Breakfast: Banh mi thit nuong, soymilk. Water throughout the afternoon. (walking around MacWorld expo)

Lunch: Saimin with BBQ chicken from L&L on Kearny, more water.

Dinner: Curry fishball and pig's skin, rice, watermelon juice @ D&A in Oakland. Later at home finished off my little bit of leftover Portugese chicken rice from last night, ate a banana, made some milk tea.

Breakfast: Banana, unsweetened soymilk.

Lunch: Banh mi xiu mai, Yeo's soymilk @ Banh Mi Ba Le #2.

Dinner: Karayla (bitter melon) Chicken, plain naan, chai @ House of Curries on Solano.

Snack: Coffee with cream, no sugar, half order (3) of salt and pepper chicken wings at Shooting Star Cafe in Oakland. Later, a banana.

Breakfast: Banana, unsweetened soymilk.

Lunch: Banh mi thit nguoi from Pho 89 in San Pablo, water.

Dinner: Large bowl of combination pho, half order of BBQ pork spring rolls, tea @ Pho Kim Son in San Francisco. Small apple cider at Zephyr Cafe.

Later: Half of a red bean pastry, cup of black coffee @ VIP Coffee & Cake Shop in SF Chinatown.

Apparently, I haven't eaten anything since June of 2006. And let me tell you, I'm damned hungry...

Lunch: Banh mi xiu mai, (pork "meatball") Yeo's soymilk and half a glutinous rice-covered banana sweet from Saigon Sandwiches in San Francisco.

Drink: Korean ginseng drink, water.

Dinner: Sandwich made with baguette, mustard, butter, Kiev-style dry salami. Sliced brie, fresh fruit, halva, chocolate biscuits, water, wine.

Later: Boiled beef tripe, cucumbers with chili, curry fish ball and pig's skin, rice and tea @ D & A Cafe on Clement Street. Double espresso (nothing added) from Java Source.

Lunch: Banh mi ga nuong (chicken sandwich) and soursop juice drink from Banh Mi Ba Le.

Snack: A few Kasugai-brand gummy candies, some celery sticks, small bowl of re-heated nasi lemak (rice cooked with coconut milk and pandan leaf) with chili paste and a pot of green tea.

Dinner: Chicken satay made in the toaster oven, (thigh meat marinated overnight with Asian Home Gourmet brand satay seasoning) peanut sauce, sliced cucumber, roti pratha, iced coffee w/ condensed milk. Later, fresh watermelon slices for dessert.

Beverage: Glass of unsweetend soymilk.

Lunch: Banh mi xiu mai, grass jelly drink. Watermelon, jasmine tea.

Dinner: Grilled chicken chipotle ciabatta thing combo with medium fries and iced tea (no sugar) from Jack In The Box. Pathetically small chicken blob, odd chemically-derived "Thousand Island chipotle"-tasting sauce, blah bread. A waste of $7.23 and 47 grams of fat.

Starting to think maybe I *should* give Daimo another chance when I end up in these famished late night binds. Or more sensibly, I could just freakin' EAT EARLIER. I think I should just pin myself to more of a schedule and try to follow it whether my body is giving me the "feed me" messages or not. A rice plate at Thai Noodle or Macau Cafe (particularly since I started forgoing their iced milk teas, too much sugar and they make me buzzy) doesn't cost much more than this drive-thru crap and is not only far more enjoyable and satiating, but also likely better for me, too.

But I am bad with rituals and routine. Too easily distracted. Time to slice away at the excess of my life again, return to the track and FOCUS.

Beverages: Soymilk. Iced tea with lemon offered by a client while setting up their Mac.

Lunch: If you can call it lunch at almost 7pm... $0.99 chicken sandwich (added Sriracha sauce) from Jack In The Box, medium iced tea with lemon, no sugar.

Dinner: Pad prik khing gai and Thai iced tea @ Thai Noodle. The PPKG was made the alternate way again, somene different in the kitchen. It's not bad, but it's not what I wanted... more of a gravy-type sauce than the drier, chunkier chili, galangal and oil style one I like. Thai tamarind candy given with reciept.

Later: Bowl of Shin Ramyun with egg stirred in, iced bori cha. An aside, I really do enjoy both the tactile feel and the visual taper and unassuming visual design of these ramen bowls I got from Ichiban Kan. The size and shape are quite nice, I can cradle it in my left hand easily and casually while I lift my noodles with the right and slurp from it. Money well spent. Think these set me back about $3 USD apiece.

MediaBurp: It's pretty much been two things the past few days... "Drawn From Life" by Brian Eno and J. Peter Schwalm (a far more satisfying, interesting and even-keeled effort than Eno's recent hit-n-miss hodge-podge, "Another Day On Earth") and the original soundtrack recording (and they do mean that, complete with long stretches of complete silence, mirroring the film) from Pen-Ek Ratanruang's "Last Life In The Universe". The subtitle of one of the tracks, "silence = space" has now officially entered my lexicon of posey maxims, curious directives and Oblique Strategies.

Beverage: Green tea drink with basil seed.

Lunch: Sweet and sour pork over rice at Macau Cafe, tea, iced water, soup du jour. About the most gwei lo thing I've ever ordered there. It was ho hum. I think next time I'll go back to my usual things, but its always nice to try different stuff from time to time.

Beverage: A few sips from an M-150 brand energy drink from Thailand. Noticed it contains caffiene. Hrmm. I need to read those labels more closely, I was thinking it was ginseng or tongkat ali or something. It was really sickly sweet with a yucky electroluminescent Red Bull-type look and flavor, and made my mouth feel icky every time I tried a sip of it, so I eventually dumped most of it. Lesson learned. At least it was an inexpensive one.

Dinner: I can't even remember what I had for dinner. Or if I even had anything.

Lunch: I am hungry!! I am also POOR. Lunch today was a bowl of Neoguri Korean seafood flavor instant ramyun, stirfried on-choy with garlic and iced Korean barley tea.

I am going through mp3s on my server that I never listen to and either listening to them now, or deleting them straight away if I know I have no reason to keep them. (It's overwhelmingly stuff I've ripped from my own CDs, so not only does this reduce clutter and free up space, but it has the side effect of making me detatch my posterior from my chair and go to the garage if I want a specific CD. Still looking for a CD cataloging app for Windows that doesn't suck and is preferably free, or at least low cost, so at least I can have a database of what I actually own and where it's stored.)

Snack: Nasi lemak (rice cooked with coconut milk and pandan leaf) with ikan bilis (dried anchovies) and peanuts, cucmbers, chili sauce and gado-gado sauce. (Not bad, actually... my naski lemak was pretty good, especially considering it was a first attempt. Needs some protien tho', chicken rendang or somesuch would go nicely.)

Beverage: Indonesian black tea with sweetened condensed milk.

Dinner: After repeatedly putting off dinner, I finally broke down and drove through Jack In The Box at 3:30am for a sourdough Chicken club sandwich, fries and an iced tea. (lemon, no sugar... the usual) I've noticed that the people working at that Jack In The Box late at night always seem to be very pleasant and friendly, which is nice in contrast to other places where they scowl and throw your food out the window at you.

My sleep's all flipped around, so distictions between breakfast, dinner, etc. are a bit meaningless at the moment.

Ate two 99 Ranch cha shu bao just to get something in my stomach in the evening, then a while later went to Thai Noodle for takeout and got moo nam tok, pad prik khing gai and a Thai tea. Very hungry, ate it all. Two more cha shu bao and some carrots later. Lots of water with lime.

Lower than usual amount of time dicking around with Tribe, (nothing happening there anyway, and it just makes me more aggro) the usual RSS feed scanning, a few Lifehacker articles, some stuff on 43 Folders, browsing, previewing and adding things to my Amazon wishlist.

Read an essay about sexuality in Banana Yoshimoto's writing.

Watched an interesting movie entitled "Last Life in the Universe", a Thai film that was probably as much in Japanese as it was any other language. Funny and sad at the same time, with some interesting happy turns in it. Not the kind of film that explains everything, and indeed there were some convoluted bits, but the overall effect was more of sustained mood taking precedence over traditional narrative. Nice cinematography, the veil of sweat on the lead actresses skin in certain scenes really recalls the intense humidity and heat of Bangkok, and a wonderful spare, sombre musical score.