Family

lotta family is over. soo been alot happening... and my house is literally like a hotel right now LOL.
look what my cousin/in law brought us =)
It's in a plexiglass case... i dont even want to open it cause it looks so nice.


also went to Company D (employee disney store) and also Dtown disney with family/friends... apparently disney starting to get in to hypebeasty toys..

This year.

Just doesn't feel like Christmas at all..
Its just not 'in the air' for me... it feels like its here too soon. and as soon as it does its just gonna zoom by and leave.
However.... this always does it for me...

"I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy. I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel...I just don't understand Christmas, I guess. I like getting presents and sending Christmas cards and decorating trees and all that, but I'm still not happy. I always end up feeling depressed."

Merry Christmas Charlie Brown.

SS christmas party

time to bake some chzcake

Team Wed 12/10

Went to oinksters in eagle rock.
there yogi said there is a sign on the door that said guy fiere ate here, along with his signature i guess from his show 'diner drive ins and dives' which is pretty cool but too bad he seems like a dbag.

anyways...it was REAL good.
picture i stole


picture i took, i got the pastrami, with belgium fries. and it had a garlic sauce along with it... damn it was good. a lot better than the Hat too.

LA photoshoots

Wednesday night... photo shoot in LA with devon's IS around 12-1am ish.

my behind the scene cell phone pics lol:
yogi.. ejay.. dat.. devon and i.




results:




till next time.

another cell phone dump

sorry,
i havent posted for a while.. but another cell phone dump.

thanksgiving dinner - LOTTA LOTTA ROAST... so freaking bomb.


I just got home from drift speed, quoc working on his new car.
Quoc and Davis were working on the cage, and i cleaned out the oil pan and valve cover


jon came by later, and we had pizza lol

early thanksgiving, and mondays.

Early Thankgiving dinner at my cousins house in san marino.
i didn't take a picture of the turkey.. but
the rack o lamb was super bomb diggity!!!!!!

dry rub.



monday, bummed around till art and i went down to HB to meet up with jon,
watched him detail his car, sorta helped him
then went to eat with nicul as well.

can't pronounce this restaurants name (in WM or GG, so its in a viet name i dont remember)
what is awesome...is that it is 5 bucks LOL
looks real fancy in there, i mean with a large fountain its like restaurant city =)

more L.A. adventuring.

Went to K town again for Korean bbq.. LOL



After that, more cruising around LA, found the 5 cent diner, i saw it on food network... needa go here one day... they have bacon covered donuts!



on the 110 fwy... lit up with LEDs... pretty freaking awesome....


back in pasadena... ran in to a fork in the road..... literally.

The World.

is melting.

Tuesday.

Yogi's idea to go to Ktown at a krn bbq place 9.99 hes been going alot - it is a step right under cham cut gol in Garden Grove ...but fugg for 10 bucks I'M NOT COMPLAINING. it was pretty good too.

back alley entrance, place looks REAL legit already. lol


afterwards... rolled to Diddy Reese in Westwood (ucla area)
bought some cookies, and a Ice cream sandwich... so flukin awesome for $1.30
I miss this.. last time I was here, i was with Crystal, Jerry... and that one girls name.. i forgot.


then mob through muholland drive.
Art and I in Yogi's truck.
Celine/Dat in Ron's xterra.


view from Muholland..........fak... i will never get tired of city views...


back to pasadena - crossing suicide bridge.

yea.. vegas.

exhaust tip.

face

palm...

Sunday night

Went out with the team to watch Jo Koy at brea improv.
super funny show, prices of food was not bad at all either.
only picture i got... can't take pictures while the comedian was up there.

ron celine tim leo dat devon art and wes

Business done.

So this past thursday i got a lot of stuff done which i am thankful for.
woke up went to the DMV with albert and passed my motorcycle written test... holler... now i can legally ride =)
after that went to the post office to turn in my paper work for a passport.. so i'm glad i got that out of the way as well..

across the street was the donut hole... which is cool cause this is probably the closest landmark on food network that is close to home.... seeing it on tv was alot better tho........not to mention this place got a C rating. LOL
we drove through it.. but ... ended up just parking and getting out cause it was just a hassle cause its hard to see what kind of donuts are there.

alberts car.

saturday night

Saturday night. went out to jon's then we went to pick up quoc and miho and went to sakura.
dollar beer + dollar yakitori + happy hour got expensive real quik lol

food
i had a lot of okra..

Formula food... I mean drift.

On friday.. after work i went to formula D practice.. i missed all of the qualifying but sorta just went to hang out with jon and drift speed. (there will be a whole other post about that later, i left my camera in jons car.)

Saturday. Formula D - self explanatory.
from the wall.

Ueo in the Drift Speed s15


exciting part (almost had a heart attack too)
Quoc was in a FD contest, and there was a time attack competition on the new need for speed.
the grand prize was 5000$ and HE WON!!!!!!!!!
cutting it at 7:01 on his time, beating (i forgot who) the other guy who go 7:02
Quoc getting his big check with the royal purple girls.. (holler)

Dinner with DS (forgot which restaurant) pretty legit..restaurant.
Tony and Masa to the far left. Ueo wearing white on the opposite side of them. And the other Drift Speed officials.

i had liver sashimi... yes liver...alot lots of bbq.. with 'mountain vegetable' wrapped meat.
Quoc and Miho


The sunday after. Art Wes matt and i went to the OC auto show.. (didn't really take any pics.. meh cars this year). after that we rolled to niculs house.. then went to Cham Sut Gol..
holler... its been a while since i've been here.. still soo good... and they had coffee ice cream this time!


After that we went to Di Vang II (viet coffee place) we played cards and chilled for a lil bit.
Sorry, but no pictures of the school girls... i think i would've gotten in trouble. lol.

hay guise

the limt is 30min.

hi

this week i had the motorcycle class at mt. sac.
passed it... holler... i was a lil bit nervous though.. but it ended up being not too bad.
time to save up for a bike =)


saturday morning... woke up early and went to Rose Hills with my parents to visit the grandparents.
usually from this shot you can see LA but... it was still muggy in the morning.


afterwards.. went to the dentist for the usual cleaning, and then had lunch and went to costco to get my passport picture taken...
the dream is becoming a reality! i can't wait to go back.

Saturday 10-3

Saturday - went to JCCS (japanese classic car show) in Irvine
congrats to ron 2nd place nissan with the Z

look what i saw in the parking lot i've seen this van 1+ ish years ago at irwindale


got back home. then fired up the miata, and rolled down to jons... I haven't driven that car in a while... feels good again.

later that evening, for Quoc's birthday we went to Leon's to drink it up.

lol fire drink!!

team night 9/30

for team night in lieu of my bday i chose a steak house i havent been to in years.........like before i was driving i came here!
sorry picture is so dark... (well the place was dark)
holler 20oz...

hella slammed...

i was on lunch break...sorta? Pullin out of the drive way i see this truck
HELLA SLAMMED!

Thursday

got lunch with chris and albert s2k @ maxim.
went to RB, slang some wheels.
chilled for a lil bit at home.
went to the gym with chris and albert.
went to korean bbq with albert.

F***

My
Life.

Mom calls me around 4-5 ish today.. tells me my dad got in to an accident like down the street from the office.
so... the bumper got fish hooked by a mexi truck's rear bumper & ripped from right to left.

Sat, Sept 12th.

Supastars showed at 'jdm vs. dtm' show.
what was the cool part is that it was at the fair grounds, and part of the LA county fair.
so we got to go to the fair for freezys which is pretty cool
and where we parked was in the middle of the horse track, so we could see all the horses run by when the races started.


not to mention......LA fair.....is bigger than OC fair....we prob only covered 10% of it.



had enough junk food.....gotta go gym again..