white elephant: omg, i just came back from my gift exchange party. it was so fun!! :D here's what went down...

i brought godiva chocolates. bruce, my boss, picked it. he said that nice things come in small packages. (how true.) anyways, somebody stole that from him so he stole a best buy gift certificate for $20. i wanted that. but then another guy opened a gift that was a paper shredder. i wanted that too b/c i was gonna get it for my dad for Christmas. so i was thinking, who should i take from? bruce, THE boss or the incredibly nice guy. i asked my friend, tammy, and she said i should get the gift certificate cuz it would be funnier. man, for some reason, i was trembling, but i walked over there and took it from bruce! hehe. everybody was laughing. then this guy who called me JULIE took the gift certificate away from me. it was frozen and now it's his. he sux. so then i got the paper shredder. and to make a long story short, i had to grab a bottle of wine (which was now frozen) and tammy grabbed the paper shredder for me. luckily nobody got the paper shredder and we traded after the game was over. so it came out good for me in the end. out of about 30 gifts, 25 were alcoholic. i'm not joking. so i had some slim pickin's. i wonder how grace's went...

seriously, one of my co-workers went up to me & said, "why don't u just change your name?" i'm thinking about it...

this is lol hilarious. thanks droo, for providing the humor. =D

lots of people will be out next week. lucky ducks. atleast i won't bothered as much. hopefully. *fingers crossed*

i think i'm going to do some shopping tonight. not something i'm really looking forward to, but i gotta do what i gotta do. have a great weekend everybody! (^.^)v

Squirted 4:34 PM by E-J Yi

the melting pot: yesterday me, julie, grace, and sandi went to a fondue place called "the melting pot". dinner took freakin' 3 hours!! next time i go, it's only gonna be for dessert. it was good while, but afterwards, i felt sick. over-eating. but i can definitely see ann enjoying that place! :) and i embarrassed myself and the whole table there, too! haha. we had two fondue pots going on at once and the one with oil wasn't bubbling like the other one. it was sitting still. so i wanted to see if it was still hot. so i grabbed my straw and put my finger on the end of the straw, grabbed a lil bit of water (i was about to grab a strawful), pointed the straw into the pot and let me finger go and CCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHH~! ALL THIS SMOKE GOES EVERYWHERE and just my luck, our waiter was RIGHT BEHIND ME and goes, "WHAT DID YOU DO?" (by this time, the whole room (pretty small one) was staring at me. he was like, "don't do that. if you put water in there, it will explode." my sister was like freakin' out and stuff and grace & sandi were pretty quiet for a while, but sandi said, "atleast we can think about this later and laugh!" yeah! sandi knows how to make me smile. =D needless to say, we had a great time.

grace got to see the video of dirk saying, "merry Christmas, gr~ace and hava happy new year!" she watched it 4 times. she loved it. :D

i'm feeling better today. i took the nyquil-wannabe last night and took dayquils this morning. but i still feel like sleeping. *yawn*

today's our gift exchange party at work. yesterday at the restaurant, a group of women were doing the "white elephant" thingy. i paid attention for about 5 minutes, but then our food came and i didn't care to watch anymore. so i'm supposed to steal somebody's gift if i want? nice. it will be interesting to see what personalities come out of this one. haha.

i'm looking forward to dinner on sunday. we're up to 10 people yvonne! and it's not mostly girls! :)

ok, i have not much else to say except i need to cut my fingernails. they're a lil long. ROAR! =O

Squirted 9:34 AM by E-J Yi

dizzle my nizzle: i have been so dizzy all day. i almost lost my balance just walking down the hall. geez.

i have succumb to another one of these:


Take the 100 Acre Personality Quiz!

definitely true of me. :)

i'm feeling a lil better. got some sleep during lunch. zzzzz.

andrew said he fell asleep 2x during "lord of the rings 2". not a good sign. he thinks frodo & sam are gay. probably. just go watch, "drumline", andrew...that's your kind of movie, anyway.

yesterday, i read 174 pages of charles barkley's book. that's more than 1/2. and it's a BOOK. my first book that i've read since...since...i don't know. i never read a book during college. (textbooks don't count.) i'm so proud of myself. =) but at the same time, i probably made myself look like a really stoopid person. hey, i probably read more magazines that you & yo mamma combined. (except yvonne, of course!) i have a short-attention span when it comes to reading books. and they have to be wildly entertaining like this one has been.

me & julie ended up not going to lunch today b/c both me & sanya are sick. poor guy. he's such a nice man. =)

last night, i had a dream that i was practicing basketball shots. like shooting free throws & 3-ptrs. it was weird man! and i had like good form & stuff. makes me wanna actually try it and see if i really can do what i had dreamed. me & julie didn't watch the mavs game last night. it was a close one, but they won! :) we're gonna miss a good one tomorrow. well, maybe i'll watch while the orch dorks practice. haha. jk.

aite. only a few more house 'till i try fondue. hope it's good. (^.^)v

Squirted 3:09 PM by E-J Yi

father knows best: yesterday i went home early from work b/c i was just not feeling good at all. while i was leaving, i called my dad to tell him, but no answer. but when i got home, he called me back and here's how our convo went..

me: hello?
father: did you try to call me before?
me: yes. i wanted to let you know that i came home b/c i'm sick.
father: why? what's wrong with you?
me: i have a sore throat and i have mohm sahl (body aches).
father: so why did you call me?
me (puzzled): ...b/c..i thought you might call me at work or something, so i wanted to let you know...(i thought he would have cared)
father: you know WHAT? I KNEW IT. I KNEW THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN! SEE, IF YOU DON'T EAT RIGHT, EXERCISE, TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY THIS WOULD HAPPEN. I WAS EXPECTING THIS. I WAS EXPECTING THIS. YOU DON'T TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. WHAT DO YOU THINK OTHER PEOPLE WILL THINK? I WORKED AT AN AMERICAN COMPANY BEFORE (which was NEWS to me) AND I KNOW HOW THEY THINK. THEY THINK THAT YOU JUST LEAVE WHENEVER. THEY THINK YOU TAKE ADVANTAGE...
me: WHAT? i wasn't takin' advantage of anything! i haven't been feeling well and...
father: I DIDN'T SAY YOU DIDN'T TAKE ADVANTAGE. PEOPLE THERE WILL THINK THAT...
me: people THERE go home much more than you think. you don't know...
father: WHY DO YOU ALWAYS COMPARE YOURSELF TO THE BAD EXAMPLES? DON'T FOLLOW THE BAD EXAMPLES!
me: i wasn't! i was feeling horrible and...
FATHER: YOU ALWAYS COMPARE YOURSELF LOWER. HOW COME YOU NEVER COMPARE YOURSELF HIGHER...

by this time, i put the phone down and couldn't listen anymore. it was like i had gotten beat up and i got kicked in the stomach by that one skinny kid that doesn't know how to fight. yeah. we'll see what happens when he gets sick.

i was like freakin' weak yesterday. before the above happened, i went to the new kroger's near my house (which is really nice!) and got some soup and bread to eat. big mistake on the soup. i bought campbell's new england clam chowder soup. i didn't know you had to add milk. so i did. and it tasted too salty. so i added some water. and then it just got gross. ew. so i just ate some bread with rotel sauce (i wasn't hungry so i thought something spicy would spark up an appetite) and i watched a korean drama to make me feel better (by this time, my dad had called). i was so freakin' tired that i could hardly watched it and went upstairs to sleep. i slept for about 2 hours and even though i was butt-tired, i decided to stay awake to i could get plenty of sleep later. unfortunately, i didn't get dinner until 10pm that night b/c my mom had bought me some soup and i just laid in bed, hungry and tired. yeah, i could have probably gone out to get soup myself, but body was aching so bad that i couldn't. it was that bad. i finally got some soup and ate like 1/2 of it and went back upstairs to get away from my dad. when he's mad at one person, he gets mad at everybody. yeah, what a loving father.

i took a nyquill-wannabe and now i'm here back at work with a sore upper body and about to drop dead at any minute. but sure as heck beats being at home with my dad. he's there b/c he doesn't like to work. yeah, he's lazy.

and if you think i'm being a lil mean to my dad. well, you're wrong. dead wrong.

i'm supposed to go out to eat lunch & dinner today. i'm really not feeling up to it even though it's one of the things i enjoy. especially lunch today..i really feel like just taking a nap during lunch. dinner? i can probably handle. maybe. since i'm going to try to get a quick nap before i go. i don't care what he says.

btw, i sent a story to angry asian man.com and it got posted! it's the post from yesterday, 12.18.02. cool site.

i'm kinda mad now. >.< i should cool off some.

Squirted 9:21 AM by E-J Yi

grrrr: things that will piss me off.

*yesterday one of my co-workers called me julie. no, it was a different person this time. so i corrected her nicely. instead of saying, "i'm sorry" she says, "hey, atleast i got the j's right!" !@#%#^%$^&%

*if i have refused to play the flute for the Christmas program, JULIE, what makes you think that i'm going to play for something else? i told you 3x that i wouldn't play this saturday. what part of NO do you not understand? don't tie up my phone with your whiney voice. if i said no, then there's no ifs, ands, or buts, about it.

...

those things get me really, really mad. as you can tell.

on another note, the mavs won yesterday! yeah, got back revenge. it was an exciting game, wasn't it? =)

going back to sunday night, when we were saying "bye" to tae & jenny, julie started crying. and it got me to cry too. julie had her grieving period when they left back in may. me? i didn't cry much b/c i thought i was moving out there. so sunday, i felt like it really was my turn to cry. and i was so incredibly sad to know that i wouldn't see them for a while. in the car, me & julie were trying to talk about something else, but we kept getting all choked up. and NOW, i find out that the wons will be leaving sometime this march. this sucks incredibly. i really am not looking forward to that month. in april, they'll be headed off to russia. even though it will be for 2 years and there's a good possibility that they'll come back to dallas...it saddens me deeply that they will be out of our lives.

ok. i'm making myself depressed.

and i'm not feeling well right now. i have a sore throat and i'm freakin' tired. i feel blah. =P

Squirted 9:32 AM by E-J Yi

i maybe wrong, but i doubt it: that's the title of charles barkley's new book. he's so genius.

last night my family along with jimmy & susan went to the new korean restaurant in town, sura (translation: food for royals) infront of komart. it was really nice inside! like the restaurants you see in korean dramas. the food was good and the same price as the other korean restaurants. and it's open 24 hours! but the downside? bad service. we ordered 2 separate dishes of bulgogi and they gave it to us on one plate. what da heck is that? we were pissed. but since we're all nice people (haha), we forgave, but not really forget. hehe. but we'd probably go there again b/c it does taste good. i'm going there this friday for lunch with co-workers. :)

i'm eating out alot this week. tonight we're eating wings @ the wons (while watching the mavs game, of course). dunno about tomorrow, but if my parents aren't home, i usually bring something home to eat infront of the tv. thursday: lunch with a co-worker & julie. his name is sanya and he's super nice! he wanted to buy julie & me lunch for being nice! wow. thursday night, we're eating @ the melting pot with grace (and perhaps young). i've never had fondue and i'm looking forward to it. =) friday, lunch at sura's & probably eating out for dinner before Christmas program rehearsal. yipee~! i love eating out!

and now...for the moment you've all been waiting for: a recap of julie's meeting with the mavs!! wheeeeeeeee~~~

julie called ahead and found that there were people waiting in the store (pier 1 imports) from noon! so she heads over there and starts waiting in line from 12:50. they weren't supposed to get there until 3. crazyness, i know, but it's steve nash, dirk nowtizki, & eduardo najera! julie was about the 20th person in line. cindy came to keep her company and get a few pics herself. my sister brought my camcorder and was the only person to do so. oh well. who cares? :) anyways, julie had dirk's & steve's jerseys on hand to get autographed while she bought a calendar for eddie to sign. you could get 1 autograph from each player. nobody was saying anything to the players. only shoving their merchandise infront of them and walking to the next player. steve was first and...

julie: i am a big fan. i watch all your games.
steve: no way! are you serious? (we both think he was being a lil sarcastic, but in a nice way.)
julie: yes, i do!
all of a sudden, dirk butts in...(in his heavy german accent)
dirk: vat did she say?
steve: she said she watched all of our games!
dirk: i dohnt beeleeve it.

it was so cute! then julie moves to dirk...

julie: hi dirk.
dirk: hi, how are you?
julie: dirk, could you do me a favor? can you say, happy, er, merry Christmas to my friend grace?
then steve butts in...
steve: oOOoooh~! hay grace~!
dirk: shure. hey grraace. merr~y kuhrismas anda hava happy new year!
julie: thanks dirk!

next julie moves to one of her favorite players. eduardo...

julie: hi.
eduardo: how are you doing?
julie: good. you're one of my favorite players. (i think she should have said YOU'RE my favorite player.)
eduardo: oh really? thanks.
julie: thank you very much.
eduardo: you're welcome very much.

they were all very gracious and nice. steve was in a warm-up suit, dirk was wearing a dark green(?) sweater, and eduardo was wearing a white nike shirt. steve & dirk looked like they had just come from bball practice, but eduardo looked very clean. julie has been on cloud 9 ever since she met them. lucky. man, i miss out on chan ho park & the mavs. what next? oh yeah. nick carter... *sigh*

today i was hecka busy at work. i got handed an html project that was supposed to take 2 weeks. finished that in a couple of hours. then handed another project to be done before the end of the day. took me 15 minutes. now i am again left with nothing. *sigh*

ann wrote a nice entry about me. i love being silly around you, too! :) and i get to say things i can't say to anyone else. =X i like how we are both honest with each other about gross things. haha. we're both afraid of that "thing". lol! (ann, do you know what i'm talking about? ew.)

i'm going to be gross for a paragraph. (skip this if you get grossed out easily.) i have to go poo. it's so hard to go at work. i can't do it on my floor b/c everybody on this floor knows me. like me, not my smell or anything. so i have 3 options: 1) go on the 4th floor where there are 7 stalls as opposed to 3 on my floor. that way, if somebody did come in while i was doing my business, i can just wait until they leave. (and i've done that many times already. it's heck waiting so long!!) 2) go on the 1st floor. there's only 3 stalls there too, but less people use it. 3) hold it until i get home. this is the crappiest option b/c i hurt until i get home. ouchie. you know what really sucks? when i'm in the middle of going and then somebody else walks in and they start doing #2 also!! then it's a waiting game. do you hurry up (& don't finish) to leave before they see you? or do you wait until they finish and they have to hurry up? there has been one instance where i literally waited there for 10 minutes waiting for the other woman to leave. i was so mad. it's a very unsatisfactory feeling when you gotta just get up and leave when your job is not completed.

ok, those of you who didn't skip that paragraph probably wish they had. hehe. that thought kept bothering me so i had to write it down for myself. not for you guys. =)

alright. i probably did enough damage today. (^.^)v

Squirted 2:41 PM by E-J Yi

mffl!: mavs fan for life!

julie's sooooooo lucky. she just met eddie najera, dirk nowitzki, and steve nash. and got ALL their autographs!! and got them on camera! i'm sooo excited to see the tape~! =D

yesterday, after being HOUNDED about "what kind of guy i like", jenny unnie asked me, "then do you have an ideal type in mind?" i never could actually pinpoint it until last night...

my "ideal" man would be a combo of...the young adults guys!! why? (they're in no particular order and i am mentioning their strengths, but this does not mean that they lack any of the others' strengths. they all have the same attributes. just to a different degree. i hope i'm not offending them.)

sam: religious leadership. scholastic achievements. musical talents. my lifeline on "millionaire". quick wit. pun king.

tae: athletic ability. trash talking (& able to back it up). gets along well with anybody. nice dresser. lucky duck.

jimmy: gourmet chef. preparation king. unselfish generosity (unless when it comes to his food...get away! JUST KIDDING JIMMY!).

eddie: unimaginable amount of patience. athletic ability (well, back in the day). good at money management (lol!). scrabble king.

julie says this person doesn't exist. prolly not, but i love my "brothers" and they're all so special in their own way. (don't worry, i'm going to do an ode to my "sisters" soon...)

going to eat @ a new korean restaurant today. hope it's good. gonna jet. (^.^)v

Squirted 4:44 PM by E-J Yi

no comment(s): i took off my comments thingy. b/c out of the couple of months i've had it, i've only gotten 4 comments. but thanks to those who posted one to me.

here's how my weekend went:

friday: left work early (yay!) to take the pyuns to the airport. i was kinda nervous b/c i was driving the sienna and didn't have my sunglasses to block out the glaring 5 o'clock sun. afterwards, i headed over to church for our orchestra rehearsal. they sound hecka better than last year and we celebrated sam's bday (whoa, my pastor's only 33!).

saturday: drum lesson got cancelled. i picked up won to go watch "drumline", but then we went back to pick up ho and we headed to the theater. i think i was too excited about the movie that i couldn't enjoy it for what it was. like i was trying to memorize every single scene and song that i couldn't really sit back & relax it. don't get me wrong, it was an awesome movie and definitely will be part of my dvd library! :) of course, i'm going to watch it again. any takers? afterwards, we headed over to get ho's haircut and then went to oshman's so i could get steve nash's & dirk nowitzki's jerseys for julie today. she's going to go stand in line for their autographs. i hope she & cindy do a good job getting them on video. (is that weird? oh well.) then me & julie went to tae's graduation dinner @ snow mountain. the food's not as good as a long time ago, but it was good seeing tae & jenny again. (congrats dr. chang!) then me, julie, larry, and yong chan (NO IT WASN'T A DOUBLE DATE) went to fat straws and then headed back over (sans y.c.) to sam's place to watch the 4th quarter of the mavs game. (we won!)

sunday: church. i came home and watched a korean movie (translated: "if you know a good person, set me up with them"). it was about a dating service coordinator who falls in love with one of her clients. definitely like "the wedding planner" with j.lo. (btw, how did 'maid in manhattan' top the box office this weekend???) it wasn't that good, but it had its moments. then i headed over to chili's (yay!) to eat with tae, jenny, the wons, and yong chan. afterwards we went to yong chan's house to chill. we ended up watching 'austin power's goldmember'. the beginning was somewhat funny (my sister had hyped it up SO much that i expected MUCH, MUCH more laughter) and the rest of the movie was pretty boring. i dunno, i don't like those movies. the funniest line was, "i thought i smelled cabbage" (when michael caine saw verne troy trying to hold him up with a gun). btw, verne troy (or is it troyer?) is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO gross. period. we ended up leaving y.c.'s house around 12:45 last night against my will. his sister, kristine, was telling a story about some guy she liked, and when kristine tells a story...there's no ending in sight. i got out of that conversation within 5 minutes and pooped on the couch until she FINALLY finished her conversation after i went in 20 minutes before and she said, "only 5 more minutes!!" >.<

so i'm not doing so great this morning. no coffee is extremely difficult. atleast i've heard. *shrug*

back to 'drumline'. watch it. it's a pretty accurate portrayal of what band & drumline students have to go through. i hope that orchestra people get a new perspective (and perhaps, more respect) for what we go through. it made me feel kinda sad, but in a nostalgic (?) kind of way. if you want to watch it, call me. i'll be there. one band, one sound!

i'm looking forward to this weekend. i have dinner thursday night with young & grace, friday night orch rehearsal, saturday drum lesson, sunday pshs dinner, and monday mavs game. sounds fun, huh? jk.

i have to go to the mall today. (did that just come out of my mouf?) i need to buy some more shisheido liquid foundation. right now i'm wearing clinique and already my face if oily. man, clinique is...not. good.

ok. more news later. (^.^)v

Squirted 9:47 AM by E-J Yi