Tuesday-Wednesday

I would also like to piont out, that i did laundry at billy's place, and forgot to put detergent in the washing machine. ... i'm so smart.

so tuesday morning, the plan was to go to Santa Ramen (the first place i ate at in SF - yummy ramen) and then drop me off at the airport... unfortunately, Santa Ramen was CLOSED on tuesday! again, JUST MY LUCK!!! ... so we drove some more (traffic was sooooooooooooooooo bad) to Koi Palace. apparently, they serve the BEST dimsum in the entire Bay area, and on wknds, it's like a 2 hr wait. ... we didn't hafta wait this time, 'cept for johnny, but that's okay. it was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yummy!!!! ... my favourites: the chinese chivfes little crystal ball thing, and the drunken chicken - YUM!!! ... everything else was pretty good too. no, not pretty good, but REALLY good. best dimsum i've ever had. and i didn't get the greasy aftertaste and the "i think i wanna puke" feeling afterwards. AND i was on a plane, so that's just really amazing!!!....

we ended up leeaving in a hurry to make sure i got to the airport on time for my flight. ... instead of the 3 hrs, i was there about an hour from takeoff, and there was a HUUUGE line at check-in. ... i finally got to the counter and there were no window nor aisle seats left... so i was right in the middle... great. ... at the security checkpoint, there was this woman with three kids, one 4 yr old girl, one 2 yr old boy, and 8month old boy - she had soooooooooo much carry on luggage, and a huuuge double stroller with her! she definetely needed help getting past security, and her 2 yr old kept on running away!! it was sooooooooooooo funny! and if i wasn't in such a hurry, i would've helped her. ... but when i finally got to the gate, the furthest gate at the terminal, the plane was boarding already. i got on the plane, and we ended up waiting for about an hr.... cuz the battery in the palne was dead or smt. great start eh? i was also stuck between two weird ppl... on my left: a woman from panama with her husband, who YELLED at me cuz my backpack was blocking his wife's feet. but see, there was a fucking vertical bar in front of my seat, so i had to put my backpack on a slant, and it was only SLIGHTLY blocking some room for her feet. but he kept on yelling at me, so i yelled at him back after trying to be nice. when i raised my voice, he finally shut the fuck up. but then told his wife "who cares, just put ur feet on her bag" at which point i wanted to tell him to go fuck the pole. but i didn't. On my right, was this little old chinese lady, who at one point looked like a mummy from egypt cuz she had this weird ass skin-treatment thing on my face. she also had her eyebrows tattooed and a fake hair thing... really scary

after a super long flight with really boring movies, i finally landed, got my luggage, and my uncle picked me up. ... we went to restaurant and i was scared SHITLESS by my cousin... ... OMG. she did some sorta surgery thing on her eyes and her eyes were and still are, SUPER swollen - OMG!!! ... seriously, i'm still scared to look at her. i think her 'surgery' got botched, cuz my jiejie got the same thing done and she looked normal in all of 3 days. .... gebus... it was and still is scary. she also has braces now. her teeth weren't bad to start with. she looks soooooooooooooooo different, i don't even recognize her anymore. and this is the girl i lived with for 5 years, and saw every single day for 5 years!!! this is the girl i spent my entire summers in shanghai with all the times that i've come back! ... and i don't recognize her... she looks scary. really really scary. ...

at dinner, we had drunken chicken again. two drunk chickens in one day, hehehee... yum.