Now I'm Craving Some Noodles. Again.

One more pic from the Festival.

The spoon was unnecessary.

If I recall, that look of disdain on my face is because a friend of mine broke my sliced egg.

I want one of these.

Eating A Crepe

Check out them Transition lenses.

In other news, I found out it's illegal for companies in the U.S. to sell corrective lenses (i.e. glasses, contacts) without a proper prescription. Makes sense. You shouldn't skimp on things like this.

I'm thinking of getting a new pair of glasses. I'm wearing the 4th pair at the moment and these are fairly old and worn. In fact, they're kinda crooked on my face.

Caught Unawares

Surprise picture taken by S-girl.

I believe I was eating corn Chex. Corn cereal has a pleasant smell in milk. Nothing smells quite like it.

More Eats

Here's another picture from that day. It was the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C., in case you were wondering why all the Japanese foods.

There's a scoop of green tea flavor on top of a scoop of mango flavor ice cream, all in between a mini-pineapple.

Also D-girl in the middle and Z-girl on the right. She seems slightly pleased.

H-hey There, Buddy ( '_' )/

I'm still alive.

Busy times.

Meanwhile, here's a picture of me eating something.

Head first. Natch.

Pho 79

I have a craving for noodle soup. The cup noodle didn't satisfy as much as I thought it would.

Speaking of pho, here's a story for you. Years ago, my brother walked into a Pho 79 (a chain of Vietnamese restaurants here) and said, "Fo seventy-nine? I heah you numba one!" in an exaggerated FOB accent. The head chef promptly kicked him out.

And that's the story. Thank you for your attention.

LOL

Annoyance #5: Poor Workmanship

Sometimes I get a craving for sodium. Not just pretzels or potato chips. I mean 'bad-for-your-health-but-tastes-so-good' sodium. I am, of course, talking about instant ramen. My uni days are behind me. I'm back home now. Those lean days of ramen noodles by necessity are over. Nevertheless, on occasion the desire for salty unhealthiness comes over me and I grab one of these.

O HAY

So I was reading my Profile Description and I noticed that I've talked about movies and games and dreams but not really much about food and life quests. So let's hear about that stuff!

AT THE SAME TIME.

Since I was a wee lad I'd had a dream. A noble dream, truly. I had always wanted to eat a swiss roll all by myself. You know what I'm talking about?

Costco Hot Dog Almost 3 Decades Later: Still $1.50

Do you guys have a Costco in your area? More to the point, do you shop there? If you do then you've seen the food court and you've probably noticed this offering.

They stopped offering the Polish Sausage at my Costco about 10 years ago, though.

I hadn't really given it much thought previously, but that is a pretty good deal these days! Good on you, Costco. The story and history behind the "Hot Dog Combo" really makes for some surprisingly interesting reading!

Feel free to check out this article if you want. I'm a pretty jaded guy but I really would like to believe that the Costco company is a nice place to work and shop.
 
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Yeah, I was feeling hungry when I wrote this. In other news, I'm thinking about starting a Tumblr micro-blog(?) so I can more easily follow them. Furthermore, I think I'm going to start another blog(spot) devoted to posting classic stuff from my childhood. That one won't have a post-everyday schedule like this one though.

Idiosyncrasy #3: Diluted

I like to dilute fruit juice. At first it was only with orange juice but the dilution has spread to other juices. I feel it gives the drinks a more refreshing and cool quality.

SLIGHT TANGENT
Costco used to sell Tropicana Orange-Tangerine juice and it was the best ever. I guess I'm the odd one because it wasn't very popular and I haven't seen it on store shelves anywhere for years.
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Anyhoo, diluted orange juice tastes slightly closer to how orange-tangerine tasted though, but that's only a small factor. After a while I started to feel that most juices were just a bit too sweet for my liking so I dilute those too. Most especially red grape juice. Definitely too sweet for me unadulterated，though white grape is fine.

My Excellent Password (￣︿￣)7 *salute*

Today I completely retired my first password.

It's a fact that most people use very simplistic passwords for fear they themselves will forget them. Despite all the advice NOT to use birthdays, names of relatives/children/pets, and what-not a lot of people still use them as passwords. Or perhaps they rationalize that if a skilled hacker really wanted to get at their data they'd get in, no matter how good their password was. That's not really good logic there but whatever. Another problem: People tend to use the same log-in name AND password for a lot of different accounts (I myself was guilty of this for a long time). Personally, I made up an awesome password and I used it for everything cuz it was so secure, so I believed. Then I realized: if someone wanted to take advantage of that tendency, they would only need to make a website, attract loads of people to register accounts and they'd basically have people handing them the virtual keys to their virtual houses. When I realized this I started to make specialized passwords for individual log-ins. Actually they would more aptly be called 'passcodes'. Sure, it's a little more complicated but it means that if people break into one room they still won't have free run of the entire house, so to speak. Think about it. If you register on some forum dedicated to, for example, discussing the TV show Game of Thrones with the same log-in and password you use for your online bank account there will be serious trouble if someone decides not to deal with the security features of the bank site and instead come through an unsuspecting fan forum, yeah?

People's faces when they see me type it in.

So any ways, I followed another piece of oft ignored advice: Change your passwords periodically. If you still use that password you came up with when you first signed up for Hotmail, you might be ok. Then again you might not. I for one, prefer peace of mind. So anyway, I completely retired the first passcode I came up with back in 10th grade. And it's pretty awesome. While my brother and sister still used, get this, they still used actual words as passwords I was using this:

yg-9f/v4rfls-g37

Yeah, super cool right?