man, i've been in the company's lecture hall all day. we had a video guru give a lecture, from 10-11:30am, and then from 2-4:30pm. amazingly enough, i didn't fall asleep. if this had been college, i would have dozed off for sure. i hate to admit this, but i fell asleep through over 50% of my classes at stanford. i hate to think that my parents paid so much for my tuition, and i wasted all that money.
we went to maruichi for lunch today. i tried the spicy miso ramen for the first time. it was ok, but not as spicy as i would have liked. and being $1 more, i think i'll stick to the kuro or tonkotsu from now on. both D and C got the combo B (three cali rolls and three gyoza), and they couldn't finish it. it's a good deal, but it's just too much food; i stopped getting the combo B a long time ago.
so apparently, there is one more person leaving the company. the manager who's leaving dropped the hint, but he refused to say who it was. what the fuck is happening?! the turnover rate this summer is abnormally high, and i am getting concerned. i hate seeing good people leave, and if it's someone from my team, then i think we're really fucked. we've been hiring, but it's all managers and stuff, not people we really need: engineers. *RAAR*
one of my friend's mom got in a very serious car accident. the car's totalled, and she got hit from the driver's side, and they had to cut her out of the car. luckily, her car had a side airbag, or else she would have been seriously hurt. still, though, she suffered a fractured pelvis. it makes me wonder if i should buy a car with side curtain airbags. hm. this is the second serious car accident among people i know in a week. i almost got in an accident on the way to the wedding; i took my eyes off the road to look at the GPS, and i swerved into the right lane (i was on the windy 17). luckily, there wasn't a car there, or i would have sideswiped it. *phew* i am really fortunate.
i am really nervous for lauren on tonight's _sytycd_ results show. i am almost certain that she's going to get voted off, despite the fact that i voted for her three times last wednesday. oh well, she's too young for me anyways, and she has a boyfriend, too. :) i am thinking about getting tickets for the tour, and i'm sure ting would want to go, too. i'm gonna check out the dates and see if i'll be able to go to the show.
i got an e-mail from the taiko e-mail list that the fruit mangosteen is going to be allowed back in the states. i'm going to look for it. apparently, there has been some theories that mangosteen juice can alleviate tourette's symptoms. i've heard from two sources that it's true. so i'm willing to try it out. i gotta do some research, though, because i have no idea what the hell a mangosteen looks like, or how to eat it.
geoff is a man. i touched his left pectoral muscle at the wedding. i had to. when he told me that he was going to do 50 pushups, i was like, "wow!" i mean, i have other friends who can do that, but still, it was like *nothing* to him. he just got on the floor and did it as if it were one pushup. me? i think i can do like five in my current state. back when i played taiko, i was in the best shape of my life, and i could do like 40 back-to-back. but now, i'm just a skinny-ass wuss. but yeah, back to geoff's pects: they're rock hard and bulging. haha.
anyways, that's it for me today. i'm gonna to find some dr pepper now. ciao!
friday night, i had dinner with ting and alan and ting's dad. they're one phase 1 again (south beach diet), so i recommended andy's bbq so they could eat all meat. man, their whiskey (johnnie walker black) was $7.50! holy shit. ah, my whiskey habit is draining my wallet.
saturday was greg and cheryl's wedding. a few of us grabbed a quick lunch at pho nam before heading back and changing and then meeting up again to carpool. i drove this time, and i tested out my GPS. it told me to take a wrong exit, but i disobeyed jill (the voice of my GPS) and went by the directions on the wedding invitation instead.
the ceremony was beautiful. in the backdrop was the beach and the ocean, and mike's officiant duties were pulled off without a hitch. the great touch in the ceremony was the letters to the parents; i thought it was very heartfelt, and i think i would like to do that in my own wedding. of course, the groom handsome, the bride was beautiful. and leeya! she cut her long hair and appeared with really short hair and a stunning dress. you guys should know by now that i *love* short hair, and i must say, she's hot! :)
i had four whiskey's thoughout the night, and grace and i shared a long island iced tea. greg was pretty drunk by the end of the whole thing, and i've never seen him so happy and tipsy. haha. they put me at a good table where i knew everyone, so the conversation was good throughout the night. oh, and i puked once, but just a teeny bit when i was buzzed. but i was pretty sober by the end of the night, but i did have mikeC drive my car back from aptos to santa clara, and i drove myself back from there.
anyways, it was a great wedding, and i am very happy for greg and cheryl. on their guestbook, i simply wrote, "congrats. remember: sex is good." hehe.
sunday, i wanted to have dim sum, but my partner in crime, grace, wasn't available, so i think we'll do it next week. so instead, paul, mikeC, nelson and i grabbed mexican food at la bamba. ah, super carnitas burrito! i haven't had one in months. afterwards, we went to REI, and i bought my first pair of flip-flops. it cost me $45. they're reefs, and what's really WEIRD about them is that i can store liquids in the heels to drink later on. what an odd feature.
after that, we went back to nelson's place and watched some beach volleyball, and then i went home. i called up adam, and he invited me to some hawaiian-themed bbq at this dude's house. i was a bit hesitant to go, because i didn't know the host or anybody else there, but i decided to carpe diem the whole thing.
and so, i turned out that the host, T, is one of my regular readers on this blog! ha! small fucking world! he actually introduced himself to me a while back at pepper lunch in milpitas. so i was really happy about that. so i hung out, and watched the chargers/seahawks preseason game (adam is from san diego, so of course he was rooting for the chargers), and i chatted a bit and stuff. it was a good time as well.
so that was my weekend. it was really good and well-rounded; i met up with alan and ting, had a great wedding with the bowling gang, and even met some new friends. :)