Whatta day.

Just came back from UCI. Edwin and I were guest speakers on behalf of MANAA for a Korean American women class; we were invited to speak about media representations and stereotypes. Funny thing, as I was walking in, I recognized their professor, a fellow classmate of mine at UCLA. Small world. Was hoping more energy from the class, a lil disappointed maybe because it was a 3 hour class and it was 8 at nite, that’s why most of the students were so dead, but then again it is UCI. *sigh* Though was refreshed by the students that stayed behind and talked with us some more. Was planning to promote Coffeehouse and other OCAPICA stuff, but most of the students, seem to scurry as soon as their Dennis released them. Someone needs to whack some reality into the UCI APIA student population. But I’ll rant and rave about UCI’s Asian American Studies and APIA students another time.

Anywho, just before the lecture, I had a faboo dinner with my fellow BCL participants. Audrey picked this YUMMY French and Vietnamese restaurant called La Veranda. It was sooooooooo good. I was so tempted on ditching the lecture, but I got a nice share of food before I had to jet.

But I’m pretty drained. Tutoring today was pretty exhausting; there was a sub today, so when I got to Century, it was chaotic. D would not focus, and the other students weren’t helping. Then a fight broke out. I really worry about D, I have not be able to get thru to him, why he needs to focus, he’s not going to be ready, when he goes to high school, at the rate, he’s going at, I’m so worried, he’s going to get so going to get so frustrated, he’ll drop out. I hope tomorrow is better, but knowing that the sub is there til Tues. isn’t really reassuring. Sometimes I wonder why some people become teachers I’ve meet so many unqualified subs. I remember this one that tried to instigate something with the one of the students. Hello, you’re supposed to be the more mature one? Makes me soooo mad.

Now onto my weekend

Was in LA, most of this weekend, yes back at the House of Wang. On the way to LA, I was still in OC on the 405 and I got a call on my cell and saw Jeremy's name appear on my caller id, I answer my cell and Jeremy is telling me he's in the next lane to me. Too funny. He recognized my UCLA and Lenore sticker. Crazy. We had a good laugh about it. Was going to LA to celebrate Pason and Alice’s birthday, as well as all the other January bday’s such as Raymond’s and Charlene’s. Helped out Richard with the planning and what not. Interesting all these ppl asked when the birthday people’s birthday was at, but did any of them really help plan? Nope. Hmmmm…makes you wonder what kinda friend they are or what their agenda is. (Well, Jason and Bonnie don’t count since they helped out) But you people know who you are. Though what really annoyed me were the soooooooooo many maybe’s and the no shows. It was so ridiculous how many maybe’s there were. But J was mentioning, I should just assume the maybe’s weren’t coming, which was pretty much true. But we still had a pretty nice turnout.

But man, looking for a place was pretty hard, thought 360 would be perfect, but noooooooo, they’re STILL under construction, and it’s been over a year! So I mentioned to Rich, Barbara’s at the Brewery, even though I’ve never tried it, I’ve been wanting to check it out, every time I go to the Brewery. Had a lil trouble finding it since Jason suggested I go local, and he nearly drove me loco (yes, that was suppose to be funny) anyhow, I was a lil stressed since we were behind on schedule and I didn’t know how to get their on the local streets and Jason was saying go this way, then this way. Had a nice scenic tour of downtown LA and finally figured out where San Antonio Winery is at. That's my next restaurant to check out. Luckily, we finally found it. It was pretty cool since there was no one else there and it was really chill and cozy with couches. I dug it. Too bad the food wasn’t as good. Don’t get the deep fried catfish. It’s pretty bleah. Wish I had known there was no table service. I didn’t mind but I should have found a place that offered that. Good place to kick back and lounge. Rich found out from the bartender, there was a battle of the robots in one of the buildings. And one of the robots had V8 engine! Insane.

But we had to get the Gate since we were on the list, and I didn’t want to deal with the whole velvet rope crapola we had to deal with at Las Palmas and I really didn’t want to pay cover for a place that plays *ahem* “hip-hop” for one of those fancy pancy places. Edwin was telling how the Gate was such the thing 10 years ago and I mentioned how I was only 15 back then. HAH! Anyways, just barely got there before 10 and played the DD role since I didn’t want to drink, cuz I prayed waaaaaaaaaay too many times to the porcelain god last year and I don’t enjoy shivering and having ppl think I’m having a seizure cuz you know how attractive that is. Yes, I’m a cheap date but then again I seemed to be always doing all the paying….hey don’t mind me I only work for a non-profit. CHEAP ASSES! Uh, do I have issues? You would too if you had to deal with $#&@ I’ve gone out. Okay, I’m going off on a tangent, back to story.

The Gate wasn’t too bad inside; the music was commercialized hip hop that was more R&B disguised as hip hop, in other words..eh okay. Bonnie was harassed by 2 guys, SNL Roxbury guys’ style. Nasty. Then Alice friends’ Bonnie and Tracy got grab by some guys so I wasn’t in any mood to get on the dance floor to deal with slimy guys so I chilled with Naomi near the fireplace. Was entertained by Thomas, who was drunk off his ass, being very loud, and telling us about his sex-capades or lack of. Word to wise never spank or bite the dude. No S&M for him ;p

Poor Pason got completely wasted. Never saw the guy looked so bad from drinking. Usually Pason has a pretty good tolerance, but most of been around 11:30ish, when I started to notice, he was looking pretty bad. Luckily Bonnie was looking out him, especially since he yakked on the table. Eeps. So Bonnie took him back home. Most of the bday group had thinned out by the time we got to the Gate so it was just a handful of us left afterwards. Well, I hope Pason and Alice had a good time.

The next day had an artery clogging but yummy lunch at Junior’s. We ordered soup, chili cheese fries and potato pancakes, which were good. Then went to buy some Superbowl snacks, since we had didn’t have our fill of junk food in our system. Had more chili and nachos, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, Pringles’ Spicy Cajun, Arizona Green Tea, chocolate rugula from Juniors….healthy…no? Wait, I had some carrot sticks too. ;p

Had to bounce cuz Bonnie made plans to take Pason out to a gondola ride in LB, but we got lost and so were late, so the company were being assholes so they cancelled. Luckily, they didn’t charge Bonnie. So ate at Belmont Brewery Company ordered this tomato soup thing, the waitress suggested and it was horrible, waay too sweet and salty, the cerviche wasn’t too bad. Watched the last quarter, it was pretty sad what happened to the Raiders the last 6 minutes, thought they had a chance, but then they got humiliated. Was disappointed by the Superbowl commercials, I saw this year. The Levi’s one was pretty sad and the AT&T’s mLife one was pretty uninventive. Yawn.