A weekend with friends and many adventures. We left friday to meet up with Josh. He lives up in slow and we had a late start so we slept over. We woke up early in the morning and left for our adventure. There are so many things that happend that I can’t even talk about all of it. I’ll list things unexplained and you can as me about it.

- Slept some drove alot
- Climbed at Pardington Beach
- Camped at Julia P Burns SP. (one of the best camp sites, reserve early)
- Hung out with Juie Kuo in Satna Cruz
- Heard awesome music from Can Da Ce Goodwin..
- Had a car chase
- Met my roomates and wife and sis and etc
- Had Great and horrible clam chowder
- Biked in Monterey
- Biked in San Fan
- Got a horse back ride and a piggy back ride on statues
- Took pictures
- Saw awesome senary
- 1 hwy
- ate freeze dry out of bag
- had a bike tire blow up
- saw a guy pass out due to intoxication
- went to venture patagonia
- Smelled Garlic festival
- Had a good time.
- someone tripped in the ocean
- 3 in 1 tent
and much much more.


Micheal Lee exploring the light at the end of the tunnel


the end to our car chase scene


Joshua E. and bike


Lots of picture taking Michael Lee and Joshua Echiverria


Joshua Echiverria ... Thinking


We had a staring contest


Meet Candace Goodwin.. The next big thing


Mike Like folding bikes @ monterey aquarium


Comming out of the end of the tunnel - Joshua Echiverria and Michael Lee


Man .. so many choices


Elephant Seals..


Fifi


Julia Pheifer Burns State Park..



Hundred Pushup Update - Day 1
12/12/10/10 Max 13 w/90sec rest
total 57

Okay... a chance of a lifetime. The climbing industry is some what of a niche market. The professonals in the industry all know each other. That is the reason why it is really hard to get into the climbing industry. Usually you must have lots of expereince or you know someone. In my case, I was lucky enough to know kenny suh. However, this doesn’t mean I’m set. Next week starts my trail period. Got to prove I can do what needs to be done.



I’m really stocked to be working for Mad Rock. I’ve constantly wanted to work in the industry of my passion and now I an able to work for the largest climbing shoe distributor in the world. Thanks to God.

I recently started a program called hundred pushups. In theory if i followed this program step by step, I am suppose to be able to complete 100 pushups consecutively by the end of 6 weeks. I haven’t started the actual weekly program, but i took the initial test, and will be starting on monday. I will have a consistant schedule of pushups on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I even got the Pushup Pro, the knock off of the perfect pushup, to help compliment the workout. Hopefully, by the end of this not only will I be alble to claim 100 push ups, but I will aslo gain a manly boob. Check out the web site by click the banner below. Girls or guys.. come join us on the quest for 100 PUSHUPS!!!!

I’ll be keeping a record of my progress..
Initial test: 31 consecutive pushups.

Its been busy, so busy that I haven’t even had time to go climbing. The root of this business? ARGG school. Corporate finance to be exact. We are assigned to compelte a 15 page minimum analysis on a publicly traded company. The only problem is that we only had a week to complete it. The teacher assigned at the beginning of the semester, ~ 1 month ago, but we didn’t lean the neccessary skills to analyze until last week. Now every student is going crazy trying to finish the paper. Nearly all of us still do not understand much of what she wants in the paper. The final mixed with a full time schedule leaves little time for me to just relax. This is also why its been a while since I’ve last updated an entry.

Despite my business, I was able to get out on the weekend. Last last weekend I was able to take my cousin to Universal Studios. We check out the new Simpsons ride, which I thought was impressive. I felt like I was on the more intense roller coaster ever. The studio’s back lot had a fire so the tour no longer has the King Kong site. Oh well. there were other tings to check out.

This last week Me and Hiroko were lucky enough to join Josh Rodgers on a night in Hollywood. One of his long time friends was playing at The Key Club. We left a bit late got stuck in traffic and ended up missing them play. Echo Body was the name of the group. In the end we stuck around the club watched a over fancied cruise ship band play a couple songs. It was interesting watching the people dane and interact with others. We then drove back had some Tommys and went back home. Good times.

My lip is alot better now. However, there is this wierd hard bump. I’m guessing its scar tissue. Hopefully it goes away. Ooh.. Hiroko and I also discovered the library as a source of DVD rentals. 4+ rentals for free as long as we had a LA county library card. We’ve rented at least 15 movies from them in the past two weks. Great great discovery.



Man.. it was crazy.. a 747 Crashed here. I thought I’d take a picture


This chicken leg is bigger than his head. Samson

The Fountain is the last movie I saw. Josh Rodger came to visit me and Hiroko on Monday. We had dinner and decided to watch The Fountain. I really recommend it. This movie start off jumping around from one timeline to another, so for the first 20 minutes or so I was struggling to grasp was is happening. How are all the scenes connect? This movie makes you think about what life is about and what we should actually hold close. Its about life and death. Its a lot of surrealness and crazy stuff. This movie had me, Josh, and Hiroko talking. We disscussed and thought about it for the next two days Just Watch.. here is a trailer to get your thoughts stirring.

*After you’ve watched the movie click here to see the many theories about The Fountain.

Yes! July 4th, an extra day to our weekend. I was excited and had these plans for how I was going to spend it, climbing in Tahquitz, a weekend in joshua tree, camping in the sierras. None of them was executed. I ended up being kind of lazy from lack of sleep and decided to just relax. Josh Echi was gracious enough to bless us with his presence. He drove down from SLO to hang out. Us friends gathered and hung out for lunch at my house. This is when we recieved a text message from Ernest asking us to join him in San Diego. Our lack of planning paid off. We (Hiorko, Kenny, Josh and I) are now on a trip to San Diego to go surfing. We hung out.. had lots of food. Saw a fire and some fireworks. Surfed and ended coming back with a busted lip. My surfboard somehow hit me in my face when it was shore side of me. Long story short.. I got 4 stitches and I got a lip the size of anna nicole smith.

PS. I added a Special Films page. Check out a great short by Ernest Quiambao


Mr Quiambao Himself eating at Tajima


Hiroko loves this little dog named Chikita


Kenny and Chikita


Joshua Echiverria, Portrait


My lip. It is bigger than this now...

My cousin is in town. He arrive a bit over a week ago now. He’s from Taiwan and visiting for vacation as well as learn a bit of english. He plays alot of DS when at home but he seem to be making some friends and going out. I know for sure that today he is at Disneyland. On saturday we went to Knott Berry Farm. Though I love it, I think it was bit much for him and his friend Jimmy. Half they time was convincing them to go on the rides, the other half was making sure they don’t regurgitate what they ate for lunch.


Here is a picture of Samson, my cousin.


Perilous plunge.!!


This is the Knotts train. Woot woot


Waiting in life. It was the wettest line ever.. Water everywhere. Rain/flood. nice on a hot day.

In the above picture we are standing in line for the perilous plunge. Its pretty much a large raft/boat that flies down this steep drop. You’ll see in the next picture. Well anyways. Knotts was fun even though we weren’t able to hit up every ride. I’m sure Samson enjoyed it. hmmm hopefully. Well anyways. Let me contiune about other events of this past week. One thing to not is that my car has been on the slow road to death. I’m doing my best to keep him/her in shape but little things keeps breaking. This time is the intake hose. The rubber got old and cracked. It was probably a devloping problem, this may be the explanation why my car has been runing a low MPG. Well now its fixed and had a new oil change. Hope things will be well for awhile. Due to this car trouble I was forced to ride my bike to APU one morning. Took me a whole 50 minutes... I would of been on time if I only had left an extra 5 minutes earlier. Blah!


Me working on the car.. installing the new hose. Head light because it was late at night.

Yesterday night Hiroko cooked for the family. She went to 99 ranch and gathered all the ingredients for our special surprise dinner. Okay.. it was a surprise, but since we can’t afford eating out not more, she decided yesterday is the day we start cooking. She made Japanese dry curry. I’ve never had it before. It was gooood. It was sad to find it all gone by the time I got back home today it was all gone. Oh well.. I have the master chef.. she’ll cook me some more.


My master chef, Hiroko Otsuka Hsieh


Just a randome picture of Josh Rodgers and Jeff A. something.