yesterday was my first full filipino meal. i liked it. it was heavy. and it was tasty. i'd eat so much more of everything if i didn't care about my weight and moreso if my body wasn't so incapable of burning calories at resting. fried pork knuckles. coconut milk vege with shrimp. noodles. oxtail. chicken adobo. and sisig...some innards mix with egg on a sizzling plate that was so good it hurt to eat more than a few bites....glug glug glug. it's been a while since we had dinner with the girls so it was nice to catch up...on the same stories that we always talk about at dinner (breast fest, strippers, inner thigh, man is man, shamu).
standing across the street from the restaurant "hi, excuse me do you serve alcohol?"
"this is totally not a gina place"
"we'll give you a reduced price for 75% of the bottle"
"a 2010? they just pick the grapes this year?"
"i'll go as me and u go as u, my butler"
pocha again? we probably eat more korean than any korean person i know. and cuz lester's dating a fob. the result is a korean american dictionary at a bar trying to text and order soft shell crab. and everything else in btwn.
i've been wearing jumps for almost a solid month now...and only one stranger has made a comment about liking them. a heug.
i definitely don't look like this guy. but joon ho sure knows how to be a good sweet talking manager.
i'm serious. if you're about to get married or even thinking about getting married. i am going to de-friend you.
i've been to 3 weddings in 4 weeks. 3 more in the spring. and im pretty sure i went to a few more earlier in the year. i think i've been in 4 wedding parties now. 1 best man speech. im a best man again in december. and could potentially be best man for another 2 more weddings. and be in another 4 more wedding parties. 27 tuxes? i should be flattered to be invited and to be a part of such a big day of their lives....but...I JUST CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE.....
congratulations edric & mel! i had prior obligations so i waltzed in solo at 8. i see victor. and i get scared. then i see the crew...2 tables full hovering the bar....ordering wu liang ye separate from the open bar....duke and wes being hilarious. tiff and ed making out (just kidding). and frank being frank. it was fun. it was a lot of drinking. and i wasn't deathly hungover the next day.
i turn 30 in december. and everyone else...just 4 years younger, had things to say about things that really just take that extra 4 years to iron out. not solve, but be at a certain level of acceptance about. dating, personal, social, work, and most commonly..."i've always wanted to live abroad". DO IT. i always say it with qualifications, but it's always...JUST DO IT. it's always simpler than ppl try to make it out to be. and never qualify perspective on time spent away...cuz u just never know...and if u do know...then u're not letting the "never knows" come to u...so i asked for a beer and listened to the rants. i'm sure my married buddies look at me 4 years away from them and ask for whiskey....
what was interesting was that mid 20s girls were talking about wanting to step into the next level of maturity in dating men. they wanted to move past the club scene and the immature guy scene and plunge into that depth of the legitimate male that's over the fleeting scene of the moment and no forward planning. what a fine line to straddle. cuz i am on that exact flip end...dating someone in their mid 20s who just might be a little bit confused as to what they really want cuz as i exude the fleeting party animal of a frat boy, in this instance...my 5 seconds of weakness to push legitimacy on her....made me come off like a psycho. Just...Great.
the night ended with boardwalk empire. but it all began with chips and taboo...which being my first time playing, i found to be wildly indicative of people. im not judging intelligence but more cultural and social idiosyncracies, thought processes etc. they could be wildly successful in technical math related business and i'd laud their achievements however still wouldn't stop me from laughing in their face at simple free association...it takes all of 2 seconds to see how close you are on the same page with someone. 1. san antonio...nba jam. sean elliot. ALAMO. 2. hilarious. osteoperosis. FUNNY BONE. 3. NARCISSICTIC. RICH CHANG. VAIN. 4. THUMB IN YOUR ASS? 5. I SWEAR ON THE TORAH! 6. SLOGO....7. is that a bird? HAHAHAH. RED HEAAARRRRING?!?@#?!@
