makes a great weekend for me:

slice of new york pizza+stromboli+garlic knots

roti bun

roli roti porchetta sandwich+potato+roasted chicken

unsweetened coffee/tea

oysters half shell

jamba juice

golden gate bakery egg tart+sponge cake

ppq pepper corn crabs+garlic noodles

bi-rite creamery

santouka ramen

japanese snacks

but erin, jenn, ian, rich, hilbert, howard made it one of the best.

savoring the last few minutes of my 20s.... :: sigh :: this is a hard one to take.

oh my freaking goh, remind me why did i want braces again?  i don't even have braces on yet, just 12 spacers to make room to install braces.  everything i chew hurts, irritated... eating is now a chore.  i'm a big snacker, but now i try to melt cookies in my mouth until i can swallow them. >.<

i need old people food!!!

i look forward to mash potato, yogurt, ice cream, rice pudding, steamed egg...  i miss eating...

surf lesson...

i love being a beach bum where the sun warms you and nap to the breaking of the wave.  When the water temperature is warm enough i love being in the water and catching waves.  even if the water was a bit cold, once you start catching the waves that's the last thing you think about.  But once i moved back to nor cal, the water is unbelievably cold even in the high summer heat and no boggy board buddy. actually i don't remember laying out in my swim suit cuz it 's so cold, we're always bundled up at the beach in layers of blankets and sweaters. 

last weekend we went out to santa cruz and signed up for a surf lesson.  two hours board and wetsuit... that's the secret wetsuit!  the website says 3' waves... but when we got there, those look more like 6' and being under one felt like they were 10ft waves crashing down on you.  cowell beach is suppose to be gentle beginner heaven. i was still excited when peddling out.  once we got out there we got hit by 5 big waves that i heard myself say 'ah crap' every time i re-surface cuz i see the next big one coming.  they had 2 students send to the hospital and one was checked out by the lifeguard.  it was a ruff day at the beach.  i had to admit i did get a bit discouraged.  but i still want to catch at least one...i been looking forward to this all summer.  at the end of the day i didn't stand up, i half crunch on the board and went back in.  i don't know how i felt about surfing, definitely harder than body-boarding, standing up is tuff and i thought i had good balance.  i liked catching whitewater :P 

but after watching surf competition videos, i'm psyched again.  i want to go out there, preferably on a day that's small 2ft rolling waves to try again.  now that the water is awesome with a wetsuit! 

Labor Day in the East Coast

i just had one of the best weekends in awhile.  I got to visit karen in DC!  i have already been to DC twice before but i gota say this was the most memorable.  We took it easy, napped when we got to karen's, watch no reservations, woke up for a stroll.  we didn't visit any historical 'sites' since we been to most of them, just really enjoyed walking around the city.  I got to walk down Georgetown and around GTU.  I love the feel of campus and the layback feel.  obviously wasn't finals week yet.  Also got the most mosquito bites in one day.  I like karen's home, very cute and homey, I can lounge around all day.

after karen's done with her long work day she took us out to eat for 3 hours...THREE HOURS.  we trekked through three restaurants +1 dessert.  falafel, tapas, ben's chili bowl, gelato!  yummmm. 

i remember reading karen's facebook post that she ran to the zoo and visited panda, so i want to keep her morning ritual and joined her on the run.  Georgetown is a great runner city, with small trails right smack in the city and the trails are long.  the round trip was 7miles and i got to see pands and leopards.  that's a good morning jog. more eating and walking about.  to mussels and fries, captain white's seafood, kayak the potomac river, empanadas, oreo milkshake and bon chon chicken on our drive to Chantille.  I don't feel a drop of guilt for eating so much.  7 miles jog, 6 miles walk, 2 miles kayak.

now i want to visit her more often...hahahaha...it's been fun.

Now the labor day weekend we also had another agenda, to attend our first Indian wedding.  Ankit had me help another girl Julian with her sari.  i hope her sari stayed on the rest of the night, cuz i realized most of them use safety pins to keep it in place.  Also something i noticed, all the girls group together and all the men group together to talk.  even if they're couples / husband + wife they separate and join other similar genders to chit chat... 
oh the indian food!  the cocktail hour food was like real dinner food.  of course once they let everyone into the dinning room they started DANCING first instead of eating.  if i had known, i would have eaten a LOT more during cocktail hour!  it's not just a few people but almost the whole room went up to dance all 23 tables = 230ish people.  during the five hours the dance floor was never empty and not a single slow song.  if you sat at the table, you can feel the floor shake and the water in the glass twirl.  they really know how to celebrate. 

next, attend a indian wedding in india :)