Another day in SF with Benghoe

Because my buddy Benghoe is giving me a hand in my new website, I met up with him for the second time in 2 weeks to discuss about the preparation of the site. Me and Tammy met up with him at the Sony Metreon, thinking that there's gonna be free wi-fi there. Well, there's supposed to a free wi-fi network but it's been down forever. Should have trusted the online forums comment about how the wi-fi hotspot in Metreon sucks. Anyway, we hang out for a bit in Metreon, snap some pics in the beautiful Yerba Buena Garden, before hopping to the Moscone Center right across the world where Benghoe visited a Comics/Anime convention earlier in the day. That place feels like a more elaborate halloween. Anyway, we circled around SF trying to look for a way to get to chinatown to take a look at their highly-rated Chinese New Yr parade, which truly disappoints. Chinatown did, however, smell like a war zone with everybody (actually mostly non-chinese) who wanna join in the it's-CNY-&-we-can-blow-up-stuff-with-fire-crackers fun. We ended the night with a great authentic chinese meal in a relatively upscale restaurant, where I took the pic of the fortune cookies (check out here). Another eventful day in SF, I love this city!


Me and tammy in front of the Yerba Beuna garden Waterfall, which commemorates Martin Luther King.


The city in the backdrop...


Promotional shot for the upcoming 2006 summer Blockbuster "The Day Michael Strikes Down an Alien". Proudly brought to you by Starbucks.


Promotional shot of another summer blockbuster "Star War Episode 0: The grandaddy of all Jedis".


Some wolves come here for attention...


Some wolves come here for food...


All traffic stops at the sight of the 2 mighty knights...or rather for all the Chinese cloth-dragons brandishing around on the road behind us...


As the crowd gets ready for the dragons...


While the local chinese residents looks on for another year of same ol same ol parade...


I wonder what kind of image an average American would have of a typical Chinese New Yr after seeing this parade...big heads, small bodies..


Cable Car too?


Finally..this is what I'm talkin about...unfortunately the lion dances are all quite disappointing...


Something interesting after the boring parade...this inspired me to start another blog, named "Fortune Cookies Heaven". Check it out!