man, it's (relatively) cold today, which is a really big change from this past weekend, when the temperatures reached above 80 degrees. yesterday, i even went out without one of my trusty hoodie sweatshirts, but boy, i really needed one today on my smoke breaks. funny, the weather is.
so for the second time in two days, i got shit on my hands when i wiped. it was from all the bubbly diarrhea, which splattered some watery stuff on the sides of my ass. it was kinda gross. this morning, when i noticed the top of my hand was wet, i even smelled it so closely that i got some of the shit on the tip of my nose. ick! and to answer zz's question earlier, no, i don't usually get stomachaches from my diarrhea; it just feels like a lot of pressure in the base of my bowels on my sphincter, as all the gas and liquid pushes down on the opening.
i had a 30 minute lunch today, but boy was it good. i took D to barn thai, and i ordered my favorite thai dish: jun jad poo. (haha, i said i ate "poo.") there were five levels of spiciness, so i got the 4. it burned quite a bit, and it made my scalp itchy. but damn, it was tasty. i hadn't been to that restaurant in many months, but the waitress knew my order before i opened my mouth. good memory!
i like noodles much better than rice. i guess it's because rice usually comes plain, and it doesn't have much taste, and you have to eat it with something else. however, noodles/pasta almost always comes in some sort of soup or sauce, so it has a lot more flavor.
did you hear about the red sox fan construction worker who buried a david ortiz (a red sox player) jersey underneath the new yankee stadium? what an awesome prank! he did it to curse the yankees. i think that was brilliant. they finally dug it up the other day. i hope they don't press charges against the guy; despite the fact that they had to drill through two feet of concrete, it was a harmless act. what i don't get is how he did it without anyone noticing; you'd think that they'd notice a jersey in the hole when they poured the concrete, right?
so yeah, this past sunday, the guys played a lot of LAN games. their game of choice is _command and conquer 3_. they play against the computer, but what i keep telling them is that they should fight each other. that would be a lot more competitive and fun. however, they don't listen to me. i think it's because they're not very confrontational people. i used to play _starcraft_ back in the day (wow, about a decade ago), and a group of us used to play head to head. man, those were some intense sessions. my screen name was "plasticSpoon." (sorry, i couldn't come up with anything witty.) and our group name was "home wreckers" because we were so addicted that we would neglected our significant others. hehe. but yeah, that was fun.
i had a bloody watery dump today after lunch. yup. once again, my lower bowels are bleeding. i wonder what's going on.
i think gatorade tiger is going to be a bust. if you haven't seen the ads, it's a new brand of gatorade that has more electrolytes. i think it's a little odd that tiger woods is the frontperson for the ad because it's not like golf is the most grueling of sports that demands that much more hydration. i would have figured football or basketball would be more strenuous, no? but yes, tiger is one of the most recognizable active athletes in the world, but still... golf? hm. i was at safeway the other day, and they were carrying gatorade tiger, and i didn't think i saw a single bottle of it sold.
has anybody seen blu-ray (or the now defunct HD-DVD, which i heard the porn industry was initially supporting) porn yet? is it grand? the porn industry is always highly advanced, so i wonder what breakthrtoughs they have pioneered in the video industry. after all, isn't porn really the reason why DVD players have the multiple-angle feature? (although, i own a DVD or two with multiple angles, and honestly, i didn't do much for me.) but man, after seeing the difference between standard def and hi def, i bet high-definition porn must look fantastic.
i know two asian people who are getting married on 8/8/08. what a properous day. and it's not even a weekend; it's a friday. man, we chinese are superstitious, huh? i wonder if anybody with a death wish got married on 4/4/04. (4 means death.)
it's funny where kids get their ideas. one of my friends is pregnant, and their 2 or 3-year-old daughter wants to name her future sister either cinderella, dora, or chicago. haha! that last one cracks me up.
ok, i must leave soon. i'm getting ancy.
friday night, i drove all the way down to the oakridge mall area to have dinner with jay and margaret. we went to this korean restaurant called "kang nam," which was my second korean meal of the day. this time, i got the kim chee jige, which was ok, except it had some leafy stuff which wasn't really edible. they had self-serve ice cream for dessert.
after dinner, i called up john, and i picked him up and met up with mikeC and leeya for pearl tea at tap-ex. it was packed, and we stayed until 11:30 or so.
saturday, i got up at 10am and went to work. we had a meeting at 10:30, and after that, i met up with some folks for dim sum at dynasty. ah, dim sum. it was good, but i didn't get my turnip cake or sticky rice. then, i headed back to the office and worked until 6 or so. i made some headway, but still, i didn't accomplish what i wanted to. it was kind of frustrating.
rainbow gave me a call about some gig at stanford, so i decided to go. it was a concert by this band called "seriously," coupled with an asian bone marrow drive by yul kwon, the winner of _survivor: cook islands_. i knew yul a little bit from stanford and mallory's wedding. he remembered me when i introduced myself and gave me a big hug. it felt nice. :)
the big surprise was that during the intermission, he proposed to his girlfriend! he asked the lead singer of seriously to play this song "it's you" to celebrate his one year anniversary, and then he addressed his girlfriend S in front of the crowd, and when he said "i want to spend the rest of my life with you," the crowd went wild because they knew what he was going to go. and she said yes.
afterwards, a bunch of random faces from stanford old went to rainbow's place to celebrate the engagement. one of those faces was monica, my co-sib. small world! i also recognized clara and howie, although i never really formally met them. anyways, i had a good time there, and i was really impressed with yul. he's a very humble, well-spoken and caring person. and plus, he's opening up like three red mango's (the original korean frozen yogurt chain) in the bay area, starting with palo alto! i told him that he MUST have mochi, and he said that he's indeed stocking the topping. yay!
sunday, nelson and i picked up john, and we went to my suggestion, pasta pomodoro. ah, the gemelli. (the gemelli on the main menu, not the express lunch gemelli dish) john didn't like it, but i thought it was fabulous as always. we hung out at borders a bit afterwards, and then, the guys (mikeC came too) played lan games at john's place while i took a nap. the dogs kept coming by and licking my face and arms and waking me up. then, we met up with paul and leeya at beque korean grill (expensive) for some more korean food. i thought it was only ok for the price.
then, we went to paul's house for some coffee, and once again, they played lan games while i watched the end of the red sox/yankees game (red sox won, yay!) and sportscenter. and after that, i went home.
man, it was a hot weekend. the temperature went up to the 80's, and i wasn't happy about that. and i was very cross about having to go to work, but oh well, i wasn't that bad; at least i got to have dim sum with grace and company.