Free Yourself

I should know better as I used to be in adveristing, but this ad totally suckered me into buying the newest NIKE FREE XT.

Hope

[I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope...]

Yap, I just quoted Greys. A drama series that's so dyfunctional, but yet so wise.

Can't Beat The Feeling

I accidentally drank expired coke.



oops~

Cut Throat

There's this pool game called cut throat that's played by 3 players. The pool balls are divided up into 3 sets. The objective of the game is to sink in other peoples balls -- hence the name, cut throat.

Every man for himself.

What can I say? Son of a mutha effin bitch~

Ready, Get Set, Go!

Something happened throughout the years..

I had perfect attendence in 8th grade (even got an award)..

Zero hour in high school..

7:30am business law class in college -- which I must brag b/c I went a total of 3.5 times and got an A-!

Yet for the life the me, I am always late for work! I admit, my ad days have spoiled me a bit by clocking in at 10, but in the wonderful world that is Imperial, 9am is like pulling teeth with chopsticks!

But its ok b/c I've been playing a game with my boss. She's actually not aware of this game and so far, I'm kicking ass and taking names. The premise is quite simple: as long as I arrive before my boss, I win!

High five!

Volkswagen Commercial: The Force

E. Fudd

"Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits" ...

Happy Chinese New Year!

PDA-ing

Last night at a Starbucks in the upper East side, sat 2 couples showcasing extreme PDA. I, did not appreciate it because it was 1) not cute and 2) almost full on porn.

These kids were young-- say late tweens early 20's. They ordered 2 venti somethings and a cheesecake. I don't really understand feeding your significant other food -- but that's how they were. The bf would feed the girl a bite of cheesecake and then kiss her on the cheek. Another bite, 2 smooches and so on and so forth. I wanted to pull my hair out. His free hand was actually in the vicinity of her crotch and I was just thinking '2 ventis + cheesecake, they could've used that money to get a room...'

seriously!

Sigh, young folks know not of the value of money these days.

Magic 8 Ball

Sell! Buy! Sell! Buy!

I've been seesawing for the past year on whether or not to sell my place. The locations great -- next to the subway (and subway sandwich shop), park, grocery store, 7-11 and a million and 1 eateries.

So why sell? Mortgage is killin me. I've been breaking even every month for the past 13 months and still in debt. Lol~

I've been lucky enough to squeeze a trip here and there, but as I'm getting close to my 30's, I'd like to stop this trend of living paycheck to paycheck.

I hear the real estate market is going up again and its a good time to sell... here's the kicker: Where the heck am I going to live? It's me + dog and not all places here rent out to tenants with pets. Should I buy again and go through all the paper work, bank statements, interior designers BS again!?

I asked the IT guy (whose knowledge of the real estate market is just as up to date as his own calling) and he suggested I move to Bali. Not Bali, Indonesia, but the Bali that's 30mins north of the city, that's not really near a subway or grocery store or civilization, but great for hot springs and relaxation!

I'm already a hermit living in the city -- I can't be a hermit living out in booneyland.

>_<"

I hate seesaws.

Table For One + Dog

As Debby is off in Europe living the champagne wishes and caviar dreams life, I am about 2 blocks from my apt, sitting at an outdoor cafe, enjoying my iced coffee(mostly likely made from powder, but still delish!) and basking in the very weird 82 degrees weather.

Le Paris, Yong He is not, but the many scooters parked along the street has it's own charm. The only thing I can do without are the yappy lil dogs at the next table over.

Phuket

my phuket trip in a nutshell. there's pics of le beach on le facebook.

bali (keeping fingers crossed) may be next!

Sigh

I need a massage el pronto.

sigh.

On a sad note, my company blocked fb. I hear messenger is next.

sigh.

Hot In Taipei

Good lord, its 72 degrees in Taipei. 72 degrees!!

So much for winter.

SPF 0

tickets... check!
hotel... check!

phuket, i'ma coming!

Herbal Essence

I have the urge to drop everything and backpack throughout Europe. But then movies like "hostel" and "the human centipede" have freaked me out to a point of no return. Maybe I'll stick to SE Asia and the white sandy beaches.

Phukett in December!

The story that never happened..

The story that never happened -- goes a little like this:

6 friends were hanging out a bar on a Saturday night. They had take out delivered straight to the bar (never knew you could do that huh?) and Friend X tells a story of how a boy had wronged her. Now, being the supportive friends we were, wanted to kick some ass. We knew the boy that wronged her was at a bar 4 blocks yonder so we rallied up the troops and made our way over.

A lot of shit talking was made enroute and continued when we got there. But alas, even after all the instigating and 'peer pressure', nothing happened. Zip, zilch, none. Beers were finished and the 6 friends walked out of that place like losers.

hMm..

I miss ..

I heard the scuffle sounds as I walked towards the gym. I could feel my heart beat faster -- as if it was opening game night and we had home court advantage. Needless to say, I missed it. The sleek, glistening hardwood flooring, touch of the leather ball and the nothing but net, swoosh-- brought me back to the good ol days.

And today was the day I drove all over town. From my place to downtown for brunch then to the National Palace Musuem then back into town for dinner then to the south side to shop at the mega Ikea store and finally back home. Yes, I miss driving!!!

If parking weren't such bitch (and hella expensive), I'd totally consider getting a car. Sigh..

Say Wha?!

HOLLER!

is the word that can describe the 'eureka' moment i just had.

i, being the dumbass, accidentally upgraded my iphone software to the latest 4.0.2 -- which meant that i couldn't download the 'jailbreakme' software. so after numerous searches, i found a link where this guy gave a brilliant tutorial on how to downgrade your software.

bada-bing~ i'm now using 4.0.1! time to jailbreak this badass!

Nancy SMASH!

Road rage level has increased (surprisingly).

This morning, enroute to work, bunch of dumbasses were scootering pretty slow. As in leaving a huge ass space between them and a bus (that was at least 10 yards ahead) and blocking the folks behind.

STUPID mofos.

Whatever.

Then this lady literally cuts me off -- into a gas station. I was on the inside lane and did not appreciate the sudden serve to the right without warning. This ain't no QB sweep lady.

I'm sure she heard me yell "USE YOUR FUCKIN BLINKERS!" through my face mask.

Later at nite, while waiting for the subway, instead of spreading throughout the cars, bitchasses crammed by the doors thus making it impossible for others (ie ME) to get in.

I'm starting to hate Taiwanese people again...

8/18 ∙ Taipei ∙ Home

OCD, perfectionist or ...?

spent an hour (out of 4) at the production house racking my brain on the simplest detail for a company video: formatting the title pages

original format:
Kaohsiung: 3/10 Dreams

1st draft:
高雄: 3/10 Dreams

2nd draft:
Mar 10th, Kaohsiung Dreams

3rd draft:
10 Mar, Kaohsiung Dreams

4th draft:
3/10 . Kaohsiung . Dreams

Final draft:
3/10 ∙ Kaohsiung ∙ Dreams

major props to the editor and agency folks for bearing with me.

they must think i'm insane. sigh~