Kiss

This's a photograph taken by Robert Doisneau in front of Le Biser De LHotel De Ville, in Paris 1950. I saw the blown-up photo in my co-worker's apartment, and literally, I spent minutes staring at that. It's so beautiful. The way the man is leaning and kissing the woman in front of the rushing crowd is so unique. Since I was increditably attached to that photo, I spent hours, finding a deal for the photo. It would light up my dull living room, and I don't think my roommate will disagree to it. However, since the wallpaper-sized photo is increditably expensive, I've googled the photo and posted it as a background wallpaper of my laptop. (yeah..it sucks when you can't afford to buy something you are dying to have.) For I still can't get enough of the photo, I've posted that as the first photo of my blog. What a nerd I am!!!

Shopping Maniacs

Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving.
My buddies and I watched "Resident Evil" on Thanksgiving night. A negative thing about watching a movie with groups is that some people like to talk to the TV. Seriously, they just tend to give suggestions to the TV like "why isn't he dead?" or "Kick her" or "Get up". As a result of their talking to the TV, the movie becomes very active. We all scream when the talker screams, and it's so funny when the scenes in the movie aren't even scary. But it is always good to watch a good movie with friends.

we finished the movie around 11pm and ,being ladies, we decided to go crazy on BLACK FRIDAY MIDNIGHT SHOPPING. We all got up, changed our PJs and went to a shopping mall at 12AM-midnight. Unless you have shopped on Black Friday, you'd probably think that the mall is dead at midnight. NOT AT ALL! There were just tons of people scrolling around in the mall, waiting in line outside the stores and running over one another. So we joined the crowd and did some crazy shoppings until 5AM, and a few friends didn't come home until 10AM. (WOW..What a day!)

Embarrassed bruins

I was so embarrassed by Bruins today. What the hell, we lost USC by 19-66.What's the point of all those "Beat USC Parade and Bonfire" and all that BS "Blue and Gold Week" if we are gonna humiliate ourselves in front of a million TV viewers? Reggie Bush was like a superman today, but offense shouldn't be that stupid to give them 2 turnovers. Stupid ABC shows less than 5 scenes of Bruin crowd today; what the hell, did USC alumni sponsor the game and purposely ignored Bruin crowd? I felt so sorry for Bruins who actually watched the game at Rose Bowl. If I were one of the team members, I would be so humiliated that I'll rather stick my head in the bathtub and die.

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Sucker

Ok..I have an experience to tell. My friend and I went to watch a basketball game the other day. In order to get cheap basketball tickets, we had to wait in line outside the ticket office 2 hours prior to the game showtime. (You might wonder what the price difference is. The gap is huge..8$ versus 36$.) Anyways, we waited in line among 100 students to get a 8$ ticket. But the ticket office didn't sell the tickets until 15 minutes before the game. You could imagine how tiring it was to wait in a cold windy weather. The clock was ticking, and 1 minute before the game, we heard rumors that all the tickets were sold out. And there was a guy, trying to sell his tickets for 20 bucks, and he seriously didn't leave us alone until we assured him that we didn't want his tickets. 1 minute after we shooed him away, the ticket office announced that all the tickets were sold out. So we ran to the underseller, who was pursuading us to buy his tickets earlier, and with a tone like he owns the world, he said "40 Bucks. You Take It or Not." WTH..it was just 2 minute time difference, and his attitude totally changed within that 2 minutes. Well..our attitudes changed too. Now I feel like this is a lesson of life: people will suck things out of you if they have the power.

Crazy thing that happened last night

Last night around 11:30pm, I heard a sound like an automobile hiting something. So I looked outside my window, and there surely was a car accident, a car hitting two people. Since the scene is right in front of my apt, I went down to the scene. The victims were ucla kids. One kid broke his neck and could barely move; his girlfriend was lifting his head. But the other victim was lying on the street, with the twisted neck. No blood though (it might be just washed away with the rain). Not so long after, firemen came. Two firemen tried to do CPR on the motionless kid, but it was in vain. He died. Man..Have you ever seen a person die right in front of your eye? After that, hysterical crys were all over the accident scene. A girl cried so much that she almost passed out.

Since the person died, firemen barely touched that dead body. Then, police came, yellow-taped the area and started their investigation. The girl who almost passed out by crying lived right above my apartment. Oh my god, I could still picture the dead body in my eye and hear the hysterical cries. The students might be drunk and tried to cross the street carelessly while a not-so-unusual LA driver drove over 50mph on a residental street. Also, the vehicle was a 15 passenger van( a Super Shuttle), so it must be more damaging to be hit by a van than a car. Forencis didn't arrive until 3 hours after and cleared the body. When they lifted the body, there I saw blood, lots and lots of blood.

I can ensure you that this is not something you wanna encounter in your life. After this, hell yeah..I could concentrate on my MCAT practice test (standardized test).

Stuck in a Garage

Here's a funny story.
A friend of mine was in LA for an interview, so she crashed at my place the night before her interview. Since we got to my apartment from the garage, i described her how to get out of our building that night. She nodded her head, looking like she knows what to do.

That morning, she prepared and left at 6ish. Being lazy to get up early as usual, I ignored all the noises and went back to bed. Then, I got a phone call. She said, "I'm stuck in a garage room. I can't get out of the room, and the door I entered is locked now." By the way, that was at 7 in the morning. So I got out of bed, being grumpy and all.

I walked to our garages to look for her. We had two garages on two levels. So I asked her, "Is the garage door in the left or right corner?" She said, "It's in the middle." What the hell, I was thinking like "can't she understand English? There is no way the garage door would be in the middle."

Since her answers were useless and left me no clue of where she's in the building, I yelled out her name while walking around my apt building. That was in vein too. I got a little irritated and worried b/c she got an important interview in an hour and apparently, she's stuck in a room that doesn't exist in our apt building.

Then, she suggested me to walk on the street since she can see the street from her locked-up room. So there I was, walking in my PJ with my hair all messed up like an idiot, on the street in Westwood. I called her cell phone again, and she described me the colors of all the cars that drove past our apartment. They were all correct, but I still couldn't find her. And she told me that a girl just walked on the street. I said, "Which girl?" since there was no one walking in front of my building, except the sleepy and grumpy me. Wait a minute, there was a girl walking towards our building. But there is no way she would see her before I do, UNLESS she is in an another apartment building.

I ran to the building next to ours, and there she was, behind the metal bars of a little dark room in the back of the garage. Oh my! She looked pathetic, like a poor girl in the jail waiting for someone to bail her out. I walked up to this guy who just got out of the building and asked him to open the doors, with my smelly breath, of course. So I got into the building and rescued her. She gave me a long explanation of how she came back to change her shoes and went to the wrong building. But I'm still confused how she got into the mysterious room.

Anyways, my morning started with a lot of laughs. Oh, and she got to her interview on time too.

Horoscopes?

Is it a coincidence, or did I turn into a fortune teller? Everything, everyone I encounter these days sorta relate to the horoscopes. Let me give you an example.

A few weeks ago, I went to a friend's b-day party. He's an Aquarius and so do most of his friends. It's sorta weird that his friends' b-days fall in the same week, but then is it meant to be that he hangs out with fellow Aquarius, or he just gets along better with similar personalities?

But before I talk about others' example, just look at myself. I'm born on 27th, and my best friend on 26th, her friend who is also mine now is born on 28th, another friend on 2nd of the next month. We all fall within the same horoscope. I certainly didn't pick my friends due to their horoscope.

What do you think?

Human Species may split into two

Human species 'may split in two'

Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said.

Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge.

The human race would peak in the year 3000, he said - before a decline due to dependence on technology.

People would become choosier about their sexual partners, causing humanity to divide into sub-species, he added.

The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the "underclass" humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.

Race 'ironed out'

But in the nearer future, humans will evolve in 1,000 years into giants between 6ft and 7ft tall, he predicts, while life-spans will have extended to 120 years, Dr Curry claims.

Physical appearance, driven by indicators of health, youth and fertility, will improve, he says, while men will exhibit symmetrical facial features, look athletic, and have squarer jaws, deeper voices and bigger penises.

Women, on the other hand, will develop lighter, smooth, hairless skin, large clear eyes, pert breasts, glossy hair, and even features, he adds. Racial differences will be ironed out by interbreeding, producing a uniform race of coffee-coloured people.

However, Dr Curry warns, in 10,000 years time humans may have paid a genetic price for relying on technology.

Spoiled by gadgets designed to meet their every need, they could come to resemble domesticated animals.

Receding chins

Social skills, such as communicating and interacting with others, could be lost, along with emotions such as love, sympathy, trust and respect. People would become less able to care for others, or perform in teams.

Physically, they would start to appear more juvenile. Chins would recede, as a result of having to chew less on processed food.

There could also be health problems caused by reliance on medicine, resulting in weak immune systems. Preventing deaths would also help to preserve the genetic defects that cause cancer.

Further into the future, sexual selection - being choosy about one's partner - was likely to create more and more genetic inequality, said Dr Curry.

The logical outcome would be two sub-species, "gracile" and "robust" humans similar to the Eloi and Morlocks foretold by HG Wells in his 1895 novel The Time Machine.

"While science and technology have the potential to create an ideal habitat for humanity over the next millennium, there is a possibility of a monumental genetic hangover over the subsequent millennia due to an over-reliance on technology reducing our natural capacity to resist disease, or our evolved ability to get along with each other, said Dr Curry.

He carried out the report for men's satellite TV channel Bravo.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/6057734.stm

Published: 2006/10/17 08:47:57 GMT

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