reading books, archaeology, paleontology, egyptology, ancient history, travel, messin' on the turntables, clubbin'...since they don't have a favorites section, here I go!: Q-CuP tapioca drinx, Illy coffe shop tapioca drinx @ Pacific East Mall in Albany (don't know the real name of that shop, it's a 2 in 1 shop), the pandan leaf and coconut egg puff from the same place, Saigon 2, Asian Chicken Salad from Jack.In.the.Box, Outback Steakhouse, kare-kare with bagoong is THE BOMB, tinolang manok, sinigang na baboy/beef/chicken, thai food, Japanese food, Banana Island in Westlake, Tawan's on Geary, Wooden Charcoal BBQ on Geary, Wendy's On San Pedro, Jack in the Box, McDonald's fruit&walnut salad, rice, steak an' prawns burrito from La Corneta in THe City, that hot sauce from La Victoria in San Jo' (across the street from San Jo' state, Monique's Mom's leche flan (damn' that's some good ish), Broadway Prime Rib (thx 4the introduction Lori!), creme brulee, Ongpin in South City (once a week mane!), super halo-halo with avocado ice cream!, tapasilog, Superstar!, collard greens n hamhocks, cornbread, ummm that bread @ Broadway Prime Rib, baked macaroni and cheese, CHIT'LIN's!, tripe in my PHO, PHO 99 or Saigon Pho II!, spicy foods, RICE, Jamba Juice, Caramel Macchiato from Starbux, Jalepeno Poppers from JIB (thx 4the intro in h.s. Jollianne!), spinich dip from TGIFriday's that Julz says we can get in the frozen section at Target!, zebra ice cream cake from ColdStoneCreamery, choc'late or anything choc'late/brownie ice cream, ginataan pinakbet, ginatan bilo-bilo (or ginatan halo-halo, Jay's Mom makes the best!), chicken fried rice with salty fish, salt&peper pork, gourmet chicken (the last 3 from that Chinese food place in the Fairmont Center), ginisang mongo, pan de leche, monay, Duncan Hines brownies (chewy please), fried and baked chicken (NO KFC PLEEEZE!), Jollibee's chicken (I still say Jollibee Philippines chicken is better), pastillias de leche, sampaloc candy in the yellow wrappers, RICE, mangga at bagoong from the street vendor! (oh I miss that!), green tea ice cream, Hometown Buffet!, TOP RAMEN (aww yeeeaaaah!), Church's fried okra, hush puppies, spam, corned beef w/garlic and onions, sardines in the spicy sauce, coconut shrimp (or are they prawns) from Red Lobster, Adios (the drink duh!), Fruity Pebble (d), vodka, amaretto sour, sex on the beach (d), that drink OhIo made up, no darks please!, Inkredible Hulk, Hurricane, Thai Ice tea, Raspberry Ice tea, Fanta orange soda, sprite, Dr.Pepper, Coca-cola, horchata, WATER, Lollicup, Golden Sweets on Geneva, all kindsa hot tea! (tea-time yo!), RICE, ooh RIBS!, grits, fruit-flavored quaker oatmeal on a cold winter day, frosted flakes, special K w/strawberries, honey bunches of oats, clusters, anything with clusters of almonds or cranberries, milk, CRAN-grape, Cran-apple, Cran-peach, cran-anything, apple juice, orange juice, ranch sauce, bleu cheese sauce, mozzarella sticks, buffalo wings...Target, Home Depot, perfume counter @Macy's, shoes, watches, Charlotte Russe (for tops and accessories), Express (for jeans), Claire's or Piercing Pagoda for my silver/ gold accessories, Walgreens, Body Manipulations for piercings, Sally's for my hair dye, Green Apple books or Barnes and Noble for books2read, Boondocks the comic strip, that article in the SF Chronicle I think it's called Ms. Gonick (she has a sarcastic sense of humor similar to that of me and my girlfriends!) Bay ish mane! and who remember that song "Out My Body" by The Click?! Sophomore h.s. anthem! 11/5's Fiendin4the Funk, The Click's Game Related, RBL Posse's A Lesson to be Learned, Cold World Hustlers Iceland Yeeeeee! but yeah, when I think of more stuff I'll add it here: TK NOodle Daikon egg flour cakes! (those R the bomb w/that spicy sauce they got!), did i mention El Farolito on Mission by Onondaga?; Outback Steakhouse; Tommy's Mom's spicy papaya salad (HeLLa FuKKiN spicY but I LOVE IT! thanx babe for the intro!); sticky rice; thai style alaskan crabs, Will's tiramisu (HeLLa FukkiN riCh! The tiramisu u fools! LOL), Harrah's Cafe steak & eggs & Texas style french toast, Arabi's brownies, Aki's bakery toffee cookies (?), Moonstar in Daly City (!), seaweed salad, bean sprouts salad, Hahn's Hibachi ( esp. the pan-fried shrimp & stuffed mushrooms!), Mitchell's Ice Cream on San Jose Ave., sake, La Corneta by Glen Park BaRt,
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all kinds, long as it sounds good 2 me and makes me wanna dance or start movin'...Bay ish (since i set roots hurr in '91, now known as THE HYPHY MOVEMENT), freestyle, pop, rap, Korean, Japanese, Indian, French, Trance, Hiphop, R&B, soul, neo-soul, classical (like Vanessa Mae), disco, oldies, new country, alternative rock, easy-listenin, big band and swing, light rock, hard rock, music fr: the Philippines (yes, even the ones in Tagalog)...106.1KMEL, 101.3KOIT, 99.7KFRC, 102.9KBLX, 94.9KYLD, 98.1KISS, and some other stations i don't know the call letters for... whatever ppl suggest I hear. Karamel introduced me to an artist named TiLLy KeY . I went 2 her performance a lil' while back and she can sing! she got some good quality music right there! But yeah, I'm open 2 almost everything...
Horror movies are my favorite! action flicks featuring martial arts, "psychological thriller" type movies such as The Others or Sixth Sense or even The Village, horror, comedy...movies w/sub-titles, almost anything. I try to avoid movies that'll make me cry, tho'...
*11/2006* I waited all fukkin summer for Heroes to premiere and boy I ain't disappointed! That show is the shit, the hotness! I can't wait for Monday nights so I can fukkin watch it! Leavin us hangin like fuk,erry week! I LUV THAT SHOW!!!!***HeHeHeHe I haven't had cable since October '05 and where i live, i can only get NBC! (Deal or No Deal and Law&Order SVU, Conviction and Law&Order) and no, I don't have internet access @ hm either. I jus listen to music. hahahahah but when i'm @other ppl's house i watch almost anything such as: The Sci-fi Channel, The Cartoon Network, The History Channel, Law&Order, Law&Order SVU, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Cops, any show showing surgery of any type, such as I want a Famous Face, Dr. 90210, Extreme Makeover... ADULT SWIM ROCKS!!! Japanese and Chinese shows on AZN or KTSF, MTV, VH1, Discovery Channel...My fav' drama show is JEWEL IN THE PALACE (or it may be known as DAE JANG-GEUM, see pic)
STUFF I READ ON THE WEB: http://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/ http://www.thedetox.blogspot.com/ http://www.tokyo-girl.blogspot.com/ http://www.petiteanglaise.com/ http://www.missizzy.org/ www.sfgate.com (gotta read the paper on the daily) BOOKS I READ: Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut by Emily White, The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs, Let's Face It, Men Are @$$..%..e$ What Women Can Do About It by Joseph W.Rock and Barry L.Duncan, Zen Speaks by Tsah Chih Chung, Arranged Marriage by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Godspeed by Lynn Breedlove, The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston, Red Scarf Girl A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution, Dear America My Heart is on the Ground The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl by Ann Rinaldi, Child of the Dawn by Gautama Chopra, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex translated by Michael Mok and Ralph Manheim, Night by Elie Wiesel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, The Color of Water A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride, Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, It Happened to Nancy by an ANNONYMOUS TEENAGER edited by Beatrice Sparks, Ph.D., Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Coming of Age in Mississippi An Autobiography by Anne Moody. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates, Justice by Dominick Dunne, Thugs and the Women Who Love Them by Wahida Clark, Every Thug Needs A Lady by Wahida Clark, Loving Sex How to Develop and Keep a Loving Relationship by Nitya Lacroix, The Secrets of Vesuvius by Sara C. Bisel, The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan, Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Trail of Tears The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav The Lovely Bones by Anne Siebold The Red Tent by Anita Diamant***** I've only listed my favorites from my personal library but there's more. I also read JANE magazines, The Chicken Soup series, personal research on the net, newspapers, and informational magazines, and almost anything that captures my interest. I've been reading since I was taught. I remember livin' in Maryland and borrowing 40+ books from the public library every week. Books such as The Sweet Valley Twins series, the Ramona Books and all other Beverly Cleary books, Ralph and the Motorcycle, and of course, the Courdoroy Bear series and the Bernstein Bears series. I practically flew thru high school without a proper education so that compelled me to read some of the required high school reading on my own. I borrow books, I buy them used or on sale, or they're gifts. I LOVE READING! IT ROCKS!
Everyone that has made impact in my life, whether it was positive or negative, cuz it helped me be who I am 2day and who I'll B 2moro. My Mother and Father and the Higher Powers that be.