it’s me… henry

I’m leaving to Japan tomorrow for work.  I found out yesterday too.  I’m excited because this this will be my first time traveling outside America.  I will be flying there, spend twenty four hours in japan, and fly back.

Within that twenty four hours, I will not sleep.  I will up and eat a huge amount of sushi.  I want to come back not wanting to eat seafood.

So today when I was finishing up the details of the Japan work, I kept thinking about my lab final that I would be taking later today.  I worried for nothing, because I finished in 30 mins.  The exam had two questions, which you were supposed to choose only one.  I think I got perfect on the exam.  I showed my circuit to the professor and there were no errors.

Since this was my first time going to Japan, I asked Mike to give me some pointers.  So, for we meet up for dinner and at this restaurant called Yucatan in Long Beach (or Seal beach).  It was soooo goood.  The portions are huge and reasonably priced.  We got a dish called super nachos and it came with a choice of meat.  Since I don’t eat meat, we got mahi mahi.  It was a very good choice because the mahi  mahi is soooo goood.  It was very soft, tender and juicy.  It comes topped off with guac and sour cream.

The shrimp fajitas and the Yucatan fish pot were the dishes I couldn’t decide on.  So I asked the waiter.  He said both were really good, but he suggested the fajitas.  Since my eyes are bigger than my stomach, I asked which one is larger.  He said the fish pot is, so I got that.  When I got the pot, it isn’t large… it’s HUGE.  It had shrimp, crab meat, mahi mahi, and a whole lot of other seafood.  The soup was sooo flavorful.

Without a doubt, I will be back to Yucatan.

Kinda off topic, but when we went to San Pedro last week, we passed by Yucatan and it looked good.  So that is why we decided to go there to eat this time.

For the longest time, I’ve wanted some knit gloves. Let me explain…

At work, I sit under the AC vent, and its cold all the time. I always tell myself to get some gloves, but I usually end up too lazy or waiting for a good deal. Or it’s summer, and think it’s too hot for gloves. Oh, and these gloves couldn’t be any gloves. It had to be small/tight enough so I can put them on and keep typing. Snowboarding gloves were out of the question cause one finger would also hit the perimeter. Those gloves that covers all four fingers were no good either, cause I would hit a whole block of letters. I HAD to get the perfect ones.

Yesterday I was determined to get me some knit gloves. So, after class I was driving back to work. While driving, I was thinking where can I get some gloves. I first thought of Target cause it was next to my house. Then I thought of Sears… I was set on Sears. Once I exited the freeway, I thought of CVS or Rite-Aid, so I think to myself, “the thrift store would be soo much cheaper”.

So, I ended up at the thrift store and I go searching. Looking through each aisle to see what type of aisle it is. I found this one that had clothes and “winter” clothes. I look around and nothing. I found this old lady worker. Here’s the convo.

Me: “excuse me, do you have any mittens or gloves”
*She looks at me weird*
Old Lady Worker: “what?”
*I asked again*
Old Lady Worker: “mittens…?”
Me: “…. OR…. GLOVES…”
Old Lady Worker: “MIIIITTTTEENNNNS???”
Me: “…. OOOOOORRRR…………… GLLLLLLOOOOVVVVEEEESSSS.”
Old Lady Worker: “mitten gloves?!?!?!?”
Me: -_- “sure…”

So, basically she goes and says she doesn’t know if she has them and we go for a little hunt. We give up and I said that “it’s okay, I’ll look somewhere else”.

I started to walk out the store, and BAM… there they are, the gloves. Right where I walked in. I always do this too…

I look around the stand and found the ones I want, cause the other ones where big or I didn’t like. I looked at the tag, and it had big block letters that said “LADIES”. I thought… well, they’re just for work. So I tried them on and they looked okay, no big deal. And so I bought them. While leaving, I saw the olde lady worker, and I screamed “I FOUND THEM”, but she didn’t look at me. Some other person did and he looked at me weird.

At work, I tried them on. And oh man… they ARE for ladies. The wrist part fluffed out. I was not going to wear that. But I had already thrown away the reciept, so I can’t do anything about it. I tried to improve by cutting the fluffed out part. I did… and it was okay. I kept wearing them and they got itchy. I took them off and threw them away.

Determined to get some gloves, after work, I went to Sears. Looked around and found the gloves area. It was for women. I went to the “Accessories” area. They should call that women stuff, cause there’s not guy accessories, just bras, panties, and purses.

So, I had one more place to go… Target. And so I went. I walked in and I saw a stand for winter accessories. It had scarfs, hats and gloves. I start too look and they had what I want. I start looking around the area, and there’s a bunch of women items. The gloves were in colors that weren’t too manly also. HMMM… I look up and I’m in the “Accessories” area. I drop the gloves and move on.

I walked around and I ended up at the men area. I start to look around. I found the winter area and there were nothing like gloves and mittens. So I start to leave and I pass by the boys area. I thought to myself that they might have something here. So, I wander around. I found the gloves. Tried them on… they’re a bit tight, but that okay. They had plain ones and it also had designs on them like fire trucks and race cars. I took one plain one.

I start to leave and I think to myself that the mens has to have something. I go back to the mens area and started to wander around. And found them!!! I found the gloves, scarfs, and hats area. It was on the opposite side of where I looked.

I got two knit gloves to celebrate.

*I’m actually typing in one of the gloves right now.*

After drinking from last night, Jen, Mike and I went to Port o Call Village to eat wonderful seafood.  We’ve been waiting to go back because a couple months ago, we went to LobsterFest there.  After we ate lobster at the festival we walked around and the seafood there looked delicious.

When we got there, we walked around a bit and settled on this one place.  It was owned by koreans, but had mexican workers.  Me and Jen shared the shrimp fajitas, fried rice and clam chowder.  Mike had this fried fish and oysters.

The clam chowder tasted like it was from a can.  Fried rice was okay.

Mike’s fried fish was pretty good.  The oysters were good, but not great.  There’s this other place I had oysters and they were heaven.  Mike said it was because the heavenly oysters were from japan.

But the star of our food was the shrimp fajitas.  We ordered one pound of the shrimp.  It came with garlic bread.  It had onions, bell pepper, potatoes, and tomato.  mmmMMmMmmM…  It was sooo good.  It was a bit spicy, but not that spicy where all you had to suck in air like a jet engine to cool the mouth.  It had the right amount of heat.  The flavor of the dish was sooo good, words can’t even explain it.  My mouth is just watering thinking about it.

There was another part of the village where you get to pick the seafood you want and give it to the cook.  You tell the cook how to cook with the spices you want.  Next time, we are going to do that.  And I can’t wait.

So, yesterday me and my friends had a bday thingy.

The night started off by eating at this place called Crazy Hook.  That place is pretty cool.  It’s basically a pirate of the caribbean theme that served food and alcoholic drinks.  Like it looked like you were in the pirate ship.  The alcoholic drinks came in this huge thing that looked like a three foot bong but for drinks.  We had like three beer ones, and two or three lemon soju.  It was a very interesting place.  So, from there, I got really drunk.  Hahaha, I keep saying “Hi” to people that went by.  I would also say “thank you” in korean for no reason as well.

There was this one time, where I went to the restroom, and I opened the door pretty hard.  Seriously, it went *BOOM*.  And there was a girl looking at me with this confused look.  I had a confused look too.  The waiter or waitress said something in korean, I think they said “it’s the women’s restroom”.  I then saw the women’s restroom sign, and I was like whoops.  I then went to the right restroom.

Then we went to a bar/lounge in k-town called Blinky. We’ve been there before and it would usually be crowded, but for some reason that night, it was really dead.  Nobody was there; but I’m fine with that, we didn’t have to stand and be squished.  There we had *I think* three patron bottles filled with soju.  *I think* Flavors were lemon, apple, and something else.  After taking a couple of shots of that, I was very very drunk.  From what I remember, I fell on this chair and the chair fell with me.  Soon after that, I laid on top a table.  I was totally drunk.  And my other friends were pretty drunk as well.

I’m not sure what else happened, but we left Blinky.  I think I knocked out in the car, cause all of a sudden we were at Jasons place.  Earlier that day, Harry bought a bottle of patron and so we took some more shots of that.  I didn’t want to, cause I know my limit and I was there.  But Jason persuaded me and I told him I’d take a quarter of a shot.  Oh man… I took the quarter of the shot and it did not go down easy.  It stayed in my throat.  I tried to swallow, but it didn’t work.  I knew what was going to happen; so I took covered my mouth, ran to the bathroom.  The bathroom door was closed but not locked, and I guess it was too late.  I threw up right there.  It was gross.  Ting and Mike helped cleaned up the mess.  Glad they have wood floors and not carpet.

I threw up some more in the toilet, so at least that was less messy.  From what I heard, everybody else threw up in at Blinky’s earlier.  Kinda sad, because I was vomit free since 2003.

We left and Mike drove me, Jen and Henry (another Henry) back.  We dropped off Henry and he totally threw up on the curb.

I’d say that was a pretty fun night, with the exception of the throwing up part.