Blight

Happy Lunar New Year!

Tonight I celebrated the lunar new year at the Empress of China restaurant with Dalban and his circle of friends. We were actually already stuffed from eating handmade noodle soup and dumplings at a Korean restaurant in Sunnyvale's Korean town, so the two of us barely touched the dishes but the rest of the group made short work of them. I love fortune cookies so I made sure to grab one before they were all gone. My fortune is pictured above, and I'm pretty satisfied with it. One question though, why does it say "will be" ?? I kid.

Then we tried to hit a local bar on Grant street, the heart of the famous San Francisco China Town, but it was full of creepy old men in trench coats. Occasionally one would wander out to the door, fish something out of his coat, and throw it into the street.

BOOM!

I thought it was a gun shot, but it was just a firecracker.

We wrote fortunes for each other on pieces of paper, stuffed them in red decorative envelopes, and randomly handed them out at midnight. My fortune said "Porky was a pig, and look how far it got him. Where's the yayo?" but I have no idea what that means. The funniest was "When the sunshine hits your face and wakes you in the morning you will find a black thong on the floor." I wrote a nice one for whoever got it, with a cute drawing of a happy pink pig.

Happy lunar new year!

Labels: business trip, California, San Francisco

posted by Blight @ 6:12 AM