This weekend is HOT. Well, summertime in California is usually hot, but since this summer has been mild for the most part, the sudden warm wave hit us unexpectedly. Our friend Tetsu planned this party months ago, but after learning that it was going to be a warm weekend, he had the genius idea to set up a kiddie wading pool. Undoubtedly, the pool did its job.
Flexing his BBQing skillz.
In typical Tetsu BBQing fashion, he cooked up a meat feast fit for a whole village. Warm weather & a lot of food is a good way to induce a food coma, but Tetsu invited his Yelp Elite crew who were barrels of fun to be around. Good times.
Of course, the rest of the day’s photos:
Tetsu's summer backyard party
Bay Area, Photo of the day
Baseball is fun. Playing dress-up is fun. Getting free stuff is fun. Yep, this was a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
The A’s celebrated their 80th anniversary of the 1929 season with Turn-Back-the-Clock Day. They went all out as much as they could with the presentation: the jumbotron was in black & white, people drove on the field in cars of the period, some people dressed up & for the first few thousand fans, they received a replica blue jersey. The jerseys were blue on cream white—colors of the A’s back when they were still in Philadelphia.
The only bad news: Cindy got hit in the head with a batting practice ball at home run depth. We had her checked at the First Aid booth in the Coliseum as a precaution, but it looks like she’ll be fine (maybe just a bad bruise on her forehead).
At least she has a nice jersey.
A's 1929 throwback day
Bay Area, baseball, photography
Cindy’s friend Ivy, a long-time friend from college, wanted to celebrate her birthday outside of the traditional grown-up birthday party: she decided to throw it on the softball field.
It was kinda unusual (for me) at first, but once it began, I’ve realized it’s been such a long time since I’ve played in the dirt. It didn’t take long for me to cut loose & have fun out there. With any softball birthday parties, the game usually wraps up with the game-ending cake:
Happy birthday, Ivy! We look forward to many more softball parties in the future.
Ivy's softball party in El Cerrito
Bay Area, baseball, photography, sports
This is an old photo, but one of my favorites. That, & I was recently requested by 7×7 magazine for my permission to use this photo in their next issue! It’s probably not gonna be anything big, but any publicity is good for me!
Anyway, my good ol’ buddy Joe called me up on Saturday evening & invited me to a house party with all his fellow DJ friends out in the Sunset neighborhood in the City.
This photo wasn’t selected for the magazine, but it’s still my favorite from this collection:
Playing with fire?
House party in San Francisco
photography
Congratulations to the newly engaged, T-Born (aka Tim) & Molly! Actually, about a month ago, Molly was assigned to fly out to work in Tahiti & T-Born decided to propose right before she left. Only now that she’s back (after being away from ‘Born for a little less than a month) can we celebrate this exciting occasion!
After I found out about the engagement (through T-Born’s rarely updated Facebook status), I shared the good news with our other Japan friends. Sharing the excitement, we thought it would be a wonderful idea to celebrate over dinner. We dined two consecutive Fridays to show how happy we are of the news.
Molly, T-Born, Angelo
Last Friday, Alex offered to whip up a dinner feast, the usual fare at his house. When it comes to cooking for his good friends, he doesn’t like to hold back:
Yep, that's pasta with bacon, buttery crawfish, gumbo, as well as 'taters & sausage. Angelo's contribution was the thai chicken. Spicy meal, indeed.
Food comas are dangerous at dinner time because we still had to drive home super drowsy.
Bay Area, Food, photography, wedding
