According to studies, when it comes to earwax, its best to leave it alone! Are you intrigued? This was a headline on MSN.COM that caught my attention. I'm weird like that! For someone who loves swabbing her ears after a shower every day - this is somewhat of a dilemma. I feel dirty without doing it!! Hrm ~~
Here's the link if you're interested:
http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100214367>1=31036
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
On Relationships
I think you can change the nature of a relationship. I really think you can. But only if you really want to. And to find out if you really want to, you have to first determine whether or not you really want that other person in the relationship. You have to determine, if they are really worth it.
I think all relationships are hard - too hard if you want to go that far. That's why people break up every day: because its too hard. But I think when you break up with someone because "its too hard" it really boils down to the fact that you don't want want that person enough to try to make this "too hard relationship" work.
Remember in the movie "The Notebook" ?? :::
Noah: Would you just stay with me?
Allie: Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we are already fighting.
Noah: Well that's what we do. We fight. You tell me when I'm being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are being a pain in the ass. Which you are 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a two second rebound rate and your back do doing the next pain in the ass thing.
Allie: So what.
Noah: So it's not going to be easy. It's going to be really hard. And we're going to have to work at this every day. But I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, every day.
Once you figure out if you want to do (or not do) that with someone, I think you'll know what to do. Until then, we just have to be troubled with trying to figure out this question. If you figure out that you do not want that person, a breakup will happen. If you figure out that you do want that person, you will try to make it work and you'll go do something about it!
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I think all relationships are hard - too hard if you want to go that far. That's why people break up every day: because its too hard. But I think when you break up with someone because "its too hard" it really boils down to the fact that you don't want want that person enough to try to make this "too hard relationship" work.
Remember in the movie "The Notebook" ?? :::
Noah: Would you just stay with me?
Allie: Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we are already fighting.
Noah: Well that's what we do. We fight. You tell me when I'm being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are being a pain in the ass. Which you are 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a two second rebound rate and your back do doing the next pain in the ass thing.
Allie: So what.
Noah: So it's not going to be easy. It's going to be really hard. And we're going to have to work at this every day. But I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, every day.
Once you figure out if you want to do (or not do) that with someone, I think you'll know what to do. Until then, we just have to be troubled with trying to figure out this question. If you figure out that you do not want that person, a breakup will happen. If you figure out that you do want that person, you will try to make it work and you'll go do something about it!
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Saturday, August 23, 2008
Random Thoughts from the East Coast
I have been overwhelmed in a sense, of all the happenings that has been going on here in the East Coast. I have never jammed packed so many things into a vacation trip before. It has definitely been an experience - one that I probably will not be able to write about completely. However, here are some random thoughts.
Philadelphia, is a very colonial and cute city. It has no sales tax on shoes and clothes. I bought a lot of crap here. I walk around the city and I feel already like I'm truly in a historic place. I like it. It does feel homey.
New York City, is a definitely a crazy city. Bars serve me drinks until 4am even during the weekdays. WICKED was an experience I will never forget. I probably couldn't have a better first experience with a New York City Broadway Show! Time Square and all the lights captivated me again. Wall Street, Statute of Liberty at Battery Park, K-town, Chinatown, East Village, Union Square ... etc etc etc! Wow! No other city I've been to compares to Manhattan. It's a world of its own.
Family, is one of the most, if not THE most important thing in the whole wide world.
Fashion, I'm trying! I have new clothes - and they are different!
Interior designing, confused!
I have been humbled by how much the emotion of love can bring so much humility. If only people would let themselves become more vulnerable - then maybe they might be able to say that they have truly loved before!
Orange, is that the new pink?
Apparently, we cousins cannot get tired of talking! Talking!! ...
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus!
High Fidelity
2009 Memories
Set your alarm to 12p.m.
Elphaba
Statute of Liberty - FINALLY!
Ann Taylor Loft
PearBasil
ALDO
Sullung Tang @ Gam Mi Oak
Ohh little sisters!
Walking ...
Thoughts
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Back in California
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Santorini
I first heard about this place a while ago from a friend of a friend who is now my friend. I will refer to him as DW. Anyway, I told him that I planned to do a "euro trip" after the bar next year and he insisted that I visited Santorini.
I watched a movie today called "Sisterhood of the traveling pants" and one of the "sisters" went to Santorini, Greece for the summer. It looked absolutely so beautiful. I started looking around online today and decided in my boredom that I will plan my euro trip for next year. And among the most valued place I want to visit is Santorini. It has become my new obsession.
A little history: Santorini is essentially what remains of an enormous volcanic explosion. It is a small circular island located in the southern Aegean Sea southwest from Greece's mainland. A popular theory holds that Santorini was the location of the fabled Atlantis! The island is the site of the largest volcanic eruptions the planet has ever seen - during the Minoan Era.
At first, I think I wanted to just save this place for my honeymoon, but with that event not even close to the horizon of my future, I decided to say screw it. I can easily just find a cute Grecian boy to enjoy the beautiful sunsets with and be really happy too! ;)
I am obsessed!!
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For more pictures, please visit DK's photo website: http://ninja-don.livejournal.com/12962.html#cutid1
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Thoughtful!
"I'm just a very goal oriented person and if I see something that needs to get done, I do it. Just sometimes, I think that if I don't make things happen then they won't happen because no one will want them as much as I do. "
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Friday, August 8, 2008
The MPRE
The MPRE is the multi-state professional responsibilities exam that is required in order for you to be sworn in to any bar. It's like a moral/ethics kind of test.
Well, I took that this morning and know that I DID NOT PASS. I studied less than 10 hours for that test unfortunately and honestly, I felt really hesitant about all the questions today. That serves me right. Oh well, I will take it again in November and hopefully I will have studied more diligently.
And for those of you not in law school, NO - I didn't fail this test because I'm not a moral person. I failed it because it is based on black letter laws - you actually have to memorize a lot of rules and laws in order to answer these questions. It's not like they're asking you "If you are an attorney and your client asks you to commit a crime of murder - do you do it or not?" I hope all of you know the answer is "NO, you do not do it!" :)
Have a GREAT day! :)
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Well, I took that this morning and know that I DID NOT PASS. I studied less than 10 hours for that test unfortunately and honestly, I felt really hesitant about all the questions today. That serves me right. Oh well, I will take it again in November and hopefully I will have studied more diligently.
And for those of you not in law school, NO - I didn't fail this test because I'm not a moral person. I failed it because it is based on black letter laws - you actually have to memorize a lot of rules and laws in order to answer these questions. It's not like they're asking you "If you are an attorney and your client asks you to commit a crime of murder - do you do it or not?" I hope all of you know the answer is "NO, you do not do it!" :)
Have a GREAT day! :)
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Minesweeper
For those of you who know me, I am a minesweeper addict. I play it all the time, constantly and will forever. I think I have a sometimes serious case of ADD and must be doing something with my hands constantly. If you have been lucky enough to have held my hand before, you will notice that my fingers are constantly "twitching" because I am constantly tapping something out with them! I can play minesweeper for hours and hours straight without break - probably bathroom break or something. I like to play when I'm sad or angry or when I'm happy or basically any mood. I think my record for how many hours straight I can play minesweeper has got to be 5+ hours no problem. Although my hand does come out like a stiff "claw" like shape afterwards. But I feel so satisfied!
In any case my story today has a point. In the past many months (less than 1 year) I have been trying to beat a score of 62 on expert. 62 is RK's all time best score that he happened to show me by beating any record I had on my computer.
Well, it is time to congratulate me because I finally beat his and my all time best score (in our lifetime) by 1 second. That puts me as the new minesweeper champion at 61 seconds on expert level - this is a better score than anyone's I know of personally!!
I feel so accomplished!
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In any case my story today has a point. In the past many months (less than 1 year) I have been trying to beat a score of 62 on expert. 62 is RK's all time best score that he happened to show me by beating any record I had on my computer.
Well, it is time to congratulate me because I finally beat his and my all time best score (in our lifetime) by 1 second. That puts me as the new minesweeper champion at 61 seconds on expert level - this is a better score than anyone's I know of personally!!
I feel so accomplished!
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Monday, August 4, 2008
Update on BOOKS
Okay, I'm a flake. This is the truth.
I finished reading PERSUASION by Jane Austen already, but I have really yet to finish any of my other books that I keep starting. As you know if you're on my facebook and can see what I'm "reading" right now (one of their features/network that you can join), I am reading:
1) Don't sweat the small stuff (its all just small stuff) - which I leave in the bathroom as reading material for those trips ^_^
2) Wicked by Gregory Maguire
3) Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
4) Laurell K Hamilton's Incubus Dreams
I have yet to finish any of them yet. Super sad! However, I do have a fun trip to the east coast planned that I can read during the traveling portions of the trip. I am hopeful! I must finish at least THESE books before August 25th when school starts and I am forced to read those horrid law books again.
Hee eee about my choice of random books! Vampires, classic, fantasy, and self-help!! Sounds like a great mix to me! :)
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I finished reading PERSUASION by Jane Austen already, but I have really yet to finish any of my other books that I keep starting. As you know if you're on my facebook and can see what I'm "reading" right now (one of their features/network that you can join), I am reading:
1) Don't sweat the small stuff (its all just small stuff) - which I leave in the bathroom as reading material for those trips ^_^
2) Wicked by Gregory Maguire
3) Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
4) Laurell K Hamilton's Incubus Dreams
I have yet to finish any of them yet. Super sad! However, I do have a fun trip to the east coast planned that I can read during the traveling portions of the trip. I am hopeful! I must finish at least THESE books before August 25th when school starts and I am forced to read those horrid law books again.
Hee eee about my choice of random books! Vampires, classic, fantasy, and self-help!! Sounds like a great mix to me! :)
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BAD!
A whole bottle of Rose's PEAR cocktail infusions
+
All of this medium size bottle of vodkaBETWEEN
2 light weight girls
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Lying in my bathroom floor for 5 hours!
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Friday, August 1, 2008
Thoughtful!
“When you're young, your whole life is about the pursuit of fun. Then, you grow up and learn to be cautious. You could break a bone or a heart. You look before you leap and sometimes you don't leap at all because there's not always someone there to catch you. And in life, there's no safety net. When did it stop being fun and start being scary?”
"I'm looking for love.
Real love.
Ridiculous
Inconvenient
Consuming
Can't-live-without-each-other love."
"Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous."
- Carrie Bradshaw
I have taken the time this summer to revisit Sex and the City all over again. I have pulled some of my favorite thoughtful quotes from the show and posted them on here.
The first quote is meaningful to me because I do think that people get more cautious in general about everything as time goes on. As kids, we were almost fearless. If someone said jump, we would jump and wouldn't bother to think about the consequences. Now, if someone says jump, we look around, see if its safe, ask why we're jumping etc. I feel as if I am just scared of everything now and can't be carefree.
The second quote is meaningful to me because I do think that whatever our definitions are of "love" and whether we believe in it or not, we are looking for IT. We want the ridiculous, the inconvenient, fiery emotion that everyone talks about. If you've noticed, the first person you thought you were in love with (called your first love), you loved them so passionately with all the fiber of your being. After that relationship happened, have you really been able to give yourself as freely as you did then? Again, you're scared, you're cautious and you may have given up or will give up chances to this thing, this crazy love you want so badly, but cannot seem to let yourself have.
Third, this quote is absolutely fantastic because it keeps reminding me that I have to love myself first before anything. Your own relationship with yourself I believe is truly the most exciting, the most challenging, and the most significant relationship you'll ever have. And really, if you can find someone who loves the person you love, well that really is just fabulous!
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"I'm looking for love.
Real love.
Ridiculous
Inconvenient
Consuming
Can't-live-without-each-other love."
"Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous."
- Carrie Bradshaw
I have taken the time this summer to revisit Sex and the City all over again. I have pulled some of my favorite thoughtful quotes from the show and posted them on here.
The first quote is meaningful to me because I do think that people get more cautious in general about everything as time goes on. As kids, we were almost fearless. If someone said jump, we would jump and wouldn't bother to think about the consequences. Now, if someone says jump, we look around, see if its safe, ask why we're jumping etc. I feel as if I am just scared of everything now and can't be carefree.
The second quote is meaningful to me because I do think that whatever our definitions are of "love" and whether we believe in it or not, we are looking for IT. We want the ridiculous, the inconvenient, fiery emotion that everyone talks about. If you've noticed, the first person you thought you were in love with (called your first love), you loved them so passionately with all the fiber of your being. After that relationship happened, have you really been able to give yourself as freely as you did then? Again, you're scared, you're cautious and you may have given up or will give up chances to this thing, this crazy love you want so badly, but cannot seem to let yourself have.
Third, this quote is absolutely fantastic because it keeps reminding me that I have to love myself first before anything. Your own relationship with yourself I believe is truly the most exciting, the most challenging, and the most significant relationship you'll ever have. And really, if you can find someone who loves the person you love, well that really is just fabulous!
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