toilet seats

this is how all toilet seats should be.. CLEAN! i don't understand why people don't take the time to flush the toilet clean or use the toilet seat covers. they're there for a reason! okay, i understand if you don't want to sit on it but at least try to aim or wipe it clean after you're done doing your business. wouldn't you want a clean toilet seat when YOU'RE using it? if so, be courteous and keep it clean. this is one of the reasons why i'm in the bathroom for so long at public restrooms. i have to wipe it clean... put seat cover on.. add more if the seat cover doesn't fully cover the seat.. then i do my business. sigh. soo irritating! it's an ongoing problem because on average.. i have to pee 10 billion times a day! 

clean toilet trooper,

ada

new year, new beginnings, new resolutions...

"elegance is refusal."
- coco chanel

for 2009, i refuse to:

waste time.
play text twist for more than 20 minutes.
skip breakfast.
waste my 24 hour fitness membership.
be angry for stupid reasons.
feel annoyed at grandma.
procrasinate.
not live in the moment.
inhale 2nd-hand smoke.
shop for things i can't afford.
consume impulsively.
let AMCAS determine my worthliness.
be arrogant.
let my books collects dust and go unread.
lose sleep.
stress to a point where i break down & cry.
have more than my bare necessities.
have my friends labeled me as "mia-status."
frown.
neglect my responsibilities.
let dust collect in my room.
take my beautiful family & friends for granted.

hope everyone is off to a beautiful start of the year 2009..!

off to breaking her resolutions after blogging,
tracy ho

SF munis packed with Chinese people. Argh.

i was stuck in chinatown today because 5 busses rolled by with passengers packed to the max. it was a day to enjoy a sunny day but not so great when hills are put in the mix. hills in chinatown are NO JOKE especially when i have aged. my legs can't handle these roads. :( i also walked from sacramento st/stockton st to market and 2nd. What a walk that was! Sigh.. and before I walked, waiting patiently for a bus that never came, i saw this...

talking about excess baggage. this is even worst than kids with turtle backpacks. now i feel guilty for wasting food and money on things i don't need. it's so hard to make money. :(

aH-CHOO.

i've been sneezing like crazy lately. even crazier today, to a point where i want to throw something at andy. my sneezes are also very manly. they're the loud nasal-y sounding ones usually heard from big fat men. they're also very satisfying, because they're not the little girl-y ones. i was in the middle of a case one time. everyone's very quiet, working on the patient. i sneezed one of my nasal-y ones. the PA goes, "what the hell was that??" i laughed. and the anesthesiologist looked at me and said, "that did NOT sound like it should come from you." HA. please do not underestimate me.

i don't know what it is. pollen? the heat? dust mites? did you guys know half of your pillow are made from dust mites, dead skins, dead dust mites, dust mites waste, and other nasty stuff? on a nice sunny day, i like to take my pillow out and hang them from my linen lines. just to air out and kill dust mites with the sun.

25 Pound Backpacks

It's ridiculous the way children carry backpacks that are half their sizes. I saw a kid on the train lugging and dragging a super packed heavy backpack with very thin shoulder straps across the floor. He attempts to lift it up and wear it as a backpack should be worn, but that was a failed attempt. It was obviously too heavy for the child and it just made me feel very sad for him. The mom was leading him but wasn't helping him out at all. All she was carrying was her small purse over her shoulder.

Why is it that teachers require students to have a different binder, folder, textbook to be brought to class everyday? For elementary, middle and high school classes; kids are enrolled in at least 5 classes per day. That means they have to carry all the supplies needed for all 5 classes through out the day. Yes, they have lockers but they will still need to lug their books and binders back home everyday to complete their homework and then bring it back to school the following day. I remember exactly how this felt like in middle school when my backpack could barely zip up. I looked like a turtle and if I didn't stand up straight, I felt that I would fall to the floor at any moment with my backpack.

Kids are averaging a backpack that's weighing in at 25% of their total body weight. Heavy backpacks can lead to back pain, shoulder pain and also bad posture. In high school, for the longest time, wearing a backpack down past the butt and near one's thighs was a fashion statement. Then there was the one shoulder backpacks fashion craze. The GAP sling backpacks, you know which one I'm talking about! That solves the problem of why my shoulders were always hurting. Good thing these are no longer trendy, I think? Also, luckily I've been seeing a lot of rolling backpacks around for the fortunate kids, but not everyone is well off enough to buy a new backpack with fancy features.

Then the other fashion "trend" that I could never get over was the whole Spider-Man or Dora The Explorer plastic backpacks that I remember having in Kindergarten. Except the people wearing them are not elementary kids! They're high school kids! What the hell?! Who decided that was cool? To carry around plastic kid backpacks that look light as hell on their backs. There probably isn't more than a pen and a few pieces of paper in their backpack. For damn sure the kids I see with those backpacks are not the studious ones. I see them around during school hours outside of school. So why the hell do they carry around an empty backpack if they're not even going to school?

Confused,
Cindy

heartless businesses ticks me off.

blame me. yes i am a cheapskate. i fell into the "open a new credit card to get $30 off your first purchase" scam.

first month, i got a late fee of $15. i think, wtf? i didn't even get a statement. so i called and they waived it and i paid the balance in full.

2nd month, i get a statement. i got a late fee again on a balance of 0.00? wtf? i called again. they said they already waived a late fee for me and couldn't do it again. i told them it wasn't MY fault that i called BEFORE the due date and yet they posted the transaction AFTER the due date! some pushing and shoving, she wouldn't budge. i tried threatening that i would cancel the card after i made this payment (which i was gonna do anyways!). she said, "just call us back then." HA. i wanted to smack her.

i hate these companies that have no common sense. i hate these credit card companies with all their hidden service fees. i hate how these companies uses the fine print to take advantage of us because they know we won't read it.

on another note, i read the other day that richard fuld (ceo of lehman brothers) got slugged in the face while on the treadmill. that's what you get for making $500 million while your company bankrupts at the expense of others, devastating thousands, millions of lives. freaking bastard. how can he take his 50-feet yacht out to sea, knowing it was made possible only because families lost their homes to foreclosure.

crook.

$15 poorer,
tracy

man-bags

why do men wear bags that were made for women? i've been seeing this trend a lot more lately. i'm not talking about those messenger bags(timbuk2). they're seriously carrying purses. i don't have a thing against metrosexuals. but it really bugs me when grown ass men wear purses!! a lot of these trends tend to originate from one of the fashion capitals, japan. sometimes it looks great but most of the time, its only made for JAPAN, let's leave it there.
here is an article from a tokyo based magazine on this topic.
what's your take on it? i'm especially interested in what the fellas have to say about this. would you(a guy) ever consider wearing a handbag?

totally grossed out,
ada