Tuesday had come and Kai was sick so I didn't want to go bowling either. It was one of those blah days where I just lounged around and did nothing. Well, I was at "work" I suppose.

Went to my friends Rich's house for sun bathing and then we went clubbing that night at Unique. It was hella ghetto cause the DJ was from Oakland. I had some fun but I didn't drink so it made things very weird. haha

I had a lot to do to get my presentation ready for school. It was my masters presentation and I had a lot of slides to make. Ugg.

I then met up with this guy named Edmond something or other. He is of latin origin, he is cool in that he is a really good hacker type person. But, he isn't my type so I told him that we are just friends. He understood and so we plan on hanging out again.

I don't remember what I did... but I spent a good deal of time worrying about my presentation. I had to go to the BusBarn Theater to do some work at get lights set for the next day, but when I got there the set wasn't ready yet, so I postponed my work.

I planned to hang out with this guy named Erik today. We met online, he had answered one of my many personal ads. So we get to talking and we decide to meet today and hang out. He has a boyfriend, so this is just to make friends and such. So, I go to Berkeley to pick him up at his brother's and we head out to find something to eat. We go to this cute little French Restaurant called La Note and get on the waiting list to be seated outside in the courtyard. It was a very cute place with very good food! I had the Pommelmouse and lemon gingerbread pancakes and he had this awesome chicken grille sandwich. I had my usual tea and he had an iced tea. Before hand we went to a bookstore and got some postcards. I will be scanning them in eventually.

Afterward, we went to see the Mummy Returns. We went to one of the theaters down in Berkeley and the room was Egyptian theme, which I thought was very cute. It had columns and hieroglyphic and such on the walls. It fit the movie well. As for the movie, I suppose I enjoyed the special effects and the fight scene between nefertiti and annox-sun-amun, but I came away somewhat disappointed in it.

Mariae thinks it's cause I didn't see it with her. :)

After, the movie Erik needed to go home so I dropped him off and we said our good-byes. It was a great time.

I then went to the BusBarn to do the light hang.. I was tired... very tired.

THE MASTERS PRESENTATION.

Problem 1. I get to the set my alarm for 7:30. It rings. I decided to rest my eyes a little more. I jolt up and realize it's 8:30. Unfortunately, I was supposed to be there at 8:30 for snacks before the presentations at 9:00... uh oh.. I'm in Milpitas, the presentations are in San Francisco... hmmm.

Well I get there late. Luckily I wasn't to present until 11:00

Problem 2. I thought our presentations were supposed to half and hour long. Instead we had twenty minutes. You might think this a good thing, however, my presentation was packed with info and slides which I would never get done in 20 minutes.

Resolution:

The Presentation went spectacularly, I never spoke faster in my entire life. Went through a half hours worth of material in twenty minutes leaving room for questions. I win.

Afterward I headed home and vegged a bit and decided to get some work done at the Theater. Erik calls and we talk and I ask him to come out to the theater to hang out. He finally gets there and we have a long talk and he tells me he's no longer involved with anyone. So the night progresses until 6:00 in the morning and we say our good-byes.

Hmmm.... very interesting.

Went to work and went back to the Theater. I had a lot more work to do to get the lights set properly and the set still isn't finished.

Erik calls and says he'd come down to Los Altos to hang out. So he shows up at the theater and I had one more light to deal with. I deal with it and we go driving. We go driving around, listening to Paula West and talking. We talked a lot. We then went to Pho Hoa down on Tully Road since they are open for food 24 hours a day. I hadn't eaten so I was starving.

Turns out Erik is allergic to cilantro... unfortunate.

We get to talking some more.... talk talk talk. Until about 4:0o in the morning..

We then went home again.

I went to work as usual. It's super hot.... ugg. So, I sorta coerce Erik to call me and we talk over the phone for awhile a little after lunch time. He was in Sacramento for school. After much negotiation we came to a realization: I like Erik

ERIK and I are now Mutually Exclusive Partners....

I have a lot of dates to cancel now....

Oh well.

:)

More Work. Laura, Randy, Joe, and I go to see the MUMMY RETURNS. I know I saw it before, but I figured I should give the show one more chance before I decide that I don't like it. We go and I get an icee with a loose cap, so I developed little icee stains on my pant leg. The movie was the same. Go Figure. I am still disappointed with the movie, especially the lack of character development and the weakness of the villain as well as the over done romanticism of the two lead characters. The special effects were great however, due to the relatively blahness of the script, became unbearingly noticeable.

Coming close to the release of our new Player at work. I then have the Final Dress to go to for The Odd Couple at the BusBarn. I asked Erik to come see the show with me that night. I had a lot of lighting holes to fill and I was hoping that I filled all of them. Hunt, the director, asked everyone to sit near the front, so Erik had to move while I did my viewing from the back where the rest of the designers were. Erik had a good time I think.

We then went to Unique to dance and we ate at a new Jack in the Box that I never knew existed. I also noticed all the new apartment complexes in downtown San Jose. They are so cute. They have stoops and everything. It all reminded me of inner cities on the east coast.

Erik got me flowers. He's so cute!! hee hee

I took Erik and Kai to say the Importance of Being Earnest at the Calaveras Repertoire Theater. It was pretty fun. We then headed to Jujubees for some desserts. Unfortunately they only had enough pearl for one drink, but that meant Erik could get something else better. Some Kiwi Smoothie Dealio. Kai had the vegetable udon. Yum Yum Yum

I drive up to Berkeley to see Erik. We went to the End Up where we met up with Michael and the gang. It was funny cause I was hoping to see him but didn't expect it. We parked on a side street and I was thinking that it would be funny if he came in and parked right behind me. Lo and behold, he pulled up. It was funny. So, we went in and it was some kind of 5 year anniversary shit. Whatever it was, it meant the cover was 15 bucks. They had cupcakes, but I don't eat public food like that... HA HA. The music, in my opinion was terrible, so I didn't dance much at all.. pretty uninspired. So Erik and I cuddled on a seat near the dance floor and watched people walk by. We then went home.

It's the day before Mother's day and I have a lot of errands to run. I came home at about 8:00 in the morning and my dad was awake. He wanted me to go get sandwiches for breakfast at the Vietnamese restaurant. So, I got ready to go when he then says he wants to go invite grandma to Dim Sum instead. So, after a few calls, they are off to pick up grandma. I told them I'd catch up with them cause I had so many errands to run. I get my laundry ready and dump my dry-cleaning in the car and headout. I then go to the cemetery to visit my brother and meet my parents.

 

I get to the cemetery and they had closed of f the main road that I use to drive up to the grave site. So I had to park a little ways off and walk in. My parents and grandma arrive and we do the usual ceremonies and such. Then we leave to Mings in Palo Alto for Dm Sum. Unfortunately, some bastard decided to park in the middle of the road so all our cars were stuck .

The guy finally moves his jalopy and we have lunch. It was ok.... not very tasty, but it was much needed nourishment.

I then head up to SF to pick up my cap and gown for graduation on friday. Yeah, I have my Masters!

I then drive down to Tiffany's to see what they got for my mom and pick her something up. I then drive down to the Orchid Nursery in San Mateo to pick some orchids up for the house. By the time I got home, I was pretty tried from not getting much sleep.

However, tonight was Barbie Dockolovas Birthday party. So, I get some stuff cleaned up in my house and head to NOLAs in Palo Alto for her party. I get there and I didn't know anyone., but I was there to see Barbie, so everything was cool. The group grew pretty big and then Erik called. I told him to come down from Berkeley and celebrate with us. So he did. An hour and half later he arrives and we barely just got our table. He sat in back of me.. cause there wasn't much room on the table. I fed him the oysters and jambalaya that I ordered. We then had some fun eating some of Barbie's sundae.

Afterward, we all walk over to Q club.. or something of that nature, to dance. We danced for a while. The music was OK, and the bar was obviously over straight.. But when did that ever stop me?

We then head out around 2:00 and head to a Denny's for a rootbeer float cause I was thirsty. Yummy.

Erik is cute. Hee hee.

Mother's Day Stuff. I slept until about 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon. I then helped my brother make this patio swing thingy for my mom. We then ate and I vegged around. Erik called and then his brother fell outside and ended up getting some shards of pottery in his leg. He had to go to the store to buy some tweezers. That didn't help though so they ended up in the emergency room. Erik and I talked for a while and I got pretty tired. Brothers are so much hard work!

:)

Went to dinner with Erik and Kai. We went to the Elephant Bar cause Kai was craving it. They sat us at the same table Mariae and I were sat at the last time we went there. The waitress comes by and asks Erik if he was with someone cause one of the other waitresses thought she was cute. I'm all" Yes, he taken, wrapping my hands around him.. Bastards.

We then went bowling where we learned that Erik does this interesting kick when he bowls.

Here's Erik waiting for me to finish some of my work in my room:

 

Kai and I went to Banana Leaf for dinner. We then picked up Kenny and headed to First Billiards to play some pool. Erik was bust at school with some project. Something about Jerry Springer... Heck if I know.. ha ha

So many things to do to get ready for this weekend. I have to go get my masters thesis published at kinkos, get an oil change, check up on other crap with my car... ugg.

I went to get my oil change with Laura. The Jiffy Lube on Stevens Creek is next to an Army Surplus Store that I like to go to. I ended up getting some more army duffle bags and a cute little yak pak or my laptop.

That night I drove up to Berkeley to pick up Erik so we could drive down to LA. I got there around 11:30 and he didn't seem to be waking up. I then crawled into bed a little bit around 12:00 and we finally got going around 12:30. He bought all this stuff for the trip.. cookies and wine and such. How sweet... I suppose :)

We get to LA around 9:00 o'clock and make our way to the Hyatt in downtown LA. The hotel is pretty nice and is connecting to Macy's Plaza. So it actually opens up into a mall. The mall also has a Wells Fargo Bank. I was very impressed. Unfortunately we came in to early to check in so I decide that we would go to the convention. Erik dressed in the stairwell of the hotel and we take a taxi to the LA convention center. The line for the guest pass register's was very long. I had already registered but Erik, being a newby, hadn't.

We get in line and it only takes us about half an hour to get the pass for him. Finally, after all that, we went to find Richard and see his game at the Sony Booth.

The game was Keneti... Kontica.. Kentictica.. Konnecticut.... I dunno.... something starting with a K. It's about some chicks dressed up with wheels on their hands and feet. They then race around a three dimensional track and such. So, he made me play the game. I did so under protest. All in all, the graphics were interesting, but I must say I had no idea where I was going because the track was just to confusing and the determination between road and hole was hard to distinguish. Also, there weren't enough arrows to point me in the right direction and their weren't enough subliminal Japanese commentaries.. Or commentaries of any kind to keep me roused for more. Eh... whatcha gonna do.

Erik and I then head back to our hotel and try and check in. We get a nice room up on the 9th floor. We freshen up and head out to find something to eat. We end up at the Wilshire Grand eating at Kyoto, a Japanese restaurant therein.

We then went back to E3 and got disappointed with all the stuff cause it sucked compared to last year. I was then very tired and we headed to the GOD games drinking party across the street. We drink bad beer and meet up with a whole bunch of people that I haven't seen for a year.

Then, we somehow all ended up in my hotel room and looking for a place to eat. We found one, but ten of them disappeared due to unknown reasons and we end up from fourteen people to four. Me, Erik, Quinn (sp?), and Richard looking for a place to eat in downtown LA. We end up at this cute Italian bistro called Ciao and get waited upon.

Let me tell you about this waiter. He was one fucked up person, but very entertaining. We tells us that he's having an interesting day and that he was very honest today. And he goes on about the drugs we had taken and the mushrooms that didn't kick in and the orgy he may have had. All in all, a very entertaining man.

We then head our separate ways and I go to sleep.

 

 

I had to wake up at 6:30 this morning to take a taxi ride to LAX to take a 8:00 am flight up to San Jose. I get to San Jose and my dad picks me up and takes me home. I sleep. I then am awoken and taken to a car where I'm whisked to SF. We get to SF and I get to the meeting area where all my other classmates were getting ready for the graduation ceremony. Some of the students spoke and then a bishop spoke about ding people in the Sudan for about an hour and a half. They then did our name calling. Afterward we headed down to the BusBarn cause I was called in on some problems they were having... It was just a broken circuit. Fixed that in Five minutes and we head out to eat. Afterward, we rushed to the airport so I could make my 5:15 flight back to LAX. I get to LAX and take another taxi ride to downtown where I rest in the hotel. Erik's friend Arnold then comes and we all go to pick up Elicia for dinner. We go on a wild goose chase because of mapquest directions and end up back to our hotel. We then eat at this super expensive railway car and steal a spoon and some after dinner chocolate sticks.

I then dropped Arnold off at his car and Elicia off at home.

More Sleep

We head to the New Otani hotel to drop Richard off at his meeting with Sony and Elicia, Erik and I eat in Little Tokyo. I had Shabu Shabu.. yum. We then head over to the convention and I show Elicia Richard's game. We then wonder around aimlessly.

Richard calls and asked if she had seen the game... I said maybe... He was stressed out. I think cause he wasn't ready for this meeting that everyone was ready for.

We then went on a tour of Santa Monica and his company and we

went to one o f his co-workers place to celebrate the birthday of some guy named Fox. Everyone seemed fun. Of course, I was eating a pint of ice cream so I was already set. We stay at the party talking about toys and such till about 2:00 in the morning and then Richard finally takes us home. We say our good-byes and head to bed.

DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE. We check out of the Hyatt and head home. I take the 101 all the way down cause I wanted to see the beach. I then had a craving for KFC and we finally found one in Pismo Beach. Yum. We then trek home to Berkeley and I don't get home in Milpitas till about 11:00. Boy, it's hot.

We were gonna go bowling but that didn't happen. I was awoken by the sound of a telephone call and it was .. of course.. Erik. We talk and I tell him that I'll call him back to tell him what we're doing tonight. I then call Kai and he says that we can go bowling after the big game. Well, I fall asleep and don't wake up till 8:00. I then call Erik and tell him that he needs to get down here so we can bowl at 9:00. Well Kai calls at 8:15 telling me that he's on his way. So I tell him that Erik is coming and so he suggests pearl milk tea. I agree and we head out to eat. Erik meets us in the Asian center and we decide to go to the Texas Roadhouse for Ribs. We eat ribs. Delicious.

Erik then drops me off and that ended our non-bowling Monday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAREN!!!!!!!!!

Erik took me out on the town. We were gonna go shopping but it getting late, so he drove me to Pier 39 so we could have dinner. We went to Bubba Gumps. The alocohol was good cause you couldn't taste it. My drink tasted like lemonade. We had the bucket of boat trash. It had lobster tails that they deep fried in batter. The strange thing is that they didn't bother removing the shell from it. Oh well.

KABOOM.

I woke up this morning very well. I went to work and did my thing. Then around noon it happened. Diabetic attack. I was all tired and sick so I drove to the doctors cause I didn't have a fresh shot of insulin. I went home and vegged

Bad Day.. something is wrong. Very weak and very cold. But, I gotta run errands and get the rental car to go to LA this weekend.

So I do the things I need to do and Kai comes and picks me up with Kenny at about 10:00 and drop me off to get the rental car. The airport was packed due to memorial day. Where was everyone going? Anyay, the buss to the rental area came and I ended up having to go around in another circle of the airport which took half an hour. When I finally get to National, there is a line.

12:00 am comes around and I finally get served. THen the guy tells me I can't rent an SUV because I was under 25, even though I had already made the reservation for it. So, being to tired to complain I just got a full size for a higher price per day.

I get out to the lot and there is no one to help me and when someone finally came he told me to pick a car from the full size area. So I take my sweet time seeing which one was most comfortable. I picked a Buick something or other.

That car is fast. I drove the car from there to Berkeley that night so I could get Erik the next morning. I didn't relize I was going 100 until I looked at the speedometer. The car was just so smooth. I got there without any cops catching me and I sneak into bed with Erik.

I had a fever... I bad one.

We drive to LA... I'm dieing... Its pretty damn early in the morning. We pick up Kai and Ken. I sleep a lot

I wake up and we over the grapevine and we see a toys r us. So we had to go. Kenny and Kai started collecting Simpsons figures too. We do our thing. Erik refuses to buy e a stuffed turtle that I wanted. We then go and Erik realizes he lost his sunglasses. We doubleback, but to no avail. Thats what you get when you don't buy a priest what he wants....

We get to the hotel and they only have one of our rooms ready, but the screwed up cause they gave Kai and Kenny a single instead of a double. So Erik and I took that room and hoped that the arrangement would be cleared when they got back from lunch. My whole body was fevering so I went to sleep.

When they got back from eating Erik got me ice cream and watermelon. Yum. And then I called Elicia about dinner that night.

She picked a place called 360 in Hollywood. It was Ok.. A little pricey but we all had fun. Erik introduced Kai to a sour apple martini.

We then headed to the Pantages Theater. We got there and Erik had no idea what was going on. I pull out our tickets to give the driver directions and Erik started getting really confused. We're all going to see the Lion King musical I said. He was surprised.

Poor Elicia felt awkward cause she was talking about going to the theater during dinner but wasn't sure if Erik knew he was going yet. Then when we were leaving he asked what she was going to see and she answered.. "A play." Erik didn't know how to answer back to that and he felt a little weird about it. It was a good laugh at the end though.

The LA Lion King was just as good as the broadway one. I think the singer for mufasa was better on broadway though. We then left the theater and went back to the hotel.

I had become hungry, so I conned Erik to go get me some food. He went to Inn N Out burger.. hee hee

We woke up early and I was craving doritos and grape soda... or orange soda... So I sent Erik out to get some...hee hee. I guess I get super demanding when I'm sick. I could barely move so I told him to get me some aleve too.

We go pick up Elicia to go to Universal Studios. We eat at a Mels Diner and then head over to Universal City. My favorite part about Universal is the escalators. So many escaltors.

We had to get timed passes for the Hollywood tour thing and the Mummy Returns Experience thing.

I am still fevering with a temp of about 105... but who cares... I got aleve.

We go to Jurassic Park the Ride which they have updated to Jurassic Park III Summer Splash, in which it is the same ride but now they have random places where they shoot water at you for no apparent reason. We were more scared of the water than the actual dinosaurs. Kai hates dinosaurs now.

The Mummy Returns haunted house thing was funny. There were a bunch of lesbian mexican ladies in front of us. They kept groping each other. When we got into the haunted tomb thingy, these mummies would come out of know where and freak us out. It was sorta cool and sorta cheesy at the same time. They had people dressed up as the characters in the movie but they didn't look very egyptian.

All in all it was a good day. That night we went to Tony Romas and ate ribs. I was tired and the service wasn't too good.

We then went back to the hotel and slept.

Memorial Day.... Yah

We call up Rich and Elicia and we all head down to Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promenade. We eat at this place that is trendy for a chinese restaurant but I don't remember the name. The food ws overly soysauced. We then did the little shopping galavant and talk and such. At around 3:00 we head home to the bay area. Traffic golore... highway closures... we don't get back till really late. I keep the rental car an extra day. I say good bye to Erik

I still have the fever.. its some infection but it's going away slowly. Erik is irritated with me cause I don't want to talk. Oh well. By the end of the week he doesn't want to speak to me anymore and he's unsure of his feeling for me. Then he disappears and doesn't respond to me e-mails or calls. weird huh? By Friday I didn't need medication to get through the day but I'm sad.

Erik finally IMs me and I say I'd like to talk, so we talked on one of these days. He's afraid to talk to me. I'm intimidating and demanding or something of that sort. And then other stuff which added to his anxiety. We pretty much blewup cause he didn't want to tell me what he thought... and he still has feelings for his old Boy Friend. I'm sad again. Edmond told me to get over it since Erik is probably a cheater anyway, what am I to do?

Erik's not my boyfriend anymore cause he went crazy broadway style. Oh well.

Romania and I go to eat in SF. I drive up there and meet her brother and we head out to the city. We went to some italian place and we eat and gossip and talk about men and laugh all night long. The wine in the place sucked. We had food comas and we both headed home.

Romania and I go clubbing in SF. I get to her house and she gets ready. I watch Interview with a Vampire while she gets ready. We then go through the internet and look for a new club.

We start out going to Electric at 177 Townsend. But when we got there... it was a grungy crowd and we were dressed up to the "T". So we decide to go to a bar and wait it out a while to see if the crowd gets different. We drink and then decide to skip Electric and go to 111 Minna to some party called "Twice as Nice". The place was very artsy farsty.. with german type of images on the projection screen. The music was deep house and was awesome.

We got alittle tired and we sat down at this bench with a coffee table. Then this guy came up to us and picked up on Romania. And then he offered us a drag. MY NEW BEST FRIEND. So we smoked for half the night and drank and danced.

We then went to Denny's in Japan Town . Yummy .. things are good late at night... ha ha

I then went home very happy.

Went to get a blanket at Macy's then I went with Kai to buy some simpsons things....

Then I went to my friends house and hung out.. we smoked some more... very nice.

Vegetable day. I am a vegetable... let me sleep

WORK WORK WORK, projects left and right. Sets to design and crazy people to deal with. Why me. It make life interesting though doesn't it. I'm not talking to Erik anymore until he;s in a place where he can be a real friend again. But I'm letting him talk to me. Yeah, I guess I'm crazy too.

I wanna see Shrek, but the person I wanted to see it with can't go today due to personal reasons, I hope he's doing ok.

In other news: I went Bowling with Kai and Kenny and Anh and Jacky. We then went to Karaoke afterward. We had fun.

In talking with Kai I came up with an interesting conclusion. We spoke about how all our highschool teachers were crazy in some way. And then I was thinking... but Erik's crazy. Then suddenly it hit me! Erik coached highschool wrestling for a bit. He's Highschool educator too, therefore he is crazy by definition. It made me feel much better knowing the origin of his problem. HA HA

 

So we go to see Rent.

I come along as Anh's friend. The whole group included. Kai, Kenny, Anh, Jacky, Daniel, Adam, Wayne, Chris, and Anoop. The get together was to see Anoop off before his quest to Japan in which he may never be seen again. In any case, we get there before everyone else due to Kenny's uncanny ability to drive fast and my ability to navigate in SF.

Anh and Kenny went to the Burger King at the other side of the Orpheum Theater to go to the restroom. Then, from the across the street, Kai and I see Wayne and Chris. Well, Kai introduced me as Anh's friend Nam, but for some odd reason they thought Kai said Ricky. So, Chris shook my hand and said his name was Chris. But I was thinking, hmmm.... we went to High school together it wasn't like we didn't know each other. I guess Kai somehow confused them, but I seemed to recall him saying my name as Nam so I dunno.

Anywho, Anoop appears and I say hi.

We then head into the theater to watch the show. I've seen Rent a few times due to some unhappy circumstances in college. But, I decided that I can deal with this play again.

So we watch and it was the same. I needed sugar and a drink, so at intermission I dash down stares. I get a double shot of whisky and huge bar of kit kats. Then I saw Anoop come down from the stares, we talked a bit and asked what each other were doing. I never actually found out what Anoop was exactly doing in Japan aside from studying but he had a nice chat and the night went on.

The play ended with no problem and we head out to find something to eat. It was just Daniel and jacky and the four of us left cause the other guys decided to go their separate ways. We went to some casino in Daly City to eat. The food was ok, and we had some interesting conversations. Oh, and Kenny got a ticket cause he made an illegal left turn, SF cops are jerks. No one actually saw the sign.

We head home and end our wonderful day at the Theater.

Went to see Tomb Raider with my coworkers today. It was ok.. I guess. My favorite line, " who sits here?". Angelina Jolie has big lips. Anyway, Laura missed a bit of it cause Tevin was lost. Tevin is her kid and his daycare "lost " him cause they were understaffed. They eventually found him. Poor kid.

Laura made it and we made many jokes about the movie. When we left the theater I drove off and realized we were supposed to meet up for ice cream, then I realized I needed my insulin, then I realized I left it at home. So I booked home, and got my shot and then went to taco bell cause I got really hungry. When I got back to the office, no one was back yet. After ward, Laura and I decided to go see Atlantis, so we go to fandago.com and get our tickets to Atlantis. Hated it. It was too much like Nadia: Secret of Blue Water, it had no catchy tunes, and it was implausible that 1000 year old people with the ability to speak multiple languages didn't know how to read their own language. Disney has failed me again.

ERIK AND I ARE BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.

A lot of stuff happened. Been hanging around more with Jacky and Anh and Kenny and Kai and Romania.

Here are some Highlights:

Lori got her gall bladder removed.

Went to lunch with Lori.

Had an interesting night Karaokeing with Romania and Erik (Yes.. Crazy Erik)

Got piss assed drunk at Elephant Bar

SF Pride

Unnecessary Gay Drama

Found out why Erik is crazy

Fixed some of Erik's Craziness

Erik and I are back together again.

Oh, we went bowling one day and Jacky and Anh got me a cake that said Happy Bowling Day and Nam's Awesome. Unfortunatley the Nam's awesome part got smudged, but it was still great. Erik came, though we weren't together and he seemed to have fun. We talked that night and resolved some things. He asked me to be his the next day (June 26th).