June 2010
15 posts
ben is back and i don't drink tea
okok. i admit i sometimes almost give up. i’m thinking about leaving san francisco and this ridiculous project of moving half way around the globe from where i come from, where i understand people and know how to get around. but some days, i just love this! i love this place, i love the people (you’re almost my people now), i love the coffee and god, how much i love you, close...
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happy hapa ramen
i’m an ice cream person. an impatient person and the kind of person who can’t handle the bachelor. i have dreams so real and vivid and frequent, that nobody cares anymore. i can’t decide what to do, and then i know everything, and then i have no idea what i’m doing next. i’m also a weekday person and i love going to work. a creature of habit, rushing into the week...
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bang gang
i cut my own hair. i know, i know. i shouldn’t do that. but i was desperate for change and desperate for doing…something. did the exact same thing around this time of year last year - i chopped my hair off. at least, this year it’s just a bang. and noone at work noticed, except a few, polite exceptions who said it looked good. oh well. they’re all boys. maybe they in...
hello monday!
the weekend went much too fast, and like all good love stories, it had a beginning, a middle and an end. i drank amazing wine, ate good food, hung out with old and new friends, watched soccer, fixed my broken bike (with a little help and a special bike kitchen private session). drank some more wine, looked at photos and played silly games late at night. spent most of sunday house hunting, and...
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friday love
bring me that horizon by vonnie_x
do you have a tattoo? did you ever think about getting one? living in san francisco, it seems like tattoos are just as common as pierced ears. mine would read “love me or leave me” (but i’m not planning on getting one, mom). i’m not in particular good at dealing with having my heart broken, but i’d rather have it happen a million...
quel monsieur? croque monsieur!
last night, i made croque monsieur for dinner. i know this sounds lame, since i in general like cooking, but sometimes i just have no interest in cooking for me alone, and i take the shortest way out of hunger.
croque monsieur or even croque madame is perhaps the only thing i would insist you learn how to pronounce before you leave san francisco for paris. well. it’s hard to choose....
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a dork and her pork
i am happy to announce that i make a decent carbonara (sans scrambled eggs). finally. it’s possibly the best dish in the world, yet, hard to find well made - even in restaurants. i was inspired by courses i’ve had at pizzaiolo in oakland and at incanto in noe valley, and made my own rigatoni carbonara with pork belly and green peas. it turned out pretty well, although i’ll do...
fromage sabotage
photo by nice*room
i woke up this morning after a sleepless night - some roommate trouble troubles me and i thought about work for a long time as well. anyone with a nice san francisco apartment for rent?
it’s still a beautiful day, and i feel kind of happy and excited, although my flowers are all dead and i have to move. i got up early to make blueberry scones, only to find out...
no prom for me!
sunday morning started really bad - first of all, i woke up to tons of tweets from the people that are traveling to or already arrived in london for the upcoming world barista championship, where i am not. going for a run normally makes me feel better, but somehow i tripped, fell, and was bleeding from my hands and knees. when did i get a scrub the last time? i used to get burns from the front...
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bonjour, je suis batman
it’s saturday, and finally it doesn’t feel like i’m here visiting anymore. alex, food enthusiast and backgammon rival, reminds me every now and then: “you can do whatever you want”. his mom, which i believe must be very interesting (she raised two of my favorite people in the world), also taught him “not making a decision is also a decision”. so...
screw kombucha!
i’m headed to city beer store! happy weekend!
read this post from sf eater
flowers from studio choo
post date kombucha crazy
i have endless work this week, which is why i spent all day yesterday filing and helping other people with other projects than my own. and office gossiping and eating. so today is going to be a busy end of the week. i got a desk in my bedroom at home (or, a “table” that alex pointed out) so now i can do a little work from home without being in bed.
i recently told my friend...
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smart girl does stupid things
i’m a smart girl who does stupid things. that’s fine and i say it with the confidence of at 30-year old gal living in san francisco - who’s more polyanna than courtney cox. so here’s stupid: i’m going to compete in the world aeropress championship.
it’s that time of the year again, and i have to do something about it. i actually have to figure out my...
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i can be many things. caring, indecisive, slightly under-ambitious and maybe a little stubborn. or very. i pay attention to how i look, my home and anyone who needs to talk. i’m sensitive and quite frankly handles criticism not too well. i have dry hair, long legs, amazing friends and a few haters. jealousy is genuinely lost on me, just don’t play dirty. i’m an only...
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there's always rum for more ice cream
i look very much like the before picture on a makeover show today. i woke up at 5am because my roommates loves the futbol, and as we all know it’s the world cup. so i headed to work early, went by the store on valencia street and then headed to the roastery where i did a bunch of work you don’t even want to hear about. but getting up early, means in the best case that you can leave...
