Weekend Visitors

Last weekend was probably the worst snow this season yet, but it was a fun weekend for me :) I got a visit from Hanfung and Jeffrey who brought a fresh breeze of air from New Jersey and Georgia along with them, making me feel as if I got a visit from home. We did not do much in terms of the activities because in the morning we are supposed to go skiing Jeff got a bad stomach ache from too much coconut milk in the curry he ate for dinner. The next day was when the storm started brewing in. So after trying to find lunch at Moosewood, which apparently did not open for lunch on a Sunday, we went back home forced to settle to order a Domino's pizza which to our stomachs' disappointment came 2 hours later due to the snow. But we got some quality time, talking over random stuff, catching up with each other, spending time in the library to do work, where Hanfung found a gem of Indo literature/historical sources, came back to me beaming as ever with 4 books to borrow. We also went to Indo night, where my guests became part-time volunteers, helping out with tumpeng set up, taking down banners, and other errands. Such expensive outsourced labor :)

Anyways, thanks guys for coming over, you totally made my weekend!

Camwhoring after Indo night in my room

Looking over the snow storm that left knee-deep piles of snow the next morning

Glad to have help with cleaning up snow from the car and shoveling the way out

Finally, got a chance to take Jeff to Moosewood, the vegetarian restaurant in Ithaca with varying daily menu depending on what's in season. He got 2 beans gumbo with corn bread and surprisingly they had gado-gado as a new recipe, so I tried it. Well, it was the most expensive gado-gado I've ever tried, as well as the least original :) They put in carrots, broccoli, tofu, red bell peppers, on a bed of brown rice, topped with their version of peanut sauce which I suspect is made out of cream and peanut butter. It's safe to say that it truly was NOT gado-gado, but you know, it could pass for like a fusion food, and it tasted fine.

Thanks again, guys. Good luck to you, Jeff, where ever you end up living at. You will do great things with that sharp mind of yours :)