ive moved!

can you find where i've gone??

in the show spongebob squarepants, sponegbob fails his driver's test 58 times. when i came home with another fail from the DMV, my mom decided to nickname me "katbob squarepants." in which case, i proceeded to tell her all the top 10 reasons why i will never drive.

1. cars are ridiculously expensive
2. gas is ridiculously expensive
3. continuously applying for new permits and driver's licenses is ridiculously expensive
4. i will become so rich from all the car related money saved that i can buy a chauffeur... and a pilot.
5. taxes was just raised to 9% in CA
6. cars promote fatness
7. i dislike anything related to the gov't
8. the world needs one less asian woman driving
9. i will decrease my daily impact by refusing to drive
10. and finally and most importantly, i fail all tests concerning the DMV, driving, and cars

this made my day.

hindsight is 20/20

x: if i could, i would.
Berkeley Flea Market
the San Francisco’s Farmer’s Market
Moe’s Used Book store

p.s. you can eat all the frosting off of my cupcakes.

hollywood.

if i were a movie character, i would be composed of:

ocean eleven's casey affleck's idiotic boyish charm
the bloom brother's bang bang
gran torino's quick wit
t.v. carpino's singing voice

in which case, i'd become a walking sing-a-long of impulsive rebellions consisting of explosions and endearing racist slurs. the audience would be so enraptured with my quirky personality and love for all things that go "boom boom," i would become an instant hit. perfect.

HP - invent from Tom and Matt on Vimeo.

THIS SONG MAKES ME FEEL BOSS.

Explosive - Bond

THE WIKIPEDIA BOOK!

http://www.fubiz.net/2009/06/05/wikipedia-book/

hey i have a question for you

what does the L,2, and D mean on the gears of an automatic?
what does B.C.E stand for?
how is MSG made?
and what is gluten and why do all the healthy food companies seem to be banning it?

summer in chicago

i remember melting in the hot humid air underneath the shade of a single tree. i would always swat the mosquitoes away while my brother and cousin would chew on ice wrapped in moist paper towels. on days when our grandma would shoo us out of the freezer, my brother and i would walk to the pond nearby and pretend to fish with our dog sleeping in the grass nearby. When the long summer nights would come around, i would run outside in my nightdress and try to catch fireflies in glass jars.

then there was the lightening storms. I would always hug my knees into my chest, leaning against the tall glass window, watching the lightening strike into a magnificent and terrifying wonder. if i close my eyes, i can still hear the thunderous echo of the storms.





there are so many things that i miss.
its almost unbearable.

i wish.
i wish.
i wish.
i wish.
i wish.
i wish.
i wish.

sculptor: cornelia parker

As a young girl with a unique paranoia of explosions, Parker analyzes on the regeneration of history's past through the demolition of homes, buildings, and all places where culture and life may once have resided. She is best known for Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991).

“I resurrect things that have been killed off... My work is all about the potential of materials - even when it looks like they've lost all possibilities.”

“It's a modern condition: the threat of bomb scares, and the fear it symbolizes. From seeing explosions on the news and all the time in films you sort of think you know what they are, but really your firsthand knowledge of it is very limited. I realized I'd never walked through the detritus of a bombed-out building."

you will love this.

do you want to know why i love being home?

http://foodporndaily.com/

because it is like that EVERYDAY.

enchante, mon amor (the original)

"Permit me to introduce myself. I am Pepe Le Pew, your lover."

baby matthew
halloween '05

it's froyo friday, everybody!!!

GOOD.

Almost Lover- A Fine Frenzy

dear time,

i sorely dislike you.

< /3 k

dear k,

if you take the moment to realize that you would have more time available if you stopped writing blog posts, you will find that 24 hours in a day is more than enough time to get your shit done.

sincerely,
time

dear time,

if you could please give me a couple more hours in this 24 hour day, i would greatly appreciate it.

<3k

goal diagram:

check list for a bad situation:

[x] you are lactose intolerant
[x] you decided to eat clam chowder for dinner the night before a midterm
[x] you come home to find that your roommate clogged the toilet
[x] you have no plunger
[x] your roommate leaves a note on your laptop saying that she had to go to class
[x] you don't know anyone around your apartment complex that would let you use their bathroom...

this is going to be a long night.

i've decided that i'm going to go on an all green ice cream diet this summer.

http://www.sorry-im-late.com/watch.html

it is may 17, 2009 and its 11:19pm on a sunday night, and i wish it was may 15, 2009 on a friday evening.

i watched star trek yesterday. i thoroughly enjoyed this movie, and I have decided that i most especially like fair haired Pavel Chekov. its the accent that makes me go weak in the knees for the boy genius!

today i accidentally inhaled spicy salad dressing into my nose. this was not fun as the burning sensation lingered like wasabi in my nostrils.

one more thing

i wish i was ambidextrous that way i could have multiple hands to get me through the day! i have two hands, but many times i find my left hand is inactive due to its lack of coordination...for instance while i was doing my geology homework today, i was thinking that if i was ambidextrous, I could write my geology notes and brush my teeth at the same time!





(promise this is the last thing of the night- maybe.)

i decided all i want to do this summer is play video games, read, sleep, play sports- rinse and repeat.

today, i stole toliet paper at PCV. they were giving it out like candy!

The other day, I ran into my fraternity, APO. They were in the process of family revealing (there are three families: Alpha, Phi, and Omega- I was part of Omega). This quarter, we decided to have the pledges dance to find out which family they were in. They each had to dance in front of the family and if the family replicated their dance they belonged to that family. If they did not, then they had to continue dancing until one of the families accepted them.

There was a boy named Maddox who unlike his pledge brothers and sisters could not dance very well, but made up for it in the most creative way... by lap dancing. He first danced on Vann's lap, who quickly shrugged him off. He then proceeded to do this very sexy dance for the next family, Phi. They also shooed him away. At this time, I was talking with Big N, laughing at this pledgee who looked embarrassed and confused as he approached my family. We were all egging KTurtle to represent our family. AND THEN OUT OF NO WHERE, he runs at me jutting, twisting, bouncing, and i hear a faint, " you're so beautifullll" in the background. I, in my classy self, screamed, ran, and pushed Big N into the line of fire, who then proceeded to drag me back to the laughing crowd.

chubby bunny told me that was the fastest he has ever seen me run.

oh little pledges you think you're so clever and funny!

this photo has nothing to do with the above story. BUT IT IS CUTE. so it deserves its place.

katpedia likes this!

santiago calatrava
alamillo bridge

architects do not create buildings and structures for the future, they create tombstones of the present. they immortalize history into a physical form. they are the spoken wills of those dying today.

today, i want to create my tombstone.

http://wimp.com/livelooping/

http://doihaveswineflu.org/

likes: kashi cereal, vanilla yogurt, strawberries, single bedrooms, and warm laundry

dislikes: mustaches, boys, and boys with mustaches

unrelated: there should be such a thing called memory taste

midnight: BK and i decided to have a little arts and crafts fun. With a stolen eyeliner pencil, we drew on each other's faces, squirming and giggling and in some cases crying. I transformed BK into my greatest masterpiece: a japanese boy with spiky eyelashes, a french mustache and goatee with a marylin monroe beauty mole. I on the other hand was a stuttering, aging old mess- with premature wrinkles inhabiting my forehead, an outrageous mustache, an attractive butt chin and eye bags that fell to the bottoms of my very round cheeks. After satisfying ourselves in a drunken laughter, we decided to attack e with whiskers, tears, and a unibrow. Oh what a trio we were!

one saturday evening, BK and e decided they wanted to see the world. They toppled themselves over the white pillowed bed and through google maps, they watched new york vendors, told stories of the french women smokers by the Effiel Tower, and swam in Michigan Lake. They laughed and created memories in Rainbow Blvd, played skip on Penny Lane, and sang in the rain in Seattle, Oregon.

pass the cherrioes, please! and let's go to Greece. she says

nestling themselves like children, they spent the night exploring the world covered in bedsheets and warm smiles.

happy springtime

in the midst of springtime rain, i found myself in front of trader joes smelling the pretty yellow fressias, and i thought what a wonderful way to spend a somber friday.

Oh may day, if you could only come more than once a year how happy we'd all be!

printer battle

today I was flipping through blogs and I stumbled across a blog of a friend's friend. this is what i found:



This concept printer design responds to real traveling needs by providing maximum portability.
product name: Circular Printer
designer: Kang-il Chung, Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd
courtesy of JAWSTIN: BLOG (jawstin.blogspot.com)


upon seeing this, i was very excited and wanted to share my joy with roommate, a GRC major. she then pointed me into the direction of this:

playlist of smiles (in no particular order)

1. blister in the sun- violet femmes
2. sir duke- stevie wonder
3. island in the sun- weezer
4. tom tom club- genius of love
5. anyway you want it- journey
6. i want you back- jackson 5
7. bruises- chairlift
8. lime tree- trevor hall
9. september- earth, wind, fire
10. send me on my way- rusted root
11. a little less conversation- elvis presley
    

weekend recap

talk show hosts on club MS?!? dj kaolinte and break dancer allan, can you say chicka chicka boom boom? dolly transportation, please! did you see that? SHAKE AND BAKE, baby. drunkards singing to taylor swift, dumpster diving and dungeons and dragons reenactment? duck, the popo will see you! sore finger tips and flying orange balloons. oh nate, 5am is not a good look for you...

IMITATION IS DEATH.

every year, millions die from unsanitary water.
charitywater.org. think about it.

reconcilation.

kat is sitting on her black leather couch, sipping black tea. the lock on the door turns, squeaks, and Life walks in. He slips off his shoes and sits next to kat on the couch. kat gives no recognition that he has arrived.

Life: I'm sorry.

Outside, the birds chirp and the wind rustles the spring leaves.

kat: I've missed you.

Life: I'm here now.

there is a long pause. kat rests her head on his shoulder. Life takes her tea and sips it.

end scene.

i also have a weakness for good movies.

i have a weakness for good design.

www.chegg.com

for all you college students out there who are frustrated with high priced textbooks and long lines at the bookstore, you've come to the right place!

I've just discovered a website called chegg.com where they will rent textbooks for 60% of the retail price. It essentially works like a library, but instead of library cards you use money. First you find the needed textbook, rent it at the specified price and once finished, you may return it. They will send you a prepaid return shipping. Also for every textbook that you rent, they plant a tree. So not only are they helping students save money, but they are also helping the Earth.

So, please check out the service. It's a really great idea and I really enjoy it.

P.S chegg.com were also the innovators of the edible textbook... so next time you are feeling hungry just take a bite out of your textbook!

on behalf of Nick, "FML."

c308 is the coolest room in the world

sorry, but kathy is somehow signed in to her blogspot on my computer. but we love kathy. cause she's just super cool.

with love,
c308

bad things:
1. dynamics
2. finals week
3. empty refrigerators

Dear N,

You are not here with me. And I am not there with you.

and i miss you. I miss you in the number of days that you have been gone. And i miss you in the number of candles on your birthday muffin and the number of times my phone rang before you gave up. And I miss you in the number of times you have ever been lonely. I miss you in all the movies we haven't had a chance to see. I miss you in all the tears I've cried laughing at you and you at me. I miss you in all those wife cakes we've eaten and gotten sick over. but most of all, I just miss you.

You're twenty two today. and you're a world away from me and I'm a world away from you, but I'm with you. And I have your banana nut muffin cake complete with twenty two candles... but I'm stealing your wishes.

Because I need you to come back and I need you to do something great and I need you to stay safe and sleep soundly. I need you to create memories and I need to you to make stories and I need you to know that we are all safe and blessed to have you. So, I am stealing your wishes knowing that they will come true.

I love you.

INSPIRATION

Nike - Take it to the next level - Director's Cut
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the tally number one:
UNDECIDED: II
ARCE:I
ARCH:II

the tally number two:
HATE: I
LOVE: 0

i wish it was my birthday so someone would buy me something.

Radio Cat!

media: mild steel
sculpture winter '09

Lately, I've been feeling a bit...

the new year!

this is a picture of my red planner for 2009:



One week ago, it would have looked like this:



but on Jan. 5th I returned to college and it now looks like this:



as my architecture professor would say,
"mmm... that's faaaabbbulous!"