Anny’s World

Yes, that is the feeling I am having right now…Niece, PK, Xiao, and I went horseback riding this morning and my butt is not very happy at this moment!! It was fun tho…Niece’s horse’s name was Tucson and he was a biting loner…Xiao had Ruffle who made her fall off during the beginning and she lost her wallet…PK’s horse, Armarillo, and my horse, Crybaby, were mellow followers who walked slow, stayed with other horses, and only galloped when other horses galloped. Pix of horseback riding are coming soon. They are on PK’s camera.

Yesterday was my only free day where I had no plans, so I finally got to run all the errands that I have not been able to run, some of them being getting my car washed and picking up our pieces from Color Me Mine…

Last night, Cindy’s coworker and his friends came over and we watched “Meet the Fockers”. I actually liked it a lot better than the first one.

On Saturday, we went to Carnaval, it was basically Dumb and Dumber Part II. I was in the process of taking a picture of the infamous duo…and Niece points at the camera and with strong conviction proceeded to tell me, “Ha! Who’s the dumb one now? You don’t even have your camera lense open.” I was too shocked to say anything because my camera lense was open, but good thing PK stepped in and said, “I think her lense is open or else we wouldn’t be able to see your face in her camera screen.” Enough said.



(If you wanna see more Carnaval pix, go to my “Photos” page…)

Friday night, Cindy and I were driving to Cirqulo, but Niece was leaving so we ended up dropping by Skylark for 10 minutes and coming home to play Friends Trivia game with her coworker and his friends. In the middle of the game, Cindy was asked, “At the beach house, what game did Joey make everyone play?” To that, she answered, “Naked Poker.” All of us cracked up and rejected her answer because what the hell is “Naked Poker”? Is it just playing poker in the nude the whole time? We told her that it was “Strip Poker” and it’s “Strip” because people lose and take off clothes. To that, she answered, “I rather play Reverse Strip Poker and put on more clothes…” Gosh, why do I hang out with these people?…J/K!!! You know I love you guys!!!

I don’t know why or how I let her convince me to do this…

So, I think I have finally caught up on people’s blogs…I can scratch that off my to-do…

Here are some pix of our new apartment…

My Bathroom:

Outside my bedroom window:

Outside our living room window: (Look very closely…what do you see?)

Here, let me zoom in for you…

Yes, we can see City Hall from our apartment…Guess who works there? (Niece, I hope you know the answer to this now…)
Our dining room set: (This belongs to my roomie, because she asked for it during her bday last year…yes, another cindy-ism at work…who asks for a dining room table for their bday?)

Our centerpiece on our dining room…thanks to Made with Love by Tracy

Yes, I have a very pink room, which is well complemented by my Pink Cal and Pink SF Giants caps…

Dufus and his two imaginary friends…I bet he’s never visiting our apartment again after he sees this picture on here…but no worries, that is not what you have to do in order to come visit our apartment…You’ll have to come visit just to find out what exactly you have to do…

Dai Dai and my first meal together in our new apartment, with our two kids…I think my kid (Cheer Bear) is cuter than her kid (Pochacco)…what do you think?

Pix from Gravity, courtesy of PK:

And here is the translation for the Amei song…I confess, I didn’t do this one myself…some fobby guy felt sorry for all the things I have to do and did it for me He added a lot of interpretation in there, instead of translating literally, but heck, I ain’t complaining, cuz I’m not gonna go re-translate it again…
真實
(The Truth/Reality)
你說的話 在我心中生了根 愛得很深 所以心會疼
(Everything you’ve ever spoke left a mark on my heart. My love for you ran deeply and it’s why my heart will ache.)
記憶 在我的心中翻滾 是不是每一個人 都像我一樣笨
(Memories, are always echoing around inside my heart. Is it true that everyone is as stupid as me?)
只怕再問 對彼此都太殘忍 我能感覺 另外一個人
(I am afraid to ask, because the reality/truth will be too harsh for both of us. I can truly feel as another person)

我等 等笑容換成淚痕 愛在崩潰的時候 比較真
(I wait, waiting for the tears to cover the smile; When all love is gone that’s where one realized the reality)
太多疑問 知道答案又如何
(So many questions yet the answers are meaningless)

原來容忍不需要天份 只要愛錯一個人
(I finally realize there is no innate ability to learn how to bear until you love the wrong person)
心痛比快樂更真實 愛為何這樣的諷刺
(Love is so ironic that the reality on the heart broken suffering is more realistic compare to our happiness)

我忘了這是第幾次 一見你就無法堅持
(I stop counting how many times I’ve lost mind when I see you)
孤獨比擁抱更真實 愛讓人失去了理智
(Loneliness is far more real compare to embrace you because you’ll lose your mind when you are in love)

會不會是我太自私 拒絕更寂寞的日子
(Maybe everything is my fault because of my selfishness for not be able to survive the days when I am alone.)

放不開 也看不見未來
(I can’t let this feelings go yet I still can’t see the future between us)
難道這種不完美 才是愛情真實的樣子
(Maybe this kind of incompleteness is the reality/truth about love)

I can’t believe it’s Sunday night already, but it was such a memorable weekend. Thank you to everyone who made it memorable…

This weekend included some events that has made me thinking, I wonder who is Dumb and Dumber…

Culprit #1: Cindy Hsieh, aka “Dai Dai”

Niece came to visit and we went to the Asian Pacific Heritage Fair in J-town. Then we had dinner with Dai Dai. After dinner we sat around and chatted, more like gossiped, for a long time and then it was time for niece to go home. When Dai Dai and I walked niece to her car, Dai Dai wanted to smoke…so she started lighting up her cigarette and was saying, it’s not working and asked us to block the wind for her. Niece and I went to block the wind, but I had to pull the cigarette out of Cindy’s mouth. The reason: She was lighting the cigarette BACKWARDS! No wonder it wasn’t lighting!!! But she had already burnt part of it so had to throw the cigarette away.

Culprit #2: Tracy Yuen, aka “Niece”

We were laughing still from Dai Dai’s cigarette mishap and walking niece to her car. Niece kept telling me that I should add the cigarette incident to my book of cindy-ism and said she was glad she got to witness a cindy-istic act. We were walking and saw this car that looked like hers. We said, “isn’t that your car?” Niece was like, No, I parked over there on the other street. We kept walking and then we got to the other street. Niece started panicking b/c she couldn’t see her car. We asked her, are you sure that wasn’t your car we passed? So we walked back to the other car and sure enough, it was her car. (Keep in mind niece didn’t even know who Gavin Newsom was…)

Yes, I wonder why I surround myself with such Smart Friends…but I guess I shouldn’t be talking…b/c…

Culprit #3: Myself
I am so out of it lately. I think I have too much on my mind with starting a new job, getting a new apartment…and I have a whole list of to-dos and just no time to do it…so, what cindy-istic/tracy-istic things did I do this weekend?
-When niece and I were at the fair, I was holding my Starbucks cup and looking at rings. I really liked this butterfly ring and then there was this lady who wanted to grab it too so I turned around knocked into her and my whole Starbucks cup came crashing down all over her legs.
-This morning, Cindy and I went to buy a couch. Of course, we went to a Chinese place and wanted to pay cash for the furniture. There was a Bank of America right next to the furniture place so I drove there to withdraw money. I got out of the car, went to the ATM, and realized that I only had my WF ATM card on me.
-The dumbest thing I did this weekend. I was going back to my Ebay apartment to try to clean up. Right when you get off the freeway, there was a line of cars waiting to turn left. They were stuck there b/c there was a train and they couldn’t turn left. Being the impatient person I am, I thought maybe I can squeeze between those cars waiting and the cars parked to the right. I got through the first 3-4 cars and then by my fifth car…this is what happened:

I parked and got out of the car to look at the damage and I took out a piece of paper and wrote my number and put it on the car I hit. Of course, when I looked up, I saw all the people in the cars waiting to turn left laugh at me. Yes, I think I officially take the dumber-er title…but ONLY for this weekend and maybe this month since things are just too crazy…

But, to get to the other fun parts of this weekend.

Tracy C., PK, Roomie and I went makeup shopping and pottery painting yesterday. I can’t wait to get our pieces back:

Here’s the link to all the pix: Color Me Mine Pix

On Friday night, Niece, PK, Roomie and I went to Gravity. It include a night of Promiscuous Blondes, Bambi and Candy, Twins, Adios Mother Fu**ers, and PK’s being so drunk she passed out on my bed and didn’t make it back to Sandy’s place. Pix from that night are on Niece and PK’s camera and will be uploaded soon.

This whole weekend, Cindy and I have been diligent in making our apartment nice. We LOVE our apartment. I think it’s almost there as long as the couch and TV for the living room get here this week. Everyone needs to come visit!!! We had a lot of fun with our visitors this weekend! (Shhh, don’t tell other people what you have to do in order to come into Cindy and my pad…they have to find out themselves.)

On a last note, I have to apologize to everyone. On my list of to-do’s are to catch up on everyone’s blog and to write people back who messaged or emailed me…and to translate the song from my previous post!!!

Song currently on repeat in my car…

張惠妹-真實
詞:徐世珍 曲:Won, Tae Yeon/Cho Kyuman

你說的話 在我心中生了根 愛得很深 所以心會疼
記憶 在我的心中翻滾 是不是每一個人 都像我一樣笨

只怕再問 對彼此都太殘忍 我能感覺 另外一個人
我等 等笑容換成淚痕 愛在崩潰的時候 比較真

太多疑問 知道答案又如何
原來容忍不需要天份 只要愛錯一個人

心痛比快樂更真實 愛為何這樣的諷刺
我忘了這是第幾次 一見你就無法堅持

孤獨比擁抱更真實 愛讓人失去了理智
會不會是我太自私 拒絕更寂寞的日子
放不開 也看不見未來
難道這種不完美 才是愛情真實的樣子

I went to Hawaii to eat and catch up on sleep and TV. I had not slept that much in forever. I have to say I thought the food and the hula were not up to par to some of the Hawaiian food (L&L, Hukilau) and to some of the hula groups (Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu) in SF.

But despite all that, the Sales and Service Conference was spectacular. Here are some highlights:
-When we got off the bus, around 50 executes were standing there waiting for us, clapping, congratulating, thanking us for all the hard work. It completely WOW-ed me.
-They fed you breakfast and dinner everyday. I got a gift card for the lunches or to spend on whatever I wanted. They showered us with tons and tons of gifts.
-There were 1,311 winners, which is nothing considering the group we’re part of has 58,000 people and the whole company has 130,000+ people, and the whole planning of the event left me speechless.
-During the award ceremony night, I got to shake hands with our CEO, and the group head, one below the CEO.
-As a surprise, they got Sheryl Crow to perform at our ceremony. She sang all her greatest hits (My Favorite Mistake, All I Wanna Do…Is Have Some Fun, Soak Up the Sun, Leaving Las Vegas, First Cut Is the Deepest, Strong Enough, If It Makes You Happy ) and then some.
-My mom was amazed at the whole event and actually told me to stay in SF with wells…

I didn’t really do anything so didn’t take that many pix, but here is the complete pix I did take:
2005 Sales and Service Conference Pix

Some of the pix are very random, but they are dedicated to the “Spice Girls Gone Wrong”, who partook in Hawaii 2001. I couldn’t help but reminisce back to those days after passing some of the sites.

International Market Place

Ocean Club

Hilton Statues

Notice the big “Keep Out” sign

And of course, what did we do 4 years ago? (we ended up having to run away from cops coming towards us in a golf cart telling us to get out…yeah…memories…)

I also passed by Hooter’s and Moose McGillycuddy’s but didn’t take pix!

For those of us attending Eurotrip 2006, I can’t wait! We should start planning!

I just came back from having dinner with roomie and dater…I’m still contemplating if I should do the thing I said I was gonna do…but in the meantime, I wanted to wish my dater a very happy birthday because I won’t be here on Friday to celebrate her 21st birthday with her.

Happy Birthday Dater!! Sorry I can’t be here on Friday, but no need to hide b/c roomie and everyone else will be there to take care of you!

Thank you for being there for me for the past 7 years. In the beginning, you showed your big heart with your tear-jerking speeches about sisterhood and SOPi. You have that special gift of creating a safe environment where everyone can come to you to talk about anything and where you can tell when people are not saying the truth. And ever since the way beginning, we have always looked cool with our ciggies.

Throughout college, you took care of everyone and I am glad to have been part of those people who got to eat your spicy noodles, homecooked meals, play mahjong at your pad with asparagus sticks/seaweed/a container full of snacks, cram into your beamer with 7 or 8 other people, experience the sisterhood retreats you planned.

Then there was the period after college, where we both lived by ourselves in Emeryville, the days when we were inseparable, when we used to party from Thursday -Saturday and still manage to go boarding on the weekends every single week with my Hello Kitty hat and took a snowboard jumping class we were too ashamed to tell everyone, where we hung out with the SF Buddies crew and took boat rides around the bay, cruised around to eat everyday, the days of UTB/Charlie’s Angel of lying our butts off to get out of doing stuff and actually getting away with it, and dealing with “.” Thank you for that period b/c I don’t know what I would have done without you by my side.

And, there is the present, where you are still taking care of everyone, still creating that safe environment that draws everyone to you with problems, the days of bachelorette parties and wearing rabbit fur and being a dirty furry bitch and of weddings.


Seven years of memorable birthday celebrations later (Vaskia, World Beat, NV, Whisper which I missed, Butterfly), I’m so grateful and lucky to still have you by my side. You deserve the best and to be taken care of too! I know it sucks to grow old (I’m three months behind ya!), but as roomie said during my past birthday, we prefer to call it grow up. HAVE A HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LUV YA!!!!!!!!!!

For more of dater and my adventures, go read: Wendy’s Page

This entry is dedicated to my current roomie, Cindy. I have known her for 8 years now and throughout, she has not failed to make me laugh. So, just like Bush has a whole book of Bushism, here is a compilation of Cindy-ism. First tho, there needs to be a disclosure: ydnic, I hope after this entry, you’ll still want to live with me, but I guess you have no choice, since both our names are on the lease.

Me (trying to remember phone numbers when pledging): 664-1472
C: Who’s phone number is that?
Me: Ummm, it’s yours!

Active when we were pledging: Who is Jenny Park’s hero?
C: Superman!
Jenny Park plops on the floor to do her push-ups even before actives tell Cindy the answer was Parents and God.

Cindy for the life of her cannot do the cancan, which resulted in Jane and I doing countless sit-ups.

C: Some guy asked me to go have dinner at Daruma’s. Can you guys please go there too but pretend that you didn’t know I was going to be there?
(I don’t know what all of us were thinking but we still went…thinking back, I feel sorry for her date.)

Me, washing dishes in the kitchen sink.
Cindy and a male friend were at the front door. The male friend was about to leave and went closer to Cindy to try to give her a hug.
C: High Five!!!! (and she makes the male friend give her a high five.)
After the male friend left, I started CRACKING UP SO BAD, but girls, next time you should try that when a guy tries to give you a hug…HIGH FIVE!

C: Where is a sperm from?
Me: Are you kidding? Which one do you think you have, egg or sperm?
C: I don’t know…I never took sex ed in middle school or high school. I grew up in OC, we’re pretty sheltered there.
Me: Ummm, sperms are in guys, we have eggs…

C: What is a boner?
Someone explains it to her.
Later on, some guy asks if Cindy wants to sit in his lap.
C: No way, I don’t want to give you a boner.
(At least she learned and used it in the right context!)

Cindy generates a lot a lot of trash and uses more toilet paper than Tracy and I combined. Before Tracy, Cindy and I lived together, Cindy was living in SF Sunset district with two other roommates. She had bags and bags of magazines to toss out but the Sunset house they were renting didn’t have enough trash containers. The three of them went to UCSF and tossed out Cindy’s magazines in the UCSF dumpsters. The next day, one of her roommates commented that it’s illegal to throw out trash like that and they were magazines with Cindy’s name on them. So the three of them went back to UCSF, jumped into the dumpsters, and pulled out all the trash.

C: I think it’s just these days that I’m so out of it…(these days kinda turned into 8 years…)

Cindy, Tracy and I were outside our balcony smoking…next thing you know it, Cindy kicks her slipper out of our balcony and down four floors into the bushes. I got my maglight and shined it in the bushes while Tracy and Cindy went to retrieve the lost slippers.

Tracy and I were talking about Italian Job.
C: Oh, what movie is that?
T&Me: It’s the one with Mini Cooper.
C: Oh, I know Mini Cooper, she’s the actress who guest starred on Will and Grace.
T&Me (laughing hysterically): Ummmm, that was Minnie Driver…Mini Cooper is a car
C: Mini Cooper, Minnie Driver, same difference

Guy at Kragen: How many cylinders does your car have? Four?
Cindy (thinking, what kind of question is that…can cars have more than four tires): Yeah yeah, I have Four wheels.
Dufus (laughing): Cylinders are not tires…why would he ask a question about wheels…how many honda accords have two wheels or six wheels?
(But at least Cindy got the Kragen guy to change her car battery and her windshield wiper…)

Today, I get a call from Cindy at around 10am when I was already at work. Cindy stayed home today b/c she hurt her back yesterday while we were moving.
C: Hey, you have my keys.
A: No, I don’t.
C: Yeah, did you use my keys yesterday when driving my car back? (I didn’t want her to drive and jeopardize both our lives cuz her back was injured.)
A: No, I used my set of keys. Are you sure you didn’t leave it in the new apartment?
C: No, I remember putting it in my purse.
A: Well, check our old apartment, if it’s not there, then it’s in our new apartment because I don’t have them.
Later on in the day…
C: Hey, if you go to our new apartment, can you please check the floor to see if my eyes are there?
A: HUH!?! do you mean keys, not eyes?
C: Oh yeah, keys, eyes, same thing. Shut up, I’m tired.
(I went home, picked her up and went to new apartment…guess where her “eyes” were…)

I love you roomie!!! ha ha ha…But please, just sit there and look pretty…you don’t really need to open your mouth!