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~ samedi, novembre 27, 2004 ~

I am guilty for my spending habits. It's like, I start focusing my money and spending on unnecessary things... but I don't mean just buying one or two unnecessary items, I mean purchasing a bazillion of the same thing. Like my whole cheesecake phase right now... I've purchased 44 bars of cream cheese and I STILL have that rain check for 10 more. So now I'm moving on to holiday purchases and I'm back to my plant phase... except instead of herbs, poinsettas are the new thing... by the end of this weekend, I will have my entire kitchen & stairway full of poinsettas... oooh and candles. Holiday decorating is awesome.
This reminds me of my 'carbonated mineral water' phase and my pomogranate phase. So if I see something I really like, I spend at least an hour thinking about whether or not I should buy it, then I end up getting it, or 2 or 3 or 12 or 44 of them. Hrmm... I will be broke by the end of this year.

~Benjamin 11/27/2004 10:20:00 PM

~ vendredi, novembre 26, 2004 ~

I'm doing pretty good with the leftovers from Thanksgiving. For a dinner made by me & friends (andie & emil), it was quite good. Although the turkey didn't quite turn out the way I had planned, it wasn't too bad... not as aromatique as I had hoped, but quite juicy nonetheless. With turrkey & graves... err, gravy, we also had mashed potatoes, dinner rolls, yams, corn, real cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. It was one of the most stress-free Thanksgivings I've ever had. Turkey took 3 hours (it was nearly 15 lbs), and we started all the cooking within that time period. There isn't much more to say except I'm thankful for friends, family, food, & fun... oh, and electric fans. So Thanksgiving went well and it's time now to hit up those After-Thanksgiving Day Sales!!!

~Benjamin 11/26/2004 11:27:00 AM

~ mardi, novembre 23, 2004 ~

Oooh man, now tonight's event was definitely worth a post in my blog. I woke up this morning tired from a night of papering but i woulda never expected to end the day eating lechon and pritong tilapia, shooot. Let me tell uuuu, if you've never had pilipino food, ur totally missin out. So Isabella told me about it this mornin and I didn't think i was gonna go until i was at Newman with Ro. So we were in the kitchen starvin looking for food when we found the spaghetti left over from the TJ dinner. I scooped some noodles into a bowl and freakin before I could put the sauce in, Ro was like, "oh bennn, we should totally go to the Mga Kapatid FATDs. I was like, "heyck yah!" but being the thrifty filipinos we are, we didn't wanna pay the $5 fee to get in, so we decided to buy soda to bring instead cuz its free when u bring a food item. Shoot, Derrick was in the Center and he was like, "yeahh goshh, and RiteAid is having a sale on sodas, goshhh." So we tell Arnell bout the lechon and we drag Grace & Derrick along... haha, he was the only white guy there haha... and it was great cuz we taught him to say "Pinoy na Pinoy Ako" ("I am soo Filipino")... or "Pinay na Pinay, rather" hehehe. So we get there, with like, freakin 12 gallons of Rite-Aid soda... and we got there EARLY! I tell ya, they said it was gonna start @ 5:32... but i shoulda known better than to arrive on the dot cuz it was totally filipino time and we didnt eat till like, 6:32pm. So we met up with Joni and Isabella over there.. and awww man, the food was awesome... masarap.. super sarap! They had this flip-am fuzion thing goin.. like cinnamon puto! damn i was totally trippin out over that. Ro was like, "what the heck!?" hahaha it was great.
I never seen so many filipinos together in Davis before... it was really crazee... like a culture shock from my own culture.
Oooh, so while my apt-mates arent here this Thanksgiving break, I'm finally gonna cook tuyo... damn, finally some good flip grub.. tuyo with some of that kalamansi wit patis, & siningag na kanin garlic rice all together...damnnnmmm ka sarap talaga... my mouth waters just thinkin bout it. 3rd world filipino food... yeap.

~Benjamin 11/23/2004 08:57:00 PM

God grant me the patience before I kill my apartment-mates. ooooooo I am this - close to burning my apartment down or somethin. No, first, I'm going to take the pile of dishes in the sink and use them as projectiles into the parking lot. Then I'm gonna put a guillotine pendulum device in the toilet. grr.. this apt will never get clean!!! When people come back here from Thanksgiving Break, I hope they don't expect their keys to open the front door.
If these people wanna live in filth, perhaps I should let them. Heyyll, I'll eeven contibute, shooot. Hey everybody! need a garbage dump? Let's close down the UCD dump and open up a Greystone one, how about that? huh?

The NEW Davis City Dump
2505 Fifth Street #256, Rooms 1 & 2
Davis, CA 95616

~Benjamin 11/23/2004 02:04:00 AM

~ dimanche, novembre 21, 2004 ~

I need something to look forward to, something to live for. I need to take a step back and reexamine my priorities. I have a feeling that its kinda messed up right now. I'm living day to day without cause. I'm not enjoying college as much as before and my friends are there but I don't really care. Classes are dragging on & on & on. Newman, as awesome as it is, is becoming too heavy. I can't believe I spent 13 hours at Newman the other day... I felt like it was a waste of time after the 7th hour.
I feel lost. I hope that this is not how my life is going to end up... I need goals that I can work for everyday. I need to feel part of some bigger cause. But I'm also afraid that I'm feeling a little indifferent about everything... kindof like Meursault in L'etranger... God forbid I turn out like that. A guy needs ambition. A little hope to put some sense back into life. Some excitement plus love.
I want to leave for awhile.. just go out exploring and experiencing new things... going out to a foreign place to search for myself... kind of like that guy and the mountaintop and the smoking fire thingy, you kno. Anyway, that's it, I just need to go out on my own for a bit... and Thanksgiving Break is coming up... it's not quite a year, but a few days will do; it takes a few seconds of realization, but a lifetime of searching. On me dit c'est la vie, mais c'est quoi la vie?

~Benjamin 11/21/2004 10:43:00 PM

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