tuesday. january 23, 2007
random thought. if the chinese keep on aborting female babies because they prefer male descendants and they can only have one kid then who are these male descendants going to marry in 20-30 year?..
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|monday. january 22, 2007
music| ayashi no ceres - the chase at the date of dawn
wohoo! the whole foods at columbus circle started carrying goat milk yogurt *little happy dance*
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|music| ayashi no ceres - against the light
sooooo tired. i wish i could take a nap...*yawn*..
i planned on catching up on sleep over the weekend but that didn't happen. stupid thing called family obligations. bah... ^^;
searching for chronos @ 10:46 am
|friday. january 19, 2007
music| wolf's rain - coracao selvagem
saw this article in the washpost about a new perfume at the museum shop at versaille that could be like the one marie antoinette wore. they have a 8.5 oz bottle available for $10,500 and a much smaller almost 1 oz vial for $450 (a real bargain, ne?)... while i think the entire idea is silly, i think the friends in the quote below are even sillier
She confessed, however, that two of her friends who've bought the smaller phials, copied from the queen's original perfume containers on display in one of her private bathrooms, consider the royal fragrance too valuable to ever unseal or wear.
what else are they going to do with it if they don't use it? and why did they buy it??
searching for chronos @ 2:45 pm
|tuesday. january 16, 2007
i had a strange and rather disturbing dream last night... i dreamt that i was barricaded in a room in a mansion with some strangers and outside the room, the house was filled with zombie?/demon-possessed?/generally-bad people hell bent on killing all of us in the room. suddenly the door is broken down and the bad guys swarm into the room. some of the people have guns and shoot at the bad guys but they overwhelm us and soon we're all sort of running around, trying to get away. i somehow get out of the room but in the hallway, i get grabbed and the bad guy stabs me through the stomach with a long piece of pipe (ouch!!)
assuming that killed me, the guy throws me down on the floor. not wanting to disabuse him of that idea, i play dead. oddly enough, while i'm laying there listening to mayhem happen all around, i don't bleed to death (which i would think one would do with a gaping stomach wound...). after a while, things quiet down but, as i get ready to maybe crawl out of there, i notice that one of the bad guys is near me, on the floor, seriously hurt and getting treated by his girlfriend (i guess they can't be zombies... zombies wouldn't have enough of a brain left to have relationships). instead of staying still longer as logic would dictate, i crawl over and pat the guy on the head (whaaa?)
maybe that warped me out of the house cause i then find myself out on the streets. i stumble about until i get to a rundown apartment building. i enter and wander up the main stair case and end up in a giant loft type place where people are smoking up. i'm still wounded so i'm trying to get someone to help but they're all so high on drugs they don't notice me. feeling a bit exasperated, i go down the stairs again and notice that an apt door is open. i peek in and see one room with 2 bunk beds. sitting on the beds, i see a giant black guy with dreadlocks and dressed in rastafarian colors, a tiny asian girl (who looks like the girl from gilmore girls. ack!), and the michelin man... they notice me and run over to help. the girl tells me she'll get money to get me a doctor and she breaks open her piggy bank and starts counting quarters.... that's when my alarm went off and i woke up O.o... isn't that a really disturbing dream? i bet a psychologist would have a field day with it ^^;
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|friday. january 12, 2007
music| tsubasa - a tiny sunshine
wheee. i'm taking a half day today to go up to boston and visit with the folks up there and take another 2 day kyudo program ^_^ i'm so excited for both!
searching for chronos @ 9:03 am
|friday. january 5, 2007
music| inu yasha - symphonic - dearest
joann is the best! ...and i'm an idiot. last night, i spent 2+ hrs trying to figure out how to get a @*#ing memory card out of the new cell. i tried fingernails, tweezers, googling to see if there was a special trick to it... well, this morning, i went to ask joann (a coworker), who's also an artist, if she knew any special teeny tiny tweezers or pliers that i could use on it. she got curious, took a look at it, and got it out in 2 seconds (maybe less).. it turns out if you push the card in, it pops out. i swear i tried that yesterday and it didn't work but now it works. perfectly!!! argh...
searching for chronos @ 10:19 am
|wednesday. january 3, 2007
ick.. this afternoon kinda sucked... i found out a coworker/friend is being let go for budget reasons... while i've been told i shouldn't worry (and there are other more tangible reasons why i'm 99.9% positive i'll be ok), one can't help but feel somewhat depressed when it feels like someone new is getting the axe every few weeks! granted, they're all in different departments but still....it's even worse since i really do like this coworker.... meh...
but the one bright spot of the day is that mom got me a new cellphone today as a late christmas gift. it's the new-ish lg chocolate and i love it! mom was actually going to get me something else but, luckily, she called me while she was at the verizon store and i had been eyeing the chocolate for a while (i've always wanted a slider... i don't like the flip phones) so she got it instead ^^ i'm going to have so much fun with customizing everything
anyway, i can't believe it's 2007 already. who would have thought time would pass so quickly? in a few months our 2nd reunions will be coming up! O.o...
searching for chronos @ 13:38 pm
|monday. december 11, 2006
i love the holidays if only for the yummy treats people at the office share that they get from people the vendors ^^
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|saturday. december 9, 2006
music| samurai deeper kyo - blue requiem
hm.. lately i've been spending lots of time with the kitties. after lynx not feeling so hot recently, it looks like he needs the cuddling. he's ok but after the few days of throwing up and the subsequent vet visits, he's been climbing in my lap when i sit and he never did that before.. i think the vet visits really traumatized him ^^;
nyway, other than that, i've been baking a bunch. another couple of loaves of no-knead breads (i loooooove bittman for writing about this in the nyt) and some lavender scones, finally after talking about it for months! yummmmm ^^
this past thursday and friday, i took off just because i had the vacation days left ^^ i went into the city to do some christmas shopping and now i'm broke broke broke ;__; i got my mom a gift certificate to a spa and then picked up some other stuff for people (what i won't say ^^ it's a secret!). then just because i was curious, i went to brooklyn to go to this perfume gallery called 'i hate perfume' run by christopher brosius. i mean, what a name for a perfume gallery, right? ^^ i was also hoping i'd find something i liked too since my skin tends to react to commercial perfumes :P and this guy makes non-alcohol based stuff.
to make a long story short, i went, smelled, and bought... i couldn't resist. he had green tea and black tea as scents! actually, the green tea doesn't smell much like any green tea i've had. too sweet. but the scent is lovely all the same ^_^
tomorrow, i plan to do more baking so i have something to take to the kyudo class on monday ^^ joe froggers and linzer hearts. i hope the joe frogger (molasses cookies) turn out well. i've never made them before...
searching for chronos @ 11:49 pm
|wednesday. november 29, 2006
music| mononoke hime - requiem
interesting little tidbit i learned today. my office building was designed to look like three books between two bookends. maybe i'ma dork but i think that's really rally cool ^^
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|music| joe hisaishi - tango x.t.c
hm.. busy and tired lately... one would think after having 5 days off for thanksgiving (ok, so i spent 2 solid days cooking but then i spent the remaining 3 days sleeping...), i would be all relaxed and energized :P
i suppose i haven't really been sleeping a whole lot other than those 3 days so maybe that's why but i have some projects i want to get finished before the end of the year ^^
i'm also rather worried. lynx has been throwing up since thanksgiving and i can't figure out what's wrong with him... it was really bad last friday and saturday. he puked all over the place and i mean alllll over the place... i thought it was getting better since he didn't throwing up in the last day or two and was starting to eat again but, this morning, i found that he'd thrown up everything he'd eaten lately up again... ;___; we're going to the vet friday. hopefully it's nothing serious...
searching for chronos @ 10:57 am
|tuesday. november 14, 2006
music| benjamin britten - simple symphony
lately, i've been trying to be more environmentally friendly. buying more local/organic/sustainable, walking more... the buying local/organic/sustainable is sometimes a little more expensive but i feel the extra money i spend is worth the tiny bit of personal satisfaction i get from helping sustain such environmentally friendlier business practices. granted, in all truthfulness, i have to admit that i'm much too lazy and selfish to change my ways too much ^^;
but for this thanksgiving, i'm buying a turkey from a ny farm. i thought at first that i wouldn't be able to find anything without having to drive upstate to a farm (closes one being 50+miles), which i wasn't going to do for a turkey, but i found that the whole foods near us carries turkey from a farm in plainville (not really a local farm but at least from the same state AND i can just go pick it up at a local store) so i'm happy ^^
anyway, i need to figure out what i'm making for thanksgiving... so far it's just turkey and pumpkin pie. last year, i was all fancy and did a pomagranate gravy.. while i liked it, i didn't like it enough to go throught all that work again. i'll just go with plain gravy and definitely a yam dish and maybe french onion soup?... does french onion go with turkey? i don't want to make butternut squash soup again...
searching for chronos @ 2:14 pm
|monday. november 13, 2006
ever since i saw a special on the food network on barbeque this weekend, i've had this odd craving for bbq, so i've been spending the last few minutes of my day looking up bbq places on the way to kyudo ^^;.. i'm debating whether i should really go. i hate eating alone at restaurants...
searching for chronos @ 5:03 pm
|music| j.s. bach - fugue for lute in g minor
i was on a baking roll this weekend. it all started when i found the no-knead bread recipe in the ny times earlier in the week. all week, i couldn't wait to try so come saturday, i mix up my batch and started the 18 hr wait process.
mid-day sunday, when the bread finally came out of the over, i guess i got a bit carried away with that success (sooo exciting!! i made bread and it was good bread too!) so i started making breton biscuits and then it was 'what the heck i have all the ingredients' and so on to chocolate chip cookies ^^;...
to be honest, the bread actually wasn't as fantastic as it could have been. i used 75% whole wheat flour and 25% buckwheat flour and i didn't realize whole wheat flour needs more time than regular flour does to rise so the loaf was rather dense but still tasty. i'll just make sure to give it 24+ hrs to rise next time and the bread will be perfect! ^^
oh yeah, i also finished the cotton sweater i was knitting. i was so domestic this weekend, it's almost sickening... but fun! ^^;
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|monday. november 6, 2006
music| gravitation - rage beat
every once in a while, i get this urge to write an ode to chocolate. then i promptly come to my senses, realizing the world really has enough bad poetry to deal with already without my help, and return to my mostly silent (do moans of satisfaction count?) but most sincere appreciation
at this very moment, a tko cookie from bouchon bakery is sitting next to me. it must be the heady smell of dark chocolate, cream, and butter wafting up from the cookie that's inspiring this moment ^^ it's such a seriously addictive cookie. a light mildly sweet cream nestled in between two chocolate butter cookies, bitter and slightly salty... what can i say, i'm in love ^_^
but really, what would life be without chocolate, that wonderful wonderful substance that makes life just a little bit better whatever the circumstances? whether you're sad, happy, lonely, excited, a little bit of chocolate only makes things better (unless you're one of those odd people who don't like chocolate... i have nothing to say to those statistical abnomalities.. ^_~) and there's no real substitute. sure sugar melts in your mouth but it's missing that bite that keeps it from being too sweet along with that rich buttery texture.. hm.. maybe coffee with some sugar and cream could do it but it still wouldn't be quite as good ^^
searching for chronos @ 4:57 pm
|thursday. november 2, 2006
i just took the what american accent do you have and came out with a 'midland'/no-accent result... i don't know if i buy that. anyone who has ever heard me say florida oranges would probably disagree as well ^^;
searching for chronos @ 9:17 pm
|music| howl's moving castle - sekai no yakusoku
can't believe tomorrow's already friday. the week seems like it just started... tho i'm somewhat relieved ^^ i'm totally tuckered out... why?.. i don't know *shrug*...
last week was the first time in a long long while that fan and i were able to eat with the germans ^^ i hope they're there tomorrow and that fan is free for lunch again! their brats are yummy ^_^
today, i finally got my shipment of yarn that i ordered 5 wks ago. now i can finish the sweater i was working on before i ran short of material. i had hoped to wear it a bit earlier in the year since it's only made with cotton and might not be warm enough for this colder weather but i guess i can just layer. anyway, to knitting i go. otherwise, i might not finish this year ^^;
searching for chronos @ 9:00 pm
|tuesday. october 31, 2006
music| howl's moving castle - inerasable curse
yay! i actually posted photos from a trip within a month's time after the trip ^^ now, if only i can get my act together to update/tweek site design stuff :P
searching for chronos @ 12:55 pm
|wednesday. october 25, 2006
i just had the most marvelous idea for a pre-holiday get together. wouldn't it be fun (in a rather domestic-y kinda way) to get together with friends, go pick out christmas trees, go to somebody's place, have hot cider/chocolate and ginger cookies, and make homemade tree ornaments while watching a holiday movie? .... maybe i've just been looking at too many craft books ^^; but it sounds like the perfect winter day to me. i wonder if any of the ny people would be amenable to doing something like that later.. ^^
searching for chronos @ 11:49 pm
|tuesday. october 24, 2006
just finished reading mindless eating. i was lucky enough to weedle a copy from someone today and just couldn't put it down ^^. anyway, quite a fascinating read. definitely try it if you get the chance
oh, went to my first kyudo practice yesterday. fun fun! ^^ i can't wait until next week. i kind of wish the practices were longer (it's only 2 hrs long) because with only 6 targets and all the people who show, you don't get to shoot too many times in that two hrs. i wouldn't care if i could practice at home like i want to but equipment is rather expensive and, as i anticipate my bow pull will probably change as i get use to this, it's not worth it yet... but really, how am i suppose to get better at this when practice is so limited? :P
searching for chronos @ 11:03 pm
|sunday. october 22, 2006
boo. i just remembered i have work again tomorrow. ah well. vacation was fun while it lasted. of course, i still have a week + a few days left ^^ anyway, tho i wish i wasn't so tired, i'm happy i did everything that i did. nothing quite like keeping busy with fun things to keep one awake and one's spirits up ^_^
searching for chronos @ 9:18 pm
|music| dhol foundation - healing with tumeric
been quite the busy bee since i got back from san fran on wed. after spending basically all of wed in transit, i was home thursday and half of friday before i went off to do stuff again ^^
friday night, i went to see alexandre nevsky with ben at avery fisher hall while the ny phil performed the score. to be honest, i wasn't sure about going at first with ben's taste in movies ^^ but the music was by prokofiev so i decided why not and i'm really glad i went. the music was spectacular and the movie was good too ^_^
because i was taking a kyudo course in the morning (at 9am!) in the city, i crashed at fan, eve, and melissa's place tho i wish i had gottem more sleep... they were in the middle of watching 'the squid and the whale' so i ended up staying up later than planned ^^;
i spent most of saturday(from 9am to 5:30pm tho with a lunch break and a tea break in the middle. yay!) doing kyudo. then i met up with fan, eve, and nate to see the new met opera production of madame butterfly ^_^ absolutely fantastic. it was a pity that we could only get standing room seats and that the two people who just happened to be standing in front of me were at least 6ft tall... i spent most of the first act on my tippie-toes... not much fun... thankfully, the usher was really nice and, when two people in the orchestra section left early and gave him their ticket stubs, gave us those ticket stubs so two of us could sit. all i can say is, those were sweet seats ^^ it was too bad fan and i had to trade off with eve and nate after the 1st half of act 2 ^^;... afterwards, the three girls went back to the apartment, opened up a bottle of port and watched the end of 'two weeks notice'... not the best plan (the movie) since that made me end up going to sleep at 2am and i had to wake up at 8am again for more kyudo but it was fun.. ^^
perhaps i should explain what kyudo is. kyudo is japanese zen archery. as the sensei said quite a few times in class, it's an art, not a sport. because of that, and the fact that the process is suppose to be a moving meditation, we spent the first day of class just learning the 7 main steps of kyudo... we didn't get to shoot an arrow at all that first day O.o... but today, we got started on shooting almost as soon as we got in and was able to practice shooting all day. tho my upper arms/shoulders are killing me now, i really enjoyed the course and i think i've found a new hobby (as if i need more! O.o). it's quite cathartic and relaxing. you go through the seven motions, only thinking about each movement of your body, just trying to get them right with no actual thoughts about hitting the target. it's about the process, not the result ^^ um.. perhaps that's enough on that ^_^.. practices are every monday night and i'm really looking forward to going in tomorrow ^^
anyways, i'm off to play with the cats. they've been rather neglected of late ^^;...
searching for chronos @ 9:10 pm
|monday. october 16, 2006
music| chobits - let me be with you
what a bother... i just tried eating some of the ginko nuts we picked up in china town and more than half were bad. bah... at least the tea i picked up at the ren faire is good
i just spent the last hour on the phone with stef. i thought julie would be done with classes and everything by 3 or 4 so i stuck around the room to catch any emails and then realized it'd be a perfect chance to call stef ^_^ aaaanyway, it was lovely talking with her. a lot of girl talk and some scheming... about what? i won't tell ^^
searching for chronos @ 8:34 pm
|friday. october 13, 2006
haha. quite a production trying to pick up john at the airport... i'm meeting up with matt so he can use the carpool lane and maybe not take forever ^_^ tonight, we're seeing macbeth the opera (macbeth? opera? yup, that's right) it's by verdi if my google search is correct (it's google. how could it be wrong?) so it should be good.
anyway, the shopping trip to downtown palo alto was fun. picked up my facial cleanser and some see's chocolate. yuummmm ^^
searching for chronos @ 7:03 pm
|wheee. i'm in the physics library at stanford ^^ julie's right next to me checking email and i decided to take the time and just update
anyway, got in really late last night. greg and julie picked me up and now i'm staying with julie (really, who else? ^_^). woke up late and wandered the campus for a bit before meeting up with julie for lunch. the campus is quite pretty (soooo big too) but i think i prefer the greyness of princeton better ^^
i'll probably hang out with julie until her meeting at 2 (unless she has work, in which case i will amuse myself) and then head to the town of palo alto to pick up some facewash i forgot at home.. i mean, i suppose i could do without until i get home but i might as well just use it as a chance to explore the town ^_^
searching for chronos @ 4:05 pm
|monday. october 9, 2006
yay! i'm going to san francisco in 3 days!! ^_^ exciting! can't wait to see julie, greg and matt ^^
searching for chronos @ 11:32 pm
|sunday. october 8, 2006
saturday was sooo much fun! ^^ lauren and i met up and went apple/pumpkin picking upstate ny. we didn't actually pick apples because, honestly, what would the two of us do with a bushel of apples? but we wandered the orchards and ate a few off the trees and then went to the pumpkin patch and picked some pumpkins to make pie with. yay pie!.. anyway, pumpkin pie is amazingly easy to make. take some pumpkin puree, some sugar, some spices, milk, a pie crust, and an oven and voila, you have a yummy gooey goodness!
we ended up getting way too many pumpkins (4 - not my fault! i thought we'd be ok with 2 small pumpkins but the people at the patch, clearly completely ignorant as to how to make pumpkin pie, kept on telling us we'd need more) so we made 2 pies and 4 little souffle thingies last night but i still had 1 left (1 wasn't ripe yet so i just dumped it in the woods outside for the animals) so i made 2 more and 4 more little souffle thingies today. sooooo tasty ^_^ i'll take one to work tomorrow
searching for chronos @ 5:43 pm
|thursday. october 5, 2006
went and got a hair cut today. recently decided that it was getting just a little too long and it was time to actually try getting it cut well for once. so i found a place in the city and i really like the new cut ^^ i think this means i'll have to start blowdrying my hair (so first off, i'll have to buy a blowdryer...) but it should be too involved
this weekend, mom is going to gone again. off to l.a. to see a client. this means i have to go drop her off and pick her up at the airport and give little brother rides since he still can't drive on the highways yet. ugh! i think this weekend is mostly shot... except for saturday ^_^ i'm going applepicking then! and if i feel up to it, maybe i'll try making an apple pie or pumpkin pie... um.. definitely pumpkin pie. i love pumpkin pie ^^ yummmm
searching for chronos @ 11:09 pm
|tuesday. october 3, 2006
there must be something in the water in washington dc that induces selective amnesia. a lot of that seems to be happening lately. anyway, this foley things is disgusting. i can't help but feel dirtied/totally creeped out after reading some of what the guy wrote... he's 30+ yrs older and the boy is still a kid and and... argh, ick! *shudder*
searching for chronos @ 2:56 pm
|monday. october 2, 2006
happy yom kippur!... ok so i'm not jewish ^^ but i was invited for dinner/breaking of the fast at lauren's house tonight so i sort of ended up celebrating it ^_^ yom kippur.. everytime i say it, i want to say 'yum kipper' instead (with excited happy squeal at the beginning of kipper!).. sorry. just being silly ^^; .. hmmm perhaps i should go get some sleep
searching for chronos @ 11:50 pm
|friday. september 29, 2006
starting knitting has been extremely bad for my reading habit. oh wel.. ^^ anyway, i finished the body of the new sweater i'm working on. tis a shame i don't have enough yarn to do the arms. i wanted to get it finished before i head out to ca but i just ordered more today so it might not happen. pity, that....
i think i might take advantage of this running out of this yarn and see if i can motivate myself to update my sites. not only has knitting been bad for reading but also for doing anything with the computer too. i've been neglecting updating new cels, photos, blog designs.. basically everything ^^; of course, this is only if i don't start a new project. hehe ^^ i definitely have enough of a yarn stash to do that
searching for chronos @ 11:18 pm
|tuesday. september 26, 2006
you know.. it's slightly disturbing to have a 30+ yr old coworker friend me on facebook... i mean, it's not like i have anything on there that i don't want people to see but... isn't he too old for this friending thing?
searching for chronos @ 11:33 pm
|monday. september 25, 2006
yay. spoke to julie tonight for the first time in months! can't wait to see her again next month ^^
um.. let see. today was a good day. not only did i chat with julie, i'm feeling ever so much better. only slightly sniffly ^_^ the only slightest tiniest blight on my day was the personality survey thing today at work. i had aboslutely no problem with the content. it was interesting and possibly helpful for work. my problem was with the presenter. he had this way of ending his sentences with a tonal slide whenever he asked a rhetorical question or emphasize something. as he neared the end of a sentence his voice would start sliding up and go at least an octave and then, at the very last word, his voice would crash down an octave and a half or two... i don't think i would have minded if he only did it a few times in the entire day but he couldn't go on for more than 10 mins without it! ack!! *shudder*... i'm just glad i don't have to hear it anymore
anyway, i should really get to sleep. wouldn't want to fall asleep at work ^^
searching for chronos @ 12:37 pm
|monday. september 18, 2006
music| .hack//sign - rain and storm
it's back to work again. for all that i had a three day weekend, i don't feel rested at all... looking back, i spent approximately 15 of the 72 hrs in the car/driving. most of it because of silly family obligations. ergh...
fan and i did go to the ren fair on saturday and it was lots of fun ^_^ tried a little mead (tasty and sweet like nectar but made the mistake of downing it on an empty stomach ^^;), a turkey leg, a little chocolate covered cheesecake ^^ yummm. we did a lot of wandering, looking in at the various acts and shops. i wasn't quite as interested in shopping as i was the last time i went but i still got a few new things. a lovely laurel leaf pattern ring for one ^_^ but my best purchase was a drop spindle for hand spinning yarn (this is where you roll your eyes and say yeppie is crazy.. as if you didn't know that already ^^;) i tried it out over the weekend and found it to be wonderfully relaxing. nothing quite so mesmorizing as the repetitive spinning motion of the spindle. the only part i don't like is how much of sheep the spinning fiber still smells. it's quite. erm.. pungent ^^;
searching for chronos @ 10:17 am
|wednesday. september 13, 2006
rumor is bush read 60+ books this year.. i'm not impressed
now on to more interesting things. this weekend, fan and i are going to the ren fair ^_^ it's too bad eve and ben can't make it. maybe next year. but fan and i will have fun!
i did said i would show to the happy hour at the princeton club tomorrow but i'm not sure anymore. i've been feeling rather under the weather the last few days so i'm not sure how up to socializing i'll be but i guess i'll see what i'm like tomorrow... being sick is such a drag. my brain is all fuzzy :P
searching for chronos @ 3:49 pm
|saturday. september 9, 2006
this afternoon, i went in to the city and did a scavenger hunt with fan down in chinatown/little italy. lots of fun ^_^ definitely worth the time and money we spent on it. we're thinking of doing another one sometime. maybe the one in the upper west side. while i definitely no longer remember all the details they gave us about gangsters in the past (which was the theme of the hunt), i ended up seeing parts of chinatown that i never ever would have seen if i hadn't gone on this scavenger hunt... anyway, sleepytime. i'm really tired. i really should get more than 5-6 hrs of sleep everynight but i keep on getting distracted ^^;...
searching for chronos @ 12:29 pm
|wednesday. september 6, 2006
ugh! found a giant spider in the basement.. it looked like it was over an inch long...*shudder*... of course, i totally freaked and had to call sunny to kill the damn thing. i know spiders are 'good' because they eat insects but i don't care, spiders have no place in any structure i live in!!...argh! my skin is crawling.. i need to take a shower
searching for chronos @ 12:16 pm
|music| .hack//sign - mai
eeee! to share the joy in velveteen rabbit@starbucks, our division brought in starbucks coffee for everyone in the lobby and had a guy in a rabbit suit! he looked so fluffy and soft and i wanted to give him a big hug but i refrained. i'm kinda tired cause i haven't been sleeping very much lately and i was afraid i wouldn't let go once i had my arms around his fluffy adorableness ^^;...
searching for chronos @ 9:33 am
|sunday. september 3, 2006
overnight, one of the trees on our property fell onto our driveway. luckily it missed the car but crushed the little cherry blossom tree i had planted ;__; .... the driveway is now clear (after some long minutes of venting my frustration at the tree with a saw) but the cherry blossom tree is still sadly mutilated... the main trunk is still intack so i'm hoping if i replant it, it'll keep on growing..
searching for chronos @ 12:53 pm
|saturday. september 2, 2006
music| every little thing - fragile
made roast duck for dinner today and came to the conclusion that it takes much too much effort to cook with whole duck.
the wole endeavor started off wrong. the thing was only 6 lbs so i figured 24 hrs in the fridge to thaw would be more than enough. maybe all the fat on the thing insulated the inside because when i took it out to cook, it was still mostly frozen solid. so i had to cheat and try to quick thaw it... not too fun
after the duck was roasted, i realized just how much fat is on a duck... even after a half inch of grease coated the bottom of the pan, the duck had enough left on it that we had to cut a bunch all off. ick... to top it off, it didn't taste great. it was good but not enough for all the time/effort put into it. meh. i'll just stick with whole chicken and turkey from now on
anyway, i'm almost finished with the vertigo throw. i'm just slightly worried that i may not have enough to do the last layer of blue and i can't seem to find the same yarn anywhere..
searching for chronos @ 9:26 pm
|friday. september 1, 2006
ha. i just had a lightbulb moment ^_^ yesterday while i was passing by radio city music hall in the morning, i say people unloading treadmills from a truck and carting them into the place and i was thinking 'why the heck are they carrying in exercise equipment in there??'.. today, i pull up washingtonpost.com and see the pictures of the mtv music video awards and it finally hits me. 'oh right, this band (ok go) was performing their treadmill dance thing live last night'... ^^;.. .. anyway, just thought it was slightly funny story ^^
searching for chronos @ 11:33 am
|wednesday. august 30, 2006
whee. the yankee game tonight was fun ^_^ it was too bad they lost *shrug* it's so much fun hanging out with the other ims despite the fact that most of them a lot older ^^; (mid 30s and + i'd guess?). aaaanyway, time for me to sleep.. as it is, i'm going to be barely functional tomorrow...
searching for chronos @ 12:41 pm
|music| shingetsutan tsukihime - balsamic moon
ick. the weather has been so awful lately.. wet and chilly... i hope it improves by the weekend but it doesn't seem likely... we have a department outing to the yankee game tonight but i wonder what'll happen if it rains?
searching for chronos @ 12:46 pm
|sunday. august 27, 2006
yay. finished the mohair scarf ^_^ one less project to sit half done! now to shower and sleep. can't forget that tomorrow is a work day
searching for chronos @ 10:52 pm
|whoohoo. a bond movie is on so knitting and tv for me ^^
searching for chronos @ 4:49 pm
|music| our lady peace - are you sad
ack. i just spent the entire day reading sappy love stories. i really have to stop... maybe i should work on updating the blog design.. yup. that's it. blog design update coming up!.. or maybe i should knit finish at least one of the many projects in the works?? hm.. i just better pick something before i go back to reading ^^;..
searching for chronos @ 4:08 pm
|saturday. august 26, 2006
argh...my plan this weekedn was to redo the entire garden out front. i was so pumped up for it but the weather just isn't cooperating and now i don't even want to step outside. why is it raining? and why didn't i check the weather report before deciding to garden this weekend!? bah.. it'll just all have to wait until next week unless the weather gets much better later in the afternoon.
searching for chronos @ 10:43 am
|thursday. august 24, 2006
music| paul mccartney - riding to vanity fair
... my coworkers sitting next to me keep on talking about weddings and they're freaking me out O.o... is it normal for girls our year (and plus a few)to talk about weddings and wedding related things so much?? errgg...
searching for chronos @ 9:34 am
|wednesday. august 23, 2006
music| x japan - alive
last night, went with fan, nate, one of fan's colleagues and his friend to the met opera performance of la traviata in central park. we picked up some chinese food and had a lovely picnic before hand ^_^ it was fun.. albeit a little damp and cold near the end ^^;... la traviata is sooo good
the only part i didn't like about the entire excursion was our neighbors... the people sitting in front of us kept on taking picture of themselves every 30 mins or so... while i normally wouldn't care, it's rather annoying when you have bright blinding flashes going off right in front of your eyes that often especially when you're trying to enjoy the music :P
searching for chronos @ 9:27 am
|monday. august 21, 2006
i started looking into doing archery recently and found some places near by but looking more into it, regular archery is a little too hunting oriented for my tastes... ^^;... so instead i started looking at asian forms of archery (basically japanese). kyudo is the japanese form of archery and is considered a moving meditation and concentrates on form and the mindset when practicing, which i thought would be cool. i found this place in the city that has weekly practice sessions on mondays and offers classes so i decided to drop by today and it really looks interesting. quite complicated with a lot of motions that just seem unnecessary to my untrained self.. it's definitely been elevated to an art form ^^
the beginner class is in october so i can't start until then.. phooey.. now that thing i'm wondering the most is if it's legal for me to practice in my backyard.... there are no houses behind us (just a buffer forest and a highway beyond that) and the short range form, which is what they do at the practice since it's indoors in a not so very huge room, is done a bow's length away from the target so there's no way one can miss... it'd be perfect if i could.. ^_^
searching for chronos @ 10:21 pm
|friday. august 18, 2006
argh. why is gmail not working??? i want to see email... eeeeeeeemail....
searching for chronos @ 12:39 pm
|music| FFVII: Advent Children - Advent: One Winged Angel
i dropped by the farmer's market in rockafeller center on the way to work today and picked up some spearmint, rosemary, some peaches, zucchini muffin (they're addictive) and a chocolate and hazelnut scone ^^ i'm eating the scone for lunch and it's soooo good. a total gastronomic delight! ^_^ i'm sightly bummed the farmer's market won'y be around much longer...
searching for chronos @ 12:30 pm
|tuesday. august 15, 2006
vacation last week was wonderful ^^ dad was here so that was nice and it was even better that we didn't go anywhere. it was one of the most relaxing family vacations i've ever had! mom and dad went golfing every morning while i slept in and then in the afternoon/night we watched lots of movies, including all three extended editions of lotr ^^. sunny and i did go golfing with them last thursday and, while it wasn't a total mess, by the 13th hole i was ready to call it quits. it's only so much fun when one's ball flies a quarter of the distance everyone else's does... altho, i have to say, my short game is pretty good ^^
anyway, it was back to work for me yesterday. last week must have been pretty quiet because there weren't as many emails as i was afriad there might be. what irritates me is that i ended up getting another stupid report to run because the person who use to do them left suddenly (i wanna know what's with all these sudden departures) and i'm the only other person who knows how to run it. bah... anyway, i suppose i should go to sleep...
searching for chronos @ 12:51 pm
|saturday. august 5, 2006
music| tackey and tsubasa - sotsugyou
had a lovely little birthday dinner with eve and lauren today. i made french onion soup from the book stef got me and while it took forever to make (2hrs!) twas quite yummy... not that i'm biased or anything ^_^ then for the actual meal, we made chicken tacos. we didn't end up eating very much of the tacos because the soup was surprisingly filling. must be all that yummy gooey cheese ^^
after cooking up a storm for dinner, none of us felt like doing anymore cooking, even if it was baking cookies, so we just ended up watching 'love actually.' quite enjoyable ^^
searching for chronos @ 12:44 pm
|friday. august 4, 2006
music| gundam w - wings of a boy that killed
yay. vacation for a week ^^ dad and sunny are back from korea sunday so i'm taking a few days off. tomorrow tho, eve and lauren are coming by for dinner and maybe baking/movie watching ^_^ twill be fun. it's rather sad other people can't make it ;__;
hm.. i suppose i should clean the house a bit for tomorrow.. off to clean i go
searching for chronos @ 9:05 pm
|wednesday. august 2, 2006
music| noir - romance
happy birthday to me ^_^ .. wel, it was really yesterday but i was out so i didn't get a chance to update. i wonder if my birthday wish will come true..
searching for chronos @ 10:04 am
|sunday. july 30, 2006
music| as one - a girl's dream
went to the beach yesterday with lauren. it was fun. did a bit of tanning, a little splashing, a little reading. i could have really done without the sand sticking to everything though..
anyway, time to organize my computer files and mp3 all my cds ^^ got the externam hard drive so i finally have the space!
searching for chronos @ 11:40 am
|monday. july 24, 2006
music| prokofiev - romeo and juliet - love dance
oh yeah, for the longest time, i thought i'd lost the prokofiev romeo and juliet excerpt cd. well, turns out it was buried under all the paper on my desk. amazing some of the stuff i found under all the stuff. it's not totally clean yet but almost there!
searching for chronos @ 9:19 pm
|music| prokofiev - romeo and juliet - masques
i finally got tired of being afraid that the computer is going to die on me and bought an external harddrive. it's a 500gb western digital my book essential and was on sale at bestbuy. a somewhat older model but at almost 35% off, the price advantage outweighed whatever desire i had for the newer stuff. the casing is very clean looking. only one button on the entire thing and it doesn't really look like a button at all... the advertisement says it looks like a book (hence the name my book) but i don't really see it...
nyways, brought more work home :P have i said how happy i'm going to be when my supervisor gets back?
searching for chronos @ 9:16 pm
|music| wolf's rain - track 2
i got so much lovely rest this weekend and by sunday night i was all caught up on sleep and then i was silly and stayed up until 5 reading... yeppie is not a happy camper this morning...
searching for chronos @ 12:07 pm
|friday. july 21, 2006
minor meltdown occured at work today... and i had been looking forward to a quiet friday after a busy week :P.. anyway, due to the combination between a glitch in the system and human carelessness, stuff that needed to get done for a title going on sale in a month didn't get done. none of it! as the deadline for the stuff to get to the warehouse is next week, this is a big problem... anyway, nothing was resolved since most people weren't in today. i hope things work out on monday..
searching for chronos @ 10:27 pm
|thursday. july 20, 2006
the storm two nights ago did more damage than i expected.. a number of roads were still blocked off this morning due to downed trees and our cable, phone and internet is still not fixed. while i can live without cable or internet for a bit, not having the phone bothers me...
searching for chronos @ 9:40 am
|tuesday. july 18, 2006
just got home and not 10 mins after we get in, the weather turns nasty with thunder and lightning and torrential downpours. what luck!.. it sounds really bad out there. i hope the backyard doesn't flood. even if it does, i'll be happy if it's cooler ad less humid tomorrow
anyway, better finish looking over some stuff and get ready for bed. night night ^^
searching for chronos @ 10:41 pm
|i started working a year ago today... what a scary thought...
searching for chronos @ 9:10 am
|sunday. july 16, 2006
i had originally planned on having a rather relaxing weekend but my plans went quite awry.. rather than relaxing, i ended up doing a lot of shopping instead... ^^;... this weekend, i tripled the number of handbags (3) in my possesion
saturday, lauren and i headed into the city a little earlier than planned. on our walk from grand central up to this thai restaurant near my office, we came across this charming little handbag store called s.d. kitson. since everyone had been telling me that i should get a new bag (mom because she thinks the bag i got at the renfair is ugly and everyone else because one of the straps broke), i decided to take a look and i'm so glad i did. the place has a stunning selection of handmade leather bags. they were a bit pricy but i just had to get this one! it's it great? it'll be hard to coordinate with anything but who cares ^^ i also picked up this purse because i loved it so much (the colors and the design!)
bag shopping ended up taking more time than we thought so rather than going to a museum like we had planned, we just had a leisurely dinner and wandered for a bit before going to see romeo and juliette. being prokofiev and having a rather dense storyline, it was less dancing and more silent acting but beautiful nonetheless. i think i prefer the ballet to the play ^_^ music always does more for me than words
today, my plan was to sleep in late and not leave the house but mom wanted to go to woodbury commons outlet malls so i figured why not. we ended up staying much longer than i thought and didn't get back home til after 10pm :P... but i did get another handbag (i love the little lemon on it ^^) and a really lovely powder blue fall/winter coat.
nyway, i should really go to sleep. after walking all day yesterday and today, i'm exhausted...
searching for chronos @ 12:21 pm
|thursday. july 13, 2006
music| modest mouse - alone down there
things are a bit crazy... i'm alone for the next two weeks and, while things are manageable, no time for an idle moment. the regular stuff is still quite light (people, buy more books!) but all sorts of reports are crawling out of the woodworks and dropping into my lap (lovely imagery, ne?) i have this nagging suspicion that everybody sort of want their reports at the same time but, me being only one person, that's not happening ^^; ...
searching for chronos @ 9:44 pm
|monday. july 10, 2006
whee ^^ got a package from japan today. a few cels and lots and lots of backgrounds to organize! *happy dance*
searching for chronos @ 9:45 pm
|sunday. july 9, 2006
music| vampire hunter d: bloodlust - the bridge
i had a lovely day ^_^
spent the morning outside, replanning the garden because i'm not very happy with about half of what i did :P.... some places that got a lot of sun in the spring, it turns out, doesn't get much in the summer once the trees around the house get some foliage. then there's the matter of the garden still looking sort of bare and half finished because i didn't plant enough plants and half the plants i planted aren't growing the way they should because of a lack of sunlight ;__;
i know i can't move the plants now (not that i'd want to. it's hot out there!) but i can plan and sketch what i want the new layout to be ^^ i just hope it turns out the way it is in my head come next year...
other than that, i updated some of the comment on my cel gallery... a few of the comments written when i was in high school were awfully silly ^^;... i also worked on the vertigo throw some more. it's 34" x 34" now but i want it larger so there's more to be done ^^ it's turning out to look really cool so i think i may have to put a picture up when i'm done ^_^
searching for chronos @ 10:13 pm
|saturday. july 8, 2006
today was a weird drew barrymore movie day on cable. i ended up watching ever after: a cinderella story and 50 first dates. both were really sweet and fun and i enjoyed watching them immensely but it made me feel wistful for well.. i'm sure you can guess...
but really enough of that... ever after had some things that really bothered me.. like the fact that cinderella is sold. she's not a slave or a serf. and then there's the fact that she's sold to this creepy nobleman who just wants her body but by some hidden goodness doesn't touch her at all and even gives her a knife to defend herself from him until the prince has time to stage and cancel a wedding with the spanish princess before realizing he loves cinderella? *rolls eyes*...
i just need to find another movie to watch now ^_^ i'm so close to getting the vertigo throw done!
searching for chronos @ 11:00 pm
|friday. july 7, 2006
oh yeah, when i got home, the cats were playing with a mouse!! O.o... mom wanted to let them kill it but i felt awful so i let it go outside.. i just hope it doesn't find a way back in the house...
searching for chronos @ 13:31 pm
|today was my friday off but i went in to the city anyway to hang out with greg since he's only really here until tomorrow night. the plan was to get some wursts for lunch at the german food cart with fan but it wasn't there today ;__; so we just went to a corner deli... after lunch, fan went back to work and greg and i went to tkts to see if there were any shows we wanted to see. sweeny todd would have worked but the tickets were 50+(!) so we decided it wasn't worth it. i was happy anyway cause we decided to see a ballet instead (le corsaire) ^_^ yay!
the story was sillier and more disjointed than the others i've seen but i really enjoyed it anyway ^_^ some amazing male dancing (of course, it didn't hurt that the guy was shirtless! what i would have done for some opera glasses ^_^ hehe) i'm always astounded at some of the moves the dancers can do. next week, it's romeo and juliette with lauren! i'm really excited ^_^
searching for chronos @ 13:29 pm
|wednesday. july 5, 2006
argh. i have a headache... while having monday and tuesday off was wonderful, i somehow need to fit all the stuff i usually do on monday in with everything else i need to do for tomorrow...
searching for chronos @ 1:48 pm
|monday. july 3, 2006
over the weekend, lauren told me citrus fruits causes or exacerbates breakouts... i don't know if i believe her...
anyway, i'm such a layabout ^^;... i slept a lot yesterday and today.. who would have thought a person could sleep so much? i didn't think i was that tired. when not sleeping, i read (as usual ^_^) often, i wouldn't even mean to read a particular book but end up reading it anyway because i'd be looking through the bookshelf, pick up random books to see if i felt like reading at the moment and end up on the floor, just reading the entire thing. i've spent more of my awake time on the floor of the library/computer room than anywhere else.. ^^;
sarturday was lots of fun though. spent the afternoon shopping for clothes but didn't end up getting very much, just a skirt and a few tops. also went to bookoff (a japanese used book/music store, although this one had a lot of english books as well) and stocked up on some music ^_^ then it was to chinatown where we went to the house of vegetables (or maybe it was vegetarians? i don't remember..) because lauren is a vegetarian and had dinner there. surprisingly good ^^
afterwards, we saw swan lake at the met! the seats weren't as good as last time but the ballet was still wonderful ^_^ and the best part is, lauren liked it so we made a date to go see romeo and juliet in two weeks! yay! i just wish people would stop clapping everytime the dancers do something somewhat spectacular. i don't mind it if there's a natural break in the ballet (a built in applause break where the dancers are bowing) but it just seems wrong to clap, no matter how fantastic a particular move was, while other dancers are trying to do their part and cover up the music and break the mood!! i mean, for example, during the last act where odette and siegfried are dancing their heartbreak, it's poignant, sad, and beautiful and then the stupid audience starts clapping, covering the music and definitely destroying whatever atmosphere the ballet is trying to build!! you would never ever do that at a play, a concert, an opera or even a musical. why do people think that it's ok to interrupt what's going on onstage like that?!?!..... am i just being weird in finding it so rude and annoying?
searching for chronos @ 6:59 pm
|friday. june 30, 2006
wow! i just saw a fox in the backyard! i was eating dinner at the kitchen table while reading and randomly raised my head to look out the window and saw the fox trotting across the backyard. i didn't get to see it very well but it looked sort of emaciated.. i hope it's ok... i wonder what it eats? i can't imagine there's a whole lot for it to eat around here...
searching for chronos @ 8:10 pm
|last night, fan, shannon and i went to the hallo berlin beer garden on 44th and 10th as a celebratory last german food get together before she heads to philly since i'm not in the city today to do our weekly german food cart lunch. while it was lovely, carousing is quite an expensive activity!! O.o... i think perhaps the next time i go, i'll skip the beer. beer really is an awful drink... although, it is a beer garden with german food. it would feel so wrong not getting a beer. kinda like going to an asian place and not getting tea!... maybe i'll just stick to the food cart ^^;
tomorrow, i'm going with lauren, a high school friend, to do some clothes shopping in the city to take advantage of the 0% sales tax and the 4th of july sales. we plan on starting in chinatown and then moving up, ending at the lincoln center to see swan lake ^_^ yup, i convinced her to see a ballet... but i have a feeling this will ber her first and last time going to see a ballet unless she really likes it tomorrow. the only reason she's going is because she thought she should at least see swan lake once in her life :P
searching for chronos @ 2:31 pm
|tuesday. june 27, 2006
signed up for 43 things after meaning to do so for a while. quite an interesting concept and quite fun once you start ^_^
searching for chronos @ 9:43 pm
|i'm a little astounded at the annual giving numbers for our class. with $167,083 from 618 people (according to the ag site), that means on average each person gave $270+change... i know i didn't give that much and i'm pretty sure most of my friends didn't give that much, so who's pushing up the average?
searching for chronos @ 4:58 pm
|man, it's tough being the youngest son
searching for chronos @ 3:20 pm
|btw, i love that word, doldrums.. it always brings to mind the phantom tollbooth ^^
searching for chronos @ 10:35 am
|music| tsubasa - a tiny sunshine
i feel slightly in the doldrums today.... i think it's the weather. i'm so tired of the humid ickiness outside...
searching for chronos @ 10:30 am
|monday. june 26, 2006
i ran a little yesterday and i think it's finally getting to me. my muscles are all stiff and sore ^^;... what i don't get is, i felt great when i woke up. why now?...
searching for chronos @ 1:50 pm
|sunday. june 25, 2006
oh yeah, picked up some more tea yesterday ^_^ i was really happy to find out that itoen is keeping gion around year round. other than that, i got some shizuoka shincha and chiran kanayamidori. i'm excited to try them out!
searching for chronos @ 10:13 pm
|music| lara fabian - croire
sad... i just found out clamp is going to be at anime expo next week and, of course, i'm not going... it's the first time ever that all four ladies are appearing at an event ;__; in case you're wondering what clamp is, it's a group of 4 woment who create manga together and they've only created 80% of my favorite manga!! sigh.... why can't these conventions ever take place in ny?? it's always l.a....
searching for chronos @ 9:59 pm
|saturday. june 24, 2006
i don't get how my brother goes through so many clothes. i just did the household laundry and he had 20 shirts in the basket! the last time we did laundry was last thursday. how the hell do you go through 20 shirts in a span of 10 days? he doesn't do sports everyday and he hasn't even had school since wednesday!.. and we wonders why i complain that he has twice as much laundry as mom and i do... just wait til he has to do laundry on his own!
searching for chronos @ 4:03 pm
|friday. june 23, 2006
a head line in the l.a. times: 'end time' religious groups want apocalyse soon
.. humans can be so bizarre....
searching for chronos @ 1:27 pm
|music| gundam seed - nikurashimi arebasoko
here's news to me... ny state has an official muffin??? ... err... i wonder what kind.. ^^;
searching for chronos @ 9:09 am
|thursday. june 22, 2006
music| garbage - silence is golden
there's a children's book by one of the frank zappa kids coming out in the spring. sadly, it's not by moonunit or dweezle ;__; it's by ahmet.. who's heard of ahmet? my theory is that moonunit actually changed his name to something a little less.. um, odd ^^ but of course, i have no clue because i really don't care enough to look it up *shrug*
oh, i got a coupon for a free drink at jamba juice ^^ i'll have to go pick one up on the way home. yummm
searching for chronos @ 4:57 pm
|the nytime has this article on the popularity of lip gloss... i have to say that i can't understand the full appeal that people interviewed in the articale are gushing about... i like lip gloss. it's fun and shiny and sparkly (and we all know what i feel about shiny sparkly things!) but it's just not practical (if such a thing can be said about makeup..). the shine wears off after 20-30 mins so you have to constantly reapply, which is annoying. then there's the ridiculous shine.. do we really have to have blindingly shiny lips? there was this one quote that i thought summed up most of what was ridiculous about lip gloss..
"It needs to be shiny and it needs to taste good," said Ms. Teplitsky, 17, who likes to reapply gloss about every 20 minutes. "But most of all it needs to make my lips look pouty so my boyfriend will look at me."
first off, i think the taste good part is silly. it's lipgloss, not candy but i'll let it go since i can see why it would be nice if it tasted good too. now, on to the next phrase. see what i said about it needing to bre reapplied ever 20-30 mins? that means, on average, a girl has to reapply the stupid stuff abour 25-30 times a day! i bet that comes to about a tube a week. no wonder the cosmetic industry likes it... and now for that last point about her boyfriend... if i were her, i would dump that boyfriend. a boyfriend who won't look at you unless you're looking provocative/enticing probably isn't worth much.. oook, i think i've said enough about that ^^;
searching for chronos @ 10:11 am
|wednesday. june 21, 2006
music| gackt - metamorphoze
yikes.. i just realized, in less than a month, i'll hit my one year mark with the company O.o... that's so scary.. but on a positive note, the company will start matching my 401k contributions! ^^ ..
searching for chronos @ 11:12 am
|tuesday. june 20, 2006
hmm.. nothing quite like walking through the streets of nyc in the summer. it's that special scent of je ne sais quoi: a fine blend of rotting garbage, stagnant water, gasoline, and old urine. no corner ever smells quite the same so it's always an adventure to the senses... ^^;
searching for chronos @ 9:18 am
|monday. june 19, 2006
yay ^^ lauren, a friend from high school, came back from china today ^_^ i went over and we had dinner together. we decided we're going to go jogging at the tracks like we did last summer.. i thought about doing it by myself but it's hard to get motivated (and it's not as much fun) ^^;... so now, we'll push each other to actually doing it. she's only here for the summer so i'll have to see if i can continue in the fall but i think that might be my limit.. i don't run in the winter. too cold and too dark too soon :P
anyway, to shower and to sleep ^^
searching for chronos @ 10:25 pm
|sunday. june 18, 2006
music| fushigi yuugi - kaze no uta
accomplishments this saturday and sunday...
1, read
2, read
3, read
4, sleep
5, knit
yup, it was a good weekend ^_^ i went through 3 books (4 if you count friday and by no means are they heavy reading..) granted i'd read two of them before but it was lovely revisiting some of my favorites... now if only the authors i liked would just write faster :P
now to do some photo editing... i'm going to try and get it all done today but i hate renaming files. it's so monotonous..
searching for chronos @ 9:40 pm
|saturday. june 17, 2006
giselle was wonderful ^_^ the seats were fantastic (orchestra row v!! it's the best seat i've ever had) and the ballet was beautiful ^^ giselle (or the principal who danced giselle) seemed to float on stage and i couldn't help feel like a complete clod while watching her... there was one bad moment when one of the dancers fell. i was worried she was hurt but she got right back up and danced like nothing was wrong so i'm guessing she was ok.. of course, unless she has an insanely igh pain tolerance..
searching for chronos @ 1:39 pm
|thursday. june 15, 2006
yay! i'm off tomorrow ^_^ maybe i'll sleep in! although there are a bunch of other things i'd like to do too... like go clothes shopping. i seriously need new clothes but it's such a pian in the butt to have to try on every single item of clothing i want to buy.. sigh..
but tomorrow night, i'll be going to see giselle at the met opera house with shannon ^_^ yay! it's a gorgeous ballet
searching for chronos @ 12:21 pm
|wednesday. june 14, 2006
just got back from the barge bash ^_^ it's a party thrown by the bookbinder's guild every year and a lot of production/paper people, along with those who can mooch tickets off the two departments, go. it was nice. lots of food and drinks and music. i heard that in the beginning, the party was actually on a barge on the river, hence the name but, alas, i don't know if the group got too big or what but now it's on pier 17 in south street seaport. while i think a party on the river sounds more charming, the place was still very nice. it had a lovely view of the east river and the brooklyn bridge ^^
i had an amaretto sour for the first time since house parties last year. tasty and deceptively non-alcoholie tasting as always ^^ it was so yummy, i just couldn't resist and got another one but couldn't finish it... yup i'm a total lightweight when it comes to alcohol
anyway, shower and then to sleep ^_^
searching for chronos @ 11:37 pm
|tuesday. june 13, 2006
you know, i wasn't planning on keeping the current design for very long because i thought i'd get tired of all the pink but the more i look at it, the more i like it, so perhaps i'll keep it up for a few months ^_^
searching for chronos @ 8:50 pm
|i bought stuff to make hummus today ^^ mom had ordered sushi already and i'm eating lunch with someone tomorrow so i didn't make any but thursday, it'll be homemade hummus for lunch! ^_^ can you tell i'm somewhat excited?
um.. but i think i'll try to go to sleep early today.. i've been getting 5-6 hrs for the last few days and i keep falling asleep on train.. not a problem in the morning but it's making me almost miss my station on the way back.. ^^;...
searching for chronos @ 8:47 pm
|monday. june 12, 2006
music| fushigi yuugi - everlasting story
so we've been having the most horrendous time getting a lawncare group to come. finally we get someone to come today and what do i find when i come home other than they damaged half the plants i planted! half!!! i'm so mad, i could just go after them with my brother's hockey stick... they mangled one of my lavenders, two of my peonies, one of the rose bushes, the rosemary, all the poppies... i think they also hit or somewhat damaged the daylilies... i spent soooo much time on this and now to have these people come and damage it all.. *sniffle*... they're coming back tomorrow and i'm kinda afraid to see what else they'll damage ;___; ... i hope they all get poison ivy!
searching for chronos @ 9:53 pm
|sunday. june 11, 2006
oh yeah, i didn't end up finishing chrissy's present so i had to go with my backup gift... needless to say, i should have given myself more than a night to make the entire thing. of course, it didn't help that lynx chewed up part of the yarn while i was getting some tea :P
searching for chronos @ 11:02 pm
|wheee. i'm at chrissy's house ^^. i came for the graduation party and i'm spending the night and going directly to work in the morning. the party was nice. got to meet becky and jared and their families.. anyway, time to help chrissy pack.. she's leaving tomorrow night and hasn't started packing yet...silly chrissy ^^;...
searching for chronos @ 10:59 pm
|saturday. june 10, 2006
yay. got lots done today ^^ ran a lot of errands in the morning and, in the afternoon, finally finished the garden path i wanted to make (i took pictures cause i was so excited and i'll put them up when i get to updating the photos ^^) and planted some more irises. while i was at the nursery, i also picked up an osmanthus ^_^ i'm really excited about this shrub/tree. there are only about 5 blossoms on the thing and that was enough to make the car smell wonderful during the drive back so i can't wait until the entire tree blooms! anyway, i need to finish making chrissy's graduation present... if i can :P i don't think i left myself enough time but we shall see ^^;...
searching for chronos @ 9:42 pm
|friday. june 9, 2006
music| gackt - storm
sooo, i had originally planned on coming out with this design change in early march... you know, for the spring season but erm... i got lazy and distracted by knitting ^^;... also, i seriously miscalculated the width of the text area and it's a bit narrower than i'd like but i think i can live with it... now i just need to get cracking on the photos and other things :P
i just hope no one goes blind from pink overdose ^^;...
searching for chronos @ 11:34 pm
|on the way home from work, i got distracted by some of the store on 5th ave... it's really all shannon's fault cause if she hadn't initiated our trip during lunch to henri bendel to look at candles, i wouldn't have been tempted on my walk to grand central to check it out again... granted, i had been wanting to buy some of the candles there for quite a few months and welcomed the excuse but that's beside the point ^^;... um... so i picked up two candles. one pomegranate and one osmanthus, whatever that is, but the scents are divine. (oh, osmantus is apparently a tree.. i'll have to try and find one to plant in the yard ^_^)
as i'm writing this, the cats are acting quite wild. they always seem to get antsy when there's a storm out (thunder scares them) and end up fighting a lot... but then after the initial thundering has passed, i'll find them sleeping together on my bed (i've said this before but they're soo cute!)
oh yeah. finished the book today. it was quite excellent and you should definitely read it!
searching for chronos @ 9:38 pm
|it's late afternoon on a summer friday and i'm quite bored.. can you believe i've only gotten 4(!) emails since lunch? the ususal number is 15-20 in the same span... summer fridays mean, we can choose to work 45 extra minutes everyday during the week and then we get every alternate fridays off. while i don't think it's a very efficient system, i love it ^_^ since work is slower in the summer (oh boy, does it comes back with a vengence in the fall tho..), it also makes sense to have more flexible hours now... so yeah, i'm trying to while away the time by checking on bearded irises. they're quite pretty and i'm thinking of adding a few more to the garden. i have three types but they're all dark dark purple and that can get a bit boring
aha! i just got an email from the big boss down stairs that we can go if work permits so i think i'll head out now ^_^
searching for chronos @ 4:13 pm
|thursday. june 8, 2006
only got through half the book last night so my plan is to finish it today (after i look over some more stuff from work! meh) it's really good. surprisingly so because i started out not really liking the narrative style but it grew on me and it fits the story or something to that effect. if i finish with enough time left, i might try working on the blanket some more ^^
you know something odd, i have the katamari damacy opening song stuck in my head and i don't know why... i haven't seen heard or even been reminded of it in anyway and yet the song is there...
searching for chronos @ 10:18 pm
|wednesday. june 7, 2006
yay. borrowed the book 'the book thief' until childrens can get me my own copy ^^ it's a young adult book so you would think it wouldn't be as interesting but the first 90 pages or so that i got through on the train were quite good. i'd like to finish it tonight but at 500+ pages, i don't know if i can and still be functional tomorrow. oh wel, we'll see ^^
but first, shower, then look over the stuff i brought home from work :P and, finally, snuggle up in bed with death and a little girl who steals book ^_^
searching for chronos @ 8:42 pm
|tuesday. june 6, 2006
first day in the new cube and all i can say is, it's much too loud... headphones would come in reeeeally handy but it'd be rather inapproriate to wear them there.... one good thing that happened was i got a bookself put in the new space. otherwise, i would have had piles of books all over my worktable top and as much as i love books, that would have bothered me to no end. for some reason, i can deal with paper, and other miscellaneous clutter but not books. unorganized piles of books just make my fingers itch to organize them...
btw, kittens are wonderful ^_^ warm, cuddly and sooooo cute... hehe. raenef just jumped in my lap and wants to cuddle, which is where that divergent line of thought came in ^^
searching for chronos @ 11:15 pm
|music| x/1999 - kamui
i'm feeling rather torpid and i don't know why. i've had 3 cups of strong black tea so one would think i would be more awake... perhaps another cup will help... to the kitchen i go *yawn*..
searching for chronos @ 4:43 pm
|monday. june 5, 2006
music| alexander von zelinsky - die seejungfrau
figures. i get home early today because office services is moving us and we can't really do work while they're doing that and it just happens that i spend the entire night trying to fix the internet connection... sigh, and i had so many things i wanted to do tonight... the connection is finally fixed but now it's time to shower and get to sleep so i can get up in time in the morrow. my sleep schedule is still a bit messed up from reunions so i think i should go to sleep a little earlier than normal just to be sure ^^;...
searching for chronos @ 11:12 pm
|grr! they're moving me again.. i'm getting really tired of this. this is the 3rd move in less than a year..
searching for chronos @ 10:00 am
|sunday. june 4, 2006
music| psapp - about fun
sigh. reunions is over and it's back to the real world, starting tomorrow.. how sad ;__;... i'm rather dreading the hundreds of emails i'll have in my inbox. while vacations are lovely, the pain of getting back in the swing of things afterwards is no fun..
but this vacation time was sooo worth it *^_^* while inbibing no alcohol (i don't really count the wee nip of stan's brandy or the taste of john's wine during the p-rade as really drinking ^^), i daresay i had just as much fun. it was rather amusing in an irritating way how often our efforts to have fun were thwarted. as if the rain wasn't bad enough, 90% of the time, the band would go on a break just as we got there or would play one or two more songs before going on a break. bah!... i did end up getting a lot of walking done so it wasn't a complete loss ^^;
yesterday, we found a band that we really liked at the 30th but they stopped to eat after four songs.. while i understand they're hungry, couldn't they have eaten earlier? i would think that food and wind/brass instruments don't really go together but what do i know, i'm only a string player
the one thing that hit me again (as it always does at theses events) was that it'd be nice if i knew how to dance... ben and eryck were trying to show me how to dance and i think i was getting it near the end but i still think i have two left feet... perhaps i really will try taking a dance class so that i'll be ready for reunion #2 ^_^
unfortunately, i have no pictures from the event. i didn't want the camera getting wet so i just didn't bother carrying it much... but i'll get some from other people so i won't be pictureless ^_^
one thing that struck me over the weekend was that i'm a ginormous glutton for punishment... i don't know what's wrong with me but hope springs eternal.... meh...
searching for chronos @ 9:20 pm
|wednesday. may 17, 2006
i just don't understand all the fuss about da vinci... it's just a book/movie. it's fiction for goodness sake!!!
searching for chronos @ 10:12 am
|tuesday. may 16, 2006
we always knew harvard sucked. the following only confirms it. in the washpost, 'Herman also describes Gottesman's propensity for practical jokes -- and wonders how exactly Gottesman got into Harvard Business School without an undergraduate degree.'..
seriously though, if gottesman had some sort of experience/job that makes him suited for business school, i could understand the decision to accept him but read what his job was.... 'He dog-sits Barney. He carries the hand cleanser. He keeps track of the president's schedule. And he has traveled the world with Bush.'.... yup. he sure is highly qualified.....given the chance, i think most high schoolers could do what he did...
searching for chronos @ 2:27 pm
|music| x/1999 - tokyo transfigured
just doing a little news paper browsing while i wait for a program to load and on a nytimes article on the immigration issue i saw the following passage
In border communities like Yuma, Ariz., however, where a local restaurant had to delay its opening repeatedly because it could not find enough employees, the president's call for immediate action on a way to bring more workers into the country legally struck a positive chord.
maybe i'm overlooking something but did it ever occur to the restaurant owners to raise the pay??? unless there's absolutely no one looking for a job in the town, i don't buy the 'we couldn't find someone to work'. it's definitely a 'we didn't want to pay more so we waited until we could get dirt cheap labor'
searching for chronos @ 9:55 am
|friday. may 12, 2006
so many of the political polls are such a stupid waste of time. i was reading the washpost and saw an article about how a 'majority' of americans are ok with the phone database thing. when you actually look at the poll, there's a tiny note that 502 people were polled... how ridiculous is that? you get the opinions of 502 people out of almost 300 million and you say that it reflects the opinion of americans? i don't care if the people asked were chosen at random, we're talking about a sample size that's less than .001% of the whole. granted, depending on how they chose people to poll, i suppose it could be somewhat of a representation but still, i think polls are stupid.
searching for chronos @ 11:32 am
|friday. may 5, 2006
wheee. i finally used the mortar and pestle i got months and months ago ^_^ contray to what i thought when i purchased it, it was because i wanted crushed hazelnuts, not lavender... i'll make lavender scones one day but first it's linzer tart cookies!! ^_^ i hope black raspberry jam taste as good as red...
searching for chronos @ 9:56 pm
|wednesday. may 3, 2006
from a washington post article about the gas debate going on in the captial..
The American car manufacturers and other manufacturers are producing cars that Americans want," Boehner said. "These high gas prices will lead consumers to probably better decisions. The market can handle this much better than some kind of government regulation.
are my eyes deceiving me?!? a politician actually gets it! O.o
searching for chronos @ 3:52 pm
|stephen colbert is awsome ^_^ if you haven't seen him at the white house correspondents' association dinner, you really have to. the video thing was a bit long and overdone but mostly everything else is so on the money
searching for chronos @ 2:46 pm
|monday. may 1, 2006
music| tsubasa - a song of storm and fire
gaaaaah... it's so awful how out of synch i got from just the weekend at school... i only stayed up and woke up late for two days and my head's already telling me that's the way it should be ;__; sigh.....
searching for chronos @ 10:46 am
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