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Went to see Episode III RTS on Friday. Interesting enough there were no lines since Dole was playing it every 30 minutes. The theater when the lights dimmed was moderately full. like say 1/2 full. The movie was good. it did a great job tying everything together. it also showed how subtle the shift in power really was. how it changed from protecting the republic to subdueing the dissitants. the movie explained a lot about how/why things were.


I finally got to play with the new mixer this weekend :P i made me a banana cream pie and a batch of chocolate chip cookies. which was a lot more practical then mixing cereal, which i was plannig on doing the day i got it. both came out good. the custard a bit more soft then my liking and the cookies a bunch more hard. oh well they still tasted good because of my new mixer!

also in the cooking department... i [hopefully] will be learning more Japanese recipes to add to the books. Started with mochiko chicken [which i think i'm pretty good at now] and recently did a teriyaki chicken. i want to start working with some beef and pork and some veggies.


In work news.... i'm working on completing the new website. if you wanna take a look at it, its here. the current one on the web is here here . its amazing how if you do something for work you don't want to do it in your free time. this shows brilliantly in the fact that i don't even have a website and i'm on version two for work. bleh


trip news...

airline tickets [O]
expo tickets [O]
sumo tickets [O]
tokyo hotel [O]
rail pass [X]
cell phone [X]
nagoya hotel [X]

its getting closer. i've only now realized that this trip is going to cost me a pretty penny, or about 200000 of them :P but i'm very excited to be going. i still need to let work know about it :P also i found out that studio ghibli has a museum that i want to check out but i was told i need to buy advanced tickets or soemthing hrmm...


current condition... hungry and tired and bored. one good thing about mondays is that so is everyone else so i feel its the least productive day of the week, runner up is wednesday [which i'll blog about later]


hawaii news... just found out that Romano's Macaroni Grill will be opening in November where JCPenny's was in Ala Moana. Yummy!