i was unusually quiet last night at dinner. there were eight of us, and i didn't say much the entire time i was there. (we went to andy's bbq in santa clara.) i blame it on my tics. i spend so much of my effort during the day not ticcing, and that often makes me shut down and not do anything, including speaking and working. i fucking hate my tourette's.
sleep has been awesome in these chilly nights. i use all three layers of my blankets, and i just snuggle. i LOVE snuggling! especially with my cool pillows. i've had these pillows for years and years, and they rock.
so the NBA season starts tonight. did you know that october is the only month of the year where all four major US sports are active? it's a great month for sports, even though i don't care much for baseball and hockey.
happy halloween! although, i don't have much of a halloween spirit. i didn't buy any candy, and i'm going to keep my porch lights turned off. my parents never let me go trick or treating until high school, and even then, i didn't wear a costume; i just dressed in all black and rang doorbells asking for candy. bah humbug.
ok, i know this is short, but i have writer's block today. let's see if i can do better tomorrow. bye!
hey folks. sigh. another monday. even though i was sick for two days last week (and nobody likes to be sick), it was nice having a 3-day workweek. even that felt long, though, so that gives you an impression on how little i enjoy working. :/
i have all these long scratches on my left arm. i don't know how i got them. maybe i scratched myself when i was sleeping? even if i did that, my nails aren't sharp or anything. hm. it looks like i've been attacked by a cat.
two more days until jeremy and kate move back! i'm SO excited to see them. unfortunately, they're living up north in san mateo. it isn't *that* long of a drive, but still, i liked it when they lived 2 miles from me in mountain view.
no more diarrhea for me. i had a little bit of it over the weekend, but today's dump was semi-solid. i'm still wishing i had more solid dumps, but what can you do... how do you induce solid dumps? is there such a thing as an anti-fiber pill or a stool hardener?
i am not liking this daylight savings thing. it gets light an hour earlier, which makes it hard to sleep in the morning time, and by the time i leave work, it's almost dark. ick. i definitely enjoyed the extra hour of sleep i got saturday night, but now, that's over with. the rest are negatives.
alan and ting are funny. they keep gaining weight, then going on the south beach diet phase 1 (absolutely no carbs) to lose weight, and then repeat every few months. the bad thing about this is that i don't get to eat out with them when they're on the diet, unless we go to boston market or something (they get the chicken there).
my coworker N and i had lunch at la bamba today. he's leaving the company after 9+ years, and his last day is this friday. i'll be sad to see him go. he was one of the originals! my secret wish is that he doesn't find a good job, and he comes back. ha! wishful thinking, i guess.
tonight is a rare weekday where i'm going out for dinner. usually, i just go home and have a bowl of honey nut cheerios, but john called me up a few minutes ago and invited me to a gathering at andy's bbq. i'm not a fan of non-texas bbq, but i definitely would like some company on a weeknight. i'll have to go home first and set the vcr to tape _how i met your mother_ and _the class_, even though both are repeats.
ok, time to jet. see you guys!
friday night, nelson and i hit the sonoma chicken coop, where we both got the garlic chicken alfredo and some beer. then, we head back to his place and watched some snippets of borat, in anticipation of his upcoming movie. we also watched the halloween episode of season 2 of _the office_.
saturday, i picked up nelson and john, and we had lunch at the original pancake house in cupertino. then, we went to john's place and watched some tv, including _the matrix reloaded_. i still don't understand the gibberish that the architect is talking about.
we met up with mikeC, paul and leeya at st. john's and enjoyed their half off burgers. i got the "beg for mercy" burger, which included some chopped up jalepeno's. it was a bit spicy, and i liked it. we went to paul's place afterwards, watched some tv, and played mexican train domino's.
we were watching cinemax, and after _the 40 year old virgin_, they showed a soft porn movie. the only scene that we got to watch was this guy giving head to a girl with huge fake breasts. then, leeya changed the channel.
sunday, i didn't do much. i enjoyed the extra hour of sleep, and i watched parts of three football games. i also took a nap during the raiders/steelers game.
i was excited to see my cowboys play on sunday night football, but after they were down 14-0 to the panthers, i was convinced they were going to lose. so i left the house and met up with alan and ting at pho nam for some dinner. when i got back, i saw that the score was 35-14 dallas, and i sort of regretted losing the faith. that game would have been fun to watch. oh well. at least dallas won, and i am certainly happy about that.
and that was the end of my weekend. with the cowboys victory, it ended on a good note. :)
man, i'm not sure what's going on with my GI tract. i had a major case of diarrhea today. it's a weird sensation when i excrete the mass; it takes no effort, and i could just sit back without straining and feel the stuff pouring out of my ass. ick. it looked like a bunch of thick earthworms down at the bottom of the toilet.
my company is preparing for its halloween bash tonight. employees are going to bring in their costumed kids around 6:30 or so, and man, the decorations are borderline lavish. this is the holiday where my company works the hardest at; they have all these kid's carnival games, a jumping tent, and a big slide out in the parking lot.
i'm getting sick of pho. i've gone to pho nam twice in three days, and i got to the point today during lunch where i just didn't feel like eating it anymore. maybe i should have ordered a rice plate or something.
does anal sex feel good? how does it compare to regular vaginal sex? is it tighter? i'm not sure if i'll ever try it. i'm kinda grossed out by the fact that my schlong is going to enter a place where shit comes out.
the good news this weekend is that my dallas cowboys are playing a nationally televised game this sunday night. the bad news is that i think they're going to be lambasted by the panthers. the offensive line sucks, and julius peppers is going to have a field day, even with the mobile tony romo in as dallas's quarterback. sigh. we should have never let larry allen go to the niners.
sometimes i wonder how my tourette's would affect me if i had another job. like, there's no way i could be a surgeon with all my tics. and i couldn't be a businessman because i'd freak out all my customers. i guess that being an engineer (tucked away in a cubicle) is the perfect setting for me.
i need to be more proactive about seeing my friends up in the city, namely kevin and hr girl. the problem is that i'm too lazy to drive up there, but i know i should. maintaining friendships can be work, and i should put in the effort. we'll see. maybe i'll set something up for next weekend.
ok, that's enough for today. i'm itching to get out of here. ciao!
i always underestimate how much stuff comes out of my ass when i take a dump. today, i thought i had a small turd (it felt a little like diarrhea), but when i looked back after wiping, it was a bunch of small, thin, coily turds. go figure.
i am still not 100% healthy. i can feel it in my head; there's a slight dizziness up there. and my nose has been runny all day. i rarely get sick, so this is a new feeling to me. i've also noticed that cigarettes taste a bit different when i'm sick.
so i finally gave into temptation and trimmed my right pinky nail with my teeth. it was getting really long, so long that it looked unnatural. remember that the reason why i grow out my pinky nails is to scrape my earwax out. i have hyperactive sebaceous glands.
i met up with ben for lunch today in milpitas. we went to penang garden, and i got the chow kueh teow (what else?), which was rather bland. plus, i didn't like the fact that they threw in some fish cake pieces in there. ben was celebrating the fact that he is now a US citizen, so he paid for the meal. congratulations to him!
is it ever possible to run out of snot? i mean, i keep blowing and blowing my nose, but there is always more snot. there's gotta be a limit as to how much of the stuff you can generate, right? it's sort of saliva; there's no running out.
my tics are getting worse. this herbal supplement shit is a waste of money. my mom still wants me to be on it, though, so for now, i'll appease her by continuing taking the stuff. it's really expensive, though. damn this tourette's!
ok, i'm cutting this short. gonna go home and rest up. i hope i can get completely over my cold by tomorrow.
hey guys. as you may have noticed, i was out of the office monday and yesterday. i caught a nasty cold. i'm feeling much better now, but for a while, i was a booger-generating machine. :( i'm still a bit sniffly now, but at least i'm not dizzy and weak.
so tomorrow, my company is giving out free flu shots. what's your take on these? do these actually work? a friend of mine used to get them, and he used to get sick afterwards. i've already been out two days this week, and i'm not about to get sick again.
so re: _the departed_. i haven't seen _infernal affairs_, so i don't know what to compare it to. but i just thought the american version was very slow and pretty boring. not to mention that i really don't like leonardo dicaprio.
and don't get me started on the cowboys' terrible loss to the giants. i watched most of the game (turned it off in disgust after romo's interception for a touchdown), and it was just depressing. bledsoe is just a sitting duck out there behind a shitty offensive line. sigh. and we go on a three-game roadtrip after this, and then come home to face the unbeaten colts. doesn't look good for the cowboys' chance to make it to the playoffs.
i was at home yesterday all day, and i watched espn from noon to about 4pm. there are some pretty good shows on espn during the day. i like PTI as always, and jim rome is burning is a pretty good show too. too bad i have to work during the day, or else i'd be filling my early afternoons with sports talk shows.
i think my company is up to something shady. for whatever reason, they're not having an ESPP period, which would have ended next week. instead, they're just refunding our ESPP withholdings, which means i lose out on a couple thousand dollars in instant profit. hm. we have a company-wide meeting on friday, and i'm sure there will be some pissed off employees asking questions.
one of my coworkers, one of the originals from the old T days, is leaving next week. i'm sad. he's been here for over nine years now, and i like him a lot. sigh. i don't like seeing friends leave.
ok, that's it for today. have a happy rest-of-hump day!
friday night, jen, nelson, mikeC and i had dinner at korea house. afterwards, we went to fantasia at the rivermark to grab pearl drinks before heading over to paul's place to watch satellite tv. he gets porn! but instead of porn, we watched the ending of _doom_ and the ending of _walk the line_, a movie that nelson raves about.
saturday, i ran some errands (dry cleaners and safeway) and had a late lunch at california noodle with john and cheng. i called jeremy and emi and talked to the two of them for a while; jeremy's moving out here november 1st! i'm so fucking excited to know that he and kate will be in the bay area again.
i didn't have any social contact for the rest of the day; i just watched some college football, took a nap, and watched some more tv before going to bed.
sunday was joy and hiroshi's sushi rolling/deep fryer party. i bought twinkies and oreo's to deep fry, but i left before we got around to that. then, i met up with alan and ting at mercado to watch _the departed_. i didn't like the movie, and i didn't like the ending either.
after getting out of the movie at 7:30, i met up with nelson at chili's. he got the country fried steak (an awesome entree), and i got the triple play. it was too my deep-fried food, but it was still decadent and good. i also tried bushmill's whiskey, and it wasn't bad, although it was a bit too smooth for my taste. they gave me a lot of it (like two shots worth) for $6.75, so i thought it was a good deal. it did give me a headache, though.
and that was it for this weekend. i wish i had done more on saturday, but sunday was decent.
hey people. my left eyelid has been twitching today. it feels sort of cool, but i wonder what brought it on; it's not like i've been stressed out of late.
thank goodness for IM. i'm trying to round up some folks for dinner, and i would imagine it would be tedious if i only had a phone to work with. with IM, i can open up multiple windows and coordinate. *huzzah*
so i'm excited for monday night. cowboys vs. giants! should be a good game, with both of the teams at 3-2 and the winner keeping pace with the eagles for first place in the NFC east.
i drink a decent amount of liquids at work. i can tell i'm well hydrated because my piss (at the end of the day) is clear. and i've also noticed that gatorade flows through my body much quicker than other liquids. (or at least i believe so; i can't explain why.)
wouldn't it be cool is we could piss in different colors (besides yellow)? i drink red berry/fruit punch flavored gatorade, so it would be kinda neat if my piss stream were red as well.
today was free lunch day. it was italian food, and it was pretty gross. it's a bad sign when the caesar salad is the best-tasting stuff out there. the pasta was cold, the vegetables overcooked, and i didn't try the red-wine drenched chicken. oh, and the sausage was too salty. oh well. i guess i shouldn't complain about free food, but man, it's just not good.
i had a dream last night that i was playing _final fantasy tactics_. i was really into this game many years ago (on the playstation console). the best profession was the calculator. yeah, it sounds dumb, but man, were calculators powerful, especially when coupled with the magician sub-profession. flares all around!
ok. time to jet. have a great weekend folks!
nothing much happening today. it was ice cream day (third thursday), so i had a scoop of cookies 'n cream, pistachio, and pralines and caramel. i'm not a really big fan of ice cream, but nevertheless it was a good break.
i just had a small dump. it was like a collection of little snakes curling out of my ass. i've noticed that a lot of my coworkers have bad GI tracts; they sound like they have diarrhea or something when they take dumps. i hope i don't get like that when i'm older. i like my dumps solid and hard.
i saw rachel bilson on the cover of a magazine today while we were at safeway. she's pretty hot, i think. i know, i used to hate her character on _the OC_, and i had a crush on samaire armstrong, but still, summer's grown on me. and now that marisa's gone, she'll be the main girl on the show. the new season of the show kicks off on november 2 (i think), so i'm eagerly anticipating it. the only problem is that it might conflict with _survivor_ and _the office_, so i'll have to drop one of those.
stanford football was rated on espn as the #3 worst team in the nation. how embarrassing. i think they played the 2nd worst team in the pac-10 (arizona) last weekend during homecoming, and they lost 20-7. in fact, they didn't score a single offensive point; the 7 came from an interception returned for a touchdown. ack.
i had dinner with C last night at gombei. i allotted half an hour to drive from my office in sunnyvale to menlo park, and i was still late. traffic sucks, even on central expressway/alma street. boo on that. but it was good to see C again, even though we're not great friends. always nice to see a familiar face. btw, he's the potential roommate that was pondering living with me.
nights are getting colder, especially in my bedroom. normally, i take a shower, dry off, and watch tv naked on my bed, but last night was the first time where i felt cold. i don't know how long i'll stay above the sheets and blankets during my tv time, and i hope i don't catch a cold or flu or something.
ok. ten minues until i take off. i'm getting a massage! yippee!
man, my stomach has really shrunk. ever since i went on an "eat less food" diet, i haven't had an appetite. these days, i have a normal lunch (no breakfast), and a bowl of cereal for dinner. that is, if i don't go out for dinner with friends. and i don't get hungry at night. or in fact, ever. eating less is the main reason why i've lost over 40 pounds from my peak at 202. think about that... 40 pounds!!
i used to be able to eat a ton of food. once, with my old taiko group, we had a food eating contest at colonel lee's mongolian bbq on castro. i tied with this dude; both of ate 5 bowls of food. of course, i felt sick afterwards, but still, that was a lot of stuff i consumed.
so how much cash do you guys carry around? i usually try to make sure i have at least $80 or so in my wallet. the reason why i ask is because i'm down to like $5 in my wallet now, and it's making me nervous. oh, and i also carry a lucky $100 bill that my grandmother gave me, but i never intend to break it; it's a good luck charm.
do you have nipple hair? i have like 5. i pluck them whenever they come out, and it feels good. i also pluck my cheek hairs and my nose hairs; the latter really hurts, but i'm sure a part of me enjoys that kind of masochism.
i finally took a dump today. i swear it was about 12 inches long, and it snaked from the hole out of the water. and i took a secondary dump after lunch, and it really hurt; my sphincter was on fire for about 10 minutes. sometimes the smallest dumps hurt the most, and i can't explain why.
i'm amazed at people who can cry on cue. when i was watching _winter sonata_, there were so many times when yujin or junsang would just stand there, with a straight face, and tears would come streaming out of their eyes. how in the world do they do that?
i've faked crying before. but in order to do that, i had to secretly yawn to induce tears (why do we tear up after yawning anyway?) and then start sniffling on purpose. i only did it once, to win back a girlfriend. am i evil?
ok, that's it for today. i'm meeting up with C (the potential roommate) for dinner. and no, i'm sure he doesn't care what i blog about. he's a chill dude. ciao!
have you guys heard of adultfriendfinder.com? it's basically a site for people who are looking for sex. i guess that's as close to free sex as it gets. i've been offered free sex before, but both times i turned it down. i guess i'm not emotionally able to have sex with someone i'm not attracted to.
the first time was when i lived in japan. there was this thai girl, and it was late after we joined some of the stanford kids at a bar, and she asked me if i wanted to come home with her. that night was the final night of my stay in kyoto, before i had to move to tokyo, so i needed to say goodbye to my host family. but had i been more drunk, i might have said yes to the girl.
the second time was at a party in san bruno or something. i picked up this girl from her house, and when i drove her back after the party, she kept asking me if i wanted to stay over. and of course, i said no, but i always wonder about the what if's. after all, sex is good, right? and hence free sex is even better!
anyways, did you guys see the monday night football game last night? it was pretty amazing. the bears were down against the cardinals 20-0, and they came all the way back and won, despite not being able to score a single touchdown on offense. i was rooting for a stunning upset, but man, the cardinals really fucked up in the end.
no dump today. i just had a cigarette break, and it didn't induce any bowel movements. oh well. i hope tomorrow i get a nice big turd. it might be spicy, though, given the hot sauce-laden mongolian bbq lunch i had yesterday. spicy dumps hurt! *flaming sphincter*
ok, that's all i have for today. ciao!
hey people. i'm happy that my cowboys toasted the texans yesterday. terrell owens caught 3 touchdowns, so that at least should shut him up for a little while.
last night, i scratched the bottom of my foot so hard that i got a blister. i popped it this morning, and luckily it doesn't hurt when i walk. foot injuries must suck.
my coworker N and i went to have mongolian bbq today. while it was kind of good, i didn't get nearly the satisfaction that i used to, back when i loved the food. after lunch, N drove all the way from santa clara to castro street just for the hell of it. according to him, he likes driving for no reason; it lets him get away from thinking about work.
i came to the office today and saw that they cleaned everybody's whiteboard. while i'm happy that mine finally got cleaned, what if i had important stuff on there? they didn't even ask or give us a warning. weird, huh?
i'm going to the 49ers/seahawks game in november. i'm worried that it'll rain, as the rainy season in the bay area is upon us. i would imagine it must be miserable to sit there all wet and stuff. i have a waterproof jacket i could use, but maybe i should go out and get waterproof pants and shoes as well.
last night, i had a bad dream. i can't remember the nitty gritty details, but basically i had a big fight with one of my ex-roommates, paul. just before i woke up, i clearly remember punching him in the face. :( i don't like confrontational dreams.
so it looks like i won't be getting a temporary roommate after all. he e-mailed me and said that he's going to crash with a friend of his in fremont. however, i'm thinking that the commute is going to piss him off (he'll have to take the dumbarton bridge to and fro), so he still might end up rooming with me in the end. we'll see. i was sort of looking forward to it, too.
ok, time for my 5pm smoke. have a good one folks!
friday night, nelson, mikeC, alvin and i had dinner kapp's pizza in downtown MV. the pizza was pretty bad; it was bland and not tasty at all. i'm not going there again. afterwards, we had pearl tea at tap-ex and talked about buying real estate.
saturday, a whole bunch of us taiko alum hung out for the entire day. we started with brunch at the original pancake house in los altos, then headed over to the crafts fair at the palo alto buddhist temple. after that, we went to tower records to check out their going out of business sale. i bought two cd's for $50 (they were limited edition releases by the pet shop boys and saint etienne).
then, it was off to berkeley to watch the on ensemble concert. we wandered around town for a bit before the concert, and had dinner at ryowa ramen. word has it that they were ranked #1 in the bay area, but i found the broth to be weird and the noodles to be tasteless. i didn't like it too much.
the concert was great! it was thoroughly fun to watch, especially the fast pieces with excellent amazing stickwork. on ensemble is one of the best taiko groups out there, so be sure to see them if they're ever in the area. i'm biased, of course, because i played with two of their four members.
sunday, alan, ting and i spent the whole day out. first, we went to gilroy to check out some outlet stores. ting had a credit at coach, so we went there first. later on, we hit banana republic and ann taylor. they brought their cute dog rylie, so it was fun to play with her while we waited for others to finish up shopping.
after gilroy, we went to santa cruz to a dog beach and watched rylie play with all the other dogs. it was sort of chilly, though, as we got there pretty late.
after we got back, i headed home just in time for sportscenter. my cowboys thumped the texans, and terrell owens scored three touchdowns, so at least he should be happy and not ranting and raving like he usually does. one more week of peace, i guess.
howdy! i'm SO glad it's friday. i've got dinner plans with the guys, and i've got tomorrow lined up with activities as well. if things work out, i'll be spending the day in the city and watching the on ensemble (my friends' taiko group) play in berkeley. i just hope i don't have to drive.
i have a headache. i just took some tylenol; hope it helps. i think i've been ticcing a lot lately, so all that whiplash has given me a headache. ouch!
i IM'ed jay today. he's doing well out there in florida/alabama, which is good news. i miss him, margaret, and their dog coco. i hope they wind up back here in the bay area once he finishes his year stint out there.
so i might have a part-time roommate starting next week. he's going to teach at stanford, and he lives in the city, so i'm guessing he'll crash at my place a few nights a week when he's down here. i'm sort of excited to have a roommate, although i'm afraid that i'll be too boring for him. after all, i go up to my bedroom around 8pm, where i shower and watch tv naked until about 9:30 or so.
happy birthday ting!
i got an e-mail from my taiko buddy sonya today. she's pregnant! man, so many of my college friends are having babies. i feel so out of the loop. and i also found out today that another taiko friend of mine is expecting his THIRD child by the end of this month. crazy!
my fingernails are getting long. i usually bite them on mondays, but this time, they weren't long enough to warrant a full trimming. so in the span of a few days, they've grown pretty long. i can't wait until next monday. they look super-chewable and highly delectable.
i am really starting to hate terrell owens. at first, when he joined the cowboys, i thought he would be a man, shut up, and play football. but no, he has to be his old self and bitch and moan about not getting the ball more often. what a horrible teammate to have. all he cares about is his own glory. *pukes*
anyways, the cowboys play the texans this weekend. the only other time they played, the cowboys lost. lost to an expansion team! how pathetic.
ok, time for my 5pm smoke. have a great weekend, folks!
hey people. i've developed a bad habit. i've found that i can't do any substantial work (either "work work" or stuff like writing in this blog) until i've had a cigarette break. it's weird, i know. it's like smoking resets my brain so that i can start doing something meaningful afterwards. hm.
so i finally got my dump this morning. it was long, thick, and spiralled out of the toilet. but it wasn't very satisfying because it was soft. i like solid, hard dumps.
anyways, today is the beginning of my 4-day 10-year stanford reunion. i'm not going to any of the events, but i'm just a little amazed that i've been out of college for ten years. man, those were fun times.
speaking of college, i got an e-mail from a long lost friend, jenC. she's in minnesota, and apparently they had their first snow of the season. i've been spoiled with california weather, so i can't imagine it being cold so early. anyways, she's mentioning how she might move back to the bay area next year, and i'll be looking forward to that.
also, i hear that my buddies jeremy and kate will move back to the bay area this november. i can't wait! i love both of them, and they were really supportive of me back when i was suicidal. i still remember sitting on a basketball court with jeremy and alan, and breaking the news to them. it broke my heart to see the concern on their faces. i still remember the fact that kate baked me a lemon bundt cake to cheer me up. :)
i took the new coworker girl to lunch today. we went to joy luck place. we were talking on the drive there, and she mentioned how she has only one friend (a college friend) out here. i felt really sad for her. that's the thing with moving to a new place, though; you have to start over and make new friends. it's a tough thing to do, and that's why i would be hesitant to move out of the bay area.
anyways, it's thursday! that means one more day until the weekend. there's a taiko concert in berkeley on saturday, and i'm thinking about going to that. there's also talk of hanging out in the city before the concert. that should be fun; i haven't been to SF since last october when jessica visited.
i took my coworker C out to barn thai today to get my jun pad poo fix. their stuff isn't as good (not enough crab meat) as krung thai, but it's much closer to the office. he didn't like his dish so much, though; they gave him very small portions.
i hate wednesday mornings. at around 9 or so, these guys come to clean up our front yards. they use these monstrously loud blowers, and it becomes impossible to sleep. ick.
do bees sleep? there's this beehive in the plants in the front yard, and during the day, you can see dozens of them flying about. however, at night, they're all gone. i wonder if they're sleeping in the hive. part of me wants to find out by kicking the plant, but i don't want to get stung; i already got stung once in the head a few weeks back, and it fucking hurt.
i haven't taken a dump today. my last one was before lunch yesterday, so i am thinking that the country fried steak lunch i had yesterday is going to result in a huge dump when it comes. i'm highly looking forward to it. :)
i hate being constipated. i clearly remember this one night when we were at korea house for dinner, and i had all this pressure in my stomach. it really hurt, and i had to go outside and smoke a cigarette just to fart and relieve the pressure.
the ALCS is messing with my tv schedule. normally, i just watch reruns of _seinfeld_ (on TBS) and _friends_ (on fox), but fox is now broadcasting the A's/tigers games starting at 7. i'm not a baseball fan, and there isn't anything else out there that's interesting around 7pm. oh well. although, i am rooting for the A's to win; it's amazing that they can have such a good team on such a small payroll compared to the big baseball cities out there.
man, i feel like shit today. i'm all tired and sleepy. it didn't help that for lunch, nelson and i went to ihop, where i got a food-coma-inducing country fried steak. i came back, and conked out for about an hour. and i still feel tired.
so the big stanford 10-year reunion is this weekend. i didn't register, since there weren't many people that i wanted to see. however, i might show up for one event, a gathering of those of us who went abroad in japan our junior year. we'll see if i'm up for it this saturday.
so what's your favorite sexual position? i have a few (like when the girl's on a countertop), but what i don't like is any position where the couple isn't facing each other. this includes doggystyle, especially when i'm watching it in porn. doggystyle in real life is ok, i guess, but man, it's a turn-off when i'm watching other people doing it.
i have a question about laughtracks in sitcoms. when they're recording, do they play the laughtrack live, or is it added later? to me, i'm thinking the former, because sometimes the actors don't say their lines until the laughtrack dies down. anyways, i HATE laughtracks, especially in _friends_, because they overdo it. it's especially annoying when they play it even though the characters have said nothing remotely close to being funny.
my tics are pretty bad of late. my neck is totally sore, and so are my shoulders. this herbal shit i'm taking isn't helping, although my mom says that it's supposed to gradually take effect over many months. i don't have the patience, and this stuff ain't cheap, either; at the rate i'm taking them, a year's supply will cost around $1000.
hey folks. sometime this past sunday, this blog got its 350,000th hit. of course, a large percentage of my hits come from people searching for "perfect ass" and other sexual terms, but still, i am very flattered that i have a decent amount of regular readers. thank you! and in case i don't know you, why not leave me a message and say hi? :)
so did you guys eat mooncake over the weekend? my coworker just gave me a small one. i hate the mooncakes that have the egg in them, ick. but this one is sesame paste, i think. either that or red bean paste.
so this was a bad weekend in sports for me and some of my good friends. jay's yankees lost, alex's dodgers lost, and my cowboys lost (stupid interception at the end!). and to top it all off, stanford got beaten by notre dame. i was pretty bummed that they didn't broadcast the cowboys/eagles game because of NFL restrictions (they can't show a game when the local team, the 49ers, play). stupid.
ok, sorry folks, but i really have nothing to say today. i've been sitting here for half an hour, and i have no thoughts worth mentioning. let's hope this case of writer's block doesn't last.
let's see... friday night, nelson and i had a late dinner at bangkok spoon. we got the red duck curry (which was spicy good), and the pad see ew, which was a bit weird because it had all this white pepper on it.
saturday, nelson and i went to pho nam near the mercado for lunch. afterwards, i went to the neighboring liquor store and bought a $40 bottle of whiskey (jameson 12 year) for john's birthday. afterwards we headed over to john's place and watched him clean his gun. it's cool that guns are made of so few parts, yet they work.
we left john's place and headed over to nelson's house and watched last season's _office_ season finale. i don't know why i keep watching this show; i don't find it that funny or compelling.
i went home, took a brief nap, and then went to visit my college friend J in union city (or is it fremont?) for a few hours. afterwards, i met up with john's birthday dinner people at paul's house for some whiskey and tequila drinking. i had like three drinks, and on an empty stomach, i got a slight buzz. luckily i made it home fine.
sunday, six of us had dim sum at dynasty. i was happy because they had turnip cake, which is my favorite dim sum item. i got home around 1 and watched some football (niners vs. raiders) and took a nap.
for dinner, i met up with alan at yo yo sushi at the rivermark. that place is hella expensive, and the food is only so-so. i don't think i'll be going over there anymore. after tagging along with alan at safeway, i went home. i wanted to go over to his place, but ting was sick. i went home, skype'd my mom for a few minutes, and went upstairs.
man, i am beat today. i didn't sleep very well last night, although technically i got a lot of hours in. and today, we all had to sit through a two hour all-hands meeting, and that was so boring it almost drove me to tears. i closed my eyes during a large portion of the presentations.
i have stinky pee today. yup, i ate three tasteless stalks of asparagus for lunch. it was free lunch day, and man, the food is still pretty bad. i was really looking forward to the buttermilk biscuits they were serving, but they were hella dry. i took two bites (the second one was to make sure it was dry), and threw the rest away.
so _the departed_ is getting really good reviews. my friend william told me that it's a remake of a hong kong film called _infernal affairs_. anyways, i might go see it this weekend, although the trailer didn't really make me interested in it. i think it's because i don't like leonardo dicaprio.
i never thought i was say this, but i'm getting tired of watching _scrubs_ reruns. on any given weeknight, there are three episodes that air, one on comedy central and two on WGN. this is my favorite show on TV, but i guess there is a limit on how much i can watch. by the way, when does the new season begin?
i've become increasingly a fan of blowjobs. granted, like i have said, i have never gotten a good one in my life, but when i watch some bj's in porn, i can see how they can feel really good. it's all about worshipping the penishead!
one of my gay friends told me that men give better blowjobs than women. i can totally believe that, because men *have* a penis, so they know what feels good and what doesn't. granted, i'm not gay so i will most likely never verify this, but i definitely think he has a valid point.
ok, i'm out of steam. i'm SO happy it's friday, though. anyways, have a good weekend!
so i was planning on gathering a group for mongolian bbq, but everybody bailed. so today, it was just J and i for lunch. we went to HC dumpling and got two orders of the crab shao long bao's and some rice cake dish. both of us agreed that the stuff wasn't as good as we remembered. in fact, i felt a little sick of eating eight of those buns. i think it was all the fat from the juice. oh well, i guess we won't be going there again anytime soon.
so today, i buckled down and did some real coding. it felt sort of good, being productive at work. i'm not finished yet, but i'm getting there. :)
so yeah, i saw the series finale episode of _sex and the city_ last night. it was so-so. yeah, mr. big came back, but there was no real indication that he would be able to commit to carrie this time. it was sort of the same reason why i didn't believe _jerry maguire_, because tom cruise's character didn't show any growth.
i'm getting a massage today. i can't wait. my neck is totally sore as usual, and i just need a rubdown to relieve stress. i don't tic during massages, so it's a nice break from my tourette's laden existence, if only for a while.
regarding my tourette's, the herbal supplements (a.k.a. mushroom stuff) aren't working yet. i wonder how long it's gonna take, if it's going to do anything at all. it's supposed to gradually adjust my immune system or something. and the stuff ain't cheap! at the rate i'm taking them, it's about $1000 a year. of course, if it helped, then i wouldn't mind at all paying that much.
back when i was dating one of my ex's, she would come home from work earlier than me, and she would take a nap in my bed, naked. and when i got back home, i would find a slumbering hot chick, naked, wet, and ready for sex. man, those were good times. quite a turn on to find a girl in that state.
ok, time to wrap up this entry and head out for my massage. ciao!
man, my sphincter itches. i had a stringy, messy dump today, and i wiped a few times, but it still itches.
C and i took the new girl out to lunch today. we went to midori, the japanese place near lawrence and el camino. i got sushi combo C, and it was pretty bad. the spicy crab sushi (sounds good on paper) had this nasty breading on top, and the spicy hamachi/scallop sushi tasted too fishy. and it wasn't cheap, either. oh well.
so i'm excited for tonight's _sex and the city_ on WGN. it's the series finale, and i am curious to see if mr. big can win over carrie from the russian dude. i've been told not to get my expectations up, though. but i'm going to be glad that it's over with. i've been reserving 8pm every night during the week to watch this show, even though i own all the dvd's.
i had dinner with an old college friend last night at maruichi. she's been dating various guys over the years, and she has been seeing this guy that i know from college. she mentioned that she didn't like the fact that he didn't have great abs. !! man, i'd be embarrassed to show her my undefined midsection. she admitted that it was sort of a vain requirement, but hey, what can you do when abs turn you on. *shrug*
so it's long sleeve weather now. i've got a stack of like 7-9 long sleeve t-shirts, so i'm just going to rotate among them through the season. man, i feel bad for the rest of my wardrobe. i had so many nice jackets and nice buttondowns, but i haven't touched them in years. too lazy to look good, i guess. but anyways, i'm loving the weather. it's so much better than the heat.
when does daylight savings end? isn't it on a sunday in october? fall back, right?
my right pinky nail is getting really long. i can hardly resist the temptation to bite it. but i need a long pinky nail to scrape out my earwax from time to time. yes, i am fascinated with earwax. and what's weird is that the stuff from my right ear smells, but the left ear's wax is odorless. odd, huh?
so i hear that emma watson might not reprise the role of hermione granger in the next _harry potter_ movies. say it ain't so! she's CUTE! and no, i'm not a pedophile. but does anyone have more news on this?
ok, i'm spent. gonna go home soon.
hey people. not much to report today. these blog entries are getting harder and harder to write because i have so little to say these days. i blame it partly on my life being so boring, and i also blame it on my medication, which seems to filter out all the random interesting thoughts that i used to have.
so how would you guys feel if your significant other was friends with an ex? i'd like to be the bigger man and say that i wouldn't care as long as the relationship with her was strong and trusting, but then again, as my friend alex said, would i be able to handle it knowing that she and this other dude were close before? like, what if i pictured them having sex? that couldn't be comfortable.
i've had issues with girlfriend's ex's before. in my first relationship, i was completely tortured by the fact that she wasn't a virgin and i was. it took me many months (including one summer) to get over that. but then, once we had sex, the issue went away for me.
as i grew older, though, i didn't get upset over the issue as much. in fact, in my fourth (very brief) relationship, it didn't bother me at all that she and her ex still talked. i guess you would call that maturity? maybe. or maybe it was apathy. *shrug*
so it turns out that the company i last worked for is truly going down the drain. i got an e-mail from an ex-coworker there who is looking for a job. sigh. i guess that's the life of a startup. all that work, and nothing in return.
ok, that's it for today. ciao!
man, i took the BIGGEST dump today. seriously. i cannot recall a larger turd than the one i laid today. it was probably 11 inches long, and it was so long that the tip stretched out past the water level. i guess that's what i get for not shitting for five straight meals.
i am a scaredy cat. when i went to see _jackass_ yesterday, there was a preview for _the grudge 2_. the moment i recognized the movie, i closed my eyes and plugged up my ears with my fingers. scary movies freak me out, especially the sudden loud sounds (hence plugging my ears). after i saw _the shining_ back in college, i had to sleep with the lights on.
man, my dallas cowboys really kicked tennessee's ass yesterday. too bad they didn't televise the game. i don't recall the last time the cowboys scored 45 points. i guess the bye week really gave them time to figure out their game plan. next week is a big game against their division foes the eagles.
hm. something's going on at my old company. i was chatting with the HR person over there, and apparently there is some big news that can only be disclosed after 10/31. i wonder what the news is. i think it's something bad, because she mentioned something about writing off my stock purchases there. shit. more wasted money.
can anyone explain why i drop 3-4 pounds overnight? i asked a doctor friend, and she didn't have an answer. i don't think i sweat that much when i'm sleeping. maybe i'm just burning my fat or something? hm.
years ago, i saw this show in which blindfolded women had to feel various men's asses and pick out which one was their husband. i'm not sure i'd be able to tell if i had to feel a bunch of women's butts. breasts, maybe, but i'm not good at remembering how my ex's asses felt like. i was never an ass person until lately.
ok, that's it for me today. gonna head home soon. bye!
friday night, leeya, paul, mikeC and i met up at kirin for dinner. it was decent food, and we only paid $9 each. kirin in mountain view is known for closing late, so it's a popular destination.
saturday, kara was in down, so she, barden, dishi and i spent the whole day together. first, we had lunch at sushi house, and then we drove to stanford and walked around the athletics facilities. there are a lot of new buildings there that i didn't know about. we also walked around white plaza, got jamba juice, and visited the bookstore.
around 4 or so, we went and saw _little miss sunshine_ at the aquarius theater. it was a quaint movie, and i enjoyed it. then we had dinner at gombei (where else?), our usual destination for a japanese dinner. after dinner, we enjoyed boba at tea era in downtown mountain view, and called it a night.
sunday, i was hoping to hang out with alan and ting, but their dog rylie was sick (puking and shivering and stuff), so alan had to stay home to take care of the dog. poor rylie.
i wound up watching _jackass: number two_ by myself at shoreline. i didn't mind going alone this time, and the movie was good! i laughed at lot. my favorite was probably "the fart mask," and it makes sense, given my love of farting and smelling farts.
i didn't do a whole lot after the movie. i went home, watched some football, and got a subway sandwich for dinner.
overall, it was a nice weekend, although i wish i could have done more on sunday. the bowling gang was out camping, and when they came back, they were too tired to go out and eat with me. hence subway.