Wednesday, September 26, 2007

pics

hanging out with pat and diana after circa and eating late nite korean food

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sandra's wedding

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this is elainebb singing at sandra's wedding. i've met elainebb a few times and had found her blog through lisa and sandra. I started reading her blog while in pittsburgh.

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the bridesmaids taking the veil out of sandra's hair.

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DELICIOUS crab my dad made

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Monday, September 24, 2007

where does the time go

haven't had much time to blog lately. i still need to upload pics i took on my camera. hrm what's happened. went to circa with ted, patrick, diana, alan and hunny since patrick was visiting from pland. that was a cool place, never been there. went to see sandra get married! she was beautiful! and the location was very elegant and the food was good. one thing i really liked about the restaurant, it was classy enough to have speakers built into the ceilings and had a nice dance floor. however we were too tired to do any dancing and headed out shortly after dinner was over. also i saw next to a bunch of bruins which is always good. haha. a lot of people who were old classmates of TC's from ucla. also sat next to a really good food consultant who's family company does extremely well. his dad knows the owner of ranch 99 - let me just say, sometimes what makes business sense is not the most obvious - the trick is, who sees the opportunity first.

we also had a meeting regarding B2 - still haven't heard anything yet but things are still moving along - albeit slowly. I've also been doing a lot of market research for B1, i think it's time i just crack down on myself and start building the website. luckily jeff has offered to help me since he's learned how to do things so much more efficiently after tastebudd.

this past weekend was hunny's dad's bday and we went to koi palace. OMG SUCH GOOD FOOD. i'd forgotten how good that restaurant is. we had crab with most of the meat sauteed with eggwhites, quail, lobster in garlic sauce, sweet and sour pork spare ribs, ox tail cooked in chinese pumpkin, pea sprouts (dow mui), dried scallop and egg white fried rice, steamed rock cod and some good wine. i was soooooo full. i really need to take my parents there to have the quail and crab. friday night we met up with hunny's old coworker dan who was here on work from virginia. he works for salesforce.com. they talked mostly of all the great people they used to work with. it seems that their old company hired some really good people back in the day, however once the economy got better, everyone left for higher paying jobs. they both really love their new jobs because rather than being the most technical people at the company, they are now constantly challenged by amazingly intelligent coworkers to learn new skills and keep themselves sharp. i like a man who enjoys challenges. ;)

question of the day - will oracle buy salesforce?

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

my random playlist

listening to ...
bananarama
anything box
oakenfold
snow patrol
kanye west



i love the lyrics to this song...

"i'd do anything for a klondike" hahahah

Monday, September 10, 2007

robotech!

after watching transformers , i thought - hey wouldn't it be so cool if robotech was a movie? i just read that there IS going to be a robotech movie! and tobey maguire is going to be in it!

i heart adium

i've been having trouble with my third party chat app fire which i use for my powerbook. when i look for new updates on the site, i see that they are discontinuing new updates! poop! the reason was because their developers were lacking in time, since they probably have fulltime jobs and program fire as a side thing. turns out two of the developers work for adium which is another third party im app. nice! i've downloaded it and it has all the things i thought fire and ichat was lacking. i can log onto more than one aim sn at a time, i can incorporate gmail chat, i have tabbed windows and i can keep a transcript of all my conversations. nice! so if you have a mac, check out adium! plus they have this really cool green duck icon. haha

working weekend

hunny passed his exam! woo hoo!! so to celebrate had a date nite! we went to my fav restaurant - the house - in sf and then watched a movie in the new theater. guess what jyan - i was good and i didn't order the sea bass! instead i had one of their specials and ordered the rack of lamb. it was tasty, although i liked the lamb better at the restaurant we went to for diana's bday in menlo park. it was more simply prepared - just light spices. although the sauces went very well with the house's lamb, i think i still prefer lamb with just salt, pepper and rosemary.

saturday morning we went to check out the location of B2 with hunny's dad. he seemed to like the location a lot and also suggested some places to purchase equipment. after that we went to kaylee's bday picnic at lake elizabeth. little kaylee is now 1! she's so cute. but the poor girl rubbed some cake frosting on her face and broke out in hives! what's so toxic in cake frosting that would make someone break out like that?

sunday elaine and i met up to do some work. we checked out different souces to purchase materials for the biz. some things can be so hard to find! we got so frustrated at one point (and sleepy from food coma) so we went to get our toes done. my first pedicure in my whole entire life. haha. i was pretty entralled with the person doing my toes and observed her every move. my opinion? well i don't think i was missing out on much. although my toes are very pretty and tidy, i don't think anyone would really know the difference if i just painted them myself. however it does seem the nail polish they use holds up better and doesn't chip. therefore, if i ever do this again, i'll get something which won't be as noticeable if my nails grow out. also something that is hard for me to do at home - like a french manicure or something. but eh, it's good i went at least once so i don't feel so lame when other people are talking about these types of things. anyhow i'm glad elaine and i had our talks about the biz. i'm very glad we are focused on the same things and can be honest with eachother.

leland dinner

had dinner with leland folks at gumbo jumbo last friday. dinner lasted from 7:30 until 11!! we've all known eachother for more than 10 years so all kinds of things come out of our mouths when we get together. of course many things are top secret and thus shall not be discussed on this blog. haha. i will give you the general gist of things however. whenever we get together we go around the table to discuss everyone's relationships status of course. talked about serious stuff then stupid stuff. we had no idea all of us liked so many useless tv reality shows. of course conversations were helped along since we knew the owner and she kept giving us bottles of wine and delish dessrts!. i think we should designate gumbo jumbo as our leland dinner location all the time. hehe. only next time, i will order the crayfish to be mild garlic instead of medium. we drank sooo much water that we all had to keep going to the restroom! haha

mtv vma's

britney's performance sucked in comparison to everyone else's. people say it's because she broke her heel, she was nervous, blah blah. but she's been performing since she was little, what's there to be nervous about? she just lacked energy and looked like she didn't care and didn't give it her all.

on the otherhand, all the other performers rocked! i loved the concept of having separate party rooms for different genre's. it allowed for much more performing and less talking. at the same time people in the rooms still got to watch the entire performance when the show would cut to another announcement. also the smaller format really gave the crowd the ability to get into the music and allowed the performers to feed of the crowd's energy and excitement.

i really don't understand why kanye was so upset about being put into a suite. i thought his performance rocked, the party in the suite looked unbelievably fun and full of energy. he got more songs to be played and as a result i will now get all his new songs. really i thought those suite parties were just as amazing as the performances on the large stage. i loved the diversity that the suite format provided since i got kind of tired of watching the same old award shows where you see a lot of people sitting down instead of rocking out to the music like they should be! so kanye, chill out! i loved your performance!

every performance was just really SO good. chris brown's was really good, however my favorite would have to be alicia key's performance - especially when she started singing freedom. justin timberlake's was also completely awesome. i kinda want to see him in concert again after watching the show. haha. britney must feel so bad her ex rocked the show while she sucked.

ok i'm mean. i'll stop bashing now...

Thursday, September 06, 2007

safari 3.0.3 beta

my impatience has led me to switch back to safari. it now has some of the things that i liked about firefox - tabs, a lot faster, extensions (albeit only for PC's). one thing i miss, i miss the Back option arrow which allows me to scroll down the list of previous pages i had already navigated to so i don't have to go Back one by one to get to the page i want. please apple - that would be a great feature for you to add! safari beta loads much faster than IE or firefox. there is another nifty feature to allow me to expand any text field i am typing in. so i have more room to see what i typed! also firefox 2.0 was having some really annoying flash bugs. ugh - cmon mozilla!

pavarotti passed away

so sad... pavarotti, the opera singer, passed away. i started liking opera since college during my opera classes as a musicology minor. rest in peace pavarotti, we'll miss you...

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

quick recap

so i've been too busy and haven't been able to recap the weekend and the past week. here it is, quick and dirty. haha

-friday had a bunch of meetings. meeting number one went great since now i will have an important part of the puzzle for B1. meeting number two was food tasting and negotiations for STIRR. went ok, kinda rushed. meeting number three went a long time - met with family friend of a friend who had advice on B2. we stayed to have an early dinner with him at shanghai 1930. yummy yummy food - especially the banana and ice cream dessert! elaine said it was the best dessrt she's ever had! friday nite hung out with bro, bro's wife michelle and their baby lucas.

-saturday - woke up really really really early at 7:30 because lucas was up - which meant ryan and michelle were both up. i was sleeping on the couch because i wanted grandma to take my bed. later that day i got roasted at the ucla stanford game. met up with diana, yoshi, leon, gary and henry. also bumped into old floormates from my days in Sproul Hall at ucla! what a coinkydink they sat right behind us! ucla won - of course. hehe. saturday nite i went over to see hunny and just stayed in.

-sunday was a pancake breakfast at original pancake house. i had the eggs micheal with chocolate chip pancakes. then i gave grizzly a bath and met up with elaine to do some work. i got back to hunny's house in time for dinner with the parents. watched The Hills with hunny's little cousins theresa and anna. heidi and spencer are sooooo annoying! but so entertaining to watch. i wish she didn't get a boob job...she looked so much better without it. what's with really pretty girls getting really big boob jobs? ruined!

and i can't stop now

there was this good song that played in the middle of spinning class. it has the lyrics

"and i can't stop now....no i can't stop now"

hearing the song got me going and so now i'm trying to find out who sings it. i can't find it! and yet the song is stuck in my head.

i heard there is a song search engine that you can sing your song and it will find it. i wonder if it's out of alpha version yet.

what's in a name

i have a name for B1! and we have been thinking about a name for B2 for a month. still don't have anything.

sometimes it just comes to you...sometimes it doesn't

ugh

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

antibacterial products are bad!

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