There’s a party going on at my place today Benny, Peter and I are going to host a party at my place without friends, serving great food and great drinks - Benny calls it “Elite dinning” (I think Elite could be a gamer’s word meaning the best out there or something?) Chef Benny, the proud owner of the tapa restaurant 14981, is going to do all the cooking (here is a link to their reviews on dinehere.ca) I’ve never hosted any party at my place so yesterday I had to go and buy all the dining accessories like wine glasses, plates (got like 15 of those!), shooter glasses, and of couse, liquor! (got the soho, peach schnapps, sour apple, baileys…and all that) It was really a pain in the butt to wash all those plates and glasses and to prepare all the other stuff…I’m sure it’s going to be fun though.

Benny created a dining menu specifically for the party, lol. I think he did it in something like 2 minutes, he just knows his food too well. Peter is going to get fresh oyster and Benny will bring over some mussels and something called “gravlax salmon” which he said they were “cooked” in bare sugar and salt, I really am looking forward to try it.

Okay it’s time to do some house cleaning and more grocery…etc!

The title of the post means “Hello, nice to meet you!” in Korean, learnt that from my first Korean lesson at UBC this morning. The class was surprisingly fun to attend and our teacher Son Jeong Hye was really nice. She kept the class in a playful atmosphere which really helped us on learning and understanding of the difficult Korean characters (we even sang a song near the end of the class, and we had to like shake hand with everyone else in the class while singing the song and say “Hi my name is X” to the other person =) ) I’m really looking forward to the next class next Saturday!

Karl and Eva got married at my place in the afternoon, with the presence of a marriage commisioner. They chose to do a simple civil ceremony, in which the marriage commissioner would provide a statement of marriage during the ceremony, followed by the usual “I do” speech Kedding and I were there witnessing the ceremony, and after that we had some wine (was some home brewed wine that’s been sitting in my fridge for 7+ years! It sure tasted awesome) and chatted for a bit.

We headed to Kerrisdale for dinner, the Japanese operated (this really makes a difference) Japanese restaurant “Ajisai Sushi Bar” or ?? in Kanji. The food we had really worthed the 20 minutes wait IMO, especially for the eel don (rice) that Karl recommended~ it’s a highly recommended~ oh yea also my favorite amaebi sashimi!! And of course, a nice dinner wouldn’t complete without some nice dessert - gelato!