Pampered.

What a much needed tranquil afternoon I experienced along with fellow lovely females at the Burke Williams Spa in San Francisco's Westfield Centre. I always wondered what happened in there with my curious eyes from below with the rest of the tired shoppers. Along with my cousins, we headed to the mall (who knew?) for rest and relaxation. We entered wide black doors to the receptionist desk with workers in their sleek black suits. At that point I knew I was going be given the star treatment, a much needed pampering as I say so myself. We got a tour, this place is huge. We got our own lockers and accommodations to water, towels, sandals, robes, shampoo, conditioner, razors, tampons, lotions, face wash, mouth wash, hair dryers, curling iron; everything a girl could ask for! And they served the best chilled lemonade during the waiting room. Delicious!

As giddy as a school girl, I hopped into my robe and dipped in my toes into the jacuzzi. Soon after I had my pure relaxation massage appointment. First timer here. I was taken into a hall full of rooms and hopped into a warm table. The session lasted 5o minutes and went by too fast. I was really tense in my neck, damn computer! and was told to drink plenty of H20. After I cruised through the jacuzzi, steam room where I almost lost my cousin. I grabbed some cucumbers and a cold towel and headed in. The cucumbers smelled great and headed out when I couldn't breathe anymore. Then laid in the sauna which better suits my tastes.

Then I grabbed an apple and sat with the fellow ladies, we were all there for a bridal shower. I looked down at the fellow shoppers holding my lemonade in my terry robe and felt like a million bucks. After drinking many cold glasses of lemonade I headed back to the jacuzzi and entered the mist room where within seconds could not see my cousin across from me. Very cool. I took advantage of my stay and entered the sauna again. Also, "the quiet room" had at least 10 leather seats and I could not even be quiet in there with the chair being so loud.

Burke Spa is a great treat for any female or male, consider gift certificiates and you will be the best person ever. And bring a bathing suit because I did not enjoy seeing a naked lady during the tour. Otherwise, I really recommend this place. If I could I'd live there seriously. So take time and pamper yourselves. Love your body & love yourself.

Summer summer time.

Hurray! Can you believe it, well for me anyway, it's SUMMER! No more 19 units.. only 6 this this time. Hahaha. I'll be taking some classes starting in 2 weeks. I gotta enjoy this short summer, then school, then another month off. I guess that ain't so bad. Sleeping in, shopping, eating. I'll also be vacationing yay! We will be so lucky here if we get some enough sun. So I leave you with some songs that enjoyed during past summers and songs that will make you laugh or put you in the mood.

Justin Timberlake - Summer love
LFO - Summer Girls
All American Rejects - Swing Swing
Death Cab for Cutie - Crooked Teeth
Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning
Phantom Planet - California
311 - Amber
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime
Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun
Incubus - Wish You Were Here
Jason Mraz - Summer Breeze
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Joesph Arthur - Honey and the Moon
Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Coconut Records - Summer Day/ West Coast
Alice Cooper - Schools Out For Summer
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
Hannah Montana - If We Were A Movie
Grease - Summer Nights
The Cardigans - Lovefool
Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle
Michelle Branch - Breathe
Jordin Knight - Give It To You
Coolio - Fantastic Voyage
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Belle & Sebastian - Another Sunny Day
Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like Its Hot
Beyonce - Summertime
Chamillionarie - Ridin'
Aaliyah - Rock The Boat
Tupac - California Love
Lauryn Hill & Bob Marley - Turn Your Lights Down Low
The Commodores - Easy
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot
Eddie Murphy & Rick James - Party All The Time
Hilary Duff - With Love
Lily Allen - LDN
Mariah Carey - Fantasy
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
Journey - Lights
The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
Soul for Real - Candy Rain

Finales.

Best Season Finale: Lost
Anti-climatic: Heroes
Leaving me in tears: Ugly Betty

Lost
The best finale I think I ever seen. WOW. The beginning of the season, I admit I was bored and the story was not developing compared to how Heroes revealed their answers. But nothing can beat this finale. Really, brilliant. Don't read if you do not watch this show. Please. The razor phone really gave it away to me that this was no flashback, but a flash forward! Gasp. There is hope but not the life that Jack wanted. Jack became a depressed druggie with a freakishly brown beard flying Oceanic every week hoping to crash back on the island. How sad. He was distraught after reading an obituary on someone neither friend or family. But why so sad Jack? Jack called and shared a secret meeting with none other than Kate! I so called it. But Kate did not seem interested. More questions: What happened between now and then? Whose in the casket? Who was waiting for her? Why isn't she in jail? I say they returned to the island but it was kept undercover. Jack had to lie about where he was been, and probably was offered an exchange to get off but the other survivors remain the island, making Jack feel guilty so he is trying desperately to return. And wouldn't you recognize people if they returned from a plane crash? Conspiracy!

And back on the island, very good. Poor hobbit Charlie. He will be missed. Saddest death, at least he wrote a last message "Not Penny's boat." I never trusted Naomi. Now the question is who is she working with? Guess we will never know since Locke speared her with his knife. Awesome. Locke should've shot Jack while he was trying to use that phone, you know he regrets ever leaving the island now. I believed Ben about Naomi, and what a long awaited ass kicking he got from Jack. Poor Ben, maybe they are really the good guys.

And what's with Mikhail, nothing can kill him? When he came up to the window with the grenade it felt like Wile E. Coyote would do to the Road runner. Plenty of deaths, my favorites include Hurley in his VW running some Other over and Sayid killing an Other with his legs. What a badass. Too bad Tom died too. Also, Walt hit puberty ahha. And what's the Temple? Great season finale, I can't wait to see if we will see more flash fowards and who these people Naomi work for! Too many questions to ponder for 7 months.

American Idol
As expected Jordin won. "This Is My Now" is pretty fuckin cheesy, but not as bad as "Do I Make You Proud/My Destiny" from last year. She won once she cried. Okay usually the competition sadly is based on the last song that the contenders don't even get to pick. So Blake was sabotaged haha. Jordin is really marketable so I expect her to sell a lot of records. Good luck Blake, can't wait to hear what he's going do. Finale was disappointing and too long compared to last season's. Good moments include Carrie's "I'll Stand By You" and the African's Children choir, adorable! And Kelly Clarkson looked so mad singing "Never Again" her voice was so vengeful. Blake's beatboxing instead of singing was something never done before so that was cool. I can't believe the season is over, thank god. The viewership numbers were down, is Idol finally losing it? Til' next season.

Dancing With The Stars
Yay. Apolo won! Him and Christina Aguilera Julianne are too cute together. Joey was really good but Apolo really came from no dancing background and really proved himself.

Desperate Housewives
Gaby got married, but then started making out with her ex-husband. Okay, Carlos watch out her husband looks very powerful. Bree finally came back, and is pretending a pregnancy and will raise her daughter's baby. I guess. Lynette's mom is a bitch. And she still has cancer. Susan and Mike got married in the forest. Actually it was very romantic. And Edie hung herself. Too bad. The show kinda bores me now can't you tell?

Ugly Betty
The montage of Justin singing in West Side Story, and Santos getting shot really got me. Especially when Betty told Hilda. Just thinking about them crying in the hallway just gave me chills. There were a bunch of other revelations but damn that one hurt. I can't wait for next season. Easily the best new show of last season.

Fabia: "I wouldn't want to marry without my something old."
Wilhelmina: "With those veins in your legs, you already have something blue."

Grey's Anatomy
Bored. Cristina got denied at the wedding by Burke. Good. Her emotional break down ripping her dress off was dramatic. Izzie-George annoys the hell out of me. And he failed his intern exam, whoops. Alex denied Jane Doe/Ava/Rebecca. And you know McDreamy is going get with Meredith's sister. Good, cause Meredith is giving him nothing in that relationship. You want them to work but I just give up.

Heroes
I expected so much more battle between Sylar and Peter. Cop out of Nathan saving Peter and flying to the sky. The whole season was about the city blowing up, and not letting it explode was stupid. And why was it so easy for Hiro to kill Sylar when earlier in a scene he stopped bullets? Was a charging Asian man much more threatening? Interesting was when Peter was talking to his dead patient, confusing. Also why didn't Peter just fly up, can he not use 2 powers at the same time? Stupid Claire should of shot him, come on he's going to survive anyway. But I can't wait to know who is "a lot worse than the bogeyman." The last 3 minutes is going to be the first 3 minutes of next season. Okay Hiro is in ancient China. What does that mean? I really hope they don't stay in the past and I hope a city explodes.

Gilmore Girls
Series finale was good and satisfying for the fact the writers did not know this would be the last one. Luke through Rory a sweet farewell party. He even made the tent! Aw, that gesture finally brought Luke and Loralei back together. I like how the camera panned out during the last season between Rory and Loralei at Lukes'. Paid homage to the first episode. I still wish Rory would have ended up with Jess. Swoon.

How I Met Your Mother
So Robin and Ted broke up after them dragged out funny assumptions that their news included moving to Argentina, an engagement and a pregnancy. Barney was hilarious trying to get Ted to tell him what the news was. So now season three, the single adventures of Ted and Barney will be "legend.. wait for it.. ary." I hope we finally get to see who this "mother" is. This show is so underrated I recommend to get into it.

Barney: "This is the 12th most worried I've been that someone is pregnant."

The Office
Cute! The gold yogurt lid medal (The Olympic episode) from Pam to Jim was adorable, reminiscent of the UK Office. So he just left Karen in New York? Good for him. I like how the show teases us, Jim easily could have ran into the office and kissed Pam but no, he interrupted her confessional with asking her on a date. I love how Pam teared a bit. What a great way to start next season. JAM!

Dwight: Don’t you want to earn Schrute bucks?
Stanley: No. In fact, I’ll give you a billion Stanley nickels if you never talk to me again.
Dwight: What’s the ratio of Stanley nickels to Schrute bucks?
Stanley: The same as the ratio of unicorns to leprechauns.

Creed: www.creedthoughts.gov.www\creedthoughts. Check it out.

Pam: I haven’t heard anything. But I bet Jim got the job. I mean, why wouldn’t he? He’s totally qualified, and smart, everyone loves him. And if he never comes back again, that’s okay. We’re friends. And I’m sure we’ll stay friends. We just … we never got the timing right. You know? I shot him down, and then he did the same to me, but you know what? It’s okay. I am totally fine. Everything is going to be totally …
Jim: Pam. (To camera) Sorry. Um, are you free for dinner tonight?
Pam: Yes.
Jim: All right. Then it’s a date.
Pam: I’m sorry, what was the question?

Kelly: Who was that?
Ryan: Nobody. You and I are done.
Kelly: What?!

So what to watch this summer? I'll be checking out The Traveler and So You Think You Can Dance, and whatever reality shows are thrown at me. I can't wait for next season and the new batch of shows (Gossip Girl, here's looking at you).

D'oh.

Catch The Simpsons 400th episode this weekend. Here's someone who had a lot of time on their hands to mesh almost all the couch openings, excuse the German titles towards the end. Btw, I like when they jump into their eyes.

Jam.

"Hey, I want to say something. I’ve been trying to be more honest lately and I just need to say a few things. I did the coal walk! Just, I did it. Michael, you couldn’t even do that. Maybe I should be your boss. Wow, I feel really good right now. Why didn’t any of you come to my art show? I invited all of you. That really sucked. It’s like sometimes, some of you act like I don’t even exist. Jim, I called off my wedding because of you. And now we’re not even friends. And things are just like weird between us, and that sucks. And I miss you. You were my best friend before you went to Stamford. And I really miss you. I shouldn’t have been with Roy, and there were a lot of reasons to call off my wedding. But the truth is, I didn’t care about any of those reasons until I met you. And now you’re with someone else, and that’s fine. It’s … whatever. That’s not what I’m … I’m not … okay my feet really hurt. The thing that I’m just trying to say to you, Jim, and to everyone else in the circle I guess, is that I miss having fun with you. Just you, not everyone in the circle. Okay, I am gonna go walk in the water now. Yeah, it’s a good day."
--- Pam Beesley

Can I say finally? I had to post that whole speech up. Last night's episode was too classic. Stanley coming at Jim as a sumo wrestler, Andy floating away, all Dunder Mifflin minus pasty Toby singing on the bus to the "beach."Yes, props to Pam confronting Jim especially in front of Karen. Season finale next week! Cliffhanger?

Keep Cool My Babies.

All of you know last week Conan O'Brien brought his show to San Francisco and I was lucky enough to watch Wednesday's show. Btw, Wednesday was declared "Conan O'Brien Day" in San Francisco. The day started with waiting in the yellow line (what up?) and getting our tickets. Got in line outside the Orpheum Theatre around 10:30am. During our wait, I got a free Google pen, monster drink, and a free Conan foam hair (pictured) after a sorority tried and failed to sell it to me for a dollar. After 5 some odd hours, we finally got to enter. We sat near the side studio door and got to see La Bamba and the "ASS" from the ILM skit. Hilarious. And who knew security actually used the metal detectors but didn't even give my purse a thorough look around. Then at 3:30 everyone entered the beautiful theatre and we got lucky enough to grab aisle fifth row seats.

Supposedly a frisbee champion was suppose to be a guest but he didn't appear in the opening, I was a bit disappointed, I wanted to grab a frisbee. But I was lucky enough to see one of my favorite actors, Robin Williams, as a guest at my first live television taping. And the Glide Ensemble was to perform. Before the show the warm up guy, Brian McCann, I recognize him from previous sketches, came out to pump up the already pumped crowd. The middle finger to the people who just walked in was perfect. Then Max Weinberg 7 came out and played a few songs. Props to the trumpeter who blew it hard and long. Ha. Then Joel came out, I never knew his hair was that long, and announced the guests. Easiest job ever. Conan came out on the replica of the Golden Gate Bridge ("We had a replica of the Bay Bridge but it collapsed.") So awesome. Everyone had their signs and Conan actually pulled the free foam and put it on. The audience was so loud he even pretended to sleep. Our city really needs a talk show.

It's so refreshing when it's your town being talked about. Newsome jokes, plastic bags, fuck Charles Barkley. Small talk news is so much funnier when your talking about BART and freeways you take. It's funny to see all the stage hands holding the cue cards during that segment. Max and Conan stone faces are brilliant.

Since we were lacking one guest, the show was filled with pre-taped segments. First was the Sam Wo commercial. Hilarious, makes me want to eat there. Then the turning of the cable car, special place in my heart, see below. And his final segment was his trip to Napa, wine country. When he pulled out the humongous wine glass for sampling and wine glass helmet, I was dying. Also high points: car crashing, wine cave, dirty music during the glass shaft into barrel bunghole, singing "Desperado," quick change to the pipe, crying with an empty glass in the fields.




Now I must talk about my 15 minutes 5 seconds of fame. During one of the sketches, Conan ran
into the aisle and out of the studio for the cable car segment. I was lucky enough to be at the aisle where he ran out and got myself a high five! Really that made my year. Then he came back and I got another. If you recorded the show you can actually see me for a couple seconds when he tried to grab a foam hair piece from the girl behind me. Thanks to the folks to said they saw me. Those seconds are up.

Robin came out and was being as kooky as ever. He ran up the bridge to audience members shouting "jump," yeah I said it too. Being in a crowd gets to you. He talked about the city and described Castro as "Boystown." He showed a clip of his new movie License to Wed ; good clap joke. Robin is a talker, and the stage hand wrote 30 seconds on his white board to wrap up that interview up plenty of times. Oh I just remembered the transgendered TransAmerica tower in a Trans Am, and the steroid calf legs on Pierre Benard was so weird looking in person. Really what was that made of?

The best part of the show was being able to see what happens when the cameras aren't rolling. When the segments air, Conan is either talking to producers on his next lines or drinking watering and bobbing his head. During one point some older hippie man was popping to Max Weinberg Seven and Conan actually danced along with him. Too bad they didn't catch that on tape. Also after the monologue, the crew pulling the set onto the stage and off. Also, I love the "woo's" and the "ooww" and people yelling "warriors," I'm pretty sure you can hear me at least once. The stage hands took really long when setting up for the Glide Ensemble so we were just sitting there being antsy. They were pretty good and it felt like a church, whole audience was clapping along.

The show ended roughly around 5. After the show, Conan actually signed for awhile. People threw panties, signs, and a statistic book, which he happily signed. And I got to take pictures, muaha security guards. Outside we went and waited for the guests. I missed Robin, he left during the show, but Joel came out and made his crazy face and LaBamba and the band. I waited outside for an hour, and was actually on NBC11 news waving stupidly to my dad. Then Conan was signing for awhile but stupid newscaster (ASS) took him away as he was about to sign my ticket. Oh well. The show was perfect and next time I hope to see him in New York.

The Best of the rest:
- Conan tours SF Part 1, Part 2
- Conan at Industrial Light & Magic
- Will Arnett awesome air guitar
- Dana Carvey and Conan duet
- ASS!

Hotness.

It's almost 7, and the weather is not cooling. The sun is shining, neighbors are BBQing and washing their cars, yet I stuck in my home with my sweaty palms typing my homework. Weather is trippin that I am wearing shorts. Crazy mayn. Anyway I am not totally melting away, I do have my breaks to eat some yummy snacks. Today I'd like to share with you what I've been eating, Sharon's Sorbet raspberry. Really pick any flavor up at Trader Joe's for only $1.99 and very little calories you fattys. I really could devour one pint on my own. Delicious, enjoy! =D

Procrastination.

Bad. I need to stop and get my work done. I put my away up but really I'm on Youtube or Myspace. IM me. Itunes doesn't help either. Today went by super fast and now I'm watching a rerun of SNL of Christina Aguilera - "eeeelena" and her impression of Samantha is too good. Okay I should really should start my papers now. I'm lagging because the fact that I could finish my paper in a hour. I tried studying for my journalism final but that was so booooring. Okay let me watch some Lost and get cracking on production paper.

WE BELIEVE.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BABY!

You give love.

Wow. Blake is (one of) the most original artists on American Idol. During rock night, he killed it with his version of "You Give Love A Bad Name." He actually made the song his own, and beatboxed! I miss him with his blonde but the darker do is cool for the darkhorse. Will he win? Right now I think he's the underdog but if he nails next week possibly he could be in the top 2 with Melinda.

Superbad.

Rated R trailer makes me want to watch this movie oh so much more.