saturday, i drove down to gardena, ate and chilled with my bro, watching some tv shows i downloaded that i hadn't got to yet. then i took a nap, had dinner with the folks, then went to tommy's place to play some halo and project gotham on the xbox. we also got some boba at gogo juice.







sunday, i met up with tommy and got some brazillian bbq. basically, every 2 minutes or so, a guy comes out with a stick of meat, bbq'd brazilian style, and lets you take a pick. the choices were, top sirloin, tri tip, chicken, sausages, beef rib, pork rib, and garlic beef. i had quite a bit of meat....probably a good 3 lb of meat at least. then we went to the new 2 story (escalators and all) barnes and noble to see if it looked as good inside as it did outside. unfortunately, it reminded me more of clics at UCSD than an amazing bookstore it appears to be from the outside. still a very good book store. then tommy had some guest passes to his gym so we went to work out at LA Fitness. Then when we approach the building, it was a familiar site. the LA fitness was the former Mann 9 theater in Del Amo mall. this was the the theater i went to during my high school days. all together i probably have seen about 50 moves in there. now it is LA fitness. they have done a miraculous job of tearing the walls down, putting in a basketball court, swimming pool and a massive array of workout machines. after the gym, i went home and had dinner with the folks. they gave me the usual talk about paying off my credit debts, and why i need to buy some real estate. and it's not that they are giving bad advice. they are giving the same advice over and over. so i kinda tune in and tune out to what they are saying while i'm watching the ending of Godfather on TV.



monday, my sister came by and we chatted a bit. then i met up a friend (who just recently got engaged), for lunch. we went to go eat the curry house.





at 5pm, i drove my brother back to irvine. and i drove to huntington beach to see my old roommate andrew. we went to the beach area, and went to this mexican restaurant called frogs.







after dinner, we came back to his place and brainstormed on where we might be able to travel for 2 weeks. the choices were china, hawaii, europe, peru, or a road trip. i think we decided on the road trip because it was the best bang for the limited buck. tentative plans are we are going to find 2 or 3 more people and rent a RV, and do a 2 week trip across the US. anyone interested, let me know. we are estimating per person about 500 for the RV, 120 for gas, and whatever you need for food.



man, people in LA and irvine drive pretty damn agressive. it is just a bunch of agressive people like me on the road. or is it that i'm not really agressive at all. maybe i'm just driving at about the same level of agression in SD as i have learned to drive in torrance? in torrance, i'm just another car on the road. in SD, i probably stick out like a sore thumb. other car stuff. someone put a huge door ding...more of a dent on my drivers side door. i cannot comprehend what they must have done to hit my door that hard to make a dent like that. i don't know when it happened either. it must have been sometime this weekend because you can't miss it.



i actually got to use the service provided by www.imforwards.com today. with iTAP, it actually works quite well. i was able to chat on AIM through my cell phone only equipped with SMS....not like the fancy phones that actually do aim.