So guess what jen instead? I WENT SHOPPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's pampering jen time. 8)

First went to Staples for some office supplies. Then went to Sterling Art, one of the dopest art stores in SoCal, to get some goodies. They have SO MUCH stuff. You could leave me there all day. Everything there is so cool. I WANT IT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!! True, you'll be able to find some products at other art places for a cheaper price, but they have such a huge selection of....pretty much everything you can imagine. Great selection of handmade and decorative paper. So purty.

Afterwards had an urge for Boba, so I went to Tapioca Express, since I was low on dough (meaning I couldn't afford Tea Station) and I wanted to check out their store in Irvine. The balls were a bit on the mushy side. Eh. Should have gone to Valley Cafe (where I was boba deflowered) or Champion Foods (Randy's family store). Next went to my other favorite store, Target, to look for a CD rack to store all my CDs. But I didn't find anything that really caught my eye.

That means next shopping run will be at IKEA to check out their CD storage units. Haven't been there forever because: 1) I don't have place of my own or really a room of my own so why torture myself 2) I was broke before so I couldn't really buy anything. Though my interior decorating will look like every other person's room. So I'm also going to try to check out some cool furniture stores I saw in LA. Because jen must be unique...nono more unique. ;p

Another random note. I missed Cold Tofu's "The Soy of Sex" performance because jen is getting too tired of driving back and forth to Lost Angeles to Costa Messy. And gas prices are going up again. So anyone want to be my slave and drive me around? My multiple personalities, invisible friends and the lil blue fairy that sits on my shoulder make great company.

Since it's a slow day. No work for jen. Woo hoo.

Now for jen to rave and rant-What’s up with these freakin’ spam emails about these singles match ads. So annoying. I got one in almost all of my email accounts and it seemed to be all in the same day. What’s really peeves me, is that I’m getting ones that are geared for guys. HELLO, I’m a female and heterosexual. Maybe I’ll should change teams. Nah, as much as guys can be such shitheads, there are those rare and few amazing MEN that are out there. And I like the male species too much. Geez, check out my website. Man, I’m sad. If only, there were some single ones out there. *sigh* Anyways. Down hormones down.

Here’s to February Birthdays: My cousin Derek, James Wann, Yolanda Huang, Hank Shiao, Luz Saldarriaga (Yes, I’ll find you nice Columbian man….nah ferget I’ll keep him for myself), Helen Ngo Chen, Ed Portillo, Abe Lin, Abe Chen, Randy Lee, and to one of my fave TACLers, my lil Starfruit IU-TO -Juliet Huang (YOU BIG HORN DOG. No more lessons.)

Sheesh and I thought January had a lot of birthdays.

And Congrats to the new Mrs. & Mr. Ken Kwok. Should I send you a bottle of Jergens for a wedding gift? ;p

Lee*s Sandwiches-CHEAP and GOOD Vietnamese sandwiches. 8) Good stuff. Try their Mango Smoothies. The pineapple one is pretty good too. 4/5

YAH!!! My cousin Jenny won the 2002 Mrs. Chinese U.S.A. Pageant Most Photogenic award.

Yeah yeah, it's Chinese and it should be Taiwanese. But my cousin's down. She one of my few relatives, that was happy to hear about my active involvment with TACL. She can't wait to enroll her 2 sons into our TACL-LID programs, once they're old enough.

I usually don't care for events like these, but Jenny's such a sweetheart, that her beauty within is what truly shines. (Corny, I know, but it's true.) 8) And she's giving away her money to her school, so that's cool.

Plus, I think she's a babe. I mean wouldn't you want to look that good after 2 kids? Yeah, yeah I know I'm being biased. ;p

Which drink are you?

Great, I'm an ice cube. How sad am I? Yeah yeah so I can't handle my alcohol. What's new.

But was on AIM at work today and was talking to Rickmond. And he knows of Janet. So does James Wann. But to protect the innocent I won't comment what their thoughts were. But you know I'm so going to give you guys hell. ;p heh heh *cue* evil laughter in background >8)

Guess no Brazilian Nites for jen. 8( Plans got canceled.

Well, ate like a pig at Sharon & Lydell’s Super Bowl get together. We got pretty tired of watching the game so decided to play some b-ball. BAD IDEA, especially for someone that hasn’t worked out in ages and is getting old because I’m REALLY feeling it. Augh!!!! The pain. Usually, when your normal average person goes to work out, they like the burn, they feel the following days…..well not wimp ass jen. Put me out of my misery. A bubble bath sounds good right now….wait wait nonono a bubble bath with a single, sexy, heterosexual man or two. ;p who’s a masseur….hint hint to any of y’all jen of kuo wouldn’t mind a spa certificate for her birthday.

After the game watched Vertical Limit. My comments: I have no real desire to watch it twice. I mean it wasn’t that bad but it wasn’t that good. Where do I start the missing toes, the dislocated fingers….bleah. Let’s just say I’m glad to be living in sunny Socal.

Sharon and Lydell also announced that they have decided to move to Viva Lost Wages this coming summer. 8( Now both of my best friends are moving out of state. Janet just emailed me to tell her she’s moving in June with her boyfriend Brian to Oregon in June. 8(

But back to my pain (that’s right pity me) couldn’t even concentrate when I went to go tutoring today. Just watched Gabriel and Audrey do their thing. I’m glad to see the after school program going somewhere.

Onto to some sad news David Hwang, a great leader and contributor to the Taiwanese, Taiwanese American, Asian American and TACL community passed away a few days ago.

TACL would not be the organization it is today without his leadership especially the programs he was instrumental in, the programs which help to empower the second generation Taiwanese American community. His presence and spirit will be greatly missed by our community.

BTW I've decided I'm not goin to drive my ass to Rosemead for the National TACL board meeting. Rob-what were you thinking? On Superbowl Sunday? Especially 9 in freakin' morning. I DON'T THINK SO!!!! Jen is sleeping in. That's right. I'll get the cliff notes version of the meeting later.

Augh so many events in Feb. and only one Jen....you would think multiple personalities would help. But nooooooo.

Man, I need to make more friends that are single, not married or not part of the C.O.T.I.S.O. (Cult of the Inseparable Significant Others) in OC.

And what's up with pervs emailing me. I should post some of pics they sent. Ah hilarious. Yes, I know how mean. But they wrote some messed up shit. One guy wanted a father AND daughter role playing thing. SICK! That's role playing on a whole another level. That's why I changed my Yahoo profile. ***shiver***

Well, I missed the parade this morning cuz I didn’t hear my alarm go off. But I did go check out the cultural faire. In all my years of living in OC, I’ve never seen such a large number of African Americans together. I was expecting a lil more from the cultural faire (yeah yeah who I am to talk I missed the whole beginning part). But it’s good to see such an event happening. Hope they get more funding (hey broke ass Jen who still hasn’t been paid for either of her jobs and got her ATM card stolen last week donated) and I hope to see more ppl helping out with the organization of the event next year. This event has so much potential and could be so much more. Would have been cool to see more orgs and more health organizations booths. And I was expecting more with the music line-up. The blues band 3rd degree was not bad. But I was expecting a lot more from the hip hop tip. But this is OC…anyways. But it was cool to see in their program that they included other ethnic groups like the United Samoan Org and some Vietnamese dance.

But I was amazed by the fact that OC Register was one of the sponsors. Maybe they’re trying to improve. I’m curious to see what their reviews of this event are going to be.

Afterwards I went home to chill for bit. Tried to call some ppl to see if they were interested in going to check out the Artists Village in Santa Ana. What there’s such a thing in OC? Yup! I know I was pretty amazed by the fact when I found out last year. Last month I invited Charmy to go with me to go check it out and I really dug it. Loved the old historic buildings (yup OC has history too, pretty unbelievable, huh?) and I was happy to see such place like this exist in OC. The sad thing is I bet most ppl in OC have no idea such a place exists or wouldn’t appreciate such a treasure. But then again it’s still relatively new so I guess it’s just going to take time. This month one of the galleries is celebrating Black History month with an exhibition called “Bones as Well.” It was nice. But could be much more.

It was cool to see in the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art feature on an artist Jen-Hsin Lin, who I believe is Taiwanese because I saw a gathering of 1st gen that were busting out in daige/Taiwanese. Warm fuzzies. 8)

But I plan on checking out the Artists Village during the day. Saw some cool theatre spaces. Hmmm…..you’ll see my pretties what I have in mind. And I saw a lack of something in their schedule but I’m going to do something so that it’s not missing. What is it? I won’t say yet. This shall be jen of kuo’s brainchild. Cue in evil laughter. ;)

And I found out my childhood best friend since first grade (GO PAULARINO PANTHERS), Janet Kohara works for New Times LA. Okay, jen should sleep now and stop downloading anime pop songs. Must stop.....watch it'll be 5 in the morning and I'll still be updating this. Yes, I'm a dork.

FYI-They found one of Sundeep's attackers.

Augh, I just found out Concrete Blonde was performing at the Galaxy Concert Theatre tonite. 8( Oh well, it's not like I really have money. 8'( Plus I was at work til 8ish.

But I was surfing the net and I found out that tomorrow in Santa Ana, there's going to be a Black History Parade and Cultural Faire. Can you believe that? And it's in its 22nd year!!! I'm impressed, especially since I heard the African American population by pecentage in OC had decreased according to Census 2000 reports. Well, what can you expect from the Orange Curtain. OC still doesn't truly appreciate it's diversity and it's only a friendly place on the surface level. But I can go on and go on, on this topic...like when I was updating OCAPICA's database and I was looking for elected officials most of them were Republicans. And let's not get on South OC.

But I plan on checking the parade. Hopefully I can get myself to wake up tomorrow morning to take some photos and possibly some community networking. Man, I'm not going to be able to sleep in this weekend (AGAIN.)