i'm totally digging the new burger king "i am man" texas style double whopper COMMERCIAL. it starts off with a guy at some fancy-schmancy restaurant being served some small tidbit of food. and that's where he's had enough. he throws down his napkin in disgust of this "chick food" and demands to have meat "man-style". he breaks into song and storms out, and then a barrage of other men joins him, holding out this big delicious looking burger, and then finally throwing a car over the bridge into a dumptruck.

what's sexier than a cute guy making a statement, eating a burger and singing on key AT THE SAME TIME? NOTHING! i love meat. i love my beefcake justin (even though he can't sing.)

Jenni Cheung at 08:04 PM

and since it's my last paycheck from this place of employment, and i have ACCRUED VACATION TIME, i think i'll do a little splurging on myself!

Seatbelt bag for $88

and i just spent like $40 at drugstore.com. but yeah, THAT BAG. i remember seeing it at the airport a long time ago and i wanted to get it. now i really can! it's not that much, but i have so many cheaper bags. i really have something against spending too much money on "girly" things. i just spend lots on gadgets, but never stuff like this. so yeah. gonna get myself a new little tote!

Jenni Cheung at 10:54 AM

about the time of last wednesday, i got this promotional email from american express (yes, i'm a proud carrier of AMEX Blue, because costco only accepts amex) from ticketmaster. usually there's so crappy shows that's a certain percent off fo AMEX holders. but THIS time around, under a certatin show, the little red caption screamed out "FREE!!" and who could pass up a free deal? not me! so i clicked the link and it led me through ticketmaster where i purchased two tickets for a total of 5.60 INCLUDING service charges and fees.

so on saturday, we went onto UCLA campus to see the holy body tattoo. the reviews from various sourcesmade it seem like a pretty interesting show and had me and justin somewhat curious. we were seated pretty far to the right, so we couldn't see stage left that well, since part of the "performance" consisted of text projected onto the whitescreen @ the back of the stage. that was evidently a very important part of it because i was lost as to why the peformers were scratching themselves to the beat. it was reminiscent of the scene in "requiem for a dream" where there was beautiful symphonic music paired with each of the characters going absolutely insane. it was beautiful (the scene in the movie, not the dancing.) i think i just couldn't appreciate this instance of contemporary dance because i found no skill with it. justin and i left 30 minutes into it (it was supposed to be a 90 minute show.)

on thursday, i went out with justin and his friends, because his best friend brad was in town. it was 1-dollar-beer night at howl at the moon @ universal city walk. sooo crowded. i guess dollar-nights are not the best nites to go good-looking-people watching. they were so desperate for cuter chicks that i got hit on TWICE when walking through the place to where justin's friends were WHILE HOLDING JUSTIN'S HAND. some drunk girl spilled tabasco on ryan's blazer. that's where my chinese-individually-wrapped wetnaps came in handy. anyway, i always carry my keys and wallet on a lanyard that pulls all of it together. but on that night, the little strap on my wallet broke and released my carkeys into the bar-chaos. unfortunately, i did not realized this until after we went to saddle ranch, i sang karaoke, went back to justin's place, drank a beer, took a nap and got ready to leave. so yeah, i realized my keys were gone when i wanted to leave justin's place. ryan got me a business card and justin called friday, and we got my keys back after the holybodytattoo show thing.

k-fed was not a re-spelling of fucked, but it might as well be. i am referring to kevin federline. here is a link to a video on youtube of the douchbag. after hearing a lot about mr. federline and his "poppin new single" on KROQ's kevin and bean show, i just had to download "popozao" on limewire on friday. (until then, i've only heard clips of that song.) as soon as i played the song, i started giggling @ the office, because KF literally SQUAWKS as the intro to the song. just watch the video. what a tool. poor britney.

Jenni Cheung at 10:21 PM

myspace is a monster. no, it's a great idea and all, but the idiotic users have turned their pages into illegible, browser-crashing, slow-loading, flashing pieces of junk that no internet passerby should have to endure.

here is a recent article about how myspace's code is so insecure that a user merely inserted some code into his page and it spread like a worm. the thing is, it only affected INTERNET EXPLORER users, because they're so stupid that jav-ascri-pt on 3 seperate lines is still considered valid. all this, and when i put a space after my <td> tag, i get this linebreak that i'd have to go in and spend half an hour figuring where i went wrong.

if you're reading this while using internet explorer, do yourself a favor and download FIREFOX. your webpages will load fast and look better and you don't have to deal with the atrocity that is IE.

Jenni Cheung at 12:50 PM

you know that no-scrolling main-content area?
well i thought it worked before because it DID work before. but then i wanted to add some page title thing to the right of the animals on top, so i made had to add another declation to .wrapper (where the main content sits). i was trying to play with negative margins on float. this is because of the way this page is fixed, i can't declare position:absolute on anything that i dont' want fixed to the page. and i can't hardcode it in because some pages dont' have titles.

who knew a little "position:relative;" could fuck so much shit up?

ok, and i made it so that the title does work now (on like links and such). and the right contact box is lined up now.

the new guestbook works technically as far as i know. it's just not as pretty as it could be. but it'll do for now. i'll fix that as time goes along

Jenni Cheung at 05:31 PM

anyone got passes to E3 and will take me? (well if i can get time off my new job to go) but take me please? or if i can't go let me have a pass anyway so my friend will be eternally greatful to me?

pleeeeeaaaassseeee?????

Jenni Cheung at 11:57 AM

as you might have noticed, it's a new layout. i'm trying to utilize my newfound css skillz more, so i'm still playing around with elements. i have to fix that righthand "clickme" thing for IE because when expanded the black part doesn't match up, i think.

i also downloaded a guestbook script, so i can host my own guestbook soon and do away with the gross IFRAME thing that's the guestbook now. so that means i'd have to start over with entries. but then with my own script, i can customize everything perfectly, so i can phpinclude the current header and footer. it'll be prettier. so imma take the guestbook off for now.

i'm also pondering a new favicon, because this heart thing doesn't go with the current design. FYI, this broken-heart icon i'm using, i've hand crafted pixel by pixel. i didn't copy or imitate or use ANY design from ANYWHERE as a reference in this icon-creation. i did use the standard shapes included with photoshop for some of the elements of my layout though. i can't quite draw woodland animals. but yeah, i love drawing little icons pixel by pixel! that's what i've been doing at work sometimes. fun shit. so yeah, what should i do for my new favicon that'd perfecly aliased?

some of the thingies on my website are kinda glitchy i know, but i'm trying to minimize the usage of javascripts. right now there are only 4 functions that are used throughout the site, and they're contained in less than 40 lines of code. one's for popup windows, one's for hide/show layers, one's for the dynamic loading of images used in the gallery, and one's "function MM_findObj" that dreamweaver put in, and i dont' feel like deleting that cuz i'm not quite sure what that does. but it seems important, and it's short, so it's ok.

once again, i hate IE. it's such an ugly renderer. so illogical. it's screwing up my beautiful layout plans.

Jenni Cheung at 10:12 AM

saturday afternoon i finally IMed him and told him my of my frustration. he said sorry for being an ass and that he said that he wouldn't take care of me out of anger. then he came over and brought me a double cheeseburger mighty kid's meal from McD's and a sobe green tea. he knows that a double cheeseburger always wins me over. i love mcdonalds and i love justin ^_^.

Jenni Cheung at 09:59 AM

and maybe we could talk this over, cause i could be your best bet, let alone your worst ex. so honestly, how could you say those things, when you know they they don't mean anything? i wanna hate you so bad, but i can't.

this is all wrong, and it shows. you've got this silly way of keeping me on the edge of my seat. but you're only counting the clock against the train. and i'm MISERABLE, oh, and you're just getting started. i'm miserable...

you've got me right where you want me. let's never talk about this again because... i didn't want it to mean that much to me. i didn't want it to mean that much to me.

anyway, yeah

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all of the above is from taking back sunday's "bike scene". i'm awake at 5am, and this is the first song that came to mind. actually i could not think of the title right away, but i knew the words, so i had to do some googling to figure out which taking back sunday song this was. that's the trouble when all their titles don't corrospond to any of the lyrics of the songs.

i'm not much of a night owl, so no, i haven't been awake all night. since i was all pissed at the bf, i wanted to hang out with someone and have a nice meal and an alcoholic beverage or two. i know i shouldn't, because i'm so sick, but what the hey, i'm pissed. so me and matt finally hung out after like not seeing him for a whole half a year. it was fun catching up and ranting about our significant others. the place we ate at @ the promenade had this teriyaki alfredo chicken thing. it was pretty damm good. GENIUS idea to mix the two sauces. he wanted crepes afterwards, but i was full, so i had mojito. i'm not a big fan of sweet crepes. i think i like cheese and meat on mine. or at least some sort of tomato.

anyway, i got home around 11:30, or maybe earlier, but by the time i remember looking @ the clock it was 11:30. i had fun and all, but i'm still miserable. i'm still coughing like crazy, i'm stuffed up, bf still hasn't called to see how i am. but whatever, i was tired, so i went to sleep at 12.

now i'm up. i woke up around 4:30 feeling shitty and somewhat bewildered. you know what feeling when you wake up halfway through the night, but you're tired, and you don't know what the fuck is going on? it's like "why am i awake? what time is it? what DAY is it?" yeah, bewilderment. anyway, i feel like shit, and after a few minutes, i realized again in my grogginess that i'm super sick and i'm physically miserable and justin still hasn't called. i jumped in the shower hoping it'd make me feel better. i do feel a little bit better, but now my hair is wet.

i just feel so betrayed. last time i was getting really sick the guy i was dating didn't wanna take care of me either. is it so hard to find a nice guy that'd take care of me when i'm sick? and this time, HE's the one that got me sick after i've been taking care of him a whole week. that's what i'm mad at. the fight before is one of those i usually forget about in an hour. abandoned at the time of need... imma take some tylenol cold & flu and some unisom and play kingom hearts until sleep drifts over me again...

Jenni Cheung at 04:34 AM

so we're fighting again. he wanted to go to a coworker's farewell drink-gathering after work and wanted me to go with him. i don't mind going to things like that with him , but i hate how he treats me at those things. he doesn't treat me like a gf. like, i don't wanna make out with him or anything in front of people we work with (nor in public), but i'd like to be able to hold his hand the way i normally do when we go out. this isn't a company organized thing, so it's not like we're on the clock or anything. what is wrong with holding your gf's hand in public? i'm not super clingy, but i wanna be able to act how i naturally do up to holding hands. is that too much to ask?

so i'm ok with him feeling that way. so i told him he could go to that, and i'll see him afterwards, and i totally don't mind. i just don't like going to those things cuz it makes me uncomfortable how he treats me. so i think with this way, we both can win, right? then he starts flipping out on me about how i'm not understanding and how i can't compromise with him for just 15 minutes. but i think i'm being reasonable. if it make me feel uncomfortable, i don't see why i have to go, esp when i'm not stopping him from going. i'll just seeing him afterwards.

he says he wants me to go because whenever he "goes to these things, people ask why doesn't jenni come." when he said that i didn't know what to think because i never heard about any events, because justin certainly has not invited me to any. and if coworkers are asking HIM why i'm not there, evidently they know we're dating already. so what's the big fuckin' deal with holding my hand?

its such a double standard. if he wants to act like coworker-ish when we're gonna be around our coworkers, he should allow me the freedom to choose to not go. so now he won't come see me till monday, even though he promised me earlier that he'd take care of me this weekend cuz i'm getting sick and i took care of him all last week when he was sick. what a fuckin asshole.

Jenni Cheung at 04:36 PM

the show was soooo good! i think they're my #1 favorite band at the moment. even though i've seen them twice before, i don't recall adam doing all these very metrosexual hand gestures. ahh i don't care, i still love them! i bought the preorder to their new cd for only $11 and it came with a free tshirit and an autographed cd cover. good deals make me spend money.

Jenni Cheung at 04:34 PM

it was just about the WORST concert i've ever been to! i love all the bands that were playing (hawthorne heights, all american rejects, fall out boy) but the ACOUSTICS in there was sooo bad that i couldn't take it anymore.

to start off the night, it was raining shits and monkeys, so we parked and had to bear the rain while we walked to the arena. when we got inside, hawthorne heights was playing their 3rd to last song. it sounded so bad. i thought to myself "maybe it's just them... i've only kinda seen them at warped tour once and i got kicked in the head that time." so justin and i went to get a beer. there were 15-yr-olds galore. about 20 minutes pass, then all american rejects come on. i saw them at the troubadour once, and they were pretty good. but still they sounded horrible last night. what made it worse was that we were standing behind these 16-yr-old or so girls that were dancing like CRAZY to the AAR songs. it was so annoying. then we moved, and we ended up in FRONT of some other 16-yr-old girls that thought that AAR songs were fun to dance to.

i've never wanted to leave a show with bands i loved this badly. i really wanted to leave when AAR starting playing. but i stopped myself because i'm enamored with fall out boy and i didn't want to pass up the chance that they might make this venue sound good. their show in october was just about the BEST show i've ever been to. so i had to stick it out for awhile.

so when they finally came on. i was excited. they started off playing "Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued" and this is a good song and all, but for some reason, they changed one note of the chorus and it was so annoying. in the chorus "we're only liars...", the 'ly' was raised a 4th above the original note in the album version, and this was EVERY "only" in the chorus. this was done throughout the WHOLE song. how annoying. their second song was so distorted, i could barely tell what it was. we left during the third song. it was THAT BAD. this is a crappy venue. never again will i get tickets to a concert at this place again.

this was horribly disappointing. i still love fall out boy, cuz their albums are pretty solid. but no more big arenas. i'll settle with the knowledge that i saw them from 3rd row last time and they were awesome. i can't wait till the taking back sunday show tomorrow at house of blues. that's always a good venue, so small and intimate.

Jenni Cheung at 10:05 AM

tonight is the big UCLA game. so i was really looking forward to get off work today to come home to play kingdom hearts. the drive home was pleasant in the first half. it was the first time i've seen daylight when leaving the office in a long time! it's amazing what some sunlight can do to the human soul.

so when i get home, i chatted with mary (my housemate who's a law student) while i prepare my instant udon noodles and soco amaretto lime. there's march madness mayhem goin on outside and all i can think of is my noodles and kingdom hearts.

i've decided to turn my cam on so you can see my gaming dorkly . so if you see this in the next 4 hours or so, i'll actually be LIVE!

here's the link: http://jennicheung.com/live.html

Jenni Cheung at 07:19 PM