sounds good! :) I feel crappy! Had to work today with my cold and I wish I had a laid back night planned, but I am under pressure by my friends to make it BIG tonight lol I just wanna watch a movie at home and cuddle with Spanky lol
gonna head out for dinner to my mother's favorite spot in Chinatown. stay home, watch the ball drop and drink tons of champagne and Scotch/Soda. =) you?
Yeah. Super busy lately. =) i'll definitely pass along your demo to him. Here's my friend's animation site. It's brand new so not a whole lot on there. But he has about 8 animators as part of the crew -- most of which graduated from my school. So it's all tight-knit =)
oh and to answer ur questions from earlier; i've been writing a lot for the website and working on my friend's script, along with joining him in his production company and its merge with another friend's animation company... AND THEN, been talking to an actor of mine on getting things togethr for a mockumentary shoot in a couple of weeks. been pretty busy as of late and VERY productive. =) Been having good vibes all day today.
i'm going nutty listening to CHop Suey, constant head banging and all. Remember that russian accent i was doing when u we were walkin down chinatown?? i played Russian-Man again with my mom and she found it hysterical! haha
yeah yo, u better. i've been waiting ages for them! lol jk jk
sorry to hear about ur cold! so that means u've had it since u left SF??? ay pobrecita, i hope spanky's not giving u such a hard time. I hear Orange Juice (and a lot of it) helps. I'm gonna sound like a dad but drink as much orange juice as you possibly can, u hear? keep urself rested and no playing outside. =P
just trying to get better, this cold has been off and on all weekend...I was changin profile pics but most of them get all chopped off so I had to change them lol so what new? lol the staten island pics? ill send them to ur email!
lol i've noticed me and u have been switchin up photos like crazy. where are the staten island ferry pics, dammit?!
i'm at my friend's place. been here all day just chillin, watchin movies, rewriting scenes together eating up his mom's lovely cooking. lol whatchu doing now?
hey. you. what new? kewl. mega happy weekend? thankgivings was phun. how aboat uuuuuu? last friday was a real dark day... too many people waiting for time on long lines, buying sold out items.
Ahahaha the vid is awesome! LOVE it! "Ay Bill, Whaddaya Say? I say EXCELLENT!!!!" ahahahaha I also love, "inverted nod" and "I got this thing, I gotta run!" subtext "I don't have time for this shit!" ahahaha LOL he is funny and good at analyzing it! NOW I am prepared for NY, YAY!
So what are u up to today? get ur phone back yet? Email me when u get this!
Well, I got this thing I gotta run, I'll talk to you!
no not quite. but you ALMOST made me. it was such a weird dream. people were parachuting off the cliff. then u're like tugging my arm goin 'c'mon! c'mon!'
heyyyy tako, sounds good u are going out, yay! I am glad, that will be more fun then staying in, although...scarey movies alone sounds thrilling! :)be safe tonight, i will def post pics of my night ASAP, ttyl!
Moussaka!! i miss u too! i'm sorry to hear about the poo poo weather. i didn't know the party's gonna be outside?? happy halloween, by the way! My friend Mao actually convinced me to head out and see a music show with some peeps so i won't be staying in all night watching horror flicks. lol if u're gonna party, party hard! get them stress bounds out!@
i know, that was horrible of me. haha i'm glad u resurfaced there. i was gonna call u up later but i remembered u have practice tongiht and wasn't sure if u'd be up for a chat.
heyyyy i am sorry I have been MIA, got ur emails and msgs but been working on a lot of projects for the Halloween party my friend is throwing at his house! I am really stressed, I always commit myself to a million things and I hold myself to them bc I say I am gonna do them, but it's funny cuz I volunteer to do things so I just stress myself out!
HAHA face it. you know u two wanna be thought of as country crispy goodness. lol okay this is goin nowhere.
what other names did you come up with. perhaps you lack imagination, Athena. tsk tsk. haha jk jk!!! man o man is there gonna be a big ass punch waiting for me in November.
i still can't get the idea of deep fried coke or apple fries. yeeeee. makes me feel weird inside. haha u missed Jessica Simpson?? ha! Nick Lechey performed a piece here in my complex for the Macy's '07 4th of July show on the night of the 3rd. I wasn't around home though. It was him and Lionel Ritchie. My mom went goo goo ga ga over Lionel. lol
ugggh i know it was sick...so many arteries were clogged thanks to them haha they had deep fried white castle burgers, pop tarts, frog legs, veges, avocado, coke, Snickers, eggs, corn, cupcakes, blue cheese, cheesecake, apple fries ?, artichoke, waffles, onion blossom (that what's I had!), twinkies, oreos, pickles, olives, oh yeah and SPAM with pineapple! ( I was looking at a menu, my memory is not THAT awesome) I was so sad, I missed Jessica Simpson's show by 1 day!! :(
OKay.. no more blaming Athena for this emotional mess i'm in with Tamlyn. lol ew. deep fried pop tarts? i think i may have seen that on the overhead sign. Deep friend everythign they had there.
lol you are crazy!!! so dramatic, don't blame ur obsession on me!!! hahaha pop tart? that calms you down? there were deep fried pop tarts at the fair, i should have fed exed u one lol
It IS your fault! lol WHo told me to watch Come See The Paradise? WHo showed me her Tamlyn Tomita autographed headshot? WHo told me her fam knows Tamlyn's uncle? I'm within 6 degrees of separation from Tamlyn and knowing this just aches me >_< !!! WDEK@BHD!LNOIDFB@DO -- Alright, i gotta chillax. I need a pop tart or something. Mellow out. Goddamn AMC and their airing of Karate Kid II!
cant stop thinking of Maria Ozawa??? I know how addicting her movies can be ;) Just talk to her on here...I am sure she is really down to earth! hahaha
And because of you i can't stop thinking about her. ARHJ!!!! do you know how much pain my heart is under right now? haha i just wanna lock myself in my room and watch all of her movies.
hahaha. i was just bout to tell u but then u posted ur noticing my headline. Sweet. i actually thought up of another word that i coulda used - Rogaine. OH! booyakashya!
Do you know what i just found out? Somehow Richar snuck out of the premises and spent some time at the local pub. He even went as far as singing in front of the patrons. I noticed that he had been out drinking all night when I saw that his pants had reeked of alcohol from a stain. And not to mention, his speech was somewhat slurred this morning. I'm afraid Richard was put to rest but will face punishment this afternoon.
The help, I feel, must be treated with some sort of respect so that order can be kept. My friend, Wilamena once had a servant girl, Kate, who was very shy and seemed to complete her chores with such speed and positive attitude, but the way Wilamena and her family treated her caught up with Kate and she acted out in a rage. She burned the house down and pillaged the town, leaving it in utter chaos. She left this as a chilling message of warning to all future households with mistreated help. We must remember this story and act accordingly. I am warning you. Do not be another Wilamena!
If you want to give your condolences, then do it yourself. I won't pass along any message, of this sort, to him. Richard is a servant and will never be looked upon as an equal. He is dirt. Less than that even. Why do you even let your maid take a holiday? That isn't very Duchess of you, Athena. These aren't people, you see? They are servants. Lets keep it at that for now, shall we?
TAK-OYAKI!!! TAK-OYAKI!!! SAY SAY SAY!!!!! WOOOOOO! Be a man! Do the right thing! LMAO ohhhh I crack myself up! I am glad you have accepted your true birth name. Now everytime I see those cute lil octopussy balls I will think of you :)
surrree...she just came back from holiday and is spending time catching up on all her duties her. that is a shame to hear about charles. he was such a splendid fellow. give richard my condolences, will you, mate?
awww no, but I just looked it up :( sad, he wasn't that old...I knew he was sick because I got a VO newsletter thing from his wife asking for people to pray for him... weird...I just got around to reading it last night too. He was a great talent :(
ok so the songs wouldn't all play back to back so i took them all off except for 1...damn! im sorry all that hard work for nothing! booooo! im off to get ready for the Greek festival..ttyl ;)
ahahaha i so know what that was lol that was a good impression lol, booooooooo i was called into work today, someone was a no show so I am at work now! ugh! how are u?
HAHAHA I always tell Cari that she's got Iron Chef skillz. She has way more skillz than I do. You should see what she's whipped up and so effortlessly too! I would like to make my stand on Iron Chef though-- show Bobby Flay who's the real New Yorker Iron Chef. lol I stand no chance. Have you ever seen Top Chef??? I think that show rocks. Yes it's a reality tv show and I don't like most of them, but to see creativity on the go like that, is just nuts. Doesn't hurt to add a splash of drama either, eh?. but iron chef does rock.
haha the cake was nothing compared to your serious dishes!!! what took the longest was the frosting...I have a few pics at home on my computer lol ill sent them your way, I am at work now though so you'll get them later, your cooking makes me feel intimidated lol i dunno if I could hang with you or cari in the kitchen haha you should go on iron chef? i haven't seen it in a while, but it is def a fav to watch!
My god, that cake sounds patriotically epic. I wish I was there to see it! do you have a pic?? I'm so interested now. haha I haven't had decent cake in such a while. Yours sounds delish. I don't think i'll consider it a masterpiece but I def consider it the mightiest thing i've ever made. Ever seen Once Upon a Time in Mexico? There was this pork dish they made in the movie that really got me wanting to make. It's called puerco pibil or cochinita pibil. It's basically a slow roasted pork in spicy spicy marinade sauce, simply laid over a bed of white rice with a side of jalapeno peppers if you wish or any other veggie to your fancy. It's the mightiest i've ever done because the preparation is nuts and the cooking time takes at least 4 hours. So all this waiting and anticipation really shoots through the roof lol. Plus the first time i made it, i bit into my pepper, thinking i had taken out all the seeds, and just died right on the table. The spice was so hot that I literally couldn't hold any food in my mouth cuz it made the burning so much worse. I constantly drank milk and water to cool my mouth off. That's why i call it the mightiest ever. My favorite dish to make so far is a baked lemon salmon fillet. I usually like to add either rice pilaf or plain carolina rice with string beans on the side. if i had the guts, i'd make my pizza from scratch like Cari. She's done it before i think and she's good (at least from what I heard)
yeah if I would make pizza I would get the dough already made, I thought you were gonna get all crazy authentic and make the dough too lol I was really impressed haha still impressed though with your culinary skills since most guys lack them...anyway okasu is like a stir fry dish where you throw a bunch of stuff together with some flavor like soy sauce. like sometimes my mom will put in spam, carrots and string beans and cook it...a few other Jap-Amer fams I know do something similar. The biggest thing I did was when I did a few dinners for my ex's fam and sometimes big dinners for friends...the thing that took the most work was my 4th of July cake that was a flag with the exact amount of stars and stripes...I had to measure it out exactly and get the different colors exactly in straight lines for the stripes, but it was fun! you? what what your biggest masterpiece?
ahhh i thought it was more about which dish has become more americanized and such. Never thought of it that way. oh, trust me, we both already had that dream haha. I try and i try and i try to get this dude up on this site. He just prefers facebook lol Not sure if I'm gonna make it straight outta scratch. I've been to a few markets where they already have the dough made. Doing it from scratch would be that much more challenging for me lol. WHat's okasu? Never heard of it. WHat's some of the biggest things you've ever whipped up?
geez i feel special, waitin around for lil ol me??? haha i gotta take a look at ur pics, i wanna go to japan!!! you should tell your bro to cool it on the war games or you might have nightmares that you're being shot at!! hey is ur bro on here? he should jump on too! I have never made pizza from scratch! so you are gonna make the dough and everything??? No I don't think chicken teriyaki is Japanese American...don't they have it in Japan? hmmm I meant like okasu and spam musubi...a lot of dishes that we actually a product of what was available during internment camps when Japanese Americans had to make dowith what they were given. I think that's where spam came in and hot dogs and ground meat into stir fry dishes...
lol just waiting for your replies. haha jk. I was just loading up some pics from my trip to Japan last year and it was taking me forever. PLus my brother is playing his CoD4 and it keeps me awake. But i'm getting tired and when Tak gets tired, i have my way lol I actually want to make italian style pizza in a few days. And i want to get into making more Italian food in general. My mother and I were just talking about it over dinner tonight. Is chicken teriyaki one of those Japanese American dishes?
yeah i like to cook, I cook all sorts of stuff, my parent both cook all kinds of ethnic dishes so I have been able to learn a few things here and there. I cook mostly Asian or Italian...not so much authentic Japanese, more Japanese American style food and pasta dishes. so what are you up to so late on this Monday night?
oh i enjoy cooking! i don't get to cook a whole lot but when I do, i go ape nuts over it. I've been perfecting my carolina rice and my pasta down to a science. lol I tried making takoyaki in japan last year on two occasions but both time I messed it up. The first time i fiddled with it way too soon and it never shaped perfectly. The second time, since i knew i had tried tossing them over too early, i left them to cook a lil longer but i left it to burn a lil way too much. They got a little more brown than i had wanted but i got them shaped nicely. lol Do you cook? What do you like to make?>
haha yay, I am glad I can make your day lol! Well it didn't take much convincing bc she pretty much shoved it in my face, but ever since you told me about it I was curious to try it. I tried to go back and get some to take home for my fam, but it was sold out! it was very popular I guess! You should get the maker! do you like cooking?
oh man I AM proud of you!! Way to go Athena!! I told you it was good. How much convincing did it take your friend to get you to eat the takoyaki? I too want to get a takoyaki maker and make it at home. Thanks Athena, I am. Hope the same to you as well.
oh man I AM proud of you!! Way to go Athena!! I told you it was good. How much convincing did it take your friend to get you to eat the takoyaki? I too want to get a takoyaki maker and make it at home. Thanks Athena, I am. Hope the same to you as well.
heyyyyy Tak! you are gonna be so proud of me! I actually got to try takoyaki for the first time! yay! It was good, my friend that went with me to Nisei Week made me try it and I was like omg, this is the stuff Takeru was telling me about! lol I think I wanna get a takoyaki maker and make it at home! it seemed so fun in that video you sent me! hope you are having a great Monday!
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