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Friday, December 10, 2004
Mood: Mellow
Music: Rooney - I'm a Terrible Person

So what else did I get for my 21st birthday, other than 11 drinks and a buzz? I got a hug from a hot gay man. :D

Yes, Kyan "The Hot One" Douglas of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was in Austin yesterday! He was signing copies of his newest book "Beautified" at Bookpeople. The signing event began at 7pm. Unfortunately, I had a final at 7pm. So by the time I was done with the final, I was almost resigned to the fact that he was probably wasn't even going to be there anymore. But my roomie insisted that I should go anyway, because 1) she said he's even hotter in person, and 2) they said he'd stay there as long as there were people who wanted to get things signed, and she said the crowds were pretty big. I had two main goals...one was to get a picture with him, and another was to get a hug from him. So I called my sister to come with me, we hopped in the car, and we drove off. By the time I got there, it was already around 9pm. I was expecting him to be kinda bitchy, snap the picture and move on, since he'd already been signing stuff for 2 hours straight. I got there, and there he was, in all his glory, sitting at a table, well-dressed, and with perfect hair. And surprisingly, he was all grins, even though he'd probably been sitting at that table signing books all night. I went up to him with my sister, told him "Hi, we think you're gorgeous!", and got a picture with him. And holy god, he's just as gorgeous as he is on TV, if not even MORE gorgeous. He gladly took the picture with us, and afterward I asked "Um...can I get a hug?" I figured he wouldn't refuse (that's just bad publicity now, isn't it?), but it surprised me more when he said "Oh, of course! You're so sweet!"...and he proceeded to give me a big bear hug. I melted. Ha! Anyway, then he smiled (that perfectly adorable smile) and thanked both me and my sister for coming by, even though we were one of the last people to be there. Oh, and I cut my sister out of the picture here. Sorry Katie, but this is MY happy moment! HA!

I walked out all giddy, and I then I remembered that he's gay. *Sigh*. But still! I got a big hug from the "hot one." Nyahaha, happy birthday to me. :D

Cindy blabbed at 03:34 p.m. |

Friday, December 10, 2004
Mood: A bit drunk
Music: Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - The Nearness of You

Ok, so admittedly, I'm a little drunk/buzzed while I'm typing this. This is the first time I've actually had enough to drink to get to this point. Anywho, to summarize my drinking record for my 21st birthday:

I've visited 5 bars. And I've had approximately 11 drinks. I'm actually pretty proud of myself for 1) not being TOO drunk after all that, and 2) for being "sober" enough to actually type all this, actually edit any typos that I make, AND code any html that is needed for this post. Anyway, here's the list of bars/restaurants that I've visited, and the number of drinks that I've had:

  • Dinner at Trudy's: Had about 2 Mexican martinis
  • The Aquarium: 1 shot - a 3-legged monkey...pretty good, tasted like a mix of orange and vanilla
  • The Library: 1 shot - some sort of lemon-flavored shot
  • Agave: 1 shot - Dirty Girl Scout...it was supposed to taste like a "Thin Mint," but it was a lot more bitter than I thought it would be.
  • Treasure Island: 1 Long Island Iced Tea - pretty gross, I could only finish about half of it. My friend Gee Lee took the rest.
  • Bar Austin: FIVE shots - Had another lemon-flavored shot, some REALLY gross raspberry flavored shot (that stuff tasted like cough syrup...yuck), and another peach-flavored shot. I wasn't feeling anything at all, and my friends were looking kind of disappointed. My friend Minhee exclaimed "God, I feel like this is such a waste of money on Cindy!" Then my roommate and her friend Eric showed up....her friend Eric suggested that they order a "Four Horsemen" for me. Boy was that a mistake. One sniff was enough to tell me that these four horsemen were really gonna hit me pretty hard. Anyway, after the four horsemen, I started to feel a bit of a buzz. Then my friend Meghana ordered a German Chocolate Cake shot for me. That was really good...I just couldn't take the whole thing, because I'd taken oh....like...maybe 9 shots by then? Just a little much, haha.

Anyway....I'm actually kinda proud of myself for taking a total of 8 shots (well, more like 9, because everyone was telling me that the Four Horsemen was really more like 2 shots in one), 2 martinis, and a Long Island Iced tea, and I've still got the capacity to type all this out. Considering the fact that I'm an Asian girl, and that I'm not exactly a large Asian girl, I've got a bit of a sense of accomplishment at being able to type out the words "capacity" and "accomplishment" with no problem. Anywho, I've had enough alcohol to last me for a while. Time to go to bed. Being 21 doesn't feel that different from being 20, but I guess it's kinda nice to finally know my tolerance, haha. G'nite, folks. And hopefully I won't have a monstrous hangover tomorrow morning. :P

Cindy blabbed at 03:59 a.m. |

Thursday, December 9, 2004
Mood: Tired
Music: Counting Crows - A Long December

The big 2-1. Holy crap, I'm legal now.









And I've got two finals today. Booooo. Can't celebrate just yet. :P

Cindy blabbed at 01:22 a.m. |

Saturday, December 4, 2004
Mood: Cold
Music: Jason Mraz - 0% Interest

Haha, try to guess what my room mate was talking about when she said this:

"Yeah, I wanted to scream your name. I don't know why, I think I wanted a banana or something."

I'll post the answer later. :)

12/07/04 EDIT: Haha, sorry guys, it had nothing to do with bribing stuffed monkeys, me hogging fruit, or banana shortages. :) Tiff was talking about those really painful leg cramps that people get in the middle of the night. She had a cramp one night (hence the screaming), and these cramps are usually a result of either dehydration or lack of potassium. And bananas are a good source of potassium. Hence the banana. :)

Cindy blabbed at 03:18 p.m. |

Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Mood: Hungry
Music: Vienna Teng - Harbor

Pssst....hey everyone. So you guys love me, right? Which means you love my friends by association, right? *grin*

If so, click here and vote for my friend Bonnie! That is, vote for this cutie here:

Help her out! You can only vote once a day, but you can vote EVERY DAY. Don't worry BonBon, we'll see that you win this shindig.

Cindy blabbed at 07:06 p.m. |

Monday, November 29, 2004
Mood: Just chillin'
Music: Ben Folds - Not The Same

Class is canceled today, so I'm just bummin' at home until my next one. Ain't life grand? :)

So how was turkey day for everyone? I went to Atlanta and ate so much that it was disgusting. And glorious. God I love eating good food, haha.

Ahaha, oh my god, I want this t-shirt!! Too bad all of the girly tees are out of stock. Holy crap, that shirt's awesome, haha.

What a completely random post. Anyway, I'm gonna sit here, eat my bagel dog, and sip my green tea until I run off to my next class. Ciao!

Cindy blabbed at 12:06 p.m. |

Monday, November 22, 2004
Mood: Sleepy
Music: Better Than Ezra - God Save the King of New Orleans

How's this for embarrassment and drama?

My roomie's a nursing student, so she has to go to the hospital and work with patients on Mondays. She told me that she had a friend who was in the ER, and a man came in with a case of HPV. IN HIS NOSE.

For those of you who don't know, HPV stands for Human Papillomavirus. It's a sexually transmitted disease that could lead to genital warts or cervical cancer. Allow me to repeat that it's an STD. Meaning that you'd have to do the nasty to get it. The rodeo hug. The horizontal tango. You get the picture. So use your imagination as to how this guy got it up his freakin' NOSE.

As for the drama part....his wife was there in the ER with him. The problem? SHE doesn't have HPV. Which would mean that he had to get it from SOMEWHERE. Hoo-boy....way to get busted! *snicker*

Anywho, I've got a physics exam tomorrow night. Time to study! And don't get HPV in your noses, kids!

Cindy blabbed at 05:13 p.m. |

Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Mood: Bored
Music: Snow Patrol - Run

Holy crap, has anyone else watched that new cartoon on Comedy Central called "Drawn Together"? If you haven't watched it, you should. Well, maybe you shouldn't if you're easily offended or disturbed, but holy crap, this show has got to be the funniest/weirdest/most disturbing thing I've seen in a long time.

Anywho....soo...pet peeves...everyone's got 'em. And since I can't think of anything to blog about, I figured that I'll write about mine. Wahoo!

  • Wet socks: I had to experience this one today....it's been raining all week here in Austin. I'd rather wear flip-flops and risk injury from slipping than wear wet socks. Seriously, it's just a gross feeling....having the wet cloth plastered to your feet? Ew. And I hate it even more because the only way you can dry them again is to take your shoes off and air them out, and you can't exactly do that in the middle of class. Or in a restaurant. Or anywhere, unless it's in the comfort of your own home or a friend's place. Eeesh.
  • Open backpacks: If I see someone walking around on campus with their backpack wide open, I run up to them, tap them on the shoulder to let my presence be known, and zip up their backpack for them. This bothers me more because I know that if it were me, I'd be kinda ticked off that people let me walk around with my backpack wide open without telling me.
  • Bad music at places with live music: Okay, I'll chalk this up to me being a "music snob". But really....if a place has live music, I usually expect it to be decent. Otherwise it's a HUGE distraction to me. One time I was studying at a coffeehouse called Mozart's, and they had live music playing. It had to be the weirdest thing I'd ever heard. A guy was playing a harp, and a lady was playing some drums. And the harp guy was playing bluesy stuff. BLUES. I like to keep an open mind for music, but blues and harps? This just wasn't working for me. Anyway, I had to move away from the live performers because I couldn't concentrate...yes, it distracts me THAT much.
  • Aggies: I know I know....I have no school spirit, but in this case, I'm gonna stand up for my school. For those of you who aren't from Texas, the University of Texas (us = Longhorns) and Texas A&M (them = Aggies) have a huge rivalry going on. Why do we have this rivalry? NO reason at all. Aggies hate us for no reason, and we hate Aggies just because they hate us for no reason. It's a stupid, vicious cycle. I know that not all Aggies are the annoying, incessant hecklers that they're made out to be, but when they are, it's REALLY freakin' annoying. What makes it even more obnoxious is that Longhorns will admit that A&M isn't a bad school, but Aggies will still continue to bash us. A kid in my Italian class told me that when the Aggies were holding a rally for their game against Oklahoma State University, they were bashing Longhorns. Um, right....bash the Longhorns when you're playing against OKLAHOMA STATE. That makes perfect sense. Longhorns aren't going to bash Aggies if we're rallying against a completely different football team that is not only from a different school, but from a different freakin' STATE. Anyway, like I said, not all Aggies are like this, just like how not all Democrats are like Micheal Moore, but really....some of them need to get a grip.
  • dIs wEiRd tYpIn dAt "aZn" tEeNz dO: Congratulations, you know where the shift button is. Now please go back to school where you can learn the English language with proper capitalization and spelling.

Sooo....those are just a few things that bug me. Care to share yours? :P

Cindy blabbed at 09:07 p.m. |

Saturday, November 13, 2004
Mood: Chipper
Music: Miles Davis - Autumn Leaves

Temperatures in Austin have dropped. So I lit a fire in my fireplace, had jazz music playing through my apartment, and I made a crockpot full of apple cider with fresh cinnamon sticks and cloves in it. I lit another fire later in the week and made s'mores with my roomie and her friend. What does all of this mean? You don't need to wait until December for that nice winter vacation feeling. :)

Cindy blabbed at 04:35 p.m. |

Friday, November 5, 2004
Mood: Awake
Music: The tapping of keyboards around me

Blogging from the school library again. On a Friday afternoon. After my classes are done. Am I a loser? Yes I am.

Anyway....I just saw a guy walk out of the men's restroom with a HUGE grin on his face. I'm talking ear-to-ear, mile-wide, toothy smile. Let's just say that I'm really hoping that he was either:
a) talking to a friend in the restroom
or
b) thinking of a funny joke.
Otherwise I don't want to know why anyone would smile THAT much upon leaving the bathroom. O_o;;

Cindy blabbed at 02:29 p.m. |

Thursday, November 4, 2004
Mood: Sleepy
Music: The tapping of keyboards around me

Blogging from the school library! Wahoo!

So I was sitting in physics today, and the guy sitting in front of me had a shaved head. It was shiny. Do you have any idea how distracting that is??? I had to repress this crazy urge to reach out and rub his head throughout the whole lesson. It was just so....shiny...and fuzzy. I think I would've scared him if I DID reach out and rub his head. Anyway, men with fuzzy heads on UT campus beware. :P

Cindy blabbed at 12:29 p.m. |

Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Mood: Bouncy
Music: Dave Brubeck - Take Five

HAPPY ELECTION DAY!!

And go vote, dammit!! If you're a registered voter, then you have no excuse not to vote. Whether you vote for Bush or Kerry, for the love of god/buddha/allah/whoever, put in a freakin' vote!!

Cindy blabbed at 09:54 a.m. |

Friday, October 29, 2004
Mood: Tired
Music:

Holy crap....I'm getting old.

So my roomie Tiff was telling me about how she has a friend who was babysitting this kid. She tells me that she heard the kid say in an exhausted voice "Man, I'm SO WASTED." Her friend's eyes bugged out. Then her eyes bugged out even more when the kid's mother tells him "Oh honey, you just need to go to sleep soon, that's all."

Good lord. If I heard a kid say "Man, I'm SOOOOO WASTED," I'd tell him "Get your ass in an AA clinic NOW!!" Well, I'd say that until I realized that "wasted" is also a term for "tired" or "exhausted." Holy crap, I'm only 20 and I'm already losing touch with the new lingo. Hand me a cane and call me "grandma."

Cindy blabbed at 04:14 p.m. |

Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Mood: Dorky
Music: The Vines - Ride

Am I weird for actually feeling a pang of sadness when I'm watching these clips?

They're just Mario characters, for chrissakes!! But manymanyMANY props to the makers of these things for turning Mario into a crazy Lord of the Rings-esque epic. And I particularly like the fact that they used Radiohead in the "soundtrack" for Part III. :P

P.S. Credit to Chris for showing these to me!

Cindy blabbed at 05:40 p.m. |

Sunday, October 24, 2004
Mood: Sleepy
Music: Supreme Beings of Leisure - Never The Same

Stolen from Canadian Cindy's xanga. Who comes up with these things anyway??


And who the heck are the losers who take these quizzes? *whistles innocently* :P

Cindy blabbed at 09:19 p.m. |

Friday, October 22, 2004
Mood: Bouncy
Music: Supreme Beings of Leisure - Catch Me

October 22nd, 2004. A big day for me. It's the day I lost my virginity.

My VOTING virginity....woohoo! :) Being too young at the time to vote in the 2000 election, I finally get my chance to cast my ballot at the ripe age of 20. And I'll admit it....I'm a geek. I had an excited quiver in my knees and a huge grin on my face as I looked over my selection and hit the "Cast Ballot" button. I even took TWO "I Voted" stickers just so I could pin one up on my corkboard! If you're registered to vote, you'd better do it. Exercise your constitutional rights! :)

Cindy blabbed at 10:06 p.m. |

Thursday, October 21, 2004
Mood: Tired
Music: Supreme Beings of Leisure - Catch Me

Wow....I just did something even more ghetto than driving my car into the pounding rain to get it washed.

So I'm doing my physics lab writeup, and I realized that I forgot to measure some important angles on my diagrams. Upon realizing that I'd forgotten to measure these angles, I also realized that I'd need a protractor to measure them. Lemme tell ya, a protractor is one of those things where if you saw them on the shelf in a store, you'd scoff and think "Pshhh...I'll NEVER need one of those." But when you DO need it, you really, REALLY wish you had one. Anywho....so I don't have a protractor. My roomate doesn't have a protractor either. So what did I do? I went here, PRINTED a freakin' protractor, and then I cut it out to use it. Now THAT'S ghetto. Tiff watched me use it and she doubled over laughing at how sad it was. I love knowing that my new "protractor" is probably worth less than a strand of my own hair. Ah, the life of a cheap college student. :P

Cindy blabbed at 01:21 a.m. |

Thursday, October 14, 2004
Mood: Mellow
Music: Ella Fitzgerald - Misty

I just noticed that my toilet paper has little flowers and hearts on it. Whoa.

On another note, Ella Fitzgerald's got a voice like smooth satin. Or warm chocolate. I can never get enough of this woman's talent. :)

Cindy blabbed at 09:43 p.m. |

Thursday, October 14, 2004
Mood: Chipper
Music: Counting Crows - A Long December

I thought it was time for me to archive. It always makes me cry a little to see the previous page wiped out whenever I do that. *single tear rolls down*

Anywho, the weather here in Austin, Texas has finally cooled down and it makes me deliriously happy. And by "cooled down" I mean I can actually wear shirts with anything resembling sleeves and I won't break into a crazy sweat.

Anywho, people who know me in person will know that for one thing, I'm not a shoe girl. I own a total of 5 pairs of shoes (vs. the legendary closetful), and that's if you count my .50 Old Navy flip-flops as shoes. However, 2 out of those 5 pairs are Converse Chuck Taylors. If there's any particular shoe that I swear by, it's my Chucks. :) I've got a pair of black ones, a pair of navy blue ones, and I plan on getting a pair of red ones sometime or another. Anyway, I bring this up because I was fishing around on the Converse website, and I came across this.

HOLY CRAP, YOU CAN DESIGN YOUR OWN CHUCKS!!! Ohhhhhh man. I think I know where my money's going once this "design your own Converse" dealie kicks off. *grin*

And for those of you who also own Chuck Taylors, here's a web page where you can learn how to lace your Chucks straight across like they do in the ads. There's no other way to do it, I say. :)

Oh, and I changed my song at the top. Keane has been my latest music obssession, and I'm a little bitter that I never knew about them before....grrrrr. WHY WASN'T I TOLD?? Haha, anyway, they're friggin' awesome...listen and enjoy! :)

Cindy blabbed at 06:29 p.m. |