I’m back!

(Belated) Happy New Year! I’ve been back in LA, getting swamped by school work and not keeping my new years resolution to … PLAY … MORE … GOLF. This will change, starting today. But first, updates! I enjoy taking pics and took a bunch over break. I do, however, royally suck and a lot of them came out blurry! CRAP! But there were a few that came out okay, and I thought I’d give my update in images (with captions). Enjoy!

Hello, Manila!
break was filled with family, lots of laughs and good eats.

totally enjoyed hanging out with my older brother, Mark…

… apparently, so did my mom!

And as I mentioned, good eats!
A sampling — Chilean Sea Bass …

and Seafood something (the name escapes me). Yum!

but all good things come to an end, and I came home after my 3 week break.

since then, I’ve been studying …
oh, and playing a ton of videogames …

… on my new Vizio 42″ LCD TV!

props to G$ for convincing me that bigger IS better and for approving the 42″ size for our future bedroom!

In addition to my latest splurge, I’ve bought 2 pairs of rockin’ shoes. But I’ll save that for the next post. Have a good weekend!

usurping my time

happy friday, peoples. i passed up friday-golf to run some errands this morning so i’m hoping to be el productivo. so far, i’ve achieved 20% of my productive errand potential. as i work towards maximum efficency, here are some things on my mind…

dinner

cobras and matadors tonight with glo and jia tonight. tapas! it’s got a good vibe and the food rocks.

jia is glo’s coolbeans maid of honor, visiting from colorado and always a good time — should be awesome. i hope to have some of my bschool friends with us too so that we can hijack the conversation with pretentious business talk that will undoubtely bore the girls. good times.

xbox 360

in other news, my videogaming-resource-buddy forwarded me this halo 3 beta link. sweet! halo rules.

while i don’t have an xbox 360 yet, glo has graciously agreed to buy me an xbox 360. say goodbye to society! other games which i will immediately buy upon purchase of the xbox are: tiger woods PGA Tour and splinter cell. still undecided about the suppossedly fantastic rockstar table tennis but let’s be honest, i’ll probably get that too.

borat

okay, so maybe I was a little extreme on my criticism of borat. days after my viewing, I’ve caught myself recalling lines from the movie and chuckling. i’ve also found myself discussing it with friends — mainly to express my point of view, but discussing nontheless. it got me to thinking … despite the slapstick-ish apperance of borat, maybe there is a deeper, subtle approach to sasha’s humor that isn’t apparent from the onset. or maybe i’m just thinking too much.

either way, i have a feeling that it’ll be like anchorman: the second viewing will be much better, as I anticipate the lines or scenes that I found funny. so i’ve upgraded it from “crapola” to “eh, it was aiight“. kevin found it hilarious after some inebriation, so maybe I’ll incorporate that if there is a second viewing. but enough about borat.