Sorry I haven’t updated my blog for ages. Life has changed quite a bit since I last updated here. I am now living in Paris and will start my first class at Le Cordon Bleu next Monday. I am very excited about my new adventure. My kitchen here won’t allow me to make too many fancy dishes here, but I am sure Paris has more to offer than my home cooking. So I will keep you all updated of my life in Paris.

Here are some photos I took today. Also I went to a quite nice Japanese restaurant near my apartment and would like to share those photos with you too.

Here’s the restaurant info:

Restaurant KURA

56 Rue de Boulainvilliers 75016 Paris

Tel: 01 45 20 18 32

Movie Quotes – Beginners

Hal: Well let’s say… let’s say since you were little, and you’ve always dreamed of someday getting a lion. And you wait, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait and the lion doesn’t come. Then along comes a giraffe. You can be alone, or you can be with the giraffe.

Oliver: I’d wait for the lion.

Hal: That’s why I worry about you

Chef Isaac came to cook in our kitchen this Monday. Because everything was happened too fast, there’s no recipes being written. Next time I will remember to take notes. Thankfully I snapped some photos of this delicious meal. Thank you for a lovely evening. Isaac!

I was on vacation in the past two weeks – went camping at Canadian Rockies. I had a lot of fun camping and meeting new friends. I also enjoyed the stunning and beautiful scenery at Rockies very much. It was a very nice vacation indeed.

Some photos to share with y’all:

Two of Nav’s childhood friends come visit this weekend. They both are very nice and it’s always good to see Nav happy. I remembered I made cinnamon buns years ago, and it came out really nice. So I thought I will make them again today. To be perfectly honest, the cinnamon buns didn’t come out the way I wanted it to be. It’s a bit too dry and too doughy. I usually don’t put those not so perfect recipes on the blog as I think it’s not worth it. However, I think this blog is more for me to record the stories behind food than just to share recipes. Life is not perfect, but it’s still memorable and enjoyable. Even though the cinnamon buns didn’t come out great, but we still have some good laugh of that translator youtube video, some good chat with some really good Indian tea (thanks Rick!)

Here are some photos of the cinnamon buns and the really good Indian tea. No recipe here,of course, it’s not good enough to put on my blog.

I have been super busy in the past couple days – went to Kripalu yoga center for the weekend, NYC for two days, preparing my photography final portfolio, and etc… I was too busy to cook, too busy to blog, even too busy to think in the past two weeks. Finally, everything seems to quiet down a bit. On my way to work today, my brain start thinking and I have something to say from the bottom of my heart.

If the world ends on Saturday, (which we all know is NOT gonna happen. Sorry God, no offense), what would you do? Party all night, dance all night or drink all night?

In my favorite book, Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie said “Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?… The truth is once you learn how to die, you learn how to live; Most of us walk around as if we were sleepwalking. We really don’t experience the world fully because we are half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do; Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.”

Yes, learn how to die, and you learn how to live. We don’t need to wait until the day before we die to do or say things we always wanted to say, always wanted to do. If the world ends on Saturday, I want to say thank you to all the people who have shown up in my life. My life is colorful and meaningful because of y’all. I am grateful to have the best family in the world, best friends around me, and the best boss ever (yes, it’s you, Mark. I am not saying this because you might read my blog. I am saying this from the bottom of my heart). Last but not least, I want to say I love you to all the people I love, especially you, Nav!

Here’s the final portfolio I put together for my photography class, which will be criticized by all my classmates tonight. Hopefully they won’t be too harsh on me…