hRmm...supposed to leave for mammoth in an hour or so. haven't been skiing for awhile *yaY*.
hey guess what! the ISP that my office uses (used), went bankrupt yesterday :). sOooo...don't email me at my leap.org address anymore. instead, write me @ gsunoo@hotmail.com cool? cool.
oH yeah. i made a cool quiz :p...so uhh go Take My Cool Quiz! yeah.
okay time to go pack now. i'll be back on sunday :).
peaCes.

well well well. it's sunday again.
before I get into my usual pointless banter..I have an honest question to ask all (4) of you readers. :).
So as most of you know..I am an Asian American Studies major. (i think i've mentioned that enough in this blog :p). Anyway, being close to graduation and all, I've been thinking about what to do "after college" a LOT lately. Sometime within the past 3 years, I decided that I wanted to do some type of community oriented, grass roots type of work, and then eventually get my MA in something or another. Along with the decision to take on a community oriented job, comes the decision to work harder for less. A huge majority (if not ALL), of the ppl who i know that work in this industry are EXTREMELY dedicated to their job..they often work 60+ hour weeks, for less than $30k a year. It's craziness. Sometime in high school, when all the other kids were dreaming about driving mercedes or porsches, I started telling myself that I didn't want to be like that. In fact, I almost resented people of privilege. I mean, how can people be so filthy rich when so many people are so poor? But anyway, what i'm trying to say is that I have spent the last 6 or so years of my life assuming that I am not going to make a whole lot of money in the future. But on the otherside of the coin, most people who know me also know that I LOVE spending money, and buying stuff. Not only that, I LOVE the finer things in life. I mean....I'll be the first to admit that I too come from that privileged background which I so often resent. But besides even a love for spending money, and "finer things in life" (visions of the robb report come to mind :) ). I also feel a HUGE need to be able to provide for my family. I worry that while I might "fight the good fight", I won't be able to take my family out, provide my kids with as good of an upbringing as I feel that I have had. Hmm guess I better marry a doctor or something :). So how am I gonna pull this off? And are there any rich women out there that want to marry me and support my habits for the rest of my life? :)
Anyway...now back to the usual mindless banter.
This weekend was cool. One of my best friends (james) came home for spring break. I introduce him to everyone as "my friend from kindergarten" :p. it's true. we've known each other since mrs. bauchiero's (Bow-Key-Arrow) kindergarten class. I think we even ate paste together :p. So it's always nice when he comes home and we get to hang out.
Last night, James and I and some of my other boyz went to The Gig (on melrose)...we saw a friend of a friend's hip hop band perform. They're called the underlords and they're BADA$$. Put on a dope ass show...too bad there was some stupid drama which kinda killed everything. but that's what happens, I guess. I'm just glad nobody got hurt (it woulda been them and not us that got hurt :).). So that was basically the only thing that I did this weekend worth reporting...:p
okay it's late..I must sleep. g'nite cyBer pplz.
hRmm.....today's list...the last 5 mp3's I grabbed from napster
1. m-flo "Hands, JB remix" (dope hip-hop/funk band japan. some of their beats are kinda jungle/dnB type stuff too....I think i'm in love with the lead singer too *drewL* *swoon* hahah i'm wack.)
2. mountain brothers "Fluids" (off their first album, I think...dope track from some dope kidz from philly...AND they're chinese american :p)
3. Underlords "Testify" (only available on their website
4. m-flo "come again" (see above)
5. Laziest Men of Mars "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" (aka the all your bases are belong to us, techno remix...yea i know..it's horrible.. but it's funny. but it's horrible....)

hmm...just added a ghetto counter. now i can know if anybody reads this stuff =)

bell hooks, a pretty sweet african american feminist scholar writes:
"Loving blackness as political resistence transforms our ways of looking and being, and thus creates conditions necessary for us to move against the forces of domination and death and reclaim black life."
I would argue that you could replace the references to "black" and "african american" with any people of color, and the statement would still hold true. In a society where people of color are socially conditioned to hate themselves, to continually practice "self love" becomes an act of resistance against the norms.
so go out...love yourselves...and in doing so take pleasure in the fact that as you are lovin yourself...you are also fightin the system :).
peaCe.

Taken from ernie's column on iistix.com :
"You know what? If California were to suddenly had a massive earthquake and the giant state was pulled to the bottom of the ocean, I think that would make a fitting end to the past couple of months around here.
Everyone around here seems to be down with the flu. I myself am recovering from a nasty case of strep throat. Everyone here seems to be on the verge of getting laid off their once glamorous and exciting dotcom jobs. The office bagel and cream cheese basket that I took for granted every Friday morning has been discontinued due to budget setbacks. Which is just as well, because I can't turn on the toaster oven due to the continual rolling blackouts we will be having for the next two years."
anyway...i thought that was pretty hilarious. you know what else i thought was pretty hilarious? i thought this was pretty damn funny.
this weekend was relatively uninteresting...there *iS* a new waitress at fantasia (it's a pool hall..not a strip club!)...*drewl* she's smart, cute, AND funny...and from hawaii. and oH so exotic! (jus kidding..i hate that word as much as the next asian american studies major :p).....
anyway....that's about all i did this weekend...sorry, i'm boring =).
ttfn (as jill would say :p)
ps. if you have any questions or comments about anything i write here....email me at gsunoo@leap.org or iM me @ nihonpryd (on AIM). =)

okay quick update.
first off, I just read the review of barrio fiesta that I somewhat irresponsibly posted in my last entry. they got a shitty review. Just wanted to add that I totally disagree with this review. while I never went to the old location, the food was GOOD, the service was dopE (cute waitresses are always a plus... :p), and the ambience was pretty decent too.
hmm..that is all.
to quote an old friend,
"peas out."

alRIGHT. two requests for updates in two days. i guess i should write something :). Actually i *SHOULD* be doin homework right now...but I was tryin to do my reading, and I kept fallin asleep....so I need to drop a quick journal entry to wake me up :p. I participated in a marketing research focus group today...it was conducted by Sony and they were testing the market for a new PDA with email/wirelessweb/mp3 player/digital camera.....is there anything these things CAN'T do? I mean the thing was seriously about the size of my hand...had a TINY ass dig. camera and a built in mp3 player, etc. etc. as my grandpa would say..that's cu-reh-ji (crazy). it was kind of interesting to see the questions that they asked us, and it will be interesting to see how our answers to these questions will play into their marketing strategy. oh and did i mention i got paid $100 for participating in this 2 hr focus group? wOooHoo....now i can pay my cell fone bill :p.
hRmm...this weekend i had a crash course in filipino food. had 3 HUGE filipino style dinners. ( max's fried chicken in burbank, barrio fiesta in glendale, and Joe's house..in eagle rock :p)....okay what did i eat..lumpia shanghai (of course), pork adobo, kare-kare, crispy pata, pancit, lechon, some kinda fruit juice...forgot what it was called, leche flan, halo halo, boggoong (sp??), umm yeah that's all i can think of right now....anyway...filipino food is some good isH....just can't eat it every night..i think i'd be like 500 lbs if i did...(instead of a measly 230 :p)
hmm i don't really have any rants right now.....just kinda frustrated with dreamweaver and illustrator...havin a hard time comin up with a dope template for this page :(. anybody wanna donate their web design services? i suck :p
hrMm..okay top 5 websites for today :)
1. iistix.com one of the best..if not THE best APA web-zine out there :) HI-larious.
2. little, yellow, different. this guy inspired me to start a b-log :p dunno if i should thank him or hate him for that :)
3. okayplayer.com pretty tight site for those *true* hip hop headZ out there.
4. boondocks.net the funniest thing since calvin and hobbes....boondocks is a great cartoon with awesome social commentary :). Aaron McGruder is a comedic jeenyus.
5. leap.org a shameless plug for my favorite non-profit CBO.

okay that's all for now....peaS out. sorry this wasn't very interesting.