Fresh Start

I said I would do new things, so here they are:

New Hangout
Last weekend, I met up with Mylinh in Downey. We tried to go to the popular Portos, but it was closed so we instead ended up going to a Chinese restaurant nearby. I met her at a mutual friend's going away party, and she's been active in trying to hang out with me, so we finally hung out. I'm so so glad I went. She's really cool.

She taught me the importance of not fearing and just being active in asking people to hang out if you want to get to know them. A lot of people (including myself sometimes) thinks it's weird to initiate or are scared that they may think I'm weird if I ask, but seriously...what's the worse that could happen?

New Activity

I went to an archery class with my friend, James. Bull's eye!

Orange County Archery

18792 Brookhurst St.

Fountain Valley, CA 92708

714-965-1125

$22 (including rentals) for a one-hour class where they teach newbies like me and him. It was cool...so random. The class is Sun 2-3pm or 3-4pm, but go to the later one...they let us stay an hour afterwards since there was no other class waiting. ;-)

Archery is something I've never done before. I used a 16lb bow. The arrow has a little nitch to fit into the string of the bow. There are different kinds of bows: bare bow, long bow, commander (I think that's the right word?...I think...it doesn't look like the bow you would imagine...it looks more complicated and often has a "sight" to see exactly where you're shooting and a trigger). It has 3 fan things on the tail and one particular one should be pointed towards you.

James and I also met this guy, Chu Dung ("Zung"). He was really cool and let us shoot his heavy red bow too. His bow was so so sexy....it was a sports car red. Italian bow, he said. He was really friendly, and he told us that he started because he saw a movie where one of the characters started archery, so one day he just decided to do it, and he fell in love with it. He shoots at last 100 arrows a day, and won a California championship for the bare bow. He also teaches archery privately for $30 an hour. I thought that was really cool...just giving yourself the opportunity to step out of your comfort zone to try something new and working at it hard enough to be top of your game. I really hope to see him again...or shoot with him again. :-)

New Dish
Ok...I kinda cheated on this one. Yes it is a dish I never made before, but I used the instant noodle packet to make it. I got out of work at 8pm, so I just whipped the dried instant noodle packet together with leftover Thanksgiving ham and tomatoes and greens (don't know what it's called but I eat it a lot...if you knwo w). My sister and I liked it.

For next time: Looking back on it, I should have added green onion. I'll also actually COOK a real dish next time...from scratch (or close to scratch).