Durian!

Yes, believe it or not. They've apparently found a way to grow durian trees here in California.



I'm kidding of course. They freeze durian and import it to the Chinese supermarket here. I was at the supermarket (Ranch 99) the other day and saw durian in boxes. It was two pieces for 5 bucks which i thought was quite ex but decided to try anyway. Turns out they're seedless! Or at least someone took out the seeds. So it's a pretty decent amount of durian flesh for 5 bucks! Unfortunately I think I left the durian in my fridge for a bit too long so one of the pieces was a bit sour. Don't worry, I didn't eat it. The other piece was pretty good - nice and smooth and creamy and, of course, tasty. More on the sweet side, only slightly (but not really) bitter. Yummmmm. :)

Talking about food.... two weekends ago (the weekend before Tahoe) I went to SoCal (Southern California, i.e. the LA area and San Diego) with the Mendicants and Counterpoint, this all girls group that is pretty good friends with our group. We went to this ex-mendicant's house in Hollywood - he sound engineers for TV shows for a living and he's actually won an emmy for sound engineering on Ally McBeal and was nominated for his work on the X-Files! Pro... Anyway check out this HUGE pizza that he (his name is Kurt) ordered for us:



It was like 3 feet in diameter. Which is about... I don't know... 120cm?

Oh and I mentioned the Emmy... Here's a picture of one the Mendicants, Jai, and the Emmy in the background. We'd only just gotten to Kurt's and didn't dare to go touch it yet, so the Emmy is actually on a shelf in a corner of the room, and Jai is holding up his hand to just the right height so that it looks like he's holding a tiny Emmy. He's actually quite far in front of it:



Here're a couple of pictures from San Diego, which we went to on one of the days of our tour in SoCal. More specifically, Coronado, a small, very pleasant and pretty rich island just off the coast from San Diego:


That's my shadow. hehehe. Look at how nice the sand on the beach looks.


A picturesque view of my car set against the rising moon.... *violin music in the background*


I know I've been less regular with updates this year... last year everything was new and exciting. This year I'm finding rather different things important compared to last year, not all of which I'm inclined to say to myself "I wanna blog about it!". I'll still post updates when I can though. Like this one. =)