Words of Wisdom

I finally watched Kung Fu Panda the other day and loved it. One of the best quotes from the movie:

Yesterday is history,

tomorrow is a mystery,

but today is a gift.

That is why it is called the present.

Halloweeeen!

Very delayed post. Guess what I was for Halloween this year? Usually I don’t like spending $40 on a costume that everyone else has, so I find things around my house and only buy accessories. You get get so much more creative this way. Here’s what I used to put my costume together:

Fake Eyelashes

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Cherry Red Lipstick

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Hannah Montana Wig

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Boy Scout Neckerchief

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High-waisted button shorts

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Christina Aguilera! Back from her sailor days…

Me & my sis

The hardest part of my costume was getting the fake eyelashes to stay on.

Then I found ricebunny’s anime eyes makeup tutorial. She shows you the proper way to put on fake lashes. It saved me a TON of time.

Voila!

Hello Kitty + Obama Tshirt

Another cute Obama tshirt by artist Tom Sachs:

…except this one is a whopping $60 @ Collete.

So why did Tom Sachs decide to join Hello Kitty and Obama on this momentous occasion? 2 reasons:

1. Obama love. He’s an American artist.

2. Extreme Hello Kitty love. He recently created life-size sculptures of Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters that are now on exhibit in Paris.

Images courtesy of highsnobiety.

The bronze Hello Kitty statue is actually a fountain with water pouring out of her eyes:

According to Schema Magazine,

Sachs describes Hello Kitty as a “pure merchandising icon” with “an almost Buddhist sense of nothingness.”

And back in 1994, Sachs substituted Hello Kitty for the baby Jesus in a 1994 Barneys Christmas window. Pure genius!

Japanese Obama Tshirts

Last night was, WOW. History! I’ll have another post about that later.

Earlier today, I found a funny video on Yahoo!News about people from Obama, Japan who were excited about the Obama win. They were celebrating with dancing, singing, and even special Obama noodles. Watch the video HERE.

In the video everyone was wearing these cartoon obama tshirts…super kawaii.

Then I found out they’re selling them online as well at Zazzle.com.

Click to buy them here!

Better get them fast too. I swear earlier today they were only $18, now they’re $20.

All Asians are bad drivers.

Are they really? I myself wouldn’t call myself a great driver. I would fit right into the stereotype actually. Take, for example, my track record:

• One car accident tailgating a senior citizen.
• Driving on the wrong size of the road (it was only once! and it was dark!)
• Numerous near-accidents on an occasional basis.

But to call all people of the same minority bad drivers? Because, since we Asians have genes that make us look physically alike, we also share the “bad driver” gene. At least that’s what an Insurance Fraud Ring believed. In fact, they based their whole fraud scheme on the fact that other people believed Asians are bad drivers too.

This fraud ring staged numerous accidents in Queens targeting Asian-American drivers. They hired people to crash into Asian-Americans because they thought they were “bad drivers [who] would be blamed for the accidents.” According to the NY Daily News:

Ringleaders paid their henchmen to wait for unsuspecting drivers to back out of parking lots or driveways along Northern Blvd. from Parsons Blvd. to 105th St. and then plow into them with a car full of passengers, authorities said.

The bogus “victims” would then rack up exorbitant bogus medical bills…

These medial bills totaled over $1.6 million dollars. These criminals are looking at 25 years if they’re convicted. And they better be!

What a crazy scheme. I’m surprised they’ve been able to get away for this for so long (the ring has been running since 2005). How did all these innocent Asians get charged for these crimes? I hope the ring gets convicted and gets exactly what they deserve.