housewarming

Today's weather: Clear and 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
It's a beautiful day today

Last week, I had family come over to our new place for a housewarming party and I cooked for total of 11 people.  I've never cooked for that many people all by myself and I thought the more food the better it will be.  I made 잔치국수(cold noodle with vegetables), 닭도리탕(spicy chicken which turned out to be under seasoned), 수육 & 쌈(pork cooked with bean paste stew?), tomato garlic pasta (rachel ray's recipe), and bacon wrapped asparagus along with rice, kimchi, mini bell peppers with seafood spread as an appetizer, etc.  It literally took me the whole day since the morning to do this.  I think I was a little too ambitious in the beginning because I also was planning to have roasted vegetables and chocolate souffle made from scratch. Either way I couldn't do the last two anyway because at the last minute, I found out that our oven wasn't working.  The technician came to fix it; he simply turn on the pilot light on.  Note to myself: after moving in check the oven and ask to have the pilot to be turned on if it's an old oven/stove.



So right now I have in front of me a thick o-chem book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, and A Dual-Language Book for studying Spanish.  The first book is to preview for the o-chem class I'm taking this fall quarter, the second book is for happy summer reading, and the third is to improve and prevent from forgetting Spanish that I learned from High School. 

That's all for now.

chili fest

I've been "carless" for about a week now.  Matt and I sold our 2000 Honda Civic very unexpectedly last week when we took it to a mechanic at our church.  It was a good riddance since Matt's been driving that car with no AC in the San Fernando Valley for over a year now. So being at home all day without a car and not being able to go anywhere, I was going a little nuts.  So today, Matt and I carpooled to his work.  I dropped him off at his work and now I'm at startbucks waiting for 12 o'clock to hit for his lunch break.  I packed myself a laptop, an ipod, and a chemistry book to last me a day.  I already finished my usual internet routine: gmail, facebook, citiville, msn, and naver.  And now, I'm starting something that I haven't done for a while, blogging on the internet.  Let's see how long that will last.

Other than being sick of staying home all day, today is the Amgen's annual Chilli Festival Day. When I went last year for the first time, I was surprised at how big the event was with tents set up everywhere, party planner team to professionally organize the event, a stage for a karaoke, and family with kids all around the campus.   Basically, Amgen employees form teams and have a contest to see who makes the best chili.  It's just really nice to see companies having big events like that and of course, along with that there's free dinner.


There is not much to eat or make something to eat at our home.  We're moving tomorrow to Sherman Oaks and I've been trying not to fill our refrigerator with grocery.  Packing is almost done with few necessaries left behind.  I'm pretty excited to go from 670 sq. ft. to 750 sq. ft with cover parking for two cars plus a carport and a room to put our bike in our parking spot.  It's not much but our small apartment in woodland hills has been filling up.  yay for moving a little closer to LA and friends and family.  but boo for my husband's longer commute.

and that's it for today