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Monday, September 25, 2006


i've been reading i know this much is true by wally lamb, and i really like it! i first heard about it back in june, when i saw one of the OB nurses totally engrossed in it. every free second she had, she picked it up. so naturally i picked up the hardcover, read the description, and skimmed a few paragraphs... and decided it sounded interesting.

i read mostly in july, none in august, and a tiny bit in september, but now i've been starting up again. i still have 200 pages out of 900 left. but i love it. it's written from the perspective of this man who has a paranoid schizophrenic for an identical twin. i think the author did a really good job of researching and then portraying mental illness.

i read through some user reviews on amazon, and one reviewer wrote that the book was very unrealistic, b/c the twin brother acted as if he weren't being treated at all, when he was s'posedly tried on all these different medications. i read that to gopooh and J, whose husband is in psychiatry at umich, and we all said the same thing. it's the reviewer who doesn't know what the hell he/she is talking about, b/c y'know what? that's pretty much how the disease works.

anyway, i've already started looking for a new book to read. this one happens to be part of oprah's book club (whatever that means), but the other ones on the list don't really appeal to me. i s'pose i still have time to find a new book, given the amount of time it takes me to finish each one. yes i know, i'm a slow reader. not physically... but i don't spend much time reading. there are just so many other things to do. :p






Thursday, September 21, 2006


everyone on the service this month watches grey's anatomy except J. and we were just talking today about how we were looking forward to the season premier tonight. but i just ended up disappointed. i mean, the suspicious plague? puh-leeze. it was so out there. and what about the hands through the glass? was that s'posed to be touching? b/c it came out just plain cheesy. i could buy it if it were 2 ppl who loved each other, but it was 2 strangers. the show's usually been good about drawing out drama, but man. i was really let down. towards the end i almost fell asleep. boo.





Sunday, September 17, 2006


i go to the mall fairly regularly, maybe once or twice a month? but lately the only stuff i've bought was shower gel from bath & body works. (i totally LOVE their mango mandarin.) i don't know what the problem is, but recently i've tried on clothes in store after store and have always come out empty handed. even when we were in chicago and went shopping for a few hours... T ended up buying a crapload of cheap clothes, and i bought nothing. it's infuriating, actually.

but this weekend we went shopping and i actually bought stuff! only 2 shirts and 2 pants from banana republic, but still. sometimes i wonder if it's b/c my shopping mentality hasn't adjusted w/ inflation. i mean, i very rarely buy clothes for full price. expensive shoes? guilty. purses? guilty. formal dresses? guilty. but not shirts or pants. i'm just not ready to pay >$100 for a pair of pants, and i also refuse to buy myself expensive jewelry. but it seems like the cost of clothes is going up. waaay up. it's hard to find clothes that are on sale and fit, so when i do, it's like the best news in the world. :)






Saturday, September 09, 2006


so T and i have a wedding website, w/ our own domain. he saw godaddy on a superbowl commercial! it cost us $45 for a year, which isn't too bad compared to actual wedding sites. the only downside is that we had to do our own html. (actually that's what i thought at the time, but after perusing the site more, it seems like there are several programs available.)

it's been fun, actually. i used to have a webpage in college that i updated pretty frequently. at least a couple times i've gotten into these modes where i'd be crazy about redesigning until i got it just right. ever since then i haven't had available space. until now, that is. but doing this again makes me remember how much fun it is. but frustrating too, b/c i don't remember how to do things like add a guestbook. :(

J asked me if we were planning on keeping the site after our 12 months were up. and i just don't know. it's a wedding website, but it could easily be converted to smthg different. but i just don't know what we'd put on it after we post our professional wedding pictures? heh.






Monday, September 04, 2006


most asians can't tell i'm taiwanese by looking at me, and i can't tell when someone else is taiwanese either. i can only tell they aren't chinese. other than that, i'm generally pretty good at picking out chinese and koreans. it's harder if they were born here though. i know genetically it shouldn't make a difference, but it's gotta have smthg to do w/ mannerisms, b/c when my brother and i were in taiwan, these white missionaries came right up to us and started speaking to us in english. it wasn't b/c they heard us talking, either, b/c we weren't saying anything! that, and i always felt like ppl were staring at us.

and expecting gopooh to know who's taiwanese is crazy, since he can't even tell when someone's korean. the other night we were at this japanese restaurant and i pointed to a couple and said, "they're korean." he was like "no..." but they walked by, and the girl was talking, and then he was like, "ok yeah, they're korean." haha.

but anyway, i had a patient who, after asking if i was born here, asked, "where are your parents from? taiwan?" i almost fell out of my chair. (not literally, but you know what i mean.) mostly ppl think i'm mixed, or chinese, or korean. never in my life has anyone gotten that right on the first shot! he said he'd visited taiwan before and knew what taiwanese ppl looked like. huh.