Month: March 2005

Friday:

I went to Arif’s company (they have a 50″ DLP flat screen) to watch “The Big Lebowski” and “Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle”. The first was entirely random and the second was just super funny. I wanted to go to White Castle after that movie. It’s also funny casue we were watching both those movies with Arif’s boss, her husband, her 16 year old daughter and her boyfriend. Not exactly normal family fare, but liberating. Oye, and I’m out of my element with white people.

Saturday:

Woke up at the early hour of 1:30pm. Spend the afternoon ripping music from my old HS CD’s to Apple Lossless format. I’m running out of disk space tho.

I went out to dinner with Arif and Arif’s cousin Nasreen. Nasreen is looking for an availible Muslim boy that’s good looking. Most of the night was strategery for her to find a good feller. We, again, went to Pacific Edge and watched “We Don’t Live Here Anymore”. Naomi Watts is pretty good looking, tho her character was kinda bitchy in the movie. It was the perfect movie to set Arif off about philosophizing about what could go wrong in marriage.

Sunday:

All day eating affair with all the Malaysians. Choon and Pei-Sun. Judy (non malaysian) and P’ng. and Lynn. We went to a Thai temple in berekeley where they were serving hawker style food. Yum Yum. There were these deep fried sweet potato yam, coconut and onion cakes that were soooooo good.

Then we went to see P’ng and Judy’s maybe new house in Alameda. $450k for about 800 square feet. ouch. plus I’m hanging out in the wrong crowd. Everyone’s in that group is getting married and looking to buy a house. Of course the conversation revolved around home loans and home improvement. Kinda felt a little out of place there.

Of course, then we went out to eat Malaysian for dinner. Beef Randag. Good stuff.

You will be pleased to note that I forgot to crate Ruby up when I left for the day, so when I came back home, she has eaten up all the pancakes from this morning.

I went to Winco this moring to have a walk and get few item from the store. Did lot of cooking this morning ( made a meat balls rapped with egg. prepared the dumpling fillings. stewed some pork with eggs). In the afternoom, went to shopping again. One the way back stopped at Winco again to have some fish and water. When I came back home, I realized I forget my fish. So, I drove back to the store, the # 5 registor was closed and my fish was still there in the plastic bag. I took the bag and left.

I also did so spring clean. I plan to wash the car. But the time runs out, I will do it later.

So after Dad left, we went to the Children’s Museum and had lunch there. We packed a lunch of fruit and the leftover pancakes from this morning. Then we drove to the Chinese Market to buy dumplings for the week. Then we went to the Barnes and Noble for story time again, this time a huge character showed up, Buscuit the dog.

Only us women and children left.

A couple came over to have dinner last night. I made westin style dinner with soup, shrip salad, artichoke, salman, pork chop, corn, asperagus and blueberry pei plus home made bread. One peice of pork chop is left I am going to have it tonignt.

Today, I went to Chinese store here and bought a can of soy souce and some tofu and vegitable. I aslo went to mall and bought some cloth and two stainless steel pots. It was $20 a peice. Last time I bought for $10. Today it was $8.00. I am going to retun the original ones tomorrow to kill some time and take a wald at mall as my exercise. I also bought a beach tower to be ready for swiming. I also bought a Tommy yellow raing coat with 65% off.

Back to work on tax.

Dad showed up on Friday for the weekend! Yah! We just hung out yesterday and at a pork loin. The kids love having him here.

Vince had a tough day at school on Friday. Apparently his listening ears were not put on.

Hmmm, Jeremy is preparing for his trip to Germany and so are we.

Dad with the kids.

Donald, you are a stud!

After two+ years long distance pursue thru our judiciary systems, finally the collection agency is able to get hold of our former Duke St. tenants’ pay checks. The split between us is 30% vs 70%. Starting April 15th, I will get 70% of ~ $175.00 – $200.00 per week until it exhausts the total amount of 9K owed. Except he declares bankruptcy. In the process, I attended the court trials in Rockville several times myself while working out of town. In that process, I learned a lot.