I really haven't been blogging much and for that I apologize :)

I'm a little tired right now but I've really been meaning to blog for a while and update everyone on the west side :)

Undoubtedly, I'm having a great time being with my favourite person. I've been filling my time with some good chill time and some sight-seeing (read: went shopping). I've frequented the library and also walked around most of downtown R-town. Needless to say, I've found out R-town is an amazingly small (but lovely) town. Shopping here is mainly done at R-town Town Center (my first run-in with Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch). Course, Borders (bookstore here like Barnes & Noble) is also a favourite place of mine here :) I've read a couple books here, currently on my third. One of the books was The Da Vinci Code, which I've wanted to read for a while but never took the time to. It's been good getting some reading back into the fray (libraries have a pretty good collection of magazines here and the best thing is they allow coffee drinking ;)).

As most of you know, FOOD is the way to my heart :) And I love trying new places to eat. Some of great places I've tried so far are:
Sans Souci: great french/italian place. great duck breast and the best polenta i've ever tried. :)
Kanishka: great indian buffet. not quite The Host but I love indian food :D thinking about going to try another indian place tmrw. will have to keep you updated on the other places I go to later on :)
Chipotle: the best burritos on the face of the earth.
Sages: a little restaurant near the library with good gyros and a lot of other pastas and such on the menu. coffee was a little weak though, which can be good or bad...or it could just have been my taste buds since I was a little sick when I went there.
Thai Ginger: realllllyyy great pad thai in downtown r-town. fast and friendly service. extra crushed peanuts are a must. great service too. i tip them even when i get take-out because they're so nice. thick accents so i don't know what they're saying all the time; i assume they say good things?
The Cheesecake Factory: a little pricey and seemingly touristy but a nice place specializing in - you guessed it - cheesecake. i didn't want to spend much so i just got an appetizer (vietnamese spring rolls) which were really good. i'm a fan of peanuts so i really liked the peanut sauce. they give you a lot of fresh bread when it comes to meal rolls so I was a little filled and decided not to gorge on cheesecake. next time i'll try to though. we'll see what the weight-meter (read: scale) has to say about it.
Blue Water Taco Grill: I came here in search of food. I had a library tour (yes, library -- must remember to expound on this later) scheduled and i didn't want to miss it. this place looked decent and i was starving. at first i tried to down a scone at sbux (i love scones but sometimes, they're just not enough for a meal) and then walked around trying to find fast food (food that's fast rather than mcd's...though i would have settled for mcd's anyhow if there was one in the area)...after my search ended in vain (came across a VERY small food court but the food was scarce (it was early afternoon so most stuff was already gone) and didn't look appealing as sustenance), i went here. food was okay. the soft taco shell was...weird. too soft and mushy for my taste and didn't really hold together. it was more like a really thin pancake which would have been fine if the taste of it meshed a bit better with the ingredients. a place i would go back to if in the same situation but not a place i would suddenly think of going to for good eats or fun times.
Pho Than Brothers: I like viet food and this was a pretty good place to go to when i was trying to recover from what ever cold/viral thing i had -- i'm better now though! and no, it wasn't SARS. prices are good but atmosphere seemed a little low-end, chinese dim-sum place.

Those are most of the places so far. I aim to try a new place everyday (well, not everyday but often enough). Obvious favourites are Thai, Viet, and Indian cuisine. Why? I don't know. French is usually out of my budget and Italian stuff...well, i make too much pasta on my own so i never feel like Italian food.

As for my writing style -- i think i'm a little off-key with it. i've been reading Microserfs and wow -- this guy's mind is seriously a software tester/dev's mind. it's just...all over the place. no real transitions into thoughts. they're all scattered and consequently, my mind and writing style reflects it. damn software giants.

Oh, and I saw Unleashed the other day. Good movie! Even read about it first in Blackbelt Mag and I must say, Jet Li's a pretty versatile actor. Although I admit some of his previous work left a little something to be desired in the plots, I think his performance is usually two thumbs (well, my opinion for now).

Star Wars soon and hoping to see Sin City at some point.

Side note, I hate rain. I told some of you it doesn't really rain that much on the west side -- what was i thinking!? i lied. i got wet and cold today. glad i invested in an umbrella though. has a little button to expand and contract (?!) the "rain shield" (okay, it's an 'automatic' umbrella, which i've never actually had one of my own before so it's still novel and I like it -- so there.) :)

That's all for now...hopefully more to come soon. And yes, i still owe people postcards :$ I didn't forget! I've just been disappointed in the ones I've seen so far...waiting (hoping) to see some better ones. :)