Ugh

WTF! new shoe rack fail. I just got you too! Bastid!

Replacement rack and also a whole lot of shoes put away. =(

Out of site = Out of rotation like its poor shoe friends in shoe hell aka "storage"

The First Big Storm

It was the first big storm of the season to hit the bay area today. I felt lazy and felt like being safe inside my bed so I stayed home from class today. With my lazy hooky playing day.. I layed around in bed and decided to catch up on movies. One of the movies I watched today was My Father starring Daniel Henney. I think he is gorgeous. This movie was released in South Korea, but about 1/3 - 1/2 of the movie is spoken in English. The rest was luckily translated with subtitles for me. Initially, I was just interested in watching the movie because Daniel Henney was in it. (Better known as Agent Zero in X-men.) After I started watching it, I thought there was a nice plot that was based on a true story.

The movie is about an adopted Korean born baby who lives in America for 20 years before he decides to leave home to find his biological parents in Korea. The main character, Henney, enlists in the military and is off to Korea. He reaches out through the media to broadcast his story and motive. His death row bound father then contacts him through jail. Henney tries to re-unite with his father and find out about his biological parents. He also petitions to end the death penalty. Throughout his journey of getting to know himself, he encounters many lies from his father. However, in the end Henney accepts his father for who he is.. his father.

It was a very touching movie. I did tear a few times. =( I urge you to watch it if you have the time and do not mind reading subtitles.

Hello Gorgeous.

Down On The Floor And Dirty

So in the mornings when you have school/work, you know you really should just wake up instead of tossing around in bed and checking your alarm - 1hour, 30 minutes or 8 minutes before it goes off. Well, I was having one of those lazy mornings today and kept on checking the time. Do you also know the feeling of how you fall back asleep and you start to dream different dreams every time you wake up and go back to sleep? No matter how much you liked one dream and you try to fall back into sleep to continue the dream.. it never seems to happen? Yeh, I hate when that happens.

Well the point is, this morning I had a dream about going GREEN in public restrooms. In the dream, I was waiting in line for the ladies' restroom. This restroom was filled with toilet paper and paper towels on the floor. It was filthy. Then in my dream, a girl stepped out of line and picked up a piece of trash to dispose into the garbage. Another dreamy girl asked "What are you doing?" Dream girl #1 says, "Saving the world, one tree at a time for people like you and I in the future."

The point of this post is, that I realized this bathroom line scene is something that I see everyday. Especially on nights that I go to the club where the bathrooms are trashed by the end of the night. I realized that we do wastefully use paper towels, toilet paper and toilet seat covers when it's there in abudance. Why don't restrooms have more eco-friendly options, like an automatic hand dryer? It would help to save on buying a lot of paper towels and also help to keep bathrooms cleaner. After this, I started thinking about how else can we maintain cleaner bathrooms and go green. I thought about is there another way to save on toilet paper... then I thought ... uhhh .. no... that's pretty gross. Nevermind. Haha. But hey, maybe if they installed the Japanese style toilets where they spray your ass with warm water and have an automatic dryer built into the toilet? It is already made possible!

Too Much Stuff

Hi, my name is Cindy and I have been sober for one day.
-Hi Cindy, welcome to shopaholics anonymous.


I think I have a problem.

A shopping problem.

It's time for me to stop buying so many things before I finish the existing items I have. I always tend to buy back ups of things that I am no where near finishing.. for example ..

Q-tips (who doesn't like clean ears?)

cotton pads (they're readily available at drugstores, but I'll be sad once I run down to the last 10 or so in the bag)

lotions (new and improved! oh! ok, I'll try it!!)

face washes (if you've been known to have good reviews, change in packaging, or you're on sale .. you're mine)

junk food (lol, I have a stash of junk food at the head of my bed, in my backpack, and kitchen .. I rarely snack on junk food, in fact.. everytime I bring snacks to school/work.. they just end up sitting in my backpack for months until it turns into crumbs from being squashed .. and tossed out.. I think this is part of the shopping problem! I love going down the food aisles)

pens (I swear I've only used the same 2 pens and pencils throughout high school and college),

make up (MAC is my weakness and I have enough to last me a lifetime.. darn their almost monthly limited editions!)

tissue (I used to have bad morning/night allergies so once I start sneezing, the nose does not stop running. I stock up on tissue like water for an earthquake.. I think I have about 30 unopened boxes at home currently. If you break up with your boyfriend/girlfriend, got a bloody nose, need bedding for your baby puppies .. I'll have enough tissue for you)

Those are a few of the things that I could think of that I overstock on. I know for damn sure that I have to slow down on the clothes/shoes shopping. You open up my closet and there will be price tags staring at you haha.

So today I went to eat at Shanghai Dumpling House and shopping at Tanforan. I intended to treat the family out to brunch today, but I forgot my wallet. HAHA. Thanks dad lol. I swear I did not purposely forget my wallet! I took out my wristlet for my night out at the lounges yesterday and I forgot to put it back in my purse. Anywho, so since I forgot my wallet, I followed my mom.. or I accompanied my mom while she browsed the mall. It was actually not that bad, because if I were to roam around by myself with a wallet in hand, I'd probably have to haul back a whole lot of stuff. Not to mention that they opened up the Sephora in JC Penneys I should forget my wallet at home more often! It'll help me control my crazy shopping addiction.

Saturday morning, I took my mom to Burgermeister in Westlake for some good ol Niman Ranch beef. mMm yum.

Then we spent what felt like a whole day in the shopping center. Surprisingly, Westlake's shopping center has expanded. I remember in middle/high school patronizing a studio picture place called Strike A Pose, Beverly's craft store, JC Penneys, and a pager booth. What is a pager you ask? Well, a pager was the main mode of communication. It was for people that were too damn broke to afford a cell phone when cell phones were first introduced. With a pager, we even developed a new language called pager code. So yes, I am multi-lingual. I speak Cantonese, English and pager code. HAHA. It's kind of like sending a SMS now, except you didn't have the convenience of returning the text immediately until you had phone access.

When I think back on the pager days, it's actually much simpler than having a cell phone. I can return calls if I wanted to and at my own convenience. I had an alarm clock with it. I had a cool hip accessory. It was much cheaper at about $80 a year. 04 40111 1 177155 74053 0845.

I did buy a shoe rack since my mom is always complaining about how my shoes are cluttering the entrance to the front door. She doesn't know that I still have shoes stashed in the room and downstairs in our storage room for off season shoes. So, I did myself and her a favor by picking up a 50 pair shoe rack and pray that it's big enough after I toss some out. Here is the work in progress.

Back From My Hiatus =)

I got distracted studying for my Anatomy Lab Practical Exam. Therefore, I decided to play around with my new netbook's webcam.


My new favorite past time. "Words With Friends" app on the iPhone. It's like Scrabble. Thanks Clifton for hooking me on this game. Or sha'll I say, NO THANKS!! I get so distracted with this! But it's Oh So Fun!

Man, this shit is nasty. Look and beware. Do not buy it. I took a bite and it went straight to the garbage, along with the rest of it's homies in the 12 pack.

Colors make everything fun.

Viva La V!

SOTD: Lady Gaga - Poker Face



So since the last blog, I've started Spring semester and started at the hospital. Let me say in one day, I've seen things that I would've never thought to see in my whole life. I've seen multiple liver transplants, heart and orthopedic surgeries. I didn't realize that on my first day I'd get pushed into the OR room and experience these sights. I thought they would prep me first, but they sure didn't. It was also very cold in the OR rooms as well. I don't know if my legs were shaking due to the fact that it was cold in there, or was it because I was shaking from being shocked and perhaps scared? I didn't faint or squeal or anything, it's just so surreal seeing a surgery happen 2 feet away from you. I'm ok with seeing loads of blood and the insides of a person, but I hate seeing the needle or blade insertions into a person's epithelial layer. I cringe when I am watching that happen. It's day 3 out of my 5 volunteer days there. On the 5th day, the people I've been shadowing are going to evaluate my 5 days there and decide if I will be capable of handling the work and also if I've made a decision for myself as to whether or not this internship is what I'm truly interested in. No matter what the outcome, I'd have to say that this is a once in a lifetime experience seeing exactly how the OR is ran.



On another note, in about 6 hours I will be in lovely.......


yay! This is going to be the first 2009 get away/vaycay. I'll be there from Thursday - Sunday. Fun fun fun! Unfortunately, the weather there won't be too beautiful, but similar to San Francisco weather. Supposedly it's highs in the 60's and lows in the 40's. Oh well, I'm used to the hot and sunny mornings/afternoons, then cold evenings once the sun sets. I'm just so lazy to pack right now even though I won't have much to pack since it's just a weekend trip. I have to remember to pack all my toiletries. I remember I forgot to pack my toothbrush after using it in the morning for a trip before and it sucked. I had to go to a gas station to buy a toothbrush mid roadtrip to buy a janky overpriced toothbrush. There will be no doubt that everything will be overpriced in Sin City as well so I hope my homemade "checklist" is complete. Signing over and out. See ya later San Francisco!

Happy New Year Out With The Old and In With The New *2009*

SOTD: Kanye West - Robocop

Happy New Year to everyone!

As I reflect on my past year, I realize that it's been filled with a lot of different experiences. Both good and bad. I've met a lot of new people, gotten close with people that have already been in my life and was able to see the true selves of some of my friends as well. All in all, I feel that 2008 was a pretty slow year for me. Nothing major happened.

I'm really excited to look forward to what 2009 is going to present to me. I got to roll in the New Year with my best friends at AT&T Park in SF. I believe the people you spend New Years with at midnight will be the people you spend the rest of the year with. Crazy superstitious? I know. Anywho, supposedly, the year of the Ox (according to the Chinese zodiac) will be offending the yearly God this lunar new year. =( Definitely not looking forward to a bad year this year, or any year as a matter of fact. Therefore, my relatives and I are planning to visit the temple next weekend in Yuba City before the start of the Lunar new year to try to pray for protection and peace of our whole family.

I've been a bum at home lately and it feels great, yet pretty boring at the same time. All I've been doing is waking up early, I can't sleep past 8:45am and it sucks. I wake up and watch dramas, eat, and sleep. I've been able to spend more time with my mom though when she doesn't have work so that has been fun. My mom actually doesn't want me to go out because of the fact that I am not currently under any health insurance plan. She is so worried that I can't go on any vacations with my friends. She's not a pessimist, she's just thinking, "what if...?" I've had to pass up trips to visit friends at their colleges, Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas. I was really looking forward to going on the trips to get my mind off things and just enjoy my winterbreak. On a brighter note (because I'm such an optimistic), I am saving money! I've been trying to cut down on my leisurely spending ever since last month. I can't buy the fancy things I want to eat, cute things I wanna play with or look at, and absolutely goodbye to designer labels. Has anyone ever noticed how expensive it is to go out and buy drinks these days? $5 for a Starbucks/Jamba Juice/Dessert and $10+ for alcoholic beverages! Now I know where my money went! Into my stomach haha. There will be one thing that I will be splurging on though. That's the Hello Kitty for MAC in February. I can't resist!


Therefore, onto my New Years Resolutions...

1. Be frugal, very frugal. haha
2. Read more on a daily basis. This applies for school and leisure. I haven't read a book leisurely for about 3 years.
3. Spend more time in the kitchen/living room having real conversations with my family.
4. Catch up with old friends more. I've neglected a lot of people that were good to me. I'm sorry.

5. To smile more while never neglecting to say "please" and "thank you" to people that assist me on a daily basis
6. Keep my room cleaned!!

...to be continued

Here's a pic of my Mighty Morphing Power Rangers crew at a relative's wedding I went to last night. It's a pic of the "older" cousins our mom's side. I love this pic because it reminds me of the pic on grandma's fridge lol.