Vegas family home (and my brother, D, gets a kick out of that front yard bridge!)
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
we are family
Inay (which is an affectionate way to say "Mother" or "Grandma" in Tagalog/Filipino), Mom, Tita Rosemarie, Dad, the twins and me circa 1970s... Unfortunately, I can't tell which one's Chip and which one's Dale.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
an office runway moment
Trizzy: you'll never guess who held the 16th floor door open for me
Trizzy: your favorite from project runway!
LBC: you serious?
Trizzy: mmm hmmmm
LBC: Michael?
Trizzy: totally spaced out
Trizzy: yup
Trizzy: he smiled - braces and all
LBC: no way
LBC: what's he doing here?
Trizzy: have no idea; he complimented me on my hair
Trizzy: he was on his way out
LBC: MAN!
Trizzy: i didn't compose myself in time
LBC: That is so rockstar
Trizzy: i've seen other stars in person - but this is the first time i really felt in awe... man! :-). anyhow - back to my meeting
Trizzy: your favorite from project runway!
LBC: you serious?
Trizzy: mmm hmmmm
LBC: Michael?
Trizzy: totally spaced out
Trizzy: yup
Trizzy: he smiled - braces and all
LBC: no way
LBC: what's he doing here?
Trizzy: have no idea; he complimented me on my hair
Trizzy: he was on his way out
LBC: MAN!
Trizzy: i didn't compose myself in time
LBC: That is so rockstar
Trizzy: i've seen other stars in person - but this is the first time i really felt in awe... man! :-). anyhow - back to my meeting
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
where are we headed?
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
--Michael Altshuler, motivational speaker
--Michael Altshuler, motivational speaker
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Hindu Halloween... well, not quite!
I love, love, love THE OFFICE... Got hooked on it, thanks to a marathon of episodes courtesy of iTunes video downloads. I can't wait till this Thursday's episode. Dagnamit, I still have that infuriating Cardigans song running in my head ("Love me, love me, say that you love me, fool me, fool me...").
From Watch with Kristin:
Happy Diwali! Any scoop on this week's Office episode?
Happy Diwali to you, too! I just watched it this morning and nearly fell off the treadmill laughing. This Thursday's episode is written by Mindy Kaling (Kelly); it centers around the Hindu holiday Diwali (which Michael, in all his cultural sensitivity, describes as the Hindu Halloween), and I think you'll all be more than a little surprised at what goes down in it. Funny, funny, stuff. Mindy's real-life parents are hilarious as her TV parents, and most importantly, Pam wears her hair down!
The reason why I'm so interested in Diwali is because my close friends own their own food line, and every year, it's the time that they are nowhere to be found (on the social front). One of the traditions is to give away Indian sweets (hence, why THE OFFICE's Michael refers to the holiday as the "Hindu Halloween").
Anyhow... TRICK OR TREAT, kiddies! Have fun and be safe out there!!!
Lastly, a birthday shoutout: Happy 30th to Teethwriter!
From Watch with Kristin:
Happy Diwali! Any scoop on this week's Office episode?
Happy Diwali to you, too! I just watched it this morning and nearly fell off the treadmill laughing. This Thursday's episode is written by Mindy Kaling (Kelly); it centers around the Hindu holiday Diwali (which Michael, in all his cultural sensitivity, describes as the Hindu Halloween), and I think you'll all be more than a little surprised at what goes down in it. Funny, funny, stuff. Mindy's real-life parents are hilarious as her TV parents, and most importantly, Pam wears her hair down!
The reason why I'm so interested in Diwali is because my close friends own their own food line, and every year, it's the time that they are nowhere to be found (on the social front). One of the traditions is to give away Indian sweets (hence, why THE OFFICE's Michael refers to the holiday as the "Hindu Halloween").
Anyhow... TRICK OR TREAT, kiddies! Have fun and be safe out there!!!
Lastly, a birthday shoutout: Happy 30th to Teethwriter!
Monday, October 30, 2006
truly inspiring
I was fortunate enough to attend the GLAMOUR Women of the Year event at Carnegie Hall this evening. Not to be mistaken for any other awards show, the evening was attended by celebrities, regular folk such as me, and over a third of the audience were young high school girls from the city.
The GLAMOUR Women of the Year are: Sandra Bullock, Laurie David (wife of Larry David and the producer of the Al Gore documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth"), Iman, Queen Latifah (the high school crowd's favorite -- perhaps because she's so relatable), Tammy Duckworth (a war veteran who lost both legs and is running for Congress in Illinois), Billie Jean King, the Missoni family (three generations of fashionistas), Rachael Scdoris (a legally blind athelete who just completed Alaska's Iditarod), Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori (the highest ranking female religious leader who actively supports gay and lesbians, the first woman to be named presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church), America's servicewomen, and perhaps the most emotion-filled honoree of the evening is Somaly Mam, a woman who survived a childhood as a sex slave and who has rescued over 3,000 children and women from a similar fate in Southeast Asia.
Presenters included Gloria Steinem, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Marianne Pearl, Stephen Colbert (random but funny), Angelica Huston, Marian Wright Edelman, Rosario Dawson and Barbara Walters. There was a special tribute to a fiery politician, Ann Richards, who recently passed away, and the crowd was treated to a musical performance by Carly Simon and her daughter.
What surprised me was how inspired almost everyone felt to be a woman and to be among these shining examples of strength, activism, faith and courage. The energy was so positive and it was a truly remarkable experience... It certainly puts the dramas and frivolities that tend to overwhelm us on a day-to-day basis into a certain light.
UPDATE -- 11/02/2006 -- EVEN NEW YORK MAGAZINE'S DAILY INTELLIGENCER GOT A BIT WEEPY!!!
‘Glamour’ Awards Reduce Winners, Audience, Our Reporter to Tears
We're not the type who cries during Extreme Makeover: Home Edition or Verizon commercials or when that diamond-ad music starts playing. (Duh duh da da, duh duh da da.) Still, we had a hard time fighting the stereotype during Glamour's tissue-fest of an awards show Monday night at Carnegie Hall. The magazine's "Women of the Year" honorees ranged from three generations of Missoni women to Queen Latifah — who, judging from chorus of screams that greeted the mere mention of her name, is the most popular person in the world — and all of them, plus nearly everyone in the audience, had wet eyes through much of the evening.
Not even tomboyish Sandra Bullock — who knelt down awkwardly to put her award on the floor ("There's no cool way to hold that thing") and interrupted her speech to ask the audience if her dress was see-through — could keep it together. She cried twice, once when Barbara Walters presented the award, highlighting the millions she's donated to disaster relief, and again a few minutes later, during her acceptance speech, when she acknowledged the dozen or so American servicewomen in the audience. And touching moments kept on coming: a tribute to Ann Richards; an acknowledgement of Somaly Mam, a Cambodian woman who's rescued 3,000 girls from sexual slavery; and a video of female athletes thanking lifetime-achievement honoree Billie Jean King. "I've only seen my husband cry twice in fifteen years," Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive told us later. "Once was when the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in 1993, and the second time was watching that video about Billie Jean King."
When the men present weren't crying, they were offering case studies in sensitivity training. Even Larry David got it right when he introduced his wife, Laurie David, an environmental activist and producer of An Inconvenient Truth. "I'll tell you this," he said, "if the people working on a cure for baldness had the same passion and commitment as my wife, I would be sitting here tonight with a full healthy head of hair."
The night belonged to the women, and despite a State of the Union–worthy number of standing ovations, no one owned the audience — the top two tiers of which were filled with hysteria-prone girls from local high schools — like Latifah. Catherine Zeta-Jones introduced her friend Queenie (cue screams from the rafters) in possibly the showiest, most dramatic reading of a TelePrompTer we've ever witnessed. "Aw, that's so nice of Catherine," said Latifah when she took the stage. "I didn't have to pay her but a hundred bucks to do that." Then she thanked her sick-and-stuck-at-home mom "who taught me that every girl is a queen," pledged $150,000 to Somaly Mam's efforts, and led the girls in a chant: "I can … do anything … If I believe … in myself!" The chorus of squeals went supersonic. We covered our ears. And then we cried.
-— Jada Yuan
The GLAMOUR Women of the Year are: Sandra Bullock, Laurie David (wife of Larry David and the producer of the Al Gore documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth"), Iman, Queen Latifah (the high school crowd's favorite -- perhaps because she's so relatable), Tammy Duckworth (a war veteran who lost both legs and is running for Congress in Illinois), Billie Jean King, the Missoni family (three generations of fashionistas), Rachael Scdoris (a legally blind athelete who just completed Alaska's Iditarod), Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori (the highest ranking female religious leader who actively supports gay and lesbians, the first woman to be named presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church), America's servicewomen, and perhaps the most emotion-filled honoree of the evening is Somaly Mam, a woman who survived a childhood as a sex slave and who has rescued over 3,000 children and women from a similar fate in Southeast Asia.
Presenters included Gloria Steinem, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Marianne Pearl, Stephen Colbert (random but funny), Angelica Huston, Marian Wright Edelman, Rosario Dawson and Barbara Walters. There was a special tribute to a fiery politician, Ann Richards, who recently passed away, and the crowd was treated to a musical performance by Carly Simon and her daughter.
What surprised me was how inspired almost everyone felt to be a woman and to be among these shining examples of strength, activism, faith and courage. The energy was so positive and it was a truly remarkable experience... It certainly puts the dramas and frivolities that tend to overwhelm us on a day-to-day basis into a certain light.
UPDATE -- 11/02/2006 -- EVEN NEW YORK MAGAZINE'S DAILY INTELLIGENCER GOT A BIT WEEPY!!!
‘Glamour’ Awards Reduce Winners, Audience, Our Reporter to Tears
We're not the type who cries during Extreme Makeover: Home Edition or Verizon commercials or when that diamond-ad music starts playing. (Duh duh da da, duh duh da da.) Still, we had a hard time fighting the stereotype during Glamour's tissue-fest of an awards show Monday night at Carnegie Hall. The magazine's "Women of the Year" honorees ranged from three generations of Missoni women to Queen Latifah — who, judging from chorus of screams that greeted the mere mention of her name, is the most popular person in the world — and all of them, plus nearly everyone in the audience, had wet eyes through much of the evening.
Not even tomboyish Sandra Bullock — who knelt down awkwardly to put her award on the floor ("There's no cool way to hold that thing") and interrupted her speech to ask the audience if her dress was see-through — could keep it together. She cried twice, once when Barbara Walters presented the award, highlighting the millions she's donated to disaster relief, and again a few minutes later, during her acceptance speech, when she acknowledged the dozen or so American servicewomen in the audience. And touching moments kept on coming: a tribute to Ann Richards; an acknowledgement of Somaly Mam, a Cambodian woman who's rescued 3,000 girls from sexual slavery; and a video of female athletes thanking lifetime-achievement honoree Billie Jean King. "I've only seen my husband cry twice in fifteen years," Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive told us later. "Once was when the Rangers won the Stanley Cup in 1993, and the second time was watching that video about Billie Jean King."
When the men present weren't crying, they were offering case studies in sensitivity training. Even Larry David got it right when he introduced his wife, Laurie David, an environmental activist and producer of An Inconvenient Truth. "I'll tell you this," he said, "if the people working on a cure for baldness had the same passion and commitment as my wife, I would be sitting here tonight with a full healthy head of hair."
The night belonged to the women, and despite a State of the Union–worthy number of standing ovations, no one owned the audience — the top two tiers of which were filled with hysteria-prone girls from local high schools — like Latifah. Catherine Zeta-Jones introduced her friend Queenie (cue screams from the rafters) in possibly the showiest, most dramatic reading of a TelePrompTer we've ever witnessed. "Aw, that's so nice of Catherine," said Latifah when she took the stage. "I didn't have to pay her but a hundred bucks to do that." Then she thanked her sick-and-stuck-at-home mom "who taught me that every girl is a queen," pledged $150,000 to Somaly Mam's efforts, and led the girls in a chant: "I can … do anything … If I believe … in myself!" The chorus of squeals went supersonic. We covered our ears. And then we cried.
-— Jada Yuan
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