Fireplace

December 24, 2010

This is post 1000! This means that our blog has concluded 500 days.

Tomorrow is Christmas. But you will be in the air moving against the Earth and across the date line. You will fly the great circle route: North, perhaps touching the Alaskan islands, then perhaps you will see some of the Eastern Russia, then past Korea and/or Japan, before finally landing in Taipei. You will leave LA after noon on Christmas and arrive in the evening of the next day.

Be safe and have lots of fun in Taiwan. Take lots of pictures! And I'm excited about building my new computer tomorrow. I will share that with you in pictures.

Thanks for the truffles, and enjoy the movies I gave you. Remember today. We played Chinese checkers, had my mom's pirozhki, listened to classical music, and started filling out our little book. Then we played some more and played piano a little, and took pictures like this one.

Happy Christmas from us!

Potterful

December 20, 2010 | Bellevue Square by Red Mango

We're happy because we just watched Harry Potter, I'm happy because all of us are together, Kevin's friend from China is doing a thumbs up with his left hand since his right hand is busy, and Andrew Chan is half- not paying attention.

This is a record that on December 20 we ate quickly at Pizza Pasta, then saw Harry Potter, then walked around a bit and went home, but more importantly, that the two of us went looking at lights, and that we watched the eclipse progress along the way. We stood outside my house a bit looking at the moon, then knocked on the window and said hi, and I smelled cake. We then stood a bit more, watched the moon through binoculars, and the sky cleared long enough for us to see the edge of the moon, and then to see a fully-eclipsed moon. And we had tea and cake.

And it was a memorable day.

Us

for October 28, 2010 Pictures from Igor!

I forget why you sent me pictures. I think I demanded them or something. I didn't expect them to be so big though. :) The fifth one is above my desk (our blog picture expanded). I also received a picture of a sad-looking kitten. Haha. Good effort though.

Hollywood

September 19, 2010 | Griffith Park, Mulholland Hwy Viewpoint

In Griffith, we took pictures of us with a tripod. This is probably my favorite one. We also took another one by the observatory that I like.

The viewpoint is on Mulholland Hwy, just East (well... North) of the dog park on Canyon Lake Drive. We went to the dog park later to eat the lunch that we packed. There we got swarmed by man's best friends and had to take refuge in the playground. The dogs were funny.

6-13

June 13, 2010 Washington Park Arboretum

I know we already have a a picture of us together on your post, but I can't do some other picture because they aren't as special as us.

Birthday, yay! I loved the walking and everything. And my new shirt. Hehe. I guess I should have worn mine, so that we could have matched for at least one picture. :/ Oh well, we'll plan for later in the week maybe? Or August?

Post 613. More excitement. Yay!

Twenty

June 13, 2010 | Iida Japanese Garden, Seattle

Happy Twentieth Birthday, Jessica!

Today has demonstrated how two can wander all day in a park. And several hours in a small section of the park. We entered the Japanese Garden at 15:25. We exited after 17:05, thus spending about two hours in this little park, walking along narrow paths amidst rocks and short plants, feeding large koi, and admiring the pond wherein they lived. What about the arboretum? If we include the boardwalk, we entered at 13:28 and stayed until about 8pm - your phone records can establish the exact time. Over 6 hours in the park.

At home I had a vatruška (Russian cottage cheese cake). How was your dinner? How was your cake? I hope it wasn't a fruit cake - you don't like those.

Did you enjoy today? I did :)

Birthday

May 22, 2010 | Bamboo Garden, Bellevue
Photo by Kenneth Low

今天是我的生日!

And now I'm going to pretend that it's still Saturday, since this is Saturday's post. We celebrated my birthday today. It was amazing. Bamboo Garden food is amazing.

Left to right: Rebecca, Michelle, Joyce, Kevin, Andrew, Igor, Jessica. Behind you: Kenneth.

Yay, we're both 19 now! Yeah, for three weeks :)

Skype

April 18, 2010 Skyping together

You may have noticed me taking this picture...Anyway, we were skyping, and I was doing lab work. By lab work, I mean labeling. My big sampling event was pushed up a week, creating chaos for myself. The moving wasn't my idea. I probably won't be able to talk much for the next three nights. I only have 1.5 hours of free time between each interval, which means I will be power napping, eating, or labeling. I feel like a grad student.

Upward

March 19, 2010 | 33.442 N, 118.479 W

Today we went on a mini-hike (about 2 miles) after breakfast, and a bigger one (about 6 miles) after lunch. This is near the beginning of the big hike, when we were happy after just climbing the hill behind WMSC.

After this hill, we climbed another ridge and went along it, making our way through cactus plants and bushes, along bison tracks and past a scary spasmic lizard tail. Unfortunately we didn't see any bison on our hike.

More pictures: Catalina - March 19

Q-pies

March 14, 2010 | Northeast side of Quad

Happy π-day!

Today was π-day, so we went to a pie bakery for lunch. Unfortunately, they were out of pies, and we got these quiches instead. Technically, a quiche is a pie (hence, "q-pie").

Pi Day at UW

After pie, we went to Suzzallo to study.

Collage

March 6, 2010

I finally printed pictures for Series A of the 2010 collage. That's January - March, the photos will be printed quarterly and rotated. So, I'll be coming with another set in April. I'll print those in Costco, these really didn't turn out good.

Ask about any of the pictures. I'll explain.

Horse

February 15, 2010

Here's your Valentine's day present to me, lest there be more confusion. The box said "horse", so I guess that's a horse. And that's us.

Happy Galileo's Birthday!

Lappies

January 4, 2010 At Yunnie's: A playdate for our Aspire Ones

You are wearing my scarf and pushing our acers around. :) They look so cute together. Mine is more sparkly though.

Fireplace

January 4 | Yunnie bubble tea place

After you met my friend Chris Raa (ha ha) after CSE 322 today, we went to Yunnie's to chat. The fireplace is fake, but it's a good fireplace nevertheless.

It's sad that you're leaving tomorrow. But have a good trip and enjoy your island for the next semester.

Panera

December 31 | Panera in Redmond

We came here after ice skating at Kingsgate. We are still here.

This is my last post in 2009. I will wish you a Happy New Year when it comes. That will probably be around 1am tomorrow.

Together

December 28, 2009 Igor and Jessica sitting on Jessica's bed and taking a picture together

Baking was tiring and difficult. So, we needed to take a break. Mmmm naps. Here we are in our poor-picture-quality, happy-and-smiley goodness. If you look closely enough, you may or may not make out hands being held. Whoa. Today was a good day.

Christmas

December 26

It's the day after Christmas, and we are taking a break from puzzling. On this Christmas season, the best and biggest present has been you.

Tea

December 23 | Tokyo Garden

For a short period of time, we are together. And today we've eaten at the two places that I missed the most. Except, why did everything change so much since 4 months ago? At least the tea was good.

So, I came back. Thank you for coming back also.

Desktop

September 8, 2009 | A picture of us!

Please don't say I totally weird you out with all the things I do.

Prelude

August 11, 2009. Magnuson Park.

Although I constantly worried about not studying when I should have, presented the same situation, I would choose to be with you again and again.