There are many things that bug me, some more than others.  One of them?  People who I have not talked to in years, who were never really that good a friend with me in the first place, getting in contact with me solely to ask something of me.  I think that I make the mistake many times that if I consider something rude or embarrassing I won’t do it and so I expect others to do the same.  Not true!

What the hell is up with people who I have not talked to in years calling me up out of the blue, saying hello for a minute or so, then asking me for something?  There was one time when someone called me up, someone I had not spoken to in years, saying a few pleasantries, then reminding me that I took a certain class back in college, and asking if I still had the final paper for that class.  WTF??  Write your own goddamn paper!  First of all, I probably did have that paper somewhere, but do you really think I’m going to scrounge through all my old stuff so I can help you cheat on a paper?  For a friend, I still talk to, sure I would go through the trouble.

But, don’t freaking call or write or whatever out of the blue, and then ask me to freaking do something for you.  Do you people have no shame?  I can’t even imagine doing something like that unless it was some emergency or something, but cheating on a paper is not an emergency!

I know this movie came out a little while ago, but I just saw it this past weekend.  Long story short, Denzel Washington works as some central subway operator.  John Travolta hijacks a train, holds hostages and demands money.  He happens to do this all on Denzel’s watch, and so its Denzel who has to deal with him.  Simple story.  But does it work?

The movie was ok.  There’s nothing overly great about it, and nothing that’s really bad about it either.   I didn’t really understand Travolta’s character all that much honestly.  He seemed like just some gangster demanding money, but then he also had smarts and it didn’t really seem like he needed any more money as the movie progressed.  Denzel’s character, for the most part, was just a typical ordinary joe who does hero type things.  Anyway, not a great movie, but by no means a bad one either.  Maybe rent it or see it on cable when it comes on.

As anyone who has turned on a TV in the last month or so, a sequel to Transformers was made.  This continues the battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons on Earth, as the Decepticons search for an energy source to save their race.

I’m not going to really write any more about the plot of this movie because after watching it, it makes absolutely no sense.  This movie is not a very good one and it is way too long.  Don’t get me wrong though.  The FX were nice, Megan Fox is freaking hot, the fights were entertaining, and did I mention Megan Fox is hot?  But, the plot of this movie is just not existent.  They basically go from one action sequence to another.  You might as well of just removed all the lines from the film and just had action sequences and sound.

I think young teenagers and kids will like this movie because these are the toys they grew up with and its neat watching them on the screen fighting and such.  And Megan Fox is very nice eye candy.  But, if you are expecting anything besides just big explosions and fight scenes, well, this is definitely the wrong movie.  I’m not one to usually criticize all action movies since I like action as much as the next person, but please at least throw in some semblance of a story!  I’m so upset too that this movie made like 200 million in less than a week.  All that does is perpetuate to studios that all we care about in a movie is just dumb action flicks that make no sense.  I think this movie will make more than Star Trek and Up, both of which I thought had very good stories.  But, apparently that’s not what the American public cares about.

As I posted a little while back, I got a new GPS, which I’m very happy with still.  It gets me where I want to go when I don’t know where I’m going to.  Anyway, when I bought it, I also bought a little leather case.  I usually take my GPS out of the car when I leave, put it in its case, and then put it in my bag or bring it home or whatever.

Anyway, I was at work the other day talking to my co-worker when another co-worker came by asking me how to get so some place in Whittier or something.  I’m like, I don’t know.  I bust out my GPS from my bag and tell her she can borrow it to go where ever it is she wants to go.  What was the first reaction upon both of these girls after I bust it out and tell her that?  “Omigosh, the case is so cute, did it come with it?”

My GPS cost 200+ bucks and the case was like 12 bucks.  The case protects what’s inside, its not the feature product!!!  Haha, girls are so funny.  If I bought a new car and maybe some seat covers to go with it, I wonder if they’d be more impressed with cute seat covers than the actual car!

So last week during my lunch breaks the tv was on and I saw co-workers watching some soccer event.  I don’t know what it was, and honestly I don’t really care.  My co-workers went on talking about how Americans suck at soccer.  Its something that I’ve heard many times before.  But, each time I hear it, I know its true, but I also know that its not because we don’t have the skills or athletes to be a world power in summer.  Its because we don’t freaking care.

Let me tell you something.  If we as Americans actually cared about soccer, cared about watching it, cared about professionally playing it, then our best athletes would go and play it, and we would definitely be a power house.  Kobe Bryant allegedly likes to play soccer.  If he was a soccer player, how many people in this country would know who he is?  No one.  How do I know?  Outside of David Beckham, I want you to name ANY other American soccer player.  Don’t worry, I can’t do it either.  So, if Kobe can have millions and millions of Americans cheer him and make 15-20 million per year playing basketball or have thousands cheer him and make maybe less than a million per year playing soccer, then what sport, no matter which sport he is better at, will he be playing?  That’s right.

If we had the fan support and thus the money support, I guarantee we could be just as good as any other country in the world playing soccer.  But, our best athletes do not play soccer.  They play basketball or football or even baseball because that’s what Americans watch and pay money for.  So, I don’t buy that Americans suck at soccer, per se.  Its not that they suck, its just that they don’t care.  There’s a difference.  If we actually tried to win and lost, that’s one thing.  But we don’t try so you can’t judge.  The Clippers suck.  Americans just don’t care about soccer.

So, I took a sick day from work last week.  I usually don’t like taking sick days unless I’m dying.  Pretty much stayed in bed all day watching tv and such.  Pretty dull, but the time surprisingly went by pretty fast.  What’s that say….hmmm.  Hehe.  Anyway, I wouldn’t say that I’m 100% recovered.  I do still have some sinus issues, and I’m not sure if that’s just from my lingering allergies or from that sickness.  Oh well, just gotta suck it up I guess.

Anyway, went to another wedding this past weekend.  It was at a Chinese restaurant.  It was fun, though we sat right in front of the speakers, and by the end of the night I think I was going deaf!  My brothers like to eat white rice with a lot of their food, as do I usually.  I asked a waiter for white rice for them and the guy said something, but we couldn’t hear.  Bottomline was that it was no.  WTF?  We asked another guy who said sure.  He left our table to get it, but then that first guy told him something, and he came back.  Same some shit about fried rice is coming out really quickly.  Yeah, whatever dumbfuck.  I know that fried rice ALWAYS comes last, so it was not coming out fast.  We told him we didn’t want fried rice, we want white rice.  My cousin next to me already had a bowl of white rice that they brought her for her baby, and I pointed at it.  He looked at it, looked kind of guilty, mumbled some shit we couldn’t hear, then said sorry and walked away.  Hahahaha.

What is going on?  I don’t really blame that guy, he seemed sorry and embarrassed really.  I think he was just doing what he was told.  But, I have never gone to a Chinese wedding where we were denied white rice.  I actually didn’t care, but just thought it was super lame.  I mean, this is a Chinese restaurant for crying out loud.  I could walk to the kitchen and I bet I could find a  huge vat of white rice.  In fact, I could probably find last week’s batch of white rice!!  My brothers and I just laughed.  My brother just got up, went to talk to my mom’s friend who knows a head waiter who worked there, and she got him to bring my brothers’ each a bowl of rice.  After a few minutes the other guy came to our table to clean some stuff up, saw the white rice there, made contact with my brothers, then left.   I hope he didn’t spit in our foods!  Haha.  I’ve been going to Chinese weddings for years and years and years.  Wonder if my brothers’ were asking for too much (ummmm, no) or this place was just weird!

Anyway, fun wedding.  Afterward, my brothers and 2 of my cousins went to Old Town Pasadena to hit up another bar.  My friend who lives there came out to visit us too.  She is getting married next Saturday, which will by my final wedding.  3 weddings in 3 weekeneds.  Whew.

I’m at home sick today.  I so hate being sick.  I’m stuck at home with nothing to do, nothing on tv, and there’s only so much internet I can surf.  I’m sleeping a lot I guess.  But still, I’m not so sick that I am sleeping all freaking day.  But I’m sick enough not to want to go out and be all sore and tired.  Sigh.  Did I mention this sucks?

Maybe I’ll use today to catch up on all the things I have tivo’d but have not seen yet.  I guess today is as good a day as any to do that.  It’ll allow me to stay warm in my bed.  Wow, the excitement.

I went to my friend’s wedding this past Saturday at a church in Pomona.  She was gorgeous as expected.  It was my first Korean wedding.  The ceremony was pretty much all in Korean, so I had no idea what was going on.  There were quite a few women dressed in traditional Korean garb, and it reminded me of those Korean soap operas that I’ve seen a few of.  After the ceremony, we went next door and had the reception.  It was buffet style Korean food, with no seating chart so everyone just sat wherever they could find a seat.

I didn’t know that this is fairly typical for a Korean wedding, as my friend told me prior to the wedding.  When we all got seated, an announcement was made that there was plenty of food for everybody, and then everyone just got up and got in line for food.  Most of the food there I’ve seen or had before.  Also, prior to the wedding, my friend told me that often times people will take a lot of food home.  I forgot that she told me this, but was reminded once again when I saw it happen firsthand.  They literally pack up their plate, cover it, and then bring it home.  I thought it was funny, but everyone had enough to eat so it was all good.  Looking back, I guess its a good thing because otherwise the food will just go to waste.

Anyway, nice, cute wedding.  I’m happy for my friend.  And yes, like I said in my title, its wedding season for me.  I have 2 more weddings the next 2 Saturdays.  First my cousins’s in downtown LA, and then another friend’s in Azusa.  That’s 4 weddings for me this year (so far!), but no where near my record of 8.

Congratulations to the Los Angeles Lakers, who put on a dominating performance in the final game of the series to become the 2009 NBA champions.  I think Orlando has a lot to go, and will have even more to go if they lose Hedo.  As for the Lakers, well, they have 2 very important free agents in Ariza and Odom.  Do they choose one or the other?  I personally think Ariza is more important, and I think that if they really only were able to sign one of the two, that is who they will sign.  For two reasons.  One is that he is younger.  And two, Lakers management still has a lot of faith and hope in Bynum, despite his no show in this year’s playoffs.  If he is healthy and gets 10 boards a game, then Odom would get less minutes anyway.  But, that’s just my opinion, as if it really matters.

Also, to those idiots who were rioting yesterday after the victory.  I think everyone knows that those guys were not really fans.  They were just losers who were looking for any excuse whatsoever to loot and vandalize.  I’m so glad that it was all caught on camera and I hope so much that they all get arrested.

It looks like the parade will go on this Wednesday, despite the city having no money.  I think that the city will have to cough up less money than they expect because the mayor is raising private donations, and the Lakers have already contributed 1 million bucks.  Good for all involved.  This city, and state for that matter, could really use something to celebrate and feel good about.  Am I going to go?  No.  I’ve been to a victory parade before, and I think I just prefer watching it on TV.  Its not as hot and crowded, and I actually get to see and hear everything that way.  But, once again, that’s just me.

Finally, I hope that Boston gets healthy next year and the Lakers play them in next year’s championship to see who really is the best in the league.  I think there are still a lot of people out there, especially everyone in Boston, who think that the Celtics would have repeated if they were healthy.  So, here’s hoping for next year.

I was talking to my coworker the other day about something.  I don’t even remember what now.  He and I were just chatting.  In the middle of our conversation, another co-worker interrupted and asked me, “Can you talk any faster?”  I looked at her, and I was like, “Yeah.”  Haha.

For those that don’t know me, I’ve been told many, many times that I talk fast.  And you know what?  I can’t help it.  If I try to slow down, when I listen to myself I sound like I’m talking in super slow mo.  But, honestly, even I notice sometimes how fast I talk, and sometimes its almost too fast for my tongue to move.  Often times when that happens I will stutter and stuff, and then I know that I’m just talking way too fast.

I have some friends who did not speak English as a first language.  I think they are the ones who have the hardest time understanding me.  I told this to my friend once, and he said to me, “I’ve known you for 20 years now, and once in a while even I have a hard time when you get excited.  And that’s after 20 years of practice.  She doesn’t have a chance!”  I have no clue why I talk so fast, how I became like this.  I couldn’t of been like this when I was very young.  When I was in kindergarten, my teacher asked my parents if I spoke English because I never said anything ever.  So, somehow, not only must I have become less shy, but also sped up!  What happened!!??

Do any of you guys out there have a hard time understanding me speak?