100 yard swing

1/27/2010
I really didn't drink today, but I just wanted to write that while at the range by myself I was able to hit the ball 100 yards. It felt nice.

Susan's Bday, Montrose pubcrawl, & pretty toe

1-23-2009
Started at Nam's house, decided to pick up David on a whim. He was in his bedroom and unready. Took awhile to convince him to come and get ready. While I was waiting I sipped on a shot of Martell Noblige and Nam did too. Next we headed to Churrrasco's but not before we had to turnaround because David forgot his wallet with his Id. In the car Nam and David learn a new word: Prima Donna

pri·ma don·na \ˌpri-mə-ˈdä-nə, ˌprē-\Primma Donna, 1.The term was used to designate the leading female singer in the opera company, the person to whom the prime roles would be given.
2.Tthe term often describes a vain, obnoxious and temperamental person who, although irritating, cannot be done without.
Originally used in opera companies, "prima donna" is Italian for "first lady".

That's what David is.

We arrived and there is no seat for David cause I fail to mention him to Cinnamon. A minor setback. David talks to Cathy most of the night. Her and Jerri are pretty much toast. People at Susan's birthday are Q, HangNghi,Vu, Amanda, Tram, Al, Mike,Linda, Jeff, and of course Jerri, Cathy, and Cinnamon. I drink some red wine that Nam thinks is disgusting. And we also drink some scotch that I think is nasty. In the end we go to the bar to get 3 Remy & cokes. One each for me, Nam, and Q. Total cost, 39 dollars plus a 5 dollar tip, OUCH! At ten we leave and begin to head to Montrose.

Originally we were suppose to meet Pretty out there, and pick Van up at The Tasting Room, but we decided it would be safer to just pick them both up. Pretty lives really close to me, and Van lives close to no one. We head out to Montrose and valet at etro, our first stop. Pretty recognizes a bartender there who hooks us up with a round of shots and a round of drinks. Which is really cool cause I got a shot of Remy with a Remy & coke. We tip him a twenty. We walk around, we buy another round and head next door to anvil. They have really weird exotic drinks here. Nam tries to order a Redbull vodka and a Capecod. The bar tender tells him they don't make those drinks here, this is a cocktail bar. Pretty orders something called Daisy, I tell her to get me a number 4, my favorite number. The bartender asks what's it called, its some really weird spelling. Pretty gets a lesson in how to pronounce Indian names. The native American kind. Apparently No.4 was named after one of the early Indians. Ain't one of the Thanksgiving one, cause I never heard of him. Needless to say all the drinks are nasty! One round and its across the street to Boondocks. It is crazy packed here, We get a round hangout for awhile. We do the fist pump, Randy and Tony meet up with us here, too. Its really packed so we head out to Poison Girl. Pretty uses Nam's line on girls, "How you doing?" and gets more attention and double takes in one night then Nam has in a lifetime. We find a place to sit and and Johnny orders 3 Crown and Cokes. At this point it gets fuzzy, but in a trade,I end up kissing Pretty's big toe for 3 seconds and Randy downs one of the drinks. Afterward we get our cars, and head to Hollywood and eat. There is a parking attendant that irritates me cause he tells me I can't park in the Hollywood parking when its clearly their parking lot. Then he wants 5 dollars for me to park on his side of the lot. Whatever! We find a parking spot after 2 tries and the parking attendant's approval. We eat and I take Pretty home, David drives Johnny's car back to his side, and I think Randy goes home. Van sleeps over at David's again, cause she lives too far.

Felipe's Bday

1-22-2009
We started at Pappadeaux on Richmond, near the intersection from Kirby. Its was me, Felipe, Alex, and David, Felipe's co-worker. It was happy hour, we ordered 4 dozen oysters and a bunch of different appetizers. I had one goose martini, one goose cocktail, and two furit drinks called the Pappalicious, I think. Tony arrived as we were leaving. Afterward I left my truck there and jumped in with Tony and we headed to Marquis II. This is where most of the people started showing up. Jesus, Thai, Julio some of Alex's friends that I don't remember. I had one drink here, Redbull Vodka. On to our next stop, Aloft. Before we got there I got some french fries at Burger King. We walked into Aloft and it was nothing but old folks. So we walked to Bronx Galleria. It was dead, then again it just opened. I wanted to stop by roxys for a drink. I got denied. We had a round here, I just drank water. We then decide to walk to Men's Club. No cover, so that was nice, there was a really cute girl on stage. Couldn't tell if she was Hispanic or Indian. Maybe she was both. After a round we headed back to Bronx for more drinks. Here we decide to go to Treasures. Louis met up with us here. Inside Treasure, we walk around and spent some money. I spent $100.00, not very proud of that. I needed to save money for tomorrow night. Afterward everyone headed to Micheal's International expect for me and Louis. One of Alex's friends had stayed back looking for his keys. He thought he lost his keys but he had actually valeted it and forget. Louis took me to my truck and I headed home.

Worst Fishing Trip EVER!

1-3-2010 First Nam forgets the bait. Then the bait shop was closed. Then Chris forgets the anchor. While Chris is launching the boat one of the holes were unplugged and we start taking in water. Its was freaking cold and all I had were two hoodies on. The water is super choppy. I get soaked and strip down to my boxer and stay in the truck cause I don't want to get sick. We listen to Nam and almost die going through the flood gates. Nam sprays this thing in the water and a pelican comes flying towards us. Finally we catch nothing! I can't help but laugh, it was the worst fishing trip ever but it was fun.

TAN TAN

1-2-2010 Did nothing all day but run around and pick up T-shirts for Van. Helped David at the pet shop. And ate and ate anda ate at Tan Tan. Didn't do anything that night cause we were gonna go fishing the next morning.

The Tasting Room

1-1-2009 After hitting some balls at the range with Felipe, me and Nam pick up Van and go eat at Firkin Phoenix. We each have a Bloody Mary there. We later decide to go to a Wine bar. After driving around for a we decide to go to Fleming's and drink wine at the bar. But to our surprise a Wine bar was right next door that didn't show up on the map. It turn out to be pretty cool. They had a one man acoustic band playing. and we drank some 14% wine and another one that was 13%. We stayed quite a while and just talked and joked around, the three of us. Van was in some relationship rut cause she kept talking about relationships. I didn't mind at all cause we have all been there.

New Year's Eve Party

12-31-2009 We all meet at Nam's house, before going to Kim Son for a new year's party. The party was being thrown by Bruce and Linh, Friends of Thy. Me, Nam, David, Donnie, Julie, Joanna, Heidi, Elvis, Chris and Van. We had pre-drink party at Nam's house before we left. We snuck in two bottles. When we arrived we found Thy and Felipe. They were with Al and Jerri, Kelvin and ThucNghi, and Slyvia and James. Felipe later told me he was happy to see us because Thuc Nghi cousin was bringing them down. We drank some more and it started to get a little crazy. Truc showed up later with some dude from work. And we drank some more. Missed the countdown because I was waiting for Truc at door, didn't mater anyways cause its was the wrong countdown anyways. We finally left, and then I started to feel sick and wanted to throw up. I did throw up on myself at least once. Got back to David's and I remember getting up at least one more time to throw up after many attempts to keep it down and swallowing my throw up. Heidi kept calling to ask about her camera, but I was too drunk to pick up. I wanted to yank the battery out of the phone to shut it up but couldn't find the back so I just put it on silent. I woke up with a headache, took some medicine and had Pho with Nam and Van.

Sry

Btw this time and the last day of 2009, I've been lazy and have forgoten many of the happenings...so Ricky's White elephant, Dan's and jesus too. Going to Joy's with Nam and Felipe. Drinking with some really werid ppl at Yardhouse. Drinking with Nam's sister and Christie at his house on Christmas Day. Drinking Noblige with Cindy and the owner's of Lamour.

L'amour

12-15-2009 Back at Lamour. Tam and Michelle are waitressing. I haven't seen them in a long time. Them two is my favorite waitress. Cause they talk to me and joke around with me.