Today I met my talented friend Mipa from Alien’s Day Out for lunch in Apgujeong. Whenever I see her, I’m always amazed how humble she is. She has a super popular blog, a thriving online vegan bakery, and an Etsy shop for her drawings, yet I always have to push her for information about her latest accomplishments. I guess that’s what makes her so loveable.
Anyway, today she gave me one of her 2012 calendars, which completely made my day. Now the only trouble is making space for it on my desk, which looks as if a box in the attic threw up its candles, macadamia nuts, lipsticks, books, magazines, cameras, nail polish, red yarn, chocolates, mugs, scraps of paper and pens galore.
On this exact day last year, I invited two people dear to my heart to lunch. We started with an assortment of caviars, foie gras, and terrine. Then we had this, our main course. Confit de canard and CD’s famous potatoes. It was accompanied and followed by copious servings of wine, cheese, cake, and laziness. We stretched our lunch as far as it could go, finally letting it loose when the skies turned dark.
Vineyards
i still think it’s a miracle that i have friends from high school
because i kind of truly hated most of it. seriously, those first three years were spent in agony. i wasn’t smart enough. i wasn’t korean enough. i wasn’t cute enough. on top of not being all those things, i wasn’t even clever. and i didn’t know how to cuss nor did i drink or smoke. in short, i was just average, which is about the worst thing to be when you’re a teenager.
but i finally started coming into my own senior year. much of that was due to the realization that just because i went to school with a lot of korean kids, i did not need to be friends with any or all of them. my social life might have been made a whole lot more enjoyable if i had just realized this freshman year, but i’m a slow learner.
to look at the silver lining, i had dinner with two very dear friends tonight to celebrate a birthday. we’ve been friends for 12 years, and it’s been a wonderful, fun and sometimes wild ride. i love that we have practically nothing in common with each other but have no shortage of things to opine about. that’s the beauty of friendship, isn’t it?
I consider it my talent to garner so many talented friends, like the one who painted this mini portrait of Hillary Clinton. It’s perfect. He’s a scientist by trade (author of this article in Nature), proving that there are people whose left and right sides of the brain can work together.
