All Things Chill

20 days later from my last post. Yeah. To break the silence, this is what I’m reading: Chuck Klosterman’s Downtown Owl. I am enjoying it during lunch breaks and before I sleep. Yes – this post is not entertaining. LOL.
That is all.
~Spec

Now reading: Michael Ruhlman’s Elements of Cooking. Ruhlman wrote about staple meals, and I couldn’t get my mind off a perfectly roasted chicken. So.. uh… I made one (just like before) and served it with oven roasted new potatoes and steamed broccoli. Hee hee.
That is all.
~Spec

Well hello there. Whoa, I just realized that I wrote another post with the same title. Weird. Anyway, I’m currently spending my time at bus stops, lunch breaks and those 15-20 leisurely minutes in bed before I sleep reading a book from Liana’s collection of fiction. The Time Traveler’s Wife deals [...]

Right before I napped on the couch next to the window full of sun, I read a few chapters of Botany of Desire, a book by Michael Pollen.
Working in his garden one day, Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use [...]

While in Redmond yesterday, Liana and I picked up a few books in preparation for some serious cafe couch reading today. We ended up at Cafe on the Ave in the University District, where they serve some tasty breakfast all day and have comfy couches to claim for an afternoon. YAY. The [...]

Barry Eisler’s Hard Rain. Second book in the John Rain series. It, I am reading.
~Spec

I’ve been really under the weather these past couple of days… which obviously means that I’m sick (boo). It also means that I have some free time to read (yay)! I just finished Haruki Murakami’s – Kafka on the Shore. Hailed as a modern Greek tragedy, the book bounces back and forth [...]

Hallo. I’ll just start off by saying that the Street Fighter series is better than Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, Soul Calibur, Virtua Fighter, your mom’s chicken salad and Transformers The Movie. I SWEAR. There’s nothing like throwing a HA-DO-KEN while your silly opponent tries to cancel it out with their own fireball [...]

2007 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival
June 9-10, 16-17, and 23-24
In our 29th year, the Festival will feature 29 dance companies representing dance traditions from 20 cultures and featuring over 500 dancers.
Liana (no silly, that’s not her in the picture above) is performing today with the Lily Cai Dance Company @ the Palace of Fine Arts. [...]

…I’ll be watching The Namesake, starring Kal Penn. I *just* blogged about the book, and now I find out that it’s a freaking movie… that came out YESTERDAY. I BLOGGED ABOUT A BOOK ON THE SAME DAY THAT THE MOVIE ADAPTATION CAME OUT. OMGGGGG. I AM SO ESP.
So anyway, I’ve also [...]

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.”
-Bill Watterson
Creator of Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson created a comical world that honestly influenced my outlook on life ever since I was a kid.
He is my personal hero.
Amen Bill, Amen.
~Spec

On a leap of blind faith, I’ll be purchasing The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri today @ a local bookstore as recommended by Atish. I’ve been itching for something to read during my lunch breaks (I love, and honestly need, to decompress in solitude in the middle of the day), so our “Hey you read [...]

Last weekend, I literally spent two hours hunched over and squatting on a stool in the back of a Borders thumbing through one of the coolest cook books by one of the most heralded chefs of all time: Charlie Trotter. He makes it seem so damn easy. Here’s the book’s description:
Workin’ More [...]