Sunday, October 15, 2006

Will the summer make good for all our sins?

I spent RM100 at the Mont Kiara Plaza Sunday market. Which is the most amount of (my own) money I’ve spent in awhile. But it was money well spent, if you ask me. I’ve got a copy of Rufus Wainwright's Poses and a Múm cd salvaged from a table selling second hand CDs, crisps, books and screen printed shirts; a pair of shoes; two headbands; and some redundant wooden paperclips for my little sister.

Friday, October 06, 2006

The Buddha was a tough kid to raise

Mother: Don't you ever do that again! [slaps child hard]
Child, calmly: Well, are you happy with yourself?

--Union Square
Overheard by: Miranda

via Overheard in New York, Jul 30, 2006

Things to do before I die

Before I turn 20:
• Finish the screenplay.
• Take a great risk.
• Adopt an animal.
• Be more socially adept.
• Learn how to make webpages (I know this overlooks my last "thing to do before I die" but bear with me).

Before I turn 30:
• Au pair abroad.
• Ride a Vespa in Milan.
• Get a degree in fashion design from FIT, Parsons or CSM. If not, make $3000 a month. After all, if I’m not doing what I love most, I should at least be doing something that pays significantly well.
• Establish myself as someone important in the fashion industry, and if not, establish myself as somebody worth recognizing in the industry I currently work in.
• See the Northern Lights.
• Become fluent in Mandarin.
• Become a certified ski instructor.

Before I turn 40:
• Own my own home.
• Fall in love, ridiculously deep love. And love every minute of it.
• Produce a collection of artwork good enough to be displayed at an art show.
• Make a ridiculous sum of money. And if that doesn’t make me happy, find what makes me happy and do it.
• Hike the Inca trail.

Before I turn 50:
• Adopt children.
• Own a horse, and learn how to ride.
• Write a book and have it published.
• Manage my own café - complete with hookahs and really really good coffee.
• Live abroad.

Before I turn 60:
• Visit every continent at least twice.
• Understand that I may not be proud of everything I’ve done, but have no regrets about anything.

Marijuana: the universal language (or, I thought this only happened in movies)

Guatemalan teen, passing American teen on the beach: Quieres fumar?
American teen: Huh? What?
Guatemalan teen: Quieres fumar?
American teen: Bro, I don't know what you're saying. I don't speak Mexican or whatever that is.
Guatemalan teen: Want smoke weed?
American teen: Oh. Hell yeah, why didn't you say that the first time?

--Monte Rico, Guatemala
Overheard by: MangoJoe

via Overheard at the Beach, Aug 28, 2006

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Medieval General: and after the archers, send in the yellow hoarde!

Asian guy: Hey, you ever play DDR?
White guy: I'm white. No, never played it.
Asian guy: Oh, I played at a friend's yesterday. His sister was good.
White guy: Are you good?
Asian guy: I'm OK.
White guy: Redeem yourself. You're not Asian anymore.
Asian guy: Dude, my friends are black. Black people can dance, idiot.
White guy: Yeah, and Asian people are good at DDR.
Asian guy: No, we're just good at following arrows.

--Times Square
Overheard by: jason

via Overheard in New York, Oct 3, 2006

Monday, October 02, 2006

Over my head

The easiest part of getting a job is nailing the interview. I don’t want to be cocky (okay I do) but I don’t think my interview could’ve gone better! Maybe it was all the coffee I had before I talked to the interviewer. Or, it could possibly be because I was so upbeat about working there. Which happens when I get nervous. I suppose, sometimes, getting nervous can work to my advantage.

Okay, so maybe I’m not working in the fashion industry like I planned (just as of yet), but first thing’s first - get a job and earn enough money to send myself to F.I.T before worrying about getting into the fashion industry. The saving money part is going to be terrible because, knowing me, I’m going to spend as much as I can possibly afford on tailored trousers, cute dresses, and frivolously expensive white shirts.

Moving on swiftly, I find it rather strange that I already have a stable job lined up, and I’m barely even twenty. Hardly. I’m only turning nineteen in a month. Even so, I feel older than most of my peers (and I’m not trying to belittle any of you because I’m aware you guys deal with grown up problems with the utmost maturity which sometimes even surprises me). And its really going to piss me off when everybody returns from abroad and I’m stuck at the office with my phone turned off just so nobody tempts me into skipping out on a work day.

I’m learning to be comfortable in my own skin, and to be a happier, more put together person. I'm honestly not all that peppy. And I'm honestly not that nice of a person either. But I'm trying to be better. And that's all that counts right now.