Legendary Palace Bill of Rights

In two months, November 2009 will mark the 7th year I've been working for Legendary Palace. To celebrate my love/hate and happy/miserable "career", I'd decided to write this blog to announce our new house rules. LOL!!!! =P

HOUSE RULES

-Cash ONLY
-No forks, sugar, sweet n low, low sodium soy sauce, to go boxes, ice water, egg fu young, and chop suey
-No quiet corner
-No return or cancellation
-Clean your own vomit, urine, and feces
-at least 15% service charge (no pennies accepted)
-menu prices are final, no negotiation; no discount
-NO, I do not know if the sharks are ethically treated for their fins! Can you tell me how our slaughter houses kill the cow, chicken, and pigs?

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!
PLEASE COME AGAIN!!!!

-Legendary Palace and Staff

Sydney NSW Australia July 2009

Calvin and I, along with my two brothers, Peter and Chris spent a week in Sydney Australia. Many people asked, "Why Sydney?" Well, its very obvious that Nemo was my inspiration, but in reality, its the cheap airfare. We paid $1000/person for round trip airfare and 7 nights stay at Sheraton at the Park.

When we land at Sydney, it was only 6am. So, to kill time before our 2pm check-in, we walk to Chinatown to Yum Cha. Their Chinatown is big and clean and the people are more polite than peeps in Oakland Chinatown. No offense to my fellow Chinamen in Oakland. =)

Places we visit in three days:

Darling Harbour
Sydney Harbour
Opera House
Bondi Beach
Blue Mountain
Whale Watching
And of course the Casino
Zoo


By the fourth day, we ran out of things to do. So we mainly walk three miles to all sorts of food court to grub. We walk the streets at any hours since you'll feel completely safe there. I mean, my brothers and Calvin was the only people in Sydney wearing baggy pants and over-washed, see through, white t-shirts. Everyone there looks like they're modeling for GQ or Vanity Fair. They're slim, well-groomed, fashionable, and naturally gorgeous. I can't help but feel ashamed and self-concsious when I walk down the street with them in the thousands.


To end the trip, we went to a nice restaurant for steak at Darling Harbour and I left my camera there, within five minutes, we ran back, and it was gone. GONE!! I spent the last day in bed refusing to eat or leave the hotel room because I need to mourn my lost. My brothers didn't help much by thinking that I'm overreacting and showing no sympathy. Well, they did bought me McDonald but the "Super Size" fries is equivalent to our kids' size, so that wasn't big enough comfort me.

So, yup, I lost all the hundreds of pictures that I took of wild kangaroos, ostrich, koala bears and breathless view of the city and their harbor and their many museums and the opera house.


So everyone should help me blame Calvin. He promised me that he's going to upload pictures for me, but instead he sneaks out at the middle of the night to gamble.

He so disappointed me.

And my memories of it can only take me thus far to write this blog.

Just a thought:

After the visit, its a fact that America is so behind in our mass transportation, health care, and education.




Good Night

Linda Phung

PS 22

05-05-2009

It was a beautiful warm day on my 29th birthday, so Calvin and I decided to make the short drive to the scenic Napa Valley's wine country for a "wine & bike" tour. But being 4 hours late for the bike tour, we decided to take the wine train instead, but we missed the train as well. So we head to the wineries along Silveraldo Trails. Our first was at Luna, which reminded me of some medieval temple. As we walk in, we felt uncomfortable so we left without any wine tasting. So our next stop was at Paraduxx. They charged us $20 for wine tasting along with some fancy crackers. The most over-priced wine tasting fee ever! After half listening to the wine educator explaining away all the different kinds of wine, we down the 12% alcohol and left. After two wineries, we concluded that we might never be a wine snob. =(
We're Hennessy Privilege loyal fan.
Bay Areans are so fortunate to have Napa and some of the best wineries right in their backyard. Its a great place to escape all the road rage, stress, and hostility in the bay area.

7 months after....

Seven months after the vows, the gifts, the well wishes, the wedding, and the honeymoon, we'd finally came back to Earth. Calvin suddenly knows how to say "no" and talks back in record speed. Me, beside gaining 15 pounds, shop only once since the wedding. And the only clothes I bought are long sleeves shirts in shades of black and gray.

 I know, how thrilling!!!

Honeymoon

Spent 7 days onboard the Freedom of the Sea cruising the Eastern Caribbean. Sailing from Miami, FL, we arrived to the ports of St. Thomas and St. Maarten/St. Martin and the US Virgin Island. After the 7 days cruise, we chill at South Beach for a few days drinking Corona, smoking hooka, and watching Cubans driving around in white Range Rover with their hot girlfriends.
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Richest

"We make ourselves rich by making our wants few."
-Henry David Thoreau