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Happy Birthday to Me

Sha Sha — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:56:05 +0000

I’m going to break tradition this year and not do my usual birthday song, because let’s be honest here: what rhymes with ’30′ besides ‘dirty’?

I think 30 is one of those birthdays were you are supposed to get all introspective and angsty, but I’ve never been one of those people who makes the ‘do X by age Y’ goals, so I’ll just say this: I make video games for a living, I have an awesome apartment in a beautiful neighborhood in San Francisco, my puppy is crazy cute, and I’m surrounded by people I love. Also, I have a Tauntaun sleeping bag. In my office.

Life is pretty darn good.

Peter, Puppies, Pizza, Presents!

Sha Sha — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:46:28 +0000

Today was Peter’s 29th birthday party in Hoover Park in Palo Alto. Since Peter and Crystal just got a new doggy, they decided to make it a Puppy Party, too! I finally got to meet Swarles Barkley, Kasha, and Pillu, (Little Bear couldn’t join because she’s not completely vaccinated) and Duncan had a great time running around with them. I took a special shining to Kasha not only because she was so sweet, but because she looks a lot like my dog Thunder I had when I was a kid, who was also a Chow Chow mix. There was also pizza and cake, so mix in puppies with that, and it was basically an awesome afternoon. Happy Birthday, Peter!

Almost time

Sha Sha — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:16:58 +0000

Apologies for the lack of updates, friends. Not too much has been going on this week except tapering down for race day tomorrow! I did my last run on Thursday morning, an easy 3-miles. My left Achilles has been hurting a bit, but not so much that I’m worried about it. It does never cease to amaze me, though, how my body constantly finds new and exciting way to hurt. If you like, you can sign up for text message alerts (my bib number is 12691) for when I cross 7-miles and the finish line. Keep in mind that both of these text messages will be coming in before 8am tomorrow, so I’ll understand if you want to just check the results later in the day. [Edit: Man, I just realized it costs $5 to sign up for the alerts. F-that! Just check the site later.]

Last night Walter threw a birthday party for Sprog, and he got pies from Z-Pie! Yum! Happy Birthday, Sprog, and thanks to Walter for organizing!

Great Urban Fun

Sha Sha — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:25:57 +0000

Last Saturday I participated in the Great Urban Race in San Francisco, which is basically a scavenger hunt. When you start, you get a list of 12 clues, most of which will lead you to a particular location in the city. When you get there, sometimes you have to take a picture, do something, or get something. For example, one of the challenges was to do a mini boot-camp at a fitness club, another was to take a picture of yourself shaking a real dog’s paw, and another was to pick up a fortune cookie from the city’s first fortune cookie factory. I teamed up with Matt for race, but we worked with Babs, Justin, Mike, Kim, Sanders, and Joe, which I thought made it more fun. Everyone agreed that the puzzles were too easy, so the limiting factor was really how hardcore you decided to be (i.e. how much you ran), and how well you navigated the public transportation system. Overall, I had fun, but I probably wouldn’t do it again. I would, however, like to add a special shout-out to Kim for her pigtail-styling skillz: check it out.

The weekend was also full of other fun times: Friday night I finally saw Star Trek, which I really enjoyed. Saturday night was all you can eat Korean bbq for Cheryl’s birthday (Happy Birthday, Cheryl!). Sunday was a brunch for Abby’s law school graduation, and a birthday dinner for Buddy (Happy Birthday, Buddy!) at New Eritriea. Yum.

Birthday Funtimes

Sha Sha — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:09:57 +0000

For my birthday party last Saturday, my friends treated me to dinner at Cafe Mums in Japantown. They have all-you-can-eat Shabu Shabu, as well as all-you-can-drink beer and sake, for about $20 more. So basically, best ever. The one thing that wasn’t as fun about dinner was that it had a very frat party-like clientele, something that was new for this visit. There were a couple other big parties who were loud and obnoxious, and one of them even told he waitress that they didn’t care we were waiting for their table, even though they’d been there for 3 hours. I blame Yelp for spreading the word to the Marina crowd. Despite that, it was a lot of fun, and certain members of our party had *extra* fun with the all-you-can-drink. So much extra fun, in fact, that some of the fun *spilled out* onto the sidewalk outside our apartment later that night.

After dinner we headed back to our new place which actually fit a good number of people without feeling crazy crowded, so that was pleasing. Amanda got me a train-shaped cake from Citizen Cake which was awesome and delicious. Awesomelicious.

My friends (who are awesome, by the way,) also got together and bought me an iPhone and some DS games! I picked up the iPhone on Sunday and I’m still trying to figure it out, but it sure is pretty.

Finally, congrats to Jan and Peter for being the future of videogames! I am apparently stuck in its past…

Happy Birthday to Me

Sha Sha — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:30:21 +0000

Keeping up a tradition I started 6 years ago:

Happy Birthday to Me
Happy Birthday to Me
I can’t drink much wine
Even though I’m 29!

Wahhh wahhhh…

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Hello, World!

Sha Sha — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:34:06 +0000

First things first:

Happy Birthday, Amanda and Joe!

Here are your bunnies:

Sandwiched between a 16-hour and a 14-hour work day, I was able to attend their joint 30th/60th birthday party last Saturday, which was a lot of fun. Plus, leftover cake! Mmm…cake for breakfast.

As for work, I have emerged victorious after an absolutely brutal weekend. As bad as it was, part of me actually thought the experience was kind of…fun. I’m not sure how many of you have done this kind of crunch, but there’s something about all of you getting together to squash the last few problems as a team that’s pretty exciting. On Friday, I left at 2am, and about half of my group stayed behind to play a board game together. I guess there really is something to doing a job you like with people whose company you enjoy. It certainly could be a lot worse, that’s for sure. Hopefully things will slow down going forward, but it’s more likely it will be stretches of boredom punctuated by spikes of extreme panic. Good times!

I got 99 Chickens

Sha Sha — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:39:08 +0000

And a…nevermind.

We went to the famed 99 Chicken for Peter’s birthday on Thursday (Happy Birthday, Peter!) and it is goooood. Don’t listen to the bitter hipster Yelpers who claim it’s no better than KFC; their truckers hats are on too tight. I dare say that it’s the best fried chicken I’ve ever had. Yum.

Happy Birthday, Nathaniel and May Ling!

Sha Sha — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:39:53 +0000

Just a quick birthday shout-out to two of my best buds, Nathaniel and May Ling! I hope you both have a great day. Here are your bunnies:

Happy Birthday, Bug!

Sha Sha — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:26:45 +0000