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Dine at “Dot” (隨意鳥地方), a panoramic city view restaurant on the 85th floor of Taipei 101 with two high school friends tonight. Special requested the chef to make me a plate of raw vege with no dairy nor dressing, was glad the masterful chef didn’t get offended — just couldn’t eat anymore refined food

looking out from our window seat table… love Taipei 101… 

 

iPhone G3 Chinese version and iPhone first generation English version with a nice bottle of Chianti at InHouse Lounge… hmm, time to get the G3 with a new number.

nice to see old friends, we’ve grown up so (if not old already)   

Meet up with bff Celine in Taipei today at 信誼 children’s bookshop shopping for her kids, Zoe and Otto. Love this fuzzy book I found

 

Went visiting my childhood piano teacher at the university after (also Celine’s college piano teacher by coincidence). Miss Lin, who I am in debt to in many many ways, has not changed a bit all these years!

hah, someone (me) is getting chubby! Too much good food and happiness makes one grow sideways

Went to Taipei 101′s Pageone Bookshop and then Eslite Bookshop after by myself, can’t get enough books… took lots of pictures of Hello Kitty everywhere, decided not to post them any longer, this city is really plagued with HK and all the Japanese overload cuteness…    

Too bad Hyung-Ki is in New York while I am in Taipei, well, I am dying of laughter watching him on YouTube instead…

this is only the 2nd concerto, imagine what damage the 3rd concerto does…

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

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

Not since Nathaniel, has anyone had this much fun in my kitchen!

Lisa, the wildest flower child in the history of western civilization demonstrating her pasta making technique:

Hurting from laughter, I am flat on the floor…

p.s. she wears it better than me — the faux fur apron from Celine…

Saw Linda after a recital I played, started babbling about how I would LOVE to tango.

Miraculously, she got the real Argentinean tango instructor Alicia, rented a studio, got all her friends together, there we were, having tango lessons!

Exporting these frames off of the video I took during our lesson this Wednesday, my Sony high-def cam takes fab enough video image (even in standard format) to withstand the test of still image.

Linda Tao (above) — doctor, ballet dancer, pianist, and many many things

I am thinking of going pro now… AS IF!!!

Thank you Linda…

For all the fun time we spent in my kitchen, my dear friend – sous chef, Nathaniel Yangco, I will miss you so…

While Robert was shooting (with my HD video camera) the still life fruit plate (belonged to his adorable wify Celine) for his experimental surrealistic expressionism theatrical short documentary, I was babbling in the background about the actual pineapple and fruit, this couldn’t be funnier…

Filmed after the fund raising concert I played tonight at the Polish Consulate during the beautifully catered dinner. Robert is my favorite photographer/computer genius.

This is my first Flash video, kind of figured it out while riding in the subway last weekend…