Burgus Plus world tour

[aho]

Looks like a good time...I remember revisiting my elementary school when I was doing updates for the Flat Head world tour...It's def. a trip to see how things have/haven't changed...One of the things I love about these tours/contests/etc. is that they make you do things you might not otherwise get to experience!

[_Kai_]

quick update, these last two days have been pretty boring, just work and shitty rainy weather. would have a few more pictures but technical difficulties with my new phone corrupted them. anyways

went to work with my dad on the house, mom bought some chinese pastries for breakfast. grow up on these pastries for breakfast. whats in the box, bbq pork buns, hot dog buns (my college roommate and i always debated on what kind of hotdog they put in there because amazing, but they have to be cheap because they only cost 70 ish cents per bun), coconut buns, and my favorite pineapple buns with custard in the middle.

mom also bought some of these cookies, basically the best part of the pineapple bun (the top) made into a cookie. I remember when i was a kid my parents would get the plain pineapple buns without custard, i would pick the top off and leave the rest. these cookies were a godsend haha.

headed over to the new house to work on some odds and ends with my dad, The city is really small, one main road with restaurants, corner stores, and misc mom and pop bars and businesses. Not a supermarket in site.

pretty nice suburb feel to it, theres one plaza that houses a bank of america, and misc independent restuarants. Only one fastfood there which is a subway.

pretty cool they had a really small skate park with a half pipe and a few ramps and bars. couldnt get all of it i was driving and picture taking haha.

helped my dad demolish the walls around these stairs, taking out sheetrock and stripping it down to the wall frames

these next few days might be a bit more interesting i promise haha

[aho]

House/Construction/de-construction work yields mighty fades...Keep it up and great work!

[chambo2008]

i love these chiense cakes i allways buy around 10 when i go to the supermarket

[_Kai_]

hey everyone update from the last few days

Ending up without a car on wednesday after work so ended up taking public transportation homie, good day without any rain even some random chicken was talking the blocks with me haha.

havent taken buses/trains for a while so this was a refreshing experience, took the bart (stretches really far throughout northern california) its like a dumbbed down NY MTA but so much cleaner in the station and inside the train.

cushioned seats make my ride back in the city so comfy

when i got off felt like i was in high school again taking the bus home, from here it was the exact same route i took home.

good ol 23 bus took me from the ghetto/projects to my asian neighborhood high school.

heres a mural right next to my house, seen it all my life. It was like the dividing line between the projects (2 blocks away) and the yuppie part of my neighborhood.

[_Kai_]

friday, helped out with a massive window shipment for the new house

had dinner with my family for my birthday, cousins brought over their kids

spoiled ones they are, both girls

Small dinner with soup, roasted duck, chinese braised turkey, char siu, and some gai lan greens.

Chocolate mocha birthday cake, pretty delicious

went out with a couple friends for wings and drinks at wing-stop, i like to say i can eat really spicy food, these were by far the spiciest wings i had ever had. Made my friends whole body sweat it was pretty funny. (if anyone ever goes to wing stop fair warning for the Atomic wings lol)

[aho]

lol if the trains in NY were cloth like in your parts the bed bug infestation would be quadrupled!

[_Kai_]

lol if the trains in NY were cloth like in your parts the bed bug infestation would be quadrupled!

didnt know about that, feel privileged now lol

[ranonranonarat]

cool post, chicken pic is funny! hahah.

[_Kai_]

hey guys Christmas update.

pictures from tuesday, my friends are slowly filtering back to the city for winter break. My day off of work spent hanging out with them. Decided to get lunch. My friend suggested SF Cheesesteak, what a perfect idea, best cheese steak in san francisco.

got a side of onion rings too, never been to philly before but man cheese steak was good.

ended up kicking it at my friends house the rest of the night watching the warriors game. afterwards headed to in & out for some late night muchies. Something about an in and out burger, secret sauce chopped up onions who knows.

animal style cheese burger.

fast forward to wednesday, been raining all week and the style just started to clear up.

didnt know it was a chinese holiday, but specially we were supposed to have this soupy dish. Not really sure what its called but its made up of white turnips, dried baby shrimp, chinese sausage, and instead of noodles rice flour rolled into balls. topped off with chives its a dish i grew up on and delious.

christmas eve pretty quiet decided to take a stroll around the neighborhood passed by the park i used to play at as a kid, used to spend my whole afternoon there after school and heres a good view of the bay from my neighborhood

came back home with tapioca tea and fried chicken.

pretty quiet Christmas day, we dont really celebrate anymore, just dinner with the family. but here is my sole present from my sister.

howd everyone elses Christmas go? Merry Christmas everyone:D

[ranonranonarat]

on the chinese holiday i ate something too but pretty different from what you had. mine was called tang yuan which was actually glutinous rice balls with peanut filling inside. its cooked in a clear soup with rock sugar and pandan leaves. really good stuff. i think its meant to mark family reunion or something. haha. cheeseburger looks damn good! dont forget to put your name down in the pocket!

[_Kai_]

happy new year burgus! prolly one of my last updates before i ship out to the next person, havent been doing to much its been raining like mad here so just been lounging around here and there.

Stopped by the haight ashbury area to cheap out some snowboarding gear, villians. Haight is filled with so many smoke shops now its crazy, the whole vibe there still remains true to those hippy roots.

headed out to get some lunch at a hole in the wall vietnamese place. got to love vietnamese sandwiches. i swear i can eat these all the time and not get tired of it.

meet up with a group of old high school friends for dinner at this franchised brewery/resturant called Bjs. Nice atmosphere and everything but doesnt seem right to have franchised a brewery style resturant. but anyway go some deep dish pizza for everyone and roast beef dip for me. Decent food, did the job and got me full as fuck.

finished the night off with a walk around and drinks around the city. passed by this asian salon. lol never got the concept of tattooing makeup

One of the only days a didnt rain this week got a chance to head downtown.

errie mix of sunny overcast

passed by the mission on my way. Part of me always liked the mission, mecha of mexican life in san francisco, good food, lots of .99 cent stores, just full of the most random things you can find anywhere else in the city.

Thing about san francisco is that they still kind of run the cable car system. Only runs from middle of downtown san francisco to to the top of marina district. nice to ride on a good day.

stopped at blondies pizza for lunch, best pizza in the city to me right now. a bit like a whole in the wall and always packed. I always go for the daily special, today the pesto chicken. Something they do with the crust just makes the pizza that much better,

thats pretty much it for me, will do a last update soon.

[_Kai_]

forgot to add heres a couple of pictures from a good day last week had the chance to go up to my neighborhoods hill: bernal hill. On a good day one of the best views of the industrial bay and other parts of the city.

sultro tower and twin peaks

golden gate bridge on the right mission district and outer market

financial district/downtown and the bay bridge

the bayview hunters point area, docks

visatacion valley

the excelsor/ocean area

[aho]

great view and happy new year!

[ranonranonarat]

happy new year mate, is it me or does your league seem pretty fast??

[ah_long]

any updates?

[rungo]

Kai PMed me a few days ago about moving the tour on, he said he was going to wait for a few days to see if there was a response from a few others, his leg technically finished up last week, and ignoring skips, I'm next up. Hopefully he'll get back to me/us pretty quick and we can get rolling again.

[ranonranonarat]

can't wait for new updates to see how them jeans are doing!

[rungo]

Got a reply, looks like I'll be up next, he said he's aiming to wash them up and send them out within the next few days.

[ah_long]

awesome... this is great

[_Kai_]

my bad everyone, been lagging to wash these up. Final pics will be coming up in the next couple days

[_Kai_]

Hey everyone, everything should start going again within the next couple days. Just wanted post some of the last photos i took with the jeans.

Couldnt have a tour in san francisco without a super burrito. Bought from my local mexican restaurant. Steak burrito, chips, and horchata

hanging out to dry.

got pretty dirty with the house work, washed up and fresh.

Tagged up

Boxed and off to Canada

Later SF

Been a good run, glad i was a part of it. Rungo looking forward to your posts

[Medine]

Great posts Kai!

[ranonranonarat]

thanks kai, i loved your updates! although this burgus tour is pretty quiet (probably due to there being too many tours around), i enjoyed a lot of the updates. can't wait for rungo's!

[aho]

Good to see the pocket bags holding up still! And I can't believe we're already onto the 5th participant...Can't wait to see what else is in store!

[_Kai_]

thanks kai, i loved your updates! although this burgus tour is pretty quiet (probably due to there being too many tours around), i enjoyed a lot of the updates. can't wait for rungo's!

quiets good i think, makes it feel more exclusive or special with a smaller group of people interacting over this and less randomness from others.

[rungo]

I've got the jeans now, would have done an update with pics, was having some computer trouble, but have secured a temporary computer while I laze on getting a new laptop (mine basically packed it in). I did manage to get some pics, and I have a short video to demonstrate how cold it is outside right now.

In pants related news, they shrank up pretty good in the wash, waist measuring around 29", so I'm doing a little stretching on it, fit is good everywhere but the waist, so it should be no problem (also I'm 5-10lbs heavier than when I signed up, but its been going down lately).

[Flash]

glad to see you all enjoying the jeans , cant wait to see what these look like at the end

[aho]

^woot! Can't wait to see your documentation!

[rungo]

The collection thus far

The fit (before any stretch)

Sorry about the quality of the vid, but I hope it more or less gets the point across.

Nothing much happened today, nor do I expect much will go on till probably Thursday of Friday, as I have some work to get done, but I'll try to get some food/beverage updates in.