ain't no thing like a chicken wing!: true dat. read on...

read roger ebert's review of DRUMLINE here! won, i'm taking you with me~!! it's gonna be GOOD!

yesterday was a fairly good day for me. i received a present from england. ok, not really, but a co-worker, shawn rose (female), transferred to england, but before she left, she asked one of her other co-workers to give me her pillow after she left. this special pillow is for my lower back that kinda aches in this chair that's not properly designed for vertically-challenged persons. shawn was about the same height as me and therefore, suffered from the same pains as well. i had this miffy (oh so cute!) pillow, but it was a lil too puffy. shawn's pillow is just perfect and i'm thankful that she has given it to me. what nice people we have out there.

after work, i headed over to d&b's to do a lil pump, but to mostly watch cindy & julie. i was freakin' hungry and tired though. i did MY song, "cordiality" by novasonic, about 3 times and stopped. i could go on no longer. and there was a whole bunch of office people there. (i found out this morning that it was kiss-fm's annual Christmas party. man, i wish i could have atleast seen kellie. i've already seen big al & kidd.) anyways, i was so famished that i had to leave and i went home only to find my parents weren't home yet and therefore, no food on the table. since i didn't know what my mom was preparing that night, i decided to make some phones calls to the church kids for tonight's orchestra rehearsal. and to my wonderful surprise, the jung (won & ho's) family invites me to dinner @ wingstop! :) mmm~! so i took like 1 minute to get ready and drove over there. man, i haven't had wings in like 10 months, and man...they were SOOO good. i LOVE the original hot wings and their sugar & salt fries. dang, it was some good eatin'! *mouth watering* i had a lovely conversation with their family. they're like a second family to me. won & ho are like my lil bros and i love them like their my lil bros. =) thanks again for the great dinner. i'll take you guys out sometime, k? ;)

i got home and finished making all the phone calls and by that time, i was so pooped that i couldn't stay up to watch "the little mermaid" (korean drama) with my parents. i did watch a lil scene and i got goosebumps all over me. it must be so hard to be an actor/actress sometimes. it seems really emotionally draining. sometimes i wish i could be an actress, but i know i can't do some of the things that they must go through.

i have decided to become a better listener. i noticed that when i hang out with people i talk too much. it almost bothers me. even though i wasn't stopping myself at that time, i caught myself interrupting others alot more than i thought. so if i don't talk as much when i hang out with you, then it won't be because i don't like you, it's b/c i want to listen to what you have to say and not myself. unless we're talking about something boring. then i'd probably stop you. jk. i will be testing myself today b/c i'm going out to lunch today with a co-worker. not in my dept. he talks about himself alot (and i could say much worse), but i will try to be kind today and see if he can change the way i think of him. but i'm not looking forward to it.

tonight tae oppa & jenny unnie are coming in this weekend for tae's graduation. tomorrow we're eating a good dinner @ snow mountain. looking forward to seeing them again. gonna miss the mavs game, but it's against the grizzlies so no biggie. i can't wait until eddie najera comes back. i miss him. =*( i hope my sister can get a pic of him when she goes to meet him on monday.

alright enough writing for now. (^.^)v

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pump it up!: today cindy & julie are going dave & buster's to play pump (korean version of DDR). both of them are good and cindy knows it. haha. i'm probably going to watch.

yesterday before i watched the disappointing mavs game, i flipped to abc and watch part of the show "the extreme makeover". this is where 3 people (2 girls, 1 guy) got to get a makeover that includes plastic surgery, waredrobe, and fitness. it was crazy!! like one lady who had a really jacked up nose got it fixed, but i think she should have gotten it more done. it still looked kinda big. the other lady looked GREAT. she only did her nose slightly and remove the fat from her cheeks. but she definitely looked better. the guy had worked out previously and had this huge excess of fat that he needed removed. the removed 3 lbs of fat!!! OMG! he got his nose done too and he looked better too. the first lady also had her boobs done, too along with her crooked nose. she looked okay, but she needs more work. while watching this, i thought, would i change anything about my physical appearance? probably, but i'd never go through it. on second thought, i think i'm okay so i'd rather not change anything about myself. =) God made me the way i am. oh wait. i guess that contradicts myself after having done my eyes. ^.^

man i feel pathetic. i did a freakin' quiz and nobody has taken it yet. =*( *sniff sniff* i get no luv anymore...

today's my first baby shower. that i'm going to. i totally forgot to buy the mom's gift last night, but remembered during the mavs game, but i couldn't leave during the game!! so i went to wal-mart EARLY this morning 6:30 and picked out a creeper, booties, rattle, bib set (for $8.96) and a nice white, translucent baby bag to go along with it. it doesn't look too cheap and i ended up spending about $15 total. we're going to have a sandwich buffet (what's the point in that? buffets aren't supposed to be healthy.) @ 11:30. i wonder what other people are getting her.

i went to get my estimate on my bumper yesterday @ toyota of irving. guess how much it came out to? $672!!. DANG~!! the replacement itself was $237, but with parts & labor, the estimate shot up. i seriously doubt that family will pay that much, but they're going to have to cough up some dough in order to get their son out of soaring insurance rates for males under 21. the father's going to call today and let us know what his "first" price is. ow, my neck's starting to hurt... jk!! ;)

sports talk: my fav mavs players right now are nash, finley, and van exel. all 3 are just awesome right now and SO exciting to watch! i can't wait till we get najera & nowitzki back though. there's such a huge debate on how to say "nowitzki". dirk actually says "no-wit-ski" himself, but the german way to say it is, "no-vit-ski". i say the latter so i sound more cultured. haha.

i started watching a new drama called, "sahm choong sah". i forgot what that means, but something to do with 3 (cuz sahm means 3). anyways, it's about the friendship of 3 guys from high school to present. it has 3 relatively good-looking guys (1 is really good-looking, 2 are okay) and 3 relatively pretty girls (2 are really pretty, 1 is ok) and how their lives are affected by the strong friendship bond of the 3 guys. i am really enjoying this and cried so much yesterday. usually in korean dramas, when there's a funeral, teenage girls aren't really shown crying. it's mostly the older women. however, in this drama one of the girls' grandmother dies and she is just bawling her eyes out. she's my favorite character and man, i couldn't stop crying. =*( hanna, i am going to let you borrow the tapes. i think you'll enjoy it. *hopefully* the "bad girl" from "all about eve" that sam likes is in it. hehe.

okie, it's time for a sandwich buffet! (^.^)v

Squirted 10:14 AM by E-J Yi

hump day: isn't that funny how that sounds? hehe.

i went to playmash.com and here are my results:

You will live in Mansion.
You will drive a red acura.
You will marry ann and have 1 kids.
You will be a none in ny.

weird huh?

i never even said anything about a mansion! but i could marry ann~! jk!

mavs are doing much better these days. i'm glad. yesterday was the return of wang zhi zhi, but he couldn't get anything started for LA so we blew them out. yeah! but i'm so scared about tonight's game. popeye jones (w/his junk in da trunk) fell on top of dirk's ankle. DUDE!! fall on raja's ankle, not dirk's!! man.

on 12/16, the "international mavs" (dirk, nash, & eduardo) will be signing autographs to those who make a donation to UNICEF @ pier 1 imports near the galleria. julie is all over that! she's currently deciding who's autograph to get b/c since there will be sooo many in line, you gotta choose one. i'm hoping she can take my video camera there and record them. but we'll see how that goes. cool.

i found out from gina's AA page that scott (kwak) is in the middle of writing a book about women's psyche! lol. i do admit that he's a great listener and can read people well. but sometimes i'm thinking, is he doing that to impress women? is he acting thoughtful to appear so? but i will give him credit for reading me out. i'll be the 1st in line to buy his book too! not b/c i want to read it, but b/c he's my friend. hehe. let's see what this "peanut butter" guy is made of. plus, i've never read anything of his so i don't know how well a fob could write! jk!! much luv to scott.

you know what's good underwear? no, not these hanes or victoria's secret stuff? it's korea-made underwear. it's cheap, but extraordinaringly (is that a word) comfortable. ask any korean person you know. if they haven't ever worn korea-made underwear then they are missing out. i know people who only ask for underwear when their relatives go to korea. and this might be gross to guys, but they have special underwear for when girls get a "visit" once a month. the underwear is especially designed not to "leak" anything. it's awesome. next time i go, i'm buying underwear for my friends. =)

i have sent out 2 mass emails & people are to r.s.v.p with me and guess how many replies i've gotten when i've sent out emails to about 60 people? 3. a big whoppin' 3!! i expected to come into work and be showered with emails. wow. =\

ann, i'm so glad you enjoyed your mandarin chicken salad! :) i pick out the dark green leaves though. and i don't put too many noodles or almonds. but i enjoy the rest of the salad immensely. if you don't know what me & ann have been enjoying, go to your nearest wendy's and order it. :) i want to eat it, but it's so cold outside that i can't~! i ate whataburger #8 again yesterday. ugh. can't eat that again. probably taco bell's chicken bowl for me.

okie, i'll stop babbling now. (^.^)v

Squirted 9:34 AM by E-J Yi

last post:

hilarious!!

btw, plano senior high dinner dec 22nd @ 7pm @ maggiano's (northwest hwy & 75).

see ya'll later. (^.^)v

Squirted 4:57 PM by E-J Yi

fun fun: yes i'm posting alot today...

a quiz i made up

have fun, kids. (^.^)v

Squirted 12:47 PM by E-J Yi

will the real julie please stand up?: i forgot to mention...


i thought that by going to this prison thing this weekend, i would avoid being called julie. boy, was i wrong! one of the ladies in my group called me julie friday night, but i wasn't sure so i didn't say anything. saturday night as she was driving me & another lady to the Church, she calls me julie loud & clear. the ironic thing is that i never told her i had a sister thus, no mention of julie. when i asked her why she called me that, she said that i reminded her of one of her high school friends way back when. GEEZ. and of course, yesterday, i get a lovely, "julie, can you please make a copy of this for me and send it up to AP?" sam says i should just legally change my name. maybe i should. =\

Squirted 10:00 AM by E-J Yi

slam bam thank you ma'am: precisely what happened yesterday...

i got in a car accident yesterday. guy hit me from behind. he said he saw me brake & it was too late. and it scared the CRAP out of me! good thing i didn't see it coming. anyways, luckily, we were in the right lane so we just pulled over onto the shoulder. i looked at the bumper (while it was FREEZING rain!) and saw some cracks. but his car was jacked up more. the bottom of his hood had been tucked underneath the front bumper and his toyota emblem was hanging on for dear life. he's an indian teenager (judging by the fact his license was vertical) and this had been his first accident. he didn't know what to do. so i took over and wrote all his info down. he only got my name, numbers, and my policy number. i then got him to sign a statement saying, "This accident was my fault." my family thought that was funny, but hey! you never know. i knew he would sign it (cuz most people wouldn't and/or shouldn't), but yeah, i got him to do that. then we were on our way. i figured that his family would probably want to settle w/o our insurance companies getting involved b/c his insurance would go through the roof. so i told my dad and then HE calls them and says, "tell you what. i'm going to get an estimate and we'll look into settling with you, ok?" like he was the generous one. after hanging up, my dad says, "we going to make some money on this" and broke into a huge smile. uh, i am going to be making some money on this. jk. but i asked my dad that when we get the money we should all go out to chili's together b/c i wanted my parents to try their lettuce wraps. those 2 things probably don't make sense together, right? (i've been bothering my parents to go out to eat so i thought this was the perfect opportunity to do so.)

yesterday was tv blackout night for our family. and we got through it pretty well if i do say so myself. i did a run down on my experience of my prison ministry thing so that they don't think i'm wasting my time or whatever.

i'm going to the mavs vs. nets game march 4th!!! yay!! eddie got us tickets and me & julie will be going with him & joel~! :) it will be so cool. joel's first mavs game. i'll take lots of pics to show. yes, i know it's more than 3 months away, but i'm excited! ;)

ok, i better start some work. i actually got some! (^.^)v

Squirted 9:38 AM by E-J Yi

hello, my name is simon and i like to do drawrings: me, julie, and sam sang that the other day. it was fun.

okay.

now for my weekend update. i sound like dennis miller, rite? :)

friday: me & sam got to the hotel at 7:30am >.< in time for the "opening ceremonies" (praise, some pep talks, introduction of celeb speakers) for the prison ministry. then we got divided up into our assigned prisons. i was assigned to the dallas country youth village located near wilmer-hutchins. it was like the place i went last year except they had it much easier. they got to wear their own clothes, but no sagging and had to tuck in shirts. (just in case for weapons.) and they talked backed to their supervisors alot. but there's a 15% return rate there. (meaning: only 15% ever return to a life of crime which is exceptional considering the average is 80%.) anyways, i was pretty excited/nervous and again, i found myself to be one of the youngest out of over 1,000 participating and 1 of 2 asians (my pastor was the other). it would be cool if we could get more young & more asians out there.

well, when i got there, i found the kids to be more standoff-ish than the austin one. so i stood around alot b/c my approach is that i don't want to go up to them and be in their faces with religion. i like to build a friendship first and then slowly get into talking about God. or if they bring it up first, then that's even better. there was one asian kid (yeah, kid b/c he was 15...the median age there) named tuan (or twon) and he asked me "what are you, Miss?" i said i was "korean" and he looked a lil disappointed. i guess he was hoping that i would be viet like him or something. but we talked for a bit and then he left to go home. at this place, if you're on good behavior, you get to go home for 24 hrs. that's pretty nice. anyways, we had alot of great speakers. i know they're probably not famous to most people, but keith davis (ex-nfl player), eugene lockhart (ex-cowboys player), and sean michaels (ex-wwf wrestler) were the most recognized ones. i got as much out of the speakers as the "residents" (that's what they're called) did. i won't go into lengthy details about the entire weekend, but it was an overall good experience, but i wish i could have done more. i ended up befriending 2 of the "hardest to talk to" guys, but i didn't know that until somebody had told me. so i was glad about that. there's another one coming up in january in san antonio and i'm hoping that eddie, susan, and julie will attend. and hopefully, i'll get to, too. =)

other highlights (and lowlights) of the weekend:

*mavs freakin' lost against the lakers. they shouldn't have. and i'll stop there before i get mad.
*mavs won, but i was feeling too excited about it b/c they were playing the warriors and they barely won.
*i had THE best bbq sauce (with my brisket) at a huge church in glenview. it was soooooooooo good. i don't think i'll ever have that sauce again!! =*( (oh wait, maybe next year...)
*me & sam had THE scariest car ride back home to the airport.

explanation: there's this really nice, but old guy named pete. pete has an extremely patient wife named joy. (you'll find out why she's patient.) pete has parkinson's disease. pete doesn't like lights. pete doesn't like mirrors. pete drove me & sam to the airport (to get sam's car). me & sam almost died. ok, i'm exaggerating, but i was really scared on the way home. pete doesn't drive over 50 mph (mmm...take that back. he was driving @ 60 at one point.). pete WAITS (meaning: he slows down or STOPS) to get into a lane. people high beam or honk at him, but he doesn't care. he just asks his wife to move the rear view mirror out of the way so that the lights don't bother him. o_O i know that there is a God b/c there ain't NO WAY he can get through driving in dallas without getting in a car accident. pete is a road hazard not only to others, but to himself. he missed 2 exits on the way to the airport, but his wife is so encouraging, "pete, atleast we'll get a tour of dallas!" omg. me & sam are both in the school of thought that it should be illegal for old people to drive. we got a test of patience that night. i'm not exaggerating, too. do you think your life would flash before your eyes when an 18-wheeler is merging into your lane and the car you're in is going 45-mph?

i realized a goal that i want to achieve. i'm not going to write it out for fear of somebody else taking my idea. of course, i'll tell my friends, but for those who i don't know and read this, i am going to keep =X until i get the ball rolling.

alright. i bet your eyes are tired from reading all this. an update later. (^.^)v

Squirted 10:30 AM by E-J Yi