My kitchen has been awfully lonely and unused the past few months. My culinary skills - lack thereof - have kept it nice and clean, random tea bags and snacks aside.
So it was time to properly christen the stove, countertops, and the new pots-and-pans set Sui got me for Christmas.
With what would be my signature dish, had I the prowess to make more than one dish; the masterful fingerpainting of a preschooler, if you will.
That would be salmon steak, Chinese bok choy, rice, and Taiwanese milk tea. Dishes and table courtesy of my condo’s interior designer. =) A few more pictures here.
Hm. It’s been a while since I posted.
Busy with the move-in and unpacking and clean-up and all. Buying this place has been akin to running a marathon, and the feelings throughout this process ranged from excitement to anxiety to frustration to relief to exhaustion. Actually, I’m currently at “disbelief”, as in, I can’t believe I’ve kept so much crap over the years.
Anyway, since my unit came with a full set of furniture, I snapped a few photos of its pristine, untainted-by-my-own-stuff, model-home-like state (). The upshot is that when it’s time to go, I’ll have a blueprint as to exactly how make a home look like nobody has ever lived in it before.
Click here for the rest of the set. If I never have a housewarming it’ll be in preservation of the impressions provided by these images.
You can skip the writeup and find pictures here. I outdid myself this time, 100 photos after the usual trimming.
A weekend of sand and waves; Sui and I headed down to Monterey, neither of us having gone to this sunny location only two hours away. Sui especially needed a little reprieve in between her busy summer and fall optometry clinical schedule, so off we went to the other Northern California bay, one without the generous dose of fog.
The plan was to hit the world-famous aquarium, stay overnight, then spend a second day walking along a trail along the water, checking out interesting landmarks along the way. It was a quickie getaway, and I had to head back home in time for work the day after.
Just a small pictures update, from a Game Afternoon/Evening we threw a few weeks back, and Kenric’s mid-summer BBQ, complete with babies. Yes, we’re getting to that age.
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Edit: Argh, the pictures may be a little blurry. Had to resize them a little bit to fit the page in a forthcoming theming of the picture pages. The larger 1600×1200 pictures should still be ok; any blurring there is solely from my crappy camera work.
Zeon and Sam dragged us this past Saturday to Mama’s in San Francisco, one of the best places for breakfast and brunch around the Bay Area and in retrospect worth visiting despite the long line and drizzly weather.
The rest of the day was spent at the Exploratorium, a kid-friendly science exhibit showcasing rudimentary physics and biology; our highlight was a romp through the Tactile Dome, an obstacle course shrouded in complete darkness which actually takes a little effort to navigate through (not recommended is ramming your face into the walls). More pictures found here.
Given the small size of San Francisco’s Japantown, they manage to throw down an annual grandiose cherry blossom festival, celebrating the coming of spring and giving the Chinese New Year festivities a run for their money. Sui and I had wanted to check out this party years prior, but this time we finally went with like-minded individuals; thanks to Jeff for organizing the trip.
(For those unwilling to read through my usual event-oriented rants, you can go straight to the pictures)