Good eats and travels in San Diego

Weekend post from last week! Funny how I'm posting about last weekend when the weekend is already here! By the way, there were way too many pictures and I'm lazy, so I decided to collage them.

Four words for you: Good.Eats.and.Travels. :)

Day 1:

Nozomi
4150 Regents Park Row Ste 190
La Jolla, CA 92037

• Spicy green noodles
  
• Bulgogi
• Katsu Curry
  

Day 2

San Diego Natural History Museum
1788 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101


Balboa Park
1549 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101


Seaport Village
849 W Harbor Dr
San Diego, CA 92101


Bud's Louisiana Cafe
4320 Viewridge Ave Ste A
San Diego, CA 92123

• New Orleans BBQ Shrimp Po Boy
  Sauteed shrimp in our spicy BBQ blend with garlic, Worcestershire, and butter served with shredded cabbage and jalapeno tartar sauce

Day 3

Cafe on Park
3831 Park Blvd
San Diego, CA 92103

• Scramble #9: smoked chicken, sundried tomato pesto, onions, spinach & mozarella cheese
• Pancake: buttermilk & blackberry
• Crab cake Benny: Grilled french bread topped with a crab cake, asparagus, and two basted eggs covered with chili hollandaise sauce (best dish we ate!)
  

Old Town San Diego State Historic Park
4002 Wallace St
San Diego, CA 92110

• I wasn't able to take many photos while I was here because I was too busy shopping! I did the most shopping here out of all the places I visited.
  
• Old rustic town filled with vintage finds, handmade goods with a exception of your everyday tourist items
  

p.s.: I'm going to have my very first giveaway soon, so stayed tuned!

Back from Vegas...Part 2

First of all, thanks for all your lovely comments from my pre-vacation post. :)

Second, good news! My camera showed up in Kevin's room. That was a huge relief for me since many of my photos were stored in the camera. I'm one of those people that are too lazy to transfer photos into their computers and will only do so when there is no more storage room.

Anyways, one of the few things I love about Vegas is:

• A chance to get away from LA
• Great food - Buffets
• The Shoppping
  

I also visited the Pawn shop from History Channel's Pawn Stars. Sadly they weren't there because it was a weekend after all and who would want to work on weekends anyways. However, what was cool was that I was able to see some of the items that were featured in their episodes!

Sadly, I didn't get to take much photos from trip. I only got pictures of dessert, YES--DESSERT! from the M Resort's Studio B Buffet. It was so good! I cannot help myself when it comes to dessert, even though I'm lactose intolerant! and Yes, I tried every one of those. I was a happy fatty that night!

Back from vegas...

So I've been back...for a while. I decided to give myself a little break from blog world and guess what happened? I became unmotivated and lazy again! So I am back once again! I will do a proper update because I seem to have misplaced my camera!!! I know its somewhere in the house!

Goodbye LA, for now...

I'm heading to Vegas this weekend! Be back Monday to catch up on all of your lovely posts! :)

What I've been up to & The Getty Center!

I've been away from blog world for several reasons:

• haven't been online for awhile
  
• not much inspiration lately
• constantly tired from work
• been cleaning/organizing my room since my sister moved
  
• been working out trying to get back to my previous fitness level since this past school year
  
• I've been watching The Tudors which I'm totally addicted to b/c of the drama (for those of you that watch it) and I enjoy history in general :)
  

But don't worry! After getting inspiration from my muses (blogs that I read) I'm starting to slowly become inspired again. Due to a messy room, that is stopping me from working on projects. :(

My intended plans post-college life are:

• have fun & enjoy my summer :)
• finish cleaning/organizing my room so it will 100% Alice :D
• work for a year: part-time job, TA-ing and doing research for professors back at my university
• then graduate school, hopefully a Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW and possibly LMSW! :D)
  

Anyways, on the brighter side, I would like to thank 'Chelle from Cosmetic Cupcake who awarded me with the Stylish Blogger Award. :) Thank you 'Chelle, you're so sweet! :)

I leave you with pictures from the Getty Center (which is one of my favorite places now) from our 6 years anniversary with Kevin. :)

Post graduate life...

It's hard to believe that my life as a baccalaureate student has finally ended. In the end I am rewarded with a slip of paper showing that I have a Bachelor's of Arts in Psychology. I'm finally done and its over with. I am greatly relieved that I don't have to stress myself out with school work, yet ironically I miss it. However on the bright side, I have so much free time to get started on my projects. Before I left campus after graduation, I also took some amateur photos of our Japanese garden.

Ps. I decided to post pictures of my parents because they were being such good sports about me "decorating" them. :)











Taken without flash & special "flower" setting on camera


Taken with flash on "flower" setting, huge difference huh?

Easter + weekend in San Diego

If you haven't noticed, I added a new banner to my blog. I got these pictures from one of my trips to San Fransisco. I decided to use my pictures from SF, since it is my favorite city after all. Then again, it is currently in the works of reconstruction, nothing too drastic.

I know it has been a while since I've last posted, but I have been busy now that school has started. I'm taking some time to sneak in a post of my fun weekend in San Diego.

<3 Enjoy.

One of thee most awesome restaurants I've been to: HASH HOUSEEEE! <3


Who can resist this giant delicious blueberry pecan pancake? MMMMM


I totally forgot what this was called but it was super good.

Now for the Easter eggs!

J-Town + Daikokuya

I swear, I've been eating ramen for three weeks in a row every Sunday. :P

Another trip to SF and more wedding stuff...

Well, it looks like I'm going up to San Fransisco this weekend! I'm super excited! This is a "last minute trip before school starts again" but the real reason why I'm going up there is to watch Wicked!


Yes, I know I didn't take advantage of the opportunity while it was in Los Angeles.


I am also going to check out the King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs Exhibition. I love ancient Egypt. In fact I almost considered studying Egyptology but then Psychology came along.

In the end, both are now located in one of my favorite cities which also gives me a legitimate reason to go up north. :) I will go ahead and post some pictures of corsages and center pieces that we spent 3 hours making for the wedding.


Here is a daisy corsage that I made which I also got to wear! :)


Box of lovely daisy and orchid corsages


My favorite! <3


More orchid corsages!


I absolutely love tiger lilies....and I could careless about roses...


This is so gorgeous!!! Made by Aunt Wendy.

Have a great weekend!

I left my heart in San Fransisco

I know it has been awhile since I've last updated, but not like anyone reads this anyways. I've been super busy with work and helping out with Tiff and Jeff's wedding. It has been a long two weeks of wedding preparation and festivities! In the end, it was all worth the hard work because the wedding was a blast!

We basically stayed in SF for most of the time before heading to Napa Valley. This was the highlight of my summer vacation. :) You have no idea how much I love SF...


A view of SF from Katrina's apartment


Another view from Katrina's apartment


Nappa Valley...where the wedding took place at


Center piece from the wedding reception


Center piece again, but this time enhanced with lame effects from my camera!


Aw, look at that...I'm last once again but I get my own row! :)