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yes, funnier than Kimmel vs Damon... Colbert vs Rain! 

"Rain, I'm gonna be all over you like an egg on a bowl of Bibimbap!"


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Me:  i want some corean food
Korean Girl: how come u spell korean w/ a C?
Me:  you sure you want to know?
Korean Girl: why not?
Me: well... up until 1910, before the japanese occupation of Corea, it's spelled with a C... popular belief is that the japanese changed it from a C to a K, so that Korea is alphabetically behind Japan (now Koreans would have to walk behind the Japanese in olympic ceramonies and such). This might be a myth, but people that respect Corea's history or pro-old-unified Corea like to spell it with a C. Also, in latin based languages the 'k' sound followed by a hard vowel (A,O, or U) is usually spelled with a C (like in canada, cuba, congo, corea, etc)... K is usually used when its followed by a soft vowel (E or I) like Kenya. Therefore, Corea with a C makes more sense... are you enlightened or sorry you asked?
Korean Girl: ttyl

havent really pimped any music since Muse and Killers in 2004. Since then, both bands has risen to become two of the biggest bands in the world. Well, here are couple more bands worth pimping...

The Editors


Been listening to them nonstop recently. After their awesome debut album came out in 2005, many dubbed them as an "Interpol-clone". Even then, I thought they might be better than Interpol. Their second album came out last month and confirmed this. The new album is quite different from their first while still rocking their unique electric guitar sound.

Editors - Munich  - their first hit
Editors - Blood  - another one of my fav from the first album
Editors - Smokers outside the hospital door - first single from new album
Editors - An end has a start - title track and another standout from new album


Bravery:

When grunge and punk were starting to lose their grip on the radio airwaves in 2004, the Killers were the first band to bring back the retro synth/electronic sound to the radio. Shortly after, the Bravery came out. The Killer's lead singer, Brandon Flowers (by all accounts, not a nice guy) felt threaten by the Bravery and quickly attacked them aying they copy the Killer's looks and sound and started a bitter freud. I truely believe the two Bravery albums are as good as the two Killers albums. However, the killers skyrockets in popularity while the Bravery still played in high school gyms and bamistfas (ok, i'm totally exagerating). Recently, Brandon Flowers call the Bravery and apologized for starting the freud saying he was jealous of them.

Bravery - Honest mistake
Bravery - Time won't let me go

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Muse, Editors, Bravery... all three bands in So Cal within 10 days of each other!! woohooo~

Snow Patrol - Greek (Jul 23)

Linkin Park/My Chemical Romance - Hyundai Pavillion (Jul 28)

Bravery - Wiltern (Sep 14)

White Stripes - Forum (Sep 19)

MUSE - Irvine Ampitheatre (Sep 21)

Editors - Wiltern (Sep 24)

Arctic Monkeys – Palladium (Sep 25)

She Wants Revenge - Glasshouse (Oct 5)

CURE - Hollywood Bowl (Oct 14)

Interpol – Forum (Oct 23)

only in the 626... this darn car was in front of me slowing down traffic... darn FOBs...



Speaking of "New Drives".. got my new wheels yesterday... Navi, 6GB Music Server, Bluetooth, Magnesium paddle shifters, etc. yay~


The 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer GTS

I was pulling out of parking space as i was leaving the santa anita mall, i looked over and saw this family walking toward the mall. It was a dad and three kids. The oldest boy, who looked around 10, leans over and throws a close fist punch at his youngest sister, who looked around 7. Of course, she instantly starts crying. The father, who looked like one of those very nice wussy guys, walks over with a consoling/helpless smile and comforts the girl. The boy was obviously upset about something and was walking off to the side with his head down. Then the dad goes over with the same consoling/helpless smile and trys to comfort the boy. I didnt know what prompted it, but I drove over with my windows rolled down and was ready to shout at the boy cuz a guy should never throw a close fist punch at a girl. Then i saw the boy teary eyed and figured he felt very guilty so I refrained from chewing him out. How can the father let something like this happen in the first place? How could he not punish the boy for this kind of behavior?

I think this is why many girls dont like the "nice guy" type. Often they dont take control in these situations. They always let things go and dont earn the respect of others. Is my assessment correct?

During this morning's KROQ morning show, one of the morning show staff refered to Angelina Jolie as "fugly"... everyone else on the show totally thought he was crazy... this led to a call-in segment where people named female celebs that they do not think is hot at all even though everyone else thinks they are hot.. So callers called in and named their own overrated celebs... cameron, gweneth, etc.. someone even said jessica alba!! of course, everyone on the show got all worked up over that one and told the caller to go drink some acid...

So just for fun, here is my top 5 female celebs that everyone else like, but I think is fugly.

5. Claudia schiefer
4. Denise Richards
3. Katie Holmes
2. Thandie Newton
1. Sandra Bullock

Honorable mentions: Angelina Jolie, Kierstin Dunst, Tyra Banks

Note: Judgement is made base on their prime. (cuz someone suggested Sarah Jessica Parker. She was quite hot during her prime about 20 years ago)

any contradictions? other suggestions?

A month ago, I lost my $350 Sony K800 cell phone (3.2 MP Cybershot-with-auto-xenon-flash) on my way to clubbing at Garden of Eden. Before I even went inside the club, I realised I didnt have my phone. I was pretty sure I left it in my friend's car. So after clubbing, I went back to his car and spend 15 minutes combing through his car while calling it with another phone.. I couldnt find it and I can't hear it ring, so i figured i probably lost it somewhere outside his car and its gone for good.. maybe it had fell out when i opened the car door somewhere else.. I went ahead and got a replacement SIM, while borrowing my cousin's old cell fone... I even bidded $250 on ebay for the same fone, but didnt win...

So last nite, I got my fone back!! It turns out that it fell into my friend's shoes that were by my feet and he put the shoes into the trunk even before we went into the club.. so thats why later that nite I could not find it or hear it ringing. arrgh.. cant believe it took him 4 weeks to look inside his shoes... well, just happy to have my 3.2 MP Cybershot-with-auto-xenon-flash cell phone back... yay~

My office building just had a blackout... lost all my work i did in the morning!... oh wait, i didnt do any work.. yay to slacking off on a Friday~

yeah, I have a history of premature ejaculation. No~! It's not what you think. I'm talking about my stock trading discipline!! Three weeks ago, I bought a Chinese solar energy stock (TSL) at $19.30 and sold it a week later at $21.00. That's a 9% profit in one week. Not bad. But if I didnt sell and held on two more weeks (which is today!), it would be 92% profit. Arrghhh...




this reminds me of my ultimate blunder in 1999. I put about $600 in a small stock call E-Digital (EDIG) at $.22 a share. A week later, it shot up to $.55 a share and I sold it for about a $1000 gain. Pretty good for a $600 investment. However, if I held on 5 more weeks, it would be at $3.50 per share and I would have made $9000 in profit. If I held 5 more months, it would be at $22.00 per share and I would have made over $60,000 in profits on my $600 investment. ARRGH! I know I would have never held the stock to the high of $22 per share, but I wish I did better. With the potential of making $60,000, I only made $1000 (which was still the most profit I've made in any stock, lol)



funny how it dropped all the way back down since then.. ahhh, how i miss the good 'ol tech boom days where wall street was paved with gold.. *sigh*

Currently holding on to ACH (Chinese aluminum), RIO (Brazillian metal/minning), MPEL (Chinese/Macau casinos). Hope these can do take off soon like TSL did. If so, no more premature ejaculation!

http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=217169

I've been at my job for 13 months now. I've not missed a single day of work, neither sick nor vacation days. I feel tired and don't want to work anymore. I'm having thoughts about leaving. So I'm weighing the pro's and con's of my job.


Reasons I want to leave my job:

3) Salary: since the company has been losing hundreds of millions of dollars per year, the pay is relatively low. I pretty sure by now, I'm in the bottom 1 percentile in terms of annual compensation among my MBA classmates, despite that I believe I'm in the top half among my class in terms of abilities and experience. Money has never been that important to me, but the gap is getting too big.

2) Colleagues: I'm OK with my coworkers. It's just that there isn't anyone I can relate to on a personal level. Almost everyone there is married with children. Casual conversations at the office usually involves families and pets. At my previous work as a consultant, I had coworkers who I can talk with about subjects that I'm interested in - sports, weekend partying, and of course, the pursuit of loose women. =)

1) Commute: It takes me just under an hour to get to work and over an hour to go home. I lose more than two hours of my life every work day stuck in traffic. It gets draining after a while. I wish I can use that time to go to the Gym or something.


Reasons why I want to stay at my job:

3) Managers: My superiors/bosses, from my immediate supervisor to the CFO of the company, are all very nice and fair. I enjoy working for them on a professional level.

2) Internet freedom: Some of my friends are not allowed to surf the net or IM at work. I dont know how they can survive at work like that. The net is like a window to the outside world, thus I don't feel like I'm trapped inside a labor cellar. I can track my stocks, manage my fantasy sports teams, read journals, page-hop on friendster/myspace, shop online, read the news, play games, and of course chat with friends. It's hard to put a monetary value on it, but internet freedom at work is worth at least $10K per year to me.

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Dear World Famous KROQ,

Please do not overplay Muse's new song Starlight. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

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Muse, greatest Band in all of music right now, is coming back to Cali in April. Presale this Thurs. Lemme know if you need presale password.

Damn, I want to see them in Hong Kong next month.

Like most people I know, I was at a house party for NYE. Only difference is that it's my own house and I'm the only guest. lol.

Darn it, my laptop decided to not work anymore and I lost everything on it. I lost all my files, music, personal records, porn (nooooooo, not the porrrrrrn~)..

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2006 was the best year in music since 2003. So many great new albums, thus I have to extend it to top 15 songs of the year. Fortunately, I've been sending music to my online friends and was able to get some of the songs back to share with you.

My Top 15 Songs of 2006

15. Invincible - Muse an overlooked song from the best band in all of music.
14. Madi Don't Leave - PlayRadioPlay
13. Is it Any Wonder - Keane
12. Empire - Kasabian
10. Eurydice - Sleepthief Evanescence/Enya voice, but with electronic background music. I I'll try to upload this when I get a new laptop
10. All Sparks - Editors
09. Nothing in My Way - Keane
08. Take a Bow - Muse
07. Map of the Problematique - Muse
06. Blood - The Editors They sound like a funner and pop-ier version of Interpol
05. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol I like this song more before they started overplaying it on the radio
03. Starlight - Muse
03. Read My Mind - Killers
02. Decipher Reflections - PlayRadioPlay Sounds just like Postal Service, ladies. This teenager exploded onto the music scene by getting popular on myspace.
01. Knights of Cyndonia - Muse same note as Chasing Cars

so i got up at 6 am today.. hit up 4 malls and all i got was a lemonade from hot dog on a stick... unless you camp out for the promotional items at like best buy or something, back friday is a waste of time.. as someone who goes to the mall every week, i see similar sale prices ocasionnaly throughout the year..

note to self: when shopping at upscale apparel stores, do not walk around with one earphone in the ear.. "excuse me, do you have these in extra large? (gave her a weird look).. ooooh you dont work here? cuz you have one earphone in your ear".... of course, this is not as bad when I wore red polo with white pants when shopping at Target.

I'm shopping for a new cologne... ladies, I need recommendations? which colognes makes you hot and bothered? lol... I've been asking around... Izzy Miyake, BLV, and Chrome are the top responses thus far... Curve, Hugo Boss, and Old school Escape were mentioned as well...

My new Sony Ericsson K800i rocks!



- 3.2 Megapixel Cybershot with auto focus and xenon autoflash!
- what sold me on it was it's HDTV-esque display, the graphics and text is super vivid and sharp.
- and of course it has all the other basic features like FM radio, infrared/bluetooth, MP3 player/ringtone, expandable memory slot, etc.


Here are couple pics I took with my cell phone.




Taken under the sun, picture of my Ralliart.





Taken with the autoflash, a picture of the Longan "dragon-eye" tree in my backyard (btw, fresh Longan is so friggin good!)

LJ entry from 2003 - Player with a Conscience?

one of my friends is the epitome of a playa..

last month

after spending a nite with some girl he met at Q's, he tells me: "damn, whats wrong with me?.. i'm starting to have a conscience.. i actually feel kinda bad... she's a good girl.. I think she had tears in her eyes last nite cuz it was her first one-nite-stand.. while i was sleeping, she was covering me with a blanket and making sure I wasn't cold.. she made sure the alarm went off so i won't be late to work the next morning.. and as she walked me to my car 6 in the morning, she had a melancholy look on her face cuz she knows she probably won't see me again.. man, i feel like shit..."


last week

him: s'up nigga, I think I've found the perfect girl
me: really?
him: she likes to mess around, she never calls, and she never ask questions..
me: does she charge by the hour?
him: i'm serious, foo!..

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LJ entry from 2003 - Poker-Player meets Poke-Her-Playa

another IM conversation with my Playa friend...

Him: hey guess who i saw at Century Club
Me: lots o' bitches and hoes?
Him: Scotty Nguyen
Me: the famous gambler?
Him: yea, i talked to him for like 30 minutes
Me: about what
Him: girls and money and poker
Him: he was cool
Me: interesting stories?
Him: naw, he had no game
Him: besides poker
Me: he gave you any advice?
Him: no i gave him some
Me: about girls?
Him: i told him he needs to flash his money for these hoes
Me: thats funny.. who was he with?
Him: no one.. he had his chains on and his cirlce sunglasses
Him: he hella liked us
Him: he bought me a cognac
Me: nice.. so what was he doing there?
Him: trying to get some pussy
Him: he tried to talk to my girl
Him: and i was like pumping him up to her
Him: i told her: 'he is so rich and famous, u better fuck him tonight'
Him: but she still wasnt feeling him

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Current entry- Words of wisdom

recently, he broke up with his GF of two years cuz she kept catching him with other women.. feeling a bit down, he says to me...

"you know, in the end it's all about finding that one special girl that you can cherish and love.. thats the only way to fill the emptiness.. I mean, I just fucked three girls in one day and I still feel depressed..."

Exactly 365 days ago, I pack all my shit into my car and started to drive from Houston to LA. I believe that was the correct decision.

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LA asian club promoters



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