psycho psychic

It's coincidence that this article came out today while I read my aol email. Because for some reason, both the gunman and Rebecca Schaeffer entered my head right when I turned off the shower and started to squeegee the walls yesterday. Weird

twilight zone or groundhog day?

Driving from the 5th/Mission St. Garage, I passed by this corner on 4th/Howard. Was I shocked or delighted? Both maybe? Definitely puzzled.

There was a Jollibee at this same location some years back. It closed and got replaced by a Thai restaurant I believe, and now Jollibee's back! Jollibee's are sprouting up in places like Vallejo and Sacramento, and now back to this place. I'm happy that there's more access to the environmentally unfriendly restaurant, as my friend pointed out last night: they use styrofoam even for a cup of rice!!!!!! An unfortunate truth. I mean I can understand using styrofoam for the wet foods, but rice?

I craved this type of food the moment I returned from the Philippines in February. In true "fashionably" late pinoy or CP time, they sure are taking their sweet time in opening the Vallejo restaurant. We currently have to drive all the way to Daly City or Union City(?) to enjoy Filipino-style spaghetti, banana-langka pie, Aloha burger, or burger steak!

Hope this Jollibee has better business. Can they win over a bigger, non-Filipino-American eating audience? Will that make a difference?

oh...my...duff!!!

What is up with Hilary Duff all of a sudden? Why do I like her sound now? Well at least two from her latest album. Just saw her perform live on "So You Think You Can Dance," and I don't think she lip-synched. Whatever, I thought it was hot. Someone will surely post the live version on Youtube any day now.

wowa-wii

Played on the Nintendo Wii for like two days. My first time ever. Tennis, boxing, and bowling. I'm feeling real sore on my back and my whole right arm. I can barely lift it level to my shoulders. It's worth the fun though.

huzzah for the red, white, and fire!

Washington State + legal fireworks = Awesome!

Neighborhoods go all out on 4th of July up here at my brother and his family's place in Renton, a suburb of Seattle. If all the beautiful trees weren't in the way, you can see fireworks all around you, really all around. I haven't seen so much fireworks in the sky, especially some that had Mt. Ranier as the backdrop.

To add more excitement, one of the fireworks we lit up tipped over and shot the lights into the garage and into the neighbor's. The one in the garage started a fire when it hit a roll of burlap. Good thing we all freaked out enough to react and extinguish the possible disaster. Definitely one to remember.

but still, it reminded me of how lonely i really am

I never can say goodbye. My friend from Harbor City came to SF with two other friends. I showed them around. They stayed at Travelodge on Lombard. I met them there Tuesday afternoon. We then walked around to Chestnut Street, ate a Thai restaurant, drove to Palace of Fine Arts, some other places I don't remember. The bar scene in SF is really dead in the middle of the week. That's expected, but they kept insisting that LA is a lot busier even on weeknights. Whatever.

It's really hard for me to sleep in unfamiliar places like motels or hotels, especially if there are other people in the room besides Roomie, because I tend to get really conscious of my "violent" snoring. So I didn't get enough sleep that night.

The next day, we crossed the Golden Gate and eventually made it to Muir Woods after stopping at the vista points overlooking the bridge on the Marin side. Muir Woods, what an amazing place. Walking underneath all those redwoods had more impact on me after reading Julia Butterfly Hill's book "The Legacy of Luna," which is about her ordeal in living up in a redwood to protest the cutting down of the giant trees up in Humboldt. I actually met her at SFSU a few years ago, got her to sign my book, which I haven't read yet at that point. I just read it this past January, on the plane ride to Philippines. Anyhoo, it's majestic to visit Muir Woods, it's a totally different world, and I now understand how Julia heard her calling when she first encountered the trees...truly inspirational.

I decided to sleep at my parents' house that night, so other people could get there sleep on. Someone commented that he heard my snoring, and that was an even better excuse to not sleep at the motel anymore. So after dropping them off at 2:30am, I headed "home." We planned that I see them again the next day, but with some work I needed to finish delaying me, they went ahead and headed back home to LA. Oh, another thing, I only got about five hours sleep because my phone rang. A friend called and left a message that she "fired" me because she found someone else to work on her project for free. Well, the "firing" is just for drama, we haven't even started working on anything yet, just talks.

So I couldn't go back to sleep after the phone rang, so getting up and working was the only option. My friends decided to not wait for me anymore to show them around, and headed back already. Sadness filled me. The sadness was of course exaggerated by the tiredness. But you know how that goes. I couldn't even nap it off. Good thing my niece from Ohio was there to keep me company :)