Nothing

My life is so incredibly boring right now. I haven't written a post in awhile because I literally have nothing to say.

I sit in my apartment all day long. Sometimes I work out, run an errand or two. I've actually had to work this week so that's good. Today I tried to buy a space heater because I don't have gas in my apartment so no heat and it's cold. But it was $100 and I figured that wasn't worth it since it's going to get warmer here soon.

See? I'm talking about the weather. You know it's bad when all you have to talk about is the weather. Speaking of...did you hear how bad it is in China right now?

UGH! There I go again!

Meanwhile, I'm booking flights and trips for my cousin's family to go to Bali, Vietnam, Cambodia, Aspen, Dallas, London, Tokyo, Beijing...I've never seen a family so busy in my life. The kids don't always go because of school of course.

One good bit of news is that my cousin's kid was accepted to one of the schools in London so now there's absolutely no chance that we'll be staying in Hong Kong for another year. Thank God for that (again, always capitalize the "G" in "God" just in case).

Helpers

Every weekend I see tons of maids/nannies sitting on the covered walkways on thin blakets playing cards, reading, etc. I don't quite understand what's going on but my understanding at this point is that they're not from Hong Kong and live with their employers during the week. But they can't afford their own homes. So on the weekends - when their employers don't use their services - they just sit outside.

Do they sleep outside? I don't know about that part. I'm going to ask them next weekend.

Skype

Does anyone else use Skype? It's great except for the random people that IM me. I get about one random person IM-ing me every few days. But in HK I get stuff like this:

"Hi plss I ‘ll like u to be my friend – Daniel from Dongguan, China"

That's a direct quote.

Although the name of your town makes you sound like you're the Chinese version of "Don Juan" and could indicate certain attributes about yourself that I may favor...I think I'm gonna have to decline.

Bangs

I got bangs.

I realize this isn't the most important thing going on the world right now... but it's the most important thing that's happening in MY little world and therefore is newsworthy on my little blog.

I think I look better with my old haircut but I was in desperate need of a change. New year...new 'do.

Tuesday

I went to my cousin's house today and saw them for the first time since the holidays. Mandy said that we might be moving to London sooner that I thought. I was thinking that I'd be here until September. There's still a chance of that but it'll more likely be May/June. I'm so excited for the possibility.

Hong Kong is fine but I'm in limbo here. Not really motivated to make friends because I know I'm going to be leaving. Probably a bad attitude, but that's how lazy I am.

Nothing much else to report. I've been keeping up with my Photo of the Day project. It's fun!

No Shit

Tell me about it.

Million Dollar Idea

I have another Million Dollar Idea.

It's a little extreme as it's a new torture device. But it's genius. It'll totally work.

Have the terrorists/bad guys/etc sit on a couch and let them watch TV.

You: "Huh?"
Me: "Hear me out."

Only let them watch the E! Channel.

24 hours a day. 7 days a week. That's all they're allowed to watch.

I guarantee you they won't last longer than a week and will confess everything... and then some.

I'm about to lose my mind. I only have 3 channels. HBO, Star World and E!.

The HBO channel sucks because it never plays any movies I've (1) heard of or (b) would want to watch.

Star World shows re-runs of Seinfeld, Ellen and Seinfeld. Oh, and Ellen. And eeeeevery once in awhile they'll throw some Seinfeld in there to mix things up.

Then there's the E! Channel. Right now I'm watching a show ranking different showbiz divas and they were talking about Barbra Streisand.

Fine.

But the only celebrity opinion on Barbra they featured was from....Daisy Fuentes.

?????

And the only celebrity they could get to do a talking head piece commenting on how hot each of the divas are is....Lorenzo Lamas.

I can't take it anymore. The only thing that's keeping me going is that I get to see Kim Kardashian cry Tuesday night because some photographer is threatening to go public with some some naughty photos of she and her sister. She totally crys and says, "I don't want to go THROUGH this agaaaaaaain!"

Then stop doing stupid slutty things if you want to be famous, Kim.

And then her sister, Kourtney (with a K) says, "I never thought anyone would see them."

O. M. G.

This is the only thing that's keeping me going at this point. That, and the fact that I just had a really good drink and it's now "my drink". Vodka, cranberry and champagne. Try it. It might make you write angry things about people and television networks but it tastes really awesome. And who knows. You might come up with your own Million Dollar Idea.

Lonely Hoo-hah

I just spent another night out by myself at a bar. I'm so over it. I did this several times in NY. Usually it was awful but a couple times I met people and was glad I went out.

Same thing here. I put in all the effort to look good. Texted the 3 people I know and they either weren't going out or didn't respond. So I went out anyway because "you never know".

I sat at a bar by myself for 2 drinks and went home. Guys looked at me but wouldn't approach. They were probably turned off by the pool of desperation that had formed under my bar stool.

While I was at the bar, I texted Hanoi Pascal so it looked like I wasn't such a loser and it of course turned sexual within 2 texts. He asked me to take a picture of my hoo-hah and email it to him. I resisted and said that I can't risk it ending up on the internet thereby dashing all of my presidential hopes. He said I could trust him.

So I sent one to him. Haha...

Why not?

Tomato / Tomahto

It always strikes me as funny whenever I hear a word pronounced one way my entire life and then all of a sudden "people" change the pronunciation. I'm like, "When did THAT happen?"

The word for the moment is: Empire

As in an Empire waist dress.

I thought it was pronounced em-PIE-er as in, The Roman Empire.

Now everyone is pronouncing it em-PEER.

When did this happen? Has it always been pronounced that way and I just missed the boat somehow? That's highly possible.

2008!

A belated Happy New Year. I've been so lazy about getting going this year. I figure now that it's officially Week 3 I should get a move on.

2008 has been pretty boring so far. My cousin is in London so I haven't had much to do workwise. Which I LOVED for about a week and then my brain started to ooze out of my left ear (I know, I would've thought it'd be my right ear too). So I actually started reading the Financial Times newspaper that I've been getting for about a month but havent touched yet. And I got further than ever before in the latest Economist (page 65 and still going!). I MIGHT actually finish it before the next one comes [sigh].

I also bought "The God Delusion" and Carl Bernstein's biography of Hillary Clinton. Figured I should read a book about her and then read Obama's to maybe help me decide who to vote for in November.

Note to self: must start AND finish two books by November. Fuck.

I finally caved and joined Facebook. Not because I felt the need to fill out another profile in the hopes that some gent will find me attractive and email me asking me out. But my friend Sarah said, "You can play Scrabble!"

Done.

Scrabulous, it's official name, is awesome! If you're on Facebook I highly recommend downloading it.

Sarah also gave me another great idea. She's taking one photo a day, each day, for all of 2008. I think that's a fabulous idea. So I'm stealing it.

I got a late start so they only begin on Jan. 10th but you can view them on my Picasa Web Page. They're not always going to be the most beautiful shots as a lot of them will be taken with my 2.0 megapixel camera on my Blackberry, but I think it's an interesting experiment.

Went to a music & art festival this past weekend with my friend Jan (guy) called Clockenflap.

Clockenflap.

Clockenflap.

There are so many things that piss me off about this name like the fact that it sounds like it's describing an uncircumsized penis, for example. But the the main thing that pisses me off (pun intended) is that they don't tell you anything about it. Why THAT name? If you're going to give something a name like that at least EXPLAIN to the people WHY for Pete's sake.

I had a good time but it was poorly organized. One alcohol line that was long as hell. We met some Canadians that were in HK to sell non-FDA approved breast implants. You meet all sorts of people here.

There was one great band though. The White Knives. The Brits seemed to already know them. They shouted "One more tune!" over and over again which made me laugh because I'm used to it being phrased, "One more song!"

Crazy Brits.