28 May
After literally a year of searching for a full-time job, I’ve finally nailed a position: You’re looking at the newest web designer at Ngmoco:). (It stands for “Next Generation Mobile Company,” if you were wondering.)
My first day is June 7th! I’m really excited. I can actually be a real adult now!
20 May
Can’t believe how time flies, sometimes. I’ve officially been in San Francisco a whole month, today. It feels pretty good, actually. Today the weather was absolutely gorgeous and I really wanted to go swimming, but alas! My bathing suits are in the storage pod which doesn’t get delivered to us until tomorrow. :(
In other news, I had an interview yesterday which went well and I am hopeful about acquiring the position. Fingers crossed!
Louie & I have also officially moved into our own place—no more corporate housing! However we don’t have any furniture yet. Our bedroom set is in the storage pod, thankfully, so we’ll have a real bed again starting tomorrow. All other furniture will probably be purchased in the coming months. I’m excited about decorating!
13 May
In all my life living in the borough of the Bronx in the “biggest, baddest” city of them all—I’ve never seen such an impoverished area as the Tenderloin here in San Francisco.
On our way to SoMA from Nob Hill, Louie and I walked the path provided to us by Google Maps without thinking too much about what neighborhood we were walking through. It didn’t take long to notice it was Tenderloin.
I’ve never seen so many homeless & crazy people concentrated into one, smelly neighborhood like that before. Not even the South Bronx is that bad, and it makes Harlem look like Upper West in comparison. I was anxious the entire time we were walking through it. I’ve never felt that uncomfortable in a city before.
Needless to say, I will be staying as far away from this neighborhood as possible from now on. It’s just weird that it’s situated right in the middle of all the nice parts of SF—SoMA, Union Square, Financial District, Nob Hill, etc.
6 May
This time it was for Quyn‘s birthday, not Louie’s. We went to a restaurant called The Stinking Rose, where they “season [their] garlic with food.” I got to meet some of Louie’s other friends (Hi, Mary!) and had a good time.
Firstly I’d like to point out that this place had the most amazing garlic bread I’ve ever had in my life. Oh. My. God. It was SO GOOD. I think I ate like 3 or 4 rolls of it, dipped in their garlic olive oil (which is equally as delicious, I wanted to buy some).
For dinner I ordered the 40 Clove Garlic Chicken, which came with Yukon Gold mashed potatoes. The chicken was on the bone which is not my favorite thing (I have this thing against eating any meat off bones) but it was still good, not dried out at all. The mashed potatoes were really smooth and creamy, and of course garlic-y. LOVED them. I’d probably order the potatoes again as a side dish.
Louie got the “Neon” Ravioli, which we were trying to figure out why they were called neon. (Was it the sauce or are the raviolis neon colored or what?) When he got the plate, nothing was so brightly colored as to be labeled “neon” but the pasta was different colors, so we assume that was what they meant. (I think it could have just been called “Rainbow” or “Three-color” Ravioli.) Besides the debate on the name and the fact that I didn’t get to taste the ravioli for myself (Louie ate it all before I could even think about asking for a bite) I’m told it was very tasty. (The ravioli there is stuffed with potatoes, by the way, not cheese or meat! Mmmm.)
We didn’t try the dessert, but I can see us going back there again and I intend to try it then.
Happy birthday, Quyhn! Hope you enjoyed it.
(This is also posted on Yelp as a review.)
