A note for the new year

A note to myself for the new year (not in any particular order):

Some of the movies I missed ( thanks to my classes this past fall term) and would like to catch either in theaters or on dvd in the future :

• Ray
• Fahrenheit 9/11
• A Very Long Engagement
• The Incredibles
• the Aviator
• Hotel Rwanda
• Closer
• De-Lovely
• National Treasure (since my roomie said it's pretty decent)
• Spanglish

Movies I'm definitely not interested in:

• White noise
• Darkness
• The ring 2
• The Grudge
• Open water (for reasons that will be obvious later on)

Things I'd like to get to do again in 2005:

• Snorkeling in Crystal Bay

Events I'm gonna hate myself for missing in 2005:

• My friend's wedding
• My best friend's wedding
• My other best friend's wedding
• Chinese New Year with my family

The one book I can't wait to get my hands on:

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Wishes for the new year:

• A new, more exciting career with better pay
• A healthier lifestyle with more self-discipline
• A new adventure, but most important of all:
• Health, prosperity and happiness for me, my family, relatives and friends

People I can't wait to see next year:

• My family and friends back home

Aeroacrophobia-Coulrophobia

Finally identified some of my fears today :P

Some of other interesting phobias around out there that I never knew existed before(according to this one website that I found):
Bibliophobia- Fear of books (think I had this when I was little)
Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single (Currently nervous about possibility of catching this from anyone else)
Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing (eeewwwww.... :P sounds like my bro)
Arrhenphobia- Fear of men (definitely don't have this now... or do I? hmm... interesting)
Asthenophobia- Fear of fainting or weakness (then what? one gets frightened so bad that one can't faint???)
Barophobia- Fear of gravity (better talk to NASA a.s.a.p!)
Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness ( Question: Define ugliness?)
Chaetophobia- Fear of hair ( GO KOJAK!!!)
Dikephobia- Fear of justice (HUH?!??!?!)
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women ( my kind of guy! hahaha!)

So glad I don't have any of these....

Something's been bugging me for a while now. I'm really nervous about it and I have made up my mind. I need to do some major changes immediately. I mean, c'mon... it's my life. Noone other than myself can fix it, right? Especially when it's something as personal and critical as this. Man... I really need to do some major changes in my life!

Anyway, on a lighter note, over the weekend I finally got the cellphone that my folks got me for an early birthday present, and I LUURRRRVEEE it!! It's the 7610 I've been eyeing for a while. YIPEE!!!

KingKong vs. Godzilla

That's what a newscaster said in reference to the Lakers- Heat game. I guess that's kinda an appropriate way to describe it, coz it was one GREAT game allright.... I didn't catch it until around the end of the 2nd quarter, when I found out about it from my roommate, and I'm glad I did. LOVED IT!! 104-102. Go SHAQ!! (I wonder if there is really such a movie... I mean didn't someone come up with alien vs predator?)

A note to Santa

It's Christmas Eve and I'm home alone. Sounds pathetic? I guess some people might think so. I personally find the quietness rather enjoyable and I am actually planning to take a walk tomorrow morning around Mag Mile and perhaps maybe take some pictures.

I had dinner earlier with 2 other friends who do not celebrate Christmas..... The seaweed salad was great and the tempura maki was ok, but service was GREAT. Traded some juicy (and some not-so-juicy) gossip with those 2 friends and enjoyed a wonderful green tea ice cream for dessert. On the way home, dropped by Blockbuster and Walgreens as those two needed to pick up some stuff.

The apartment is kinda' quite. My roommate is attending one of her "diplomatic functions" over at her boyfriend's family tonight, aka. Christmas dinner.

Anyway, in case you happen to see that most popular dude this time of the year, please pass on this note of mine to Santa (THANKS!):

Dear Santa,
For this Christmas, I'm not asking for a lot. If you could just bring me some extra cash to last for a couple of shopping sprees and a vacation or two, a genius new brain, an exciting new job, some magic diet pills to get me to my ideal weight, that would be great! I'd really appreciate it. Oh, and if you could probably squeeze in a nice, decent, smart-but-not-a-smart-ass guy in that sack of yours, that would probably come in handy once in a while. Thanks a whole bunch! Have a safe trip back to North pole and please do give my best regards to Mrs. Claus. Please tell her to drop by for some milk and cookies next year.

Your greatest fan,

chocoholic

Found out over the weekend that for the third time in the 3.5 years I've been in this city, I'm once again living in a building serving as a silent witness of a crime. Although they're different buildings, this is getting ridiculous.


one's solitary journey,
fear or bravery?

"Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid."
-Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Carribbean-

TGIF

PHEWWW....What a long Friday it was today, ooops, I mean yesterday considering it's around 1.30 in the morning now. I had breakfast with the ladies from work for a belated birthday get-together. We decided to try out this place about 5 minutes drive from work. It was a quaint place in the middle of what used to be a project, so talk about weird location, huh?But anyway, amazingly once we got inside the tiny little breakfast place, we were transported immediately away from the hustle and bustle of the windy city. This despite some construction, some vacant lot and some run down buildings around the corner. The place really had a nice atmosphere. One of the ladies even compared it to being in Vermont. Considering I've never been to Vermont, I guess I'll have to take her words for it.

Anyway, breakfast was great, but I really learned my lesson today. I've never felt so sick from sugar overdose before. It was BAD. Well, actually... it wasn't the breakfast as much as the bag of leftover halloween sweets that the belated b'day colleague brought to the office afterwards. The whole office ( including my boss who's usually pretty sensible in watching what she eats) didn't have anything other than those sweets the rest of the day. By early afternoon, we were all pretty much down from the sugar overdose.

To make things worse, I had to stay behind waiting for a colleague to finish his work before I could do my part. I was the last person the leave the building and I didn't get to do it till after 7:30 pm. Even then I still had to drop some documents off at Fedex to make sure they get to DC by Monday. Being the wonderfully lucky person that I am, I got there 10 minutes before the last pickup for the week! YEAHHH!!!

On a much lighter note, the highlight of the day was when I found out that I got straight A-s this term. Man... I couldn't help it and did my crazy, fluttering-hands, jiggly-wiggly,looks-like-a-fish-getting-electrocuted dance in front of everyone. It was CRAZY this past term, and I really appreciate the grades (THANKS PROFS!), coz I worked my ass off for them(not thatit's grown smaller in size though... it's even growing bigger and bigger now, hahahaha). Anyway, I know some people would think nothing of this, but taking 10 graduate credits while working full time is definitely not a good idea. NOT a good idea, I tell ya'.... trust me. Well at least it wasn't a complete waste of time. I did learn a little bit about the field of work that I'm interested in.

Another long distance call to my best friend back home. She asked me again about going home.

Being a true believer of the"everything-happens-for-a- reason" quote that I am, I can't help but wonder where my path is going to lead me this time.

oh well.. can't really worry about that now. Gosh.. got so many things to do tomorrow. celebrate and shop! haha! ^_^

YEAY!! might have a chance to drive tomorrow! HURRAAHH!!

Staying home alone on a friday
Flat on the floor looking back
On old love
Or lack thereof
After all the crushes are faded
And all my wishful thinking was wrong
I’m jaded
I hate it
- Love song for no one / John Mayer-

HAPPY MONDAY!!

I'm not really sure why, but for some reason today I'm feeling unusually happy for a Monday. Could it be the new bedsheet and quilt cover I just got over the weekend?The extremely HIGH dose of SUGAR from the rapsberry iced tea that I got this morning coz it was so toasty in my office building? Not having to stay up late to work on assignments over the weekend?
Whatever the reason is...., IT'S A BRAND NEW DAY! A BRAND NEW WEEK! A BRAND NEW LIFE! Oh well... OK... think that was the sugar doing the talking.
Anyway, I'm so happy for my big boss. He's just got a brand new granddaughter over the weekend. He's a first-time grandpa at 70-something! It's kind of amazing to me... coz my parents are in their early 50-s and they already have 2 grandkids from my brother. Anyway, I really think my boss would make a SWEET grandpa.

an enlightenment

Got fed up looking for materials for a paper, and ended up browsing silly stuff online. Don't remember where, but found this reminder in a posting on some website or whatever:

STRESSED spelled backwards is DESSERTS!

Such an enlightenment!!! Now why didn't I think of that before?!

We cannot run from heartache... Heartache is a part of life. We know that now.
-August Nicholson, the Village-

I LUV Jamie Cullum for singing my song: I'm a Twentysomething!
Haven't got a clue what I'm doing and proud of it :P

I'm not young enough to know everything.
-Oscar Wilde-