hey there people. well, today was very boring. and, more importantly, it's vitasoy-less. sigh. my company needs to do a better job about stocking it. people need their vitasoy!
so i'm down from 8mg of haldol to 4mg a day. i don't see any real difference just yet. there *might* be a slight increase in tics, but it's not that obvious just yet.
the lunch venue was my choice today. we went to this thai buffet at a restaurant called aroy-dee, near san tomas and saratoga. it's decent food, but what i really like there is their thai desserts. fried banana, coconut jell-o, and this tapioca/black bean/coconut juice soupy thing. good shit. and sometimes, they even have jun pad poo, my favorite thai dish.
so i was disappointed to find out lynn chen (the actress who played vivian in _saving face_) is already married. damn, that means there's no chance for me to get in on the action. :) ha! honestly, though, i think she's hella attractive. she's got sort of a hapa-ish look, and we all know that most hapas are damn fine looking. *slurp*
once again, around 5am, the birds started chirping outside, waking me up. shit, the sun isn't even out at that time, what the fuck do the birds need to chirp for? sigh.
back in texas, birds use to nest in our chimney, and occasionally they would get unruly and scream down the chimney into our fireplace. so what did my dad and i do? we shot them down with a bb gun, of course. haha. once time, we shot down this seagull in the wing, and it crash landed in our back yard. so we bought some birdseed and nursed it back to health, and it flew away. for a while, it would come back looking for food, but eventually it stopped visiting.
for christmas, alan and ting got me this page-a-day zen calendar. i finally brought it to work with me, and i've been reading the quotes every day. today, it is a zen saying: "after the ecstasy, the laundry." hm. ok, i have to admit that i have no fucking clue what that means. zen is just a mystery to me, i guess.
weekdays are getting to be very boring for me. i go to work, i putz around, i come back, and i wind up going to bed at 8pm. how lame is that? i mean, if there were good tv on, i'd watch, but the season is over, and nothing on tv is worth watching aside from the NBA playoffs, which are about to be over. sigh. what to do? i can't imagine what i used to do that made me go to sleep at 2am.
anyways, that's all there is to talk about today. see you people tomorrow!
so friday night, i met up with dishi and barden at sushi tomi. it seems that wheenver i hang out with taiko alum, we eat japanese food. i am not complaining (since i love japanese food), but it is just an interesting trend.
afterwards, we hit shoreline and saw _saving face_, this chinese-american movie that lots of people seem to be talking about. i thought lynn chen (the girl who plays vivian) was really hot, especially since i got to see her boobs in this hot lesbian scene with her and the main character. overall, i thought it was a decent movie, i'd give it a B.
saturday, i met up with alan and ting at rivermark for a quick lunch. they had a lot of new house stuff to do, so we kept lunch brief. while they got sandwiches, i went over to baja fresh to try out their chicken flautas. i'm a sucker for new dishes, and an even bigger sucker for deep-fried food. so i ordered TWO plates of flautas, which got kind of boring after awhile.
i spent the rest of the day napping to the giants/tigers baseball game, and went to bed at 8. yeah, i know, sort of a waste.
i got up on sunday at noon (that's SIXTEEN hours in bed) and got ready for adam and rae's wedding. i met up with yuji at the community center where the wedding was held, and we walked a block to the J&J hawaiian restaurant. the food was cheap and good, and i'd like to go back there again.
so. the wedding. the attention to detail, i have to say, was very impressive. there was an exhibit in the community center of the bride and groom's family, and there were various pictures of the couple scattered about the place. it made me envious of the fact that adam takes his camera everywhere he goes... and the history he's built up with rae is perfectly documented. great job.
and wedding ceremony itself was good, and the bride was beautiful as one would expect. the movie-themed music was a great touch, and the rae walked down the aisle to the love theme from _attack of the clones_. bravo!
while looking for our table for dinner (we were at table alien, and the other tables were all movie characters), we found an amazing surprise: each of us (well, most of us) got a mini picture frame with a picture of us! given that there were about 275 people attending, that was no small feat! once again, adam's dedication to annotating his vast photo collection paid off, and i was very surprised to see that he used a picture of me that was taken four years ago. very nice touch indeed.
the food was so-so, and the dinner conversation was also so-so. i dunno. i don't have much to say these days, even though i was sandwiched between two friends, yuji and mike. poor mike, though. he was the "official" weedding photographer of the day, and he definitely worked for it. by the way, there was an armada of canon digital SLR's at the wedding. there should be no excuse for not getting any good shot of the day.
all in all, it was a good wedding. oh! and the wedding cake was a chocolate cake jabba the hut on top of a strawberry cake base. very cool indeed.
so, great job to adam and rae for putting up a grand celebration of their marriage. i certainly enjoyed myself.
our table disbanded a little early, and i got to go home and watch the last 10 minutes of the AMAZING spurs/pistons game. robert horry was a BEAST. big shot bob!
so that was my weekend. c'est tout.