friday

after work, i met up with eric, kristine, nik, barbara, and jeff at papachinos. had way too much lasagna and meat ball (singular). after that, we went to get coffee and desert at the pannikin that was in the plaza. i had never been to coffee store quite like that before. i gotta admit i did feel a little bit like i was in a dave chapelle sketch. hehe. now i know how minorities feel in boba houses. after that, we came back to my place to watch Equilibirium. well, maybe there was too much expectation after reading overrated reviews on imdb, but we all did not find it to be the jewel that everyone else on the internet found it to be. the movie moves incredibly slow. you think a movie without a story line would just have non stop action. but this movie dragged its heels for about the first hour. and jeff was ready to bail half way through it. then it started to get a little better. just enough for him to stay. there was one fight scene in the movie that was worth mentioning. the fun/karate fight scene with the american psycho and robert the bruce. it was pretty innovative. imagine a kinfe fight you've seen in a steven segal movie except with guns. the problem with making a movie about how monotone and dull life and your surroundings can be is that it takes away all the cool sets that you expect from a movie. you would think the future would have really cool things and interesting furniture. not a square white block for a chair. after the movie we watched some episode of strong bad emails on homestarrunner.



saturday

i woke up early to get my car serviced at cush honda of san diego. yea, its quite a bit farther than pacific honda. but i think it is definitely worth it. every time i go to pacific honda, it feels like i get swindled into doing maintenance on something that seemed perfectly fine. for example, they told me i should get the $90 heppa air filter. i told them i didn't think i needed it. and then when i drive home, my air conditioning smells like mildew for the first time. coincidence? then the last time i took the car to get serviced, they told me that i had 3% left on my rear brake pads, and just barely scraping by on 20% on the front brake pads. worded like that, how many people do you think would be reluctant to change both front and rear brake pads? well, they were gonna charge me $500 to change my brakes, so i just decided to get my rear brakes done for $180. quite a ripoff. considering jeff told me that a set of brake pads are about $40-$50 for my car. and when jeff examined my front brake pads, it turned out that half the brake pads were still there. also, i wanted to buy Honda Care (extended warranty) at pacific honda. they quoted me $1600, while everyone else was quoting at least $400 less. also, when in the market to buy my car, pacific was quoting me a price that was about $2000 more than what i bought my car for, and they weren't willing to haggle. plus, pacific honda is the only honda dealer in the 30 mile radius that doesn't wash the car for you after they service it. so you can see why i'm willing to drive an extra 20 miles just to get an oil change. 5 strikes for pacific honda. i should write a complaint letter to honda of america. so when i dropped off my car, i was expecting a call from honda saying that i need this and that, but when they called, it was because car was good to go. so that was a relief. during the time my car was in for the 37,500mi maintenance, i met up with ray and went to guitar center.



he's in the market for a Taylor guitar (a reward to himself for finishing his masters). he was looking for a specific model that they didn't have out on the floor, so when he asked for it, the guy brought it out, and told us that the guitar had never been outside its case and incase we were wondering, it was a virgin. hehe. afterwards, the car still wasn't ready yet, so we went to go pick his gf up at the air port. then they dropped me off to pick up my car. i went home and tommy came over. we watched Super Troopers on divx, then we headed out to Phil's BBQ for dinner. we met up wendy and her friend at Phil's. ate some kickass ribs as usual. then we went to tapioca express. then we went to go watch DareDevil. the movie was okay. pretty dark like batman 1. and when a super hero gets stabbed in the shoulder, they should be able to shurg it off in no time. not come close to death. and what's up with this stretchy claymation crap? claymation should only exist in animation that involves clay. like celebrity deathmatch. claymation was the nail on the coffin for Blade 2 in my opinion. Blade 2 started off okay. and then it turned into celebrity deathmatch...



sunday, i went whale watching with ray, jen, jeff, mark, and trish.



i always thought that whale watching was a big scam. they would charge people to take them on boats. and even though these whales might exist, it is probably really rare that people ever get to see one. but they would always see dolphins. but since dolphin watching would not be good seller, they make it seem like you are going to go see whales, but you just end up finding some dolphins. and this is usually true for people that i have discussed whale watching with. but that wasn't the case today. i actually saw my first whale today. yup, never been to sea world.



in this picture, you should be able to see the fins.



after whale watching, ray, jen, and i went to go eat sushi at sushi deli 2. we wanted to go to sushi deli 1, but it was closed. but sushi deli 2 was really good today, so it was all good. after dinner, all i wanted to do was get home and take a nap. and then i took the wrong freeway exit and ended up somewhere in El Cajon. just a little south on the 805 where the 8 meets the 805. I have never been to El Cajon before but it looked like a pretty dangerous neighborhood. and when i saw group of thugs on the street, it pretty much confirmed it. and damn, you would think getting back on the freeway from an exit would be easy. not this one. there was one exit, and no freeway sign in sight from the exit. so i drove around for a while, until i saw a freeway entrance. one problem. i was looking at the freeway entrance from street that was intersected by a gas station, with no ramp to the gas station (a dead end). since i knew it was going to be pretty damn hard finding this street again after being lost, i just decided to just jump over the side walk (they were relatively low profile), onto the gas station, then get on the freeway. after i got home, i took a nap, and planned to go to rimac. but the nap turned into a 5 hour nap instead of a 2 hour nap. so that's why i'm up at 4am blogging. that's my weekend.