This post is actually for yesterday, but I was too lazy. :O
2 things: Rachel’s 16th birthday, birthday party and Chinese new year! Of course I’ll be going in chronological order. :O
I woke up at around 10:30 AM ‘cause my dumb alarm didn’t wake me up. ::lol/koff:: Walked to the Plaza BART station at 11:15, basically everyone (Trent, Wayne, Narin, Suzanne, Molly, Ceylan, Rachael [Masterson, I think]) was there, except Rachel (lol), David, and Jack. Rachel, her mom, and her brother (wtf emo hair xD) showed up like 20 seconds later, David some minute later (I think…) and Jack was doing something…
BART over to Powell St. and walked like 2 blocks over to the Metreon. Rachel’s mom made reservations for Hyperbowl and 1-hour unlimited $ game cards for Arcade One! :D Hyperbowl was like… painful? XD You get this giant ball-mouse/thing and there’s a screen with virtual ball and world. You roll the real ball around in the socket and the ball on screen tries to use mediocre-physics-engine to do stuff. =/ There’s like… a level with San Francisco… Tokyo… etc. The pins and stuff are still there, of course.. you just have to like.. dodge obstacles and stuff to get to them. The repeated hand actions cause pain… >_<
Anyways, during our Hyperbowl-ing Lauren, Rachel’s friend from SF, showed up. Turns out she and I have a scatter of things in common, which I won’t bother to list. ::lol:: After Hyperbowl Lauren and I started talking in the arcade room and we played a few super-old games together. We wanted to play that poser-DDR, too, but the pads were screwed and there was like… a .2 - 2 second delay on the steps… >_> After the hour was done all of us headed outside ‘cause there was like… nothing else to do. xD
Things winded down a bit… we ended up walking over to Zeum and Rachel bought ice-cream and water for everyone. On the BART ride back (WTF CROWDED) a poking war started (I was caught in crossfire, thx) and most of the others were scolded by other passengers. :P
I had to stay on BART at Plaza ‘cause my mom wanted me to walk to my grandparents’ house for the new year party… everyone else got off at Plaza. >_>
Long-dinner short: whole roasted pig, rice, duck, not as many people (thank god) + $$$ = Happy Chinese New Year! XD