As I write this it is Sunday 8:40 pm in Taiwan! I am very tired because in reality it is something like evening in California right now. I finished my book by Steven Saylor on the way here from Bali. It has an exciting ending and it was way cool. I asked my travel “buddy” to get me back on Sunday so I can start school on Monday without any problems. The trip has been a success so far.

I am anxious to get back and see Adolfo. Mom e-mailed me and told me she talked to him and I was happy to hear that. I hope he is happy about it!

I do not know I have much to write about right now. I suppose the pictures I will eventually post and all the chat about them will have to speak for me. I am so sleepy!

Love and Kisses!!!!!

Almost middle day on Day3 here in Bali. There was another little earthquake last night, but it was hardly noiceable. I slept well though. The room I have is absolutely lovely. In fact, you can see it on their website at www.thebale.com and we have the same view. The sunrise over the Indian Ociean is remarkable!

We went shopping while here and I got a local garmet, silver bracelet, shirt, chop stick sets, and a couple gifts here and there. This place is cool and the people are very different. We should have a little lesson today on the cutlture.

Had lunch yesterday at the Four Season in Ubud while driving through the country side. Dinner was at the Four Season in Jimbaran last night and it was okay. The entr last night was duck and some bad chick-pea variation that was awful. But, I ordered garlic mash potatoes with it that were awesome. We also had a champagne that was okay, but the best part was desert. I had a souffle that was pure sex in itself.

I also saw some woman drop in the middle of the restaurant. She fainted cold. The heat here is tough to deal with as it is 8 degrees south of the equator! I thought Thailand was worse though, but I still do not have the constituion to deal with this all that well. Thank goodness for random acts of air conditioning.

I miss Adolfo very much and am plagued with thinking of him. I feel like I am a plant without sunlight with him so far away. I sorely wish he could have come away with me on this trip. Or any trip for that matter. I suspect he and I will be very busy through January with our lives. At least we have the holidays and other plans coming to light! I hope that he and I will spend Christmas together in a apartmentr that we will share.

It is almost time for me to head out for the day. Here it is 10:15 in the morning. I see these posts get posted according to the server in where ever blogger.com is siuated. It is also Saturday my time and I will be heading home tomorrow. To come here I left on Tuesday and arrived on Thursday. To go hm I leave on Sunday and come home on Sunday…. that’s the international date line baby!

Thanks to those who sent me e-mail!

Talk soon…. Scott

It is 4:30 am in Bali, Indonesia right now and I am hre checking e-mail. I was so tired I fell asleep last night (local time) at 8pm. Sad, huh??? At 3am this morning we woke up during a neat earthquake! The whole place was shaking. No one else seemed to notice and I thought it was cool! Well, except the other guy in the room.

Only did some shopping and had dinner last night. I am getting a lot of pictures so in the coming days there should be some fresh postings on my site. The place looks over the Indian Ocean and the architecture here is something to marvel. You will see what I can sho in the pics. There are almost NO cute guys here! This is a place where fugly seems to be normal! The cutest guys are forrigners. I expereinced the same situation in Thailand when I was there a couple months ago.

I am sure Adolfo would think I was being a complete whore! He seems to think I want to hump anything that has legs… NO! So few people truly appreciate me. Ha ha ha!

Anyway, we are looking at going on a tour today. There is something called the x-files tour, museum and gallery tour, and a Kuta night life tour. This company doing the tours is not very responsive, so who knws what we will end up with.

Talk soon!

Since my last entry I found out that I was a day off on my whole trip. As I write this I am sitting in a Taiwan airport waiting for my next flight on to Bali. The trip on China Airlines was fantastic and we keep talking about what we are going to do! Who knows what pictures I will come back with???? I am totally looking forward to having some fun. I am told there is a place to see a monkey forest and another place where we can ride elephants! Imagine????

The airport here sucks but the Dynbaty Lounge for VIP flyers is really nice. Last time I was here they had some delicious food. The Dynasty VIP lounge in SFO kinda sucked, though. They had a lot of junk food…. blech!

The flight was great and there was a stewartress that reminded me of yjr girl who played Batgiel in the old Adma West version of Batman frm the 1960’s. She was cute and perky! Anyway… all is good. I shold be fine. I am glad I can update the diary from afar.

I will be staying at The Bali hotel (www.thebale.com) where I am amazed at the rooms. The place looks over the Indian Ocean and we will have a private servant in the room at all times! What a trip huh!?!?!?! Check it out and take care!

Finals were over on the 19th and I am only just writing out here in the mighty journal. Since then, I have been doing a lot while enjoying my time out of school. Adolfo and I went to visit family on the weekend having left the 20th and went to my mom’s and then off his his parents on the 21st. It was another great trip. Things seem to be really good between us.

I have been stressed beyond belief. Barely a night has gone by without a bad night of trying to sleep. In other words, I have not been sleeping very well at all. I just discovered that I may have made a huge error in planning. The buddy I went to Thailand with wanted me to go to Bali with him this week. I thought I was leaving 10/1 at night and as I look at the intinerary I just got a ferw hours ago it seems I was supposed to be on a plane 3 hours ago. I tried calling him and his phone is not answering.

I already gave away all my work hours for my part time job. I am also committed to working tomorrow morning at Sur La Table. I can’t get out of that.

I feel like hell right now… my stomach is an acid bath. Damn, this has been a stressful week. Argh, now I can’t think of anything else. Maybe I will update this again tomorrow if I am still here. This would have been a really cool trip had I not fucked this up. He is going to be pissed at me. I was already half packed to leave tomorrow!

good night…

I am still studying. I did really shitty on a quiz last week and the Chef gave me a chance to make it up and bring my grade up to a passing. I almost f’d that up for sure. It was a quiz on potatoes and rice and stuff… ie starchy foods. Ugh! I can cook any of them any time, but when asked “What is the ratio of water to rice if you are cooking wild rice?” or “What is the ratio of water to rice if you are cooking standard long grain white rice?” or “If you are making duchese potatoes, mashed potatoes, and (one other forgot name right now) how do the potatoes start out?” …. well?

Monday I had a quiz on eggs, cheeses, and some other less important stuff…. I think I failed it. Why, becasue I focused on the Eggs part and not the cheese part and now I have egg on my face. I guessed my way through it! ARGH!

Today we had a major project due where we delivered a restaurant we designed and we had to create the following: a floor plan, kitchen design, dining room, and a complete menu. Then, we had to cook a dish from each course in the menu appitizer, salad, entree’, and desert. Nothing came out the way it was exactly supposed to and I had to spend money I was not prepapred to spend. THAT SUCKED!

Oh, the answers were 2 (I thought it was 3), 2, and puree’….

ughhhhhhhhhh… Well, the weekend is almost over. School is almost finished for the quarter. 2 more finals tomorrow in Culinary and Friday is Speeh/Communication. Friday should be skate, though. After tomorrow it is going to be ooooooooover. Well, for a couple weeks anyway. What is next quarter going to bring, huh? I have American Regional Cuisine as the main courses of study. I still do not know what my GenED classes are going to be…

Well, now if can mellow out enough to relax and go to sleep tonight. My test tomorrow is on meat. I have looked at so much dead flesh that I woud seriously consider a vegetarian life right now… blah! But, I’ll have tofinish this veal cutlet first. Ha ha ha… Mooooooooo!

This week has sucked so bad. I worked an event last night which kept me at school 12 hours yesterday and on my feet almost the whole time. Damn, I was tired when I got home. Funny thing is that I barely noticed the time going by. I was so busy and so engrossed in things that I was good with all of it. I cannot imagine how some of my classmates dealt with 2 hours of dishes that needed to be done when we were finished. We made use of so many pans and crap last night.

Which reminds me. I plan on looking for a j.o.b. on my break and getting my business plan out. I am dividing myself again. I have some certifications to get taken care of like my health card and stuff before I can work here. I took my Safe Serve Test last week and will have that certification if I passed it. Argh… this is a long evening. I need to get off to bed. I am going to busy through Friday when I will be away for 3 days! Yippee!

Adolfo and I are going to visit family… he is thrilled. Well, not really. Ha ha ha… later ya’ll

Studying and other things! Between working at Sur La Table, school, and other things I have very little time. Oh, I have such a list of priorities, but you know what I miss a lot??? I miss freinds. I miss hanging out with old buddy Ed in Long beach and I miss Maureen n Boston. I miss the gang at Baja Cantinia off Copley Square. This is no reflection of Adolfo, do not get me wrong. I miss hanging out. I miss going off… I may have to miss this a lot over the next couple years, huh? I swear to God I am going to move out of this fucking town when I graduate.

I’m watching Anna Nicole when I should be reading my text book. I put some finishing touches on my final’s project for school tonight. I even went out and bought supplies I was hoping I would not have to buy. I spent 90$ on stuff tonight, most of which is for the project. I have a team of 4 at school and our project was to design a restaurant and come up witha business plan, design, statement for what it was about, and all that. About the only thing I got the group to decide on was that we would have a red table cloth. uhm… right.

Tonight I called the woman who was supposed to have bought the table cloth and she still did nothave it. So, I dragged Adolfo over to Cost Plus and went shopping. I got glassware I needed, red napkins, and a “natural” table cloth. The glasses I got were beautiful and perfect. They are red glass. Oh my God they were fun! Adolfo picked them out!

Ya know… starting Friday I had this feeling that Adolfo and I were going to have a fight this weekend. I just KNEW it was coming and we seemed to get close once in a while. Well, I felt the animosity in myself! I felt that it was coming and I reasoned that it was all inside my own head. On Saturday evening I went to the gym after work (6:30 pm) and there was barely anyone there. When I showered at 8:30 there were a lot a guys working the shower and some were fucking hot. I got a total woodie and got an eyefull (not lilterally) so I was supposed to meet Adolfo for dinner and I felt really guilty. I think I transmit that guilt way too loudly. I catch myself looking at a cute guy and then hoping Adolfo did not see I reach over to him (Adolfo) and touch him as if connecting back to him and absolving my own guilt.

Should I feel guilty for looking at pretty boys? There were two foriegn boys at Sur La Table on Saturday that were absolutely beautiful and I would totally pay tosee them naked or even clothed. Damn they were cute and I tried to be cool about it and all. Too many cute boys come into my store where I work part time. Oh, poor me… ha ha ha.

Anyway, I need to toddle off to bed. Did you get my new e-mail addy? scott@ahn2x.net

More homework tonight for a big school project. Finals coming up soon. I had an important test today that was only 90 questions and have to pass for my Serve Safe certification. Eeeks! I am off to bed soon. And look, Tom got his ball stuck under the couch again and he is going nuts. I better help him. Nighty

Oi Vay… this was a weekend. I went to go get Adolfo on Friday after work and found him sick. He was burning up and stumbling around the retail store he works at. I swear he could have passed out. I took him to Denny’s on the way to my house to get him some soup and when I got home it was 1 am. He was on-fire! I called my mom in a panic and she told me to put him in the shower and give him a cool to tepid rub down… then I got him 400mg of aspirin and shoved him off to bed. I never felt such heat coming off another person!

In the morning (Saturday), I went to Vons and bought a thermometer and took his temprature. He 102 in the morning and he was much cooler than he was the night before, too! I made him a bagel and we had orange juice and I sent him to bed for the day. He was hovering around 102 until this morning. High temp and achyness… those were the only symptoms. What the hell???? If he was sick-sick I am puzzled, because his body was fighting something. He thought it was some shrimp he had at Bellagio, but maybe it was a virus? Anyone know?

Anyway, last night I decided to cook something nice and made an attmept at making chicken marsalla from scrpatch. I did not have everything right, but it came off okay. I made a bachamel and mixed it with some portini mushrooms in white wine. I had cooked two chicken breasts earlier and then added them to the sauce… blah blah blah put it over some saphron noodles and wahlah!

That morning I also made a soup in advance. I picked up some yellow squash and cooked that up, then made a cream soup out of it and it was yummy! I served it with the chicken dish and yum yum yum.

This morning I made a breakfast bread with a bruscuiotto, egg, and cheese center and it was delicious. I followed a salty recipe, but I will change it next time I make it.

God, school is going to end for the quarter. I have a final test tomorrow which is a certification test for my food safe card. I have to know a lot of numbers and tempratures for food safety. We took a practice test last week and man… did I do bad. I have to be better prepared for some of these tests. I was not ready for a test 2 weeks ago and I got an F. I got my first and only F this quarter…. ARGH!

Anyway, I think I will do okay please please please God. I must get 60 out of 80 queations to pass. Does not sound too hard, huh?

plans coming up? I hope to be going to go traveling with a buddy in a couple weeks! On 9/20 Adolfo and I are heading out of town for the weekend with each other. We are going to visit my mom and then my ex GF, then his mom before coming back to LV. Yeah…. oi vay.

Someone pray for me and cast some good magic my way please? Gary??? Anyone else?

I tend to neglect this diary more than I should. Sorry about that. Sorry goes to me more than anything because when I write things here it makes me feel better and I get to vent.

Adolfo and I are doing okay still. I am happy to report… but he tends to get depressed gets lost in his own head periodically. last night he had a bot of a meltdown which lasted less than an hour and he cried. Today, he got really quiet and moody and then it was finally over when I got him to explain. Oi Vay!

I am worried about school and money as usual. I cannot afford my monthly school payment for August and have to go to them tomorrow and explain that. I wonder what that will mean for me??? I dunno. It is 535./month I have to pay the Art Insitute for Culinary classes … I was deluded for thinking I could afford that. Just because I had a couple lucrative months I somehow held on to the hope I would continue to rake in cash.

Do not get me wrong. I am current with most stuff right now. I pay all my bills at the beginning of the month all the time anyway and can meet all ther others. I can even buy groceries this month. Well, for the most part. I did buy some AND I made some interesting dishes for Adolfo every night this weekend. Friday night I made a chicken breast with polenta and french green beans. Saturday I made chicken, rosoto, and braised boc choy. Tonight I made a pork roast, blue cheese polenta, and frnch green beans. FABULOUS, huh? What man dating me could ever complain when being fed like that?

Working at Sur La Table at Desert Passage has been nice, but it is a little on the dull side. I met the owner/chef of the Tillerman Restaurant this week and his name was Mark Dimarco… I was excited. I get excited meeting Chefs of distinction let alone the ones no one knows. I plan on working in a kitchen by October. I still think I did the right thing by going to Culinary school. I bring home kitchen assignements and make them here for my little guinea piggie…. ha hah a

Finals are in three weeks. School will be out from 9/20 through 10/14 and I am hoping that a buddy of mine will take me on another adventure. He is the guy who took me to Bangkok and San Francisco. No, just freinds… get your brains out of the gutter. I am a good travel companion!

What else??? Oh, I forgot to mention my creams lately. I have been having very vivid dreams. Two nights ago I was in a Russian store buying these spoons. They had a silver scoop part and a silver knodule at the top, but the handle was intriguing. It was porcelyn and blue with a white flower painted on it. This spoon was very important for somereason???? Last night I saw a baby with hypothermia at a football game in the arms of a foot ball player. He tossed it away underarm behind him and I caught it while backed up with a wall of football players. The baby was warming up and coming to life in my arms… I was the only part in color.

Am I messed up or what? Is insanity attractive to anyone except Anna Nicole? And what about her??? I saw her son Daniel… sweet little pumpkin! But what a god damn dumb show! We watched it lastnight… ha ha ha

Goodnight…