Brief Update/Change

Not that anyone cares, but I am officially changing this to both a food and travels blog. These two aspects have become increasingly tied together in the past few years that it makes no sense to separate them. Really, it should be food, travel, and photography, my three fondest hobbies. (Is travel even considered a hobby? More like just fun-times? Fun-times are quite arbitrary, I suppose... I digress.)

At any rate, I cannot churn out my photos fast enough and therefore cannot make blog posts!!! Ahhhh! Problem with taking hundreds of pictures per session is that I can never finish editing!

I really should be more on top of this, since if I don't document my experiences somehow, I am bound to forget things... which would be really a shame. My life is not together. What else is new?

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On a totally unrelated note, since this summer has been unusually hot and humid, I see people hanging out on their balconies/patios more around the apartments. It's quite fascinating to people-watch sometimes... and slightly creepy, I suppose.... Ok, maybe just creepy... Who seriously will still say that humanity contributed global warming is not affecting the world climate?! I think my cats are so hot that their puny brains are melting... they've been dumber than usual. So adorable!

I can never get my life together except for traveling

If only I have as much drive and motivation to get the rest of my life together, I'd be set... Except that never happens. Or maybe I just exhaust my much limited planning and organizational energy once a year when I plan, intensively, for my vacation to Hawaii.

The collective and much exhaustive effort of guidebook-reading, internet researching, hardcore planning... and here it is, activities scheduled, routes plotted, virtual location pin-pointed on Gmaps street view, restaurants yelped. If only I studied as hard for school as I studied the guidebooks... I'd probably be a lot farther in my knowledge of my chosen career. Alas, I elect to increase my knowledge of the sights, sounds, and of course, taste of Hawaii instead, who can blame me?

This is going to be an expensive trip, I can feel it already... and I'm already blowing my budget getting camera equipment and travel supplies... I'm too willing to part with my (non-existent) money lately.

With all these effort going into planning the trip, I really should be a better job at recording it afterwards... but yet again, I can't get my life together for that. I think I'm burnt out and is continuously getting dumber and slower. Yup, that must be it.

I really can't wait until September when I can actually go on this vacation. Seriously. And then I will probably need a vacation for the vacation. Just planning it is already making me exhausted.

NOLA food adventures

I really should do something about my chronic procrastination... really. It's been a while since my trip to New Orleans, to the point where I look at some of the pictures and I forget exactly what I ordered. Remembering back to the trip, NOLA was a magical place, with music in the air, intricate architecture, and smells of something delicious tempting your taste buds. No wonder Walt Disney modeled his world after it.

Hash House A Go Go

Long time no food blog. Life, mostly school, has gotten in the way of... well, living. Where did my hobbies go?? *wail in the corner* Dramatic-ism aside, I really did have some amazing food around the country in the past... well however long it's been, and the "reviews" (more like oodles of food-porn), I'm hoping, I will be able to get to soon.

To be honest, the purposes of these "reviews" aren't really reviews most of the time, it's just a way for me to remember the delishiousnessness I've had so that I may come back in some distant future and actually remember something of it (because I really don't remember much in life, honestly, I don't understand how I get through daily living).

Let's start with one place that has been a bit... well, disappointing. Hash House A Go Go in Hillcrest, SD. In the 4 years of undergrad I spent at UCSD, I've heard about this place from a lot of people, and was told it's awesomeness. However, seeing as we're walled in the monkhood of La Jolla studiousness (yeah right), we never had a chance to go. So when the opportunity arisen when a few pharm school friends decided to go try it, we gladly took up the offer of a weekend brunch in February (really forgot if it was Saturday or Sunday, the only reason I know the date is because of my camera time-stamp).

This is getting out of hand

Since my crazy scattered life is colliding with my foodnessness, I'm transferring all my life-blog thingies over to my new life-blog: http://smallbiteslife.blogspot.com/

This shall remain about food... but since my life is inextricably tied to food... it'll still have overlap, inevitably. Of course.

Ta~

Neighborhood - Burgers Burgers Burgers... and Hanger

Neighborhood, a bar/restaurant thingy in Downtown San Diego. A few friends and I trekked down there last Friday night at approximately 7pm... We made the mistake of letting me drive... hungry... and sleep-deprived. I drove in a 4 block radius around our destination for a good half-hour to 45min trying to find some goddamn parking. We finally found a easily over-looked spot on what must have been the 1000908239853iueyt989th loop. Yay! Parking! By then I was effing starving, and was ready to shove as much edible objects in my face as humanly possible. Did I mention I have road rage?? Especially when I'm hungry? So yes, I was reasonably pissed, as one may say.

Muzita Abyssinian Bistro

Finally, a food entry! Ok, long story short, last night for the boy's birthday, we went to have dinner at Muzita Abyssinian Bistro in University Heights. Best decision of the week. Food was amazing, service was amazing, ambiance was amazing. Despite the rain and difficulty in finding parking, it was an awesome night.