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Cream meet @ Tapex

2011-12-29T12:26:00.001-08:00

Its almost the end of the year and Cream decided to host one more meet in front of tapex. It was more of a local meet rather than some show quality but it turned out pretty chill. Spoke to some people, met new people, and just talked for a little bit. New faces and old faces. Always good to know people. There was good cars and beat up cars but worth the time and effort that was put into them. I'll be looking forward to wekfest this coming February of 2012. Till then, I'll try to blog more often for the new coming year and try that 365 day challenge, which I know will not happen since I have a busy schedule most of the time. Anywho, here are the pictures. Enjoy them!

Feel free to comment and leave your email there so I can send them off to you. Please specify which one you would like to take. All in all, it was a great night. Till next time. See you guys on New Year day! Let's all look forward for 2012. New builds, new projects, new everything! Let's make it happen for 2012!

Yummy Cupcakes!

2011-12-18T15:59:00.000-08:00

I haven't been out much due to excessive work and being broke all the time due to paying off bills and what not. But I did manage to go out today and manage to get some Sift Cupcake in Napa, Ca. Delicious cupcakes that won an event over at the Food Network called Cupcake wars.Here's a shot of the cupcakes I got from them.

The one on top is the Red Velvet cupcake called "Oh lala." Delicious.The other on is the Boston Creme Pie cupcake called "Knock your sox off". Haven't tried it yet but I later once my tummy is ready for both. Thanks for looking!

SF's International Auto Show Coverage

2011-11-24T18:45:00.000-08:00

So again, this event wasn't planned. David, Chris, and I just decided that we should just go to the San Francisco's International Autoshow 2012 at the Moscone Center. Little did we know, we ended up going with no plans at all. We were bored one day and just decided "hell, let's go look at the new 2012 cars and see what strikes our interest." So I took out my camera, drove down to the autoshow and took pictures that made me say "hey, that looks sexy." Here they are.

The Fisker. An gas/electric vehicle. $97,000 car with 402hp. Gets 85 miles per gallon in city with all electric and 33/38mpg on highway drive. Not bad. I've never even heard of the Fisker since I've seen pictures at SEMA.

Jaguar XKR-S model for 2012. An awesome vehicle but I am not too found of the back. Too... ugly lol.

See it? I told you it's not too appealing lol.

2012 Lotus Evora. It's pretty cool, long front end if you tell me.

Aston Martin Collection. Bad ass cars.

2012 Porsche Carrera GTS. Nice, curvy and Sleek

Hyundai Equus. The bad ass that is suppose to go hand in hand with bentley. One thing that caught my attention with the Equus was that the car is SPACIOUS, Leg reclining, everything automatic and a refridgerator. You can fuck around with people in the front by adjusting their seat from the back so you can rest easier, or you just fuck around with them cause you hate them. Big ass car if you tell me.

The new Hyundai Genesis is one that people really misses out on when it comes for VIP. Am I the only one that find this car really attractive and it can pass for VIP? I'm not crazy and I'm not the only one who thinks so.

The Hyundai Veloster. $18,000 base price car with a 6-speed transmission and 138hp. What can go wrong with this car?

Audi R8 Convertible.

While we were walking around, I didn't realize there was an Aftermarket Alley for people who has tuned their rides. Surprisingly, I saw my cousin's GTR there and Mariano's Lexus. Didn't take a lot of pictures though, but definitely some caught my attention.

Old School Porsche ready to race.

This Supra is bad to the bone. Didn't get any good pictures of the engine bay, but I did had a shot of the front where you can just see the big ass turbo laying in the engine bay.

This car is ready to fly any moment. THAT'S NOT A TURBO! IT'S A JET ENJUN!!!

The first born of the Nissan Skyline legacy.

2nd Generation of the Nissan Skyline legacy. If you ask me, A muscle look-alike.

Joe's and Team Hokori's Nissan GTR.

The Aftermarket Alley where people never really looked around much because they were all too busy looking at the new 2012 cars. haha.

Ferrari Italia 458

Ferrari F430 Spider.

2012 Chevy Corvette ZR1. Nothing really changed in this car, took a picture of it because you never really often see ZR1s on the road.

In this section, and bare with me here, I couldn't really get a lot of pictures out on this one, even though I really wanted to. This section is owned by The Academy of Art collection of San Francisco, and they were showing automobiles from the 1920's-1960's with 31 cars that represent the Elegance, Style, Craftsmanship, Technology and Innovative spirit of each era. Now the reason why I couldn't get all 31 cars is because of the Private event that they were having and we couldn't get in. I did however got picture of a couple of cars. Man I'm telling you, the collection they have, probably worth over $50 mil for all 31 cars. Probably more. They were as big as a van, probably BIGGER~!!! lol. Here they are.

David and Chris just chatting it up and talking about the M3 in front of them.

That's pretty much the end of the coverage. We ended up going to YakiniQ Korean BBQ in Japan Town for dinner. We met up with my wife there and had a great time. Sorry, didn't take pictures there though haha. Next time I will. Thanks again everyone, I'll keep you guys posted.

Global Time Attack Coverage Pt. 2 of 2

2011-11-19T21:21:00.000-08:00

So here it is, part 2 of my coverage on Global Time Attack in Infineon Raceway, Sonoma CA.As you can tell, I am just a spectator. I don't have any good pictures or angles of the cars when they're on the track, but bare with me, they're not all the best.A quick video. No video editing cause I don't know how.

Subaru making it's stop and going back in after it's 5 lap run.

The NSX going in after a quick run around the track. Winning the best of it's class.

The same VIP Q45 that I took earlier.

Mariano's IS250, he's the guy with the checkered jacket.

Strasse | Forged wheels.

Global Time Attack Coverage Pt. 1 of 2

2011-11-17T20:53:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, I know I didn't mention anything about a Global Time Attack event going on, well but because I totally forgot to mention about it and I forgot about the event. My cousin reminded me a day before the event and I had to make quick plans on to make changes. Having 2 jobs, I was suppose to work at 5pm on that day and was suppose to work in the morning at my other job. So I had someone to cover my shift that morning and I had to work for dinner. Turns out that the dinner service was cancelled so I had no work on that day. Coincidence? I don't think so. Well anyway, My cousin Joseph from ImportImage and a team member of Team Hokori, was introducing me and getting back into the car scene. I was always into cars, but never attending shows and what not. Also, he wanted me to practice my shoots on fast moving cars, getting that blur effect and getting a sharp image of a car while it's racing down the track. Well, first time or whatever, I have to record everything that I do that I find interesting in my life. And here are the pictures.*please note that some images are brighter and darker than usual due to the abnormalities of the weather.*

Infineon Raceway. Not the best view, but it works. I had to walk around with 1 lens at a time. I had my 50mm and my 10mm that time but I wanted to shoot with the 50mm for the fast moving race cars. Other than that, I used my 10mm for some of the shots.

The NSX that won the time attack. The car is a beast and it's fast and loud! I have some pictures in action and a couple of videos that needs to be uploaded. Not of the car but the other cars.

The start of the show. There wasn't a lot of cars to show off in this event, but some are good cars, none the less.

I saw this car in one of the events that took place in Vallejo. I forgot what that event was called since I didn't get to go. But this genesis was definitely there.

An S14 equipped with Vertex kit.

I would've taken a good picture of this car, but the exterior wasn't all that great. What caught my eye is the S2000 on a Datsun. Not bad.

Hello Kitty Civic. The owners, I'm not really sure what to say, but it looked like a 1 big happy family if you ask me.

VIP stle Nissan Maxima.

Trying to get back into the scene, I met some interesting people. Though I haven't had much to talk about, I was busy just following my cousin around and checking out some cars and listening them talk to each other.

Honda Accord with a clean engine bay.

VIP Nissan Q45. A friend of my cousin Joe and I believe a team hokori-to-be member.

2 of the many race cars to participate on the Time Attack event.

A very nice looking Corvette.

Chris Rado's TC that was suppose to be driven on the track. Unfortunately, the car blew an engine or so I heard and it had never had the chance to compete. Next time!

This car has caught my attention in so many ways. 1, this guy lives in Vallejo, 2, he lives down deep in mini drive, 3, this guy is lowered on Struts and springs, and not on Air Suspension.My cousin and I was surprised that such a car existed in the hood of Vallejo. That's whats up.

The view from the top of the spectator's view. Well not all the way to the top haha.

This is the same Lexus that I showed you guy earlier. His name is Mariano. Didn't catch his last name though but he did mention that he was in the car scene back in the 90s when it first started. He's old school.

Chris Rado being interviewed. Well that concludes part 1 of the series. Next one will be pictures of the high speed actions and a video. Stay tuned!

Skai, the Beagle.

2011-11-10T20:53:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone! Meet Skai, the beagle. My new puppy!

"Hi everyone! I am only 4 weeks old!"

LA & Vegas Pt. 3 of 3

2011-11-09T23:03:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the delay. But here's the conclusion of the awesome trip. I know it's been a month since then, but eh, who follows this blog anyway? I'll make sure i'll build enough reputation for everyone in the world to read this blog. So far, only my sister Jeanny follows my blog. I don't even know where she is right now lol probably busy. Well let's get to the conclusion of the vacation trip. So after the wedding and reception, we all drove to Las Vegas for some fun time and just go site seeing. And well luckily for me, having a really nice discount at hotels, I got a really sweet deal. So what does that mean? Well let's say the hotel is next to the strip and I've gotten an amazing view of the strip from the top of my hotel. That's whats up! Here are the pictures.

Our rest stop on the way to Las Vegas. The place isn't all completely desert but it was warm/hot. Good breeze though.

The view from the back side of the rest area. Nice clear blue skies!

Our hotel room, 2 rooms, 2 queen size beds, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen and a living room. $189 night ain't bad. The hotel's name is Marriot's Grand Chateau 1&2.

Hotel Cosmopolitan. Looks awesome to stay there. Probably expensive as well haha.

The view between The Bellagio and the Cosmopolitan. It's crazy how I didn't realized at first but I love it how the Cosmopolitan was rendered in with the blue night sky. Trip ain't it?

For the first time, I tested out a high aperture setting on a 10 second open shutter. Thus the results of the lasers. :)

I love how this picture turned out. The place was full of yellow/orange lights so I can't really get a correct color correction here.

I really love this picture. If anything, the only disappointment here is the picture isn't straight.

The whole Family Sha Bang. Oh, I want some boiling crab again.

And the other picture of the Fam Bam.

That concludes the LA & Vegas picture segment! Now, time to get back to regular programming! WOOTT!!.. :(

LA & Vegas Pt. 2 of 3

2011-11-01T01:53:00.000-07:00

So here's part 2 of my awesome trip with my in-laws. This entry will cover the part of the Reception over at Tom O'Shanter's Restaurant, Los Angeles California.

Dave's best man who did a speech on how David is like. His best friend and his Best man.

Tommy, the man who works at Boiling Crab. Wish I had some right now. lol.

The Bride's Maids

Thats the remaining part of Leya and Dave's Wedding and Reception party! Thanks for looking guys. Next one would be the Vegas pictures! :)

LA & Vegas Pt. 1 of 3

2011-10-20T22:11:00.000-07:00

It's been a week now since I got home from my Vacation to LA and Vegas. So let's get it started.

The drive from Vallejo to LA wasn't that bad. We actually stayed at Rancho Cucamonga, CA near Pomona where Leya lives. So did I ever had fun on my vacation? Well aside from working, wedding and vegas was awesome. I was honored to take some pictures on the wedding day and on the reception. I heard some of David's friends (Leya's Husband) was asking me if I can do wedding photography or any other occasions. Unfortunately I live all the way in the Bay Area. I wouldn't mind if they paid me though. So anyway, the wedding went well. Not only that, I got close with my in-laws. Bonding moment if you ask me, they're really fun to be around and just happy to hang out. Wish we had more time to just hang around. I had so much laughs that I haven't had those in a long time. I'm glad there are people like that in my life. Life can really change from one point to another, I guess after all this, it gets better and better. The new brother in Law David, always has a nick for making people laugh, never has a down side, always trying to make everything positive, he also has great friends. What they're really proud of is that they all get drunk, 2 days before the wedding AND the reception. I can't compete with that. They're crazy, but they're all nice. Met good people, some from Fresno and from San Jose. Good to know I am not the only one from the Nor Cal! Yee! Well let's get down to business with the pictures.

This is the invitation that was sent out to everyone. We didn't get one, but I ended up getting one when I saw them. Lol.

The groom David Fang. Spunky guy and very busy.

Classy AND Modern. What else can you add to it? lol

The Rings to be put on the Bride and Groom.

Bride getting ready!

Myla helping Leya, the bride getting ready for her amazing day!

The boys and the bridge :)

The astonishing Leya Fernandez Fang

Apollo 13 walk. From left to right, we have Jeff, Ilene's Oldest brother, Ivan; Russel's Nephew, and Russel; Myla's Fiance.

Getting the Ceremony started!! :)

After the ceremony, I couldn't get a kiss picture because they were too fast and shy. Next time. lol

This covers the wedding part. Reception will be up soon when I have the time. Thanks for looking!

Still in vacation

2011-10-11T23:23:00.001-07:00

I haven't been updating in a while but I certainly do have pictures. I can't post them up but once I get home, I will definitely get back on and start posting. As of now, here's a sneak peak of what and where I am right now.

A Tour around San Francisco

2011-10-03T22:05:00.000-07:00

Alright, where should I start? Well I picked up my in laws from the airport on October 1, 2011 around 2pm. Let me tell you, having to drive through San Francisco for people who hasn't been to the city, haven't seen the ocean, nor haven't seen anything spectacular like San Francisco, I am not gonna lie, it gives me shivers when they get all excited. I don't know why, I don't know how, it's just the fact that they get so amazed is a good thing. lol don't ask. Anyway, so the plan is that before we leave the Bay area on October 6, Ilene and I had planned out so many things for my in laws, everything was set. Unfortunately, it had to rain, on the next following 2 days after they landed. Before the rain, 2 weeks of hot and sweaty summer was just around, now that they're here, it rains!? How bad timing. So instead, we end up going to places like Santa Clara for Our Lady of Peace, then off to Embarcadero street where we met up with my brother Manuel, Pearl and Megan. It was great at the Embarcadero Street (Pier 39), a small show with a bakla (gay) doing performances and site seeing off of the port where the sea lions were. Not a lot of sea lions though. We went on to Pier Market where we usually eat for Clam Chowder. Ended up getting Fish and Chips and really regretting it cause the breading reminded me of the Corn Dog bread, cept it was crispy. Nasty. No thanks! The Cod itself was good though! lol.

Later on, we ended up going to Coit tower, where it had a beautiful view of the San Francisco city. I'll post up the pictures after all this nonsense that I am typing haha. It was $7 to get to the top of the Coit Tower and I'll tell you, it was my first time up there literally and the view was astonishing! The clouds made it more dramatic and more angelic. As if the heavens itself was just above the city, floating majestically as it's sun rays blazes through the clouds shining the whole city with magic effects. Yeah... After the trip, we went through Market street and through Castro to get to Twin peaks. By the time we got to the end of Castro, the road was blocked by a bunch of queers dressed in... Well you know, Castro Street. Home of the Queers, Fags, and Gays. It delayed our trip to the twin peaks so we never got up there, and decided to just say EFF it, we're going to Sausalito. As we near our trip to the Golden Gate Bridge, my in-laws gazes with excitement as I have shivers down my spine. We got up to the mountain where you get to see the beautiful view of the Golden gate bridge. As we descend down from the mountain of Sausalito, we went through the port city of Sausalito and through it, back on to the highway and on our way home to Ghetto Vallejo.

Here are the picture of my wife and her Family. At first, I didn't think it would be a big deal, but coming from a place where theres NO filipino delicacy anywhere thats famous in the Philippines, I guess it is to die for and savor every last bite. lol.

Jeff having his first Jollybee meal in a long long time. You can tell he's very excited lol.

The winner. lol stuffed himself too much, he skipped lunch and wait straight for dinner. haha.

The trip to Our Lady of Peace. My in-laws are happy to see such a big statue of Mother Mary. Pray for us every day!

Manuel, Jeff, Megan and I just hanging out.

Not a lot of sea lions today...Click here to see more!We had a lot of fun that day, and more to come! It's Ilene's Birthday tomorrow so cooking and cooking and pictures! My sister's birthday, Jeanny, is after Ilene's birthday. Well gonna call it a night, I'll post more as the days progress!

Winters around the corner.

2011-09-26T13:31:00.001-07:00

Hey guys, so winters just around the corner. It'll be a great time to practice some winter shots and maybe some other various things. I haven't been able to take shots recently but I will be providing free photoshoots of cars until I built enough reputation to get around.

In other news, this upcoming weekend my in laws will be visiting and I'll have plenty of shots to take of some parts of the bay area. Next following week I'll be visiting Los Angeles for my sister in law's wedding. A lot of places to go and explore. I can't wait!

After the vacation, work work work!

Chris Valentin's Rebuild of the 13B

2011-09-15T01:41:00.000-07:00

So here's the deal. I'll be following up on a new project on one of my buddy's upcoming project. Well it'll take awhile, I'll be happy to post pictures from start to finish on the project. The car he is currently working on will be a 1987 Mazda RX-7 TII edition FC3S. Well the project will be more focused on moving the car rather than a car show but it'll get there eventually. He recently just got his engine back from the guy who powder coated his motor and it turned out pretty well. The colors he picked out was awesome and I couldn't argue with it. Here are the results.

Lovin that Mazda 13B.

Click here to see more!I'll be doing more coverage if he calls me lol.

The Mazdaspeed 3 Shoot

2011-09-07T01:26:00.000-07:00

What can I say about this shoot? Well it literally just happened. Yesterday September 6, 2011 I was working when suddenly I received a call from my mother in law telling me there is a free couch to take in front of a furniture store. So I happened to walk out of work and took a look at this so called free couch. As I expected, it was, in fact, a free couch. The furniture owner was gonna dispose of the couch but instead, gave it away. So I sat on the couch as it was mine, called my brother Richard and told him to help me pick up this free couch. While I was waiting, I saw my friend Francis Castrillo. I waved to him just to say whats up as he saw my sweating and burning up in the heat. He got his drink and decided to come over and see what I was doing. I told him that the couch was free and we ended up chatting about what his girlfriend ended up getting for a car. As we talked about more and more, I asked him if he can bring his Mazdaspeed 3 over, since I am in the verge of just looking around for a car. I went inside the MS3 and loved it. Looked around and forgot that I had my DSLR lying around collecting dust since I was so busy with work. So I asked him if I can do a quick photoshoot of his car. Just happened to be that he's on a small break from his work until Monday and we decided to do a shoot of his car. So as of yesterday September 7, 2011 I happened to have no work and was just watching some cartoons and series over the internet and asked him if he was available today. We decided to shoot behind Tapioca Express and here are the outcomes.

Click Here to see moreLong day, but the shoot was the highlight of today's day. I was gonna go over to my friend's rebuild of his Turbo civic but never had the chance since it was already dark. Till next time folks!

The chef life and the hobby life

2011-08-16T12:12:00.001-07:00

It's been awhile since I was able to post something up. I have been very busy with work, and at the same time trying to save up some money for my next trip in Los Angeles, California for my sister in laws wedding. I will be taking wedding photos for her. I'm not very good with portraits or wedding photography since I don't really specialize in that field. Well you all know the idea haha.

This past week, I worked overtime for the restaurant I work at. Since school is starting, work hours will be shorter but I'll still manage to work, just not a lot of hours. I work at the family business store for extra hours and income as well.

So in my spare time, what have I been doing? Well I've been on and off on team fortress 2, the game never gets old haha. I wish I had more time to go out and shoot some landscape but with the budget I'm receiving and work hours I haven't had the time. My next shoot will most likely be a night shoot in the city of San Francisco. So for now, I'll keep walking and working as much as I can as hope to see a good future I long for.

Port Costa, A small town

2011-08-04T23:41:00.000-07:00

On August 1, 2011 I decided to go out to take photos and invite my brother Manuel and a buddy of mine, Lazandro. We were originally going to go to Marin County, but we ended up going to a place where we decided to go venture out to. We don't know where, we don't know how, or what we will encounter, but we did manage to find this small town called Port Costa.

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Japanese Tea Garden

2011-07-23T00:10:00.001-07:00

An unusual bridge. Fun to climb!

SF Day tomorrow!

2011-07-17T00:55:00.001-07:00

San Francisco tomorrow. My friend Kathrina is leaving to go back to her home country Australia, so we're gonna kick it one last time tomorrow. Expect pictures from San Francisco tomorrow/later on today! Have a good night!

Laz's Toyota Vios Shoot

2011-07-12T22:50:00.000-07:00

I went out to try out the 10mm for the first time on cars. Thanks to Lazandro for making it out.

Next stop...

2011-06-27T23:07:00.000-07:00

It has come to my attention that I will be shooting more photography down at Muir Woods in Marin County. I haven't been there yet but the place looks amazing. I'm not sure when I'll be going but it'll be posted up soon.

Tomorrow will be day 9 of having to work straight. I haven't been getting the rest I need but it's for the sake of my wife's finals. After this week, I should be getting enough rest and go to work properly.

Sunset in Napa, Ca pt. 2

2011-06-22T00:32:00.000-07:00

Liang, Manuel, and I went back to the beautiful sunset place of Napa Valley. Having to be there and watching the sunset, it relaxes the mind. Too bad it was full of pollen outside so I was suffering. Did I mention that my Tripod has been torn apart? Buy another one you say!? Absolutely!

Sunset in Napa, Ca

2011-06-19T23:20:00.000-07:00

So I was talking to a good friend of mine, oh what the hell, you all know him, Mr. Liang Ge, and recommended me this awesome spot that was right behind Napa Valley College. I always drove past this area, but I didn't know that behind the college was the Napa River along with the old train tracks. Little did I know, time flew by so fast that I didn't get to capture a lot of photos here. I'll have to come back here in due time and do more shooting. For the mean time, here are the pictures I have taken.

A new Job!

2011-06-19T16:52:00.000-07:00

I've finally found a new job. Started on the 16th of June and so far so good, everything is sailing smoothly. I'd never thought I'd be working at a restaurant inside one of the most popular hotels in the world. The Marriot is the hotel I am working at the the first thing that was presented to me by Head Chef Yoshi is this.

In other news, I still haven't had much luck going out and taking pictures with the 10mm. Why? Because I was jobless, no money to go around and my neighborhood is as ghetto as any ghetto neighborhood there is. It's hard to get around places, but I really do need to mess around with the 10mm more often. All I can think about with the 10mm is just take pictures of landscapes.

Oh btw, Happy fathers day to all.

Trying out the 10-22mm

2011-06-05T19:56:00.000-07:00

Here's a picture of Lucy, my Pomeranian dog. When I took this picture, my camera was only a few inches away from her and it captured a lot. I am surprised and amazed how this lens works! It's... magnificent!. It's all worth the money spent into this.

As much as I love this dog, I can't have her shedding hair all over my house so she stays with my parents.

The new artillery

2011-06-03T15:52:00.001-07:00

As of today I received my new Canon 10-22mm f/3.5 - 4.5 ef-s Lens and I am proud to say that this is probably the best investment I ever purchased. Since my start of photography as a hobby, I've tried many things to find the right type of photography. I tried studio portraits to macro photography and even candid. All and all, I've decided to take photos of landscapes, sceneries and anything that'll tickle my fantasies. Bottom line, straight up vast wilderness of what nature has to offer.

I can't wait what the bay area has to offer me with this awesome lens. Thanks to my wife Ilene Ledda, Liang, my brother Manuel, my cousin Joseph, my brother richard and my family for making photography fun!

One Year later..

2011-06-01T23:01:00.000-07:00

So, I decided to reopen my blog after almost a year of not being able to blog. I should've kept going with the blog and kept posting but decided to stop. I wanted to make a photoblog, but decided to just keep this as a journal to keep for the future. I'll be updating quite as much as I did back then. But for now, let's get back on to business.

So what's new? Well first off, I've been doing well on photography. I don't know if I should make it into a profession or a hobby. Still stuck. Now that I'm mentioning professionalism, I am quite stuck on what I want to do in life. As in career opportunity. I want to find a job where I love and I am happy at most. But I can't seem to find any. Don't know what I want, don't know what I need. Carehome seems to be okay for me but I don't find it... fun. Sure it brings money, but where's the fun in that? Anyway, here's a website dedicated to my daily life of photography.

RSLPhotos

In other news, I'll be receiving my new lens this friday. Canon EF-S Wide-angle zoom lens 10mm-22mm F/3.5-4.5. Can't wait to take new photos! My main focus on photography will be Scenery/Landscapes, Automobiles and then models. Something about the view makes everything beautiful. So check my webpage of photos often! I'll be bringing in a lot of extra photos here as well!

A New me, A New Month!

2010-06-13T21:53:00.000-07:00

Remember that time where I promised myself about dropping my current weight? Well it's gonna happen tomorrow. Waking up at 7am in the morning, eating breakfast and tea, then getting ready to jog at 8:30am. After jogging, I will do 200 sit ups, 50 in a set and 100 push ups, 20 a set. It might be pushing my self, but I am devoting my body and soul into losing this weight I have gained. Stay tuned for some life changing event! :) wish me luck!

If I was...

2010-06-06T20:05:00.000-07:00

"If I was him/her, I wouldn't let you go through this pain, no matter what the circumstances are"

"If I was him/her, I would do anything to make that frown into a smile"

Quotes from Anonymous.

I'd take those quotes and take it to another level. Seriously.

Take care everyone, going to Montreal tonight. Be back on the 11th.

BYE!

Frank Sinatra - The Second Time Around

2010-06-05T16:50:00.000-07:00

2 days! and...

2010-06-05T11:56:00.000-07:00

Montreal trip is just around the corner. Time to get away from all the stress from work and at home. Time off is definitely what I need the most right now before everything at home gets even more complicated.

So today is Saturday and I'm at work. I am completely tired and I need coffee. I've never been so tired in my life so far. Must be the damn humid weather that's messing with my head right now. Its hella gloomy outside and yet and its hot. Damn it! Anyway the computer at work has been down for 2 days now and we've been doing manual contracts. A little slow and annoying but it gets the job done. A lot of very patient people and just very little annoying people. The people who thinks that they know more than you. That shit will eventually come around and I met one already. That f**ker was annoying. Anyway let's put that bitch aside before I rant and kill him!

So jerome and I has been talking about what would happen if a tourretes syndrome guy comes inside a library and wanted to check a book out. "Excuse me mam but I would like to check out this FFFFF*******CCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!" Or something like in the bathroom where it echoes! Lol just imagining it sounds hella mean' retarded, and hella funny! Had a good laugh or two just thinking about it.

So falling in love over and over is one of the greatest things in the world. It can also be your downfall. In many cases I don't believe in second chances. And by second chances, I mean by girl/boy cheating on you with someone else and you giving them a second chance. People will be the same no matter what, but we all know that changing is one of the hardest things we have to do in order to make someone happy and changing is something that I must do.
As I mentioned before I'm feeling happy and laughing more. I am filled with energy and life. Its been like this for I believe probably a month and I'm not gonna lie, its been great. But I know someday this will go away again. Why? It's a part of human nature. We forgive and forget, we tend to forget and then regret. No matter what we do to keep this happiness, it'll fade away slowly then it'll come back. But I hope one day, that I can make this happiness stay like this forever until I become gray and old haha. I'll post up a video of a song by Frank Sinatra, something that reflects on this section. For now I need to eat. I'll post the video when I get home.

Unhappy...

2010-06-03T02:53:00.000-07:00

I have been very unhappy about the way I look. I guess it's really that time to lose all this weight. I can't sleep at night knowing that I am not healthy, not even just looking fit. I feel very unattractive to myself, and as well to others. I miss wearing my small shirts, because now I wear Medium-Large shirts. I can't sleep well now knowing the fact that I am not the man I used to be. Whatever it is, I need to drop this damn weight. Now I won't be able to start this diet training until I get back from my Montreal Trip. So my training on losing this weight will start on June 14, 2010. Nutritional facts that I will need will be based on about.com which I will be following by. My routine will go Monday through Friday. Waking up at 7am in the morning, eating eggs, cereals, or fruits like apples or bananas. I need to change, my life isn't the same. I feel ugly, I have to do something about myself. I'll do a weekly photo of myself with nothing but boxers on. It's kinda embarrassing but hopefully I can see the magic and the changes I can go through.

Lately, I've been in much deep thoughts. I laugh and smile, something that I haven't felt in so long. I try not to think about it but it's there. Why am I so soft? Why am I so sincere? Again, all these emotions are piling up because of what? The way I feel about others? I really need to stop and learn to control my feelings. I know it's not gonna happen, I wish it will but I know it won't. Too many problems are in the way and that helps me move along. All this shit will continue, but I hope one day, everything will be better. As for me, I'll go on ahead and worry about myself and the problems I have within the family circle.

Again, I can't sleep. This is all I have to say to myself. F**K My Life. I've done this to myself and now I have to fix it. Wish me luck!

I found a phone and Happy Memorial Day!

2010-05-31T16:45:00.000-07:00

Tell me how this phone got inside my car in the back seat. I don't know who this Ben guy is but I do know one guy name Ben who works with me and he never ever was or got into my car once. I always lock my door before going to work. This is a mystery I will never figure out. I tried calling out and even sending a message saying "I'm horny and you like it" but it didn't send out. Looks like I can recycle it! Hehehe

So over the past couple of days, I am slowly beginning to get sick and finally today, I'm starting to lose my voice. Not good! So I've been told to use medication so I can get better but knowing myself, I have a pretty good immune system and I'll feel much better in days time! Let's hope so haha.

I also wanna commemorate the veterans who came home safely from the war and also who's in iraq or somewhere out there serving our nation. Thank you!

a Long Saturday

2010-05-29T17:59:00.000-07:00

So many things has been going on and I've tried a lot of things. Over the past week, I haven't sold one jack squat of a cell phone. It's been very horrible for me and very very slow. Had a conference call this morning stating that it's gonna be a long and busy weekend since this weekend is memorial day, a lot of people will be shopping for clothes, electronics and even cell phones ;). We'll see whats up. So far so good, it's 6pm and I'm pretty much just tired of sitting around here. I went out to get lunch at Midori's Japanese Cuisine and after that, ended up going to Tapioca Express to get some Mocha Snowbubbles. Needed that since today was a hot day. So the other day while looking for a spot in front of my house, I noticed Liang's car was parked in front of my house so... Well I'll let the picture explain.
Hope that clears everything and saves me time from explaining what happened here. haha!

In other news, my trip to Montreal will be another topic to talk about. I will be going there June 7, 2010 to June 11, 2010. Since I now have a cell phone, I can take pictures and post entries while I'm over there. I can't wait! Also my nephew's birthday is coming up soon! He is now turning 3 and it's gonna be so much fun with the kids!

Well I can't really think of anything to post anymore other than those. My life is boring sometimes. I really can't wait till I get a new camera. So I can post up some awesome, clear and crystal pictures instead of some dull and boring ones!

-Till next time.

Oni-Camber to the Max!

2010-05-26T18:55:00.000-07:00

Sean, a friend of mine gave me a link through facebook and wanted to share this particular VIP Japanese Luxury Car. VIP cars are known for it's luxury look, lowered cars and with extremely rare chromed wheels with negative offets. This however is probably the craziest cambered car ever. Check it out.

In japan, they call this type of style "Oni-Camber." Oni means Demon or Ogre, (in which I have no idea why they call a car such name).

A VIP car's definition is:

A car in which is perfectly decently looking and a nice daily driver, totally modified to resemble a car a VIP would supposedly drive in. Now, understand that this is the derivative of this style. Occasionally referred to as Bippy's, modern VIP'd cars are normally just the ricer equivalent of a luxury car. This usually includes a fugly body kit, dropping your ride to the ground using air suspension (ride is horrid), putting huge beveled rims on it, and completely screwing up the camber so that the wheels can actually spin when driving the car. Oh yeah, and it must have at least 4 doors for a "Very Important Person" to fit in the back. Essientially, a VIP'd car is the opposite of what a Very Important Person would like to be seen in. Victims of becoming VIP'd usually include the following: LEXUS'S Toyota's Acura's Honda's xB's Minivan's ...basically any other JDM import sedan they can get their hands on, along with the occasional Euro car.

Resources: 7tune

A Test Entry from my BB9700

2010-05-26T14:30:00.000-07:00

Note that I am blogging this straight from my BB9700.

As the day continues, I often wonder about how it would feel like to have one of my own kid. A little Ray Ray running around. Having 2 nieces and 1 nephew running around and playing, I believe I would be a great father. Not because I know I will, but to the point where I can make kids laugh and love me. I continue to wonder if I can open up my own day care children center and live my life as a person who loves to make people laugh. I don't know. Its a dream waiting to be wished for.

In other news, I need to vent out here for a quick minute or so. I have been told often to get mad at people and to yell at people. Recently I have been forced to do so and yeah it makes everything around me so much better. But honestly I don't wanna scream, I don't wanna get mad, nor I don't wanna yell. Even if that person got mad at me or got mad at that other person, I just don't have the heart and courage to do so. In all my life, I repented my sins and do everything I can to help those around me. I am that type of person who smiles when everything is down, I'm that type of person who turns everything into something fun. Why is it that I can get mad at the person who I am closest to but not get mad at the other people who does me wrong? I won't know until I find the right answer. (Excuse my religion talk to those people who don't believe in religion) Every night I ask for God's guidance, seeking for help and finding why I get like this. My life is full of great people, surrounded with many love and great possibilities. What more can I ask for? I just need to pay attention more to myself cause I already have all the great things in the world.

I have these urges, on where I need to let loose. And I need the real deal not just by myself lol!

As I stand here, I often wonder where my life is gonna end up going. I am ready for everything next month. I just hope I get some sort of activity without being restricted of doing so. I'm excited!

Till next time readers.
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

Nothing to post

2010-05-25T23:51:00.000-07:00

Damn! Nothing...

A nice view of a Skyline

2010-05-20T20:22:00.000-07:00

It was a long and hot day and I was working long hours today at work. I was able to make sales earlier today and Rudy, the new guy made it more happen. Overall, it was a good and productive day. Can't really complain. So it's Thursday, May 20th, 2010, and my tags for my car needs to be renewed today. I thought I can just pay it online but I totally forgot that I have to do smog on the car. I got off a little early today and went on ahead and got the smog check. F**kin $62 for smog check. I believe I got ripped the f**k out here AND I had to renew the tags which cost me another $98. $160 total just to get my car running again. Sheesh. Anyway, while getting my car smogged, I saw this right outside of the smog check place where I got my car fixed.

Authentic Nissan Skyline. No f**kin joke. I finally got to see ANOTHER skyline here in California. The last time I remember seeing one was back in my high school days. This was just as awesome. Seeing a R33 Skyline in Vallejo brought happiness and I got all hyped up for some reason. Glad to know someone is driving one around. He must feel happy lol.

Anyway, my best friend Albert S. finally got his M1 License for motorcycle. He'll be rolling with the big boys. I wanna ride again, but I don't wanna cause any trouble within my family and my lovely lady you know?? Well time will tell, hopefully my lady love will let me ride again. Congrats to my home boy Albert for getting his M1 License. Ridin dirty!

Also, as I have mentioned back in a couple of entries, check out Whargarbltv. My home boy B-ri (Brian Sittner, AKA Acousticfan" writes for them and does Music reviews and video reviews on upcoming new artists locally and nationwide. He also does video reviews. Check him out!

A New Look

2010-05-17T13:44:00.000-07:00

Good news! I received new shipment from http://www.sw-box.com and it's my face plate cover for my blackberry! Also I got a cover for it so just in case my dumbass self accidentally dropped my blackberry AGAIN, the protector will save it!BEFOREAFTER

Other than that, I have a beta key for starcraft 2 so I had the chance to play that, also Battlefield Bad company 2 also went on sale for 50% off so I had to hop on that! Both games got to me and now I just don't know what to play! lol. In other news, time has been flying fast, but yet nowadays it's so boring. Maybe it's because due to the weather conditions now, it started to drizzle and the sky is gloomy. There's nothing I can't really do for now but just go to work. But when I'm at work, it's so slow and boring! I've been lazy and not selling phones and the bad part about it, we have a new guy who came in and he's already selling phones like its nothing! haha, I need to step up for a bit! I guess the timing is just bad. I have to go to another sales associate meeting this coming Wednesday and for what? To get trained on how to sell phones over and over and over again? What's the deal with that? It's all the same shit but it just keeps going and going! What am I suppose to do? Well whatever.

I'm still waiting for an opportunity in the State Job I acquired, ranking in 3rd place. My friend got hired 1 year after he applied and now he's enjoying life as it is! I can't wait till I start! I just don't wanna mess things up in the future. Getting married soon and can't wait! Hopefully the issue with me and my lady will finally be resolved. A lot of family drama nowadays and I don't really wanna get into it right now. Hopefully after my lady talks to them, everything will just keep their mouth shut about who they are talking to...

Starcraft II, long awaited!

2010-05-06T22:26:00.000-07:00

I have been waiting long for this G'damn game to come out, and now it's finally coming Summer! One thing I should mention before continuing this blog is that, if this game requires me to pay to play? I'd say F*** blizzard and bring it back to free to play.

It's been awhile since I played the first Starcraft and Broodwars Expansion pack. I have totally forgotten about the story. I would love to play it, but I don't have that much time at the moment. It'll come sooner or later but for now, papers papers, papers!

A day at the Charity Event

2010-05-06T22:06:00.000-07:00

Here's a video I recorded during the time I was at the [IM]possible Dream event
The place was crackin that time as you can see and it was a fun event, though I haven't stayed long. It was great times with the friends. DJ played good music, and our customers enjoyed every minute of it. Hopefully there can be more event like these!
A good bad ass picture of me and b-ri of Whargarbltv.com. Thanks for stopping by the shop and supporting your love! Making this entry is making me want some Milk Tea. WHEW!

Well in other news, a lot has happened over the past couple of days. My brother Rod, who lived in Texas, now down south only 5 hours away from where we live, Santa Barbara, visited us. My grandma walking away from the store only to be found near the walgreens center by herself not knowing where to go, I mean what the hell. That freaked the shit out of me and the rest of my friends and family. It was so busy at the store that the workers who work for my brothers were too busy to even realize that she was gone. Well luckily my sister-in-law found her on the way home. Talk about luck!

A 2.5lbs Tri-tip steak for only $5. You can't beat that! That baby is gonna get roasted and get slobbered down by my famous stomach.
Home boys went down to Korea House in Concord to celebrate his achievement on getting his motorcycle license. Spicy Pork Bulgolgi. YUM!!

The completed Mural

2010-05-05T22:04:00.000-07:00

Well sorry I didn't get to post up the finished mural. The day after the event, May 2, 2010, they finally finished the painting of the mural at 3:00am. Surprisingly, the mural turned out very well. Dyno and the other artists; *From left to right: Dyno(JR), JP, Jotoddo, and Nick* was incredibly happy on how the event turned out especially that my brother's bubble tea store is #1 kick it spot in Vallejo. This was also their first mural together and their very first time painting something this big. It was a complete success. Thanks again to Dyno and the other artists, and for the photographer Johnny Neang.

For more coverage of pictures, please visit Johnny Neang's Page. Picture quality is way better than mine lol!

The [IM]possible Dream - Charity Event

2010-05-01T20:40:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, today at Tapioca Express, we had a charity today along with Dyno and other various artists here in the bay area district. This place has become more popular then ever due to the support of our charity. Thanks to all who supported and hope to see you more there! Here are some pictures I covered today.

Tomato Beef/Pork

2010-04-26T23:50:00.000-07:00

So I cooked up a little something for the family. I was wondering what I should cook and what we haven't had in awhile. At first I thought about Beef & Brocolli but that got too boring to cook and I needed more challenging stuff. I wanted to grill but it was way too dark to even cook at night, and I wanted to cook something up with Salmon. But didn't have any salmon so what did I look into while searching around? I came upon these ingredients to start. You guys can learn from this. It's a very quick and easy stir fry lesson from me! I call it the tomato beef/pork.

Ingredients:
- Salt & Pepper
- Ketchup
- Oyster Sauce
- 2 Cloves Garlic
- Sliced onion (small onion)
- Pork/Beef
- tomato
- brocolli/Zuchinni/Snowpeas.
- Red or Green bell peppers (did not use, optional)

The cooking process:
Prep all ingredients as shown: Onions are sliced, Pork/Beef cuts into cubes, Cut the tomato in half and cut them half again and just dice them into 1/2" long. Mince the garlic/ginger. Get pre-cut brocolli or cut them yourselves by removing the stem.

Heat up the non-stick saute pan to about medium high, then throw in the onions, garlic and ginger.

Throw in the meat and cook the meat thoroughly until the meat is almost cooked.

Add ketchup (enough to cover the meat) and oyster sauce (enough to cover 1/4 of the pan), sprinkle salt & pepper and mix until all ingredients has been covered.

Finally, add the last remaining ingredient which is Brocolli and Tomato (and the bell peppers if you decided to put some in). Mix everything until fully cooked.

And if for some reason you like to present your food, just like what I did, then go for it, if not, put it in a big bowl and it's ready to serve with rice! YUM! Good luck! If you read this, try it out and let me know how it went! I love how it turned out!

Spring Cleaning

2010-04-24T20:08:00.000-07:00

Well a lot of shit has been going and well I got started (Finally) on cleaning my room. My room has been a mess and I should have cleaned a long time ago, but since it's been a slow day, I decided to work and clean my room today. I didn't get much out of how dirty my room was, (because of how embarrassing it will be for you to see) but I did get a picture from my blackberry! (Note to Liang, my work pants which is usually folded nicely is not on the floor, thank you)
For you movie go-ers and Twilight folks:
Not to be all happy about it, I am truely not a big fan of twilight. I've seen part of the first one, but taking it to myself, I find watching that movie insufferable. Just seeing Robert Pattinson makes everyone feel gay (someone said it). Anyway, the movie continues off with Edward Cullen (Robert P.) and Jacob Black (Taylor Launter) who is fighting for Bella Swan's (Kristen Stewart) life and heart. But as Bella Swan's love for both the Vampire and the wolf, which will she choose? So this gives you twilight loving folks something to watch over and over till the movie hits the theaters on June 30th, 2010.

Charity at Tap Ex.

2010-04-23T23:24:00.000-07:00

So I stumbled upon a charity on facebook today that is being hosted by my family's bubble tea store, Tapioca express, Mark Dinglasan and JP Neang. I was unaware of this event but the event will start on Saturday, May 1st, 2010 at 5pm-close. If I heard correctly, the painter, which is also a good friend of mine, Dyno, is going to paint the walls of our tapioca express store. I can't wait on how it'll turn out! If any of you reads this, please attend the charity program.

May 1st, 2010

Tapioca Express Presents:

"The [IM]Possible Dream"
Art programs in schools have been cut and are struggling to keep art alive. This benefit will be showcasing artists from Sacramento to the Bay Area for a one of a kind collaboration.

Featured Artists:
JP Neang
Dyno
Nick "Mynt" Trujillo
Christopher de Leon
Jtoddo

Hosted By:
Tapioca Express
Mark X Dinglasan
JP Neang

Milk Tea Special $2.00 All day. Every Milk Tea purchased a Dollar goes to proceeds. Donations for food & clothing are accepted.

*100% of the proceed will be donated to The Christian Help Center, Vallejo CA and The Art Program for The St John's Shelter for Women & Children, Sacramento, CA
Come out & join the festivities with Live Music, Art, and Boba.!!!

5pm-closing
Tapioca Express
3720 Sonoma Blvd.
Vallejo, CA 94589
For More Info Contact:
tapioca.impossible@gmail.com

Special Thanks To:
Richard Ledda of Tapioca Express &
Nick Naraja of 12ft Dwende

Attend the fun, laugh, music and great times! $2.00 milk teas, $1 goes to charity! YAY!!! Hope to see you there!

After a Decade...

2010-04-22T21:07:00.000-07:00

After 10 years of waiting, the long awaited series of 2 big company clashes once again on the third installment of this very glorious game for the Playstation3 and for the XBOX360. Yes you should have known by now Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. Indeed it is folks, I, myself have been waiting for this game to come around. Ever since the release of Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 was released in the Playstation network, I hopped on to it as fast as I can and remembered that they really need to release Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. Here it is folks!

With 24 new unknown characters still waiting to be revealed, who knows what crazy schemes that these people will come up with! Stay tuned folks!!

Thanks to Whargarbltv for the information! Check out their website to see more exciting news about what is coming around the corner. - Click Here

my 100th post!

2010-04-22T19:41:00.000-07:00

Wow, 2 years ago I remember making this blog and joining back into the Blog/website scene. I've been through many blog categories, starting from vacation and just the daily days of my life into culinary arts and now back into my life. I've thought about many different subjects I can think of and my blog personally is one random online journal. I talk about anything that has to do with my life, my fiance, and anything about cars, electronics, movies, foods, sports and entertainment. I really can't stay in one category like most of the people. I really do wish I have a really nice camera so I can start a photo blog my own and of course to randomly talk about life itself. I don't really get a lot of space for pictures on my blog but I am really thinking of just opening up a domain name for myself. But I have to prioritize my blog into one consolidated subject instead of random events. I can probably just start with these subjects.

Electronics
Games
Movies
Comics
Food
Cars
Photography

I guess anything in between. I love everything in this world. Maybe I should rename my title into something about everything that will fit into this category. I'll think of something. I think it's time for me to get serious about this blog and talk about all the things that will be coming out soon, comics, games, and anything in between. I should also put up sales event that Woot! has to offer and other things like stuff from Amazon. For now, I will only concentrate on the things I love the most right now. My adventures!

After awhile...

2010-04-20T17:58:00.000-07:00

Well after awhile of getting the hang of my blackberry and getting used to it, I have found ways to customize my blackberry in so many ways. There are things that still needs to be worked on but I really can truly say that I am happy with a cell phone that I really like. Who knows I might even get tired of it in a couple of months, then again, that's always been me. Always wanting new gadgets. Anyway, here's a picture of what I did with my upgrade.
I changed up the theme a little bit and gotten my favorite picture of my car (not mine btw) in it. I love how it turned out. I tweaked around the picture for a little bit in Photoshop. In other news, keeping in track with friends and my lady is never been so fun. I get to surf the web while I'm out, get to see who's online, get to see who I get to chat it up with, get to see who's emailing me. WOO! How joyous!

In other news, I'm not too sure if you guys have heard, but they will be discontinuing the Honda Civic Type R in Japan as of August 2010. Thanks to The Chronicles for the information.
Here is the official press release

TOKYO, Japan, April 19, 2010 – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced it will discontinue production of the 4-door Civic Type R at the end of August, 2010. A purist’s sports car featuring precisely tuned vehicle dynamics, the Civic Type R creates a unity between car and driver for exceptional driving pleasure. The first-generation model launched in 1997 and was produced at Suzuka Factory. The second-generation model following in 2001, was produced at Honda of the U.K. Manufacturing Ltd.* For the current, third-generation Civic Type R that was released in 2007, the production has returned to Suzuka Factory.

Type R models are specially tuned to take full advantage of the potential of the base model and provide a racing car-like driving feel. First offered on the NSX in 1992, the Type R range was added to the Integra in 1995 and to the Civic in 1997.

Sad but true :(

I've been thinking about many upgrades on my prelude and starting off will be to lower my suspension. Hopefully I can still keep my car, if not, well future projects will emerge one way or the other.
Function and Form Type 1 coil overs. Gotta hop on those soon!
XXR 501 Wheels. Looks great on the car and sexy and very very sleek! Love it.

Other than lowering my car and slapping on some rims, I'd wanna add some kind of lip kit to it. Not too sure what kind, but I'll find something. For now, gotta concentrate on how to get to Vancouver and working on our final pieces of papers for my lady's K-1 Visa! Good Day!

A discounted price

2010-04-17T18:04:00.000-07:00

So today I found out T-Mobile does discounting price for certain corporations. So I decided to look it up and found out I get 15% off of my bill every month. Instead of paying $80 a month, I will only end up paying $68. I thought it'd be 10% off but 15% off is good enough for me. Hah!

Anyway, taking a trip down memory lane, I have been thinking about the great possibilities that's gonna be in store for the near future. I'm not too sure where my life is heading now but it's a very bumpy road and it's something I didn't see coming. Won't stop me from achieving my goals in the future. This song is something on what I am going through right now. I'm having a hard time getting through life right now and at the same time it's easy on me. Right now the only thing I have to focus on is earning money and saving all of it. Who knows some miracle might happen and for some reason I know it will. Just I will wait for time to tell. For now, I need to enjoy all the small things and just have fun. But what fun!? I work tremendous amount of hours, I don't think I can HAVE fun at all.

Decision? 9700!

2010-04-17T00:01:00.000-07:00

Well after a long decision of deciding what cellphone I should get, it all came down to this.

The BlackBerry Bold 9700 by T-Mobile. I know you guys are probably wondering why this decision while everyone voted for the android phone series. Well, here's the thing. I decided to go with the blackberry so I can keep in touch with friends through messaging and I believe that messaging on the blackberry is way better than the android's messaging service. Besides, battery life on the androids are okay, and I am pretty anal about the battery life anyway. I didn't choose the android due to one reason. I don't really use the applications on it. I was more on the messaging service side to keep in touch with my family and friends.

Happy to say that I was very happy with the decision I made. I love how the leather feel/look on the back of the phone looks, I also love how bright the LED flash is on the phone, a 3.2MP camera, a trackpad so no more cleaning the trackball like on David's Blackberry Tour haha. I never really was satisfied with the blackberry until they came out with the trackpad. I can take pictures and videos and directly upload them to facebook, youtube, or any social networking site that I can think of. I also have T-Mobile's 3G capability and wi-fi access for unlimited calling anywhere in the US, what more can I ask for? I love the phone and it's making my life easier than it was before.

Here's a sample picture of Riley from my blackberry bold 9700.

Anger & Frustration

2010-04-11T19:22:00.000-07:00

Usually I don't like to make this very out in the open but I should just speak my mind in this blog and let everything out, about what's been happening. So this rumor appears to be real then, regardless what it is, if this continues, then I really don't mind losing a couple of friends. Not to get anyone offended here, but I have no right to apologize to what has been happening in awhile and it's really starting to piss me off. People are saying that this rumor is fake and that it's not true. What's not true? What's the real reason? What is it that they are keeping something away from me? They can't speak up to me and they don't wanna tell me. These things adds up and links up together. I hate it. It hurts my fiance, and it hurts our relationship. Now we're fighting cause of all this crap. Whatever it is, they all need to speak up and tell me the truth. I'm happy enough there are some who cares about what I do and what I go through and if they made a mistake, make the proper choice of fixing it before things gets worse. I'm not the one who sits here making problems, people around me makes the problems. What do you want me to do? Go up to you and say sorry for making my fiance look like shit? I'm sorry that you're making fun of my fiance? Good luck with that. Nothing will be achieved this way. Nothing will.

Believe me, you're all welcome to my room and apologize cause apparently, I'm not the one who's gonna crawl out of my room and apologize to everyone. I'll apologize alright once you apologize first. Thanks.

You know, I've always wanted a small wedding, just a small wedding with friends and family, but I don't think that's ever gonna happen because people seems to not like my fiance. When I get married, people will start to think that why they're not the best man or whatever. They're gonna start to think why I didn't pick them instead I picked someone else. I already know the outcome. If they were to apologize to me and just forget about all this charades. Whatever.

Money is Time

2010-04-06T23:06:00.000-07:00

Time to repair my prelude. Unfortunately I have come across a problem for about a couple of months now and I started to notice. The wheel bearing is going bad and I need to change them. With only a limited amount of cash, I might have to borrow some money from the mother to make sure I get to point A to point B safely. I don't really wanna spend some money on the car, but safety comes first. At times, I thought about how much the car would be if I just sold it as is, or better yet, I thought about trading in the car for something better. More like a Gas Saver or maybe a SUV. I don't know, whatever comes first. Dream cars will come later when I have a good paying job. For now, I can stay with the prelude. A lot of projects for the car. It's fully paid off, a semi-nice gas saving car and a good looking one to add it. Well, the car will be in the shop by Friday since I am off, might as well drive the BMW for a bit to get around town.

Decisions on Cell Phones

2010-04-01T21:42:00.000-07:00

So, for the past 4 months, there's a debate on which phone I want to get. An Android phone or a Blackberry. I've been constantly reviewing both phones, Nexus One and the Blackberry Bold 9700. Both are great phones and both has amazing capability to surf the internet, and great applications too. But I am still stuck on which phone to get. I am leaning more on the android Nexus one though just because I wanna be one of the guys who stands out. So in that case, Poll time!

So as time passes by, I start to think about what I can do to work on my car. I haven't gotten the chance to wash the prelude, nor even wax it. But then again, I realize more and more often that people who owns and loves Hondas and especially Preludes that they love how clean and how rare it is to come across a shiny stock prelude. I have a love for the Honda Prelude, but honestly, there is just a bunch of jack asses prelude owners that think that they're all shit. Honda people in general is stupid. Why can't I find someone more mature like Big Mike for a change? Now his prelude is a sight to see, the color? Well that's up to you to decide. It takes awhile getting used to it.
Thanks to The Chronicles, I was there from the build up from his previous prelude car to the car it is now. I've been pretty out of it from the import japanese car show events nowadays, but I keep in track on what's been good with the Honda Prelude recently. Though I wish I had more money to blow on the car. But you know what comes first! My Lady comes first before anything else!

Last Friday, the family decided to get some grub on and we got these 16oz. steaks.

Why? Well just because it felt like I haven't been cooking lately and my cooking/grilling skills has started to rust a little bit, but luckily, my cooking skills on temperature on the steaks hasn't. Got all of them perfectly on medium. The pictures turned out to be a little whack since the pictures are taken from an iphone.

Cooking those 16oz steaks off the bat. Really juicy!

Done with the product, a big American dish with a little asian rice on the side. Sorry, not my picture, but thanks to whoever took it, the credit goes out for you. Till next time.

Montreal, Quebec Trip Pt. 2

2010-03-31T23:16:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, so I finally got the time to upload the pictures from my Montreal, Quebec trip from my vacation to Canada. It took me awhile since I got very busy with work and I haven't had much of a time to go blog about things. But a lot has happened over these pay couple of days. The pictures below are taken with out low-end cameras, so the quality of our cameras like I said isn't good like everyone else. So bear with me on the quality.
This is our trip back home actually, since the uploading went from first to last, blogger aligned it from last to first when being put on the blog. So think of it that we are going back in time. haha

Our jet plane home to Winnipeg. I start to get sick and my lady's ear started to swell up from the constant change of altitude. People who goes on air planes understands.

We saw a Robert Patterson look alike at Burger King in Quebec. Ordering at burger king was probably the hardest thing ever. Speaking in French is hard. haha

My Filet Mignon that costs $33. Bad presentation but really good.
My romaine salad, or Caesar salad if you prefer.

My all time 3-year not giving my lady any gifts Gift. Hope that fits well lol.
Me and my lady tired and ready to sleep.
Walking around the mall looking for sun glasses and just having fun. Found these glasses without the lens. Great times!

Me and my lady at our Europa Hotel. Best Western.
Me checking up on my facebook to keep in touch with friends and families.
Our movie dates. We watched Alice in Wonderland and Our Family Wedding. Great times.
Our hotel and me with my CBI (Chocolate Brownie Ice Cappucino)
Reuben's, our favorite restaurant there ever!
Well our purpose of going to Montreal, Quebec was to get our papers ready for our K-1 Visa.
The strip where we went for our shopping!
There is about 3 Guess stores in this strip. I guess Guess is a really popular brand in Quebec.
Strip.
Just having fun!

8am and ready to go to my lady's medical exam.
Picture is sideways, but it's a decoration art in which I believe the plates are signed by famous actors.
Chicken Strips/Fingers. LOVED IT!

My onitsukas. Loving it as well. Now Joey, David and I has the same exact shoes. wow.
One excited Kid!
Bored at the airplane waiting to go to Quebec.
I am such a sleepy head.

Well that's pretty much our trip to Quebec. Like I said, a lot has happened over the past couple of days but I won't get into it since this blog entree is about the vacation. I'll write about the interesting parts that happened over the past couple of days in another entree.

Montreal, Quebec Trip Pt. 1

2010-03-22T19:59:00.000-07:00

I'm back home! A lot of things has happened over the week and I couldn't be more happier than I was before. First of all I want to thank a lot of people who are very supportive and understanding that I have been going through a lot of paper work and avoiding a lot of hang out times with my friends just to get this stuff done. I've been very thankful to God especially for guiding me through all of this and experiencing a time I've never had and never done before. Me and my lady went to Quebec, Montreal by ourselves, got ourselves a hotel and actually spent time together. Well it was basically a vacation thing but more on the paper side. We went to Quebec, Montreal to do one thing. To get her Medical Examination done over there and turn in some papers to the United States Consulate General in Montreal. After that? well, of course, not knowing where our hotel was, we found out that our hotel was only one block away from downtown shopping center! Guess, Marciano, Louis Vuitton, American Eagle, etc... A cinema of course! We ended up watching "Alice in Wonderland", which indeed was a fantastic movie! and "Our Family Wedding." I would give some critiques on them right now but my vacation comes first!

I am sorry to say that I haven't gotten the chance to take pictures with my own camera, but surely my Lady Ilene did. I do not possess any of the pictures at the moment but she is holding them and will be posting them up on face book. But I do have a couple of pictures I found on the internet, which is pretty... well I'll say a bad St. Patricks Day at Montreal, but other than that accident, a very very productive and lively event!

We took the taxi from the airport to our hotel and found out that our hotel was blocked off from police and a lot of fire trucks and ambulances. Me and my Lady Ilene looked at each other and started to Ponder what was going on. To be completely honest with you, we had no idea that it was St. Patrick's Day. Nor even what was going on. We got into our room, rest up a bit and went out for the rest of the day. It was raining and we decided to get an umbrella. OOPS! I forgot to mention that it was HELLA cold there. But anyway, this is where we found out that we were in the center of the shopping area of Montreal. Lucky us! Fifteen minutes away from the hospital and Fifteen minutes away from the United States Consulate General and we have a freaking shopping center of all the good name brands from all over the world! I couldn't be more happier! So we went back to the hotel and called it a night. Next morning, turned on the news, and found out that something terrible happened yesterday of March 12, 2010.
After watching this, we realized why our hotel has been blocked and why some of the parades and floats of the St. Patrick's Day and central downtown of Montreal was closed! You are probably wondering what happened here. Well this is the sad event of St. Patrick's Day at Montreal that 2 teenagers decided to ride on one of the floats by climbing on the tire. People are watching these two drunks as one guy lost his footing and was dragged around the wheel well of the truck's tire killing him instantly. Sad, yes, drunk, yes. Idiotic? yes. It was sad but it didn't stop the other Irish people from celebrating!

Once I get the pictures up from my lady, I will upload them here as well. Great times!

A trip to Winnipeg again!

2010-03-10T23:41:00.000-08:00

I can't stop thinking about Friday and how fun it'll be. I'm leaving California to go to Canada once again. This time, not only are staying in Winnipeg, but we are both planning on going to Montreal, Quebec. How exciting! So many things we have planned things out so little time. One week and 3 days will be amazing! Tune in for some pictures of me and my lovely fiance and some just regular sight seeing. I don't have any fancy ass cameras so the picture quality will look like shit. So many things that is on my wish list right now that I want to buy. I gotta handle some serious business first before purchasing these future items. Well time to call it a night. Got some serious photo taking stuff to do tomorrow and for the rest of my vacation!

1 week and 4 days counting... & rant!

2010-03-01T17:37:00.000-08:00

Almost there! March 12, 2010 is the day I get to see her again. What more can I ask for? There will be a lot of things to do within that one week of seeing her. First things first. My purpose of visiting Canada is to accompany Ilene to her Medical Examination. It'll take a total of 3 days in Quebec. After this medication, everything will be set and we will just have to wait for her REAL interview. There is a lot of paper work to do but once we get everything straightened out and keep going at it, hopefully we can finish all this stuff and have her here by April or May. It's really hard to get by and it's really stressful. I'll post pictures and videos up of my adventures to Winnipeg and Quebec once I get there.

So this whole week, I am working 8 days straight. Monday-Monday and then tuesday off!! How incredible is that!? Well more money for me and more power! Just gotta do what I got to do and sell more phones. The things I do for love... Well it's damn worth it. Well anyway, the kiosk was down today so I couldn't do much. Phone was down and the whole computer was down as well. I guess staying there won't do me any good. But whatever, I stayed there as long as I can. What job pays you to do nothing when the computers down and you just laugh along with the employees there? Apparently the place where I work at. Great times.

One movie I am actually looking forward to is:

Looks like a creepy movie to since. But overall I loved all of Tim Burton's or anything that has Johnny Depp in it. Other movies I am looking forward to is Nightmare on Elm Street and the Karate Kid starring Jackie Chan as Mister Miyagi and Jaden Smith, Will Smith's son. Hope I get to see them soon! Also, incoming event next week Sunday on March 13, 2010.

Can't wait!

On the side note, I am going to rant about what irritates me in this day and age. First things first.

1.TFC - The Filipino Channel
Alright I'm gonna break it down to why the TFC irritates me and the programs that they show. TFC in general is STUPID. The drama, the game shows, and the commercials. ALL OF EM. Alright, to break it down into smaller segments, I will list them all.

A. The Drama - Alright, there are some drama shows on the TFC that has a really nice story. I actually only finished 1 drama show and the rest is stupid. Well let me get down to the main point. Drama shows in the Philippines has actually taken the word Drama down to Cry baby status. Every scene, every minute, and every F'n seconds, there will be crying. Oh and I am not just talking about crying, but crying to the full extent. I am talking about screaming, slapping, crying like a little BI*CH!!! Believe me, makes every filipino out there look STUPID. At least the drama shows here in the US isn't bad.

B. Game Shows (Wowowee) - Another segment in my rant list is this god awful poorly stupid made show that is a number 1 hit in the Philippines. Don't get me wrong, I might get shot for talking shit about this show but there are so many wrong things that they do to the gamers. First of all, Willy, the host of the show, he can just die already. I don't care. He makes every gamer who plays the game look STUPID. He makes them cry by using that so called "Sad" theme piano music so they can cry more and talk about the F'n hardships that their life goes through every F'n day! Just die already Willy. Oh on the side note, he thinks he can sing? Well check out this Lip singing HOE!

C. Commercials - They're just horrible as they are. Bad acting and worst of all, they TRY to speak english. I know, there might be a possible irony coming out of this is probably because of my poor grammar skills but it's good enough right? lol.

D. News - Horrible enough that this is probably the only news in the entire world that doesn't lie to the public. I mean, do you like showing dead bodies? How about showing some Larva and people eating it in public because the people who makes the food leaves the larva and just cooks them. Even worse, they were filming the restaurant AND serving the food at the same F'n time. Unlike the US who doesn't wanna reveal the true story behind each investigation/news.

Now that all that ridiculous ranting of TFC is out, I shall think of another thing that I can rant about. Till next time.

The Arka Teks

2010-02-27T12:15:00.000-08:00

What have I been doing?

Listening to Arka Teks Music in which Peter Chao uses his ending credits on. They may not be famous yet, but I'm pretty sure they'll make it big. The style of uniqueness they use is far beyond amazing compared to other style of music. Now to myself, I am not too sure what they call this genre. If you can point it out for me that would be MOST good haha.

So it's been 4 days since my cell phone has been terminated. Not sure what to get and not sure what service I should stay with. I am still debating if I should go with RIM's Blackberry Devices or Google's Android phones. Both phones are absolutely amazing and good in every way possible. Android has better options on the applications over the blackberry but the blackberry itself is a great device and a few applications. Then again, the blackberry is putting itself up on top with the new blackberry app world. So many options and so little time. Whatever I'll end up getting, I hope I'll get the one where I am most satisfied. Damn Android and Blackberries.

Rapture and Splicers, what more can you ask for?

2010-02-22T21:01:00.000-08:00

Well there was two things that I've done this past 2 weeks. Bioshock and Bioshock 2. I've spent my time playing these two games to see what the hype is all about. At first, playing the game seemed too scary for my liking. I'm the type of guy who hates scary games and just loves to watch other people play the game for my amusement, it's like, watching a movie of some sort. Well anyway, getting a little side tracked here, now onto the game.

Rapture; Built by Andrew Ryan, the city sits at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, a metropolis of massive Art Deco-styled buildings connected by a network of glass tunnels and a Bathysphere system, appearing to be the size of Manhattan New York. Andrew Ryan probably named his city after the goal he set in mind: To create a paradise free from all the people he saw as "parasites", a place of true rapture.

The original goal of Rapture was to create a capitalist society free of religion and government, where any citizen could achieve for his or her own gain, rather than for the altruistic fulfillment of the wants of others. The "world's best and brightest" were granted freedom of will and choice in Rapture, unrestrained by government, religion and similar established institutions. Instead of abiding by the morally idyllic restrictions imposed by these institutions, values such as logic and scientific reason were to guide the inhabitants in their pursuit of
achievement.

In the first installment of Bioshock; you play as a airplane passenger, in which the plane crashed in the middle of the ocean causing the you, the main character, to survive the crash and ended up swimming towards structure tower like thing in the middle of the ocean. Thus entering Rapture.
In the second installment of Bioshock; you play as a Big Daddy, the first prototype big daddy to have been ever made. Big Daddy's are made to protect little sisters from harm or anything in between. They're duties are to make sure that ADAM, the source of all the "drugs", are being fed to little sisters at all times.

I won't ruin any of the surprises for anyone who's a video game guy like me but I can tell you this, the game is absolutely great. Great times.

A Step Closer...

2010-02-21T16:24:00.000-08:00

Not much going on this week. I have a lot of things to keep track up on and still a lot more paper work to do. I will be visiting Ilene pretty soon to do some medical examinations with her in a week or two. I am excited and thankful that I get to marry such a wonderful person. It's been awhile since the last time I saw her. I just can't imagine what will happen once I get to see her in my arms again. Whatever happens, happens.

So recently my mind has been in a state of confusion. My life aside from the fact that I am getting married soon and the fact that I am doing everything I can to bring Ilene here has nothing to do with the way I feel. I feel like my life has been so boring. Waking up, going to work, and then sleep. When it's my day off, I tend to stay home and be bored the whole day. What can I do to satisfy myself and to keep myself away from this boredom? Well we'll see where life will take me.

So I've been in the mood for old school songs and I've came down to a list of songs I've listened to back in 1999.

1. Az Yet - Hard to Say I'm Sorry
2. Frank Sinatra - You Make Me Feel So Young
3. A1 - Heaven By Your Side
4. Juvenile - Back that Ass Up
5. Hot Boyz - I Need A Hot Girl
6. Boyz II Men - On Bended Knees
7. Mariah Carey ft. Joe & 98 Degrees - Thank God I Found You
8. Joe - I Believe In You
9. Barry White - Never Gonna Give You Up
10. Side A - Forevermore

Funny how everything are love songs besides Juvenile and Hot Boyz. I have more from them but I decided to put up the top 10 songs I've been listening to. The more I listen to old songs, the more I remind myself of who I was before. A hungry loving teenager boy who wanted a Girlfriend so bad. Someone I wanted to love, hold and adore for the rest of my life. Comparing myself now then to the sweet little old me back in the days, I have grown to a gentleman. Well not really, haha!

Well, I'm gonna close the end of this blog entry since there is no more to talk about. A lot has happened over the past couple of days. I would get into blogging about it, but it'll just make me sad even more just thinking about it.

Trial and error!

2010-02-09T15:14:00.000-08:00

So it has been awhile again since I updated. I have nothing better to do but work and work. Well not only that but I have also been so busy with paper work trying to get the love of my life to come here. It's been very hectic but it's progressing very fast, faster than I expected. Right now the only thing that I will be waiting for is for National Visa Center to mail Ilene a letter referring her time and where to go for her interview. It seems like she'll be getting her interview at Calgary. Very far from Manitoba.

In other news, I believe I haven't had any updates since December saying that I've neglected my duty as a blogger and not keeping up with my entries. Well it's true. I've been occupied with my new job as a Cell Phone Associate (Since I was laid off from my kitchen job, I needed a side job to keep myself up) and it's been a bumpy road from the middle of November; my hiring date, and since then, I've been happy and some days, I've been pissed off. Being in a sales business, it's not about earning and staying there, but it's about selling products and what you can do to make sales. You have a quota to reach every end of the month and if you make it, then more hours for us and more pay for me. If you don't make the quota, your hours will be cut, and less pay. This is also a commission based job so the more you sell, the more you make. Eh, whatever makes the money to bring Ilene here. In time, hopefully I can have her here before Summer. If anything, that would be the only thing I can ever ask for. I've also got back into getting my faith back. It'll take time to get back into it, but trying to go to church needs to be a daily Sunday day for me.

In closing, I should really get back into blogging since this is a new year of 2010 and this is officially the first post of the year 2010. Btw, Happy Chinese New Years everybody and I hope everyone will have a good Valentine's Day. I know I wouldn't. The love of my life is located in the center of Canada.

Neglected Duty. (Heh... Dooty...)

2009-12-05T03:48:00.000-08:00

I can't sleep. My mind turns around swinging left and right, up and down, constantly not knowing what I should do at the moment. Well time for an update anyway since I did neglected my duty here as a blogger. I really don't know what to talk about recently actually. Time has been so slow recently and the weather temperature has been down to 35 degrees Fahrenheit taking all the summer/fall activities this year inside my house. Anyway down to business.
Would you believe that? I couldn't believe it at first. Knowing that California is always hot, something like this amazes me. I'm one of those Californians who loves the snow that comes once in a year. We have cold weathers here as in, everything turns into ice. But never snow. So I can proudly say that finally, California snowed for once this morning. I hope it doesn't snow all the time though. I can understand how much that can suck knowing that I have a couple of friends and my fiance that lives in Canada. They don't like it period, it's like not being able to go out and have fun or do anything productive.

A new member has been added on my brother's family. Barbie! lolAin't shit cute? We have a sheetzu AND a pomeranian! :)

A little over Two Decades Ago

2009-10-29T08:26:00.000-07:00

Throwing it back almost twenty years ago, the day where my family has become whole. The moment my sister was born was the moment my parents left me and my other four siblings in the Philippines to work in the USA to provide and give us a happy life. As my young years as an infant growing up in the Philippines... Well actually I can't remember haha! But I do remember the times where everything was pulled together and my family became whole. If memory corrects me, I was afraid of the airplane taking off at such a incredible speed, my body freezes up clinching on to the seat not know what was going on, my grandma told me in tagalog (Filipino Language) "Wag ka mag aala," meaning "Don't you worry, everything will be alright." Still a kid, not knowing what an airplane is, a gruesome 12 hour flight to California was more like a 3 hour recess time for me. I didn't know where I was going, didn't know what was going on outside, but I do remember that I always wanted to see what it was like outside the windows of the aircraft. As time passes by, we came to a landing and thought, "Why is this place so much different then the last place we went to?" then as we walk and walk, waiting for our luggage, around the corner was my mom and dad waiting for us with tears of joy and happiness. Thus the day our family became whole.

Given the time, our life, family has never been so much closer. We've established two care homes for the disabled and a bubble tea store Tapioca Express that provided the life we all have. I couldn't ask for what I have now because apparently, my life was already whole. I'll admit that I still want somethings in life, but that is just my personal needs and what I need (We all have those days). So for me to say these things, I can never be more happier with my family then we were 20 years ago. Thanks to everyone who contributed to my family and making us for who we are today!

Great times...

2009-10-24T15:37:00.000-07:00

The day started out normally as if any Friday would've happened. I thought to myself that not a lot of things is gonna happen and not a lot of people wasn't gonna show up. Well eventually I was wrong and people started showing up around 8:30pm. So around 4pm me and Joey went out to get ground beef, salmon, lime and a bottle of Silver Patron. I went home and started to prep the food that I was going to make. My sister and Sean went out to get costco's take and bake pizza and brought it home. While prepping I was slicing the skin off the Salmon. I sometimes wish to myself that Salmon comes with no skin already. I didn't mind, practicing my skills and honing my knife skill is always a necessity for me. Thank God that I work in a kitchen even if I am at home. So after all that prepping, I made my own Burger patty. I made a small sample of it and decided to do a quick presentation on it. I didn't have enough garnishes for it so I used scallions and cheese for the presentation. This is how it turned out.

Ingredient:
Ground Beef
Garlic
Kosher Salt
Scallions (green onions)

Heat it up on a saute pan and good to go :]
Personally I like my burgers small, compact and easy to eat.

In order to spice things up (not really spice) but It was about time to grill my barbeque lemon pepper salmon. Unfortunately I didn't get to do a small presentation to it. It's alright, I was cooking for 15+ people. This is how it turned out.

I don't want to keep one of the important part of the party. Thanks to Liang, I finally have a new profile picture that I actually like. Thanks brudda. It's located on my profile picture on the right side on the "About me" section if you want to see.

So the fun part begins and the party started around 8pm of Friday, October 23rd, 2009. The people on whom I actually invited and some people that my sister invited actually came through. As the party continues, we started hitting up the party with rock band 2. Singing System of a Down - Chop Suey, Bon Jovi - Livin on a prayer. Liang on the Guitars, Sean and me on the microphone on those songs and David Le on the drums. I didn't get to record it, It would've been so much fun seeing my friends and myself rock out. P ended up throwing up and the only person throwing up in the party. Mixing Jose Cuervo, Goose, crown royal, silver patron and other good stuff, yeah, you don't know the unimaginable terror he went through. At least two hours of vomiting. Great times though. Here are the pictures that went throughout the night.

HAH! Great times that's me and P knocked out
Group picture with P (not everyone is present)

My bruddas Liang and Joey with their Game Face on playing Street Fighter II HD Remix

P trying to sober up but couldn't. Fell off the chair after.

P knocked out after all that anguish and distress he went through for over an hour of vomiting.

So what did I learn from all this? Well I learned it already, there's nothing left for me to learn about hard liquor. As I mentioned in my previous blog entries, I dislike hard liquor. Beer and beer only. The pain and head rushes P goes through after throwing up all the acid inside is body, I can only imagine what that pain can feel like. Makes me feel sick to the bone. Other than that, It was a great successful night. Thanks everyone who attended!

A quick guy's 'afternoon' out

2009-10-22T16:52:00.000-07:00

October 21st, 2009 was the day I turned twenty-four. Me and the fellas turned out that we decided to go to BJ's restaurant to celebrate the day of my birthday and get my free pizookie! So as we sat down, I thought about the meal I should be getting. Thinking of what pizza I should get I thought to myself, why a pizza? I realized then that my hunger for pizza continues to grow and grow as time passes by. I finally gave in. The great white pizza it is! As we sat and waited for our food to come, we were cracking jokes on how I become when I get drunk. Well if you know me very well, then you should know how my personality kicks in. The truth comes out and people will start to realize on how big of a jerk I am. No not really, I was actually kidding. I will say this right now, and while reading this, you will say "what the &%&$?". Yes, it turns out that my speech patterns turns into a homosexual guy. Well not going to say that I am gay, but it's like an inside joke to me. The people who knows me understands me the best (well of course). They understand the humor, laugh and the stupidity that I go through every time I get drunk. Well it has been awhile since the last time I got drunk. Hard Liquor isn't really pushing me anymore. I stay to beers and beers only. The taste of hard liquor, vodka, whisky or anything in that category disgusts me. It's not good, it's not tasty, and it kills my brain cells much faster than regular beer. At least with beer, I can drink and socialize without getting drunk.

So coming from Albert, he treated me out for BJ's Pumpkin smash Ale beer. I figured, well I guess I'll try it out, and besides, thinking of pumpkin made me hungry for pumpkin pie so I might as well try this out.

The Ale turned out to be sweet beer. It was alright, but I had better beer than that. BJ's Oktoberfest from last year was better. Then the next one came around from Albert.

Mind Erasers with the goose. It was pretty good, I've had it before as well. I didn't think it would be on the rocks :].

Ah I guess the present from David Le to me. Grande Absente! 138 Proof and 69% alcohol. Gadamn it. Wish me luck!

Now let me get started on this album I just recently got. I've been a fan of Michael Buble since his album "It's Time." So I recently listened to the whole album (not really cause I used it for me to go to sleep this morning) and I heard this song. It's called "Haven't Met you" and it's absolutely catchy to me.

He's an inspiration that came around out of nowhere. His singing style from the oldies, a country style music and a very meaningful lyrics. What more can I ask? It's the perfect genre. I've been into these kinds of music since Frank Sinatra. Classic love songs, the blues, anything in that music type. Thank you Michael! :]

A temporary Monitor..

2009-10-18T14:26:00.000-07:00

So my days continues to be boring as usual. Nothing has been happening these past few days but just to sit around and do nothing. There hasn't been many events or activities that I am hearing of right now. There are many parties going on right now. I believe the moment that I am looking forward to is probably the party that will take place here at my house on Friday, October 23, 2009. Pictures will be taken, so stay tuned :)
A temporary monitor that my brother lend to me. It's a Dell, but it's way better than my Envision Monitor 19". Now I can play first person shooters in wide screen with better view!
I guess Mr. Autumn isn't hiding at all, he comes and goes just like how we all order through the drive thru in Mcdonalds. The weather here is really randoms at times. Right now, it's really bright, and all of a sudden it gets gloomy. That's how it is over here when it's cloudy.

X-Japan - I.V. official music video of the Movie Saw IV. I started to get into this J-Rock song from Rock Band 2. The song came in a bundle of 20 free songs when you get the whole set. I was happy to know that X-Japan was in this, better yet, Linkin Park. Probably during the party, I'll record a video of me and my friends playing rockband :)

Winter Already? Where's Autumn!?

2009-10-13T18:10:00.000-07:00

Woke up this morning due to a bad stomach. Damn Pho! I knew I shouldn't have put a lot of Siracha hot sauce on my soup! Then again, I fell back asleep to the sweet sound of nothingness. As I fell asleep, my clock went off at 9:15am telling me to go to work. It rings every five minutes after pressing the snooze button. So I woke up to an early morning and found out that American Canyon was raining. Well hello there Rain, did Mr. Autumn took the season off this year?It's been very gloomy lately, and I'm sure that Tapex will start to cut down hours. I really want a full time job right now but with this economy, it'll be hard. So I was driving down to work and rain continues to pour down. It was endless, even as we speak now, the weather isn't getting any better. I went to Wal-Mart to get my photo taken but turned out that the first entrance to wal-mart was blocked off due to massive flood. So I have to take the second entrance.The rain wouldn't stop. I took this picture earlier this morning but the rain got even heavier afterward. It was very dangerous. I know this though that we have it easier than Canada. I heard it was gonna be another big blizzard where everyone stays at home and can't go out so everyone will start to buy some canned foods or something. Electricity will go out or something like that. I pray for Canada's safety!

The solution to myself!

2009-10-12T14:32:00.000-07:00

For the past couple of days, I've been in a daze, thinking to myself what I would do with my life and where I should be right now. Since last night, my lady mentioned to me on how I was different and a complete fool. I have to agree. I believe that it's not her thats putting me in this kind of situation, but more in the situation where I can't even be myself or be happy for myself. I've become dull to a point where there is nothing to do in life. I'm settled and happy with goals of being as a chef, having a wonderful fiance, and having a family where I can work to provide myself. So why do I feel like I'm isolating myself from everyone? Well after countless of times thinking of what to do in my life and what I have been missing. The solution I found is this. Now you're probably thinking "I thought everything was okay between you and her and everything is fine" but the real reason why I chose her? Well here it is; I constantly have this void, a big hole in my life on which I can't really fit in. I have my lady, I have friends, and I have family. What is there missing? Well the only thing that can fit in that hole is her being beside me. As in, I feel lost without her next to me. Even though she's always on the other side of the phone, it is not the same without her being by my side. She makes me complete (again) and I finally realize on how big the difference is being on the phone and being with her physically. I don't know how to explain it but I know that I want her here. Living with her, being beside me? It's probably the only thing that is keeping me alive. Her being next to me, her time spent with me, I feel alive and happy when she's around. I can't wait for the papers to be processed. Why can't it be done now and why can't we just be together without these papers? Time will tell and the "quote" used "Patience is a virtue" is finally hitting it's toll on me.

A shy gloomy day... again...

2009-10-11T19:23:00.000-07:00

So watching the news, the upcoming week will be raining. Sucks to know that since no one will be able to go to tapioca express as much anymore. I hope it doesn't get too boring. So today was an alright day. Besides from talking to my lady, nothing was productive today since the whole town of American Canyon/Vallejo was just gloomy as shit. Nothing to do on a Sunday but besides going to church. Why didn't I go outside? Well I was coming on to a fever and since I jumped into the shower before the fever can get any worse, the fever started to cool down. Taking Tylenol was another thing as well. Hopefully it won't effect my sleeping time tonight. I've pretty much slept throughout the whole entire day.
So what else have I done? Played Operation Flash: Dragon Rising. Fun game, only lasted me 10 minutes to play! I wanted to play Multiplayer online but since the game is new, I figured, hey, people won't even have time to play it right now. I gave it half a day until I tried logging back in but the situation remains the same. So I decided just to get back onto my regular facebook game, Restaurant City!Though for children, being a chef myself I would always wonder, man, I wonder what it would be like to run my own restaurant? Well this game doesn't say much at all, especially on the way I get my produce, but it gets the job well done. It tells me how many people I can hire per level, what their energy level is at, if they need to sleep, eat, or drink. You can decorate the whole restaurant to your liking and decide on what kind of cuisine you prefer. Though it's a set menu, you'll have to gather ingredients and do what you can to make things your way. So far, I need at least 1 more waiter. It's hard but well worth it.

The Fast Runner on Four Legs...

2009-10-10T23:40:00.000-07:00

Today was a day where I just stayed home and slept through out the day. I actually never wanted to go out today... actually, i was just being lazy. I'll be completely honest here, it's really boring not working as a chef.
Well let me get right straight to the point here. I went to Tapioca Express to close it down. So I decided to bring lucy as well with me. I brought her down with me since it was a bit chilly outside. So closing down the store, Reah was there waiting for me to come. She told me that she was going to watch the movie Paranormal activity, so I busted out the ghost stories when Ilene had bad ghost experience down at Folsom, California. She actually never wanted to watch it anymore but Rico, her boyfriend wanted to. So enough about them, so after closing the store, I decided to release lucy, since I thought... THOUGHT she was smart enough to wait for me to open the car door for her so she can jump in. Apparently, the stupid runt went all around the parking lot, making me run after her and I swear, she was running so fast that I my legs were about to give up on me and I wouldn't be to catch up. I was scared enough because there was a car coming AND it looked like she was ready to cross the street. So I raised up my voice and screamed at her, and she finally spooked out and stopped running as if she was scared of me. Luckily I did that or else I would've been blamed for a runaway dog or even a dead dog on the street!!

Gloomy Day in American Canyon

2009-10-08T22:05:00.000-07:00

Stayed at tapioca from 10am-6pm today. My regular shift was 10am-4pm but was extended to 2 hours. Well not gonna say who but someone was late after saying they were going to come in 30 minutes after I talked to that person over the phone. ONE HOUR LATER, she came and it was about dinner time. I actually wanted to get my oil change done on my car but apparently, that didn't happen today. So I guess I'll just work on it tomorrow. Hopefully it'll be sunny at least... which I highly doubt.
This is the front of my parent's house, and apparently, the house that I live in at the moment. To people who doesn't know how it feels to be living in California, well you'll need about 3 jobs to live off of your own apartment. Renting houses here or apartments with strangers is probably the worst thing that can happen here in California. You can never trust anyone these days. Rent is as high as $1500/month or even more just for apartments alone. Well, it hasn't been gloomy for awhile. Summer was fun while it lasted. Starting next week, it'll rain and the fun of basketball and other daily activities will be put on hold. Maybe biking will be part of the past for now until everything starts to heat up again. It is also hard to lose weight in the cold since you don't sweat as much. I've been gaining on a few weights as well from my old job, eating popcorn chicken with buffalo wing sauce, hamburgers... saute mushrooms. Damn I can go on forever!

Good Morning California

2009-10-08T08:09:00.000-07:00

Good morning! It is 8:10am and if you know me by now, this is way too early for me. The reason is that I had to drop off two of my mom's patients from our care homes. I used to do this daily, Monday-Friday, waking up at 6:30am and don't get home till 8am. It's very excruciating since I used to work at 9am after. That is life, I really can't do much about it. Complaining isn't going to make everything better for me. Well after dropping of the patients, I graciously went to 7-11 mart and bought this.
Monterey Jack. You can never go wrong with these babies.

So I received a call from my mom earlier this morning as well. Lola (grandma) Marilou emailed my mom saying that there is a position for a chef down in San Rafael San Quentin State Prison. At first you would think "a prison? are you sure?" because damn, that was my reaction! Well I thought about it, it is a federal or maybe a state job and just thinking about all the benefits that's going to give me! Free Health Insurance, great pay, paid vacation, everything that I could ever ask for. Dangerous as it may sound, I'll probably take that offer. Hopefully, it's all I can ever ask for for now.
San Quetin State Prison Aerial View

Obsessed with...

2009-10-07T23:09:00.000-07:00

Alright, as many as of you know, I have been playing the old album for the past 2 months in my car. I'll give you a hint...

Oh yah, Linkin Park. I was wondering to myself why I got so into Linkin Park. I would always say to myself that Rock music was alright, but I never thought that I can listen to this much. Linkin Park is a genre of Rap/Rock and it is a combination of what I like the most. I also started to listening to it because of Rock Band 2.

In other news, I was laid off from my Line chef position in Stars last week. It was devastating and very very disappointing. The good side to it is that I have experience under my belt and that I can file for EDD. But since I am still working under my parent's place, there is really I can't do at the moment. At least I am still working.
Kitchen @ Stars Recreation Center
Quickly's anyone? Milk Tea is my favorite with the bubbles! Oh yah!

Exhausting Day.

2009-09-25T22:47:00.000-07:00

Another day of basketball and another day of working at tap. There is nothing better but to lose all that weight in me. This time, Liang joined in once again every Friday. Since he goes to Law School Monday-Thursday, he's not able to join our daily Thursday activities. So in order to put him into the scene, I decided to take pictures again today and got more out of it. Great times.
Andrew here had an injury today by spraining his ankle. Looks horribly bad. It was swollen, but he pulled through. Hope you feel better son!.
Here is Joey, with his awesome layup. Skizzles boy.
Ah well it's Liang. He got pretty damn upset about losing the last game, but he mentioned that it's normal for him to get upset about not making three points. Well that's what happens if you get sucked into basketball haha!

E-Money here talking on the phone before game time. Needs to stop with his men loving and start playing on the basketball. :D

So here is the deal with me at the moment. As I mentioned on one of the blogs from earlier, money saving is a pain in the ass. So I (again) I decided to make a little money for a chance. Try to help me out alright? Graphic Design! Anything from Flyers, to posters, to business cards, anything will do! Prices will be ranging from $20-$50 flat rate depending on how big the design is.. I don't do Hourly cause if I was the customer, I'd be pissed just paying $60 for a single business card, or $150 for designing a flyer. Anything will do people. Let me know and help me out! Maybe I should do car washes too. $10 cleaned and wax or $15 cleaned, wax, AND cleaning the inside of your car :). Hey, if you're desperate for money, you gotta do what you gotta do. HO FA SHOW!

Basketball every Thursday.

2009-09-24T22:28:00.000-07:00

Alright, news flash. Its official that every Thursday will be our basketball day. It'll be a lot of running, stealing, jumping and shooting, just what a regular N.L. would on their daily chores of activity. Nothing new about them but today just made it funnier and... just more stupid haha. I had a lot of fun with the guys and we are all happy that we all picked up basketball as a hobby. At least we are doing something productive.
Looking back, I remember the first time we played basketball. I was out of shape, couldn't even last one game. Better yet, I passed out after 1-2 lay ups. Horrible! Now I can last up to 3 games, with of course breaks in between. My legs are better, still a little out of shape, but my legs, stamina, and my skills continues to get better. BOO YAH!!

Albert hoopin all day and everyday. My worst enemy and my best friend. F*cker swatted me three times already, stolen ball from me. But it is all just fun and games. haha.

Whats that, Andrew hoopin and hoppin all day. VIP of the day, he made the team won twice today. We played a total of three games, and Andrew did wonderful. That whore.

Whats that, Brudda man with his sexy three point jump shots. I'll admit, he has the best three point shot form out of all of us. I believe he didn't make that shot. haha!

Now don't get confused about this video, I know, it might be funny or not, but Edwin's my friend and he'll never hurt me!... Unless that one time when I tried doing a lay up and that guy rushed me shoulder first like a football player. Ass hole.

My first video in-game shot. I made this yesterday and I started to mess around youtube's video features. I didn't know you can add songs here, put annotations, as in the words while playing the video (makes it more fun!) and other things.

Oh, I'll throw this one in.

This happened in one night :)

First Day of Biking!

2009-09-21T20:55:00.000-07:00

So today is the official day (again) that I decided to ride my bike again. I didn't get as tired as I thought I would be, I guess its due to all that running and slammin on the basketball courts. Thanks God for that! I wish I could have taken more pictures on the way to tapioca, but I was already running late so I didn't have the time to stop. So I ended up (while still on the bike riding) taking pictures. Here is a couple.

Good Ol' Parry's Market. Trust me, with their Pizzas, you can never go hungry again... well, only for a day.

God Bless America... for taking our freedom away with this damn economy!

This is Parry's Market Pizza. As you can see, it's almost as long as my keyboard and just about the same height. Crazy I would say. I butchered that pizza with my mouth and shoved it down my stomach. Sounds gay, but literally, I did it due to the fact that I didn't get to eat all day today. Pizza was my only food for today!

Well, nothing else is new, working all day tomorrow from 10am-10pm as well on Wednesday. Whoopie doo! :(

Month passes by

2009-09-18T22:10:00.000-07:00

So a month passes by and it is now my 5th year anniversary with the woman I love. Strong hearts and mind puts us together in a bond like no other. I'll tell you one thing though, saving money is a bitch, especially if you're holding back on the things you want. Right now all I can do is wait patiently, work on the papers and we'll be back on track. My main focus right now is to bring Ilene here and that is all there is to it.

So I haven't been blogging much lately, maybe it's because of my laziness? Well whatever it is, I need to put those things aside and start blogging more often. So I got my bicycle back, I'll call it, the Moon Bike. I haven't rode it in awhile, so I'll make up for it by riding it to Tapex and save gas money. Since I work in the mornings, it'll be a piece of cake. Besides, good side to it? I can save gas AND lose weight. The bad side? Nothing. Just keeping the maintenance on the bike.

Looking savage!

On the other hand, basketball. We started this sport probably almost a month ago now and it's been quite a hassle and pretty good work out. Though once a week only, the massive running and team coordination damages my physical legs and tears up my mind by thinking too much. Well I'll leave this day as is. I'll continue on with my blogging some other time!

So who remembers this? Cause definitely I do.

HAPPY 5 YEARS ANNIVERSARY BEE! I LOVE YOU~!!!

A new Project... Project Loo Pt. 1

2009-08-17T13:44:00.000-07:00

So a new life has arrived. My first priority right now is paying off my debt and getting my fiance over here to California. It'll be a long process but that process will do good. Many things has happened after my lady left but for some reason, our love has never been stronger. There I go again with my stronger speech lol. There is nothing in this world in what I want the most is my lady being next to me all the time. I miss her.. I love her...

I love you Bee!

Now I am still lagging on my project here. I am slowly building up the Honda Prelude that my brother Petoy handed down to me. I am grateful to him for being generous, so in return, I'll make his car into a car he always wanted. It's been awhile since I bought the first headlight, and when I did, I took care of it like there was no tomorrow. Here are the results.

Now I need the driver side. I am still looking for it so for the mean time, I will slowly build this car up from scratch. I think I have been attached to this car then my 240sx lol. Well I'll continue on to update my blog again with my recent projects. Stay tuned!

10 things you don't know about me

2009-07-08T14:56:00.000-07:00

I got tagged by Hazel so I'll go on ahead and work this out. I'll probably won't be able to tag people since there isn't a lot of people I know who does blogging so here I go!

1 - I haven't grown an inch in height since the 8th grade and speaking of 8th grade, I still have my P.E. uniform from Solano Middle school. I still wear the shorts but nothing else for home use only :)

2 - In my entire life, I moved about 6 times; about two times in 10+ years, and moved four times in another 5 years. I've been living in America for about 20 years now. I moved from the Philippines when I turned three.

3 - Did you also know that I was into graphic designing for about 8 years and worked for a printing company making business cards and flyers. I started in Sophomore year of 2001 and never stopped loving G.D. ever since. Bet you also didn't know that my influence from graphic designing came from Liang Ge.

4 - I used to do the splits happily in elementary school. (I am not gay)

5 - Panda Express got me into culinary arts. ;)

6 - I am a cell phone freak and I changed about 5 different cell phone numbers in the past 3 years. I cancelled 3 cell phone plans and had about 7 different cell phones in the past 4 years.

7 - I stopped watching Cartoon Network when I got into my 2nd year of Solano Community College. Daffy duck and bugs bunny was the shit.

8 - I was an ignorant teenager with an attitude that can not understand feelings of other girls. Dated a girl and told her to hold on tight to see if I can get with a girl at school and if it doesn't work out, I'll rebound to her. I told a girl that she looks retarded when she was part of a church community. (BAD) Do I regret all of these times I said these horrible things to these girls? Yes. I wish I can say sorry but I made a bad reputation lol.

9 - I have a bipolar personality. I tend to change my attitude a lot depending on who I am hanging out with. I still don't know how to start a conversation.

10 - I am engaged :)

Great times!

Fam Bam Dinner

2009-06-30T22:13:00.000-07:00

Beef Tender Steak marinated in Korean BBQ with steamed brocolli and saute mushrooms.

Nothing but a good fine dine-in home made steak dinner for my family. Everything turned out the same for everyone else but of course, I had to make the one that looks good presentable. Like this one for example. Everyone loved it and I even loved it myself. To be completely honest, I had trouble with all the temperatures since I was working on 6 steaks at one time and steaming all the vegetable, carrots, and saute'in the mushrooms. Overall, It was a great success. A dinner that my lady love actually loves. Thanks for all the great times tonight!

Rumble in the Clinic

2009-06-26T12:33:00.000-07:00

As of today, I know that we are all sadden by Michael Jackson's passing, but today, we shall remember his time of life, Thriller, Off the wall disco album, great times, but if you have to remember MJ by, comment it up! The time I remember MJ by is during a Superbowl, I am not sure when this was but he performed "Heal the World."

Now referring to the title of today's entry, 2 elderly african american samaritans came by to get a clean up. Ate nenette denied them due to the fact that they denied their social security information and ID. Well we told them that we can not do anything about it and that they should call the cabs for themselves. But we ended up calling the cab services and we got denied 4 times from the taxi services here in Vallejo because these two elderly samaritans are disabled, blind, and no legs. Eh.
They were arguing and screaming at us just because we can't get them to go home. Well here is the thing, we are not responsible for calling cabs if we are not the one who wants to go home. Big Deal lady, you're 70+ years old enough to know that!

I want a new Verizon phone. :( My dad has an iPhone. BAH!

King of Pop - DED

2009-06-25T16:26:00.000-07:00

is michael jackson alive? Find out for yourself on this website.

Tough Economic Times

2009-06-24T13:45:00.000-07:00

A new site I have stumbled upon and I am keeping updates to it. I might be one of those suckers who enjoys stupidity, but I like a little good humour once in a while. Whats wrong about laughs right? Well check this out, Ugliest Tattoos.com There are a couple of pictures I found in there that seems so funny and ugly. As for an example:

That is just wrong.

Another courtesy picture from www.failblog.org..

I think I need to revamp this blog. As much as I want to take pictures of food, I can not. Work is a tight schedule so taking pictures is out of the question. I think I'll go on ahead and work on this blog.

Shout out to Liang and Hazel for keeping this blog alive. haha

Honda Accord Monster...

2009-06-22T22:33:00.000-07:00

Alright, I happened to stumble upon a car... a Honda Accord car. Now this has some serious fire power. I mean it's so bad ass that they were manage to fit a V12 engine in there. Now thats a whopping 500+ hp motor.

Thought I had to throw it in there.

Oh and this...

The Super Mario Brother's Soda. I remember these back in the day when I used to drink them. They were the smallest soda cans ever and they tasted so bomb diggity. It's probably way too sweet now.

Talk Boy!

2009-06-22T15:51:00.000-07:00

And there we have it, the infamous Deluxe Talk Boy which was found inside richard's public storage. I decided to help him today since I had the truck today, ate some quiznos... I'll tell you something, the chicken carbonara sandwich is the best they have there. The creamy Carbonara sauce and the mushrooms... Oh the sensation!

In other news, I have yet to get my first pay check at Stars. I've been waiting for it and I bet its below $200... I need to pay off some bills and I want a Mugen Honda Accord Lip. Looks pretty bad ass If I say so myself. Here's how it looks like.

Twins

2009-06-18T00:12:00.000-07:00

Now... the question is... which one is the real Chef Ray?

Stars Bar and Grill

2009-06-16T13:54:00.000-07:00

So I finally got the job last week when Chef Joey called me saying if I was interested in working. I said "hell yes I would." So the next following week, I started to work, and btw, this is the same place where I got my externship so pretty much I know what it feels and how everything goes, but the main problem was remembering the stuff that I forgot to do and what goes on what. Eh, I'll manage somehow.

They also hired someone else from the very same school that I went to. I am not sure how much I am getting paid but I think for sure that I'll be getting paid around 10+... if not, then thats a shame, but I will stick to this job no matter what due to the fact that the economy is just as bad. I'll stick to whatever I can, minimum wage, whatever, as long as I have something to get through this sick world, then that would be most awesome.

FFXIV...Need I say more?

Also, so I stumbled upon failblog and happened to find this funny image about Lil Wayne being wanted on a 16 year old birthday party...

Clinix

2009-05-28T14:52:00.000-07:00

So here I am at the clinic, waiting for ilene to get off of work. Nothing much to do here, but facebook it up. Well as all of you should know, I am going to Sac today to get my Chef's jacket for the ceremony on Saturday, can't wait to see familiar faces again. So heres the deal-io. I'm back on the PS3 for now until I get my new customized sexy computer back on. I currently got a reservation copy for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2. It'll be on sale November 10, 2009 and I can't wait! Also, the other computer games i am looking forward to is Starcraft II and Diablo III.

To me, this is one of the most anticipated games I am looking forward to. Great graphics, great story line, and new additional units per race. You guys ready for this? I sure the hell am!

Two decades have passed since the demonic lords, Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal, set out across the world of Sanctuary on a vicious rampage, twisting humanity to their unholy will. Yet for those who battled the Prime Evils, the memory fades slowly. Now there is a new evil coming in to town and we all have to stop it! The game that I am really looking forward to. You guys better be ready!

Oh and this game? looking super forward to it and playing it with my brotha Joey, Rudy, and maybe and hopefully Romeo. lol

update!!

2009-05-21T16:55:00.000-07:00

So everything has come to a realization. My dreams of becoming a chef is just around the corner of next Saturday. The day I walk the line and recieve my diploma is the day I'll be super proud of myself. Biboy is coming back and guess who's here!? ILENE! YAY!

My return from canada will always be a memory. Memory? PSH! I have a Camcorder in which I have recorded SOME of my memories! I can say that I am proud of it ;D since shes here, I still need to record most of my memories while she is still here. This saturday will be a feast of Picnic where all my friends and my sisters friends combine together! I'll take a picture of it :D

anywho, this is a new picture of me celebrating my success of getting me and ilene's account on facebook back. those hackers are stupid.

My own creations

2009-03-21T22:50:00.000-07:00

So it's finals this coming week and I am ready to take it. Though I am studying at the moment, I believe I need a break so I am taking it now. I had to do an extra credit and that consisted of a Soup/salad, an appetizer, a main entree and dessert. Well here's my creativity!Photos taken by . The design is of course, made by me!

Well starting tomorrow, it's time to play Iron Chef. Chef Jeff is going to have a mystery basket containing the secret ingredient for the appetizer, salad/soup and entree and then i'll have to do my practice cuts. By Thursday, I'll have to make 5 mother sauces.

MOTHER SAUCES:
Veloute
Espagnole
Bechamel
Classic Tomato
Hollandaise

Fun? I don't really know. In other news, I got a spot at Stars Recreation's Bar and Grill in Vacaville. Monday through Friday, 12pm-8pm. I got a spot for a Prep Cook and a Line Cook. I'm a little scared about it but I am starting on March 30th, 2009. Well I should put an end to this blog for now and get back on my studies.

Busy Class, Service time!

2009-02-22T22:32:00.000-08:00

So it's been over a week since the last time I blogged here. This whole week I didn't get the chance to blog or take pictures of what I've done for the past week. But thanks to Liang Ge, and my brother Manuel, the pictures was taken from their DSLRs. Date of Pictures: February 20, 2009

Here's me and my posing face. Courtesy of Manuel.
Another one of my silly schemes. Courtesy of Manuel.
I loved this picture here. Food shown here; 2 Tamales and 1 Grilled Caesar Salad with Chipotle Dressing. Courtesy of Manuel.
A picture of me serving desserts. 2 Tres Leches Cake and 1 Ancho Ice Cream with strawberries just for Liang. Courtesy of Liang Ge.

Thank you both for contributing the pictures!

Pastries no more!

2009-02-14T23:27:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was officially my last day in Baking and Pastry class. Happy to say that I am finally out of that slow miserable place! Now, starting Monday, on which I have been trying to tell everyone that I will now be in a class where we will serve our friends and families as customers in our own restaurant style inside my school. We get to bring friends and families up to 6 people max. This coming week we will be serving italian food since our theme will be a italian restaurant! Oh Joy!

Now since yesterday was my last day, I re-made my Hazelnut Torte, but instead, I used almonds in substitution for the hazelnuts since my school ran out of stock.
My "almond"nut torte; still the same great taste with chocolate mousse filling. I love it!!! Had some star decorations along with the chocolate angelic rasberry.
Before class started, I have set myself up with the necessary items that I needed for one of my finals. This is my station set up to do my knife practical. Cuts coming in from Brunoise, Batons, small dice, medium dice, Oblique cuts, Chiffonade, minced cuts, to chopped cuts. Did everything in less then 25 minutes. In easier terms, let me break it down for you.

Types of cuts
-- Brunoise - 1/8" x 1/8"
-- Batons - 1/4" x 1/4" x 2"
-- Small Dice - 1/4" x 1/4"
-- Medium Dice - 1/2" x 1/2"
-- Oblique cuts - ????? Hard to explain but heres a picture

-- Chiffonade - Very thin slices of leaves
-- Minced - very little pieces mainly used on garlics, onions, etc...
-- Chopped - Very little pieces mainly used on leaves, parsley, mints, etc...

Overall? Well I passed the knife practical skills with a 92%. I surprised even myself knowing that I received a 72% on my last knife practical. Let's call it for the night! I have work tomorrow.

Chocs De Creme?

2009-02-13T00:10:00.000-08:00

I only had to take one picture today and that would be the
Chocolate Pot de Creme; Chocolate pudding.
Man, I have the chance to make the Hazelnut Torte, but for some reason, the school didn't have any hazelnuts. A little disappointed but it's the truth.
So the big day is on Monday and the restaurant is going to open at 7:30pm. Now you're probably saying "what restaurant?"... Well My class and I are presenting all of you readers here to eat what we have for you. For example, next week, we're going to have a Italian Restaurant. We'll have a host set you up, seat you and get your menus prepared, just like an original walk-in dine-in restaurant. We'll be open 7:30pm to 9pm. Will you come down and get free food? come on and visit me. Free food !!

In other news, I have finally finished the Anime Yakikate!! Japan! Very funny anime with 69 full episodes to enjoy. If you like baking or something to go along with a funny anime humor, then I would recommend watching this.

Creative Day

2009-02-11T23:32:00.000-08:00

Today was a very practical and busy day. We had the choice of choosing any dessert today and I chose the Creme Caramel and Molten Chocolate Cake. I took a picture of the Molten Chocolate Cake but for some reason, it's not saved in my camera. So I was a bit disappointed. I also had the chance to decorate my Layered Chocolate cake but it took some time and I wasn't very talented in decorating a cake. I should leave that up to the professional pastries.
Truffle Cake; Easy to make and very nice presentation indeed. I loved this so much but ugh, so much chocolate!
Layered Chocolate CakeNow here's a cake where I really enjoyed making and at the same time, stressful. I wanted to make this cake so pretty but I had less time to do it and I was really horrible in designing it.
Aftermath; This is the dish collected up in the sink one hour before we get off of class. Annoying? Yes indeed. It takes about almost 45 minutes to clean it all up. Besides, there are more dishes behind it.
David Nguyen; 1UP Mushroom, He took this time to prepare this and he's very very happy.

Well I really can't say much anymore. I'm trying to cheer myself up so I don't have to go to bed really sad. Goodnight!

Meringue Here Meringue There

2009-02-10T23:34:00.000-08:00

These past couple of days has been nothing but Meringues. It's horrible. What is Meringues you say? Well Meringue is a type of dessert made from whipped egg whites and powdered sugar. (source; Wikipedia) Well It's necessary to make them because we are making a double layer chocolate cake for it, and plus we get to design them the way we want! Flowers, roses, and any cute designs (gay I know.) Let's get down to business.
This is my Hobart Machine; beating the egg whites and the sugar together in order to make the Meringue.
Dacquoise; Pretty much the base of this is Swiss Meringue and was baked to make the Meringues into a cookie texture. Inside this is made with Swiss Meringue Buttercream, also topped with the same buttercream. Around the Pastry are toasted hazelnuts.
Joconde Sponge with White Chocolate Bavarian; Now this is truly a magnificent Pastry. I loved this so much that I finished this whole dessert. I did messed up on the design of the Joconde Sponge (which is the outer layer that you see) due to the fact that I overbaked the Sponge. Nevertheless, great pastry. If you ever go out and decided to get a dessert and this was on the menu, get it.
Chocolate Cups with Milk Chocolate & White Chocolate Mousse; To me, this is just another cool looking pastry desserts. They're just chocolate. But if you want to look cool and get something fancy like this, then go for it.
This is JayJay. He's the only mexican who has a chinese name. I forgot what it was though lol. He's a pretty funny guy, but when he's not in the mood, cheering him up with my humor will do the trick!!

A Miserable Sunny Day

2009-02-07T22:34:00.000-08:00

Wow I can't believe how time is flying so fast. Well today is Saturday and I can't help myself but feel really really tired. I have finals this coming Monday and another one this coming Thursday. After our Finals, I am moving out of Bakery and Pastries (YAY) and moving onto Restaurant Style class. It is where we start cooking, acting, and being professional chefs. I also have the chance to be a waiter too. I really can't wait on how APCA (Advanced Professional Culinary Arts) will work out for me. I hope by doing this, I hope that this can be put in my resume saying that I have experience. Well, after APCA, I can go directly to my externships! I can't wait. I have my eyes set on
-- Sushi-Yu, American Canyon

I think thats pretty much it. I'll break it down more when I find more places.
Hazelnut Torte; I love this cake with a passion. Its not sweet and its delicious!
Pavlova; It's very good and that whip cream I made is just outstanding!!
The grand finale of Saturday night? well I just wanted to post this up cause its pretty amazing on what a non DSLR camera can do.

Nothing but prep!

2009-02-06T16:43:00.000-08:00

These past 2 days has been nothing but preparation. There's a couple of pastries that I made these past 2 days but most of them are not worth putting up here because they're a waste of time. Besides they don't look good. I have a couple of pictures of random stuff but it is just another ordinary day in the kitchen. You'll see how we work and how we mess around but that's just who we are.
Mango Mousse in a Coconut Tuile Cup with Strawberry-Mango Salsa. I never really gotten around to full taste this beautiful pastry, but from the looks of it, it was wonderful. I had a hard time making the strawberry star and it was pretty hard getting around to find the biggest strawberry. Well this is the result.
This is Chef Stephanie along with poser Will, AKA Free Willy. Chef Stephanie was our substitute on Wednesday class. Don't let her looks fool you. During class she walks around checking things out on you and how you work and by the end of the class, she blows up on what we were doing wrong and what mistakes we did. Just for the hell of it, I'll jot down the things that was inappropriate.
-- Licking with your fingers and not washing hands after.
-- Washing your hands in the DISH sink.
-- Wiping/drying your hands with a sanitized towel
-- Cleaning your knives with sanitized towel.
-- Using our personal towels to clean our station when it is used for hot pots.
This is Lena (Lay-na) with her goofey pose. She was wondering why I always take pictures of my dishes/pastries, well I told her that I am keeping a documentary (sort of) of my time in school. Though I haven't been here updating most of the time, I wished that I should've kept up with my updates.
This is Ba-chan (Grandma in Japanese); Jaquelyn. She was torching up her Creme Brulee in order for the sugar to dissolve and melt giving the Creme Brulee a sweet caramel taste. (See below for the Creme Brulee which was provided by Food Network.)

Today is Friday, and my last day at school for this week. Gotta get ready! It's 5:10pm.

Flakey Flan!

2009-02-03T23:20:00.000-08:00

Another slow busy day? For some reason, today wasn't all that bad. I found out that making Leche Flan is very easy and making Phyllo Purses was a pain in the ASS. Please forgive my language but you'll probably never understand on how to make those awful pastries. Never again will I make that. In other news, David Nguyen wants to say Hello with a dull face!Meet David Nguyen. Funny and very enthusiatic (sorry, horrible spelling) person. He's one of the guys I've met here in Kitchen Academy. He's a very humble person and a accepting one as well. Very nice guy and on top of that, he's one of those guys who's down to kick it anyday.

Phyllo Purses with Baked Fruit. I am sorry to say but this is one of those pastries where I wasn't very satisfied with. It's okay overall. Taste? I'd give it a 7/10.
Chocolate Pots De Creme; Love this. Every had Chocolate Pudding? Well it's similar to it but more luscious.
Creme Caramel AKA Flan; I'm pretty sure you had this before. good? Well just who do you think made this? Well I presented this very well but the sugar part, horrible.
Well I'm calling it a night. But before I go, please read the following:
Weird eh? lol! It's gonna help our weight loss by a tremendous amount. Good luck! ;)

Puff Pastry and Custard??

2009-02-03T00:19:00.000-08:00

Today was a busy day, which I did not find it to my liking. At first, the day went pretty well and I was going smooth until I messed up on my Caramel Sauce for my Flan which turned out to be a very smoke soy-sauce colored Caramel Sauce. Now that wasn't my intention on doing so and it burned the hell out of it if I do say so myself! That was when everything started to screw up. Everything went slow but I got around to finish everything. Here are the results.
Individual Napoleans covered with white sugar powder. A puff pastry which is layered with Pastry Cream. Too plain I would say in my taste but for beginners, I think everyone will like it!
Puff Pastry Diamonds with sliced pears.
Puff Pastry Fruit Strips.

What is a puff pastry? (src;Wikipedia) Puff Pastry, also called pâte feuilletée, or pâte feuilletage, is a dough, sometimes called a "Water dough" or détrempe, which is spread with solid fat and repeatedly folded and rolled out.
As seen here on this pastry, you should be able to notice the layers on this pastry. Puff Pastry is also known as "Laminated Dough" in which the word "Laminated" is derived in french mean "Laminae;" to be layered. The Individual Napolean shows you how many layers there are in each dough. That will do for the day! Till tomorrow friends!