Wednesday, October 31, 2001


happy halloween, everybody! did everyone celebrate by stuffing themselves stupid with candy? the number of trick-or-treat-ers in my neighborhood has declined steadily since i was in middle school. we were the only house in the dead end (for those of you who have been to my house) that was passing out candy. what party poopers. even my next-door neighbors who are teachers didn't pass out candy. hmph. if i were a little kid, i might be frustrated. but i'm not, and the lack of kiddies asking for candy has left me and my brother with lots and lots of chocolate! haha...my mom always buys too much. now all we have to do is discover her stash. shouldn't be hard. she's not too good at hiding candy.

Tuesday, October 30, 2001



this whole daylight savings time is messing with me. i walk out of work at 4pm to go home and i don't know if it's semi-dark because the weather is poopy or if it's semi-dark because it's supposed to be dark soon. huh. and if it's just semi-dark because the weather is yucky, then i wish it would just rain already, because i'm not digging this *dreary* motif. well, i don't wish it to rain on the trick-or-treat-ers. it's more like i wish i wasn't so affected by the weather. gray days really make me want to do nothing. my brother tried to get me to run today at 6:45pm. okay...#1: it was dark. dark dark. like the middle of the night dark. ##2: it's cold. i feel snow threatening halloween. #3: it's devil's night. "only to schoennher and back," he says. 3 miles?! ha. maybe to conehead it's *just three miles*. i told him i'd rather do 1000 sit ups than run a mile. but i should do something active. i feel myself turning into a slug. mindless and slow-moving. i can't wait to go to chicago this weekend. i'm ridiculously excited--practically giddy. practically. i get to hang out with my greatest friends, including ny and lorie who i hardly ever get to hang out with together, and see 2xs (bunso's debut!) and funktion perform. i better sleep now cuz i probably won't be getting any this weekend....

Sunday, October 28, 2001


chrislum is the best! look! it counts comments on its own! this is very exciting for me...


pet peeve #102801: boyfriends that never answer their cell phones EVER. frustration.

Thursday, October 25, 2001



today, there was snow. it's very disappointing to see snow fall before halloween. my brother recalls a halloween when it was snowing. i remember no such thing. at all. halloween = fall, yeah? what happened to fall!? i love the fall. i love sweater weather. and we've completely skipped it.

Wednesday, October 24, 2001


why is my date and time a different color than the rest of my blog? hmm...i must have messed something up when i kept moving the comment thing around. and now my computer's being whack. argh. it's been a frustrating half hour. first no boba, then no eric, and now this. i wish i knew html. i think i'll just go to bed.

comment away! i did it all by myself. like james was saying earlier....copy and paste: gotta love it.

Tuesday, October 23, 2001



the most disturbing thing on tv these days: the levis (?) low-rise jeans where the belly buttons are singing.
ewwwwwwwwwww.
belly buttons should never be filmed, never mind filmed singing. my brother has graciously taped it for me as some form of sick torture.
(fyi: the girl singing the jingle is the girl that's on the sopranos...jamie lynn something or other. she was also on the cover of maxim a few months ago.)


my house is empty. my tita and my cousin and my lolo left to go home to the philippines today and i'm sad. every time my tita leaves, i cry. i'm such a baby. it's not like i'm never going to see her again (she's coming back in the spring), but it's been that way since i had to say goodbye to her the first time she left the states when i was nine. and then i make her cry, and then we're both sitting there hugging and crying ourselves ugly. ah, well...life must go on..

i might be getting a new car. it's actually more of an i-am-going-to-get-a-new-car, but now i just have to find one to buy. but it can't be too expensive because i have no money and my insurance is going to be ridiculous since i like to drive fast and i'm not 25. shopping for a car is not as fun as shopping for clothes. at least for clothes you can just see if it fits...if it looks good and has a good price, buy it. but with a car, you have to know so many more things that i don't know, but should care about, and i assume i eventually will because i am a soon-to-be car owner. plus, i'm pretty sure that ny and eric will sufficiently educate me on everything i need to do as a soon-to-be car owner. they're good that way. i don't feel old enough to have my own car. maybe it's the whole financing thing...i've never bought anything big enough where i have to pay in installments. it's scary--like my first baby step to being independent from my mom. of course, at college i was independent from my mom because i didn't live at home, but she still made sure everything was paid for and that i didn't starve. and now i'm home, and she cooks and lets me live here for free...and, technically speaking, i'm still her dependent (so says the irs). i don't know what i'd do without her. i'd be so lost otherwise, but i don't think she knows it. maybe i should tell her.

Monday, October 22, 2001



connie cheung is my hero.
she is the only person i know that would and did run 26 miles just to run 26 miles. straight. 26 miles!!! that's nuts! i now have a friend who's a marathon runner. it is incomprehensible to me why she would do such a thing, but she did and i'm soo proud of her...so yay, conehead!!

Saturday, October 20, 2001



i've decided that i hate being at home alone. it's a completely different being-at-home-alone at home-home than at school-home. at school-home you have 20 closest friends and a couple dance groups to hang out at all hours of the day and going home at the end of the night/beginning of the morning is just so you can get the minimal sleep required to get through the next day. and everyone's a short walk or a shorter drive away. here, you have to drive everywhere and everything closes early, and currently, everyone's gone. ny went to visit lorie at her pad in k'zoo, eric went to help out at the youth retreat for his church, my mom, cousin, tita, and lolo all left for branson, missouri on thursday, and kimmie was in a2. she's here now, but she was supposed to come up to the pistons game with chrislum and alvin and j and brian (and galvez--he met us up there) to meet me, but she hoed me out for this thing called 2xs. ;D so after a great night hanging out with my great buddies (fyi...pistons beat the heat: 90-76, i think), i came home to an empty house. it's scary. on my way to being well into my twenties, i'm still afraid of my basement (there is a very valid reason, ask me later if you want), so you can imagine how creepy i feel the rest of the house is when it's dark and late and i'm by myself. so i try to busy myself by watching iron chef, but the sensor light in our backyard kept going off, and i was too chicken to see what it was so i just went to bed. the important thing now is that i'm chillin' with my favorite sister, watching old episodes of buffy and drinking bubble tea. =D and i'm not at home alone. it doesn't get much better than this.

Thursday, October 18, 2001



so yesterday i said my brain needs to be challenged.
today eric and chrissy and me are a book club.
needless to say, the mess of mush that is my brain was stirred, and now it will be challenged to form into the mass that used to be useful and must be again.

haha...mass mess miss moss muss. those are all real words.

it is a good day. there was sunshine, my pool got closed, i had dinner with my 7pm wednesday night dinner buddy + 1, and i'm going to read a new book.

Tuesday, October 16, 2001

my brain needs to be challenged. i've found that i speak only in simple sentences ever since i graduated. even my job doesn't even remotely require me to speak or write in polysyllabic words. and my attention span has dwindled to the size of a pea. maybe that comes with being a human robot for money. i hate money. i wish we didn't need it, then i wouldn't have to be a human robot for 40 hours of my week. we should just barter goods.
look at me. i have a template. i know it's boring, but it's better than just white, yes? i just need to figure out how to change the damn title (since it is way past my birthday) and the message on the right. kimmie did that, and i thought i changed it, but apparently not.

huh.

i feel there is much confusion in my living room right now. my cousin and my aunt are trying to send a box off to the philippines, which they thought was going to be sent tomorrow, but the guy is ready to pick it up like now. there's a lot of freaking out and my one cousin is yelling into her phone. over a box. it must be a pretty big deal if they're making this much fuss about it. all i know is that the weather is really poopy right now. it makes me want to sleep all day. i want the sun to come out. people are never in a good mood when it's this gloomy.

don't you hate it when people call you by a nickname that only your dear friends and family call you? it's as if they think they know you, but they have no idea. (haha...this is the diary of annalisa...i am such a dork.)

Thursday, October 11, 2001

between dequindre rd. and john r rd. is a distance of 1 mile. i travel that using 15 mile rd/maple rd. it usually takes me 20 minutes max to go from my house to my work on 15 mile rd/maple rd which is a distance of 6 miles. maybe 7 and a half. so tell me why it took me 20 minutes to get from dequindre to john r this morning. granted, i was late (yeah, yeah...nothing new), but 20 minutes!!!! it's not like this is the city. it's suburbia for crying out loud. there was no accident, no construction, no school buses stopping you every 10 seconds...just plain old people driving their cars RETARDED. i mean, did i miss the memo that said to automatically drive like a dumbass between dequindre and john r??? come on now...reaction time, people! that's all i'm talking about--stepping on the gas once the car in front of you starts to move instead of waiting for them to cross the damn intersection before you zone back to earth, take a minute to realize that the light is green, realize that you can go and then go. and the worse part is that once you pass john r: normal. no traffic at all. so avoid being that guy. or those guys. you know...the ones that drive retarded. stay alert. remember: retarded drivers = traffic jam = no good (+ super duper late for work).

Monday, October 08, 2001

well this is no good.

my page is so boring. to everyone who's reading this, i'm sorry i have such a boring blog spot. it's just that i'm not motivated to put the template back up cuz kimmie did it for me, but it was from a temporary spot (or something, can't remember), so now it's gone and i'm boring. =( boo. maybe i should get off my lazy bum and learn to do it myself. i'll be a computer nerd. but i can't start now, cuz my lolo and my tita are already back from their cruise. translated: the spider solitaire addict is back. no computer time for nana. huh. so maybe around halloween, huh? that's when they leave. yeah...it'll give me something to do since i'm pretty much a loser cuz i don't do anything except go to dinner with chrissy every wednesday at 7pm. we're dinner buddies. (HAPPY BIRTHDAY, dinner friend!!!! woohoo! the big 2-2. =| you're right. what a dumb birthday. we should just become 21 until we're 25 and our car insurance goes down.) i guess i watch tv, too...all i have to say is: buffy lives. my brother says fx is becoming one of his favorite channels, and i must say that i agree. i mean, anyone who shows buffy and ally--i know really different, and i know that there are a lot of you that think i'm a dork for watching buffy, but i don't care!--five times a week is a great channel. and if you're into the practice, they show that, too...so yay.

i've been making my lunch every day so that i can have money to go to l.a. i feel like a little kid. i'm going to make my lunch for tomorrow now, and i'm going to put a jello cup in it. lemon-lime...the best kind. =D and then i'm going to go to bed because i'm old now and i have to get up early. yuck. i will never be a morning person.

Thursday, October 04, 2001

gosh, it's been forever. chrissy told me i had to blog. good thing, cuz i almost forgot about this. (i know...yikes! forget about blogging...it was almost a shame). but for real, almost really means almost. i am presently blogging. logging my brain. or letting my brain log. anyway...see, the thing is that my lolo and my tita and my cousin are all visiting from the philippines for a month or so for my other cousin's wedding...and my lolo just happens to be an 81-year-old free cell/spider solitaire FREAK. yes, freak. i don't think he does anything else while he's here. i mean, my mom has to pry him away so that he can eat, but i think that's it. it's cute...(he wants to buy a computer now so he can play when he gets back to the philippines)...but that means i can't use the computer til really late, and being the grown-up working girl that i am (...haha...not!) i have to sleep early so i can make it to work by 7am, which, by-the-way, i have not been very successful about for the last week and a half. it's bad. and what's even worse is that i spend half the work day honing my minesweeper skills. being a rookie minesweeper-er, miss mun fung had to show me the easy way to play and i finally won the expert (? i think that's the level...the one with 99 mines) level today. woohoo! i was pretty pleased with myself, but i had no one to share my victory with cuz i wasn't supposed to be playing in the first place. so now whoever reads this can be happy for me, too! =) yay. =D so anyway..the point of my story (whoa, sidetrack) is that now i can blog cuz my lolo and my tita are on a cruise in the carribean for a week. i knew i had to bring this back around somehow. i need to work on that. eric pointed that out to me. (thanks, man..) so if you ever find me just running away with a story with no point whatsoever, just stop me and ask me to get to it. yeah? yeah.

i'm leaving for toronto in a few hours so that i can be at my cousin's wedding. it should be fun...(i need to pack). i'm not looking too forward to the car ride there, tho'. have you ever gotten acquainted with someone who you just don't seem to click with. and not just not clicking, but you get this funny bothersome...um,...irk, i guess, cuz you really can't handle being around them for too long? yes? no? i do, and i don't like it. i'm supposed to love everyone, even the people i don't like, and this is truly a test. not that i don't love this person, i do...cuz we're related, but i don't particularly like this person. y'know? it's already been a month (yikes, a month?!) of that in my house. i think it's gonna be another month. i guess that gives me time to develop my patience, eh? (look...i'm getting ready to go to canada...heehee. i'm a dork and it's really late for me, so give me a break.) anyway...i'm just gonna be content knowing that at the end of the car ride is gonna be some really good....(dundunDUN!)...boba! yay! i think that will make my whole trip. that and eaton center, except i'm not supposed to shop cuz i'm a poor girl that's going to l.a. after christmas and i need to save. speaking of l.a....can i even put into words how excited i am?!!! i don't think so. all i know is that i'm going, and i'm gonna get to hang out with eric and chrissy and conehead and lynnchen and hongshin and jon and james and george (she said she would go so she better!) and who knows what friends we'll suck in by making them play with us. (heehee..that's how we got james.) i am currently playing the part of the ignorant l.a.-goer who's going along with the flow. like amit last year to tahoe. just as long as i get to see my friends and to snowboard, i'm cool. =)

laundry calls and i feel like i've written a book. maybe like a page compared to some of chrissy's entries...(just kidding, girl!). i got to go to 2xs call backs and see the newbies...it was so good to see everyone and to be in that atmosphere again. i really miss it. i'm so jealous that i can't be there to see the group carry on, especially with such an awesome bunch of people....did i mention that everyone is so talented? i'm very excited to see what happens. but yeah...i did that, too on my bloggin hiatus. ooh, and i got to meet the funktion newbies. studs, i tell ya. i really feel that becoming part of funktion ups the stud factor at least 5 points. i'm excited for them, too. so laundry and packing are both calling....i'm so glad i don't have to go into work tomorrow....