quiet saturday afternoon watching youtube...
February 2008 Archives
gosh thats a long title...
in other news, the whole studios been working incessantly since i got here (well...not since, but well before too), but i did have time to meet up with lysha last friday. i hadnt seen her since, well, since i was last in amsterdam (duh). my coworker gabor joined us too while we hunted for food around chinatown. we ended up at new king and ordered ourselves a nice and wholesome chinese dinner. except we ordered 2 dishes with chinese broccoli...oops. we roamed the leidesplein afterwards for some beer, but all the spots were filled up with british tourists...sigh. we migrated over to rembrandtplein and settled down in the cafe of escape instead, and drank away the rest of the night. ah relaxing.
the new animator arrived monday too...tianyi from shanghai. im the unofficial translator, because her english blows. which is funny, because so does my chinese...yay! k its not that bad, but i do need to whip out my chinese-english dictionary every so often. and when i say "every so often", i mean every other word. we took her to chinatown tuesday just because we blindly assumed being chinese meant she only liked chinese food...ha! we actually ended up back at new king because they have the best chinese ive had in amsterdam so far. and we didnt repeat our chinese broccoli mistake from the past friday and instead ordered a pretty rockin' set of food. <3.
beautiful amsterdam weather...woot.
oooh...new indiana jones trailer. in hd too! sweet...
> indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull trailer (via aicn)
ah back in the city of canals and shitty weather. except the weathers not shitty! its actually been sunny the two days ive been here so far...tho ive been told that this is a fluke, and the poop weather should return shortly. they apologized for the inconvenience. theres something to look forward to.
JUST FRIENDS
first and foremost, a random aside. i am undoubtedly at this point, the almighty ruler of the magical kingdom of "just friends", where everyday is a fun adventure in how not to start a relationship. thats me...i rock. on the bright side, i have a date to my friends wedding in march. youre probably asking yourself tho, "but wait...shouldnt he not be writing this in his journal, in case said person comes across this entry?" and i just have to retort, "at this point in my life, do you think i care?" none at all.
the other question youre probably asking (if you know me well enough) is "shit on a stick, shouldnt you know better by now?" apparently not...apparently not.
LUNAR NEW YEAR
in other news, we had a relaxing hot pot thursday nite at anna's for the lunar new year. its the year of the rat...cheer! i think. rats are kinda dirty...but i suppose the chinese spin the rat in some kind of lucky, yet headstrong kind of way. we even got red bags from the resident married couple...because the rest of us are sadly single.
MAY
saturday i visited my sis in new jersey to see my new niece may...woo! my sis was still recovering from her 27 hours of craziness, but she was back home with my brother-in-law and my mom, who was living with them for a few weeks to take care of both may and my sis. may has my sis' nose and mouth, and dave's eyes. we said he could have the ears too, but hopefully she has my sis' hair...because dave has a jewish fro.
pics are already up on flickr...woots.
IPOD
oh and in other other news...yea, i got myself an ipod touch. lolz at joo! yea, i knock apple all the time, but like the nano before this, im all for quality shit. the only thing i had against the touch was itunes, its paltry storage capacity, and its price. the capacity ive learned to deal with, the price i can deal with too. itunes tho...fuck i hate itunes, you piece of shit software. i actually had to hack apart the install files (thanks to yukichigai) to get itunes to stop being a dick and install on xp64. the hate, btw, comes not from itunes not being able to work on xp64, but from itunes not WANTING to work on xp64. but after i installed itunes and got the touch up and running, i started loading my movies onto it...woots! i could only rip 6 before i left...but gosh theyre sweet.
omg i have a niece!
