Musik Mundi: Angus & Julia Stone

Angus & Julia Stone
Album: Down The Way (2010)
Song: Big Jet Plane (Adam G Prog Remix)

I'm finally back in the states after a whole three weeks on my fake oceanic honeymoon. The trip was def full of ups and down ... sometimes maybe too much down ... but whatever rough patches we went through ... it was mos def worth the experience in the end. I tried to keep up with a journal of my daily events but my writing usually becomes overly detailed and i slowly fell behind. I felt like i was constantly going back and adding things that I had forgotten. A prolific and non-sensical writer I am. My ultimate fave country now is NEW ZEALAND! The mountains, the hills, the beaches. That place could not be any greener and more beautiful. When fabulous and riceboi spent nearly two whole weeks there for their real honeymoon, I was like omg why so long in one place?!? Well, now I know why. I could live there if it weren't for the fact that I've been spoiled by Houston's amazing asian food and the che that I can not stop thinking about wanting to constantly eat. Haha. EmDee and tanktock treated me to some this weekend and I still want MORE! Australia was just as awesome but it didn't leave the kind of impression that New Zealand did. Since Australia was my first stop, I decided to finally post a song from Angus & Julia Stone. They're a bro-sis duo from oz that my baby sistar recommended to me. I really liked their songs but the tracks on their latest album are more on the slow side. I listen to a lot of slow music but this was just really slow. It's lay back, relax and be lazy music and I don't need anymore reason in my life right now to be lazy. But then one evening, after my mum's family in Sydney took us out to dinner at this super declicious Malaysian restaurant in Parramatta, I heard a remix of Big Jet Plane playing from somewhere as we were walking back to the car. It was good. I likey. I look. I acquire.

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Placenter: Thach Che Hien Khanh

10613 Bellaire Blvd
Houston, TX 77072

I'm big on sweets. I love cake and ice-cream and chocolate and cookies and sometimes candy. I just noticed how they almost all start with the letter 'C'. And you know what I crave all the time now? CHE. Haha. Any time big poppa and I have dinner in Bellaire, I'll either request for some milk tea or some che from Thach Che Hien Khanh. Miss mochi recommended this place to me and sometimes I really wish she hadn't cos now i'm always thinking about it. I get the xuong xa hot luu with extra coconut milk. I don't like anything coconut except for coconut milk. The che dau xanh here is so good. So silky smooth. It's a cash only place so don't try to hand over your credity card. Miss flower child once tried to do so and the worker lady literally dropped the credit card like a hot potato. Miss mini mentioned that she likes this other place in bellaire. I think it might be Duc Phuong Thach Che. I must try now!

Trippin': Washington D.C. - Georgetown Cupcakes

3301 M St NW
Washington, DC 20007

There are times when I get so frustrated with myself for being uber tourist and it's one of those things where I can't make myself just chill. So being that our hotel was in Georgetown, coupled with the fact that I'm a reality tv junky, I would soon find myself standing in the forever long line just to get some Georgetown Cupcakes. The line there is literally a minimum of twenty people deep at any given time. We stopped by in the morning, the line is long, we decide to check back later. We stopped by a second time in the afternoon, the line is still long, we decide to again check back later. We stopped by a third time in the evening and even though the line is still long, we decide to finally just suck it up and wait. So we wait. And we were literally minutes from being let into that darn cupcake shop when miss flowerchild tells me that we have to leave cos her friend who lives in dc can not find georgetown cupcakes. If there is one thing that drives me up the wall ... it's a bad driver. And when that bad driver is also horrible with directions ... argh. I mean, i haven't even met this girl yet and already she has two strikes against her! Haha. Georgetown is basically one main street and that is 'M' street. There's another street that is also perpendicular to M street but you mostly go up and down M street. So all this girl had to do was drive down one street. But she's so bad with directions that even though she was already on M street, she supposedly didn't know where to go. OMG. So we get out of line and walk the ten blocks to where she was pulled over to the side of the road, five feet from the curb. I know it's bad that i'm ranking on this girl, but i need u to know how much i am irked by this. I suggested that she redo her parallel parking. And after ten tries, she was just two feet from the curb. At that point it wasn't just me shaking my head, miss flowerchild was about to take over the parallel parking. If you ask big poppa, he will tell you how i have no patience with this kinda stuff. Once the whole car debacle was over, all was well again. I met her and she was really sweet. But she will never drive me anywhere. Hah! Since I still didn't get my cupcakes, we tried the line again the next morning and we were finally successful. We ordered some cupcakes and also bought their t-shirts. Yeah yeah. It's everyone elses turn to shake their heads at me now. We saw one of the owners sitting at a table in the back with her back turned to the customers. Must be tough becoming so famous! The cupcakes were okay. Nothing special. What I will say is that they have a LOT of variety. We got a red velvet, vanilla birthday, chocolate hazelnut, lemon blossom and a cherry blossom. I've come to the conclusion that all cupcakes are basically the same. It's really all about the marketing tactics used. Since it was still pretty early, we toted the box of cupcakes with us all around D.C. and lemme tell ya, that pink box makes for some conversation everywhere you go. It was raining a lot that day and the paper bag that held our pink box of cupcakes eventually tore and pink box of cupcakes went tumbling to the ground. Our poor cupcakes got all smushed so I didn't get to take a pretty picture of them. You almost heard gasps from the people all around us when that pink box hit the ground. They're super popular there.

Musik Mundi: Ellie Goulding

Ellie Goulding
Album: Lights (2011)
Song: Guns and Horses

I skipped a whole week of posting. It's been a really bad week for me at home and at work. I'll just leave it at that.

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