so i went to southland again today (the third time in four days), on a quest to find dumplings. the lady told me that they don't serve them, and they only have frozen ones for takeout. fuckers! so we left and ate at A&J. i was so desperate for dumplings that ordered some steamed vegetarian ones, but they tasted nasty, not to mention that they took forever to cook. sigh. i think i'm going to go to e-noodle next time to get my dumpling fix. it's a shame, though, because southland had some tasty ones.
i'm wearing a lot of blue today: buttondown, t-shirt, boxers, shoes, and jeans. i think it's too much. it sort of reminds me of my early college days, where i had color themes and would wear one entire color all over. yeah, i used to dress crazy back then. and i had loud clothes, too. the worst was my yellow outfit. the gap had a primary color phase, and i bought a pair of bright yellow shorts and a matching yellow t-shirt. i used to strut around in that outfit pretending i was the sun. ha! i donated a lot of those clothes to goodwill, and i wonder if anybody was nuts enough to actually pick those up.
not much to report today. although, over the weekend, i think friday night, i had these horrible dreams of decapitations and stuff. also, i dreamt that i was going to be sacrificed and stuff. my dreams got so bad that i actually got out of bed early (like 9:50, even earlier than when i get out of bed on weekdays!). i had no clue what to do that early in the weekend, as i usually just roll out of bed and immediately call people for lunch. so i wound up watching music videos on VH1.
lately, i've been thinking about my past crushes and trying to remember how i got over them. when i get a crush on a girl, i get pretty into her, and it gets bordering obsessive. remember how i used to write their initial into the mirror after i take a steamy shower? anyways, not having the girl just fuels the fire, so i wonder how that fire gets eventually put out. hm. i just don't remember. i think a lot of it had to do with "out of sight, out of mind." like, once i moved away to a different school, or on to a different girl, the emotions just subsided. *shrug*
talking to my mom can get very uncomfortable. saturday night, i skype'd her for about 20 minutes. it was fine and all for a while, but then, she brought up the fact that she wanted me to someday convert to christianity. ugh. i know that my dad and i present a huge burden for her because we're not christian. i'm sure that if i were her, i'd be in the same position, because i'd hate for my beloved ones to be burning in hell and stuff. but still, the conversation with my mom got really aggravating when she started saying that i should go to church and believing in this and that. it was even worse last christmas break, when a friend of hers sat me down and told me to call upon jesus's name. what was i supposed to do? so i just shook my head and hoped she would stop talking.
ok, that's all i got for today. my head hurts.
friday night, i had dinner with paul at southland taste. actually, they remodeled and now call themselves "southland flavor cafe." they have a "grand opening" banner hanging in front, and the place was packed. i was disappointed to find out that they ran out of dumplings, so i got the usual 2nd choice: ground pork over rice, no sour greens.
saturday, i went over to mikeC's place and helped nelson disassemble his roommate jamie's bed frame. she was giving it to nelson for free, as she was getting a new (and expensive) temperpedic bed. i was impressed that the whole frame fit in nelson's audi. i think i'll make sure that my next car will have fold-down backseats so i can move stuff like that. anyways, it took about an hour to disassemble the bed frame and another hour to put it back together.
after that, we met up with mikeT in milpitas to have dinner. we tried going to darda seafood, but that place was completely packed, so we wound up eating at chez mayflower. then, we went over to mike's place and watched _bring it on: all or nothing_. i was getting into it, but then, the dvd broken down, so we missed the last 15-20 minutes or so. damn! i wanted to see the ending! after that, we hooked up nelson's small HD antenna and got mike's tv to receive some hi-def channels before heading home.
sunday, 7 of us met up for dim sum at the usual place, dynasty. afterwards, after going back home, i had such bad food coma that i passed out for 2.5 hours. i putzed around for the rest of the day, watching part of the college world series among other things. for dinner, we went back to southland flavor, and once again, they didn't have dumplings. so i got the beef noodle soup this time, and in introduced paul and leeya to this deep-fried bread with condensed milk (in sih juan). they really liked it, so i showed them where it was on the menu.
anyways, it was an easy-breezy weekend. these are the longest days of the year, and i'm really enjoying all this sunlight, but i'm sad that it's all downhill from here.