frisco once again
sam wanted me to take her to frisco once again on saturday and so off we went - this time with a purpose. san jose is a bigger city but it doesn't have that vibe which a city should have. maybe it's because it's a new and modern city without the character and charm which frisco has.
took the MUNI from the train station. full of Giants fans from the ballpark. people in frisco are crazy. or is it just baseball fans. we were all packed like sardines in that little carriage but the jokes which were flying off were so funny. much unlike the tube in london were everyone sits or stands there like lost zombies. peeeps were interacting in a positve and social way which i found fascinating.
i got off at the embarcadero and sam and i started walking down towards pier 39. but alas... i was stopped by a south african flag. there was me, pretending to be proudly mzansi demanding questions from this girl and her boyfriend on tow at this stall with this flag. then that's when the six degrees of seperation came to play. she's from england - been to SA, Zim, Zamz and Bots. she works with this trust which gets artwork from southern africa and sell it online. they had some cool stuff on sale - njeng' eCity Hall in skies.
anyhoo, about the six degrees of seperation, this girl sounds like a white south african when she speaks but she's actually from oxford. she deals with plenty plus safoes and has picked up the lingo. she's working with groups similar to what my brother's doing and what i also want to get into. she lives in san jose about two blocks from where i work. her boyfriend used to live two streets down from me in bristol, even though we never met. we used to get indian take-out from the same joint - jumbo raj at cotham hill. it's like the bestest indian food outside of india. they've both been to southern africa three times and they wish they were south african (don't we all!!) - not just south african, but they wish they were black south africans. conversation took off like we'd known each other for years, talking about familiar things from three different parts of the world. we ended up munching on some crispy clam strips later on at the fisherman's wharf.
took plenty pictures. tally's on 139 - in two days. i have to weed out the silly ones. also have some videos. yep, my new toy does mpeg-4 videos so not only are they top quality, they are are compressed and hardly take up any memory. but then again, i have 50Mb of internal memory. and there's the big LCD and you can even do voice memo when to take the pic. how's that, voice caption to the photo. as you can imagine, i was busy exploring features up until the battery died. i whimpered and caught the train back home in misery.
took the MUNI from the train station. full of Giants fans from the ballpark. people in frisco are crazy. or is it just baseball fans. we were all packed like sardines in that little carriage but the jokes which were flying off were so funny. much unlike the tube in london were everyone sits or stands there like lost zombies. peeeps were interacting in a positve and social way which i found fascinating.
i got off at the embarcadero and sam and i started walking down towards pier 39. but alas... i was stopped by a south african flag. there was me, pretending to be proudly mzansi demanding questions from this girl and her boyfriend on tow at this stall with this flag. then that's when the six degrees of seperation came to play. she's from england - been to SA, Zim, Zamz and Bots. she works with this trust which gets artwork from southern africa and sell it online. they had some cool stuff on sale - njeng' eCity Hall in skies.
anyhoo, about the six degrees of seperation, this girl sounds like a white south african when she speaks but she's actually from oxford. she deals with plenty plus safoes and has picked up the lingo. she's working with groups similar to what my brother's doing and what i also want to get into. she lives in san jose about two blocks from where i work. her boyfriend used to live two streets down from me in bristol, even though we never met. we used to get indian take-out from the same joint - jumbo raj at cotham hill. it's like the bestest indian food outside of india. they've both been to southern africa three times and they wish they were south african (don't we all!!) - not just south african, but they wish they were black south africans. conversation took off like we'd known each other for years, talking about familiar things from three different parts of the world. we ended up munching on some crispy clam strips later on at the fisherman's wharf.
took plenty pictures. tally's on 139 - in two days. i have to weed out the silly ones. also have some videos. yep, my new toy does mpeg-4 videos so not only are they top quality, they are are compressed and hardly take up any memory. but then again, i have 50Mb of internal memory. and there's the big LCD and you can even do voice memo when to take the pic. how's that, voice caption to the photo. as you can imagine, i was busy exploring features up until the battery died. i whimpered and caught the train back home in misery.
139 in two days. I thought i was bad. obviously I'm normal. digicams are an addiction you will refuse to get rid of. Not sure how I functioned before I got mine. Life would be so dull without it!
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2:19 am, May 17, 2006