Another weekend rambling/summary
This weekend was originally supposed to be another nothing weekend, but all sorts of last minute plans messed that up (including a last minute cancellation of cancellation). Ah well, it was still a good weekend.
Not really part of my weekend, but Friday afternoon, my group at work had a teambuilding get-together at Campo Di Bocce in Los Gatos. If you don’t know what bocce ball is, well, go look it up; it’s one of those leisure sport thingies, like mini-golf or bowling. I went here before for a recruitment event a long time ago, but I didn’t play any bocce ball. This time I got to play, and it was really fun! Nobody in my group plays this regularly, so we were all about equally terrible. It’s very team oriented and social; I can see why it’s so popular for corporate functions. Even tho all the sub-groups (who have the same manager) of our group got split up, it was still fun to interact with everybody. I really, really like my group (with the exception of one person. Lucky for me, he decided to (for the second time at a teambuilding company outing) RSVP saying that he’d go and subsequently not show up without telling anyone. I even ran into him as he was leaving, and he talked to me like he was heading to the event. What a dumbass.), so I’m glad I got to do this with them. My team even somehow managed to tie for first place, so we got little trophies and free movie tickets. Whee!
Friday night, I passed out from 8PM to midnight, woke up for 4 hours playing some games, and then passed out again.
Saturday was supposed to be a free day. Last Thursday was Kelvin’s niece’s 2nd birthday. We hadn’t heard of any parties for Naomi, so we assumed Keni and Susie were busy with kiddie birthday parties all weekend (them and a bunch of friends all had babies around the same time). We called Naomi to tell her happy birthday and asked Susie when would be a good time to drop off a present for her. She told us Saturday night when we were coming over for family dinner to celebrate Naomi’s b-day… oh, okay. So Saturday afternoon, we made last second trip to Toys’R'Us. We got Naomi something called Moon Sand; my manager said his almost-3-year-old was loving that stuff. As I mentioned before, I also got myself video games, more specifically Drawn to Life (DS), Rune Factory (DS), Karaoke Revolution American Idol (PS2), Picross DS, Brain Age 2 (DS), and Baten Kaitos Origins (GCN).
When we got to Susie and Keni’s, we were the first people there. Kelvin quickly busted out the Moon Sand Adventure Island set we bought for Naomi, since we were both pretty curious about the stuff ourselves (plus we didn’t even bother wrapping the present). I thought it was good to give her the nicest Moon Sand set, the one with several molds, nice case, different colored sands. More flexibility, right? Of course, there’s not much flexibility when the sand is all mixed together into one giant weird colored blob. And we thought getting the one with the case would be easy to clean up (the box even says easy to clean up). And it is… if the person using it understands to do all their handiwork above the case; Naomi isn’t quite there yet. The stuff is fun to play with, but with a 2-year-old, very messy. Thankfully, it vacuums up real good, so we weren’t permanently messing up anything in the living room. We spent the rest of the evening chatting with family and being auntie and uncle to Naomi and Sonoma. For dinner, we had random Chinese food, and for birthday cake, they served the very delicious guava delight from Aki’s. (Yay! Cake!) On the way home, we saw these silly bunnies hopping in their seats and shaking their SUV to loud rap music on San Tomas:
I could hear the girl driver shrieking, “Are they taking pictures??” Heehee, silly kids.
Sunday afternoon, Kelvin and I dropped off an old TV and some old computer stuffs to Earth Care Recycling for my mother. Sunday evening, we had dinner with Andrew at the Olive Garden, who happen to have their Never Ending Pasta Bowl dealio again. Andrew gave us our own copies of Redeath, Fanboy Bebop, and Nescaflowne; he got a light scribe, so the DVDs look really awesome. Of course, I totally forgot to bring the CD of Daft Punk photos and videos I made for him. I even had it out on my desk so I would remember! Phooey. Next time I guess…
New thing I learned today: The little silver ball (the target ball) in bocce ball is called a pallino.
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