9'ers

My old man and I went to the 49'ers game yesterday. They played against St.Louis Rams.

As I mentioned earlier, I had wanted to get into sports more, because my old man was really into them. He's been a fan of the 9'ers ever since he came to USA, when the 9'ers were actually really good. So I bought the tickets as a gift for my old man for his birthday.

I had my eyes on two tickets vs. the Buccanears on ebay. They were really good seats, and for an incredible price, so incredible I almost thought it was a scam. When the bid ended, the highest bidder won by $1.15. I was the second highest. :( Thank God I wasn't the highest bidder though. Not only did I get Rams tickets for the same price, I got to know the seller, who turned out to be an awesome guy. Super nice, helpful, and generous; a true authentic 49er's fan. It was a real pleasure doing business with him.

On game day, my old man and I left at 11am planning to get there at 12pm and get in-n-out on the way. I was rambling along, as usual, while my old man was driving. Before we knew it, we had missed the in-n-out exit. So we set our new via point to Mc.D's on my GPS, which was the same exit as the Candlestick Park. Turned out we couldn't get to Mc.D's because all the roads were blocked for traffic control for the game.

With an empty stomach and full of exitement, we got into the park. The parking lots were already full with people tailgating. Eventually though, we got too hungry and gave in to the hot dogs in the stadium in 3rd quarter. The weather was perfect! Hot, but not too hot. The game was awesome with a  lead, behind, come back, tie, and then overtime. Our seats were simply great: Lower East Stand: Row 6, Seats 6 & 7. We got to exit through the field when the game ended, where we took this picture:

We had a great time at the game, and ended the wonderful day with a wonderful dinner at Olive Garden. We didn't know alot of the things to a NFL gameday, but we will for sure do better for the future games we go to.

*On a side note: My Betta has a name now--Alpha Chen*

Betta

Thank you, Jonathan Hui. You're so nice.

Beginning of October
Me: I want a fish for my birthday.
Jonathan: When's your birthday?
Me: It's coming up.
Jonathan: When is it?
Me: Nov. 8
Jonathan: How is that coming up? Remind me when it gets closer.

Got a new addition to my room today. I've been expecting it for a month now. To welcome it home, I cleaned up my whole room so that it'd like living here, and so that it'd actually have a place to live. My water heater was moved. Was actually expecting a fish bowl, but the purple fish tank is way better. My filtered water and cups had to make way. And my desk is now missing its desk light.

Planned on naming it Fishy, but after actually meeting it for the first time, I realized it's not a Fishy at all. Don't have a name for it yet, I'm sure it'll hit me soon though.

1/5 Century

It is my one-fifth century birthday. not a teenager anymore.

It's a very nice birthday this year. I've celebrated twice so far, and I'm expecting twice more. :) 1st: at the Halloween costume party with 4 other birthdays. 2nd: at Vita/Darren's with hotpot, black forest cake and 三國殺. 

And, speaking of Vita/Darren, they just got married last Friday! I skipped part of my friday physics class for it. It was definitely worth it. According to my classmates, someone complained about the online homework for 3/4 of the class, and they looked at some waves for the 15 minutes left. I'm glad I missed it. 

It was definitely a birthday week for me. Thursday night, my old man and I went to Walmart to get a king-sized purple case for my king-sized pillow (from Jessica) that's been living in a twin-sized pillow case until now. Then we watched 1/4 of Lord of the Rings 3 (we'll finish it when our eyes aren't half-closed). I was so excited for the new pillow case that the first thing I did when I got home was laundry.

Went to Joshua on friday night for most of the other Calebians were at the Warriors/Jazz game. We talked about: don't steal. What I learned: part of what stealing means is not giving someone else what is rightfully his/hers, which can apply to so many things that I've never thought of as stealing before. Stealing the truth from others, aka. lying. Stealing from God, aka. not tithing. I enjoyed the samll group very much.

Saturday was Albert Liu and Vicky's wedding. It was in Sacramento, so my old man, Yi and I took a one-day road trip. We left at 9 in the morning. Of course, the wedding wasn't in the morning, but we wanted to get there in time for the opening of a Japanese seafood buffet. Man, it was exactly what I've been craving for for the longest time. Yi's a pretty cool guy. The wedding was really pretty, the food was awesome--shrimp and scallop, and prime rib. Vicky was gorgeous. and so was Emily. It was an absolutely enjoyable day, partly because the wedding was nice, and partly because Emily was there, but mostly because I got to spend some time with my old man's friends: Yi Luo, David, and Alex Huang. Thanks be to God for the ending of daylight savings to be on Sunday. One more hour of sleep after our late return from Sacramento.

For my birthday, Sherry gave me a set of lip balm and exfoliator, my mom gave me Aloa (she gave it to me last year, but it counts as a present for all the special days for the rest of my life) and she also bought me a cake, she also offered me a new phone but I declined because don't think I need it, and my old man gave me a new comforter and case. My bed just got a makeover with the new king-sized pillow case and my awesome new comforter. It looks much more mature with the darker purple--very suitable with my new age!

Thanks to all my lovely friends and family for sharing the 20 years I've had so far on this planet. Praise the Lord for breathing into me 20 years ago on this day. Pray that God bless me and use me in my 21st year of life all the more.   

Halloween

So, Halloween has passed and the Giants didn't win on Halloween day. But it's alright, that means we'll get to watch more of those wonderful games.

Strike?

Nope!

The costume party was pretty fun. Caleb/Genesis made our costumes the day before. We wanted to have the theme of Lord of the Rings. But we didn't know which characters to be, and we wanted easier costumes. Thankfully, Johnson thought of the perfect theme--easy and funny.

As motivation, I bought two bags of chips and a bag  of skittles, Vita  bought a bag of chocolates, and Raymond provided us with iced tea. So we took a couple of hours to make costumes for 12 people. It was tiring, but I still enjoyed it. And though we only wore the costumes for about 10 mins on saturday, it was worth it. Special thanks to Charles Lin for being our bowler and Ryan for being our ball.

Some other costumes were Joshua: sushi and Galilee/Jordan: sheep and shepherd, Angela Ha and John: Taylor Swift and West. They were all great costumes, ours was the best though (subjectively, of course).

The food was awesome! My favorite: Don's fried chicken. The five of us scorpions got to enjoy the best cake ever! Fanny's mom made us two green tea and red bean cakes. They were the bomb. If you ever want legit awesome chinese food or dessert, Fanny's mom's got them.

Don't doubt. I'm naturally tall like that.