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How I’ve settled into surburbia! No longer the one who goes from door to door asking for trick-or-treats, I’m now relegated to the one who hands out candy and turns the house into an interesting locale for the neighborhood kids. I handed out Kit-Kats, Mounds, and Hersey Kisses, along with…

Leon, one of Rae’s friends from high school, tied the knot yesterday with his childhood sweetpea, Paula. The wedding was held at the Lakeside Presbyterian Church along 19th Avenue in San Francisco and was followed by a reception at the prestigious San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The SFMOMA’s lobby…

For four years, we spent every day, laughing, crying, and studying together at Stanford University. Absent have many become from each other’s thoughts and lives for the past five years. For four days in October, 2002, the past of the Class of 1997 returned to the present at Stanford Reunion.…

This afternoon, four years of blue, red, and yellow faded away as white returned to my former apartment. Despite the painters’ best efforts, however, small patches of color continue to peek around edges as if to say, “Look! I was once red, blue, and yellow!” to the future tenants. I…

This weekend, I said goodbye to the calm and easy streets of Mountain View as I completed my move to nearby Cupertino. Four years living in the same place meant I accumulated a large number of possessions that I had to either (1) take to the new place or (2)…

Rae’s parents performed Saturday night with their choir at the First United Methodist Church in Palo Alto. The San Jose Chinese Choir was formed “in 1981 by parents and friends of the San Jose Chinese School.” They give regular performances in the Bay Area and have sung in the Hawaiian…

Music streamed from the phallic Harmon Kardon Soundsticks and Jello shots (red not green this time) flowed from the fridge last night at Dardy’s Bulletproof Lounge party, held in celebration of his now furnished apartment. There were a number of online personalities present, including Carol, Paul, Mike, Eric, Susan, Rae,…