hey people. i'm starving. i'm going to either get a footlong sandwich at subway or a whopper with cheese (and onion rings!) at bk after i leave the office.
so i watched _deal or no deal_ last night. it was kind of lame. i know it has to do with the odds and stuff, but the most prominent thing i took away from the game was greed. the dude did pretty well, though; in the end, with like 4 suitcases left, he took the $379,000 that was offered him by the banker. that's good money!
so i'm excited for lunch tomorrow. still on a shao long bao fix, we're going to hit shanghai classic tomorrow. thanks to the random reader who recommended the place! i'll let you know how it is. if it's better than HC dumpling, then i'll be thrilled. i can't wait! (i hope i'm not hyping it up too much.)
my work buddy W showed me the power of google satellite maps. it's pretty fucking amazing! we zoomed in and found our office. the resolution is quite good, good enough to show cars and people! wow!
so do couples shower with each other? taking showers together was one of my first experiences (at my request) once i got intimate with a girl and comfortable enough to be naked around one another. it's really fun, and it's sort of innocent in a way, too. like i said before, i love soaping up boobs! man, i miss it.
shit. it's march tomorrow. so far, this year is flying by, and i need to do my taxes soon. i don't know if i'll be getting a refund this year; i have a lot of earnings from my ESPP and my ING orange savings account. i think this weekend, i'll come into the office and work on it. blech. i hate doing taxes.
oh. my dump today was really long. and it had a tapered tail, making it look like the back section of jabba the hut. same color, too! it didn't feel that long when it was coming out (i let it go in one swift heave), but when i looked back in the toilet, boy howdy!
so it's the top 10 girls tonight in _american idol_. they voted off the hot girl (becky o'donohue) last week, too bad for her. i think katharine mcphee is really cute, though. i'd do her. :) i'll have to tape the two _scrubs_ episodes because of the conflict. man, i *heart* scrubs. it's the only show where i truly look forward to; all other shows feel a bit like chores (alias, OC, AI).
every time i take a leak, i get this pang of fear that i have kidneystones or something. i think this is one of the most painful (yet bloodness) things a guy can go through. just thinking about a small solid passing through my urethra makes my penis want to hide inside my body cavity. i try to drink a lot of fluids to prevent kidneystones, but i don't do such a good job when i'm at home.
a couple of times, i've had a burning sensation when i peed. it sucked. i think it was the combination of semen, soap, and water that caused some nasty chemical reaction inside my schlong. ouchie!
ok, now i've scared myself. i'm gonna go take a leak. wish me luck!
howdy folks. it's a gloomy, rainy, windy monday, and i just want to get out of here and curl up in bed. although, i don't know why, but the wind really howls outside of my bedroom window. it sucks; it keeps me from falling asleep.
last night, i had a dream about k1. it started right where we left off, i.e. broken up and not having seen each other in a long, long time. the dream was about us trying to get back together. man, i wonder what made me dream about this topic. it's been well over a decade since we were together!
so my stanford 10-year reunion is coming up. i'm not sure if i'm going; it seems like most of my college friends aren't attending, so i have no reason to go myself. besides, i see them often enough, and there's no point in paying all that money just to see each other in a university-sponsored venue.
the olympics are over. i enjoyed watching bits and pieces of it for the last two weeks. i watched as much of the closing ceremonies as i could, and it was definitely a spectacle. i like the skydiving wind machine bit, although it dragged on too long. and could canada have found somebody to represent them than avril lavigne? hm.
i took a MASSIVE dump today. it wasn't that long, but it was probably the thickest i've ever seen. it would have surely clogged up my toilet at home, so i'm lucky that my body waited until the weekend was over before i felt the urge to shit.
today's monday meeting got scary. two of the members of my team started yelling at each other. i was afraid that one of them was going to go, "fuck you, i'm quitting!" i was pretty uncomfortable, and i found myself hoping that there wouldn't be a fall out between the two of them. we need all the help we can get on this project, and if my lead engineer goes, i don't know how we're going to get through it.
how often do you cut your toenails? i go months without a trim, and by that time, the white of my nails are very long, sort of like french tips, especially the big toe's.
so what's the buzz about this tv game show, _deal or no deal_? i've seen commercials hyping the show, but it looks sort of stupid. it's all about greed, isn't it? like, you have a good deal, but then the possibility of getting even more money makes you falter and have to decide between the two choices? hm. i might have to check it out tonight.
does anyone out there think sasha cohen is cute? i think she looks kind of freaky, sort of like a doll or something. her forehead is huge, and there's something about her face that looks weird.
do women masturbate at work? i mean, twiddling with the clitoris is a lot less noticeable than wanking off a schlong, so i wonder if girls furtively frig away when they're sitting in their office/cubicles. i have to admit, once, i wanked at work. but it was in the bathroom, while sitting on the toilet. hehe. the bathrooms at this company were HUGE, so i picked a stall at the very end, unzipped my pants, and started going at it.
ok, that's it for the day. have fun!
the weather this weekend was sort of bipolar. on one hand, saturday was absolutely BEAUTIFUL, but then it got cold and rainy on sunday.
friday night, i met up with nelson, jen, and mikeC at king of krung on castro. thai food always seems to be a good bet with these folks. which is good, because i like thai food too, although king of krung doesn't offer jun pad poo, my favorite dish.
saturday, around 1pm, i got out of bed and called up nelson. he drove us to los gatos, to this place call simply los gatos cafe. we both ordered omelettes, and they were super-tasty. i'd go there again, although los gatos is a little bit of a trek from mountain view.
i went home, took a quick nap, and watched stanford *barely* beat washington state by an ugly score of 39-37. that's right, that's the score for the WHOLE game. in the end, it was a missed hernandez jumper at the free throw line and a putback by goods that won it for us. sigh. we suck this year. and i wonder how much of it has to do with the coach.
sunday, margaret called me when i was still in bed, and i quickly got ready and dashed out to meet them at HC dumpling. the wait turned out to be an hour, and we ordered a whole bunch of stuff, so the bill turned out to be $17 a head. sort of expensive for shao long bao.
after i got back home, i was supposed to go play taiko with some old ST members, but i wound up falling asleep on the couch. no worries, because i saw everyone later at gombei. i got the chicken katsu curry, something i haven't had in many months. mmm, curry.
and that was it. i love my weekends. too bad they're so short.
what's up folks. i'm happy it's friday. even though this week consisted of only 4 workdays, it felt long, like a normal 5-day workweek. oh well.
so man, what a letdown. stanford got LAMBASTED by washington last night. we looked bad, out of control, and we committed 18 turnovers or something like that. now we're definitely out of the tournament, unless we miraculously win the pac-10 tournament. ick.
i met up with yuji at spoons. i had mozarella sticks (YUM, though a tad expensive), and a buffalo chicken sandwich. that was really good. remember, yesterday, i said i had a craving for buffalo wings. so this totally hit the spot.
anyways, i taped _american idol_ last night, but i cheated and looked up the results on the website. i was hoping that brenna the bitch would be kicked off, but alas, that was not to be. two of the more attractive (and tall) girls got voted out, so i was a bit sad that there is less eye candy among the girls' side.
my dumps have been long and stringly lately. i haven't had a thick dump in a while, and those are the most satisfying. after i eject the string shits, i always feel like there's more to come. it's not a comfortable feeling.
so, the olympics are drawing to a close. i regret not watching it more, but it conflicted with my other television shows. plus, i get all the results on espn, so it's not really interesting to watch the games tape-delayed over on nbc. of all the events i saw, i like speedskating (long track) the best. so powerful, so elegant!
why is it that when our nails grow to a certain length, they get white?
i have a weakness with girls with french tips on their toes. i'm regularly not a fan of nail polish, but french tips look rad. perfect.
did i tell you guys that when i was young, my parents tried to stop me from biting my nails? they tried all sorts of stuff (including spanking), but one that traumatized me the most was when they painted my nails PINK. can you imagine that? a 5th grade BOY with pink nail polish? i'm lucky i didn't get as much teasing as i could have gotten. sigh. i don't blame my parents, but it just didn't occur to them that what they did made me a laughing stock. :(
do you remember sex ed in school? we got to watch a film about men and women's anatomy in 6th grade, i think. it didn't mention anything about sex, but it was an overview of our genitals and how they functioned. i remember watching it and nothing much about it (because i already knew about our genitalia), but it was only the following week when my friends told me about sexual intercourse that it finally dawned on me how everything fit together. ah, enlightenment!
ok, not much left to say. i don't have any weekend plans, aside from a dinner with the taiko peeps sunday night. i think i'll get a chicken katsu don. gombei rocks!
boy, i'm hungry. i skipped lunch again to play some basketball. it's amazing how out of shape you can get after skipping just a few exercise outings. by the end of the first game, i was sucking wind big time.
anyways, tonight, i'm looking forward to dinner tonight. i'm meeting up with the yujster at spoons to watch the stanford/washington game. i think we're going to lose, but then again, i should have some faith. but then again, we looked so shaky and out of control our last game (arizona), that we don't deserve to win.
the problem is, though, the game/dinner starts at 7:30, and i am going to be FAMISHED by then. i've eaten a cheese danish to hold me over, but i don't know if i can last until 7:30.
so i really like a lot of the guys in this year's _american idol_. i enjoyed most of their performances, except for that fat guy's rendition of "copacabana." that's such a cheesy song, i hate it. and i didn't think the crooner (david radford) do as badly as the judges thought. i hope he stays. and taylor hicks! some people think he has tourettes, and i think that he might have a mild form of it. he was shouting and stuff after he sang, and that could be a form of a vocal tic. but yeah, he's cool. not quite your typical pop star, but he's just a rad dude.
do non-asian people get hair near their knuckles? i've can't recall. most of my friends are asian, so we all have knuckle hair. one time, i got tired of them, so i shaved them all off. ha!
i think i've forgotten what a vadge tastes like. it's interesting, though, because different girls taste differently. i've had a few ex's that were pretty tasty, but one of them had sour juices. it wasn't very appetizing. i like giving head, so it's important that a girl taste good.
so a web acquaintance of mine told me that she watched gay (men) porn, and the best thing about it is the fact that the men are all hot. hm. i've never watched gay porn, but now my interested is piqued. i mean, i don't care about whether the guys are hot or not, but i have more logistical questions, like do the guys shoot their wad in each other's asses (because there's no threat of pregnancy) and whether both guys have to have their orgasms before the scene finishes. hm.
btw, i'm not a fan of lesbian porn. i mean, it's nice to see beautiful women, but the fact that they're bumping clits or muffdiving on each other doesn't interest me.
man, i'm hungry. i have a craving for buffalo wings and mozarella sticks.
ok, that's it for me. i can't think of anything else, most likely due to the fact that my brain is occupied by thoughts of food.
wow, i am addicted to the shanghai steamed juicy buns at HC dumpling. W, J, and i went there for lunch, and damn, that's good shit. i could have it every day, i think.
so what did you think of last night's _american idol_? i HATE that brenna gethers girl. people with that much ego and attitude should be shot, imho. i can't stand people who are full of themselves. i know confidence is a virtue, but there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance, and this brenna bitch has crossed it. *pukes*
still, though, it was hard to sit through two hours of singing. in the end, it got boring. i enjoyed paris bennett's performance the most. and that hot girl, becky o'donohue, can't sing. too bad. i would do her. :)
the girls are tall this season! i noticed that a lot of them made host ryan seacrest look downright diminutive. how tall is ryan anyway?
tall girls turn me on. k1 was 5'10", and i loved how our two inch difference meant that her chin rested on my shoulder when we hugged. and besides, tallness is a prerequisite for being hot, in my book.
so... what else to talk about...
i envy my world-travelling friends. i have one friend (alex) who just got back from egypt, and jay is off to chile in march. i would love to travel places, except for two things: one, i don't have a travel buddy, and second, i can't sleep on planes, so the journey itself is a HUGE pain in the ass. planes are uncomfortable enough, and having tourettte's (and not wanting to freak out my neighbors) and not being able to sleep make the flight almost intolerable. maybe next time i fly long-distance, i'll take some drugs to knock me out. what drugs do that?
one of my favorite clips of porn that i have on my computer is this segment where a nephew has sex with his aunt. the video quality is too dark, and the dialogue is way cheesy, but still, it almost never fails to turn me on. call me an incest fan; although i don't like non-consensual sex, so sibling sex is more of my cup of coffee.
i haven't been watching a lot of the olympics. it sort of sucks that nbc's broadcast is tape delayed, because i usually find out the results way in advance on espn.com. the games only come once every four years, so i feel like i should pay more attention to them. oh well. right now, the main event is figure skating; i used to love the sport, but now, i just get too nervous when the competitors do their jumps.
eharmony sucks. one, they're way expensive, and two, the girls they recommend to me are all unattractive. good thing i stopped paying for the service. but over the weekend, i got two matches, and one immediately put the match on hold, and the second one had a picture posted, and she was uber-fugly. too bad. what's a good online dating website?
as far as my cereal dinners go, i'm back on apple jacks after i finished my box of honeycombs. it's cool that i'm lactose-tolerant again. did i tell you about the summer i went without drinking milk, and when i went back to college, i was completely lactose intolerant? i built it back up. very painfully. i can't tell you how many times i had liquid shit, but it was really bad. but eventually, i built it back up.
ok, toodles!
i know it's tuesday, but today had that manic feeling of a monday. i didn't have that much on my plate at work, but suddenly, i was swamped with all sorts of shit. i'm not going to be able to finish all of my tasks today; i'll save some for tomorrow. i did, however, find a bug in someone else's stuff. that always makes me feel good. *flex*
brb. cigarette break. i need to relax.
anyways, not much to report today. i know i'm over my cold, but sometimes i get these feelings of dizziness and slight nausea. hm. i wonder what that is.
i just got two papercuts on my right hand. ouchie! it reminds me of _jackass: the movie_, where the silly boys purposely papercut the webbing of their toes. OUCH. the mere sound of a papercut makes me cringe mightily.
so tonight's _american idol_ is two hours long. hm. i don't know if i can stand two full hours of karaoke-ing, but i hope taylor hicks (the old gray-haired guy) and the crooner do well. the crooner (i don't know his name) is cute, too! hehe. i bet you never thought that i would call another guy cute.
no dump today. i took two dumps at my place over the weekend. luckily, neither of them clogged up the toilet. although one of them floated, and it smelled really bad.
i can't stand japanese toilets. have you guys ever used one? it's simply a hole in the ground, and you have to squat over it when you shit. there's no water to mask the smell, and i am always petrified that i'm going to fall into my turd. *shiver* i can't stand the thought of coming into contact with my own shit.
one time, when i was pretty young (maybe 12 or so? i forget), i accidentally shit in my pants. my dad, being the asian disciplinarian type, made me wash it myself. i felt so sick that i puked. so what's the term for the phobia of shit? because i definitely got it.
i can't stop thinking about the shanghai steamed juicy buns (shao long bao) at HC dumpling. i think we're going to go there tomorrow. they're soooo fucking good, so juicy!
i gotta do my taxes. i'm not sure whether i'll get a refund; my company's ESPP was very kind to me. except that our stock fell by almost $2 today. damn analysts and their downgrades. YUCK.
i wish i were rich and didn't have to worry about stuff like a job or a mortgage payment. right now, i'm trying to live the frugal life (which isn't that hard because i'm single), but i can only save so much a year. i guess i still have a lot of expenses, even though i rarely go out for fancy meals or go shopping for clothes and gadgets and what not.
/half an hour later/
ok, work is pissing me off. i gotta go.
hey folks.
friday night, i met up with paul, nelson, leeya, mikeC, and some of paul's sisters for dinner in cupertino village. a lot of people got the beef noodle soup, but since i didn't want to spill on my jacket, i got the pork chop over rice.
saturday, i didn't do much during the day. i think i got up around 1pm, and just watched tv the whole day. at night, i went ventured over to santa clara for cindy's place for a house party. i walked in and immediately spied kevin, my best friend from high school. i also bumped into adam and rae. and when i went to the backyard (they had a heat lamp!) for a smoke, i was greeted by chester and his sharp wit.
overall, it was a good time, but i was feeling a bit dizzy, so i went back home and promptly threw up the one beer i had. i don't know why i yacked, but i just got hit all of a sudden with this wave of nausea.
sunday, cindy came over at noon to watch the stanford game. we lost to arizona, and we played just absolute crap basketball. we have a tendency to make too many turnovers, and that's really frustrating to watch. oh well. at least the domino's pizza (sausage, mushroom and jalepeno's) i ordered was good.
after cindy left, i took a long nap on the futon, and i called up jay for dinner. we headed over to cupertino village to try the new HC dumpling place that i recommended, but the wait was an HOUR long. so we hit up joy luck place for some bbq pork (crunchy skin, lots of fat). good meal, although the dish was $12 a pop.
monday, i met up with k at queen house for lunch. it was our first meeting, but it wasn't too awkward or anything. after we ate, i sent her on her way, and i got some roasted barley pmt. i got home, and alan call me and wanted to hang out, so he picked me up and once again, i was on castro. i got some garlic butter thick toast this time at verde, and reminded alan to get some lottery tix.
the rest of the day, i just watched tv. i was supposed to meet up with jay and make our second attempt at HC dumpling, but he was busy in the hospital. oh well. so i just had my bowl of cereal and called it a night.
well, today started off sort of weird. my boss called me at 9:45am to tell me to come to the office. he told me that we had to fix the chip by adding my block back into the project, and we needed to get it done by monday.
and i was like all hissy and pissed off. why? because somehow i convinced myself that it was SATURDAY! and i make it a rule NEVER to work on a weekend.
so i drove over to the office, still huffypuffy, and i was like, "why are there so many cars here in the parking lot?" and as i walked through the sea of cubicles and saw that they were all occupied, i thought, "gee whiz. everyone's working on the weekend!"
it wasn't until i talked to a coworker that i realized that it was still the workweek. it was friday, and i had a hard time making my peace with the fact that i had one more day to work.
so yeah, a weird way to start the day. and it turned out to be not so bad; the changes that i had estimated would take a week, i finished in 2 hours. yeah, i know, i'm bad. i purposely overestimate the time it takes to finish stuff because i want to be lazy and just tackle a small bit each day. but still, the difference between a whole week and 2 hours is not negligible, and i hope my bosses don't start giving me little time to do stuff.
so i have no concrete plans for the weekend. i'm supposed to meet up with some random people here and there, but haven't finalized the times and venues. and cindy and her husband are hosting a party on saturday night, and i'm not sure if i'm going to go. looking at the evite, i see that it's mostly couples. hm.
lately, i've been having hot farts. which means that in the process of expelling gas from my ass, i feel this warm sensation building up in my anus. it feels like solid matter is going to come out, but so far, i haven't had any "surprises" just yet. ick. i still remember back at gfn when i took a shit in my pants. i had to drive home right then and there to change pants and throw the soiled clothes into the washer.
yesterday was my brother's birthday. i can't believe it's 20 now. man, how time flies. when i picture him, i still see the cute little boy at ages 8-10. he had a bowl cut and big ears and a wonderful smile. ahhhh, so cute. and now, he's as tall as me, weighs more and is built more, and he can almost dunk a basketball! he is a MAN!
so i have a question: was _friends_ taped in front of a live audience? what about _seinfeld_? i ask because sometimes the actors don't talk until the audience stops laughing. but then again, there are so many different sets, and some of them (like on the ny streets in _seinfeld_) don't seem like they would accomodate a live studio audience. i'm baffled.
i have yet to take a dump today. i'm scared, because with the long weekend, there will be a higher chance that i'll have to take a shit at home. and you know what happens: yup, i clog the toilet. and i'm not about to drive to the office on a weekend just to go #2, you know?
ok, that's it for me today. take care folks, and have a STUPENDOUS weekend!
so the final 24 are set for _american idol_. this year, i like a decent number of the guys. there's the silver-haired taylor hicks, there's the crooner, the head-shaven rocker, and the baby-faced goofy underdog. the only girl that i like is kellie pickler. i last referenced her under the name jenny pickler, but apparently i heard her name wrong. hehe. the funny thing is, i'm not the only one, because i've gotten one or two google hits under "jenny pickler."
i'm all recovered from my illness, and i am disappointed it took me so long to get better. however, i still have this nagging pain when i swallow, and last night, it REALLY hurt. hm. i wonder what that is. lymph node infection? maybe i should go see a doctor.
i'm meeting up with alan and ting for pho tonight. it'll be nice to catch up with them; they're headed to tahoe tomorrow, so i won't be able to see them during the long weekend.
... LONG WEEKEND ...
yay!
i am a slob. i just peeked at my beloved puma jacket, and i seem to have spilled gatorade on it. how can i tell? because it's RED gatorade. sigh. i hope the stain doesn't set, and i have permanently red-blotched shit on my jacket. sigh. i'm a messy messy boy.
well, i couldn't help it. i had grown two perfectly long pinky nails, and during a meeting today, i whittle them down to nothing. now i have nothing to scrape my earwax with. but the nails were so inviting; they were so long that i could fold them in half with my teeth.
and by the way, i had a frustrating meeting. it turns out that for this one project, where i had removed some of my blocks from the design, they want me to add one back. it ain't trivial work, and immediately i thought of the headache that it would bring. but we have to do it, and i want an apology from the marketing folks, who were the ones who told me in the first place that i could remove it. *RAAR* fucking marketing people... i hate them.
this is not the first (nor will it be the last) time where the marketing specs change deep into the project. and every time, i've been really upset. i guess i just don't like to extra work. i am a lazy ass, i know. i should embrace this, but i just can't. double *RAAR*
anyways, i took my car in today for its 71,250 mile inspection. and, my car has had a problem of dying after starting, so i wanted the mechanics to fix that as well. in my haste, i forgot to get my company badge from my car when i left the dealership, so i've been impersoning a customer all day. that's the extra badge they gave me. yup.
i used to hate HBO, and they had (don't know if they still do) this series called "real sex." it was about the (odd and unusual) things that people to do to express their sexuality. i saw this one bit about what was a mutual masturbation club. meaning that you just lie there, while someone else (preferably a woman) wanks you off. and in my tekoki fantasy days, that seems pretty appealing.
although, i don't know if i could get off start to finish by someone else's doing. i think i'd get bored, or i'd start worrying about the other person tiring. i find that during sex, i usually need to be the one doing all the work in order to get off. but still, the idea of handjobs turns me on, but i'm just not sure that it would work for me in reality.
ok, i need to cal the dealership to see if my car is ready. bye!
man, diet soda tastes like ASS. i'm drinking diet dr pepper (so as not gain any soda weight), but it in NO WAY tastes like regular dr pepper. aspartame has such a nasty aftertaste.
so i watched _american idol_ last night. i was glad that the gray-haired man (travis?) made it to the final 44, but i was sad to see the young cowboy dude go. true, he didn't have the best singing voice out there, but i just loved his humility and innocence. he had never been on a plane before, and never seen the ocean in his life. watching him soak the experience in made my heart feel sort. *sniff*
i found a bug in my code today. as much as i complain about work, i have to admit, debugging can be fun. it's not always 100% fun, but it's satisfying stuff to weed out a bug and fix it. it's like progress or something like that.
for lunch, my young coworkers J and C took me to cupertino village. there was a grand opening of this dumpling house called "HC dumpling" or something like that, and damn, their shanghai steamed juicy buns were the best i've had. they were full of juice, and i liked the wrapper's consistency.
i've been having problems sleeping through the night. these past few days, i've been incredibly dehydrated at night into the morning. so much so that my lips have started to crack, my tongue itself is dry, and i get this white gunky shit on my lips. i don't know what's going on, since i am drinking a lot of fluids at the office. hopefully this is just a residual symptom of my illness, and it'll go away as i approach 100% health.
so i was shopping at safeway last night (i got some milk and a box of apple jacks), and i was perusing the frozen foods section. i have a soft spot for stouffer's tuna casserole, so i picked up two of those. i also saw that they had swedish meatballs and pasta, and for whatever reason, they sounded really good, so i also got a box of those. and i ate it when i got home. damn. swedish meatballs! they were really good. stouffer's makes some good stuff, although it isn't exactly healthy food. the swedish meatball dish was 500 calories!
one of my biggest regrests through the years is not learning how to cook from my mom. granted, my mom didn't make gourmet food or anything, but it was just good, homestyle cooking. there are some dishes that she makes that i absolutely adore, even though i haven't had them in years. and what makes me incredibly sad is that her knowledge of cooking will eventually disappear into oblivion.
is _brokeback mountain_ any good? i've heard mixed reviews, and of course, knowing that i garnered 8 oscar nominations makes me curious about the film. i mean, it's just a love story about two gay cowboys, right? what could be so good about that? where's the conflict? *ponder*
after lunch in cupertino village, the three of us got pearl tea at fantasia. i don't know why people like fantasia; the stuff isn't that great, and i prefer q-cup anyways. but yeah, i got a drink, and i ordered the guava green pearl milk tea. it didn't taste like guava at all, which was disappointing. i love guava. i remember back in the day when juice club (pre-jamba juice days) carried the guava gulp smoothie. so fucking good.
i gotta do my taxes sometime soon. i think i've gotten all the W-2's and 1099's in the mail, so all i need to do is come into the office one of these weekends and hammer it out. i've been using turbotax online, and it's pretty good, i have to say. very easy and self-explanatory and quick.
ok, have a great day people!
hey there people. sorry i didn't update yesterday; i was feeling like ass, so i left the office early. the good thing was that i got to watch one of my favorite shows, espn's _pardon the interruption_, but the bad news was that i coiuldn't enjoy it because of my illness.
i feel better today, a little weak, and still a sore throat, but overall, i'm better than i was a day ago.
i had lunch with my coworkers J and C today at the cheap korean place. they're two new college grads that are working here at Z. it's nice to hang out with them because they're young and are bristling with energy. i remember when i first started working, when i was all idealistic and motivated and stuff. nowadays, i'm just a bitter, jaded engineer. :/
so yeah, it's valentine's day today. bah humbug! i'm not even wearing red today, and why should it? *phtooey* silly hallmark holiday. it's amazing, though, how important it is to some women. one time, with k1, i told her that i didn't plan on doing anything special for the day, and she got really mad, broke down and cried, and wound up throwing her razor at me. ok, so i was really young back then, and i've certainly grown to realize that valentine's is a really big deal.
speaking of razors, how many blades are they going to put on a razor? first, there were three blades (mach 3), and then came quatro (4 blades), and now they're got a five-blade (fusion) razor. i think it's going overboard. how much of a difference does having one more blade have? *ponder* i wouldn't know; i'm an electric shaver kind of guy.
it's interesting to see how the US olympic coverage is different from other countries. here, it seems all the stories have an american "tint" to them. two years ago, when i was on my italy/spain trip during the athens olympics, the coverage seemed to be about everything, not just the italian or spanish angles. i think it goes to show what kind of bias the american press has. and come on, i want to watch some CURLING! haha.
have you ever taken a dump, and when it was done with, you feel like there's more to come? i had one of those today. after the main turd came out, my sphincter was still ringing and itching for more action. after i wiped and washed my hands, it was still begging for more. the feeling went away after a few minutes, but yeah, i was *this* close to rushing back into the stall and pushing for more.
man. being sick fucking sucks.
friday night, i was feeling really shitty after a day's worth of work, so i called it a night early and tried to stay up to watch the opening festivities of the torino olympics. i recall a lot of fire, white outfits, and a horde of people with different-colored ponchos making up a large ski jumper. but by the time they lit the flame, i was asleep. so who lit it? can someone fill me in?
saturday and sunday, i spent almost 80% of my time lying down. i felt like complete and utter crap.
so get this. jay recommended that i get a jamba juice with echinacea and vitamin c, so saturday i went on what turned out to be a smoothie quest. first, the jj on el monte and el camino was closed down for renovations, so i drove down el camino all the way to palo alto to check out the town & country branch. it, too, was closed to renovations. WHAT THE FUCK.
so, i finally got my power-sized coldbuster with immunity boost at the stanford campus jj in tresidder union. sheeeit. it took me an HOUR to get a fucking smoothie!
saturday night, i had the unfortunate experience of watch stanford lose to gonazag. we were up 5 points at the break, but there was just too much j.p. batista and adam morrison. those two were beasts, and we just couldn't find any answers for them. well, there goes our tournament chances. so sad.
i had the worst time sleeping saturday night. every five minutes, i'd wake up to blow my nose. i think i finally fell asleep around 3-4am.
sunday, i didn't do much, except catch up on the OC (poor johnny) and watch the pro bowl, which turned out to be a horrible mistake-laden game that took FOUR hours to complete.
and that was it. i feel a tad bit better today, but still on the shitty side.
i'm sick today. i woke up with a sore throat, and now, my head's all stuffy and dizzy. my muscles ache when i walk. it sucks. just in time for the weekend, too. damnit! *RAAR*
so last night's stanford/cal bball game was a disappointment. i mean, both teams played well, but leon powe (cal's big guy) was a BEAST. but if matt haryasz hadn't gotten two quick fouls and played for most of the game, i think we would have won. fyi, the game was decided by only three points. sigh. i was so depressed that i sulked in bed for an hour or so.
i don't know if i should be worried about this, but i had a bloody dump today. it was a huge log of a turd, and when i wiped and looked in the bowl, blood (bright red) was everywhere. i wonder if i have an anal fissure. but yeah, it was quite an alarming sight. i hope i didn't stain my boxers. by the way, are you supposed to wash out blood with cold or hot water? i forget which one works and which one sets the stain.
man, i wanna go home and sleep. i feel like crap.
so the opening ceremonies of the olympics are tonight. i will most likely tune in and watch and find out what fancy way they're going to light the olympic torch. i still like barcelona the best, with the lone archer firing a flaming arrow into the sky. what if he missed and killed someone?
i've been working pretty hard today. but i'm also really irritated because what i have to do is start something running, and then check back and do something when the job is done. there's a lot of babysitting, and it's pretty frustrating and boring. it's also sort of nervewracking because if i do something the wrong way, i have to quit the job, try to fix what went wrong, and submit the job again. i might have to come in during the weekend and check if things went smoothly overnight. *RAAR*
oh, i forgot to ask. does anyone know why the steeler's super bowl victory was called "one for the thumb?" whose thumb? huh? *blank look*
ok, that's it for me today. i feel like shit, and i don't feel like thinking about what to blog. gonna go for a smoke. bye!
hello. i've spent the afternoon wrestling with synthesis scripts, and let me tell you, it ain't no fun.
i was e-mailing my friend about sushi (among other topics), and it reminded me that i haven't had sushi in a long long time. so for lunch, my coworker A and i went to sushi o sushi for lunch. i was a little reluctant at first (because their stuff is expensive), but i was definitely glad i went. i had their spicy tuna (not so good), california rolls, and unagi nigiri. it's hard to fuck up california rolls (although you can do it by adding too much cucumber), and unagi is always good. spicy tuna varies from place to place, and i still like miyake's the best.
so it until i IM'ed cindy that i realized valentine's day is coming up. hehe. i've been single for so long that i forgot what a big deal vday is. isn't that sad? anyways, i'm sort of glad that i'm single because vday is such a load of bullshit. why pick this arbitrary day to show some extra effection when every day should be like that? phooey on saint valentine, i spit in his general direction. *phtooey*
i'm taping _the OC_ tonight. i have a conflicting tv schedule, as the stanford/cal game is also tonight. i am a bit nervous, because cal's pretty good, and it's also a road game. and i wonder if the team is looking ahead to saturday's showdown with gonzaga. man, that has the potential of being an ugly game, as gonzaga is the #5 team in the nation. their adam morrison is a BEAST.
i've been embroiled in a mystery in my bed. i use three layers of blankets, and every night, before i settle in, i make sure they're stacked nicely on top of each other. but in the last two nights, i've managed to kick away the *middle* layer. how does that happen? *ponder*
so instead of having dinner tonight, alan and ting pre-empted me by having dinner with me last night. he called me right after i finished my nightly bowl of cereal, but i still went to queen house with them because i wanted to see them. i had twelve shrimp/pork/leeks dumplings, which took a hell of a long time to be prepared. and after that, i downed a roasted barley pearl milk tea. i was totally stuffed, and my stomach was popping out. so to make up for eating so much yesterday, i had sushi today, and i don't plan on having any dinner. maybe just an ice cream sandwich or something.
i'm getting fat. it's worrying me.
for lunch today, A and i had to share a table with two other people. it was really uncomfortable, because we could easily hear their conversation. it reminded me of my first speed-dating experience, where two couples would sometimes share a table for four. i thought it was highly distracting.
yeah, i'm done with speed dating. i've done it three times, and nothing ever happened. i mean, i did match with some girls, but they either turned out to be busts, or they never wrote back. *RAAR*
i tried to take a dump today (i didn't have one yesterday). i went and sat on the toilet and pushed and pushed, and i couldn't tell if anything was coming out. but i wiped my ass anyway, and when i did it, i felt a little bump. it was like a mini-turd was almost coming out! but, i felt lazy (didn't want to push), so i just poked the turd back into my sphincter and left.
ok, that's it for me. have a good thursday! one more workday to go! *huzzah*
howdy people!
i'm munching on some sun chips right now. they're not very good. i get them because they're healther than potato chips, but they lack a certain... good taste.
i've been working hard this afternoon, but i accomplished my goals for the day, so i'm all set to just clockwatch and leave. every day, i list a few (relatively) simple tasks to do, and once i'm done with them, i let loose.
man, i was STARVING yesterday. i met up with adam just a little before 7pm, and i wolfed down my wet burrito. even adam was a little surprised that i was eating to fast. but then again, i hadn't eaten in like 24 hours, and even more if you didn't count the bowl of cereal i had for dinner the previous day.
so i didn't think my injury from basketball yesterday was that bad, but before i took a shower, i looked at myself in the mirror, and there's this HUGE puffy red gash on my back. it burned a lot when the water hit my wound. man. basketball can be quite a dangerous sport! i've already suffered a broken ring finger and a broken big toe, and now this. blech. i'm such a wimp when it comes to injuries and pain.
i thoroughly enjoyed last night's two episodes of _scrubs_. once again, they had a cool cameo (billy dee williams!), and i had no idea turk (donald faisan) could dance that well. the air band was great.
one of the show's lessons was that you shouldn't let little things in your SO bother you. but damn, if someone does something that peeves me, then i go nuts. the pet peeve amplifies into this great ball of annoyance, and i can't let it go. maybe i should learn my lesson and not let these small nuisances get to me, but it's hard to change myself.
i bumped into cwg in the elevator after lunch. you know, she just doesn't look as good anymore. i was first captivated by her lovely hair (i saw her from behind, or else it would have been something about her face), but i took a closer look the other day, and it's been colored. damn. i love beautiful simple natural shiny black hair.
did you know that i bleached my hair before? yup, i looked like james iha from the smashing pumpkins. and after i bleached it, i dyed it blue. i was just like an anime character! and as the hairdye faded, my hair became various shades of green and brown. funky!
of course, i didn't tell my parents about it, because they would have freaked out, so for spring break, i dyed it back to black the night before flying home.
have you seen that diet mountain dew commercial? it's got these various nocturnal animals singing to lionel richie's "all night long." it's a little disturbing. i dunno. talking live animals and babies sort of freak me out, unless it's one of those california cheese ads, where i find the talking cows sort of cool. but otherwise, i don't feel comfortable.
ok, that's it for me today. happy wednesday!
howdy folks.
so, i'll start off with a google phrase of the day:
letting my dog hump me
i am assuming this is a girl who's doing the googling, because i can't picture a dog humping some guy's ass. is that possible? i don't see why not, but it just seems unlikely.
anyways, while downloading porn a year or so ago, i came across this video of a girl having sex with her german shepherd. it was quite fascinating, but in the end, i chose not to keep it. i did, however, save a remarkable video of a woman getting reamed from behind by a small horse. i had no idea horses had such huge penises!
i played only two basketball games today because i had a meeting at 1:30. i did, however, get injured when i was driving baseline and got pushed into the wall. some of the skin on my back got ripped up, and it stung for quite a while. i'm not looking forward to taking a shower tonight. it's gonna be PAINFUL!
i haven't eaten lunch today, so i'm looking forward to dinner. i'm eating with adam at los charros. carnitas wet burritos, here we come! i'm going to be starving by the time we eat, and i just can't wait.
so which of carl's jr's six dollar burgers is the best? there's a carl's jr right near my place, but i've always been disappointed with their stuff. you know, in commercials, their burgers look big and juicy, but when you actually get them, they're quite wimpy. and cold. *pukes* but people tell me to order stuff from their six dollar burger menu, so i think i'll give it a try.
man. i must be hungry. unlike some people, i don't get grouchy when i'm hungry, but i do think about food quite a bit. and everything sounds good to me. even stuff i'd normally shun, like taco bell, sounds good.
has anyone tried mcdonald's new spicy chicken sandwich? i've seen ads for it, and it looks good. i LOVE jack in the box's spicy chicken sandwich, so i'm wondering if mcd's attempt at it is decent or not.
it seems everybody's getting a dog lately. now it's alan and ting's turn. i think they're pretty serious about acquiring a $1500 pure border terrier. i've never seen one before, but i do like terriers. my reasoning for all this dog talk is that my friends (they're practically all in relationships) are preparing for babies by first owning a dog. which isn't bad at all, but it's just coincidental how many of my friends are getting canine companions. it's a poochfest out there!
ok. that's enough for me today. have a good tuesday!
man, i've been swamped with work today. i'm an hour late for my scheduled blog entry, so i apologize to those of you who were waiting for me to post.
i haven't taken a dump in three days. starting to get worried.
my nailbiting schedule has been off kilter. usually, i trim my nails on mondays, but i sat through some really boring meetings last week (on non-mondays), so my nails haven't grown out enough for me to bite.
are there calories in fingernails? *ponder*
has anyone out there tried taco bell's crunch wrap supreme? on paper, it looks good, but i just haven't felt compelled to try it out. it looks big, though. and filling.
i'm wearing my roots t-shirt that jay and margaret got for me in park city. it's brown, with black and white lettering. and it's also tagless, which is good because sometimes the tags scratch the back of my neck and irritate.
recently, a lot of my friends have gotten dogs. i like dogs, and i'd considering getting one, except for one thing: i can't stand to pick up the dog's poo. it really grosses me out, so i'd have to hire a dogwalker or something so i don't have to deal with the shit (literally).
so it looks like james blunt is getting popular and more mainstream. i like his song "you're beautiful," though i haven't heard the song in its entirety yet. i usually catch the last half of the song on the radio; it's a sad song, but i can totally relate to it. it's about unrequited love. ah. the anguish!
i bumped into cwg on the elevator today. she doesn't look that good anymore. i mean, last year, about this time, i was totally obsessed with her, and i just thought she was so cute and stuff. but now, i'm just like, "meh." it's amazing how affection can create attraction. and it worries me that i can't be objective about rating a girl's looks.
i've been behind on watching movies. i blame it partly on being single, because in a couple, you always have a movie buddy. i also blame myself for being lazy, but then again, there haven't been many movies that i really wanted to see. maybe stuff like _wedding crashers_ and _brokeback mountain_. but anyways, i haven't seen a movie in months.
ok, this post is less than inspired. sorry. i just have a lot of work stuff on my mind.
so friday night, i tried calling all these people for dinner, but people either had plans or weren't available. sigh. so i wound up calling it a night and sulking up in bed around 8pm.
saturday, i met up with nelson for some brunch at original house of pancakes in cupertino. we both got omelettes, but while they were big (and fluffy) and filling, they just didn't taste very good. i got the spanish omelette, and the sauce tasted like chinese medicine. VERY un-tasty.
afterwards, we headed over to greg's place to watch the dogs play. buddy, tachi, and spike put on a show as they wrestled and chased and stuff. and in the meantime, we watched _reservoir dogs_, and i was reminded of how brilliant the move was. i remember disliking the movie at first because i expected a lot of action, but the dialogue is just awesome. by the way, what is quentin tarantino up to these days?
i went home to catch and stanford vs. oregon state game. we led throughout, and there was a time when we led by like 17 points, but OSU cut it to 3 in the second half. too close to be comfortable. but in the end, we pulled off the win, despite not having matt haryasz, whose left eye was swollen shut due to getting slapped in the eyeball by another player. i hope he heals up for this week.
after the game, i headed to downtown palo alto to have chinese food at jing jing's with dj. it was fun catching up with him, although sometimes i think he's too intellectual for me.
sunday, i woke up around 12:30 and drove to safeway to get some snacks for the big game. surprisingly, safeway wasn't that crowded, and it wasn't all men. maybe i got there too early. anyways, i got two bags of honey dijon kettle chips and an 8-pack of cool blue gatorade (the BEST flavor, aside from arctic snow or whatever it was called).
the kickoff wasn't until 3pm, so i watched two of the most adorable performances by an actress. the first character was cher by alicia silverstone (_clueless_), and the second was laney by rachael leigh cook (_she's all that_). i would do either character in a heartbeat, especially laney. rachael leigh cook is soooo cute!
around 3 or so, barden and dishi showed up, and we watched the game and drank root beer and snacked. i thought the game was pretty boring, and seattle just couldn't execute. it was kind of disappointing. and the ads weren't very memorable, either. so all in all, i thought the experience was sort of lame.
after it was over, we headed to gombei for dinner (always good), and that was it for my weekend.
happy friday to everyone! i'm hella glad that it's the end of the workweek.
not much to say today, though.
so _the OC_ was sort of a letdown. i expected more from an episode that was entitled "the cliffhanger." i'm starting to REALLY dislike marissa. she just gets caught up with these other guys; maybe she's too nice or something, but anyways, i'm really annoyed with her. and because of her character's personality, i don't even think she's all that attractive anymore. it's sort of like how i started to hate courtney cox because of her character of monica on _friends_.
so did anyone watch the stanford game last night? it wasn't broadcast in the bay area (on cable, anyway), but one of my coworkers said satellite carried it. another miracle win! we were down in the final seconds, but chris hernandez fired up a three point shot that put us one point ahead with 11 seconds to go. crrrrrazy! i wonder how many of these types of games we'll be able to pull off. we're using up good basketball karma, that's for sure.
so are you guys set for the super bowl? i'm pretty excited; i think it'll be a good game. i'm hosting dishi and barden at my place. i wonder what i need to get from safeway. maybe i'll just get some potato chips or something. it's good that neither of them really drink, so i won't have to spend money on alcohol.
it's funny, though. super bowl sunday is the only day of the year where there are more men than women at the supermarket. the last time i went there on a super bowl sunday, the lines were packed with guys carrying 12-packs of beer.
i had a dream last night that i was on the stanford men's basketball team. and the coach got really mad at me for no apparent reason, so he made me shoot 3-pointers for practice. that's all that i remember, but i think i was very agitated by the dream.
i love dreams. they're like a second life, an alternate existence. i don't really have nightmares, so i usually enjoy most of my dreams (aside from the one last night). especially when the dreams involve girls, but those don't happen that often. but yeah, i still dream about my ex's sometimes, i wonder what is up with that. i mean, it's pleasant to "see" them again, but it's sort of weird since they don't exactly occupy the forefront of my conscious thinking.
and i still haven't had a wet dream. the few times that i've dreamt of having sex, i never make it to the orgasm. i always wake up before that. rats. such a tease! hehe
anyways, i'm really struggling to find stuff to talk about, so i'll just end it here. have a GREAT weekend to you folks out there! :)
howdy folks!
i'm burping up the eggrolls i had for lunch. it was a chinese-themed lunch today downstairs in the cafeteria, and it wasn't all that bad. (btw, i didn't play basketball today. feeling lazy.) the tofu with black bean sauce was pretty good, and the three mini-eggrolls weren't bad, either. i love flavored burps.
so it looks like the shit is going down on tonight's _the OC_. seth gets busted for smoking out, and the love triangle between ryan, marissa, and johnny finally looks like it's going to be resolved. i can't wait!
speaking of smoking out, i feel like getting high one of these days. i don't think i tic while stoned, so it'd be a nice break for my tourette's. i asked my psych if he would prescribe me pot for my tics, but he was vehemently opposed to getting invoilved in the whole medical marijuana issue. oh well. maybe i should ask one of my friends if they can score me some pot.
i've smoked out a few times, mainly in college. i can't say that i enjoyed it, though. the thing is, when i'm stoned, i get MAJOR MUNCHIES. and the thing is, i'm eating all this stuff, and i swallow before i can chew the food, so it goes down my throat whole. it hurts! but otherwise, i just get really mellow and fall asleep.
i noticed today in the break room that they had squirt (the drink). i've forgotten how much i like grapefruit-flavored sodas. then again, in my effort to cut down on soda calories, i only allowed myself one can of squirt. maybe i should ask them to carry fresca instead. isn't fresca a zero calorie drink?
my dad's crazy about wireless internet webcams. he's installed a few in our house back in dallas, so he can log on and see if people are trespassing. but my question is: what can he do about it? and today he emailed my brother and me the URL to see what's going on at his place in taiwan. crazy!
the good news from him, though, is that my mom is feeling better these days. that's good. and apparently, they hosted three church members from russia these past few days. i saw some pictures, and one of the russian ladies had bright ORANGE hair! wow. where do you even get orange hair dye?
so earlier today, i was reminiscing about my six months in japan. that was over a decade ago. but anyways, i thought about the finnish guy that i hung out with, ilkka. so i googled his name (thank god i remembered his last name), and his homepage popped up! hehe. he was a cool dude, and one of my favorite memories of japan was getting drunk and playing virtua cop with him.
his homepage had some pictures of his time in japan, and i was in one of them. man, i looked bored, huh? and check out my multicolored baseball cap from structure! hey, is structure still around? i haven't seen one of those stores in years.
i cherish the memories of good times. i would have to develop a condition (like alzheimer's) where i forget about things. i mean, i already feel part of my memory going, but thank goodness that most of them are still intact in my brain.
all righty-o. that's it for me today. bye!
wow. this morning, i logged in my yahoo! mail account, and there were just under FIFTY new e-mails. and my heart sank. because i knew that most of them would be comment spam. sigh. i was right. stupid motherfuckers, messing with my blog.
today, i got curious about smegma, so i looked it up on wikipedia. my question was: do uncircumcised guys get smegma? i had it back when i didn't clean myself properly, and when i was younger, my foreskin didn't go all the way back. so i would get this white "cheese" between my foreskin and penishead. yeah, pretty gross, but i was also fascinated by it.
wikipedia has everything. they even had a picture of a heavily smegma'ed penis. talk about GROSS. eh. it looks like some sort of skin disease. *pukes*
so to curb my calorie intake and try to lose weight, i've decided to drink diet dr pepper instead of regular coke. that's about 300 less calories a day. of course, being a dr pepper disciple since i was in my teens, i can readily taste the difference. i know diet dr pepper is supposed to taste like the real thing, but i can tell the difference. and it ain't good; i hate that aspartame aftertaste. ick.
i love burping. especially when it tastes good. we went to la bamba for burritos (i got a carnitas quesadilla with extra cheese), and i can taste the meat when i burp. yum.
did you guys watch last night's _american idol_? i know he's not really right for the pop market, but i really liked the old gray-haired guy. (he got gray hair premature, not unlike me.) i loved the style of the music he sang (i don't know the name of it), but it was sort of like the stuff you'd hear in _o brother, where art thou?_. pretty cool shit.
so super bowl sunday is set. barden and dishi, both big seattle fans (they both lived there earlier in their lives) are coming. i'll be rooting for the steelers, so i hope there isn't any bad blood. hehe. anyways, i'm glad that i'll be seeing the game, albeit not on HDTV. and as a bonus, we'll be going to gombei after the game. i *heart* gombei.
my dump this morning was very thick. i could feel my sphincter stretch beyond what it's used to, although i didn't draw blood as i have done with some of my uber-dumps. i looked back at my turd after wiping, and it had all these nodules. it wasn't one big, smooth piece, but rather, very chunky and stuff. wow.
i remember when i went to japan, and we took a trip to some city outside kyoto. i think it was called nara, but i'm not sure. anyways, there would be deer walking the streets. and once in a while, they'd stop and take dumps. it was like their asses were pouring watermelon seeds. sort of fascinating, huh?
man, i don't know why i'm so fixated upon fecal matter.
i had a dream about k4 last night. we were enrolling in french classes or something, and the next thing i knew, she was topless. i remember trying to look at her breasts, but they were all blurry, like the kind of blur that censors on tv put over breasts. it was kind of weird. but anyways, i haven't heard from her in a year. i wonder how she's doing. i still think she's incredibly hot, but i am put off by the fact that she blew me off and never showed any interest in me.
ok, time to wrap up this entry and go do something productive.