Thursday, January 29, 2009

Good morning, Alameda!

Tracy gets to hitch a ride to school on top of a dumpster truck; I get to carpool with my favorite person. On the morning commute with the Woo's...

Mr. Woo: What? That person turned before me!
Mrs. Woo: It's 'cause you were weaving.
Mr. Woo: Hey, that's not very encouraging...
Mrs. Woo: It's okay! Next time, you'll cut that person off. :)
Mr. Woo: You're very OT.

[2 minutes later]

Mr. Woo: What do you think about "eye for an eye; tooth for tooth" in the OT, and Jesus saying "turn the other cheek" in the NT?

[5 minutes into the OT/NT conversation]

Mrs. Woo: Yeah, that's what I said!
Mr. Woo: Really? I totally didn't get that message.


It's fun being married to my friend. :)

Friday, January 23, 2009

Heavy-duty God

In the evening, after supper has been chosen, cooked, chomped, and cleaned, the Woo's were found reading in bed...

[Mrs. Woo reading Revelation]

Mrs. Woo: Hey, what do you think the seals look like?
Mr. Woo: Hmmm, I don't know.
Mrs. Woo: I think God would use padlocks.
Mr. Woo: hahaha Why?
Mrs. Woo: Because God's heavy-duty like that.
Mr. Woo: Yeah, I think God would use pad locks, too.


I'm so persuasive. :P


***Edit: Mr. Woo would like it known that his point was that God is a heavy-duty God.

***Edit Edit: Mr. Woo has corrected me (yes, again) in clarifying his point that God is a powerful God.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Re: What tastes like a name...

Today, I received an email from a sister. I quote:

so going along with your gchat themes of what to name your future offspring, I was thinking the other day....
please don't name them something that starts with "Z", because then if there name is listed last name first, then it will be

Woo, Z. (say it out loud if you don't get it)

also I found this for your enjoyment:

http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/bestof.html


happy wednesday!

Hahahaha I like that. But now I wonder what YoungJae's woozel means...

***Trivia Answer: NApoleon
I would have been famous and with a one-name, like Madonna.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

What tastes like a name...

Mrs. Woo was leaving her apt with her husband, when he tells her, "We should name our son Curry. That's a cool name - Curry Woo. And we can name our daughter Bibim." (Note: I love the irony in the latter name. Additional note: bibim means mixed, as in bibimbap.)

For those who don't know, whenever we visit my parents, my mom cooks whatever Cy wants. At first it was her cuts-like-butter-tender, boneless, well-marinated kalbijjeem for a while. Then, he craved bibimbap (rice with lots of veggie side dishes mixed in) with an over-easy egg. I told her of his egg-fetish and she gave: 1 to my dad, 1 to me, and 4 to Cy. o_O He thinks hers are better than restaurants; she loves that he eats it so well. Everyone's happy except for the person who doesn't favor bibimbap too much - me.

Upon announcing these names to the world of gchat, the following comments came in:
Virginia: CURRY????!!! what DID you put in that curry....

Christine: but if he lags, ppl will tell him to 'hurry curry'...

Tad: you should call your kid "Soon Doo"or "Soon Doob"

Daniel: ehh curry and bibim? that'd be so weird
someone says to Curry, "Yo, Curry, I'm gonna eat you for lunch!"

Nathanael: kids might make fun of him

Sorry Tad, Cy's not a big fan of soondooboo.


***Na family trivia: What were Jane's parents thinking about naming her before settling on Jane Na?

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Curry - Day 4

An eposide at the Woo's...

Mrs. Woo: Thanks for eating curry 3 nights in a row. :)
Mr. Woo: Thanks for making so much. :)
Mrs. Woo: I have the best husband in the whole world! :D<3

And THEN, he took leftovers to school for lunch. That makes it Day 4 (in a row) of curry. It's definitely his favorite food. :P

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

My second day back to school...

Student #1: Mrs. Woo, did you and Mr. Woo kiss in front of everyone?
Mrs. Woo: Yes...
Student #2: Are you and Mr. Woo going to kiss in front of us?
Mrs. Woo: Why are you guys in a crowd back there?
Student #1: We're talking about you and Mr. Woo kissing!
Mrs. Woo: Go back to your seats. -_-

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

HONEYMOON ♡ Day 5

Mazatlan for Salsa & Salsa!














First, we learned to make various salsas (and margaritas... at 9am...).
Here we are with our chef hats that fit our girly heads but were a bit snug for the guys. The guy on the left is Rodney. He and his wife were newlyweds too! They became the faces that we kept running into on the ship and at the ports. sang John Mayer songs at Princess Pop Idol while I sang Heart's "Alone" (for old times sake).

They had all the ingredients for each dish we'd be making laid out in clear bowls at each seat (one per pair) and walked us through each step. Then we ate them with taquitos and chips and topped it off with coconut ice cream that was served at the end. Knowing us Woo's and food, you can be safe to say that it was probably our favorite excursion.Following the I'm-going-to-now-add-"chef"-to-my-resume time, the workers cleared the tables from the area and created the "dance floor" where we learned to salsa dance! Ole! Of course being the one with more rhythm (so I'd like to think), I had trouble letting Mr. Woo do the leading. I hope this will not be a determinant for our future...

Speaking of whom, today is Mr. Woo's birthday! Princess changed our "Just Married" balloons to "Happy Birthday," which was kind of them. Then, they took it to another level and gave us a voucher to present to the waiter for when we dine. To celebrate, we went to the specialty restaurant Sabatini. We had heard that dining here takes roughly 2 hours because of the 30 different items that are served.
Personally, it didn't live up to be what the hear-say was. I found quite a few things that I didn't recognize to end up on my plate. The desserts, however, were wonderful!

Why I like the picture above:
#1 - We're honeymooning and celebrating hubby's bday. Talk about killing two birds with one stone.
#2 - The people on either side of our table found us very intriguing.
#3 - The waiter taking the picture found them watching us to be interesting enough to include them in our picture that we will look at for years to come with fond memories.

Happy birthday, Mr. Woo!
From your wifey (and the two waiters behind you).

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

HONEYMOON ♡ Day 4

Our first port - Puerto Vallarta!

PV is known for their beaches, but we spent most of our time swimming with dolphins and spending time at the water park.

Docking:
As soon as we get off the ship:
Swimming with dolphins was so cool! We were in group with some other folk. After sitting us down to watch a DVD, off to the water we went! The dolphins are trained so that if we make a T-shape with our arms out to the side, they will come up behind us and pull us along. If you float in a superman pose with your arms in front of you, the dolphins use their nose(?) to push you up out of the water so that you're "surfing." One thing on my To-do-before-I-die list, Check.

Watched the sealion show and the dolphin show:

Ate a hamburger for lunch but with my soda was defeated by the swarming bees.. :(

Went on the waterslides:

Rode in a taxi, the driver really likes Taz and has a walkie-talkie type of thing where he talks with other taxi drivers...

Cy entered the ping pong tournament:

I contributed 2 pieces to the cruise-wide puzzle:

Ate dinner:

Were entertained by Piano Man (who is probably the best entertainment on this cruise - he's really good):

Had a late-night snack/dessert... Notice a difference?

Here's Cy's plate:
And here's mine:

And called it a day. Tomorrow is our second port - MaZatLaN!

Monday, January 5, 2009

HONEYMOON ♡ Day 3

Still on the ship, but still finding things to do!

Here's our breakfast:Cute, huh? :) Cy's had sausage and hashbrown next to it, and a yummy danish on the side.


This morning, we went to the counter to get a print out of our bill. We discovered that we had some money refunded due to oil prices dropping? Not sure why this happened but the man and woman had different responses to this...
Mrs. Woo: Wow, this is great!
Mr. Woo: Yeah, we have extra money now.
Mrs. Woo: Let's spend it on eating and shopping!
Mr. Woo: Nooo, it means we can save this.
Mrs. Woo: Oh, right, yeah... Can we spend a some of it?



Later we saw a cool demonstration of fruit carving!
Apparently, these men watched their fathers do this in the Philippines, and there's even a school for it. Check it out:

We think her eyeball is made of olives.

Try sending this to your boss next Christmas.

Pretty~

Ouch!

"Hey, Shrek!"

Arggg!

I can't post all of them because I want to post some other pictures, too. Like lunch!

We sat with this other couple in their late 30's or so. The guy was funny. We asked him to take a picture for us, but before doing so we wanted to make sure "nobody was home." His commentary: That's a good one. Click. ... Okay, we'll take a nice one too. Click.
Not too long after Afternoon Tea is dinner. In the meantime, we're probably figuring out the floor plan by walking around the ship, getting exercise (and bragging rights) by competing against each other in ping pong, or playing Scrabble on the balcony while keeping our eyes/ears out for dolphins. ("Oh, look!" means those who are on their balcony have spotted the dolphins. "Ohhh~" means the dolphins are jumping out of the water. "Amazing" means we're too late in catching a look at the cool creatures.)

Here we are on our balcony:

By the way, we had a drill where everyone grabs a life vest upon hearing the alarm go off and gather at the appointed place. (Thank you, Titanic for what not to do.) So for all those who warned me of pirates and sinking ships, Princess has got us covered.

Before dinner, we went to go take portraits again. We went to another "studio" location (they had about 5 or so) for B&W. Our pictures from yesterday turned out nice and one of them even got a sticker as the photographers recommendation! Yeah, America's Top Models are here y'all! J/K. At the rate we're eating, we'll never get a step onto the catwalk. Regardless, I look forward to seeing the photos displayed in the foyer. We haven't bought any yet so that we can compare and choose all of them at the end. They're quite pricey at 20 a pop.

Back to food:











































More than the shows, the best entertainment thus far - Piano Man:

Tomorrow is our first port at Puerto Vallarta! WOO-hoo!