So, it’s been a week. Wow. Here’s the highlights of the past week:

1. Minado [food] – Oooh, delish Japanese buffet! I used to say it’s a sushi buffet, but it’s more than that. There’s one row of just sushi, one row of hot entrees, one row of salads, and one row of desserts. If you like sushi, this is the place for you. I mean, there’s so much stuff you can try, it’s not even funny. It’s only $15.95 for lunch and really, one full plate of sushi is worth that at least, and then you get to have other stuff too. Everything is fresh, contrary to the buffet stereotype where things get stale or ingredients are substandard. Everything feels nice and fresh and hot and crunchy and ooh. This is definitely highly recommended.

2. Curiosa Festival – This is my first concert festival, so I’m no authority, but, oh my gawd, it was sweet. Muse was sooo cool. It was just awesome, I was so speechless, so high and so overwhelmed right after the set. Too bad it was such a short one. They only did about 5-6 songs, I think. But still, Muse alone made it worth my $60 bucks. I was rocking along with the rest of the crowd, it was awesome. I was flowing.

3. Keene – I checked out my new town this weekend too. I saw one other asian guy in the Thai restaurant and he was a waiter. That’s it. Yeah, I’m sure I won’t be discriminated upon. I mean, everyone I met from my future company has been extremely nice. There was this one scene though, that keeps bugging me. TB and I were walking along Main street and somebody hooted at us for some reason he and I can’t figure out why. That was slighly unnerving. Being the only two non-white people there, I can’t help thinking it might be because of that. Oh well.

I got so depressed though, when we were eating at Bickford’s. I mean, I’ve always lived in the city, even in Manila, and in Boston, there were always so many different kinds of people around me. Keene is a really, really small American town. Oh well. At least I’ll get to do hiking and biking and snow boarding. Maybe even kayaking. Who knows. Whatever.

4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [books] – I looooove Harry Potter books. I woke up this morning feeling so bad for Harry Potter and just thoroughly hating Professor Umbridge. I was so disgusted imagining her toad-like face until I realized I had to get out of bed. I don’t even know why I was thinking of Harry Potter, first thing in the morning! No, no, no, it’s not like that. I’m no Michael Jackson. It’s just that I’ve gotten so involved within his whole story. I re-read the books one after the other again so that I can read book 5, and oh my, I’m flowing again right now!

5. The Village [movies] – I thought this movie was okay. I was expecting more from it. I think, I expected it to be more thrilling and to have a bigger twist in the ending. It wasn’t bad, it was still pretty good. I still like the Sixth Sense the best of Night Shyamalan’s movies.