Thanksgiving Break

Wow, Thanksgiving Break went by way too fast. Just this time one week ago I was on my way home and now I'm here in my dorm room once again. Can't wait for these 10 days to fly by and be back in the Bay. Anyways, here's a breakdown of my vacation...

Tuesday: I took the amtrak bus back to San Jose with Grace and Karen around 1pm. Surprisingly, the bus ride wasn't bad at all. It took about 4 hours but I fell in and out of sleep during the whole trip so it didn't seem that long. Grace's dad took us home but it took over 2 hours to get from the San Jose Amtrak station to my house because we got lost. Didn't much when I got back home. I arrived to a empty house except for my sister who was "sitting up in her room." My dad had a 40% any book coupon at Border's so we spent a good hour there looking at books. Didn't find anything interesting.

Wednesday: Woke up at 10am to pick up my sister at SFO. It was hella fun driving again after so long. It sucked driving in the rain though so I made my sister drive back. haha. We were planning to go to Haight and check out some shops but we decided to just head back since it was hella raining and we were all hungry and wanted In-n-Out. That was such a good meal. Over lunch my sister was talking to us about her racist friend who doesn't like white people. My sister was telling us about how they wanted to get some hot chocolate at Starbuck's but her friend wouldn't let them since she hates big corporations since they're run by white people. So, they spent a good hour looking for a place to get hot chocolate. Later on they went to a bookstore and they found a book titled "101 Things White People Hate." So they skimmed through the book and believe it or not one of the things white people hate... big corporations... and then there was a big picture of a Starbucks. In disbelief, my sister's friend said "Oh hellllll no!" haha. Anyways, we just went home after eating In-n-Out and I waited for Vu to come back from Berkeley. I picked him up at Bart at around 5 and went to Tapioca Express to chill with David, Everett, Grace, and Sanchez. That almond milk tea was hella good. Everybody got calamari but with a different spice level so we were able to sample all the different levels of spiciness. haha I dropped Grace and Vu home and kidnapped Vu's Ipod. We swapped Itunes libraries so my library went from 15 gigs to 35 gigs. Woohoo! I have too much music now and I don't know where to start arranging all the songs.

Thursday: I tried to starve myself the whole day until dinner so I could feast. I ended up giving up and had a strawberry Pop Tart. Anyways, we headed two houses down to my Aunt's house around 5 or so. haha. Holiday's aren't as fun as they used to be since a lot of my cousin's are married and have kids. So usually they visit their in-laws first and then head over to family parties and then head out when it's the babies' bedtimes. It's hella crazy how all of the kiddies are big now. My cousin's one-year-old daughter likes to look at pictures of herself on his Iphone and she knows how to scroll through them. haha, not even my mom knows how to do that. Apparently one of my nephews is addicted to "Universal Mind Control" by Common and "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay. His mom has a CD with those songs on it and he memorized the track number for each. haha. He's only three years old but he hella jacked his dad's Iphone and started playing "UMC" and "Viva la Vida." He started singing along to "Viva la Vida" and hella breakdanced to "Mind Control." We all started laughing but he's self-conscious when people laugh because he think's they're laughing at him. So he says, "That's not funny boys and girls!" and then my 31 year old cousin starts laughing even harder. hahaha Anyways, I had too much food that night. I started getting sleepy at 930 from all the food and I was sleepy for the rest of the night.

Friday: Black Friday! Didn't do that much shopping. I was supposed to wake up at 730 to go shopping with my sisters but being the lazy Asis kids we are, we overslept. We ended up waking up at around 10 so we just ended up going to Verizon before heading to the mall. We got new phones but it took like 3 hours so we went out to lunch while waiting for our phones to get activated and our contact lists to get transferred. After we went to Newpark where my sisters went crazy at Forever 21. I didn't get much... 2 pairs of jeans and a jacket. My mom and sister's dropped me off across the street at BJ's where I met up with David, Gabe, Grace, Vu, Ryan, and Franklin... our Fremont Contingent + Gabe of the Bellarmine/ND people. The only reason we went was for them pizookies. mmmmmm. I got a white chocolate macadamia nut pizookie. hella good. I hella pigged out that day because my sister had friends over and they ordered round table pizza so I had some about an hour after I came back from BJs. haha. My sister had a game night with her friends so I joined in and we played Apples to Apples and Cranium.

Saturday: In my sister's quest to get every possible type of food you can only get on the West Coast, we went to Fremont Taqueria to get Carne Asada Fries. It's so insane and so unhealthy: french fries topped with carne asada, salsa, guacamole, and sour cream. My parents got the crazy idea to take family portraits and even more surprising, my sisters agreed and wanted to do it. We ended up taking family pictures at JC*Penny. There was this person posing us for the pictures and her boss was hella on her saying how she needs to work on her spacing and how she poses people. That was pretty annoying. Anyways, whenever she'd take a picture she's make us say "Stinky Feet" or "Pickles" haha. hella random. Nobody but my sister said it because no one wanted to mess up their smile. Later that night I went grocery to get some stuff to bring back to SLO and then I headed over to Lennard's. We played NBA 2K9 on PS3 and Halo. Man, I hella suck at video games.

Sunday: Maybe Holy Spirit switched things up since I've been gone or maybe they're tight on cash because for the first half of the mass they didn't have the lights on. haha Anyways, after church we want to Banh Thai. mmmmmm. We got pineapple fried rice, pad thai, chicken in peanut sauce, and thai tea. We didn't finish the pineapple fried rice so we asked for a box so we could bring it home. Normally, they served the pineapple fried rice in a hollowed out pineapple. For some odd reason, my parents wanted to keep the pineapple so they stuck it in the take out box even though it obviously didn't fit. Left for SLO around 245 and got back around 6. We went to Splash Cafe and I had clam chowder in a bread bowl. Hella good. I spent this whole break pigging out. I can't wait to go home again and chill. 10 more days!