OakMonster’s Den

Farscape came back and kicked some ass! Behold the power of rabid fans who are totally media savvy…and have money to spend.

(Read that, potential sponsors? MONEY TO SPEND.)

Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars gloriously returned one of the best damn sci-fi/space opera show ever to the network that abandoned them over 2 years ago all because the campaigns by the fans around the world.

Big hoorah for all involved!! Especially Scapers who have worked so frelling hard to get our beloved show back on air. We earned it, brothers and sisters.

All the loose ends are tied…well, sort of. Still a lot of mystery left for us to ponder. And oh yeah, 2 hours of Ben Browder aka John Crichton in his leather pants. Hmmm…tasty. And Claudia Black aka Aeryn Sun has some of the best lines of the series. “Shooting makes me feel better”. Oh yeah. WAV file for my work email right there.

I will have to get a bucket of chicken from KFC for lunch one day this week as a thank you to the SUPER cool sponsor and supporter of the series.

Hooray for Scapers worldwide!!!

Godzilla to join stars on Walk of Fame

Trip for Hollywood planned: a pilgrimage is at hand, to visit both Godzilla and Scotty Doohan’s stars.

Shamelessly stole it from another blogger who stole it from yet another blogger… You know the vicious cycle.

Here goes nothing.

Five Things You May Not Know About My Time in School Are:

1. I hid in the bathroom and cried the whole lunch break on my first day of American high school. I came here as a junior, knew virtually no one in school other than staff in the Counseling office (my host mom was the counselor there). I felt so self conscious sitting in the lunch area alone I went to hide, and I didn’t want to go to the office and worry my host mom.
2. I only partied once in high school. One night at Melissa’s house. My first taste of margarita…daiquiry…and my first shot of Tequila. (”Salt! I need more salt!!!”)
3. Freshman college year: Katie and I skipped class one day to go try out for the Gong Show. We introduced ourselves as a pair of students/cheerleaders from UPS - University of Perky Students. I sang a song about going to college (Frenchy knows this song by heart by now! Hahaha!), and Katie pretended to suck at baton twirling, but eventually finishes off beautifully. It was hilarious!
4. I volunteered to sell t-shirts for Trojan Pride Monday-Thursday during the football season of my freshman year. Never missed a day.
5. I cheated…as was the rest of my classmates back in Bangkok. We shared our homework daily, and we cheat en masse. We all grew up together at the private school. Helping each other cheat was sacrificing act and a test of our friendship.

Five Things You May Not Know About the Job (Jobs) I Have (or Had) are:

1. I made out with a coworker one night. We’re still friends.
2. A boss could out eat all the starving children of Africa.
3. My freelance contract was cut short when I was fired on a Sunday night after the Academy Awards over the phone. As I found out later, I was a casualty of office politics I wasn’t aware of at the time.
4. I loved selling things to dad’s employees. Stickers. Pencils. Cookies. You name it.
5. While I was working for Annenberg Center, I was in some of the pictures they took for the Annenberg Center/Trojan TV brochure and websites.

Five Things You May Not Know About My Online Life are:

1. I used to have about 15 email addresses for work and home at one time.
2. I google myself, my friends, and my families when I’m bored.
3. I am now the email list admin for Mater Dei Bangkok class of 1995 with over 100 people on board. It all started with me feeding names into ICQ search engine and contacting them. The next thing you know, we have this list.
4. I had a naughty online chat a couple of times back in my freshman year on IRC.
5. I’m on a crusade to find some long lost friends online. Google et. al. I’m trying really hard!

Five Things You May Not Know About Where I Live are:

1. We’re behind a Krispy Kreme which is across the street from the police station.
2. You can park on our parking lot during the day. But you’ll get booted after 5 p.m.
3. Steven Spielberg graduated from Cal State Long Beach, a mile or so from here.
4. Long Beach is the only beach in LA county to have a dog beach.
5. Brandon is the only man in our 4-unit building. Well, not counting the 2 boys living directly below us.

Five Things You May Not Know About My Core Personality are:

1. My inner bitch is alive and well.
2. I’m quite insecure and self conscious.
3. I’m a home body.
4. I shop almost like a guy. I have a mission at the mall to accomplish. While getting there, if something strikes my fancy, I’ll take a look. I just can’t spend hours and hours wondering the mall aimlessly.
5. And this one I think it’s contagious from Brandon, many days I do want to stay home and not socialize with anyone.

Five Things You May Not Know About My Home Life are:

1. I love having the fresh-out-of-the-dryer laundry piled on me. Ahh…warm clothes!!
2. If the TV gets good, I veg. I turn into a TV hermit.
3. I don’t like vacuuming. Don’t like the noise. Don’t like the dust. Thank god Brandon doesn’t mind so much.
4. I don’t clean as much as I should. Growing up with a live-in maid sort of makes me lazy that way. Hehe.
5. I sleep in on weekends…10-12 hours sometimes.

Five Things You May Not Know that I Desperately Want are:

1. USC Trojans season football ticket.
2. Membership to Bacon of the Month Club.
3. A house.
4. Having Brandon’s niece Lauren live with us so she could go to good school, and have a good environment to live in.
5. A couple of kittens.

Five Things You May Not Know About What I Do in a Typical Day are:

1. In addition to Brandon, I sleep with a Snoopy and a blanky.
2. I wear contact lenses.
3. I drink out of the carton sometimes. Just milk though.
4. I curse like a sailor at work. We all do.
5. I can’t survive without breakfast.

My college freshman RA, Tony Morris, a real estate agent by day, and now a web store owner. He just opens the online store Bamboo Place, selling bamboo fiber apparels. Check it out.

Godzilla Conference at University of Kansas: all academics and a little play.

Elan’s Travel Journals

My Glamour Geek sister got another blog for you to follow.

I forgot to mention that last night, my well alcoholized self invented yet another word.

Buddah.

Can drinking one beer a day make you an alcoholic if you’re a one beer wonder like me? That’s a very good question.

Shane, Brandon, and I went shopping for Shane’s costume tonight. Shane is going to be Sam Adams from the Samuel Adams commercial.

We couldn’t find a thing at the mega costume place so we ended up storming JoAnn’s to buy a pattern, some fabric, and some buttons for me to make him the vest. The rest of the costume he could manage on his own.

Then we hit Demsey’s, the Irish bar next door to JoAnne’s. I had a pint of New Castle but had to down the last 1/3 very quickly as this one lady’s juke box music selection.

I’m buzzed. Again. 2 nights in a row. Hope I’m not developing a habit.

10 things on my mind for this rant rambling:

1. I love Pyramid’s Apricot Ale.
2. I love Bend It Like Beckham and yeah yeah I think Jonathan Rhys-Myers is cute as a blonde. Just not as cute as Becks. Or Brad Pitt.
3. I love having the movie channels i.e. HBO, Cinemax, Starz and all the on-demand stuff. But good lord, if we do actually get it, I will NEVER leave the house ever again.
4. I love my dance class even though it’s too darn short, and it’s not really as jazz as I thought. But I’ll be signing up for tap AND jazz next time.
5. I love meatball sandwich from the Deli News.
6. I love writing on my blog even though this is just a bunch of complete and total nonsense.
7. I love using the Oakley-Speak words and confuse the hell out of people. Yeah man, I’m a thermos pants wearing, amphibious, alcoholized nutcase!
8. I love being a one beer wonder because I save money that way.
9. I love chatting with James online late at night…or during work day. James = funny.
10. I love not caring about a damn thing after this but going to bed and read “Wicked”.

Yey!

2000: Brandon = Wizard. Oakley = Wood Elf (sans pointy ears, problem with “prosthetics”)
2001: Brandon = Vampire (sans fangs, problem with “prosthetics” here too). Oakley = Victim.
2002: Brandon = Priest. Oakley = Devil
2003: Brandon = Buddy Christ. Oakley = Devil School Girl

*Drum rolls*

2004: Brandon = Final Fantasy X’s Auron.

Oakley = Final Fantasy X-2’s Rikku.

Yeah, and Amy was thinking she’d freeze being Wonder Woman. NOT - EVEN, sister!

Neither one of these will be 100% accurate. After all, this ain’t cosplay. Auron’s costume is a red kimono which I *ahem* made from scratch once again. Thank my parents-in-law for the sewing machine! The “bottle” he’ll sporting is a Mississippi Mudd bottle on a leather string. The sword is a $1.99 Samurai sword I bought from RiteAid. We’re forgoing the collar thingy, and the shoulder armor will be made out of felt. Brandon will be wearing a T-shirt and sweatpants tucked into his boots underneath all of that fun. Still have to hunt down a pair of glasses.

Rikku’s, on the other hand, is a collection of ready-made stuff. Bought the yellow bikini, green mini skirt, and high top sneakers. I got the blue bandana from Shane’s shop, and he’s ordering me the blond wig. The gloves I made out of knee-high white stockings from Hot Topic, undid the toes part, and sewn a bit together to make an impromptu fingerless gloves. Still have to make and glue the ribbons. The scarf is the key to all of this. Nora knitted it for me. A lot more like striped Griffindor color, but it fits perfectly. And over this skimpy outfit, I have my thick army coat. I was going to make a cloak using fleece, but I’m done sewing for a while.

Despite much encouragement from my work buddies…all guys, of course…I don’t I’d be going to work in Rikku’s gitup. Instead, I’ll be a vampiress. Just bought the custom-fitted fangs from Hot Topic. Rarrr!