Happy Friday!

Another Friday is here. Yay! I am a little sick in the throat for some reason (I can feel the phlem) but fortunately still feeling well overall. Got a day of work left this week, with a weight-lifting workout with Bernie at 3pm. I might try go hiking tomorrow with Sbqa at Rancho San Antonio in Palo Alto. Castro Street Fair on Sunday.

Still gotta pick up Janet's newest album this weekend -- "20 y.o." juz cuz she's my gurl and I have to have every one of her albums like em or not. I was hoping she'd do some remixes or megamixes of her old stuff on this latest album since it's supposed to be a culmination of her 20 years.

Shout Outs
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1. AT -- Sleep tight!
2. Shawn -- Glad you're feeling 99.99% better!!!
3. Huy -- Stoopid b*otch! haha...I need u to go shopping with me! Details coming.
4. Nick -- When should I visit KL?
5. Deidre -- Welcome to my blog! How do you like it?
6. Bernie -- See you at 3pm. And yes I still remember poker nite next week.
7. Sammi -- Waiting to see your new puppy pix! Give me back my shoes! Haha...

Song of the Day: "Call on Me" -- Janet Jackson

Mood:: Thankful

It's Like That

20 y.o.? I'm Not Impressed

I'm not impressed so far with my girl Janet Jackson's newest album "20 y.o." I still have to buy it but check it out online preliminarily I'm kinda disappointed.=( However, one of the songs on the album -- "Call on Me" -- rubs me the right way:

Bringing Sexy Back II

Am busy at work today, but managed to hit the pavement for a jog of about 20 minutes this afternoon. Returned to the gym afterward for the first time in a month and a half, doing sit ups and weight lifting. Weighed myself too, now at 155 lbs, down from 162 in early August! Yay! Only 5-10 more pounds to go to meet my goal! I can definitely attribute the weight loss to changing my eating habits, from eating less rice and noodles to making diet drinks my new friend and snacking on low calorie foods like baked crackers and roasted almonds!

Feels good, on the way to bringing sexy back!:D

Thinking of AT as well...

Song of Day: "SexyBack" -- Justin Timberlake

Mood: Charged

Bringing Sexy Back

My brother came over for dinner tonight. Together as a family we had a treat -- Vietnamese spring rolls. A real treat -- vegetables, pork and shrimp layered within a piece of rice paper and dipped in Vietnamese fish sauce. We usually have it on special occassions such as whenever my brother, who I seldom see, comes over for a visit. Seems like we have it everytime he comes over, haha...

Tonight I finally booked my air ticket for Singapore. Am taking off aboard Cathay Pacific (damn good airline) at 1:20am in the morning on 10/13, and arriving there next day on 10/14. Cost me $1200 but it'll be worth it. I'm excited!

Song of Day: "Electric Blue" (Skipraiders Remix) -- Icehouse

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Yesterday had a meeting with one of my freelance clients to discuss latest updates to his website protytpe as well as some storyboarding. Am looking forward to completing this project before my trip to Singapore.

Am only 2 1/2 weeks away about from my trip to Singapore. I keep missing AT online cuz I've been falling asleep early last couple of nights.=(

Current Listens for Week of 9/25/06:

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1. "Look on the Floor" -- Bananarama
2. "Buttons" -- Pussycat Dolls feat. Snoop Doggy Dog
3. "SexyBack" -- Justin Timberlake
4. "Waiting" -- Taxi Doll
5. "About Us" -- Brooke Hogan feat. Paul Wall
6. "My Love" -- Justin Timberlake
7. "Tell Him" -- Celine Dion feat. Barbara Streisand
8. "Que Sera Sera" -- Patsy Cline

Song of Day: "Look on the Floor" (Hypnotic Tango Angel City Short Mix) -- Bananarama

Meditation, Relaxation and Splash

Yesterday my mum and I took lunch at one of our local favorite hangouts -- Pho Phi Long. It's at Century Mall, a Vietnamese shopping center in San Jose where i swear it feels like Vietnam everytime I visit. Afterward, we bought some fresh jackfruit from a street vendor, costing us $14 for 4.5 lb. Man, that was expensive. And as it turned out, the jackfruit wasn't as sweet, though it had a nice texture. I love jackfruit and expect to eat plenty of it when i visit Singapore.

After lunch my community group SBQA had our monthly meditation event at my house. Taught by my mom's master Minh Thien, we learned basic meditation while sitting and also while walking. During the sitting meditation we meditated for 20 minutes and i couldn't believe how many directions my mind wanted to go! haha...it was like a puppy playing around...Guess I need more practice. We only spent 5 minutes doing walking meditation and I wish we did more. We took Master Minh Thien out for a salad dinner at Sweet Tomatoe's restaurant afterward to show our gratitude and thanks.



After we dropped off Master Thien back at his temple, Shawn, Jean-Luc, Jerry and I had a fun night dancing at Splash in downtown San Jose. Was my first time dancing there and the music was great -- chart-topping hip-hop music, good crowd, room to dance. I had my first Tokyo Tea -- Long Island tea with midori in it. Was good and nice to try a new drink for once (usually I order just Midori sours). We even saw the straight brother and his girlfriend of one of our friends. We spent time trying to figure out if he just liked the music at gay clubs or if he was bicurious, haha...it looked like he was having too good of a time so hmmm.....Denny's restaurant afterward for overnight drinks and snacks with the gang and Kelvin, who joined us late after dancing.

Song of the Day: "Buttons" -- Pussycat Dolls feat. Ludacris

Catching Up on My Blog

Friday, September 22, 2006

It's been a semi-long week at work. I flexed my time earlier in the week, so I had a shorter beginning of the week. But I then had to work a 10 hour day on Thursday, followed by a long-@ss 11 hour day on Friday. Why do I do that to myself? Usually after 8 hours of hard work, I'm ready to head home.

At night stayed up talking to AT. Surprised him with my announcement that I would be visiting him in Singapore in 3 weeks instead of 5. Im looking forward to the trip and to seeing him. Jus have to book my flight and hotel now. I surprisingly found a flight out of San Jose to Tokyo then Tokyo to Singapore for only $881. I originally thought I was going to have to leave from SFO. This will be much closer. AT is helping me with finding a hotel in Sg.

Song of the Day: "Look on the Floor" (Hypnotic Tango Angel City Short mix) -- Bananarama

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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Had tea with my friend Huy on Thursday. He's so fun to talk to, despite our bickerin back and forth sometimes. Let's see how many of your buttons can I push, H...

Catching up and Catching E. coli

It's been a short but long week, and thankfully, finally the weekend is here. I've been working late hours toward week's ends to make up for shorter beginning of the weeks. Hope I can get my schedule back to a more "normal" 8 hour a day shift.

This weekend will be a chance to do some freelance work but also to do some great catching up with frenz. Kevin and Bill's birthday is tomolo, so i'll be checking out their new condo pad in SF. Then I'll spend some time on my laptop working on some stuff at Starbuck's. Followed by that, it's dindin with the "core 5" -- Catherine, Steve, myself, and Darrin for Cat's bday. Then we'll go to Aaron and Howe's for a teleconference with Tod (one of the other core 5 in my group) in Bangkok, Thailand. This will be the first time we've seen him since he left last year for home! Will finish off the night with some dancing in the City perhaps. Sunday should be an easy day at home.

So there's this big spinach scare going on here where millions of cellophaned bags of spinach are being pulled from grocery shelves due to an E. coli tainting. The source of it was contaminated fecal matter that fertilized whatever spinach patches it began in, but the contamination has spread across several states. Though there has been one death and some 60 people getting sick, no official cases of people getting sick in California have yet been reported. You know, I relish the thought that cow dung makes the vegetables I eat grow.=P

iPod Shuffle of the day: "Waiting" by Taxi Doll (club mix)

I'm Gonna Getcha

(I’m gonna getcha)
I’m gonna getcha while I gotcha in sight
(I’m gonna getcha)
I’m gonna getcha if it takes all night
(Yeah, you can betcha)
You can betcha by the time I say "go," you’ll never say "no"
(I’m gonna getcha)
I’m gonna getcha, it’s a matter of fact
(I’m gonna getcha)
I’m gonna getcha, don’tcha worry ‘bout that
(Yeah, you can betcha)
You can bet your bottom dollar, in time you’re gonna be mine
Just like I should - I’ll getcha good

Song of the day: "Gonna Getcha Good" -- Shania Twain