I’ve set up a poll on the right sidebar there in celebration(?) of (???) Anyway, for those that have gotten to know my boyfriend, it’s time for his report card / one-year review.

Please partake in the poll so that he may know how he is doing in terms of winning the hearts of my friends, which is something we consider pretty important in our relationship. Considering he’s been pretty much having “relationships” with Norvelle, Eugenia, and Greg (who else don’t I know about?), I think he’s been doing pretty well on this spectrum. But, never know until you ask right?

Feel free to leave anonymous feedback in this blog entry as well for specifics, which would be helpful! (Yeah, no one else would do this kinda stuff cept us huh? haaahahahah)

Thank you! <3

Edit: I rephrased the last answer in case ppl didn’t understand that it is like a grading scale! (Like in school!)

Batz brought this idea to me a while ago, back in March of 2006. I’ve trickled in entries to my list when I remembered to take note of them.

1. The feeling of being intellectually stimulated, enlightened, i.e. Van Leuven’s lectures [03.16.06]
2. Staring at the sky and remembering how small we are compared to the Earth and the rest of the universe.
3. Incredibly great food (Zachary’s, Fenton’s, mom’s cooking).
4. Thinking about how unique the Tse family is (the jokes we share and our united love for food) [03.18.06]
5. Creating “Remember the time when…” moments. (when Matt David threw up on me, St. Patrick’s chill kickback, relaxing bonding moments)

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Totally trying to get back into the style of blogging again. Still figuring out whether or not I want to be blogging about the daily events or of contemplative thoughts that come to mind. There’s also still a lot of work to do with the domain. Slowly but surely, right?

Nevertheless, yesterday was Aquarium day so Henry and I went off to Monterey. (Disclaimer: “Aquarium day” means nothing more than a date we set together to go to the aquarium. I assure you there were no special promotions or what-have-yous for the specific day. SAD!) Him and I have had a checklist of things to accomplish until he leaves for Riverside again and picnic has been one of them. So, I again packed a meal! RELENTLESS is the theme for this day!! Sandwiches, yogurt, salad, and waters! (Sorry, no secret surprise like fruit roll ups, hunny X_X ) It takes 2 hours to get to Monterey but we optimistically aimed to get there in 1.5 hours, considering our goal was to get there at 12 but realistically left my house at 11 HAW HAW. Keeping ourselves entertained, we named the trucks after our friends.

The aquarium was blah blah blah blah blah blah content about the aquarium. No one really wants to hear the details but it was indeed fun and enticing for my 8-year-old soul.

On to the REAL story: FOOD. The first thing we did when arriving at the Aquarium was eat. We left the doors of the Aquarium getting pretty hungry. We had one goal in mind: juicy juicy burger! BAD juicy juicy burger, in that case. Jack-in-the-Box it is! Now… trying to find one. We really didn’t want to spend much time circling around to look for a Jack’s. I mean, Henry was rushing cuz my hunger counter was counting down (reference: The Asahi Incident). We drove down some main streets along the freeway TO NO AVAIL.

Fine. Jack’s or Carl’s Jr. would suffice.

Driving driving driving. And the only thing we could find was McDonald’s. No! Screw it—we just got back on the freeway and headed on up, keeping watch over the freeway sides.

“Applebees?” he asks me.
“Um no….. was that a test?”
“Yes.”

And so we were committed. We would not give up on finding a Jack’s and/or Carl’s Jr. No matter how long it would take. I promised I wouldn’t faht mung jung. I promised I wouldn’t throw a (hunger) tantrum.

Finally.

“Dude, there’s a Jack’s right there….. DUDE they have Carl’s Jr. too!”
“Okay are we gonna do this?”
“YES!!” we both exclaimed.

Henry sped up on the two-lane highway, passed up and cut in front of a bigrig, 50 feet close to missing the exit.

Two tacos, bacon cheese potato wedges, sourdough jack, bacon ultimate cheeseburger, fries, and like 5 refills of coke. And all the while, we somehow agreed that upon finishing our meal, we would then refill our Jack-in-the-Box cup and drive 30 seconds away to the Carl’s Jr. to award ourselves for our patience and particularly my non-temperamental hunger patience! +A Famous Star, and crisscut fries.

It was a full day and I managed to redeemed my Aquarium immaturity by enthusiastically cooperating with the food adventure. Yessssss it was definitely a day of feats.

Now, please don’t ever ask me to do a chain food chain run ever again. Yeah that’s right. I just made a name for it. An CFC.

I haven’t had a night like last night in a looonnggg time, and it was fantastic! All in all, it was a great day:

• Got to see But-i: went to Pho Hoa Lao (”the place with the green awning”), played on some swings next to the Lake, just sat and chatted and caught up on life
• Henry came by with his brother and were essentially like “Take us to Fenton’s!” :OOO
• It was suuuucchhhhh a nice day!!! so… we went to the cemetary =D
• Mud masks :X
• Caught up on some Mario DSing yessss >:O
• Dinner at cheeseboard Denny’s (talk about a plan change)

Theeennnn! Ryan and Phuong told us to go watch the meteor shower. Hey, why not, right? Called up Man and Lum. We’re goin to a place I went 10 years ago with my bro and his friends out in Moraga! (How the heck am I supposed to find out where that place was…..)

Anyway, to make it an awesome occasion, I packed some hot chocolate, hot water, sandwiches, sleeping bag, and x10 coats! (Good job, Eugenia, for bringing your Skyline parka! Domination!!)

“Hey Scott, let’s go watch the meteor shower!”
“Okay, what time?” “uhh idunno… night..”
“Nighttime.. nice..”

It was so romantic… laying under the stars to watch the meteor shower with Henry……. and Eugenia, Christina, and Scott…. laying downwards up on a hill so all the blood was rushing to our heads… with15 “high school kids” not too far from us… and deer grazing about us.

Nevertheless, it was just nice to just… chill like that. It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to do that.. lay out under the sky. It felt nice to be under such a huge planetarium! The real, 3D one! We even obnoxiously “ooh”ed loud and proudly, repelling the “high school kids” away completely. (Shows how grown up we all are, hahah)

“If someone tries to come and rob us, I’ll challenge them with math problems before I hand over my wallet.” haaahahah sigh we’re such geeks.

i’m back, baby!

specific thanks to batz for keeping the above comic in my head and for always pushing me on—you were right all along. you are totally my hero in many ways.

and, thanks for those that went thru the transition blog times and are my avid readers.. y’all are relentless. i’ll never leave you again…