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You never realize which keys on the keyboard you use a lot until it goes missing. I miss my "tab" key. It fell off randomly the other day. I DON'T KNOW WHY! And I'm too lazy to go to an Apple reseller to get it put back on because I might as well just check in the whole computer to get fixed (I have fan and logic board issues too). I'm also too lazy to back up my data (bad! bad! must! back! up! reminds me of this... teehee!) My poor macbook pro. Not even three years old and it's falling apart already. Well, maybe that's a good thing. I can take advantage of my Apple Care which I only paid 200 usd for! Proud of myself. Thank God I have friends who are cheap and would rather make money than warrantify their laptop. PHEW! I must say, though, this extended warranty has been well worth the money - fixed my fan, replaced my screen, fixed the isight ... and coming up is fixing the logic board, which normally costs hundreds of dollars if the comp's outta warranty. Nothing makes me happier than money well spent. :P

Anyway, IT'S SO HOT. Yes, I finally get to the point. I don't know what the temperature is, but it's humid and hot and ICKY. I miss dry hot summers. So Cal, why did I leave you? Well, it's not like I ever really spent a summer there, though. Always traveled back to Asia or Canada during my four years in UCLA. Maybe I wouldn't enjoy hot dry summers in LA. But now I'll never know! Unless I move there! Ha!

This is a random entry.

Who uses Twitter?! Out of all the gazillion friends I have (I wish), I only have one friend who uses it. And he just recently got it. And the last time he updated was four days ago. What's the point of following him if he doesn't update?! No point I say. So! Who else has got Twitter that I can follow?

Anybody else use Digg.com? I love it. Lots of good entertaining articles that people digg, although you kinda have to sort through them, but hey, when you've got nothing else to do, it's a good time killer.

I'm stressed. Tomorrow's THE DAY I tell the colleague who hired me and got me the full time posish ... I am afraid. Why? Because I feel guilty! Ahhhhh. I don't want to talk about it (even though I brought it up. ha!)

My cousin's getting married this Saturday. Yay.

This entry has become filled with my random train of thoughts.

I'm so tired. Mentally. Physically. Stressing is just bad for your whole system. Cortisol levels are HIGH! Immune system is LOW! Woo! Psych has actually taught me something!

Ok, I shall leave before I say something inappropriate.

OOOO. Speaking of which, funny (sick?) thought I came up with during a convo I had with my friend today (requires knowledge of Mandarin).

Me: it's ok, he can be your gan弟弟 (little brother)
...
Me: gan as in first sound gan(乾), not fourth sound gan(幹).

HAHA. Ok, the only reason why I thought of that was because when I used pinyin to type gan, the Chinese character it gave me first was fourth sound gan (which basically means f*ck!) when I actually wanted the first sound gan (where gan di di means God brother, kinda). So. yah. It was also funny 'cause the guy we were talking about is 17 years old. ooooo. So bad. :P

A little window into my weird little mind.

Three things to be noted:

1. I got my first real paycheck on Friday; real as in being paid for a full-time-(9-6)-with-benefits-and-no-jeans-allowed job.

2. My family (including the extended relatives) has this tradition where whenever we get our first real paycheck, we treat them to food. One of my previous entries was about treating my relatives to fooding because of this tradition, but that was technically before I got my real paycheck.

3. I owe my cousin and her boyfriend and my sister big time for taking care of me while I adapted to this semi-new environment and totally-new, non-student lifestyle. Taking care of me in the sense of making sure I am well-fed (fattie) and treating me many a-times before.

SO! I decided to treat them, on Friday night, to good food, and I decided on French food. I wanted to go to another French restaurant that I'd tried out senior year in high school and enjoyed, but for some reason, four of its six stores had closed down, and the two remaining were either too expensive or too far. After some searching online, we settled on L'Appetit in the East side of Taipei. The price seemed decent, and the reviews seemed good, so we thought we'd give it a shot. Why not!

Not the best French food I've ever had, but then again, I guess you just can't really compare French food in Taipei to French food in France, even if the chef is French. Working with different available ingredients always makes for different tastes, and I'm sure there's a certain challenge to making authentic French food when you're not exactly in France. Anyway, it was good, enjoyable, and very filling. The service was really good, though. The waiter spent like 10 minutes introducing us to the various wines they carried and in the end had to actually pick one for us since we couldn't decide. Thank God for good service! (Especially when you get charged for that service). Anyway, here are some (by some I mean lots of) pictures ....

L'Appetit's sign.

A shot of the interior that doesn't quite do it justice. I missed out on a couple of areas, but the general atmosphere was pretty cozy and nice. There weren't too many people there when we first arrived, probably because we went a bit early. More people started arriving when we were mid-way through our meal.

Yummy pickled olives. That's all I can say. SO GOOD.

Bottle of red, thanks to my sister. From the southwest of France and pretty decent. Yay for good choice made by Mr. Waiter.

First up, soup! Vegetable soup, to be more exact, made of seven (or was it eight ...) different veggies, but it predominantly tasted like carrots.

Les escargots, anybody? Oh-so-yum! Who knew snails could taste so good?

Another yum appetizer - potato gratin. The name they gave it was much more sophisticated and better sounding, but too long for me to remember. >.< Anyway, potatoes, cheese, and bacon. Can't go wrong with that combination. Yum!

The third appetizer - camambert (sp?) cheese and some other stuffs. The cheese was the best part :P

Main course for my sister and me was steak, which was decent, but the steak was kinda chewy (not in a good way). Meh.

Should've gotten the ribs - that was tasty. (Oh man, Fergie's gotten to me; I spelled tasty t-a-s-t-e-y before realizing my mistake. T~T)

And then there was the fish, which was pretty good, too; but meh, not a big fan of fish.

The dessert! Number one - some sort of chocolate cake, which I enjoyed. Thoroughly.

Number two - some kind of roll, which was ok.

Number three - not sure what exactly this was, but it was yum!

Number four - the best one!!! creme brulee .... so good. SO GOOD. ahhhh, too bad so small and the four of us had to share it ... haha. :P

Anyway, the participants of our French cuisine night:

The sister (aka Cathy)

The cousin and boyfriend (aka Karen and Ryan)

Et moi! (and Ryan who looks like a sketchy doode here).

I think I need to start taking more and better pictures of humans and stop focusing as much on food. One can see where my priorities lie. :P

T'was a good and filling dinner; good thing we went walking afterwards to digest. Mmmm, I love French food.