So many parties happening for New Year's Eve in San Francisco. It was a hard choice to pick which party to go to. My pick was the Bohemian Carnival by the Vau de Vire Society at CellSpace. I had been to many other Bohemian Carnivals and each of them was awesome and this one was awesome too, with great acts, great bands, great crowd and great fun ! Here are some pics from the event.
Was at Ghiradelli square on Saturday and they had this great nice christmas tree in the middle of the square with big shiny ornaments..
Christmas day – I decided to invite a few friendsover for dinner at my place. While a lot of people were out or had other xmas dinner plans, there were still quite a few friends who were able to make it and we had the most wonderful time. Initially I was thinking to do a potluck, but then I decided to cook it all and feed them and rather ask each of them to bring in the drinks and deserts. We started off with chinese dumplings. Chopsticks were pretty handy to eat the communal dumplings. After dumplings, I had a freshly baked quiche with spinach. Following the appetizers, we went on the salad course – we had a nice red leaf lettuce salad made by Kendra. The main courses consisted of Roast Beef and Scalloped potatoes in parmesan and butter made by my housemate and I had cooked Basmati rice with peas and carrots, massaman thai chicken curry with dried peanuts, vegetarian thai red curry and stir fried chayotte. Then the desert course consisted of Upside down pineapple cake cooked by both Priscille and Deepti, Brownies by Brian and Chocolate bark by Deepti again,
After dinner, we had a white elephant gift exchange. It was real fun. We all had brought in a gift that were waiting under the Christmas tree. We took in numbers which determined the order which we picked an unopened gifts. We had a great nice variety of gifts, but I think the best gift though is the one Deepti brought – a yodelling pickle !!! That brought some good laughs
Then we played lots of nice fun games – lies and truths… Had a great time in the great company of my great friends !
I had worked during the Thanksgiving holidays, as I don't like to travel when everybody else travels and had asked my boss if I could swap out the days off another time. So I took them out this past week and went to Tahoe from Thursday to Sunday. Had to make use of the season pass I bought for heavenly ski resort. I think that by now I have paid off the price of the season pass already from the number of times I have already gone. Each lift ticket per day at heavenly cost $84. Season pass was the best way to go.
I had bought my skis from craigslist this time and did not have to rent skis. But I also wanted to snowboard and before going, I went to Sports basement on Wednesday night and got a snowboard and boots. All their gear was brand new and the boots even had silica gel still in them. Sports basement has this awesome deal of $30 for 2-3 days (supposedly weekend), but they allow me to pick it up on Wednesday night and drop it on Monday evening. Can't be more awesome and cheaper than that.
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Every year before Christmas, all the santas come to San Francisco to party up before the big day. Today was the San Francisco Santa Con. Tons of Santas invaded all bars in San Francisco and were spreading the holiday cheers…
http://santacon.info/
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Annie hosted a christmas party at her place on Saturday night. Was great to meet up with all the yahoos and eat the great food that Annie had prepared.
We also had a white elephant gift exchange where I ended up with an atlas of the world that did not have Mauritius listed
