hello, it’s me.

i'm back after a two week hiatus. I got lazy. there's another post below detailing the previous wknd. i'm all caught up!

So, this weekend. Friday we hung out with some of my work friends. That was pretty fun. Some dancing again. Yippee!

Yesterday we met up with a childhood friend of eugene’s from libya, Tom who’s now 33. They hadn’t seen each other in many, many years. Tom was there from age 4-15. Eug was there from I think 8-12. It was so nice hearing stories about libya and how crazy it was to live there during that time. Tom’s dad was the official bootlegger. He built whole distillers to make spirits, wine and beer in their bathroom. 4 times distilled! The process sounds pretty complicated. They had rows of beers in glasses, separated by magazines and when they got too careless years later there were several minor explosions. His dad also built a lawnmower out of a washing machine motor, some wheels from a trolley or something, and home-made blades. Tom’s compound had about 20 families and had no phone line until someone took a wire from another location and built poles across what he called the desert to their area. They built wells for water. The Germans there built a swimming pool. They have stories of jumping on Kadafi’s bed and pissing on his wall when he invited expat families over for dinner after the US bombed Libya. Another time, they chased down a duck since there was an embargo and they had no meat. Eugene’s dad slashed its neck in their bathtub and everyone had hand plucking it. The Taiwanese families also got together, gathered the neighborhood dogs and feasted. Tom’s dog was one of them. Despite that and all the hardship, he had nothing but really fond memories. What an awesome childhood. Today, he’s making millions from selling cameras on ebay. Living in Australia, he hadn’t even heard of it three years ago. he moved here to get away from paying taxes in Australia. And since he is on an on-going tourist visa, he doesn’t pay taxes here either. Obviously, he’s doing amazingly well, and says he doubles his revenue every month. He’s a one-man operation and is fairly secretive about his business and won’t tell us the name of his ebay store, which is understandable.


Today eug and I met up with a few guys from my office to watch the undefeated mayweather take on the undefeated brit, hatton. The fight was playing at a bar called amici on two screens, using Slingbox. I’m not usually into boxing but I was this time since my friend jonathan and I have this ongoing biritish vs American feud. There were two big screens and it was packed with brits. So, my cheering for mayweather quieted down a bit as soon as I realized I was one of few ppl to do so. It was fun just standing around drinking beer, acting all guyish. It was a great match and it was pretty sweet to see mayweather win. I’m not very good at rubbing things in ppl’s faces but I tried. Afterwards, we went to a diner called the Flying Pan and waited forever. But, the breakfast burrito I ordered was definitely worth it. That’s the closest thing I’ve had to a real American breakfast since I’ve been here. All the eggs benedict eug and I’ve tried at other brunch places just never measured up to the ones in the states.