makes me wanna get married!

Contrary to popular belief,

I did actually have a nice group of local friends who are not Chinese at all, but accepted my invite to join me for a super nice Chinese New Year's eve reunion dinner.

The only Chinese thing about that night is me and the fact that it is Chinese New Year's Eve. Otherwise, we had Japanese food. Haha. There is the choice between Sukiyaki and Shabu-Shabu. I picked the former. And then Lissy had to break out into the song:" It's all because of you. I'm feeling sad and blue. You went away, now my love is just a rainy day......" Dude, do you guys remember this cover hit by 4 P.M. back in the hey days of the early 90s?

Anyways.

It was a little hard to DIY coz the pot was a little far from the table. My hands were getting tired pretty quick. But in the spirit of the festive season, I stopped complaining.And the weird thing is we have to sit in a row. This is my right side of my friends. Below is the left side of the dinner. It was a bit inconvenience to chat. But we just yell around. I'm quite happy and grateful.

Love Cream Pie by Outgrabe

Don't blink or you'll miss me!

My friend asked me, right before I left San Francisco, to be part of the video. It's very flattering and Ooh la la! Did it turn out saucy or what? Kudos to the band and production team.

Visit their website here.

I'm famous! not.

Say Anything

Have you watched this John Cusack's classic yet? Because if you haven't, you should.

It seemed like the whole universe got together and really wanted me to watch this movie. I'll explain why.

A friend brought it up for the first time during a dinner date. He was raving about true love, perseverance and Peter Gabriel's hit single—In Your Eyes, the absolute romantic theme song that was blaring in the boom box John C's character was holding up outside his love's window all morning.

The second reminder was when I was hanging out with a couple of friends from work. One of them have a boyfriend who looked exactly like John Cusack, only years younger, which is the age when John C was in that movie. He told us he signed a *fake* autograph as he didn't have the heart to tell the poor little girl that he is NOT him; he crashed a private party of some rich kid and how he wanted to hold a boom box up like John C did in that movie for his gf, just for laughs, one fine day.

Then of course, as I'm plants/house-sitting for a colleague on extended vacation, I have to raid his porndvd collection (with his permission ok!). And the Say Anything dvd was sitting on top of the pile.

Things happen for a reason. I watched the movie and loved it. I admit that it made me tear, but no, I didn't go out immediately to get a boyfriend. However I did try to, unsuccessfully, 3 days later(a whole other story ok~).

After I watched the dvd, I went to a friend's house party and played Scene It. I scored the quickest correct answer when it showed a scene of John Cusack and asked what movie that scene was in. 

On the following night, I went online to get my regular dose of design blog surfing and saw this:

found via designsponge 

If you want to know what this coaster says, go watch the movie yourself :p

Tony Tony!

OMG.

I just went to one of the best concert in mah life. He made me tear TWICE. First, when he sang "I left my heart in San Francisco" and then the last song.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Tony Bennett.

This song/tv commercial can't escape my mind.

I swear I'm a fan of Dentyne Ice Artic Chill long BEFORE this commercial. The song is: Stuttering by Bens Brother.

le sigh... ...

Bebel Gilerto's Concert

I went to her concert! I am so stoked! She seems like she was high the whole time. But all's cool. One of my friends fell asleep though. We had seats.

DJ JazzyJeff

Have to thank Shawna for asking me out that night to Fluid! Had too much fun with the peeps and the location is so chic. DJ JazzyJeff used to partner with the *Fresh Prince*... ....I miss that show.

*fun times b4 the wisdom tooth incident*

i'm gonna find another you (but better)

Sad Kermit

Yoshida Brother's at Yoshi's with Yoshi

It was an awesome night out. Honestly, I didnt even know whose concert this is. But it was a pleasant surprise(sometimes you jsut have to go for the unknown).

Below are some silly photos I took of the place and the boys who will never stop acting cool.







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