lazy man's heaven.

i went to jjeem jeer bang for the first time today.  the trip was with my sisters and their husband/bf.  ulrich called the place "a lazy man's heaven".  i couldn't agree more.  i didn't get it.  what's the hype about a huge (and a little stinky, if you ask me) room full of people just lying around either sleeping or watching tv?  isn't that what oh, i don't know...your HOME is for?

we had free tickets, thanks to my easy-sale mother, and they expire at the end of this month, so we wanted to check it out.  the best part of it all for me was the shaved ice we shared.  i didn't try the various sauna rooms, so maybe i shouldn't be so quick to judge.  i'm glad ap didn't go.  he would've hated it.  he hates lying around just doing nothing at home and gets bored easily, so i can't imagine him doing that with 100 strangers in the same room!  i have 5 more tickets left so we decided to go back again next monday.  this time, i think it'll be a little more entertaining for me since we decided to take some facial packs, mags and games.  we were such newbies today and didn't know better. 

i am so not looking forward to work this week.  well, not that i ever do any week, but especially this week.  we have 8 days of training since we have now officially taken over countrywide and their processes/systems.  but at the end of the next 1~2 weeks are some very exciting days for us so i'm just gonna tread through these next several days and try not to lose my sanity.

i heart charles...

the lakers opened a can of whoop ass on the suns these last 2 games. now, if only they can play like that the rest of the playoffs. whenever i watch laker games, i always notice the same things and wonder these same things:

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  there is this one asian ajooma who sits courtside with a white lady every. single. game! they're on the side jack sits. hmmm...what do they do? they're always there.
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  the coaches in their snazzy what appears to be zegna or armani suits hug their players after the game. uh...do they dry clean these suits after every game? what a waste! they just sit there for 3 hours at most and have to dry clean after one game? i always think when they hug "uugh - the sweat!"
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  i know there are reporters in the lockers after the games...what about the female reporters?
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  how come the staples center is so dark compared to other arenas? other arenas, you can actually see the fans. ap thinks it's a "hollywood" thing. i think it's just another reason they call laker fans boring and unenthusiastic. we can't see them!
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  if i saved $5 each day for a year, i could probably afford a playoff courtside seat. or maybe not. and i wouldn't want to go alone so it'll be $10/day. ugh. nevermind.
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  where's khloe sitting?

honestly, what i enjoy more than the game itself or checking out the fans is watching tnt's inside the nba. more specifically charles barkley. he is undoubtedly the funniest man on television, unless russell peters is on comedy central or hbo. after watching last night's inside the nba edition, i youtube'd all charles barkely clips. i'm just about borderline obsessed. haha. did you know he's blacker than snoop dogg?

can you tell - i pay more attention to things that have nothing to do with the game itself?

on a very depressing note...i tried on the bridesmaid dress again last night (I've been trying it on every 3 weeks or so just to make sure), and uh oh....i almost peeled off the skin on my thumb trying to zip that sucker up! and did i mention, the wedding's next weekend?  

it zipped up - i just can't breathe. i'm just praying there is no wardrobe malfunction next week! i was about to text the bride to tell her about my dress ordeal but stopped dead in my track because i didn't want to freak her out. what bride wants to know 1 week before the wedding that one of her bridesmaids will need an oxygen mask the entire day of her wedding? yea, i think i'll just stick with starving myself 36 hours before the wedding.

dads, grads and the newlyweds

beginning of each year is always hectic of me, hence the 5 month hiatus!  it's crazy how after one holiday or birthday, another one hits you like a train again. my sisters and i always wondered how amazingly our parents timed our births to be right around the same time of the year. i think it has a lot to do with my father working abroad seasonally and coming home certain months of the year only. obviously, they were busy during the summers. can you blame them? after months of being apart and seeing each other on hot sunny sticky korean afternoons when my mother was probably wearing a slinky summer dress? ok, yea, that's my parents and my imagination stops right there!

luckily, ap's family's birthdays are pretty spread apart so it allows us to take a breather before that train hits us again. but summers - oh the summers! may/june probably falls under the busiest months. just when family birthdays all packed in from jan-april are done and over with, moms, dads, grads and the newlyweds await us starting in may. i think i found my one stop shop with etsy though. what did i ever do before etsy came along? birthdays, check. graduation, check. moms/dads/babies, check check check!  these are on my list of i-want-to-buy:

i think my breathing room will come in july & august when ap and i are hoping to take a vaca. for one thing, our wallet will not be as busy although we'll need to prep for ap's bday and the holidays that follow! a summer getaway is always nice though. but let me go on record and say i will not be sporting a slinky summer dress on a hot sticky day. i'm sure my mother pulled it off better than i would this summer!