i am finally home. not burlingame. i mean HOME! home as in IRVINE!

i ended up getting my 8290 with white lights on wednesday. it feels so small and light cause i haven't used it in a long time. it feels good to use the awesome phone that i once had in high school. those chinese people weren't so shady afterall.

that same night, i went to cashe creek and just like in the past, i failed to stop at my goal of $100. but unlike my previous times, i had some really fun games. unfortunately, my big games ended up with some sham cards...

i have a 10. dealer shows an 8. i actually double down on this. i hit ACE! (lots of hugging and cheering). dealer flips her other card over. a 2. she too hits an ace. push. (tears begin to flow).

that was a big game too.

but we all have our stories to tell that no one is interested in. after i was done, i went outside to cool off. of all the people in all the places of all the days, i meet old high schoolmate, bernard. his negative $4000 made me feel a little better. dang, some people really have problems out there. what a sad lifestyle.

since i had left the casino really late, i got home at 7:45. right on time for me to take my brother to the dentist (God knows WHY mom scheduled such an appointment). i hadn't been to the dentist in over a year but my mom told me that my old dentist wanted to check up on my teeth. so after my brother, i end up taking 8 different x-rays, clean my teeth, and have a chat with my dentist. gosh, i hated taking those x-rays. the guy would stick this wooden thing into my mouth until i started gagging. then he'd tell me to bite down and stay still while he took the picture...8 unforgivable times!

it was pretty embarrassing cause after each time they took the wooden thing out of my mouth, there'd be a line of spit trailing from my mouth and they'd just stop it with their hands. lol. so sexy.

the lady who was cleaning my teeth had some pretty eyes. you can't really see the rest of their face b/c they wear those masks but you assume whatever's inside is just as good as the eyes. gosh, you feel like such an idiot with your mouth open and that dumb stare...especially when you think the dentist look attractive. gosh, don't they also have the nicest voices? "can you say ah?" she says with that pretty voice. and you give them a stupid smile and give them a nasty AHHH! lol. it's funny when i think about it now but boy was i hating it then.

anyways, i received some bad news...

1. one of my teeth, just ONE is growing crooked so i have to wear a retainer when i go to sleep.
2. b/c of a few cavities, i need to get some fillings the next time i come in.
3. wisdom teeth are growing crooked so they're going to have to go. the avoided is no longer evitable.
4. since i grind my teeth when i'm asleep, i'm going to have start wearing a mouth guard for 6 months to fix this cacophony. did you know that teeth grinding is due to stress? i didn't know that. but i'm not the only one with this problem cause it's very common. even my dentist grinds his teeth. i bet you didn't know that one either.

i got 3 hours of sleep and didn't even get to say bye to my dad. freakin' shame. but i felt refreshed and started my drive at 3:40. amazingly, i arrived in la at 9:30! well, i only had to stop twice. once for bathroom. second time for gas. the drive actually wasn't as bad as i thought it'd be. just listening to music and one of chang's debates on tape. of course i could've used some company but driving alone is no impossible task. praise God that me and my car are still in one piece.

late dinner with crawford at Jose something. never EVER get the Spicy Galbi Kimchi Burrito. such things are only to be joked about...never actually created. but i did enjoy desert from Didi Rees(?). chocolate chip ice cream sandwich with expresso ice cream. yum! ucla is such a bujee berkeley.

san marino isn't as great as villa coronado. BUT i still like the place. i'm rooming with billy and chris while arthur is with eugene. billy's a really nice guy. he bought me Thai Spice today and took me around to buy a desk. oh yeah, today was my first time at Ikea. i don't know if it was just this one but dang is that place extravagantly big! i picked out this awesome $100 desk and $70 chair. but dude, i couldn't help but think that i could've bought this desk for free if i hadn't been so greedy at the casino. (shaking head). sinful bastard. it took me forever to finally unpack all of my stuff and put all of it onto my desk. i seriously love my desk though. it makes everyone's desk in this apt. look like scrapwood. haha.

i'm pretty lonely right now. everyone's in cerritos and i'm here all by myself. also since there's no fridge in the apt yet, there's no food. and since i didn't want to eat fastfood or spend money, i just ate pieces of bread with small carrots with my orange mountain dew. a depressing meal for a lonely boy.

so what better thing to do than blog on your new and beautiful desk? yeah, i couldn't think of anything either.

Thought of the Day: The desk fit in Billy's car!
Song of the Day: Jim Brickman Stuff