!@#$%$&^(*#^*^&*#^%#@$: don't go to kidd kraddick's website. it sux and it caused my i/e to freeze and erase my entry!!! wah~!! =(

ok, i have to start over.

my post was originally titled: "jungle fever". you know how there's an unattainable race? like black guys like white & asian women. white guys like asian women. asian women like black guys. and i fall into the latter category. and here was my 2 examples:

1. allen iverson: if you ask most asian girls which bball player they like, they'll say him. he's good-looking & an awesome baller. but i am wondering, what exactly is so intriguing about him? he definitely plays with lots of intensity which i like, but he's shorter than most players. there's other good-looking players out there, but i dunno what makes me drawn to him. i don't like cornrolls on anybody, but he's the exception. he would look weird with anything else.

2. when i walked into the building from lunchtime (and a power 20-minute nap), i saw a good-looking "brotha" there talking on the phone. he was wearing a black turtleneck & black pants and a silver necklace. but my favorite part was his glasses. this sounds so weird, but i feel like black men wearing glasses look so much better than any other race wearing glasses. they look much more sophisticated to me.

of course, i'll never marry a black man (i'd rather marry white b/c they're overall better-looking), but i think i'll stick to my race. thankyouverymuch.

i found the names of the 2 asian actors on fastlane yesterday and tried to look up their bios through google. i found nothing on them. how sad.

i decided to compile a (strange) list of my dislikes:

*tomatoes
*onions
*wet sleeves (although i don't care about other parts of my clothes being wet)
*shiesty(?) people
*messy desks
*gary payton

no work for me tomorrow. yay!! although it would be ideal to miss a monday or something since fridays are so casual. but it's ok. gotta wake up a lil more earlier tomorrow. gotta be at the Church by 7:30. >.< but looking forward to a good experience.

i am currently reading (atleast trying) a book called The Punch by john feinstein. it is about kermit washington's punch at rudy tomjanovich that nearly killed him. scary! but it's really interesting and almost made me cry already. and today on espn radio, dan patrick (yay, he's back!) said he was gone the past 2 days b/c he was doing a story for espn about the upcoming 25th anniversary of "the punch". it's cool when you're reading and it coincides with current events. which rarely happens with me.

ok i'm going to stop now before something else happens and this gets erased. i probably won't be able to post for a couple of days, but i'll try. so, i'll see you when i see you. (^.^)v

Squirted 3:52 PM by E-J Yi

tv time!: yes i got my daily dose of tv for the week. hehe. and here's a recap:

fastlane: i saw the 1st episode and thought it was cheesy, but cool-looking. lots of slow motion, violence, and s-e-x. ooh bad. definitely "tv-14". but it was enjoyable. i never watched another episode until last night. and boy was it funny! the "bad guy" for the episode was this asian guy, probably chinese b/c he was good-lookin'. and he had this asian girlfriend, who i'm guessing is viet b/c she WASN'T good-lookin', who happened to be tiffani amber-theissen's best friend. THAT was a fake storyline if i ever saw one. anyways, that girl & bill bellamy hook up!!! shocking. not as shocking as ming-na & mehki pfiffer hooking up in er. that is so weird. she's beautiful and he's an awesome actor, but isn't she taller than him?? i dunno, i never watch er. anyways, in fastlane, the girl gets killed by that asian guy as revenge and THEN later on, bill bellamy comes back for revenge and cuts his hand off AND THEY SHOW IT!!! man it was gross. they don't even show severed parts that much in the movies. but yeah, it was entertaining. it really did feel like the fast and the furious.

primetime live: now i almost missed the whitney houston interview b/c of fastlane and they decided to show it an hour earlier. geez! anyways, i didn't miss it and here's what i got from the interview:

1. whitney is so pretty. yeah, she might be a crack whore, but she's pretty. or maybe it's the makeup. but man, i kept thinking, she's one of the prettiest black women in entertainment.

2. bobby brown is scary. his dance moves (when he freaks onstage) scare me. his face scares me. and how he pretends their marriage is "normal". that's scary. oh and that lil drug habit.

3. whitney definitely had an attitude goin' on during the interview. during that infamous performance at the michael jackson concert where she looked like a skeleton, the producers actually went back in and electronically put fat on her! amazing what technology can do. and diane sawyer asked her, "who did they do that for?" and whitney just stared at her. and then stared straight into the camera. and back at diane. WHOA. she's scary.

4. whitney, to me, is still one of america's greatest singers. if you haven't heard her sing the national anthem and you don't get goosebumps listening to that, then you are deaf.

5. whitney & bobby's daugher, christina(?), unfortunately, looks too much like her father. even with the gap between her teeth. how sad. i feel sorry for her. seems like a nice kid.

all in all, it was a semi-interesting interview. fastlane had me a lil more intrigued though...

MAVERICKS vs blazers: 17-1, baby! yeah, it was a good game. dirk had his game on and steve was just amazing. too bad najera is out right now b/c he is definitely exciting to watch. i've never seen raef lafrenz & nick van exel play until last night, but i like what i see. both of them were good yesterday, especially defensively for raef & nick on offense. although shawn bradley definitely surprised me with a 3-pt play yesterday (with a layup so ugly), he needs to work on being more "in-yo-face" like shaq instead of a "praying mantis" (sam's nickname for me) that people can just flick around. i am sooo looking forward to friday night's game against the lakers, but unfortunately, i will be at the prison thing. maybe it will end early so that me & sam can atleast catch the 2nd half. game is on cbs @ 9pm (central) in case you (and should) want to watch it.

ok i think this tv is getting boring for some, no? i was watching korean videos before i started watching "american" tv and man, i have this story i want to re-enact for others b/c it cracks me up every single time i hear it. i dunno if it's as funny to others, but man, it's one of the funniest, true life, stories i've ever heard. so ask me next time you see me! just say, "joyce, i want to hear the drunk girl with the cell phone story!" :D

i was thinking about this the other day, but does nice skin on a guy a good thing or a bad thing? in reference to scott kwak, he has extremely nice complexion. probably the best i've seen on anybody besides his sister who is blessed with the same. but when we talk about it, it almost sounds like a bad thing. i dunno how to describe it. it's like, "omg, you have such nice skin, it's weird!" maybe i'm wrong, but that's what i was feeling. it's like, it's better for the guy to have bad skin compared to a girl. girls are supposed to have better skin, not guys. that's why we have makeup and guys don't (exception: jacko). does this make sense? i guess sara decided that she didn't like scott's skin when she exclaimed (loudly, of course) @ d & b, "day-ang, scott's got some PALE SKIN!!!" lol. i <3 sara!

okie. i'll stop for now. be back later. (^.^)v

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yay this works!: ok imma dork. hehe.

last night i had a great time hangin out with won & ho. we went to chili's for dinner. i had my favs: lettuce wraps and their never-ending tostada chips. i absolutely LOVE their chips & salsa. and i got sara addicted to them. :) i don't mean to sound racist or anything, but have any of you guys had a black waiter @ chili's? i haven't. and yesterday was my first time. he was so cool. his voice was sooo low. and like he talks real smooth. it was almost cool/scary. does this make sense? he had that "black" jive goin on. anyways, i am always laughing when i'm with them. ho was talking about how he hated all the koreans at his school. like those lil azn thugs. i don't blame him. he calls them "asian monkeys". why? b/c monkeys make lots of high-pitched noises and run around after each others' butts. (ok i made up the butts part.) and he don't want no part of that. good for him. he doesn't understand why the fobs don't study and just smoke and "do bad stuff". yeah go ho! on the other hand, he's very prideful of being korean. if somebody asks him, "are you asian?" he goes, "no, i'm KOREAN. there's a difference." lol. i know i was like that long ago...

i can't get this BoA song, "jewel song", out of my head. even though she can't say the word, "jewel", i get goosebumps in the song. i think it's the string part that is making me love this song. it sounds so emotional. i'm trying to memorize it. it will be my first memorized song in which i will have no idea what i'm talking about. i could be talking about eating poop or something.

julie said she didn't like my layout. oh well.

i have received over 3,000 emails from rent.com in an email box at work. i HATE them. NEVER EVER go to that site nor use it. the lady who used to work here used the site and they decided that last night they were going to try to blow up the system here. they suck and i have to delete each one of the emails manually. argh!!! now my boss is going to try to get it blocked. yay glenda!

for the cool band people: trailer for the upcoming movie, drumline. everybody go watch it!! :)

remember her? omg, she's so cute! i loved that movie. it made me cry when she's going, "put on his glasses!!" during the funeral. ah the good ole days. yesterday i heard on the radio, the song called "jellyhead". do you guys remember it? it goes, "over and over i feel it. boyfriend you're alone (?). you must be out of your mind. jellyhead..." i liked that song alot back then.

yao ming seems to be doing good these days. i'm impressed. houston made a wise choice. they beat san antonio. that's big. i'm just glad we beat their butts a few weeks ago! i've decided to be a fan. why? cuz he likes the Backstreet Boys! ;)

aite. 'nuf for now. payce. (^.^)v

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is this bold: i hope so. if not, it's back to underlining.

last night our family went to sleep early. why? b/c we didn't watch any tv. nothing else to do so go to bed! my parents and i went to sleep around 10. no kidding. julie sometime soon after. but we had a great conversation over dinner. but that's enough. we want our TV!! jk guys...we don't have an addiction...really! o_O

i can imagine some not liking my layout. but i think it's a cool design. i listened to alot of his cd yesterday and it's just like, man, the lyrics are really intriguing. i made me think and it made me feel. that sounds so corny, but it's true. it's a good cd.

all i hear on the radio these days is that kid rock & sheryl crow song. it doesn't sound like them. sheryl's voice is too pretty and clear to be hers, imo. and i didn't know kid rock could sing. such a mystery to me. but the song's okay. you know what song i NEVER get tired of? dj sammie's "heaven" (candlelight remix: slow). it's a really good song. i've heard bryan adams' version, but i don't like it as much as this lady singing. she's not a great singer, though. i think the song "jenny from the block" is absolutely horrible. although catchy at some points, it's sounds so retarded when she goes, "boneekwa" or "from the bronx!" she sounds like a nerd. forrealz. dan patrick wasn't on the radio today. if you don't know who he is, he's an espn radio show host. it was weird w/o him.

guys: i got a question. if you get SO mad at your girlfriend that you punch a wall and end up having to get surgery on it, do you stay with her or not? i say NOT. if you can't resolve your differences in a way that it leads someone to violently hurt themselves, then that's not a healthy relationship. that's what i think.

i wish i had a cool nickname. i had one in high school from this girl who looked like a guy. heather something. (ann, do you know who i'm talking about?) she and judi bush called me 'juice'. that was okay except it reminded me of o.j. and i'm not a violent person. well, not all the time. some people call me 'joycie', but that's just an addition of 1 letter to my name. scott calls me 'lil one', but that sounds too much like a pet name. someone think of a cool one and i'll give you $5. through paypal only. hahaha.

i'm sooooo happy!!! my dad was forcing me to try to take classes in the spring semester (b/c our company has a tuition reimbursement program if you get A's or B's), but you have to work atleast one year here to do so. yay!!! :D no classes for me until spring 2004!! wheee~

a good new song: BoA, the korean singing sensation who's one of THE prettiest people on this earth, has a new song called "Jewel Song". it's so pretty and she's so pretty in the m/v. she's like 17 and man, she's beautiful. i don't really listen to songs i can't understand, but if you wanna hear a good slow song, you can d/l the song here.

alright. i'm over for now. (^.^)v

Squirted 3:18 PM by E-J Yi

m & m: new layout man! yay! & it took me freakin' forever to get it to work. and it covers up some of the annoying ad. we'll see how long i'll have this one. archives don't seem to be working properly. but i have linkage!

...more blahs after lunch! (^.^)v

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*cough cough*: it's 3:00 and do you know what time it is? it's time for joyce's 2nd daily post!! whee~!

i had a coughing fit a few minutes ago. i kinda wish i was sick so i didn't have to work, but then again, it's miserable being sick. =P

man i need to exercise. i bought these khakis from the gap that fit my leg length just perfectly. but i have gained some weight so it is a lil tight. but i planned to lose weight and to wear them. julie thinks that my way of thinking doesn't work, but i'm out to prove her wrong! my dad has decided that he was addicted to tv & korean videos so he wants all of US to suffer by "joining" him in a media boycott 2 nights a week. what da freak? doode, it's YOU, not US. we're fine. really we are...o_O i'm just mad that i have to go through this too. we can't watch whatever we want to watch and now we can't watch WHENEVER we want to watch. what is this? a dictatorship?

sean is dating again. we'll see how long this one lasts. b/c he hasn't really talked about her much, i'm not giving it more than 3 months. sorrie sean!

i realized that i don't like to drink. as in alcohol. i don't like the taste of it. of course, this being said, i've barely had ONE bottle of wine cooler TOTAL and never have gotten drunk nor have had more than 1 sip of beer. (i was forced to take a sip of rolling rock against my will from sean and it tasted oh so nasty.) and on saturday when we went to cafe happy day i felt low-class. i know that sara probably felt the same. i also didn't like the smoke seeping in every crevice (?) of every thread in my clothes. yuck. scott said that he respected a girl who could drink a beer (cindy got one), but i dunno...i think girls are better off drinking girly drinks. =)

i realized this past weekend that i have my prison ministry coming up. it came up so fast!! i am kinda nervous about it, but i know it will be well worth it. supposedly me and sam are getting our own (separate) hotel rooms, but i'm not sure. if not, i might be driving home late at night and have to drive over an hour the next morning. got to talk to sam about this. i like sleeping in hotel rooms. maybe it's b/c of the free cable & no parents. yeah. i think it is.

one of my dad's closest friends suffered a heart attack and now he's a vegetable. and his family is thinking of "pulling the plug". isn't that sad? my mom said she would want us to pull the plug on her, but she wouldn't on us. why? b/c we're younger. but my mom's not that old. susan (from Church) said that she couldn't believe how young-looking my mom was which made my mom's day. and now she wants us to pull the plug on her? doesn't make sense...

i got reminded about 3x this weekend how old i was. and my "lovely" friends (sara, scott, cindy, and sean) made it a point to stress that i'm 23. but i handled myself well: "well, atleast i don't LOOK 23!" *silence from the others* muahaha. that's right foolios. =X

haha. in YO face. (^.^)v

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monday, monday: man, i haven't updated in a LONG time, so get ready for a LONG entry...

wednesday, me & julie went to sam's to watch the mavs game (it's sad that we don't have cable) and happy to see them win. sara came over there and we left together to go to grapevine mills for global harvest's broomball. didn't know i would be running into a few people from my past. i saw chris and his gf (?), lydia. saw edwin. i decided to be a lot more nicer to people and so we struck up a lil conversation. i actually talked with chris' sister, judy, for awhile which was okay. i thought it was going to be awkward, but it was ok. after that we headed to ihop for a snack. i met some nice fob's (i don't mean that in a derogatory way) and laughed so hard listening to sara & her friend young banter back and forth. but then i got really annoyed when joe & sara's brother got in a discussion. not b/c they were talking, but how long they were talking and i was just really, really tired. probably made me more cranky. =\

thursday morning, i went to the now-defunct turkey bowl. i felt that i really came to know those who truly care about friendships. those people are the ones who are truly loyal. of course, i understand those who weren't in town, but for everybody else. =X for lunch, we had our thanksgiving meal while we watched the dog show too (ann!). hehe. it was really cute and fun to watch. i liked the sheepdog, too. i HATED the poodle. it was like a person and it grossed me out. i couldn't even look at the tv b/c i thought i was going to throw up. yuck. there should be a law against making the dog's fur like that. i feel sick just thinking about it. =P

then i went over to alley's to help her with her scholarship essays for UT. i probably stayed longer than i expected, but i learned alot about her and what she had to go through to come to america which was touching. afterwards, me & julie headed over to sam's (again for the mavs game) to sadly see them lose. gosh. it was a terrible game. dirk was just not in his zone. i think he's having woman problems. haha. oh, but we got to see caleb take his first steps!! and i got it on video~! :) it was sooo cute/cool/exciting!! he's soooo cute in his aikman jersey. =D

friday morning, i got up late (of course) and ran some errands. i ended up having to replace 2 tires instead of 1 which i didn't like, but it was okay b/c me & julie went to best buy. i got eminem's cd for $8.99! the 6-hour sale that they had until noon was already over, but the sale prices were still intact. yesss~! haven't listened to the cd much yet, but "white america" is pretty eye-opening. friday for dinner, julie & me (i sounds too formal) met up with sara, scott, & edward @ chili's. me & sara wanted to go there for the chips! hehe. and i had a great time. we did alot of laughing, probably more at the expense of sara, but you can't help laughing when she mistakenly says "immunization" instead of "naturalization". haha. i love sara! :) then we headed over to dave & buster's. it was pretty boring except for when we saw this geeky old white guy doing Pump and he was good. he had been doing it for a year! and when others would play, he would be furiously tapping his leg to the beat. it was so nerdy! he had these extremely short shorts too. couldn't look in that direction too long. >.< more ghc people showed up and i wanted to get out of there. so me, sara, edward, scott, and cindy headed over to the "azn kiddie" hangout mug n mouse. it's supposed to be a lil internet cafe, but it's pretty pathetic and they don't have good drinks (bobo tea). but we talked some more which was fun, too. david kim (from smu) comes in and i was about to throw up. he kept looking over in our direction, but everytime i did, i looked the other way. it was gross. anyways, scott pointed out a few things about me which really surprised me that he could read me so well: he said that i wanted a guy who was stronger than me, definitely NOT a good match for joe (who cindy tried to set me up with), and that i would like a guy who reformed from his bad ways. it was so weird. and he said he had somebody in mind. i don't want to come across as desperate so i'll just sit back. but yeah, it was fun just hanging out.

saturday, i had my drum lesson which went well. my right leg started hurting a bit b/c he was pushing me through drum set exercises, but i wouldn't show that it hurt. no pain, no gain, right? :) and then i went to ho & won's place to take care of linzie while they were in las vegas. i came home and cleaned up a lil and for dinner, me & julie met up with sara @ cpk. we probably pissed off the waiter by staying for like 2 hours, but it was fun. then we headed over to cafe happy day (which all of us have never been) where we met up with cindy & scott again. the conversation was going hilariously until sean showed up, but i dunno why it died down. our conversation ended short and we ended up heading home around 11. but then me & sara did some more talking in her car afterwards. =)

sunday, i came home from church early to help my mom clean up. oh, but i had to "teach" her a lesson yesterday. see, on saturday night, she calls and tells me & julie to come home early. to do what? TO FREAKIN' (or how scott says it FRIKKIN') VACUUM. not only was i pissed, but i was really embarrassed. of course, afterwards, i get these comments, "your parents still tell you to come home?", "do you have a curfew?", "joyce, you're 23, why are they calling you?". SO...she got a bit of her own medicine yesterday. since our phone call lasted about 2 minutes, i decided that 1 minute = 1 hour of being plain annoying. 2 minutes = 2 hours. so i got started on a LONG afternoon for my mom. hehe. it was actually pretty funny if you saw it, but i knew how annoying i was being, but it was alright b/c it was nothing in comparison to all the phone calls i get from them that totally embarrass me & julie. and i told her that i would do the same to my children or even worse and if they ask me, "mommy, why do you treat me like this? why are you so strict with us?" i would reply, "go ask your grandparents. i learned it from them." my mom said i was mean. well, HELLOOOO??!!?!?!??!

later on that night i headed over to won & ho's house to teach won for a couple of hours. then we went to braum's to have a snack. ho was talking about girls, of course, and won sat there giving these cute smirks on his face. :) i love times like that. ho cracking me up with his completely innocent honesty and won with his wisecracks.

all in all, it was a good weekend, but man...i wish it was longer. oh man, i wish it was! (^.^)v

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