veronica arrived! she’s here! she’s here! she’s sitting behind me right now watching me type this. ok…time to go spend some quality time with her.

—–

veronica is coming! veronica is coming! at long last she and i will be united! i’ve been pining over her for quite some time now. i think the love affair probably started online some time ago and since then we’ve developed a rather close and personal connection. it’s as if i’ve known her for my whole life.

cute, sexy, and stylish, there’s nothing that veronica can’t do. she just makes peace with all that’s around her.

and it looks like she’ll be arriving today. ahh, my ever so beautiful love, veronica.
Continue reading veronica! →

[url=http://www.rollei.jp/e/pd/MiniD.html]dude.[/url]

it must be mine.

—–

super duper uber congratulations go out to my dear friend, [url=http://jenny.ocliw.com/journal/]jenny[/url] who graduated today and is now officially a doctor of pharmacy!

so if you are ever in need of some drugs, look her up, yo!

it’s official. i’m in love. this isn’t the kind of fleeting love that children go through. no. this is the kind of enduring, everlasting love that fairy tales are modeled after.

let me tell you a little about her.

she is funny.
oh, her sense of humor tickles me, so. she makes me laugh so effortlessly, just thinking about her now brings a smile to my face.

she is self-confident.
there’s a certain air of confidence that she carries with her. you can tell in the way she walks, in the way she carries herself, she knows who she is and she’s happy about who she is.

she is sexy.
where she walks, people notice. her wake leaves a lasting impression to all of those she passes. she has been told that she has a fabulous ass, and she laughs when she hears it and cooly replies, “i know.”

who is she?

dido.

i just got back from the dido concert and i’ve fallen in love with her all over again. so funny, so pretty, so sexy, so cute, so…right for me. =P

—–

the world continues to amaze me at how small it is. a few weekends ago i met this person who went to high school with another friend of mine…that is not so uncommon, but what was uncommon is that they went to the same high school back in maryland! it turns out that another friend of mine knew the same person because they went to college together.

and just this past week i learned that i went to elementary school with [url=http://www.randomcuriosity.com/journal/]david’s[/url] sister. keep in mind that i haven’t even met david yet in real life and that i don’t even recall how i stumbled across his site a long time ago.

the world is just getting smaller and smaller.

—–

i placed the order for my optical slave triggers on 4/22/04. they FINALLY shipped it yesterday. all enthusiasm i had for it has dissipated into frustration and impatience. three weeks it took them to ship it! three weeks!

ah, oh well. now i have to go and figure out how i’m going to be mounting these slaves once i get them in the mail.

hmmm, i just read the last sentence again and it didn’t come out quite how i had intended. but i’m currently debating whether or not i need to purchase more light stands or if i could make do with what i’ve got. maybe i can jury-righ something together so that i won’t have to get more bulky equipment.

—–

[url=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=1&u=/nm/20040503/od_nm/odd_germany_cars_dc]*sigh*[/url]

boy these last couple of days have been packed!

on friday, i went bike shopping with jimmy and paul. we went to performance bikes and checked out stores. one of the salespeople there related a horror story about a downhill biking accident that he recently had which has left his left arm severely crippled. he’s hoping that after some serious rehab, he’ll be able to get most of the function in his arm back…right now, it’s pretty much paralyzed. he just had a $14,000 surgery at stanford medical where they put a bunch of pins in various places in his arm to help fix it up. that story almost made me reconsider getting a bike.

we then went to the off ramp and i test rode a couple of bikes there. jimmy has a high bias towards specialized bikes, and it seems like a reasonably good bike. there’s definitely a difference between different models in a brand, though…as the varying prices of the bikes would suggest.

i finally decided to get the ’04 rockhopper in zolder blue. what is zolder blue? i don’t know. sort of looks like powder blue, maybe? it was on sale and after being reassured by jimmy that this was a reasonably good price, i decided to get that, a helmet, and a water bottle and cage at the off ramp.

later we went back to performance bikes to get a lock, patch kit, and gloves. i stayed within my budget for everything so i was pretty happy about that. when i was first looking at bikes, it looked like my budget may have been unreasonably low. the other alternative was to get a costco bike, but everyone scoffed at that. bike snobs.

[url=/image.php?image=/images/2004/0502/rockhopper.jpg&title=rockhopper][/url]

on saturday, i woke up like a little kid eager to play with his new toy. i tried to sleep more, i swear, but i couldn’t, so i strapped on my camelbak and headed out to ride my bike. so where did i take my bike out to on its maiden voyage? the donut shop. =P

it seemed to me a little contradictory at the time to get a bike to encourage more exercise and then go bike to a donut store, but the call of the donut was strong…and i had to heed its call.

after that i washed up and got ready for the photo shoot with anita. i hadn’t seen anita in such a long time so we spent the day catching up and taking pictures. i was also able to try out my new 4GB micodrive, courtesy of the muvo! the shoot went well and i have a bunch of photos that i still need to process.

after that, i went to celebrate paul’s birthday with a bunch of other people at il postale. the food was quite good and i was pretty happy about it. a bunch of us got together and got paul a 20GB ipod as a group gift. i hope he liked it.

and that leads us to today. i volunteered for the nikkei matsuri, the japanese cultural fair in downtown japantown today. i decided instead of trying to deal with parking, i would bike there. the bike ride was about 9 miles and took me about an hour to do. then i spent about 2 hours making strawberry shortcake. actually, i was tasked with serving the finished product to people and supplying them with forks. not very labor intensive, but very tiring nonetheless.

after that, i biked over to paul’s apartment and paul, leeya, jimmy, mike, and i went to the shoreline to do some biking/rollerblading. that was pretty fun, too. man, lots of biking for me. i think we did about 8 miles there. and then we got some pearl tea afterwards and now i’m showered, clean, and at home.

talk about a long weekend.

—–

[url=http://www.lensbabies.com/index.html]how cool is this?[/url]

if it didn’t cost so much, i’d probably get it. it’s probably just a novelty lens, but it looks very neat. though once can achieve the same effect in photoshop, it’s just kind of cooler to be able to do it in camera.

—–