You Had Your Baby?!

This is not a phrase that any non-pregnant woman would like to hear. However, as I was walking to the vending machine in my office, a women passed me by, then stopped on her tracks, turned around and said "You Had Your Baby?!".

Like a sitcom, my eyes opened wide, my jaws dropped open, and I turned around and said "I'm sorry?". Her eyes opened wide, her mouth shaped into a perfect "O" and said "oh, it wasn't you...". Awkward moment. Then I gave her a smile and shaked my head to let her know it's alright and turned around and continued my path.

As I was standing in front of the vending machine (the legal no-arm bandit in California), the giggles had came over me after that little incident. Did I just get a double-whammy insult?

Should I be offended on whether she thought I was big enough to be "after-pregnant" in the first place? or should I be offended that she thinks all asians look alike and she thought I was another woman? Either way, thank goodness I was not offended in any way...but wow, maybe I should really look into my "lazy" diet and work some of this "pregnancy" weight off! Or maybe she was just admiring my bosoms and thought wow....she must be lactating?! "You Had Your Baby?!"

Few Words Of Advice:
Non-asians, please look carefully on our faces, we are all different. Take a minute to familiarize the person's face to see if you really recognize him/her before making comments. We may be of similar height, but we look and act very different.

Just think of it like this:

• Michael Jordan is NOT Michael Jackson
• Hillary Duff is NOT Britney Spears
• Jennifer Lopez is NOT Christina Aguilera
• Margaret Cho is NOT Lucy Liu

"You Had Your Baby?!", is not something you should just blurt out to any woman...whether they are pregnant or they do not. A more polite way of asking is "how is the baby?"...it does not imply that you look like you were pregnant and carrying some extra baggage. It just means, hey, you have a family now.

Sigh! When I do get pregnant, I'll go back to that lady and say "Now, I'm pregnant and you can ask me that question in 9 months".

Elevator Etiquette

I work in a 4-story building on the 4th floor and every morning, employees get in, pushes the elevator floor and quickly pushes the close button "to get to work as fast as possible"...why? Not sure! However, in one particular morning, the elevator was filled with 5 people (4 male and 1 female), including myself.

Firstly, I went into the Elevator, press 4, and move to the back of the elevator. Then 2 guys with their breakfast and coffee in hand, comes in and presses 3, and move towards the sides. Usually, the elevators only stop on floors 3 and 4. However, these 2 other guys came in and presses 2.

I do not see any crutches or any physical disabilities on their part (mentally, I'm not sure)! Why do people feel compel to be that lazy and NOT walk one flight of stairs but to waste other peoples' valuable time? Yet, all over the news, people wonder WHY are americans' obese, heavy, fat or becoming one of those 3 things. The media starts to analyze the diet, the food choices, Atkins, South Beach, Turkins, blah blah blah. Instead of analzying our diets, start looking into our daily simple choices! It's not because of our diet or our food...but its our choice of living. Americans choose to be Lazy by not walking that one damn flight of stairs to go work....(we work all-day in a cubicle). Americans choose to load themselves up with fatty donuts, muffins, eggs, sausages, bacons, gourmet coffee such as mochas, lattes, in the morning yet not do the physical work to work those fatty intakes off. (I'm not fitness buff, I like those too but I also take a flight of stairs when I am only going one floor up or down)

So as I stayed in the elevator 30 seconds more than my usual day because of the 2nd floor people, I just keep thinking "how lazy can you be?". Lunch time comes around, I get into the elevator to go up to the 4th floor...the same 2 guys comes into the elevator and presses 2. Don't get me wrong, these guys in no means are obese...they may have a little pudge but it's not a health risk for them to walk one flight of stairs. What is worse is this one guy presses 2 and the other guy presses 3 but somehow the other guy decides he wants to chit-chat more with the first guy and gets off at 2. So here I am in the elevator alone...stopping at floor 2 (both of them leaves)....30 seconds...stopping at floor 3 (I'm here alone, nobody coming in or going out)...30 seonds ... finally stopping at floor 4. I'm free after ONE minute of eternity imprisonment because of 2 lazy guys!

So people, unless that one flight of stairs has more than 30+ steps straight-up without a platform, TAKE the STAIRCASE.

Get some exercise...you may even thank me for it when you lose a couple pounds cuz you got off your laziness!

Memosas For A Lovely Sunday

Chhimi and I woke up mid-morning as the previous night's excitement has slipped away and we have resumed into our normal selves. We packed everything from the hotel room and as we were standing in line checking out, Chhimi and I turned around and saw a lovely brunch buffet was being served at the hotel. We looked at each other...and made a mental decision...why not, it's our little weekend getaway? let's splurge a little and have ourselves a nice relaxing Sunday brunch just to the 2 of us.

We sat down and was immedately asked "Champagne?". "Wow" was what I thought....they're serving us champagne for breakfast? Then the waiter asked, "how about 1/2 and 1/2...we can make it a Memosa?". Chhimi's immediate response was "sure!". He has never had a memosa before but I've had my very 1st last year in Houston, TX with my girls' weekend of SWE. Chhimi took a sip and declared with a smile on his face "bubbly OJ".

We proceeded to get ourselves some "grub" but found ourselves looking into plates of gourmet delicacies such as crab legs, fresh prawns with cocktail sauce, grilled halibut with cognac and lobster gravy, fresh made waffles to the order, fresh made omelettes to the order, dim sum including pot stickers and sui mai....MMmmm was all we thought of.

Both Chhimi and I have forgotten about looking into our health and diet and gave into the delicious morsels of food! We sipped 2 - 3 flutes of memosas as we enjoyed our Sunday brunch. It was truly a lovely experienced to be catered to on a weekend. Of course, after our brunch, Chhimi and I could harly move since we've indulged our stomach a little too much! Sigh! It was truly a Mastercard moment....well worth the experience.