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Sweeeet my Way: a little rotation excercise for your neck
Saturday, Oct 11, 2008 11:09AM / Standard Entry / Members only
me, on campus..hehe... remember this hat? anyone?? yeap, am a BIG hat girl..
don't forget to rotate your neck to the left side too !
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Road Home - my Olympiad: the bird's nest
Friday, Oct 10, 2008 1:35PM / Standard Entry / travel world / Members only
(a closeup: China National Stadium, aka the Bird's Nest)
(even closer...)
(inside the nest)
(aisle inside)
(a blond volunteer at entrance to inside the stadium) Off tOpic: i knOw whO the next US president is by nOw. with withOut me vOting fOr him. yes. he is the One
gOtta suppOrt the new president, he is the new hOpe fOr America!
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Travel the World: Seoul Korea, unfinished trip Pt. 2
Tuesday, Oct 7, 2008 3:12PM / Standard Entry / travel world / Members only
breakfast alone.
view from hotel cafe window. (Lotte shopping district)
went, to embrace my reality. ended up, a dream in a rainbow-colored da bubble for two. a heartbroken first date in a foreign foreign land. left with bags of regrets never before in life...
Seoul, where we were two monkeys plucking the moon from water - moments, never have courage to relive again
..........................but came out stronger than ever .
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My This Simple Life: true love
Friday, Oct 3, 2008 3:23AM / Standard Entry / relation / Members only
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Life in Hollywood: hiking with the Big Tom
Wednesday, Oct 1, 2008 5:06PM / Event / sag-hollywood / Members only
(with Mr. Big Tom @ summit of Mt. Hollywood 
)saw the "news" on The Hollywood Call Sheet the other day, reminded me of a hiking experience this summer...
this guy at foothill, everybody seems knowing him and everybody calls him "Tom," looks at me - the lone hiker from an unknown planet, "where are you from?"
"China," i said. i saw a big child behind a pair of innocent and soft blue eyes.
"Hsie Hsie!" he said, and that, became my nickname for the trip.
such a people person, his warmth/enthusiasm toward everybody feels equal and sincere. and his energy surpasses all the younger hikers around him (about 5 or 6 of us the late comers). with a natural tendency, his eyes keep searching for people that he considers *in need.* me, being the most spontaneous and impulsive hiker in the group not willing to miss any chance of discovering new mountain views (but i know NOT to get lost from the group!!), was soon collected by Tom under his caring wings...
"Hsie Hsie! we always turn left! remember you only turn left!!"
"Hsie Hsie! don't get lost!!!"
"Hsie Hsie! we're here!!!!"
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his shouting accompanied me throughout the trip, and his weaving hand is always above my head somewhere, from a few hundred feet to a mile away felt like...
and we, arrived the sunset summit, at the SAME time.
a snoopy stranger came up to me and asked, "how did you know Tom? are you friends?" i told him i didn't know Tom we just met at foothill.
"you don't know who Tom LaBonge is??" he seemed shocked, "everybody in LA knows him!! you don't watch TV read news??" blahblahblah...
my usual response to questions like these would be "why should i know him if he doesn't know me." but this time i chose not answering, and walked to the food tables, which were pretty much swept by all the people arrived earlier than us.
fame, is indeed a relative thing.
in the chaos of all the speeches, laughter, applause and cheers, i heard "Hsie Hsie" several times across the crowd, but i hid behind pizza boxes, eating my cookies, fruits drinking soda... Sorry, i was hungry and thirsty and i didn't like to shout in front of a crowd.
by the time Big Tom was leaving, he found me in a corner, still eating and drinking and talking with strangers. He came to his "Hsie Hsie" to thank her for coming shake her hand and say "goodbye."
and i said to him, "now i know who you are, you have to know my name before i let you go." he looked at me like a little pupil first day at school in front of a teacher, his face VERY funny
guess what, Big Tom got my name CORRECT the first time he attempted pronouncing it!
i love this guy! i am definitely looking forward to hiking with Uncle Tom again!
(in celebration of Screen Actors Guild of America's 75th anniversary - a special sunset hike to Mt. Hollywood in Griffith Park with LA Councilman Tom LaBonge, front middle, of district 4, aka "mayor of Hollywood." SAG national VP Kent McCord, left of Tom. above photo taken from sag.org. "Hsie Hsie" is at front right
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