back in la-la-land

my good friends picked me up at home after my sf trip and brought me to our favorite mall: the grove, where else.

they wanted to eat at cheesecake factory but the wait was two hours! two hours! it's good i wasn't that hungry. so we ended up window-shopping to kill time. finally, our pager buzzed.

we were seven in the group and in some restos, they already compute the gratuity (cheesecake pegs theirs at 18%) if you come in a group of six or more and we ended up paying like $23 for tips alone. anyway, i had a great time with my meal (spicy and crispy beef) that i had more than enough for baon the next day. [update: it's not good to eat the dish a day after. it was blech.]

i'm having pre-birthday jitters. oh no, not again!