an Oppa pseudo-date

did i ever mention this crowning achievement? yep, i once had the fortune of having an Oppa pseudo-date.

let me just clarify this term "pseudo-date" tho i'm sure it's not hard to decipher. it's just the word i like to use to define hanging out w/a boy who you feel really comfortable w/ but it's just the 2 of you and you do stuff that might be considered a date if it wasn't for the fact that there is no chance of anything romantic or intimate happening beyond a platonic level. however, b/c i truly enjoy it and hope that all my real dates are so comfortable and fun i like to call them "pseudo-dates": essentially they're models for the future. wishful thinking.

so i've had pseudo-dates w/Prez and a lifetime full of them w/O-Henry and now i can confidently say that i've had 1 w/Oppa as well. this was back when i was still recovering from the plague but had spent so much time indoors at that point that i needed to get out on a friday night but didn't have the stamina for a real night out. Oppa happened to call and was in the same mood as me and was coming into the city w/some friends. at 1st we were supposed to meet at some place whose name i can't remember but as soon as i found out it was a ultra-trendy club i passed. Oppa wasn't feeling it either so he dropped his friends at the club and we met up at Blue Owl as recommended by Debs as a low-key lounge. i actually really like this place although it was a little more crowded than i'd hoped (but not obnoxiously so) and i guess that's a sign of a good place. it was fun to chat w/Oppa about everything and nothing. mostly i lament about how un-dateable i am and Oppa tells me why (do i talk too much? or is that a rhetorical question when asked on a personal blog?).

afterwards we went to Players for a few more drinks before Oppa would have to pick up his friends from the club and drive back to jersey. while there we randomly ran into Joebo and some of Oppa's other friends. ktown really is so small at 1 or 2 am. right as we were leaving Goldilocks and Yuka met me b/c Joebo had been clamoring for food. we finally sat down at Kunjip and then Joebo all of a sudden jumped up and said he had to go. it was so weird although i was advised by Oppa that he was obviously drunk. and you know why it obvious? b/c before Joebo left he gave me a hug and said "i love you". that's why it's supposed to be obvious (translated: he would never say that if he was sober. thanks, thanks a lot). regardless the girls all ended up staying and we ate some much needed food before heading back to brooklyn.

Tequila is my kryptonite

near the start of school (which now feels like AGES ago even tho it's not even the end of september yet), AABANY hosted their welcome-back-to-school event at Slate and as an APALSA eboard member, i felt compelled to go. plus there were free drink tickets and free food.

Adidas and i headed over together, worried that 1Ls would show up and not recognize anyone but we were worried over nothing b/c no 1Ls showed up. bastards. Chipmunk met us there and we all started playing pool, eating food and just generally having a good time. Oni and Husband showed up later along w/Prez, all some of my favorite ppl. we also met a very pretty half-German, half-Korean waitress named Sharon so it was an overall good time and nobody wanted to stop when the event was over.

so we went to ktown. what were we thinking?

i convinced everyone to go to Players instead of Third Floor since i like the anju that Players gives us and it's not as crowded but they still play good music. i was all ready to get the Johnnie Walker/Ballantine bottle deal but the Prez and Husband (both koreans) wanted the Patron Silver deal. and i totally caved. that's what happens when you date a korean guy for a year. you just compromise a lot instead of butting heads. i definitely didn't take many of those shots but at the end of the night Oni and Adidas were rocked and i was harboring a very strong buzz. we meandered over to Kunjip afterwards and ate some food and drank some more baek saeju and then all headed home. since we were 4+1 and the cabbie was giving us trouble bout it, i just hopped out and got my own cab.

on the way home i realized i was pretty damn rocked myself and promptly threw up when i got home.

BLSers to k-town

in order to integrate my BLS friends into my life, i took them out to players in k-town for their first night of drinking Johnnie Walker and eating sul rul tang. Egg was the only whitey but he's never been bothered by that. he quickly made friends w/the locals and all was good. even Chen got into drinking scotch, albeit mixed w/coke. Adidas got thoroughly drunk after a few shots (as always) and the night was off to a running startAdidas and Egg attempting to look tough

after drinking soju and a bottle of johnnie we walked over to Gahm Mi Oak and introduced the BLS crowd to their first bowl of sul rul tang. yea!!

oppa hooks it up again!

ah...oppa. so of course i totally missed oppa the entire time he was here in the new york. there's always a "shoulda woulda coulda" aspect about everything i do i think. i've been reading some of the other fans' writings about when they saw him while he was new york and while i'm real happy that they got to see him, i'm also hating on them a little b/c i'm so jealous.

ironically, every time i head out on a Rain oppa mission, something else totally crazy happens. i think it's b/c i act w/complete wreckless abandon when it comes to oppa. so Bubs & i went to dinner at a restaurant that oppa frequents whenever he's in the city. lots of yummy korean bbq and baek sae chu. Ahjima met us there around 8:30 pm and she called up SJ-who works w/outer wear for labels like Sean John. i'm not sure if he was just teasing me or not but he mentioned that Bi will have to come back to new york for Sean John fittings since he was just signed as a model. i called up PinkyPete and by the time our whole crew was assembled it was already around 10:30 or 11:00 pm.

by that time i'd been drinking w/ Bubs for at least and hour and a half; w/Bubs & Ahjima for an hour; w/Bubs, Ahjima & SJ for 45 mins; and w/Bubs, Ahjima, SJ & PinkyPete for half an hour so needless to say: i was pretty drunk. i gave up on trying to see oppa and we headed over towards Players and drank a few pitchers. it was at this point that Ahjima & i (in our completely wasted state) decided to lose all dignity and call up oppa's hotel. we finessed our way w/the concierge only to learn that oppa had checked out that morning! we all had a good laugh about it and by about 1:00 am i was ready to call it a night.

the next morning i headed towards work from PinkyPete's. as i walked toward the Union Square subway station i checked in w/Ahjima & Bubs. turns out Ahjima & SJ had gone to another bar after we split up and been drinking shots of Patron (ew yuck). SJ stayed at Ahjima's (wink wink nudge nudge) and they were both ridiculously late for work the next day. it was only as an afterthought that i realized why SJ was so intent on having me stay @ PinkyPete's (my original intention was to stay at Ahjima's). you know, something similar to this happened last time Ahjima & i went to CODA to see Rain. even inadvertently, Bi oppa just knows how to hook it up.

and now i'm broke as a joke for the next month. either way it was an insane Tuesday night...