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Tricky Credit Card Scam

Tricky Credit Card Scam

This is messed up. I got an email in my account today from eBay. It looked pretty legitimate.

The URL in the body of the email is real, except that the entire email is a graphic. When you click on the link, which is a real link, the image of the body takes you to the scam URL. The page looks like an exact replica of the eBay login screen...


If it were not for the fact that the redirected URL shows up in the navigation bar, I probably would have fallen for it.

Nasty stuff, dudes.

my new love...

is michael buble.

i think the key to my heart is crooning. not axel rose style, or ozzy, or even bono. but if you can belt out a jazzy tune with a sincere tinge of heartache, i am so yours.

sigh...

3-minute later update: oh my god! this guy is unbelievable. i haf to find me a man who can sing like him.

i was getting...

strange looks from the man in the car next to me this morning. he drove beside me from 19th avenue all the way until the 101 exit from 280.

the thing was, i couldn't tell why he was driving next me with such a concerned look. i was actually wondering if he was someone i knew.

and then i realized that i had been emphatically making contorted faces in my attempt to correctly repeat what i heard on my instructional spanish cds.

"non, senorita."
"non hablo espagnol."
"un poco. un poco. un poco."

he probably thought i was talking to myself in a psychotic episode.

this weekend was good. a little too busy, but very good. it included:

17-mile bike ride to marin in 90-degree weather
math lessons to a high schooler (damn it, i love teaching)
scattegories and chocolate cupcakes
voice lesson (finally!!)
volunteering
working until 11:30 on saturday night with jjustine on the class i'm going to teach come fall
lots of sleep
even more food

okay. time for me to jet to tai chi. i have told you that jet li is my uncle, right?

i wish.

questions from work

lab is actually louder today, even though a lot of the interns and the boss aren't around and about. maybe us older ones have space to marinate on some things floating in our minds:

some of the questions that popped into my head during the conversations. if you have thoughts, please share:

1. is religion evolutionarily adaptive? do we need it?
2. is it possible to ever not be afraid to give yourself completely to someone else?
3. do we have souls?
4. are we truly responsible for anything that happens to us?
5. is there fate? are things deterministic? do we have free will?
6. do any of the previous questions matter anyhow?

hrm....

想 一想。。。

也訴。。。

我可以在牽她的手﹐ 聽她的溫暖笑的聲音。 她可知道我多想她。

我可以跟你有一個新的開始。 你真的了結我﹐ 嗎﹖ 還是﹐ 緣份以經端了﹖

我可以不怕的春心春意愛一個值得人。

我可以給我所有愛得人一個真的擁抱。

我可以不自私的給我自己。

也訴 不用 有也訴。。。

why????

i don't get it, i really don't.

CNN.com - Atta's father praises London bombs - Jul 19, 2005

:)

i had a kickin' weekend.

the highlights:

1. wedding crashers with roommate. surprisingly funny. and i am in love with rachel mcadams, despite the fact that i'm a heterosexual.

2. saturday outside with dz playing tourists. we looked at swiss army knives, made seal noises, pigged out on ice cream, and basked in the sun. i got burnt on the cheek-esses.

3. finished a huge chunk of my thesis yesterday.

4. saw sliu and got a chance to pontificate.

5. swing danced with sebby in the marina pier. we blared swing from the car stereo. then we sat in the car and listened to japanese, korean and french rap and sang for an hour or two.

luck and all that jazz

i am ridiculously lucky.

i somehow wondered into this life where i have tremendous parents, an absentminded but loving brother, and great, amazing friends. they are always there for me, through good or bad. thanks. you know who you are.

so let's see. weekly recap:

1. it took me 6 weeks to order 6 computers from dell, but they are finally arriving tomorrow.

2. i bumped into a senior partner from my ex-firm today on university. this particular senior partner once took me into his office and dealt it to me, for something that was not my fault. at that time, i was both petrified and tired of him. the day he chewed me out was the also the first time i've ever walked out on someone professionally senior to me.

today, he seemed like such a nobody to me.

you're just a senior partner. you might be rich but you're probably overworked, a little too power hungry, and just trying to find your way in the world, too.

his colleague from the dc office invited me back to the office they are opening in palo alto. i laughed.

hell no.

3. i am *still* sore from tai ji. unbelievable.

4. i hit on meta today. two times.

5. i have been having many long philosophical talks about life and such with friends, old teachers from high school, random people on the street that i meet, monks, and such. i guess my recent retirement from the fast lane has left an abundance of time on my hands to ruminate.

our conclusions:
1. there is something so important about being process-driven as opposed to goal-driven. the former lets you live. the latter allows you to survive.

2. you haven't learned anything if you don't see now as your arrival.

3. the act of truly loving someone doesn't have to be painful.

4. there is a natural current in living life. if you let it carry you where you need to be, you wouldn't worry so much or struggle so much.

5. nothing happens until you are ready for it.

6. there's nothing wrong with being normal or ordinary. it can actually be quite nice.

bueno, bueno...

me back. a few things to mention, upon return:

1. to the 稀飯 lady who yelled at me this morning when i couldn't understand her garbled mandarin: my 稀飯 is better than yours and it brings *all* the boys to the yard.

so there, b*tchy 稀飯 lady, nobody cares about your sloppy congee.

2. i am sitting in lab when i feel a warm wetness seep onto my thighs. no, it wasn't a weak bladder but for a split second, i thought maybe i had early incontinence. the truth: someone spilled water *under* my laptop, and it stayed there, heated up by the processor until it subsequently spilled on my legs. i look like i had an accident. except that i'm not 4. i'm 26.

3. first martial arts class tonight with parrakum, honeyfields, and ln m. stoked? check! nervous? check! ready to get my butt beaten into the ground? check!

4. i *hate* incompetent HR people. stop yelling at me for your own damn mistakes!

5. me picky a digital camera for my birfday: the konica minolta dimage a200. me gonna be after all you people for pictures now. thanks to ln m, goonley, and huru for helping me pick it.

6. i almost got into a car accident on saturday night. i'm okay, but bejesus! a few more seconds and gunther would have been toast. things happen so fast. i got home and called my brother right away. i just wanted to hear his voice.

and no, i wasn't at fault. just cause i'm asian don't mean i can't drive!

7. i've decided that i'm not going to pull out the stops for the undeserving. if you want to immersed in your own misery, i don't think there's really anything any of us can say until you're ready to emerge.

8. as for NG... what can i say? you're remarkable. maybe just not for me.

off the weblog

i'm taking another extended blogging break. actually, i'm taking an extended break from many things. included are: sweets, bad habit patterns, runs that blow my knees to hell, unintentionally masochistic behaviors and thoughts, meat, bad people, psycho drama, overplanning for the future, and cigarettes.

these changes hopefully will be more than a break. let's say, a permanent departure.

i smell newness in the air. sweet. like gardenias.