chinese new year

last weekend a buddy from school, the sister, and i ventured into chinatown for the day before chinese new year. mostly in the hopes that the maddening hordes would wait a day for the official start. eeeeeh its chinatown. so no dice.

reminiscent of the st peter's piaza

at the flower festival tent

amazing cherry blossom painting

$5 pepper decorations = AWESOME. i bought a $1 pineapple.

custard from tai pan

seen at the flower show: a personal washing machine

apparently i could do a small load of wash at work! sweet!