Entire post written.
Eaten by WP.
GAH!
Going to bed now.
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Ok, so I’d like to keep playing hooky from writing in my blog because it was nice to be on vacation from it. I know the Twitter posts are short and boring, so I guess I’ll get back into the swing of things by writing something that actually resembles a blog post.
A lot of things have happened since graduation, which was only 2 or 3 weeks ago. I’m still working on my thank you notes and other correspondence.
My social calendar has kept me insanely busy, but I think I need to tone it all down and spend a little more time at home.
Work has been keeping me extremely busy. In fact, I’m sitting at the airport right now, waiting for a flight that is going to take me up to Sacramento for client meetings all day tomorrow.
In other news, my Grandma is in the hospital again. I found out late last night that they took her to the ER, I’m not sure why. I won’t be back in LA until late Friday night, so I won’t be able to visit this weekend.
Well the plane is here, so off I go…
I’m just freakin’ exhausted!
April has been an absolute whirlwind month and frankly, I deserve a break.
I’ve been trying to keep up with the little things via Twitter and Flickr and Delicious, but I know that these types of things are not the same as me sitting down and devoting a few minutes to, oh, actually WRITING something.
I miss blogging. But I need this right now.
Anyway, hopefully you’ll be back when I come back.
And yes, I’ll definitely be back.
Thankfully, this song and dance is not actually performed by jozjozjoz… it is FOR jozjozjoz!
I am so lucky!
My good friend bobo was going to drive almost 100 miles to come to my graduation party this past Saturday with her hubby routerguy and her daughter S, but they couldn’t make it at the last minute. So their other daughter Amber made up and performed the jozjozjoz song to celebrate my MBA while bobo spelled “j o z” in sign language.
TOO CUTE!
I love the bow-chicka-bow-wows. Check it out! hehehe!
Had the most wonderful graduation weekend but don’t have the time or energy to write about it quite yet.
For everyone who thought that I was going to have all kinds of free time after graduation, I don’t know about that!
It’s been an insanely busy few weeks and I promise to make time to catch you up with it!
In the meantime, here are some pictures I posted on flickr that I took with my iPhone this past weekend…
But now it’s time for sleep!
How blessed am I that 12 of my very favorite people in the world traveled from far and wide to spend my graduation weekend with me?
A yummy Italian dinner was made from scratch by EB with help from sous chef Mom.
Dessert was made lovingly by Tai at Scoops and special delivered by Prof Eric and his beau. Tai made a strawberry lychee ice cream cake just for this occasion!!! Thank you, Tai!!!
Everyone else pitched in other ways or traveled a very long way to be here with me.
I am so grateful.
I am so lucky.
More later… (pecked out Saturday morning at 4:15am via iPhone in bed)
As of 5:15pm, I officially completed my MBA program.
I emailed my final exam paper in for my final course and can feel good on Saturday when I walk at graduation that I did it. I really did it. And with honors to boot.
I thought I was going to cry when it was all over or that the feeling of relief would wash over me as the realization of this achievement came true. Instead, nothing’s too different. I’m tired, exhausted and just want to sleep.
Too much to do before graduation on Saturday. And that freakin’ party is stressing me out. When do I get to enjoy this?!?!?!
Finishing my MBA program is the best news of the day, but a very close second is that my Mom is back from Taiwan! Yay! I worked from 8am to 8pm today (trying to get some stuff done for clients) and headed to LAX to pick her up. Unfortunately, her flight was totally late and so I ended up circling LAX arrivals 7 times before I gave up and pulled over to park. I was so tired I could barely keep my eyes open. I probably shouldn’t have been driving. As soon as I parked, my Mom called my phone saying that she had cleared customs and would meet me at the curb.
Anyway, she’s at our place now, and I’m trying to figure out what I have to do tonight before the craziness of tomorrow.
I’m still in disbelief… I DID IT! I REALLY DID IT!
Will be liveblogging at my twitter feed
… the embarrassing loss of the Bruins to Memphis at tonight’s Final Four game
and
… the loss of the EB on this trip. He is missing. We don’t know where he is. Last we heard, he was in Dallas. He was supposed to meet us in San Antonio, but he missed his flight from Baltimore and got stuck on standby and missed the Final Four games. Doh. Hoping he gets in tomorrow.
I liveblogged to L.A. Metblogs in my post entitled broken hearted bruin girl in san antonio but was having technical difficulties. Check this out:
April 5th, 2008 @ 6:24 PM Sports
[Un-editors note: Joz is apparently live blogging from the UCLA game in San Antonio, but is restricted to using the comments due to her use of a PDA. -Markland]
UPDATE 4/6/08 @ 12:34am CT: Sorry for all the wonkiness with my post today. I attempted to liveblog from the Alamodome via PDA from the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four games, but my PDA only posted my title and not the content of the post. I started pecking away at my post during the second half of the UCLA/Memphis game, when it was pretty clear that the Bruins were not going to be advancing. We held out hope, but it was futile.
It turned out that I could leave comments via PDA, so I tried to continue blogging during the Kansas/North Carolina game.
Final scores:
(3) UCLA: 63
(2) Memphis: 78(4) Kansas: 84
(1) North Carolina: 66For those of us who were hoping to celebrate a UCLA championship here in San Antonio, we are disappointed with the results of this game. I’m back at my hotel room, having some booze to sooth the pain.
COMMENTS I MADE:
1. jozjozjoz (la_joz) April 5th, 2008 6:35 pm
since i am sitting in the alamodome watching the second of the final four games I thought i’d attempt to blog via pda. don’t know what happened to my post. more later but there are a lot of bummed ucla fans here with me.
2. jozjozjoz (la_joz) April 5th, 2008 6:43 pm
can I just say that I certainly feel for the tarheel fans here right now? the score with 5 minutes left in the first half is 40-12; kansas is on fire.
dude, at least the bruins were only 3 points behind at half time.
needless to say the jayhawks fans are going bezerk here.
3. jozjozjoz (la_joz) April 5th, 2008 7:15 pm
thanks to markland for the un-editor’s note. I had pecked out a post abt the ucla / memphis game which got eaten by the blog monsters. sorries for this!
until the misery of ucla losing in the semi-finals today, everyone in san antonio was full of excitement.
one funny side note is that all 4 teams in the final four have some shade of blue as a team color. the alamodome is a sea of blues but the blues i’ve got are the bruins making it this far and not winning the ncaa men’s basketball championship.
isn’t the third time supposed to be a charm? where was the bruin team i’ve cheered on all season and through march madness? wasn’t kevin love supposed to get a championship before going off to the nba?
my favorite bruin t-shirt features ‘the prince’ with the number 23 on the back, the words ‘moute kicks boute’ on the front. unfortunately today, moute did not kick any boute. in fact his boute was pwned.
oh my boys.
why do I let you break my heart like this year after year?
will I ever learn?
or wil you guys finally redeem yourselves and bring the championship back to westwood one of these years?
a bruin girl can keep wishing, I guess…
until then, are there any bruin fans in san antonio who need a drink or two to drown your sorrows? cuz that’s what i’m thinking I need.
4. jozjozjoz (la_joz) April 5th, 2008 7:42 pm
on the bright side I am enjoying the north carolina / kansas game a lot more now that unc has made up much of its deficit in the second half and is within 5 points of kansas with 9 minutes left to play.
that and because we moved away from the annoying fans we were next to.
hey we are all here to root for our teams, lady. you don’t need to be quite so loud in my ear and you can sit down in your seat once in a while cuz that’s kind of what it’s for. other people kind of want to watch the game, too.
That’s the goal for the next 20 minutes, anyway.
Sorry if I don’t make any sense. I’m a little sleep-deprived and I’ve been a little stressed out.
Right now I’m sitting in a terminal at LAX waiting for our red eye flight which is going to take us to San Antonio, Texas. Holy cow! I didn’t think I’d be going to Texas willingly anytime soon!
I think I mentioned that we’re heading to the Men’s Basketball Final Four & Championship games this weekend. It all came about really suddenly, so this week has been nutz. Thanks to Yoshi who packed for me and put up with my anxiety all day and night today. I was a little freaked out and had a lot on my mind today and I was taking it out on Yoshi, so that was pretty sucky of me.
I have been crazy busy for a while, so I hope the twitter updates are giving you an insight into what’s been going on in my life.
Big news which I can’t remember if I posted about, so here it goes: I am officially done with classes for my final course in my MBA program! Last night, my Strategy class got together for the last time and it was awesome but also bittersweet. I made some good friends in this class but at the same time, I’m really glad to have finished this chapter of my life. I still have one last 5 page paper to write and submit via email, but hopefully I can bang that out pretty quickly.
What else?
I don’t know! I’m exhausted right now but I’m not allowed to sleep until we get on our plane.
Oh I know!
Graduation is a week away! For anyone who is wondering where the party is, I have finally secured the location. I promise to update the evite with the address of the TOP SECRET LOCATION of the party this weekend. Sorry to everyone who has been IMing, calling, emailing and asking for details. I swear the deets are coming!
So while I’m on this trip, I’ll probably be twittering and flickring from my iPhone, so if I’m not updating here, you might want to check those feeds out for the latest.
To my taller brother:
I love you to bits and bits and I’m so proud of you.
Happy birthday and I’ll see you at the Alamo this weekend for the FINAL FOUR!!!
PS - I loved talking to you on the phone tonight. You’re the best.
I didn’t have anywhere I had to be today!
What a luxury to stay home and futz around for most of the day.
I did do my 11am call, which ended up happening closer to noon. No matter; we got a lot accomplished on that call.
What else?
I went to the gym today! Yoshi came with me!!! Whoo!
We didn’t stay long because we both wanted to watch the second half of the UCLA/Xavier game at home.
Yay! My guys are going to the Final Four again!!! GO BRUINS!
I’ve been purposely avoiding March Madness this year because I can get so sucked in, but now it’s time to give my boys some props! I am so excited!!!
What else? I played too much Guitar Hero today. I think a grand total of five hours worth over the course of the day. I have hand cramps. Ow. And pathetic. In fact, it’s hard to type.
I didn’t clean my desk, but I still have tomorrow to tackle that.
Seriously.
What happened to this past month!?
Was supposed to go to Vegas this weekend, but I decided I really needed to NOT do that, especially if I might travel next weekend and have my final/graduation after that.
Going to attempt to clean my desk this weekend. (Ha!)
Oh and in other news, I went to the gym for the first time in ages yesterday. All by myself and under my own free will. What is the world coming to?
I have a call to do tomorrow, but other than that, I might even go back to the gym tomorrow.
Can you believe it?!
(I don’t either!!!)
Another bout of insomnia, despite being totally exhausted.
-Had dinner tonight in Larchmont Village with my old friend Greg. He treated me to a sushi dinner because he can’t make it to my graduation party next month since he’ll be in Europe. Greg and I go back over a decade now. I forget exactly how we met in the first place, but I remember that after I met him, I lost touch with him for a while and then one day I was driving on Venice Boulevard and a guy in a big red truck started honking at me and waving at me to pull over and it was him. And that’s how we got back in touch. Over the years, we both drifted apart, but we always managed to keep connected via email/text/whatever so that we didn’t lose each other again. Since I last saw him six+ years ago; he’s been married, been divorced, became a father, and somehow manages to look exactly the same as the day we met. I’m so glad to have good friends like him.
-I heard some really bad news last night which really made me sad. Over this past Christmas, my brother’s gf’s family came to Los Angeles to spend the holidays together. My brother, my mom, and I, the gf, her parents, grandparents and sister + her bf & his family (his parents from Mexico and a cousin) all spent the day before Christmas Eve and Christmas day together. A 15 person van was rented for this crazy entourage and we did a driving tour of L.A. We went up to the Getty Center and then down to In-N-Out and Diddy Reese cookies in Westwood for lunch. And then on Christmas Day, we all got together and had a massive Christmas feast at the Universal Hilton buffet.
One of the people there was Miguel, the father of the gf’s sister’s boyfriend, who had come in from Mexico to spend time with his son for the holidays. He had just lost his own mother right before the holidays, so I remember that I would see a very wistful look in his eyes when he thought no one was looking. Obviously, he was thinking about his Mom.
Last night, my bro’s gf told me that Miguel had been taking a walk on Friday when he had an aneurysm. He was braindead by the time he arrived at the hospital. Some immediate family members traveled immediately to be at his side and then they took him off of life support on Sunday.
I was shocked to hear this, and obviously, the parallels to my own father’s passing were not lost on me. Even though I only met him for those couple of days, I’m saddened to hear of his passing and send good thoughts to his family who have suffered multiple losses in such a short time. My heart aches for them because I know too well the shock and grief you feel when someone you love is taken from you so suddenly.
(written on 4/26/06 @ 4:00am)
…but probably won’t get to.
-NEW BLOG DESIGN! What a surprise to come home to this after my Sim! Thanks, The Other Yoshi!
-Dinner with TCho on Wednesday night @ Lucques. Loved meeting him! I have a picture I need to get off the camera and to send him too.
-Post-Simulation celebration with my female teammates. There is a picture of us and our giant margaritas of different flavors also on my camera. That won’t get posted here. Was very happy to see that the Stanford Men’s Basketball team won in overtime. If they had lost, I would have been scared to come home to an unhappy Yoshi.
-Watched the UCLA Men’s Basketball team’s exciting win. I was nervous there for a while, but my boys pulled through. I love March Madness, but I’ve had to ignore most of it because of school this year. Trying not to pay too much attention or to get sucked in too much.
-Watched WHEN HARRY MET SALLY on TV last night on a whim. Was so exhausted after the Sim, I crashed out in front of the TV and let my brain rest for hours on end. I had forgotten a lot of that movie, so it was almost like watching the movie for the first time again.
-Guitar Hero at home after the Sim and some today. I still suck, but I’m a little better than I was before.
-Today: Stayed home and vegged out. Slept for several hours in the middle of the day as well. Watched TV and played more Guitar Hero. Waited for a while for call with a client in India but then she emailed and said she wants to reschedule to tomorrow. Doh.
Crazy busy!
Time for bed!!!
You will be assimilated.
Resistance is futile.
I had the bestest time tonight with a bunch of the folks from 8Asians.com. Aside from Ernie and Efi, John, BrianX, Nicole, and MJ & Jason joined to have shabu shabu in J-Town. After dinner, MJ & Jason invited us over to their place to play Rock Band, so I convinced Yoshi to come join us after dinner to play. When we got there, it turned out Kevin (damn you, Kevin!) had taken the game so there was no Rock Banding to happen. Instead, we watched Hard Boiled and held our own session of MST3K. Unfortunately, Brian & John had to take off early, so they didn’t get to stay very long, but we got this shot on Ernie’s iPhone together before they took off.
Seriously, I had the best time and thanks to Efi for being social director this time, as well for being our chauffeur for the night.
Thanks also to MJ & Jason for having us over and feeding us Girl Scout Cookies. (Sorry about the lottery ticket, yo.)
I love this city, I totally do!
I have so many friends here and wish I could come up and visit more often. We used to come up every other month, but since I’ve been in school, it has been a lot harder to plan weekend trips away.
Anyway, since I had dinner last night with my a bunch of my former classmates in L.A. (Geoffrey + his wife, Shaun, Angela, Nicole, Melissa, Ali + Doug, Denise + fiance), we couldn’t leave until this morning. That meant that we had to leave the house by 7am to get up to San Jose by noonish to have lunch with Yoshi’s parents.
The drive up was pretty uneventful and even though I drove, Yoshi kept me company and we talked the whole way up. (I did not speed, that much.) It snowed a little while we were going over the Grapevine, and then it rained a little here and there, but for the most part Mr. Sun was with us for the drive. We did have to make two bathroom breaks, and it wasn’t even my fault one time!
We talked about all kinds of stuff, but while we were on the Pacheco Pass, Yoshi noticed a bunch of cows (longhorns) on the side of the road. “Cows! Longhorns!” said Yoshi! “Scary!” (in reference to how pointy horns were)
“What sound does a scary cow make?” I wondered to myself.
“MOO-GRR!” I blurted outloud with no explanation.
Yoshi burst out laughing.
Just watch. Our next dog is probably going to be black and white and named “Mooger.”
Anyway, Yoshi’s Mom’s friend from Hawaii is visiting San Jose (we had met her before years ago when we all happened to be in Vegas at the same time), but she needed a nap while the rest of us went and grabbed a quick Mexican meal. We brought back a taco (carnitas) for her, which she ate and declared, “Wow, this taco is ono!” So cute! Per Yoshi Mom’s suggestion, when I’m at dinner tonight, I am totally going to declare something to be totally “ono!”
Anyway, while we were there, Yoshi’s cousin P stopped by to drop something off, so it was cool to see him, even for a split second. Then we had to hit the road and drive up to SF. Our goal was to get to the hotel and checked in by 3:15 so Yoshi could watch the Stanford/UCLA Pac-10 Championship game in the room.
We were a little late, but Yoshi didn’t miss that much of the game, but there was some grumpiness going on as the clock ticked past 3:30 as we were getting up to the room.
Right now the score is tied 43-43 and Yoshi is sprawled out across the bed and keeps yelling at the TV.
I’m just trying to keep occupied and out of the way.
Hi everyone, The Other Yoshi here! I’ve come to ask everyone to think about the theme that is currently on here, and to vote if you like it or not. It’s called “The New Yorker” theme. So please everyone, please take a moment to vote! It may or may not be going. I might even end up designing a whole new theme, which would be a recreation of what used to be jozjozjoz.com.
Loading …Kristina Wong, solo performer/writer/actor/educator/activist/filmmaker/kickass girl extraordinaire, is an old college friend of mine (she’s also a good friend of Efren’s, although I’m not exactly certain I know how they know each other) and I absolutely must share this delightful little movie which is featured as today’s Pop of the Day on MSN.
See Kristina dressed as a “Harajuku Girl” and all you have to do is go to http://www.popoftheday.msn.com and click on “March 8, 2008″ or Michael Jackson’s face.
It only takes 1 minute to watch, and she’s totally hot in it, if I do say so myself.
For those of us who have been around for a while, we remember Kristina from her “Big Bad Chinese Mama” days. That was the fake mail order bride website that got her a ton of attention back in college. The site caught “all sorts of scary traffic,” says Kristina. “The resulting mess of confused opinions, etc has followed me since.”
It’s 2:30am and I was just about to take a shower and go join Yoshi in bed.
That is until I flipped the bathroom light switch and the light bulb suddenly flashed brightly before dying a quick lightbulby* death.
Damn! It’s dark in there at night!
I’m not up for taking a shower in a dark, so maybe I can light some candles or something. Now I’ve got to figure out what tall person I can sweet talk into coming over and changing that light bulb for us.
Or I can sweet talk a not-so-tall person (Yoshi) into finding a ladder and changing out the light bulb, too.
Normally, the default choice would be the latter but Yoshi has a lot going on tomorrow. Plus, Yoshi’s been sick all week so I’m just trying to avoid being the pain in the butt I normally am. (In that vein, I even cleaned tonight!!!)
Oh well, I know I’m going to end up buckling and asking Yoshi to change the light because although the tall-person method does eventually work (usually aforementioned tall person is professoreric), it’s not very expedient.
Yoshi already had to fix the hot water handle for the shower today (I was awakened in the morning by Yoshi telling me, “If you want to to take a shower you’re going to have to use pliers.”), so this is a lot of bathroom stuff breaking in two days. Sheesh.
Yoshi’s parents are visiting for the weekend so we’re trying to make this place not look like the disaster area I usually leave it. I didn’t do too poorly in the living room (almost done), but I think my desk is beyond hope.
PS - I came home after work and played Guitar Hero (did I mention we got Guitar Hero?!) for a little while before taking a nap from 8-10pm while Yoshi was out taking care of a few things. I have not been up all day + all night. But sleep soon would probably be a good idea.
*What? It could be a word. Maybe not a real one, but a word nonetheless.
UPDATE: Yay Yoshi! We have light in the bathroom!
Did you notice!?
Thanks to The Other Yoshi, I have a brand new look at jozjozjoz.com!!!
THANKS, Other Yoshi!!!!
It might be temporary, though.
On the other hand, I might say it’s temporary and I won’t bother to change it for years (like the last template).
What do you think?
I like that it is different, but there’s a lot about the template I DON’T like now that it’s implemented. I dunno. What do you think?!?!?
Sorry if there is any wonkiness. I probably won’t bother to have it fixed unless I decide to hang on to this template for a while.
Tired.
What a day.
What happened?
Where did it go?
I dunno.
Need sleep.
EB and I have an errand to run in the morning, so it’s time for sleep.
I stayed up late last night and made an outline of all the things I wanted to blog about in the last week (the tail end of my DC trip and the last week).
This outline was 3 pages long.
Was feeling nauseated all day and the feeling didn’t go away even after Guitar Heroing, eating Thai food, or drinking Diet Ginger Ale.
Maybe it’s time for bed.
Why do I do this to myself?
It’s almost midnight and I still have so much to do. Yikes.
I swear I don’t know what day it is, either.
Um… let’s see…
Yesterday (Tuesday, 2/26):
-Returned to work after being on real and mental vacation since the previous Wednesday night.
-Tired and jetlagged
-Got called by Bossdude around 1pm to join him at a client meeting in the afternoon
-Client meeting in afternoon
-Returned to office after client meeting
-Team event (with Bossdude & more) in the office. (Did I mention that the office is tres small, especially for 9 people). Food, drinks + screening of HELVETICA. Did not know a movie about a typeface would be so utterly intriguing to me. But then again, I have always been a typography (font) nerd, so it does kind of figure.
-Home late
+Bonus: My car got broken into. The window got bashed in but nothing was taken. Afraid to drive the car out in public
Today (Wednesday, 2/27):
-Woke up early to call and see if I could get glass people to fix my car window today. The answer is NO! My car had factory-tinted windows, therefore the glass has to be ordered from the dealer. More $$$ and more time. Oh and my deductible is like $500, so I’m out some $$$ out of pocket to fix the glass. Still grateful that nothing was taken, that the body of the car wasn’t damaged and that they didn’t take the entire car.
-Worked from home since I had to keep an eye on the car. Busy, busy, busy! Meetings (conference calls) all day and I had an assignment that I couldn’t finish tonight so I will have to pound it out in the morning.
-Dinner with Yoshi, C & J at La Serenata di Garibaldi in Santa Monica. I ate way too much. But we did get some eye candy by way of a Mark Paul Gosselaar (Zack Morris!) sighting at the restaurant. He is HOT! (But I think he could have used a haircut… I like him better when he’s clean cut)
-EB came over after dinner. I convinced him to hang with us instead of taking a crazy trip to NY or Vegas or something. He also provided me with the cable to sync my iPhone (finally), which is what I’ve been doing since I got home.
-Did you know it takes FOREVER for Outlook to sync 6500+ contacts into my iPhone? Imagine that! Man, my rolodex needs some major clean up work.
Still to do:
-Blog about amazing Washington trip: Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
-Renew passport (seriously need to do this or else I might not be able to travel this summer)
-Do reading for class tomorrow (Thursday)
-Begin working on paper due next week (Thursday)
-Work, work, work
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