Mrs. Ming or Plain Ol' Cindy

There’s a lot of debate about whether or not the girl should change her name to her husband’s once they get married. It can be argued either way, change or not to change. In the Chinese culture, the girl never changes her given name (her Chinese name). If her name is Amy Chan before they are married and her husband’s surname is Lee, then she is still known as Amy Chan by friends. When she is referred to in context, then she is called the wife of Lee. This pretty much eliminates the whole messy ordeal of “does she change her name or doesn’t she?” Dear god, my ancestors thought of everything. ^_^

I found it particularly funny when I was researching wedding stuff to find a white girl who was marrying a Chinese guy trying to “asian-ify” her wedding. Because of the aforementioned statement, she’ll never use the guy’s last name, at least when writing in Chinese. They made a sign that contained his Chinese last name (written in Chinese calligraphy) with her English name and his English name. Now while this may look really pretty, it is quite the gaffe. It’d be the equivalent of getting a bad word tattooed on yourself when you really thought the word had an entirely different meaning.

Moral of the story: While giving things an Asian twist can be very “in” and it can look very pretty, you’d better double check before embarrassing yourself in front of friends and family.

What a million dollars can buy you

If you had a spare million dollars lying around you could buy this 3ct pink diamond ring:



Or this tiny house in Palo Alto:



Hm... ring or house .... ^_~

Shoes, shoes, and more shoes

I received my wedding shoes over the weekend. I ended up buying a pair of Vera Wang shoes O.o I couldn't help it... they were so nice and tall and had point tips. I'm a sucker for pointy shoes



I also bought a pair of shoes at BCBG that are pointy but they totally messed up there. They gave me a pair of mismatched shoes! I didn't think to check the sizes when I left nor did they check it when they rang me up. My left shoe is now bigger than the right. Grr.. I bought the shoes in Napa so going back isn't a possibility. I called them up the next day and they're going to send the shoes to the Great Mall store and I can go exchange for the correctly matched pair. Phew... The only bummer is that I now need to wait a week for them to transfer the shoes to the Great Mall.

Night of Gluttony

Tonight I'm going off my "diet" (not really a diet but promise to eat healthy) and I'm going back to the Lobster Shack. They got a fresh shipment in of seafood and that means I'm going to dine on fried Ipswich clams and oysters on the half shell. Mmm... I love lobster shack. The food is so incredibly fresh and I don't believe I've ever eaten sweeter scallops other than at that restaurant. All the seafood is flown in from the East Coast (Boston, Maine, etc) and everything is fresh, servings are amazing, and quality is outstanding.

I think I'll have died and gone to heaven after my gorging of clams and oysters tonight.

S&P Clucks

Over the weekend Ming and I went to Sur La Table and found the cutest salt and pepper shakers. They are ceramic chickens and I think they're adorable. They are now sitting on Ming's dinner table.

Shoes

I finally found a shoe that I like for my wedding but
1. It's Vera Wang -- I just had to go designer, didn't I?!
2. Store doesn't have my size



*sigh* I guess the quest must continue ... shoes, shoes, and more shoes.

Bacon

I have inexplicable craving for bacon. I wanted bacon when we went on our ski trip last weekend but, sadly, bacon cravings didn't get satisfied since we ended up eating Canadian Bacon, not true bacon. I'm contemplating going over to Mollie Stones and getting some of their thick cut bacon. Mmm .. Bacon is one of those things that I rarely crave and I eat once in a blue moon. A couple of nice, thick cut slices of bacon with buttermilk pancakes or in an egg biscuit sound so good right now.

It isn't even lunch and I'm already trying to figure out what I want for dinner tonight/breakfast tomorrow. >_<

Addicted

I have something to admit: I'm got an addiction. I am addicted to watching 24 and Desperate Housewives. Both shows have got me completely hooked. I just finished watching all of season 1 of DH and I'm religiously hooked on FOX on Mondays at 9pm. I spent the better part of my day reading the synopses for all episodes of season 2 of DH. There is no stopping this insanity. Gotta get my fix in >_<

My crack addiction will end when the season ends, thankfully.

Pet Peeves

Today I started reading over someone else's code and realized that one of my biggest pet peeves is misspellings. It really makes it hard to read someone else's work when there are many words that are wrong. I wish people were more diligent and made sure that their submitted work had gone through a spell checker. Grr. You'd think that professionals would have pride in their own work to be able to send the sucker through the spell checker. Honestly, how hard is it to spell? It's something that has been ingrained in us since grade school.