August 6, 2006, 12:50am

Few things are better than seeing friends and having good food. Mark, thank you so much! You're right. I don't really like Hollywood.

It's just like Causeway Bay. So crowded and noisy everywhere. A monster scared Ling and me. He's touching us from the back. Ling ran and we said he scared her boy! And the monster apologized. What a polite monster. :)

I also went to Sainta Monica Beach and again, it's a lot of people everywhere. I prefer Oceanside City Beach much more. Just relax and little worry about the pickpockets.

August 4, 2006

I was in awe. Ling took me to the Chinese grocery store 99 in San Diego. They have living seafood and all the food I have missed for a year. I could only go online to search for pictures to see when I was in Florida!

Just any ordinary things in the cities would surprise me after living in a small college town for one year. I should go for a post-doc in California!