little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

the past four months in two sentences

This past month or four has been devoted to self-introspection. That being said, I never want to fucking self-introspect in my entire fucking life again. Ever.

things people do for free t-shirts

This weekend, I went to the Castro Street Fair with some friends. As I’ve had a ridicuously shitty past couple of months, it was good to hang out with friends.
Also, blog fodder. There’s always blog fodder. I’ll leave the person involved with this conversation anonymous until he’s really okay with me posting [...]

mom + technology = wackiness

At Mom’s house again on a Tuesday night. Italics mean Chinese, of course.

Mom: ERRR-NEE! You have to teach me how to use this camera. It’s DIGITAL.

She says the word DIGITAL like it’s a brand name, like SONY or PANASONIC and if Mrs. Chang can get a nice DIGITAL camera, why couldn’t [...]

mental note: this is what happens when you sing at a flipino wedding

Tonight, I had the pleasure of attending the wedding of my friends Chris and Melanie, as well as emceeing their wedding reception with my friend Mark. It was a Filipino Catholic wedding, something I don’t have much familiarity with as I’m Chinese and grew up Presbyterian. From what I gathered, all Filipino Catholic [...]

martha, she who eats the souls of children

By the way, did you watch Martha’s new talk show? It was so good, my Tivo wouldn’t let me delete it. This Thursday’s episode, no lie, has Sean Combs teaching Martha to rap, and afterwards Martha teaches Sean to wrap presents. It is its own punchline.
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We just watched Tuesday’s episode, and she had prison recipes.
She [...]

i will watch the gay pillow fights no more

After having HDTV for a couple of weeks now, I’ve been noticing my viewing habits have changed a little. This is partially due to the fact that I had to stop using my TiVo for a DVR that could support HDTV, and the controls kind of, well, suck. (Disclaimer: I previously worked as [...]

two weeks in a nutshell

I’m watching Niles Crane and the lesbian chick from Sex of the City do a scene from Romeo and Juliet on HDTV PBS. I hate Shakespeare, and yet I would watch this over that god awful Frasier show any day.

A week after I went to Vancouver, I went with my friend Royce to Portland, [...]

oh, canada

I’m currently buzzed off of half a glass of wine. I figured this would be the perfect time to update my blog.

This is what I have learned about my first day spa treatment: when you have a mud wrap, this tall dutch guy smears mud on your chest, arms and legs and wraps [...]

i declare… my geekery

So I’m here at Ritchie’s house. I love how “R&R” still translates to completely geeking out and uploading flickr photographs and writing blog entries. The only difference is that I get to do it in a country with universal health care.

Customs agent at the airport: Hello, bonjour. State your business.
Ernie: [...]

auto-pilot

Rumors of me having a nervous breakdown are greatly exaggerated. Actually, after reading the definition of it on the wikipedia, maybe notsomuch, but I always imagined someone who had a nervous breakdown to be a little more… dramatic.
Because I’m all about the dramatics.
In any case, I’m feeling a little bit better now, thanks for [...]