YOGAYUGA

We went to see The Illusionist in AMC Theatre at Century City. I like the movie and the theatre but find the advertisments and trailers were playing too long before the movie actually started. It took more than 30 minutes for showing all of them.

After we watched the movie, we hanged around in Westwood. We had afternoon tea in Green Tea Terrace and shopped around in the supermarket. Green Tea Terrace offers various kinds of Japanese tea. Their ginger ice cream is very nice too. It’s also a typical student place where I can tell by the atmosphere.

Nook …..a small stylish restaurant where I find very comfortable for dinning…

The Wine and Food Festival was interesting. I did some wine tasting, but not too much. Cat Cora was doing a cooking demonstration in the show, who is from the Iron Chef on TV. I bought her book in the show too.

I had dim sum today for lunch, and went to Century City for shopping. Dim Sum is about the same as HK, but fortune cookie is given after meal. Fortune cookies are always common in Chinese restaurants anywhere besides Asia. In fact, I did have Japanese meal three days ago but didn’t take photos of it. I didn’t buy much stuff as most of stuff is quite expensive. They are nothing good price without sales. Most of items are similar to what we have in HK but they are more expensive when tax included. I only went to few stores, which we don’t have in HK such as Banana Republic and Victoria Secret. Century City is nice as it’s an open shopping area. California sunshine is certainly great as I never sweat no matter how hot it is.

I cooked tonight. I tried to get some vegetables in small sizes, but is impossible! Everything is in large size here. I made Matzo ball soup, Stuffed Eggplants and Penne with tomato sauce.

I had something heavy again for the dinner. We had a nice dinner in El Cholo, which is a Mexican restaurant opened since 1923. The food is nice but I find it a bit too rich. The portion is super large! I guess I eat too much these days…

I had brunch in Moonshadow today which is a restaurant Mel Gibson had drinks before he was arrested. The sea view is good. Of course, the food is great! I chose something very light as I really don’t want to get myself too filled up. Everything is in large portion here. I hardly find any small dishes here, but the dish I had today which is exceptional.

We went to Lake Shrine in the morning. It is a very beautiful park and a good place for meditation and self relaxation. It was opened by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1950. You can also join their Self-Realization Fellowship inside the park. It’s also a good place for life drawing.

Beautiful weather, beautiful mood, beautiful people and….Of course! beautiful Catalina Island….it’s just too beautiful to write anything, so enjoy the pictures…:P