Expiration Dates Are Just Guidelines

...at least that's what i tell myself. it makes me feel better about certain things like the Peach Light & Fit yogurt i'm eating right now. the lid clearly shows an expiration date of April 25, 2010. here's my thought process:

"o crap, i'm late for work. i need to grab a quick breakfast. but i don't have time to make anything."

"oooo, there's a lot of yogurt left. i'll grab one of those."

(pause) "April 25th huh? what's today's date? i know it's definitely May at this point."

"ooo, JYP and 2AM are gonna be at Roseland Ballroom on the 18th. should i go? i don't really want to see JYP but i totes wanna see 2AM...wait, no time for random tangents."

"o crap, no time at all! i'll just grab this yogurt. after all, it's already milk gone bad. how much worse can it get with time?"

...and that's how i end up at this moment: typing this blog post after having just eaten an expired yogurt. it tasted fine. and i know i won't get sick because i already ate one yesterday and didn't get sick.

also, i can't believe they're making an Asian-American "Jersey Shore" set in K-town. i can't tell if this is gonna be the stupidest show ever or pure evil genius. it has the potential to have all my favorite reality show ingredients:

1. FIGHTS: cause korean guys and girls love to throw down. it's actually one of the reasons i'll actually go to K-town on weekend nights. the night starts out with everyone looking good in their going-out gear and as the night progresses you start seeing guys formerly in button-downs all of a sudden turn into brawlers in wife-beaters. seriously, they change into white/black tanktops the way Clark Kent changes into Superman. do korean guys have special button-downs to do that? they just tug a little at the collar of their button-down and it rips away to reveal the tanktop underneath? and the girls are just as good because they almost always are the ones who instigate the fights. and when korean girls fight each other, watch out. those girls look all hoochie but they can get super-gangsta when it comes time to fight. or else they'll get some guy to do it for them.

2. DRUNKEN SLOPPINESS: no explanation necessary hear. going out in K-town is always bottles and "buying rounds and shots for the boys". everyone's a baller in K-town (or at least they like to look like they are). and everyone's friends with the promoters and bartenders so there's always tons o' drinks.

3. PIMPS & HOES: based on the aforementioned #2, it shouldn't be surprising the hooking up that ensues. although, in this aspect, i don't think K-town's as bad as other places. it's pretty much on par or, actually, even less. why? because asian girls only run in 2 kinds: those that can hold their liquor and those that can't. there's not many in-betweens. so asian guys don't have much luck either way. asian girls that can hold their liquor won't sloppy it out in the middle of the club (at least not for long. if they like you, you might get some action, but not for more than a few mins in public-then it's all behind closed doors). asian girls that can't hold their liquor will sloppy it up for as long as the drunkeness holds, but then it always inevitably goes downhill. those girls almost always end up getting sick and then it's toilet hugging and falling down all over the place, but rarely hooking up at the same time.

o well, i'll just have to wait and see. how badly does it reflect on my that i'm more than a little intrigued by the concept?

traitor

so i finally broke down and watched Jersey Shore this weekend. there was nothing else on TV while i was waiting for the Super Bowl to start. i initially purposely avoided watching Jersey Shore because of its stereotyping of people from NJ (of which i am one of them). and while yes, it's true, those types of people that are featured in Jersey Shore do exist in NJ, they also exist in Long Island, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, etc. so i don't think it's fair that the show's called Jersey Shore (although yes, that's where it's located).

i started to turn the corner when someone told me that only 1 person in the house was actually from NJ. everyone else was from NY. i thought, "ok, as long they made that clear and it's shown that these ppl are not actually representative of the NJ demographic, maybe i can watch this show." even tho i'd opened up a little to the idea, i still abstained based on principle. but then Poopy made me watch 2 video parodies about Jersey Shore.



i watched the above and "Little Jersey Shore" and my interest was completely piqued. so when the marathon was airing on MTV on Sunday i couldn't stop myself from looking at it like a giant wart on the face of someone you're talking to. i stumbled upon the marathon at the end of the episode where Snooki was punched in the face by some random guy. damn. i really wanted to see that. but no worries, i got to see Ronnie knock some guy out with just 1 punch. so it was all worth it.

speaking of mindless television, i've also become addicted to We Got Married, a korean "reality" show where celebrities are paired together and act as if they're husband and wife. i used to watch this show a lot back in the day when Alex & Shinae and Kim Hyung Joong & HwangBo were on it. but after they left it was a lot less interesting and then the budget was cut and it became less interesting. until Petite Couple! the wife, Ga-In, is 24 yrs old and the husband, JoKwon, is 22 years old. they are hilarious together which makes it fun to watch but also their behavior really keeps you guessing whether they really are/going to start dating.

below is a clip where Ga-In is going to meet her "father-in-law", JYP, who is JoKwon's boss. aside from the hilarity in the clip, i really really like her version of JYP's song, "I Have a Girl".

here's the original so you can hear the difference. while they're both similar (clearly), the way Ga-In executes it is so distinctive.