Sam's Blog

The title of this post is Monica's new motto in life. I think that it's great for her! It's not like she was an alcoholic or anything, but she was just saying it because she is trying to focus on more important things in life and I commend her. It was a great weekend. The "brownies" from D12 were back together again (including the honorary "whitey" Kate) and it was just like old times again. Though we are all going different places, I am glad that we were able to get together one last time. We went to C & O Cucina, a new restaurant from the owners of the popular C & O Trattoria in Marina Del Rey. It was rather tasty, but I like the original better. They do have the yummy garlic rolls there too, so it's worth it. We then found out the hard way that the W was closed and I ventured to catch up with Nate's party at Q's. Nate was having too much of a great time and we got free drinks all night because one of his friends from work was flirting with the bartender. It was nice to see John and Erica again too.

Sunday was awesome because the weather was perfect for bike riding and that was what we did. We introduced Monica to Coral Tree Café before our bike ride and she became an instant fan. I ordered the Latin latte, my new favorite drink, with my breakfast. It was weird because the people that were there were sooo LA/Brentwood. It felt like I was underdressed and felt ashamed because I was eating something with carbs in it. Oh well, I've never really cared for that type of trendy and glamorous lifestyle anyway, but should I? Eh, whatever. I would like to think of myself as too cool for school and leave it at that! He he he!! Alexis and I rode a tandem bike and it was sooo much fun! I recommend that everyone ride one sometime in their life. It's great and we sang show tunes and other great songs, like "Build Me Up, Buttercup," and the Doublemint gum jingle while people looked on and thought that we were dorks. While we were singing "I Will Survive," I heard someone call out, "Sam Sim!" and I turned around and it was Rob Scholz and a friend that looked familiar, but I was too far away to recognize. We tried to stop the bike but it was really hard to do so and once we did, he had already started walking away and it took us a long time to get back into our rhythm again, but it was so funny. I guess it's a small world after all. Speaking of which, I ran into two old friends from my early college years at Q's, of all places. I was waiting in line and I ran into Kelly and her sister on her way out. Kelly and I worked together for years at Starbuck's and she just finished her master's program in library science and is working in a Cold War museum. It's so fitting because she loves going to Russia. I also ran into Neeraj, whom I haven’t seen in years because he’s been in law school at Yale. He is going to start his last year this week. It’s crazy how fast time flies and how fate seems to allow me to keep running into old friends like that.

I also went home briefly for a BBQ that my sisters were throwing for their friends. I am glad that they were able to meet such great and nice people in the short time that they’ve been in So Cal. It was great seeing them again because I hadn’t been home in a long while. I miss my grandma. I got there too late and she had already left to my aunt’s house. But I am glad that I was able to hang out with my dad and brother. I got my brother into watching Sex and the City and I have been letting him borrow my DVDs a season at a time and he finally finished the first part of the sixth season and wanted the rest of the episodes, but I told him that they weren’t out yet because they just aired them a few months ago and he was really disappointed. He wanted closure and I wanted to tell him what happened in the end, but I didn’t want to spoil it for him. He’s hilarious sometimes!

Anyway, I am in the process of moving and it’s making it so hard for me to post regularly. I have been working on this post for a few days now. But I have to add this on here because I had so much fun last night! Josh and I went to a small club called Las Palmas in Hollywood with a few of his friends in his animation program…Rob, James, Rachel, Regis, Donna, and Carlos. We were thrilled because we heard that The Crystal Method was going to be there and I’ve never seen them in that small of a venue before. I was such a surreal experience. The music was great and they played a 2 hour set. I can’t describe how euphoric it was and I danced all night. It reminded me of the good times that Jamie and I had during high school and the first two years of college. I use to listen to them, The Chemical Brothers, DJ Keoki and Prodigy all of the time and go out dancing. I miss going to good raves.