Random Scrap:
We first met online and then in San Diego. Vu was staying at his parents' place over Christmas and we were going to drive back to Berkeley together. Us, my new station wagon 1996 Honda Accord, the boxes, the golf clubs and the bear. Before the departure we saw the Sideways and then went for a meal in Hillcrest. He kept asking me what I thought about the movie. He was a future scientist and I was just one of those romantic majors. "It was good" I answered. We drove to LA by the coast. We didn't get to the Bay Area until late at night. There was snow on the freeway so we had to take a detour via 126. Or the other way around. I dropped him off at his place in the hills and rolled back on a neutral all the way to Albany. We hang out almost every evening. We would go to get spicy chicken from a Korean place on the North side and then take a bus to his studio. We chatted, laughed and drank Vietnamese coffee. Once we drank wine at the bus stop. Vu was the first friend I made in Berkeley.