My 99 cent Spring Cleaning Sale!

I spent all last night cleaning out my closet so I can make room for new things. I'm going out of the country soon, and I want to be able to shop till I drop with no reservations.

But the issue is, I have too much stuff in my closet as is... and I don't even use 50% of it ! I know a lot of people out there are just like me. It's just tough to let go of things you like -- but if you're not going to use it, then what's the point?!

After hours and hours of sorting, I finally ended up with two big piles of clothing. One designated for Salvation Army pick-up, and the other for you lucky eBayers out there!

I am setting all starting bids at 99 cents, and am forcing myself to 'let go' =)

Happy Bidding!!

american idol top 8 =)

My top two favs!

David Archuletta - I am such a fan of this cutie patootie!



Jason Castro - he has such an amazing voice..

Back to life...

I am back from my awesome weekend up in Tahoe (pics to come), finally getting better from my flu, and patiently awaiting my favorite tv shows to come back!! =)

If you are a tv-junkie like me... I'm sure you've been wondering.. when are my favorite shows coming back on!?!?

April will be a good month!

Desperate Housewives
6 new episodes (including a two-hour finale) to air beginning April 13.

Gossip Girl
Expected to shoot 5 new episodes to begin airing on April 21.

Grey's Anatomy
Expected to shoot 5 new episodes to air beginning April 24.

Heroes
No new episodes expected until fall.

The Hills
March 24th

Lost
Four pre-strike episodes remain. Expected to shoot 5 additional episodes to air beginning April 24.

Scrubs
Five pre-strike episodes remain and will begin airing on April 10. Up to four additional episodes may be shot; unclear whether they'll air on NBC or go straight to DVD.

A New Name?!

President's Day Weekend

What an action packed weekend!!

Fri night was kooza..

On Saturday -- bridesmaid dress fittings with Sherry n Margaret, dinner with my family for my cousin Russel's bday and belated Chinese New Years... and then we celebrated Roel's bday at Poleng Lounge.

Sunday -- I was able to catch up on some z's... and we got dinner with linda, kelvin, wendy, dom for linpin's bday.

On Monday, I shot a fun and artsy shoot of LinPin in downtown San Jose.!

Check out some pix!

Family Dinner

the whole fam, plus one of my best friends margaret


Ryan, me, and bday boy Russ

Roel's Bday at Poleng Lounge


Happy bday roel!!


The girls


me n my jt


me, sherry, n kat



My big brother!

Photoshoot...


We got Linda's crazy hair n crazy makeup done at the mall hehehehe.. more pix to come.

vday post part #2

GERVAIS in Saratoga was awesome.. My fav was def my entree... It was something I've never had before... a filet mignon with mushroom and spinach around it IN a puff pastry... and sauce around it. Seriously the best combo eVER. It came with potato gratin on the side and some veggies. DELISH.



Last night, we went to KOOZA - which means 'box' in sanskrit. I loved how creative they were with the circus in a box theme...

My Top Five Favorite American Idols!

Yay! It's American Idol season -- I think this season has some of the BEST talent. =) Very exciting. Here are my top 5 favs. I hope they all make it to the top 10!

Ramiele Malubay



David Archuleta


Syesha Mercado



Kady Malloy



Brook White


Who are your favorites???

Happy Valentine's Day!

JT and I had a delicious dinner last night at a French restaurant called Gervais in Saratoga. I will post pix of it later.

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JT and I did a TFP (Trade for Prints) engagement/portfolio shoot with Tiny Water Photography a couple months ago... Here are some of my fav shots:


coffee and JT. two of my fav things in the world in one pic! awesome!


That's me enjoying my coffee buzz and love buzz. ahahhaa (corny eh?)


hehehe I love how the little girl is running past. There were a couple of kids running through for fun while we were shooting. Caroline is pretty awesome to have caught the moment so well.


lovely shot!


hahahah JT is such a silly head. I love it!

Unclaimed Money!

So I got a letter from Pettinato & Associates informing me about about some unclaimed cash. I was skeptical about the letter, and decided to look it up online where I found this other blog entry about it... and it turns out, I really do have unclaimed salary/wages from my internship at Grey Global way back in 2004... woohoo. Over a thousand bucks that I didn't know I had.

So I found out you can look up any unclaimed cash or unclaimed property you are entitled to at the California State Treasurer’s website. You can download forms from their site and simply follow their instructions to claim your cash.

Here is the link:
http://www.sco.ca.gov/col/ucp/aboutucp.shtml

Search here: http://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCP/

You should definitely check it out! I randomly checked up some of my friends and found out that quite a few people I know also have unclaimed money!

Check it out.

Happy Bday Han Hong!

Happy bday to the one and only Han Hong who beats everyone at ugly dancing. Love ya!


What a dorko!












work it baby, work it!


Han's soulja boy dance. hahaha

More pics can be found on my flickr site.

here comes my second wind...

After sitting around with my unfinished website for nearly two years now -- I finally decided that it's time to get back into the groove of things and really start cranking it out. I had said this many years before -- having a website somehow keeps me grounded, reminds me who I am, where I came from, and where I want to be. It helps me to be much more inclined to hold myself accountable for the things I promise to accomplish.

I guess I stopped updating my site since so much was going on... with my millions of jobs, then traveling, then buying the house and moving, and fixing up the house.... Things are finally starting to get a bit more comfortable...

...but comfortable is not what I'm striving for.. comfort is just what allows me to go and reach out for newer and richer experiences. I just hope that every year can be even more exciting and eventful than the last.

Las Tunas ramen place

Last time JT and I went down to LA, we found a little ramen house on Las Tunas that was sooo yummy.

They had the BEST enoki wrapped in beef..


Here's the view from my side of the table... jt looks 'fierce' ahhaha... I like making him pose for me.


Then I made him switch spots with me so I could get a shot of him looking 'dreamy'


Here's me:


and the yummy red bean mochi dessert we shared

Em moves to Seattle...

Sometimes it feels like life moves at a million miles an hour... I still can't believe Em moved to Seattle!

This is us the night before she left for the windy city for one last girls' night out...



We pounded down some lemon drops, Em called some guys douche bags, and then we called it a night hehe

Happy New Year!

Sherry & David, Margaret & Spark came over to celebrate the new year. It was a fun chill night of yummy food, poker, and then wii games. =)

Good times. I'm so happy I was able to ring in the new year with some of my nearest and dearest.

Here's me n sherry gettin buzzed before diggin in to our feast =P



It's gonna be an amazing year.

Cleaning out the closet!!

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Check out my ebay listings!

I've been cleaning out the closet, and have sold numerous goodies for great prices! Maybe you can find something you like?

Ouchie!

Yesterday, at the eBay gym -- I was showing Linda how I couldn't do a single real push-up.

OK, actually -- It's worse than that. I can't even do a half push up... you know the kind where you're on your knees instead of your feet.

YA... so sad! WEAK! So I attempted to do ONE, and basically what happens is once I get down, I can't get back up... I think I just don't have any muscles there. =(

I attempted a couple times after that... and still no such luck. I'm freakin weak when it comes to upper body strength.

So today, a day after that work out, my freakin armpit muscles (I think they're called the subscapularis) were killing me!



I've realized that I don't think I've really ever had to work that muscle ... which explains what I like to call my "armpit fat" issue. hehehe No matter how fit i get, from running or the elliptical machine or bikram yoga or whatever.... I always have a stubborn pocket of fat in my armpit area. grrrr!

Ok..time to start attempting push-ups more often! My goal for the new year? Be able to do 3 REAL pushups! HAHAHAHA, sounds lame but I'm serious.

Not trying to get buff or anything, just wanna see if I can fix a problem spot!

Thunder Valley Casino Print Ad

This was a fun gig =) paid well too.





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A sweet photo session with Wendy and Alan

Just to give an intro to this post -

After so many years of being on the other side of the camera (as a model), and also producing and art directing shoots -- I decided I'd give photography a shot. I got myself a brand new Canon EOS 5D a few months ago....and I LOoooooVE it. So I've taken on photography as my new hobby. For those of you who know me, know that I take my hobbies seriously. So be prepared to see some more awesome stuff. Below are some of my favorite pics from my very first shoot ever as a photographer. My friends Wendy and Alan graciously agreed to be my very first subjects and they were SOOO awesome!!! I have some more shoots lined up with friends this month, but if you're interested in modeling for me -- let me know!

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On Sunday, I spent the morning with my buddies Wendy and Alan. We drove around their neighborhood in Pleasanton and got some amazing shots. Checkout my favorite images from our shoot below. *the first and last scenery images were taken from online pix just to add a nice effect to my image slide. The rest were all shot by me!

Hairstyles for the BIG day

I've decided on going with a half-up do with a headpiece (not a crown tiara, but a nice headband type thingie). Here are some pictures I've found for inspiration. Also posted on my flickr.

The basic look - soft curls, very natural looking... I love that this look is very elegant in an effortless way


Very basic, but I like how the hair weaves the headpiece in


Modern half-up - love the slight poof in her up part.


Half-up with flowers


Half-up with headband


Formal Half-up with tighter curls


Let me know what you think!

A little photo collage