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Halloween

H a l l o w e e n s coming! Trick or treatSmell my feetGive me something good to eat Musubi-chan and I posed as models for the pumpkin last year. Although she won't admit it, I think the pumpkin looks exactly like her. …
Curse you RBJ!

If you go to RBJ, don't get sucked in like I think I'm gonna... Their forum is lively with lots of posters, so I get a BAAAAAAAAAAD feeling about this.... Another addiction. Hahahahahahaha!!!! Better than friendster.com,…
Who's lookin' you up?

On SiteMeter, the hits counter on this page, I can see from where some of the people have come "by referrals". Usually, they are other Xanga people from their own sites, through other's sites, or through blobrings. There…
Disaster dreams

: Nighttime Update below : Wierd dreams lately. For some reason, last week I had dreams about disasters two consecutive nights. Was this an omen? Tuesday Night--Meteor: I hear the news that a meteor is flying through …
Ugh! Class cancelled

I feel so sick today. I don't get it. Bruins won, I finished the presentation... Maybe it was something I ate... Ooooooh... Gotta go to the bathroom again... Where's my Biofirumin?
Bruins Win

My beloved Bruins beat Arizona State University 20-13. It wasn't a spectacular win like the one over the University of Washington, but it was solid. Defense played well and the offense led by Matt Moore was adequate. …
Football Saturday

My beloved Bruins take on Arizona State today. ASU started the season as a contender, then lost three games. Unfortunately, they have regrouped and are racking up yards like it was nobody's business. Walters--ASU's QB--i…
Finished *update*

4:30 pm: Presentation over. I'm glad they don't give out grades for presentations. I HATE them. I get so nervous. I don't know. I do it everday in class, but when it's bunch of strangers, well, I just lose it. As I was t…
Hot Chile Peppers

I caught a glimpse of "Good Eats" on the Food Channel tonight. Alton Brown was talking about chile peppers, capsicum and Scovilles units. He talked about how capsaicin--the oil that makes chile peppers hot--can lock into…
Pleasantville

I guess I'm a dork. I've had a couple of comments on the music, "I Confess" by the English Beat. It may not sound so "cool" to some, but that's okay. This is actually one of my favorite songs. And I love Rankin' Roger's …
Another ugly victory for the Bruins

Leading 20-12, Cal makes a comeback to tie the game in the final seconds with a touchdown and two-point conversion. The Bruins won in overtime 23-20 thanks to Justin Medlock's field goal, but the real hero is Havner a…
Lost in Translation, cont'd

This past week, I got caught up in other things and never go around to returning to Lost in Translation. I was asked if the movie suggested stereotypes, and I would say, "sorta, kinda". The massage/prostitute scene (O…
BoSox Lose, too

I guess the curse is complete. There is balance in the world. The Chicago Cubs lose an opportunity to get to the World Series. The Boston Red Sox--with their best pitcher on the mound--succumb to the Yankees. Now, if the…
Cubbies Lose

Since Tuesday night when the fan interfered with Alou's attempt to catch the ball, I thought this was it. It only takes a small mishap for another team to grab the momentum. Of course, in any sport, all teams have the op…
Tuesday night storm

Tuesday night, a storm came through the DC area and it was kinda scary. As usual I went to pick up Musubi-chan from school around 9pm. As we headed home it started pouring like crazy. Y'know, a down pour so heavy it seem…
Lost in School

I think I'm dying. I was gonna continue writing about the movie, Lost in Translation, but I'm just too exhausted. I wanna see a movie every now and then. I wanna see my football game. But the price I have to pay--spendin…
Weekend Update

Okay, UCLA won, although it was another ugly win, 24-21. But that's okay. A win is a win is a win. It doesn't matter how ugly it was. The Bruins were just palin flat. But I still think they showed a lot of heart, becau…
Gaijin vs. gaikokujin II

Ok, there seems to be a difference of opinion, and I think I should have put more thought into it than I did. This is what I get for talking off the top of my head. Takunishi, a JA (sorta? Weren't you born in Japan?), sa…
Gaijin vs. gaikokujin

Njel wrote about the term gaijin. Okay, gaijin IS a racist term because its usage is based on race, but not in the way Jap, or Gook or Kike or the N word is used in English. First of all, it is not an abbreviation of gai…
Apologies to my kids....

A few days back, I wrote about some of the conditions surrounding my divorce, and in the mix, I mentioned that the school where I teach is "middling first tier". I got a tongue lashing from purin_kun, telling me that thi…
Different kind of race

No more about race.... for a while anyway. Getting tired of it. Racial differences exist and is easily perceived. The trick is to convince people to not make distinctions based solely on this perception. But it will take…
Asians in America II

My post from last Thursday elicited different comments. I responded to Paiky on Friday. Today I will address Dizzo who provided an opposing comment suggesting that, as far as he is concerned, all races in America are equ…
Weekend Entry II: Word Selection A

I have to agree with Piratechan who said, "And i hate the gay thing. I always read it as people thinking that if something is uncool and thus "gay" it's fluffy and unimportant and ignorable.... It seems very redneck to u…
Weekend Entry

Saturday: UCLA plays the University of Washington. I aml hoping for a break out game by the Bruins. They need it. Matt Moore has returned from badly bruised tibia (or was it a fibula?), but he is apparently very rusty, s…
Asians in America I

My last post elicited different comments, which is, in my opinion, a good thing. Discussion--even if divergent and at times conflicting--is always good in that it is the first step in understanding each other and getting…
Koreans in Japan

Pirate-chan called me out on my last post: Piratechan: while the sushi talk is making my mouth water, i got stuck on how a "North Korean" who is "Japan born and raised" can be "North Korean". Isn't this partly what NLUT…
On Getting Married

I posted a comment on ekka's page a few days ago that got me thinking about how I chose a marriage partner. Once, about 10 year ago during my previous marriage, a school bud asked me what I thought was important in choos…

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