SFUC Season-Ender Tourney

March 1, 2009

The last weekend of February brought the end of the SFUC winter league and the season-ender tournament at Crocker-Amazon fields. The league team that I co-captain with Shaun, Pajamahadeen, played in the afternoon on Saturday, and lost convincingly in all three games. Apparently we are not so good at the captaining thing...c'est la vie.

That evening, Will and I had dinner with Key and Gail at our house (hooray for extra-meaty lasagna!) and then headed over to Polk Village/Gulch for the 40th birthday party of a Genentech-er, Michael, at the Space Gallery. Michael rented the whole place for his party, and the entertainment was one of Michael's favorite local jazz musicians.

It was a great space for a party, and the music was great. From Space Gallery, Will and I headed to Thee Parkside to catch the SFUC party in full swing. Dancing and drink tickets were fully representing, sobriety was not.








Thanks to the Commish and Pajamahadeen for making the 2008-2009 season a blast!

Sandy's Not-So-Old Birthday Celebration

February 28, 2009

On Friday night, a bunch of folks came together to celebrate Sandy's birthday (which was on 2/24) at Basil Thai in SOMA. It was a great chance to catch up with everyone and enjoy some great Thai food too!

Half of the table shared appetizers and main courses family-style:

• porpia sod - fresh rolls of vegetables & tofu served with crushed peanuts, chili, lime vinaigrette
• basil's panstickers - shrimp & minced pork dumpling served with Thai style ginger soy sauce
• gai satay - chicken skewers served with peanut sauce
• hoi yang - scallop skewers served with spicy sauce
• pad Thai - rice stick noodles stir-fried with bean cakes, chives, bean sprouts and prawns
• pad seew - fresh wide rice noodles stir-fried with pork, egg & Chinese broccoli
• tamarind prawns - light battered prawns wok tossed in spicy tamarind with crisp shallots and garlic
• nuer ta cai - Angus sirloin cubes stir-fried with lemongrass. bell peppers, & roasted chili paste
• panang short ribs - short ribs simmered in a basil kaffir panang sauce served with diced vegetables
• pad pak raum - wok-seared baby bok choy, Napa cabbage, shitake mushrooms & baby corn
• plapow - today's fresh fish (sea bass) filet infused with lemongrass and served with lime-garlic sauce

Happy Birthday Sandy!!!

Tahoe!!

February 23, 2009

Will is a champ. Seriously, he's a stellar knee-surgery-recovering champ. So much so that I didn't feel that guilty taking off for Tahoe last weekend. It didn't matter that the snow wasn't that great, it was just good to get out on the snow.

But boy, am I ever out of Tahoe shape!!!

On Sunday, Wendy and I lapped Stagecoach at Heavenly until we couldn't withstand the wind. So, we hit the road early and stopped off at the Folsom Premium outlets for a couple hours (whee!!!).

Pretty good weekend considering...

Prezzie Day Long Weekend

February 16, 2009

It was a lovely, highly-anticipated, but very wet, long weekend.

On Saturday, Will and I kept it pretty mellow, hanging out at Crissy Field in the afternoon (he hung out with the beautiful people at the Warming Hut, and I did a 3-mile loop run). We ordered sushi take-out for dinner, and watched "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist", a cute movie with a great soundtrack.

Early on Sunday morning, a few of us (Wendy, Gail, Sue Hee and Wendy's dad) piled into Wendy's car and headed to Chinatown. Our plan was to run the Chinese New Year 5K/10K run, but it was raining hard and the wind was picking up, not great factors for a fun road race. On the drive there, there was lots of discussion about how crazy it was to try to run in the weather. Sue Hee and I were both registered for the 10K, and the options discussed were: a) not running, b) only running the 5K, c) run the 10K.

In the end, we all opted to run the 10K, which was two loops of the 5K route. The gale force winds along the Embarcadero and the hillier-than-anticipated course were definite challenges. Oy.

I "borrowed" the event photographer pic of Gail and I during the race below:

In the end, it was a great feeling to finish a race in such horrific conditions. And thankfully, we all had dry clothes to change into. We went for Hong-Kong style tea at Washington Bakery, and then went next door for dim sum at Grant Place.

In the afternoon, Gail, JoJo and I went to check out the furniture stores (new West Elm store!) in Bay St in Emeryville. On Sunday evening, I met up with a bunch of folks at an undisclosed locations to enjoy some of the best dumplings in the city. It's undisclosed at Henrik's request, go bug him if you want to know where...:)

I felt very close to my roots on Sunday, Chinese food all day!!!

On Monday (yay, no work), I headed down to Santa Clara in the afternoon to hang out with Angie and the kiddies.







News flash: Charlotte went pee-pee and poo-poo in the potty! Now, if only Simon would not be so scared of the toilet ("scary nosies!")...