ENCORE

It's been a long time coming since I've updated you kids with what's been going on, and I'm sorry to keep you waiting, this school thing is really killing. Hopefully next quarter with easier classes I'll get around to this a little more often. Well since I've held off so long I have a conglomeration of photos to unwind all at once. Just make sure you keep up with the tour and try not to get too lost.

First off this photo belongs no where really but I liked it; It was from the night we all went out and got sushi and hit up some Ralph's scratcher action. I had won twice that night, but no real money saw the light of day.
Next we have the Balboa Park installment, this was one of our attempts to get out and explore the finer things that San Diego has to offer, and why not a history rich art museum in a beautiful park.
Concentrate real hard on these pieces.
Soft lights and rich colors filled every which way of the entire building leading to an endless array of appreciation, as I have the utmost for artists.
Balboa park itself wasn't too shabby, I could easily see this being a place where I would drive over just to kick it in the summer or a nice spring weekend. The summer nights here must be something worth experiencing for yourself. This tree must have seen many a handful of them.

A while after that adventure, we had to stop by a place that I frequent often now, Pho La Jolla. It is a little reminder of home just nestled in the protective bubble that is La Jolla. The rich food that reminds me of Saigon City has never disappointed, and wasn't about to this time. I'm glad that so many people get the chance to experience Vietnamese cuisine, and one of the most important parts of that is that most Vietnamese cuisine has been untouched by big corporations such as Panda Express has done to Chinese food, No offense, I do like me some Panda express, but its not so authentic. I'm glad that Vietnamese food has really remained what it was always set out to be, a street food prepared by the true Vietnamese stands.
Impressive that Chen can dust off a bowl like its nobody's business, guess the Taiwanese can hang.
Rico drew me this nice little piece on my desk. He's quite the artist and I admire his cartoonist work. Maestro.
Oh then there was this party, let's not talk about the car trouble I endured before it, but check out the laboratory poker party. Big stars like Christopher "Big Chips" Lim and Man-Beer showed up and showed us how to get down. All in all in was a goood time.


Kids eye-ing my chips, lost early though. Wasn't my night.

Lim didn't do too poorly though, sometimes you just gotta back down to the sensei.
Then there was our party finally. The end of winter quarter came, and it was more on the side of the best of times than the worst. Being that I had finished finals on Tuesday, this was a great end to my week of goofing off but a great beginning for others. We decided to gather the troops and head out to dinner at Sammy's Pizza. Here's Chen (Aka Aladdin) and Jasmin, whhhat a cute couple. They even saved me the godfather seat, good looking out Chen.
The crew and my lovely one.
Afterwards we kicked it at Chen's for a bit, rounding off the dinner with a dessert of Ice cream cake.
Soon after growing restless, we hiked up to pay our quarterly respects to Alton. What up Bro.
This photo almost looks as if it was taken in a photoshoot with the lighting just perrrfect. Boy the camera loves Rico.
What's an end of the quarter without a little Mnt. Soledad action? And this time with a tripod.

We had fun just messing around with light and such.
Ah how it never grows old. We had a lot of fun tonight, hopefully next quarter we will be able to have more of it with better weather too. Expect some nice beach photos next quarter.
Giant Penis Attacks Vol. 1

We never change, do we

See you kids next quarter. And more often I presume. Oh I do have to tell you about this guy I've seen around campus....I'll show you what I'm talking about next quarter. Til then my friends.

THE DAY THE YEAR STOPPED

I feel every year the world stops on one day to watch it change. Still what has not changed is how new years comes up like Christmas' ugly step-sister every year. But on this day we notice the changing of the year, the changing of attitudes, and the changing of a president. This day San Fran was dressed up in her most beautiful clothing and ready for a night on the town, filled with perusing, drinking, and living life up. Tonight San Fran treated all of us well as we set out first to safeway to get some fast passes for the Bart system.
What didn't help was that all the Safeway's in a 5 mile radius were sold out of them, and apparently every Safeway thinks the other Safeway had some still.
After all those complications, we got to the Bart station and the city was alive, and we were in the heart of it. With security amped up to a hundred-thousand-trillion, we proceeded without caution, without sweating, not knowing that there's thing that went down this night that everyone would remember as infamous. I'm sorry if you've never heard of what happened, but that might be for the best. If curious just look up what happened on the internet.
During the trek through the veins to the heart of the city, I decided to call up the ghosts of my years past and wish them a new one, hoping that our friendship wouldn't change with the year. The guestlist include Chen dog, Alton, Shibuya, C Lim, and Kelley Kim. I passed the phone to Jenny and Tiffany for a lot of these conversations, especially the one with Rico.
The lights reached for the skies that night and they seemed so distantly beautiful. This night was definitely the night to look into the skies, metaphorically and literally. All the lights were on tonight.


Even 23 was lit up tonight, and no one ever can usually light up 23.
People were seen far and wide, one of those feeling I have never experienced before. I felt like it was one of those movie moments when a large crowd couldn't run because there were so many other people around. Everyone out tonight to celebrate change.
Boom....
The sky lit up with flashing explosions of decadence. Personally this is my favorite firework, because it starts up just as an explosion and then when you think its just a weak boom, it crackles brilliantly, lighting up the sky before it leaves.

This picture was pretty dificult to take, but not tooo shabby.
This new year's eve the lights really came out and gave it their all, with no regard for the future.



People people people, thats all i remember about this night mostly. Pushing it seems is the most common method people use when they want their way and someone's standing between them and their goal. Too bad we were in the way and we didn't really like to push.
Finally we arrived at the station and said goodbye to a tired San Fran, as we ourselves were all partied out. Welcoming the new year as we leave.
Yes I guess I'm a little bit behind the times right now, because the new year has invited a lot of new work and so I haven't had the chance to write much lately, but hopefully if I get my fisheye soon or once i start doing some projects you'll see some posts. Trust me there are at least 3 or 4 good ones before this blog thing gets old.

See you in '09. Never stop changing and pushing.