When I was planning for my trip to Asia, I decided to make a stop over in San Francisco for two days to visit my buddy Kumar (a fellow classmate of mine from MIT). Whenever we met, one topic was certain in our conversation: career. Kumar seems to be doing well in his career and has always offered me plenty of good advices on career. Last weekend, it was no different, we chatted about career and talked about our career aspirations over dinner at an awesome Southern Indian restaurant. Being a Southern Indian, Kumar takes me to a different Southern Indian restaurant every time I visit the Bay Area. One prominent feature of Southern Indian food is that food are often presented as samplers. A restaurant would serve a platter of various chutneys and curries topped with dosa (hmmm, I love dosa), chapati, or other Indian crepe.

On Sunday, we drove to San Francisco from Kumar's apartment in Palo Alto to have lunch at my favorite Thai restaurant ever, Marnee Thai (yes, this place is better than Thai Lana in Boston or some of the Thai restaurants had been to in Thailand, it is that good). Afterwards, we walked across the street to Canvas, a cool cafe that my buddy Brian introduced me when he lived in San Francisco. To my dismay and shock, the cafe is now closed for business. As you can see, Canvas was perhaps my favorite cafe. They didn't serve the best coffee in town. But the atmosphere there was wicked cool. Canvas was a big cafe with an art gallery within. Patrons bought coffee and snacks and then consumed them within the confines amidst of many interesting art exhibits. Occasionally, they would even had amateur stand-up and music performances on site. It's really a pity the cafe is now permanently closed. The cafe will be missed.

Enough blogging for the day. It's time to go back to movie marathon on the plane.

6/27/2007 10:46:13 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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