It's time I updated and stop hiding under the guise of "Answer the 50 Questions and keep yourself occupied." I can't fool you guys for too long I guess.

I had a good time reading some of your replies to the 50 Questions. Most of you put it on your site (some of you I know, others I don't) -- and that's all good because I found alot of new websites that I really enjoyed reading -- others sent it to me via email for my eyes only. I guess some of those questions are a bit revealing but I never have problems answering questions like those and I forgot others aren't as "flamboyantly open" as I am. Hopefully, there will be other installments in the near future. I already got some good ideas from other OJs [waves hi to D & S]. Anyway, thanks for participating, it's been...real. ;P

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There was one question on the 50 Q's that I thought would make a good topic to cover for a long time now (but have never gotten around to it) and it's # 46:

When's the right time to go to the bathroom in front of your significant other?

The first time I spent some serious time with K -- it was over a 2 week period of being together. And for the love of God, I did not have a bowel movement for 5 days! 5 damn days! I was as bloated as a floating corpse and when you bloat, you naturally release noxious fumes. I just complained of cramping and the gas and the poor guy ran out to buy me Tums, Gaviscon, Mylanta -- everything under the sun when all I really need to do was take a crap. I couldn't bring myself to tell him I couldn't shit.

In dating mode, the last thing you want is to have your significant other smell your shit, hear your shit flop into the water, hear you squeeze out those shit farts that somehow come out unannounced and just the whole concept of shit with a new bf/gf just doesn't go well together.

Everyone knows it's a natural thing to do and we all HAVE to do it but why do we go into such a state of shock when we're with someone we like that our body just can't seem to have a mass peristalsis? Guys probably would care less about these things but for females -- well, we need to keep our pristine girliness intact. The last thing we want you to imagine is a picture of us on the loo and burning matches to cover up the odor. I know people who have traveled together -- who ended up using a lavatory in the lobby instead of using the one in the room together because they couldn't go knowing that the other person was on the other side of the door.

I suppose it's natural for women to get all bothered about it because we're still in the impression stages and we don't want to be caught dead doing anything unfeminine or unsavory. I mean, you're supposed to think of us as hot sexual objects of desire - someone you want to turn you on....not a brown pile of poo with flies on top. For guys -- I dare say that their thinking is different -- "when you gotta go you gotta go" and we accept them for it because it's something absolutely natural. But why can't WE go around the men?

And when we finally can go...please don't come knocking on the door asking if anything's wrong. Our poop hides back into our shy colons and that disrupts everything. Our internal mechanism tells our colon to: "ABORT ABORT ABORT." And we women don't like having sex or feel femme while being constipated. So guys, when you're first dating a gal -- please give her some fecal downtime. It will be better for both of you in the end. ;) No pun intended.

Needless to say, on the 5th day, I finally took a dump. I wasn't exactly completely relaxed but I was beginning to be less fearful of what this guy would think of me going to do a #2. Afterall, he has to like me for my poop and all.

Thank God for Correctol.

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Random pics in recent days.

here's one method to suppress the insufferable heat in recent days - taiwanese shaved ice. this one was from tea station which wasn't too good. they don't have too many choices to offer. my favorite taiwanese shaved ice combo is: barley, grass jelly and small tapioca pearls but that's not what i have here. my mandarin has been rather rusty, but come ever summer, i make sure i brush up on my shaved ice ordering skills. i at least have to know how to order the different things that i want to go into the shaved ice. i personally think the shaved ice at Shau May is much better.

all you wussy people stop shuddering, it's only a lizard. ever since i can recall -- my southern california summers are filled with these creatures roaming about in our yard. they are harmless and don't bother you one bit. but my evil brother always shot these lil guys up with his BB gun. sad. nowadays, my dog barks at them when she seems them and i just kinda let them be since they are only out getting warmth from the hot rocks and coolness from the partial shading here. if you try to get them by their tails, they immediately break off their tail and scatter off.

some of you in alhambra may recognize this. it's on the corner of main and garfield where a shopping center and old buildings used to be. this particular corner in the San Gabriel Valley (SGV) is rather old and it seems that developers have torn it down to rebuild a new shopping area here that will reflect a retro style of the past -- kinda like an area you can step back in time in. they have built a temporary mural to encapsulate the construction area and they have drawn cute stores and people that look like real people from afar. see what i mean? i miss this area -- sure it was old but it had flavor too, not to mention a karaoke bar i used to frequent when i was younger.

pictures from the yard once again....my dad built this lil thing out of some branches for the flowers to grow up in. for the life of me, i can't remember what these are called. man, my english is deteriorating.

had to get her in here for the month. she was out scouting for lizards and i was snapping photos of the yard. ;)

more yard photos for [KS]. my backyard is rather lush....kinda tropical in a way. i don't go back there often -- only when i'm hanging up clothes to dry after a wash. yeah, i'm so chinese. it's because my mom bugs me to hang them up to dry, "sunshine dry clothes so fresh!" she says. yeah well, i sometimes forget that the vegetation back here is so nice -- this tree has a beautiful shiny green trunk. the photo couldn't quite capture it unfortunately. i would really like a new d-cam.

I'm out.

2:26pm 08.10.01