this weekend...



on friday, i went to go eat at JV's with nguyen for lunch. i got the del mar burrito the size of my forearm. it came loaded with shrimp and beer battered fish. that was wayy too much for lunch. so even though i had already been to the gym 5x that week, i'd figure i'd go work it off. after the gym, i went to stan's place for some no limit texas hold em. we got 7 guys together. long story short, i got 1st place. first time i'd ever won first in the main game. by the end i was pretty much not interested in playing, but the guys wanted to play another game. so i thought i'd be good sport and just play. i had just won, and it would be bad etiquette just to take the money and leave. so on the second game, less 1 person, i was out first. i didn't really care. i was still up $40 that night. i got home at 4:30. went to sleep at 5:30.



saturday, i woke up around 9:30 cause the bird was chirping away. and i tried to go get more sleep after that. but i ended up watching tv till around 12:30 when remy messaged me wanting to get some lunch. we went to Da Kine. the food there is usually pretty good. this time, it was the absolute worst. i even wonder why they would even serve food to people when its obviously that bad. i basically had to stop eating in fear of getting food poisoning. and the best part of my bbq teriyaki chicken/beef was the salad they served to me on the side. and the salad wasn't even that good. so i met some friends of friends. we decided to get together again for dinner since remy offered to cook some ribs. since i had no plans on valentines day, me and remy went to get the ingredients. prepared the baby back ribs. ribs rubbed in massive amounts of garlic, olive oil, rosemary, kosher salt, and pepper. we kept in in the oven for as long as we can so we can throw it on the grill later. then i tried taking a nap before dinner. i didn't have much success. dinner came, we all feasted on mounds of protein (ribs, spicey pork, chicken) and salad. they were headed to a club. they dropped me off at home. i thought i'd be too tired to make it to my friends party, but feeling pretty good, i decided to get ready. by the time i was all ready to go, it was almost 11:30. i hit the wall and suddenly felt really tired. but since i told them i'd be there, i went. it was a good amount of people there. i kept myself entertained. a girl threw up on the stairs. and another one passed out. we brought her over to the toilet. and she missed completely. one guy kept mooning people and taking pictures. we later viewed them on travis' big screen. the pictures were hilarious. he may want to invest in some hot wax. i also got in on a poker game with the guys at the party. waited till my buzz was gone, and then called it a night.



sunday, i finally managed to sleep in. i woke up around 12:30, and messaged remy to get some pho. ran into peter and his gf at the restaurant. after lunch, i went straight to the gym. took my time working out. did some very mild cardio afterwards too. after that, i went to costco. got back and ate dinner. and headed out to the poker game. when i got there, i ran into the girl that passed out who was also headed to the same door. she first said something like she was sorry but she didn't remember passing out. and that she really doesn't know cause she doesn't remember a thing. and i said, "yeah, you really don't want to know". oops. maybe i should have kept my big mouth shut. i didn't hear the rest of the conversation but i'm guessing travis told her the gist that, she passed out, he carried her to the toilet. she barfed all over herself, the floors, and whatever that wasn't the toilet. 3 guys helped clean up the mess. and the bathroom stunk to high heavens the rest of the night. and she was carried out by 2 guys, who left her on her couch with a trash can right in her sight so she didn't miss again. supposedly her roommate passed out or threw up or something like that. good thing they lived next door. so poker got under way. it was a very different style of poker though. the way i usually play is tournament style. everyone has an equal buy in with no rebuys. that way, when people get eliminated, the blinds go up, and you can play more looser. so it is more fun, and you can play more hands when you are still on the game when there are less of you in the game. but on sunday, there were rebuys, so even though i was playing tight from the beginning, i lost my patience and started playing loose when basically 6 of us were still in the game. also, since the winners weren't decided on 1st and second place, there was no incentive to play even if you were holding hoardes of money and just want to wait it out until the night ends then cash out later. i was a fish out of water, and long story short, i lost a little more than what i won from the night before. it was still a learning experience.



on monday, i wasn't in the mood to cook, so i just whipped up some spagetti sauce with meat balls i got from costco. i usually go all out and make gourmet spagetti, but that usually is a complicated and expensive process, so i just used what i had in the kitchen with the least amount of effort as possible. i used some prego meat sauce, put some olive oil, cayenne pepper (substitution for red pepper flakes), bay leaves, garlic salt (in substituion for real garlic) , and onion powder (in substitution for carmelized onions), and white wine vinegar (in substituion for white wine). it came out okay. i heated it in high heat, even though it was a big mess to at least get some carmelization on the red sauce to make it a bit sweeter. so i plated that with a little bit of garlic salt, seasoned bread crumbs, parmeasan and mozerella. not too shabby. after that, i just chilled at home for a while, and since i knew the gym was closing early, i headed out at around 5pm, got my light cardio in for a little over an hour. then i was supposed to go to casey's house since he was making some sushi. that got cancelled, so i just settled in for some more R&R. but steve called and wanted to play some poker. feeling a little unsatisfied from yesterday, i was fine to play another game even though i had work tomorrow. so the first game I played, i got second with 7 people. so with that game, i was even from all the poker i played. since so many people got out so early during that game, we thought we play another one. so in the second game with 6 people, i got first. so i came out $30+ over the whole weekend. probably for playing close to 15 hours over the 3 days of play. at least i won something. i could have done a lot worse. and it was a lot of fun. i came home around 1:30, had a pleasant conversation with someone who found my blog, and that was the end to my weekend.