John Rabe

Last night we finished a movie called John Rabe. I've always had a strong interest in World War 2 movies. Some have said that's cruel and can't believe I like those movies but I like them because they really touches my heart, and it's history. Alot of this stuff actually happened like it or not, and it's fascinating to see how human can behave the way they did, doing such awful acts against each other. The movie John Rabe is very different from any of the other movies I've seen. It takes place in World War 2 but it is about a John who is a German man that happened to work for Siemen in Nanking China for 27 years. When he was about to move back to Germany, that was when the Japanese started attacking Nanking and brutally destroying the city and the people. The movie is about John creating a safety zone for the Chinese and him risking his life to help the Chinese. It is based on true story (like most other World War 2 movies except Inglorious Bastards..) and they actually have a memorial set him for him today in Nanking. Very touching movie and particularly interesting because I've never watched another WW2 movie in this setting from this perspective.

Stepping onto the Bart

Today's weather is pretty nice! Hope it will also make for a good day at work :) Nice weather = happier people

Oceanview Supermarket Hot Pot restaurant

I went into the supermarket downstairs today (I hardly ever go in) and saw a line up of people. Curious I walked over to see what they were lining up for. I was shocked to discover that they had sectioned off a part of the supermarket and turned it into a hot pot restaurant! And it was paaacked with people waiting outside as you can see from the picture. Interesting!

Dinner with Carmen at T-28

Portuguese chicken.. With milk tea, soup, and dessert for under $8.

Spicy Chicken Caesar Salad from Lightning Foods

They gave me an abnormal amount of chicken today! I ate some before this pic too. I think because I went at like 1:30p so he was probably trying to get rid of it :D

San Diego trip

Last weekend was long weekend so we drove down to San Diego! :) It was the first time we did a roadtrip together and now that we have a comfortable car, it seemed to make sense. We left our home at 4:30am Sat morning, and got to LA by 10am to meet Sean for brunch. We stayed in LA til 1 and then headed down to Escondido arriving at 2pm. It was not bad at all! The way back up tho was more tricky as there was alot more traffic :( We stopped in La Mirada on the way back up to eat lunch with Sarah in her school cafeteria. Not bad at all! :D

Out of all the egg benedict I've eaten, this is definitely at the top.  La Provence Patisserie

Cenote Grill

We went to the Rock church on Sunday in San Diego. It's this mega church with I think 5 services. In each service I'm not sure how many people.. but as you can see from the below picture there was ALOT of people. The pastor is an ex-NFL guy who became a believer and started this church :D He was speaking on Sunday and he was quite the speaker. Very entertaining (not sure if that's good or not...?) but the content was ok too. It was a good back to the basics kinda sermon about God and his existence. The worship was okay. The worship band was definitely very talented but I felt they were crossing the line between "leading worship" vs "performing".

The Rock Church

After going to ROCK church.. we went to Hard ROCK cafe for lunch :D hehehe. YUMZ!

Domo calendar February

So cute! we just remembered to flip it to Feb this week tho so we only get to see it for a few more days :(