Are you hungry Houston? Big Bite Nite is coming!

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Experience an epic journey of food as HMNS dishes up cuisine from some of Houston’s most prestigious restaurants. This lavish culinary affair will offer tastes from around Houston and around the world. Delve into the multicultural traditions of our diverse city as you dine while enjoying musical entertainment. Feast with us and discover the culinary explorer inside you!

You want restaurant here is a sneak peek: A Fare Extraordinaire; Cantina Laredo; City Kitchen Catering; Frosted Betty Bakeshop; Grotto Ristorante; Hungry’s Cafe and Catering; Magnolia Hotel; PF Chang’s China Bistro; RA Sushi Bar Restaurant; Saint Arnold Brewing Company; Sambuca Restaurant; smartwater; Striphouse; Sushi Raku; Tacos A Go-Go; Valentino; YAO Restaurant & Bar

BIG BITE NITE will take place on Thursday, September 22nd, from 6 – 9pm at HMNS. 21 and up only.

( This are my views,not of the HMNS, nor of any person or organization affiliated or doing business with HMNS).

Texas! The Exhibit at HMNS

TEXAS! The Exhibition is a summary of Texas history and its people. Cowboys, immigrants, farmers, roughnecks: This is Texas and as the saying goes “Everything is Bigger in Texas!”

In this exhibit you will explore the unique roles that Texas has played: as a Spanish colony, as part of the Mexican Frontera, as an independent Republic, and as the 28th state to join the Union.

Discovering it’s rich legacy of perseverence, determination, and diverse heritage. We are after all a melting pot. This year Texas is celebrating its 175th anniversary of it’s independence and you get to learn something new you didn’t know about this great state.

If you think about it Texas has had 6 flags that flew over it. Spain, Mexico, France, Confederate, The Republic of Texas, and American. We were once a country even if it was for less than a decade before joining the United States.

In the exhibits there are many objects from private and public collections. the cannon from the Battle of Gonzales “Come and Take IT”, personal items that belong to David Crockett, Santa Anna, James Bowie, Stephen F. Austin, and other famous figues.

There is so much to see and learn while inside but that is not all there are helpful museam volunteers at the exhibits that provide you with tid bits of information that you thought you knew but not the whole story…

This exhibit is open from March 3-September 5,2011. If your in Houston, Texas during this time I highly recommend visiting this exhibit.

(This are my views, not affiliated with HMNS, nor any person or organization affiliated or doing business with HMNS)

New Year Superstitions 2010

Okay so we all have New Year Superstitions or Traditions doesn’t matter who you are. In my case this are the top 5 that  we do:

1. clean or cleanse the house to get the bad vibes out and bring in the good ( sort of like spring cleaning before the New Year).

2.wear new red undergarments

3. At midnight we will

• make 12 wishes while eating 12 grapes
• hug and/or kiss
• if wanting to travel go outside with luggage
• watch or burn firecrackers

4. eat, drink, and pray

5.make a list of resolution that we want to complete before the year is over. resolutions that are possible not impossible(seriously like we are really going pay all our debts, stop smoking, and  go to the gym year round). I’m being realistic we all make the same resolutions but in the end we give in to temptation and withdraw. My will power is very low unless there is there someone with me to compete with. If I am by myself i know I will not accomplish what i set out to do.

So, here is my question to you…do you have similar traditions or superstitions and if you make a resolution list do accomplish it?

 

Corpse Flower @ The Houston Museum of Natural Science

So for the last 2 or so weeks people have formed long lines to see the famous Corpse Flower aka Lois @ the HMNS. She is 6 years old, was grown from a 1 year old seed the size of a walnut and she was 5 ft tall and 30 pounds when she gave the first signs of begining to bloom.

Now she is 6 ft tall a little wider and probably heavier yet she has been stubborn and not bloom. She is the 2nd corpse flower to bloom in Texas and the 29th in the United States.

I go to check up on her due to the curiosity of seeing or in this case smelling it^^. Working at the museam has it’s perks. The story is that it’s going to smell like rotting flesh. So far the last time I saw it Lois was 6 ft tall and showing possible bloom we will see going there now…

~Rules of Asian Dramas~

After admitting that I am addicted to Asian dramas I have come out to figure that there are certain rules that make them addicting so here are the top 5 rules that I have realized:

1) Handsome, cute, hot looking guys fall in love with older women who are either rude, independent, or have no experience in love

2) If you have a best friend he or she is in LOVE with you and you don’t even know it.

3)You get nosebleeds if you study too much or if you have cancer, broke, and dieing …ouch…that’s harsh

4) love triangle where there is a brother/cousin who ends up loving the same girl…awh who will the girl stay with???

5)the girl always wakes up with the perfect makeup on.

Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang

Okay, So I’m hooked on Asian dramas I just finished watching Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang which I think you should at least take a look at.  It’s full of twist and turns in love square^^Yes, you heard me right not a love triangle but love square and to boot there is a side story that relates to the main story…sort of like the past repeating itself(LOL).

Anyway Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang is about a girl Chun-hyang accidentally (literally) falls on Lee Mong-ryon, here they start off on wrong foot, Chun-hyan out of anger brakes Lee cellphone and Lee in-turn tricks her into lending him her  cellphone and for awhile goes on like this…But Lee is always getting into trouble because of his temper and childish behavior but he has a good heart. Chun-hyan tries to help him and in the end they have to get married because of a misunderstanding. MARRIED AND IN HIGH SCHOOL!!!

Well, they do but Lee is in love with someone else and he only married her because his first love Chae-rin did not feel the same at that time.Chun-hyang knows this but she still loves Lee and tries very hard to help him even if he ignores her. Later on Byeon Hak-do a CEO for a major entertainment company shows up in Chun-hyang life and tries to make her fall in love with him, he even used dirty little tricks to separate her from her husband, which he did(that really, really, really was lousy).

In the end he saw that his love would never be returned…and as the saying goes”if you let it go and it returns then it was meant to be”…Even if the story spanned a decade of misunderstandings, twists and turns, heartaches and heartbreaks it was a romantic comedy that I highly recommend watching especially the ending…wanna guess what happen(he he he) you gotta watch it^^