enjoyed my thanksgiving muchos. the four of us spent it at my sister's. and the whole day was simply full of us enjoying each others' company, which is all to rare a thing nowadays. as always, we started out with a huge offering of lunch. which put everyone in a food coma, but i surprisingly didn't nap at all the whole day. we simply put on movie after movie and just chilled. MJ's This is It, Up, Star Trek, Big Bang Theory, The Office, Glee, and New Moon (although no one was paying attention to new moon).


our thanksgiving lunch/dinner


my mom's cakefail. Harry Trankssiviililil... ?

my thank yous
like i tweeted, i am very thankful for what i have. my loving family. which is still broken, but i'm thankful that we're able to suck up all the drama and just BE US every once in a while. my wonderful friends who are with me, supporting me and simply being there for me when i need them, which has happened to be a lot recently. my previous years on barkada and bMod for generously offering me friendships and experiences one can never duplicate (esp. kuya/lilbro/ading): my kuya up north, always encouraging me and making me want to improve (and will be down here this weekend!). my lilbro in sd, who i dearly miss but i'm glad i've been able to call my little brother, in which i will stop at nothing to help him out in any way i can, which might be limited due to distance restrictions heh. my ading from sd, who is thankfully still here but has turned the tables, helping me out in more ways than he probably thinks he has or gives himself credit for - and i can only hope i've done even a fraction in return. and to those who i've come to call best friends, families, brotherhoods, cliques (and trust, i haven't forgotten!) etc. basically everyone who has made a difference in my life, thank you all very much.

ps: and im thankful for the fact that almost all my friends have disneyland passes. woot. son.

black friday
i made it a point to sleep right when i got home so that i'd be able to wake up in the weeeeee hours to get to Target so i could jump on a deal on a 2.5" portable external hard drive. Target had a Western Digital 500GB for only $60. my only other previous experience with the morning of black friday was two years ago at Staples. but that didn't really count because they did it in a way that no one had to rush to get anything, instead they gave out guarantee tickets for certain items. Target this year, on the other hand, just let everyone run in as a free-for-all. i was about the 200th person in line since i got there 30mins before it opened at 5am, so things weren't looking too great for the deal i wanted, but alas, i walked straight to the hard drives. and lo and behold, there was one left. grabbed it, got in line at the electronics registers, bought it, and walked out of Target all under 15 minutes. now i can carry all my important info with me without lugging around the huge brick i have at home and at the same time, keep my laptop free of clutter. woot.


wd elements 500gb

for the rest of the day, i chilled at rooted movement with some beers. then bert, gigz, and i headed over to buffalo wild wings for dinner. and i'm very sad to announce... that bww is no longer serving the limited time Desert Heat dry rub. sadness TO THE FREAKING MAX. ah well. i then headed over to gigz' to play CoD:MW2 spec-ops.. then watch his brother jay play the campaign.

it seems that i forgot to blog about father's day. it went surprisingly well. after not seeing my dad in what seems like forever, i met up at my sister's place in chino hills. we headed out to best buy to look at netbooks and got him an hp mini 1030. then went to target to find him a card. fail on that. the card section was literally tore up. the only ones left were the not-so-funny-but-trying-to-be-funny ones, butt ugly ones, and ones in spanish. so we figured writing a small note on the wrapping paper for the mini would be good enough. and well enough, he loved the present.

headed out to RA Sushi at the chino hills shoppes. the happy hour there is awesome. half off appetizers and $5 large beer + sake. we only spent about $50 for all the food we got, and we were pretty incredibly full. all buzzed, we headed back to my sister's where we decided to walk a trail that leads up to a tall hill in chino hills overseeing chino hills, diamond bar, and pomona. it was quite nice (and) cold up there. headed back, played with our laptops, and finally headed our separate ways. day well spent.

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anyways, why does it seem like the annual passholders for disneyland have died down with the disneyland visiting? i'm not gonna want to get a pass if the annual pass craze dies after a month like it seems..

my thanksgiving was intimate. thanksgiving day consisted of us (mom, dad, sister, myself) of going to my sister's new condo in chino hills and cooking. we had turkey for once, which is very untraditional for us since we all pretty much prefer chicken. we had canned cranberries, cornbread stuffing, beef, mashed potatoes, candied yams, apple pie, ice cream, veggies, fruit, wine, and beer.

but since my sister's place is brand new and there's not really much in it yet, so the four of us had nothing to do but eat, listen to music, and talk about random things.. even had a random discussion about columbus and trying to remember his three ships.. which we couldn't.. and we didn't have internet to look it up.. we had nowhere to sit/nap because it is pretty unfurnished.. haha. but before the night ended, we made a quick stop to our house and got her one of our spare couches. yay for something to sit on! to anyone else, it would have been a boring failure of a thanksgiving (other than the food), but i loved it.. spending time with the family is something i've learned to never take for granted.

the next morning was black friday.. i had no intention of buying anything since i'm 1) broke and 2) not really looking for anything in particular.. but my sister on the other hand, with the new place, shopped. we'll just say after a very full and tiring day of shopping (best buy, bed bath & beyond, great indoors), we managed to get: 52" Sony BRAVIA lcd tv, Playstation 3, RockBand 2, and a chandelier.

got back to the place and didn't hesitate to hook up the tv/ps3/rockband2 combo. but first testing a blu-ray disc and ogling at the crisp picture-ness. man.. no more dvds for us, haha! my dad came by and helped us get the chandelier up. was a lot harder than we expected considering we had no equipment or mounting kit. got the tv mount on the wall. and the rest of the night consisted of us playing rockband, eating, and drinking beer.

now my mission is to find someone with metal gear solid 4: guns of the patriots who would let me borrow it for a bit now that i can finally play it. hah!

and tonight is..... bMod thanksgiving dinner for more fattyness!! and then locust lounge afterwards for more drankness!!