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Going to the Final Fantasy concert at SF Symphony tonight! The excitement! =)

RIP Michael Jackson.

Still in shock and disbelief.  He was so much part of my childhood. He was great then.
His music still is and will always be.

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

No higher death risk in long-term coffee drinking

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Long-term coffee drinking does not appear to increase a person's risk of early death and may cut a person's chances of dying from heart disease, according to a study published on Monday.

Previous studies have given a mixed picture of health effects from coffee, finding a variety of benefits and some drawbacks from the popular drink. The new study looked at people who drank caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee.

Researchers led by Esther Lopez-Garcia of Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in Spain followed 84,214 U.S. women from 1980 to 2004 and 41,736 U.S. men from 1986 to 2004.

They found that regular coffee drinking -- up to six cups a day -- was not associated with increased deaths among the study's middle-aged participants. In fact, the coffee drinkers, particularly the women, experienced a small decline in death rates from heart disease.

The study found no association between coffee consumption and cancer deaths.

"Our study indicates that coffee consumption does not have a detrimental effect," Lopez-Garcia, whose research appears in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, said in a telephone interview. "It seems like long-term coffee consumption may have some beneficial effects."

There has been a debate among scientists about the health effects of drinking coffee, which typically contains the stimulant caffeine and a number of other important compounds.

The people who took part in the research completed questionnaires on how frequently they drank coffee, other diet habits, smoking and medical conditions. The researchers then studied the mortality risk over the period of the study among people with different coffee-drinking habits.

The study found that women who reported drinking two to three cups of caffeinated coffee per day had a 25 percent lower risk of death from heart disease than women who did not drink coffee. The researchers saw a smaller decreased risk for men but it was not statistically significant.

Drinking decaffeinated coffee was associated with a small reduction in overall mortality risk, the researchers said.

The people in the study had no history of cardiovascular disease or cancer when they entered it. The women were nurses and the men doctors, dentists and other health professionals.

Some studies have indicated coffee is a great source of antioxidants, substances that may protect against the effects of molecules called free radicals that can damage cells and may play a role in heart disease, cancer and other ailments.

Recent studies have offered a mixed picture on the health effects of coffee.

A study that came out in January found that pregnant women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day had twice the risk of miscarriage as those who avoid caffeine. Another study appearing in January found that drinking caffeinated coffee lowered a woman's risk of ovarian cancer.

(Editing by Julie Steenhuysen and Bill Trott)

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Yay.!

Well not like I care anyways...I have pretty much become a coffee drinker ever since I started my internship last year. I blame my supervisor! 

In other news, I just got back from my trip to Los Angeles. I really really really loved the sun and the warmer weather there. I might apply for the grad school in UCLA after working for at least a year in San Fran..that's the plan for now!

Well I just watched the trailer for the new Indiana Jones movie.

It only looks like an OKAY film actually...but omg the music..brings back so many memories..

Transformers owns.
And I am loving my new place.

Where the Hell is Matt.
A pretty amazing video.




The famous Treadmills Dancing video..I can't believe I never saw it till today.
It's very very original.



Life is very busy. Hence the lack of updating.

S.F. Asian Paper's Column On Blacks Condemned

(CBS 5 / AP) SAN FRANCISCO Asian-American leaders are condemning a column titled "Why I Hate Blacks," which was published in a weekly newspaper that calls itself "The Voice of Asian America."

In the piece, which appeared in the Feb. 23 edition of San Francisco-based AsianWeek, contributor Kenneth Eng lists reasons why he supports discrimination against blacks.

The column was the third written by Eng, who has described himself as an "Asian Supremacist" despite having written a previous column titled "Why I Hate Asians." Another previous column was titled "Proof That Whites Inherently Hate Us."

Leaders at the Asian American Justice Center, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Coalition for Asian Pacific Americans and other groups are circulating a petition denouncing the latest piece as "irresponsible journalism, blatantly racist, replete with stereotypes, and deeply hurtful to African Americans."

"It certainly does not speak for the vast majority of Asian Americans," Stewart Kwoh, who heads the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles, said Tuesday. "This kind of inflammatory (column) really can hurt and damage relations with the broader African-American community."

The petition calls on AsianWeek to cut ties with Eng, issue an apology, print an editorial refuting the column, and fire or demote the editors who published it.

"Something like this should never have been printed," said Vincent Eng, deputy director of the Asian American Justice Center in Washington, who is not related to the columnist. "Deliberate action needs to be taken to make sure this type of hate speech doesn't continue."

AsianWeek, with a circulation of 48,505, issued a statement apologizing for "any harm or hurt this has caused the African American community."

The newspaper plans to hold a news conference with NAACP leaders in San Francisco on Wednesday to discuss how the Asian-American and black communities "can be different and yet get along and work together," said Ted Fang, the paper's editor-at-large.

"The newspaper is sorry that this got published, and I am personally sorry that this got published," Fang told The Associated Press. "The views in that opinion piece do not in any way reflect the views of AsianWeek."

The paper plans to review its policies to "understand how this happened and make sure it doesn't happen again," Fang said, calling the decision to publish Eng's piece a "mistake."

Fang's family publishes AsianWeek, along with a local newspaper called the Independent, and owned the San Francisco Examiner between 2000 and 2004.

Eng, 22, is a graduate of New York University, according to a biography on a Web site promoting his science fiction writing.

A telephone listing for Eng, who writes from New York, could not immediately be located.

Supervisor Sophia Maxwell, one of the city's top black officials, said she doesn't believe Eng's column will hurt relations between blacks and Asian Americans in San Francisco. She has co-sponsored a city resolution condemning the article and AsianWeek's decision to publish it.

"I think most African Americans who are level-headed and not looking for an excuse will understand that this person is very unfortunate," said Maxwell, who represents a district with large black and Asian-American populations. "This man clearly is very ignorant of African-American history and his own history, and he's very angry. If he has hatred for me, he probably has it for himself, his mother, and everybody else."

Mayor Gavin Newsom issued a statement on the column Tuesday evening.

"I am deeply concerned, both for the opinions expressed in the column and the fact that these opinions were published in a local newspaper," Newsom said in the statement. "Both actions demand explanation and accountability."

(© 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report. )

http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_058172008.html

Hm what Valentine's Day?
Each one of us got a candy today in class from two of our classmates.

I've been too busy lately to even pay attention about any of this...
So to celebrate this "sweet" occasion...


So lonely...Mr. lonely~~~(this kid is simply too adorable)

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Oh boy am I getting older or what..maybe I do need a valentine soon? =3

..................
LOL.

My landlord's sister is one crazy korean bitch.

Now, I must rest.

Too funny.

Blur is planning to release a new album next year.


That just brought back so many memories. Their music (and Oasis' mind you) were my obsession in my high school years..
which was freaking 10 years ago.

Woah.
Just. woah.

Apparently the sudden surge of "violence" is a result of a post on http://choscandalous.blogspot.com/
A picture of Jin with two white girls at a party.

And then there are Chinese fans sending threatening emails to one of the girls' my space in the picture.
THEN Korean and Japanese fans joined the threatening. Going global i see.

Oh my fxcking god. Those fans are simply nuts. They seriously need to get a life.
So Jin goes to parties and hangs out with white girls.
uh..so what?

忠誠型（忠誠可靠，警覺性高）

您通常是忠誠、可靠、謹慎，而且富有想像力的思想者。您身為團體一員的時間比當領袖的時間多，但雖如此，您把自己放在眼高處，為那些被踐踏和受到不公平對待的人發言。
您會是很好的調停專家，因為您會主動設想在任何情況中最糟的可能結果及其應對之道。

優點：
您能看出別人尚未發展的潛能，而且樂於幫助他們激發出來。大多數尋求您協助的要求都會得到正面的回應。

缺點：
覺得成功以掌握，所以避免成為權威人物。您總是在接近事業巔峰時更換工作，或時在即將功得圓滿時，遭遇到本可避免的「災難」。

愛情：
你必須感到自己能夠信任和認識伴侶才能在一起。即使在愛的關係中，而且有多年的承諾，懷疑仍然繼續出現，所以對於伴侶來說是很困惑的。

在親密關係中，要讓您了解自己情緒化的部份，可能要花上多年的時間。
「在我接觸到自己的覺之前，這份關係已經渡過了七年。最後，這些情緒全都針對我所愛的女人浮現。」

安定方位：平和型
在安定的狀態下您會變得溫柔、溫暖而可愛。您能夠只是陪伴著朋友和愛人，享受放下警戒和懷疑。

壓力方位：成就型
當面對感情的壓力或情緒對抗時，您會停止拖延，並很享受加速的感覺。運用想像力把工作完成。

建意：
留意自己奉行「陰謀論」的傾向
學習信任別人
留意自己對權力的質疑和態度

最渴望：安穩，有保障
最恐懼：缺乏安全感
最難達到的美德：勇氣 (Courage)
最難克服的執念：猜疑 (Doubt)


Umm..quite true.
It has been some stressful weeks....now I have one week to relax..and start on my FIVE papers that's due before Christmas..
Yay heaven. ToT

田口淳之介好可愛
他的笑容讓我整個人心情好起來
嗯...我是否該開始注意卡通團的東西了呢....*汗

看了小手最新在少俱的solo..還是很可愛!! <3


舊金山這幾天該死的冷...想吃火鍋 =3


以上..Casey胡亂一po

Proof in this clip.
Enough said. xD

Now...back to paper-writing u_u

This is simply too damn cute.
小手越根本就是小受一個 *笑

裡面小手被山P和小山指使對Jin挑釁 -->被Jin等人圍甌 -->小手神奇似的將每個人一一KO 的片段實在是經典 xD

Right..and the Jin "going away to study English" shocker.
I haven't been keeping up with Kattun's latest news but I guess after all those bizarre actions taken by the Johnny's Jimusho, I am not really surprised by another one.
But I have to agree that this does not make any sense at all. Isn't kattun one of the most popular Johnny's groups at the moment? o_o

Now I'd think the profit-driven Johnny-san definitely would not want to get rid of his wonderful money-making bishi right? :X

I read this really weird yet happy(?) piece of news on http://community.livejournal.com/tegoshi_daily/
Tegoshi and Massu will form a new unit called "TegoMass" in November and release their first single "Miso Soup" in .....Sweden.

Yeah. Very weird indeed.
There is no official announcement of it as of now...
But hey, i am not complaining if it's true.
Though personally I'd prefer RyoTego OTP *fufufufu


And my oh my Tegonyan sure can sing..
I got this mp3 from http://tegoshi-yuya.com/

It's Tegoshi's version of K's Over. Loving it. =3
http://www.sendspace.com/file/but586