Bento Box

16Jan/120

Small Dinner Tubing

Went tubin'. Tu made this awesome video on his contour

Small dinner gathering snowballed into

Rock band fest

Tagged as: memories, tubing No Comments

13Jan/120

Fascination Movement, Sports

Great music at Chop Suey tonight- new wave pop 80s revival with variety.

My favorite band of the night: Fascination Movement. They sound like a mix of New Order, The Smiths, and Depeche Mode.

Sports had a similar new wave sound; a little darker.

Pegasus Dream

Tagged as: music No Comments

2Jan/120

Went to Crystal with Tu. Had a terrible time with my new boots. Feet kept going numb, my quads were burning from being in a prolonged squat position. I was definitely doing something wrong this time because I've never been this sore skiing- but it could be because I'm off the bunny hill now.

Saw Treasure Fingers- a DJ I didn't really know but friends knew of. Non stop house music. Too much 128bpm for my tastes but still had fun.

New window office at work, and more screens/2nd computer. Colleague left and I need to use her computer to do her work. Super busy at work lately.

Last few months I been paying more attention to watches. Made me think about how my brothers were (and still are) into watches when I was a kid. I would run up to my brother Kam and spin his dive watch bezel and run away giggling. Doesn't help that my friend Tu is into watches too- information and material desire overload- reminds me of when I was into joysticks. I settled on a Seiko automatic and a G-Shock. Great bang for the buck on the Seiko ~$150

Seiko SNZG17K1 on Maratac NATO strap

Watch box- the cheapo ones are mine

Tagged as: gadgets, memories, skiing No Comments

26Dec/110

1% different

Neil is an inspiration

Tagged as: articles No Comments

25Dec/110

4th Time Skiing

Went to Stevens Pass with Peter, Kat, and Justin on Friday. Took another lesson and it really started to come together for me. 'Attack' the mountain, move the edging leg forward, press into the cuff, load and unload weighting through the turns, and more. Carl the instructor said I need to learn to do pole planting next.

Got some new gear this time. I really like the REI Triad Parka and Swix Split-Mitten gloves.

Zoidberg

Tagged as: skiing No Comments

18Dec/110

More ski

Went skiing with Kevin Quan and his friends to Stevens Pass. Took another lesson and it really started to come together: keeping the feet together, weight forward, press into the cuffs, moving the turning foot forward, stand up right, etc. Can't wait to go again.

Dubstep n' Trick contest

Filed under: Kevin's posts No Comments

13Dec/110

Skiing with visitors

Hang came to visit and Tu had friends from Houston- we all went skiing/snowboarding on Friday and Saturday. Snoqualmie and then Stevens. Skiing is easy to pick up but seems hard to master. Things started to click on day 2- great instructor at Stevens: Carl Lyson.

Other activities from the weekend:

Seattle Underground Tour - great tour if you like history

Supposed to be a ghost in here - didn't see it

My first crumpets- savory and sweet
Top: Pesto, tomato and Parmesan cheese
Bottom: Maple Butter, cream cheese and walnuts

Other foods from Pike:
Jambon Mornay
Chowder + Baguette from Le Panier

Chirashi at Mashiko

Tagged as: food, skiing No Comments

12Dec/110

araabMUZIK

is fucking awesome. More (mostly) instrumental hip hop music. Everything, including his freestyle MPC-ing sounds great but I could do without the constant "you're now listening to araabmuzik" sample.