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Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 6:58 pm. 0 comments
Last Saturday was my birthday and I took the Friday off to give myself a long weekend. I was planning on doing nothing, but one thing led to another and I ended up getting a last minute ticket to San Francisco for Friday morning. Long story short, I did not have any cake on my birthday but I had a lot of delicious food. It was nice to see all the Christmas festivities happening, too. Go to the Flickr set to see what I ate and where I went on my birthday weekend.
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Posted 5 months, 1 week ago at 9:34 pm. 0 comments
More photos from the Gastown Guu dinner and a high quality video of Ben cutting up the beautiful Kakuni behind the cut.
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Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago at 3:23 am. 0 comments
Videos behind the cut (HD! HD!) and more photos on Flickr.
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Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago at 3:03 am. 1 comment
Best. Sushi. Ever. Grilled fish on rice mixed with red vinegar.
Can’t be bothered to blog about the trip highlights. All I can say is I went to Tsukiji too many times (it was a few subway stops from where I stayed) and had a lot of great food. Just go to the Flickr set and read the captions.
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Posted 1 year ago at 11:38 pm. 0 comments
“You will be away again? Two weeks? What? You going to Japan?”
“San Francisco? Didn’t you just go… like last month?”
“Is SF your new second home now? What happened to Tokyo?”
“Is there another MacWorld?”
I am going to San Francisco this weekend for a two-week CUA (Certified Usability Analyst) training. Instead of explaining what it is and why I am doing it, I present you a photo with Ema hanging upside down.
More Ema photos uploaded to my Flickr, if you are into kawaii overloaded :) .
P.S. Stay tuned to see if I get to meet mighty LX in San Fran!
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Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 12:21 am. 0 comments
What else did I do in San Fran other than going to Yosemite?
I went to my first but Apple’s last MacWorld. Microsoft was there, Google was there, so were the 10 million companies that make iPhone accessories. I hopped onto the Party/Sightseeing/Open bar double decker sponsored by some iPhone app, then I went to the Museum of Modern Art nearby.
I really enjoyed The California Academy of Sciences. It is an all-in-one science world + space centre + aquarium, but it is not a kiddie land like The Exploratorium or The Aquarium of the Bay.
That implies I went to those two places. I did. I stayed with my friend who lives in Marina, which is a really nice neighbourhood. The Exploratorium is only 5-minutes walk away. Right next to it is The Palace of Fine Arts, which I took a picture of at night with my tripod. The Aquarium of the Bay is conveniently located near Fisherman’s Wharf, where I took the ferry to Alcatraz.
Alcatraz Island is a must-go, more so than the Golden Bridge I would say. Don’t miss the audio tour!
I took pictures of the Golden Bridge from where I stayed. I went underneath it while I was on a sightseeing cruise. Then I thought I gotta walk it, so I did.
I ate all these: Kara’s cupcakes, sushi from Yoshi’s, seafood risotto and goat cheese pizza from Emporio Rulli Gran Caffe, In-N-Out Burger, shrimp & crab cocktail and Boston Clam Chowder from Fisherman’s Wharf.
Hmm..that’s about it. If you want to see more, go to the Flickr collection. There were a few places I forgot to take pictures of, maybe I will do that next time.
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Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 10:25 am. 0 comments
For more, go to the Flickr set or view the slide show.
I have increased my post-processing speed 500% by learning the Lightroom workflow and shortcuts, and simply not taking any videos during my trip.