dardy, rita, and i had lunch at the spice islands on sunday in mountain view. this singapore/malayasian food restaurant is one that i’ve always liked since i first tried it a little while ago. dardy told me that he hated the place because the food was awful, so i was a little nervous in trying it out, but it had a few good reviews so i thought it might be cool to check it out.

what i didn’t know was that mountain view plays host to a farmer’s market just down the block from the restaurant so parking was a little tricky. the food was good and it was good to be able to catch up a little with rita and dardy.

afterwards we went to tea era to pick some some roasted barley milk tea. it is probably my favorite pearl tea in the area and i often try to get it when i’m in the area. it seems that i used to be in the mountain view area a lot a while ago but nowadays i am barely ever in that part of town. oh well…

it used to be that when i would go and eat at places i would always have a favorite of mine and i would end up eating the same thing over and over again. going to sushi sams? i’ll have a spider roll, hamachi, and maguro, please. going to miyake? i’ll have the chicken teriyaki, tempura, and california roll bento box, please. i just had my favorites and stuck to them.

recently, i am finding that i enjoy trying out new places and new dishes. while at the spice islands, there was the normal noodle dish that i think i’ve always gotten, but i decided to try something else for variety. it was pretty good. sometimes it’s good for us to break out of our comfort zones, you never know what you might find.

i’ve been resisting the urge the watch napoleon dynamite because i thought that i would think that it is just lame, but i finally decided to watch it tonight.

i’m about 10 minutes into the movie and as suspected i think it is TOTALLY lame. i really tried to give it a chance, but it’s just stupid humor. the movie is slow and as many rave reviews as it gets, i think that this is one part of pop culture that i can do without. i wonder if this is a sign that i’m not part of the “in” crowd anymore. oh, who am i kidding, i never was “in”. =P

one of the things that i’ve always known but never put much thought into is that i really don’t like to fight if i’m in a relationship. i don’t like conflict. when i’m dating someone it will bring me great amounts of distress if i find that we fight often.

it boggles my mind how couples can stand to be together if they are constantly bickering or arguing about something or another. i have always thought that a relationship is always supposed to have a happy dynamic, so when i hear about how other couples can constantly bicker about things, it makes me wonder how healthy it really is. maybe i’m being a little idealistic here, but i think that’s how you should be when you are thinking about spending the rest of your life with someone.

i made blackened salmon last night. i wasn’t originally planning on making blackened salmon, but i walked away from the stove for a little bit and when i came back i doused the salmon with some oil to salvage what seemed to be a disaster in the works.

the blackened salmon didn’t look very appetizing but it turned out to be quite tasty. i’ve been making many more dishes without recipes so i don’t know what exactly to call them. i’m going to call this dish my blackened cajun salmon meal. the next time i make it, i think i’ll call it my oops! i did it again salmon.

i just watched ladder 49 and it completely surprised me…in a bad way. this movie was not at all what i had expected it to be. instead of an action movie where we see firefighters, well, fight fires, it was a rather sobering and sad movie about the hazards of fire fighting. the families left behind, the dangers that are inherent in the job, and the ultimate loss of life for a character that the movie spent the whole time endearing us to is just too much for me.

i really disliked this movie. i really need to start watching some good movies, i’ve watched a few bad ones lately…

i think one of my netflix movies got delivered to the wrong address because netflix just told me that they received a movie that i never got in the first place.

oh well, at least the people who did get the movie were nice enough to send it back instead of stealing it.

christmas time is nearing. you can tell because the big blockbuster titles are all coming out. i usually don’t play a lot of games, but i do play the games from time to time. when the big games come out, i think i get really into them for a few hours and then i become completely bored and uninterested.

i think i played one mission of call of duty 2. i think i played a few hours of quake 4. i’ve played a few races of need for speed: most wanted and i’m not quite bored yet, but i can see how i might get that way soon.

i guess that’s how i measure the holiday season.

i’ve been listening to the rent soundtrack from the movie that has been just released. i like the music of rent and i really want to see this movie. i have all of these scenes in my head and i wonder how close they are to the movie.

ever fantasize about how things might be only to find out that the reality of the situation is not nearly as romantic as you had thought? i think that many people often set low expectations for themselves so that they won’t be disappointed. i suppose that that is a safety mechanism of some sort, but i don’t want to live my life like that. i think that we should expect the best for ourselves each and every day.

volleyball tonight was pretty unsatisfying. i wasn’t hitting well, the team was kind of lazy and we were short two girls. we won all of our games, but we really resorted to some rather cheap tactics to win. i’m not proud of myself.

it seems like my monday night volleyball might be in jeopardy because citybeach isn’t coming back until june! i guess we’re going to investigate other nights and see if we can move elsewhere.

sometimes i wonder what kind of friendship we really have.

why is it that we will never be able to hang out because of him? i mean, if he really is that jealous, wouldn’t he be jealous if we still kept in touch? what’s the point really? i get that he’s jealous, i get that he doesn’t like me, but if you are really trying to respect his feelings and move on with your life with him, why do you insist on keeping in touch with me on the sly? make up your mind, you can’t have it both ways. it just makes me feel like a friend of convenience.

i think it just annoys me that we could have had a cup of coffee or something. i could have met your man, he could have gotten to know me, and i could have at least done something to piss him off so that he can justifiably hate me instead of hating the idea of me. i’d be cool with that. but it does bother me that he hates me without even getting to know me. that’s pretty close-minded. i really dislike close-minded people.

oh well. it’s too bad that because he doesn’t like me and because you are unwilling to talk some sense into him that we’ll never be able to hang out.

that’s a bummer, dude.