Feeling evoked.

The winner is "Jammin' Butter"! It's unconventional, highly brandable, and very easy to remember. AND, it makes you smile when you say it!

Words that evoke a certain feeling

Laid Back - Chill - Exciting - Hyper - Loose - Thrill - Adventurous - Cool - Fun - Young - Hip - Trendy - Simple - Uncomplicated - Relaxed - Detailed - Accomplished

Boston for a weekend

Well, we booked hotels last night for this weekend in Boston. I had doubts we were ever going to go until he booked it last night. So, I'll update on the happenings in New England.

Alternative scenario #1 for tonight - "A Mad Search"

Ok, I think in order to remain sane, I'm going to have to be creative. I decided to write alternative scenarios for what I could be doing right this moment because the status quo ain't no fun. Here's my first one, I hope its entertaining...

Alternative scenario #1 for tonight - "A Mad Search"

Criss-crossing through the breezy midsummer night on Madrid's cobblestone streets on a Vespa scooter with husband, clenching tight because I'm afraid I'll fall off, in a mad search for a dessert shop. Husband thinks he's slick and drives a little fast making me nervous, and my chest is pounding, because I can just see him hitting a bump in the road, and there I go flying off onto the street sign, landing upside down without a helmet but miraculously arise with just a crick in my neck. Husband is determined to find a dessert shop but doesn't realize he is driving in a really large circle, although, the glorious sites of the city and its wonderment were more satisfying than any dessert, but to our surprise, there was a pastry shop just a couple doors down from where we made the first right, instead of a left.

The New Trophy Wives: Asian Women - Marie Claire Magazine

I found this interesting.

The New Trophy Wives: Asian Women
Rupert Murdoch has one. So do financiers Vivi Nevo and Bruce Wasserstein. Why are the West's most powerful men coupling up with younger Asian women?
By Ying Chu

Call it the Woody Allen Effect. When the venerable director scandalously left Mia Farrow for her adopted daughter, South Korean-born Soon-Yi Previn — 35 years his junior — he may as well have sent out a press release: Asian-girl fantasy trumps that of Hollywood royalty!

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"Enter the doll-faced Asian sylph on the arm of a silver-haired Western suit. (Hello, mail-order bride!) The excruciating colonial stereotypes — Asian women as submissive, domestic, hypersexual — are obviously nothing new. But decades after The World of Suzie Wong hit drive-ins and more than 20 years since David Bowie's "China Girl" topped the music charts, why are we still indulging them?

"Because they're omnipresent — and often entertaining. Even now, how many cinematic greats, literary best sellers, or even cell-phone ads characterize Asian women as something other than geishas, ninjas, or dragon ladies? As the object of opening-line zingers like "Me love you long time" (the infamous line from Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket), I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at the cheeky blog stuffwhitepeoplelike.com, which ranks Asian girls at number 11 because "Asian women avoid key white women characteristics, such as having a midlife crisis, divorce, and hobbies that don't involve taking care of the children."

"Sure, I'm petite and was in fact born in Shanghai, but — to the shock of more than one guy I've gone out with — I'd rather down an icy beer and burger than nurse bubble tea and eat dumplings while massaging his back with my toes.

"Tellingly, most current trophies of choice are far more than exotic arm candy. They are accomplished musicians and journalists, they have Ivy League MBAs and hail from prestigious political families. Why, then, are these women falling for rich white patriarchs? Why be a target for headline comparisons to concubines?"

Daniel Craig and his wife Satsuki Mitchell

Nicholas Cage and wife Alice Kim

Citizenship Update #3

I'm so excited about this citizenship process - everything has been very timely. I got my 3rd notice on Friday about my civics test interview. Basically, I have to take a multiple choice test on the US Government. Super easy stuff. Because I've been here for over 20 years, I'm exempt from reading, oral, and written testing. I think this will be a breeze. October 15, I have to go to Memphis - which is about 8 or so hours away. I need to find a flight down there. I hate going to Memphis, much less by myself. It's not the safest city and Husband will be in Charleston at that time, so he won't be able to go with me.

So I'm excited - it won't be long before I will be inducted as a citizen of the US.

Happy Labor Day! I'm going to Chick-fil-A to get my free sandwich by wearing my MTSU shirt. Yip yip!

I'm a googler

I google myself every now and then to make sure there's not a website that has crawled my information and posted it online.

I generally enjoy seeing my MTSU Debate records, records, being on the front of page of the Comm Studies Dept website, graduation, and there was an article with me in it back in 2003.

Sometimes, I get surprised, and see my Twitter comments comes up. It's kinda weird. Unfortunately, I don't update there much. I think I will when I get the chance to integrate it with the Tasty.

I'd like to think that my name is pretty unique, but sometimes, after a really focused google, I find a funny something involving my name - this time its, Taxi Vantha. I guess when I'm in Cambodia, I will definitely get in one of these, and see if "Vantha's" are better than "Checker" or "Yellow". lol. I'm quite certain that Vantha's are better. ;)

I will try to post more stuff on random websites and see if it shows up on google.