January 28th, 2005 yoshers
On Sunday, Shareena and I travelled up to Davis to see Rebecca, Jansen and Olivia for a performance by Cirque Eloize at the Robert Mondavi Center. It must be explicated publicly that while the Robert Mondavi Center looks hideous from the outside (as you drive by on the I-80), the interior and acoustics of the place is quite top notch.
Anyways, the evening started off with dinner at Kathmandu Kitchen for some good Indian food. Certainly, it is nothing in comparison to Shareena’s mom’s cooking and the Tandoori chicken was pretty much what Shareena does with her grilled yogurt chicken, but overall the food was above average and it is always nice to have some garlic naan (which Shareena’s mom does not make).
The show that we saw from Cirque Eloize on Sunday was Rain. It was quite a good combination of quirky humor, amazing acrobatics and great demonstrations of strength and flexibility with a fantastic dream-like atmostphere. It was certainly different from our last encounter with Cirque Eloize two years ago when Nomade made its way to Berkeley. Nomade was certainly the more exciting show, but each has its charms. For anyone who wants to see the various Cirgue du Soleil performances, I would definitely recommend them see Cirque Eloize as well and for a much more reasonable price.
Still, I think I will have to see “O” at Las Vegas when I have the chance.
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January 4th, 2005 yoshers
Fortunately, part 2 of my busy December was pretty laid back, so my batteries are recharged for a busy 2005.
Firstly, I drove down to southern California to spend some time over Christmas with my family and old friends. On Christmas Eve, Jason and I hopped over to my cousins’ house in Oak Park and we had some hot pot (which Jason likes a lot as he gets to cook his own meat) and beef stew before playing a game of Bang! (which my cousins and uncle were thoroughly confused) and a few games of poker. My little cousin got quite lucky and won both times and thus, was able to pay off his Mahjong losings earlier that evening.
On Christmas Day, I hopped over to Monterey Park with Jason to have lunch with my grandma, aunts and uncles. Afterwards we watched the Laker’s game (and even my uncles were lamenting Kobe’s ballhog-ness) as Shaq fouls out before the end of regulation only to watch his new sidekick, Dwayne Wade, carry the load and beat Kobe and the Lakers. Afterwards, my aunt and I dropped grandma off at her apartment in downtown Los Angeles before I returned to Simi. Thereafter, I got hold of Diego and we went off to see House of Flying Daggars at Universal Citywalk. It was a pretty good movie, though the ending was a bit farfetched…but I suppose that is just part of the movie. You either make that leap or stop at the edge of the cliff.
I left Los Angeles on Tuesday, December 27th, in the morning to a major storm. Fortunately, I left pretty early and thus, I did not have to deal with the masses of southern Californians who cannot drive in the rain. It cleared up after about an hour and I was on my way back home to spend New Years with Shareena.
So after much resting, video game playing, teaching of Bang! and a few Quantum Leap season 2 episodes, it’s time to resume normality. Hope everyone had a good holidays and the best for 2005.
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January 4th, 2005 yoshers
- If you are inviting people and most are not coming, then you really have to work to get the few that said they were coming to actually show up
- Start playing poker earlier than 11:30pm on New Year’s Eve
- Skip the idiotic pre-New Year’s shows and just watch the countdown
- Take it easy and spend time with your friends at a nice warm home
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