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Making dinner at bff Linda’s place again, she has stocked up all the finest kitchen equipments for my indulgence, her kitchen is now my second home

with Linda, after my performance at the Kosciuszko Foundation Friday the night before…

Crimini Mushrooms and Asparagus with Red Bell Pepper Curry Sauce and Black Sesame Crackers

Linda’s friend Michael, who swears off vege and anything green, was eating all these raw vegan food to the last drop

by Charles Baudelaire

O fleece, billowing even down the neck!
O locks! O perfume charged with nonchalance!
What ecstasy! To people our dark room
With memories that sleep within this mane,
I’ll shake it like a kerchief in the air!

Languorous Asia, scorching Africa,
A whole world distant, vacant, nearly dead,
Lives in your depths, o forest of perfume!
While other spirits sail on symphonies
Mine, my beloved, swims along your scent.

I will go down there, where the trees and men,
Both full of sap, soon in the ardent heat;
Strong swelling tresses, carry me away!
Yours, sea of ebony, a dazzling dream
Of sails, of oarsmen, waving pennants, masts:

A sounding harbour where my soul can drink
From great floods subtle tones, perfumes and hues;
Where vessels gliding in the moire and gold
open their wide arms to the glorious sky
Where purely trembles the eternal warmth.

I’ll plunge my drunken head, dizzy with love
In this black sea where that one is confined;
My subtle soul that rolls in its caress
Will bring you back, o fertile indolence!
Infinite lulling, leisure steeped in balm!

Blue head of hair, tent of spread shadows, you
Give me the azure of the open sky;
In downy wisps along your twisted locks
I’ll gladly drug myself on mingled scents,
Essence of cocoa-oil, pitch and musk.

For ages! always! in your heavy mane
My hand will scatter ruby, sapphire, pearl
So you will never chill to my desire!
Are you not the oasis where I dream,
My drinking-gourd for memory’s fine wine?

Did I mention that I have one of the first copies of Matthew’s newest book that doesn’t hit the store for another 2 weeks…!!!

So here are 2 spoilers for you raw vegan foodies out there… eat your heart out!!!!!!!
Not only do they look amazing, but they taste spectacular!

Oyster Mushroom Seviche and Bitter Orange-Lime Sauce

Golden and Green Cannelloni with Sun-Dried Tomato-Ginger Marinara, Mint-Basil Pistachio Pesto, Green Zebra Tomatoes, and Pine Nut and Black Truffle “Ricotta”

PS. sous chefed by Lisa tonight (and forever)

Waking up 7:30 a.m. phoneless, dropped it in my girl’s car last night… oh, well, peace is good Juiced all the vegetable I have in the fridge, really want to start feeling happy and healthy.

Never once had a new year resolution, guess somehow I would not admit my life could possibly be anything less than perfect… How does one get so delusional?

So here is my new birthday resolution:

I will learn to be kind to myself,
I will not shy away from compliments,
I will commit myself to working hard on my career and give up my coward idea of raising Ryeland sheep upstate somewhere (hah, this is so not made up… but, they are really really cute…),
I will find a new apartment,
I will not be scared of real life,
I WILL STOP PRETENDING THAT I LOVE HELLO KITTY, and
I will not snap at Lisa ever again (hah, Lisa, this one is for you… I will try hard…), and

I am giving myself 365 days to see all these through… wish me luck…

2:15 p.m.100 sit ups with weights, 6.4 miles running furiously like there is no tomorrow with Wii Fit, ready to head the shower and start my — birthday — with 3 hours of teaching…

I have a feeling this post is gonna be very long today…

5:51 p.m. Lisa arrived early before I finish teaching… I snapped at her for making noises… (sorry )

6:30 p.m. finally got a phrase through with my student Ryota, let him go at last I continue snapping at Lisa — too wired from teaching — sorry again

7:35 p.m. first round of gift opening, you can see I wasn’t really amused with the hello kitty tiara… hah… Amazingly, HuaHua chewed up my pink keychain just 2 days ago, I was making mental note to self “need a new pink keychain” and Linda read my mind! I got a Juicy pink keychain as one of a big bag of gifts I got from her!!!! I am getting spoiled… But that book on my lap from Lisa is to die for (she was right, it does weigh as much as me)… I am sure Linda is plotting on our visit to El Bulli in Spain now…

8:15 p.m. somewhere in Soho, on the street

8:17 p.m. arriving CRIF DOGS, a hotdog stand with a secret passage to its hidden bar!!!!!

bff Lisa

Me & bff Linda

drinking Absinthe… imagine!!!!!

too funny…

this concludes the first round of drinking…

9:00 p.m. Pure Food and Wine, my fav raw restaurant!!!! Love you girls for thinking of it

giving bff Celine some raw chocolate

2nd round of gifts, from Zoe too

Celine & Linda, I am so happy they like each other

Lisa

Me & Celine

sorry, these are the only 2 pix I took of the food, I was not coherent enough to remember to take pictures any longer…

12:07 a.m. back home

Vegan cake made with Agave, no sugar!!! And the little cake on the side is actually a cake for HuaHua… my girls are nuts in love with my dog!!!!

3rd round of gifts, I have rich girlfriends… !!!!!!!!

cutting my cake, eating my cake, enjoying my friends, feeling loved and inspired…

How did this night end? I passed out on the chaise while we were listening to my playing of the Saint-Saëns-Godowski Le Cygne… No one could move me or wake me, I was in my dream heaven… happy and sleeping for once…

10 p.m. after a looooong day of practicing, 6 course Valentine tasting at Hangawi, my fav vegan place on earth, and it is Korean…!

bagged up the dessert… couldn’t eat another bite any longer

Should we make my “girlfriend”/Valentine date Arman into an Asian idol? — I totally see it happen even though he does not have a drop of Asian blood.

Movie “Confessions of a Shopaholic” with my girl Lisa at 12:30 a.m., since Lisa thinks I have been doing too much of shop therapy online… God knows why… Fun movie though

After my performance at the Kosciuszko Foundation, caught the kitchen open at the last minute at one of my fav vegan restaurants Candle 79. 

The moon tonight is strangely close to the ground… 

VERY happy to have one of the very first copies of Matthew’s (love his blog, btw) most gorgeous new book before the publisher’s shipping date March 1st… :-)))

Can’t wait to throw a big party using this book!!!! Maybe in April after I return from Taiwan?

The moon tonight, somewhere soho, after a jazz performance and dinner with my dearest Celine & Robert…