if i had to point out the thing i most love about living in san diego, without a doubt the first thing that always come to mind is the frequent blue skies. some times i wake up, and just look out my balcony and am amazed how beautiful the day is outside. and after 6+ years at san diego, i still don't think like i will ever take it for granted.


before i came to UCSD, i lived in torrace for 4 years. the weather in torrance is pretty similar to san diego. except that the sky is usually covered in clouds, and if i had to describe it, it is more white than anything. there will be some sunny days, but even the best sunny days don't have anything on a good day in san diego. if you don't recognize the cross, i took a trip up to mt soledad for lunch.



i have drastically changed my photo gallery layout. though it seems like i have stepped back in functionality, i have gained a lot of convieniece in updating. basically, i can just dump the pictures in the folder and not worry about having a program like photoshop remake all the thumbnail pages. the pages dynamically generate as you put more pictures in there. and i have removed a lot of redundancy on where the picture gets stored. to give you an idea, if i had an existing album of 200 pictures, and wanted to add in 30 more, it would take me about 15-20 minutes of work/waiting, compared to the new process which takes me about 1 minute (couple of clicks, and drags).



i have been lacking on the daily activity updates for the week. mainly because not much goes on but here goes.

monday at work, i spilled about a cup of chocolate protein shake all over my desk. and it managed to splatter on the monitor and the wall, get on and under the mouse pad, mouse, keyboard, phone. some on the floor. it wasn't pleasant. at the evening, i did my laundry (was too sore from ultimate frisbee on sun to go to the gym) then went to dinner at the cheesecake factory with eddie as a farewell dinner type of thing. i had the meatloaf. eddie got his usual burger (one of the best burgers you can get btw). i hope life cuts him some slack. i wish him well in madison.



tuesday, still feeling sore from rimac, i didn't go to the gym. decided to cook dinner korean bbq style........which was a bad idea. i wasn't cooking the ribs. i was cooking the little pieces of meat they give you to grill at the restaurants. it is common knowledge when you go to one of those places, you come out smelling like korean bbq. well, it being very cold in the apartment, all the windows were closed. so i cook the korean bbq in very high heat. eat it. then realize that the whole apartment smells like korean bbq. and that's not the end of it. thinking that the smell would probably go away by the morning, i didn't really do anything about it. i wake up this morning, open my doors, and bam. smells just like it did yesterday. not that it smells bad. but there is something wrong with a lingering smell of food that isn't there anymore. so i opened all the windows, and got a good breeze going this morning before i headed out to work.



today, i went to the gym, came home, cooked and ate. then worked on the gallery...mainly tweaking the asp file that i found so that it would let me link to the raw files elsewhere on my webserver. tomorrow i'm going to go shop for the remainder of the christmas presents with nguyen...maybe even eat at bully's (the way we exchange xmas gifts) then on friday, i'm going to go eat either sushi or thai with ray. and tommy's gonna be down here this weekend so we'll probably make it out to phil's bbq. i haven't really broken my "no spending money on food during weekends" thing. it's just that the cheesecake factory on monday, and bully's possibly tomorrow are the exceptions i am allowed to make. that's why it seems like at least for this week, my weekly activities revolve around the restaurants that i go to. which is untrue.