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