my eventful life

i went to a carnival friday and won a minnie mouse (medium sized)! i'm very proud because it was actually one of the skill games and not one of the dumb luck games--darts incidentally (eat it, elvo, whose ass i kick in darts whenever we two meet...in fact, i once shamed him into going home and practicing by himself. that's right, i rock). we only went for 4 hrs because alicia and i had to work, but it was totally worth it. tickets only cost like $20 USD, which included 40 tokens, which we later learned are worth $25 USD if you try to buy them from the booths inside the fair. the rides didn't have very long lines at all, so we got to go on most of them. it was weird not having much of a voice though because i couldn't scream so i compensated by yelling and cursing.

afterwards, we went to a 24 hr mcD and had shake-shake fries. i don't know if they have them in the states, but basically, you get your fries and a bag and a packet of powdered seasoning (seaweed/garlic mayo/jap curry/honey bbq) and then you dump everything into the bag and shake-shake. as the ad says, the more you shake, the better it tastes (they fail to mention that the bag also tends to get rather oily). anyways, minwah and i shared a bag of fries, which was totally not enough, so when the table behind us left, we reached back and ate the rest of their shake-shake fries too.

saturday, i was supposed to meet alicia and jon at the park to throw (minwah was at some wedding), but instead we talked a lot about ulty and accidentally ate at a brazilian bbq buffet. i really enjoyed this one meat that was super tender until i found out it was tongue (if you looked closely you could see the tastebuds--hk is helping me learn lots about myself, for instance, food boundaries are becoming much more clear...and yes, there ARE things even i won't eat).

and then i went to the library and then gui's for mahjong, but when the party shifted to nikki's (they were gonna make pizza), i went home to read my books and rest before the "half-marathon" the next day.

the "half-marathon" the next day: it was only 14 km, but i think that's sorta ok because it's more of a hike than a run anyways (it's up a mountain) and most ppl walk most of it. i finished in 2:47, but only because i lost TONS of time on the way down. the people with whom i paced up the mountain finished in like 2:15. i'm not sure i like these mountain marathons. you don't get to enjoy the hike at all. i have no idea what the view looked like because i was so busy looking at my footing the whole time. and my knees felt like crap for a day or so afterwards. i guess it was a pretty good workout...we'll see if i do the next one. i'll definitely be wearing knee braces if i do though. and then we played some beach ulty. yeah, i told you, my life is pretty sweet.

and this week is shaping up pretty well too. tomorrow i'm going bowling with alicia and jon at the causeway bay sports club (alicia is posh enough to be a member, so she can bring two guests). saturday, kate is hosting her mahjong and chili night. YEAH!