Obsessive Compulsive Poker's Sympathy for Miss USA

Facebook is an addiction. If not for anything, then for the ability to poke people all over the world. Eversince Janie joined Facebook, my poking efforts have quadrupled!!! HEY! she poked me first!! and now I can't stop poking back!! HAHA... oh dear... what had become of my life? I get cheap thrills from virtual pokes~ -_-'

[i took out the name but you can pretty much guess who poked me]

Anyway, so so.. this morning I spent 2 hours watching rerun of Miss Universe 2007. OMG! I feel sooooo sorry for Miss USA. I actually like her.. I mean I saw her on Oprah (so what else do I watch right? hahah) and she was charming. Damn the bastards (and myself..heh) for laughing when she slipped and fell on her bum during the evening gown showcase. Naughty naughty audience.

I had the same accident during one of my cheerleading practices. I couldn't walk properly for a week! HAHA I'm amazed she can still give her winning smile. What's worse? The audience booed her when she got up to answer her question. That wasn't very nice!!! So what if she's American and so what if she got in the top 5 because Donald Trump is the co-owner of the Miss Universe contest, and he is currently sponsoring her career, right???

i am HERE now

there are countless times when i have to remind myself where i am. i tend to wander off in daydreams and imagine myself in some other place besides here. it's not that i particularly hate where i am now but ... i guess i'm not happy with where i am now all the time.

more often than not i have to pull myself back and remind myself that 'i am HERE now'.

Supersized Mentality

What becomes of a full-time student who only has saturday classes and night classes on 2 days out of the week?? A nocturnal being who got up at noon to eat 'breakfast' while watching Oprah~

Today's topic on Oprah was on how to organize your life. Peter Walsh came on the show to remind viewers the importance of prioritizing what is important in life. I'm not gonna go through everything that was mentioned.. you can go read it yourself here. But some of the things that he said made a lot of sense to me. -_-'

The mentality of people these days is that more is better. Buy one get one free.. meaning having one is good, having two is better. This mentality can lead to problems, either personally, physically, emotionally, or spiritually. Obesity is one problem that arises from this 'supersized mentality'(duh! super size me, anyone??). If a small plate of food is good, the big plate must be better. All the things that we have been accumulating in our lives made it difficult for us to focus on the future. All the things that we thought meant a lot is actually preventing us from venturing forward. So, Peter Walsh suggested that we should de-clutter our home, our sanctuary, so we can focus on what is REALLY important in life.

I would love to do that... but looking around my teeny room, there's nothing for me to throw away. Yet, I still feel trapped. -_-'

Stress-free Evening with Justin and Annie

Last night I went to dinner with Justin and Annie at Justin's place. They told me not to do anything... so I sit there looking at the food they're preparing and salivating internally... HAHA. The food was really simple and so yummy. We had beef ravioli with mushroom in tomato sauce and salad. It tastes SOOO good!!!

So then the dinner conversation drifted to the issue of stress and how companies these days are trying to create a stress-free environment. Justin enlightened me that no matter what, you'll experience stress since the moment you wake up. There is no way to remove stress from your everyday life. And companies shouldn't try to have a stress-free environment but instead try to utilize that stress to their advantage. I was so excited to share this realization with SOMEONE and that certain SOMEONE's reply was "oh... you didn't know that already??" CHEH~

But anyway, the dinner was great fun. And Justin and Annie are SOOO adorable together. HANG ON TO HER JUSTIN!!! hur~ so jealous... :D