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Friday, June 27, 2008

  • am/pm

    hmm...so does anyone else get bothered by the fact that...12:36 am and 11:36 am are not chronologically ordered in the day. meaning, 12:36 am is earlier than 11:36 am. not only does this anachronism happen during the morning, but it occurs once more in the afternoon, where 12:36 pm is earlier than 11:36 pm. it makes no sense. this is madness.

    why is it that we denoted am/pm and therefore days, around the 12:00 mark? doesn't 1:00 based am/pm switch make more sense? numerical order would dictate so.

    this world is just madness and i do not know that i wish to subscribe to it any longer.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

  • through the faith of our mothers...

    i have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother lois and in your mother eunice and, i am persuaded, now lives in you also. for this reason i remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. for God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. - 2 tim 1:5-7

    happy mothers' day.

Friday, May 09, 2008

  • covers

    just gonna post something simple...

    in light of dan nam's cover of "crazy in love"...

    my top five favorite covers ever:

    #5: rob thomas covering cindi lauper's 'time after time'
    the style isn't all that different, but i guess a different voice, a different tone. either way i likes.



    #4: the gourds covering snoop dogg's 'gin and juice'
    i know the file says phish...but really it's the guords. in anycase, the country style is just absolutely hilarious. warning: the language is still vulgar as it is a cover...



    #3: travis covering britney spears's 'hit me baby one more time'
    amazing how it sounds so good when one person sings it and sounds so slutty when another person sings it...you decide who's who...



    #2: obadiah parker covering outkast's 'hey ya'
    almost makes the song sound heartfelt and romantic. so basically this guy's a miracle worker.



    #1: mandy moore covering rihanna's 'umbrella'
    i <3 mandy moore. enough said.



    who am i kidding i still heart dan nam's video much more...who can resist the black & white effects and the "i'm going CRAJAY!!" fob action?!?!

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

  • dance, omens, and some racist humor?


    so for all you c-stone 06ers...y'all act like you ain't never seen me dance before...hahaha

    maybe we'll go out again sometime before i leaves...

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    just thought i'd share two random things i noticed from today:

    (1) i walked into the bathroom at the longwood galleria today only to notice that my cross necklace looked weird. upon closer inspection. the cross had fallen off. it was sad. and then i thought...what if my life was a korean drama...

    - cue the romantically ominous music
    - slow motion realization that my cross was gone
    - close up onto the broken necklace knot that had my cross tied to it
    - cut scene into some sidewalk where ppl are just kicking it around

    and then i see a montage of my life just spiralling out of control as clearly that broken cross necklace means...God and i are on a break...

    bum bum bummmmmmmmmm....

    (2) on a light but perhaps a more inappropriate note: i found a hilarious, perhaps racists website called "stuff white people like"

    an excerpt from one of my favorite entries:

    As mentioned earlier, white people love to be outside.  But not everyone knows that another thing they like to do is make people feel bad for wanting to watch sports on TV or play videogames.  While it would be easy to get angry at white people for this, remember it is hard wired in their head that the greatest thing a person can do in their free time is to hike/walk/bike outdoors.

    cracks me up this site...ridiculous!

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    dan nam...you inspire me to write song too...i'll post it for you someday

Sunday, May 04, 2008

  • my wedding and other musings

    [my dad's big announcement to me]

    [setting]
    driving home after watching 'forgetting sarah marshall', talking to parents on the phone...

    [dad]: i made a decision today
    [me]: about what?
    [dad]: two years from now, you're gonna get married.
    [me] (thinking i misheard): huh? what?
    [dad]: i was thinking, you need to get married in two years.
    [me]: ....

    [fade to black]


    what the heck?! two years?? if i haven't found anyone in the past 6 years (assuming ppl really only get into the more serious relationships after entering college...what makes him think that change is on the way in the next two....

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    speaking of two years, that will be the duration of my time in boston. my dad, always the thinker, challenged me to look back on my two years here and ask myself...what did i accomplish? what have i learned/gained during my two years in boston...

    and the truth is...i don't want to think about it. if anything, i wanna say that time just flew by, and that i spent one year getting over not being in new york, and one year getting to know boston. but to be honest, i would have to say that that would be more my memory failing me...i am getting older

    so hear's a preliminary list of episodes i would make about my time in boston (a la scrubs):

    my first failure
    my first initiative
    my first platonic crush
    my loneliness
    my first real responsibility
    my first real struggle
    my boredom
    my solitude
    my first addiction
    my reclusion
    my first grudge
    my last impulse
    my couch
    my first joey
    my heartbreak
    my letter to God
    my sophia
    my second platonic crush
    my man dates
    my first car
    my birthday
    my roadtrip
    my christian confliction
    my last retreat
    my study loft
    my resignation
    my ultimatum

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    i don't know what to do with my hair. shave it off again? grow it out patiently...i hate life's hard choices.