Monthly Archive for July, 2007

Comments problem

Published
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mai
on July 31, 2007
in happiness is a warm gun and lady with the spinning head
. 0 Comments

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Does anyone know what’s up with this blather that appears everytime someone tries to post a comment?

Shamey-sad

Published
by
mai
on July 30, 2007
in lady with the spinning head and wide awake in america
. 1 Comment

I didn’t pass my practical driving exam :S   Gad ang hirap pala.

Maxl Kitty Pornstar

Published
by
mai
on July 19, 2007
in zooropa
. 1 Comment

maxie-porn1.jpg

Note what is written on the left side of the box.

Not your normal ride

Published
by
mai
on July 18, 2007
in conversation on a barstool and wide awake in america
. 8 Comments

Bryant and 16th St. - Potrero Center:

I’ve just gotten a seat on the 33 bus going home. In go Hispanic couple: woman in 20s, tight jeans, the largest stomach I’ve seen on a nonpregnant woman this year, tight shirt that goes halfway down her stomach. man also in his 20s, wearing jeans and a ratty tshirt, with…a handtowel…tied around his forehead (karate kid de mexico).

Anyway, the thing is…they start kissing passionately 2 rows in front of me. And while they kiss with closed eyes, the lady’s leg is slung over the man’s thigh…and he alternately squeezes her thigh/ass and her stomach.

18th and Castro:

People get on the bus. 2 men end up sitting in front of kissing couple. 2 men give disgusted look at couple and stare at them (waiting for them to get embarassed and stop? that was what i was thinking)…anyway, didn’t work. Kissing lipid couple keep kissing. Soooo…cant beat them? Join them.

2 men start kissing in front of kissing couple. Kissing couple stops. gapes. stops for good.

Haight St:

Both couples get off bus. Salamat. 2 “Hipsters” get on and sit a few rows behind me. We’re only a few people on the bus now…

Hipboy: Wow, this is the first time we’re riding the bus together…

Hipgirl: Wow…cool…

Hipboy and Hipgirl sound like they’re in the kilig or maybe getting to know you stage…inane conversation continues…until

Hipgirl: Hey you know that girl with long hair?

Hipboy: The skinny one?

Hipgirl: Yeah!!!

Hipboy: (sneeringly) She’s a piece of SHIT!

Hipgirl: (shocked/indignant) Shes my SISTER!!!

Silence so golden…

Hipboy: Well, she’s ok I mean…

Arguello:

Finally off that bizarre 33 bus. Now I’m waiting for the 31 bus. Good old boring 31 on its Richmond route.

31 arrives. I get on. Didn’t wait too long, good.

Would you believe there was a large man in a wheelchair dressed as a pharoah? Complete with that gold and black headdress?

Pharoahs hat

Hairy scary on the bus

Published
by
mai
on July 12, 2007
in conversation on a barstool and wide awake in america
. 9 Comments

the lady beside me who was in her mid-20s maybe, kept pulling strands off her head and looking at the root of each strand she got, and then she would transfer the hair to her other hand which was cupped open holding a bunch of pulled hairs.

Scary, but also sad.

Prudent investor on the bus

Published
by
mai
on July 11, 2007
in conversation on a barstool and wide awake in america
. 2 Comments

I’m somewhere in the back, this happens at the front part of the bus.

Oldish man in hardhat gets on bus, sits beside man in dreadlocks.

Man in dreads: Morning, man

Man in hardhat: Morning

Dreads: You going to work, man?

Hardhat: What? Work?!! I haven’t worked since ’73!!!

Dreads: Oh, I just thought since you were wearing a hat….

Hardhat: Ah this..(points to hat)…Well I figure, I went to school and spent a lot of money on it…so gotta protect me investment (points to head)

Bare walls no longer

Published
by
mai
on July 8, 2007
in things to make and do
. 5 Comments

When we were on our way to our neighborhood Post Office we saw that the framing shop a block away had a 1 cent sale. Get one frame and get another at 1 cent. Wow, finally we can frame the prints I’ve been accumulating like crazy.

So after visiting this wineshop in Burlingame we’ve been wanting to go to we picked up the prints from our apartment and went back to the framer. Shee I never thought that the frame would end up costing more than the print I wanted framed :S (I should have thought about this more when I was purchasing all the prints hee). Anyway, I decided to *splurge* for the framing of the beautiful Mia & Mai print J bought for me.

Mia & Mai

We picked orchid and tarnished bronze mats and a pretty dark wood frame. 320 bukols agggg.

But man, the finished product is going to be so pretty I can barely wait to see it. This one will go in our bedroom.

Since we were in sticker shock from the first frame, we decided to go with the pre-made ones for our other prints, and found some basic nice ones (off-white double mats and black frames) for a lot less money.

So now we’ve got Killing Time for the living room. I bought this print because aside from my fascination with the artist’s big eye paintings, I liked how this woman looked cool and detached but sort of inviting.

Killing Time

And Doe goes in the dining room.

Doe

 

Now, Doe — she’s strange almost not human and her eyes are large and *innocent* but also reptilian. Now her look, I dunno is it serene, sad?

And we’ve got the cat triptych for the touchdown area.

And 2 Marcy Washington prints are still looking for a place.

In the grass

In just such an old house

So, I’ll definitely post photos of the apartment once these are on the walls. The rest of my goodies will be kept until we get a larger place, and maybe a few of my babies going to people I hope will like them as much as I do.

Lost in translation

Published
by
mai
on July 7, 2007
in happiness is a warm gun
. 1 Comment

I’ve finally scheduled my practical driving exam and so for a couple times I have taken the car out and J makes a running commentary on my driving. God there are so much streetsigns :S

I have 2 bad bad habits: First, to me, yellow means SPEED UP, and this bad habit 1 usually comes with bad habit 2 - flicking the headlights.  (Unfortunately J said that here, flicking means “You go ahead, I’ll wait”. )

Now if I were in Manila this speeding up + flicking means “WATCH OUT, I am NOT going to stop!!!”

Here it means either a ticket, or worse, an accident.

Shit this old dog has to learn her new tricks.