Breakfast Burrito... mmmm.... yummy

wow two posts in a day, you are so lucky.

so I had a breakfast burrito today from the cafeteria here at work and noticed a couple things I wanted to share.

a sign that the economy is bad? the cook takes a pinch of salt and adds some of it to the ingredients in the burrito, then throws the rest of back into the salt bin. man it must be really bad... or is it...

so the burritos are big, they generously give a lot of filling, either because they are nice or they are really bad at estimating what is a good amount to make a good sized end product. I am going with the former because I do not want to believe that even after months they don't learn that too much will be bad for the tortilla. which leads me to my next observation. Tortillas that come out of the package are brittle and warming it up will help that a bit. Ideally you want to steam it because throwing it on the grill too long will take more moisture out and make it worse, but you can soften it up if you are careful. Here its put on the grill for maybe 10 secs, after which they try to fit the mountain of filling in it (which although nice, not so good for me since I am watching my weight after being called fat by my friends back home during my break). As you might have guessed, the tortilla gave, leaking some of the delicious burrito juice onto the plate. So he puts a new tortilla on the grill for the same 10 seconds, throws the burrito in that one, old tortilla and all, wraps that up, throws away the plate with the juice and presents it to me on a new plate. Two tortillas and two plates, maybe there is some hope that the economy is doing fine.

by the way, despite his efforts, the burrito still leaked, onto my pants. More deliciousness lost what a bummer. Maybe the day will get better, maybe not.

AND IM BACK BABY!!!

so its been over a month since I last posted. I spent a bit over 3 weeks in my home town of Frisco, (that's San Francisco for all you fancy folks out there). It was a great break that was unfortunately too short. Saw the folks, saw some friends, saw a couple movies.

So as I was preparing to go back home this time I decided that I should go see some new things in Frisco that I never did when I lived there, among those on the list were alcatraz and the japanese tea garden in golden gate park. It would easy I told myself, I can walk down to the pier to take the ferry to The Rock (which by the way is a GREAT movie) and not have to worry about parking and my friend offered to lend me their car while they were away so I can drive myself to all the wonderful places I planned to visit (little do they know that I ha vent driven in SF for years and that I am a crazy driver... HAHA SUCKERS). Long story short, I never made it to alcatraz, it rained a lot and the days it didn't rain, I had other plans or I went home wayyyy too late and woke up later. As for the japanese tea garden, it was nice, but unimpressive. If not for the cute girl that worked at the tea station/snack shop, it would have been a total loss.

I am glad to say I had a couple of adventures while I was home. There were a couple nights I didn't make it home. One night we went out drinking at my friend's bar, I believe it was Christmas day. So I had a few drinks, but was fine until someone decided a couple of us should have flaming lamborghinis mainly because one girl wanted to see a drink that was lit on fire. Guys are suckers. Anyways, I was still ok after that one, but not good enough to drive, but definitely not as bad as Backy and Jimmy's wedding, which I will prob never hear the end of from my friends, but I digress. Anyways, my buddy Ed says to hang out at his place for a bit then he will drive me back to my loaner car. So we go to his place and sit there drinking water, eating peanuts and watching tv... next thing I know its like 3:30 so I tell ed that I'm good to go now, I can drive, but he says, no you aren't just stay here tonight. Not in the mood to argue with him, especially since he is one of those f*cking lawyers, I end up sleeping on his couch, which is espcially great since this is the first time I have meet his parents. They must have a GREAT impression of me now.
Let's see, second time was the night of the Emerald Bowl, GO BEARS!!! We go to my friend's other bar to hang out and to see my friend JT who was home from socal. We were also celebrating my friend Ed's birthday, which came around at midnight. His story... I think he passed out and we threw him in someone's car to drive him home. My story? I can't find my house keys, I stay at the bar after it closes to look for it. Then I go to my friends place where I was watching the game to see if it fell in the cracks in his couch so three of use are searching through the cracks about 5 times each for 15 minutes or so and can't find it. So I think maybe I might have dropped it when I went to dinner close by. So its prob around 330 by now so I decide to stay over and in the morning call the place to see if they found anything. So i wake up and being pretty tired I decide to watch some tv and as I was in the same sitting position as when I was watching the game the day before I decide to search for my keys again. I stick my hands into the couch and feel something... I pull it out and there are my keys... POFS (for those not good with acronyms... thats short for PIECE OF F*CKING SH!T). How can three people who are really tired and/or slightly buzzed search for 10-15min and not be able to find it? AI YAH... this is great. i LOVE life.

Last bit of news as this is getting way too long. My friends Vickie and Ka had a new years eve party, which was great by the way, pictures are here. Just wanted to say it was a lot of fun and while we played Sing Star on PS3 I pretty much confirmed that I am THE WORST singer that I or anyone that I know, knows. Most likely worse than the infamous William Hung. Although I am curious as to what Simon Cowell would say to me if I were auditioning for American Idol. Perhaps after looking at my application, engineer from Cal and seeing that I am asian he would, in his british accent tell me... "William, since you have last been on this show, you have actually gotten worse!" after all, we do mostly look the same so it's not entirely his fault that hes confused.

So this is it, its too long already, I did watch some movies (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Benjamin Button, and Slumdog Millionaire) during my break and will review them in my next post.

Peace out

Dental Hygienist or just plain mouth cleaners

So I have an appointment today to visit my mouth cleaner and its not one of those relatives that threaten to wash your mouth out with soap for swearing. This is a certified, educated, experienced mouth cleaner, with tools and all that good stuff.

Now, I like to think that im a courteous person and will make sure I floss, brush my teeth, and if possible use mouthwash before I go to any dental office. Thinking about that today made me wonder. do people go in without doing those things? Cuz that would SUCK for the dentist or orthodontist or hygienist and its a bit gross. So think about that before your next visit.

Since I didn't finish this post earlier I shall also talk about my visit. So I was asked to go early since the person before me canceled. Wasn't really a big deal since I got to leave work early. So I go home to brush my teeth (see above) and then head to the office. I sit down on the chair and see that my fly is open, great start. Being the smooth character that I am, I discreetly fix the error. Then the cleaning starts and for some reason, I usually close my eyes during the cleaning, maybe because I dont like to see people sticking things in my mouth. That combined with me getting enough sleep is not a good combination and I swear that I fell asleep during the cleaning, although the lady didn't say anything so either she was nice about it and just dealt with the retard that sleeps during his teeth cleaning or i was just conscious enough to keep my mouth open the whole time. We may never know.

How to do laundry... learning by accident

so after years of doing my own laundry, i learned something new a few weeks ago.

now some background on my laundry history. some of you know that I can be a bit of a penny pincher sometimes so I try to cram as much as I can into each load for the washer and dryer. also I absolutely HATE ironing, in fact, i do not even own an iron.

Normally, some of my clothes come out wrinkled and im like... damn that sucks, but i wear it anyways to work since its not a big deal to me. one time i didn't have that much laundry to do, but had too much for one dryer (even for my standards of stuffing it), but seemed too little for two. Eventually, I did suck it up and spent another $1 to split it into two loads, but then I had another dilemma, if I put it at normal temperatures, it would be way too hot (you see they raised the price from 75 cents to $1, although they give you the extra 16 minutes for the quarter upping it from 48 to 64, it is quite a long time to have clothes exposed to that much heat), so I decided to put it on delicate.

So I go watch some tv while waiting for it to be done and to my surprise, when I went to get my laundry, stuff that would normally have wrinkles did not. WOOHOO, so my lesson learned... spend a couple extra bucks and dont stuff the washer or dryer. or maybe I should just hang dry everything, it would save me money and be more 'green'... hmmm something to think about.

Write me in

So I guess im a bit late for this, but today is election day. For those of you who are undecided you should write my name in for President of the United States of America. I do not really have a platform for a campaign slogan, but I have to be a better choice than the guys on the ballot. As for those who have decided, change your mind and vote for me.

Technically I am not old enough to run for President yet, which if you ask me is age discrimination, but since the new trend is to start early here is the official launch of my campaign for POTUS. I will become eligible in the 2016 Presidential Campaign so you all should start donating to my campaign now and get in early.

GET DA F OUT OF MY WAY

Do people not think about where they are when they stop to have conversations at work?

So I am leaving the building yesterday and there is only one door to get out. There are a couple guys in front of me, one who is leaving and one who is not. The guy leaving stops in front of the door and starts talking with the other guy. I get there and stand there in his field of view and HE STANDS THERE and keeps talking for 5 seconds before moving out of my way. WTF are you doing, GET THE F OUT OF MY WAY... YOU OBVIOUSLY SEE ME STANDING THERE WAITING AND THERE'S NO OTHER PURPOSE FOR ME TO BE THERE.

Then there are those other people who stop in hallways to chit chat, which I don't have a problem with, except when you do the following:

- block the whole hallway
- stand in front the bathroom door and/or block the path to the door
- stand in the entrance to the break/kitchen area so no one can get by

If you do that stuff... STOP RIGHT NOW... next time you see someone do that stuff, point them to this blog post or kick them, I suggest the latter.

CONGRATULATIONS TO BECKY AND JIMMY

So this past weekend I went to my buddy's wedding in San Francisco, and I must say it was a beautiful wedding. The ceremony was in Shakespeare Garden in Golden Gate Park and the reception was at New Asia in Chinatown. Here is Jimmy waiting anxiously for his bride to be...




Now thats a game face...















and here is Becky after the I dos...




Doesn't she look beautiful? Yes, yes she does.














There are some more images here...

http://picasaweb.google.com/kyleyu/20081018_Jimmy_Becky_Wedding#

So here is my shout out to Becky and Jimmy, I wish you the best in everything that is to come.

Thanks for inviting me. Sorry, I didn't drink with you at the reception, I was otherwise occupied although I do not remember with what.

Internet Grammar Police

So one of my buddies has been kind enough to proof read my posts, informing me of errors so I thought I would return the favor to everyone and provide an educational post. It also irks me that people do not know how to use simple words properly. Here are some common examples (with help from online dictionaries):

their - a form of the possessive case of they used as an attributive adjective, before a noun: their home; their rights as citizens; their departure for Rome.
there - in or at that place
they're - contraction of they are.

your - (a form of the possessive case of YOU used as an attributive adjective)
you're - contraction of you are

loose - free or released from fastening or attachment
lose - to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery

Now I can understand that people make mistakes once in a while as I do, but the consistency with which I see some people use the incorrect word makes me wonder if they really do know the difference. Come on now people, it really is not that hard, let's put a little more effort into this, we as a country are already ranked near the bottom in English proficiency there is no need to try to be the best of the worst.

I only listed a few of the common ones I see, feel free to share any more.