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Taste Buds: Spanish Rice that’s not Paella
Chef and I have been together for 6 years and I never learned how to make Spanish rice until now. I love it, obviously, and I can’t get enough of it whenever we have Mexican food. We discussed over and over what this really is called because it’s been labeled as Spanish rice, though it’s [...]
Taste Buds: Russian Tea Cakes
Happy Holidays, one and all!! Yes, yes, my greeting, along with blogposts, are a tad bit delayed. Nonetheless, it’s never too late for a good dessert recipe. There’s actually quite a story behind my Russian Tea Cake mini obsession. Three years ago, I took an interim position at another department and met a funny group [...]
Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: The Melt
The Melt New Montgomery 115 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Grilled cheese. American classic. So utterly simple. Get someone like Jonathan Kaplan, founder of the Flip camera, to complicate it and make it simple all over again. This guy made several hundreds of millions of dollars when he sold Flip to Cisco. The [...]
IDesign: Shapes and Figure/Grounds
When I started design school, my professor said, “believe me, you will never look at space the same way again.” I didn’t believe her much because I felt that for someone who’s forte is not in space planning, I have a pretty good grasp of how areas should be laid out. But, I was determined [...]
Music and Lyrics: What’s In A Name – Late Night Alumni
For the life of me, I do not know why I have not posted a Late Night Alumni song! In this age of Pandora, I do not have music on my iPhone anymore except for a couple faves: Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bossa N’ Marley, AND, LATE NIGHT ALUMNI! We [...]
Taste Buds: Tomato Dinner
Fall may have started, but this past summer, the cooking club gathered again for our quarterly meet-up. To shake things up from the way we did things before, which was to pick a specific cuisine, this time, we picked a secret ingredient. And what’s the most summery ingredient out there?! Tomatoes!! We welcomed a new [...]
Music and Lyrics: Destiny by Zero 7
Going back to the classics today, guys. I was driving around town today, running errands, picked up the dry cleaning, and this song plays. Though this song is about a decade old, whenever I hear this song, it takes me back to circa 2005. Then, I just moved to my apartment and was just [...]
Blinks: Capilano Rainforest
I just realized how spoiled we are with Instagram when I wanted to do some post-processing on this photo sans tilt-shift-focus and Inkwell filter. A similar shot was actually posted on Instagram taken with the iPhone, but this one was taken with my good old fashioned Nikon D90. This was my first time to visit [...]
IDesign: Starting Design School
So folks, I’m starting IDesign, the design series of ID — inadvertently domesticated, in case you didn’t make the connection, LOL! Yes, this is quite diametrically opposed to whatever path I am in now, but to be honest with you, this does not come as a total random thing to me. If you read my [...]
Wanderlust: Holy Capilano!
This post is really about both Capilano Suspension Bridge and Grouse Mountain. Despite the title seeming it’s only about Capilano, I’ve learned that in Vancouver, these two attraction sites go hand in hand. There’s been so much to do and I’ve slowly been updating the blog’s layout, but I’ve finally found some time completing a [...]
Letting the Stars Align vs Perseverance
I certainly have no excuse for not blogging now with my MB Air that’s so easy to bring to cafés. Or, just in bed. Anyway, I’ve always felt that if the keyboard is inviting, my fingers will just find its way to it, and you know what, that is so true. I guess these little [...]


Inadvertently Domesticated
