We woke up early, had breakfast and headed out to Stanley Park.

We walked for about an hour or more through downtown to get to Stanley Park. Stanley park is huge and its actually pretty cool. I thought it’d be boring and plain , but there’s a lot of cool stuff to see there. We took pictures everywhere and after 2 or 3 hours of walking through the park looking at different things, we stopped to have a cold beer. A good local beer was in order along with some overpriced salmon croquettes. LOL, that name just cracks me up cuz in spanish croquetas is what you feed to the dogs. haha. Continue Reading “Vancouver - Second day” »

We made it out of LAX a bit late, we missed our flight, but luckily thy had another one leaving about an hour later so we were able to get on that.

After landing at YVR (Vancouver), we had to stay in line for customs for over 1 hour, I am not kidding you. The line was just like a line during the summer at a brand new attraction at Disneyland. We finally made it past that and went to exchange some green. It turns out that yesterday (haven’t checked today) the CAD was worth more than the USD. So we exchanged our money and headed out to the city. We found the bus we needed to take and within minutes we were on the road, we passed through what looked like suburbs and nice neighborhoods, some of the houses were huge, If you found a house that size in Irvine or OC, they’d be about 2.5-4.5 million so hopefully that gives you an idea of the size of these houses. Continue Reading “Vancouver - First Day.” »

So I’ve been waiting for the iPhone since I saw it announced at the Apple conference sometime back. It should be here in about 2 weeks. The official release date is June 29. I’ve read this morning that the stores are getting 10-20 units. The chances of getting an iPhone with those kind of numbers the day it comes out are very slim. So I face a new dilemma today, Should I wait til June 29 and hope to get an iPhone? or should I get a Blackberry Curve. Continue Reading “The iPhone will be here soon. June 29.” »

If you’re looking for photos, I have good news!

I have moved to to Flickr. You will find all my photos on there. The user name is Muychingon. You can either find a post that has a photo in it and follow that link to see my other photos, or you can add find me in Flickr as muychingon.

I got tired of managing Gallery2. I know its awesome, but with so ma ny people asking me to set it up for them, I figured this is much better, and I don’t have to worry about my bandwidth or backups.

Peace out!

So this Saturday we went to see Wicked. Instead of going out to dinner in some fancy place in LA, we decided to make food at home. It was great, everyone made something. I took a trip to Pearson’s Port and got some huge shrimp that they have in stock right now. It is live shrimp so its super fresh. The Crab Lady will cut their heads off for you. Take a look at this picture I took at her shop.

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So as you might have read, I recently went to San Francisco. I’d been there twice before but never got a chance to actually do anything as a visitor, both times I was there I simply drove through and had lunch en-route back to Socal.

This time I got to experience more of the city, with my girlfriend and family. One of the days we were there, we showed up to Kuleto’s. We had a reservation because according to my girlfriend, this place is the shit! So I was all excited. The place turned out to be one of the worse experiences I’ve had in fine dining. Here’s my experience and review of Kuleto’s. In short, don’t ever go there.

We were seated promptly, however our table was absolutely unaccommodating. We had reserved a table for 10 a couple weeks in advance, I would think this would allow the restaurant to plan accordingly and provide us with a decent table. I can’t say that the table was bad, but it was probably the most inconvenient table in the whole place. They essentially put a table near a corner area with a “bench” kind of like a booth and so we had , 4 people on chairs, 4 people on the bench, 1 person at the head of the table and one person on the bench on the other side of the table. Needless to say, the 4 people on the bench were locked in place. It was a hassle for them to leave the table and use the restroom for example. This is kind of normal I guess, but it made for an unpleasant experience.

Our table was poorly setup when we sat down. We ordered wine, and one of us placed their wine down on the table and it simply fell over and spilled everywhere. We found the reason for this wasn’t sloppiness or drunkenness as you might have guessed, it was simply that the lazy and rude waiter didn’t put the table together correctly. The tables had a few inches gap in between, and this gap was covered by the table cloth. So when the wine was placed there, it tipped over because there wasn’t an actual table there… just a gap and table cloth covering this. When we brought this to the attention of the waiter, he brushed it off as if asking “so what”? And tossed a bunch of napkins on the table for us to clean it up. We simply ended up covering the spilled wine with 3 or 4 napkins. Continue Reading “Uhm excuse me, there’s a worm in my food.” »