10.06.08-10.13.08 Locked up in #34

So I had to compile this week into one post... otherwise there will be a few dead family members out there.... I ended up going to the thrift store in washington heights to buy some knit garments to work on my free people project...... I ended up getting about 2 over sized fleece pull overs, a mens button up top, kathy's old sweater, a oversized waffle top and some cording and elastic....... I was not really sure what I was gonna make but I was gonna make something I was gonna be able to wear at least! 1 of the oversized fleece pullovers The very bad hand sketch I made for Free People.... This top mixes the waffle knit and the mens button up top. I added buttons and some hand stitch details to the top This jacket mixes two of the oversized fleece pullovers cuz I did not have enough fabric... But it ended up being the best of the three garments. I also used kathy's old sweater + the old ripcurl jacket she was getting rid of for zippers. This pull over is all one fleece... I turned the hood inside out so that you can see the waffle knit and tried to make a girly muscle top. Adding some military detailing with the cording at the back and added an elastic waistband with a metal buckle. Lets just say I was in washington heights all week working on this project... It was fun times.... A night of drinking cuz the girls did not have to work that day. Photo taken right after a trip to Pinkberry's...taken in Columbus Square!!!!! Here is a random photo.... In Manhattan they lock up the Axe Spray!!! Go figure!

9.22.08 BLAH

The subject title explains it! What else do I need to say?
Oh random thoughts for the day......

-do I really need a job? I can just sew crap all day long and sell it on ebay. I mean people do it all the time! Why do I need to stress out about having a job already....WTF is wrong with me...... oh oh oh I know...I am F***ing Asian. Double WTF

-why is the laundry mat so expensive? New Goal #1: to own a laundry mat in NY
Went to do laundry before my phone interview. Walked with determination around the corner to Kleener King (pretty good name right!) with the intention to do an amazing job at putting in my clothes into the washer...remember separate colors (of course I already did this before I left the apartment-pat myself on the back).. (mental note-buy a grandma cart unless you want a grandma hump). Anyways I start to put my whites in one washer and put the laundry liquid (if you want to know Woolite) press cold wash cuz I don't want anything running anyways. I look at the coin slot to put my quarter in and it says $0.25- I think to myself sweet! Only $0.25 what a great deal! I am gonna do my laundry everyday! I put my quarter in and the window says $2.25. I 'figuratively' shit in my pants and pretty much cried. $2.50 per load! REMINDER: I am the cheapest person in the entire world (my bad if I talk about how expensive everything here is!)
I also want to get into drying my loads.....ahhhh hummmmm...... $0.25 per 6 minutes... I HEART NY!
While waiting for my loads to be done I sit down to read 'Fast Food Nation.' I won't go into the gory details about how they KILL THE ANIMALS WE EAT, but I will still eat meat anyways, its just nice to be informed.
Later that evening I complain to Kathy how expensive I think the laundry is and she goes to tell me that there is NEVER hot water in that laundry mat....if you press hot wash it is cold! Ummmm would be considered false advertisement? Can I sue? WTF! WTF! WTF!

The rest of the day was a bust....I think....mostly cuz I can't remember what happened (I DID NOT BLACK OUT!). Oh.....I had my phone interview...and that went well...I think...I stuttered a few times.... Kinda sad! :( and I worked on my portfolio....kinda.....more like surfed the web all day looking at blogs! Can I say that there are so many F***ing blogs out there it is sick! and sweet! I really can't decide yet!

09.18.08 Supermarkets, supermarkets, supermarkets

Okay so this is how I know I have a food addiction. Everyday since I got here I have gone to the supermarket. If I didn't need anything I would go anyways just to check it out. Check out what you say....well....ummm.... let me get back to you! If you hear from me within the next week asking for money....its for food! FEED ME!
Anyways, today was a bust! I was suppose to go to the MET today but my body told me I was too tired. So I didn't go. TIP #6: Listen to your body! It is never wrong (Please do not quote me on this!) So I decided to go to the Goodwill a few blocks away from the apartment to look for a chair and some drink glasses. Its not that far and I would be there and back in less than 1 hr. In between all this intense planning.... Kathy gmail chats me and she sends me a link to this really cool thrift/vintage store in Greenbrook, Brooklyn and another store called 'JUNK' in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I was thinking...great! I can go to two places at once and then go back home....its a plan! At this point I am totally amped to go vintage shopping....FINALLY! but then I look at the 'JUNK' website and I get deflated and do not want to go there anymore and just want to go to Greenbrook to hit the vintage store and the Salvation Army store, which is also in Greenbrook. I tell Kathy my ingenious plan and she reminds me that her friend got mugged there. At this point, I am over it! How would that sound if this blog ended up with photos of be beaten up? HUMMMMM.....that would be an interesting post.... But then I would be on the next flight home to the OC.... which would be nice also, hummmmm......
HEY! I did not go right! GEEZ! I told Kathy I will save my mugging when she is with me.

So I head out for my 1st NY Goodwill excursion. On my 12 minute walk there, I pass some grocery street vendors, selling garlic-2bags for $1, large avocados for $1 each, grapes for $1, pineapples for $2, all pretty great deals. I finally get to Goodwill and the store probably wreaked but I think I am immune to that smell now (Is that gross?). I rummage thru the racks for about 5 minutes and tell myself I need a chair, and drink glasses. I head down stairs to look for my treasure. I head to the back of the floor and I find a rolled up West Elm display rug. I check for use and it has not been used....it had all its floor display tags still on it. SWEET! but it did not have a price. Like the cheap ass I am, I tell myself I want it only if it is less than $20. I go up to ask the cashier and they say $14.99 and I said SOLD! I got a rug..... It does not really match my spring green walls or my sheets, or my new lime green table....but you know what! I am on a budget until I get a job....I could care less if my room does not match! Its gonna be filled with crap soon enough and you won't be able to see anything anyways (High fives all around, Am I right! Of course I am! If you have not seen my old room, just be thankful you did not fall into the dark abyss.)
On the walk back home I hit up the street vendors and buy some garlic and an avocado. A whole $1.50, I wish I had a receipt to show for it....you will have to take my word for it. If I get sick from this food, I will have to say right now, it was totally worth it!
So I get home and start to put the my desk together...

The table still in its original wrapping!

My stab wound. The box tried to attack me and it stabbed me with the scissors. I mean if I had abs of steel, this would never have happened. Note to self: work on abs of steel.

Look I am putting it together.....Ohhhh.....ahhhh....

The desk all pretty, and ready and rock and litterly roll!

This is me walking to yet another supermarket to buy food. But I have a good reason, I am making bangers and mash! The most awesomest thing about this supermarket.....it has sales! I stood there for about 5 minutes looking at their sale items. Then I decide to stroll thru every isle to make sure I did not miss anything! Lame? Yes! Saving money...Priceless. (I did not use it right but whatever!) I spent a grand total of $14.77 for 4 sticks of butter, Lysol disinfectant wipes, corn muffin mix (for $0.45), mushrooms, Windex and a bag of potatoes.


I head home and I make dinner! Can you believe it...I am being domestic. I'll give myself a pat on the back since no one is here to do it for me! GEEZ! Lame? FORSHO!

9.15.08 My life comes

So on Sunday I receive a phone call from UPS that my 10 boxes that were supposed to be shipped 2 weeks ago, are being delivered from 8am to 7pm. And of course the message says that there will not be a guaranteed time. Soooooo it was a great day at home. But I take it as a blessing in disguise. I got to work on my portfolio for an interview with recruiters the next day.
Take a gander.





Logo I created. I was bored!

So I was up until 3 am the night before working on my portfolio. So I guess I lied, my portfolio, I had to finish so that Kathy could print out the files at work. If you did not read the previous blogs, you know why I did not go to Kinkos or UPS, THEY NEED TO UPGRADE THEIR COMPUTERS!
So I wait, and wait, and wait, hear the door buzzer and it is no one! I need to ask Kathy how to work that thing, and wait, and wait, and wait, and check my emails, and wait, look thru magazines and wait, and text Kathy and Sarah that I am heating up the lasanga from last week, and wait, and wait, and wait, I take out the lasanga from the freezer, and wait, and wait, watch Made of Honor, and wait, and wait, and FINALLY at 5:45pm, I hear heavens bells, and damn it I don't know how to use the door buzzer. I run out the door and down the stairs and I see the big brown trunk and someone carrying my boxes! Sweet!
I start to unpack and guess what....that three sets of hangers I bought last week at Target, well it wasnt enough! I guess it is another Target run this weekend. But who cares! I got my boxes and I have my portfolio for my interview the next day.
Kathy comes home and she sees my boxes and says 'thats not much at all, you didn't bring that much.' Can you say music to my ears! Yen and Trang, Please translate this for Mom, or make her read this!
I preheat the oven and put the lasanga in at 6:30, put the timer to 37 minutes and can't wait to eat cuz I did not eat anything all day! 7:15 dinner is done...... We let the lasanga cool. 7:30 we are ready to eat. I go to cut and check to make sure the lasanga cooked all the way thru, and what do I find. Cold lasanga. ummmmmm! Yummy! F! This is why I do not cook! Only trust me with slicing cheese, putting it on a tortilla and pop it in the microwave! Instant dinner! Now that is what I call DELICIOUS!
TIP #3: Never let me cook anything!

This blog is dedicated to Kathy! She is the bestest roommate ever! She printed everything at work for my portfolio!

09.12.08 O No She Di'n't Birth + The Gallo-Kickass Drink

Today I wanted to sleep in but got a great wake up call at 8:30am by the construction workers working down the street. I tried to ignore the sound for about an hour but it was no use, they were here to stay. Good bye beauty sleep, hello laptop.
I got up popped a squat on my bedroom floor and checked my emails, and wrote lengthy emails about my week here to everyone that had emailed me. Lets just say, it was an exhausting 3 hours of emailing, I felt like I was at work but wasn't getting paid. Btw I need to get paid soon.
After my 3 hour emailing session, I looked at my friends blog http://jellyandrelish.blogspot.com/ and decided it was a good idea to create a blog too. I was bored and did not feel like doing any freelance. So 12 hours later, O No She Di'n't was born and ready to party......I think...
I was suppose to do laundry today but it started to rain, and was not in the mood to walk in the rain with laundry. For some reason the rain makes me feel dirty and itchy, not a good feeling.
Kathy comes home a little buzzed and giggly. She had stopped by Whole Foods before getting home and bought fresh fruit to make 'The Gallo-Kickass' drink picture above. Contents: Watermelon Vodka, 7-Up, fresh mango slices and kiwi slices slightly mashed. Please do try this at home, if not to drink maybe just to smell, it as an amazing aroma (does that word make you want to make it). Cheers to all to consume this fruity drink. Next fruit I suggested, Lychee! Lychee! Yummy.

Kathy not trying to take a picture of herself and Sarah.

Sarah looking cute and Kathy looking scar'd for some reason.
I ended the night video Skyping with my sister, Yen who is back in the OC. Skype is pretty amazing cuz I get to see my family every so often. I got to talk to my mom and she seems kinda excited to see me...I think. I never know with her. She just sat there smiling the entire time like I was gonna jump out of the computer and pull her into the computer. It was funny. We ended the conversation the same as all other conversations we have had since I left with, go to bed early okay, and remember to go to church every Sunday. I say, yes yes yes, yes yes yes. Okay Mom, bye.

the dirty white walls

This is a photo of the front of my building...kinda...I think....Can you see me! Thanks to Kiira's amazing photoshop skills!

This is my room: wall #1 -photo is after Yen have it a super scrub! The bestest little sister ever! The one window in the room-that faces a building. MY free A/C, my free bed

Wall #2 + #3-Yen and I were gonna paint all the walls but got tired after the 1st coat. Very pastelly- we used a semi gloss-#1 has a matte finish, a big no no!

Wall #3 + #4- my free dresser

Wall #4 + 1- the extra storage is for people who come to visit...you sleep up there! very comfy... Dolls only!