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for the most part my role in the apartment has been the slacker/infant while the adults of the apartment go to school and work... however, i do my part in the daily chores as well as cook the majority of the meals which should constitute being somewhat "adult-like" activity... today i was being much more productive as my buddy Ted can attest to.. i've been editting my summer videos and it's pretty tough... i worked on it the majority of the day and produced the first part of many up coming videos... but let's just say ~3 minutes of video took about the whole day to complete and ate up more than a CD-R's worth of memory since there was so much excess video that wasn't used... additionally my system became so unstable that everytime i tried to capture some video my computer would just reset itself... bleh... in the end though I'm very pleased with what i did and hope that what few minutes of footage i've made makes the people who watch it happy... now if i can only get my printer to work...
Saturday, August 25, 2001
Dim Sum
the apartment is strangely quiet tonight... no other roomies and no Fun Crew Family... it's relaxing and although i would never want to have this much privacy all the time it's nice to have the place all to myself. albert my little bro from LA came down to visit and have lunch with me. his family treated me to dim sum at Jasmine and it was great. it's really interesting to see what type of things other people order while at dim sum. for instance, eating with the family I know exactly what types of dishes they like and of course it's always topped off with dan tao (egg tarts)... while working in LA we ate in Chinatown a couple of times and the sort of dishes we got varied a bit due to the fact our A factor* was low... of course we had the regular dishes like su mai and bbq pork but in addition more vegetable dishes and less of the more "exotic" foods like rice in lotus leaf and chicken feet... today while at dim sum the fare was again different... we ordered tripe which i haven't eaten in about a year and this time for dessert instead of dan tao we had silken tofu and mochi... anywho, just something i noticed to today while eating...
*while dining in LA me and a couple of friends came upon the secret factor in all asian restaraunts which determines the level of service you receive... we're still working on the full blown theory of the Asian Factor... it theory it works like this... the more asians you have in your group the better the service you'll receive in an asian restaraunt... you don't necessarialy need to be of that asian heritage to get good service... for all they know you could just be american born and never learned how to speak korean, japanese, chinese, tagalog, etc... the factor can also be affected positively if you can speak that particular language, conversely you can lower your A Factor by asking for a fork or doing other cultural no-no's... how to figure out your A Factor? just divide the total number in your dining party by the number of asians in your group... the closer your number is to 1 the better your chances are of getting great service... but there are always exceptions to the A Factor like if you go to a shitty place with shitty service your A Factor maybe unable to compensate for it although decreasing it may make your meal worse.. (ie. Hodori in Koreatown...) like i said before this theory is still in the testing stages...
the apartment is strangely quiet tonight... no other roomies and no Fun Crew Family... it's relaxing and although i would never want to have this much privacy all the time it's nice to have the place all to myself. albert my little bro from LA came down to visit and have lunch with me. his family treated me to dim sum at Jasmine and it was great. it's really interesting to see what type of things other people order while at dim sum. for instance, eating with the family I know exactly what types of dishes they like and of course it's always topped off with dan tao (egg tarts)... while working in LA we ate in Chinatown a couple of times and the sort of dishes we got varied a bit due to the fact our A factor* was low... of course we had the regular dishes like su mai and bbq pork but in addition more vegetable dishes and less of the more "exotic" foods like rice in lotus leaf and chicken feet... today while at dim sum the fare was again different... we ordered tripe which i haven't eaten in about a year and this time for dessert instead of dan tao we had silken tofu and mochi... anywho, just something i noticed to today while eating...
*while dining in LA me and a couple of friends came upon the secret factor in all asian restaraunts which determines the level of service you receive... we're still working on the full blown theory of the Asian Factor... it theory it works like this... the more asians you have in your group the better the service you'll receive in an asian restaraunt... you don't necessarialy need to be of that asian heritage to get good service... for all they know you could just be american born and never learned how to speak korean, japanese, chinese, tagalog, etc... the factor can also be affected positively if you can speak that particular language, conversely you can lower your A Factor by asking for a fork or doing other cultural no-no's... how to figure out your A Factor? just divide the total number in your dining party by the number of asians in your group... the closer your number is to 1 the better your chances are of getting great service... but there are always exceptions to the A Factor like if you go to a shitty place with shitty service your A Factor maybe unable to compensate for it although decreasing it may make your meal worse.. (ie. Hodori in Koreatown...) like i said before this theory is still in the testing stages...
Thursday, August 16, 2001
New Home
Well, today is the day... i've finished moving into my new apartment =) we're far from having the place fulled furnished, but this place is starting to look like a home... today i cooked my first dinner in the kitchen.. unfortunately, we were missing two roomies for dinner... bulgogi is the best! esp. when you cook it yourself... at the present moment i'm sitting in the living room watching a very tiny television with my roomie david, mayrin, and sonnier all on the couch behind me... david and mayrin will be going to the bay area tonight so this weekend I'll get the place all to myself with jasmine in LA... it really hasn't hit me yet that i'll be staying here for the rest of the year perhaps i'm running on my giddy fumes... =) okie.. i'm outtie...
Well, today is the day... i've finished moving into my new apartment =) we're far from having the place fulled furnished, but this place is starting to look like a home... today i cooked my first dinner in the kitchen.. unfortunately, we were missing two roomies for dinner... bulgogi is the best! esp. when you cook it yourself... at the present moment i'm sitting in the living room watching a very tiny television with my roomie david, mayrin, and sonnier all on the couch behind me... david and mayrin will be going to the bay area tonight so this weekend I'll get the place all to myself with jasmine in LA... it really hasn't hit me yet that i'll be staying here for the rest of the year perhaps i'm running on my giddy fumes... =) okie.. i'm outtie...
Sunday, August 05, 2001
Back home...
the events of today have been pretty much a blur... i mean just a couple of hours ago i was driving in my car down to Chinatown and now i'm back home in san diego with all my summer memories packed up in my car. (which has still yet to be upacked) =P`... during the day all i could think about was the fact i may never get a chance to see some of these people ever again... what compounded the feeling more was the fact that this will be my last summer in LA... it was surreal to walk down my familiar 3rd floor and remove all the decorations and signs... while i was signing some papers and turning in my key i felt as if i was going to cry right then and there.. *sigh* i'm such a sentimental... i've had so many great memories of the summer and countless adventures to recount so i won't even try... as soon as i can get my hands on my new computer I'll post up all my digital video for you all to enjoy =) to all those people who made my summer great i raise a glass to you =) and here's to... asian snacks, movie making, soapy fountains, find the SRA, glowsticks, RA Love, smoking tips, big fat stupid american, "shotgun!", YS socials, pornstar parking, instigating, the super bed, disneyland, bulgogi, noodle planet, "herro?!?", the chipmunks, henna tattoos, white tiger feet, pajama jam, the traitor, kiddie pool twister, woodchuck song, asian music appreciation, "oh man", "fabulous", and Fat Boy Slim Praise You...
lastly, much thanks to SES, sam and ted, you guys are my boys! it's seriously hard for me to put into words the kind of impact you made on my summer... honestly, if you two aren't planning to come back next year John Hopkins can cross me off the list too... wow, where do i begin to describe the summer we've had together?!? i think our friendship began that one day we went off to noodle planet to have lunch... nothing cements friendships better than food... *bulgogi, pad thai, curry, sushi, unagi, boba, ice cream, and dim sum* speaking of which i give mad props to you two for always spotting me when i was a poor bulgogi slut =) in addition to all the great food i'm going to remember smoking tips on out on the stairs and having puzzle fighter tournaments in my room... and of course all the nightly rounds around doheny... Ted aka. The Mean RA... damn you really had the spectrum of kids this summer... you started off with the worst kids in CTY and ended up loving them and then got little angels and you hated to be with them... hahaha =) make up your mind! i could always count on you as a weapon against my rowdiest kids and in trench you were a force not to be messed with... i'll definitely come to visit you whether yer in taiwan or at school... Sam aka. Samsung... together we've stolen from the rich and given to ourselves! =) i hope you put those dance moves i taught you to good use and be sure to throw some extra meat on your teppanyaki for me... i'll call you on my cool cordless phone in the near future... thanks for all the asian snacks and be sure to send my thanks to your family who i think are just the coolest family i've ever met.... bulgogi runs will never be the same without you... and if there is ever a next time around we're going to steal that "open trench" sign...
the events of today have been pretty much a blur... i mean just a couple of hours ago i was driving in my car down to Chinatown and now i'm back home in san diego with all my summer memories packed up in my car. (which has still yet to be upacked) =P`... during the day all i could think about was the fact i may never get a chance to see some of these people ever again... what compounded the feeling more was the fact that this will be my last summer in LA... it was surreal to walk down my familiar 3rd floor and remove all the decorations and signs... while i was signing some papers and turning in my key i felt as if i was going to cry right then and there.. *sigh* i'm such a sentimental... i've had so many great memories of the summer and countless adventures to recount so i won't even try... as soon as i can get my hands on my new computer I'll post up all my digital video for you all to enjoy =) to all those people who made my summer great i raise a glass to you =) and here's to... asian snacks, movie making, soapy fountains, find the SRA, glowsticks, RA Love, smoking tips, big fat stupid american, "shotgun!", YS socials, pornstar parking, instigating, the super bed, disneyland, bulgogi, noodle planet, "herro?!?", the chipmunks, henna tattoos, white tiger feet, pajama jam, the traitor, kiddie pool twister, woodchuck song, asian music appreciation, "oh man", "fabulous", and Fat Boy Slim Praise You...
lastly, much thanks to SES, sam and ted, you guys are my boys! it's seriously hard for me to put into words the kind of impact you made on my summer... honestly, if you two aren't planning to come back next year John Hopkins can cross me off the list too... wow, where do i begin to describe the summer we've had together?!? i think our friendship began that one day we went off to noodle planet to have lunch... nothing cements friendships better than food... *bulgogi, pad thai, curry, sushi, unagi, boba, ice cream, and dim sum* speaking of which i give mad props to you two for always spotting me when i was a poor bulgogi slut =) in addition to all the great food i'm going to remember smoking tips on out on the stairs and having puzzle fighter tournaments in my room... and of course all the nightly rounds around doheny... Ted aka. The Mean RA... damn you really had the spectrum of kids this summer... you started off with the worst kids in CTY and ended up loving them and then got little angels and you hated to be with them... hahaha =) make up your mind! i could always count on you as a weapon against my rowdiest kids and in trench you were a force not to be messed with... i'll definitely come to visit you whether yer in taiwan or at school... Sam aka. Samsung... together we've stolen from the rich and given to ourselves! =) i hope you put those dance moves i taught you to good use and be sure to throw some extra meat on your teppanyaki for me... i'll call you on my cool cordless phone in the near future... thanks for all the asian snacks and be sure to send my thanks to your family who i think are just the coolest family i've ever met.... bulgogi runs will never be the same without you... and if there is ever a next time around we're going to steal that "open trench" sign...
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