blogging from my new ibook!!!!

did anyone else see that MTV show "once upon a prom"? RJ, there is a filipina on there who looks EXACTLY LIKE YOU! i tried to find a picture, but couldn't. just try to see it.

welcome back to sf
where each day is exactly like the last.

Today: Sunny. Patchy morning coastal low clouds and fog. Highs in the 60s along the coast to mid-80s inland. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Friday night: Clear. Patchy late night coastal low clouds and fog. Lows in the mid-40s to mid-50s. West winds 10 to 20 mph, becoming 5 to 10 mph after midnight.

Saturday: Sunny. Patchy morning coastal low clouds and fog. Highs in the 60s along the coast to mid-80s inland. West winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Saturday night: Clear. Patchy late night coastal low clouds and fog. Lows in the mid-40s to mid-50s. West winds 10 to 20 mph.

Sunday: Sunny. Patchy morning coastal low clouds and fog. Highs in the 60s along the coast to lower 80s inland. Sunday night: Mostly clear. Patchy late night coastal low clouds and fog. Lows in the mid-40s to mid-50s.

new favorite thing about the office
a little plastic box next to the sugar packets for coffee where you're supposed to recycle the sugar packets after you've used them. oh you crazy hippies!

heart attack of the day
i almost broke the copy machine on my 2nd day of work doing the only thing i've been assigned thus far. luckily, armed with a letter opener and my skinny fingers, i fished out the offending piece of paper before anyone noticed.

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my favorite part of the office so far: the shower in the faux-italian-villa-walled (complete with faux cracks in the orange walls) bathroom.

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overheard conversation by two co-workers yesterday:

her: "oh my god, i have to bring you to this great vietnamese place around the corner. it has the best pho [pronounced like 'foh']."
him: "man, i don't like vietnamese food. it's got too many tendons."

two big things going on in sf right now related to the apa community:

- a 49ers in-house video features a bucktoothed caricature of a Chinese man

- Japantown community outraged over plan to build a Starbucks there

someone's finally calling american apparel out on their objectification bullshit!

email subject from steve:

tootoo too tooo tooo too dadadadda

the "saving face" post
OK, the "saving face" hype has to stop RIGHT NOW. the movie sucks. all of it. the plot, the acting, and the filmmaking. i guess it's decent for a first-time filmmaker, but this movie isn't breaking any rules or pushing any envelopes. if you want to see a well-made film about gay asian americans living with the stigma of LGBTS in the apa community, see "the wedding banquet" instead.

pics from the graduation boat cruise

also, i bought a fast pass today! i haven't bought one of them since i was in middle school. and it was only $45! and i can use it on bart! i love the bay.

internship: day one
9 AM: i have to be in the office by 10 am. my mom's warnings echo in my ears: "DON'T BE LATE ON YOUR FIRST DAY!" since i'm taking the bus downtown, and i'm driving to the bus stop on san bruno, i leave about 45 minutes to get there.
9:15: i hop into my car, a little behind schedule, but i can make up the time.
9:16: my ole reliable civic makes a grinding noise when i turn the key. it's a pathetic little whirr that sounds far away. nothing happens.
9:17-9:20: more whirring, and i start to sweat and curse.
9:21: "motherfucker!" i scream at the car, and run down my hill, and the next EIGHT blocks to the bus station. in my business-casual-first-day-of-work outfit. luckily i was wearing flats.
10:00 sharp: i get to the building on market street right on time, thank the lord. hmm, that's strange, the entire front of the building is covered in scaffolding. i check the letter i got about the internship once more, and, yep, i'm in the right place. well i guess they're doing some renovating. i go up to the sixth floor, where i see the magazine's sign. but the entire office is dead silent and empty - no furniture, only walls and carpet, and a hefty construction worker looking at me strangely. man, i guess they are more low-budget than i thought. i briefly consider that the staff are pushed away into the back somewhere, but then i realize, no, it's not here. i call the number on the letterhead, and hold myself back from screaming at the receptionist, "WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GUYS????" she says they're at sutter street, and the intern meeting has already started. i run the three blocks to the office, and arrive 10 minutes late, waving the letterhead with the old address at the intern coordinator.

the day couldn't have gotten any worse, and thank god, it didn't. the other three interns are nice. most of the people on staff are from berkeley's j-school, or are about to go there. the office is really big and nice, and everyone seems decently good-natured and relaxed. i already got my first assignment: photocopying.

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all hail audiobooks!

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from the onion:

Entire Napoleon Dynamite Plot Pieced Together Through Friends'
Quotes
AUSTIN, TX—Although he has never seen the 2004 indie hit Napoleon
Dynamite, Michael Osman, 23, has cobbled together its entire plot
via his friends' endless quoting of the film. "Well, Napoleon's
brother said, 'Don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with
babes all day,' and then got a visit from his Internet girlfriend,"
Osman said. "Then Napoleon told his Uncle Rico that he could make
120 bucks 'in like five seconds,' and went to work on a chicken
farm. Then Napoleon gave Trisha a drawing, said, 'It took me like
three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip,' and asked her
to the dance." Osman added that he has a pretty good idea what a
liger looks like.

bye new york!

graduation pics!
full album here

here is me getting my diploma! (my sister says i look like a ghost)



minnie and bethany at the ceremony



steve with his fifth plate of food at the reception


laurie pigs out, too



champagne makes me happy...


but too much gouda makes me crazy!



can't...



stop...


eating!


me and steve in front of the journalism school


minnie, me, bethany



me and mom



me and frootz



the whole family (mom's still eating)



steve strikes a pose with his tote



my sister was obsessed with steve's tote bag (see mother grabbing her son away from scary tote-toting man!)



and his butt



she stalked him down the block (she was pretty drunk)



me and my XXX-rated softshell crab

IS WAYNE BRADY GONNA HAVE TO CHOKE A BITCH?
last night's menu at cafe 3B in greenpoint:

guest list: min-nayyy, dianne the crazy kitten lady, sharon the rhinestoning wonder, steve "tfa overtime crusader" chung, bethany

appetizer: wine (riesling), cheese (blue), cookies (samoas)

main dish: chicken curry with vegetables over sticky rice

dessert: cookie dough ice cream and brownies

entertainment: michel gondry videos and chappelle show season two (the wayne brady sketch is HILLAHHRIOUS - as chappelle's son would say in reference to nick cannon)

re: star wars - my favorite was darth chocolate.

i tried to like it. i forced myself to absorb slate's idiot's guide to star wars, and so i even understood what was going on. but it was just uninteresting. i wasn't even impressed by the special effects or whatever. i think dave sums it up best with his metaphor about a disappointed woman.

"konnichiwa, bitches!"
chappelle show season two!!!

also, does everyone know that he has an asian wife?

i graduated last wednesday, fyi! pics to come.

on friday i went to chelsea market, where i had yummy good thai food. highly recommend it, although it is out of the way. that's also where the food network offices are and emeril's show is taped there, AND i saw the host of double dare standing around. i also went to PS 1, which is a modern art museum in brooklyn that is in a converted primary school building. some of the art is pretty rad, some of it is not. after that, i went to see kings and queen at lincoln center. it was really good - hard to categorize and describe. you just have to see it, i guess. steve and i had overpriced burritos in the LES and then went home and watched 28 days later on dvd (it was great!).

temporary obsession: the da vinci code, illustrated version (i know, i finally succumbed to the da vinci hype)

saturday steve and i walked around union square area for a long ass time then made meatballs and spaghetti and bbq chicken pizza (frozen) at home. macabasco's meatballs strike again! around midnight we headed out to happy ending with bethany for a birthday party. happy ending is a bar in chinatown that is housed in a former massage parlor ("happy ending, get it?" - steve). the storefront is the same as when it was a "health club", and the tiled sauna rooms downstairs are still in tact. i liked that place, the crowd was really mixed. the music kind of sucked (who plays "we will rock you?"), but there were some hottie dudes of all races. uh huh!

i'm getting pretty down about leaving nyc in a little bit over a week, but i'm trying to console myself by saying that i will definitely come back in the future. i'm really gonna miss this place, as much as i hate it sometimes. :((((((((((

i am leaving new york may 31, and starting at MJ june 1. see you all in the bay!

hello world! mgotbot made me go out with the j-schoolers and now here i am. yay! where is my spam?

watching britney and kevin's reality show makes me
-nauseated because of all the close-ups and shaky camera action
-want to rip my eyes out of their sockets
-think britney acts like a 13-year-old girl
-wish i were watching 'newlyweds' instead because jessica simpson is way less annoying and almost endearing by contrast

baghdad by the bay

check out this site that tranposes a map of bombings in baghdad over a map of san francisco ("baghdad by the bay"). click on "baghdad san francisco" on the map, then click on san francisco after the next map pops up. pretty interesting. here is more info:

Paula Levine's Baghdad <> San Francisco imagines the effects upon San Francisco, had the bombs which fell on Baghdad been destined rather for the American city. The project references GPS technology, physical spaces, associated histories and the Web.

A mapping of the first US attack on Baghdad, in March 2003, is superimposed upon San Francisco. The sound heard is from the same event. The longitude and latitude of each bombsite in SF is marked using a GPS device, the same technology used to target site in the Iraki town. These sites are mapped, chronicled and documented with photograph of what's currently at these locations.

Caches are also placed at each GPS location containing project information and the names of US soldiers who died in the war since May 1, 2003, the date President Bush declared: "Major combat operations in Baghdad have ended."

Baghdad <> San Francisco is the first project of the Shadows From Another Place series of hypothetical mappings which use GPS to imagine the impact of cultural and political changes that take place in one location upon another.

Part of the HTMLles festival in Montreal, May 18-21.