I can’t believe February is over! It’s always one of the happiest months of the year for me so I just wanted to post some photos from this month… Hope these would make you happy, too :)

Valentine’s day strawberry pancakes from Randy:

Beautiful roses from Randy:

We went to Blue Note New York for Brunch:

Great show by Elin (Loved it):

Thelonious Monk Beer!:

Empire State Building in red and pink:

Anniversary cupcakes by me:

Maia wanted my birthday present:

“A View From the Bridge” — it was great! Enjoyed it very much. Scarlett Johansson was so lovely.

Babbo Dinner. Oh my god, it was awesome. One of the best meals we’ve ever had! He is truly an amazing chef!

Love the yellow flowers in my yellow kitchen :)

Till next year, February. I love you!

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I hope you all had a nice Easter weekend… we did a major spring cleaning this weekend and ran lots of small errands etc. and I baked cupcakes for the Easter! I thought it might be fun to share my very easy cupcake “making of” post today instead of printing and typography stuff :) It’s just fun to create something and if it’s eatable, even better!

Preparation:

I used a box of cake mix so all I have to do is to add water, oil, and eggs! Now, mix it together.

Cute pastel color cupcake sheets.

Put the cake mix into each – I actually put chocolate pudding into vanilla cake mix for extra moisture so it looks brown.

Oven is preheated at 350 degrees in the meantime…

Wait for 20 min… and voilà! Smells soo good at this point. (inhaaaale)

Cool them down for a while and when it’s completely cooled down, put frosting on top… and yay, there they are, cupcakes! I used cream cheese frosting and kept them very simple (well, I wish I knew how to make those cute decorative ones…) – They came out so good! The pudding actually works great, it was so moist!

For your Monday morning treat… Have a great week, everyone!

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How fun and cute is this book? I love cupcakes, they are just so sweeeet in every way. This book looks so creative, I would love to try making (simple) one!

More information here.

For more elegant occasion, you can try these Cupcake Wrapper from Paper Orchid. You just wrap it around the cupcake and the result is so pretty!

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It was Randy’s birthday on Friday (Happy Birthday again, Randy!) and so we went out to celebrate with Steak and Jazz – just like the way he likes it.

Smith & Wollensky New York – we ordered Porterhouse and it was huge!

(picture didn’t come out so well, though…)

Randy had a surprise birthday cake followed by waiters’ song and that was fun.

Blue Note New York with Blue Method:

They were really good! We enjoyed it very much. Blue Note NY was more casual and fun atmosphere than Tokyo one we went a while back. It was fun!

oh and I made cupcakes for him (and me, too):

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On July 3rd, Randy and I went to see a Red Sox game at Yankee Stadium – my first time and the last time since they are closing this stadium at the end of this season (unless I get a free ticket, then, this won’t be the last time, but I doubt I would). It’s always a fun experience to see a game and also, be somewhere you’ve never been before so it was a great fun. I’m glad we got to go there before it closes, too, it has some histories there since 1923.

Around the stadium – filled with souvenir stores and sports bars as well as so many people:

They changed their rule a day before we went there that you can’t bring any bags into the stadium so I had to check my bag in this cute little bowling alley. *If you are planning to go to the stadium, don’t bring any bags!

The stadium – I love this feeling when you first see the field and bunch of people!

Panoramic view (click to see larger image):

They are building a new stadium right next to it:

I never seen this many Yankees’ fans! (Thank god, we didn’t go there with our Red Sox clothes… people were so mean to Sox fans – it was actually hilarious!)

We were so high up… it is so hard to get Red Sox tickets since they were the champions last year.

Manny:

All Star Game is this weekend here (Last year, it was in SF – they are following us)
The Sox was just kicking their butts from the beginning:

Randy’s beer:

They were dancing to YMCA song:

Yankees in trouble:

Us:

Red Sox won (7 – 0)!!

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I hadn’t been able to post about this event I went – the last One Step Beyond this year featuring Pete Rock and Talib Kweli! I like them both, especially, I like Pete Rock since back in 1993 and the last One Step Beyond I went was such a cool event so I was really excited to go to this.

Pete Rock on the deck:

He was playing all old school hip hop:

Talib Kweli on the mic:

I loved his energy!! It was awesome!!

It’s always a good feeling after been to a good show, I feel all energized!

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Randy is an Irish so we try to do something Irish on St. Patty’s Day and so we went to this Irish pub in Park Slope last night (with Maia in a bag,) hoping that they also serve some food… and they did! for free! Corn beef, cabbage, and Guinness. We were so happy. It was a fun neighborhood pub, too. Park Slope is great.

We all dressed in green:

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Going out with girls is always fun. Last night, I was with 6 other girls, had dinner at Typhoon Lounge, and then went to Bar 13. – it was my first lesbian bar. Everyone there was a girl including our group. I’ve been to gay bars in San Francisco, but it was so different than the gay bars, it was interesting… I had so much fun with my friends, though!

I loved the rooftop!

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On Saturday, I went to my first basketball game – New York Knicks vs. Portland Trail Blazers at Madison Square Garden. It’s always cool to do something for the first time and I never been to Madison Sq. Garden so it was a double first time experience… and I had so much fun! It was getting more and more exciting towards the end (I guess that’s how basketball game is like) and Knicks brought it to tie in the last 1 second and so the game went to over time! I was screaming with everyone, doing the wave (!) and just enjoying the game with so much energy – the vibe was so young and fresh! There were more teenagers and kids than any other games I’ve been to and they just have this pure energy. Knicks lost, not that I care, but I had a great time.

Randy didn’t hate Knicks. Like he hates Yankees. It was his first basketball game since 1986!

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Since I moved to the hood recently, I should start using these and become a real Brooklynese!

Brooklynese series at Fishs Eddy:

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