hey guys. thanks for the concern, but yeah, i'm alive. i've been suffering from a bad cold. the worst of it was tuesday night. i was fine during the day, but once i went to bed, i got this nasty case of MASSIVE boogers. my nose just turned on like a faucet, and it couldn't fall asleep until 5am. yup. at 3am, i took some nyquil, but that didn't help, so at 4am, i took some xanax to knock me out.
wednesday, i went to work, but i went home after an hour and a half. i took a box of tissue with me and carried it around wherever i went. people saw me with it, knew that i was sick, and then started avoiding me. so i knew i had to go home. it was a horrible afternoon as i lay on the futon with a stuffy nose. you know, when you lie on one side, and that side's nostril get stuffed up?
and thursday, i went to work again, and i still didn't feel well, so i went home again after i checked my e-mail. again, i just spent the day on the futon, watching espn. you'd think i'd enjoy that, but it got really boring. sigh. being sick sucks.
today, i'm much better, but i'm still getting a lot of mucus buildup in my nose. i feel the best when i'm taking a hot shower; somehow the steam really clears my sinuses.
anyways, not much to report here, since haven't done much except sleep and watch tv. i did get hungry yesterday and ordered a pizza and ate 5/8 of it. fyi, the toppings were pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms and jalepenos. it was pretty good, since i didn't have lunch and was starving.
don't have any real weekend plans, except dim sum with mallory on sunday. i'm excited about that, since i haven't seen her in over a year. i think i'm going to home again soon; there isn't much to do here anyway in the office.
so yeah. sorry for not blogging in the past two days. didn't mean to alarm anybody. :)
hey peeps. i'm bored. i e-filed my taxes today, so i'm one step closer to finishing; i need to log back in within 24-48 hours and finalize my stuff. if everything goes right, they'll withdraw over $10K from my bank account next monday. sigh. that's a sizable dent in my savings. but yes, that does mean that i made a decent amount of money last year, mostly due to my monster ESPP sale in 2006.
C and i had lunch with william today at in 'n out. even though william went to UCLA, he doesn't seem to be that into UCLA men's basketball. i mean, they're in the final four! if stanford were that deep into the tournament, i'd forsake all my social obligations that make sure that i'd be in front of the television watching the games intently. i guess it's just all about priorities and school spirit.
sigh. final four. when stanford was in it back in 1997 or so, i remember hosting a party at brenton. we lost to eventual champion kentucky in overtime. so sad. but i was very proud of our team, with arthur lee, kris weems, etc. you just gotta savor those moments, because they don't come that often.
last night, paul, leeya and i went to eat at thai orchid on trimble and first street. i used to eat at that complex back when i worked at vivace networks. the food wasn't half bad, albeit just a tad pricey and overly greasy. leeya was craving this thai spaghetti dish, but i thought the noodles were too undercooked (paul called it al dente). paul and i shared the pad see ew (good, but like i said, greasy) and the red duck curry. the portions were generous, and it came out to like $13 a head.
i've had a sore throat in the mornings for well over a week now. i wonder what's going on. it hurts when i swallow. it usually goes away in the afternoon and nights, so people have been telling me it may be just allergies. but the thing is, i don't have my windows open when i sleep or anything, so what am i getting allergic to? *ponder*
i've come to realize that a good face with an average body beats out an average face with a hot body any day of the week. i guess it's sort of obvious (to me, at least), but a good face goes a long way. and of course, a good face on a hot body (like hr girl) is just rare and smashing. speaking of hr girl, i need to meet up with her soon. i haven't seen her in like over a year and a half. i miss her. and somebody else who i haven't seen in over a year is mallory; we're supposed to meet up this sunday for dim sum, and i'm excited to catch up with her.
man, this is going to be a long week. it's only tuesday.
yesterday, after coming back from the dog beach, alan and ting fed their dog rylie dinner. a few minutes later, i heard this weird sound, and rylie had puked up her entire dinner (plus some sea kelp) on the carpet. there was this HUGE mound of regurgitated food sitting there. pretty nasty, actually. poor thing. i held rylie as alan and ting rushed to clean the mess up, and i could feel rylie shivering, and her stomach muscles spasming. i was afraid that she was going to puke on my jeans.
i used to puke a lot. it was sort of a nervous habit. a lot of people hate throwing up, but i actually found it enjoyable. it's sort of cathartic. one time, i yacked my indian food up in the front yard, and the neighbor's dog ate it and tracked it into its owner's house. obviously, the neighbors were not happy about that, and i got a tongue lashing from them. i felt very bad and embarrassed about that.
as much as i enjoyed my own pukage, watching others do it was not fun. a lot of that stemmed from the fact that i used to date a girl with bulimia. it was pretty stressful, because every time she went to the bathroom (especially after a meal) was one of those "ok, is she going to hurl?" moments. i didn't really know how to deal with that. i did catch her in the act a few times, and it was just a bad situation. i mean, obviously she didn't want to keep doing it, but it was out of her control, like a gag reflex or something like that. tough times...
man, i gotta finish my taxes. i promised myself that while my boss was away, i'd find some free time to do it at work one of these afternoons, but i've just been lazy about it. i doesn't help that i owe like $10K, and the thought of having to pay that much isn't very appetizing.
i just ordered a gift for a friend online, and the store is based in alberta, canada. the shipping rates are outrageous! 2-3 day shipping is $41 canadian. i don't know how much exactly that is in US dollars, but it's still pretty steep. i was kinda shocked, actually.
the weather sure has been weird today. it started out beautifully, but then, within a matter of a few hours, has turned cold and rainy. what gives? good thing i wore a hooded sweatshirt instead of the light jacket i was thinking about wearing instead.
ok. that's all i got for today. time to go home.
friday night, i met up with grace, nelson, mikeC, and john at the new mountain view REI. john bought a new $200 sleeping bag in preparation for his big week-long road trip with nelson and company to death valley and the grand canyon. afterwards, we went to fiesta del mar on castro for some mexican food goodness. both john and i got the deep-fried chimichanga. ah, deep-fried burrito.
saturday, i slept until 1:30, got some jack in the box, and watched both elite eight games. i was rooting for memphis against ohio state, but they lost, and i was rooting for ucla against kansas, and they won. after that, i met up with jimmy and mikeC at the cheap korean place on bowers and el camino. i call it cheap because their prices for lunch are pretty reasonable ($5.99), but for dinner, it wasn't so cheap ($14.99 for meat dishes which you grill yourself).
afterwards, we went around the corner to AMF moonlite lanes to mikeT's birthday bowl-a-rama birthday party. i didn't really know anybody, so i just hung out and watched people bowl. i didn't bowl because of my bad back, but i was surprised that their bar had jameson, so i got one and sipped my whiskey. paul and leeya made a surprise showing, so i was glad they stopped by.
sunday, i met up with grace, mikeC, ann and newton at dynasty for some lazy dim sum. i say lazy because we were there for two hours. afterwards, i went home and caught the end of the oregon/florida game. too bad oregon lost; i was rooting for them, as i root for all pac-10 teams. and then, i watched part of the UNC/georgetown game before heading off to alan and ting's place. we drove to santa cruz to the dog beach to give rylie some exercise.
after coming back, we watched some tv (more basketball, but NBA this time, nuggets vs. cavaliers) before heading to sneha (now called grand indian buffet) for some tasty indian food. i especially liked the green chili dish, which was very spicy.
and that was it to my weekend. lots of basketball, i know, but i'm trying to soak in all the college basketball i can before the season ends.
man, we went to dim sum today, and i had just one leek dumpling, and i'm burping it up as i type this. leeks are powerful! i love them. it was hella greasy, though; one bite, and i had to drink a whole mouthful of water to wash it down.
so a couple people from the bowling gang are going on this week-long camping road trip starting tomorrow. i hope they have fun and come back safely. and that also means that there will be less people that i know at mikeT's bowl-a-rama birthday party tomorrow. i'm sort of nervous about the event, because there aren't many people that i know who will be there. i don't think i can bowl, because my lower back is killing me. i guess i'll just hang out and try to mingle.
so my sandisk stock is going nicely. i bought in at $37, and it's around $43-44 today. the question is when to sell (isn't that always the question?). i'm hoping for $50-$60, but of course, i'm a greedy bastard, so i might even wait for it to go higher. when i have time, i'll just go look at its historical chart and see where the highs have been, and make a judgment call. go sandisk!
i don't have anything planned for the weekend. nelson, my main saturday lunch buddy, is one of the people who's going on the road trip, so i think i'm going to miss him. and alan's saturday is all booked because it's going geocaching with his search and rescue team. i might just stay in saturday afternoon and see if there's any good elite eight tournament games to watch. i'll definitely try to catch the ucla game at 4pm.
so during the massage yesterday, i told the lady to work on my lower back. man, it really hurt when she rubbed that area. i'm not sure what i'm supposed to do. she gave me some medicated patches to put on my back, but that just alleviates the pain, right? i wonder what the hell happened. am i just getting old? i don't recall doing anything that would be strenuous on the back. hm. now i think i really should make an appointment to see my chiropractor.
last night, i had a dream about my first academic decathlon team (i did it both years in high school). it was a really nostalgic dream, and when i woke up, i got really sad that it ended. i fell in love for the first time with one of the members on my team, a girl named amie (pronounced AH-mee). she was the only blonde girl that i ever liked. we never went out or anything (she was a flirt, though), but she was the first girl that ever held my hand and kissed me on the cheek. ah, the emotions!
i also had a recurring college dream where classes had started, and i forgot to pick up a schedule, so i didn't know where my classes were. i can't count the number of times where i've had that stressful dream. this time, i was roommates with jeremy, and mcdonald's provided breakfast for us. so i gave jeremy a bacon and egg biscuit and a half-eaten hash brown. funny, dreams are.
ok, well, that's that. it's 5pm, and i wanna get out of here. have a great weekend, folks!
i finally, FINALLY, had a good shooting game during basketball. i must have made like seven or so jumpers, although i did blow a point blank bunny layup. it felt good, although my lower back has been killing me for the past few days. it hurts to bend over, and i feel like an old fogie. but still, i shot about 50% from the field today, and that felt really sweet. :) let's hope i can keep it up.
so this ashley ferl girl (the one who was bawling on _american idol_) is getting a lot of press. apparently, she was just crying because she was so happy and excited. hm. i've never had tears of joy before. what does that feel like?
so i spoke too soon about not having diarrhea. after basketball, i had a cigarette, and that turned on a faucet from my sphincter. i rushed to the bathroom, and all this brown water flowed from my ass. sigh. isn't diarrhea bad for you? doesn't it mean that your body can't hold on to water, making you dehydrated?
i'm getting my usual every-other-thursday massage today. hopefully she can make my lower back feel better. if this persists, i might have to make an appointment with my chiropractor, who i haven't seen in well over a year. i don't feel like facing him, because he's going to bug me about that carb-free diet that he was convinced would cure my tourette's. i hate it when people make me feel guilty or pressured.
i pluck my nosehair. i'm sure you all know that already. i've been lucky, because i've never had an ingrown nosehair. how would i deal with that? it's not like i can squeeze it out from inside my nostrils. that would be a pretty tricky problem to deal with, huh? but yeah, plucking hurts, and i get this sort of masochistic rush out of it. sometimes it hurts so much that i start to tear up, haha. but yeah, i've gotten some pretty long ones out before. and they're *thick*, too!
man, i have a headache. i get one every time i play basketball. i'm not sure if it's just dehydration, but i do drink a bottle of gatorade after the games. hm. anyways, i just took some tylenol, so i hope that helps.
so march madness begins again tonight. i'm rooting for all pac-10 teams, and there are three of them in the sweet 16 (ucla, oregon, and usc). all of them have tough games, but then again, all the teams in the sweet 16 are pretty good to have made it this far. this season's tournament has been pretty blah so far, though; there haven't been any big upsets, and there aren't any double digit seeds left in the big dance at this stage.
hello peeps. don't have much to say today. did anyone watch last night's american idol? what was up with ashley, the crying girl? for those of you who didn't watch, there was this little girl in the audience who was sobbing throughout the entire show. it was really weird. as for the best performance, i gotta hand it to blake. he's just cool. i also liked melinda's song; it was from the 60's movie _oliver!_. it's my favorite musical movie, and i must've seen it 5-6 times growing up.
for lunch, four of us went to milpitas, chez mayflower. i had the scrambled egg with beef over rice, my favorite cantonese dish. it was really odd, though, because it tasted sweet. did they add sugar? *ponder* either way, i didn't like it because of that, and it kind of ruined my meal.
one of my coworkers here used to be in a rock band. he used to sing and play the keyboard. i think that's pretty cool. i wonder how he made the transition from that to being and engineer.
when i go out for a smoke, i usually sit on this high ledge. today, when my butt his the ledge, i felt this itch through my jeans. so i stuck my hand down my pants, and there it was: a big zit on my right ass cheek! ick. i just squeezed it, and it popped. hehe. i love popping zits. i haven't gotten an ass zit in a while.
so i heard on espn this other day that some coach was at the dentist for some routine checkup, and they found a cancerous lymphoma in his mouth. so now he has to go through chemotherapy. cancer freaks me out, especially since i smoke. man, i gotta quit someday, and someday soon. i heard that one of my ex's quit smoking when she got pregnant; i wonder how hard it was for her to quit. (fyi, i was the one who taught her how to smoke.) and by the way, she's moving back here to the bay area. i wonder if i'll bump into her one of these days.
does anyone out there eat frosted mini-wheats? i'm about 2/3 done with my box, but the rest is like mini-wheat dust. it's all crushed up and not edible, unless i want to eat hard carpet fuzz. are all the boxes like that, or did i buy one that was at the bottom of the pile or something? very disappointing.
ok, now i'm really out of words. talk to you guys later.
well, as i've been told by two of my iranian coworkers, today is the persian new year's eve. so happy new year! fyi, the persian new year coincides with the vernal equinox, i.e the first day of spring. the spring weather has been great of late, although today, it rained.
i had a dream this morning that someone broke into my house. everything was in shambles, and i was greatly traumatized. i woke up feeling very stressed out; sigh, nothing like bad dreams to make for unrestful sleep.
so the stanford women suffered a shocking loss last night to florida state. they were up at halftime, but just played very tight. for example, they only made half their free throws, and were 0-9 from 3-point range in the first half. very sad. it was touching to see senior brooke smith crying at the end, as this was her last game in a cardinal uniform. :(
man, i am not looking forward to another two hours of AI tonight. this season's talent level is way down, and i read an article on MSNBC that ratings are dropping. even so, the article stated that they've extended AI through season 9 (they're on 6 right now). i miss last season, where taylor hicks was fun to watch, and katharine mcphee was nice to look at.
for the first time in a long while, i didn't have a liquidy dump today. i just had soft shit. not sure why.
last night, mikeT called me up for dinner, and we tried out this new mexican place, grullense (sp?), on castro street. it was ok. i got this huge carnitas quesadilla. it was so-so (not enough cheese), but mike said that his burrito was very good. i saw that they had wet burritos on the menu, so maybe i'll try that the next time i go there. i doubt it can be as good as los charros, though, but we'll see.
i really want to see _TMNT_. i'm sort of skeptical, though, not because it's animated, but because it's rated PG, and all the ads say it's a good "family film." i want to see a darker, more violent version of the turtles, with lots of good fighting action, and the movie's not going to deliver that.
i woke up today with a really painful/stiff neck. it hurt to turn it, which was a shame because i was gonna play basketball today. i must have slept on it funny or something. hopefully it gets better tomorrow, or else i'm going to ask my masseuse to work on it when i get a massage on thursday. ouchie!
okie dokie. that's it for today. have a good one folks!
hm. so for the past five days or so, i've been waking up to a sore throat. but as the day passes, the soreness goes away. i wonder what's going on. maybe it's dryness when i sleep? hm. *ponder*
for lunch, A and i went to sunny v cafe on lawrence and sandia. i hadn't had japanese curry in a while, so i ordered the chicken katsu curry. don't get it. the katsu pieces were way too salty, and i had to wash it down with lots of water and rice. it was disappointing. but poor A; his gout was acting up again, and he had to wear a boot on his right foot because his joint was in pain. gout sounds like a nasty thing to deal with.
so good news! espn reported today that brook lopez, one of the twin 7-foot lopez brothers, is staying at stanford. so it looks like our core players (including our starting five) are coming back for another season. hopefully they'll grow and mature, and we'll do better next year. i'm looking forward to '07-08 already. in the meantime, tonight, the stanford women play in the round of 32 at maples pavilion. let's hope they make a good run in the tournament. go cardinal!
so after over a year of trying to contact her (that includes phone calls, e-mails, and even dropping by her house), i finally got in touch with mallory this weekend. apparently, she says she's just been very busy. anyways, i'm relieved to know that she's still alive, because i had been fearing that worst, i.e. something bad happened to her. but like i said, i'm just happy to know that she's ok, and i hope to catch up with her someday soon. still, i just think it's weird that she didn't respond after all of my previous attempts to get in touch with her.
i've sometimes wondered how people would know if i died in my house. i mean, i don't get calls that often, and even if i did (and i didn't answer), i doubt my friends would actually come to my house and break down the door to check up on me. how long would it take them to do that? months? maybe i should make a pact with alan to call me once a week and tell him to call the cops or something if i don't answer after like 3 weeks or so. and what about all my money accounts and bills and stuff? hm. there's a lot of loose ends to tie up once someone dies. such a messy process! maybe i should have a sealed envelope with all my passwords and stuff, and people can open it upon my death.
ok, sorry to end this entry on such a morbid note, but that's all i got for today. bye!
so friday night, mikeC, nelson and i went to bay meadows for some live horse racing action. they had $1 admission and hot dogs and beer. i got two hot dogs, but i should have gotten three, since they were so cheap. i hadn't had a hot dog in years, and they were delicious. i thought the racing was a bit boring, though, but then again, i didn't bet, as that would have made it a little more interesting. mike bet $10 on horse #4 (he chose it based on its name), and although it had the lead in the beginning, it came in second to last.
saturday, paul, leeya, nelson and i had lunch at pho kim long. i chose the place, since i was craving their #24 (dry noodle with stir-fried veggies and beef). that dish is very good. afterwards, we got some tapioca and headed back to paul's place to watch some tv. i caught the tail end of the stanford women's basketball game, and they whooped up on idaho state by like 30+ points. afterwards, i went home and took a short nap.
for dinner, 8 of us went to krung thai (the old one, south of 280 on winchester), and even though i got my favorite jun pad poo, the dinner was very unsatisfying. the portions were really tiny, especially the basil chicken and pad see ew. very disappointing. afterwards, we headed back to greg's place, where the girls played sudoku and the guys played command and conquer. it was st. patrick's day, so it was only fitting that i have some irish whiskey (jameson). i felt a little woozy, so after watching a bit of the guys play their game, i went home and called it a night.
sunday, we went to los gatos cafe and ate these gigantic omelets. they were so big that none of us were hungy by the time dinner rolled around. after lunch, we hit costco for an errand run. man, costco is a zoo on weekends. paul bought his dog spike a gigantic bed. they carry all this random stuff now (i hadn't been inside a costco in over a year), including a $60,000+ steinway grand piano.
afterwards, i went home, watched some sports, and headed over to jump sky high to watch some friends bounce on trampolines for an hour. i didn't do it myself (i thought i'd get bored), and later on, paul and i went to my company to get some drinks for the people who did jump. afterwards, they went to sweet tomatoes (one of my most hated restaurants, alongside fresh choice, which is practically the equivalent), so i just went home and didn't eat dinner.
hey folks. just a quick heads up before i go home early today. i've been feeling a little sluggish these past two days, and my throat's feeling a bit funny. gonna go home and rest after i write this up. an added bonus, though, is that i get to watch some basketball games.
i'm still bummed out about stanford getting thrashed yesterday, but i did get to see the final three minutes of the duke/vcu game last night. duke lost by two points, and it's always fun to see them lose. i hate duke, so seeing them lose is always a good thing, hehe.
today's free lunch had an irish theme to it, seeing how st. patrick's day is tomorrow. there was corned beef and cabbage, and potatoes everywhere. it brought back memories of when my dad used to get corned beef cold cuts at the local supermarket. that, and pastrami and swiss cheese. i did enjoy the beef stew today, though, so the free lunch wasn't as abysmal as it has been in the past.
so after i rest up this afternoon, i hope i'm in good enough shape to head out to bay meadows with some of the bowling gang tonight. horse racing! i've never been out there before, but it's $1 hot dogs and drinks day, so that'll be a cheap night. i don't understand the terminology of horse race betting, like "place" and "show" or whatever those terms and numbers are. i thought you just bet on a horse and hope it wins. anyways, we'll see how it turns out.
i had a stressful dream this morning, in which i had to write a term paper about irish coinage. what's neat is that it was the exact same topic that i had to write about my freshman year in college. who knew that i could write a 7-page paper about coins in ireland in the 1800's or so? but in the dream, i went to the library, and someone had checked out all the books on the topic, so i was royally fucked. luckily, i woke up in the middle of the dream and was able to get out of it, so the stress didn't last too long.
ok, that's all i got for today. gonna hydrate up, have a smoke, and go home. have a GREAT weekend folks!
man, it's been a bad 24 hours of sports for me. last night, my mavericks lost by 2 points in double overtime to the suns. if dirk nowitzki had made both his free throws with like 15 seconds left in regulation, the mavs would have won the game. but instead, he clanked his first one, and made the second, putting his team up by only 3. then, steve nash made a clutch 3-pointer to tie the game with a few seconds left to send the game into overtime. sigh.
then, this morning, i got up at 9:30 to watch stanford get completely destroyed by louisville. they were down 26 points at halftime, and lost the game by 20. man, that was completely disheartening. they didn't deserve to be in the tournament, it seemed. what a sad way to end the season. but i gotta hand it to the louisville cardinals, they played a great game with awesome defense, and their full court press really rattled stanford early on. so now i'm just rooting for the other pac-10 teams to do well.
speaking of basketball, i took my coworker M to play today. his wife is on maternity leave, so he's freed up from his lunch duties with her for the next few weeks. he did pretty decently, and he scored more points than i did. i was dead tired afterwards, and now i have this nagging headache. i woke up with a funny feeling in my throat, so i hope i'm not getting sick. *fingers crossed*
i had this one dream last night that i had to identify this liquid chemical. (it was purple.) ah, it harkened back to my days of organic chemistry lab. i had to do this back in college. i've forgotten all the terminology, but we had to run tests, look at printouts of the results, and do lookups in these big thick books. luckily, i was able to identify mine. this was back when i was pre-med. yup, i had aspirations of being a doctor, but they were short-lived. i did take all my organic chemistry, but i was never able to fit my bio core classes with all my EE requirements. looking back, i wouldn't have cut it as a doctor; the lifestyle is too hard for my fragile mind and body. plus, i'm very squeamish, and i don't think i would have made it through gross anatomy.
man, i just had the longest liquid dump. i must have been pissing out of my ass for like a good 30 seconds straight or something! there was very little "matter" in the dump; it was all yellow liquid when i looked back. must have been all the gatorade i drank today.
you know what i think is completely unsanitary? a girl giving a guy a blowjob after he's had anal sex with her. i mean, in order to make that safe, does the girl need to get an enema or something? you know, wash out all the bacteria and nasties out of her anal tract? *ponder*
ok, i've completely hit a wall here. i have a nasty headache (tylenol does not seem to be be working), i'm bummed out about stanford losing, and it's time for a smoke. i'm out.
hey peeps. i finally picked up my car today. $1060.75 for a new alternator, new front and rear brakes, new brake light bulb, and an oil change and checkup. cars can be expensive to maintain, i guess. but i'm glad my car is back and functioning. i had been driving a loaner civic for the past two days, and i have to say, having a V6 is so much nicer.
so tomorrow's the big game! 11 seed stanford is playing 6 seed louisville in kentucky, 45 minutes from louisville's campus. it's going to be like a home game for our opponent, so i'm really nervous. tip-off is at 9:40am pacific time, so i'm going to set my alarm and get up early to watch.
there's also another big basketball game tonight. the phoenix suns are playing my mavericks tonight. they are arguably the two best teams in the NBA, so it'll be a good matchup. go mavs!
sometimes i wonder what my life would be like if i didn't care about sports. i'd definitely watch a lot less tv, that's for sure. i know that these sporting events don't really make much of a difference in my life, but i dunno; life's just a lot more fun when i care about who wins and who loses. it adds passion in my life, i guess. in the summertime, when all the teams i care about have their seasons end, i notice a big drop in excitement in my life.
so my coworker J is flying home to vancouver to get lasik eye surgery. apparently it's cheaper there or something. anyways, for those of you who have gotten it done, what's been your experience? i've heard differing opinions. some have said that it's pretty easy breezy, but i've also been told that it's very uncomfortable. anyways, i hope the surgery goes well for him. i don't think i'd ever get it myself, though. i just don't think it's right to fuck with one's corneas, and since it's still a relatively new procedures, i'd like to see more long-term studies on it.
re: asian girls not having booty. hey, i'm not looking for jlo booty here. i'm just looking for some decent ass. and that definitely exists among asian girls. hehe. i mean, i wish i could have taken a side profile pic of that girl in fantasia. she had almost ZERO ass! it was borderline disturbing. i wonder if it hurt her to sit down because she was all bone and no padding.
ever since the company started carrying dr pepper, i've doubled my daily soda consumption. it's still not much, though (from one can to two cans a day). i have noticed that not many people are drinking dr pepper, so i hope they don't take it away from me. i LOVE my dp! i am, after all, from dallas, headquarters of the soft drink.
i think the talent level of this season's AI is way down. the only good standout singers are melinda and lakisha. i had always wondered what would happen if the singers forgot their words, and what do you know... it happened to three people last night! hehe. so embarrassing. anyways, i think brandon or haley might go tonight. and of course, sanjaya is always a target. i really don't know what the judges saw in him.
ok, off for a smoke. take it easy!
so, as you know, i was totally stressed out about my car. i smoked like 14 cigarettes last night. i was worried that i'd have problems getting my car to the dealership's repair shop. my appointment was at 9am, but i set my alarm for 7:30, just in case i had to call AAA to tow my car there. but what do you know, my car started up fine, and i was able to drive it there with no problems. i told them to leave the car running as i was talking to the service person, but then, they accidentally turned the car off, and the car wasn't able to be restarted. luckily, i busted out mikeC's portable battery that i borrowed, and that thing worked out beautifully. so all in all, they have to replace the alternator, the battery, the brakes, the brake light, get an oil change, all for around $1100. man, cars are expensive to maintain. but, because of my loyalty to the dealership, they gave me a rental, so i don't have to bum any rides of anybody. :)
so i got to work before 9am today. man, the office was empty. i logged on AIM, and there were only 3 people on. it was kind of cool, because i got to see my friends log on one at a time, and i could tell who got to work at what time.
anyways, so i hope the car problems are over with. all that stress. i definitely take my car's health for granted. it's amazing that all those wires, pipes, powertrain components, etc. can work together seamlessly for so long over so many miles without breaking down. pretty remarkable, if you ask me.
so tonight's two hours of _american idol_. man, sanjaya really needs to go. he's already guaranteed a song on the next AI cd. who would listen to that? i mean, i like him as a person, but he's just a weak singer and performer. i know that he's the guy on votefortheworst.com, and i bet that's making a big difference in how many votes he pulls in. but seriously, he's GOT to get voted off. i read somewhere that simon said he'd quit if sanjaya wins the whole thing. ha!
one night after my mavericks handed the lakers their worst loss in franchise history, they get destroyed by the golden state warriors and get their 17-win streak snapped. man. that was bad. the warriors totally own the mavericks this season, and i can't explain why. oh well. time for a new streak!
over the years, i've come to appreciate the ass. i was reminded of that yesterday, when C and i went to cupertino village for lunch. after eating at southland, we stopped by fantasia for some pearl drinks. i decided not to get anything, so i took a seat near the line. i looked at one girl who was standing there, and i got a good view at her side profile. she had no ass whatsoever. i mean, the lines from the front of her legs and the rear of her legs going up looked almost parallel! it was a really big turn-off. and right then and there, i realized that i must have booty. you know, something to munch on. :)
i think my love for macaroons has faded. i used to adore macaroons. i was walking by a coworker's cube, and i noticed he had a huge tray of them. he wasn't around, so i just opened up the tray and took one. i took a bite, and it didn't give me the joy that i used to get. oh well. the peak of my adoration for macaroons was when i got one at max's opera cafe in stanford shopping center, way back in 1994. they were huge, dense, and rich of coconut-y flavor. delicious!
ok, well, i've been at work for long enough today. i think i'm going to go home soon. have a good one folks!
hello peeps. i'm nervous about my car; i hope i can start it tomorrow and drive it to the dealership without any problems. sigh. with it being dead, i've realized how much i take a properly-functioning car for granted. we americans depend on automobiles so much, and it takes a dead one to recognize that.
i'm impressed with nelson, though. he's been pretty good about taking public transportation to work. i don't think the bay area's system is very good, since things are so spread out here. but yesterday, after our late lunch, we walked on over to the mountain view light rail/caltrain station to check out the times and stuff. he's changing jobs, and he's looking into ways to get from his house to the office without driving.
i'm still flying high about stanford getting into the tournament. my project lead (who's just as big of a stanford loyal as i am) and i shared some smiles and cheers this morning. i think even he is going to take some time off thursday morning to watch the game. tip off is at 9:40am, and i am going to stay home to catch it on CBS. go cardinal! march madness rocks. fyi, even if stanford loses, i still root for all other pac-10 teams, so the tournament is still exciting for me. and this year, the pac-10 got six teams into the big dance.
silly J. he was supposed to give me a ride to work at 10am this morning, but he set his alarm for 10 *pm* instead. so i was sitting at home, watching espn, and 10:20 rolled around. i called him up, and he was still sleeping! haha. so we eventually got into work at 11.
so tonight, there is absolutely no new tv to watch. _how i met your mother_ isn't on, and _the class_'s season is over. hm. there is the nba game between my mavericks and the warriors, so maybe i can watch that. man, the mavericks are really doing well this season. let's hope that they can translate their regular season excellence to success in the postseason. anything less than a championship this season would be a disappointment, although getting past the spurs and the suns is going to be really difficult. i hope those two teams meet in the playoffs and beat up on each other instead. and yes, i'm still a bit bitter about us losing to the heat in the finals last year; we were so close to having a 3-0 lead in the series.
my second dump today was pure liquid. it was like a fire hose gushing out of my ass. black water. ick. what's really dangerous is that in the mornings, i'm able to fart when i'm in bed. but once i get up and sit on the toilet, my diarrhea dumps come out. i'm amazed that i don't have "accidents" when i do those morning farts.
because of my car troubles, i couldn't see my dad at the airport yesterday. i was really bummed out about that. pretty sad, actually. i really wanted to see him and have a smoke with him. ah, the father/son cigarette bonding sessions, like the ones we had in LA over winter break. oh well. the next time he comes to the states, i'm going to ask him to stay in the bay area for a day.
ok. time for another cigarette break. have a good one, folks!
friday night, i went to adam and rae's birthday dinner at korea house. it's was adam's birthday, and rae's birthday was the following day. cool coincidence, no? eric was there, and it was great seeing him again. remember that i said that i was nervous about seeing him, but things were very cool between us, so that was all good. afterwards, i drove to milpitas to meet up with some of the bowling gang. they had dinner at mayflower, but since i already ate, i just went for the company.
saturday, nelson and i went to la bamba for some mexican food. i got the quesadilla, with the regular cheese. i remembered how ordering extra cheese made me feel sick. afterewards, we went over to mikeC's place and watched some episodes of the colbert report before heading on over to AMC mercado to watch _300_. i thought the movie was OK. it was violent, but it was the same old stuff: spearing and beheading. there were some movie boobs, and i appreciated that. but overall, i give it a lukewarm review.
then came the car trouble. my battery light came on on the drive over to mikeC's place, so i thought that my car battery was dead. nelson and i drove my car over to autozone, and they tested my battery. it came out fine, but then they tested my alternator, and that turned out to be the apparent problem. bad news. so i drove nelson home, and it was dark, so i had to turn on my headlights. uh oh. i barely made it home before my battery died (like, my dashboard lights dimmed, my headlights almost died, and my window could barely roll all the way up). shit.
anyways, after i got home, all freaked out about my car, paul, leeya and nelson came by my house and picked me up (which never happens, since i always drive to their places), and we had dinner at southland. afterwards, we got tapioca (except they ran out of balls) at ten ren, and i called it a night, while they held a lan party at nelson's place.
sunday, i woke up at 1pm (adjusted for daylight savings), and i watched part of the kansas/texas game. i was rooting for texas (mainly for kevin durant, the freshman phenom), but they lost in overtime. nelson came by and picked me up, and i got my meds at safeway before having lunch with him at ohana. i got the kalua pork, which was just like carnitas, which i found to be too salty.
after he dropped me off at home, i anxiously checked the NCAA men's tourney bracket on espn.com. WE MADE IT! yup. stanford was one of the very last teams to get into the big dance, and we were by far the worst team to get picked. *PHEW* i was so happy, i pumped my fist in the air and jumped around. i spent the next hour or two watching the bracketology special on espn, beaming and excited. i spent the rest of the night all charged up, and i watched my dallas mavericks hand the LA lakers their worst loss ever, haha. and then i just called it a night.
overall, a decent weekend, but the car trouble is making me very nervous. i'm taking my car into the dealership tomorrow (i got a ride to the office from a coworker today), and i am praying that i can get my car there without any problems. *fingers crossed*
so for lunch, J and i went to nami nami on castro. it was my suggestion, since i had never gone there before. i got the tonkatsu, and it was pretty good. even though it was a deep-fried pork cutlet, it wasn't too greasy. i'm curious to go there for dinner, where the menu changes into small plates of stuff.
we got our bonuses today. i was pretty disappointed. word is that the company is being pretty stingy, and my bonus was just over half of what i got the last time. i guess i shouldn't complain about free money, but still...
so antonella barba got booted off AI last night. that wasn't surprising. but sabrina sloan? that was a shocker, considering that haley didn't sing well. and the show said goodbye to sundance head, which was also sort of a surprise. man, sanjaya must have a guardian angel up on high to have made it this far.
but the big news of the day was stanford's overtime loss to USC. espn now has us out of the tournament, and i am *extremely* worried about the team. i'm actually jittery and stuff. it's going to be a nervous two days before selection sunday, and i'm hoping for all the right teams to lose and all the right teams to win to give us the best shot for making the ncaa's. if only anthony goods had made at least one of those two free throws near the end of regulation. but i gotta hand it to usc's nick young, who made that clutch basket to tie it. that was definitely a tough shot.
remember the war dream i talked about the other day? i just remembered a small detail about it. i was in a faction, like a team or something. and team was called "jewish burger." weird, huh? and this morning, i had a dream that i was in a car that adam was driving. and in the backseat were two girls, one of whom i've only met once. and what was odd was that her left ear was falling off. yup. oh, and by the way, today is adam's birthday. so happy bday, adam!
i'm going to adam's birthday dinner tonight. it's at korea house. i'm kind of nervous, because eric is going to be there. i haven't talked to him in years, and even though we used to be better friends, we're sort of grown apart. he's even delisted me on his links. so i hope things won't be weird between us. *crossed fingers*
i really want to see _300_ this weekend. i've heard that it's superviolent, so i'm sort of concerned. i used to love violent movies when i was younger, but i've become really squeamish. i think it all happened when i saw _saving private ryan_. that movie's realistic and gory violence totally traumatized me. so now i'm a total wuss. actually, gun violence is still ok with me, but it's harder for me to stomach knives, decapitations, guts spilling out, and that kind of stuff.
so we finally got dr pepper in the office. when i first sent out the request, the guy wrote back, "how would you respond?", which i didn't understand. was he being rude? so i wrote back, and told him that if it was too much trouble, then forget about it. but then, a few days later, i notice that costco had delivered all these drinks, and one of them was dr pepper! so i was happy. i need to thank the guy the next time i see him.
ok. i know this is an early post time, but i want to leave work early. it's friday! be happy! have a good weekend folks!
so it's pac-10 tournament craziness. arizona got blown out by oregon, and i've got the gamecast on espn.com on for the cal/ucla game. what a comeback by ucla! i was sort of hoping cal would win so stanford would have a chance to win the whole thing. we'll see tonight, though; it'll be a tough game for stanford to win against usc.
i played basketball again today. man, i suck. i've got a bad case of the butterfingers, and everyone knows it. when i get the ball, i start panicking when people try to strip it from me, and yup, i lost the ball the few times when i had it and the opposition stormed me. oh well. i did make a basket or two, though. it was good exercise.
i'm getting my usual every-other-thursday massage today, and i'm looking forward to it. after that, i'm going home, eating my usual bowl of cereal, and settling down to watch the stanford game. very exciting stuff, hehe. yeah, my life is all about routines. i'm so boring.
yeah, blogbarnacle, the yogurt green tea from tap-ex is like the yogloo drink. that's why i like it. i love yogloo (and related drinks like calpico), so that's why i get it. although, different tap-ex's make it differently. like, the one on montague/capitol has less flavor, and the one off castro in mountain view is much better. i give thanks to mike for recommending it to me.
i had a dream last night that i was preparing for war, and i was about to go fight. and the thought that i was either to going to end someone's life or have my own ended was very scary. i woke up, and i tried to shake off the dream, but i went back into it. very unsettling stuff. i had another cool dream later on about my friend emi, but i've forgotten what it was about. i should document my dreams better. alan and ting gave me an electronic voice recorder for my birthday a few years back. maybe i should put it next to my pillow so i can record my dreams right after i wake up.
did anybody watch _the wedding bells_ last night after AI? i didn't, but it's the brand new show by david e. kelley, and i was wondering if it was any good. i loved kelley's _ally mcbeal_, but my friend william was saying that his specialty is lawyer shows. i don't think this new one is about lawyers at all, but rather about three women who are wedding planners.
so yeah, AI is going to cut down to its final 12 tonight. among the girls, i think haley's going to go. and i really hope antonella gets cut. i do admire the fact that she's holding up after all the controversy (i.e. scandalous pictures) she's been getting, but honestly, she just doesn't sing as well as the other girls. she doesn't deserve to make it to the finals. as for the guys, the only one i really like is chris sligh, although i probably wouldn't buy his cd if he recorded one.
ok, that's it for me today. off to check the score of the ucla/cal game. it's in overtime!
so there was no one around for lunch today, so i ventured on over to jack in the box and tried their new sirloin steak and mushroom ciabatta. it was pretty tasty, but it was too messy. the problem with the loose filling in the middle, coupled with the tough ciabatta bread, was that the stuff kept falling out as the bread got compacted with every bite. i wound up with a ton of stuff on the paper wrapping (which was a smart idea), which i had to lap up after i finished the main sandwich part. but overall, it was an enjoyable meal. fyi, it's not cheap, though, coming in at $5.08 just for the sandwich.
so i bit the bullet today and paid for a discount continuation of my membership on eharmony. it was mainly to talk to this one match that i got back in january. while i was on the site, i looked at some pictures of this other match. wowzers! this one was NOT attractive. i mean, i'm no adonis, but this girl almost made me recoil in horror. but anyways, i decided to fasttrack the other match because eharmony's "guided communication" process is pretty lame. we'll see how this one goes. fyi, the girl did not post up any pictures of herself, and i'm taking that as a bad sign.
sunday morning's gonna hurt. not only do i lose an hour of sleep (thanks ann!), but i'm meeting my dad at the airport at 10am. he's flying through SFO on the way back to taiwan, so i'm meeting him at the airport for like an hour during his layover. i'm looking forward to seeing him, and possibly having another one of those father/son cigarette bonding sessions. :)
my toenails are getting long. i'm going to cut them tonight, if i remember. my big toes' nails are clicking the front edge of my shoes when i walk, and that's never happened to me before. my guess is that it's been like two months since i last clipped them.
so i got some frosted mini-wheats yesterday (the large chunk variety). i tried some for dinner last night, and they weren't as good as i remembered. i think there wasn't enough frosting on them. but anyways, it was still a nice break from the vanilla/almond special k that i've been having for the past month. i think i'm going to start rotating cereal every night, so i don't get sick of any one kind. yes, it's sort of an obvious solution to the problem, but as you readers may well know, obvious things sometimes escape me. hehe.
did you guys know that i used to be lactose intolerant? there was one summer, between my freshman and sophomore years in college, where i didn't have milk those entire three months. when i went back to school, i tried to drink milk again, and it totally gave me the runs. but i stuck with it, and after a few weeks of having painful diarrhea, i became lactose tolerant again. yup, i built it back up. i remember this one time, i got my meal, and i suddenly felt the urge to take a liquidy dump. so i went to the bathroom, sat on the toilet with my tray in my lap, and at my meal while on the crapper. that's a memory i'll never forget.
so tonight's another shaving night. yup, i only shave once a week, every wednesday night. i'm not looking forward to it. every time i shave the area between my lower lip and my chin, it bleeds and stings. ouch! paul recommends i switch from my remington shaver to a braun, but i'm too cheap to buy a new shaver. but yeah, it hurts. and i don't like getting those spots of blood. i don't know why that specific patch of hair gives me problems, though; the rest of my hairy areas are fine.
another hour of american idol tonight. the guys sucked it up last night, let's hope that the girls do better. except, of course, antonella. she always sucks.
so in my free time at work, i did my taxes today. i haven't filed yet, i'm still waiting on a confirmation on how to do my stock options sale correctly, but overall, it looks like i'm going to owe $10K. damn! of course, that means i made a decent amount of money this year, especially because i had a nice ESPP gain this year. but still, that's going to put a dent into my savings.
so last night was the season finale of _the class_. it was mildly interesting, with a surprise hookup at the end. i've watched this show from the very beginning, and even though i don't think it's very good, there have been some decent moments. and you know me: once i start a show, i'll stubbornly follow it until it dies.
so the stanford women won the pac-10 tournament last night. i was pretty nervous; they were playing a very good arizona state squad, and stanford squandered a 19-point lead when ASU cut it to 3 in the final minute. word has it that stanford might play its first two tourney games at maples, and while that would be pretty sweet, i wonder how fair that is, having two "home" games in the NCAA tournament. but regardless, go cardinal!
poor paul. he's sick as a dog. i called him up the other day, and he just sounded awful over the phone. he says that he caught the bug from his CEO, who stupidly went to work. i am a strong believer of the quarantine, i.e. you do NOT go to work when you're sick. that is just wrong. i mean, you get everyone else sick when you do that, and that just wrecks the company's productivity, not to mention ruin some people's days for a while. just go home, get some rest, and come back when you're better, that's what i say.
so they're painting my complex's back patio doors this weekend. what's bad about it is that they take 5-6 hours to dry. so what the hell am i supposed to do? stay home that whole time? or go out and risk someone breaking into my place and stealing my stuff? hm. when they painted my front door, it only took a few hours to dry because the door was in the direct sunlight. but this time, the back door is in the shade underneath all these trees, so no such luck. so i might be confined to the house this saturday. sigh. maybe i'll just sit at home and watch the men's pac-10 tournament or something.
one thing i've noticed with this diarrhea is that my peeing muscles and my shitting muscles are no longer decoupled. what i mean is that i can't control them separately. in the mornings, i try to just pee, but instead, both of the holes open together. it's sort of frustrating. and it would be big trouble if i'm standing at a urinal or something, because then i'd just take a big old diarrhea dump in my pants. eek!
ok, i'm out of steam again. and speaking of peeing, i need to go take a whiz. laters!
greetings peeps. it's been an eventless day, except for the fact that i had lunch with C and J today. they're my "usual" lunch buddies, except that i haven't had lunch with them in 2 full weeks. we went to tofu house, and i had the spicy pork. it was a lot of meat, and i'm still burping up the stuff even now.
at nelson's place, i looked at his class of 1994 senior yearbook. man, all the guys looked so skinny! especially paul, who looked like a skeleton compared to his current self. but anyways, i saw pictures of the bowling gang (mikeT, mikeC, paul, nelson, john, etc.), and i was sort of jealous that they all stayed good friends. me, i keep in touch with like *4* people from high school (kevin, dave, pritam and stephen). but then again, i made my good friends in college, so i'm grateful for that. and of course, i made some new friends again when i met the bowling gang. :)
so one of my friends is thinking about having his in-laws eventually move in him and his wife. the first thought i have about this is: what about sex? i mean, how would you feel about having sex if you know that the parental types are in the very next room? i would be pretty freaked out, especially if the girl is loud. it would be soooo uncomfortable! i mean, maybe if i got a huge house or something, it would be ok, but here in the bay area, it would take a multimillion dollar home to get a large enough place where i would be ok with it.
i had some massive explosive diarrhea this morning. i'm surprised it didn't leak out of my ass when i was sleeping. anyways, it came in two waves, which was sort of frustrating, because at first, i thought i was done, and i was just about to wipe when the second wave hit. when i was done and looked back, the water was completely black. ick. it took three flushes before i finally got all the pieces to go down.
so recently, alan and ting became a nielsen household. yup, now, everything they watch is being monitored. the nielsen people came in and tinkered with their tv's and tivo's and stuff, and now they have this blinky thing on top of their tv, and whenever they watch, they have to log in as either themselves or as a couple. (they also have guest slots!) it's pretty neat, i guess, to represent america as part of the viewing demographic.
so it turns out that my 1,000+ hit day a few sundays ago was a total fluke. i don't know what the hell the planet was doing when it hit my site up, but this blog is not getting anywhere near that number of hits anymore. i was completely shocked the following monday when i saw that spike. hehe. maybe the world was just bored or something when it just started searching for pictures of the perfect ass and a nipply kate beckinsale.
ok, i've completely run out of steam. gonna call it quits. toodles!
friday night, alan and i drove to SJ japantown and had dinner at gombei. i had the gombei chicken, the largest meal i've had in a very long time. i was completely stuffed, and that made the post-meal cigarette very very nice. afterwards, we just went back to his place and watched some tv. i saw the game show _1 vs 100_ for the first time. interesting concept, but i doubt i'll watch it again.
saturday, i got up at noon, grabbed some jack in the box, and watched the heartbreaking loss by stanford to arizona. we were down by as much as 20 points, but we fought all the way back to force overtime by an amazing 3-point bucket with 6 seconds to go. but then, we lost in the extra session. man. espn's bracketology still has us in the tournament as a 10 seed, so i hope they're right.
afterwards, i took a nap, and once again, i had dinner with alan. i was craving a burger, so we went to red robin. alan got a royal red, and i tried the 5-alarm burger, hoping for a spicy treat. unfortunately, although it was laden with jalepeno peppers, it wasn't spicy at all, so i was thoroughly disapppointed. i did enjoy my maker's mark whiskey, and it was only $5! i think i'll get that from now on, instead of the black label there, which is much more expensive. after dinner, we went to blockbuster to rent some movies, and we watched _the marine_, starring WWF wrestler john cena. as expected, it was a bad movie, haha.
sunday, i got up at 9:30 (early!), and i had coffee with jennie. i got my usual hazelnut latte, and we caught up. it was good to see her again, and afterwards, i picked up nelson and headed on over to dynasty for the grand dim sum outing. we were expecting 9 people, but on the drive over, 4 people backed out, which was highly disappointing.
afterwards, geoff, nelson and i met up at nelson's place, and we walked over to starbuck's. once again, i had a hazelnut latte, and then, we checked out a nearby apartment complex for geoff, who was looking for a place to live with his new wife. the place didn't quite suit his needs (he was looking for a place with two bathrooms), so we went back home, watched some tv (including an episode of andy dick's _the assistant_), and played some GTA3. then, mikeC came over, and the two of us hit up thai basil for a quick dinner.
and that was it. i went home, watched some _scrubs_ reruns, and it was time for _sportscenter_ to lull me to sleep. the weather was great on sunday, sunny and warm. it felt like it was finally spring. :)
man, AJ tabaldo got royally screwed on last night's american idol. sanjaya should have definitely got voted off, as should have antonella barba. what the hell is america thinking? jay thinks there is a huge indian american contingency backing sanjaya, and that may well be the case. but anyways, i do like sanjaya, but i just think he is really underperforming. i really like AJ, though; his performance of "feeling good" was pretty cool. and sundance is a softie! he kept crying as the contestants were voted off. who knew.
i'm so glad it's friday. this week sort of crawled by. monday went by fast, because i was debugging this test, but the rest of the week was pretty slow because i didn't have that much to do. like i said, i'm mostly done with my tasks for this upcoming chip's tapeout, so i've been chilling, supporting some stuff here and there.
did you bay area peeps feel the earthquake last night? it happened at 8:40pm, right smack during AJ's farewell performance. they cut away from american idol for a newsbreak, reporting a 4.something quake with its epicenter in lafayette. i felt two big jolts in the house, like someone grabbed the place and shook it violently twice. lucky, that was the extent of it, and nothing cracked or anything.
so it looks like jay and margaret aren't coming back to the bay area when he finishes his facial plastics stint out in alabama/florida. bummer. he did have an option to work in santa rosa, but i think the job out there sucks. it looks like he's leaning towards seattle, arizona, or new york. oh well. it looks like i'll just have to take some trips out there to see him. i miss jay.
last night's episode of _scrubs_ was EXTREMELY disappointing. there was no plot at all; it was simply a amalgamation of random clips from seasons past. it looks like the writers had absolutely no new ideas, and they decided to take a day off and do a rehash episode. BOO ON THAT. i am liking scrubs less and less. if you watch the old episodes, you'll see how brilliant the show used to be. and now? it's just a mere shadow of what it once was.
the other morning, i had another bubbly dump. it was so bubbly that i had shit water all over my ass. when i wiped, i got it all over my left hand (the one i use to wipe), which reeked of turds. it was pretty gross. i am suspecting that my diarrhea is due to my topamax med, and i did a google search of "topamax diarrhea" today. it seems like it's a possible side effect, although it's more prevalent among kids who take the drug, not adults. hm.
so it doesn't look like i'll be able to sleep in this weekend. tomorrow, i'm going to get up (relatively) early to watch the stanford/arizona game. sigh. this is the last game of the regular season, and it just flew by. stanford did decently this year, and i'm proud of our young team. and sunday, i'm getting up even earlier to have coffee with jennie before heading on over to dynasty for dim sum with the bowling gang.
do you guys have recurring dreams? recurring places? i've already talked about recurring dreams like being back in high school or college and stuff like that, but what's also interesting is that there are certain made-up places that keep reappearing in my dreams as well. it's kind of cool that my mind creates these fantasy venues, like bus stops, dorms, buildings, etc.
ok, well, that's it for this week. have a great weekend folks!
i played basketball for over an hour today (from 1:40 to 2:00). we had some good 5-on-5 action today, although the only basket i scored was an undefended layup. had i missed that, i would have gotten a lot of shit from my teammates. what was weird was that i was huffing and puffing in the beginning, but by the third game, things got a lot easier. not breezy, mind you, but i wasn't struggling to breathe anymore.
i have a headache today. i think i may be dehydrated, although i've been drinking lots of fluids. my head feels like it's in a vise. i took some tylenol, but it hasn't totally kicked in yet.
i'm nervous today. stanford's playing an improving arizona state team, and we need this win really badly. should we lose tonight, we'll have a must-win against a tough arizona squad on saturday to make it into the tourney. come on cardinal! don't let me down! the game isn't televised tonight, so i'll have to drag my naked ass down at past 9:00 or so to check the results online.
oh, to the commenter, i don't make $150K a year. not even close. fyi.
i bought some sandisk stock today. it's near its 52-week low, so i just got 100 shares of it. i hope it's a good investment. i asked my friend ben (who works there) if it's a good buy, and he didn't know. we'll see if it's a good decision. i have a lot of cash sitting around, and i should be more proactive in investing it. but instead, i've stuffed half of it in an ING orange account, and the rest is in a checking account, earning zero interest. yeah, it's bad.
earlier today, i picked my nose so hard i got a bloody nose. what's weird is that i don't have long or sharp fingernails. but anyways, i was going at it, and i pulled out my finger, and there was blood everywhere. weird. it didn't hurt or anything, but i was definitely surprised.
you know what movie i really want to see? TMNT. yup. teenage mutant ninja turtles. yeah, i'm a kid. my favorite is michelangelo. "i crave pizza... ONCE AGAIN!" i used to watch the cartoons, and i had the toys. my (younger) brother was even crazier about them. he must have had two dozen TMNT action figures, although he lost all the weapons and accessories. but anyways, i'm sort of embarrassed to say i want to see the movie, and i doubt that anybody would want to see the movie with me when it comes out later this month.
alan's funny. usually, i'm the one who has to call him up to do something, but he just e-mailed me to do something tomorrow night. why? of course, it's because ting's going out of town. ha! i guess when you have a girlfriend (or in his case, a fiance), you have a default partner to do something with. and when that person is gone, that's when you branch out and look for others to hang out with. i guess i'm fine with that, but i definitely miss seeing him more.
i'm getting sick of vanilla/almond special k cereal. i've gone though four boxes of them in the past months, and i'm now looking for another cereal. anybody got suggestions? i want something reasonably healthy, but tasty as well. previously, i've had red berries special k, honey nut cheerios, and crispix.
i had a scary dream last night. i involved guns. guns freak me out. i went to a shooting range with william a few years ago, and i decided that was my first and LAST time. (we shot a beretta 94F.) it was just too much power. it's like holding life and death in your hands. by the way, i was a pretty accurate shooter, though. but yeah, in the dream, my friends and i all had guns, and there was a confrontation, and we busted out our guns and pointed them at each other. i got shot, and in the dream, it felt like a big electric shock. pretty fucking scary.
ok. it's time for that 5pm smoke. cheer up! tomorrow's friday!