300602, 2210hr, central time

the dinner with donnell went pretty well. it turns out we have a common friend - payal, who shares a class with me now - so we all had loads of fun together. he treated us to dinner at biaggi's, complete with wine, appetiser, dessert - the full course. he's like from a different world from me, to him the meal costs only peanuts - though i did a mental calculation it's got to be at least USD100, and he got kinda embarrassed at how both payal and i made a big deal about it. this is the reason i say i'd never marry someone so much richer than i am. although it's impressive hearing him speak of his privileged life like it's the commoner's life, his humility somehow makes me feel even more conscious of my own need for frugality and therefore apparent stinginess. i've never felt so poor before.

after i got back from the movie lilo&stitch, it was already 1am. and i wanted to watch the world cup final match between germany and brazil, which will be showing at like 6am. so i decided i'd might as well just stay up, and then sleep after the match. well. i fell asleep. and by the time i got woken up by a phone call, it was already 7am. which was really odd because david and folks were supposed to be call me, we agreed to watch the match together. anyway in the end it turned out that espn did not broadcast this match live. how stupid is that, considering they broadcasted past matches before. goodness me, what are they thinking?! so i caught the match on abc later in the afternoon, after i had plenty of sleep.

i'm a little disappointed that brazil won though, i think i always have a complex for the losing team. especially the first goal that so devastated the goalkeeper. i always feel for the goalkeeper. sigh. so sad. and i don't like ronaldo - i think he looks ugly. haha...okay, superficial, but it's just a feeling. just like i also don't like david beckham though he is objectively rather good looking. hmm.

that's all the soccer talk i can manage. it's been some time since i last got emotionally involved in a sports.

the entire day after the match, i spent running errands. using up my borders voucher and being sucked into the world of books. grocery shopping. looking for my summer sandals to no avail. looking for a nice camera cover to no avail too. difference is i ended up buying an ugly camera cover, but no shoes. i also went to staples where i bought a whole box of black pilot v5 pens. aha! i'm so obsessed with this pen it's crazy. now i can use the pen to write in my new japanese journal. sweet.

by the time i got done with all the shopping i wanted to do, it was already too late to go study at the bubble tea place as i had wanted to, because it's too close to dinner time and i'd rather not eat out. so i went home.

it's been an action-packed weekend. and it makes me feel very accomplished indeed. like past weekends, i didn't get any work done at all. but unlike past weekends, i didn't end up moping at all. sweet.