i’m presently taking a break from my non stop ui/design-athon. coldplay’s “warning signs” just came on and i got hit with a huge wave of nostalgia. 

i took bryan to their concert at the hollywood bowl and we had great seats, and this was the one song they did not play and we were pretty upset by this.  lucky enough for me a few years later i got another pair of fabulous seats for their show at the verizon amphitheater, they did in fact play this song.

it still rules.

okay back to work.

thats right. burgled.

pulling into a parking lot and you see *YOUR* spot, out of nowhere some car takes it from you. burgled.

that odd and ravenous craving for the last piece of cheesecake at midnight. open the fridge and.. its gone. burgled.

minding your own business wooping some boar ass for a quest that never seems to end. not paying attention to your health bar, youre dead. burgled.

running along and that rare named elite spawn appears magically before you. you woop his ass and take his fat loots. burgled.

you get the idea. burgled.

Yah yah yah… so its been a while.  A few things to note.

• Went to Napa and Sonoma Valleys for the first time.  Had an amazing time.
• Became a bridesmaid and found a lifelong friend i adore!
• Threw a successful BBQ – My BBQ’s are always delicious food fests
• Installed drapes for both my windows and my doorless closet (it looks like a purple theater!)
• Proud Owner of a 42″ Panasonic HDTV Plasma TV (it was a christmas gift from Joel)
• Saw Cirque De Soleil: Ka in Las Vegas and it is officially my favorite Cirque show.
• I’m still employed at CBA… Erik ditched me, we’re even now!

Holy shit I have done virtually nothing so far in 2006.

Balls.

so i’ve been horrible at committing to my blog as of late. you ever have soo much to say you don’t know where to start so you just don’t bother? Well thats pretty much my situation. I kept staring at an empty page willing myself to write and i became overwhelmed with thoughts.

so regardless of my 101 reasons why not to post, i’m just going to start from here.

happy belated christmas and new year!!

i hope all of you had a wonderful holiday, i definitely liked mine. i got amazing gifts (ill have to dedicate a post to all my new toys — i swear i will!). i celebrated christmas with joel and his awesome family. we had christmas eve dinner at his father’s, then christmas day at his grandmothers (moms side). every time i have dinner with his family i feel blessed. i think joel has been so lucky to have grown up with the family that he has. I was surprised at the amount of gits joel’s mom and tif got us!

New years was pretty pleasant. We did it small this year.. VERY small. like 3 small. I cooked up a ton of lumpia and i made a delicious oven pot roast. we shimmied on over to sean’s around 7, got there at 8 and spent the nite away drinking good wine, eating good food, and just talking. I don’t get to spend much time with sean much anymore but when we do get to hang out, its always fun to have a serious conversation where people can actually explore their own ideas and just discuss. i like toilet humor just as much as the next person, but now and again its nice to talk your age with peers who don’t have their heads up their asses. We talked till like 7am til we finally drove back home to watch a few episodes of bleach and fall asleep.

i think we had a good start to 2006 thanks for having us over to your cool place sean, and i hope you had a good new years too.

yah so.. i kept wanting to update a post but i wanted to update the pictures along with the posts.. so i finally have all the pictures now so ill actually.. make a few extra posts with pictures!

guess i should fix my gallery too.

its been a pretty damn busy time since my last post so ill make it easy!

• overcame stomach flu
• saw coldplay live at verizon amphitheater
• celebrated my birthday with great friends
• will missed my birthday because he was carjacked due to his other crappy friends
• reactivated my wow account
• realized that wow still isn’t fun
• I’m still not any nicer. i still hate everyone
• started my japanese class
• learned and memorized all my hiragana characters
• capable of writing japanese words and sentences phonetically
• bought a new easel that doesn’t suck
• finished sam’s painting
• bought dungeon siege 2 to play with ppl i like
• capable of utilizing student discounts
• bought a new tumi bag for schoolbooks
• cut down drastically on caffeine
• eating a lot more healthy
• hung out with my sister while she visited for labor day weekend
• have 2 new friends i really like that are female
• still waiting for my wheels to come in from japan
• cleaned out my tivo and added a ton of new shows for fall lineup
• completely caught up on old tivo shows
• still hate driving in monday morning traffic from irvine
• joel now owns 3 pairs of jeans he wears regularly
• bryans moving out
• i like my life
• mom wong went in for surgery to get her gall bladder removed
• tiff gave me gir for my birthday
• hoping for new action/adventure or rpg multiplayer games to be released and not suck

so. thats kinda it. in no particular order. now i need to make a list of things i need to accomplish. pictures will be up soon.

since we have gotten back from hawaii, it just feels like theres never a moment to rest. after we got back from hawaii, the following weekend was filled with food, friends and family.

friday, july 29 – dinner at lawrys
saturday, july 30 – dinner at joel’s mom
sunday, july 31 – joel went to marks bachelors party, i did laundry

lucky for us, the train kept going.

thursday, august 4 – houstons with the koreans, sam, dave, tommy, jean, jeff(i think thats his name)
friday, august 5 – ate at malo with nina and chad, this was nina’s last weekend in la before heading off to law school
saturday, august 6 – happy birthday nuggie! we ate at caspian, they have persian dancers for entertainment.
sunday, august 7 – joels rescheduled birthday dinner with his pops at bandera in newport beach.

oh my god im so dinnered out!!

this coming weekend so far has will’s birthday dinner at gyu-kaku scheduled as well as mark’s wedding. joel is actually a groomsman in the wedding.

fall semester starts at the end of the month. and im stupid enough to start playing wow again. i dont have any idea where im going to find the time. ive been working on our guild website, as we have taken the leap to a persistent gaming guild.

my car wheels have yet to arrive from japan! >_<

-jamie

we went to Lawry’s in beverly hills for Joel’s birthday and it was nice to see so many great friends showing up. joel sent out his little evite with like 3 days notice and took it upon himself to add my name to the title, “Jamie and Joel’s Birthday Dinner”. It was so not for me! Joel said he said no one would have showed up if he just put his name, but Sam let him know, more people would have if he removed my name, haha.

thanks to everyone that showed up, especially those that came from so far! Christian, Nuggie, Sam, Tommy, Nian, Chad, Nina, Sean, Erik, and his 2 friends (i suck i totally forgot their names). After dinner we went over to Jones on Santa Monica and Formosa, but it was soo fucking packed that you had ot stand in the aisles and do nothing. We got bored of that real fast and went across the street to Formosa Cafe.

I told myself to bring a camera and take pictures of people, but who am I kidding, I don’t even own a camera.

After the bar closed, we went to pick up our cars, and christian was too drunk to drive his jeep, so he turned it around to park it. He ended up running his tire onto the street gutter and the metal plating sliced his tire open and gave him a flat. That sucked ass.

Afterward we went to my house because Christian didn’t want to stop partying and sean was still wide awake. I have no idea how Sean does it, but he is always the last to go to sleep. In fact I don’t think I have ever seen him FALL asleep. Not only is the the last to go to sleep, he’s the type to NOT sleep over, jump in his car, and drive his ass all the way home. I think sean is a robot.

*does the robot*

Christian, Joel and I met up with Nina and Chad the next afternoon at Hugo’s on santa monica for some brunch. The waitress was ultra cute. We realized at this point in time, Christian is a calico human with multicolored hair.

After changing his tire, we drove down a traffic jammed Western and finally hit the freeway. We were 2 hours late for Joel’s birthday bbq at his moms house, but in the end it all turned out well.

Anyway, thanks everyone for showing up It was really good times.

not mine! jason and keiko got married in hong kong on july 5th. i really wish i could have gone.

i have been meaning to send a card but i was spending so much time getting things together for hawaii i never did get around too it, never late then never!

jason you are amazing and i know you’ll continue as you’ve always been and be wonderful to keiko.

congratulations, now where are the pictures so i can see everything i missed!

hawaii was great. congratulations to irene and randy on their wedding! the food was really delicious and the reception was extremely joyous! it was wonderful to see christine and james again after so many years and your beautiful son! val, arthur and their daughter too. you guys need to stop having babies and getting married. no matter where we are in life i seem to be so far behind the curve haha .

my nephew skyler is the cutest thing in the world. its amazing how much you can love someone so completely when you’ve spent so little time with them. i want to spoil him and give him the world. i wish i didn’t have to miss so much of his childhood. i love him with all my heart.

hawaii beaches rule. california beaches suck. thats all i really have to say about that.

darla my latest niece (my sisters new jack russell puppy girl) is adorable. she is quite possibly the cutest puppy i have ever seen. she’s soft, tiny, light, and when she waddles around all clumsy like, i just want to pick her up and squeeze her and vomit from her utter cuteness!!

i have wonderful pictures but joel accidental left his usb cable to upload the pictures from his camera at my sisters. hopefully she can mail it soon and i can show off all the pictures!

i got to see most all of my immediate family and it was really good to see them. sometimes you just forget that you miss something until you see it again.

it was good to see everyone. and for those of you i didn’t see, you were definitely in my thoughts. though you will never read these, lynn, roxanne, jason, billy, mercy i miss all of you and maybe one day ill see you all again.

for now its back to la, and work. see you all soon!

2 more days till we’re in hawaii.. 3 more days till Irene’s wedding. its strange to think about now, but i would have never thought, back in the day, that i wouldn’t have been a part of the celebration. i guess i still am, but just as a simple guest.

i wonder who were going to be seated with? other strangers? her new friends i know nothing about? distance and detachment have changed a lot of aspects of my former relationships. i almost feel uncomfortable going.

i am very excited for her, out of everyone in Hawaii she was the only one who was interested in keeping in touch and so we have. i wonder how everyone else is doing.