hey peeps. thus begins another week of work. i just checked my paycheck, and i have over *six* weeks of accrued vacation time. damn, i need to go somewhere. i haven't taken a "fun" vacation (my trips to taiwan don't count) in four years, since my italy/spain trip back in 2004. last night, paul and leeya were talking about a potential trip to the UK this summer, and i'd definitely be interested in that. i love irish whiskey! i bet i'd be able to find some good shit to drink over there.
yes, yogurtland is the self-serve place. and like i said, you can get all the mochi you want. it's awesome. the yogurt itself (i only got the plain tart, but they have like a dozen flavors) isn't as good as yogurt fantasy, but the offset of the infinite mochi makes up for the difference. plus, it's way cheaper. still, though, i'll still go to mel's place sometimes because it's only 1+ mile away, but if i'm in the vicinity of yogurtland, i'll definitely stop by. the funny thing is that the yogurt dispenser is really slow, and it looks like a machine's ass painfully pooping out a white turd.
D and i went to southland today for lunch, and i made the mistake of trying out a new dish: the combination chow mein. i've gotten the combination fried rice, which is decent, but the chow mein was a disaster. it was sort of sweet, which i can't stand. i added some hot sauce, which made it slightly better, but all in all, it was gross. it was like mongolian bbq gone bad, very bad. i salvaged my lunch with a guava green pearl milk tea at fantasia to get rid of the aftertaste.
i've got a potentially busy summer. i've got my brother's graduation mid-june, maybe a wedding in hawaii, a possible trip back home to dallas with my mom, a visit to/from amy, another wedding (my best friend from high school, kevin), and that UK trip. it'll be good, i can't wait.
i've got "the way i am" by ingrid michaelson stuck in my head. it's a very cute song (yes, i know it's been out for quite a while now). i can imagine it as an endearing wedding dance song. my friend paul forwarded me the youtube of her performing it on letterman or something, and she's sort of cute, mainly because she wears cool glasses. ah, the eyewear fetish surfaces again!
when we went to see _iron man_ yesterday, some idiot couple brought their baby to the theater. i was really pissed off, and apparently so were some other people. in the middle of the movie, the baby started screaming, prompting some people in the audience to yell out "shut up!" and stuff like that. i was just really annoyed. eventually, the dad took the baby outside. i mean, yes, i know if you can't find a babysitter, and you want to watch a movie, you have no choice. but tough luck; no movies for you then!
20 minutes later...
emi just called me. i love emi. we used to call each other every sunday for like a year, before she moved to japan to be with her husband, who was studying taiko there. she was the one who got me hooked on _buffy_, and that year when she was in japan, i taped all the buffy episodes of the final season and mailed her the videotapes.
so do circumcised guys need lube when they get handjobs? i'm wondering because the friction on the head must be pretty chafing after a while, i'm thinking. so far, after watching the tekoki video i got a few times, some of the girls start off by applying lube, and i'm wondering if it's a necessary thing. anyways, i'm really glad i'm uncut and natural. my kids will be the same. does anybody know if more and more kids are uncircumcised these days? i know that when my brother was born, they gave him the chop; i don't know why, though, because both my dad and i are natural, and they must have consulted with my parents, no?
ok, i think i'm going to head off now. i wanna catch the end of the celtics/cavaliers game 4.
friday night, i had trouble finding people to eat with, but i finally got a hold of grace, and we had a late dinner at chevy's (around 9pm or so). i wasn't that hungry, though, because my indian buffet was still being burped out at that time. there must have been a prom and a high school birthday party, because the place was packed with teenybopper girls, complete with a limo outside. grace was stressed out with a bad dog meeting, so she got a beer, and i got a maker's mark on the rocks (bad, i will never get maker's mark again).
saturday, i wore a suit for 10 hours straight. i got up at 8am (ouch!), put on my college suit, and headed off to hakone gardens in saratoga for adam and rae's _qiu jin_ movie shoot. they shot footage of us walking around in the garden, and we were supposed to be chinese scholars in japan. i talked to this guy george for a bit (we were supposed to be discussing "scholarly" things).
then, they shot footage of qiu jin and sun yat-sen giving a speech to the students. unfortunately, i didn't get to be a part of that shot because the room was small. however, i was a bit relieved because everyone had to sit seiza (on their knees), and that was a bit painful for everyone. i should know, since i had to do that a lot when i was in taiko and in japan.
after the shoot, i headed off to grace's house to meet up with john, and the two of us drove (separately) to J's father's funeral. it was a sad event, as expected. i sat there, looking at the three kids, and i was sort of overwhelmed in thinking about the fact that they are now without both of their parents now. (i attended their mother's funeral last year.) that must be a bleak feeling. the buddhist guy chanted for a full 50 minutes or so, and i wondered how the man memorized all of that stuff.
after the burial, we went to a restaurant and had a chinese banquet. we had a table of nine of J' college and bowling friends, and we chatted and stuff. J came by, and he seemed relieved that the ordeal was over. his dad had battled with cancer for two years, and i guess i could see his point. the suffering was over, and now his father could rest.
i drove home, took off my suit, and watched the end of the celtics/cavaliers game. man, the celtics just can't win a road game to save their lives. then, i met up with grace and john at southland, and mikeC joined us, too. we grabbed pearl tea at fantasia, finished up our drinks, and went to breaktime (my first place). i thought that was a cool place. i was getting a little hungry, so i ordered a tuna sandwich. that was one of the best tuna sandwiches i ever had. simple, and to the point. (of course, i was influenced by the fact that i was hungry.)
sunday, my coworker D came over. while i was waiting for him, i called up a few friends to chat. i talked to carolyn and dave for 30 minutes, dj for about 10 minutes, and jeremy for 10 minutes. when D got here, he started off his laundry before we headed off to lunch. i took him to wahoo's, and he seemed confused by the ordering process. he eventually figured it out and ordered two carne asada tacos. i got my usual, the spicy chicken quesadilla. but the point of going there wasn't the food; it was to go to yogurtland! infinite mochi! i got a little bit of the original tart yogurt, but then i got a giant scoop of mochi. and my tab came out for $1.80. so cheap!
after lunch, we went back to my place and watched the lakers game. it went to overtime, but the jazz eventually won. man, home teams are doing well in the second round. then, we went to watch _iron man_. i had really high expectations, since it got 92% on rotten tomatoes. i was disappointed. it wasn't "smart" like all the reviews said. *shrug* i mean, it was decent, but just not spectacular.
after the movie, i headed over to paul's place, and four of us went to dusita for dinner. i really dig their spicy food. dinner took quite a while, though, because there were only two people working the entire place, and the restaurant was almost full.
afterwards, we went to... yogurtland! haha. yup. we even bumped into aimee and her friends there as well. (earlier in the day, mikeT and christi went there, too.) this place is really popular. this time, i got more yogurt, and a ton of mochi as usual. the tab was $3.54. however, it was cold at night, so i was shivering by the time i was done.
when i got home, i IM'ed 3 people at once. amy apparently had a disastrous radiohead concert (never even got to see them), nelson got back from yosemite (i was worried all weekend that something happened to him because he wasn't answering his cell phone), and adam was stressed out because he had a lot of work to do. and then i called it a night.