Monday, January 13, 2003
Met with Cindy and Susie about the State of the Web document I drafted. We had a great discussion and decided to make a few tweaks before meeting with Rob Duca about it. In the afternoon I spent several hours troubleshooting printing problems in the IRC lab. Dinner at Ton Kiang with Patrick, Little Brian, Nico, and Adrian. It was a gastronomic orgy. We had hot and sour soup to start, then one of every dim sum item on the menu. For dessert, Little Brian had mango (pudding?). Nico ordered something and it turned out to be mini custard tarts—not what we thought we were going to get, but we ate them anyway. I thought the bill was going to be US$130, but it turned out to be about $86 before tip. We couldn't decide whether to order walnut prawns at the end. We decided we'd save that and the Peking duck that Little Brian wanted for a return visit. After pigging out on dim sum, we drove across the city and pigged out on ice cream at Mitchell's. I had a waffle cone with New York Cherry and Cinnamon Snap (cinnamon ice cream with ginger snap cookies). Patrick had toasted almond and macapuno (sweet coconut). Little Brian had spumoni. Nico had ube and avocado. Adrian did not have ice cream. The occasion for the feast: school starts tomorrow, so I call it the End of Freedom Feast.