Posted by: flyelephants | September 15, 2008

Long post

I cannot even begin to think where I am going to start since it has been almost a month since my last post. Since my last post school has started and it has been my good firend and my girlfriend’s birthday. I got a baby lovebird called scout. I got a replacement iPhone from apple due to home button failure.

I am so tired this weekend has been so fun and amazing. Boating, tubing, camping, kayaking and moree

Sleep time update soon

Posted by: flyelephants | August 19, 2008

busy busy busy

school started for me. stress. last 2 semesters gotta make it count. been so fucking lazy. ill try to post as much as possible.

:D

Posted by: flyelephants | August 14, 2008

Longer days better nights

Another repeat of hell at work today. Understaffed with someone calling in sick with rushes of people. Did not have a bite of food at work other than two drinks.
After work however went to dinner with my grandparents in Oakland at a very reasonably priced Chinese seafood restaurant.

Food was terrific and I have been starving the whole day.

Let’s see how work goes tomorrow not like this

Box of spilled mangoes ftl.

Posted by: flyelephants | August 12, 2008

Short update

Few days with no update been busy. What I don’t get is how someone would pay $4 to wait 10-15 minutes just to get a half melted smoothie. The past two days of work for me has been a line out the door for my whole shift. Just because the weather got hot I need to go drive out of my way to regal hacienda to get a smoothie. or even Hang out there when Im not seeing a movie. Past few nights have been good full of swimming and card games

And

Sushi from esushi in Dublin. Fantastic place with a great staff and incredible owner/sushi cook. Price is amazing as well.

Epic poker game + cat

Till nxt time

Posted by: flyelephants | August 10, 2008

birthday bash day two

Yet another birthday but this time for someone who is super important. My mother :]

Started the morning off with Dim sum at the local dim sum place in my area. Koi Garden in Ulferts center in dublin. Most definitely higher class than the dim sum tea houses in oakland or san fransisco china towns because its in the suberbs. but the food is decent with a good atmosphere and price is ok a bit pricey but food quality is good. Only thing that bugged me is that when i picked up the bill, i paid :] Is that at the bottom of the tip under the total they had a 15%,20% and 25% with the price next to each of how much your total will be for which u decided to choose.

1. its a tea house tips should be 1-2 dollars a person.

2. The price of the dishes are already expensive as hell

3. Why the F*ck should i pay 15% to someone who sat me down which is a given and 15% to some guy who refilled my hot water in the teapot once. i didnt even get a damn refill of my glass of water.

Hell, 15% is expected at high end restaurants like a steakhouse where its 25-40$ a person. Unless in my 19 years of age someone slipped under my nose that Tea houses are high class restaurants. I laughed my ass off when i saw it with my girlfriend and my parents.

Other than that i had a good time. Went shopping for a present, decided on a orchid flower for mother and of course two cards one from me and one from the girlfriend.

For dinner had some exellent chinese food, lobster and crab included.

Afterwards met friends up at Cafe Tapioca and caught the last half of Pirates 3 seen it before but it was a good refresher of how good that movie was.

Not much of an update but i had a rant/

this is my girlfriend with the orchid plant. and shes cute ;]

Posted by: flyelephants | August 8, 2008

Fixie ride birthday bash

Started off they day going on a bike ride with my friend jeff down the iron horse trail. bike a good 15-20 miles round trip.

Weather was good our trip downtown took an hour because of headwind. Our ride back took less than 20 minutes.

Also had panda express for lunch. Found it funny how unamerican “gormet Chinese food” sounds on their banner. Food was filling but definelty not gormet.

Had a coconut milk tea at cafe taps.

Dinner I went to a friends house for his birthday and had carne asada and grilled chicken, onions and salsa. Authentic Mexican food unlike the casa crap I had yesturday. meal was fantastic and i had good company, my friends from golfmkv.com whom i drive cars with. MKV Volkswagen GTI’s.

Happy Birthday Julio :]

As for the rest of my night. I cannot believe how amazing china is on a world stage. Being Chinese it feels good. Gooooo team china and the US :)

Posted by: flyelephants | August 7, 2008

Juice making epic winner

Hello,

Started the day/midnight off with a photoshop of a good friend with sean Kingston (aka corn teeth)

I just can’t stand that kid (sean kingston) he can’t sing for shit, nor does he look good and he’s probably the same age as me and he is making millions off terrible songs. About him picking up chicks and taking them to the slums for who knows what.

Other than that I am thinking of making a spray stencil of Tay zonday to put onto my messenger bag.

As far as my day goes…so far I get to work (I’m a lead at Jamba juice) it’s hot as hell,the juice dispensers are broken so we have to manually put drinks into the blender. its really busy and we had to close the store for an hour to give the maintenace guys to work and fix the machines.

So the good thing was, is that we got a new wheatgrass machine. The most annoying thing someone can order at my work… But the new machine makes it a hundred times less annoying… And it looks like a car accessory (greddy blow off valve)

As far as meals go for lunch I had nothing so I have been craving any sort of food stuff. For dinner I had Mexican food at a local place called casa orozco  (http://www.yelp.com/biz/casa-orozco-dublin) which is a sit down and dine more high end type of deal. We got it to-go and I mean it was good cause I was hungry but now it feels like everytime we go there it gets worse.

Everytime we go it seems as if there is something wrong. It’s not the same problem as last time but a different problem. Last time the food was cold and they forgot to give us a few items on our order. I guess it’s our fault we didn’t check at first and we had to turn around…but if your paying for food especially at a higher end and more expensive place they should atleast give you great service included with the good food. But this time it just hit me and I realized that not only is the service not top notch to it’s atmosphere and pricey menu but their food quality is terrible as well.

Me and my girlfriends parents usually get the same thing everytime we go to casa which isn’t often but we get: 2-3 orders of shrimp Veracruz which is a soup with tomatos, onions,avacados,shrimp in a broth. The fish tacos taco shell, lettuce, guac and fried fish.

As far as chips,guac and salsa I would love to eat at the place that can screw those items up. But the quality of the meal was just unacceptable. The shrimp first of all was not too bad but the broth and the rest of the meal was a mess. We realized that the shrimp Veracruz that was $9 was only made of, Chicken broth, canned tomatos and ketchup. The fish was the thickness of a peice of paper with batter all over it. All around a terrible meal.

I would much prefer a local place called, Los pericos which is half the price, taste of the food is b+ and atmosphere is autheric and all the workers are genuine and super sincere.

http://local.yahoo.com/info-21463525-taqueria-los-pericos-dublin

just my rant on dinner. Now let’s move onto late night snacks :)

My order of chicken steak a usual for me when I go to tapioca express in union city.
First pic was a friends order or popcorn chicken

$5.30 for each

Food+friends+apples to apples = good fun

Jeff “my bawls”

All for today. Till next time.

Posted by: flyelephants | August 7, 2008

Hello good world

Hello,

Restarting a blog that I should have kept updating but I got way too busy. Just got a new iPhone so I can blog alot more without having to upload pictures to a computer, then another website and so on.

I plan on keeping a blog on the good food I eat as well as where I got my hands on it as well as a price and a rating. My daily life as a college student this blog will also include rants and info on new, stupid,interesting things.

As for today is my 2 nd day with my new phone and just learning to use it and getting used to a touch screen keyboard.

As for food nothing exciting except homemade meatballs and sauce with pasta at my girlfriends house prepared by her and her mom. Both extremly wonderful cooks :)

Yes this picture looks weird and does the meal no justice because I decided to start my blog again after the meal so I took a picture of the pot because I’m sure people would rather look at a pot half full than my smudged up plate with no food on it. More updates to come tomorrow.

Thanks for looking.

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