2010 was an in-between year for me, nothing too exciting happen in my life more than I got the Certificate in Advanced print and Design Communication.
We ended 2010 pretty low key with a Wine and Mystery dinner party with good friends.
2010 was an in-between year for me, nothing too exciting happen in my life more than I got the Certificate in Advanced print and Design Communication.
We ended 2010 pretty low key with a Wine and Mystery dinner party with good friends.
The chefs preparing waffels.
I love Christmas food!
The hosts.
After Christmas brunch, we thought, what would be a better way to celebrate the birth of Jesus but to go to a Buddhist temple?
After the temple, we played pictionary, I am pretty sure my team won!
More food, Chinese take away.
The White Elephant rules, taken from wikipedia:
To determine the gift-choice play order, participants may draw numbers from a hat. Starting with one and up to the total number of participants, the players take turn in the corresponding succession.
Once an order has been established, each person takes his or her turn choosing a gift. The first person picks a gift, opens it, and shows it to the rest of the company. Then in turn, the participants chooses to either unwrap a new gift or to “steal” a previously unwrapped gift. If a gift is “stolen”, the person who had their gift taken from them gets to unwrap any unopened gift; and then, the turn passes. When all the gifts have been opened, the game is over.
We also added: A gift can only be stolen three times before it is considered locked and can not be stolen again and a gift can not be stolen more than once in the same round (a start of a round is when someone open a new gift).
I got to go as number 9 out of 24 people, which turned out to be a pretty good number, a fair amount of presents had already been open and there were a few that was pretty cool, like a bottle of Champagne, and there were a few I felt would be disappointing if I ended up with. I couple of people thought I should steal the bottle of champagne, but after some consideration, I decided to open up a new one and this is what I got:
A bottle of Grey Goose that came with a shaker. I did not get to keep it for very long though before someone stole it from me. So then I stole the Champagne. I was still a happy camper!
Hooray for friends!
The beer calendar is back! A bunch of us got together to do it this year. We bought 4 six packs each, lots of beers!
Then we wrapped them in foil,
and lined them up so we could pick our beers.
I am super excited for Wednesday when I get to see what my first beer will be!
We were invited to spend Thanksgiving evening in Hacienda Heights. On the way there, we saw snow!
I’m thankful for my friends!
A long list of things to do for Thanksgiving dinner!
Cooking the turkey is one of them.
Let’s eat!
I never been a huge Hello Kitty fan, but Sanrio is having a week long party at the Santa Monica airport for their 50th anniversary. Martin Hsu was asked to make a painting for the gallery, so we had to check it out!
Martin Hsu has a show opening in San Francisco next weekend, we headed over to his place to help him prepare.
After the hikes, we usually go somewhere for lunch. I am always exhausted and am ready to pass out, thinking I’d take a nap as soon as I get back home. But then after getting something to eat I get my energy back and have a hard time falling asleep. I was however drowsing on an off throughout the afternoon, watching old classics on netflix.
I fell asleep halfway through the movie, probably a good thing as I get nightmares from scary movies anyway.
