For this year's holiday season, we've planned another secret gift exchange. Basically, people sign up, and then they're randomly assigned to give gifts to another participant. This will be a secret matching based on preference lists, so you'll only know of the one person you're giving a gift.
To help people out with gift-giving ideas, participants should fill out a wish list with suggestions for the types of items that might make a good gift for them. It might also be useful to leave the address of a close friend or a significant other who can provide some tips as well. Try to put up at least a few random ideas now, so we know that you're interested in participating, since you can always add additional entries later.
Alvin Chen's Wish List
alchemy@ucla.edu
useful kitchen supplies (no asparagus tongs!) or pretty
servingware
home decorations; maybe the occasional quirky item (like my hydralisk),
but keep in mind that we don't have that much room in our apartment
fun computer games
non-sports/non-racing XBox games; maybe a good group game
board games or party games
good books, especially sci-fi or fantasy, but great works of literature
are okay, too =)
DVDs of thoughtful movies; no simple action flicks or low-brow comedies
anything homemade! =)
Look up my Wish List on Amazon.com
(use alchemy@ucla.edu) for a random smattering of some other ideas. You can
also email Mark
(mhopkins@cs.ucla.edu)
for some tips or to find out what we already have.
Tony Chu's Wish List
tonychu76@yahoo.com
books, esp. strange ones (think House of Leaves)
RPGs for PS2 or PC, good ones only please!
DVDs of foreign films, preference for Asian (Anime!)
anything you find extremely interesting or fascinating....
Mark Hopkins's Wish List
mhopkins@ucla.edu
Books that you've found interesting
Decorative things (for instance, things to warm up my sterile office)
Interesting foodstuffs
Things that increase my comfort (think Sims -- though the suggestion here is more geared towards things like slippers or such).
Amy Lee's Wish List
b_diamond@yahoo.com
Movies: dance videos/movies (like Breakin' or Electric Boogaloos), japanese anime (I don't have any yet; like romantic ones)
Music: Indie Arie, underground hip hop, jazz, classical
Sports: Golf (gloves, balls, videos, books, magazine subscription?), tennis
Books: Asian cook books (indian, chinese, japanese), modern art books with alot of pictures, photography books with lots of pictures, modern dance books, and history books
Kitchen supplies: baking stuff, knives, japanese mandelin, wooden cutting board
Bathroom accessories: make-up mirror (the ones that magnify), soap dish, spa treatment stuff
Apparel: Socks - I'm size 7.5 in women's. Gloves (I'm usually medium women's). Jewelry (although my ears are not pierced).
Decorative ceramics
Or anything you like to get me. It's all good because it came from a friend. :)
Jenn King's Wish List
jyk124@hotmail.com
Homemade gifts are always loved and appreciated. :) Cookies, especially, are highly favorable. ;)
I love anything domestic: cookware, bakeware, cookbooks, specialty cooking things and knick-knacks... (Guess I'm getting to be the uber yuppy now...) ;)
Fun games are great too- especially in the vein of Cranium or some other geared-towards-a-group game. I'm also venturing into the land of computer games- but I'm a softie so I like girly games like "Monkey Island" or "The Sims".
Books- love books! My tastes tend to lean towards classicals or well written modern works.
Arts and crafty stuff... I'm a sucker for scrapbook stuff... candle-making, soap-making, you name it.
I LOVE boh bah. :-I==|o/o/o] <-- me drinking boh bah
Brian O'Clair's Wish List
boclair@yahoo.com
I want either gasoline powered ear muffs or a synthetic rabbit fur toaster. If you cannot find either of those, then how about a good book. Maybe a non-fiction best seller that your read and liked. Or how about a DVD, or a board game.
Brian Lee's Wish List
balee@stanford.edu
With apologies to Vincent, what I want for Christmas is "anything written or created by you -- poem, song, photo collage, story, sculpture, or other work of art -- that has special significance with respect to our relationship." However, since I don't believe the purpose of gift-giving is to inflict hardship on the giver, I'll settle for books you've found interesting, DVDs of thoughtful movies (no simple action flicks or low-brow comedies), PS2 games (good ones only please!), fun board games, or anything you find particularly fascinating or cool (think magnetic pendulum). I agree with Amy's parting statement. And yes, I like cut and paste. It's all about reuse!
Shaowen Chou's Wish List
schou@bararch.com
'Eva Hesse' by Lucy R. Lippard $15.75 on amazon
I will act surprise when I open the gift.