Panda’s & Kitty’s Flipping Rants
We’ve booked our flights back to Vegas for Christmas!! We’ll be arriving to Vegas on Dec. 24th and be leaving Jan. 10th. So…let’s party hard, play some poker, and win some moooolas! 
That and trade some gifts, but that’s just small fry. Partying is the big one.
I went to Star Bucks today because I heard that the Pumpkin Spice Latte is back. Indeed it was. My plan was to buy a couple of the syrup so that I could have my pumpkin spice latte even when they stop selling it. Unfortunately, they didn’t sell the syrup. I was so bummed out. But! The lady did say that I could go to Star Bucks’ website and e-mail them requesting it. I wonder if I e-mailed them everyday….
It’s been awhile since I’ve written. So much to report. Let’s see if I can remember everything.
I’ve started working out. Starting measurements were 178.4lbs, 21% body fat. That was about 2 1/2 weeks ago. Decided to start working out so I would look good for Nancy. After all, she has a fine sexy body for me, so it’s only fair, no? That and my diabetes were a little out of control. Running high. At the two week mark, we checked out my measurements again. 174lbs, 19% body fat, and 2″ off the waist. Hells yeah. Right on track. 2lbs a week. On top of that, what motivated me more was that Friday night, we were at Ricky’s house for a little party. It was about 21:30 and I felt hot, so I took off my shirt and jumped into the pool. My friend said to me that he could definitely tell I’ve been working out because he could see how tone my traps were (top back muscle.) Hell yeah! And then at work, I was walking through the hall way when some coworkers of mine told me that the calorie counting must be working because they could see that I’ve gotten skinnier. YAAAY! How cool is that? So that’s definitely some motivation there to keep on pumping along. The funny thing is that on days I’m not lifting weight at the gym, I’m playing DDR at home. I just can’t stand running on the treadmill for an hour. It’s soooo boring…and then it feels harder and tiring. But playing DDR for an hour, I burn just as much and I could do that for hours.
Next subject, canoing and fishing. Yes, we went on Monday. You could probably tell by Nancy’s post. I’ll let her post the pictures. Duc and Hong came down to visit us and I figure that being the nature lovers they were, they would love to visit the river and Town Lake. Do a little canoing. Right on. They loved it. Hong was an avid lover of fishing. He had four fishing poles in his car and decided to show us how to fish. That was a lot of fun. The weather was beautiful and perfect. Not too hot, not too cold. We fished up so many fish and we ate them all. That’s the crazy thing. And in case you were wondering, no, I did not go over my calorie count that day. The canoing helped burn out a lot too. Anyways, it was so much fun. I can’t wait to try and go fish up some larger fishes. Suppose to be some tilapias in there, but you need shrimp for bait and we only had worms. Next time. I was looking around and fishing poles weren’t too expensive. Not sure about the gear though.
Today was my birthday. So awesome. Nancy decided to take me out for dinner and John joined us. He took care of the bill. 
So nice of him. We went to Macaroni Grill and I just don’t have the appetite that I used to. The original plan was to share with Nancy and John. I barely finished my portion. Didn’t even touch John’s. Which is a good thing. With eating that little, it was still pretty high on the calorie count. About 1100. Crazy. Oh well, I still managed to maintain a 700 calorie deficit for the day. Yes, I did include the bread I ate at Macaroni Grill. Man, eating out is just so expensive (calorie-wise.) It’s insane. Oh well, once in awhile is a-ok, I guess.
Another awesome thing! I got a Starbucks gift card from Alice. She sent it out on Monday and it arrived today!! What perfect timing. Supposedly, the Pumpkin Spice Latte is available now! HOW AWESOME is that?! I looked up the calorie information on that though. Damn, one cup of that is 400 calories. The regular one. If I asked for them to make it light, it’s only 130 calories. I wonder how that would taste. I’m definitely buying some of the pumpkin spice latte syrup so when it’s not in season, I can still get some. Hells yeah, that’s what I’m talking about.
It was also nice today that friends and family called to wish me a happy birthday. It was nice being able to talk to them. Catch up on good times. Can’t wait to go back to see them in Las Vegas. That’ll be fun. Gotta book the tickets for that. Yep….better remember to do that soon. It’s getting close already. OMIGOD! O_O
I am at panda’s work now, it’s so boring that I have nothing to do,so I just write something on our blog to pass away time. So suck that the computer hasn’t installed Chinese, I have to write it in English. Forgive my Chinese English.if you found any mistake, please help me correct it.
Last Sunday, Panda’s two cousins came to visit us, we went to canoing and fishing, we had lots fun. I also invited my coworker Lucy to join us, who is my Chinese friend as well.
The place we went is called Zilker Park, we have been there before, and this is the second time we went. The whether was pretty nice, not too hot, not too cold, a little nice breeze, it was just right, I love the whether now. Last time we did kayaking, so this time we decide to do canoing, it is good to try new things, right?
we also did fishing. It is illegal to fish without a fishing license here in America, so we went to Walmart to get our fishing license first, cost $28 per fishing license. we also bought our bait at Walmart, which were some worms. It was very disgusting to put those worm on my hook, but I still did it, am I very brave? haha~~ I did it, I am so proud of myself!
Guess how many fish we fished up? 65! can you believe that? we caught 65 fish that day, and we ate them all! hahaha~~don’t be surprised! We are Chinese, we love fish, we deep fried them, they were tasted very yummy and crispy! so good!
Here are some pictures. Is the scenery there beautiful?
The first fish I FISHED UP! i am so happy!
Panda’s gain 
上个星期天去了KAYAKING,很好玩很有意思,所以一定要写下来纪念一下.本来不想出门的,因为天气太热,我们俩个懒虫想躲在家看电影的,但是前一天答应了朋友要去的,又不好反悔,只能硬着头皮出门了.没想到去了一点都没后悔,而且决定以后一定会再去的.
KAYAKING的地方在一个叫ZILKER PARK的里面,那里还有一个大的池塘,很多人都在那游泳,旁边还装了个跳板,有很多人在那里跳水玩,不知是不是受奥运的影响.而我们KAYAKING 的地方就是连着那个池塘的一条大河. 一条船的租金是10美金/小时,比起国内还要便宜吧.河边绿树成荫,不时还有凉风习习,我们靠着岸边躲在树荫下划,一点都没觉得热.看到有很多鱼在水中欢快地游来游去,河水还是很清澈的.还看到两只乌龟停在树上一动不动.我和PANDA看到后,不约而同地喊了起来: MASTER WUGUI, 哈哈,因为最近看了KUNG FU PANDA!
最有意思的是,我和PANDA被两个女生袭击了,她们划到靠近我们的地方,猛用浆向我们扑水,我们被扑了个落汤鸡,更确切地说,应该是我,因为我坐在船头.所以我们想追上去报这一剑之仇,结果我们追了半天也没追上,终于她们划着划着,不小心撞在了一个在那钓鱼人的鱼线上,趁此机会,我们一鼓作气追了上去,也把他们扑了个落汤鸡,哈哈,终于报仇了,正在得意之机,没想到我们两个船与另外一个船撞在了一起,简直是笑死了!
唯一遗憾的是,我们穿的救生衣上有一股尿臭味,不知道是不是有小孩在上面PEE PEE 了,PANDA倒好,仗着自己会游泳,干脆没穿,而我不敢脱掉我的救命稻草啊,只能从头穿到尾,哎!不会游泳可真吃亏啊!
总结以下,要想玩得彻底开心,还得学游泳!