±Ý¿äÀÏ ¾Æħ: i wikied up some protestant denominations such as "evangelical covenant church" and "methodism,"   1 interesting fakt i learned is "The United Methodist Church allows for a wide range of theological and political beliefs.   For example, Republican President George W. Bush is a member.   Vice President Dick Cheney attends the United Methodist Church (though he is not a member).   Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Edwards are both members of the United Methodist Church."   i'd known 4 a li'l while that our church grx's evangelical covenant denomination was aktually established by swedish immigrants. *shrug* semi.interesting fakt...   altho' our church doesn't have female pastors, the denomination'll ordain female pastors.   i agree w/ that.   i've been somewhat curious 'bout the diffs btwn diff denominations 4 a while now.

last nite, i went to taekwondo sparring praktice n' got a bit banged up.   i need to spar more in order not to feel so banged up.   lemme tell u: the more u spar, the less those incidental knee clashes n' bashed arms hurt.   it's good to tuffen up!   after praktice, i came home n' ate a leftover quizno's sandwich that the beautiful kaela hwang had left in the fridge a few days 'go.   after i finished that small sandwich, i ate 2 many tortilla chips w/ salsa.

[later] ¿ÀÈÄ: yet more salsa - i met up w/ vince @ sunnyvale's cherry orchard strip mall.   we ate @ chipotle.   we each ate a barbacoa (braised, pulled beef) w/ black beans n' s'pposedly hot salsa; but we also shared an order'f 4 crispy chicken tacos.   mmmm... 'twas a pretty good meal, eatin' so much.   honestly, i was a li'l disappointed w/ some'f the fud @ chipotle, but the shear quantity that we ordered still satisfied me.   that was only my 2nd time @ chipotle.   the 1st time was in washington, d.c. when kaela n' i were there as part'f the martial arts demonstration team at the smithsonian institute's silk roads folklife festival in the summer'f 2002.   that time, i was so disappointed that a joint called "chipotle" served surprisingly mild n' somewhat bland fud.   as much as i want to like chipotle 4 its spicy name, i experienced the same feeling 2day.   don't get me wrong; the fud was fresh n' 'f decent quality; but it just didn't have the spiciness or spice i need.   i was happy to lunch w/ vince.   it's great to have just a casual lunch w/ a friend now n' then.

i found a link on tim fong's xanga to this interesting piece'f prose: "The Theory of Counterinsurgency in Six Easy Paragraphs" By William Christie; January 31, 2006.   that's great prose.

[later] Àú³á, ¾ÆÁ÷µµ Á÷Àå¿¡¼­: here's the wikipedia entry 4 chocolate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate. discussion'f wong fu productions' obviously kick@$$ movie yellow fever: i'd like to share an excerpt from my recent post on bronx's junkyard forums:

Originally Posted by K-1:
Great video! Funny as f$#k! but I gotta say, that dilemma only applies to west coast asians.

yah, west coast asian.am culture certainly differs from east coast asian.am culture, no doubt!   well, as far as this "dilemma," i've gotta say that i notice so much more'f the 1980s~200s pacific rim phenomenon on the west coast than on the east coast.   the east coast is stilil more influenced by europe than asia.   here, on the west coast, yah, most ppl (asian or not) r influenced by asian culture, if not 4 ne other reason, 'least 4 bizness.   over here, so much bizness is btwn the u.s. n' asia.... take silicon valley's semiconduktor industry 4 example!   so many'f these employees either travel to asia or deal w/ asian customers who come over here.   thus, these ppl ('gain whether asian or not) pick up 'least a li'l asian culture, whether they like it or not... 4 example, yah... u get the white dudes that sure know how to say "ni hao ma."   heh, but it's more than that... like, u know, u get lots'f non.asians who r into asian pop culture (movies, music, anime, drama, fashion) n' definitely asian fud.   like, in cali, u definitely notice not just the caucasians pickin' up on asian culture but also the latino.chicano community.   dude, in gen'l, they're really into 1) pho w/ sri racha sauce, 2) kimchi ramyuhn, 3) japanime.based culture.   oh... n' martial arts of course!

furthermore, i know east coast asian.ams tend to stay w/in their ethnic community more so than west coast asian.ams... west coast asian.ams believe much more in the idea'f pan.asian.am ethnic identity, etc.   well... that's even more so in norcal than in socal.   the way my wife (benogurl) put it, in socal, u have more recent immigrants.   the language barrier keeps them w/in their ethnicity.   however, up in norcal, u have more asian immigrants that came here after college etc. (to a great extent to find jobs in the hi tech industries here), n' thus they n' their children end up mingling w/ ppl'f other asian ethnicities more.

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also, there's sumpthin' else i wanna say 'bout this film.   well, maybe 2 things:

1) it's a great example'f filmakers' using the internet 4 distribution.

2) it's a great example'f how asian.am cinema has moved from an alternaculture realm to a more "mainstream" world.   what do i mean by that? well, have u been to asian.am film festivals?!   well, consider this: the recent hit better luck tomorrow, yah, that movie portrays well very typical cali asian.am kids.   however, that movie differs much from most asian.am movies in asian.am film fests in earlier yrs.   u c, in earlier yrs, most asian.am films were always made by the alternaculture types.   they weren't just asian.am films, they were distinktively indie films.   the films had indie rock tunes 4 soundtracks.   the charakters were more often rockers, bikers, punks, skaters, goths, hippies, intellekts/intellektuals, beatniks.   otherwise, consider this even more extreme example... that such a great percentage'f asian.am films in those asian.am film fests in the old days were gay films!   i was always annoyed by that... not cos i'm that homophobic or that i don't respekt gays... rather it's cos honestly, so few (in the big pikture) asians r gays, so why were so many asian.am films 'bout gay asians?!   it's cos gay asians were the asians who were out making movies while the heteros 'mongst us were going to engring n' bizness n' med skool!   however, times have changed.   sure, maybe it's to the chagrin'f some gay asians, but i feel modern asian.am cinema better portrays the lives'f well... "average" asian.ams.

[later] 952p: an ad - alibris

a li'l earlier, i went out to $hop 4 kaela's v.day present.   i discovered that what i want to get her is much more expen$ive in stores than it is online.   i don't htink it's worth buying it in a store just to have it by 2morrow.   after all, we're going to a really nice re$taurant 2morrow nite 4 dinner.   i've already told her it's a restaurant français n' that it's very nice.   since she doesn't read my journal nemore, i'm just gonna go 'head n' blab out where it is: it's chez tj in mtn view.   hopefully, that nice dinner'll make up 4 the tardiness'f the present. :-?   neway, after i gave up on buying the gift 2nite, i wanted to skateboard, so i gave myself the excuse'f needing to go to the bank n' skateboarded to the bank n' back to my car.   2nite, i was worried that i'm getting a cold cos my throat felt a li'l funny.   4 dinner... man... 4 dinner i ate trail mix, a slice'f white chedder cheese, n' then a slice'f whole fuds bread w/ some laffin' cow cheese (la vache qui rit fromage) n' a microwaved turkey ball park frank.   dude, that sounds like seriously bachelor fud, eh?   well, aktually, it tasted rather français to me... uh, ou peut.être il est juste mon imagination!   (or maybe it's just my imagination.)   in my mind, i pretended it was more'f a hot brie n' ham sandwich, u know?   sandwich au brie chaud et jambon!!!

i'm not a balla. - even tho' i'm not into basketball, i'm very happy that my alma mater cal berkeley beat stanfurd in men's basketball last nite.   kewl!