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Bobalicious

Greetings everyone – I’ve got some unfortunate news. It’s been a boring week. You heard that right, I, Andrew, am letting you down in terms of my off-campus adventures. Minus the whole San Diego thing that is. But I did manage to make my weekly run to get boba. In-fact. I enjoyed it so much that I made my weekly run to get boba 6 times. Probably too many times. But it just happened without me actually trying to get... Read more →

San Diego… Round 4??

I’m baaaaack! In SAN DIEGO!!! Wait. What? San Diego?? I’m practically a UCSD student! It’s the 4th time I’ve been there this year! 3 times for fencing, once for my friend’s birthday. I really have been spending a lot more time than I’d been anticipating spending down South, but San Diego is really growing on me a lot. It’s a beautiful place and somehow the weather is even better than Pasadena. What was I doing there this time? NCAA Regionals!!!!!... Read more →

Flea-ing Responsibility

Today I bought I roll of Gorilla tape and a deck of SeaWorld playing cards for $5. No, I wasn’t using Craigslist or at a garage sale. I wasn’t thrifiting or sifting through the racks at the one-dollar store, I went to the Pasadena City College (PCC) Flea Market! I’d been meaning to do this for a very long time – as a kid I was super big into going to flea markets and exploring for trading cards, fossils, or... Read more →

Bro-ba – Marcel and I Did it Again

Hey party people! Or not party people. Normal people. Parents of prospective/admitted Caltech students. We’re back again with another BobavendtureTM. I was asked to cater boba for Hacktech, the annual Caltech Hackathon. The numbers: 500 people, 5 gallons of honey, one case of half and half, 6 pots of tea, and a case and a half of tapioca pearls. We did this a little differently though – Marcel and I made all of the tea the morning of (we served... Read more →

My Photo Wall

Because I’m sick this week, I’m going to take the opportunity to write about something I’ve had saved to post for a while: my photo wall and my quote board. Each Caltech student decorates their room in a way that’s representative integrally of their personality – and for me that’s with photos. I have about 70 photos on my walls. My photos are from all four years of high school through last year and this summer. I’ve been meaning to... Read more →

Sickness.

I’m really sick. Again. This seems to happen about once a year or so where I’ll catch a nasty cold somewhere in-between December and February, suffer for a few weeks, and then miraculously recover like nothing happened. And well, that’s where we are right now. There’s a phenomenon at Caltech known as the frosh plague, and I believe I’ve caught a strain of that. The frosh plague occurs because we’re all living in very close quarters in the dorms, and... Read more →

Maca-run

Happy belated Valentine’s day! It took me awhile to put together the pictures from this, but I too celebrated Valentine’s day (although not in a typical fashion). Mainly: I took my friend Alexander around L.A. Macaron shopping for his girlfriend! In all reality, he bribed me to do this with soup dumplings. I’m very easily sold on just about anything as long as it includes soup dumplings – speaking of, we may have found the best crab and pork in... Read more →

An Orange Dinner

I wish I’d documented this better photo-wise, but it looks like I only have videos to commemorate this wonderful experience so enjoy this picture of Alyssa’s cat, Frank. Hey all! How’s it going? I’m through midterms and starting a new week of life and prosperity here at Caltech. And what better way to do that than with a cooking extravaganza?! Actually, this was a bit of a commissioned cooking extravaganza – Jake and I were preparing a challenge for admitted... Read more →

Souper Saturday

This post is about… you guessed it! Soup dumplings! Hi, my name is Andrew Chan and I’m addicted to xiaolongbao. It’s more of a recent addiction. I’ve been going out for soup dumplings almost every week. Sometimes twice a week. If it’s a really rough week, I’ll go out three times. That’s just how life goes, I guess. My soup dumpling addiction has, at least, in some ways taken over for my boba addiction. This week though Eric and I... Read more →

First Concert of the New Year!

Hello music peeps! Happy Lunar New Year!!! (well, actually that started a bit ago, but close enough). Last night I went to my first concert since October and so now it’s story time! You know, meeting. The menu, the venue, the seating. The concert was at El Rey theater in Downtown Los Angeles. It was the smallest venue I’d ever seen a concert in which was super cool. The experience was rather intimate with everyone squished together and that was... Read more →