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Chatting with Sarah Jessica Parker…in Pleasanton

Yes, you heard that right. Last week, the Notorious S.J.P. made it hot at Stoneridge Mall in Pleasanton to meet and greet her fans (and sign bottles of her fragrances) at Macy’s and to promote her fragrances, Lovely, Covet and Covet Pure Bloom I’m gonna work a little backwards here. First I am gonna show...

America’s Best Dance Crew ON TOUR!!!

For those of you who haven’t heard, those kiddos on America’s Best Dance Crew are going on tour this fall. Here are the dates: Sep 18 Miami, FL: Waterfront Theatre at the American Airlines Arena Sep 19 Tampa, FL: Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center Sep 20 Atlanta, GA: Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center Sep 21...

I am so cool because I got a new tattoo!

So yeah – last weekend before I went to Texas (which would explain the elongated absence) I got a new tattoo. It’s one of those Baybayin tattoos that all twenty/thirtysomething Filipinos get to show that they are Filipino and that they are cool. Mine says Ti agmúla, agápit, which in Ilocano (a Filipino dialect), it...

Chain restaurant tour: TGIFriday’s

Two weeks ago Alice, Paul and I made our next stop on our chain restaurant food tour: the flair-tastic epicenter of All-American cuisine: TGIFriday’s. Alice and Paul opted for some cocktails. Apparently, they are just as fun as they look. There was a special on appetizers: $5 with a purchase of an entree. We took...

My BART Adventures: The drunken lonely man

I am a frequenter of BART (a.k.a. Bay Area Rapid Transit). That said, I see a lot of interesting things. A while back, I was sitting on BART on my way home when a drunken man approached a fairly decent looking lady sitting by herself, minding her own business. I already knew what was going...

Chain restaurant tour: RED LOBSTER

There are hundreds upon hundreds of top notch non-chain eateries in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’ve eaten at many of them, but once in a while, I get the hankering to eat at a commercial chain restaurant. There’s something really satisfying about eating predictable food from family-oriented restaurant that you can find anywhere in...