tonight, i'll be taking off to chengdu and hit the road to tibet tomorrow. it's unlikely that i won't be blogging here for a month or so. this site will be collecting some dust and bytes for a while.
happy may!
btw, i hope to celebrate my birthday with tibetian tribes.
also, if you are ever in hong kong, check out this cool hidden spot called kungsford terrace in TST.
before i forget, on may 15th, i'd like to promote a grand opening party for oh! promotions. this is a new business that i'm starting with my two partners. even though, my presence at the party will be missed, my great spirits will be hovering around there.
for more information, please go to http://www.ohpromotions.com. my spirit expects to see your presence there.
(blackcore, thanks for the reminder and i don't know if i'll ever get to boulder in hk because of its high humidity out there... i didn't even bring my chalk bag with me!)
bye, humble japan.
hello, qee-infested hong kong
i'll be here for about a week preparing for the tibet trip.
i forgot how notorious hong kong is for its sticky humidity.
leaving for tokyo soon today...
bye, arrogant america.
hello, humble japan.
yo. if you're one of 'em, please e-mail me and elaborate why you've become one... if your e-mail blows me away, sparkling my new fear of this particular number, i'd be happy to mail you a miminal prize - one of my prestigious prizes - a qee! the deadline is june 13, 2004.
why this, you ask?
just for the heck to see how much these peepos have free time in their hands...
i'm going nuts here. i wish i shouldn't have taken a trip to the usa's platitudinous capital over the weekend. i have so many errands/stuff to do yet so much little time left before my flight to tokyo this thursday. i was hoping i'd get a flight to tokyo this saturday, but it seems like friday and saturday's flights are overbooked. so might have to leave here little earlier than expected.
wish i have an assistant here. if you are willing to assist me in exchange for a few pages of web pages, please holla me out!
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_76570.html
(thanks sunqdevil)
i've submitted 5 qee designs to london's qee contest where the judges will select about 12 designs out of thousands submissions. while i'm not having a high expectation getting picked out, here are my design submissions:
screamy nightmare
vibrant deafie
doggy bank
slimey goo
pinky whacker
which one do you like the best?
last night, i was hanging out at a japanese bookstore with my fiancee, and she was skimming through a book about japan's daily life. she stumbled upon on this blurb about platform 'pizza' where many intoxicated japaneses would vomit on the platform while waiting for trains. they have called this pool of barf, platform pizza.
well, you may recall that i took a picture of this nasty pool last january in a subway station. here's the picture again:
now is that some of chili peppers there?
even though i don't know what the tibet itinerary is like, but boy this collection of pictures in tibet got me psyched...
http://www.tibettrip.com/tibet-photos/index.htm
yesterday, my fiancee and i took a stroll along 79th street, and an old friend from my freshman college days just stopped in my tracks and recognized me. (i was wearing my arizona baseball hat) and we just immediately hugged. i haven't seen her for like about 6 years or so. like me, she got engaged, too and has been living in big apple for the past four years. if you're reading this, alden, please do shoot me an email! i didn't realize that i didn't have your e-address :-(
on the other news, i've changed my mind and decided to join an expedition team to tibet on april 30th. so i'll be out of the country for the whole may. my friend who is getting hitched was very compassionate about this situation and understands this unique opportunity, and i'm relieved to have brought up this issue to my friend since i felt that i'd regret this decision for sticking with my friend for his wedding rather than grabbing this once a lifetime opportunity. i was glad to have such a wonderful, understanding friend like him grasping of my spontaneous way of life. i hope to bring something ever hallowed gift from tibet for him and his financee.
for post card inquiries from tibet, please do e-mail me your mailing address and i'll try to get them out of tibet to you.
earlier today, i went to a panel to discuss about deaf environments at pratt institute in brooklyn. a few pratt professors, pratt grad students, and deaf members were in hand to yap about what can be done to 'space' that we, the deafies, would love to have. while i didn't learn much in this forum from the panelists, it made me realize that they were substantially enthusiastic in creating deaf space beyond the basic mandates of the dodderin' ada. it's all that same ol' discussion where a deafies gives hearies a crash course about deaf culture; but we did give out some new ideas on how to refine the use of deaf spaceness. a grad student expressed an idea about using an analytic visual signer in which a person approaches to a deaf person closer, the light will brigten up.. once the person goes away, the light will dim and switch it off. now, the question i have to ask is how will this handle the high traffic of people moving by in front of my cubicle at work? i think i'd rather stick with the old mirror trick, in which a small circular convex mirror can be placed on the top of my monitor to track the people behind me. there's another solution... there could be a thermal monitoring in which a heat sensor is placed above the ceiling above me, and i could just see who's coming into my way... and i can even know whether that person gets turned on by my presence or not ;-) ohh.. what fun is it to dream away...
04.06.04
0630: wake up early due to hectic crisscross chaos in my mind
0800: workout
0900: hit the shower
0930: leave home and get blasted by wind
0940: hit post office to pick up an 8in zulu cat for my fiancee
0945: takes train to susie's home
1045: arrival of susie's place. debates whether to take suz's car or my jeep
1100: takes susie's car due to its friendly gas consumption on the way to NJ
1113: get email from my dad about a possiblity of a tibet trip in may
1120: suz's car just dies out on us in the middle of queensboro bridge
1140: cop's car finally arrives at the scene
1142: cruiser pushes the car up the bridge and see the disabled civic roll down
1210: a tow truck with a car comes and tries to jump start
1250: another tow truck comes and tows us (we are even inside the car while towed... what a fun ride was that)
1330: leaves the car at the shop and takes train back to susie's home (ignition distributor is the main cause of its malfunction)
1450: pick up my car and leave for NJ again
1550: arrive at newport mall
1600: chow down the great steak sandwich in a food court
1633: get the word that a friend's company is looking for a HTML guy
1700: starting to feel the effects of what a fever feels
1800: my fiancee's fashion eye for her countless tries of different jeans
1830: leaves for mitsuwa marketplace in edgewater, nj
1845: appreciates the rare sighting of nyc's building landscape from NJ side
1900: shops through the store for japanese groceries
1945: orders bim bop bee for dinner from its food court
2000: the plaza starts to close
2004: we finally finish our dinner and get out of the plaza
2020: we look for a gas station for the cheapest gas and decide to fill up at hess
2035: drive through lincoln tunnel
2100: drop off the grocery bags at my place
2140: drop off susie and my car at her place
2230: arrive at my place via train and bus
2245: takes 3 tablespoons of nyquil
2315: see barry bonds hit a popup fly on TV
2350: crash on my bed
note: as for the tibet trip, my dad just found out that his friend who is a former reporter, is planning to take a group of photographers (whom some of my parents know) to tibet for a month expedition with nomadic tribes in may. there's a slot open for me to join in... that's an unique opportunity something not to be missed. however; due to my involvement in my friend's wedding on may 15th, i can't join the expedition. in my vision with this group, i could learn a few trades with the tribal groups, and sleep in an open grassland with them. observe what their primitive nomadic lives are all about. i'm feeling distraught about this opportunity :-( plus my dad's friend feels it's his LAST trip to tibet as he's getting too old and can't withstand its 36 grueling hours of offroading to tibet from his hometown, chengdu. i hope this rare opportunity to hang out with tibetian tribes will come up for me again soon in the future.