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Kid Cudi – Make Her Say Feat. Kanye West & Common

A day in the life of New York City, in miniature.

Check out how he did it.

Looking forward to this…

Addicted to this song as of lates…

entertaining and pretty clever video.

The whole family ventured out to the Monterey Bay Aquarium today. Left the house at 9AM, and did not get home till 8PM. Lolo seem to have enjoyed herself, even managed to get a couple of naps in. And both T and I wanted to check out the seahorse exhibit, we had fun too.

Plenty of funky looking seahorses~

And boy was it hard to shoot at the aquarium! Between the lack of light and the distorted tanks, I was surprised that I was even able to get some of these shots. I am glad I managed to get some good ones though.

So we took a trip to Chicago over this past weekend. It was for Steve Lee and Jane Lai’s wedding. It was like a damn Purdue reunion over there. :-P Wifey’s first time out there, though, she seemed to have enjoyed it.

We arrived on Saturday, after a long ass wait at the Hertz rental car, we finally got a car which came in quite handy I must say. Hyundai Sonata ain’t too shabby. :-) It was rain galore from the minute we arrived – Hurricane Ike left its mark over the skies of Chicago. We got into the city Oak Brook, and I brought Tiff to White Castle, it was her first time – and she liked it. :-)

Sunday we spent the day hanging out with P and his friend R, we actually had Chinese breakfast for brunch. :-) That was cool, regular “fan-twan” with soy sauce egg in it?! That’s a first – pretty good. Evening was the wedding of course…

Clouds started to clear up Sunday night for a beautiful day on Monday…

Ate some lunch…

And we pretty much spent the whole day downtown Chicago…

More pics from the trip over there at Flickr.

So, from what I remembered… with the Olympics closing ceremonies, shouldn’t it kinda stand up to its counter part – the opening ceremony?? I was not impressed with this closing ceremony AT ALL.? Granted there were some superstar singers on the stage, but we could not hear them at ALL… I guess its because it was a NBC broadcast vs a Chinese station broadcast, but still – I was not impressed.

China won some massive number of Gold though… overall, this Olympic experience was a pretty good one, with so many damn World Record breakage, it does make ya kinda wonder… whats in the air?? ;-)

I think its gonna be hard for London to pull of the same kinda impressiveness of the China’s opening ceremony with the little “London Bus” theme that they pulled…?? we shall see…

Drove to Los Angeles again over the weekend. Did one of those Saturday early morning and come back late Sunday night kinda deal. I think it was well worth it, got to eat some good food as usual, and got to do what we were supposed to do when we got down there – to see my cousin off.

She is off to St. Louis to teach/lecture next week.

Barely did any pictures while I was down there, just one member of the Liao family, Dee-Dee:

Not only is it the official day for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, it is also the date of our first big release at CK-12 of our new online application.

The release went well… it was a late night scramble. But not too shabby of a release after all. Y’all should check it out, its an application with a great mission.

We also need to head to LA for the weekend to send off my cousin to St. Louis. Hope I don’t get too tired from the driving, but the eats in LA should make it a good incentive to make it there safely. :-P

… the opening ceremony was pretty damn impressive, by the way, I didn’t think China could pull it off.. :-)

You guys are something… hard-core, my friends. ;-)

Pierce @ Fenway Park.

131-92 Boston. Enough said.

Drove down to LA over the weekend… Had a blast. A bit tiring from driving though… but it was all good.

Had a bit fun with Dee-Dee (not without a bit of allergic reaction to him though):

Also learned how to make this fantastic comfort food from Taiwan:

Courtesy of my cousin in law Vincent.

Went to see a game between the Oakland Athletics and the Boston Red Sox today. My friend will probably kill me for putting this title for this particular blog post, but the fact is, Boston Red Sox (last year’s World Series Champions) lost to the Athletics this past weekend in a 3-0 game series loss. They sure didn’t step it up this time. :-)

Regardless, it was a fun, the weather was awesome and ate a crap load of sunflower seeds. :-) Also manage to get some color on my arm and my face.