Houston Satay Festival

Selling satay can be good business in Houston, Texas. This past saturday was the annual the Malaysian, Singaporean hawker fair day. We helped our friends in their satay stall. We sold 450 satays in two hours! People were still standing in line wanting to buy satay and we had to turn them away.

There's an untapped market for satay in Houston. I think it's a viable business selling satay in Houston.

More DC trip photos

We stayed in an old, historical hotel in DC called the Willard Hotel. This hotel is amazingly close to the White House. In fact, we walked about 1 block or 3 minutes to the White House. Quite a few past US presidents had stayed in this hotel before during its glory days in the early 1900s. Abraham Lincoln had stayed here for a few weeks and conducted state affairs here. Legend has it that the term "lobbyist" was invented here as people seeked favors from President Ulysees Grant when he chilled out in the lobby bar.

All told, we stayed here because it's free from frequent flier points. It's still quite nice but you can tell it's an older hotel and not worth the price. We met a Malaysian working at the reception desk. She is a hotel management student doing her on the job training. Isn't it amazing to run into Malaysian all the time?

Panda Hair Band in Smithsonian Museum

We haven't posted any photos from our trip to DC during the labor day weekend. So this is the first of a series of photos.
Bame flew for the first time on the DC trip. It was a two and a half hour plane ride. Baby Meredith was incredibly coorperative during the plane ride. She didn't have a problem when the plane was taking off or landing.

We visited the Smithsonian Museum of Natural Science the first day. Some of Bame best photos were taken in the gift shop. Bame enjoyed modeling the hair band below.

Bame's first internet video

Due to peer pressure, we are putting Bame's home video on the blog now. It seems like everyone else is putting video on their blog so we are following suit.

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Houston's Durian Festival

I've been eyeing at the durian in Hong Kong market for a while now. Almost all the durian here are the golden pillow variety imported from Thailand. The normal durian price in Houston hovers around $1.50/lb to $2/lb and it's available year round. We ran out of rice and made a trip to Hong Kong mall to Jasmine rice this past Sunday. I was delighted to see that the durian has a price reduction to $1.19/lb. This durian is about 5lbs and the total is about $5.50. It's actually on par with the price we would pay in Malaysia.

Ah Beng, a family friend came by from Louisiana, we tried to pry open the durian. The durian was still frozen hard and we had a hard time just trying get it to crack. So the decision is to let it thaw in the refrigerator for a few days. We will open it this weekend. Stay tune!

Tug of War

We haven't post a blog entry in almost two months. Both of us are busy with work. I traveled up to Colorado twice during September and was also busy with homework assignment.

But it is time to stop procastinating and start updating Bame's blog (baby meredith).

Here's a photo of Bame playing tug of war with the trash bag. It was taken two days ago.
Bame is quite strong now. She can pull her self up with one hand and stand up. Then she will prop herself up against the wall and move along the wall.