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2008-September-6th
11:51 am - news?
*wave* 'ello to anyone who reads this any more... =j
trying to think of what's really been new and am relatively blanking.
of course having blitzed some of my braincells last night *might* have something to do with it ;-)
hrm...
(1) today would be Day 5 of my practicing of صوم ṣawm (fasting for Ramaḍān)*
(2) had an awesome braincell destroying fun time belatedly celebrating Cody's b-day drinking on a rented trolley and going from bar to bar; got to see lots of cool friends and make some new ones
(3) looking forward to fun this weekend and the Unicode conference next week
*: no, i'm not muslim; years prior i had mercilessly teased a close friend/coworker who _is_ muslim and whatnot... this year, for solidarity, the experience, remorse/repentance/atonement, and the attempts to somewhat purify myself, i decided to do at least one day of fasting, which then has turned into 4. today.. i'm overly dehydrated from the prior night's partying and it's right WARM today AND there're far too many yummy events this weekend... i just broke fasting by having a cool refreshing sip of kombucha... at least one thing i'll've learned is how to appreciate the basic food/liquids we take for granted.
i can definitely say that it's a very very interesting experience... ya learn a lot about your self and push some envelopes.
(zomg... this leftover burrito is *heavenly* to eat as a lunch.... ) <-- case in point....
ok.. enough for now.. >>appreciatingly enjoys nibbling on burrito<< ttfn
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2008-August-8th
01:32 am - a lil english...
not too much really to post..
not been too garrulous on LJ... FaceBook's sound-bytes of Life have readily enchanted me away and placed me in the instant gratification of today's Rat Race of Life...
saw Mummy3 (amusing) and Hellboy2 (well done)...
time's passing faster and the days are melding much more...
been a good boy and whatnot, yet.. it's all moving kinda fast with much blur...
"waiting for the other shoe to drop" is the atmosphere (which kinda flips me out and worries me)
oh.. and i've told a few folk, but one of the songs i definitely want played at my funeral/memorial service is Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version of "Somewhere over the rainbow/What a wonderful world".. not that i plan on passing any time soon, but.. it's best to get info out there as much as possible...
missed Tanya leaving for U-ston (sadtimez).. hope she has a great fun time over there... wish i could've tagged along.
hrm.. time to sleep....
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01:27 am - om det var bare mulig...
Du + jeg = vi - Gaute Ormåsen
Vinden hyler og regnet slår
Trea venter på neste vår
Peisen brenn og alt er klart
Og jeg regner med at du kjem nå snart
Henter jukselappen og ei flaske vin
Jeg er litt nervøs, men det går vel fint
Dekker bordet mens jeg prøvespør
Må bli ferdig det er like før
Langt fra byen og langt fra bråk
Merker ikke at tida går
Alt du hører er at hjertet slår
Vet jo aldri å slags svar jeg får
Om du kunne tenke deg å dele tida di
Om du kænn sjå for deg at du og jeg blir vi
Har fønni ei som gjør meg glad
Ingen vits å vente da
Om du kunne tenke deg å dele tida di
At du og jeg blir vi
Tanker deles i tvil og tru
Blodet bruser der kommer du
Smiler bredt når du ser mot meg
Uten peilig på å som venter deg
Langt fra byen og langt fra bråk
Her hvor bare stillhet rår
Alt jeg hører er at hjertet slår
Vet jo aldri å slags svar jeg får
Om du kunne tenke deg å dele tida di
Om du kænn sjå for deg at du og jeg blir vi
Har fønni ei som gjør meg glad
Ingen vits å vente da
Om du kunne tenke deg å dele tida di
Om du kunne tenke deg å dele tida di
Om du kænn sjå for deg at du og jeg blir vi
Har fønni ei som gjør meg glad
Ingen vits å vente da
Om du kunne tenke deg å dele tida di
Om du kunne tenke deg å dele tida di
Om du kænn sjå for deg at du og jeg blir vi
Har fønni ei som gjør meg glad
Ingen vits å vente da
Om du kunne tenke deg å dele tida di
At du og jeg blir vi
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2008-August-6th
11:31 am - lurve...
Kjærlighet er mer enn forelskelse - Gaute Ormåsen
Det var så mye rart som frista
Når du merka at det brista
Og du bynte å gå lei
Vi hølt sammen hele tia
Og det var så lenge sia
Det var spennende og nytt
Da du var så betatt ta meg
Da je enda var spennende for deg
[Chorus]
At je elsker deg vet du at je gjør
Dæ forandrer jo ingenting fra før
Dæ er en grunn tel dæ
Kjærlighet er mer enn forelskelse
En forelskelse gir ingen garanti
Kun et håp om et liv førr evig tid
Livet har vist meg det
Kjærlighet er mer enn forelskelse
Sjølstendighet var dæ du trengte
Frihet tel å kunne lengte
Ætter en å dele livet mæ
Det var så grønt på andre sia
Vi hølt sammen hele tia
Men du bynte å gå lei
Og du var så betatt ta meg
Da je enda var spennende for deg
[Chorus]
At je elsker deg vet du at je gjør
Det forandrer jo ingenting fra før
Dæ er en grunn tæl dæ
Kjærlighet er mer enn forelskelse
En forelskelse gir ingen garanti
Kun et håp om et liv før evig tid
Livet har vist meg dæ
Kjærlighet er mer enn forelskelse
Så om ingen kæn erstatte dæ som var
Går du på en blindvei
Du har noe som ingen andre har
kom tælbasjat tæl meg.
[Chorus]
At je elsker deg vet du at je gjør
Dæ forandrer jo ingenting fra før
Dæ er en grunn tæl dæ
Kjærlighet er mer enn forelskelse
En forelskelse gir ingen garanti
Kun et håp om et liv førr evig tid
Livet har vist meg dæ
Kjærlighet er mer enn forelskelse
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2008-June-12th
10:23 am - ugh.. and the saga continues
so.. not much to really write of other than...
a full month-plus of annoyances...
May 7, 2008 - went to a company-sponsored community service outing where we did environmental conservancy; i *know* it's where i got my poison oak;
May 9, 2008 - poison oak manifests and becomes an annoyance; treatment begins with use of Tecnu extreme, hydrocortisone, and benadryl gel
May 30, 2008 - almost all of the poison oak has subsided, BUT patch on right calf re-activates and flares up (blisters, suppurates, seeps)
June 2, 2008 - kaiser prescribes me prednisone (steroids) to aid in reduction of the reaction to the poison oak and sulfa antibiotics to stave off infection.
June 11, 2008 - all day at work, thermostasis is messed up and as the day progresses small allergic reactions pop up; go home early due to onset of intense fever and incoherence; sleep from 330pm all the way to 700am (with infrequent restroom trips at night). After the worst of the fever had broken, I'd had the wherewithal to hunt down my thermometer - 105F... more sleep.
June 12, 2008 - wake up to a temp of about 100; call Kaiser, get a dr's appt for 850am... go in, the doc shakes his head concernedly, but releases me with the proviso that i take benadryl, claritin, pepcid ac as instructed to alleviate the histamine reaction...
I know I should be hungry, but appetite has been suppressed due to the histamine reaction and the fluid flow... I pity the foolio who's around me when this clears and my appetite returns...
I'll post nasty pics of the poison oak and the rash later.....
Current Mood: itchy
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2008-May-6th
11:02 am - *pokes one's head up*
'lo...
been busy of late... hanging out on FaceBook more (easier to incorporate into the workday)...
not too much of interest really...
of note, i guess, would be having spent saturday with family - japantown, archery, visiting relatives passed-on, mahjong at my apartment, hunting for dinner... hanging out..
for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) wicked_danu (the quote from Monsoon Wedding that we bantered about many years ago):
गिरते हैं शाह सवार ही मैदान-ए-जंग में, वोह तिफ़ल क्या गिरेगा जो घुटनो के बल चले |
گیرتی ہیں شاہ سوار ہی میدان جنگ میں، وہ طفل کیا گیریگا جو گھٹنو کے بل چلے
girte haĩ shāh-savār hī maidān-e-jang mẽ, voh tifl kyā giregā jo ghuṭno ke bal chale
“Only brave warriors fall off their horses in battle. How can kneeling cowards know what a fall is?”
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2008-April-15th
2008-April-14th
10:14 am - สวัสดีปีใหม่!!! (Happy New Year) [lg=th]
ขอพระเป็นเจ้าทรงคุ้มครอง
ขออำนวยพร
ความโชคดีจงเป็นของเพื่อนทุกท่าน มีสุขภาพที่แข็งแร้ง ร่ำรวย ก้าวหน้า ปลอดภัยจากภัยอันตราย และเจริญยิ่งๆขึ้นไปทุกคน มีสติ มีทรัพย์สินเงินทองบริบูรณ์ โชคดีทั้งด้านการงานและความรัก
May "The Powers That Be" send these protections
Please send these blessings of good luck for all friends that
you have strength and vitality in your good health
may you have wealth
may you have progress
may you be safe and away from dangers, and
may you prosper continuously
may you be conscious and aware
may you have perfection in your wealth and monies
may you have good fortune with your work and with love
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2008-March-17th
08:50 am - weekend wrap up...
busy as all get out of late...
those who are on FaceBook will know that work has been taking up much of my time..
(I guess I'm "putting in/doing my time" in the industry... again (?))
last Friday...
was going to try and mebbe go hang out and check out a newish club recently opened, but instead ended up taking care of our Ukrainian offshore team as they struggled with flipping out over problems with their last night in the Bay Area... got home at midnight, so.. *phew*
Saturday...
woke up earlier than i would've wanted to given the previous night's "fun"...
got up, drove my tuckus up to the City and met up with coworker, Jamie, and her two roommates to have brunch before going to see one of the SFIAAF ("sfee-aaf"; San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival) screenings... oh.my.word... strong movie...
"بودا از شرم فرویخت" = "Buddha collapsed out of shame"
Set in Båmiyån (Afghanistan), the story centers on two extremely cute yet tragic kids... the movie's made all the more pointed/poignant in that Båmiyån is *the* center of Hazårajåt.. the territory of the descendents of the Mongols who came a-conquering back in the day... phenotyped look is by far much more "Asian" looking, yet they spoke Afghani Persian (which is prosodically very marked from standard Iranian Persian and whose vowel system is definitely much more marked)... to boot, it really tied in the whole Tåjik+Paçtun versus Hazåra dichotomy, as portrayed in The Kite Runner...
Didn't feel like going to see another movie afterwards and ended up sitting in a cafe in the 'Stro drinking some coffee and bumming around on the i-net until I was to meet up with the Syndicators to have dinner prior to their going to see Margaret Cho and also meeting up with our old friend, spupeh. Bar on Castro, Badlands, Osaka sushi, Barracuda were venues for drinks, dancing, and snacks...
Sunday...
Supposed to meet spupeh for two screenings:
"Always Be Boys" and "Glory Boys Forever".. two thumbs up with much smirking for the former and a "hrmmm" for the latter... ended up having dinner with kizoza and benca, watched the relatively painful showing of "Glory Boys Forever" and then had cawfee and desserts at a cafe on Fillmore...
and now... tickets.. =S
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2008-March-14th
2008-March-4th
10:06 am - *wave* hello there...
i'm alive...
relatively busy...
work's ratcheting further and further... =S
social life... enh... holiday season has a short lull for a bit; lots of international coworkers to tend to; family, etc etc etc...
been reading at least 1-2x a day; just not posting much.
mebbe more later... now to plug through about 40 tickets...
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2008-February-10th
2008-January-28th
03:16 pm - amusingly ganked at work...
I'm highly amused...
I yelled at a pickle because the voices told me so.
Pick the month you were born:
January-------I kicked
February------I loved
March---------I karate chopped
April---------I licked
May-----------I jumped on
June----------I smelled
July----------I did the Macarena With
August--------I had lunch with
September-----I danced with
October-------I sang to
November------I yelled at
December------I ran over
Pick the day (number) you were born on:
01-------a birdbath
02-------a monster
03-------a phone
04-------a fork
05-------a snowman
06-------a gangster
07-------my mobile phone
08-------my dog
09-------my best friends' boyfriend
10-------my neighbour
11-------my science teacher
12-------a banana
13-------a fireman
14-------a stuffed animal
15-------a goat
16-------a pickle
17-------your mom
18-------a spoon
19-------a smurf
20-------a baseball bat
21-------a ninja
22-------Chuck Norris
23-------a noodle
24-------a squirrel
25-------a football player
26-------my sister
27-------my bro ther
28-------an ipod
29-------a surfer
30-------a llama
31-------a homeless guy
Pick the color of shirt you are wearing:
White---------because I'm cool like that
Black---------because that's how I roll.
Pink----------because I'm crazy.
Red-----------because the voices told me to.
Blue----------because I'm sexy and I do what I want
Green---------because I think I need some serious help.
Purple--------because I'm AWESOME!
Gray----------because Big Bird said to and he's my leader.
Yellow--------because someone offered me 1,000,000 dollars
Orange--------because my family thinks I'm stupid anyway.
Brown---------because I can.
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2008-January-14th
04:44 pm - nice...
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take a step into the darkness of unknown, we must believe one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on, or we will be taught how to fly. - Patrick Overton
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2007-December-14th
03:13 pm - more lemminghood... viz. vulpine nature...
so, what with the recent Golden Compassing going about, i finally took the daemon test...
( results )
a fox, eh?
狐狸精、きつね、여우、dobi ibagan... me?
heh
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2007-December-6th
12:13 am - sadtimez...
so.. while meandering around in the World of Warcrack...
i took on a simple quest for a simple task... deliver a poem from a NonPlaying character to another... from Alicia to her friend Caylee Dak...
oh.my.word...
first off, it hit me hard just looking over the poem that it was...
starts off with:
"Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there. I do not sleep."
jeezmaneez...
it was one of the poems read for my Dad...
so I read up more and the whole 6 Degrees of Separation hits home...
(1) Dak, the person who played the character, used to live in San Jose,
(2) Dak played a Night Elf hunter (same as myself, except his character was female; mine's male),
(3) Dak was a friend of rickolodeon
I now can put two and two together when Rick had posted in August of his friend's passing...
officially saddened.
must sleep.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/punquinheads/blue/sad.gif) sad
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2007-December-3rd
02:06 pm - grrr..
so i'm all salty about the p'ansori thing...
as soon as i found out, i made my reservation...
but... i *just* got notification that it's 'sold out'; LAME... i'm pretty sure the consulate had to weed out 'less Korean sounding' folk to placate the masses of the elite diaspora...
BAH!
so.. next venue>>
Whirling Dervishes celebrating the year of Rumi...
anyone want to go?
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10:42 am - pansori goodness
Ahn Suk-sun is here on Tuesday for a free performance at Herbst Theater in SF. You can rsvp up to 2 tickets by emailing consularkorea@gmail.com.
Here is more info...
http://sfkorean.com/jsp/news_detail.jsp?news_id=12542&kind=no
When: Tues 12/04/07 7:30 p.m. - 9:00
Where: Herbst Theater
401 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102
Organized by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea, San Francisco
Sponsors: United States International Exchange Foundation (Korea Foundation)
***Admission is free but Consulate General in San Francisco is hoping people sign up via e-mail consularkorea@gmail.com. you can reserve 2 seats per person requesting.
merchimerch - i'm sure it's a long shot, what with it being a tuesday night in the final throes of fall term... but, if you can make it up... this woman (and 9 others) are probably THE top in this traditional form of Korean vocal arts.
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12:02 am - of late...
don't end up writing too much...
guess i've been distracted (?) or busied otherwise...
(some would call it an addiction; *some* joke about it... hrmpf.. calling it warcrack...)
all humor aside... time's just flying...
last friday was the last day of a month's worth of quiet and actually being happy and motivated to get to work and work... why do i say the last day of a month's time... well, manager returns and i know the euphoria of having gotten married in hong kong will wear off as the pressure of a full month's worth of work/mail has piled up and clamors for his attention... meh...
friday... hrmm...
i don't quite recall...
all i remember was lateness...
saturday...
was supposed to call Simon and his wife, Lili, when i woke up.. suffice it to say, *i* was awoken at a laaaate hour in the late afternoon...
i made it to rockridge to have dinner with them, since it's been about 2 yrs since last i saw them...
saw their new pad; met their child (read: cat), Lucy; had great pizza and 'tall blue drink' at the conga lounge above rustica on college... went back to their place and geeked out talking about WoW and missed Mike Stone's store's opening bash.. =(
drove over to PARTY: VIDEO... wow.. it'd been a while.. so many memories since the last event i had attended there... 't'was good, however to see kuteluvr and craig, the hosts... and of course to see spawrhawk... it was a nice party... had amazingly fun chats with a few folk, had a lot of deep talk with Mikie about fathers passing.. and as the *true* beginning of all Casa del Pecado parties started, i made my way home... lots of thinking along the way... memories...
today (Sunday)...
oddly enough, got up early (for having gotten to sleep at 3am), didn't hear from R., so i headed up to the City... putzed around Cow Hollow and meandered in stores, since i got an SMS from my cousin pushing our meeting back from 200pm to 400pm... Union St has some nice fun things to explore there...
made it to see my cousin, hung out for a bit talking and then helped my cousins empty out the random accretion in the 10 piece tansu set they were giving me; moved said tansu to my car; chatted for about another hour or two, then we headed to dinner... ended up at Woodhouse Fish Company and got to see Dylan (owner of the restaurant and ex-coworker).. dinner was yum... we then went to get ice-cream...
ok... i will now agree with my cousins (who are true foodies)... their favorite ice cream place has become my all-time favorite ice cream place... BiRite ice cream on 18th, below Dolores.. OMG... 'salted caramel' (might *sound* odd, but tastes diVINE) and 'brown sugar caramelized ginger'...
played more with the nephew...
finally drove home...
zomg...
moving 10 pieces of furniture on your own at 1130pm...
not so great...
put the 6 larger pieces on a furniture dolly, used that saran moving wrap to stabilize... but DIGGITYZANG... looooud...
got the 6 into the apartment; wen back to get two more... figured.. pfeh.. just get the last 2 and the bags of drawers... yayyy.. all here now...
*bounce bounce* extremely excited about how to set it all up (and then retrieve the rest of the furniture from my other cousin...)
now all i have to do is figure how i'm going to get the dead tv and its stand out...
well, i guess i can do it myself..
i bought the furniture dolly (so, now jschlachet78 jschlachet75
and RyDy no longer have to have me asking to borrow theirs all the time. =) probably will just figure a way to load the tv onto the furniture dolly by my lonesome and cart it up to the area everyone leaves their big stuff... (if only i could temporarily duplicate myself so i had an extra pair of hands...)
so.. vurry tarred...
'night, all...
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2007-November-29th
12:29 pm - Hafez (non-English, w/translation)
هرگز نمیرد، انكه دلش زنده شد به عشق
Hargez namirad, anke delash zendeh shod be eshq
"never dieth that one, whose heart is alive with love"
- Hafez
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