2 hours

my friend rita can run 2 hours. her new husband runs three hours. they have both done triathlons and marathons. that's what i aspire to do...

dentists and oysters

hunny and i had to go get our teeth cleaned recently and we went to HS friend will. haha. actually it turned out that hunny had to put a crown on his tooth. here is a pic of will at work! i still find it so strange that will is my dentist. i used to pick on him when we were kids! i hope he isn't vengeful. haha. kidding...we are good friends and he's forgotten those days. here's a pic of him working on hunny!

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also had oysters on saturday at tomales bay

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it was a beautiful day! a little windy but not too hot. although we had trouble getting tables since it was so crowded that day. also the owner blocked off a bunch of tables and they never ended up coming! there were some oyster virgins also. haha. i got stanely to try his first raw oyster ever. he even had some cooked ones. jennie had her first raw oyster ever also! kooool. oysterfest has become one of those summer traditions now. i hope this tradition never dies cuz i really love tomales bay oysters and refuse to order oysters anywhere else. it's never as good as tomales bay!

still interviewing. processes are dragging and i'm really hoping to land something soon. send me good vibes! however i've been keeping busy with stirr and helping my grad school roomie with his start up. trying to think of new ways to generate revenue and to create a new breed of company rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. i would discuss more, but he's in stealth mode ;) definitely gets my brain thinking creatively whenever we meet up.

also gymming and running a ton. yesterday when i was spinning really hard i could see my abs ripple in the mirror! that was so cool because i've never seen that before. however when i'm not flexing, there is absolutely no definition. =P guess i have more working out to do.

yanni's wedding

went to yanni's (erik's) wedding last weekend. it was much nicer than i expected. haha. tons and tons and tons of food. if you know yanni, he is a bottomless pitt when it comes to food. also, he looooves steak and just meat products in general. the wedding was in long island at lombardi's. let me tell u, i've never seen so much food for a wedding in my life! for the reception, there were many platters of fine food from fresh fruit to sushi all sitting out on a huge display with an ice sculpture. there were also many food stations which attendants would serve you with fresh pasta, steak, lamb, cheese and prosciutto. and THEN there were also waiters walking around with appetizers on plates! and THEN you went to the real meal! it was a menu which had at least 5 selections for entrees. i had the baby rack of lamb and hunny had the aged steak. There were also fish and vegetarian choices. started with a salad, then a sorbet palate cleanser, then the entree, then a dessert mini platter and cake! i was sooooooo full i couldn't finish my rack of lamb. boooo. also there was wine provided the whole time. the location was also very beautiful. the ceremony was elegant and humorous (the officiant was cracking jokes the whole time - very ling and erik) and in the reception area was in a room full of light and windows with white long scarves or whatever you call them decorating the place. it was nice seeing the classmates again, even bumped into some that i didn't expect to see. pics below!

tepper groupie
amy was my other hot date. hehe

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erik walking down the aisle with the best man

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ling ling with her dad walking down the aisle

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goofing off - note with the picking nose thing. amy was trying to get something off the side of my nose, tiny took a picture and it looked like she was picking my nose. so we took all the pics pretending to pick eachother's noses. yeah, we're weird like that. but it was funny!

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awww, tiny's head was covered up.

haircut

before - "the asian fro"

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after - "nice and clean"

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proof that i did indeed cut my brother's hair. and it's not horrendous. haha

ruminations on a spinning bike

john mayer posted ruminations on a treadmill on his blog so i thought i would do something similar for my thoughts during spinning. you would think that my mind would be more focused during spinning since it's so rigorous. but not so!

5 min - ok this isn't so bad, i'm feeling strong today so hopefully i'm not dying by the end of the class. my bike is clicking, so annoying. should i switch? nah too lazy.
10 min - whoo getting a little tired now. that woman behind me has a nice body
15 min - i wonder how much she has to diet to look like that. i hate diets.
20 min - i have that set of interviews on wednesday - i hope i don't have to move
21 min - i really like the job, i just wish it were closer
22 min - i seem to really like the things i do now, will i still like BD when i have a family?
23 min - ugh my legs are burning, and it's only 23 min into the class. another climb?!!
23 min - i'm sweating so much - i hope that means i'm burning a lot of calories
24 min - i wonder if they make this room extra warm, i'm dripping! so not attractive.
30 min - ONLY half way through the class! i hope we start stretching soon.
31 min - i need to eat better
32 min - i wonder if i really dieted, would i ever be able to look like jessica alba? only with smaller boobs of course since some things get smaller with weight loss.
33 min - jessica alba does 1 hr of cardio and 1 hr of weights five days a week. that's a lot of gymming
35 min - if i got to my ideal body shape, how hard would i have to work to maintain it?
36 min - if i moved, i would be so lonely since all my friends are far. but i would work out every day and be in great shape
37 min - great shape or happy - happy wins.
38 min - happy or good career move - career move wins for now
40 min - good lord 20 minutes left. i'm dying. push push push!
43 min - the spin instructor sure has a lot of energy.
44 min - i can tell some people here spin a lot but they are still not that skinny. darn genetics.
45 min - i feel like a wuss, i'm still dying. 15 more minutes seems like forever.
46 min - please stretch soon, please please
47 min - what! two more climbs? i can't do it! push push push!
48 min - ok try to take my mind off the pain - ahh hunny. i heart hunny.
49 min - still keep my mind off - my ankle isn't hurting, this is good. i need to spin more often and run less
50 min - i wish 24 had an outdoors olympic sized pool for me to do laps in. swimming indoors just isn't the same.
51 min - this is insane, i'm so tired. why did i decide to go spinning again? push push push
52 min - 8 minutes left
53 min - i'm dying. 7 more minutes
54 min - my thighs look really big in the mirror, darn genes. 6 more minutes
55 min - forget the pain - think about that red bikini that i want to look hot in this summer. 5 more minutes
56 min - ugh i would have to go to many more spin classes to look hot. 4 more minutes.
57 min - how come john makes this look so easy. i feel like a wuss. three more minutes
58 min - almost done two more minutes!
59 min - ugh i want to stop now. but i need to push push!
60 min - FINALLY done!
stretching to john mayer's body is a wonderland. i love that song.

5 minutes later - that wasn't so bad. i need to do this more often. what a great work out!

movies

since hunny had to work this weekend, we had a chill weekend full of movie watching on satellite. we watched freedom writers and holiday. both were surprisingly good movies. i even teared up with freedom writers a couple times and i don't easily cry at movies. the struggle of the students is really heart wrenching. i was pleasantly surprised with the movie - i didn't expect it to be a very good movie at all since i didn't hear much about it from my friends. holiday was more light hearted of course. jack black is so funny and amiable, jude law was actually good looking. I haven't thought he was very good looking since mr. ripley. kate winslet is so gorgeous - she looks like someone who would be captivating even when she wakes up with no makeup. cameron diaz seemed a little out of place in the movie - i think it was because she seemed awkward in the children scenes. but hey - she's hot. i want her body! go watch both movies - highly recommended!

the three amigos

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hunny, his bro hyman and his cousin han all have bdays in may. so we all went to chevy's for their bday dinner with the cousins, sig others and their babies. wife of cousin steven is my friend from ucla and scimagix. hyman hasn't seen the babies before since he was working in NYC. babies are so cute! but all of us non-parents were hearing stories of waking up every 1-2 hours and only getting a max of four hours of sleep. sheesh - we get 10 hours of sleep on the weekends! we are sleepaholics! but here was a cute pics of nolan and hunny in sombreros. so cute!

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geek fight club

last nite we went out for a bday dinner for hunny at claim jumpers. coincidentally someone from this group also knows my best friend from HS. i found out her husband is famous for being in a geek fight club in silly valley! haha.

check it out. he's the one in the red hawaiian shirt.
Geek Fight Club