‘Tis the Season

COOKIES!
I just had the greatest urge to bake cookies…in 93 degree F weather. yes.
Gingerbread Cookies

Checkerboard Cookies

yummy.

Employees Only My Butt

I’ve just recently discovered the secret of La Esquina: the real La Esquina is behind the the “Employees Only” door. I’ve been there a couple of times. I’ve noticed rather fancy SoHo-ites emerging from the door and thought something was off. My suspicions proved correct when recently researching the internet. I found out that there [...]

Back in the Day

My Top Favorite Black & White Movies (in no particular order):
A Patch of Blue
Some Like It Hot
The Philadelphia Story
The Miracle Worker
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Apartment
Sunset Boulevard
Wow, I could have sworn I’ve seen more. Oh wait, I have, but I just didn’t like them so much.
Complete (as far as I know) List of all Black & [...]

Hindsight

We have this old black and white photo of my maternal grandfather in his youth that has been around since before I was born. I’ve always stared at the picture and imagined how different life would have been if he hadn’t died before I was born. He was a highly decorated officer of the [...]

Musou to the Max

I’ve been playing Dynasty Warriors 5 for the past few days. Addicted. I loved DW4 and now my friend got a ps2 and DW5, so I’ve been pretty occupied with that lately.
Fave: Da Qiao. Best crowd-control attacks. EVER.

I got the scars to prove it…

I went to Panama City, FL and all I got were 41 lousy bug bites.

Hookers in the City

I was watching Sex in the City on TBS last night for lack of better programming. My grandfather, who doesn’t know a lick of English, comes in and sits down to watch with me.
A few moments into the show, he asks in Korean,
“Are those girls hookers?”
I couldn’t stop laughing at the irony.
Oh, I love old [...]

A movie of a play about a play about Hitler but not really…

I finally got around to watching The Producers. The only part I really enjoyed was Nathan Lane. I love the guy. Great voice, great expressions, great acting.
Can anyone explain why Uma Thurman was in that movie?

The Doldrums

I remember reading an excerpt of The Phantom Tollbooth way back in the hayday of elementary school. My memory tends to fail me consistently, so all I can recall of what I read is that the protagonist somehow got stuck in the land of the Doldrums. Everyone there was just lethargic and lazy.
Today is definitely [...]

Say What?

I’ve never been very good at long-term projects. Here goes.