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Archive for May, 2008

Cold Showers

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Memorial Day Weekend was too much fun. (Before I go any further, since it was Memorial Day, and it's so easy to forget why we really have holidays, here's a picture of Los Angeles National Cemetery taken over the weekend. Wonder how long it took them.) I spent the long weekend ...

Sex While Studying Abroad (1/2)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Yes, it does happen. Don't be too alarmed. Don't get too excited either. First, I'd like to make the distinction that sex while studying abroad is a specific category in the ever-so-attractive lifestyle of travel sex. This is not the mile-high club, which is blessed or cursed with the fact that you ...

Some Memorable Moments Between Food and Me (2/2)

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

...continued from Chicken Cheese Katsu at Kawafuji in Tsuru, Japan Tsuru is the little town in the countryside of Japan where I studied. My buddies and I frequented the restaurant Kawafuji, most of us having tried the Chicken Cheese Katsu as our first meal there and eventually going back to it after ...

Some Memorable Moments Between Food and Me (1/2)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I am notorious worldwide for my appetite (really, everywhere I've gone, at least one person in a group with whom I'm sharing a meal just has to comment on how I can eat). Even in Costa Rica I sometimes ate three plates of rice and beans for dinner. And in ...

When Planning A Trip…

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

I'm planning a trip right now. Not sure where exactly I'll go, but I'm pretty much confined to North America, more for financial reasons than lack of time this time around. Not sure when exactly, but it'll be sometime in June before I start my new work. Where to go...