How many Nicholas Key are there in the CS Dept?

How many me's in this picture? This picture is way too cool for me. For those photography and imaging experts out there, this image is actually simple to produce.

Check out this picture taken in the Kudlick Computer Science lab :) This lab is usually a hang-out spot for me while there is nothing else to do in the USF campus.
It took me (a total newbie in photography and imaging) about 3 solid hours to produce this image.

Since I do not know how to use Adobe Photoshop or any other image editing applications, I use only the good ol' MS Paint. :P Yupe, the good ol' MS Paint that is installed by default in your Microsoft Windows operating systems with the much limited functionalities to produce high end images. (I do not know if it is still available in MS Vista OSes)

More information about the picture:
Camera: Olympus FE150
Dimension: 2560 x 1920
Format: JPEG

Thai dinner - June 6th

This is the fourth part of my birthday celebration. Phew, four consecutive days :) William was with us this time. The usual gang of three - Nicholas, Leo, William. We went to a Thai restaurant along Geary.

Notice that I wore the same red shirt for the four days of birthday celebration. I thought it an auspicious color but I don't have spare red shirt :P



























This is also another good eat. :D

Thai Cafe
3407 Geary Blvd
San Francisco, CA 94118

Mexican dinner - June 5th

Alright, this is the third part of the four-part sequel of Nicholas Key's birthday celebration. One more entry to go :P

Leo and I went to a Mexican restaurant in SF downtown. I ordered nothing but Mexican food. Well, that's why I am there. Had corn chips with salsa sauce, tortilla soup, taco, burrito and enchiladas and not forgetting a can of imported mexican beer "Modelo Especial".

Initially I asked a waiter what I am getting for my birthday dinner at Chevys and he told me he'll get that arranged. Of course, while waiting for him to come back to me, we continued eating and by the time we finished our dinner, two of them came towards our table and sang a mexican style birthday song and presented me a gift - a Mexican hat and treated us ice cream.




































It was already 9.30pm when we paid the bill. I wore the hat walking along the street to the bus stop and the experience was very very exciting. Few reasons, first, the policemen or immigration officers might jumped out of nowhere and perform a search onto me thinking that I am a lost Mexican that crossed the border and blindly ended up in San Francisco. haha.

Other than that, vehicle drivers will at least take a look at this "Mexican pedestrian". I even saw some drivers stare at me in disbelieve. lol. I told Leo that I felt weird wearing the hat walking on the street. He said "Don't worry, all the weird people are out at night. You are no exception". funnny ...

I even wore the hat in the bus. You can actually see how the passengers look at you. :P Anyway it's fun. I told Leo that I should have gotten myself a Mexican poncho to convince other people that it was Halloween.

My conclusion - this Chevys Fresh Mex at 3rd St is quite a good eat. The service is good, the waiter that served us was very patient and courteous. Check it out at:

Chevys Fresh Mex
201 3rd St
San Francisco
CA 94103

Birthday celebration - June 4th (Part 2)

This is the second part of my birthday celebration miniseries :P

I bought myself a cheesecake - shared it with my landlord and Leonid (my housemate). It's so cheesy and that is exactly the texture I love about eating cheesecake. Prepared two dishes and had Kettle potato chips as dessert.

What a glutton chubby Nicholas Key! haha

Birthday celebration - June 3rd (Part 1)

I celebrated my 23rd birthday for four consecutive days :) Can you imagine that? I'm lazy to elaborate how I celebrated my birthday in a long-winded manner - prefer to write my story in points-style.

This is the first part of four "miniseries" of my birthday celebration.

Kenn brought me to a Malaysian restaurant in Daly City on a Sunday evening. It's called the Banana Island. The food was not bad after all. I can say that the food is the closest to Malaysia.

Ordered 3 items:
Taufu, kangkung, aluminum-wrapped sweet sour pork

Actually we ordered a dish of roti canai but before I remembered to take a picture of the dish, the serving was already finished :P haha. That summed up to 4 dishes. Pictures of the food are as shown below.











This is the address of the restaurant if you plan to taste the food:
Banana Island
311 Lake Merced Blvd
Daly City, CA 94015

This is the map to Banana Island from University of San Francisco



We then headed back north to SF and had dessert in a cafe in Sunset. This is the address of the cafe:

Golden Island Cafe
1300 Noriega St
San Francisco, CA 94122

These are the desserts that Kenn recommended. Those floating pearly beads are sago.











The group picture with the birthday boy in red shirt, that's me :)