so yesterday, i didn't do much during the day. i had lunch with my parents at sam woo (a chain of cantonese restaurants), even though i had just had dinner there the night before. i even ordered the same dish there: scrambled egg and beef over rice. it's my favorite cantonese dish, the benchmark that i use for all cantonese restaurants. i also got a huge sticky rice/meat wrapped in leaves dim sum dish, and it was only $1.80! food is much cheaper here in LA than it is in the bay area.
afterwards, i hung out with my dad (with smoking breaks and stuff) while he did some errands. then, i watched some of the arizona state/texas holiday bowl game. that lateral/fumble play was nuts!
for dinner, alex came by and picked me up. we wanted to get some sushi, but the first place was closed down. we were going to head to BJ's, but on the way, we spied a kabuki sushi place, so we ate there instead. we split a 720ml bottle of $80 sake (onikoroshi), and it was pretty good, even though i usually hate sake. the tab came out to like $160, which alex paid.
after that, we went to don jose to do some tequila shots. we each had two shots of patron and one shot of don julio. patron was way better than DJ. i paid for the drinks this time ($50). we just chatted and caught up the whole time, and it was great to see my stanford buddy again. alex was my drunking partner my junior year in college, so tequila shots really took me back.
alcohol gives me some really weird dreams. this morning, i dreamt that i was teaching my son how to count (like how to pronounce "twenty" and "thirty") by drawing out numbers of bottles on a dry erase board, except that my son was a huge mexican dude.
i was in the middle of the dream when cindyT called me up. i had e-mailed her last night about meeting up for lunch today, so they (she and tim) came by and took me to ambala dhaba (an indian restaurant) for some tasty stuff. we ordered CTM, bhindi masala, and bengan bartha, plus some chili garlic naan. the only dish i didn't like was the eggplant because it had ginger in it. it was good seeing them, even though it was only the second time i had met them (the first being at mikeT's wedding in hawaii a few months ago).
so they just dropped me off at home just now, and everybody's asleep at my uncle's house. hm. what to do. i think i'm going to go out and smoke and try calling up some of my friends. i have my cousin's pre-wedding dinner tonight. i know i have to dress up a bit (i brought a club monaco shirt to wear for this dinner), but i have no jacket to wear. it's cold at night!