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April 18, 2005 - Ok, class…today we are going to discuss the viability of Stephanie Powers as Anna in “The King and I”.  I’ve got nothing personal against her but, COME ON, how old is that woman?  Nevermind, I’ll tell you…63.  She’s 63, but I’m supposed to believe that she has a kid around12.  Right.  The whole time she was up on stage, I kept thinking – ‘oh, look…it’s GRANDMA…”  She sounded like Mrs Potts from the Beauty & the Beast.  Now, on the flip side…she *DOES* look great for being 63.  But again, it’s all about role suitability & this one wasn’t it.

SPAAAAAHHHHHH…it’s the greatest thing.  We (Alice, Jennifer, & I) had a spa day with our moms.  It was great.  I didn’t want to leave, but I was pretty darn hungry.  The new Burke Williams Spa at the Torrance Town Center is really nice.  I ran into Darrell M’s friend, Michelle, who is now a new employee there.  It’s a small world after all. 

Last night finished off with a nice dinner to Cinnabar in Glendale.  Henry said he had he best duck he’s had in a long time there…so I order the duck.  It was pretty bad – he even had to agree on that one.  The chocolate fondue thing was actually pretty good – probably the best thing of the evening.  It certainly didn’t rate the 25 it received from Zagat.  (they had it posted near the entrance)

Plans for this week:  Costa Rica!!  WOOO HOOO! I’m not prepared at all to go but I’m sure I’ll wing it by then.  It should be a fun trip.  If I don’t make it back home alive, it’s been a pleasure knowing all of you.


April 11, 2005 -
Sorry I missed last week, folks.  There wasn’t anything new to report.  So my latest venture – trying to roll over my 401(k).  I’m a college grad.  Not that it makes me any more intelligent than a non college grad, but to a certain extent it shows that I had the tenacity to graduate from college by studying…a past time that I particularly don’t care for.  Well…if the truth was to be told, I really didn’t study – it was only by the grace of God that I graduated.

In any case, I’ve been putting off finishing up the paperwork mostly because I just don’t know what the heck I’m supposed to provide them with.  I read the instructions and I swear…it LOOKS like English…it just doesn’t read like English.  It’s jibberish!!  What’s more – I was a business major…you’d think that I’d understand most of the terms & phrases being used.  Nope…not so much.  So, basically, I’ve got two accounts – one that is a 401(k) from my former place of employment and another that’s just waiting to receive the funds from my former place of employment…and no clue of how to sync the two together.  I just don’t want to mess up & be dinged for taxes – that’s my biggest fear.  Well, no…my biggest fear is dying in a tornado in Oklahoma City but that’s another story all together.

Another quirk – the Asian Community.  You remember that movie “Six Degrees of Separation”??  It’s even less in the Asian Community.  I had dinner with Shirley, Roger and their friends on Saturday night.  I went to school with Noriko for about 6 months in elementary school…her fiancée, Nate, went to church with my Pastor…and his friend, Mark, played basketball with one of the deacons of my church.  Freakish.  I think that’s what I appreciate about the Hakujin community…nobody knows anybody and they like it that way.  The Asian community – EVERYBODY knows SOMEBODY (or is related to them) and they’re all in everyone’s business.