No Rice Crunch Spicy

Think spicy, crunchy, crabby, eel sauce and no carbs.  This thing melts in your mouth.

Thank you Sushi Enya, I've been looking for a monster sushi roll place for a while.  MMmMMmm.

Fashion Night Out

Really didn't know what Fashion Night out was... because I'm not much about fashion.  Ended up at the Beverly center grabbing free champagne and desserts from the stores.  Watched really tall people walk up and down a stage with bored facial expressions wearing clothing that looked uncomfortable.... i think they call it a runway show??? whatever, it was boring.

Why?

High five you get this reference!  Click HERE if you don't.

Bien stole the shot

what a stud

blurry, but I like it

Labor Day!

I'm like the reverse of retail - two holidays behind.

Just some pictures I wanted to share:

Cindy eating bulot for the first time

Bulot in taglog, Hot vit lon in Vietnamese is duck fetus that has formed in the egg... there are feathers... it is disgusting.

Typical

love these ppl

Didn't want kisses that night

I have three cowlicks... this is the result... it's an ugly chunk of hair that just hangs there disrupting the flow of my hair style.  No hairdresser knows how to properly manage it. 

Wasps!

Back in September we discovered a little group of wasps forming by the door.  The internet said to wait at night before exterminating so that the bees are sleeping.

We put on our safety gear and prepared for attack.

I used a lucha libre mask, swim googles and scarf.  Sam used a net and put it on his head.  Here we go...




To our amazement, the poison shot 20 feet.  We were prepared for attack, but the bees just fell to the ground.  Sort of anticlimactic.  But just in case, we had all escape routes ready.  The hall smelled like raid for a week.

I guess we were being a little dramatic... it looks scarier in person:

Adobo Shots

Last night we went to a potluck.  Ern made amazing chicken adobo.  It was so good, I took shots of it. 

Sassy Chiropractor

I woke up with a stiff neck last Wednesday.  I couldn't turn my head, but I went into work anyway.  It was such a sharp pain that I found it difficult to back out while driving or fully look at my blind spot.

Even with Jimmy's Icy Hot massages and Korean Spa visit, I was still aching on Monday morning so I decided to see my first chiropractor.  My insurance covers most of it, so why not?

The doctor was a beef cake - wearing a grey muscle shirt and loose linen pants.  His hours - 10:30 AM to 1PM.  He seems to roll out of bed and leave his practice at his leisure. I felt weird when I saw him.  He stood 6'4 above me and brought his dog that was named Journey.  He also had this weird laugh that was like an office laugh, but permanent.

Without introducing himself to me, he reviewed my paperwork and asked me:
"Christopher, do you take any suppliments?"
"Uh...."
"Vitamins."
"Yes... Trader Joe's Multivitmans."
"Garbage, you need this - Omega for your nerves and Vitamin D for Cancer, this IS VITAL."  He pulled out $30 jars that looked like they were a part of some pyramid scheme."  I passed.

"Is this your first time?"
"Yes."
"I LOVE IT."

He was working three patients at once.  An over weight guy was on the floor was stretching.  The doctor commanded, "superman pose, now. hold it.  30 seconds."  He looked back at me, "get on this water bed.  It's like a jacuzzi, but dry.  You'll love it.  You won't get wet of course."

I obeyed and lied on top of this amazing machine that massaged the kinks out of my back.  He put me on top of spinal decompression table and pulls my head with his magic hands that were the size of my face.  He tugged so hard, I thought he was going to decapitate me.  He dug his thumbs into my neck and massaged out knots. He place my face in his palm and asked me to put all of my weight in his hand... essentially to trust him.  I was so drugged by the experience that I didn't feel the need to protest.  He told me to breath in, then out and like that he twisted my head like Xena warrior princess making a HUGE cracking sound that would have alarmed anyone who passed by.

Amazing.  He repeated this in the other direction.  He then put me in some pretzel formation and with the hands of God he cracked every joint in my spin using all of his weight.  FACKKKKK.

He then put me on this machine that sent electric waves through my back set on strong.  It felt my palms open and close without my control.

He demanded to see me twice a week and said, "I care about you, you're attractive, let's make sure your back is good."  He touched me weird and let me off.  I left the office standing taller... and strangely my vision was better.

I just found his Myspace and picture.  Only in LA.  While trying to reschedule my second appointment, I told him that I stood taller and already mentioned him in the office. "You're cute.  You're a Doll," he responded.  Seriously weirded out since he mentioned a girlfriend who was "also Vietnamese."

Why didn't I go to a medical doctor?  Because he would have over drugged me like he did last time.  This is definitely better.

Google Reader Update

Though I like the updates to the blogger dashboard, I feel that the Google Reader update was a miss. This is a WhiteWhine.

It's annoying to navigate because the reading window is so small.  The reading window shrunk to make room for two useless navigation bars on the top that could be combined into one - Search Google Reader and these useless buttons that are rarely used.

Starting from the left. 
Subscribe button - Large and red.  Maybe this was altered because Reader noobs didn't know how to add new RSS Feeds.  You shouldn't be using Google Reader if you didn't know how to add.  This button is too large and should sit next to the Google Reader icon on top.

Refresh button - Or you can refresh the page
New Items or All Items - You can do this from the left navigation. 
Mark as Read - Do this within the reading window
Folder Settings - How often do you need to change the language or how it's sorted.  You can do this in the left navigation
Expanded or List view - Meh, move button to the right of Search button
Next or Previous Entry - I don't think anyone would use this if they knew that the space bar does the same thing.

All of these rarely used buttons should be moved next to the search bar to save space and make more room for the reading window.  I can't even load an entire picture with my internet browser maximized.

Tumblr is kicking ass in the current blog space, but RSS Readers allow us to read content WHEN we want to (in a month time frame - which sucks.) So it's important that Google gets this right.  Tumblr forces you to scroll until you've reached your stopping point so that you don't miss any content.  You can't indicate what has been read or not in Tumblr.  As a result, I've added content heavy Tumblrs to my Google Reader so that I can get to content when I'm ready.  I want my Google Reader to be better please.