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I didn't think I would get into mountain biking so quick. Kinda just happened when I borrowed my bro's bike to ride the neighborhood. Then it went to biking the trails and ever since then, I was hooked. If only I started doing this earlier. Always a good workout and a peaceful trek around nature.

Hope to see you on the trails!

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Earlier this month I got a fix it ticket for having my front side windows too dark. After removing the previous tint and paying a $17 fine for the fix it ticket, I got a new 3M Color-Stable Tint all around. the front side windows are on a medium tint, while the back rears are limoed out. After a week of having the new tint, the car has been much cooler inside and I don't have to blast the a/c to cool down the yukon. I just hope I don't get pulled over for the tints again...

Also hit the 60K mileage mark this week...

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Wow, it's been a while since my last post. Same old thing going on with me, mostly busy with work. Can't wait til I get away from work and relax. At least there are some trips planned out for bachelor parties, can't wait to get crazy!

Excited about the start of the Angels new season, waiting to see if this will be another World Series run. We looked good today, they just couldn't put up runs today. Clippers season pretty much already done with, hopefully next year they'll be healthy and be a force in the Wild Wild West.

March Madness was good to watch, kinda bummed Tennessee didn't go further now I'm rooting for UCLA to win it all.

I'll try to keep up with my posting, but kinda hard with this busy schedule.

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The year has flown by so fast, can't believe it's already December. It's starting to get chilly at night and around our neighborhood, people have their Christmas lights out. I love the holiday season and can't wait for more of the holiday food and celebrations to come.

Wishing everyone Happy Holidays. It's only 21 more days until 2008!!!

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Back from a long hiatus from the realms of blogging. I want to give a little recap as to what went on the past couple months. September - busy with work and the start of the NCAA Football & NFL season. Kind of disappointed with how my Eagles started, but hoping they can bounce back and get into the Playoffs. October - still busy with work, but also had a little vacation to DC/NY with Joesan, Karen, Cat and Joe. It was good seeing all the history in DC/NY that I was in awe how the Washington Monument and White House are still in pretty good condition. It was a very much needed time away from work. Took lots of pictures and will post them shortly on Flickr. Can't wait for the next vacation trip...

Also, want to congratulate my boy, Joesan, with his proposal to Karen while we were in NY last Tuesday. Can't wait for the Bachelor's Party!!!

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The past two weeks, I've been working in Sin City and it is ridiculously it hot over there! I am not used to starting my mornings @ 90 degrees. Gave me a little sneak peek of how work would be if I worked in this area. The locals say it's only 7-8 months of this crazy heat and then it's normal weather once fall and winter hits. Don't know if I can handle this type of extreme heat. The good thing about this area is that traffic is not that bad as we have here. Commute to offices is only 20-30 minutes unlike the hour and a half plus in LA. All I can say is that I am happy to be back here in California, except for the traffic. Vegas is a fun place to go when you're with a bunch of friends, but when you're there for work it's a different story. You can't go out and enjoy Vegas when you have work the next day.

My stay here is always great, especially when it came to food. I found a couple new food spots to check out, Osaka Japanese Bistro (awesome sushi "Roppongi Roll" - a little pricey, but worth it), tried the Wynn Buffet Dinner (flat out fantastic!!! Better than Bellagio's - thanks Cat for the the recommendation, must go here again). Well those were my two places I ate this that I would recommend any Vegas travelers to check out.

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July has flown by so fast and now I can't wait til work slows down or til my vacation days start up again. I will accrue more vacation time starting August 4, which was my start date 2 years ago. Being busy with work sucks especially when you gotta drive in LA traffic on a daily basis. Driving 30 miles in 2-3 hours is just plain ridiculous, LA drivers need to press their gas and not talk on their darn cell phones. Crossing my fingers something else will come up in my career hunt. I've finally come to terms that this isn't the career path that I want to take. There are many more opportunities I am interested in doing and will have to get lucky in finding that dream job. Wish me luck...

Not only was work busy, but I was busy attending weddings in July, one up in SF and another down here in Los Angeles area. In all, I had a blast the past couple weekends due to being inebriated with the open bar being so generous to us. To start off the first weekend in August, another wedding to attend, I guess everyone likes getting married in the summer time. Good times with friends and family, congratulations to the newly weds (Jenn & Cesar, Kristine & Alfred).

Softball, we're getting the hang of things now. Just gotta make sure we have enough girls to play every sunday because we are usually playing with the bare minimum (4). Double header coming up and hopefully we can fill that rover spot we so desperately need. Last weekend, I was happy to see we had a lead after the first couple innings of play. Solid hitting and solid defense helped until the other team started playing like bitches. It's freakin' slow pitch softball, swing at the darn ball.! That irked me a bit when their players would stand at the plate and have the bat resting on their shoulders. They knew we couldn't throw the ball to the plate every pitch and used that to their advantage. Oh well, guess they do what it takes to win. Next time we play them I'll do the same and get on base that way. Hopefully, I'll piss them off and walk in some runs.

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Wishing you all the best in your new journey in life together. I am glad to have attended the wedding and be a part of your new step as a married couple. Tthis was the perfect weekend to get away from all the stress that work can bring. Good times wandering around SF Bay Area and also at the wedding reception where we all got a little crazy. Hope everyone had fun like I did. Thanks for an awesome weekend.!

wedding pictures... link

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Times have been going by so fast that I haven't even had the chance to think about my situation. If I haven't told you yet, I have a couple choices for where I could be relocated, either the bay area or the lovely sin city. Both areas will be a change, and I know this change will be an adventure. I'm going into 2 years of service in August and have contemplated whether or not this is the right career path for me. The only thing holding me back is the long drives that I have to endure on a daily basis. The drives can get to you especially if you drive in the awesome LA traffic. I can't complain since fuel and car allowance is given, but it doesn't help when you're driving 5mph in stop and go traffic. Possibly a change of scenery will alleviate the traffic congestion.

I have also been searching for any office job that has an IT position available. I think this type of work suites me best, since I like working with co-workers in an office environment. I was spoiled at my old company with awesome co-workers and even though the pay wasn't great, it helped that the work environment was pretty chill. Not to bag on my current job, we have awesome workers, it's just I don't see all of them on a daily basis. I knew what I was getting into when I got hired on, but I just have to figure out if this is the kind of stuff I want to do as a career. I hope things will work out and I find that answer to my career path... Until then, wish me luck!

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Jacked up the old one, so I'm starting a fresh one.

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Finally, UCI is getting some recognition in sports media with the Anteater baseball team in the College World Series. I remember back in college when UCI Basketball was making a ruckus trying to get into the Big Tourney, but we were denied by Utah State. Now I know how it feels when your school is winning and getting some action on ESPN. Hopefully, the Anteaters can keep the dream alive and beat out Oregon State to get into the Finals. Let's Go Eaters!!! Zot Zot Zot, haha!

here's the link for the CWS Results

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(Picture Courtesy of Sherwin)

I got down and Dirty this weekend! I had a blast this weekend...

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Congratulations Ducks!

Although I was unable to watch Game 5 live, due to work, I was happy to hear the Ducks finally win the Stanley Cup. Went back home to watch the replay and didn't sleep until 2am (also because I had Molca Salsa, which kept me up this late). Hope everyone has a great day. I know I will.

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Just picked up this new album by my favorite J-Pop artist... Beni Arashiro.. So far anything she says makes me smile, so soothing to my ears. All I have to do now is learn some Japanese.

domo arigato gozaimashita.... yatta!

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(10/1996 - 05/02/2007)

Today is a very sad day for me and my family. Our Cockatiel, Misty, has passed away around 730-8am this morning. Noticing she was very weak late last night, we cuddled, petted and took care of MIsty in her last day here on Earth. We tried feeding her, giving her water, but she did not want to eat or drink anything. I couldn't even sleep last night due to knowing that she may not make it through the night. When I woke up this morning, around 630am, I ran down and checked up on her. She was sleeping when I petted her head and she looked at me and went back to sleep. I thought all was fine and that she may just need some rest, but this was the last time I saw her alive. A couple hours later, my brother found her lying on her back. She lived a little over 10 years and I am very fortunate to have her as a pet. It is going to be hard to not see her around because every morning I always stop by her cage and say goodbye before I go out to work. I give her a whistle and she would reply back with her cute whistle and either go back to sleep or back to preening herself.

I will miss her whistling and happy nature. I know you are resting peacefully in heaven. Until we meet again, RIP Misty...

Misty Ready to Fly

Misty Smiling

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I am finally back to normal after that Atlanta business trip. The hardest thing was trying to adjust to the time change. My sleep took the hardest hit, I would be wide awake at 12 midnight eastern time and have to wake up by 6am eastern just to get ready for my seminar/training. I only fell asleep a couple times during my seminar and luckily my co-worker woke me up before my snoring would take place.

My short time I was there, I met some good people from the east coast who were encouraging and great to be around. One of my friends from the last Atlanta trip was there, too. Although, we weren't able to hit up the Oasis like last time, we managed to go crazy at the Hotel Bar. The trip overall was a perfect way to relax from the busy work schedule. The best part of the trip was taking the courtesy limo to a local Starbucks just to pass time by. You would never thought there was a Starbucks addict until you meet one of my co-workers. Wow, he goes there like 3-4 times daily and then asked if I would go with him to Starbucks in a limo. I went along and drove in Atlanta traffic to the local Starbucks.

I also love the southern food they have here. Ate at an awesome restaraunt called "Dantes Down The Hatch" and ordered the Beef Fondue dinner a meal I would recommend to any visiting Atlanta. The restaurant had a nice jazz band playing while you eat and can get a little crazy with some alcohol in the mix. A suggested drink by Captain Dante made the night awesome, I forget what it was called, but that's from what I remembered that night. By the time we were getting used to the Atlanta scene, it was already time to fly home the next day. Another food spot I forgot to mention was, Kobe Steaks Japanese Restaurant. This is a Benihana style restaurant that had great Japanese food. I love the free food I get to eat at whenever we go on business trips. Well now, I have to get back to work-mode. Have a good rest of the week.

On a sad note, I kept on checking the Clippers scores as I could in between flights. It would have taken a miracle for Golden State to lose to Portland, but I guess this season they didn't have the fight like they did last year. Just hope next year they can do some damage and make a playoff run.

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It's been almost a month since my last post and tonight I couldn't sleep. So I figured I should blog some new stuff going on. I picked up golf again, going to the range 2-3 times/week relax after the daily grind of work. I just picked up a new sand wedge that will help me out on my short game and can't wait to test that out. After golf, I usually hit up the gym later on at night to keep up with my training schedule. It's good having work out partners, they keep you motivated and on track.

Second thing going on is work has been crazy hectic. I just checked my work schedule for today and noticed something that I haven't seen in a while, a clear schedule, but that will probably change if any calls come in. Looks like I'll be doing phone support today. Can't wait til the weekend hits, need some time to catch up on sleep and do some training.

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Being swamped with work is a good thing. That means we will/should be hiring another person to help me out in my area. Let me know if you know of anyone interested in a position. The title of this post refers to all the work I have done while working at my current company, wow that's a lot come to think of it.Then last Monday I was very fortunate to get a new position in my company, meaning more responsibility in my duties. I am ready for the challenge and excited of what lies ahead. Wish me luck!

On another note, my application process for another job has finally ceased due to medical reasons. I am very happy that I went through the process, I wanted to see if I can pass the tests and get in, but it was something out of my hands that hindered me from entering the Academy. I am very thankful for everyone who encouraged and supported me in my application process.

I just have to get by a couple days of work til my mini vacation in Sin City...

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This past weekend was something I needed. Time to relax and catch up on some rest. Not only did I relax, but I was able to watch the NBA All-Star Festvities. Saturday night's All-Star contests were pretty exciting to watch. In the NBA Slam Dunk Contest, I wonder why the judges didn't give any love to Dwight Howard. He had some nice dunks and showed his hopping abilitiy. But the score he got did not justify the things he did. The 3-point shootout was won by Jason Kapono, a product of UCLA. Surprisingly, Dirk Nowitzki did not show up as anticipated. Sunday night's All-Star game was a blowout, couldn't believe the West won in that fashion.

Now that the All-Star game is over, the Clippers must pull out more wins to get in the Playoffs. They currently are fighting for the 8th spot. A couple weeks ago, they were at the 7th right behind the Lakers. Just hope the Clippers can do some damage down the 2nd half of the season.

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Last night I've never had any bad experiences with dining until now. My cousin and a couple friends went to the local Hooters over in Anaheim. We get seated and start looking at the menu figuring out that we'd split 50 wings and some french fries. The waitress introduces herself and says that she's covering for another co-worker that was on break and takes our drink order. So far so good, we get our drinks fine and place our order for wings and some fries. This is where the table turns sour, our order was given to the wrong table and then we had to wait awhile for our new order to arrive. Then 20 minutes later only part of our order arrives and so we start munching on the chicken wings. Another 20 minutes has elapsed and still no fries came to our table nor did any of the waitresses come by to check up on us. Karlo, who was already finished with his drink, was tired of waiting and actually walked up to the coke dispenser to get his refill. We tried waving down the waitresses and none would look our way. Another group wasn't getting served correctly either and had to wait about 30 minutes to get their food and they didn't even order that much. What I didn't understand was why no one went over to check up on us when only about 40% capacity was filled. There was this couple behind us that didn't even get serviced after sitting down so they ended up leaving. Then finally our real waitress who came back from break introduced herself to us and we asked why things haven't been brought to us as planned. By this time, we were already done with our food, none of us had a refill, except for Karlo who walked to the dispenser to get himself a refill, and still haven't gotten our fries. We asked our waitress if we could speak to the manager after he talked to the other group next to us and talk to him, but when she tried to flag him down, he didn't want to come to us. He ended up walking to the back and talking to our waitress. It was already too late to have any apologies given to us. The waitress came back to us and started saying sorry this and sorry that, but we weren't having it. There nothing she could to to fix any of this bad service we received that night until she said that we could go and not pay anything anymore. So we all stood up and left. Karlo was still hungry so we ended up going to Fatburgers and getting some more stuff over there. I know being in the food service industry, it is a hard job to handle all the customers, but when the place is not busy and not crowded, there was no way they should be ignoring customers like that.

I guess having the meal for free made the situation a little better, but it just sucks when a place like Hooters gives bad customer service like that. I know some places have bad customer service, but it's a given because they're either way too busy with many customers or just don't have enough workers to help everyone at once. I still will go back to Hooters because the food is good and they have awesome waitresses working there, I just hope this doesn't happen again.

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This MLK weekend was spent at the lovely area of North Lake Tahoe. Good times with 16 crazy people in a spacious and cozy cabin where numerous alcoholic beverages were consumed throughout the weekend. I've never had so much fun being away from home. I guess flying anywhere beats staying home on a 4-day weekend, especially on our annual MLK snowboarding trip. I was really glad that I was going to be off from work for 4 straight days. I get beat up at work driving and flying all over the place, but it was all worth it when our cabing had a nice jacuzzi to relax and drink some beers. That was a good call getting a larger cabin because it made it a lot easier for everyone to move about.

Snowboarding at Squaw was awesome, at least this time we were able to snowboard longer than 2 hours and not get jacked up by the high winds. Can't wait for the next snowboard trip. Hopefully there's one next month for President's day weekend.

BTW, Happy New Year Everyone!!!

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I am loving the short work week due to the Holiday Season. Nowadays offices are closed and work has slowed down quite a bit. I am thankful for having my new co-workers, they are helping me out with my region so much and it has saved me a bunch of driving. Hoping next year we'll have more work and I'll see how things go with my new application.

With the end of 2006 coming, I am happy that things went well this year, except the passing of my lola, there were many weddings that welcomed more people to our family. I know 2007 will bring many more weddings and many more adventures. Let's end 2006 with a bang! Stay safe and enjoy the time spent with family and friends.

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A couple of weeks ago LOST has been placed on hiatus until February and that's just ridiculous. They start showing all the good stuff, then put the show off for a couple months, I don't get it. Heroes lately has been pretty good, we're starting to get to know more about the characters, then bam now HEROES is going to be on hiatus until next month. I still can't believe they killed off that short hair girl who had the power of persuasion. I was hoping she would grow her hair out like before because she was kinda cute! Oh well, at least they still have Ali Larter in that show.

With my favorite shows on hiatus, I can make use of the Xbox 360 I recently purchased. Gears of War is an awesome game that's been keeping me up a little later than usual. Can't get away from the 3rd person action/shooting game. Another way to keep me busy until Halo 3 comes out.

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What an awesome way to start off Thanksgiving weekend... Thanks to Joe and Cat for suggesting Shin-Sen-Gumi in Fountain Valley. It reminded me so much of Japan and the Yakitori was amazing. Good times with good friends when Sake and Biru is involved. Joesan, Karen, Lou, Belle, Tommy, James and Ana joined in the festivities that night. We should do Yakitori again!

Thanksgiving was a blast this year. Spending time with my family in Carson was just what I needed to start off the holidays. Oh, it's so crazy how my (little) cousins are now in high school or college. They have grown up so fast and it makes me feel so old seeing them grow up like that. Another reminder of my old age was getting my Class of 97 High School reunion reminder in the mail. Dang, I can't believe it's almost 10 years since I've graduated high school. Just shows how time flies so quickly when we're having fun. Then just around the corner is the big 3-0, oh man I don't want to think about that just yet. Nevertheless, I'm still thankful for everything and everyone that has been a part of my life. One wish I would like to have would be 4 day weekends and 3 day work weeks. If I could have that, then I would be a happy camper!

Now that the holiday shopping has officially begun, I haven't bought a gift for anyone yet. This past weekend I only spent money on myself getting a new digital camera (to replace the one that got stolen) and Xbox 360. I got some good deals, so it should be ok to spend on myself this time. I hope to start my Christmas shopping this weekend.

The best part of the Holiday season is once the weather turns cold, I have the best sleep at night. No more tossing and turning, just plain 7-8 hours of rest. The bad thing is that I don't want to wake up and get ready for the day, so I press the snooze button more than usual. Today I pressed the snooze button about 7-8 times which gave me an extra 35-40 minutes of staying in bed.

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This past weekend reminded me of college with the video game playing, football, bbq and having a good time with friends. We celebrated the birthday of the lovely Belle, Happy Birthday, hope you had an awesome birthday weekend.

The first night we had some jagerbomb shots to start off the festivities that would lead to a weekend full of drinking. I haven't drank that much in a while, but it was worth it since work has been crazy hectic since my return from vacation.

The next day was football for Belle's birthday bash. I've never had so much fun playing flag football. Even though we lost, it was fun playing with a lot of people. Later that day, we hung out at Belle/Lou's new pad and played video games. The best part was watching them play Bomberman, that game is so fun. I was sooo tired from football, I crashed a bit on their couch. The late night Albertos run was what woke me up, because we were all craving some Mexican food.

Sunday was Shockers softball and another fun game. We were looking a little better on defense, but couldn't put up enough runs to keep the game going. There is potential, we just need practice and then we'll be ok.

The funniest post I've ever read is by our new blogger, Dr. Romeo, you gotta read this.

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Damn, I've been trying to adjust back to reality and it's sooooo hard. After a long vacation and not working for 10 days straight, I still haven't been able to fully recover. The past few days after returning from Japan I get so tired during the day and am wide awake during the night. Lately, the earliest I can sleep is around 1:30-2am. I guess I'm still a little jetlagged, but I thought after a couple days I would be fine. It is now Tuesday and I wake up dreading work. I even tried taking nyquil to get sleepy, but that didn't work. Tonight, I will try to sleep by 1am and hopefully get enough rest to wake up at 8am. Wish me luck!

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Kind people welcoming us to Japan @ Tokyo Tower

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I have fully recovered from my cold that I've had since Thursday night. All the medication I took didn't help much as the Nyquil kept me up, the Green Tea burned my tongue and Sudafed just stopped my sniffles for 10-15 minutes at a time. The only thing that worked was drinking water and putting Airborne on that. I know I'm supposed to take Airborne to prevent being sick, but I liked the taste of sparkling lemon water.

Weekend was pretty fun with Softball and hanging out with friends. We also got to sport our new team shirts that Lou designed. Even though we lost, we looked good playing and still had fun. Next weekend we have a double header and hopefully we'll be able to hang playing 2 hours straight.

Mondays have been pretty awesome with television shows, starting off with Monday Night Football followed by Heroes and then What About Brian. That is about 5 hours straight of watching tv, but I guess it's worth it when working 9 hours straight and all you want to do is lie down and watch tv. Can't wait til next weeks episodes of Heroes, that show has gotten me hooked the same as LOST did the first season. That Ali Larter chick is also hot, and Hiro has some crazy super powers. If you haven't seen it yet, try to jump on board and watch the episodes on NBC.com.

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It's been another hectic month and I am sooo looking forward for my vacation coming up in 2 weeks. Lately, things have been going great. Work, still keeping me busy. Softball Season 2 has been underway. So far the teams we played are at the same skill level as us meaning we can hang. My application process for another position is still going on. I am just worried about my medical exam that I took last week. Due to a slight color blindness that I have with certain colors, I am unsure whether or not this will not be a road bump with the application process. I first noticed this problem when playing Puzzle Fighter 2 game and couldn't determine the colored boxes on the screen, yellow and green. I thought it was me being weird or my head playing tricks on me, but I also know a few other people have this same problem. I hope this isn't something huge that could deter me from getting into the Academy because I know I could do this. Oh well, I'll just pray and hope for the best.

I love when the Fall season comes, the weather gets much cooler and that means that snowboard season is just around the corner. I saw pictures of Mammoth and it's dumping ther like crazy. For some reason, I like cold climate because it keeps me wide awake. Maybe I have this wild crazy bear syndrome that allows me to wear my boxers all over the house and not worry about a damn thing even if it's about 50 degrees. Ha, I don't know if that little statement will deter me from a certain position I am trying to apply for, but we'll see how it goes.

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This weekend another run over by the LA Coliseum for the Nike Run Hit Remix was so much fun. We rolled about 10 deep for this event and was able to run with music playing in the background first by Shaking our Love with Deborah Gibson, then we bust a moved with Young MC, next heard Vanilla Ice talking about sexing up some people, then Coolio looked like he was high, Digital Underground was playing some funky beats and ended the race at the LA Coliseum with De La Soul. Thanks again for fun times, an awesome group of friends to run with. The only sucky thing is getting $1 gift cards to Jamba Juice, wished it was at least enough for 1 smoothie. It's hump day and can't wait til the weekends hits.

Softball Season 2 baby is underway!

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This past Sunday a group of us celebrated Shewin's birthday bash over at the Disneyland Resort running in the 13.1 miles around Anaheim. Boy was I excited to run this marathon because I was going to see all these places that I have wanted to see all in one day. We ran to Disneyland (my first time inside the park since 1997), California Adventure (my first time ever setting foot into the park), Arrowhead Pond (passed by where the Ducks play), Angels Stadium (first time stepping foot on the field). It was truely a memorable experience and I was just happy to complete the race. What made my day was when the crowd would cheer us on and kept supporting us at different parts of the race. This gave me motivation to move on and kept me going, thanks ya'll.

Congratulations to all in completing the Disneyland 1/2 marathon, I'm sure we all felt sore the next day, I know I was hurting. Let's do this again next year, I'm sooo down!

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This week one of the new guys, Devon, has been hanging out with me and learning what we do on a normal work day. Training him is fun because I get to share my knowledge about what we do and he seems to be enjoying the new job. I'm glad because now he can handle the Riverside/San Bernadino area while I stick with the LA/OC area. Then there's the other dude, Kevin, I haven't met him yet, but should be training him sometime next week. Yup, we hired Kevin and Devon, kind of funny because they rhyme. I'm just hoping these guys can hang and handle all the driving that we do.

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This is one of the best weekends I will never forget. We also celebrated this Labor day weekend Lou's birthday. The weekend started off with a nice marathon training run on Saturday followed by lunch at Denny's. The next day we had some skydiving action over in San Diego (link), where I conquered my fear of heights by doing this 13,000-ft jump. The feeling of freefalling down from the sky was amazing. I never would have thought that this was something I would ever do, but I wanted to get this over with and experience something new. I can't wait to do this again and hopefully get a lot more people to do the jump. Monday, was a chill day ate lunch at a Seafood restaurant at the Seaport Village, then grabbed some dessert over at Extraordinary Desserts where I tried the Banana Split Ice Cream with some fruit.

San Diego was a nice place to visit, chill atmosphere and had awesome scenery. I would like to visit the city again and check out the many different restaurants around the area. Thanks again to all for a wonderful weekend and also Happy Birthday to Lou. I hope you had an awesome weekend, I know I did!

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I've been all over the place the past few weeks and luckily Jay was able to get me another GPS unit to use while I'm on the road, you're a lifesaver. I don't know how I would do with all the driving without this piece of device. I'm very grateful for having great friends and glad that I can do the same whenever they need help. Technology these days, sometimes you can't live without it.

Today, I was able to hear great news from my boss, we got 2 more workers to help me out with the work around my area. Since the other dude left, I had a lot of work to cover around my region, but in a couple weeks my work will hopefully drop. That is it, have a great work week, 3 more days and we have a 3-day weekend!

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This past weekend, I just noticed that someone broke into my car and took a few items. This probably happened around 5-7pm Friday evening. I didn't realized anything was missing until I finished washing my car Saturday afternoon. The first thing I noticed was gone was my Vacuum cleaner that I had for work to use on my dirty jobs. I was going to clean my car's interior after washing it and didn't think much because I thought I left it at one of my jobs and just forgot to bring it back with me. The second thing I noticed gone was my portable GPS unit. I couldn't believe it, this is one of the most used item in my car. It took me to many places, including all the dental offices that I've visited and certain spots that I've liked to check out. I just thought to myself, how come I don't see the docking station on my windshield and then it hit me... Damn, I got jacked. This was actually when I found out that my stuff got stolen. The third item, I noticed that my glove compartment was wide open and my heart dropped when I noticed my Swiss Army watch was gone. I placed my watch inside the glove when I had a job that was going to get dirty and didn't want my watch to get scuffed up. I protected it from getting harmed, but it wasn't enough for now it is long gone. This was the main item I wish they had not taken, because it had a lot of sentimental value to me. The fourth item that was stolen was my Canon SD400, a point and shoot camera that I left inside my center glove box just in case anything happened I could take pictures at any moment.

Saturday night, I couldn't sleep well because I kept on thinking what the heck could have happened that day. I know there was no forced entry to my vehicle because there were no windows broken nor any doors picked open. Now here I am writing down the things I'm missing at 5am Sunday morning trying to figure out who would take these from me. I may have forgotten to lock my door as I went inside my house Friday evening, but dang, a lesson that I have to learn the hard way.

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Taken from my cousin, Karlo's, blog...

"For some odd reason my IQ doubles when i take a dump...Obviously i am concentrating more..But its actually my quiet time by myself, i do the most thinking and its honestly where i do my best reading...over the weekend i did my own double blind study, testing the the artform of the GRUNT while trying to achieve maximum force...There was a 55 year old guy to my left, and a young 9 year old boy to my right...

Karlo"

This is one of the funniest thing I've ever read about taking dumps, but it is true. There are many ways to achieve oneness with yourself while at the bathroom stall. I prefer the silent approach and just let my ass do the talking. Always a good approach when you have someone next to you because it gives you motivation to rock it even harder. The best is when you get compliments from other crappers at the stall when you unload, I've had quite a few, haha. Alright, enough about this crap talk... I gotta go rock it right now, have a good one!

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Flying up North this weekend was amazing. Finally met our new nephew, Baby Aiden. It was a good weekend to hang out with my cousins again checking out the City and then spending time playing games and bbqing.

My favorite part of the trip was when my cousins brought us to a good spot for some desserts at Fentons Creamery in Oakland. I ended up battling this new dessert, the Banana Special. We gotta hit up this spot again.

From Fenton's Ice Cream Creations...
Banana Special - Watch Out! Tourists may takes photos of you with this Fentons tradition!
HUGE scoops, we mean HUGE scoops, of Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry ice cream cradled by a whole ripe banana. Topped with pineapple, strawberry and chocolate fudge. Topped off with almonds, whipped cream and cherry.

Thanks to a wonderful weekend. Pictures posted on Flickr. Back to another crazy work week. Have a good one!

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It's been a while since my last post and this is mainly due to work keeping me busy. It's good being busy with work and knowing that I have some place to go almost every day. We just wrapped up this huge installation/migration over at LAX and now I'm glad to have my weekend back.

Today, I went over to Oxnard for work and boy was it a drive from Fullerton. It took about two and a half hours to get there because traffic was horrendous. Other than the traffic, it was a good day because work went by quickly. After work I was able to hang out with my buddy Romeo and check out where he worked at. It was a nice office and he looked all professional with his white coat on. I'm proud to see that he's in the working world now. Well now, it's time to get some rest because I'll need it for another day of driving around. Have a good work week everyone!

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Pretty cool showing which states you've visited... So far, I've visited about a little more than half of the U.S. My goal will try to visit the next 24... Who's down for a road trip?

create your own visited states map

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Wow, July has been a really busy month for me especially when it comes to work. I've been driving to the counties of Ventura, San Bernadino, Riverside, Orange and Los Angeles in the past two weeks. I think I've hit most of Southern California's counties except for a few down in the south, San Diego and Imperial. What sucks is the weather hasn't been cooperating lately being so humid and hot. While I was up at La Quinta last Friday, within 5 seconds coming out of my car I felt like lechon walking to the entrance of the dental office. I've also been hitting up the gas stations alot where my fill ups are about $75 for a full tank, luckily work covers that during my office visists. Being so busy makes my work week fly by and makes it for a more enjoyable weekend to relax and hang out.

The past weekends in July have been fun, first weekend was the surprise birthday for Mr. Jovan and then the following weekend went to the engagement party for Jay and Cicely. I would like to thank everyone for the enjoyable weekends and another thanks for work making my weeks go by so quickly. I'm counting down 2 days until the 3rd weekend in July, what's going on? All I know is that I want to hit up the beach this weekend and catch some waves. Beach Day anyone?

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Yesterday, while I was working at this office, a nice old lady approached me and kindly asked, "Are you from around here? You look a mix between an Oriental and Mexican." I replied back with a smile, "No ma'am, my heritage is Filipino. From the Philippine Islands." She replied back, "Is that near Mexico, because I've never been there?" My jaw dropped after hearing that last sentence and I was kind of shock from hearing that. She probably didn't know much about the Asian/Pacific Islander people so I told her, "No, it's in Asia, beneath Japan and Taiwan."Then she said, "Oh wow a new country that I can learn about." That made my day because she was so eager to learn something new even at her age, she must've been in her 80's.

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Yeah, I haven't been on this blog thing for a while. Been preoccupied with work and so much stuff to do in June then bam, it's July... The first week of July went by pretty fast. I started the month off going to a birthday party for Chris' son. It was a nice day to hit the park in Carson because the weather was sunny and not too hot. Oh yeah, we got to make some cotton candy at the end, I haven't had those in a long time.

Sunday, was a perfect day to watch the Angels/Dodgers game. Thanks for awesome suite tickets Joes. Fortunately, my Angels pulled off the win with a 4-0 victory. The Angels, although being last in the AL West, are starting to do some damage to finish off the 1st half of the 2006 season.

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The next day, we hit up Huntington Beach to bodyboard and catch some waves. That day the water was nice, not the usual freezing water that requires a spring suit. Waves were decent and I caught a bunch of waves. Maybe this summer we'll hit the beach more. Call me up, because I'm down to some waves.

July 4th was first spent at home bbqing and watching some World Cup Soccer. Later on the day I went over to Jovan's to hang out. We played some Guitar Hero, ate more bbq, and played some poker. Guitar Hero is a pretty fun game where you get to jam like a rockstar hitting buttons on the guitar controller pad. I need to practice some more because my coordination is lacking.

Now, it's the weekend, time to rest up and relax. To start off the weekend, I picked up a new book, "Deception Point" by Dan Brown. I loved reading "Angels & Demons" and "The Da Vinci Code" so much that I picked up another one of his novels. Brown slyly keeps you attached to his novels for the sake of not missing anything that comes. Also, I plan to watch the final outcome of World Cup Soccer. I'm hoping for a good match between Italy and France. There is also a new movie, the sequel to Pirates of the Carribean. Damn, so many things I want to do and the weekend is always so short. Fudge, are there any jobs out there that has a 4-day weekend and 3-day work week? Let me know, I'm ready to apply.

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Yesterday, I took the Physical Abilities Test and was able to pass all sections of the test. The first part wasn't too bad because it measured my lateral movement doing side steps from left to right. The second part was the cable pull, measuring your chest strength. Boy was I surprised how hard the 3rd part of the test was, the bicycle ride for 2 minutes. The first minute and twenty seconds was a breeze because I was able to bike at a good rate, but with 40 seconds left the resistance gradually started to pick up and my legs started to tense up a bit. It felt like I was climbing a huge hill, but in my head I just kept on saying to push as hard as I can. As the instructor said it was time, everyone was relieved that the bike portion ended. It was kind of funny because some people couldn't walk straight after they got off the bike and I just smiled because my quads felt like jello. I was talking to a couple guys outside after our test and they were pretty surprised how the test went. It was nice to see everyone complete the test and congratulate each other as they passed, but now it's just a wait and see what's next in the last steps of the application process. Alright, hope everyone has a great work week. Try and keep cool in this crazy hot weather!

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This weekend was the start of my family's graduation parties for the class of 2006. Man, a lot of my younger cousins are now graduating from high school and moving onto the next phase in their academic life. I remember when they were in grade school while I started up college, ahh that like like 8-9 years ago, oh well. I want to let them know that we will be here for them if they ever need any help with anything. One of my cousin (Vianne) is going to UC Santa Barbara and another (Lloyd) is going to UC Berkeley. I am excited for them and I know they will enjoy their time in college. One advice that I gave them was to enjoy their college life because it will come and go so fast they won't know what hit them, which is the "real world". Congratulations again, Lloyd and Vianne, man I'm getting old!

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photo from Lou

Did I Kancho this person?

Thank GOD tomorrow is Friday!!! Anyone down to watch Nacho Libre Friday night?

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Yesterday, I was relieved to pass my test. I can't go into much detail regarding it, but I just want to let you know that I passed. Hopefully, things will be going well with this application process. Thanks again to all for being supportive during my application process.

Congratulations to Jay, Lou, Jovan, Cicely and Belle on their mudrun this past Sunday. It was a crazy race and I liked seeing all you guys get dirty. Hopefully next year we can have more people doing the race.

Also, Friday Tacky Fundue night was awesome. Thanks to Belle and Cicely for being such great hosts. We should have another one of these nights. Hope everyone has a great week!

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This weekend I went to Vegas for my bowling league's end of the year tournament. Bowling sucked because I did horrible, but other than that I had a grand ole time. Friday night, we arrived at Rio and started off the night with a free meal. I got the Black Canyon Roasted Prime Rib (20oz) over at All-American Bar & Grille (link to menu). A little bit pricey, but the food always taste great when it is free. After dinner went to gamble a little at the tables. Won a little bit, then headed to The Orlean's to check out the lanes we were going to play at the next day. I didn't practice because I was kinda tired from the drive to Vegas.

The next day was bowling at the Orleans. I didn't play my best because I haven't been bowling for a month. I was way off in my throws and couldn't get solid marks. We didn't do as well as anticipated, but I had fun this season with my cousins Karlo, Kristian and Tess. Team XXX-rated went out with a bang, getting jacked up and playing horrible. There's always next season. After bowling, we went back to the Hotel to rest up so we can get bastos over at a srtip club. We ended up hitting Cheetahs and I was quite disappointed with the selection that night. Well maybe I got irritated at this one lady who kept annoying me with getting a dance from her. The reason I rejected her was because she looked like an old Auntie and she was so aggressive in asking for a dance. There should be some law that says if you say "NO" to a dancer politely, then it means you are not interested. That kinda bugged me the whole time there. Other than that crazy Auntie lady, I had fun at the club. We got a bottle of Crown and drank the night away. Well, I only drank as much as I can until I got this pounding headache. What topped it off was almost throwing up in the cab ride back to Rio, but as I got off the cab, I ran straight to the trash can to yack my guts out. After that, I was relieved and wanted to go back to the room and rest.

Sunday, drove back home and ended a great trip in Vegas. No pictures this trip due to me leaving my camera at home. Shucks... maybe we can repeat this next time!

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picture taken by Juan

Damn, I miss the hooka. We should do this again.

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I'm finally back home from my little 4 day adventure at Salt Lake City. I was here to attend a seminar for a new dental software that we would be supporting at work. It was a nice town, but there wasn't much to do. Sunday, as I arrived and met up with some of the people I would be training with, we couldn't even get drinks anywhere because they prohibit alcohol sales on Sundays. That was a total bummer because it would've been a nice way to start off the week and break the ice with the new people that I met. One reason I would not go here is because I seem to be the only asian in the town. It was cool because everyone was nice, but it feels kinda funny if you can't relate to anyone else.

Training for the new dental software was pretty exciting, we learned about some new products which they had coming out as well as the hardware that they had out in the market. I don't want to bore you guys with the computer jibberish, but I learned quite a few new things.

The best part of the trip was the free food which was included in our stay. Sunday night, we ate dinner at Outback Steakhouse. Monday, for lunch we had Mexican food (it was alright, Cali has better Mexican food) and for dinner we ate at Tepanyaki Japanese Steakhouse (comparable to Benihana's). Tuesday by far was the best day, for lunch we had Olive Garden catered and for dinner we ate at this Brazilian restaurant called Tucanos, this was one of the best places to eat in that area. If you haven't gone to a Brazilian all you can eat buffet, you should check it out. They have waiters walking around with skewers filled with all the meat such as Top Sirloin, Garlic Parmesian Beef, Teriyaki Beef, and many more. Those were the few items that we ate. After all that meat, I was happy to top it off with a nice flan desset.

My stay here wasn't that bad, I met a lot of pretty cool guys who knew stuff about the computer/dental business and the food made up for the place being so boring.

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Friday night started off awesome going to the Clippers playoff Game 3 at the Staples Center. The weekend festivities began by going to Staples Center a hour before tip off which paid off because I was able to score a couple tickets for Game 4 by winning them from the AM 570 radio station. Once they said they were gonna give out tickets to the craziest person who yelled the loudest, so wanting the tickets I started screaming and yelling like a deranged monkey. This got me all hyped up for the weekend becuse I knew I would be going to another Clipper Playoff game in a couple of days. Although the Clippers lost Game 3, I still had fun in my first Clipper Playoff experience.

Saturday, was my cousin's wedding over in Pasadena. It started off sucky driving through traffic on the 5 freeway, but we were able to make it in time for the wedding. After the wedding, I was able to stop by and grab some fudge over at this dessert shop a while back, thanks to Sherwin and Cicely for reminding me of the place. Then headed to the wedding reception over at the Hilton Pasadena. Another fun time with the cousins started off drinking the usually jack and coke and cape cod as my cousin Rodney seems to like. All the cousins went a little crazy that night, drinking and dancing all night long. I am glad to see the new bride and groom, Kristine & Wayne. I will surely be glad to watch your condo while you guys go on your honeymoon. So, I'll be housesitting at my cousin's pad in Irvine for the next two weeks.

Sunday, mother's day, was a lot of fun spending lunch with my momma and relatives over at my uncle's house. After the lunch, it was off to Game 4 of the Clippers Playoff matchup against the Suns. This time, the Clippers were able to overcome the Suns and tie the Series 2-2. I also bought a new Shawn Livingston jersey at The Team LA store because they had 50% off all reebok apparel. By this time, I pretty much lost my voice with all the yelling and screaming the past few days, but it was all worth it spending time with my family and my favorite team.

Today at work was pretty crazy because I could not speak. I sounded like a horse that squeaked off and on, so I tried to keep my speaking to a minimum. I mainly whispered throughout the day, but I was able to make do. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll be able to speak in a normal fashion. Thanks to all for a wonderful weekend. GO CLIPPERS!!!

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Recently, I've tried a new approach to sleeping and found the best sleeping style. Instead of sleeping on my normal pillows, I bunched up my comforter into a ball and use it as a pillow. The normal pillows are placed on each side of my body which keep me from moving. I've have about a weeks straight of good sleep thanks to this new approach. The best thing is when I wake up, I wake up in the same position that I slept in the first place. But most of all, I do not have that neckache or backache that normally occurs when you sleep in an unusual way. My previous sleeping position was on my right side facing the window so that I could have some air flowing into my face.

I found something on WebMD that says "What Your Sleeping Style Says About You". This is a pretty interesting article, try and read it if you have the time.

Yeah, this was a pretty weird post, but I'm just happy to have a weeks worth of good rest. Alright, hope everyone is ready to watch the Clippers win the next series! Sorry to the Lakers fans whose team did not finish off the Suns. The Clippers will finish them off and trash them!

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Lately, I've been training for the Disneyland Half Marathon this coming September. I also have been training for the LAPD fitness test if I pass the LAPD written test this coming weekend, the psychological tests and background investigation that are pieces of the application process. It's something that intrigued me a while back when I spoke with my cousin and uncle about applying for the LAPD. My uncle currently works for the LAPD and has been asking if I wanted to join and should take the test and see if I like it. My cousin already took the written test and is on his way to taking the physical testing process. There's nothing wrong if I don't try and I will never know unless I try is what I tell myself. I gave this a lot of thought and after some encouragement and support from my family, I decided to start the next part the application process. It would be a great challenge for me and I am ready to take this on mentally and physically. It would also be a great motivating factor for me when I do my training sessions. Wish me luck...

Oh yeah, I forgot... GO CLIPPERS!! I am so excited that they finally won a Playoff Series. I can't wait to go to a Clippers Playoff game, hopefully next round it'll be their hometown rivals, the lakers.

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Saturday was a perfect day to celebrate the wedding of my cousin Melissa and her new husband Wilkin. I'm so happy for them. I remember the last time we hung out with Wilkin he was piss drunk over at my other cousin's wedding. He got hammered and was all saying, "I'm going to be the next one to get married, and have another open bar like this". Another good time spent with my relatives over in Redondo Beach for the church ceremony and over in Citywalk for the reception. The best part was open bar the whole night. We were going at it with the bartender who kept the drinks coming. At least this time, we didn't take too many shots. Oh yeah another part I couldn't forget was when my bro caught the garter that was tossed. My bro is going to be the next one married since he caught it. The night seemed to fly by so fast because we were all having so much fun. I love spending time with the relatives, it gives us a chance to catch up on things and also it's fun to see how much everyone has grown the past years. I know next month we have another cousin getting married and I can't wait for that.

Here are the pictures to Melissa & Wilkin's Wedding

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Already a day since I've had this pounding headache. I've taken some tylenol to alleviate the throbbing sensation on my left temple, but it only seems to contain the pain for a few hours. Yesterday, on my drive home from La Jolla, I started feeling this pain coming from my head. So I took some dayquil hoping it would help. That drive back was madness, I couldn't bear the traffic back home. Next time I'll take a nap if I hit some traffic. When I got home, I took some nyquil so I can knock out early and get some rest. I rested from 8pm til like 430 in the morning awaking to another pounding headache. I was like, why the heck is this headache still here? I've rested a lot, and thought my body should be fine after a long rest. So I took a calcium vitamin tab and tried to knock out again. Then awaking again to the freakin alarm clock. Oh man, that was the worst feeling because the stupid alarm just made my head hurt even more. I called in work saying I had a bad headache and would try to get to clients after I rested a few more hours. The 2 hour nap worked fine until I felt another throbbing sensation around noon. So I took more tylenol, man I feel like a tylenol addict, eating them like skittles. So I went back to work as usual and tried to do the best I can to survive the day. 5 o'clock hit and I was so glad my work day was over, but still kinda bummed cuz my headache didn't want to leave. Well, it's time to knock out early. I hope this headache goes away by morning.

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Saturday night with the boys was freakin crazy. I had a blast drinking up and partying over at Highlands. I can't believe how long I've known these guys back from the dorms. It was good seeing them and celebrating the birthdays of Romeo, Jon and Thano. I hope everyone had a blast, I know Thano, Lou, Romeo, Jon, Terry and I did.

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Mammoth was soooo awesome. Driving up late Friday night was one crazy adventure after working a 12 hour shift. Luckily, Cesar helped with the drive up, thanks bro. We ended up arriving around 230 Saturday morning, but it was enough rest for boarding that day. I just couldn't believe what happened to Sherwin, Caren and Jenn on their way to Mammoth from the bay. A 15+ hour trek is ridiculous, but I'm glad they got here safely. Then in the morning, once I opened the door, I knew we would have a great day of snowboarding. After a few hiccups trying to buy our lift ticketes, my bro and I were able to find our group. The runs over at Mammoth were nice, not too crowded and just good enough to carve down the mountain. The best run was the one going down to Eagle Lodge. I was able to finally go down this run when I couldn't last year due to a groin injury. After that run, we had a few more runs up and down the mountain to finish off the day. It was a good time snowboarding with friends. Later that night we ate dinner and tried to play some games, but I think a lot of us were too tired from a long day of boarding.

I would like to thank everyone for a great weekend. What a perfect way to end the month of March. I hope we can all hang out again and enjoy another snowboarding weekend.

note: pics to come at a later post.

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I am so excited for this year's for March Madness Tournament. It brings more college basketball being nationally televised and also upsets galore. For one, #11 ranked George Mason, who would've thought this team would make it this far especially beating the #1 ranked team Uconn. They were a huge underdog this whole time and I love how every team plays so hard just to have the chance to get that National Championship. I know alot of brackets have been broken with the main teams, Duke and Uconn, out of the tournament, but now I'm just hoping UCLA can make it to the finals. They got a pretty tough matchup with LSU as their next opponent. I think they're a pretty solid team and it would be nice to have California up in the Championship scene again.

The Final Four matchup are as followed (my predicted winners in bold):
#11 George Mason vs. #3 Florida
#2 UCLA vs #4 LSU

I can't wait to watch these games. Have a greaaat week everyone!

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This weekend was something I really needed to refresh everything that happened earlier this month. Getting away from home and flying up North was the perfect remedy. I also went up North to attend the graduation of the newly named Dr. Dimaano. Friday was a pretty crazy experience partying up with those new Chiropractors in Downtown San Jose. I never thought of running in the rain with dress shoes and then riding in an Excursion Limo only to be stopped by the cops after driving a few blocks past the club that we didn't get in. The next place we went to was fun because we drank it up and just hung out. The best part was when Me and Tony (Romeo's brother) kept on busting up Sherwin and whoever teamed up with him in Foosball. It sucked when we lost to a couple of girls who played us, we lost 4-5. Oh well, next time we go there I'll make sure we won't lose! After the night came to an end, we all