tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151488102009-10-12T14:20:50.614-06:00mostly nonsense of an asian-american mormon from smalltown, utah now living back in the great SLC after a five-year stint in the Big Apple.Twinkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15579521313527948838noreply@blogger.comBlogger701125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15148810.post-39577940357466664842009-09-03T18:44:00.003-06:002009-09-03T18:48:17.161-06:00

so yes, i'm in mongolia. i guess not outer mongolia, but more in central mongolia. i arrived in the capital, ulaan bataar, late last night after spending 15 gloriously, long hours in the seoul airport. that wasn't planned. i was actually only suppose to spend 6 hours there, but the winds were too harsh in mongolia and the planes got grounded.no, this trip wasn't planned. its for work and i

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i think we could all use a vampire protection kit - especially with this new crop of handsome and trendy vampires like edward cullen that could be living amongst us.dangling from a 20” sterling silver chain, you’ll find a silver hand-forged cross and a hand-carved hardwood stake. you really just need a pair of mini garlic bulbs to dry out & wear as earrings to go along with it.

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The body of a shark was left lying in the middle of downtown Miami street after two men tried to sell it to several fish markets. The men apparently carried the five or six-foot-long fish around on the city's Metromover downtown train, prompting calls to police. News footage Tuesday night showed the dead animal in the street with police officers and cruisers nearby. Two stations reported that a

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so i recently cut my hair off. probably at least six or seven inches. i've had long hair for almost four years, so it was a big decision, but it's been great to have short hair again!i did this last week while i was out of town in DC, and i came into the office on monday to many comments and compliments of my new hairstyle. one lady in particular kept telling me how much she liked it short and

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so i tried to get out and see the lovely scenery western mass has to offer while i've been out there. one saturday i explored a trail that parallels the railroad tracks and lets you see these lovely keystone bridges that are the oldest of its kind. unfortunately the trail was still really muddy so half the time i had to walk on the railroad tracks. that is.....until i saw signs posted that

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so sometimes i have to travel for my job. okay. i guess these days, it's more like all the time rather than sometimes. i know i've been very very bad at not updating my blog and i'm gonna try and do better. i promise.last weekend, work needed me to do an emergency trip to san fran. and of course it was quite the trial for me to have to fly off to san fran and revel in the sun and good food

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so as i lay on my bed in my hotel room, contemplating life and my purpose here, i flip through the channels of my cable tv and the same pressing thought keeps returning my mind: why are there so many dang channels of ESPN? we've got just plain ESPN. then we have ESPN HD. then ESPN 2. and finally ESPN classic. next we'll have ESPN real world. ESPN true hollywood story. and ESPN office.i'm

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so i've been spending the past month in western mass and ct for work. western mass by day; ct by night.....or at least on the weekends. since the beginning of the year, i've spent two full weekends at home in utah and the rest on the east coast. as much as i'm tired of living out of a suitcase, i haven't minded the commute. the best of both worlds.dal was a sweetheart and introduced me to his

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so you can pretty much go to this cool website and pick from a slew of color-customized shirts with the names of members from your favorite bands, tv shows, sports teams, etc. this one was my favorite. for a cool $23, not too shabby, gossip girl.xoxo....

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so this book cracked me up. this "diet" book reads like a novel while imparting words of wisdom regarding everything from how to navigate takeout menus and the drive-thru, to why you can't eat like he does, to how to grocery shop with him without losing your sanity.i don't know why i find this so amusing. probably because it would be very helpful if i indeed had a boyfriend. and there is no way

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so i was able to spend two weekends in a row (make that three, counting this weekend) on the east coast. i split my time between the big apple and ct, which are both considered second homes. i got to spend a lot of time with the uncles, matty, mastah p, and cat.i think heaven is when you introduce friends to other friends and they end up becoming friends! aka mastah p and matty, cat and matty

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i know i know. i'm a slacker. a very bad blogger. these days. my creative juices have just not been flowing so far into 2009 and i haven't known what to blog about. but i guess we don't always have to be creative geniuses to write, right? (ha ha, that was pretty dang funny).i guess its a combination of not having anything interesting to write about AND facebook. i post pics and let people know

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so my colleague at work just got back from south africa and had this great story to share. this woman denise works at the company we are partnering with. denise lives in a nice home in a rural area in the hills, about an hour out of town. every week day as she drives to the city, she passes a tribal village area. she would see the little village kids, ages 7 to 12, out on the road walking to

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so a friend sent along his christmas card to me that he received from senator hatch's office and much to my surprise, hatch is posing with his wife and president bush. a very handsome trio.but what caught my eye were the small blue and yellow diamonds on each side of the card.if you just slightly turn the diamond a little to the right to make it "straight", it ends up looking like this:which is

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christmas came early this year. this sticker came in the mail last week. i framed it.

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so this morning on this fine christmas eve, i decided to treat myself to a starbucks peppermint hot chocolate and TWO vanilla bean mini scones (its the holidays, so i get to eat two). when i drove up to the window to pay, the starbucks cashier said, the man in front of you wishes you a merry christmas and has paid for your drink and scones. wow. i had heard stories like this but this had never

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so i really want this voltaic generator back pack which is the first solar bag powerful enough to charge a laptop, cell phones, ipods, etc.this super awesome back pack includes:solar panel that generates up to 15 watts using 20% efficienct cells, enough to fully charge the voltaic battery in about 5 hours.stores the equivalent of a typical laptop charge and automatically delivers the required

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so i don't how it slipped my mind, but i spent thanksgiving week in cozumel, mexico this year.and i went with these people.and we ate a lot of yummy mexican food and drank margaritas.and we spent a lot of time on beaches that look like this.and we also did some major kareoking.me hogging the mike and making heidi be my backup singer and go go dancer.nate's amazing air guitar.lenox is stunned by

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so this past weekend, i flew the beehive coop and ran away to CT. i haven't been back there since may and i haven't been back to the big apple since march. it was a long time coming and made me realize that a part of me will always remain on the east coast.matty is now living with uncle t and c and that's an even better bonus. he was very sweet and came and picked me up at JFK at 6:30 am in the

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so i got a new camera for my trip to mexico next week. and i decided to try it out on this lovely art teacher (part art whisperer/part art educator) named janelle. i really feel like these photos show how diverse and fluid she can be. how easy it is for her to move from one persona to another. wow. what a talent.if you fill compelled, please vote on your favorite janelle and i will personally

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so i got to meet Hill last month at the utah dem fundraising event in WVC. yep the west side. i thought it was cool they had the event over there instead of the usual park city or downtown venue. it made me feel urban. it made me feel dangerous. it made me feel multi-cultured. okay. not really, but it was still pretty cool. and Hill was very nice and gracious. and since most of my fellow

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so this has to be the coolest thing i've seen today. the BOSKEE Sky Planter. each fern plant is designed to hang from the ceiling, saving valuable floor or desk space and looking pretty damn cool to boot. the sky planter features an internal reservoir system which feeds water directly to a plant's roots, so there's no dripping or mess. but the best part is this for us fellow

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so this weekend, i found myself watching with some dear friends the first season of the O.C. and it was like coming home to two old crushes: the first being the adorable seth cohen and the second being the amazing music that the O.C. introduced me to many moons ago. there's only one thing better than watching the O.C. with dear friends.....watching the O.C. with friends that have never seen the

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so nbc released an article today about obama's dream team short list for his cabinet. amongst the speculation are the names of gov. arnold schwarzenneger and colin powell to fill key positions. both republicans. can i just throw in my pipe dream too? wouldn't it be great if he asked mitt romney to be his secretary of treasury to help with this economic mess we are in?it would be almost like

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so this week has been happy for some and sad for others with the outcome of the elections. and now i hope we can as a nation and as family and friends finally heal. put aside our differences and become unified. realize its not a democrat that will be in the white house, but our president of the united states. united. i never realized before how key that word is.i've been trying to figure out

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