cute puppies

www.picturepuppies.com/

cute puppy

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.costumedogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/08-11-2006.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.costumedogs.com/tag/puppy/&h=313&w=275&sz=30&hl=en&start=2&sig2=LoEJujOQUScRXFjd1vN5Kw&um=1&tbnid=lrCzEJVYQFvzoM:&tbnh=117&tbnw=103&ei=04zDRvfAE6LQeM7k0aYJ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcute%2Bpuppy%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

Best Cartoon ever

http://www.geocities.com/groenewegendavid/MCoGHooked.htm

This is the BEST cartoon ever. I am addicted. Sorry my first son will be named Daddy's name Esteban or Tao

Modesty is Back

Hi
Being Modestly dressed is back in fashion. yeepee. So if you want to talk about this on my upcoming talk show, let me know.
Thanks
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Ketchup

Did you know that unless you ask for ketchup at McDonald's you wont get any?

Can someone please tell me?

Yeah, is it normal to sleep around like this chick. http://bossip.com/labels/Kim%20Kardashian.html or Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan or girls coming back home on a saturday or sunday really early morning wearing last's night clothes, heels and little purse and everything. So it makes you think. I call this the walk of shame.

I dont think so but it seems it is an accepted norm now a days to sleep around and increase your chances of getting a STD, pregnant, and labeling a woman into a fast one.

I overheard a talk at a restaurant yesterday where one woman said that most women's libido is about a 9.5 and its normal to sleep around and explore sexuality. I really dont think sexuality should be an open issue and that it is okay to have a much lower libido. Everyone has different normal.

what do you think?

This clip is bittersweet - its with Billy Bob!

http://www.atomfilms.com/film/last_real_cowboys.jsp

I think Billy Bob Thornton is a kool actor! (cool) hehe

He is not a baby faced wanna be GQ but he does not care to be different. See this clip.

He also was married to one of my favorite actresses of all time, Angelina Jolie.

Skip and Smile

http://www.iskip.com/

Start Skipping. I often skipped. I like it. Makes me believe Im a child though I am currently in an older body. It brings me joy! Skip away!

Pixy dude - check it out

He is a cult classic.
http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/photo_closeups_buny.htm

Funniest SNL Clip/word of the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Qe3A3fg_Y

Word of the Day - I cant believe this term is in there. I heard it back 20 years ago or so
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=carajo+land

i thought this was a fox

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/shiba.htm

I never have seen this type of dog before and once I saw it, I thought, how cute a little domesticated fox!

Check this film out!!!

http://www.broadcaster.com/clip/10288

Its Koko's birthday!

http://www.koko.org/friends/index.koko.html

Playing by heart

Hello
I saw this movie and I felt connected with Gillian Anderson's character. Great film about love and relationships from different angles. http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9901/25/review.playingbyheart/
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check this one! its fun and its Paris!

http://www.gurl.com/play/games/paperdoll/results/0,,672019-123,00.html?contentID=672019&nextPagePath=%2Fplay%2Fgames%2Fpaperdoll%2Fresults&x=55&y=13&top=1&mid=2&bot=3

I know its not Christmas...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeMAA9Y6Qzs&NR=1

But I like seeing little Pebbles with parachute going down the chimney!

Sage is my codename

Hi
For many years, I have strongly identified with Xena, the warrior princess. But as you all know, her show went defunct back in 2001. Ever since no one has filled the void. As I am searching for sage color of a dress I will be wearing for an event, I found this picture and profile and this is me in marvel comic universe! http://marveldatabase.wikia.com/Sage

Mr. Winkle

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Hi
I never heard of Mr. Winkle but my friend Sensible Selena mentioned Mr. Winkle to me today. He is cute and adorable and a bichon mix!

I want this dog! I will put bling bling on her too!

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Beware of Vitamin Shoppe

Hello

Even though I prefer Vitamin Shoppe better than GNC, I may start reordering from Netrition and wait the 2 days or buy from InVitamin instead. Why? Well, I just dont like the fact that when I walk into Vitamin Shoppe and ask for a supplement, I am referred to the register and automatically be given the bigger bottle available. No regard to my finances or preferance.

So when I was at the registered and noticed that the CLA the cashier gave me was the bigger bottle (no prices on the bottle on them by the way) and then I looked in back of me there were more CLA bottles of all sizes, I picked the smallest one. Same thing with my Glucosamine. I was given the biggest bottle.

I dont like this practice and I will sure mention this for all bloggers to read!!!

If this happens to you, ask for the smaller bottle. Dont let them fulfill their quota on your behalf!

Age of Aquarius

As a frustrated singer, I love karaoke. It gives me a chance to sing my throat and diaphragm out and make my friends cringe at the same time. I like age of aquarius and insane in the brain!!! And of course, that song by Patsy Cline...

Leave my eyebrow's alone!

Hi
Every time I go to the nail place for either to get a manicure, pedicure, waxing, whatever, the little Asian lady insist that I need an eyebrow wax. What for? So then my brow will be so small that I have to pencil it in. i dont think so. I like the Brooke Shields type (She is also a Gemini).

I got to get a manicure soon and I know I will hear this today.

Today I am 7 years old

Thats right! 7 is equal to 3 plus 4, the numbers for my biological age.

I want to sing, boogie, and dance.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/05/31/law-blog-lawyer-of-the-day-andrew-speaker-not/

What other lawyers think of Mr. Andrew Speaker's lovely public health/ biological terrorist act.

Goodbye 33!

Hello

Today is my last day of being 33 or really 6 years old. waaa

It also means that if I survive today, I will have outlast my father. May he rest in peace.

Anyway, this year have been very different and steered me to other waters which at a moment in time, I was unfamiliar with.

Though as a warrior, I was finally able to prevail and take charge. But I almost drowned. Having this blog and having your support helped me prevail one of the most difficult moments in my life.

Also age 33 is the age that Jesus Christ was cruxified.

Maybe 33 is meant to be an age of great dissonance and self sacrifice.

I want to thank all who have been reading this blog and provided me with support to move on.

Now I have a new outlook at life, new job, some new friends, and new love (who has no demon spawn!!!) - he is a techie, tall, dark, and handsome.

Also remember today is Marilyn Monroe's birthday - she was a poor lonely soul who despite all the male attention and affection, she was a little girl. I feel a connection to her. All her ex hubbies saw different sides to her. She would have been 81 years old.

Love
Letty

TB Story - Cassandra Crossing?

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This TB story about this pompous, arrogant man with no concern for others except for his inflated ego reminds me of an old star casted film, Cassandra Crossing, with Burt Lancaster and Sophia Loren. Ever since I have been a child, I have had a strong interest in public health and this film triggered my interest then. Now, this man from Georgia was worst than that sick TB passenger in that film! (OJ Simpson plays a bad guy there)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/us/31tb.html?ref=us

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_crossing

http://www.cdc.gov/tb/xdrtb/

As a public health graduate, my worry is that the passengers who came in contact with him are now carriers of this non-treatable form of TB. Victims to this selfish man. If someone who already had a lowered immune system, like a cancer or HIV patient or even the elderly, came in contact with this public health fiend, these patients will most likely manifest a quicker demise than this cretin.

Im sorry, I have NO tolerance for a man with prior notification that he is a public health hazard with the rarest form of TB.

I think this man is as bad or worst than people who actively and consciously spread HIV and other STDS to others.

i wonder if this is the same young billionaire techie I met years ago in one of my travels who pompously told my friend and I that he has already traveled to all 340 countries a few times and does not believe in using protection. Who knows.....

TB Story - Check if you were in one of those flights

http://www.cdc.gov/tb/xdrtb/caseflighthistory.htm

This lovely US citizen traveled from:

Georgia to France to Athens to Thira to Myconos to Athens to Rome to Prague to Montreal to NYC

He is worst than the the guy from STAND.

Best Movies in the past few years

So far, my pick are:
1. Million Dollar Baby
2. Little Miss Sunshine
3. Napoleon Dynamite
4. Waitress
5. Hustle & Flow
6. Harold and Kumar goes to white castle


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No Subject

I pray that every day is a new day to thank the Lord for a new chance to live....


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Cry me a river....

I found a recent clip by Rita Coolidge. I think that song is so appropriate when grieving.

My thoughts are, when we grieve, why are we actually grieving, for the lost contact, the lost of continuitiy of feeling or what?




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Waitress

Go see it! I really liked the Earl character. There are men like that out there! For real!!!


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Im Back

Yes, I am back!!!

Im free!!! I will write more stuff more often. Sorry I have neglected all of you for a long time.




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A note about race relations...

Hey All

My friend shared this article -  
" Like Latinos, we just simply are not considered "American" enough despite being born in the US and speaking perfect English."
 


March 4, 2007

Trying to Crack the Hot 100

By MIREYA NAVARRO
LOS ANGELES
AS a child of Detroit, Harlemm Lee says soulful music runs through his veins. Mr. Lee has sung R & B in talent shows, in musicals at Disney World and even on an album he recorded in the 1980s as he pursued a music career after high school.
Then in 2003 he won the NBC reality show “Fame,” gaining national attention and another record contract. Mr. Lee thought it was his big break, but he is about to turn 40 this year and is still working as a secretary, still waiting to make it as a singer.
Of all the factors that have shaped his career in a fickle industry, Mr. Lee said he is sure about the one that has hurt him most: looking Chinese.
“In terms of finding an advocate in the industry, the Asian thing has been the critical factor,” said Mr. Lee, who is of Chinese and Filipino descent. “You don’t fit.”
There are Asian-American stars in sports, movies, television and classical music. But the “Asian thing” is what Mr. Lee and many other aspiring Asian-American singers say largely accounts for the lack of Asian-American pop stars. People in the music industry, including some executives, have no ready explanation, but Asian-American artists and scholars argue that the racial stereotypes that hobble them as a group — the image of the studious geek, the perception that someone who looks Asian must be a foreigner — clash with the coolness and born-in-the-U.S.A. authenticity required for American pop stardom.
Asian-Americans may be expected to play the violin or know kung fu, some artists and scholars say, but not necessarily to sound like Kanye West or Madonna, or sell like them. The issue came to the fore most recently on “American Idol,” where a Korean-American contestant, Paul Kim, 24, said he was giving music one last shot after many disappointments.
Mr. Kim, who sang ballads for the show, was praised by the judges for his “range” and “tonal quality,” but he was among the first four contestants to be voted off by viewers after the first round. While he was still on the show, Mr. Kim wrote on his MySpace.com page that “I was told over and over again by countless label execs that if it weren’t for me being Asian, I would’ve been signed yesterday.”
Some in the music industry note that there is no dearth of Asian-Americans or Asians of mixed race in the ranks of successful record producers (Chad Hugo of the Neptunes), rock bands (Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park) and pop and hip-hop groups (Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls and Allan Pineda Lindo, whose professional name is Apl.de.Ap, of the Black Eyed Peas), and musicians in general.
But where is the Asian-American Justin Timberlake, Prince or Christina Aguilera?
Asked to name the most recognizable Asian-American pop solo singer today, older generations might say the Hawaiian singer Don Ho, but younger Asian-American artists agreed on one person: William Hung, the “American Idol” castoff who became an overnight sensation in 2004 for his off-key rendition of Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs.”
“By and large the music industry hasn’t done a great job cultivating Asian-American talent,” said Jon Caramanica, music editor at Vibe magazine. “Because there’s no significant tradition in the mainstream, it becomes that much harder to become that breakthrough artist.”
Scores of young Asian-American singers are trying to become that artist. Like aspiring musicians of all stripes, they have created their own parallel universe, and many are writing songs and putting out music on the Internet, playing shows in small clubs and Asian festivals and sometimes starting their own labels. Some get play for their songs and videos on niche cable television channels and a few are even performing abroad and recording in Asian languages. In fact, some South Korean entertainment companies regularly hold auditions in cities like Los Angeles to scout for Asian-American talent.
“There are very talented Asian-Americans out there,” said Michael Hong, founder and chief executive of ImaginAsian Entertainment, a multimedia company that features Asian-American artists. “The only problem is nobody is signing them.”
Some are being signed, but the roster tilts heavily toward mixed-race Asians whose looks are racially ambiguous, like Cassie, an R & B singer of Filipino and African-American descent whose song “Me & U” was one of last year’s hottest summer hits, some Asian-Americans artists noted.
In this parallel universe, there is even an Asian-American Idol contest in the San Francisco Bay Area, which has a large Asian population. The contest has been held by Element, an event production company, for as many seasons as the national show has run on Fox.
Christine Joy Villano, whose professional name is Christine Joy and who won this local Idol contest four years ago, said she tried out for “American Idol” in 2004 with her version of Aretha Franklin’s “Natural Woman,” but didn’t make it past the auditions. Last fall, she moved to Atlanta to pursue her music career more seriously.
A compliment she often hears, she said, is that “You sing like an African-American woman.” But she does not want to hear that. “You want people to say: ‘She can sing!’ ” Ms. Joy said. “ ‘Who cares what she is? She needs to be a star!’ ”
Phil Chen, 23, the lead singer of an all Chinese-American alternative punk rock band, 8PAST, in the San Francisco Bay area, said: “I’ve had a lot of people come up to me after we play and they say, ‘I didn’t know what to expect with an Asian band.’ But they’re impressed. We’re not just kids who do math very well.”
Some artists say so much is percolating in the underground that more Asian-American talent is bound to start bubbling up soon.
Natalise, a 22-year-old pop singer of Burmese and Chinese descent whose single “Love Goes On” was a local radio hit in 2002 while she attended Stanford University, has been able to parlay her forays into YouTube, MySpace and her own Web site (www.natalisemusic.com) into bigger exposure. She has had some of her songs, which she also writes, featured on local commercial radio and MTV shows like “Next” and “My Super Sweet 16.”
“I feel that we’re on the brink of something huge and it’s just a matter of time and effort,” said Natalise, who lives in Los Angeles and is recording her third album on her own label.
A talent executive with a major label who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for his company said he knew of no “inherent bias” against singers of Asian descent and said he was at a loss to explain why so few make it to the top. “It’s a matter of who contacts you, who gets representation, who builds a following, who’s out there playing clubs that people hear about,” he said.
Natalise’s manager, Andy Goldmark, said that Asian-Americans have lagged behind not because of discrimination but because they have yet to create their own popular music sound the way African-Americans and Latinos have.
“Asian-Americans have tended to follow what’s going in the pop world rather than use the Asian-American path to invent new things,” said Mr. Goldmark, a songwriter and music producer and a former vice president for talent at Jive Records.
He said many artists are beginning to find their voice and are incorporating Asian instruments into their music or writing lyrics that address issues like how Asian men feel about Asian women who date Caucasians.
But Asian-American artists face other challenges. Making up only 4 percent of the country’s population, they are too small a market, and too fragmented in language and nationalities, to offer a solid springboard for its aspiring stars the way other ethnic groups have done, said Oliver Wang, a music journalist who teaches about race and popular culture at California State University in Long Beach.
Similarly, there are limited marketing mechanisms at their disposal. “We don’t have BET,” said Mr. Hong of ImaginAsian. “We don’t have Telemundo, to have these artists be taken seriously.”
That is why the case of William Hung stings, some artists admitted. Of all the Asian-American singers trying to make it, the one who seemed to have no trouble finding the limelight was a comic figure. “For Asian-Americans it was a collective cringe,” said L. S. Kim, a professor of film and television studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
But Mr. Hung, 24, a Hong Kong native and an only child who lives with his parents in the Los Angeles area, takes exception to those who think he is a joke. And if he is a joke, he is at least a profitable one.
Since his brush with “American Idol,” he has put his engineering studies on hold to record three albums (with sales of 200,000, 35,000 and 7,000 units respectively) and perform at concerts, events and private and corporate parties. “I think I represent a symbol of hope,” Mr. Hung said in a telephone interview, explaining his appeal. “I tell people all the time to never give up and keep trying until they succeed.”
That is also the philosophy of the rapper Jin, who already has a name in hip-hop circles but is still aiming for the hit song that will propel him into the stratosphere. A 24-year-old who gained fame about five years ago by winning freestyle rap battles on BET, Jin (whose last name is Au-Yeung) was signed to the label Ruff Ryders but his album did not sell well. So he went back to basics, growing his fan base through the Internet and his own label. Recently, he released an album in Cantonese, “ABC,” in which he raps about being an American-born Chinese man.
“I just need to prove ‘This guy is hot,’ ” Jin, who lives in New York, said during a stopover in Los Angeles on his way to Beijing for a Chinese New Year’s performance last month. “If the music is incredible, it’s not tough to market it.”
Mr. Lee, who has found success elusive for more than 20 years even though he won “Fame,” is also hopeful. He still gets fan mail and takes dance classes three hours a day. “I’m just one story,” he said. “We need to keep knocking on those doors.”

Warrior Links

Warrior's Walk - Only space for 72 more :-(

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6372839,00.html

 

Warrior/Amazon mentality

http://sfhelp.org/popIF/warrior.htm

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Perky Duck - another reason to consider Vegetarianism!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/perkys-one-lucky-duck/2007/01/23/1169518692896.html

Old PC/Laptop Wanted

Dear Readers

 

I want to go back to my techie roots so if you have a spare pc (not MAC), please let me know of price/or possble bartership.

 

I prefer one with windows xp pro and some shells (programming)

 

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Geminis are one of the best drivers - yeepee

 http://autos.aol.com/article/general/v2/_a/drivers-by-sign/20061229122009990001

 

now it is time for me to get my driver's license

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Read This Interesting Article on Virgin Births - Applicable to Humans?

 http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanId=sa003&articleId=C61B0F6E-E7F2-99DF-3BB99A2F0F7F8802

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BACK TO WORK - BOOHOO

Hello

I just received this email excerpt and I think that this surgery was a little too Twilight Zonish. I have been working in the field of organ transplant for more than a decade and I have enable thousands - directly and indirectly- obtain a new lease of life, but this following type of transplant is not really enhancing life and it is not saving anybody's life!

www.donatelife.org
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Penis Transplant Removed After Two Weeks
By Marilynn Marchione
Associated Press
posted: 19 September 2006
04:28 pm ET

Chinese doctors say they successfully transplanted a penis on a man who lost his own in an accident, but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man and his wife.

The case appears to be the first such transplant reported in a medical journal—European Urology, published by the European Association of Urology.

The Chinese doctors could not be reached for comment, and their report does not explain how the 44-year-old man lost his penis. It says only that "an unfortunate traumatic accident'' left him with a small stump, unable to urinate or have sex normally.

Surgeons led by Dr. Hu Weilie at Guangzhou General Hospital performed the transplant in September 2005, a hospital spokesperson said Tuesday. The penis came from a 22-year-old brain-dead man whose parents agreed to donate his organ.

"There was a strong demand from both the patient and his wife'' for a transplant, and the operation "was discussed again and again'' and approved by the hospital's ethics committee, Hu writes in the journal.

Despite how shocking and radical the operation sounds, it involves standard microsurgery techniques to reconnect blood vessels and nerves.

From a medical point of view, "the main hurdle is the functional recovery,'' said Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, chief of plastic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

From arm and leg reattachments, it's known that nerve regrowth occurs at a rate of about an inch a month and often is insufficient to allow normal use, he said.

However, the ethical and psychological challenges in such cases can be even more paramount, as this and other recent transplants involving hands and faces illustrate.

"Some of the considerations for a penile transplant are the same as for a hand or face transplant,'' such as the need to take lifelong immune-suppressing drugs to prevent rejection of the new organ, Lee said.

The drugs can cause kidney and other damage, acceptable risks when the transplant involves a vital organ such as a liver or heart, but more ethically perilous when the operation is aimed at improving quality of life rather than extending it, Dr. Yoram Vardi, a neurology and urology specialist at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, writes in an accompanying commentary in the urology journal.

Psychological issues are keenly important. The world's first hand transplant recipient stopped taking immune suppression drugs and later requested that the hand be amputated.

Lee recalled speaking with the recipient of the world's first double-hand transplant in France, who told him it took months for him to accept his new hands and stop referring to one as "it.''

Fourteen days after the penis transplant, the recipient and his wife requested that the organ be removed "because of the wife's psychological rejection as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis,'' the surgeons report in the journal.

Lab examination showed no sign of rejection, the doctors report.

If adequate attention had been paid to the need for counseling and other psychological concerns surrounding the transplant, "the need for penile amputation could probably have been avoided,'' Vardi wrote in his commentary.

* Micropenis Enlarged with New Surgical Technique
* Circumcision: Fact, Fiction and Hype

The Steps & Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S8x3hrJhkE&NR

This is a clip of Rocky Balboa doing his training. So inspirational!! Loved it! Great way to start a year. He was a late bloom talker just like me.

God willing, when yours truly will be in Phili, I want to mimic the Rocky Steps. I want to run up the down the stairs and have a friend take a picture of me cheering at the top from both angles! i cant do this with heels so Sketchers - here I come!

Hugs
L