Seattle has this great underground bus tunnel that runs throughout all of downtown, where buses roam without the traffic above ground. I rode buses through this tunnel for a year when I worked in the International District/Pioneer Square area for Amazon and loved it. It was the one time that I felt like a hip city dweller—walking down the hill, over I-5 and its morning traffic, grabbing a latte somewhere and then walking through Nordstrom’s to go down below to catch any bus entering the tunnel…only to pop me out in the midst of the International District. Enough reminiscing. This bus tunnel is going to be closed for TWO years…

Just found a pretty cool website where you can search for Happy Hours in Seattle—SevenNites.com. AND it’s supposedly pretty up-to-date. Coolio. I witnessed the most asinine driver this morning. I was on a 2-lane road in Capitol Hill and there was a garbage truck blocking the lane I was in. Now, theoretically, it’s cool to go to the other lane a) if there are no cars there, and b) there’s room to go somewhere to in front of the garbage truck. This black car moves out and can’t go anywhere because there are already 2 cars in front of the truck–stopped because there’s a red light. Instead of realizing his…

I just came across this hilarious blog post that shows screenshots of Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith getting badly translated into Chinese—and then translated back into English for the subtitles. My favorite is “I was just made by the Presbyterian Church”—likely, Jedi Council was translated into Chinese and then back into English as Presbyterian Church

Coldplay in Concert Originally uploaded by moohaha. Saw Coldplay last night with Archana, Seema, Karen, Jigna, Matt, Sri, Aileen & Mike. They sounded great in concert and played a lot of crowd favorites. It was my first time watching a concert at the White River Amphitheatre which is way out in the middle of nowhere somewhere between Auburn and Enumclaw. I must say, the traffic to get out of the concert in the puny little 2 lanes they have opened up SUCKS. It took 2 hours to get home (1 hour of which was getting out of the parking lot alone).

Here I am, just having taken off Originally uploaded by moohaha. I ended up not going to Vancouver over the weekend…and instead, went paragliding with Jigna & Matt last minute instead! It was an amazing experience and a beautiful day to do it. We started off by taking a hike up Tiger Mountain (which took longer than we had expected!) and finally arriving at the top to see a bunch of paragliders hanging out ready to take off. Of course, with it being the first time, all 3 of us took tandem flights and it was overall really easy. The feeling was amazing and it was exhilirating. And of course,…

Asayo, me, Jigna & Archana Originally uploaded by moohaha. I turned 28 last Thursday (and it was my dad and Pierre’s birthday too–Happy Birthday!). Really chill and awesome birthday this year. Matt went all out and took me to the most wonderful restaurant for dinner–Crush. It was such an interesting juxtaposition of the modern decor within the walls of a Victorian-style house. The food was absolutely tasty with lots of attention to detail. Scrumptious. This restaurant is located in the least expected part of town–near the intersection of 23rd & Madison, which, for those of you who don’t live in Seattle, is a neighborhood that doesn’t quite ring “nice restaurants”.…

Wow. So—I’m going to this wedding in Vancouver, B.C. this weekend with Matt. We already booked the hotel, planned it, etc. Tonight, just before leaving work, I get a mass email from the best man which says (leaving out names for privacy):Hi Everyone, I regret to inform you that the wedding between John Doe and Jane Doe will not take place. John and Jane sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. All gifts that were received will be returned. Thank you very much for your understanding. Damn. This is a first for me–that is, having a wedding that I’m planning on attending cancel just 5 days before!…

Sorry, the time between my blogs gets longer and longer. You know why? It’s finally SUMMER here in Seattle. Yes, it’s August. Yes, summer’s already 2/3 over in most of the country. But here in Seattle, summer arrived just a couple weeks ago. I’m now wearing skirts and flip flops daily and complaining nonstop about how hot my condo gets. Summer is short lived here but makes living here all worth it. I even got sunburnt a couple days ago when I was out at Whidbey Island on a team outing—sunburn! in Seattle? Anyway, on to what’s been happenin’ in the last few weeks…. As you can see from my…