| 14 may 2001 oh, here's something i didn't tell you guys about alan's birthday dinner.� so we went to this chinese restaurant, and the waitress was gabbing at me in chinese, and she mentioned that i looked like chow yun-fat.� (my mom says that, too, and i vehemently disagree.� not that i mind, but i just don't think i look like him.)� and after that, the waitress henceforth addressed me all night long as chow yun-fat.� my friends got a kick out of that.� i guess it was a good thing.� we got decent service. ----- and, something sexy.� i find it a hell of a turn-on when a girl is wearing a white or light blue men's button down shirt.� and nothing else.� :) ----- this weekend, i just slept.� a ton.� both days, i woke up at 1:30pm, and it was one of those feelings like i could just sleep no more.� i even got that little buzzing headache that you get when you sleep too much.� both days, i also took naps in the afternoon, from like 5 until 8pm.� i don't know what's wrong with me. maybe it's because i only eat one meal a day.� yeah.� since i get up so late, i skip lunch.� it takes some time for me to get hungry.� so dinner is the only time i eat anything.� ugh.� so that's the theory... i don't have enough energy to stay awake during the day. ok.� i better go get a snack.� or at least a dr. pepper. afk. ok.� i'm back.� i made myself a double-espresso with hazelnut syrup.� you know, making espresso drinks is so easy.� now i feel insulted when i have to pay over $2 at starbuck's or something.� damn. i also stopped by the front desk and asked when the next indian meal would be at the company.� i guess there's a problem because the people at the other building think the food is too spicy, so there are too many leftovers.� yup.� the company is trying to cut down on the waste from all the leftovers getting thrown away.� but shit.� i love spicy food!� damn.� so i changed the menu to some less spicy dishes.� as long as my chicken makhani is still there.� that shit is so good. all right.� i'm going to try to get wired so i can avoid my usual 4pm coma phase.� i'm tempted to try a quintuple shot of espresso and see if i start shaking.� one time, i had three dr. peppers in like five minutes.� i completely forgot that the drink was caffeinated, and i was thirsty.� and i started quivering!� that's the first and only time i've noticed the effects of caffeine on my system.� oh yeah... there was that time i had my first cappuccino, and i couldn't sleep that night. ----- so.� i asked chi-kai how long he's been going out with setsuko, because it seems like they're really into the relationship.� i mean, hell, they have a house together, and they just got a puppy (the cutest thing, black half-chow half-lab 3-week-old puppy!).� i thought they had been going out for like 3 years or something, so i was going to bug him about why he's not marrying her any time soon. but it turns out they've only been going out for one year, so yeah, i didn't pressure him to get married.� they look much closer than that, though. i'm a believer that serious couples should try living together before they get married.� it's like a test-drive of sorts.� i think you find out a lot about yourself and the other person when you start exposing all kinds of little intimate details to each other.� and you start learning how to deal with the idea of compromised space and time.� it's an important lesson. i'm the type of guy who wouldn't even close the door when i'm going to the bathroom or taking a shower.� i'd be perfectly fine walking around the place naked if i was too lazy to put on clothes.� i don't mind knowing the nitty-gritty details of my girlfriends.� and before i get into trouble with examples, i'll just stop here.� :) a lot of people say that a person is at the peak of unattractiveness in the morning right after waking up.� morning breath, lack of makeup, tousled hair... but my feeling is that a girl is at her most beautiful at that time.� because they're in a pure state.� (i really don't like makeup on girls.)� and they've been sleeping next to me, all warm and soft, and i can't help but feel closest to them in the mornings.� sigh. i once asked my mom how she deals living with my dad.� because i was talking about how spending too much time with someone can potentially be one of the easiest ways to destroy the relationship.� my mom answered, "keep one eye shut."� i found that to be both sad and enlightening at the same time.� i mean, i WANT to know everything about my loved one.� but i also recognize that doing so may be a little too much for me to handle, so i accept the middle ground. oh!� my friend alex got engaged!� congratulations to him... and he's planning on getting married THIS october (holy shit, speed-planning go go go!), so that means it'll be the third year in a row that one of my stanford-buddy-group of 8 guys is getting hitched... and there were two last year, so that means a fully-functioning half of us will be matrimonially tied by the end of 2001. what i'm looking forward now is to the wedding, and the chance when we're all together again.� those times are rare, and it seems like marriages are the only events when we all make time in our busy and distant lives to gather up again and celebrate.� i crave those days. |