I bought a new lens! Yes, it’s the ever-so-brilliantly-cheap Samyang 14mm f/2.8 ultra-wide. Ever since the day I got it in my hands I’ve been itching to try it out: I climbed twin peaks on an unfortunately foggy night and couldn’t do anything with it; I tried to go to my friend’s workplace on the 40th floor […]
Month: September 2016
Café Series: Andytown Coffee Roasters
Must. Have. Coffee. Ever since I got the drip filter, my coffee situation at work has been improved drastically. The beans we have are actually fantastic. But on the weekends, I continue my trek of finding the best coffee wherever I go. This weekend, I had plans to go to Outer Sunset for some sunset […]
Restaurant Series: Grand Hot Pot Lounge San Francisco
Where would you go if you were tired, cold, and hungry? Grand Hot Pot Lounge, better known among the Chinese as “Red House”(红馆) is an AYCE hot pot shop in Sunset District. We were all tired from Biking Across the Golden Gate Bridge, so Shine had the genius idea to go to hotpot. I gotta say, […]
Biking Across the Golden Gate Bridge
Biking across the Golden Gate bridge, what a tourist thing to do. Then again, I am pretty much a tourist in this city right now. I haven’t biked in a while, but I thought my quads would be happily up for the challenge, hopefully to serve as a signal that we’ll be doing plenty of […]
Restaurant Series: Boudin Bakery
I’m a big fan of chowders in general. Coming to a city near the ocean, I was always on the hunt for good seafood. I actually made plans to visit a oyster shop with Shirley, but the line was about 50 people, and I have just one rule for eating out: I don’t wait (excessively), […]
Save Me, San Francisco
Play this song while you read this, no seriously, do it. San Francisco. This is it, this is the dream of every CS kid. And here I am, doing an internship in the heart of Silicon Valley with AdRoll Inc., a start-up company that does advertisement re-targeting. I feel like a character from a TV […]
Street Series: 09/03/2016, San Francisco
The spiral escalators at Westfield Shopping Center. Looks pretty nice when you shoot upwards directly. The black and white walls paints a nice contrast to this hotel near Union Square in San Francisco. Pedestrian crossing at 4th street. The “Hatter”. Jamming on with jazzy tunes on the streets of San Francisco. This is a […]
Restaurant Series: Sushi Tony San Francisco
Good sushi is hard to come by cheaply. Michael and I were exhausted from our little shopping trip for jackets. We originally wanted to go to an asian fusion burrito place, but the shop was closed as the owner was taking his son for a weekend getaway; good for him, but we had to choose […]
Restaurant Series: Little Szechuan San Francisco
To Boris & Shirely, this restaurant is expensive and not worth its price. You guys don’t have to keep reading anymore. =P In all seriousness, if you like proper Szechuan cuisine, this is not the place to go. The supposedly Dongpo Pork isn’t even fresh (the meat was cold on the inside); the pea shoots were […]