EggTarts

You might not believe this but San Francisco has no egg tarts. What?! I know. That's because I don't visit Chinatown it's too far and dirty and no munfa.. So I decided to bake myself egg tarts. And I did it!

Fresh from oven

It's a bit out of shape but I think it's really not that bad for first timer. Plus, the taste was really good. Like a tart.

Black Friday Sales

The long anticipated Black Friday Sales was finally here! Ugh.

So I started my shopping as early as 3 in the morning. Trust me, I am not the earliest. By the time I got myself into an Old Navy store, the queue was already 'tangling' around the store, every level for each departments. Ugh. So I figured maybe I can spend some time here queuing for a 15dollar pair of jeans since I was gonna meet with my friends by 6 after that. I ended up queued for an hour and half for a pair of jeans plus some boxers and undies. Totally worth it. LOL.

Holy shit crowded! 

Have you seen aggressive male shoppers? Tons here!

 After that I went to browse in other stores like H&M and Gap. The line was crazy. I don't even feel like going in because its just too many people there.

Super long queue: The store was not even opened yet.

Gap (but no gap in the line)

It's almost 6 by the time I was done cursing over the store that lied about 50% on all sales. I wanted to get the damn book so badly but it was way too expensive. So I went right away to the Westfield Mall to meet up with my friends Sarah and Daniel.

Westfield  Mall when it opened.

H&M

Tik Tok tik tok.. it was about 9-ish soon after my friends done their shopping at Old Navy (too). We thought we were gonna pass out anytime soon if we didn't get our breakfast, so we headed to Denny's which is located just around the corner. Aww. I love breakfast.

Breakfast at Denny's

 And then we kept going on with other stores Adidas, Superdry, Quicksilver, Hollister, A&F, Vans, Borders, Nike ... till 11 plus. So effing exhausted~ we just dismissed from then since everyone was getting tired.

It was such a fun shopping day. Ironically we all wanted to get some computer stuffs but we realized there aren't any computer hardware stores in the town at all! (or so we thought.) Well I didn't really get myself a lot of stuffs because I can hardly breath due to overcrowd mostly everywhere near the major shopping attractions. I'm glad we didn't visit any Walmart or BestBuy because I heard its worse in terms of the crowd and queue. Haha. Definitely a very good experience.

Walmart (from google)

Weekend Before Thanksgiving (Part Deux)

We walked home right after the movie. Along the way, we passed by H&M and it was a long queue outside the store - everyone started to queue for the Lanvin @H&M launch! It's insane. (When I told my sister about the launch she asked me to queue too! LOL)

The reason people are queueing: 9.98USD for an evening dress! 

I had never seen crowd queueing for a launch before but I knew it's equally crazy back in Malaysia. (Yes, I'm talking about the recently opened Uniqlo store) I think this is rather the same but it was colder here, like freezing cold. It was about 7°C at that time. I picture this is how it's gonna be for me next week when I'm gonna go camping for the Black Friday Sales. Ugh. I'm so excited!

The wet + coldness in late night San Francisco

Ok. Fun time is almost over. I shall get back to my homework and make-it-work. LOL

Weekend Before Thanksgiving

As I mentioned on the earlier post before, I am having my finals now. Works have been going good, hopefully everything will turn out great. And as for today I finally get a chance to visit the cinema with friends a friend, Chelsea, for Harry Potter (XD) We've been talking about it since last week and it finally opened yesterday. Ugh. I was so excited.

The movie was not bad but we both think its a bit too long. It kinda lack of a more dynamic climax I would say, but nonetheless it didn't really disappoint much. *Spoiler ahead* The 'best' part was when Harry and Hermionie were making out. Chelsea: "it felt so wrong, like, watching video game porn." I felt so awkward because Hermionie was like the biggest prune ever but she was doing all the tongue twisting and shits like that. Totally got me shivered. Ugh. Bluekk.

I tried dressing up ala Harry Potter for the movie. Ha

Powell St. after 11pm

Not a movie that I'm gonna watch again and again. Nevertheless it was entertaining. The animation part was COOL. They had a segment with only animation and .. you should check it out. It's nice.

As for the remaining of my weekend I will stay home and do my puppet and still life drawing. Hopefully every homework can be done by Wednesday so that I can enjoy my Thanksgiving weekend. Aww.. and Black Friday sales.



to be continued... (blogger on strike.. getting a long deserved sleep)

Cinematic Storytelling

Time flies! (If you are my regular readers you'll realized how often I say that) I am on my finals already. WTF! So many things I wanna do but this time, I actually have a lot of time to make'em happen unlike back in... Long story short - I have 2 animations due for final, a short movie/clip and etc. I'm so excited! I'm most excited about the cinematic storytelling class final project because I love to shoot video and its fun. I have yet to come up with an idea of what to do but I'm sure I'll figure out soon. Below are some pictures from my homework - we need to recreate a scene from a movie of our choice. Mine is, of course, 500 Days of Summer.

If you know that movie enough you will realize the photos above look nothing like the original. Haha. That's because its not. These are some random shots I took for fun. Enjoy.

(p/s: I can't thank Leo and Chelsea enough to help me out on this one. My life savers!)

Laundry

First laundry since I moved out. Hell lots of clothes! I really like the laundry system in the state. You know, laundry shops open 24/7, bring in your clothes, your dryer sheets, your detergent.. and so on. Put in the coins and wait for 20 minutes and you're set to go. So cool.

(P/s: Yes, I am such a lazy person that I don't even do my own laundry a.k.a. handwash)

Judge/ Be Judged

Who are we to judge one's right or wrong? If knowing that, voicing your opinion is gonna hurt someone, will you still do it? Why? Are you gonna justify yourself by saying, because true friends always tell the truth? What makes your opinion the truth then? Do you even know what was the truth?

The truth is - it's a mad world we are living in. Shit things happened. The only one who knows the truth are God and ourselves. There is no reason for us to judge others life.

If a friend tell you, he has been drunk and high for half his life; Are you gonna tell him go to hell?

If a friend tell you, he is gay; Are you gonna tell him you're sorry and make him your enemy?

If a friend tell you, he is muslim/ jews/ buddhist/ christian; Are you gonna stop praying for him or wish him well?

Most of the time we think we know what is wrong. Not only we think it is wrong, we think everyone should agree that it is wrong. Why? I think its time for everyone to stop judging one's life. Life is too short to keep an eye on everyone else's. Just follow our intuition and do what we think is right for us. Don't be afraid of getting judged because the people around us are not gonna be there to see things happen. We are in the same learning process, just different path, going through different experiences. We will eventually be in the same place.

(p/s: I might sound like an effing hypocrite by posting this because I do judge people too. I admit. I am learning not to. It's a long process.)

My Favorite Part of My New Room Is..

... the closet. Like I never felt as organized as this with my clothes before.

And yes, I don't remember me bringing that much of clothes too. But I did. I felt so happy they are finally all out from the luggages and breath the fresh air out here. Poor thing they were all stuck in the box previously due to some space restriction reasons. I felt like bitching about it now but I'm just gonna go to sleep. TIRED.

Lovely Wednesday

I think I am a little late to blog about the Giants victory! But well, its better to be late than never. There was a parade today to celebrate the winning team of San Francisco. It was a bit intense and chaos at the city as everyone was there to support their beloved baseball team. It was orange and black everywhere.

The event was so huge that it affected the traffic around downtown. I wasn't able to get on any shuttle buses from the school as everyone was stuck everywhere. ThankGod I have no class today or else I'm pretty sure I won't make it on time/ to class. Also in the afternoon, I went for an outing homework that required me to recreate a scene for a movie of my choice. Photos to be uploaded soon. Thanks Chelsea and Leo for helping me out. Appreciate that.

Today also marked the last day I will be staying over with my mum's friend. Therefore, I treated them dinner at a nearby chinese restaurant. I am really excited sad that I have to leave this soon because they were being really nice to me all these while.

More updates on tomorrow. Tired and sleepy now. Pacca.

Rainbow After The Storm

I swear to You-Know-Who I was this close to give up my dreams last week as everything doesn't go well or as hell. Literally EVERYTHING. I wanna go home so badly. Depressed gao gao. *I am stealing a quote from Pau Pau:*

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

ThankGod I hang in here for awhile longer. I got my exam result paper today. Guess what? Its 100%! WTF! I don't remember the last time I got a 100%! And most of my midterms grades are out today too! 3 out of 4 subjects are A-/A/A+, with only 1 exceptional C+, stupid Analysis of Form class, which by the way, according to the teacher, is the average score he gave to the students in class. If I work my way harder, I would get a B eventually. Or so I hope.

100% !! 

And then comes to me moving out soon. Its so happy and exciting sad that I am leaving my family friends here. I wish them nothing but all well in the future, sincerely. I think my next post is either gonna be my muppet making process or the moving out day. Till then, PACCA.

(p/s: I'm getting used to my new name - Mint.)