dracil

Ow, my body's gonna hate me tomorrow, and it's gonna make sure I know it.

Got up early to go help build a classroom with my company and some other people. Lots of hauling wood and drywall and tearing down walls so yeah. Was there for about 7 hours. Felt very dirty afterwards from all the dust. Hope there wasn't any asbestos there. I actually brought my camera but didn't use it 'cause I didn't want it to get damaged from so much dust. Halfway through the day the outside of my mask was all gray. The inside was better but not fully clean. Finally have a company shirt though. :D

Then went to nap at the chairs at Bloomingdales until 6 to go check out parking spaces for Michelle for next month.

Gonna be so happy to sleep.
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dracil

Went to it with Cat today. Forgot my camera. >_<

Anyway, she got Tamales, I decided to get lamb sausage. I think I liked my lamb sausage more. Must try the buffalo burger next week. Had a couple of free samples. But not quite enticed enough to buy stuff. (It's expensive! But healthier too)
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dracil

http://www.livescience.com/health/080320-clueless-guys.html

It's interesting, but as people have pointed out, it's a flawed, and possibly sexist article.

In a nutshell, men think women being friendly means they wanna have sex. And they think women who wanna have sex are only being friendly.

And their basis is that women do better reading non-verbal communication from women than men.

So... what about a study comparing their ability to read non-verbal communication from men?

Until that's done, this study may very well also be called Clueless Women Can't Send Unambiguous Signals.

On a related note, from something else I read, contrary to conventional wisdom, women are the ones who make the first move 90% of the time with all these subtle non-verbal communication that they suck at sending/men suck at reading.

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dracil

Mmm, long day. So went down to San Jose again to watch this and cheer for Taiwan. Had dinner at the Hally K Ono Cafe nearby with Joyce. I really liked it. It's basically a residential house that's being used as a cafe so it was really interesting.

As for the event itself, the people wouldn't let us bring the signs Joyce made inside though. Eric came halfway through. Taiwan actually kinda sucked. 8 out of 10, ahead of HK and Singapore. US won pretty much everything.

Thank you Joyce, for the Taiwanese snacks.

May write more later. Sleep now.
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dracil

Dinner with Cat at Out the Door today. It's basically a second Slanted Door. Think I liked the Vietnamese spring rolls the most. Afterwards we had some CocoaBella Chocolates. They were very very pretty and interesting. Unlike Recchiuti Confections, it's less pure chocolate as I think every single thing we had had some non-chocolate fillings. But it was tasty. Then we browsed Borders for a bit before heading home.
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dracil

While having lunch with Cat at Medicine Eatstation today, she remarked that I pronounce some words the British way (slight British accent). I guess it's because I had both British and American teachers at ISB.

Anyway, food was tasteful and had good texture. Mostly vegetarian stuff there. The two things we originally wanted they didn't have (salmon and ahi), so we went with whitefish and croquette instead, which were fine.
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dracil

Way too much fanservice (not the sexual kind, just way over-the-top stylish fighting) but very well done. Probably better than a lot of professional stuff actually.




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dracil

Plans never go perfectly.

Saturday

Sunday, had to pick up tickets from Cat's friend, and also had to go to Best Buy, and then meet up. Logistically it had the potential to go very wrong, but it actually went pretty smoothly. Catherine gave me a Cranium card game to make up for that. Thanks!

We ate at Unicorn and I liked the stuff we ordered. The rice paper was very unique and cool. Garlic noodles was good too. Butterfish needed a bigger portion. Dessert was fine too.

The movie though... we got there slightly late, and had to sit at the very front, which actually wasn't *too* bad except for a weird angle and the movie itself was actually kinda boring. I'm surprised I didn't fall asleep.

Went over to Sweetheart's to meet up with her housemates and friend, then I went home first since I had something else the next day.

Sunday

Only managed to get 3.5 hours of sleep. Went for the earliest possible Bart, and went for an earlier bus just in case. The first bus that came was out of order, so my carefulness kinda paid off (but not really, given that the bus I should've taken did come on time anyway, but if I was supposed to miss the first bus no matter what, then yeah, this planning paid off ). Did day pass at Caltrain from Zone 2-3, forgetting I was gonna need to come back from Zone 4. Doh. Then while almost at my destination Joyce told me that I need to go to the San Jose station instead 'cause the church was gonna be at a different place. Uh oh. Luckily, the conductor didn't mind for me to stay that extra 3 stops. :D Speaking of which, both the Bart and Caltrain drivers were really perky this morning and saying stuff weirdly like "Have a waffle Easter"

We got there late, but the actual service was even later so it was all good. It wasn't bad. This is the very first Protestant service I've attended without falling asleep, especially given my lack of sleep. I think that's saying something. Several years back when I was more exploring, I took my constant falling asleep as a sign. I wonder if this is another sign then. Haha.

Met Suanne, Hector, Colin, Iris, Isaac, and one more person whose name I no longer remember. They took us out for lunch since we were newcomers (oh yeah, my original restaurant choice didn't work either since we were at a different place, I do still want to try it out some day). We ate at Family Delight at Milpitas. Afterwards, we went to a different plaza so Joyce could buy some manga (Detective Conan). Also found out Ay-Chung Noodles had been sold and renamed to Lu Gang.

Then went over to catch our movie. Met up with Suanne's group momentarily but we ended up sitting by ourselves (better seats ). The thing we saw, Love, Actually was REALLY good. It was 10 different short films together, all about love. I really liked over half of them, there were 2-3 that were more eh or weird.

For dinner, was supposed to eat at McCormick & Schmick's but I wrote the wrong address down (Sonoma Chicken Coop). We ended up eating at this Thai place called Thepthai which actually wasn't bad. It actually felt more authentic than a lot of Thai places I've been to in the US even though when we first went in we thought the place didn't look good (empty, quiet, lighting was bad), but as it got darker, the lighting made the place look better and they did put on some music.

Then caught the last Caltrain home. Fun weekend. :D
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dracil

Lunch with Cat. Got stuff at Delica RF-1. Both thought it was pretty good. I liked it better than the first time I got it. Maybe 'cause it was actually hot this time or maybe 'cause I was eating it with company. But anyway, good way to spend a pretty nice day (though a bit windy).

Internet's been really wonky. Think I got disconnected 10+ times tonight. Think the modem is dying.
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