so my car's nearing 88,888 miles. when it hits that, i plan on stopping my car and taking a picture of the odometer. in chinese, the number 8 is a prosperous number, hence the number of people getting married on 8/8/08. the strange thing is, i'm getting slightly stressed about this picture-taking moment. it shouldn't be a stressful situation, but i'm worried about stuff like being on the highway while it happens and things like that. ugh. maybe i'll take local roads to work tomorrow. either way, i'll be glad when it's over with.
i realized how dependent i am on my coworker D for lunch. he called me today at 11:45, telling me he was going to eat with someone else. so i felt a bit lost, seeing if other coworkers and friends wanted to eat with me. everyone was occupied, so i wound up sulking a bit and then just grabbing a big mac at mcd's. so sad, eating in my cubicle. i really miss my ex-coworkers C and J. *sniff*
really? rice wine in my mongolian bbq mix? what kind of flavor does that add to the food? i'm a little curious, but also hesitant as well. hm. i don't think su's even has rice wine; they have "cooking wine," but i don't think that's the same thing.
so after trading in my 11 games at my friend's video game store, i now have about $180 of store credit. wow! two of my games (einhander and xenogears) were worth $50 each. crazy! remember that i'm giving all of my store credit to mikeT, so he's going to really benefit from all this. i hope he gets some good games. plus, i still have more stuff to trade in, including time crisis, complete with two guncon's. i bet those will be worth a decent amount, too.
so the three times i took a piss today, my stream started off to the left, so far left that it completely missed the urinal and landed on the floor. weird. it straightened out after a while, but i wonder why it's starting out funny. i feel bad that someone has to clean my piss off the floor. see? it's stuff like this that's why i sit down at home and my friends' houses to take a leak.
speaking of peeing, after watching _the forbidden kingdom_, i really needed to take a piss. but, instead of going at the movie theater, i dared myself to hold it in and go home first before relieving myself. it was very painful. i had to contort my body while driving to keep from soiling myself in the car. and when i finally let it all out at home, it felt totally orgasmic. ahhhh....
what are the rules to tetherball? i've never played it before, and in fact, i've never been on a playground with a tetherball setup. i just saw it yesterday during the ending to _napoleon dynamite_, so i was wondering how it's played.
how do people get to be 600 pounds? i was watching this _true life_ episode on MTV the other day, and they showed this one segment of "where are they now?" on people who used to be obese. and i was wondering, i mean, when you hit 300 pounds, then 400, don't you realize that something is wrong? that you should see a doctor or dietician or somebody to help you lose weight? anyways, these morbidly obese people got gastric bypass surgery, and they eventually lost a huge portion of their body weight, and they started looking normal again. and yes, they had a lot of left over skin.
there's one episode of _true life_ that i really want to see. it's about people who have tourette's syndrome. jay told me that it exists, but i missed it one night that mtv aired it because he was in the central time zone, and when i tuned to it (PST), i was one hour too early. rats.
uh oh. the project manager and the VP just came into my cube, wanting to know the status of my verification. i've been working on it this afternoon, and it's been the same old story: the AC is not responding, despite all of my efforts. so we might have to have a conference call with PORTUGAL tonight or something. ugh. shit. why the hell was i assigned this thing? now i'm pissed.
i'm ashamed to say that i actually find the miley cyrus song catchy. *embarrassed* but at least i don't find her attractive.
ok, i gotta go check on my sim now. i don't have high hopes. :(
hey guys. sorry i didn't post on friday, but i worked straight until 8pm, and i just wanted to get out of the office after that.
anyways, after that, i went over to mikeT's place, where the guys were ready to play some LAN games. mikeT introduced them to this warhammer-based game called _dawn of war_, which looked pretty interesting. i had a slice of pizza and called it quits, since i was full from my massive mongolian bbq meal from lunch. i played some rock band (ah, i love oasis) with nelson, watched them play one game of DoW, and then left.
saturday, i met up with peter and two of his doctor friends. i was excited to go to HC dumpling, but instead, we went to guan dong house, which totally sucked. they gave us plenty of food, but it just didn't taste very good. we had a lot of leftovers, but nobody wanted to take any of it home.
after that, i went to mikeT's house, and we headed to my ex-coworker's video game store, playNtrade. i brought along some stuff to trade in, including the original import final fantasy VII soundtrack, which i hope will fetch a lot of store credit. mike got a rock band guitar with the store credit i already got for him (sort of a late birthday present), and then we left.
i went to work for a bit, and unfortunately, my test didn't work yet again, so i couldn't do much. i did shoot off an e-mail just to let people know i was at the office on a saturday, and then i went home to watch the mavericks/hornets game, which was a total disaster. we were up by 12 at halftime, but then we shot *20%* in the second half. you can't win doing that, and we lost by 12. ugh. i hope we do better in the second game.
for dinner, i met up with both mike's and john in milpitas. we wanted to go to darda, but it was completely packed, so we settled on jacko's, which was sort of a disappointment. i got the pork chop over rice. i hung out at mikeT's house (3rd time this weekend) for a bit afterwards, and then i met up with my coworker D at mercado and watched _the forbidden kingdom_.
the movie was sort of silly, but i have to admit, the fight between jet li and jackie chan was pretty damn awesome. and yifei liu (who played golden sparrow) is really hot! the movie was completely sold out, and it was packed with asian folk. i probably wouldn't watch it again, unless it were stripped of all scenes except for that fight and shots of yifei liu.
sunday, i woke up at noon and had lunch with paul and nelson. i recommended the counter, which adam raves about. it's a "build your own burger" place, where you select the meat, the size, the buns, and around 40+ toppings and cheeses and sauces. i got a 1/3 pound beef burger with jalepeno jack cheese, tomatoes, grilled onions, spicy pepperoncini's, roasted peppers, and roasted garlic aioli. it was decent, and it wasn't greasy, very wholesome-tasting. definitely gourmet. $8.50.
afterwards, we went back to paul's place, where i watched parts of some movies (_godfather III_, _no way out_ (sean young is really hot), and _napoleon dynamite_), and took a nap. funny, i woke up a few times with spike (their pug) in my face. i was like, "what's that smell?" and opened my eyes to see spike's mug right in front of me.
for dinner, 5 of us went to southland taste, where i stuffed myself with the combination fried rice. i need to find a new dish to get there. afterwards, i just went home, turned on espn, and got caught up on the day's sports events. i can't believe the 76ers beat the pistons. i just hung out, IM'ed amy a bit before she left for colombia, and called it a night.
boy, it was chilly and windy for an april this weekend. and did anybody see the MOON last night? it was orange and HUGE!