i finally finished kingdom hearts 2. the final battles were just a mess of confusion to me... i just kept looking for the stupid reaction commands. what a weird fight. on the other hand, i finally beat sephiroth! i died like 4 times before i beat him, and i'm a pretty high level too! man i'm a wuss. i couldn't finish all the sidegames because i suck at them so i don't get the super duper secret ending. but i downloaded that awhile ago and watched it.

this weekend, went skating in venice with justin, tried to give blood for "music saves lives" but got rejected (my iron is too low from all the tea drinking), and checked on mom's house in perris. my kickass bf went with me for all this. what a keeper.

i love final fantasy. just thought about the robot chicken parody of it. here it is:

Jenni Cheung at 01:02 PM

so at this place where i work, lunch is catered and free everyday. so what we're gonna have is always a mystery to me.

today i had:
red and yellow bell pepper with hummus
asian pasta salad
tuna salad
some sliced tomato in vinegrette thing
string beans and tofu
shrimp salad

they were only really small potions of each, cuz it laid pretty flat on my disposable foam plate.

ok, time for another cup of tea!

Jenni Cheung at 02:37 PM

over the weekend, i've begun to take up drinking tea. in the past, i have drank tea many-a-times, but those incidents consisted of dim sum lunchs and late college cram/paper-writing nights. however, my mother's trip down to LA to visit me and my aunt also included bringing me various "supplies", one of which was some bags of jasmine-infused white tea and an earl grey blend.

now let me introduce you to the types of beverage i have available at my house. i have diet coke, v8, red bull, tap water, and TONS of alcohol. beers, liquors, spirits, mixers, premixed drinks, i have them all. on that particular night, i didn't feel like drinking any of my options. i actually wanted juice and didn't have any, so i decided to have some tea. tea is actually really convenient for me since i have this electric water heater that's always plugged in (it's super handy to have almost-boiling water ready for making ramen.) so i opened a bag of that tea my mother gave me, and it was so fragrant! and drinking it made me feel so good and not-hungry, that i've decided since then that i'm going to start drinking tea.

actually, i've always had a lot of tea in my possession, i just never really drank much of it, because i was addicted to diet coke. oh, and because the tea bags were in my room and not in the kitchen. this tea thing is another addition to my healthy eating plan.

this plan is pretty simple. i try to eat as healthy as i can, staying below 1400ish calories a day. if i eat good all day, i can have something big at night (like the KFC famous bowl i had last night but that's another story). and i also started eating fruit. i realized that i like fruits and salads a lot more than just celery dipped in fat-free ranch. i only got celery before because i tend to let produce sit for too long and they go bad, and i'm too cheap to wanna waste it on good fruit and premade salads.

this whole week i've been pretty good so far. i've been upping my exercise (like using my ministepper a lot before work or doing situps on the exercise ball. today, i actually went jogging at 6am, even though i only did it for like 8 minutes.) eating about 2-4 servings of fruit a day (thanks to these wonderful $1 seedless watermelons my aunt got me at the market.) drinking lots and lots of water, and a lot of tea.

yesterday i actually noticed that i was slightly jittery because of the caffeine, so i made myself drink a whole liter of water before i "reward" myself with another cup of tea. that really worked! man i was pretty full that entire day from water that i didn't even wanna snack.

anyway, last night, i let myself splurge on my food intake because i've been dying to try the new KFC famous bowl. it supposedly has 690 calories according to this, but the stupid KFC i went to forgot to put in corn, i wanted to complain, but the KFC situation was kinda bad already (we walked there, found out they closed the restaurant area, walked back, then got the car and drove there), and they were close to being closed already, so i didn't bother to complain. we got a buffalo snacker (totally delicoius btw, but i didn't have any of that last nite) and the bowl (which i shared with justin.) i'm glad i only ate 2/3s or so of the bowl. it was still pretty good without the corn, but i bet if they put the corn in like they're SUPPOSED to, it would have been heavenly. i love corn. i think i'm going to write KFC and complain about that branch.

and i've been reading slashfood.com a lot lately. it inspires me, but i'm still as brokeass and lazy as ever. but tonight, i'm actually going to try some stuff from there. this morning, on my way home from justin's place, i went grocery shopping for fruits and saladstuff and OJ. i looked at the prepackaged iceberg salad and the imagery of the bag of the same stuff that's starting to spoil in my fridge. i look at the other yummy prepackage salads and at the calories, no thanx. then i remember back to slashfood.com and their rave about the iceberg wedge. so i picked up a head of iceberg lettuce for $1.50 and started looking for blue cheese dressing. most of them were a whopping 140 calories (130 from fat) per serving! fuck that. so i looked for a fat free version. i think the only one i could find was the wishbone one. and the label says "chunky" too. i've actually never really had blue cheese dressing, so i'm hoping that i won't know what i'm missing by eating the fatfree version. and i eat fat-free ranch and fat-free italian in my salads, so i'm sure this will suffice. so tonight! i'm going to try the iceberg wedge, and the watermelon fresca (not as much sugar though) that's shown on the front page of slashfood today. and with the siracha article, i think i'm going to make deviled eggs (2 boiled eggs) with siracha, mayo, and a little bit of mustard tonite. i think that would be a pretty good dinner.

this morning, i had one slice of toast with meat flavored spaghetti sauce and one cup of orange juice. when i got to the office, i had one apple and one cup of earl grey blend. now i'm drinking water. i wonder what's in store for lunch.

Jenni Cheung at 11:52 AM

so i liked my newest campic so much that i proceed to try out some vector art with it:

Jenni Cheung at 08:17 PM

so i took pics

here they are

Jenni Cheung at 05:51 PM

welcome

what is it about certain movies that evoke this overwhelming sense of self-awareness, delivered with such eloquence that inspires creativity immediately thereafter?

watching "high fidelity" with john cusack. it's a great movie, inspiring many songs that i listen to. one of the first (if not THE first) line of the movie is "which came first, the music or the misery." i didn't even notice this line until fall out boy put it in a song. but then john cusack goes on to explain this concept. like do people listen to music, and it makes them miserable (in the sense that when you listen to sad love songs, you get more sad), or does the fact that we're miserable cause us to listen to music that we can kinda relate to?

so what is love? sometimes me and justin don't get along as marvelously as we'd like sometimes. but isn't that love? i guess people have to make themselves happy, before they can be happy with other people.

so what makes me miserable? my job sometimes, my body sometimes, my parents sometimes, my life sometimes. i think most people are semi-miserable, like me. sadly, i think i take some solace in that knowledge. i'm not motivated enough to do shit about it. i keep thinking about what would motivate me enough to change parts of my life. however, as much as i bend my brain to come up with solutions, i can't summon any less-than-lifethreatening situations that would thrust my lazyass into motion. i guess i'm just ok with dealing with status-quo. i don't hate it enough. i don't care enough.

it doesn't help that my jobpeople is pushing me to learn something as fast as possible, on my own. its kinda tough when there's no motivating factor. like, i want to learn, but i need a break sometime, ya know? i can only cram so much new technology and coding into my brain in so little time.

and i realize that i'm only gonna do the least possible necessary to keep me from being officially "fat". end of story. i wanna go skating tho. wish bf would go with me.

so, i guess, in all my semi-misery, i'm pretty happy. i think my music helps me with the misery. if not, at least it helps me like my misery better.

i painted my nails blood red this morning.

Jenni Cheung at 04:47 PM

Im @ work at 1155 @ nite. Im totally drunk. im getting used 2 the work hours here. So that's why im drunk. Im typing this on my sidekick. Is it bad when I start seeing things in frames and properties like in flash and css, respectively???

This is sad. Im so drunk that every little semi-memorable event get replayed on a flash-timeline and I fill in the properties with css syntax. Omg, im dorkgirl to the max.

Jenni Cheung at 11:51 PM

here is my newest flash creation: http://invazn.com/flash/grass.html

it's my cow. of course, the "cool" thing about it isn't the actual cow. it's the infinite looping of the grass and the dynamic scrolling. yay.

and i wrote this COMPLETELY from scratch. no cut and paste code. i guess it's just against my principles to use code that i don't completely comprehend.

Jenni Cheung at 07:49 PM

i spent all day recording this song i wrote a few weeks ago: "clear". and here it is in its own flash widget that i made almost all from scratch! i did reference this page but the whole drag-playhead and clickable-timeline and loader-bar is all me. i didn't even look for online examples or anything! well, i know it isn't much, but i basically just started learning actionscripting (literally last week), so i think it's ok to be a little proud of my creation.

Jenni Cheung at 05:44 AM

i was driving home from justin's and listening to the radio. KROQ was commercials, so i switched to KIIS, and i heard this cute song with a semi-island beat and a breathy female singing. i liked it right away, just cuz its one of those songs that makes me smile. it wasn't till after the song was over that i found out from whoever the dj was that it was Paris Hilton singing that song. i was surprised, since i actually liked it. anyway, there was something sooo familiar about that song, that i wasn't able to put a finger on it until now. then i realize that the melody is amazingly similar to Culture Club's "i'll tumble for ya". pretty clever, no wonder it was a nice medody.

i thought i've seen all of hunter x hunter until i recently found it on narutocentral.com. there are actually like 30-something episodes i haven't seen! i was so excited! i think hunter x hunter is the most captivating anime i've ever seen to date. like once i see an episode, i can't stop until i run out of episodes to watch. anyway, yeah. i dig it.

at work, i've been learning flash, and two days ago, i was asked to finally do flash work on stuff that's actually FOR work. omg i felt overwhelmed since it was so recent that i started learning it. i'm not really interested in the flash/tween aspect of it as much as i'm interested with the shit i can do with actionscripting. even though i still think that flash is sucky as main website components, it's actually getting kinda fun! look out for my new flash playthings later!

Jenni Cheung at 12:32 PM