Spring break will commence in a few days, upon which I (theoretically) will have time and (theoretically) will being posting things.
Cheerio until then.
20 March 2007
Updates Forthcoming
13 March 2007
I've Got an Itch
I've been itchin' to blog lately and figured I'd resurrect my blog from it's shallow grave ... for the second time. I guess Facebook wasn't enough to satisfy my procrastination needs any longer.
So, here I am again. Third time's a charm, right? Maybe I'll actually figure this whole blogging thing out this time around.
07 August 2006
A tip for all you ignorant people...yeah that means you, so you might want to listen up.
I've been interning in Washington, DC for a good 9 weeks now, and one of the (many) things that I can't stand about the city is the all too apparent dearth of Filipinos and Asians in general. What this equates to is far too much quasi-fetishizing from complete strangers. I once had a bouncer - a complete stranger - tell me he had a things for Asians and look at me practically licking his lips. Needless to say, I've never experienced this kind of blatant orientalism on the West coast, which makes me feel privileged to go to a school where race happens to be hyper-polarized. It used to bother me that race is so prominent at Berkeley, until I came here and realized what a blessing it is.
Here's an example of what I'm talking about: I can't even get my daily dose of caffeine without being accosted about my nationality. A random man today in Bagels and Baguettes, where I get the usual (regular mocha frappacccino, no whip) every week day before work, felt compelled to ask me a question: "Where are you from."
Oh the well-meaning, curiousity-laden "Where are you from." Clearly, he isn't asking me where I'm actually from - it's rare that someone asking that question the way this man asked me (which is often how it's asked for the most part) is interested in my address. Oh no, no no. What this man, and countless people before him, wants to know is what my ethncity I am. But apparently because I am not white, that must mean I must be from somewhere else, not here. That is the implication. If I were to answer this man's question literally, I would have said, "Well sir, I'm from Washington State, approximately 20 minutes north of the fair city of Seattle." But then we would have had to go through the "Oh, no no, that's not what I mean. Where are you FROM."
I really don't mind fielding inquiries about my nationality. I'm proud to be filipino and to tell people that I am. But - and here's the tip for all of you people in DC who have never seen an Asian person before - if you want to know what I am, then ask THAT. "What are you?" "Why, I'm filipino! How refreshing for someone to say what they mean.!" Or even "What ethnicity are you." It's okay to ask, just don't show how sheltered you are when you ask.
Plus, asking is much better than guessing. Much better.
10 December 2005
shampoo conspiracy
I have a theory about shampoo and conditioner.
Have you ever noticed that when you use separate shampoo and conditioner, one always tends to run out before the other no matter how hard you try to use the same quantities of each. So you run out of conditioner but you still have shampoo left, so you buy a new bottle of conditioner. A few weeks later, your shampoo runs out, but you still have conditioner. So then you buy a new bottle of shampoo and the whole process repeats itself in perpetuity.
As I was perusing the aisles of the Rexall Drugstore on Telegraph for another bottle of Aussie Conditioner, I began to wonder....is it possible that the manufactors might put less conditioner or shampoo into the bottles so that you'll be forced into the aforementioned cycle? Once you have to buy a new bottle of conditioner with half of bottle of shampoo left, you're pretty much locked into the brand. You don't really want to mix shampoos and conditioners because I think that's bad, or maybe that's just what they want you to think so that you don't go around buying a bottle of Herbal Esssences conditioner to go with your Aussie Shampoo.
I vowed I would do an experiment and see if the quantities of shampoo and conditioner were the same, but I don't really have too many qualms with being locked into the Aussie hair product cycle. It smells pretty good and my hair looks about the same as it does with other shampoos. So I guess that means all this theorizing has been for naught.
Just know that I'm on to you Aussie. Your devious, underhanded, upside-down ways are no secret to me. I know what's up.
18 November 2005
STOP ADVERTISING IN MY BLOG
Don't waste your time trying to advertise in my blog, because I am just going to delete all the stupid comments you make pretending that you've read my blog but are really all about getting people to come to your lame phone sex blog.
DO SOMETHING BETTER WITH YOUR LIFE AND LEAVE ME ALONE.
12 November 2005
top five favorite albums
in no particular order
1. no doubt - tragic kingdom
2. wyclef jean - the carnival
3. death cab for cutie - transatlancism
4. kenna - new sacred cow
5. jeff buckley - grace
07 November 2005
the best feeling in the world
do you want to know what the best feeling in the world is??
it's when you're eating a bag of something really good that you're enjoying and you think you've finished the entire bag and then you look in one more time to make sure it's empty, and there's one more delicious morsel hidden the corner.
yeah....that's what it's aaaaaaallllll about.
06 November 2005
out of sight, out of mind?
i've been having a lot of adages and old sayings running through my head lately, but one in particular more than others:
if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
i would like to pose my own, similar question:
if you're a dating someone, but you only see them once a month (at the best) and you don't have an open or even reliable line of communication...are you, for all intensive purposes, actually in a relationship?
okay, yes. the long distance relationship isn't supposed to be easy, by any means. i expected that. what i didn't expect is that my boyfriend would find countless ways to make things harder then they already are, mainly joining a fraternity, of guys that i certainly am amused by but nonetheless take up all of his time, losing important things like his cellphone charger, leaving his cellphone on silent for days on end, opting to take inordinate amounts of naps rather than talk with me on the phone. i could go on, but i won't because chances are he might read this.
maybe i'm a needy person....but i don't feel like i'm asking for too much when i expect my long distance boyfriend to actually call me everyone once in a while and...oh...you know....talk to me.
and if i am...then well, fuck me, what the hell am i thinking?
the blog is back
sooooooo.....in sheer desperation to find new methods of procrastination, I tried the myspace thing, and yeah...it's kind of cool, but i found myself missing the days of the blog. now, i know that blogs are supposed to be political and actually interesting and ruminations about the most mundane aspects of daily life should be relegated to a diary or livejournal....but i love my blog and and i feel that it's period of quiet hibernation needs to come to an end.
granted, i understand that probably no one ever read my blog and no one was particularly heartbroken when i stopped writing in it for a few months and that i'm probably writing for my own entertainment...but that kind of gets at the heart of blogging in a sense: shameless self-indulgence and truly being the center of your own universe.
so i'm back to perform cpr on my blog and bring it back to life. i'll try and be political, savvy, provoking, antagonizing, in addition to a whole range of human emotions.
welcome back blog. i missed you.
03 June 2005
la dentista
so i went to the dentist yesterday. and while i was getting x-rays taken (x-rays that i apparently didn't need and for which my mother chastized me) i got to thinking: how safe are these things? i'm beginning to think that the lead apron they place across your vitals is only there to make you THINK the x-ray is safe. i mean really, how safe is it to have that thing inches away from your brain, shooting rays of radiation? my suspicion isn't helped by the fact that the dentist's aid is scurrying out of the room every time she takes an x-ray, no doubt to escape the harmful rays. and here i am, sitting here with this thing pointed at my fucking face.
Read More......05 May 2005
library etiquette part 2
two things that you can do in a library without fearing retribution:
1) fart very loudly like the girl that was sitting next to me did then sit there frozen in sheer terror, then slowly look around to see if anyone is staring at you in disgust.
2) be a crazy looking old man - like a funky asian version of mr. burns w/ funky huge glasses straight outta the 80s and a puffy blue jacket, shuffling around looking all senile - walk by me, look over at me, make eye contact and then burp very very loudly.
library etiquette
I will take a brief break from getting my ass kicked by this film paper to provide you with The Top 5 Things You Shouldn't Do In A Library So That You Won't Be The Victim of a Most Horrible Violation:
5) Talk very loudly on your cellphone. No one wants to hear your uninteresting one-sided conversation. We're already suffering enough trying to study and write papers, jackass.
4) Leave your cellphone on the table when you leave to go do god knows what and forget to put it on silent and it rings and rings and rings some awful techno crap straight out of the eighties AND blinks obnoxious colors that are more distracting than facebook. You're a jerk and I hate you.
3) Sit right next to me when there are a million other tables you could work at. Chances are I don't like you, so go away. Plus you probably smell funny.
2) Meander back and forth through the stacks wearing high heels that make clicking noises that echo through the entire library. NO you don't look good in those heels and they make you walk funny, like some poor crippled animal.
1) Make a lot of noise while getting out of your chair (b/c the library ppl were brilliant and didn't put rolly chairs in the library but instead opted for the chairs that are capable of making the loudest noise possible when slid) b/c you are an idiot and don't understand that you pulling the chair out is going to make lots of noise and make people (people being me) incredibly unhappy. Fuck off, you are the ultimate library bastard.
Now back to my regularly scheduled academic ass kicking.
01 May 2005
moments in disgrace
check out my review:
moments in grace
Now you understand why I'm now using this cd as a coaster.
28 April 2005
getting the party started
spanktime
Originally uploaded by sothenodoubter.
I think this picture is really indicative of the special relationship that Katie and I share. This is precisely why we are rooming together next year ~grin~.
I do like a good spanking.
Work It
sexysofie
Originally uploaded by sothenodoubter.
I think this picture speaks for itself.
And dare i say...new facebook picture??
Suite 209: Hottest Suite on the Floor
katie,laura,sofie
Originally uploaded by sothenodoubter.
I mean, you have to admit, we're a pretty good looking suite. And not to toot my own horn, but toot toot. I'm not looking so bad. It's kind of sad to realize that this is the best that I'll ever look. I mean, pretty much, from here it's all downhill. Gravity will have it's way with me and soon i'll be wrinkly and saggy. ~sigh~. But hey, at least I have this awesome picture to remember how cute i used to be.
Read More......Wow Sofie, nice...reeeeallll nice.
katie,laura,sofie2
Originally uploaded by sothenodoubter.
Yeah, way to ruin the picture. Everyone looks all cute and there i am looking all retarded. I can do some pretty freaking weird things w/ my face, that's for sure. I honestly cannot tell you what on earth I was thinking.
Oo this could be a fun game: Make your own caption!!!
The best caption gets...a signed photograph of me?? Or maybe I'll take you out to lunch or something or record your voicemail message for you.
Towle Floor 2....and Steve
floor2_steve
Originally uploaded by sothenodoubter.
Here are some of the people who live on my floor. Then there's Steve who lives on the fourth floor, i think. He's always hanging out in David and Paul's room. They call him Kramer b/c he just wanders in unannounced and eats all of their food.
So yeah, this is all of us, the first group of people at DU for sake bombing b/c David always tells us to get there way earlier than we need to be. So we're usually the first people there, which just makes us look really desperate to drink...which sometimes we are.
27 April 2005
DU or Bust
hotties
Originally uploaded by sothenodoubter.
Here are the hotties of Floor 2 (from left to right): Laura, yours truly, Katie, Mayra and Gina. We're on our way to Delta Upsilon for sake bombing. I don't know what made me think that I'd enjoy that considering I like neither beer nor sake. I went out oan a limb and the limb fucking broke. So I spent that night completely sober. Nice.
Read More......
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