One of my favorite sitcoms of all time would have to be CBS's The Big Bang Theory. It's hilariously written and the cast's dynamic is absolutely brilliant. To those who have never seen it,

From CBS.com
"Leonard and Sheldon are brilliant physicists, the kind of "beautiful minds" that understand how the universe works. But none of that genius helps them interact with people, especially women. All this begins to change when a free-spirited beauty named Penny moves in next door. Sheldon, Leonard's roommate, is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends, fellow CalTech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali."

I just saw the Christmas episode before heading out to work and I was in tears laughing at the last few minutes of the episode.

A brief background on the clip:
Sheldon is self-obligated to go shopping for a Christmas present for Penny after finding out that she got them presents for Christmas. Since he has absolutely no clue what to give her, he then buys several gift baskets and plans on opening her gift first then give her the basket that's closest in value to the gift she gave him, returning the rest for a full refund. The video below is what follows...

Next to Friends, this is one show I can watch over and over and still fall over laughing.

In other news, Kelly, Kyle and Kyle's brother Jamal came to the restaurant today! They had sake and I fed them soy sushi and soy chicken! Hahaha! They said it was good but I'm not sure if they were feigning enthusiasm. haha! They might drop by again on New Year's Eve to drop off the thai tea Louiie sent for me.

Note to self: Stop using redundant titles.

Pardon me. I have been itching to write for two days. It took me a while to choose an appropriate blog address and even now, I am still somewhat skeptical of my final choice.

Never mind, I think it's somehow appropriate given my current situation.

So what have I been up to? Here I am in sunny Orange County, where the people and my surroundings really do look like they do in that show I never saw. I've been introduced to a funny little bratty baby that I seem to love so much. I cannot stop kissing her and usually try to beat her mother and sister in picking her up every time she starts crying.

She cries a lot but I managed to learn how to shush her by whispering in her ear
and having weird baby conversations with her. Even babies need to be heard sometimes.

This is my third blog in three years, that might be a coincidence, I'm not too sure. I've been itching to give updates over the littlest things. Currently staying in a nice apartment complex equipped with a pool and a gym. I used the pool once the other day and it felt slightly bizarre as it looked like a poolside scene in a typical California B-movie with a poolside cast consisting of a latino family, a an old but diva-hot-mama type Vietnamese woman in a skimpy hot pink string bikini who looked like she's comes to the pool A LOT, a couple of teenagers sunbathing and chitchatting by the pool, a couple who came just to sunbathe and blast their portable stereo that played really old hiphop music, the Filipino folks who took their other pinay house guest (me!!) to swim as they sat poolside drinking bottles of Coors Light and of course, there's the lone, old, fat and very hairy guy who slathered his manbody in oil and baked under the sun for everyone to enjoy.

The apartment complex

Its very sunny here. So far, I haven't felt the need to bust out my thick clothes and hoodies and am still able to walk around in my Havaiianas. At night it gets cooler, so people sleep better. I haven't had an experience where the baby wakes up bawling in the middle of night yet. So far, she's been very good. People here sleep at midnight and wake up at noon, including baby Joann. Breakfast is had at 12nn and lunch would usually follow a couple of hours after that. Dinner is taken at everyone's own time with whatever is left from lunch. I have absolutely no complaints about it as the baby alone takes a lot of all our time. I didn't realized how often they needed changing, feeding and how often they nap and wake up crying. Whew! I don't know how a mother can do it all on her own on top of all the housework! Joann is a doll! I've only known her for a few days but I love her already.

Today I was reunited with an old friend, Ben and Jerry's Pistachio ice cream! I bought a pint of that plus a pint of Haagen Daz's Butter Pecan. I had a bit of the pistachio shortly after dinner. I went through less than a quarter of it and stopped. I don't know how I was able to finish a whole pint in one sitting before! And I did that every night! Yes, I know what you're thinking. That's why I blew up to the size I am today and have been unable to lose the weight since. Well obviously, my appetite has gone down (this may be due to other reasons...) and I am not as snacky as I thought I was going to be. We went to the grocery store today and I picked up a few toiletries, ice cream, some onion bagel and herb cream cheese just in case I get hungry while every one is asleep.

I also started to familiarize myself with my current location. Armed with a map, and the Orange County Transit Authority website, I tried to see how I'll be able to get around the places I needed to go. This is one of the few things I hate about Southern California. Everyone needs a car to get around properly. Everything is far apart and the buses are not as reliable as they are in San Francisco. I found that the bank is nearby and there's a theater that's a short walk away (after Sagada, everything seems a short walk away to me now) and there's also a mall that's a bit further off. The area seems to come well-equipped and I shouldn't be bored as much. I haven't unpacked any of my luggage since we're all moving to a bigger 3-bedroom apartment in two days. It's just in the next building so it should be easy to transfer stuff back and forth.

Finished watching the last few episodes of The Big Bang Theory a couple of days ago and, remembering AJ's recommendation, have begun watching Burn Notice. It's a funny little show. The score is bad, the characters have little to no chemistry and it could have better editing but I'm enjoying it so far. It's witty and has funny moments. Basically its good enough for me to sit through until the fall season premieres start. They have a divx player here so I no longer have to suffer watching my illegally acquired movies in my Macbook screen.

I have videos I want to upload (mostly of Joann) but I will do so tomorrow. It's late and I'd like to finish watching episode 3 of Burn Notice.

Lastly, excuse my blog's temporary ugly appearance, I have been meaning to change my blog's design for a long time and now I have more reason to finally start designing given my fresh, new start. Give me some time to update this little eyesore.