This weekend I did a bunch of random things. It started on Friday with trips to Circuit City, Kuru Kuru Sushi, Wal-Mart, and chillaxin’. I actually prefer Kuru Kuru to Genki, I think. The workers there are always working hard, and the sushi is good. And of course, their coffee gelatin in condensed milk dessert is winnahs!

Saturday was a cool day. Sifu and I ate at Well Being Porridge, located on Keeaumoku. The menu featured many different porridge dishes (or ‘Juk’). They had vegetable, kimchee with seafood, abalone, red bean, mung bean, pumpkin, and more I can’t remember. Each dish came with sides of pickled peppers, kimchee, greens, and a cold kimchee soup. I paid $9.99 for my vegetable with chlorella meal. Sifu liked his Kimchee and seafood porridge very much.

After porridge, I visited the 50th State Fair in the day for a change. I almost always would go in the night once I hit high school age, but this year I had a desire to go in the daytime to get some pics and maybe because it reminds me of my small-kid time days when we went before dark. The fair has a totally different vibe depending on the time of day or night one attends. I had fun though I didn’t play any games (prizes didn’t look too good) and didn’t ride any rides. I did watch Hendrick’s Pig Racing show, which was cute. More than anything I was content to be walking around and looking at everything. I had a lot of fun.

Sunday, Rich and I headed to Punchbowl National Cemetary in the morning to take some pictures. My father is there, along with 2 uncles, and one aunty. We stopped by my father’s niche in the older section of the columbarium. We didn’t stay long. I can’t really visit my dad with other people and stay too long by his niche. But he knows I was there… and it was good to see the flowers my sister and mother had dropped off earlier in the morning. Later in the day I ate Korean spicy squid, and walked around Waikiki for about 1.5 hours with Sifu. I can’t run for a bit since my right shin has been sore, so at least I got some walking time in. We stopped at Don Quijote for Hornsby’s and I bought wheat cakes and reduced-price strawberry robin eggs– Not bad! Furious guitar hero session followed later in the night

Today, the last day of the 3-day Memorial Day weekend, I woke up feeling that slightest nagging feeling in the back of my head, telling me I have to go back to work the next morning. I was able to ignore it at times, though it made it hard for me later in the evening to call it a day… I had sushi for lunch, and Leftover spicy squid for dinner. In the afternoon I walked around UH campus with Sifu, and got in about 36 minutes of walk-time. It took a while, but I sure do feel nostalgic about college this year. When I graduated in 2005 I didn’t miss it at all!

I watched some TV with Sifu, and chilled until I had to go home cause I knew I’d have to sleep kinda early so I could get to work early and load up the Alaska data we received on one of the test servers in the office. But it’s one of those weird things where I didn’t want the day to end, so in my mind, the sooner I went to bed, the sooner I’d have to go to work… but then the rational side said, at least I can leave work early if I go in early.. so I left for home. As a kid I always felt the same way at the end of the weekend. Funny how some things don’t change.

I didn’t study at all this weekend, and didn’t get much work done, but I had a great time just walking around, and cruising. Not thinking about work… and not worrying about anything. This weekend I felt like I actually did a great job of “living in the moment” up until about 4 or 5 PM on Monday, when the back-to-work anxiety started moving in.

I decided not to go to the Lantern Festival. I didn’t feel like it, I guess. I’d seen banners all around Waikiki and I appreciate that they hold stuff like that. I hope the spirits out there are happy and free.