What have I been up to lately? « lao_ocean

You made it...
Well, she was a Laotian-American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin' that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to

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(Since 20-Dec-04)

Fave flowesr: Plumeria and Jasmine

Birthday: DEC 31^st
Location: Kangneung, South Korea
Homestate: Oregon. UofO alum
Job: Teaching English in Korea
Super Powers: Super delayed reaction time, perceiving the obvious, & hyper-indifference
Watching: CSI, Gilmore Girls, Cold Case, Lost, Veronica Mars, Arrested Development, Joan of Arcadia, Simpsons, The Daily Show
Fixated on: downloading TV shows, organizing my photos
Want to touch: Old people skin. Oooohh, so soft!
Currently annoyed with: not taking over the world due to my laziness
Looking forward to: Travelling after leaving Korea

Sing like no one can hear
Dance like no one can see
Love like you've never been hurt
Live like it's heaven on earth

Let's set it straight - Is the country Laos or Lao?
Here's the answer

This week...
Things that make me happy

Flying out to Panama on Monday, Jan 31st!
not working all week
sleeping in
discovering the world of webcams w/ audio

Movies I've seen this month

13 Going On 30
21 Grams
Garden State
Meet The Fockers
The Forgotten
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
The Aviator
Hotel Rwanda
The Notebook
The Village

What they're saying about me

"She's a nut! Not too sure how else to describe an "at-first-glance" seemingly quiet girl who dances like a chicken when she thinks no one else is looking, who likes to pass off her "made up" answer for fact, until you look at her and see her hopelessly trying not to crack a smile, who WITHOUT FAIL remembers to put a line of dental floss in her purse before she goes out (and isn't afraid to use it after dinner, thankfully NOT at the table!!). I can always count on her to know the hottest hollywood gossip, and to dance till all hours of the morning with me."

"My co-worker just told me that there was a premiere for Bridget Jones 2 last night, just blocks from my work, and we missed it! Hugh Grant, my beloved and the framework upon which my future husband is based, was just blocks away, breathing the same oxygen, and I missed it! If I had a friend here who was as savvy with E-news as you are, this catastrophe would never have occurred!"

Guess what I heard...

Oh my god!! This donut is so good! - Ras about a Krispy Kreme donut

Just because I've been drinking doesn't mean I can't start shit. - Tom B.

You know what they say, if your burps smell like shit? You've been eating shit. - Melvin

"I want to do! But what is paintball? There is no such word in dictionary." - Suwa, Japanese teacher

"I am now skipping church to see if I am going to win my bids!!!" "YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA.....I won the felt tip pens!!!!!!!! Yippeee...."who let the dogs out...arf, arf, arf, arf"...."let me hear you say Y..M..C..A"....oh yah, who's your daddy!!!" - Renee

"I was sitting in my office the other day and I suddenly got this horrible wrenching pain in my ankle. It really felt like I got a type two sprain just from sitting there. The strangest thing. Too bad cause I saw that Richard Gere movie and I got some Swayzerific moves." - I asked Tom R. if he was going to dance this weekend.

Other favorite quotes:

A gift is an offering. A selfless act that adds something to someone's life. Something that they need.

Have you ever walked by something and you just had this feeling that someone you knew would absolutely love it?

Faith is believing when there is no rational reason to believe.

Homer: "We Americans are England's children... I know we don't call as much as we should, or aren't as well behaved as our goody two shoes brother, Canada... who I should mention has never had a girlfriend... I'm just sayin'..."

Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life, and love should not be one of them.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

When your heart speaks, take good notes.

Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Sometimes to see the light, you have to risk the dark.

What have I been up to lately?

1/26/2005

Well, it's been 2� days of just hanging out. I haven't accoplished too much, but here's what I have done.

Slept in every day.
Watched movies on... (gasp!) TV! I've see Gattaca and The Caveman's Valentine, coincidentally both produced by Danny DeVito.
Downloaded The Motorcycle Diaries, but can't watch that because I don't have the subtitles. Doh!
I'll watch Finding Neverland and Million Dollar Baby tonight.
Trying to eat only the food in my cupboard. Therefore, my diet has consisted of pickles, ramen, pasta with 4 cheese sauce, Jelly Bellys, eggs, crackers and hot chocolate.
Did laundry and packed away my clothes. I need to pick up my dry cleaning today, too.

Went and got a new international bank card from Chohung Bank. As you can see, I got it personalized.

Sold my cell phone to Reardon. Hahaha, sucka! Little does he know that he has to hold down the number 7 key to be able to hear people when they talk.

Bought my mom some metal shopsticks, per her request. 1000 won for a pair, NICE-UUH!

Saw this downtown...

"I'd like a large, double shot vanilla latte, with a... muffin? No. A cookie? Nah. Oh, I got it. I'd like some boiled fish paste on a stick, please!"

Posted at: 1:32:00 pm

lao_ocean
January 27, 2005 11:45 AM PST

I like odang, but it's definitely not the same when you eat it at home. Huddling outside in the cold with others at a food cart and sharing saliva with strangers through the soy sauce bowl creates an "ambiance" you can't get at home.
John
January 27, 2005 06:17 AM PST

When I was a kid in Korea, I used to eat Odang (fish past in a stick) from local hole in a wall shop dipped in common soy sauce that has been double-triple dipped from everyone in town :-P I didn�t know better at that time, so all I remember is how good it tasted ;-) Maybe it added to the taste, since they don�t� seem to taste the same anymore ;-P
eye4dahawaiianguy
January 26, 2005 10:16 PM PST

hahaha!!! reardon always get the jacked-up phone...will he ever learn?