ah, so after discussing all the stuff i had to do, a change in schedule was made. a tentative decision was made to drop the (rather painful) module that i am working on. yay! i hope this sticks, because i really don't like it. i definitely have my hands full with other stuff, too, and i wasn't comfortable that i would be be confident with the changes that i had to make to that block. so i'm very relieved. this lifts a huge weight off of my shoulders, and i'll definitely be less stressed from now until my vacation.
i don't get how some people sweat so much during basketball. this one guy, J, wore a heather grey t-shirt, and it was dark with sweat from his neck all the way down to the bottom. that's a lot of sweat! i guess it's a good sign that he got an excellent workout. my chest and the back of my neck were wet, but it didn't really show on my (grey) muscle shirt. yes, me, skinny-armed, me, i wore a muscle shirt. i probably look ridiculous, but i don't care.
last night i had a dream about blue fire trucks.
so somebody i actually know at work didn't flush the urinal today. i mean, usually it's somebody i'm not familiar with, but somebody i actually talk to and am sort of friends with did not flush. i didn't know what to say. how do i approach him? i guess it's too late, huh? it's not like i can bring it up hours/days later and say, "hey, i noticed you didn't flush the other day after taking a leak. how come?" ugh. how awkward. but it pisses me off, i tell you.
however, i do get on people's cases for not recycling. i chew them out (in a friendly way) and pull the glasses/cans out of their trash can and tell them to take them to the recycling bin. but i guess when it comes to bathroom etiquette, i'm a little bit more sensitive.
i saw an ad the other day for a foot fetishist phone line. like, it showed a girl's feet masturbating a guy's schlong. um, really? are there that many guys that would get off on that to make this phone line profitable? i mean, i appreciate good looking female feet, but they don't make me horny in any way. on the flip side, though, ugly feet are definitely turn-offs. but i really don't care for a woman's foot to get anywhere near my johnson. feet are clumsy, and i would be deathly afraid of a girl accidentally sticking her toe into my hole. that would hurt like a mofo.
so it looks like i'm going by myself to my friend kevin's wedding. i'm not going to know many people there, maybe like 2-4, depending on how many of our high school friends attend from out of town. ugh. i don't think i've ever gone to a wedding where i know this few people. i mean, i love kevin, and he is my best friend from high school, but i'm such a wallflower that i'll probably have a pretty bad time. oh well. i'll just suck it up and be there for him.
kevin's wedding is the day after my brother's. yup, i'll be in LA for my brother's on saturday and fly back to the bay area the next morning and go to kevin's. it'll be one exhausting weekend. i'm not looking forward to all the travel and the hubbub. no time for relaxing. plus, i don't like being in a suit for that long.
are any of you like me, i.e. you wake up with a song in your head? today's morning song was whitesnake's "here i go again." i don't like this song, but it just played in my head when i got up. was this song the one with the video of that girl in a white dress prancing on a car? ah, whitesnake.
oh, i tried jack in the box's pita snacks last night. like i planned, i got a fish one and a sirloin one. the fish one was pretty skimpy, and pretty greasy. the sirloin snack was packed with meat, so it's worth the $2. but overall, i'd say skip them, because they don't taste very good, and the chipotle sauce is very weak. nothing on tv is ever as good as they seem (especially carl's jr.). although, i would love to try a ruby tuesday triple prime burger. too bad they don't have those around here.
ugh. basketball dehydration headache. i don't get it. i had one liter of water during and two bottles of gatorade afterwards (40 fluid ounces total). what more can i drink?
ok, time to see if a cigarette can help my headache.
and thus ends september.
well, i talked to my project lead and manager today about the state of my work, and i told them that if i don't finish coding by this friday, then i don't feel comfortable to put the code change in by the time i leave for my vacation. then, i talked to the architecture guy, and he said that the feature i'm modifying isn't even that visually detectable. so what am i working for, anyway? he said it's was mainly a marketing claim, and there are way more important picture quality issues that we can be implementing. ugh. this really cuts down on my motivation. oh well. i'll still keep chugging away at it, i suppose, but if it doesn't get done by friday, or if it feel uncomfortable with its verification-ability, then i'll push for the feature to get dropped.
it's been really hard to get out of bed lately. i think it's because i set my alarm for 9:30am every day last week, and it's taking a toll. this entire past weekend, i slept past 11am, and this morning, even though i set my alarm for 9:30, i got up at 11 again. i just couldn't drag myself out of bed. i had this dream where i was checking out this new house, and it had a GIGANTIC master suite. like, it had these two walk-in closets, one of which opened up into a huge bathroom. for some reason, leeya was sleeping in the bathtub, and then i woke up. it was quite a place.
well, the dow jones dropped 770+ points today. i lost like $5K in my portfolio in one day. crazy shit. i guess it's because the bailout failed to pass in the house. the stock market is going to hell, and i don't know what's going to bring it back from the dead. if i had more money in my etrade account, i'd buy some more stuff, but i think it's dead money for a while. rats.
today's been a nailbiting day. i guess i'm just bored or something. i usually bite my nails on mondays, anyway. i attacked all ten of my digits, so my nails are all trimmed and stuff now. are there calories in fingernails?
tonight's going to be a night of television. i still have last thursday's one hour _the office_ season premiere, and in addition to that, i have tonight's _how i met your mother_ as well as _gossip girl_. that's 2.5 hours of television. not to mention some MNF that i catch in between, although i don't really care about the steelers or the ravens. ray lewis says that the best football is ahead of him. i don't know if i believe him. but he is one passionate dude. i respect that.
i need to time my meds correctly. that is, i need to make sure i get my refills ahead of time before i go on vacation. i have a sinking feeling that my insurance may not pay for some of them because it'll be too early to get the refills, so i might have to fork over some extra money. ugh. medication is expensive! one of my drugs costs well over $100 for just one month's supply. and that's just 30 pills. crazy, huh? drug companies make so much money.
has anyone tried jack in the box's pita snacks yet? i am such a sucker for advertising. whenever i see food advertisements on tv, i want to try them. that's why i got a volcano taco from taco bell a few weeks ago. (i also want to get nilla wafer cream sandwiches, too.) hm. maybe i'll get a pita snack or two tonight. they're only $1.99 each, i think. they have them in fish, sirloin, crispy and grilled chicken.
mikeT leaves for italy tomorrow. i hope he has a good time. i bet he'll have much better food than i did because i went with a group of 9 people, so we couldn't eat at the quaint hole-in-the-wall places. i called him yesterday to wish him buon viaggio. have a fun trip, dude!
babies are popping out all over the places among my stanford friends. two of them had babies just in the past month and a half, and a few more are expecting early next year. nuts! i feel so left out of the conversation when we all get together. it's baby this and baby that. i guess if i ever get around to having some, i'll get a bunch of hand-me-downs and save a lot of money that way.
ok, almost 6pm. i want to get out of here and catch up on tv. and hit jack in the box. i think it'll be sirloin and fish today. their chipotle sauce (this stuff is really getting popular) better be good.
saturday night, i met up with nelson and mikeC at st. john's for dinner. i got a "beg for mercy" cheesesteak, but it wasn't very spicy. (although my bowels begged to differ the next day.) they're very inconsistent on the spice level there, which i found disappointing. i got my usual bushmills on the rocks, which was very refreshing; they had a brand new bottle waiting for me. after dinner, we headed over to paul's house, where kong was playing with his new iphone, which i knew about because of his facebook status. ah, facebook.
the guys started playing LAN games, so i just went home and caught up on sportscenter.
saturday, i had lunch with john at katie bloom's. i had a jameson 18 year for the first time, and damn, it was smooth. i bet even leeya would enjoy this whiskey. i don't believe that an 80 proof alcohol could be this smooth. when we go to the jameson factory, i will order this for her. i had a reuben, but i didn't like it that much because they made it with corned beef instead of pastrami. before we left for katie bloom's, i said hi to einstein the dog. he's about to be adopted, so i will miss him.
then, i went home and took a nice 2.5 hour nap to the georgia/alabama game. some time before, i went to safeway and bought 5 twelve packs of soda (big sale), two 8-packs of gatorade, picked up some drugs, but forgot to buy some altoids. oh, and i got a $50 bottle of don julio reposado for jessica's going away dinner. at 7pm, i went to eric and sammy's place for that dinner. the food was pretty much all gone, but i ate what i could and proceeded to do 5 shots of tequila and 1 shot of strawberry soju. the penn state game was on, and there was one penn state fan there, so every time they scored a touchdown, we did a shot of tequila. i was slightly dizzy from it, so i waited a little bit before i left.
i dropped by paul's place to say hi. i missed out on nelson's famous shake and bake chicken, though. once again, they played LAN games, so i didn't stay long.
the next day, i had told nelson that i was going to head over to watch the niners game, but he wasn't picking up his cell phone. i picked up some wendy's and headed over there anyway, but when i got there, he answered his door and told me that he wasn't accepting any visitors. he actually made me go home! i was sort of baffled, but i respected his wishes and drove back home.
i ate my lunch, and then met up with alan and ting at the redwood city century theaters to watch _eagle eye_, which was a COMPLETELY preposterous and stupefying movie. ridiculous and unbelievable. afterwards, we walked across the street to la tartine for some dessert/coffee, and then i went home. i found out that the cowboys had lost to the hated redskins, so that just destroyed my sunday. :(
i had dinner with john at southland (pork chop over rice), and then that was it for my weekend. oh, i called up carolyn to wish her a happy belated birthday. she's pregnant again! crazy, kids popping up all over the place among my stanford friends.
*sigh* so now it's back to work again. i need to finish coding this week, or else i'm going to tell my boss i can't make the schedule. let's hope i can make some progress this week.
well, i got a new monitor at work today. my request for an LCD panel finally got approved, and it came this afternoon. i was previously working on my third CRT, and this one was so old it had old microsoft icons burned into it. i'm finally modern!
last night's SYTYCD show was awesome. my friend C stopped by my place, and we drove down to HP pavilion (through some traffic, which miraculously disappeared at the 101/87 junction, go figure). i tried four times to back into a parking spot for an easier getaway, only to realize that all i needed to do was to pull in head first to a spot and drive forward one car length to the other side. *bonks himself in the head*
anyways, before the show, they were playing music videos of american idol artists (daughtry, jordin sparks, carrie underwood). then the show started. there were a lot of dances performed, some of them forgettable and fluffy. katee and joshua performed six dances together, and they each performed another two dances with other people. i love katee and joshua together. of course, the show ended with "no air." there was an encore dance, but we left to escape the traffic.
the two alternates were thayne and chelsea traille, which i thought was curious, but then i remembered that thayne was the last one cut before the top 10, and chelsea was his partner. overall, it was a great show, and i really enjoyed it. most of the solos were lame, though, but gev's was the best. i love breakers. gev got a lot of love from the girls (this girl behind me kept screaming "I LOVE YOU GEV!"), and the best ovation from his solo was definitely twitch. katee, whose hometown is san jose, had a huge section near the front dedicated to her. *sigh* i fucking love this show. i can't wait for next season so i can fall in love with it all over again.
on another front, work is not going to great for me. i have not made much progress in my current project, and i have three and a half weeks left to finish. by "finishing" i mean coding AND verification. so that's a tall order, and i need to get cranking. unfortunately, i need some help from my boss (who was the last person to code this block i'm working on), but he's swamped from other duties. so i don't know what to do. anyways, i'm deal with it next week, i guess. i am the king of procrastination, but i really want to fix that just this once and finish early so i can relax before my vacation.
so i wrote L a letter today. it's her birthday next tuesday, so i figured it would be a legitimate reason to write her. i had a smoke to clear up my head, and then i typed out a message on my computer and then transferred it to paper. basically, i just told her that i wish i knew her better, and that i wish fate had made things different for us, that's all. and of course, i said happy birthday. i doubt i'll get a response.
i set my alarm to go off at 9:30 every morning this week. i think it's taking a toll on me. i was massively tired today during lunch. in fact, i put my head down on the table several times. we went to dusita, and man, i love that place. i got the spicy crispy catfish luncheon special for $8.95. tasty shit, that is. it was packed, though. i have never seen dusita that full, and it's good to know that they have good business, because i don't want them to close up shop.
i can't believe USC lost last night! there goes my dreams of having a pac-10 team win the national championship. what is it with USC losing to oregon schools? didn't stanford beat oregon state? that's just wrong. oh well, now i won't feel that guilty if stanford beats USC, since they're out of the running.
man, this monitor is really sharp. i like it.
so jay and margaret finally named their baby. jaden. very interesting. it kind of deflates me, because i want to name my son "aidan." that rhymes. ugh. but still, jaden is a very unique name, and i think one of alan's friends has a son named jaden. is it a trendy name? i was hoping that they would go with the "m" theme because jay (whose real name starts with "m") and margaret both have names that start with that letter.
i really want to recharge this weekend. next week, i resolve to get cracking on my work and make some truly significant progress. i know i can do this. i know i can. and i need to.
last night, i had this extended dream about the question, "what is the maximum number of batters that a pitcher can face and still throw a no-hitter?" i saw this question on a southwest airline in-flight tv screen, and i got the answer right: 54. but then, it's not counting errors. or maybe the question was "shutout?" anyways, i woke up repeatedly arguing with myself what constituted an error and what not. anyways, it was really aggravating, because i could not get this question out of my head.
are ringback tones still sold? do people care about ringback tones? i thought it was a stupid idea. they only last for a few seconds anyway.
no, i do not have the hots for sarah palin. i think she's semi-attractive for an older woman (it's the glasses), but her ideas and the fact that she may become president of the US deathly petrifying.
ok, time to get out of here. sorry for shutting down my comments the other day. i have my reasons. if you ever want to tell me something, feel free to e-mail me. *hint*
so tonight's the night! the long-awaited SYTYCD tour. i'm leaving work early, just in case traffic's bad and parking is terrible. the dances i'm most eagerly anticipating all have katee in them: "no air," "mercy," and her pas de deux with will (i think it's david archuleta's "imagine"). it'll be good! i was telling graceL over IM, the tour is just like the television show, only with more energy because 1) it's live, and 2) the music is louder. yay!
basketball was ok today. i (and my teammates) found myself open for a change, and at one point, i knocked down four straight jumpers, the last three of which brought us back from a 4-6 deficit to win the game. i got high-fives from all of my teammates after that. but for some reason, i haven't been into playing this week. i think i've lost the passion for the game lately. i hope that's not the case, because i want to continue playing and liking it. it's my only form of exercise, so i need this.
man, i might be going to choi's yet again tomorrow for lunch. i don't want to, but it's a gathering of ex-coworkers that i haven't seen in a while. i went to choi's last friday, and again yesterday. that's three times in a week! i like korean food and all, and they do have that supremely tasty potato panchan dish. but i must say, i'm sort of getting sick of it.
i watched _knight rider_'s series premiere last night. it was sort of stupid. i did appreciate the gratuitous semi-nudity when the girl stripped down to her bra and panties, and i'm sort of curious about the main character's forgotten past, but that's about it. the show is silly and campy, but i guess that's the point? *shrug* i don't know if i'll be a faithful watcher. i don't want to follow too many shows, especially sub-par shows like this one.
mikeT and christi are going to italy next week. i think they'll have fun. i really enjoyed my visit there four years ago, despite the fact that i went with people i barely knew. they're not going to florence or venice, though; they're just spending a week in rome and cinque terre (the latter of which i've never been to). i told him to watch _roman holiday_, one of my all-time favorite movies, with two beautiful people, audrey hepburn and gregory peck. i've seen that movie on the big screen like two or three times at the stanford theater. wonderful film.
i'm eating a snickers bar right now because i'm not having dinner until after the show. so far, i've only had this and breakfast (sausage and egg biscuit at mcd's). my weight's been holding steady at 175ish. man, i really want to drop 10 pounds, but i don't have the discipline to do what i did when i went from 202 to 155 a few years ago. that involved eating a lot less and enduring the hunger pants that came with my crash diet. these days, i've been trying to eat a tiny bit of dinner at the office, but at night, sometimes i can't help but go out and get some more food at 10pm or so, which i know is really bad for me. ugh.
if you were in a long term relationship, but there were some fundamental things wrong, would you have the guts to end it and be single again? sometimes, you're just comfortable with things, and you are just resigned to being with that person because they're familiar. sometimes you just accept that there will be problems forever, and you tell yourself that it's just the way things are. would you be able to settle with that knowledge? i think it takes a great deal of guts to step away from that and say goodbye and enter the unknown life of singlehood again.
i had a dream last night where i was hanging out with this girl i've had a crush on for over a decade. imagine the disappointment i felt when i woke up and realized it was only a dream. sigh. her birthday is coming up, and it's the only time when i have a good excuse to e-mail her.
man. anybody who bought fannie mae stock a few weeks ago at their bottom would have quadrupled their money today. i, however, have lost about two thirds of my investment. :( such craziness is the stock market.
i'm wondering if the cute girl with glasses has started wearing contacts full-time or got lasik surgery. that is a bummer. she looked so good with glasses on. i think i (as well as most people) look better with glasses on, so if i had perfect vision, maybe i'd still wear some clear-lensed specs from time to time. but one thing i'd never get is contacts. i can't stand the thought of sticking something on my eyeball. *shivers* i'm really lucky my eyesight is good enough that i can play basketball without glasses. i'd have to get dorky kurt rambis sports goggles or something.
ok, time to wrap things up and head home to prep for the trek down to HP pavilion. SYTYCD time!
hey peeps. i had a total sugar crash this morning. every wednesday, the company buys all sorts of goodies for breakfast, and i went downstairs to check out what they had. i was early enough to spy an apple fritter, so i got excited, because i LOVE apple fritters. but i knew i couldn't handle a whole one, so i cut it in half and ate it. it was fucking delicious, but the sugar crash destroyed me. i passed out in my cube at 11:20, and i wasn't coherent by lunchtime. man, it was horrible. so i guess no more apple fritters for me. i used to get these back in college at tresidder union, but after eating an entire one, i would get headaches from all the sugar. who can handle an entire fritter?
i am getting a little frustrated at work. it's not my own work, but other people's stuff. it seems i'm the only one who knows a shred of information about the main display processor, so i get bombarded with requests for help and debugging and info. i feel a bit overwhelmed now. i am really worried that all these issues will pop up and interfere with my work, and worse yet, surface while i'm on vacation. that would suck. i really wish O and some of the other coworkers who left were still here so they could shoulder some of the responsibility, because right now, i'm the only one left who can answer some of the questions that are posed. ugh. they should pay me more money at least. *greed*
i watched _fringe_ last night. i am very interested in this show, but it kind of creeps me out. there's always a scene or two in each episode that i find disturbing. this time, it was a guy cutting into a dead person's hand and removing an object from within the skin. *creeps* the so-called "science" is a bit hokey, but still, that's what the show's all about, so i guess i'll just have to live with that.
there's this girl on the show _lipstick jungle_ (which premieres tonight, but i'm not interested in it). her name is lindsay price, and she's half asian. i thought she was kind of cute, so i did some research on her parents. what's interesting is that her parents were brother and sister. yes. that is not a typo. lindsay's korean mom was adopted by some white parents who already had a son, and the two kids grew up and married when they got older. do you find that weird? i think it's a bit strange, but at the same time, i can understand if the two kids grew up and became attached to each other. i mean, there's no risk of having fucked up kids since there's no blood relationship, so the incest factor isn't really present. and i guess the mom didn't have to change her last name, so that's convenient, and the wedding didn't have to feature two sets of parents.
the most voyeuristic thing that the facebook feed offers is the relationship status update. today, i found out that a friend of mine became single. i don't know exactly how long she had been with her boyfriend, but it had been many years. so i was a bit stunned to see the broken heart icon and the text next to it. it's like a flashing beacon on facebook. i immediately felt bad, and i wanted to know the details. anyways, it's very juicy stuff, and i wonder if i would ever post my relationship status on facebook because of these ramifications.
i had a dream last night that bruce lee, my friend markS and i were going to kick some ass. however, there was a whole box of black ninja stars that spilled on the floor, and neither of them wanted to use them, but i wanted to, so i started to scoop them up into a bag and started poking myself with them. and that's all i can remember.
i've realized that i don't deal with fobs very well. these past few weeks at work, i've had to explain some concepts and stuff to some fobby coworkers, and the frustration level over the lack of ease of communcation got really high. i mean, sometimes, they would say something, and it would be just incomprehensible. and i'm sure sometimes i would say stuff that they wouldn't understand either. so yeah, to extend that into the relationship domain, i'm pretty sure that there's no way i would be able to date a fob. communication is key, and i agree with that, so if there is already a language barrier, then everything is fucked up to begin with. so no thanks.
so remember the cute girl with glasses? well, i caught her the other day without her glasses on, and she didn't look so good. so i was a bit bummed out about that. i need a cute girl who is cute already without glasses, and then the specs will make her even hotter. that's the good stuff. one example is hr girl. damn, i haven't seen her in a while. maybe i should give her a call one of there days. i miss her.
ok, time for that 6pm smoke. my zippo ran out of fluid today, so i'm using my backup lighter. see? there's a REASON why i carry two lighters with me at all times. i'm not crazy!
i'm slowly slogging through my boss's design for the filter design that i'm supposed to modify. it's a little complicated, but i'm getting the grasp of it. i think tomorrow i can start doing some microarchitecture and state machine diagrams and stuff. i really want to start coding no later than next monday, earlier if possible. but verifying this design will be the bottleneck, because the verification engineer has a bunch of stuff to do. maybe i'll have to help out? hm.
i have 292.51 hours of vacation accrued. crazy, huh? my boss said that was nuts indeed, and that i definitely deserved a break. he's on my side, but the thing is, i definitely need to finish my work before i can go on my UK trip. let's keep our fingers crossed on this one. it's not just up to me; my "finishing" depends on other people as well, too, since i'm in charge of integrating some other people's designs in addition to my own.
i was not in the mood to play basketball today. i think a big part of it was my poor play. i only sank one jumper, and i wasn't moving around the court very much, thus not getting open. i only played two games, and then i just sulked back to the office. i hope i'm not losing my passion for the game. it's good exercise, but maybe i'm getting to the point where i want to win as well. that's not a good thing, because i don't like being competitive. the exercise i get should be the most important thing.
poor coworker D. at first, he had a meeting scheduled at 1pm. terrible, he thought, to have to rush through lunch. but i said it was ok, we'll just have an early lunch. but then, he got a meeting change notice, and BAM! the meeting was rescheduled to NOON! argh. that really sucks. who the hell schedules a noon meeting? poor guy. so i guess i won't be eating with him tomorrow.
i have been having bad hair days every single day. you should see what it looks like when i roll out of bed. my hair goes every which way. maybe i'll take a picture of it one of these days for you guys to see. it's pretty crazy, i tell you. i've occasionally worn hats into the office, but it's unprofessional, so i try to refrain from doing that. speaking of hats, my favorite blue marlin memphis red sox negro league baseball cap is dying on me. it's over a decade old, and the fabric has all these tears in it now. *sobs*
it's one of my friends' birthday today. i asked her if she was going to get some good birthday sex, but unfortunately, she's sick. but, she says she's going to get laid no matter what, so good luck to her. hehe. you should definitely get some hot lovin' on your birthday, assuming you have someone to give it to you. i just hope the fluid exchanging (especially if the guy gives her head) doesn't make him sick, too. can you catch another person's illness (i'm not talking STD's, but like a cold or flu) from chowing box or swallowing spunk?
so the SYTYCD tour is coming on thursday! i'm excited. it's early in the tour, so the dancers better not be injured. i am most excited about seeing joshua and katee. every time i hear "no air," i smile. i swear, i thought that song was utter trash when i first encountered it, but now, i think it's sublime. all because of that dance routine choreographed by napoleon and tabitha. i'm really glad that those two were recruited by the show. lyrical hip-hop rules! one of the HR ladies here at the company knows some dance instructor who taught nick lazzarini, so she arranged for a whole group of them to go to the tour and to meet the dancers backstage and stuff. *jealous* i'd want to give courtney galiano a kiss and grope her boobs.
i have two zits on my nose. they hurt. they're on the bottom, right near the entrance of my nostrils. i have no idea how i got them. have i been eating greasy food? i don't think so. anyways, i've been picking at them, so i don't think that's helping me at all. but i can't stop.
i've also been picking at my right nipple. i've got some ingrown hairs on my areola, so you can catch me lifting up my t-shirt and scratching away furiously. so far, i think i've gotten them to come out, so i'll pluck them when i get home. boo on ingrown nipple hair!
ok. that's enough for today. gotta reply to amyH on facebook now.
yay! i bought a $89.99 (not including tax, but free shipping) throwback jason witten jersey online this afternoon. yup, i said i was going to do it, so i did it. i can't wait. it's navy blue with white shoulders and a plain blue star. i'm having it delivered to work so it's safer, plus i can bust it open and proudly show it off to my coworkers when it arrives. i'm going to wear it when nelson (a die hard niners fan) and i watch the cowboys/49ers play on 11/23. and plus, if/when (it BETTER be "when") we make it to the playoffs, i'll wear it then, too. GO COWBOYS! it was a good game last night. we're only one of two undefeated teams in the NFC, and the NFC east is by far the best conference in the entire NFL. this i say!
i am stuffed from mongolian bbq. my coworker I suggested it, and we went to the one on castro street today. i used two bowls this time, instead of my usual getting seconds. su's is still way better (better noodles, and they cut their meat more thinly), but there's no way i'm paying $15 instead of $10 at the castro venue. i almost passed out in the office afterwards.
i had some really weird dreams last night/this morning. in one of them, i was busted for taking some homework assignments (to study from, not to copy from) from other college students in a EE class, and i woke up swearing that it was something that i really did in high school. and then, i had a dream where a friend of mine had to "collect" floating holographic pencils using a real pencil receptacle. and then, in the third dream i remember, i was sleeping in my futon outside in a parking lot, and then a child woke me up asking me to play with him. his parent shushed him away, and i drove my futon (like a car) into my house, only to find that someone had broken into my house and left my stuff in chaos. crazy stuff!
so i see that k2 is on facebook now. i'm not sure whether we're civil enough to be friends at this moment. i mean, i haven't spoken to her in like 4 years or so, but i did e-mail her last year for her birthday (though i didn't do it this year), and i got a civil response. oh well, it's not a big deal. it was interesting to see her picture, though. she looks familiar, but not really *familiar*, you know what i mean? i mean, i got to know that face of hers intimately for four years. maybe it's her new eyes.
over the weekend, i took a dump so forceful that it splashed a small piece of turd out of the water and onto the side wall of the toilet. it's still there, i think. i should scrub it off with a toilet brush when i get home. that's gross, isn't it? but man, that goes to show the potential power of my bowels.
i think girls who like football are incredibly sexy. better yet, if they like a certain team and show loyalty, that's even cooler. i literally drool when i see a girl wearing a short cutoff football jersey. *shivers* i remember jennifer lopez did it in _out of sight_. i don't really like jlo, but that was the only movie she was in where i found her pretty hot.
i'm going to start coming into work earlier. i am very determined to finish my work before the UK trip, and god damnit, i WILL do it. there will be no excuses. i want and need this vacation badly, and i will do everything in my power to make it happen. i have already bought my (nonrefundable, i'm pretty sure) plane tickets, and i'm going to pay paul and leeya roughly $2200 for the hotels, car rentals, and metro passes. (yes, it's going to be an expensive trip, but i don't give a shit.)
ok, i need to go home soon. i'm hosting adam, mr. supreme chargers fan, at my place for the SD/NYJ MNF game at my place. take it easy, folks!
POPPAGE!
friday night, i left work early and went to safeway. there, i picked up some meds and bought an "it's a girl!" balloon. then, i went to krispy kreme and bought a dozen assorted donuts. the original glazed donuts were coming out hot, so i got one extra and ate it on my way up alan and ting's place. boy, was it fucking good.
i got to alan and ting's place, but no one answered the door. alan was out walking the dog, and ting was sleeping. alan finally got back, and he let me in. then, we drove separately up to jeremy and kate's place, where jay and margaret were already there, playing with maggie the new baby.
we ate pizza and hung out. little kid audrey threw a few temper tantrums, and it was amazing to see jeremy so calm in dealing with her. she ate her first bites of a donut later, and she really liked it. hehe. little kids and sweets. i had to go around 9:20 to pick up my cousin S at SJC, but when i got there at 10pm, i found out her flight was delayed, so i had two cigarettes outside.
after i picked S up, we went straight to duke of edinburgh, this scottish pub in cupertino village. S had a huge shot of skyy vodka and a hefeweisen on an empty stomach, and i had a bushmills on the rocks. then, we stopped by my office for a bit so i could handedit a netlist and pass it off, and S was impressed by our large free drink fridge. then, i got her some food at taco bell, and we watched some sportscenter before calling it a night.
over the weekend, i took S to various landmarks that i talk about in my blog. for brunch, we went to hobee's, and then we had froyo at tartini. i think one of the owners (who was working there) is kind of cute. and she has a nice chest. then, we hit santana row. we walked up and down, and S bought a few cards. i thought about buying jay and margaret this one card that said, "how's your va-jay-jay?" on the front and "nevermind, tell us about your baby!" on the inside, but i thought margaret would get offended. unfortunately, the ted baker store was closed for construction.
then, we decided to see _vicky cristina barcelona_ at 3pm, but i was only 2, so we killed 40 minutes by getting coffee at peet's and then shopping a little at urban outfitters. the movie was good. not smashing, but good. i like woody allen's work. i'm not a fan of scarlett johansson, though. i think she's rather ugly. but still, i enjoyed the film.
then, we went home, and i showed S the wondrous beauty of HD football. she was impressed, but apparently not enough, as she then took a nap as i watched the georgia/arizona state game. then, i took her to dinner at dusita, and then tap-ex for pearl drinks. we went home, had some alcohol (the last of my ketel one citroen for her, jameson on the rocks for me), and then we got the munchies really bad. it was like i was high or something. i went to mcdonald's, and i got her a cheeseburger and a mcchicken for me. that was the best mcchicken sandwich i had ever had. we had to go into my office to print out my boarding pass sometime the night, too. she changed her flight from 6pm to 1pm because she needed to do some work.
sunday, i took her to stacks at 10:30, but the crowd was so big outside already that i aborted and went to the peninsula creamery instead. and then, i dropped her off at the airport and then joined paul and leeya at this porridge place in cupertino village. man, parking there on weekends is ridiculous.
then, i went to jeffrey and nicki's place, where they were cooking some clam linguini. i read the instructions as they cooked away. it was good, but i wasn't hungry from my chicken salad melt from the creamery. i just had a little bit to taste. then, we hung out, and i did a shot of tequila.
then, i went home to watch the cowboys win their first ever game at lambeau field against the packers. it was a good game, although not as polished and a little ugly. but still, a win is a win, and i was very pleased. TO didn't look very happy, though, (2 catches for 17 yards) although he was still very vital to the victory. then, i went out and got some level 3 pepper crispy chicken at tap-ex, watched sportscenter, and called it a night.
overall, a good weekend, and at 8am this morning, i got a text from message from jay saying that there was "POPPAGE." (code word for a baby being delivered.) CONGRATULATIONS! :)
hey folks. it's been a busy week. i haven't been able to start on my next block, so when i start on it on monday (assuming no interruptions), i'll have exactly one month to get it done and verified before i leave for the UK. i better get it fucking done, because i really want to go on this vacation.
today was free lunch today, and i'm glad i went out for lunch; the cafeteria served what looked like crappy mexican food. i met up with some ex-coworkers at choi's, and service was pretty bad. we sat there after we ordered, and it took us forever to get the panchan (small plates). when we asked the waitress when we would get them, she replied in broken english something like, "you'll get them when we give them to you." ?! wtf? she was lucky we even gave her a normal tip. and we didn't get any soup today! but still, ah, korean potatoes. i love that shit.
choi's has really good water. the use this reverse osmosis system called "aqua life," and the water just has this really crisp and refreshing taste. i can't describe it. after all, water doesn't really have a describable taste, but yeah, it's damn good.
so i gotta leave early today. jay, margaret, alan, ting and i are heading over to jeremy and kate's place to see their new baby maggie (margaret). we're bringing them food and stopping by for a short bit. at least, according to the etiquette, that's what we're supposed to do, stay only a short while. now i feel bad for forcing myself upon jeremy and company two weeks ago. hey, i didn't know the etiquette!
and then, i gotta go pick up my cousin S at SJC at 10pm. she said that she had a stressful day, and she wanted a vodka tonic, so i might take her to duke of edinburgh for a drink. i still haven't decided what we're doing this weekend. i might take her to berkeley tomorrow, but if we go, we're BARTing. no way i'm risking my stanford-laden car getting trashed.
tartini with jennie last night was good. she definitely leads a way more interesting life than i do, to say the least. remember that she bought this really cool and sexy blue ted baker dress last week, and she wore it over the weekend. i saw some pictures of it on facebook today, but there weren't any pictures showing the whole thing. she said she'll wear it again when she goes to vegas on an upcoming trip.
tartini was my dinner, but after going home and watching some tv, i got hungry at 10:30pm and went to jack in the box for a sourdough jack (ah, so fucking tasty). i need to stop doing this, eating late at night and then going to bed. but i just can't resist my hunger when i skip dinner.
while i was driving last night on the way to yogurt, the tip of my cigarette broke off and landed on my shoulder. it burned a hole in my t-shirt and hurt like a motherfucker. ouch! damn. that sucks. i like that t-shirt, it's one of my favorites. oh well. that's the risk of smoking while driving, i guess. it would help if i packed my cigarettes like i used to do, but i stopped doing that because i was afraid that the shock of slamming the pack into my hand would break my watch. my last tag heuer watch broke because the crystal inside cracked, and i think it's because of all the shock that i subjected it to (like playing tennis, packing cigarettes, etc.). i love my current yellow tag watch, so i'm not going to do anything to risk it breaking.
cowboys vs. packers this weekend. it'll be a good game. aaron rodgers is shaping up to be a great quarterback, so far in his first two starts. yeah, i gotta remember to look into getting a jason witten jersey.
has anybody ever gone to a bachelor party gone totally x-rated? like, when the stripper-turned-prostitute starts giving the bachelor a blowjob or something? what do the bachelor's friends do? if i were there, i would NOT want to watch. i'd ask them to go into the bedroom or bathroom or something. anywhere but in front of me. what is the standard fare for sex from a prostitute in vegas these days? the last time i heard firsthand it was around $350 or so.
i pee a lot during the weekdays. A LOT. after tartini last night, i had to go, but i had to drive my ass all the way back home. by the time i stepped into my place, my bladder was about to explode. peeing never felt as much like an orgasm in my life. it was so good. i just need to remember to drink more fluids during the weekend. like i said, i am deathly afraid of getting kidneystones. ugh. peeing out jagged rocks. *shiver*
ok. time to leave and get some donuts and head up to redwood city. have a STUPENDOUS weekend folks!
holy shit. i've been debugging this chip-level simulation (the local testbench workred) ALL AFTERNOON. for some insane reason, it was failing in this really weird way, and it took me a few hours to figure out why it wasn't working. it turned to be a stupid, stupid problem. it was because on the new 64-bit machines, uninitialized variables were set to non-zero numbers, whereas in our old 32-bit machines, there were all set to zero. so the chip was setting this 8-bit/10-bit flag to 1, and thinking that our incoming data was 10-bit, and thus fucking up this 8-bit test. ARGH. while debugging, i kept on thinking, "WTF?!" it took me such a long time to figure this shit out. i hope it works now; it's running as i type this.
i think i deserve some tartini after this; i'm meeting up with jennie at 7pm for some frozen yogurt.
i had dream today where i was an olympic diver, except that the platform wasn't the usual 10 or 3 meters high. it was actually like 100 floors up, like on the empire state building or something. so instead of doing like 3 turns in the pike position, i did many many dozen. i'm afraid of heights, but for some reason, i was fine in this dream.
i think the basketball folks think i suck or something. when i score, they clap. they don't do it for anybody else. i feel like a mentally retarded kid or something, earning some charity when i do something good on the floor. *eyeroll* they clapped the hardest today when i stole the ball and raced down the floor for a fast break finger roll. hrmph.
yes, our office has showers. and i don't know if that guy was masturbating in the shower. oh, and ann, i like both dusita's equally as much. i haven't noticed a difference between the two; they're both damn good thai food, my favorite thai restaurant, in fact. the only thing i can fault dusita with is the fact that they don't have jun pad poo.
where do snails go during the day? i noticed during my nightcap smokes that they come out near the plants outside my porch. (i like to spit on them and watch them shrivel up.) but i don't see any when the sun's out. *ponder* same thing with raccoons. i've spotted a few during the wee hours of the morning. be careful! they have rabies!
last night, i fell asleep in the living room. it literally *hurt* to get up, i was to tired and sleepy. have you ever been in that state before? i could have skipped my nightcap smoke, my shower, brushing my teeth, my wednesday night shave, etc., but i pushed through it, and by the end, i woke up a little bit. i bet if i had skipped all that and went straight to bed, i could have fallen asleep within two minutes. but i would have felt dirty and uneasy (read: OCD) the next morning. but boy, was i tired. it was quite a feeling.
update: the test is passing. big fucking *whew*
that japanese branch coworker is funny. he keeps telling me i have good style (i'm wearing another t-shirt today with chinese characters on it) and taking pictures of me with his camera phone.
as much as i bitch about my work, i actually enjoy fighting fires. that's the cool thing about engineering: solving problems and thinking about stuff. granted, it would have been cooler if the solutions weren't stupid shit like uninitialized variables on different platforms, but still, i like figuring stuff out. it makes me feel like i accomplish stuff in my life.
ok, i gotta cut this short and get ready to go. i've been running late for all my meeting with jennie, and this time, damnit, i'm going to be early!
i feel bad for one of the junior engineers here. he was assigned the task to modify this block, and frankly, i think it's beyond him. i mean, i don't think he can't do it, but given the overly aggressive schedule, i think it's going to be tough. and i think he's way harder than he thinks it is. he's been stopping by my cube for some help, and it's kind of clear that he doesn't understand what's going on. i keep telling him to understand the algorithm first before he starts changing the code. in the meantime, my own work has been going well, although my next task is sort of similar to that engineer's: changing a block to add some new functionality. i'm not looking forward to it. i HATE looking into other people's (rather ugly) code! *RAAR*
in my haste yesterday, i forgot to mention that the cowboys/eagles monday night game was AWESOME. there was everything: fumbles in the endzone, bonehead plays, long bombs, good defense, quarterback scrambles, seven lead changes, etc. it was a great win for the cowboys, although the eagles showed that they have what it takes to be an elite team as well. i am very impressed with jason witten, who toughed it out with a separated shoulder. if there is one cowboys player's jersey i'd like to get, it would be his. i looked online, and damn, authentic jerseys cost over $200! hm. i found out that the cowboys/49ers game is in late november, so i'll be back from the UK. nelson (a die-hard niners fan) and i will get it on. hopefully i'll have my witten jersey by then.
_fringe_ is a little creepy and gross. last night's episode featured an extraction of an eyeball. at that point, i had to look away from the tv. the show is interesting, but unbelievable at certain points. that whole "you can see the last thing that a dead person sees" is a bit ridiculous, don't you think? but i'm still intrigued by the show, and i'll keep watching for now. oh, and whenever i see joshua jackson, i think "pacey" from _dawson's creek_. he still has the same mannerisms! it's like how matthew perry will always be chandler from _friends_.
my brother just sent me an e-mail just now. i guess i can talk about it now, but he's getting married next month. yup, my baby brother (he's 10 years younger) is getting hitched. he's getting married to a girl he met in church, and they both just graduated from UCLA. there was a bit of rumbling in my family, especially from my dad, because my brother doesn't have a job or a plan to make money. there's other issues as well which i won't get into, and i'll have to say that i also think it's a bit too early (i mean, they're just out of college, and they've only been dating for 11 months), but i will support my brother in whatever he does. the reason why he e-mailed me was because i sent him a check for $3K to help pay for his wedding. his wedding will be very frugal, and set within his church guidelines, it will be very different from the normal weddings that you and i are used to. there will be no wedding party, no drinking, dancing, alcohol; the whole thing will be like a church meeting, so i've been told. i can't say that i'm looking forward to it, but it will definitely be an "experience."
my coworker I said today, "it's already wednesday!" i corrected him by saying, "it's ONLY wednesday."
i wonder if i'll gain or lose weight in the UK. i figure that food will be so expensive there that i'll starve myself. are portions big there? is the food greasy? will i eat a ton of shepherd's pie? hm. when i lived in japan, i lost a lot of weight because portions were a lot smaller, japanese food was pretty healthy, and food cost so damn expensive (the yen was 80 to the dollar!) that i couldn't afford to get full. i wouldn't mind losing weight, maybe 5-10 pounds. i want to be 165 again.
i was in the bathroom today taking a dump at the office, and this guy was in the shower, and every 10 seconds or so, he would grunt/moan. i wonder what the hell he was doing. wanking, perhaps? hm. i have to admit, though, that i've done it at work before. *embarrassed* back at my summer internship, my company had these HUGE bathrooms, like with 20 stalls, so i was really, completely bored one day, so i went all the way to the end and did it. yeah, it's sort of crazy, but safe to say, i'll never do it again.
hm. 6pm. i'm hungry. i want to go home. i wrote two tests today, and they seem to be working, after fixing one bug in my code and another in the test itself. good job!
not going to write much today. it's almost 7pm, and i just got out of a long meeting that was only schedule for half an hour. during part of it, my boss took a phone call, and he talked for like 20 minutes. i found that to be a bit rude. i mean, if you're supposed to be in a meeting, and other people are waiting for you, shouldn't you get out of the phone call? that must have been one damn important conversation.
there's this japanese dude in the office from our branch in japan. he's been here before, and he told me yesterday that he remembered that i wore cool t-shirts. so today, i put on a shirt that had all this japanese on it. i was looking for him in the halls, and we bumped into each other later on in the afternoon. he ripped open his buttondown to reveal a t-shirt that had the chinese character for "tiger" on it. i smiled, and i showed him mine. i asked him to translate my shirt, and it turned out to be a hotel message/placard that said something about not using too many towels and saving them because it's wasteful and such. i felt a bit less cool after i found out what my t-shirt meant. anyways, he told me that i wore cool clothes, took a picture of me and shook my hand as we parted.
basketball was grueling today. the last two games were to 11, and we played them without a break at all. i was about to pass out. the moment the second game ended, i left without hesitation, but i found out later that the 8 remaining guys played even more, and their games went to 21. holy shit! anyways, i pretty much gave up trying near the end of my outings because i was so drained.
one of my friends lost the $40K investment he made in lehman brothers bonds. he told me dejectedly about it today, and he said that he couldn't sleep last night. i feel really bad for him. i mean, i bitched and moaned about my $3500 loss in fannie mae, but $40K is a shitload more. that's a few years worth of savings for some people. ouch. this economy is hurting a lot of people.
i've had air supply songs in my head ("all out of love" and "lost in love") all day.
ok, i gotta go. it's late, and i'm starving.
i had a dream this morning where a little R2D2-type robot got a blowjob. yes, it was odd. he stuck out this little piece of metal that was supposed to be his schlong, and it even had a tiny condom on the tip. and then, the female robot had "accepted" it, and blew it until some gunk came out of the protruding piece of metal. i have no idea where this dream came from. i also had another dream where i was interviewing jenna jameson, except she was old and ugly. (no, i don't think the real jenna jameson is that hot, though.) i guess i have sex on my mind.
i am thinking about getting a new iMac. my old iMac is about 7 years old, and it is getting slow. and over the weekend, my version of safari started crashing and hanging (damn spinning wheel of death), so i had to download an older version of firefox 2 (using a *really* old version of internet explorer to get onto the site) just to be able to surf the web. ugh. so far, firefox seems to be working, but i guess i can no longer use safari or IE anymore. once firefox 2 becomes outdated (my OSX can't support firefox 3), i am up shit creek without a paddle. and THEN it will really be time to get a new computer.
the problem will be transferring all of my old files to the new computer. they say macGenius people will do it for free for window PC's, so i wonder if they'll help me with my mac. but i wonder if i should move my computer porn off beforehand so they don't think i'm a total perv. *ponder* oh, speaking of that, i just tracked a UPS shipment, and i should have two vids on my doorstep when i get home tonight. yay! new porn! *glee*
i went to cupertino village today for lunch for the main purpose of buying this stuffed mushroom. not the food, but a stuffed mushroom, as in a stuffed animal-type thing. i saw it last sunday when i was hanging out with nelson, alvin and jen. it's a mushroom from the super mario brothers video game. i was going to get one then, but i couldn't decide between the red one (the one that makes you grow) or the green one (the 1-up). in the end, i decided to get the red one because it's in the stanford colors. plus, they didn't have the green one anymore anyways. i love it. it's so cute!
i want to leave early because tonight the cowboys are playing the eagles on MNF. the game starts in under half an hour. hm. it's gonna be big; both teams played very well in last week's season opener. it's too bad i don't get espn on HD. and plus, i'm taping _gossip girl_ as well. mondays will get even busier next week when _how i met your mother_ starts up. i think my strategy will be to tape _gossip girl_ because _mother_ is in HD, and i like watching cobie smulders in all her HD glory.
so mikeT and christi are going to italy for their honeymoon. i went to italy back in 2004, and i really enjoyed it. the company was only so-so (i went with a coworker and all of her friends), so my two favorite moments were ones spent alone. one was when i had a sandwich, cappuccino and a cigarette by myself outside a cafe in rome. and the other was when i ordered an eggplant (parmigiana) pizza and two sodas, and brought it back to the hotel in florence and just watched the athens olympics alone. yeah, i was a bit antisocial during the trip. it got better as i came to know my fellow travellers.
leeya called me saturday night as i was taking a nasty dump at a friend's place. she booked our lodging for edinburgh and glasgow (scotland). we're in a two bedroom apartment in the former and two hotel rooms in the latter. that sounded cool to me. i was a bit worried about sharing a hotel room with them because i wanted them to have their privacy, as this was sort of their honeymoon and all. i mean, if they want to share a hotel room for part of their trip, i'm fine with that to cut costs, but i do want them to have their own space when they want it. and plus, i want my own space as well at night, and i sleep better when i'm on my own.
i hear that devastator (the constructicons) are going to appear in the next _transformers_ movie. i think that will be cool.
have you seen the ads for the movie _the women_? what the hell happened to meg ryan? she used to be so cute, but man, plastic surgery really fucked up her face. now she just looks scary. ugh. i wonder what she thought was wrong with herself that made her go under the knife. poor girl.
i wonder if i would change much if i were filthy rich. i mean, right now, i make twice what i made when i first came out of college, but i actually spend less money than i did back then. of course, part of it is because i'm single, but i also don't go shopping anymore. i used to buy a whole bunch of clothes, music and stuff, but now, i rarely buy material things for myself. i have enough clothes, and my passion for music has died down. my biggest ticket item is food, and that's about it. if i had a ton of money, what would i buy? how would i spend it? maybe i'd travel the world more, and if i were rich, i'd probably fly first class because of my tourette's, but other than that, i don't know if i would live any differently.
ok, time to see if i can sneak out of work and watch the game. GO COWBOYS!
friday night, mikeC, nelson and i had dinner at dusita. it was awesome, one of the best meals i had in a while. everything just tasted really good. we ordered the spicy crispy catfish, the duck run, and a pad see ew which we accidentally made spicy (i was in the bathroom when the guys ordered). it was actually good, because i like spicy food, and i think i'll order spicy pad see ew's from now on. *yum* i was so satisfied after the meal. dusita rocks!
afterwards, we went to nelson's house for a bit to play some xbox (generation 1 xbox) games, and then we hit paul's house where i fell asleep while the guys plan LAN games. then i went home and passed out.
saturday, i woke up at 10 and watched cal lose to maryland. there was this one awesome play where cal's running back got destroyed with a hard tackle, and he was on the ground for a while, and he puked up this green slime. awesome. i had vietnamese food with nelson, and then i went over to his house while he played _mass effect_, this rather lame and slow-paced xbox game. i fell asleep again, and i think i actually had a dream.
then, i went home and watched some more college football (georgia vs. south carolina). i took a nap, and then i watched the first half of USC/ohio state. OSU sucked, and then i gave up on hoping for a competitive game and joined jay and margaret at gombei in san jose japantown. while driving there, i turned left onto taylor off of the 87, and it was dark, and i followed the yellow dots, and i wound up on the opposite side of the street! damn, i could have gotten into a bad accident there.
gombei rocked as usual, and jay's appetite was voracious, as he had run like 16 miles and only had jamba juice for lunch. afterwards, he and margaret went to banana crepe for dessert while i secured a table outside for them. we went to nijiya market after that, and i bought two wasabi shrimp chip bags. these things are fucking good.
after that, i went to eric and sammy's place to hang out for a while. i had two shots of whiskey out of those tiny little bottles. one of them was chivas regal, and the other was this brand i had never heard of. then, at 11:30pm, i rushed home to watch michael phelps host _SNL_. he was pretty bad. he didn't have that many big roles, but in the parts where had to talk a lot, he flubbed and stumbled over his lines. i guess he may be an out-of-this-world swimmer, but a shitty comedian/actor.
sunday, i watched the raiders/chiefs game, and darren mcfadden was fucking awesome. then, i grabbed some wendy's for lunch, and the dude operating the cash register was an idiot. i gave him money, and he gave me the wrong change, and when i told him that, he actually responded, "oh, i didn't know how much you gave me." WTF? and they short changed me by one chicken nugget! *RAAR*
armed with my wendy's food, i headed over to nelson's place to watched the 49ers barely beat the seahawks. it looked bleak in the first quarter when the niners were down 0-14, but they steadily came back to win it in overtime. i think nelson was pleased, despite giving up eight sacks.
after going home, i rested for like half an hour before heading back out, this time to jay and margaret's house to meet up with them and alan and ting. we went back to pho ga an nam, this vietnamese chicken place. then, we went to cold stone, and i got a french vanilla/heath bar mix. despite the chilly night, i couldn't resist my love for heath bars. then, i went home and just caught up on football highlights on espn.
that was it for my weekend. lots of football. next weekend will be different; my cousin S will be in town, so i'll be out and about more.
yup, i had an expensive lunch today. D said that he watched bobby flay's gumbo _throwdown_ episode , and he had never had gumbo before, so i took him and I to roux louisiana kitchen in santana row. it took us a while to find parking, so i was worried that we wouldn't be able to get a table, but lo! aside from the three of us, there were only two other tables occupied when we got there. i guess they don't get good lunch business.
i ordered a bushmills on the rocks ($8), fried okra ($8), and a pulled pork po' boy combo with cajun fries ($14.45). i was absolutely stuffed (and a bit buzzed from an empty stomach while waiting for my food) afterwards. unfortunately, the gumbo wasn't all that great; it lacked a spicy punch and was a bit bland. and the meal really hit my wallet hard.
neither I nor D had been to santana row before. i was sort of surprised since it's such a south bay landmark, but i guess it's understandable since they're both from berkeley. they were sort of impressed with all the fancy stores and stuff.
last night, i met up with adam and rae at los charros. i was starving since all i had to eat was a sausage & egg mcmuffin for breakfast. i chowed down on my super wet carnitas burrito. in fact, i ate it so fast that when i went home, i felt sick and barfed some of it up. ugh. gotta pace myself!
it's taking me a while to get used to the new facebook layout. they switched over permanently last night, and it crashed my browser (i use safari on my iMac at home). at first, i fucking hated it, but i'm sure i'll get accustomed to it over time. i just don't really like change, in a general sense. stasis is my friend!
i got a meeting schedule for 6-7pm today. ?! who schedules a meeting at that time on a FRIDAY night? so i asked the organizer if i really needed to go, because the subject matter didn't concern me at all. the guy told me that no, i didn't need to go, so i got out of it. hooray! and to celebrate even more, i scheduled a massage appointment at 6pm, so i'll be relaxing my ass off while these poor blokes are sitting in a meeting.
drat. i can't see alan and ting tonight. they're going to a 7:10 showing of _traitor_, but i get out of my massage at 6:30 and can't make it up to redwood city in time. they're headed to walnut creek this weekend for the moon festival with alan's family, so i guess i'll just have to catch them some other weekend.
so far, no definite plans for this weekend. there was a notion of a housewarming party by sammy and eric tomorrow, but i haven't heard of a confirmation yet. i don't know them very well, so maybe i'm not invited. i definitely want to watch the #5 ohio state/#1 USC game tomorrow; i heard that mediocre tickets to this game were going for $400. of course i'm rooting for the pac-10 team.
so one of my friends told me the other day that some women consider their men masturbating as a form of cheating. wtf? i think that's just ridiculous. i have actually *encouraged* my gf's to play with themselves on their own as a form a self-exploration and discovery. i think it's an important thing to do in a person's growing process. however, one of my ex's did think that porn was disgusting, and i strongly disagreed with that. i never really discussed the issue with her, but my guess was that she thought ogling other women having sex detracted from the relationship and put faithfulness to her in jeopardy. if that was the case, then i just think she was really insecure about herself. *shrug* what do you think?
another friend of mine asked if he could post an anonymous comment, for fear that i would "out" him because i might know his IP address. i actually do *not* know people's IP addresses, so i have no idea who you are if you don't put down your name. if that's what's stopping you from commenting, then don't worry about it. please, comment away! :)
ok. i gotta finish this up and head off to my massage now. i need to shut down my computer because we're having a planned power outage at the company tomorrow. need to log off all the servers and stuff. have a STUPENDOUS weekend folks!
we had a very curious basketball matchup today. the way it turned out, my team happened to be the five tallest guys (all of us were 5'9" or taller), and the other team was all short (but quick). who do you think won? the quicker team. we lost badly, like 3-7 or 4-7. they just cut and passed very well, and we were totally sluggish and stagnant on offense, and we didn't have anybody who could really handle the ball and slash like a point guard. i did have one good fast break where i picked up a loose ball and ran my ass off for an easy layup. that one felt good.
this morning, i had a dream where i was holding a cold soda can, and because it was cold, it could occupy the same space as other solid matter, so i was pushing it through a wooden table and stuff. it was really interesting, defying a simple and sacred law of physics.
every once in a while, i develop these weird skin growths in my armpits. they're like little nuggets of skin matter. it's really odd. up until yesterday, i had one in each armpit. so last night, i got tired of them, so i snipped each of them off with my nail clippers. they're offshoots of skin, but i guess i still have nerve endings in them, so they hurt when i cut them off. and they bled, too. i know it's unsanitary to use dirty nail clippers as cutting tools, but immediately afterwards, i jumped in the shower and soaped and washed the sites really thoroughly. i hope i don't get lockjaw.
last night, i met up with jennie in santana row for dinner at pasta pomodoro. (their gemelli dish is fantastic.) i was terribly late because it took me fucking forever to find parking. aftewards, we went to maido, where she bought two birthday cards. and then, we hit the bookstore, where i recommended the book _vox_ by nicholson baker, which is a book that i always buy for friends because i think it's fantastic. the basic gist of _vox_ is that it's a short novel that's an entire phone sex conversation. it sounds perverted, but it's actually very well written, insightful and witty.
after that, we went to the ted baker store, where jennie bought a short blue dress. she was picking between a reddish one and the blue one, and when she asked me which one i liked, i immediately said the blue one. every girl has a red dress, but blue is just different. it looked really cool. i wish i had seen her with it on, because i bet she would have rocked it out. maybe i'll ask her to take a picture of herself when she wears it.
not enough women wear dresses and skirts these days. some of the women here at the office do, and when i see one of them in one, i try to admire them, as long as they have the body to pull it off. the other day, one of the girls here was wearing a short mid-thigh high dress, and i just did a double-take. she had nice legs, which i had never noticed before. so i just hid behind a corner a stared at her legs for a while before continuing on. soon, summer will be over, and these occurences will stop happening. *sniff*
i am pretty sure there is an inverse relationship between the temperature and my sleeping duration. this morning, i just couldn't get out of bed. and lately, the warming trend has subsided, so it was nice and cool this morning. so my conclusion is that when it's hot, sleeping is uncomfortable for me, so i don't like staying in bed, and inversely, when it's nice and chilly, i love snuggling under the covers, and thus i can sleep a lot longer. hopefully, there will be no more heat waves as fall approaches.
my cousin S is coming two weekends from now. i wonder what i'm going to do with her. i want to take her drinking, maybe to duke of edinburgh in cupertino village. maybe she'll want to visit her alma mater of berkeley, but i would refuse to drive there, since my car has stanford plates. so, we would have to bart (public transportation) up there. other than that, i'm not sure what else we can do. she said that she wants to visit the restaurants that i talk about here in my blog, so i can do that easily. hm. dusita? los charros? la bamba?
last night, jennie read in a magazine (cosmo) that a good stripper can bring a man to the brink of blowing his wad without even touching him. hm. i bet that it would be impossible with me. i don't go to strip clubs that often, but i have yet to bust a chub just by watching a stripper from afar. not once. and not just that, but i have only gotten hard during a lapdance maybe once or twice. the only time i distinctly remember sporting wood was with this one girl, isa, in reno. she smelled really good, and she was pretty attractive, and she rubbed her nipples down my face. that's all i remember. but yeah, strippers just don't do much for me overall, so i highly contest that claim by cosmo. (no, i'm not sexually frigid, either.)
i'm meeting up with adam at los charros (yes, again; i just went there on tuesday) tonight. wet burrito, here i come! and i'm hungry, too. let's see if i can finish one this time. adam has a neighbor whose son has tourette's. i've never met someone else who has TS. i want to, though. i wonder what meds he's taking. i hope kids aren't making fun of him.
so i've been seeing those KFC ads for their original recipe strips, so for lunch today, i dragged D and I there. the strips weren't very good. i absolutely LOVE their 11 herbs and spices, but i realized that i needed the decadence of the fried skin for it to be good. i'm a total skin freak; i adore pork rinds, chinese roasted fatty pork, peking duck, thai red duck curry, and KFC's original chicken. but too bad these chicken strips were no good. afterwards, we all felt sick, so i took them to tartini afterwards. finally, we found a parking spot!
at KFC, the guy took down my name after i ordered, and i told him "dylan," the usual moniker i give, and he spelled it "delin." wow. are people not familiar with "dylan?" also, the manager saw me, and he smiled and said, "hey, i haven't seen you in a while." ?? did i used to go that often? i mean, C and i used to go once every 6 weeks or so, but maybe 3-4 times max, and definitely not often enough that the manager would remember me, i don't think. and i haven't gone in over a year. hm. maybe he thought i was someone else?
i watched the series premiere of _fringe_ last night. i thought it was pretty interesting, so i think i'll follow this show. the dream synching was a little hokey, i thought, but the rest of the show held my attention. it was a little weird seeing joshua jackson on tv and knowing that he wasn't pacey from _dawson's creek_. and afterwards, i caught a little of _hole in the wall_. silly, silly game show. but man, some of the shapes were very difficult, like the handstand one and the one where you had to jump AND pose. i think the blind wall is impossible.
after dinner last night, i went to tap-ex and got my usual pepper crispy chicken. this time, i dared to try spiciness level 4. it was tolerable, as not all the pieces were completely covered with chili powder. however, by the end of the bag, i definitely had some tears in my eyes, and my mouth burned. i didn't have a spicy dump today, though.
oh! speaking of dumps, after lunch, when we left tartini i already had to go take a shit. however, they didn't have a bathroom there, or rather, i didn't ask if there was one. (at least, they didn't have a publicly accessible one.) so i had to endure a long drive from the yogurt place back to the office with my bowels quaking under massive pressure. (i was the one driving, by the way.) i had to loosen my seat belt with my off hand so it didn't press against my stomach, and i tried to concentrate on the music so i didn't think about how much pain i was in. and when we got back to work, i just walked briskly ahead of my coworkers straight to the first floor toilet. man, that was one hell of a satisfying dump i took.
so as i said before, i'm transferring over some of my work to some engineers from china. their english is ok, but bad enough to make communication a little frustration. and their technical expertise is also a little subpar, so the knowledge transfer is pissing me off a little. ok, it's not *so* bad, but i think i just have very little patience when it comes to teaching. i found myself raising my voice a little today when i was trying to explain some concepts to one of the guys, and he just wasn't getting it. ugh. i need to simmer down a bit. i got this way when i attempted to tutor one of my ex's how to navigate through the logic games section of the LSAT years ago. (but in all honesty, she was one of the most logically challenged people i knew.)
what's this i hear about the large hadron collider potentially being able to create black holes and ending the earth's existence? that's pretty irresponsible for the scientists to go through with conducting experiments if that's a real possibility. what does stephen hawking say about it? anyways, if the experiments go well and don't kill us, i think it's pretty fascinating stuff. physics was always my favorite branch of science. i just hope nothing goes wrong. *fingers crossed*
for some reason, every morning when i wake up, my back hurts. but it only hurts for a few minutes after i get up, and then i'm fine. hm. maybe my bed's too hard? or my back is in a weird position when i'm asleep, and after i straighten out, i'm ok? weird. but flipping sides in the morning hurts a lot. maybe i should get one of those foam tempurpedic beds.
ok. time to make dinner plans. i'm hanging out with jennie tonight.
i got a dwr (design within reach) catalog the other day, and i was curious to see how much my rectangular inox bulletproof table was now selling for. $850!! holy shit! i bought it for $425 a few years ago. hot damn. their prices are really inflated. i own several items from dwr (go to dwr.com to look around), and i have to say, while their stuff looks cool, their build quality is actually really crappy. my inox table squeaks and wobbles around, and the end table that i bought from them chipped when i was building it. and given their exorbitant prices, it's just not worth it. i still can't believe how much my table is selling for now. it's bullshit, i say! but the thing is, they're expanding, so a lot of people must be lapping their wares up.
i had a dream this morning where i was forced to eat all kinds of peas: snow peas, sugar snap peas (i've never even had these before), and regular peas. i hate peas. the only time i can sort of tolerate them is if they're in a tuna casserole, in limited quantities, of course. anyways, weird dream.
i am really liking _gossip girl_. it's filled with pretty people, although it's sort of low on hot girls. it's definitely got a lot of eye candy as far as good looking guys go. but leighton meester is all i need. the show is very decadent and full of scandal; it's like an east coast NYC version of _the OC_. i'm really glad that i called ting right in time before the show started, so she could give me an 8-minute recap of season 1. that way, i got the lowdown on who used to go out with who, who slept with who, etc. i'm going to continue watching this show. and tonight, i'm going to watch _fringe_. (or at least tape it if i go out to dinner)
the company is out of gatorade today. so after basketball, i've had one liter of water and two dr pepper's. so far, no headache yet. i decided to wear my sleeveless muscle shirt today during the game. i probably look ridiculous because i have no shoulders or biceps to speak of, but hey, i didn't want to get my t-shirt sweaty, and i'm going to do this from now on.
i think i'm addicted to tap-ex's pepper crispy chicken. last night, after i watched _gossip girl_, i went there and got some, spiciness level 3. it was absolutely fucking delicious. qcup's qpop chicken pales in comparison. maybe next time, i'll brave spice level 4. but definitely not 5; the last time i had that, my eyes were glazed over with tears. ouch!
on tuesdays and thursdays, i have breakfast, play basketball, and skip lunch. so in the afternoons, i get damn hungry. i had a twix bar, though, so i think i ruined my appetite. i'm meeting up with nelson at los charros tonight, but i'm not going to have a wet burrito because i'm going there again with adam on thursday. so maybe i'll just get some soft tacos instead. (their quesadillas suck.)
why do people pull their pants down all the way to their ankles when they take a dump? doesn't it get really drafty in their crotches? i was doing a #2 today, and this guy walked into the stall next to me and did that. i could see his badge and belt on the ground. that just makes my balls shiver in fear and my schlong shrivel up like a frightened turtle. i pull my pants and boxers down just enough so i don't piss on myself when i'm sitting on the crapper. it's comfortable and cozy that way. plus, in that position, i can pull out my cell phone easily and call/text people.
speaking of texting, go figure, the month that i switch over my plan to 250 texts for $5, it doesn't become economical. damn. all the previous months, i had so many text messages that it cost me over $5. (they're 20 cents each, so 25 of them is the tipping point.) i guess that means that i should start using the service more. so to all my friends, start texting me! fyi, my brother and his gf once had over 1,500 messages to/from each other in one month. wow!
so leeya's planning out the itinerary for the UK trip, and i'm pretty flexible as far as where we go. i just want to relax and enjoy the sights. but one place i told her that i definitely want to go is the jameson factory in dublin. hopefully they will have some tasty drinks available after the tour. thanks for the recommendation from the person who left me the comment! is there a bushmills factory, too?
i don't get why there is such high demand for elvis impersonators.
my cubicle neighbor downloaded google's chrome beta browser. it looks ok, but i don't see what's so special about it.
ok, i'm done here. off i go! maybe i'll only get two soft tacos at los charros tonight and then hit up tap-ex for more chicken. *slurp*
fuck the government. they took over fannie mae (and freddie mac) over the weekend, resulting in a 90% drop in its stock price today, all but wiping out my investment in FNM. i bought 500 shares a few weeks ago, so it's almost a complete loss of over $3500. i guess i can write it off now and take a capital loss to balance out a modest gain i made on COP earlier in the year, but still, it really hurts to lose money on an investment. *ouch* i guess i should have done some homework before i bought my shares.
i took jenC out to lunch today for her birthday. we went to temptations on castro, this indian/chinese fusion place that i had been wanting to try out for quite a while now. but then again, i didn't order a fusion dish, but instead, i got the butter chicken, which was only ok. the nan was fresh, though, which was good, but the dal was disgusting. i guess i just don't like lentil soup. overall, i didn't think the place was that special, but i might to back there once more just to try a real indian-chinese dish to see what that's like.
i finished coding the YLUT block this afternoon. i was very pleased with myself, and i started looking ahead to the next block i am supposed to do, even though i'm not done with the YLUT (verification and compilation, etc.). the next thing i have to do is modify a filter design for 422->444 conversion, and that looks really hairy. ugh. first of all, it's not a new design, but rather an internal change of someone else's design, which sucks balls. and second, it's a filter modification, which is complicated. so to sum it up, it's not going to be fun, i don't want to do it, and i'm going to hate life for a while. :(
last night, i decided to go back up to 2mg of haldol twice a day. i'm ticcing more, and it's getting really annoying. plus, my neck and shoulders are getting sore. so we'll see if cutting down my meds is the real reason why my TS got slighly worse. there was a period of time a few months ago where i was doing really well, and i'd like to go back to those times. i know i wanted to become less medicated, but i guess there's a trade off between drugs and tics, huh?
i worry for one of my coworkers. he's a big raiders fan, but he's this very slight, short, meek japanese guy. i'm afraid he'll get beaten up or something at one of the games. at least he's a raiders fan, and he doesn't cheer for the opposing team. tonight, they're playing on MNF, so he left at 5pm (he had a meeting that ended at the time) to try to get to the game. he wears a jerry rice #80 jersey, fyi. it's really cool that some of my coworkers can talk football. the others are just too geeky and don't care about sports.
i feel really bad for tom brady. if you don't know, they say he tore his ACL, and he's out for the season. damn, he was MVP of the league last year, and now he's gone. the patriots are most likely toast. *poof* goes the season, unless matt cassel is some sort of superman that nobody knows about, which i highly doubt. just really horrible luck. can you still have sex with giselle bundchen on a bum knee? at least all is not lost, right? maybe she'll have to ride him cowgirl style only for a few months after the surgery.
when i was getting nelson a bottle of tequila, i saw this one bottle of the stuff that was aged 15 years, and it cost $369.99 a bottle. holy shit! i don't think tequila should ever be worth that much. i mean, at that price, it better taste like fucking candy and give you a high that lasts for a day or something.
does anyone have a link to a good season 1 synopsys of _gossip girl_? i tried searching for one, but all i could find was the same video intro that was shown before last monday's season premiere. it's too quick-paced and confusing for me. i don't know who slept with who, who cheated on who, and who all the characters are. hm. i need to call up ting. ah, leighton meester, yum. but blake lively? i really don't think she's pretty at all.
after jenC and i said goodbye today on castro, i really had to take a dump. i got in my car and immediately clenched. my house was on the way back to work, and i could have easily stopped by to relieve myself, but i got masochistic and decided to hold it in and drive all the way to the office. ugh. why do i do this to myself? i must have exercised my kegel muscles a lot, and when i ass hit the toilet seat, it burst open like a broken dam. all liquid. you know, i really hope this kind of stuff doesn't happen while i'm in the UK, because i don't know if there will be many bathrooms while we're driving along the countryside in scotland and ireland.
i got the pleasure of IM'ing amyM today this morning. she was up at 1-2am in HK. she said that she may get a skype phone, which would be totally awesome because that means i would get to talk to her live. i miss hearing her voice.
ooh! adam's online. i'm going to IM him now. laters!
friday night, i took my mom out for her very first thai food experience. we went to thai basil, and i ordered pad see ew and red duck curry. she seemed to enjoy it ok. it may shock you that she's never had thai food before, but then again, i had never had it either until i came out to california. i don't recall a single thai restaurant in dallas growing up.
i was supposed to have tapioca with paul and leeya, as leeya had promised thursday night, but i couldn't get a hold of them. paul told me later on that he worked until midnight. so i just hung out with my mom on her last night here.
saturday, i took my mom to hobee's for brunch. then, i dropped her off at the airport (SFO). i watched her go all the way through security (which was pretty light) until i left.
then, on the way back down on 101, i stopped by jeremy and kate's place to see their new one month-old baby margaret. she was a bit fussy, and kate had to feed her twice before she calmed down. i chatted with jeremy for a bit before leaving.
then, i went home, and i immediately stripped off all my clothes because it was so damn hot in my place. (the thermostat read 80 or so degrees.) then, of course, i fulfilled my porn withdrawal. after that, i stayed naked and watched the miami/florida football game. i also saw the ending to the BYU/washington travesty. basically, washington's quarterback jake locker ran in for a touchdown with two seconds left to make the score 27-28, but he got flagged for excessive celebration, and their PAT got blocked. the refs totally fucked washington over.
i had a very late dinner with paul and leeya at pho to chau, got pearl drinks, and then i met up with eric, sammy and jessica. we had two shots of this special red vodka. it was only 20% alcohol, so it was very light and sweet.
sunday, i woke up, watched some NFL (opening weekend!), and then spent $60 at bevmo on "supplies" for nelson's birthday party. i grabbed some wendy's and then headed over to nelson's place. people trickled in, and grace and john made a shitload of food. throughout the course of the afternoon, we had three shots of this milagro anejo tequila that i bought. i had milagro tequila at my friend jeffrey's place, but for some reason, this stuff that i bought wasn't very good; it was very spicy. the 49ers lost badly (5 turnovers), so that didn't please nelson very much.
after the game, we all pretty much left, and i went home and watched the tape of _gossip girl_ from last monday. damn, leighton meester is really pretty. i didn't quite get all the backstory and the characters straight, so i called up ting afterwards to inquire. however, there were kids around her (she was at a bbq), so she couldn't answer some of my questions, which apparently involved sex.
for dinner, i met up with nelson, alvin and jen and got some qpop chicken at qcup. we went to a chinese store in cupertino village, and alvin bought this stuffed super mario brothers mushroom. it was really cute; i might get one for myself.
and that was pretty much it. it was a really quick weekend compared to the previous 3-day weekend, and i didn't do as much as i wanted to. hopefully the weather cools down, because this heat is giving me pms.
i worked really hard today. i started on my YLUT design, and i modified 10 of the 11 files that i needed to change. of course, the last one is the dooziest of them all; i don't need to modify it that much in terms of number of lines, but it's definitely the most "brainful" of them all. i'll save these last changes for monday. but i'm very pleased with my progress, and when i told my boss about it, he was very impressed. i love coding stuff that i understand, and when i am able to focus on my work, i am extremely productive and efficient. *flex*
so today is the last day with my mom. she flies out at 2:30pm tomorrow afternoon. i really want to introduce her to thai food, but i don't know if i'll have a chance to do that. i urged her to go to a church meeting tonight, partially because i feel like she hasn't had a good dose of jesus (since she was sick last weekend) lately, but also because i'm selfish and want to do something with my friends tonight. she probably didn't go, though, because she still has a cough and doesn't want to get anyone sick.
so i made it! three weeks with my mom, and nary a long aggravating conversation about her preaching the gospel to me. and no uncomfortable moments about her finding any porn in the house (or on my computer, for that matter). hiding the dvd's in the garage proved to be a good idea.
my ex-coworker O took a few of us to her uncle's thai restaurant in milpitas for lunch. the menu was really simple. they didn't have jun pad poo, red duck curry, or even pad see ew, to my disappointment. so i got this beef with chili dish, and the beef was overcooked and really tough. the food took a long time, as there was only one chef in the back making the food. hm. overall, i didn't think the place was worth going to again, but i didn't want to offend O. still, though, the food was probably better than the free lunch that my company provided; i looked on the menu in the cafeteria, and it was mainly salmon, which i don't normally like.
i think sarah palin is sort of hot. i watched part of the RNC last night, and she was wearing glasses and had her hair up (both attractive things). but that's about all the good things i can say about her, as far as the stuff i know about her so far. the fact that she could become the next president scares the bejeezus out of me.
i still haven't watched my recording of this past monday's _gossip girl_. i'll watch it after my mom leaves. the reason why i'm interested in seeing it is because leighton meester is in it. i think she's beautiful. however, i hear she's a total bitch in the show, which might color my view of her, and ting told me that she wears really old-fashioned ("audrey hepburn" was her wording) clothes. hm. well, i'll just have to see for myself.
since summer's winding down, i think i'm ready for the television season to start. show that i watch are _how i met your mother_, _scrubs_ and _the office_. that's not much. and of course, there's football. yay for football! i have high hopes for my cowboys this year, as some pundits are saying they're super bowl-bound. i hope that's not a jinx. but the cowboys are dangerously thin on wide receivers, so i will hope for an injury-free season. *crossed fingers*
at work, i'm transferring some of my responsibilities to some engineers in our branch in china. while that should be some weight off of my shoulders, i'm a little wary of it. basically, i don't trust their competence. what if the engineers fuck up? i'll have to hold their hands, and they're all the way across the planet. talking to them will be a pain, as it will have to be done over e-mail with a half-day delay, or over conference call with ridiculous hours, etc. i guess sometimes i'd just rather do stuff myself to make sure things are done right. ah, outsourcing and globalization.
i'm curious what "male enhancement" pills like enzyte and extenze do. the term is so vague. of course, i'm not going to fork over the money and try it out myself, and i just found a site now that says extenze is a scam. how do you begin to work on a pill that solves ED or makes a guy's schlong bigger or gives him more staying power? *ponder* anyways, i guess there's a big market for this, and that means there's a lot of unsatisfied women out there. poor girls. poor guys.
on the other hand, i think solutions that make the girl hornier (like zestra) are good ideas. the girl shouldn't have to depend solely on the guy to get them off. a girl should take matters into her own hands! yeah. although, i haven't seen ads for zestra recently; maybe i'm watching the wrong channels at night. i bet oxygen or lifetime air those ads.
ok, i'm taking off soon. i really want a smoke, and to put an end to this short workweek. boy, it's hot out there. but anyways, have a STUPENDOUS weekend, folks!
man, i have a lot of work to do. since i'm leaving for the UK in late october, i've been assigned to do some design for the next chip already. and the current chip hasn't even taped out yet! today was the kick-off/architecture review meeting for my next block, and everything's pretty much squared away, so i have the green light to start designing. i'll start tomorrow. there's quite a bit of things to take care of, including a lot of little annoying (and time-consuming) tasks. *blech*
my mom is extremely frugal. yesterday, after a quick dinner at burger king (she wanted "american" food), we stopped by walmart. she was looking for some wifebeaters/tank tops because she needed an extra layer to keep her warm. then, she was looking for some sneakers to wear while she takes her walks. i suggested going to a place like foot locker, but she said no, and looked at some $11 walmart shoes. man, i would never get shoes at walmart. in the end, she didn't get them because she didn't have space in her luggage to take them to LA.
at walmart, they had a giant, chaotic messy bin of DVD's on sale for $5 each. so i picked up four movies: spanglish, bull durham, traffic, and stand by me. i wouldn't have gotten bull durham, except the sign said "2 for $10," so i thought i had to get an even number of movies. how crafty! i haven't seen the first three. i got spanglish because i think paz vega is really sexy. i've seen her in _sex y lucia_, where she appears completely naked. there's also full frontal male nudity, too, including one of the biggest schlongs i have ever seen.
i almost got to the point today where i owned exactly no coins. i had a quarter in my pocket that i gave to D so he could get a snack at the office. and before that, this morning, i went to mcdonald's, and my breakfast cost me $2.80. and guess what, i had exactly 80 cents in my car! so i was all excited, so excited that i dropped one of my three dimes in my car, and i couldn't find it. ARGH. so i ended up just giving the guy $5, and i got back $2.20. DAMN. i was *so* close to owning zero change!
did you hear about chad johnson? if you don't know him, he's a wide receiver for the cincinnati bengals. he wears 85, and he officially changed his name to "chad javon ocho cinco." nuts! i read about it on espn.com, and it didn't really hit me until i saw a picture of his face on the side, and underneath it was "ocho cinco." i started laughing out loud in my cube. it'll hit me again when i see it again on the back of his jersey when i see him play. i wonder how much of a pain he has to go through to change his driver's license, social security info, etc. of course, he can probably just pay someone to do all that for him. but what if he changes teams, and they won't let him wear 85?
so far, only a tiny sliver of a basketball headache for me today. i've had four bottles of gatorade (good) and one can of dr pepper (bad). i didn't sweat as much today, though, so maybe i'm not as dehydrated. i'll still go home and take two advil, though. i can't stand headaches. i'd much rather have a stomachache because usually those can go away with taking a dump. but headaches really fuck you up; you can't think or function, and you have to take drugs to make them go away.
in the absence of the olympics, my mom and i have been watching the u.s. open at night. (that's tennis, folks, not golf.) my little brother played tennis growing up, and he was good, too, so my mom took him all over to lessons, tournaments, etc. so my mom knows a bit about tennis. thank goodness we have something to watch together in peace at night.
i freak out every time i think about what if my mom's on her deathbed, and she says that her last wish is for me to accept jesus in my life. what the hell would i do?
i had a really weird dream this morning. i forget who the guy was, but basically, we were talking, and then, he stuffed a thin tube of caulk down his penishole (OUCH). there was a great big calendar on the wall, and the gist was that he had to squirt the blue gunk from his schlong onto the days on which he was going to have sex with his wife. and on this month, he planned on humping her every single day, so he proceeded to spew forth the stuff all over the entire wall. it was nuts. i mean, wtf? where did i get the inspiration for this completely bizarre dream?
last night, i watched _america's got talent_, and i was very impressed by the taubl family. they're this hick family of musicians (two parents and lots of kids), basically like the von trapps from _the sound of music_ with a harp and other string instruments. i expected them to do a lame bluegrass song or something, but instead, they performed rihanna's _umbrella_. it was daring and pretty fucking brilliant. other than that, the performances were really lame. but i hope the taubl family makes it through and continues to surprise.
fyi, my mom is going to be 58 in two weeks. my dad is like 4 months younger.
yeah, i would LOVE to visit the jameson factory in ireland. jameson is my drink of choice, although lately, i've been drinking bushmills more because more places carry it. bushmills is a little bit smoother than jameson, but i have an emotional connection to the latter because it was the first whiskey that i really started drinking regularly. my very first whiskey ever was wild turkey, my sophomore year, and that was some disgusting shit. i didn't touch whiskey again until an indian friend of mine suggested it while we were in japan, and he was the one who introduced me to jameson. i bet the factory has some varieties of the stuff that are hella tasty; i can't wait!
i finally joined vox today in order to continue reading re:ignite's blog. she went private, which i think is a good idea. i'm having server space issues on my own webhosting service, and if i have to change servers, i think i might just move to vox. and i might go private, too. but the thing is, i really like having all of you readers, and i would hate for you guys to have to sign up on vox to continue reading and post comments. hm. but privacy is a good thing, especially with the stuff i write about. what do you think?
man, i am burping up garlic right now, and i've been doing so for the last couple of hours. they must have really put in a lot of the stuff in the jun pad poo i had for lunch. (i am not complaining; i fucking love garlic.) i took I there for lunch today, and he got it as well. i am the ambassador of jun pad poo! but never, ever get it there at that thai restaurant on murphy street (not thai basil). their jpp is horrible. btw, since i love garlic so much, how is the stinking rose in SF? is it worth going to? what's their best dish?
re: basketball and posting up. if the short guy was in front of me, couldn't my teammates just lob the ball over him to me, giving me an easy layup? i never understand why people don't do that more often in NBA and college games when that happens.
graceH sent out a birthday celebration evite for nelson for this sunday. apparently, we're going to raid his house during the 49ers game (nelson's a die hard niners fan) and get him drunk while he watches the game. hehe. i said that we should give him a hangover by the time dinner rolls around. it'll be weird, though, to drink during the afternoon. i don't remember the last time i did that. once, for a stanford football tailgate, i had a lot of tequila, and i was drunk before the game even started. i was in a full-blown hangover by halftime, and i just felt awful and shitty for the second half. i think it was all that sun exposure that sped up the process and dehydrated me. ick.
i went to see my psych today. i told him that my tics are a little worse, most likely because i cut my dosage of haldol and benztropine in half. right now, i can live with it, and the reason why i did it in the first place was because i didn't want to be so medicated. but if it gets any worse, i might go back to my full dosage. i had to get more refills this time because my UK trip will take me past two months until my next visit.
after i talked to him, i went to the receptionist to pay, and she was on the phone, apparently with her optometrist's office. she was visibly upset with them, and she told them that after she picks up her glasses tonight, she will never go back there again because of this and that, including rude service and stuff. finally, she hung up on them in a huff. hm. i think she should have picked up her glasses first and them go off on them, just in case they fuck with her glasses or something. sort of like how you complain to a restaurant *after* you get your food in case they give you "special sauce."
speaking of special sauce, how to male porn stars have so much spunk? i mean, some of them seem to have gobs and gobs of spooge when they come. it's quite amazing. and they can shoot it quite far, too. they must hold back as long as they can so their contractions are super-strong. i've shot it into my girl's hair maybe once or twice, but those were very rare occasions. how does the body know when to stop producing semen? there must be a point where halts production until there is expungement, and then it starts up again. the mechanism seems a lot more complicated than a girl's, where it just releases an egg once a month. hm.
ok, i gotta go home now. my mom has a deep chest cough now. i hope it's not bronchitis or anything.
basketball was pretty grueling today. when i came back, my neck just wouldn't stop sweating. i kept wiping it with my t-shirt, but for a good 20 minutes or so, it would just stay wet. for the last two games (4 on 4), the opposing team played man defense, and they put a much smaller guy on me, so i just went to the lower left block and posted up. a few times, i got good position, so my teammates passed me the ball, and i just turned around and banked the ball in with a layup. it felt good; i pretended like i was brook lopez (although he's right handed, so he's always on the right block). yay for height dominance!
so far, i haven't gotten a dehydration headache yet. i felt the beginning of one about an hour after i got back, but i have had two bottles of gatorade so far. i think the difference is that i haven't had any caffeine yet. but right now, i'm drinking a dr pepper, so we'll see if this gives me a headache. call it an experiment.
i think my left nipple is more sensitive than my right one. a couple of times, i've noticed that my left nipple is hard, while my right nipple is soft as melted butter. how odd, huh? and today, during the sweltering heat while i was playing basketball, i noticed during a brief stretch that my nipples were hard. that was strange, too. i mean, don't nipples get hard (sometimes) when it's cold outside? *ponder*
i had some really weird dreams this weekend. during one of them, my friend nelson was mixing in methadone into his oatmeal, and a cop came and asked him if he was doing any drugs. well, obviously, he was, so nelson just looked really vulnerable. he said, "no," but his face just gave him away, and then i woke up. and during another dream, this women came from behind and ripped a guy's facial skin off. she like put her hand through the guy's head and just tore his face off! *shivers* what a gruesome dream. i don't know where i get these funky situations and images from.
well, i'm headed into the home stretch with my mom. i can see the light at the end of the tunnel. i feel really bad that she was so sick this weekend. sunday was the worst, with her nausea and weakness. after we got back from safeway, she crawled into bed with her last gasp of breath, and she said in chinese, "oh lord jesus, i'm suffering so much." i felt like crying, i was so helpless. i got her water, gatorade, and two advil. ugh. it sucks to see people go through pain.
i need to get a haircut. i'm timing it so that one month from now, for my next haircut, i'll get it right before my smattering of october weddings. i have a wedding on 10/11, and one the very next day. yeah, it'll be a very tiring weekend. late september (two of my cousins in LA might be visiting) and october will be very busy for me; in addition to the october weddings, i might have a trip to LA, in addition to the UK vacation. and add to that a hectic work schedule, since i have to get all my shit done before i leave the country. *phew*
man, i am tired today. i got up at 8:30am because my complex was repainting all the speedbumps and parking lanes, so they demanded that all the cars leave by 9am, otherwise they get towed. yeah, i could have parked outside on the street, but when i got home last night, apparently everyone else beat me to it, because there was absolutely no parking out there. ugh. i want a good night's sleep tonight, except that somebody's coming to fix the showerhead at 9am tomorrow morning.
i really miss my porn.
one of the booze mail trivia questions on facebook was about seka, this early 80's porn stars. i looked her up on wikipedia, and it says that she was one of the pioneers of shaving her pubes, way before it became common among american porn stars. that's pretty bold. i wonder if people used to think it was weird to do that, because now it's pretty much expected. i have an old VHS tape of an 90's porn flick (_new wave hookers_), and it just looks really weird to see a full-blown bush in action nowadays. i mean, hair in the triangle is ok, but hair along the sides of the labia just looks messy and gross.
hm. i have a slight headache now. it's not bad, just a slight little buzzing in my head. i'm on my fourth bottle of gatorade of the day.
i wonder how often my dad's gotten drunk, given that he's a businessman now. when i was in taiwan last year, we talked about drinking, and he asked me, "have you ever woken up from a night of drinking and wondered how you even got home?" he asked it as if he had personal experience. hm. i don't remember if i've ever blacked out. i mean, i've passed out before, but the next morning, i am still able to piece together my memory of how i got home and stuff. one of the nastiest experiences i had was when i drank a 40, then 2-3 beers, and then some vodka. (yes, beer before liquor, never sicker.) i puked all over my shirt, passed out, and then i got taken home. it was disgusting. i will never drink a 40 again; it's simply too much volume. in fact, i don't even remember the last time i had a beer-like drink.
i'm really excited about trying all the whiskeys in ireland/scotland. they must have some good shit. since irish whiskey is my drink of choice, i'm most stoked about visiting ireland. i just hope it's not too expensive there. one of my goals is to get leeya to have one, hehe.
ok. i think i'm gonna leave early and get my haircut.
so, as it turned out, i had a pretty eventful labor day weekend. it was mostly because my mom was sick, poor thing. she had to spend the entire time at home, resting, so i took care of her as much as i could, but i did go out while she slept and rested.
friday night, she went to church, and i went to ringerhut with john and mikeC. i really don't like ringerhut all the much, but i got their yakisoba. it was only so-so. the yakisoba in japan is fantastic. then, we went to duke of edinburgh for some drinks. i got a black bush on the rocks ($8), and then i asked them if they had pim's and lemonade. this was a drink that i got in oxford that k2 recommended. it tasted good back then, but i think it may have been my memory that colored it. this time, it had this weird chinese herbal taste to it. we hung around for a bit, and then we all just went home. when my mom got back from church, her voice sounded a bit weird, and this was the start to her illness.
saturday morning, she woke up with a cough, so i got us some breakfast at mcdonald's, and then i got a coldbuster plus immunity boost at jamba juice for myself so i wouldn't catch what she had. then, i went off to greg and cheryl's house for the big trip to fort funston. there was a dog beach there, and all in all, there were eight dogs in our group. on our way up, we made a detour to the baja fresh in san carlos for lunch. i wasn't hungry, but i got a carnitas quesadilla anyway. it was horrible.
grace brought this dog called einstein. i really liked him. poor thing, he had a flea infestation before, which caused him to lose all his fur. he was going to be put down because he was "unadoptable," so grace took him in. he was really cute, and he seemed to like me. anyways, we stayed at the dog beach for a while, and geoff stopped by as well. there were a lot of hang gliders in the air, and the weather was cool, with a nice breeze.
after we left, we grabbed drinks and smoothies at starbucks and jamba juice in daly city before heading back. i went home to check up on my mom, who was doing worse. she had developed a fever. i got us some arby's sandwiches, and then i headed out again to just hang out with the gang at corner place (korean food). then, we all drove to campbell for some gelato, and then i met up with edric, char, jessica, and some other people at tartini before heading back to edric's house for some rock band. i didn't stay long because i needed to go check up on my mom again.
sunday was the worst. my mom threw up her breakfast in the morning, and then i took her to safeway to buy ingredients for some vegetable soup. she couldn't stand up for long, as she felt nauseated and dizzy. at one point, she felt like passing out in the supermarket. i took her home, and she just got into bed. i went out for a quick lunch with john and mikeC at yiassoo (gyros and fries, yum) and came back. my mom was in bed, and i just went upstairs to watch some u.s. open tennis and take a nap. then, i watched some more tennis with my mom.
for dinner, i went to red robin with mikeC. i got the prime rib dip, which was expensive and not worth it. i did get a bushmills on the rocks, which was only $4.99. cheap whiskey! then, i went over to jay and margaret's to hang out with the gang; teddy and carol were in town for a wedding, and the guys played _resident evil_ on the wii. of course, one person played, but the rest of the guys provided commentary and advice on what to do. the shotgun rocks.
monday, my mom was feeling better; the nausea and fever had subsided, but she was still weak and coughing. at least my mom could walk and go outside, so i took her to ryowa to get some soupy noodles. then, i introduced her to frozen yogurt at sweet corner. the, at 3pm, i went to alan and ting's house to hang out. we watched some tennis, and then grabbed two XL pizza's at applewood and then dessert at la tartine in downtown redwood city. they rented _in bruges_, which i wanted to see, but i decided to go home early and check on my mom.
after i got home, i watched a PBS _masterpiece theatre_ movie called _my boy jack_ with my mom. she really likes _masterpiece_. the movie was about rudyard kipling's son john/jack who went to fight in WWI. jack was played by daniel radcliffe of _harry potter_ fame. what interested me the most, however, was that jack's sister was really cute. i looked her up on IMDB, and she was played by this girl named carey mulligan. be on the lookout for her.
i actually enjoyed watching tv with my mom. (oh, the i taped _gossip girl_ on the VCR. remember that i think leighton meester is really hot. i'll watch it after my mom leaves.)
anyways, this morning, my mom seems better. her voice is more normal now, although not 100%. but she says that she has a lot of chest congestion. ugh.
all in all, it was a good labor day weekend, but i'm really worried about my mom's health. it seems like her immune system isn't very strong, with her old age and everything. i really hope she can fully recover swiftly.