for lunch today, we took C out to celebrate his 21st birthday. we went to macaroni grill in milpitas (my first time there) and ordered drinks. i, of course, got the standard jameson on the rocks, and even though i didn't get a buzz, i have a headache now. hm. anyways, i didn't think the food was that great, and i had no idea they served italian food. a place called "macaroni grill" sounds american, doesn't it?
so nelson and some other dudes are going camping this weekend. i usually hang out with nelson a lot, so i'll have to make other plans. luckily, a taiko friend is heading up from LA this saturday, so i'll get to hang out with her and some of the other taiko peeps. i'm trying to get them to see _jackass_ with me, but i don't think it's gonna happen. but dammit, i want to see it! maybe i'll go to the theater by myself over the weekend.
i've seen a few movies by myself. i didn't really like it. even though movies aren't really social activities, i feel a little sad going to see a flick by myself.
it's been chilly in the bay area. i like it. sleeping in chilly weather is so nice, with my cool blankets and cool pillows. i love snuggling!
you know what's a turn-on? a wet girl. as in a wet vadge. i have this one clip from a DVD where the girl is so wet that the guy's schlong is glistening white. that rocks. doesn't sex hurt when the girl isn't moist enough? that's one of the reasons why foreplay with me and my ex's almost always involved me giving her head before we have sex. i love muffdiving! especially when the girl tastes good. :)
i've gone down a girl when she was on her period. i didn't ingest blood or anything, since the vagina is a few inches from her clitoris. but still, it smelled really bad. and another time that's not good is when she's ovulating, because there's that gunk coming out of her vadge. not good.
anyways, i gotta leave soon to pick up my car (finally!), so i'll just sign off by saying have a good weekend!
odd thing happened to me at lunch today. i was with my coworker A at in 'n out, and i had this monstrous tic that sent my eyeglasses flying into the next booth. the guy sitting there picked them off the ground and gave them back. but then, after we were done eating, he came to our booth and sat down and told me about a cure for tics. he gave me his phone number and some websites to look at. nice guy, i suppose. after i do some research, maybe i'll call him up.
i'm still getting stringy dumps. it's annoying and gross. and plus, after my dump this morning, my sphincter itches a lot. i keep shifting in my seat to scratch my anus. i hope i don't get skidmarks on my boxers.
my car's still in the shop. i'm tired of driving the underpowered civic they loaned me. i miss my v6! and plus, they said i couldn't smoke in the car, so i'm missing my driving smokes as well, especially the one i take on the way to the office in the morning.
i'm getting a haircut today. goodbye to the mohawk! yeah, it was sort of interesting to have it, but i'm looking forward to having an inch of so cut off the top. plus, i'm really scruffy on the back side, and it looks horrible.
so when we were driving to in 'n out for lunch, my coworker A played two songs that he created himself. by "create" i mean he composed them, sang them, played guitar, sequenced the bass guitar and drums, everything! i was so impressed because the songs were really good. wow, the hidden talents in people.
ok, i know this is a short post, but i'm out of thoughts. hopefully tomorrow will be better. bye!
man, it was hard getting up today. i got out of bed at 8:40 or so, and it really hurt. that's an hour and a half earlier than i usually get up. i took my car into hopkins honda in sunnyvale, and took the 9:15 shuttle to work. i was surprised to see some of my teammates already in the office that early. man, i must really look like a slacker to them.
i looked for the new girl today for lunch. she didn't come in until after lunch, i figured, and i think it was because they finally shipped her furniture to her apartment. anyways, i saw in her cube a small brown mcdonald's bag. so sad, eating mcdonald's alone in your cube. i used to do that as well. :(
i had a stringy dump this morning for the second straight day. i don't like it; i much rather prefer the feel of the regular-shaped dumps. those are much more satisfying. the odd thing, though, was that the dump felt like only a little amount, but when i looked back down at the toilet, there was a lot of stuff. deceptive, huh?
so i watched the recording i taped of last week's _survivor_. yul (the guy i knew of from stanford) is the man! he found the immunity compass on exile island all by himself. pretty cool stuff. but one question i have is: do they provide sunblock to the contestants? i would imagine that 39 days out under the sun would do a number on your skin.
the nutritional supplements that i'm taking aren't doing anything for my tourette's. they're supposed to be some type of wonder-medication, but i think that it's just a big hoax. i read this small pamphlet of testimonials from people who benefited from it, and it just seems too good to be true. i bet for each positive testimonial, there are ten others who took the supplements and received no benefits.
has anyone ever smoked pot and become paranoid? that must be an awful experience to go through. i've been paranoid once (i think it was off the haldol for some strange reason), and i just felt all tingly and stuff, and i kept thinking that any moment, someone was going to jump me. not fun!
ok, that's it. i'm tired, and i'm gonna go pick up my car soon. ciao!
so even though we left the office late, we still made the trek out to milpitas to e-noodle for lunch. i got this dish which, translated directly from chinese, is called "leek box." it's basically like a large grilled dumpling with leeks, pork, and other stuff in it. great stuff! i'm still burping up the leeks, and even though it would most likely be offensive to other people, i'm loving it.
i keep having these dreams in which i'm in high school, and i can't remember my locker combination. it's sort of stressful.
my dump today was particularly nasty. it was half diarrhea, half solid, so it turned out to be a lot of little coils. it smelled bad, too.
i got a call today from my friend's ex. we chatted about my friend for a bit, and she actually got a bit teary-eyed. she just misses being friends with him, i suppose. i guess when you're with someone for a long time, you miss their presence in your life. i can understand. too bad for me, though, i fucked things up royally with all the women i've ever been with, so i have no ex's that would want to hear from me. sigh. yeah, i was stupid.
man, my feet smell. either that, or my shoes stink. i take off my shoes when i'm sitting in my cubicle, but right now, something smells absolutely rank.
i am thinking about getting a tin of altoids at the office. the problem is, every hour, i crave a cigarette, so i wind up smoking a lot during the workday. but usually, i can bypass a craving with an altoid. i want to smoke less, so maybe this is a good idea? yeah, i think it is.
so a friend of mine e-mailed me today. he might room with me for a while. i think it'd be fun. i don't know him all that well, but having someone live with me again might be an enjoyable experience. it would certainly make me less lazy, especially on weekends. we shall see. he's going to be teaching at stanford in mid-october.
so the new girl in my group was eating alone in her cubicle. seeing that just breaks my heart. i should know, because i've done that before when i just joined a company and didn't know anyone. i think tomorrow i'm going to ask her to have lunch with me. people should have to eat alone! :(
*phew* good news! i met with my boss, and my current task has been suspended. remember that this was a task that greatly stressed me out, as i have been looking at my old code for the past 3 days and haven't been able to understand what i did back then. for now, i've been retasked with designing a new block, which is always nice. *huzzah*
i am bummed out, though, that KFRC 99.7fm has disappeared, and now it's replaced with a shitty radio station. does anybody know of any bay area radio stations that play oldies? i LOVE oldies music.
yesterday, i took this HUGE dump. i generated not one, not two, but THREE logs. after i wiped my ass, i didn't flush, and instead ran up to my bedroom bathroom to grab the plunger. and it turned out that i indeeded to plunge a few times to get my turds down the pipe. it's amazing that a person can generate so much shit.
so tonight, i'm going to give _the class_ another shot at amusing me. the first episode last week was sort of lame, but we'll see. at least i'm excited to watch _how i met your mother_, which comes right after on CBS. cobie smulders is HOT!
so my beloved car hit 75,000 miles today. i'm taking it in for maintenance on wednesday, and i have to go in early at 9:00. getting up is going to hurt. a few years ago, getting up early resulted in me puking up the water i take with my morning medication. yeah, my body doesn't respond well to not getting enough sleep.
C and i went to chili's today for a late lunch. i got the southwestern eggrolls for an entree, even though it's an appetizer. i LOVE that shit. i'm still burping it up now, and it tastes good. the only other item on their menu that's good is their country fried steak, but i didn't want to get food coma this afternoon, as that entree is a HUGE decadent meal.
lately, i've been having the conversations with people, as my friend william informed me today. apparently, i asked him the same questions that i did in the past. and saturday, nelson and i had the same debate as to which erasure album was the best. man, i am getting senile. and yes, i do know that now and then i have blogged about the same stuff for a long time now.
alrighty-o, it's almost time to go home. happy end of monday!
let's see... friday night, four of us met up at pizza chicago for some deep dish action. we got a medium great chicago fire and a medium fridge. i love the great chicago fire pizza, with its spicy peppers and its garlic.
saturday, nelson and i went to chipotle for lunch, and then we met up with grace and john at REI so they could get some dehydrated camping food. (i'm not going camping with them.) i have always wondered how this food tastes. maybe next time they go camping, i'll tag along.
i went home around 4pm, turned on a baseball game, took off my clothes, and took a 2-hour naked nap. ah, laziness. then, four of us met up at shoreline theaters to watch _fearless_. i thought it was pretty good, although not as epic (as in scenery shots) as i had hoped it would be. i loved the triple staff action near the end. i felt kind of sad, though, as this would be jet li's last kung fu movie.
sunday, i headed over to nelson's place to watch the 49ers/eagles game. the game was actually closer than the score indicated, had frank gore not fumbled and had it run back for a touchdown. that was a 14-point swing. later on that evening, we went to pho nam near mercado for dinner, and that was it for my weekend.
man, the free company lunch today really hit rock bottom. it was nasty bad food, especially this white lasagna-like thing that tasted like cinnamon. they also had this eggplant mush, some tough tasteless beefsteak slices, and some really dry chicken. the only bright spot was that i got to have a small piece of baklava. i LOVE baklava.
not much going on today. i am petrified of starting work on modifying my old design. somehow, i feel like i'm tainting my brilliant masterpiece of yore, and i know that i'll break something once i change it. the concept is pretty simple, but there are so many small details that i'll most like forget something and break it. sigh. so i'm still reading my old documentation, and i'm having a hard time transitioning from reading to actually making the changes. oh well, i'll save it for monday. didn't you know that i'm the king of procrastination?
there are three movies i want to see: fearless, the last kiss, and jackass number two. i doubt i'll be able to watch all three of them this weekend, but i definitely want to catch at least one of them.
so my presentation today went pretty well. it turned out that i didn't have to talk that much, and when people asked questions, i was able to articulate an answer. public speaking was never my forte. back in high school, when i did academic decathlon, i consistently struggled with the speech category, especially impromptu speaking. and when i graduated and delivered my valedictory address, i was so nervous that i zoomed through my speech way too quickly.
i've been watching various parts of my akira watase porn clip lately. one of the things that strikes me about japanese porn is that the women are very fair-skinned, and the guys have monstrous dark tans. it's sort of a weird juxtaposition of colors that distracts me from the actual sex.
i am impressed blind people can read braille. we have braille underneath all of our elevator buttons, and the dots are placed really close to each other! i don't know about you, but i'm pretty sure my fingers can't figure out the dots with such fine granularity. same thing goes with people who can tell what mah-johng tile they have just by running their fingers over it; it's an amazing feat!
anyways, it's just past 4:30, i'm tired of being here at the office, and i think i'm going to take off early today. have a good weekend folks!
hey peeps. not much going on today. work has been a little frustrating, but it shouldn't be. i'm assigned to modify some code i wrote *eight* years ago, and i'm having a hard time completely understanding what i did back then. luckily, i wrote a gem of documentation, so it should become clearer as i reread it multiple times. i can't believe i was able to come up with such a beautiful design back then, so fresh out of college. i'm much dumber now. :(
we went to pho super bowl in cupertino village for lunch. don't go there. they don't give you much meat, and i was disappointed to get only measly piece of tendon in my noodle soup. in your opinion (for you south bay area folks), where is the best pho?
aside from shoobyshu, do any of you tip 20% for massages? that's a little high, i think, but she was talking about the more high end places. my woman is an elderly lady who runs her own acupuncture place, so it's not a fancy spa or anything.
i haven't been able to reach my friend mallory. i hope she's ok. i mean, if i died in my house, how long would it take for people to notice? it's not like i have a roommate who sees me daily or anything. my friends would probably just think i've been busy or something. i doubt anyone would actually break down my door to see if i'm still alive.
so! i got my 10th year reunion class book yesterday. it's huge and thick. i'm glad a lot of people i know submitted pages. i was sort of depressed to see so many people married and with kids; i felt like i was so far behind them in life. but anyways, one glaring omission was k1, which is a shame because that's the only (small) window i have into her life.
so reunion's coming up. it's in mid-october, and the deadline for registering was yesterday. i'm not going, though, because there's no one that i am particularly interested in seeing; none of my best friends from college are going, either. and it's expensive, too; if it didn't cost so damn much, i might have thought more about going.
my pinky nails aren't growing, it seems. and that bothers me because i want to grow them out long again so i can pick out my earwax. it's been awhile since i chewed them down, and they don't show any signs of getting longer. what's wrong? *ponder*
ok, that's it for today. i think i'm going to go home early before i have a ramen date with yuji. ciao!
hello peeps! i've been a good boy and doing some documentation today. that consisted mainly of drawing diagrams of my blocks, and while it seems like an easy task, it is time consuming. i have a big presentation on friday, and i'm sort of nervous; i'm not very good about talking in front of a crowd.
we went to milpitas for lunch today. i think the place was called "won kee." they have cheap lunch specials ($5.99 or $6.50), and the food was pretty good. and on top of that, they give you a free cup of either honey tea or milk tea. not bad for $8 a person.
i am getting massage today. my neck has been sore (as usual), and it's time for a nice rubdown. btw, are you supposed to tip the masseuse? and how much do you tip?
when i was last in the bathroom taking a leak, there was a dude in the stall pissing as well. what was interesting about it was that his urine hit the water like a machine gun. it would hit, and then there would be a split second of silence, then it would hit again. i wonder how/why he was doing that. he must have been doing kegel exercises or something.
i think it's a good thing that i can stop thinking about work the moment i leave the office. when i started my first job, i couldn't do that; i would think about work when i slept, when i took a shower, when i was driving, etc. it was madness. i was always stressed out and stuff. these days, i compartmentalize my job pretty well, and it's a good thing.
i had dinner with adam and my coworker W last night at los charros. we were talking about careers and what not, and i was impressed with them because they have ideas about what they want to do. me, i am stuck here doing chip design, and i definitely don't want to do this for the rest of my life. the problem is, i don't know what else i want to do. i don't have any passions, nothing that makes me go, "yeah, i'd be interesting in doing that for a career." hm. all i can say, though, is that my job is currently making me very unhappy.
so i got my herbal supplements yesterday. i looked at the ingredients of one of the bottles (i got two bottles of stuff), and the pills contain shiitake mushrooms. weird, huh? what good are mushrooms going to do for my brain?
ok, i've got ten minutes until i get to leave for my massage. have a good one, folks.
i met up with alan today at the rivermark for some indian buffet. i don't remember the name of the place, but the food was decent. i hadn't eaten indian food in a long time (many months), so it was sort of refreshing, albeit heavy. alan had two big plates, and he still feels full.
so last night, i watched the series premier of _the class_. i didn't think it was all that good, though, so i might drop the show. maybe i'll give it another week and see how things progress. the main subplot that i'm interested in is this married woman kissing her old boyfriend in school. i always root for old love triumphing over a stale/bad existing relationship. :)
have you ever woken up from a dream at night and felt that it was so compelling you had to document it? and then, when you wake up in the morning, it all seems insignificant? that happens to me all the time, like when i'm woken up, i think, "man, i should blog this." but after getting out of bed, all the importance just fades away, and the dream seems trivial.
man, _scrubs_ is being syndicated all over the place. last night, i caught glimpses of the show on action 36 (cable 6), comedy central, and WGN. i love this show (i consider it my favorite right now), but i don't think i could watch three old episodes a night.
i finally got my herbal supplements today. let's hope that this does some good for my tourette's. i'm not overly hopeful here, but at this point, i've tried so many western medication that i'm willing to try this stuff.
during sex, have you ever had a girl ask you "what do you like?" i had that happen to me once, while she was holding my boner in her hands. i wanted to teach her how to give me good head, but frankly, i don't know how to articulate it. maybe i should have shown her some porn or something, but i don't like some of the blowjobs in porn, either. they seem to handle the penis too roughly or something. i don't want all that tugging; it seems very uncomfortable.
i am very grateful for being uncircumcised. i can't imagine using lube when i wank or enduring the chafing that might occur. do babies these days still get circumcised? why? having a foreskin is the best! although, when i was a kid, my foreskin didn't go all the way back. it took a while of tugging (sort of painful) to get it normal. and, i remember having smegma when bathing, too. i was always fascinated with it, and NO, i didn't smell it or eat it. :)
so for lunch, i went with some coworkers to spice islands in mountain view. afterwards, we stopped by tapioca express, and there was this girl and a guy. they sort of cut in front of us, but that was ok because i didn't know what i was getting yet. she asked us if we were in line, and i said no, and then she said, "nice hairdo." i was sort of baffled, because my hair is a big fucking mess. it's sort of like a mohawk, forming this triangle on top of my head. so i was a bit surprised. if she wasn't with a guy, i might have talked to her. i mean, it's nice to get a compliment from a girl, right? :)
i just took a dump. i usually don't take dumps over the weekend, so was a bit worried. i was glad to see that my smoke 10 minutes ago induced my bowels to cut loose. i always get a little anxious at my GI tract when i go for days without taking a shit.
while i was in the stall, a guy walked up to the urinal right next to me. he flushed four times during his piss. it was like he was afraid of people hearing his pee hitting the water. weird, huh.
so i'm excited. the first show of mine (_how i met your mother_) is premiering tonight! brand spankin' new tv for me to watch. and this season, i'm also going to follow _survivor_ because i sort of know one of the contestants on the asian tribe, well, as long as he's on the show, anyway. i have never been interested in watching this show, but i'm curious to see how this dude does.
i'm sort of amazed that an HIV or other STD outbreak hasn't crippled the porn industry. i mean, i know porn stars get tested regularly, but i'm surprised that one infection hasn't leaked out to one person. all it takes is one person to cause massive spreading.
speaking of porn, i really should get off my ass and connect my dvd player up. i sort of miss watching my favorite scenes, and the stuff i have on my computer is getting old. we'll see.
anyways, i'm tired now. it's 6pm, and i'm gonna head home. sorry to cut this entry short.
friday night, i picked up mikeC at the airport (SJC). his flight from las vegas was delayed like two hours because they had to fly in the pilot. and it took forever to get his luggage, too. but anyways, after i picked him up, we headed to milpitas for a late dinner at chez mayflower. yum, beef and egg over rice.
saturday, i had brunch with nelson at denny's. that place is cheap! then we headed over to his place to watch a few episodes of season 2 _the office_. i can see why nelson loves this show, but something about it doesn't click with me. i don't think i'll be following this show in the upcoming season.
i went home and took a nap, and then met up paul and folks at southland for a quick dinner and pearl tea at ten ren. i need to order more exotic things at ten ren; i am getting tired of their basic pearl milk tea.
sunday, i went to safeway for some basic food needs and grabbed some breakfast items at jack in the box (sausage breakfast jack and a hash brown). then i watched the 49ers win against the rams. pretty impressive, for a 2nd year quarterback in alex smith.
for dinner, i headed over to alan's place in the rivermark. we walked his dog over to premier pizza, and finished off a medium blockbuster pie. lots of toppings! we chatted a bit, and alan seems to be really into this search and rescue team thing he's enrolled in. it seems like a big time commitment, but he is so excited about it.
i got home just in time to see the cowboys beat the redskins. go cowboys! however, the win came with a sour note, because terrell owens broke his finger and is out 2-4 weeks. shit.
so that was it. i really wanted to see _the last kiss_, but no one would see it with me. sigh. maybe next week.
*whew* it's friday! i finally finished my IP isolation stuff, which took me a month to do since the day i was assigned to it. i'm not proud that it took so long, and i admit that i wasn't working to my full capacity in the previous weeks, but i definitely worked hard on it this week. i just hope it works, and i don't have to revisit this shit again.
i get sad when i think of the fact that some things won't be with me forever. i'm talking about things like my car, my watch, my computer. i love those possessions, but i know that someday, my car will break down, my (yellow! i love yellow) watch won't work anymore, etc. things don't last forever, i guess, and that makes me sad.
re: the medicine i ordered. yeah, i'm sure that they got shipped, because i got a UPS tracking number and tracked it all the way to my house. i can't explain what happened; is someone evil enough to steal what's outside my front porch? do people do that? hrmph. anyways, i ordered it again today, and made sure it will get shipped to my company. that had BETTER work.
i bummed that i sold my shares of akamai (AKAM) too soon. i sold it when it doubled, which was nice, and i thought it had hit a relative peak. but in the last two months since i sold it, it has gone up an extra $10. i had 300 shares of it, so that would have translated to an extra $3000 of profit! *punches himself*
i am dreading doing my taxes next year. i have a lot of profits from my ESPP which weren't taxed, so i'll wind up owing a ton of money. last year was the first year that owed (around $2000), but next year will be way worse.
i wonder if i should get a financial advisor. you know, you give them money and they take care of your investments. have any of you people out there done this? how has it worked out for you?
i am sort of nervous about watching movies now. like i said, my tics are so violent that sometimes my glasses fly off my face. it happened last week at _the protector_, and i spent a good few minutes with my mini-flashlight searching for them. thank god that no one was sitting in our row, or else it would have been a huge problem, searching under people's feet and stuff.
ok, time to wrap this up, and i'm going home soon. have a STUPENDOUS weekend folks!
i played basketball today for the first time in maybe 9 months. man, i was huffing and puffing after only two games. plus, i sucked; i had a few open jumpers, and i missed them all. i even had a layup opportunity which i converted into an airball. :(
plus, there were a lot of new guys. i don't wear glasses when i play, so all of them were fuzzy figures. i couldn't figure out who was on my team and who wasn't, so if anybody from the other team made a signal for me to pass them the ball, i probably would have. how embarrassing, huh?
in work news, my stuff is going better. i did some hard core code digging today (other people's code), and i finally figured out (i hope) what was wrong. the problem is, the simulations take like 45 minutes to run, so i'm left with a lot of my time twiddling my thumbs.
i'm dissapointed to see that _the last kiss_ is getting bad reviews on rotten tomatoes. i'll probably still see it, though. *shrug* it takes a lot for me to really like a movie, and i think the last one i truly liked was _lost in translation_. yeah, it's been awhile.
do you guys use UPS to ship stuff? i ordered some of those "natural supplements" for my tourette's a while back, and the stuff never came. i filed a claim with UPS, but i have no idea what's going to happen. shit. that stuff ain't cheap, either. the two bottles cost me $113! i think i'm going to reorder it and have them send it to my company instead.
i had a bad headache. i think it's from dehydration from basketball, although i finished a bottle of gatorade. i think my tics are aggravating it, because i'm shaking my head all around. the pain rings in my head. argh.
sometimes i wonder if i'll ever come back and reread these entries. the shit i write is so mundane and boring. who knows, though. maybe when i'm old and grey, i'll wonder what the hell was going on in my late 20's and early 30's. and that brings up another question: how long am i going to be blogging?
ok. my head is pounding. i need to go home and take some advil. ciao!
so i watched _dancing with the stars_ last night, but only the part where emmitt smith danced. it was sort of funny, but boring at the same time. since these people are untrained, their dancing can't be compared to stuff seen on _so you think you can dance_. i guess my standards are high now when it comes to dancing.
i've been eating in the downstairs cafeteria for the past two days. it's not that i want to save money or anything (our food downstairs is a flat fee of $5), but i've been trying to not have 1+ hour lunches because i have so much work to do. plus, the food there is probably better for me; they offer vegetables in various forms, so i've been taking advantage of that and hopefully eating more healthy.
i think i'm losing touch with popular new music these days. i always listen to the radio when i drive, but i search around the stations until i find something i recognize. as a result, i rarely hear new songs, especially alternative bands, since there is only one alternative radio station now in the bay area (live 105). even though it was a bit more mainstream, i miss having the option of tuning over to channel 104.9.
is there a way to not get razor burn when shaving? i use an electric razor, and i usually shave once a week. by that time, i have a decent amount of growth. last night, i shaved, and i got a bloody pore. it burned and hurt. i know i can shave more often, but i was wondering if there was some sort of gel or cream that i could use.
a few weeks ago, i saw a _sex and the city_ episode where carrie thought mr. big didn't want her anymore because she farted in front of him. i actually like it when my girl farts. i think it's funny. it's all good, we're all human have gas, so what's wrong with it? i don't think women should hide it just because it's not "feminine." when one of my ex's used to shower with me, we would both fart, and man, sometimes hers stunk more than mine.
i really want to see _the last kiss_ this weekend. i admire zach braff's work (although he's only done one previous movie, _garden state_), and i like rachel bilson. yeah, i use to hate her in _the OC_ in the beginning, but then her character developed into a more likeable person when she got together with seth. and on top of that, i think she's really attractive now; i think it's her big eyes.
ok. i have a meeting at 5. have a nice hump day!
man, i am beat today. i actually worked the entire afternoon. however, my stuff isn't working (don't you hate core dumps?), so i'm a bit frustrated. i hate it when things fail and you don't understand why they fail. anyways, just some whining about work, that's all.
so tonight's the premiere of _dancing with the stars_. i am only slightly interested in this because i want to see how emmitt smith (of dallas cowboys fame) does. and maybe jerry springer. i don't want to watch the entire two hours, though.
so summer's winding down. it's getting dark sooner and sooner, and in october, daylight savings will end (or kick in, i don't know which is which), which means *really* early nights. that's depressing. it sucks to leave work when it's completely dark. i feel like i missed out on summer. i didn't do anything to enjoy the great weather and stuff. oh well.
sometimes i find it interesting what people consider cute or pretty (in terms of people). i've had instances where people show me a picture of a so-called cute girl, and i find them hideous in my eyes. and there have been cases otherwise, too, although those happen far less frequently. i wonder where we get standards from; i mean, how do we come to decide for ourselves what is aesthetically pleasing or not? what influences our decisions?
ok, that's it. my brain is fried. and the bad news is that while i was typing this, my simulation died again. fucking core dump. :(
this will be a quick post before i go home. i actually buckled down and did some work today for a change. but, i'm stuck with all these errors during my compile, and i just don't feel like tackling them yet. i'll do it tomorrow. yeah, i'm the king of procrastination.
my dump was unusually dense today. and wide, too, as it *almost* hurt when it came out. i think it was the steak i ate on friday night; i didn't take a dump all weekend, so i bet everything got packed really well.
i discovered a great breakfast item at jack in the box: their sausage breakfast jack. you get a sausage patty (i love sausage patties), an egg, and cheese sandwiched between two nicely hot plain buns. all for $1.29. i had them on both saturday and sunday. yummers.
monday night football is going on right now. i'm sort of upset about it, because they're doing a doubleheader, and the second game doesn't finish until about 10:30. that means i get my sportscenter late. it's ok, though, because this won't happen in future weeks.
my cowboys lost to the jaguars yesterday. i am bummed. i knew all this hype would be bad for the team.
we have a new girl in our team now. she previously worked in the toronto division, but she's out here for a year stint in the US. i feel bad for people who relocate. it must be hard to find friends outside of work, people to eat lunch with, etc. etc. maybe i'll take her out someday and show her the sites.
weekdays are hard to handle because i get 3 hours less sleep than on the weekend. but the good thing is, since i'm more tired at night, it's easier to fall asleep. we'll see how tonight goes; ever since i've gotten back from taiwan, i've had a tough time falling asleep. in the past, i'd conk out in the middle of the 11pm sportscenter, but lately, i've been wide awake even after it finishes. nuts.
ok, i'm out.
so friday night, we went to alexander's steakhouse for nelson's birthday dinner. as they claim, they're the only place in the bay area that sells true kobe beef. i was tempted to splurge and try it, but it was waaaaay too expensive: a 6oz ribeye cut was something like $225!!! so i just got a 2lb bone-in ribeye. it was good at first, but it was just too much meat for me. and no, i did not ask for A-1. in the end, the bill was a shocking $85 a person. it left me with a dollar bill in my wallet.
saturday, i got out of bed and just watched college football. we had a secondary nelson's bday get together at his house around 7. some of the guys brought over pizza, and i brought some alcohol (tequila and jameson). i had a jameson with john, and two shots of tequila with nelson. he got a new fire pit, so we let that sucker up and just gathered around it in his backyard. i left around 10.
sunday, i watched most of the SF/arizona game. then i joined alan at the dog park at las palmas park and watched the dozen or so dogs romp around. having a dog is a definite way to socialize with other people. too bad there weren't any hot girls there, or else i would consider getting a dog. :)
after i went home, i met up with alan (and ting) again to see _the protector_, tony jaa's latest import from quentin tarantino. the movie wasn't as good as _ong bak_. while some of the camerawork was pretty good, the actual fighting was repetitive, especially near the end when he was fighting dozens and dozens of people, breaking their bones in the same way. it just got old.
one thing, though. during the movie, i ticced so hard that my eyeglasses flew off my face. it took a few minutes (thank god my mini flashlight on my keychain still worked) for me to find it. sigh. tourette's sucks.
so that was my weekend. it was too short, and i am very upset about having to work for the next five days.
hey people. good news! my downstairs toilet is back to normal now. previously, when i flushed, the water would go up to a dangerous level before finally starting to drain. but yesterday, it worked fine. so i guess the huge turd i left in there two weeks ago finally went through or something. and that also means i can take a shit downstairs now, instead of using the other toilet upstairs.
tonight's nelson's birthday dinner. it's at this place called alexander's steakhouse, and i'm not so enthused about it. like i said before, i'm not a steak lover. i just don't like the taste. is it insulting to ask the waiters if they have A-1 steak sauce? i like that stuff, especially the bold and spicy one with tabasco mixed in.
i haven't been falling asleep easily. sportscenter isn't helping, and usually i'm still wide awake after the last one ends at midnight. i wonder if it's still the jetlag, but it's already been almost a week since i got back. hm.
so what is so special about the _garden state_ soundtrack? i remember watching the movie, but i don't remember the music. perhaps i should look at the playlist. anyways, i heard that zach braff's next film, _the last kiss_, will also have a good soundtrack, as zach is doing it himself again. i like that guy, and i am eagerly awaiting the return of _scrubs_.
i've been watching _sex and the city_ reruns on WGN every night. in the last few episodes, charlotte has been dating a jewish guy who cannot marry a non-jewish girl. so they know the future is doomed. so why do they stay together? if i knew that the relationship had no future, then i would stay out of it. i mean, why waste your time and get your heart broken? *shrug*
ok, i gotta wrap this up. i gotta go pick nelson up. have a GREAT weekend!
man, it was hard to get out of bed today. it was actually *painful*. but i made it to the office in time, around 10:25. tomorrow, i have a meeting at 10am sharp, so i had best go to sleep earlier to get my full 10 hours of rest. fyi, i fall asleep around midnight these days.
i was up last night watching the E! true hollywood story about porn star jenna jameson. i had seen part of it before, but it's always cool to see a show about the porn industry. i own one of jenna's movies (_blue movie_ it's called), but i'm not much of a fan of her from a sexual point of view. i do, however, respect her and her intelligence. she's very articulate and far from a bimbo.
so the nfl season kicks off tonight with its first game. my cowboys play on sunday against jacksonville, and i'm nervous. there's a lot of expectations this year, as some so-called experts are predicting the cowboys may even win the super bowl. i highly doubt that, but i don't want to jinx my own team. anyways, it'll be good to have something to watch on sundays.
i've decided that i don't like steak very much. eating just a slab of meat doesn't taste very good; i need to mix in more things. last week, i had prime rib at black angus, and i found the meal very unsatisfactory. tomorrow night, we're going to yet another steakhouse for my friend's birthday. i'm going to see what else i can get other than steak.
i weighed myself when i got back from taiwan, and it turns out i didn't gain any weight. i certainly ate very well, and some of the stuff was pretty greasy (like the breakfast items), but i didn't get any fatter! good news, i guess.
i negged on a promise i made to myself today. i told myself that i'd play basketball for the first time in many months. i originally had plans to have lunch with M, but when she backed out, i should have gone out to play ball. instead, i went out to have lunch (sushi). sigh. ok, next tuesday, i really PROMISE i'll play.
i've been going to the bathroom a lot more at night. it's really annoying. i'm all comfortably ensconced under my covers, naked, and i have to get up to take a leak. ick. i know that it's a good thing because it means i'm well-hydrated, but it's just a nuisance to me. oh, and fyi, i have to wipe my pee hole because i'm naked. :)
ok. time for my 5pm cigarette. ciao!
hey folks. nothing much has happened today. i had a long meeting that lasted past lunch, so i didn't get to eat with anybody. the two guys i usually eat with went to banana leaf, too, and i wanted to try that place out again. :( and then, i had a meeting that just got out until now. sigh. i hate meetings, especially ones like today where i couldn't contribute a single thing.
i feel behind the times. i don't have tivo, and i don't download shows from the internet, so i'm still relying on my decade-old VCR to tape shows for me. i'm excited about the new television season, though. i'm most excited about _scrubs_. and _how i met your mother_. but i don't know what new shows are good. anybody got some tips?
so i'm getting off depakote (one of my meds for tourette's). that shit fucks up your liver, and since it wasn't doing anything for my tics, i told my psych today that i wanted to quit the drug. my mom did some research, so we're planning on putting me on some natural nutritional supplements. this stuff is rumored to "cure" all sorts of ailments, so i'm willing to give it a try, although i'm not getting my expectations up or anything.
i just took a dump where i strained myself so much that i almost puked out my lunch. man, that was a major squeezer.
i think i've recovered from my jet lag. it's about fucking time. i was getting sick of the insomnia and total grogginess in the morning. today, it was still hard getting out of bed (around 9:40am), but at least i was able to do it.
remember a few years back when i really wanted to play taiko as a career? i am way over that now. i think what i missed about being in stanford taiko wasn't the actual playing, although i do miss performing. but what i missed the most were the people, the camaraderie. i bring this up because i have an opportunity to play with some of the people who used to be in the group, and it's even close by where i live. but i just don't feel the urge or the desire, and i'm wondering why. i think laziness has something to do with it, but there may be more to that.
ok, that's it from me today. take it easy.
hey folks. it's hard to do any work after coming back from vacation, and today is no exception. i'm just looking forward to going home and resting; my body thinks it's pull an all-nighter. jet lag is a bitch, no?
anyways, the rest of my stay in taiwan was just mainly eating (i ate very well, even vegetables!) and accompanying my mom to various destinations. like i said, we had a chauffeur, so he just took us to some places. i went to the national palace museum, where the main attraction was this cabbage made of jade. it was beautifully made, but it didn't hold my attention for that long.
there was also this museum where they featured rocks that looked like food. yup, sort of strange, huh? other than that, we visited the water, and just walked around our neighborhood a bit. my mom couldn't handle too much physical activity, so we didn't do any hikes or anything.
at home, i watched a lot of tv. there are a lot more channels than when i was back in taiwan 15 years ago, including stuff like espn, hbo, cinemax, etc. i did watch the us/greece basketball game live, and that was a total bummer.
i didn't get a chance to ride the subway, but i did visit the underground malls. not much to see there... just mainly women's clothing stores. the ritziest place was the mall next to taipei 101; i had never seen an issey miyake store before.
oh, and i flew business class on the way there, and i got bumped up to first class on the way back. that was AWESOME. my seats could recline all the way back, so i got to sleep for a good 7 hours on the 11-hour flight back. and i had caviar for the first time! i didn't know how to eat it, so i just watched what people were doing around me. it was interesting, but i'm not sure i would eat it again, especially if i had to pay for it. oh, and they gave us noise-cancelling headphones too, although i couldn't get mine to work.
i also got to go into the EVA air VIP lounges at the airports. they had free food (and pretty good food, too), and free alcohol. so i had some whiskey; in SFO, i had three/four shots of johnnie walker red, and that gave me a headache. but yeah, rich people travel well.
so taipei... not sure if i'll go there again for "vacation." i mean, it's nice to hang out with my parents and all, but family doesn't make for a fun vacation. i'd rather go with some people my age so we could hit the nightspots or something. the city is huge, though. i suppose that a good working knowledge of its layout and and subway system would make it easier to travel around.
during my stay there, while walking around, i didn't see many cute girls. in fact, i think i only saw one; she was tall and had a nice face and figure. but the rest of the women... not so much. i was pretty disappointed, actually. i was expecting hot waitresses and cute women dressed up in cool outfits and stuff, but alas.
ok, that's pretty much it for my taiwan wrapup. i'm glad i finally went, but now it's back to normal life.
so i flew in around 4pm from taiwan, and nelson picked me up. i went home and unpacked, and later he and i had dinner at il postale in downtown sunnyvale. i always have a craving for pasta, but i'm usually disappointed by the dish that i get. this time, it was the chicken that was overcooked and tough and dry.
that night, i fell asleep at a reasonable time (12am or so), but i slept until FOUR pm the next day. that translated to 7am taiwan time, so it made sense. after i got out of bed, i finally watched the series finale of _alias_ that i had taped many months ago. it was actually pretty good; they let some of the main characters die.
that night, paul and i met some others at black angus for some prime rib. it wasn't very good, though. sigh. another disappointing meal. but the company was good; there were some friends there that i hadn't seen in two years.
that night, i had major insomnia. i couldn't sleep until 4-5am, and once again, i got out of bed past 4pm on monday. what a waste of a weekend, huh? i got to have dinner with alan, though, which was nice. we went and got la bamba burritos and caught up.
so that was my labor day weekend. i should have done more, but my jetlag really fucked me up.