tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54242532011-04-22T11:21:19.988+08:00Not-so-daily rambings about my life and my thoughtsKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.comBlogger3281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1158659229734536012006-09-19T17:43:00.000+08:002006-09-19T17:47:09.750+08:00

I'm just not feeling the blog these days.You know it's bad when you bore yourself with what you think and what you want to say. In here I am only talking about wanting to move, having no money, wanting a boyfriend. But sadly, this is pretty much the extent of my life right now. Pretty sucky, huh?I actually was drifting around in my mind today thinking of my problem and decided that when I could

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1157270961996500302006-09-03T16:03:00.000+08:002006-09-03T16:21:27.843+08:00

Tomorrow is it!Will be adding it to the $94 HK (maybe $12) I have burning up my bank account now. Heh. How do I always wind up so pathetic at the end of the month?! With the payment should come a raise which was promised me. But you know what's happened before with new school years and salaries.I'm going to continue to send the same amount of money home. As tempting as it is to send THAT home

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1156613868599966932006-08-27T01:33:00.000+08:002006-08-27T09:26:50.080+08:00

Watched Rent tonight. Thankful for living alone as I had forgotten how soppy that movie makes me. Very cool they used most of the original cast members, though 9 years later. (I guess if you know your dream, you'd spend all that time anyways trying to fulfill it.) Spent all the time looking at the actress who was playing Joanne, knowing I knew her from somewhere, only to find out well after the

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1155972512142248392006-08-19T15:12:00.000+08:002006-08-19T15:28:32.156+08:00

Still am unsure how to proceed. Wonder if any amount of money would be ever enough to go to California (Car, decent housing, job, good social life). Wonder if I'm taking too easy a road by heading back to Boston. But then maybe going back there will let me enjoy it more. I can see myself comfortably going into the Middle East or The Paradise (if they are still there, that is) to check out a band

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1155653785460551352006-08-15T22:49:00.000+08:002006-08-15T22:56:25.476+08:00

I want to see a sequel to Castaway. We know the guy gets rescued, realizes life has gone on without him, and then is given a literal choice between which fork in the road to take. How does he acclimate himself to a world he left behind, something once so familiar to him, now like a foreign country? How does he get by with all the little things that must have lapsed while away, like his credit

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1155387500719543552006-08-12T20:22:00.000+08:002006-08-12T21:00:52.440+08:00

Yeah, yeah, don't read it if you want to see it.I'm not really sure what to write about a movie whose main premise is about a school shooting. I'm not even sure what to write about myself, who knew full well what the movie was about and decided to rent it anyways.The movie takes place in an unnamed Portland, Oregon high school, and while the location is different much of the film echoes the

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1155120376389481572006-08-09T18:35:00.000+08:002006-08-09T18:57:05.866+08:00

So today was the day I met the littlest children I'd be teaching this term, the 3 year olds of the NC class. In record time (maybe about just under five minutes) a little boy cried himself sick. It was a day where I seriously considered bringing in earmuffs for the next week.Still, there are some cute bright kids in the class. One girl took to me right away and we played a good game of throw and

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1154864359738366782006-08-06T19:25:00.000+08:002006-08-06T19:39:19.800+08:00

I saw the preview for this ages ago during Chinese New Year when I went to see The Lion, The Witch and the Wadrobe. Both my friend (who is a real Johnny Depp nut) and I were excited to see this movie.Flash forward about 6 months, where news of this movie destroying Superman's Return in America is making everyone sit up and take notice.I saw this movie, and I really wanted to like it. I like

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1154695558984925282006-08-04T20:31:00.000+08:002006-08-04T21:19:26.376+08:00

Never mind this is the country that eats fast food fish sandwiches or pasta for breakfast and thinks nothing of it. Never mind that the mini bus company sets up a day of protest for better wages by deciding to do revolutionary things like moving from a bus stop only when everyone is seated and obeying speed limits (shouldn't they do that already?) Never mind the never ending saga of my landlord

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1154268879306555282006-07-30T21:51:00.000+08:002006-07-30T22:14:39.386+08:00

So this is what I managed to do (and am planning to do) with (the remains of) My Summer Vacation:Taught a test prep class for first through sixth graders for two weeks. This is not the first time I have done this, and here is my consistent impression of the kids and the course: First graders should not take this course as it is waaaay over their heads. The fifth graders all know everything

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1154073173004419812006-07-28T15:46:00.000+08:002006-07-28T15:52:53.013+08:00

It's getting a bit boring around here, as I have decided to work and that means getting up at a regular work-hour time, and also my friends have pretty much all flown the coop for the holidays. I do get a few days off before work starts up again, so that'll be good. I'll have to see what I am able to do in between now and then. I doubt I'll go anywhere extensive. I hardly think I'll even go to

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1153475952977411002006-07-21T17:40:00.000+08:002006-07-22T00:13:45.636+08:00

It's my summer vacation now and I have nothing to do after three these days. So instead of fighting off a nap -- getting up for seven a.m. after 6 hours of interrupted sleep is nothing fun -- I decided Wednesday to see Superman Returns, after a month of hemming and hawing over whether I would actually spend the bucks to see it in the theater.Like everyone else my age, I grew up with the

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1153180419658595552006-07-18T07:35:00.000+08:002006-07-18T07:53:39.750+08:00

I don't remember if I ever mentioned this but ages ago I wrote my dad telling him I was feeling a bit homesick and how would he feel if I visited him during my April vacation. I don't know wat I was thinking, some ticker tape parade homecoming or something like that but I was really hurt when not only did he say no because he didn't have the room, but he completely shot down my idea of finding a

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1152441905838517652006-07-09T18:41:00.000+08:002006-07-09T18:45:05.863+08:00

Maybe the blogging bug has flown away from me. I have not much to say these days, and maybe it's the end of the school year, thinking of the end of my time here (yeah I know, already), the fact that a bunch of good friends are leaving here, but I am feeling quite uninspired in here, not really sure what to really write anymore.I took a music quiz which claims to draw parallels between the kind of

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1149466631663329072006-06-05T08:14:00.000+08:002006-06-05T08:17:11.673+08:00

So I'm nervous about driving when I get back to the States. But look at this!Ha! It looks like all around me were bad drivers too. Maybe in a newer (safer) environment, I'll feel better. Or maybe I'll drag California down the list. Ha!(By the way, I knew the answers for all the test questions they talk about in the article.)

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1149446371278300372006-06-05T02:34:00.000+08:002006-06-05T02:39:31.286+08:00

Probably as a result of:Sleeping until 230 p.m. today (Please remind me to never make that a habit.)Stupidly having a Diet Coke at around 7 p.m. because I was thirsty.Realizing that may not have been a smart idea, I boiled some tap water and now my stomach feels funny anyways.A small part of me is worrying about rejection. It's become now that everytime I meet someone cool, and think hey I'd like

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1149424971502638742006-06-04T20:35:00.000+08:002006-06-04T20:42:51.513+08:00

And now the lowlights from today!Woke up at about 815 this morning after discovering the text message on my phone to get some water. Was feeling pretty rough. Took some Advil and then promptly went back to bed...Where I then reawakened at about 230 p.m. Holy mother of God. Used my pain after sucking down more water and Advil to go to McDonalds for takeawayI had a double cheeseburger that tasted

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1149382375220587382006-06-04T08:36:00.000+08:002006-06-04T08:54:04.530+08:00

Highlights include:Being told I had to spend a minimum of $128 at this really swank place where a good friend of mine had his birthday...and then managing to pay only for one of them. (Hey I did offer money, but at this time in the month -- where my MSN ID is "Come On Payday! -- if my money is no good there, then...OK.)Having a yummy chocolate martini for the first time. (Which, yes, I did pay

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1149247494014302842006-06-02T19:22:00.000+08:002006-06-04T16:05:12.240+08:00

My computer just ate my love note to my new favorite band, New Order.So I’ll try to make this quick!I had a CD of theirs, called Substance for some time now, since the days I worked at Tower Records when I was in college. I hadn’t really played much of it though until I put it onto my iPod.Every time I hear one of their songs, I am blown away by the fact that they are a direct descendant of the

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1149169868877923642006-06-01T21:42:00.000+08:002006-06-01T21:51:08.916+08:00

Can you imagine how far gone I'd be if I were still on my Pacific Coffee cup a day thing?So I've been eating pasta for dinner for the past two days. Not so bad. Payday is Monday. I might have to go to the store tomorrow and buy some bread for some beans on toast action for dinner...but if I do that, why don't I just buy some cans of tuna anyways and make myself something I'm more likely to eat?

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1148636231864227222006-05-26T17:35:00.000+08:002006-05-26T21:31:07.133+08:00

(My Internet connection was much faster than expected! Less than three hours and done!)In the interest of anyone who wants to wait to see the finale for themselves, I'll just say that a) I think Desmond cleans up real nice (heh) and b) I really have no idea where the writers will be going at the start of Season Three but it should be cool to watch it all unfold.(Now I'm hearing that new episodes

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1148549689906400582006-05-25T17:32:00.000+08:002006-05-25T17:34:49.916+08:00

According to my faithful BitTorrent tracer, in no less than 223 hours will I have the latest, last episode of Lost until the next one starts up in I guess it'll be next February, if they are going along with the revised schedule. I hope it's a good one!*I know it'll be much shorter than that, but the time tracking always cracks me up on these things -- as if someone would keep their computer on

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1148291240709793212006-05-22T17:45:00.000+08:002006-05-22T19:51:21.966+08:00

I worked out today that I generally drink away about $100 USA a month on coffee. This doesn't include anything else I drink or eat. Oh my God. That's like almost one student loan payment. That's definitely more groceries. And as an afterthought, that is like 6 CDs a month!How the hell do I kick this habit?

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1148215278585678072006-05-21T20:21:00.000+08:002006-05-22T19:54:52.553+08:00

I found this on USA Today's entertainment blog called Pop Candy. It's a listing of videos from way back when MTV and VH1 actually played music videos, instead of making shows talking about them.I have been wasting tons of time on here dragging myself down memory lane. Some of the highlights include:"In a Big Country" by Big Country. I remember seeing this video when it first came out, and really

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1148107056404603342006-05-20T14:28:00.000+08:002006-05-20T14:37:36.413+08:00

It's been awhile since I've shared what's been on my Top 25 Most Played Songs on my iPod. That's because for awhile there really wasn't much changing. Since it's been a couple of months, though, I figured what the hell.You're The Reason I'm Leaving Franz FerdinandLithium NirvanaShady Lane PavementFree Fallin' Tom Petty & The HeartbreakersBeautiful Day U2Do You Want To Franz FerdinandI'm Your

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1147700920970682452006-05-15T21:36:00.000+08:002006-05-16T18:08:52.906+08:00

Ugh. Today is a day I could be playing "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" on repeat. I had a job interview. The man who interviewed me was really impressed with my background and how I seemed to know how to assess someone's English ability based on how they answered different kinds of questions. (Well, obviously "What's your name?" is so much different from "How can we achieve world peace?"

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1147170060793511642006-05-09T18:06:00.000+08:002006-05-09T18:26:54.876+08:00

I might be able to buy a car after all, if luck holds out. Look what I saw on the web:It may look like a roller skate, but it would be my roller skate!It looks cute. (Yeah, I know, what a girly thing to say! I have read online that they seem to be pretty safe cars. Not like Volvo safe or anything, but not SUV notorious either.) I think I could actually afford this one. Maybe. We'll just have to

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1147084444233475352006-05-08T18:23:00.000+08:002006-05-08T18:38:00.880+08:00

Sometimes I look at the housing for rent ads on some L.A.-based websites, and it sets me off into a panic when I consider that I will also need a car and a job basically to provide for it all. I think I will never have enough money. But yesterday I looked at some more sites and they seemed a bit more reasonable -- we'll have to see how the neighborhood is! -- but I feel a bit more optimistic

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1146963996980181012006-05-07T08:55:00.000+08:002006-05-07T17:19:09.006+08:00

*I've yet to see the 1996 David Cronenberg film...What is there to say about a movie that takes on a beast that lies within us all, prejudice and racism? This is a movie that asks us to look at whether there really is quite a difference between lynching a man and choosing to cross the street when you see someone who doesn't look like you come up in the path you're traveling.Every group is under

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1146911576040213742006-05-06T18:26:00.000+08:002006-05-06T18:32:56.050+08:00

Today is a day where I need to revel in my slugitude.Meh.I had to be up early today for a Parents' Day our school had. I talked to like three of them all day, but we all have to be there I guess as the Chinese teachers obviously have to be there.I am so tired. I hate feeling like this. And I already had one coffee today. I'm getting to old to be sucking down gallons of caffeine to keep me afloat,

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1146581546865932212006-05-02T22:46:00.000+08:002006-05-02T22:52:26.950+08:00

As you know, I am currently broke.And I will be broke until Thursday, sometime in the a.m.Unrelated to my brokitude, my water was shut off today because of some glitch with the landlord not paying the water bill. (I'm really not sure how this works, and damn me for not asking questions earlier, but I hand in money to the school, who, up until now, I believed mailed off a payment for my bills to

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1146312801271771952006-04-29T19:44:00.000+08:002006-04-29T20:13:21.353+08:00

I have no money right now. Seriously. I'm buying a pizza with a credit card! I never do that!Five days till pay day though, and a three day work week ahead. Not too shabby.On the plane ride home, I bought a book I thought I wouldn't like, called Prep, set in a fictional New England boarding school called Ault. I have to admit I thought it's be a tale about Muffy and Buffy and Chad, and I didn't

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1145666145427813182006-04-22T08:18:00.000+08:002006-04-22T08:35:45.440+08:00

It seems that the only obstacles I have had to surmount while here are those of the culinary variety. First as you know, my mind boggled over how a medium coffee could like like the large 20 ouncers back in Hong Kong. (The answer is that in Hong Kong a small coffee is 8 ounces, a medium is 12 ounces and a large is 16 ounces. Here it seems the smalls start at 12 ounces and go up so a large is 20

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1145481577954153242006-04-20T05:03:00.000+08:002006-04-20T05:19:38.043+08:00

Well.Ever the one who likes to see a happy ending, and as one who believes you can never plan too far in advance for that happy ending, I am currently looking at jobs and cars and houses on Craig's List just to see what sort of figures I'd be looking at when I come back here. Housing seems OK. A car (and in subconsciously keeping with the L.A. spirit of things, I inadvenrtently capitalized the c

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1145304102329285922006-04-18T03:50:00.000+08:002006-04-18T04:01:43.346+08:00

Well, being back here has proved easier than I thought it would be! The first time back and walking around the streets, I felt I was in a room with like hundreds of TVs on, all tuned to different channels. Everyone was talking, I could understand all of it. but I didn't know where to focus my attention. (Yes, I know the polite thing to do would be to not focus on anyone's conversation, but I

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1144594924311877442006-04-09T22:23:00.000+08:002006-04-09T23:02:04.383+08:00

Found through Ramble Strip:So. The meme. It asks questions, you put your media player on "shuffle" and let it answer the questions. No cheating. Sure, a lot of it won't make sense, but some of them are funny anyway.How does the world see you?The Refugee by U2 (that doesn't seem very nice...)Will I have a happy life?Hey Bulldog by The Beatles (Maybe I'll be a dog lady instead of a cat lady then...

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1144510018336666942006-04-08T23:22:00.000+08:002006-04-08T23:26:58.353+08:00

I am the champion, my fwend!Thank you, Chicken Little!The Sports Day I was dreading turned out to be actually kind of sort of cool. I was part of the winning team in the Student/Teacher/Parent relay race. We won these little medals that well, look like keychains tied to red, white and blue ribbons. I have never really won anything in my life, especially concerning anything athletic!I did not beat

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1144332559296318142006-04-06T22:02:00.000+08:002006-04-07T00:54:33.300+08:00

I saw this on popwatch.ew.com. Apparently some Asian guy (a man named Harraj Mann) got in trouble in London for playing "London Calling" with its lyrics of "war is declared and battle come down" while riding in a taxi cab headed to the airport.In this day and age, can't a classic song just be a classic song? What's going to happen to Elton John fans who love "Saturday Night's All Right For

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Well after all that, I forgot I have to be up for 8 a.m. Saturday for some stupid special event our school is putting on (or putting one over us, anyways!)Hello coffee.Meh.

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1144253500531704242006-04-06T00:06:00.000+08:002006-04-06T00:11:40.553+08:00

The weather is getting warmer and it is getting harder to sleep. Even though it might help me, I refuse to use my air conditioner now. It's not even mid April yet. (So much for spring, but this is Hong Kong!) I went for a really good (if not according to plan) hike today with some friends and by the time I got home around 6, I was really tired. I drank some Coke though and that also probably is

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1144076002957281762006-04-03T22:15:00.000+08:002006-04-03T23:02:19.896+08:00

I love having lots of fun stuff to do on the weekend. It definitely beats catching up on errands (you know, laundry, grocery shopping, etc.)So Saturday was my friend Sabrina's birthday. She partied hard. Hard hard hard. She almost knocked over a bar's table, she was having so much fun! She was an absolute terror on the dance floor! She was a good girl (I mean good birthday ho) who completed her

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1143862260036386292006-04-01T11:08:00.000+08:002006-04-01T11:31:00.076+08:00

Am I the only one on the face of the earth who did not know that Nike bought out Converse back around 2003? I knew of a story that said they were no longer going to be made in America, and took that to mean they would no longer be around in American shoe stores. So I was surprised to see them over in Korea and China, but I figured that "no longer made in America" meant the shoe factories were

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1143262187094514632006-03-25T12:42:00.000+08:002006-03-25T12:49:47.106+08:00

I seem to get these strange thoughts in my ead while I am on the treadmill. And not to sound like any one of those hidden Satanic messages were in my Judas Priest record people, I always seem to get them relating to the music I am listening to on my iPod.So last night I was out with a lot of my female coworkers (one of them decided to have a girls night at her house) and we got to talking about

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1143111070135406882006-03-23T18:40:00.000+08:002006-03-23T18:56:42.860+08:00

A friend of mine has her daughter coming to town; unfortunately she wants to take her and us to the exact same restaurant where I was harrassed by some Spanish guy who really wanted to dance with me and wouldn't take no for an answer.I think I'm going to have to sit this one out anyways, as a) I've never been a fan of salsa dancing, and b) even though I know chances are very slim that the same

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1142832574322050052006-03-20T12:58:00.000+08:002006-03-20T13:29:34.393+08:00

Saturday, I got a permanent crown placed on my tooth. The dentist told me the hard part was over and done with, so if I didn't feel I needed Novocaine, I didn't have to have it. Being a total baby when it comes to needles, I said OK to the offer.But something happened along the way, where I just felt not painful, but increasingly uncomfortable, so I somehow was able to stop the surgery and leave.

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My friends and I went to see Capote over the weekend. I have to say that I liked it, and I thought Philip Seymour Hoffman did a great job emulating Truman Capote, but in the end, I think Brokeback Mountain was still a better movie.One of the friends I went with saw Brokeback Mountain without me, and the next time I saw him, he couldn't go five minutes without barking out "I can't quit you!" in a

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MSN has an article about hangover cures and gets someone to try them out and rate each one.Mine isn't one the list. When I go out, if I drink a lot, before bed I get myself a large bottle of water and eat a chocolate bar and take a Panadol. That usually makes sure I am feeling semi-decent in the morning. Then to take the edge off it completely, I go to McDonald's for (what would be the only

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1142705708262256242006-03-19T02:09:00.000+08:002006-03-19T02:15:08.276+08:00

I haven't done this in a while but one of the pages that referred to my blog was a Yahoo search for "How to help tomboy girls dress."As someone who is too old to be a tomboy but is still heckled by her friends on occasion about the wonders of makeup and low cut tops, I think this person looking at my website has undeniably hit a dead end. Sorry I can't be of more help. Heh.Or I can take this time

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I know I have said in a number of previous posts there is a Wednesday Addams side to me, and because of that, yesterday while surfing around on the web, I came to a site called Dead or Alive, which is essentially a database that keeps track of famous and infamous people and whether they've shuffled off this mortal coil or not. Further piquing my morbid curiosity, I found there is a section for

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I had this very nice post about how I was feeling all set to post this morning, and then the damn Blogger server was flaking out, and I didn't even get a chance to save my post.So, in short, even though I love the kids I teach, and one was even nice enough to make a bracelet with my name on it for me, I am really starting to feel I better find some inspiration to last me through the next year and

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I'm Your Villain Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much BetterYou're The Reason I'm Leaving Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much BetterBeautiful Day U2 All That You Can't Leave BehindVertigo U2 How To Dismantle An Atomic BombDo You Want To Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much BetterRain on the Scarecrow John Mellencamp Words & Music: John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits Disc 1Check It Out

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Sorry for the delay in writing, for anyone who is actually keeping up with me. I was going through a rough patch and neither wanted to record the stuff that was going on or talk of anything else as a way to forget about it. I think I'm doing a bit better though now.I've started going to the gym again. This latest burst of physical activity was brought on less for feeling the need to be healthy

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I had to see what all the fuss was about Brokeback Mountain today. Apparently it's been banned in mainland China for its subject content and has been quite controversial anyways anywhere else, and what with all the Oscar talk about it, I had to see if this would be one of the greatest movies I have ever seen.It was pretty good. The scenery was beautiful. The story was compelling. Yet I and my

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The last couple days have been rough for me work-wise. For the first time in a very very long time, I got angry with my students and yelled at them to be quiet. I know it could have been worse, I could have said lots of bad things to them or thrown something, but I still feel bad for yelling, even though they are a really tough group to work with. (What does once a week for 20 minutes amount to

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I have reacquainted myself (re-addicted myself) with The Sims.In the latest installment I have been playing, I created a house of two hip sisters, Melinda and Samatha, a Libra and a Gemini. They enjoyed each other's company, had a great house and great jobs, but something was missing. There was a lack of eligible men in the general vicinity of Veronaville. So I created the Cavalleri brothers,

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It's probably not a good idea to order wine at a restaurant that will keep refilling your glass. Stick to bottled beer or even better, Sprite. Cause a half glass here and a half glass there, here a glass there a glass and all the time a glass glass (Hmmm..I wonder if Old McDonald ever had a hangover?) will most likely catch up to you by the end of the night, and you'll get to revisit the lovely

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Sure I geek hard, but you already knew that!In honor of my next holiday to California, and hopefully a possible permanent relocation there in 2007, I give you my Playlist a la SoCal*:Going Back To Cali LL Cool JCalifornia Phantom PlanetHotel California EaglesCalifornia Uber Alles Disposable Heroes of HiphoprisyFree Fallin' Tom Petty & The HeartbreakersMalibu HoleSanta Monica

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I sing a song to them to the tune of "Ten Little Indians" and one of my boys interjects with a sung "Chao siu bao" at the end. It's really hard for me to not crack up at a bit of random.I am doing math in my small group class and in a poor attempt to get my kids to settle down and not literally throw their books at me to correct them, I'm telling them they need to sit down and be quiet (not in an

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I think I just had one of the best Valentine's Days ever. I went to see Franz Ferdinand tonight. They were very loud, and while there were some people in the crowd really mixing it up and having a blast, from where we were there were too many people sitting down and not rocking out. I mean they might as well have gone to HMV, bought Franz Ferdinand's concert DVD (which came with a concert T-shirt

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"If there is someone who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your blog."From Discombobulated Mia

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I sent the letter to my dad today, so we'll just have to see what happens with it.I had a really nice talk with a friend of mine who was really supportive of the whole thing and listened to me when I told him about how sad I was when I got the letter from my dad and then helpfully told me of his mother who also has issues with other races. He even revealed to me that he had kind of thought that

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Not mine. My friend Mark's. We had a pretty good time, I think. At least I did. We started off at the Union Bar and Grill and I ate some pretty good ravioli, which was served with some dried onion strips on top. Since I planned to be not kissing anyone that evening, I ate them. It was a pretty different way to serve pasta, but definitely not too bad.My friend's boyfriend also asked me just "What

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And when I become rich and famous I'll send you a check.I really hate having to report my every move to someone and I hate how during work hours, if I need to buy something at a store for school, I am not allowed to do it. (I'm not talking about a coffee or lunch or a CD, I'm talking about school supplies or whatever.) I guess I figure I'm an adult and can handle the responsibility of resisting

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1139585883074366012006-02-10T23:32:00.000+08:002006-02-11T16:45:18.283+08:00

I think I am going to take Mandy's suggestion and write my dad a letter telling him to please not use the kind of language he had felt so free to use with me in the past. So we'll see what happens with that. Maybe I'll have some friends read it over or something, but I dont think I am saying anything too hurtful to him anyways.What'll happen is I'll probably get another letter where he calls me

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1139374607817974362006-02-08T12:39:00.000+08:002006-02-08T12:57:17.596+08:00

I received a letter today that helped me narrow down my vacation plans.It was from my dad telling me that coming to see him in April would not be good for him. Work is so slow, he is going to have to sell off his motorcycle to make the property taxes due. He said he couldn't help me at all with airfare, which I wasn't really considering at this point. It'd have been nice, but I was mainly relying

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1139311155297114412006-02-07T19:16:00.000+08:002006-02-07T19:19:15.310+08:00

I had my Chicken Tonight tonight with rice. And while the rice could have been boiled a wee bit longer and the sauce might have been in the pan a tad too long, the chicken was well done. As in good, not black. As the first meal I made for myself in ages can be pronounced much more than simply edible, I look at this as a success!

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From As The Law Books Close, the new and no-need-to-be-improved version:Four jobs I’ve had in my life1. Music store clerk2. Editorial Assistant3. Middle School teacher4. Kindergarten teacherFour movies I can watch over and over1. School of Rock2. The Breakfast Club3. Legally Blonde4. Toy StoryFour places I have lived1. Massachusetts2. Washington D.C.3. South Korea4. Hong KongFour TV shows I love

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Much like every other hobby I have had in my life, this will be over soon, but I have recently discovered this room I have in my house called a kitchen and these things in my kitchen called pots and pans, and I have decided to attempt cooking.Nothing too elaborate, though. Not yet anyways. I'm trying to build up to that point. I saw this really good chocolate chip cookie recipe that has oatmeal

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I borrowed a friend's Oprah magazine (shut up!) and in it was an article about how single women need to stop asking themselves "Why am I still single, what's wrong with me?" because those sort of questions lead to panic which leads to a guy who you don't really want to be with.So what happens when you are sure of the kind of guy you want to be with but he is unavailable, either cause he is with

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Even if we got paid a week early due to the Chinese New Year holiday, I feel lucky enough to have saved close to $400 US between the two paychecks. I'm not sure if it is only because we got paid about 8 days earlier than normal, or if I have stopped spending a lot of money on my morning coffee, but in any case I feel good I am able to send more money than usual home this month. Now, on what shall

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I am lucky enough to recoup some of the money spent on the return flight of an open round trip ticket to Korea from Hong Kong. Now the question is, with whatever money amount I get, where should I go in May? I'm thinking of going home, but home for me can mean many different things:Boston: Stay in a hostel and reacquaint myself with the old neighborhood.Manchester NH: close to Boston, home to my

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And then after watching the first episode of My Name Is Earl (again thank you LimeWire), I felt considerably better. Gotta love Jason Lee, even if he is portraying a doofy redneck who takes what Carson Daly has to say as gospel.

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I can't quite put my finger on it, but I've been feeling a bit blue now. Maybe it has to do with feeling invisible to everyone half the time (I swear there are times when I feel like I must be a ghost and be the only one who doesn't know, but I haven't befriended any children who see dead people yet) maybe once again I'm stretching myself too far to accomodate everyone else, but I hope it goes

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After months of trying, I finally managed to find a download of the first episode of the second season of Lost that worked. And all I have to say about it (never mind that no one is going to get spoiled here!) is that man, Jack's wig really looked awful.

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So, I just dropped a large amount of money for a concert.But I am going with some good friends and it should be a good show.We're in Row L. L for Loser, you Left it too Late.

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Would you do it????A) Is the Pope Catholic?/Does Eddie Vedder smoke pot?B) I would but I better be in a spot where I can tell what the drummer's eye color is!C) No, but I'd use most of that money to drink away the thought that I waited too damn long to buy a cheapish ticket in the first place!

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It's Sunday. My roommate is moving to Shenzhen tomorrow, I guess. We had a really big noght out last night where all her friends and some of a friend's friends went out and we just got trashed. I am feeling really rough right now and we promised each other we would clean up the house before she goes. I'm running on slow and cleaning the bathroom right now (I'm waiting for things to dry in there

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I hate how I have to get up and work a full day tomorrow (Saturday).I hate how I have no discipline with anything I really like. I hate how my iPod's headphones may be broken and there is all this buzzing and scratching noises in my right ear whenever I play music.I hate feeling disconnected from most everyone I am in contact with and wonder how much of that is my fault.I hate how some people

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I am really happy right now. I got from my uncle about $150 Hong Kong as a Christmas present. I was thinking of what CD I wanted to buy, as I really could only buy one with that amount of money. It was a hard decision: Do I buy something I know and love, something comfortable, or do I try my luck and buy something that I may like, but I may not. Something that may be like the best thing I have

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I've had dreams this weekend where I meet one of my students about 10 or 15 years down the line. He's only grown maybe about a foot and a half more, has exactly the same face and has some sort of beard-like thing stuck to his chin. (My subconscious is lazy and wants to do the Mr. Potato Head type thing, I guess.) I meet him in something that looks like the Getty Center in Malibu (complete with

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I got my hair dyed last night. Well, I shouldn't say I got it dyed, as I did it myself. It's now a dark red color, though on the Feria box it says "Pure Spice Power Light Intense Red." I'm happy with it, but today I found one of the girls who goes to my school is not. She came up to me this morning, and I bent down to say hello, and she started playing with my hair. "Wow! Red!" she says. "Do you

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I just got back last night and then stayed up until three in the morning doing something I swore would wait until my next vacation. I have all these CDs (well, only nine)of stuff I downloaded off Limewire. So I spent a good long time putting all of that onto my iPod. I'm not quite done yet; I want to know which albums these songs came off of, just to make it a bit more categorized. All this was

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I hope this headache I'm having is cause I drank 2 Bacardi Breezers and 2 Heinekens, and has nothing to do with this sore throat that seems to be developing, but if not, it looks like I will be bringing back (along with everything else) some kind of cold with me to Hong Kong.

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I'm actually enjoying myself here, and what with the losing track of time, I've just surprised myself as I remembed that I basically only have the tail end of today, tomorrow and the next day before I have to fly back to Hong Kong and start working again. I guess that'll be good as shortly thereafter, I will be receiving what's becoming a sorely needed paycheck. (Damn DVDs!)Today I decided as

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No matter what, I think I am always going to have those well-meaning friends who want me to change my haircut (even though I already did) want me to wear a new shade of eyeshadow (even though they won't do it themselves) or somehow think of some way to vastly improve me, like wearing some lip gloss is the only thing that stands between me and a line of guys falling at my feet and I am wasting an

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After I bought them and put them into my bag of course.I just went crazy buying DVDs and perfume. And incense sets. And also a tablecloth thingy that the lady insists I could wear as a sarong. Sarong sounds a bit too much like "So wrong" here so I think it'll go on top of my table when I get home. I also in a weird case of there's nothing left for me to read, picked up a cheap copy of Thomas

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I hate how on vacation you lose track of time so easily. I wonder what it'd be like to be on a deserted island for a good stretch of time, how long would it take before all the days ran together with only periods of darkness in between.Anyways yesterday was really good. I broke down and bought Spin and another copy of Mojo. Mojo I bought for the "free" Punk Music CD. (That's a good gimmick for

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Am enjoying myself here for the next few days. Haven't taken any pictures yet but everything's been going well. Got a really nice though a bit odd massage yesterday evening (where after I felt a bit like a pretzel!) and have been enjoying the company of two good close friends of mine. There's a book shop here with a lot of music magazines I have not read in ages (Spin, Rolling Stone, AP) and

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Twice now, I have been told I had to amend a lesson I was going to give to my students because it was too dangerous. One being making a suncatcher using a hot iron to melt crayon shavings between wax paper, I can now understand, even if I was absolutely going to be the only one to use and touch the iron. Another time, I was told that my studemts could not try eating raw vegetables, they had to be

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In three days time at this time, I will be on my way to the airport, to take a nice vacation with some good friends in Thailand!

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Songs 11 through 25:Country House Blur -- "He lives in a house! A very big house in the countraaaaaaay! Watching afternoon repeats and the food he eats in the countraaaaaaaaaaay!" I love how Damon Albarn sings this. And the horns! But what does "jackanory" mean?Charmless Man Blur -- Another one with fun senseless lyrics to sing: "Na na na na na na na na na! Na na na na na na na na na!" In a

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1134818627670436472005-12-17T17:35:00.000+08:002005-12-18T17:23:24.826+08:00

Maybe I will make this a monthly feature of my blog. Ha, saying that makes it sound like I have a huge readership that would come to expect this sort of post on a monthly basis!Lithium Nirvana -- I hear this song and all I can think of is Krist Novoselic, in the moment, throwing his bass guitar in the air and unsuccessfully trying to catch it. Had he been trying to catch it with his head, then

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So an interesting thing happened to me a few days ago: a combination of this post and this post, and now I am gurgling in my obnoxiousness, trying to reel it all in before my friends declare I have provided them with too much information.My perceptions may have changed, as the last time any thing like this happened, my perception was soured the next morning by the news of my ultra-socially

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Katharine HepburnYou scored 21% grit, 42% wit, 38% flair, and 11% class! You are the fabulously quirky and independent woman of character. You go your own way, follow your own drummer, take your own lead. You stand head and shoulders next to your partner, but you are perfectly willing and able to stand alone. Others might be more classically beautiful or conventionally woman-like, but you

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Some wit and wisdom from Mitch Hedberg for you to enjoy.Some of my favorites:I have an oscillating fan at home; it looks like it's saying 'Noo...' so I like to ask it questions that a fan would say 'no' to. "Do you keep my hair in place? Do you keep my documents in order? Do you have three settings? Liar! My fan lied to me! Now I will pull the pin up. Now you ain't sayin' shit! I was in downtown

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1133687798696108212005-12-04T17:11:00.000+08:002005-12-04T17:21:40.393+08:00

I forget where I stumbled upon this....oh yeah. http://popwatch.ew.com. This is a series of bad movies but pretty funny movies called "Yacht Rock." I guess yacht rock is for those rich people in the 1980s who liked to sail on yachts and try their hardest to look like Don Johnson.What I love about these vidoes is the fact that none of these guys are really even trying to look like Hall and Oates

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OK, enough snarking. I don't want to bog my blog (heh) down with worrying about crap. So, I am going to instead focus on how yesterday, during the day, our school had its picnic and I had a really great time hanging out with my students and their parents. With the parents there, it was a great opportunity to just play with the kids and be silly with them and enjoy the science exhibits (nerd!)

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I am so sick of being the girl that no one wants to kiss, the invisible girl. I don't want to pull in a bar but I really don't want to own 63 cats by the time I am 45. I know this is the wrong thing to say, but I can't even...win. I can't attract anyone to me it seems and I'm hopeless when it comes to talking to guys in a way that would say, hey, I'm interested in more than your sense of pop

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OK, so no one in any kind of band is within my proximity....The show in and of itself was really good. There were 6 bands in the competition: The Ocean band from Singapore, Sunflower Day Camp from The Philippines, Qiu Hong from Hong Kong, Something to Burn from the States, The Twitch from New Zealand, and Town Hall Steps from Australia.I had heard that Sunflower Day Camp was a ska outfit and that

Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08524742438651698158noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424253.post-1133064171070003852005-11-27T11:59:00.000+08:002005-11-27T12:03:33.680+08:00

Now, if I blogged more often, it'd have been more fitting to write an entry as to how excited I am about going to this show, and then recapping it after the fact. But I didn't. SO long story short, I saw there was going to be an international Battle of the Bands thing going down in Tsim Sha Tsui last night, I was excited to go, I got three of my friends to join me and we all had a really good

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