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!)