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skydive

2008-09-06T10:16:00.000-07:00

Today we are going to skydive.

Wooot.

pictures to follow.

UPDATE:

Well here it is.
It was an amazing experience, something that's really difficult to explain. Pure adrenaline rush for hours after you jumped.

There was 17 of us 14 from work and 3 friends. Out of 17, 15 of us jumped 2 are half cooked chickens. We all went to parachute center in Lodi, CA. We got there, we signed up, then got our waiver and watched our really old school orientation video. When they call out your number, you will then head to where you will strap your harness and meet with your tandem instructor and camera guy. They will brief you while you're being fitted with your harness. After that you go out and board the plane and you are on your way.

Watch the video and you'll see how it went. Enjoy.

Here's a couple of pictures.

BananaFlash & zionvlad

photo taken by jenner

* I would like to thank West my tandem instructor and Erica for my video and great pictures. Thanks you guys.

more photos here.

weeeee.

even more photos to come.

are you addicted to sex?

2008-09-06T01:06:00.000-07:00

Let see if you are addicted to sex.

EARTHQUAKE

2008-09-05T23:49:00.000-07:00

I was seating in the backyard watering, then I felt i was being wobbled I thought one of my dog was doing it. But when I looked around I saw them lying on the ground and looking up and then they started walking around as if they're looking for something. Then they stopped.

4.0 earthquake centered in Alamo, CA according to USGS. I'm 7 miles away from the epicenter.

* UPDATE

aftershock

Fire! Fire!

2008-09-03T02:03:00.000-07:00

Yesterday at work we had our annual fire alarm system wide test. It was going well, and we were talking about our past experience when we had the test two years ago. During that test the water pressure in our sprinkler system went so low that it triggered the alarm. It was really loud especially if you happen to be in the restroom. Anyway, people started asking "what the heck is that sound?" and we told them that it's the fire alarm and it's time for everybody to get out of the building. Almost everybody was really reluctant to leave their workstations. How can people be this way?

Well, back to the main reason of this blog entry. Across form our building on Bay St. side, is the Northpoint apartments. As we were trying to get through the day, we heard sirens. A lot of them, then one of our coworker said that there's fire across the building. We ran to her office to get a better view, as soon as it was confirmed that there was fire, The Professor and I ran to the roof top (and of course I have my camera ready) to get a real and best view of all the action. BananaFlash soon followed.

Here are some photos I took.

We are not sure what caused the fire.

SURF

2008-08-30T15:18:00.000-07:00

It was last weekend when we went to Bolinas, CA to surf. We had a HUGE group mostly from work. I had so much fun that day.
I took a lot of photos that I had to recharge my battery in the afternoon but it turned out all good.

Here's a couple of shots that i took. If you want to see all of it go here.

Update: FOILED Phase 2 (OPP)

2008-08-05T09:10:00.000-07:00

As soon as Johnny Paradise & I got off the elevator we heard this music, it sounded like someone left an alarm clock on. And to my surprise Jen was on the floor trying to rig my chair with a music board (that you usually find in a musical card), with a string tied to my bookshelf. What's even more funnier is that she asked chickleta (coworker) to be her watch.

All I can say is nice try, but you have to in the office earlier than us.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA.

So what's next? Phase 3?

OPP

2008-07-31T09:43:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I thought to be uneventful, or so I thought. As soon a we got to the garage we saw this on Johnny Paradise and Banana Flash's cars.

Banana Flash

Johnny Paradise

And all done by Jen Kirk.

We gave her back all her props.

Red Moon

2008-06-14T19:43:00.000-07:00

Before diner i saw the moon was kind of yellow turning orange that was around 9pm. After 2hrs. looked outside and saw a red moon.

I thought that the fires in BUTTE COUNTY may have caused this

more pics with time stamp here.

Trip to NYC

2008-05-27T23:26:00.000-07:00

I went to NYC last April on Business to coordinate and plan for our new office. I looked out the window and I saw this,

they looked like metal mushrooms on top of the roof of the building across.

More pics here.

enjoy.

Welcome back sister

2008-05-26T11:06:00.000-07:00

Welcome back sis.

After battling a really bad case of pneumonia and staying in the ICU for almost a month. We are glad that you are now back to your old self... and now we welcome you with your own balloon garden (thanks to our boss).

*05-05-08*

there she is

watch out for that bus

SURPRISE!!!

Madoka-san (BIG BOSS)

What is this?

Toni and Jeanine (BOSS)

Full Moon

2008-05-25T13:21:00.000-07:00

here are some pics i took last week, when i let my dogs out around 5:45 am.

enjoy.

Happy Mothers Day

2008-05-11T22:12:00.001-07:00

Happy Mothers day to all the moms out there.

it's time to post

2008-05-11T21:58:00.000-07:00

it's just been a long time since i posted anything.

i will be posting mostly pics pretty soon.

Happy New Year

2008-01-01T12:50:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to all!

VIZ 2007 Xmas party

2007-12-12T22:51:00.000-08:00

it was fun.... it was held at Ruby Skye. pretty cool place, just take a look at the photos that i took.

Happy Thanksgiving

2007-11-22T22:40:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Frightfest at VIZ

2007-11-02T20:14:00.000-07:00

another year of halloween celebration at VIZ Media had passed, i think that this was the most exciting and crazy halloween celebration ever from pumpkin carving contest to best costume.

more over here.

i'm being lazy and i'm really tired.

OH NO! SKUNK!

2007-10-15T21:48:00.000-07:00

just got home and have to let my dogs out and away they go running in the backyard. then i heard them barking, next thing i saw was the skunk cornered and rolling on the ground with it's tail up. i got out there and started hosing them with water, just to break them up but it's too late, the damage has been done. and yes the whole house stinks, i mean like 10 big rigs burnt rubber inside the house all at once.

man, it really stinks here.

Lost of a Friend

2007-09-25T12:55:00.000-07:00

it's so unreal, to know that a really good and a very close friend who treated you as his own brother passed away. this is not happening, it's not true, this is only a dream.

i personally didn't only lost a boss and friend, i lost a BROTHER. it hurts. i've known kevin for a really long time. he's that kind of a person who will take care of you, defend you, give you advice, a person who you can really trust. he had helped me in so many ways that i could not repay him for what he did.

kevin, we thank you for all the things that you've done for us. we will miss you dearly.

you will always be in our prayers and in our hearts. we love you.

we would like to extend our condolences to the Chan Family.

Colorgenics

2007-09-15T12:04:00.000-07:00

colorgenics

it sort of tells you more about yourself and how you see and feel things around you.

jaxtr

2007-08-22T22:15:00.001-07:00

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Nike commercial

2007-08-09T17:31:00.000-07:00

i saw this last night.....

Road KILL

2007-05-19T06:02:00.000-07:00

it happened at 230am in tumwater, wa on N/B I-5 mile post 99 just before the 93rd ave. sw bridge above the freeway. it was a quiet night not much traffic on the road, my gf and i were heading to seattle, wa and this happend. the good part is that before all this happened, she reclined her seat and grabbed a blankie before taking a hopefully short nap. i was in the middle lane (3 lane freeway each way) going 70mph (i set the cruise control) going up the incline reaching the crest and BAM!!! no time to steer away.

we were picked up by my gf's parents while the state patrol waited with us.

i'm still in shock. still can't believe what just happened. i've seen this many times in pictures and videos... now i just experienced it first hand.

so, be extra careful when driving at night you'll never know what will jump and or cross in front of you on the freeway.

my car being towed away

NOT a good sight. make sure that YOU are not EATING and you are READY to see this.

this,
this,
this,
this,
and this.

the sad part is that i can still smell it.

UPDATE

i didn't realize the extent of the damage until afterwards. i visited the impound yard to retrieve the rest of my stuff.

UPDATE

a member of the same forum that i'm with, said that he saw the elk that i hit and said that the elk was in halves... 1 on the shoulder and 1 by the center divide.

MS Paint

2007-04-11T10:46:00.000-07:00

awesome.

you gotta have a lot of time to do this.

Last Week

2007-03-20T21:09:00.000-07:00

i had a great time last week. i went to Yosemite National Park spent 3 days there, stayed at the evergreen lodge even though that they don't even sell corkscrew at their shop, i still had fun hiking and exploring the park.

Half Dome view at Mirror Lake

i was in awe when i got there, it's just amazing. i'm thinking of going back sometime in May, there's still a lot of trails to hike...

Yosemite news letter

Shuttle Bus Map

Hech Hetchy Day Hike Time Table

Hetch Hetchy Map

enjoy the photos.

Happy Birthday

2007-03-20T21:07:00.000-07:00

time to celebrate.

Magnitude 4.2

2007-03-02T07:43:00.001-08:00

whoa! we are having an earthquake. i checked USGS to see the magnitude
after the main jolt there was 5 after shocks.

Heading to the gym?

2007-02-06T17:00:00.001-08:00

working out? think about this , would you like to go and work out if we have something like this kind of gym here?

just think about it.

Tattoos

2007-02-05T12:42:00.000-08:00

who would think that only people, dogs, cows and pigs can get tattoos. well think again.

look at my new color.

read here on how they tattoo them and some research.

HAPPY 2007

2007-01-01T00:01:00.001-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYBODY.

hope everybody had a great 2006, and now we start a new year.

let's make this 2007 a great and fruitful year.

Happy New Year!

abellar equipment

2006-12-27T11:57:00.000-08:00

here's clip of my dad's TV interview on a philippine local news channel. it's about the family business that he started and how he progressed, and kept the competition in poultry business on a higher standard.

* video feed is kinda slow and it's in tagalog. wait a while until it loads up.. *

Christmas at Vis

2006-12-26T14:43:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas to all.

christmas this year was slow and quiet, it's not our usual christmas.

simple tree

performancing

2006-12-24T16:20:00.001-08:00

i'm using performancing to post this test.

Flock

2006-12-21T14:46:00.001-08:00

test post from Flock.

Blogged with Flock

Frost

2006-12-14T12:15:00.000-08:00

this is what i saw on my car this morning. looked like snow. i have to scrape a thin sheet of frost on my windshield.

i heard that there are 7 counties here in the bay area are under freeze warning until tuesday morning.

DS on train

2006-12-12T16:31:00.000-08:00

i took bart to work yesterday, as i got settled in i started playing with my nintendo DS. after the train left pleasant hill station i heard someone is playing big brain academy, i looked over i saw this not so old man playing with his DS. now i said cool. but i can still hear what he is playing, the lady in front of me looked at me and asked "are you kidding me?" then i started shaking my head. i looked over to the man again, and i noticed that he was wearing his earphones. i was kind of confused to see him with his earphones on, doesn't he realize that everybody on that car can hear him play? now i figured that not only he is playing he also is listening to his ipod. it started to annoy me just by hearing the same sound over and over.

guilty

it's a common courtesy to play with your portable console and have your cell phone on silent mode or have the volume all the way down. i guess that he doesn't have a big brain after all.

VIZ Xmas 2006 party

2006-12-06T14:00:00.000-08:00

i had so much fun, seen a lot of my friends/co-workers wasted. we had the party at bimbo's the place was huge, i mean huge. great place to hold a big party. i took a few pictues, not much only 66 of them. you can see them here. you won't see all of it though, i'm saving the rest of pics for blackmail... hehehe.

spray on

2006-12-01T10:55:00.000-08:00

i was listening to the radio this morning on my way to work and they were talking about a"spray on condom", a spray on? now how does it work? here's what they have to say.

"We're trying to develop the perfect condom for men that's suited to every size of penis," he said. "We're very serious."

Krause's team (spraykondom.de) is developing a type of spray can into which the man inserts his penis first. At the push of a button it is then coated in a rubber condom.

Spray on

"It works by spraying on latex from nozzles on all sides," he said. "We call it the '360 degree procedure' -- once round and from top to bottom. It's a bit like a car wash."

Krause said the plan is to make the product ready for use in about five seconds. He said it would function more effectively as a contraceptive because it would fit better and not slip.

to read more click here.

i wonder how would it feels like to spray it on... will they have different flavors? how about for females?

Thanksgiving day

2006-11-24T00:08:00.000-08:00

how did you spend your thanksgiving? here's how i spend my thanksgiving.
we went to my moms and we brought all this good food.

veggies, chow mein and rice

sesame balls and rice

yummy food

and this what happens when you leave the table unattended, especially when you have 2 cats roaming around and looking for turkey.

paw marks on pie

after diner we all went to hiromi's place and we hung-out they too have lots of food. then we played mario kar t and daigassou band brothers, the food was good.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Transit of Mercury

2006-11-09T11:24:00.000-08:00

seeing the planet Mercury pass in front of the sun was amazing. i never thought of seeing any planet or the sun through a telescope. i must say it was awesome.

planet mercury as a small dot
click to enlarge

you can see planet mercury as a small dot, as small dot in the face of the sun. and we also saw a sun spot (not in picture) and most of all, looking through the telescope you can see the swirling surface of the sun. it's just amazing to see something like this which only happens roughly 13 time a century. so if you missed it, you can watch it happen again in 2016.

here we are waiting

(L-R) zionvlad, t3hch0rt & Dugh

for this guy to finish calibrating the telescope.

anyway, we had fun looking at planet mercury and the sun.

-- thanks to dugh for holding the camera steady and taking the picture for me, and mr. banana man for bringing my camera.

Halloween photo shoot

2006-11-01T09:32:00.000-08:00

wearing a costume and going to work is fun, like this one.

here's another one with the t3hchort as a ninjer from the hidden village of banana leaf.

and here's everybody who dressed up.

for more photos go here. or here for a complete set.

+1 Pelican

2006-10-27T08:58:00.000-07:00

just another version of the pelican eating a pigeon at a park in London.

cloaking

2006-10-19T16:59:00.000-07:00

imagine if you have this technology. this is awesome, that scientists were able to cloak a copper cylinder in their first experiment.

here's an excerpt from yahoo.

- In this first successful experiment, researchers from the United States and England were able to cloak a copper cylinder.

It's like a mirage, where heat causes the bending of light rays and cloaks the road ahead behind an image of the sky.

according to yahoo news

Rescued Dog

2006-10-18T16:58:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I was watching a video on CNN titled "Dog Dragged from Back of Truck". I felt sad when they showed who rescued the poor dog. They flashed her name onscreen, but underneath it was "Rescued Dog". Now my question is who rescued who? Shouldn't it say "Dog Rescuer"?

what do you think?

Inmates marching

2006-10-06T09:46:00.000-07:00

i haven't seen any episodes of Pythagoras Switch, but thanks to firebus he sent me a link about inmates from CPDRC Cebu Philippines doing algorithm march during their presentation.

after watching the video i went to youtube and searched it, and found that it's a 3 part video. here's the second video.

and to finish it off.

i must say that watching all these videos gives me goose bumps and laughing uncontrollably.

have fun & enjoy.

counter-strike old school - update -

2006-10-05T10:56:00.000-07:00

as i promised, i will add new sound files from our wacky and really crazy game session.
enjoy.

SBM CS 2002 - Not The Knife -

SBM CS 2002 - It's all about the Ridge -

SBM CS 2002 - Fuck you Snipey! -

- Thanks to ledge for hosting my sound files. thanks ledge. -

new place

2006-10-05T09:51:00.000-07:00

in the past week we've been packing and getting ready to move out of the city. we eventually finished our move last tuesday. i tell you that the move was a little bit crazy, it took us 3 days to move with little or not sleeping, it felt like endless move. and i realized that we should've packed the kitchen 1st then the bedroom. anyways we're done moving all we have to deal with now is unpacking and throwing away a lot of junk that we really don't need. here are some pics.

Flickr

2006-09-23T21:29:00.000-07:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

counter-strike old school

2006-09-22T12:30:00.000-07:00

playing counter-strike always reminds me of our good old days. here's a clip from 1 of our play session. on this clip you can hear Nate getting knived and he's liking it very much.

(5:00 mins. SBM CS 2002. trk 6)

i'll post more sound clips soon.

sand art

2006-09-12T23:34:00.000-07:00

now this is cool.

panic button

2006-09-12T23:00:00.000-07:00

last week while ledge and i were smoking, i had an idea. now what if, what if all ATM machines has a panic button in addition to CCTV on all of them. let's say you're being mugged while you're getting some cash from the machine, you can easily press this button and alert the police of robbery in progress and at the same time the incident is being captured on camera.

just a random thought. what do you think?

cold beer

2006-09-12T20:46:00.000-07:00

while flipping through the pages of Business 2.0 june issue, i came across the up and coming new technology section. then i saw this.

this is an awesome invention. i wonder if they're going to us this not only for beer.

dropped something?

2006-09-05T20:28:00.000-07:00

now how far are you going to go if you dropped something, lets say your car keys. now this guy, he really went far enough to find his car keys.

eventually he gave up. come on, you got to realize that once you drop anything in that sewer hole, it's like the Black Hole of the city street, you're not going to find it. anyway, after giving up, he came over and bummed a smoke and ledge ask him "what you dropped? a wedding ring?" we all laughed. then he tried to put back the cover. but he had it the other way around, so he had to rotate it to put it back in place. sounds easy huh? and then while he was rotating the cover, he had the cover positioned diagonally across the hole... and this happened.

he said "oh shiet. oh well." and then he placed this over the hole.

at least that he is concerned about the safety of others. it was kinda funny. but there was this old guy who walked by him while he was digging and asked him "you dropped your dope in there?" i was offended by that for him. that wasn't funny at all. i don't like people who straight up stereotyping others. it's just not right. not right at all.

Croc hunter

2006-09-05T16:07:00.000-07:00

i was saddened when i heard the news about steve irwin, that he passed during the taping of his new show called ocean's deadliest off the coast of queensland austraila by the great barrir reef. my condolences and my prayers goes to his family.

he will be very much missed.

being nice and getting lucky

2006-09-02T19:53:00.000-07:00

i read this article on MSNBC about this bartender who's working at applebees.

update

2006-09-01T11:20:00.000-07:00

it took me a while to update. hehehe. anyway rummaging through all my files i found this video, while i'm still living in seattle.

it's about the car club that i joined, then had a meet, greet and drive around the cascades. i remember we drove like 300 miles, met with the group around 9am and head off. there was 20 cars, composed of not only subaru's, there was also 2 evo8, G35 and a skyline GTR. it was fun. as we drove through small towns, people are just stopping what they're doing and they look in awe as 20 same cars drive by. even the police checked us out. they only told us to drive safely and watch out for deers crossing. and when all of us are getting gas, we just own the gas station as we lined up at the pump, it was cool. i had a great time. i wish i could do it again.

*thanks to Dooginfif20 of nasioc for creating this video.

spell check

2006-08-11T23:43:00.000-07:00

i was reading the top stories on cnn, then something caught my eye. one of the headline about the state primary in connecticut on who and how she won the race.

and then i checked cnn back and finaly someone saw what was wrong. like someone finaly used "spell check" to proof their top story section.

well, anyway they fixed it.
hahaha

Photos are in

2006-07-22T14:34:00.000-07:00

did some photo shoot of the lovely SF. here's a preview.

the doctor is "IN"

2006-07-20T22:08:00.000-07:00

this is crazy. now i think i want to be a "doctor" a "Miracle" doctor that is >grin<

Friday

2006-07-07T22:45:00.000-07:00

finally, the last day of the work week. i 'm so waiting for this day.... why? after spending a very long weekend and the 4th of july with friends, and coming home really late at night... i must say that i'm entitled to sleep most of saturday. right? right. so now i'm just relaxing, drinking wine, watching whatever's on TV and not really doing anything. what else happened to me today... ah work, work and work nothing special. i think i'm going to take some random pictures tomorrow, i'll try to catch life as it passes by.

after a busy week

2006-07-06T21:28:00.000-07:00

so, i just had the longest weekend... where do i start. ok so, last week a friend of mine since grade school was on a US tour for a month, and was in town for their last leg of tour and aris was also in town from L.A. so we showed them around town, went to the Wharf, went bowling. and hangout to catch up on things. here are some pix.

Gyoza anyone?

2006-06-24T23:02:00.000-07:00

so, we are trying to make some Gyoza. and we are thinking on how to close it up. i think this is good. mmmm.... gyoza.

UBER BUSY

2006-06-22T23:38:00.000-07:00

The past two weeks are really, uber busy. company had it's 20th year aniversary, we went bowling at the presidio bowl at the marina, that was fun. then last night my co-workers went to malibu grand prix. we did some laps with the go karts then played mini golf, that was fun alot of fun. and now... what else is coming up, a birth day party on sunday and pride parade. then two of my friends are coming over on thursday. well that's that. and then i got this message about AOL. now what would you do?

Phone post

2006-06-13T00:07:00.000-07:00

father and son.

will you look at that, i sent a post using my phone.

Happy Father's Day to all DAD's

2006-06-12T02:28:00.000-07:00

Happy Father's Day to all dad's out there, especially to my DAD.

Phone feature

2006-06-12T02:17:00.000-07:00

This is a great added feature to have on you cell phone.

Norelco

2006-06-08T20:05:00.000-07:00

now you can use this when you are in the shower to shave, or peel fruits.

It's 2:08 am

2006-06-07T02:08:00.000-07:00

Finally it's humpday, can't wait for the weekend. I still don't know why I'm still up, watching futurama on [CN] and trying to catch some fishes and bugs.