Jung's Weblog http://blog.junglin.com all the fun things I do outside of piano playing Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:05:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://feeds.feedburner.com/JungsWeblog?format=skin40.776099-73.982856http://www.blog.junglin.comhttp://www.junglin.com/Music/Video/podcast/1393-02.jpgJung LinJungsWebloghttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with FeedLoungeSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with NewsAlloySubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with Yourminis.comSubscribe with Attensa for OutlookSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with netomat HubSubscribe with Daily RotationSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with Flurry hah http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JungsWeblog/~3/q97KtwwTeGY/ http://blog.junglin.com/hah/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:16:46 +0000 Jung http://blog.junglin.com/?p=359 Can’t believe I made Miya grilled porterhouse with ground porcini mushroom dry rub after I had just seen the documentary “Food Inc” at the Film Forum 2 weeks ago… well, this was per request… hah, smelled like very animal-ie flesh and bloody thing-ie to me =P

Miya
Miya and her porterhouse.

A pitcher of fruity sangria for her and a very big glass of PLAIN OLD BORING WATER for me :-D

strange
thought this looks a bit MOMA-esque modern-ish strange

roof
another gorgeous night up in the roof garden :-)

]]> http://blog.junglin.com/hah/feed/ http://blog.junglin.com/hah/ Juliet’s Death http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JungsWeblog/~3/V3R-da3VDgM/ http://blog.junglin.com/juliets-death/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:05:45 +0000 Jung http://blog.junglin.com/?p=330 Haven’t closed my eyes since walking home from my 4th time to ABT’s performance of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet at the Met late last night (smooches to Linda for the most fabulous seats :-) ). The final scene hunts me for — don’t know how many years now. Really should write a transcription of it for myself…

The morning sun outside is hurting my eyes… what glorious music…

Michael Tilson Thomas & San Francisco Symphony Orchestra — Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (Scenes from the Ballet): XXIX. Juliet’s Death

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Stumbled upon takoyaki making videos on YouTube, couldn’t help myself but ordered an electric takoyaki grill from Japan!

Takoyaki & Okonomiyaki
Takoyaki & Okonomiyaki, and Moto’s Guinness :-)

Celine
bff Celine’s baby girl is due next month! HAPPY

Takoyaki & Okonomiyaki
Moto, a fab composer, Celine’s hubby Robert’s bff since college!

Fun night making lots of Japanese food on the pre-4th of July weekend :-)

]]> http://blog.junglin.com/takoyaki-party/feed/ http://blog.junglin.com/takoyaki-party/ luv :-) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JungsWeblog/~3/xxT0jYhiDSo/ http://blog.junglin.com/luv/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:31:52 +0000 Jung http://blog.junglin.com/?p=344 my very pink Schwinn bike

The very very first bike of my life — hard to imagine, me + a bike, or me “on” a bike, since I made such a big deal over dressing down, wearing flats, and won’t be caught again hiking all that stuff… Guess one DOES change, well, a little bit at a time at least… this is after all, a very very very PINK bike :-D

ps nope, haven’t taken it outdoor yet, waiting for bff Derek’s back to get better so I can have a guide… I am too scared to go out with it… LOL well, eventually I will need to ride it everyday going up and down the bike route in the Riverside Park :-)

]]> http://blog.junglin.com/luv/feed/ http://blog.junglin.com/luv/ Minimalist for a day http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JungsWeblog/~3/pDVH3rRbIkM/ http://blog.junglin.com/minimalist-for-a-day/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:47 +0000 Jung http://blog.junglin.com/?p=367 I am the one on the left piano with my very goth black loooong dress…
Make Music New York, Jung Lin

Played our New York premiere of Simeon ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato in Make Music New York today ON THE STREET under a tent, after 2 hour sleep and 4 hour teaching =P

But, FUN!!! Rain came in and out, lots of people stayed for the whole thing, was told by two enthusiastic audience afterward that they drove in from DC just to hear us!

A whole recording and filming crew was there, during the performance, the wind even blew a heavy high def video camera down, smashed into my arm and landed on my piano keyboard making a big BANG to say the least… LOL quite a scare but I had a few chuckles…

We did many many hours of rehearsals the whole week, my very first time playing a minimalistic work, the kind of focus needed to perform it was something I’ve never experienced before… quite glad I did this.

Check out the mentions of us on New York Times & The New Yorker

If you want to catch us doing this again, I will be playing it with Jed on Aug 14th, 2009, 6 pm at the Cornelia Street Cafe :-)

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raw agave rum raisin & raw honey white wine fresh strawberry 6 hour “pickle”

Miya
made yummy Okonomiyaki (aka Japanese pizza) for Miya, you can see my fav food — raw broccoli on the bottom of the photo :-D

bubbly
Strawberry honey pickle in bubbly

popsicles
YUMMY COCKTAIL POPSICLES!!!
Blue Lagoon Pops ~ maraschino cherries, vodka, blue curaçao, raw agave, lemon juice

Tequila Sunrise Pops ~ orange juice, tequila, campari

home made Red Bean Soy Milk Ice Cream ~ love my soy milk machine :-))

sky
beautiful night in my roof garden…

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]]> http://blog.junglin.com/how-fun/feed/ http://blog.junglin.com/how-fun/ 茶葉蛋 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JungsWeblog/~3/Gu7Dg0TCgOo/ http://blog.junglin.com/%e8%8c%b6%e8%91%89%e8%9b%8b/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 04:04:48 +0000 Jung http://blog.junglin.com/%e8%8c%b6%e8%91%89%e8%9b%8b/ Making the famed Taiwanese snack 茶葉蛋 (tea stewed eggs) at this odd hour — caught a cooking bug lately :-)

Wondering who I am able to feed this to after it is done in an hour…? LOL

茶葉蛋

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– Barthes 

]]> http://blog.junglin.com/fragments/feed/ http://blog.junglin.com/fragments/ My Heart Shaped Scones http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JungsWeblog/~3/cCXs7bKw5TA/ http://blog.junglin.com/my-heart-shaped-scones/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:29:23 +0000 Jung http://blog.junglin.com/my-heart-shaped-scones/ Linda Tao

For no reason at all, I baked some heart shaped raisin scones for the first time (they were fabulous btw!!), a fresh loaf of 12 grain bread, and cooked up a big pot of vege soup this afternoon. Facebooked bff Linda over and she just came — after her busy day treating patients! — she makes me happy :-) We had the loveliest time on my roof garden, the day was beautiful…

Linda Tao 

love her!!! 

Linda Tao

Linda Tao

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