so yesterday, i left work early to go stake out a table at st. john's. it was nearly empty when i got there (a testament to how early i left the office), but before long, the place was packed with football fans. mikeT joined me pretty soon after i got there, and it was nice to have his company as we watched the game. most of the people were packers fans, judging from the yelling and screaming when good things happened to the yellow and green. poor nelson came later, but somebody stole our third chair, so he left soon thereafter after hanging out in the back by the door.
overall, it was an ok win, but i feel a bit empty about it because favre was knocked out early, and the packers had other key injuries on defense. the thing is, though, he wasn't playing that well, as he only completely 5 passes and threw two interceptions. aaron rodgers actually did admirably, marching the packers down for two touchdown drives. but still, i am relieved that we won; i was pretty nervous until we kicked that last field goal to make a two-possession game with less than two minutes left.
i was sitting in a meeting this morning, and i put my index finger in my left ear. and a big chunk of earwax fell out. cool! it wasn't dark this time; instead, it was a yellowish white. as usual, it was very malleable, so i played with it as my boss talked. i sniffed at it, but since it wasn't from my right ear, it didn't have much of an odor. finally, i just dropped it onto the floor.
i've actually been working hard this afternoon. i've been verifying my C-model against the matlab model that someone else wrote. i made a few fixes here and there, and i thought i got it working, but further in the simulation, the results started diverging, but only for the color green. ARGH. so close, yet so far. ugh.
we had catered italian food today for lunch at the office, and i tried polenta for like the second time. it was really gross. tasteless yellow mush, in fact. what is polenta made off? ground up corn, isn't it? anyways, it's not good.
so i told my boss that i wanted to take an extra three days off from our christmas shutdown. he said that i couldn't. huh? hm. if i really can't take that time off, what the hell is my mom going to do? i think i'm actually going to try really hard to get my shit done early, so i can take those extra days. i mean, it's my mom!
this morning, i had a dream about mallard ducks. male ones. i dreamt that a whole flock of them walked down a sidewalk onto a boat to get slaughtered. grisly, eh? i do like male mallard ducks, though; i find their green heads to be pretty cool.
so i was e-mailing ting about the _so you think you can dance_ tour, and she shattered my ideal vision of it by telling me that lauren and lacey were/are fighting. in fact, apparently lauren pushed lacey against a wall and stuff like that. no way! i googled the incident, and i found some juicy stuff about the stuff going behind the scenes. i guess it's hard for 14 (top 10 + 4 alternates) people to be on tour for like 3 months without getting on each others' nerves. i mean, it's not just the tour; they had to withstand each other during the show as well. oh, and lacey and hok are going out! that's an interesting couple; i would have never guessed that pairing.
i am very itchy right now. i want to get this C-model thing out of the way, but i'm not sure i'll be able to finish debugging it before i leave tonight. i hope it doesn't gnaw on me over the weekend. but i hate unfinished business! argh. when i first started working, i had a very difficult time separating my personal life and my work life. i brought my work life home with me all the time. i would think about it in the shower and while driving, and i would even dream about it. but after a while, i learned how to compartmentalize work, and i think i do a good job of it now. hopefully i'll be able to do that this weekend, but we'll see. it bugs me that during the meeting this morning, my boss told me that i was "the critical path." ARGH.
ok, time for a smoke, and i'm off to tackle some more work before i leave. take it easy, folks!
so i have a new favorite song. it's ne-yo's "make it work." yes, it's the song that dominic and sabra danced to in their slow hip-hop routine on SYTYCD. last night, i bought it on iTunes, and so far, i've listened to it almost 10 times, including 3 youtube views of the dance. i love it. very pretty song, and awesome routine choreographed by shane sparks. dominic rocks, and sabra's a great dancer as well; i am really happy that she won the competition.
basketball was heartbreaking today. we fought back (4 on 4) to make it 10-10 (we were playing to 11), and on our final offensive possession, i had two point-blank shots at the rim, and i missed them both. ugh. and there was no defensive pressure, either! i just flat out choked. afterwards, i just cursed and flopped on the floor, disappointed that i couldn't make the shots.
the gash on my nose isn't healing very well. not only is it at the spot where my glasses go, but in the mornings, i scratch there instinctively when i wake up. i did it twice today in bed. argh.
so my friend P sent me even more links to horrifying sex acts. i told him frankly that i couldn't bear to watch any (after the 2 girls 1 cup incident and the dildo insertion into the penis hole), and that i was going to delete the e-mail and empty the trash immediately afterwards. he also gave me two youtube links to his 19-year-old sister's reactions to two of the videos, and they were quite entertaining. one reaction was to the worst of the bunch, and judging from her horror, i think it's a good thing i am not going to watch the so-called "pain olympics." *shivers*
last night, i hung out with jennie, who i haven't seen in a few months. we had dinner at pasta pomodoro (yay for gemelli!), and then, we shopped around santana row for a bit. she wanted a book recommendation, and i offered a book that i've recommended (and bought) to/for numerous people: _vox_ by nicholson baker. this entire novel is a single phone sex conversation. yes, it sounds very perverted and very me, but i kid you not, this is a very good book. i've read three of baker's works, and even though i liked _vox_ the best, they've all got very insightful looks into the mundane details of life. (hehe, one of his books is outrageous: _the fermata_ is about this guy who can pause time, and when he does, he takes off women's clothes. it was a birthday gift from k1, which was one of the things that made her awesome. :)
i'm writing this blog entry early because i have a meeting (ugh, more features to be added to our chip, and more work for me), and then i'm leaving to stake out a table at st. john's to watch the cowboys/packers game. mikeT is going to join me, and i'm excited about that; i haven't seen him since his wedding months ago! i am very nervous about the game; the packers look very good, and i'm not sure the cowboys' defense can stop the packers' passing attack. hopefully our pass rush can throw brett favre off kilter and force him to make mistakes. *crossed fingers*
so every year, our company does a gift drive for children in need. basically there are a bunch of cards, each one labelled with a kid and what that kid wants for christmas. i'm thinking about donating cash (maybe $50-$100) instead. i know i can put out the effort and actually buy a present, but i'm afraid i'll buy something that's the wrong color or the wrong model or something, and the kid will be disappointed. one of the cards was for a senior citizen who just wanted "cologne." hm. what kind of cologne would you get an old man? that seems like a risky buy. but anyways, i've been in a giving mood all year long, with all the weddings and stanford calling me every few months, so i'm going to give to the kids this christmas as well.
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ok, i just got out of the meeting. *phew* i don't have to do anything! we were discussing this new feature, and we decided to stuff it in some other block in the chip. yay!
anyways, i just had an orgasmic piss. i needed to go during the meeting, but i held it in. i rushed out after it ended, and when i got to the urinal, i felt this familiar expansion of my schlong right before i let out the stream. ahhhh. it felt good to expunge.
ok, i'm going to take off soon. go cowboys!
i witnessed something so horrible i can barely speak of it. yes, it was one of P's 3 links that he sent me a few weeks ago. remember that first link that i couldn't view at work? well, i was browsing some old links (in my history tabs) last night on my iMac at home, and i clicked on this one URL that i didn't recognize. and what i saw made me shiver to my very bones and made my schlong shrivel up in stinging fear.
basically, it was a video of a girl inserting (very forcefully) a pointy dildo into a guy's pisshole. and then, she proceeded to jam it and out violently as the guy moaned in what i imagined to be excrutiating pain (what else could it be?!). i turned my head away in horror as i scrambled to find the "back" button on my browser. and all day today, the image of that plastic weapon stuck in the guy's schlong is haunting me. i mean, that is permanent damage to the meatus, right? that shit doesn't heal! who the fuck would ever agree to such mutilation?
ok, i need to get my mind off of the subject. and unfortunately, the URL is permanently tattooed in my brain. let's hope the hosting site eventually goes away or something.
a few months ago, i posted an entry entitled "guava burps." and today, i had them again. yup, toasted garlic bagel + cream cheese + fruit punch/berry gatorade = guava flavored burps. cool! i thought the first time was a fluke, but when i burped today after having my breakfast, it undeniably tasted like guava. how weird!
for lunch, J and i went to shanghai flavor shop. we each got 6 "sen jien bao" as well as shared a bowl of won tons (no good) and a zhong tze (yummy, and only $1.80). i love zhong tze; i haven't had them in many years. i'm not as inclined to go there, though, because the ordering slip is all in chinese, and i have to match the characters, sort of like how it is at A&J. but they do serve some tasty stuff there.
i saw my psych today. for the last several visits, nothing has changed. my tourette's is decently behaving, so all he does is give me the same prescriptions as before. maintenance is the only service he provides me. but, i'm not complaining; i've been seeing him for five years now, and we've finally come up with a drug cocktail that works for all practical purposes, and it's about fucking time.
while i was waiting in my psych's office, the stereo was playing some piano solo pieces, and i recognized two of them: satie's "gymnopedies #1" (sp?), and debussy's "reverie." i have played both of them before, and i got this really big pang of missing the piano. i wonder if i should buy an electric piano and pick the instrument back up. i really do miss playing. and i used to be pretty good at it, too. i eye nelson's piano from time to time when i go over to his house, and the sad thing is that once, i sat in front of it, and all of my muscle memory (the pieces that i used to have memorized) is gone. *sobs*
does anybody want to join me at a sports bar tomorrow night at watch the cowboys/packers game with me? i'm thinking of going to the old pro in downtown palo alto. it's super bowl 41 3/4! i was thinking about asking paul to raid his house, but i don't think he'll be comfortable with me sitting in his house by myself. we'll see. but yeah, it's a huge game for both teams battling it out for NFC supremacy.
there are some things that i'm curious about that i wonder if i'll ever get to try out. these include skydiving, bungee jumping, and anal sex. hehe. the first two, i don't think i'll ever try because i am deathly afraid of heights. and that last one, well, i'm curious about, but not *that* thrilled to try it out. does it really feel that good for a guy? i guess a hole is a hole, but how does it feel for the girl? i'd like for the experience to be pleasurable for her as well, you know? when i watch it on clips and stuff, i'm not turned on by it very much. but if i knew that it was good for both parties involved, i would be more likely to be titillated by it. *shrug*
greg and cheryl are in new zealand right now, and they did the zorb thing. that's where you get inside this huge hamster ball, and you roll down a hill. sounds cool. my childhood friend mark had a hamster once, and he put it in a mini-zorb. it was called a "freedom ball." cute. of course, we were mean to it, so we spun it around until the hamster got really dizzy, and we also rolled it down the stairs and stuff. yeah, animal cruelty, i know. but still, zorb. sounds neat-o.
ok, i'm off. gonna have dinner with jennie tonight. pasta pomodoro (gemelli, fabulous gemelli), here i come!
argh. i got hit in the face with a basketball today, and it left a bloody gash on the right side of the bridge of my nose, right where my glasses go. it hurts and burns! i was blotting blood after i got back to the office, and since i always have to wear glasses (i will never wear contacts), i'm not sure how this will heal. ugh. maybe i should invest in a pair of sports goggles.
i tried jack in the box's sirlion steak and egg breakfast burrito for the second time today, just to make sure i didn't like it. i felt sick after eating it for a few hours afterwards. i think it's the chipotle sauce that makes it gross. i mean, it's a good idea: nice chunks of juicy steak, eggs, hash browns in a warm tortilla, and who can argue with chipotle sauce? but as a whole, it's just nasty. and it's expensive, too; with tax, it's $3.45.
last night's monday night football was horribly boring. the final score was 3-0! the problem was that the field in pittsburgh was a mess; it was like playing in a swamp. apparently, there had been 3-4 high school games played there on friday, and then a college game on saturday, so the grass was all chewed up. and then, i think it rained there as well, so it didn't make things any better. it was sort of funny to see a punted ball just stick into the field without a bounce after it landed in the turf. i was hoping for a 0-0 game; that hadn't happened since 1943!
i got a call this morning from verizon wireless. the dude informed me that i had incurred an overage of 27 minutes, at a rate of 45 cents a minute. holy shit! i had no idea that i had talked that much this month. i have a plan of 300 minutes a month. hm. that doesn't sound like much, but then again, i'm not on my cell phone a lot during the workday. so who did i call? *ponder* the guy then proceeded to try to sell me an upgraded (read: more expensive) plan, but i politely declined. so i'm going to try to not use my phone until december rolls around.
speaking of december, i'm sad that november is ending. this month really flew by quickly. like i said, november is my favorite month, and boy, it went by in a flash. one more month until 2008! damn, where this this year go? it was definitely a fun year, and i'm going to remember it as the year of the weddings, since i have/had six of them. weddings are fun. you get to hang out with your friends, watch them celebrate their love, drink, eat good food, and party it up. the only problem is that they're expensive with the travel, hotel stays, bachelor parties, and gifts.
i'm looking to hit up a sports bar thursday night for the cowboys/packers game. people are billing it as super bowl 41 3/4. hehe. two 10-1 teams battling it out for NFC supremacy. it's gonna be good. i'm very afraid of brett favre right now, and i don't know if the dallas secondary is up to the task of defending green bay's 3-4-5 wide receiver sets. we'll see. history is on our side, though; brett is 0-8 in texas stadium.
do women get nipple hair?
one time last week or so, i was surfing around the internet, and i saw this posting about a girl who was disturbed about her TWO-INCH nipples. holy shit! two inches?! i mean, that's just insane! how do you wear a shirt over that? it's like pitching a tent over two poles! i like sucking on long nipples and all, but that is just too much. you might poke an eye out with those things! can you even feed a baby with them without the baby gagging? too bad the girl didn't post a picture of them.
so one of the basketball guys is also mispronouncing my name. he says it like you could say "dougherty." hm. i let it pass because i figured it was close enough.
ok, time for my 6pm cigarette.
one more thing: rest in peace, sean taylor. :(
so for my birthday, J and D took me out for lunch. or, rather, i took them to gombei (their first time), and they paid for my meal. i LOVE gombei; it's my favorite restaurant. i got the chicken katsu curry, and it was delish. however, i ate all my rice, and it gave me quite a food coma afterwards. it was worth it, though. and those two guys liked their meals as well. yay for homestyle japanese cooking!
i am still on a high from the _so you think you can dance_ show. i think i like this better than _american idol_. singing is just singing, but dancing is more captivating, i think. it's more visually pleasing than a guy or girl standing on a stage belting on a song, unless it's taylor hicks going all tourettic, hehe. i just spent 15 minutes surfing lauren gottlieb's myspace page. man, i think she's sooo cute! too bad she has a boyfriend. apparently, some of her fans met her backstage and got pictures taken with her. i would have totally done that, had i known this was possible. i would have swooned in her presence!
so thank you all for your birthday well-wishes! i got over a dozen wall posts on facebook and a handful of e-mails. i feel so loved! *bows* hey, k.d., if you want to add me on facebook, go ahead and send out a friend request. just type my e-mail address (mouse over the "quoth dardi!") and do a search.
i went to the airport today to pick up my coworker D, who was flying in from LA. traffic was virtually nonexistent, which was a nice change. when i dropped him off thanksgiving eve (isn't that the busiest travelling day of the year?), it was horrendous. and last night, while travelling to HP pavilion, alan's GPS (for some insane reason) directed him to go to the airport, and it was jam packed as well. ick.
two sex positions that i just don't appreciate are the reverse cowgirl (with the two sitting up and the girl's feet on the guy's thighs) and the spoon position. the first one just doesn't look comfortable, and it looks really tiring. and the second one looks like there's too much friction on the guy's butt side as he's going in and out. whenever i see those positions, i get really turned off. what's so hot about them? i guess that since the guy's technically going in from behind, he can get some deep penetation, but still, there are better ways to do it, imho.
so does anybody know what's going to happen with the writers' strike? are all the network primtime shows going down? damn, what the hell am i going to watch on weekday nights? nelson told me that _the office_ will get hit, and there are like only a few episodes left before it goes on hiatus. that sucks. speaking of tv, i've missed _the next great american band_ two weeks straight. it's on friday night, and i keep forgetting to tape it. maybe it's time for me to finally get a tivo?
one thing i don't get is how males can have sex with over males to exert their dominance. this happens in prison (so i've heard) and among dogs (so i witnessed last week with john's dog and a puppy named peanut). i mean, i don't think i would *ever* feel like having an ass fuck session with another dude just to let him know that i'm more powerful than him. is this normal? hm. human beings (and dogs as well) are very interesting animals.
for the next few days, i'm going to be having a lot of cake and pie. after jack's bbq, i took home an entire untouched birthday pecan pie. and then, at nelson's place, i got half of a prolific oven cheesecake. i love both. but enough to eat them all? i don't think so. but i'm going to try to finish them, because i don't want to see them go to waste. damn, i'm going to get fat.
i told my boss today during a smoke break that it was my birthday yesterday. he replied, "get a wife." ha!
google phrase of the day:
"will putting a jalepeno on a vagina make a woman hot"
surprisingly, i'm the #1 site for this one. but, um, err, i would not suggest doing this. it sounds very painful. at least, don't put the pepper on her clitoris; that sounds even more painful. anything spicy on sensitive parts of the body just sounds like a bad idea. not only have i put white lotus balm on my schlong's head, i have also gotten a blowjob from a girl who had just eaten indian curry, and man, that FUCKING HURT. !! so be careful out there! i know sex with food involved can be sensual and stuff, but stay away from spices!
and with that, i am done.
wednesday night, four of us met at xanh for dinner. leeya was craving and raving about their garlic noodles ($18), so i got them as well. it wasn't bad, and they came with four big tasty shrimp, but i still thought it was a bit pricey. afterwards, we went back to paul's place to check out his new 52" sony XBR4 LCD tv, and yeah, it was impressive.
thursday, i hit up hiroshi and joy's place for their turkey deep-fry party. before that, i went to nijiya to get a 12-pack of kirin ichiban beer. (unfortunately, i was disappointed to learn that this was no the authentic brewed-in-japan variety; it was still made in the USA.) i got a whopper jr. at BK as a snack, because we actually ate at 2-3pm or so. the turkey was good, but the best part by far was the skin. the tough part of the skin tasted like pork rinds, which was awesome. i watched the cowboys/jets game, and we destroyed new york. yay! all in all, we deep-fried five turkeys in five hours.
after that, i went over to grace's place, where grace and john cooked up a huge meal. john made ceviche and beer-can chicken, and grace made stewed pork, italian wedding soup, green bean casserole, and other stuff. my favorite was the soup. after gorging ourselves, i watched _independence day_ for the first time. oh, and we caught the USC/arizona state game as well.
i gained 3 pounds on thanksgiving day.
friday, paul, mikeC and i braved the fry's black friday. paul bought a motherboard and CPU, and he wanted a UPS as well, but they were all sold out. we got lucky with parking beforehand, but it still took us an hour to check out. and line started in the back near the tv's! geez. afterwards, we grabbed burrito's at chavez, and i was disappointed with mine because it was cold. then, i went off to do some errands (including mailing off the EP to k1), and i came back and watched mikeC play _call of duty 4_ on paul's PS3. he played for like 4 hours, and then he and i grabbed dinner at corner place. then, we headed over to nelson's place to hang out with nelson and geoff, and then, they all went to paul's to play LAN games while i went home at 11.
saturday, i went to jack and amy's new house in union city for my birthday BBQ. he has an awesome house. jack grilled up some veggies and kal bi, and grilled some chicken. the kids are all growing up! it was nice to hang out with the stanford crew again, and this was the first time that all four guys were there.
i left in the late afternoon, after hanging out at home for a while, nelson came and picked me up for my birthday dinner with the bowling gang at dusita. grace got me a big helium elmo balloon! a lot of people couldn't make it, so there were just 7 of us. we ordered too much food, but it was still really good. the papaya salad's spiciness kicked our asses.
afterwards, we went to nelson's house, where we watched _the incredibles_ on network tv while i proceeded to drink the equivalent of 5 shots of whiskey (jameson) and 3 shots of tequila. i felt ok; i was a little dizzy and slightly buzzed, but there was no way i could drive home. we hung out for a while, watched the thanksgiving episode of _SNL_, and then mikeC drove me home. of course, i puked as much alcohol as i could to get it out of my system, and then i just crashed.
sunday, i had dim sum with grace and john at dynasty. the service was kind of bad again (like last weekend), and we didn't get turnip cake or leek dumplings, and the carts kept skipping us for some reason. hm. aftewards, i went straight to adam's place to watch the chargers/ravens game, where i passed out during the first and second quarters. ah, food coma. the chargers won handily, which pleased adam.
i went home and then headed off to alan and ting's place, and we carpooled to HP pavilion to watch the _so you think you can dance_ show. it was awesome! i really enjoyed it. the crowd was really energetic (and full of screaming teenage girls cheering for neil, apparently), and my favorite dances were the two hip-hop ones (the transformers one with lauren and pasha and the slow-jam one with dominic and sabra). the three breakers dance was pretty good, too. lauren is damn hot. that's all i can say. i watched every episode of the show, and there was a long break between the last episode and this tour event, so it was like seeing old friends again. *bliss*
and that was the end of the weekend. it flew by all too quickly. *sigh* it was a good four days, though. and the cool thing was that with all the free meals, i spent less than $20 on food! i must give thanks to my friends for cooking for me and taking me out. *smile*
last night, i watched my first entire stanford men's basketball game. well, i missed the first 3-4 minutes because i went out and got a subway sandwich. (they have ranch dressing now for free! i used to have to purchase a "fat free" packet for 25 cents, which was tasteless and gross.) but anyways, yeah, i love my stanford men's team, almost as much as i love my dallas cowboys. we return the entire roster this year, with exception of carlton weatherby, who didn't play much anyway, so i have high hopes for our squad this season. we played yale, and surprisingly enough, they played pretty well for an overmatched ivy league team. i just hope brook lopez gets his act together (he's on academic suspension), because we really need him to be a better contender.
i just checked out brook lopez's facebook profile, and he has like over a thousand friends. ridiculous. is a human being's brain even capable of remembering a thousand names and faces? *ponder*
so we were supposed to go out for my birthday (it's on sunday, hint hint) lunch today, but D was stuck with doing an ECO at work, and J was tired from playing poker until 6am, so we postponed it until next monday. so i just moped around and got jack in the box and ate it in my cube by myself. *sobs* hehe. actually, i'm still burping up the mozzarella sticks i had. that shit is so good. once, in college, i had TEN sticks. that's a lot of cheese, huh?
i have a problem with talking too loudly. and sometimes, like on this blog, i say rather inappropriate things, so i have a tendency to cause embarrassment to the people i'm talking to. *hides in a corner* i really need to watch the volume of my voice. like, the other night, at gombei, ting had to shush me and alan because people were turning around and glaring at us during our conversation. ugh. i feel bad.
last night, amy called me up. some asshole stole the BACK WHEEL of her bike? who the fuck does that? and what would you do with a wheel? man, that just pisses me off. she's averaging bike a year getting stolen. that's pretty horrible. (btw, she lives in DC.) poor amy. i miss amy. i love her! she's one of my oldest friends that i keep in touch with. we met when i was in early high school (i think), and the first time we met, she was bold enough to be wearing these bright orange shorts. i will never forget that. :)
so a lot of plans are set for this long weekend. tomorrow is the taiko peeps' turkey deep fry party in the early afternoon, and then grace is cooking up dinner at night. friday is wide open (no plans yet). saturday is a birthday BBQ with the stanford crowd, and then a birthday dinner with the bowling gang, after which they may plan to get me piss drunk. and then, sunday is the _so you think you can dance_ show, with maybe some football watching beforehand.
ok, i'm headed off to my massage. i'll be back in about 45 minutes.
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all righty-o. i'm back! i feel all loosey-goosey from my massage. i usually go once every two weeks, but this time, i waited a month in between massages. it felt damn good, though.
the stock market's tanking. in the past two weeks or so, i've lost about $3K in my recently-bought holdings. ouch! it's ok, though, because it's not like i bought on margin or anything, so i'll just wait it out. in the past, i've bought on margin before, and i've gotten notices (or more like threats) for me to put in more money or face liquidation of my holdings. now *that* sucked.
so dark-haired women who dye their hair blonde ever bleach their pubes too? i was watching the one video the other day, and i swear that this girl's pubes were not natural. they were blonde and curly, and they just did not look natural. i mean, eyebrows and pubes are the two things that reflect a girl's real hair color, right? well, this girl's eyebrows were brown, and her pubes were a bright yellow! hm, something was just not right with that. but man, what if the bleach hit the girl's clitoris? that must burn like a mofo! can't be comfortable.
this afternoon, i watched an entire episode of _the real world: sydney_ at work. since it's wednesday, i wanted to know if i should tape tonight's episode, but it appeared that i had missed one (i don't know how this could be). but anyways, i wasn't rushed to do any work (although i *did* work this week), so i just spent the next 20 minutes watching the latest episode (#17). it was the first time i've watched TV on my computer. i swore i'd never do it, because it seemed awkward, and the screen's too small, but i was glued to the episode because the drama between parisa and trisha was just too gripping. man, what a catfight! parisa is a big tattletale. but i'm still attracted to her, though. i just like dark brunettes, *shrug*.
i wonder how i would do on a show like _the real world_. i mean, generally, i'm an easy going guy, but i do have pet peeves. and it is possible to annoy me greatly, and once i'm annoyed by a person, it's hard for me to let go of it. i think i've chilled out over the years, but man, in my earlier days, i definitely had people that rubbed me the wrong way. i never got into fights with them, though; my usual mechanism is to ignore them.
ok, i gotta take my coworker D to the airport (yes, another airport ride) soon. everyone, have a SAFE and STUPENDOUS thanksgiving weekend! *muah*
today's google phrase of the day:
does anyone get a boner after using the shitter
ha! i mean, i am interested in my turds, but getting aroused by them? no way! this reminds me of that "2 girls, 1 cup" video that i talked about last week. ewww. scat stuff just grosses me out. i hope this dude doesn't actually *do* anything aside from getting a hard willy, like scoop his shit out of the bowl and wipe it all over his face or something.
speaking of dumps, i had some painful (spicy) ones today. yesterday, i had mongolian bbq, which means i added my usual 1.5 scoops of chili paste into the bowls. and for dinner, i met up with paul and leeya at pho hoa on castro, and i added my requisite large amount of sriracha into my bowl of pho. so needless to say, i paid for it today. i took a spicy dump this morning, and during basketball over lunch, i had to stop playing (twice, in fact) to take painful shits because i had such a bad stomachache. ouch! ah, but i love my spicy food. can't live without it.
because i love my stanford men's bball team, the players on those squads are like celebrities to me. so it's like star-gazing when i find them on facebook. i'm in awe. so far, i've perused the profiles of the likes of landry fields, michael mcdonald, arthur lee and chris hernandez. it's weird to see them out of their element (i.e., not on the basketball court) and as regular blokes. but yeah, i love those guys; they're my heroes!
so i found out the name of darby-guy. i'm thinking of calling him by the wrong name so he'll correct me, and then i'll correct him back. how about that?
yes, my dad does give me a side hug sometimes. i don't want to paint him as an unloving dad, because he's not. he does love his family members, but i just wanted to say that we've never had a real front-to-front hug before. he's funny, though. sometimes (like this past sunday) he carries a salad around, which he saves until he's hungry. i guess it's not that unusual, but i just find it a bit odd, seeing a guy carry around a container of food all over the place. once, it wasn't even in a container; he just bought a plastic bag of the stuff like the ones you get at a supermarket.
so i'm miffed at my dentist. they made me go in to get my teeth cleaned once every 4 months instead of the standard 6. but what i didn't know is that my dental insurance only covers teeth cleaning twice a year. so i had to foot the $100+ bill myself this third time around. *RAAR* so i'm not going to listen to my dentist anymore; i'm only going in twice a year, and that's that.
last night, i ran into an online personality outside tap-ex, and his friend was like the 67th or so employee at google. man, how awesome is that. she drove off in a mercedes, and apparently, she also owns a ferrari and a porsche 911 turbo. if i had all that money, i wouldn't spend it on cars, though. *ponder* actually, i don't know if i'd spend my money any differently, aside from having a nice house. i'd probably get a volvo S80 (yeah, i have a weird affinity for volvo's, most likely due to having liked girls who drove them). hopefully, i'd stay humble. but i would definitely take more vacations and do more travelling. but ah, to not have to worry about money...
sometimes i wonder if i'll ever be friends with an ex. (this is inspired by watching last night's episode of _how i met your mother_.) i mean, if i were stuck in a room with her, and it was just us two, what would we talk about? i mean, we used to be so close and intimate, how do we draw back to a platonic level?L hm. and that's not even including any bitter residual feelings about the breakup and stuff. double hm. anyways, i think i may have given up on this issue, and resigned to the fact that i'll never achieve this goal of mine. maybe it's just time to let go of it.
ok, time to head off.
oops. i was drinking a huge mouthful of dr pepper, and i choked on it. so i wound up spewing that mouthful all over my desk, and also onto my jeans. man, what a mess. so now, my keyboard is all sticky, and my left leg is all wet, and it smells like cherry cough syrup. wet jeans are so uncomfortable! ugh. i can't wait to go home and switch into a new pair of pants.
so D recommended mongolian BBQ today. ah, what a wonderful meal. the place was surprisingly dead today, and there was no line to get the food cooked. i had massive food coma afterwards, and i conked out for a good 40+ minutes in my cube afterwards.
so i finally have thanksgiving plans! i'm spending lunch and the early afternoon at joy and rosh's place. they're doing turkey deep-frying all afternoon, and i'm looking forward to that, as i've never had deep-fried turkey before. is the blackened skin edible? and for dinner, grace is hosting a small get-together with me, her, john and mikeC. yeah, we're the homeless folks, as everyone else has family around. it'll be us and the animals. plus, i've got the cowboys/jets game to watch as well. go dallas!
dishi's favorite candy is smarties. i'm munching on some right now, and i don't get it. to me, they taste like flavored aspirin tablets. you know, like sweetened chalk. i quizzed him today over IM and asked how many smarties come in a roll. he responded by saying that smarties come in all sorts of varieties, but the regular roll comes in packs of 15. i was impressed. i expecting nothing less of him when it comes to trivia about his favorite candy. :)
so last night, a friend of mine told me that two of her friends got divorced because the wife turned out to be a lesbian. i was shocked. i mean, how do you not know this before you get married? i mean, don't you feel beforehand that it's not quite "right" when you're with a man? hm. i just don't know. anyways, it's a sad situation, and i hope the two of them are eventually ok. i'm friends withh a couple of gay people, but i don't know their stories of how they came out, except that they did it quite late in their lives, e.g. during or after college. i'd be very interested in how they came to realize that they were gay, and how much a role denial played in their lives. it must be tough to come out in this massively homophobic world of ours.
man, i have the hiccups.
i realized the other day that i'm a pretty negative person. it was because i looked at my previous three facebook status messages, and they all started out "dardy is bummed..." i mean, that's a lot of bummitude! so i resolved to never use that word again in my statuses. so today, i changed it to something about be excited that this week is only a 3-day workweek. yup. i am highly looking forward to thanksgiving break. :) but i just need to motivate myself to at least do a little bit of work these three days.
i can't believe that KOIT (fm 96.5) has already switched to christmas music. it's not even thanksgiving yet! it sucks because that's one of the radio stations that i depend on for good music, and now it's taken itself out of the rotation. i didn't even know that there was so much christmas music available to play 24/7.
ok, my jeans are finally dry. MUCH better.
so i have a question to those girl out there who shave/wax their pubes. would you ever consider getting permanent hair removal? i mean, sure, it may be expensive, but wouldn't it be worth it to not have to go through the process every few days/weeks? once, i bought my gf exactly that: an igia permanent hair removal kit. i'm not sure how it worked, but i think it used minor electric shocks or something to remove the hair. i think it was kind of tedious, since you have to put the tweezer thingies on each follicle one by one, so i'm not sure she ever used it. but still, you only have to do that once, and then, never again!
i tweeze my cheek hair. it gives me great satisfaction. i mean, it actually feels good to grab that hair and pull it out. i used to tweeze my chin hair, too, and while i don't have the density there like hairier men, there's still quite a lot of stuff there. so i would sometimes spend like a good half an hour in front of the mirror doing it. but i've stopped doing it now, so my chin's all sensitive now, and it hurts when i have to tweeze there when my electric shaver can't get to one or two follicles. but man, those were the days. i even got (as a gift from my gf) a diamond-coated tweezer from the sharper image. it had amazing grip. (i lost it, though.)
ok, time to do some facebook-ing.
friday night, i met up with paul and mikeC for some mexican food (since leeya wasn't around) at los charros. i recommended the wet burrito to paul, but he seemed very skeptical, so he didn't get it. i got my usual super carnitas wet burrito, but i couldn't finish it. it was still damn yummy, though. i got a corona with my meal, and they served it with a frosted glass with lime juice at the bottom and salt on the rim. is salt normal? i had never seen it served that way, so i just poured the lime juice into the bottle (which caused it to fizz and overflow) and drank it that way.
saturday, i took adam to st. john's (his first time there), we both got the beg for mercy cheeseburger (half off burgers on saturday). it wasn't spicy this time, which was a bummer. then, we went to fry's, where adam was looking for a good deal on hard drives but didn't find any. afterwards, i went back and watched the ending to the ohio state/michigan football game. it was boring, so i fell asleep and then just putzed around.
for dinner, i met up with grace and john at pasta pomodoro at santana row. i was really lucky with parking, which was not the case for poor mikeC, who spent 40 minutes looking for parking and then gave up and went home. i can understand his plight. once, i went there, and it took me half an hour to find parking, and i wound up finding a spot at some residential district and had to walk like 10 minutes to get to maggiano's. that place is just crazy on the weekends, and i'll make a note to never go there on a weekend night.
it took us about two hours to have dinner (long wait, understaffed restaurant), but i was really happy they brought back the gemelli dish. grace and john brought two foster puppies, and they got a lot of attention. puppies are cute! afterwards, we went back to grace's house in campbell (where mikeC joined us), and we tried to get gelato, but we missed closing time by 5 minutes. damn. we hung out for a bit at the house (where grace was hosting 7 dogs and 4 kittens), and then i just went home.
sunday, i got up at 9, and drove up to SFO to meet with my dad, who was on a layover from dallas to taiwan. (i spotted darby-guy from my company, who was on a trip to japan. ah, yet another opportunity to correct him gone down teh drain). it was really nice to see my dad. we chatted for a while as he slurped down a bowl of ramen from ebisu, and then we said goodbye. he shook my hand when we left. ah, business-like. we never hug. i stood there as he disappeared into the security line, and i felt sad that we don't get to see each other that often. but at least i'll see him again next month when we congretate in LA for my cousin's wedding.
then, we had a long-overdue dim sum outing with 7 people at dynasty. the service was really bad since we were stuck in the back, and i could tell john was getting pissed. afterwards, some of us went to grace's house (again) to meet the animals and grab gelato (since we missed it last night). we watched the hapless 49ers lose, and i even got to watch the last 2 minutes of the cowboys/redskins game. (cowboys eeked out a tight game. yay! 9-1!) then, i went home, watched a the patriots go up 14-7, and then it was off to SFO again.
this time, i went to the airport to pick up alan and ting. i always park and wait for the people instead of picking them up curbside. i feel it's a more personal touch, and besides, i don't like the idea of circling the airport, not knowing when they'll come out. we went to gombei (yay!) to dinner, and then i dropped them off. after that, it was like 9pm or so, and i just went home, watched sportscenter, and went to bed.
lots of driving this weekend. mostly highway, too.
so in the next week and a half, i'm going to be making four trips to the airport to drop off and pick up people. it's cool with me. i think airport rides are ok to give because it brings good karma. you never know when you might be the one who needs a ride to/from there, and it sure beats paying a bunch of $$$ for a cab or shuttle ride. this morning, i gave alan and ting a ride to SFO for valmik's wedding in NYC (long island, to be slightly more exact); i'll pick them up sunday night.
i hate flying east. the whole day is practically shot from travelling. like, i picked them up at 10:30am today, and they arrive past 9pm in new york. ick. i know you gain a lot back when you fly back west, but still, you're all tired from travelling, so it doesn't count for much. i guess you could fly a red-eye, but still, that presents problems itself, i.e. being exhausted when you arrive bright and early in the morning.
so, i'm going to send k1 a birthday present this year. (i didn't have her address before.) it's an EP by sarah cracknell, the lead singer of saint etienne, one of my favorite bands (she was the one who introduced them to me our freshman year). it's got two songs that i think capture our feelings toward each other. the first one represents me (the lyrics go, "i'm all right if you're all right"), and the second one represents her ("i'm living in the penthouse, basement boy stay away"). that second one is pretty fucking cool, isn't it? and they're both great-sounding songs, too, some of my all-time favorites. i'm going to mail the CD off next week; it'll take about one or two weeks to get to her.
since i've gotten my car back, i've smoked twice in it while driving. i'm really trying not to. it stinks up the car (despite the fact that i have leather seats), and it releases ash all over the place. when i had the rental car for the past three weeks, i didn't smoke in it at all, so i had to get used to timing my cigarette breaks outside. but i really enjoy smoking while i'm behind the wheel, so it's hard not to do it when i know i can.
i had dinner with yuji at our usual place (maruichi) last night. i was happy to see him again. he just got married and returned from his honeymoon last week. we were talking about sharing beds with women, and i reminisced about how amazing it was that in college, we shared beds in a twin-sized mattress. how did we do that?! and it was actually comfortable, too! although, this one time, i fell out of my bed, and it was lofted as well, so i took like a 5-foot fall onto the ground. luckily, i didn't break any bones; i just woke up and was like, "huh? why am i on the floor?" and then climbed back up and fell asleep again. but yeah, two people in a twin was crazy, especially with k1, because she was 5'10" and i'm 6'0". luckily, we were both thin people.
nicotine (or whatever it is in cigarettes that makes you poo) is amazing. in the mornings, when i go out for my first smoke, within like three drags, i feel my bowels churning and prepping for that morning dump. i mean, that's a fast reaction! lately, it's been like clockwork. in fact, the mechanism works so quickly that i usually have to clench really hard to not shit in my pants while i finish the rest of my cigarette. crazy, how chemicals and drugs do their business on your body.
so _the real world_ is getting juicy again. this time, the new roommate, ashli, and dunbar (interesting name) are flirting around each other. the thing is, though, is that dunbar has a girlfriend at home. what's going to happen? ah, the temptations of a cute girl (not that i think ashli is cute or anything). long distance is hard enough without some young nubile creature showing interest. the teaser for the next episode shows them getting into bed together! like i said, juicy!
i had a chance to correct the darby-guy today. we were next to each other at the free-friday-lunch line at the cafeteria, and as expected, he said, "hi darby." i was thinking of smiling and showing my badge and saying in a friendly manner, "hey dude, read my badge" or something like that, but i didn't have any free hands (one was carrying my food and the other my dessert), so i just passed up the opportunity. btw, the dessert was pecan pie, which i normally LOVE, but i found it to be too sweet. maybe it's supposed to be this sweet, and i've just lost my taste for it? *shrug*
ok, that's it for today. i'm itching to get out of here. have a STUPENDOUS weekend, folks!
i've noticed that quite a few engineers here use their middle finger to point to stuff on their monitors. is that normal? have you guys seen that before? i mean, that natural finger to use is the index finger, right? this reminds of that _seinfeld_ episode where the waitress at monk's uses her middle finger to point to an item on the menu, and george thinks she's secretly giving him the bird. hehe. but anyways, just an observation.
there was no basketball today. i got dressed and drove to city beach, and i went in, only to be turned away at the door. "no open play," said the guy at the desk. i noticed the parking lot was full, and when i entered, i heard some guy giving all these people a speech. i guess some company decided to have some even there. *RAAR* i was looking forward to getting some exercise today! basketball is my only form of athletic relief, so i really need it twice a week. bummer.
aimee sent out a mass e-mail saying that turducken '07 was cancelled. i was pretty disappointed; i was looking forward to it! she said it was due to some "family circumstances," so i hope nothing bad happened or anything. oh well, maybe next year. i've heard wonderful things about turducken, so i'm dying to try it out.
yes, amy, i am a mavericks fan. i'm just looking for root for the celtics as well. i used to be a big fan of that boston team (seeing as how i used to live in boston and root for them) as well, so i think i'm hopping on that bandwagon. they're off to their best start in 35 years! and after being bad for so long, you gotta appreciate their story.
i don't understand how some people take such long dumps. i mean, after they excrete their substances, they just sit there for several minutes doing nothing. what are they doing? are they recovering or something? i mean, when i was a kid, i would read entire beverly cleary books on the toilet (sometimes, my legs would even fall asleep, hehe), but at work, i just do my business and get on with my day. hm. maybe these people don't feel like going back to work or something.
i've been slowly building up my stock portfolio. i've bought like 5 stocks in the past month of so. the market has been weak, so i've happened upon a few stocks that have fallen to their 52-week low. i know that doesn't mean they've *actually* hit their true minimum, but still, they're attractive enough for me to purchase. i just hope the market doesn't completely tank, and i lose all this money again like when the dot com crash happened. it's always tough to know when to sell. (i'm a greedy bastard, i know.) like, i really wanted sandisk (SNDK) to hit 60, so i put a sell order in at that price. it hit $59.75, and then tanked all the way to $38 or so. DAMN. only 25 cents away!
i really like pink's latest two singles. one of them is "who knew," but i don't know the title of the other one. i think she's pretty fugly, but her music for the most part is pretty catchy. the only song that i can't stand is that one about "getting the party started." it's repetitive, overplayed, and just damn annoying. but as for the rest of her stuff, i think it's decent.
so i got my car (kendra) back! the right side is all shiny and new. and they also cleaned the inside, so all the cigarette ash is gone. the only problem is that the car smells really funky, like grease or something. maybe it's the paint smell, i don't know. i've grown used to driving the chevy cobalt, so my car feels funny to me now, especially the stiff steering wheel. but i'll get familiar again with kendra soon enough.
do you guys shave your pubic hair? i don't really ask this question to my guy friends, but i do know of one male friend of mine who does shave. i was in the bathroom of one of my guy friends, and i noticed some long pubes on the ground. so i'm not the only one with ridiculously long pubic hairs. some of mine are like 2 inches long, i bet. i've noticed in porn that every single guy in the videos is shaved; i've read that it makes their schlongs look bigger. go figure. i'm just afraid of putting a sharp object near my man region, you know?
so who is uglier, tila tequila or new york? i think new york is by far the nastier of the two. i can't believe that people find her attractive. and why is there an _i love new york 2_? what happened to the final guy from the first series? fyi, if you don't know, new york is this woman who got spurned by flavor flav in _flavor of love_, so she got her own reality dating show. twice, apparently.
i was going contemplating getting a whiskey during lunch today at the cheap korean place. their shot of johnnie walker black used to be $4.50. that's a good price. but then, i looked at the back of the menu, and the price shot up to $7.50! holy shit! that's a 67% increase! phooey. that's more than the price of my dai ji bul kogi, so i said fuck it.
today's the first day in over a year (at least) that i'm going to have three meals (plus ice cream in the afternoon for dessert). ugh. i'm going to gain weight. interestingly enough, though, one of the physical design team members told today that i look healthier with more meat on my cheeks. (i have gained about 10 pounds in the last couple of months.) i just don't want to be 190-200lbs again. that was just way too fat.
ok, i'm audi.
hehe. i was talking to my coworker R, who was raving about his new nikon digital SLR. he said his pictures were "crispy" instead of "crisp." i almost laughed out loud. i imagined some deep-fried battered photographs. :)
so i haven't seen the coworker who calls me "darby." i'm not sure how to approach him and correct him. he's the same coworker who wears sunglasses on top of his head all day long. i find that very odd. i mean, what's the point of that? is there ever a time during the workday when he needs to slip them on? *ponder*
so i can't decide which cuisine gives me the worst food coma: dim sum or indian food. we had dim sum today, and man, when i got back, i just crashed in my cube for half an hour. i just bonked out. i did get to eat some leek dumplings, so now i have some pungent burps. yum. we ordered two batches of them, and the second one was nice and hot. we didn't get much food, though (we went to mayflower in milpitas), and it still came to $13 a head. i was upset that they charged us $1 each for tea. i don't even drink tea!
i'm glad they switched milk cartons to the ones that have the plastic spout instead of the ones that are all cardboard (and where you have to tear it open to make that foldable spout). it makes the milk last much longer. i still have milk that had a "sell by" date of 10/31. i smelled it today, and it still seemed fresh, which is good, because i'm planning on having a cereal dinner tonight.
so last night, i took jay, alan and ting to pho kim long. it was their first time there. ting had been bugging me to take them to places that i go with the bowling gang. (she also playfully ask me to introduce me to them, but i decline. i don't like to integrate my friends!) so, i've taken them to dynasty, and this time, to kim long. i recommended the #32 (the double pork chop and fried egg dish), and i showed them the #24 dish that i got. i hope they liked it.
so jay's all confirmed. he's signed his contract, found a rental home to live in, and he and margaret (and his two dogs, coco and kobe) will be moving back here next month! i'm so happy. he'll be living a bit far, though (in west san jose), but i don't mind driving that extra 15-20 minutes to see him. i think i'll actually start visiting next year, though; they're going to be taking a long vacation in chile/argentina after they finish moving.
so november's almost half over. this is my favorite month, and i feel like i'm not enjoying it enough. it's really blowing by fast. (fyi, i like november because the name sounds cool, because it has my favorite holiday, and because it contains my birthday.) time, slow down!
so i was e-mailing a friend of mine about kissing. she said she didn't care for it because her first few boyfriends were really bad kissers. (well, the first one was bad, and the second one had bad breath.) i was lucky. k1 was a really awesome kisser, and she had wonderful lips and a bad-ass tongue. how do people learn how to kiss? do they practice? i guess you can teach the other person, if they're willing to learn. it can be a little awkward when you tell the other person, "uh, you suck, and this is how you should do it." hehe. but then again, i did teach one girl how to french kiss; when we first made out, it felt really empty to kiss with a wide open mouth and not feel a tongue there, so i just taught her how to use her tongue. voila!
but sometimes, you can't help it if your lips are fat and not flexible (or, on the other end of the spectrum, thin lips that have no mass), or if your tongue has a bad shape. i like semi-pointy tongues, for example. you can't do anything about those things, so i guess it's just too bad if that's the case. *shrug*
i still don't have plans for thanksgiving yet. i usually have gone to alan's or emi's (in san luis obispo), but this year, i don't think i'll be going to either place. hm. there was one year where i was in college, and i wasn't invited anywhere (i never went back to dallas for thanksgiving), so i wound up biking to jack in the box for food on thanksgiving day. yes, that was pretty sad. but at least i didn't starve. thanks goodness for jack in the box.
so my car is ready. i called up the body shop, and they said they're done. what miffed me was the fact that *i* had to call them. i mean, were they waiting for me to check up on them? what if i hadn't? were they just going to keep the car there and not tell me? hrmph. but anyways, i'm going to pick kendra up tomorrow morning. ah, reunited again. so excited!
i wonder if i should jump on the celtics bandwagon now. i grew up for 4 years in cambridge, and i cheered for the team back during the bird/mchale/parish days. but then, they sucked for so long, and now, they're the only undefeated team in the NBA at 6-0. crazy! plus, i love kevin garnett. (i use to wear his basketball shoes.)
ok, i'm out.
so there's this guy at the office (i don't know his name) who thinks my name is "darby." i don't know whether (or how) i should correct him. i mean, he passes by my cube, so doesn't he see my nametag on the wall? maybe he's dyslexic or something. *ponder*
i had an awesome dream last night about japan, and i even woke up and tried to force myself to remember it. but of course, when i woke up this morning, i forgot it. the only think i remember is a name, "takamura," meaning "high village." damn. this is exactly the reason why i wanted (and got for my birthday a few years ago from alan and ting) an electronic voice recorder. the thing's on my desk, and the batteries are dead. i should replace the batteries and put it next to my pillow so i can record my next awesome dream.
so i went to the post office today to mail my brother some of the herbal supplements that i've been taking. these are pills that i've been on for over a year now that my mom recommended for my tourette's, and now my mom thinks it'll help with my brother's asthma. anyways, the line at the post office was super long; it took me like a half an hour to mail the box off. i don't know if this shit works, but whether it's this stuff or the drug cocktail i'm on, my tourette's is vastly improved. *knocks on wood* so i can't complain, and i'll keep on taking all the stuff i'm on right now. my drug/supplement expenses are really costly, though.
i went over to nelson's place yesterday to watch the 49ers/seahawks game. it was a very poor showing by the 49ers; they got blanked 24-0. i feel really bad for nelson; he loves his team, and to see them perform so poorly and get shut out must really hurt him. near the end, he scared me by slamming his couch with his hand and yelling out "GARBAGE!" ugh. i don't know if i could deal with it if my cowboys sucked that badly.
i'm still traumatized by the image of those two girls licking the shit out of a cup from yesterday's video (recommended by P). that's just fucking disgusting. i mean, i've seen pictures of scatological stuff, but video just brings a whole new lifelike realness to the act. *shivers*
so paul got his 52" sony bravia tv. i want to see it. he originally ordered a SEVENTY inch television. i saw it at best buy. holy crap. i have never seen a television that size before, and it was just ridiculous. the pixels were so huge that i could see MPEG artifacts. crazy, just crazy! i would imagine that football would be glorious on a screen that size. i'm happy with my 40" bravia, though. it's good enough for me.
i went to pee today, and my stream went about 60 degrees to the left. odd. it missed the urinal altogether and splashed on the floor until i shook my schlong and strained until the stream came out stronger and straightened out. what gives? and sometimes, i pee in two streams. that's weird, too.
i didn't eat lunch today. i played basketball until 2:06pm, and afterwards, i gave a ride to my coworker back to the office, and i got lazy and didn't get my usual vietnamese sandwich afterwards. so all i've had to eat today is a small bag of sun chips. starving! the good thing is that i'm meeting up with alan, ting and jay for dinner. yay for jay! i really hope he settles down back out here in the bay area. he's doing facial plastic surgery. man, that sounds really intense. i mean, you're dealing with a person's face, and one mistake means you're messing up a person's looks for life!
/update/
ok, jay just called. he made it official! he's moving back! he just signed a contract with the san jose medical group, and he's going to be their main man in the facial plastics department. WOO-HOO! i'm so happy. :)
ok, i gotta go. meeting them for dinner. time to celebrate a homecoming!
woah. so my friend P sent me three links in an e-mail titled "thinking of you." i was like, "hm." the first one was a video that i couldn't view, but the soundtrack was clearly a guy moaning with pleasure. so i was like, "ok, that's cool," even though i couldn't see what was going on. the second one was a picture of a girl taking a soft smoothie-like dump into a cup, and then two girls licking the shit in the cup. EW. after five seconds, i had to close the window due to extreme disgust. then, the third's link was something about "hatchet vs. genitals" so i didn't even open it.
DUDE. gross sexual acts are NOT my thing. sure, i talk about taking dumps and stuff, but scatology ain't my cup of tea. neither is mutilation of genitals. and now, i'm thinking that first scene that i couldn't view was no ordinary sex, either. i'm also wondering why P thought of me when he came across these videos, hehe. I AM NOT A SEXUAL DEVIANT! :)
so i've recovered from my cold, but i still don't feel as peppy and bouncy as i normally am. so i'm not 100% yet, i guess. i couldn't get out of bed this morning; it just felt too good to lie there and snuggle in my warm blankets. sigh. at least thanksgiving's right around the corner. i still don't know what i'm doing for that holiday yet. i wonder if paul and aimee are hosting the turducken thing. i'm so curious to try that out. i love duck!
i'm totally hooked on facebook. i can now see how some people have like 100+ or even 200+ friends. i mean, i don't have that many friends (i have like 65 or so), but there are so many people on facebook that you can easily track down old random acquaintances and classmates. but i gotta wonder, for those people who have so many "friends," how many people are true friends? how many people are ones that you hang out with regularly, ones that you'd actually call up and maybe have a meal with or go out with? or, in my new measure of friend-dom, ones that you'd invite to your wedding?
i should get my car back any day now. i'm going to call them tomorrow and see if the painting (the last step) is done. it's about time! although, now i'm totally used to the chevy cobalt that i've been driving for the past three weeks. before, i thought it was a piece of crap, but now, i think it's an ok car, as far as compacts go. i haven't driven it hard, but once, i did rev it up to 6000rpm. i was afraid that the engine would start smoking, haha.
the sides of my nostrils are peeling from all the nose blowing that i've been doing. it's gross. it looks like flakes of boogers or something. i took a peek in the mirror today on the drive to lunch (i wasn't driving), and i was shocked to see so many little flakes on my nose. being sick sucks, man. btw, we went to corner place today for the first time in many months. ah, yuk ge jang, with ramen (and no onions)! that shit is good.
congratulations to my buddy (best friend from high school) kevin on getting engaged! i'm really happy for him. he e-mailed me last night to tell me the news, complete with a photo gallery documenting the process. i'm curious, though; he's jewish, and i think his fiance is muslim. how are they going to raise their kids, from a religious standpoint? i bet they're going to be pretty, though.
i'm proud of the fact that i got back into basketball this year. it's hard to believe that all of 2006, i only played once. and that was the only exercise i got last year. horrible, i know. i have a renewed interest in playing, and that's a good thing. it started out as one of my new year's resolutions for 2007, and i'm very happy that i stuck with it. at first, it was a chore, but now, i truly enjoy playing; in fact, i actually look forward to tuesday and thursdays because of it. yay!
i got a call while i was driving from a stanford student asking me to donate money. hrmph. that must have been the 3rd or 4th time this year (at least) i was solicited by the university looking for a donation. i don't mind giving, though, but still, they are really milking me! the last couple of times, i've donated $250, but this time, they asked for a whopping $500. i was like, "no way!" and i dropped them back down to the usual $250. it's a good thing that i've memorized my credit card number, because i was driving and couldn't stop to pull the card out. but anyways, they claimed that this donation was for fiscal year 2008, but i will bet you anything that they'll call again next year. it's funny, though. i'm lazy, and i won't give money through the mail, but on the phone, because i don't have to lick a stamp or write a check, i'm much more willing to donate.
here's a question for you fashion mavens out there. are corduroys an acceptable form of pants to wear for a semi-fancy dinner? i say no. but one of my friends was saying they're ok, so that's what he wore to a mid-level french restaurant (le charm, if you know the place) on a date over this weekend. i've always thought cords were kind of casual. hm.
ok. that's it for me today. i think this one was sort of long.
man, it sucks being sick. friday night, four of us went to dusita for some thai food, and i was just sniffling and sneezing all over the place. afterwards, i went home, and i had the worst time sleeping. i woke up every hour to blow my nose. i sleep on my side, and my nose keep on getting stuffed. it was horrible.
i woke up at noon, and i went to jamba juice to get a coldbuster smoothie. then, i had lunch with william at joy luck place. i got the usual wonton noodle soup, and for some odd reason, their wontons were dry in the middle. then, i went home and watched illinois beat the #1 ranked ohio state. awesome! that means oregon will move up to #2 in the BCS rankings. i took a nap afterwards and just putzed around the house.
for dinner, i met up with jay at la bamba for some mexican food, but he couldn't stay long because his medical (rhinoplasty) conference starts at 6am (crazy hours, i know). then, i got another coldbuster smoothie and called it a night, hoping that the immunity and antioxidant boosts would kick in.
luckily, sunday, i felt WAY better, and i just watched a ton of sports. four sporting events, in fact. first, i watched the eagles beat the redskins, which was what i wanted so the redskins could fall behind in the NFC east standings. then, i was all set to watch the cowboys/giants game, but instead, fox showed the bears/raiders game! GRR. luckily, diana texted me, and i met up with her and some of her friends at the old pro in downtown palo alto to catch the 4th quarter of the cowboys game. we won! i was very happy, and i even had a whiskey while i was watching.
then, i got home to catch the final 6 minutes of the stanford men's game. ah, my first stanford men's basketball game of the season. we beat our opposition soundly, so i was happy.
then, i headed over to adam's place and kept him company to watch the chargers/colts game. man, that was a crazy contest. peyton manning threw SIX interceptions (a franchise and personal worst), and adam vinatieri missed a chip-shot 29-yard field goal to win the game! i was nuts when that happened. i couldn't believe it. adam had this look of shock on his face. the colts did everything they could to lose the game, and the chargers did everything they could do let the colts win, and yet, the chargers won. crazy.
adam is the ultimate chargers fan. he even knows the names of the special teams players! now *that's* a fan. i genuflect to him. :)
and to put a cherry on top, the stanford women won, beating #3 rutgers by two points with two candice wiggins free throws with 0.1 seconds left. ah, my sports teams all did well.
so yeah, i didn't do that much socially this weekend, but sports made up for it on sunday. but at least i'm over my sickness, and i can get on with my life.
ugh. i've been sniffly and sneezy since last night. am i getting sick? i think the answer is yes. i'm not sure what happened. i didn't walk around in this chilly weather without a jacket or anything. i mean, yesterday, i even busted out my sweatshirt! ARGH! just in time for the weekend, too! *RAAR* well, at least i'm not full-blown sick; i can tell because cigarettes don't taste weird yet. (when i'm sick, they have this really odd flavor.)
yesterday, john had a free night from volleyball, so he and his dog buddy came over to watch the mavericks/warriors game. it was fun watching the basketball game with him. he's a big warriors fan, and i a mavericks fan, so we had some good opposite-side cheering going on. no trash talk or anything (i suck at trash talk anyway). the game was close throughout, and at the end, down 3 points, baron davis had a wide open three-point jumper opportunity to tie the game with like 2 seconds left. he missed it, and the mavericks eventually won by 5, but still, it wasn't a statement game by my team. i was disappointed by our performance even though we pulled out a victory.
so today is S's last day at work. she's transferred over her knowledge, but still, i feel like our team has taken a big hit. i am the lone "pure" DPC designer left, and that really makes me feel uneasy. we took her out to sneha (grand indian buffet, as it's called now) for lunch, and man, their chili chicken was really salty. i had massive food coma afterwards (as expected), but still, it was nice to get some indian food in my system. adieu, S, adieu!
i had a bloody dump after lunch. again. the water was brownish red, heavy on the red. wtf? does anybody know what causes this? should i be worried? at least it's not black, right? black means the blood is from higher up in my system, indicating an ulcer or something, right? *shivers*
so i did a search on "umemaro3D" as my commenter suggested. hot damn! computer-animated japanese porn! that's some crazy shit. it looks sort of creepy. definitely hard core, though. i'm definitely curious to see what the videos look like; does the animation look natural? leave it to the japanese to use the latest technology for pornography's sake. i wonder what the programmers and animators and the other people behind it are like. are they total pervs? or are they like normal tech people who are totally numbed by porn by now?
yeah, wikipedia has a good entry on tila tequila. i think she has a decent compact semi-hot body, but her face is sort of freaky-looking. and from google image searches, she's been on a cover of penthouse magazine. but does anyone know if that was just a cover, and it doesn't mean that she did a XXX photo shoot? somehow i doubt that she did something like that. anyways, she's apparently got the most (over a million) friends on myspace. crazy, how a random girl like that becomes so popular; how do you become "discovered?"
facebook is really addictive. i'm still adding friends on there, and i keep checking my newsfeed to see what's going on with my existing friends. it's sucking me in! this site is so much better than friendster, orkut, etc. it's the interactivity that makes it so great.
so alan and ting are looking to move up north in the peninsula. i'm gonna be sad. i mean, i don't see them that often, but it comforts me to know that they're not that far away. the problem is that ting now works in sotuh san francisco, and her commute from santa clara is a bitch. so now they're looking for houses in burlingame, san mateo, etc. that's far from me! oh well. it'll just mean that i'll have to make more of an effort to see them once they move.
i'm worried that my sphincter isn't getting any exercise. is there such thing as atrophy of the asshole? i mean, that muscle hasn't opened up (more than a little bit) for over a year now! what happens when i finally get off of the topamax, and i start having regular solid shit again? i mean, before i was on the drug, i would have HUGE logs (big enough to clog the toilet!). what's going to happen when that hits me again? is it going to tear my sphincter? *afraid*
ah, the fears i have.
ok, that's it for me today. i'm gonna go home early and rest up before dinner. let's hope i don't get totally sick and ruin my weekend!
i had a good outing at basketball today. i actually posted up! yup, and after that, i made some hook shots and stuff like that. for a while, i was an offensive force, making like 5+ baskets. i had the competitive guy, S, on my team, and even he was pleased, which is saying a lot. eventually, though, i lost my mojo, and we got schlacked in some later games, one of them being a 7-0 loss. benboy came to play today, and it was good to see him.
so my mavericks play the warriors tonight at 7:30 on TNT. i'm going to watch as much of that game as possible before i switch to _the office_ and _scrubs_. it's a revenge game, as the warriors upset my #1 seed mavs earlier this year in playoffs in the first round. ugh. i'm still smarting over that. they play each other in oakland again on march 30th, and i'm going to try to get john and i tickets to that game. bring it on!
i love sports. i didn't used to be such a sports nut, though; it all happened my 5th year at stanford when i had this roommate, jason. that was the first year we had a tv in our dorm room, and he introduced me to sportscenter. he was a michigan alum, and a sports enthusiast overall. and i was sort of bored my spring quarter (i dropped my only class that quarter), so in addition to doing taiko and playing video games, i started watching espn with him. and thus began my nut-dom. now, i can't go a single night without watching espn in some shape or form.
i want to start playing tennis again. it's hard, though, because 1) i need to find somebody to play with, and 2) i need to find a court to play on. there aren't that many courts around here, unlike dallas, where there were courts all over the place. i used to play with byron, but he moved down south to LA a while back. hm.
so things at work are getting a little crunched and stressful. we found a bug in one of our old designs, and S is working furiously on resolving it. the problem is that she's leaving us, and she starts work at her new company this monday. so, she's been working late, and she'll most likely be coming in this weekend as well. that also means that i'll probably have to come in this weekend to support the ongoing activities. yuck. but poor S; she's leaving at the worst time, and apparently her new boss was like, "you *have* to start on monday, or else you're fired" or something insanely unreasonable like that.
so sandisk (SNDK) fell below $40 today. it's near it's 52-week low, so i picked up some more shares of it. damn, i should have sold my previous shares when it hit $59.75. i had a limit order sell at $60, so it only missed by 25 cents! *grr* but now, i own quite a bit of it, and i'm waiting it for it to rise again. i hope it all works out. SNDK is a really volatile stock; it goes up and down by a lot each day, so watching it daily can give one a heart attack.
i remember when i first started buying stocks, back in like 1997. i used to check my stocks every 10 minutes or so. it was nuts! of course, back then, i didn't have much money to begin with, so i cared a lot about how my stocks were doing. (of course, that's not to say that i *don't* care about my money now.) but now, i've learned to invest long-term (relatively speaking), so drops and stuff don't ruffle me as much. still, though, it hurts to see all of the dead money i have in my etrade portfolio from dot com crash, like all of the 99% losses that i have. ouch! sigh.
it's getting cold, weather-wise. i'm wearing a sweatshirt for the first time this season. yes, my paul frank sweatshirt that mikeT gives me shit for. :) i still haven't been able to see my own breath, though, so it's not that bad just yet.
i still haven't busted out the little vegemite packet that cheryl brought back from australia. i'm so curious to see what it tastes like. grace likened it to beef bouillon, which doesn't really help me because i don't think i've ever had that before, either. i need to carry around that vegemite in my pocket because i never know the next time i'm going to have toast. maybe i should make a visit to stacks or denny's sometime soon?
all righty-o. how about that? a blog entry w/o mention of sex or bodily functions!
so for lunch, D, J and i tried out this shanghai place on old san francisco and wolfe. their specialty is this grilled bun called "tzun jien bao." it was pretty tasty and juicy. we were enjoying our food when this woman at another table started YELLING at a waiter. apparently, according to D (who heard more of the conversation), the woman was not pleased with her food, and then she just snapped and went off. it was very embarrassing for everyone, and the other people at her table looked very sheepish as well. man, what nerve of her. i mean, i have had shitty food before, but i would never complain about it to the wait staff, you know? i'd just never go back again, that's all. on a similar note, have you guys ever sent back your food before?
ok, never mind. i mean, just a few weeks ago, at fiesta del mar too, i complained very loudly about the bad service. *embarrassed look* but i didn't say it directly to the waiters!
i miss my car, kendra, so much. i mean, this cobalt is sort of advanced in a couple of ways. it beeps when it accidentally drive it with the parking brake on. it has automatic headlights. it tells me what the pressure is in each tire. but still, i've had kendra for almost 8 years, and she's my baby. the body shop called me, and they're in painting stages, so it should be a couple of days (hopefully friday) before i get her back. i can't wait! one feature that i sorely miss is the audio controls on the steering wheel. it's distracting when i have to take my eyes off the road to change radio stations, and therefore, it's a little dangerous, too. steering wheel controls are very handy and much safer.
i had dinner with alan and ting last night at pho queen (lawrence and tasman). i don't think i'll be going back there again. they give very little meat in their pho. i think next time, i'll take them to kim long and introduce them to the double pork chop rice plate; i think they'll be impressed. and of course, i'll get the #24. yum!
i was watching a bit of _a shot at love_ last night. it's a dating show where the main catch is this girl named tila tequila, and the twist is that she's bisexual, so the suitors include both men and women. does anybody actually think that she's attractive? i don't think so, although i'll admit that she looks slightly better than she smiles. what nationality is she? she looks a little asian, so i'm wondering why there aren't any asian men or females as potential mates. anyways, she kicked off this really creepy guy (ashley) in the previous episode (i didn't watch the current one), and he just went bananas. it was pretty funny to watch. he claimed that he was crazy in love with her, and he just came on a bit strong, i think. a little too intense.
if i were the main character on a dating show, it wouldn't last very long. i make pretty quick decisions on whether i like a girl or not, usually within a couple of seconds. of course, this is based on solely physical reasons. i can tell if i'm attracted to a girl or not at first glance, and then i dig deeper into the personality. so if i were faced with like 20 girls, i bet at least 75% of them would be gone within the first meeting. and i'm being generous here with that number. like, when i used to troll friendster, i would have something like a 1% pass rating. yeah, i'm picky, i know that.
i am craving dim sum like mad. what particular dish am i hungering for? the sticky rice wrapped in leaves. that shit is good. although, i have to remind myself that i can only eat one, because two is too heavy. it's dense stuff! and of course, there is the usual turnip cake and leek dumpling that i always love. i think i'll try to organize a dim sum outing this sunday.
i'm still drinking one can of V8 a day. but i'm still not used to the nastiness of the taste. i can't imagine the fact that there exist some people who like this stuff. do bloody mary's taste like this? *shivers* but still, sometimes (actually, most times), this is the only vegetable intake i get, so that's why i suffer through it. it says that one can is two servings of vegetables, so that's cool with me. but still, ick.
so stanford men's basketball season has started! yuji has offered to sell me his tickets for some of the games this upcoming weekend, and i'm mulling over it. i can't decide which i love more: my stanford men or my dallas cowboys. i love both of them passionately. so that's saying a lot! this season is going to be tough; six pac-10 teams are ranked in the preseason top-25, so there's a lot of good competition out there out west. and we don't have brook lopez, that academic delinquent. i'm very disappointed in him for not keeping his grades up and skipping classes. *RAAR*
ok, time to wrap this up. i'm looking forward to southpark tonight. yay!
so i was e-mailing a friend of mine about anime porn. yeah, i've watched a little bit of the stuff. in fact, my first exposure to porn (aside briefly glancing through a skin mag) was anime style. my friend had a very bad quality VHS tape of some of the stuff, and i have vivid memories of one segment where this older woman was sitting behind this other girl, and she was sliding this violin bow across the girl's clitoris. "interesting," i remember thinking. as i was new to pornography, i didn't really know what to make of it; i don't think i was experienced enough to be turned on.
why don't americans make cartoon porn? why do the japanese have the market dominance in this realm of adult entertainment? hm. one thing that i don't enjoy, though, is the violent/monster form of teh stuff. you know, like the raping/tentacle stuff. i bought a tape of _la blue girl_ a few years ago, and even though i appreciated the fact that it wasn't censored/pixelated, it was just like i described: a lot of forced, monster phallus action. not my cup of tea. but yeah, it is quite an interesting and fascination genre of video.
poor jimmy. a week after we got into a car accident, he got in another one! this one wasn't his fault, though (the girl changed lanes right into his car), but that's not very much of a consolation. man, that sucks. that makes three accidents in one year for him. i resolve to be a more careful driver from now on, and that includes paying more attention while driving (and not looking at my GPS), and smoking and talking on my cell phone less while i'm behind the wheel.
so i've finally started to turn on the heater at my place. sometimes when i get home or get up, it's anywhere from 59 to 62 degrees. yeah, a little chilly. i can usually get by with wearing a jacket indoors, but still, my head and hands get a little cold. and that also means that naked time gets cut down. (no, i haven't had much naked time lately.)
D had a big fall during basketball today. someone undercut his legs when he jumped, and he came crashing down on his hip/ass. it was pretty ugly. i've had that happen to me once before, but i was fine afterwards; i was more shocked by the fall than hurt. *phew* i actually played decently (on offense) today; i scored a good number of baskets. however, on defense, as usual, my play was pretty abysmal. during one game, i had to guard this quick little guy, and he scored a lot of points on me. i just couldn't stop him!
it's interesting how in my dreamland, there are all sorts of venues and history created in my brain that seem so real. like, there are these places that my head has created, and there are these events and people that i have imagined. like, last night, in a dream, i swore i had had sex with this certain person, and when i woke up, i just felt completely 100% real. i was lying in bed awake, and i was debating to myself whether it was true, and i could not convince myself otherwise. dreams are just amazing things. they're like a multiplexed reality.
so things are getting a little crazy at work. the problem with all these people who have left/are leaving is that the people who remain have to take their work over, and the transition of knowledge is never complete. this means that no one left truly understands the other person's legacy stuff, which completely sucks. like, i was asked today how to do this and that on this block that used to belong to an old employee, and i was like, "uh...." ugh. i hate this part of the job. part of me just wants to leave and go to a startup exactly because of this reason; i just want to work on new stuff, and never have to deal with legacy material.
speaking of which, i just got an e-mail saying that one of those legacy blocks failed a test. gotta go look at it now. *phooey*
google phrase of the weekend:
"i lost the bet and had to give a blowjob"
haha! i hope it wasn't a stranger that you had to blow! first of all, it's crazy to accept this kind of bet in the first place. of course, if it was your boyfriend or something, then that's not an act out of the ordinary, so it's no big deal. but if it's somebody that you're not going out with, than hot damn! make a bet with ME! i'm down with some fellating action! but no teeth! :)
but anyways, when i saw this google hit, i just started laughing out loud. it reminded me of the bet i made with naked girl, when we both lost out weight loss goals and had to give up naked pictures of ourselves. i actually had a lot of fun with my tripod and camera when i took my five pictures, trying to be creative and all. i wonder where she's stashed those prints i made. and i hope they never get out into the open public! (by the way, naked girl has a hot body, that's all i can say.)
it depresses me to know that after the clock adjustment, it'll be dark when i step out of the office today. i hate that part of winter. i mean, november is my favorite month of the year and all (because of thanksgiving and my birthday), but still, i don't like the fact that it gets so dark so early. plus, this morning, the first monday after daylight savings, it got light so early as well! i had trouble sleeping in.
i must thank dishi (the candy connoisseur) for getting me that bag of brach's candy corn. i LOVE candy corn. apparently, he went and bought a shitload of candy at some post-halloween sale, so i asked him to pick me up a bag of candy corn. yum. yeah, it's pure sugar, but it just tastes so good. chewy goodness.
so D had a meeting at 1:30, so we had a 30-minute lunch today. i took him to arby's, where i scarfed down two beef 'n cheddars in like 10 minutes flat. i got such bad food coma that i passed out in my cube for half an hour. why is it that i get food coma for lunch but not dinner? it must have something to do with the fact that it's my first meal of the day. hm.
so i was talking to haruka last night, and she said that she got really bad food poisoning at taqueria la bamba and had to be hospitalized for three days. that's not the first time i've heard of la bamba's food fucking someone up. has anyone else been so afflicted? now i'm scared. i mean, i just had one of their carnitas quesadillas yesterday. fyi, she got the chicken, so maybe it was salmonella? at least the carnitas is grilled before it's put into the tortilla.
so the taiko peeps are raving about daiso, this hyakuen shop that just opened up at the mountain view/palo alto border on san antonio/el camino. apparently, it's a japanese store that has all these cool cheap knick-knacks. i want to go, just to see what all the hype is about.
is anyone out there a fan of DP (double penetration)? has any girl ever had it done to her? how does it feel? it looks very distracting to me. from a guy's perspective, it looks very awkward, sharing close (practically side-by-side) spaces with another guy. and from a girl's point of view (just a conjecture, as i am no woman), i would think it's like getting a massage from four hands instead of just two; it might feel marginally better, or maybe it would be too much stimulation? *shrug* who knows. i'm curious, so ladies, drop me a comment if you've done it before!
thanks to mikeT for the phone recommendation. i didn't see the VX8700 at the verizon store, but i'll have to go check it out. i do have a silver fetish, you know. i have a 4-year-old LG VX6000, and i love it; in fact, i just ordered a replacement battery from amazon, but then again, i will upgrade my phone by next summer when the cell phone driving ban takes effect. (need bluetooth for a wireless headset)
friday night, nelson and i grabbed some thai food at the new dusita (near el camino between wolfe and lawrence). we got the red duck curry and the angry pork. afterwards, i zipped over to los altos and picked up a very pregnant emi, who was in town for a wedding reception.
a couple of taiko peeps then congregated at my place, where we chatted and had root beer ice cream floats, thanks to susan and ray. luckily, i had just enough spoons and glasses to accomodate everyone. around 11pm or so, we dispersed, and i took emi back.
saturday morning, i met up with emi, her mom and barden at sushi house. we had lunch, briefly met up with kara and gabe afterwards outside the restaurant, and then took a nice stroll all around stanford campus. barden showed us all the new buildings that came up recently, mostly around the engineering side. i'm amazed at how much things have changed since i've graduated. we walked quite a bit, and after i got home, i took a nice nap and then watched the oregon/arizona state game. go oregon! they're ranked #3 in the BCS now. i'm hoping ohio state or LSU loses so they can go to the national title game.
for dinner, i met up with paul and leeya at southland. i wasn't feeling the beef noodle soup, so i reverted back to my usual ground pork rice ($3.50). paul wasn't satisfied afterwards, so we roamed around cupertino village at 9pm looking for more food. he eventually settled on a banana/nutella crepe at qcup, and after that, we called it a night and went our separate ways.
sunday, since it was daylight savings, i was really craving sleeping extra-long, but i woke up at 9:30 (adjust time) and wanted to get up. i forced myself to stay in bed for another hour, but then i got up. i went to safeway to pick up my meds, toilet paper and soap, and then went to verizon wireless to see if i could buy a new battery for my 4-year-old phone. unfortunately, they didn't carry them anymore (as expected), so i spent some time browsing new phones. i didn't see any i liked, but i do plan on getting a new one sometime in the near future.
i grabbed a carnitas quesadilla at la bamba and watched the end of the 49ers/falcons game, and then it was time for the game of the day: pats/colts! i was gonna go to paul's place to watch it, but it turns out that they were broadcasting it on CBS, so i just stayed home to watch it. i actually got food coma and fell asleep during certain parts, but still, i powered through it. it was a good game; the colt should have won it, but the patriots were too strong in the 4th quarter, and they won by 4.
then, it was on to the 3rd game of the day: cowboys/eagles. i threw on my cowboys (troy aikman) jersey and watched the first half at my place. then, i went over to hiroshi/joy's place for some of ray's homemade clam chowder extravaganza. there were tons of people there, and i felt a little silly wearing a football jersey, but hey, i gotta support my team. the game wasn't even close, so i was pleased. the chowder was great, and they even had sourdough bread bowls! later, after the meal, i even did a citrus vodka shot with joy and gabe. :)
i know i watched a ton of football this weekend, but the season's half over, and i know i'm going to miss it when it's all said and done. so i'm just going to soak as much of it in as i can, and not regret watching so much. hey, my cowboys are 7-1! big game next week against the 6-2 giants at the meadowlands.
ah, friday. here at last. not much happened today, except that i got to have lunch with alan. we went to mezbaan, this indian restaurant in the rivermark. i was craving indian food, but i didn't eat that much of it despite those cravings. i just had one plate, and then i got dessert (rice pudding and three gulab jamun's). afterwards, my pee smelled of sandwiches. weird, huh?
i've got most of my weekend lined up already. tonight, i'm going to wait for emi to arrive, and hopefully some of us taiko peeps will hang out and also have lunch tomorrow at sushi house. saturday night is open, but sunday will be occupied by two big football games. i don't quite know who (patriots or the colts) i'll be rooting for. both are good teams, and espn has the game set up as a battle of good vs. evil. ha! but of course, the second game will be the cowboys and the eagles. go 'boys!
today, i took three dumps in a span of two hours. yup, a hat trick of diarrhea from my good ol' sphincter. the first two came within 5 minutes of each other. i guess i had a lot of liquid built up, since i hadn't take a shit in 48 hours.
so i just *knew* that mikeT was going to ask for a picture of my 13-year crush girl. i was planning on showing him, but he beat me to the punch. he wasn't that impressed, but i had to explain to him that 13 years is a long time to build up a near impossibly-high pedestal to place this girl on. i told him that i have her address and phone number, but of course, i can't just call her out of the blue (i'm not *that* much of a stalker, hehe). but what i think i will do is write her a letter or something. maybe. hm. sigh.
so i got a call from the auto body shop today. i might be getting my car back next friday. i can't wait! i've actually gotten used to this chevy cobalt that i've been driving since last wednesday. but i do miss kendra. terribly so. it's weird that we can get attached to inanimate objects, like cars and houses.
i've realized that it's really dangerous to take my eyes off of the road while i'm driving. kendra has stereo controls on the steering wheel, so i can change stations without looking at the radio. last night, i looked at my rental car's stereo for like two seconds to change channels, and i almost rear-ended the car in front of me. dangerous! and that one time, when i was driving on the windy 17 to get to greg and cheryl's wedding, i was stupidly playing with my GPS, and i almost got myself and my passengers killed as i drifted into the other lane. *bonks himself on the head* man, i need to drive more carefully.
how do tv and movie writers come up with characters' names? the few times i tried to write fiction, i could never come up with cool monikers for my characters. they all sounded stupid. i think the few names i came up over the years were "joey brennan," "eric young," and "rajuz mielbrau." that last one is just crazy, huh? but the pro's do it so well!
this week, i got vastly fewer hits than i normally get. i guess people have stopped coming to my site for pictures of "perfect ass" and "kate beckinsale." it's ok, though, because now i have a better notion of how many dedicated readers there are, rather than people coming based off wacky google search phrases. but hey, if you are a reader, why don't you leave me a comment and say hi, wontcha? :)
do you guys like loud sex? i actually like it when a girl makes *some* noise, but super-loud sex is a big turnoff. it's annoying! very distracting, to tell you teh truth. i mean, i want the girl to enjoy sex, and i like the fact that she's being pleasured, but i don't need to know it at 100 decibels, you know? me, i'm pretty silent during sex. i mean, it feels good and all, but i think for a guy, it doesn't feel so good that i have to moan or anything. unless, that is, until i shoot my wad.
ok, it's friday, and i'm itching to get out of here. time to figure out my dinner plans. ciao!
so as expected (since i turned off my porch light), i didn't get any trick or treaters at my place last night. i did stop by safeway and picked up a bag of peanut butter cups just in case i got some bold visitors; i gave out one cup... to myself. yum, i love reese's pbc's. anyways, i wasn't at home much last night, either, because i went out to maruichi for some ramen with some of the gang. when i got home, i watched the finale to the _southpark_ imaginationland trilogy. go butters!
emi's coming into town this weekend! i love emi, although i don't talk to her as much as i used to. back when i lived at lenox, i used to call her up every sunday, and we would chat for at least half an hour each time. but now, she's married and living with shoji. she's pregnant, too, and she tells me that she's gained quite a bit of weight. i bet i'll be shocked when i see her this weekend. anyways, i'm quite excited.
basketball today was good. we played some competitive 5-on-5 games. i almost got killed, though; i was about to shoot, and P, this big dude, came rushing towards me and leapt right into me, knocking us both down. he plays hockey, so you can imagine a rather large 6+ feet guy bowling me over. i got a nice elbow to the head. but anyways, it was good exercise, and my buddy ben came too. afterwards, i went to get my usual vietnamese sandwich, but they ran out. so i haven't eaten anything all day. (strangely, i'm not hungry.)
i haven't taken a dump today, nor have i felt the urge to, despite all the cigarette intake i've had. i'm sort of curious what's going on.
so cheryl just joined facebook today. when she added me as a friend, i checked her profile out, and i could tell she just joined because she only had 5 friends, and i saw all her new activity logs. i IM'ed her, and sure enough, she was bored at work. ha! she didn't quite understand the coolness of facebook, so i told her all about the various applications that you could add. facebook is definitely niftier than all the other social networking sites out there because of the interactivity that's possible.
so today, while taking multiple leaks in the bathroom, i noticed two employees who didn't flush at the urinal and one guy who didn't wash his hands afterwards. man, i was getting irritated. what the hell is wrong with these people? these are common courtesies! also, the other day, i noticed one guy who flushed mid-stream and then, he didn't flush after he was done. strange, i know!
oddly enough, i find sarah silverman just a little teensy bit attractive. am i totally off base here? i think i like her hair. i will always choose dark hair over blondes. red hair is also good, but it's really rare. i don't watch her program, but i catch glimpses of the beginning since it's right after southpark.
i'm wearing a stussygear (umlaut over the 'u') t-shirt today. people always misread it and think it says "sissygear." haha. very funny.
the other night at cafe verde, i'm pretty sure i saw BR girl again. she was wearing a baseball cap, but it couldn't hide her beautiful, flawless face. hot damn, some people are just blessed with perfection. she wasn't with that guy (the one i assumed to be her boyfriend from when i saw her last at maruichi), but this time, she was with some other dude and another girl. i wonder if i'd ever have the guts to approach her, and then, i wonder if she'd put a retraining order on me, seeing as how i sort of stalked her at BR. ha!
my right knee's been feeling sort of funny. it hurts when i bend it in a certain way. i hope i didn't strain a ligament or something. it felt fine during basketball today, but sometimes, when i'm fidgeting my legs in my cube, it just hurts. uh oh.
why do spicy shits hurt? i mean, what about the dump makes the sphincter burn like it does? i mean, the turd isn't any wider than usual, so it can't be the size of the shit. so it must be the content of the matter. is it the acidity, and does that cause the asshole to tear? *ponder* i want answers!
ok, that's it for today. *yawn* thursday night television awaits!