Party Weekend
It seems like I did a lot this past weekend... and here's my blog to summarize, since I didn't write about anything else yesterday besides winning the radio contest.

When the cat's away, the mice will play...
My mom and dad went to Las Vegas this weekend for a wedding, so I had the house all to myself... So what do I do? Have a party of course!! Not too big, just close friends from Berkeley came over (Eileen, Rick, Johanna, Rowena, Chris, Oscar), we had a potluck, and played some fun games... You can read Alan's blog for the details on what games we played. We stayed up until 5am, singing karaoke, playing X-Box, as well as eat and just hang out. I should have parties more often!

Bachelorette Party!
Two of our friends from Santa Clara is getting married in two weeks, so the bride had a bachelorette party on Saturday night. (After the late night I had on Friday, I slept all day to get ready for this night.) We were supposed to meet up at Elephant Bar, but the wait was too long so we ended up having dinner next door at El Torito instead. The bridesmaids told us to wear wigs, and there were many different colors, which was fun to see. After dinner, we boarded a party bus (a 'land yacht' they called it, which was more like an airport shuttle than a public transportation bus), which was cool. It had leather interior, a bar, mirrors on the ceilings, and drink holders, and we drove to clubs in the city while having adult beverages on the bus. First stop was Velvet Lounge... second was Glas Kat (where I saw Bern! Turned out that she was there to celebrate her cousin's 21st bday and he was actually dancing with one of my friends! Small world)... and last was Polly Esther's. It was definitely a fun night!

Judy's Birthday dinner
On Sunday, Alan and I went to Judy's birthday lunch at Mayflower Restaurant in Milpitas. Really nice day and really good food. Oh and btw, Happy Birthday Judy! (Today!)

ULTIMATE RADIO CONTEST WINNER!
I did it again! I won a radio contest... 2 in fact! Yesterday, Sunday, I was driving to Alan's house at around 11am and I was listening to K101 and they were giving away Jewel tickets. I decided to call in, and surprise, I was caller 101. It was funny, cuz I called once, it started ringing, and then some guy came on and said I was the winner!! I thought it was quick, but who am i to argue. I won two tickets to the Jewel concert at the Flint Center, and I became eligible for the grand prize of an emerald pendant ("jewel", get it?) that they were giving away on Monday morning at 7:30am.

So this morning, I set my alarm for 7am and turn the radio on while still in bed... My cell phone rings at around 7:25am and it's a random 415 number. I knew it was Don Bleu! Who else would be calling at that exact hour?? And it was!!!! He said I was the grand prize winner and that I won the pendant! I talked to him for about a minute. He asked me why he would be calling me, and I told him that I won over the weekend and I was eligible to win the grand prize... He asked me what I did; I said I was unemployed, just got my master's in bioinformatics, back from New York, and he joked around that they might need someone in that field to clean out the refridgerator(?). I was so excited, I didn't really know what I was saying. :)

He put me on hold, so I called Alan from my mom's cell phone and told him to turn the radio on. Since I know there is a time lag between my conversation and when it's on the air, I ran outside to tell my mom to listen to the radio too. So my mom, Alan, and his mom got to hear me! I sounded a little sleepy, since I was still sleeping when he called... oh well. I WON!!! Too bad I didn't tape it... I wonder if anyone on their way to work heard me on the radio :)

Man... I wonder how many people were eligible for this prize, who won over the weekend so I can calculate the odds of my winning... When I called Alan, at first he thought I won a million dollars or something... Sorry bubba. Maybe next time :)

$1 Jamba Juice - Thursday 3-6pm
"On Thursday 10/23 between 3-6 PM, Jamba Juice will be selling their sixteen (16) oz. smoothies for $1 each. The money goes towards local hospitals and children's organizations. It also serves to publicize their new sixteen ounce size. "
Basically, you get a FREE smoothie, for your $1 donation to their charitable cause.
Click here for a list of participating locations.

Strange dreams
I had some weird dreams last night... I was somewhere in the snow and someone was shooting at me and I was shooting back... Then I started sliding down the mountain and ended up in some little town's hospital. Another part was when I was receiving letters from what I thought was a bank or something, but turned out to be some Russian military agency trying to use me... You all know where this is coming from right?? Too much ALIAS! (I am already on episode 20 - out of 22 - of the first season DVD set! In two days! I'm addicted.)

Blood bank for Mr. Mosquito
Seems like I had a little visitor two nights ago. I woke up and found 2 bites on my left foot, one on my right, and two on my right arm. It was hot that night, and I was wearing shorts. Seems like the little bugger took a journey and bit me wherever it went. They weren't that big yesterday during the day, but somehow got really itchy last night (they kept me up scratching!) and now they're big red spots. Anyone know any relief for bug bites that works well?

Smallville -- sooo good!
Last night's episode of Smallville was so good, that I had to call Heidi to talk about it!! It was so cute at the end when Lana mentioned swimming and Clark brought up skinny-dipping, from his dream...

Fulfilled wishes!
Thanks to Joey for sharing with me the Dido and Black Eyed Peas songs from their new CDs; and thanks to Sheri for letting me borrow Season 1 DVDs of Alias! It's good to have wide network of friends... You can find just about everything :) I'll give myself a week to finish all 22 episodes of Alias... I already watched two tonight!

Six Flags Marine World
On Saturday, we went to Marine World for Fright Fest. We got there at about 4pm and stayed until closing (10pm). We got to ride 3 of the roller coasters, which were pretty fun. I had never been there ever since it turned into a Six Flags theme park. And we went through the two haunted houses. For the first one, Alan and I were the last ones (there were 10 of us total), so we didn't get too many scares, since we could see them all happening to the people in front of us. For the second one, though, Alan and I were up in front, so I screamed my head off. I'm a scaredy cat :)

Tough loss for the "Master Batters"
I went to watch Alan's team's softball playoff game today... They were winning in the top of the last inning, but lost by one point when the other team came back in the bottom... It was a good, at-the-edge-of-my-seat, game though! Good season guys!

Runner!
One more thing.... I've been running on Kitchie's treadmill for over a week now, and today was the first time I ran a mile! :) I was really happy... I guess when you start running, it gets better with time and you can run farther, without even noticing... And it helped that I was watching Dawson's Creek re-runs on TBS, one where Eddie (Oliver Hudson! What a cutie!) was with Joey...

Great night on "The Rock"
Last night's concert on Alcatraz was awesome!!! Train played for about an hour and then Barenaked Ladies played for another hour. They both sounded really good... I'm glad that I went to the library and borrowed the Train CDs and one of the BNL CDs. I knew most of the songs that they sang!

Read Alan's blog for more details on the concert. He recapped it pretty well.... Quick summary: we checked in at the K101 table in front of Hard Rock Cafe at Pier 39 at 3pm, got our "All Access" passes, boarded the ferry at around 4:30pm, arrived at Alcatraz, got pretty cool gift bags (with a fleece, shirt, glow stick, rain poncho, and other stuff), walked up to the top of the island where they set up the stage, got free food(!), and watched the show!! It was an awesome night and I'm glad I won tickets!

Check out our pics on ofoto!

CDs that rotate in my CD player right now

• Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
  
• Train - Drops of Jupiter
  
• Train - My Private Nation
  
• Savage Garden - Affirmation
  
• Justin Timberlake - Justified
  
• John Mayer - Heavier Things
  
• John Mayer - Room For Squares
  

CDs that I need to get:

• Dido - Life For Rent
  
• Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk
  

Anyone got em? :)

Somebody saaaaaave me!
Smallville was soooo good last night!!! At one point, I thought Lana would find out, but I guess she still doesn't know. How fast things change in a couple episodes. Now she's the one who's after Clark and he's shying away. Why is he playing hard to get?? He should just get over it and tell her. I can't wait for next week!

Marlins Magic
I can't believe that Florida came back from 3-1 to beat the Cubs! I feel sorry for that Cubs fan who reached out his glove in game 6 and blocked the foul ball from being caught by Alou. I'm sure he's taking a lot of crap from everyone right about now. Well, good job Pudge. I think I'm gonna cheer for the Yankees to go to the World Series today.

Newlyweds
I just watched the end of the most recent Newlyweds and it was sooo funny when Jessica Simpson's mom and dad were dancing at her 23rd birthday party and her mom flat out FELL on her butt! LOL. :)

Trying to get in shape
I started running on Kitchie's treadmill downstairs everyday for about 10 minutes. That's all I can handle for now. I hate running, but maybe I should give it a try. I also do situps and pushups afterwards...

New Favorite Snack: CHOCKY!
My new favorite snack that Alan introduced me to are these huge versions of Pocky - the pretzel-like sticks covered with strawberry... Alan likes the chocolate ones too. They're called Chocky, and you can find them at an Asian supermarket near you, like Manila Oriental Market (although I went to Island Pacific near Goldilock's and they didn't have them.) Only $1.99 for a whole bunch of these oversized Pocky. Yummy!

Slacker
Yes I know, I know. I haven't posted in a while! But I'm back...

Next year, I guess
So the Giants lost against the Florida Marlins... (So now that "Orange October" is done, I've changed my blog template too.) Tough loss, and now, though I still watch the games, I'm not too sure who I'm rooting for... Sometimes it's the Cubs, other times it's for Florida (Pudge is really good!), and other times it's for the Yankees. I guess I still have some New York loyalty... Overall, it's just fun to watch good baseball.

Family weekend
My whole family was back for the weekend for my mom's birthday! It was good to have everyone back at the house. We went to see a movie, had lunch at our favorite Chinese restaurant (Paradise Restaurant on Westborough), and just hung out! It's funny how I'm the one staying home now, when one year ago I was the one who left.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm Calling All Angels!!!
Have you been hearing about that big concert this Thursday on Alcatraz with Train and Barenaked Ladies?? I've been trying to win tickets all week... You have to be caller 101 some days at 9am-2pm-5pm, and some other days it's every hour... Well, you know me and winning things on the radio. I tried and tried and tried, and finally got through on Friday at 2pm... And I was the winner!! Caller 101! Can you believe the luck?? So Alan and I are going to the concert on Thursday!!! I'm so excited :) Alan and I even heard myself on the radio after I won. I sounded funny. Anyway, it should be lots of fun.

SO painful
What a painful loss today!! I literally almost cried when I was watching. Bottom of the 11th and the Marlins came back... Boo again! We're just gonna have to win the next two!

Go 80s!
Last night at 80s night at the Cat Club in SF was really fun!! It was Eileen, Rick, Jane, Johanna, Alan and me who went. We had so much fun dancing to 80s music. At first I didn't really know if you could dance to that kind of music, but we soon found out that you definitely can! And you can definitely sing along too! :)

Lisa Loeb
Tonight Rick got some free tickets to the Lisa Loeb show at Slim's. You remember her! She sang Stay and I Do. I love going out to new places in the city!

BOO!
No, not trying to scare you. BOO that the Giants lost yesterday! It's actually a good thing that I'm at home during the day this month, so I can watch baseball! hahaha. Hopefully they make it to the next round, since I got through on the website on Monday and bought 2 tickets to the first NLCS home game at Pac Bell Park!

Rollerblading!
Today I went rollerblading with my ex-coworker Audrey (who is also job hunting after graduate school) in Mountain View. We went to the park right near Shoreline Amphitheater and there were some trails there. It felt good to do something active, especially since I've been just sitting around the house for a month straight. I'll probably try going blading around Lake Merced a couple days a week... or even try running it!

Cat Club
Tonight I'm meeting up with the crew at this club that holds 80's nights... It should be fun, hearing all the old school music and seeing people dressed up in 80s gear... Remember the times of fluorescent clothing, high hair-dos, double socks, and tapered jeans??? Come on! I know you do... We were all victims of the 80's.

New Blog!
Welcome to my new blog! Notice the color scheme and the title... It's Orange October! Go Giants!!!

It's been a month exactly since I've come home from New York and it's about time I started up a blog again... So link me!