BLoGGeR PaNDa

A weekend in San Diego and I MUST go back there again! There’s so much left to be gobbled up!
Visited Seaport Village and its quaint little stores. Went downtown to the famous Gaslamp Quarters which is basically a hub of restaurants, clubs, and.. more restaurants. I guess you just go for the "party" atmosphere. And people there are noticeably better looking, in addition to having more style. I don’t know why. Maybe they’re just tourists like me who dress up to pah-tay ‘cos it’s downtown San Diego, baby! The only difference is they put in immeasurable effort to look good, whereas I just throw on a little somethin’ and I’m smokin’ hot. *ROFL*

A brunch stop pre-San Diego was San Juan Capistrano’s Ramos House Cafe.
The restaurant is in an area with an old town feel, which usually grosses me out because I think of rust, shrubbery (with bugs/snakes/ who-knows-what living underneath it), moth-eaten planks, and cattles making schtinky "deposits" everywhere. But this particular countryside adventure turned out quite ok.
They restored this house (made in 1881 - practically prehistoric) and turned it into a restaurant, in which the owner lives and works. The wines are kept in the cellar, herbs are grown in the garden, ice cream is turned out back, and everything is made from scratch. Food was delicious, mm-mmm.

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Last weekend’s Lexus event verdict: Lexus kicks butt. I like to call it elegant power. Elegant cos it’s luxe, but also powerful cos it got me driving like a stunt woman. I drove all models (fave is still the SC) except for the SUVs, obviously, and I liked them all. The IS is so cute — it’s like a car version of me! Too bad we didn’t get to test but only watch the LS doing its magical parallel parking thingy.
People hated going after my turn because I always adjusted the seat to be like 5" away from the wheel.
Driving experience aside, the whole tent showroom thing was awesome too: food and drink and even free dermatology consultation & samples.

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Last Wii’k was crazy for two reasons. (Did you catch that reference? Nice huh?) I don’t have to state what two reasons  because you might already know some gamer who’d lost a couple, if not several more, good night’s sleep. Understandable though, I just played tennis on Wii and it’s totally worth the camping out. Well, someone else camped out but lucky Steph reaps benefits also. What’s not so understandable is the PS3’s going for $2000+ on eBay, or paying people hundreds of dollars for their spot in line.
This online ad may tell the story a little better, of how the geeks-gone-mad phenomenon is like:

"SONY PS3 PLAYSTATION 3 CAMPER WANTED, PAID IN CASH - $200

IF SOMEONE IS WILLING TO CAMP OUT FOR ME IN FRONT OF A STORE IN ORDER FOR ME TO BUY THE NEW PS3 I WILL PAY THEM BECAUSE I HAVE SCHOOL I DON’T HAVE TIME TO BE THERE, I WOULD BE BACK ON THURSDAY NIGHT AT 10PM, OR YOU YOU CAN WAIT TILL THE FOLLOWING MORNING FOR AN EXTRA 50 BUCKS. PLEASE LET ME KNOW, YOU CHOOSE THE STORE, I BUY THE SPOT FROM YOU, THANKS!! CALL ME ANYTIME!!"

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I’ve been coughing for a while now. I wonder if the rumor that tea really neutralizes medicines is true. Is milk also bad? What about chocolate-covered caramel & cream peanut butter bars? (Ok the last one I actually know the answer to.)

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I’m polishing up my pool skills (the billiards kind, not swimming). Combined with a wifebeater top and a Corona, I’ll soon look pretty tough.
Speaking of sports, playing tennis and golf on the Wii may constitute for the real things, since they require the same movements/posture (kind of).
The pro and con: I get to skip the nasty farmer’s tan (pro) but running around the tennis court is also taken out (con).

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Can you spot the frickin huge error on the above ad? It’s pretty easy!
Advertisers nowadays just don’t care anymore, do they? Spell-checking a 3-word ad is sooo time-consuming!
This is how I feel about it:

So lately people have been moving in and out of my life. I wonder if it’s just that stage we’re in, ya know, being a twenty-something professional, always changing jobs and living spaces. Or maybe it’s just how things work in California. Five out of 8 members of my small group are in transitions (job-wise), me being one of them, unluckily.
It’s extra sad when they need to leave. Like this guy:

But it’s supposed to be exciting, as he is moving to the heart of San Fransisco, following his dream career. Congrats, Rex, all of America’s hopes for the future of legal practices are in your hands!

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I friggin hate those smiley ads that scream "OMG!!!!!" in that ugly voice, scaring the wits out of me at 2am as I browse through spoilers of Desperate Housewives.

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Sigalert.com rules my driving world. I’ve been using their traffic reports (follow freeway on map with mouse pointer and it tells you the current traffic MPH on that area) but recently what’s more amazing is their new Route Retriever. It’s Mapquest with steroids. They give you several possible freeway routes plus travel times based on current traffic. They don’t do Walmart searches or specific addresses like Mapquest/Google Map though, just freeways. And it’s only for So-Cal, Nor-Cal, and Phoenix, AR.

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Starting Monday, I am retiring my ancient Ericsson T610 (one you see on my "ponder" picture). That thing is like 2 years old. I hung on to it until it started crackling just the other day. So, rest in peace (or pieces). And my new bestfriend will be this beauty:

I still can’t believe it’s got GPS navigation!
Speaking of technology, I almost passed out when I found out that the Lexus LS 2007 parallel parks itself! That tells me that flying cars are not too distant in the future. Maybe someday my 3-year-old grandson will drive me around in one. Or fly me, for that matter.

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Help! I’m losing my first language! I recently typed "seperty" instead of "seperti", "pension" instead of "pensiun", and had trouble translating "mass recruitment" to my mom.

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Attention PCC Indos

You know what’s really bumpin’ nowadays? The PCCindo Forum is what’s bumpin, yo!

Farid and his minions Timot and Nceq are making sure the codes work, or whatever it is nerds do, so that I can do my part, which is critiquing other people’s comments and bright ideas, in addition to giving general insults.
The board has a ranking system that allows members to advance from being a dull, undistinguished Russ Smith to the status of Joel Mullenix. If that’s not an incentive, I don’t know what is.

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