Day: December 18, 2005

Time’s People of the Year goes to the Global Givers: Bill & Melinda Gates and Bono for their work for the poorest countries (the Time website has it “Bono, Melinda and Bill Gates”, which kind of looks like Bono was adopted into the Microsoft family), and “Partners of the Year” to Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush for their tsunami and hurricane relief efforts.

Saw the Brooklyn Youth Chorus in their annual holiday performance. Someone at work had tickets that were shared with us. They were magnificient. Pictures on the flickr strip above.

Excellent Turkish food on Montegue Street: Kapadokya Turkish Cuisine, 142 Montague Street. Our old sushi favorite Nanatori on 162 Montague Street was great as usual. I guess I’ve officially became a regular there because I get recognized by the manager, and we always get seated in the window (business always picks up for her after we sit there).

Off to the boss’ holiday party tonight…

On Friday night, co-workers and I went to the Atlantic Chip Shop. Good stuff – I can’t believe how much fried food I could dare to eat! I somehow resisted the fried Twinkie.

I finished reading “The Rule of Four.” Check out the official website as well. Fascinating book, a DaVinci Code-meets-A-Separate Peace. The friendships of the characters, four seniors in their final semester at Princeton in 1999, grappled with their loosened-tightened bonds while one friend, Paul, is trying to finish his thesis on a mysterious Renaissance book – reminded me a lot of how the friendships in “A Separate Peace” were developed and torn apart and re-established and reflected. The mystery was very strange. I liked how the co-authors were themselves friends from college (one from Princeton, and the other from Harvard, who took on their dreams of being authors).

Christmas stuff in the works – shopping? Card-distributing? Um, yeah! I’m on it, really!