On Day 3, David brought me out to Los Gatos for dinner. Fell in love with Los Gatos on first sight. Los Gatos is the definition of a pretty little town center. Perfect blue gradient sky, breezy weather, rustic shop houses lining the road, complete with trees decorated with fairy lights. La La Land in real life. We dined outdoors at Steamer's Grillhouse which served up fantastic food. We had two entrees, two sides and one chocolate dessert. This happened so long ago I can't quite remember what we ordered, but I'm pretty sure that there was braised short ribs, crispy calamari, and a fish entree. The service was great and I finished the meal stuffed to the brim. Dave let me drive his manual drive convertible around the town too, though I wouldn't have done so if I were him. I am so out of practice driving a manual shift car, and the convertible's clutch was not easy to master. Plus I was 100% confused driving on the right hand side of the road. Stalled the car and turned into opposing traffic plenty of times. Still, it was fun, and I'm thankful that work has brought many people into my life that have turned out to be great friends. When the gradient blue skies are so clear, the moon is visible by 5pm. Mountains of Silicon Valley makes for beautiful daily commute scenes. Natural lighting at the Corporate Inn Sunnyvale lobby. The rooms in this hotel were huge, more like a serviced apartment than a hotel room. Sight-seeing around Santana Row before heading to the airport. I love walking down this district, and I try to come here every time I'm in Santa Clara. It has an old-world, European aesthetic, you get to bask in the sunny blue skies, and there's a Tesla Showroom, Sephora and Amazon shop here. Petrol kiosk basking in the blue hour sunlight. I remember feeling amazed when I stepped out of the car, amazed that the place looked exactly like a blue tinted melancholic scene in one of those arthouse movies. I used to wonder where did these creatives get their inspiration from. At that moment I realized it all came from life.
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Spent half of day 2 in the office, and the other half sightseeing around San Francisco City, sending Maddy off to New York, and hopping on Caltrain back to the hotel. Does this even sound like a business trip anymore?
I then Uber-ed with Maddy to the Sunnyvale Caltrain station, where I got a cup of hot chocolate to soothe my cramps. That was one cup of extremely thick hot chocolate, it was almost as if they took blocks of solid chocolate and melted them down before serving it straight up. Divine in the chilly weather. Although we went to the Sunnyvale station, the Santa Clara station is actually nearer to where we were (The Domain Hotel, El Camino Real).
Excited to be out and about in Santa Clara with my dear friend = Spate of camwhoring In Uber, on the way to WestField, featuring my new Clubmasters. I wanted to suggest going to Santana Row because I remembered it being beautiful, but somehow I got the names mixed up, and we ended up going to WestField. We spent 30 minutes walking around before I figured out that the place in my mind was not the place we were at. Luckily Santana Row was only a street across. & we witnessed an amazing sunset, the prettiest I've seen in all my three times here. Pink purplish hues transitioned into grey skies with just some orange left on the horizon. We chased this sunset for as far we can, until the skies turned dark. Went for In-N-Out (YUMS), and tried to be alcoholics with two bottles of wine. Unfortunately, the wine was a big fat dud, and we being old, tired humans, fell asleep with a glass each while watching KUWTK.
On my last trip to Sydney, my face became an oil field on the plane, and I broke out really badly. So, this time I thought I might try some of those beauty hacks. Bought and brought a few face sheet masks up the plane, and shamelessly put one on 1/4 of the way through and another 3/4 of the way. The sheet masks really saved my face from becoming an oily mess, and helped me look less like a wreck on landing.
Went out, grabbed Nam Nam for dinner, and saw this toy figurine of Wun Wun. Poor Wun Wun, immortalized with all those arrows stuck in him.
And then at the end of the week I realised that I forgot to pay my credit card bill, and the late charge was $100. That was a real mood spoiler. Thankfully it was waived. 为什么不约我出去呢... 去麦当劳也好... 16/09, Hung out with a friend from work, and I'm glad that we became fast friends. Brought him to the Haji Lane area, and settled for dinner at Box n' Sticks.
17/09, Pig Organ Mee Sua, Sambal Kang Kong, Minced meat tofu at Seng Kee for dinner after cycling at ECP. This was way too much food after downing one cup of Starbucks Frapp, one cup of Sugarcane juice, and one cup of Ai Yu Jelly. Wish I had more stomach for the really tasty tofu. 19/09, Turns out I had Hand Foot Mouth Disease. Painful sores and blisters developed all over my feet. My feet felt like they were on fire, like tiny ants were biting on them throughout the night. It's no wonder kids who have HFMD cry and cry. Doctor gave me three days of MC, and it was wonderfully rest-full. Went out for dinner with my parents at Hillion on Day 1, and I can't begin to describe how content I was. Just a nice meal, no harsh words, mom was happy, dad was happy. This probably means nothing to most people, but my relationship with my dad has been at best contentious in the recent years, and this comes on the back of us having had not exchanged words for a good 8 months. I take the little things that come. Down with a fever and sore throat yesterday. So impressed that I managed to survive the work day in my freezing office. I layered three jackets, and still had to go out to warm up in the sun once in awhile. The after effect was me hobbling home with aching joints, and then dying with a fever at night, waking up every now and then breathing hot air. Is this what it feels like to be a dragon. Feeling fit as a fiddle now after sleeping for 12++ hours though. 1. IoT showcase at SMU! Honestly not made for such events. I'm forced to socialize and chat with people, but really I mostly mumble and stutter. 2. Team! Looking strangely over-white in this photo. 3. Eye-power the guys packing. 4. Very very hipster marketing from the catering company. The food was.... normal catering though. Disappoints. 5. There was Chai though! Unfortunately, this Chai tasted like soya milk. Exchange with an Indian colleague: Me: There's Chai! Him: Chai? Chai Tea? How do you know Chai? .... I have... friends maybe... 6. The SMU lounge is so gorgeous. 7. More eye-power while the guys unload boxes 8. Treating myself to a nice quiet late afternoon with a book and iced chocolate 9. Cut my fringe because I want to look like a young girl. Selfie because the sun rays was pretty. |
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