rain rain go away
february 23, 2005
^ so LA....palm trees & snowcapped mountains
i know many of you who live in LA are going through the same headaches as i am with the weather. the storms that have hit us HARD in this past month has been a bitch to say the least. the commute is awful and it's just something we're not used to here. sure, we get rain from time to time but nothing like what we've had recently. carrying an umbrella with me at all times is an extra accessory i can do without.
this most current storm has been really harsh - i found that out today when i woke up and found that a minor mudslide crushed our main water line. so that means, no water. no electricity i can do without as i've gone through that many times when we have storms or high wind conditions - with the use of flashlights and candles, it's actually a quiet way to spend the evening. but NO WATER is completely different - no shower, no flushing toilets, no washing hands or dishes, nothing. i don't think i can survive in a 3rd world country.
with this recent influx of rain, i was afraid something like this would happen. we had a major mudslide in our area back in the 70's. so many families had to evacuate and just the other night i saw my neighborhood being talked about on the news again. the images of the homes destroyed was a very real reminder of mother nature's wrath.
so i called into work informing them i wasn't going to be in today. calls were made to the water department to have them come take a look. there's nothing to really do except be patient and grateful that nothing more serious happened - as my house sits on a hill, surrounded by slopes. *gulp*
so i packed up my bags and went to the gym to work out and to use their showers. it's days like this that i'm glad that i didn't cancel my gym membership - at least there's a place to shower and go to the bathroom. :p the only up side to today is that the rains have tapered off and as i was going downhill to the gym, i saw what an amazing sight it was of the local snowcapped mountains. so i pulled over to snap a photo. unfortunately, the camera doesn't do it justice but with the rains and winds, it was picture perfect through my own eyes. it was really amazing to see the entire mountain range covered in powder white snow.
for an extra large photo of the mountains - click here. it's a large photo so i hope none of you are on dialup. but it's worth your while.
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po box 92824 aka po box aiyah
stopped by to check the po box today since there was some extra time.
do you see something wrong with this photo?
keep my po box fed please. address is on my connect page.
[on a sidenote, thanks to those who sent me valentine's day cards, chinese new years cards and postcards recently. you really made me smile - something that i need to do more often.]
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i think as an asian female, we tend to stay away from clothes that are yellow in color for fear of looking too....jaundiced? :p but i always am drawn to the colors of pale pineapple sherbet and that sort of pigment. the bright golds and shockingly blinding crayon yellows, i'm not too keen on as i'm sure wearing those will emphasize the asian skin tone in me even more so.
sporting the mossimo a la target layer tee. $8.99. or you can call it the "no water in the household today outfit."
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blue skies and sun at 5pm. finally.
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since i was off today, i took advantage of the time and scheduled an appointment to see the doctor. while i was sitting in the flashback to the 70's waiting area, i decided to make use of the mirror directly behind me. i took several photos but not one came out exactly the way i liked it to be. so i took two of them and overlapped them together. i somehow like the effect. you can see the blue streak in my hair which people lovingly refer to as purple. i don't think people really know their lexicon of colors.
and why do i look so slouchy from the back? how utterly unappealing.
you can also tell that the back of my hair wasn't really cut much last week. in attempts to grow it out, i have to deal with that in-between stage until it gets as long as the rest of my hair. oh...the plight of being a woman! i asked my stylist how long it will take to get to shoulder length all around - she replied "6 months". fuck, 6 months is a long time but then again, it will be quite nice by the time the october and november weddings that i am attending rolls around.
while i was in the waiting room, i was reading an article on how these women lost over 100 pounds each. needless to say, it intrigued me greatly. i'm always a sucker for the BEFORE & AFTER pics. i literally drink them in and analyze every facet and detail. although i don't need to lose a hundred pounds or anything, i do have a goal. and the number is quite conservative compared to these other women who went from a size 22 to a size 6. good lord, i can't even fathom that.
when i was talking to my sifu the other day about my weight, he took my wrist to gauge my frame. to what he felt, he said "you have a large frame. your wrists are practically larger than mine." =:o i then told him my height and he said that normally girls my height would be around 98 pounds. but because of my frame and proportions, i would be fine way above that.
thank goodness there's someone out there who is realistic to my body type and someone who is understands that not every asian girls needs to be under 100 pounds.
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it's been a long time since i've been to the gym during the weekday morning hours. so i was in a sense cultured shocked by all the rich housewives who workout there during the daytime. now, i'm talking about those asian housewives who after dropping off their kids, head to the gym to do whatever they want to do - most of them just slather on some facial thing and go into the steam room to "workout". i hardly saw any of them on the actual workout floor. but they obviously hang out in the locker room.
it's also been awhile since i've showered there as well. not since my non-working days a few years back, i haven't stepped foot on the possibly fungus infested tile floors. but as i was stepping out of the shower today, i was in direct line of vision for all the 8 women in the sauna room watching through the glass doors. as i stepped out in my towel, i looked up to see all of them watching me.
i think it's the tattoo. or the blonde & blue hair.
but their staring problem is always so hard to get used to. so as they sat there and watched me, i wonder what they were saying as i watched their mouths moved. people will always judge and people will always have their own opinions based on what they see on the outside. i really could care less if they thought i was any less than they were if based on my appearance.
then as i was blow drying my hair, a few women walked past me staring at my back the whole time. they obviously thought that i was oblivious to their stares since i was facing the mirror drying my hair.
i don't know why that after all these years, i still get bothered by people's staring problems.
maybe it's just a fact of the asian culture?
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this has been a really long, and random entry.
