I'm testing out Posterous.com and seeing if the service can simultaneously post on my xanga and posterous blogs. That would make things much easier.

Sorry it's been a while since I last posted. Since the last time I wrote, I had some relatives visit our local neck of the woods. It was nice, but I must say that whenever you find yourself having to entertain visitors, you never know what to do with them. Where do you go? Of course I'm not much of a Los Angeles fan to begin with, so I'm not the right one to ask. If it were me, I'd end up taking them to museums and random stuff I find offline.

We managed to go to Griffith Observatory on Sunday. It was my first time going, and it was somewhat interesting. I'm not too much into the science of it, but was there more for the experience and visuals. I managed to take this cool photo of the moon. Looks real, right? (except for the seamline where it was put together) It was fun. I'd go again. There's this pretty neat projection show, where they project stars and film onto an exclosed dome. But a word of caution for those of you with motionsickness (aka me), as certain parts may make you want to blow chunks.

I'm not any fun to be around. I didn't want to go to Disneyland. I'm not much for rollercoasters and long lines, but more importantly, I didn't want to spend so much money when I have to prep for my life-savings funded trip to China later this year (which looks to be postponed later into early November).

Only 3 weeks left until my job is over. Woohoo!!! An indeterminate amount of vacation time!!! I will miss the money though... but we'll figure that all out once I come back from China. What if I do something completely spontaneous and just decided to stay there...?

Some recent "projects" that I've been working on:

1. Family tree. After listening to a podcast by Leo Laporte where he recommended a site called GENi.com, I decided to sign up. Imagine a Facebook social activity, but amongst your family members. Maybe because we have a lot of tech savvy people in the family, or the fact that my family is enormous... I just built it a week ago, but it's already been a hit. We share photos and just chat on it. Eventually I'd like to put up my ancestry beyond the grandparents...

2. So I'm trying to get myself into "China mode". I have to immerse myself in head knowledge and culture. I expect that most of the time I'm there, I'll be alone. I learned that you apparently have to register yourself to the police of wherever you stay (though hotels will often do that service for you). Once my job is over, I'm going to occasionally head over to Alhambra and Chinatown and see if I can do things like order off a menu and converse on my own. I'm also trying to listen to more Asian music lately. Pretty much the only Asian music in my library thus far are Japanese anime soundtracks... and one Jackie Chan song (thus showing my lack of Asian music talent out there). This past weekend I just randomly went through video websites like YouTube to find some artists I could get into. My Chinese stinks, so pretty much I'm just listening for catchy beats and maybe picking up a phrase I know here and there. So I found some Asian artists like Jewelry (Korean), BoA (Korean), Dew (Japanese)... the only Chinese artist that was somewhat interesting was Rainie Yang, who is probably better known as an actress. So any recommendations? Besides Jay Chou... I'm going to just surf through iTunes...

3. A plan that I hope to complete after I quit but before I head into my reunion is to at least make business cards and somewhat of a presentable website. I need people to at least know I'm a photographer, and perhaps this will be a good networking opp.

Okay, I got to get to bed now. (12:39am)

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