Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Let it Snow!

It's been a good while. The past month have been really hectic juggling work and school, but I'm back. I'm finally on Christmas Vacation!

Check out the asian lady on the keys. She got skills! Pianist junky!!!!

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Find your beach.

Who wants to have a Corona?

Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Art of Storytelling

Everyone has a story to tell.....

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures—when all that's on the shelf and done with. Love—why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over."

- Brian Moore

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Autumn

There's something about the fall and winter time.....
















One of the good things about the mid-west and eastern states.....They get the full visual and physical experience of the seasons changing.
















UCR.....just kidding. It almost looks like it. Mother nature is sexy.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

You my New Obsession...

All I want to do,
You my new obsession, girl
I feel on top of the world with you babyyyyyyyyy





Monday, September 13, 2010

Westcoast's Finest

"two years ago, a friend of mine
Told me Alize and Cristal blows your mind...."

Saturday, September 11, 2010

PEACE

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Monday, September 6, 2010

Thursday, September 2, 2010

9/02/10


Tuesday, August 31, 2010

One More Thing....

Service! I know I'm late but I just saw Alice in Wonderland, and this is one of my favorite parts in the movie. Mind-bottling film!
Ughhh son!

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Your Love

I dig this song for the beat. I like looking up originals that are sampled in songs.

Original sample came from Annie Lennox's, No More "I Love You's". What a trippy video and woman this Annie is. Enjoy!


Nicki Minaj's, Your Love, featuring Ricky Ross.
Shawty Imma only tell you this once
You the illest Ba Bada Da Ohhhh

Monday, August 2, 2010

The BIG 3 of Chicago

Daddy's home!!! I'm back from my business trip in Chicago. The weather was different, hot and humid! It feel's good to be back in California! One thing I enjoyed was the picha. I mean pizza. =)

I was fortunate enough to try the BIG 3: Gino's East, Lou Malnati's, and Giordano's. My verdict? I liked Giordano's the best! I guess you can say it was the presentation and experience. Fine dining with good people. What more can you ask for?

Others will definitely have their own opinion, but for me, Giordano's pizza won me over. A glass of Chicago beer, Goose Island 312, and you are set!

Gino's East supreme. It was very saucy!























Lou Malnati's was tasty, but not as big as the others. This was my second favorite.























Last, but not least, the Giordano's special. Sausage, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, and cheeeeeeeeeese. This one was so cheesy, and the tomato sauce was delightful. What you know about floating pizzas? It's that good!



Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The Woman Who Loves Men

"I like to be useful to people. I want to confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don’t like is to get bored."

This is just an interesting interview by Michael Hainey (Deputy Editor of GQ), with Miuccia Prada.


Miuccia Prada is revered for single-handedly redefining how successful men dress. A Champagne-fueled chat with the most powerful woman in fashion about style, seduction, and sex in any city.




GQ: My first memory of an Italian woman is Sophia Loren. Do you have a first memory of American men? Maybe how they dressed?

MP: I’m not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody’s elegant. But fashion doesn’t interest me. People interest me. If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I’d say, I like who I like.

GQ: Okay, so no fashion questions. Who was the first boy you were ever in love with?

MP: I will never answer that question. [laughs]

GQ: How old were you when you first…

MP: Eh!

GQ: Do you remember the first boy you had a crush on?

MP: I started kind of young. I think around 13. Twelve.

GQ: What did you learn?

MP: [laughs] I will never answer.

GQ: Okay, look—I’ll go first. You know what I told a girl the other day?

MP: That you had another girl and she should give it up?

GQ: No.

MP: What did you say to her?

GQ: Well, I was on a date—

MP: The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

GQ: It’s like this interview—it’s sort of a bad date. You certainly don’t want to be here, right?

MP: No! This is not true. I just hate talking about myself.

GQ: The problem with dates is that they’re programmed seduction—you have to show up and try to seduce the person. Right? And life isn’t like that. Life is about the accidental, unscheduled seduction.

MP: Seduction is a matter of feelings and people opening themselves. I don’t think it’s something tricky—it’s being human. And everybody is seduced by something different. You want a little bit of champagne?

GQ: Champagne? Yeah, that’d be great.

MP: Yes?

GQ: Absolutely.

MP: Good. [A minute later, an assistant enters with champagne and two glasses.] Tell me about dates and dating. Is it true what you read in magazines—that there is the thing you have to do on the first date and the thing you have to do on the second date, and then by the third date you can get—what do you say, carried over?

GQ: You mean, have sex? In New York, yes. That’s how it goes, usually.

MP: Yes? New York really must be terrible.

GQ: You know that show Sex and the City?

MP: Embarrassing! I was thinking New York is like that. I have the impression that the people are like that—the women, the bitchiness.

GQ: The thing is, too many women see that show and they think that’s how their life should be. Rather than create their life, they imitate a stupid show. And that’s the worst thing you can do. Right?

MP: Oh no, it’s terrible. Also the way of total and sure unhappiness. It’s what I say all the time to my girls in the office here: The more they dress for sex, the less they will have love or sex. These girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness. I think that the old rules were much more clever and better than the rules now. The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, “I want, I want.” I never hear them saying what they want to give.

GQ: Do you tell them that?

MP: Yes, of course. They don’t listen. With women, the more unhappy they are, the more undressed they are. This is true. Dignity’s another very important part of this. Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body—this is with men and women. You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important. Men are always much more dignified than most women.

GQ: Why?

MP: Because women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don’t have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices—a lot of not being their true self. You know, the older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids.

GQ: So you want me to leave?

MP: [laughs] Because what they say is more spontaneous.

GQ: They have the freedom to tell the truth. Kids haven’t learned how to lie, and old people just don’t care anymore what people think.

MP: Exactly.

GQ: What do you remember about being a kid?

MP: That I had no fun. My family was too serious. They didn’t take care of me—it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring—like totally neutral. I felt no emotion. I remember total flatness, and I didn’t have many friends. Also, when we were on vacation, we had to go to bed in the afternoon. We had to come home at seven o’clock, and all of the others stayed out. My parents were truly severe.

GQ: You had to go to bed in the afternoon?

MP: I hated it. [laughs]

GQ: You probably just lay there and thought about escaping.

MP: No, I was not even that rebellious.

GQ: What do you remember of your father?

MP: I don’t talk about him.

GQ: You don’t like to live in the past.

MP: I like the past very much!

GQ: Only for vintage clothes, I think.

MP: Exactly! [laughs] I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.

GQ: Being the wise woman.

MP: Yes.

GQ: You know, you weren’t always so wise—can we talk about when you used to be a mime? What’s with that? I mean, in America, being a mime is like admitting you are a certified freak.

MP: In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.

GQ: Well, I had a theory about how it relates to your success: Mime is all about observing people and feeling what’s inside, right?

MP: I did mime because it was the time in life when you search. There were all these crazy, strange things to do at that moment, and mime had kind of a strange ambience, strange people, so I liked it. It was about self-control and being able to control your body and mind. It was a school of discipline. That’s what has stayed with me, discipline—to spend three days to focus on learning to move one little part of your body the right way. [She holds up her index finger and moves the top third back and forth.] To practice that for hours. This has stuck with me because it is what I do now—focus. To stand in one place and get it right.

GQ: That’s funny—you went from being a mime to being the spokesperson for the Prada Foundation, which supports art and artists.

MP: It’s very interesting: Because of the Prada name, I can do things that people normally would not care about in the culture. I can have an exhibit by some forgotten artist who I love, and because it’s Prada, people will come see it.

GQ: But isn’t that exciting for you? That power?

MP: Yes, very much. Also very embarrassing.

GQ: Why?

MP: Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.

GQ: Why are you so insecure, Miuccia?

MP: For many years, I thought my work was so…not stupid, but I had the sense it was not real. I am trying to get past this feeling. You want some more champagne?

GQ: Yes, I would.

MP: Good. I need some. I respect my work. But also I think it’s very superficial. So that’s why we are doing all these other activities, because I’m a moralistic person in the end. But I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed. [raises her glass] Chin-chin, yes?

GQ: Chin! So what is the point of fashion? The average GUY pictures a few strange people sitting around indulging their bizarre whims, and I’m not sure you disagree.

MP: Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad, and they wake up and they put on something that I’ve made, and it makes them feel just a bit better. So in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But very little. After all, if you have a serious drama, who cares about the clothes?

GQ: I believe in uniforms—finding a look you like and sticking to it.

MP: I love uniforms because they allow you to hide. No one knows what you are thinking, so it’s a very appropriate and correct way to be yourself.

GQ: You seem haunted by some voice in the back of your head, A voice telling you that you’re not good enough.

MP: Definitely.

GQ: Where does that come from?

MP: From Catholicism first and Communism after.

GQ: And your parents?

MP: My parents—yes, yes, oh, my God, yes.

GQ: Back to Communism for a second. in the ’60s you were a member of the party, and you’re still political. Do you ever think about running for office?

MP: [laughs] When I am really old and no longer a designer.

GQ: But people must talk to you about that, right?

MP: Yes. And it is something I think about. But in the future. Right now, maybe I can be political in my work. We will see. I like to be useful to people. I want to confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don’t like is to get bored.



Via http://www.gq.com/style/wear-it-now/200605/miuccia-prada#ixzz0uzLETYir

Monday, July 26, 2010

UCLA

Guess who's going to be a Bruin? I just found out today I got accepted to the M.S. in Engineering program of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA. What a way to start my week! Just one of the many challenges in life I look to conquer. Super stoked! I am grateful and blessed to know that my future shines......

Monday, July 19, 2010

4 Chords

These guys are cool! The big guy reminds me of Jack Black.


Monday, July 12, 2010

Olivia and Fitty's Wedding

I'm extremely happy I made the decision to fly home from Chicago this past weekend for the celebration of Grace and Jersen's wedding. I'm grateful to have been part of this lovely and memorable occasion at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in Los Angeles. Such a lovely stiuation! These are the moments we live for.....Memories! Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Manalo!

"This is God's plan right here"......



I want a Canon T2i and steadicam.



EspaƱa

Impossible is nothing. Congratulations to the Spaniards and Pau. 2010 World Cup Campeones!

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

The Future















Today is the day Marty McFly went back into the future and got a hover board and some futuristic nikes.




Sunday, July 4, 2010

Independence Day

Happy Birthday America!


Treasure map..........

Monday, June 21, 2010

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Friday, June 18, 2010

Anything's Possible!

A 7-game series stretched to the max and the Los Angeles Lakers are your 2010 NBA Champions once again! Game 7 was not pretty. The Lakers played one of their worst games ever, and managed to win a Championship. Nevertheless, what a series! The stars are aligning, so count your blessings. This is one of them....












Your 2010 NBA finals MVP and 5-time World Champion!















Fish got 5 rings as well.
















Kobe!!!!












Take a shot! Pau's screaming....























Kiss kiss























This guy here has 10 rings, and won his first toe ring!
















Ron celebrating with his family.













Beautiful situation....

Thursday, June 3, 2010

NBA Finals/Laker History

This rivalry between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics stems deep! It goes way beyond the time of the Showtime Lakers in the 80's. The Lakers first faced off against the Celtics and lost in the NBA finals in 1958 with George Mikan, when the Lakers were still in Minneapolis. After moving to Los Angeles, the Lakers and Jerry West met the Celtics again in the 1962 NBA finals where they lost once again. The Lakers have faced off against the Celtics in the Finals 11 times in: 57', 62', 63', 65', 66', 68', 69', 84', 85', 87', and 08'; And the Lakers have won only twice in 1985 & 1987. Talk about ownage, 2-9 all-time versus the Celtics.

The Celtics have won 17 championships, and 9 of them were against the Lakers. Even in the 60's with hall of famers like Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, and Wilt Chamberlin, the Lakers could not compete with Red Auerbach's Celtic dynasty. I believe now is OUR time. Basketball has evolved over the years and now the Lakers have begun to look like a dynasty themselves. I'm looking forward to this Finals series. GO LAKERS! Lets get this thing started!


Marvin Gaye's rendition of the National Anthem at the Forum in Inglewood, CA. Circa 1983


Sunday, May 30, 2010

Sun Don't Shine Forever

Great series! The Phoenix Suns put up a valiant effort, but the Lakers were too much. The only thing I like about the Suns is Grant Hill and Tamia. The Los Angeles Lakers are the 2010 Western Conference Champions, and up next is the Boston Celtics. Lakers are 4 games away from putting another ring on it. Sorry Phoenix.


Friday, May 14, 2010

Rolled

So apparently were not allowed to smoke or spit at the park nowadays. City of Cerritos ordinance. It involves a $250 fine!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

How SWEEP it is!

The Lakers sweep the Utah Jazz. Up next is the Western Conference Finals versus the Phoenix Suns.























Jazz Gone Fishin'

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Kinda Weird

I must say that the Japanese are very creative and imaginative.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Game On!

Clear skies in OKC. No thunder whatsoever. 12 more games to go........

























(Photo by Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images)

Friday, April 23, 2010

I Fu*#%ng Need You More Than Eva!

My boy is coming up!

Friday, April 16, 2010

I Shine, You Shine

Little Spring memories....Let's make some!


PS I don't know who's picture that is in this youtube video. I'm just diggin' the song's bpm. Yeeee!

Monday, March 15, 2010

The Myth is True

ubepancake
Ube pancakes do exist! I should of created this masterpiece 2 years ago when I thought of it.......
Now you can get it from a lunch truck.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Dream BIG!

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” - Michelangelo

Friday, March 5, 2010

California Dreams

Don't wake me up if I'm dreamin'....................


Saturday, February 27, 2010

End of the World as We Know It

Latest earthquakes in the world.....I guess the world shakes so much, sometimes we don't even notice it.


Update time = Sat Feb 27 8:00:04 UTC 2010


MAGUTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s
LAT
deg
LON
deg
DEPTH
km
Region
MAP 3.4 2010/02/27 07:47:33 33.489 -116.822 15.6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.4 2010/02/27 07:21:54 36.072 -117.885 2.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.8 2010/02/27 07:10:43 36.360 -117.943 7.8 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.9 2010/02/27 07:04:24 40.138 -121.317 8.6 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.1 2010/02/27 06:56:03 36.060 -117.886 2.1 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 8.8 2010/02/27 06:34:15 -35.846 -72.719 35.0 OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP 4.8 2010/02/27 05:37:30 25.987 128.527 18.3 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 2.5 2010/02/27 05:19:42 58.912 -152.897 71.9 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 4.4 2010/02/27 05:04:29 -7.196 111.316 246.5 JAVA, INDONESIA
MAP 2.9 2010/02/27 01:54:40 62.565 -151.520 105.6 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.9 2010/02/27 01:33:21 25.947 128.384 6.4 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 4.7 2010/02/27 01:17:35 52.229 158.672 53.7 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, RUSSIA
MAP 5.1 2010/02/27 00:48:46 25.989 128.510 32.8 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN


MAGUTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s
LAT
deg
LON
deg
DEPTH
km
Region
MAP 4.9 2010/02/26 23:30:59 -11.431 166.285 91.1 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
MAP 4.6 2010/02/26 21:37:36 31.247 103.614 22.1 EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA
MAP 2.8 2010/02/26 21:05:25 34.809 -116.301 4.1 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 7.0 2010/02/26 20:31:27 25.902 128.417 22.0 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP 2.8 2010/02/26 20:12:04 36.057 -117.888 2.4 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 2010/02/26 20:11:35 18.716 -155.269 12.5 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 2.7 2010/02/26 16:49:46 61.996 -150.942 59.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 5.1 2010/02/26 16:18:57 5.842 125.792 53.7 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 3.7 2010/02/26 15:21:59 57.298 -154.890 33.1 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 3.9 2010/02/26 15:02:32 32.552 -115.257 15.0 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 2.7 2010/02/26 13:22:51 36.179 -117.962 5.9 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.7 2010/02/26 12:46:42 36.051 -117.897 1.0 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.1 2010/02/26 09:02:08 35.571 -97.094 5.0 OKLAHOMA
MAP 5.7 2010/02/26 08:37:03 6.394 126.805 117.3 MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 2.7 2010/02/26 07:30:59 19.024 -67.465 8.7 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 2.5 2010/02/26 06:14:09 60.721 -150.042 38.1 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 2.9 2010/02/26 05:51:17 39.817 -120.043 9.2 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.8 2010/02/26 05:38:18 23.758 122.788 37.8 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 5.4 2010/02/26 04:42:30 28.432 86.769 10.0 WESTERN XIZANG
MAP 5.0 2010/02/26 04:41:29 0.892 123.194 66.6 MINAHASA, SULAWESI, INDONESIA
MAP 2.7 2010/02/26 03:12:35 63.008 -151.024 132.3 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.3 2010/02/26 01:52:20 16.382 -96.533 48.9 OAXACA, MEXICO
MAP 5.5 2010/02/26 01:07:58 23.782 122.839 34.7 TAIWAN REGION
MAP 3.4 2010/02/26 00:21:20 19.237 -64.527 113.1 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 5.5 2010/02/26 00:11:51 -55.882 -5.052 6.0 SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE



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