The tipping issue in America

 Okay, this is going to be for once a pretty short post and to the point

For the past couple of weeks I've been reading several 'articles' from Yahoo about tipping

First of all, let me set straight my opinion about tipping

It's not fucking mandatory

Is it??

I honestly have no idea, but if tipping is mandatory in the U.S. Then we really have to take a step back and realize we are in a fucking crisis for God's sake and should not be inventing excuses to give money away.

Although, I've never worked as a waitress, I have several friends who have and from their testimonies, it is a hard job.

But so what? You think I like dealing with smart-ass 10 year-olds all the time, or having to deal with angry parents who need to discipline their kids once in a while?

No, we all work our asses off just to make it through college. That's life.

But I never get a tip for any of it. I simply collect my check every two weeks. Waiters and waitresses do the same thing. They collect their money for what they worked for. It's not like they work for free and their only income is the tips they collect.

I mean, if you are a rich dude who wants to give a 20 dollar tip for a 30 dollar meal, then by all mean go for it. But America, you have to stop trying to make everyone feel like they have to leave a tip everytime they go out.

Tips are fucking retardation at its best. And the people who are always whining about it need to get it through their thick heads of theirs that we all work just as hard as them and rarely anyone in any other industry recieve any tips for their labor. So why in the hell should you feel entitled to always get a tip, huh?

And with that I'm going to make myself some food and make sure I tip myself really well because I'm an awesome waitress for myself ;)

Hyuna is just ughh -_-

I hate Hyuna. 

Ok, maybe hating is kind of a strong word, but I really, really dislike her.

I think she is one of the only celebrities I really don't like. Hyuna fans are always saying that if someone hates her, it's because we are jealous, and because she is sexy and hangs out with an idol we like.

First of all if that was true we would hate almost all women celebrities, because for the most part they are way better looking than the average girl.

I don't hate sexy singers or celebrities because I'm afraid they are going to steal my imaginary boyfriend. In fact some of my all time favorite Korean celebrities are on the sexy side: Hyori, Hwang Bo, Gain. But I also like cute girls: Suzy, Hyosung, Lizzy, IU. But I can't stand Hyuna. Mainly, but not exclusively, because she has one of the most annoying personalities ever.

There are too many things I dislike about Hyuna for me to list, but I'll try to put some in perspective here.

First: Her split celebrity personality
If you want to be sexy, then be sexy. If you want to act cute then by all mean do so
But why does she have to act so different on stage and in real life. I just don't understand how her personality can be so opposite from each other. I think we can see this split personality disorder she has on her BubblePop music video. First she shakes her ass while her buttceeks are eating her shorts, and rubs herself against a guy's junk...

 

 

And then tries to act all cute while she purses her lips and says things like **Miaow** (please let me go throw up)

Second: Her Whiny voice
I can't stand the sound of her voice. Even thinking about it makes me mad! It's like someone scratching a blackboard. It makes me want to beat someone up. It's seriously the most irritable voice I've ever heard. The worst part is that she probably thinks it's cute so she fakes that stupid-ass voice all the time.

(I wanted to find another video of her just talking but I'm too lazy to 

spend my time for something that will just annoy me)

Why does she have to talk like that? Makes my ears bleed everytime I hear her talk

Third: Her no-chin face 
No words needed here.............
No words needed....
No words.....

Fourth: The other members don't get a chance to promote
If I was one of her members I would hate her guts because the only reason she is getting chosen to do solos is because she open her legs up for the guys to fap.People even call her group Hyuna and her back-up dancers. I'm not a 4minute fan but, I feel bad for the other girls in the group.

Fifth: Her fans
I'm sick and tired to hear her fans moaning and bitching about how her agency is trying to sex her up. And that her sexyness is not really coming from her but from her evil managers.

Just accept that she is a whore who has put that sexy image on herself since day one. Even from when she was still a part of the Wonder Girls, she was putting forward the sexy image with her butt dance. Back then, the Wonder Girls didn't have a sexy image, so you can't say she tried to make herself be sexy for the sake of the concept given by higher ups.

(While she was in the Wonder Girls)

(During the promotions of Irony with the WG)

Sixth: Her lack of talent
She can't sing. She can't even rap. She demonstrated she can't dance (And no, spreading your legs apart and opening your mouth does not mean you can dance!!), go watch her dreadful dancing in dancing with the stars. She is not funny. She doesn't write music. She can't act, and to make it short she doesn't have anything that makes her special or likable. The only thing she has going on for her is that she doesn't lose the opportunity to stick her butt up or spread her legs apart so guys can do what they do best.

What the hell happened to Strong heart?!!

(The two happy kids)

Okay, I had to make this post.

I stopped watching Strong Heart for awhile mainly because I was too busy with school, work, drama, family, friends and (add more boring stuff right here)

So since I've been having a somehow more relaxing life lately, I went back to watch some Strong Heart episodes.

But, what do I find instead?

Two soul-less crappy excuses for MCs have stationed themselves in the places where Ho-Dong and Seung-Gi used to stand.

 (When I watch SH now, I cringe half the time because these two)

I knew both MCs had been replaced after the scandal with Kang Ho-Dong. And I also heard who they were going to be replaced with but I thought with the help of the original script-writers, the show itself wasn't going to suffer.


But, boy was I wrong.


The show is a much bleaker, awkward and sad shadow of what it used to be.


And I put all the blame on both MCs for this.


The reason for me blaming all of this on them, it's that the rest of the cast is pretty much the same, the old scriptwriters of the show are the same ones, the show has the same concept, the guest are in the same categories as the ones they invited before. But the show suck ass now, whereas before it used to make me laugh until I had tears in my eyes.

I'm actually quite appalled at how bad the MCs are.

I don't understand it though. Okay, Dong Wook is new to this whole MC thing, but Dong-Yeop is anything but new to it. He did a good job at EHB a couple of years ago, and he is recognized in the industry as one of the top MCs there are.

So why is he so bad here??

Many of his side-comments to the guests or to other cast members seem mean and out of place. Other people can make those kind of comments without sounding genuinely mean and hateful, and at the same time give out a good laugh to the public. But Dong Wook doesn't seem able to do this (At least not on SH)

As to DongWook, well let's just say that as an MC he is a good dancer~~~(Meaning he SUCKS, in case you don't get it)

(This is the funniest thing Dong Wook has done as an MC as

 of today. And it wasn't even that funny!)

He is such a sad excuse for an MC here I can't even feel pity for the poor guy.

And I don't care that this is his first time as an MC, if he accepted the position then he should have practiced for it until he was good enough instead of just accepting the offer and not adding anything to the show.

I'm not even an anti of  Lee Dong-Wook. Like I mentioned before I enjoyed LDW's acting and I've watched my girl with and I enjoyed a lot. But as an MC he really should have thought about it twice before accepting the position. Even though he is new to it he should know how to play along to seem more natural at it.

I mean, Seun-gi was new to it too and he acted like a pro from day one. In other words, if he (DW) didn't feel like he was prepared for it, why accept this position?

(Such a cutie :) I don't really like most of his dramas, 

but he was an exceptional MC)

The dynamics of SG/HD and the rest of the cast members was so fun to watch. It was like they all knew each other really well and took advantage of this to make the show funnier.

On the other hand, Dong-Wook and Dong-Yeop are so awkward with the rest of the cast members that is almost as if none of them knew each other outside the show. But I highly doubt none of them know each other, given that a lot of them have been in the industry for a while and the SK entertainment industry is not that huge.

Dong-Yeop has more experience so at least he talks during the show, but Dong-Wook just stands there and makes a forced comment that totally feels like he is just reading from his script.
He looks uncomfortable and out of place. Sometimes the cast has to move around to exaggerate show their reactions, but DW is the only one who stays in place, and when he walks out from behind his little podium, it just feel awkward and like he doesn't know when to walk back to his place. In conclusion, he is just awkward.
 

I don't know if DongWook and DongYeop knew each other from before or not, but if they did they sure know how to hide it, because there are so many uncomfortable silent moments coming from these pair.

I wonder who decided to go with Dong-Wook? Whoever it was he/she must be kicking him/herself in the behind (Who can blame him/her, I want to help with the butt kicking myself)

This show now is like a watching a game where your team is losing 100-0 and there are still 40 minutes of game time. You just want it to end because you can't bear watching it anymore.

I don't feel like I'm even exaggerating things. The show is just shit now.

I feel like both MCs don't even care about what the guests are saying in the show. It's almost like they are just waiting fot guests to be done with their stories, and then continue with the next thing on the script. Maybe, Kang Ho-Dong and Lee Seung-Gi also didn't care, but they sure knew how to pretend then. You always got the feeling that KD and SG were honestly interested in the guests stories. They had the best reactions, when the story was sad, KHD and LSG both offered comments at the end of the story to make the guest feel better and wrap up the segment in a more relaxed manner. I even remember KD crying to no end, when one female comedian shared the story about her dying dad. You could totally feel his sincerity.

I don't get that feeling at all from Lee Dong-Wook and Shin Dong-Yeop. They don't do their transitions from guest to guest in the right way.
I'm just not feeling it with either one of them in this show. I was completely open to embracing them and have good laughs with them as the new MCs, but they have left me more than disappointed. They are just ruining a show that used to be so good and which had an already settled fan base

I hope that either this show goes through some drastic changes in its format or just gets canceled all together

As I see things I don't think either MC will step down from his place. Maybe they are just in the delusion that they are actually good at it. Maybe no one from the cast or the crew is informing them that they are doing a horrible job and they are unable to see their own poor performances without having someone else point at it. So I if the MCs don't quit and the show keeps on going to route its been going, then we will to continue to watch the slow agonizing death of a once iconic SK show.

And that's all for venting. Off to do homework now -_-

Blacks and Asians couples: Do they exist?!

So.......I used to live in a very small Californian town so pretty much everything I ever saw was white people and some Mexicans (We are in Cali after all).

Here in College though I have friends from all over the world and I actually love it

I'm taking a introduction to Sociology class. We are focusing on American identity. One thing led to another and we began to talk about interacial couples here in America.

How they're perceived by others, what groups are more open to it. We all gave our point of view on the matter and some shared their experiences.


BUT I did notice that one of the couples that didn't even get touched on was

Blasian couples

Like I said before I come from a small town with very few minorities in it so it is no surprise I never saw such a couple.

Here in college though one of my very good friends is African American and my bestfriend/roomate is an exchange student from Taiwan. 

So I naturally ask them both (separately) if they knew of any Black/Asian couple. My friend 'S' from Taiwan told me she had never seen one but maybe it was because she had only been in the U.S. for two yrs. But my African American friend 'M' said she knew of one Filipino/Black couple from when she used to live in Florida.

But yup, so far I haven't really seen a Blasian couple myself.



I became more intrigued by this lack of connection between these two groups and so I went to the place we all go to get out questions answered..Google


I found a shitload of stuff on the matter. Some were old and some were fairly recent. Some were actual articles, but the most juicy stuff I found was in forums where actual people who belong to either one of those groups shared their ideas.


I knew that if it is hard to find a Blasian couple in LA then to find one in the rest of the country would be almost impossible.

The real articles I found were pretty standard. They focused on the history if immigration from both groups, blah blah blah. How in modern times both groups tend to stick to their own ethnic groups blah blah blah.

The most interesting graph I found was one of the most to least likely interracial couple you can find in the good old USA. The two most likely couples were Asian women/White men Latina women/White men Black men/White women. And then the least likely couple to encounter is 
Black women/Asian men. No wonder I haven't seen one Blasian couple as of today


Now the forums is where all the confrontation anger and frustration could be felt.


Some forums I encountered were on predominately African America/Black sites as well as forums or blogs of Asian American/Asians perspective.

Let's just say the word 'chink' and 'nigger' were being thrown around as if they were nothing.


The Asians argument:
They don't have anything in common with Blacks
Blacks tend to be criminals, sell drugs, go to jail(**sigh)
Black don't go to school
Blacks  are violent + rude + loud (**double sigh)
Blacks and Asian have history of not getting along (LA riots I guess)
Families would never accept a Black person
Asians don't like dark skin because it's not pretty
Black men have too much equipment down there and Asian women are too small for it to fit (LMFAO)
~~list goes on with more really racist and rude arguments



The Black argument:
Asians are racist
Asians are cheap and want to steal from the Black men (I'm quoting here)
Asians are nerds and stuck up
Asians love to kiss white people's ass so they try to put black people down for it
Asians have flat asses (No junk in their trunk :D)
Asians can not speak the Engrish
They can't dance (Oh hell no!)
~~Who would want to be with an Asian? that pretty much encompasses the rest of their arguments

So people were pretty much being dickheads from both sides of the fence.


Now I also found a lot of blogs in which most of the time the author was a Black girl saying with no shame they wanted an Asian man by their side. Some went even as far as to say that they didn't like Black men because they were (Insert Asian argument here).

This group of Black women who were making such revelations were 99% of the time fans of J-Pop, K-pop, Manga, Anime and so on (You can figure this out very easily by looking at their profiles)



Asians blogger that I found more open to the idea only went as far as to write 'Race shouldn't matter when dating' but none of the Asians bloggers I encountered went as far as to say 'Ugh I would totally date a Black person right now. They are so hot' Asian bloggers pretty much write they might be open to the idea if (And that seems to be a really big IF) they find the right person who happens to be Black but none of them seem willing to go out of their way to date Blacks (And I'm being nice by putting it this way)


On the other hand lots of Black people (specially women) really do seem to want to date Asians but they don't know how or are afraid of rejection.

I even found a blog written by a Korean man who writes about the Korean mind-set on things. He wrote in one of his blogs how he gets so many emails from girls asking on tips on how to date Korean men. And that most of the people who would disclose what ethnicity they belonged to were Black girls :O

So it does seem like they (Blacks, girls specially) do want to date Asians but they feel Asians don't want them :(

I don't think relations between Asian and Blacks are that rigid (at least from what I can see on campus) but they are just kind of segregated into their own little groups. I do see some Asians and Blacks being friends so I think it is only a matter of time before this couple becomes a least a little more popular. Blasian I mean...

But if you are black girl at least try to not seem and sound so desperate when you are making your love for Asian men so obvious online. Men won't take women seriously when women appear to be too easy and available. Let's keep it classy, ladies.

Working @ Express SUCKS: My experience

 I'm awake finishing some school homework when I suddenly felt the need for some good old
online shopping

One thing led to another and I ended up browsing through the EXPRESS online store.

Suddenly horrible memories of the two worst weeks of my life (Exaggeration at its best but I tend to be dramatic) came back flooding my mind



First of all. working in retail tends to suck everywhere. There are always rude customers, the pay is horrible, the expectations are usually too high for what you get and the hours you get tend to suck at best. All in all, not the best field to work at.

But Express takes the cake in my book.

I worked at Express for less than three weeks but I still remember a lot of things that made me  
want to run out of that place after one hour of work.



Everything began with me being broke. And as you know broke college students do not look pretty. I had been working at a shoe store until recently but it freaking closed down with the owner telling us about this one week before it actually happened

So there I was broke, sad and hungry. I of course began to apply everywhere and as things turned out I got one of my first calls from Express.

The woman who called me sounded extremely nice so I was actually excited about the possibility of working there.

I went to my first interview. The person interviewing us was actually the assistant manager and not the manager herself.


One word to describe her would be: Bitch


I seriously could smell the bitchiness emerging from her pores as she made her way to us from the backroom.

During the entire interview she kept reminding us how she was soooo harsh when it came to hiring new people and how she never kept people who wouldn't immediately giver results and how we needed to be available every single day that we were putting down on our applications (Even though she wouldn't give people more than 8 hours per week HA)

I of course kissed her ass and tried to be as outgoing as possible to get the job. Let's just say I was desperate at the time.

Me and one other guy from that group interview ended up getting hired.

So, there I was on my first day of work. Besides the usual nervousness I was feeling okay about the whole thing. I finally met the manager who turned out to be a total sweetheart.

But of course since I'm sooo lucky it turns out the manager wasn't fat as I had thought but 81/2 months pregnant. So she was taking her maternity leave for two months. And yup. The bitch was going to be in charge from then on.

Let's pretend the assistant manager (The b...) was named 'Rosy'.

Well Rosy acted like a totally neurotic, too-good-for-everyone over-confident beyotch the entire time she trained me.

She gave me tips on:
-How to push merchandize to customers until they wouldn't be able to say no.
-How to get customers to get credit cards they didn't actually need.
-How to kiss more ass.
-And on how to act like stalker and follow customers around the store asking them their names.

Yup. Overall the place was shit.

I suddenly remembered why I had never like shopping at Express.

One reason was because of the clothing. It's so dull. It's mostly for women over 35 who want to pretend they still got it. And the prices are just stupid for such mediocre clothing

Another reason was because of the workers (stalkers) working there.

Back then, I used to blame them and curse quietly at them because they just wouldn't let me breathe.

Sometimes one just wants to browse around. Look at prices. Walk around the store and just enjoy our time there.

But at Express, you can not do that!

You just can't.

If you work there you get am earpiece with a small microphone attached to it. Every worker around the gates Has To run to a customer and ask them for their name (WTH!), tell them we have oh so many good looking things in the store (LIE) and demand an answer as to where the fuck they are going so we can get them to spend some fucking dough in our establishment.

'Hi what's your name?' I had to ask this more than 100 times in less than 3 hours working there on my first day.

People gave me the stink eye (I probably would have done that to myself too) and walked away although some good Samaritans did stop to tell me their names (There's still nice people our there **tear)

After asking all these very important questions I would have to tell every other worker all the information I had gathered from our new victim. It went something like this

'This is _______. A lady named Cynthia just walked into our store. She says she is looking for a pair of pants to go have a hot date with a married man'

Yup

Ok. I never had someone tell me that many details but you get what I'm saying.

Imagine having to have to grab my little microphone and having to tell all the other workers what some innocent stranger wanted, who they were, what they were doing, etc. I felt like a pervert. Stalking my prey as soon as I saw them

And I had to hear these type of conversations about 5000 times from all the other workers as well. Because of course we all had to stalk people.

And so Rosy (remember the witch?) would always come to me and say things like:

Her: "You're okay so far but I just wish I could inject you with Red Bull to make you more hyper"
Me: Smile/nod ---- Actual thoughts: Okay psycho

Or another one of my favorites

Her: "You can't let anyone get away. You must make the sale. That is the one priority you must have"
Me: Sure, I'll try harder ---- Actual thoughts: ***Sigh / I really want to hit your face right now

So I had to work like that for two miserable weeks. Everytime I walked back to my car after work I would think to myself. What the hell is wrong with that place?

Seriously though, who made that kind of selling strategy?

From what I've gathered online and from my own experiences at other Express stores they are all on stalking-mode.

A lot of people (potential buyers) would just walk out of the store as fast as their feet could take them after being approached by three different workers wanting to know their name.

Poor them. Customers just wanted to have a nice day shopping around without being bugged but
No no no. We can't let any enjoyment happen there.

Just when I was going to pass out from rolling my eyes so much at all the other dummies working at that place some kind of powerful being took pity on me and helped me find another job less than a week later.

And so I got out of the damned place never to look back at it again.

To date I have worked in fours retail stores, a bookstore, as a babysitter, waitress but Express has given me the biggest heartache and headache in my entire working life (So far)

I hope the bitch Rosy gets the stick up her ass out so she can actually see what customers want and how to approach them in a less pushy way.


Nah. I just hope she fell on her butt at least once.

Bye Express. See you never