What I Want

I used to want a bunch of things: ps3, new kick'n computer, phone, mp3 player, laptop, etc. However, I don't want them anymore, except for the phone. It's definitely helpful to delay and see if I want any of these several months later.

Back at the old home, there's a piano I used to play on quite a bit. So I'm considering in getting a electronic piano. Alternatively, I might instead get a guitar to learn something completely new.

Life is just fine. I'm hitting the gym more with friends. Definitely easier if you have others to motivate each other. Bad foods like soda and fast food is being kicked aside. Now I just need to learn a bunch of easy and healthy recipes.

Poison!

Yesterday was a good day overall. After classes, a few buds from class and myself went to a bar to watch the NFL season opener. Beer was way cheap for that night. 17 bucks for 8 beers; ridiculous. And they were giving away free food of chicken sliders and hot dogs. BUT!...when I got home I felt slightly whoozy so I took a half hour nap. Then I suddenly felt sick to my stomach and was dizzy. Now it wasn't from the alcohol, I tell you. It was probably the food causing me food poison. There was no pepto stuff in the house and I didn't feel good to drive. I tried to vomit but for some reason my nose had to bleed....weird stuff. Luckily, things got better in another hour when I used the funny remedy of Powerade. Sip that stuff occassionally and eventually, I was 90% better.

Spaghetti

Meatballs.

I cooked that tonight. Not a bad first try. The sauce and meat was good. Howevever, the spaghetti could have been more soft. It tasted fine when I tested it while still in the water but after drying it wasn't the same. I also had salad to go with the main dish.

:)

Beeho Fry Rice

So I've just finished cooking my first ever fried rice-beeho style. No soy sauce and no msg. Instead of cooking canola oil there is olive oil. Hollla!

In place of soy sauce, I used the 'squid' fish sauce. Beeho fry rice has onions, hot dogs (i'm too cheap for more exp meat), mixed vegetables, eggs and, of course, rice. Also included: salt, grinded pepper, and mushroom powdered thingies my mom gave me.

Tastes pretty darn good.

Already

It's August and here's the first post for the month:

I was shortly in Utah to visit family and friends. Some good stuff during the stay. The family, except my brother, left to San Jose, California yesterday. 12 hours of uncomfortable sleeping and a constantly talking uncle. It was good that my music player lasted for 11/12th's of the way. I ate at sushi boat-town with my cousin; it's a tradition that we do whenever I'm in town.

The weather is sorta cold for me but I'm getting used to it. Sleeping was way easy as it was at a chill temperature.

The plan for the rest of the trip will be fishing (hopefully), San Francisco, Napa Valley wine country, and a two day camping trip.

WEEEEEE!!!

Mornin heat

whoo, it's 8:33 am and I am feeling the heat w/o a/c.

Last night, I ate at Sushi Mon and did the AYCE 1 hour challenge. Not much of a challenge because I am not a noob at AYCE sushi restaurants. And this place is great for AYCE because they'll even do half orders on rolls and everything on the list is allowed with a few few limits.

I arrived at a great time where everyone but one man was done eating so the fish came really really fast. Another factor, ordering nigiri strictly allows the food to arrive quickly.

I loved the albacore tuna nigiri the most. ::drool:: . The quality was great overall. For sides, my favorite was the cooked mussels; that's big for me because I'm generally not a big fan of mussels. I avoided special rolls because that's how you lose to the house. LoL. For the first time, I had a sake shooter that was interesting in content and taste. The sliced green onions and fish eggs threw me off initially so I quickly took it. If given the choice, I don't think I'd order that again.

OH! I almost forgot. For dessert, instead of green tea ice cream, plum ice cream was ordered. Holla! One of the best ice cream flavors ever. A long time ago, I had tasty hot plum wine. Conclusion: plums are way underrated.

I haven't been to many AYCE sushi restaurants, and I've been to sushi buffets like Todai and Makino. Sushi Mon wins over all of them.

Ach...Ach...

Achtung! Hah! You thought it was going to be achoo. Seasonal allergies are here and I'm being somewhat affected. No need for any pills cuz I'm a man.

News:

School is starting to wind down. Just got tests then follow up finals and I feel good about them. Weather is improving of course.  Nice to have it but it's getting pretty warm at night. My dad doesn't want the a/c on just yet. Darn.

Utah Jazz are in the playoffs at the lowest seed (8th). I dunno if they can pull a road win off the Lakers. But I hope so.

It seems that finally those who were in support of the TARP program are changing their minds after 20 investigations (more to come) into criminal activity have been in the spotlight in the news. Never give money to those who can't even be responsible with their own. Really now...

I have reconfirmed that Five Guys has fantastic burgers.

Also, I've learned first hand that the SLC Tribune online opinion community is filled with many a-holes that live only to demean others with different opinions. Why do they even use up their time for such purposes? I joined while watching the jazz game last sunday and quickly left it before the jazz game ended. 

Edit:

Here's a comment from a not-so-smart fella on the subject I had participated. Note: if you are this guy, sorry, but you're not too bright from a logical standpoint. So he's quoting and responding from another person's comment:

Mikey1969: 

"Mr. Jones, I got a tax cut that means 30 dollars more per paycheck, and if I were SMART, I'd invest it all into something..."
   
   You don't really understand what a recession is, do you?
   
   A recession is a slowdown in spending(I believe we covered this when I was in the 7th or 8th grade). For one reason or another, people spend less. When people spend less, companies they do business sell less. When they sell less, they order less materials and use less advertising. When this happens, the manufacturing and advertising companies slow down. As a result, people get laid off, can't pay their bills, and the whole thing snowballs, getting bigger and bigger. The solution is to get people to spend money again. The reason last year's stimulus didn't help any isn't because Bush is a moron(He still is, mind you), but because people either stuck the money in the bank or paid down debt. This tax stimulus is designed to get you spending that extra $30, whether you buy cokes at the convenience store, go to a movie, or treat the family to dinner. The point is: you are spending money, putting it back into the cyclical flow, and as a result, stimulating the economy. This is a long process, but it should result in the opposite of what I mentioned in the beginning, in short, companies will pick up, they will fill their rosters, and they will do more work.
   
   Will it work? Who knows, but sticking your money in some investment fund isn't going to do a single thing to pick the economy back up from where it has fallen.

To Mikey1969:

 

Mikey 1969, you're silly. It's scary that this kind of ignorance is real in a 40 year old where he believes any form of smart investing has no value to the economy. This might suggest that you have no habit or tradition to save and invest any of your income. Or you might actually be saving your money into a bank or credit union without knowing the fact that money is used for investments and economic growth. 

Quick definition of a bank from wikipedia:

A bank is a government-licensed financial institution whose primary activity is to lend in order to increase economic growth. 

Hi...

Just had In n Out cheeseburger- animal style last night. Ate Five Guys a few weeks ago. Quality-wise Five Guys wins but it's twice the price than the cheeseburger. If you go for quality, Five Guys. If quantity is more important w/o being crap, then In n Out.

I don't think Melissa will like this. Hm.

I shall blog more this week.  :)

Beeho Returns

I was debating b/e the titles of "Beeho Returns" or "I'm Fat." The prior reminded me of batman.

Since Saturday I've  been meaning to update so I apologize. Anyways, here comes a long update.

Recap:

Last Sunday: Flew to Chicago for the Pittcon convention. A few months back I was excited for this but I instead dreaded going because of  all the crap I had to study for in school and prepare applications for grad school. These were all due by sometime during that week. 

Flight was delayed from 11:20 am to 1:55 pm due to bad weather in Chicago. The Captain reported other pilots could not see beyond a quarter mile. Yikes. Coincidentally, the Jazz game was on so I got to enjoy watching the second half at Squatters and drank a nice Utah ale of some sort. Note: I got to fly first class because when I bought tickets with skymiles the only seats left were 1st class. Woopee! Bigger seats, drinks and food.

At the Chicago Ohare Airport I took a leak in the bathroom and I saw this: 

I wasn't sure how it works but I had an idea. However, I wasn't adventurous enough to figure it out.

I stayed at the Sheraton 4 Points hotel. It was nice for the basic 1 king bed I got. Free internet was a plus. That night I walked around a bit the blocks for food. I found this place called Pizzeria Uno and ordered the small deep dish chicago pizza. It took 1 hour to cook that sucker! So I did some wandering and grocery shopping. I bought 2 litre water bottles and some cookies. Then I picked up my pizza order to eat at the hotel. That thing is huge! Took me that night, the morning, and late afternoon to eat all of it. Delicious, it was.

Monday:

The Pittcon convention was huge. I was at a different chemical convention last September and it was small in comparison to Pittcon. I did my stuff but I wasn't really focused on it. All my focus was towards getting my essay completed for applications for schools. 

Got to and left the convention by provided charter buses. During the rides I was reminded how the underground roads looks so much like scenes from the Dark Knight (filmed in Chicago fyi). Cleaned up at the hotel and my friend came by and took me around town. 

Here are some pics:

This is the John Hancock Center Building:

We went up to the 96th floor of that building and got a great view of the city:

Other pictures while we were walking around to our dinner destination:

My buddy took me to this Japanese Sushi/South American fusion restaurant.

Pretty interior designing (poor picture quality. sry!)

The food was even better! ( These were both the dishes for both my friend and me. I'm not that gluttonous!)

Mine:

His:

Ok. So we went all out and got this nice fondue dessert. OK OK...Yes, we are gluttonous....

Pics I took on our way back to the hotel:

Huge McDonalds:

I've been seeing a lot of these pepsi billboards such as this one:

On the way back my buddy said I had to make it a priority to eat at this place next to the Mcdonalds where they serve Italian beef sandwiches. So I did just that the next afternoon before I left for the airport on Tuesday. Pretty delicious.

So that's pretty much it. I did enjoy the free time I had over there. Just wish I had more.

Now for the current news:

It's spring break. I'm doing hw. I'm relaxing. Even went back to the gym tonight after a few weeks of slacking off. I got dizzy after working out but decided to push on the treadmill. During my absence at the gym I've noticed that I've been getting zits and stuff way more frequently. Disgusting...I have to find a way to schedule in regular gym time when school continues next week. 

Long post that took me awhile to make. G'night.

Well...

i had a good time last night. some drinks, lots of food and rockband/karaoke silly stuff. i was even taught on how to make sushi!

some tuna and eel rolls: 

i made my new creation: the Beeho Roll - Eel and salmon. No veggies (seaweed is a protista, not a plant)

He likes it!!

more pics, less words better, huh?

I forgot the title

My calculator has returned to me!

MrYoshi says:
wut u up to son
BhO says:
whoa whoa
BhO says:
hold on now. im senior to you
BhO says:
i call you son
MrYoshi says:
lolololol
BhO says:
you call me masta of disasta
MrYoshi says:
P4H4H4H4H4H4H4H4H4H4
MrYoshi says:
*LOL


Tonight's dinner was spring rolls. Options of meat were grilled salmon and fatty pork. There were veggies of salad leafs, carrots and radish slices (long cuts). But what really hits the spot is the peanut butter poop dip. A lil bit of sriracha mixed in the dip and we're good to go.

Valentine's is coming up. I came across these nice ones:







A friend showed me this Heineken commercial. It made me want to buy a 13 pack:



And now another week of school. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee......

Awwh Crap

Reaching into my bag caused me despair as my hands did not find my TI-89 calculator. I have lost it. But I did get a somewhat assuring email response from my lab instructor that a student may have it and will give it to me in lecture. Hopefully, it returns to its rightful owner. Those suckers cost well over a hundred bucks! That's at least 100 5 piece Wendy's nuggets!

New word that annoys me: rage quit. Often it's used now in online gaming when someone quits when under apparent rage. I'll hear it so often it enrages me to destroy them all...well, not really.

2nd experiment for my Gen Chem 2 course was on wednesday afternoon. A funny thing about this experiment is that it gives the reader incorrect information. Using the arrhenius equation you're supposed to graph the ln k vs. 1/T where the slope is equal to the -Ea/R. However, the instructions says twice in the manual to plot the 1/T vs ln k. I forgot to ask the instructor as to the problem. Tweek was in somewhat denial again. I did explain the concept of y=mx+b and how the manual was incorrect. Hopefully, he'll notice something when he plots the 1/T vs ln k to get something that looks like this:

He might get smart and get this:

I calculated the Ea to be 80.2 kJ. I found a japanese article with an abstract that said the estimated Ea to be 62kJ. I guess that's not too bad considering how poor the lab condition is for me.

On youtube I saw comments that were extending beyond the table comments are usually restricted to. weird because they all were saying ">lol>lol>lol>lol>lol>lol"

As I'm typing this I have learned that blogspot doesn't like me when I added the pics and typed in both the 'edit html' and 'compose' tabs. Oh well.

Lesson of the day: Don't let your mom buy hard rolls on sale. This one in my hand is dry and hard to eat. Ugh.... I'll let it slide because yesterday was my Mom's birthday. Went to Olive Garden on State St. and Vine St. Food was okay but the quantity was good.