Well, it was completely a surprise!
There once was this ramen-ya in San Jose called Do-Henkotsu. What made this place unique among a dozen or so ramen-ya in the area was its regional color and the owner’s (whose name I never got to know) pride in it.
The ramen itself was pretty good, maybe not the [...]
HK Star Leslie Cheung Jumps to Death – Police Source
Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing (also known in Korea as, Jang, GukYoung) apparently jumped off from a hotel to his own death… on April 1st. The date being, there has been some confusion as to whether this was true or not. But it seems it [...]
I just wanted to write a short follow-up to a previous entry. I recently found out that my favorite “pearl”/tapioca tea maker, a.k.a. the Dancing Tea Master Lady, has retired from the business. She sold her Cupertino Village TenRen shop to another TenRen franchiser from Milpitas. I actually don’t know what exactly she is doing [...]
A sad news. Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, died of a heart attack at the age of 49. He was probably one of the most interesting writers of the 20th century. This definitely was a shocker this morning. Besides his novels, I’ve also experienced his creative personality firsthand. [...]
I just remembered again… It’s been several months now, but I found out quite suddenly that a good friend of mine died last October. I found out about it around March, I think. It was so unreal.
I happened to see her at a Korean restaurant in Manhattan on the Fourth of July. I was visiting [...]