| What's New - April 2005 |
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| April 18, 2005 - Ok, class�today we are going to discuss the viability of Stephanie Powers as Anna in �The King and I�. I�ve got nothing personal against her but, COME ON, how old is that woman? Nevermind, I�ll tell you�63. She�s 63, but I�m supposed to believe that she has a kid around12. Right. The whole time she was up on stage, I kept thinking � �oh, look�it�s GRANDMA�� She sounded like Mrs Potts from the Beauty & the Beast. Now, on the flip side�she *DOES* look great for being 63. But again, it�s all about role suitability & this one wasn�t it. SPAAAAAHHHHHH�it�s the greatest thing. We (Alice, Jennifer, & I) had a spa day with our moms. It was great. I didn�t want to leave, but I was pretty darn hungry. The new Burke Williams Spa at the Torrance Town Center is really nice. I ran into Darrell M�s friend, Michelle, who is now a new employee there. It�s a small world after all. Last night finished off with a nice dinner to Cinnabar in Glendale. Henry said he had he best duck he�s had in a long time there�so I order the duck. It was pretty bad � he even had to agree on that one. The chocolate fondue thing was actually pretty good � probably the best thing of the evening. It certainly didn�t rate the 25 it received from Zagat. (they had it posted near the entrance) Plans for this week: Costa Rica!! WOOO HOOO! I�m not prepared at all to go but I�m sure I�ll wing it by then. It should be a fun trip. If I don�t make it back home alive, it�s been a pleasure knowing all of you. April 11, 2005 - Sorry I missed last week, folks. There wasn�t anything new to report. So my latest venture � trying to roll over my 401(k). I�m a college grad. Not that it makes me any more intelligent than a non college grad, but to a certain extent it shows that I had the tenacity to graduate from college by studying�a past time that I particularly don�t care for. Well�if the truth was to be told, I really didn�t study � it was only by the grace of God that I graduated. In any case, I�ve been putting off finishing up the paperwork mostly because I just don�t know what the heck I�m supposed to provide them with. I read the instructions and I swear�it LOOKS like English�it just doesn�t read like English. It�s jibberish!! What�s more � I was a business major�you�d think that I�d understand most of the terms & phrases being used. Nope�not so much. So, basically, I�ve got two accounts � one that is a 401(k) from my former place of employment and another that�s just waiting to receive the funds from my former place of employment�and no clue of how to sync the two together. I just don�t want to mess up & be dinged for taxes � that�s my biggest fear. Well, no�my biggest fear is dying in a tornado in Oklahoma City but that�s another story all together. Another quirk � the Asian Community. You remember that movie �Six Degrees of Separation�?? It�s even less in the Asian Community. I had dinner with Shirley, Roger and their friends on Saturday night. I went to school with Noriko for about 6 months in elementary school�her fianc�e, Nate, went to church with my Pastor�and his friend, Mark, played basketball with one of the deacons of my church. Freakish. I think that�s what I appreciate about the Hakujin community�nobody knows anybody and they like it that way. The Asian community � EVERYBODY knows SOMEBODY (or is related to them) and they�re all in everyone�s business. |