Archive for June, 2006

120 minutes

June 30, 2006 at 4:22 pm · Filed under Me

Before it was what stock prices to buy at and hedge funds that are sinking. Now it’s how can we help get the forgetfully flaky knitting bitches to come to starbucks and stop wasting my cellphone minutes.  What a weird world this is?! 

OK, I need to keep in mind that nothing is done out of pure altruism. Every brilliant tech product came from a problem and solution that some technology-driven person had. Sometimes the most selfish acts can benefit the masses for sure! To all the NYU 2004 SPRING MSCS CORE exam takers, you know what I’m talking about! We all passed! *clapping for everyone*

I miss my buddies…

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Duct Tape Bra

June 26, 2006 at 12:06 pm · Filed under Fashion

I’ve googled, yahoo answered, and combed the web for how-tos on making your own duct tape bra and it had been a failing venture until I found LYCOS!  I was searching under the G-rated "breast duct tape bra" on google and no luck. When forwarded to Lycos it changed my search content to the PG-rated phrase "how to tape breasts for cleavage" – it was GREAT! I stopped getting ads for NuBra (which is good but I need more), and started to get pages about the transgender community and their breast enhancement woes and DIYs! LOVED and DELICIOUS-ed it!

I mean honestly google, with all that information you still can’t READ MY MIND?

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NYC PANGS

June 20, 2006 at 10:38 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Call me a f-ing princess, but when I call the hair salon it’s because I am looking really f-ing ugly and my roots have grown out way longer than 2 inches and I would like an appointment NOW NOW NOW. I don’t care if the cut costs 120$ (thank you Sam Wong – I MISS U, and still can’t believe you left NYC for Washington DC) and it takes 1.5 hrs, I just want it.

I’m in SV now and finally got the courage to move on a call a salon (it’s a complement, not bad press) in the SF area (ranked 9.9 on citysearch) and this place makes me wait 3 weeks!!!!!! My appointment is July 5th!?  WTF am I going to look like on July 4th!? SH1T, that’s what I’m going to look like.  Life is SO HARD. Woe-is-f’n-me… seriously, i’m CRYING.

If I were in NYC, I’d get a cut, color and perm whenever! Me and Jun (please visit Jun’s Salon on the famous Mott street NYC, Chinatown – you will not, i REPEAT NOT REGRET IT. tell her Anya sent u) have been friends for 5+ years and I trust her 110%.

If there is anything I can’t stand is not looking my best when stepping out of the door. I’ve been wearing shorts (and not so flattering ones) and ugly amorphous t-shirts for 4 days straight; noone gives a shit and I wasn’t giving a shit either till the REJECTION of hair-love hit me over the adams-apple this morning – slapping me into the suburbian death trap i’m in right now.

DEATH TRAP!!!!!!!!!!!

Even my realestate agent hates me. :(

Please the God(s) of Luck shine down on me some because I’m going to the darkside soon!

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Ki-momo-vement

June 14, 2006 at 10:01 pm · Filed under Poetry

10,7,6
Haiku – Israel style

Mis-named "Rapping Rabbi" he is so
Famous for his ska music and
So cute with a beaner

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California

June 14, 2006 at 9:48 pm · Filed under Poetry

5,7,5
Season – this was in the WINTER obivously. Which winter? The winter that had 45 consecutive days of rain within the last decade. Answer is on the bottom of the page if you haven’t figured it out.

Came into raining
Left friends, family and work
To be with my love

2006

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Agnes B.

June 14, 2006 at 9:41 pm · Filed under Poetry

Haiku: 5,7,5 and about seasons. Dude, Labor Day is the beginning of the fall season! Anyone with fashion sense would know that.

White shoes on hold now
Get it before Labor Day
I run to SF
On a Saturday
To see if white low heels are
Still mine to purchase

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Babies!

June 14, 2006 at 2:05 pm · Filed under People

My friend Josh and his lovely wife Yuko just had a beautiful baby girl (that’s the proud gramma in the picture)! Congrats to them and a big WELCOME to their new hybrid, Kairi!

I’ve mentioned this to my darling couple times now. I said, "I’m not really jonesing for a baby or anything, but the thought of decreasing elasticity of my skin plus the stretching of the pregnancy at an older age makes me sick. I think we should optimize the cost of child-birth by factoring in all the extra anti-stretch mark creams and procedures need at a later age!"

I’d better start moisturizing immediately. Damn this dry CA weather!

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Damn cold!

June 13, 2006 at 3:21 pm · Filed under Travel

Carmel, the beautiful town by the sea coast of California. Every (ok, most) website out there about Carmel scatters pictures of sunny coastlines and beaches, sun and surf. We stayed at the Highlands Inn for 3 out of the 6 days booked. "Why?" you ask after clicking on the Highland Inn link provided. "It seems so beautiful!" you say. "You could horseback ride on the beach, swim, shop, get spa appointments, look out into the ocean for hours and hours!". 

Someone forgot to tell us that 1. the Highlands were built in the 1920’s and the walls are PAPER THIN 2. every other store sells bad replicas of Thomas Kinkade paintings 3.spa appointments are done IN YOUR ROOM (does that remind anyone else of "happy endings"?) 4. it was 60 degrees with no sun and a tad bit too cold for skinny dipping in the ocean 5. I saw 5 horses total in a 20 mile radius.

So we did as much as we could within constraints and even had time to visit the Monterey Aquarium, all in 3 days. IMHO, it wasn’t a bad place – we just went there at a bad time. If the weather were sunny and in th 80’s I’m pretty sure that it would have been much easier paying 500$ a night for that place.

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Battlestar Galactica

June 12, 2006 at 1:18 pm · Filed under Television

So our friend Steven lent us his copy of season one and two of the series Battlestar Galactica and so far it’s been very enjoyable. It would definitely not be categorized as an action series, but more of a psychological thriller.  There are aliens, female heroines, and sometimes fancy space fights.

Then, after coming back from another failed vacation, I realized with fresh eyes that it is just another rehash mission story of the spread of religion!  The aliens or Cylons have an identifiable Christian-Judeo like religion and the humans have Roman polytheism. So who’s the "bad" guy now!? Ok, this isn’t a new idea but I’ve only seen the first 7 episodes.

At anyrate for me there’s no religion in violence, and I agree with my teacher and friend Dr. Sanes that "they are all thugs". I’ll just watch the series knowing that they are both "bad" guys and enjoy the slaughter!

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To Shiv

June 5, 2006 at 3:17 pm · Filed under People

Dear Shiv,

Incase Izi hasn’t already told you so…

I have entered into a world where white/cream pants are natural.  I’ve already purchased 3 pale colored pants (two of which were on sale) in the 1.5 months that it hasn’t been raining here: one-cream that is a blend of silk and cotton and is lined and drapes neatly for work, two-cream that is 100% cotton for early supper events, and three-white linen pants that is just aching to get dirty from the sands of the ocean.  Ok, I admit that the environment here is generally cleaner, the public transportation is non-existant so you’re in your clean car going everywhere, people here are careful about personal space and don’t walk and bump into (normally), and there are usually washers and dryers per apartment or house.

It is a strange new world out here. There are minuses and then there are pluses. I hope all is well.

xxoxoxo
anja

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