Lumix 25mm...

Happy Saturday! I got up really early today, at 8 am, I guess the soju really knock me out yesterday night. Guess in a way it was good thing, because I had a really good sleep, therefore I didn't need to snooze or sleep until noon to get up. (^__^)

Anyway as promised from my last post, today I will post some pictures I took with the lumix 25mm lens my friend lend me to use. Last weekend I had the opportunity to go to Healdsburg with my sister and brother in law to pick up some wines from Soda Rock and Williamson. Then afterwards we went to get some coffee beans from Flying Goat Coffee. I heard from my friend that she read an article, Flying Goat Coffee is among the top ten coffees. It was convincing enough for me to buy a bag of each flavor coffee bean. Coffee is addictive! At first I only drink coffee during work days, now I even drink it on the weekends, good thing or bad, I'm not sure. Then for dinner we went to BACHI, the pizza there was delicious! So simple ingredients yet so bold in taste. For the main course I had the seafood risotto, very good as well. Then we had tiramisu for dessert. After dinner I was so FULL, as always I tell myself, next time I'm not going to eat so much, lol. But you know... when dinner time comes, I easily order more than I can finish.

That's it for now, have a great weekend!

Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge. Proverbs 23:12

Hachi...

Good morning and I'm so happy it's Saturday! This morning I woke up and watched a really good movie called "Hachi" it's about a loyal dog that goes back to the train station everyday after his owner passed away. I think I read or heard the story about Hachi long time ago, but cannot recalled where I read it or heard it from, but when I saw the movie I was so excited to watch it. When I finished watching the movie, I want a dog! I will consider having a dog when I get my own place.  It's a great movie, so watch it when you have a chance.

Today it's nice and sunny, my friend lend me her new lumix 25mm lens, I can't wait to go outside to shot some photos to test out the lens. I will post some photos taken with the lumix 25mm lens next time.

Anyway, time to get ready and head out, wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

These fresh figs are pretty good, very sweet! I tried to make myself eat fresh fruits everyday!


We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19

Bun Rieu...

This weekend I had attempted to make Bun Rieu, after three attempts, I think I finally master the version I like. It was quite easy to make. I ate Bun Rieu as a late night snack on Friday night, then I realized that I forgot to put the fish sauce and the egg, but it still taste pretty good and that was my first attempt. Then on Saturday afternoon, I want to make it again, this time I remember to add the egg and the fish sauce, it taste better, but I think it would be better if I added some spiciness to it. Therefore today I decided to cook it again and this time I added the jalapeno to the recipe and it taste really good (in my opionion). ^___^ . Practice makes perfect! I also made pickled cucumber, so good! I love Persian cucumbers!

Lately I thought to myself about things that happened in my life and come to realized that history repeats itself in  my life and I think I have to reflect on my actions to learn from my mistakes and hopefully not let history repeat itself.

Enjoying coffee this afternoon to wake myself up

Pairing my coffee with some pecan tarts

Got the noodle ready, waiting for the soup...

Added the soup w/delicious ingredients ^__^

Added the green onions and mint leaves, ready to be serve

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Philippians 2:3

Fresh Dahlia Flowers

My friend brought me a bunch of fresh and pretty Dahlia flowers from the public market in Seattle and I would like to share it's beauty. ^__^

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. Proverbs 16:24

Zucchini Bread

Today woke up and nothing plan for the day, so decided to bake something and while going through the recipes, finally decided to make zucchini bread. Last year my coworker bake some and gave me some to try and I really like it. The recipe was easy to follow and it came out to be pretty good. My mom tried it and she likes it. Next time I will attempt to make macaroons, but first need to find a good recipe.

Commit to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16:3

Saturday...

This morning I had to drop off my dad to a party in Sunset, so on the way home I went by Starbucks to buy a white chocolate mocha and a banana pecan walnut cake. Then I went to Hilda's bakery hoping to get the UBE taro rice cake, however it's already sold out, so I got the hopia and salted egg. I never tried the salted egg, so looking forward to try it. The lady in line ahead of me said it's good, so I'll give it a try. After I got home I remember my coworker told me about a recipe for Omelette, so I decided to make myself an omelette for lunch. It turned out okay and never tried omelette with ginger. And didn't realized that it's so hard to flip an omelette w/o breaking it in half. I guess it takes practice. Making the omelette reminds me of the omelette rice, maybe next time I'll try to make the omelette rice. That's it for now, wishing everyone a wonderful weekend! (^__^)

P.S. Forgot to mention I also tried to make the Chinese Spicy Cucumbers and it turned out pretty good. (Probably because I like persian cucumbers, lol). For the Chinese Spicy cucumber I found the recipe online.

Chinese Spicy Cucumbers

White Chocolate Mocha and Banana Pecan Walnut cake from Starbucks

Hopia (Made w/mung beans) Yummy!

Salted Egg

Getting the ingredients ready to make the Omelette (Ingredients, ginger, celery, two eggs, salt and black peppers)

Mix all the ingredients together

Omelette is ready!

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.  Galatians 5:22

LA trip...

Last week I went on a short ship to LA to eat and watch TVXQ concert with some friends. Indeed LA is a great place to find good eats, the food was great. We ate twice at Korean town, went to BCD tofu house, the dinner set was cheap and good, I had the seafood soon tofu with vegetable bibimbam. The second time we went to The Road to Seoul for Korean buffet BBQ, good food, good music and good price. We also went to Newport Restaurant for Lobster, we ordered an eight lb lobster along with some chow mein and veggies and it was way too much food for the three of us. After stuffing myself w/lobster meat, I tell myself I'm not going to eat lobsters for the next couple of months. ^__^  We also went to the city of Ventura and had the mushroom swiss cheese charburger at The hobit and I love it, so delicious! Their sweet fries and onions rings are yummy too. Also went to Bottega Louie for lunch and desserts, the portobello mushroom fries, king salmon, chicken salad are all so good and I love the atmosphere there too, so clean, the design so simple yet comfortable. After lunch we moved to the dessert section and order some desserts, I highly recommend their macaroons and desserts, so good! I can't wait to go back to LA and get myself some more macaroons! I can go on  and on about the good food in LA especially the boba drinks at Half & Half.

The concert was pretty entertaining, great dancing performance and nice music videos and overall a pretty good experience of KPOP concert. My second time going to a concert and everyone stands up during the three hours show!!! Concert overall is not my thing, I rather spend the money on something else. 

Due to the Asianna flight crash, our flight got cancelled and had to stay one extra day in LA. Glad to be home and finally feel better after recovering from the lack of sleep. 

Time to have dinner! Have a wonderful week ahead. ^__^