monkey nonsense

Zoolander is one of my favorite-est movies of all time. It’s just hilarious, so many memorable quotes! And it’s so applicable to daily life. Changer Banger and I were just talking about how lines from the movie come up in every day conversations all the time. Here’s a few that I scrounged up from my logs.

Changer Banger: i’ll buy you shoes.. and u can use them to walk down here
me: hahah
me: shoes would be a deal for me!
me: ’cause it’s hard to find shoes for $10
me: they’re usually more
Changer Banger: hahahhahaha
Changer Banger: it’s the sheryl ladd collection
Changer Banger: i got it at jcpenney
Changer Banger: ON SALE

Changer Banger: i gotta go nerd now
me: okkkk
me: fine
me: nerd
Changer Banger:
Changer Banger: hehe
me: if you’re ogonna be like that
me: i wouldn’t want to visit!!!
me: =-O
Changer Banger: :-O
me: i don’t hang out for nerds
Changer Banger: :………..(
me: i’m too cool for school!
me: jk
me:
Changer Banger: hahaha
Changer Banger:
me: ahh
me: i’m thinking of zoolander
me: when he says that to hansel
Changer Banger: but i have news for you
me: hahahah
me: HAHAHHAHA
me:
Changer Banger: you AREN”T
Changer Banger: hahahahahahha

me: GO EAT!!
me: talida says you have to eat
me: you’re becoming an anorexic bulimic
me: okbye
Julie: do you even know what bulimic is?
Julie: haha
me: you can read minds?!?!?
Julie: huh?
me: talida says she hears you throwing up in your bathroom!
me: man, all the way from harbor park!
me: (that was from zoolander)
Julie: does she have supersonic ears?
Julie: ohH!
Julie: haha

(kept the timestamp ’cause it’s funny to see the timing of when we quoted the line)
(17:12:45) Vicky: oh and when the girl is like, “i was anorexic” or something
(17:12:47) Vicky: and theyre like
(17:12:50) Vicky: you can read minds?
(17:12:51) me: you can read minds?!
(17:12:52) me: hahaha
(17:12:52) me: yeah!
(17:13:35) Vicky: LOL best movie ever
(17:13:38) Vicky: dude i wanna watch it now
(17:13:51) Vicky: but i need to study
(17:13:52) Vicky: darnit!
(17:15:35) me: bahhh!
(17:15:39) me: watch it while you study
(17:15:44) Vicky: yea
(17:15:52) Vicky: and tomorrow i will quote it on my essay exam
(17:17:49) me: hahahha
(17:17:53) me: there’s nothing wrong with that!
(17:18:00) me: that’s what makes zoolander such a great movie
(17:18:04) me: b/c it’s applicable to everything!
(17:18:28) Vicky: true!

me: how’s work?
Cindy: ehh
Cindy: kind of boring
Cindy: since everybody is gone
me: vacation?
Cindy: no
Cindy: conference
me: oh bah
Cindy: everyone is in Kuala lumpur except for me
me: bah!!
me: that’s where the prime rib of micronesia* is from!
me:
Cindy: haha

*so actually, i misquoted zoolander. hansel says that derek is trying to off the prime minister of micronesia… and then at the end of the movie, derek thanks the prime rib of provitra? propecia? some kinda drug. hahah, i confused my zoolander! i need to review it some time soon… i only figured this out when, looking back in my logs for quotes, i saw this:

Vicky: i LOVE zoolander
me: heheheh
me: me too!!
Vicky: “you think i dont know what a eugogoly is??”
Vicky: lol
me: hahahhaha
Vicky: i love the turning left thing
me: hahaha
me: yeah!
me: i’m not an ambi-turner!
me: and when they’re talking at the modeling agency
me: and he spins in a circle to turn into maury’s office
me: hahahaha
Vicky: lol yeah
Vicky: or the part where will farrell is like
Vicky: “its the same look! am i taking crazy pills here??”
Vicky: ahahaha
me: hahahahah
me: yeah!!
me: ahh hahaha
me: but he learns…
me: when he does magnum
Vicky: haha
me: hahaha
Vicky: blue steel
me: everyone’s like =-O magnum!
Vicky: I KNOW!
me: it’s beautiful!
Vicky: but it was still the same thing!
me: hahahhaha
Vicky: just….turned left!
Vicky: haha
me: hahhaha
me: i like when he speaks to the prime rib of provitra
me: or whatever it was
me: hahah
Vicky: hahaha

Thursday, September 15, 2005; Posted: 10:23 a.m. EDT (14:23 GMT)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) — Anchorage zookeepers are installing a 16,000-pound treadmill to keep an isolated elephant from getting fat during the long, cold Alaskan winters.

The 20-foot-long treadmill was designed specifically for Maggie, a 23-year-old female African elephant that has become the subject of a national debate over the proper care for captive pachyderms.

“It looks just like a big people treadmill,” said Patrick Lampi, assistant director of the Alaska Zoo.

Because this is the first treadmill ever built for an elephant, zoo officials and an Idaho company studied mining equipment and treadmills used for race horses and racing camels, Lampi said.

Zookeepers said Zimbabwe-born Maggie would start using the treadmill in about two months.

The zoo is remodeling her indoor and outdoor spaces, making both about twice as large as before and adding a sandy area. In addition, the floor has been heated and the zoo is evaluating ways to make it softer, Lampi said.

Critics from Anchorage and around the nation have urged the zoo to send Maggie to an elephant sanctuary in a warmer climate and away from the near-Arctic zoo.

Elephants, particularly females, are herd creatures and need company, critics have said. But Maggie’s companion, an Asian elephant named Annabelle, died in 1997.

Maggie’s weight-loss program started more than a year ago, Lampi said, “She was slightly heavy for an elephant.”

With diet modifications and new exercise inducements, such as hiding food in baskets and other sites that require some work to reach, Maggie has slimmed down a bit and is now believed to weigh a little over 8,000 pounds.

“We estimate that she lost maybe 1,000 pounds,” Lampi said.

Copyright 2005 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

from: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/09/15/elephant.treadmill.reut/index.html

so on monday, i left work at 10ish because i wasn’t feeling well.

then today, b/c julie wasn’t feeling well (but i had carpool-ed with her), we left a little before lunch! bah, i told my manager that my roommate must have caught my cold and b/c we carpooled, i had to go too. she was pretty understanding (plus, i’m still working from home)

msn had this interesting article, “20 best excuses for calling in sick.” my personal favorites are the one about forgetting to come back from lunch (maany a times.. maaaaaany a times i’ve thought of using that) and the last one

• I was sprayed by a skunk.
• I tripped over my dog and was knocked unconscious.
• My bus broke down and was held up by robbers.
• I was arrested as a result of mistaken identity.
• I forgot to come back to work after lunch.
• I couldn’t find my shoes.
• I hurt myself bowling.
• I was spit on by a venomous snake.
• I totaled my wife’s jeep in a collision with a cow.
• A hitman was looking for me.
• My curlers burned my hair and I had to go to the hairdresser.
• I eloped.
• My brain went to sleep and I couldn’t wake it up.
• My cat unplugged my alarm clock.
• I had to be there for my husband’s grand jury trial.
• I had to ship my grandmother’s bones to India.
• I forgot what day of the week it was.
• Someone slipped drugs in my drink last night.
• A tree fell on my car.
• My monkey died.

my nose has been malfunctioning recently.

on the way to work on monday (~8:45), i was all sneezy. there was one sneeze that just seemed stuck in my nose. it wouldn’t come out booo, so annoying. but by the time i got into the office, my nose was all runny. i kept having to blow. i didn’t have any tissues in my office (used up all my tissue when i got sick last winter) so i was using napkins to blow my nose, so my nose was turning red. i was all sniffly. nasty.

nose kept getting worse and i was starting to feel like crap, so i ended up going home one hour into the workday. i slept all of monday away before waking up in the evening. at around 7pm, i finally sneezed! nearly 10 hours after my nose first felt like sneezing! (ok ok, so i had been asleep for like 7 of those 10 hours, but whatever!)

then that night, my nose was stuffy! after being runny for the whole day, it was all stuffed up and i couldn’t sleep well! yesterday was a mixture of runny and stuffy… how can it be both!??!

today, i’m feeling a whole lot better ‘cept that it’s freeeeeezing in the office! my feet were nearly frozen when i went to lunch. the moment i walked out into the sunlight, i felt 1000000x better. but then when i came back in from lunch, my nose started acting up again. within a few seconds of stepping into my cube, i was sneezing and blowing my nose repeatedly!

boo stupid nose… BOO!

on a completely unrelated note: six degrees of leslie strikes again! i saw one of my sister’s close high school friends at a wedding this weekend! weiiiirddddddd (though i guess not that weird since the groom went to the same high school, but stillllll… my worlds are colliding!)

oops, i deleted this post by accident… reposted

this should be an easy one!! so far, i haven’t had to give any clues! i’m impressed!

Tune 3

i hate being directionless

hahahaa… this song is even harder to guess. It’s basically the same 4 chords repeated over and over again, in almost the same order! i don’t even attempt to play the song with any rhythm… the song is COMPLETELY devoid of any rhythm. really, i can’t even identify it.

Tune 2

any guesses??

i visited taiwan for the first time (ok, it was really my 2nd time… but i was 1 the first time so it doesn’t count) the summer after my freshmen year to celebrate my sister’s graduation from college.

despite the great food and seeing relatives i’d never really met, i didn’t like it too much. it was hot. it was crowded. those darn mosquitoes ate me up. all those years of chinese school to “learn” about my culture… and when it came time to actually experience it, i was more inclined to stay in an air-conditioned bug-free apartment. i’m that white-washed.

i remember when it came time to leave, i tried to convince my grandparents to move to the US. haha, my mom still jokes with my grandma about this… how i want her and my grandpa to move here so that they’ll be “safer.” Part of the reason why i had the impression america would be safer for my grandparents was ’cause of what i saw on the news. still remember it and it still gives me a bad impression of the bureaucracy in taiwan.

i saw a bunch of people huddled on this tiny rock in the middle of a crazy flood. basically some street had become a river due to the flood and was flowing quite strongly and this group of people had found themselves suddenly stranded on that tiny rock. news helicopters flew round and round reporting on their situation. and on the side, a firetruck was waiting to rescue them. but the people weren’t doing anything! they were just sitting around! apparently, the government was having an argument about whose jurisdiction it would be to rescue these people!!! in the end, i think a bystander nearby made an attempt to rescue the people but the current was too strong. i think the people died

i didn’t think anything like this would happen in the US. not so sure anymore….

my meals last week-
monday breakfast: a chocolate muffin
monday lunch: a french dip sandwich
monday dinner: buca di bepo… a salad, chicken marsala, and pasta split amongst TWO people
tuesday breakfast: the continental breakfast buffet (and i wasn’t even hungry after monday’s dinner)
tuesday lunch: a steak sandwich (and this was REAL steak put into a bun!)
tuesday day: schnitzel!
wednesday breakfast: finally couldn’t take it and skipped a meal
wednesday lunch: roast beef sandwich from harris teeter
wednesday dinner: bbq
thursday breakfast: continental breakfast buffet again!
thursday lunch: a chinese BUFFET!

finally got home thursday and was feeling quite FAT (my pants were feeling smaller already!) and was thinking of just eating something light…

then started getting huungry and ended up ordering 2 LARGE orders of italian wedding soup (i think 1 would’ve been enough), 1 appetizer of toasted ravioli, and a small MEATY pizza to split with my roommate… oh man

finished the week off by getting mcdonald’s for lunch on friday.

so on saturday, i was feeling quite unhealthy and tried to negate it by exercising. went out for a run AND then went to play tennis later on! (exercise was broken up by a quick meal of frozen wontons… more on this later) THEN went and bought caesar salad which i added chicken to to make 2 meals out of! AND then on sunday, ate crabs! which may not be too healthy, but whatever… isn’t seafood supposed to be healthier than other foods? and plus, everything was steamed! steamed crabs, broccoli, and corn! mmmm

thinking of getting in one more game of tennis this weekend… the weather’s been great!

so my one not-so-good meal of the weekend was that wonton soup in between my exercising. the package included this little packet of white powder which they instructed me to put in after the wontons had cooked to make the soup base. didn’t think too much of it and dumped almost all of it in when i realized… packet of white powder?? crap! too late, i think i dumped almost all of the MSG into my soup. was dehydrated the rest of the day. had to keep stopping during tennis to drink more water b/c i was feeling quezy and then after tennis, i had a headache the rest of the day (despite drinking loads and loads of water). terrible! no more packets of white powder!!