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a few thousand words.

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Haven’t had any time to blog in awhile.. so, here’s some photos instead describing what’s been goin on..

first kiss

balloon racer finally done!!

doin' the wave at fenway

they’re looking for change

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

The Whitehouse has an official flickr stream that has some pretty awesome photos from Obama’s first 100 days..

One of the best photos (as pointed out by @acardwell) is this one:
obama moves a couch
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

And I’m particularly proud of myself for my “they’re looking for change” comment on it. hehe.

I’m such a nerd.

night vendor in kenting

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

Greetings from Kenting, Taiwan…

night vendor in kenting

family dinner, now with more iphone

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

family dinner, now with more iphone

lynn and hao got married.. partying in florida.

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

greetings from sarasota

Just got back from an awesome fun weekend in Sarasota, Florida.. Lynn and Hao got married, and it was a magnificent time.. Flew out on Friday — sheesh, Florida is kind of further than I thought, it takes like the whole day to traverse the whole SFO-ATL-SRQ trip.. I left the house at like 6:30am and didn’t get to my hotel until around 9pm… 12 hours, door to door. Someone should really get working on that transporter-type machinery quickly.

dennis at the beach

I’ve never been to Sarasota before, and I can now see why the snowbirds all retire there. It’s gorgeous. Saturday was spent on Siesta beach. The sand at Siesta Key is.. awesome. Hong has a great pic of it.. Supposedly, it’s made up mainly of quartz (99% according to a Harvard Geologic study), so it’s super fine, and incredibly white — which means that it reflects most of the sun, making it cool to walk on. It’s pretty awesome, and with the consistency of flour, it feels like you’re walking around on a comfy mushy surface. If I were designing a beach, I’d seriously just load up on that stuff, it’s awesome.

Sunday, incidentally, was my birthday.. so it was actually kind of cool to be able to spend it with a bunch of my friends in a sunny locale. My friend Dusty owns a golf course in Sarasota, so AJ and I played 9 holes in the morning. The last round of golf I played was last February in Vegas, so yah.. I was a little rusty (not that I’m actually any good when not rusty), but it was still fun. I think I came pretty close to hitting a baby alligator on the 7th hole. He was sunbathing just to the left of the tee box, and since Dusty pointed it out right before I hit, I guess I was thinking about it, and… the ball decided to shank off the heel of the driver and into the pond… Good thing momma alligator didn’t see that. The rest of the day was spent basking in the hot Sarasota sun by the hotel pool with Audris, frolicking in the ocean, and throwing the ol’ pigskin around with Korby and Mcc.

just married

The wedding itself was in the backyard of the Crowley mansion, which is situated right on the water. Halfway through the ceremony, I felt the temperature drop, so I was looking around for the rain to come, but it never did, so the weather cooperated fully. Lynn and Hao have spent the past few years in various places all around the world, so this wedding was one of the most global crowds that I’ve seen… I really wonder how many cumulative miles were traversed for the event, but people hailed from San Francisco, New York, Zurich, Holland, London, China, and Chicago, amongst others… Pretty cool. Though I had aspirations of taking a ton of awesome pictures throughout the whole event, the frequency of my picture taking seemed to vary inversely with the amount of alcohol I consumed, so, I don’t have many pics of the dancey-general-goodtimery that I had near the end of the wedding.

Lynn’s mom was in charge of the music, and she found this live band that was really, really good. I actually haven’t been to many weddings with a live band before, and I was impressed that they were able to play music that appealed to a wide cross section of ages. Lynn’s grandma had a ton of friends there that were super good at dancing, so it was awesome to see them cut the rug to the many swing songs that the band played. I mean, the band didn’t play any live d’nb or anything approaching that, but I do think they did a good job of keeping the energy up and fun. Good work, wedding band.

hong and dennis meta on the bus

Anyway.. my pics are here, mcc’s pics are here (he took some great ones), hong’s are here and korby’s pics are available good as well, but he doesn’t like me linking to them cuz then his veil of google secrecy is blown. That said, his picture set is the foil to mine, since his picture taking frequency actually increases with the amount of alcohol consumed.

Good times.

wet paint.

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

wet paint

bailey is america’s next top model

Friday, November 30th, 2007

We went to Mer’s studio today, where Bailey was a model for the day. She did well, even though when it was time for the shoot, she all of a sudden shed her crazy Bailey persona for another one.. shy, scared Bailey.. But, after some treats, she was more like cute, confused Bailey, which I guess works too.

happy yangsgiving! and, happy holidays!

Monday, November 26th, 2007

oh.. recovering from so much eating and general goodtimery this weekend… here’s what went down..

bbq’d turkey, honey baked ham, and all of the fixin’s (well, except for mashed potatoes for some reason, but that was ok. oh, and no GBC either.. harumph)
turkey and the spread

steph, amit, marcy and me joined 20,000 screaming teenage girls for ‘so you think you can dance’ at the oakland coliseum…
so you think you can dance

and.. we got a christmas tree. and decorated it. wooo.
almost done

and then, marcy and i went to the devil makes three show at the independent… awesome.
devil makes three

and then finished up the weekend at bi rite creamery… yum.
bi-rite ice creamery glass

happy holidays.

two desks, halfway around the world

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Pius is halfway around the world right now (in Kathmandu)… yet, we both are nerdy enough to take pictures of our desks and annotate them. So far away… yet so close.

my desk

pius' desk

Click through to flickr see the annotations…

happy halloween!

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

fantasy football

I am fantasy football. And, together with James and maybe Steph, we are a fantasy football team. Hehe.

Happy Halloweeeeeen.

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