Highlights of my Day... Sunday, November 30

1. Was bribed with promises of a massive buffet loaded with food as far as the eye can see and so I gave in, agreed, and went as someone’s date to a wedding. Conveniently enough, the wedding was being held at the new wedding hall just a throw stone away from my apartment.

2. Despite knowing the groom, I came for the free food… that’s the truth. The wedding hall was buzzing with my date’s coworkers but it was the first time I had attended a wedding with all thoughts on the golden question, “when do we get to eat?”

3. Came up with quite some creative ways to dodge the inevitable question, “when are you two getting married?”… hehehe. Why do people always insist on asking such uncomfortable questions like that?! How exactly am I suppose to answer? It’s like the time I went to a friend’s baby shower. Her friends all cornered me and asked me, “So Amy, don’t you want one?” I thought it funny how they implied that it was so easy, like going to the store and buying new shoes. I learned quickly though not to say “I don’t like babies” at a baby shower infested with women all googly-eyed over the recently popped out bowling ball, aka the baby.

4. While my date went to get more food, I sat there watching my date’s coworker and his small family of three. His wife was clearly pregnant but their little girl kept on begging to be picked up. Some parents really don’t know how to say no. But what really caught my eye was the fact that with each new plate of food one of the parent’s brought to the table for themselves, the little kid insisted on eating their food instead of her own. In went both dirty paws into the father’s bowl of noddles and in went both dirty paws into her mother’s salad. Yup, that’s what having kids does to you. It not only takes your freedom and money away but it also takes your food away… hehehe.

5. I find Korean weddings rather depressing and sad. They’re so cookie-cut and staged. From the cutting of the cake in the middle of the service to the lights flashing off and on and people talking on their phones during the service, Korean weddings just don’t interest me. It’s all imagine and I find it rather interesting, yet strange, that in a country that is so hardcore about it’s manners that Koreans would leave them at home for a wedding. I’ve yet to go to a traditional Korean wedding and so I’m hoping that Jennipal out in Seoul throws a traditional wedding.

6. Later in the afternoon I finally got down to planning my Power Point file for this week’s final exam review. By evening though, I was itching to get out of the house and so when Lollipop texted me, saying that he’ll be downtown soon, I agreed to meet up with him and his friends.

7. Turns out Lollipop’s buddy knows me from my homepage, how weird is that?! We sat there joking the evening away when this 6ft 5” large brut of a dude then turned to me and said, “Hey, do you do some kind of homepage thing?”

“Girl, you’re like diarrhea, you take my breath away” said the Texas Giant

(personally, I don’t understand his pick-up line. Wouldn’t that be “you’re like gas”?! I don’t know what kind of diarrhea he’s having but if it takes his breath away, maybe he should go see someone about that… hehehe!!!)

8. Am thinking about changing Lollipop’s name back to Side Salad, not too sure though. I say this because tonight we got talking about nicknames. I was thinking of T.Dot Girl for Lollipop’s sister but they threw in Croutons and MyChew (popular children’s candy). What do you think? Side Salad and Croutons or Lollipop and MyChew?.. hehehe. Ya… come to think of it, I will change his name back to Side Salad. So Side Salad and Croutons it is… hehehe. They’re hilarious.

9. Side Salad’s attempt to hug me goodnight when I walked them all to their taxi turned into quite the embarrassing situation for us both with me backing up like a defensive cat, leaving him standing there with his arms wide open and a crowd watching behind him. I guess it’s been too long since someone’s really hugged me.

10. Returning home to finish up my Power Point file turned into a long dragged out production, interrupted by a two hour phone conversation with Side Salad and then a 1 hour much-needed msn chat with Homegirl about something that's been on my mind.

Geez... I wish Homegirl and Italiano were here.
They're who keep me grounded.

Crashed at 5:30am.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Where's the real significance in a cookie-cut anything?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship.
-- Iris Murdoch