Ray's Crab Shack

Went to Ray's Crab Shack because babe wanted to see how good it actually was compared to The Boiling Crab. I've heard good things about it. No one really complained about it or anything, and yelpers even said it was pretty good.

Unfortunately, the experience for my boyfriend and i wasn't the greatest. We went in with an open mind and gave it a chance. Perhaps they were having a bad kitchen day or something, i don't know. My boyfriend especially, being a huge fan of The Boiling Crab, was very disappointed by the outcome.

When we entered the restaurant, we were pretty please by the setting of the place. Everything looked really nice and comfortable. It was like a fancier version of The Boiling Crab. The bibs were nicer, and they even gave us gloves (although we preferred not to use them). The food came out, and that's when the disappointment and judging began.

The shrimp sauce was real pasty, and had a strange taste to it. I don't know what it was but it wasn't the type of flavor that you can continually eat, where you'd get sick of it fast. As a person who doesn't really like shrimp in the first place, i'd say my opinion of the shrimp would be bias. However, judging by the fact that The Boiling Crab was able to make their shrimp delectable to someone who generally doesn't like shrimp, i feel like i can say that Ray's Crab Shack's shrimp was not up to par. But since i'm not much of a shrimp person, i let that one slide a little bit until i got to the corn. I was so sad when i took the first bite of my corn. It was plain and...plain. There was no flavor to it except for the pasty shrimp sauce that i didn't even enjoy in the first place. Then we have the Cajun fries. The fries appeared as if they came from the frozen section of the grocery store, and this place just took that and threw it in the oven and added some Cajun powder on it. Another downside is that they got soggy, fast. My boyfriend and i only ate a couple and didn't finish it all.

Maybe we were being a little harsh on the place because we are so used to The Boiling Crab, but goodness, that was such a disappointing experience. My experience at Ray's Crab Shack has actually made me like The Boiling Crab a little more, since my boyfriend and i go there so much i sort of got sick of it. Going here actually made me crave Boiling Crab a little.

Babe's Birthday: Boiling Crab

On the 27th, i joined his family for dinner at Boiling Crab. Babe, his friend, and i went to the Boiling Crab on Curtner Rd. before his family did to put our name down. The wait was said to be about 2 hours. We got there around 6pm i believe and since Boiling Crab is his all time favorite restaurant ever, we had to wait to eat there.

Well i didn't even eat anything the whole day, so i had to go over to the Target in the plaza and get myself a hotdog. That hot dog practically saved my life. We ended up waiting 3 hours to get seated. I would have probably passed out or something if it wasn't for that hot dog. Anyways, we took a while to get everyone's order down. It was a party of 11. I got my usual: One pound of mild Lemon Pepper shrimp with a corn in the bag, Sprite, and Cajun fries. We waited for a couple minutes and then our waitress came back telling us that the kitchen has informed her that they have ran out of shrimp. That was the first time i've ever heard of such a thing. You would think that at a place like that, where the shrimp demand is the highest that they'd have an endless supply of shrimp. Well dang, i think my boyfriend and his sister were bouta tear the place down. We seriously waited way too long to not be able to get any food...Luckily though, they said that they'll go down to the Boiling Crab down on E. Capitol and get us the shrimp. So we waited another 20-30 minutes to get our food out to us. I guess in the end it was all worth it to his boyfriend. He rather wait a longass time to get his favorite food on his birthday than not have it at all.

Ended the night drinking with his friends. He took me home early because i didn't have my car and he didn't want random guys taking me home. I was alright kind of buzzed when i got home. He waited till after he dropped me off to start his night off. Kind of sucked on my part because i wanted to party with him on his birthday, but i didn't get the chance to do that. I guess it's alright because technically, i did spend his birthday with him. :)

Happy Birthday Baby!!! :p

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Babe's Birthday

I took my boyfriend out to celebrate his birthday on the 26th. Originally, i wanted to have the whole day as a surprise so then he wouldn't know what we would be doing as the day goes by. However, since i'm the worse with planing and i was pretty skeptical about whether or not he would enjoy my plans or not, i decided to just tell him the night before.

I told him to try to wake up early and be ready by 12 so we can head out to San Francisco. I took him to GoKart Racer in Burlingame, SF. It was our first time GoKarting. I thought that i wouldn't really enjoy it too much, but it was a pretty fun experience! It was kind of hard to turn the steering wheel, so i had to drive faster to make it easier. I got stuck on the track about 3 or 4 times because i either ran into the walls or got stuck behind someone else who ran into the wall. Everyone was going hella fast, and i thought i was going fast too but the lady on the track kept telling me to move out of the way because there were faster drives coming up at me. Eventually i found my boyfriend and i tried keeping up with him, but then lost him momentarily after.

Originally i wanted to go to Japan Town to have some crepes because he never had crepes before, but then when we got done with Gokarting, it was later than we expected and we were kind of tired and hungry. So we just headed back home to my house to grab some stuff and headed out to San Jose to have dinner at Maggiano's Little Italy. I remember when i first met him, he told me how he liked eating there. He also was considering taking me there for my birthday. So i took my little Italian boy to Little Italy. :) The bill came out to be pricey; however, it was cheaper than what i expected it to be. We were surprised that for a place as fancy as this, they gave us little lemon cookies with candles stuck in them, rather than and actual mini cake or something.

After dinner, we went to mountain view to AMC mercado to watch Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. We got a little behind on time with dinner. We were planning to watch the movie at 9pm, but when we got in the theatre, it was packed. So we had to go watch the movie in IMAX at 10:20pm. Instead of sitting in the theatre waiting till then, we walked around the plaza and went to TJMax. I bought a Michael Kors bag (which is now my favorite bag) for about $170. It's original price was $320. So not too bad. It's a nice leather bag too. And matches the Toms my boyfriend got me for Christmas. :)

The movie in IMAX was whatever. I thought it'd be really amazing since i paid an extra five dollars for each ticket, but i barely noticed how different the quality was. The lady told us that IMAX is suppose to be better image quality and surround sound. I guess that you just can't really tell because you don't exactly have anything to compare it to. And also, when sitting in a theatre, it's generally loud. So i don't know. I don't think it's worth paying an extra 5 dollars for.

Good day with my baby, and i'm glad he enjoyed his day. :)

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Christmas 2011

This is the first Christmas i got to spend with my boyfriend. It's nice how accepting they are of him and even went out of their way to get him gifts also. We celebrated christmas this year at my brother's house. He just got new furniture for his home, and his house looked super cozy.

Christmas doesn't seem to be the same as it used to anymore. I'm guessing it's just because we're all getting older and we don't care too much about it anymore? I don't know. What we all look forward to is probably just the Christmas dinner, and the family time spent together. The gifts is just a plus.

Bunny in a fishing net.

Well, i hope everyone had a nice and cheerful Christmas. :)

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Newpark With Jessica

I woke up this morning and got ready to start my day. Took a shower, did my everyday makeup and dried my hair. Afterwards, i made myself a bowl of pho, watched Big Bang Theory, and curled my hair.

I had plans today to go hangout Jessica finally ever since we graduated. Finally i was getting to see her! We were never able to work out a schedule that fit with the both of us, and we finally made it work out. We were going to get lunch, but i decided that i rather eat at home because i've been spending way too much money this week. So, i just accompanied her at Newpark for a couple hours. She was just trying to find a couple of things to buy for people on her Christmas list. I found a gift for my mom finally. It was nice to finally get to see her. She's wearing making now! I was shocked. o:

So i bought Lena grey Toms for Christmas, just like she wanted. She really wanted Toms, so i got them for her. Obviously i wouldn't tell her what i got her though; however, she went and asked her aunt from her dad's side of the family to get her grey Toms. Sigh...so now, i have to go find something else for her -- which sucks because it probably wont be that great of a gift anymore. Such a disappointed.

I still need to get my dad and brother something, i plan on getting that done tomorrow for sure.

& I finally get to see my baby tomorrow! I missed him so much.

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Gift Wrapping + Tram

Wrapped up all the gifts i bought today for my family. It took a long time for some reason, and i ran out of one roll of the penguin wrapping paper. I hope i have enough to wrap the gifts i'm about to buy for my mom, dad, and brother.

Well i wanted to go to Valleyfair today again to return some stuff that i bought from there on Monday, so i asked Tram to accompany me. I haven't seen her in so long! I swear she is the WORSE person to go shopping with. Omfg. I intended to go there just to return stuff to get my money back, in the end i spent it all again. -___________- I returned the pants i bought from Arden B which were about 60 something. I then ended up buying a leather jacket from there that was 45 dollars. It was on sale. I guess i've been looking for a black leather jacket anyways...but gosh i'm just spending so much money this week that it hurts so much to spend more. I can't help it. Went to Victoria Secret's because she wanted to return something and i ended up spending 80 dollars there. Sigh. SIGH. I guess i'm just going to go return other stuff and get my money back. Maybe i don't exactly need a trench coat. I'll see...hmph. I was going to buy myself a Michael Kors watch too as a gift to myself, but after spending so much money on gifts and unnecessary money on myself (lol), i don't think i will anymore.

It was nice seeing Tram again. We caught up, i plan to see her again sometime during our break. :)

I hella miss my boyfriend, but he's busy tonight and couldn't come see me. What makes it worse is that he left his phone at home so i can't even talk to him. Bleh. Okay bye!

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Baking With Lena

Picked Lena up today from school and went to Newpark because i was looking for a white sweater or cute blouse/button up so i can wear for my family party and/or my boyfriend's family party. I was unsuccessful with trying to find a sweater/button up, but i found a cute blouse!

We went back to her house to start baking. She wanted me to come over to her house so i can help her bake mini cheesecakes for her classmates, because tomorrow is the last day of class before her winter break and her birthday is on Friday. It seriously took a lot longer than i expected it to. I think we would have finished faster if we didn't mess up the first batch. Three batches in total, and one failed. It didn't exactly fail on us because it still tasted good. Just Lena didn't like it because it was hella ugly. The next two batches we made turned out looking better, the crust crumbled a bit when removing it from the foil. I don't know what she'll be doing about that.

I never realized how easy it was to actually bake. It's the whole making the goodies turn out like perfection that's the challenge. Because although they come out ugly, it still tastes good. :)

Four more days till Xmas!! :D

Six more days till Babe's birthday :p

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Xmas Shopping

Woke up today thinking it was going to be a good day, and nonetheless, it was definitely a good day! I had a pretty productive morning, and a rather productive rest of the day as well. For the rest of the week, i hope to be able to keep myself busy with things to do. Whether it's hanging out with a friend, cleaning the house, or reading a book, i want to not have to sit at home contemplating about what to do and thinking how boring the day is.

Anyhow, i had a productive day today at the mall. I was suppose to go Christmas shopping on Saturday, but i had a minor setback with my plans and ended up not going. So my boyfriend and i went today. I didn't realize how late i am was on getting my Christmas shopping done! Luckily i got most of it done today, i was afraid that i wouldn't be able to. I only have 3 family members left, but i'll probably get their gifts tomorrow. Gosh i was getting so antsy at the mall, i hella just wanted to stop and go home but i just had to finish buying stuff. My feet started hurting and became stressed out from contemplating on what to get certain people, as well as the crowded mall itself.

I'm happy though because i finally found nice black jeans that fit me! I've been searching for nice black jeans for such a long time now, and i finally found a pair that i like. They're comfortable, and fit nicely in all ways. It's a little long, but i can bear with it. I'd be even more pleased if i was able to find decent black boots, i've been trying to find ones i loved for such a long time now too! You gotta love the things you buy, not just buy em cause it's close to what you wanted. Am i right, or am i right? I'm right!

I spent more money than i expected to spend, and i'm super super blown away by how much i even spent, and how many times i even swiped my card today! Just mind blown. o: I was like damn, i'd never spend this much money all for myself but shoot.....i'd love to. Wouldn't you love to spend a lot of money for yourself? Maybe one day...maybe one day when i get a job. I was thinking about that today while i was standing in line with my boyfriend. Just the whole day spending so much money, i felt kind of good that i was able to even though i wasn't spending all this money on myself. Just i know it's going to just disappear soon because i have no income, so i thought about it. I don't really know yet. I want to work somewhere i'd enjoy. Definitely NOT retail. I'll see! :)

Goodness, i'm just super excited Christmas now. I'm almost ready! Gotta buy the rest of my family members their gifts, wrap everything up, and then plan my holiday outfit. :p

I'm looking forward to the rest of the week.

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My day on 12/15/2011

Can't wait for Saturday, so i can spend some time with my baby again. He's going to accompany me while i go Christmas shopping for my fammm. Hehe, he's my favorite shopping buddy.

Gotta cherish these upcoming weeks where he's free because soon he'll just be a busy busy little bee for a whole month or two! Ahh, i'm going to be so sad and lonely not being able to see his cute little self as often anymore. Which sucks because i have a whole month off from school until i start my second semester, and i wont even be able to see him on the daily. Talk about a lame break! But i guess i'll just have to make the best of it for myself with or without him.

Today was pretty much my first day of break and i was literally in bed the whole day. To be honest, i'm pretty disgusted of myself. Bleh. After i made myself a giant bowl of Pho, i had super bad food coma and my bed just looked so warm and inviting...and then it trapped me there for the rest of the day. :l

Well i ended my night on a pretty good note. I picked up my book and read a couple chapters of Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. I'd have to say sitting here on my bed reading made my night quite relaxing and peaceful. The internet had nothing to offer me.

I don't know what my plans are for tomorrow, but i sure don't want to spend it in bed again. I just have no one to call up anymore. Sigh, i'll see what i will do. Maybe i'll clean my house...

Alright by everyone!

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Masks

I'm trying to find the deeper meaning of this poem. I sort of understand the idea of it, but i'm not sure if i fully grasp it or not. Hmm...it's having me think quite a bit.

I'm going for something along the lines of either how some people go upon their lives not being true to themselves/the world and when trying to find someone ideal for them, it's difficult because the possibilities of that other person going through their life "masking" their true identity as well...

Or perhaps just, people go through life so fast that they don't stop to realize that what they're looking for is right there. It could also hold the same concept as what i mentioned above, people "masking" their true selves as well as going through life so fast.

Whatever it is, i like this poem.

Well Idk.

I just want to make some type of impact on someone life where i mean so so much to someone. Where when things go wrong in their lives, they still think life is alright because they still have me. Where they'll let me be there for them. I want people to think that life is better than what they make it seem. Can i make life better for any one of you?

I'm not very good with comforting people, but i try my best. At the same time i don't always want to just be soft, because sometimes you got to get slapped in the face and realize things about yourself. Sometimes people don't tell you things because maybe it's too harsh. Hey, i get shit all the time. Quit your bitching, stop over analyzing things...cold truths but i try to take them into consideration to build me up as a person. Maybe the things said are solely opinions from one person, but it wouldn't hurt to have an open mind on what others say. I know, i know, fuck what others think. There are those sayings where they tell you that other people opinions don't matter. However, SOMETIMES maybe ones opinion is actually a problem you can fix.

I'm still working on my problem, i'm taking a while with fixing it but i'm trying.

I'm Just Grateful

I know that although i don't have very much, that i'm a very lucky person. I don't have the nicest things, and i don't live a glamourous lifestyle nor do i appear to have one. (You know how some people, they don't really live glamorously yet they just appear to live that way -- nice things all time?)

I'll be honest, i'm lazy. Most of this laziness comes from the fact that i live a pretty easy life. My mom constantly tells me how lucky i am that i don't have to do anything, just school. Jeeze, i am lucky i guess. My parents aren't the type of parents who make me do things for myself. They don't make me go to work, or do anything. Most kids my age have to work their ass off and go to school at the same time. I guess they can handle it, but in some cases it can be rather stressful for them. I know for me it would because i'm not so used to that. My parents don't make me to any of that because they want me to focus all my attention on school. They don't want me to be working and not have enough time for my studies. So i'm lucky because i don't have to work as hard as most students do. I'm not a full time student with a part-time job who has to pay for my own gas.

Paying for your own gas is the biggest hassle for students right now, am i right? Or no...? Judging off the fact that gas is really expensive, and for students who have to pay their own gas they have to find a way to do that. With the minimum wage they're receiving, generally more than half of their paycheck goes to gas. The rest is for food, if they eat out or other expenses. Gas is always killer. Don't get me wrong, just because i don't have to pay for my own gas it still hurts me to have to get gas. I do keep my parent's money in mind, and i try to conserve my gas so i don't have to use too much of their money.

I'm lucky because i have such loving parents. I try my best to show them i love and appreciate them, and i'm glad that they aren't hateful towards me. I'm glad that they don't yell at me, and that they show their love for me. I'm glad we can share laughs with each other and have a healthy relationship with one another. As goes for my siblings.

There is just so much in my life that i'm grateful for. I'm a lucky person, i really am. I have a wonderful boyfriend, a wonderful family, and i'm young and alive.

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Signed up for my classes yesterday, and only got one of the four classes that i originally wanted. The other ones were just completely full. Such a bummer! I thought i had it all figured out till the last minute when it was finally time for my registration date and i had to scurry away and plan out a new schedule that would fit nicely as quickly as possible in the case that other classes would get filled up in the next few minutes or so.

I didn't feel like i had the time to go through ratemyprofessor.com to see if the teachers would be good teachers or not; nor did i really have to choice. I was limited to which teachers and class times i could chose from because other ones were full. I kind of just had to go with it if i wanted to acquire more units. Also, i had to chose alternative classes to take instead of the ones i originally was planning to take. I guess it's alright because i didn't really feel like taking stats next semester, but now i have to take speech. I don't know much of what that class is, but i know for sure that i will NOT like talking in front of people....too shy.

Well, i paid for my classes today and now i'm just hoping that next semester will go well for me.

Babe and i also celebrated our 6th months yesterday. We didn't do much. It was basically just what we would do any other day but with more of an obligation to do it. As in, we planned the whole day before hand and intended to stick to it. Whereas, on any other day it's more of a suggestion to do certain things and the question of should we or should we not, do you want to go or not type of thing.

He had his friend make this for me. It's a photo of us painted on a canvas with a spray paint gun. I would say "spray painted" on a canvas, but he specifically told me that it's not spray paint from a spray paint can, but paint from a paint gun. I absolutely love it! I always wanted something like this to be honest. It's "artsy". And now i have one of my baby and me on my wall! I just love the way it is, i don't know how to explain it. I guess light vs. shadow, and how his friend captured it i guess. I really don't know how to explain it. LOL. But i absolutely love it. Although i put a lot of thought in what i got from him, i feel like this is just so much more sentimental and can hold more of a value.

We finally went to the nail polish place in SJ that i've been dying to go to for so long now. I got some nice nail polishes that caught my eye, and one i've been trying to get for a while now. Couldn't get the Designer...De Better from The Muppets' Collection though, and that's the one i've been dying to get my hands on. What a shame.

Then we went to Boiling Crab for dinner, yes Boiling Crab. He loves that place, and i'm merely sick of it. For some reason though, the past few weeks i was kind of craving it so i decided that we should just go there for dinner. It was good till i hit the last 5 shrimps, and i was back to that "i'm sick of this" stage.

Afterwards we went back to my house so i can change into comfy clothes because he wanted to go rent a Redbox movie and watch it at his house. So, we went and rented Limitless starring sexy Bradley Cooper and went to his place and watched it on his comfy couch with his giant T.V. It was a hella good movie!

Basically it's just about the main character Eddie, who at the beginning of the movie is living like a bum and not really doing much with his life. One day he runs into his ex wife's brother who introduces him to this mind enhancing drug that gives you 100% access to your brain. (Because according to the movie an average person can only access 20% of the information stored in the brain...i think it was 20.) Anyways, so he experienced his first pill and it made him into this super intellectual guy. He thought it was incredible! So he went to go find the brother to ask for more, turns out people were after him for his pills and killed him and ransacked his home to find the pills. Eddie ended up being able to find his stash and took it with him. And blahblahblah, the rest of the movie is how he turned his life around because of the drug and some guy was after him for the drug and so on. Watch it! It's suspenseful.

Once the movie was over, we went back to my house where we layed in bed together while he was on my computer going through supraforums and craigslists, and i just fell asleep.

I had a nice day with him, just like any other day of course. :)

Happy Sixth Months Babe, i love yaaah. ♥

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