A man's point of view...

I saw this posted in a friend's blog... I don't approve of it or anything, just thought it was funny! :P

One evening last week, my wife and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me."

I said "WHAT? What was that?"

So she says the words that every husband on the planet dreads to hear..."You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man."

She responded to my puzzled look by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?"

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed dept. store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take so I told her we'll just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit.

We went on to the jewelry dept. where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis.

I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey."

She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement.

Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all dear, let's go to the cashier."

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel like it."

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled WHAT?

I then said, "Really honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while.

You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman."

And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?"

Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either.

A glimpse of 1977

Vina recently got the haircut of her dreams. It's a little bit short n spiky near the top, longer bangs, and even longer back. Basically, it's a mullet. Then you know, I started thinking about the four of us, and how growing up we went through so many different styles of clothing. A lot of the times, my mom would yell at us before leaving to go to school or etc. and complain about our outfits.

Well, she can no longer.

While I was at home in Cerritos today, I found an old album... dated 1977. My mom was even younger than I am now. And you should see the things SHE wore...

Addicted again

The thing with eBay.. once you buy one thing, you just can't stop. I always go on these little mini eBay splurges. Today it all started with (of course) camcorder accessories. I was searching around for case/bags from Sony that were available in Japan or other countries but not here. Then I saw an aluminum memory stick cover.. I know, I know... it seems utterly useless right? But if I think about it... I get so many free little space memory sticks whenever I purchase a camera, phone, etc that they're lying all over the place. In the retail boxes, I have one in my wallet, one in my laptop, and one in my dig. camera case... if I had a memory stick case then they would ALL be in there and I wouldn't lose any! Right??

Then I started looking around for the Miss Saigon CD... the original London recording. Then I remembered that I have a Les Mis & Miss Saigon program but I don't have a Lion King program, so I bought one of those too. Then I was just messing around and looking up authors, and found that Sophie Kinsella just released another book in the US that won't be available in the U.S. until this September... so I bought one of those too.

It's eBay's fault. Once you log in, you stay logged in so it's really hard to resist a Buy it Now. And with Paypal, it makes it all so easy. Easy schmeasy. Can't wait for the mail to come. I love packages in the mail. They're like gifts. You never know what'll come in the mail that day, and when you get a package it's all too exciting. Tee hee. Addicted.

Culture night

I just got back from watching Miss Saigon at the Pantages Theater. Tonight was their closing night for the touring cast. There is just something about watching a live musical that makes a story more intriguing. This time Richard & I sat in the 8th row.. wait.. row F.. that would be (abcdef) 6th row I mean =P. For Lion King we had 2nd row seats and you could see the sweat on the actors' foreheads! But this time was pretty good too.

I didn't know a thing about Miss Saigon- just that it involved a Vietnamese girl and an American soldier falling in love. The story was simple but the music really added a lot to it. I loved all the melodies and the songs- unlike Les Miserables where the music was all dark and just eerie. I fell in love with the two main characters- Chris and Kim. Just the way everything fell into place makes you feel an instant connection. The Engineer was played really well too.

Of course being so close to the stage/speakers it was a little tough sometimes to hear the lyrics to the songs- and well if you can't hear the lyrics then you don't really hear much because there is zero spoken dialog. I thought Jennifer Paz was awesome... I really wanted to see Lea Salonga in the role but Jennifer did pretty well also. Also we saw in the playbill that one of the cast was born in Surabaya, Indonesia so Richard and I were trying to figure out which one she was :P

The ending really surprised me- I wasn't expecting it and I was just lingering on every moment that right when she shot herself my mind just stopped to try to take it all in.



Well after the show we decided to try Balboa restaurant in the Grafton Hotel. I actually wanted to eat at Chi (teehee) but it was closed, and plus Richard really wanted steak. I had heard that they had four different rubs and several different sauces to choose from: I like steakhouses that focus on flavor and not just the meat. The restaurant was very cute- the decor was very meticulous. It was very modern, and cozy. I really liked the restaurant... just not so much the food. In Richard's words, "The meat was tough, not good, and tasted like Denny's. It was a waste of $160. Tasted like a Norm's T-bone." Okay.. that was a bit harsh. The Voss water was very cute... the crab cakes weren't bad... the steak was flavorful for the first couple of bites, but towards the middle you can tell the quality isn't that good. They did have Kobe on the menu though- so I wonder what that would have tasted like. The berry dessert was very pretty- but it wasn't that good. I just told Richard that it was so he didn't feel bad :P Ok- there was one thing that was REALLY good- they have these Garlic String Beans as a side.. they were really tasty.

But I think I've been to enough steakhouses now to make a list....

Top Steakhouses ever
1. Mastro's
2. Arnie Morton
3. Flemming's (in Palm Springs)
4. Balboa
5. Ruth's Chris
6. Pacific Dining Car

And while we're at it...

Top Crab Cakes in LA
1. Mastro's
2. Tangerine
3. Gladstone's
4. Balboa
and LAST on the list... Cheesecake Factory (ew yuck!)

Cutting in line

After a quick nap at home, Richard and I drove around looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted to eat something small and tasty, he wanted a big steak. But since we're going to have steaks at Balboa Lounge tomorrow night, I begged him not to eat at Mastro's. Well, we ended up at Lawry's... on a Saturday night at 7pm. I told him it will take us WAY too long to get a table but it was too late- he had already pulled into the valet. It was REALLY crowded so I told him, why don't you pretend that we had the AMEX concierge make us a reservation for 7pm, since we were there on the dot- and they fell for it. But since we were not in the books, all they could do was cut our wait time in half and we had a table in about 20 minutes... not bad considering the other patrons had to wait an hour!

I've never been to Lawry's before 8pm... maybe my earliest dinner there was about 9pm, so I've never had their meatballs and chips in the waiting room. This time, since we were there early, there was a fresh pot of meatballs- man they were good! Even the fresh-baked chips were good. Or maybe I was just really, really hungry since I didn't have any lunch. So, a California and Diamond Jim Brady cut later, we were too full to have dessert, even though their hot chocolate cake is probably the best I've had.

And that was my Saturday night.