f.r.i.d.a.y: the friday five...and more!

1. Name one song you hate to admit you like.

*celine dion - to love you more: this song is so great!! the violin in the background is soooo beautiful. lovely, just lovely.

2. Name two songs that always make you cry.

*s.e.s - tell me: it's such a sad song. and bada sings it so beautifully. so quietly. =***)
*steven curtis chapman - i will be here: it's hanna's favorite song. and it reminds me of her so i get really sad when i hear it. i haven't been able to listen to it all the way yet.

3. Name three songs that turn you on. turns me on???

how about i change it to 3 songs that get my booty shakin'?

*p.diddy & busta rhymes - pass the courvoisier: especially at the recent mtv awards!
*justin timberlake - like i love you: yeah, i know, i know. but it's b/c of n.e.r.d, not b/c of "j.timberlake"
*dr. dre & 2pac - california love: you can't beat this combo.

4. Name four songs that always make you feel good.

*vanilla ice - ice ice baby: it ALWAYS brings a smile to my face. and you gotta listen through the whole thing!
*plus one - written on my heart: sounds like a Christian backstreet boys song. i love it!
*backstreet boys - i want it way: the song. the video. :)
*boa - jewel song such a pretty song.

5. Name five songs you couldn't ever do without: EXTREMELY hard!!

*backstreet boys - drowning: if i HAD to pick just one...
*park jung hyun & im jae bum - sah rang boh dah ki peun sang chuh: just one of those beautiful, gut-wrenching love ballads
*finkl - young won: also a lovely ballad that i never have gotten tired of.
*will get back to you on this:
*will get back to you on this:

tonight's movie night @ Church. then it's the mavs game. ANOTHER must-win. i wonder if they'll pull it off.

btw, this past wednesday was "free scoop of ice cream" @ baskin-robbins. sorry i forgot to tell you guys! (i remembered on my way home.) well, i got there (i didn't know what time it was) and was looking at the flavors. everybody who worked there was chinese. not that it really mattered. well, i told the ice-cream teenager (who looked like he'd rather stick needles in his eye rather than scooping ice cream) and he was just about to give me my ice cream, when the other lady RANG me up on the cash register. "$1.89", she said. i looked at her with wide eyes. O_O "it's not free?", i asked. "you have to wait 6 minutes." she replied. i quickly turned around and got into a quickly forming line. dang woman! trying to get $1.89 out of me. she never made eye contact with me after that.

ann's coming home this weekend! hopefully i'll get to see her. :)

alright. i'm making like bread truck and hauling buns...

song of the day: jaley - yuhjas (ladies) <--new korean-american singer. pretty good song. will post up song link later. (^.^)v

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i give in: ok, i didn't write before b/c i was all mad about the mavericks' performance last night, but i don't care right now. i'm too tired...

i saw this guy driving a CONVERTIBLE bug. that's freakin' gay man. and he's wearing round black sunglasses?!?! doode, that's so outdated.

dang i'm very tired. i watched the mavs game and then felt even more sick as i saw a mighty duck score. omg. it's over for the stars. nearly impossible for them to win 3 in a row. mavs? it's going to probably go to 7. horrible. steve nash, imo, isn't getting any. that's why he's always short on his shots. he said he's not tired so that's the only thing i can think of. btw, julie's making her own dallas mavericks shirt. i will post up graphics of it later on. it's funny.

whoa, tj ford is going to the nba? sorry, texas. no final 4 trip next year. what a loss for UT today.

referring to my best friend ann's xanga entry (link to the left), i agree: i don't like it when guys treat me nicely or well. it, well to put it honestly, it grosses me out. i know that's bad, but i don't like it when guys treat their girls like princesses. those girls tend to become b's and then the guy ends up wondering what happened. of course, i don't want a guy to beat me or anything, but i guess that typical korean male, how he acts all tough infront of his friends, but totally sweet when nobody's looking, is what some girls like. when i mean "tough", i mean acting like a guy. watches sports, cracks jokes, carries a good conversation is cool. i am definitely not talking about the "tough" those wannabe asian gangstas try to pull off. so high-school-ish. none of those muscle tees (or indigo button-downs for that matter!) with wide, baggy black dress pants. that look is totally over with. and smoking is a turn-off, too. anyways, i agree, girls are fickle. there is 1 person for you, i totally believe that and that's what God said. so yeah, to those guys who are actually super-nice, even tho you won't be with me (lol, i sound like a b), you'll find someone that matches you perfectly. i know this much is true. as for me...i'll probably be an old maid (if not already) till i find that "special someone".

*sigh*

dang, today was one of THE longest days at work. and now, freakin', it's raining, i have no umbrella. and we have a tornado watch until 8. i'm deathly afraid of tornadoes. i've never actually been through one so i guess i won't know how scary it can be until i experience it. >.<

tomorrow's friday!!! yay!!!

song of the day: se7en ...

ERRRP! hold on, wait a minute! my boss just calls me talking with a whole bunch of food in her mouth. that's just rude and gross!!!

AHHHHHHHH~!

song of the day: se7en - baby i like you like that. (^.^)v

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if i feel like writing more later, i will. but how can freakin' mavs AND stars lose?!?! both had MUST wins last night!! >.<

this sux.

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office space: this is possibly one of the funniest movies ever. i think i need to buy it or i'll go crazy here. i've been pissed off about 3 times this morning...

this morning these 2 guys (visitors) come to my desk and one of them goes...

stupid visitor: WHERE'S MIKE.
me: [puzzled look on my face b/c there's 2 michael's that work in my dept] mike?
stupid visitor: WHERE'S MIKE NEAR?! YOU KNOW ENVIROMENTAL GUY.
me: [i was pissed but held it in] uh, mike doesn't work in this department. this is the IT dept.
stupid visitor: I DIDN'T ASK FOR WHAT DEPARTMENT. I WAS ASKING FOR MIKE NEAR!
me: [flabbergasted] uh, i don't know where he works...

and the stupid visitor just walks off. WHAT A BASTARD JERK!!! i was mad! it was like at 8:30 this morning too. >O so i thought i'd never see him again, but a few minutes later stupid visitor walks in with the "supposed" mike near...

stupid visitor: hey, HERE'S MIKE NEAR! THIS IS MIKE NEAR!
me: [i FREAKIN' GLARED AT HIM] o.k.

and i just turned quickly back to my computer screen. doode and then...

stupid coworker: do you know where g----------- (my boss)?
me: no, she's out today.
stupid coworker: well, i put my expense report under her door. can anybody else get it?
me: [if she put it under the door, then NOBODY can get to it, but i tried to be patient] no, only she or bruce can sign it, but b------ is out, too...
stupid coworker: so you can't get to it?
me: i can't sign it, only g------- or b-------- can.
stupid coworker: cuz i put it under her door and...
me: yeah, i can't sign it. DOODE, IS SHE STUPID?!?!?!
stupid coworker: oh, so you can't sign it?
me: no.

OH MY FREAKIN' GOODNESS?!?! she's the coworker who can't take "no" for an answer. she asks me the same questions over & over again. geez louise. and THEN...

stupid caller: is k------- there? is he dead or something?
me: uh, no he's not.
stupid caller: well, i've been trying to leave voicemails all morning. have you even seen him this morning?
me: no, i haven't.
stupid caller: did he get fired? maybe they didn't tell you!
me: no, he didn't.
stupid caller: ok, then just put me in his voicemail.
me: ...[thinking of "accidently" disconnecting his line]

what's wrong with people these days? this is another reason why i want to leave this stinkin' place.

i have gone to the bathroom this morning around 10 freakin' times!!! i don't know what's wrong with me! i have seriously gone about every 20 minutes. i wish i could just sit on the toilet and just wait there until i have to go again. it's driving me crazy.

several pictures updated in my foto album. check out "hanuri", "april mavericks games" and "austin in april". dang, i want a digital camera really bad. it would be glued to my hand if i had one. seriously. right now the one i want is $329, 3.2 mp, sony. all good. hmmm...

mavericks vs blazers tonight. mavs WILL win. no question. bring on the queens!

i re-subscribed to InStyle the other day. first of all, i didn't like how they were reminding me to renew. they sent messages like if i didn't renew, it would endanger my account and cause, perhaps, "never be able to subscribe to InStyle again". WHAT DA FREAK? YOU DON'T WANT MY BUSINESS OR SOMETHING? ridiculous! and to make matters worse, to renew your subscription, old subscribers have to pay $.60 MORE PER ISSUE than new subscribers!! what's up with that? so i re-subscribed using julie's name. HAHA! I BEAT THEIR STUPID SYSTEM! punks. i also subscribed to SLAM nba magazine. good mag. check it out.

last night we watched the rangers vs. blue jays. it was a fun game. omg, a-rod is so freakin' hot. very handsome!



yesterday i found josh's page. freakin' hilarious. only white guy, or any other guy for that matter, who can rap bone thugs 'n harmony perfectly. *warning: lots of vulgar language* =X

THIS IS FREAKIN' HILARIOUS!! omg, lol. that's just sad.

dang, i'm hungry. and it's going to rain scary tonight. atleast i have my tv.

song of the day: seven - come back to me (^.^)v

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big eyes, big feet, big stomach: i'm getting BIG...

dang i'm hungry. so this is *probably* going to be short.

last night i had a BLAST!! with young, grace, and julie @ cheesecake factory. guess who we saw before we sat down to our table? jenni fan, the dallas mavericks dancer. me & grace tried not to stare at her, but i wanted to see her up close. shorter than i thought with a makeup caked up to the WAZOO. in hindsight, i should have said something to her. ya know, tell her that i recognized her from school, who's her favorite player, etc. i'm pretty sure she knows who i am, maybe not my name b/c we (us band/drumline people) did alot of stuff with the planoettes. gosh darn it! so anyways, we had a great meal. i ordered their cheese pizza which was really good, grace ordered like this crusted chicken, but they thought the sauce was too "porky" (i thought "bacon-y"), young ordered (in my opinion) the best dish, miso salmon, and julie ordered, something, not-so-good. some baked salmon that had too many herbs, but not enough flavor. we had so many funny stories and laughs that i had to wipe away my tears. some topic reminders for my memory: camels, the herbs from julie's dish, outback salad, stalkers, freaky japanese girls, (which led to the topic of) porn, park chan ho, "showy" waitress, dallas sports, nba-loving girls (that would be us), web surfing, wings ("WHAT." - grace), winking, plane rides to korea, swollen feet, jenni fan, and of course, our beloved dallas mavericks. the sad thing about all this was...i actually GOT swollen feet when i got home. we sat at our table from 6:45 to 10:45. not kidding. now they're back to normal (thank goodness), but i was like freakin' out b/c it made my feet look fat.



isn't that a cute picture of nellie & shaq? i wish nellie was my grandpa.

seems that there's a new asian-american magazine for women. it's called audrey. when you see it, it looks just like InStyle for Asian women. it needs some work done on it, but it looks somewhat promising.

ok, it's time for me to fill up my buddha bell-ay!

song of the day: eminem - sing for the moment (^.^)v

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up and down, up and down: that annoying diva song. i knew they wouldn't last.

friday's down: went to my 2nd ever funeral. it was hard to get through. extremely sad even tho i only knew him when i was a little girl. i had tears welling up in my eyes, but i didn't want to cry so much so i stopped myself. i don't like crying so i just kept it in. the sermon was hard to take in and i wanted to cover my ears from understanding what my pastor was saying. i kinda wished at that point that i didn't understand korean. anyways, so that was really hard and i thought about how difficult it will be to actually lose someone that i am close and love. =***(

friday's up: went to the pyuns' to watch the mavs game and as usual, dirk delivers. it was a fun game to watch. the funniest part was the reaction dirk had after he got a 3-pt play. cracked me and eddie up. dirk can look so dorky even if he is one of the best.





aren't best friends the best? steve would take dirk out when it was dirk's rookie year in the u.s. otherwise, dirk would have spent his time alone in a hotel room. awwwww~!!

saturday's down: missed out on watching our Church beat the biggest, baddest Korean churches in dallas for the 1st place prize at the annual soccer tournament. i'm sooooooooo pissed that i didn't get to see the exciting overtime-penalty-kicks-we-won-after-the-5th-kick-everybody-screaming-and-grown-men-crying celebrations!!! @%^%#^ not really sure what the tears were for...not like we won world cup, but i guess to ah juh shis (older korean men), it might as well been the 2002 world cup. to clarify WHY this is a big deal: my Church should have been in the "small Church" bracket, but the guy who scored the game-winning last penalty kick submitted us in the "BIG Church" category. so we were up against Churchs with more than 300 people in their congregation while we can barely get 100. it was like david vs. goliath. haha!! (wait, maybe this should go under "UP".) then had a talk with dad in the evening. didn't change my mind one bit. after that, i read a book compiled by steven's friends. it was a collection of stories and pictures recalling fond memories of him. i was getting teary-eyed reading throughout, but lost it when i read his fiancee's letter on the last page. it was a touching and painfully sad letter. not sure if i read the whole thing b/c of the blurryness in my eyes. T.T

saturday's up: saw "the real cancun" with julie and young. [in hindsight, i could have seen this some other time and gone to the soccer game, but oh well, i can't change the past.] anyways, the movie was funny and eye-opening to someone who has never been to cancun, much less a spring break attraction with thousands of drunk teens and college students. it was crazy. i cannot believe some of the things girls did with other girls, and of course, other guys while (probably) drunk. i can't imagine anybody doing those things while drunk, too!! >.< i should point out that there were no asians and a handful of minorities (blacks & hispanics). mostly white boys and girls running around doing the immoral thing. the movie is parents' worst nightmare come true. sad thing about us watching this? there were 5 people in the whole theater, including us. lol.

sunday's down: mavericks lost. me & julie didn't even watch the ending. the refs didn't call anything for the mavs in the 3rd quarter, but then again, the mavs didn't do anything on offense. finley wasn't into any rhythm while nash was SCORELESS.



horrible. dirk did his thing, but when it came apparent that he couldn't carry the team out of a 20pt hole, nellie just had him sit down. i know we'll win on wednesday. i hope we blow them out. on a different note, this girl who i ordered a korean drama from sends me the wrong translation. argh. so annoying. i have to email her back to send it to me in korean. not viet or whatever it was.

sunday's up: dad spent most of the day at the store so us ladies stayed home happily enjoying the freedom of watching whatever we want, whenever we want. but i started to feel sorry for him when it turned 9 and he still hadn't come home yet. i think he got home around 11, but i was already "asleep". i started watching a drama called "twenty years old" which is totally cute and funny!! i love it so far. it cracked me up alot and even made me cry. doubt it will be sold on dvd, but if so, i'd probably buy it.

another nba note: i like this stephon marbury. he's so excited and enthusiastic about his team in the playoffs. he cried when they got the 8th spot. he celebrated with a HUGE smile when he banked in a 3pter to win the first game.



and he does this poop squat when they won again last night. his expressions put a smile on my face. i hope they take out the spurs, but i doubt it.

back in the day: did you ever have a crush on somebody you rarely, or maybe never talked to? i did. ;) his name is eric. in high school, i barely talked to him even tho i sat near him in bio. he's one of those white boy crushes that asian girls have. haha. looks like a blonde tom cruise. well, maybe he doesn't really look like him, but he has that charm that cruise has. anyways, eric ends up going to smu and we end up having alot of classes together. granted, i didn't still have a crush on him or anything, but i found myself looking around before class started to see if he came to class (he hardly ever missed), who he sat with, his friends, those skanks, er, girls who tried to flirt with him, and other stuff. (ok, i think you're going, "joyce=stalker". i call it "observant". and grace will agree that the one chubby blonde who was stuck like glue to him WAS annoying.) of course, we talked here and there, but probably the longest conversation we had was when we were both waiting on talking to a teacher. probably lasted about 30 minutes or so. ahh, things that will never be. haha.

dinner with grace and young tonight!! i'm very excited. should be lots o'laughs. :D

**MAN CARD ALERT**: saw 2 guys driving beetles this weekend. to make it worse, one was LIME GREEN and the other EGGPLANT PURPLE!!!!!

song of the day: hard to say goodbye (to yesterday) - boyz II men

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