U.S.A: Napa Valley

Napa Valley is 1.5 hours drive from San Francisco. Since we have nowhere else to go, Candy planned for a day trip to Napa.

The last time I went to Napa was 4 years ago. At that time I just drove pass Napa but didn't stop at any Winery for wine tasting because we didn't know which to go to and didn't even google for it. Now also I didn't google anything just follow Candy's plan only heh.

First we went to V Sattui Winery, voted the Winery of Year.


#1 Parents in front of the V Sattui entrance board.


#2 We brought sandwiches from Safeway and had lunch at the V Sattui Picnic Ground. That park was for the guests that bought food from the cafe but we went in anyhow hehe.


#3 So many types of cheese!


#4 Took bread and crackers with cheese.


#5 This winery is really packed. There're so many people at the counter tasting and buying wine. I couldn't even get near the counter.


#6 Not wine. Is grape bath.


#7 I didn't sample any wine because I never liked wine. Plus I'm not going to buy anyway.


#8 They also showed all kinds of wine glasses used for red wine or white wine and everything else.


#9 Candy and mum in front of all V Sattui's wine.


#10 The V Sattui vineyards outside the tasting room.


#11 There's another building to store the oak barrels.


#12 The same building is used to store other equipments used like the ancient grape hand crusher.


#13 That is...not the building haha. That's where the toilet is located.


#14 The picnic ground again. Everyone just hang out there because the weather is so nice that day.


#15 Parents in front of Chardonnay.


#16 I think this is Chardonnay too.


#17 We then drove another 10 mins or so down the same road to another winery - Robert Mondavi. This is a lot bigger than V Sattui.


#18 Robert Mondavi's vineyard. Sooooooooooo nice.


#19 Me!


#20 Candy in front of the Oakville.


#21 The oak barrels used to store and age wine in the temperature controlled room.


#22 Outside of the winery is...ORANGE TREE hohoho call me katak di bawah tempurung or what lah but I'm so excited because I've never seen orange.....up in a tree wtf.


#23 I asked mum to make sure dad is not in the photo and she took the photo and told me confirm no dad wtf.

All the wineries have private tours. These tours will bring you in the vineyard and then end with wine tasting and they'll tell you the history of the winery and also the wine making process. We didn't sign up for any tours at both wineries because Candy went before and she roughly told us the process so we can save up the money hurhurhur.

I really don't appreciate wine. It's too sour for me. I wonder if there's any types of wine that is more fruity? Any recommendation?

We drove back around 4 something so that we can avoid the after office traffic at the freeway. Had dinner at this La Mei Zi place back in San Francisco.


#24 This is also introduced by Mei and I had once 4 years ago.


#25 It's SzeChuan food and everything is a bit too salty for me esp the Ma Po Tofu. San Tung is a lot more better heh.


Oh btw, today is my brother's birthday so HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAT!!!!

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Neighbourhood, Inner Richmond,

294 8th Ave

(between California St & Clement St)

San Francisco,

California 94118.

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Why Din Lose More Weight?!!!

Ohai! Iz Me!

Yes I'm back. Turns out it's not H1N1 afterall huhuhuhu. But I had 4 days of fever and 2 days of bad flu and now I'm okay except a bit of phlegm but that's fine!

Being sick sucks shit except that I lost weight. But not much also what is this! I was hoping 6 days probably 6 pounds wan mar haha a bit kua zheong wtf.

Anyway, the boy is in Melbourne! Yah skiing and snowboarding his life away while I die here. He's there for 7 days already and 7 more days to go before I see him again boohoo and then we're going to Malacca and then KL and then going back to Segamat for Independence Day!

Yay Malacca here I come! I miss the FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.

Fever Went Down A Bit

These few days are hellish. After I went to the clinic that day I slept the entire night and kept taking medicine. Even getting out of bed is a torture to get water or to go toilet haih anything more than 5 minutes I feel dizzy already so cham. I drank milo for bfast milo for lunch milo for dinner now I'm so sick of Milo I only manage to drink half of it this morning haih. No family around is very pitiful lor everything have to do myself.

Today I felt a little better the fever went down a bit. I kept sleeping and waking up for water then sleep then wake up to eat medicine. Now I just get out of bed to check mails and stuff.

Thanks for all of you for dropping random messages for me and those who offered to bring me food and those who offered to bring me to hospital if there's a need. Me so touched. I hope by tonight my fever would completely go down coz it seems like it now.

For others who knew you have a sick friend at home dying but couldn't care less to even drop a message, I hope you rot in hell alone. God has no pity towards uncaring, self centered, unworthy bastards who care only for themselves.

Ahh..The sick devil ramblings...

I'm getting dizzy let me go back to bed bye.

Not Fit for Anything.

I woke up this morning fine albeit a little tired.

I went for breakfast fine. Had milo ice and red bean pau. Felt a little too full after that. Which is weird. 1 milo ice and 1 red bean pau is not enough for the godzilla ever.

I went for lunch fine. Ordered zap fan with luncheon meat. Left 50% of my rice unattended. Which is weird because I usually have big bowls of rice with my favorite luncheon meat.

After lunch,

I'm not fine. I started shivering. Then headache. I stayed till almost 4.30 and couldn't stand it so went to the doctor.



The doctor found me unfit for work for 2 damn days and 1 weekend. He said he's amazed I still look fine from the outside because my fever is quite high.

"
You yourself just came back from US and Thailand a little more than 2 weeks ago. You're in very close contact with someone who just came back from Thailand a week ago (aka the boy). Your symptoms are similar to the H1N1 (I think he's exaggerating or he just said that to everyone who went for consultation). If you find yourselves still having fever on Friday, please go to General Hospital for H1n1 checkup.
"

Why is everything about H1N1? I don't have damn H1N1 okay doctor. I have similar symptoms few times a year and I know myself more than you know me. It's just the damn fever kicking in.

Okay anyway

I'm getting weaker and weaker as I type so bye.

U.S.A: Day 1 in San Francisco

I had trouble sleeping so Candy bought me mild sleeping pills to overcome the jet lag. Plus my dad snores so loud it kept all of us awake esp Candy haha she hates it when people snore coz she can't sleep with the slightest noise ever.


#1 You can get Simply Sleep in Safeway. Pop 2 pills half an hour before you want to sleep. Try not to read anything or use your laptop or anything to distract yourself from sleeping wtf. And believe me, it works.

We then drove and park near Chinatown because it's free parking Sunday! We wanted to bring the parents to eat DimSum coz I think they like chinese food more lor. And where else to find Chinese food but Chinatown?

So we went to this Dim Sum place that we frequent everytime I'm in San Francisco. It wasn't packed, much to my surprise. That's because everytime I go before this I always have to wait for seat. I forgot what's the name of the place or the street name so I can't let you know now.


#2 Purposely looked for Da Yuan. The shop I always go to for Ginseng. I bought some Ginseng for drinks and soup for the boy's parents.


#3 Walking around Chinatown for the 103492523746245935689th time.


#4 Finally found the gate at the entrance of Chinatown. We couldn't find it at first but then we figured we should head to the direction where the ang moh is coming from because ang moh refers to maps and would start from the entrance. True enough we did and the method works!


#5 We then walked to Union Square. Quite tiring and pretty chilly.


#6 Walked all the way down to the tram station in front of Forever21. I had time to rush in and bought a headband and few blouses while my parents and Candy queue for tram haha.


#7 My greedy sister obviously think the weather is too hot for her so she bought the Cold Stone Ice Cream from the shop 1 street away from Forever21.


#8 1 of the tram stopped at the road side so we hurried up to snap like ten thousand photos.


#9 Look at the amount of people queuing! from the far left all the way behind the tram to the right. We waited almost 45 mins or so. That's why I have time for some F21 shopping hohohoho.


#10 The tram operator with the gear.


#11 Candy and my parents on tram!


#12 Passed by this Chi Sin Buddhist & Taoist Association hehe.


#13 And then what else but my favourite bubble tea cafe Quickly. Malaysia also got lah in JB. Not sure if KL has it. But everytime I go US I will find Quickly and drink like crazy.


#14 Passed by all the town houses.


#15 And up the hill where we can see Alcatraz Island (also know as The Rock) from far. It served as a lighthouse previously then was converted to a military prison then finally a federal prison. I wanted to visit Alcatraz everytime I'm in SF but never made it there, coz...too expensive haih.


#16 FINALLY! OUR DESTINATION..LOMBARD STREET, famously known for its crookedest street in the world!


#17 We only took like less than 10 photos as a family because 1 of us always need to be the photographer. But Lombard St has so many tourists it aint tough to find someone to help out!


#18 The ang moh summore can say "yi er san" wtf.


#19 Me and Candy. Why she looks like my younger sister geh haih.


#20 View from the top of Lombard Street. You can see the whole stretch of road winding from top but all the way straight to the end! I love SF!!!


#21 We walked from Lombard St but passed by the field where lots of people just lie down because it's so summer. Crazy wan you know how cold is it or not. See that guy on the right wear winter jacket okay.


#22 Passed by lots of people doing break dancing on the way to Pier 39. Stopped and admired them for a while. There're just a lot of people performing at the street outside Pier 39. It's always crowded! And I love love love it there.


#23 Us in Pier 39. Freaking crowded.


#24 And here is the place we found my dad's favorite food! Candy wanted to introduce Clam Chowder to my parents but didn't expect them to like it because they only like Chinese food. BUT MUCH TO OUR SURPRISE MY DAD LOVED IT LIKE CRAZY AND FINISHED EVERYTHING AND LOOKED SO SATISFIED. hohohoho we finally found something my dad likes!


#25 It's one of the cafes in Pier 39. We just randomly picked one and ordered 2 clam chowder with bread bowl plus 1 fish & chips and fries. Haih so satisfying my dad loved it.


#26 So sunny yet so cold. That's my only thin jacket adoi. Nearly wanna die.


#27 Dad and mum posing. My dad satisfied from clam chowder hohohohoho.


#28 I took one at the exact same spot using tripod during Christmas 2007 so cham.


#29 Yachts parked on the way to Ghiradelli.


#30 My pretty sister who is jobless now haha.


#31 Finally after a long long tiring walk we reached Ghirardelli the chocolate factory. I walked around but refused to buy anything coz too expensive haha. Wasted all the walk haih.


#32 On the way to Ghirardelli Square, passed by Kelvin's workplace, Parkside Lending.


#33 Also went to Kara cupcakes but didn't manage to buy anything coz Candy who went to get the car is there already so we have to hurry out.

At night,

we were too tired to go anywhere for dinner coz we walked the whole damn day! So we went back to hotel, showered and rested for a while. Around 9 something we walked out of Travelodge to IHoP - International House of Pancake for dinner. It's right outsdie of Travelodge so it's so convenient.

Then we call it a night after dinner! I stayed to online for a while to chat with the boy but took the pill already so fell asleep around 11 or so.

Day 3 at Napa Valley up next!

IHop International House of Pancake

316 S Airport Blvd,

South San Francisco,

California 94080.

(+650) 583-8020