Jamie Hilao

“You wore that to work today!?”
– My friend Brien, after introducing him to Peter at the Shabu-Shabu restaurant

“Yeah, it’s casual Friday. We can wear jeans…”
– My response

“More like ‘hoochie Friday’, with your spray-on jeans and your fishnet top!”
– Peter, not helping the situation, while I try to recall why I invited him to visit me in the first place

“OOOH! HOOCHIE FRIDAY!”
– Toni, Brien’s girlfriend, making the situation even worse

“You guys! This isn’t hoochie! I’m fully covered!”
– Me, appalled that my “friends” are ganging up on me & looking down at my normal jeans and non-low-cut blouse

**

“Hi everyone this is my 18-yr-old hooker friend!”
– Peter, our second night out during the crazy weekend

“Shut up! I do not look 18!”
– Me, trying (unsuccessfully) to defend myself

**

“OK, my aunt and I tried unscrewing this for 10 minutes last night and it won’t budge. It’s used to help screw the shade onto the floor lamp.”
— Me to Kenny, who came up to my place to help set up my new Plasma TV and had no idea he would help with my floor lamp too

“Um. That was ridiculous.”
— Kenny, who loosened the screw with little effort after 5 seconds

Perhaps, I should take back my “I did it!” blog.

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At this year’s Asian Pacific American Forum (APAF) 2007 National Meeting, we had cool electronic (though bulky) nTag name badges. If you met a colleague at the conference with whom you wanted to exchange contact information, you could point your badges at each other, click a button and Voila! an electronic business card exchange. Shortly after the conference, attendees received an e-mail with each person’s contact information.

“Hey, I never exchanged my contact info with you guys!”
– Ajit, another member of the volunteer committee, to me & Momo

“Oh yeah! Let’s flash each other!”
– Me, holding my nTag badge up to Ajit’s

“Ooo, ooo, me too, me too, I wanna flash too!”
– Momo, sandwiching Ajit’s badge

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“Nice to meet you, Mr. Immelt.”
– Me, shaking hands with “The Man” himself, Jeff Immelt, Chairman of the Board & CEO for General Electric, NBC Universal’s parent company

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“Ms. Warrior, there are 2 versions of your video on this DVD. Which one would you like me to run?”
– Me, out of breath, in a frenzy trying to locate Ms. Warrior, 15 minutes before she’s about to go on. I was in charge of making sure all the presentations at the conference ran without a glitch.

“The first one. Breathe, just take a long, deep breath!”
–Padmasree Warrior, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Motorola

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“Hey girl! Yay! It’s so awesome we finally get to catch up! I have so much to tell you!”
– Me, welcoming Jenny to my apartment at 1 p.m.

*Gab, gab, gab*
— Jenny & I eating lunch, 1:30 p.m.

*Gab, gab, gab*
— Jenny & I by the pool, 3 p.m.

*Gab, gab, gab*
— Jenny & I by the pool, after a few glasses of vodka with a few drops of mango juice, 5 p.m.

*Gab, gab, gab*
— Jenny & I sitting in my living room, pretending that we’re about to watch a movie, 12 a.m.

*Gab, gab, gab*
— Jenny & I as we roll into bed, 1:30 a.m.

*Gab, gab, gab*
— Jenny & I getting ready for AWBW’s fundraiser, 8 a.m.

“Um, I cannot believe we gabbed all night, for over 12 hours straight!”
— Me to Jenny, after arriving at the fundraiser in Venice in separate cars, LA-style

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“No, remember? No cheese, I hate cheese, anything with cheese.”
– One of my consultants, after I offered him a piece of my Philadelphia roll at a sushi joint

“How could you NOT like cheese? Not even mozzarella or cheddar? That’s a sin!”
– Me, in disbelief

*He sighs after half an hour of the table discussion surrounding his dislike of cheese*

“Normally I like to be the center of attention, but this time, I’ve had it. I need to buy a shirt that says, ‘I do not like cheese’, and on the back, ‘At ALL!’”
– His retort

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