so after lunch on friday, i chilled out a bit, and then it was time for the rehearsal dinner in lomita. we went to this szechuan seafood place on PCH. my two cousins and i were stuck at the kid's table. there were a couple of other cousins i had never met before, and two of them had two little kids. the four of them left early, so there was food for 10 people for the remaining 6 of us. wow. they brought out two huge fish dishes, and i'm not a big fish eater. needless to say, i didn't eat much. they also served peking duck, but the skin wasn't very crispy.
saturday, my cousin shirley came back, and we celebrated her birthday early with another chinese banquet feast. funny, the food was almost identical to the food the previous night (fish, peking duck, which was better this time).
after that, geoff, pak, nelson and maddie came by and picked me up. we went to long beach again for pinkberry. (yes, x-gf, this was the one on broadway.) this time, i got the green tea with mochi and captain crunch. the fro yo is starting to grow on me, and actually, i'm starting to crave it now.
after that, we went to the aquarium and look at the various sea creatures there. i wanted to pet the stingrays, but i was afraid i'd pull a steve irwin and get stung to death. i heard that they were slimy. we went in at 4:45 and got half off price tickets, and the place closed at 6pm.
after that, we crossed the street and went to the mai tai bar to get some appetizers and cheap drinks (happy hour) and catch some of the patriots/giants game. i got a long beach (not island) iced tea, but it wasn't very strong. then, we went downstairs to bubba gump (yes, totally touristy) for dinner. i got a bushmills, but it was sour for some reason.
after that, they dropped me off, and my cousins and i went to go see _juno_ at 10:20. i had been wanting to see this movie for a while now, especially since ebert named this movie his #1 of 2007. it was a cute movie, and the lead actress (ellen page?) did a good job. i didn't like jennifer garner, though; the movie made it seem like there was something fishy with her character. the movie theater was packed.
the next day was all wedding, literally. i got up, dressed, and headed out. the ceremony festivities started at 1pm (the place is like a wedding factory, with strict time slots; they had 1-3pm). it was a really beautiful location. it's called the wayfarers chapel in rancho palos verdes, a glass church with heated stone walls with views of the pacific ocean. the ceremony was short and sweet (6 bridesmaids dressed in blue and 6 groomsmen), and the reception immediately afterwards was in la venta inn in palos verdes estates. i was disappointed they didn't have whiskey; they only had beer, champagne and wine.
the maid of honor's and best man's speeches were made immediately after the introduction of the wedding party, and they were really good. oh, and i had a cigarette break with the dj, matt. he turned out to be a singer in a punk rock band on his off days. cool. i mingled a tiny bit, but the kids were so young. (the stanford friend were all class of 2002, and i'm class of 1996, just to give you an idea.) i mainly stayed with my family. the fathers of the couple gave toasts, and the groom's dad cried at the end. touching.
the wedding ended at 9pm, but we left at 8. thank goodness for my GPS. my brother left early, but the road he wanted to take was blocked off, so we used my GPS to lead him to the right roads. i think everyone should get one.
after we came back, i said goodbye to my cousin shirley; she had to drive back to san diego and work the next day. she got me this mocha vitasoy which was pretty good. and the whole family was disappointed the lakers lost to the celtics. sometimes i get jealous that their whole family is more cohesive and together than mine; my family is more like a collection of individuals with different agendas.
this morning, i got up at 7 so my parents could take me to dave & carolyn (plus little dylan!)'s place. baby dylan is so cute (he's one and a half). they have a cute little house, and we had breakfast and caught up. dave's got big plans for renovations, though. he got this house layout planning software and showed me what he wants to do. cool stuff.
around 10 or so, they dropped me off at the airport. i used the skycap service for the first time because the line inside was super-long. i tipped $1. is that normal? (i would have tipped more, but i only had one single dollar bill.) my flight was at 12:40 (and it was delayed by a little bit), so i hit the gordon biersch place and ordered a whiskey (glenfidditch 12 year) and some spinach/artichoke dip. damn, i thought they were going to have garlic fries. i watched part of the cal/air force game and text'ed grace the score.
they card everywhere and everyone in LA. this old dude got carded, and he asked the bartender if he wanted to see his NAACP card. :)
ok, so now i'm back. it's good to be home, except when i stepped into my house, it was FORTY-NINE degrees inside. *shivers*
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!
so christmas day (monday? time seems to blur when i'm on vacation), i woke up wondering whether anybody would be free do hang out with me. i wound up having indian buffet with paul and nelson at shiva, this relatively new indian restaurant on castro and california. the food was ok, but the selection wasn't that great. nelson said that the butter chicken was sweet, but at least the naan was fresh.
after that, i went home, took a little nap, and then adam dropped by my place to watch his beloved chargers take on the broncos on monday night football. we ordered a large domino's pizza, and adam ate 5 slices while i had the other 3. that dude can eat. the game was a good win for the chargers, who held denver to only 3 points. (i was rooting for a shutout.) after he left, i went upstairs and packed.
i woke up at 9:30 on tuesday, did my usual morning routine, IM'ed grace for a bit, and then left for the airport. man, long term parking was completely jam packed, and i wound up finding a spot at the very end of the lot. the lines were pretty sparse, but my flight turned out to be 99% full. weird. my dad picked me up, and the first thing we did when i picked up my luggage at baggage claim was share a smoke. ah, cigarette bonding.
i've been eating well here. all i've been having here is chinese food (beef noodle soup, beef and egg over rice, etc.). it's pretty good stuff, although today, i ordered eggplant with garlic sauce, and it was really bad. it's good hanging out with family, but then again, my mom and brother are all tied up with church conference stuff, and my dad is working most of the time. so i'm watching a lot of tv.
today, i called up an old taiko friend gina, and she picked me up, and we hung out for a few hours. we went to the cerritos library (cool building) to donate some of her books, and then we headed over to long beach to try pinkberry. ok, yeah, the frozen yogurt is good (and i got the "secret" unlisted mochi topping), but i don't get the hype. it's expensive, and it's not mind-blowing or anything. what's the deal with this place? why is it so popular? *shrug*
after pinkberry, we hit the cerritos mall. gina got some $80 moisturizer (it lasts for 4 months), and i picked up an $8.99 pair of penguin boxers at BR. cute! and then, i went home, had dinner with my dad and uncle's family, and watched the end of the motor city bowl, which was actually pretty exciting. (51-48 score)
damn, my dad can fall asleep in less than 2 minutes. i wish i could do that. he's snoring right now.
ok, that's it so far. it's nice to have some downtime, but to be honest, i'm getting a little bored. well, tomorrow i get to drink with alex, so that should be fun. :)
friday night, i took my parents to darda seafood for dinner. it was a decent wait. it's weird there; they had a big tables open, but only a few small ones. we waited for a while, but were finally able to get seated after about 15-20 minutes. after dinner, we went to my mom's cousin's place in san jose (nearby, near the cisco campus) to visit her family. she had a cute almost-2-year-old daughter. then, we went home, and my mom's friend esther came by to drop off some gifts and hang out for a while.
saturday morning, around 9:30, i heard some rummaging sounds downstairs, so i got up. when i went out for my morning smoke, i saw my parents about to leave. what? they were going to drive off without saying goodbye? my dad's weird like that. anyways, they decided to leave early for LA, and apparently it was a long drive (around 8-9 hours) because of the traffic on the 152 and the 5. ouch.
nelson and i had brunch at los gatos cafe. he was half an hour late, which made me fretful because i really needed to go home. why? because i wanted to watch the stanford men vs. texas tech game. i missed part of the first half. apparently, we played well at first, but once the lopez twins went out with foul trouble, we sucked. we didn't score a basket for like 5 minutes straight. but in the second half, we came back strong, and won the game by one point. *phew* i was so happy that i threw on my stanford basketball shirt.
after that, i watched the season finale of _the next great american band_. hm. it seemed that the producers and the judges really wanted the clark brothers to win. anyways, here is the list (as i always do) of the bands voted off in order:
the hatch, the likes of you
rocket, the muggs
franklin bridge
cliff wagner and the old number 7
tres bien!
dot dot dot
light of doom
denver and the mile high orchestra
sixwire
the show wasn't nearly as good _american idol_, but i have to say that i semi-enjoyed it. i will probably follow it next season if they decide to renew it.
then, i met up with jay/margaret and alan/ting at korea house for a reunion dinner. the moment i got there, i told the waitress that i was going to order the kalbi jim (not kalbi, but kalbi jim, which is an entirely different dish) because it takes like 30-40 minutes to cook. man, was it tasty. i highly recommend it, although it is $20.95. it was great seeing jay and margaret again, and i'm glad they moved back here. jay starts work in february, so i'm going to try to hang out with him in january.
after dinner, i headed over to greg/cheryl's place for their holiday/gift exchange party. most everyone was already there. the first thing i did was to ask greg for a computer so i could check the cowboys score (we won, 20-13, but lost TO to an ankle sprain.) leeya agreed to do a shot of insignia (from mexico) tequila. well, she did a half shot on ice. (leeya doesn't drink, so people were surprised that she did it.) then, after the warriors lost, john was in a pissy mood, so he and i hit the bottle of bushmills. we both had 3.5 whiskeys. we all hung out and chatted for a while until the gift exchanged party.
we drew cards for the gift exchange party, and i drew the ace of spaces, which meant i went last. this time, instead of stealing a gift (which i have always done), i decided to open the last gift lying there. i was excited, but guess what was inside? A GOLDEN PURSE. WTF? who buys a non-unisex gift? i was very disappointed, afterwards, ann kindly took the gift off of my hands. but i walked out with nothing. sigh. what a fiasco.
i left around midnight, but not before puking in the street. i had some disturbed sleep and weird dreams.
i woke up at 10:30, got some cash, and headed over to nelson's place at 11. we grabbed some wendy's drive-thru and went up north to candlestick for the 49ers/buccaneers game. our seats were pretty awesome: on the 25 yard line, 13th row. the game was good (niners won 21-19), although honestly, TB pulled some of their starts in the 2nd quarters because the game meant nothing to thing since they clinched a playoff spot already.
during halftime, i got to smoke, and i spent forever trying to find some tasty gordon biersch garlic fries. in the end, i found them, but i missed a 49ers touchdown because of them. but yeah, you gotta have garlic fries. salty and garlicky and altogether wonderful.
it took us around an hour and a half to get from the parking lot to the 101, though. that part really sucked. there has to get a better way to travel back from a football game. after i got back home, i called up mikeC and john, and we (plus grace) met up at wahoo's fish taco for dinner. don't get their carne asada. that meat sucks. get their spicy chicken instead.
after dinner, we went to paul/leeya's house and watched the endings to _ocean's thirteen_ and _shrek 3_. neither were very interesting. then, as they got set to play LAN games, i left and got ready for bed and _sportscenter_.
overall, a very good weekend. today, though, i'm not sure if people are up for anything. they're probably spending time with family. i'll see what i can scrounge up. i leave for LA tomorrow. anyways, once again, happy holidays everyone!
ah, the break is finally upon me. 11 straight days off! i'm a little bummed i didn't get to hang out with my parents these past three days, but it turned out ok in the end. i'm gonna pound out this blog entry and go home. and no more work until the new year! WOO-FUCKING-HOO!
man, 2007 went by so quickly. it was blur, really. i will remember it as the year of the weddings. 6 of them, and there were another 5 that i either wasn't invited to or didn't attend. i spent a lot of money on airfare, hotels, gifts, and bachelor parties, but it was worth it; i had a lot of fun, and it was good times with friends. i have one more left on 12/30, but this one i'm not sure of; it's a family wedding, and i don't know of anybody my age who's attending, so i'm thinking it won't be as fun as the other 5 i attended this year. plus, since i'll be with family, i don't think i'll be able to drink and stuff. maybe i'll drink with my dad? *shrug*
this was a rare year where i made new year's resolutions, and i followed through on both of them. and i'm proud of myself for doing that. i feel like i accomplished something, and that's a very good thing.
jay and margaret are back! and this time, it's for a while. jay's heading up a facial plastics division in some san jose hospital, and i organized a group dinner at korea house tomorrow night. i can't wait to see them. and after that, i'm attending greg and cheryl's holiday/gift exchange party. i went to fry's on monday and bought a $20 (that was the limit) gift. and on sunday, nelson invited me to go see the 49ers/bucs game. ah, jeff garcia comes back to his old stomping grounds. i just hope i don't freeze into a popsicle.
2007 was also the year of facebook. i have 99 friends on it now. one more until my goal of 100! haha. i found some old high school friends that i haven't heard from in well over a decade. so that's pretty damn cool. one of them, i had a crush on. unfortunately, her profile picture is a photo of some dogs, so i have no idea what she looks like now. i'm curious. funny thing is, she's up in SF now, so i wonder if i should drop her a line and see if she wants to meet up. (oh, btw, she's married now.)
i think i'm completely dependent on my morning cigarette now. i can't seem to take my morning dump without it. when i had my first smoke today, my mom came out to see what the hell i was doing. i immediately hid my left hand, and i hope she didn't see my cigarette. i started walking away from her and acted all nonchalantly, and then she went inside. she knows i smoke, but i just don't like to do it in front of her.
my mom burps a lot. i know it's part of her ailment (having gas), but it sort of bugs me. i should let it go. poor mom. menopause hit her really hard, and there was a month a few years ago when she couldn't get out of bed. she had to breathe using an oxygen mask, and she couldn't even talk. she had to write stuff to communicate. man. i am so glad that she is better now. of course, when she tells me about her illness, she credits her faith in god as the reason why she's all better now.
my parents bicker a lot. my dad calls her "wife" in chinese, in a sort of grating manner. i know they love each other, but still, they don't seem to get along sometimes. it bothers me. my mom sometimes tells me that she and my dad are very different people, and she repeatedly reminds me to find a girl who is "compatible" with me. i think my dad sometimes feels left out because my mom's faith is so strong, and she is so devoted to the church and her religious life. maybe that's why my dad throws himself into his work? *ponder*
i am curious what aimee thinks of the book i lent her. as a reminder, i lent her _vox_ by nicholson baker, and the entire novel is a phone sex conversation. it's awesome. aimee's a girl who won't get offended by it, and i hope she likes it. i've given this book to many girls before, but i've yet to hear any of their thoughts on it. i hope she has time to read it on her winter break from school.
my heating bill is going to be astronomical this month. since my parents are here, i've kept the heat on 24 hours of a day.
the other night, i was in the shower, and the moisture in the air must have loosened up the wax in my left ear. i heard a crunch and felt a jostling noise. and the next thing i knew, this half-dime-sized chunk of yellow/brown gunk fell out. it was awesome. i played with it for about a minute in the shower, as it was very malleable. no, i didn't eat it. and my hearing got a lot better, too. i must have overactive sebaceous glands or something; ever since i was little, i've always had a ton of earwax. i used to go to my doctor every few months to clean my ears out. that was back when they used that metal loop device to scrape it out; nowadays, they use a loosening fluid and a water squeegee.
i wonder what new year's resolutions i'm going to make for 2008. i have an idea, but it's not something i can control.
yeah, i'm still sleeping naked even though parents are under my roof. i trust them not to come in my bedroom without knocking. i've actually slept in the same room as a naked guy before. back when i was in japan, i shared a room with my finnish buddy, ilkka. one time, i woke up and rolled over to face the side of the room where he was sleeping, and i opened my eyes and got a faceful of his bare ass standing there. it was quite a sight to behold. ah, ilkka. he was a cool dude.
some girls have a very misleading face. when i went to get my vietnamese sandwich after basketball today, there was this girl sitting at a table having lunch. from the side, she had a very cute face/profile. but then, when i caught a glimpse of her face from the front, she turned out to be not so cute. (her eyes were too close together; it was very weird.) deceptive! just goes to show you that you need a full 180 degrees before making a judgment on a girl's looks.
ok, that is it for me today. no more work for 2007! i'll try to blog at least once more before the end of the year. but until then, have a STUPENDOUS holiday season everyone! *muah*
so today was the third thursday ice cream social at our company. in true holiday spirit, we had egg nog ice cream as one of our 8-10 flavors. i thought it was pretty good (i had forgotten what egg nog tasted like), but now i'm burping it up, and it's making feel a bit sick. what kind of alcohol are you supposed to spike egg nog with? rum? anyways, i also had pistachio, cookies 'n cream, and chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. yeah, it's a lot. but now, the egg nog burps are overpowering everything.
last night, i took my mom to meet one of her college friends E, at one of E's restuarants at redwood shores. the restaurant's called tokyo star (she owns another one in san mateo, but that one has changed names to something like "liquid sushi"). we had to pray before eating. E led the prayer, and it was in chinese, and i didn't understand 100% of it, but i do think she prayed for me to find a nice christian girl. during the dinner conversation, the topic came up, and she was like, "don't you want a girl who loves god?" i gave her a blank stare, and i think i nodded, but in my head, i was thinking the exact opposite. i mean, ok, if she's religious, that might be ok, as long as she doesn't try to convert me. but yeah, it could be an issue. mind you, i'm *not* an atheist; i'm agnostic. i just don't know what's out there.
but yeah, being alone with my mom can be uncomfortable. during the drive back down south after dinner, she kept on talking about religion and how wonderful/powerful it is and stuff. (actually, she hates the word "religion" to describe her faith.) i naturally just blocked it out and concentrated on driving and listening to the radio. ugh. lunch with her wasn't so bad today, but i never know when she's going to bust out the god talk.
i'm impressed at my dad's sense of direction and internal compass. he is pretty good at exploring my neighborhood and finding his way around places. and for some really weird reason, he loves mcdonald's. he doesn't eat the unhealthy stuff; he actually goes there for the salads. last night, he was pretty tired, so he didn't come to dinner with my mom and E. but when i called him, he was actually on the road, exploring the san jose airport for the next day (he is on a one-day business trip today to houston). pretty amazing. if i landed in a foreign city, i would be very hesitant to drive around and explore without a map, for fear of getting very lost. this morning, though, i lent him my GPS just in case he got lost on the way back.
nelson got two 49ers tickets for this upcoming game vs. the bucs, and he invited me. cool! i haven't seen a live football game since his organized outing last year. he assures me that the seats will be better than last time, hehe. last year, we were at the VERY TOP row. i mean, our backs were against the wall of the structure. the players looked like little ants. the only thing i'm worried about is if it will rain. weather.com puts it at a 10% chance of precipitation. and i'm going to try to wear 49ers red. yeah, i know that's probably a blasphemy for a guy who's a die-hard cowboys fan, but why not... i'll support the niners for a day.
the mavericks won last night! by 3 points! steve nash head a decent look at a 3 to tie it, but he shot an airball instead. *phew* and the stanford men (brook lopez is back!) destroyed santa clara, too. i rushed back from dinner and turned on the tv, and i was ping-ponging between the two basketball games. ah, sports. i love it.
i was really horny last night. after watching _the real world_, i stepped out of my room and went down for a smoke, but my parents were already sleeping in the living room. damn. no porn for me. there's this one clip on my lexus dvd from a movie called "secret party" or something like that, and it shows this girl sitting on a chair while this guy's doing her. it's probably my favorite porn scene of all, and that's saying a lot. too bad it only lasts for like 15 seconds. i don't know what it is about that position that turns me on so much, but it just does.
alan once asked one of my ex's what her favorite position was, and she thought about it for a while, and she then replied, "on a chair." so i'm not the only one who likes that! hehe. the interesting thing about that incident was that she and i hadn't had sex on a chair yet, so she must have been reminiscing about a previous time with one of her other boyfriends, and i got sort of jealous and chilly afterwards. nobody ever likes thinking about their sigO's having sex about other people, right?
my car's having problems again. it's done this before, but basically, after i start it, it dies unless i give it some gas. the last time this happened, they had to adjust the idle speed and replace a sticky IAC valve. man, this sucks. right before the holidays, too! the earliest that the dealership can look at it is next wednesday, but i'll be in LA then. so i signed up on the waiting list tomorrow, and i hope someone cancels. ugh, i'm stressed out; car troubles are very irritating and give me a lot of anxiety. my car's 8 years old, and only has 85,000 miles on it. i shouldn't have to buy a new car, right? *sigh*
ok, it's 5pm, and i hope my mom's not bored at home with her thumb up her ass. i still have a bit of work to do before i leave.
hey folks. my parents got here this morning, while i was dreaming about having 100 pairs of shoes and a machine called "nuvi." (yes, i know it's the name of my GPS.) i was very excited when they pulled up outside my doorstep. it's so good to have them around, although i had to go to work. if i can get my shit together at the office, i might ask my boss for friday off. it helps that we finally got the bug resolved this afternoon. it turned out to be an initialization/testbench issue, and not a real RTL bug. *phew*
my mom went into my room, and immediately expressed a strong desire to clean up and dust. i responded by pushing her out into the hallway and closing the door behind us. i really hope she doesn't dig into my closet and find my porn. yikes! last night, i watched some of it, sort of like a "farewell to porn" since i won't be able to view any for a while. i think lexus is sort of hot, despite her fake boobs. i hate the way artificially enhanced breasts look when the girl is leaning over, and you can see the weird vertical dimples that the implants make.
so tila tequila! she didn't pick the person i wanted her to. too bad. the third place girl was really ugly, though. that amazon woman. ick. bobby's mom was getting on my nerves, though. i mean, it's one thing to tout your son, but who actually goes out and says that your kid is cuter than another's child? that's just tactless! grr...
lots of good sports to watch tonight. mavericks are on, stanford men play tonight after a long lay-off due to finals week, and the celtics and pistons are going head-to-head. but, my parents are in town, and i'm taking them to meet up with one of my mom's old friends, so i'm just going to tape _the real world_. ashli and dunbar fight! dunbar's just an asshole with a real anger management issue. he's my least favorite person on the show. i think kellyAnne's the cutest girl.
i had lunch with ben today. it was good seeing him today, and he dressed really slickly, like he usually does. he was wearing a velvet blazer! wow, smooth. we had pho in milpitas, at this place called "pho today." i wouldn't recommend going there, though. they don't give enough meat, and it's semi-expensive, as far as pho goes. ($6.75 for a large bowl) i look forward to playing basketball with him again, but that'll probably be next year. i'm done with bball in 2007. it was one of my new year's resolutions of this year, and i'm very glad that i stuck with it. i only played once in 2006, and i really needed to get off of my ass and get some exercise, so at first, it was like a chore, but now i really enjoy playing again.
watching basketball on tv inspires me be better when i play. i always get these ideas of how to translate these plays i see to what i want to do on the court myself, but reality always sets in, and i find that i'm just not as athletic or mindful as the pros. it's sort of depressing, actually. like, i want to do a crossover move, or i want to be more court-aware, but in the end, i turn the ball over or stumble or forget where my teammates are. it's sad how bad i am compared to the NBA (or even college) players. i really wish i had some formal training in basketball fundamentals. i see people like D, who can dribble with both hands, between their legs, behind their backs, and do no-look passes while driving, and i just feel futile on the court. oh well. i'll take my regrets and transfer these wishes to my kids by giving them sports lessons.
ok, i know this is a short entry, but i want to go home and see my parents now. talk to you later? yup.
man, i've practically spent the entire afternoon away from my desk. i've been in R's cube debugging the HWG. frustrating, i tell you. we came up with one fix, but now it's caused some problems elsewhere. ARGH! now, it's past 6:30, and i've just started blogging. looks like a late night at the office.
so my parents come in tomorrow morning. i don't think i can take any time off, so i'm sort of in a bad position. i mean, what the hell are they supposed to do while i'm at work? *RAAR* what a rotten son i am. or rather, what a rotten thing my job is doing to me.
we had a monster showing at basketball today. we had like 14-15 people! it was good to get out and exercise, and william even showed up! it was good to see him, although i didn't get to play on his team. i only scored one point today, on a jumper from about 15 feet. i played better defense today, though.
so greg and cheryl are hosting a holiday/gift exchange party on saturday, like i said. after dinner at st. john's yesterday, mikeC, nelson and i hit fry's in search of gifts to buy. i found something that was within the $20 range, and it's a decent gift. at first, i picked up a neck-massaging cradle, but then i found something that seemed better. afterwards, we hit up paul and leeya's house and tried some of aimee's chili. it was good, although it could have been spicier. i love spicy chili! aimee only put in 4 peppers, although she bought 6. next time, she should go all the way and put them all in.
re: vegemite. i have been curious about it for a long time. it's one of those cultural curiosities (probably like why people wonder why taiwanese people like stinky tofu), and it's been enhanced because i really like that song "land down under" by men at work. and you know that line "he just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich." but yeah, it tastes really gross, and i will probably never eat it again. i really don't understand why aussies like that stuff.
tonight's the big decision! tila tequila picks the one. personally, i'm rooting for dani because like cindy says, she's a pretty cool person. i don't like her hair, but i guess it suits her as being a butch lesbian. i saw some clips of her wearing a bit of makeup, and it actually looks decent on her. a little bit goes a long way. i wonder if bisexual people miss things about the other sex when they're with one particular sex. like, when they're with a girl, do they miss a penis inside of her? and when they're with a guy, do they miss playing with a woman's boobs? stuff like that.
i don't think i could ever be into guys. i definitely think some guys are really attractive (like taye diggs or gregory peck in his prime), but not in the way of "i'd do him" or "he could make me gay." i think women are too attractive. their legs, breasts, asses, the back of their necks, everything! women are just delectable. *slurps*
i've got to clean up the place when i go home tonight. i need to buy some toothpaste, bottles of water, extra blankets, etc. for my parents, and most importantly, i need to hide my stash of porn. ah, no more naked time for a while! (not that i've been doing much of that; my place is too cold for naked time these days.)
i'm really worried that my dad is overworking himself. he's been travelling a lot, and the day after he gets here, he's flying to north carolina and then to houston for business trips. man. he's quite a workaholic. i know he enjoys his job, and he takes pride in it, but dude, this is the holidays! he should be taking a break. i wonder if he's the type to work until the very last days of his life; i bet he'd get bored if he retired.
ok. damn. it's 7pm. i'm going home.
haha. my coworker A is funny. i told him i was going to my cousin's wedding during the winter break, and he responded, "you know, weddings are a good place where you can score some ass." hehe. his advice to me was to smoke a joint so i wouldn't tic, and then to "hit it." i mean, this guy is probably in his 50's, but he talks like a 20-year-old. he's one cool dude.
my stomach hurts. i wasn't that hungry when lunchtime came, but when D and i got in my car, i decided to drive to su's mongolian bbq. i had a big bowl of stuff, and i put in way too much (two full scoops) of chili paste. so now i'm paying for it, although i'll truly be paying the price when i take my dump tomorrow morning. but it was worth it. yum, mongolian bbq.
i'm sort of worried about christmas break. i'm staying local until christmas day (when i fly to LA to meet my family), but i think i'll be alone until then. i bet most of my local friends will be with family, so who will i hang out with? hm. maybe i should have book my flight earlier. we'll see. it might be nice to have some time to myself to decompress, but i'm thinking i'll be really bored with my thumb up my ass.
i had a dream last night that geoff died of a stroke. i was very sad. and for some weird reason, they were selling japanese books at his funeral. i woke up feeling very morose; it was a very real dream to me. i think this all stemmed from my IM conversation with geoff sunday night, where he told me that he was sick and puking all weekend, which got me really concerned about his health and all.
my taiko friends at the mountain view buddhist temple got up at 5:30am sunday morning to do mochizuki (mochi making). apparently, this was a huge production. i wanted to go check out this huge machine that pounds the rice. according to dishi, it was a grand event, with rows and rows of people involved in the process. i imagined it to be like a willy wonka-like factory; it would have been a sight to behold. unfortunately, by the time i was free, it was like 2pm, and when i called up susan, they were already done. drat. maybe next year.
i'm not sure i agree with tony romo's romantic taste. carrie underwood, britney spears, and now jessica simpson? ok, i have nothing against carrie, but those last two... hm. i don't think i approve. did you know that jessica went to my high school? i saw a link today where you can buy the pink tony romo football jersey that she was wearing at the game. i think it'd be a cute gift to buy a girl, if she were a dallas cowboys fan. ah, it'd be great if my next girlfriend were a 'boys fan. that would be a really nice cherry on top.
i broke down today and scheduled a massage. i really dinged up a nerve on the left side of my neck, and i need some work done on it. i used to get a massage every two weeks (thursdays), but since my neck tics are rather well-behaved these days, i haven't been going in. but today, this nerve thing is really killing me, so i really need to do something about it.
so greg and cheryl are hosting a holiday party this saturday, complete with a gift exchange. hm. $20 limit. what to get for the gift exchange. anybody got an idea of what i can buy? last year, i got a set of police-issue handcuffs (yes, that was the kinky side of me acting up). i really don't want to brave the mall, but it looks like i don't have a choice this time, because there's not enough time to order something online and wait for it to ship. rats. *ponder* give me some suggestions! (greg says no gift cards and no gift baskets.)
i'm looking forward to having smoke breaks with my dad when he comes out. that's what we did last year. it's sort of like a mini-bonding session because when you smoke, you talk. i gotta remember to pack enough cigarettes for two when i head down to LA. and maybe i need to buy a new lighter as well, since i'm not going to risk them confiscating my zippo at the airport.
what is it about burgers that makes them unhealthy? is it the fat in the ground beef? and the cheese, right? two of my coworkers (J and D) eat a lot of burgers. J likes mcd's, and D likes in and out. and they go there A LOT. i tell them to lay off the burgers because it'll make them fat and give them heart attacks, but they're not listening. in fact, they're organizing a company lunch trip to in and out tomorrow.
ok, that's it for me. massage in 28 minutes!
friday night, nelson and i hit up los charros for some mexican food. nelson got his usual two carnitas tacos, and i couldn't finish my super carnitas wet burrito. afterwards, we went to the tied house for drinks. he got an oatmeal stout, and i got a jameson on the rocks. they have johnnie walker blue "on tap" for $33 a shot! i wonder how many people get that. we watched the 3rd quarter of the warriors/lakers game, and then we left. we were supposed meet up with paul and leeya for tapioca, but they turned out to be tied up until midnight, so we left.
i went home and finished watching the basketball game. it was amazing! baron davis hit a crazy 3-pointer to go up 4 with 16 seconds left, and the warriors pulled out a 2-point victory.
saturday, five of us went to prolific oven for some brunch/lunch. i got the mexican omelet. it was ok, nothing special. afterwards, aimee and i went to safeway to buy some groceries. she got some ingredients to cook some chili, and i got a big fruit plate and a bag of shrimp chips. after heading back to join the gang after they finished their meals, nelson, mikeC and i headed back to mikeC's place to watch this NFL films piece on tom brady, peyton manning, and brett favre. then, i headed home.
i watched my recording of _the next great american band_. ah, light of doom finally got voted off! i am liking the clark brothers more and more, and of course, they're wholesome and religious and pretty, and i think the producers really want them to win it all. then, i took a little nap.
after that, i headed over to linda and steve's place (with my big fruit plate) for their taiko-peeps holiday/defense party. it's a "defense" party because barden successfully defended his thesis. hooray! linda cooked three yummy casseroles (with some corners with no mushrooms, because dishi hates mushrooms for some insane reason), and rosh/joy brought over some tasty mochi ice cream. susan and ray brought some interesting beef/gorgonzola sui mai thingies, and barden brought over a red bean rice dish.
the weirdest thing was that ALL five women we were purple. what are the odds of that? they had their picture taken. :) i stayed there until about 10:30 or so, and then went home and slept.
sunday, i had lunch at king noodle. it was a quick one, and then i went home and followed the cowboys/eagles game while watching the raiders game. the cowboys lost! and only scored SIX points! ARGH. we should be peaking right now, not having an offensive lull. what's worse, our starting center (gurode) got injured, and tony romo sprained his thumb on his throwing hand. shit. this is bad news. the only good thing is that we have a first round bye. that ruined my day.
i putzed around a bit, called up some friends (carolyn and dave, and dj), and then met up with alan and ting at shan (an indian restaurant). the food was only ok, but i did like their okra masala dish. i love okra! it was good and spicy. the other stuff (chicken tikka masala, chicken curry) wasn't that special, though. after that, i just went home and watched sportscenter until bedtime.
yeah, so that was my weekend, centered mostly around meals. i gotta find more stuff to do during my afternoons. and poor geoff got sick all weekend. *sniffs*
ah, friday. we had a free lunch today at the office, and it was just like the thanksgiving free lunch a few weeks ago: mashed potatoes, turkey, pumpkin pie (which i didn't have, i had pecan instead, and it was too sweet). this time, though, i got the full-fat gravy, and it was good. the rest of the food sucked, though, as usual. I am waiting for them to cater in some chinese or japanese food, which is better.
last night, i invited my coworker D to my place to watch the lakers/spurs game. he's a big lakers fan, so he got really excited and happy; he even clapped his hands when i asked him over! he's a recent cal grad, and apparently, he doesn't have any friends in berkeley (they all moved away or something). i feel sad for him. sometimes, after work, he goes and watches movies by himself at the theaters. so i've sort of taken him under my wing, and we have lunch every day, except when we play basketball. i would ask him to be my roommate, except that i really want to continue living alone.
today, while i was taking a leak, i must have not pulled my foreskin all the way back enough, so the stream must have caught the lower lip, and it started dribbling down, and i wound up pissing all over my right hand. ick. i remembered a _man vs. wild_ episode where the dude drank his own urine, so i thought about giving it a taste, but in the end, i held back. i'm not THAT gross, i decided. it would have been an interesting blog story to tell, though, hehe. i also remember the "yellow snowcone" bit from _jackass: the movie" where ehren pissed into the snow and ate it, and he wound up puking it all out. ha!
i've almost got 100 friends on facebook now. so, i guess it *is* possible to have a lot of friends on there. but, like i said before, the number of "true" friends is far lower. the way i use to judge is by asking the question, "how many of them would you invite to your wedding?" ah, it would only be a small fraction of them. so i guess a lot of these friends are mere acquaintances.
why do we like to drink carbonated beverages? who came up with the idea of using carbonated water in the first place? it seems sort of random to me. fizzy water, hm. who knew.
man, it gets really cold at night here. either that, or i really can't take the cold anymore. these days, i wear a t-shirt (usually a long-sleeved one) and a sweatshirt. it's not enough. what else can i wear? a fleece? i don't know where my fleeces are. i wonder what bill belichick (the patriots' head coach) wears. when i see him on the sidelines, he's always wearing just a hooded sweatshirt, even when it's freezing out there. maybe he has a lot of layers underneath? yeah, maybe it's time to wear two t-shirts.
congrats to barden for successfully defending! man, it's about time! let's see... i think he was a senior when i was a freshman back in 1992, so that means he's been at stanford almost 20 years. !! wow! i found out from emi last night, and i called him to congratulate him afterwards. good job, man. a celebration is in order.
how good is babymaking sex? i mean, it's gotta be awesome, right? no need to worry about birth control, you get to boink as much as you want/can, etc. i mean, when i congratulate people on getting pregnant, deep down (well, not THAT deep) i want to tell them, "congratulations on all the carefree sex you had!" hehe.
i've heard/read somewhere that it's very dangerous to inflate the vagina. why is that? i mean, i don't think it's a natural desire to blow into the hole, but i'm curious as to why puffs of air are dangerous to a woman's body.
and i still don't get why they use condoms in porn. it's such a turn-off. and that reminds me, i gotta hide my porn stash before my parents get here.
i really hope my mom is ok when she comes out here to the states. her health hasn't been that great these past few years, and without american medical insurance, she can't afford a breakdown of any sort. she's going to be here for like a month, so she's loading up on all her doctor's visits and drugs in taiwan before she comes. *crossed fingers*
health insurance is so crazy in the US. it's so expensive! i mean, without it, my own drug costs would set me back a couple hundred $$ a month. (i'm on four medications right now.) and i've thought about quitting my job here and becoming a contractor to make more money, but then, i'd have to get my own health insurance, and i bet that would cut deeply into my income. hm. maybe i should talk to one of my contractor friends about that. it sucks being chronically sick.
ok, that's it for this week. have a STUPENDOUS weekend, folks!
so tomorrow is S's last day at the company. today, we took him to aroy-dee (thai buffet) for his farewell lunch. i'm sad. after he leaves, there's only one more design-side engineer (W) left from the startup days. damn. one of the main reasons why i came back is to work with familiar faces, and slowly, over these three+ years, they've all left. wtf? i mean, i guess it's a natural process in silicon valley, but i'm being selfish, and i want everyone to stay. *RAAR*
yeah, i didn't think there was a business class on southwest, either. but there were two higher price classes when i booked the tickets. what are these? they were called "business select" or something like that. maybe these people get to board earlier or something? *shrug*
i hate getting papercuts. i got one earlier this week, and it burned when i got in the shower. i remember when i watched one of the _jackass_ movies, and they purposely gave each other papercuts on the webbing of their toes. *cringes* OUCH. that was one part where i really got the heebie-jeebies. i LOVE jackass, and i think it's a brilliant show, and for the most part, i find what they do to be hilarious, but man, when they showed that part, i started freaking out inside.
so women ever get their pubes permanently removed? i'd be all for that. one of my ex's once shaved her pubes, and i was SO turned on by that. the problem is, though, that when it grows back, the stubble can itch, and for me, the little follicles can get quite sharp when i chow box. annoying! but yeah, shaved vadges are such a cool thing to behold in real life.
so the mitchell report is quite a stunner. fyi, this is a congressional (i think) report on the performance enhancing drugs role in major league baseball, and it came out today, naming a ton of players that have allegedly used them. big names been linked, including roger clemens, andy pettitte, and miguel tejada. crazy! i mean, roger clemens? i am shocked! he, of course, is outraged and denies any use of steroids and the like, but still, i think he's in deep shit.
i had such a good sleeping session last night. the difference was that i took my meds before eating. doing that makes me very drowsy, so after i watched _the real world_ (dunbar is such a meathead asshole) and took a shower, i hit the sack, and i was just out cold within a few minutes. i don't even remember a single story from the _sportscenter_ that i turned on. (and, i don't even remember turning the tv off, either.) now THAT's good sleep!
the cut in my right nostril isn't healing. it's because i pick out the scab every morning. yeah, i love picking my nose. i'm getting all these red pieces out from that nostril, and it hurts when i do so. shit, i need to stop and let it be, but i'm so addicted!
can someone explain to me what ISO 9001 is? my company is ISO 9001 certified, and i vaguely remember going to a meeting about that a few years ago, but i came out still not knowing what the hell it was about. it's some sort of compliance thing, right? all i know is that we are supposed to fill out some form when we do something. *ponder*
i bought another song off of iTunes yesterday. it's "overkill" by men at work. i discovered it while watching an episode of _scrubs_, when that dude (apparently it's colin hay?) with the guitar randomly appeared in the hospital singing it. it's a catchy tune. i got the original version of it, but there's also an acoustic version which i might download as well.
i miss hanging out with paul. he's been working like a dog at this new startup he joined; i used to see him a few times during the week, but lately, he's been up late at night at the office slaving away. man, i didn't know he had such stamina. i hope it's worth it. i've certainly never worked that hard before, even when i was at my previous startups.
i found joy on facebook today. she was probably one of the hottest girls in my high school. i think she's half french and half italian. you know, those italian girls. i met one of them when i worked in japan. she once told me that when she gets drunk, she is very "dangerous" to men. i'm not sure if she used the word correctly (maybe she couldn't find the right word to translate from italian to english), but after she said it, all i wanted to do was to feed her alcohol and be one of her conquests. :)
that night, i met another cute girl, mieko. i was buzzing off of japanese whiskey, so i somehow found a set of balls and just went up and talked to her. i even got her phone number! haha. that was the first (and only) time i got a stranger's digits. mieko. i wonder how she's doing. she made a visit out to stanford a year later, and she bought me a little totoro.
ok, almost 6pm. time to post this baby and get ready to leave.
so for the past few months, i've been carrying around this little packet of vegemite that cheryl brought back from her business trip to australia. and today, D and i went to IHOP, expressly for the purpose of me ordering toast and trying it out. i got the country fried steak and substituted my pancakes for white toast with butter. after i finished my CFS, three scrambled eggs (with cholula) and half of my hash browns, i spread some extra butter i ordered, opened up the packet of vegemite, and put some on. i ate the bread upside down, so the vegemite/butter landed squarely on my tongue.
it was ok!
but then, i realized that i couldn't really *taste* the vegemite with the large gob of butter i had spread on, so i tried it again, this time with no butter, and a bigger patch of vegemite.
it was gross.
yeah, it tasted (really) salty, sour, and altogether nasty. D laughed as i made these faces while the taste filtered through my tongue and registered onto my brain. all in all, i ate half of the packet of the stuff (to reaffirm to myself that i didn't like it), and afterwards, i scarfed down the rest of my hash browns to get rid of the taste. i doubt i'll ever try vegemite again. but now my curiosity is lifted!
so here at work, we have that "giving tree" thing where you take a card that says what a kid wants, and you buy it for him/her. i was too lazy to do that, so i gave cash instead. today, i wrote a check for $100 and turned it in to HR. i felt good about that; the way i figure, a gift is only supposed to be $20-30, so i'm actually getting more than one gift, minus the effort of actually going out there and buying it myself. plus, who knows is what you get for the kid is something he'll like? maybe it's the wrong color, wrong model, etc.
after i got my haircut last night, i was hungry (being a tuesday, when i only eat a small breakfast jack all day long), so i grabbed a charro burrito from bueno bueno. the thing was huge, and i added a lot of hot salsa. so at 5am, i woke up with a massive stomachache. i actually dragged myself out of bed (it was freezing, too) and sat on the toilet for a while. all i could squeeze out was this one fart. ugh. i contemplated putting my clothes on and going out for a smoke to loosen my bowels, but i was too lazy, so i crawled back into bed and just waited for the aching to subside. luckily it did. but boy, today, i had two dumps, and they were spicy. for a while, i had to sit on one ass cheek (the left on) because my sphincter hurt so badly.
i just booked my flights to LA on southwest. i'm going down there on christmas day, and coming back new year's eve. business class was only $130 or so (one way), but i figured that i can keep my tourette's in check for an hour and save money ($50 going down, and $90 coming back up). so it looks like i'm spending the bulk of my 11-day winter holiday in LA. it's ok. on one hand, it'll be good to see my family (after all, they're my FAMILY), but on the other hand, it'll be a little boring to be in LA; i'd much rather be in the bay area. i just hate LA. but the cool thing (hopefully) will be meeting up with some of my friends who live down there. (people like alex, gina, maybe emi/shoji if they're around)
taizo found me on facebook last night. he's a friend i made when i lived in japan. i noticed on his profile that he listed his height, weight, and "15cm." hm. was that his penis length? 15cm is just under 6 inches, right? hehe. i checked his profile again this morning, and the 15cm was gone. haha! that *must* have been it! awesome. i mean, on my friendster and blog profile, i list that i'm uncircumcised, and i am very proud of it. (and thankful, too) it's a wonderful thing to be 100% natural. yay for being uncut!
i notice that i tic a lot more when i'm eating in a restaurant. i'm not quite sure why that is. maybe it's because i'm more relaxed, and i let myself go a little more. or maybe it's because there are more people around, and i get more nervous. either way, it's annoying, and i don't like it. *RAAR*
has anybody seen _lars and the real girl_? it stars ryan gosling as a guy who has a relationship with a doll. it looks very kooky and interesting. i've been wanting to see this movie for a while now, but i haven't been able to find a sidekick to see it with.
_the real world_ tonight! condoms busting! dunbar cheating on his girlfriend! it's gonna be juicy!
ok, i'm outta here.
so greg reported that after eating his baked beets, his pee turned pink for a few days. it kind of made me wish i had more of the stuff (i only had 2-3 small pieces) so i could experience it myself. i did notice that night that my urine was a bit darker, but it wasn't pink or anything. had i not realized that it was due to the beets, i would have freaked out a little bit because i might have thought it was blood or something. bloody piss!
i spent part of the working day teaching/consulting people how to do stuff. it felt good, being looked upon as "the guy who knew how to get things done." one of the guys was a more senior employee as well, so i was a bit surprised that he didn't know how to solve the problem he asked me about.
i have a zit or something in my right nostril. it hurts when i pick my nose. and i'm getting some bloogy boogers in there as well. i wonder what's wrong. maybe turning on the heater at night is drying out my nose. my PG&E bill was more than double my previous month's total, and a lot more than last year's bill at this time. did the price of gas go up or something? or is this winter colder than last year?
we had a good group of 4 at pizza chicago last night. four people and two medium pizzas works out to exactly 3 slices each. it was tasty shit, and on mondays, they take 25% off the total bill. all that deep dish goodness for about $9 a person, with tax and tip included! pretty sweat deal, if you ask me.
it was cold at city beach today, where i played basketball. when i was running up and down the court, i kept on feeling my nipples because they were rock hard. they could've cut glass! yes, it's a weird sight seeing a guy running around with his hands on his nips, but i just couldn't stop doing it. hehe
so last night's _how i met your mother_ episode presented the 8 steps of going out with someone you see often, i.e. a bartender at your favorite bar or your neighbor or coworker to name a few examples. and as always, since it's a list, my annoying OCD forced me to memorize the list. damnit, why do i do that? anyways, they are: attraction, bargaining, submission, perks, tipping point, purgatory, confrontation, and fallout.
anyways, i've dated someone with close proximity before, i.e. k1, my dormmate. i lived in the smallest dorm (by population) at stanford my freshman year, and we had quite a lot of dormcest. in some ways, it was really cool, because you could just walk down the hall to see your girlfriend. and the good thing was that most of us stayed together through that year, so things didn't get too weird and uncomfortable. unfortunately, for one couple, there was a breakup, and then the guy turned around and hooked up with the girl's friend, so that was pretty awkward. but yeah, dormcest. i have no regrets doing it.
but, i would be hesitant to date someone i work with. that came into play when i was interested in hr girl a few years ago. sometimes, i found it a little distracting, because i found it difficult to concentrate knowing that she was there, and i just wanted to hang out with her and not do any work. man, hr girl. i haven't seen her in over two years. she's one of the hottest girls i know in real life. i should give her a call.
still no word from k1 about her birthday present. i'm starting to wonder if i got the address wrong. she was featured in the next-to-last stanford magazine; she had a spotlight article on her in the alum section about her career and her fame.
*yawn* i'm getting a haircut today. i'm tired of people commenting about my hair. it was especially pointy and "rooster-ish" this morning. it's all about my pillow formation and how i sleep. i think it's pretty neat, but yeah, i'm tired of the exclamations and comments.
you know, do shit-eaters get sick from ingesting fecal matter? i mean, isn't there a lot of dangerous bacteria? hello, e. coli? i have a natural gag reflex when the smell of shit is too strong. once, as a kid, i shit in my pants, and my dad made me clean it up in the bathtub. i wound up puking when i got too involved in the task. but yes, i do have a fascination with my own shit, but hell no, i wouldn't EAT it, you know?
so i really like the song they use for the johnnie walker black commercial. i did a google search, and it's "never the same" by supreme beings of leisure. i was all set to buy it on iTunes, but then i realized that i own the CD! silly me. i know that i gave the CD a good listen a few times, but that song never made an impression on me. funny how a good commercial can make a song.
ok, that's it for today. gonna get a haircut now.
so the darby guy and i got in the same elevator (just the two of us) last friday. of course, he said, "hi darby," and this time, i got the guts to do it. i showed him my badge, pointed out the last two letters of my name, and he was puzzled. but then, i said emphatically, "DY," and then he got it. he laughed and apologized for saying my name wrong all these months. and today, when he saw me in walking down the hall, he greeted me correctly. :) yay for proactiveness!
i've been working hard this afternoon. i've been synthesizing like a maniac! i got 4.5 modules done. the hours flew by quickly, yet i was able to have my hourly cigarette breaks. it feels good to work productively.
i feel really bad about the whole michael vick situation. for those of you don't know, he pleaded guilty for financing and participating in a dogfighting ring. he was sentenced today for 23 months in a federal prison. why, michael, why? i mean, you're an awesome athlete, you're popular, likeable, rich and a total stud. why risk all that for a sick, sick pleasure? ugh. i have no idea if he's ever going to play football again. man, two years in prison. i'm just sorry the whole thing went down. personally, i hope he gets out of this a changed man, and i would definitely like to see him play quarterback again. i wonder if he can stay in shape while behind bars.
i messed up at work. pretty badly, actually. there was one task that i did halfway, but because i didn't complete it, i sort of fucked up the release. this release 2.0 that we made was supposed to have all the final SRAM's, but because i forgot to put in my change, the release has four extra SRAM's that it should. ugh. i blame myself entirely for this. now, i have to do some extra work to do this hack for the synthesis. *bonks his head*
i've been talking to my friend amy more these days. i like it. she's one of my oldest friends; we go back to when i was in early high school, i think. i wonder if i can entice her to move out here. she is the most socially networked person of all my good friends, it's amazing. i met one of her college acquaintances at the turkey deep-fry party this past thanksgiving, and according to him, everyone wanted to date her. it doesn't surprise me.
i get an alarming amount of spam from people selling replica watches. is there really such a demand for this stuff? i mean, online pharmacies, yes, i get it. penny stock pumper and dumpers, ok, yeah. penis enlargement pills? yup. but fake rolexes? hm. really?
last night, i got a text message from a stock pumper (i.e. "buy this stock, it's gonna rocket"). i was pretty pissed off about that. where the fuck did he get my number? does anybody know anything about this? who sells cell phone numbers to advertisers? i mean, i'm paying for each and every one of my text messages, so if this continues, i'm gonna get really upset. cell phone numbers are pretty much sacred (in terms of privacy) to me, so i don't think i'm being unreasonable.
today, i was smoking outside when my boss was finishing up his cigarette. i told him all the shit i was doing at work, and he told me that i was very valuable to the company. i should have told him, "then pay me more."
i want to get a blowjob from kobe tai. she looks like she knows what she's doing. for a girl, that is. of course, i have to admit that the best blowjob would probably be from a gay male. after all, a gay man owns a penis, so he would most likely know best what feels good and what doesn't. makes sense, no? i bet that's the case with chowing box as well.
ah, chowing box. i think i've forgotten what a vadge smells like. i actually like the smell (unlike people who say it's like tuna), unless it's during a girl's period. i remember the first time i saw a live one; i had no idea what the hell i was looking at. i was different from the magazines, because it had hair all over the place, unlike the shaved ones from the skin mags. it took me a couple more times until i was able to find the girl's clitoris, and it wasn't until a later relationship until i went down on the girl regularly. but after that, it became a staple of our sexual routine. (in fact, it became a requirement, which i came to resent.)
i'm looking forward to dinner tonight. i'm organizing a trip to pizza chicago. on mondays, they take 25% of the entire bill. i'm trying to get four person, though, so we can get two pizza's. i purposely didn't eat that much today for lunch (D and i went to cheap korean) so i could make room for deep-dish pizza.
ok, it's almost time to go home. monday is done!
friday night, i met up with some people at TGIFriday for dinner. my entree (cajun shrimp and chicken pasta) was pretty bad. it was really oily, and it made me feel really nauseated and sick afterwards. i felt like puking, but i held it in. poor john. he and grace chose the place because it had tv's so he could watch the warriors game, but after they seated us, the tv in view couldn't pick up the station, so he missed it. the good news is that even though they were down double digits while we ate, they came back and beat the heat.
afterwards, we went to watch _beowulf_ in 3D. i had read it in high school, but i didn't remember it. all i knew was that it was about a hero killing beasts. the plot wasn't really exciting or anything, but i thought the 3D was pretty nifty. the best part where it was utilized was where a guy was pointing his spear, and the spear came out all the way into the audience. the movie was long, and when i got home, it was past midnight. i skype'd my parents for about 20 minutes and went to sleep.
saturday, mikeC's friend judy came over to borrow one of my happi coats from my taiko days. apparently, one of her friends is having a japanese-themed 30th birthday party, and anybody who doesn't come in appropriate attire has to drink. the happi coat looked ridiculously large on her, but her aversion to alcohol, judy borrowed it anyway. we grabbed some pho (i got a rice plate) at pho to chau on castro, and then she left.
then, my cell phone broke. a little plastic piece that held down the battery chipped off, so i went to the verizon store and checked out the LG VX-8700 due to mikeT's recommendation. it wasn't on display, and they had to go to the back and fish one out. it was definitely a sexy phone, and after playing with it for a while, i decided to purchase it. it got $100 off with a 2-year renewal, and i also get a $50 mail-in rebate. it's stainless steel or something! ah, i love silver objects.
i think my salesman had tourette's or something. he kept on jerking his neck, similar to me. i didn't ask him about it, but i thought it was kind of cool.
after i got the phone, i sat in my car for about 15 minutes playing with it, setting up my speed dials and stuff. it's pretty thin and sleek, and even though i'm still not used to all the controls and stuff, i'm liking it so far.
then, i went home and watched friday's episode of _the next great american band_ as well as the heisman trophy presentation. tim tebow!
for dinner, i went over to greg and cheryl's place, where greg cooked beets (i've never eaten beets before, i think) and some shrimp pasta. i had never had dinner with just them two before, and i felt a little like i was intruding on them. but still, i had a good conversation with them, and we talked a lot about their recent honeymoon trip to new zealand (they had just come back on friday).
sunday was boring. i woke up and watched the packers/raiders blowout, but my real interest was the ticker at the bottom showing the cowboys/lions score. the cowboys were down the entire time, but they came back to win it by 1 point on a touchdown with 18 seconds left! i had the ESPN gamecast on, and when they score that touchdown, i ran up and down my hallway screaming.
i left my house at 2:30 to go meet up with carol and tony at santana row. man, i haven't seen carol in years! we got coffee at peet's and sat outside and chatted for an hour or so. it was good catching up with them. i am sad that i used to be closer to carol. we used to chat every tuesday night after bowling on my drive back. it's interesting how friends come and go.
and that was sort of it for my weekend. i went home after that, and i didn't do much else afterwards. i had jack in the box for dinner after calling multiple people for food (they were all occupied), and the sunday night football game between the colts and ravens was really boring. i did talk to amy for half an hour, and that was all the social contact i had for the rest of the day.
so yesterday, i found one of my summer rebounds (after k1) on facebook. she's the one who married another dardy. ha! she is most likely the only person on this planet who's gone out with two dardy's. what are the chances of that? deep down, i bet she was so attached to me that she just had to have another one, a replacement D. :)
today, i had lunch with william at maruichi. it's a good thing we met up at 11:45, because by the time we sat by, the place filled up, and there was a massive throng outside. to be honest, i'm not crazy about ramen anymore. it's just two pieces of meat, half an egg, and noodles. it's not much to go ga-ga over. maybe i should drink the soup or something (i never do).
afterwards, we got pearl tea at verde (never get the passion fruit). plus, i had a beer at maruichi, so i had a lot of liquid over lunch. i had to pee by the time i got to my car, but i held it in. halfway on the drive back to the office, i got a call from an ex-coworker, and she talked to me for like 15 minutes. i REALLY had to go at this point, and i was pacing back and forth outside the bathroom, wondering if i should cut her off. i thought about taking the call into the pisser, but i find it hard to zip up with one hand, so i just patiently waited for the conversation to naturally end. when it finally did, i rushed to the bathroom and had one of those orgasmic pisses. ah, that felt really fucking good.
i'm going to see _beowulf_ tonight in 3D. i am worried about two things. first, i am worried that my tics will launch my 3D glasses all over the place, and second, i'm worried that i'll get a headache. i've seen some short 3D films at amusement parks (like terminator and captain EO), but a full-length movie? never tried it. i'm curious, though, but still, it sounds like a gimmick to me. i hope angelina jolie's boobs are glorious in three dimensions!
this is my 1,300th post in this incarnation of the blog. i had like over 2,000 entries before my blog died the last time, so it's not much of a milestone. but still, i like numbers, and it serves to show how much time i've wasted writing on here. it's been fun, and i do wonder how long i'll keep it up.
i did a lot of coding this week. not verilog coding (my native language), but C-coding. it's not my forte, but it's been fun nonetheless. though you may not believe it, i *do* enjoy working, as long as it's not super-stressful work. things are still not completely done yet, though, but i feel like i got some stuff done this week. i set my alarm for 9am this morning, but i just couldn't get up. i wound up at the office at 10. not good, but not bad, either.
it's amazing how much you can snack when your mind is occupied with something else. like, on wednesday night, i was watching _the real world_, and i had a super-size bag of shrimp chips (calbee brand, the best) open. i wound up eating over half the bag without noticing. that's like 650 calories right there! i had a nice big dump the next morning; i would have liked it to smell shrimpy, but alas, no such luck. but man, i love shrimp chips.
i'm IM'ing that summer rebound girl. it's cool that we can talk in a friendly manner, with no hard feelings or bad blood. she's probably the first (and only) girl i've gone out with that is civil with me. (btw, today is k1's birthday.) but then again, we only went out for two weeks. before we hooked up, we must have seen like 20-30 movies together. ah, the summer of movies. we were both fairly "famous" in dallas for being high-achieving kids, so we made for a high-powered couple. hehe. it was pretty cool, what we had for that one summer.
so i watched last night's episode of _grey's anatomy_. (i taped the second half while i watched _scrubs_.) i'm still don't have a grasp of all the characters' names, but can someone tell me if the two dr. grey's are related? anyways, the episode was fine and all, and i enjoyed it, but i don't think i'm going to follow the show; it's nothing that special.
television is making me lazy, though; aside from going to southland earlier this week, i've stayed in and not even bothered to call friends up for dinner. last night, i watched my mavericks get destroyed in the 4th quarter by allen iverson and the nuggets, and then i watched an amazing finish by villanova against LSU. (for some reason, i just don't like LSU, though i have no reason to dislike them. maybe it's their colors? i hate purple.) and then, it was the network shows that i just talked about. help, i'm becoming a couch potato!
ah, the weekend is upon us. i'm heading off soon. ciao!
so in the past three days, i've been to southland twice. both times, i've ordered the combination fried rice. it's a good dish, except for the fact that they put in a couple of pieces of pork liver. liver is gross! the other night, i gave my liver to john, who ate it willingly. today, i tried one small bite of it, and i made a really gross face. yeah, this shit is nasty. next time, i'm going to ask that they not put the stuff in. the chinese word for liver is "gan."
so two of my friends (A and R) found the "2 girls, 1 cup" video of the women licking shit out of a cup. (that's all that i saw after closing the window.) apparently, it gets much worse than that. A told me what happened afterwards, and i really didn't need to know that. ugh. what makes people do such horrible, disgusting acts? did these girls get paid, or did they really want to do what they did? *shivers*
so i got back in touch with noriko, this cute japanese girl i knew back in college. she's in indonesia, and has been for the past three years. i found her on facebook. ah, facebook. the last time i saw her was in 2004, i think, at aileen's birthday party up in the city. she was leaving for indonesia the next day, so i didn't get to see her again, but i was happy that i bumped into her at least. she looked different from when she was in school, though. but anyways, i'm grateful for social networking sites that help me find old friends like her; her profile doesn't have a picture, though, so i'm really curious what she looks like now. one of my fondest memories of her was when we both tried to dye our hair blue in the guy's bathroom. (it didn't work because we didn't bleach our hair first, a problem i rectified a few weeks later.)
i'm going to miss my deadline at work this week. to help me get a little further, though, i'm going to try to come into work early tomorrow to get some headway on my second task before our friday status meeting. my second task involved working with another engineer, but he couldn't free up in time until now. let's hope i can wake up tomorrow morning and not feel too groggy; the other guy gets into work at 8:30am (!), and i usually come in at 11. there's gotta be a happy medium somewhere.
i need to get a haircut. today, i was having a smoke outside, and this dude (an outspoken guy) exclaimed, "you look like a fucking rooster!" he didn't mean to offend me, but i'm getting tired of people talking about my hair. i just checked my supercuts card, and my last haircut was the day before halloween, so it's been over a month. yeah, i guess it's time.
one of my guy friends is dating a girl who's over a decade younger. i guess that's not that uncommon, especially when the guy's the one who's older. my dad once told me that he advocates a big (over 3 years) age difference, so there is a sort of understood role of who wears the pants. hm. i guess he is reacting to the fact that he used to fight a lot with my mom, since they are only 4 months apart in age, and they tried to be equals and stuff. i found his theory to be interesting. i've only dated older women, but i'm not sure if i would be comfortable with a much older woman and being the "subordinate" one in the relationship. i am sort of a minor control freak, and i don't think i would react well to being bossed around.
so the gash on my nose bridge has healed, but it's left a pretty noticeable mark/discoloration. shit. i mean, most of the time, it's hidden underneath my glasses, but when i go without my specs, it's right there, BAM! i didn't pick at the scab or anything. facial blemishes are the worst, because they're so prominent. ugh. there goes my modeling career.
so i've been following the whole tila tequila thing. i don't watch the full episodes, but i've been catching the eliminations and some parts of the shows. it's down to the final two, one guy and one girl. i'm surprised that the last girl left is sort of butch. i think she's cool and all (she's a fire fighter!), but she's not someone i could see tila with. now _the real world_ is getting pretty juicy. two in-house hookups! i wonder if being really horny is one of the requirements of being cast on the show. it seems like parisa is the only one in the house not getting some nookie.
i remember when MTV placed an ad in _the stanford daily_ looking for people for _the real world_ back when i was in college. i thought about applying. hey, wouldn't a touretter be cool for the show? i would educate and inform the masses! (wait a minute, did i have tourette's back then? hm...) but anyways, i was still a crazy kid back then, but a little too young. but yeah, i think the show would be fun. just roaming around and exploring a cool city, partying it up, hooking up with attractive housemates, etc.
i also thought about auditioning for blue man group once. i met their height requirements and had percussion experience. that would have been cool, too. but i bet the rigors of performing every night would have gotten to me. you can't take a day off with that kind of schedule. in some ways, cubicle life is the perfect thing for me; i work when i want to on a minute-by-minute basis, you know?
ok, i gotta take off. my mavs are playing the nuggets right now, and i'm gonna head home to watch the rest of the game.
we had a bad experience at lunch. we went to e-noodle, and we waited at least half an hour for our food to be served. people who got seated after us even got their food before us. *RAAR* wtf?
it's funny, though. the waitress recognized me, and when i ordered my standard 12 3-flavor dumplings, she was like, "what? dumplings again? why don't you try something else?" am i that recognizable and predictable? ok, yes, i am predictable, but i am surprised that people know who i am out of the hundreds of people that come in and out of restaurants. this is not the first place where the wait staff know who i am and what i order. and because they knew me, i couldn't give less tip because of the bad service that we experienced today.
ok. ha-HA. (sarcastic) tubgirl. no more recommending nasty websites! luckily, i am using an old browser, so i didn't actually see the video, but nice try in grossing me out. i saw the caption about it being a vid of some asian girl eating her own shit. i do NOT want to be forwarded any more of this stuff!
i got a birthday gift package from my cousin shirley yesterday. i was pleased. it was a random assortment of small items, including some funny post-it pads, two transformers magnets, and $30 worth of iTunes gift cards. that last one is what i'm excited about the most, because now i can catch up on some cool music. i'm tired of buying CD's that are mostly full of crap. i mean, the last CD's i bought were the latest releases by the pet shop boys, erasure, and saint etienne, and they were mostly disappointing. now, i can pick and choose songs to get at the iTunes store. i think the next song i'll buy is ingrid michaelson's "the way i am"; that was a suggestion from my friend P (yes, the same P that sent me those nasty sex links).
last night, i watched most the bulk of an episode of _grey's anatomy_ for the first time. i rather enjoyed it, although i had to look away during the scalpel scenes. (i'm too squeamish for that stuff.) and guess what? chyler leigh is in the show! i like her, although she looks much hotter when she's wearing glasses, like she did during the failed david e. kelley show _girl's club_. the show ended in a shocking scene with a "to be continued," and it resumes thursday at 9pm, but that's during _the office_/_scrubs_, so i'm not sure if i'm going to follow it. maybe i'll tape it? *shrug* i'm not totally invested in the show yet, so we'll see. i just want to find out if seth green's character dies after that massive carotid artery gush.
what is that test where they insert a cotton swab into a guy's penis-hole? what are they looking for? an STD? i hope i never have that done to me. anything that involves large objects going in (and out) of my schlong is something i want to avoid. and that includes kidney stones at well. passing a kidney stone is one of my greatest fears, health-wise. one of my old coworkers had them, and he said it was damn fucking painful. *shivers*
i had a dream this morning where i was chasing around a small creature. it was sort of like a slimy black platypus. but it was a dangerous, evil platypus! haha. dreams are really weird sometimes. in real life, i actually like those animals. for my 21st birthday, k2 bought me a gund platypus, named webber. he's really cute. i think i still have him somewhere in my room. i should dig him out.
so far, aside from some mildly spicy shits, i haven't had any abnormal bowel movements to report. even the spicy ones aren't crackly or anything. i've been incredibly regular of late. i wake up, take my meds, have my first smoke outside, and immediately take my morning dump. it's like clockwork. sometimes i need to take dumps after lunch (like that emergency one the other day), but aside from that, it's been smooth sailing as far as ass-land goes.
i need to figure out what i'm doing as far as LA goes. i'm headed down there the latter half of my shutdown vacation. i don't want to spend too long there, but i do have that wedding to go to, and the pre-wedding dinner two days before the actual ceremony. hm. the longer i wait, the more plane-fare becomes. gotta talk to my parents and get a move on.
ok. that's it for today. i'm writing this early because i'm waiting for a coworker to get back from his doctor's appointment. he's back now, and we've got some work to do together. mobilize!
nice! so my c-model finally matched the architect's matlab model, so i'm done with one milestone this week. the final problem was solved when we found out that matlab's rounding was different from hardware shifting for negative numbers. matlab rounded down (more negative), whereas shifting would round up. ah, tricky arithmetic!
man, the patriots should have lost last night. they were helped twice on their 4th down conversation late in the game, once by a ravens timeout, and once by their own false start penalty. hm. they're looking human now, and i wonder if next week will be the week when they finally lose (to the steelers). i'm not sure how i feel about them. on one hand, i want them to go undefeated just so the '72 dolphins shut up, but then again, if the run into my cowboys in the super bowl, of course i'll be rooting for dallas.
i had a good basketball outing today. in the first two games, i was shooting lights out, so much so that the other team was talking about adjusting their defense just for me. *flattered* but then, i got shut down in our final game. i did have the opportunity to shoot for the win at the end (tied 10-10, playing to 11), but i missed, and the other team won on the next possession. still, i felt good about my performance today. it's always up and down for me; i need more consistency.
so in my job, we get to use test images and patterns to try out our video algorithms. i noticed today that the architect was using this picture of a sexy girl in the c-model/matlab model that we were matching. hehe. in the past, when i was doing this sort of stuff, i used images from final fantasy VII. in fact, i'm still using a picture from that video game (the girl tifa) as my desktop picture at work as well as at home. even though i never got very far in that game, it made a big impact on me. the artwork was beautiful, and it was a big milestone for its time as far as RPG's go.
so what do you think of katie holmes' new hairdo? i'm not sure what to make of it. (fyi, she got this bob haircut.) i like short hair on girls, but it looks a bit too short on her tall frame. *shrug* leeya's hair is sort of like it, and she got it done months ago. leeya's a fashion visionary! haha
so it seems like most of the shows i watch are on hiatus due to the strike. sigh. what to watch? i think there's one more episode of _scrubs_ left that's new, and after that, the only new stuff that i'm currently watching is _the next great american band_, which sucks, by the way. i'm only watching it because of my OCD. trust me, none of the bands left are bands that i would pay to listen to. and what's going to happen to movies? hollywood doesn't have the luxury of reality tv, so is there going to be a lull of films coming out?
the more i think about it, the more i wonder how my early morning routine came about. lately, i've been sleeping in until 11am or so on weekdays, and i just can't get out of bed. i blame it on the cold weather and the warmth of my blankets which just makes me want to snuggle forever. but yeah, it was so weird a few months back, when i would get up at 8:30 and feel refreshed. i simply can't explain it.
so re: those disgusting sex links that my friend P sent me. i can't deny that i'm curious as to what the other videos depict. my imagination is pretty weak, so i have no clue what they might show. i mean, you've got two girls licking shit out of a cup, you've got a girl jamming a dildo into a guy's meatus, and you've got what i can only construe as genital mutilation. but what else is there? sexual deviants are so creative! it amazes me what crazy stuff they come up with to get them off. like, how did they come around, thinking, "hey, i think i'm going to do this today, because i find it arousing." nuts, right? but no, i'm not going to watch those videos, because i think there are some things i'd rather not know.
do you smell you when you dream? i think last night i dreamt that i was smoking out, but i clearly remember not being able to smell the sweet stench of pot. the last time i tried getting high, i couldn't because i had eaten a huge burrito before, and i guess all that food must have sucked up all the chemicals or something. we watched _winged migration_ afterwards, which would have been a great movie to see while baked. oh well. to be honest, though, getting stoned is not one of my favorite things to do. i just wind up swaying a lot and getting the munchies. one time, i must have eaten a pound of chili bits (oh man, how i love chili bits!) while high.
ah, tuesday. what to do tonight. no good tv on. although, tomorrow night's _the real world_ is gonna get juicy. dunbar and ashli sleep together! and dunbar has a girlfriend back home! evil temptation!
*phew* so the c-model i was working on finally passed today. apparently, it had some problems with "unsigned int" and "int" stuff; i was getting some huge positive numbers because i had incorrectly assigned negative numbers to "unsigned int" variables. tricky, tricky c! but now, that's over with, and i got the results i was expecting. yay!
i had a close call today after lunch. after we finished eating, i got a stomachache, and during the drive back, i had to take a dump. my stomach started to hurt really badly, and i had to hold my shit in during the entire ride. i kept on telling myself, "ok, we're 50% done with the ride," etc., until we finally got back. then, i *walked* briskly (a run would have opened up my sphincter) to the bathroom and let it all out. that was my 3rd dump in three and a half hours. man, that chipotle chicken pasta last night really did me in, although it didn't stop me from ordering some spicy tofu soup at the korean place we ate for lunch today.
i had a dream that i was in college, this time in freshman orientation. k1 was there, as well as my guy buddies. and since this was orientation, i didn't have any feelings for k1; she was just an attractive girl that i had just met. lately, i've been dreaming about school a lot. i have this recurring dream that i'm back in school pursuing a second specialty in EE. it's a continuing dream, meaning that i continue where i left off. currently, i have one more class to take, and i'm done; hm, i wonder what will happen when i finally finish that class.
so this year, with the company shutdown, i get 11 straight days off (including weekends). i can't wait! i don't have any real plans, aside from going to LA for a few days to attend my cousin's wedding. i hope people are around to hang out with. i want to take more days off because my parents will be in town both before and after the shutdown, but we're smack in the middle of a hectic project, and my boss has told me that i might not be able to take those days off. hrmph. we'll see.
my old facebook status was something like, "X is freezing his ass off in norcal." but then, i felt lame for saying that because i know that other areas of the states (and the world, for that matter) have it much worse. what the hell happened to my tolerance of cold weather? my freshman year in college, i wore shorts year round, and not only that, my roommate and i kept our windows open the entire year as well! but now, i feel chilled to the bone in 50-degree weather. what a wuss i've become. yeah, weak sauce.
i think i've had dim sum three weekends in a row. ever since grace's mom left, she's been clamoring for it, and i happily oblige because i love dim sum as well. we're the addicts of the bowling gang. i wonder how long we can keep it up. dim sim ain't cheap. i am still shocked that the two of us were able to eat $38 worth yesterday. one other thing that i hunger for, though, is sushi. i haven't had sushi in a long time, and i think i'm gonna need my fix soon.
does vegemite go bad? i have a packet of it from cheryl's trip to australia, and that was well over a month ago. i have yet to go get brunch (or a meal that serves toast) since then, so i'm still carrying it around with me wherever i go. i even suggested going to IHOP today for lunch, but the guys didn't feel like it. i really want to try this stuff out!
i'm getting a lot of comments about my hair these days. it's getting long, and because of my pillow and the way i sleep, i get this triangular mohawk on the top of my head. ah, i guess it's time to get it cut then. today, one of the managers called me a rooster. :/ maybe i should wear a hat.
ah, hats. there was a time in college where i was known for wearing a baseball cap all the time. i owned at least 15 caps. and the thing is, the other day, i was digging around in my closet, and i found my bag of caps! so maybe i'll start wearing them from time to time so people don't make fun of my hair. the thing is, though, with my tics, i keep having to adjust them, so it gets to be a little bit annoying.
i have this one hat i found in japan. it has a picture of a guy pointing a gun at a girl's head (the pictures are like the ones you find above bathroom signs), and the word underneath says "bitch." i'm not misogynistic or anything, but i laughed when i first saw it, and i bought it immediately. it turns out "bitch" is the name of a skateboard brand. they have a reverse picture that says "prick" too. but yeah, i don't think i can wear this hat outside japan; i'd probably get my ass kicked. the same thing with my "white trash" hat (it has a picture of a trailer above it).
ok, time to wrap this one up. ciao!
friday night, i got home, and i was sucked in to watching the celtics/heat game, so by the time i finished, everybody had dinner plans. so i just got taco bell and watched _the next great american band_ at home. damn, light of doom keeps on getting voted through, and this time at the expense of my favorite band, tres bien. hrmph.
saturday, nelson, mikeC and i had lunch at 1pm at la bamba. i got the carnitas quesadilla (not hungry enough for a burrito), and then, we spent the next few hours fixing nelson's garage door. it was a pretty big task, swapping out the top two panels; mike had to go home to get his power drill because we needed to drill a couple of new holes to fit some screws in. it was pretty cold, so for a while, i sat in my car because it was warmer in there.
after that was done, i rushed home to watch the second half of the big game. we won! 20-13! i really don't know what happened to cal this season. they were ranked as high as #2 in the nation, and then, they lost 6 of their last 7 games. too bad for them. but i'm glad we got the axe back. i called peter, who was actually at the game, and he sent me a picture message of the students storming the field.
then, i drove over to adam and rae's house, where adam cooked me his famous beef noodle soup. i had been waiting for this for like a year, hehe, and i was not disappointed. his soup was very tasty, and he even cooked tendon! yum. adam said that one of his secret ingredients was the szechuan peppercorns, which is now available in the states. yummy shit. we hung out for a bit, and then i convinced the two of them to go watch _the mist_ in the theaters.
i drove off to grace's house, but while i was on the 17 south, i got a call from nelson saying they were leaving there, but i decided to pop in and say hi to grace anyway. it was a good thing that i did so, because that was how i made plans for lunch the next day.
after i left, i headed off to paul's place to hang out for a bit. they were getting ready to play command and conquer, but once they started that up, i left because i realized it was 11, and i wanted to watch sportscenter and see how the #1 and #2 teams went down.
sunday, i met up with grace, and the two of us proceeded to eat $38 worth of dim sum at dynasty. it was gluttonous. i didn't even get my leek dumplings nor my turnip cake, but it was a feast nonetheless. i ate so much that after i got home and turned on the football game, i passed out for 2.5 hours. after i woke up, i watched some football and the BCS selection show. ohio state again? hm. i think their 50+ day lay off is going to hurt them just like it did last year.
for dinner, i met up with some folks at prolific oven (nelson's suggestion) and got the chipotle chicken pasta, extra spicy. (i am paying for it today, having taken two spicy dumps already.) then, i popped in at alan and ting's place. alan was stressed out at work, since he was leaving on a 6am flight to dallas for work, so i tried not to bother him too much. and plus, he and ting were getting sick, too bad. i hung out there for a while, and then, when they left to get some remedial pho, i left as well.
and that was it. i wish i had done more on sunday, but oh well.