Pictures of My 2nd Favorite Senior Class

My ultimate favorite class is Jon Shieh's year. Sorry.

But here's the link to my photo album. Blogspot is sucky when it comes to picture posting.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tammyleephotos/sets/72157605229914668/

Sorry that most of them are of me.

Women

"Do women think it feminine to be so illogical or can't they help it?"
- Cary Grant

Home

Friday mornings, my entire apartment is up by 8:00am. Last night Deborah and Monique bought a GIANT chocolate cake from Ralphs (literally took up half the freezer. Probably could feed 8-10) to drown their failed midterm into gluttonous oblivion. Kat ate like 1/4 of it. The cake even had a name, "Chocolate Fudge Fantasy".

Having a tiny apartment forces my roommates and I to constantly be all up in each other's biznass. We always study in the living room together. We are each other's wake up calls. We eat our meals on the futon because we have no room for a dining table. If I roll out of bed and take one step forward, I'm practically spooning with Deborah. My desk blocks the bathroom door. My closet is a joke and you know me.... I have way too much clothes, let alone shoes. bags. bras. whatever. There is NO space in this apartment!

But I cannot imagine leaving this shack.
I love that the entire living room wall consists of 2 large windows that almost reach the floor. In the day time our apt looks like a NY loft. The building straight across is made of brick walls. Very eastcoasty. Vaccuming would probably take less than 10 minutes (if we actually cleaned).

Initially we all agreed to move out of this hobbit hut and find a new place for next year. In that process 2 of my roommates got nabbed by jeeyoon and jaclyn and then Kat and I decided we were going to move into a single or studio. (fyi there was no drama there. just, deborah and I have known each other for 18 years and I think we both realized we can't be conjoined at the hip forever).

Now Kat and I have to build a new home together. Newlywed status.
Bottom line is SINGLES are expensive. At least 1600. Thats 800 a person. I currently only pay 508 a month. And my paycheck BARELY pays for even that.

So Kat and I are trying to find a way to get a third person to move into the hobbit hut we already live in. 10911 Rochester for life.
But this person has to be AWESOME. Like MIND-BLOWINGLY AWESOME. Its hard to top the dynamics we had with deb and mo. (it sucks because lately our apartment has been getting along really well. spicegirls status... and we only have 1 more month left together)

For me, home is wherever the good food is.
At my home in Torrance, my mom has nothing in the fridge except diet coke and Costco salad. If I ever do go to Torrance, I always stop by Trader Joe's first to get food to cook at home for my family. My mom hates cooking.

Cooking is my number 1. You will often find me at stores like Williams & Sonoma and Sur La Table, longingly caressing the panini-press, or the Wusthof knife set, stuff I can't afford but imagine myself using. No I'm not a domestic diva. I just think the best food is the kind you make yourself. No MSG. I have my step mom and my ex boyfriend to thank for this. My stepmom believes its absolutely necessary to own 3 freezers and 2 fridges. Which is exactly what we have plus a huge manmade firepit in the backyard. My ex-bf went to culinary school and could never shutup about food.


Currently I'm in fullerton with my dad. I JUST went on a crazy journey through Walnut, Diamond Bar, and Buena Park, to drop all my small group girls at home. Traffic is death. (Thank goodness for my pimple mobile that barely eats up gas). And to my luck when I came home my dad was bbqing outside! Firepits > Charcoal grills.

Now I'm just trying to relax.
I'm on my sister's comp.
My dogs are sleeping at my feet.

Tomorrow I will probably run at the lake, have lunch with dad, then head back to LA to go to the beach with Kat! I'm gonna try to go into the ocean this time. 15 page research paper on U.S. libertarianism, you can wait.


Good night ya'll. I'm tired. See you on the dance floor. (Dormal! Going stag is a sad thing, but thus is my life)

The Bachelor: London Calling

I love saying "true love". doesn't come off the tongue easy cuz its such a funny phrase.

I am in a very sentimental, optimistic, happy mood, having JUST finished bawling my eyes over the season finale of The Bachelor. HAHA

Guilty pleasure.
This show has run 8 seasons. A majority of them, I admit, have surmounted to nothing but b.s. (But only the seasons when the Bachelor/Bachelorette-in-seeking was an a-hole to begin with)

This season, like a fool, I watched everything. : ) I like the guy. He looks too picture-perfect right?, therefore at first he was very unappealing to me. But his character proved otherwise... he's very smart, very calm, has an old-soul, genuine, charming, optimistic about life and love. The girl he chooses in the end is what made the season worth watching. She was a verrry good catch. HE'S the lucky guy.

Girls, please watch, and learn from this chick... seriously 1-in-a-million.

The key to winning a man's heart: Unselfishness.

Its sad when girls get screwed over when they throw themselves at guys. Because thats what girls are willing to do sometimes. But they will purposely hold back because doing anything else would take away from the thrill of the chase. I personally hate "the chase". I would jump through hoops if it meant I could have something real. But anyways, this show was interesting because 1 girl was willing to throw herself at the guy, but she did it in such a genuine way. And it worked.

(The other girls admitted to falling in love but at the same time said they were guarded and didn't want to get hurt. BORING. go home. Theres no saving your pride on national television)

I guess when you love someone, you just love them, the act of it all. No conditions attached. If you get your heart broken and you're butthurt about it then, well, you were more in it for yourself than anything else. Love takes no offense. the true kind. (I'm trying not to say the phrase)

Its cool because the girl on the show turned my one ideal into a reality. Yes, you can fight for something you love and get it in the end. A fight, to me, reflects assurance, depth and certainty. Not desperation or neediness. But I guess guys always prefer the chase. I understand...

But I liked The Bachelor this season because he didn't choose the girls he had to chase. He didn't go for the teases. He went for the 1 girl who wore her heart on her sleeve. (and she did it with class, with glam, and with humor/wit). She was also a blonde! a smart one too. I wish I were a blonde, just so I could get the satisfaction of proving someone wrong, cuz that always feels good.




Also, heres my favorite couple from the Bachelorette. Trista and Ryan- happily married for 4 years.
They live my dream life! Only the Siberian husky part. : )

I cry. I'm sorry. I'm a sucka. But better to cry happy tears than sad ones.

UEFA

Cristiano Ronaldo...

Hottie or Douchbag?


There are so many retarded pictures of Ronaldo on the web. I didn't want to put any up. Tears, whining, and all, this douchebag is still a stud.

I can't say I know much about soccer. Except I know I hate Winning Eleven because Elliot Min played it 24/7 in the dorms freshmen year.

Bette Davis Quotes

• "A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. "
  
  
• "I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."
  
  
• "Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world. "
  
  
• "Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. "
  
  
• "Everybody has a heart. Except some people. "
  
  
• "I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packed more sex than two naked bodies in bed. "
  
  
• "I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back. "
  
  
• "I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived. "
  
  
• "Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. "
  
  
• "Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. "
  
  
• "My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. "
  
  
• "Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars. " (Now, Voyager)
  
  
• "Old age is no place for sissies. "
  
  
• "To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. "
  
  
• "My darling, it is late and I am very tired of youth, love, and self-sacrifice.”
  
  
• "We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey?" (All About Eve)
  
  
• "The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood."
  
  
• "Funny business, a woman's career, the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common - being a woman."
  
  
• "I detest cheap sentiment."

If you haven't seen a Bette Davis flick, you're missing out on gold.


Today I drove to one of my favorite places in Los Angeles. DOWNTOWN of course. Flower/Olive/First/GRAND that entire block of LA sweetness. I was visiting the courthouse for an interview and when it was over, I just aimlessly drove around the area, not wanting to go back to the purgatory that is UCLA. But let me tell you about LA's Superior Courthouse. Its 7 floors of pure madness. Yet theres still something very moving about all the crowded halls. As hectic as it was, it was all very civil too...Civil in the sense of everyone sharing the commonality of desperation. People are all the same, because people are all just trying to get by.

I saw this huge 100 person line for self-representative litigants, for family law cases. That could mean, 50 divorce claims. 45 daddys who don't want to pay child support. 5 kidnappings. IN ONE DAY. And then the line starts fresh tomorrow.

Its sad watching people get worn and torn, and to think 1 nasty court experience can callous a person for life. I see it in my mom sometimes. sometimes I feel like she wasted the majority of her adult life in court. But anyways on a happier note, I guess everything I mentioned above is why I love LA, this city of angels. Wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Desperation and all.

Its 2am and I'm workin on a paper about Ibsen. Bad flashbacks of English AP with Fahey. Why do we study theatre as life? Its theatre.