Episode 12: Life in general

 

(I give you cuteness~!!)

Okay, so the last few days I got to thinking about life and have come to the conclusion that life in general is just too short to spend the majority of it worrying about little details.

Some of you already know that I'm getting married this month, which means that it's now down to the nitty gritty details and final payments. At first I was really stressed out with all the planning, but now I realize that stressing out is only going to give me more white hairs that I'll ask my photographer to photoshop out of the final pictures. So no more. No more worrying about whether each little detail comes out perfect or not. No more worrying about whether so and so will be coming to the wedding or not. (No RSVP, no come!). There's plenty of other things I could also worry about... but....

You can't please them all, so you might as well please yourself as much as possible. (That almost sounds a little dirty haha sorry). Seriously though, why worry when there is so much around you that you can appreciate instead? 

I am still on my quest to find my calling in life, but if I'm going to be on a journey to greatness, I might as well enjoy the ride.

Even when you think that things are sucky, there is usually some silver lining somewhere. You may not see it at first, but it's there. Keep looking for it and always stay positive. It's much funner than being gloomy all the time ^^

Episode 11: Oh Disneyland...

 

My hair is finally long enough to tie up in a ponytail! ^^ Anyway... So for those of you who remember my Disney CA Adventure entrance story, I finally got a second response back from Guest Communications. 

For those of you who don't remember or didn't read the insanely long first post about it (found here), this is the short version:

I have my bachelorette party at Disneyland, we hop parks to DCA, but the older lady at the entrance gates doesn't think the picture on my annual pass looks like me, leaves me standing there stupidly. A supervisor eventually joins us, agrees w/ first lady, I give my ID, they don't think it looks like me. I give my debit card with picture ID, they still don't think it looks like me. Supervisor walks away with annual pass, ID, AND debit card w/o telling me where she's going... comes back and finally lets me in saying she'll have to put a note in my file. Once inside, my friend asks about her picture on her pass and gets told off by the supervisor that this not her issue, the problem was between me and the supervisor and it was resolved (says who?!). 

I write complaint letter online, get a generic "sorry" back, hit reply to that email, and 2 weeks later nothing. So I copy that last email I sent and previous correspondence and submit another online letter, and get a new response finally.

Yup, that's the short version!!

And for all that trouble, I get 6 attraction re-admission passes.  I'm still trying to decide if I feel under-compensated or not. First reaction was yes, but thinking more about it... if I use it on the right rides on the right days, it could potentially save me more than 3 hrs at Disneyland. 

As for my favorite Disney Cast Members Zoe and Teresa, I haven't seen them working around the DCA gates since that incident ^^ I'm half hoping they got demoted to janitorial duties for the women's restrooms (which I believe to be much nastier than men's - though I've never been inside the men's restrooms).

Episode 10: Disney California Adventure POS Employees

So I'm having tons of fun at Disneyland for my bachelorette party this past Saturday, and we decide to hop on over to Disney California Adventure since a bunch of the girls hadn't gone there yet. They've completely decked me out in Bride to Be gear... FAR from inconspicuous. All 10 girls get in and I'm the last in line to get in... Here's where my story begins!

I walk up to the little turnstyle thing and this elderly white haired lady, Zoe, takes my annual pass, scans it and then looks at me. It beeped like a normal entrance ok beep I thought...

Zoe: *looks at me* Hmm...

Me: ... ?

Zoe: *looks at the pass, then looks at me again* Hmm...

 

Me: .... .....

Zoe: I'm just not sure this looks like you.

Me: Uh, that's me. ... *waiting for something else to happen*

Zoe: Hmm...

Me: *waiting* ...

< A couple of minutes later >

Zoe: I need you to step aside so I can let other people in.

Me: ...  *thinking wtf at this point*... Okay.  

< I step aside... and wait. Again. Zoe continues to let other people in. No word of what to do with me, for 5 minutes at least. Pose for a picture, trying to look happy at Disneyland, but it's not quite working haha.>

 

Me: ... Ok, well here's my ID then.

 

Zoe: *takes ID and looks at it* Hmm...

Me: ... *waiting*

Zoe: *looks at ID, looks at me, looks at annual pass, looks at me* Hmm...

Me: ...

Zoe: I need you to step aside so I can let other people in.

Me: *look of disbelief as a I step aside*

< Some other lady, Teresa, apparently the supervisor, shows up and takes my annual pass and ID from Zoe >

Teresa: *looks at annual pass, looks at me, looks at ID, looks at me* Hmm...

Me: ...

Teresa: ... I'm not sure these look like you.

Me: Okay, well here. Here's my debit card with my picture too.

 

Teresa: *takes debit card, looks at picture, looks at me, looks at annual pass, looks at ID, looks at me*... Hmm... *walks away to who knows where with my annual pass, ID, AND debit card without saying a word to me*.

Me: UHHHHH. *WTF, come back with my debit card and ID please.*

< More waiting here, no choice really. It's now been about 15 minutes since I've been trying to get in >

< Teresa comes back finally >

Teresa: Well, the names match, but I'm just not sure these pictures look like you. When does the annual pass expire?

Me: August 22 this year.

Teresa: ... Hmm. I don't know... You have glasses on here. 

Me: Right. *slowly* But I'm wearing contacts today.

Teresa: Do you have your glasses? Can you put them on?

Me: Um. No. I'm wearing contacts today.

Teresa: Hmm...

Me: Are you serious? I don't know what else to give you. I've already given you my ID and even my debit card. 

Teresa: Hmm... *looks at me, looks at IDs* ... Well, I'll let you in but I'll have to put a note in your file.

Me: ... *taking annual pass, ID and debit card back (while I can!) while entering DCA finally*

My girls greet me on the other side and we're all wondering wtf just happened. I'm still not entirely sure what just happened either. We see Teresa on the inside so I go up to her again and I ask...

Me: Excuse me, what did you mean by putting a note in my file?

Teresa: I think you might want to take a new picture or something, because that doesn't look like you.

< My friend Miley pipes in with a question of her own >

Miley: My picture doesn't look much like me anymore either, will I have problems too?

Teresa: *rudely* This is between me and her *gestures my way*. This has been resolved, so you need to step back.

Miley: No, I'm not asking about that. This is a separate issue.

Teresa: This has been resolved. I don't need to speak with you about this. < Probably not her words exactly but that is what she meant >

Miley: ...

At this point, we're all just kinda pissed and walk away. We'll deal with her later and file a complaint at City Hall. Lucky for DCA, they have an awesome awesome cast member Carrie who made up for the shitty ass customer service I just went through. Carrie hooked us up with a private meeting for wedding advice at the Turtle Talk with Crush show. She even met us at the exit of Tower of Terror to give us all buttons and front of line passes to whatever ride we wanted. 

 

Fast forward to the end of the night. We stop by City Hall as we exit the park to file our complaint about Zoe and Teresa and to give our compliments about Carrie.  Chris handles our complaint professionally for the most part, but decides to make it up to us by letting us know he'll go upstairs right after to the complaint department to talk to the people there, and then offers us some hot cocoa, or coffee or a drink. 

Because free hot chocolate makes up for super shitty customer service. 

Me: Oh, and Teresa mentioned something about putting a note in my file... What's that about?

Chris: Let me check... *looks up stuff*... I don't see any notes in here. I'm not sure.

Go figure.

So apparently people trying to sneak into DCA will dress up all gaudy and conspicuously with Bride to Be sashes, Minnie Bride ears and veils, big bachelorette ring plushes hanging from their necks, Bride butons all over the place, know the expiration to their fake annual pass, put a different picture but same ethnic name on their fake picture ID, and also put their fake name and yet another different picture on their fake debit card.

Kind of an awesome story isn't it?

Episode 9: Twitter at the altar?

I read this morning on Yahoo Odd News that someone interrupted his wedding to Tweet that he just got married hahaha.

Groom creates viral storm twittering from altar:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Maryland groom has created an viral story storm after he interrupted his wedding last month to update his Facebook and Twitter accounts from the altar.
Dana Hanna, who works for a pet website, also posted a short video of the ceremony on the Internet. It showed him reaching into his pocket for his phone as the minister was about to pronounce the couple husband and wife.
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For the full article (must read, it tells you what his Tweet was!), go here: Twitter interruption.
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I'm really new to this whole Twitter thing (literally, maybe a week only), and while I acknowledge that it IS pretty addicting... wow. Even I have a limit to my geekiness. (Yes, I say that even though I took the picture of me so that you can see my Bleach anime calendar at my work cubicle.)

Romeo better not pull out his iPhone at the altar next March because if he does, I'm going to laugh so hard that I'll start crying and then it'll ruin whatever makeup I have on and he'll look like he's marrying a clown lookin' chick (nobody wants a clown for a wife. They're scary!). And then my family will disown him before we're even married! Traditional Asian parents FTW.

My friend Hollen suggested streaming a video of my wedding live over the internet for those who can't make it. Not entirely sure what I think of that. It could be pretty cool, and then it could be pretty ... embarrasing. Blackmail material :O Who knows what crazy shenanigans will happen that can't get edited out before the world sees it? :)

I know I say I want to be famous one day, but I'd prefer it to be for something a little more worthwhile... say, saving the world for example. Ah well, we'll see what happens. Can't have it all I guess :D

Infomercial: New phone follow up

Got my replacement Blackberry 8330 Curve today. I was excited... until I opened the box. I was hoping they'd give me the pink one again, but alas, I got a boring refurbished gray one. Well, ok, that's not too bad. It looks new enough so I went to go turn that baby on. And then it didn't do anything. Apparently, refurbs don't come with battery packs either.

Well... So I get my old battery pack and put it in the new BB. So far so good. I don't do anything to the new one because the plan is to take it to the Verizon store so they can transfer the data for me. At least it's got the new OS on it. I couldn't even upgrade my old BB to the new OS, it kept failing.

Romeo and I get to the Verizon store and the employee proceeds to transfer the data over. I get both phones back and I look at the new one - it's got the contacts so I think ok cool, everything went through ok.

Then I get home and notice my emails didn't transfer over... and then I can't find the app that allows me to add/change email addresses. Dude. It's just not looking good. I find the Email Setup in the Setup Wizard... and lo and behold, the only options are:

 

1) Connect to a Blackberry Enterprise Server email address (for businesses) or 

2) Skip this step.

WHAT. THE. HELL.  

(Actually, hell wasn't quite the word I had in mind, but I thought I'd keep it friendly).

I go back to Verizon and the guy who attempts to help me doesn't know squat about BB's but his coworker finally helps and explains it to him super fast in Spanish and sets it up so that I have my Email Setup app now. It still remembers my email addresses at the least. Not a bad sign. So I go play with the Motorola Droid for a few minutes (not too shabby actually) and then head home.

So the fun part begins, I get to start installing the apps that didn't transfer over. You know, the all important AOL Instant Messenger, Facebook, Twitter...  I start with AIM and after it downloads and is in the process of installing, my BB reboots itself. Magically. For no apparent reason. Oookay. It reboots and then I go to install AIM again and it works this time.  I get through UberTwitter just fine and think, ok that reboot was a fluke. Right?

Then I realize the BB Messenger that is preinstalled is the older version, so I go into the App World to download the newest version (you know, with those fancy Group Barcodes), and lo and behold, after it downloads and is in the process of THINKING for a good 2 minutes about installing, IT REBOOTS ITSELF AGAIN.

And here I am ... waiting for this stupid install as I blog/rant about it.

BlackBerry 8330 Curve:

Seriously, new OS or not, NOT impressed.