Monday, May 31, 2004

Barbra Streisand

"Singer Barbra Streisand has been ordered to pay a six-figure sum to an amateur photographer whom she had sued for $10m (£5.5m) in a privacy dispute."

What's that, Barbra? You're a whiny little bitch? The idea that this filthy rich celebrity decided to sue an amateur photographer for $10 million is somewhere along the lines of lunacy.

"But he took a picture of my multimillion dollar estate!"

Are you out of your mind? I don't care what kind of problem you have with stalkers, suing a non celebrity/CEO for $10 million is just plain stupid. Is it possible that celebrities are so warped in their own little worlds that they don't realize that a normal human being can't pay $10 million? I hate celebrities who have no appreciation for what they have and what's been given to them. They make 100x the average person's salary and all they can do is bitch about how fans keep bothering them. And on occasion, their millions of dollars just aren't enough so they have to go and sue some Joe Schmoe for $10 million more.

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Childhood memories

When I was four, I used to like to spread cooked rice on my face. I would literally stick my hand in the rice cooker and smear it all over. Then I got in trouble, and my mom took pictures of me crying. How sadistic is that…haha.

When I was five, I stuck a pearl up my nose and crawled under my mom’s bed.

That same year, I liked running around butt ass naked while my mom would change me and posing for my mom to take pictures of my butt.

When I was 6, I found out I was chionophobic (fear of snow) and I hated the cold. However, that phobia disappeared after a while. Good thing because I would’ve never learned to figure skate.

When I was 7, I loved building tents/forts/shacks in my room. I would steal food from the refridgerator and camp out. Robinson Crusoe was my hero.

That same year, I watched The Little Mermaid so much the VCR ate my tape. I was sad. =( Then I would just go to the spa with my mom and pretend to be Ariel in the pool. I think I even bound my feet together (because you know, mermaids don't have legs) with something, don't remember what, but I had a bit of trouble swimming as you can imagine.

When I was 8, I had a fetish of sticking random things on my body. I have pictures to prove how random these things were.

When I was 8 ½ , I liked sticking rose thorns on my nose. I also liked making outfits for my barbies out of tissues and scotch tape. I applied make-up (especially red lipstick) with a lip brush to all my barbies before they started their day with Ken.

When I was 9 and until today, I used to cut up my neighbor’s plants and make meals out of them. (i.e. salads, thicker leaves would be cut up and labeled steak).

When I was 10, I started wearing heels. Headbands became a fetish. Got into nail polish and pink Tinkerbell lipstick which I would reapply every 2 seconds.

When I was 10 ½, I talked to my drawings. The girl characters and the boy characters started liking each other.That same year, I liked feeding honey and sugar to ants in my driveway.

When I was 11, I would hold math class with my neighborhood friends and I, of course, was the teacher. I gave tests and everything. The whole nine yards.When I was 12, I used to go around giving cootie shots with my lead pencil. My fellow classmates called me the “school nurse.”

When I was 13, the boobs appeared. Year 13 was seriously a fashion nightmare.

When I was 15, the boobs got larger. The story ends here. Childhood over. Life begins.

My mom only recalls me falling twice in my childhood. I’ve never broken a bone. I was a cautious kid, what can I say =) God what happened to me???

I was a strange kid. I really was. It was all part of the OCS (Only Child Syndrome). I made that up in high school. I did strange things. O_o My mom and dad used to think I had problems. They probably still do.

What else? I can't remember. There's DEFINITELY more. I need to dig through my brain and retrace some more and I'll get back to ya. Not an easy process you know. G'night.

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Keeping fit

Robeks is so much better for you than Jamba Juice. Jamba Juice has SO MUCH SUGAR it's insane! An orange dream machine has 110 grams of sugar. God that's like drinking 3 cokes! However, Robeks has an average of 36 grams per drink. So everybody go to Robeks if you care about your health...haha.

You know, I used to hate my broad shoulders because I always wanted to be a petite girl, but not anymore. I found out having defined shoulders looks better and makes it easier to tone your arms, so now I embrace them.

Does anyone want to go to my gym with me? I go to the most awesome gym with really cool classes like Black Belt Ballet, Cardio Striptease, Kama Sutra Yoga, Dance Street, etc. But the classes are intense and so are the trainers. But that's what you get for paying the fare there so take advantage of me and go as my gym buddy!! Just let me know so I can put you on my guest list.

The best weather these days! OH GOD it's almost orgasmic. I went to the beach yesterday and the weather was perfect. I was on the pier and I wasn't even cold. Just a great warm breeze...

Another thing. I am the QUEEN OF MARIO KART. UNBREAKABLE. UNBEATABLE. UNTOUCHABLE. ZIP. I went to my friend's Paul apartment yesterday at UCLA and I beat him and all of his roommates. YEEAAH...girl power.

You can never be too old for video games, as long as your co-workers never find out your idol is Yoshi and you have the hots for mario. LOL. JK.

Monday, May 10, 2004

Feeling loved

I'm feeling really good about myself. When things get hard there are people who just try to make your life more difficult and then there's people who somehow manage to make your life easier. Recently I've experienced the latter.

Yesterday I got to talk to a younger friend of mine who I hadn't had contact with for about 3 years. Well we talked for a while and she told me how she was doing and I told her what was going on with me...basially just touch base.. but what really got to me in the convo was when she told me I had always been her role model. How great is it to know you are someone's role model? Pretty damn good I tell you...

Then today I received a card from a classmate of mine who I don't actually know well at all. I just know her name and that she's a very attractive Kristin Kreuk look-alike, but she sent me a card telling me how much she admired me as a person because I'm always working hard at my success and thanked me for making her feel comfortable the first few weeks we were at college (we had class together) by just being a friendly, easygoing person. That message was the highlight of my day and I didn't get to see her and thank her and I won't be able to because I'm leaving tommorow, which kind of sucks, but it feels so good to know I made a difference in someone's life. I was really flattered.

The next couple weeks I will be participating in a number of volunteer and community service events. I know that I'll definitely find that very fulfilling.When things get really crazy I think of the people I love and the people that love me...but it's just so nice when you find out someone you didn't expect be thinking about you had you in their thoughts. It's just those surprises that keep me going. My life in the last year has had a lot of those.

Saturday, May 08, 2004

The Importance of Sunscreen

The importance of sunscreen.As summer is just days away, and everyone will be out in the sun, I will discuss the importance of sunscreen. Sunscreen is important, very important, but I don't wear it. Why? Because most sunscreens are greasy and I hate feeling greasy, which means I don't like wearing lotion (I'm rarely dry anyway), handcreams, facecreams, buttcreams, whatever, I only wear the lightest, fluffiest face lotion by DDF on my face before I put on make-up. But sunscreen is damn important, and I realized this after a classmate of mine gave a presentation on why sunscreen is so vital. Did all of you even know that SPF stood for "sun protection factor"? Because most people don't. When I use to go swimming I'd go for like the mega sunscreen with SPF 75, but now I found out that It's a fact anything higher than SPF 35, like those SPF 50s and SPF 75s don't protect you any more than an SPF 30, just another money making scheme. I should start wearing it and everyone else should too. Nobody wants pre-mature wrinkles at 25 because they liked to tan when they were 16 and nobody wants skin cancer either. Can you believe 80 percent of lifetime damage from sun exposure occurs before age 18? I soooo regret going to tanning salons and lying in those UVA/UVB light infested beds. Now I've switched over to spray-tanning. It's a proven fact that caucasians age quicker than darker people because lighter skin doesn't have enough melanin to absorb the damaging rays and I've noticed it too. Wonder why asians don't age quicker than others? Guess we're just lucky..aha. Anyways, the sun's rays are the strongest from 10am-3pm especially during late spring (right now) and summer, and damnit b/c that's when I'm in the sun the most!!! Also, whether your sunscreen is fruit-scented foam or sparkly blue gel, make sure the label says broad-spectrum or both UVA and UVB protection. UVB rays are more likely to cause sunburn than the UVA rays. Ideally, sunscreens should protect against both UV rays. The most common ingredient in sunscreen that aids UVB absorption is PABA (para-aminobenzoic acid). PABA often is linked to allergic reactions, so if you have sensitive skin, read the label carefully and avoid PABA. Other common active sunscreen ingredients include Cinnamates to absorb UVB rays, Benzophenones to absorb UVA rays, and Anthranilates to absorb both UVA and UVB rays, so look for those and be safe in the sun!! ; )