i did some good work today. we have this new (or rather, bringing back an old) feature to implement, so i put it in, wrote a test, and verified that it worked. all in one afternoon. *pats himself on the back* yay! so that's the reason why i'm starting this blog entry late. it feels good to be productive.
i did it again. i keep ordering the same dishes at restaurants wherever i go, and i get sick of the stuff. these dishes include ground pork rice, chow kueh teow, dumplings, and now yuk ke jang (sp?). i need more variety in my dining life!
i've overdose on many foods before, and it's usually followed by some sort of nasty bodily function. for example, once i drank almost half a gallon of milk in one sitting, and i spent the rest of the night sitting on the shitter with diarrhea. or that time i ate half a tub of gummy bears and threw up gelatinous chunks in many primary colors. stuff like that.
yesterday, after dinner, we went back to alan's house, and i had to take a dump. i really don't like shitting in other people's houses, because i feel like it's rude to do something so nasty in somebody else's place. but i had to go (my stomach was hurting), so i did the deed. after i was done, i looked back, and it turned out to be the "black sludge" kind of dump. i was really worried that it would leave skidmarks all over his toilet, but luckily, it went down clean. *phew* it was a bubbly dump, too, and alan was just outside the door playing with his dog rylie; i hope he didn't hear all the sounds my ass was making.
1, 14, 23, 25, 36. that's the number of blooms that the flowery plant outside my door has created. in total, that's 99 flowers! and there's still more to come, too. looking at it, there's no way you could tell that this medium-sized shrub would produce over 100 flowers. pretty amazing stuff. i force myself to count the number of blooms every time i step outside and have a smoke. and i count over and over again to make sure. it's really annoying, OCD is. and what's worse is when i miscount, and then my brain goes all wonky and stuff. sigh. compulsions suck.
i'm up to 160 pounds now. (i was previously 152 a few months ago.) i attribute it to eating out for dinner on the weekdays more often. it's not alarming or anything, since i was on the lighter side of 6 foot zero, but i am noticing a slight poodge in my midsection. i think i'll start being concerned if i hit 165. i have noticed that i'm not dropping as much weight overnight when i have my usual light dinners. hm. maybe my metabolism has slowed down for some reason. remember my weight loss bet of a few years ago where i had to give up naked pictures of myself? that was so frustrating; i wouldn't lose weight even when i skipped meals and stuff. i wonder if that girl j still has those prints of my nekkid self. (i made prints so they would be less easily distributed than jpg's.)
man, there's no american idol to watch tonight or tomorrow night. what to do? with these late sunsets, i feel like i should get out there and do stuff. too bad i hate running; it's good weather out there for a nice jog or something. if byron were still in town, i'd ask him to go out for some tennis.
ok, time is nigh for my 5pm smoke. au revoir!
friday night, i hung out with paul, leeya and grace. i stopped by paul's house to find it flooded with flowers of all kinds. (they were testing out altar pieces and centerpieces for the wedding.) for dinner, we went to this vietnamese restaurant in milpitas. originally, this was going to be the site of their rehearsal dinner, but it turns out they weren't willing to seat 40 people. the food was pretty good, as i don't often have vietnamese food that isn't pho or rice plates.
saturday, i got a call to go into work. after spending an hour and a half at the office, nelson, john and i went to lunch. we all had dumplings at southland taste. this was my FOURTH time going there in a week, and my third time having dumplings there. i have to admit, i was getting a little sick of dumplings, and it's ok, because they're closing for a week due to renovations, so i can't go there for a while even if i want to. afterwards, we went back to john's place and watched _army of darkness_, this campy, cheesy movie. the girl in there was sort of familiar and attractive, and i realized that it's because she reminded me of sean young.
for dinner, we met up with mikeC and st. john's, and three out of four of us got the beg for mercy burger. it was too spicy for john and nelson, who had to pull out all the peppers. poor nelson. his nose and forehead started sweating profusely, and nelson started getting a runny nose. haha. after dinner, we met up with paul/leeya and mike/christi at tapioca express and chilled out for a bit before going home.
sunday, the four of us went hiking at portola redwoods state park. we stopped by erik's deli to get sandwiches. don't get the pastrami reuben; it's no good. before we went for the actual hike, i took three dumps in two hours, no doubt due to the spicy burger that i had the night before. it hurt! the hike itself wasn't too bad. the last time i went there, we had to cross the stream in our bare feet, but this time, the water level was low, so we just did it in our shoes on the rocks, so it was ok. i was stressing about it the whole time.
we got back around 7pm, and headed off to andy's bbq (nelson's suggestion) for some meat-tastic food. i got the baby back ribs and the spicy sausage (i never learn, do i?). i also got some maker's mark whiskey, which was sort of nasty. it was only later that i spied some jameson and bushmills underneath the cabinet, so the next time i go there, i'll order that instead. drat.
sunday was sort of a waste. i called up paul, and he was supposed to call me when he was ready for lunch, but he forgot. :( so i wound up getting the sampler trio from jack in the box. it was pretty good (after all, it's all deep-fried food), but the chicken nuggets weren't spicy at all. damn, i like spicy food, huh? i took a two hour nap after that, and putzed around the house for a bit. for dinner, i went to alan's house, and we went to milpitas and ate at ay chung. the food wasn't very good, and we totally should have went elsewhere. after dinner, alan went on a quest to find take-out potstickers, but alas, they were nowhere to be found. i got some pearl milk tea from sweetheart, and i went home after that. sigh. i wish i did more on sunday.