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Taiwan creates a Napa Valley of Tea

lol there's a misspelled word under the photos flash device

He would patiently explain to Westerners unaccustomed to Asian tea that their brew, full of complex flavors, does not need milk and sugar.
Taiwanese drink tea much like Californians sip wine. They sniff for aroma, slurp for taste and carefully eye the color

I guess I became Taiwanese in my tea habits without noticing. THE CUPERTINO INFLUENCE, I SAY


Thanks to wintersweet, I found out that an Asian shopping center I've passed by is called Little Taipei. Now I want to visit. Asian shopping centers make me feel at home. THE CUPERTINO INFLUENCE YET AGAIN

XD this comment:
The best thing is that since this surrounding area as a whole is home to some of the wealthiest Chinese people in the US, and one of the highest ranking high schools in the state (Mission San Jose), there are never any thugs or trouble makers hanging around the premises.

ahahahahaha "trouble makers" and giving props to Mission
sorry Mission flisters, but I have to say this: WHERE IS YOUR SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT NOW?! HAHAHAHA WERE YOU TOO GOOD TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH IRVINGTON, WASHINGTON, AMERICAN, OR -LE GASP- KENNEDY?

seriously, every time I mentioned I was from Kennedy, I got this "oh" reaction like "but you know things..."
How many spelling and grammar and even content errors did those non-Kennedy people make in their articles for Youth Today? I still haven't forgiven them for messing up my articles without at least double-checking facts with me.

Wow. This post took an unexpected turn.

The California stereotype lives on: the San Jose Mercury News' front page big feature is the current shortage in foam cores for surfboards. Hmm.

Anyways, over the past three weeks, many things have happened.

-went on a field trip to the Federal Reserve in San Francisco. It was interesting, and the amount of money seen killed many of my classmates. We ate at the Rincon Center food court, which was built out of an old post office. That place has the COOLEST WATERFALL EVER. Really, water spills out of the ceiling 85 feet high and falls straight to the ground onto a circle thing and it's just awesome. Good restaurants around, too.

- I foolishly trusted humanity and left my little bag slightly outside the stall while I went to the bathroom. Someone stole my pencil bag, took out the pens and the pens I got from NASA and scissors (with my name on it!) and tiny pink post-its. They left the pencils and ruler stuff, at least. I went crazy searching for it when Phillip T. told me he saw a marshmallow bunny blue bag thing while walking in the quad. There, on a bench, was my bag, thrown like trash and zipper open. I realized that the pens were gone. GRR.

-I finished Neverwhere and Good Omens. Good stuff.

-I joined the staff of Youth Today, Fremont's teen newspaper. I'm writing a brief about Mission Valley Film Fest '06, the film festival my video class is putting together after Ohlone College stopped theirs.

My new class schedule for Second Semester:
1st period: Art 1
2nd period: Creative Writing
3rd period: Office TA
4th period: Video Magazine
As Liliana said, "This schedule is so you." Office TA isn't even as hard as last year.

Yesterday was a crazy day. I'm making a video about my hobby of getting specialty drinks, specifically pearl tea and hot chocolate. So I called four of my favorite shops on Thursday, with various responses. I had set up a shooting date at Fantasia Santana Row at 4PM. Then my dad comes to pick me up after school and says that he also set up a shooting thing at 5 PM at Caffe del Doge in Palo Alto. Oh boy.
It was all okay. People were giving us strange looks, but I got some good footage and even got a free hot chocolate out of it. Hopefully the final video will turn out well.

( And finally, ethics and Pirates of the Caribbean. )