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nailtipflips: Urban family Korean BBQ Saturday dinner. Just...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:11:28 -0400

Urban family Korean BBQ Saturday dinner.

Just cuz urban fam Korean BBQ reunions + the husbie + Binx = always worth reblogging.

Today was a big day. It was the first time I left the comfy...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:19:00 -0500

Today was a big day. It was the first time I left the comfy confines of my condo (aside from being shuttled to and from the surgeon’s office by my loving husbie for my post-op follow-up visit) in over two weeks.

Oh yeah - I forgot to tell y’all. I tore my achilles playing basketball while ~~executing a killer crossover then driving and dishing like a good point guard~~ looking like a clumsy fool. ULTIMATE DEBBIE DOWNER TROMBONE.

I’ve never had any type of major injury, broken bone, etc. in my life…so this has definitely been a shock to my system. And though I’ve been perfectly content at home hopped up on some “adult candy” (i.e., pretty powerful pain-killers), this whole experience has made me really appreciate the little things. What I would give to just walk around normally. Take a shower without it being an ordeal. Go to work and do my daily routine. Play a pick-up game of hoops again. *sigh*

Despite the boo-hoo sentiment of this post, I really am in good spirits. The surgery went well and I’m already a bit ahead of schedule in my recovery. My incredibly patient and understanding husbie took me to the Korean grocery store today and I had a fun time shuffling around the aisles in my huge honkin’ boot grabbing all sorts of yammy treats. I mean, I’m confined to my crutches for about eight weeks so I might as well get fat, right? ROROR LULZ. *^_______^*

Otay, I’m off now to watch Tangled on the Disney channel and eat some amajing miso ramyun I bought at Super H-Mart! Bai for now my tumblies!

AHHHHHHHHHHHH! Ray-Ray is back on my dashboard!? Swoon <3

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:20:00 -0500

choronda: VICTORIA AZARENKA, THE #BRBCHEATER. I never was a...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:03:00 -0500

choronda:

VICTORIA AZARENKA, THE #BRBCHEATER.

I never was a huge fan of Victoria Azarenka, but now I have every reason to HATE her.

Just because you can’t manage your nerves while squandering FIVE opportunities to seal the deal, you cannot fake injuries for TEN minutes to gather yourself. All the while, you’re playing mind games with your opponent, the up-and-coming Sloane Stephens, who managed to gain momentum and was up to serve.

LIKE, WUT?

And I love how you couldn’t keep your story straight in the post-match interviews. What was it, Vika? Were you choking your game, or could you literally not breathe? Was it your back that was bothering you, or was it the fact that you actually have no spine?

You’re a liar. You’re a cheat. You’re a fake. What you did was ugly, and God don’t like ugly. May Li Na hit you square in the mouth with a ball so you need a real medical time-out.

GURL BAI.

Also, not to mention Vika is arguably the worst offender when it comes to annoying grunting. Gurl, why don’t you get your new bff Redfoo to auto-tune your grunts into one of his tracks or something.

~____~

We miss you long time Ray Ray!!!

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:26:00 -0500

GPOY(T): O HAI TUMBLR I’ve missed you too but I’m old and boring now so this is basicarry all I’ve done over the holidays (along with tons of eating which essentially makes me a tubby bovine). *^__^*

GPOYW: I am feeling super poopy cuz I didn’t get a wink...

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:56:00 -0500

GPOYW: I am feeling super poopy cuz I didn’t get a wink of sleep last night and work is driving me CRAJY plus it’s ruining my Thanksgiving and anything and everything is turrible but here is a picture of me at a baby’s 1st birfday with a fake mustache okay?

Up - Epik High (feat. Park Bom from 2NE1) Although I’m...

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:27:10 -0400

Up - Epik High (feat. Park Bom from 2NE1)

Although I’m still ~~excited~~ ~~mortified~~ something that Gangnam Style continues to blow up and that K-pop has reached somewhat global proportions, I wish some of the more “quality” tunes would get just half the promo - like this feel-good, hipster-hop power anthem from Epik High. It has crossover appeal written all over it. I mean, can’t you see a joint like this blowing up all over American radio if it were performed by say, Far East Movement featuring Rihanna?

P.S. Big ups for the shout out to South Korean Olympic fencer Shin A-Lam towards the end of the MV.

Slower - Brandy I stan for Brandy; there are no ifs, ands, or...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:22:00 -0400

Slower - Brandy

I stan for Brandy; there are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Fell in love watching her swingin’ on that swing set in I Wanna Be Down, bopped around in my imaginary puffy white suit with her in Baby, and lounged around on my bed while Sittin’ Up In My Room. I own a physical copy (Who buys CDs nowadays LULZ??) of every one of her albums.

Bran-Bran has always had technically ridiculous chops, but after spinning Two Eleven for the past few days I can definitely say this is Ms. Norwood at her vocal peak. The control she has over her emotive tone, timbre, and vibrato is unreal at this point. She constantly slays with every crisp, cascading run she pulls (I mean, the one right after the first chorus [0:59] in this? YAASSSSS!!) and the ethereal layering of her harmonies is a signature Brandy stamp I can never get enough of.

Best *real* R&B album of 2012, hands-down.

Ray-Ray visits Toronto - A Picture Show When I travel for work,...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:31:00 -0400

Ray-Ray visits Toronto - A Picture Show

When I travel for work, it’s always somewhere super boraphyll like Dallas or Albuquerque or podunk-town, Amurrica. So imagine my excitement slash nervousness when I was one of two folks from my Agency chosen to represent the good ol’ US of A at a big international conference in Toronto.

The conference itself was very interesting, insightful, rewarding and tiring. I will not bore you with the details of all of the work we did, but rather give you what my tumblr is mostly about these days - purty pics and FOOD FOOD FOOD.

The scenery was bootipuhl, obvi…

And the food…CLAUDE HAMMERCY IT WAS YAMMY…

Including catered lunches freshly prepared by chefs at our conference venue:

And luxuly four-course dinners, featuring roasted French onion soup (with sweet onion crouton balls):

A palette-cleansing lemon sorbet in a sweet liqueur and frosted rosemary:

Grilled bison tenderloin (and boy was it tender!), fresh from Alberta along with seasoned fingerling potatoes and colorful roasted vegetable cuts:

And a scrumptious caramel-drizzled apple crostada with cinnamon ice cream to finish things off:

Finally, here is me at the end of the night with a big smile on my face because I just ate like a big pig. YAYAYAY FATNESS!!

Thanks Toronto! I’ll be back soon, hopefully!!

Stop Girl - U-KISS If you would’ve told me that a portly,...

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:26:54 -0400

Stop Girl - U-KISS

If you would’ve told me that a portly, middle-aged comedic rapper with a ridic horse-riding dance routine would be the first K-pop act to have a bonafide smash in the U.S. (and be on the cusp of having the first top ten hit by a Korean artist on the Billboard charts), I would’ve ROR’d so hard in your face. With the return of boy bands like One Direction and The Wanted, wouldn’t something like this be more appropriate? U-KISS serves it all in this vidja - sleek black and white visuals, ~~creepy~~ smoldering gazes into the cam, LULZ-y posing, and impeccably synced choreography - all packaged within a super-slick urban pop confection. And they don’t even mess up any of their English lyrics! EUREKA.

I mean, honestly…when I listen to this, I can’t help but think U-KISS have arguably better vocals than those UK groups. And the latter don’t even dance a lick. Just sayin’.

YAY KOLEA K-POP PIGHTING!! *^__^*

kiamatthews: It was a close one, but we came in 2nd place at...

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:27:00 -0400

kiamatthews:

It was a close one, but we came in 2nd place at the Flipcup World Series, our best finish in 4 (or 5, can’t remember) years. I flipped like shit but my teammates saved my ass numerous times. My bad y’all.

A few things:

Keeks is just being modest; we all were pretty clutch today…espesh when we were down 1-3 in the round of 16 (and then came back to win) and then fought back after being down 0-3 to force a seventh game in the finals. I was so, *so* proud that we didn’t buckle under the pressure.
The fact that everyone — and I mean EVERYONE — in that bar was chanting our names in the finals was pretty amazing. I mean, you can only imagine the amount of drunken douchebaggery happening at a flip cup tournament, but we were universally well-liked. That is an accomplishment in itself.
RUV YOO GUISE. *^_^*

Smile Friday: 2012 Dunder Flipplin Flip Cup Invitational (slash...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:48:22 -0400

Smile Friday: 2012 Dunder Flipplin Flip Cup Invitational (slash practice for the World Series this Saturday) with Keeks!

Or should I say side-eye Friday because basically erry picture Cho takes nowadays (espesh in photobombs) is with this banji Judgy McJudgerson look on his face. ~__~

Okay y'all. Casual racism.

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:41:00 -0400

As Long As You Love Me (Acoustic Cover) - Jeremy Passion It...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:26:45 -0400

As Long As You Love Me (Acoustic Cover) - Jeremy Passion

It never ceases to amaze me how many unsigned uber-talented artists there are out there, hustling and grinding on the daily.

Jeremy is an absolute whiz on the guitar and mic. Better than the Bieber original, hands-down, in my book.

Sam Mikulak fangirling over Yang Hak Seon's gold medal-clinching vault...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:06:57 -0400

“Dude, give me a hug! That was ridiculous!”

AND THEN I MELTED/DIED/CRIED TEARZ OF BROMANTICAL CUTENESS.

Bt-dubs Sam, your vault was pretty amazeballs, too…

GPOYW: OMAIGAHT GUESS WHAT U GUISE RICH AND I FINARRY WON THE...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:06:00 -0400

GPOYW: OMAIGAHT GUESS WHAT U GUISE RICH AND I FINARRY WON THE PING-PONG DOUBLES TITLE AFTER 21478929 ATTEMPTS YAYAYAY TEAM KOREA HWAITING!!!11!11!ONE *^____^*

(Additional related gifs for such a momentous achievement)

Out of the many head-scratching rulings in the Olympics thus...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:24:15 -0400

Out of the many head-scratching rulings in the Olympics thus far, this one was the most egregious and dramatic.

Keep your head up high, Miss Shin A-Lam. Your defiant-yet-heartbreaking protest on the fencing piste will be remembered at these games for a long time to come.

US Gymnastics Dramaz

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:49:00 -0400

Jordyn, I get it. You are the reigning world champ and your childhood dream is to compete in the all-around competition. But when you blurted out this exchange on the sidelines last night on TV right before Aly was about to compete on the floor to build your team’s score, you made it super awkward for your teammates…

_________________________

Jordyn: OMG, I wanna make all-around sooo bad!

McKayla: What?

Jordyn: I wanna make all-around so bad!

Gabby:

Kyla:

McKayla:

__________________________

GURL HOW YOU GON’ TALK ABOUT YOUR INDIVIDUAL GOALS AND WANTS WHEN TONIGHT IS ABOUT TEAM USA DON’T TALK ABOUT THAT STUFF UNTIL IT’S THE APPROPRIATE TIME. ~___~

Smile Birfday Pose Friday! If y’all don’t know it...

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:02:40 -0400

~~Smile~~ Birfday Pose Friday!

If y’all don’t know it already, Miss Mary Martha is like the queen bee of blingees and photoshopped goodies. Take this treasure, for example – I mean, how perfectly does it represent what I would wish for on my birthday?

Also, I’m 36 today. Disgrossting slash YAYAYAYYY!!

Smile Friday from the grandiose Lee Family Backyard! Mommy is...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:02:02 -0400

Smile Friday from the grandiose Lee Family Backyard! Mommy is such a good tour guide!! ^__^