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Monday, August 27, 2007
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Let's Catchup
Arriving in Ithaca, NY - Beginning of July
Bussing up from NYC to Ithaca with MMHers
Shopping for goods at Target and a tour of Cornell University
Shirley's Birthday dinner at an Indian Buffet
Day out around the Finger Lakes region with some waterfalls and visits to local wineries
Partying at our local bar/club - Level B
Never enough dinner parties- This one at Lilly's riverfront home
Drinks at the Commons
Another Dinner Party at Nikita, Arti and Vanessa's Apt
Summer-Fall Intermission: Trip to NYC and a visit to W Hotels Corporate Headqtrs
Lunch with MMH gang at Tabla, NYC
Drinks at the Hudson Hotel
Milo's Fabulous NYC Visit and Partying with the Boyz
Brunch at The Boathouse (Central Park) with Minyoung and Sunjin
Salsa Dancing for Keymi's Birthday (back in Ithaca)
More Partying-BBQ style with the MMH Gang (Many thanks to Jun and his family and Lany)
Sunday, August 26, 2007
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So Full!
Our MMH Class just finished an 8 course gourmet formal dinner put on by 6 of our classmates who have at one time or another were chefs or have been trained in a gourmet kitchen (one of which has been a candidate on Top Chef). But man oh man am I stuffed! We held the event in the Statler Hotel Terrace Dining room and were served by student waitstaff that were so perfectly trained that I wanted to leave a great big tip! We paid $35 for the meal to cover ingredient costs and I'd have to admit that I have never had a meal so good for that small amount of money.
It was essentially a success from the get go because: Good chefs ==> Good food + Good wine + Good company ==> Good Times. The meal lasted for 3 hours for god's sake but it went by so fast because we all were enjoying the conversations and the food/wine.
The Menu
1st Course: Quail Egg beure
2nd Course: Foie-Gras on Toast and Roasted Tomato Soup
3rd Course: Roasted Duck and Wild Mushroom Quesadilla
4h Course: Mesclun Salad w/ Pear, Walnuts and Gorgonzola Dressing
5th Course: Strawberry-Lime Sorbet
6th Course: Surf & Turf - Rack of Lamb and Lobster with Hollandaise
7th Course: Creme Brulee
8th Course: Chocolate Cake
Friday, August 24, 2007
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I feel like a freshman again!
WOW! Three months since my last blog! I tend to do this... Always excited about something and then either because of a busy schedule or lack of motivation (because Xangaing does take some energy efforts you know!?) I don't update friends and family.
I spent the past 6 weeks here in "gorges" Ithaca completing my second session of my first semester in my Master's program.
So today we just finished the 2nd day of Fall semester here at Cornell University. Weather was HUMID and 90 degrees; was sunny then cloudy then windy and now sunny again (Ithaca weather is just as indecisive as I am). The fall semester is so much more exciting with all the bodies and foot traffic back on campus.
The town let alone the campus was a desolate ghost town where we shared this desolation with other masters and PhD students...it couldn't number more than a couple hundred students all together. Now it's teeming with youngings alike like schools of fish (as I'm now again familiar with cliques and groups of Engineering nerds, jocks, and the Plastics) swimming in this lake called Cornell.
I guess I have so much to update everyone on. I'll have to revise this later on. It's dinner time! BRB!
Monday, May 28, 2007
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Currently Listening
Complete Single Collection 1995-2005
By Ken Hirai
Hitomi o Tojite
see relatedINTENSITY
So classes have started finally, after a long 2 month sabbatical from any kind of work (academic and career-wise), and boy it's going to be an INTENSE 5 weeks ahead. So I decided I need to come back to Xanga so that I can complain and gripe about my stress and difficulties in coming back to Academia. HAHA (and also to update friends on my life here in Singapore).
So here's my schedule:
Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays (for the next 5 weeks)
Managerial Accounting 9am - 12pm
Corporate Finance 1:30pm - 4:30 pm
* not to mention loads of readings, homework and case projects
Thursday Evenings
Hospitality Networking Dinners
Fridays
Hospitality Industry Roundtable Conferences
* where will I find time to study, workout, have fun and shop!? sheesh!
I have been having fun here in Asia however, and I will upload some pics from my adventures in Seoul and Tokyo as well, as soon as I get the chance to. I miss San Francisco already and the friends back in the US, not to mention nice DRY weather!
But I shall leave that to another entry as I need to do a lot of reading for tomorrow's classes. I promise to be back with more descriptions and pics!
WELCOME ME BACK XANGA~!
Thursday, March 22, 2007
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Currently Listening
Held Over! Today's Great Movie Themes/Leaving On a Jet Plane
By Percy Faith
LEAVING ON A JET PLANE
see relatedMILESTONES
So one can say you judge things throughout your life by certain milestones ... experiences that you remember to have influenced your life in one way or another ... Tomorrow will be one milestone as I leave my first job out of undergrad and embark on a new trek towards finding out my true passion in life - after education in a new and different industry.
Three years has been a very long time and I'm extremely happy to move on from this job where I've made good friends, toiled and stressed over work and received my CPA license. Seven years has been an even longer period in the Bay Area - from Berkeley to Oakland to San Francisco - and I will miss this city by the bay that is for certain! The friends, the cafes/restaurants, the nightlife ... I don't think any other city can outwin my heart. This is home for me and I know I'll return later down the road. I'll be [leaving] my heart in San Francisco.
BUT TWO MORE WEEKS OF FUN, PARTYING, CATCHING UP AND GOODBYES. NOT A MINUTE TO WASTE. APRIL 9TH (MY OFFICIAL DEPARTURE FROM THE BAY AREA) WILL COME AROUND WAY TOO SOON!
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