My Life and Thoughts in Point Form

Okay...I got s'plainin' to do, mostly about my lack of posts. Well, my only excuse has been that I have just been really busy. Busy with work but also busy with life. I have done so much these past days. Let's summarize:

--went to 3 different Thanksgivin Dinners. And had 3 different types of turkeys, all prepared differently (one normal, one with bacon and one deep fried!). Made Jonny Ward's famous cobblers in which impressed them all! I am the KING OF THE WORLD!!

--played a lot of video games, but not games I played by myself (though Mario & Luigi for GBA has taken ALOT of time from me. IT SOOO DAMN GOOD!). Went to a whole bunch of parties where I brought out my Eye Toy and Karaoke Revolutions. Both are EXCELLENT party games. Also played Halo til 3am one nite. Though I never really played Halo that well before, that night I KICKED ASS, rivalling some of the more seasoned MICROSOFT EMPLOYED players too! SUCK IT!

--saw 2 movies. Gothika and Master & Commander. Both were okay and though both of them weren't that scary, there were a couple of scenes that made it great to be a man sitting next to girl *le sigh*

--saw the next episodic play, Sex in Seattle 8: Doin' it Again. This was by far the best, and most funniest (and longest) version of the play. Too bad the next one is in June, 2004!!

--once again went clubbin for only 1 hour. We went to the Baltic Room for some great live Hip Hop. Too bad we got there at 12:30am and last call in Seattle is 1:30am. Doesn't that suck.

--helped Linh moved into her new place in First Hill. Had a great Vietnamese dinner with her parents afterwards.

--got to visit and tour the BIG Nintendo plant in North Bend where we saw our game, 1080 Avalanche being packaged and ready to be shipped all across North American. It was quite amazing how efficient and how everything is video taped so that if there's any "missing" shipments, THEY WILL KNOW!!

--went to some geek party where we played Mario Kart Double Dash a la 3 Gamecube / TV screens and 12 players(!) and then watched / played Lord of the Rings Two Towers SE drinking games. That was a lot of fun, especially with these rules of when to drink. Here, take note and use it at your next geek party:

Drink Whenever
... you see the EYE
... the hobbits are eating/talking about eating
... something gets severed
... anyone is referred to as "son of..."
... an elf makes fun of a dwarf or vice versa
... someone speaks a made-up language
... Gandalf or Saruman say "Morrr-dorrr"
... someone other than Gollum mentions "The One Ring" or "The Ring of Power"
....Frodo gets aroused by the Ring.
... someone gets picked up
- twice if they're thrown
... a chapter title from the book is mentioned (once per title)
... a new (extended) scene is introduced
... Gimli is used for comic relief
... Gollum develops laryngitis or Treebeard "Hroom-Hooms."
... Treebeard says, "Hasty"
... someone looks longingly at Aragorn
... a woman other than a cowering peasant (once per scene)
... Eowyn bitches about not being a man
... someone screams, "Nazgul!" or "Black Rider!"
... a named character in the film or the books dies or seemingly dies
- again if they "come back to life"
... a dead character makes a cameo
... a ladder falls
... you see Peter Jackson's kids

--of course, with all the things I have done these past weeks, there were a couple of events I had to miss. The big one being Denny's Pajammy Jammy Jam 3 in SF. MAN, I really wanted to go to that but I couldn't find the time to do so. I also missed a couple of dinners with old friends and even dinner and dancing with a bunch of nurses :( . That one really hurt. :(

--but the biggest thing to talk about is my family (mom, sis, brother in law) have / are coming to visit me here in Seattle! This marks the FIRST TIME ANY FAMILY MEMBER have come and visit me here since moving to the USA like 5 years ago! I picked up my mom from Vancouver on Sunday and now she's staying with me for the next 2 weeks. And all she wants to do is cook for me! How cool is that!! My sis and her hubby come next week. This is great since I am not going home for xmas but kinda bad cause it making my busy work schedule even busier. Eeek...Oh well...

--on a sad note, one of my most closest friend in the world had one of the worst thing happen to him...something a great guy like him, should never had happened to him. When he called me to tell me about it, I was completely speechless and when he got off the phone with me, I was almost in tears. Love FUCKIN' SUCKS! My thoughts are with you, JTW.