I love this performance, some of my favorite artists: Carrie Underwood, Josh Groban, and *sigh* Michael Buble with Tony Bennett. This is dream come true song for me. I wish this song would come out on iTunes, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Enough of the talk, enjoy!

posted by nchung @ Friday, January 18, 2008

I would love to go to Japan to eat sushi and collect cute things. I'm talking about Hello Kitty toasters and plates with panda cartoons on them. The ridiculously cute, unnecessary things that you rarely find here. Target comes pretty close sometimes, just the other day I got a dog collar with cupcakes on it :) I found a fun website that sells imported Japanese items.


Cute erasers although I never use pencils.

A towel disguised as a cake. Wouldn't it be great if these stayed warm, perfect for a cold winter day.

posted by nchung @ Friday, January 18, 2008

My laid back, no worries holiday was yanked into shock on my drive back to the medical center. I'm talking about driving my happy beetle full of shoes I did not wear down 59 and getting a call from my physician's office to confirm my appointment.

MY ULTRASOUND. Now this sounds strange seeming that I am not pregnant, that might as well be impossible for now. What ultrasound I ask... a breast ultrasound?! what kind of ultrasound!!... No she answers calmly, the ultrasound for your baby. It is pouring on the highway and I have my little Popcorn who might as well be a baby, she eats chicken dinner gerber food for goodness sake!... but after a transfer (which I demanded) I was told that someone else's charts were accidently placed in my file. Stop messing with me World!!

When I traveled to Cambodia this past summer I brought back butterflies. Five different species, all different sizes cushioned in frames. I have no idea where I am going to display them, mom especially wonders why she paid a bill on butterflies that are still resting in my panties drawer...

I read and started reading lots of books over the winter holiday: The Five People You Meet In Heaven, The Alchemist, Eat Pray Love, Become a Better You, Love in the TIme of Cholera... in the end all I really wanted to do was forget about interning this summer and buy a plane ticket to some place in europe, preferably italy. People really know how to enjoy life in Italy. PDA, pastries, pasta.

I remember walking through a town in Spain. It really looks like the movies, think Under the Tuscan Sun. Creamy stucco buildings, stone steps winding down to the center of the plaza where there's some fountain or courtyard facing bistros on all angles. Gypsies with their clinky shawls, Lacoste window displays, and Japanese tourists. Or France, it's been so long ago. The last time I met my Frenchatives was in Cambodia where my family met halfway around the world instead of in Paris... God I love that image: The lighted Tour de Eiffel at night, I'm Charlotte from Sex and the City, what can I say.

This frou frou glitz reminds me of a Parisian aparment that I will certainly recreate in four years... when I graduate!

posted by nchung @ Tuesday, January 08, 2008

This is how I often feel in pharmacy school. The hard work is just an illusion... ha!

I feel really awkward when I have free time so to avoid it, completely, I stay up into the whee hours after studying my day away and make a schedule for myself days in advance. This weekend is categorized into "Fun things I should do" "Fun things I need to do for sure" and "In between things." I have become a raging plan-ista and I wish I came up with post-its... ingenious!!



So let's see a Halloween costume needs to be formed somehow so that I can walk around Rice Vilage trick-or-treating for canned goods. No sexy cop, naughty fireman girl, or scandalous secretary... maybe another insect. I've already been a bee. buzz.

I fell in love with The Container Store this weekend. It was so organized and all about getting your life together to the point that it inspired me to completely prioritize my life via shelving, storage baskets, and hat boxes. Plus, they have super cute food containers. Different soup cups that keep your chicken noodle warm, salad cylinders with a pump storage for your dressing, a clip on utensil with a fork, spoon, knife, and I think a spork!, and a sandwich cubicle, one side for your sandwich, and the other side opens for your baby carrots and juice box. I used mine today; being organized is a better you.

I am a g-mail convert, but I especially love my iGoogle. Not a lot of people know about this, but it is a page that you can use as your homepage. You can customize it with different back drops, mine is "City Scape"! Also you can add all sorts of gadgets like a preview of your emails, pac-man, wikipedia, post-its!, and my favorite: The Daily Puppy. Everyday I look forward to seeing it and today's was especially cute, all though they are all cute in their unique fluffy way.

Meet Minion, the Boston Terrier/Minion!



The cold front came in today, also known as hell freezing over. I miss the good old tropical weather days. Not I must succumb to wanting to cuddle all day... wearing socks that reach up to my ankles, tights, two layers of clothes, and my faithful burnt orange hoodie. Oh, and I'm tired of Christmas music, I've been listening to it all month. This is going to be a lovely season!

posted by nchung @ Monday, October 22, 2007

I find that when I most strained for time I end up wasting a lot of time on unnecessary things. For instance, I have a test Monday and a paper due Wednesday among other tedious studying tasks I have to do. But instead what do I do? I start the weekend on Thursday. Oh the life!


I must say Houston is bringing back my taste buds. I mean I loved three years of one "austin" restaurant after another... unique restaurants decorated with "decorative" pots, pans, and shabby furniture, overpriced restaurants with breathtaking views, and your endless share of happy hours, especially the ones downtown!

So I admit I am the Keira (Hugh Hefner's gf), I love Olive Garden. In fact, I went today just for soup and salad. But Thursday I had a free dinner at Maggiano's to attend an informational on Zanaflex. Maggiano's is pure indulgence. I'm talking calamari, stuffed mushrooms, lemon drops, pineapple with grey goose, apple martini... followed by two kinds of salad... then for the main course a slab of lasagna, chicken piccata, salmon on spinach, and rigatoni in this creamy wine sauce... and then coffee with new york style cheesecake and tiramisu. I am converted, I have never liked tiramisu, but this tiramusu brought me into the light. The light!

So I got a free meal to learn about a drug that makes you hallucinate about hippos and kitties... just a perk of having that white coat, yay!

I am humoring myself about how lack of time is not to be blamed: After this party of flavors, I went swimming in the pool and got kicked out again for being there after hours. At least this time I got in some serious aqua cycles = 1 rigatoni. Then to Rich's to see the best friend and of course to throw out some killer moves. To my dismay, the girl in the cage was really overdoing herself with dance moves. So much that Grace thought she worked for Rich's. haha ridicularity

In other news, I have finally given up on my house blend starbucks + 2 shots toffee nut + half packet sugar to get me through my work. I am a work horse as it is, I don't need this caffeine to get me pumped up. So I decided to make the most of my energy slaving away at Rice Village instead of on this darn biochemistry paper. There I spent a blissful hour at Sephora where I discovered Burberry Brit and got a 5 minute smoky eye tutorial.



I desperately want a dog. I went to Pet's Mart and I was instantly alerted to all of the cute accessories that come with having a dog. After the "if I was a cat I would want to play with that toy" conversation, we left with a leash for the kitty. I am instantly reminded of Marie walking her cat Haaappy down the street. haha, koreans!

posted by nchung @ Sunday, September 09, 2007