Wind Chariot

Some things never change....

2012-01-20T00:29:00.000-08:00

while some things always do...

euro panel

2011-12-12T00:23:00.000-08:00

test fit.. and i caved in and walked away with one (heavily discounted) thanks to Jeff @ slick auto

not any better, but not any less from my USDM carbon one... but its a nice change at the same time... and its growing on me. gonna actually have it painted..

it only looks normal to me since i've had a black cf finish panel for the longest time

photos courtesy of Jeff

needed new tires

2011-11-29T19:35:00.000-08:00

ran the azenis down in the front. replacing them with some new R888s that i got for cheap.

Weekend driver? why not.

Super Street.

2011-10-13T20:30:00.000-07:00

Thank you to all the supports and people that have helped out.

Well... Shit...................

2011-08-16T00:27:00.000-07:00

"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

BOOP!

2011-06-23T11:46:00.000-07:00

:3 rotas are great.

naggers.

2011-06-22T00:56:00.000-07:00

been a while

2011-05-31T23:34:00.000-07:00

havent wrote in this shiz in a while.... haven't been doing much besides work and bowling. Oh and jeff n jen visited, did nothing but eat for 5 days....

I'll update again as soon as i find something worthy of updating.

ill leave with a picture, courtesy of daniel lim.

2011-05-12T01:20:00.000-07:00

They say it stalks the streets at night, with the fury of a fallen angel.

The asphalt bows to its aggression and leaks slowly at it´s trail.

Like a black storm it marches forward relentlessly, drenching the skys with its wrath …

Some say it´s arrival is marked by the sound of war drums. Beating faster and harder than one thousand anguished hearts.

Nobody knows how the legend began, but there`s one thing that´s certain …

Wicked, it will ride again.

May our prayers line the streets with mercy.

This...

2011-03-13T01:22:00.000-08:00

shit is absolutely unreal.......

ohhhh myyyyy.....

2011-02-26T22:35:00.000-08:00

Rest In Peace Kevin Harney...

2011-02-15T21:56:00.000-08:00

you will definitely be missed...

happy

2011-02-06T01:11:00.000-08:00

chinese new year

So...

2010-10-31T23:56:00.000-07:00

The article of my car finally came out, feels good man

http://mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/displayPage.action?pageParameter=mazdaSpeedTuningPersonal&sectionParameter=tunerProfile71

Also I've been recently playing a lot of ping pong, and being addicted it to...

Asian American Music Festival

2010-10-16T19:16:00.000-07:00

I got to be in the presence of Shing02, the setting was super intimate, up close and personal. Because of all the awesomely beautiful music he makes... being there right in front was just unbelievable.

Went thru Luv Sic part 1, 2, 3, AND FOUR

(i'm in the front in the blue sitting next to paul)

Jccs weekend

2010-09-14T01:45:00.000-07:00

I got an ear infection on thurs apparently.. it set in quick too while i was at racetoys...
started to get dizzy there, went home and threw up like 5 times

Friday night HF buddies came down from SF for JCCS on sunday, they also brought the skyline as well which was pretty cool to have in the garage.
I wish i could've hang out with them on saturday, but i went to get dim sum, and i could barely stand @_@ i was super dizzy. I was sad but i was pretty much strapped to my bed the whole day+night

woke up early the next morning (about 1.5 hours of sleep) went to racetoys to help ray finish up his car and then went to JCCS

dopeness

Devil Z

Racetoys

Labor Day 2010

2010-09-07T15:39:00.000-07:00

MAN IT WAS CRAZY!

photoshoot sat. morning, then went off to IDRC @ cali speedway to see yogi vince and leslie. I left like at 11 cause it got crazy hot. -_-"

came home like at 1, tried to take a nap till 5ish but i couldn't cause i was so excited for SM Town

SNSD!!!!! (also BoA was there) they put on a good show, too bad I didn't really care for the rest of the artists lol

Sunday Yogi( ty <3 ) got me tickets to ISA it was like SM town all over again AZNs EVERYWHERE

Far East Movement

then after we went to Galaxy club... my ears were killin me by the end of the night.

9/4 SM town 2010

2010-09-05T02:49:00.000-07:00

ohhhhh it was unbelievable.
BoA, and of course SNSD at Staples center, I had to go. regardless of shitty seats it was still awesome to see them live. the place was packed with thousands of koreans

snsd

BoA

the rest of the artist there at the end

SF trip

2010-08-31T12:52:00.000-07:00

pictures are in no particular order, i was there from the 23rd-30th
<3 thanks Jeff, Jen, Kenny, Leslie, Jan, Max, Nai. i had fun :3

mazdafest 2010

2010-08-17T21:45:00.000-07:00

was super fun hanging out with peeps, got to chill in the garage/pits as well

and i won another mothers bucket lol

She Breathes......

2010-07-27T01:35:00.000-07:00

however.. i don't know for how long..

hmm..

2010-07-22T02:54:00.000-07:00

I have everything.... I just need to make it all work together...

Weekend

2010-07-19T11:10:00.000-07:00

This past saturday was miatafest.. had a good time.. kicked it with Kinod all day Sat.

the Unicorn... also known as the miata coupe

i won best wheel and tire combo (lol on the tire part though)
they gave me a nice piece of paper, and this bucket of car wash stuff!
awesome cause now i don't have to buy anything.

went back to diamond jamboree, kicked it for a while then rolled to jons house.. saw this on the way.. guy in there waved at me haha

7/15

2010-07-16T11:06:00.000-07:00

got alot of stuff done. got hardware for the tensioner at maintenance shack.. 7-11 run.. went to visit Hung at HPS, used more money there... King Bolt.. then made another 7-11 run...went back home worked on the cars...

so i allll most have everything.. but I'm not gonna sweat it.. just gonna enjoy Saturday.. and wait till next week to complete it... so i might as well just take it easy and do whatever the hell I want

Also got some bumpity bumps wired in... chyeaaaaa

emmi and i were working in the garage.. and next thing you know it starts pouring like crazy outta no where.. and loud thunder storms as well. it was so close it made some bird fly away from a tree across the street.

2010-07-14T01:54:00.000-07:00

Thank You

2010-07-13T01:13:00.001-07:00

Drift Speed.

there..

2010-07-10T02:00:00.000-07:00

is always tomorrow...../today.

@ racetoyz

2010-07-08T19:49:00.000-07:00

stuff that got finished today.
Cam seals
Crank seal
Cam angle sensor Oring
Radiator hoses
CLEANED CLEANED CLEANED GUNK... stupid oil leak. time for you to die

2010-07-05T15:37:00.001-07:00

I seem to always judge a book by its cover..but the ones I have the worst opinions of become my closest friends, and the ones I have good opinions of become my enemies.

2010-07-03T13:03:00.000-07:00

Next step begins on Tuesday.
Run Devil Run.

-_-

2010-06-25T02:45:00.000-07:00

I'm not ready for this...

Buddha Paint.

chop shop

2010-06-19T16:32:00.000-07:00

goodbye eye sore! lol

And so....

2010-06-07T02:04:00.000-07:00

it begins...

2010 you're half over.. but I'm going to eat you up alive

random update

2010-06-04T02:45:00.000-07:00

been really busy... or well lazy at the same time to do this.. i dont like carrying my camera, so i take pics with my phone which is a bitch to upload on to my comp. and if i do have my camera i only take 1 or 2 pics lol.

things happening/ed lately

went to redline time attack with kenny

aquired a parts car.. stripping it in my garage.

went bowling with quoc and jon

ttyl

team night 5-27

2010-05-27T01:42:00.000-07:00

in lieu of allen's bday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY~!)
supastar rolled down to SD for dinner.... super good BBQ...
im am the full.

Vegas XDC round 2

2010-05-24T13:20:00.000-07:00

this weekend has been very tiring and wild... i got home and slept for 12 hours and still felt tired...

Thursday rolled in to Las Vegas Motor Speedway around 4 or 5 ish? to drop off the car... then headed to dinner

then Ichiza in chinatown... pretty freaking legit... and im in love with the beef tataki.. we actually went here two nights in a row....

beef tataki with ponzu sauce... SUPER RARE lol... pretty much meat sashimi

2nd night after practice day

Practice day... the venue was being shared with Super Lap Battle.. which was pretty cool... lotta cool cars i always see in magazines or online auto blogs
Mike Burlas made the body kit on the cricket NSX

buck-wild Evo... aero galore... pretty awesome

in the hotpit/grid... so during this run. The BMW has like so stupid long tow hook .. and with quocs early initiation the BMW rear ended him and pierced his fuel tank!. gas was pouring everywhere and it was crazy. came back in to the pit.. and was trying to figure wth to do.. so they swapped it with baby's tank. being SUPER PRESSED ON TIME. took likw 20-25 mins to swap in a fuel tank from another car was just crazy! 4 guys were working on each car.
managed to get it running just fine.

though Quoc made it to the finals the car was really iffy. But he managed to take 2nd place! with a fuel tank that was just held in with just ratcheting straps! But even with the 2nd place, this puts him as points leader in the series!
GOOD JOB QUOC!

the big check in the back of the xB lol

later that night. went to Jet @ mirage... full of 'people that annoy you'... but it was cool tho... got to boogie with some random girls

crazy weekend

2010-05-17T00:39:00.000-07:00

My Friday/Saturday consisted of:home>Hollywood>home>Hunington Beach>Orange>Reseda>Santa Barbara....

Friday night at the club, kicked it with So_H and NTK ppls
poreotics on the stage, that was cool and then yogi went up there in celebration for his Bday

UCSB watching chromeo and Drake

we eventually went in to the pit, got pretty close to the stage, then realized it was a bad idea LOL..

Sunday, in Fontana/Rialto

sunday, mike burlas flared my car.. and i put the new wheels on in the rear.
15x11 goodness.

IDROPEM

2010-05-06T19:16:00.000-07:00

the taco has been at idesigns trying to get ready for toyotafest.
its not gonna be complete but it will make and appearance.
excited to see when it gets finally done though.

puppy dog!!

2010-05-04T16:58:00.000-07:00

i have him again.. but hes shedding all over the garage since its summer time.. and i keep sweeping it lol

Friday, 30th.

2010-05-01T02:20:00.000-07:00

well i know the title says friday 30th... and its actually May 1st... and this next picture is actually from the 29th.. but whatever.
garage is finish with paint... still waiting for it to cure on the other side... but it sure is sweet.

in other news..I went to the wrecking yard/auction with jon to see the damage of his car.
you will be missed UCF20..

garage updates

2010-04-26T20:31:00.001-07:00

woke up... and cleaned the garage floor.
wanted to trial test to see how this stuff works out so i painted my side of the garage first so i just masked it off with a line for now.

done.... now just waiting for it to dry... which takes 72 hours! before i can put a car on it -_-

like my vip cup holder at my work station/desk?

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

2010-04-23T02:57:00.000-07:00

so this past weekend... staying at quocs for a while.. i got to do something very special.. i got to hang out with Mr. Cooper! no not that black guy that was on that TV sitcom.. (90s ppl.. must ring a bell)

but Quoc's Pyrenees dog...

He is the biggest dog i've ever seen... and he's like a gentle giant.
Everytime i see him he stands up and puts his front paws on my shoulders... and hes a heavy dog too lol

seeing him makes me miss dog sitting dimsum.

house updates.

2010-04-20T15:58:00.001-07:00

new updates blogger is a bish to upload photos.. so you'll guys have to click, or copy/pasta:

tile/carpet all done.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/c0dyblah/house/DSCN0202Medium.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/c0dyblah/house/DSCN0201Medium.jpg

the protective layer is still on the oven lol
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/c0dyblah/house/DSCN0203Medium.jpg

i told the ppls to install the lights for me (i want to replace the shelves with glass ones later so the light shines thru.)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/c0dyblah/house/DSCN0206Medium.jpg

so this house has an extra family/sun room thing towards the back we dont know what to do with it LOL.. i wish i had a pool table
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/c0dyblah/house/DSCN0204Medium.jpg

my room is almost complete.. i need some blinds tho
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/c0dyblah/house/DSCN0200Medium.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/c0dyblah/house/DSCN0200Small.jpg

most of the garage stuff is in...
when i pull in to the left one i can U-turn outta the garage
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/c0dyblah/house/DSCN0199Medium.jpg

Long Beach Gran Prix

2010-04-20T02:45:00.000-07:00

So.... i get a call from tony on Thursday.. and he asks me to help pit for Quoc Fri/Sat/Sun because he got last min. notice to compete in Formula D Team drift.
soo it was three days in a row of not sleeping in my bed, and waking up at 4-5am -_-
Cause if we don't get there on time, the track is gonna be hot and we wont be able to roll in.

i had to ride in the back of the van with no seat or seatbelt with some MS109

The pit itself was actually pretty cool. Inside the long beach arena. and we just posted up along the wall... and most of my time spent inside was asleep on the chairs.

staging to go to the track..... 30ish mins or less-ish of constant drifting throughout the whole track lol.

THEY HAD CARNIVAL FOOD THERE!.. and they have the GIANT WESTERN SAUSAGE!!!! ZOMG WTF BBQ AWESOMELY GOOD.

@ 11:30 ish.. we decided to go explore what LBGP had to offer, and we found the Patron lounge...and then i decided to actually get something to drink after i finished my hotdog... which actually has been a long time.

random snaps of whats going on.

Lotus Team.. Their cars look very classy.

then the ALMS cars ran.. which is pretty cool cause the mix up the production vehicles.. and the obviously not production vehicles.

gonna update again soon cause i have updates of the house.

doin stuff.

2010-04-15T01:15:00.000-07:00

tuesday i had to go start paint on my room.. soo before i went to KFC to get a double down..
i really dont know what to say about it... i am at a lost for words.

cabinets in.

granite tops being laid

carpet goes in saturday. moving day is sunday.. seems to be alot of work left.. but theres like a crazy team of chinese people hammering this shiz out real quik.

update with house stuff.

2010-04-11T17:49:00.000-07:00

so its been a crazy weekend.. did a few things to the miata for the HF show @ formula D.. but pics of that will come later.

updates of the house..
Heres a picture of the new sink for the downstairs bathroom

lol...jk its just a picture of it on the side of the box... its not even open yet.

my room... they're currently working on scraping all the 'popcorn' off the ceiling... so they're reshooting the ceiling with paint.

kitchen cabinets... all the tiles are layed down.. its pretty simple and clean whiteish tiles.

old kitchen... in the garage.

hi.

2010-04-07T14:57:00.001-07:00

just a few revisions for saturday.

down in OC

2010-04-04T02:07:00.000-07:00

sooo i needed to make a delivery to jon.. but drop by to say hello at drift speed cause quoc and tony was there working on their cars
Mr. Ly did another alignment..... doing a little road test.

so afterwards i kicked it with paul for a while at his house. went to Ebisu market for some drinks. and messed around on the turn tables in his garage lol.
then went over to jons.. to unload all the ipod cases.
yes.. there is alot.

ipod

2010-04-01T18:29:00.000-07:00

stuff........ there is alot of it... lol

tues 3/30

2010-03-31T01:56:00.000-07:00

to first start off..sigh.. so finally we closed escrow!.. so now i finally got the key to the new house..my family and i are gonna be residents of pomona (doesn't sound that nice.. phillips ranch sounds better)
and my parents come back in 4 days.. so all of this remodeling is SUPER backed up and late haha.

anyways.
albert woke me up... and we went to get pho express in walnut. then made some phone calls to Mr. Mike Burlas and headed over to JRX rotary in baldwin park.
theres always cool stuff there.. but i didnt bother snapping any pics.. was there on business.
anyways picked up a few goods off mikes car

APR cf mirrors

and the rears of my soon to be work equip 01s 15x11 LOL... im a lil nervous about doing the whole flare thing.. but i think when i got acquainted with the wheels again it sorta made me want to pull the trigger on it.
and i guess that is gonna be bye bye to the 03s... (the SSRs im keeping.. but gonna look super sunk... maybe ill put some super fat rubber on them for some SRS look)

cleaned them up.. and took a pic.

Up in LA

2010-03-29T13:46:00.000-07:00

friday night i headed down to eagle rock/LA to meet up with yogi.. and we ended rolling to some girl's birthday house party with the So_H guys ... it was cool.. but i was sorta outta place so we decided to bounce

so yogi and i decided to roll back to his place to pick up his gear and cruise LA and do some shots (pics not in order... lol)

drive by skid row.. which is always exciting...and saw some guy on rollerblades dancing in the middle of the street haha.

we were in the nice part of DTLA lol and we got out of the truck and walked around as well. took some pics of the city skyline... while being within the city

another spot we walked to in that particular plaza... pretty sweet view

disney concert call driveby

we were about to go down to the LA river (yogi knows some secret entrance and you can drive on it lo.. but these guys were shooting a commercial or something.)

drove by rob dyreckekerdeds fantasy factory....

heres the shots that came out while walking around dtla... its wierd how downtown is super dead quiet in the middle of the night..

we were seriously laying on the sidewalk for this pic. lol
and i'm always curious if the rooms with lights on actually have people in em.. or is it just wasting electricity.
but this was definitely one of my favorite shots of the night.

i ended up heading back home around 3am... it was definitely and adventure for sure.

Nice guys................

2010-03-25T03:50:00.000-07:00

always finish last.

Story of my life.

days at drift speed

2010-03-21T00:43:00.000-07:00

man... this week.. has been crazy/fun/tiring...
loss of so many hours of sleep.. i needa catch up on it..
building quocs drift car.... i dont even remember what i did.. cause it always went on to the weeeee hours in the morning..

quoc qualified first in top 32(sorta 32)

after qualifying day.. didnt feel too well .. and was super hungry.. so yogi and i went to pinoy pinay for some filipino fast food... omg............. it was one of the most satisfying meals i've ever had.

in the hot pit as Quoc's pit crew (think im standing on yogis truck..

AND CONGRATS TO QUOC PLACING 2nd at the event... hard work paid off def. for sure!!

lunch...

2010-03-12T16:45:00.000-08:00

need to fuel up on them greasy foods. lol

this weekend is gonna be packed... less than 8 days till XDC@ irwindale and helping quoc put his car together at driftspeed.. so gonna help him out and try to get as much done as possible. The car is coming back from paint today too =X

why at 3:40AM i am posting.

2010-03-08T03:37:00.000-08:00

cause mikey(jerk... j/k <3) told me so... but i have nothing interesting to post. lol

i got bored playing COD MW so to kill some time i decided to put the pics side by side...sorta makes me smile... but damn.. i dunno if should just get a front bumper...
but i really do need a hood and some sides. but thats not really on the top of my to do list..

i need to buy all the stuff for the new house =/
and choosing a color for your room is sorta hard... so i sorta went with this light silverish grey... to go with the stainless steel appliances we're getting for the kitchen.. then i realized that wouldnt make sense at all... this is my bedroom. Not the kitchen.. i obviously havent been sleeping well lately.
On top of that i occasionally wake up and my whole arm is asleep... im pretty sure thats bad for circulation...

photoshoot

2010-03-04T02:03:00.000-08:00

Mondays

2010-03-02T15:24:00.000-08:00

yogi came out.. did a photoshoot... lol photoshop magic.

made a video too lol
http://vimeo.com/9851989

2010-02-25T00:36:00.000-08:00

finally done... thanks to ian for giving me a hand with putting it on.. i wouldn't have done it without him.

Team wednesdays...went to tommy/renae's house in torrance... got a lil lost ended up in san pedro LOLOL

yes clearly... there are containers here.

chattin/grubbing it up at the house... kahlua pie from marie calendars is awesome..

and the 2nd van... tommys project.. h22 with backwards head and itbs.... fuggggg

weekend

2010-02-22T00:50:00.000-08:00

friday night i got me a pair of azenis, used but still rollable. so i mounted two of the ssrs on em.... dam i can't wait till i get the other pair. thinkin about just rocking these in the front with the works in the back.

spent saturday night at jay/jeff/jenns place in HB so i can head to DS in the afternoon.

sunday, went to drift speed to help quoc work on his car... his would be the car that is under all those boxes underneath the s15 LOL. but we fitted the front and rear bumper... which took alot of plasma cutting and drilling.
but i only took a picture of this because the steering angle made me chuckle.

being bored.

2010-02-14T23:14:00.000-08:00

who needs to be artsy with a fancy camera?

Pics of new house

2010-02-14T01:30:00.000-08:00

some pics i took of the new house. soo much stress and work to do.. but i can't wait.
kitchen is going to be demolished and redone with granite tops etc etc.

garage..... i <3 it. needs some work also... but it has CABINETS AND STORAGE SPACE!

inside.. main door is to the left
carpet/flooring will all be changed, along with the paint on the walls

downstairs bathroom..

garage space.....

backyard.

Cooler Than Me.

2010-02-12T00:53:00.000-08:00

hi there

2010-01-31T19:40:00.000-08:00

I've been eating out way too much.... spending so much money lol.

need to get my mind back on track.

aiyee!

2010-01-24T04:17:00.000-08:00

have not updated in a while... dunno why... but alot things are going down currently.

woke up early in the morning to go to ontario... first sunlight i've seen in a while and snow covered mountains... but there was traffic at 9am for some reason on a saturday.

then i got picked up.. came up on some awesome stuff from the junkyard for my car thanks to richard rabe.
and then.. went to 'autotoyz' bought nothing..
kicked it at jeff/jay's place for a lil bit... was about to watch a movie but totally went to the wrong theatre... so we just ended up eating at cajun corner...
dam the prices is alot cheaper than the other 'seafood in a bag' places.

i washed my hands a bunch of times... still smells like shrimp/sauce.

Family

2009-12-28T15:49:00.000-08:00

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.

2009-12-23T00:31:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-19T15:20:00.000-08:00

time to bake some chzcake

Team Wed 12/10

2009-12-10T02:44:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-03T20:12:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-30T02:20:00.000-08:00

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.

2009-11-24T03:19:00.000-08:00

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.

2009-11-21T02:54:00.000-08:00

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.

2009-11-20T15:14:00.000-08:00

is melting.

Tuesday.

2009-11-18T02:49:00.001-08:00

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.

2009-11-12T21:09:00.000-08:00

exhaust tip.

face

2009-11-10T01:00:00.000-08:00

palm...

Sunday night

2009-11-02T23:37:00.000-08:00

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.

2009-10-31T02:31:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-26T19:23:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-10-19T19:17:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-11T18:39:00.000-07:00

the limt is 30min.

hi

2009-10-10T20:04:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-04T21:41:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-01T12:05:00.000-07:00

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...

2009-09-24T18:43:00.000-07:00

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

Thursday

2009-09-18T00:34:00.000-07:00

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***

2009-09-16T22:52:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-09-12T22:41:00.000-07:00

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..

Another case of the Mondays

2009-09-08T19:13:00.000-07:00

on monday i was bummin around, still feeling super beat from disneyland,
hit up Mr. Migs and a few of the other Chain Reaction guys. Headed out to his place to meet the fellas up and kicked it for a lil, then we decided to get pizza.
so there is five of us (we're all pretty hungry, its 4-5ish pm and we haven't even eaten lunch)
no biggy, 2 medium pizzas, sounds about right yea?

boy were we WRONG
1 medium.

paul wall and eric and 1.75 of pizza

from this pic, we prob had about 3 more pieces.. and these pizzas are square cut, not no triangle cut like pizza hut
we had to take the rest to go cause we were SUPER STUFFED and it weighed about 5-6 pounds in the box easy. lol
I have to say, i haven't had good pizza in a while.

later that night we headed to West Covina Lanes. and Jon Pham and Andrew B. came by to accompany us in a few games.
apparently monday is 1 dollar day
1 dollar for shoe rentals
1 dollar for 1 game.

jon on the left, migs on the right.

disneyland

2009-09-07T01:45:00.001-07:00

today albert walked jerry anna and i into disneyland.
we did the damn thing, and albert hooked us up with food (thanks)

had some prime rib and friend chicken at plaza inn (its like towards the end of main st.), holler.
super bomb.

DRAGON! shoots fire out of the mouth region

fireworks

sorry, thats all the pics i took lol

from 400+ miles to 4 feet...
and just a 2 second glance.
amazing.

Emergency Hookers

2009-08-29T14:36:00.000-07:00

woke up at 7:30 to take my brother's car to a mechanic.
First my mom calls some local towing company,
the guy comes to check out the car, says he cant do it, car is too low. I told him to give it a shot, but he said i would have to sign something that says hes not liable for breaking the front lip.
Then I was close to actually taking the front lip off, then I was thinking to myself BS. i'm not doing this on a saturday morning.
then I gave victor a call, racked up the car quick. then rolled out.
i would have to say, his tow truck is pretty cool.....has a wireless controller for the levers in the rear deck, and has a momo steering wheel lol.

ahhh...

2009-08-23T23:58:00.000-07:00

woke up, went to chicken and ribs with art and devon.
what a good day.

after that went to buy a golf glove, shower caddy, and then went to friday's at night for happy hour.
then went to the pacific palms range a lil tipsy.

Savvy Savoy's

2009-08-21T20:34:00.000-07:00

So I finally had Savoy's for the first time.
apparently the 25-45 minute wait for Hainan chicken is worth it in this tiny hole in the wall restaurant. and when i said hole in the wall i really mean it. we had a table of 7 and they could barely accommodate us (as you can see from the picture). I'd say the restaurant had about 7-10 round tables, and we took two of them haha. I told a co worker of mine that i got to sit inside with that many people and he was shocked.
awesome experience bumping elbows lol.

It's Official.

2009-08-18T18:50:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Ron and Celine,
Tied the knot this past Saturday in L.A./j-town.
Man what a wedding...
I'm def happy everything came together so awesomely, and got to roll around and drive the LWB president.

i'm dying for the rolling pics taken that morning..

Just My Imagination.

2009-08-14T09:53:00.000-07:00

perfectly executed

my week

2009-08-08T19:16:00.000-07:00

went to work as always,
then went to APR, did a test fitting for a product

and..mini photoshoots with the Presidents

Hail to the Chiefs

Reign Supreme Flagship vehicles

5zigen border gt

2009-08-06T14:58:00.000-07:00

i needed a new catalytic welded on........so i minus whale.... put on the 5zigen i had got from Ron

Hail To The Chiefs

2009-08-05T01:59:00.000-07:00

The Presidents are back in black

Walk like the boss

2009-08-03T19:29:00.000-07:00

talk like the boss.

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.....i'm a little nervous to be honest lol.

old acquaintances

2009-08-03T00:46:00.000-07:00

this weekend went to drifting academy. pics of that will be posted later via yogi

and an old friend of mine is back in town after a 6+ month disappearance in Shanghai. So we headed over to Royal Vista for some night golf ranging with chris and jeff too.