Looking back on Christmas

I guess the Christmas weekend was decent. I had dinner with Melissa on Friday, dinner with Tien and Yo on Saturday, lunch with them and Lily+Andre and dinner with Carrie on Sunday, and dinner and a movie with Evan, who was coincidentally in the bay area, on Monday. It was a full weekend.

Friday:
Met up with Mark B, Jeff W and Sameer in Union Square for some last minute shopping. For some reason, the vibe was all wrong, and nobody was really having fun. Oh well, these things happen. Everyone split. That's fine for those guys, they live in the city. I just drove 1+ hour through mad traffic, and I wasn't going to just leave like that. Called Melissa, dragged her out of the house to have dinner with me.

Saturday:
Went to Valley Fair to do some last minute shopping... You know, the stuff I was supposed to do on Friday? Got a gift for Tien. Massage chair thingy since Yo was probably gonna need it. Was going to spend the rest of Saturday at home, but while I was talking to Tien, he suggested dinner at Layang Layang. He picked me up, we had a sumptious meal (3 people, 5 dishes!). Life is good.

Sunday:
Dimsum brunch at Mayflower. Surprisingly, I was the first to get there. Tien and Yo live the nearest but those idiots were 45 minutes late! Sigh... Lunch was good. I haven't had dimsum in too long. Then again, waking up early doesn't agree with my body... In the evening, went to Carrie's place. Cooked my signature pan-seared salmon, and she made pasta salad and asparagus. I brought dessert - melted chocolate over brie. Watched some TV, but it was kinda a crappy day cos she was having a headache.

Monday:
Bruce told me Evan was in the bay area, so I called him up. Met up with him at Starbucks, went for a walk around Valley Fair, grabbed dinner at the extremely lousy sushi place at the mall, met up with Shelley and her friends for a movie (Family Stone, good movie).

It sounds like a really full Christmas weekend, but for some reason, I'm left feeling somewhat unfulfilled, like something is missing...

Oops

Forgot to mention that Jo is preggies too. Due a whopping 2 days after Yo. They must've synchronized or something, although how they did it between US and France kinda boggles my mind. Anyone else pregnant wanna shout out now?

Baby Tien/Yo

Yo is 3 months pregnant, due 29th June. CONGRATS DUDE!!!!!!!

Union of the same

On a related note, Elton John is getting hitched. YAY for the dude. And YAY to him again for writing the music for the musical Lestat, which I had the good fortune to get good seats for the world premiere in San Francisco last weekend.

Side note: There's something seriously wrong with the grammar of the above sentence, but I can't really be bothered to correct it.

Midnight BBQ

It's slightly past midnight...
Matt: One of these days we should break out the BBQ
Me: Let's do it. Right now.
Matt: Are you serious?
Me: Absolutely.

We head out to Safeway, buy some marinated pork (Peppercorn flavor), some brocolli, and head home to have our midnight barbeque. I fire up the grill. It is cold and dark in my backyard, but fortunately, it isn't raining. Matt takes charge of the flaming the meat, and I boil the veg and make instant noodles. Yummy!

Then we sat and watched Super Troopers. Good times.

10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong

Shamelessly ripped off from Craigslist.org

Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

The next big question

Christmas hols are upon us. The next big life changing question I'm tackling now is this...
What the heck do I do for the Xmas season???

Some ideas:
Snowboard - always a good plan, except that it only takes up a day or two
Matt is thinking of driving to Vegas for the new year weekend. That's something to consider I guess. Lodging may be a problem though. That's funny. I own two houses there but I can't find a place to stay LOL.
Bruce is coming up for the Xmas weekend. It'll be cool to hang out with him. Haven't seen him since my last Vegas trip.