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My name is Denise Ngo
On paper, I am a 23 year-old Fordham graduate in search of a job and a life, and exploiting her parents' generosity by living in New York City without having either. This blog documents what happens off the page, and outside of resume bullets and cover letters.

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December 22

thedailywhat:

Movie Trailer of the Day: First official trailer for Harald Zwart’s Jaden Smith / Jackie Chan-starring Karate Kid remake.

Synopsis:

Smith plays Dre, a skateboarding video game buff who moves to China after his single mother is forced to go there for work. Unable to speak Chinese, Dre finds it hard to settle in, and gets beat up by the local bully. Chan plays Mr. Han, a maintenance man who spots his black-eye and offers to teach him both martial arts and Chinese, so he can defend against all the kung-fu students.

Wait! This doesn’t look that bad!

Cue spacetime unraveling paradox.

[via.]

Jackie Chan is no Pat Morita!

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December 21

thedailywhat:

2009 Wrap-Up of the Day: Joe Sabia (previously), the world’s foremost expert on Google Wave (read: the only person who knows how to use it) waves goodbye to 2009 with his “personal communication and collaboration tool” of choice.

[thanks joe!]

I hate to say it, but I still haven’t been using Wave regularly. What can I say, I haven’t done a lot of collaborative projects lately.

This year in review is pretty cool though.

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poopytoothpaste:

Yellow Rage’s “Listen Asshole”

So fucking good. I’ve watched it/listened to it many, many times and still am not sick of it. That’s probably because I can relate so well with it.

I like this a lot. Non-Asian people who have the audacity to lecture me on my race, or who insinuate that they know what it’s like to be Asian and female infuriate me to no end.

Growing up in Asia or having a lot of Asian friends doesn’t give you the authority to claim the identity for yourself. You can appreciate and may have appropriated our land and our culture, and you can sympathize with our causes, but you will never truly know what it’s like to be us.

You will never know what it’s like to sit down in a subway car, only for someone to mumble that the “chink” stole your seat.

You will never know what it’s like to be standing in line outside a show with your Asian friends, only for someone to holler at his friends to check out the “Asian invasion.”

You will never know what it’s like to have the normative (Caucasian, male, straight) question why you choose to surround yourself with people like you.

You will never have random strangers greet you with, “ni hao ma,” or “konnichiwa” when you’re running errands and minding your own business. <—this is freaking annoying. Stop trying to show off.

Chances are, people will never blithely dismiss your food as “dirty and greasy” or accuse you of eating rats because they saw it on the Discovery Channel.

You will never feel spooked at realizing that you write characters as white and you relate better with white characters in the media, even though you are not white, because they are the norm in media representation.

I mean, it’s all fine and dandy being a minority, given that you don’t experience the oppression and racism that is fundamental to growing up as one, right?

I don’t give a damn how much you know about Asian culture. You do not know what it’s like to actually BE ASIAN, the same way I don’t know what it’s like to be male, gay, short, obese, elderly, or disabled.

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December 20

Music video for Mayer Hawthorne’s cover of a relatively obscure Motown classic, “Maybe So, Maybe No.”

This song is on my list of favorites for 2009, and the video is basically what I’d like to live out every single day if I could.

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fuckyeahladygaga: megannjanel: Lady Gaga Hello Kitty I would like this as a T-shirt.

fuckyeahladygaga:

megannjanel:

Lady Gaga Hello Kitty

I would like this as a T-shirt.

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Impressionist Amy Phillips parodies Sue Sylvester and Emma in her doctored Glee promo

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travelhighlights: Candlelight Procession on Good Friday by Farl: “Sometime ago I wished that I can capture a traditional candlelight procession in an old town, viewing the ocean of illuminated faithful on top of a balcony of a century old house. The building across mine must be as old, spewing out rustic details of days of the past. The spot had be at the corner so that the candles will be a stream of curving flickring lines.” Bantayan, Cebu, Philippines Christian holiday celebrations are always epic in the Philippines. If only I could be there for Christmas&#8230;.

travelhighlights:

Candlelight Procession on Good Friday by Farl:

“Sometime ago I wished that I can capture a traditional candlelight procession in an old town, viewing the ocean of illuminated faithful on top of a balcony of a century old house.
The building across mine must be as old, spewing out rustic details of days of the past. The spot had be at the corner so that the candles will be a stream of curving flickring lines.”

Bantayan, Cebu, Philippines


Christian holiday celebrations are always epic in the Philippines.

If only I could be there for Christmas….

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Famous movie quotes as if written by a proper Englishman

thefrogman:

“We must acquire a larger vessel.”
- Jaws

“I’m growing impatient with these malevolent slithering reptiles on this bloody aircraft.”
- Snakes on a Plane

“Toodeloo you ghastly miscreant.”
- Die Hard 1,2,3,4

“Please remove your simian appendages from my person, you unwashed gorilla man-thing.”
- Planet of the Apes

“There is a herptile in my western footwear!”
- Toy Story

“I shall return.”
- Every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie

“I am now fully versed in the combat stylings of “Kung Fu.”
- The Matrix

“I do wish I could cease committing acts of sodomy unto your delightful buttocks.”
- Brokeback Mountain

“My dearest apologies Captain, I have configured this vessel to it’s maximum efficiency. Alas, if you wish me to attempt to defy the laws of physics, I shall increase my efforts.”
- various Star Trek movies and episodes

“Does Marsellus Wallace match the appearance of a female canine? Then why is it, good sir, that you are attempting to have coital relations with him, as if he were a female canine?”
- Pulp Fiction

“I do not believe that is an orbiting planetary body, but in fact a massive facility constructed exclusively for use in space.”
-Star Wars: A New Hope

“Oh dear. I do believe that when we dined on this soylent green, the main ingredient was in fact human beings. In its defense, twas better than English food.”
- Soylent Green

“I say to thee honestly milady, I am an indifferent.”
- Gone With the Wind

“It’s an elaborate ruse!”
- Return of the Jedi

“Miss Scarlett, I regret to inform you that I am uneducated in the field of obstetrics.”
- Gone With the Wind

“Fare thee well, infant.”
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Did you get them all? Have any to add?


My favorite is the Terminator 2 one.

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thedailywhat: Damn you, Cash Cab! [via.] HAHAHAHA. One more thing for me to be neurotic about when I&#8217;m running late (which is often).

thedailywhat:

Damn you, Cash Cab!

[via.]

HAHAHAHA. One more thing for me to be neurotic about when I’m running late (which is often).

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heartafteryou:

Oh my dear.

Media | Remnant Westside Church

haha oh my. creepyface small group ftw!

<3

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