the flood of 2006

insanity ensued on friday. the great flood of 2006 was in full effect by the time i left work. luckily i had purposely worn a dress & flip flops to work so i had no problems w/getting wet. and of course i had my trusty Totes umbrella (see previous post).

Ahjima was having a "goodie" party (wink wink) that night so i went home and took a nap in preparation. unfortunately, due to the weather, the girl coming w/the goodies was flooded out of new york (she was coming in from jersey). never one to let anything stop her from a party Ahjima still had us over. it took me an hour and a half to get from 33rd street & herald square to Ahjima's on 86th and 2nd.

i got to Ahjima's and was greeted w/a glass of wine and...Full House! haha once again it is confirmed how Oppa obsessed i am. i walked into her apartment and, w/o even looking at the tv, knew she was watching Full House b/c of the theme music. Ahjima was watching it w/her Chinese roommate Alice who needed Ahjima to translate. here's where it gets even funnier. i translated for Alice even though there were no subtitles & the series was in korean. how you ask? o i just remembered the lines from most of the scenes. ok, i wasn't so good that i could do it all verbatim, but i was close.

Alice & Winter both speak mandarin and Winter kept playing Jay Chou & Wang Leehom MVs for us off of youtube. i get so giddy when i meet people who share my love of the Asian music & the entertainment scene. anyways, eventually SJ showed up w/some other guys and we started to play drinking games.

somewhere in the mix everyone managed to finish off a bottle of tequila, SJ's friend Dan threw up in the bathroom and then climbed into Alice's bed to go to sleep (which really pissed her off), it came out that Winter's dating someone who already has a girlfriend and SJ tried to hook me up w/his friend George who's already seeing someone. finally got home around 4 am thanks to SJ who drove me home although he & George kept trying to get me to go to Pal Park instead to get some Sul Rung Tang (which i wish i had now, but not then. i was tired at the time).

i woke up the next day slightly hung over & didn't leave my apartment until about 4:30 pm. i went to Astoria to hang w/Bubs & Kiks but honestly the only reason i got up and showered at all was to go get Beard Papas at Cafe Zaiya.

oppa hooks it up again!

ah...oppa. so of course i totally missed oppa the entire time he was here in the new york. there's always a "shoulda woulda coulda" aspect about everything i do i think. i've been reading some of the other fans' writings about when they saw him while he was new york and while i'm real happy that they got to see him, i'm also hating on them a little b/c i'm so jealous.

ironically, every time i head out on a Rain oppa mission, something else totally crazy happens. i think it's b/c i act w/complete wreckless abandon when it comes to oppa. so Bubs & i went to dinner at a restaurant that oppa frequents whenever he's in the city. lots of yummy korean bbq and baek sae chu. Ahjima met us there around 8:30 pm and she called up SJ-who works w/outer wear for labels like Sean John. i'm not sure if he was just teasing me or not but he mentioned that Bi will have to come back to new york for Sean John fittings since he was just signed as a model. i called up PinkyPete and by the time our whole crew was assembled it was already around 10:30 or 11:00 pm.

by that time i'd been drinking w/ Bubs for at least and hour and a half; w/Bubs & Ahjima for an hour; w/Bubs, Ahjima & SJ for 45 mins; and w/Bubs, Ahjima, SJ & PinkyPete for half an hour so needless to say: i was pretty drunk. i gave up on trying to see oppa and we headed over towards Players and drank a few pitchers. it was at this point that Ahjima & i (in our completely wasted state) decided to lose all dignity and call up oppa's hotel. we finessed our way w/the concierge only to learn that oppa had checked out that morning! we all had a good laugh about it and by about 1:00 am i was ready to call it a night.

the next morning i headed towards work from PinkyPete's. as i walked toward the Union Square subway station i checked in w/Ahjima & Bubs. turns out Ahjima & SJ had gone to another bar after we split up and been drinking shots of Patron (ew yuck). SJ stayed at Ahjima's (wink wink nudge nudge) and they were both ridiculously late for work the next day. it was only as an afterthought that i realized why SJ was so intent on having me stay @ PinkyPete's (my original intention was to stay at Ahjima's). you know, something similar to this happened last time Ahjima & i went to CODA to see Rain. even inadvertently, Bi oppa just knows how to hook it up.

and now i'm broke as a joke for the next month. either way it was an insane Tuesday night...

speaking of crazy....

ok so the current ETA on Rain is that he should be getting ready to go to ABC Headquarters Building located on 66th/67th near Lincoln Center to meet w/them about appearing on one of their shows. i know i get all stupid when it comes to oppa (korean for big brother), but more so when he's actually in the near vicinity. this morning as i commuted to work i was listening to oppa's songs & i got this goofy grin on my face just knowing he was in the same city as me. yea, i'm retarted.

due to the fact that i work i won't be able to go to ABC Headquarters at noon. while i debated about heading over to Lincoln Center tonight to check out oppa at the honorary dinner, i'd read in some article that Bi would be one of the few guests not walking the red carpet. this may in fact be a good thing b/c i don't think i'd like to be one of those shrieking fans in front of important political leaders, thinkers & writers from all over the world. it's already embarassing enough that they might have to pass David Blaine in his little sphere.

so i called Bubs & discussed my crazy Rain behavior and reached this conclusion. i act exactly like girls did in high school. remember when you had a crush on an older guy and you would get all giggly when he passed you in the hallway? and you knew exactly where to be and when just so you see him? yea that's what i'm like w/oppa. so Bubs & i came to the conclusion that i have no dignity whatsoever when it comes to Rain & revert exactly back to that behavior even though i just turned 24. eh, whatever.

strangely enough, after i hashed about my idiotic Rain behavior, we got to talking about Scientologists. hmm, could that be an indication of how crazy i am? i mean if we can jump from my Rain behavior to Scientology then it must be pretty nuts since Scientology itself is pretty insane. we still can't fathom how a "religion" based on the writings of a known science-fiction writer could turn into this weird phenomenom.

right after this we segued into our obsession over cheese. it was funny actually cause Bubs got all fanatical about it. hmmm, so i'm crazy about oppa and Bubs is crazy about cheese? tell me that's not crazy in itself.

p.s.-just read an email from Ahjima who works at Lehman Brothers near Rockefeller Center. she's definitely jumping on my FANatic train & i love it!! i'm trying to send her out to ABC Headquarters Building as my emissary since i can't be there.

FANatic

ok, so it's Cinco de Mayo this weekend & i've got a new roommate moving in. last night was pretty scandalous at Liberty: Mini ran off w/Dave (who's got a girlfriend. apparently i was the last to know); Douglife hooked up w/his neighbor across the street (and i got to see this personally-well the beginnings anyway. Bummer & i busted out as fast as we could when we noticed what was going on); Courtney passed out before i even met w/ Mang & Pal at Liberty. the night was fun.

ok, so even w/all this exciting stuff going on & a Journey tribute band later tonight in the city, there's still really only been one thing on my mind. Rain will be in NYC tomorrow. yes, i am 24 years old and while i think i've outgrown getting all crazy about most celebrities (but i will always be a celebrity slut at heart), for some reason Rain (aka Bi-pronounced like "Bee") gets me to act all giddy like a teeny bopper all over again.

so Rain will be in NYC to attend an honorary dinner at Lincoln Center on May 8th thrown by Time Magazine for its 100 greatest influential people in the world. he'll also be holding a meeting at ABC headquarters on May 8th at noon for talks about an appearance in one of their shows. for these events he'll be flying into JFK on May 7th at 11:00 am and return to Korea on May 10th. i've already roped Ahjima into joining me on Tuesday in my mission impossible: to stalk Rain. i mean, let's call a spade a spade, right?

this isn't my first offense either. Ahjima & i attended his concert at Madison Square Garden on February 2 & then managed to go to the restaurant he ate at in K-town and later, i even went to his hotel (through the help of a new friend). the night after the concert, ahjima & i went to the club promotion he attended at Coda in midtown. see? i'm fanatical when it comes to Bi.

so wish me luck that i'll get another chance to see my future husband/ideal boy.