The First Day of 2008

Ida's flight departed at 12 from BUR. It was pretty hard to see her away.

We (the whole family and Stella) went to lunch together at Lucky City and spent the rest of the day at home catching up the latest news from Stella.

I closed the day by moaning the fact that I had to work tomorrow, after 11 days of being not productive.

Last Day of 2007

I spent the last day of 2007 driving through OC, and looking at the new properties. Apparently the prices still hold and I believe the housing market in OC hasn't tanked enough. We'll see what will happen in 2008.

After dinner, we went to Colorado Blvd. taunting the people who waited along the street for the 2008 Rose Parade, and we got tortillas, marshmallows and shaving cream treatment by the indignant people.

I sent Ida and Irwin back to Hollywood after we finished the bubbles.

Driving Back To LA

It wasn't fun leaving Vegas, especially when you had a blast the previous night.

Before we hit I-15S, we decided to visit Oom Cun Sien in Henderson since we haven't visited him for a while. I believe it was 2 years for my dad and 3 years for me, I remembered: the last time we stayed over, my dad woke me up to let me know that a tsunami hit Aceh. Also, Ida needed to tap the internet for 1 hour to finalize her report.

We arrived in LA a little late and we feasted at President Thai.

Driving to Las Vegas

Vegas, here we come!

The traffic was reasonable and it wasn't crowded at all.

Timberland at Primm is closing the door and they are throwing everything away. Looking at the inventory, I gather that they will close the door pretty soon.

Post Christmas Craziness

I tried the clothes that Ida bought me for Christmas presents, most them were off-sized, thanks to the made up standard of the clothing industries. No surprises here, time to exchange the gifts.

Roads were clogged, malls were filled to the brim.

Pasadena was alright, it wasn't too crowded. But purchasing clothes was painful experience: lots of the desired size was taken, and previous coupons didn't work anymore. But nothing, could be compared to crawling for 20 min along Baldwin Ave in the afternoon and two and half hours of sneaker shopping.

Smells Like Teenage Spirits

Ida is here in the south land

... and we went to watch Jay Chou's world tour concert.

Driving To LA From San Jose

Started at 1:40PM, armed with a couple of bottles of water, grapes, buns and shrimp balls. Arrived in LA around 6-ish.

Driving To San Jose

Started driving @ 3:00PM.

While driving to San Jose, I got an email that Matt finally landed on a job @ Nokia San Francisco.

Arrived at San Jose @ 9:20PM. Tired ...