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went to Oakland's chinatown for dim sum lunch last sunday with my roommate (from china/hk), andy (china/s'pore), peter (taiwan/usa), 2 of their friends from hk and yingying. ying and i were so excited at the thought of having dimsum, we forgot to take any pics of our first yummilicious dimsum here in the US before eating. haha. however, we did manage a pic of these eggtarts which were absolutely heavenly :)

on bus 51 to Oakland. the buses here really ought to do something about their ventilation, it's so bad...there's practically no ventilation except for the brief moments when the bus doors open to allow passengers to board or alight. the air in there was so stale, our faces were green and our stomachs turned topsy-turvy when we finally got off that awful vehicle. both times, before and after eating! horrible.



Mee Goreng and Nasi Lemak and Lontong for dinner...omg it was so good! ok la...relatively good compared to the food in Ihouse..we're all kinda sick of the food here already although it's only been a coupla weeks.. the Jakarta restaurant even had sambal! (which strangely enough, wasn't spicy at all though it tasted great). the whole bunch of us met Leanne and her housemate Eldwin, both are Singaporeans: Leanne's a 3rd year psyc major from nus here on exchange too, she extended her sep stay to 1 year from last sem; Eldwin's an engin freshman at UCB. it's quite fun to meet people from your own country when u're overseas, it just feels as if suddenly there's common ground in these foreign lands :)