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This weekend, while I was at my parents’, my mom commented at my ghastly-pale complexion again. She accused me of being ill because I had no color in my cheeks. Ah, my mom is so sweet. I guess sitting all day in front of the computer doesn’t really give me that nice [...]

Owning the Olympics is a collection of essays covering the impact of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing on China. I thought it was good that the Olympics was finally going to take place in China, but it wasn’t until I read this book that I realized how it would affect China and Chinese peoples’ views [...]

I can see eating at Tara’s regularly because it has a lot of great things going for it including:

It’s halfway between home and work, which means it’s close to both.
The food is delicious in a simple and home-made way.
Their lunch specials are a great deal considering how much food you get.
The staff is friendly and [...]

Thanks to Qeeper, I ordered a Sephora Sun Safety Kit. It’s getting close to summer, so I figured it’s about time I stocked up on some sun screen. I’m also getting a bit bored of my usual moisturizer.
When the kit arrived today, I was a bit disappointed in it. The samples were small, [...]

Sitting in part of an unassuming building next to a Foster’s Freeze was the most delicious bowl of soba I have ever had in my life. It may be a hyperbole, but the soba I had at Ichimiann Bamboo garden was life changing soba; I will never look at these buckwheat noodles the same [...]

I had another great idea come to me in a dream last night.
In my dream, my co-worker was showing me his iPod touch and a new application he installed on it. It made the touch screen into a telephone keypad and he could call people over VOIP. It basically made his iPod [...]

Dinner tonight was fresh fava beans with Persian rice and tahdig. It was not bad considering this is the first time I’ve made either of those things. My tahdig skills are still lacking because we didn’t get enough of a rice crust at the bottom, but what we did get was delicious. [...]