03.12.2003
well, what do you know. another recap. ha ha. come on. after a week of not posting, what did you expect?
thursday:
after much persuasion, i decided to go to shooter's with iris guys thursday night. i'm really reluctant to go since i can never seem to wake up in time for class the next day. well, not so much in time for class but in time to get ready for iris to pick my li'l butt up at 8:00am. besides, i found out that the paper that was *supposedly* due on friday, actually wasn't due until the following friday. all that stressing for nothing.
when we got there, iris and i ordered something to drink. we weren't sure what we wanted so we had the bartender make us something ... preferrably a girly drink. she ended up making us a cloud nine. it had a shot of jim beam rum, a shot of amaretto, another shot of triple sec, something else, some coke and i think some fruit punch. it was pretty good. a little strong than i thought it would be. iris and i looked at each other after tasting it. we knew we were going to be a little tipsy if not full-blown drunk that night.
we were doing good, slowly sipping our drink until dean showed up. i hadn't seen him for almost a year, since he graduated last spring. of course, to make up for all that time, he bought me a drink of my own. it ended up being the same drink i was sharing with iris. so now iris and i had our own drink. it really didn't help that dean would keep clinking our glasses with his heineken, yelling "kanpai!"
i think i was doing good until halfway into my drink. i started to get a really bad headache and then iris wanted to dance, but when i stood up, i felt way to nauseous. i stood with iris for a little while, while we waiting for digga to join us so we could dance. but then i changed my mind and made my way to the bathroom and threw up. boy! did i feel a whole lot better afterwards. and my headache went away too. :) i'm not sure why i got sick so fast. maybe because it just wasn't my drink. but hey. at least i woke up in time for iris to pick me up the next morning.
friday:
friday night turned out to be a really great night ... besides that we wasted half a tank of gas driving around. jon and i met up with iris, digga, and jon c. at red roads. or tried to at least. by the time that we got there, the cops had already came and two were parked on red roads. so obviously races were cancelled there. we met up with iris at the fork by pohiki, along with forty other cars who probably got kicked out of red roads, too. we stayed there for a whole five minutes before we decided to leave. it would've been okay if those five minutes hadn't been spent with my heart aching after jon scraped the bottom of his car going over this embankment. i don't know how we missed it. maybe because it was nighttime? the sound literally tore at me. it's a really really awful sound. it hurts just thinking about it again. *wince*
we drove south to opihikao and met up with don and nicolette. we only stayed there for about half an hour and drove back into town. we drove up to saddle road in hopes to catch some races and watch rob drift, but as soon as we got there, everyone started leaving. but speedhawaii has a clip of it up. i was going to try to upload it to my own site, but it seems as though yahoo-geocities does not support wmv files. they support wma ones, but not wmv. stupid. but anyway ...
we drove around town some more, meeting up with some more people. jeremy raced this guy with an wrx out on panaewa, with a gallery of about fifteen cars. the wrx had a really sexy sounding turbo. ptshhh. ptshhh. *so* sexy!! after the race, we did a quick drive through keaukaha and then the night ended at bayfront at 3:30 in the morning.
saturday:
jon and i slept in until about 1:00. we're such bums! we met up with iris at the mall and then went to eat at hilo rice noodle soup again, even though iris already ate lunch. jon ordered another soup, but i can't remember what it was called. i had shrimp and beef on rice. i don't think my dish had a special name. jon also ordered a vietnamese coffee. damn, those things are good!
afterwards, iris had to get ready for dinner with digga and jon and i had to get ready for his coworker's son's first birthday. the party was really cute. it had a bob the builder theme. after the party, jon and i met up with iris and digga, along with jaime, jeremy, xave, and macintyre, and some other people that i don't remember. we cruised at eternal flame, but by 1:30 jon and i called it a night and went home.
sunday:
i woke up early sunday morning considering that i usually don't wake up until past noon, 9:30am. we went to ken's again. i think it's kind of tradition now. iris always teases us about going there. i really don't know why.
after ken's, jon and i went to the nani mau gardens. i have pictures, but, you guessed it ... i have to develop the film. i also went driving again. i'm getting a little bit better. i still stall though, but only a couple of times. i'm still working on judging turns and braking. it's a wonder that jon hasn't gotten whiplash yet. i just can't get braking down. stupid braking.
in the orchid garden.
more orchids.
the island of hawai'i in the lily pond.
going up to the japanese garden.
*note: photo update (04 april 2003)