Aug 12 2021

Park Boulevard neighborhood


Park Blvd Manor
4135 Park Boulevard
Oakland, CA

This is area is nice and serene little stretch of the road, has Park Blvd Manor which is a retirement home and assisted living facility, with clean hallways and community room are well kept. and many cute shops. The manor has five stores with a small backyard, shared by the ground floor apartments and a balcony looking over the Park Blvd. I took walks at Dimond Park and Sausal Creek. Next door to the west is a Presbyterian church. A few steps to the east is a few nail salons, market, and Japanese and Italian restaurants.

In 2022

In 2021

      


Aug 12 2021

Marzano, Italian


4214 Park Blvd @ Glenfield Ave
Oakland, CA 94602

Love their windows, and high ceilings. Will return.

Passing by this corner restaurant (Park Blvd and Glenfield Ave) all the time whenever I come to visit. They have sidewalk dining on either side of streets.

I ordered two take out
– Spicy house fennel sausage pizza: great, will return for it!
– Orecchiette Lala Norma: ok, I feel it’s a little tasteless but my dad says: too salty. Must be the generation gap -:)

   


Aug 12 2021

The landscape


Rockway Beach on Aug 12, 7:22am 

Both Delta flights to and from SFO (DAL487 and DAL300) are fully booked, left on time, and arrived bit early.

I paid $510, the most expensive cheap flight I’ve had. And funny enough, there isn’t any meal on the morning flight to SF. On the return red-eye flight, they no longer provide the thin blanket.

Partridge and Bedrock

 

Tonopah is an unincorporated town in and the county seat of Nye County, Nevada,

 

Tracy is the 2nd most populated city in San Joaquin County, California ⇓


Aug 12 2021

San Francisco, 2021


The round trip ticket on Delta is the most expensive cheap domestic fare I’ve paid so far: $510, and no breakfast on the morning flight to SF. On the red eye flight way back home, I smelt strong cigarette smell on one of the male attendants. And, oh, they no longer provide the thin blanket.

This time, I didn’t rent a car, instead of using Uber and Lyft. I never have bad experience on Uber ride but learned the first hand how terrible it’s with Lyft. The 10 mile hike is something new and I really enjoyed it.

 


Jun 8 2021

948 sf $2 mil


875 Warren Way,
Palo Alto, CA 94303

This cute house, 2 bedroom one bathroom sold for  $2,470,000 on June 1, after listed for $1,998,000 on April 9, 2021. Built in 1950, it has an attached garage. The price has just gone up $316,377 which is 14.7% in the last 30-day period. The property tax in 2020 was $6,818.


Nov 2 2019

Bye, Beijing

It seems that I haven’t been to Beijing airport for a while: you go through security check first: they’re right up front, in your face. Since I’ve a few pieces, a young man mentioned to me to just go ahead. When I hesitate, he became rather unpleasant. Oh well.

Once inside, I immediately saw the vantage point of Forbidden City, which I just went two night before.

What interesting, I ran into the same flight attendant on my Pei-Sea, who was on my JFK-Sea too. Oh well.


Feb 11 2018

Gum Wah


345 8th St,
Oakland, CA 94607

Will return. A very topical Cantonese eatery where old gentlemen bring their birds and chitchat and eat. But I did see a mom with her 6 years old and an older diva in trendy yoga leggings. Free Chinese newspapers are on the tables. I’m lucky to have found a parking spot on the street four cars away from this restaurant. With a nice pedestrian’s help I successfully parallel parked, with a hour limit.

Foods are all good. Beef rice noodle with too much meat. Congee is delicious. I saw how they make the thin rice sheet to wrap the fried stick – youtiao and ordered one: the sheet is great but fried stick is kind of hard. Service is affable. When I tried to get hot water for my ever-presence tea bottle and couldn’t, she said “oh you don’t know” and went on to show me.

 


Feb 10 2018

Herbert Hoover

President Hoover’s legacy lives on at Stanford. The tower ($4 admission) has a clear view of the campus, the institute houses many historical collections. his included.

     

 


Feb 10 2018

Stanford Jr

A boy died too young …
Motion film was invented @ Stanford

   


Feb 10 2018

Rodin at Stanford


328 Lomita Dr,
Stanford, CA 94305

Cantor Arts Center/Museum in Stanford (The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University), San Francisco has the largest collection of Rodin’s works outside of his own museum in Paris.