néanmoins : nevertheless

Hello. Thai Dishes.

teatimetalk — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:39:59 +0000

Thai Dishes is one of a few Thai restaurants near Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade with bright and modern interior design. It’s a very convenient location, but I’m still on the hunt for a favorite Thai place in the LA area. More soon on dineLA restaurant week.

Thai Sweet Basil was light on the basil, a little heavy on the chili and the oil, but maybe your tummy is stronger than mine. Overall, fun and fresh presentation, though. Their pinapple fried rice even comes in a pinapple shell!

hello. India.

teatimetalk — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:00:07 +0000

No, not really. Although India would be very cool to visit, I’ll have to content myself with eating at the likes of Flavor of India.The tarp covered windows, patio heating and low cushioned bench seating lend to an original
The trek across Los Angeles is not for those in a rush.

It was fun to try a new restaurant in a new part of town. Hopefully, we can do more of that during DineLA restaurant week!

I could use some delicious spinach naan bread and mango curry paneer from Taste of India in Seattle’s U-district (with their excellent service) right about now. My best ex-roommate friend treated me to lunch here last month. Did I tell you that food tastes better when you’re eating with with people dear to your heart?

see?

Tandoori chicken

Hello. Happy new year’s resolutions.

teatimetalk — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:15:33 +0000

resolutions for the heart.

If you haven’t come around to making resolutions yet, you’re not a day too late. Happy Lunar New Year! The post linked above was fodder for thought on the kind of new year’s resolutions I want to be making. I used to closet-purge or get a new haircut, but if I want to see a new, better me, why not start change on the inside? Plus, this kind should last longer than trying to wash the dishes faster or finish the unsightly rug project I started a couple years ago. (I would still like to conquer my slight arachnophobia – I squished a few baby spiders last night. You’d think that baby anything would mean a cuter version, right? Yeah, no. While humans, kittens, and maybe even baby aardvarks work with my general theory, those spiders did not last long. Squishing the miniscule thingys felt a little too heartless, so I tried anti-spider-spray and that was just sad. I was just too afraid that they would grow into big spiders, like the kind I’ve found on my ceiling this week, crawling all over me in my sleep. See? I need to work on this.)

Where.

teatimetalk — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:19:38 +0000

God is more interested in where our hearts dwell than where our activities take us.

- Bob Goff

Dieu est plus intéressé par où demurent nos coeurs que où nos activités nous emmenent.

Courage to continue.

teatimetalk — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:30:46 +0000

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.

-Winston Churchill

Le succès n’est pas définitif, l’échec n’est pas fatal, c’est le courage de continuer qui compte.

Live life intentionally.

teatimetalk — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:01:02 +0000

…live life intentionally. You and I get one chance to do this, one lifetime to let God shine big through our time on earth

- Natalie Lloyd

… Vis ta vie intentionnellement. Toi et moi, nous n’avons qu’une seule chance de faire cela, qu’une vie à laisser Dieu briller fort par notre temps sur la terre.

Silhouttes.

teatimetalk — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:17:09 +0000

when I get back (rewind)

teatimetalk — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:37:42 +0000

Here’s a rewind post from November 2011, where I anticipated my return to the States. I’ve done many of the things on my list since arriving stateside months and months ago. If you had asked me then where I’d be now, I would have never guessed California. I am very thankful for my time.

Seattle

When I get back, I’m excited to have dinner at home with my family. It’s going to be like Christmas, Thanksgiving and a birthday rolled into one.

I want to go eat at Fresh Bistro and then take a pint of Snoqualmie Gourmet gelato to the park and just stare at the city skyline. And then, we’ll go take shadow pictures at the concrete park until it gets too chilly and we have to go indoors to watch Bride and Prejudice for the 47th time. (Ok, ok, I lost count. In English and in French.)

I would like to get my hair cut at Seven (it’s been two and a half months and I am itching for a trim). Then I want to wander the grocery store in my high heels. We shall go home and make peanut butter and banana sandwiches before playing the piano and painting. Then, we’ll bake a mountain of cookies.

Fairy tales.

teatimetalk — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:59:45 +0000

I do not advocate Halloween, but this year a generous family invited me for their annual potluck dinner and we sat back to watch the young and young-at-heart parade in their costumes. Too much sugar. It was interesting to see outfits from cute to funny to “I can’t believe your parents let you walk out of the house like that”. I still don’t understand the motivation to dress up as something scary. Is it that we cannot face our fears and thus resort to prideful mockery? Is it possible that despite the masks, figurative or otherwise, in the darkest depths of ourselves we truly are afraid?

Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Take heart. In this world there will be trouble, but our Rescuer has overcome the world.
John 16.13

Les contes conte de fées sont plus que vrais; pas parce qu’ils nous disent que les dragons existent, mais parce qu’ils nous disent que les dragons peuvent être battu.

Courage. Dans ce monde il y aura des problèmes, mais notre Sauveteur a vaincu le monde.
Jean 16.13

Hello. Christmas music.

teatimetalk — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:49:54 +0000

You know how those Christmas CDs are on repeat in the stores and coffee shops? If I could only pick one Christmas song to listen to this season, this would probably be it. Hope-filled without being cheesy.

Tu connais les chansons de Noël, toujours les mêmes, qui jouent sans cesse dans les cafes et dans les magasins? Si moi je devrais choisir un seul chanson de Noël à écouter pendant cette saison, je choisirai celui ci. Avec un peu d’éspoir sans être trop cliché.