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

fart in the club(instead of love in the club)

i decided to celebrate my 23rd at horizon sf last saturday and it was great.. until someone decided to let out a fat one. wow, it was the most excruciating scent of a lifetime. not only does most clubs don't have ventilation.. when someone farts, IT STAYS THERE. dealing with the scent of alcohol and sweaty odor is bearable. but when you smell gas, OMG.. it's a sign to walk away. my group of friends and i decided to stop dancing and walked away. probably around 15 mins later, we tried to go back and voila, the smell was definitely still there floating around for everyone and their momma's to smell. I bet you.. it was probably from a GUY! hahaha. sorry, it's a hater blog and therefore i will hate. :D

<3 the newly turned 23 yr old,
ada

i made this @ wordle.com with our ppg's pet peeve blog so far. the bigger the word, the more it has appear in our blog. "life" is pretty big. i guess we're pretty deep. but "toilet" is the biggest. hell yeah we're deep. "please" is one of the big ones. we're deep and polite!

i should do this @ the end of every month, see what we talked about the most that month.

tired from k-ing until 1 in the morning,
tracy

i've learned to never assume...

spiders. WHO LOVES SPIDERS? obviously not me. while i was doing my laundry last night, i saw a spider floating in my soapy water. i paused and stared at it for a good few seconds. i then proceeded to scoop the horrendous creature up with my detergent cup assuming it was in fact dead. i began to stare at it again to analyze how huge it was and then..... IT STARTED MOVING! it gradually spread its legs out and began to move around in a swimming-like motion. I FREAKED OUT AND SCREAMED. I swear my heart began to pump 100x faster than my normal pace. I kept thinking of ways to get rid of it on my own. I live by myself and NO one was there to help. i took a deep breath and slowly added more water to the cup to assure that i'm drowning the spider.. which is probably impossible. sigh. then i went to the kitchen sink.. turned on the faucet with hot, steamy water and immediately turned the garbage disposable on. as i poured the damn sucker down the drain i screamed and dropped the cup. i was that scared. ahh, finally.. at last.. i got rid of it. peace out suckerrrrrr. :]

-a very very brave soul,
ada

don't look down at me... please.

people ask me, "what are you going to do?"

i say: i wanna apply to medical school.

people often then ask, "do you have a backup?"

i say: no, i can't imagine myself doing anything else.

people: you should have a backup, what if you don't get in?

i say: i'll think about it. thanks.

i'm actually thinking: you are not my life advisor, i am the author and editor of my own life manual. i'm not egocentric, i listen and learn. but please don't judge me on what i can and cannot do. don't look down at me. don't bring me down with your degrading comments. all you have to say is, "whether or not you get in tracy, you'll still be fabulous". and mean it, because i can tell if you do or not. because at times when my self-esteem wavers and threatens to fall, i need people who believe in my fabulous-ness, even when i don't believe in it myself.

one my friends said to me a long time ago, "you wanna be a doctor tracy? you know, just keeping it real. we're from thurgood, bayview/hunter's point, we're not supposed to be doctors. that's just our life."

please don't place the constraints you have on yourself onto my life. thanks.

little old me,
tracy

Dirty Bathrooms

Why are public women bathrooms dirty 70% of the time? Because... they rather pop a squat than take time to use toilet seat covers. The toilet seat covers are there for a reason. USE them dammit. I hate going into a bathroom stall to see urine all over the toilet seat. Aren't we supposed to be clean? I mean, that's why men would rather go into the womens bathroom right? Not only because we have a separate area for the couch, but we also have a bazillion mirrors too and its smells better, supposedly. I don't remember where I heard it from, but squatting is actually harmful for women who decide to give birth in the future. The only reason why most people don't want to sit on toilet seats is because it's dirty. Well DUH its gona be dirty if you don't put in the effort to keep it clean! AND, not to mention the inconsiderate people who don't flush the toilet clean and leave their leftovers in there. It's SERIOUSLY disgusting and unhealthy. Nobody wants to look at your shit, even YOU wouldn't want to look at your shit. So WTH, flush it. It won't take that much of your time!

yours truly,
ada

...please.

one of the many pet-peeves:

i don't go clubbing a lot. i like to sleep during these wee hours of the night.

but when i do...

to the guys: i like to dance. with my girls. please do not feel like you have the right to come up behind me and grind your genitals all over my ass without my consent. yes, im moving it. no, it ain't calling/beckoning to you, leave my assets alone. thanks.

-tray tray.

Inconsiderate People

I'm sick and tired of people who are inconsiderate whether it'd be out in the streets, taking public transportation, or just in my fricken way. I'm not trying to hate but can they be anymore selfish to just think of themselves and not of others? I find it funny how they don't have anything else better to do than to walk .5 miles/hr. They don't realize there are people out there who have to get to places on a crunched time. In these situations, people have to go OUT of their way just to get AROUND them. This can get quite annoying. If they're lucky, they'll get people who are secretly cursing at them in their head. If not, they'll say it to your face, "Get out of the fcukin way!" or, what my bf would say is, "Can you BE anymore slower?" Hah. As a matter of fact, they will walk slower or move slower intentionally. In some cases, there would be a couple of people walking in sync with each other and are moving slow together. These people tend to block up the whole sidewalk and make others walk around them. Others would be smoking where a lot of people are walking and their second hand smoke is flying right into people's nostrils. Those murderers. It's great that you're slowly killing yourself, but please, don't harm others along the way. Thanks. Oh, and to those oh so great Chinese senior citizens. LET PEOPLE OFF THE BUS BEFORE YOU BUM RUSH ON! You'll end up having to stand anyways. Geez. Okay, that's all for this entry.

yours truly,
ada

welcome.

welcome! i'm the nerd of the trio. *snorts & pushes up glasses*

little old me,
tracy.

New Blog for the PPG's!

Welcome to our blog. Here you will find our(Ada, Cindy, Tracy) pet peeves or anything we'd like to blog about! Enjoy. =] =) =D