February 11, 2006

• “   THINGS I DON’T LIKE:

  
  What’s next?  Ipod Toilet Paper?
  “Feel TRENDY while you’re taking a dump!”
  
  Don’t get me wrong, the other two Ipods are cool, but with this one, I guess the
  folks at Apple assumed that since their market is so dumbed-down, that they’d
  create a product to match….and, voila!  Ipod Shuffle!  THIS SHOULD
  BE THE SHUFFLE’S NEW AD CAMPAIGN SLOGAN:  Amazing how many consumers will
  buy what we (Apple) tell them they don’t need!

  Oh geee, I can’t wait to buy the new “Ipod Rock!”  It may look
  like just a plain, old rock with the pretty Apple logo embossed onto it, but
  inside the Ipod Rock lies Apple’s secret & patented Imagination-Us-Scamming-You^©
  Technology.  We spent exhaustive hours doing market research analysis
  (read:  find ways to boost profit margin) to come up with this amazing new
  product!  We cut out such frivolous features as:  an MP3 player & earphones! 
  Yep!!  Just hold the Ipod Rock in your hand and imagine
  yourself hearing the music!  (*works best when user is standing near
  someone loudly playing their boombox, car stereo, or in an elevator)  “

  That was an excerpt from Miss Caroline Nguyen’s
  MySpace. Im not much of a plageriser but I just wanted to share one of
  her writings with everyone cuz I think we all need a good laugh and
  she’s much better at being funnier than I can ever try to be. haha.
  well if you wanna read more of her you can check it at http://www.myspace.com/carolinenguyen
  I should warn you though… her page is decked out in writing, so if
  you think I write a lot… laugh yourself insane when you see HER page.
  LoL. fair warning yo.

  And why I chose this excerpt? Maybe cuz today Matthew
  showed me his Ipod Shuffle and said I was mad cuz I didn’t have one.
  Well, there yoo go buddy. LoL. I’m one of the few people left who still
  does not have an Ipod of some sort and I’m OKAE with that. If you can
  remember, Ipod was not of the things on my birthday wish list. I guess
  I do not value traveling music as much as I should. I used to think I
  did, like 2 Christmas ago, I begged for a mini MP3 player so my brother
  got me a really sick one… I liked it for the first 2 days…but
  eventually I found no use for it so I kinda gave it back to my brother
  then when my birthday came around, he asked me if I wanted to be
  upgraded to an Ipod, I asked for a digi cam instead, which I am in love
  with and so you are cuz they produce about 95% of the pictures that you
  love to stare at on here! hehe. I am perfectly happy making tapes of my
  fav songs to listen to in the car cuz our cd player is broken. LoL.
  When was the last time you saw someone using tapes??!! Well, come hitch
  a ride with me and you too can listen to some good but poor quality
  music.

  Anyhow.. speaking of digicams and pictures… let me
  share some more pictures from Nana’s visit that I got from other
  people… so you guys who went can sucker off of these. hehe.

  
  The whole lot of us.. would you like me to name them?  *takes a deep breath* top row: Nancy, Jennie, Susan, Alexis, and Andrew. Bottom row: Pansy, Dennis, Darwin, Cheryl, Myself, Nana, Jillian, Adena, Vanessa, Rosanna, Jake, and Garbo.
  of course these names means nothing to you but I think that all these
  wonderful people deserve a mentioning in my xanga with bolden names.

  
  Cheryl, Myself, and Nana. Bread and water .. yum…

  
  Myself, Nana, Jillian, and Adena. I
  REALLY like this one.. lean lengthy arms and berry red lips when you
  noe I’m one to be short, pudgy, and plain lipped. Thank you restricting
  jacket and olive oil dip.

  
  I have a lot of these types of pictures. Of course I do.. I mean, I
  spend 1/2 of my life with my eyes closed in sleep, blinking, and
  looking down… its only natural at least one of my pictures turn out
  this way…

  
  The bill. Who knew linguine would cost the most. gee.. talk about your expensive taste.

  
  Rosanna and Myself. Darwin said we’re surprisingly photogenic … hahaha. cuz he shoved the camera in our faces and just snapped, no warning.

  
  Nancy, Nana, Myself, Rosanna, and Garbo….the raising of other people’s hair… highly raved about in Japan picture posing techniques. hehe.

  I want to go…. blonde!!! I just gotta convince Mommy to
  let me do it.. or well, do it for me. She’s mostly worried about my dad
  but I think he’s color blind. I can get away with ANY make up around
  him whereas Mommy is much more
  critical about that kind of stuff. And since I go to school in the
  morning with her now, I cant leave the house with the crazy ass make up
  anyore. She wouldn’t let me. But yea.. I REALLY want to go blonde…
  hehe.

  Yoo noe what, it’s been a long long time since anyone’s
  bought any juice in my house. Like the cartons of juice.. I LOVE
  those.. but lately it’s only been the nasty pineapple juice.. sure, we
  have bottled juice and gatorade but I love the cartons so much more. It
  just seems so much fresher. There’s definitely been an increase in the
  amount of milk though.. ugh. Thats too bad cuz it sort of just goes
  down the drain a few days after the expiration day. Its my mom’s plan
  for me to get taller and to keep my figure. It’s not working cuz 1. I’m
  not drinking the milk. 2. Im not getting any taller 3. I’m still
  getting heavier.

  LoL. Let’s talk about that. Now, I am NEVER one to talk
  about weight cuz well, its just uncomfortable for me. Im sort of on the
  tiny short side and I still wear kids clothes so no one really notices
  my figure. Or at least I dont think they do. So lets be blunt.. Im not
  exactly your small and skinny type.. but Im not exactly the small but
  large type either.. Im somewhere in between. I can’t exactly fit the XS
  nor do I neccessarily bulge out of my clothes like some girls do, which
  by the way is freakin disgusting… I have no problem with girls who
  have a lil extra .. tissue… but mayn.. I hate staring at that lil
  hairy (hahahaha!) roll sticking out of their lil shirts and kinda
  hanging over their super tight jeans.. ugh.. dont they know to invest
  in some shape flaterring outfits. Anyhow, lets admit I have some fat in
  the right places and some in the err… not perferred places.. so whats
  this called? Pudgy. hehe. Ever call me that in real life and I swear I
  will make yer face swell up to be “pudgy” too.

  Buying clothes for pudgy people is hard… cuz in
  certain places the clothes fits you idealy yet in other places its not
  as flattering. So what do I do? I’m getting into the idea of altering
  my clothes… I haven’t tried it yet cuz I havent bought anything
  recently.. When yoo’ve been the same size since middle school and you
  take generally good care of your clothes, you by default have a lot of
  clothes from over the years cuz nothing needs to be thrown out since
  you don’t outgrow anything (no matter how out of style they may be!
  hehe.)

  Well, lets go into this a little deeper… maybe its
  time I tell some of my better hidden secrets… Keep in mind, I chose
  to talk about this on my own term and I would appreciate this if you
  did not discuss it with me anytime soon. It’s something I want to get
  out there but not something I need to be talking about with a
  repsonding person… I know the consequences of my own actions, the
  last thing I need is a lecture from ANYONE. So don’t get all worried
  about me, you’ll only make me angry and annoyed. I trust you all not to
  hurt yourselves with your smoking, drugs, alchohol, and other general
  teenage stupidity so trust me on this one. Besides, I absolutely do not
  do it anymore, thats part of the reason why I can go and talk about it.
  

  I don’t know how familiar people are with eating
  disorders. We were talking about it in AP Psychology and I was
  surprised how little people knew. I, on the other hand, knew A LOT
  about it, I did extensive research in middle school for numerous
  reports. We tend to use the phrase “damn, she looks anorexic” a lot and
  it annoys me cuz well… I’ve been through times where I’ve abused
  myself. It’s always when I’m feeling absolutely down about my weight
  that I do things I know I shouldnt. It was late middle school or early
  high school that I started doing it. Doing what? purging or like…
  puking out everything I ate. I never went on any crazy diet cuz I just
  cant stick to it.. and I never binged ate either, thats where you eat
  sooo much that yer not only full but its physically painful for you cuz
  you’ve eaten sooo much then you purge it all out. I just purged after
  regular meals. I’ve done it more than once but I only remember one
  particular time.

  When there was a family gathering… and we were all
  out in the back eating open fire seafood. I’m a seafood fanatic… so I
  was more into the eating than the whole social thing… Another thing,
  I used to be a REALLY slow eater compared to my cousins so I would
  always be the last to leave the dinner table. Anyhow.. we’re sitting
  there eating and by now all the kids cousins have left so its just me
  eating with the adults.. and my parents kept handing me oytsers and
  muscles and all these stuff that I love… You have to understand my
  parents never want me to diet or worry about my weight, they think
  eating is healthy (lately my mom has started talkign to me about
  staying in shape but rememebr this happened a long time ago). In
  actuality, I havent really ate a lot, I’m just super slow at it..But
  point is.. I was sitting at the table the longest.. so then the adults
  start talking about weight.. and about how some of my kid cousins are
  getting thicker from pastas and bread and general American food.. And
  Im sitting there stuffing myself.. so of course the talk turns to me..
  They starting saying some like warning things to me about eating too
  much and getting fat…. until my dad looked at me then said, ” she’s a
  kid, she should eat more, thats healthy.” and suddenly the other adults
  agreed and tried to play it off with a, “don’t worry, sea food won’t
  make you fat.” I hated that.. I wanted to cry but then instead, I just
  kept eating and eating and eating cuz I was madD… By now I didnt care
  that all my kids cousins were inside the house partying and kept
  calling me to join them.. As I sat there.. my anger kept building and
  building and building to the point where I hated EVERYONE of them. The
  kids for abonding me and the adults for talking shit. By now, I had
  eaten past the point where I was full (it doesnt take a lot to make me
  full, half a small bowl of rice will do).. Im just eating now cuz Im
  angry.. finally I ran into the bathroom and stared at myself in the
  mirror.. I started crying, I was grabbing my stomaching and like
  pinching myself all over the place feeling for how fat I was… Now
  that I look back.. its fucking SADD for a little like 14 year old to be
  doing that. Then yoo noe what I did, I grabbed my toothbrush and shoved
  it down my throat as I hovered of the toilet bowl… I purged
  everything out then I felt really sick. I ended up locking myself in my
  room all day. I think that was the last time I ever purged… I think,
  I’m not sure.

  See, people should REALLY watch what they say and how
  they say it. You never know how someone would react. No one knew what I
  did, no one has ever known until.. well, now. Anyhow, I just wanted to
  get that out there. Can I repeat again, do not start showing pity or
  concern for me.. I seriously will get annoyed and angry. I’m sure I’m
  not the only one to have been this way, lots of people go through self
  abuse. The thing is.. you have to learn to get over it and accept
  yourself for the way you are.  I dont LOVE my body but I take
  pride in what I do have and weakly try to fix what I want less of. I
  can live with myself and Im sure no one gets sick at the sight of me…
  LoL, they better not!!

  Feeling awkward yet?! Girls discussing thier bodies..
  ewwww. hahahaha. I think one of the worst phrases I have to bear with
  fellow teens is, “shit, I’m hella fat.” or the simple, “I’m fat.” or
  even the term, “I’m a fatass.” Even worse “You’re a fatass.” Um… no
  one likes to hear that about anyone…. so lets refrain from saying
  that. Please. Anyhow… whos up for jogging or keeping to a healthier
  diet with me?!?! Anybody noticed the extremely tasty AND healthy snacks
  and salads I have been bringing to school??!? a benefit of having Mommy awake
  before I have to leave for school 8o)  Yea… but has anyone
  notice how much chips or candy I’ve been shoving into my face? all that
  hot Cheetoes and Gardettos and Gushers… hehe. I can never win.

  Anyhow, lets break from that for a while…

  I would love for you to check out this video.. its a
  cross of my two most prized nationalities.. French and Vietnamese..
  It’s a song in French about Vietnam.. The images are beautiful and the
  song is on the joyful side. I hope you enjoy!
  Bonjour Vietnam by Pham Quynh Anh shared with me by Phu.
  http://www.visualgui.com/motion/BonjourVietnam.html
  Translations here:
  http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=62902

  © VaN PhaM

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