Lafayette 148 Sample Sale!!
Very sorry for the late notice but my company is having a sample sale this weekend. However, Friends and Family day is tomorrow (thursday) and you can get an additional 20% off. Call or email me if you have any questions.
Lafayette 148, Inc.
148 Lafayette St. 6th Floor (between Grand and Howard Streets)
New York, NY 10013
Was reading this NYT Article and enjoyed it.
Two memorable quotes from the article I found amusing:
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"Feminists in the 70's went overboard," Anne Schroeder, a 26-year-old magazine editor in Washington, agrees. "Paying is like opening a car door. It's nice. I appreciate it. But he doesn't have to."
Unless he wants another date.
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Or, as Craig Bierko, a musical comedy star and actor who played one of Carrie's boyfriends on "Sex and the City," told me, "Deep down, beneath the bluster and machismo, men are simply afraid to say that what they're truly looking for in a woman is an intelligent, confident and dependable partner in life whom they can devote themselves to unconditionally until she's 40."
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On a side note... is it me or is are there more and more women over 30 who are pretty hot? Or is it cuz they're asian so they look naturally younger?
Adoption
Did you know that my sister was adopted? Hahahaha.... ok, I"m just kidding. Even tho we don't look alike.
I'd be pretty open to adopting kids, maybe as well as having my own. If for some reason I couldn't have kids of my own, I'd definitely adopt. I think its a natural human tendency to raise a family. Some people see it as a extension of their legacy, a way for them to live forever thru their children. Its also human nature to seek something that goes beyond one's self and hope for something better. And there are few things that offer more hope than a childs unrealized potential.
On a random note, I've briefly wondered about having children from different ethnicities. What kind of looks would we get if I walked around with son(black) and daughter(white).
You know how asian people always remark on how kids look like one parent or another?
"Such cute children...they look just like....uhm....yea..."
I doubt I'm up for the challenge of raising a multi-ethnic family.
So would you ever adopt? And would you adopt outside of your own race?
Funny article.
http://www.smartmoney.com/esquire/index.cfm?Story=20050909-outsource
Not sure if he's joking or not but he's right in one statement, America is cooked. I've seen firsthand the kind of work that can be outsourced and while we still have an advantage in terms of knowledge, let's not kid ourselves, that advantage isn't nearly as big as we think it is. These people who live in China and India come from more desparate circumstances that we've ever faced and in general are way more driven than many Americans. Its sad to think that their second or even third tier students can come into almost any American school and instantly be top 10.
Thoughts?
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Five weird habits about me:
1. I'm a cookie/icecream monster. I have very specific cookie preferences tho... I usually like them fresh baked soft... Mrs. Fields are a favorite tho I don't have them very often. I will occasionally have a craving for oreo cookies....once again, not too often cuz when I do decide to eat them it becomes a event with me buying milk and chowing down. I'm a fan of desserts with ice cream, e.g. apple pie with cinnamon ice cream, hot chocolate with vanilla ice cream. Caramel over ice cream. Yum. Yes...I'm a fatty.
2. I have occasional schizophenic tendencies. I'm normally very outgoing but have moments when I don't want to talk or socialize at all. I give and take verbal jabs all the time and usally brush them off but there are times when I'm overly sensitive to what someone says. I must have eaten something with estrogen that day. I think I naturally like balance so when someone's already talkative, I'll be quiet and if a group is very quiet I'll talk a lot. Maybe I'm just mentally ill.... I hate you all....no, no... I love you all.
3. I have a thing for girls with glasses. For some reason any woman who decides to wear a pair of glasses just looks better, cuter, hotter to me. Hubba hubba. That doesn't mean I think all girls who wear glasses are great looking...I just think they look better. Some who sport it well, look a LOT better. At least to me. Now if you add a pretty smile and dimples to go along with the glasses, watch out now! RAWWWR.
4. I can't drink beer. I think its just plain nasty. I'll do shots of tequila or all the mixed drinks you want before I willingly drink a bottle of beer. I think its the carbonation. It makes me want to burp...but when I force myself to burp, I feel food coming up. Yes...I know, very pleasant.
5. I get embarrassed by too many compliments. That doesn't mean I don't like to hear compliments, short ones that is....its just the ones that are really long that embarrass me. At my review, my manager will sing my strengths and weakness'. Honestly, I need to hear both but the praise part of it makes me uncomfortable. My face is frozen in a smile and I"m nodding my head but I will feel sooooo uncomfortable. I think its partially being raised by parents who think even if you do well, you're expected to do well so what do you need praise for? Damn Chinese parents.... j/k, I love my parents.....doh! there's that #2 thing rearing its head.
Birthday Pictures from Barna
Thanks to Mei & XO for setting it up
Thanks to Madsugah for the cake
These girls obviously did NOT know where my hands had been.
Omay, I'm touching ur gf.
OK...someone told me it was a hardcore pic. Hhahahahah. Lies!
No, Omay is not sitting on my lap. And This one is a dork. 
Current and future paddlers for Xtreme, that includes you Ginny
Definitely not sober.
Chowing down!!
Reserved for Kinsen Siu......
Uh-oh...Philson found out.
Someone save me......but take your time, ok?
I turned 30 today.... 
I was with an alcoholic last night at Bob's trying to warm up for tonight.
There have been numerous death threats against my person in the form of excessive alcohol. The thought of staying in has brought even more vehement threats. Sheesh.
Whatever.I'm going to personally take all of you down myself! Hahahahah...j/k, *runs and hides*.
Currently, Advil and H20 are my real friends.
I don't feel any different.....I still maintain that I'm young at heart even tho my body may not. That's why my future wife will need to say this to me: "I understand that you are handicapped by a natural immaturity, and I forgive you."
Prepare for drunken phone calls tonight/early morning. I may not have everyone's number so consider yourself blessed if I didn't get a chance to put your particular name in my phonebook.
Movie Quotes
I know I did a blog on movie quotes a while back but someone had a link to a site I've been going thru it... hahahah....some of my favorites:
Armageddon -
Grace Stamper: I understand that you are handicapped by a natural immaturity, and I forgive you
Karl: Sir, I'm retired navy, I know all about classified. But one more thing. The person who finds her gets to name her right?
Dan: Yes, yes that's right, that's right.
Karl: I wanna name her Dottie after my wife. She's a vicious life-sucking bitch from which there is no escape.
Dr. Banks: [going through the roughnecks' medical reports] Fail. Fail. Impressively fail! One toxicology analysis revealed ketamin, that is a very powerful sedative!
Harry: Sedatives are used all the time, doctor.
Dr. Banks: Well this one's used on horses.
Harry: Some of these guys are pretty big.
Shawshank Redemption -
Red: [narrating] In 1966, Andy Dufrense escaped from Shawshank prison, all they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I used to think it would take six-hundred years to tunnel under the wall with it, old Andy did it in less than twenty. Oh Andy loved Geology, I guess it appealed to his maticulous nature, an ice age here, million years of mountain building there, geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes really, pressure, and time. That and a big god-damned poster. Like I said, in prison a man will do anything to keep his mind occupied. It turns out Andy's favourite hobby was totin his wall through the exercise yard, a handfull at a time. I guess after Tommy was killed, he decided he had been here just about long enough. Andy did like he was told, buffed those shoes to a high mirror shine. The guard simply didn't notice, neither did I... I mean, seriously, how often do you really look at a mans shoes? Andy crawled to freedom through five-hundred yards of shit smelling foulness I can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want too. Five-Hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile.
Top Gun -
Slider: Goose who's butt did you kiss to get in here anyway?
Goose: The list is long, but distinguished.
Slider: Yeah, well so is my Johnson.
Stinger: Maverick, you just did an incredibly brave thing. What you should have done was land your plane! you don't own that plane, the tax payers do! Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash. You've been busted, you lost your qualifications as section leader three times, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter!
Goose: Penny Benjamin?
[Maverick shrugs]
Stinger: And you asshole, you're lucky to be here!
Goose: Thank you, sir.
Stinger: And let's not bullshit Maverick. Your family name ain't the best in the Navy. You need to be doing it better, and cleaner than the other guy. Now what is it with you?
Maverick: Just want to serve my country, be the best pilot in the Navy, sir.
Stinger: Don't screw around with me Maverick. You're a hell of an instinctive pilot. Maybe too good. I'd like to bust your butt but I can't. I got another problem here. I gotta send somebody from this squadron to Miramar. I gotta do something here, I still can believe it. I gotta give you your dream shot! I'm gonna send you up against the best. You two characters are going to Top Gun
Maverick: [spots Charlie for the first time] She's lost that loving feeling.
Goose: She's lo...
[catches up]
Goose: No she hasn't.
Maverick: Yes she has.
Goose: [objecting] She's not lost that lo...
Maverick: Goose, she's lost it man.
[walks off]
Goose: [to Mav] Come on!
[to himself]
Goose: Aw sh... I hate it when she does that.
Lilo and Stitch - What? I"m a kidult.... hahahahhah
Jumba: His destructive programming is taking effect. He'll be irresistibly drawn to large cities where he'll back up plumbing, reverse street signs, and steal everyone's left shoe.
Lilo: Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten.
What are your favorite movie lines?
So Tues morning I"m at my desk, eating my breakfast and going thru my email when one of the girls in my dept. go up to me and says: There's a fire in the kitchen.
I'm thinking she's exagerrating and say: You mean, there's smoke in the kitchen.
NO...I mean there's a FIRE in the kitchen.
So I head over to the kitchen... and I can smell the smoke. Doh! And sure enough, something in the toaster oven is on fire. I can see the flames. And I'm not talking about the little flame from a lighter...I"m talking the whole inside of the oven was lit up.
So I see the nearest fire extinguisher, unlock it, pull the pin, aiming it at the oven... carefully pulling down the door, half expecting a explosion of flames ala Backdraft and instead what happens is that the two english muffins without the heat of the oven fueling it are barely on fire. I blow it out with one breath. 
One of the salesgirls came in to take the blame for it. Hahahahhahahaah.
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Email later that day:
We now have both – a Toaster Oven and a Sliced Bread Toaster. Use them accordingly.
Also, the Toaster Oven has a “Timer” that will automatically turn off the oven – Please Always Use the Timer.
Any questions or instructions needed please see me.Thank you,
Kevin
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Pizza Hut
Senior year in high school and we had all gotten our licenses. So anyway, I had a friend who had moved down to Monmouth and I went down to visit him. We go shopping and afterwards decide to grab some food at Pizza Hut.
Before I continue, you have to understand that my friend was constantly trying to get a rise out of me. He'd do things like swinging the car from side to side on the road, stopping short, etc and be like:
Anyway, we're heading to pizza hut, he pulls around and is about to park and then he speeds up. So I"m thinking, whatever....he's up to his tricks. Except he doesn't slow down and actually accelerates the last 15 feet.
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Yes...that's right. We drilled Pizza Hut with his parents caravan. After a few seconds of stunned silence, I finally go.... OK, you got me.
Apparently his foot slipped off the brake pedal and onto the gas. What's worse is that the final 15 feet or so he didn't know why he was speeding up, thought he was still braking, and pressed down on the gas even more.
Customers and Pizza Hut employees are coming out of the place, they're all like... "What happened?".... "Are you alright??".... after reassuring them that we were fine, my friend and I sat in the car, still in a state of shock.
Hahhahahaha.... so after hitting the Pizza Hut with his car, my friend and I walked in, got seated, and ordered. I recall chowing down as he was staring off into space, contemplating his future demise.
Months after that incident I'd tease him about. We could be driving on a highway and see a Pizza Hut half a mile on the other side and I'd go:
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