Hi, I am Simon and this is my story.

Tuesday, April 22, 2003

restaurants im gonna try one by one:

aureole - mandalay bay
all the restaurants - bellagio
9830 - mandalay bay
ruth's chris - beverly hills
morton's steakhouse - beverly hills
the stinking rose - beverly hills
gaylord's - beverly hills
la vie en rose - brea
360 - hollywood
calibar 01 - beverly hills
carney's - hollywood
i cugini - santa monica
white lotus - beverly hills
phillipe's french dipped sandwiches - glendale
encounter - LAX
blue bayou - disneyland
goofy's kitchen - disneyland hotel
pink's hot dogs - hollywood
il fornaio - santa monica
trastevere - santa monica
pacific dining car - downtown la
la prime - downtown la
big texan - amarillo, texas

i need heavier dumbbells. golds gym please.










Sunday, April 20, 2003

Friday night was a night of adventure. jesson called me up as i was about to go about my boring daily routines: sleep, workout, eat, etc. He told me that he needed a person to go with him to the wiltern theatre in hollywood. he had an extra ticket to see ZWAN, a band that was created after Smashing pumpkins retired. The original members are the singer, Billy Corgan and the drummer jimmy chamberlain. So around 7pm, we made our trek to hollywood. we arrived in hollywood and the place was filled with coloful people. the theater is an artifact of los angeles and it is full of history; nostalgic of the 1950's entertainment boom. we were seated on the loge for the first third of the concert, but we saw seats on the lower mezzanine level and decided to head down to fill them in. the view was much better. it was my first time listening to zwan and it did give me a whole new respect toward them. they are much better than i thought and they sounded like the first smashing pumpkins album "Siamese Dream". That album was my favorite back in 1993. At about 10:30pm, the concert ended and we headed straight to las vegas from there. we decided to pick up akash to share the fun.

from akash's house, we headed to vegas at around midnight. motivated by the fun waiting ahead for us, jesson was motivated to beat akash's time of going to vegas in 3 hours. well, it was close. jesson got there in 2 hours 45 minutes. we arrived at the luxor hotel around 3:30am and we picked up 2 friends to head over to the venetian to get a bite to eat at the grand lux cafe. we just had to use our priviledge of going out late and eating at a 24 hour cheesecake factory 4 in the morning. after we finished, it was sunrise and we headed back to luxor to sleep. the next day, we headed to bellagio and indulged ourselves at the buffet. my appetite wasnt as good as last time and the place was too crowded. i wonder how kids manage to get their money's worth at a $34.95 pop. they usually go straight to the deserts. jesson was buzzed from the bottle of champagne he downed so i became the designated driver. later on, i took the gang to a night club for the crew to pimp the ladies. hopefully this will cure jesson's depression for good.