tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40550032011587504072024-03-13T11:48:09.195-07:00deny it allI'm going to relate my findings on my Asian adventure and life in general here.Deny it allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04264619632341598804noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-86438628708203428802013-01-25T22:08:00.000-08:002013-01-25T22:08:00.404-08:00more spams<br />
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I finally got my laptop back. It was held hostage at a lame repair place until I finally got sick of waiting for them and picked up my phone and called... I was about to go on and give a scathing review but I guess I'll save that for yelp or google or any other review websites I can think of. I'll unleash later.<br />
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for now, updates...most recently: there was a coyote howling outside the house! Craziness.<br />
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before that...<br />
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I got a job in case anyone wasn't aware. And while it's not a movie job, like 'sports marketing' or 'organic juice stand owner' it does pay my bills. Barely. Probably because I have no real bills at the moment.<br />
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But in order to make up for not being as glamorous as an art gallery director and just sitting at a desk all day processing claims they try to make up for it by making it a pretty darn laid back place to work.<br />
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I was told, short of wearing pj's we can wear what we want. That means for most of the week I'm in sweats, until all my sweatpants are in the laundry and I have to wear actual pants.<br />
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Let's see, what else has happened. I have gone coat shopping (successfully), pot shopping (unsuccessfully) for a potted plant of course, the lady at the garden center of Lowe's was confused for a minute, and I need a haircut. But that's neither here nor there. But it certainly is somewhere on my list of things to do that would keep getting longer if I could remember where I wrote that list to begin with.<br />
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Oh yeah, the weather sucks. I ran into a lake and...<br />
And that's as far as I got with that sentence back in November. I really wish I had finished that sentence because I honestly don't remember running into a lake. Interesting.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18192738758848203289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-1408479435360316292012-11-21T22:12:00.000-08:002012-11-21T22:13:13.053-08:00my lousy high school dayI wasn't going to write about this, because it's pretty humiliating and some people will not want to hear about the very slim chance there was a teeny tiny scratch on the car...but anyways...<br />
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so today is the day before thanksgiving, what was supposed to be an awesome day. Just get through the work day and four day weekend. Yesterday was a lovely catered Thanksgiving lunch by the company, of which I took home the most food.<br />
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So then here's how my day starts...<br />
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I forget to put on deodorant, well it still could be ok because hopefully I won't sweat that much.<br />
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So what could be more high school than high school than getting a zit and forgetting to put on deodorant?<br />
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How about backing up into a curb in the parking lot on my way home?<br />
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And then when the car hits the curb, I put it into drive which was actually Neutral which of course means that the car is not going anywhere, so then I think I've put it straight up on the curb and it's not moving and how the hell do you get a car off a curb if its not moving?<br />
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well luckily I finally figure out what an idiot I was being and put it into drive, and drove home without much incident and poured myself a nice tall glass of wine and then a margarita to top it off.<br />
Because I'm certainly not in freaking high school anymore (despite having all kinds of dreams about that constantly) and I'm an adult dammit. Bad days will happen I guess. I'm sure tomorrow will be better.<br />
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Unless my face totally breaks out, I run out of deodorant, I crash the car into my own mailbox all before leaving to have dinner with my fiancee's family.<br />
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Happy Freaking Thanksgiving.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18192738758848203289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-89365714182611672972012-10-11T21:06:00.003-07:002012-10-11T21:06:41.474-07:00I really enjoy hanging out with my fianceeSometimes he can be really super nice. Like for old ladies that take up space on the sidewalk with all their cumbersome used shopping bags full of farmer's market stuff that gets stuck to branches of bushes.<br />
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And some times it's surprising when he isn't. Like when we're walking the aisles of Target and come upon a trail of what appears to be chocolate milk or coffee drops leading mysteriously off in the distance and ending underneath the cart of a lovely looking woman browsing bathroom towels.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18192738758848203289noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-91528194814505730022012-09-24T13:38:00.001-07:002012-09-24T13:38:01.324-07:00i love answering questions<br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">If you could have dinner with one person living or dead who would it be?</b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span><b style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">If you could go back in time to one day in your life which day would it be and why?</b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Probably my best birthday ever, the one with the pinata, and I would break it open this time and not let everyone else have a turn because it was my birthday dammit and I should have broken it open and then used the bat to beat away the children from my birthday pinata candy, because I'm incredibly selfish, that's why.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Long in the winter, short in the summer, I look awesome with short hair, but I have drawers full of hair stuff and I love putting my hair up.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;">Favorite cartoon as a kid?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">This one creeped me out, but it was like a car accident, I just couldn't look away.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> </span><img alt="Zoobilee Zoo tv show photo" height="249" itemprop="image" src="http://sharetv.org/images/zoobilee_zoo-show.jpg" width="333" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">But I guess favorite cartoons would be the ones where </span><a href="http://youtu.be/C2VMqQ6XnmI" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Bugs Bunny dressed up as a girl</a><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><img height="344" id="il_fi" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2007/10/thumb463x_WhatsOperaDoc-1.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="463" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Night person for sure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">If your life was a movie what would it be a comedy, drama, horror?</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm happy to say there's nothing that horrifying or especially dramatic in my life right now so I'm leaning towards mockumentary, and as soon as I start work, hopefully it'll be like The Office.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b style="color: blue; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;"><br /></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b style="color: blue; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;">If you found yourself pregnant at this moment would you want a boy or girl?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><b style="color: blue; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px;"></b><span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope that it wouldn't be any generic sex but be the new generation of mutants that X-Men has promised us will happen sometime soon. So boy or girl, it just has to fly and have scales and mimic any voice so I can have celebrity voice mail messages.</span></span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Hit shuffle on your iPod or if you don't own one turn on the radio and name the first song that plays?</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Missy Elliot: Pump It Up</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then I tried it seven more times and got : Cake, Foo Fighters, Monica, The Postal Service, Eminem, Foreigner and Soundgarden.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">If you were a singer and had to pick a duet partner who would it be and why?</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Either <a href="http://youtu.be/NQdC7h609k8" target="_blank">La Roux</a> because I can totally get 5 stars on Expert when I sing Bulletproof on Rock Band so everyone would think I'm just that good, or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/EminemVEVO" target="_blank">Eminem</a> and I would spit some slick rhymes like only two white people can.</span></span></span></div>
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<img id="il_fi" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/La_Roux_Eleanor_Elly_Jackson.jpg/220px-La_Roux_Eleanor_Elly_Jackson.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" />+<img height="320" id="il_fi" src="http://totallytwitterpated.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/eminem.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="244" />= what I could sound like.</div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">name the last movie you watched be it on TV or in the theater? </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hustle and Flow</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then I hit shuffle five more times: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stevie Wonder, Yelawolf, Soundgarden, Coldplay, Pearl Jam</span></span></span></div>
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Deny it allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04264619632341598804noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-75091879743721026202012-09-24T12:35:00.000-07:002012-09-24T12:35:37.982-07:00job huntSo I turned down my first job offer. This was how I felt when I got offered a job...<br />
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awesome, this isn't as bad as I thought it would be, I won't spend months looking for a job and being broke and getting more and more hopeless as the weeks drag on<br />
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And this was how I felt when I turned it down...<br />
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There will be other chances and better paying/better locations/better jobs, I'm worth more than what they're offering and I can hold out until a better opportunity comes along. And I don't want to start my commute at 4AM.<br />
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And this is how I feel now.<br />
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Someone has to call back sometime. I mean I couldn't have turned down the only job offer in the state? Could I?<br />
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And that's about it.<br />
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But I'm still hopeful.<br />
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I accepted my second job offer. So I guess it isn't all that bad.Deny it allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04264619632341598804noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-38637227607768608332012-09-11T12:27:00.001-07:002012-09-11T12:27:06.104-07:00Haiku Monday Winner<span style="font-size: large;">Holy crap that was awesome! I really hope I win again one of these days because getting haiku's all over me was certainly the highlight of my week! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you all for sharing a little about yourselves and getting creative all over the place. While I tried to comment on everyone's haiku either here or at your personal blogs let me say a little something about the haiku's that stood out to me:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13353226877718632215" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;">Rafael</a>- I'm totally stealing your lines for my next trivia team name because they're awesome. Although I prefer my Margarita's blended I love the different ways you can read the last line of your third haiku. Go team 'quickly spent wad!'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03916101406698502578" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: 'Droid Sans'; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;">grins</a>- both of yours really made me smile, and then I thought about it, and then I smiled some more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Write a haiku, leave it in the comments. 5-7-5 syllable format. Utterly awesome if you use kigo and kiru like a real badass haiku writer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Include a link to your blog with visuals if you'd like, that would please me but not necessary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is my first time so I might overlook things like counting syllables and all that but I'll totally do my best. Thanks again every one who gives it a try and for giving me a chance to do this. And go!</span><br />
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The Diner: wonderful bacon and decent burgers, if you're hungry for breakfast...like real American style eggs, toast, sausage, the little thing of jelly that's never enough...then the Diner is a perfect place to go. But only go if you're feeling hungry two hours from now. The wait isn't that long, Taiwanese people usually just sit around their finished food talking (and by talking I mean tweeting with the person across the table) for about two hours. So I guess the staff is used to just ignoring tables for hours on end. </div>
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<br />Deny it allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04264619632341598804noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-87336382321592325282012-07-13T23:49:00.001-07:002012-07-13T23:49:49.575-07:00no, you can't have my shoesYou can't even borrow my shoes. I am getting to be a mean old lady. And I'm not even that old or a lady. But I have no patience when it comes to Filipino shenanigans or come on's. When I go to the beach, I want a tan. And to pee in the water. And drink fruity beer and let it all hang out. But mostly tan and pee. So don't ask me to lend you my shoes because you were a dumb ass and forgot to being your own flip flops to the beach and are on some tour group outing and think you're the awesomest gift to lady kind because you style your hair and have fake Raybans.<br />
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After so many fruity beers your charms aren't so charming and your broken English is annoying and although your Chinese is clearly understandable...no, you can't borrow my ridiculously small sized flip flops to swim in the water because you didn't bring yours and have normal fake shoes from some night market in Taipei.<br />
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Like when you worked your way over to the ladies sitting a few feet in front of us and talked them into letting you use some shoes while you tip toed around the water and left to get something to drink from 7-11. I'm sure Miss Second Choice Bigfoot got her shoes back eventually. I had a lovely time at the beach by the way.<br />
Except for the jelly fish (or other stinging animal) that left horrible welts all over my legs. The next time I get myself in the ocean I will pee twice as much as a slap in the face to all the things that bite/sting/burn/touch me in the water.<br />
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<br />Deny it allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04264619632341598804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-43168294866861810022012-07-09T07:39:00.002-07:002012-07-13T18:35:34.926-07:00things I won't miss about Taiwan23. things that bite me, especially things I can't see in the ocean. I think I'll go to the clinic tomorrow and figure this thing out.<br />
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<br />Deny it allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04264619632341598804noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-83597507936269199132012-07-04T22:05:00.003-07:002012-07-04T22:05:53.105-07:00things i will not miss about taiwan1. Lady purses on dudes. Not man purses, but seriously your mom's old purse on some 19 year old guy. If dudes are doing this back in the states...I'll still point and laugh just like I do here but only as long his purse isn't big enough to carry a gun.<br />
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<br />Deny it allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04264619632341598804noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-32673988576132064552012-06-25T19:57:00.000-07:002012-06-25T19:57:06.117-07:00And then to top it offDo you know what it's like to be woken up by scratching inside the wall? I do.<br />
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Today at CKS while at the awesome <a href="http://www.mediasphere.com.tw/dali/" target="_blank">Dali exhibition</a> I saw this old dude with really really long nose hairs. Coming out of his nose. He was just as tall as I, so I got an eyeful. Of nostril hair. White and gray nostril hair. Nasty.<br />
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<br />Deny it allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04264619632341598804noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-52167468668161184592012-06-22T20:49:00.000-07:002012-06-24T01:51:20.562-07:00that was horrifyingone of the worst things I've seen today was an octopus, a little one, being fried on a grill. Did you know their tentacles curl up and catch onto the bars. And their heads bubble as the juice inside boils out. And then they curl up like flowers. Like space alien flowers. It was not cool.<br />
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What should go home? clothes that I might fit into later if I can't afford to feed myself when I get back? Bottles of lotion that smell kinda funky now? old shoes? art supplies? hair ties? old makeup? books? birthday cards, pay stubs, tax papers, sheets, towels, pillow cases, costco sized bottles of meds? I don't know.<br />
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I found more evidence that Taiwanese people are pretty into changing their looks and go to even more extremes than digital touch ups. (They probably uglified those kids to make the ad work!)<br />
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So what could the magic of touch ups do to normal looking people. Luckily we got the normal and the touched up pictures.<br />
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Seriously though, this is pretty embarrassing. But I can still laugh, this is the Taiwan ideal bride to be I guess. I wonder if I had gotten these done in the states if the same changes would have been made. This is pretty awesome though, why waste time on the gym when I can save the money and pay the photographer to spruce up any folds, or rolls. Or chins.<br />
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At least we got what we paid for, looking awesome in our pictures.<br />
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</div>Deny it allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04264619632341598804noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-51746079979949232512012-05-17T21:25:00.000-07:002012-05-17T23:06:54.746-07:00Taiwan wedding pictures phase 5I call this part: Pick and Save<br />
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The choosing of the pictures! I'm pretty nervous to see what the photographer thought was my 'good side' and how all the 'chin down' worked. I also didn't get a chance to see what I looked like half the time so it'll be a surprise/disappointment.<br />
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Ok, so we choose our pictures!<br />
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So the lady showed us about 200 frames, it was pretty easy to get rid of half of those. Poses that he suggested that we both knew were stupid, ones where either one of us looked absurd/fat/sweaty/like we're about to sneeze.<br />
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So from 100 we went through about two more times and got it down to 40 that we pretty much liked. A few shots from each location, each dress change and one individual of each of us.<br />
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<span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">I had been told that this is the part where they try to sell you on extra pictures. Each extra picture costs from $800-$1500 NT. That's like $20-$40 US for each picture you want added into your album and photoshopped. LAME. Even for just the raw file, not put into the album or anything is $500 NT ($15).</span></div>
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I was pleasantly surprised that no one tried to sell to us, they just gave us the computer and let us chose, they told us to write down the number of the ones we wanted, and make any special requests as far as fixing some arm fat, tan lines, mole/freckle removal. It's going to be awesome.<br />
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So we decided we couldn't live out 30 pictures, so we paid for 4 extra pictures (and yes you have to pay right then for extras) hopefully they will be worth it. We shall see after the digital enhancement of our hot selves next week how we want the finished album to look and which picture we should chose for our giant poster sized picture.<br />
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And Chi made an excellent request, that next time when we go look at the final touched up pictures and pick up our CD with the images we can get the untouched frames on there too. This isn't a normal thing so if you want the files be sure to ask for them. I'm pretty sure you can only ask for the ones you're paying for though.<br />
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We see the newly touched up pictures on Sunday...<br />
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Oh yeah...one more thing I wanted to say to the boss lady who helped me try on the dresses...<br />
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<br />Deny it allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04264619632341598804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-91859101675915080342012-05-14T07:50:00.001-07:002012-05-14T07:52:07.652-07:00Phase 4: Glamour shots!I'll call this part: Not Cute Enough!<br />
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Hair and makeup (for the first time) took 2 hours. While I didn't get the exact hair style I wanted, what she gave me was adequate, it looked nice enough. I will say the 'natural look' wasn't very natural looking but for pictures you kinda go overboard.<br />
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So we went across the street and took pictures as the CKS memorial. Those were kinda fun, too bad it was so bright out. So I was Squinty and Chi was More Squinty than Usual.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Awesomeness:</b></span> I used America's Next Top Model advice and kept my eyes closed and counted down to take the picture so I only opened them right when the camera went off. Hopefully we got a few good ones.<br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So uncool I could kick myself for not saying anything: </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">there is this little bridge and pond that I wanted pictures at, and we took a few around the pond but I wanted the stupid bridge! I should have said something before we left but I thought we were going to the other side. But we left. And my dreams were again dashed in a Koi pond of sorrow.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So uncool I could kick myself for not saying anything: </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm sure the makeup was fine, but I have to say that my hair was a bit </span>disappointing<span style="font-family: inherit;">. I wanted it down sure, but I didn't like the stupid princess tiara comb thing she stuck on the top. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> He wanted us to to lame ass poses like kick our feet up with the sand and play in the water...which was refreshing. But still, super lame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then we went to some waterfall in Beitou that was an hour away, that the taxi, YES TAXI DRIVER, couldn't find. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So for all that extra money when I thought we'd be hiring a car service with a van big enough to fit everyone, we get a taxi driver with a Toyota Wish. At least Chi and I didn't get the crappy back seats. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So taxi driver gets lost, photographer, assistant, and makeup lady don't remember where it is. </span><br />
We finally find it at 6pm and we're losing light and a generous covering of off bug repellent couldn't keep the mosquitoes off and I hope I hid my flip flops under the dress because the hell I was wearing heels up slippery slimy rocks with garbage all over.<br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So uncool I could kick myself for not saying anything: </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">that green dress kept almost falling off. I thought the lady was going to fix all my dresses to my size, I guess she decided that one was fine as long as I held it up the whole time. LAME.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the waterfall we head to a place next to Taipei 101 where we can get some shots of the whole building. We only spent a few mins there. Most of the time was spent on makeup. And of course.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So uncool I could kick myself for not saying anything:</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I give her a picture of what I want my makeup to look like and she doesn't do it. I guess I wasn't aware I only get one makeup look and the rest of the time she just piled on the eyeliner and shadow. If I hadn't given her the lipstick I wanted, I bet I would have gotten the same thing in all the pictures. She also did this weird thing with the lipstick where she didn't put it on all my bottom lip, it was totally obvious but she said so that my lips don't look too big she did it on </span>purpose<span style="font-family: inherit;">. We'll see how those pictures turn out. She didn't even have any makeup remover once we were finished. So I wouldn't have gotten a change in makeup no matter what. LAME</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We went back to the studio for one last session in traditional Chinese outfits for the hell of it. </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So uncool I could kick myself for not saying anything: </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wanted to ask for two little buns for my next hair-do since I didn't get to chose the last three that I had (super lame!) But she just started doing something else. It didn't look bad, but I didn't get what I wanted!!! <insert here="" tantrum=""></insert></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But we had fun doing our own thing up in their studio. They had the usual red backdrop and some lame airbrushed forest one like for Sears family portraits in 1995. And then some old Chinese looking cabinet next to a random shelf of ugly old stuff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The </span>photographer<span style="font-family: inherit;"> tried to give us instruments to play with and we're like hell no. So Chi busted out his 3DS and I got out my Kindle and we took a few like that. </span><br />
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I think the photographer had no clue what we were doing but Chi got behind me and (ever so offensively) gave me the ole' chink eyes that we all used to do when we were kids making fun of evey Asian person.<br />
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I can't wait to see how those turn out.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18192738758848203289noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4055003201158750407.post-22453571142389754572012-05-12T21:55:00.001-07:002012-05-12T21:55:32.313-07:00Thundercats!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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