9th:不思議

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BTW, I called that last post One Woman News because I wrote it all by myself. Thinking of doing more like it. Which also means, I will be blogging more. It could be a win-win. It could be my poorest attempt at writing anything since I haven’t done much recently. I guess we’ll see what happens. (I can’t believe it’s 4 am already and I mashed that out on my keyboard like 45 minutes ago). I feel like a real writer — Freelance anyway until someone wants to pay me for this, haha. Night!

Ciao, 

Tomoko

One Woman News: N.Korea Postpones Missile Launch

Dec 10, 2012 –

North Korea stated earlier today that they will extend their missile launch of Unha-III by an additional week, citing “technical difficulties.” In spite of this, it seems that North Korean technicians at the Committee of Space Technology will continue to pursue a successful launch, and have proposed a launch date of December 29^th.

The fifth launch attempt of a three-stage rocket since 1998, missile launches such as this have been seen as an attempt on behalf of North Korea to test missile technology that may be utilized in an attack on the United States amongst other possible targets. North Korea, however, claims the launch to be the next step in advancing its national space program. Previous launches of missiles out of North Korea, have done so much as to even violate United Nations Security Council resolutions, and to this day are still strongly condemned by the international community.

For North Korea, the launch is also a symbolic gesture, intended to fulfill the last wishes of former North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, who died nearly a year ago. Aljazeera reports that the technical team meant to assess the current complications with the missile, is a group of missile experts from Iran.

It is believed that the launch has been postponed because of the extreme cold-weather conditions that caused temperatures to drop below zero at the launch site in the capital of Pyongyang. For now, it seems that the two Navy ships standing guard in the Pacific, along with the rest of the world will have to wait another additional week.

New phone

Thanks so much to my sweets. The tumblr app has much improved since I last had an iPhone, I’d say. It’s cute and actually makes me want to post from my phone…..its just too bad that I have Edge and not 4g. I hate the fact that t-mobile and iPhone are not friends. They need to each sit in a corner and think about what they’ve done.

August is going to be a money-spending month

1. 2NE1 Concert in NJ (already paid for)

2. XIA Tallantellegra World Tour in NY (waiting for tix to go on sale, getting $150 seats)

3. Big Bang coming to NJ in September (getting best seats available, even VIP tickets if that is an option)

enough said.

Nevermind the fact that I have to save up $1000 for a secured credit card because I keep getting denied. I thought they always threw those things at us young, irresponsible, greed-ridden mongrels. I guess the fuck not. How annoying. I don’t usually get rejected.. but uh, heh.

Plus, I juSTTTT got back from California this past Tuesday, so I’m somewhat recovering from that… though, to be honest, I didn’t spend nearly enough money as I thought I would, and I came back with almost an absurd amount of freely spendable cash still in my checking accounts. I would have bought more shoes — um, I mean, SOUVENIRS.

(I had to spell-check that word)

Happy New Year

Happy new year, yall!

I heard its snowing in Georgia. 

I hope it skips over NY. 

… Not a chance…. 

Customers at work need to stop returning beautiful gifts. If it’s clothing, I understand if it doesn’t fit… but WHO RETURNS A BIRKIN? 

Appreciate the gift and the craftsman ship and (unfortunately) the animal’s life that ultimately went into the bag you are wearing…. And I’ll stop there before this becomes a rant. 

New Years weekend was very long and it is now Monday night and it is the first time I have been home in days. I bought myself a lovely fleece throw today. Tomorrow is the first day since October that the temperature will dip around 20-something. I wanted to be prepared. That meant buying a blanket, some new house slippers (more like fuzzy booties) and some fried chicken from KyoChon. 

Unless I go to the hair salon, I am not leaving my house for a dang thang.

Das it.

I’m gonna go back to chilling, blasting my Tablo album while the Christmas lights in my room blink away.

Happy New Year, everyone!!! 

i keep looking at the sign in the window

of the nail salon, hoping that the price for a pedicure will go down.

I look every single time.

I pass that sign about 4 nights a week.

Habits die hard.

Kimchi Jigae

When done right, is just about the most amazing thing you can eat. 

I had some last night after a failed workout with friends. We were supposed to do routine workouts every Monday, and for the second time in a row, we’ve accomplished little to nothing in terms of sweating, or calorie-burning. My recent dissatisfaction with my inner thighs, never fail to remind me of this fact. 

Dongsaeng and I both brought our clothing this time, but despite having my pink PUMA sports bra in hand, we ran into some friends on our way to the gym and talked in the hall for about 20 minutes. In the end, we ultimately turned back around and dropped off our sports clothes to walk along Madison Avenue. As we walked briskly, I exclaimed: “Oh my god is that PRADA?” and ran across the street. We looked in the window, and admired. Then we decided to look into every window on Madison Avenue, it seemed. 

We walked down a few blocks, which took quite a chunk of time due to our criticisms and praise of fur coats, sequined dresses, and sky-high heels. Looking for Salvatore Ferragamo, (which we never found) we looped back up and walked back, gawking at all the stores on the opposing side of the street. 

Standing in front of Marc Jacobs, we watched the entirety of the latest runway show for this years Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, then headed back to school to order in some food. 

Restaurant of choice: Korean Express. 

The food is usually okay, but this time it was great, because I’ve eaten there so much that I know which dishes are typically excellent and worth the money. Opting to share between the three of us, we bought Ddukboki, Tuna Kimbap, Vegetable Kimbap, a side order of Kimchi Jigae for Dongsaeng and a side order of one of my favorite stews: Yook Gae Jang. Everything was delicious. The stews were both extremely spicy, but not in the way that makes you want to die or causes regret before you are done with the last bite. Even after we were more than halfway done, both our stews were still omitting steam. It was all just perfect, and I know it will be five times more wonderful when the chill of winter starts to set in. 

Because both stews were so amazing last night, when I happened to pass by Korean Express on my way home from visiting Hunter on my day off from work, I picked up another side order of Kimchi Jjigae. (I’m lucky because my mom didn’t make dinner tonight!) 

I am more than full right now after enjoying my stew along with a thick slice of sweet potato, and looking forward to what I hope is a full body workout next Monday. 

It would be great if

I could be consistent with posting on here.  

But I’m not. 

That may change now that my life will have to adjust to another schedule, yet one that guarantees I am home before 12 (Noooo!). After a long few weeks, even a month.. or was it two, or three? I now have a job. I am really excited to be working at Hermes. And even though it is retail, it’s LUXURY RETAIL… and by that I mean, before I dropped off my resume and went to two interviews, I never stepped a single toe into their store — my bank account balance would simply never allow for purchases fancier than agenda refill paper. 

But… I am glad to be here. And though I have always been into fashion, and have known a little about the brand, I can honestly say that since the first interview, I’ve really become enamored with all things Hermes. I even have a little notebook only for work, where I scribble down notes (especially now that I am still training)! I am most glad to be full-time… ( && YAY FOR HEALTH INSURANCE). 

I also think it funny that this year my favorite color has become Orange (though Black & Burgundy are of course my staples) and that I end up working at a company whose classic orange bag you can see from Central Park & 110th, to LES.

Now I just have to wait for my 90 days to be up and then I can feel that much more confident and secure in my new place of employment. Though I have worked retail in a few different places, this breed of customer is a bit more … something (I’m not sure what — for better or worse) than what I was used to serving. Like anywhere else in the world, some customers are great, and others you’d like to throw old, hard, raisins at. (Though I have yet to feel that way about anyone.)

All my fellow employees are wonderfully nice and pleasant to speak to. I knew coming in, that they would be a tight-knit, family-like group which was what really attracted me to the company. Having had not-so-favorable experiences behind closed store doors myself, I really can’t wait until I assimilate into the Hermes Madison family of employees. 

On another note, my eye continues to twitch for the second day straight due to the switch in my sleep schedule — I haven’t woken up at 6:30a.m. for consecutive days in a while… And my tummy feels weird because our break room refrigerator is stuffed with boxes of macaroons that were left over from an event we had a couple nights ago. Too many of those delicious chocolate and vanilla-bean things, and it’s hard to taste the subtleties of normal food. 

I hope to learn the ropes quickly (I can already do quite a few things!) and be on my own for most of the day at some point next week. My freedom starts with closing the registers by myself tomorrow. I will make love to the till until that baby is balanced! :D

It’s nice knowing I will soon have more than 9 bucks in my bank account. 

YATTTAAA NAA!