03/31 - my 1st day selling on the floor @ Macy's was today, & i think ... it went alright. i gotta get used to a lot of things. luckily i didn't encounter any mean customers, & learned a whole lot. the handbags Macy's carry (especially the Coach bags) are so cute =), & i drool just thinking ... 'bout them & how much i want them. hmm ...i need to wait 'til i've save enough $$ to buy myself a Coach bag. thankfully i've got an employee discount that'll help the wait be shorter.

03/30 - Spring break is over, & classes are back in session ... there's nothing real exciting going on now, except for me starting my 1st day on the floor @ Macy's tomorrow afternoon. well, there's the internet problem i've got for my labtop. i'm still trying to get the wireless router to work, so i can finally get internet access on my brand new labtop. since i've got nothing else to mention, i'm gonna be writing a bunch of movie reviews. during my Spring Break, i watched the new A&E movie The Last King several times even though it's 4 hrs. long. i wasn't expecting myself to find such intrigue & enjoyment in The Last King @ 1st 'cause i thought it was gonna be boring since it was about 1 of England's kings. however, the movie was just so well made that i was drawn into the story & its ideals & principles. plus, i found the actor playing the king, Rufus Sewell, was quite dashing & handsome though his characters' whorish ways were a turn-off. Synopsis: The dramatic & romantic story of King Charles 2 of England, the raucous gambler known as the “merry monarch.” He was the last king to rule before Parliament completely took over the British government. King Charles 2 was a lover of the arts, a ruthless political survivor, a possible sex addict, & the man who swept England into a new era of modernism & democracy. He had over a dozen children w/ his many mistresses, yet his only marriage provided no heir. This is the ribald saga of King Charles 2 from his youthful exile in the Netherlands to his secret deathbed conversion to Catholicism during a period England was torn between Catholics & Protestants. His reign was marked by revenge, plague, intrigue, pleasure, & romance. (found & altered from aande.com) now on to the next movie...A Knight's Tale (also starring Rufus Sewell ). i watched A Knight's Tale for the 1st time this past weekend on NBC. i thought the movie was gonna be alright, but i found it much better than i had expected. modern specks thrown in to the medieval time period of the film was genius & delightful. plus, it was great to see a Hawaii-born actress (Shannyn Sossamon) as the lead opposite handsome Heath Ledger . Synopsis: This medieval adventure tale is loosely inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, & mixes anachronistic elements of modern-day rock music & colloquialisms w/ the period setting & characters. William Thatcher is a low-born 14th-century squire who has a gift for jousting. After his master suddenly dies, William hits the road w/ his 2 fellow squire friends Roland & Wat. On their journey, they stumble across unknown writer Geoffrey Chaucer. William lacks the proper pedigree to compete in jousting tournaments, & convinces Geoffrey to forge genealogy documents that'll pass him off as a knight. W/ his newly-minted status, William (now known as Sir Ulrich Von Lichtenstein of Gelderland) sets out to prove himself a worthy knight @ the country's jousting competition, & finds romance in Jocelyn. However, his success & his life would be put in danger when his most fiercest competitor, Count Adehmar, reveals Sir Von Lichtenstein's secret. (found & altered from imdb.com & blockbuster.com)

03/25 - it's Spring Break & i've got big news !!! it's been a while since i've written 'cause the Road Runner @ my house has been down. however, the Road Runner man came yesterday to check out the problem, & fixed it w/ a booster to get a stronger cable signal for the internet. now i can finally share my happy news. everyone brace yourself...i finally got me a job !!! whoo hoo whoo hoo! !! i applied to Macy's weeks ago online, & got a call for an interview this past Wednesday. then i got a call the next day w/ the job offer--whoo hoo !! yesterday i went in to do some paperwork, & began my training right after 'cause i wasn't busy. the training is all on the computer, & goes @ my own pace. i went to Macy's (Ala Moana) today to continue my training, & i'll be going again tomorrow 'cause i'm still not done. then after that, i'll find out my schedule from my manager. so do you wanna know what department i'll be in, & what i'll be doing ??? well, i'm 1 of the new sales associate in the handbags department. so far i'm really happy for the employee discount, & not too sure of my sales skills. but i guess we'll see soon if i'm able to handle my duties. i'm just really exicited to be near all those pretty Coach bags !!! wish me luck peoples !!!

03/17 - Happy St. Patty's Day!!! Happy St. Patty's Day!! Happy St. Patty's Day!

03/15 - i haven't written in days 'cause i've been lazy or needed to do other things online.... however, things have happened in the 4 days i didn't write. this past Saturday, my family & i (minus my dad) unexpectedly went to Hong Kong Orchid for dinner. i love Chinese food (or Zhongguo fan in Mandarin), so i had absolutely no qualms 'bout going there to eat. i had won ton noodle soup, which was alright. the deep-fried tofu dumplings were quite scrumptuous , & the beef & vegetable chow funn was delicious . on Sunday i went w/ my parents to CompUSA to check out their sale--especially for laptops. boy was it packed down there. it was hard to flag CompUSA employees for help @ times 'cause it was that crowded. anyway, i saw a good sale price for a Sony VAIO K13 notebook. the laptop is quite chunky & heavy compared to others, but i thought it was a pretty good trade-off for the brand & quality. after a while of thinking about it & conferring w/ my parents & older, i bought the Sony VAIO K13 notebook. my long searchsEE! for a laptop has finally ended. now i go on a new adventure of figuring out how to work it. the laptop has a built-in integrated wireless internet connection, but i don't how to get it to work. oh well. yeah, i also got a free Kodak digital camera for buying a laptop @ CompUSA...hee hee ! i can sell off the digital camera to get some $$ to help pay for the laptop. well, i gotta start studying for my next midterm that's on Thursday. bye....

03/10 - i had my 2nd Chinese oral presentation today yups.. the oral isn't that difficult. you just have to stand in front of the class, & talk about a subject in Mandarin. luckily my professor is quite leniant, so i gave my little speech by reading off from a paper in which i had prepared a paragraph to say. after i finished talking, the professor asked some questions , & i responded to the best of my ability. & then that's it. lol !, my Mandarin speaking/listening/understanding skills aren't too good, so my professor was quite easy on me. hmm ...she actually didn't ask me much questions compared to my classmates. i guess she just wanted to move on to the next person, & let me go 'cause she pities me. oh well. as long as i didn't have to stay up there for too long looking like a complete fool . okie, now i wanna talk about Johnny Depp's new movie, Secret Window. his movie won't be released 'til this Friday, but my older sis, younger bro, & i watched it last night @ Ward Theaters @ the screening. my older sis got free screening tickets for Secret Window from UH's school paper, the Ka Leo. my opinion of Secret Window is...it's a great movie !!! from the beginning 'til the end, i was spooked . right from the beginning, the mood is quite intense w/ quirky/funny comments spread through out the movie to lighten it up a little. Johnny Depp's performance was wonderful !! i'm a big fan of his from his 21 Jump Street & Nightmare on Elm Street days. i don't like Johnny Depp grungy look, but you can't deny how good & versatile he is as an actor. go watch Johnny Depp peoples--it's really good !!! it's thrilling !! the ending is trippy ! Synopsis: Mort Rainey, a successful author, is going through a hard period in his life. After catching his wife sleeping w/ another man, he is in the process of finalizing the divorce, & crippled by "writer's block". 1 day @ Mort's remote lake house, a man named John Shooter appears @ his doorstep, & accuses him of plagarizing his story--1 which he titled 'Secret Window'. The 2 stories are almost identical, but Mort believes the mis- understanding can be solved once he shows Shooter the original version that was written & printed years in advance in a literary magazine. Shooter threatens Mort to get the original to show him in 3 days or else he'll be a dead man. Strange & horrific events then begin to happen. Mort is convinced Shooter is the culprit of all the horrific incidents, & is racing to get Shooter out of his life. (found & altered from blockbuster.com) while watching Secret Window (w/ about 20 mins. left), i had to pee. i had been holding it in since halfway through the movie 'cause i didn't wanna miss any part of the movie, but then i needed to go badly just when the movie was about to begin wrapping up. lol , i had to pass through about 10 people to get out of my row (blocking their view), & out to the bathroom. when i returned, the storyline of Secret Window was getting really good & @ the most climatic scene. i wanted to go back to my seat to finish the movie, but i didn't wanna block anyone's view. i stood @ the end of the row comtemplating whether or not i should try get back to my seat while seeing everyone in the theatre glued to the screen. the girl @ the end saw me & waved her hand that i could go back in, & so i began my journey back to my seat. on my journey, i accidently lightly kicked some people & stepped on several toes. i apologized softly & frantically !! while trying to get back to my seat. lol , there was this 1 girl in which i had stepped on both her foot. mind you, i don't have my weight on my 1st leg, so i'm lightly stepping on people's toes & foot. but that girl winced in pain when i accidently stepped on her foot as if a boulder just fell on her. i quickly tried to move my feet again to get off her foot, but only ended up on her other foot. i'm now frantically apologizing to her & trying to move along as fast as i could while the other people aren't even trying to help me get through. the girl i stepped on didn't try remove her foot from under me once i stepped on her. even after i got off her 1st foot, she just kept her leg & foot out there, so i accidently stepped on the other foot. i felt bad i caused her a little pain , but hey, she didn't wanna move her fat legs even after seeing the commotion i was causing trying to pass through to get back to my seat. if you don't wanna move, you're only gonna get stepped on. remember that people the next time you go watch a movie @ the theatre.

03/06 - i just finished watching Frequency on ABC. wow , Frequency was a great movie. there were so many twists & turns in the plot that i couldn't stop watching 'cause i was on the edge of my seat wondering what was gonna happen next. the 1st hour of the movie was similar to the Korean film Ditto, & the rest was an interesting race to find a serial killer to stop a murder from occurring. i must admit...@ 1st i wasn't expecting much from Frequency, but as the storyline kept evolving so did my opinion. the performances of Dennis Quaid & James Caviezel were fantastic. Synopsis: John Sullivan, a New York police detective, has never recovered from the death of his father Frank, a New York City firefighter, who died heroically in a warehouse fire when John was a boy. Then a rare atmospheric phenomenon allows Frank to communicate w/ his son 30 years in the future via a HAM radio. John uses the opportunity to warn his father of his impending death, which saves his life. However, what he does not realize is that the reversal of his father's death has triggered a new set of tragic events--including the murder of his mother by a serial killer. Now John in the present & Frank in the past must try to uncover the killer's identity to reverse another tragic event before it's too late. (found & altered from blockbuster.com) here's the update for school: i got a B- for my Chinese oral exam, & the HIST 282 quiz was turned in to a review sheet for the midterm that's on Monday. i'm so grateful for my B-. the oral exam went a little better than i expected. i actually was able to somewhat carry a conversation w/ my professor in Mandarin. that's wonderful since i took the oral exam much earlier than i had arranged to. i came to school much earlier that Friday to do extra preparation for the oral. my professor saw me waiting outside of the classroom, & asked if i wanted to take the oral @ that time. hee hee ...i was there 30 mins. before my exam, & was there before the 1st person to take it that day @ 8 a.m.. LOL , i was sweating so much through the oral exam, & was so glad when i finally left the classroom.

03/03 - the most loveliest day for girls has arrived...it's Hinamatsuri !! Hinamatsuri is a Japanese tradition that's celebrated every March 3rd. "Hina" means dolls & "matsuri" means a festival. Families w/ young girls display hinaningyo [hina dolls dressed in old court costume that are placed on tiers], peach blossoms, & shirozake [white sake] in their home to wish for happiness for their girls. The hina are supposed to protect girls from sickness or misfortune. so that's the story of Girls' Day. okie...now on to other things. there was a black-out this morning as i was putting on my make-up & getting ready to head off to school (or to the mall ). LOL , that sure made my attempt to finish putting on my make-up @ my bedroom window w/ the little light that came from the rising morning sun. an hour later, the electricity was still out. i thought the black-out was confined only to my neighborhood, but apparently it stretched from Hawaii Kai to Waikiki. since many of the traffic lights were out on my way to school & back, driving through interesections became quite a scary problem since the police weren't @ the scene yet to direct traffic. @ most interesections i drove through, it was stop & go @ a good speed that was below the posted speed limit yups.. it's events like that which reminds me how unpredictable life is, & thankfully shakes up my mundane life on this little island.

03/01 - it's just another day of school for me. yesterday i had my Chinese quiz, & i'll be taking the oral exam on Friday. but before that, i'll be taking my ICS lecture midterm on Thursday. LOL , my HIST 282 midterm was scheduled for yesterday on the syllabus, but the professor didn't say anything to the class on Friday. i didn't even remember hmm... 'til Sunday night when i checked the syllabus. since the professor had postponed the 2nd quiz & didn't mention the midterm, i figured (i hoped & prayed) that the professor would postpone the midterm as well. luckily, he did . either way, i've got lots of studying to do this week. ....