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Akemashite Omedetou! (Happy New Year!)

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Are you ready for 2009? I’m not sure I am, but I guess that doesn’t stop it from being here.

Yes, i’m in my second day back to work, and I thought that maybe i’d get to slowly eeeaaaaaasse my way into working again. I took 1.5 weeks off and that was AMAZING. Needless to say, I forgot all about work. I’m surprised i still remembered where i sat when i came back. Sadly, that luxury of warming up into work was not afforded me.

I’m already on a project that looks to be somewhat as painful as the one i was working on for 4 months of last year. My stress pimples are already quivering, ready to pop out of my face! ew. (sorry for the visual) Oh well, at least it’s helping me start off with high productivity!

How was your holiday season? I’ve noticed that since I once lived in New York, i have become much more particular about saying, “Happy Holiday” instead of “Merry Christmas” so as not to offend anyone. Then there was the odd hybrid of “Happy Christmakwanzakah!” which never really never rolled off the tongue as easily as I’d have liked. Anyway, so how was it? Mine was great. I didn’t travel anywhere farther than Loma Linda. Family was in town. I got to spend a lot time with Dennis. Lots of friends were in town. It was pretty awesome!

Well here’s wishing you a wonderful 2009! Expect to see my annual photobook posted in the next few days! (or weeks...or months… lol)

My apologies: I am alive still

Monday, August 18, 2008

I think this is the longest blog-break I’ve taken in awhile. SORRY!

Things have just gotten a bit hectic. I’m taking on more projects than I can really handle, am preoccupied with my human relations (wow that sounds like a cyborg talking!), and have the inability to say “no” to hanging out with friends. This all makes for a whirlwind of activity that has kept me from you, my adoring blaudience. You like that? I just made it up. Blog + audience = blaudience. You think people will pick that up? Yeah...probably not…

I have to say that I have been so blessed with the tons of people that have been a huge support out here. The peeps I hang with are hyper-social and fun to hang out with. I was just remembering back to less than a year ago when I had almost no friends locally for almost 2 years. I think I died a little inside. But things are different now!

Everything in the works is building towards something great in the future that I can be proud of, from the relationships that I’m building to the jobs I take, to the projects I invest myself in. I guess I’m feeling pretty good right about now. A far cry from my last post.

Once again, I apologize for my absence, but trust me: great things are in the works.

Kick. Push. Coast.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

I just bought a skateboard. I’m not sure why. I just wanted to. 

The only problem is that i have no idea how to ride. Yeah, that’s right. NO IDEA. Anyone want to teach me? I’d love for someone to help me *not* crack my skull open. I don’t want to do anything fancy; just to ride and not fall off. No crazy aerials or anything.

Then Lennox sent me a link to Lupe Fiaso’s song, “Kick Push.” Just thought I’d share:

Lupe Fiasco: Kick Push

And please, somebody teach me how to coast!

LACMA's BCAM Opening

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

I know it looks like just a jumble of letters, but it was really an exciting event!

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has just recently opened up it’s new wing, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM). And thanks to my cow-orker Jeffrey, I got a chance to go to the members-only Opening Night Gala. Woooooooooh!

What an exciting event! I wasn’t even sure what to expect. Or what to wear! I kept thinking, “Is this one of those events where people wear evening gowns?” Thank goodness I didn’t. But who knew what or who I’d see? And now that I’m looking around at all the other websites that covered the event, I should have been looking for celebrities! Silly me didn’t even notice them at all though. I actually went and looked at the exhibits themselves. We even almost missed the catered food and free drinks and the jazz trio in the reception tent. It was very cool - it had a lighted runway and psychedelic light patterns moving across cubes overhanging each table.

Here are some pics:

Urban Light installation in the front of the BCAM entrance

The view of the back stairwell into the museum.

I even got a refresher course on contemporary art, as Jeffrey is very knowledgeable about such things. It really made the art more relevant to have someone there with whom I could discuss each piece. Honestly, I don’t *get* a lot of contemporary art, and it’s intriguing to listen to someone explain why a piece was relevant or conversely why an artist might be considered a “charlatan” or why the artist is “genius.” (Or at least considered so by those who decide what is Art [with a capital A!] and what it kitsch.)

Check out the BCAM when you get a chance! The Serra pieces are awesome to wander through and I’m sure you’ll love the Kruger elevator. Not so sure about the 3 basketballs floating in water, but hey, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? So go behold!

Happy VD!

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Ah Valentine’s Day, the day of Obligatory Love!

Usually on this day, I greet people by saying, “Happy VD!” As you might guess, there is a bit of ire against this holiday. Whether you’re with someone special or not, this day has always irked me because it just becomes a big pissing contest between women, and men get caught up in the aftermath.

Woman 1: “What did *your* boyfriend do for you?”

Woman 2: “Oh he took me to Paris and bought me a new wardrobe and finished it off with a fabulous diamond ring!”

Woman 1: “Oh.”

Later, she yells at her boyfriend for the thoughtful gift he made her because it wasn’t made out of diamonds and wasn’t delivered to her in Paris.

I dunno, it just seems that the whole thing is so obligatory. So...NOT about love. And yet, you have to participate. No matter what. Because if you don’t participate because you’re taking a stance against the commercialism, well, you still kind of suck because someone is gonna end up getting hurt in that scenario, and it just might be you and your lower jaw after she hits you with a solid uppercut!

Wow, I think this is actually turning into a rant!

Anyway, I just wanted to inform all those who have adopted the “Happy VD” greeting that we are horribly horribly outdated! For some reason, I thought venereal disease was a specific kind of sexually transmitted disease, like herpes or something. But NO. I was an umbrella term used in the same was that STD is currently used! Thanks to my health educator friend, Cary, I’m now in the know!

But what the heck is a venereal anyway? Apparently the word “venereal” has something to do with love and specifically sexual love. Who knew? My best guess was that it had something to do with another “v” word that was located somewhere in the nether regions…

The bottom line is, if we wish to continue using this greeting, we’ll have to update it to “Happy STD!” which, while it may still be applicable on Valentine’s Day, does not have nearly the same impact or word-play fun as “Happy VD!”

You know what? I don’t care if I’m outdated! I think I’ll stick with VD. Won’t you?

My (Delinquent) Report on My Trip to Singapore

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Oh I have been TERRIBLE and not written a post since I got back!

And there’s so much to write about! I got to do and see so many things!

But as soon as I got home, I had to hit the ground running at work. Phew!

The best I can do is offer up my most humble apologies and put up a link to my web album so you can look through all 247 photos that I took. That’s right TWO-HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN pics. (And that’s down from the 892 pics I took over the entire trip. Apparently I’m a bad photographer and had to cull out many of the other ones.)

Singapore Sling: The Island Experience After 20 years of Absence

Enjoy!