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Happy Chinese New Year from the West Coast!
It’s Sunday, Jan 22, as I’m writing this – which is the eve of Chinese New Year. I thought I’ll write a quick post to wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year! 
This year is the year of the Dragon, which is a long-standing symbol of power, strength, and good luck in Chinese culture. The dragon is a highly revered creature to the Chinese, and for the same reason, many Chinese see it as highly auspicious to have children in this year.
Every Chinese New Year, it’s common to see the Lion Dance and Dragon Dance – which are choreographed performance by people in life-size puppets modeled as Lions and Dragons respectively. Some people mistake the Lion Dance as the Dragon Dance, where they are 2 separate things.
Below is a clip of a traditional Lion Dance (in Hong Kong):
…and here is a modern take of the Lion Dance (they used Tiger puppets instead of Lion ones because it was 2010, the year of the Tiger):
At the moment I’m in Los Angeles, and traveling over to San Francisco later today. I’ve heard a lot about the large Asian community…
Published Jan 22 2012
Filed: About Celes, Updates
Tags: 2012, cny, happy chinese new year
PE Los Angeles Meet-Up (Jan 14, 2012) – Pictures and Afterthought!
Our Los Angeles meet-up took place as planned on Jan 14, at Sage Organic Vegan Bistro. It was a HUGE BLAST – We had readers coming from LA itself, to Orange County, to Ventura County (both of which are counties in California), to all the way from Australia!!!! We met at 1:30pm, and hung out all the way till 4:30pm. Thank you to everyone for turning up! 
At Sage – A popular vegan restaurant in LA. Kind Kreme is the sister brand of Sage’s, which serves raw, gourmet, organic vegan desserts. Having both brands share the same shop space makes it easy to get all of one’s vegan fix under the same roof!
Cosy restaurant interior
The early birds – Clockwise from the left – Katya, Amy, Cynthia, Michelle, Andrew, Anna. Thanks guys for sticking to the meet-up time and arriving before me even! I need to follow all of you as an example.
Published Jan 15 2012
Filed: About Celes, Travel, Updates
Tags: america, city of angels, LA, los angeles, meet-up, USA
LA Meet-Up, Confirmed!! (This Saturday – Jan 14, 1:30pm)
Thanks for your quick and spontaneous responses to the LA Meet-up, everyone! The meet-up has been confirmed, with details as follow:
- Venue: Sage Organic Vegan Bistro, a popular vegan restaurant in LA (website)
- Address: 1700 West Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (Google Maps)
- Date: 14 Jan, this Saturday
- Time:
1pm1:30pm* (Reservation made under my name, Celes, so just let them know you’re there for me when you reach)
*Note we will be having brunch / lunch via the items on their brunch menu. They will have juices/shakes plus desserts, so you can always have drinks/ice cream if you don’t want to have the mains.
Sage comes highly recommended via Happy Cow (an excellent directory for vegan/vegetarian eateries) and one of the readers of PE, so I’m quite excited to check out the restaurant myself. Cafe Gratitude is a really great vegan/raw vegan restaurant I went to on my first day here (in LA), but I didn’t choose it for our meet-up in the end as I wanted to try something new, and Sage seems highly promising – PLUS, it shares the same shop space as KindKreme, a raw vegan gourmet ice cream…
Published Jan 10 2012
Filed: About Celes, Travel, Updates
Tags: america, city of angels, LA, los angeles, meet-up, USA
In LA, California now!! Anyone Up for a LA Meet-Up?? ;)
The famous Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard!
HELLO everyone!! I just reached LA, and am totally loving the bright, sunny, yet cooling weather here (relative to New York)!
LA is amazing so far! I haven’t had time to check out the place yet, as I’ve been catching up on work and some administrative stuff which piled up during my 3-day train ride, since there was no internet access. (I took the Amtrak from NYC, to Chicago, to LA, thereby seeing a lot of lovely sights along the way, including large grassy plains, dry hot deserts, snowy mountains, small towns, little hilltops, and more.) I plan to get caught up with work
For those on Live a Healthier Life in 21 Days Challenge, we are on Day 10 now and going very strong! Today’s task is on going caffeine free. We’ll be reaching the mid-point of the 21-day course very soon. Hurry over to the 21DHL forums now to get up to speed on your fellow participants’ journals, the tasks to date, and to share your progress with others.
I’ll be in LA this week and the next, after which I’ll be heading…
Published Jan 9 2012
Filed: About Celes, Travel, Updates
Tags: america, city of angels, LA, los angeles, meet-up, USA
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