Friday, September 5, 2008

au sudain, C'est VACHEMENT froid!

Sarah & Me at 'Tour d'Argent' after our last class as cuisine partners! practically a self explanatory name, coz it costs a 'tour d'argent' to eat there, ha...but it was worth every cent!!! ...I probably can't take my guests there, I think they would die of boredom...but I HAVE LOTSA PLACES in mind you will loooove.
A tourist photo with the mascot guy...YES I really wore this 'crack-head snow white' get-up...AND yes people really dress up still to have dinner in Paris... it's fun to think about what I am gonna wear to a nice dinner...now that I NEVER GO SHOPPING and dry cleaning is not so convienent!
Official Graduation Photo! the Chefs think I should try the regular cuisine course...I told them, in terrible franglais "it's hard to eat things that I cook, it doesn't taste as good somehow, no passion...and anyways I will faint if I have to chop off the neck of the rabbit in basic cuisine with the lungs still properly attached and throw away the head with the eyes looking at me...quel bordel...je suis une catastrophe...toujours!"
They looked at me totally confused, they probably think I am crazy, but funny...but they said they would help me cut off the rabbit head if I tried cuisine...MAYBE I WILL try next semester...pourquoi PAS?


All of a sudden it is soooooo frigging cold...the sun is setting very fast now, and when it is night it is EXTRA extra friggin COLD... it seems it all happened exactly around 'rentree', Sept 1, when 'summer' is finally over, and the damned tourists are gone, and allllll 'the people' are back from vacation looking orange from too much sun! also apparently, it's TAX season here...strange...There is too much to get use to in Paris, I am comfortably uncomfortable...lonely and not lonely...super happily unhappy...comme d'habitude...

school started on Sept 1, and I am so happy to be back and starting intermediate Pastries. IT is MUCH more difficult,multiple complicated cakes in one 2.5 hr practique, hopefully I can do better...Everything is the same, but VERY different! Since it is a proper 'Rentree', the school is packed with new normal semester schedule students. FULL to capacity~yikes. Now I am so happy that I started mid year, less crowded, less students, more eclectic people...I think...but still I think the whole school has around maybe 100 people or so, no more than 120,not too many, thank goodness!

...SEPTEMBER...it is my goal to ESPECIALLY enjoy this moody month of transistions...and RELAX and be super indulgent in being 'une lunatique' for 3-4 weeks...before L.A. fabulous MADNESS comes to pay me a little visit in ALL OF OCTOBER and bring some sunshine and smiles for the whole month!!! I am so lucky...and SO SO HAPPY (and a little bit stressed) to see my fantastic family/friends next month!!!...CRAZY...so many people are visiting for my 'BIG 30' birthday month of October! I think this is the best 'gift' ever...to share...and make good memories...and turn 30 in Paris!!! ...all cultures value youth and beauty so it is hard to turn 30 almost anywhere, but let me say, it is especially hard to turn 30 in LA, and be asian to boot...it's a tough age for a vain girl from societies that value 'youthful beauty'...how wonderful is it to be 30 here?...gotta do some self reflecting in the meantime, BUT I CAN'T WAIT, I am the luckiest woman! see you soon Clara, Catalina, Lani, Cindy, Noah & Le Mec!!!

SOOO Chez Julee has no availability until NEXT YEAR! thank you!