Linga~

http://thefbomb.org/2009/08/trying-to-be-pretty/ For all the lovely women out there!! <3

I know lots have been written about female body image, but I really don't come across genuinely positive ones not attached to some ad for Dove or random cosmetic product often enough. This popped up on  friend's twitter feed, and it was cool. More than cool really. No sappy entry about loving one's self from me. But really, just do it because it's woorrth ittt, even if it's tough learning to. God knows I'm still trying~

Those of you who chat with me regularly on msn will know that I can be quite lovingly eccentric. Borderline annoying in fact, but amusing nonethless. Stephie and Jesse know this well. This latest msn moment that I shared with Jesse, I felt I had to share with you all. It ranks in the personal top 5 greatest amusing msn moments.

(5:16 PM) Jesse: Search by theatre instead of by movie. Although even when I did that, it wouldn't let me see Friday'
Oh, I GOT YOUR COPY OF SPIDER-MAN
(5:18 PM) Tara: dammit! so broke
(5:18 PM) Jesse: $22
(5:18 PM) Tara: CAN I PAY YOU IN SEXUAL FAVOURS!?
(5:18 PM) Jesse: Forget the tax
(5:18 PM) Tara: i come with a head tax cuz i'm asian
ZING
(5:18 PM) Jesse: I literally facepalmed
(5:18 PM) Tara: LOL
i never expected that to come out so perfectly
(5:19 PM) Tara: literally within like a 5 second span..

For those unfamiliar with the head tax, it was a ridiculous (unadjusted for inflation) $50, then $100, and finally $500 fixed fee that only Chinese migrants had to pay to enter into Canada from 1885 - 1923. And I'm pretty sure we all understand what the alternative connotation for 'head' is. What's most lovely about this was that I typed my head tax comment before I had a chance to read Jesse telling me to forget the tax. So coincidental, yet so perfect~ <3

AHAHa I'm such a nerd fer werds -_-;

I AM Lawlz sync watching Twilight with Stephie right now. I don't really care about the plot so I'm also LJing. The pacing's really fucked up and Edward's got real probz anyway. And I saw that one scene where he looked like he JIZZED IN HIS PANTS when he saw Bella, but omg, wtf is this shit. I've also been doing running commentary with Stephie on msn, so I'll go back to that. SHINY SHINY SPARKLE SPARKLE~ At least the music's ok.

P.S. Asian's actually kinda cute, even though he's a PLLAaayyaaa~ AND WTF, Edward is such a creepy emo vamp. WOE IS I, FOR I AM VAMPIRE, AND I MUST SPEND ETERNITY SPARKLING IN THE SUNSHINE

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I doubt anyone's going to go back to see my x-mas list if I editted, but I realized that I could use some coloured laces for my chucks.

So dear f-list,

Coloured/patterned, fancy shmancy laces for Converse All-Stars, would be much appreciated.

I wouldn't mind having more than one pair of laces either, as I have two Converses to lace. Variety is good~

That is all!

Me haz a dream today. Well, two dreams, but I can't recall much from the first dream.

From what I can remember from the end of the first dream, I was oggling at Doug's hair and telling him how awesome it is. He points to my hair and goes "And yours is friggen twice as long." I reply, "but but, mine isn't styled and friggen awesome like yours!!" YA, Doug of all people in my dreams, eh? I blame having a wall-to-wall with him on Facebook last night right before bed. And if it's going to be a dream about Doug, it's gotta be about his hair.

I suddenly wake up after this, and looked at the clock wondering if I should get up. The time display was blinking because my dad tripped the breaker right before I went to bed and I was too lazy to reset it. My cell phone was charging, so I looked at the curtains to check for light. It was still dark outside, so I went back to bed.

Thus I segued into my second dream with Doug there again, except this time we were standing behind a couch in a dark room, dimly lit by the t.v. that was on. I somehow had garlic toast in my hand and I offered Doug, who was staring at the t.v., a piece by holding it towards him. He said no thanks but he took it anyway. That's when I thought "TEE HEE, he took it!" in my dream. I never did eat the garlic toast because it magically disappeared from my hand. I stood there, strangely pondering the content of my previous dream. Then I opened the door behind me, and walked out of the room. It was dark, and I couldn't see where I was, so I searched the walls for a light switch. I flipped it, but it was somehow the wrong switch and only a portion of the room was lit up. I kept searching for another, and the same thing happened. My next switch lit up dimly another open room. I peeked into it and found someone sleeping in there, so I went "OOpS" and turned the switch off. Then I realized that this place was rather familiar; it was the upstairs of my house, and the squarish space that has doors leading to the attic, and 3 seperate rooms. But when I thought on it, the room morphed and became spacier, and elaborately structured. I headed blinding towards the tiny space next to the stairs and where the entryway into the attic is supposed to be. I somehow knew to duck underneath something and flipped on another switch. It lit up the Christmas tree I ducked underneath. That's when I went OoOH, and I accelerated my search for more lights to turn on. The last switch lit the room up beautifully, exposing an array of Christmassy colours. The decor became visible, and it beamed of rich, earthy tones. There were tea cups on a coffee table and some comfy cheers surrounding it in the middle of the room. It felt warm, and I was really pleased by the sight~ but then the phone rang. So I woke up T_T Yes, it was a really purty dream~ :3

So uh... lets have a bright and warm Christmas everyone~!!

Such an amusing quote from my philosophy textbook regarding naturalized epistemology ~ "As Pat Churchland says, 'Boiled down to the essentials, a nervous system enables the organism to succeed in the four F's: feeding, fleeing, fighting, and reproducing. The principle chore of nervous systems is to get the body parts where they should be in order that the organism may survive.... Truth, whatever that is, definitely takes the hindmost.'"

AHAHA hindmost, as in, truth gets taken up the rear <3 And I hope you guys noticed that reproducing doesn't start with an F!!! Oh, and of course the innuendo involving getting "the body parts to where they should be..." This is all like, nerd poetry to my eyes. *cough* Ok. Back now to your regularly scheduled not quite-as-inane events of the day~

ARg shtupid msn died on me. I'll go through the rest of your paper tomorrow Jesse and relay my thoughts to you then~!

Ah yes. Been slowly de-stressing, remembering, and finding the happier, simpler side of me again the last day and a half. An amalgamation of hippie and fangirl energies run strong through me!! Been a total off week for me, but for now, bed~!!

Saw the most awesome quote on a shirt EVAR today. It was on the skytrain over the Patullo on some Japanese boy (he was ok looking), and Jesse missed it when he left me at Lougheed!! It read "I'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't stick my head that far up my ass". I know I know >.>; It has probably been said a million times before by sarcastics all around the world, and the shirt probably has had many sightings before, but it was my frist time seeing it. So there. And it's definitely my kind of awesome.

Hmm... I wasn't excited much about AE this year, I guess because I'm no longer caught up in the process with staffing and all dat shit. Nevertheless, I've recently caught my second wind and am pretty excited about bopping around the con. Tammy and Alice, you two will be missed T_T!! I will also probably miss the power tripping, walking around the con like I'm ALL DAT SHIT and budging through into the Dealer's Room while a line of sweaty, non-deodorant wearing con-goers fight for precious oxygen like it's Battle Royale, only with peacebonded weapons and them being too famished and lacking in aforementioned oxygen to swing them.

I noticed when I got home today that one end of a shoe lace on my Converses frayed :( Must've happened when I stuck them on rather awkwardly and raced out for the bus to work this morning :S I will need new laces... and second pair of chucks because I wanna'nother!! Surprisingly, they've grown on me :o *hugs 'em*

And here, a cookie for everyone *hands them out by the panful* I actually get enough sleep one night, and I'm all hyper ~_~ WTF is dis shit!?? I really should do it more often... *beams away~*

I just played DotA for 6 hours straight... while shirtless....

I am disgusting O_O

As consolation, I have no doubt that I am the best DotA player residing in Surrey.

I couldn't dodge the self-inflicted emo at work today, but there were lots of things to be cheery about once I got off. A bald woman was all smiles and telling another lady on the bus ride home how people thought she was a lesbian. She begins to tell a quick little story. Some random dolt earlier today at Guildford mall accosted her, asking "What's with YOU PEOPLE and shaved heads!?" She replied "Excuse me? *shows some fundraiser badge* My friend has breast cancer and I shaved my head in support of her." The guy apparently just went "Well, ok. NEVERMIND then." And he pikes off. I know~ Not an entirely exciting story, but... it TOTALLY MADE MY DAY!!! LIKE, there are awesome people in Surrey afterall o_O;

Omg, SQUEEEE!! I went to bed at like 8ish with Federer down 2 sets and struggling mentally to break Nadal before the rain kicked in at Wimbledon. I wake up 4 hours later and They're back on court, with Federer and Nadal both going to a tiebreak. So exciting T_T_T Yes, lots of actual squeeing when I woke up to that. Now lets hope I didn't jinx him XD... I keep worrying I might because I'm superstitious like that... and he lost important points whenever I got too excited despite telling myself to calm down >.>;

I'm such a nerd.

*edit*

Ya like, I totally jinxed it. The match itself, was EPIC though. 9-7 in the fifth set, which is technically a tiebreak but they don't do tiebreaks on the deciding set XD

AND OMG, those two men should hug and kiss already... They're European, right...? And both looked like they would cry. Federer usually does after winning a hard fought Grand Slam tourney.

Ok, I know this is boring stuff but >.>; like, Federer's sheepish smile and Nadal's sincerity gets me all the time. And... and I just slashed them in my head watching the awards ceremony... I don't normally slash two manly men of manliness, but it looks like I made an exception.

Yet even so, it's just hard deciding the uke, but Federer's definitely the more emo one XD Nadal is like a Spanish bull on steroids but nice and trim without any cleavage, 'cept maybe Federer on him, ALL THE TIME. And I thought the UFC fight was homoerotic... which honestly did nothing for my imagination besides notocing the mounting, the chest thumping and the flooring of one another with their man meat. With Federer and Nadal, two emo men in mutual admiration of one another is where it's at XD They just kill me. GAHH. I apologize >.>; When it comes to sports, I get a 'lil androcentric. And whimsical... and loopy. And oh, definitely fangirly.

Jesse is on my ire list. It's long and complicated. Well, not really. I'm just being completely irrational and it's totally not his fault, but I'll just blame him anyway.

Ok, a friend asked me to see a movie with him after work today, which was like, fine. Jesse was supposed to come too!! but he decided against it because either he's lame and didn't want to come to Surrey to see it, or he was thinking straight and realized it'd be better to work on his school project instead.

HE HAD MY HOPES UP!!! I was going to take him on a tour of Surrey, T&T and of the bastard stepchild SFU Surrey campus getting support from its rich ass father in a traditionally shitty neighbourhood. I promised that I would wear an apron for him. Jesse said it doesn't count when I'm required to wear it for work. He clearrrrly did not appreciate the fact that I was dressed up for him at all. 23 text messages were exchanged between us, 1/4 it during my harassment of him while watching the movie.

Kung Fu Panda was so totally awesome T_T I hope you never get a chance to see it on the big screen Jesse, because it's just THAT much better in theatres. I inexplicably teared up on at least 3 occasions >.> I'm a sucker for teh music and sentimental sequences??? And why was I gushing during an animated movie!? Like, omg. GAh. Usually I know better when a guy friend's sitting next to me.

But no... no panda sex. There never is *sigh* Don't they know they're becoming extinct...? I'm sure he would mate if there was food involved. Oh, and there is NO secret ingredient.

WATCH IT!!!

Eep. I broke out into hives, seemingly overnight -_-; Now my back is all covered in rashes and my face is puffy and red. I look absolutely terrible... So OMG this better not happen too often from now on. I like, make a living off my beauty O_O But no seriously, this has never happened to before, ever, and from what wiki tells me, after the first outbreak, I could have a bunch more for a couple years before I'm completely asymptomatic again. GAHHH Well, time to figure out what triggered it....

And another meme...~ It seems like that time of year again. Damn my f-list and their pitiful attempts at peer pressuring me. But alas~ I've given in due to boredom.

Type your own name and the following in Google search and choose the first choice, that makes sense, that appears on the list:

1) "Andrew needs"
mmm andrew needs to take the pants off b/c he has a very nice asssss
--->My ass is actually fat. No further comment.

2) "Andrew looks like"
andrew looks like a drug dealer
---> Just because I live in Surrey doesn't mean... *sigh* I give up.

3) "Andrew likes"
my brother andrew likes to dance.
---> It's true. This is an absolute secret so shhhh. I like to sing and dance when no one's looking, like in the freezer at work. *shifty eyes*

4) "Andrew says"
Andrew says: Nice to see this fool has to have one last kick at Bush. .... Andrew says: Note to black conservatives…if you vote Obama you can no longer call ...
---> Why couldn't I have been named Simon...!? Andrew is like such a douche.

5) "Andrew wants"
Andrew wants a hot dog.
---> And ain't no bitch gunna stop me from getting it. *sigh*.... Sometimes I just try too hard... And for what... a hot dog.

6) "Andrew does"
Andrew does a flip : )
---> *flips* And none of you will ever see me do that ever again.

7) "Andrew hates"
Andrew hates elmo.
---> Why, tickle me emo cuz I do loves to hate on fictional muppet characters.

8) "Andrew goes"
Andrew goes to great lengths to get the perfect shot.
---> Well, I am a perfectionist~ I would suspect I'd try for the best shot, whether it be with a camera or a rifle aimed at Elmo's furry red hide.

9) "Andrew loves"
Andrew Maxwell declares his undying love for Darcie.
---> Darcie... if you're out there, I want to tell you that I've always loved you. *smooches thin air*

10) "Andrew is"
In the gospels Andrew is referred to as being present on some important occasions as one of the disciples more closely attached to Jesus.
---> That's because I loved Jesus... a bit too much. He spurned me when I told him I wanted to give immaculate birth to His next Bible
       thumper wumper.

And 1 more post~

Rejoice frens, for I have quitted teh WoW. It wasn't really a tough decision. My friend and guild leader quit today because of Real Life knocking on his door, and he felt it was slowly becoming more like a job rather than a game for him. He's so going back when Wrath of the Lich King comes out and he's told me so... but meh. I only played out of boredom, knowing that I wouldn't be taking the summer semester. I AM FREE now, so come on and use me people ^^.

Dear World of Wahhhcraft,

Good riddens WoW. You were fun, but only fun. I never felt all too committed to you in the first place. I cheated on you whenever I had the chance to go out and smchoozle with others. Yes, my online friends did suffer because of you, but they always knew I was thinking of them whenever I beat down on that goat with my immeasurably large phallic object. You were merely overcompensation for all those times I could have TMIed my friends on LJ, but didn't. My brazen affair with your occult voodooing trolls, and warlock magicks is over. You could never love me the same way Sam and Dean could. So much valuable SPN watching time, wasted on you. So there, I quit you.

Andrew,
The Progenitor of Crying Peons

"Any silkworm action lately? I don't see any cocoons in sight..."

.... *cries and dies laughing*

I hate you Erin. This book is such a ZOMG heehee culture fuck, that it makes me feel ever more like a halfer/banana/self-loving n' hating Asian each time I pick it up to read.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it... ARG, and I'm not even an English major.

On another note, both you and Alice should stop working so much!! Youz both needs more hangout time with Tammy, Jesse and I.

birds chirping in rain,
in the canopy above,
down Surrey Central

*gags*

Up n' all around Surrey Central, it felt like I was walking through a rainforest. Yes, birds were actually chirping, and the drizzle was strangely warm in spite of the presence of clouds blanketing the entirety of the sky. And SO I went all dorky and wapanese by writing that little haiku in my head.

AHahAHA I am sooo lame. Now to go take an afternoon nap ~_~

I think the more I work at T&T and hang around Asians, the more severe my white guy fetish gets. Just earlier in my shift today, I turned around to find this guy who looked like Brendan Morrison (a Vancouver Canucks hockey player for the non-Vancouverites), only cuter, and with an even cuter nose ring. Of course, I reacted by going HELLO THERE BIG BOY EEP in my head. He asked if we carried any soy milk and I had no choice but to reply "^^ Yep~ It's in between the two aisle nines right over there *points*". LE SIGH. Couldn't he have asked a more time consuming question, like an inquiry into the meaning of life working at T&T, or somethinggg, anything else. At least he didn't go "thanks buddy" to me. *cringes* I hate being called buddy by a guy; it's language that ZOMG reeks affirmation of a mutual male gender identity.

It's all ok, because I will someday be able to bat an eyelash, flirt a 'lil and watch them all flock to me while on their knees. TOTALLY am not full of myself.