Today was a sad, sad day in terms of quality of sleep and food (The doggy, above, is to represent how I feel). Shitty sleep is thanks to me having to sleep with the terror dog on the couch. Then, having to wake up constantly to coax him to come back to the sofa after he jumps off the couch because he hears our neighbors walking up and down the stairs or my sister moving around in her room. Oh, and of course I had to wake up in the middle of the night to let him pee. Thank God it's just one more day. Just one more! So close. (Right now, he's outside our bedroom door exhaling snot into the bottom of the door, trying to get our attention so we'll let him in. Ya right, keep dreaming, terror dog.)

The saddest part of today, though, was the not-so-great quality of food we ingested. Lunch time we went to this Malaysian curry place. The food wasn't so bad, at least from what I could tell, but it was super spicy. Like spicy to the point that my mouth , lips, and stomach were on fire. I couldn't even finish my food. I ate like maybe half of it and gave up. It was ridiculous! Especially when I can't stand spicy food in the first place. Ah, lesson learned - always ask if the curry is spicy. Too used to Taiwan curry where it's not spicy, at all. Because it was so spicy, I couldn't really taste the food itself. Just kept chugging down tea and soup. >.< Ouchie.

Then, for dinner I was craving sushi after watching this Japanese show on TV, so we went to this little Japanese restaurant near the apartment. I had a bad feeling because fresh fish is hard to find, especially when it's in a little shop in the middle of the city. Mmmyah, so it turned out to be pretty crappy. Wait, I mean REALLY crappy. The sashimi was not fresh at all and had this slimy quality and really weird taste. And to make matters worse, the boss lady messed up our order and gave us this dish that was more expensive. We only brought a certain amount of money, so when we were ordering, we calculated it so that we would have enough money. Thankfully, even with that mess up, we were still within budget, but that also meant that we did not have enough money for dessert (sadness!!!!). So we were a sad bunch after dinner, trying to find some place where we could spend the remaining 55 NT. We gave up after visiting various tea places and realizing that we didn't have enough money for the three of us and also after discovering the soymilk store we normally go to and could have at least bought two pearl soymilks was closed. We were an even sadder bunch after that failed adventure.

The only plus side to today was Cold Stone! They opened a store near the Taipei Main Station. But I don't know, I think the Cold Stone I ate in LA tasted better - maybe the location actually makes a difference in the taste or it's just all in my mind. Probably. Eh, we ordered the strawberry cheesecake fantasy and the chocolate one w/ brownies, which turned out to be much too too sweet (boo!). And it's super expensive! I think more expensive than LA (more sadness), so we can't go there often. Maybe once a month, maybe less. All we need in Taiwan now is a Chipotle somewhere in the vicinity of Cold Stone. Then I can re-live my last summer in LA where it was Chipotle for dinner then Cold Stone for dessert. Mmmmm, getting hungry just thinking about it. >.<

Food is what makes me happy! and when the foods of the day turns out to be nasty and disappointing, it makes me so, so sad. Hopefully there'll never be another day like this again, and we'll make better decisions when trying out new restaurants.


On another note, I installed Leopard! So now my fantastic mbp is running Leopard, and I really like it, particularly Spaces. It makes my desktop much less cluttered; it comes in handy, especially since I don't have an external monitor anymore. Too bad my macbook pro is kind of dying - my fan's whirring and making crazy-ass sounds, and one of my USB ports has decided to die on me. Ahhhh, need to go find an Apple certified repair center (in Taiwan, bleh) to fix fix fix before my warranty is up. Boo!


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