time for a post

who watches top chef?
i know you do, kat. everybody, kat told me she gets pretty horny after watching top chef. she even put that on her gchat status, right kat?

if you aren't watching the current season (4) of top chef then this prolly won't make sense to you. and i'm sorry that this post will mean nothing to you, especially after i haven't posted in awhile. surf the channel, son (thanks mark).

first off, THERE'S A FILIPINO on the show! and from what i've read on any blogs i'm subscribed to, NOBODY else CARES about him being filipino but me (and you, kat). his name is dale (like the oxygen engineer) and from the vibes (aka BRAVOTV editing) of the first episodes, he was supposed to be the asshole of the show. but he isn't. he isn't particularly optimistic and positive all the time, either. he's just real. but more importantly, he has some real SKILLZ. he even made halo halo for one of his quickfires, biatch!!

second of all, contestant lisa is the actual a$$hole of the competition. with antonia coming in a close second. both are stingy stubborn human beings, and antonia is from beverly hills, but lisa comes in over the top because she is a pretty negative person, likes to complain about everything, and uses the f-word way too much, and never in cool ways.

third, every reality show needs a contestant from down under.

maybe it's cuz they don't get bravo in daly city, or pacifica, but it really sucks how everybody gets behind the filipino or filipina contestants on american idol (even if they're airheads, so i've been told, or don't even really like being filipina cough*jasminetrias*cough) or on best dance crew (even if nobody on kaba modern could claim to be filipino) and not much hype for the super talented dale.

i wonder if i would have turned out to be different if, when i was little and more impressionable, there was even a slightly famous filipino cook that i could have looked up to, like dale. maybe i would have been more inspired to pursue food, maybe my life would be exactly the same, who knows? but i mean, the only filipino i could really look up to was rufio, who was killed by the white man. and i didn't really get into karate so ernie reyes, jr. was not an option for me.

risotto with mushrooms and asparagus is what i hope to be cooking today.

ps. i just remembered bambu also posted about dale on his blog.

i'm a sharks fan

the last time i was following the sharks, owen nolan was still on the team.

now that the warriors are out of the playoffs, i need a team to fill my playoff hunger. and hockey is a pretty fun sport.

imma have to take the suns for the basketball playoffs.
i woulda taken the nuggets but carmelo pretty much ruined their chances of ever getting anywhere.

on the real

i think of 100 good things to write about whenever i'm not at my computer, usually when i'm driving by myself.

in reality, i only write about whatever good thing i can think of when i think it's about time that i post something new.

i'm gonna pick on a very small detail of one very popular reality show:

usually for a contestant that has just been eliminated from a reality show contest, they're given a very simple question and pretty much all of the contestants i've seen say the same, pointless, cliche-ass answer.

question: "is this the last we'll see of (insert contestant's name here)"

pointless cliche-ass answer: "no, this is, by no means, the last of (insert contestant's name here), we have come too far, and worked too hard blah blah blah pointless commentary keeps on going"

why am i picking on this? because in america's best dance crew, every one of those eliminated contestants were given a golden opportunity to say something very powerful for the dance community. just as an example, one crew, upon exiting could've said:

"YES, this is probably the last you will see of (insert dance crew) if you're only idea of hip hop competition is this tv show. but if you know that the hip hop dance culture is more than just this tv show, then you know that this isn't the last of (said dance crew)"

that's prolly more liberal and anti-mtv than it needs to be, but it can be adjusted.

yes yes yes i know that most contestants shouldn't even be thinking about this question or what their answer is going to be, but you have to admit that it would be pretty pimp if one of them said that.

i'm writing these down

to give myself motivation.

don't ask me how it's gonna motivate me, just believe.

so there are a couple of things that i've been wanting to do, and they don't require a job (aka money). most of them are about cooking something.
- coconut cake
- bomb ass cupcakes (super manly, i know)
- back to skateboarding
- learning my way around the city
- baking my own bread
- rice pudding

there are other things that motivate me to make money just so i can spend it on those things.
i won't list those, though. mine.

too boring now

that last post is a little silly now that i think of it.

why i can't never come home again

although rent for my college apartment was always paid by my parents, at least i felt independent. and more important, i felt "grown-up".

in the last apartment i stayed at, i became especially proud of myself for hardly ever leaving a dish in the sink to wash later. i would almost always wash dishes right after i used them, something i hardly ever did at my previous apartments. though it was something small, at least i knew i could discipline myself that much. i think it made me really excited to actually live independently of my parents, to see how well i could actually be "grown-up".

now at home, we have a dishwasher, that we fill up about once every 1.5 days and run, and i absolutely hate it... well not all of it. when we didn't have it my dad used to always graciously do the dishes (he's nice like that) after dinner. and i'm glad that at least now he's not the one doing the dishes.

but the fact that i lost one of the only "grown-up" things i taught myself to do makes me pretty depressed.

insert sad face.

i know there are other ways i could grow up, and whatever. but doing my own dishes made me excited about living. imagine that.

it's not that i'm trying to shun away from all of the things my parents have worked hard to get. i just need to feel like i can be my own responsible person again.