25th December, 2008
This Is Christmas
We briefly had all five of us together in order to go through the motions of opening presents. My sister got me a nice makeup kit which I plan on using. I think the windup music part is broken though and I can’t seem to find a way to open the box and figure out what’s wrong. I see screws, but I fear that if I try to remove then, it will do me no good if I can’t get to the musical thingy myself. (I’ve forgotten the word for it at the moment).
… Nevermind. Unscrewing it did help. Currently fixing it as we speak.
…Oh my god. There was a piece of styrofoam stuck… barely stuck, but stuck enough to prevent the gears from turning.
Other than that, my day today was relatively uneventful. On Tuesday night, I thought that I could have dinner with JYL, CZ, and NZ, but JYL couldn’t make it down, so I changed my dinner plans and ate at Gordon Biersch with MP and NN. The food was alright, but it was more the company that I wanted since I hadn’t seen both of them at the same time since they came up for the Axio party in August. I had seen MP and NN since then, but all three of us hadn’t been together in a while.
After dinner, we wanted dessert since our selection at Gordon Biersch was quite mediocre. We walked around downtown San Jose for a bit until we landed next to the Christmas in the Park and the Fairmont Hotel. Since it was a classy hotel, we figured it might serve desserts. Luckily for us it did. We ordered a few drinks and chocolate fondue. The drinks were bad and the chocolate alright. Again, the company was more important than the food itself.
Just as we were heading back to the cars, we ran into a friend, D. I hadn’t seen D since two years ago, right before I moved back up to Berkeley. D and NN had a good friendship and had many countless intoxicated nights together. Anyway, we ran into him outside Fahrenheight, the ultralounge. He had us come inside for a bit while we tried to chat. Nhi ordered us a round of Patron (I know, bad move on my part since I drove). We drank and then left D since we had to leave (my mother wanted me to come back with the car since it was late – I’m not on their insurance policy). It was a random encounter, but a good one.
Since that night, I’ve been just spending time at the house. That night, when I returned, I couldn’t sleep at all. I went to bed around 2:30 or so and woke around 4 and after that, could not sleep. I kept tossing and turning, drifting in and out of consciousness. I finally gave up trying to sleep around 8. I ended up crashing later though after I had walked around the neighborhood a bit. It was completely odd since I never had any issues falling asleep unless I’m sick. I didn’t feel sick except for the headache I felt when I decided to get up.
Anyway, tomorrow I’m meeting up with ALL, a friend from high school. We’re planning to get our nails done and whatever else awaits for us.
Night!
Tags: Christmas, family, Gordon Biersch, MP, NN
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21st December, 2008
This Is The Break
And so my winter break commences. Studying went fine. For AAS class, I took my pills so I was really hyped up all day. Really hyped up. I don’t know how I did yet, but hopefully I passed the class. I got a B- in my Astro class and I’m pretty sure I passed my Viet class.
I had to perform for my Viet presentation; I sang a pop song. I was really nervous and probably sounded awful. A classmate of mine went up and did an a capella version of “Silent Night.” He was awesome. Definitely surprised the class, for sure. I would say I was gonna miss the class, but a lot of us are coming back for the next semester, so it’s not all too bad.
I had wanted to drink after my Astro final, but no one did. Losers. On one of the nights, I met up with a friend JG, and we drank a beer and watched V for Vendetta. At least it was something right? Friday night I went over to JL’s just to chill. Kind of ended up passing out for about an hour then headed home. I would have crashed there, but I had my contacts in and it would have been very uncomfortable to sleep in them.
Saturday, I went indoor climbing for the first time with a classmate/friend, SL. It was fun and very tiring on the arms. It’s quite easy to get calluses too if you don’t keep your hand moisturized. Then afterward, he said he would be able to drive me home, so I had less than an hour to pack for three weeks. Hopefully, I didn’t forget anything. I brought a lot of stuff too. It was a little funny because when my mom saw him, I wanted to clarify with her that he was just a friend, but she said that I should make a relationship with him. Why? It’s because he’s Viet, tall, a Berkeley student (graduated now), older, and apparently, cute. Whether or not anything will happen, I don’t know. I’m just leaving myself open for the possibilities. Don’t want to close all the windows, you know?
Now I’m here on break and since I was so rushed, I didn’t get much of a chance to grab a lot of things, so I went to the library. Hopefully I’ll be entertained.
Anyway, I don’t know what else to write. Happ
Tags: JG, school, SL, winter break
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