What I want to eat today....

Cheesecake Factory's Tuna Tartar
Legendary Palace's Eggplant Frog with Mint Leaves
Sweet Booth's Watermelon Juice Tapioca
And finish off with Hob Nob's Ketel One Tonic with Extra Extra Lime!!!
YUMMMMM!!!!

Amsterdam May 2010

This is probably the most and will be the most spontaneous trip of our life. Booking our flight just two weeks in advance and before we know it, we're on our flight to Amsterdam!
When we arrived, the entire airport and city became one giant Orange fiesta! Everything and Everyone were in Orange. They're celebrating the Queen's Birthday and Orange is their official country colour. When we finally got to town, we still have to walk half a mile to our hotel because all the streets were close for the city-wide party. And when they party, they PARTY! It's like Castro Halloween Party x 100. There's no room to walk or breathe. All you see is one huge fog that smells like weed. And seeing so many white people in Orange gets scary after awhile.
First impression: So many bicycles! Bicycles EVERYWHERE!!! Girls, Boys, Young, Old, riding bikes in all shapes and colors.
I really like all the canals that connects everywhere and we take the canal taxis all over town. Chinatown, Red Light District, Heineken, and Anne Frank's House.
The food selection is not as wide as back home. But their marijuana selection is so diverse so we had a hard time picking just one. Oh, and they have magic mushroom and some psychedelic, Indian cactus root thing that we're too scared to try.
Overall, it was a fun and carefree vacation. And we got so lazy by being spoiled with the freedom to smoke up on the public street, in our hotel room, and in all the coffee shops.
Will definitely recommended to all friends and family. But kids under 18 should stay away from the Red Light District.

GLEE!!!

Today, I'm feeling very misgivng for some odd reason.
And watching Glee's Season Finale Performance - "Journey Medley" and "Don't Stop Believing" gets me weepy.

Getting Old..........

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about aging. I don't like the idea at all. I wonder who will take care and stand up for me when I can't do so myself.
And along the way, there's no way to maintence my body while everything is sliding down south. Losing your teeth, hair, and height. Wrinkled up like a raisin. UGHHHHH!!!

Catcher in the Rye

In memory of J. D. Salinger that had died earlier this year, I'd decided to order "Catcher in the Rye" from Amazon to reread his only novel ever published.
When I first read this book in the 7th grade while attending Webster Intermediate School in Friendswood, Tx, I'd thought Holden was a very funny guy living a really boring life.
But after reading this book some 15 years later, I finally feel his loneliness and now at 30, trying to find some pure sincerity in this society. For an entire week reading this book, I couldn't get the lump out of my throat while tossing and turning in bed trying not to think about Holden's sadness.
In a way,this book makes you realize that so many people around you are such a "phony". Including people that are supposed to help you back on track end up tossing you out in the street. LITERALLY!
The lesson is that you're all alone is this cruel world and the only person you got is yourself. And people gets REAL SORE about constructive criticism, so keep all opinion to yourself.
And knowing Mr. Salinger ends up living the shadow of Holden's life by isolating himself from a world full of betrayal makes me even more sad

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