Today, I took a trip to the city to witness one of it’s most colourful celebrations - the San Francisco Pride parade. The parade of (mostly) men and (some) women trooped down Market St and the streets were lined with onlookers and tourists. There were rainbow coloured flags and street parties everywhere I […]
One of the little pleasures of travelling for work is that I get to sample different foods. This week, here are the four restaurants I’ve visited for dinner. It’s my first time in each.
First was the Korean Gaesung House of Tofu at 2089 El Camino Real, Santa Clara. It was a quiet […]
The capital of the United States. Seat of the oldest democratic government. Centre of American politics. District of Columbia.
I spent yesterday walking around downtown Washington. It was barely enough to walk from the Capitol to Lincoln’s Memorial, a total distance of 3 km from end-to-end. I visited the Capitol, the […]
So R and I are now at the long-awaited escape from the wedding preparations.
We had already spent a week in Sunnyvale, where I tried to clear some work and allowed R to acclimatize herself to the unique was of California. During the last weekend, we made day trips to San Francisco and to Monterrey, […]
I brought a friend to San Francisco today for a short one-day tour. We started off visiting Coit Tower, climbing through the stairs and gardens along Filbert Street. It is the longer way up Telegraph Hill, but much more scenic.
Coit Tower itself was an interesting example of art deco architecture. It is […]
Yesterday, I did a short driving tour of the Peninsula.
First stop: the redwood forests at Purisima. As part of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, it is part of a network of parks in the hills surrounding the Bay Area. The 3,000 acre park holds towering redwoods, rushing creeks and rich undergrowth of […]
Good Friday - the first sunny day after a week of rain. It was glorious weather to explore the hills of the Bay Area. In a sharp contrast to the densely populated shores of the San Francisco Bay, the hills around it are wooded and thickly vegetated. It provides a convenient escape […]
It’s been a wet and cold weekend in Sunnyvale, and all my senses told me to stay indoors. Yet, I had just purchased a book on California hiking - a Guide to More Than 1000 Hikes and I was eager to get started on the trails.
A simple accessible trail was a mere 10 minutes […]
I’ve finally boarded the flight to San Francisco to start work in Sunnyvale.
The flight over was OK - 19 hours, with a stopover in Seoul. SIA offered 60 channels of movies, but their choices seemed to revolve around Jude Law/Julia Roberts movies. I watched “Closer”, “Alfie” and an Italian movie (European movies seem […]
Taiping is a sleepy town built at the bottom of Bukit Larut (Maxwell Hill). It is one of the largest towns in the state of Perak, in the northen half of the Malayan Peninsula, but has missed out on the economic boom that overtook Malaysia in the late 20th century.
The town still boasts the […]