Arrrrr (or why I go to Starbucks)

The rest of my apartment does not look like this. It's just my desk. About five minutes after cleaning it, it looks like this again:

This is the culprit:

Yup, it's all about him:

Even while trying to write this post, I lost the first pic because he rolled onto the delete button. And then he pressed a button on my air con remote. Wtf Korben, STOP! It's not a haystack!

Sai Kung

Last weekend's weather was so good it was pretty much impossible to take a bad picture, even with iPhone:

Overdue post: origami window displays

These were from Chinese New Year (my finger's over part of the lens)... more abstract bunnies in those yucky colors. It's one of those stores below ground connected to TST MTR:

This is a store in Soho. Extremely well-done folding, very tidy stringing, someone's definitely anal:

Hilarious Article

From the NYT:

As if further proof were needed that New York is not the center of the universe.

The United States Postal Service has issued a new stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty. Only the statue it features is not the one in the harbor, but the replica at the New York-New York casino in Las Vegas.

You might think that the post office would have just gone with the original, the one off the tip of Lower Manhattan that for 125 years has welcomed millions of New York’s huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Instead, they accidentally used the 14-year-old statue that presides over thousands of weary gamblers a week.

The post office, which had thought the Lady Liberty “forever” stamp featured the real thing, found out otherwise when a clever stamp collector who is also what one might call a superfan of the Statue of Liberty got suspicious and contacted Linn’s Stamp News, the essential read among philatelists.

But the post office is going with it.

(Full NYT article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/us/15stamp.html)

Count Your Blessings

I am so thankful that: I don't hate anyone in my masters program.

There's only maybe one person whom I dislike, but not on a level where I would not want to be in the same room. But dang, people in my program write the inanest shit on facebook. I just want to defenestrate my laptop sometimes.

Confession: I used to hate three people for no good reason (for many years beginning around age 20). It sucked. And I wanted to exorcize that feeling very badly but just couldn't. Like I wanted divine intervention. They just annoyed the crap out of me (grr!!!). The only reason I don't hate them now is that I never see them anymore. YES.

This Desert Life

I just don't listen to much music these days. These days like the past five years. But today I decided to stick a CD into my laptop, specifically Counting Crows' This Desert Life. And I'm hating all the songs, except I Wish I Was a Girl. It's one of those that are silly and sad and very poppy at the same time.

I wish I was a girl
So that you could believe me
And I could shake this static every time I try to sleep