on friday night my buddies and i saw LOTR: ROTK - man that's a long movie. i think the longest i've seen in a theatre ever and it sure felt it - i really think the last ~30 mins were unncessary and just dragged on trying to give closure to the whole story... and what's with the giant eagles and spiders? seriously.

then on sat. night i went to a wedding reception for one of my dad's childhood friends' daughter's wedding. (that's right). my dad still can't drive so i pretty much had no choice - but hey, free food right? it was a generally all-filipino reception minus the filipino food surprisingly! it was at this restaurant/banquet hall called "Gramma's Place" over on dundas west in mississauga - the inside was much better than the outside considering it's part of a small retail plaza... thankfully they had an open bar - unfortunately i was driving so i limited myself to 2 smirnoff ice and whatever champagne (spumante) they had for the toast... i learned that most of the guests were pretty much w/ the groom - the bride only knew her sister, my dad, and some other guest - rest of her family is back home and apparently her grandparents don't approve of the marriage b/c her father (my dad's friend) had died in the summer and aren't giving some time to grieve presumably... apparently filipinos are supposed to be talented and really like to sing in front of audiences as many ppl sang karaoke during dinner and what-not... the MC was a 20-yo girl who was quite loud and became annoying as she didn't know what to say at times (not to mention her shrieks and 'rrrr's whenever the newlyweds kissed - how about nothing at all? - let the DJ play some music for a change!
after the usual speeches, bachelor/ette throwings, first dance, and pin-the-money-on-the-couple dancing, it was almost 10:30 and that's when it officially ended and dancing began... of note, before the MC had made the 'ending announcment' she was handing out pins for that and she saw me sitting down (probably not looking all that excited/happy) and sat next to me, intro'd herself and asked how she was doing as an MC and if i was having a good time - now she obviously was as she was definitely buzzed thanks to some smirnoffs... now i'm not a great dancer esp. w/ total strangers but when an attractive woman urges you to dance you feel stupid not to. i think it was the MC's older sister and i then found myself dancing w/ this other filipina who had just come here from the 'pines and was clearly out of it but enjoying herself. bad thing is when these girls are obviously drunk and can't remember what you just said to them... b/c of them i did a tequila shot clearly telling them i'm not drinking b/c i have to drive home - hey, we all have weaknesses i guess... i had some cake and more water and we left by 11p - thankfully no RIDE or whatever on the way home

thanks to "project mosaic" at work, i went in to work for some overtime early in the morning... the PMs had set monday to be a deadline for all bug fixes and implementations to be ready then - so i had to finish my tasks before my coworker was going to deploy the apps onto the 3 server environments they will use... i left home before 7:40 and got in the office by 8am - sweeet drive in @ a nearly steady 120... a few other coworkers came in later in the morning and my coworker doing the deployments and another - we went for some fast chinese food - and i finally got to ride in her G35 - a sweet car that's for sure and that bose stereo sounded really nice... too bad it wasn't the coupe