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• An Education

  Friday, Nov 6, 2009 11:12AM / Standard Entry

  A few weekends ago, I watched "An Education" starring Carey Mulligan. It's a movie about a 16 or 17 year old girl in London that falls in love with an man in his early (or mid) 30s. She seems to love all things French, which her parents (or at least her father) disapproves. She believes that her current life is very boring and is pressured into getting into Oxford because that's one way she can escape her currently very boring life and also because she wants to read English (or was it teach English?). Well the older man comes along and sweeps her off her feet and she falls head of heels in love with him. He plays his charms on her parents to let her stay out past curfew, go on weekend trips to visit Oxford, Paris, etc. He takes her to the opera, dancing, and fancy dinners. He basically shows her the glamorous life, all which she believes she can have right now with this older man. She starts to question the importance of education, going to Oxford, etc. Of course, in the end, there is something very twisted about the charming older man she had fallen in love with. She gets kicked out of school and jeopardizes her chances of getting accepted to Oxford. All in all everything turns out okay and has somewhat of a happy ending.
  
  When I first saw the previews for this movie, I thought it was going to be a lot of romance, drama, etc. Overall, the movie was very...calm, but interesting. The way the characters spoke was very witty, a little Gilmore Girl-ish but with a British accent. I really like Carey Mulligan. She kinda reminds me of Audrey Tautou.
  
  Anyways, if you have time, you should definitely go check this movie out.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Halloween 2009

  Thursday, Nov 5, 2009 6:17AM / Standard Entry

    I feel like I'm a little late with the Halloween blog, but since I'm sitting in the jury waiting room doing nothing, I might as well write about it.
  
  This year was the first time that I dressed up since I was 19 I think. I had a school girl uniform on. From the pic below, I can either be Gossip Girl, girl next door, Catholic school girl, that girl from Kill Bill, or some girl from Battle Royale. I was actually suppose to be "Rennie - The Middle School Years." Since that's a little bit of a mouth full, I just let people choose what they thought I was. It really is just a uniform.
  
  
  
  The night started out with dinner at Buca Di Beppo in Huntington Beach. I really am not a fan of this place. Too much pasta that cost way too much that don't taste good. I swear those Hamburger Helper meals taste a lot better.
  
  After dinner we were off to a house party in LA. My friend P and I got an invite from a friend of a friend. The house was pretty creepy. Supposedly nobody lived there for more than ten years before the hosts moved in. There was a bomb shelter under the garage. The house also has a really creepy basement that was sealed off with "Caution" tape. The door was opened to the basement and the only thing you can see are the stairs that was lighted up with this funky orange light. The guy from WongFu (WangFu) productions was there. When I first saw him I thought he was some dude from my college because he looked so familiar. After thinking about it for awhile, I realized he was Philip Wong (Wang?). Anyways, it was a really chill party with lots of interesting people. Everyone was pretty friendly with some being way too friendly.
  
  I hope next Halloween is going to be just as fun.
  
  
  

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• Where To Go?

  Wednesday, Oct 28, 2009 10:55AM / Standard Entry

  Help! I have three weeks of vacation left for this year and because my firm had this whole joint venture thing happen in June, my vacation days might not carryover. I need to go somewhere. I can't stay at home. I have to go somewhere. Not too expensive. Where should I go? Any suggestions? 
  
  

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• 巴士亞嬸. (FIGHT ON SF MUNI BUS IN CHINATOWN)

  Friday, Oct 9, 2009 9:38AM / Standard Entry

  Did anyone see this yet? It's so funny.
  
  
  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ5l_EtYc9Y&feature=related
  

  
  
  
  
  

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• Susina's Bakery & Cafe / Coco Before Chanel

  Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009 8:38AM / Standard Entry / Food

  Today my girlfriends and I were out and about in LA. The day started with an HK style breakfast at Baccali with my long time friend Emily. Then we proceeded to drive around in circles to Susina's Bakery & Cafe in the Miracle Mile area to meet up with a bunch of my other girlfriends for some cakes and pastries. F***ing La Brea near the 10 East was closed and a whole bunch of other streets were blocked off too.

  Susina's was cute, welcoming, and deliciously yummy. Ooh and before I forget, they had one of the cutest, cleanest public restroom I've been to in LA. FYI. The cakes and tarts were luscious. I'm a big fan of the cheesecake, the peanut butter frosting on the chocolate mousse cake, the almond cherry tart and this one other tart that I forgot the name of. The cheesecake was my choice and OMG it was heavenly. Probably so fattening and bad for my diet, but so fluffy. It wasn't too thick and rich like your normal cheesecake. I think it was leaning more toward that Japanese baked cheesecake taste (but not quite there yet). I don't know how to describe it, it was just so damn good. Margie and Chris ordered the peanut butter chocolate mousse cake. I can't even begin to tell you how much I love peanut butter frosting. Usually when I order anything with peanut butter frosting I worry that it might be too thick and sticky. The frosting was perfect and it went so well with the chocolate (dark) mousse cake. Although, I think it could do without the walnuts sprinkled on top. Didn't really care for it. The almond cherry tart was also very good. I can't say it's delicious because I don't like almond flavored food in general, but this almond tart was good. Emily ordered this chocolate tart thing that was very yummy. Just look at the pic below. 

  

  After Susina's, we went to the Arclight in Hollywood to watch "Coco Before Chanel." I expected to see awesome clothes right from the beginning, but OMG, everything Audrey Tautou was wearing was so plain. I really didn't know what to expect from the movie, the previews were good, but I had no ideal what Coco Chanel's life was like so it wasn't like I could tell if the movie followed her real life or not. All in all, I liked the movie. Audrey Tautou was great as usual. She never disappoints. "Boy" the man she falls in love with was hot. However, I did come home and Google him and he wasn't as hot in modern hair and attire as he was in the movie. Oh well. I think everyone should rent this movie when it comes out in DVD, because this movie is only showing in selected theaters.

  Here are the pics of the other three cakes that we ordered:
  

  

  

  

  

  
  

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