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Age: 28
Relationship Status: Seeing someone
Nationality: Chinese
Current Location: Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York
Raised in: Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn
Employment Status: Financial Analyst
Major: Modern European History
Favorite things to do: Sing, Read, Write, Listen to music, Fish, watching Anime, Rock climbing and bouldering...
Expert at: Carrying interesting conversations and sounding smart, but being otherwise.
Currently looking for: The love of my life. Someone who is smart, responsible, laidback, funny, and beautiful inside and out. If that describes you... hollah!
Primary Goals in life: Marriage, having children, PhD in History
Other Goals: Experience the maximum amount of experiences, see the world, become a writer and have some books published, run a marathon, climb a mountain...
Current location in life: In New York, just working my way up the corporate ladder.
Possible paths for the future: Masters Degree in History
Favorite sports: Baseball, Soccer, Hockey, Football
Favorite Teams: Yankees, Manchester United, Pittsburgh Penguins, 49ers
Favorite athletes: Don Mattingly, David Cone, Teddy Sheringham, David Beckham
Most Hated Teams: Boston Red Sox, Liverpool FC, Leeds United
Likes: Great conversations, good food, good people, bamboo paintings, Prada, tattoos, piercings...
Tattoos: 1
Located at: Upper left arm.
Piercings: 4
Located at: Two on each earlobe.
Things I like to do: Listen to music, chit chatting online, ponder about life, going to museums, any kind of site seeing, writing fiction, taking random pics of things, have long conversations at cafes or bars, watching and playing sports (baseball, soccer, football), surf the internet, read all kinds of books, reading magazines, give advice, watch movies, watch Broadway, eating out at good restaurants, shopping, travelling, road tripping, fishing, rock climbing, drinking, xanga
Favorite cuisine: Italian, American, French, Mexican, Vietnamese, Chinese
Favorite Junk Food: Chips (Salt and Vinegar, Sour Cream and Garlic), All kinds of Nachos, Tostitos with Salsa, Chocolate chip cookies with milk, dark chocolate -- especially with almonds
Addicted to: Ketchup and Soy Sauce. (Not at the same time!)
Favorite drinks: Pepsi, alcohol, OJ, black tea (especially strawberry black tea).
Preferred Alcoholic Beverages: Red wine - Preferably French, Dark beers (Newcastle Brown Ale, Boddingtons Ale, Guinness) Vodka (Grey Goose, Ketel one), Gin (Tanquerray ONLY), Whiskey (Macallan 12, JW Blue)
Favorite mixed drinks: Kamikaze, Bay Breeze, Whiskey or Bourbon on the Rocks, Tanquerray Martini (Slightly dry with lemon twist)
Hated Alcoholic Beverages: Cheap anything! Cheap alcohol sucks!
Favorite Music genre: Rock (Metal, Alternative, Punk, Hard), Classical (Mozart only), Chinese Rock, Chinese Pop, Japanese Rock
Favorite Bands/Singers: Aerosmith, Guns N Roses, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Beyond, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Bon Jovi, X-Japan, Jacky Cheung, Jay Chou
Favorite Songs: Too many to name
Favorite Movie Genres: Drama, Romantic Comedies, Comedy, Thriller/Mystery, Sci-Fi, Action
Favorite Movies: Top Gun, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Usual Suspects, Jackass: The Movie, Die Hard Trilogy, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Terminator 2, Guns and Talks (Corean), Be with you (Japanese)
Favorite Actors: Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, Ewan McGregor, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Sir Sean Connery, Robin Williams, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton Jr., Sir Anthony Hopkins, David Duchovny, Tony Leung
Favorite Actresses: Helen Hunt, Gwyneth Palthrow, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Maggie Cheung
Favorite TV Shows: Law and Order (The Original), X-Files, Star Trek - TNG, Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld, Will and Grace
Favorite Characters from TV: Jack McCoy (Law and Order), Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek - TNG), Chandler (Friends), Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (X-Files), Niles Crane (Frasier), Jack Bauer (24)
Favorite Anime/Cartoon: DBZ, Naruto, Batman, Spiderman, Fullmetal Panic!, School Rumble
Favorite Cartoon Characters: Spiderman, Vegeta (DBZ), Batman, Kakashi (Naruto), Sabastien (Little Mermaid), Raphael (TMNT), Bugs Bunny
Favorite reads: Mainly classics, lots of non-fiction, detective novels, thrillers, biographies, general fiction
Favorite books: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith), The Deer and the Cauldron (Louis Cha), The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand), Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand), Hamlet (William Shakespeare), Moby Dick (Herman Melville), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes), With Old Breed (E. B. Sledge), Fifth Chinese Daughter (Jade Snow Wong), Three Kingdoms (Translated by Robert Moss)
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| I lost my phone Saturday night on my way back from Home Depot. I think it might have slipped out of my pocket and fell into the snow right before I got into the car in the parking lot. I honestly don't know and there's no way of finding it so the parking lot is free of snow now and Home Depot does not have an iPhone in their Lost and Found.
I'm pretty disappointed in myself for losing my phone. I have a lot of pictures and videos that I have not backed up in my computer yet. I have pictures of my God-daughters when they were just a couple of months old. Anyway, I just called AT&T and suspended my service. At the moment, I am phoneless, so I guess the best way to contact me would be email. I haven't decided whether to get another iPhone 3G-S yet because I would have to purchase it for full price ($400) OR just use a different phone. Either way, I'm putting off the decision for a while and I'm going to see how long I can go without a phone. It's going to be tough going back to the Stone Ages, but people survived back then and even though my life will be affected, I hope it will only be but a dent in the greater scheme of things.
So what happens now that I don't have my phone? Well, I can't call anyone and no one can reach me. I can't access email, text messages or take pictures/videos on the go. I can't listen to music since I don't have another mp3 player. I can't blog in the morning on my way to work. I can't surf the web and look up information. I can't use Google Maps to locate directions and even the simplest things like knowing what time it is at the moment would be difficult since I don't own a watch. I won't have access to the NYTimes in the morning either, which kind of sucks. I guess it's a good thing I'm already out of my Fantasy Football league since I can't access my team anymore. No more use of Apps, which made my life a bit easier.
Anyway, if anyone knows of anyone where I can get an iPhone 3G-S cheaper than $400 or an iPhone 3G cheaper than $300, let me know. I'm willing to buy used, depending on condition. Email me at jigg.xanga@gmail.com. Otherwise, I doubt I will be able to blog much so my semi-weekly entries on Mondays and Thursdays will probably not happen anytime soon. I'm not interested in Blackberries either so please don't suggest it. I only say that because it's more expensive getting the data plan on AT&T with a Blackberry than with the iPhone.
For anyone who has lost their phone--how does it feel and how long did you go without it before getting a new one? | | |
| My entire group of probably about 12-15 people are doing the White Elephant aka Yankee Swap aka Thieving Secret Santa. For those who don't know what it is, it's a game where everyone brings a wrapped gift and eveyone gets a number. Person with number one gets to grab any gift (but their own) and open it. Person number two picks a gift, opens it and decides whether to keep it or switch with the first person. Person three opens a gift and decides whethe to keep it or switch it with person one or two--so on and so forth, until all the gifts are opened. Person number one gets screwed, while the last person can pick pretty much anything.
I've been doing this with my friends for quite a few years now and there are restrictions now:
-Minimum $40
-No DVD/CDs
-No Alcohol
-No MP3 players
-No gift cards
Since some people might be reading this entry, I can't talk about what I'm going to get. It's this Sunday and we're doing a potluck as well. Fun times.
At work, it's a lot easier. Rules are simple:
-Maximum $25
-No company products
So I thought long and hard--what would be a nice/fun gift for $25 or less?
Since the event is today, I doubt anyone at work would read this in-time. I decided to get $25 worth of Mega-Millions lottery tickets. Jackpot is $140 million dollars. What better gift than 25 chances at winning $140 million? I wonder if anyone at work will think it's whack. Well, too bad since I already bought them.
Have you ever done this event? If not, you should organize it with your friends. Definitely a lot more fun than Secret Santa.
If you are doing it, what kind of gift are you getting? | | |
| During my drive back from Vermont Sunday night, we got into a conversation about porn. My friend was telling us how one of his coworker's wife doesn't allow him to look at nudity of another women--even on television. If they are watching an R-rated movie, she would reach over and cover his eyes if there was a nude/sex scene. How crazy is that?
Personally, porn isn't my thing, but if my girlfrend was like that and felt the need to cover my eyes whenever there was a sex scene in movie, our relationship would pretty much be over.
Being the only person in the car in a relationship, the question was directed to me--does my girlfriend think watching porn is cheating. I was 95% sure she wouldn't care if I did, but that might have been because she knows it's not my thing. So I asked her yesterday what her thoughts were. Her response: "Watching porn isn't considered cheating. It's just used as a release. It's cheating when you fall for the pornstar or something."
So there you have it, my girlfriend gave me a license to watch porn. The question is, why do some/many women feel that their significant others shouldn't watch watch porn? Is it because they are fantasizing about other women? How else are the guys supposed to learn the killer moves to please them? Kidding. There really isn't any legitimate argument other than that it's make believe and it's very normal.
So ladies, do/would you allow your significant other to watch porn? If not, what if they did? Would you really make them change? Change something that they have been doing before they met you? It's not like telling them to kick a smoking habit where it's actually bad for them.
Gentlemen: what would you do if your girlfriend made you stop watching porn? Would you listen to them and stop? Watch it behind their back? Break up with them? | | |
| In New York, I have encountered very few people who have never snowboarded. Though I'm sure many haven't, I cannot think of even one person off the top of head. After putting it off for years, I am finally snowboarding this weekend.
Many of my closest friends go every year and I am usually doing something else. I have always wanted to go, but snowboarding is expensive and since I was already tied down to many hobbies already, I didn't want to get involved in another one.
Finally last year, I put away some money from my non-existent bonus and began shopping for gear. I don't like renting things for one simple reason: it's a waste of money. Renting gear is like $80-100 each time, which means within 5 times, I could have gotten my own. I was sure that I would enjoy snowboarding so investing in my own equipment made the most sense.
I waited till they had sales at the end of last season. I asked a ton of my friends for reviews and suggestions. After much research I purchased a GNU MTX board and Union Force bindings. I paid like $200 for those two things combined.
When the sales happened again last month, I bought the Burton Freestyle boots for like $70. Including pants, jacket, helmet, goggles, board bag and protective gear, I spent under $500 total--everything new. Not bad right?
So tomorrow after work, I am headed to Killington in Vermont. If you have no idea where it is or how it looks like, google it. It's HUGE and beautiful. Supposedly, there's a lot of snow there already. I'll be going with three other friends and meeting up with another eight other friends.
I signed up for lessons so I could learn things the right way. Besides, I don't want to bother my friends and make them teach me. They paid to board and have fun, not babysit. My goal is to be able to keep up with everyone by the end of the season. So far, I signed up for this trip, another trip in January and hopefully one more trip in February. I also bought a Triple Play pass to a nearby mountain, so this could be potentially nine days of boarding.
I'm pretty excited now and I can't wait to hit the slopes. Have you ever snowboarded? I have only met one person who snowboards well that doesn't like it. Everyone else thinks it's awesome.
Edit: Jacket sold! | | |
| While I was having lunch with my bestfriend at a ramen shop last week, she asked me a very peculiar question, "let me see you hold chopsticks." So without questioning, I held them out and she responded, "you hold it right."
She just came from a business trip in Thailand where one of the business associates there asked to see if she held the chopsticks correctly. I guess it's probably because she's from here, they wanted to see if she was "Americanized." The associate was impressed that she was able to hold it correctly. During her entire trip, she began noticing that most people around her didn't hold it correctly.
I would say that almost everyone I know in my generation holds the chopsticks incorrectly. Even within my family of like the 40-50 cousins I know (most of them are really distant), only 1-2 hold it correctly. In fact, even when I lived in Hong Kong, most people around my generation didnt hold their chopsticks correctly. I also think to my knowledge, most of my friends hold chopsticks correctly. I'm sure a handful do, but I really cannot recall who specifically.
I actually didn't hold it correctly till i was about 10. We had a cultural event in my fifth grade class and I remember doing some Chinese noodles and my science teacher at that time--Barry Kleinman effortlessly held it correctly. I felt ashamed that I couldn't even though I was Chinese. I went home and practiced. I remember that night during dinner, my hand was cramping because it didn't feel natural. I remember it taking almost two months before I was able to hold it without any issues. And now that I do hold it correctly, I cannot imagine a more effective way to use it. It's a lot more precise and practical.
I wonder what happened. A whole generation of people have lost a techique that has been passed down for thousands of years. Do we blame the previous generation for not teaching us the correctly? Both my parnts hold it correctly, but neither of them made any attempt to correct me or my sister's incorrect usage when we were growing up.
The real question is--Is it really important if we know how to use it correctly? In the greater sense of things, probably not. As long as you can use them, then I guess it really doesn't matter. But then again, if it's part of your culture, you should try to preserve it for as long as you can. I'm going to make sure my children hold it correctly (assuming we will still be eating with chopsticks).
Do you know how to hold chopstcks correctly? If not, how do you feel about it? If your family uses it, do they use it correctly?
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