Tea Party on 11/25

Yummy!

Here’s the ridiculously overdue post of the mini tea meetup I had with Dan and another friend. For those wondering how my turkey day was, we had this delicious chinese roast turkey and amazing appetizers, and I was really stuffed. I don’t want to make a full post about it since it would take too long to write up, and I need to finish my HW right now… I didn’t take any pictures either.

We met up at Tyme for Tea in Fremont, since they live all the way up around the Oakland/Alameda area, so we made a decision to go for tea at the halfway point between our cities, after I’ve been nagging them about a weird craving for cucumber sandwiches! It’s the first time I’ve gone to a tea room, and it was really fun! I got to wear classical lolita.

I arrived 20 minutes before them, since they were stuck in traffic. The atmosphere was very cute and rustic. The shop itself was run by a group of old ladies. They were so nice and made a lot of compliments about my dress. xD The tea room itself is in this really secluded area of Fremont full of antique shops and other cute shops. It’s sorta weird since I’m more used to the Asian area of Fremont.  Finally, when Lynda and Dan came, we had a look at this massive tub full of hats!

omg!

We had a lot of fun with the hats, just playing around with them. I’ll post some of the pictures I took of us wearing the hats at the end of this post. Anyways, me and Lynda ordered Victorian high tea, while I think Dan ordered the desserts platter. We each got a pot of tea with unlimited refills with our orders. Dan ordered this interesting black tea with some type of fruit(need to go and ask him for specifics), I ordered apple blossom green tea, and Lynda ordered this interesting Belgian Chocolate thingy tea (again, need to ask her for specifics). The teas were really good. Lynda’s was very unique. It ended up being popular with her and Dan, though it was a bit too sweet for me.

Here’s a fast rundown of what we ate! We spent the rest of the hour just talking about the food and gossiping/chatting about life, so I don’t have much else to say.

First  things first, the Victorian High tea. It was split into 3 courses of yumminess!

First course: Blueberry Scones with rasberry preserves, lemon curd, and crème fraiche. The scones were served to us warm. I loved the lemon curd. They were really good! First time I truly liked scones.

Second course were the sandwiches: Cucumber dill, Chicken walnut, mushroom turnover, spinach filo, and last and not least, jalapeno cheese on a baguette. I’m getting hungry just talking about this course haha. The chicken walnut was really creamy and heavy, and I had a hard time eating it. >_< I was very happy to eat my cucumber sandwich, but these sandwiches filled me so much more than I thought they would! Tricky tricky…

The sandwiches!

Yay! I got my cucumber sandwich!

Finally, we had a dessert platter, consisting of ginger snaps, chocolate cheesecake, and these cute little petit fours.I was so full already. D:

Dessert!

The inside of the elusive pinafore…

As for Dan’s dessert plate, he had a selection of fruits, a petit four, chocolate truffles, the chocolate cheesecake, a madeleine, and this cute little Red Velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Lots of sweets! He spent part of the time taking pictures of the food and of himself eating it and texting the pictures to his friends in order to make them jealous. Haha.

So much sugar!

We were all very very very stuffed after the meal. Dan had enough leftovers to put in a box, on which he quickly drew on the cute little companion cube from portal on it in order to deter his roomate from touching it.

You gotta love your sweets.

We then paid and had a short walk around the area. Then, it was 5PM, so I quickly rushed home. However, seeing that I don’t have much experience driving, I almost got lost going to the freeway, though I used rational reasoning (Gasp! yes.. I can actually do that) to find it… Though I did go on 880 in the wrong direction at first… Then, I was stuck in ridiculous rush hour traffic, and for some weird reason google maps told me to go on highway 9, which is really windy and in the middle of the hills of Saratoga, in order to get back home. Seeing that it was pitch black, I spent that ride convinced that I was lost, not to mention that I had to pick up my brother to go to Tae Kwon Do.. At least I got home just in the nick of time, only to find out that he was still changing into his clothes, so we ended up being late for his class. Oh well.

The rest of the pictures from the tea party. For those wondering what I did with all those extra calories from this not so good for you meal, be glad to hear that I ended up working out(yes I was breathing hard and ended up being very sore) in some fashion for the rest of the week, except for Wednesday and Saturday.

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Lynda and I both wore lolita that day. Coord post time!

Me (sorry for the Macross frontier pose. xD)
JSK: Dear Celine from Taobao
Blouse: Bodyline
Cardigan: Target
Heart Bag: Claire’s
Socks: BTSSB
Shoes: Secret Shop

Lynda (I don’t remember her full coord.. D:)
Skirt: Heart E
Coat: BTSSB
Shirt: Japanese offbrand
Everything else: Probably offbrand

Anyways, back to reading research stuff for english and history + AP music theory HW, as well as preparing for the musical auditions tomorrow! School’s starting tomorrow and I’d rather be relaxing during free period than working. I finally got some ideas for my new blog layout. It’s going to be a grungish, warm colored, photo collage type of thing. It’s hard to explain, but I can see it in my mind’s eye. Hope you guys look forward to it.

Japanese matcha(green tea) cookie

What is this? A green cookie?! Hmmmm should I eat this?

Whatever.. It smells strongly of green tea.. It’s making me hungry. *_*

Yummy?

The cookie itself is a bit bitter, probably because it was meant to be eaten with sometime of tea. The bitterness was probably cause by the concentration of matcha green tea powder. Oh well.. It was okay I guess. It just left a weird taste in my mouth.

Anyways, I’m just trying to relax after staying up till 3 AM writing one of my UC essays. Hopefully, this will get approved by Mr. Lum Lung. Post on the tea outing I went on yesterday to be written later today!

Lego shinto shrine and quesadilla day

This week, Danny and I had to do a shinto shrine project, and we decided on making a lego shinto shrine. So, we pooled together our many pieces and this is what we ended up with. Yes… I know the roof is slightly lopsided, but we had barely 2 hours in class to finish this up, and it took forever to just do the building itself and the decorations, including epic win Mochi dango daikazoku. xD Apparently this shrine was devoted to pirates. More pictures below.

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Then, on Thursday’s advisory, we decided to have a quesadilla day. I brought in a hot plate, while people brough tortillas and cheese. It was great. I was so full for the rest of the day.

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I also was part of a Bel Canto, Cantilena, and Guy’s Gig concert that night, but I don’t have any pictures from that. Sorry!

The rest of this week was pretty tiring, with a lot of AP bio HW, as well as an audition workshop, as teachers were doing the final sprint before Thanksgiving break. But now, I have a week of pseudo rest, though most of it will be spent on college applications. I can’t wait to finally be able to sleep in for once!

Homecoming Week 2009

Oh my gosh it’s a triple post! It’s mostly since I don’t think frillies really mesh with football, and I was unable to make this post earlier since I was at school without the Nikon to upload images from. Get ready for the impending image and video post!

This year’s theme was the elements.

Freshmen were earth, Sophomores air, Juniors water, and us Seniors fire. Each day was a dress up day for each class, and also a spirit event based on the classes’ element. I was busy eating lunch and doing HW, so I didn’t have a chance to take pictures of everything.

Monday was spent oggling at the eagles. Also, we had teachers jump into the pool with their clothes on. Credits to Chris for the pics… I left my magical camera at home that day. D:

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Wednesday was really the big Kahuna day before Friday. Not only was it the day of Synchronized swimming, but it was also the day that BMX riders came with their epic in half pipe of win. It was pretty crazy that day, since Xbox also stopped by with some games and consoles. How fun. Anyways, here is the senior synchronized swimming.

Thursday wasn’t exactly eventful either, with all of us just chilling out I guess…

Friday was Rally… A lot of crazy things happened haha. I loved our skit. Anyways, here’s the skit.

I did sing at the homecoming game. However, due to the fact that my camera adjusted the shutter rate to be ultra low, all my photos are super jittery and blurry. I was only around for the first chunk of the game, since football isn’t really my thing.

Some highlights of this week:

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Anyways, this is the last of my triple post series today…I’ll post some pictures of the shinto shrine Danny and I are making out of legos tomorrow.

Random footnote: Woohoo! Finally linked facebook with my blog.. this is going to be interesting.

Coordinate from Nov 11, 2009

Here’s the coord I wore on Wednesday last week. Ironically, it was the homecoming dressup day for the juniors, who wore blue since they were the element water.

Quick outfit rundown:
JSK, Socks: Angelic Pretty
Cardigan(which won’t stop making me look larger than I’m supposed to be): Target
Shoes: Bodyline
Leggings: welovecolors
Muffler thingy: Offbrand

Post Homecoming…. Nothing very interesting.

Heh… Everything is back to normal again, and I do have a ton of pictures of homecoming. I’ll eventually post them up, but if you want to see some of them, they are on facebook.

This week is going to be one busy week, with me coming home at 5PM or later from Wednesday to Friday. However, next week is going to be Thanksgiving break (already?!). I’m sorta worrying about how bloated I’m going to be, and all those college …

During the weekend, I made this really good apple tart. I’ll post the recipe and some pictures next time I make it. ;D

Yeah… this post is nice, short and sweet. I’m working on a new layout for this blog… Or I’m going to start working on it. I’m getting tired of looking at the dango and the purple colors… I’m probably going for a more urban/grunge feel. Look forward to it!