Archive for December, 2007

Jay Chou World Tour in LA – The pictures

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

I had an awesome time at the Jay Chou concert. It could have been better though:

1. The concert felt like it was a marketing opportunity for Nan Quan Mama.
2. Jay changed outfits too many times – he’d sing a song, change, sing a song, change … There was a lot of waiting for him to come out again.
3. They kept pretending the concert was over when it really wasn’t.
4. It started half an hour late.
5. Merchandise was poor quality, unavailable (you had to place an order) and they didn’t even have his CD.

I still had tons of fun! I think Jay sounds better in person because you can actually hear him clearly. He didn’t speak a word of English. Not even a hello or a merry christmas. I guess he’s just too cool for that.

I sat at the balcony all the way to the side so these were the best I could do with pictures:

Jay Chou Concert

Jay Chou Concert

Jay Chou Concert

Jay Chou Concert

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Bunchedup.tv Get-together Day2-Saturday

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

The Norcalers got invaded by the out of town bunchkins from bunchedup.tv Saturday too (not this Saturday, but last).
Saturday Saminnyc, Nick, Doug, Jonasapproved and I drove around San Francisco and did the whole sight-seeing tour. Many Santa Clauses were roaming the streets ready to get their drunk on; apparently it happens in the city this time of the year, but it was my first time seeing it! Very interesting indeedy.

I can’t recall everything we did that day since it happened two weekends ago (yes, my memory sucks ass), but we did stop by Chinatown to get some infamous egg tarts from Golden Gate Bakery. MmmMMmm, delicious as always!

Afterwards we got some 59 cents milk tea from Quickly’s. So cheap and so good, but too bad I was afraid to drink it all because milk tea makes me pee like a horse. Am I the only one? Perhaps I have a weak bladder!

Then we checked out Coit Tower; it got pretty chilly up there so we bounced after our short visit and because there wasn’t much to see. Boo.

So we stopped at Lombard Street; I don’t understand how people could live there, but wouldn’t it be awesome to tell your friends that you live on Lombard Street? lol. I can imagine it’d be difficult to throw a house party there eh?

Then we stopped by the Apple store and logged onto bunchedup.tv and streamed from there from various computers. That was somewhat amusing. Ha. We are such dorkos!

Afterwards we ate at Burma Superstar, and normally I really enjoy Burma, but crap . . . I was so full from all our treats! Argh. Still delicious though.

Then we walked off our calories at Union Square after we met up with Corliss and shortly thereafter, Jon. We killed a lot of time there taking random shots! Some are amusing. :)

Then we ended our night in the Castro where some bunchkins shared a penis cookie from Hot Cookies. MmmmM.

We bid our farewells to the New Yorkers, Doug and Sam, and to our LAer, Nick. So sad, but New York City is next in queue on my travels! Woot.


A whole lotta Santa Clauses!


Jonas and egg tarts! Yum.


The boys eyeing the egg tarts!

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Chapeau! – WOW – Jonas’ Birthday Dinner #3

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

In French, “chapeau” means hat, but “chapeau!” means wow! That’s the kind of dining experience I had at Chapeau Ristorante. The head chef greeted us, checked up on us in the middle of our meal, and saw us out the door – he even gave us kisses on the cheek goodbye.

This is a nice place for a pre fixe meal, and if you can, eat there between 5-6pm for their early bird special: 3 course meal for $25.

Chapeau bread
The complimentary French bread

chapeau curry soup
The complimentary curry soup (literally sample size)

Chapeau raw fish
The raw fish

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Valentina Ristorante – Italian food in Bernal Heights – Part of Restaurant.com deal

Friday, December 21st, 2007

So Restaurant.com had a sale a week ago and I loaded up on gift certificates to random restaurants in the city. The deal is actually even better now with their 70% off coupon code GIFTS (purchase by 12/27) – You can get a $25 gift certificate for $3.

My first use of the gift certificate was at Valentina Ristorante.  Not bad. Not great, but not bad.

Valentina Ristorante

Bruschetta

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Experience CozmoDeck – $15 off your Bill at Participating SF/LA Restaurants

Friday, December 21st, 2007

I was doing last minute online shopping, and I was trying to figure out what to get my brother and his girlfriend aside from the Jersey Boy tickets, I stumbled upon CozmoDeck. What the hell is this?

Basically it’s a collection of 52 participating San Francisco or Los Angeles swanky restaurant gift cards. Each card has a $15 coupon off the entire bill (you have to spend $50 or more though to use the coupon). And if you use coupon code “af” you get 10% off your purchase.

For $65 you can customize your deck with any 52 restaurants from the list, but personally I think the $30 one is a better deal! I’m excited to get it, but I’ll probably have to give it to my brother and his girlfriend late since they still have to ship it to me. Boo.

And if you’re in the New York area, I know they have the cityshuffle which is a similiar concept, but more options.

-jen