[simple pleasures indeed] i won my very first ebay auction!!! [yes byron, laugh all you want, hrmph] now my parents can benefit from my week of anticipation and anxiety...

[excuse me] but hey! what happened to my tagboard?! =( excuse the ugliness while they sort themselves out... =P

[must be nice] to be a beautiful woman. you can get anything you want huh. people will buy you drinks. you can get into clubs. people always smile at you. why, people even put you in magazines! haha. though i do kinda object to the idea of *being* an object of observation and such liberal treatment, i guess it would be nice, just once, to be a beautiful woman. just a thought.

[tribute to the fishie] bye bye mister goldfish. *bloop bloop*

[di watches tv.. again] i'm thinking *no wonder* i don watch that much tv -- what happened to the good 'ol days of Family Ties (yeah yeah, i used to watch that show ok) and Growing Pains (and that too)? keke =P flipping through the tv last night, my attention was disgustingly and surprisingly gripped by two shows: Sex2K and Date Plate =D i admit the latter wasn't too bad - why if i could choose to be on a dating show, heck yeah, bring on two guys who will cook for me and i'll pick 'em out from how tantalized my palette is =) sex2k on the other hand.. ummm.. ummmm.. this particular showing was.. the gay cruise episode. ummmmmmm yeah. i know it isn't the friendliest show in the world to watch, but MAN, was i hooked!! i would switch from show to show in anticipation.. will robb hook up with michael? ooooh, what's that dude preparing for dinner? it was a bizarre tv watching experience.

[on a more cultural note] i've decided to spend my days exploring the city =) at least once a week anyways, and during the weekend, i can drag b and whoever else wants to be my exploring companion around and about too =D yesterday, i went to the japanese tea gardens, and went on a photo run =) i got a couple cute shots, which i'll make into a collage for the apartment =) yay! =D it's so nice just meandering on your own sometimes.. quite therepeutic =) just me and my shadow. keke. in the interim, oh-my-oh-me, i saw a man wearing capris!!!

[a personal question] if you could have taken the aesthetic route in your life (and i know some of you have), which way would you have gone? would you have been a singer? a painter? a photographer? me? i'm not so sure. my lump of passion is divided between culinary activities, singing in the shower, and looking at the world through a viewfinder =P

[scariness] i was watching the sopranos with b tonight -- that one episode when dr. melfi gets raped in the stairwell -- and boy oh boy, that scared the poobers out of me!! =O i mean, i've seen scenes where girls get horribly raped, but they never show it in full.. even though it wasn't x-rated, it still seemed really graphic, and i can safely say that i am pretty traumatized. =P girls, beware in those parking lots late at night ok? don't be afarid to ask someone to walk you to your car or where you need to go. things like this -- it makes me understand why my dad makes the paranoid comments he makes.

[on a lighter note] haha not quite the re-opening blog entry i had foreseen, but weeee, di is back in san francisco, and is enjoying the wonderful weather and super company =D hope y'all are enjoying your summers before fall falls before us =)