Jan 20, 2024

Today was the day I was supposed to meet with the RC for our planned get-together, and I was put up to the task of treating 10 of them because it was my birthday celebration. My morning would've been nice if only I'd slept at an earlier time, but I couldn't so I ended up starting my day at 1 p.m.

There was still some spare time in my hands, as we were supposed to meet up at around 3:00-3:30 p.m., and I used my spare time to update my journal entries. I met up with them at BGC Forum at around 3:10 p.m. and we all caught up and talked about random things. JK asked me how I'm doing recently and I appreciated how intently Monica was listening in, and how JK responded. By 4:07 p.m. we got in and 7 of us were accounted for and Jaymz, Sean, and Denise eventually went inside the restaurant a few minutes later. William and Sydney sat in front of me and we were right by the TV which blasted K-Pop music. I saw a lot of Twice MVs and I sang to some of the songs there, I also saw aespa's Spicy and Hype Boy from NewJeans play, which was good.

We ate a lot of food, especially the beef. We had several rounds of that beef-enoki thing that Samgyupsalamat had and it was pretty good. Sydney, William, and I had some trouble cutting up the pork meat into pieces which was pretty funny. While cooking and eating, we all caught up with how we were doing in our lives, a lot of us were wowed by Jaymz's outfit of choice because he either looked like an exorcist or a club owner. It rained a lot outside while we were eating, but thankfully it had subsided by the time we were done eating. A few of the group went to Starbucks first while the rest of us stayed to finish our food and use the whole 2 hours.

Starbucks was our next stop and it didn't occur to me that I should give my Starbucks QR Promo Card for more stickers, so I just scanned 2 stars instead of the total 10 that we bought. It was the last day of collecting stickers and I absolutely failed at collecting enough stickers for a collectible this year, which kinda bummed me out. But it's okay since I'll just find some other way to get those.

Our trip ended at Timezone where I sat down on a Wangan Midnight arcade cabinet to play my favorite racing game. Eventually the guys left and I was still playing at the arcade cabinet. I also loaded a lot of arcade credits to a wrong card (which I left at home), so I called my night over and just headed home. I didn't spend any of time with anyone else and just did some coding for my website, figuring out this service worker thing.

I felt really disconnected from my friends, which kind of surprised me. But I guess it's because they were all couples, except for Jaymz and I. I guess it weirded me out because it felt like a group couples date more than anything.