September 8, 2003

• It's time for my Xanga update.  This definitely has been one of the most memorable birthdays of my life.  Let's start from the beginning though shall we?

  Friday

  Chris, Mike and I bought our Monster Massive tickets at Ticketmaster.  Don't do it!  $6.25 service charge.  BS I say!  Afterwards, we walked around the mall and then hit up Del Amo. Mike bought some clothes and then we relocated to Best Buy.  Surprisingly, I didn't buy anything at all.  I had some time to kill before my dinner with my family so we went to Chris' and played some games.

  Dinner (Benihana) started at seven and it was time to grub. The show wasn't bad but they didn't do the volcano.  Around nine, I picked up Mike and Vu, and we hit up HQ, located at Qtopia. We barely made the cut off time to make it in for free. The music wasn't bad but nothing to rave(excuse the pun) over.  We left around 1:30 and stopped by a Denny's to chill and grub.

  Saturday

  My birthday!

  Thank you to everyone that left me a message (e-mail, e-card, text, v-mail) wishing me a happy birthday.  Now, on to the day itself. 

  It started out as a normal day for me. I woke up, worked out and called Esther to see if she was ready to get picked up.  We planned to eat dinner and call up some people to hang out.  She left me a v-mail stating that she had to work. I accidentally deleted it and kept calling.

  Around seven, Esther called  and picked me up to take me to dinner. She had to stop at Trader Joes for chips and salsa.  She also had to stop at Residence Inns.  Apparently, one of her co-workers was staying there and she had to pick up some papers.  When we stopped, I opted to stay in the car but she insisted I get out.  I saw Jen's car and Dave's car so I got suspicious. I had a hunch that Dave, Wayne, Jen, Shane, and Mike might be in there waiting for me.  We walked up a flight of stairs to a dark room.  I was very hesitant about opening the door since I knew something was coming.  Well, eventually I did and was bombarded with popper streamers.   Boy was I shocked though to see not just everyone I mentioned but Doug, Peter, Vivian, Paul, Mollie, Tony, Hilo, Chris, Mike V, and Jack.   Bryant, Ryan, Charles, and Erwin stopped by later on.   

  After saying hello to everyone, it was time to grub.  Esther made so much food.   Wayne was telling me that " I was lucky to have a girlfriend that can cook because Jen wouldn't be able to do that."  Without missing a beat, Jen was there with "damn right".  Hahaha.  I didn't drink anything except for the Smirnoff Ice that I mistook for Sprite. 

  From there, the night rolled by with mucho quickness. I played Pai Gow with Dave, Mike, Viv, Mollie, Esther and Paul. We also played Pusoy Dous (or however you spell it) . The rest of the guys played Texas Holdem until 3ish I think. 

  Finally it was time for everyone to leave and clean up. Jen and Wayne stayed because they were tired so they took the bottom level pull out bed.  It's kind of funny because we thought they were going to leave after a few hours but they were there until Esther and I left at 12. Jen helped us finish up cleaning which was cool of her.  Esther and I spent the rest of Sunday resting.  Despite sleeping six hours, I was still tired.  We just watched the Simpson DVD and relaxed.

  Tomorrow, we plan to go to Universal Studios so that should be fun.

  Thank you to everyone that came out. You guys definitely made it fun. Especially since all I had planned to just eat and hang out. Most of all, thank you to my girlfriend. She put so much effort into all of this: renting the room, cooking, organizing. Thank you.

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