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This past week had a few cool things. First, an update w/ Alice’s painting. Here’s where it’s come so far:

It’s pretty neat, huh?

So a few weeks ago, Crystal gave me a call telling me she got me an interview/survey thing for Trotta Associates. My main qualifier being a DishNetwork subscriber and user. After some phone screening, I scheduled my appointment for Oct. 11th @ 6pm. They emailed me a little homework packet to fill out. The deal was that I would get $50 for the interview and $25 for doing my homework. The packet was a sinch. It basically asked me to use the different features in the Program Guide and rate them on how often I used them. When interview time came, I had some trouble figuring out the how to get to their offices, but eventually made it to their elevator thing.

The interview itself was really nice. My lady interviewer was actually quite knowledgable on the subject at hand, and was able to ask me some good questions. The whole process took a little over an hour, and I got paid on my way out. The girl receptionist was pretty cute. lol

Then last, last Friday early morning, after much debate and waiting, I decided to take the long haul and wait my ass in line for the Gamestop Wii preorder. I first went over to visit James and Karen just to play, cause initially, I wasn’t going to go through with it. But on my way back, I wanted to check out how much the line had grown. And as I was checking, I couldn’t help but pull in and park the car. I got there around 5am and sat in my car for a bit. The morning cold is almost unbearable. My basketball shorts and sandals didn’t help much either. After one of the longest 5 hours of my life, the employees arrived with steaming coffee cups in hand snuck into the store and got things ready for us as slow as humanly possible. A big dude popped out with a bunch of papers listing everything available for preorder, and announced that there were only 32 preorders available (with about 40-50 people waiting in line).

Luckily I was number 11 in line. We would go into the store 5 at a time, and purchase our preorders. My dad also asked me if I could get him one, so it looks like I’ll still be waiting in the Best Buy line with Daniel and Karen this Nov 19th.

and foremost, on the 15th, was my mom’s birthday. My brother and I took her out to Roy’s in Fashion Island.

“The first Roy’s opened in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1988. At the time, chef Roy Yamaguchi was the first chef ever to blend European cooking techniques with the fresh local ingredients found in Asia and the Pacific Rim. He calls this style of cooking Hawaiian Fusion cuisine.

Today there are now 33 Roy’s Restaurants in chef Yamaguchi’s Hawaiian Fusion Empire including 24 in the Continental US, 6 in Hawaii, 2 in Japan and 1 in Guam.”

The food was delish and service was superb. The coolest thing was how whenever we got up from our seats, someone would quickly come and reroll our napkins, just so we could unroll them again as soon as we sat back down. They even had a [free] special digital camera and printer on-site for special occasions. We topped off the night with a gift for my mom:

I went back up north with my mom just to drive back down the following day with Sable. The ride was nice, but long.

TV has been up and down for me. Project Runway S3 finally finished. The end result wasn’t really all that bad, but it still left a bad taste in my mouth when it was all over. Otherwise, Lost and the Office have been picking up their 3rd seasons. And in the meantime, I got hooked on Prison Break, and finished all 29 episodes in 2 days, to get myself caught up and ready for the next episode tomorrow. I can’t wait.

Last but not least, last night my bro gave me his ticket to a private Beastie Boys concert held @ Etnies company headquarters in Lake Forest. I also used this opportunity to meet his new work buddies, Dan and Matt (and Matt’s bro). The venue had somewhere between 1000-1200 people. Overall the concert was awesome. I’m actually pretty n00b to BB’s stuff, but I just recently got their greatest hit’s album of 2005 and Licensed to Ill album. They rocked the stage for well over an hour. Best of all to me was seeing Mix Master Mike scatching the shit out of his records. Here’s some pics:

Something just for kicks…
Every morning when I open up my blinds to let the sun shine down on my little money tree, I get kinda spooked by this little focker.

My neighbor put it up for Halloween, and it’s already been haunting me for a few weeks. bastard.

rock the casbah.

HELLO… MY… NAME… IS… バ!

I just thought I’d put in a little update, since it’s been a while.
Aside from some new gadgets, stuff has been going pretty steady.

Today I hung out with alice buddy and ambrose friends. I used my trickery and convinced her to paint me a picture for me to hang on my back wall of my room. In my head, I kinda had a mix of this kind of artwork with these colors. I’ve been really getting into the more urban street art and vinyl toy stuffs. haha, I’m a little behind, but I’m already starting to find my faves, like Cameron Tiede. His work is similar to what you’d find in Yoshi’s Island (SNES):

But yeah, it’s hard to comeby this stuff, cause they’re always very limited releases.
Anyway, I’m excited to see the end result of the picture. I’ll try to take some pics of the process.

In the music dept. I’m really digging a new genre of Japanese hip-hop. It sort of comes as a whole, starting off with Teriyaki Boyz. They made the catchy theme to Tokyo Drift. The group is composed of 4 MCs and 1 DJ. Two of them are from RIP SLYME, one from m-flo, and one from some other group. The DJ, Nigo, is the creator of the ever famous Bathing APE brand. Together their music is pretty sick. Their album, BEEF or CHICKEN (released 2005), was produced by some of the best of the best of hip hop.

The best part is that all their other projects kickass too. So check it.
Oh, and I also bought a cute Baby Milo shirt from BAPE…so I’m stoked about that too.

This coming weekend is my mom’s birthday, so she’s coming down to visit Jon and me. It shall be nice. Right after, I’ll be flying back up with my mom. I’ll be riding back down with Sable buddy on Monday. She needs a driving pal, so I’ll be there to keep her company and make sure she doesn’t nod off. Normally I wouldn’t go to such great lengths, but she seriously needs to be watched over. Harker peepz can back me up on that one. And if I don’t make it back next week, I just wanna say “I told you so.”

Awesome, so this post should hold up for a little while.
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Marvin and jess’s costume