i'm in boston right now and just got back from fleet center where the u.s. prez candidate kerry just spoke his heart out at democrats' convention... well, to be exactly, i was just kidding about the speech part. but i am actually here in boston just for a night before i'm off to maine for a nice whitewater rafting for the weekend. anyway, I did catch a portion of kerry's speech here via tv. also my new friend whom i'm staying with had see him in person recently. now I'm curious to say what bush has to say in nyc soon.

yesterday my fiancee and i just celebrated our 7th year anniversary by going to a cute small cafe along clinton street in LES. i had ordered a sloppy joe's while she ordered a steak slicer sandwich. we had a wonderful time reminiscing our 7 year history. it really doesn't feel like 7 years at all. afterwards, we went to a dessert bar called chikailicious in east village. we had ordered a pre fixe 3 course dessert, and my fiancee who does not have sweet taste buds has found this bar addictive. we enjoyed sitting by the bar and staring at the two ladies creating many different dessert dishes. i gotta warn you about this bar. this is definitely not for big groups at all as it has only about 20 seats, so it's definitely for a couple or a party of 4 or less. i gotta thank my friend, tt, for suggesting this pad even though he hasn't been there before and he's residing in CA! he said he had heard about this place through a review.

we enjoyed our quiet anniversary evening together, but actually we will have another anniversary dinner, but more formal one, as my fiancee got sick last tuesday and wasn't sure if she would be all well by wednesday evening. but this causal evening has certainly ignited our stroll through the memory lane of us.

just moments ago, one of my roommates found a mole on his ribs to be annoying as it was partly bleeding. because of his obsession with this annoying mole, he decided to cut it off with a kitchen knife (along with rubbing alcohol). he had almost passed out while doing this hilarious arduous task. finally, he incised the whole mole out of the way, and it was bleeding intensely. i told him to mail this mole to his girlfriend since he and she are on a long distance relationship and it would be nice for him to mail a piece of his body to her... he wasn't even hesitant at all about it and now, i'd love to know what her reaction was once she gets it soon...

(to be continued...)

(oh yeah.. i just hope that she doesn't read my blog here)

i'm now in washington, dc with my roommate staying at a friend's place as we're going to coopers state park in west virginia for a day of bouldering. it's just a brief getaway from new york (even though i've been away from nyc for so dayum long) hopefully my fingertips do not get shredded easily there.

(warning: many pictures here, so it'll take forever for you modem-whores to download here)

(two kids horsing around in front of my len)

(one of ritual grounds at nam-tso lake)

(one of my personal favorite pixes)

(one of my photo montages for my tibet trip journal)

(another photo montage i did for the journal)

(can you spot me in this crowd?)

(one of those melting sunsets!)

earlier this AM, i was walking on the way home from subway station, and i noticed an old lady walking down the street wearing a hot pink shirt, but couldn't stop noticing her droopy sagging tits i've ever seen. her pairs were reaching all the way down to her belt level, and i just couldn't help but laughing at this amusing sight. i wonder why in the hell didn't she wear a bra or so.. is it just because she feels comfortable without a bra, or she just wants to give bystanders a nasty show...

http://www.polaroidscene.com/fuckingrockassparty/IMG_8857.html

last night, a few friends and i went out to check out swindle magazine's launch party at BLVD. we were awed by the bar's atmosphere, swindle's freebies (such as makeups, polaroids, and snow globes, and hip, urbanized peepos. there weren't many glitzy peepos, you'll see often in a nightclub, there. most peepos were wearing tees and jeans. it seems like we quite enjoyed the scene there though there were too many peepos there and i couldn't even find shepherd fairey there or he was too busy being wooed by the ladies there...

http://www.swindlemagazine.com
http://www.obeygiant.com

earlier today, my guest from arizona took me and my roommate out to a raw food restaurant as she's a 100% raw eater. of course, i'm a man who likes to try MUCH anything even nasty ones, i enjoyed eating them. for lunch, i had a dish of _savory crepe_ which included mushrooms, garlic, nuts, etc along with spinach and argula salad with zesty, tangy dressing. it was pretty good. later on, in the evening, of course, we went back to the same restaurant, and i had a dish of 'lasagna' which had many different fresh raw ingredients that i couldn't distinguish. also on the side was squash family salad as well as argula too. it was pretty good and it really filled up my stomach real quickly due to the fact that they were full of nutrients and enzymes (while cooked, they're gone). my guest also ordered a 3 layer mud pie for dessert and it was soooo dayum delicious! while these food were pretty good, i'm definitely not ready to convert into a raw diet because i know that i won't probably find many raw ingredients while traveling often. perhaps if i'll settle down, who knows if i'll ever eat 80% of raw food in the future.

i'm finally back home in nyc from chicago.

a couple days ago while in chicago, i was walking along the sidewalk from my property to halsted st. on diversey st in the late afternoon. i saw a white-haired old man who was wearing his security guard jacket waiting to catch a bus. why the significant point you ask... well, when i used to live in chicago, i would commute to work by walking to the subway on diversey every morning. i would often see THAT same man waiting to catch a bus. thus it was the late afternoon that i saw him waiting at the bus stop. it made me think that he has taken a graveyard shift and his heavy, dripping wrinkles on his face indicated me that he's abotu 70 years old, and how can a 70 year old guard protect a property/bank during the late evenings?

anyway, it's nice to be back home and i hope to settle down for a while even though i have a whitewater rafting trip planned out for a weekend in the end of this month in maine.

it's now 6:31 am in palo alto, and i'm catching my 8:40 am flight to chicago...

it'll be interesting to get a jolt from these chicagoans as they always do...

i hope to visit one of my fave hangouts, weiner circle, for a late night snack!

a week in bay area has been crazy enough for me... i just can't wait to settle down in nyc for once... kinda sick of hopping around in the usa if you ask me...

my fiancee and her 3 sisters are here in bay area for a week, so i've had to drive them practically EVERYWHERE, daily from 10 am till 1 am. we've gone to santa rosa, san francisco (it seems like we've gone there daily!), sausalito, santa cruz, san jose, gilroy, and half moon bay. they finally rented a car yesterday, and they're on their own, so i've had the pleasure of catching up my emails, small projects, and qee hunting.

anyway, in santa rosa earlier this week, i enjoyed visiting charles schulz's museum which, of course, holds many comic strips of 'peanuts' as well as its collectibles. it was such amusing to read about how 'peanuts' plots came from. there was a few strips about f. scott fitzgerald's _the great gatsby_ in which mr. schulz would admire on some of fitzgerald's excerpts.

anyway, after a 9 month project on this small project, i'm happy to announce that gallaudet university's office of planning's website is finally up and running as well as DWU-GNY's website.