Flagpole Fails: "If I Were A Boy"

I should really stop posting, as my current posts not only have nothing significant to offer, but they're outnumbering Sharon's about 8:1, and I'm starting to feel awkward. T___T
Well anyways, this happened to me a few days ago. We were at the library checking our usual obscenely large pile of books (maybe its my Asian love for free thingsI MEAN, it's FREE BOOKS, we'll take as many as we can carry!), when my mom discovered that she had an equally obscenely large fine (k, so not so free? heh?). If it helps, we're not only cheap bookworms, but forgetful ones too. So basically we had about 50 books to check out, but my mom's card wouldn't work without her paying off the fine. Unfortunately, no checkbook or cash to be seen. Anyways, so the lady behind the counter, looking awkward at telling my mother exactly how much we owed the Santa Clara County Library, she asks, "Do any of these two young men have cards?" It took both me and my brother exactly two seconds to figure exactly what this woman had just implied.

Yes. She thought I was a guy. Understandably, my hair is short, and I *was* wearing a not-very-girly-possibly-androgynous-plaid-shirt, and YES, I was half-hidden from view behind the computer monitor. But still, at that moment, I couldn't help but utter those three, unfortunately familiar letters, "F..M..L."

And not only did I have to awkwardly reveal myself, showing, yes, I DON'T have a Y-chromosome or additional body parts, but I had to stand there for quite a bit filling in papers to make a new card, waiting for the lady to create my new library card, and for her to check in the books on the counter. And we then realized that our massive, busting at the seams bag of books was yet to be checked out on the floor. How. Awkward.

Flagpole Fails: "Are You Rockstaring At Me?"

Out of sheer boredom and the slight panic that comes those few days before school, I've been watching a show on Youtube. It's an old show, one that they show on Nick @ Nite now, called The Nanny. Okay, let me just tell you, this show is hilarioussss. Besides Friends and The Office maybe, this show actually does make me laugh out loud, which contrary to popular belief, doesn't actually occur that often. It's about a sassy, loud, nasal-voiced girl named Fran Fine, who after being kicked out of her job at a Bridal Shop by her boyfriend, takes up employment as a nanny in a rich household of a Broadway producer, Maxwell Sheffield. Not only is the show awesomely hilarious, the characters are all really well developed and for every hilarious moment on the show, there's also sweet touching, studio-audience-"aww" inducing moments as well. It's a pretty awesome show. My favorite character on the show is the butler Niles, because he has to be one of the wittiest characters on a show ever. Hey, even I bow down to him when it comes to wisecracking insults against his archnemisis C.C. Babcock (hah.), and having a little brother, I can say I'm pretty good! Here's one episode where Mr. Sheffield and Niles attempt to teach Nanny Fine to be "cultured" when she hosts a society tea, and it made me laugh so hard my mom walked by my room and stared at me. :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEUySdJmFp8

I do watch these on Youtube, now that I've found them, but originally I watched them all on TV (11 PM on Nick, if you're wondering). But seriously, because of all the TV-watching, I ended up seeing this one commercial OVER and OVER and OVER. The K-mart "rockstare" commercial? But still every time it gave me the uncontrollable urge to facepalm or headdesk continuously for 10 minutes after watching. I'm not sure..something about it is such so..hugely BAD, and I'm not sure what it is. The loud fake laughter of the children flaunting their tacky, albeit affordable clothing? Or could it be the godawful portmanteau that is the word rockstare itself? Watching the video is rather like watching someone walk out of the bathroom with a piece of toilet paper stuck to their shoe..Or that girl who made the poor decision to wear white pants during that time of the month...Just to see them so painfully.. PAINFULLY. unaware. I feel deep sorrow for these children. Deep, deep sorrow.

Edit: The failure continues. "Blingitude is a girl's BFF, A.E A.E" Wow. Thanks. Now I really do feel "K-mart smart".

"When everything's so bright, all the darkness you feel subsides"

That's what I felt like when I checked out David Choi's album, Only You. As you may or may not know, David Choi is one of many who have risen to prominence by posting performances of both covers and originals on Youtube. I had first heard one of his songs, "Won't Even Start", through learning that Wongfu Productions (whom [wtf, I never know when to use this word] I loveeeee) had made the MV for it. This song instantly caught..er..my ear? LOL. David's crooning vocals are pure and earnest with a Jason Mraz-y quality (haha "mrazy") ; the lyrics, though at times cliche-sounding, sound honest and heartfelt when sung by David. Every song sounds so personal and real, as if David is in the room, serenading you and pouring his heart out with each word. And, yeah yeah, its not exactly a sound that hasn't been heard before but I'm still lovin' it. I love how simple and back-to-basics all of these songs have, with no excessive synthesized beats and riffs or over-used Autotune to be heard (or maybe not? ). So far my favorites would have to be "Won't Even Start", "Hold On", and "Windmill". Check it out and hopefully you'll drift away along with David's well-crafted melodies as much as I did. :)

Speaking of "drifting away", there's a MV I watched for the song "Drift Away" (see how I did that? niiiiceee :P) that I thought was really really sad.. The song is by a group called Magnetic North, and they're a hip-hop duo (one of which, is a girl named Theresa Vu, who's hella beastly). Basically, the MV it's about a guy who loved music and then lost his hearing, but still wears his headphones and tries to jam along with the music in his head. That's how I took it anyway. Being a musicslut and all, I almost cried during the part where he was tearing down all his posters and throwing his CD's on the ground. :( I'm super grateful I can still fully enjoy music in the beautiful blessing, and escape, that it is. :D The link for da MV is here.
Note: What the..this MV is by Wongfu too! I'm noticing a trend here...T__T
"Gimme that beat boys, gimme that flow Let me live within the rhythm, let me free my soul, and drift away"

Currently listening to: I'll Take Everything, by John Mayer
Have fun sending your brothah off to college, Sharon!
-Lisa

Late Night IMing ftw

*Talking about this blog whilst Sharon is sloppily typing on iTouch*

me: yeahhhh
and ppl always like hearing about other ppl failing, am i right?
so
yeah
1:38 AM Sharon: hahahaha
1:38 AM Sharon: pretty much
prvly why fml is so populat
man i suck on this thing
me: iz k
LOL
thats what she said
Sharon: twss :D
me: OMFG
lol
Sharon: oh shiettttt
1:39 AM bahahahahaha

Flagpole Fails: "Une Brève Rencontre"

Ah yes, well although the encounter on this particular Sunday sunny afternoon was brief, it was pretty. Damn. [do i even need to say it?] awkward. It happened while Kevin and I were walking to Jamba, just strolling down E. Meadow when...

We saw this "middle-aged" woman walking her dog with her daughter wearing shades, a much too tight tank top, and short shorts. Lovely. And then she started waving. Not really knowing who this lady was, and not wanting to really have anything to do with her, I started to turn away when I heard:

"You don't recognize me, do you?" and the lady took off her shades, and killed me.

Aha no just kidding. but I might as well have died on the spot. It was MME WOLFELD. MME WOLFELD - as in intimidating freshman year French teacher.

[awkwardness commences]

And then I said my pathetic "Hi." with my little wave, and turning as red as a tomah-toe. and then she said:

"Whatever you've got going on here, is going to end in about a week right?" (side note: it was the last week of summer before school started :[ )

And then I just nervously chuckled. What an idiot. And turned even redder. If that's possible.

BUTTT on a diagonal note. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO G-DRAGON. AKA MY FUTURE HUBBAY AKA HOT STUFF AKA SEXY ORIENTAL ASIAN BLONDE BOY.

:D tehe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOXEVd-Z7NE

aiight im off,

- sharon

Edit: For someone who capitalizes/correctly punctuates all their texts, you sure do have an aversion to formatting things on blogs eh Sharon? ;) Fixed your capitalization boo-boo's, free of charge. -Lisa

Cooking..win?

Well, my mom stayed true to her word and we decided to bake somethin' today. As usual, we found ourselves lacking in several of those baking type ingredients, because we're not exactly a baking type of family. What self-respecting hardcore Asian family makes cookies and brownies? Pfft, dumplings and fried rice all the way! We managed to scrounge up EXACTLY as much butter was called for in the recipe (which turns out, was leftover from the last time we attempted baking), found out we needed much more flour and sugar (to which my dad replied "Why so much sugar? Tai tian le!- too sweet!"), as well as vanilla extract. We also found out we had managed to lose all our measuring cups except for the 1/2 cup, 1/3 cup, 1/2 tbsp, and 1/8 (YES, ONE EIGTH, FOR GOD SAKES) teaspoon. So we tromped off to Safeway to buy the necessities.

And at Safeway, I managed to have one of those "is that person who i think it is" encounters, as well as a "hey its that persons should i say hi only i don't really knowt hem so it'd be awkward,better avoid them only oh no why are they standing there so long now I have to walk past them and not look". *sigh. I guess Safeway is the place to be nowadays, eh? Where all the COOL KIDS ha- alright I'll stop.

Anyways so we hauled back all our crap and we sort of just started..baking? Or more like. It was me baking. I guess it was pretty fun. I never understand people who love to cook, but there is something to be said to make something that tastes delicious using your own two hands and hard work. My brother basically hovered around being generally unhelpful and basically only wanting to eat the brownies. :D Pretty satisfactory results, if I do say so myself.

On a totally unrelated note, I saw this really funny thing on TV today. I'mma keep names and details out of this, but what a fail. I realize its just a local TV station and that's the best they can really do...But seriously. My hand were itching to do awkwardturtles through the whole thing, esp. during the second show where the host kept walking around like a creeper behind everyone, and one girl was trying so hard not to laugh. I can understand though. I was doing the same thing. Faillllll.
Edit: I realize that sentence was pretty ambiguous. I was trying not to laugh, NOT being a creeper behind people. *sigh. Sad how I have to clarify that, really.
-Lisa

Happy B-day, G-dragon!

I almost feel like there's too many hyphens in that title. But, anyways, yeah, a very happy B-day to G-dragon. If you happen to be reading this and you don't have the slightest idea who he is, he's a member of a Korean boy-band called Big Bang. I watched the MV for his new song Heartbreaker, and it's pretty good. Not sure I'm digging the platinum blond hair, but hey, its effing G-dragon, he can do whatever the heck he wants to his hair and still be awesome. A full album preview can be found here.

Haha yeah, I do listen to K-pop recently. Maybe more of my asian-ness is coming out. Idk the funky thing is, I have TONS AND TONS of K-pop, more so than those who would say that they're just testing the waters, but not enough to be considered a true listener I guess? My music taste is wide and varied at the very least, and very eclectic. I have music from Korean boy-bands like DBSK and 2PM, and at the same time from those oh-so popular pop-punk bands like Paramore, All Time Low, The Academy Is... I have songs from mainstream pop artists like Lady Gaga. I have a small sampling of alternative rock, like Anberlin and The Killers. I even, I admit, have a few songs by the Jonas Brothers. I have bands known by many, and bands known by few, and the funny thing is I don't have much of a preference for any particular genre or music style.

me: im a musicslut i think

i just made that word up

Eunice: HAHAHAHA

me: i say that because i just do all kinds of genres

Eunice: thats a crazy word

BWEAAHHA

me: and all kinds of music styles

Eunice: i was going to ask you

me: but no strings attached

Eunice: how that worked out

hahahahaha

me: wow. that actually

made sense

sort of

wow.

And even I was suprise at how well that word seemed to describe me. Because really, my relationship with music is very relaxed, a relationship with all the benefits but "no strings attached" as I so eloquently said. I'm not an indie-only snob, or a crazy boy-band fangirl (this could be argued). I just like music for what it is. I think music can be a very powerful way to convey a message or an emotion, or at the same time can just be made to simply to get your blood pumping and you moving. But to me, all music has it's merits and is worth discovering, from soulful R&B, to power ballads of emo angst, to the head-banging, riotous punk music, and even sugary-sweet bubblegum pop. I can find examples from each of these genres that I fully enjoy and have 10+ songs of. Admittedly, my taste does change from time to time, and I find myself only listening to certain genres of newly downloaded songs at a time that I obsessively tracked down via iTunes/Google/Youtube. But hey, half the fun is in changing it up and discovering new things eh? God, I really am a slut. xP

A sampling of my Recently Added Playlist:
Dear Vienna by Owl City (I'm sort of allergic to cuteness, and I still like this band)
Drifting Apart by Nell (REALLY nice indie-rock (says Wiki anyways) band worth checking out, and if you don't speak Korean [like me], eng translations also worth checking out- lyrics are amazinggg)
Alone En La Vida by L'arc-en-ciel
Hot Mess by Cobra Starship
Energetic by BoA (not bad for her debut in the US!)
Inevitable by Anberlin (song introduced to me by Sharon XD)
Leader by Phantom Planet
Sky by Joshua Radin ft. Ingrid Michaelson
Fanatic by Epik High (Check out their originals too! You can't go wrong with Epik High)
Heaven by FT Island
What I've Done by Until June
Romeo N Juliet by Clazziquai
Returns by MC the MAX
So yup, there you go. A little insight into the randomness of my music library.

Volunteer Fail

Argh so my interview for the volunteering spot got rescheduled? Which means it's likely that at this point I won't get any hours squeezed in before the school year starts. Funny how both this opportunity and the RFL thing got thwarted huh? I feel super bad that I *technically* have no hours logged down yet. *sigh. Must get crackin on that. I think my lack of hours has less to do with me not willing to do volunteering, and more with my laziness on attending volunteer opportunties. I guess I'll go reschedule or something..:-/

Speaking of school, I'm most definitely not looking forward to it. Not that my summer has been particularly eventful or anything, but school is just so blech. Especially now that my mom has been breathing down my neck ever spare chance about what my "plan for the future is". Hell, I barely have a plan for twenty minutes from now, let alone my FUTURE. It's just way too stressful to think about how crazy this school year is going to be. With Chem Honors, and Trig/Analyt, all I can say is there better not be even a little drama this year, cuz I swear I cannot take any more of that. Ech.

My mom's not looking forward to going back to work either, lol. She's taking a break after being overworked and having sleeping problems, and is on medical leave. She was just telling me this morning about how crazyyyyy her boss is. She's one of those super crazy bitch-bosses, who will jump on your ass for slacking off, or making a mistake, or for simply disagreeing with you. My mom's boss that is. Not my mom.She even targeted this lady who's overweight and drowsy because of her medication for her thyroid condition (which, off-topic, I was pretty excited to note that I actually knew what the thyroid does. My bio SAT review must be paying off). At least I haven't encountered a teacher like that so far, and I hope I don't ever. :P

Yeah, so not much going on other than dreading school and not volunteering. Boring. On a slightly more interesting note, I think my mom said we were going to attempt baking today. Which is a fail if I ever saw one. We'll lucky if we have anything edible, yet alone tasty.