rock and do a number on your arteries. in a good way.
i really need to figure out a way to work out without hating it. so far, martial arts seems to be the only thing that fits the bill. hmmm....
and i think i should force myself to sleep now because i have a fairly packed day tomorrow.
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today i went shopping and bought one more watch than i planned to, found the boots that i wanted, a pair of cargo pants and a shirt. not bad.
league of extraordinary gentlemen... sean connery is a hottie. it's a little disturbing that he's so old and i still find him attractive, but c'mon. he's very well preserved.
and he's badass. well... alan quartermaine is badass. but he plays a lot of badass characters.
and who'da thunk that "dorian gray" was THE dorian gray. news to me.
and i visited my bunnies. they were happy campers. it made me glad.
i'm reading harry potter 5, thanks to a generous loan from the dude that owns three copies. it's a fast read, yet i've been sleep deprived, so i have that dilemma: sleep vs. harry potter....
hmmm... tough call.
but i should probably keep my energy up for the comiccon. yay~
and final topic, yet another personality test (i mainly take them after reading the results i find on other people's blogs):
PUNK ROCK : Like a revived species of nearly extinct salamander, Punk Rock Asian Girls are a rare type, but slowly climbing up to existence again. Your passions are mainly music and anime and you've probably dyed your hair some odd color of the rainbrow. And if you haven't, you probably will. You often feel like you are misunderstood, but don't worry. Just think about thongs. Very funny.
What Asian Girl Are You?
VISIT HTTP://JEALOUSY.TK
there ya go. maybe this is explaining my gradual change in clothes.
life's little pleasures:
my little garden survived my weekend home. yay~
with any luck, i'll have a little garden with grass and lettuce and my bunnies will have stuff to munch on.
i think my parents and i get along infinitely better in person than on the phone. on the phone, it's as though all their anxieties come stringing out from the dark recesses of their mind to their mouth and into the mouthpiece.
it's awful. really.
but yeah... i actually had a very pleasant weekend with them. it was pretty short, because i drove down friday night with a friend and we drove up earlier this afternoon. so nothing like the 4-5 day trips i usually plan to take home, but it was great.
i finally saw finding nemo with my sister. the movie is scary. i do NOT want to be a small fish. and just when i was considering learning to go under water, they show all these big scary fish and now i'm reconsidering again.
it was good though. i could see why my personality test finally told me that i was a nemo. funny that i'm a small fish with a gimp-arm. i guess it's all those issues.
and i got to eat hawaiian cake. yummmmm. i have decided that i want hawaiian cake at my wedding. those things are the best. either that or cheese cake.
after all, there are always leftovers at weddings. better be ones i'll actually want.
my friend's pilot is a pretty nice car. it better be. it's new and pricey. still... it's sorta pretty, for an suv, i guess. i'm not a huge suv fan. i like small and cute cars like jettas and bugs. her navigation system is killer. i mean... it's GPS so you'd hear this voice tell you when you have to make a right turn or a left turn, go straight. blah blah...
it was kinda freaky. and if it didn't cost 2 grand i would want on in my car too.
i'm a little tired right now and not coherent so i think this is all for tonight.
i planned a scruptious menu for my housewarming party with my friend today. we also saw charlie's angels 2. i think i liked it more than the first. mainly because i like character backgrounds and developments.
that and i just think drew barrymore is utterly cool.
very cute.
and yeah... of course absolutely NOTHING in the movie was gratuitous. nope. nada. zip.
pssssshhh.
my bunnies were mad at me today, for leaving them home all day. they did this by blatantly snubbing for for 30 minutes when i got home. i'm sort of worried about the next week since i will basically be gone for most of it.
pondering driving down to sd comiccon to have my bunnies with me. we'll see.
besides... then i get to have my cuties with me.
and my little garden is growing. i have little sprouts. i just hope that the things don't strangle each other to death because i planted them too close, or i had a hard time limiting 3 seeds per hole.
ooooops.
we'll see.
at least i'll have little patches of grass.
i think.
You answered "yes" to 30 of 100 questions, making you 70.0% nerd pure (30.0% nerd corrupt); that is, you are 70.0% pure in the nerd domain (you have 30.0% nerd in you).
Your Weirdness Factor (AKA Uniqueness Factor) is 29%, based on a comparison of your test results with 378675 other submissions for this test.
man... and here i thought i was all nerdy and stuff.
You like Harry Potter, you scum. It's the deepest
pit in Hell for you.
Your very
existence is a crime against Nature.
Why Will You Go To Hell?
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that's more like it.
You don't belong in Hell. Sorry.
...You
probably fucking lied or cheated. Fucker.
Why Will You Go To Hell?
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i would like this moment to say that i resent all these quizzes that make me sound like a goody-two-shoe. anyone that knows me knows i'm not PRISTINE. i just don't like doing extreme things, much.
anyway... i'm a little tired and feeling a little fuzzy today. so that's all i gotta say.
obviously, answeing all those questions with "i'm a nerd" didn't outweight whatever other questions i answered to get here:
Which "Saved By The Bell" Character Are You?
i just think imdb is the coolest thing sometimes.
i just found out that kenneth branagh was professor gilderoy lovehart in harry potter 2 movie. hilarious~. i thought he looked familiar but i'm too used to kenneth with a beard.
watching "much ado about nothing"...
man, claudio is such a dork. such a hothead. jump to conclusions all over the place.
and what's up with hero, taking the dweeb back. i mean.... geez, can you imagine their marriage?
anytime there is talk/malicious gossip, he's going to try to strangle her or something. geez.
i like beatrice and benedick, better. i think i relate to her better. heh heh.
"a miracle, here is our own hands against our own hearts"
benedick is just cute when he's lamenting his lacking poetry skills. too much honing of his rapier wit, i suppose.
of course, i still find it hilarious how keanu still sounds like ted delivering shakespeare lines. all he needs to add is "woah" and the mutation would be complete.
haha... benedick to claudio. "know that i kicked your ass. but we're all family now. so let's just forget that i kicked your ass and you should love my cousin (or i'll kick your ass again)"
wow....friendster is just a trippy thing. i found two people i lost touch with in high school. actually, one of the two is more a friend's friend, but still, he's a pretty cool guy. anyway.... just in case you haven't heard of this phenomenon, i stole it off his weblog which he stole off an email, apparently:
stolen by me from an email (I tried the LA number and it did in fact work - I felt pretty rejected though):
In case you meet anybody who you don't want to give your telephone number to, but you do anyway because you feel bad - try this instead:
Rejection line:
If you are a woman/man and are constantly approached by unattractive or undesirable women/men asking for your phone number, give them this number:
Boston: 617-658-7083
New York City: 212-479-7990
Los Angeles: 310-217-7638
San Francisco: 415-356-9833
Atlanta: 770-908-7383
Charlotte: 704-559-4169
Chicago: 773-509-5096
Cleveland: 216-556-0051
Denver: 303-575-1696
Las Vegas: 702-387-2619
Miami: 305-460-3285
Seattle: 206-781-3928
Washington, DC: 202-452-7468
when the guy/woman calls that number, they get a friendly message saying that they were rejected. Call the phone number. It's hilarious.
yeah.... actually, it's downright brutal. still funny though.
oh yeah... and if you like good causes and enjoy good humor, try this website:
Marthon Blog (she's running for a cool cause, so if you can spare money, go donate, too)
i just appreciate her analysis of buffy, too.
so now i'm planning a housewarming/parakkum's bday party.
i also bought a gamecube, despite my better judgment.
i am totally looking forward to it.
i liked church today because it was a guest speaker. that probably isn't a good sign. but i won't think too hard about it yet.
i peeled linoleum off a kitchen floor today. it's for one of a new group of people i'm hanging out with lately. they're a cool bunch, so maybe i won't be so alone in the south bay.
the kitchen was really nasty though. we were all talking about how some hippies probably dropped some acid and decided to make the place "pretty". but no matter. we went through one linoleum layer to find another. we finished peeling off the first layer today. i think the second layer is coming off later, and i offered my help for then too, but i don't know that she'll ask.
i'm sort of bored from not having a job. i've been thinking about doing some art... but i think i still need to recover from jane's brutal beatings on my confidence. she's a good teacher, but really doesn't pull her punches. i personally think her delivery of critique has some stuff to be desired for. like more gentle. more supportive.
anyway. i'm taking a break, i guess. and feeling like i should be doing a ton of things like....
cleaning my kitchen
cleaning my bathroom
reading harry potter 5
finishing "the hogfather" so that i can start harry potter 5
reading comic books that i've been neglecting in my busy life
unpacking the two boxes of small knickknacks that you just want to throw away
packing for my trip home this weekend
packing my bunnies off to their little weekend resort
i don't know... lots of things
and now my friend is coming over so i'm going to write more later
14.7929% - Geekish Tendencies
apparently, i'm not as geeky as i thought i was.
oh no! my friend has succumbed to the blackhole of suv ownership. eewwww. but i still love her. just not her car.
where do people find these tests? amazing.
 I am Kung Fu Master.
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so i have this bad (?) habit of taking all the tests that are on other people's blogs. for this particular one, i got:
You are Trinity, from "The Matrix."
Strong, beautiful- you epitomize the ultimate
heroine.
What Matrix Persona Are You?
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heroine? psh. i want to be in my room with chocolate. anyway, i didn't know half the people that were the other possibilities. probably because i haven't seen matrix: reloaded, yet. anyone want to watch with me?
Your boyfriend is Giles.
Who is your Buffy boyfriend?
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hmmm... so who thinks parakkum is like this?
You are Beauty.
You are beautiful, whether it be on the inside, the
outside, or both. People are drawn to you as
strongly as you are drawn to the beauty in the
world around you.
What Emotion Are You?
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cuddle and a kiss on the forehead - you like to be
close to your special someone and feel warm,
comfortable, and needed
What Sign of Affection Are You?
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i'm not sure, but i might have taken this last one before
You have a surprise kiss! Your partner is always
pleasantly pleased to have you jump outta no
where to dote them with a fun peck on the cheek
or more passionate embrace. super markets and
work places are your favorite places to attack
your loved one with all your love =p
What kind of kiss are you?
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You are Storm!
You are very strong and very protective of those
you love. You are in tune with nature and are
very concerned with justice and humanity.
Unfortunately, certain apprehensions and fears
are very hard for you to overcome, and can
often inhibit you when most need to be strong.
Which X-Men character are you most like?
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You're A Hero!
You live to save the world! You are honest, true,
and always victorious! You may not always get
the girls/boys, but all you really want to do
is battle the bad guys.
What Type Of Anime Character Are You?
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either that, or i just really like my kenshin too much
i just found this so funny that i had to put it up.
today i go to a bbq. mainly because i have the time to go to one because i am still jobless. still, the manager i was talking to told me that it would be best if i call regularly to see if any positions open up. he also said that i should probably call after my planned trip...
to the san diego comic con!
it feels weird though, to have such a hard time finding a job with starbucks.
it was really a lesson in timing.
if i'd called on wednesday morning, instead of thursday morning, i might have a job right now. then again, if i'd shown up at 1130 instead of 1230 when the open interviews began, i might have a job. if i'd looked for a job when i first moved here, instead of waiting a week and half, i might have a job.
etc etc etc
but all those things were things out of my control, or things i didn't know about, so i'm trying not to be too bummed about it.
it would just help my sanity to have a job soon.
i need some day to day purpose to my life.
just goes to show how important it is to keep good company...
beau, under stormy's influence, is now also chewing carpet.
*sigh*
will the madness never end??
or as a friend put it: "they're going to eat you out of house and home"
quite literally.
honestly, i gave up on my pet deposit a while ago.