last night some of us went out to this bar/club that totally wasn't my scene. there were s'posed to be some pistons/lakers players there, and since S's old high school friend is part-owner, we went. rasheed wallace was there, and some of the lakers too. separately, of course. i don't know who they were, but they sure were tall!
anyway, there was a guy several booths down from us in the VIP in a dark suit and sunglasses. he didn't really stand out in height, but given his outfit, i figured i was s'posed to recognize him? of course i didn't, since i don't follow sports at all, and i couldn't care less about any of the players. all i could think about was why he was wearing dark sunglasses in an already dark club.
apparently he was braylon edwards. that name only sorta rang a bell, but when S's friend introduced us to him, oh my god you should've seen S's face. she was sooo starstruck, if you can count a football player as a star. in the picture w/ him, her smile took up her entire face. and afterwards she kept going, "oh my god that was so hot. wasn't that hot!" she totally cracks me up.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
i've had a $50 itunes gift certificate since christmas, but i don't know what to do w/ it. see, the thing is, itunes is very very proprietary. the only thing you can use it w/ is ipod, and the only way to get music onto an ipod is through itunes.
for those who don't know, the format of the songs isn't mp3. it's mp4. so before, all my songs were mp3s, but in order for the ipod to play them, itunes automatically saved copies of them as mp4s. (it's really annoying b/c it means my songs take up twice as much space.)
but anyway, i've been downloading mp3s online for free, but b/c i got the gift certificate, i bought a song from itunes. and of course, it saved as an mp4 file. so now my ipod can play it... but i don't have it as an mp3! if, or rather, when, i graduate from the ipod, i won't have a computer-friendly copy of the song, unless i now go and download it separately. and double downloading is obviously a waste of time.
is there a way to get around this? it's really irritating me.
Friday, January 13, 2006
i asked G to be a bridesmaid, and she accepted. actually, that's an understatement. her voice went up 1-2 octaves and she started talking really fast. i couldn't even understand her; i just started cracking up.
apparently in an email last month i mentioned bouncing ideas off the interns, and then i didn't ask her to be in the wedding, so she assumed that i wasn't going to. she thought maybe it was b/c she's not in MI and wouldn't be around as much. she told her sister, "i don't think i'm going to be in shirley's wedding. she didn't ask me! i guess the next one i'll be in will be yours." she was all bummed, and her sister gave her a weird look as if to say, what's WRONG w/ you? haha.
yeah, what's wrong w/ her? no j/k. but of course i'd ask her! she's one of my oldest friends, and definitely my oldest girlfriend. gopooh and i just haven't gotten around to asking our attendants yet. G and I played phone tag all week so i figured i might as well ask her since i had her on the phone. she is sooo excited. she loves planning events, and although she's been a bridesmaid before, she's never been one for a close friend. she's already given me a cute idea for a favor, and she said she's going to flip through wedding magazines. my gosh i should totally hire her to be my wedding planner! ;)
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
i don't understand the controversy over memoirs of a geisha. i know some japanese were upset that big chinese stars were cast, and some chinese were upset that these actresses 'betrayed their background' and played japanese women. is it really that big of a deal? the author was a white guy to begin w/! given that they didn't make it subtitled, does it matter who the actors are? americans fake british accents and vice versa, black ppl are cast as white characters on broadway, and the woman who played waverly in the joy luck club was japanese.
ok, i admit, i like zhang ziyi. she's asian, and i think she's pretty! and not slutty or in-your-face the way many american actresses are.
seriously though, we couldn't even tell who was chinese and who was japanese, unless we knew them. since we couldn't sniff out all the chinese in the movie, and we're asian, at least 90% of non-asians probably couldn't either.
aside from that, i still don't think it matters. it's just a MOVIE. it wasn't meant to highlight discrimination between asians. it was meant to be entertaining. and it was. the only thing that sucked was that it sold out sunday and we had to sit in the front row. ugh. gopooh hesitated b/c of the chinese/japanese thing but even he had to admit that it was better than his choice munich. i swear, we always like my movie choices better than his. :p i totally want to read the book now!
Thursday, January 05, 2006
when i graduated from college my parents gave me some money for me to learn how to play the stock market. they repeatedly said it was ok if i lost it all b/c i was just starting out, but i was still timid. i left the money in my etrade account, untouched, and then finally purchased only 30 shares of my stock of choice. but pretty soon i got bolder, buying 200 shares at a time.
i even dipped into a penny stock after some nudging from my ex-bf. that particular stock plummeted almost immediately after i bought my shares. i was sooo bummed, but i didn't sell it. the money's gone; there's no point in salvaging it. ironically, since we broke up it's more than doubled (tripled?) my original purchase price.
i still have shares not only in that penny stock, but also in most of the other stocks purchased during that time. why? b/c as life got busier, i stopped logging into etrade to nitpick at my holdings. in fact i almost forgot to change my address on etrade when i moved. basically, i let my stocks go. luckily my money didn't crash and burn.
but now, i want to start up again. i want new stocks, but at the same time i don't want to part w/ my current ones; they've done decently over the last few years despite my not checking in. i listen to gopooh talk about his stocks, and i want to participate too! so i dug up my old username and password, looked at old etrade statements, and i'm ready to play. again.