another wisdom yanked…yar. and it was a rough week at work…bleh. on the bright side, i ate at sala wednesday with renee, and alta thursday with sally, anna, nikki, and aarij. douple espanol! i shouldnt even have eaten half the stuff i did given my dental predicament. oops. anyhoo, my mind is fried and…did i do anything this past weekend? hmm, dont think so. meh.

i just got two teeth yanked out today. it was ouch. now my mouth feels all weird, and theres a gap where my wisdom tooth (and adjacent molar) were.
oh, and i didnt do much this weekend. i did go back to the gym sunday tho. now my boobies are sore.

ah, the mid-week entry. theres a rarity. ive been admittedly distracted alot this year, but i found myself with some “me” time tonite…woo. 2008’s been a good year so far. theres already alot to look forward to. i have a niece coming in the beginning of february (according to my sis), i might be sent back to amsterdam mid february (hai lysha!), and im also currently looking to buy a condo in the city…omg! wait, did i ever mention my sis was pregnant? lemme go scan my entries…

*interlude*

h’ok i did…ha. thought i mightve completely forgotten to mention that. anyhoo, shes due supposedly the first week of february. holy shit! shortly after that, ill be heading back to amsterdam (well if my boss has it his way) to work on some animation, and when i get back in march, its time for minks wedding. whew! ok, so before all that happens, rewind to the weekend recap.

FRIDAY
i didnt do anything friday. but it looks all neat and orderly when i bold the word “friday” and then write some nonsense below it. there we go!

SATURDAY
…was a very good day. i messaged ky to see if she wanted to go see the ingo maurer exhibit at the cooper hewitt, and she said yes! yay! the ingo maurer exhibit was pretty nice, and maybe some day ill even be able to afford one of his light sculptures. the exploding smoking hanging car thingy especially was…wow. the exhibit was nice, but good companys even nicer. im going to be purposely vague and anonymous tho because i have no idea what im doing. until i do, ill just keep the details brief. we did finish up the night tho at casa mono and then ten degrees. very good day. i need to go consult my “girl” advisors tho…

SUNDAY
…was open house day! i met g+r at their apartment before we all made the trek up to washington heights for some real estate shopping. damn, washington heights is far. but it might be my future neighborhood, and it was right next to fort tryon park. mmm…cloisters. the apartments we saw were pretty nice, with one specific apartment especially nice. now all i need is my dad to get off his buttocks and move on it! move it! yargh! but seriously, size, location, everything was gorgeous. ill hopefully be able to have a talk with my dad this weekend…talk some sense into the man.

and now…a recycled image. hooray!

aw, the holiday season is over. sad face. =( its the year 2008 now. hmm, doesnt feel much different than 2007. i think if i was the blogger i was approximately 3 years ago, i might bother with a thoughtful 2007 retrospective…but, naaah. it sounds like too much effort. 2008 should be alot of fun though. lots to look forward to…woots.

we had our mini-reunion/chocolate hunt saturday morning. i met up with hosan at city bakery for some brunch and a bit of chocolate tasting (in my case…in the form of a mocha). a third person joined us on our hunt too…steph! who i hadnt seen since high school. apparently shes been roaming the world, and is now squatting in the hague, netherlands. h’ok then…coo beans. we spent a bit too much time at city bakery and had to kind of huff it to jacques torres because we were also going to catch sweeney todd later that day. and speaking of which…sweeney todd, really bloody. like wow, graphic, but good, but graphic. i squirmed alot.

the rest of the weekend was bleh, so we’ll just move onto monday. hey, i worked on monday (ha!), so k…fast forward some more to monday nite and the new years party! i joined g, g’s sis, and her friend at a new years party at their friends place on astor place. their penthouse was wow. like, wow….i need some of that goodness. so their pad was pretty nice, the food was good, the liquor free-flowing. and then hey, its 2008! yay to us! now what?

i was totally going to post, i swear. but i was thinking up an appropriate excuse to write when i eventually did post, which wouldve inevitably been two weeks late. i wonder if i really do write the same introductory paragraph each time im late in posting…

*checks*

right, yea…i do. ah well. its the holidays eh…thats my excuse. tho in all honesty, i didnt notice itd been three weeks. hadnt post since thanksgiving…whups! k, super hyper brief and summarized journal post!

SUKIYAKI
time really did fly right by, and all of a sudden it was the holiday season. two(?) saturdays ago we met up for some holiday dim sum before people started heading out of the city. well, actually…nobodys really leaving the city this year. im not anyhoo. usually about this time of the year, i would be in some foreign country. but this years holidays will be spent in nyc…woots. so anyhoo, dim sum, and then some holiday shopping afterwards. i splintered off to shop for my secret santa and ran into ky in east village. we hung out the rest of the day til i headed north to g+r’s for some traditional sukiyaki. mmm…beef stew. still not quite sure why they named a dorky love song “beef stew”…but hey, the real things pretty yum.

FUZZY MEMORY
im pretty sure i did stuff here and there during the week and in between, but this journal does exist for a reason…because i cant ever remember what i did. and this is also why im supposed to post weekly, because i forget everything by the next week…yar! ah well…fast forward to last saturday, annas holiday party/dinner/bdays. woot! <3 holiday party/dinner/bdays…

HOLIDAY PARTY
so this year i got sucked into my studios holiday party committee. we spent i dont know how many meetings discussing and rediscussing party details, budgeting, etc…and half my ideas, in the end, got pooped on. (sad face) but hey, my lights got up (oooh sparkly), i decorated the front desk, and the party rocked! and i think i got trashed. im pretty sure…its all a bit fuzzy. i surprisingly managed to still get into work early the next day…go me!

II REUNION
and m and p were back in town, so we all met up for old-times sake friday nite at superfine for liquoring. mikey and his gf came too, and we all reminisced about old times by doing what we did best back then…drink alcohol.

and this weekend i did nothing. like seriously…absolutely nothing. it was super. but hey, christmas’ right around the corner…yay!

oh snap its been over two weeks! woops…maybe ill post later tonite.

merrr…another long double-week recap, because i couldnt have been bothered with this last week. and hell, we’re into december now already. holiday season…hooray!

BONE LICK
two mondays ago, the week leading up to thanksgiving that is, i took the two amsterdam-ians andy and kjoep oot and aboot for some bbq at bone lick park. the rest of the week looked booked, and they were leaving after thanksgiving, so it was now or never. andy and i got there earlier, and we ordered way beyond our means (damn those fucking onion rings), and barely put a dent in our pulled pork entrees. we had no problem pounding down the beers tho…hmm.

EN
tuesday was sake samplers and food at en with g+r after work…woot. and not only was the sake and sushi yum, but r brought me a plate of pre-prepared eggplant parm too (just because she could). woot! now i know what im having over the long weekend…

DIABLO ROYALE
wednesday was andy and kjoeps last (work) day, so we took them oot for some drinks and tacos at diablo royale. tacos and drinks dont sound expensive by itself, but somehow the tab came out to be like $60 a person. i was like…wtf mate! the place emptied out my wallet. sad face.

THANKSGIVING
thanksgiving this year was at my sisters new oversized suburban abode. getting there was crazy…penn station was massively packed and full of dickheads pushing and shoving the second gates were announced. they were even shoving this group of elderly women in front of me. not very nice.

an hour train ride later, i got to my sis’ place with the rest of the new extended clan. mom, dad, his mom and his dad, aunt sharon, and aunt sharons friends. it was a pretty nice and big gathering, but we had enough food to feed double that…oops. we ended up barely putting a dent in the food. on the bright-side tho, i carved up the turkey all nice and purty…woot me. it was an early thanksgiving dinner too, since the ‘rents didnt like driving late at night, and i wanted to scootch back to manhattan to start my doing nothings.

THANKSGIVING WEEKEND
i did a bit of roaming black friday, just to see if there was anything worth getting…which turned out to be no, nothing worth getting. i did make my way to the new muji store in soho tho. that was coo. i got myself a new scarf and sweater, then went home and marinated watching superbad.

i met up with sean, anna, and sally saturday nite in k-town because we were craving bbq. kun jip was packed, so we went to that other one instead…er, the one next to the korea bank. i can never remember the name of the place…*shrug*. we had some pinkberry for dessert, then beer at this second floor korean sports bar. wow, i never knew they existed!

WEEKEND FOODAGE
so now that we’re caught up to this week, im just going to breeze right thru the rest of this post because im pooped. lets see, i watched some of my new dvds…ratatouille, superbad, harry potter and the ootp, flight of the conchords, i met up with di thursday for some catching-up foodage at oh taisho and then angels share, and then din again with di saturday at supper followed by sake at decibel. woots

look at that…its practically thanksgiving already. and post-thanksgiving is pretty much a straight shot into and thru the holiday season. oh noes, 2008’s right around the corner!

so since i did pretty much nothing this weekend, i’ll just write about last weekend, when i actually did stuff, but was too lazy to post about it. last friday was our november karaoke-athon. it was some craziness and everybody got trashed…yea. seriously, what could i possibly write about for a karaoke outing? you karaoke and you get drunk. well, if youre me you dont karaoke, but you do get drunk and take alot of pics…which are incidentally up on flickr. they get progressively blurrier and blurrier as the night goes on…how appropriate. a splinter group broke off near the end of the night to continue drinking in the les. i cant even tell you what bar, since it was dark and i was drunk. yea.

i met up with andy (one of our amsterdam guys visiting our nyc office) on saturday to take him oot and aboot the east village for some foodage. i started him off the way i got started in the east village…at yakitori taisho, woot. we moved onto 10 degrees for some lushing, and then finished off the night with some crif dogs. and saturday was an afternoon outing shopping for real estate with g+r in east harlem. didnt see anything good tho…sad face. =(

oh and this friday was big hot pot night at i4’s. that was awesome.

backtracking to a few weeks ago…

MY MEMORY BLOWS
hum…cant really remember which day (wednesday?) i had dinner with g+r. we’d been craving soba-ya all week long, so that was an easy decision to make, followed by post-din tea and snacks at cha-an to wash down the yum noodles. i think i did other stuff during the week, but my memorys failed (again…sigh), so ill just skip to saturday.

PATTY IS FAT
itd actually been a while since id seen my sister. i hadnt seen her since before i left for amsterdam in june…which was coincidentally around the time she called me to let me know that she was pregnant. so saturday was the first time in a while that we all made our way back home to jersey. i figured in that time, she got a wee fatter. im sure there will be people who say “hey, shes pregnant!“. but really, shes fatter. it was also the first time i had a chance to talk to my dad about buying an apartment. the market will supposedly go to shit in a few months, but he told me to start looking now…eek!

BED BATH
i shopped for some domestic accoutrements sunday. the old bath mat was kinda rotten. that is all. fun!

BO-RA!
i got an unexpected call monday nite for dinner…bo-ra was back in nyc! yay! betty was in town for business. her boss, the korean artist do ho suh, was setting up a gallery showing in chelsea. and she just got off work, so we all met at max’s for some italian, followed up with drinks at 10 degrees. betty was the same betty…like she was stored in some kind of korean hyperbaric chamber for the last three(?) years. yea…hyperbaric. word.

interlude
was writing a post always this tiring? *whew* cohesive narratives are overrated…

OPEN HOUSE
the space between monday and saturdays kinda fuzzy. so ill assume i did nothing. saturday tho…yea saturday was fun. i headed north to meet up with g+r for an open house in east harlem. open houses=mad fun! like seriously…youre roaming thru apartments that will most likely not look like yours when you move in. the apartments were pretty nice. price range tho…eh, i need to talk to daddy. keep looking…keep looking.

DO HO SUH
i headed over to the lehman maupin gallery saturday nite for the do ho suh exhibit betty had been diligently working on all week. the shit was actually pretty cool. kinda freaky, and obscenely meticulous…but very cool. i dont even like modern art, but his work definitely piqued my interest. the art schmoozing was followed up with a big hearty korean meal at…er, some place in k-town. hmm…it wasnt one of my usual spots, so i cant really put my finger on the name of the restaurant. whatever…it was good.

PS TUTORIAL
i gave photoshop lessons to di sunday afternoon actually…what. i think im a harsh disciplinarian…if my work experiences and tutoring sessions are any indication. gosh im a dick…who knew? as long as they came away with a better understanding of the program, hey…i did my part eh. it was made all the better too with a follow-up dinner at setagaya. i was craving it…it was inevitable. <3.

HIGH SCHOOL REUNION
whew…how many days left? fucks sake its already thursday. whups. i actually had gotten back in touch with an old high school friend when facebook started blowing up. so monday we finally got to meet up in tribeca for some noshing. it was kinda interesting having to actually work around her schedule pertaining to her kid. my friends and i…we live in some kind of warp bubble where people dont get married or have kids, so this was all new to me to be honest. but we hit up a nearby vietnamese restaurant and got to catch up on oh….nearly ten years worth of stories. thats alot of stories.

SCRATCHER
and today was drinkies at scratcher for bo-ra eh. woot bo-rage!

RANDOM THOUGHT
ive seen one of the pace twins twice in the last few weeks while walking to work in the morning. name dropping, oh noes!

k im seriously pooped. i started this post yesterday, got tired and bored, saved it, and had to finish it up today. its 12:30…good night eh.

whups…going on two weeks without a post. ill post tomorrow, i swear.
dont hold me to that btw…