April 2011
2 posts
Two Things I've Learned
Whether you can see it or not,
1. Everyone is just as full of pain and confusion as the person standing next to them. 2. Everyone is on a spiritual journey.
It’s okay, my glass is always half full.
August 2010
8 posts
Remember last time I said I don't share my food?
During lunch, the other intern reaches over to take a chip out of my bag. I am planning on saving my food so I can eat it for dinner later. I let her take the damn chip. But the second time I take my bag away as she reaches over. She smirks at me and I hand her one chip. She stops looking at my bag. After the meeting she says to me
Her: You're still young.
Me: Excuse me?
Her: You're still young. In China when when eat we share our food because its polite. Americans don't do that, and you're the first person I know who doesn't share their food.
Me: Um, I definitely do share my food, but not when someone takes it from me. I offer my food, you didn't even ask me.
Her: You need to be more flexible.
Me: Seriously? We're talking about food right?
She had already walked away.
Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves. →
Perfect, I did need a way to excersise my telephathic skills. Now give it a couple years of practice and we’ll be able to communicate without this device!
I miss him.
Sometimes I forget where we came from and what brought us together and I start dwelling on the current, which is never really perfect for me anyways.
He is perfect, but life isn’t. And when I choose to begin living in the present, I remind myself of how unperfect it really is. Such as the fact that my dad and I aren’t talking, such as the fact that I’m scared of taking a career...
“I think we will want all of these analog worlds subtly augmented by interesting...”
– (Jay)
Not all who wander are lost.
Tomorrow my boss is going to talk to me about the rest of my schedule here at my internship. I have approximately two weeks left and if I want to request an extension to finish up a few projects, I could certainly do so.
I’ve been going back and forth with what my next options could be after this internship, whether it is an extension, asking for a job, or applying to other places in...
I deleted my facebook too.
Watch. I bet this means I’ll start blogging more.
July 2010
12 posts
“When will I ever have to stop hustling and get to start playing.”
– Too much catching up on old projects for the portfolio rather than making new ones :(
Telling the story of a future.
I’ve been reading a blog lately that immediately caught my attention with the tags #futurology #storytelling, etc. Little did I know, it was a series of fictional ‘memiors’ of someone living in the future.
I want to do this. So bad. Write a story about me that takes place in 2050. It would probably help me organize my thoughts into specific cohesive experiences and I might be...
Work at 2am Monday morning.
Damon: Right now it looks like the soil leaked out.
Me: I wanted to show the presence of soil but yeah we can change it.
Kieron: hehehehe.
Me: ....I just imagined Kieron giggling.
Kieron: What. No wait.
Damon: I'm too tired to giggle.
Kieron: Real men don't giggle.
Me: You totally just giggled.
“Really? I have to compete with your music right now? Didn’t you just wake...”
– Communication, people.
Passion of an actress.
I’m fascinated when my roomate goes through practice runs for her auditions in her room. I’m assuming she’s practicing an argument skit, because it sounds pretty damn intense right now.
I like to listen because it sounds like she’s letting all of her personal pain out when she screams the lines over and over. I know she has a lot going on in her life and I wonder if that...
“Keep life simple.”
– <3
“It’s unbelievable how much you can love someone, and then be able to feel...”
Are ideas really meaningless?
“Idea after idea after idea. All meaningless. The talent lies in finding the right client who you can work with to build your idea.”
Is there a difference bw ideas and concepts?
Do concepts help jumpstart movements?
Do ideas need to be executed by the inventor in order to matter?
well ive never really been a practical person. not everyone is an entrepene
i guess thats the diff bw...
Love this future thing.
It seems as though everyone and their mother is invested in almost every, if not every area of expressing the future, whether it’s technology, human behavior, urban cities, and story telling, etc.
Trying to find my niche on the band wagon of exploration has been a rollercoaster so far. I sit back and ask myself ‘What am I interested in? What am I passionate about?’
That’s...
With what seemed like a great travel plan..
I got screwed in the butt. Every single time I fly through Atlanta airport, something goes wrong. Every. Time.
This time weather didn’t permit our flight from flying until an hour and a half later than expected. My connecting flight then left the second we landed and no one had any clue that I was supposed to be on that connecting flight, even though I asked more than 5 people if they could...
June 2010
17 posts
Product Designer.
I went to school for Industrial Design.
But what is wrong here? What am I not seeing? I am so tired of being judged off of my ability to make shit look pretty. The commoditization of ‘stuff’ is going to cause me to either change my career completely or just die from a brain hemmorage.
What am I supposed to do? Keep doing exactly what clients want redesigning more and more with more...
Negative Nancy.
Me: My roommate came home again with that fucking frown on her face rolling her eyes saying how bad her day was.
John: Aww that's no fun.
Me: And the only thing i dont like is that she lets it project into her attitude towards me.
John: Oh jeez.
Me: She doesnt like me and its obvious. I just wish she would grow up. Because I hate her guts and she has no idea.
1 tag
I'm calling her Doula.
I’ve been looking for a fashion designer in the Chicago area lately. I’ve decided that the project I want to do isn’t going to happen by myself. I need to find someone I can collaborate with who knows their stuff when it comes to garment construction, current events related to fashion, and the future. I want someone with awesome unique talent, not neccessarily the most...
“The amount of information I force myself to take in on a daily basis is...”
– I wish I could go faster.
The grass is pinker on the other side.
I’ve always wanted to be apart of a design group that would show me the way towards bigger picture thinking and collaboration, most importantly how to test and execute those crazy ideas they always come up with.
I think I’m looking at it wrong though…I’m not getting anywhere wanting to be apart of their groups or companies. I have to stop looking at it as “I need to...
“How do you soothe a potentially superhuman genius baby. You never...”
– Brainstorming for Red Dot ideas.
An education.
I attended school in the beginning of 2007. After I’d been there for about a year a new professor came into the building to begin teaching intro industrial design classes. I thought he was cute but never thought anything more of it because of the amount of work I had. He was a professor. And he had a girlfriend….but he was really funny…he did have something about him.
I got...
“He bought the puppy a new Warthog toy. We named him General Warts.”
– Best thing ever.
Bike to Work Week →
This is very sustainable I will agree. But what’s safer? Walking.
But walking to work doesn’t count this week unfortunately. I don’t know Chicago enough to feel safe biking to work, especially without a helmet. It’s a 20 minute bike ride to work which is just perfect on time, but seriously….can’t I just walk?
Meat Spin.
Me: www.meatspin.com
You: It's not working, I think it's down.
Me: Awwww mannn. Maybe you can recreate it for me then.
You: Yeah, I could record myself. And then myself again.
Me: YEAH!!!!
You: But thatd be really creepy, I'd be fucking my ass.
Me: Hahahahah.
Breaking up.
Fei: Do you think it’s possible when a guy breaks up with you, and he hates you…that he will ever love you again? Me: Nope. Fei: ….Oh. Most of my friends are going through some sort of break up right now :( Doesn’t mean I’m going to lie to them. Getting over someone takes time, but you can’t kid yourself in the process. Don’t be mad that you can’t...
“Scratching my titties in an all-male office.”
– Oh lord.
May 2010
3 posts
Apartment Hunting - Chicago
I couldn’t resist.
Verb, Dat·ing.
I will be the first to admit that it’s been a long ass time since I’ve called someone my boyfriend and I was 100% proud of it. And to be honest I’ve tried to avoid it since the last time, which would technically have been three years ago. Any other boy I’d called my boyfriend since then wasn’t real, or I was bored, or lying to myself, or he was lying to me.
I...
April 2010
18 posts
Tricia's mom with a Filipino accent.
Mom: TRISHAAAA.
Tricia: WHATTTT. (opens door)
Mom: (Holds up Dawn dishwasher soap) Do you know what this is?
Tricia: .....Yes.
Mom: Did you know. Your dad uses this as a body wash.
Tricia: ....What?
Mom: (Walks away)......What does he think he is!?......A plate!?
I'm sorry but this was hilarious in real life. Hilarious.
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via kari-shma)
WatchTrying to loosen up before this interview. Gosh I’m such a good dancer.
Leaving books behind.
Leaving books behind or not getting them back isn’t always as bad as it seems.
I sit there, pissed off for who knows how long that someone could borrow something I held so close to my heart (anything with pages in it) and not give it back. Or sit there and be pissed off at myself for being so dumb that I didn’t remember to get it before I left.
But when you think about it, how COOL...
Mow the lawn woman.
Me: I think I don't want to do it just because I've never done it before and it takes so long.
Dad: Well it takes me two hours, it'll probably take you three.
Me: This is not a job for a girl dad.
Dad: I've seen you drive that F250 Pickup, and if you can drive that thing the way you do, you sure as hell can drive this lawn mower.
Me: Aw damnit, you got me.
“My biggest weakness is articulating my strengths.”
– I might be a little too tired to deal with this job search thing right now.
What I had before that I don't want now.
I’m back, living in Chicago, and so far, loving every second of it.
But things have changed since I’ve been gone. The only form of entertainment I had for the last six months were books, running games in public, and online House episodes when I was feeling blue.
I get home and it’s back to 24/7 streaming Fox news and the CNN channel, which I have to learn to mute out, and...