home sweet home

with just a few more weeks before eugene starts school again (and a few more days before i start my next block of rotations), we found some things to do around the house to pass the time and to have fun. since my friend's birthday was coming up, i decided to make her a tiramisu cake. once eugene found out, i had to make one for him too. and what better thing to do than to play jenga while we eat tiramisu!

*i couldn't figure out how to make the tiramisu look as nice as it did in the recipe book*

*eugene's quite the expert at jenga*

*look at how the whole thing is leaning towards me!*

*unfortunately, the game had to end...as it came crashing down*

a whole year already?

a year ago today, eugene and helen were united as one and started their life together as the wongs. it seems like just yesterday eugene and i were saying our vows to each other in front of our family and friends. it's impossible that a whole year has gone by already. we declare that we are still newlyweds, and we will stay newlyweds until 10 years from now. yes. we declare!

for our anniversary weekend, we took a shuttle tour to napa (four different wineries and a ride back to the city on a ferry), ate at golden lotus (finally) in oakland, walked along the berkeley pier (finally), spent some silly time at home, and ate at firefly to finish it off. all in all, it was a great weekend and monday to celebrate our special one year together.

enjoying some wine in napa valley


we got to walk in the vineyard at the andretti vineyard, and we got to try some grapes too!



i got some psi bands for motion sickness. i wore them on the ferry back to the city and boy did they ever help! i highly recommend them to anyone with motion sickness.



walking along the berkeley pier. the pier actually stretches 3.5 miles, but only 3000 feet of it remains for people to walk on. the middle picture shows the remaining pier that we can no longer access. we finished off our anniversary weekend on monday with dinner at firefly. yum-my!

our new couch

eventful weekend

finally, some time for us to "enjoy" our summer. we watched the dark knight on saturday and we were completely blown away! we would highly recommend the movie to everyone. it was a bit dark here and there, but overall, we loved it. so much that we went home and watched the 60s movie "batman the movie" with adam west and bruce ward. now i can understand why snl came up with "the ambigously gay duo." quite funny.

since the weather was so great, we drove south in the afternoon to half moon bay to walk along the beach. it was a bit windy, but we had a lot of fun walking and watching people para-gliding. one guy even crashed into the cliff because it was so windy. too bad we didn't catch it on video. :P

sunday was pretty relaxing. i woke up craving dim sum so we got some vegetarian dim sum from the big lantern in the mission. sooooooooooooooo good! sooooooooooooooo filling. we ate so much...we must've gained two pounds of fat!

B A T M A N

Batman rules.

ever so busy

we are ever so busy these days. so busy in fact that we hardly have time to update things in our blog for everyone to see. since we last checked in...

* i started a new rotation at elephant pharmacy in berkeley. it's a retail pharmacy and something i've never done before, so it took quite a while to get used to. i'm glad to say that i'm finally adjusted to the environment and will be able to finish in one piece.

* we got a new couch! it's quite a nice looking piece of furniture and it makes our apartment look more like an adult's apartment now. pictures will be posted soon!

* eugene got a bicycle! he gets really into it with fixing it and making it perfect for himself. with the way gas prices are nowadays and the gas guzzler of a car he has, he decided that it would be best to ride a bicycle to school starting this fall. this way, he saves money on gas and gets a bit of exercise in as well.

* we are coming up on our one year wedding anniversary. it's going to be a weekend of fun for the two of us. we haven't fully decided what we'll do yet, but we will definitely be getting out of the city to enjoy some time together.

hopefully that updates you on everything we've been doing. be sure to drop us a line or two to let us know how you're doing!

DAT was okay

Dine About Town in SF happened twice this year! last time, we went to Poleng Lounge (a multi-course meal that had us craving for more). this time...it was off to prana. a huge building that's a restaurant by day, club by night. we didn't know quite to expect when we walked through the huge mirror doors into a dimly lit room. nearly everything was white except for the asian motifs along the walls and in various places throughout the room. we had plenty of food to choose from. we picked two different appetizers and an entree dish. our first round of appetizers were de-lish! yam fritters and eggplant. yum! second round...eh. salads are usually a good blend of various vegetables and fruits. sometimes...just sometimes...a mixture just doesn't go well together. that's what we got. the naan pizza was okay. our entrees...one better than the other. guess which one was better by the pictures. let's just put it this way...bright green sauce...sometimes not quite so tasty. all in all...we enjoyed a few dishes out of the six...and we wouldn't tell our friends to go there for the food. maybe just the drinks.