Night Blooming Cereus

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We all know that flowers grow by using sunlight (and definitely water), but have you heard of flowers that grow only at night? Well, this flower is called night blooming cereus, and it is actually a cactus flower. It grows only once a month during the summer time, so the chance of seeing it is very rare. Fortunately, my mom plants one in front of our house, and I just love the smell of it when it blooms. It’s a sweet scent, but it’s not overpowering at the same time.

I took several pictures of the flower at different times. This one was at 7:35 p.m.

At 8:41 p.m.

At 9:32 p.m.

At 10:35 p.m.

I personally like this flower a lot because it is unique. This wasn’t my first time seeing the flower bloom, but I hope I get to see more of them in my life.

Foo Foo Tei

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Here’s another Saturday night spent eating dinner with my mom and aunt again. This time we went to Foo Foo Tei in Hacienda Heights. Their specialty is ramen.

When you step into the restaurant, the first thing you’ll see is their manga rack. Manga are Japanese graphic novels. They have loads of them, and some of them have popular names like ONE PIECE. They’re all in Japanese, though, so I can’t read them.

Chicken wings as one of their side orders. I liked the light crust they had, like it didn’t feel oily at all, and it was very flavorful.

The other side order is this broiled squid. The squid was cooked just enough that its meat were soft enough. It’s pretty cool how they got the marks on them, too.

Fried sole fish is the name of this one. The fish was fresh, and it even had roe in them when we ate them! It was delicious. They give you this soy sauce with minced radish to add for more flavor, and it tasted even better!

Finally, the ramen. This one is the seafood ramen with a miso soup base. It had so many different seafood in it, like: clams, shrimps, scallops, oyster, mussells, and even a small crab! It was full of flavor, especially with the other stuff like vegetables in them.

This other ramen is a white sauce ramen. I can’t really tell the base of the soup, but it was very creamy. It has almost everything in them, like both seafood and pork. It had all the seafood listed from above, and then you have pork. Plus all the vegetables they have. It’s surely a very filling meal.

» Foo Foo Tei
15018 Clark Ave
Hacienda Heights, CA 91745

San Gabriel Mountains

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On Thursday I went to the San Gabriel Mountains as a field trip with my Geology 1 class from Pasadena City College. I was pretty excited about the field trip because you hardly get field trips anymore, especially in college, and I personally think field trips are a great way to learn. Anyways, I definitely brought my camera, so there are pictures!

This is my Geology professor, Dr. Bryan Wilbur. He’s quite a dork when it comes to lectures, like he digresses a lot, but he keeps them interesting. That’s definitely something important in a six-hour lecture class like this!

A view of the San Gabriel Mountains – I don’t remember what’s this side called, though.

Ah, yeah, the students carpooled to get here. I thank Florescia (I can’t spell her name!) for the ride, and I definitely have to remember to pay at least $20 for the carpools she will be giving me.

Professor Wilbur talking about the rocks. If you look next and under him, you’ll see an “X” mark. That is called a “dyke” or something. I clearly don’t remember how is it formed at the moment, but I made sure to remember the name and how it looks like.

Another view of the San Gabriel Mountains. Like the smog out here? Haha.

A mountain full of diorites, which are rocks that look salt and peppery. My lab partners, Florescia and Vincent, and I think they look like cookies and cream.

Apparently, there is a tunnel called the Mueller Tunnel. It was pretty cool inside. Literally, like in terms of temperature.

The inside of the tunnel. Oooooooooooh.

You see the line shift? It tells you that there had been an earthquake here before because the plates shifted.

There’s an observatory called the Mt. Wilson Observatory. It’s where the Big Bang Theory was discovered and all that.

So, there’s a museum dedicated to show people how the Big Bang Theory was discovered.

I didn’t really get to read all of it, but there are some fascinating pictures out there.

This bridge is called Bridge to the Stars because it heads to the 100 inch telescope. There was a sign with a picture that had Albert Einstein here!

The outside of the 100 inch telescope. It was so huge! Imagine carrying a 100 inch piece of glass up to the mountains.

Inside of the telescope. It was pretty cool, but I bet it’s even cooler at night because you may be able to see the stars or something.

I think this is another sign that the earthquakes had been here before because of how the rocks formed a wavy line.

And this concludes my picture tour of the San Gabriel Mountains. This class will have four other different field trips, and I will just continue taking more pictures then!